Albany Student Press, Volume 83 Issue 33, 1996 April 19

Online content

Fullscreen

PUBLISHED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY BY THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION

VOLUME LXXXill

|
PA aD

, oes

2
muy

ALBANY
STUDENT
PRESS

Friday,

April 19, 1996

NUMBER 33

sponsibility to
)pinions, ideas,
ent body. It is
dent maintain
ation between
dministrators.”

ident Asso-

Presidential Candidates

servant of th
that I am one ai
puts me in the
the advancemet

“The duties 0
policy require.
foremost, th
respectfully re
student body.

Vigil held for Holocaust Remembrance Week

By KEVIN DEVALK
Associate News Editor

A 24-hour candlelight vigil was conducted
in front of the Campus Center earlier this
week in remembrance of those who died dur-
ing the Holocaust, as a part of Holocaust
Remembrance Week.

Candles were lit, and participants at the
vigil read the names of the 6,000,000 Jews
that died during the Holocaust over fifty

File photo
The chief prosecutor of the Nuremburg trials spoke
as part of Holocaust Remeberance Week.

years ago. The vigil began at noon Tuesday
and ran through noon Wednesday.

Although students worked in shifts, some
students did not get any sleep that night.

The only problem during the vigil, accord-
ing to Hillel member Matt Shapiro, was the
adverse weather conditions. For the first
eight hours, it was raining outside. As night
approached, temperatures naturally dropped.
Shapiro, an intern of Jewish Student Services
through the Department of Judaic Studies,
was one of three interns that ran the event.
The others were Shayna Finman and Kimber-

‘ly Green.

According to Green, one of the organizers
of the event, about 150 students in total read
names, and a few others watched.

Shapiro said the goal of the vigil is to build
awareness concerning the Holocaust. “The
most important thing is awareness,” he said.
“We want to raise awareness so this sort of
thing won’t happen again.”

Shapiro and Green both said the event was
a big success. Green recounted one special
incident during the vigil when she was
approached by a man and told,“Thanks for
helping us to remember.”

The vigil was one of many events held this
week in observance of Holocaust Remem-
brance Week. The week was sponsored by
Hillel, RZA, and the Department of Judaic
Studies.

Sliwa, founder of the Guardian

Angels, addresses anti-semitism

Staff photo by Jan Daniels

Sliwa spoke in the assembly hall about Jewish oppression.

By MICHELLE TRACY

The Jewish Student Movement’s
guest speaker, Guardian Angels
founder Curtis Sliwa, spoke out against
anti-semitism Tuesday night.

Sliwa, who is still an active member
of the Guardian Angels, discussed the
historical exploitation of Jewish minor-
ity groups.

The Guardian Angels were formed
in 1979 to clean up New York City
subway violence, but has since
“expanded its wings” to include minor-
ity group interests.

The main point of Sliwa’s message
was to encourage Jewish brotherhood,
and to urge Jews to rebel against their
cultural oppression.

Sliwa said Jews are often attacked by
the mainstream culture, but they do not
take any action to end their discrimina-
tion. He said they just sit back silently
and apathetically because they desper-
ately want to assimilate.

Much of the discrimination, accord-
ing to Sliwa, comes from jealous

resentment of Jewish progression, and ~

their ambivalent feelings are passed
down to the next generation.

“Having been at riots, I’ve seen
mobs walking by screaming ‘Kill the
Jews!,’ and I know that they are just
lipsincing what has been spoken
throughout history because I went to
school with many of them. They are all
essentially good people, but they’ve
just been framed by history,” Sliwa
said.

Sliwa, of Polish-Italian descent, was
raised in a very anti-semitic family.

He said the discrimination stems far
beyond the family, however. Many

schools ignore racial/ethnic rumblings,
and support ignorance about Jewish
cultural identity. Jewish history is sim-
ply not included in lessons anymore,
according to Sliwa.

Sliwa said as these children mature
and raise their own families, it is vital
to teach the next generation a proper
respect for and understanding of Jew-
ish history.

Sliwa said the government also plays
a large part in Jewish exploitation.
Whenever a politician needs campaign
money, he always turns to the Jews,
but when the time comes, he never
returns the favor, he said. Sliwa said
many officials use Jews to support
their causes, but when anti-semitic
instances occur, they just passively
watch the situation on the news, and no
action has taken place.

Sliwa further attacked various
minority groups that are “messengers
of hate and separatism.” He said they
manipulate the mainstream by appeal-
ing to its ideological concerns. As a
result, the mainstream blindly accepts
the message and follows.

“Ominous signs are ahead. I’m talk-
ing about the age old tradition of anti-
semitism that can not be blown away
by rhetoric,” Sliwa declared.

Sliwa ended his two hour speech by
stressing the need for integration of all
humanity in civilization.

“My mission as a Guardian Angel
isn’t just to be a peacemaker, but to
also analyze historical situations where
problems may occur again. We need to
attack the problems before they begin.
My mission is to undo the damage and
make up for the sins of our fathers and
grandfathers.”

The new SUNY Albany ID card is here

Students spent the week taking pho-
tos for the new SUNY ID card. The ID
card will be activated on August 15,
1996, and the old ID cards will be
invalid. The new ID card will replace
the current ID cards, UAS meal cards,
and will feature an off campus debit
card option, building access, optional
banking services, library card, podium
account, phones, vending machines,
and washing machines.

Financial aid students who choose

the optional banking services will be

able to deposit checks directly into
their accounts and into their cards. The
optional banking services are available
through CitiBank, but any bank card
can be used.

If students have not yet had their
photo taken for their new cards, they
still have all of next week. This service
is free, and if students are unhappy
with their photos, the new computer-
ized photo system allows them to
retake it.

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

FRIDAY, APRIl 19, 1996

Campus Calendar

Friday, 4/19

Hillel will sponsor the following
servies this evening:
Conservative reform at Chapel
House, and Orthodox at
Shabbos House. Both services
begin at 6:00. For more info call
Russell at 442-0694. This week
only, a Shabbat Commemorative
Dinner will be held at Chapel

House at 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, 4/21
The SUNY World Federalist
Association will hold their week-
ly meeting Sunday at 5:00 in CC
357. For more info call Dan or
Tom at 427-0643.

Chapel House will sponsor the
following services today: Catholic
Mass will be held at 6:30 p.m. in
the Campus Center Assembly
Hall. Protestant Student
Association will hold their service
at 6:00 p.m. at Chapel House.

For more info call 489-8573.
Class Council of 1997 will hold

their weekly meeting at 8:15 p.m.
in CC 375. All are welcome to
attend.

Class Council of 1998 will hold
their weekly meeting at 8:30 p.m.
in CC 373. For more info call

Meredith Averbach at 442-2999.

Monday, 4/22

Fountain Week begins at
SUNYA. Monday will be the
Junior Jam Barbeque, and

Tuesday will be the Fountain
Week blowout party. Wednesday
will be fountain day. Thursday
will be the band competition, and
Friday will be Podium Day.
NYPIRG will sponsor an Earth
Day lobby from 9:00 a.m. until
5:00 p.m. at the state capitol
downtown. The day will include
speakers, a rally, and lobbying
lawmakers. For more info call
Jesse Lena at 442-5658.

Senior Class Council will hold
their weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m.
in BA216.

Tuesday, 4/23

NYPIRG will sponsor a homeless
outreach project. The 3-day
Volunteer-A-Thon will last
through Thursday. Students will
volunteer time to raise money for
the charity of their choice. For
more info call Blake Washington

at 442-5658.

Wednesday, 4/24

Fountain Day festivities will be
held on the academic podium
today. Activities will center on the
turning on of the fountain for the
first time this semester.

A conference on Rural Social
Work will be presented at the
Unitarian Universalist Church on

-Washington Avenue. The pre-

sentation will be made by stu-
dents from a macro practice in
social work class at SUNYA. For
more info call Lisa James at 442-
3093.

Central Council will hold their
weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in
the Campus Center Assembly
Hall.

Harvest Campus Ministries will
hold their weekly meeting at 7:30
p.m. in ES143. For more info call
“ee Lin at 427-1407.

hursday, 4/25

Angelic Eee. of Praise,
SUNYA’s gospel choir, will hold
their weekly rehearsal at 7:00
p.m. in PAC B-78. For more info
call Phleshette at 446-9369.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ
will hold their weekly meeting at
7:00 p.m. in CC 375. For more
info call Chris Jones at 442-
6773.

Campus Crusade for Christ will
hold their weekly meeting, “The
Live Alternative”, at 7:30 p.m. in
BA 231. For more info call Tim
Stadelmann at 442--0095.

SUNY Albany Ballroom
Dancing Club will hold their
weekly meeting from 7:30 to 9:30
p.m. in the Physical Education
building, room 350. For more info
call Jessica at 442-1964.

College Republicans will hold

their weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m.
in LC-11. For more info call
Anthony Barba at 463-0476.

The Albany County Rape
Crisis Center will be holding
training classes for volunteers to
Staff their hotline. Classes will be
held Tuesdays and Thursdays.
For more info call 447-1100.

Lamkin, Andrea Leszozynski, David Lipp, Michael Lizardi, Lisa Martin,

MANADATORY
NEWSWRITERS MEET-
ING to be held Sunday

7:30 p.m. CC 323.

“Ominous signs are ahead.”

Curtis Sliwa
April 16, 1996

ePlease see story on front page

Elsie Irizarry Story Fairy: Sue Craine Pasie-up: \ Marvin, HAL, Janes:
Bond, Grinch, ‘Sulu, ope the cue poe eal Hoover, D. Darrel Stat
Bui

Thomas McMahon

ao. Elissa H. Nelson
denny Hein, Joshua Levin
ER Lauren ‘Murphy

i Basi, Cindy 6 Chin, Edwil Fontanilla, Allison
Krampf, Morgan Lyle, Andrew Schotz, Kevin Sonsky, Herb Terns.
Staff Writers: Chuck Bennett, Dan Bettan, Kevin Bisch, Rachel
Crognale, Jan Daniels, Owen Davies, Seth Diamond, Danielle Fisher,
Alonna Friedman, Lydia Gibson, Nevin Gussack, Jenny Hein, Steve

Donald Miller, Lloyd Morganstein, Douglas Parker, Anthony Penson,
Andrew Purrott, David Schein (DIJON), Ann Schaughnessy, Jeffrey
Schulberg, Jared Tropp, Krista Valcaitis, Micah Zevin. Staff
Photographers: Natalia Armoza, Carlos Alayo, Jennifer Bott, Jan
Daniels, Randy Pearman, Dan Schlosser, Valerie Weinstein, Robert
Manele. doel Peter tkman, Will W

dave
any bose Press aeaseton

Elsewhere: ASPress@albnyvms.bitnet

HGlast from the dS
CDTA to begin late weekend runs

May 2, 1975 ;
‘By Susan Michael

Off-campus and those living
on Alumni Quad often feel, not
without cause, that the bus
schedule imposes an unfair cur-
few. After a substantial amount
of work the Off-Campus Student
Life Committee of Central
Council has arranged with the
Capital District Transit
Authority to run additional
buses on Friday and Saturday
nights for the rest of the
semester. -

The original bill requested
$270 from SA Operating to sub-
sidize the service. Taxpaying
riders would have been charged
25 cents and non-taxpayers
would be charged 40 cents.
There was also an appropriation
of $40 to advertise the new ser-
vice.

The bill was amended to elim-
inate the charge for taxpayers. If
the demand for these late night
buses makes itself apparent,

there is a good possibility that
the administration will run the
late buses beginning last

semester. This was told to Stu
Simon, who has been instrumen-
tal in setting up the late night
by Frank Kopf, the.

buses,

The schedule of late-night
buses that will run on May 3, 4,
10, 11, 17, and 18, follows:

Buses will leave circle at 1:00
a.m., 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, and 3:50;
buses will leave Partridge and
Western at: 1:20 a.m., 2:00,
2:45, and 3:30.

The Off-Campus Student
Committee requests students to
remember that this service will
be continued only if it is patron-
ized.

The rationale for the new bus
schedule is to alleviate the
“Cinderella curfew” that has

long hampered students living
downtown. With the new sched-
ule in effect, off-campus and
Alumni Quad residents will not

be required to leave on-campus
movies and other functions early
in order to catch a bus down-
town.

By the same token, students
living uptown will be able to
stay downtown until the later
hours without being stranded.

The bill was largely a product
of Central Council member

Gary Bennett’s efforts. Bennett
created and tabulated a survey
on Alumni Quad last March.
“The results of that survey
showed that there would be jus-
tification [for late buses],” stated
Bennett.

The sponsors of the bill were
Gary Bennett, Sue Leboff, and
Stu Simon.

CDTA begins providing late-night service to the SUNYA campus.

File photo

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS me }

Election discussed at Central Council

~ File photo

New Centra! Council members will be inducted soon.

the total votes. He was followed by
Rasheem Rooke, who obtained 30.43%,
or 553 votes. The last candidate, David
Grande, earned 307 votes, coming close-
ly after Larry Kauffman.

In the vice presidential election, the
leading candidate presently is Mimi
Nguyen.

She was able to earn 24.82% of the
total votes. She is immediately followed
by Ashish Prabhakar,with 462 votes. The

By FATIMA MEZDAD

Central Council had a brief meeting
Wednesday to evaluate the first round of
the elections that were held Monday and
Tuesday this week. Since no candidate
won the required 50 percent vote to be
elected, there can be no winners declared
until the results of today’s run-off elec-
tion are known.

Central Council Chairman Michael
Castrilli got the most votes, making him
the leading contender at this point for the
office. Incumbent Larry Kauffman has
not been re-elected.

The first results of the presidential
election revealed that Kauffman has
allegedly lost his popularity. He obtained
a total of 337 votes, proceeded by two
candidates with a considerably higher
number of votes.

The majority of the votes, 720 went to
Mike Castrilli. This represents 39.62% of

obtained 364 votes. Eric Brielmann was
‘ fourth with 17.99 percent of the vote,
close to Ricci’s 19.26%.

The candidate who obtained the least
number of votes was Adam Menkes with
263 votes in his favor, that is 13.92%.

