Albany Student Press, Volume 69, Number 40, 1982 December 3

ASS = Spo

NOVEMBER 23, 1982

By spel

Mare Hi
ee SPORTS LDITOR

The Albany State Great Dane basketball
team could not have opened its 1982-83
season in a more exciting fashion, After
narrowly winning the first game of the
Capital Distric) Tip Off Tournament over
RPI 62-57, the Danes literally locked up
with host Union College Dutchmen,
Winners of their preliminary game with
Western Connecticut, in the title game
Saturday eve It took 40 minutes of
regulation time and three additional fives

nute overtime periods to decide the tour
nament champs, In the end, Union prevail-
ed 74-94 {0 win the tournament trophy

“Before the yume I said (0 Bill Scanlon
(Union College head basketball coach) that
1 thought this game would probably go
three overtimes,"" said Albany State head
coach Dick Sauers. And it did,"

Entering the third overtime session, the
two Capital District rivals were tied at 68
points a pl nior guard Joe Clinton,
the tournament's Most Valuable Player
With 22 points and five assists, opened the
scoring with his patented pull-up jump.
shot, Albany State center John
Dleckelman, who struggled through his
Worst tournament as a Great Dane, came
alive in the final period, He had two con-
secutive buckets to keep Albany in pace
with the Dutchmen but Dieckelman was
called for a foul underneath the hoop to
send Dutchman Kevin Bartlett to the foul
line, The 616" sophmore hit the
first of his two shots to put Union ahead to
stay.

Albany did riot quit in its attempt to
regain the lead, Dane Mike Gatto drove to
the basket and drew a two-shot foul from
Union forward Jeff Feigelson, Gatto miss-
ed both chances and Union reared back
with a Clinton bucket fo make the score
15-72,

Clinton's counterpart Dan Croutier
Felvrned the fayor by driving to the hoop
himself to bring the Danes back within one
point, For the sophomore guard, it was wo
of his game leading 24 points, Croutier also
had 10 assists, and two steals earning him a
Well deserved spot on the All-Tournament
eam.

“He's quick,” said Clinton of Croutier
“He's the quickest guy I've ever played
against.”

"1 think 1 refined my game this year,’
said Croutier, “Everyone played a good
game, but the shots just weren't falling for
is."

Dane forward Wilson Thomas shown in an earlier scrimmage wi

WILL YUAMAN UPS.
named to

the All-Tournament team in the Capital District Tip Off Tourney.

Croutier was joined on the All
Tournament team by teamate Wilson
Thomas, Union guard Joe Wood, RPI for
ward Bregman Jeffries, and Western Con:
necticut’s Dave Mitchell, It was the first
time that Dieekelman was not named (0 an
All-Tournament team in his career in
Albany,

The fireworks exploded when Albany
took possession of the ball after a rare miss
by Clinton, Trailing by one point after
Croutier's basket, Thomas drove the base
line for an apparent two points, But the
bucket was negated by a controversial
traveling call

“did not see Wilson Walk, He works on
his pump fakes,"" Sauers said. “But that's

only one call,"

With time running out, Dane guard Dave
‘Adam fouled Ken D'Orazio who sank both
free throws to widen Union's lead to three
points, A last second foul by Dieckelman
6n D'Orazio sent the Union forward to the
line and he successfully sank {wo more foul
shots {0 give Union its final five-point
margin of victory.

The Danes had two consecutive chanices
to end the game in the first two overtimes
In the first extra period the Danes were
leading 64-62 after Croutier was credited
with a bucket because Union was called for
goaltending, After a Union timeout, Wood
hit a 17 foot base line jumpshot over
defender Gatto to knot the scoring once

again,

"| was discouraged after that first over

said Gatto, "1 got a piece of the ball
and expected it to fall short, But when
turned around, it went in,"*

h four seconds remaining, Albany
called timeout, After the pause, the Danes
attacked and Croutier put up a jump shot
that bounced around the rim and back
board and fell harmlessly to the floor as
time expired

In the-second overtime period, Croutier
sank a bucket from the foul line to even the
score at 68:68, Feigelson of Union drove to
thé hoop, but his shot was no good and the
Danes took control with a minute (0 go.
Albany waited for the last shot and Adam
was designated to take It. Once again, the
final Albany shot bounced around the rim
but didn't fall in the basket sending the
game into its third overtime,

“Jt was a good play,"” Sauers said of
Adam's attempt to end the game, “We
practice it just like that,"”

“We had a couple of chances to win the
game,"

was nervous every time that they had
the ball,!” added Clinton. ‘1 guess
everything ended up our way,"

Albany made up a 41-35 halftime deficit
by scoring 10 straight points early in the se~
cond half, The lead shifted during the half
several times, With 53 seconds remaining in
the second half, Dieckelman took a pass
from Croutler and scored from underneath
the hoop. Union took the ball over but with
11 seconds left on the regulation clock
Croutier drew an offensive foul from Clin-
ton, his first of the game, The ball went
back to Albany, but the Danes failed to
break the tie,

The Danes had a difficult time with their
first opponents on Friday night. After a
relatively easy opening half in which the
Danes bolted out to a 30-16 lead, the Danes
saw that cushion deflate as RPI mounted a
comeback, Jeffries, who played an ex
cellent game against Albany hit a 17-foot
jump shot to bring the Engineers within one
point, 52-51, The Engineers stayed close 10
the Danes as Mike Giannaccini hit an out
side shot with just 22 seconds left to play
That and Adam kept the Danes in front
during RPI's surge,

“I'd say that the free throws won the
game," said Adam. “Every time they came
down the court they were going to score, so
if we didn’t score we'd lose,”

That first game of the tournament saw
the emergence of Thomas as a complete

15>

Spikers fulfill goal by competing in nationals

By Mark Wilgard
SSB STACE ATR AD ea

The women’s volleyball team reached
their goal for the 1982 campaign as the
squad wrapped up its season t
weekend by participating in th
Championship and finishing th
E.1,A.W. tourney in Rhode Island,

Albany reached the semi-finals of the

A.W. tourney by finishing in second
place in their pool of four teams, Seeded
fourth, the women spikers defeated fifth-
ranked Clark 15-7, 15-5, and Colby-Sawyer
15-7, 17-5, before losing to top seed Rhode
Island 15-7, 15-10.

In the semis, the Danes lost to M.1,7. in
fan exciting five match duel 6-15, 15-
16-14, 9-15, and 6-15, Coach Pat Dwyer
said that the game “we won 15-5 was the
best game of the entire year," He also
pointed out that “we had them and lost it,"*
Albany ended up tied for third in the tour-
nament and Dwyer was happy with the

finish. “Our goal for the season was to be
in the top four in the region, and we ac-
complished that,"

On Friday, in the first round of the
NCAA Championships, Albany bowed 10
M.LT. 15-9, 15-2, 15-10, According to
Dwyer, "the team made a lot of mistakes."”
Dwyer also added that all year “our main
goal was to play well and winning was a by-
product of that, But tonight, winning was
the goal, and therefore we played
terrible,"”

A bright spot over the weekend was the
play of Elizabeth Rosentel, who was named
to the All-Tournament team, It was the se
cond time in as many years that Rosentel
has made All-State,

Allin all, Coach Dwyer was very satisfied
with the year his women spikers had. ‘tt
‘was a great season, and we had a lot of fun,
It was an enjoyable experience all the way
through."

The spikers wrapped up theirs
and participating in the NCAA:

‘ALAN CALEM UPS

son by finishing third in the EIAW tournament

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

Friday

|VOLUME LXIX

ALBANY.
STUDENT
PRESS

December 3, 1982 |

NUMBER 40|

New stadium proposed for pro baseball team

rc Schwarz
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Albany State campus is the only
sight being considered at this time fora new
all-purpose lighted athletic stadium to
house the Albany A’s, the city's new pro-
fessional baseball franchise, according to
Albany County Executive Jim Coyne.

The stadium would not only provide the
A's with a home but would be host for in-
tercollegiate and community events, and
would be funded through county and com:
munity according to universi
ty President Vincent O'Leary,

Coyne and A's spokesman Ben Bernard
expect (0 make an announcement within

monies,

two weeks.

The proposed stadium will seat at least
7,000 people with room for expansion and
would be located on the rarely used fields
behind Indian Quad, The A’s are a Class
AA minor league team entered in the
Eastern League and affiliated with the
Oakland A's

We al
possibilities,

negotiating and discussing

said O'Leary. Questions of
legality and policy are preventing a decision
from being made at this time, he added
Specifically, problems confronting the set
Hlement are the funding of the project and
Whether a professional team can play on
State University land, O'Leary said

faculty and

A committee of students.
Council members was orgavized
last year by the administration to ty. and

Universit

olve the long standing problem of inude
quate athletic and recreational facilitie
through community help, according 10
O'Leary

The arrival of a professional baseball

team in search of a stadium added a new

Inset: President O'Leary; an earlier conception of the stadium

Ui purpose lighted stadium would seat 7,000 and host the Albany

twist to the University’s prior proposals.
With the county looking for a desirable
location fo house the team and the universi
ly wanting 10 upgrade its facilities, the wo
have been in negotiation about a possible
Joint effort

“We're

(university) people

negotiating with the State
Welt trying to work
Out With the University an agreement for
coummunity-use type project," said
Coyne. “The bulk of the funding would
come from the county, possibly through a
bond issue

It is a very complicated situation and we
fire right in the middle of things right now
said O'Leary
which have 10 be answered, Number one,

There ate a fot of questions

How will it be financed? 1 want to make it
clear that we will not be using sta
for this, Thi
from te outside and could only be used for

money
Will be money that comes
the stadium, There is no diversion of
academic funds for this, Secondly, whether
OF Nob a professional baseball team, which
is commercial and revenue producing car
egally play on university land, and if it i
legal wheilier or not We want to make IL
Our policy t0 tet them do so,"
Is to the SUNY

O'Leary has sent propo
Board of Trustee
ent it bach with lol Of questions, which
We ate “Namely,
Whether the county can lease the land from
the university for the building of the

for their reaction.

exploring,’ he said,

1% ay well as intercollegiate athlories

stadium. 1's questions like that, that are
being explored by lawyers,’

ensitive and ata
very tentative stages!” O'Leary said, St
could disappear at any moment."

T fool its 80-80 al this point. Il) call it

This issue is highly

iy optimism,” ¢
Coyne feels that there are four hurdles
facing the proposal, "The first hurdle is
Whether or not the land is available, Se
cond, there has to be a public hearing.
Third ty passing a bond through the County
Legislature, that would require 26.00 of 39.
votes, and finally, the fourth iy getting it

buill.”
The university hay been looking (0 im
13

Central Council impeachment voting illegal

Heidi Gralla

An attempt to remove Central Council
off-campus representative Neil Siege! on
xcessive absenteeism and
neglect of duties’ failed Wednesday night
in executive session. The 13-13 tic was in-
sufficient as @ two-thirds majority of all
Council members is necessary to dismiss a

grounds of

member:

WICL YURMAN UPS.
Central Council Chair Jeff Fromm
Challenges ASP fo sue SA

Central Council voted by secret ballot,
which is in violation of the New York State
Freedom of Information Law. According
to Robert J, Freeman, executive director of
the New York State Committee on Public
Access to Records, “A voting record and
minutes must be prepared and made
available within guidelines of the Freedom
of Information Law. They must identify
each member and how they voted,'"

Jeff Fromm, Central Council chair,
acknowledged that they have no official
record of individual votes, but disputed the
law, saying,"*You're (the ASP) going to
have to bring us to court. 1 think what
you're dealing with here is complete pet
liness, That's wrong, Whether it's (the
Freedom of Information Law) the law or
ol, it’s wrong based on the situation we
were dealing with at the time, If that’s a
aw, it's a poor law."

The ASP is considering a number of op-
tions, including taking SA to court, sa
Dean Betz, ASP Editor in Chief, Freeman
explained that a judge might rule the Coun:
cil vote invalid, but it would be entirely his
discretion

The prosecution, led by Fromm and In-
ternal Affairs Commitee Chair Mark
Nelson, attacked Siegel's attendance record
as the main issue. According to Nelson,
Siege! has missed 38 percent of the roll call
Votes and 25 percent is the maximum per
missable:

Also, Fromm noted that Sieg
towards the Council was in question. "He
doesn’t have the interest to fulfill his poten:
tial in the Couneil,”* Fromm said

Siegel defended himself by explaining
that he has a class which coincides with

5 attitude

Couneli's 7:30 pm, meeting time, but does
arrive According 10 the
ninules of the Nov, 17 meeting, Siegel has

missed 16 of a possible 42 votes since May
5. Siegel contended that 8 of those yotes
Were missed on a night which he had a test,

Siegel admitted that he is “slightly late
and that {s a problem," However, he said
"1 don't think that the voting is really the
only job, 1 know the issues and I've worked
hard on them. If 1 didn't want to be on
Council | wouldn't have gone to the hassle
Of defending myself.”

Siegel believes that part of the problem is
differing views between Fromm, Nelson
and himself, He criticized them for “efin-
ing how a Council member should be,"* and
criticized groups in Council for being “sort
Of like a clique." He also questioned the
Council's attendance policy: “If you miss
20 minutes of a six-hour meeting are you
really half absent?”

Nelson was disappointed with the Coun-
cil’s decision and said, “People did not
Want to impeach him because they felt the
prosecution should have had an over-
Whelmingly large open-and-shut case,"

"1 don't believe Council acted respon-
sibly because rules have been broken and
there Was an obvious disinterest on the part
of Neil Siegel, especially when viewed with
class conflict,"” he added, “He should
have been impeached,

According to Fromm, many members are
dissatisfied with the impeachment process
"As long as you have partisan peers trying
an impeachment, it's unfair,?? He said there
has been some discussion about the need 10
because it puts every

eventually

revise the system,
‘one of us on the spot.

Dutch Quad represeniative Lauren
Walter said 1.don't think (Nell) was fulfill-
ing all the duties of a good) council
member.'’ She felt he vould not “represent
his constituents very well,"* with such poor
attendance at meetings, She refused to
reveal how she voted.

During the Council's general meeting,
which preceded the impeachment pro-
ceedings, SA President Mike Corso, Vice-
President Ann Marle LaPorta and Comp-
iroller Dayid Schneyman presented a bill
for supplemental budget appropriations
Which generated much discussion, Included
in the bill was a $1,300 increase for the
advertising budget and the creation of
$600 stipend for Student Voice editors,
both of which were passed, A proposed
$3,000 increase for the SA phone budget
Was tabled until next meeting

Several Council members complained
that the bill was not well thought out or
clearly explained, Dutch Quad represen=
tative Anthony Nastri stated during an-
nouncements that he will continue to yore
against all unoutlined money requests,
Nastri believes that Council tends (0 accept
poorly documented SA budget requests
while requiring individual groups to present
detailed and clearly stated requests,

‘Corso said the **point is well taken," and
Jater maintained that requests for addi-
tional funds are “very clean-cut and
necessary for the smooth operation of the

A office

Fromm announced that hie received State
Quad representative Steve Kramer's
resignation, Kramer suid he resigned
because he is leaving Albany to join the Ar-
my ia}

orld capsule “6

~Syaeang

Americans pig out

Washington. D.

(AP) Per capita food consumption by Americuns is ex-
pected to gain in 1983 after declining or holding about even
for several years, says the Agriculture Department,

And, for the first time on record, people are eating more
poultry than they are pork.

Based on retail weights of Various food vategories, the
Average person may eal about 1405 pounds of food next
Year, compared (0 1,393 in 1982, 1,400 in 1981 and 1,407 in
1980.

An analyst said that an estimated $71 pounds of next
year’s food will be from animal products and 834 pounds
from crop products. This year's food included $77 pounds
Of animal products and 816 pounds from grain, vegetables
sand other erops.

“Large crops this year and expected inereases in fruit and:
Seuetable supplies next year will offset a further drop in
animal products use,’ he sald

Consumption of animal product foods will be down
With an additional 1 to 2 percent

About T percent this year
ase ity been led by a

algcline likely In 1983. This year’s des
$ percent drop in red meat uses

Westeott said that red meat consumption — beef and
Sea, park, lamb and mutton — ts expected to average 149
pounds per person this year, down from 17 in 1981 and
160 in 1980, 11 also is the lowest since 1965,

Olympics privately funded

New York, N.Y.
(AP) The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games are being
Hinanced without munteipal money, without the aid of fot
{erigs, and without donations as such, and yet they are likes
ly to show a profit’? rather than big debts,

For the first time in history, money for the Olymples is
veing produced entirely by the private sector, mai
Hhrough the sales of television rights and corporate spo
orships, and (0 a sinaller extent through ticket sales,

When the games are over, said Peter Ueberroth, presdent
Of the Los Angeles Olympi¢ Organizing Committ
should have a small surplus for youth and sports,
nothing of several new or totally refurbished buildings.

Ueberroth expects a minimum of $140 million from
sponsors, compared with $7 million from 381 sponsors at
the Lake Pligid Winter Olympics in 1980. "We made the
supply and demand tighter,’ said Ueberroth the
businessman.

Reagan tours S. America

Brasillia, Brazil

din, in a {Wo pronged message Monday,
ntral America
an ugly specter

To say

(AP) President R
denounced Soviet and Cuban influence in C
and decried resrictions on free trade as *
stulking the world,

ich {0 business leaders, Reagan sounded a call for
eeonomis cooperation between the United States and Braz!
= one day after moving ( case the impact of U.S. sugar
quotas here and provide a $1.2 billion loan to help Brazil
restore its earlier economic growth,

But the president's trip to Latin Ameriea is focus!
much on East-West themes and troubled Central America
ay {1 15 on the special problems of financially ailing Braail

In remarks prepared for delivery to U.S, and Brazilian
business leaders in Sao Paulo, Reagan said:

“There Is in the world today, a counterfeit revolution, a
Fevolution of territorial conquests, a revolution of coercion.
and thought control where states rule behind the barrel of a
gun and erect barbed wire walls not to keep enemies out,
but to keep their own people in.

A White House official said this was a reference (0 the
Soviet Union and Cuba, Reagan expanded on that Wednies-

night, saying insurgents were armed at great expense
by a faraway power aimed at disrupting other governments
and economies,

"This is aggression pure and simple,

“We stand firmly with the other responsibile nations of
Americas in opposing those who with violence and force of
arms, try to undermine economic progress and political
stability,” he said

MX funding considered

Washington, D.C,
(AP) The MX missile, a project which has survived years of
government indecision and verbal attacks by opponents, is
facing a crucial test now that the ¢ has come to decide
whether to pay for it,

The House Appropriations Committee, taking up a $230
billion Pentagon spending bill is being asked by the chair-
man of its defense subcommittee to delete $988 million ear-
marked for the intercontinental nuclear weapon,

Both the chairman, Rep, Joseph P, Addabbo, D-NY,
and opponents of his move predicted a close outcome, but
none was willing to declare victory in advance.

Pentagon officials, who declined to be identified, said
based on their checks within the 55-member committee,

International journey

Two study programs in Asia, a year in India or a'sum-
mer in China, are once again being offered to students
across the U.S, through the International Education pro-
gram at the University of California in Berkeley.

