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Vicious attack shatters peace on campus

Assault on female victim raises
questions about University safety

By SUSAN CRAINE
News Editor

A female SUNYA student was vicious-

ly attacked Sunday in her bedroom on
Indian Quad.
Kendra Gillis returned to Cayuga Hall

at about midnight after the Thanksgiving »

weekend. After talking with her father for
half an hour, Gillis went to bed.

At about 2:30 a.m., she got back up to
go to the bathroom. When Gillis opened
her suite room door she was grabbed and
shoved back into her bedroom. Her
attacker then grabbed her chin and said,
“No one will see that pretty face of yours
again.”

The attacker first cut her cheek and then
her bra strap. He then said, “You will be
worthless after I’ve had you and no one

she awoke she immediately called her
father and then the police.

Gillis plans to leave the university after
this semester. “I don’t want to leave, but I
have to, unless they catch the guy.”

Students were informed of the attack on
Wednesday by a letter sent by Cindi
Avery, coordinator of Quadrangle and
Educational Development. The letter was
not sent to students on other quads.

Gloria DeSole, chair of the President’s
Task Force on Women’s Safety said the
attack is being fully investigated by the
University Police Department. Currently
there are no suspects.

”We are deeply outraged, and are acting
as swiftly as possible to make sure this
doesn’t happen again.” DeSole said.

In response to the attack a group of stu-

See ATTACK on page 12

Administration draws fire from
students for its handling of incident

will want you.”

Gillis said she had no reaction
during the attack, I stared him
down. | really thought he was
going to kill me and I didn’t
want to give the satisfaction [of
a reaction].”

Gillis was saved inadvertently
by a next door neighbor who
knocked on the door. Gillis said |
her attacker shoved his fingers |
down her throat to keep herf
quiet. After the neighbor left, he
pulled a metal object out and hit f
her on the forehead. He then
left, punching her and yelling f
“Bitch!”

Gillis said she lost conscious-

Staff photo by Roxanne dePrado.

ness for some time, but when Gillis was attacked in her Indian quad suite.

New Chancellor assumes command Quad lot thieves wreak havoc

By HERB TERNS
Editor in Chief

Thomas Bartlett officially
became the head of the SUNY -
system Thursday though he is
not due to come to Albany
until Monday.

Bartlett became the twelfth
head of the SUNY system
since it was established in
1948 and the fifth chancellor
since the title of the position
was changed from president to
chancellor during the 1960’s. |

Until July, Bartlett served
as Chancellor of the Oregon
State System of Higher
Education.

When Bartlett announced
his retirement from the
Oregon system in May he told
The Oregonian he would not
be looking for another job, but
said he looked forward to
working with the American
University in Cairo, Egypt,
the U.S.—Japan Foundation,
and other groups on interna-
tional issues.

Bartlett said he changed his

ed ”

mind about accepting another
position by “talking with peo-
ple whose judgment I respect-

system.

The fact that SUNY is the
country's largest university sys-
tem also affected his decision.
“If you’re mountain climbing

you always want to get to the
top,” he said of the SUNY

Bartlett said it would take
some time to get to know the
system and he would “do a
lot of listening for a few
months.” “Obviously I’m not
a stranger to these things,”
he said, as he has been
Chancellor of the University
of Alabama and is a former
president of the American
University in Cairo, Egypt.

Though he has served in
positions throughout the
world, Bartlett is quick to
point out he spent 16 year in
New York: Eight years as
the president of Colgate and
eight years in the United
Nations Mission.

Bartlett said he is paying
attention to the changes in
the New York governorship
as “The perimeters of SUNY

See CHANCELLOR on pg. 13

By STEPHANIE BETH FINDLING
Editorial Assistant

Four nights after the attack on Cayuga
hall resident Kendra Gillis, residents of
Cayuga and Adirondack halls on Indian
Quad met with representatives from the
administration as well as UPD officers.
The “Safety Program,” was given in
order to educate residents on ways to

diminished the attack.”

Students were still outraged at the way
in which the university handled the situa-
tion. They were also upset at the security
set up in the quads. One student com-
mented, “This is the most incompetent
security system I have ever seen.”

The UPD officers that attended the
meeting urged students to make the
attack known to all students in efforts to

insure their own safety and the [-
safety of their neighbors and
friends.

Dr. Gloria DeSole, chair of
the President’s Task Force on
Women’s Safety, was present
to answer questions.

Many students used the
forum as an opportunity tof
express their views on how
they felt the University han- F
died the facts surrounding the |g
attack on Gillis. :

When commenting on the}
television interview with}
DeSole, John Kalka said, “The
image (of the attack) that was
given to the public was a lot
less then it actually was. You
didn’t have all the information. You
made it out as if someone pushed her into
her room and gave her a few scrapes.”

DeSole responded by admitting that
she didn’t have all the information she
should have had. She said, “I used the
information I had as fully and as honestly
as I could. I didn’t have the (full) infor-
mation and I didn’t know what I know
now. I would have never suggested or

Staff photo by Roxanne dePrado

Gloria DeSole and UPD officers met with students Thursday.

make them more cautious.

Gillis attended the meeting and com-
mented on it by saying, “The fact that
they called this meeting was excellent.
The support I now have is wonderful.”
Gillis said most of the support came from
the students but, “Once the university had
a better look (at the situation), they were
supportive.”

with auto break—in spree

By THOMAS WEILAND
Staff Writer

Lieutenant Richard Pierce, of UPD
said.

Nearly 20 students suffered
damage and loss to their vehicles
this week in what is proving to be
one of the most costly theft sprees

in recent University history.

phones.

Police Department,

equipped with alarms.

Cars parked in Colonial and
State Quads were hit the hardest
early Monday morning, resulting
in the loss of several car stereos,
radar detectors and cellular

Apart from theft loss, a window
on each vehicle was broken allow-
ing the thief or thieves entry. The
same method was used in every
case, suggesting the incidents
could be related. The University
however is,
still investigating, and has no leads
at this time. No reports of distur-
bances were filed, despite the fact
that many of the vehicles were

“The standard number of offi-
cers were on duty Monday,”

Monday night however marked
the area’s first snow storm of the
season, complicating matters for
officials. “They may have been
using the snow storm for cover,”
Pierce said.

UPD was quick to point out that
the severity of this event is quite
uncommon. “This type of incident
is very, very rare,” Pierce said.

In several cases, detachable
stereos, commonly known as
“pull-outs,” were stolen from the
cars. UPD is advising students who
own such stereos to remove them
from their cars overnight to further
protect themselves.

UPD suggested other steps stu-
-dents can take to protect them-
selves as well. “You don’t want to
leave anything in plain view,”
Pierce said. “It’s the same when
you go to a shopping mall or any-
-where. Take valuables with you, or
put everything in the trunk where
it’s out of sight.”

2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1994

Campus Calendar

Saturday, 12/3

Fuerza Latina will be holding its
Christmas ball in the CC Ballroom
starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $6
in advance and $8 at the door.
For more info. call Evelyn
Bautista at 442-5679. =

Sunday, 12/4

The Protestant Student
Association will hold its worship
service at 12 p.m. at Chapel
House. For info. call 489-8573.

The Roman Catholic Liturgy
will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the
Campus Center Assembly Hall.
For more info. call 489-8573.

Monday, 12/5

The Pan—Caribbean Association
will hold its weekly meeting in HU
137 at 7 p.m. For more info. con-
tact CC 349 at 442-3348.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Alliance
will hold its weekly meeting in ED
335 at 7 p.m. For more info. call
LGBA at 442-5672.

The People on Women’s
Enpowerment and Respect
(POWER), formerly known as the
Choice Party, will be holding its
weekly meeting in LC 11 at 7:30
p.m. For more info. call Megan
Casey at.432-4008.

The President’s Task Force on
Women’s Safety will be holding its
monthly meeting at 2 p.m. in CC
375.

Tuesday 12/6

The Pre-Law Association will
hold its weekly meeting in LC 20
at 7:30 p.m. For more info. con-
tact Luana at 436-7614.

NYPIRG, Chapel House at
SUNYA, Campus Action, First
Unitarian Society of Albany,
and the New York State Interfaith
Impact is sponsoring a forum
titled “Countering the Radical
Religious Right” in the Campus
Center Assembly Hall at 7:30
p.m. For more info. call Derrick
Hodge at 463-7135.

Newswriters:

The writer's meet-
ing for the final
issue of the
semester will take
place on Sunday,

December 4 at 8:00!

p.m. in Campus
Center 323.

“When you make peace, you don’t make
peace with your friends, you make peace
with your enemies.” |

last from the GSP

November 20, 1994

eSee story on page 3

Wednesday, 12/6

The College Republicans will
hold their weekly meeting in LC 5
at 7 p.m. For info. call Marc
Connolly at 465-7882.

The Don’t Walk Alone Escort
Service is available Sun. through
Thurs. from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in
the library lobby.

The Colonial Quad Board and
The Colonial Quad Special
Interest Housing Members are
hosting a simulated casino night
from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The
event will take place in the
Colonial Quad Flag Room com-
plete with a roulette wheel, a
craps table and poker and black-
jack tables. All proceeds from the
event will be donated to the Make
a Wish Foundation.

—Yitzhak Rabin

The creator of the uptown campus discusses his
work, drawing parallels to famous landmarks

took since 1630 to build; thus you have buildings of var-
ied sizes and architectural styles.”
At this point, reference was made to the symmetrical

January 12, 1965
By Harold Lynne

In a interview with the Albany Student Press Sunday

and column content

smiled and said “this was our aim—the fact that the cam-
pus is very symmetrical makes it a formal composition.”

He commented when all the formal landscaping is
completed, heexpects:the New:ampus'to:be one of the
showcases:
wonderful la
campus will i
great formal architectural composition

Edward Durrell Stone has earned international fame
for his architectural endeavors. Some of his works are
the United States Mission to Embassy in India, and,

afternoon, world-renowned architect Edward Durrell
Stone expressed great pride in the University’s New
Campus building, which he designed.

Stone and several associates made an unpublicized
inspection tour of the new campus Sunday morning,
Since his tight schedule limited the amount of time he
had to spend in Albany, Stone requested that no notice of
his visit be given to the local press.

However, when approached by the ASP, Stone gra-
ciously consented to answer a few questions.

When asked about his reaction to the structures that
have been erected thus far, Stone said, “I came up with
my colleagues today to look over the campus and we’re
very proud of the place.”

Stone had recommended that each suite be carpeted as
an acoustical measure, since carpeting absorbs noise.
“However, the State felt that the cost would be too
great,” he said.

Stone pointed out the uniqueness of his architectural
project. “I was presented with the opportunity to design
one great formal architectural composition; it is unique
when a campus for 7500-plus students is all built at one
time,” Stone said.

He added, “Harvard, which is about the same size,

patterns of the New Campus. Stone, who apparently
prides himself on the symmetry of his architecture,

presently under construction, the John F. Kennedy
Memorial Center in Washington DC.

Edward Durell, the architect who designed the uptown campus, discusses his observations with an ASP reporter. He compared the campus
to Harvard and Versailles. Durell is especially proud of the prevailing symmetry on the campus

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1994 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Israeli prime minister meets with Swygert ROTC ban reviewed

By HERB TERNS
Editor-in-Chief

Twenty college and university presidents, including
SUNYA President H. Patrick Swygert and interim
SUNY Chancellor Joseph Burke met with Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a luncheon held at the Carlyle
Hotel in Manhattan.

“Prime Minister Rabin expressed outrage at the atroci-
ties being committed by the terrorist organization Hamas
and Muslim fundamentalists against the Israeli people,”

commitment to the Middle East peace process. He said
Rabin used the opportunity to respond to criticism about
the peace policy Bruke said, Rabin’s statement “When
you make peace, you don’t make peace with your
friends, you make peace with your enemies,” was appro-
priate to the criticism Rabin has taken in his dealings
with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir
Arafat.

“There is a perception that warriors and generals don’t
make good peacemakers, Burke said, “Maybe it’s only
the warriors who understand the need to make peace.”

By JEN MILLER
News Editor

President H. Patrick Swygert said Thursday he will
present a proposal regarding military recruiting policy to
the university community before final exams.

“TI made a commitment to the University Senate that I
will give them a policy in writing before finals,” Swygert
said. “There must be the opportunity for dialogue and I
am committed to circulating something while there is

time for full reaction....

We’ ve been thinking about this

Swygert said.

Burke was impressed with Rabin’s dedication and

By KEVIN DEVALK
Staff Writer

Within a matter of minutes, fire
alarms sounded on the towers on all
four uptown quad in the early morn-
ing of Nov. 23.

The first alarm sounded at around
2:00 a.m. and the fourth alarm
sounded around 2:20am. |

The Albany Fire Department was
dispatched and searched the towers,
only to learn that all four instances
were false alarms.

According to the University Police
Department, the first tower to be vic-
timized was Livingston Tower and
Mohawk Tower. It is believed that
the same person or persons pulled
the alarms on all four towers.

