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VOLUME LXXXIll NUMBER 26
Larry Kauffman’s impeachment trial continues, with Topf, Brielman, and George called

By SUSAN CRAINE
News Editor

The impeachment trial of Student Asso-
ciation President Larry Kauffman contin-
ued yesterday with both Kauffman and
Samantha Hiotakis, lead prosecutor, ques-
tioning various witnesses about Kauff-
man’s actions as SA President.

The trial began with Hiotakis question-
ing Daniel Topf, a member of Tau Kappa
Epsilon about TKE’s weekend at Dip-
pikill which has been recorded in SA
records as never being paid for. Hiotakis
described this incident as an example of
Kauffman’s “irresponsibility” as SA Pres-
ident.

Topf however was not cross examined
by Kauffman who was found waiting in
the wrong room.

The next witness was Eric Brielman,
Central Council Vice Chair. He was ques-
tioned in relation to the charges that
Kauffman violated the driving priviledges
that were given to Kauffman by SA Vice

President Nir Menachemi. Brielmann said
that he had begun a missing vehicle report
with the University Police Department
because he discovered the van missing
from Indian Quad while in his safekeep-
ing. The van was however found later in
the Health Center Parking Lot. Brielmann
however said that he was unaware of
Menachemi giving Kauffman the van.

. Hiotakis then called Ann George to tes-
tify regarding the charge against Kauff-
man that he allocated money. to the Asian
American Alliance (AAA) without going
through standard SA policy of consulting
the Finance Committee. George, who
chairs the committee, said AAA had come
to the Finance Committee for funding of
their annual “Asian Occasion” event.
George said the committee had agreed to
allocate a little over $300 for the event.
However, it was later discovered that
Kauffman had given $513.50 to AAA
without okaying it with the finance com-
mittee.

Panel Discussion on HIV and AIDS

By NEVIN GUSSACK

A presentation entitled “Sexu-
ality Week: Living with
HIV/AIDS: A Panel Discussion”
was held Wed February 14 in the
Campus Center. The facilitators
were SUNYA Health Educator
Carol Stenger, and Michael
O’Brien. Stenger is currently an
instructor of a Human Sexuality
course in the Psychology
Department. Originally, a panel
was supposed to discuss issues
concerning the AIDS epidemic.
However, O’Brien, a thirty five
year old man with HIV/AIDS
spoke about his trials and strug-
gles with this disease.

O’Brien originally worked in a
school, and a catering business
in Los Angeles, before returning
to his original home in the Capi-
tal District of New York.
O’Brien said his employers fired
him and the government denied
him Social Security money, as a
result of being infected with the

HIV virus. He said, “It took six
months to get my check...I have
food, rent, and other expenses to
pay for. How am I going to
make it with six months. That’s
the reality with this disease.”

O’Brien said on the serious-
ness of the epidemic: “AIDS is
the most selfish disease in the
world...if you don’t like roller
coaster rides, then you won’t
like AIDS.” He said AIDS is a
“horrible and yet preventable
disease.” He warned students
about the dangers of condom
failures and improper usage by
saying, “There are no guarantees
of condoms pricking (breaking),
falling off, improper sizes...”
O’Brien urged students not to
shrug abstinence off: “Don’t
laugh at abstinence...it’s a
choice.”

He concluded the presentation
by saying, “If you can leave this
room with something you
learned...you can educate a big-

See AIDS on Page 6

SUNYA students

A delegation of SUNYA stu-
dents travelled to New Hamp-
shire during the recent primary
to protest the candidacy of Pat
Buchanan.

The Coalition For Jewish Con-
cerns/AMCHA sponsored the
trip, which departed February 18
to protest what they call “Pat
Buchanan’s long standing histo-
ry of bigotry and anti-semitism.”

The leader of the protest was
CJC/AMCHA’s adviser, Ronn
Torossian. Torossian is a former
SUNYA student, and a former
president of an on-campus Jew-
ish group, Revisionist Zionist
Alternative.(RZA)

“We are protesting Mr.
Buchanan because of his contin-
ued support of Nazi war crimi-

protest Buchanan

nals, his doubts about whether
Jews were gassed at Treblinka,
his lauding of Hitler and calling
him ‘an individual of great
courage’,” Torossian said.

“Our position is that even if
you agree with every one of
Buchanan’s programs, he is an
anti-semite. It is immoral for any
decent American to vote for
him,” said Rabbi Avi Weiss,
national president of
CJC/AMCHA.

Torossian, CJC/AMCHA, and
RZA have a track record of
protesting Buchanan, and last
November they disrupted a
fundraising dinner for Buchanan
in Troy. Some of their efforts
have received national media
attention.