Applications are due February 7 for the Professional

studies Program of fieldwork or research in India and
February 15 for the Advanced Chifiese Language Summer
Program,

Applications and information for the programs are
available at International Education, 2538 Channing
Way, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, oF
(415) 642-1356,

Complex numbers

Professor Marshall Cohen of Cornell University will
Present a Mathematics Colloquium on #2-Complexes and
Combinatorial Group Theory'® Friday, December 4, 4
pam., in Earth Science 140, Coffee will be served at 3:30
p.m, in Earth Science 152. The colloquium is open to the
public

Life in the real world

As part of a Life Planning Series for Seniors, the Stu:
dent Affairs and Alumni Offices are presenting a program
ist Job Skills and Insights" Thursday, December 9,
#20 p.m, in Alumni Hous
Topics will include insights into eareer survival skills,
realistic expectations, communication skills, interpersonal
relationships, ele
For further information contact Dr, Barbara Schoon:
nuker at 457-4932

Ce Ut brief

Meditating music

The Indian spiritual leader Sri Chimnoy will be giving a
free concert and public meditation at the Recital Hall,
Performing Arts Center, SUNYA, at 7:30 p.m. on Mon:
day, December 6.

Atihe concert, sponsered by the University Seminar on
Oriental Religion, Chinmoy will play several or his own |
compositions on the esraj, @ stringed Indian instrument
played with a bow. He will also play an electronic Mute
and the harmonium, a miniature Indian organ.

For more information call Chad Bradshaw at 438-2465.

Britt speaks out

Harry Britt, San Francisco City Supervisor, Vice Chair
of the Democratic Socialists of America and National
Gay Rights Activists, will speak about Urban Politics in
the 80's on Sunday, December 5, in the C.C, Ballroom at
4pm

Tickels are: $3 for General Admission, $2.50 for
students without tax cards, and $2 for students with tax
cards.

The event is presented by the GALA and co-sponsored
by the Capital District Gay Political Caucus and
Democratic Socialists of America,

For more information contact GALA at 457-4078

Israel and back again

An 18 day highly-specialized seminar in Israel for col
lege students is scheduled by the American Zionist Youth
Foundation over the coming winter break. The seminar
Will leave Kennedy International Airport on December 27
nd return January 13

Students are offered a busy schedule of touring with

ind educational seminars design-
ed to enrich the student's knowedge of Israeli history and
current issues, The full cost of the program, including air
transportation from New York, lodging, meals and
special events is $950. Further information may be ob
tained by contacting the AZYF Campus Representative
Debbie Schiller at 482-7027,

they had “a definite chance to win."

In an indication of how seriously the administration
regarded (0 vote, President Reagan and Defense Secretary
Caspar W. Weinberger — both thousands of miles from
Washington — reportedly telephoned committee members
to urge them 10 preserve the MX money.

Inadvance of the vote, a House Republican aide said the
highslevel_ lobbying, which reportedly also involved
Secretary of State George Shultz and Vice President George
Bush, could be crucial because “it is hard for some
members {0 vote against the president.”

Last week, Reagan announced he had decided (0 base
100 of the big new weapons in closely spaced underground
silos near Cheyenne, Wyo., the so-called “dense pack!
plan,

‘Opponents of the new weapon, which Is expected to
make its first test flight next month, have opposed it on
ground ils projected $26 billion price is too expensive and
posed further dangers of nuclear war.

Reagan contends that the MX, which he recently renam:
ed Peacekeeper, is needed to deter the Soviets, whom he
laims have achieved nuclear superiority in recent years

State requires road work

‘New York, N.¥.
(AP) For New Yorkers plagued by cratered highways, leaky
water mains and sagging bridges, there is finally a light at
the end of the crumbling tunnel. Unfortunately, the light is
that of an oncoming freight train bringing progress and —
at least for a while — pain,

If you want to fix something, you generally have to stop.
using it, Road work means detours, bridge reconstruction
means traffic jams, subway re n delays. These a
fgravating signs of renewal are everywhere.

State engincers found that the brackets which hold up the
Queensboro’s outer lanes were so weakened by rust that
they could have given way at any time

"A heavy truck could have done it. . . We Were lucky no

died," says George Zaimes of the State Department of
transportation, whose engineers could find no physical
reason why the lanes were able to support any load heavier
than a Volkswagon,

Patience would seem a rerequisite for those who plan to
commute over the East River for the next 15 years, That,
Says Zaimes, Is how long it may take to repair the crossings.

Some say the only way {0 really repair New York would
be to close it down for a year,

But that's not feasible, and so a city where life already is
tough faces years of more disruption, noise, dirt and in-
convenience,

Gulf Oil Co. pulls out

Albany, NY
(AP) The Gulf Oil Co. faced with increasing competition in
{ts small share of gasoline sales and getting less for what it
does sell, is pulling out of upstate New York and most of
Vermont.

The pullout, to be completed by the end of 1983, will
leave 485 gasoline service stations in New York and 72 in
Vermont scrambling for new suppliers. It will also mean the
closing of six Gulf terminals with the loss of 40 jobs.

“Demand has been declining in the last few years,"
Voxeley said ina telephone interview from Gulf’s Houston
Texas, headquarters, ‘'Supplies are more than adequate
Prices have declined,""

“We have decided to streamline our marketing system,"”
Vogeley said, He said that Gulf will concentrate on its bet
ter markets,

The consumer will suffer as the dealer — the indepen
dent businessman Benton said, He
predicted that the end result would be higher gasoline
prices,

The terminals affected are in Rensselaer, Utica,
Rochester, Syracuse, Big Flats near Elmira and Johnson
City near Binghamton. About 40 employees will lose tcir
jobs, Vogeley said,

Vogeley said “about 485 service stations’ north of the

Ww York City metropolitan area would be affected. OF
that number, Gulf owns or leases 40, supplies another 59
linder contract and sells to jobbers who supply the rest

Kennedy drops out of race

Washington, D.C.
(AP) Sen, Edward M. Kennedy is out of the race but not
Out of the running. Too much can happen in 20 months for
his renunciation of the 1984 Democratic presidential
nomination to be accepted as writ

Kennedy said Wednesday he was not shrinking from a
tough race. He said it would haye been a challenge, and
that he believed he could have won it, But he said his
obligation to the children led him to sit this one out

There's always the next election, and the one after that.
Kennedy sald that he does want to be president, and that he
might well run another time, At 50, he can wait 10 years or
longer.

Kennedy aides said their soundings this year showed that
the 1969 accidents and the broken marriage would not be
major problems in a 1984 campaign, Kennedy said his was @
decision made for family, not political reasons. He said that
if it had been made on political grounds, he would haye
tun,

= is squeezed out,

DECEMBER 3, 1982 0 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Private colleges favored by loan program bill

By Teri Kaplowite
——— ee

SASU is strongly opposing a loan pro-
gram bill before the State legislature which
they say “'sets down a very narrow program
fo attempt to deal with a very broad pro-
blem."”

The proposed Higher Education Loan
Program Supplement (HELPS) sponsored
by Senator Kenneth LaValle and
Assemblymen Jerry Kremer and Dan Walsh
Will overwhelmingly favor students in
private colleges whose family income is
above $50,000 a year, and at the same time
“indirectly appropriates state funds to the
federal government," according to SASU,

HELPS would bridge the gap between
federal student Auxiliary Loans to Assist
Students/Parent Loans for Undergraduate
Students (ALAS/PLUS) at 12 percent in-
terest, and the Guaranteed Student Loans
at nine percent interest,

The original proposal's six-year cost
would be between $41,6 and 68.6 million
although the proposal has been. slightly
altered since this estimate, After the three-
yearn ‘m point, the legislature must
again approve the plan in order for it 10
continue for the remaining amount of time.

SASU argues that lower and middle class
families generally do not use ALAS/PLUS:
Joans because minimum monthly payment
are 100 high,

said SASL
mey, Who feels the loan

This is a grotesque bill
Jim T
rogram should help lower income people

ho cannot even afford college, rather than

siding more affluent students attending

private school
Tierney added tha

fect, end up subsidizing the fed

ment, Under the HELPS progr

York State would be distributing financial

aid 0 lower a federal loan's interest rate

down to nine percent, Those students

the plan would, in ef

tecelving HELPS ald on their PLUS loans
would end up deducting less interest from
their federal taxes, SASU says that the
state’s aid would prevent the federal
government from losing revenues due to
deductions. ‘‘For every dollar the state
spends through the HELPS program, the
federal government realizes 25 cents it has
not lost through deduction," said SASU in
a press release,

“I's idiotic government," Tierney said,
Adding that the new program would be inef-
ficient since ‘there are no advantages that
couldn't be made elsewhere in existing pro-
grams."?

Eligibility criteria for HELPS funds are
the same as those for the federal student
loans. With the recent revisions, the Higher
Education Service Corporation (HESC)
estimates that at least 20 percent of the

Aiud .

SASU president Jim Tierney

The program costs foo much money and ulds tov few people

State's students have been affected by
becoming ineligible for GSL's or having
their eligibility reduced.

Although HELPS! eligibility re-

irements have a chance of being changed,
director ofthe Senate Higher uucatlon
Committee, Richard Santora, said the
Assembly's general feeling is that they
would not bail out the Republicans by look-
ing at any legislation that would ap-
propriate funds cut at the Washington
level

The bill's first draft originally called for
the Department of Education to establish
guidelines for needs analysis, said Santora,
However, it was recommended by the
HESC that the guidelines should be the
same as those of the federal government,

Santora pointed to TAP, BEOG, and
EOP as funding programs already available
for lower and middle income families, and
said another ‘tier’ needed to be ex-
amined—those students needing additional
loans

He stressed that the legislature has always
been concerned with balance, explaining,
“Tt (HELPS) was never intended to be
Jooked at as something betwen sectors,

Alihough Santora acknowledged the pro:
gram would mostly aid independent institu
tions, he pointed out that AB percent of the

late’s students attend private colleges.

“Conslderinp the state's fiscal situation, we
Are making Our best effort to help all fac
he said.

ora also added that all state loan
ibsidizing the

101s,
programs are in. effect
federal governments, If
HELPS. wered students would
end up borrewing the money and. then
Weduct the interest Off thelr federal taxes
anyway, he reasoned

Assistant for Governmental Relations at
SUNY, Ken Gertz, siid SUNY has taken no
official position on the bill, 5

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Noble urges blacks toward unity and identity

By Mark Hammond
MENS EDITOR

New York City newscaster Gil Noble
stood before a predominantly black au-
dience and warned them of the pitfalls of
intoxication, sex and bickering while remin:
ding them of their allegience to the civil
rights movement, in a Campus Center
ballroom speech Tuesday night

The esteemed Noble, six-time Emmy win-
ner for his television documentaries and
host of the ABC’s black forum Like Zt /s,
accredited his success 10 the work of such
black personalities as Malcolm X, Martin
Luther King and Paul Robeson, “Malcolm
X was one of the most important people in
my life. 1 owe him a great deal — you do

* spoke Noble in the calm, resonant
voice of his profession,

“Never make the mistake of thinking you
have made it by youself,” Noble said to the
crowd of approximately 100, “Don't forget
the extraordinary people who have preced:
ed you,"

I'm concerned about black students on
campus. I hear reports of what I hear blacks
are doing — time spent in trivia, Some are
drinking, snorting this one, smoking that

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one, Not on this campus, but on other cam
puses,”” he said with a note of sarcasm 10
the chuckles of the crowd

Noble said that a decade ago, an FBI of-
ficial told him that the FBI had undertaken
an intensive study of black culture, its
plays, music and movies. “Why? Because
the FBI felt the way to stop the black civil
rights movement is to understand where it
got its fuel from.

He then pointed out how, “ironicall
the black beat changed from gospelslike
freedom songs to ‘boogie music’” and
movies portrayed black heroes as “bad
dudes in tight pants,"*

“It all began to have an impact on the
character of young people, They were
altered by the new value system,

‘Movies began to come out that change
values,'? Noble said, citing the characters of
black vigilantes Shaft and Superfly, "These
movies taught a lack of respect for the
elderly, for sex, for law and community.
Elders began to wonder where thelr
chidiren got their new values from.

Television shows such as Good Times,
The Jeffersons and That's My Mama erod-
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“Cohabitation, drugs, alcohol, video
games — all these things are preventing you

ing the machine you once were,

changed you into a less in-
timidating force, This music, it is
disgraceful, It has no socially redeeming
value.”

The civil rights movement is responsible
for putting you here," Noble stated, ‘In
the 1960's (blacks) were pulling at the
underpinnings of society. They attacked the
business, political and judicial fronts,
young people then were fearless.””

Noble exhorted black students to get
their ademic and political selves
together,"* “What I'm telling you is to be a
soldier for what is right, You have an
obligation to fight for your identity and for
your motherland.”

During the middle of the presentation,
One of Noble's Emmy-winning documen-
aries The Loss of Our Warrior, was shown
on a large screen the 45-minute film
chronicled the tumultous last years in the
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Noble explained why the film was shown
diiring his lecture: “1 want you to unders:
and the liabilities We are heir to, 1 want to
{ell you Of the gospel of unity in these
desperate times. It’s sad but true but many
of you may not know about him,"
“A Jot of people wanted that man
(Malcolm X) dead," Noble sald, Maleolm
X was assassinated at the height of the civil
rights movement by members of his own
group, the Black Muhammedans,
We descended into bickering and’
diviseness which caused us (0 take the life
alcolm X, It's a human condition, that
icker."

{oO understand the stress
among ourselves and battle forces which
may deter Us into negativism,"”
Noble urged, “Maybe sitting here is
anottier Malcolm!”

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Tonight marks last legal drink for 18 year olds

eve Gossel
Ste WRITER

When the clock strikes twelve on
Friday night, New York will dry
Up for its 18-year-old drinkers, leav-
ing most freshmen and some
sophomores at SUNYA to cither
fish around for fake 1.D.’s, content
themselves with a Coke, or just wait
to become legal again next year.

The law, which is designed to
reduce teenage drunk-driving
fatalities, makes New York the
fourteenth state to raise its drinking
age since 1975. {thas been denounc-
ed by bar owners, who stand to lose
up (0 25 percent of their business,
fis unfair and has not exactly caught
favor with the state's 300,000
18-year-olds,

Any changes in university policy
as a result of the new law, according
to Dean of Student Affairs Neil
Brown, will only be those “man.
dated by law.'* Brown said that
other schools have “tried to use the
Jaw as an excuse for other things,"”
Stony Brook, for one, has already
closed down most of its campus
bars, But Brown said the law ‘tis
not going to dry up the campus,’?
However this is what legally looms
ahead for 18-year-olds

HELPS bill

<3 ‘

A\ the same time, however, Gertz
revealed that SUNY has submitted
suggested amendment on the bill
to the legislation which would make
more SUNY students cligible for
HELPS aid.

Gertz explained that the current

is based on the student's “remain:
ing need." If tuition cost $10,000 at
hool, contr

§,000, He pointed

VY cost schools

remaining need"*

would be less and they would not
receive any aid.

SUNY’s amendinent calls for aid
eligibility to be determined only on
family contributions. “SUNY feels
strongly that the State University
should participate in the program,"
said Gertz, ay it’s currently
written, the y

The SUNY Board of Trustees has
not voted on the issue, and Gertz
does not expect it to be brought up
at their next session

SASU has been recommending
financial aid alternatives in place of
HELPS, The organization believes
4 $100 increase in minimum TAP
awards “would cost only $35
million over five years and would
serve far more students in all sec

A Regents scholarship in

has also been suggested as

higher financial aid en

ticements for graduate students to
st need

d that the HELPS

is only one out of ten

He supports a TAP

thinks part-time

receive TAP before

hrust into the

with large debts,
Currently the lame-duck session
scheduled next week remains ex:
y tentative, Santora is con
that should the legislature
not reconvene, the bill would die
and would not be brought up again
Tierney is sure that SASU can con-
vince the Assembly not to vote for
the bill, fa)

More rigorous enforcement of
the law is set for the Patroon Room
and the Rathskellar, which has been
proofing more consistently this
semester. According to Director of
Student Activities Jim Doellefeld,
the Rat will not be off limits to
underage students who want to use
the snack bar, Currently the plan is
to hand-stamp those who can drink
to avoid any problems, Brown said
he thought it would not be easy for
‘a minor to get served once inside,
but that it would be up to Rat

mployees to enforce the law. "If

you serve an underage person,
that’s a Class B misdemeanor,” he
said,

While the law goes into effect at
12:01 a.m, give or take a few
minutes, on December 5, Brown.
said that The Rat would serve
18-yearolds until closing time at

m, That decision he said, was

d after consulting SUNY al-
torneys and the State Liquor
Authority. "I don't think there is
anyone who fs going to quibble with
it,!” he said

In the dorms the intention is {0
take ‘a very low-key approach to
the new law,’” according to Director
of Residential Life, John Martone

‘Thal means residential life staff will
not be checking student rooms for
alcohol as feared by some, said
Brown. However sponsors of dorm
parties will be required to check
Proofs,

Sponsors of parties may be more
difigent than expected in checking
since they may be among. those
liable for accidents caused by
18-year-olds who get drunk at the
sponsored party, Brown said that
the issue of liability is still ‘a bit
muddy." However, he added,
“The case law seems to indicate
under this particular law,
everybody and his brother is swept
in under the original suit,"" ine
cluding the organization, its leader
And supervisor, along with the
University,

Open container rules which have
generally not been enforced on
campus, will also be affected by the
new law, Several events on the
podium cach year have featured
beer. For those, like H.A.P, Day in
April when the podium fountains
are turned on again, the university
“may need to apply for
in the open container permi
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Violinist takes legal action against symphony

By Janet Aschkenasy

It has been two weeks since Mary Lou
Sactta, formerly the leader of the Albany
Symphony Orchestra's 2nd violinist sec-
tion, was notified of her dismissal from the
orchestra, This action has become a matter
of strong controversy,

Saetta, the wife of SUNYA music pro-
fessor, Irvin Gilman, was informed in a let-
ler October 19 that as a result of the
violinist’s violation of her contract, she had
been expelled from the Albany Symphony.
The contract in question requires that
players be prepared in their respective seats
ten minutes before the scheduled start of
any public performance or rehearsal,

ymphony manager, Susan Bush, alleged
that Saetta stood engaged in conversation
with two other musicians less than ten
minutes before the October 16 concert was
{0 begin.

Sacita, who is in the process of initiating
legal arbitration against the Albany Sym-
phony, rejects the contention that her
dismissal was based on her so-called
“egregious and disruptive behavior’ on
October 16, accusing the orchestra manage-
ment of discrimination stemming from her
explicit opposition toward their conception
‘of a chamber orchestra during the past
summer.

In the letter dismissing the violinist, Bush
recalled warnings {0 all of the symphony
musicians earlier in October that “stricter
adherence to the master agreement would
be required,"* and said that Saetta had been
previously admonished personally by sym-
phony music director Julius Hegyi, Bush
alleged, Hegyi had once criticized Saetta on
various counts, implicating her: perfor
mances of both leadership and musician-
ship.