According to University policy,

-anyone charged in connection with

the crime will be fined $500.00,
among other penalties. No witnesses
have come forward and there are no
suspects at press time.

Not only do false alarms cause
frustration for police and fire offi-
cials, but they are also frustrating for
students. Eric LaClair, a sophomore
who lives in Stuyvesant Tower, said,
“We had just gotten back from a bas-
ketball game when it went off.
They’re a pain in the butt; you never
know when there’s going to be a real
fire.”

Chris Jones, a senior who lives on

When asked why Rabin would meet with a group of

education leaders Burke said, “I suppose we’re the ones
who are supposed to believe in rea-
son.”

Burke said Rabin didn’t deliver a
speech, as he had no prepared text, and
it gave him an added sense of sincerity.

‘Diplomats have a way of speaking

that keeps them from making blunders
but he was plain spoken and sincere
about his commitment to peace.”

The luncheon offered an opportunity
for dialogue and Swygert presented
Rabin with a copy of A Tradition of
Excellence; The Sesquicentennial
History of the University at Albany.
Swygert formerly taught at the Tel
Aviv University Faculty of Law and
earlier this year received the Jewish

piesa courtesy of University Relations National Fund’s “Tree of Life Award.”
President Swygert met with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the Carlyle Hotel in NYC.

False fire alarms sound in unison

the 20th floor of Eastman Tower,
said, “If you’re sleeping and you get
caught in your room then you’re still
in trouble. It’s not fair.”

One RA, Bob Zinnanti of Mohawk
Tower, responded to fears about
oversleeping by saying, “I guess it’s
just a judgment call. Mistakes hap-
pen and I think you'll be
okay.”’Zinnanti said that RA’s check
the rooms after evacuation.

Although he feels that those who

honestly oversleep will probably not
be punished, in general, he said it’s
hard to tell because some students
fake sleeping when they hear the

alarm. He also said the alarms are so
loud that it is difficult to sleep
through them. He said that in some
circumstances a meeting with the
Residence Director may be needed.

As a student who lived on
Livingston Tower last year, Zinnanti
said he experienced no unusual prob-
lems with fire alarms. However, he
has counted at least twenty inci-
dences so far this semester in the
Mohawk Tower. He recalled that
once, during a five-hour period, the
fire alarm went off in Mohawk four
different times.

Staff Photo by Roxanne dePrado

Albany Fire Department responded to a multitude of false alarms.

very seriously.”

Swygert said he will present a proposal “no later than
Tuesday” of next week.

Military recruitment has been banned from all SUNY
campuses since November 1993. A court ruling at that
time said recruiting constituted a violation of Governor
Cuomo’s executive order prohibiting state agencies
from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. A
SUNY Central directive in Feb.1994 ordered all SUNY
schools to comply with the decision.

However, the decision may soon be moot. A represen-
tative at Governor-elect Pataki’s press office said,"
“Technically, it [the executive order] gets automatically
rescinded the moment Cuomo is no longer Governor.”

In January, without state-wide protection from dis-
crimination on the basis of sexual orientation, there will
be no legal basis for barring military recruitment.

“Obviously, we will respect the law and we will
respect Governor-elect Pataki. We will come up with a
policy statement that reflects the position of the
University,” Swygert said.

The issue was made more complex even before the
election when in August, US Representative Jerry
Solomon (R, Glen Falls) successfully sponsored an
amendment to a Defense Department Appropriations
bill. The amendment restricts schools which don’t allow
recruitment from receiving Department of Defense
funds. The SUNY system receives about $21 million for
DOD research programs, according to a story in the New
York Times.

In apparent response to the Solomon amendment,
SUNY Central recently issued another directive.
According to Swygert, the second directive states the
military cannot be banned from the “public spaces” on
university campuses, but must be allowed access “like
any other organization.”

Swygert said, “the second directive caused us to reach
out to the university community,” and he said he has
spent the last several weeks discussing its interpretation
with students, the Student Association, faculty members
and the University Executive Senate.

The question the directive raises, Swygert said, is even
if the military may be banned from job fairs or access to
the Career Development Center, they may nonetheless be
able to set up a table on a public part of campus and dis-
tribute flyers. “Now it appears we can do things we
thought we couldn’t do”, said Swygert.

Although it’s an issue that raises “very strong feel-
ings” on all sides, Swygert said, “we have the Principles
for a Just Community and it’s clear that any discrimina-
tion is contrary to the principles.”

In discussing the matter, Swygert said, “many students
have cited the Principles as what you might call our code
of conduct.”.

“If a private employer were to discriminate against
minorities or women or homosexuals, there is no doubt
in my mind that we would not allow that organization to
recruit on campus,” Swygert said. “The problem arises
because it isn’t a private employer, it’s the United States
government.”

Community policing begins i in Pine Hills area

By HERB TERNS
Editor-in-Chief

This week marked the begin-
ning of foot patrols, or commu-
nity policing, by the Albany
Police Department in the Pine
Hills Area where several stu-
dents live, as well as other
neighborhoods of the city.

Officer Fred Aliberti, a mem-.

ber of the APD’s Community
Services Unit, has worked with
the Pine Hills Walk and Watch
program which he described as a
version of community policing.
The Walk and Watch program
consists of citizens working in
conjunction with the police
department to look for possible

problems and keep the lines of
communication open between
police and residents.

“In addition to one. officer
walking the area we will have
out regular car patrol,” Aliberti
said. The officer will work an
eight hour shift with the hours
they patrol being flexible
“depending on what’s going

n.” Aliberti said for an area
like Pine Hills where there are a
number of bars; Friday and
Saturday evenings would be an
example of a time the officer
may be on duty.

Aliberti, a SUNYA alumnus,
said the foot patrols combined
with the regular car patrols
would allow officers “to develop

a more intimate knowledge of
the area and it’s residents.”
Thomas Gebhardt, director of
Off-Campus Housing, said he
looked at the foot patrols not in
terms of arrests, but rather as

improving the lines of commu- —

nication between the students
and the police.

“Tt (community policing) will
only have a positive effect,”
Gebhardt said. He also said
community policing shares the
same thinking as his office and
the Committee on University
and Community Relations; help-
ing students deal with problems
before they occur.

Community policing is being
welcomed by Pine Hills

Neighborhood Association
President Henry Madej. A
SUNYA alumnus, Madej said
several years ago the residents
of Pine Hills signed a petition to
get a foot patrol in the area.

Madej said he hoped the foot
patrols would make residents
feel more comfortable in going
out of their homes.

“As problems tended to. hap-
pen on the street...what people
tended to do was retreated
inside,” Madej said. As a result,
he said, people didn’t know their
neighbors. He said a police offi-
cers presence will draw people
into the street where hopefully
get to know each other and
watch out for each other.

Madej said when students
leave on break they often leave
unshoveled sidewalks and piles
of newspapers outside their
doors. He said this “causes vul-
nerable property inside“ because
potential thieves know the house
is vacant. A foot patrol officer
who knows the area is likely to
notice situations like this and
either pay extra attention to the
residence and contact neighbors
or a landlord who can perhaps
remedy the situation.

A regular patrol officer is
going “to get a feel for the
place,” Madej said.

“Even if it improves the area
half as much as I expect it to it
will be worth it.” Madej said.

4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1994

Generation X can rent cars too

By HERB TERNS
Editor in Chief

You. can drive a car, you can own a car, but until
recently, people under 25 have had problems renting a
car. That changed Tuesday when State Attorney General
G. Oliver Koppell announced his office won a decision
brought against eight of the nation’s major rental compa-
nies forcing them to change their policies towards
drivers 18-25.

“This is a tremendous victory, upholding the rights of
younger licensed drivers to have access to rental cars
when they need them. My office has maintained all
along that that right was provided by New York’s law,”
Koppell said.

The suit filed in April forced Alamo, Avis, Budget,
’ Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National and Thrifty to change
their policies that had previously prevented drivers
under 25 from renting cars. State Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Crane in his decision agreed with Koppell’s
office that this violated New York’s General Business
Law.

“The court has totally affirmed our argument. Age dis-
crimination will now be prohibited in the auto rental
market,” Koppell said.

In his judgment, Crane stated “Hertz, Budget,
National and Avis refuse to rent to consumers under 25
years of age solely on the basis of age. Enterprise and
Alamo refuse to rent to consumers between the ages of
18 and 20. Dollar and Thrifty refuse to rent to con-
sumers under age 21.” The rental companies argued no
insurance was available for renters in these age groups.
Crane said insurance coverage was available through the
New York Automobile Insurance Plan regardless of the
driver’s age.

“I must commend the New York Public Interest
Research Group for their extensive work in surveying
the extent of the age discrimination problem in the state,
and for working with my office to address it,” Koppell
stated in a release from his office.

Blair Horner, NYPIRG’s Legislative Director, said
“NYPIRG reports have shown time and time again the
car rental companies’ contempt for state laws that bar
age discrimination against young drivers.”

In addition to changing rental policy, Crane’s decision
provides for the imposition of penalties on the rental
companies for violations of the law.

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Options explored Recreational activities for disabled showcased
in gender equity

By HERB TERNS
Editor in Chief

The Intercollegiate Athletic
Board subcommittee which is
to issue a proposal for gender
equity is currently in what
subcommittee chair Dennis
Stevens called a “data and
information gathering phase.”

The board, made up of 3
students and 3 faculty mem-
bers, is scheduled to issue its
proposal to the full IAB when
completed. The IAB will then
make its recommendations to
University President H.
Patrick Swygert by Dec. 31.

Subcommittee member
Carson Carr said the board
will meet with members of
the Student Association’s
executive and legislative
branches, as well as members
of SUNY’s Central
Administration on Friday.
Carr said there will be an
open meeting of the subcom-

mittee Monday in the
RACC’s Hall of Fame in an
effort to get input from “all
segments of the community.”

Stevens said the members
of the subcommittee deemed
it necessary to get as much

ty.”
Posters have been placed

on campus informing people

of the open meeting. “I want |

it to be a very open process,”
Stevens said.

Stevens said he is “reluc-
tant to cut off input” regard-

ing the information process, |
but in order to keep on dead- |
line the committee will have |

to,end the information gath-
ering process some time next
week.

By Curis SMITH
Editorial Assistant

There was a Recreation Expo
Wednesday, November 30 in the
Campus Assembly Hall held by
The Center for Computing and

Disability. The event was to.

inform persons with disabilities of
the various recreational activities
available to them.

A number of exhibitors attended

the function coming from New
York, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Rhode Island.
They displayed the latest develop-
ments in recreation for disabled
individuals ranging from video
games to white water rafting.

There

also demonstrations and presenta-
tions of the latest advances in the

Staff photo by Pali Basi
The Center for Computing and Disability sponsored an informational expo Wed.

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but also for service workers, and
parents of disabled people too.”

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Veternarian denounces use of animals in experimentation

In her lecture, accompanied by
various audio—visuals, Cheever
focused on scientific aspects of
animal sewercn aie eee —

By NADER UTHMAN

The Students for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals presented
veternarian Holly Cheever in a
forum discussing animal use in
cosmetic and medical research
Wednesday.

Cheever began with a short
background of her own experi-
ence, including her current vet-
erinary practice in Guilderland
and earlier, working with farm
animals in Portland, Oregon. In
addition, Cheever actively con-
sults for such animal rights orga-
nizations such as People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals
and the Humane Society. In her

Staff photo by John Meyer
SETA brought Dr. Holly Cheever to campus.

related moral and philosophical
issues as well. She said it was a
moral and ethical issue, since
“we don’t use humans for
research...we
realize now
that’s immoral,
although we
didn’t use to.”
Cheever then
gave some
examples. of
how humans

had been used for medical test-
ing in the past, such as the use of
LSD on military personnel in the
1960’s.

Cheever said animal research
was not a “necessary evil” and
added no pet owner would allow
their own animal to be used to
that end, even though they sup-
port the use of “other” animals.
Cheever also says humans have
the attitude they are “specially
protected over other animals,”

entailing a “higher intelligence’
as proof positive of our “superi-
ority.” This, she argued, was
used to justify animal research,
since “animals are considered

See CHEEVER on page 13

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This is the story of a SUNY Albany student who has had
the misfortune of attending SUNY Cobleskill. This could
have been you or your child. The year was 1991. This
student, like thousands of others, remitted his student loan
application with the intention of supplementing the cost of
his education. The golem was placed in the gears for that
student was to come face to face with a bureaucracy filled
with ineptitude.

In August of 1991, unbeknownst to him, he was
withdrawn from Cobleskill (an occurrence which has

Glenn T. Maguire

summarily been denied by the College, yet is documented in
Higher Education Services files). A month later, through a
program with that same College, he spent a semester over-
seas. Yet he still wasn’t attending the College, or was he?
No one really knows for sure because, remember, this never
occurred.

