Albany Student Press, Volume 79, Number 11, 1993 March 9

VOLUME LXXIX

ASPECTS

ALBANY
SELODENT

Tuesday,
March 9, 1993

PRESS

NUMBER _11

Student Association plagued by confusion
Was the Media Director fired, or did he
resign? The question of the week at SA

By Lorie Rotu
Staff Writer

say he was fired,”
said Mike Williams, SA vice-
president, in regard to the
termination of SA Media
Director Elliot Perez from office
on February 8.

Raina Wilson, SA Internal
Affairs chairperson, was in
charge of the investigation
deciding whether or not Perez
would be fired.

Wilson said Williams had
given Perez warnings about his
job performance and if his ways
did not change, he would be
suspended from his job.

“The v resident told
internal a who in turn found
discrepancies in Perez’s job
performance. Perez resigned
before internal affairs finished
their investigation,” Wilson said.

“You can’t blame one person
for a whole office disaster...J am
receiving the blame for SA as a

President wants his MTV

President Clinton appeared in an interview with MTV

whole,” Perez said.

“We don’t want a media
director — no matter what. Perez
did not resign, he was fired,”
Williams said.

“T did resign before all of the
politics,” Perez said.

Williams said he didn’t feel
confident Perez could do the job.
“Perez knew what to do, he just
didn’t do it,” Williams said.

“As long as I had enough
time... I did the job right,” Perez
said.

Williams said, “I am the
administrative [officer] for the
executive branch. I would have
fired Perez regardless of internal
affairs.”

“Some people took it the
wrong way. They thought I was
being a tyrant. There are no hard
feelings between SA and Perez.
It was a business decision,”
Williams said,

The two sides did agree upon
the fact that Perez wasn’t doing
his job. Wilson said, “There

correspondent Tabitha Soren last Monday.

Clinton spoke about his plans to make a college education

were complaints of flyers not
being out on time or Perez just
wasn’t doing flyers. Many of the
flyers done contained mistakes,”

“Perez had a five-thousand
dollar income line and he only
made two thousand dollars of
it,” Wilson said.

“He also wasn’t keeping his
office hours when people needed
computer time, The brunt of the
work was being put on the
executive board,” Wilson said.

“Now Perez's three assistants
are running the office. They
were asked, but none of the three
have the time to take on the
position.”

“We don’t want another Media
Chair this year and we didn’t ask
any of the three to accept the
position,” Williams said, adding
“we will have another media
director next year.”

“Last year Diego Munoz was
the media director and he did a
great job. The job wasn’t right
for Perez. Perez was supposed to

outreach to the student
community and he did not,”
Williams said.

Perez said he began working
for the Albany Student Press
about three weeks ago.

“T think SA was hurt. I was the
only one qualified to run the

office. The situation in SA is
now worse than before,” Perez
said.

“The ASP is benefiting from
my work, If my work was so
bad, then why are others
following me up here for help.”

Staff Photo by Edwil Fontanilla

Former SA Media Director Elliot Perez

Jewish activist discusses.
horror of Crown Heights.

available to every American through national service. National
service is a chance for thousands to have the opportunity to
pay for college by rebuilding their communities. Clinton’s
program will start with a Summer of Service. This is a program
for young people who serve in selected areas around the
country. For more information about this program, write to the
White House National Service
Washington, D.C. 20500.

By HERB TERNs

s] vist Rabbi Avi Weiss

rated both applause and
argument from a larger than
expected crowd Thursday evening
in LC 24,

Weiss discussed several spice but

touched a nerve in the audience
with his discussion of the Crown
Heights incident of 1991.

Crown Heights is a section of
Brooklyn that was plagued with
violence after a car accident in
which a Jewish man accidentally
killed a black youth and injured
another.

_ According to a New York Times
article, violence erupted after
Tumors that the three Jewish men in
‘the car received medical treatment

ria the injured black children.

Hasidic see aoe and Hae
Weiss said the police were to

blame: for the violence because they

became involved in a heated
discussion with Weiss before
leaving the lecture center.

Weiss discussed Nelson
Mandela’s connections with people
such as Fidel Castro oe BEN
Arafat, f

“Mandela is a great man ane
he fought against apartheid,” Weiss
said, adding he made a mistake in
dealing with anti-Semites like
Arafat, : é

Weiss said he believed it was a
mistake because “racism and anti-
semitism run hand in hand.”

Several members of the audience,
including Colia L. Clark, professor
of Africana ‘Studies, disagreed with
‘Weiss’s statements about Mandela.

Clark said Mandela and the

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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1993

WORLD ¢

Crowd awaits spectre

Agoo, Philippines
(AP) Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims
wailed, wept and prayed Saturday under a
blazing sun as they awaited an appearance
by the Virgin Mary. Only a handful
claimed they saw an apparition.

Word of an expected apparition swept
the Philippines, Asia’s only
predominantly Catholic country, after a
12-year-old self-styled seer, Judiel Nieva,
claimed to have seen the Virgin on the
first Saturday of every month since 1989.

Nieva’s family owns an image of Mary,
which was said to have shed tears of
blood last month. Residents of Agoo,
which has a population of about 42,000,
claim Nieva is a seer and that Communion
wafers and wine turn to flesh and blood in
his mouth.

The Roman Catholic hierarchy has
reacted cautiously to the claims. Bishop
Salvador Lazo of La Union province said
he would withhold judgement until a
committee completes a study of the boy’s
claim.

Manila newspapers started reporting the

“miraculous events” in Agoo last week,
and pilgrims began flocking to the town
Friday, at one point creating a 70-mile-
long traffic jam.

Belief in apparitions and supernatural
events runs deep in Philippine culture.
Church congregations throughout Luzon,
the main Philippine island, chartered
hundreds of buses for the pilgrimage.

About 1:15 p.m., several people began
screaming that they had seen the
silhouette of a woman wearing a dark
waistband.

In mid-afternoon, Nieva appeared on a
hillside, flanked by police who pushed
aside weeping zealots who tried to touch
him. The boy claimed to have seen the
Virgin, who asked Catholics to pray for
the children of famine-wracked Somalia.

“The Blessed Virgin was very sad
because of what is happening in Somalia,”
the boy told the crowd. “Do not be afraid
my children. The rosary is the greatest
weapon against Satan.”

NATION &&

Possible retirement

Washington
(AP) Conservative Justice Byron White is
considering retiring from the Supreme

Staff photo by Tal Goldhamer

When mom said don't play with your food, this is what she meant.

-PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Court, according to a published report.

The Washington Post quoted unnamed
sources close to White, 75, as saying they
believe he is thinking of stepping down
around July 1, at the end of the current
term.

The justice has not hired law clerks for
the next term, the newspaper said in
Sunday’s editions.

White is known as an opponent of
abortion rights and affirmative action. He
wrote the 1989 Supreme Court opinion
that upheld a law against sodomy, saying
the Constitution does not protect
homosexual behavior.

White, who has been on the court for 31
years, was appointed by President
Kennedy.

Flyers still missing

Washington
(AP) The United States probed the coastal
defenses of the Soviet Union with the
thousands of “ferret” spy flights during
the Cold War and at least 31 flights were
shot down, according to a published
report.

At least 138 American pilots and
crewmen who flew the highly secret
espionage flights in the 1950's and 1960's
remain unaccounted for, according to data
developed by U.S. News and World
Report and for the ABC news program,
“Primetime Live.”

Citing U.S. declassified government
records, the two news organizations said
that at least 252 American airmen were
shot down while flying espionage or
support missions between 1950 and 1970.

According to the U.S. News report, 24
are known to have been killed while 90
are known to have survived.

Next month, a U.S.'task force will be in
Russia to ask authorities about the
whereabouts of the missing airmen, the
report said.

The report, based on recently
declassified documents, found that there
were as many as 1,000 espionage flights
over the Soviet Union in the 1950's, with
the figure nearly tripling in the next
decade.

The spy missions were considered so
sensitive that hours after the November
1963 assassination of President Kennedy
in Dallas the Air Force and the CIA
urgently recalled the “Ferret” espionage
planes then in Soviet air space to avoid
provoking Moscow, the report said.

STATE =.

Lawmaker is guilty

Troy
(AP), The daughter-in-law of a county
legislator broke down in tears as a judge

found the lawmaker guilty of harassing
her and ordered him to pay a $250 fine.

Troy City Court Judge Patrick J.
McGrath also ordered Rensselaer County
Legislator Daniel Ashley, 54, to stay away
from Dawn Ashley, 31, for a year and to
pay any remaining medical bills resulting
from a family argument last year. He was
acquitted of a more serious charge of
third-degree assault, a misdemeanor.

Mrs. Ashley, who is in the process of
divorcing Daniel Ashley’s son James, had
accused the lawmaker of repeatedly
banging her head against a wall, choking
her and threatening to kill her at her Troy
home on Oct. 6.

While the Democratic legislator denied
the charges during a four-hour trial, his
grandson, James Ashley Jr., 9, testified he
had seen his grandfather push his mother
against a wall.

“My grandpa was touching my ma. He
was holding her hands up, pushing her
against the wall. She said she wasn’t crazy
and for grandpa to let her go because he
was hurting her,” the boy said.

Daniel Ashley, an elected official for
over 25 years and instructor at the Hudson
Valley Community College in Troy, said
he would appeal Friday’s verdict.

Troy is 10 miles north of Albany.

Murder trial delayed

Troy
(AP) The second murder trial of a town
councilman charged with killing his wife
will be delayed at least one month so that
the defense can prepare arguments to
move the trial to another county.