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Gilman, principal floutist for the Albany
Symphony. "My wife was very much in her
seat at the appropriate time," he stated, ad-
ding that the ten minute rule was ‘a pra
tice that has never been honored,”

Bush asserted in the letter that Sacita’s
behavior at the October 16 concert had
undermined not only her own performance
‘on that date, but that of ‘at least two of her
colleagues’ as well. According to Bush,
certain audience members and musicians
had taken note of Sactta’s violation and de-
nounced it,

Inher 17th season with the Albany Sym-
phony, Sietta is the initiator and director of
Capitol Chamber Artists, and has reported-
ly been playing professionally since age 12,
She emphatically denied that she was in
Violation of her contract. "*The curtain call
was for 8:30, and I did not rise after 8:15,!"
Sactta said

A conversation of union matters had
taken place between the violinist and two

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fellow musicians prior to the 8:20 deadline,
said Saetta, Nevertheless, Sactta and others
‘orchestra members, who chose to remain
anonymous, sald that the ten minute or-
dinance had never been strictly adhered to,
and violation of this role was fairly com-
mon.

‘According to Saetta, sanctions are not
enforced by orchestra management,
“unless they s0 choose,"”

In accordance with what Saetta termed
the conventional “grievance procedure”,
her case was considered in two hearings by
the highest body of the American Federa-
tion of Musicians, The final decision of the
international executive board was that Saet-
ta's charges be dismissed, The violinist was
to be fully reinstated with payment for per-
formances missed since her dismissal, As
the orchestra management refused to abide
by this ruling, however, Saetta again plans
to bring her case before the courts.

“They had no witnesses at the last hear-
ing,'” sald Saetta, who did not belfeve that
there had been any disruption whatsoever
of the October 16 show, "Susan Bush sald
she looked at her x al #:22 and
8:24, . .she said ‘You got up (during this
time) and appeared to be speaking to so-
meone.’ "’ Under oath, Sactta stressed,
Bush yolced her intention to call the police
‘anid haye Saetta removed from the premises
as a result of the alleged action,

her Bush nor Peter Kermani, presi-
of the board of directors of the Albany.
Symphony Orchestra, would offer com:
ment for the local papers. Bush curtly read
4 statement specifically prepared for
newspaper people saying, in short, that the
Albany Symphony Orchestra was presently
Involved in a labor dispute and was making
no comments in regard to the case, The
association was keeping silent, the docu-
ment read, to avoid causing embarrasment
10 Si

In late July, Saetta was one of 33 ASO
musicians collectively hiring an attorney to
combat the terms of a chamber orchestra
then proposed by management, specifical-
ly, Bush and Kermani,

Although Sactta herself was chosen to
participate in this orchestra, she explained
that opposition to the smaller group stemm-
ed from the management's refusal to
respect the ASO's standing contract in con-
sideration of the newer group of musicians,

According to Saetta, there were means to
Implement the chamber orchestra under
conditions of the existing contract, but
Bush and Kermani chose to abandon the
agreement altogether. They argued that the
proposed orchestra would, Saetta sald,
starting from scratch,"” and would “have
nothing to do with the ASO, although the
conductor and manager would be the same,
and advertising would continue under the
auspices of the Albany Symphony,"

Sactta said that although she and othetw
supported the proposal of the new group in
theory, they feared that the musicians
“would lose all of the advantages they had
fought for.’ Without the protection of
their contract, said Saetta, they could be

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Q: What's the difference between Ignorance and ar-
rogance? 4

A. Ton’ know and 1 really don't care,

The Joke is funny, but the context isn't, During Central
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!aw, The worst part Is that the person responsible for Cen-
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the law,

In a front-page article in today's issue, Central Council
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fo court... Whetwer it's the law or nol, it's wrong based
on the situation we aré dealing with at the time, If that’s a
law, it’s a poor law." Fromm seems tager (0 enforce
Robert's Rules at Council meetings, but is reluvtant to pay
attention (0 higher laws that even sueh elevated people as
Central Council chairs are obligated to follow

The Tact Is that yes, Central Council ean legally go into
Executive session, that is, close a meeting to non-Couneil
members when discussing certain business. Fromm didn't
realize until we brought it (0 his attention that Council must
follow certain procedures set down in the state's Open
Meetings Law in order to legally close a meeting, The fact Is

that te Coun meeting that vas closed or the Impeach.
ment Hearing November 17 was Megally closed, At the
time, Central Council wasn't even aware of the fact that an

Open Meetings Law exists!

Because we brought the law to the attention of the chair
fast Wednesday, that executive session was legally entered
Into, However, Fromm was again negligent because he paid
no attention to the fact that the state's Freedom of Infor-
mation Law also applies to Council. This law requires that
4 yoling record must be compiled that identifies how in-
dividual members voted in every instance in which a vote is
taken, Minutes of the executive sessions that Council enters
into must indicate who voted in favor, and who voted
against the impeachment resolution.

This legal requirement was blindly ignored by Fromm
and the Couneil he chairs, Voting in executive session was
done by ‘secret ballo

When Fromm was informed by our reporter that Central
Council had violated state law, he arrogantly snorted,
"You're going to have to bring us to court,"*

Well, that’s one of the options that we're now consider-
ing. It seems that Ceniral Council considers itself above

state laws that are intended for the maintenance of a
democratic society that the public business be performed in
4n open and public manner." If it takes a lawsuit to get
Central Council 10 become responsive to the needs of the
Students and 0 give some respect to the student's right to

know, then a lawsuit they'll have, : |
Council and Fromm should remember that they areinoy, |
fice (0 serve the students, not play little power vames win |
the press and with each other, Central Council hay as
obligation to respect the laws of this state while they area
ting for the tax-paying students of this university. Ther
forance of such basic laws of governmental operation x
the Open Meetings Law and Freedom of Information tag
is disgusting,

Beyond the fact that Central Council can close it certain
meetings is the argument that it should never close 4
meeting. Even during the heat of the election traud cover
Up scandal of the Newmark ‘idminstration all mectng
were open to interested students, Why does Fromm and
Central Council suddenly find it necessary 10 cine
meetings? What do they have to hide?

Certainly Central Council and Chair Jeff Fromm are no
serving the student interest by openly and blateny
violating state law and challenging people who disagree |
Knock the chip off their shoulder with a lawsuit

The only way to have the law enforced is for an “ag
ed" person to file a lawsuit, The Albany Student Press d
not have the financial resources of Student Association
and a lawsuit would be a signifi
However, if we have (0 sue to get the arroy
idiots of SA's governing body to respe
Serve and to respect the laws of the state they tise in we

the students they |

Cc O L U M

N

Orchestrating a race war

The story is by no means new in South Africa, where
more than three million Africans have been callously
uprooted and told to reseitle elsewhere in the past quarter
OF @ century due 10 the poliey that hay resulted in human
Consequences of swale yet unwiinessed in the world

Japhet M. Zwana

The Boers have struck from behind the iaayer once again
4s they have so many times betore. A progressive little town
Of some more thin $0,000 people, with about a doren
schools, about ten churches, many general stores, a huge
community center and a elinie, has been declared white’,
The regime has ruled that the town must be struck down
and all its African residents removed, It iy evident that the
leas of Chief George Ramakgona to stop the evacuation
Will go unheeded

During the month of November, the Minister of Con.
stitutfonal Development and Planning, J. Chris Heunis,
made 4 ptesentation at a political mecting in a Pretoria
Suburb Where he way heard to say, “Any suggestions that
Blacks might be given representation in the projected three
chamber South African Parliament are purposetul lies,"
He went on to emphasize that Blacks in the rural bane
tustans and those in the white areas of South Atrica would
not be Incorporated into the new’ constitutional ar
rangements, According to the new order, the Nationalist
Party will not deviate from its declared policy that all
Blacks should exercise their political rights in the ban
tustans,

Noting that if Blacks were included in the new
legislature, the racial ratios would be 36 Africans to 9
Caucasians 10 5 Coloreds and to 2 Asians, he asked
thetorically, What would then remain of the principle of
maintaining civilized standards?!

ne

It is the suggestion of this column that the present are
Tangement has been and continues to be unacceptable to
Africans and, indeed to Asians and Coloreds and that the
final solution will be determined by the intransigence of the
white rulers, Since the problem is clearly racial so {s the
fesolution bound to be,

The history of South Aftica (Azania) bears a series of
developments that have produced the present political,
economic and social mosaic, The territory is a former col.
ony under Britain, In 1910, the four provinces of
Transvaal, Cape, Natal and Orange Free State formed the
Union of South Africa within the British Commonwealth
of Nations,

In 1948 the Nationalist Party, under the control of the
Boers, won the general election defeating the moderate
United Party dominated by English elements. It was under
the auspices of the Nationalist Party that basic
ae Fallows:

» 1949 - Prohibition of mixed marriages act

» 1950 Immorality Act (Sex between Blacks and Whites
Was & crime)

» 1951 ~ Representation of Voters Act (Removal of
Blacks and Coloreds from Role)

» 1951 = Bantu Authorities Act (Government appointed
Chiefs to oversea baniustans-native Reserves)

» 1953 - Bantu Education Act (Central Government
Educational Control, no church powers, strict school
Sexregation)

» 1953 - Native Labor Act (Atricans not considered as
employees, could not belong to unions and thus, not pro
fected by trade union laws)

This bizarre lewistation was in addition (o the “Reference
Book!" Act of 1952, which introduced a refurbished
Passbook containing an African's photograph, identity
card, registration number, ethnic background, influx con
{rol and labor bureau authorizations, tax receipts, work
Fecord, current address of employment, and employer's

Siunature, In 1953 the Reservation of Separate Amenities
Act segregated post offices, rail stations, trains, bridges,
buses, public park benches, beaches, swimming pools, and

libraries,
The sine-qua-non of the apartheid system was the 1950

Group Areas Act, which the then Prime Minister D, F

Malan characterized as “the Kernel of the aparthetd policy

production and distribution,

“A crowd of several thousand gathered early in the 0
ning. The protesters formed a procession thr
4 mile long and marched to the municipal o|
trance to the township, Police threw tear
with batons to disperse the protesters. A little later, @
ten thousand African men, women and children sur
ed the police station in the township, The leaders o
Protest explained to a police lieutenant that they wanted
be arrested for not having their passes with thei,

Shortly after 1:30 p.m., without any warnin;
fan shooting. The others followed. A number
demonstrators started (0 laugh, apparently thinkin
the police Were firing blanks. But the laughter quickly turn
¢d into terror as protesters crumpled to the ground, Voll
after volley of pistol and automatic weapons fire (ore In
the fleeing crowd, The shooting lasted less than a mir
but when it stopped, the area around the police sta

police be;

cluttered with dozens of bodies, According to th
Count, sixty-seven demonstrators died that d
180 Were injured, The overwhelming majority had b
shot in the back." The foregoing is a description
day, March 21, 1960 at an African township just outside of
Vercenigi Johannesb: Its name

south of

December 3, 1982

Sharpevill

rights...”

Tor determining the future of race rela.

The sense OF nonsense of the foregoing can be
Understood in the light of the following statistiese

i) 4 million Whites (16 percent) own 87 percent of best
land,

») 4 million Whites own (76 percent) of total wealth

£) 29 million Africans occupy (don't own) 13 percent of
poorest land,

4) 23 million Africans share 24 percent of total Wealth,

further

The cornerstone of the apartheid policy is that basically;
Africans do not have human, civil or politcal rights aga
such, they cannot vote, cannot elect Fepresentatives to
Parliament, have no right of assembly, cannot Organize
political parties, do not qualify for protection by police or
courts, Even though they provide over 83 percent of the
cheap labor force, they own none of the means or results of,

From Sharpeville through Soweto, things have never
en the same in South Africa, Clearly, South African
Hes are orchestrating a race war whether or not by
ce: In the minds of most observers, South Africa will
Not surrender power yoluntarily, In the manner of
Sharpeville, Langa and Soweto, the White raline class il
‘not balk at shedding the blood of thousands of Blacks (0
Preserve its oppressive and profitable system of white
capitalist Supremacy,

The U.S, should Seriously ask with Gwendolyn Carter,
feannswe® the question, “What should the West do of
I sal {0 urge the South African BoVernment to respond to
bared a ctithin that country that have increasinaly laid
bare the inadequacies Of its black Policies?"

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Editor’s Aspect
Letter To A Father

© a father of many minds
| there is no deeper proclaimation
in abstract fortresses of enemies than
in simple children with animated hearts-
the quiet emotions are stilled in the
fire of your soul
above all
your hands are hard now-
untouched by the theories of your own hunger.
To be picked up and fed,
to be driven in wars without mercy,
this she must do for you, as if mad;
her head thrown back in danger
offering her sleep for your freedom
eves closed
pretending, feigning your death.
You choke back the inward knowledge,

| your mouth bleeding in cold defense.

Whose sighs will free you from that
which you choose to dismiss

in solitude

in passion

In your grave?

“Blasphemy against the son. of man
will be forgiven

in this world

or the world to come,”

and yet your daughter will wait

in the room at the top of the stairs
no wind will shift the paper atop her desk
in the damp dungeons

that taste of bruised flesh of men
On her mouth also,

in the high pitched sound of her laugh,
the sun glaring in her eves,

she makes the crowd come,
dreams grinding the days,

the foul evidence in darkened caves.
Yes, memory Is a difficult trait,

in her outstretched hands

you desire to forget

to envelop

to deny

The sweat of terror is in her mind
She walks off blind with pride

the dragged up child, which,

from time to time becomes wild
with ambition,

in order to forget

for

a

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she

is

alive

with emotion with terror with rebellion

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Perspectives:

“One can ban water, but not thirst”:
A classic from Mr. H-K.D., Edel and
B’O.B. are back again, Condon’s
appraisal of the draft, and the
legendary Carroll comes to Basil’s
defense

Centerfold:

One man’s struggle with his conscience

and his friends; Betz: An intimate look

Sound @& Vision:

Joni Mitchell’s Retrospective, Damian
kisses records good-bye in no

land, Rossier returns, Schneider
unnerves Benatar, and M.G.T. finds

Jane no calamity

Endgame:
WCDB’s Top Twenty, Zhe Pudz exhibit

[12a:

new art, and of course, Spectrum. . .

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Word On A Wing

Ultimately you can listen to only one
thing, not your president, not your misguid-
ed leaders, save a few, not the Communists
or the Socialists or the Republicans or the
Democrats, but you must listen to your own
heart, and do what it dictates. Because your
heart is the only thing which can tell you
what is right and what is wrong. And after
you have found out what you think is right
and what is wrong, then you must know that
you can say yes to what is right and no to
what is wrong ... because it is not the
leaders and the dictators, it is not God who is
,going to get us out of the bloody mess we

are in. It is only you and only me.
—Joan Baez

‘Call it peace or call it reason,
Call it love or call it treason,

But I ain't a-marchin’ anymore.
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Pogo.

didn't register for the draft, 1
didn't have to since ! was in the
service at the time. It didn't make

much sense. Unwilling conscripts. make
Jousy soldiers and create more problems
than solutions, Draft registration was an
unqualified mistake and I'm dying to read
Jimmy's new book and hear him explain it
But far more important than registration
Itself was the debate it ignited or rekindled
In statehouses and campuses like this one.
For one thing it became clear that the lines
drawn in the sixties or even forty years
before that had not really changed. Nor
had many of the arguments pro or con.
Unfortunately the world has changed a

great deal and not much for the better.
Alex Condon

Having grown up In the sixties and
seventies the cultural Idiom 1 was most

familiar with was that of protest and distrust
2f authority, Fuck the pigs and don't trust
anyone over thirty, Richard Nixon was a
pig, he was also over thirty, Pigs had short
hair, cried when they played the national
anthem and sometimes wore rlot gear
Two fingers in the air meant peace not vic-
tory. | identified with being part of the
youth movement. We were a new genera
tion. We had our priests and prophets, our
Learys and our Mark Rudds, | never
thought our leaders would mislead us but
maybe I was being too discriminating as to
which authority needed questioning, To
many the woodstock nation was an airtight
alibl.

But like Arlo Guthrie, 1 come to talk
about the Draft. Here are some of the
arguments you've probably heard before:

1, I don’t want to become part of the War
Machine.

Who does? Blaming the military for war is
like blaming the sanitation department for
garbage. A nineteen year old lance cor-
poral is responsible for up to a milion
dollars worth of equipment as well as the
lives of the other members of his crew or
fire team. A college sophomore might
Worry about his stereo, his report card or
getting Stray Cats tix, In between late night
bong hits he might muse on his higher
nature and decide he does not believe in
the War Machine and will not register for
the draft, Maybe lance corporal Doe was

stupid enough to believe he was serving his
country and not the War Machine. He'll
pay for it the rest of his life in a traller park.
outside of Camp Lejeune with a divorce
and alcoholism rate three times the na-
tional average or worse he'll get his quis
blown out In some jungle shithole five
thousand miles away because noone else
would go, Meanwhile his counterpart takes
his consclence back to the suburbs with
him, to @ good home a good Job and all
those good things that were never available
to his less moral friend,

2, I cannot kill another human being

Toni Basil’s Re

ecause 1 didn't collapse into

B paroxyms of joy when she told
me she could get her hands on a

pair of Who tickets, a friend of mine called
me “uncool”—a debatable charge, but one
1 was willing to forgive until she further
ridiculed my musical taste by flapping her
arms around and chanting, “Oh, Mickey,
you're so fine, you're so fine you blow
my—" That's when I stormed out of the
100m, flinging over my shoulder the threat
of never talking to her again until she

Fulfillment
The lady told

me to go to
hell and after
I spent the
entire day wond-
ering why, I was
already there.

Bob O'Brian

apologized. _ =
Andrew Carroll

~*You can make fun of me,"1coi
‘but leave by friend Toni Basil o

Basil, of course, Is the dancer/singer
whose album Word of Mouth, summarily
dismissed by Damian VenDenburgh in
these pages a few weeks back, contains the
year’s most exciting and at the same time
most irritating song, “Oh Mickey.” As he
should have, VanDenburgh trashed the
album, but in doing so threw the Basil out
with the bathwater. Unknowingly, I've
been Keeping tabs on Basil's career for
about six years now, and believe her ac-
complishments as a choreographer and
video artist outweigh any gaffs she may.
have committed in the recording studio.
Besides, until I heard it for the fiftieth time,
I loved “Oh, Mickey.”

Without even realizing it, you too pro-
bably know something about Basil, who in
the early "70's gathered together a group of
young black dancers and called them the
“Lockers.” Remember ‘What's
Hoppenin’," the late seventies sitcom with
Dee, Raj and Rerun? Rerun was a Locker,
and on the show often went Into the wrist
rolls, arm flings, backside landings and
hhurdler’s. splits that were the Lockers’
tyademarks, Basil didn’t invent the

dancestyle, but learned it from one Donald
Campbellock, whom she met during the
ten year period she spent in the Watts area
of Los Angeles studying and videotaping
the dancing black kids were doing, Basil
saw theatrical possibilities in “locking” (as
an actress she has appeared In Easy Rider,
‘ve Easy Pieces and Greaser's Palace) and
formed a troupe whose members would
each represent a different facet of street
dance: there was Flukey Like, Slim the
Robot, Penguin and Shabadoo. Dressed in
outfits Elton John might have turned down
for being too loud, they went on to perform
on the Carol Burnett show, Saturday Night
Live and specials with Roberta Flack and
Doris Day.

