Albany Student Press, Volume 73, Number 2, 1986 January 31

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

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January 31, 1986

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NUMBER 2

Silent Scream prompts protesters

By Michelle Silverstein

Several campus women’s groups
peacefully protested the Tuesday night
showing of Silent Scream, a half-hour film
depicting abortions, which has been shown
by pro-life groups across the country.

Approximately 200 people attended the
two screenings of the film, which were
sponsored by the SUNYA chapter of
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF).

Silent Scream presents the argument

that abortions should be made illegal, ac-
cording to YAF member Chris
Christopher.

The film, narrated by Dr. Bernard
Nathanson, shows a sonogram of a fetus
during an abortion and attempts to il-
lustrate that the fetus experiences pain dur-
ing the procedure.

During the abortion, the fetus screams
silently because ‘‘he or she is threatened
imminently with extinction,” said Nathan-

LYNN DREIFUS UPS

Protesters gathered outside the showing of the film Silent Scream.

son during the film. It is ‘‘not only the un-
born that are victims. Women too are vic-
timized because they are not given true
facts,’’ he said.

The film is deceiving, said Wendy Cervi,
co-chair of the Feminist Alliance, one of
the groups which staged the protest. ‘‘The
makers of the film [are] guilty for technical
manipulations, such as with changing the
speed of the film in order to emphasize
movement.’*

Feminist Alliance member Joanne Fuchs
said that publications such as the Wall
Street Journal, the New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times, and the Washington
Post agree that Silent Scream does not pre-
sent the reality of an abortion.

The showing-of the film was presented
by Robert Griesemer, Executive Director
of the Schenectady County Right-To-Life
Chapter, and Sharon Long, a SUNYA
graduate student and a volunteer at Bir-
thright, a pro-life organization designed to
help women who are experiencing unplan-
ned pregnancies.

Griesemer said that the film is ‘‘valuable
because it is a depiction of an actual abor-
tion, It shows an unborn child at twelve
weeks being aborted.””

In response to those who question the
film’s technical accuracies, Griesemer said
that he ‘‘would refer them to the fact that
the father of ultrasound and the most
respected man in that field, Dr. Ian
Donald,-has.sworn that.there, is simply no
fabrication in the film.” =

Despite that, Lisa Feerick, a SUNYA
student and former director of University
Cinemas, claims that the film’s inac-
curacies were obvious. ‘‘I have been pro-
jecting films for four years and it was
dreadfully obvious that they manipulated
the speed, she said.”

Feerick said that in any film, there are
imperfections which appear as flecks mov-
ing on the screen and that during the sec-
tion of the film in which the abortion is
taking place, the movement of the flecks
“speeded up so much that I laughed.’’
This was done to present the fetus as being
in pain and struggling: for its life, said
Feerick.

The protests held were peaceful, said

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Eight winter recess thefts reported

By Mary Morrisroe

All was not quiet on the SUNYA cam-
pus during the recent intercession break.

The University Police Department
Jeported that they have recently recéived
complaints of at least eight incidents in-
volving theft of student property. Six of
the incidents occurred on State Ouad.
while one occurred on Dutch and the other
on Colonial.

Of the eight cases reported there have
been no signs of forced entry either of suite
or bedroom door locks.

“I think it’s pathetic’’said Steinmetz
resident Blaine Messinger “They
(whoever had access to room keys) can get
in any time they want,” Messinger had a
Dustbuster and a fan stolen. He said he
feels the university should have an in-
surance policy protecting student posses-
sions-from theft.

Another Steinmetz resident, who prefers
to remain anonymous, had a pencil
sharpener, various stuffed animals, and
drinking glasses stolen. She and her
suitemates said they are angered over the
apparent lack of dorm security.

A Colonial resident, who also requested
anomymity, had his stereo stolen. Neither
his suite nor his bedroom door showed
signs of forced entry. He, too, said he feels
the university should be more secure.

“No one should be allowed to enter the
dorms over Christmas break. Resident

staff and assistants should not have access
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“There have been no
signs of forced
entry.’’

— Public Safety

to the rooms while school is not in session,
he said.

Although it may be of little consolation
to those violated by the recent thefts
James Williams Director of the University
Police Department (UPD) said the
“security procedures worked very well’
over the break. Williams reported a fifty
precent reduction rate in theft over last

year’s intercession.

When asked to comment on who might
be resposible for the thefts, Williams
refused to speculate because the issue is
still under investigation.

In terms of security measusres, (UPD)
patrolled the campus throughout winter
break. At one point officers prevented
students from entering the dorms before
they were scheduled to open on January
19, according to Williams. During inteces-
sion, maintenance employees were on duty
on every quad, and dormitory locks were
changed to prevent entry by duplicate
keys.

Williams said that the residential staff
had been extremely helpful during this
break. “‘If they heard a noise out of the or-
dinary they called us immediately. After
the students had left the staff checked to
make sure all suites were locked.”
Williams said that preventive measures are
a students best defense against crime.

“The ‘residential staff should ‘warn _

students about the possibility of theft,’’ he
said.
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Student voting

rights backed
by Cuomo bill

By Tom Bergen
STAFF WRITER

Student voting rights will no longer be
subject to local election boards or the
judicial system if a bill to be proposed
by Governor Cuomo becomes law.

Cuomo’s bill would amend a section
of the state’s election law which many
election boards, including the one on
Albany County, have used to bar
students from voting in their college
towns.

In his State of the State address
January 8, Cuomo said, “‘I will offer
legislation to facilitate their [students]
ability to vote in their college
communities.”

“Tt’s a major victory for students,”’
said Nathaniel Charny, SUNYA’s
delegate to the Student Association of
the State University (SASU). Charny
said he felt it was significant that the
Governor had mentioned the proposal
in his address, because ‘‘in his State of
the State address he prioritizes certain
things.””

According to Charny, the Governor’s
proposal will change ‘‘the circumstances
that can be considered when deciding if
someone can have voting rights in that
disttict.”” = ae

Under current law, an election board
can consider such factors as financial in-
dependence, parents’ address, age,
marital status, and motor vehicle
registration for voting eligibility. The
governor’s bill would remove all of
these factors from consideration.

As an example of how these factors
can be used to deny voting registration,
Charny said ‘“‘A lot of students use their
parents’ car, so their parents’ address is
on the registration, and the board can
say that that’s where they have to vote.””

According to Adine Schuman, Com-
munications Director for SASU, the
governor’s proposal will meet with op-
position from the Republican-controlled
state Senate.

“‘A lot of upstate politicians, especial-
ly Republicans, are fearing that if Long
Island students come up to their little
cities they’ll be out of office,” she said.

Dick Mathieu, Special Assistant to
Senate Majority Leader Warren Ander-
son, said the Senator would have no
comment on the proposal until it was
presented to the Legislature.

At the Governor’s office, spokesper-
son Kathy Meehan said that the pro-
posal was still being drafted and that it
could be presented to the Legislature
any time from ‘‘next week to next |_
month.”’

In his address, Cuomo said he was of-
fering his proposal ‘‘now that the Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals has resolved con-
flicting lower court opinions of the abili-
ty of students to register and vote from
their campus locations.”

On June 17, 1985, the second circuit

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“2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS (1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1986

NEWS BRIEFS

The World 'e

Soviets regret tragedy
|

Moscow
(AP) Soviet newspapers said Thursday
that the explosion of the U.S. space shuttle
Challenger shows that space exploration is
still risky and that a similar catastrophe
could result from President Reagan’s Star |
Wars program.
All major national newspapers carried |
reports of Tuesday’s accident that killed |

seven American astronauts. They describ- |.

ed the explosion as a tragedy, and express- |

but shuttle director Jesse Moore said
Wednesday: “I refuse to speculate on the
cause. We intend to make a thorough ex-
amination of all the evidence and base our
conclusions and recommendations on the
findings.”

After the boosters separated from the
exploding spaceship and flew erratically
through the sky, both were detonated by a
radio signal when one of them headed
toward a populated area.

Moore said he was confident the cause
would be found, but that could take mon-
ths. Until then, there will be no more-shut-
tle flights in a year in which the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
had planned a record 15 missions.

ed sympathy for the families of the | Critical report awaited

victims.

The Communist Party newspaper Prav-
da printed Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor-
bachev’s brief message of condolence to |
Reagan on the front page, and in a |
dispatch from Washington reported that
U.S. legislators immediately declared the
catastrophe ‘‘should in no way influence
the work on the dangerous programs of
‘Star Wars’.’’ The Soviets claim that the
program will lead to a militarization of |
outer space.

Diplomat disappears

Athens
(AP) A Romanian diplomat visiting
Greece with a trade delegation disappeared
in Athens, a spokesman for the Greek
government said.

Miliades Papaioannou, the government
spokesman, said Wednesday that police
had begun a manhunt for the diplomat,
one of a four-member mission. He did not
identify the man.

“The Romanian diplomat has been
missing since Friday and the Ministry of
Public Order is conducting a search for
him.,’’ Papaioannou said.

The newspaper Avriani identified the
missing Romanian as Gheorghe Giambasu
and said he disappeared while taking a
stroll through downtown Athens.

The Nation

NASAstudiestapes —

Cape Canaveral, Florida
(AP) Tapes that recorded performance of
shuttle systems every one one-thousandth
of a second may be crucial in the investiga-
tion of the fatal explosion of Space Shuttle
Challenger, NASA officials say.

The tapes could reveal whether the
fireball that killed seven astronauts Tues-
day, 73 seconds after liftoff, was caused by
something that went wrong with the
spaceship’s huge external fuel tank or
whether the fault lay with one of the two
solid fuel rocket boosters.

Experts have considered both theories,

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Free listings

Washington
(AP) Senior White House officials are
eagerly awaiting the report of a presiden-
tial commission that, ironically, could,
have some embarrassing things to say
about the Reagan administration.

The Packard Commission, as it is
known, was created last summer by Presi-
dent Reagan to investigate a defense pro-
curement system whose abuses were show-
ing up as ordinary pliers that cost tax-
payers hundreds of dollars, kennel costs
for industry executives’ dogs that were be-
ing boarded at public expense and - worst
of all - billions of dollars wasted on
weapons that didn’t work.

With critics and officials alike pointing |

to one violation after another, it was
beginning to appear as though

misbehavior and perhaps even criminal
misconduct were standard practice in the
military-industrial complex that President
‘Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about in his
farewell message to the nation a quarter-
century ago.

L.I. drill scheduled

Washington
(AP) Barring action by the courts or a
presidential order, the Feb. 13 evacuation
drill at the Shoreham nuclear power plant
on Long Island apparently will go on as
scheduled. The Nuclear Regulatory Com-
mission on Wednesday rejected a request
by New York authorities to cancel the
drill. The commission also refused to halt
licensing proceedings for the plant until
allegations raised in a March 1985 ‘60
Minutes’’ report could be investigated.
The vote came a day after the Suffolk
County Legislature in Hauppauge, New
York, scheduled a February 5 hearing on
plans by the Long Island Lighting Com-
pany and the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency for the drill, which would
test the emergency evacuation plan for the
area around Shoreham.

The State

Kissinger eyes race

| Albany
(AP) Former Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger said Thursday he’s considering

general

ing their books for the semester.

interest’ meeting, sored by

the Family Life

ERICA SPIEGEL UPS
Mary sialon wait until bookstore crowds dissipate and lines shorten before buy-

running for governor of New York this
year against Democrat Mario Cuomo.
“Republican leaders have urged me to
run for governor,” said Kissinger in a
statement issued by his New York City of-
fice. “I had not previously considered
standing for elective office, but I am com-
plimented by their request and I feel I owe
them a consideration of their yiews.’’
Chris Vick, Kissinger’s executive assis-
tant, said she did not know which GOP
leaders had asked Kissinger to run or when
he might make his decision. Earlier, a
Republican source who discussed the mat-
ter only on condition he not be identified
said in Washington that ‘‘Kissinger wants
to do it.” A recent poll put Cuomo far
ahead of several possible Republican
challengers, including Kissinger.

Ferraro query ends

New York
(AP) Former vice presidential candidate
Geraldine Ferraro will probably not be
prosecuted by the Justice Department,
which is finishing up a lengthy investiga-
tion into her finances, a published report
said.

The New York Times, quoting a federal
law enforcement official in its Thursday
editions, said it was “‘pretty clear’? that
Ferraro would be cleared of allegations in-
volving improper financing in her suc-
cessful 1978 congressional campaign.
However, officials cautioned that the in-
vestigation was not completed, and that it
was possible something could be un-
covered that could lead to prosecution, the
Times said. :

Ferraro recently announced she would
not run for the U.S. Senate this year
against Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, R-N.Y.,
because of the continuing federal in-
vestigation.

Tycoon admits front

New York
(AP) A tycoon who fled the Philippines
has told Canadian officials that he and
others acted as front men for President
Ferdinand Marcos in multimillion-dollar
deals, the Wall Street Journal reported
Thursday.

The Journal said Dewey Dee, 42, has
testified to the dealings as part of his effort
to gain asylum in Canada. The files are
sealed, but the Journal quoted unnamed
sources familiar with Dee’s testimony.

According to the newspaper, Dee said
Marcos was a secret partner in two banks:
The Security Bank and Trust Co., the
tenth largest commercial bank in the
Philippines, and the Redwood Bank in San
Francisco.

Correction

In Tuesday’s issue of the ASP, Martin
Glovin was erroneously labelled as a
member of Tau Sigma Phi. Glovin is, in
fact, President of Tau Sigma Phi.

{ts}

In Tuesday’s issue of the ASP, the in-
formation number for Musicouncil’s
presentation of pianist Anne-Marie
McDermott was incorrect. The correct
number is 442-3995.

SS SS:

The Albany State Hockey
Team faces off against SUNY
Binghamton on Sunday, Feb. 2
at 3 p.m. All welcome to
attend.

A Blood Drive will be spon-
sored by the Psi Gamma
sorority on Thursday, Feb. 6,
1986 in the CC Ballroom. For
more information call
462-7461 ext. 268.

Italian American Student
Association is holding its first

Wednesday, Feb. 5 in ED 126
at 7:30 p.m. All are invited to
attend.

ASP General Interest Meeting
Sunday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. in LC
22. All interested in working
for the ASP are welcome. For
more info call 442-5662.
Jewish Women’s Group
organizational meeting will be
held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday,
Feb. 4 in Campus Center 320.
For further information, call
Linda at 442-5670.

The Dynamics of Human Fer-
tility seminar will be spon-

Center each Friday night at 8
p.m. in February at St. Peter's
Hospital. For information call
463-1163,

The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman will be shown at
the Albany Public Library at
4161 Washington Avenue on
Sunday Feb. 2 at 1 p.m.
Needlecraft Workshop wil! be
held Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 10 a.m.
at the Public Library at 164
Washington Avenue in Albany,
China Night will be held Feb,
22, 1986. For more information
call Grace at 442-6517,

Historic Albany: Its Churches
and Synagogues will hold its
first seminar on Sunday, Feb.
2 at 3 p.m. at the First
Presbyterian Church in
Albany. Call Anne Roberts at
442-3577 for more information.
Colonial Albany on the Eve of
the Charter will be presented
at the State Museum on Sun-
day, Feb. 1. For more informa-
tion contact Alan Ray at
479-5842. :
Rollercoasters Ancient and
Modern will be presented by
Robert Cartmill in HUM 354 on
Thursday, Feb. 6 at 4 p.m.

The Albany State Fu-Jow Pai
Kung Fu Club will hold its first
meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at
7 p.m. in the Brubacher
Ballroom. Call 442-5865 for
more information.

Anne-Marie McDermott will
perform a program of Bach,
Beethoven, Chopin others on
Thursday, Feb. 6 in the PAC.
For more information call
442-3995,

Pi Sigma Epsilon Professional
sales and Marketing fraternity
— General interest meetings:
Mon. 2/3 and Tues. 2/4 in HU
137. All majors welcome!

FRIDAY, JANUARY. 31, 1986 (1 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Council to consider budget for its committees

By Angelina Wang
STAFF WRITER

Central Council may be able to allocate
its own budget for next year if plans go
through for a ‘‘comprehensive budget,””
giving Council committees their own spen-
ding lines.

The plans were announced by Central
Council chair Bill McCann Wednesday at

the Council’s first meeting of the semester.

According to Student Association (SA)
Controller Eric Schwartzman, if the
budget committee were to make any revi-
sions on Council’s budget when it meets in
March, the next step would be for Council
to approve those revisions. “They would
be allocating their own money,” said
Schwartzman.

“Before last year,
everytime you needed
money you had to go
to the executive
branch.’’

Bill McCann

‘MIKE ACKERMAN UPS

According to McCann, Central Council
was given a Student Association Spending
(SAS) line last year, but it only covered the
salary of its own secretary. ‘‘Most incurred
costs were not included,” said McCann.
Costs incurred by Council are for supplies,
xeroxed materials, and bonded copies of
bills and minutes.

“Before last year, everytime you needed
money you had to go to the Executive
Branch,’’ McCann said. ‘Central Council
is supposed to be a separate entity.””

McCann said he would like to see each
committee have its own money so that
he need not sign vouchers for it every time.
McCann approximated the budget for
Central- Council to be between $3000 and
$4000. He also said Council would be
spending no more than what they have
spent before.

Shwartzman said, “I’m not sure [the
budget] makes sense yet.’’ He added that
he will seriously review the finished pro-
posal. ‘‘[McCann’s] been putting in a lot
of time on this,”’ said Schwartzman.

“It gives Central Council more
autonomy,”” he added, and “‘will take
away a lot of arguments [between SA and
Central Council] on who pays for what.”

Also, at-the meeting, Nathaniel Charny,
Central Council’s new Internal Affairs
chair, said, ‘‘Internal [Affairs] decided at
their meeting that, affirmative action
should bea priority of SA.”” He charged
that because the affirmative action coor-

dinator has been chronically ill sitxce last
November, little has been done in the area
of affirmative action.

Paco Duarte, SA Minority Affairs
Coordinator, answered Charny’s accusa-
tions by saying that affirmative action re-
mains ‘‘a priority of SA.”

The tension centered around Daniel
Borg, SA Affirmative Action Coor-
dinator. Borg was named Affirmative Ac-
tion Coordinator in October. ‘I didn’t
know whether I would be returning to
school this semester,’’ Borg said.

Charny said he was concerned about
‘nothing being done’’ for affirmative ac-
tion. ‘Paco picked up the slack, but no
real effort was made,” he said. Charny
also mentioned that neither SA nor Cen-
tral Council was informed about. Borg’s
illness.

Michael Brocci, chair of the Investiga-
tion, Oversight, and Analysis (IOA) com-
mittee, said, ‘‘Affirmative action will take
priority over everything. It is not only the
Executive Branch’s responsibility to
publicize policies of affirmative action. It
is also Internal Affair’s job and Central
Council’s.

“You can’t say affirmative action is not
a priority because it is,’’ said Duarte.

Charny said, ‘‘It was not a critcism of
Paco in any way.”

“For the last week or two I’ve been for-
ming the affirmative action greivance com-
mittee,”’ said Borg - oO

UCB’s losses on Daltrey to limit future concerts

By Olivia Abel
STAFF WRITER

In an effort to compensate for the
$20,000 ‘it lost at the poorly attended
Roger Daltrey concert, University Concert
Board (UCB) will be sponsoring a number
of smaller concerts this semester.

The concert was originally to be a
moneymaker for UCB, according to Stu-
dent Association (SA) Controller Eric
Schwartzman, but instead of turning a
profit, UCB made only close to one half of
what it had spent.

Schartzman said that concerts spon-
sored by UCB are not intended to make a
profit because all SA funded groups give
student discounts, It is only mecessary for
UCB to make back 60 percent of the
original investment, he said.

Ed Shoulkin, vice-president of UCB,
said that he thinks there are a few basic
reasons for the failure of fhe Daltrey show.
UCB had no official confirmation of the
show until the last minute, which gave
them very little time to advertise, he said.

A second reason, Shoulkin added, was
that the concert was scheduled right at the
beginning of final exams. He also noted
tht there was a considerable competition as
Squeeze and the Thompson Twins, both
popular bands, were playing in the area
around the same time.

Shoulkin said that the competition pro-
vided by J.B.’s Theatre had an affect on
the turnout. “‘J.B.’s Theatre had major
concert after major concert and they just
saturated the market,’’ he said.

Schwatzman said he thought that the
size of the concert and the ticket price be-
ing higher than what the students were us-
ed to, were also responsible for the poor
attendance. ‘‘Daltrey is the biggest name
to come to SUNYA in over seven years,”
said Schwartzman, ‘‘But student groups
have changed and they don’t associate
Roger Daltrey with The Who anymore.
UCB is always a risk, Daltrey was suprised
at the turnout and therefore played twice
as hard,”’ he added.

Schwartzman quoted a disc jockey from
a local radio station, WFLY 92 FM, who
said that “It was the greatest concert of the
year. Too bad nobody was there to see it.’”

Amy Friedman, treasurer of UCB, ex-
pressed similar sentiments. ‘It was an
amazing concert-too bad a lot of people
missed out.”

According to Friedman, UCB has not
booked any acts for this semester yet. She
explained that ‘‘the availability changes all
. the time. The groups always say that they
are coming but they’re always changing
their tour plans.””
“We are not going to have as many
shows as last semester and they are not go-

By Leslie Chait
STAFF WRITER

A fact-finding panel has been ap-
pointed by the Public Employees Rela-
tions Board (PERB) to investigate the
ongoing contract negotiations between
the United University Professors (UUP)
and New York State.

MIKE ACKERMAN UPS
Tim Reilly, Chief negotiator for UUP.

ing to be of the size of Paul Young or
Roger Daltrey,”’ said Shoulkin, explaining
UCB plans for this semester. “‘They are
going to be ballroom size and if we do raise
any money it will be miniscule amounts
We will also. be planning them at oppor-
tune times,”” he said.

He added that he also thinks that with

Panel to assess UUP negotiations

UUP, which has been operating
without a contract since June 30,
represents the interests of SUNY’s
professors.

“The process to.negotiate began over
a year ago,”’ said Tim Reilly, chief
negotiator for UUP, who added that the
“contract expired June 30, 1985, and
we’ve been without one since.’