Unexplainable letters were posted to his home while he
was away, including requests for payment by Key Bank
whose records indicated that he was no longer a full-time
student. As a full-time student his loans were actually
becoming active, and the requests from creditors for
payment barraged this befuddled student. Subsequent
queries to Key Bank yielded no greater understanding as to
why this was occurring. He had thought when he received
his loans they were to be repaid after graduation, but
perhaps he was mistaken. This, once again, is something
that did not take place. As far as the College was concerned,
he never left. However, the student’s credit report was
detrimentally effected upon by this non—occurrence. Daily
phone calls to Key Bank explaining that he was and always
had been a student went to no avail. Finally in July, almost a
year later, Cobleskill sent a letter to Key Bank rectifying the
situation.

There was another peculiar letter sent by that College the
educational equivalent a pink-slip, “You have been
withdrawn from the College for not maintaining a full-time
status!” Apparently this student is living in a fantasy world.
This according to the College never happened. Call them,
they’ll deny it. They claim no such correspondence was ever
sent. According to the school, this second withdrawal of the
student never occurred either.

Like many SUNY students, he lives on Long Island
which isn’t just a hop, skip, and a jump away from
Cobleskill. Yet upon his return from a great semester over-
seas, he was forced to make the trek up to Cobleskill to
rectify this error and become re-enrolled, which he did, (not
to be redundant) but the College claims none of this ever
happened.

Now for the part were the College detrimentally effects
the student, remember this could be your or your child.
After re-enrolling (he really did have to) the student
believed that everything was fine. Once again, little did he
know how mistaken he was. The Guaranteed Student Loan
for the spring semester had been canceled. How, by whom,
or why, has never been answered by either Cobleskill or
Key Bank, each claiming ignorance. The student was
constantly in the Bursar’s office at SUNY Cobleskill and in
the Financial Aide Advisors office, attempting to find a
means of getting this loan re-disbursed. The only result of
those constant visits was to have him receive a bill stating
that he owed them money.

See COBLESKILL on next page

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LACK OF FOCUS

Blotting Out Crime

_ It seems a wave of stupidity has come across
this campus lately. Maybe UAS is putting
something in the food that is making people
vandalize cars and pull fire alarms. Maybe people
just want to see their deeds published in the crime
blotter. Or maybe people are just acting stupid on
their own.

Whatever the reason, the vast majority of
students on this campus are sick of it.

Anyone who has lived on campus and has been
woken up in the middle of the night by a false
alarm knows they are no fun. Anyone who has
gone through freshman orientation knows the
Albany Fire Department gives priority to alarms
on campus over all others. This means there could
actually be a fire somewhere, while the AFD is
coming here to respond to a false alarm.

Perhaps its a bit presumptuous for the student
newspaper to preach about acting responsibly. But
we will anyway because we are among the people
who have to walk down the stairs in the middle of

the night and stand out in the cold while the
building is being checked.

Perhaps we at the ASP, are, in part, encouraging
this behavior by our weekly publishing of the
crime blotter. The crime blotter does make
students aware of crime on campus. Unfortunately
it may also encourage some students to commit
petty crimes in order to see their dubious
achievements listed in the crime blotter.

A lot has been said about the legitimacy of print
and perhaps that is what we are offering when we
print a list of Campus crimes each week. Sure
everyone likes to read the crime blotter each week
but perhaps if it weren’t printed, there would be
more of us getting a full night’s sleep.

Some students have told us their friends cut out
the-crime blotter when an incident they caused
appears in it. This is, of course, very sad and we

‘should consider what goes in. Perhaps, the time

has come for us at the ASP to stop rewarding this
behavior.

Aaron
Russell

We’ve come to that time of year again: It’s a
Wonderful Life rerun season. While this movie is based
on some erroneous stereotypes of capitalism, it does
provide a much needed message in these days of
pessimism. The quintessential American belief that the
future will be much better than the past seems to be
losing favor. A recent New York Times poll found 57%
of Americans feel that the next generation will be worse
off than we are today. Only 18% believe things will get
better.

Our political climate reflects this fear of the future.
Liberals look ahead and see growing inequality,
environmental degradation, and increasing intolerance
for minorities. Their pessimism was most evident when
they cried, “We must do POPS about health care
immediately!”

In every one of the above areas progress has been °

made. To begin with the whole notion of economic
inequality is a faulty one. It assumes that there is a fixed
amount of resources and one person’s success is at the
price of another person’s failure. This zero sum logic
takes no account of economic growth and material
progress.

To gauge the economic progress of a society it is much

more appropriate to compare groups from different
periods. Today’s poor are much better off than in any
previous period. The real cost of food has gone down
making hunger increasingly uncommon. Health
problems like tuberculosis, syphilis, and influenza that
once ravaged inner cities are now safely under control.
The official census figure for the portion of the
population living in poverty was 22.4% in 1959. If you
include non-cash government benefits this figure
dropped to 6.4% in just two decades.

Contrary to conventional wisdom our environment has
been getting cleaner. Even the EPA acknowledges air
and water quality has been improving over the past few
decades. The main air pollutant, particulates, declined
15% from 1975-1982. This combined with a 64%
decrease in lead, a 33% decline in sulfur dioxide, and
31% decrease in carbon monoxide means that we are all
breathing better today. The amount of fecal coliform
bacteria in our rivers and streams, a common measure of
water quality, has been almost halved over the last two
decades. Finally, the real cost of gasoline, arguably our
most important natural resource, is at one of its lowest
historical points. The irony is rather than applaud how
plentiful oil is, environmentalists believe that we should
increase gas taxes to discourage consumption and
improve our air quality.

The final fictional fear of liberals is growing
intolerance. California’s Proposition 187, which prevents
illegal immigrants from receiving non-emergency
government benefits, is supposedly an example of the
resurgence of racism.

America takes in by far the largest amount of
immigrants in the world. The total number of immigrants
for the 1930’s was 528,000. In the 1970’s it was almost
five times greater! In fact there was more illegal
immigration in the 1970’s, (approximately 4 million),
than legal immigration in any previous decade. Only
18% of these legal immigrants, and almost none of the
illegals, are coming from Europe. If intolerance is a
problem it certainly isn’t discouraging these non-Anglo
immigrants.

Conservatives, as their name implies, are hardly
futurists either. They have their own evidence of doom
and gloom: the rate of divorce tripled between 1960 and
1982; manufacturing jobs are leaving by the truck load
and women have been forced into the workforce. While
these may be true, it’s is questionable whether their
existence calls for champagne or prozac.

The only thing divorce definitely indicates is dumb
decision making. It may also indicate that Americans are
becoming more independent and more unwilling to
accept unpleasant relationships. Even so, everyone but
the divorcee thinks what they did was awful.

So when you’re when watching /t’s a Wonderful Life
for the twentieth time, think of Potersville as being the
past: brutish, poor and unwelcoming. Also the next time
you’re in the mall you may want to try running from
store to store, embracing the clerks, thanking them for
being there, because that mall probably didn’t exist two
decades ago. You may get a nastier reaction than Jimmy
Stewart did, but today is better than the past, not that it’s
better than Hollywood.

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people. All week long, events in the news proved the public was
getting what they wanted. As a society we have found things to
keep our spirits up during the long depressing stretch between
Thanksgiving and Christmas. :

The first of such pre/post treats was the death of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Yeah, I know some people are sad, the same people that buy John
Wayne Gacy paintings, that write to the Sun of Sam, that wear
Charles Manson shirts, and are engaged to random female serial
killers. The rest of us, however, were pleased as punch. All this crap
about “the death of any man diminishes me” (I may be misquoting
a combination of things in that one statement) is a full load. Dahmer
being dead means that woman shown on the news every three
minutes screaming at Dahmer during his sentencing can finally rest
easy. It means the television movie (hopefully starring the dumb
guy from Wings) will get started sooner now that there is some
finality to his life.

The only problem is the manner in which he died—-he got his head
knocked to death against a toilet bowl. Now, while that is sort of
vaguely amusing and affords the opportunity for a lot of jokes, it
seems ever so slightly over dignified. If Joe Average killer murders
one person and can get a lethal injection, someone who kills 26 (?)
people and keeps them in his fridge, chops them up and eats them,
should get something a little more severe than a big knock to the
skull. I’m thinking death by bunga—bunga (I hope everyone knows
that joke). Maybe they should‘ve tied him down in the prison yard,
covered him in bird seed, and let a flock of crows into the pen, kept
his eyes open a la A Clockwork Orange, and put Sylvester Stallone
comedies on in front of him until he exploded. Or stick a pair of
headphones on him and play Gloria Estefan’s version of “Turn The

Beat Around” until his vital organs melted. Something which

showed some creativity.

Moving on, the guy to have his negative karma come back to
haunt him was Tupac Shakur. It seemed like one night I was
watching him tell the world how his life “isn’t supposed to be this
way,” the next thing you know he’s getting all shot up in the head,
the thigh, and the groin. That’s a little more clever. How does that
saying go? “Kill it before it grows?” I guess someone took that
pretty seriously. Personally, I think it’s all a hoax to garner
sympathy, to sell records, something. You gotta figure it took more
pain for Roseanne to get all that fat sucked out of her than a few
mere bullet wounds. Good PR guy, Tupac.

Next, our little darling, Drew Barrymore, Elliot’s little sister in
E.T., David Crosby’s drug protege in the ‘80s, author extraordinaire

1 (Little Girl Lost), is now in Playboy. It seems only yesterday she was

just a kid. Buying dolls, training—bras, and bags of coke. Now she’s
showing all her goodies to over—weight forty-year-old guys in
Arkansas who probably wonder why someone as old as nineteen
and not even a relative, would be considered sexually appealing.
But what an excellent career move. I think after Poison Ivy and Bad
Girls she wasn’t being taken seriously as an actress. Now that she’s
got some real credentials behind her, she’s a shoo-—in for the lead
role in the film version of The Scarlett Letter. Whoops, I forgot, Demi
Moore is doing that—yes, I’m serious. I am.

Finally, the speed limit looks like it’s going up to 65 m.p.h. This
seems to be making everyone happy as well, that is, except for me.
After driving home last week for Thanksgiving with my friends
Ryan and Kerri, I don't know if this new law is such a good thing. I
hate to propagate the stereotype which says that women are bad
drivers, but...Kerri did neglect a few pieces of driving etiquette.
First, during snow storms, one should keep a distance behind cars
longer than that of Jackee’s post—227 career, even if they are only
doing 85. Second, seatbelts are a good thing, most especially when
doing 90 past two police cars. If we had to go on a high speed chase
in order to avoid the fuzz, all the while on an icy road, someone
would have gone through the window. Lastly, one should not keep
car windows open in order to facilitate the ashing of cigarettes
when a light-coated young man is in the back, catching the full
thrust of the wind. If Kerri and her cohorts are going to be allowed
to go 65 legally, the roads may become an even more dangerous
place, what with 90 not so far beyond reason.

All in all though, it was a good week. Since I wasn’t home for
Hanukkah, I'll have to deal with the gifts fate has bestowed upon
us. It’s not exactly a new transformer and my own copy of Jurassic
Park, but it’ll do for now.

cys

December 2, 1994

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Another Voyage Begins With Star Trek Generations

» William Shatner & Patrick Stewart

2% poster’s catch line for Star
Trek Generations said “Boldly Go.” If
you went to the sneak preview the
Thursday night before the movie
opened you would have realized
there was a double meaning. People
actually showed up in full Starfleet
uniform, complete with Tricorders
and Phasers, at Crossgates Mall. I am
a whole hearted Trekkie, but it’ll be a
cold day in hell when I show up to
the mall in full Star Trek dress.

Scott Watts

The film started, and everyone in
the theater cheered. I’ll be honest, I
howled along with everyone else-it
was an exciting moment. I have been
anticipating the maiden screen voy-
age of the USS Enterprise-NCC
1701-D since April, and when a
champagne bottle hit the hull of the
Enterprise B with a crash, it marked a
whole new “generation” of the Trek
adventure. If Generations is any

indication of the future, it’s going to
be an exciting one.

This film was full of trademark
Trek. The truly sci-fi plot deals with
the Nexus, an anomaly that can take
anyone to a place where they will be
fully content. The Nexus is like a
genie that can read your mind and
put you inside your most secret
dream. It’s the holodeck you never
have to leave. Guinan (Whoopi
Goldberg) describes it as being
“inside pure joy.” The conflict
involves the villainous Soran
(Malcolm McDowell) who threatens
to destroy a highly inhabited planet
in order to get into the Nexus. This
story, told through the humanistic
interactions of the characters, relies
on the actors’ genuine portrayal of the
characters. The surprises that come
along with Data’s (Brent Spiner) new
emotion chip contain some of the best
Next Generation moments to date,
and introduce new quirky relations
instead of playing off the old ones.