In the run-off elections held today,
only the top two candidates in each race
was on the ballot, as stated by SA’s con-
stitution.

third position went to John Ricci who

fem Rooke ®
ide” Larry Kauffm.
David Grande-307

(CPS)The tan will fade. The hangover will
ES at But the memory of a spring
break spent feeding the homeless or build-

— ing homes for the less fortunate will last

forever.

That’s the sales pitch Michael Magevney
uses to persuade otherwise beach-bound
students to.give up the sun and booze for a

; week of community service arranged by
|\|his 5-year-old organization, Break Away:
‘The Alternative Break Connection.

Either it’s a really good line, or just more

Biand more students want to undertake altru-
Mlistic endeavors during their spring break.
This year, about 15,000 students chose to

serve meals, plant trees, repair homes and

Jicare for inner-city kids, among ‘other ser-

vices, Magevney said.

“Tt’s still nothing compared to Daytona,
but we’ve seen an increase this year,” he
said.

Magevney works with over 300 campus-
es, arranging volunteer stints for interested
students by matching them with the needs
of non-profit organizations, such as Habitat
for Humanity. His Nashville-based group
also provides summer training so that stu-
dents can start up Break Away programs on
their own campuses.

Ronald Chen, a University of Kansas
sophomore, spent last year’s break in El
Paso, Texas, working in a poor Hispanic
community. This year, he is the coordinator
of his campus’ Break Away program and
has put together group volunteer trips to El
Paso, Denver, Washington and Cape
Charles, Va.

Last year, he and other students worked
with an agency close to the Mexican border
to provide child care and help teach litera-
cy and gang prevention programs.

“The reason I’m going back is because it
was really an eye-opening experience,”
Chen said. “Some things that we saw in El
Paso really made us think.”

He recalls something as simple as taking
the local children to a hilltop where they
took in a scenic view of El Paso a sight
they had never seen before, despite grow-
ing up there. All the kids reacted by saying
“whoa,” Chen said. “It was a really cool
experience.”

This year, Chen is heading to Denver,

|A different way to spend your spring break

where he plans to help the hungry and
homeless while working on AIDS aware-
ness and environmental projects.

That type of commitment encourages
Magevney, who started Break Away soon
after his 1991 graduation from Vanderbilt
University. An increasing number of col-
lege students are using their spring breaks
to do something more than drink tequila
and lie on a beach, he has found.

“The growth has been remarkable, but I
can’t say necessarily that it’s surprised
me,” said Magevney, “[I have] confidence
in college students and young people.”

While Break Away has reached a num-
ber of campuses, some schools are creating
their own alternative break programs.

At the University of Miami, for example,
100 students spent their break building
homes, serving food to the homeless, help-
ing people with AIDS and tutoring chil-
dren. About 20 students from the Universi-
ty of Louisville spent a week in an
Appalachia state park, where they cleaned
up hiking trails and picked up trash. Stu-
dents from Buena Vista University in
Storm Lake, Iowa, and Southwest Missouri
State University worked on Habitat for
Humanity projects.

Emory University students spent their
alternative break repairing homes on
John’s Island off the coast of South Caroli-
na, and tutoring kids in an after-school pro-
gram in Florida. Students at Furman Uni-
versity in Greenville, S.C., organized a trip
this March to the South Bronx to volunteer
in soup kitchens, homeless shelters and
youth centers.

“All of us were speechless for the entire
afternoon that we arrived,” said Brian
Heuser, a Furman senior. Heuser and seven
other students spent a week in the poorest
and most violent section of the Bronx and
were shocked by “the poverty and the
absolute lack of respect for human life,” he
said.

Much of their time was spent taking care
of the youth in an Hispanic neighborhood.
They took them to the Empire State Build-
ing and Planet Hollywood excursions to
another world for kids who have lost their
parents to drugs and have become heads of
households at age 12.

Believe it or not, suicide is the third
leading cause of death among men and
women ages 16-24. We all experience feel-
ings of loneliness, depression, helplessness
and hopelessness (especially around finals)
from time to time. However, when these
feelings are unrelenting, when a person is
overwhelmed, and no longer able to cope
with life due to their emotional pain and
distress, suicide may become an attractive
solution.

Most people who commit suicide give

Staff photo by Rozanne dePrado

SUNYA’s annual Take Back the Night rally was held Wednesday night.
The rally is held every year at SUNYA and other campuses to help raise
awareness about abuse, and help eliminate fear for those that are victims
of abuse. This year’s rally began at the senior small fountain, behind the
Campus Center. Students met there and paraded around campus.

;

7 some clues as to their intent
Middle before they make an attempt.
Earth These clues should give you
an idea that your friend may
Roots be suicidal. Many persons
convey their intentions

directly with statements such as “I wish I
was dead,” or “I don’t know how much
longer I can take this.”

plan. Statements describing feelings of
depression, helplessness, loneliness, and/or
hopelessness may suggest suicidal
thoughts. It is important to hear these
“cries for help,” because they are usually
desperate attempts to communicate to oth-
ers the need to be understood and helped.

Other clues indicating the possibility of
suicide - The individual may begin giving
away possessions, withdraw from those
around them, experience changes in sleep-
ing and/or eating patterns, and/or lose their
interest in life.

A sudden lift in spirits can also be a dan-
ger signal - indicating that the individual
feels a sense a relief since they have decid-
ed how to end all there problems, perma-

nently.

How to help suicidal friends

Others in crisis may hint at a suicide.

HOW CAN I HELP ?

If you think your friend is suicidal - Stay
Calm - sit and listen to what the person is
saying: give them your understanding and
emotional support. It is important to let the
person know that a suicidal crisis is tempo-
rary. Also let them know that their unbear-
able pain can be survived, that help is
available and that they are not alone in
their time of crisis.

Although it might make you anxious, if
you’re worried or suspicious, it’s impor-
tant that at some point you address the
topic of suicide directly. Ask them whether
or not they’ve thought of hurting or even
killing themselves. If the individual
responds affirmatively, try and find out
how serious they are - do they have a plan,
are the means to carry out that plan readi-
ly available, when do they plan to do it,
what’s keeping them from doing it, etc... If
your friends answers lead you to believe
that they’re suicidal or if you feel like
you're getting in over your head - GET
HELP!

Grab an R.A., or go with your friend to
(or call) the University Counseling Center
at 442-5800, Middle Earth at 442-5777, or
the University Police Department at 442-
3131. Trained staff will help you and your
friend deal with the problem with under-
standing and compassion.

Lastly, take some time to deal with your
own reactions to the situation - You may
need support or just someone to talk to in
order to make sense of everything - find a
friend or an R.A., or contact Middle Earth
(442-5777) or the University Counseling
Center (442-5800).

4 saree STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996

College students break away from the beach party to undertake altruistic endeavors

(CPS)—-The tan will fade. The hangover
will dissipate. But the memory of a spring
break spent feeding the homeless or build-
ing homes for the less fortunate will last
forever.

That’s the sales pitch Michael
Magevney uses to persuade otherwise
beach-bound students to give up the sun
and booze for a week of community ser-
vice arranged by his 5-year-old organiza-
tion, Break Away: The Alternative Break
Connection.

Either it’s a really good line, or just
more and more students want to undertake
altruistic endeavors during their spring
break. This ‘year, about 15,000 students
chose to serve meals, plant trees, repair
homes and care for inner-city kids, among
other services, Magevney said.

“It’s still nothing compared to Daytona,
but we’ve seen an increase this year,” he

said.

Magevney works with over 300 cam-
puses, arranging volunteer stints for inter-
ested students by matching them with the
needs of non-profit organizations, such as
Habitat for Humanity. His Nashville-
based group also provides summer train-
ing so that students can start up Break
Away programs on their own campuses.

Ronald Chen, a University of Kansas
sophomore, spent last year’s break in El
Paso, Texas, working in a poor Hispanic
community. This year, he is the coordina-
tor of his campus’ Break Away program
and has put together group volunteer trips
to El Paso, Denver, Washington and Cape
Charles, Va.

Last year, he and other students worked
with an agency close to the Mexican bor-
der to provide child care and help teach
literacy and gang prevention programs.

“The reason I’m going back is because
it was really an eye-opening experience,”
Chen said. “Some things that we saw in
E] Paso really made us think.”

He recalls something as simple as tak-
ing the local children to a hilltop where
they took in a scenic view of El Paso a
sight they had never seen before, despite
growing up there. All the kids reacted by
saying “whoa,” Chen said. “It was a really
cool experience.”

This year, Chen is heading to Denver,
where he plans to help the hungry and
homeless while working on AIDS aware-
ness and environmental projects.

NOW THE CODE”

dia.

oh sure, it lOOKS i7iNOCeNLT. But it could be
W1red to a no-name company that has no (UaIMS about
overcharging broke college students.

So, calling card in hand, you dial 1 SOO CALL ATT

and save yourself some Much-72e€eded cash.

Live off campus?

Dial 1 800 CALL ATT for AT&& Calling Card calls.

Always get AT&?. Never get overcharged.

Know the Code. 1 800 CALL ATT. That’s Your True Choice™

= dl)

Your True Choice

and lie on a beach, he has found.

“The growth has been remarkable, but I
can’t say necessarily that it’s surprised
me,’ said Magevney, “[I have] confidence
in college students and young people.”

While Break Away has reached a num-
ber of campuses, some schools are creat-
ing their own alternative break programs.

At the University of Miami, for exam-
ple, 100 students spent their break build-
ing homes, serving food to the homeless,
helping people with AIDS and tutoring
children. About 20 students from the Uni-
versity of Louisville spent a week in an
Appalachia state park, where they cleaned
up hiking trails and picked up trash. Stu-
dents from Buena Vista University in
Storm Lake, Iowa, and Southwest Mis-
souri State University worked on Habitat
for Humanity projects.

Emory University students spent their
alternative break repairing homes on
John’s Island off the coast of South Car-
olina, and tutoring kids in an after-school
program in Florida. Students at Furman
University in Greenville, S.C., organized
a trip this March to the South Bronx to
volunteer in soup kitchens, homeless shel-
ters and youth centers.

‘All of us were speechless for the entire
afternoon that we arrived,” said Brian
Heuser, a Furman senior. Heuser and
seven other students spent a week in the
poorest and most violent section of the
Bronx and were shocked by “the poverty
and the absolute lack of respect for human
life,” he said.

Much of their time was spent taking
care of the youth in an Hispanic neighbor-
hood. They took them to the Empire State
Building and Planet Hollywood excur-
sions to another world for kids who have
lost their parents to drugs and have
become heads of households at age 12.

“It was an overwhelming life-changing
experience for all of us,” Heuser said,
adding that he would urge any student to
try an alternative break.

In deciding on the Bronx trip, Heuser
turned down several tempting break pos-

_ sibilities: a senior cruise to Cozumel, a

week at his friend’s family condo in
Alabama and a ski trip to Vail.

“T’ve done every other break there is.
I’ve had nothing that comes close to this.
It wasn’t easy; it wasn’t restful. But I
think you understand that you’ve done
something great and eternal.

“Tt was my last spring break. I’ve had
enough petty spring breaks,” he added.

He is not surprised by the number of
students, not just at Furman but at other
schools, who are choosing to spend their
breaks doing community service. “I think
a lot of us are tired about being compla-
cent,” he said.

Some students pay their own way to
spend a break helping others; many, like
the Furman students, are helped out by
university grants. Break Away partici-
pants usually hold fund raisers to pay for
their trips.

CUROPE

on the Cheap!

LONDON $199
FRANKFURT $169
PARIS $219
AMSTERDAM $169
MADRID $309
He Europass from $210-%&

Fares are’ from New York, each way based on a AT purchase. Fares do
not include federal taxes and passenger facilities charges, which can
total between $19.95 and $31.95, depending on the destination, nor do
they ce pare chars al i toto foreign governments,
which can total between $3.00 and $60.00. Int | Student 10 may be
required. Fares are subject to change. Restrictions apply.
Valid for departures until 3) May 1996.

Concil __——

CIEE: Council on International
Educational Exchange
On the Web: http:/ /www.ciee.org/cts/ctshome.htm

& “BUD: e~ COUNCIL

(1-800-226-8624)

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 5

Fountain Week 1996

Behind the in ee teiter extension
Co-Sponsors:

AE®, A®E, AAX, ‘PT’, Washington Tavern, Student Association, Panhellenic Association,

Class Councils of 1998 & 1999, UAS, 103.9 The Edge, WCDB, Party Warehouse,

Saturn on Campus, Hoyts Cinemas, EMS, Bruegger's Bagel Bakery, The Wiz, Ben
& Jerry's, Albany Sports, Purple and Gold, Division of Student Affairs

Barrie and The Class of 1497 wish to acknowledge Jonathan Grotell as Event Coordinator

8 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _ FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996

If you haven't had your picture taken yet, :
there’s still time- Have your picture taken for
_ the new SUNY Card anytime: ©

Monday, April 22, 8:30am-5:00pm
Tuesday, April 23, 8:30am-8:00pm
Wednesday, April 24, 8:30am-8:00pm
Thursday, April 25, 8:30am-5:00pm

Friday, April 26, 8:30-5:00pm

In the Campus Center Main Lounge
(1st floor by the vending machines)

S= YOUR OLD SUNY ID WILL NO LONGER
BE VALID AFTER AUGUST 15!!

e FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 7

THE WEEK AT A GLANCE, BUT PLEASE, GIVE IT MORE THAN THAT!
THE F UN ENJOYED MAY BE YOUR OWN: :

MCRUEC SD OFFICIAL PODIATING DAY!!!
Z Guess Where?? This Event is FREE! So don't

miss it! Bring a friend!