New York’s Taylor Law, passed ap-
proximately 10 years ago, gave public
employees the opportunity to have
negotiated bargaining. It ‘‘provided for
ways to resolve disputes,’’ said Reilly,
who is an English professor at the
university. Some of these disputes are
resolved through mediation, but if
mediation is unsuccessful, a fact finding
panel may be begun and operated by
PERB.

PERB provided mediators to work
with New York State and UUP for two
months, starting in November, when
negotiations became unproductive. The
Governor’s Office of Employee Rela-
tions (GOER) is representing the state in
negotiating with UUP, Reilly said.

The fact finding panel met Friday,
January 24, but there was ‘‘no fruitful
outcome,” said Reilly.

A fact-finding panel allows both sides
to present evidence and to support their
case in the dispute.

Jane McAlevey, Student Association
of the State University (SASU) Presi-
dent said that because the series of
meetings taking place between the UUP
and GOER did not result in much agree-
ment, a fact finding panel was officially
called for.

McAlevey said that the fact finding
panel was resorted to in order ‘‘to assess
whether or not each side is being fair,

the drinking age raised to twenty-one
“students are going to be looking for other
things to do.”

He also mentioned the possibility that
UCB may work with local promoters

Mayfest will not be affected by the loss
of money at the Daltrey show as it is run
from a different budget, said Friedman. 0

not breaching all sorts of rules dealing
with the confidentiality of the
bargaining.”

Nuala McGann Drescher, President
of UUP and a professor at Buffalo State
College, said that the fact finding panel
is a “group of three neutrals, not con-
nected with the union or the state, and is
appointed by PERB.”’

The neutrals work professionally as
arbitrators -and render a_ report,
although neither side is bound by the
report, said Reilly, who added that the
fact finding panel is ‘ ‘quasi-judicial.
They just sit and listen.’”

Anthony Zumbolo, a mediator, saida
fact finding panel can be put together to
“look into the issues for the reasons of
the dispute’ and ultimately present
“‘written recommendations to provide
resolutions to the problems.’”

According to Reilly, the negotiations
have led to some progress. The UUP has
been successful in getting the state to
withdraw some of it’s demands, he said.

One such demand was tenure review,
whereby the state demanded that a
tenure review be conducted every five
years, which for some professors might
mean the loss of tenure.

McAlevey, in regard to the tenure
issue, said that the faculty sets
guidelines. Professors, ‘‘once they are
granted tenure, are at the university
forever until it’s time to retire. It’s a
guarantee of employment.”’

Myron Taylor, secretary of UUP,
said that the state feels that the union is
overpaid and the union believes that it is
underpaid.

However, said Taylor, we are
“interested in more than just [salaries].
Some of the major issues are promotion

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RA resigns after dispute with Residential Life

By Ken Dornbaum
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

A second year Resident Assistant on In-
dian Quad resigned early last week in
response to threats of dismissal from her
position. .

Lina Malatesta, who was an RA for
Mohawk Estates on floors 18-21 of
Mohawk Tower, she said was very surpris-
ed when she discovered that the office of
Residential Life was planning on relieving
her of her duties.

“I did not see this coming,’’ Malatesta
said. ‘I knew I handed things in late and
that Ralph (Choono, the Mohawk Tower
Director) had to keep coming after me.””

“I assumed that if 1 were doing a bad
job, I would be given an official warning
or be put on probation,’’ she said. ‘You
just don’t deal with people like this.”

“They felt it was an accumulation. They
said I should have seen it coming,”
Malatesta said, adding ‘‘They said I only
loved half the job-the people part. If I
knew, I would have been more careful. I
love this job.””

Malateata said that she is bothered more
by the way in which the situation was
handled than by her being put into the
position of having to resign or be fired.

“In a nutshell,” said Malatesta, ‘It
could have been handled differently.”

Don Smirti, a section member, said he
Started two petitions-one to protest the
handling of the situation by the Office Of
Residential ‘Life and one to allow
Malatesta to remain in the section.

Smirti said that what ‘‘irks most people
is that Lina was being fired without of-
ficial warning or probation.”? and added
that he felt it was a policy flaw.”

Student Association (SA) President
Steve Gawley said, “It’s still under in-
vestigation by SA and we want to make
sure that students are fairly treated.”

“We want to find out whether or not it
was procedurally. handled correctly,’’
Gawley said, adding, ‘‘We’ll raise hell and
give hell to any administrator that doesn’t
treat students right.’’

John Martone, Associate vice-president
of Residential Life ana Student Affairs,
would not comment on what happened to

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Malatesta and could not be reached for
comment on procedures for dissmissing
RA’s.

“Residential Life was upset that they
were receiving phone calls and that peti-
tions were being signed in my dorm,”’ said
Malatesta.

“We'll raise hell and
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administrator who
doesn’t treat students
right.’’

— Steve Gawley

By David Spalding
STAFF WRITER

The United States Education Depart-
ment, working with the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) will withhold the
1985 tax refunds of student loan
defaulters a procedure which the New
York Department of Taxes and
Finances and the State University of
New York have been using since 1983,

“Number one, it’s dealing with an ex-
isting bad debt,’’ said David Truax the
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Access
Services at SUNY Central, describing
the philosophy behind applying tax
refunds to pay off defaulted student
loans. Secondly, Truax said, this means
more money can go back to the campus.
for presently enrolled students to bor-
row. He added that when defaulted
loans are not recovered the money is
“being denied to currently enrolled
students.””
(sit According to Denise Duncan Lacey, a

“I was asked by Mr. Martone, ‘What
you plan to do about this’, referring to the
fallout of my resignation,” Malatesta said.

“I was told that they have the authority
to move you anywhere they want, but lam
remaining on Indian,‘‘ Malatesta said, ad-
ding that “‘after this experience, nothing
surprises me anymore.’”

Frank Pogue, vice-president of Student
Affairs, said he would be ‘‘in contact with
Mr. Martone about procedures of remoy-
ing any member of Residential Life staff.””

“*RA’s have a job description” and sign
“‘written agreements about what one is ex-
pected to do as an RA,”’ Pogue said. “‘If a
dorm director discovers an RA is not per-
forming to expectation some decision has
to be made by the supervisor.”

“One possibility is to terminate. What
curs determines the way the situation is
handled,” Pogue said.

Se
IRS to hold loan defaulters’ refunds

Public Relations official at the New
York Higher Education Services Cor-
poration (NYHESC), which processes
student loans, New York State has been
applying tax refunds to defaulted stu-
dent loans since 1983, using the 1982
refunds.

“It’s a way to do it. I don’t think
anyone preceives this is the only way,”
Duncan Lacy said. “Everyone is op-
tomistic that this is going to be produc-
tive on the National level.”

On the National level, according to an
article in The Chronicle of Higher
Education, a total of 657,894 former
students failed to respond to warnings
form the U.S. Education Dept. to
tesume repayment and had their names
turned over to the IRS. A totalofi$1.3
billion in National Direct Student Loans
(NDSL)-and Guaranteed Student Loans
(GSL) remain to be recovered.

The Chronicle estimated that 60 per-

Pogue said he asked Martone to give
him a written review of the situation in-
volving Malatesta. “Apparently, in a
preliminary way, I can say there was a
miscommunication in the handling of this
situation,”’Pogue said when asked if he
thought the situation was mishandled.

“We regret situations like this. Ina large

organization like Residential Life. there
will be miscommunication,” Pogue said.
“The important thing is to correct this. If
it happened as Lina said, then change will
be made.””
_ Malatesta said that she has no bad feel-
ings towards anyone. “I realize that they
have to do a job and that I put a stress on
People, but the plusses should have
outweighed the minuses.’’

“T have no regrets and have put it all
behind me, ‘‘Malatesta said. “I’m concen-
trating on my graded now and other ac-
tivities to keep myself busy. If anything,
it’s been an experience,” she added. Oo

cent of the defaulters received tax
refunds in 1984, and the Education
Department hopes to receive $100
million from the IRS. The Education
Department received authorization to
turn in defaulters to the IRS from the
1984 Deficit Reduction Act.

Although he could not estimate a
dollar amount, Truax said the state’s ef-
forts with the IRS has recovered con-
siderable amount of money. “It has also
served to remind people that they have
defaulted on a loan,’”’ Truax said.

The first step to recovering a payment
on a loan, Truax said, is for the loan in-
stitution to try to contact the person in
debt. If repeated attempts fail, a collec-
tion agency is employed, he said. If that
fails, the State Attorney General’s office
pursues the defaulter. ‘If they don’t
succeed, then that loan is turned over to
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Faulty equipment plagues University Cinemas

By Colleen Deslaurier
‘STAFF WRITER

Problems with University
Cinemas’ five projectors, which
according to University Cinemas
equipment manager Mark Irons,
“break down pretty often’’,
could leave the group without
working projectors.

Irons explained that the projec-
tors, which are 10 years old, ‘‘are
very tired.” He added that the
model was discontinued and due
to bureaucracy, it takes a while to
receive parts.

According to Irons, the upper
sprocket gear often breaks down
on each projector, and that it is
possible to have all five projectors
broken down at the same time.
‘We have had three projectors
broken down at the same time,”’
he said, saying that “‘we’ve been
close to critical.’”

Since last year, according to
former University Cinemas direc-
tor Lisa Feerick, the equipment
has been in bad condition.

The projectors, said Feerick,
are “totally out of production.”
The speakers, as well, are “‘barely
in running condition.”

According to Feerick, -‘‘the
need for speakers and equipment
was dire last year, it was more
critical to get more speakers. It is
now equally important to get pro-
jectors and speakers,”’ she said.

Presently University Cinemas is

borrowing equipment from the
International Film Group (IFG),
a thirty-five year-old campus
organization which recently fold-
ed, said Feerick. According to
Feerick, one reason for IFG
folding is because of faulty
equipment.

Last year, as director of
University Cinemas, Feerick said
that she went to SA to explain the
situation. She ‘‘felt it was im-
perative to buy new speakers (at)
that time.”’

. Current director, Neal Hill,said
that there is a “‘lack of continuity
(in showing films) when you have
to switch reels.”

According to Eric Schwart-
zman, Student Association Con-
troller, University Cinemas took
in a little over $12,000 last year.
They have to meet $32,000 over
the course of this year, meaning
that University’Cinemas has only
met about 38 percent of their total
income line. They need to make
$20,000 more.

“I realize that new projectors
have’ to be bought over the next
year or so,’’ said Schwartzman.

New projectors, according to
Rich Kunen, treasurer of Univer-
sity Cinemas, will cost between
$6,000 and $7,000.

Kunen said that for now,
University Cinemas will ‘‘work
with what we have,”’ adding that

By Rob Berke
STAFF WRITER

While New York State of-
ficials do not recognize the
Graduate Student Employees
Union (GSEU), hearings are
currently being conducted to
settle a seven month dispute.

The members of GSEU, who
are supported by the Com-
munications Workers of
America (CWA), which gives
them $500 a month for ex-
penses, want to be recognized
as state workers, said Bruce
Henderson, the SUNYA’s
coordinator of the GSEU.

“We're not recognized by
the State University or by the
State of New York,” he said,
explaining that both oppose
GSUE. “They feel that we
have what we’re entitled to
already.”

If GSEU is recognized, the
students would have the right
to collective baraining for bet-
ter pay, more benefits, parking
spaces, and faculty I.D. cards,
he said, adding, ‘‘We serve the
same role as the regular faculty
ane

Also interested in the pro-
blem is the Union of University
Professionals (UUP), which
represents most of the pro-
fessors at SUNYA, said
Henderson. He said UUP_is

GSEU pushes State
to gain recognition

urging the graduate students to
join them.

Henderson, however,said he
does not believe this is a good
idea. They already teach us and
write recommedndations for
us, so we don’t feel they should
bargain for us,” Henderson
said.

The members of UUP, Rick
Eckstein, President of GSEU
said, voted overwhelmingly
that the graduate teaching
assistants have the right to
employee status. However, he
added, the board of UUP did
not want to give them equal
democratic power in the union.

According to Henderson, no
benfits are available to
graduate student teachers.
“We get Paid a stipend and
that’s it,” he said.

The stipend at SUNYA is
$6400 a year, Henderson said,
is not enough. for graduate
students who maintain cars or
are raising families. University
tules also. prohibit graduate
student teachers from holding
any outside employment, he
said.

Henderson attended a hear-
ing, January 14 and 15, -at
which representatives of three
interested groups testified
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hopefully get their projectors.

“The money’s just not there,”
Kunen said, adding that the
average film costs about $550 to
rent for the weekend, while some
films can cost up to about $1,000.

Kunen explained that the films
are paid for out of the budget.
The major point is not to overs-
pend their appropriation. Major
expenses such as fixing the projec-
tors, does not come out of the
budget, Kunen said.

Hill predicted an increase in at-
tendance at University Cinemas
films due to the fact that ‘‘it’s
winter, the legal drinking age is 21
and we’re planning to get more
current films’’ like Jewel of the
Nile and Prizzi’s Honor.

‘We provided the films that
people want to see,’’ said Kunen.
“Right now no one can afford it
(the projectors). "We'd like new
projectors; SA can’t afford them
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ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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with campus dorm life and to im-
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students, members of the Univer-
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ministrators ate dinner with
students at Colonial Quad

cafeteria yesterday.

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‘Bubble’ growing daily

Although work on the ‘‘bubble’’ is a month
behind schedule, contractors have installed elec-
trical connectors and structural supports over
winter break, said Dennis Stevens, Assistant Vice
President for the physical plant.

The bubble is expected to be available for stu-
dent and staff use in mid-to-late March, Stevens
said, and the university is ‘‘at the mercy of the
contractor,”’ who is currently inflating a similar
bubble at another college. Inflation is expected to
be completed within two weeks, Stevens added.

Heating and other mechanical systems are cur-
rently on-site and are awaiting hook-up, Stevens
said.

Once completed, the bubble will be used as an
interim facility for a variety of sports. The pro-
posed fieldhouse will eventually serve as a more
permanent facility, although the future of the
bubble after the fieldhouse is completed has not
been determined, said Lewis Welsh, Vice Presi-
dent for University Affairs.

Education professor dies

SUNYA Education professor Edward J. Kelly
died on Sunday, December 15 at Albany Medical
Center Hospital. The cause of his death was not
disclosed. Kelly had taught here since 1980.

Kelly served as the director of the university’s
Educational Research and Policies Studies and
Evaluation Consortium and had been recognized
internationally for his research on program
evaluation and the assessment of student achieve-
ment. He was born in Brooklyn and received his
doctorate of education from the University of I-
linois in 1970,

Kelly is survived by his wife Linda; two
daughters, Suzanne Kelly of Oneonta and Megyn
Kelly of Delmar, a son Peter Kelly of Troy anda
brother William Kelly of Connecticut.

Services were held on Wednesday, December
18 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church under the
direction of the Applebee Funeral Home,

Leaky LCs eliminated

Describing the leaks in the LCs as an “age-old
problem’ that has been eliminated 90 percent
since last year, Dennis Stevens, Assistant Vice
President of the physical plant said the leaking
Poses no danger.

The reason for the leaking, said Stevens, is that ~
the podium deck contracts in cold weather and
expands in warm weather and leaks are often the
result.

“Technology has caught up: with podium
deck,” said Stevens as he explained the solution
to the leaking was a new expandable caulk that is
put between the deck plates. Although this will
Prevent further leaking, it cannot be installed un-
til the snow melts this spring.

Last year the leaking in the LCs was much
more serious because rain was seeping through
the planters, said Stevens. A newly installed

membrane liner has solved that problem, he
added.

Russo resigns Council

Steve Russo, the former Central Council Inter-
nal Affairs chair has resigned from his seat on
council he held for two-and-a-half years due to
his graduation last semester.

“It’s a loss to Central Council,”’ said Bill
McAnn, the Central Council Chair who describ-
ed Russo as “‘very aggressive, as smart as hell.””

Russo is succeeded by Nathaniel Charny who
McAnn described as ‘“‘very qualified.’” McAnn
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SUNYA student winner of teen pageant crown

By Rob Nichols

Beauty pageant winners aren’t all looks
and no brains and SUNYA first-year stu-
dent Robin Fiddle who was recently named
Miss Teenage New York State is no
exception.

Fiddle, a resident of State Quad finished
first runner-up in the August pageant held
in Norwich, New York.
The pageant’s winner,
Claudine Travis:, later
won the National title
and was therefore forced
to resign as Miss
Teenage New York, handing down her
crown to Fiddle.

After her first semester at SUNYA, Fid-
die says that she loves it here because her
fellow students live by the rule that there is
a “time for work and a time for play.
Everyone is very work conscious.’’

Fiddle, who is considering a career in ac-
counting, chose SUNYA because of its
highly reputable Business School. Also her
older sister, Jodi, a junior, and her twin
sister, Mandi attend the university.

“The women at SUNYA are beautiful,”
said Fiddle, who did not tell people about
her title when she first got here. But she
later learned that ‘‘people judge you not
only on your looks, but also on your
personality.’

“I wasn’t the prettiest, tallest, or most
talented (at the pageant). But I won for
overall,”’ said Fiddle, who was raised in
Parksville, N.Y. She is especially proud of
having won the Miss Congeniality Trophy
during the statewide competition, because
“it was voted on by the girls themselves,
based on friendliness and poise.””

Fiddle, a 574’? green-eyed blonde,
entered her first pageant a age 14, where
often making it into the final 10, she froze
during the speaking competition. At this
point, Fiddle decided to “‘take on the
challenge, and build more silf-
confidence.”

Her next stop was the Miss Southeastern
New York Teenager Pageant, which in-
cluded 42 contestants representing five
counties. This time, Fiddle had no pro-
blems with the question and answer com-

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petition, and won the honor of represen-
ting her district in the State competition
Fiddle said that she did not enter the
pageants ‘‘as the result of any ego pro-
blem”’ and that she attributes her success
to “composure, self-confidence and the
ability to communicate effectevely.””

To reward herself after a hard day of
studying, Fiddle frequently goes to fraten-
tity parties at Cahoots, the Albany Hilton,
and L.P.’s. Fiddle is also very atheletic
and enjoys aerobics, swimming, waterski-
ing, and snowmobiling. Her favorite
winter pasttime is piecing together jigsaw
puzzles. ‘* I’m from upstate and there’s
not much to do in the winter,”’ she said.

By Craig Wortman
STAFF WRITER

January has been proclaimed Finan-
cial Aid Awareness Month in New York
State by Governor Mario Cuomo.

“Tt is fitting that the state with the
first and currently largest student grant,
scholarship, and loan program
recognize the importance such
assistance plays in the access, choice and
utilization of post-secondary educa-
tion,’’ Cuomo stated in his
proclamation.

Co-sponsored by the New York State
Higher Education Services Corporation
(HESC) and by the New York State
Financial Aid Administrators Assoca-
tion, Financial Aid Awareness Month
embraced many events, each aimed at
“making information more available to
people who may have interest
[because] there are more people going to
school now and school costs more said
Denyce Duncan Lacy, a spokesperson
for HESC.

Siena College Director of Financial
Aid Jeff Sussarossi, who is co-chair of
the month-long event, said “‘the motive
is dealing with prospective students who
don’t have the traditional outlets to in-

Fiddle said she has found that her title
has opened many doors for her, including
speaking engagements at the local level,
and appearances at store openings and
Community service club events.

She has also been contacted by many
modeling agencies, although Fiddle said
she is not interested in pursuing modeling
as a full time career.

Fiddle said she is satisfied with her suc-
cess and does not plan to enter pageants in
the future. ‘‘I am more interested now in
pursuing a career in business or
accounting.’”

Her last appearance as Miss New York
State Teen will be in August when she goes
back to Norwich to crown her successor. 1)

formation. We wanted to let people
know how to get information.”’

Donald Whitlock, SUNY A’s Director
of Financial Aid, added, ‘‘Our slant is
primarily to the non-student who we
might not otherwise reach, people who
have dropped out and we want to en-
courage to come back, older people, and
working single mothers who may wish
to increase their wage-earning
potential.”

Both Whitlock and  Sussarossi
answered phone calls during a call-in
hotline program, which they conducted
on local radio station WMHT on
January 7. In addition, Whitlock held a
similar call-in question and answer show
on WQBK-AM on January 10.

Similar efforts to reach most parts of
New York State’s eight Regent’s regions
were also organized. Information —
posters, brochures and wallcharts —
was distributed by libraries, guidance
officers, banks, lenders, and
newspapers, according to Sussarossi.

A toll free hot-line, which had
Whitlock and other financial aid of-
ficers from around the state, was
organized for the week of January 20
and received 984 phone calls from all

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Financial aid info stressed over January

over New York State. The number of
calls was ‘‘amazing,’”’ Sussarossi said.
“T was shocked at the number of adults
returning to school,” he added.

Whitlock also cited a “very wide
range of calls, refugees who have gained
asylum in this country and want to work
their way into the system, older people,
and returning students.”’

Whitlock ‘said that of 16,000
undergraduates at SUNYA, approx-
imately 10,000 get aid of some sort,
totaling approximately $20 million.
“‘We are all concerned that even though
a lot of money is available, many people
aren’t aware of it,’ Whitlock said.

The beauty of the month’s events, ac-
cording to Sussarossi, was that “‘it may
open up some avenues that people may
never have heard of...many may feel
that financial aid just isn’t available.
Hopefully we have dispelled that
myth.””

What Sussarossi said is most impor-
tant is that students make the effort to
apply for aid, even though they may not
be eligible for it. “It’s like the state lot-
tery. If you don’t play you can’t win,”
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Making the grade

At its recent national convention, the
NCAA could have given all high school
athletes an equal opportunity to go to col-
lege. It chose instead to penalize the
students that need the opportunity the most.

The National Collegiate Association of
America has set minimum grade and stan-
dardized test requirements for all athletes
who intend to go to a college with Division I
sports. The move was in response to the
growing concern that some college-educated
athletes still can’t read or write. Although
the NCAA may have had good intentions,
its remedy is nothing more than a band-aid
solution that would do little more than pro-
tect a Division I university’s image.

Under the new guidelines, which take ef-
fect in 1988, a high school athlete must have
at least a ‘C’ average and a minimum of a
700 score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test to
enter a Division I school. That might not
seem so difficult to the average student at
SUNYA, but to some of the lower-income
students who rely on athletic scholarships to
attend college, the numbers are more
intimidating.