State Supreme Court Justice John T.
Casey ruled Friday that the trial of John
Ramahlo Sr., which ended in a mistrial on
the first day of testimony last’ month,
could be postponed so his attorney could
seek to move the case out of Rensselaer
County.

E. Stewart Jones has maintained
Ramahlo, 46, could not get a fair trial in
the county. Ramahlo is accused of killing
his estranged wife Pamela, 43, with a
chloroform-soaked cloth in December
1991.

The East Greenbush councilman’s trial
ended abruptly last month after a juror
admitted to listening to news accounts
about the trial, despite the Rensselaer
County Court Judge M. Andrew Dwyer’s
instructions not to read about the case.

Just a day before the mistrial, the judge
decided to go ahead with the trial without
alternate jurors, because he feared a story
in a local paper about a similar case would
make it difficult to find non-biased jurors.

The juror selection for that trial was
marked with considerable difficulty in
finding jurors to participate in the trial.

Troy is 10 miles north of Albany.

FREE LISTINGS

meetings every Tuesday at

involved with the events

The Korean

Student

financial aid cuts and tuition

Tues., March 9

Habitat for Humanity will be
holding an interest meeting at
8:30pm in the patroon
lounge.

The Aikido Club will be
meeting every Tuesday from
7:30-9:30 in Gym E. For
more information call Mike at
442-6837 or Earl at 452-
9918.

LGBA will be holding

8pm in ED 335.
Wed., March 10

The Albany State
Libertarians will be holding
their weekly meetings in CC
370 at 4pm. Call 446-1326
for more information.

The Jewish Student
Coalition will be holding a
Yom Hashoa Interest meeting
for Holocaust Memorial Day
at 7pm in CC320. All those

should attend.

Thurs., March 11

The Brothers and Sisters of
Christ will be presenting a
video entitled "Christianity vs.
Religion: Do you know the
Difference" at 7pm in CC375.
All are welcome to attend.

The Aikido Club will be
meeting every Thursday from
7:30-9:30 in Gym E.

Association will hold weekly
meetings at 7:30 in SS 131.

All who are interested should
attend.

Fri., March 12

NYPIRG will be hosting its
20th annual Spring Student
Action Conference this
weekend. The conference
will culminate in a rally at the
State Capital to SAVE SUNY
from additional budget cuts,

hikes. To find out more about}
the conference, call NYPIRG
at 442-5658.

who are interested in getting

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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1993

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

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SA’s annual “Quest” is back

New stipulations will change the game slightly

By Tasna Emmons
Staff Writer

The third annual “Quest for $1,000”
will be held by the SA Programming
Office on Friday, March 12.

“This has been one of the biggest
events for the Programming Office the
last few years, and we expect it to be big
again,” said SA Programming Director
Chris Turner.

The winning team receives a $1,000
cash prize.

The object of the game is for teams of
students to follow a set of clues given out
at the starting line to find other clues and
be the first team to put them together and
find the final answer to win the game,
Turner said.

An example Tumer gave of a clue from
a past game was: “If the king and queen
lived in Albany, what candy wouldn’t
they sell?” This clue was supposed to
lead the players to The Palace Theater
and there was a sign in the window there
that said “No Milky Ways.”

The contestants were supposed to take
one of the letters from “Milky Way” as

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the clue and combine it with other letters
from other clues and unscramble the
letters to come up with the answer, Turner
said.

Registration for the game begins at
6:30 p.m. in the commuter cafeteria
below the main lounge in the Campus
Center, and clues will be given out at 8:30
p.m., Turner said.

A new stipulation this year is that the
game will end at 3:00a.m. If there is no
winner by then, then nobody wins, Turner
said.

Students need their student I.D. to
register. The entry fee is $5 per person or
$20 for a team of five, the maximum
number allowed on a team, Turner said.

Another change from last year is that
teams will be told where the finish line is
beforehand, Turner said.

Turner said the playing field is the
entire city of Albany and will possibly
extend into Schenectady this year. A car
is, therefore, necessary to play.

The last two years, 400-500 students
participated, Turner said.

Senior Cory Kanterman was a member
of the winning team for the last two

years.

Kanterman attributed this success to
being “able to think the way the people
who made the questions think.”

He said the first year it took about 2
hours to win, but the second year took
about 5-6 hours.

“There were a few clues we were really
stuck on,” he said. About three questions
of the approximately 20-25 stumped
them, but some they got right away,
Kanterman said. Kanterman said he will
probably be entering again this year.

Turner said there will be pizza and fries
served in the cafeteria and coffee and
donuts will be served outside of The
Lampost bar throughout the night.

Turner said the event has been a lot of
fun and students are usually well-
behaved.

The money collected as entry fees goes
to paying for the event, so this isn’t a
fund-raiser, Turner said.

The event is co-sponsored by U.A.S.,
the Student Association, the State Quad
Board, Mr. Subb, Audio 300, Sweet and
Low, and All-U.

Environmental apathy is explored

“Thomas Jorling, the state environmental conservation
commissioner, has termed the ANSWERS plant abysmal and for
him to say that is almost heresy because he is a part of

By JENNIFER SCHULTZ
Editorial Assistant

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The continuing problems of an apathetic view toward the government,” Fitzgerald said.
environment were explored at an on campus forum last week. The ANSWERS plant will not close because Albany is

Sean Fitgzgerald, project coordinator of the New York Public making money out of it, Fitzgerald said.

Interest Research Group, said, “I was not pleased with how the — Enck explained ways for students to get involved in this
panel went, the speakers assumed knowledge that the students _ pertinent subject.
did not know.” 5

Fitzgerald defined environmental racism as “a different
approach to environment - it doesn’t concern
typical environment concerns.”

Fitzgerald added, environmental racism is
“citing environment hazard industries in
racial and ethnic areas. Environmental
racism doesn’t involve seals and whales but
concerns people and where they live.”

The forum consisted of a panel of 4
experts. Aaron Mair is a community activist
in the city of Albany. Mair, an Arbor Hill
resident, has a personal stake in the
proliferation in minority areas.

Mair said he chose to live in the polluted
area “because my people live in the area, and
Twill stand by them at the risk of my own
health.”

Judith Enck, NYPIRG environmental
analyst, showed several different disturbing
facts that support the existence of
environmental racism in the Albany
community alone.

For example, the ANSWERS plant,
located on Sheridian Avenue, permits 18.8
cubic meters of dioxins into the air when the
standard is supposed to be .10, Enck said.

“There are anti-incinerator meetings the first Tuesday of
Continued on page 7

Staff Photo by Tracy Yee

Expert panalists explain disturbing facts.

4 ~ ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY. MARCH 9, 1993

Is this the next governor of New York?

By Jor FAUGHNAN
Editor in Chief

Attacking what he called
“socialism in New York,” former
Republican gubernatorial
candidate Herb London jokingly
proclaimed his support for

as the best candidate for
governor of New York.

London, a New York
University Dean on _ the
campaign trail for the *94
Republican _ gubernatorial
nomination, targeted. Governor
Cuomo and what he called the
“New York Dem-Rep Party” in a

Russian President Boris Yeltsin discussion last Monday, March 1,

——Crime Blotter ———

vated Harassment

2/15-17 Colonial Quad - Student received unwanted letters from
her ex-boyfriend.
2/26 Brubacher - Obscene phone call.
2/26 Indian Quad - Obscene phone call.
2/27 Dutch Quad - Harassing phone call.
2/28 Colonial Quad - Annoying phone calls.
Assault
3/1 Arrest warrant executed on student.
Burglary
3/1 Humanities - Monitor missing.
2/19 State Lot - Minor vandalism to car.
2/24 State Lot - Car picked up and moved.
2/26 Irving - Window broken.
2/27 Mohawk - Window broken.
2/27-28 Circle - Car window broken.
2/28 Alumni Quad - Papers on outside of dorm room burned.
2/27-3/1 State Lot - Car sunroof broken.
Criminal Nuissance
2/26 Mohawk - Two students referred to judicial for setting
papers afire and possession of marijuana pipe and underage
possession of beer.
2/27 Carillon Drive E. - Student arrested.
Fal:
2/28 Draper - Bomb threat made from pay phone by unknown
male to NYTEL operator.
2/28 Brubacher - Fire alarm pulled.

rand Lares
2/22-26 Colonial Flagroom — Couches and chairs missing.
Petit Larceny
2/25-26 Husted - Cleaning materials missing from janitor’s
closet.
2/27-28 Colonial Quad - Motorcycle cover stolen at bike room.
2/28 Phys. Ed - Coat with wallet in pocket stolen at weight
room.

Reckless Endangerment
2/28 Indian Quad - Report that male threatened roommates with
knife. Victim did not wish to press charges. Res. life notified.

at SUNYA.

London began the discussion
by detailing the victories of his
unsuccessful challenge of
Cuomo. “I ran as a conservative
‘wake-up call’ [for the
Republican Party]. When I met
with Rabbi Schnearsen [the
Lubavitcher Rebbe of Crown
Heights, Brooklyn] to get a
lucky one dollar bill, he asked
me what year it was,” London
said.

London said he tried twice to
answer the question with the
Roman calendar and Hebrew
calendar names and the Rebbe
rebuffed him.

“No, it’s the year of the
miracle. Herb, you are a miracle
of 1990,” the Rebbe said. “No
matter how many votes you
expect to get, you'll get more.”

According to London, New
York’s ills in the current
recession are unlike the rest of
the country’s.

“Cuomo would blame Reagan
and Bush for New York’s
problems...but no state has been
as adversely effected as New
York.”

“New York has 7.3 percent of
the U.S. population, yet 33
percent of the welfare
[receipients] are here. Forty
percent of the jobs lost in the
U.S. since June 1989 have been
in New York, that’s 523,000,”
London said. “Why does New
York suffer more?”