‘BEQUEST SARATOGA BAR GOLF!
| $6 W/ Senior Card $12 without Senior Card

QNYENS I eet BAGELS-N-BEER AT WT's
B $5w, $8 w/o

BONFIRE AND HAYRIDE
$8w, 15w/o

ROM IN@PEE LAKE GEORGE DECK PARTY!!
: -$17w, $27 w/o

NOMEN @ RE WHITE WATER RAFTING!!
= 15w, 30w/o

LO KMVENSE CE PARTY CRUISE ON THE HUDSON!!
: $20w, $30w/o

MVE Miia BOSTON TRIP- RED SOX GAME!!
me $20w, $30 w/o

suite eNveW@ lime THE SECOND PARTY CRUISE,
m™ SEE ABOVE!!
$20w, $30 W/o

FRI, MAY 17th SENIORFEST-FIESTA!!
$10w, $20w/o

GRADUATION PARTY AT
PAGLIACCYS!!!
$6w, $10w/o

Bae ett TORCH NIGHT CEREMONY 19961!
SUN. MAY 19th SEE STON DIEU: =

Definition of a Senior Card: (NOUN jie

1. They are cards that save youmoney onevents ; Sr tee ese eee |
2. Buy them in the campus center for $15 (or $20 with a lovely s senoir iT Shiu a fil Apa 19th
3. Buy one today because after the 19th you can't!

* ALL PRICES AND EVENTS ARE TENTATIVE DEPENDING ON SENIOR TICKET SALES
_ SPONSORED BY r HE CLASS OF '96

CO ILUNMIN

Of all the terrible aspects of drugs in America,
perhaps the worst is their effect on young people,
particularly those in the inner cities. One needn’t
consider the consequences of drug use by children
themselves to recognize the extent of the problem
for urban youth: street crime related to drugs, a
high incidence of substance abuse by parents, and
the seduction of a dangerous, illegal but highly
profitable “career’’ in the drug trade.

ee ee ee ee
Joseph C. Zengerle

How to address this central aspect of drug abuse
in America has been muffled in part by semantic
uncertainty. The most recent outbreak of compet-
ing wordplay saw the new drug czar, retired Army
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, express in a letter to The
Washington Post last month his agreement with
columnist William Raspberry that “war’’ was an
inappropriate description of the efforts of his
office; McCaffrey prefers the analogy of con-
fronting a disease in the family.

Fortunately, President Clinton has mooted the
question by making the director of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy a member of the
National Security Council.

Even with respect to children at risk, Clinton’s
action is a logical extension of post-Cold War anal-
ysis, which has spawned a number of new, or
newly highlighted, threats to our national security,
such as environmental degradation, economic espi-
onage and ethnic and religious conflicts.

It is not a remarkable proposition to consider the
drug trade among these threats, given the damage
it already has done to our people through violence
and illness, and to our fortune in the form of lost
human potential and monetary resources. What is
refreshingly novel and salutary about this approach
is the potential remedy it suggests by including
children in an area of policy-making not noted for
its nurturing nature.

Certain fundamental enterprises that are inde-
pendent of government, such as basic research and
industrial technology, have long been understood
as essential to our national security. Consequently,
they have received the scrutiny and support, gov-
ernmental and private, customarily given to mat-
ters touching on the survival of the United States.

By contrast, we have not conceptualized chil-
dren as our country’s most important national secu-
rity asset, perhaps because it’s too obvious a
proposition to warrant such a conscious recogni-
tion. Children’s issues, therefore, have been con-
sidered in less compelling contexts, such as educa-
tion policy. In turn, policy of this sort becomes a
matter of politics more than governance. The effort
to abolish the Department of Education is typical,
pitting partisanship against consensus-building and
leadership. Similarly, the president’s and vice pres-

BDITORIAL

SIWAGIS VIC Ive Wervams AG OINSMISO

It’s All a Control Thing

Welcome to the SUNY Albany Prison, where security
knows where you are at all times, has access to your bank
accounts, and attempts to control your entire on-campus life
with a handy-dandy computerized ID card. The new SUNY
card is here, waiting to take over our lives.

Starting August 15, 1996, our old cards will be useless.
The new SUNY card will replace the UAS meal card, our
ID cards (which include library use), and will let you into
buildings. There is also an option to use it as a debit card, a
podium card, and an ATM card. At first this seems really
pragmatic. But the facts all point to one need this school
has: control.

From now on, any student or professor coming and going
on campus will have their movements electronically record-
ed. All your transactions, including bills used through
NYCE accounts will be available to the University. In some
universities, the new ID cards have computer chips placed
in them that can be traced anywhere on campus. How do
we know our new cards aren’t like this either?

For those of you who haven’t figured this concept out
yet, these cards aren’t handy, they’re crazy. Imagine if UPD
could track your movements at any time. There is no ques-
tion that this school has to beef up its security but using
electronic tracking in the buildings is a little bit severe. This
school’s leap into the twenty first century is nothing more

ident’s participation in the installation of comput-
ers in California classrooms was meant to demon-
strate a commitment to educating children for the
future, but political reality has all but written off
the many children whose lives’ circumstances are
too compromised t¢ enable them to take advantage
of laptops and technical training.

The introduction of young people’s plight into
the National Security Council’s agenda could
change, perhaps profoundly, the way government
sees children. A strategic campaign to repulse the
drug enemy from the inner city could be the first

See THE WAR ON DRUGS on page 9

Americans have asked for cheaper medical care, and
by golly, they’re going to get it. A whole new industry,
employing legions of clerks and computers, has grown

up around our wish to have our bodies serviced for less. —

Unfortunately, amenities have to be cut to pay for the
crowd of highly paid CEOs and their minions who are
reducing the cost of medical insurance for your employ-
er. The latest to go will be the professional who has rep-
resented, for most of us, the embodiment of the humane
and caring side of medicine. The medical industry is
divesting itself of the registered nurse.

Katherine Dowling _

Four years ago, just before medicine became a com-
mercial product, the demand for nurses seemed insa-
tiable. But nurses are expensive. Experienced registered
nurses who work in hospitals can make $40,000 to
$50,000 a year. Why hire one of them when you can get
a licensed vocational nurse for just $25,000 a year, or
better still, a certified nurse assistant at $15,000 a year?
Dress them up in the same outfits and no one will guess
that, compared with the RN’s four years’ intensive train-

ing and continuous education required for licensing, the
CNA has had 18 weeks’ training during which time he
or she gets really good at setting out dinner trays. This is
not to denigrate CNAs, most of whom are fine people
who care about the well-being of their charges. They
simply don’t have the training.

Some hospitals have established a “cross-training”’
approach, where lower-paid workers perform nursing
tasks and one RN oversees the “crew.”’ It’s kind of an
assembly line for bodies: One worker inserts the
catheters, another does the baths, the respiratory thera-
pist does the tracheostomy care. The problem with this
approach - which saves a bundle of money - is that nurs-
es, as they do routine patient care tasks, are continuously
monitoring the clinical state of the patient. Fragmenta-
tion of care does not allow them to do this critical

assessment. A pivotal case on this issue will go to the

courts this fall, when Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley,
Calif., defends itself against charges by the California
Nurses’ Association that it has downgraded its nursing
expertise by using lower-paid, less trained personnel and
isn’t coming clean to the public about the real purpose
behind its “restructuring.”

than an attempt to keep the students here in check. Much
like Big Brother in 1984, someone will always be watching;
watching and wondering what you were doing in a certain
building when maybe you didn’t belong there, watching
and wondering why you weren’t in the right building during
a scheduled class.

Some scheols;even use these cards to keep attendance
records in Lecture Centers of 500 students. Who is going to
stop several students from giving one sucker their ID cards
and having him check them into class?

This attempt by the university to step into the future has
many problems. The best way to control security is to regis-
ter students with the use of security guards and register
guests by having them turn over ID for the evening like
they do in Manhattan.

And if the school is in such a rush to become electronic
and computerized, why don’t we get good computers in the
LC computer labs, and maybe more than a handful of inter-
net access computers in the libraries?

What it comes down to is that the new computerized card
is the first attempt by this school to control our lives. Some
students have suggested waiting for someone else to punch
their card into buildings and following them in. Remember
the moral of the movie Isthar - you can’t track a blind

camel in the desert.

The Nurses Aren't Expendable

The assumption of specific tasks by those who lack
comprehensive training increases the risks for error. At
Sutter Hospital in Sacramento, Calif., a life-sustaining
respirator apparently was disconnected by aides bathing
a patient, who died. An 11-month-old girl’s heart was
fatally damaged at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence
when an aide inadvertently filled a syringe with deadly
potassium chloride.

Fourteen years ago, each nurse at Oakland Children’s
Hospital in California, on average, was responsible for
three or four patients. Today, each must look after five or
six much sicker little ones, says Debbie Bayer, a staff
nurse there.

Nurses are not the only ones being shoved into unem-
ployment lines by the health care industry. Up to 10 per-
cent of recently graduated doctors couldn’t find full-time
jobs in the six months following the completion of their
training, the Journal of the American Medical Associa-
tion reported in March. The exception was urologists.
Does this indicate that we’re producing more health care
workers than the market needs? Well, let’s look at the
problem from another angle. If patients are seen very

See THE QUALITY OF CARE on page 9

—}

bate

2a Aspects

Mountain outdoor Gear & Clothing |

Fleece Clothing
Backpacks
Hiking Boots
Tents
Rainwear
Outerwear
Sleeping Bags
Camping Supplies
Climbing Equipment

oti ttstsseseceeeeeess

April 19, 1996 7

Ragged Mountain at Stuyvesant Plaza
Northway and Western Ave, Albany 518-453-6120

m Fast Turnaround
OURSE (2 ys

m Local Service

Re ADERS m Free Storage of Masters

m Only 4 Cents Per Copy

m Convenient Location
AND Near Campus
Open 7 Days!

m Copyright Clearance

PACKETS | =

Stuyvesant Plaza

Albany, New York SINUS

458-7758 Dredvot
(NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE) aa waaa/ Tic Me CS

VV Ee

/ ek KW & ai ~
oe - % 4 A 7 & 47 ® a 3 &
* Congratulations!
% a “i wy v nie i S >

VV YY YYYYYYY

| fact that springtime warm weather causes us to lighten up on the
| layers of clothing, causing stress for us skinny kids who enjoy the
| aesthetic opportunities of wintertime bulking up. Spring causes

| being reduced to one housemate instead of two, I need new digs.

Springtime is wiped t to be full of sunny glee and popping up
daisies, right? It’s supposed to relieve us of stress, sickness, and
the general winter blues. But like Milli Vanilli, things are often not
what they’re supposed to be. Forget the allergy season, forget the

certain subtle nightmares which almost make you long for the
windburn of winter.

First, there’s the sun. I know, it seems only the most
argumentative cynic could find a way to take issue with the sun,
but I’ve got my reasons. After daylight savings time, the sun
doesn’t go down until 7 or 8 at night. While the physically active,
the athletic, and the hot dog vendors of Albany enjoy these extra
hours to frolic and sell their wieners, to me it’s a problem. I’m one
of those people whose life mission is to redefine procrastinator.
Therefore, during the winter it’s only when the sun goes down
that I realize it’s time to get cracking, and I make feeble attempts
to do schoolwork. With the new lunar schedule, the day doesn’t
end until well into the evening and by the time it becomes clear I
need to hit the books, it’s time to head to Cafe Hollywood or
watch the new slew of mid-season replacement sitcoms. What's a
boy to do?

Then there’s the fact that May 25 is coming upon us, leaving me
in need of a new apartment. With my present living situation

No aspect of the apartment hunt is without irritation. From the
task of getting my ass over to wherever one picks up housing
lists, to the nightmare of waking up to find myself living in a
cardboard box in Washington Park (or “in a van down by the
river”), it’s all a hassle. I’m like a high school girl looking for a

| prom dress—every apartment is too expensive or too small or
| makes my boobs look flat, well not that one maybe, but the :
| analogy is close.

And what do you do when you don’t get your dream apartment
and your best friend does? “Great!” I told Ethan, my nose
growing like a white trash penis during Baywatch, but in my heart
I was thinking “I hope that place blows up because if I’m not
living there, no one else can,” a little like that psycho chick from —
Melrose Place but logic is a wasted effort with regards to the heart.
I wanted The Willet on Willet St. I could feel the hardwood floors
under my feet, I could taste El Loco around the corner. What I
couldn’t do was find an extra $100 in rent money for me and my
housemate. We did get offered a basement apartment but the
reason we don’t want to live around the corner from The Branch
is people peeing outside our window at 3 AM is not real fun. The
thought of the guys who roam Lark St. asking for money (“Last
night it was for Budweiser, tonight it’s for pizza, ” says
“Everyday” Ray, a name he’s given himself) peeing onto our
basement window isn’t much more glamorous, even if it is further
downtown.

It seems we've found a place on Madison but with my luck it'll
be bought by someone who doesn’t want college students or we'll
get ugly neighbors who think they’re doing us a favor by
befriending us and spontaneously showing up during coital
activities.

And lastly, there’s the climate. It’s so much easier to sit on the
podium all day, basking in the sun, than it is to get to the library
or run upstairs to get my ASP work done. And once that
fountain’s on, the sound of the water crashing is hypnotizing in
that “Sounds Of The Rainforest” way, leaving me with a slightly
red complexion but empty blue books when push comes to shove,

shove me right under a 2.0 that is.

As usual I realize this is of no importance to professors, but I
can’t imagine they prefer the confines of the classroom to the
cannabis smoke filled hidden nooks and crannies of the podium.
Maybe if I just offer to smoke them up they'll excuse me for my
lack of studiousness and once we’re getting zooted, all the other
springtime ailments will seem to slowly fade away.

SF DD pet

3a Aspects

April 19, 5, ¢ RR ER RE SR SS IS a

ed, Bu

¥
ed

America’s Screw

Although Pat Buchanan gaining
delegates in his quest for the G.O.P.
nomination says a lot about the slow
deterioration this country is undergoing,
the realization that this country is going to
the crapper was much more apparent while
sitting in the preview audience of the first
movie from the comedy troupe The Kids In
Hall, Kids In The Hall Brain Candy.

Susan Craine

During the trailers, the audience literary
cheered and clapped when a trailer for the
Beavis and Butthead movie (which by the

DISCOVER NEW

na)
é .
sag
Bele
‘
¢
Me .
Pe :
‘ P
|
‘
‘
‘
ep

or return the form

QUEENS
COLLEGE

THIS SUMMER

Distinguished faculty, state-of-the art facilities,
affordable tuition and more than 450 courses make
our Summer Program a great choice.