Many of these students don’t come from
school systems that provide the necessary
education to meet the NCAA’s standards.
In fact, many of these students’ ad-
ministrators have come out in aupport of
the NCAA’s standards. Evidently these ad-
ministrators are relying on a collegiate
athletic association to set and enforce
academic standards that they themselves
should be providing. Aside from the poor
quality schools many of these students come
from, they face other obstacles. Standardiz-
ed tests have been shown in a variety
studies, to be culturally biased toward
white, middle income students.

Special tutoring isn’t feasible for most
lower-income students; it either isn’t readily
available or it isn’t affordable. When
students from ‘well off’ families want to im-
prove their SAT scores, they take courses at
Stanley Kaplan. Lower-income students
often don’t have that choice.

NCAA executives discount the claims
that SATs are culturally biased, although
they admit that predominantly black
schools have had poor quality of education.
But instead of addressing the situation
they’re trying to cover up an embarrassing
problem that many Universities exploit
these athletes by offering them lucrative
scholarships, but failing to provide them
with an education.

Under the new guidelines, some of these
athletes will never even get a chance to make
something of themselves at college, and
many others will get to college through
loopholes in the system, and will probably
graduate from college still unable to get a
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The NCAA’s new rules might prompt a
few students to keep their grades up and
prepare for the SATs. But that hardly seems
to be motivating factor behind its decision.
If it were, the policy would have been
directed. toward ending the exploitation of
these athletes. Who, after all, besides the
athletes is hurt when a University provides
them with a four year free ride that includes
little education? The answer is only the
NCAA which takes a lot of heat for the
Division I schools’ scholarship policies.

The NCAA has rectified that. Now only
the athletes will be hurt.

THE UP SIDE OF EXPUCIT ROCK LYRICS:

When trying to make a decision concerning the status
of a fetus, one must realize that this decision will mean a
matter of life or non-life in questioning the morality of
abortion. Making this distinction varies from person to
person and deciding whether ones views can rightfully
be used in judgement of abortion is an important aspect
to discuss.

[Risa Sonenshine

In deciding the fate of a fetus many will address the
“human qualities’”’ it possesses in order to choose life.
Though many people feel that once the decision is made
other varying factors come into play. Many extenuating
circumstances would have to be considered and given
recognition to decide whether an abortion was moral or
not. Each instance that can arise has a different meaning
and relevance to a particular person, though as a group,
the rights of women need to be considered. It seems
quite unfair for a non-particent group of people to pass
a judgement. This does not allow for any choice to exist,
and choice is the key. Every person has the right to
make choices, for we are all humans with different feel-
ings and emotions. It all comes down to choices for both
men and women and removing this choice takes away a
basic right that we have long been accustomed to.

It seems basic for some to draw the line at conception

and say that “‘the fetus has full moral rights from the
moment of conception.’’ But others, opponents of anti-
abortion, will say that the fetus has no moral status. If
we were to draw the line at a certain date and to say at,
for example, that 90 days after conception the fetus is a
human being and it is immoral and illegal to kill this be-
ing we would set a precedent and that ruling would have
to stick. The problem arises when we try to find that ex-
act date to which a fetus is a human, or when can you
“kill” this being and have it‘s death be morally right.
No medical findings can state that certain date which
will allow this sort of action. Conservatives feel the mo-
ment of conception is the day that you would be taking
a life. Others, for abortion feel that circumstances, such
as the woman’s rights, her body, her health, rape and
whether the child would be wanted, are more vital to the
issue of abortion. If the idea of forming this distinction
was chosen how could you decide the status of this
fetus?
How could you say that when it has human features, it is
human, or when it moves on its own it is human or when
it is conceived it is human? There is no way to decide on
how this distinction could be made. There is no general
consensus. Those for abortion strongly believe that the
morality lies within the woman and those against it feel
the morality is with the unborn child.

If a certain date could be set and it could be put into

Make yourself heard in a column. Columns
should be 800-1000 words. Bring them to
the ASP office (CC 329), anytime. Include
your name and telephone number.

Abortion options

law, what about the 14 year old who gets raped and is
too fearful to speak up until after that date. What
would be done? Would this 14 year old girl have to go
through the mental and physical anguish because she
could not have an abortion because she revealed her
‘secret’ too late. This distinction could not hold up.
The varying circumstances would have to come into play
and an exception would be made, and then the next
young girl would have the same result. Then the law
would not hold ground. The long awaited distinction
would not be the ultimate deciding factor.

Trying to find the distinction would prove difficult if
not impossible itself. Though it would enable the courts
to make a decision other cases would subsequently come
into the arena. Forming a tuling would be difficult
enough, the task of enforcing it would consequently
cause more commotion. The problem of abortion can
never really be solved, there are two opposing views that
equally feel their stance is correct, to choose one over
the other would disallow a woman to make a choice and
would force her to follow the ruling of a group of people
whose morals she may disagree with. The problem of
abortion can only be solved by choice, choice of the in-
dividual woman.

The reason for this essay is because the Arch Dioseses
of Albany wishes to prevent the Planned Parenthood
from operating on Lark Street in Albany. If the Church
feels that abortion is immoral then how can they try to
prevent young women from learning about protection
and their bodies. This only will result in more women
ending up with the situation they are trying to pre-
vent ...abortion. They must realize that their opinion
can be respected and upheld by those who agree with
them, but they should not expect everyone tonot be
allowed to prevent an informative, valuable service if it
is an effective way to make certain facts known. Birth
control is a topic that needs to be discussed and if not by
parents then by trained professionals. If a man and
woman have the sense to seek help then they should be
allowed to get that help. That is what Planned Paren-
thood intends to do. If there was nowhere for these peo-
ple to turn then the incidence of unwanted pregnancy
would increase dramatically. The church, of
course;does not want unwed mothers and this could be
prevented prior to conception- with birth control

Planned Parenthood allows you to learn and make a
responsible decision at an affordable price and the
Church does not have the right to tell us that we can get
protection in a safe convenient, and affordable manner.
Birth control will only help reduce unintended
pregnancies and abortions as well. Birth control will
reduce the amount of times a decision will have to be
made concerning the rights and morality of a fetus.
How can this possibly be immoral.

cAspe

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Friday, January 31, 1986

Runaway
Train

F or about an hour, Runaway Train is an engrossing,

ASP rating: é

taut tale of two escaped prisoners. After that initial
tush, though, the whole film degenerates to witless
philosophy, bad dialogue, and worse acting.

The picture stars Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as two in-
mates of an Alaska prison. Voight has been welded into his
darkened cell by a “taking no chances” warden for three
years, and is about to be released due to the inhumanity of
the act. Released, however, doesn’t meen freed; no, Voight
will now be treated like any other prisoner — which he
isn’t.

During his confinement Voight became an invisible hero
to the other inmates, a living martyr. Eric Roberts plays a
young prisoner who idolizes the “wild animal,” as the
warden describes Voight. Since he pushes the laundry cart,
Voight uses him as part of his escape plan. When Voight
becomes victim to one of the warden’s favored convicts (in a
gruesome stabbing scene in which a knife goes through
Voight’s hand) Roberts’ role grows.

The men escape and wind up on the train of the title. Un-
fortunately, much of the train action just doesn’t work. The
conductor has a heart attack and falls off the now runaway
train, which leaves Voight and Roberts to fend for
themselves. They talk, they argue, they try to figure out
why the train is moving so quickly.

Meanwhile, back at the train dispatch center everyone
works furiously to avert an accident. Veteran overactor
Kenneth MacMillan plies his craft as the man who decides at
the last moment to derail the runaway.

Then... the train’s whistle is blown by Rebecca DeMor-
nay (of Risky Business fame). This leads the dispatchers to
believe someone is on board, and the train isn’t derailed.
DeMornay then utters some really bad lines. The idea of
tossing a wrench into the action might have looked good on
paper, but what little interest had been stirred up earlier is
then forgotten.

Voight gives a terrific performance, while Roberts’
unidentifiable accent wavers even more than his acting.
One minute he's a coward, the next he’s a hero. Ultimately,
hhe’s just there. And the less said about DeMornay the
better.

For those wondering, the film does end. The ending isn’t
a good one, mind you, but there is a minor twist. For
bottom-liners, this Runaway Train should run its violent,
bloody course in empty theaters. a

Troll

hey don't make many movies like this anymore.

T And for a very good reason. No one wants to pay

five dollars to see trash. This is a film, well it’s an at-

tempt at a film, which starts at the bottom of the barrel and
goes down from there.

We're talking truly bad. Michael Moriarity, a good actor
whose role in television's Holocaust has seemingly been
held against him, stars as a book critic who moves into an
apartment house with his family. Shelly Hack, she of ap-
propriate last name, plays the wife. Well, it seems a little
green creature, the head troll (great title for a film), pricks
the newcomers’ eight year old daughter with a needle which
stands out of a ring. He possesses her body, returning to his
true form to watch the results of his handy work — which
consists of turning people from humans to trolls.

The litle girl’s brother, now fearful of his once dear sister,
avoids her at all costs, He befriends the strange lady upstairs
(Judy Lockhart) and discovers she is a witch who can stop
the head troll. As she prepares her assault, the head troll
turns Sonny Bono into something resembling a cucumber;
in fact lots of familiar faces of questionable talent fall victim
to Our Favorite Troll.

Gary Sandy from WKRP in Cincinati, Brad Hall and Julia
Louis-Dreyfus of Saturday Night Live fame all are
transformed into creatures of some sort.

Lockhart then goes to battle but is quickly turned into a
talking tree trunk. So it’s the little girl’s brother's task to save
the world from the head troll. That he will is never in ques-
tion. How, for those who haven't left or aren’t asleep, is the
main point of interest. Maybe interest isn’t the corect word,
but it will do.

So, Troll lacks everything even a bad movie possesses.
The special effects are admittedly good, particularly the

ASP rating: s

Three Turkeys; or, How I spent my winter break

Pictured above are: a) Jon Voight and Eric Pearson of Runaway Train; b) Sonny Bono and June Lockhart

by Ian Spelling

of Troll; c) Jason Gedrick and Lou Gossett Jr. of /ron Eagle

talking mushroom in Lockhart’s room. There are also a few
fun moments, but on the whole Troll is embarassing for all
involved. Though room exists for a sequel, that's not the
really frightening prospect. Prior to the film, Troll's makers,
Empire International, promised yet another classic;

Mercenary. Ninja. Mandroid. Scientist.
Their mission;

Rescue and revenge.

Their name:

Eliminators

If I see only one more movie the rest of my life I hope it’s
Eliminators. Wait! Help! My tongue is stuck in my cheek! 11

Iron Eagle

ASP rating: f

defies serious critical assessment. One such film is

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's simply a truly
awful film, but it transcends the reality of its failure, rising
to an infinitely more enjoyable and interesting plateau. Bad
becomes good, worse becomes better, sad becomes funny,
and funny becomes even funnier.

The latest addition to the world of unintentional comedy
classics? Iron Eagle. This turkey tells the story of a young
man whose Air Force pilot father is shot down over a Lybia-
like country and sentenced to death.

The American government attempts to negotiate, but to
no avail. The pilot's son, Doug (Jason Gedrick), himself a
would-be-pilot, plots to take matters into his own hands. His
friends join forces to secure secret documents and other in-
formantion necessary for a rescue mission. Doug then con-
vinces retired Colonel Chappy Sinclair (Louis Gosset Jr.) to
help him “borrow” two F-16s and fly to his dad’s aid.

In two days Doug is ready.”

Let's say all ends happily. Let's add that the ending lacks
only a wet-tongued dog and slow motion photography.

The rest of this review is up to you, dear readers. If you
don’t plan to see the film, indulge yourself. Write your own
review. For those who plan to see Iron Eagle please read the
following, but do not fill it in until after viewing the film —

E very once in a while, a movie is released which

then return it to me care of Aspects at the Albany Student
Press. Cheers.

1. Iron Eagle is:
a. bad
b. very bad
cc. one of the year’s worst films
d. the new year's worst film

2. This film is:
a. just stupid
b. a waste of money
c. so bad it's bad
d. so bad it’s funny and enjoyable

3. Louis Gosset Jr.:
a. gives his worst performance to date.
b. is laughable
c. embarasses himself and those watching
d. all of the above and more (or less)

4. Jason Gedrick:
a. is undermined by a bad screenplay
b. acts badly here
c. probably can’t act — at all, as in zip, nada

5. The screenplay:
a. isn’t just bad, it stinks
b. is dumb and endlessly hokey and cliched
c. was written between breaks while underwater
basket weaving
d. what screenplay?

6. The special effects are:
a. superior
b. exhilarating
c. wasted on this film
d. all of the above

Disagreeing with the critic is expected and welcomed.
Anyone who enjoyed this film, please let me know. I'd real-
ly be interested in hearing from you. Oo

Hopeful SUNYA author

picks Willie

et out your number 2 pencils, it’s
& time for a short quiz.

The phrase, ‘‘cool im-
provizatioonal jazz” describes which of the
following:

A) A Keith Jarret recording
B) An Alvin Ailey dance recital
©) Willie Mays.

Cathy Errig

Of course, your response depends upon
who you are, and your score depends upon
who grades the exam. Those of you who
answer “C” are encouraged to purchase
Vincent Reda's biography about the legen-
dary fielder when it hits the stands
sometime within the next two years.

“Mays represents the Jazz age,” says the
34-year-old Reda, a 1974 SUNYA
graduate. “His playing style was a mixture
of frenetic movements with cool im-
provization that many people saw as un-
neccesary clownishness and entertainment.
They did not realize the play could be
made in no other way. I don’t believe that
there is any other art form developed to
the degree of Mays.”

It is this focus on the artistic side of
Mays’ playing style, combined with an
argument. that will prove Mays. to have
been the greatest player in the history of
baseball. and an account of how the
author's own: life has-been affected by
Mays that will comprise Reda’s book,
which may be titled Willie Was the Best or
Confessions ofan Idolitor.

“Those (titles) are derived from a good
number of back porch arguments I've had
with Mickey Mantle fans,” explains Reda.
“I'm obnoxious as hell when it comes to
discussing who was the best player of the
game.”

Reda's obsession with Mays began in
1957 while watching 2 New York Giants
game on television.

“Mays slid into second base,” says Reda,
“and then when he stood up there was this
cloud of dust that sort of shrouded him,
and it was an incredible image. There was
just something in the way he moved. He
himself was the art form of the game. The
way he looked was an image that will last a
lifetime.”

It is a lighthearted obsession, though,
and author will assume a lighthearted tone
in his book.

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“Ill be a humorous look at why I've
been so enraptured with Mays for 30
years,” explains Reda. “I mean, I get up in
the morning and the first thing I think of is
Willie Mays. And if you're into
numerology, my whole life is linked to
Willie's.”

“When I got my draft number of 51, the
first thing I thought of was not that I might
be sent to fight and get killed, but that '51
was Willie’s first year in the majors,” says
Reda.

“1 was in a marathon and placed 24th,
which was Willie's uniform number. Ac-
tually, | could have finished higher, but I
wanted to be 24th, so I let a couple of peo-
ple finish ahead of me. If 1 wasn’t 24th, I
would have waited around and been
240th.

Reda continues, “In the 1981 version of
the Baseball Encyclopedia, Willie is on
page’ 118, my birthday is on 1/18. | will
buy no other version of the Encyclopedia.”

Reda began the project in the spring of
1983 and expects to complete his work this
summer.

“| get more pleasure out of writing than
from anything else," explains Reda, who,
in addition to being SUNYA’s Sports Infor-
mation director, also writes for the Albany
Times Union's Arts and Entertainment
department. “When you're a writer, it’s a
natural progression to write a book. That I
feel strongly about the subject goes
without saying. Let's put it this way, if I
was President, I would require that all my
cabinet members be Willie Mays fans. He
was really the hero of all races, more than
Babe Ruth was. At least when you speak of
Mays you don't have to say that he was a
drunken, fat bum.”

Reda expects his obsession, which he
estimates to have been conceived on or
around the opening day of the ’51 season,
to continue for the rest of his life. And,
although he admits there is a certain
amount of morbidity connected with
predicting one’s own death, he would
prefer his on May Day, 5/1. And as for the
number of pages his book will consist of,
the choices are:

A) 302
B) 660
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IcAspeculation

lot of people goof off over winter break. They feel that they deserve some
Ate time to relax after surviving the fall semester. That's what some people

do. And then there are those conscientious few who dedicate their time to
the betterment of society.

I sacrificed my vacation for the sake of social awareness. Rather than sip cocoa in
some Swiss ski chalet, I opted to do some investigative reporting for the ASP. My
topic was retirement. | stationed my study on location in a retirement community
in Delray Beach, Florida. All this for Aspects.

In order to get a true flavor of retired life, I devoted myself to two weeks of
submersion. I tried to assimilate myself into the routine of the retiree. Every morn-
ing, I gulped down freshly squeezed orange juice and homemade cookies, and then
dragged myself out to the pool for a grueling day of work.

On my first day out in the sun, I realized that I was a conspicuous outsider to the
residents; I was an obvious grandchild. I wasn’t on my lounge chair for more than
five minutes before a blue-haired woman approached me to confirm that I was a
guest in the community. After I displayed my guest pass, she surveyed me closely
and asked, “How old are you, Dear? 14?”

I tried not to cry as I wrapped my Mickey Mouse towel tightly around my
bathing suit-clad body, grabbed my copy of Are You There God, It’s Me,
Margaret, and ran out of the pool area. Once I was a safe distance of two miles
away, I collapsed under a Palm tree and recorded in my notebook, “Retirees are too
old to be objective judges of age. Perspective is distorted.” I closed my notebook
and called it a day.

Of course, not all of my investigative work was as disturbing as those poolside
encounters. There’s a lot more to retired life than sunbathing. There's eating.

Much of the poolside gossip in the community centers around the week's adver-
tising circulars. In depth analyses of food sales and early bird specials abound.
When it rains, the retirees are well prepared to forsake the sun for some smart shop-
ping. And if there are a few extra hours to kill after the bargains have been snatch-
ed up, there's always the thrill of touring the area supermarkets and comparing
prices of frequently-bought items. In every Florida supermarket retired couples can
be seen strolling the aisles and commenting on the cost.of prunes.and Efferdent.

Although buying and eating food is a primary source of pleasure in retired life,
retirees are often plagued by guilt after endulging their appetites. Unfortunately,
they are often on restricted diets. This is the most serious drawback to retirement. It
happens automatically — retirees’ grow in width and shrink in height.

There are several methods of overcoming the guilt of endulging. A widely used
strategy is exercise. Retirees wake at dawn, put on their velour jogging suits and
| flowered sun hats, and hit Jog Road. It’s an ironic name for the road surrounding
the complex, since only a virile few can actually jog. Walking is popular. Biking is
big. Falling is frequent.

Those who don’t have velour jogging suits redeem their binges by publicly an-
nouncing how well they've been doing on their diets. One claim I heard went

ymething like this:

“Oh, Ihad a sip of coffee for breakfast and just a bitsy wedge of melon for lunch.
And later, I'll probably take a crumb of melba toast for dinner.”

Meanwhile, this donut-shaped saint was viciously tearing a hot fudge sundae
coupon out of the latest advertising circular. And her audience noticed. And they
giggled. Just as children can be cruel in their innocent boredom, so can retirees.
They are faced with the dilemma of an abundance of time and a lack of energy
to fully enjoy it. That’s why, I’m sure, the blue-haired woman at the pool accused
me of being a 14-year-old. That must have been it. In any case, the conclusion of
my investigation is that, just as youth is wasted on the young, retirement is wasted
on the old.

Well, I bravely endured the two weeks. I put up with the heat, the stench of sun-
tan oil, the inevitable tan. I didn’t complain about the pulp in my orange juice. I got
the scoop, and I rushed back to New York to get the story ready for Aspects.

But, I don’t know how many more of these assignments I can take. Now that it’s
a fresh, new semester, I'd like to expand the Aspects staff so that I'll be able to
assign some of these tedious stories to new writers. Anyone interested in donating
some time to the good of society by working for Aspects should call the ASP office
at 442-5661 or stop by CC329 and ask for Loren or Ian. Also, an ASP interest
the meeting will be held this Sunday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. in LC 22, and we'll try to go
easy on you at first, before hitting you with as tough an assignment as this one was.

Have a great semester!

January 31, 1986)

Aspects 3a

Conquering bicoastal confusion

hen I first arrived at SUNY Albany
Wes California, | was met with a
chorus of “Whaddya come HERE
for's?” Depending on my mood, | would
reply, “The Poly Sci department has ex-
cellent professors’ or “The teaching
assistantship pays well for grad schools”
and even “It’s the capital of an important
state.”

Scott Snyder

‘After their queries and my moody reply,
these grand inquisitors would invariably
grovel about “how great California must
be and donchamissit and if you miss it so
much why don’t you go back there like I'm
gonna go out there some day to blah, blah,
blah...” This scene became a daily oc-
curance. | wondered if I shouldn't high-tail
it out of the frozen tundra of Rockefeller
College, take off on one of the rocket ships
posing as dorms up on the podium, and get
on down the road to L.A. feeling bad.
Where the climate suits my clothes. Where
those chilly winds don’t blow. Didn’t want
to be treated this old way.

It was the longest winter of my life and
surely the one of my discontent.

A year later I have grudgingly adapted
to Albany. I have friends here and feel part
of university life. I have experienced my
first cycle of seasons since childhood, ex-
plored the offerings of the Adirondacks,
trekked up and down the East Coast look-
ing for our American heritage some say
you just won't find out west (save for
Panaflex lenses and backlots.)

I like it here. Still, my California roots
have begun pushing up through the floor-
boards of my new home. The sight of the
lights of the gridlocked valley from

Mulholland on a windswept Santa Ana ,

summer night exploding like fireworks is
etched in my memory the way your first
lover is. Permanent. You never forget her.
When you're tired and longing, she dances
before your eyes, bending over to whisper
“remember me?” into your ear, beckoning
you back into her arms. Despite the miles,
the years that separated you to begin with
you never forget: 1 went north to school in
the Bay Area and tried to forget.

Living in Berkeley with many expatriate

_ Los Angelinos made it cool to bash Los
‘Angeles. She was a fickle lady anyway.
Conservative politics. The superficial glitz
of Century City. The valley girls munching
‘on neon croissants in Westwood and En-
cino. And the designer capuccinos on
Melrose or Rodeo Drive frothed over in a
nightmare of conspicuous consumption
that would have made Thorstein Veblen’s
blood run cold. Spread out in a smog, spac-
ed out in a smog, Los Angeles, so curious
and unstable a metropolis to have grown
up in, was a wasteland. We turned our
backs on her as if she were some leper with
bad breath.