The members of the lockers went thelr
‘own way toy ards the end of the decade,
one critic having said “the move from street
to stage diluted the form." Besides, locking
was an individual's art, and the dancers
were sald to have balked at Basil's attempts
to turn the group into an “ensemble.”

The break-up was just fine with Basil, as
it turned out, for at about the same time
the began to branch out, choreographing
Bette Midler on stage and film, David
Bowle during the Diamond Dogs tour, and
the Talking Heads on video. Video seemed
to be her calling, and her projects eventual
ly led her to Word of Mouth, which she
describes as a “video album.”

Which brings us back to “Oh, Mickey,”
and one of the reasons | like it so much
The “Mickey” video seen on MTV in only
part of a phenomenally successful special
Basil did on British TV. Typlcally of Basil it
captures and embellishes another native
American dance style — cheerleading —
with comic and exhilarating effect. While
sweatered girls behind her do jazzed’ up
versions of standard cheerleading routines,
Basil performs her own crazed interpreta-

tion of a prom queen gone batty, You can,

The Lieutenant Calleys in this world only
pull the triager. The massacre starts much
closer to home when people spend money
lon walkmans while others starve,
Shooting, bombing and napalming are
| humanitarian compared to neglect. A great
number of people in this world live in such:
abject misery that death from above would
be a relief. Why? Because others are either
| blind, lazy or couldn't care less, When peo-
{ple say they cannot kill another human be-
Ing they mean they're too lazy or too
{squeamish to pick up a rifle and do it with

‘any empathy for their victims,

3, | want to send a message.

To who? The Pentagon is already against
the draft for different reasons. The oll com>
panies don't care what you think or who
you vote for as long as you buy gas. The
politicians, Do they really matter? Not
registering may be a commilment to world
peace but $0 1s a dollar donation to a
sidewalk santa.

A large number of people believe that

some enigmatic elite of white haired
generals and businessmen is responsible for

uttal

our troubles, War, Racism, Inequality ara|
all part of their scheme for world destruc+
tion, Such people would rather believe this
than belleve there was no omniscient con;
sclous force at work In world events. A}
reality manipulated by evil is preferable to
one chaotic, arbitrary and disturbingly
amoral, We need to blame somebody,
‘They! are a convenient target, But this Is
just superstition, While we Indulge In
superstition and the semantics of 'Us' and
‘Them’ the clock keeps on ticking.

Ultimately everyone Is blameless, but|
guilty or not we're all responsible, When
spaceship earth goes hurtling out of Its orbit
all of us will dle not just the war criminals,
Our convictions might well be a large part
of the problem, It wasn’t too long ago peo
ple believed the earth was flat now we havel
breeder reactors, Our reality has evolved
much faster than our little minds, Dealing
with the problems of the atomic age might
be more than the conventional wisdom Is|
capable of, Our notions of justice, morality
‘and society may be inadequate for our pre-
sent dilemma, In fect the whole sum of
Ideas and values that we've held sacred as
essential to our civilization may be on the
threshold of obsolescence.

Chanting some played out hipple|
slogans from the sixties {s not going fo put
us on the road to peace and prosperity,
Those slogans were useless when Jerry
Rubin was singing them and there as
useless now as he is, We need some radical
new suggestions to the nuclear threat not a
regression {nto counter-culture senility.
How can we stop war when we can’t even.
stop people from stealing notebooks to In=
flate the curve?

1 apologize for any misconceptions or
distortions | might have nurtured with my
little polemic, Remember, nothing {sso
blind, bigoted or irrational as self-righteous
moral indignation, There is a lot of it
around a

Seem 2 Omd S4OMwed gw

Critics have to justify 40 inches
in Rolling Stone and the Voice
describing the Clash’s politics
when you know and I know that
“Rock the Casbah” is a great
song because it has a good
beat and you can dance to it.

ium the sound off it you feel you have to,
although | doubt the video would work to
“Eye of the Tiger” or, forgive me, "I've
Known No War"

But even without the video, or knowing
anything about Ton! Basil, what's wrong
with liking “Oh Mickey"? Not since "My
Shirona" have | heard so many people
complaining about an FM hit, or apologiz-
ing if someome catches them with their foot
tapping. 1 don't apologke for liking
"Mickey." Yes, 1'll admit i's as disposable
fas yesterday's Pop Rocks, but who says
you should expect anything more from
rock? Critics do, I suppose, but they have
to Justify 40 inches in Rolling Stone or the
Village Voice describing the Clash’s politics
When you know and I know that "Rock the
Casbah” Is a great song because it has a
good beat and you can dance to it. Ton!
Basil will probably never make another hit,

| and “Oh, Mickey" may not last another

' before I reach for Ton! Basil, or the Knack,
or even the Monkees,

week, but who remembers the Teddy
Bears, Curtis Lee, or Gene Pitney? They
ware all footnotes in rock history —but what
footnotes!

like "Oh Mickey" for the same reasons
that I dislike much of what the Who do on
It's Hard. Where Basil has made a quickly
digestible and easily eliminated rock chant,
Townshend and company felt the pressure
of a “Farewell” tour and seemed bent on
creating "classics," replete with ponderous!
melodies, heartfelt vocals and deep Iyrics,
But [can only take so many extended syn-
thesizer breaks and crashing cymbals

Itthat makes me uncool, s0 be it. as that!
great musical theoreticilan Mark
Mothersbaugh once sald, "We're through.
{being cool,”

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You come here Alone
You leave here Alone

obody, | suspect, Is too much dif-

ferent from the society that pro-

duces him. The avils that
characterize the dominant cultures, in-
terested jn justifying ond perpetuating the
unequal organization of the world, are
teflected also among ourselves, We in:
tellectuols who claim to be oF want to be
tevolutionaries, or who at least refuse to
serve as accomplices to this unequal or
criminal organization, are not “vaccinated'"
against the Ideology of oppression. Our
health consists in knowing that we are
sick—and not much less sick than the
system that made us and that we wani to

help unmake, pe!
Hubert-Kenneth Dickey

Often we call popular culture “forklore”™
In order to nullify It or reduce it to the
merely picturesque, as we tend to call our
popular art “handicraft” to deny it the
possibility of breaking out of the category of
mechanically repeated forms. Condescen-
ding smiles await the “craftsman” who
dares think of himself as an artist, and the
furiously enraged husbands unsheath their
swords whever some guy in the sireet tries
to kiss Madame Poetry
Any attempt to violate the private pro:
perty of the Word and break the franchise
of artistic éreation {s considered
demagoguery and populism, as if a social
order whichondemns almost everyone to
silence were “natural.” It happens that the
publications of the left also generally ignore
the existence of this “other” culture that
nevertheless is manifested unceasingly in
people's daily lives and in thelr inexhausii-
ble capacity for astonishment, rebellion,
‘and cunning. We write on the people and
even in the name of the people, but we
rarely share with the people the media of
expression we have managed to conquer
We act in general as if the people were
mute, although we do everything possible
to assure that they are not deaf, In social
order wherein lands, factories, houses, and
individuals all have owners, cultures also
has an owner; but they are mistaken who
believe that revolutionary culture is lunited
to the work of revolutionary intellectuals
and that popular culture Is only the debas
ed echo of the master’s yoice
America has sulfered a kind of supercen:
tralist organization of the state, ils nucleus
being those immense ports and Babylonian
cities. Out of these centers operate the
dominant cultures, elitist and racist, to

whom national reality means the great out-
back and the threat of barbarism: their
work of repression and camouflage serves
the imperialist ends of cultural castration

One can ban water, but not thirst. Since
the colonial adventure of the Americas
converted the Indians and the blacks into
slaves of European development, their
cultures have survived the greatest cam:
palgns of extermination, these cultures
have disquised themselves, gone
underground, and have been subject to a
thousand outside influences, but they have
Kept alive thelr {dentity and thelr message
Today they continue to offer to all America
fundamental keys of recollection and pro:
phecy, They give witness to the past and at
the same time light beacons illuminating
the road ahead. If today these cultures held
only archeological interest, they would not
continue to be the objects of bloody repres
sion, nor would enemy power be so in
terested in manipulating them to cut them
off from class warfare and the popular
revolutionary movements,

Rob Edelstein

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Teri’s Eyes

ately, I've been telling people that in my opinion, the only sight more
L beautiful than the Empire State Building at night is my gitlfriend’s eyes

Reactions to this statement range from the romantically tinted “awwww"
to the Little Rascals —\ike retort “aw g'wan."” What the people miss though is the
sincerity of my statement, I'm not just describing a feeling. I'm revealing a secret
sacred part of myself, Here, before thelr very minds, I'm laying out the two places
on earth I'd like to be the most. Luckily, they're both a drive away

“IrTam to preach anything in ths Melime of mine, Its love, And or this
g stood upon and leaped from its majestic apex for the
cause of love, Apathetic New Yorkers pass Itiby each day and ignore it as brick
and stone. I wonder about the sweet and electricity that went into its conception
and I revel In its perseverence, Millions of human beings have Kissed on its obser?
vation deck, and from that deck you can look down upon all of the city and feel
the music, It's not just a building. It's New York

To me, the Empire State Building at night Is most beautiful when I'm watching
its reflection in my girlfriend's eyes from a spot one block west of Union Square.
From there, the tower lights shine through the New York City mist and waltz in
her arises, And when she smiles widely, I can see myself in those eves too. That's

Well, this is what works for me, For the rest of the orld, can only suggest an
evening of Broadway magle, jumping Jazz, sidewalk poetry, and a buggy through
the park, And some hobnobbing. And a sip or two of some robust rum coffee,

In a world that reduces relations between
Indivicuals to relations between things, we
all have a lot to learn from the vitality and
the love of liberty of the African cultures,
Which do not divorce thought from emo-
tion, and from the essential joy of religions
that exalt the human body instead of cen:
suring it, In a system murderous to the
earth and to the people, a system that
polsons the alr, contaminates the water,
and devastates the land, the indigenous
cultures of America tell us that the earth is
sacred because we, its children, are sacred,
Against the capitalist law of the jungle
Which holds greed as the supreme virtue,
tises the example of the solidarity of Indian
communities

National culture is defined by its content,
hot by the origin of its elements. Alive, it
changes incessantly, it challenges itself, it
contradicts itself, and it receives external in
fluences that at times increase it, and that
Want to operate simultaneously as a threat
and a stimulus. It would be a delusion and
fan act of reactionary stupidity to propose
the rejection of European cultural contribu

‘tions already incorporated into our heritage
and into the universal heritage, arbitrarily
reducing those vast and complex cultures
10 the machinery of Imperialist alienai
Implicit In them, Antlsimperialism also s
prey to infantile disorders,

The lack of what is denied to us need not
imply the refusal of what nurtures us
America need not renounce the creative
fruits of cultures which have flowered in
great measure thanks to a material splen
| dor not unconnected to the pitless exploita
tion of our people and our lands

The national culture, shared identiy
| collective memory, comes from history and
| returns to history unceasingly, transfigured
by the challenges and requirements
| reality. Our identity lies in history, not in
biology, and it is made by cultures not by

F races: but It les In lve history. The present |

does not repeat the past; it contains it
| From what footsteps do we draw our di
tion? The dominant cultures distort hist ny
and lock It up in museums; our dominant
classes, threatened, want an immutable
world.

In Cuba and Nicaragua history has
the museums and taken shape in the fields
and the streets. Revolutions involve the
recovery of the national memory, which is

} a key to Identity, In that sense, in different
forms and degrees, similar movements had
been unleashed in Mexico and Bolivia
beginning in 1910 and 1952 respective
and in Chile and Argentina during the
fleeting administrations of Allen
| Campora

In general, we are unaware of ourse
are also hist
Neocolonial rule purges the slave of
history and makes him see himself throws
the eyes of his master. History is show
Us like the display of a mummy: dates
facis detached from time, irr
divorced from the reality that we
love and endure; and we get a ver
the past distorted, so that we re
unaware of what we can be.

Europe is the universe. We leai
nothing of the pre-Columbian p:
America, not to say Africa, which we
only through old Tarzan movies
histories of all of our cultures are shou
Us as marginal notes on the pages of 1
the native insurrections and the rev
black slaves are mentioned
when they are mentioned at
episodes of bad conduct: 1
economic and social processes don

unaware of our

exist as backdrops, and the heroes
bronze always In fancy clothes, ac
divine inspiration solitarily. In the d
good and evil, the masses passively ploy
the rolls of extras

And the Empire State Building at night as seen through the eyes of one's loved
pe at sets TA elisa aE)

Fulfillment
The lady told

me to go to
hell and after
I spent the
entire day wond-
ering why, I was
already there.

ee

We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo

didn't register for the draft, |

didn't have to since | was in the

Service at the time. It didn't make
much sense, Unwilling conscripts make
lousy soldiers and create more problems
than solutions, Draft registration was an
Unqualified mistake and I'm dying to read
Jimmy's new book and hear him explain it.
But far more important than registration
itself was the debate It ignited or rekindled
In statehouses and campuses like this one.
For one thing it became clear that the lines
drawn In the sixties or even forty years
before that had not really changed. Nor
had many of the arguments pro or con
Unfortunately the world has changed a
great deal and not much for the better. _

Alex Condon

Having grown up in the sixties and
seventies the cultural Idiom | was most
familiar with was that of protest and distrust
of authority. Fuck the pigs and don't trust
anyone over thirty, Richard Nixon was a
pig, he was also over thirty. Pigs had short
hair, cried when they played the national
anthem and sometimes wore riot gear
Two fingers in the alr meant peace not vic-
tory. | Identified with being part of the
youth movement, We were a new genera-
tion. We had our priests and prophets, our
Learys and our Mark Rudds. | never
thought our leaders would mislead us but
maybe I was being too discriminating as to
which authority needed questioning, To
many the woodstock nation was an airtight
alibi.

But like Arlo Guthrie, | come to talk
sbout the Draft. Here are some of the
arguments you've probably heard before:
1. | don’t want to become part of the War
Machine.

ecause | didn’t collapse into

B paroxyms of joy when she told
me she could get her hands on a

pair of Who tickets, a friend of mine called
me “uncool"~—a debatable charge, but one
1 was willing to forgive until she further
ridiculed my musical taste by flapping her
arms around and chanting, “Oh, Mickey,
you're so fine, you're so fine you blow
my—" That's when | stormed out of the
room, flinging over my shoulder the threat
of never talking to her again until she

apologized, ee
Andrew Carroll

"You can make fun of me,"Tc
“ut leave by friend Toni Basil out of this,

Basil, of course, s the dancer/singer
whose album Word of Mouth, summarily
dismissed by Damian VenDenburgh in
these pages a few weeks back, contains the
year's most exciting and at the same time
most irritating song, "Oh Mickey." As he
should have, VanDenburgh trashed the
album, but in doing so threw the Basil out
with the bathwater. Unknowingly, I've
been keeping tabs on Basil's career for
about six years now, and believe her ac-

complishments as a choreographer and
| video artist outweigh any gaffs she may
have committed In the recording studio:
Besides, until | heard it for the fiftieth time,
|| 1 loved "Oh, Mickey.

Without even realizing it, you too pro
bably know something about Basil, who in
the early '70's gathered together a group of
young black dancers and called them the
“Lockers.” Remember ‘What's
Happenin’,” the late seventies sitcom with
Dee, Raj and Rerun? Rerun was a Locker,
and on the show often went into the wrist
rolls, arm flings, backside landings and

hurdler’s splits that were the Lockers’
‘ademarks, Basil didn't invent the

Who does? Blaming the military for war is
like blaming the sanitation department for
garbage. A nineteen year old lance cor:
poral Is responsible for up to a million
dollars worth of equipment as well as the
lives of the other members of his crew or
fire team, A college sophomore might
Worry about his stereo, his report card or
getting Stray Cats tix, In between late night
bong hits he might muse on his higher
nature and decide he does not believe in
the War Machine and will not register for
the draft, Maybe lance corporal Doe was

The Lieutenant Calleys in this world only
pull the trigger, The massacre starts much
closer to home when people spend money
on walkmans while others starve,
Shooting, bombing and nepalming are
| humanitarian compared to neglect. A great
number of people in this world live In such
abject misery that death from above would
be a relief. Why? Because others are either
| blind, lazy or couldn't care less, When peo:
| ple say they cannot kill another human be-
Jng they mean they're too lazy or too
{squeamish to pick up a rifle and do it with

country and not the War Machine, He'll
pay for it the rest of his life in a trailer park
outside of Camp Lejeune with a divorce
and alcoholism rate three times the na-
tional average or worse he'll get his guts
blown out in some jungle shithole five
thousand miles away because noone else
would go. Meanwhile his counterpart takes
his conscience back to the suburbs with
him, to @ good home a good job and all
those good things that were never available
to his less moral friend,

2. I cannot kill another human being.

Toni Basil’s Re

dancestyle, but learned it from one Donald
Campbellock, whom she met during the
ten year period she spent in the Watts area
‘of Los Angeles studying and videotaping
the dancing black kids were doing. Basil
saw theatrical possibilities in “locking” (as
an actress she has appeared in Easy Rider,
Five Easy Pieces and Greaser's Palace) and
formed a troupe whose members would
each represent a different facet of street
dance: there was Flukey Like, Slim the
Robot, Penguin and Shabadoo, Dressed in
outfits Elton John might have turned down
for being too loud, they went on to perform
on the Carol Burnett show, Saturday Night
Live and specials with Roberta Flack and
Doris Day.

The members of the lockers went their
‘own way toy ards the end of the decade,
‘one critic having sald “the move from street
to stage diluted the form.” Besides, locking
was an individual's art, and the dancers
Were said fo have balked at Basil's attempts
to tum the group into an "ensemble."

The break-up was just fine with Basil, as
it turned out, for at about the same time
the began to branch out, choreographing
3ette Midler on stage and film, David
Bowle during the Diamond Dogs tour, and
the Talking Heads on video. Video seemed
to be her calling, and her projects eventual:
ly led her to Word of Mouth, which she
describes as a “video album.”

Which brings us back to "Oh, Mickey,"
and one of the reasons | like it so much:
The "Mickey" video seen on MTV In only
part of a phenomenally successful special
Basil did on British TV, Typically of Basil, it
coptures and embellishes another native
American dance style — cheerleading —
with comic and exhilarating effect. While
sweatered girls behind her do jazzed’ up
versions of standard cheerleading routines,
Basil performs her own crazed interpreta-

tion of a prom queen gone batty. You can, ,

‘any empathy for thelr victims
3, | want to send a message.

To who? The Pentagon is already against
the draft for different reasons, The oll com-
panies don't care what you think or who
you vote for as long as you buy gas. The
pollicians, Do they really matter? Not
registering may be a commitment to 4 stld
peace but so Is a dollar donation to a
sidewalk santa,

A large number of people believe that
some enigmatic elite of while haired
generals and businessmen is responsible for

SS SSSSSrerrcction
Hearing A Different Drum

||
our troubles, War, Recism, Inequality ara|
all part of thelr scheme for world destruc
tion, Such people would rather believe this
than belleve there was no omniscient cont
sclous force at work In world events, A|
reality manipulated by evi Is preferable to
fone chaotic, arbitrary and disturbingly
amoral, We need to blame somebody,
‘They’ are a convenient target, But this is
Just superstition, While we indulge In
superstition and the semantics of ‘Us! and
Them’ the clock keeps on ticking.