“The typical New Yorker is
leaving” because public
education is in “shambles,”
London said.

“There are no job
opportunities and no future in
this state,” London said.

London said New York was
economically healthy in 1982
when Cuomo took over. Since
then the exorbitant tax rate, “a
vampire” 48 percent higher than
some other states, and

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tremendous spending, has
created a 62 billion dollar deficit.

“Why does Nevada have such
an exploding business growth
rate? Because of the low taxes,”
London said.

He predicted 100,000 to
leave in the upcoming years,
going to states like Connecticut,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

“There, they can enjoy the
benefits of New York without the
problems.”

London named “wonderful
privatization targets” including
Adirondack Park, which, due to
state policy, makes “Appalachia
look like West Palm Beach.”

“It’s a systematic policy of
depopulation,” London said.

Also a target for privatization
is Stewart Airport just north of
New York City.

“Sell the airport to private
entrepreneurs- with a stipulation
they improve it with mag lev

Herb London finds much of New York's problems in education.

trains. You could go to the city
in 15 minutes; the airport would
be on the tax roll.”

Welfare reform is another
important issue, London said.
“New York is the Rolls Royce of
welfare states- we should be
Ford Taurus.”

Incentives in welfare have
caused an “explosion of
illegitimacy... we've reinstituted
a plantation system in another
form.”

If New York cuts down on
benefits for mothers, the system
would still be “compassionate”
and fewer illegitimate births
would occur, London said.

The SUNY system should
charge tuition on a sliding scale
because the state subsidizes all
tuitions by $14,000 already,
London said.

London said all families that
earn less than $20,000 dollars

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Nonsmokers want smo

ke free campuses

Secondhand smoke sufferers are gaining from new bans

By Karen NEvsTADT

(CPS) A grim report on
secondhand smoke by the
Environmental Protection
Agency has armed non-smoking
students, faculty and
administrators with new
information to fight for-smoke-
free campuses, a growing trend
at U.S. colleges and universities.

The EPA report, titled “The
Respiratory Health Effects Of
Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer
and Other Diseases,” has
confirmed what the medical
profession has long suspected-
that breathing secondhand
smoke can be as deadly as
lighting up.

“It’s very alarming,” said
Timothy Hensley, spokesman for
the Office on Smoking and
Health at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in
Atlanta. “The report provides
ammunition for students and
administrators to strive for
smoke-free regulations in
educational settings to protect
the non-smoker from hazardous
exposure to secondhand smoke,
which can lead to lung cancer.”

Among the EPA’s findings:

-Secondhand smoke is
responsible for 3,000 lung
cancer deaths annually among
adults in the United States, and
is associated with an increase in
ailments of the lower respiratory
tract, such as bronchitis and
pneumonia,

-From 15,000 to 30,000 cases
of respiratory ailments in infants
and young children up to 18
months can be attributed to
secondhand smoke.

-Secondhand smoke causes an
increased severity of symptoms
in children with asthma. The
report estimates that 200,000 to
1 million children annually get
sicker because of exposure to
secondhand smoke.

“Only about 25 percent of

Americans are smokers, so it is %

the majority of Americans who
are victims of passive smoke,”
Hensley noted.

Since the EPA report, First
Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
has declared the White House
smoke-free for the first time in
history, and corporations such as
McDonalds and Chuck E.
Cheese are experimenting with
smoke-free restaurants.

Smoking was banned March 1
in nearly all California state
buildings under an order signed
by Gov. Pete Wilson, who urged
the judicial and legislative
branches and the University of
California system, who aren’t
covered by the order, to do the
same thing.

“Colleges should be in the
lead, because smoking is lowest
in areas where education is the

highest,” said John Banzhaf, |

executive director of the
Washington-based Action on
Smoking and Health and a
professor of law at George
Washington University in
Washington D.C.

“People form attitudes at the

college level,” he said. “Ten or
15 years ago, they picked up the
habit of smoking in college; now
they are picking up the habit of
not smoking.”

Banzhaf counsels campus anti-
smoking activists to go all the
way to the president of the
college or university with their
demands.

“Tell him ‘You wouldn’t put
us in a building with asbestos,”
he said.

“Tell him we now know that
passive smoke is a class A
carcinogen.”

While many campuses have
been cracking down on smoking
for the past several years,
administrators say the EPA
report will most likely expedite
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Had the change not been
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“Of course, there are
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could send students to SUNY for
free those who earn over
$200,000 would pay full tuition,
others would pay somewhere in
between.

“Some colleges won’t survive
[but] the quality of the
institution will grow” witha
market system that kept SUNY’s
best professors with incentives,
London said.

According to London, his pro-
life stance will not be a problem
in the 1994 gubernatorial race.

“The U.S. constitution said
‘we hold these truths to be self-
evident... that we are all
endowed with inalienable rights,
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness,” London said.

“The founding fathers said life
before liberty for a reason, in the
first life of Roe v. Wade, U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Harry Blackmon said the
decision has nothing to do with
life, that’s ridiculous,” London
said.

London said he supports the
Death Penalty for some crimes
because “prison is not a penalty”

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disagreed with Weiss it was
important he had a chance to
speak because “ideas have to be
in the university environment.”

Clark cut short a class she
teaches to allow Weiss to speak
in LC 25.

One student of Clark’s class
said they were upset with the
fact that Clark left the meeting
prematurely.

“I’m aggravated that she
walked out on a discussion about
civil rights.”

Weiss also discussed issues
such as the sentencing of
Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish-
American sentenced to life
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to Israel.

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Pollard, spying for an ally during
a time of peace, generally
receive three to four years in
prison.

“Weiss is foremost Jewish
activist in America today,” said
Ronn Torossian, an executive
board member of the Revisionist
Zionist Alternative.

Weiss said his convictions
were based on faith in the
spiritual.

“I am not a Jew to fight anti-
semitism, I’m a Jew because I
believe in the Jewish faith,”
Weiss said.

Weiss’s speech was sponsored
by R.Z.A./Tagar.

Ann Landers

Continued from page 6
“The dry information was in the
center of the piece. Ann Landers
needed to see the brochure to see
how it was woven in.”
O'Connell said that the jokes
are used to lighten up a serious
concern of how families and
students finance higher
education. She said her
department uses the cartoon strip
“Doonesbury” by Gary Trudeau

in much of the school’s
literature. She said if Landers or
one of her staff members had
read the brochure, she might
have had a different answer.

“We're sending out our
response to her (Landers). We
are a humanistic institution and
have a sense of humor,”
O’Connell said. “There are
stressed-out families and
students going through this
process. Humor helps.”

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Central Council and the SUNY
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Every week SUNYA students find a new
reason to deride the SUNY administration.
Some weeks it’s security problems, for
example whether buildings should be locked
or left opened. Other weeks it’s UAS food or
the lack of certain classes. Almost always
students complain about rising costs, rotten
services and the fact that the administration
doesn’t treat them like adults.

SUNYA’s administration isn’t the only

city of Albany is also a target for student
anger. The grouper law is something that
students generally have a problem with.
Sometimes the behavior of the Albany police
or the permanent residents of the Pine Hills
area leads students to conclude that they are
being persecuted by the “locals” or
“townies.”

In fact, students in some areas often
develop this paranoid belief that essentially
their life has many problems they have
nothing to do with.

Interestingly enough, there is an incredibly
high rate of abject immaturity at SUNYA.

Last week the ASP reported the huge
number of false fire alarms at the SUNYA
campus.

State Quad has had three times as many
alarms as the rest of the uptown campus. This
is certainly not an example of people who’ ve
become adults.

The same Quad, this year (and last) has had
a rodent problem due to excessive trash.

State, however, shouldn’t be singled out.
Many other residences on and off the
SUNYA campus show an appallingly
moronic level of intelligence.

It’s not just the condition of the campus and
the utter stupidity; the cost and danger of a
false alarm ruins students' reputations as
well.

The University Crime Blotter often reports
‘dozens of obscene phone calls every week;
who knows how many go unreported?
Students get arrested for dozens of reasons
here, whether it be from using false i.d.’s in
downtown bars to fighting with other
students. Unrestrained alcohol is often the
cause of this.

Obviously not everyone is to blame, but
there are too few students who don’t
understand why SUNYA, the City of Albany,
society and other students treat them like
fools.

Ultimately the lack of respect found on this

campus leads to other problems that are more
serious than false alarms, vandalism or
simple lack of respect for each other. What
can happen is far more serious and
dangerous.
Students often find ills in society they don’t
understand and feel a need to protest them.
By the same token, society, the city of
Albany and SUNYA only act the way they
feel they need to and many times students’
actions justify it.

topic that students find problems with. The.

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COLUMN

On February 28th over 100 students packed the
Brubacher Hall Ballroom to discuss the fate of Waterbury
and Alden Halls. The residents of Alumni Quad and other
concerned students have been informed by SUNY
workers that the University Administration, in the name of
cost cutting, was planning on closing Waterbury and
Alden. Much of the student body was outraged and this
anger was reflected in the militancy of the crowd which
gathered in the Brubacher Hall Ballroom last Sunday
night,

Students representing The National Women’s Rights
Organization Coalition, The Revolutionary Workers

dam Lerman

League and the student body as a whole began discussing,
within the crowd, the need for militant direct action in this
case. Within two or three days the Administration decided
that it might not be in their best interests to close the halls
on Alumni Quad and changed their mind. The talk of a
building takeover or other such action during the Sunday
night meeting prompted the Administration to reevaluate
their position. The Administration did not reverse their
decision due to some benevolent change of heart. They
fully understand the social and political power which our

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“rights;" rights which have been chipped away
consistently for the past twenty years. Due to the fact that
the militancy which produced those gains was left behind.
We must view our present situation in a similar light. We
cannot stop now just because the Administration has

-decided not to close Waterbury and Alden for the time

being. Once the feverish discontent has died down, they
will attempt to slash services or cut jobs. We can’t allow
that to happen.