The film’s look is like no other Trek

movie. The director of photography,
John Alanzo, who has worked on
such films as Chinatown and Steel
Magnolias, gave the latest Trek outing
his personal glossy touch. With
Alanzo at the camera and director
David Carson imagining the shots,
the film looks unlike any of the
television shows or previous films.
The dark lighting gives the Enterprise
D a look never seen on TV. and the
scenes in space are shot at creative
angles. Even the phasers bouncing off
the shields of the ships become
visible. Finally, towards the end of the
film, the galactical meeting of Kirk
(William Shatner) and Picard (Patrick
Stewart) dances onto the screen.
Sitting in the audience I felt like I was
witnessing an important moment in
history. The writers masterfully play
off the different strengths of the two
captains. When Picard fights Soran,
he gets his ass kicked. When Kirk gets
his shot, Soran is the one who gets the
ass kicking. But before Soran is
stopped, the Trek universe suffers its
biggest casualty as Captain James
Tiberius Kirk lays dead. He ends his
twenty-eight year adventure with the

Jonathan Frakes,”
Michael Dorn

asks Picard “Did we make a
difference?” and he smiles at the
answer. Before Kirk closes his eyes for
the last time, he looks up into the sky
he’s spent his entire life exploring and
utters the words “It was fun.” It
brought tears to my eyes as well as to
many others in the audience.

Star Trek Generations was a wild
“wagon train to the stars” as it has
always been. The film delivers
moments in the spirit of classic Trek.
It can easily be compared in quality to
parts II, IV, and VI.

The next generation seems destined
to go where their ancestors boldly
went before, into our television and
then onto the big screen.

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G. Love & Special Sauce Get It Together

G. Love & Special Sauce do
not like to be defined. They
want you to know “we’re not
a hip-hop band, we’re not a
blues band, we’re not a rock ‘n

roll band, we’re somewhere in,

between all those things.”

Jason Black

It’s not easy to say exactly |

Skidmore in i991, G. Love
moved to Boston where he
was able to play his country
and blues infected tunes on
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and MTV, the crowd seemed
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flowing to the distinguishable
vibe G. Love & Special Sauce
generated.

The band’s distinct sound
derives from the eclectic back-
grounds of bandmates G.
(Garrett) Love on vocals,
dobro, and harmonica, Jeffrey
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vocals, and Jimmy Prescott on
string bass.

After his freshman year at

his own solo gigs at clubs. At
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and New Orleans bands he
had played in. Clemens
brought in jazz—oriented

: Prescott, and as G. Love puts

it, “everybody just did what
they did. The whole thing was
an accident, really. It was
nothing premeditated.”

The band did have a com-
mon interest in vintage equpi-

ment and sound which helped
unite them. Clemens recalls,
“When I met him, my drums
are from the 1940s, G. Love’s
into old amps and old guitar

photo by Roxanne de Prado

Jim plays an old upright bass.
We had an old sound. ”

This mixture of old sounds
has translated into a fresh
groove which was in high
gear for the show. The band
maintained a hypnotic, sensu-
ous mood during the more
mellow tunes like “Rhyme For
The Summertime,” allowed
for some swinging during
“Baby’s Got Sauce,” and par-
tied the night away during
their encore performance

which included the album’s
single “Cold Beverage.”

Such ease with many styles
is what Clemmens sights as
“the uniquesness of the band.
It’s not like we all grew up on
REM or Bob Seger. We don’t
have the same influences but
that’s the beauty. That creates
tension sometimes but it cre-
ates a beautiful thing. G.
Lover dismisses this state-
ment as “totally wrong,” pos-
sibly a result of the irritabilty
tour— ing for the past five
months, including thirty-five
shows in October, might
bring.

The band does have some
commonalities including the
fact that they are all
self-taught musicains. They
believe this has led them to
the position they are currently
in. Clemens says, “It becomes
self—realization, self-revela-
tion. (Each new skill) is a dis-
covery. That’s the fun of it,
you explore the instrument
and you explore the music.”

Although they claim their
album had no direction, the
band seems to be moving pro-
gressively, experimenting
with old and new sounds,
picking at them like hawks
until they find another which
will bring them together, into
another successful fusion.

Queensryche’s Promising New Album

Queensryche has always
been a progressive band. Like
their progenitors in the early
‘70s British movement, their
innovative sound has continu-
ally ripened with musical
orchestration and_ state-—
of-the-art recording technolo-

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On their latest release,

Promised Land, they display .

both of these aspects yet
again, returning to the rock
scene after a long hiatus fol-
lowing a world tour in sup-
port of the triple—platinum,
1990 release, Empire. On this
eleven-song effort, the Seattle
quintet pieces together a sonic
landscape of tape effects,
stringed instruments, and
piano accompaniments to
achieve the trademark sound
they’ve explored on previous
releases. The twin guitar
attack of Chris Degarmo and
Mike Wilton is also displayed
again, featuring the upper reg-
ister vocals of Geoff Tate.

Bubbling up in the cauldron
of heavy metal that churned
through the mid—’80s, they
established themselves as a
breed apart from their con-
temporaries with a more
“cerebral” approach to the
metal category. They
embraced the “concept
album” format, creating a
story with each track on the
album both lyrically and
musically.

On Promised Land, the group

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steps back from the spotlight
and offers a lyrically insightful
look at their personal lives.
Guitarist Chris Degarmo, long
the musical muscle behind the
band, offers the lyrically stun-
ning “Bridge” as a poignant
examination of the father who
left him at age two, only to
return decades later to recon-
cile after seeing his son on
television.

Geoff Tate expands on the
dysfunctional family theme in
“Damaged,” where an adoles-
cent tries to make sense of his
life, yet he continually comes
back to the tragic reality of his
homelife-the “damage” that
prevents him from further
emotional growth.

“Out of Mind” and “Lady
June” are more traditional
lyrical explorations for the
band. The former, a neatly
scored DeGarmo composition,
features Tate’s broad take on
the mentally ill: “So we keep
these people inside these walls
from society. Their forgotten
lives safe from the crowd,
they can’t leave.”

In the latter, DeGarmo’s is a
typical Queensryche ballad,
featuring piano accompani-
ment to Tate’s vocals about a
girl “who is sitting all alone
inside today, while other girls
are playing a new game...”
Musically, the band is as fresh
as ever. The polished guitar
work of DeGarmo and Mike
Wilton continues to be a
Queensryche trademark.

Their efforts on the CD are
technology-laden, but melod-
ic. Amidst a pile of scquen-

cors, harmonizers, and custom
rack effects, they execute
painstakingly produced solos
that soar within the confines
of the compositions.

Geoff Tate has continually
drawn critical praise with his
impressive range. His voice is
distinctive in the rock commu-
nity. His vocal prowess is fea-
tured on the track’s last cut,
“Someone Else.”

Promised Land is a good

album. Whether the band’s
audience still exists in the
post-grunge ‘90s is another
question. Progressive music
has always drawn the ire of
punk critics for lacking spon-
taneity and being pretentious.
For those of you considering
the modern punk scene to be
both of these, Promised Land
should be a window of relief.
Put on the headphones and
look outside.

ode to cranes

cranes are good.
they’re not from the hood.

they don’t sound like the cranberries

but they will bring you to your
knees.

the singer doesn’t have blond hair,
and she doesn’t sound like liz phair.

her voice is haunting like a ghost
and sweeter than french toast.

she sounds like she is very young
but of non-childish things has she

sung.

they are from the u.k.

a place that should just go away.
this cd would make a great gift

so go out and buy it if you get my

drift.
cranes are better than pearl jam

and stone temple pilots and wham!.

tori amos beats cranes any day

but i guess i’m just biased that way.

the cranes sound eerie and really
cool

if you don’t buy the disc you are a

fool.

arista is the label where they’re at
boy that record label's fat...er...phat.
an album called loved is their new

release
so purchase it now. peace.

-Kelly Barclay

Butt Trump

Butt Trumpet represents the current
state of music in 1994. Grunge has given
way to pure bred punk. As it was when
Nirvana broke and A&R guys were fly-
ing to Seattle and signing anybody with
a black watch plaid flannel shirt, it seems
that any band from California with bad
equipment and off-key vocals are going
to be signed in hopes of outselling the

Offspring.

Seth Diamond

Butt Trumpet’s debut record, Primitive
Enema, actually had potential for being a
great record regardless of any popular
scene of the moment. It was produced by
Geza X who has worked with Black Flag
and the Dead Kennedys. Butt Trumpet
has two bass players who work well in
tandem and the band subscribes to the
belief that humor does have a place in
music. However, the main problem with
the album is that simply, the songs suck.
The production isn’t bad in an intention-
ally lo-fi way that bands like Guided By
Voices or Pavement would generally uti-
lize, but in a way that makes you think
there is something wrong with your
stereo. The sound of the two bass Players
sludge together making individual tones
indistinguishable. The album sounds on
the whole like it was recorded in a

swamp.

The riffs are either cliched to the point
of annoyance or simple to the point of
being really boring. But punk isn’t sup-
posed to be about the musicianship,

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London Suede’s Smooth New Release Laughable Hardcore

In the beginning, The London Suede (for-
merly, Suede) were hated. Critics put down
their first album, Suede, and considered their
style “low-rent glamour.” Back with their sec-
ond album, dog man star, lead singer Brett
Anderson, seems unfazed. He states, “I think
it’s definitely the best record we’ve ever made,
in every way superior to anything we’ve ever
done.” Funny, this is only their second album.

Andrea Leszczynski

Overall, dog man star is not bad. Their sound
is ethereal, sort of distant and echoing. The
lyrics have a peculiar twist to them.
“Introducing the Band” has a cosmic begin-
ning (Star Trek and Star Wars united) which
leads into a vibrating drone of bass guitar and

tribal drumming, and gives it an exotic sound. .

Anderson, distinct in his enunciation, is heard
echoing the verses of the song. The tone pro-
vokes a dark and foreboding mood, almost as
if a harsh thunderstorm is brewing ahead.
London Suede also likes to provide an aura
of sadness and loneliness. “New Generation”
has Anderson voicing the chorus yearningly.
This tune radiates a sense of restlessness
mixed with being alone. His mind is obsessed
with a mysterious woman: “And I’m losing
myself to you/losing myself to you...” Only
in his stoned frame of mind, he finds the
woman screaming his name, calling to him.
Oh, the confusion of it all, it’s just too much.
“The 2 of Us” is another sad love song, but
London Suede throws an eerieness into it.
Anderson, sitting alone in his room, achingly
sings the verses as his memories of her run
through his mind. Tears fall, the sky darkens,

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attitude, the angst, the lyrics.
Unfortunately, this band does not nail
anything. Not even once. The perfor-
mances are so weak that absolutely no
emotion is properly conveyed. The lyrics
are ridiculous and trite. Most of the lyrics
follow the kindergarten rule that if you
even mention bodily functions, a laugh is
guaranteed. Unfortunately, most of the
listeners of this record have surpassed

playing in the sandbox. I’m a Gwar fan. I

can appreciate shock value lyrics if they
are written in a way that at least eludes
to an aura of intelligence. However,
when singer Thom Bone sings
“Thinking’s way too complicated/it just
makes me irritated” in the song
“Decapitated,” I completely believe him.
Trust me. The song “Dead Dogs” has one
line which is repeated over and over.
“Dead dogs, dead dogs, dead dogs in my
garage.” The only variance is that occa-
sionally dead dogs are in his “fucking

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garage.
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If you would like this album, my ulti-
mate suggestion is to outpunk the punks.
Don’t buy the record. Don’t even steal it,
because that counts as a purchase for the
band. Copy it off somebody who already
made the mistake of buying it and
prominently show it to Butt Trumpet the
next time they come through town.
Explain to them that you just wanted to
make sure they’re not selling out to the
major labels so you're going to keep their
royalty checks down. And then make
sure you spit in their face. Punks love
that you know...

the world is getting bleaker as this sorrowful
song continues on its path. “Lying in my bed,
I think of you/That song goes through my
head, the one we both knew...As I sing the
silent song/Mime each lonely word/Please
listen to the man, he said that it could be the 2

of ue

A feeling of pathos is prevalent while listen-
ing to dog man star. This is, however, one of
those albums that you have to listen to at least
twice in its entirety to develop a liking for it.

On the cover of Pro-Pain’s
disc (Energy Records), a woman
' poses naked with huge stiches
holding her flesh together in a
big Y-shape. It’s kinda nasty,
but kinda fake looking. Inside,
fold out the booklet and be
treated toghastly, real photos of
murder victims from the collec-
tions of the Municipal Archives
of NYC. Dogs, children,

women, and men, are all pic-
tured with necks cut and faces
smashed, guts splayed and
blood everywhere.

Noah Wildman

I guess Pro—Pain would like
you to think that their music is
as “hard” as these images.
Aside from the frog that croaks
s from the throat of the lead
singer, the only thing funnier is
how serious the whole shebang
gets. Listen to these titles:
“Make War Not Love,” “The
Beast Is Back,” “One Man
Army.” Ooooh, scary.

I feel pity for anyone who
thinks this stuff is really good
or inspirational (your Beavis &
Buttheads of the world), or even
hardcore and frightening (your
self-appointed moral guardians
and right-wing parents.)