SUMMER SESSION I - FOUR WEEKS
Monday, June 3, to Thursday, June 27

SUMMER SESSION II - SIX WEEKS
Monday, July 1, to Thursday, August 8

Call 718-997-5890 for an application and a bulletin,

Queens College, CUNY, Summer Session Office,
Kiely Hall 703, Flushing, NY 11367-1597 AA/EOI

ivi
t The Kids Are Alright

way, was only a bit of the famous
laughing). However, in Brain Candy when
two of the characters, a nerdy man and
woman, got a chance for their awkward

and very funny kiss, the audience gasped a

and yelled “Don’t do it!” Why you might
ask? Well it because The Kids In The Hall
consists of only men, so it was really two
men kissing. It seems as a collective,
Albany needs to take a class in the finer
points of tolerance.

Alright, onto the movie. A floundering
pharmaceutical company needs a boost, it
then decides to release an anti-depressant,
before it is actually tested properly. The rest
of the film deals with the consequences of
releasing a drug that makes you “think it’s
72 degrees in your head all the time.”

As with the Kids In The Hall’s television
show, the movie isn’t really that much
about the actual plot, but what insane
characters the troupe comes up with.
Although the scientist Kevin McDonald
plays could be considered the main
character, since he is the one who actually
comes up with the actual drug, the more
interesting, and funnier characters are
played by Scott Thompson and Bruce
McCulloch. One of the best scenes is when
Thompson’s character stomps down his
quiet suburban street singing “I’m gay!” He
is flanked by his family and neighbors who
are doing cartwheels because now he won’t
be brought home naked by the cops for
being caught in a gas station bathroom
consorting with other gay men.

For a first time effort, Brain Candy is a
pretty good movie. It remains consistent to
the comedy the troupe developed and
perfected on their television show.
Hopefully their next film will be even
better, and more importantly, accepted by
the viewing audience.

“All you gotta do is say
‘Shoop, shoop, shoop...’” sings
Whitney Houston on the
soundtrack to Waiting To Exhale,
but upon viewing the film it’s
clear there is a lot more which
women, specifically middle and
upper-middle class, educated,
urban black women, need to do
to make their lives complete.

Slighted for alleged
male-bashing, this cinematic
realization of Terry McMillan’s
novel about a group of women
friends ‘looking for just one
good man’ clearly struck a chord
based on it’s box office receipts
and the heated debates it
facilitated on all sorts of subjects.

Devine, Le
~ Rechon, Angela Bassett,
& Whitney Houston ~

Are men threatened or is there
truth to the argument that the
film’s only men of character
were ones who were widowed
or had dying spouses? And if
this film isn’t an accurate
portrayal of women’s feelings in
the ‘90s, why did so many
people care?

Actor Forrest Whitaker, a man,
makes his directing debut here,
working with a cast including
Houston on camera, as well as
Angela Bassett. Maybe he’s a bit
too in touch with his feminine
side-or maybe he gets that
which other men don’t.

—Jason Black

WORLDS AT

below to:

ic in yt oe a | \
'* ~ What do these » }
“+ Companies have in
common?

American Airlines, . , Eastman Kodak*

} Albany Medical 9 -

Center

AT&T

“NYS Division of
- Budget

» eloitte & Touche

| KeyCorp :
Andersen }

Consulting ,
PepsiCo aa

Tiffany & Co. a
KFC (

They have ALL hired University at Albany , |

, Graduates with a Masters Degree in Business.

(1) Please send a Queens College Summer Bulletin

Name

Address

Daytime Phone

College Currently Attending.

1 am unable to attend this Summer: Please send me information about:

C) Undergraduate Programs
C] Graduate Programs
C] Adult Collegiate Education Programs

ALBN96

4a Aspects

resentencing Secale ane aaieenais ee eam ee a ee eee meee eae
Cee SS SSEnSnsesseeneeesesessee

CONCERTS TO CONSIDER:
4/21 The Figgs at Bogie’s (all ages)
4/25 £ve’s Plum at QE2
4/26 Archers Of Loaf at Skidmore College
{5/10 -Tori Amos at The Palace Theater
5/18 -Murphy’s Law at Bogie’s

ae sme §=Joan Osborne Opens Her Bag Of Tricks
Thinking Listener To most listeners, she is known as ee : : _ ST oneare!

the vocalist who performs the

The Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ eccentric debut catchy, yet wearing tune “One of
album, Come Find Yourself (EMI), proves that SURMMaMKemesntare Joan Osborne is con-
blues, hard rock, and hip-hop can truly become [RR GRememnntatarimela tenia aol
one with each other. F.L.C., Huey, Fast, and Steve
take on society’s criminal problem by logically
Stating, “Society prepares the crime and the crim-
inal commits it.” Not only are these boys cool § pies soit Bee Seek
and ripe with talent, but they also prove to be and exhibit pure soul and sensuality

vocal capacity. On Friday, April 12,
Osborne came to Albany’s Palace
Theatre to disprove the faithless,

sensible. removing her from the “one hit
. wonder” status she seems to have
Andrea Leszczynski acquired.

The Fun Lovin’ Criminal” starts off with Ethan Baum
twangy guitars which can make one believe this
is just a regular old rock album. Not so. It quickly ee As
moves into an upbeat hip-hopish rhythm with (geste soniintears lege Barelere nerr bir bars
F.L.C. cleverly rapping with a perfect blend of [@ateerevamagarreattacmonrerremavatenuers
guitar riffs and ska-like horn beats. The sound is [¥feeceangenatonmes Johnny Nash’s “I
exquisitely funky. He seemingly pokes fun at [@ennete Clearly Now,” Osborne and
gangsta rap and the machismo it alludes, “Stick
‘em up punk, it’s the fun lovin’ criminal...”

“Scooby Snacks” is like an ode to Quentin —aReIEeS ; Pp a eee
Re : as a celestial being extracted from a
Tarantino’s odd yet cool films. The song opens Bib TGe! Gale OAS (het aie fa ote
_ up with the opening scene from Pulp Fiction |i_An——ihrhneiiiei ain borne eth
when Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer are rob- SaROiuelanm staan orcKel emanate main icone ants
bing a coffee shop, “Everybody be cool this isa crowd, Osborne began with a PERC;

her band took the stage. With the
ethereal stage lighting, she appeared

te eee ease mem escenem trating Qawwali chant (an ancient ~The chemistry between Osborne — plimentary.
electric guitar, with F.L.C. lojeotemresiamateeas form of religious, Indian music). and her band added to the uninhib- To conclude the 16-song perfor-

nin’ around, robbin’ banks all whacked on With no instrumental accompani-

: hes pele: ited mood set by the music, as best mance, the band left Osborne and
Scooby snacks...” The Fun Lovin’ Criminals also

h nm diff ‘eee as se : ment, it progressed into the opening reflected through one of Osborne’s) Della Penna (with acoustic
Shrow i Gaperent aielede Sees m0ans and chords of “Pensacola,” a non-album track performances. As six-string in hand) onstage alone to
can hear Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) state “tor- bluesy track off Osborne’s Grammy Della Penna play solo on the blues perform “100 Strenuous

4 ei 2S VY C he site Cc / Ol}. > ir SC > 35 or ~ by > <
ture..:now that’s a good idea,” and Mr. White ) eee ee ee E

(Harvey Keitel) shouting, “Are we cool?” The nominated, major label debut, Relish harp, Osborne displayed her elevat- Acquaintances,” from the Mr. Wrong
tune is one big concoction that makes perfect (Mercury/Blue Gorilla). ed stage confidence by playfully sou ndtrack. As Della Penna
sense. The band then jumped right into making her way towards him ina _ strummed forcefully , Osborne sang

SU eset eee ome mae stem wmbem the recently released single, “Right —cat-like sway. with conviction, taking her ageres-

In The World” is a serene, romantic ballad with MEET Man,” wherein Osborne sang Before the band broke into a pas- sion out on the mic stand, which
sluggish horns, flowing twangy guitars, and FAM tonueemnaten provocative can-
drum beats. It sounds similar to Louis
Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World,” espe-
cially with F.L.C.’s raspy voice. The best line is

sionate rendition of “One of Us,” served as the percussion as she
dor, as guitarist Erik Della Penna Osborne welcomed local gospel banged the stand on the stage floor.

added the necessary charge on har- singer Vethenia Rouse (a The fans who showed up shouting
“All the time in the world for love/nothing pe: : ae | Renee eay minister) 3 ie stage. Fooneess os So oects ef Dail were
more/nothing less/only love...” It surely devi. Throughout the pet forma nce, Rouse performed an inspirational.a assuaged early in the show, giving
-ates from the rest of the upbeat alternative Osborne, dressed in red iridescent, capella piece as Osborne stood back them a chance to witness the sensual

hip-hop beats, showing The Fun Lovin QQQRRRM ani M ec tiopsirrbteseiclccemeacmmmiamaterenttece(oer intensity of her vocal ability and
Criminals’ aren’t boring and repetitive. audience with her intense stage On songs like “St. Teresa” and the movement. Joan Osborne has a rare

With the messages they send, The Fun Lovin’ Fivasenecmm antennae picked up her rare, live track, “Century,” Osborne _ knack of capturing an audience not
Criminals, could possibly cause some angry hype guitar before the Bob Dylan cover, got the chance to flaunt her heartfelt only with her bea utifully trained
with those who beg to differ about the Mafia mae Man In A Long Black Coat,” she wails, and graceful tambourine voice, but with her ability to create a
seer crime. But then again, their lyrics are all in coyly expressed her lack of guitar playing. Meanwhile the steady jovial environment, transforming a
scoping (ode ace fea Coe experience and played a few chords drums and blaring guitar riffs by large venue like The Raia into the
“Freebird”), The Fun Lovin’ Criminals take the until she cut merce off: “Psyche! It Della Pen na and guitarist Jack intimacy of a Greenwich Village folk
ordinary and form it into the extraordinary. just looks good.” Petruzzelli were rhythmically com- club.

re and
oustic
one to
nuous
Wrong
Penna
e sang
eeres-
which
as she
floor.
outing
were
giving
ensual
y and
a rare
ce not
rained
reate a
ng a
to the
ve folk

Record companies and movie stu-

dios have been like orifices lately,
shooting out “alternative” sound-
tracks, compilations, and tributes
like poop out of a vegetarian.

Jason Black

Amidst this stream of incidental
alterna-gatherings and unnecessary
retrospectives comes Sclioolliouse Rock
Rocks (Lava/ Atlantic) which, all at
once, groups various alternative
artists, pays tribute to the material of
writers not featured as performers,
and fondly recalls our youth.

The difference here lies in what
seems to have been omitted by the
producers of the aforementioned
types of albums. Unlike the ‘trivial
Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest
Hits released months ago, Schoolhouse
Rocks showcases clever interpreta-
tions. The quality of these interpreta-
tions act as a deterrent to each song
seeming stale after the novelty of the
performance has worn off.

( oe we #l OW E> OPENING!
a ost Hr 8A A
NEW MAIN CHINESE BUFFET

Buffalo Tom perform
-“Loty, Loly, Loly, Get
Your Adverbs Here”

For those who don’t remember,
Schoolhouse Rock was the cartoon
series shown on Saturday mornings,
featuring songs that attempted to

sound hip enough to’ letthe:

lyrics-explanations of things like
politics, science, and grammar-sink
into the minds of school age chil-
dren. Although the songs were
hokey, they were memorable and
lovable in much the same way
Mentos commercials are today.

Fortunately, the updated versions |

generally lack the musical sense of
struggle laden within the originals.
After all, the originals were not
well-crafted pieces of music so much
as school lessons set to easily remem-
bered tunes. The artists heard here
are innovative enough to put forth a
distinct style, creating credible songs
from the existing blueprints.

On “Three Is A Magic Number,” |

the silly falsetto of Blind Melon’s
Shannon Hoon shows a recognition
of the song’s absurdity, yet the song
would not seem out of place ona

CHINES

ROUTE 20

Mile West of Crossgates Mail-
Next To Grand Union

Evan Dando performs
“My Hero, Zero” with his -
band, The Lemonheads

proper Blind Melon record. The same Fag

can be said of Skee-lo’s “The Tale Of Bite:
Mr, Morton” and Pavement’s “No Pes
More Kings.”

Another distinct quality of th
record is the eclectic grouping of per-
formers. Moby brings his techno pro-
duction to “Verb: That’s What’s
Happening,” while Biz Markie’s rap- Fagg
ping successfully updates “Thef
Energy Blues.” Of course pop and
modern rock permeate the album,
but there is a collective sensibility
rather than a sense of collected a.
album rejects.

A record which finally achieves a Fa %
balance between nostalgia and viable P45
music, Schoolhouse Rock Rocks has the Far
chops to withstand time as its televi- —
sion predecessor has done. Like visit- Pee:
ing that pre-school friend who’s Bas
blossomed in the years.since you've
seen her, in the time that has passed,
the songs heard here have gained fF
exciting life within their hip new set- §
tings.

5a Aspects

|LUNCH____°4,59
MON.-FRI. 11:30AM-4:00PM
Children Under 12 — $2.99

Sat.-Sun. Brunnche...coscoce $5.29
Children Under 12 — $3.29

DINNER.......56.29

MON.-SUN.: 4:00PIA-9:30PM |
FRI. & SAT: 4:00-10:30
Children under 12 $3.99

One Rate,

60 tems that
Fried Dumplings, Shrimp, Fish, Beef, Pork, BBQ Style Boneless Ribs,

Lo Mein, Cnion Rings, Chow Mei Fun, Shrimp Toast, Vegetable, Salad Ber, Fresh Fruit, :

Appetizers, Soup, Rice, Fortune Cookies and More!
1704 Western Ave., Albany (Next to Grand Union)

For Ag cppspypestecs' or Take Out Order Call:

(518) 464-9988
We accept reservations for your holiday and organization
parties. We accept most major credit cards.

OPEN EVERY DAY AND HOLIDAYS

* SPICY

Summe

It all adds up to one great summer

THE

REVIEW

PRINCETON

It’s not too late to sign up

for June LSAT courses.