We must be persistent in our fight. If Dr. Livingston,
our vice-president, says that we can’t afford Lavender
Housing (the gay and lesbian housing), we must answer
by demanding his salary to cover the costs. In other
words, the money is there to cover the expenses of the
services which students, workers and faculty need.
Unfortunately, the Administration sets the priorities for
expenditure, not the students, workers and faculty. If we
do not strive to take control of the University, Livingston,
Swygert and others will only continue to shift the burden
off students and onto the workers, faculty and services.
Although Waterbury and Alden may stay open for now,
the Administration will shift this burden by taking away
jobs from the SUNY workers and faculty or by cutting
student services. This cannot be the answer we seek. No
amount of concessions by the Administration can equal

student body can wield if it
chooses to.

In addition to the fiasco
surrounding Waterbury and
Alden, the Administration
has recently denied a request
by members of the
University Community for
special needs housing to
serve the needs of the gay
and lesbian students. What
was Residential Life’s
reasoning for this denial?
Residential Life stated that
the University won't provide
the service necessary to §
ensure the Safety of its gay
and lesbian students among
other empty rationalizations.
The University has openly admitted that it won't provide
for the safety of its students. This must represent to the
student body a definitive call to action.

These two recent developments on Alumni Quad should
not be viewed in a vacuum. They represent the
unwillingness of the Administration to meet the needs of
the students, workers and faculty. We must move to
independent militant direct action now!! During the spring
semester last year the student body waged a determined
struggle against the Administration. The Campaign
against Rape and for student worker, faculty power should
serve as a model for this circumstance wnich we face
today. Historically, militancy is the method by which we
have been able to make real gains for the specially
oppressed in this country. Roe vs. Wade was granted not
because a few bureaucrats approached Congress for help,
but because the anger and determination of a Militant
Civil Rights Movement coupled with a militant anti-war
movement and a militant womens movement forced the
oppressors of the United States to grant us certain

Students unite in Washington.

the amount of progress
4 which could be brought
about by the students,
workers and faculty
making the decisions at
SUNYA.

Relying on these
§ concessions isn't enough.
The Administration will
use this opportunity to
divide the University
Community by attacking
the workers on campus
through cuts in wages,
benefits or by firing
them. The firing of
workers and faculty in
order to give concessions
in order to quiet @
militant student movement is not the answer. We can only
meet the demands, needs and necessities of the workers,
faculty and students by unifying in struggle against the
Administration that is stepping on the backs of us all.
Racist attacks, attacks on women and gay bashing cannot
be eliminated under our present society. We, therefore,
must fight back now to make as many gains as possible.
We must take control of OUR university. Why should at
administration who divides us, thereby preventing us aS
students, workers and faculty from uniting in struggle,
make the choices that impact on our lives. We need
independent militant direct action to defend and expand
our rights. We need to form defense guards to fight back
against attacks on blacks, women, gays, lesbians and
workers—No reliance on UPD.

A meeting has been called for Wednesday night, March
10th, in the lounge on the first floor of Brubacher Hall 0?
Alumni Quad to discuss a plan for action. Everyone
shouid come to join the fight. How many times must We
be beaten down before we rise up!!???

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the dinosaurs, and later on their favorite delicacies, plants and humans,
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the fool who follows him?”

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psychics. Goofballs from all over claiming they can predict the future.
Really, how hard can that be? I mean, if I keep saying every single day that
all these weird things are going to happen, I’m probably gonna be right
sooner or later.

A wave of psychics have come on to the scene in the past several years.
Waving their crystal balls around like my mother waves her Visa Gold
Card (with my father’s name on it) at every clothing store in any given
mall, they just can’t wait to tell you what’s in store for you. All you gotta do
is call the REAL Psychic Hotline at 1-900-FUL-0-SHIT. Let’s be real about this
thing, OK? For $5.95 the first minute and $10.75 each additional minute,
you'd be surprised what your average John Dipshit Doe is capable of doing.

Or now you can tune in to Dionne Warwick’s Psychic Friends on
television. Not only can you hear them brainwash you—you can actually
watch them do it. And Dionne just loves her psychic friends. They give her
oh so much good advice. I should mention here that it’s not a coincidence
that the last time good ‘ol Dionne got laid was probably around the time of
Columbus’ first voyage to the New World (due out this summer is the
movie—1492: Conquest of Virginity By Getting Some Incredibly Desperate
Guy Really Drunk).

Of course, there are do-it-yourself ways to predict your own fate. And
when I went home for President's Weekend, I decided to try one of them
when my roommate came over to visit. We quickly decided that a ouija
board or a seance wouldn’t be good enough. No. We wanted something
better.

In my basement, I found the answer. Sitting on an old shelf was the all-
knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing Magic 8-Ball (which you can buy at
Spencer's for about $4). What you do is ask the 8-ball a question, shake it
for a few seconds, then turn it over to the bottom where you can see the
answer through the glass opening.

I tested the 8-ball with a simple question—“Is my name Rob?” ‘It is
decidedly so’ it answered.

“Man, ask it something harder than that, gunkie!” my roommate yelled.
“Do I love Cindy Crawford?” he asked. My, that was a tough one. ‘Without a
doubt’ it responded. Now that we were both convinced, it was time for
some serious shit.

My roommate went first, predictably enough by asking it the only
question ever on his mind. “Will I ever do Michelle Pfeiffer?” (At this
moment, I thought I actually heard the 8-ball laugh. Weird, eh?) ‘ You gotta
be fucking kidding me!’ was it’s reply. “What about Marisa Tomei?” he
queried. ‘Keep dreaming, baby’ it answered.

*So much for your dream dates,” I said. “What about your dream date?”
he asked me. “Well, I don’t really know who that is,” I said. “Maybe it’s
time you found out who it was,” he snapped back, obviously still upset that
his dreams had been shattered only moments ago.

I thought about this for a minute. Did I really wanna know this? I mean,
how would I break it to her—hi, how are you, good to see ya, oh by the way
we're destined to be married? The shock and disappointment that would
accompany such a revelation would (in all likelihood) be fatal. I wasn’t sure
I could live with the guilt. Besides, if Dr. Emmett Brown says a man
ee know too much about his own future, then I was ready to call ita
night.

“C’mon, chicken shit,” my roommate said to me. Considering that’s
probably what the 8-ball would say he smelled like (if I asked), I wasn’t all
that offended. But hey, you only live once, right? “What the hell,” I
answered. It was time.

Figuring it would take just a wee-bit too long to ask about every name in
the phone book, I decided to ask questions that would quickly narrow the
number of possible candidates.

“Is it a female?” I asked. ‘No shit, asshole’ it replied. OK—I was just
checking. Only about 3 billion people left. “Does she live in New York
State?” ‘Yes.’ Make that about 20 million now. “Am I currently familiar with
her?” ‘It is certain.’ “Is she older than I am?” ‘Outlook not so good.”

OK-—it’s a younger woman, who lives in New York State and who I know
at least somewhat personally. After five or six more questions, I had finally
narrowed it down to one unlucky soul. “Is it her?” I asked. ‘Does your
roommate smell?’

And with that, I knew that I found her. The one special (and unfortunate)
female for me (boy, is she gonna be PISSED if I tell her). And who was this
poor, poor dear? Her name is...

I’m not gonna tell ya. Figure it out yourself.

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March 9, 1993

allows for the
use of a
microwave).
}/ You're tired of the
7 humdrumidity of

S.U.N.Y. life: classes,
then eat, then classes,
then nap, then classes,
then sleep. Even the
diversion of T.V. seems
somewhat monotonous
under three feet of
snow. You need an
escape. Sure, there are
the bars, but how
many times can one
halk a license before
it wears thin? And,
of course, your

The Goats

personal clone (only he’s twenty-one)
is using his I.D. You need an
alternative. How about escaping to
another time? Enter your age prior to
drop-add, U.P.D., and U.A.S. Drop the
Nintendo, excavate your car, and
travel to the past. Let the S.U.N.Y.
Theatre Department take you back...

Josh Golden

The year is 1919— you’ve heard
about it in history class. The Great
World War is over; certainly the “war
to end all wars.” President Wilson is
trying to put the nation back on its
feet amidst the fear and panic the war
has caused. Marx and Freud are
affecting the wallets and dreams of
people everywhere. Women are
gaining the right to vote while men
are losing their right to drink. The
Chicago “Black Sox” have lost eight
ballplayers to scandal. The nation in
general is preparing for one of the
most trying periods in history.
(Though the eighties are still baffling!)
Sure, Mr. “Whatsizname” spouted

this out to you in eleventh grade; the
facts have been learned before, but,
how often are you given the
opportunity to be there, and witness
the action unfold right in front of
you? The cast and crew of Ladyhouse
Blues intend to be your ticket to
history. Playwright Kevin O’Morrison
has captured the essence of what it
means to live in this time of change;
more specifically, what it is like to be a
woman in a world of uncertainty.