Then again, this shit really

ROCKS! Check out those
fuckin’ awesome pictures! Holy
shit! Those heavy vocals sound
like he’s having his throat torn
out! So hardcore! So unbeliev-
ably real! Less serious, but
equally stupid, is M.O.D.
(Method Of Destruction)
(Energy).

Listen to these lyrics from
“Rock Tonite”: “Turn the power
up to ten, I’ve come to crush,
not make friends. Feel the beat
thumpin’ hard, thundering
bass, crashing guitars. Feel the
sound pound you down, it’s
loud, it’s true, it’s under-
ground.” No, really, wait a sec-
ond. “Hear the sound, so loud
and true,‘and know that these
sounds were meant for you.”
“The crowd is loud and feeling
strong, we’re gonna party all
night long.” Chorus: “WE’RE
GONNA ROCK TONITE! ROCK!
ROCK! ROCK! ROCK! ...” The
music is cookie-cutter hardcore
with just enough cheese to
appeal to the mid-eighties metal
fan in you.

It’s not that they’re not main-
stream (god knows bands play-
ing this shit make money), but
if you like it, you’d automatical-
ly be scoffed at by most of the
cultural elite. M.O.D. rule! Pro-
Pain rock! Rock! Rock!

Albany’s Musical Eck-sample

Michael Eck falls into the same cat-
egory as a band like American Music
Club. It is the “what are they??” syn-
drome; something splendid for music
lovers and a curse for record compa-
nies and club owners.

Seth Diamond

For a band like American Music

3 Club, a close contemporary of Eck’s,

it means being lumped into the alter-
native scene, only to be lost on the
desk of a music director who doesn’t
think that it would be good for his
image to play the album. AMC at
least has the backing of an estab-
lished musical history and a
respectable following who may or
may not be connected to a particular
scene. Eck’s problems run a bit deep-
er. His new album, Cowboy Black,
although fantastic, has nothing com-
mercially valuable going for it, except
for what seems to count less and less
these days-incredible songwriting.

Eck plays what he likes to call
“maximum solo acoustic” music. This
means powerful, enjoyable songs per-
formed by nothing but him and an
acoustic guitar. When listening to the
album, try not to hold any expecta-
tions of what you believe a solo
acoustic performer should be. He
is not folk, nor country, nor any-
thing but himself. This is where
most of the charm of the album
lies.

After repeated listenings, the
song that still sticks out in my
mind is the opening track
“Modern Boy Blues” which does
not adhere to a blues structure at
all but flows as a sentimental
rock tune. Lyrically, the song is
about the pros and cons of mod-
ern life; it’s paralleled to a rela-
tionship Eck had with someone
he considers a “modern girl.” For
the most part, the subject of his
lyrics have very personal intro- |
spective comments on love and]
love lost. On the song
“Godspeed,” he realizes while he |

is driving on the interstate that
“every love song on the radio is a
punch in my face.”

The emotion of the lyrics is height-
ened by his ability to carry out his
songs musically. Even though he
lacks a full band, the songs don’t
sound empty. He often opts for open,
ringing chords which are even more
important on this recording-it was
not produced with very much reverb
or effects.. Also, many chord progres-
sions are arpeggiated, with the
chords picked as single note clusters
as opposed to one chunked chord.

_A lot of people may not be able to
appreciate the scaled down songwrit-
ing and heavy emotional feel of this
record. The Counting Crows may
serve as a good reference point for
many people. If you find yourself
using your roommate’s “Round
Here” single as a coaster, you will
probably not like this record.
However, if you think whatever that
dreadlocked guy’s name is to be a
musical genius, you should go into
one of the cooler record stores in the
area and check out the real thing-
Michael Eck. You may be pleasantly
surprised to find out there is more
stuff going on in Albany than the lat-
est Mild Wally’s special.

Dink Deserve
A Dunking

Dink was started by Rob
Lightbody, Sean Carlin, and Jer
Herring, three Kent State
University students, back in 1990.
The genres of metal, industrial,
punk, grunge, psychedelic, funk,
techno, and spoken word are
thrown in one big mesh of sound
heard on their self-titled debut
album, Dink.

Andrea Leszczynski

Dink isn’t the slightest bit mov-
ing. They’ve tried to produce an
original sound which has amount-
ed to failure. What they call talent
is really trash. Dink’s pathetic
attempt at using so-called clever
voice samples in between songs,
such as the opening for “Big
Bags”: “We are going to have open
sexual intercourse...,” sounds all
too immature. This is junior high
school kind of crap that only an
alternative wanna-be would think
was cool. cea

The lead singer, Rob Lightbody,
sounds too much like the lead
singer of Collective Soul. At the
same time, he tries to be cool like
Anthony Kiedis. His rapping on
“Big Bags” only rushes the song to
a quicker disaster.

“Urban Suicide (Hippie Killer
Mix),” has, perhaps, three chords
in the entire song. Lightbody’s
voice is warped to a lower pitch to
sound ominous. He really had me
shakin’ in my boots-yeah whatev-
er.
This album isn’t all garbage,
only 95% of it. The other 5% of the
credit goes to “Running Red.” It
had a nice grungy-metal beat,
even though it was too
Metallica—esque.

Continuing with this jerky music
that they believe is a stroke of
genius, will lead to the demise of a
band that should never have been
formed.

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Aspects 7a

T-T-PLY.S.—Turn The Page If You’re Smart

Acronym-used by an increasingly illiterate
society because they can’t spell all the words. Also
easier to remember. For example, Kentucky Fried
Chicken becomes KFC. We must ask why Taco
Bell doesn’t become TB. Nevermind.

by Glenn Teichman & Herb Terns

Wiese said an education at this university
wouldn’t help you out obviously had no idea what
they were talking about. What other university
system features a misspelling in its name like
SUNY (supposed to be Sunny Albany).

This here is a great school, or at least that’s what
the girl who’s been calling my parents’ house
asking for money said. Her pitch for me to give the
school $400 sure got my attention. I mean, I want a
Dairy Queen in the campus center extension as
much as the next guy. The check’s in the mail.

Even though the extension is open until it closes,
sometimes you have to use the vending machines
UAS provides.

Here’s a possible scenario: You skip out on your
five star dinner in the dining hall and have just
pulled a bunch of fire alarms. Your probably getting
kind of hungry but you can’t go to Taco Bell cause
you have blue dye all over your hands. So you go
to the vending machines and stare into the
possibilities of food choices that will make your
worst enemy happy cause every quarter you put in
that vending machine takes a year off your life.
FEAR GRIPS YOUR HEART LIKE A DRUNK
SUNYA STUDENT GRIPS THEIR LAST BUS
TICKET, (which now costs 40 cents-15 cents
cheaper than that candy bar). Fear of what? That
your coveted purchase will hang there, teetering,
being suspended by four quarks of plastic, refusing
to succumb to gravity, holding your stomach
prisoner.

So what can you do?

A. Slam down another fifty...er...fifty—five cents.
What happens...

(1) Your already fragile psyche is pushed even
closer to the edge as both candy bars hang there
like the Flying Zampesi Brothers’ high—wire act at

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Ringling Brother’s circus.

2 It’s just like Las Vegas in your own quad as you
win the food you paid for.

B. Upon seeing that your not getting your candy
bar, you read the note on the machine that tells you
where to call if you have problems getting your lost
funds reimbursed.

C. You grab the machine and shake it so hard and
for so long that the Pepsi machine becomes
aroused.

D. As your hunger reaches desperate levels, you are
on the verge of blacking out from delirium, you
smash your hand through the glass and withdraw
the Twix bar. Now covered in blood, carmel,
chocolate, and of course, the cookie wafer, you eat
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Snap Judgements
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Song reviews written in two minutes or

less.

Aerosmith-Blindman

GT-My utter hatred for this band makes it
difficult for me to say all I want to say in two
minutes or less. BUT let me start by saying that
this band is a caricature of their former selves.
Any band that would headline Waynestock is a
band I have contempt for. And Steve Tyler is
really ugly but his daughter is not.

HT-This video doesn’t have that cool chick from
The Crush in it. Why bother to make a video?
Why bother to make a song?

Red Hot Chili Peppers—Neither of us know the
title, but the signer mumbles stuff like
hugabobasigaboba.

GT-It sucked.

HT-It made me wish I was deaf or they were
mute.

Unidentified band-Sounds like some Led
Zeppelin song.

GT-It sounds like every other fucking song.
HT-Bad Candlebox. Or is that an oxymoron?

Def Leppard—High N’ Dry

GT-This song exemplifies our generation. A
generation that doesn't have the advantages of
generations of milleniums past. We have been left
out in the cold and in effect, high and dry. Plus
the drummer had two arms.

HT-— He took my answer.

Degeneration (or D Generation)-who cares?
GT-This annoying noise defines itself by its own
admission and realizes it’s just a degeneration of
good music.
HT-Sounds like poison, kind of. Remember
poison? No. You won’t remember these foals
either.

Pearl Jam—Dissident
GT-Eddie Vedder and friends rely on the fact that
no one can understand what he is saying when
they recorded this meaningless song.
HT-This could be the Allman Brothers but they
had the good sense to die before they sounded
like this. Didn’t their drummer lose his

wrists?(See Def Leppard.)

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Thrown Out of Office

To the Editor:

On Thursday November 17, several members of the
Graduate Student Employee Union and some graduate
students who hold fellowships went to talk to President
Swygert’s during open office hours about the need for
health benefits for students holding “minority”
fellowships. Those hours had been advertised in the ASP
over the last few weeks and I had thought they were a
sign of courage, openness, and willingness to
communicate. Yesterday, President Swygert knowingly
kept these graduate students waiting for two hours while
other visitors streamed past them; he blatantly refused to
see them as a group and then retracted a compromise to
see two of them; WHEN THEY OBJECTED, HE
PERSONALLY THREATENED TO CALL CAMPUS
POLICE TO HAVE THEM EVICTED FROM HIS
OFFICE.

If the President cannot sit down with courage and
communicate with a peaceable group of students, what
does this show about how decisions are made in this
University, and with what attitude towards us? This
behavior indicated a kind of administrative terror which
is completely unjust, completely unnecessary, and
intimidate, to silence and to intimidate these students. I
ask him to OPEN his mind as well as his office and to
initiate an actual meeting with this group.

Jennifer Mitchell

Groups Unwelcome

To the Editor:

I write in response to Ms. Mitchell’s letter to the ASP
dated November 18, in which she criticized President
Swygert’s open office hour policy as it was allegedly
applied to members of the Graduate Student Employee
Union group requesting to see him on November 17. As
the President’s secretary/receptionist, and the person
who greeted this group, I would like to present a more
accurate, and less emotional report of their visit to the
President’s office.

The President’s open office hour policy was designed
to provide opportunity for him to meet the greater
numbers of individual students, faculty and staff than he
is able to accommodate on a pre-scheduled appointment
to meet with President Swygert on a first-come, first
served basis with no appointment necessary.

There were seven or eight persons in Ms. Mitchell’s
group. Not all of them were students; some were staff
members of an employee union. When the President was
advised of their wish to speak with him, I was asked by
him to indicate that these office hours were a time for
him to meet with individual students, faculty and staff
and he would therefore speak only to one or two students
but he would not engage in dialogue with the entire
group regarding union business. Mr. Stephen Beditz,
Director of Human Resources, was also asked by
President Swygert to speak with Ms. Mitchell, the other
students and the union representatives and they
eventually agreed that two persons would be designated
as spokespersons. They were given (in turn) an
opportunity to speak with President Swygert. While the
group held discussions to select it’s spokespersons, the
President continued to meet with other students who had
arrived to see him.

When the designees from Ms. Mitchell’s group were
identified, the President willingly agreed to meet with
them. He personally called the name of one of them, Ms.
Lisa Schackelton, three times and only when she failed
to respond did he proceed to his next appointment.

It was at that point that Ms. Mitchell and her group
rose from the steps and confronted the President at the
door to his office, challenging him with their alleged
“right” to see him. The President asked them to leave.
Following further conversation with Mr. Beditz they
finally did so.

Please be assured that all persons who arrive during
office hours to see the President are cordially granted the
opportunity. Since the hours have been designated as
first-come, first-served, it should be expected that
waiting will occur. Perhaps if Ms. Mitchell or designees
from her group exercised the courage they accuse the
President of lacking, their spokespersons would have
met with him one-on-one without needing the support
of seven peers.

Ms. Mitchell, be assured there is no “administrative
terror” in the President’s office. The only “terror” I
confront is caused by concern for the safety of my
colleagues and myself when persons who visit this office
present inappropriate behavior. Ms. Mitchell, neither I,
nor the President, nor any other employee in this office,
deserves the abusive and confrontational treatment
meted out by your group. Perhaps you could demonstrate
your “courage” by extending to me a personal apology
others of your group have given to the President and Mr.
Beditz.

I sincerely hope you will read and learn from this
different viewpoint of your visit to the President’s office.