Distance has given me a different
perspective on Los Angeles. Time heals all
wounds. Actually, I liked growing up in
Los Angeles. It was just that I had been
born in New York (I moved to California
in 3rd grade) and believed that New York
had more “substance” to it than L.A. My
rejection of L.A. was based on a belief that,
being a New Yorker by birthright, I had
experienced more “substance” than~my
friends who were native Californians had.

I'm not really sure what to make of this
except that I am not alone in experiencing
this bicoastal confusion. My friends here in
the East contend that my criticisms of Los
Angeles are justified. The ones who've
been there say they liked Disneyland, but

that was technically Anaheim. The rest of
Los Angeles seemed plastic to them. It
seems that the people were all phony even
when they smiled at you for no reason or
when drivers let you cross in front of them,
waving the “OK” sign on the freeway.

To my friends, people in L.A. were
more concerned with sculpting their physi-
ques to display on the beach than they
were for more noble pursuits like

Aspects is looking for new
writers. Come to the ASP
interest meeting on Sunday,
February 2 at 8 pm in
TC'22, oh,

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is

volunteering for Greenpeace or studying
ring

tanding on the podium for the

first time since my return to

school, I guide my eyes up-
ward toward a sky wider and grayer
than I had remembered. Through
frosted clouds whipping vigorously
southward, the pale morning sun
emerges. Its warmth welcomes the
early morning as invisible shadows of
the chilled winter wind dance bet-
ween the pine trees. In my solitude, I
am moved as a gust of wind pushes
me forward. I turn my head
downward and gaze across the fields
of concrete and the four towers stan-
ding still and solid like points of a
compass. Their crisp outlines freeze
in my mind while familiar voices and
figures rush by blocking my vision.

ut I can see the return of the

student. We file out of public

and private transportation.
Home and relatives linger in our
minds. The known scent and sight of
dormitories and homes awaken our
senses. Friends are rejoined. Suitcases
are placed aside and sweaters and
jeans neatly fill miniature closets. The
clank of green buses brushing against
the curb pierces the air. Jobs, such as
christmas tree selling, are forgotten.
Lives are _remolded. Books _are

= 2 :

method acting. Their brief observations
comported with my disdain for the phan-
tasmagorical sideshow that took place dai-
ly on the streets of L.A.

But now I'm looking ahead. I had headed
back east to Albany to recover some of
that “substance” I knew here as a small
child. What I found upon returning as an
adult has surprised me. Some of the
California thing has actually rubbed off on
me. My own smiles “for the hell of it” to

indifference or suspicious glances here.
Something is very wrong. People in New
York had this edge about them, mistrusting
of strangers, unintelligible in their rapid
speech. There was no good Mexican food
to be found in Albany either (there still
isn’t).

Things were getting really desperate
when the California Cooler commercials
hit (‘One more reason to hate California”).
That was the last straw. I couldn’t handle
the fact that I, a true bicoastal person, could
legitimately criticizelaud California/New
York from a position of experience, but
that a TV commercial was trying to
galvanize the entire eastern seaboard to
berate the Golden State. I now realize what
creatures of habit, what territorial beings
we really are, My friend Jane, a native
Virginian living the transplanted life here
as well, knew this but has let me discover it
for myself. Thanks Jane.

1 will head back to Los Angeles after I
complete my M.A. here. Los Angeles has
taken on added luster when so many have
gone out of their way to attack her
(including me.) I caution my feminist and
psychoanalyst friends not to read too much
into this last statement. Besides, Los
Angeles is to the Pacific Rim, Mexico, and
Latin America today what Ellis Island was
to the Europeans at the turn of the century.

Also, my family and close friends are
there. There is a majestic. coastline and
warm weather. There is a vibrant music
scene. California, “like and angel standing
in a shaft of light,” may well be that seduc-
tive hotel: Henley and Frey sang of almost a
decade ago with the Eagles. Sure, her mind
is Tiffany twisted. She's got the'Mercedes
Bends. But I'm also one of her friends. |
have danced to remember and I've danced
to forget. I can almost taste some of that
“sweet summer sweat.” The lyrics to that
song ring as true as the mission bells
themselves. You can check out any time

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The Welcome Back

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bought, schedules are set, and bills are paid. New, glossy texts line shelves and
window ledges. Vibrant smiles and rested eyes of professors pass by. Walls of
classrooms become protective shells against the.cold. Learning begins. Excite-
ment fills the air. The outside world seems far away.

blink. My eyes glance further downward, as I open my new book and)

read a few lines. Inhaling the words and their meaning, I can breath

easier against the icy wind. With a last look at the sun, I note that it will
shortly rise above the towers. A warm wave shudders through me and I envi-
sion the approaching tides. Closing my book, I smile. Another semester is here.
I turn and wrap my yellow wool scarf around my neck and chin and hurry off
to the campus center to meet my friends for lunch before class. Qa

4a Aspects

January 31, 1986

Film

Madison (489-5431)

Prizzi’s Honor 7:00, 9:20

Cine 1-8 (459-8300)

1. Best of Times 2:15, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45, Fri, Sat, 11:55

2. Down and Out in-Beverly Hills 12:10, 4:25, 7, 9:30, Fri, Sat,
11:35

3. Out of Africa 1, 4, 7:10, 10:15 (Fri, Sat), 1:30, 4:45, 8,(Sun-
Thurs)

4, Murphy's Romance 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:05, Fri, Sat, 11:20

5. Back To The Future 1:40, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10, Fr., Sat., 11:30

6. Iron Eagle 9:35, Fri, Sat, 11:45

7. Heathcliff 1:15, 3, 4:35, White Nights 6:40

8. Power 2, 4:20, 7:25, 9:50, Fri, Sat, 12:00, My Chauffeur 7:35,
10, Fri, Sat, 12:00

UA Hellman

1. Twice in a Lifetime 7, 9:20

2. Rocky IV 7:30, 9:30

Crossgates (456-5678)

1. Spies Like Us 12:25, 2:55, 7:25, 9:55, Fri and Sat 12:05

2. Jewel of the Nile 1:20, 3:35, 6:40, 9:20, Fri and Sat 11:40

3. Eliminators 12:45, 3:55, 6:35, 8:50, Fri and Sat 11

4. The Color Purple 12:30, 3:45, 7, Fri, Sat, 10

5. Power 1:35, 4, 6:30, 8:55, Fri and Sat 11:20

(6. Best of Times 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45, Fri and Sat 12:15

7. Young Blood 1:45, 4:15, 7:35, 10:10, Fri, Sat, 12:15

8. Iron Eagle 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20, Fri and Sat 11:35

19. Out of Africa 2, 6, 9:35

110. Murphy’s Romance 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:50, Fri, Sat 12:15
11. White Nights 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40, Fri, Sat, 12:15

12. My Chauffeur 1, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05, Fri, Sat, 12:05

‘Third Street Theater (436-4428)

jThe Home and the World January 31-February 2, February 4-6, 8

jm.
TBlood Simple, February 7-9, 7:00, 9:10
Spectrum Theater (449-8995)
it. Subway 7:10,9:20, Sun 4:00

Albany Institute of History and Art (463-44 78)

Flag Art ‘86, prints by Linsay Watson, landscapes by Peg Orcutt,
There Had to be a Better Way: inventors and inventions, The
New Response: Contemporary Painters of th Hudson River.
New York State Museum

The Greatest Show on Earth. . .In Miniature, Urban Visions: the
paintings of Ralph Fasanella, Nature's Hold: 150 years of Natural
Science, The Eye of Science, Bitter Hope: from Holocaust to
Haven.

The Albany Gallery (482-5374)

19th and 20th century American Marine painters.

RCCA (273-0552)

A Touch of Sense by Harold Lohner, Showing Humilty: Jan
Galligan and Robert Durlak through February 16.

Crailo State Historic Site

Historical Museum of Dutch and Upper Hudson Valley.

Center Galleries

Watercolors and drawings of ‘nature up close as well as of
architecture’ by Marjorie Semerad.

Albany Public Library

Landmark Building by Albany artist Dan Skellick.

Pauley’s Hotel (463-0434)

Downtime, January 31, Joey and the Nighttrains, February 1.
Quintessance (434-8186)

Cafe Lena (584-9789)

Billy Novick and Guy Van Duser, February 2, 7:30 pm, Tony
Bird, January 31 and February 1, 8:30 pm.

Cheers (482-5542)

——= The Newports, January 31, Christopher Shaw, February 1.

On The Shelf

Doc Scanlon’s Rhythm Boys, January 1 and February 1, On
January 31 from 5:00-7:30 pm, Soul Society.

Justin’s (436-7008)

The Walter Donnaruma Trio, January 31 and February 1.

JB Theater (438-2516)

Joint Forces, January 31, Phantom Rocker and Flick, February 1.

Albany Civic Theater (462-1297)
Knickerbocker Holiday, January 31.
Cohoes Music Hall (235-7969)
Billy Bishop through February 9.
Skidmore

Theatre
Music
January 31, 8 pm.

Table Manners, January 31.

ZOOS E
Lynn Barstine, January 31, 8 pm.

’ Jazz Concert featuring Gene Bertoncini and Micheal Moore,

Eighth Step Coffee House (434-1703)

Proctors (346-6204)

As You Like It, January 30, On Your Toes, February 4-6, 8 pm.
SUNYA Performing Arts Center (442-3997)

Roberta Cooper and Marian Hahn, January 31, 8 pm, Mezzo
Carol Lynn Youtz German, British, American, and Oriental Songs
in concert with pianist Joann Routenberg, February 1, 8 pm, Anne
Marie McDermott, February 6, 8 pm.

Schenectady Civic Players Inc (382-2081) ESIPA

Verdict, January 31 and February 1-4.
Capital Repertory Company
Dreaming Emmett, a play by Toni Morrison, January 31, 8 pm.

THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

SThis is him. ff.
‘And remember, \
it’s got to look
like an accident. /,

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Hit elephants

Working alone, Professor Dawson stumbles

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into a bad section of the petri dish. only work here, and No. 3, we don't

like your kind in here anyway.”

Final frontier

To the Editor:

Weare sure that all of you share our sadness and feel-
ing of emptiness when the 25th flight of shuttle ended in
the loss of seven lives and the destruction of the
Challenger. In the extraordinary record of safety that
the space program has achieved, it was too easy to
forget that space travel is dangerous. Throughout
history danger has always accompanied and been ac-
cepted by those self-chosen to extend mankind’s
physical presence across new boundaries.

In the aftermath of this tragedy, there will be a
necessary pause while NASA seeks to learn and correct
what happened. But we will soon regain our confidence
and will soar‘again. The Shuttle will continue to be the
launch vehicle of this generation and those launch
vehicles which follow will be derivatives of the Shuttle.
The program of manned spaceflight will and must con-
tinue. Space remains a driving force for change in the
direction of human society.

On a more personal level, the deaths of seven
astronauts brings both a strong emotional response and
a self-examination of why we identify so strongly with
them. The Shuttle and its missions are marvels of
science and technology and these alone have to stir the
imagination of a physicist. But we see the astronauts as
extensions of ourselves in space. They are priviledged to
directly experience a future we can envision and help to
plan but can share only remotely. If either of us were in-
vited to fly on the very.next flight of the Shuttle, we
would accept immediately, as they did, that chance to
meet the future.

—Keith F. Ratcliff
= —Harold S. Story
Department of Physics

NYPIRG education

To The Editor:

Being in my second year here at SUNY, I have come
to realize that one learns much more from experience
than books. I have been actively involved with NYPIRG

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Miske, Steve Raspa, Lisa Rizzolo, Peter Sands, Marie Santacroce, David
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The Albany Student Press is published Tuesdays and Fridays between
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does not necessarily reflect editorial policy.

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for almost one year now and I have learned so many im-
portant environmental and consumer issues that affect
New York State citizens, as well as how our state
legislature works. While working on issues that I was
concerned about such as toxic waste problems, I also
learned many public relations skills; community
organizing, public speaking and lobbying. Besides that,
I’ve met some terrific people.

On Wednesday night, February 5 at 7:30 in the cam-
pus center assembly hall (second floor) NYPIRG will be
holding a ‘SOCIAL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE”. This
will be.a night of learning something about the issues
that NYPIRG is working on this semester — Toxic Vic-
tims Access to Justice, Recycling, Higher Education,
Divestment of New York from South Africa, and
Women’s Issues. You’ll also have the chance to meet
other interested people, ask questions, and have a good
time (music and refreshments!)

You can find out how to get involved dedicating as
much or as little time as you want. I think it’s important
for all students to attend because, above all, I learned
how to be an active citizen which is the only way to get
justice.

— Genie Budow
NYPIRG chapter member

Telethon ’86

To The Editor:

On November 23rd Telethon ’86 held Rock-n-Roll
Warfare at J.B.’s theatre. We would like to thank
everyone that helped to make Rock-n-Roll Warfare a suc-
cess. We raised $1800 for our charities: Albany Medical
Center Pediatrics: Child Cancer Care and Spiria Befida
Programs, and Parsons Child and Family Center.

We especially want to thank our sponsers: Blotto
Records, Conception Recorders, J.B.’s Theatre, Univer-
sity Concert Board, WCDB-91FM, Metroland and
Budweiser; the bands: ESP, Dirty Face Dresden Pink,
Roger Wilco and the Radio Waves, and RIPROC Bop
(who were the winners of the battle); the judges,and all of
our workers.

We hope that everyone who attended had a great time.

Telethon’s ’86’s upcoming events for this semester are:
Student/Faculty Basketball Game Feb. 12
Dance Marathon Feb. 22
Telethon ’86 Apr. 11,12
Please help Telethon ’86 keep children’s dreams alive.
Have a happy and safe holiday!
— Sandra Lehrman
— Christine Park
Telethon ’86 Talent Co-chairs

Defrosted

To the Editor:

I am rebutting to a letter in your Dec. 10 issue by
Mary Elissa Furlong of an organization call SCROOGE
in which she criticized the holiday special entitled ‘‘Fros-
ty the Snowman’’.

I am amazed that someone would put such an effort
into condemning a children’s special. Christmas is a
time of happiness and fantasy. The article written by
Ms. Furlong tries to take that aw:

One of her main arguments is that Frosty (the
Snowman) is making sexual overtones to Karen, a little
girl, who with the help of her friends made Frosty. This
is ridiculous. I have never heard a snowman talk but I
assume if he is in a greenhouse and he says ‘‘Gee, it’s
getting hot in here’’ that he means he is worried about
melting not that this little girl is ‘‘turning him on’’.

Ms. Furlong also says ‘‘the plot is so absurd as to be
termed outldndish by most conservative of judges’’. I
once heard a story about a man in a sleigh flying all over
the world and giving toys to all the children. I guess that
one makes perfect sense to her.

Also, Ms. Furlong says that Frosty and Karen are
breaking the law by stowing away in a freight train to
the north pole. Jumping to her level, isn’t it more im-
portant that Frosty’s “‘life’’ be saved than the fact that
he is copping a ride?

Of all the problems in the world today it is
unbelievable that someone would analyze a cartoon. [I
have watched ‘‘Frosty the Snowman” and many other
cartoons and holiday specials. My personal favorite is

“Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer’. I wonder which one
is close enough to reality for Ms. Furlong.

— Scott Levy

Healthy American People for Patriotic Yearly Holidays

(HAPPY Holidays)

UAS and divestment

To the Editor:

We realize that the issue of divestment in South
Africa is a highly emotional one. We zealously support
Divestiture and we are aware of the gross violation of
human rights that is apparent in South Africa. As stu-
dent leaders and members of: the UAS Board of direc-
tors, it was not the emotional issue which prevented us
from taking action, but rather the bureaucratic protocol
that governs the activities of the corporation. The ques- —
tion was not if UAS was going to divest, but it was how
and in what manner. Through a series of informal
meetings which the ASP was unaware of through their
“‘one-source’’ reporting, we discussed the alternatives
available to us. Action on this issue has been delayed
because we are still awaiting information we wrote away
for on South African free funds. Not until we are fully
informed of our options can we responsibly present
them to the board members. If a careless decision was
rendered about our investments, serious repercussions
could inhibit the future services provided by UAS. UAS
relies almost entirely on the interest provided by our in-
vestments to repair, replace, and improve campus
facilities of all types. For example, over the last two
years both Colonial and Dutch Quads have been
remodeled from the monies generated by this invest-
ment. In addition, the vending services also are depen-
dent on the interest to correct malfunctions. We have
already begun plans for the renovations of State Quad
and Campus Center cafeteria. Without a prudent deci-
sion UAS would be unable to provide one of its main
objectives — to satisfy the demanding needs of the
students, UAS’s most important customer.

It will please our readers to know that we do not own
“stock”’ directly in South Africa, but rather it is an in-
direct investment by banking portfolio managers who
re-invest our money using their own discretion and addi-
tionally we are trying to remedy even this remote ii
volvement. In the future, when an issue of parallel im-
portance arises, we would appreciate the consideration
due to us as majority members of the board. When in-
vestigating the investments of UAS, according to

Norbert Zahm, the ASP failed to mention that the article
in question was to be written about “‘our’’ South
African investments. !f the proper channels of com-
munication were utilized many of the inaccuracies and
missing facts would have been mentioned.

Through the complex path of investigative reporting
with all its twists and turns, the ASP failed to accurately
exemplify UAS’s position on South Africa.

— Dan Altman

Chair, UAS Board of Directors

— David Light

— President, UAS Board of Directors

Your can has value

To the Editor:

It is not my point here to complain about an in-
dividual’s decision to waste five cents every time he tosses
a pop (soda) can. This is entirely her or his decision.
Rather, I am complaining that there is really no other op-
tion for the student who wishes not to lug around the can
until it can be returned. It would hardly produce a pro-
blem to institute a system of disposal for pop cans alone
on SUNYA campus. I am reminded of the need for this
type of system every time I run into one of the several
familiar faces digging through the trash.

Without event considering the alarming environmental
issue at hand, I view SUNYA’s present no-system as
wasteful and wrong. There are many lacking families, in-
stitutions and even students, each of whom would be
grateful to accept a minimal donation of cans to return
for deposit. It is our responsibility to work in conjunction
with the aims of this law, and at the same time, serve a
humanitarian purpose. Be

— Melissa M. Schmit

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According to Williams,
carelessness is the biggest factor
in theft cases. “Resident hall staff
had found some suites unlocked (
after students had left for vaca-
tion). Students should always
remember to lock their doors.””

Now that students have return-
ed to campus, Williams urged
them to heed safety warnings.
Williams said that when rooms
are unoccupied or at night when
sleeping ‘‘students should
remember to keep valuables (i.e.
pocketbooks, wallets, money,
etc...) out of sight. Thieves know
that students are careless, and
they prey on this.’”

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Voting

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of the Federal Court of Appeals
tuled that the residency re-
quirements were constitutional,
leaving lower elections boards
free to use them to bar students
from registering.

Previous to the Circuit Court’s
tuling, two U.S. District Courts
had given conflicting rulings on
the law’s constitutionality. The
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possibilities for
registrar workers.’”
“Minimum salaries for faculty
are dreadful. They are often
much lower than those of public
schools,’’ said Taylor. There is
also the exploitation of part-time
teachers, Taylor said, adding that
they are ‘“‘horrendously wadese
paid and overworked.’’ There is
protection against retrenchment
and also longevity pay, Taylor
added.

advisors and

“Since we are union, we don’t
only function at the bargaining
table,” Reilly said. ‘We do other
things that unions do such as
demonstrations, letter writing,
and petitions,’’ he said. ‘

McAlevey said that this is
“‘argely not an economic issue. It
has a lot to do with what the
rights of faculty are [about pro-
motions and tenure].”

Drescher, who is not optimistic
the fact finding panel will solve
the problem, said that the “‘state
is taking a legalistic approach to
all this. We have genuine issues.
Problems that have been here for

rooms are secure because they
reside in a campus setting, said
Williams. Thieves realize this ease
and thus take advantage of stu-
dent carelessness.

In reference to the recent
thefts, Williams said ‘‘we have no
idea at this point in time how the
thefts took place’’, but the matter
is being investigated. In order to
prevent future thefts, Williams
said he urges students ‘‘to
remember to lock up at all
times.”’

John Martone, Assistant Vice
President for Residential Life,
refused to comment on the thefts
“because it is a police matter
under investigation.”” o

York, ruling in a case brought by
SUNYA students, held the re-
quirements to be unconstitu-
tional, giving students within that
district the right to register and
vote in their college communities.

However, the Western District
Court of New York had upheld
the election law as constitutional,
a ruling that the Circuit Court
reaffirmed. oO

a long time.”’

“Negotiations are a political
Process,”” Reilly said. ‘‘They in-
volve pressures and negotiations.
‘We have to do it for ourselves,”’
he said.

There is ‘‘evident action of the
broad membership”? within the
union. “‘It’s their jobs and their
salaries.””

“Given the new university
budget, the university isn’t doing
as well as it should, given the
terms of that budget,’ Taylor
added.

If Governor Cuomo’s 1986
budget passes the state legislature,
228 faculty positions will be
dissolved, McAleveuy said.

“SASU is very supportive of
the union,”’ McAlevey said. “It
hopes that everything gets worked
out soon. Faculty morale is low,
and when morale is low and when
things are prolonged as long as
this, we may lose. Some of our
faculty could leave,’’ she said.

Taylor said that a UUP
demonstration is scheduled to be
held on February 7 at the Capitol,
with a delegate assembly being
held February 7-8. oO

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Stacey Young, project coordinator for the
New York Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG). Although NYPIRG did not
take part in the protest, Young said that
she ‘wanted to show people it is not the
only point of view.””

“Our purpose was not to disrupt the
film, or to keep people from going,” said
Young. ‘“We made signs and posters, and
gave out leaflets with information compil-
ed from Planned Parenthood.

Young said she felt the film was ‘‘clearly
anti-choice. It fails to address the pro-
blems faced by women with unwanted
pregnancies. If abortions become illegal,
there will be a lot of dead women.”

Right-to-life groups and films such as
this one “‘advocate the removal of a

woman’s right,”’ said protester Tamara
Richman, co-chair of the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance (GALA).

Steven Korowitz, president of SUNYA’s
College Republicans, who attended the
showing, said that the film was ‘‘an effec-
tive tool for what they wanted to do. It ap-
peals to your emotions, not intellect.’”