Join Liz and her four sisters, Helen,
Dot, Terry, and Eylie in their second-
story apartment in St. Louis as they
struggle to regain their footing while
battling the inevitability of change.
Director Rebecca Fischel, along with
her cast and crew, has managed to
capture the authenticity of this
struggle. It wasn’t easy. The rehearsal
process can often be mind-boggling
and sometimes resembles a page from
a pop-up book by the Marquis de
Sade. Eons are spent on character
work, historical research, and staging,
culminating in the living production
that graces the stage before you.
Imagine the difficulty in abandoning a

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life of Timberlands, Big Johns, and
Long Island accents, and entering a
world of petticoats, corsets, and
etiquette. This was the challenge
facing the all-woman cast of
Ladyhouse. (Incidentally, the first all-
woman cast at S.U.NLY. in four years.)
This work, coupled with the technical
accuracy both in costume and scenery,
combine to form a_ theatrical
experience promising to be both
exciting and interesting.

The world of Ladyhouse Blues opens
to an audience on March 12 and runs
until March 27 on Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays at 8:00 in the Main
Theatre at the Performing Arts Center
(PAC). So, take a break from studying
Bio, and join Rosemary Irvin, Lara
Evangelista, Kim Sidden, Kristen
Coury, Sara Meixner, and Shalem
Hughes on their journey to a different
time and place. Tickets are on sale in
the PAC Manager's office now. (Or,
show up and buy at the door.)

Tricks Of The Shade
Ruffhouse-Columbia

Straight from Philadelphia one of the most funky and
politically minded rap groups has emerged known as The
Goats. Their debut album Tricks of the Shade is an outspoken
masterpiece that deals with the issues of homelessness, the
mistreatment of Native Americans, the hypocrisy of the military,
racism and other social ills.

They consist of a 10-piece rap group headed by rappers
OaTiekato, Swayzack, and Madd. They began their musical
journey in October 1990. Unlike other rap groups, The Goats use
a live five piece band to create the hard hitting sounds of rap’s
first “hip-hoppera.” The albums songs are interspersed with

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This album will make you think about American society at
large and dispel that great theory of “America the beautiful.”
It’s fueled with controversial lyrics and songs with titles such
as “Burn the Flag” and “Uncle Scam’s Shooting Gallery.” Their
first single “Typical American” creates a mixture of hard beats
and loud noise going to the backdrop of “I’m not your Typical
American!”

The Goats are pro-education. “The number one reason there
are so many problems in society is the lack of education,”
OaTiekato says. “There’d be fewer abortions, higher
productivity, less drug use and less homelessness if our
education system was equipped to deal with these problems.
Instead we sink billions of dollars into the military.”

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The only way to see is with
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Don’t be afraid of the rain
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rainbow

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Grab a dream, hold tight and
let it grow
Don't ever let it go

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and die

Snd have you ever seen
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—Pike Kaplan

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Are traffic jams symbolic of a
stagnant culture or are overturned
tractor trailers really the cause of
rush-hour congestion? There are
signs that tell us “30-minute
delay,” but is that just to allay our
suspicion that grid-lock is the
result of bureaucratic budgets?
These and many more questions
are the foundation for Michael
Douglas’ new film Falling Down,
the story of a man fed up with
contemporary American society.

Jonathon Ostroff

Escaping his car in the middle of
a traffic jam in Los Angeles, D-
fens, played by Michael Douglas,
runs off into the inner city where
he finds life has little value.
Entering a Korean grocery store D-
fens' anxiety and frustration
explode as the immigrant shop-
owner rudely refuses to give him
change for a phone call. The shop-
owner's broken-English and hos-
tile attitude trigger D-fens' tirade
of destruction which leads him
down his dark road of violence.

D-fens gets pushed further and
further into becoming the Rambo
of street vigilantes; from gang-ter-
ritorial disputes to mechanical
fast-food employees, D-fens finds
that his society only responds to
guns. In an apathetic society vio-
lence becomes the only avenue for
D-fens, an average guy who can’t
buy TV time or influence the gov-
ernment through PAC money.

What are D-fens’ problems? He

| lost his job in a defense plant
which helped end the cold war.
He lost his wife and child in a
divorce settlement. When taking a
breath as urban warrior, D-fens
tells a homeless family that he is
“under skilled and over educated,
or is it the other way around?”
Either way, he has become a bur-
| den for society, not a participant in

it.

To balance out the lawlessness

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REVIEWS

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Takes on the World

of D-fens, Robert Duvall plays a
retiring cop with an over-posses-
sive wife who can’t cope with los-
ing her beauty. The police station
scenes are too similar to those in
the Lethal Weapon trilogy, i.e.,
where the cops are tough, yet
humorous as they fill Duvall’s
characters desk with sand. How
original.

There is no battle between law
and crime; the police are incapable
of stopping any of the violence
lurking in the inner city. More
attention is focused on the hatred
between policemen than between
cops and criminals. The police
aren't offered as the solution, as
might be expected in this genre.

Falling Down is from the per-
spective of a white, middle-class
male, but anyone can identify with
the anger he has towards a fast
food restaurant, or the worthless-
ness associated with unemploy-
ment. The only person D-fens
identifies with is a man picketing a
bank that refused him a loan
because he was not “economically
viable.”

Unfortunately the film doesn’t
fully examine the viability of our
own society, but it does raise
enough questions that maybe
some people might wake up and
smell the gunpowder. It’s hard not
to get didactic when reacting to
Falling Down. Its simple screenplay
and comedic elements make the
movie easier to swallow, but hard-
er to digest.

Falling Down is not for those
who want to escape for two hours.
There’s not much love or hope to
send you home with a smile. All
you can do is enjoy the fantasy
that appeals to those sick of pay-
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March 12.

ALIEN ABDUCTION. NOVEMBER 5, 1975.
5:49 PM.

FIRE

BASED ON
THE TRUE STORY

Three Thursdays ago the
audience members of Brother's
Keeper were invited by film-
maker Bruce Sinofsky to
remain after the credits and
interact with him, ask ques-
tions, and talk about his new
film. Brother’s Keeper is the
true story, and actual docu-
mentation of a bizarre year in
the life of Delbert Ward, a
simple farmer in central New
York State. Delbert was
accused of suffocating his
brother William to death in
| their own home. From here,
|Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger
begin an engrossing narrative
that proves truth to be indeed
stranger than fiction, and all
the while elaborately defines
the world in which Delbert
and his brothers live, in their
native town of Munnsville,
N.Y.

Sheel Sawhney

Delbert Ward was accused
of murdering his brother on
June 6, 1990 in their house
which rests on a 99 acre farm
that has been in their family
| for over one hundred years.
| What makes this story, and
the trial thereafter so com-
| pelling is the figure of Delbert,
\and his possible motivations
for killing William. It seems as
though William was quite ill,
and many thought Delbert
ended his suffering. The film
focuses upon the accusation of
murder that no one person in
the town is prepared to
believe was committed inten-

Am | My ‘Brother’s Keeper?’

tionally or otherwise by
Delbert.

Soon, we realize that the
question of Delbert’s guilt or
innocence is only half of what
Sinofsky and Berlinger are
trying to show us. The com-
munity, the rural lifestyle, and
other foreign aspects of a
place that is only four hours
away become as distracting
and enthralling as Delbert’s
situation.

The makers of this film pre-
sent it in a cinema verity style.
This means it has an authentic
look to it; one of reporting, or
examining, rather than story-
telling. Yet, even though the
texture of the film is as such,
the film does adhere to the
“fictional” elements within it’s
genre. Part of why the movie
is so entertaining is because
you keep forgetting it actually
just happened. It’s no wonder
this film won the Audience
Award at this year's Sundance
Film Festival. Sundance is a
point of entry for new film-
makers in the New York area,
as Sinofsky and Berlinger are.
They have proved themselves
worthy of our attention with
Brother's Keeper.

“We wanted to do some-
thing new and different. We
wanted to show how interest-
ing real life can be,” said
Sinofsky after the film. He
stood amid two of the Ward
brothers, Delbert and Roscoe.
Their good friend Harry was
also there, having been in the
movie, intermittently. Harry
articulates much of the com-

mon sense and rational in this
film that the quiet Ward
brothers are often unable to
express for themselves, but
the two brothers did grace the
audience with a few words.
About six. However, this only
reinforced the reality in
Delbert's character. These peo-
ple are simple farmers, who
trade in schmoozing with the
neighbors for smelling the
freshly cut hay. So we see
Delbert as an innocent; an
alien to the social and legal
world he is thrown into dur-|
ing the movie. This is also
why we sympathize with him.
Despite how alien Delbert
seems to us, you can see he’s
not that different. His life just |
happens to revolve around
other focal points. That’s|
another good point of the|
film, our voyeuristic ability to |
look in on something that is a
another world to the urban|
college student. |
Well, I guess you should see
it, or at least recommend it to}
your mother, she’d probably |
like it. This movie will proba- |
bly get to be a small big deal,
and it should. It takes a few
more chances than some of
the cheesier flicks I’ve seen.