Natalie S. Dean
President’s Secretary

Danger on Indian
To the Editor: 5

I am writing to inform you of a situation that requires
your immediate attention. Over the past three weeks, I
received reports from quadrangle residents involving an
unknown person or persons entering their unlocked suite
and/or bedroom door(s). In some cases, the residents
were home when this occurred. In two cases, residents
were victimized by men who muscled their way into the

_ Suite and asked the students for money. Three students
involved in these two cases were arrested by our |

University Police Department and suspended from the
University pending their University Judicial Hearings.

In addition, during the early morning hours of
November 28th, an Indian Quad resident reported that
she was assaulted by an unknown male when exiting her
suite. The seriousness of this situation has resulted in

immediate investigation by a team of University Police .

investigators. If anyone has information on this or any of
the above situations, please call University Police
immediately at 442-3131.

I cannot urge you strongly enough to keep your
bedroom and suite doors locked at all times and to use
the peephole on your suite door before you unlock it. Do
not prop doors or allow unknown persons into the
residence halls. These actions compromise your safety,
and the safety of others in our community. Further, I
would like to remind those of you on the first floor to
keep your windows closed and locked when you are not
in the room and when you are sleeping.

Should you notice unfamiliar persons entering suites
without knocking, please note their description and
phone University Police at 9-1-1 immediately. If you
have safety questions or concerns about Indian Quad,
please address them to your Residence Hall Director or
to me as soon as possible. Your safety is extremely
important to us.

Cindi Avery

Coordinator of Quadrangle
and Educational Development
Indian Quad

Tree Keeps Growing
To the Editor:

Last year a project was initiated at the University at
Albany which we can all be proud of. This project,
called “The Giving Tree” was started by Bryan A.
Moody, then Assistant Director for Residential Life and
Housing.

Bryan had a vision. He dreamed that nobody would go
without a gift during the holiday season. The Giving
Tree’s success was evident in its first year, and Bryan
made a promise that he would be back the following year
with even more gifts. Unfortunately, Bryan A. Moody
passed away in May before his promise could be
fulfilled.

The Brothers of Alpha Phi Omega, National Co-Ed
Service Fraternity, are continuing his effort, but we need
your help to keep Bryan’s dream alive. We will be
placing “Giving Trees” by the Residential Life and
Housing office, Student Association office, University
Police Department, State Office Cafeteria, and the
Northway Mall.

Each tree will have tags attached to it, listing presents
requested by needy children. Take a tag, buy the present
specified, and put the wrapped present under the tree.
That’s all it takes to put a smile on a child’s face. We
invite everyone to participate in this wonderful and
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Robinson at 442-9907.
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Gripes on “The Vibe”

To the Editor:

It is a very sad day when a person hears about a
blatant racist, homophobic, sexist incident and doesn’t
feel any emotion. When I heard about what happened to
Denise (I do not remember her last name) on “The Vibe”
in her expository class, I didn’t feel anything. I felt no
sadness. I felt no anger. I felt no disbelief. For those of
you who do not know about the incident, Denise was in
her expository English class and they were on the
Internet.

All of a sudden, there were sexist, racist, homophobic,
and anti-homeless remarks on the computer screen. You
would not believe what was being said. I could not
believe this was 1994 and people still believed this crap.
This incident was frightening because it happened on a
college campus, in “our just community.” We are
supposed to be educating ourselves. We are supposed to
get beyond the stereotypes. It seems like we’re only
regressing. And I do not understand why. Why can’t
people get beyond this crap and just see the human? I do
not understand it. I only feel sorry for Denise because I
understand the emptiness she feels and the illusions that
are shattered.

You really want to believe in people, but incidents like
this happen and it becomes more difficult to trust
anyone. I do not understand why this person chose to

make those remarks. I do not understand why nothing is
being done. We need to unite, not as Asian—Americans,
African—Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Italians,
Irish, heterosexuals, homosexuals, Muslims, Hindus,
Christians, Jews, etc, but as Human Beings who
condemn racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti—homeless
acts.

I want to thank Denise for having the courage to let
people know what happen. We can not chose to close our
eyes. An attack on one human being is an attack on all of
us.

Anouska Cheddie

Cover More Positives
To the Editor:

I am writing, unfortunately, to inform you of our “just
community’s” most neglected organization. There is one
group on campus who is relentless in their civic duties.
Day after day, week after week, the Greek Community is
ignored, at best, or insulted and maliciously reported
upon by the ASP and harshly referred to by many
students at the University.

Yet, day after day, week after week, the Greek
Community continually is out there making donations to
sO many organizations of charity on and off campus,
sending food to the homeless, raising toys for tots; going
above and beyond their responsibility and anyone’s
expectations of what they should be doing for our
community.

No, we are not perfect. Unfortunately, this is
magnified by your constant front page reports on the rare
occasions when a Greek Community member does get
into trouble.

However, when we are out there raising money for the
school and community we are given a tiny column, if
any, on your back pages. Any organization with such
large membership is going to have it’s problems.

But when a Senior gets into trouble you do not blame
the Senior Class; when an African American gets into
trouble you do not malign the entire African American
Community; when a Jewish Student gets into trouble you
do not publicly debase the entire religion. Once in a
while, a Greek gets into trouble. It happens.

Do not cast aside the entire Greek Community because
a couple of unfortunate incidents. The University at
Albany thrives because of its strong Greek System. We
have brought this campus to a level second to none.

Appreciate us and work with us. It is all about people
coming together for a common cause. With all the
barriers on this campus, this is sometimes seems
impossible. Break down this barrier. You do not have to
join us, just understand what we are truly about.

Larry Stern

COLUMN

Continued from page 8

No positive action was ever taken by SUNY
Cobleskill to correct the situation which they had caused
back in August. The student constantly visited the
Bursars office. He was also on the phone almost daily
with Key Bank requesting that they re—submit the loan to
SUNY Cobleskill, all to no avail.

The student made every effort including the
re—submission of another loan application to the College,
which was returned to him. It was also the only thing
that SUNY Cobleskill ever recommended doing, yet was
returned by that same college as unprocessible. The
student called after it was returned, but the Financial
Aide office was once again unable to help him.

They did of course send him bills which he responded
to by calling Cobleskill and asking for requisition
information as to how he might rectify this ongoing
problem. Their response was, “We don’t know.” A
response that had become more of a credo than anything
else when requesting information from them and Key
Bank. Months later, the student graduated and
transferred to SUNY Albany. His transcripts were
released by SUNY Cobleskill and he was on his way to
finishing his Bachelors degree, with the hopes of going
on to law school. Until, one day in 1994, he was to
receive a letter in the mail. A letter sent by the State
Attorney Generals office informing him that he was the
subject of a law suit for the past due amount, which the
College had originally refused .

The College claims, “The student did not follow up in
a timely fashion.” Their records do not show he made
any effort to do so. They also do not show the student
was withdrawn twice or re—admitted.

It is now the fall of 94’ and the student, who had
planned on applying to law schools is unable to do so.
They have refused to send his transcripts (which are not
relevant to the law suit) to LSDAS, essentially
destroying his chances of attending law school in the fall
and delaying his life goals. Instead of attending law
school in the near future, he will be attending court to
fight this injustice which is destroying his dreams.
Remember this could be you or your child. Be careful;

_ the college you attend could ruin your life. SUNY

Cobleskill is attempting to ruin mine.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thrown Out of Office

To the Editor:

Jennifer Mitchell

Groups Unwelcome
To the Editor: P

I sincerely hope you will read and learn from this
different viewpoint of your visit to the President’s office.

Natalie S. Dean
President’s Secretary

Danger on Indian
To the Editor: 5 :

suite and asked the students for money. Three students
involved in these two cases were arrested by our |

University Police Department and suspended from the
University pending their University Judicial Hearings.

immediate investigation by a team of University Police .

investigators. If anyone has information on this or any of
the above situations, please call University Police
immediately at 442-3131.

Cindi Avery

Coordinator of Quadrangle
and Educational Development
Indian Quad

Tree Keeps Growing
To the Editor:

The Brothers of Alpha Phi Omega, National Co—Ed
Service Fraternity, are continuing his effort, but we need
your help to keep Bryan’s dream alive. We will be
placing “Giving Trees” by the Residential Life and
Housing office, Student Association office, University
Police Department, State Office Cafeteria, and the
Northway Mall.

Robinson at 442-9907.
Prescott Gaylord

Brett S. Robinson

Gripes on “The Vibe”

To the Editor:

’ You really want to believe in people, but incidents like
this happen and it becomes more difficult to trust
anyone. I do not understand why this person chose to

I want to thank Denise for having the courage to let
people know what happen. We can not chose to close our
eyes. An attack on one human being is an attack on all of
us.

Anouska Cheddie

Cover More Positives
To the Editor:

No, we are not perfect. Unfortunately, this is
magnified by your constant front page reports on the rare
occasions when a Greek Community member does get
into trouble.

Larry Stern

COLUMN

Continued from page 8

No positive action was ever taken by SUNY
Cobleskill to correct the situation which they had caused
back in August. The student constantly visited the
Bursars office. He was also on the phone almost daily
with Key Bank requesting that they re-submit the loan to
SUNY Cobleskill, all to no avail.

the college you attend could ruin your life. SUNY

Cobleskill is attempting to ruin mine.

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Sex surveyed
at workshop

By STEPHANIE BETH FINDLING
Staff Writer

A student organization spon-
sored a workshop entitled
“Oversexed Society,” focusing
on sex in the 90’s Wed.

The evening began with the
reading of an informal survey of
29 females and 61 males on
SUNYA campus. Questions
ranged from “How often do you
have sex/” to “Do you know
anyone who has died of AIDS?”

After an open discussion peri-
od, Carol Stenger, a health edu-
cator from the SUNYA infir-
mary, spoke to the group about
sex and the safest forms.

Stenger gave a brief presenta-
tion on the proper use of con-
doms. She also spoke about con-
traceptives such as the female
condom, nonoxinol—9 and vagi-
nal contraceptive film.

Stenger said, “Some form of
safety measure must be taken in
order to prevent pregnancy and
to serve as protection from
STD’s.”

Gift project expands McCar

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Last year Brian Moody,
Director of Programming for
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Alpha Phi Omega fraternity
members, Prescott Gaylord and
Debra Syden, delivered 250 pre-
sents to various orphanages,
agencies and local shelters.

Moody died last spring but that
did not end the Giving Tree pro-
ject. The one difference this year
is that most of the 42 co-ed ser-
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be back again the following year,
Alpha Phi Omega has already
begun setting up trees in various
SUNY offices. ;

“Having a university like
SUNY Albany involved in help-
ing those in need certainly has an
impact on the community at
large,” said Karen Woodsworth,
Program Director at the Mercy
House, an emergency shelter for
woman and children. °

She also emphasized that any
contribution during the holidays
that Mercy provides is a help to
women who are without family
this year. This is the first year the
shelter has been sponsored by the
fraternity.

The first tree this year was set
up in the office of Residential
Life during Thanksgiving week-
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Fighting off the hysterical
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make a film about oppression
and prejudice in a New Mexico
salt mining town.

News Feature

Speaking in the Campus
Center Ballroom about making a
film and its significance today,
Assistant Director Jules Schwer-
in said, “It’s like no other film
that’s ever been made.”

The film was made with virtu-
ally no budget and a cast of
actors who were mostly real life

thy—era film revived

victims of labor discrimination.
“Salt of the Earth” documents
the events of a brutal battle.
between the management and
the on-strike labor union at a
zinc mine.

“My wife told me when I.
agreed to make this picture,
‘they’ Il kill you’,” he said.

At one point, a mob of more
than 150 vigilantes were pre-
pared to storm the production
site and assassinate the “black-
listed” film makers. Only an
eleventh-hour plea to the
Governor of New Mexico, and a
threat that all unionized miners
in the state would strike, saved
the defenseless crew.

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GIVING TREE

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Registrar, the Student Association.
There are also several locations outside
the university where trees will be, or
already have been, sent such as in the
Department of Environmental
Conservation, and in the Albany City
Hall.

The fraternity is looking forward to
delivering up to 750 gifts this year to
places like the Equinox Shelter and the
Mercy House as well as social service
agencies.

The deadline for sponsoring a
Christmas present is December 14. Gifts
will be delivered on the following day.

FOOTBALL

Continued from back page

1994, he set single-season records for
receptions (53), receiving yardage (976),
and all-purpose running (1,441 yards).
Shein topped the 100-yard mark in
receiving five times this season. In his
final game against William Paterson,
Shein established another record with 188
yards on eight catches.

“It’s going to be very awkward next
year without him,” Savino said.

Shein has a 3.66 grade point average in
political science.

With tough blocking and pass protec-
tion, Turrin helped the Albany offense
rank first among Upstate New York teams
at 389.6 yards per game. Playing along-
side Turrin was junior Rich Tallarico.
Tallarico, who has a 3.93 GPA in biology,
played both guards positions for the high
powered Albany offense.

Senior Locci led all Great Dane defend-
ers with 112 tackles. He finished his
career ranked second on the schools
all-time tackles chart (298).