SUNYA student Robert Murrell who at-
tended the showing, said that the movie
“exaggerates their (YAF’s) argument if
they had to play on sentiment.’’ If
anything, said Murrell, ‘‘the movie
strengthened my pro-choice stance.”

Griesemer said that he was very pleased
withthe turnout, adding ‘‘the discussions
afterward were lively and _ spirited.
However, the problem we run into is that
many people are there solely to question
and cast doubt. They are not viewing the
film with an open mind.”

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campus on February 26, said Young, and
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New year brings new hope to blacks worldwide

By E. Paul Stewart
MINORITY AFFAIRS EDITOR
Welcome back! 1986 looks as
though it may be promising for
blacks herein America (at least in
terms of awareness by the masses
) and perhaps this will spread to
our brothers and sisters
worldwide.
Although the Beyond
year is still just
a baby many in- The
spiring and in- ior
teresting things Majority
have already taken place. I would
like to go into depth on all of
them but, my space limits won’t
allow.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
—This is the first year of it’s
observance and each year it will
grow in significance. I stay away
from the term’ ‘‘celebration”’
because as I believe the case is
with Black Solidarity Day, we
shouldn’t celebrate the day, but
rather observe it’s significance for
us as a people. We must be in-
citeful, retrospective and mobilize
for the future, lest we be im-
mobilized by it.

The Black and Puerto Rican
Caucas of the State Legislature
moved their caucas weekend back
so that Martin Luther King Jr.
Day would coincide with it. There
were the usual workshops, dinner
and celebration of ‘the Day”’ in
the form of a birthday party. The
turnout was phenomenal and the
weekend proved to be worthwhile
and successful. I was fortunate to
have taken part, as a volunteer. I
was unable to take part in the
“March to the Capitol’’, I was,
however, well informed that it too

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was a great success.

Perhaps, this might only be
part of the cyclical system in
which we live, but black ( which
has always been beautiful ) is once
again popular.

World News Tonight (ABC)
devoted it’s entire program on
Monday January 20, to Martin
Luther King, rightfully so. There
has been a reemergence of interest
by the white majority in issues
that have been continually plagu-
ing the black populace. Bill
Moyer’s documentary, ‘‘Crisis in
Black America’, on CBS, with an
aftershow exchange between pro-
minent members of the black
community, Eleanor Holmes-
Norton, Jesse Jackson, Glenn
Loury, and the Chief of Police of
Newark was interesting.
Although neither the show nor
the discussion provided any solu-
tion, it at least allowed viewers (1
wonder who else was watching,
were you? ) an opportunity to ex-
change ideas. The major short-
comings were that the show was
basically one-sided, the discussion
lacked someone who was truly
close to the issue discussed, and
the panelists tended to sway from
the subject, from time to time.
Which, by the way, was the high
rate of birth by unwed teenage
black girls.

This rebirth of black media
popularity isn’t limited to serious
programming. The ‘‘Return of
the black sitcom ”* has arrived. (
My warnings last semester fell on
“deaf ears” in Hollywood). Since
we parted, there are ( if I recall
correctly ), three new programs
with a black central figure. “‘He’s

the Mayor” with a young black
man as Mayor of a city of
undetermined populus, ‘“‘The
Redd Foxx Show”, with Mr.
Foxx as a diner owner, with a
teenage foster child, both on
ABC. CBS has “‘Melba’”’ the only
one I have yet to see. So as it
stands all the networks have
jumped on the black television
show “‘bandwagon’’, and the
total primetime ( 8:00-11:00 p.m.
) tv network hours of Black
representation is 4.5.

All this is good, but I’m hard to
please, I still remain unimpressed.
I will begin to be more positive
about television when ‘Tony
Brown’s Journal’’ returns to a
network from public TV and
maintains viewer support. The
capital District would also be bet-
ter served if Gil Noble’s “Like It
Is’? program were available.
These are two programs which of-
fer those things I mentioned
earlier: retrospect and incite.
They also offer two more things,

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Eckstein also attended the
hearing ‘I believe we presented
the best case we could...I think
the clarity and simpleness of
the case came out,” he said.
“The judge understood our

position,” said Eckstein, ‘“We
don’t have any procedures for

presenting grievences. We
don’t have a contract.’
The hearing, Henderson

said, was mediated by the State
Public Relations Board, which
supports members of the

which are of paramount impor-
tance: History and current events.
The knowledge of our history,
combined with a coherent grasp
of current events will enable us to
formulate a more comprehensive
strategy for our uplift in America,
economically and socially.
* * *
“Dreaming Emmett”? written
by SUNYA’S own Toni Morrison
is a brilliant play and Sunday (
February 2) is your last chance to
see it before it leaves the Capital
Rep Market Theatre. It tells the
story not only of Emmett Till but
of many blacks in America, who
have suffered at the evil hands of
racism. There are only two things
which troubled me about this
play. One is that it might be
understood by anyone who
doesn’t know Emmett Till’s story
(and I suspect that this is a vast
majority of the primarily white
audience; as well as some of the
black audience). The second, is
that the play attempts to tell too

state public relations board
may go with UUP so they
wouldn’t have to bargain with
us separately,’’ he added.
Eckstein said the strategy of
the State in the hearings to
“establish a dichotomy that
you can’t be a student and an
employee at the same time,
which I think is ludicrous. An
employee of Burger King is an
employee and a student at the
same time.’’ He further said
that a case in Michigan
established a precedent

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many stories and risks loging the
central theme. Nevertheless, this
good a performance is rare in the
Capital District and shouldn’t be
missed. The play does one other
major thing aside from telling a
story, it makes you think.

* * *

February is Black History
Month, be on the lookout for
ASUBA’S and other community
events. I would like to leave you
with a quote each week in honor
of Black History Month. This one
is taken from W.E.B. Dubois
“The Song of Smoke”’, the sixth
paragraph, it reads:

“T am darkening with song,
I am hearkening to wrong,
I will be as Black as Blackness
can.
The Blacker the mantle,
mightier the man,
My purpling midnights no day
dawn may ban.”’
——W.E.B. Dubois
Song of Smoke
written 1889

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GSEU in joining UUP. ‘‘The
whereby students could also be
considered employuees of an
institution.

Michigan, Wisconsin,
Florida and Toronto University
systems already have accepted
the equivalence of GSEU.

The next hearing dates are
scheduled for March 17 and 18
at which time GSEU will try to
organize a rally at which con-
cerned faculty and
undergraduate studens could
join them.

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though it may-be promising for
blacks herein America (at least in
) and perhaps this will spread to
our brothers and sisters
Although the

year is still just The

spiring and in- ior
teresting things Majority
like to go into depth on all of
them but, my space limits won’t

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
—This is the first year of it’s
grow in significance. I stay away
from the term’ ‘‘celebration”
with Black Solidarity Day, we
shouldn’t celebrate the day, but
us as a people. We must be in-
citeful, retrospective and mobilize
mobilized by it.

The Black and Puerto Rican
moved their caucas weekend back
so that Martin Luther King Jr.
were the usual workshops, dinner
and celebration of ‘‘the Day” in
turnout was phenomenal and the
weekend proved to be worthwhile
have taken part, as a volunteer. I
was unable to take part in the

Welcome back! 1986 looks as
terms of awareness by the masses
worldwide. Beyond
a baby many in-
have already taken place. I would
allow.
observance and each year it will
because as I believe the case is
rather observe it’s significance for
for the future, lest we be im-
Caucas of the State Legislature
Day would coincide with it. There
the form of a birthday party. The
and successful. I was fortunate to
“March to the Capitol’’, I was,

however, well informed that it too

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was a great success.

Perhaps, this might only be
part of the cyclical system in
which we live, but black ( which
has always been beautiful ) is once
again popular.

World News Tonight (ABC)
devoted it’s entire program on
Monday January 20, to Martin
Luther King, rightfully so. There
has been a reemergence of interest
by the white majority in issues
that have been continually plagu-
ing the black populace. Bill
Moyer’s documentary, ‘‘Crisis in
Black America’’, on CBS, with an
aftershow exchange between pro-
minent members of the black
community, Eleanor Holmes-
Norton, Jesse Jackson, Glenn
Loury, and the Chief of Police of
Newark was interesting.
Although neither the show nor
the discussion provided any solu-
tion, it at least allowed viewers (I
wonder who else was watching,
were you? ) an opportunity to ex-
change ideas. The major short-
comings were that the show was
basically one-sided, the discussion
lacked someone who was truly
close to the issue discussed, and
the panelists tended to sway from
the subject, from time to time.
Which, by the way, was the high
rate of birth by unwed teenage
black girls.

This rebirth of black media
popularity isn’t limited to serious
programming. The ‘‘Return of
the black sitcom ” has arrived. (
My warnings last semester fell on
“‘deaf ears’ in Hollywood). Since
we parted, there are ( if I recall
correctly ), three new programs
with a black central figure. “‘He’s

the Mayor’’ with a young black
man as Mayor of a city of
undetermined populus, ‘‘The
Redd Foxx Show’’, with Mr.
Foxx as a diner owner, with a
teenage foster child, both on
ABC. CBS has ‘‘Melba”’ the only
one I have yet to see. So as it
stands all the networks have
jumped on the black television
show “bandwagon”, and the
total primetime ( 8:00-11:00 p.m.
) tv network hours of Black
representation is 4.5.

All this is good, but I’m hard to
please, I still remain unimpressed.
I will begin to be more positive
about television when ‘Tony
Brown’s Journal’’ returns to a
network from public TV and
maintains viewer support. The
capital District would also be bet-
ter served if Gil Noble’s ‘‘Like It
Is’? program were available.
These are two programs which of-
fer those things I mentioned
earlier: retrospect and _ incite.
They also offer two more things,

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Eckstein also attended the
hearing ‘I believe we presented
the best case we could...I think
the clarity and simpleness of
the case came out,”’ he said.
“The judge understood our

position,” said Eckstein, ““We
don’t have any procedures for

presenting grievences. We
don’t have a contract.’’
The hearing, Henderson

said, was mediated by the State
Public Relations Board, which
supports members of the

which are of paramount impor-
tance: History and current events.
The knowledge of our history,
combined with a coherent grasp
of current events will enable us to
formulate a more comprehensive
strategy for our uplift in America,
economically and socially.
* * *
“Dreaming Emmett’? written
by SUNYA’S own Toni Morrison
is a brilliant play and Sunday (
February 2) is your last chance to
see it before it leaves the Capital
Rep Market Theatre. It tells the
story not only of Emmett Till but
of many blacks in America, who
have suffered at the evil hands of
racism. There are only two things
which troubled me about this
play. One is that it might be
understood by anyone who
doesn’t know Emmett Till’s story
(and I suspect that this is a vast
majority of the primarily white
audience; as well as some of the
black audience). The second, is
that the play attempts to tell too

State public relations board
may go with UUP so they
wouldn’t have to bargain with
us separately,’’ he added.
Eckstein said the strategy of
the State in the hearings to
“establish a dichotomy that
you can’t be a student and an
employee at the same time,
which I think is ludicrous. An
employee of Burger King is an
employee and a student at the
same time.” He further said
that a case in Michigan
established a precedent

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many stories and risks loging the
central theme. Nevertheless, this
good a performance is rare in the
Capital District and shouldn’t be
missed. The play does one other
major thing aside from telling a
story, it makes you think.

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February is Black History
Month, be on the lookout for
ASUBA’S and other community
events. I would like to leave you
with a quote each week in honor
of Black History Month. This one
is taken from W.E.B. Dubois
“The Song of Smoke”’, the sixth
paragraph, it reads:

“T am darkening with song,
I am hearkening to wrong,
I will be as Black as Blackness
can.
The Blacker the mantle,
mightier the man,
My purpling midnights no day
dawn may ban.”
——W.E.B. Dubois
Song of Smoke
written 1889

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whereby students could also be
considered employuees of an
institution.

Michigan, Wisconsin,
Florida and Toronto University
systems already have accepted
the equivalence of GSEU.

The next hearing dates are
scheduled for March 17 and 18
at which time GSEU will try to
organize a rally at which con-
cerned faculty and
undergraduate studens could
join them.

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414 Sports ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 0 FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1986

Dane skiers have mixed results in second race

By Diane Lang

and Joe Sangaline

This past weekend the Albany
State Men’s and Women’s Ski
Teams competed in their second
race of the year, hosted by
Syracuse University at Tog-
genberg ski area, with senior cap-
tain Ed Levine leading the way.

With snow falling over the
hard-packed and icy course,
Levine let loose on his first run in
slalom and turned in a 43:03 to
Jead all racers Gown the hill.

After the course was reset for
the second run of the day, Levine,
sitting in first place by four tenths
of a second, iurned in another
fast run to win the combined two-
tun slalom by almost a full
second,

Levine, however, wasn’t the
only men’s skier to do well on
Saturday. Sophomore John
Reavis, Albany’s second seed in
the slalom, turned in two very
smooth runs, placing him 17th in
a field of 85 racers when the
slalom race was over.

Albany’s men’s team combined
score placed them fifth in a field
of 17 teams and gave hope for a
top three team finish for Sunday.

The women’s team also did well
in the slalom on Saturday, despite
their lack of racing experience.

Junior Sandy Slater turned in
the best performance, placing

12th ina field of 65. Jennifer Cor-
by and Paula Perpall also turned
in respectable performances in
Saturday’s slalom event. As a
team, the women placed eighth in
a field of 13.

On Sunday, with the snow still

falling, both teams prepared for
the giant slalom event. Again,
number one skier Levine turned
in an excellent performance, plac-
ing third after his first run of
giant slalom. But he was not the
only man to ski well on that first
Tun.

Reavis, skiing the third seed,
which started him in 49th posi-
tion, turned in one of the best late
tuns of the day, pushing himself
into the 10th position after the
first run. The second seed for
Albany, Tom Irvin, also had a
great first run. He ended up in
17th, and with three Dane skiers
in the top 20, hopes were high go-
ing into the second run.

In the second run of giant
slalom, Levine again skied ex-
tremely well, finishing fifth
overall when the final numbers
were added.

But the highlight of that second
run had to be Reavis’ run. Star-
ting 10th, he calmly turned in the
third fastest second run of the
day, just eight one hundredths of
a second away from the leader.

With this run, Reavis was able
to place seventh overall, giving
the Danes two men in the top ten.
With Levine and Reavis in the top
ten in the giant slalom, the men’s
team was able to better
themselves by one spot in the
weekend’s combined results by
finishing in fourth place.

Captain Ed Levine had this to
say after Sunday’s race. “The
guys. skied very well. I feel that if
they keep up the good work and
keep putting in good overall

results, that they have a very good
chance to qualify as a team for
the Eastern Regionals in New
Hampshire. I feel, too, that the
girls are improving and becoming
more competitive with each
race.””

Again the women’s team show-
ed improvement, with Sandy
Slater placing 14th overall in the
giant slalom. After the conclusion
of the weekend’s activities, the
women’s team placed eighth in a
field of 13 teams.

This past weekend at Tog-
genberg boosted the morale of
both teams and added to the col-
lection of medals won by Levine.
Two weekends ago, the first race
of the year was held at Whiteface
Mountain in Lake Placid, New
York.

In that opening meet, hosted by
Army, Levine started off on a
good note. With the temperature
in the 40’s and the snow very wet,
Levine turned in the third best
first run in the slalom.

Although three other men fell
in that first run for the Danes,
their hopes were still high for the

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steals

With three players in double
figures, Lesane with 11, Bayba
with 15 and LaBombard with 18,
on 8-11 shooting from the floor,
the Danes were able to hold off

Oswego’s high scorer, 6’1”’ Linda
DeRyke, to four points. She

day.

In the second run, those hopes
were rewarded, as Levine turned
in a 37:62 to lead all other racers
down the course, putting him into
second overall.

Sophomore Joe Sangaline, the
fifth seed, skied to a respectable
26th place finish in a field of 85
skiers. Although Levine did well
enough to earn a medal, the team
failed to finish three racers, so
they did not appear in the team
results.

in Sunday’s giant slalom,
Levine skied well again, placing
sixth overall after two runs.
Reavis also skied well for the
Danes, placing 17th.

But the season didn’t begin for
the Danes at Whiteface. Training
for the team began long before
the lifts opened. In the autumn
months, the workouts consisted
of rigorous ‘dryland training.’’
This combined running, hiking,
jumping, calisthenics and weight
training ro increase strength and
endurance before the skis came
out. The team met four days a
week during the fall semester to
prepare for the upcoming season.

averages 19.5 ppg.

“That’s quite an accomplish-
ment,’ said Warner, ‘‘That’s
what we went out to do. We held
her off; the whole team worked
hard at that.””

Lesane added six steals and
Bayba grabbed seven rebounds
for the Danes.

During the last week of vaca-
tion, 20 team members braved
sub-zero temperatures for a four-
day training camp at Hunter
Mountain, New York. Instruction
was given by team captain Levine
and Glen Newman, a long time
racing coach at Hunter.

The team is currently training
at West Mountain on Wednesday
and Thursday nights. Members
ski for four hours each night,
concentrating on their slalom and
giant slalom techniques. These
hours are crucial in preparing
them for the weekend meets.

The training is hard work, but
the members have a great time
together. As Captain Levine said,
“Tt is largely an individual effort,
but we work together to make
things happen.”” Team members
work with one another both on
and off the slopes, improving
each other’s skiing and showing
tremendous enthusiasm for
fundraising.

This weekend, February 1 and
2, the team will be racing at
Brodie Mountain in Massachuset-
tes.

On Saturday night, the Albany
women cagers host Plattsburgh at
6:00 pm, whom they previously
defeated, 64-61, on the road. On
Monday, they host Hartwick at
7:00 pm.

“We've still got a ways to go,””
said Warner. ‘‘We take it one day
at a time.”” ira]

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_ Dane bench helps to defeat Cortland, 81-49

By Mike MacAdam
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Albany State Great Danes put the
game away early Wednesday night, allow-
ing head coach Dick Sauers to insert his
entire roster in an 81-49 trouncing of the
SUNYAC-East rival Cortland Red
Dragons.

Each member of the Dane’s 12-man
squad scored at least one field goal, as the
bench saw extensive playing time in the se-
cond half.

The Danes upped their record to 12-5,
and 6-1 in the conference. The victory,
coupled with Plattsburgh’s loss to
Potsdam, pushes Albany’s second place
standing in the SUNYAC-East to two and
one-half games over third place Platt-
sburgh. Cortland fell to 3-14 overall, and
1-7 in conference piay.

According to the Cortland athletic
department, the Red Dragons star for-
ward, 6’2” junior Dave Goodridge, did
not make the trip because of academic
obligations. He was sorely missed, as Cor-
tland’s three-man bench was decisively
outscored by Albany’s reserves, 33-4.

The Danes came out sluggishly in the
first half, falling behind 6-0, before 6’4””
center John Mracek broke the ice with a
bucket almost four minutes into the game.

63” freshman center Russ Teague tied
the score at 8-8 with 13:36 left in the half,
and his basket 23 seconds later gave the
Danes their first lead of the game, one they
would not relinquish until the final buzzer.

The Danes combined a good running
game with some hot outside shooting to
give them a 36-23 halftime advantage.

By Michael Bruno

The Albany State women’s gym-
nastics team easily defeated a weak
Smith College team by scoring 146.00
points Tuesday night atthe University
Gym.

This home opener took place before
the largest crowd of recent memory.

The audience was treated to seeing
captain Sue Leskowitz attempt a hand-
spring front vault. Though she fell on
this difficult vault, she bounced back
and executed a near-perfect handspring
vault on the second attempt and tied the
school record held by herself and senior
Brenda Armstrong by scoring an 8.5.

Freshman Missy Livent threw a
beautiful half-on full-off vault, and
received an 8.5 for her effort.
Sophomore Jen Seskin scored.a 7.95
with her handspring vault.

After this successful vaulting show,
the Danes executed many impressive bar
routines. Leading the Danes through
bars was Armstrong, whose routine was
highlighted by a:beautiful front summi
catch, straddle over, reverse hecht, and
a full twisting dismount. She received an

“I was glad to give
him (Goodemote) that
playing time. He’s the

guy we’re trying to
bring along; he’s part

of our future.’’
— Dick Sauers

671” guard Mike Cinque followed his
own layup at 11:58 with a sparkling
behind-the-back pass to senior guard Doug
Kilmer for an easy layup off the fast
break, and a 14-8 lead.

673°’ junior forward Mark Wyncoop
responded with a jumper to pull the Red
Dragons to within four, but that was the
closest they would get for the rest of the
game.

Kilmer and forward Brian Kauppila
each hit a pair of jump shots to make the
lead 22-14 at 5:10 before a Wyncoop
bucket was answered by seven straight
points by Mracek.

Mracek first canned a three-point bomb
at 4:41, then converted a Kilmer steal for
two at 4:02, and finally finished the offen-
sive exhibition with a basket resulting from
a steal off the Cortland inbounds pass.

Again it was Wyncoop, whose 15 points
lead the Red Dragons for the game, who
answered with a basket at 3:30 to bring the

8.0 for this routine, only .3 shy of her

own school record. = ars

Also strong on the bars was junior
Leslie Steckl, who got her routine
together to score a 7.45. Seskin and Li-
vent were also high scorers, receiving a
7.25 and a 7.2, respectively.

The Danes were riding high as they
moved to the balance beam. Unfor-
tunately, the team’s enthusiasm and
momentum weren’t enough to keep
them on the beam.

The gymnasts, plagued by a series of
falls, failed in attenpts to execute dif-
ficult combinations.

The one highlight on the beam
belonged to junior Nora Bellantoni. In
only her second competitive routine, she
performed a beautiful tuck jump back
handspring combination and scored a
meet and personal high of 7.65.

The Danes’ performance on floor ex-
ercise, though overall superior to their
exploits on the beam, still fell short of
their potential. The highlights of the
floor were Livent’s full twisting layout
salto and Bellantoni’s arabian salto,

score to 29-18.

Kilmer got into the act when he
penetrated inside for a layup, and his shot
from three-point territory made it 34-20 at
2:13,

Kauppila added a jumper. at 0:25, and
the Dragons’ junior guard Brian Hoyt
finished the half with a jumper at 0:07.

According to Sauers, the absence of
Goodridge could have been the difference
between a blowout and a closer game.