¢ Small Classes

¢ Dynamic Instructors
e Practice Testing

¢ Free Extra-Help

458-2657

info.albany @ review.com

The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University or E.T.S.

break: our carefree one-rate/one-pay-
ment self-storage plan.
We've neatly packaged our rates in a

specially tailored program to accommo-
date your school’s summer schedule.

That way, with one easy payment, you
can take off without a worry.

And, by showing us your student ID,
we'll even give you a free lock.

How’s that for easy living?

Call us now to reserve a room, or if
you have any questions. Better yet,

U-HAUL)
449-2034

SELF-STORAGE.

One Pa yinent,
One Carefree

COROU-HMAS TL, Premed BUSA

THE RAMONES

Besqier

p. GENERATION
the Smootha
FAT MOOKEN
eee

Brought to you by the St eatin Association

A Brooding Poet...a little Freedom...and a Writing Utensil

7a Aspects

you sit ion

in a state of hypnosis
conquered by your own vanity,
your own prevarications

The tortured captives

of your two-faced personali
demand justice, —revenge.

Their mouths water at the
headline which glorifies

your downfall.

It says: “Void of

integrity, political power maven
is pierced by his own perjury” —
Humbled by your |

_ horrendous humility :

Aspects

Girls, Girl: s is not an ode to
the Motley Crtie rock song of the late 80's, but
a review of the very popular Bad Girl craze
that has hit the comic scene in the last several
months. Even though the fad has cooled off a
bit, comic companies have been racking in the
fans, as well as money, with the use of these
under dressed, well ‘developed’ women. This
craze began when independent companies
like Harris, Crusade, Sirrus and Eternity
introduced several ladies with bad attitudes.
What made these stories interesting was that
the writers were able to use women as major
characters, not just foil characters. These
super heroines, Vampirella, Shi, Dawn and

~ The Comic Scene

Lady Death,
courtesy Chaos Comics

catalyst that brought
women back into the
main stream of the
comic book world.

After the success of

these books, the major
companies, Marvel,
Dane Image,
jumped onto the
bandwagon. They
began to revamp
many of their old
female characters and
brought in many hot
talents (writers and
artists) to help boost
ales, Characters like
Wonder Woman,
Catwoman, Elektra
and Glory have been
modified for the 90’s
and are taking there
respective books to
new heights, story
wise as well as profit
wise,

Another hot fan favorite now is the teen
scene. Yes, those crazy sidekicks are now
making a big name for themselves. Past
favorites, such as DC’s Superboy, Supergirl
and Robin have become more developed
characters and are not seen in the shadows of
their predecessors anymore. Also, new teen
heroes, like DC’s Impulse, Wildstorm’s Gen
13 and Marvels Generation X have made a big
name for themselves and continue to give the
readers excellent stories that are enjoyable
and very realistic to teenage fans.

-Scott Kelson

April 19, 1996

Lady Death, were the

*Comic Briefs*
HOT:

The female Crow book is coming out soon. Once
again the crow brings back a woman who returns to
avenge not only her own death, but the death of the
unborn child she was carrying when her life was
cut short. The art looks awesome and the book is
written by the acclaimed author James Vance.

Marvels sellout to both Image and Acclaim comics.
I sick and tired of seeing these pointless inter-
company crossovers. Anyway, titles that are in the
works are Iron Man and X-O Manowar, Cable and
Prophet, Spider Man and Badrock, X-Force and
Youngblood, X-Men and WildC.A.T.s and Gen 13
and Generation X. Maybe one day Marvel will
actually write good stories for their own characters,
not somebody elses.

WATCH OUT:
Kingdom Come, May 8th. The best book of the year.

RUMORS:

A Wonder Woman live-action film proposal is
making the rounds in Hollywood. Also, Universal
Studios Florida is supposivelly working with
Marvel Comics to produce a ride and restaurant
chain within there theme park.

-Scott Kelson

ATTENTION
PRE-MED STUDENTS

LETTERS TO Tile EDITOR

The Republican
Stereotype

To the Editor:

I am a Republican. I am not a racist, I
do not hate homosexuals, and I do not
believe in keeping the lower class from an
education. For as long as I can remember,
the word “Republican” has been synony-
mous with hatred and greed. Republicans
are stereotyped and put down regularly by
those who are as ignorant as people get.
Not all Republicans are rich. We come
from all walks of life. Not all Republicans
are white. We are all colors. There is no
basis to the implication that to be a
Republican is to be a racist. You would be
the first to say that it is unfair to label oth-
ers. Why do you insist on labeling me?

Republicans are being discriminated
against. Everyday, we are labeled as
greedy hate mongers. It is simply not true!
It is time for the Republicans on this cam-
pus and in this country to stand up and
make it clear that it is not acceptable to
discriminate against us on the basis of our

political ideology!
Joshua Padgug

Justice Needs to
be Served

To the Editor:

During more than two decades of
research on the Holocaust and efforts to
bring its perpetrators to justice, I have vis-
ited many of the sites of the mass murder
of European Jewry. In some, like the
Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek death
camps, a few of the buildings where the
crimes were committed are intact; in oth-
ers, like Treblinka and Chelmno, only
monuments mark the spot where hundreds
of thousands of Jews were murdered. The
same is true in the killing fields of Lithua-
nia and Latvia.

In Rwanda, by contrast, the sites of
mass murder retain their immediacy. In
the town of Ntarama, hundreds of skulls
neatly arranged on a table alongside the
local church attest to the murders that
took place inside this house of worship. In
Mugombwe, the skulls of hundreds of
Tutsis who were drowned in excrement
lie in open-pit latrines, testimony to one
of the favorite execution methods of the
Hutu extremists.

Those images return this month, the
second anniversary of the genocide in
Rwanda. Sadly, almost none of the plan-
ners and key implementers of the premed-
itated slaughter of Tutsis and moderate
Hutus has been apprehended. On the con-
trary, the overwhelming majority escaped
following the fall of the Sindikubwabo
regime, which carried out the genocide.
Many of those primarily responsible for
the genocide crossed into Zaire, where
they control the refugee camps and pre-
pare for the next round of violence. Oth-
ers have found a warm welcome in Kenya
and until recently in Cameroon.

The United Nations International Tri-
bunal for Rwanda was established to dis-
pense justice, but to date it has indicted
only eight perpetrators, for the murder of
several thousand Rwandans at Kibuye.
Only two are in custody and none is
among the leaders of the genocide.

The U.N. investigators are looking for
incriminating documents. But in cases of
genocide, written orders rarely exist. His-
torians of the Holocaust still are searching
for Adolf Hitler’s order launching the
Final Solution. The lack of such proof has
not, however, prevented the prosecution
of leading perpetrators of the Holocaust.

What is lacking in the case of Rwanda
is the political will to prosecute the major
criminals, which partially can be attribut-
ed to the fact that they were neither rebels
nor renegades, but government officials.
Thus, people like former President
Theodore Sindikubwabo and Maj. Gen.
Augustin Bizimungu are the beneficiaries
of protection not normally granted to oth-
ers accused of crimes. The men believed
responsible for these murders are living

.
=

openly in Zaire and Kenya. Protected by
their host regimes, they apparently have
no reason to fear the U.N. tribunal.

Justice is critical if any semblance of
normalcy is ever to happen-in Rwanda.
One of the primary factors that led to the
genocide was the culture of impunity.
Recurrent cycles of violence claimed tens
of thousands of lives since 1959, but not a
single person ever was tried for these
crimes.

Rwanda needs its own version of the
1946 Nuremberg trials, which sentenced
the surviving leadership of Nazi Germany
to death or lengthy prison terms. Such a
cathartic process would expose the crimes
of the murderers, achieve a measure of
justice and serve as a warning to those
around the world who may be considering
mass murder as a solution to political or

defense of state borders would give way
to more relaxed commitments to uphold
collective security through peace enforce-
ment and peacekeeping. The Atlantic
Union could then open its doors not only
to the new democracies of Central Europe
but also to Russia and other former Soviet
republics if and when they become stable
democraciey

. The negotiation of a free-trade area
between North America and Western
Europe would produce a substantial
increase in transatlantic trade. It would
also have important political payoffs. Just
as a common market in Europe made bor-
ders more porous and facilitated political
integration, so would a single Atlantic
market strengthen the foundation of a
union of North American and European
democracies. —

racist...”

ethnic conflicts.

Those of us who have devoted years to
the hunt for Nazi war criminals did so not
only to punish the guilty, but also to pre-
vent a recurrence of those heinous crimes.
The only way to defuse the genocidal
time bombs about to explode in Burundi
and elsewhere is to prove at the highest
level that crime does not pay. To date, the
Rwanda experience has only proved the

opposite.
= Efraim Zuroff

Distributed by The Los Angeles Times

A New Atlantic
Union

To the Editor:

The West is in big trouble. Its leaders
are seeking to breathe new life into the
European Union (EU) and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
They have, however, embarked on a
course that will lead to the demise of the
West, not its renewal. Policy makers are
trying to broaden the community of liber-
al democracies even as they deepen it. But
if enlargement of the EU and NATO is to
be both feasible and desirable, they must
first loosen the structures that have kept
the West together.

The EU’s heralded intergovernmental
conference, which opened last month in
Turin, Italy, is to guide Europe toward
deeper integration while opening the
union to the continent’s new democracies.
But without the Soviet Union around to
fuel integration, a single currency and
centralized governance of Europe are
legacies of a former era that will founder
as national states reassert their sovereign-
ty.
President Clinton will try again this
week to overcome President Yeltsin’s
staunch opposition to NATO enlarge-
ment. But NATO is misdirecting its ener-
gies into efforts to admit new members
from Central Europe, failing to recognize
that the problem lies in the very nature of
the alliance, not its membership. In the
absence of an enemy, NATO’s territorial
guarantees are no longer necessary or
politically sustainable. The resistance of
commitment-weary electorates in the
West, not just the objections of Russia,
will soon stop NATO enlargement in its
tracks.

America belongs in Europe, and Cen-
tral Europe belongs in the West. But to
achieve these aims, leaders must scale
back the vision and match institutional
commitments to political realities.

The solution to the West’s troubles is
an Atlantic Union that would subsume the
EU and NATO. The EU would abandon
its federal aspirations and instead extend

‘its single market east to Central Europe

and west to North America. NATO would
be the new group’s defense arm, but its
binding commitments to the collective

“IT am a Republican. I am not a

Joshua Padgug

‘The new organization would replace
NATO’s emphasis on collective territorial
defense with a broad charge to preserve
peace in the Atlantic area. Even though
NATO’s infrastructure and forces would
remain intact, this more relaxed mandate
would enable the Atlantic Union to take
in Europe’s new democracies without
appearing anti-Russian or asking elec-
torates in the West to extend new defense
guarantees. Entrants would be joining a
community of democratic states, not a
formal military alliance. Central European
states would get to join the club - even if
that club proves to be less selective than
they would like.

Western Europe enjoys a deep and sta-
ble peace that would not be shaken by a
more relaxed American commitment,
especially if U.S. troops stay put on the
continent. Indeed, although officials on
both sides of the Atlantic are reluctant to
admit it, the absence of a common threat
has already eroded the credibility of Arti-
cle V. By explicitly recognizing this
change and seeking to include Russia in a
new Europe, the Atlantic Union promises
to make a pan-European community of
democracies a reality, not just rhetoric to
placate Moscow as Poland enters a NATO
that everyone knows will never go further
east.

At the same time, should Russian
democracy falter, the Atlantic Union’s
military infrastructure would serve as the
foundation for a new and enlarged anti-

Russian alliance.
Charles A. Kupchan

Distributed by The Los Angeles Times

A China
Policy

To the Editor:

The hunt for a China policy that is at
once moral, profitable, and politically ten-
able increasingly resembles the search of
a haystack that does exist for a needle that
doesn’t.

Oh, well, at least the Chinese know
we’re displeased with them. Can’t say we
haven’t shown them that we feel strongly
enough about their behavior that we will
suffer great inconvenience to our own
domestic politics even as we do little to
disturb theirs.

President Nixon made a career of
accusing the Democrats of having “lost’’
China until he “found’’ it in 1972, still in
possession of the tyrants who had
“stolen’’ it in 1949, and turned it into a
vehicle in which he paraded himself as a
visionary peacemaker. But no president
since then has known quite what to do
with what Nixon found.

President Clinton has until June 3 to
decide whether to extend China’s “most-
favored-nation’’ trading status. The Chi-
nese have not yet lived up to agreements
by which MEN was extended a year ago.

It’s an open-and-shut case for trade sanc-
tions that would almost certainly shut
down the better part of the commerce
between the United States and China.
This is crystal-clear. Nothing else about
the situation is.

Clearly, nobody wants to be seen as
soft on China and nobody wants to be
accused of “losing’’ China again. And
even as politicians dithered and fussed,
the U.S. Export-Import Bank Wednesday
approved $160 million in loan guarantees
to allow the Chinese to buy Boeing pas-
senger jets. The moral thing to do would
be to let the Europeans have a free ride in
the rich Chinese market for civilian air-
craft. Who’s for that?

There is one thing we can do, even as
we alternately scold and flatter the Chi-
nese sphinx. We may not be able to
remove China as an international irritant
but we can remove it as an irritant to
domestic American politics. Let’s face it,
as a political issue, Nixon milked both

sides of the udder dry.
Robert Reno

The Los Angeles Times

The War on
Drugs

Continued from page 8

use of national policies that help strength-
en the grip of vulnerable children on the
kind of life we all want for our own. See-
ing disadvantaged children as potential
assets in calculating American strength,
buttressing their prospects with the same
fervor traditionally mustered for patriotic
causes, and putting at their disposal the
powerful influence of the national securi-
ty establishment could mark a sea of
change for the fate of some of our most
needy youths.

A primary advantage of NSC exposure
is the regularity with which its agenda is
before the president. In addition, initia-
tives backed by NSC determinations are
more likely to be accepted by Congress,
the bureaucracy and the public.