By SUSAN CRAINE
News Editor

In response to impeding cuts
to higher education funding, hun-
dreds of students from various
SUNY and CUNY schools from
around the state gathered to par-
ticipate in Higher Education
Lobby Day at the Capitol on
Monday.

The day was sponsored by the »

Higher Education Coalition
which encompassed several dif-
ferent student groups including,
The Graduate Students Employ-
ees Union (GSEU), The New
York Public Interest Research
Group (NYPIRG), The Student
Assembly of the State University
(SASU), and The University Stu-
dent Senate.

The coalition hoped the day
would cause legislators to reject
the proposed $250 tuition hike,
the $119 million reduction to the
Tuition Assistance Program, the
$71.8 million reduction in
SUNY’s budget, and the $57.6
million reduction in CUNY’s
budget.

John Laico, a member of the
coalition said, “The purpose of
the day is to send a clear mes-
sage to our legislator that our
education should come first
because it is a reinvestment in
New York State.”

Ben Moran, another member
of the coalition, and a SUNYA
student, said he hoped the day
would put a face on those who
would be severely hurt by these
cuts.

He said, “We want the New
York State Legislators to stare
into the faces of student voters so
they can realize that any and all
cuts to higher education funding
will directly damage a large
group of constituents.”

Various schools from both
SUNY and CUNY sent represen-
tatives to lobby. These schools
included, SUNY Binghamton,
SUNY Purchase, SUNY Buffalo,
SUNY New Paltz, CUNY
Brooklyn, and Nassau CC.

Unlike last year, there was no
mass demonstration outside the
capitol, but Zina Cary, project
coordinator of NYPRIG, said
that while there was no protest,

Staff photo by Josh Levin
Student Association President Larry Kauffman is being tried for impeachment on various charges
including losing an SA van.

Lobby Day to protest SUNY budget cuts held at Capitol

the coalition wants legislators to
know that these cuts are just as
devastating as the ones proposed
last year. She said while there
wasn’t a mass rally the organiz-
ing and focus has been on the
regional level to get the message
out that these cuts are just as
unacceptable.

She said, “These cuts can be
devastating to thousands of stu-
dents around the state. Hopefully
today’s lobby visit will convince
the legislators it is worth restor-
ing money to SUNY and
CUNY.”

William Negron, a representa-
tive from USS, echoed this idea
that these cuts will be just as
devastating to students, especial-
ly to those who receive TAP.

“Should Governor Pataki’s
proposal to dismantle TAP be
adopted, thousands of New
Yorkers will be denied access to
higher education in this state. It
is our goal to make our legisla-
tors be aware of that fact and
make the necessary restorations
to this critical program,” Negron
said.

By SUSAN CRAINE
News Editor

After a six month lull, two
militant Muslim suicide bombers
in the cities of Jerusalem and
Ashkelon, detonated two pipe
bombs on Sunday, which result-
ed in 25 deaths and 77 injuries.

Among the dead were two
Americans Mattityahu, 25 of
West Hartford Connecticut and
Sarah Duker, 23 of Teaneck,
New Jersey. The two had been

was where one of the bombs was
located.

traveling on a city bus which

Muslim suicide bombers kill 25 and wound 77 in Israel
Two Americans among dead in pipe bomb explosion

Various news organizations
have received messages that the
bombings were vengeance for
the death of Yahya Ayyash, a
Palestinian that was known as
“the Engineer” that was killed on
January 5 by a booby trapped
mobile telephone.

A fax sent to international
news organizations stated that
the bombings had been issued by
“the cells of Martyr Engineer

Ayyash,” the statement said the .

bombings were, “a promise to
the blood of the Engineer, who
fell 50 days ago.”

The statement also promised

that similar replies were to be
expected in reply to other attacks
against “our heroes.”

Immediately after the bomb-
ings, Israeli prime minister, Shi-
mon Peres closed Israeli to
Palestinians from the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.

According to officials the
bombings have claimed the
greatest number of lives of any
of the suicide attacks mounted
by either the Muslim militants of
Hamas or the Islamic Jihad since
1994.

All information courtesy of|
The New York Times


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* TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1996

Wednesday, 2/28

“Calling the Shots: Choices about
Alcohol’ will be the topic for a Food
for Thought Workshop. The
workshop will begin at noon in CC
370.

Protestant Student Association
will host a light lunch and a discus-
sion of Marcus Borg’s book
Meeting Jesus Again: For the First
Time. Lunch will begin at noon at
Chapel House. For more info call
Chapel House at 489-8573.
Central Council will hold their
weekly meetings at 7:30 p.m. in the
Campus Center Assembly Hall.
The New York State Writer’s
institute will present author Robert
Pinsky, who will read from his
translation of Dante’s Inferno. The
presentation will begin at 8:00 p.m.
in the PAC Recital Hall.