Ultimately everyone 1s blameless, but]
gullty or not we're all responsible, When
spaceship earth goes hurtling out of Its orbit
all of us will die not just the war criminals,
Our convictions might well be a large part
of the problem, {t wasn’t too long ago peo
ple believed the earth was flat now we have|
breeder reactors, Our reality has evolved|
much faster than our litle minds, Dealing
with the problems of the atomic age might
be more than the conventional wisdom is
capable of, Our notions of justice, morality
and society may be Inadequate (or our pre:
sent dilemma, In fact the whole sum of
Ideas and values that we've held sacred as
essential to our civilization may be on the
threshold of obsolescence,

Chanting some played out hipple|
slogans from the sixties Is not going to put
us on the road to peace and prosperity,
Those slogans were useless when Jerry|
Rubin was singing them and there as
useless now as he is, We need some radical
new suggestions to the nuclear threat not a
regression Into counterculture senility,
How can we stop war when we can't even
stop people {rom stealing notebooks to In-
flate the curve?

I apologize for any misconceptions or
distortions I might have nurtured with my
little polemic. Remember, nothing Is so
blind, bigoted or irrational as self-righteous
moral indignation, There Is a lot of it
around, fa]

S@e~ & ARS S4HRTEDd Fy

Critics have to justify 40 inches
in Rolling Stone and the Voice
describing the Clash’s politics
when you know and I know that

“Rock the Casbah” is a great
song because it has a good

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ff beat and you can dance to it.

turn the sound off It you feel you have to,
although I doubt the video would work to

Eye of the Tiger" or, forgive me, “I've
Known No War”

But even without the video, or knowing
anything about Ton! Basil, what's wrong
with liking “Oh Mickey"? Not since "My:
Shiron have | heard so many people
complaining about an FM hit, or apologiz-
ing if someome caiches them with thelr foot
tapping. 1 don't apologize for liking
"Mickey," Y¢s, I'll admit It's as disposable
as yesterday's Pop Rocks, but who says
you should expect anything more from
Tock? Critics do, I suppose, but they have
to Justify 40 Inches in Rolling Stone or the
Village Voice describing the Clash’s politics
when you know and I know that "Rock the:
Casbah" is a great song because It has a
good beat and you can dance to it, Ton!
Basil wil probably never make another hit,

‘and “Oh, Mickey” may not last another

week, but who remembers the Teddy
Bears, Curtts Lee, or Gene Pitney? They
ware all footnotes in rock history—but what
footnotes!

Hike "Oh Mickey" for the same teasons
that [dislike much of what the Who do on
It's Hard, Where Basil has made a quickly
digestible and easily eliminated rock chant,
Townshend and company felt the pressure
of 8 "Forewell" tour and seemed bent on
creating "classics," replete with ponderous
melodies, heartfelt vocals and deep lyrics,
Butl can only take so many extended syn+|
thesizer breaks and crashing cymbals
before {reach for Ton! Basil, or the Knack,
or even the Monkees,

Ii that makes me uncool, $0 be it, as that
great musical theoratician Mark|
Mothersbaugh once sald, “We're through
ibeing cool.”

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BEFORE YOU REGISTER
FOR THE DRAFT

1978
y parents were both out ot town that week, so |
Mie the car to myself, I'd been used to walking or
getting a ride the two miles to my high school

and | was glad that had the wagon for the whole week
1 don't remember what the reason was, but President
Carter was stumping through Des Moines on a tour of
the midwest. He wasn't In town for long — he just stop
ped in at a motel across Fleur Drive from the municipal
airport to meet with some Democratic Party heavies
Carter got his first natlonal attention after doing very
well in the ‘76 lowa caucus, and | suppose he had to

pay his respects. m
Dean Betz

My best friend Gennis and Tcul a few classes so we
could join a demonstration across the street from the
motel, I've known Dennis since my family moved from
Pennsylvania to lowa when | was in sixth grade. He
taught me to appreciate Dylan. Rolling Stone, and
generally helped me expand my brain

There was a small crowd of about 35 people gathered
to demonstrate in honor of Carter's visit. For lowa, that
was a big demonstration, The group was a mix that
you'd probably not find anywhere else, There were
farmers from the American Agriculture Movement, and
people from Greenpeace who, walking across the coun
try, happened to be in town that day. I came to join
some people from Citizens United for Responsible
Energy, a local anti-nuclear group I'd done some work
with before.

The Air National Guard had a base in the airport, and
took the opportunity to show off ils equipment, A dozen
helicopters sat on the edge of the field near the motel
About every hsll hour, a flight of A-7D Corsair jets
would take off with spurious amounts of power and
noise. The military atmosphere was strengthened by
police with rifles all over the roof of the motel

Movement politics in lowa meant instant coalition
building. When an anti-nuclear rally of 2000 people was
considered a great achievement, people of varying
political opinions quickly ignored differences and found
common ground. | remember building a float for a
parade with people ranging in ideology from revolu
communism, libertarianism, Republican
Catholic Worker pacifism

tionary
capitalism, ar

We quickly joined the Greenpeace people, slowly
chanting "No Nukes, Save the Whales." After a while,
the lonely AAM added to the chant. "No Nukes, Family
Farms, Save the Whales."

Driving back to school the tape player destroyed the
only copy of Zappa's Freak Out I've ever owned. Den-
nis shrugged his shoulders |

1970

Twas almost nine years old, Two memories stand out
strongest in my mind from this time — TV body counts |
and Kent State

Atthe time, my family lived not too far from Kent. in |
northern Ohio. On May 4 the local paper ran an
editorial page cartoon of a Pentagon bureaucrat holding
a clipboard riding into a Vietnamese village on a tank.
The caption read something like, "Now get me a good,
high body count." After hearing about the killings at
Kent, my brother took a pencil and drew a gate over the
entrance of the village reading, “Kent State University.” |
A few years later, he registered for the draft when he |
turned 18 and got busy establishing conscientious objec:
for status. The draft ended before his number had a
chance to get picked in the lottery,

I remember sitting on my parents bed later that sum:
mer Watching the national news on the TV. I get a very

clear image every time | remember the impact of wat
ching the body counts being flashed on the screen. In
my eyes it always blended with the shots of the fighting

1980

Carter just finished the State of the Union address
My roommate picked up a glass jar and threw it against
a window of our State Quad bedroom. The jar broke.
not the window, and it took us a half-hour to find all the
glass pieces. The president who campaigned that there
would never be a peacetime draft during his term has
gone ahead with the first step — draft registration

{ still have the calender { used that year. Every week
in that spring semester has a peace meeting, teach-in,
forum, or demonstration entered under it, For example,

°

I

The bombings of Cambodia and killings at Kent State brou:
Albany during SUNYA\'s 1970 student strike.

in the week of March 39 there was a draft forum at
RPI, tabling for the Peace Project, a coffee house, and a
teach-in at Saint Rose

Even for all the activity, | was scared, Although 1 tried
to forget about it. No one really knew what to expect
from the government. Some people predicted the draft
within a year or so, The considerable sabre-rattling of
the “Fuck Iran" days had settled into a more odious
rustling of draft registration cards.

I spent the next summer with my parents. | busied
myself with work and community theater, but couldn't
forget about registration. In lowa I was active with peace
groups, and didn't expect to find much activity in the
small western New York village my family moved to,
Not long before registration started | found a very ac

Bsemest uarTprarE

wR

ng reaction like the 3000 person rally in downtown

tive group of people — mostly college professors, doc- |
tors, and other-professional people — who had a small
ve peace group
Juring the two weeks of registration that summer we
Ja vigil, picket line, or demonstration outside of
most post offices in the rural three-county area our
members lived in. During those two weeks, | saw cw
{rafteligible young man walk into the post office to
register unaccompanied by a parent, The parents would
sneer at us, and the guy would just look away
¢ got a lot of shit from people, too. The favorite ex
pression was “Go back to Russia.” They didn’t realize
they were yelling at their kids’ pediatrician or Physics
professor
was required to register on Wednesday, July 30,

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commen <0 TT

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ly farms, save the whale

1980. Two days before my father's birthday told him! |
Wasn't going to register when we had the starter from.
the pickup truck apart on the garage workshop. He
didn't say too much, We didn't master the ability to
communicate with each other uniil pretty recently, and I
think at that point he didn’t know what to say. explain:
ed to him my reasons why — objecting to militarism,
making conscription more difficult, my beliefs about civil
disobedience — and assured him that | wasn't planning
to go out of my way to get arrested. | know he disagreed.
with my position then and [ know he disagrees now, but
he still doesn't talk about it much. He doesn't say
anything negative, at least

I didn't need to tell my mother — she was-able to |
quess, We talked about one weekend inthe vegetable |
garden. She stressed that, of course | was free to do |
what I like but that | shouldn't expect any money for a
lawyer from them, | told her! wasn't planning to get ar
rested. It didn't comfort her much

Ever since that summer, when I'm with my parents |
and draft registration comes up, a loud silence falls

The woman | was falling in love with at the time was
equally uncomfortable She wouldn't
discuss it, and that meant it bothered her |

Dennis was scared shitless. His letters reflected the |
general paranoia that the government worked hard to
induce. A five-year prison term and fine looks rather in- |

|
|

with my resistance

timidating. He had always worked with peace groups
100, but took a different approach. Like many people
he opposed the draft itself, but didn't consider it worth.

the penalty to not register

‘THE PEACE
MOVEMENT

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CONTINUED.

1981

The winter break was another busy time for registra:
tion, A whole new batch of men were to be signed up.
The pesce group | worked with concentrated on fewer

larger demonstrations
After a few months of being a dre
The initial paranoia of prosecu

resister, | was feel

ing more comfortable:
tion was wearing off. | did @ newspaper interview with
the Rochester morning daily, with the provision that my
Jast name not be used. The reporter, through a series of
misquotes and questionable transitions stressed that |

was a new kind of draft resister. “I'm a registration
resister, [ guess," the crucial quote read. Very eloquent

A TV reporter pressed me my full name
almost challenging me to use it. | probably would have if
it wasn't for a good friend in the peace group reminding
me not to let myself get into something I'm not ready
for, She could see how the pressuring affected me —
she’s a doctor of psychology, ! only used my first name
| was growing more comfortable with resistance, but |

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wasn't quite ready to tell all.

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T think twas that incident that made me realize who
the draft resisters really are. They're not just the 18: (o
olds who have refused to fill out registration
forms. They're also the people — male and female,
black, white. yellow and brown, young and old — who.
by aiding nom-registrants and working through many.
ways of ending militarism make up the majority of draft
litle group there were two noi
registrants, and a dozen other draft resisters.

A few weeks ago, a judge in Los Angeles dismissed
government ch David Wayte
registrant and draft resister. It's hard to guess what will
happen to the case in appeal — almost as many.
theres on that have been tossed around as were
estimates of how soon the draft would follow registra
tion tw while, draft prosecution cases
pending have been frozen until the Wayte case reaches
probably in the U.S. Supreme Court, The
through some technicalities, will certainly

resisters. In our

anon

rges against

years ago. For

its end
Wavle case
freeze prosecutions for a time and could conceivably

end registration — for a while

J don't go to my parents’ house as much as | used to
college seems to take up more time and energy every
Over Thanksgiving | went home, and the
topic of draft registration did come up. My parents ask:
ed me what | thought about the Wayte decision, I ex:
plained to them that the case will almost certainly end
up in Supreme Court, and that it's difficult to second:

guess the Court, especially when it comes to “national
security” issues like the draft, They didn't say too much

but my father mumbled something about getting overly
optomistic. They didn’t say anything else about draft
registration the rest of the weekend f

semester

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« ‘othing lasts for long”,sings Jon!

Mitchell on her latest album Wild

Things Run Fast, from the song
“Chinese Cafe", and that perhaps, is the
‘statement that is most interesting on Jon\'s
newest portrait of life In a love-obsessed
world, [ say interesting, because Mitchell,
who has been recording now for over fit
teen years, has not only lasted for ages and
ages, but has created works of lear genius
{n not only the genres of folk (Ladies Of
The Canyon and Blue), and pop (Court
‘and Spark) but In Jaze as well (Mingus and
her live, breathtakingly beautiful Shadot
ond Light), Interesting because |t seems the
eternally love-lorn poetess of the past has
shed her balladsike bravado and adapted
‘an acceptence of love even Donna Sum-
Mericould admire

ween 6 omD exomied

Debbie Millman

Roberta Joan Anderson has come along
way since the days she was singing in the
little nightclubs of Saskatchewan, Canada
Intending to go into the graphic arts, she
decided after one year of art college that
she prefered to play guitar and sing, An in
tultive and fresh talent from the day she
entered the life of musician, she attracted
the attentions of guitarist Chuck Mitchell in
the early sixties while she was singing the
rounds in Canada, Married after only a
brief courtship, thelr marriage was ill-fated
as soon as Joni began intensely pursuing
her musical rather than romantic instincts
(ironically enough), Although the mid-
sixties folk music scene had already ex-
ploded and had begun to dissipate by the
time Mitchell arrived in New York, she
quickly attracted the likes of Tom Rush and
Judy Collins with such songs as “The Cir-
cle Game" and “Both Sides Now". The
rumor went around the music circles
about this brutally honest woman who sang
songs about herself, a woman, in a com:
pletely new, startlingly sensitive, and in-
novative way, They were right, Song To A
Seagull, Mitchell's first album, produced by
David Crosby, was explosive in a sublte
way; songs like "Sistotowbell Lane” were
not only songs revealing touching confes-

Joni comes full circle in an
album reflecting fifteen years

sions of a person's payche, they painted
portraits of completely unabashed honesty.
There were touches of Laura Nyro here, as
wall as Joan Baez, but the poetic Imagery
as well as melodic beauty were un:
precedented
A beautiful and talented woman is hard
to Ignore, but one that Is successful Is Im:
possible, Such was the case for Jon! after
the release of Clouds and Ladies Of The
Canyon, Friends with Neil Young since her
early days In Canada (they lived in the
same neighborhood and used ta joke
‘about becoming famous) she became Im:
mersed in the folk/art/hippie scene with
CSN & Young, plunged into a relationship
With Graham Nash, and moved in with him
and two cats on Laurel Canyon in Califor
nla, Though that relationship was also ill:
fated (as most love-affairs with Joni seem
to be), it produced some of the prettiest
songs In folk music that year. From Joni:
“Willie”, the sentimental appraisal of her
everlasting fove (Wille {s Graham's
nickname): “Willie ‘s my child, he Is my
father ... | would be his lady all my Ife”
and from Nash; “Our House” :"Staring at
the fire for hours and hours while I listen to
you play your love songs all night long for
me, only for me.”

Well, for some reason Nash couldn't
handle her dedication, and they split up.
Mitchell went into seclusion, then travellea
to Greece, where she lamented her lost
love, and wrote songs. She couldn't stay
away too long, and though stil depressed,
produced what some believe was her ac-
tual breakthrough album, Blue, The emo-
tional intensity of this album was for-
midable, her lyrics were dark, almost ma-
Jestic and her melodies, though still nat
‘overly complex, were unusual, At this par-
ticular time of her career, her voice was at
the forefront rather than the instruments
behind it. Nevertheless, Crosby had taught
her a method of tuning her guitar that was
unique and her songs had a ‘Jont’ quality
that she alone possessed,

During the preparation of the album For
The Roses, Joni met Tom Scott, horn
player of the L.A. Express (who has played

with everyone from Stevie Wonder to

Sooo —___ssses#ane
Joni Mitchell’s Moderation

Rickie Lee Jones). For The Roses had
some minor accompaniment, but It wasn't
Until she teamed up with the entire L.A.
Express In 1974 that she achieved totally
full, purely unadulterated, pop. It wasn't
hokey-pokey trash pop, mind you, but an
lusive, Introspective, fast-paced pop.
Court and Spark was a successful album,
commercially, as well as critically, and her
place in the music business was firmly
established.

Her next studio album, Helira was also
well recieved, at this point in Jont's life she
began to concern herself with settling down
and kept threatening her manager Eliot
Roberts that this tour was the last tour, but
somehow, she kept moving, Each love af-
{air seemed to be a 'alse-alarm' as she con-
fessed her broken heart In the touching
classic "Amelia". Her own existence, and
the reason for it was plaguing her
relentlessly; "Hejira” put it best: “I look at
the granite marker/those tributes to etern!-
ty, to finality/then 1 look at myself
here/chicken scratching for my Immortall-
ty,

panies Joni in a way that enhances her
vocals in a way that challenges tbe perfec-
tion of the vocal duets of Billie Holiday and
Al Hibber. Shadows and Light Is a sincere
album, it reflects the growth Mitchell made
down the long road of Introspection, im:
perfection, and fame. The haunting
remakes of "Woodstock"and “Furry Sings
The Blues” prove her ability to really sing
the blues, The remake of her own
Woodstock” is almost frightening, and
gives the ‘Woodstock’ era a chillingly, near
apocalyptic feeling. On first listening to the
cut, | was struck by the transformation she
had made since t first days as
‘spokeswomen' for the time.

Rushing ahead to the present, 1982 and
Wild Things Run Fost, | admit it- | have
mixed emotions about the album. In many,
many ways itis very beautiful, First the ex-
ceptional: the musicianship, Over the past
fifteen years Joni Mitchell has become one
hell of musician, Both her gultar and
plano playing are really good, Her volce
has changed a lot over the years, also
Back in the days of Song To A Seagull her

—— ——_——

Joni has grown up and she’s so straight.
Gone are the heart-wrenching, love-lamenting
lyrics, in its place are the acceptances of love,

attachments, and corny, heart-warming

responsibilites

—

In the interim she was becoming a better
musician and started becoming more and
more involved with jazz rhythms, Her first
aitempts at this new-found art went unap:
preciated, nevertheless both The Hissing
Of Summer Lawns and Don Juan's
Reckless Daughter were serious atiempts
exhibiting a lot of potential. “In France
They Kiss On Main Street” and
“Dreamland” were extremely promising, in
fact it wasn't until the 1979 release of
Shadows and Light that they realized their
full potential,

1979 was an important year for Jon
Charles Mingus (jazz bass player) wrote six
songs for Joni to put lyrics to. He
presented to her a thoroughly new world of
music; in her own words,"| was curious! It
was as if | had been standing by a river-one
toe in the water-feeling it out-and Charlie
came by and pushed me in-"sink or
swim'-him laughing at me dog paddling
around in currents of black classical
music,” In any case, the experiences Joni
had with Mingus heavily influenced her
music, and suddenly her music was not
simply tailored with a jazzy undertone,
Mingus, the album was jazz, pure and com:
plex. The musicians playing on the album.
‘are Impressive: Eddie Gomez on bass,
John McLaughlin on guitar, Jan Hammer
‘on min! moog, Stanley Clark on bass, and
others. Unfortunately Jon\'s record buying
public didn't seem to approve of this eclec:
tic, artsy music, and, once again, it didn't
fare well on the record stands, Fortunately
for her die-hard fans, (who might not have
fully understood what she was doing but
remained respectfully aware) the public
‘opinion did not seem to taint her artistic
convictions, and she once again teamed up
with some phenomenal musicians to ac-
company her on her next tour.