“Our defensive plan was to stop
Goodridge,” said Sauers. ‘‘I figure he had
to be good for about 15 points or so. He’s
a good player; I scouted him.”

Co-captain Kilmer tended to downplay
the importance of Goodridge, however.

“He’s good, but I don’t think they
would have stayed any closer to us,’’ said
Kilmer.

The Danes opened the second half with
a 6-0 spurt as Mracek and 6’4’’ forward
Adam Ursprung hit from the outside

Dane gymnasts overpower Smith College

back-tuck summi.

Sophomore Michelle Husak gave the
strongest overall performance on the
floor. She perfectly executed a double
salto whip-back pass and handstand tri-
ple pirrhoette. She received a season
high of 8.3.

In all-around competition, Livent
took top honors with a 29.05. She was
followed by Armstrong with a 28.40,
and Seskin with a 27,10.

Coach Tom Fiumarello was pleased
with the team’s improvement, especially
on bars, but feels this team is easily
capable of scoring over 160,

He also knows the team must hit all
four events to defeat strong Division III
teams such as Salem State and
Brockport.In addition to these strong
Division III teams, the Danes battle
Division II Hofstra and Division I Long
Island University and University of Ver-
mont. This tough schedule leaves little
room for blown routines.

The Danes’ next contest is Saturday,
February 1, against Brockport. The
meet begins at 1 p.m. in the University
Gym.

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before Cinque dished off to Kilmer for an
inside hoop.

Ursprung, who leads the Danes in scor-
ing with 17.0 ppg, only attempted one field
goal, and had no points in the first half,
but made his presence felt on the boards,
finishing the game with 10 rebounds.

‘nqu'’s outside shot at 9:07 was
a wered by Hoyt, who finished with eight
points for the Red Dragons. Cinque’s
layup after stealing the ball made the score
61-38 at 7:51.

Albany’s reserves started getting into the
scoring with 3:30 left when 6’5’’ junior
center Jeff Kee hit a pair of foul shots to
push the lead to 69-43.

62” junior guard Andy O’Connell hit a
jumper and added two free throws at 2:10
to make it 75-45.

Wyncoop finished off a three-point play
after being fouled by O’Conneil in his
layup attempt, Kee answered with a field
goal, and freshman guard Andy
Goodemote converted a fast break layup
on the assist from O’Connell to make it
79-48 with 35 seconds left to play.

While finishing with only two points,
one assist and one steal, Goodemote
played the greater portion of the second
half, and Sauers embraced the opportunity
to give him playing time.

“I was glad to give him that playing
time,”’ said Sauers. “‘He’s the guy we’re
trying to bring along; he’s part of our
future. He looks to the basket a lot, but he .
hasn’t been hitting as consistently for us as
he has for the JV.”

The bench difference spelled the Red
Dragons’ doom, as the Albany. bench not
only had the decisive scoring edge, but also
Jutrebounded the Cortland bench, 19-4.

“They let us run our offense out there,
se we felt a lot more relaxed,”’ said Kaup-
pila. ‘‘I didn’t even see half their guys last
time we played them. I couldn’t tell that
they were that tired; their starters probably
liked it.”

After the big loss to Potsdam Saturday,
Sauers hopes that this win will get his team
back on track.

“Potsdam is always a letdown if you
lose. If you win, it’s a big boost, but we
lost, so I’m hoping a game like this will get
us back into our game,” said Sauers.

The Danes shot 59 percent from the
floor in the first half, but tailed off in the
second half to finish the game shooting 49
percent to Cortland’s 39 percent. Forward
Harry Barr had 12 points, and forward
George Thomas added eight for the Red
Dragons. Mracek was high scorer for the
Danes with 15, Kilmer kept up his average
by scoring 13, and Kauppila contributed
10. Kilmer and Cinque combined for nine
assists.

HOOP-LA: Estimated attendance for
the game was 450. . .the Danes shot 17-19
(89 percent) from the line to Cortland’s
9-20 (45 percent). . .the Danes face third-
place Plattsburgh at the University Gym
on Saturday at 8 p.m.

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Sports Friday

The Albany State
gymnasts overwhelmed
Smith College in their
home opener.

See page 15

JANUARY 31, 1986

By Kristine Sauer
SPORTS EDITOR

Two more victories were added to the Albany State
women’s basketball team’s winning streak this week. An
87-66 victory over Oswego and a 63-47 trouncing of the
Cortland State Red Dragons brings the Danes to an im-
pressive 15 straight wins.

Currently, the Danes, 15-2, are still ranked second in
the state behind Buffalo State and now stand at 18th in
the nation, an improvement from last week’s honorable
mention in the Division II] poll. Buffalo State is ranked
fifth.

The Albany women Cagers are second in the nation in
margin of victory with an average 23.8 points differential.
Additionally, 5’10’’ center Lori Bayba is ranked tenth in
the nation in free throw shooting percentage with 83
percent.

Albany continues to hold first place in the conference
with an undefeated 8-0 record.

On Wednesday night against Cortland, the Danes
turned a close first half in which they led by six points by
half time, 29-23, into a blowout 16-point victory.

In the first half the Danes broke out into a 9-4 lead five
and a half minutes into the game, but a three-point play
by guard Lynne Koban ignited a nine-point run by the
Dragons, 5’9’’ forward Valerie Stone tied the score and
then put the Dragons ahead with a jumper with 12:40 to
go. Cortland’s Mindy Murdock pulled up at the foul line
to sink the basket that put the Dragons up by four.

Two baskets by Albany sophomore Donna Hughes tied
the score at 13-13. After Stone sank another shot,
Albany’s Kim Kosalek was fed inside from guard Rainny
Lesane to tie it again with 8:00 remaining

That began a nine-point scoring spree by the Danes, in
which Lesae scored five points to put Albany ahead 24-15

Dane wrestlers boost recordto 14-2

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HOWIE TYGAR UPS
Chris LaBombard on defense.

with 3:17 left in the half. In the remaining minutes, Cor-

tland outscored the Danes by a small margain, 8-6, as the
Danes kept ahead by six points, 29-23.

“They lost to us the first game (66-58),’’ said senior
Diane Fernandes. ‘We were their first SUNYAC loss, the
only team stopping them to not win the SUNYAC-East so
they came out with more intensity in the beginning.”

“They had fire in their eyes and were ready to kill us,””
she added. ‘‘We realized they are a tough team, but then

in the second half we were playing with the inten-
sity.”” With 11:51 remaining in the second half the
Danes went up by 13 points, 41-28. Cortland was able to
slice it to six points at 44-38 with 8:22 to go. The Danes
outscored the Dragons 17-9 to finish the game.

“Defensively, we played a nice ballgame in both
halves,’’ said Albany head coach Mari Warner. “‘Offen-
sively we needed to really challenge them individually.
Kim and Cindy both drove a few times. In the end that’s
really what made the difference offensively.”

Warner pointed out the similarity in this game and the
New Rochelle game. Both teams played a very tight
defensive game against Albany, enabling the Danes to set
screens and drive to the hoop.

“New Rochelle was playing in tight defense and that’s
what we did, ’’ said Lesane. ‘‘In both games we concen-
trated on faking up and driving to the hoop.”

‘When they give that to you you have to take it,”” said
Warner. “‘We forced them into playing man-to-man on
us when we ate up their zone.’’

Lesane led the Danes with 17 points and a phenomenal
11 steals. Chris LaBombard followed with 14, and
Kosalek and Hughes each with 8 points. Cindy Jenson led
in rebounds with seven; she also had 6 points.

For Cortland, Stone led with 20 points, 14 of which
were in the first half. She was followed by Murdock with
seven and Koban and Renee Spear with six apiece. Mar-
tha Gorton, Cortland’s. leading scorer, who averages
15.5 ppg, was held to only two points.

“It was the kind of competitive game that we needed,”’
said Kosalek, adding, ‘‘It felt good to work for the win.”

Against Oswego Monday evening, the Danes jumped to
a 32-8 lead with 9:30 left in the first half led by LaBom-
bard who had 11 points in the half, five assists, and four

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By Cathy Errig

STAFF WRITER

Continuing to prove they deserve better
than their current 17th place national
ranking, the Albany State Wrestling team
solidly defeated 16th ranked Western New
England College, 27-15, improving their
seasonal record to 14-2.

“They have five guys on their team who
their coach considers to be potential all-

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Americans,”’ said head coach Joe DeMeo,
“and we beat three of them. That should
move our wrestlers up in the individual
rankings as well.”

Shawn Sheldon destroyed WNE’s
118-Ib. Kevin Manzo, 19-4, to win by
technical fall. The Jr. co-captain has an
undefeated seasonal record’ of 16-0. With
four seasonal matches remaining, Sheldon
has an excellent chance of breaking the

MARK VACARELLI UPS

The wrestling team is ranked 17th in the nation. They defeated 16th ranked Western

New England college, 27-15.

record he set last season along with Dave
Averill and Andy Seras for most seasonal
wins with 17.

126-Ib. Pete Andrew followed Sheldon’s
performance with a 13-7 win over WNE’s
Mark Reale. The Danes were less suc-
cessful at 134, however, as Dave Pawse,
coming off a knee injury, lost his decision
to Joe Fedorko.

142, however, belonged to the Danes, as
John Balog, coming off a tough loss in the
St. Lawrence match, trounced WNE’s
Rodney Smith, a potential all-American
wrestler, 17-9.

Co-captain Jim Fox remained
undefeated for the season by winning an
easy decision from WNE’s Peter Veto by
technical fall, raising his personal record
to 14-0-2.

158 belonged to WNE’s Tim
Dabkowski, who defeated Dane Paul Pro-
sser. The Danes took the next two weights,
as freshman Mike Simon demonstrated his
tremendous potential and improvement by
winning the decision from WNE’s Dan
Porcello.

Jr. Matt Ryan, down from a portly 190
to 177, extended his undefeated seasonal
record by defeating Steve Metcalf, 9-4.

The 190-Ib competition pitted Dane co-
captain Marty Pidel against Gary
Solomon, the top-ranked 190 Ib.er in the
country. Pidel was defeated by Solomon,
19-4.

At heavyweight, Dane sophomore Chris
Tironi maintained his undefeated status by
defeating WNE’s Mitch Katz. Tironi cur-
rently has a 14-0 record.

“This win should show the people who
compile the rankings a thing or two,”’ said
DeMeo. ‘‘When you can defeat a team
ranked 16th by a margin this great, you
deserve to be ranked higher.’”

The Danes will travel to Connecticut on
Saturday for a tri-match with the United
States Coast Guard Academy and Central
Connecticut. Oo

SHARP SHOOTER — Doug Kilmer
broke out of his scoring slump to
help the Danes bounce back from
their defeat against Potsdam, as
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One of the new
films profiled in
“Calendar"’ is
Touch and Go,
which stars Mi-

chael Keaton as a
hockey player with

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David Byrne’s Talk-
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“world beat.””

Nick Nolte plays a
bum who stumbles
into luxury (and its
many complica-

tions) in Down and
Out in Beverly Hills.

TRISTAR PICTURES.
WARNER BROS. RECORDS
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CONTENTS

06 © HANDS ACROSS AMERICA

Ken Kragen tries to top USA for Africa with a fun-
draiser that may be the biggest “people” event in
history.

07 © BLUECITY

25-year-old director, Michelle Manning, proves she
has the right stuff to bring Walter Hill’s script to the
screen.

08 © CALENDAR

A complete guide to upcoming films, TV programs,
videos and books of interest.

10 © WINTER FILM PREVIEW

Warm up to these three new releases for winter.

11 © QUICKSILVER

Kevin Bacon stars in this comedy—adventure set in
the bigh speed world of bicycle messengers.

12 © DOWNAND OUTIN BEVERLY HILLS

Living on the street is tough, even if the street is
Rodeo Drive. Nick Nolte, Bette Midler and Richard
Dreyfuss star in this Paul Mazursky comedy.

14 © BEYOND SPECIAL SECTION

It’s Halley's, not Haley’s; it’s a comet and it will be
appearing in your local skies. Find out where to look
inside.

18 © GO-GO GOES NATIONAL

Washington, D.C. ’s home-grown dance music craze
is featured in the new film, Good to Go.

20 © MUSICAL NOTES

Jane Weidlin, Wang Chung, Christopher Cross, INXS

and others.
22 © WORLD BEAT
Musicians today are playing to the sound of a differ-

ent drummer, Don Waller explores this global trend
in music,

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eye Marching Band won't be

playing J.J. Cale’s “Cocaine”
anymore. The catchy tune, made
popular by Eric Clapton, has been a
favorite of the band in the past two
seasons, until some less than sympa-
thetic listeners found out what the
words were.

For entry information, write Rich
Miller, Student Film Awards, c/o the
Academy at 8949 Wilshire Blvd.,
Beverly Hills, CA, 90211 or call
(213)-278-8990. Deadline for entries
is April 1, 1986.

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ea the best film students in

the country, you might consider
entering the Academy of Motion Pic-
ture Arts and Sciences’ 13th Annual
Student Film Awards competition.
Entries are being accepted in four
categories: animation, documentary,
dramatic and experimental.
Finalists for each category will be se-
lected in seven regions across the
country and flown to Los Angeles for
a week of seminars, dinners with Stu-
dent Film Awards alumni like Robert
Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and,
of course, the awards banquet.

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Looking For A Few
Good Fans

Their name evokes images of a hard-
core punk band whose devoted fans
bodyslam ‘til they're bloody. Actual
ly, 10,000 Maniacs are a neo-folk
group, whose pastoral melodies and
poetic lyrics invite more heady dis-
cussion than headbanging.

There is much to like about 10,000
Maniacs, who hail from Jamestown
in southwestern New York. Natalie

The gentle sound of 10,000 Maniacs won't
drive you crazy. :

Merchant's lead vocals are warm and
soothing, with a clear, unaffected
tone,

Band founder and bassist John
Lombardo’s arrangements and song-
writing recall the work of Fairport
Convention, Richard Thompson and
Renaissance, without being slavishly
derivative or dated. In the true spirit
of folk, the lyrics, composed by Mer-
chant, speak of the human condition,
the happy side, yes, but also the suf-
fering of poverty and war.

“1 don’t know if we have one mes-

, but I know what our music

says Lombardo. “Our music

isn’t sexist; it és anti-materialistic.

We've never written first-person love
songs. There’s enough of those.”

‘The Maniacs first nationally re-

- Jeased album, The Wishing Chair, is
on Elektra-Asylum records

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Still Rocking Or Just Gather-
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The most eagerly awaited record of
the new year is the 32nd—yes,
32nd—album by the world’s greatest
rock band, the Rolling Stones. Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie
Watts, Bill Wyman and Ron Wood
have endured because they constant-
ly update their music.

The Stones have never been inno-
yators as much as interpreters ofthe |
latest trends. When the Beatles re-
leased Sgt. Pepper, the Stones te-
sponded with an album about the
dark side of psychedelia, Satanic
Majesties. When the New Wave
movement marked the Stones as di-
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band released the controversial Un-
dercover of the Night.

The primary challenge for the
Stones on their new album is to in-
corporate the current trend of Third

“World polyrhythms. Charlie Watts is _

still considered by many the greatest
rock drummer, but the Stones’ trade-
mark white blues and r&b ehythms

“haven't changed since 1964.

Still another consideration is that

rock's original bad boys are now —

middle-aged men. They're all firmly
committed to longtime girlfriends or
wives and their various broods.

Will we see a gentrification of the
Stones sound, as they come to terms

with the fact that they're Julio Igle-_

sias’ peers? Can we expect songs of
the simpler pleasures in life, the
smile of a child, grocery shopping
with the significant other, balancing

the checkbook? Don’t count on it.

‘The Stones got to the top of the

ap by rockin’ badder than anyone

All For One And One For All

‘At a time when veteran bands like
Van Halen are splintering like dry
plywood, the five members of Night
Ranger have no intention of breaking
up their six-year partnership.

What keeps all the band members
satisfied is their willingness to share
the spotlight. On their latest, plati-
num-selling album, 7 Wishes. the hit
single “Goodbye” is sung by drum-
mer Kelly Keagy and was written by

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tarist Jeff Watson.

Did I say co-lead guitarist? Having
two first-chair axemen would wreak
havoc in most bands, but Night Rang-
er considers it an asset. “Brad has
this whole wild and crazy vibrato,
while Jeff is a straight-ahead speed-
stef, a real burner,” remarks Blades.

Night Ranger, now on tout, will re-
turn to the studio this spring to work
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Can Ken Kragen do it again for
Hands Across America?

KEN LEE CHUNG.

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"That's just incredible enough
that we might pull it off!”

By TONY VELLELA

his is how Ken Kragen, presi
dent of USA for Africa, de
scribed his friend’s sugges-
tion that they get people to
link hands from New York to Los An-
geles as the next fundraising extrava-
ganza for hunger relief.

And on Sunday, May 25, at 3 p.m
Eastern Daylight Time, that's exactly
what will happen—a human thread
delicately stitching together 6 mil-
lion Americans from coast to coast
for the relief of hunger.

Kragen knows the ropes. When
singer Harry Belafonte approached
him to pull together a coalition of
American artists to raise money for
African relief, it was Kragan’s cool or-
ganizational ability and down-to-
earth approach that came into play.

LOS ANGELES

PHOENIX

‘We Are the World” was the result.
“[ have absolutely no doubt this
will happen,” Kragen explains with a
smile. “The organization is in
place.” With offices in each of the 17
states crossed by “Hands” and Wash-
ington, D.C., open since last January,
Kragen’s team has divided the 4,000
mile route into one-mile patches. It
takes about 1300 people holding
hands to fill one mile
“It’s a unique event. That’s why I
went for it,’ Kragen continue

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pointing out that in the historic un-
dertaking, participants will contrib-
ute to buy their place in line. For $10,
you receive a certificate; $25 yiel
radio, headphones and a visor; a tee:
shirt is added for $35 or more

Emergency tance will receive
10 percent of the funds, and 50 per-
cent will be allocated to program
support and development. The re-
maining 40 percent will sponsor
long-range projects.

With chairpersons such as Lily
Tomlin, Bill Cosby, Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar, Pete Rose and Jane Fonda,
this public ceremony of concern has
generated a hefty amount of media
attention.

Kragen notes that “our objectives
are two-fold: One, to raise from $50
to $100 million for hunger and ho-

AMARILLO.

ALBUQUERQUE

FT. WORTH

ssness in the United States, and,
two, to send a very, very clear mes-
sage to politicians, and anyone in
and out of government, that hunger
and homelessness are major issues
that must be address
And this will not be a s
onstration. Prior to the link-up, a
three-hour program will be beamed
free via satellite to radio stations
across the country, featuring songs

like “We Are the World,” “America
the Beautiful,” the Beatles’ “I Wanna
Hold Your Hand,” and perhaps a
new song, “Hands Across Anerica.”

Kragen adds that, “at the magic
moment, we'll simulcast everyone—
all six million people—singing
“america the Beautiful.” It should
be memorable.

CHICAGO

SPRINGFIELD
INDIANAPOLIS

ST.LOUIS

MEMPHIS

Hands Across America will

be one of the most immense
single movements of human be-
ings in history, 6 million people
stretching a human chain across
America.

And unprecedented. Closest un-
dertakings in the past were the si-
multaneous playing of “We Are the
World” by several thousand radio
stations on April 15, 1985, and the
Olympic Torch Run, Neither ap-
proached a fraction of the complex-
ity of this massive human spectacle

What if you don’t live along the

route? Kragen encourages people to
follow the lead of many who will buy
distant places in line and travel to un-
derpopulated states, or donate mon-
ey to spots they cannot fill, sponsor-
ing poor or unemployed local
participants.
NEW YORK

WASHINGTON, DC

CINCINNATI

Others may organize Hands
Across Their Own City and donate
money directly to worthwhile
groups. While Kragen’s office can’t
be responsible for other events, they
will send a copy of the manual used
by the state advance teams to any in-
dividual or organization that re-
quests it.

Throughout the day on May 25,
live reports from various sites along
the course will chronicle Indians in
native dress, scuba divers under
lakes and casts of popular television
programs all taking their places.
Will you be among those holdin;

America operates a toll-free tele-
phone number, 1-800-USA-9000, to
connect you with the organizer clos-

est to you.

“Be a part of history,” Kragen
urges. It is a small price to pay for
such a large return.

Winter 1986

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(Top) Judd Netson (center) and
Ally Sheedy (right) are young
lovers trying to solve the
murder of his father, with help
from David Caruso (lett).
(Below) Director Michelle
Manning gets a lift here from
her star, Judd Nelson, but her
career seems to be taking off
all on its own.

BLUE CITY

lue City, a vengeance story by Ross Mc-

Donald, seemed just the plot for a di-

rector like Walter Hill, the modern-

master of corpse-strewn cinema. Hill

even scripted the book for himself to direct. In-

stead, he turned over the job to a gum-chewing,

every-word-in-italics woman, 25-year-old Mi-

chelle Manning.

Maybe it was Manning’s emphatic
style that convinced the veteran di-
rector that she was right for Blue
City, because she has barely as many
top-drawer credits as adult years:
USC graduate, production supervisor
for Francis Coppola's The Outsiders,
associate producer for Sixteen Can-
dles and co-producer of The Break-
fast Club.

In Blue City, young Billy Turner
Qudd Nelson) returns home to make

Winter 1986

peace with his estranged father, only
to find the older man has been mur-
dered. In his search to find the killer,
aided by his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy),
he finds himself battling corruption
and violence in his home town.
Manning met Hill while he was
making Streets of Fire and read his
original Blue City screenplay, Unso-
licited, she offered the successful di-
rector her thoughts on his project: “I
see the main character as much

younger, maybe 22 instead of 35.
‘The film would be a story about
friendship, family and past relations
This kid comes back to his home
town, finds his friends and the town
much different and sets out to beat
the town.

“I don’t know what it’s like to be
35 years old. I know what it would be
like to be a kid. Younger people are
ruled by passion rather than reason.
They don’t just rationalize things
They must settle the score.”

As Manning spun out her version
of the story to Hill, in her mind she
had already cast the two leads—Nel-
son and Sheedy, who were then star-
ting in The Breakfast Club. “Judd
and Ally are the two best young ac-
tors today,” she believes. “They have
areal freshness.”