Junior Emerson recorded 56 tackles,
and added 2.5 quarterback sacks, four
tackles for loss and three pass break-ups.
He returns next season already among
Albany’s career leaders with 171 tackles.

Junior Robertson had a stellar year as a
defensive back for the Danes. Robertson
had 49 tackles and led his team with four

interceptions..He has a 3.26 GPA in math-

ematics.

CHANCELLOR

Continued from front page

are set by the governor and the legislative
body.” He said he has “no particular
insights into the Governor’s (elect George

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The problems with education through-.

out the country are very similar “and
often spoken in the same
language,” Bartlett said, though each state
feels their problems are unique.

CHEEVER

Continued from page 7
lower life forms.” Cheever brought up the
example of a retarded child, which has
“lower intelligence” than most humans,
yet would never “ethically” be allowed to
participate in a medical research experi-
ment such as those used on animals.
Cheever drew a comparison between how
society has “finally” begun to include
women and African Americans into their
“compassionate circle.” Now, she said,
“Why not go to the next step and include
“non-human animals in that same cir-
cle?”

Using currently utilized cosmetic
research tests as models for her argument,
Cheever discussed how these tests were
“redundant, unnecessary, subjective and
cruel.” She described the Draize test,
where substances are dripped into rabbits’
eyes to measure toxicity and the LDS50
test, where a sample is forced into the
systems of animals until it kills half the
test population. Tests like these, Cheever
said, are currently used by large corpora-
tions such as Gillette and Procter &
Gamble, even though they are “unreliable
and cause unnecessary suffering to mil-
lions of animals a year.” Cheever men-
tioned these tests as the reason why she
does not buy products from such compa-
nies, and described how other firms, such
as L’Oreal and Avon, have ceased these
kind of tests due to consumer pressure.
These tests are not “safety tests” accord-
ing to Cheever, since products are market-
ed whether or not the animals die from
such testing.

She then discussed alternatives for such
tests, which involve neither “animal suf-
fering” nor the expense of the elaborate
experiments described previously, which
utilizes proteins as biological imitators of
human reactions to a test sample.
Computer models, said Cheever, can also
be used to predict chemical reactions in
humans, which animals cannot do, since
their body compositions are entirely dif-
ferent.

Biomedical science has not been signif-
icantly advanced due to the use of animal
research, asserted Cheever. Using charts
and graphs, she claimed, declines in cer-

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of animal research, which gained
widespread popularity in the 1940’s.
Cheever said certain drugs and medical
methods have indeed benefited from ani-
mal research, but said, “That’s the way of
the past...these are not methods for the
future.”

The discussion was supplemented by
graphic videos of animal research.

SALT
Continued from page 11

Schwerin, the only surviving member
of the original crew, was visibly emotion-
al when he discussed the damage done by
the McCarthy Era.

“You can’t put a price tag on the kind
of damage that was done. People were
driven to suicide, families were needless-
ly broken up, people were jailed. There’s
just no way to calculate the damage done”
Schwerin said.

The film’s director, Herbert Biberman
was one of the original “Hollywood Ten,”
a title that landed him in jail for 11
months for his alleged Leftist sympathies.
Several screenwriters and film directors
were forced to appear at Congressional
hearings for holding opinions that were
politically unpopular.

Schwerin called the activities of
Congress “Totally inappropriate and un-
American.” As a result of being outcast,
Schwerin could no longer find work in the
film industry. It was so difficult for the
director to find work that, “At one point, I
was selling fishing poles on street cor-
ners,” he said. 5

After its stifled and short-lived release
in America, Salt found commercial and
critical success abroad. The film won sev-
eral awards in Europe. Only in the 1960’s
did the film seep its way back into
American counter-culture.

In the sixties and seventies, the film
was a popular inspirational tool for femi-
nist groups, labor unions and college stu-

dents in the middle of their own private
revolutions.

Today the film has achieved a kind of
cult-status, and Schwerin is hopeful that
young people will continue to watch it
and not forget about, “The importance of
organized labor.”

Despite the fact that he stands nothing
to gain from it financially, Schwerin still
travels and promotes the work.

“T don’t even know who owns the
rights to it anymore. It’s not me,”
Schwerin said. “It’s available in some
video stores, and is still popular on col-
lege campuses. Too many lives were
destroyed to forget about it.”

Unexpected nude photo
found in college yearbook

(CPS)—Alumni returning to campus
for Homecoming Weekend were not
able to pick up their copy of the 1994
yearbook due to a picture of a penis on
page 89 that’ somehow made it past cen-
sors.

Twenty-eight out of 800 copies of the
yearbook, “The Kronicle,” were
released on the Friday of Homecoming
Weekend before College Relations
ordered all of the remaining copies to be
recalled.

After a meeting with College
Relations and the university president,
members of the “Kronicle” staff were
given three options. They could either
leave the picture the way it was, remove
the page or order stickers to be placed
over the offensive picture. .

According to Andrea Celico, the
executive editor of the “Kronicle,”
ordering the stickers was the only rea-
sonable choice. If the picture had been
left alone, the “Kronicle” could not
enter competitions and would have to
deal with a lot of negative feedback.
Removing the page was impossible con-
sidering it was in the ceriter of the book
and would damage several other pages.

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14 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1994

LADY DANES

continued from back page
November 22. With a lead for most of the
first half, the Danes ran into
Binghamton’s formidable three—point
shooter, Tanya Williams, who scored 26
points. Albany was down 31-25 at the
half, a score which disappointed Warner.

She stated that the defense should be
giving up under 30 points each half, but
against Binghamton had “horrendous
transition defense.”

Williams increased the deficit to ten
points, but Squires and Jenkins kept it
close, just to lose 48-44. Ginsberg led the
scoring, with only 11 points.

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against William Smith on December 30,
was close for the first half, although the
Herons outplayed the Danes.

William Smith trailed until 1:57 in the
first half, pulling away in the final minute
on some poor plays by Albany. Suddenly,
it seemed as if the Danes were not in the
game at all. Down only six points at the
half, they quickly dropped further when
the second half began, particularly on a
four point play by Pamela DuMond, mak-
ing it 39-27. Only Squires appeared able
to penetrate William Smith’s defense. By
6:35, the Herons led 61-41, but the
Danes’ defense slowed them down the
rest of the way.

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gap. William Smith led by double—digits
literally down to the last second, but
Ginsberg’s layup made the final score
67-58.

Her 18 points led the way for the fourth
straight game, followed by Squires’ 13
points and 10 rebounds, despite five fouls.

The killer factor was not lack of bas-
kets, as Albany shot better than William
Smith, but the heavy number of fouls
against a good free throw shooting team
(.733 in the game). Albany was also heav-
ily outrebounded in the first half.

In the Capital District Tournament, “we
were ready to go. The starting group set
the tempo,” Warner said. “Our shot selec-
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(William Smith was 25-3 last year) was
transition misses.

“We don’t want ever to have compla-
cency,” Warner stressed.

The defense will have to step up, she
said, in the next few games. Up now on
the schedule is the Manhattanville
Tournament, followed by a challenge
from the dangerous New York University.

“Tt offers us an opportunity to get back
on track,” Warner stated.

One of the big pluses has been the job
done by some of the backups. With
Feerick playing big minutes, Warner is
concerned about how well she will adjust
to being the only point guard. So far, she
has done well.

The tournament begins Saturday,
December 3 in Manhattanville. The Lady
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Great Dane baseball will be
going into its spring season with
many new faces, including a new
head coach. With the transition
to Division II, they will play in
both semesters after this spring.

Keith Shuler, pitcher for the
Great Danes, spoke regarding the
preparation for the coming sea-
son.

“We lost our best hitter in Leo
Garcia,” who led Albany to the
Eastern College Athletic
Conference playoffs, Shuler said.
But they have a lot of young
arms, and “we hope to build on
[our success] last year.”

Doug O’Brey has been named
head baseball coach by the
University at Albany. This
announcement was made by
Director of Athletics Dr. Milton
E. Richards.

O’Brey has coached baseball

on the scholastic, collegiate and
semi—professional levels. He was
recently an assistant coach at
Albany High School and has
worked at Arbor Hill Elementary
School for the last nine years as a
physical education teacher. He
has also been a baseball assistant
at Scotia-Glenville and
Guilderland high schools.

From 1987-90, O’Brey served
as both an assistant varsity coach
and head junior varsity coach at
Siena College. He was a player
and a manager for six seasons in
the Albany Twilight league. His
semi—professional teams went to
three championships. He was the
league’s batting champion with a
.463 average in 1984.

O’Brey is a native of Scotia,
NY. During his college years, he
was an all—Carolinas Conference
player at Pfeiffer College, an
NAIA school in North Carolina.
He batted over .400 in his career,

and was among the nation’s lead-
ers in doubles with 35 as a
senior. He also played for
Hudson Valley Community
College in the early 1980s, and
was a junior college all-star.

He competed for four years in
football, basketball and baseball
at Scotia—Glenville High School.
He was twice chosen to the
Suburban Council All-Star Team
in baseball. He was a regular at
quarterback and punter on the
football squad as well.

Albany baseball, coached by Ed

Zaloom to a 124—117-2 record
over the last 10 years, will play
at the National Collegiate
Athletic Association Division II
level, beginning with the
1995-96 academic year, and
compete in the New England
Collegiate Conference (NECC).

“Everything is running
smoothly,” team member Dave
Walsh said.

BASKETBALL

Continued from back page

losing effort Dormer came off
the bench to lead Albany with 19
' |points, as Markel added 18 and
Hotaling 16. Another freshman,
Ryan Brenner, came off the
bench for 8 points and 10
rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to
stop MVP Akil Screen and the
All-Tournament selection Tyson
Nargassans of Skidmore. Screen
finished with 26 points and 14
rebounds and Nargassans fin-
ished with 14 points in limited
action due to foul trouble.
Hotaling and Markel were select-
ed to the All-Tournament team
from Albany. Preceding the
championship game was the con-
solation game, in which
Rensselaer beat Union 90-78.

Tim DeGregory scored 18 points
and Brett Durham added 17 for
the Engineers. Reinis Kanders
had 23 points and 10 rebounds
for the Dutchmen. Kanders and
DeGregory were each selected to
the All-Tournament team from
their respective teams.

After losing to Skidmore, the
Danes had to go on the road to
face a Binghamton team who
handed Albany their first loss a
year ago. Albany was determined
not to slip up again and showed
it by taking a 9 point lead into
half. Hotaling scored 12 of his 14
points in the first half and Chris
Barnes added 10 of his 18 in the
half. The second half was no dif-
ferent as the Danes kept up the
pressure and came away with a
76-60 victory. Duncan and
Smith scored 12 and 10 respec-
tively off the bench as Albany

improved to 2-1.

Thus far this Albany team has
been very unpredictable, with
someone new stepping up their
level of play each night. There
have been four different leading
scorers in the first four games of
the season for the Danes.
Hotaling is leading the Danes in
scoring with 15.2 points per
game, followed by Markel at 10
per game. Ferrier leads the team
in rebounding with 8 per game
and Duncan is second with 6 per
contest. Also noteworthy is the
65 percent shooting percentage
of Doug Smith.

This weekend, after a one year
absence, Albany hosts the Great
Dane Tournament. On Friday,
December 2, the Danes take on
Johnson & Wales (0-1), preced-
ed by Green Mountain (3-2) tak-
ing on Staten Island (3-1).

Lisa Nesta—the All A

By AARON GREENBERG
Sports Editor

Lisa Nesta was one of many

new faces on this year’s women’s
cross country team, but easily
distinguished herself right from
the start.
Her All-American performance
at the National Collegiate
Athletic Association Division III
National Championships was the
first ever for Albany’s women.

A sophomore, she transferred
to Albany from St. Bonaventure,
a Division I school. Lisa has
always been involved with sports,
playing soccer, basketball and
softball in high school. Not
expecting to play any of these in
college, Lisa talked to the cross
country coach.

“I go crazy if I’m not playing a
sport,” she said, explaining that it
gives her something to do. An
accounting major, she said that
“it helps you budget your time
better.”

She made the team at St.
Bonaventure and performed fairly
well, running about two minutes
longer than she takes now to fin-
ish the 5000 meters.

Enjoying her new sport, Lisa
decided to continue running when
she came to the University. She
ran some races over the summer,
and, making her Albany debut in
the second meet, took eighth
place in the Cortland Invitational.
In every race she ran, Lisa led the
Danes.

As the season wore on, she
won the Capital District
Championship and the New

York State
Championship,
grabbed second
in the Eastern
College Athletic
Conference
Championships
and wound up
second in the
Regional}
Qualifiers with a}
time of 18:37.

One of the}
best parts of]
being on the}
squad at Albany, |
she said, is the]
coaching staff
Coach Kevin
Williams had]
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the men’s team,

Staff photo by Pete Archer

and became both Lisa Nesta had an incredible end to an incredible season.

squads’ head coach this year.

“Kevin had experience...they
are helpful, knowledgeable and
supportive,” she said.