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pan expression one is compelled to laugh.

rder to return to his own time, Ash must

“get the Book of the Dead from a creepy grave-
_ yard. He finds that there is one real book and two

decoys, ;

with the

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Coke,
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allusion to Indiana Jones and the Last
ish does get his hands on the right one,
but forgets the chant which he must recite in
order to prevent the uprising of the corpses
_ below. Undaunted, he fudges his way through it
and takes the ancient volume, but the legions of
the dead will not be cheated. oe
Ash himself perhaps explains the film best:
“Good. Bad, What's the difference? I’m the guy
le gun.” Firearms come in handy when
ghting vicious skeleton. A car doesn’t hurt
ither, though it'll take more than eighty-eight
miles an hour to escape this mess. Fortunately,
Ash’s trunk just so happens to contain a bottle of

6a Aspects

identifying With
Russell Dobular

Russell Dobular, only 23 years of 1988, “started to explore the 20-
age, has already worked intwo something generation,” said
production companies and directed Dobular. “It is the desperate search
approximately 10 plays. A few for meaning in a world where
weeks ago, his second company, 241 meanings are disproved.”
Productions (which he himself Unidentified Human Remains and
founded), featured No Exit, which The True Nature of Love also deals
was also directed by Dobular. This with serial killers. “Serial killing is
Friday night at QE2 is another linked with the mood of the
Dobular-directed show, Unidentified culture,” Dobular said. “They are
Human Remains and The True Nature our cowboys, our Jesse James’. They
of Love. are not heroes—they are heroic

because of their freedom.”
Robert Tiger

The play deals with homosexual
issues as well (the main character is
gay). “I had to cut some of the AIDS

Dobular dropped out of high scene because it got silly after a
school so that he could do theater. “I while, but I left in the basic
felt high school was a waste of message,” said Dobular.
time,” he said. “It was more to “The play works best as an
socialize rather than to educate.” examination of people,” Dobular
Dobular also added, “A structured added. “It shows the characters
environment is very limiting.” dealing with life and its horrors.

So, while he worked at Flushing They are in a hell similar to No Exit.”
For Teens, Dobular began educating = There are several messages to be
himself. “I gained immeasurable brought home after seeing this play,
learning about life,” he said. according to Dobular. “The title is

Dobular came to SUNY Albany in the theme of the play,” he said. “I
1986, and most recently appeared as want people to recognize their own
the title character in the Performing world in the play.”

Arts Center’s production of The Unidentified Human Remains and
Bacchae. The True Nature of Love opens on

“I like acting,” said Dobular. “It's March 12 at QE2 and will run

more difficult than directing. It weekends only until April 4. Tickets

doesn’t come quite as easily.” are $7.50. No reservations.
Dobular chose this particular play

because, “When I like a play, I feel a
nervousness in my stomach. This is
the play that almost made me
vomit.”

The play, written by Brad Fraser in

March 9, 1993

For the first time ever, the Quad
Board production will not at all or in
part belong to Dutch Quad. This*
year’s show was originally going to
be a first in that it would be the first
ever two Quad production.
However, Dutch Quad has dropped
out of the show and now only
Colonial Quad will be sponsoring
the Quad production, and Capital
District debut, of Stephen
Sondheim’s Into The Woods.

Robert Tiger

“I’m very positive about working
with them,” said director Eric
Posmantier. “They've shown a great
capacity to handle it properly.”

According to Posmantier, through
the efforts of Colonial Quad Play
Advisor Amy Purdy, Colonial Quad
and the play have been brought
closer together. “She was the key
person in making the relationship
between Colonial Quad and the play
work so well,” he said.

As for the play itself, Posmantier
remarked, “The show is terrific. The
talent has lived up to every
expectation.” There was concern
that the atonal score would give the
cast problems, but according to
Posmantier, “They’re not having
problems with the music. They’re
coming along at an incredible rate.”
Posmantier also mentioned that
there have been controlled hours on
the set, with the grades of the cast
members being top priority.

THE Crossword

by Herbert E. Smith

E

Looking
The Woods”

“Into

“The cast has been very
professional in character,” said
Posmantier. “This is the best cast
and crew I have ever worked with.
And the cooperation from the
theater and music department
students has been incredible.”

And just when everything is rosy,
you get pricked by the thorns. The
major thorn in the side of this
production is money. “We needed to
raise $13,660,” said Posmantier. This
figure remained the same despite
the changes in sponsorship.

“People have been coming out of
the woodwork to help us out,” said
Posmantier. “We’re about halfway
there, but we still need help.”

Nevertheless; Posmantier still
believes the show will go off without
a hitch. “I can safely say that this
will be the best Quad show ever,” he
said. “A lot of people are going to be
surprised.”

Posmantier also wanted to express
his full support for the SA
Programming funded production of
Jesus Christ Superstar.

Tickets are already on sale for Into
The Woods, playing at Page Hall on
April 22-24, with two shows on the
24th. All tickets are reserve seating.
The prices are as follows:

Colonial Quad Activity Card
Holders, $8; SUNYA students with
tax stickers, $9; the general public,
$9 before March 31 and $10 after.

Group sales are available. For
more ticket information, call 463-
5172.

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The Music of Raymond Scott
Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Columbia

On the page where this album is summed up for
its marketing worth, the Ren and Stimpy Show is
mentioned not less than 10 times. Raymond Scott's
compositions were licensed by Cark Stalling to
accompany many classic Warner Bros. cartoons (i.e
Bugs n’ Daffy.) ‘Ren and Stimpy’ went straight to
the source and licensed the original recording for
some of their cartoons. Hence, the new interest in
this proto-electronic jazz of the late 1930's.

I should repeat that these are original recordings
that are digitally remastered in the name of
executive producer Hal Willner, better known for
doing all-star cover compilations of artists such as
Kurt Weill and Charles Mingus.

For jazz purists, this is love-or-hate proposition.
Scott’s compositions were crafted songs, not
improvisation. Like Les Paul and the electric guitar,
Scott was a pioneer in electronic music involving
multi-track recording and electric keyboards.
Whether Scott was a genius or musical anomaly is

Under Your
Nose

It doesn’t matter
how much milk I
drink

I'll never be the
woman

you

gaze upon

and desire

But that doesn’t stop
the fantasies

As I lie in bed at night
and thirst for your
Person

lying next to me
lapping up the
thought of

thighs

Crimson and peach
hues

that devour my lips
and mouth

and wrap my

neck in sweet
Womanly bliss

But forgive my
youthful ramblings
my need for your
Carries me away

If

you haven’t already

you will soon forget
me

But know this

Tam not some
teenage boy of
hormones

Or just cheap labor
Tam in love with you

Dov

This poem was
Printed incorrectly in
the last issue of
ASPects. Our
apologies to the
author.

for others to decide.

On a listen from an untrained ear, the music
sounds both familiar (cartoony) and strange - just
what was this guy thinking of? Song titles like
“Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals,”
Boy Scout in Switzerland,” and “War Dance for
Wooden Indians” give no clue.

‘Ren & Stimpy’ are helped by this music, but
damn, it sure doesn’t hinge on it. Anybody who'd
pay $14.99 plus tax because it has something to do
with a cartoon is a bit toony themselves. If you
want to here some strange jazz that can both hark
back to your childhood TV memories and sound
fresh and exciting, then definitely acquire Reckless
Nights and Turkish Twilights.

Gumball
Wisconsin Hayride
Columbia

Wisconsin Hayride is a short (15 min) collection of
punk covers by Gumball, a band led by Don
Flemming. Flemming used to be in B.A.L.L., with a

guy named Kramer who went onto (slightly) bigger
things involving Sonic Youth.

Among the five tracks, “New Rose” and
“Depression” stand out. Really, they don’t sound
much different from the originals. “New Rose” was
originally recorded by the Damned, the very first
punk band to actually put out an album in ‘77 (only
months before the ‘Pistols.) Gumball’s version
doesn’t really do much with it, except adding a
little more ‘grungy’ reverb and feedback.
“Depression” was a Black Flag song, the band that
Henry Rollins was in before he went metal-jazz.

If your not familiar with this material (or stuff of
Foetus, the Small faces and Mahavishu Orchestra),
then this E.P. is a big bang for your buck. If you’re
already in the know, then pass on it.

-Noah Wildman

‘March 9, 1993

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LETTERS
Women Demand
Respect

To the Editor:
“See dick rush, See dick pledge Delta Chi,
GIRLS LIKE DICK, find out why.”

This is the poster I came across while walking through
campus on Tuesday, March 2. Taking the appropriate
actions, we confronted Campus Life about the poster we
(my friends and I) found offensive. We learned that a
letter was sent to Delta Chi saying that their “sophomoric
humor” may be offensive, but no actions were taken to
show that they cared, My friends and I then used our
own right of free speech to prove this point.

There are many implications of their poster, regardless
if it was “all in good fun” or “did not mean ‘dick’ as in
‘penis.”” First, “girls” range in age from birth to around
13 years old. We are “women” now. Second, there are
many “girls” who DON’T “like dick,” and don’t
appreciate the heterosexist generalization. Third, not all
women “like dick.” Many women like individual people,
not body parts. Probably most important of all, however,
are the socializing agents at work here.

All of our lives we have been surrounded by images
that show our place in society. Advertisements that
equate half naked women with any product that could be
sold. Women’s bodies are a commodity, an OBJECT to
be bought, sold or taken at will. The objectification of

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women leads to dehumanization. Women are no longer
people, they are pictures, pictures that should be
perfected with makeup and weight loss. There are clear
messages at work in our society— language is powerful.

By saying that “girls like dick,” the message that they
“like it” and “want it” registers in our brains, whether we
consciously think so or not. This poster, along with other
media, perpetuates a stereotype that “girls are asking for
sex.” I don’t mean to imply that particular fraternities
condone rape, I have no proof of that. I do mean to imply
that generalizations and stereotypes that were used by
Delta Chi are part of a larger scale problem. The myths
and attitudes that support rape in our society are based
on the assumption that “women want it.” i

The objectification and dehumanization of women
clearly leads to a power imbalance, sexual harassment
and even rape. This is the point. The banner that was
hung in the Campus Center lobby on Thursday, March 4
was displayed to open eyes. And it worked. It did not
imply that Delta Chi fraternity brothers are rapists, that is
not a fact or an accusation. Get that straight. But anyone
who thinks “I don’t hang around with rapists” is only
fooling themselves. Rape is hard to define. The most
common form of rape is acquaintance rape. In many
cases, both man and woman may not realize that a rape
has just occurred. The effects of alcohol (and guilt) may
silence a woman and distort a man’s opinion of what a
woman wants because “girls like dick.”