In addition to the two young stars,
Manning’s cast includes Paul Win-
field (Academy Award nominee for
best actor in Sounder) portraying the
town’s power-hungry and corrupt
police chief. Scott Wilson, who most
recently appeared in The Right Stuff
as test pilot Scott Crossfield, plays
the violent man linked to the murder
of Billy's father.

Soon after her meeting with Hill,
Manning’s boss on The Breakfast
Club (Ted Nanen) became president

of Paramount, the studio backing
Blue City Hill agreed to step down
to co-produce. He also revised the
Script to Manning’s specifications.
“It's not as if Walter said, ‘Take it’
and allowed me to ruin it. He re
mained very much involved, Man-
ning stressed. “Blue City will proba-
bly be less violent than if he had

directed it. But that’s not because I’m
a woman. Walter is simply better at
violence.” . 7

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WATCH

The Kentucky Derby
pales in comparison
to the race by record
companies to get
out product by their
biggest artists for the
holiday buying season. Come January,
ction in the new releases depart

ment is usually pretty slim. But this
year—thanks to a pre-season epidemic of
writer's block by many leading acts—
stockings are stuffed with potential plati

sed the yuletide

the sel

num records that mis

January—The Rolling Stones (feuding
between Mick and Keith delayed this
one), Blue Oyster Cult, Violent Femmes
(the LP's called Blind Leading The Na-
ked, reportedly inspired by the Reagan-
Gorbachev summit), Midge Ure, Modern
English, Ozzy Osbourne (we're waiting
for him to bite off the head of a record
executive), ELO (this may be a do or die

Mick Jagger
and the Rolling
Stones are
‘among several
major rock acts
releasing al-
bums after the
Christmas rush.

last effort), Jimi Hendrix (at Monterey
Pop—old guitarists never die, they just
reissue their catalogues), Elvis Costello
and Jermaine Jackson (bro Mike is cur-
rently recording his next)

February—Billy Idol (features a digital
sound reproduction of his snarling lips
Pat Metheny, Icehouse, Patrice Rushen
(great voice, but her material usually

“8 Ampersand

Quicksilver spotlights the high-
spirited, and high-speed, world of big city
bicycle messengers. Kevin Bacon stars.

snores), Billy Ocean (will he top last
year's video which featured Godzilla
making eyes at Beastwoman while he
sang “Caribbean Queen"?), the Euryth:
mics (please hurry!)

March—Paul McCartney (after his cellu
loid sedative, Give My Regards To Broad-
street, he’s wisely decided to concentrate
Kinks Greatest Hits Vols. 1 &
II, Ric Ocasek (his second solo LP), Whi,
tesnake, Grateful Dead (all their albums

have the same songs, but in different or-
der; hey, whatever's cool), Missing Per
sons, Genesis (yes, with Phil Collins
fronting) and Peter Gabriel (former Gen
esis frontman and arguably its most tal
ented graduate).

VIDEOS”

Monterey Pop Festival—For those too
young of too far away to have attended
this archetypical "60s event, Sony Video
has now captured the pre-Woodstock
weekend—or at least an edited version of
it—on VHS and Beta for a mere $59.95
‘This was the golden era of rock, and the
video features startling performances by
Janis Joplin (who established her career
here), Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, the
Mama's and the Papa's, The Who, Jeffer-
son Airplane, Eric Burdon & the Animal
Simon and Garfunkel and others. A gold-
en blast from the paisley past.

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JAN. 17 0 CLAN
OF THE CAVE
BEAR—Daryl Han.
nah stars as a young
Cro-Magnonette
3 who's adopted by a
somewhat less advanced neighboring
tribe. Yes, it’s true. Hollywood will do just
about anything to get Daryl in skimpy
clothing

JAN. 24 0 BLUE CITY—This week's
Brat Pack movie has Judd Nelson playing

From upcoming film openings to
promised album releases,
CALENDAR brings you the latest
about what's happening in
entertainment.

a boy who returns home to make peace
with his estranged father, only to discover
that dad’s just been killed. Ally Sheedy
co-stars as an old friend who helps find
the killer. 25-year-old Michelle Manning
directs.

JAN, 31 © BEST OF TIMES—Ever do
something so stupid that it still drives you
crazy a decade later? The characters in
this movie get to do something about it
when they get the chance to replay the
big football game they lost back in high
school. Robin Williams and Kurt Russell
star as the two leads in the not-so-instant
replay.

JAN. 31 6 YOUNGBLOOD—Rob Lowe
stars as a teenage hockey prodigy who
leaves his family’s farm to join a semi-pro
team, hoping to make it to the National
Hockey League. He soon finds out that
life isn’t all easy sledding. Patrick Swayze
co-stars,

iB. 1 6 LADY JANE—You think your
teen years were difficult? Here's the true
story of 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey, who
was forced to marry a boy she didn’t par

ticularly like, then become Queen of
England, only to be overthrown by the
legitimate queen, who ordered Jane’s ex-
ecution—all in a matter of days. Now that
was a troubled kid!

FEB. 7 6 DOWN AND OUT IN BEVER-
LY HILLS—In this Paul Mazursky come-
dy, Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss

In Clan of the Cave Bear, Daryl Hannah
shows off less flesh and more skins as
she plays a Cro-Magnon gil adopted
by a tribe of Neanderthals. Based on
the monster best seller of the same
name, the film dramatizes the rise of “<<
modern humans.

play a Beverly Hills couple who rescue a
hard-luck loser (Nick Nolte), only to have
the man move in and totally disrupt their
lives. Just seeing Nolte, Midler and Drey:

fuss together should be worth the price of
aticket

FEB. 7 o VIOLETS ARE BLUE—Sissy
Spacek stars in this romantic drama about
a woman who comes back to her small
me town and discovers she still has
strong feelings for her high school sweet-
heart. Kevin Kline plays the old beau.

Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as former high
school football teammates in Best of Times.

FEB, 14 ¢ PSYCHO MI—last time we
saw Norman Bates he had just had a
smashing reunion with his real mother
and his doctors had proclaimed him per-
fectly sane, although he was still having
trouble pronouncing the word “cutlery.”
Now Norman has a new guest at the Bates
Motel, a runaway nun who may soon get a
firsthand explanation for those stains in
the bathtub. Anthony Perkins returns as
Norman, but this time he’s also directing.

FEB. 14 6 PRETTY IN PINK—Molly
Ringwald stars as a “zoid’’(as opposed to
a “richie”) from the wrong side of the
tracks. She decides to cross those tracks
and stand up against wealth, power, class
and all that's stuffy in the world. Andrew
McCarthy and Jon Cryer co-star in this
comedy that was written, though not di-
rected, by the prolific John Hughes (The
Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles).

FEB. 14 9 QUICKSILVER—Kevin Ba-
con plays a young options marker trader
whose career plan takes an unexpected
bwist: he loses all his money and opts to
puthis life back together working as a big
city bicycle messenger. Involvement in
international intrigue and other adven
tures follow.

FEB. 14 0 TOUCH AND GO—Funny
guy Michael Keaton gets a change of pace
in this romantic drama about the relation:
ship between a playboy hockey star (Kea-

ton) anda single mother (Maria Conctiita

Alonso),

LATE FEB. 0 HANNAH AND HER SIS-
TERS—Woody Allen is the writer, direc-
tor and star of this comedy about a group
of sisters who are all in love with one man
(Sam Waterston). Because it is a Woody
Allen movie, we can’t guarantee this is
the exact plot. Sometimes no one but Al-
Jen knows for sure until opening day. But
we can say with some certainty that the
cast includes Michael Caine, Mia Farrow,
Carrie Fisher and Maureen O'Sullivan.

LATE FEB. © POWER—A political thrill-
er starring Richard Gere, who should get
more than a little help from his cast of co
stars, since they include the likes of Gene
Hackman, Julie Christie, Denzel Wash-
ington and E.G. Marshall

MARCH 7 9 DESERT BLOOM—Jon
Voight and JoBeth Williams star in this
unusual and promising-sounding story
about a family living in 1950s Las Vegas.
It’s told through the eyes of the family's
13-year-old daughter, who tries to under-
stand the adults in her life: her stepfather
(Voight), a troubled World War II veter
an; her mother (Williams), a habitual
gambler; and her flamboyant aunt (Ellen
Barkin)

Why is this man smiling? Because he’s just published
Late Night with David Letterman: The Book, a collec-
tion of the best segments of “Late Night,” like Dog
Poetry and The Late Night Bookmobile (titles include
‘Sam Shepard’s autobiography: “Boy, Oh Boy, ! Can't
Believe I'm Actually Sleeping with Jessica Lange,”
and the scholarly “Russia: What a Bunch of
Jerks”).

THE YOUNG ONES—MTV con-
tinues this hilarious British
Series, which chronicles the ex-
Ploits of four university students
who quarrelsomely share a di-
lapidated house in northern
London. Airs Sunday nights at
11:30 Easter time.

peer eed
Check Your Egos
at the Door, G.B.
Trudeau (Holt,
Rinehart and Win-
ston, $5.95).

This first Doonsbury
anthology since the writer's return from
sabbatical shows Trudeau is still at the
height of his satirical powers, The title
comes from record producer, Quincy
Jones’ request the night of the “We are
the World” recording session. It's ru-
mored that more than one artist demand-
eda receipt.

Horse’s Neck, Pete
L(Houghton Mifflin, $12.95).
With many of today’s artists experiment-
ing with a variety of media (Laurie Ander-
son, Yoko Ono), it is only natural that one
of rock's most accomplished songwriters
would try his hand at writing prose.
Townshend, formerly of the Who, has
written vignettes which take the reader
through a personal odyssey of his life as a
tebellious teenager and into the hedonis-
tic excesses of rock superstardom.

Townshend

So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish,
Douglas Adams (Pocket Books, L$3.95).
This is the fourth installment in the Hitch-
biker's Guide to the Galaxy wilogy. (As
the author points out, in the intergalactic
dictionary, a trilogy is not limited to three
volumes.) This is fine with us, because
we are treated to even more zany high-
adventure escapades with Arthur Dent
and friends.

How to Pay Your Way through Col-
lege (The Smart Way), John J. Lyons
(Banbury Books, $7.95).

‘This informative guide presents 101 ways
to become an entrepreneur during your
days at college. Ideas range from printing
sports calendars to marketing “Kram
Kits.” Besides earning more money than
regular jobs, the skills learned from run-
ning your own business will pay divi

dends when you entef‘the “real world.”

+ TELEVISION
EVENTS

eres
JAN. 29 0 GOLDEN
BOYS OF BAND-
STAND (PBS)—
Frankie Avalon, Fa-
bian and Bobby Ry-
dell, former teen
idols from the famous South Philadelphia
scene of the late 1950s, perform some of
their greatest hits, including “Venus”
(Avalon), “Turn Me Loose” (Fabian) and
“Wild One” (Rydell), in this one-hour
special broadcast in stereo. Between
songs, the trio, who grew up within three
blocks of each other, rap about their Phil-
ly origins.

FEB. 25 6 THE GRAMMYS—Your
chance to sneer once again at the shame-
lessly commercial choices (one vote per
1,000 records sold?) for the “best” in mu-
sic of 1985. Last year’s highlight was An-
nie Lennox in drag. Could this be the year
George Michael takes off his earrings?

Weeknights 0 NICK AT NITE—All of
you old movie buffs who haven't heard
about the Nickelodeon channel's foray
into showing classic films, take heed.
Each weeknight at 9:00 Eastern time, a
different “golden oldie” is shown. Nick-
elodeon, It’s just not for kids anymore.

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WINTER FILM

YOUNGBLOOD

hatever ice hockey is—it’s

been compared to every-

thing from gang warfare to

professional wrestling—
there’s one thing that it’s not and
that’s polite. In Youngblood Rob
Lowe plays a young man named
Dean Youngblood who learns that
fact the hard way.

Dean is a 17-year-old ice hockey
prodigy whose love for the game and
dream of playing in the National
Hockey League cause him to leave
his family's New York farm and join a
semi-pro Canadian team. It’s there
that he quickly learns some realities
about life on and off the ice.

Youngblood cast includes danc
er-turned-actor Patrick Swayze as the
captain of Dean’s hockey team; ver-
satile character actor Ed Lauter as the
team’s irrascible coach; Cindy Gibb
as Dean's love interest and Eric Nes-
terenko as Dean's father.
Nesterenko—known to hockey
ins as the star right-ringer of the
Chicago Black Hawks in the 50s and
*60s—doubled as the production’s
hockey consultant. Whatever its suc-
cess as drama, Youngblood should
include some first-rate ice action

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PREVIEW

In Lady Jane Grey, Hel-
ena Bonham Carter,
(right) and Cary Elwes
portray Jane Grey and
Guilford Dudley, young
lovers who become
pawns in a 17th century
struggle for the British
throne.

LADY JANE

historical drama about En-

gland’s Lady Jane Grey—who

at the tender age of 16 was

forced to marry a virtual
stranger and become the country’s
queen, before falling victim to insur
rection and execution just nine days
later—may seem like an unlikely
topic for popular entertainment. Af
ter all, this isn’t quite the kind of
“teen movie” we usually see

But Lady Jane also marks the mo-
tion picture directing debut of Tre-
vor Nunn, a man who has performed
magic with similarly “impossible”
projects in the past.

A few years ago, for example, he
garnered acclaim for directing the
Royal Shakespeare Company's stage
production of The Life and Adven-
tures of Nicholas Nickelby, an 8¥-
hour adaptation of the mammoth

In F/X, Bryan Brown (far
left) plays a special ef-
fects expert working for
the government's Wit-

ness Relocation
Program. Here he takes
acast of a witness’
(Jerry Ohrbach) head
for a fake assassination

before the man goes
underground.

Dickens classic. Despite its length (it
stopped at midpoint each night and
allowed its audience to take a meal
break), it was a sensation in both
London and New York

He was also the director of a stage
musical that took all of its dialogue
and lyrics from a book of poems by
TSS. Eliot. That, of course, was Cats,
one of the most popular and succe:
ful musicals in history.

Most recently, he directed another
musical, Starlight Express, involving
actors on rollerskates who zoom
around the theater playing trains. It,
too, is a hit in England.

For a man who has made audi-
ences sing and cry with cats, cheer
for locomotives and sit through one
of the longest plays of all time—and
enjoy it—the story of a young, tragic
queen was probably a pleasant lark.

BY JIMMY SUMMERS

Rob Lowe (left) plays a
budding hockey star
who leams that he
needs more than natural
athletic talent to suc-
ceed in Youngblood,
due for release January
31. Former dancer Pat-
rick Swayze co-stars.

F/X

n the new action thriller F/X, a

motion picture special effects ex-

pert is recruited by the govern-
ment to fake an assassination for
its Witness Relocation Program.

“Qh, come on,” you're probably
saying. “More Hollywood fantasy.”
Well, according to John Stears, the
Oscar-winning effects director for F/
X, this story is not so farfetched.

“T've been approached,” he says,
“three different times by various
government agencies to do similar
things. I can’t really talk about it, but
I will say I’m glad I didn’t get in-
volved, knowing the outcomes.”

Rollie Taylor, the hero of F/X ends
up wishing he too had chosen not to
become involved in the scheme,
since the government’s scenario
doesn’t go as planned, and he’s
forced to use special effects to com-
bat real-life violence.

The actor playing the unfortunate
Rollie is Bryan Brown, who first
came to the attention of American
audiences through his roles in
Breaker Morant, PBS' A Town Like
Alice and ABC's The Thorn Birds.

His experience with Thorn Birds,
in which he played a hired hand ona
sheep ranch, probably explains what
may be one of the more unique
items on a studio biography. Brown,
says the publicity sheet, knows how
to shear a sheep.

Even Eddie Murphy can’t do that. @

Winter 1986

(Right) Kevin Bacon as a failed
young options trader looking for
peace of mind and a steady, if
meager, income as a bicycle
messenger. (Below) There’s
more than dodging traffic in the
bicycle messenger’s world.

uicksilver gives Kevin Bacon the

chance to play two aspects of himself,

He was raised to join the middle-class

Establishment but dropped out to be-

come an actor who plays anti-Establishment

types. Bacon's character in Quicksilver starts off

as a well-heeled commodities trader but winds up

as a bicycle messenger boy.

In the movies, former commod-
ities traders never stay down for
long. Like Dan Ackroyd in Trading
.? Places, Bacon redeems himself. “At
first my character can’t deal with the
guilt of throwing away all his dad’s
money. He’s shell-shocked. He just
drops out. You see a lot of dropouts
riding bicycles for a living.”

The love of a good woman and the
chance to foil some criminals give
Bacon his chance for redemption.

Winter 1986

But he puts in a lot of miles before
the curtain. He says, “Bicycle mes-
sengers are a whole separate sub-cul-
ture. They're like modern-day pony
express. If you've ever ridden a bike
in a big-city downtown, you take
your life in your hands.

“The more runs a messenger takes
in a day, the more bucks he makes.
So, the way these bicycle messen-
gers ride is very intense, much to the
chagrin of taxi drivers, pedestrians

and motorists. They see a hole in traf-
fic and shoot right through it. Mes-
sengers ride in the middle of the
street and give way to nobody.

“Most messengers are on their way
to someplace else,” said Bacon.
“Some are college kids and some are
actors. Some of them are serious cy-
clists who want to race.”

“I’m a Sunday morning tootler
when it comes to bike-riding. I never
was an athletic kid, and I’m certainly
not a sportsman. I keep myself in
shape, and that's about it.”

Bacon and his co-star, Jami Gertz,
took a short assault course in city cy-
cling from Olympic sprint silver
medalist Nelson Vails. Vails, who be-
gan his cycle racing career while a
messenger, also appears in the film.
Also co-starring is stand-up comedi-
an Paul Rodriguez, who starred in
the Norman Lear television series,
“aka. Pablo.”.

Quicksilver was directed by Tom
Donnelly and produced by Daniel
Melnick, who also packaged Foot-
loose, where Bacon scored an enor-
mous success.

It's been a long time between
movies for Bacon, who has a reputa-
tion in Hollywood for being ex-
tremely choosy, The last thing the
young actor wants is to fall prey to

inflated hopes and hasty moves.
His false start as a star—playing a
stiff-necked ROTC cadet officer in
Animal House in 1978—taught him
“to make a game plan and stick to it.
I'm trying to do things that are my
own choice. I’m learning that my
opinion counts, because it’s my ass
up there on the screen.
“During the years before Diner,

when I called myself an actor but ac-
tually waited tables for a living, I just
tried to fill my days and keep dream-
ing. I let my thoughts go into the fast
lane, even if I wasn’t there myself.
After a while, I woke up and began
living those dreams. A lot of them
have come true.” o

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Director Paul Mazursky (inset)
tums his celebrated comic tal-
ents to the story of wandering
bum Jerry Baskin (Nicke Nolte,
right), who jumps out of the
trash can and into the lap of lux-
ury in Beverly Hills. (Below)
Richard Dreyfuss and Bette
Midler as a wealthy couple
whose lives are changed when
they take in the vagrant.

DOWN AND OUT
IN BEVERLY HILLS

eet Jerry Baskin: a disheveled, dirt-

poor transient who’s down on his luck.

Jerry may be a bum, but in Paul Ma-

zursky’s comedy, Down and Out in

Beverly Hills, he ekes out his existence in that

classiest of ghettos: opulent Beverly Hills itself:

Jerry (Nick Nolte) doesn’t know it,
but he’s about to taste the good life
His adventure begins when--in a mo-
ment of despair--he attempts suicide
by throwing himself in the swim-
ming pool of the Whitemans, a
wealthy Beverly Hills couple (Rich
ard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler)

After plucking the vagrant from
the chlorinated depths, Dave White-
man (Dreyfuss) compassionately in
vites him to stay with the family for a
couple of days. In short order, Jerry
works his way into the fabric of the
household, bedding all of its female
members (including the maid) and

12 Ampersand

turning a neurotic-but-nice well-to-
do family upside down.

Produced, directed and co-written
(with Leon Capetanos) by Mazurksy,
known for his deft touch with social
satire, Down and Out in Beverly
Hills is a contemporary comedy
based on the 1932 Jean Renoir film,
Boudou Saved From Drowning.

“Yd seen Boudu in the early fif
remembered Mazursky, ‘Years
later I started thinking about it again,
and thought it might be interesting
to switch it to the United States. Leon
and I decided to poke fun at Beverly
Hills—to make fun of my own life,

so to speak. We aimed for something
completely new and contemporary.”

Nolte—the football-star-turned.
actor who scored a major success
with 48HRS.—believes the film is far
from a serious examination of the
plight of the homeless. “Of course it
does touch on the issues of wealth
and poverty, but in a comic way. It’s
more about the individual and break-
ing out of self-destructive behavior
patterns. The bum revitalizes the
whole family by making them see
their lives from a different perspec-
tive,” Nolte said.

As an actor who believes in get-

ting—and staying—in character,
Nolte hung out with transients in
downtown Los Angeles. For the
film’s early scenes, he refrained from
bathing, shaving or brushing his
teeth, letting the grime of his charac-
ter literally seep into his pores.
Working with Paul Mazursky, the
ated director of such films as
Harry and Tonto and Moscow on the
Hudson was, said Nolte, “a real treat
He's the most prepared director I've
ever worked with, An ex-stand-up
comic, he kept the rhythm and ener
gy up by cracking jokes all the time.”
Co-star Richard Dreyfuss is a close
friend. They met when Dreyfuss,
fresh from his success in American
Graffiti, pretended he was George
Lucas and actually auditioned Nolte
when he showed up to read for the
part of Han Solo in Star Wars.
Having saucy Bette Midler as a co-
star only added to the fun. “Bette
brings a tremendous sense of timing
to whatever she does. The film's in-
teresting cast also includes Little
Richard as a record producer who
lives next door to the Whitemans.
For Nolte, Down and Out in Bev-
erly Hills was a “magical” experi
ence, “I think we've got a winner—I
think it’s going to be a very touching
and entertaining film.” +

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Winter 1986

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STUDENT GUIDE TO HALLEY’S COMET

SPR

OREO MERCURY

ORBIT OF VENUS

Best viewing of Halley's comet will be as it moves away from the
sun, in March and April. As this diagram shows, on February 9,
when Halley's is closest to the sun, the Earth, unfortunately, will be
on the other side.

To find Halley’s in the sky, you should look to the southeast or
south (depending of the date], or even to the southwest in Janu-
ary. In February and March, you'll have to get up before dawn to
see the comet. For best viewing, try to get away from city lights.