What can one say about her band on
Shadows and Light? The names of these
men almost speak for themselves: Jaco
Pastorius on bass, Pat Metheny on lead
guitar, Lyle Mays on keyboards, and
Michael Brecker on sax. Pastorius and
Metheny go way back to their days at
Miami University, their playing together is
masterful, Mays, who played on Metheny's
first album after Pat's debut with Gary Bur-
ton, and has now joined Eberhard Weber
on his latest, Later That Evening, accom:

——$——
voice trailed and shrilled, soared and fell,
only to peak again, then to drop down an
octave or two, all seemingly effortlessly
Now Joni is more subile, time has mellow:
ed “the chirp” out a bit; her voice is deep,
full, almost mysterious. Once and a while
she'll still surprise you, though, as in
Ladies Man’. Again, she 's accompanied |
by the best: Wayne Shorter (of Weather |
Report fame), Larry Williams, John Guerin
(L.A. Express), Lary Carlton, an old
familiar face, James Taylor, and a new ad-
dition, Lionel Ritchie, who sings vocals
with Joni on "You Dream Flat Tires”.
The album opens with an absolute
masterpiece: “Chinese Cafe”. The song is
Interspersed with lines from the Righteous
Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” through
her own tune, The song seems to relate
Joni’s new stance in Ilfe-"Caught In the
middle/Carol, we're middle class/we're
middle aged/We were wild in the old
days/Birth of rock 'n roll days/Now your
kids are coming up stralght/and my child's
a stranger.” But the brilliant Iyrics signify |
what Is wrong with the album, Joni has
grown up, and she's so straight, Gone are
the heart-wrenching love: lamenting lyrics
(for the most pari), In its place are the ac-
ceptences of love, attachments, corny,
heart-warming responsibilites. Oh Joni!
When you spoke of your “false alarms”
and "people's parties" you spoke for all of
Us. When you were in despair, we could
relate, we could understand. 1 can't
understand how you can sing “Baby,
you're so square, darlin’ | don’t care” you
used to care. I can't understand how you ||
can say "We got a chance, hot dog darlin’
we got a chance” (Hot dog, darlin’??)
Regardless of my personal opinion, I'm
glad she's happy. It’s very obvious from this
album, Joni has found her man, sho's
secure, she's being loved for who she is,
etc, etc. It's a lovely album. The songs are
soft and warm; ove", “Moon At The
Window", and “Solid Love” are very
beautiful songs, (The word love, by the
Way, 's mentioned 57 times on this album)
In a sense, Joni has come a full circle,
She's always been obsessed by love, when
she started singing It nearly gave her a ner-
yous breakdown, now it Is “the greatest
beauty In her life”, It's stil vintage Joni, but
like the woman says herself, "Nothing lasts
for long.” fa]

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Kissing To Be Cultured

fi Lene Lovich and Culture Club
| find no affection

ops.,.well [ guess It’s too late, 1"

have to go through with it and

write the review. I really don't
want to do this you know. I'm not inspired.
It might be a carry-over from the Librium,
I've been prescribed but | think not. I'm
afraid it's from the two records I'm about to
review-- Lene Lovich’s “No Man's Land”
and the Culture Club's debut album "Kiss
ing To Be Clever.” {hate to say it, but these
albums are incredibly boring, uninspired

and unimaginative kia All dee
} Damian VanDenburgh

Don't get me wrong: I do like new
music and I do try to keep an open mind in
regards to such but I just can't avold the
blatant soulless quality of this music. Where
do | begin? Side one of Lene Lovich | sup
pose. Before | even start the reviews |
should probably mention that right now I'm
listening to “It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
by Bob Dylan and still | have no qualms
about doing a disservice to these albums.
Believe me, I'll isten again even as | write
but it will come to the same end-- an over.
whelming desire to either sleep or put on a
different record. How does go about
getting inspired by uninspired music?
Guess |'l| try this green pill(it was prescribed
as well-- don't wory.) A gulp of water, a
melancholy exhalation and voila-- the
reviewing machine reluctantly kicks into
gear, beginning a Jong trip down a steep,
flat decline.

Boy. this Is really a shame. I really liked
Stateless Lovich's first album. It was fun,
fun, fun and nothing more. Flex, her follow
up was weak, weak, weak and nothing
Jess. But a least | could still enjoy Stateless
and think (o myself that, well it's only her

second album, give her a break. Then the
New Toy E.P. came out. | loved *
Toy" and ignored the rest of the E.P., hop:
{ng that “New Toy” was only an intimation
‘of what was to come. Nothing could have
Jet me down more than “No Man's Land

Lene Lovich used to be able to express
some strange sort of romantic ideal in her
music and in the way she sang-yelped
know she sounds rehashed, yelping purely
for effect rather than out of affection, Miss:
Ing also Is the muted, love-inspired
psychotic paranola that used to shine
through (especially on “Telepathy” from
Stateless.) Now she sounds a little
too secure, bolstered by her tiny army of
synthesized robot guerillas, To put It
simply: she's trapped in a sound and m=
age the way the “Flash and the Pan" are
trapped and all too easily recognizable by
the synthesized respirator vocals of their
lead singer, George Young,

Sad:-but true, Lene Lovich Is a one
album singer who should have quit while
she was ahead, Nothing on “No Man's
Land" merits mention. Itall blends together
leaving the listener with no Impressions:
Ironically similar to the desert wasteland
scene on the album cover

Moving onward, not upward, Culture
Club’s new album Kissing to be Clever left
me with the same Impression: that of no
impression at all, f you've heard “Haircut
100," “Adam and the Ants", “Bow Wow
Wow’ or Joe Jackson's Night and Day
then you don't have to even guess what
Culture Club sounds like. Culture Club is
another gimmicky band in a gimmicky
genre that has yet to equal it reigning
master's talents (the “reigning master” be:
ing Ricky Ricardo.)

Who are the members of the Culture
Rlub? Boy George, ex-Bow Wow Wow
(see?) member on lead vocals, Jon Moss,
ex-Adam and the Ants (see?) drummer on
drums, Michael Craig, ex-Northern Sout
disciple turned bass player and given credit
for “heavy culture" on the album, perhaps
inspired by being the token black member
of the band, and Roy Hay ex-hairdresser
turned guitarist and keyboard player for
this soggy, soppy, ersatz-samba drenched
band.

Til be honest-- I can only handle listening

to the first side of this album. “Do you real-
ly want to hurt me-do you really want to
make me cry," After listening to this song,
what was an initial appeal for mercy
becomes a point of debate. If this song pro-
vides any inspiration, i's (owards (aking
karate lessons instead of going out looking
for Boy George, Rather than getting that
involved | usually skip to the next song,
''m Alrald of Me.” With good reason, 100.
If my mind ever began thinking of music
this spastically peppy, I'd be a litle bit con:
cerned as well.

Having a relatively weak stomach, |
usually skip to the next song, “You Know
I'm Not Crazy.” This song sounds like a
slow version of the classic “Walk Don't
Run" by the Ventures. Let's face it-- the
Ventures were not great musicians by any
means and for a new band to copy the
melody of a song like “Walk Don't Run"
spells trouble to me. Without diving into a
shallow pool, I'lljust say thal the rest of side

maces @ OFS SIAMVEDd

‘one Is worthless.
Side (wo Is rarely-covered ground for
me. The titles alone scare me off. "White
| Boy"(dance mix), “Boy, Boy (I'm the
boy)" “White Boys Can't Control It" and
"Take Control.” It reads Ike a
miscalculated example of the distributive
theory and sounds even worse than that
Tshould apologize, but what more can |
say? This music |s so bland and
anonymous that even my medication can't
get me out of the stupefied rut that this
music resides In. If 1 have any concerns
about this music at all, it rests with the
popularity that these albums have already
‘or will have. | realize that it's a matter of
opinion but as far as my feelings are con-
cerned, these albums have little to no merit
I either as new music or enjoyable music. To
I! expand on that would put me in the same
! pasition as these musicians that being the
position of one who flogs a dead horse. |
rest my case

—
Rossier Returns

‘ou are beginning to read Mark

Y Rossier’s review of Italo Calvino's

/ On A Winter's Night A
Traveler, Sit down, relax, and put your feet
up on the table in front of you. You may
not have read Calvino's book just
yet—after all, you're busy, If you haven't
read the catalyst for this review, you are
undoubtedly confused, “Why is he writing

this?” you ask yourself, assuming, of
course, that you are still reading and
haven't moved on to the "Personals". _

Mark Rossier

Calvino’s book is not a novel in the con
ventional sense; rather, it is a contempla:
tion on the art of reading, To this end, the

author addresses you directly, just as | am.
He talks to you, challenges you, questions
you, and explains things to you. All these
direct appeals do not, however, make
Calvino's book as stimulating or enjoyable
as it may sound

The book begins with a prologue of sorts
and then moves into chapter one of what
we assume is the novel proper. Thal,
however, Is interrupted by a new story
about a reader who js reading the same
book we are. Thus Calvino tries to make
the actual reader and fictional reader th!
same. Further complicating matters, every
other chapter Is the beginning of a novel
the fictional reader Is starting, but never
finishes, So it goes with ten false starts in-
truding on the story of the reader. Ob-
viously, however, they are not really intru-
sions, since the ten phoney chapters give

Calvino’s Curse

the reader something to read and thus pro-
vide the basis for his story and Calvino’s
novel

You think this all sounds very confusing
and difficult, don't you? Well, | must take
some of the blame~ perhaps my works are

When you read the book,

not too clear

however, you will find that the situation Is
much less convuluted and complicated
than Calvino would have you believe, You
will not be as much of a prisoner of the text
as he wants you to be. TI success of the
book depends on your being as drawn Into
he ten fragments as the fictional reader.

You, however, are far too clever for that,
You will be well aware of the game Calvino
is attempting to play and as you read, you
will feel that it wears thin about halfway
through.

Please excuse my presumptuousness, but |
feel that | know you well enough to predict
your impressions of the book, It will uns
doubtedly occur to you that Calvino Is a
victim of his own cuteness as he attempts to
find reasons why the reader cannot finish,
the fragments. As the circumstances grow
more absurd, it will become clear that the
reader |s merely a literary device, a nar-
rative convenience and not the mirror of
yourself,

By novel's end, you will feel tax:
‘ed—bored not as much by the text as by
the continual attempis at cleverness, This
is, you will conclude, a minor work—e fan-
cfu literary exercise that |s more tiresome]
than tantilizing, As someone who has
already read the book, let me say simply!
that you will be right, o

g

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Room

he Lord and the record com-

panies both work In mysterious:

ways, For example, Chrysalis
releases Pat Benatar’s new album, Get
‘Nervous, in time for the big Christmas buy:
ing season. Benatar is a proven commodl-
ty, and Chrysalis needs good sales like
anybody else. So whal's so mysterious
about that? Well, Chrysalis releases this,
and then turns around and threatens to sue
any radio station that tracks through the
aniire album at one tiem, Result—a boycott
of the record on a few radio stations,
reduced alrplay on others. The record
company's actions stem, of course, from
the current boom in home taping, They felt
that if a single station played the whole
album straight through, it would encourage

people to tape it et
Robert Schneider

7 Before taking the threatening, drastic
action, Chrysalis should have listened to
Get Nervous, While being a decent album,
it doesn’t have anything on it really worth

taping,
‘Get Nervous 1s the fourth release from

Pai Benatar, following Precious Time,
Crimes of Passion, and In the Heat of the
Night. She has been extremely well recelv-
ed, especially after the second record
Even the morons over at Grammyland,
who in the past have passed over the
Police and Elvis Costello to honor A Taste
of Honey (remember them?), gave awards
to Benatar, She was chosen for Best Rock
Vocal Performance in both 1980 and
1981, After Precious Time was released,
the band members took time off for special
projects, with Nell Geraldo producing John
Walte’s first solo album, and drummer
Myron Grombacher working’ with Freddie
Salem, During this time, Benatar and Nell
Geraldo married, Currently, the band is on
a long nationwide tour, with the dates in

he Empire State Institute for the

I Performing Arts (ESIPA) recently
presented the world premiere of
Katherine Rao’s new play Calamity Jane, It
is difficult to do justice to a production of
this superior a calibre. From script to set
design, acting to lighting, this production
was virtualy f

Megan Gia Taylor

Ms. Rao, inspired by a diary purportedly
written by Martha "Calamity Jane” Can-
nary to her daughter Janey, has given us
not just a colorful character of the Old West
but an anachronism, a woman of today
who lived a hundred years ago. Of Calami
ty, Ms. Rao said, "she created her own
myth and made her living by it, performing
in the Wild West Shows as an expe
marksman. She was not alady. She said
that she could outeuss, outdrink and out
shoot any man around.” Ms, Rao has
subordinated much of this outward flam:
boyance to show us the underside of her
character, Calamity Jane's humanity s

also well documented. She nursed people
with smallpox when others, afraid for
themselves, had left them to die (she
ultimately contracted the disease which left
her face badly scarred)

"Calamity Jane stands for the Old
West,” Ms, Rao continued, “and her
tragedy Is that she outlived her time; the
Wild West passed her by,” Yet in many
ways she lived too early, The jobs she held
were men’s jobs: Indian Scout, stagecoach
driver, and she pald a price, The women
of her time shunned her; she gave her child
up for adoption because "Ya can't drive a

stagecoach holding a baby.” Ms. Rao's
Jane has an undenlable nobility, mixed
with an ingenfousness that makes her un-
dying love for Wild Bill Hickok (the alleged

father of Janey) believable.

New York upcoming. Thay- were well
recelved at the US festival in California
several months ago

Benatar, who weighs In at about ninety
pounds, can sometimes shake a bullding
with her powerful vocals, This can be trac-
ed to her early operatic training, The
Lindenhurst, Long Island native has in-
spited many imitations, but no one has
been able to duplicate her success, She has
stated that she doesn't want to sing the
stereotyped "helpless female" type of song
By and large she hasn't, Her songs portray
her as strong and independent, She also
hasn't shied away from Important social
issues, For instance, "Hell Is For Children”
did a great deal to educate many about
child abuse. While recording works from
members of her own band, Benatar hasn't
avoided doing covers, In fact, four of the
numbers on Get Nervous were solicited
from Independent song writers. Hundreds
of tapes were listened to before the final
four were selected, As with the whole

Ms. Rao {s currently in her second
residency at Yaddo, the artist's retreat at
Saratoga Springs, She has been an Aspen
Playwrites Festival Winner and a finalist in
the Eugene O'Neil Playwrite Conference.
She |s currently working on a play about
the last four years of Virginia Woolf's life
which will be produced in London next fall.

The focal point of this show was the ex-
traordinary performance of Jeanne
Vigliante as Calamity Jane, With just the
right blend of bawdy audacity and
tenderness Martha Jane Cannery was
given life, Although there are two other
characters in the play, Jane is the main
figure and is on stage at all times. The play
calls for amazing emotional dexterity on the
part of the actress and Ms. Vigllante was in
total command,

record, one gets the feeling that there must
be better songs floating around,

A first listen to Get Nervous doesn't im-
pact the way It did for Crimes of Passion,
where every song was very well done
Some songs do, however, stand out
"Shadows of the Night", leading, off the
record, Is a grandiose, lofty composition
that sounds very familiar. It has the stan~
dard double-tracking of Benatar's voice
that makes it sound like there are two of
her singing. I've seen the video for this
it has absolutely

song, and believe me,
nothing to do with the lyrics, It's got
Benatar and Co. flying into Naz Germany

to blow up a base. An admirable effort, but
what the hell does it have to do with the
song?

Get Nervous Is almost a concept album,
Practically every song has something to do
with conflict, both internal and external
The title track, "Anxiety (Get Nervous)"
begins much like the awful “Eye of the
Tiger", with a manic guitar, Fortunately,
the similarity ends soon. The pace,

Calamity Jane - Saint or Sinner

The play winds through the life of Jane,
starting with her giving Janey to Captain
Jim O'Neil and shifting between time and
place as memories ate triggered or made
There are intimate moments when Jane
writes her innermost feelings in the diary
that she hopes will someday reach her
daughter, There are the emotional, and
painful moments when*she meets her
daughter but cannot reveal her real ident!
ty. There are wonderfully funny,
outrageous moments when Jane decides
to take on the “old biddys” at the
bathhhouse, or when she does her Wild
West Show routine as if we were there,
‘And that is the key to the greatness of
this performance. For two plus hours
Jeanne and Jane are one. There {s often
talk of an actor’s intensity. Usually in a per-

however, remains fast and frenetic, There's
much less double tracking of her voice on
this one, and it aids the song a gfeat deal
At times, it sounds as if she’s singing inside
a closet. Not bad. The whole song is very
well made end it doesn’t falter at any point
The band sounds together, at least on this
track, It's sad that this Isn't the case all over
the album, This doesn’t mean that Get Ner
vous Is a poor musical effort. In fact,
sometimes the interplay Is quite excellent.
“Ml Do It” opens with a great Interaction |
between drummer Myron Grombacher,
Neil Geraldo, and new band member
Charlie Giordano on keyboards. An air o!
tension builds throughout this composition:
only to be relieved during the choruses

Unfortunately, Get Nervous’ songs all
have a tendency to blend together . The
sole exception to this rule is the final cut,
“Silent Partner”, As with many of the other
songs, It too features double tracking, but
this time there's a nice twist thrown In. The
backing tracks are staggered, making it
sound like there are Benatar clones minick
ing her with a delay. In addition to this,
Charlle Giordano opens the song with a
flute-like synthesizer, and closes it with
Keyboards that remind one of early Elvis
Costello, Benatar doesn't sing this one as
intensely as she does on many others, and
t's a nice change.

Get Nervous isn't a bad album. It just
doesn't have the immediate likeability that
her other albums have. There aren't really
any Instant hits on this other than
“Shadows of the Night”. Musically, the
band’ sounds cohesive, although a litile
bland, Pat Benatar sounds like...well...Pat
Benatar. That is, she doesn't experiment or
take any chances. With her reputation, she
shouldn't be afraid of researching new
styles and directions, Get Nervous may
grow on people, It had better, for I've
heard that Chrysalis plans to sue anyone
who doesn't like the album. oO

formance of this duration, there will be
breaks in character or concentration, there
were none

I couldn't help thinking of the one:
woman show Julie Harris did several years
ago In which she played Emily Dickenson
As superb as that performance was, this
one demand more and got it, In an inter
View following the performance, Ms. Rao
seld that she had made alterations in her

script in response to the cast, | can only
believe they were changes for the better
Ms. Vigliante, visibly drained after the
performance, had her own reflections on
Calamity Jane, “She was extremely
modem for the period in which she lived
Women didn't carry on the way she did
She talked about the double-standard —
why can't a woman do things fhitia man |
can? She dressed as a man whien her job |}
called for jt; she didn't masquerade as a
man — the boys in the saloon knew she
was a woman. She felt that ‘being different |
ain't no cause to hurt anotl This was

Without question, the finest pe
the Capital District this year
But there was more.,.Carolyn Marble
Valentis, also a member of ESIPA's resi
dent company, allowed the character of |
Janey to grow with the revelation of the
truth of her birth, She rejects Jane when
she is a child and they meet for the first
time as a ‘proper young lady of
Virginia’ can't quite make anything of this
woman who smells but does ride horses

ormance in

awfully well. She grows into a discontent
Woman, searching for some truth in her
‘own existence or the legend that was her ||
mother. Again the script has been honed til
every line is necessary and therefore
powerful

‘An Interesting facit of the play is Ms.
Rao's use of one actor to play all the man
in Jane's life. The roles were played by
continued on poge 12a

Jamie Alpern
Barbara J. Antes
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George P. Crass

Denise DeSimone
Glenn Deutsch
Maney Dunlop

Robert Hanlon, Jt.