“I am alarmed by the doubling of teen-
agers’ drug use in the past four years,”’
McCaffrey said in his letter to the Post. It
matters less whether the new drug policy
chief calls his campaign a “war’’ or one
against a “disease.’’ With his access to the
familiar forum of the NSC, it matters
more whether he takes full advantage of
the powers of his office to put children

front and center.
Some comparison can be made to the

national security emphasis on science
education for young Americans after the
former Soviet Union’s surprise launch of
the satellite Sputnik in the late 1950s.
President Kennedy’s response to the Sovi-
et challenge was to put a man on the
moon. Shouldn’t we try to give all our
children the hope that each has a chance
to hang the moon?

Distributed by The Los Angeles Times

The Quality
of Care

Continued from page 8

quickly, they don’t get a chance to men-
tion potentially expensive medical con-
cerns.

Luckily, nurses are a tough breed, and
are fighting back for themselves and their
patients. Their Patient Protection Act ini-
tiative, which needs many more signa-
tures to qualify for California’s ballot,
mandates that the Department of Health
Services establish criteria for adequate
staffing of medical facilities. It also
addresses patient care issues that the lieu-
tenants of the new robber-barons of man-
aged care don’t tell folk at those nice free
senior recruitment breakfasts.

We need to think about these things
now. Because you can’t do much protest-
ing about the adequacy of the care when
you’ re critically ill.

Distributed by The Los Angeles Times

10 = ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996

CLASSIFIED

ADVERTISING POLICY

Travel Abroad and Work
Make up to @25-45/hr. teaching
basic conversational English in
Japan, Taiwan, or S. Korea. No
teaching background or Asian lan-
guages required.

For more information call

1-206-971-3570 ext. J51873

4 bedroom apartment available
June 1. Nice neighborhood, Near
Albany High Furnished. $750 +
Utilities Martin 475-0501

2+3 bedroom Apt. Ranging from

$500 & up. Elberon Place. Near
SUNY Busline, laundry on premises,
backdecks, ceiling fans, wall to wall

DEADLINE:

WEDNESDAY AT 3 P.M. FOR FRIDAY'S ISSUE
FRIDAY AT 3 P.M. FOR TUESDAY’S ISSUE

URGENT!
International Health and Nutrition
Co. Expanding. Who do you know?
Europe, Asia, East Asia, Africa, So.
America etc.

Nancy 382-0146

Carpeting, off street parking

For rent: 5 bedroom apartment contact Theresa at 233-8124

repainted, hardwood floors,
on SUNY busline.

2+3 Bedroom apartments.

$840/month Large, Modern, off st. parking.
available 6/1 On SUNY busiine.
732-2554

Must see. 489-4784

RATES:

$1.75 for the first 10 words.
$.10 each additional word.
$2 extra for a box.
Minimum charge is $1.75

Earn While You Train
Long Island’s Fastest Growing Firm
Investment Bankers
Six Figure Income Potential
Kensington Wells Inc
800-453-6935 x318

M-F 9-5
458-8394 after 5

FOR SALE

Five Drawer filing cabinet with brass

For rent: $740/month. 4 bedroom
apartment. Excellent condition.
Private parking, storage, on
SUNY busline, near Stewarts
732-2554
Available 6/1

Classified ads are being accepted at Campus
Center 329 during the hours of 10-4. Classified
advertising must be paid in cash or check at the
time of insertion. Minimum charge for billing is $25

per issue.

No ads will be printed without a full name,
address and phone number on the advertising
form. Credit may be extended, but NO refunds will
be given. Editorial policy will not permit ads to be
printed that contain blatant profanity or those that
are in poor taste. We reserve the right to reject any

maierial deemed unsuitable for publication.

All advertising seeking models or soliciting parts
of the human body will not be accepted. Advertisers
seeking an exception to this policy must receive
permission from the Editor in Chief of the Albany

Student Press.

If you have any questions or problems concerning
classified advertising, please feel free to call or stop

by the business office.

handles (dark blue)
Smith Corona Electronic Typewriter,
computer compatible
Desk with 2 drawers

New 4 bedroom, 2 bath
Ontario St.
Backyard, easy parking

a 2 eC Fisher portable stereo with double
STOCKBROKER/TRAINEE einen St Sates
Top NASD firm looking for hard- HAVE YOU SEEN THE BIG Oe a = seat
working, motivated individuals to be BLUE FISH? SS BEE enor we
placed in an intensive 3 month It marks two of Albany’s safest, age
paid training program. cleanest and most convenient
Sponsorship for series apartments!!
7 exam included. For $257 per person you and your
Call Elliot Harris at 1-800-996-4246 friends can enjoy: Phares tinted
ext. 381 for information. ¢ safe, convenient accommodations £130 ond tis ariaeinen Moriemal
WE DO NOT HIRE BROKERS * On site laundry facilities P i
WE CREATE THEM! ¢ Great backyard for parties 434-7452
¢ plenty of storage space
* Active, caring management
SERVICES ¢ Discount rent plan PERSONALS
Just one block from Western and
Europe $169 Quail. Call 446-6281 today! <4
Caribbean/Mexico $189 R/T These apartments won't last long!! :

Be a little flexible and save $$$
We'll help you beat the airline
prices. Destinations worldwide.
AIRHITCH™ 800-326-2009
airhitch@netcom.com

The Gathering
http://www.takeme.com
scholarships, academic & career
resources, internships, sports,
news, entertainment, travel, music,
debates and 1,000’s of links!

3 bedroom Apts available for
summer session and beyond.
Washer/dryer, dishwasher, 2 full
baths, deck, exc. condition from
$150 per month per student.

1 block from SUNY busine.
Ask for Dave @ 462-6366

Thanks for the awesome time
The mixer was totally great
Anything for money was cool

Call us for another date
VODA

WANTED/JOBS

Part-time Medical Assistant
Albany area

Sutter Corporation, an orthopaedic

rehabilitation company, has a part-
time entry-level opportunity to enter

the medical field. We will train you
and you immediately interface with
Clinicians and patients!

Our medical assistants set-up and
service medical equipment at sports
medicine centers, hospitals and pri-
vate homes using excellent interper-

sonal skills on all levels. Reliable
transportation and the ability to lift
forty pounds are necessary.

Compensation package includes:

$10/hr for 25 hours a week and
mileage reimbursement. Please
send or fax resume to:
Sutter Corporation
Human Resources Dept.
9425 Chesapeake Drive
San Diego, CA 92123
Fax (619) 279-8249
Equal Opportunity Employer

EASTERN EUROPE JOBS - Teach
basic conversational English in
Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. No
teaching certificate or European lan-
guages required. Inexpensive
Room & Board + other
benefits. For info. call:
(206)971-3680 ext. K51871

FUNDRAISER- Motivated groups
needed to earn #500+ promoting
AT+T, Discover, gas and retail
cards. Since 1969, we’ve helped
thousands of groups raise the
money they need. Call Gina at
(800) 592-2121 ext. 110.
Free CD to qualified customers

483 Hamilton st
(1) 3 bedroom unit
683 & 687 State Street (4) 3
Bedroom Units, Driveway Call Jeff:
462-7411 or 482-8788

CRUISE SHIPS NOW HIRING -
Earn up to $2,000+/month working
on Cruise Ships or Land-Tour com-
panies. World travel. Seasonal &
full-time employment available. No

experience necessary. For more
information call 1-206-971-3550 ext.

C51872

Study Abroad in Australia
A unique academic and cultural
experience. 1-800-548-8997

Apts available June 1st
in Pine Hills area.

$510- 3 bedroom includes heat,
hotwater and cooking gas
$550 plus utilities, 3 bedrooms,
driveway
$850, plus utilities, 4 bedrooms,
large excellent condition and loca-
tion. Modern driveway

Call 765-9340

Dan Schlosser - Next year, you can
come to my house and pee with the
door open any time you want.
Howie-Maybe we should start our
own fraternity, so we can get some
benefits too. But we have to invite
guys to the mixers too. Alex - If you
get the shot just so you can say
you're rmoody, | get to sit on the
sofa in my underwear and scratch
myself and burp and fart and stuff. -
Natalia

TYPING: Laser-printed term papers,
theses, dissertation, manuscripts,
resumes, and more! UAlbany gradu-
ate, former teacher. Judy: 437-9663

Summer camp counselors for
Jewish, Zionist co-ed teen camp in
New York on Delaware River.
General Counselors, lifeguards,
sports, crafts, dance, drama, out-
door education, and other specialist
positions available. Call Camp Tel
Yehudah 1-800-970-2267 or

-YJTY @AOL.com

Personal typing
Pick-up, delivery
Fast turnaround time.
Call Gail at 356-5361

3 bedroom, 2 bath washer/dryer,
dishwasher, parking. Near Quail
and Washington Ave.
$675+ or $795 includes all utilities
walk to busline
Call Dave @462-6366

General Office work
Part-time. Work in a comfortable
office environment, downtown
Albany on SUNY busline.
Flex hours.

Call Lisa at 463-2426

J&L Marketing, a national marketing
company, is looking for SPOKES
MODELS to work weekend promo-
tions in New York. Candidates must
meet the following criteria in order to
qualify for this position:
¢ Professional, business appearance

& personality
¢ Outgoing
¢ Excellent communication skills
* Reliable
* Dependable transportation
* Available on weekends
* Available to train immediately
The pay is $9.66 an hour + travel
expenses, if applicable. Hours and
distance may vary from each promo-
tion. This is an excellent opportunity
to build your resume and to support
financial obligations, without taking
time away from your school week.
If interested in learning more about
J&L Marketing, call Stacia Bradley,
Referral Relations Coordinator,
immediately at 1-800-385-9137

Counselors, Assistant Program
Director, Water front Director,
Administrative Assistant for
Horseback Riding and Outdoor
Adventure Campus. Co-ed, 50 cam-
pus-located on an 800 acre working
farm in Western New York (1 hour
drive West of Rochester)
SPECIALIST IN HORSEBACK
RIDING, TENNIS, NATURE, TEAM
SPORTS, CANOEING, FISHING,
ARCHERY RIVALRY, SWIMMING,
BIKING, CRAFTS, AND DRAMA.
Contact Mary Herbert (716)798-0941.

AUTO
INSURANCE

Low Cost Car Insurance
Any Driver, Any Car! Call Tom
Casey Hallmark INS
518-869-1500 work
518-273-3900 home
Available on Campus

HOUSING

Counselors for co-ed N.E. PA,
overnight Jewish Federation
camp-

3 hrs from NYC. Looking for caring
counselors to teach tennis, basket-
ball, softball, boating, ropes, biking,
hiking, nature, and Arts.
1-800-973-3866
Poyntell @ix.netcom.com
www.castlepoint.com/poyntelle

Two 3-bedroom apts at the same
address available 6/1/96 with possi-
ble early-move-in. Full or partially

. furnished. $225/person. (Ask about

the early-pay discount) Near Draper
Hall on Washington Ave. GREAT
LANDLORD. Other 2 and 4 bed-

room apts available. Call 439-9189.

Very nice 1st floor 3 bedroom flat.
Close to SUNY Busline-645 Myrtle
Ave. Available June 1st
$690/month plus utilities
Call Drew 463-2426 days

National Parks Hiring
Positions are now available at
National Parks, Forests & Wildlife
Preserves. Excellent benefits +
bonuses! Call 1-206-971-3620 ext.
N51872

45 Elberon Place
(3) 2 bedroom Apts available
$400/month per apartment.
Available June ist
Off street parking. Fraternities and
sororities welcome.
Call Jonathan at (718) 465-2685

Great Apt For Rent
55 Elberon Place
1 Apt. available for June 1st.
Recently Renovated. Apt. has 3
Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Living Room,
Dining Room, Kitchen, Front + Back
porches, Hardwood Floors, Ceiling
Fax, Mini blinds, Track Lighting.
$650 / Month
Call Jonathan 718-465-2685

The ASP classifieds are really,

really fun. Like those really, real-

That’s what
the turkey
said!

ly fun things. Or something.
Place an ad
because it’s fun,
like that fun thing.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS ] ]

The Clinton administration has placed a request to increase college grants

(CPS)The Clinton administration has pro-
posed what it calls an “unprecedented”
increase in the Pell Grant program for
1997 despite lingering disputes between
the White House and Congress on educa-
tion funding for the current fiscal year.

The administration’s 1997 education
budget plan recommends a maximum Pell
Grant of $2,700, up nearly $400 from cur-
rent funding. “We are requesting the
largest increase in the maximum grant in
more than 20 years,” Education Depart-
ment (ED) Secretary Richard Riley said in
presenting the budget March 19. The plan
also would provide grants to 155,000
more students than in 1995, he said.

Fast-approaching deadlines have forced
Congress and The White House to begin
working on next year’s budget without an
agreement for the current fiscal year.

As the White House unveiled its 1997
fiscal year budget, the Clinton administra-
tion and GOP leaders remained mired in a
budget deadlock for fiscal year 1996,
which began Oct. 1. Both parties are seek-
ing a small to moderate increase in the
current Pell maximum of $2,340 but can-
not bridge larger disputes on achieving a
balanced federal budget within seven
years.

Riley has maintained that any plan to
balance the budget should not be done at
the expense of key education programs.
“What we cannot do is close the budget

¢%@ KNICKERBOCKER
p” ARENA os

8 PM

=
THE TIMES UNION

We're Your Source

WRGB

Also Featuring:

Brian Boitano, Oksana Baiul, Nancy
Kerrigan, Elvis Stojko, Viktor Petrenko,
Nicole Bobek, Jenni Meno & Todd Sand,

Sa turday Shae-Lynn Bourne & Victor Kraatz, =
H Guddat & Gary Beacom, Surya Bonaly,
Ap nl 2 0 Philippe Canela Isabelle Brasseur &

Loyd Eisler, Maia Usova & Alexander
Zhulin, Elizabeth Punsalan & Jerod
Swallow, Marina Klimova & Sergei
Ponomarenko

Tickets: 518-476-1000

On sale at the box office & all Ticketmaster outlets including
World’s Record, The Bookmark, Coconuts and Filene’s.

For more information call (518) 487-2000.
Groups call (518) 487-2100. :

Campbell’s Makes Everything M’m! M’m! Better?

(Cast of skaters may change due to injury or other unforeseen circumstances.)

deficit by creating an education deficit,”
Riley said of the 1997 plan, which pro-
vides for a seven-year balanced budget
with only moderate cuts in spending.