Her favorite race was the state
championship, where she sur-
prised everyone with her win.
There was no pressure, because
none of the other teams expected
her to do so well. During the
year, she went on to beat every-
one in the region except for
Cortland’s Michelle LaFleur,
who won the _ National
Championship. Her family helped
inspire her, showing up at all the
races. )

“Having them was always an
edge,” she believes.

Lisa was nervous at Nationals,
hoping to just get the race over-
with. It turned out that her goal of

taking a top 25 spot
(All-American) was within
reach, as she took 14th in
18:27.9, becoming Albany’s first
ever women’s cross country
All-American. It was a pleasant
surprise for her, finishing up a
fairly impressive season for the
young team.

“Everyone improved through
the season. As a whole, we did
well,” she said.

Now Lisa Nesta gets to look
forward to a whole new experi-
ence, running track and field
under coach Roberto Vives. Her
first assignment will likely be
1500 and 5000 meter races during
the indoor season. If she gets as
comfortable there as she did with
cross country, the results ought to
be interesting.

ASP football picks

By THoMAS MCMAHON
Associate Sports Editor

Cowboys —3 1/2 at Eagles

The Cowboys have had nine
days to prepare for this one,
after their Thanksgiving Day
win. Rodney Peete says he’s
ready to go, so are “The Boys”.
The Eagles are falling fast and
this game will only help them
hit rock bottom. PICK:
Cowboys
Packers +1 1/2 at Lions

Both teams come off nine
days rest, with the Packers los-
ing to Dallas and the Lions
pulling out all the stops against
the Bills. The question becomes
can Green Bay stop Barry? Yes.
PICK: Packers
Jets —2 1/2 at Patriots

The Jets come off a hard loss
and the Patriots come off a road
win against Indianapolis. With
both these team’s inconsisten-
cies, who know what’s going to
happen. When in doubt, pick
against the Jets. PICK: Patriots
Steelers -6 at Bengals
The Steelers are a good team
on the rise. Neil O’Donnell is
back. The Steelers are just too
good to lose a game in the
standings by blowing this one.
PICK: Steelers
Redskins +2 1/2 at Bucs

This one ought to be exciting!
NOT! The Bucs have at least
shown some signs of life in the
last few weeks. They will come
out with the victory in the “Big
Sombrero.” PICK: Bucs
Broncos +3 1/2 at Chiefs

Will Joe play? Who knows?
The Broncos are on the rise
after starting slow, while the
Chiefs haven’t looked worse
since Montana’s arrival. Elway
will lead the Broncos past the
banged up Chiefs. PICK:
Broncos
Falcons —13 at 49ers

The 49ers are strong this year
both on defense and offense.
Perhaps another scuffle between

Deion and Andre? I can only
hope so. “Prime Time” doesn’t
let the Niners look past this one.
PICK: 49ers
Giants +7 at Browns :

The Giants come off a win in
the slop over the Redskins. The
Browns are the best team that
nobody mentions or respects, so
take this!
PICK: Giants
Cards —3 at Oilers

The Cards can’t win on the
road and the Oilers just can’t
win! This will come down to
Buddy’s boys putting pressure
on Houston’s quaterbacks. This
won’t be pretty or high scoring,
but it will be a win for the
Cards. PICK: Cards
Colts +3 at Seahawks ©

The Colts have their own ver-
sion of the “Marshall Plan”, that
would be to give Mr. Faulk the
ball as often as possible. The
Seahawks have a good defense
led by Cortez Kennedy, but
enough to stop Faulk? Yes!
PICK: Seahawks

- Saints +3 at Rams

Jim “don’t call me Chris”
Everett returns to his old stomp-
ing grounds. The Rams have
Jerome Bettis, but in the last
few weeks that hasn’t meant
much and it won’t this week
either. PICK: Saints
Bills -3 1/2 at Dolphins

Miami comes off a comeback
win over the Jets and the Bills
come off nine days rest after
losing to the desperate Lions. If
the Bills want to make it back to
the promised land for a fifth
consecutive time this game is a
must win. Oh well! I guess there
will be a new king in the AFC.
PICK: Dolphins
Raiders +4 at Chargers

The Raiders were everyone’s
pick this year, until everyone
saw them play! The Chargers
were nobody’s pick, until every-
body saw them play! Onto the
band wagon I go!

PICK: Chargers

December 2,

1994

Covering University at Albany sports since 1916

Great Dane hoops off to another strong start

Recovery from Tournament loss underway with win over Castleton State

By THOMAS MCMAHON
Associate Sports Editor

On Wednesday the Albany men’s bas-
ketball team improved its record to 3-1
with a 67-54 victory over the Castleton

' State Spartans at the Recreation and
Convocation Center. Bob Markel led
Albany with 15 points and Ted Hotaling
added 12 as the Danes won their 658th
game under head coach Richard “Doc”
Sauers.

The game’s first half was played at a
slow pace, favoring Castleton State. The
Spartans rarely shot the ball with more
than ten seconds remaining on the 35 sec-

ond shot clock. Albany didn’t score their

Big man Brandon Zuklie goes for a shot.

Staff photo by Pete Archer

fourth point until 5:42 into the contest.
Castleton State’s slow—down tactics were
also evident in the 15—15 score with 3:09
remaining in the first half. The Danes
defense picked up the intensity and did
not allow a field goal in the final 6:06 of
the half. This allowed Albany to open up
a 25-15 half-time advantage. Senior, for-
ward, Jason Ferrier led Albany by scoring
all 10 of his points and grabbing eight of
his game and career high 13 rebounds
before the break.

After a turnover filled first half, the sec-
ond half began with the two teams trading
baskets until the Dane defense picked up
the intensity once again. This time the
Spartans went 6:22 without a field goal.
This defensive pressure allowed Albany
to go on a 12-2 run, and open up a 19
point lead with only 6:43 remaining. The
lead would get to 20 before Castleton
State would make a 13-4 run of its own
to cut the lead to 11, with 2:29 left in the
game. This would be as close as the
Spartans would get. Rich Dormer scored
five of his seven points on free throws in
the final 1:05 to assure Albany their sec-
ond victory at home in three tries this sea-
son.

As a team the Danes shot a dismal 34
percent, but their defense held the
Spartans to only 33 percent from the field.

“We had our shots. We just weren’t
knocking them down,” Ferrier said. “I

was just doing my job, hitting the boards
and putting them back.”

Castleton State also shot a horrific 4—17
(23.5 percent) from three-point land.
Jonathan Cobb led the Spartans with 14
points and 10 rebounds.

To open the season Albany hosted
Union, Skidmore and Rensselaer in the
Capital District Tournament. The tourna-
ment got underway with Skidmore defeat-
ing Rensselaer 100-85, behind Tyson
Nargassans’ 33 points in only 18 minutes
and Akil Screen’s 23 points and 12
rebounds. In the second game of the
evening Albany took on Union College.
Behind 19 points from Ted Hotaling and
15 points from Doug Smith off the bench
the Danes opened their season with a
79-68 win. Freshmen Bob Markel and
Andre Duncan, both made impressive
debuts. Markel finished with 5 points, 5
assists and 6 rebounds as Duncan finished
with 13 points and 7 rebounds. Jamie
Haver led Union with 15 points but the
Dutchmen shot a miserable 7-28 from
behind the three point arc.

Albany and Skidmore met for the
championship on Saturday night in front
of a crowd of 1,325. The game began
with each team trading baskets. Albany
gained the first advantage with a six point
lead with 7:23 to go in the first half. This
lead would quickly change hands as the
Thoroughbreds took a 12 point advantage

Staff photo by Pali Basi

The championship was up for grabs.

with 2:47 remaining in the opening half.
The Danes would put together one more
run to cut the lead to 7 at the break. To
start the second half Albany would cut the
lead to three before Skidmore went on a
14-0 run to stretch the lead to 17. The
lead got as high as 20 with 13:34 left in
the game before the Danes would explode
and go on a 21-5 run to pull within four
with 6:43 remaining. Albany would cut
the lead to three with 3:05 left, but get no
closer than that as Skidmore won the
championship by a score of 84-78. In the

See BASKETBALL on page 15

Lady Danes get Capital District Tourney win Seven Dane football

By AARON GREENBERG
Sports Editor

The Lady Danes started their sea-
son by demolishing two teams to win
the Capital District Tournament, but
then dropped two games to tougher
teams.

Co-captains Mickey Smith and
Christy Squires made it clear before
the tournament they would settle for
nothing less than to carry the first
place trophy away. When the Danes
pummeled Union College and
Skidmore College, coach Mari
Warner saw to it that her team back
up their words. Any high expectations
took a blow when the University at
Binghamton and William Smith
College beat Albany.

College Dutchwomen in the first
game of the season, sporting brand
new gold uniforms at the Recreation
and Convocation Center on
November 19. Junior Maura Quinn
hit two long jump shots to give
Albany a boost from the start. Just six
minutes into the season, the Danes
saw Smith go down with an injury.
She is still out, but will return in
about two weeks from a sprained
ankle. She was replaced by junior
point guard Margaret Feerick, who
has been playing nearly every minute.

Three-point shots by Feerick and
sophomore guard Samantha Ginsberg
sparked a run where Albany pushed
the score to 28-19. Union tried to
close the gap, against a swarming

Cross Country

defense, going to half-time with the
Danes up 35-23.

The second half went on for five
minutes with the teams trading bas-
kets before Albany struck again.
Feerick had no problem penetrating
the lane, setting up a 20-2 Lady Dane
spurt. Ginsberg emerged as the team
leader, pouring in eight points during
the rally. By 9:29, Albany had its
biggest lead of the game, 66-35, with
three of the new players on the court.

The Danes took total control of the
game, grabbing more rebounds, tak-
ing the ball away on steals and, most
importantly, hitting shots at a far bet-
ter rate than Union. The final score
was 81-56, with Ginsberg leading the
scoring. Her 16 points led a balanced
attack, where Feerick had 13, junior
Nicky Jenkins had 12 and junior cen-
ter Erica Witham added 10 points.
The Danes out-rebounded Union
57-45, taking care of a major problem
from last year.

For the tournament championship,
Albany faced the Skidmore
Throughbreds. Skidmore peaked at
the beginning, when the score was
10-10. From there on, it was all
Albany. Ginsberg spearheaded the
first half, beginning and ending the
drive with two outside shots. Eleven
of her points came in the half, taking
the Danes to a 40-17 half-time lead.
Skidmore kept trying the same plays
on offense, going to their right, but
couldn’t get going.

In the second half, the Danes
extended the lead to 32 on a Quinn

shot from 18 feet at 6:22. Facing the
Danes’ backups, Skidmore went on a
14~2 run, to close the gap. It was far
too little, far too late.

Albany’s 67-47 win gave them the
Capital District Tournament Cham-
pionship. To accept the trophy,
Squires carried her injured co—cap-
tain, who eagerly held it up, trying to

Staff photo by Roxanne de Prado
Christy Squires goes strong to the hoop.

put away once and for all the frustra-
tion of losing last year to Skidmore. It
was Albany’s tenth time winning the
championship in the tournament’s six-
teen years. Witham and Feerick made
the all-tournament team, with
Ginsberg receiving the most valuable
player award.

The euphoria did not last long, with
a loss in Binghamton (1-0) on

_ See LaDy DANES on page 14
Baseball? Yes!

stars receive honors

By Eric DAGNALL
Managing Editor

Post season awards for football were announced ~
this week and, as expected, University at Albany
quarterback Joe Savino was selected as the Eastern
College Athletic Conference Upstate New York
Rookie of the Year. In addition, four Great Danes

were chosen to the 1994 ECAC/Budget Division III

All-Star Team. These four players were flanker Andy
Shein, offensive tackle Scott Tufrrin, linebacker Chris
Locci and defensive end Jeff Emerson. Three football
players were chosen to the GTE Academic
All-American College Division District I Football
Team. Shein, Rich Tallarico and Chris Robertson
were the Great Danes named.

When last year’s quarterback Jaan Laap graduated
and the two juniors dropped off the team, the Danes
were left with a huge void at the position. However,
Savino had an outstanding year, far surpassing any-
one’s expectations.

Savino’s records stand for themselves. Savino con-
nected on 114 of 222 (.514) passes for a school record
1,742 yards and 12 touchdowns this season. His 130.6
efficiency mark made him the top-rated QB in
Upstate New York. He established an Albany
single-season standard with 1,801 yards in total
offense. He was selected as the ECAC Rookie-—
of—the—Week on three occasions. In all, Savino broke
seven Dane records.

Savino is very humble about his accomplishments
and credits his team and coaches for his development.

“The coaches were very supportive this year as
well as the players,” Savino said. “Coach Ford helped
a lot with the keys of the game.”

In his senior year, Shein became Albany’s alltime

leading receiver with 93 catches for 1,537 yards. In

See FOOTBALL on page 13

All-American Lisa Nesta, our shining star

of the fall - see page 15

Albany prepares for Division Il with new
coach — see page 15

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