Jeannine Lave
Wiliam Lethowte

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Gemini Jazz Cafe (462-(1044)
Thurs-Sat—Fats Jefferson; Sun:Wed —
Jole Bell

Hulla Baloo (436-1640)

Sat—Talas

Yesterday's (489-8066)

Fri, Sat—Hazel

‘Troy Musle Hall (273-0038)
Sat—Prima Vera Quartet

Skinflints (436-8301)

Sat—The Toasters

Pauly’s Hotel (463-9082)

Fri—Bill the guitar player; Sat—Bubbles
Nixon; Sun—Doe Scanlon & The Rhythm
Boys

Lark Tavern (463.9779)

Fri, Sat—The Outlaw Beer Band

‘The Shelf (436-7707)

Fri, Sat—The Himalayas

Eighth Step Coffee House
(434-1703)
Fri—Tom Juravieh; Sat~Bill Staines; Dec
7—Open Stage: 8—Albany Theatre Pro-
Jeet Staged Readings

The Chateau (465-9086)

Fri, Sat—Sic Fucks

B.d. Clancy's (462.9623)

i, Sat—Eddie Angel Band

288 Lark (462.9148)

un
Bogarts (482.9797)

Every Wed—Downtime; — Fri,
Sal—Ahaysha; Sun—Chris Saw; Dec 10.
11—The Sharks; 12—Bridget Ball

Albany Symphony Orchestra
(465:4755)

Fri, Sat—Robin McCabe, pianist

Bush Memorial Center Russel Sage
Fri=Women's Chorus Christmas Concert,
7:30 pm, free

Suatin McNeil’s (436-7008)

SUNYA PAC Recital Hall
Sun—Concert by new com
posers/students: plano, ensvinbles,
voice—3:00 pm, free

Community Concert

Sun—Albany Pro Musica (choral group)
2:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Hackett Blvd., $2 for students

Palace Theater (465-3333)

Dec 9=The Motels

SUNYA CC Ballroom

Dec 10—Stray Cats

Third Street Theater (Rensselaer,
436-4428)
Tues evenings—Jim Sande, classical
Guitarist before each feature; nightly slide
presentations of local artists; Fri
n—Diva; Dec 6—The Gospel Accor
ding to St. Matthew; 7-9—Bread and
Chocolate; 10:12—-Three Brothers
University Cinema 1 & 2
7:30 & 10:00, $1.50. with taxcard, $2.00
without; Fri, Sat—Poltergelst (LC 7).
Wizards, midnight—Rollerball (LC 18)

International Film Group (457-8390)
$.75 with taxcard, $1.50 without
Fri—Carnal Knowledge; Sat—Dark Star
Fireside Theater

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Fox Colonie 1 & 2 (459-1020)
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3—Fantasia (G) 1:30, 3:55; 4—Officer
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{R); 6—First Blood (R)

theater

Cohoes Music Hall (235-7969)
ESIPA

3-19—The Wizard of Oz

Troy Music Hall (273-0038)
10—Messiah, 8:00 pm

Albany Civic Th
RPI Field Hous
21—Berkshire Ballet
Schenectady Civic Playhouse
(3829051)
3, 4, Bell
pm)—The Elephant Man
and $5.00

Proctors Schenectady (382-3854)
1-5—Oliver; 8—Scandiafestival; 18
19—Nutcracker (Berkshire Bailet)

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art

SUNYA Gallery (457-3375)
7-19—Student Art 15th Annual Exhibition
NY State Museum (474-5842)
Photos of Harlem during 20's and 30's,
Agricultural NY (until Jan 2); N’
Metropolis, Adirondack Wildemess
Albany Institute of History & Art
(463-4478)
125 Washington Ave—Hudson Valley
People, People of the Great Peace

miscellaneous

Bobby Rodriguez y Ia Compania
presented by Fuerza Latina, Fri in CC
Ballroom 9 pm-3 am, $8.00 per couple
with taxcard $10,00 without

Alumnl Quad X-mas Party Fr in
Brubacher Ballroom, 9 pm-2 am

Last Bootleg Party xi in State Quad
Flagroom, 9 pm-2 am, $2.00 with taxcard
$2.50 without

Blue Party 5 Sat |n Indian U-Lounge, 9
pm, You must wear blue to enter

Urban Politics in the 80's Sun
speaker, Harry Britt—Son Francisco
Supervisor, National Gay Rights Activist
Vice Chair of Dem, Socialists: 4:00 pm in
CC Ballroom, $2,00 with faxcard $2.50
without, $4,00 gene

Jane...

Llewellyn Thomas a vetwran of stage ane
film Including The Turning Point, and Net
work. The shifting of
tle Captain Jim ©’

Bill" Cody was difficult
cessful Mr. Thomas was well in command
‘of O'Neil, Cody
doctor who was Jane's true defender and
friend, but seemed a bit awkward as Jane's
Ideal Hickok All of

characters serve as cotalist to the action of

ales, from kind, gen
vil to gruff "Buffalo
nd not always sue

and the South Dakota

romantic these
the play, and served their part w

The play was directed by Ed Lange, who
received a B.A, jn theatre from SUNYA,
Of the play, he said, "like what it has to
show about women. It does not talk a
Philosophy about women; the characters
and words - the play Itis-a very
respectful, proud, independent depiction
‘of woman.”

The technical details were not overlook
ed clther, The lighting, done by Don
‘Abrams, the company’s technical director,
created the feeling a distinct areas of the
stage (difficult on the small recital hall
stage) and was effective in helping create
the mood shifts of the characters, Finally
the set and costumes were designed by
David Loveless, a native of New York City
lwho has designed for numerous New York
shows, film and television.

When asked why she turned to play
writing, Ms. Rao sald, “as an actress, |
found myself trying out for plays that |
wouldn't even want to go see, let alone act
in. The way women are presented! | want
to see plays about people who are in-
teresting or that | care about ...Themes
should be elevating In some way. At the
very least the audience should leave being
moved and maybe discovering something
they didn't know before,” After the play the
audience and the actors gathered In the
lobby and it seemed that all regretted hav-
Ing to break the spell of the play, 1 would
say, without qualification, Ms. Rao and the
cast succeeded, This was the first of a new-
play development program instituted by
ESIPA. If this performance is the calibre we
can expect, be sure to keep posted on their
schedule, Great job!

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Confronting apathy

To the Editor:

Sometime last year there was a big confrontation here in
Albany about a group of people who came here.
Everything was astir because many people thought this
group should not be here because of the idealogies of the
country they came from. 1 am talking about the South
African Rugby Team that played here,

It is understandable why a controversy existed over this
issue. What bothers me is the issue that occured even more
recently here on the SUNYA campus. On November 6th,
the Wallflower Order dance theatre collective performed at
Page Hall. It wasn't until two weeks before the perfor-
mance that the sponsors became aware that the group Is ¢
tremely anti-Semitic and an avid supporter of the P.L,O,
Their efforts are devoted to further the ideals of the
P.L.O., and the destruction of the State of Israel. In addi-
tion, the public was not notified about this abomination,

In my opinion, the public should have been aware of the
affiliation and background of this group. 1 am appalled by
the Campus Community--those who were aware of this-
who sat quietly and did nothing. At least a protest or
demonstration like the protest against the Rugby Team was
appropriate, Why didn't this happen? Why didn't the
sponsors know about it only until (wo weeks before? Are
people here that apathetic that an issue as important as this
can be overlooked and then pushed under the rug?

Certain prominent campus organizations made known
their opposition to Rabbi Meir Kahane when he came here
to speak. Those same groups did not make waves and
sought (o pull their shades down and were silent during this
racist group's performance, And if they seek {0 be excused
because of a lack of information, | cannot excuse them, for
to this day, the only outeries come from private individuals
and nol from ‘so-called’ prominent organizations.

My second complaint may sound harsh, but, when the
ruth was revealed, why wasn't the performance cancelled?
We don't want to be an institution that provides a platform
for every terrorist organization that comes along, Why
should we give them the opportunity to spew out their
hateful venom (0 us on asilver platter? 1am totally asham
ed! May we all be strong enough so that nothing like this
shall ever happen again, May this be the last time and

precedent to nothing.
Michele ¥

Bigotry and feminism

To the Editor:

Rhonda {s sitting alone in her room, She is relaxing,
reading one of her favorite novels, Room of Ones Own,
by Virginia Woolf, All of a sudden she hears @ ery for help.
‘A woman's voice pleading 10 be saved. Without hesitation

rman

Rhonda dives into her closet only to come out moments
later dressed in blue and red leotards, her white cape flow
ing in the wind of inequality, ‘That famous big *F"" is
glistening on her chest, Yes, Rhonda is in actuality Super
Feminist. That righter of oppressed women's wrongs,
whose sacred duty here on earth is to free women from the
tyrannical hand of man and form a new society that will ex
ist, one nation under God. A united womanhood, without

mankind’
Sound like something out of a comic book? Yes, ! admit

to quite a bit of exaggeration in my portrayal. The point
I'm trying to make though, is one of real concern, More

and more throughout the campus, there is a growing feeling

ASP.
Editor
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Election
will be held Friday, December 10 at 8:30 p.m.
in CC 329.

All SUNYA full-time undergraduate students

are invited to submit letters of self-nomination

to Wayne Peereboom, managing editor. Letters

‘must be received by midnight Thursday,
December 9.

The Editor in Chief is elected by a majority vote
of the editorial board and all associate editors
and managers.

of feminism among the women, 1 hold no objections to this
at all. Feminism, as a women's belief in herself as a person
and a valuable contributer {0 society, is beneficial and
healthy to both the women and to society. What I object to
is that along with the growing feeling of feminism, there is
also a proportionally growing feeling of hatred towards
men. Now! don't mean just the pig-headed ignorant men
who self-righteously believe that the woman's place is either
in the kitchen or the bedroom. Those men 1 also find
myself having a strong dislike to, This hatred is directed at
all men, regardless of their individual and personal beliefs
and ideas. Having several lesbian-feminist friends 1 have
found myself being regarded with animosity, suspicion and
condescension, This is not because of my personal
characteristics, but because Iam a heterosexual man, |
hhaye been (old that as men go I'm better than most, but alas

aman. In my cyes a hatred of people based on group
stereotypes and expectations is called bigotry, Bigotry or
prejudice, as it may be called, is neither beneficial nor
healthy to (he individual or (0 society. 1 believe that | do
have some insight as to the cause of this hatred, The feeling.
Of feminism that is growing is improperly directed by many
Women, Instead of utilizing it as a form of personal
krowth, many women utilize it as a means of making
themselves feel superior to men, whom they view as their
oppressors. This in turn leads 10 much animosity towards,
men who are viewed asa group entity. Ido not deny that
the viewing of men as oppressors is entirely wrong, On the
contrary, for a very long time this has been the ease and is
only now beginning to change. What will help the change
in soclety’s values and customs is not a war between {ts (wo
biological sexes, but a mutual relationship towards a
specified goal, It is woman's job to first educate herself,
and then (0 educate ignorant men, not condemn them, {is

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the job of educated men to work alongside women in
educating others.

Bigotry is a sickness which many individuals are not
aware they have, Everyone should examine themselves to
see how well they really know themselves. Only by working
together can the men and women of this campiis, society
and world ever hope to put a stop to discrimination, ine-

quality and hatred,
Joel M. Simon

Marathon thanks

To the Editor:

In a schoo! that is often categorized as apathetic, it is
gratifying to know that there really are students that care,
Two Weeks ago, Telethon '83 presented a 24 hour Dance
Marathon, 1t was a huge success, Over $5,500 was raised.
The entire University supported this event,

The following groups were an integral part to the success”
of Dance Marathon and we thank them: SA Sound,
WCDB, UAS, Activities Crew, Security, Five Quad,
Telettion Staff, and especially the dancers and the sponsers:

Without them, there couldn't be a Dance Marathon, Thelr
energy and enthusiasm is what Telethon is all about,

We would like to give a special thanks 10 the following
three people; Scott Birge for his support and guidance and
Ann Marie LaPorta and Mark Weprin for raising over
$1000 together

All the people mentioned above have done their part,
Now it’s up to you, Sponsors, please send in your money!
All envelopes can be dropped off at the CC information

desk or in any on-campus mailbox, Thanks again,
—Mindy Horowitz
Sieve Kastell
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Stadium

Front Page

prove it’s athletic facilities since the
uptown campus opened, The
original plans calléd for a field
house, but one was never built.
“Because the Board of Trustees has
made the recommendation several
times to the legislature (about a
field house) and the Division of
Budget disagrees, they feel there are
needs ahead of ours on other cam-
puses — repairs finishing (the
SUNY) medical schools and the
Buffalo campus; we felt we needed
to look elsewhere," said O'Leary,

The committee set up by the
president drew up a proposal last
year for community and private
contributions to fund an alle
weather lighted stadium. The pro-
posed stadium was 10 be located on
the sight of the present football
field and feature lights, seating fora
minumum of 6,000 people and an
artificial turf surface that would
allow for the playing of football,
soccer, lacrosse, track and field
events and general recreation, The
stadium was to have been the first
part of a two-phase proposal. The
sports complex also called for a
multi-purpose field house,

O'Leary said that with the county
looking for a baseball diamond for
the newly purchased minor league
franchise, the committee's proposal
needed to be modified. The new
plan calls for the stadium to be built
on the fields behind Indian Quad,
More importantly, new questions
and issues were raised by involving
4 professional team,

No professional team has ever
played on a SUNY campus, While
the Buffalo Bills of the National
Football League do train at
Fredonia, they do not make any
revenue at the campus. The financ-
ing of a building by private or coun-
ty sources would also set precedents
for the State University system, ac-
cording to O'Leary

Should the university and the
county come to an agreement, the

Division of Budget, Audit Control,
he State Attorney General and the
State Legislature, according to
O'Leary. The county negotiators
would need approval from the
county legislature for the issuance
of a jyond, he added,

“Is going to take time and we
re not ready to answer all the ques-
tion yet, We need some time,"® said
O'Leary, “But we need to come up
with a temporary solution {0 the
baseball problem,"

“The best would be a temporary
solution for the baseball tc
said O'Leary in’respect to the for
theoming announcement (on
the stadium), “They want to wrap
things up as soon as possible, But, |
need time, After the baseball pro:
blem, second, the county has to say
itis willing to go ahead and third we
Will have negotiations of the whole
set up with the state, We have to
decide if it is legal and desirable,"*

A possible temporary solution
Would haye the A's play their home
games at Bleecker Statium this sui
mer. The summer twilight Icagues
that are normally scheduled to play
at Bleecker would play at the
Albany State campus, “That would
be a possibility,"" said Coyne
“There would have to be some sort
of agreement with the summer
Iwilight leagues, There have been
informal talks with them about it,”

The key issue outside of finan

ing is control and access to the
stadium, One proposal has the
stadium owned and controlled by
the university with the county leas-
ing the land for its use. “That's one
of the areas being explored, There
are a lot of legal questions involved
with this maiter, It is a very com
plicated issue and we are dealing
Wiht a lot of hypotheticals right
now," said O'Leary,

The stadium, which would be
Open from approximately March or
April until November or carly
December, would be home for
Albany's intercollegiate sports and
community events, according to
O'Leary, “This is a joint effort
with the university and both the
community and university will
benefit from this project," said
Coyne.

“This is an opportunity to ob-
tain something we need,” said
O'Leary of the proposed stadium,
“We are not using any state money
for this project, This is money from
the community and the county that
is only available for the building of
4 stadium, 1 want to stress that we
fare not using state money, If it was,
there Would be a question of bala
cing between the stadium and other
areas of need, But this is not the
case

f
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J. V. Danes lose two games
in thrilling overtime battles

iy Alan Somkin

The Albany State men’s junior
Varsity basketball ‘eam lost their se-
cond overtime game in a week
Wednesday afternoon, losing to the
Cadets of Army 64-60, The loss
dropped the Danes’ record to 1-2,

Albany got off to a good start,
leading, by as many as twelve points
in the first half, However, tur-
novers cost the Danes most of that
lead when they went into a stall of.
fense in the closing stages of the
first half, Turnovers have plagued
the team so far this year, The Danes
have committed 17 in each of the
last two games,

The second half was better played:
is Albany was led by point guard
Jason Hurley. Hurley netted 10
points and was a stabilizing ine
fluence on the team all night, Mike
Oilatti and Jeff Geier chipped in
with 18 and 16 points respectively.

The game was forced into over-
time, Albany seemed to be in good
shape when two of Army's starters
fouiled out early.in the extra period,
BUt the two substitutes entered play
and put in long jumpers to Insure
the victory for Army;
lier in the Week the Danes lost
to the Junior College of Albany,
70-67, also in overtime, The Danes
fought back from a 12 point deficit
in the first half, They played ag-
gressive man-to-man defense in the
second half and Were able to tie the
game in regulation, Turnovers hurt
the team in overtime and they were
not able to pull the game out,

Albany State juntor varsity head
coach Barry Cavanaugh, who was a
standout player for Albany from
1975-79 said, ‘1 am very pleased
with the way the team has played so
far and they will ,bound back
from those {wo overtime losses."
0 said the team could easily
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By Joan Lengyel

‘opens their season Saturday with a
dual meet at Queen's College. The
(eam finished sixth in the East and
twentieth in the nation last year
among Division Ill schools, The te:
team appears strong again this year

“Team depth will be of the ut-
most importance thi: ar due toa
new scoring system. Five out of six
scores per event will contribute to
the team total on four events,'? said
coach Pat Duvall-Spillane,

Dane captain, Debra Schocher,
begins her fourth year on the team, $1
She will compete on the vault, the
uneven parallel bars and the
balance beam, In the past, Schocher
has played a big role in the gym:

Swimmers receive

Women win 62-46

By Tracey Carmichael
SAM WAITER

The Albany State women's swim-
ming team defeated New Paltz
Wednesday night by a score of
62-46, lifting its season record to an
impressive 3-1,

The highlight of the mect was
freshman Claire Woodhead’s
200-yard Individual Medley time of
2:29.11 which broke the schoo)
record, Woodhead also won the
200-yard free style with a time of
2:10.33, ~

Further, Woodhead shattered the
school record for the $00-yard fre¢
style with a time 5:47.47 in the meet
against the College of Saint Rose,
Head coach Joe Shore is very op-
timistic about this year's team, even
though they are inexperienced,
teat ."" Shore believes that hard
work and determination will be the
two key factors to the Danes’ suc-
cess,

Sue Bess had her best time of the
season in Wednesday's meet in the
100-yard breaststroke with a
1:19.34 time, Other swimmers ad-
ding to the win were Sheila Fite:

patrick, Claire Blathorn and J08n 6644, the men and women swimmers met New Paltz College Wed:
lugent nesday evening but with different results,

Despite the 30-point loss in the

Dasts’ scoring output, Duyall-
——_—__—_~_ * Spillane said, Schocher’s bar score

The 1982-83 Albany State at the EAIAW meet last year was
women's varsity gymnastic team instrumental in Albany's 110.45
total score.”