Our response was meant to open eyes and make people
think. Fraternities are about much more than women and
beer. The people in Delta Chi might not have raped
women, but their participation in this rape culture that
society accepts so readily is the problem that needs
addressing. Draw yourselves out of ignorance and
realize the implications of your actions.

Sandy Skelaney

Letters Are Outlandish

To the Editor:

Tam responding to two outlandish letters to the editor
in the February 26 edition of the ASP. The first, under
the title “McCarthyism Lives,” written by George
Rosamond with the International Socialist Organization,
states that “The L.A. ‘rebellion’ was truly wonderful.”
Are you kidding? The only things to come out of the
riots was a frightened city that desperately needed repair,
yet another problem for the near-broke California
Legislature and even more racial tension than the west
coast has ever seen. And if he truly believes that the
effect of the riots are comparable to the American
Revolution, as he states, he’s either exaggerating the
situation or downplaying the American Revolution.
Either way, I’m not quite sure what definition of
“wonderful” Mr. Rosamond was referring to, but if he’s
got another one, I’m sure Webster’s Dictionary would be
interested. :

As for the second letter, designated below “The
Struggle Continues,” attributed to ASUBA, it voices “No
black [although black is capitalized in the article, I'll use
the proper dictionary case] person or people can be
racists.” I refuse to believe that ASUBA confides in this
statement. No black person is racist? Perhaps not against
other blacks, but I’m sure that there is at least one black
person who feels animosity toward another because of
his skin color. As a matter of fact, I know a couple.
Don’t get me wrong; I am in no way calling ASUBA a
racist organization (I don’t have the facts Craig
Thompson stands by), but for it to claim that there is no
such thing as a black racist is ridiculous.

Matt Goldstein

In Defense of Women

To the Editor:

In a recent letter an anonymous Person attempted to
counter statements made by the National Women’s
Rights Organizing Coalition (NWROC) regarding anti-
choice (pro-life) activists.

Since the 1970's, the anti-choice movement has
terrorized women by bombing clinics, threatening
doctors who perform abortion procedures, blocking
clinics, etc. They have continued to wage a battle against
women seeking health care and reproductive services,

While it may be true that some anti-choice supporters
are not religious; as the letter pointed out the

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* overwhelming financial and moral support comes from
the Catholic Church and other Christian Churches. This
is despite the fact that, before the 1800's the religious
doctrine of the Catholic Church made clear that life did
not begin at conception but rather at quickening. It was
when abortion became a political issue that abortion
became equated with murder and not because of
religious doctrine inherent to Catholicism. Whether a
religious movement or not, the anti-choice movement
has used Christian doctrine as a foundation for their
attacks on reproductive rights.

The anti-choice movement is working to deny access
to abortion. The writer’s point that the anti-choice
movement is not anti-women because anti-choice
advocates offer to supply maternity clothes and baby
clothes as an alternative to abortion is an absurd point. It
simply makes clear the lack of understanding for the
issue involved in choosing when to have or not have a
child. The anti-choice movement has been absent from
the fight for nationalized health care and child care.
Clearly the anti-abortion movement is not interested in
dealing with the economic position on women. Rather
they are interested in providing token assistance in order
to force women to conform to their morality. The
absurdity of offering women who wish to terminate a
Pregnancy maternity and baby clothes betrays the
insensitivity of the movement to the basic issues of
having control over one’s body. That is why we support
nationalized child care and health care in order to give
women a real choice.

Despite the anonymous person’s assertion that he,
Catholic, preaches tolerance of lesbians and gays, the
Catholic Church is not gay positive and does not support
gay and lesbian liberation. Cardinal O’Conner granted
absolution to those members of the Catholic Church who
were involved in attacks on gays and lesbians because
they were involved in combating sin and doing the work
of God. The connection between religious teaching and
homophobia is clear in this context. On January 8th,
Operation Rescue, an organization known for its attacks
on clinics, had a 100 city demonstration “Just say no to
gays in the military.” The attack on abortion rights and
gay rights are linked because of the continuing
idealization of the nuclear family being the only moral
lifestyle choice.

The fight against women’s right of access to abortion
has most severely affected poor women and women of
color because of the denial of federal funding for
abortion and attacks of clinics in black communities.
The same government that denies federal funding and
Medicaid funding of abortion funds 90% of sterilizations
in Puerto Rico and funds sterilization of women
worldwide. Over 30% of Puerto Rican women and
Native American women have been sterilized, some
without their knowledge. This shows the direct attempt
to keep women in a disadvantaged position,

The attempt to make a charge of bigotry based on
NWROC’s call for self-defense training for women and
sensitivity training for men to prevent rape is a further
attempt to personalize the issues. This call is based on a
realistic assessment of the misogynist society in which
we live that has the highest incident of violence against
women, i.e. rape and domestic violence,

We must recognize that the growing attacks on
abortion are part of a continuing battle against all
women. NWROC was formed in response to the violent
attacks against women seeking access to abortion clinics.
In order to defend these women from the violence of
anti-choice forces we take the stand of using whatever
force necessary and possible.

Despite the gains of the pro-choice movement, it is a
continuing fight. Anti-choice clinics are not hidden.
Birthright, a fake abortion clinic located on Central Ave.
here in Albany, and others like it, exist all over the
country. It is a credit to the strength of the pro-choice
movement if anti-choices are afraid to organize. This
means the fight against anti-choice is succeeding. The
truth is that the fight for abortion rights is far from won.

Despite the views expressed in a previous letter this is
not an issue which splits the country. This is an issue that
We must understand not only in terms of its personal
implications. We must see anti-choice as a movement
with a clear right wing political agenda.

The victims of their terrorism are and will be the
women denied access to care. NWROC will continue to
fight for the rights of all women. Here in Albany
concerned Citizens for Life is fighting against abortion
tights and has participated in national work.

Susan Ryan

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I'm always here for you whenever you
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Mixing with you was loads of fun.
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I'm so glad that you're my big sister.
We're going to share the best times
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AOTI Wishes each fraternity the best
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you!
Love your lil’ sis - Karen

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To my big sis Jill,
There's nothing more that | wish,
Just as long as your my big sis!
I Love yout
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We're really sorry for what we've
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Thanks for all that you do
| Love You,
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N.Y. State lotto official has been linked to organized crime

Albany
(AP) The head of the New York State
Lottery has been linked to a businessman
with suspected ties to organized crime, it
was reported today.

The New York Post, quoting
unidentified sources, said the link was
confirmed after the lottery director Peter
Lynch’s home and car telephone records

were secretly subpoenaed by New York
State Inspector General Joseph Spinelli.

The Post said that the Spinelli probe
found no criminal conduct.

The newspaper said Lynch had ties to
Victor Collucci, a one-time official of
GTECH corp. The Rhode Island based
company was recently awarded a contract
to handle New York’s lottery games for

five years that could be worth up to $150
million.

The Post said Spinelli’s investigation
found links between Collucci and
organized crime figures.

Neither Lynch nor Spinelli could be
reached for comment on the report this
morning, Collucci did not immediately
return a message left for him at his Rhode

Island home,

A spokesman for Spinelli issued a brief
statement and refused further comments
on the Post report.

“The inspector General’s office has
closed its investigation of this matter and
has uncovered no evidence of any
criminal wrongdoing,” Spinelli aide

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Albany swimmers outmatched at State meet

By Eric DAGNALL
Associate Sports Editor

The Albany women swimmers
and divers headed to Hamilton
College February 17th for the
New York State Tournament and
placed 11th out of 17 teams,
with a total of 301 points.

“I was very pleased with the
way we swam, considering the
size of the squad,” Albany coach
Dave Turnage remarked.

Albany sent a total of 14
swimmers and divers to the
States.

Ithaca College won the State
meet, compiling 1877 points.
Rounding out the top five were

College, Hartwick College, and
William Smith College.

The diving squad, the
strongest part of the team this
year, had an exceptional meet.
They were led by Division IIL

National Championships
qualifier Katy Duncan.
Duncan, a junior, was

spectacular in the three-meter
diving event. In the
preliminaries she amassed an
astounding 460 points to grab
the top seed going into the
finals. However, she failed to
match her previous performance.
and placed a respectable fifth
with 323.75 points.

In the one-meter event,

place fourth.

A couple of other Albany
divers also placed in the top
twenty. In the one-meter event
freshman Michelle Law turned
in an impressive performance to
finish 13th with 264.25 points.
Teammate Jennifer Patterson, a
junior, placed 14th in the three-
meter event with 258.3 points.

In the swimming events,
junior Siobhan Martinko was the
workhorse of the team,
competing in seven events, the
maximum allowed at States. She
was able to set three school
records in the process.

In the 200-yard backstroke,
she nearly qualified for the
Nationals, falling one second

short. She did wind up taking
sixth place with a time of
2:14.30. She also set records in
the 200 and 400 yard individual
medleys.

In a family rivalry, the
Martinko sisters went head-to-
head in several events. In the
200 yard individual medley
Siobhan recorded a time of
2:20.18 while finishing eighth,
edging her sister, Shannon, who
swims for Hartwick College,
who finished ninth.

Siobhan then came back to
finish seventh in the 400-yard
individual medley with a time of
5:00.47. The only event that
Shannon could defeat her sister
was the 200-yard butterfly.

Shannon finished second while
Siobhan placed ninth.

As well as the individual
events, Siobhan also competed
in the relays. In the 400-yard
freestyle relay, Siobhan teamed
with senior Megan Fairlie and
sophomore Krystina Hall to
place eleventh in 4:06. The 400-
yard medley relay team finished
14th, recording a time of
4:40.92.