14 BEYOND

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COMET

WATCHER’
GALEN

ne scientist calls Halley's
Comet “the original media
event,”’ and in the past it
has certainly lived up to
that billing.

However, whether or not you
actually get to view it will depend
on where you live, when you look
and some unknown variables, such
the brightness of the comet.

Even now, scientists aren't sure
how bright it will be. They do
know you shouldn't expect some-
thing that looks like 2 Spielberg
production.

Anyone north of 35 degrees lati-
tude {that includes most of you
reading this article} will have to
look carefully near the horizon to
see Halley's. Also. the effects of
20th century electric light pollution
will be considerable, unless some
comet enthusiast can get everyone
to dim their lights when Halley is
at its brightest.

JANUARY 1986

The comet can be seen at twilight
near the western horizon. Early in
the month, you will need binocu-
lars or a telescope. Later on.
especially if you are away from the
city, it will be faintly visible with
the naked eye

FEBRUARY 1 TO 15

The comet goes around the sun
and probably can’t be seen in the
sun’s bright light.

FEBRUARY 15 TO MARCH 15
Comet again visible—but this time
just before dawn in the east. The
tail will lengthen as it pulls away
from the sun.

MARCH 15 to 30

This may be the best time for those
above 35 degrees latitude to see
the comet. The tail will be at its
longest on March 26, stretching
across 15 to 20 degrees of the sky.
The comet will be visible in the
southeast before dawn.

APRIL 1TO15

The comet is at its pridhtest and
makes its closest approach to the
Earth. Watch for it close to the
southern or southwestern horizon
just before dawn or toward the
southeast horizon just after sunset
APRIL 15 TO 30

Last days to see the comet faintly.
Although it can be seen most of
the night. the full moon will inter-
fere with visibility. Best seen in the
southeast after sunset.

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QUICK FACTS.
ON HALLEV’S COMET

> It’s correct name is Halley's, not
Haley's. Edmond Halley was a col.
leaque and friend of Isaac Newton,
and used his buddy's theories about
gravity to develop calculations of the
comet's orbit

> It was not named after Halley be:
Cause he discovered it—people had
noticed the comet coming around
regularly throughout recorded his-
tory and probably long before. Halley
got the honor because he was the
first to develop the orbital calcula:
tions that enabled astronomers to

predict accurately when it would re
turn. This was a real accomplishment
considering the meager mathemati-

The USSR-launched twin space-
craft, Vega 1 and 2, will fly by the
comet in March at 78km/s with a
miss distance of 104 km

16 BEYOND

cal tools available to him in the early
1700s. Unfortunately, he didn’t live
to see his work confirmed when the
comet returned in early 1759, just as
his formulae said it would.

Halley's Comet returns to the sun
approximately every 76 years. On
the way in and out it crosses the
plane of the Earth's orbit. This may or
may not give us a good view, de-
pending on where we are in our orbit
{we could be on the other side of the
sun). This time, unfortunately we
aren't as close as we have been for
some other passages

Astronomer Fred Whipple de-
scribes comets as “dirty snowballs,’*
about half water ice and half dust
The “tail,” which makes it such a
spectacular sight in the sky, is really
two tails. One is a thin veil of dust
particles. The other, called the plasma
tail, is made up of gases which can
glow fluorescently. The tails will
sometimes be very clearly separated

Although the tail can stretch for
millions of miles, the comet head is
less than three miles in diameter

REFERENCES

A Viewer's Guide to Halley's Com-
et, Matthew Hart, Pocket Books,
11985.

The New York Times Guide to the
Return of Halley's Comet, Fiaste,
Richard, et al, Times Books, Random
House, 1985.

FOR A
CLOSER
LOOK...

BEYOND

No fewer than five probes are scheduled to
rendezvous with Halley’s including two from
Russia. Most interesting for earthbound view
ers is Giotto, a project of the European Space
Agency, which will approach within 300 miles
of the comet's head. If its cameras are still
working, Giotto will provide spectacular tele
vision pictures. Efforts
arrange live coverage
U.S. missions will include experiments on two

€ underway to

shuttle flights and ob: ations from earth-or
lites, but no close approaches.

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Washington D.C., along the
mean streets in the shadow of
the Capitol building, a new
musical phenomenon has been tak-
ing shape in dark dance clubs that
jump until dawn
This Washington D.C, music scene
can be summed up in a word: go-go,
astreet funk sound that's been devel
oping in the capital’s largely black
inner city for 10 years. And that’s ex-
actly where you had to go hear it, un-
til now. Good to Go, a new movie be
ing released in February, promises to
do for go-go what the influential The

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BY GREG PTACEK

Harder They Come did for reggae.

Good to Go tells the story of a has.
been journalist played, in a bit of bi-
zarre casting, by Art Garfunkel. (The
consummate pop singer thankfully
doesn’t submit the audience to any
rapping.) He writes an article that ex-
poses him to the urban subculture
and affects the lives of several of the
local go-go bands

Starring as themselves in the film
is Trouble Funk, a 13-piece band be
gun in 1978 and acknowledged as
the movement's leader. We talked
with Trouble Funk at the Laird Stu
dios in Los Angeles, between re-
hearsals for the movie:

‘We're hoping the movie not only
breaks Trouble Funk and the go-go
movement onto the national scene,
but also lets people know about the
real D.C. Most people think of Wash
ington as monuments and marble
but that’s not the real city, the real
people,” says James Avery, one of
the four members who make up TF’s
creative core that also includes Rob-
ert “Dyke” Reed

Trouble Funk, in fact, is the only
go-go band to date that has had na-
tional exposure, having played in
such Uiverse areas as West Virgina,
Dallas, New York and Los Angeles,
mainly as opening acts for everyone
from Nina Hagen to The Gap Band.

Their musical influences are
equally as diverse. They cite George

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Clinton, Queen, James Brown and
Gospel as the roots of their sound.
However, while Clinton et al
were instrumental in forming the
sound, gospel inspired the feeling of
go-go. A typical Trouble Funk set
goes on for an hour or more without
pause, with the audience participat

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Trouble Funk,

ing through a gospel-like call-and-re-
sponse. “A go-go band makes the
crowd a part of their show,” says

Avery. “Rather than sitting down,
you participate.”

Adds Reed, who used to sing in
church, “If nothing else, gospel

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gives you a strong voice and the
abilty to convey a good time.”
Streetwise as they may be, most of
the members of the band hold col
lege degrees in music. “Because we
know music theory, we can be flexi
ble. We can adapt our music to cur-
rent trends and different audiences,”
says Avery. “If blues were suddenly
rage, Trouble

to become the natio:

Funk would be playing blues—with
go-go of course.”

What exactly then, is “\go-go.” Es-
sentially, it’s a rhythm—syncopated
rhythm set against a very low bass
and heavy percussion. Reed believes
it’s this combination that makes go-
go so contagious in the group's live
concerts.

“Pye been researching how differ-
ent rhythms affect audiences. Be
cause of the low bass we use, you not
only hear the music, but feel it going
through you. Secondly, our synco-
pated rhythms mimic a human heart-
beat—taa-dum, taa-dum, There’s
something magnetic about that.”

(Trouble Funk’s extended single,
“Still Smokin’,” from the sountrack
for the film Good to Go, is currently
available on Island Records.)

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Jane Wiedlin

lue Kiss, both the title of Jane

Wiedlin’s debut solo album and

its first single, is the type of song

that critics skewer with their
sharpest barbs, all the while singing its
instantly memorable lyrics and tapping
their feet to its infectious beat.

It’s got that unmistakable Go-Go's
sound—not at all surprising since Wied
lin was the rhythm guitarist and co-song
writer to that all-time biggest selling fe
i ted the Go-Go's

male band. Wiedlin &
before “creative differences” split up the
remaining four members (or as Wiedlin
puts it, “before the shit hit the fan")
Although a veteran of the Los Angeles

RICHARD E. AARONTHUNDER THUMBS INTL.

punk scene as well as the far more dan-
gerous corporate music world, Wiedlin
remains remarkably shy and girlish in de

meanor. And she may be the only pop

vocalist alive who says she neither wants
to sing jazz nor star in a movie.

On her high school experience as a
-yalley girl’: “I always managed to get
good grades, but I was really delinquent

atthe same time. | skipped classes, drank
too much and did drugs. All of my friends
and I were called the “Hollywooders.” It
was the time when glitter rock was really
big in England, and we were really into it
We wore platform shoes, satin pants and
listened to nothing but David Bowie,
Roxy Music and Sparks. We were consid
ered real outsiders, but it was about the
only way to rebel in the "70s."

On her decision to become a musician
“TL we
became indirectly involved in the whole

studying fashion design when 1

LA. punk movement. The punk scene
just made it much more acceptable for,
someone with no (musical) experienc
to go out there and try it. It was trying to
abolish everything that happened in the
°70s—the big bucks, machine approach
to music. Still, it wasn't until the last
month that I was in college that I joined
the Go-Go's.”

On who she would most like to meet:
vanted to meet Bryan Ferry
ic]—1 mean for years. When

“T always
{Roxy Mus
the opportunity came, 1 said the worst
:‘T know this tour

thing one could ever
is really going to make you successful in
‘America.’ As if he would want to hear that.
He just looked at me and walked away.
What a dummy I was! That was three yeas
ago, but every time I think of Bryan Ferry
1 still blush.”

On the most difficult aspect of going
solo: “Having to deal with criticism.

Former Go Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin has
found that going solo can be tough, but the
success of heralbum, Blue Kiss, could
make it all worthwhile.

Pete Townshend's taking
his concem about drug
abuse to the concert hall
with an all-star band which
includes former Pink Floyd
guitarist Dave Gilmour and
keyboardist John “Rabbit”
Bundrick. Three concerts
will benefit an anti-drug
organization in the U.K. No

word yet on a record for the

project.

MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES

When you're in a band, you can sort of
talk to each other, joke about it and blow
it off. But when it’s just you, it feels very
personal. I was shocked at first. [t's about

the hardest thing I've ever gone through
in my life.”

Quick Takes...

ne of the most interesting musical
collaborations of 1985 was Power
Station—the band composed of
veteran Brit blues rocker Robert
Palmer with Andy Taylor and John Taylor
of Duran Duran, It was also one of the
shortest lived. Just as Power Station was
about to embark on a worldwide tour to
support their soon-to-be platinum album,
it was announced that lead singer Palmer
would not be joining the Duranians. His
absence was explained as a lack of time
due to a previous agreement for a solo
album. Michael DeBarres was quickly an-
nounced as Palmer's replacement and the
show went on
According to the inside track, however,
Palmer's departure was anything but
friendly. In a recent interview, Palmer
said that the rest of the band never asked
him to tour, “They simply informed me
that Michael DeBarres would be handling

the vocals.”

blood between band members, Neil
Young says he'll be happy to play with
Crosby, Stills and Nash again, but only if
David Crosby kicks his cocaine habit. In

fact, Crosby will have to prove he’s been
clean for six months before Y unites with
CSN... . David Bowie has bought what is
being called the most expensive house in
Australia. The Thin White Duke slapped
down $6 million for the baronial man.

sion, located on isolated bluffs overlook
ing the western city of Perth. Bowie
claims he purchased the home to give his
13-year-old son, Zowie, “‘an untroubled
lifestyle.” For more details, write: David
and Zowie at 64 Jutland Parade, Dalkeith,
Perth, Western Australia. ... Friendships
can be costly as Mark Knopfler is finding
out about his with Sting. Knopfler, who
has penned virtually everything Dire
Straits has released in the seven years in-
cluding their Number 1 album, Brothers
in Arms, shared writing credits with Sting
for “Money for Nothing” even though it
was not a collaborative project. “I used
the hook line from the Police's ‘Don’t
‘Stand So Close to Me," because the whole
idea was to use a line from a big video
star, like Sting.” Sting didn’t mind being
part of the song's parody of MTV, but
Sting’s publishing company didn’t
find it amusing. They’
claimed a hefty share
‘of the song’s

profits. @

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Wang Chung

ack Hues, singer/songwriter for the

British synthpop group Wang

Chung, was a classically trained mu-

sician who taught on the university
level. Even today you're more likely to
catch him at a performance of the London
Philharmonic than at the Bat Cave or any
other trendy London rock club.

Ironically, director William Friedkin
(The Exorcist, French Connection) chose
the decidedly upper crust Hues and his
band to create the soundtrack for his lat-
est film, 70 Live And Die In LA.,a saga of
violence and greed in America. With
‘Wang Chung’s theme song from the mov-
ie edging into the Top 40 as we go to
press, Friedkin’s instincts proved right.
Hues talks about the unusual circum
stances surrounding the project:

“It was a kind of leap of faith on Fried
kin’s part to trust us with the soundtrack,
based on just what he heard from our first
album, Points on a Curve. But this is his
style. The cameraman he chose for The
Exorcist had never worked on a feature
film before.

“He didn’t try to control or direct us in
any way. It was just a feeling of ‘I believe
you can do it,’ and we did it. It was fantas-
tic because you very rarely have that type
of situation in the rock business.

“The most difficult part was the time
factor. At the time Friedkin called us up,
‘we were working on a studio album and

we could only take two weeks out of our
schedule. The initial instrumental part,
which eventually comprised side two of
the album, was completed in a week. The
lack of time gave a sort of intensity and
unity to the music, The work was relent.
less—we lived nothing but the album
those two weeks, They almost had to car-
Ty Us out of the studio on stretchers.

“When we began working on the
soundtrack, we already had composed
several three- and four-minute songs for
our next album. But we were looking for
something much more substantial; we
talked about the second side being all
one track.

“and in fact, the project gave us the fo-

cusing to do that, perhaps in a more ex:
treme way had we been left to our own
devices. To Live and Die in L.A, is more
than just a soundtrack; it’s the second
Wang Chung album with a bit ofa theme,
as it were.”

Christopher Cross

hristopher Gross first came to the
public’s attention with his Gram-
my Award-winning song, “Sail.
ing.” But, these days his mind is
more on the track than the tack.

Cross is a competitive race car driver,
specializing in Super Vee Formula IIT
cars, which look like mini versions of the
indy 500 monsters. He takes the sport so
seriously that his songwriting now has to
compete fiercely for his time, In fact, his

Wang Chung members Jack
Hues (left) and Nick
Feldman can relax by the
pool now that their exhaust-
ing work on the soundtrack
for To Live and Die in L.A. is
finished.

latest album, Every Turn of the World,
was delayed for a year because he had a
near-fatal racing accident

On car racing: “It’s the most thrilling
thing in the world. Focusing on this life-
and-death relationship between you and
the machine clears your head complete
ly. There's nothing like it.”

On his accident: “Besides a broken leg
and ankle, I also broke my hand, which
made guitar playing kind of difficult. Bur
it's something that happens. You just get
back and start again. I realize, the next
accident, I may not be so lucky. But I'm
willing to go for it and take the risk.”

On the possibility of a song called
“Racing”: “Well, the new album is defin-
tely faster, more rock-oriented. And the
video for the single, “Charm the Snake,"
shows me behind the wheel. But I
haven't consciously written a song about
racing, per se. First | have to win a few
things.”

he six members of INXS honed
their skills on Sydney's surf club
circuit, where the average “pub”

consists of a jam-packed hall that
can become so hot that water condenses
on the ceiling from the collective body
heat and begins to rain on the crowd. Ox-
ygen tanks are de rigueur for a band’s
‘Stage set-up, A group survives or dies
quickly in this environment.

INXS survived, without compromising
their music. When most Aussie bar bands
were dishing out cover versions of Top 40
‘American singles or heavy metal licks,
INXS was introducing their own brand of

funk rock,

RICHARD E. AARON/THUNDER THUMBS INTL.

INXS has survived
the brutally hot Aus-
sie bar scene and a
near-riot at their
Buenos Aires con-
cert. Now they're
heading for, hope-
fully, greener
Pastures on their
spring North Ameri-

ATLANTIC RECORDS

can tour,

Listen Like Thieves, their fifth album,
was written in only two weeks—not bad
for a record that has already spawned a
Top 20 video, “This Time.” Currently
playing Down Under, the band returns to
the U.S. in the spring for the second leg of
their world tour. We caught up with lead
singer Michael Hutchence at their con-
cert in San Francisco.

On their concert in Argentina: “Well
nothing really unusual has happened on
the tour, except perhaps what happened
in Buenos Aires. You see, Argentinian
concerts are different from anywhere
else: very enthusiastic and the security
guards are very physical. When 22,000
screaming rockers began rushing the
stage, all hell broke loose, The police
starting beating the fans with sticks, and
we were beating the police with our mi-
crophone stands. Through all this bloody
mess, one mate manages to make it up
‘onstage, walk up nonchalantly and intro-
duce himself to me as our biggest fan
The guy turned out to be from Los Ange-
les, of course.”

On the title track to Listen Like Thieves:
“It refers to all the media input we get
today from self proclaimed leaders who
Say, ‘I know the way. Follow me.’ I guess
what the song, the whole album, is saying
is ‘Listen, but don’t be fooled.’ ”

On the early days on the Aussie pub
circuit: “We had a lot of fun. There was a
lot of energy and many influences. Now
we listen to lot of jazz anda Ravi Shankar
album is being passed among us along
the tour.

“The first years were just a jumble of
trying to put all these influences into
some kind of perspective. Some of us
‘were even Unsure about continuing with
Music after high school. We all had me-
nial jobs for a long while to make ends
meet. But slowly and surely we all got
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hat’s happening isn’t clear,
yet. You hear a few throb-
bingly interesting sides of
uncertain musical parent-
age. African musicians are plugging
into the joys of amplification, and
there’s an infusion of hot new
thythms in every act on the radio.

Some call it “world beat,”’ a conve-
nient phrase for a complex phenom-
enon, Still, as journalistic shorthand
goes, you've gotta admit the term is
infinitely preferable to such multi-
hyphenate creations as “juju-reggae-
salsa-funk” or “Afro-Latino-Caribbe-
an-influenced-pop-rock.”

And while the noun itself is a fairly
recent phenomenon, the basic con-
cept of a world beat goes back to
Marshall McLuhan's great “global
village” rap of the 60s, i.e., electron-
ic communications media have giv-
en the people on this planet access

Talking Heads

to an instant, uneasy intimacy.

Technological advances from tran-
sistor tadios to electric guitars to por-
table dual-cassette tape decks are the
primary forces spreading the musical
gospels worldwide.

Already the maze of influences is
almost too tangled to trace. For ex-
ample, reggae records have been

Winter 1986

Fela Anikulapo Kuti

available as imports for the past fif-
teen years or so. But very few Cauca-
sian converts to the reggae cult
stopped to think how much the Ja-
maican musicians took from Ameri-
can R&B. Southern radio stations and
records brought back home by tray-
eling seamen—namely the gumbo-
like polyrhythms of New Orleans
R&B and, especially, the three-part
vocal harmonies of Chicago soul
group the Impressions—all contrib-
uted to reggae. Think about it.

And, while you're at it, think about
how such Nigerian giants of juju as
King Sunny Ade and Chief Com-
mander Ebenezer Obey use the ped-

al steel guitar, a mainstay of U.S..

country music. It found its way to
the oil boomtown of Lagos via home-
sick American oil workers. Tribes:
men, lured to the city by the promise
of high wages, wished to dissociate
themselves from their country cous-
ins and voila!, modern juju was born.

Technology is one thing, exposure
is another. So it wasn’t until King
Sunny Ade actually toured the U.S.
that the present “world beat” move-
ment crystalized and took hold—in
San Francisco of all places.

Led by two femme frontpersons,
Big City may have been the first to
mix musical influences from a vari-

ety of continents and cultures into a
single rock band. However, biracial

Big City

tock quintet The Looters have man-
aged to integrate these elements bet-
ter than anyone else in the Bay Area,
including the salsa-funk of the
Freaky Executives.

Along with their dedication to mu-
sical cross-pollination, these organi-
zations share a strong sense of left-
wing political concerns, manifested
in the groups’ multi-racial, male-fe-
male membership.

Meanwhile, down in Los Angeles,
young integrated bands such as the
Untouchables, the all-black Fish-
bone and journeymen The Bone-
daddys have been throwing down a
similar sonic stew—without half the
self-consciousness of their northern
neighbors.

A somewhat comparable situation
can be found within the ranks of reg-
gae’s practitioners. In Jamaica, you
can hear every American hit single
covered in a reggae version (and
with the same half-dozen “riddim”
tracks dubbed to death over it), as
the island music industry struggles
to pull itself out of its post-Marley-
mortem, hasta-be-Rasta stupor.

In England, young British-born
black bands such as Aswad, Steel
Pulse—and especially the great
poet-political activist Linton Kwesi
Johnson and his backing group the
Dennis Bovell-led Dub Band—are
creating a more modern reggae that
reflects its British “concrete jungle”
origins.

Sunny Ade

English ska groups of the late "70s
(the Specials, English Beat, et al)
have made their contribution. Even
though they are a throwback to pre-
reggae styles, they probably did
more to turn the beat around in im-
pressionable, young U.S. minds than
the old-line reggae stalwarts.

Other influences are Latin
rhythms, a part of America’s musical
landscape for years. R&B artists from
the Drifters to Professor Longhair to
James Brown have derived much of
their flavor from South-of-the-Border
basslines.

Then there’s the Tex-Mex sounds
of Los Lobos, the psychedelic salsa of
Santana, the “moderne” funk of
Sheila E., the Hispanic hip-hop of
Jellybean Benitez and the Crossover
Dreams of Panamanian lawyer-
turned salsa-playing politico, Rue-
ben Blades, whose career is busting
out of the underground as exposure
to his above mentioned film grows.

The Looters

Let's not also forget that the two
most influential rock groups of the
past several years have been the
Talking Heads and the Police. Both
have enlivened the dull, throbbing
undertow that is the very heart of
rock music with generous amounts
of Third World rhythms.

The “Sun City” record is a brave
start—hope it stimulates sales on
their own discs for every artist in-
volved. But the real impact of the jam
will come when it hits Africa, where
bootleg cassette sales will render the
tune inescapable.

Maybe Nigeria will even let manic
Afro-funkster Fela Kuti, whose poli-
tics are as radical as his music, out of
prison again, even.

Of course, anyone attempting to
trace the origins of either phenome-
non—musical or political—will end
up with a veritable roadmap of neo-
colonialism—or the sounds you'll
hear for the next decade. o

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