Steinberg, who was the Most
Valuable Player of the 1981-82 placed

Peted in the all-around category in
with several talented returnees and Jast year’s National AIAW. meet
five freshman, She secured fifteenth place all the top ten of the all-around com-
around with a score of 27.6,

the Indiana Univei
sylvania,

key element to Albany's depth is

Also returning is junior Alicia

Steinberg qualified and com:

A gymnast “whose consistency

on the-bars and the vault are a fou
tremendous asset,"” according to
Duvall-Spillane, is sophomore cighteenth place finish.
Carolyn Buckheit. She competed as
an all-around gymnast in the top 20

the EAIAW championships at
in Penn:

Another gymnast who will be a

Sophomore Gail Mendel, Mendel
competes in the bars, beam and
floor exercise competition, She to the coach, Glynn was Albany's
earned Most Improved Player
honors last season

Anne Thomasett will be back for tanked thirteenth nationally in alle
her second season, Last year she around play her freshman year
nth in the balance beam
competition finals at the rounds up the strong line of
NYSAIAW championships. She returnees, Cleary was a finalist in
Sas the only Division II] gymnastin the balance beam competition in the

petition. In the E
her 8.0 score on the vault putherin A new
eenth place, and her 7.45 score Lockman, a transfer student from
on the floor exercised landed heran Nassau Community College

Another returnee is sophomore
Lynn Savaris, “Ly
average in the vault last year was a
great asset to Albany's sixth place the core of talented upper classmen.
finish in the East,'* stated Duvall- Brenda Armstrong, a competitor in
Spillane

mixed returns in New Paltz

Senior Elaine Glynn is also back
and looking very strong, according

first gymnast to qualify for the Na-
Wonals as a freshman, She way

Sophomore Jennifer Cleary

New York
Acompetition sistent

¢ mee! and placed
the East,
ce on the team is Ginny

Lockman was also a national
qualifier a year ago as well as team
in of the 1981-82 National

Up Of the NICAA team,
Five freshman will help surround

s 7.33 season

the 1978-79 and 1980 Empire State

| | Gymnasts enter new season with strong depth

Games; Myrna Beth King, an eighth
place finisher in the State last year
and member of the all-county aym-
nastic team; Karen Bailey, a fine
high school product; Karen
Thomasett and Allison Ley have
also joined the Danes this season,
The Danes have a tough season
of competition ahead of them
which includes meets with some
Division { and 11 schools. Included
in the schedule are Long Island
University, ersity of Vermont,
West Point, Montclair State who
finished sixth nationally and Keene
State from New Hampshire who
ranked third nationally last year,

This is the teams first year of
competition in the NCAA. The
onils will be held av Cortland

on March 12, 1983 and the Na»
Hionals at the University of Califor
fli at Davis,

Men suffer season’s first defeat, 62-50

By Mare Berman.
MAL WKITER

The Albany Stat
Ing team was dealt its first loss of
the young season, by New Paltz
College, 62-10, this past Tuesday
The defeat dropped the Dane
record 10 an even J+)

Despite the loss, there were still
many impressive performances by
the Dane Swimmers. Sophomor
Frank Cawley, set an all now py
sonal low mark for himself in the
1000-yard freestyle placing second
With an outstanding time of
11:35.5, Meanwhile, freshman,
Mike Wright, placed second in the
200-yard freestyle with a mark of
156.9,

en's Swi

The most surprising accomplish-
ment of the meet, however, was the
performance of the 1wo foreign ex
change students from the U.S.S.R,
Viadimir Dolgolonko and Aleksan+
dr Zolkin,

“They're both really fine swim:

sald head coach Joe Shore
“tLe y em is that they're
here for only one semester. Both of

WARREN STOUT UPS
them will be her ick for the

homeland in a few weeks,"

Dolgolonko inished second in
the 100yard freestyle and third: In
the 20-yard freestyle, Zolki
didn't place higher than third in any
event, is rapidly improving each
Weck, according to Shore,

The Danes" first dual-meet of the
season was a lol more brighter than
the one against New Paltz, In that

Which was held on the Tues
day before Thanksgiving, the
visiting Danes trounced Hartwick
6741,

“Everyone swam well in that

Shore, “It was a great
4 season,!*

If there was one swimmer that
stood out, it was Jeff Kennedy,
Kennedy swam (he maximum (hree

in both the
20-yard butterfly and $00-yard
freestyle, while finishing second in
the Intermediate Medley,

The Danes will travel to Montreal
today to compete in the Montreal=
McGill Invitational over the
Weekend, This tournament Is coed,
involving the Albany women's
swimming team as well

After the Invitation, the Danes
Will host R.P.1, in a dual-meet (0 be
held this Wednesday,
camry

season opening meet against Skid:
more in the first mect, Shore re-
Mains confident about his young
team, He is particularly pleased
with the Danes endurance and pe
formance,

“They hayen't rested so farin the
season," Shore said. “Once they
have a chance to rest, the times will
be better."?

The women's swim team will join
the Albany State men's swimming
team to take part in the Montreal
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ALBANY.
STUDENT
PRESS:

DECEMBER 3, 1982

with 87-67 win over the Cardinals

By Mare Haspel
___ wrorrs tortor ree
Plattsburgh, N.Y.

The Albany State Great Danes sent a
clear message to their SUNYAC
cross the state Wednesday evening,
Albany opened its 1982-3 SUNYAC season

th an 87-67 drubbing of the Plattsburgh

led 10 the rest of the

eague that they are ready to defend their
Eastern division title of a year ago

“vs always a tough game up here," said
Albany State head basketball coach Dick

t's @ wood way to start the eon

ference play

Platisburgh head coach Norm Law was
Visibly upset after the loss

“1 thought we played a lousy game,
Albany played very yood and made us play
& Jousy game,” said Plattsburgh
couch Law, His Cardinals were 1-2 entering

head

the vonference opener

Albany had to contend with a decided
height advantage in favor of the Cardinals
But after a sluggish opening Wo minutes
during Which Plu tsburgh jumped out tow

6-2 lead, the Danes began to battle tough
ny ce and under the board
1 9a their height

ying L wasn't wor

| was worried wh
but when we stated p)
ried anymore," said
Mike Gatto,
in the contest
pul the Danes ahead 8-6
curl in the first hall with a fine effort off
the offensive bowrds. Albany never relin
even point

enlor co-captain
Who had a seavon high 19.

Wilson Thoma

quivhed that leae widening to ¢
margin by halitime

The Danes were forced to play most that
pening ball without the services of center
John Dieckelman, The 6'5"*
leave the game after two early fouls,

“Tt was a team effort, I didn’t play some
ten minutes in the first half and we widened
the lead while 1 was out,"’ said Dieckelman,
Who 21 points in the contest put his total

senior had to

collegiate career points (including those
scored in a Colgate uniform) past the 1000
mark

Albany charged out in the second half,
Thomas drove to the hoop at the 13:
mark for two of his season high 16 poi
cap an 18-8 Albany scoring binge giving
84-7 lead.

Play became a bit rough as the Dane's
continued to frustrate the Cardinals, Dane
point guard Dan Croutier engaged in some
physical play with Cardinal Mark Sausville
Head coach Law protested the play and was
assessed a technical Foul at 4:02, Gatto was
selected to shoot the free throws and he
sank three of four shots from the charity
line

“They were very physical,"® said reserve
center Greg Hart, who chipped in with six
points in the game, “They're going to be
rough when we go back home (Albany
Plattsburgh at University Gym tn
se they're going 10 want

plays
February) beca
iat

But Wednesday it was the Danes who
really wanted it, Even after the victory had
seemed secure, Albany kept on plugging
With just 13 seconds remaining in the
me, Luke Jamison scored on a break to
give the Danes the twenty point win, their
largest lead of the game, In fact, every
Albany

Siuuiety Was lick (0 eredit substittite Rick
Hay for his fine play during the game, Hay
added tc

player scored for

points to the Dane cause.
Al pleased with our scoring out

Sauers said,

scoring hasn't seemed to be a problem at all
n this young season, Albany is
79 points per game:

That average was given a tremendous
boast in Albany's 93-78 victory over the
Kings College Monarchs the Tuesday even-
ing before Thanksgiving. Dieckelman lead
the Danes in the contest with 17 points,
while Thomas added 13 and Jan Zadoorian

put tonight For the Danes,

DAVE ASHER

Dane senior forward Mike Gatto scored a season high 19 points In Albany's

Victory over Plattsburgh.
Contributed 12, For Zadoorian it was his
hights output as a Great Dane.

I'm very happy,"? the sophomore guard
said after that game, “I'm playing with a
lot more confidence

Apparenily the entire team is playing that
way, ''1 can tell rightnow that we're playing
with five times the confidence we had last
year,’ added Gatto,

The Danes travel to Ithaca tomorrow to
take part in the Ithaca Invitational which
Includes host Ithaca College, Middlebury
and Eastern Connecticut. Albany plays
Middlebury in the first round tomorrow at
1 pam, to open the tournament,

All Great Dane action can be heard on 91
FM tomorrow beginning at 12:45 with Phil
Pivnick and Howard Strudler

Women cagers down Skidmore College 66-53

By Mise Levine

wi STAFF WRITER

The Albany State women's basketball
team increased its record to 2-1 last
Wednesday by b ing Skidmore College
66-53. The relatively inexperienced Dane
team played "'sloppily,"" according to
Albany State head coach Mari Warner.

“We had some problems handling the
ball,’’ Warner added, noting the eleven tur-
novers in the first half.

Rebounding was also a persistent pro-
blem for the Danes, "There seemed to be a
lid on the basket in the second half, which
caused us to lose confidence,"’ she said.

The Danes were hesistant to shoot but

anaged to hold onto a wide lead over
Skidmore throughout the game.

The Danes received balanced scoring
from seyeral shooters, Diane Fernande:
Robin Gibson, Rhea Edwards, Peg Squ
20 and Rainy Lesane each had six points in
the game, The latter pair shot a perfect
three-for-three,

Ronnie Patterson lead the team in re
bounding with twelve grabs, Lesane had
nine, and Grasso had seven,

Warner said that Grasso, Fernandes,

Lesane and Jean Pollock,
new, have been a tremendous help to the
team. “You're your
bench

all of whom are

only as good as

"ALAN CALEM UPS

Wednesday's victory over Skidmore College increased the inexperienced

women cagers’ record to 2-1.

‘The Danes won their first game of the
season with a big upset victory over RPI
79-59 on November 23. Warner was very
happy with her team’s impressie perfor-
mance, “We played a fantastic flawless
game."

The Danes had only eleven turnovers for
the whole game, while strong rebounding
by freshmen Fernandes and Pollack helped
them to victory, Team captain Gibson
scored her one-thousandth point and Nancy
Winderlich made some good rebounds and
scored many crucial baskets.

Although Warner felt RPI didn't play up
to their potential, she believed the Danes
pressed hard and played a solid game
soundly beating the Engincers by the
twenty-point margin,

Tomorrow, the Danes take on Castleton
at 6:30 pm in University Gym. The team
ost to Castleton last year in a close match.

Warner expects it to be a game similar to
the Skidmore match “We'll concentrate on
passing, man-to-man plays and reboun:
ding."?

For the rest of the year, Warner is look
ing forward to a winning season, Her
Strategy will be to try to
“play their own game not play the other
team’s game" and to make them more pa
tient,

ke her players

[VOLUME LXIX

Tuesday

December 7, 1982

NUMBER 41}

College women
face classroom |
discrimination,
study reveals

~~ By Han Nissan

Albany's women students experience a
“chilly climate’? in college classrooms,
agrees co-chair of the Feminist Alliance,
Gail Friedberg, responding to the findings
of a nation-wide study released by the
Association of American Colleges.

The study, which is entitled The
Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for
Women?explains how women are treated
unfairly in classroom situations whether
hey are aware of it of not

Roberta Hall, Assistant Director of
Special Programs and Coordinator of the
tudy, describes it as, ‘'a compilation of

earch from a number of sources based
on surveys from a number of universities."”

The study p. behaviors
which either overlook or single out women.
because of sex may leave women feeling
they are not up to par with men. Women
may become less confident than their male
classmates about their academic ability,
their place in the college community, and
their potential for career success.""

Friedberg feels that chauvanistic attitudes
are ‘definitely a problem on this campus.
Citing a specific example, she noted that
“in an Introduction to sociology class, the
professor is constantly making sexist
remarks that offend women in the class.'*

Friedberg said that she and other women
have been told to avoid taking certain
classes because professors ‘who are othe!
wise excellent’ have proven (o be offensive |
to women in previous semesters, Friedberg
‘also pointed out that women students have
been ‘discouraged from a major because of
a professor's attitude toward the female
students."

According to the study, “chilly
climate’? can be manifested in many other
ways. For example, faculty may not be as |
likely to call directly on women as on men
during class discussion, or may interrupt
women more frequently or allow them to be
disproportionately interrupted by others in
the class. Teachers may often ask questions |
followed by eye contact with men students
as if only men were expected to respond,
and some teachers still use sexist humor to
“spruce up a dull subject” or make
disparaging comments about women as a
group, the study found,

Also, Hall pointed out that the faculty
may not give the women informal feedback
on their work, and that the problem was
not unique to men and that ‘‘women pro-
fessors are also to blame.’”

Martha Fitch, chair of the Committee on |
Affirmative Action’s Women's Concerns, |
stressed that it is important to investigate |
the extent to which the ‘*chilly climate’? oc- |
‘curs at Albany State and to see if we “‘are in
line with the national trend,"” |

Fitch said that Women's Concerns was |
considering doing a suryey on campus, or a
panel discussion using both students and

faculty. She said that neither option was
definite at the present time, and that any ac-
tion taken would generally attempt to
publicize the issue to faculty, students, ad-
‘ministration, and the community,

Hall suggested the ‘‘administrators
should make a policy statement to the effect
that this type of behavior is unacceptable,””
She continued that '‘a grievance procedure
should be established so that women could
speak up.”” a

State Oper
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\d Trustoe-Darwin R. Wales

SUNY must find creative ways fo overcome financial Ills,

Tight budget forces SUNY to
limit allocation of state funds

Last part of a two-part serle
By Michael P. Dan:
STATE PRESS SERVICE >

With New York State's financial health
in question, state budgeters have increased
their control over the State University of
New York. Financial support for SUNY
has decreased, so State University expenses
are monitored more strictly. SUNY must
serve more students with fewer faculty and
staff, so planning is more closely observed

While the State University takes pride in
the autonomy it has allowed its 64 cam-
puses, the need to plan for budget shortfalls
and to correct funding imbalances between
campuses has forced increased central ad-
ministration involvement. SUNY Central
administration now reviews campus plans
and finances with a sharper eye than ever
before. SUNY has even become involved in
redistributing money allocated 10 campuses
by the legislature

SUNY officials agree that its involvement
in campus planning will increase. The
state's financial situation will, they say, get
worse before it gets beiter

This bleak outlook has forced the heads
of SUNY to reevaluate the State University
system. The end result has not always been
optimism.

State University administrators do not
fully agree on the state of SUNY, but their
comments are consistent on what SUNY
must do, what the actions will mean, and
why SUNY is in its present state: SUNY
must, they feel, redefine its goal of ‘ex-
cellence’” and find creative ways to solve its
problems — new money will not be
available to cure present and future
these actions, they concur will mean fewer
academic programs offered’ on each cam-
pus, Finally , they contend, SUNY's

“underfunding” is due to public attitude

toward tax-supported services and the
state's anemic economy

‘After all the budget battling
tions and planning sessions, the bottom line
is this: more control of SUNY by the state,

‘and more control of campuses by SUNY.

alloca

‘Where we are

“The things that have come to be govern:
ment services provided to the people at a
reduced cost cannot command a sufficient
degree of public support as it once did,"
stated Executive Vice Chan
D, O'Dowd

This is due, O'Dowd said, to a feeling
that “for a long time these services have
just not been delivering," SUNY is, he said,
one victim of this “disillusionment.”

‘O'Dowd said he is amazed by the money
invested in the State University before the
170s, He does predict higher education
receiving less money while admitting that it
is already “underfunded,

If the state’s economy improved, more
tax would be collected by the state,
©;Dowd noted. This might mean more
money for SUNY, he said, but he does not
see this happening soon.

For now, Gov, Hugh Carey predicts a
$311 million state deficit for the 1982-1983
fiscal-year and SUNY Central ad-
ministrators expect its share of funding
from the state to continue decreasing,

To prevent this deficit, Carey and the
Division of the Budget are strictly
regulating SUNY's spending, Controls in-
clude a hiring freeze and impoundment of
$17 million of SUNY funds, To correct
‘imbalances”” in funding between cam-
puses, SUNY has redistributed money

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| our attorney.’

lor Donald |

Council reps
debate roll-call

By Heidi Gral

i STAPEWRTER
Central Council chair Jeff Fromm sald
sierday he favors open meetings and roll
Il votes in the future rather than the
Josed secret ballot vote like the one con-
roversially taken last Wednesday in off-
mpus representative Neil Siegel's im-
chment hearing,

The Council voted last Wednesday
13-13 not to dismiss Siegel, who was
under jinpeachment on charges of ‘ex:
absenteeism and neglect of
(wo-thirds majority is

cessive
duties,” A
necessary 10 dismiss a member,

‘Central Council voted by secret ballot,
which is in violation of the New York
State Freedom of Information Law, Ac:
cording (0 Robert J, Freeman, executive
director of the New York State Commit-
tee on Public Access to Records, "A
Voting record must be prepared and made
available within guidelines of the Freedom
of Information Law. ‘The must identity
lich member and how they yoted,"*

Central Council vice-chair Cathy
LaSusa said she also supports open
meetings and roll call votes for similar
situations in the future, but with definite
“yeservations."” LaSusa said a roll call
yole would have been “detrimental”? to
Council since Siegal now has to continue
to work with members, regardless of how
they voted,

However, Central Council Internal Af-
fairs Committee member Dan Robb main-
tained, 1 think it should be our right (0
hold a closed ballot for something so per-
sonal and possibly damuuing to one of our
members,"

In regard to changing Council's policy
on closed meetings in ‘he future Robb

med, “1 would sail until you
(ASP) took us to court, *

SA president Mike ( orso said. ‘there
needs to be an asses: ent of the law
which we are cheching with Robert
Freeman (Executive Director of the Com-
mitice on Public Access to Records) and
He said he is sorry to see
such “animosity'” arise over this matter,
especially because “Central Council's ine
Lentions were good, They decided to do
this so as not to hurt Neil!”

Fromm criticized the ASP for waiting
until Council's meeting to raise the issue,
He said it forced them ‘to make a quick
decision under pressure” and didn't give
members a fair opportunity to’ examin:

SA President Mike Corso
‘Central Couricil’s intentions were good,"”