Aside from the Pell Grant increase, the
budget plan includes:

¢ A 10 percent increase in college
work/study funds to $679 million. This is
part of the administration’s plan to
increase participation in the work/study
program from 700,000 students to 1 mil-
lion students within five years.

¢ $130 million in Presidential Honor
Scholarships, a new program that would
offer a one-time $1,000 grant to students
who finish in the top 5 percent of their
high school classes.

e A tax break allowing families to
deduct up to $5,000 in college tuition
expenses. This amount would increase to
$10,000 by 1999.

“The overall higher education budget
contains increases that are very substan-
tial,” said Education Department Deputy
Secretary Madeleine Kunin. She praised
the “unprecedented increase” sought for
Pell Grants even as the administration
tries to streamline other federal education
programs.

Among the losers in the 1997 plan are
many-small graduate fellowships for stu-
dents. The budget would
terminate funding for
Patricia Roberts Harris

Presented by
Tom Collins

Computer Science & Inform
sessions allow for plenty of summertime living.

Fellowships and Javits Fellowships, two
programs to help support under represent-
ed and high-achieving graduate students.
The White House also would eliminate

funds for national science scholarships as
well as Douglas teaching scholarships that
provide aid to those pursuing careers in
education.

Are you dating someone new and
want to show off to your ex?

arn

Summer session students enrolled in at least 6 credits may live on either the New
York City or Westchester campuses for only $64 a week. Amazing when you

consider all you'll be close to...the South Street Seaport, Greenwich Village, Little
Italy, Chinatown and Central Park. Not the city type? Then consider our Pleasantville campus, where
you'll find swimming, jogging and tennis facilities.

SUMMER SESSION 4° BEGINS JUNE 3, 1996 * SUMMER SESSION ‘2: BEGINS JULY 15, 1996

Don't just hit the beach, hit the books this summer and get a head start on
your next semester. Enroll in one or both of Pace University’s summer
sessions. Courses are available in a wide variety of areas. From Business to

ation Systems to Arts & Sciences, Nursing and Education. And six-week

Don't procrastinate! Spaces are filling up quickly. Register today in order to make
the most of your summer. For more information, call 914°773-3700,
Extension 9307 or e-mail infoctr@ny027.wan.pace.edu

—

attitude

O Please send me a Pace summer class schedule

Name:

SS#:

College currently attending:

Year of Graduation:

College Address: City/state/zip :
Home Address: City/state/zip :
College phone : Home phone :

(2) I’m interested in living on campus, —

Please send schedule to: College address Q Home address

Mail coupon to: Pace University, Admission Information Center,

| Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038
Or facsimile to. 212-346-1821

UNIVERSITY

summeresession

AA9307

Li.

perfect

summertime.

12 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, APRIL

CULTURAL
CARINIWALIE

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1996
1@ OO AM = 8:00PM
State Quad Fi eld & Lot

THIS SUNDAY!
We MWIUSIC!

HIP HOP/RAP = GENIUS oF
THe WVu-Tanc CLAN
REGGAE CALYPSO = Carippean Trace Jam
LATIN MAERENGUE = La Banna X
ALTERNATIVE ASIAN ROCK = Azure

eAMUSEMENTS=»

LAZER TAG! Se me ea eat *)
HUMAN BOWLING! (set ee)
JOUSTING! ( Strland andey your fetasaltel the undeleaiable

DUNK TANK! Cierns sisgnschept ter podsinuer, anatil)
——— NICRNATONAL i Seah

MEDIGWOKRe: ALK 1776

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

No more pencils and erasers for the GREs

(CPS)The Educational Testing
Service had plans to fully switch
to computerized testing by 1997.

But ETS has postponed full
implementation of the computer-
ized Graduate Record Exam for
two years in an effort to strength-
en security measures and give
students a more flexible testing
schedule.

When ETS first announced the

computerized GRE in 1993, com- -

pany officials had plans to drop
the paper-and-pencil version of
the graduate school test within
four years. The revised plan will
extend test dates and sites for the
traditional GRE until 1999.
Students taking the computer-
ized GRE answer questions by
clicking a computer mouse on the
appropriate icon. Unlike the tradi-
tional version, which was only
offered five times per year, stu-
dents could take the computer-
ized GRE at any time by register-
ing at 226 test locations across

the nation.

According to ETS, nearly one-
fourth of the 420,000 students
who take the GRE take the com-
puterized version.

After learning about potential
security problems with the com-
puterized GRE, though, ETS offi-
cials decided to temporarily sus-
pend the test to work out security
measures.

Originally, the computerized
questions came from a large,
national database that stayed in
place for six months at a time.
Because of the adaptive nature of
the test, in which the level of dif-
ficulty of each question depends
on the previous answer, students
taking the test were often getting
the same questions.

ETS officials suspended the
computerized tests from Dec. 23
to Jan.
3 to
install
various

Get A Piece Of The Peace...

...cCome See For Yourself

Spend this summer in Israel
on the program that is right for you

GRADUATE TO ISRAEL-One of a kind for college graduates
SHORT ON TIME-Three weeks for those with limited time. :
TASTE OF ISRAEL-Four week intensive tour of Israel
Opyssey ‘96-Explore Eastern Europe and Israel for four weeks
YOUNG SINGLES-Two week program for those 25-30

ELZVALIN

SPECTRUM 4

290 DELAWARE AVE 449-8995

TUESDAYS ALL SEATS $4.50

$6.50 Evenings
$4.50 Matinees

USD/WZO - The Israel Action Center and the Joint Authority for
Jewish Zionist Education /Youth and Hechalutz Department

110 E. 59th Street, Suite 333, New York, NY 10022
usd@netcom.com * 1 (800) 27-ISRAEL * (212) 339-6940/1

YK
eae

JANE EYRE
6:40. 9:20 Evenings

Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:25PM

FLIRTING
WITH
DISASTER
Sat-Sun 12:15

6:45, 9:30 Evenings
Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50PM

PRIMAL FEAR

CRY THE
BELOVED
COUNTRY

7:10, 9:35PM
Sat-Sun 1:30; 4:00PM

FARGO

7:00, 9:25PM
Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10PM

IAVAVAVAVAYAVAVAVA VA VAVAVAYAVAVA

“BEST CINEMA”

METROLAND'S 1995 WINNER

WAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAN,

security procedures. They later
announced plans to offer the
computerized version of the GRE
only during the first week of each
month. That plan has now been
altered to include six days scat-
tered throughout the month:

The new questions also come
from a larger, regional databases,
reducing the chances of students

benefiting from shared informa- 5

tion.

Tonioht T enjoyed my first quickie.
Wow! If was amazing, but most of
all it is still earlier enough to go
out and party, See you next week.

~ Attention all wacom:

there is going to be a surpris :
inform anyone of this information, so please keep it on
the DL. I could only offer you this, picture yourself on
the podium hanging out in the sun, relaxing and getting
color, when all of a sudden your soaked. Come on out of

your hibernation, and party with us. If you do not

attend you'll miss the experience of a lifetime.

N.Y STATE CERTIFIED
Reasonable Rates &
Student Discounts

Air conditioned, Safety Equipped
Car/ Also Available for Road Test

f
|
|
|

SAVE UP TO 44% ON EVERY CALL

1-800-COLLECT

14 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996

Take Kaplan and get
a higher score

University of Iowa student are kicking back and enjoying some good smoke

(CPS)-They might not be too
choosy about the swill they drink
on weekends, but there’s one

‘thing some University of Iowa

students know how to enjoy, a
good cigar.
About 40 members of the Iowa

away at monthly meetings since
January, when the group qualified
for student-club status with the
university’s student-government
association.

According to its membership
materials, the club’s founders
were inspired to cultivate: “an

..or your money back!"

More students prepare with Kaplan than any other
test prep company. Call us to find out why.

LSAT, GMAT, & MCAT preparation .
classes starting soon.
Call today to enroll!

1-800-KAP-TEST

KAPLAN

Albany Center Executive Park Drive, Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY

* 1F YOU USE OUR FULL PROGAAM. RESTRICTIONS APPLY. CALL FOR DETAILS.

Cigar Society have been puffing

> WORK - STUDY! +9

‘ Part - Time Military Service with the New !
York Army National Guard can get you a:

Full - Time Summer Job
Part - Time Job during the School Year
$10,000 Student Loan Repayment

$6.900 Montgomery GI Bill
$2,500 Cash Enlistment Bonus

New York

ARMY
——4

Learn While you Earn!
Go to school while you
serve in the Guard!

Call our Career Center
Open 24 Hours Daily at:

1-800-356-0552

THE STUDENT MinD Durina A FINAL E XAM.

Here's fast-acting relief es

from the pressure of school! Graduating
seniors and grad students can get $400” |
cash back* on the purchase or Lease of any

cool wew Fora or Mercury.

This eo the high-performance Mustang!

Call 1-800-321-1536 or visit our Web site
at http://www.ford.com for the full story.

» BECAUSE YOUR BRAIN DOESN’T HAVE WHEELS.

* To be eligible, you must graduate with an associate's or bachelor’s degree, or be currentty enrolled in graduate school, between 10/1/94 and 1/3/97. You must purchase or lease your new vehicie between 1/4/96 and 1/3/97. Some customer and vehicle elighlity restrictions apply See your dealer tor details.

enjoyable and relaxing atmo-
sphere in which connoisseurs
may gather, share and further
their knowledge on the essence
of cigars.”

Despite cancer warnings and
the sometimes unpopular stench
emitted by the cigars, the group,
one of Iowa’s more unusual stu-
dent clubs, has attracted local res-
idents and at least one woman to
its ranks. But there is a catch: the
group must hold its Sunday meet-
ings at a local restaurant.

Unfortunately, smoking is not
allowed in campus meeting

rooms.

SELF-SERVE

COPIES

5 Cents
EACH

(with College 1D)

Multiple
Machines

High Quality

Reduce/
Enlarge

Auto-Feeding
& Sorting

Available

sempnates
aa Dreintyg aks

Stuyvesant Plaza
Albany, New York

458-7758

—

Go to Israel.
The ticket’s on us.

Attention
New Yorkers

Israelbreak is once again providing 300* free
round-trip plane tickets for students who participate
in one of over 40 accredited Israel programs.

Eligible candidates are Jewish undergradate
college students:

1. Who have never before been to Israel.

2. Whose hometown is in one of

New York City’s five boroughs, Long Island

or Westchester.

Simply stated. You pick the program you like, and
we will pay for your ticket to go to Israel.

For an application and a listing of accredited. pro-
grams, call Michael Schram at The Israel Department
at Hillel of New York 212/696-0248 or send us
an e-mail at Israel. Hillel@mavin.noli.com

* Availability is limited. Limited NEED BASED scholarships are also
Israelbreak

available. Stine te ek
is supported Israel Experience Committee Jewish
Continuity Commi of UJA—Federation of New York and UJA.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 15

Lady Danes split first two matches

By THomAas MCMAHON
Sports Editor

The Lady Danes tennis team had its most success-
ful season in the fall of 1995. Led by a group of tal-
ented freshmen, Albany finished 8-2, and won the
New England Collegiate Conference Championship
in their first ever season in Division II. Many of the
same faces, and some new ones now lead the Lady
Danes into the second half of their season. Albany
plays four matches before competing in the Stony
Brook Tournament to close out the season.

The Lady Danes spring 1996 season began at
home against Pace. At University Courts, Pace
defeated Albany 6-3. The Lady Danes earned three
points with wins by Eriko Takemura, who won her
fourth-singles match 6-4, 6-1, Anne Marie Schu-
macher, who won her sixth-single match 6-0, 6-1,
and the Lady Danes final point point came from the

doubles team of Takemura and Marcia Piper, who
won their match 8-4. Also playing well for Albany
were Meredith Hidle, Christine Phillips, Mary
Wood, Dena Reinisch, and Lindsay Hartman. The
loss dropped Albany to Q—-1 in the springy and 8-3
overall. *

Albany played their second match against Con-
cordia College on Tuesday. The Lady Danes. earned
their first victory of the spring with a 5-4 over Con-
cordia on University Courts. Reinisch won her first
match of the spring with a 6-4, 6-4 victory, as did
Piper with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6) breathtaker, and
Schumacher improved to 2-0 in the spring with a
6-4, 6-2 win. Hartman accounted for Albany’s
fourth and final point in the singles competition
with a win by default. The doubles team of Reinisch
and Schumacher won by default to give the Lady
Danes their ninth win of the year.

One of the stars of the fall season for the Lady
Danes tennis team was
Jackie Knapp. It turns
out that as good as
Jackie was in tennis,
she was even better in
softball. So, for the
spring season Knapp
will be helping the

team and not the tennis
team. However, this

Albany tennis team
‘| still carries many of the
24 players from the fall,
wee) and should have con-
_ » «| tinued success.

The Lady Danes con-
tinue their schedule at
“| LeMoyne on April 30,
» | then at home against
| Oneonta St., before fin-
ishing out the season

Women’s tennis is back in the swing of things.

on May 3-5 at the

File photo . : ;
ae ene” “National Tennis Ctr.

Lady Danes softball:

: efi
Japan. Like Albert Belle, he did not win the MVP (that award
_ got to Rickey Hender son). For that yes r, and the following

By GARETH M. SMITH

two ie would lead the Tongue in RBIs becorias the first player
since Babe Ruth to accomplish such a feat. Last year Fielder
made a whopping 9.2 million dollars, but because his production
had been steadily declining (and his weight on the rise), Detroit
tried shopping him. The Tigers were unable to unload the hefty
salary of their hefty hitter, but now his value may be heading
through the roof. Even if he begins to falter a bit, a contender
would most likely take a chance on him ifthey found themselves
needing a power hitter (Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis would
be obvious possibilities). Until that time comes, Fielder should
continue to bring new excitement to fans at oad Stadium that
they haven’t felt in half a decade.

Before all the sportswriters of America who picked Baltimore
to win the A.L. East hurt their hands patting themselves on the
back, I must remind them that the season is just over two weeks
old. All this week I’ve heard sportscaster after sportscaster
declare that “Baltimore is running away with it” or remarks to
that effect. We have not played even 10% of the season. Boston
is not as bad as they look (though it’s hard to believe watching
them play) and New York has been erratic, but looks very solid.
Trust me, no one is running away with anything in this division.