Senior captain Michelle
Trudell was detained for the first
two days of the States, therefore
she was only able to swim in the
1650-yard freestyle.

The women's season
concludes this weekend with the
National meet at Emory College.

Two wins over relatively weak teams,

Union College, Hamilton Duncan totaled 334 points to
Great Danes Der
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games, with a couple of particularly
weak showings toward the end of the
streak.

Ithaca College handed a tired Danes’
team their first loss ever at the RACC,
62-54, to start the slide.

Albany came ever so close to
disposing of perennially tough Hamilton
College on the road in Clinton, New
York, but lost a one-point heart breaker
in overtime, 85-84.

A 92-66 win over Upsala College (NJ)
was followed by a 90-77 loss to
Plattsburgh State in Plattsburgh.
Albany’s northern New York swing
continued to be unsuccessful as they
were walloped, 69-44, by eventual
NCAA Tournament qualifier Buffalo

Old Westbury State (95-77) and Oneonta
State (68-53), were a welcome sight, but
before the Great Danes could rise up,
they had to hit bottom.

Union College, a team Albany should
have beaten, exploited the Danes,
grinding out-a 69-61 win at its Memorial
Field House.

Cortland State, another example of a
team that Albany should have beat,
embarassed the Danes at home, 79-72.

With their record at 8-7, Great Danes
were at a crossroads. This is where they
turned around their fortunes. The second
“season,” a blemish on the Danes’
emotions and record, had ended. The
third “season” was about to begin.

Mount St. Mary and Utica Tech
presented little problem for the much

stronger Danes, who rolled to 78-70 and
72-50 wins over these teams.

North Adams State (MA) kept it close
but lost, 56-51, to Albany. The Danes
repelled Stony Brook from the RACC,
61-48, to record their fourth straight win.

Three straight road games produced
three straight defeats for Albany as they
lost 62-60 at the Skidmore Sports and
Recreation Center, 87-68 to Elmira
College at the Murray Center, and 65-56
at Hartwick College’s Binder Center.

That left three games for the Danes to
do something to stop their slide and
possibly make the playoffs.

First was the renewal of a heated
rivalry between Potsdam State and
Albany. The Bears have lost some power
over the past few years, but they still
gave the Danes a scare in a defensive
battle, 48-44.

Fresh off the Potsdam win, Elmira
again faced Albany. But this time the
Soaring Eagles were on the losing end,
71-69, at the RACC.

A possible ECAC Tournament bid was
on the line as the Danes faced RPI in the
season’s closing game. The game was
close, but the Danes held off an
Engineers’ charge in the end to prevail,
65-60.

The ECAC did call, but the news was
not good.

Albany had not been selected for the
tournament and found, much to Sauers
surprise, its season prematurely cut off.
After ending the regular season with a
15-10 record, Albany had been snubbed
by the tournament committee.

On Friday: The high and lows, the
players, and the outlook for next year

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the SUNY College at Cortland and his Master of Science degree from
Albany in 1946. From 1944 to 1976 he served as a professor of physical
education, coach of several intercollegiate sports, and as director of
athletics and physical education. He guided the University’s athletic
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Albany wrestlers fizzle at Nationals

By Tom MURNANE
Senior Editor

New London, Conn.

There’s some good news and some bad
news about Albany’s trip to this past
weekend's NCAA Division III Wrestling
Championships held here at the U.S.
Coast Guard Academy.

The good news is mostly about
standout John Pavlin, who finished fifth
in the country at 158lbs., making him
Albany’s only All-American this year.

The bad news is Albany’s performance
in the overall team standings and also the
damaged ankle of one of the Albany’s
best grapplers.

Two hundred of the country’s top
wrestlers, representing 69 teams from ten
conferences, converged on New London
to determine the best of the best in
Division III wrestling.

Augsburg College of Minnesota came
back in the finals to narrowly edge out
arch-rival Wartburg College of Iowa, 93-
92, and take the team championship.

Staff Photo by Tom Murnane
John Pavlin (second from right) takes All-American honors for the Danes.

thirds of their team’s dual meets and
NCAA-sanctioned tournaments.

Not bad at all for a team that went into
the nationals ranked fifth in the country
by an NCAA poll,

And if you want to hear more good
news, Pavlin said, look on the bright side.
Van's coming back next year.

That’s right. Van Fronhofer, considered
to be one of the best 150 Ib. wrestlers in
the country, will be eligible to wrestle
next year.

But the sixty thousand question is, will
his ankle let him?

As far as bad news goes, Fronhofer’s
ankle is the easiest place to start.

This is the ankle most believed had
only been badly sprained in an early
qualifiers match two weeks ago, but
which supposedly had mended enough for
Fronhofer to try to become an All-
American for the second time in three
years.

It was this same ankle which failed him
miserably in his first match against
Moravian’s Andy Koch Friday, ending his

The highest finishing SUNY school
was Brockport State, which finished tenth
with 34 points. SUNY Cortland finished
in 14th place with 26 points.

Meanwhile, Albany was only able to
muster eight team points, finishing a
disappointing 28th.

But the star of Albany’s show was
Pavlin, a senior from Long Island who
two weeks ago won the 158Ib. title at the
national qualifiers in Cortland,

Paylin finished sixth in his weight class
at the nationals, closing out his collegiate
career as an All-American.

Those who finish in the top eight in

their respective weight classes earn this
Status.

“It feels really great after all the work
to finish like this, though I still should
have done better,” Pavlin said. “I’m just
sorry the other guys (from the SUNYA
delegation) didn’t do as well as we
thought they would.”

“But hey, look at Ithaca. Their team
came in fourth in the country and we beat
them twice this year...we’ve proven we're
a lot better than what happened this
weekend,” Pavlin said.

The good news wasn’t limited to just
Pavlin, however. Three of his teammates

have been named Academic All-
Americans: Jon Schlosser (177), Luke
Rakoczy (190) and Ray Adams (142).
This is the second year in a row Adams
and Schlosser have been named
Academic All-Americans.

Co-captain Rob Appel shared this
distinction as well.

This award is given to wrestlers who
earn at least a 3.2 G.P.A. the previous two
semesters,

In addition they have to either been a
conference or regional placewinner or
have had at least a 67 percent winning
record while competing in at least two-

shot at the title this year.

By Saturday, it was clear this wasn’t
Albany’s weekend. Steve Mitola (118),
Rob Appel (134) and Al Gordon (Hwt)
were all knocked out of contention,
though Pavlin said had a couple matches
gone the other way, Albany might have
two or three additional All-Americans.

“Tt was-a tough tournament for us, a
very tough tournament,” said a dejected
head coach Joe DeMeo as he watched the
Albany-less final rounds.

Great Danes’ season was one of streaks

By Patrick CULLEN
Managing Editor

First of two in a series

Expectations were running high as the Great Danes’

basketball team opened its 1992-93 season at the Capital
District Tournament at Skidmore College in November.

Who could blame anybody? The 1991-92 season had
seen Albany embark on a whirlwind 14-game winning
streak at the end of the season and, as a result, gain a
berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

After Albany defeated local archrival Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, 90-77, in the season finale to gain
the NCAA bid, it traveled to the raucous Jerome S.
Coles Sports Center in scenic Greenwich Village to face
the favored Violets of New York University.

A gutsy performance on the road by the Danes ended
NYU’s season prematurely and set the stage for
Albany’s march seven hours north to the University of
Rochester’s Louis Alexander Palestra for a second
round tournament game.

The Yellowjackets proved to be too strong inside and
outside for the Danes as they ended the Danes season
with a lopsided 75-49 win.

But the Danes knew they’d done something special.

“We got the maximum out of ourselves,” Albany head
coach Richard “Doc” Sauers said after the Rochester
loss. “The players have nothing to be ashamed of.”

Fast forward to the 1992-93 season. The Danes were
a younger, less experienced bunch than last year’s squad
and had last year’s success to live up to.

“Expectations got higher then they should have been,”
Sauers remembered.

With only three players on the roster with varsity
experience, it would be difficult but not impossible for
the Danes to return to the postseason, either the NCAAs
or the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC)
Tournament.

1992-93 could be termed three “seasons” within a
season because the Danes pulled off three streaks which
shaped their season this year.

Early signs were good as the Danes rolled over
Skidmore College and R.P.I. to capture the Capital
District title.

After stumbling to a 61-55 loss at Binghamton State’s
West Gymnasium, Albany prepared for its first ever
game at the University’s brand new 4,800 seat
Recreation and Convocation Center (RACC), which
would replace the University Gym as Albany
basketball’s home court.

Castleton State (VT) put up little resistance as the
Danes christened their new home with an easy 76-55
victory. A season-high 30 points from junior co-captain
Jason Graber, the Danes’ leading scorer, was the
clincher.

Albany then hosted its own Great Dane Tournament,
coming out with the championship in two painstakingly
close games at the RACC.

Another Vermont state school, Green Mountain,
stretched Albany to its near limit before succumbing to
two Albany free throws in the closing seconds, 59-57.

Meeting Western Connecticut State in the title game
was a match that the Danes would have to prepare for,
considering West. Conn’s berth in the NCAA
Tournament the season before.

This one was a one-point affair, with Albany

prevailing in the end, 54-53, to capture the tourney title.
And so ended Albany’s first “season” within a season.
The scene would turn ugly.
The Danes, after winning five of six games in their
first “season,” proceeded to lose six of their next nine
Continued on page 15

File Photo by Wendy McQuair
Jason Graber won MVP honors at Capital District tourney.