My final prediction for this season is that neither Greg Maddux
nor Randy Johnson will win a Cy Young award this year. __

In the NBA, Phil Jackson should walk away with the coach of
the year award, Michael Jordan is the obvious MVP and Toron-.
to’s Damon Stoudamire should take: home the Rookie of the Year
honor, — :

The Rangers were down one game into ia nights encounter
with the Montreal Canadians. Montreal is like the Yankees of
hockey, they’ ve won the cup more than anyone. Look for the

Rangers to win this series (even if they lost last night).

Albany athletics news and notes

By THOMAS MCMAHON
Sports Editor

The University at Albany has
received commitments from two
scholastic basketball stars. Todd
Cetnar and Kris Zeisler were
awarded scholarships to play bas-
ketball for Albany in the 1996-97
season.

Cetnar, a 6’0”, 165-pound
guard from Amsterdam, NY, was
a first-team all—area selection by
both the Albany Times Union and
Daily Gazette. He averaged 27.1
points per game, to go with six
rebounds, seven assists, and four
steals per contest.

Zeisler, a 6’6”, 215—pound for-
ward from Tabernacle, NJ, aver-
aged ten points, and twelve
rebounds per game last season.
His Shawnee High team won the
Group IV state championship for
the second straight year, and was
ranked 17th nationally by USA
Today with a 274 record.

“We expect that Todd (Cetnar)
will contribute right away, and
fight it out with Bob Markel for
the point guard position,” head
coach Richard Sauers said. “Kris
(Zeisler) adds muscle to our
frontline, and is a great jumper
and a very good short-range
shooter. He has not yet reached
his full potential as a player,”
Sauers added.

The University at Albany also
announced two more selections as
assistant football coaches for next
season. Steve Hladio and Rich
Turi were selected as announced
by head coach Bob Ford on Tues-
day.

Hladio, who recently was an
assistant coach at Harvard Uni-
versity, will work with the offen-
sive line for the Great Danes next
season. The 28-year old served as
a graduate assistant coach for two
seasons at Boston College from

1993-95. As a staff member
under both Dan Henning, the cur-
rent BC head coach, and Tom
Coughlin, now of the NFL’s Jack-
sonville Jaguars.

Turi, a former. Siena College
assistant and local-high school
mentor, will handle the defensive
secondary as a part-time coach.
The 58-year old began his coach-
ing career in 1955, and has been
defensive coordinators for such
schools as Salisbury State Univer-
sity in Maryland, Siena College,
and Hudson Valley Community
College. Turi is also the Vice
President of the Adirondack

School Boards Association.

In other football news, the
Great Danes will begin their first
ever spring practice today at 4:30
p.m. Albany will conduct ten
non-contact practices, as provid-
ed for by the Eastern College
Athletic Conference (ECAC)
rules, over the next two weeks.
The Great Danes finished 3-7 in
their first ever Division II season,
but had to forfeit those three win
due to an NCAA violation.
Albany will look to replace key
personnel on the offensive and
defensive lines during the spring.

File photo

Albany will look to replace key losses up front with new players and coaches.

RIVER RATS

Continued from back page

16:08, and Rheaume was able
to score his 26th goal of the
year to earn the 2-2 tie. Mike
Dunham played two periods,
saving 22 of 23 shots. He was
forced to leave the game after
re—aggravating a left hamstring
injury. Sidorkiewicz played the
third period and overtime.
Notes and Quotes: Coach
Ftorek stated after the Bruins
game that the Rats are playing
very solid right now and have
regained the confidence neces-
sary to play in top form...
Albany’s future looks bright, as
the Rats have been bolstered by
young players such as wingers
Jay Pandolfo, Rob Pattison,
and Nathan Perrott, as well as
defenseman Sheldon Souray,
who Ftorek said compensates
for the loss of Cale Hulse, who
was traded earlier in the sea-
son... Sullivan was named a
member of the AHL’s first
All-Star team, while Brad
Bombardir and Dunham both
were named to the second
team... House established a
River Rats record for most
points in a single season, 86...
The Rats top three scorers were:
House (77 games, 37 goals, 49
assists) for 86 points, Pellerin
(75 games, 35 goals, 47 assists)
for 82 points, and Sullivan (53
games, 33 goals, 42 assists) for
75 points...Dunham finished the
season 30—10—2, Sidorkiewicz
19-7-5... The Rats broke their
record for goals allowed, giving
up only 218, compared to 219
last season... The Rats were
29-8-—3 at the Knick, 25—11-4
away... 322 goals were scored
this year, an increase of 29 over
last year...The River Rats strong
April (4-0-2) could not erase
their weak March (8-8). This
hindered their drive for the best
season ever, compiled by the

1992-93 Binghamton Rangers,
who went 57-13-10 but lost in
the semi-finals... The Rats
when leading after two periods:
42-0-2... The River Rats broke
many records this year, includ-
ing most wins (54, previous
record 46, most points (115,
previous record 109), longest
win streak (15 games, previous
record 7), and longest unbeaten
streak (21 games, previous
record 9)... 9,505 fans showed
up for the final game, giving the
River Rats a total of 244,010
for the season, an average of
6,100 per game.

Dates and times for the Corn-
wall—Albany series, a best—of-
five series: Game 1 at Albany,
Sunday, April 21 (6pm); Game
2 at Albany, Monday, April 22
(7pm); Game 3 at Cornwall,
Wednesday, April 24 (7:30

April 19,

1996

Covering University at Albany sports since 1916

Albany River Rats set out to defend Calder Cup title

By JARED TROPP AND DONALD MILLER

The Albany River Rats ended their
1995-1996 season very successfully, with
wins against Portland and Providence,
and a tie against Springfield. They fin-
ished with a record of 54-19-7, good for
115 points, tops in the American Hockey
League. Their first round opponent will be
the Cornwall Aces, who finished fourth in
the Central League with a record of
34-39-7.

The Rats traveled to Portland on April
12 to skate against the Pirates. Five differ-
ent River Rats found the back of the net,
and Mike Dunham made 19 saves as
Albany emerged with a 5-4 victory. The
win was the Rats 25th of the year on the
road, which tied the AHL record, set by
the River Rats during last year’s cam-
paign.

Albany welcomed the Providence Bru-
ins to the Knick on Saturday, April 13.
The Rats were 5-0 against Providence
this season, but the Bruins were fighting
for a playoff spot, and with a Long sum-
mer staring them in the face, could be
* expected to come out swinging.

Both teams came out playing fiercely,
finishing their bone crunching checks, and

crashing the net in hopes of slamming in’

rebounds. At 13:27, Rats center Pascal
Rheaume jetted around a Bruins defense-
man and angled his way toward Provi-
dence goalie Rob Tallas. Rheaume was
able to sweep the puck around Tallas for
his 25th goal of the year. The River Rats
made Rheaume’s goal stand up, as they
took the 1-0 lead into the second period.

Rookie right winger Rob Pattison con-
verted a one-timer from Bobby House for
his second goal of the season at 8:38 for a
2-0 Rats lead. House cut across the slot
area and pulled the lone defenseman
toward him with a nifty spin move, then
slipped a perfect pass across the crease,
where Pattison was waiting.

The Bruins were awarded a penalty
shot at 15:06, directly after Rats goalie
Peter Sidorkiewicz made several brilliant
saves to keep the puck out of the net. Ref-
eree Denis LaRue
awarded Alex Nikolic the opportunity to
do what no player had ever done against a
River Rats goaltender: convert a penalty
shot.- Nikolic wristed a shot past
Sidorkiewicz to make the score 2—1, and
it appeared that the Bruins energy level
had leaped up a few notches. But, Sid was
up to the task, stopping all the rest of the
Shots in the period to preserve the 2~1
lead.

The score remained 2-1 through most
of the third, but the Rats wore down the
Bruins eventually. Pattison scored his sec-
ond of the game and third of the year at
15:38, but the Bruins were not done yet.
They pulled Tallas for a sixth skater, and
Tod Hartje scored at 18:27 to cut the Rat
lead to 3-2. Providence winger Mike
Morin was whistled for a penalty
moments after Hartje’s goal, and it cost
his team dearly. Just twenty seconds later,
captain Scott Pellerin stole the puck at the
blue line and skated in alone on Tallas,

and wristed the puck past the stunned _

goalie. Down by two goals again, Provi-
dence emptied their net in the hopes of

Sixth Annual Albany Invite
to be held this weekend

scoring. The Rats put away the Bruins
with 17 seconds left. Pattison was able to
earn a hat trick, flinging the puck down
the ice and into the jackpot for a 5-2 vic-
tory. Sidorkiewicz was spectacular in
goal, making 34 saves to improve his
record to 19-7. Tallas made 37 saves, and
was awarded the third star of the game.
House earned second star of the game
honors, collecting three assists. Pattison
was the first star of the game, collecting
three goals.

The last game of the regular season was

in Springfield against the Falcons. The
Falcons are the second best team in the
AHL, trailing only the Rats. Steve Sulli-
van was returned to Albany from the New
Jersey Devils, who did not make the NHL
playoffs this season. Ricard Persson
scored at 5:03 of the first period to give
Albany the 1-0 lead. The Falcons’ Jeff
Bes scored at 16:40 of the second period
and at 49 seconds of the third period to
give Springfield a 2—1 lead. The Rats
were awarded a 4 minute power play at
See RIVER Rats on page 15

The River Rats hit the playoffs playing well.

File photo

Track teams place second at UConn meet;
school records fall at Columbia Invitational

By Eric DAGNALL
Senior Editor

The University at Albany
men’s track and field teams
will try to defend their
Albany Invitational title this
weekend. The women’s
squad will try to capture the
crown after Ithaca College
won last year.

Athletes from 18 schools
will head onto University
Field to vie for the titles.
Local rivals Siena, St. Rose,
RPI, and Union will compete
against the Danes.

Albany’s men’s squad,
ranked ninth nationally in
Division II, has several top
athletes who will vie for this
year’s titles. Dennis King was
first in the Division IT 1,500
meters at the 1996 Florida
State Relays. Sophomore
Jayson Vasquez is the top
entrant in the men’s 100
meter high hurdles and 400
meter hurdles.

On the women’s side,
ranked tenth in Division II,
Albany will be in the hunt for
many titles. Mary Ingram has
already qualified for the Divi-
sion II national champi-
onships on May 23-25 in the
400 meter intermediate hur-

dies. Freshman Janna John-
ston has won three long jump
championships this spring
and will be one of the
favorites to win this week-,
end. Tonya Dodge set a
school record in the 3,000
meter run last weekend.

Several 1995 Albany Invi-
tational winners will be in the
field. Nora O’Heaney (1,500
meters), Tina Busch (800),
and Deborah Springer
(5,000), all of from St. Rose,
will try to repeat as champi-
onships in their long distance
events.

Ithaca’s Scott Rowe set an
invitational record in the 100
meter dash (10.7 seconds)
last year. He will have stiff
competition this year from
two area running backs.
RPI’s Krishaun Gilmore and
Union’s Shuron Morton are
both entered in this year’s
100 and 200 meter events.

Friday’s schedule begins at
4 p.m. with the: finals of the
pole vault, hammer throw,
distance-running, and race
walk events. The first day of
the men’s decathlon and
women’s heptathlon will also
be held. Saturday’s slate
starts bright and early with
the 10 a.m. long jump.

Tennis

By Eric DAGNALL
Senior Editor

The University at Albany track teams completed —

two successful weekends of meets with the Columbia
Invitational and the University at Connecticut meet.
On top of the strong performances, Division II stand-
ings released this week have the men’s squad ranked
ninth nationally and the women’s squad ranked tenth.
Both are terrific accomplishments seeing that this is
Albany’s first year competing at the Divison II level.

Mary Ingram and Tonya Dodge set school records
in the 400 meter intermediate hurdles and 3,000 meter
run, respectively.

Ingram qualified for the Division II nationals to be
held at Riverside, California, May 23-25 by winning
the 400 meter hurdles in 1:02.65 seconds. Dodge
placed second in the 3,000 with a time of 10:09.23.
She is a provisional qualifier for the nationals.

Ingram was alss a member of the 1,600 meter relay
team, which broke the four minute barrier for the first
time in the school’s history at 3:59.84. Dana Hoff-
man, Denise Dickerson, and Xiomara Diaz were part
of the record setting group. Diaz won the 100 meter
hurdles crossing the finish line in 15.8 seconds.

Other Albany standouts were Jana Johnston who
won the women’s long jump with a 17’9” leap.
Harold Valestin captured the men’s triple jump with a
leap of 46 feet. The men’s 400 meter relay team
crossed the line in 42.7 seconds for the win.

Both teams traveled to Storrs, Connecticut to com-
pete in the Connecticut meet two weekends ago. Both
teams had a good showing finishing second only to
the hosts in the meet. Connecticut won the men’ event
with 97 points (Albany 47) and the women’s with 126
points (Albany 38).

Overtime

In the women’s competition, Johnston had a strong
meet, finishing forst in the long jump (17°3”) and
third in both the high jump and 110 meter hurdles.

Diaz won the 110 meter hurdles (15.1 seconds) and
second in the 100 meter dash. Dodge placed second in
both the 1,500 and 3,000 meter events.

For the men, Jomo Forrester and Halim Wise were
both winners of events. Forrester took the 100 meters
in 11.26 and Wise won the 400 meters in 49.37.

Senior Dennis King was second in the 1,500 meters
with a time of 4:01.43. He also captured third in the
800. Vasquez placed second in the 400 hurdles
(56.23) and third in the 110 hurdles (15.71).

Staff photo by Lauren Murphy
Albany hopes to post wins in this weekend’s Albany Invitaional.

Lady Danes tennis team begins spring

season.- see page 15

Cecil Fielder off to the best start in his
career — see page 15

Metadata

Resource Type:: Periodical
Rights:: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Date Uploaded:: February 25, 2026

Using these materials

Access:: The archives are open to the public and anyone is welcome to visit and view the collections.

Collection restrictions:: Access to this record group is unrestricted.
Collection terms of access:: The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.