Thursday, 2/29

Angelic Voices of Praise,
SUNYA’s gospel choir, will hold
their first weekly rehearsal at 7:00
p.m. in PAC B-78. For more info
call Phiesheite at 446-9369. _
Brothers and Sisters in Christ
will hold their weekly meeting at
7:00 p.m. in CC 375. For-more info
call Chris Jones at 442-6773.
Campus Crusade for Christ will
hold their weekly meeting, “The
Live Alternative”, at 7:30 p.m. in BA
231. Tonight’s meeting will be a
party. For more info call Tim
Stadelmann at 442-1826.

SUNY Albany Ballroom Dancing

Campus Calendar

Club will hold their weekly meeting
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the
Physical Education dance studio,
room PE350 from 7:30 until 9:30
p.m. For more info call Jessica at
442-1964.

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

The New York State Writer’s
institute will present a reading by
author Robert Pinsky. The reading
will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the PAC
Recital Hall.

The Albany County Rape Crisis

Center will be holding training
classes for volunteers to staff their
hotline. Training classes are held
Tuesday and Thursday
evenings.For more info call 447-

1100.

Friday, 3/1

C.E.L.L.A.R. is sponsoring a
demonstration of foreign language
software at 2:00 p.m. in Humanities
B 39. For more info call 442-4009.

Classes will be suspended at
6:00 p.m. on Friday for spring
break, and will not resume until
Monday March 11 at 8:00 a.m.

From everyone at the ASP, enjoy your
Spring break while it lasts!!!

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aif you don’t like roller coaster rides, then
you won't like AIDS.”

—Michael O’Brien

February 14, 1996
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Fields. The report said that the history
and English programs are central to the

backs,” said Boyer. “It’s imperative that
the University’s authority be i:aintained.”

A hearing of the lawsuit ma, not occur
for some time, but a decision wi!l most

particularly objectionable at this time.
“Now that we face constraints and cut-

probably have long-lasting effects on the
State University.

March 16, 1976

The SUNY Board of Trustees is await-
ing a response from the State Education
Department in a lawsuit challenging the
Department’s right to discontinue
SUNYA’s history and English doctoral
programs.

An SED spokesman said a response to
the suit would be forthcoming by the end
of the month. He said Education
Commissioner Ewald B. Nyquist “has the
right to control what courses are regis-
tered” at SUNY institutions.

The legal action is the first one ever to
question the extent of SED jurisdiction
over the SUNY system.

SUNY Chancellor Ernest Boyer said of
the case, “State and federal agencies can
and should coordinate planning and moni-
tor programs. They cannot and should not
run the institution.”

SUNY officials say the action is based
in part on 1961 legislation which
removed the State University from direct
control of the Board of Regents.

SUNYA Vice President for Academic

Affairs Phillip Sirotkin said that, although
the SUNYA administration is not directly
involved in the suit, it is “supportive” of
the Board of Trustees’ action. He said
Nyquist “has made the decision unilater-
ally,” without consideration of SUNY’s
own jurisdiction.

process had never been challched ee
believes that Nyquist’s decision to close
down the two doctoral programs had con-
fused the relationship s in New York’s
higher education governance.

SED officials say Nyquist was acting
completely within the law of this deci-
sion. “This is one of our regulatory func-
tions over all education in the state,” said
a spokesperson. He said the Depurtment
does not oversee the day-to-day running
of SUNY, but rather the “broad policy
decisions”.

The Board of Trustees authorized legal
action partly in response to a report
received from SUNYA President Emmett

Amron

Students protested numerous concerns related to budget and program cuts.


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS @

Fuerza Latina conference held at SUNYA to raise social awareness

By FATINA MEZDAD

Fuerza Latina sponsored
the Northeastern Latino
Conference on SUNYA’s
campus this past weekend.

The conference was
founded in March 1991.
Coordinators of the confer-
ence, Melinda Gonzalez
and Camille Tores said the
goal of the conference was
“to raise the social, cultur-
al, and political awareness
of the members of the Lati-
no community, and the
University community.”
through forums debating
current Latino issues,
information sharing, educa-

News Feature

tional training, while
exposing Latino collegians
to the prominent Latino
leaders and activists.

The conference opened
on Friday with a Latin
Greek Party on Friday
morning and was then fol-
lowed by a poetry shop
where poets presented their

works with a musical back-
ground. After the program
a series of workshops
focuses on concerns about
Latino identity. “Reform
vs. Revolution” was one of
these themes; it was to dis-
cuss “the needed change in
social programs and politi-
cal motivation.”

The workshops were fol-
lowed by a documentary
film “Palente Siempre
Palente” by Iris Moralez.
The film related the com-
mitment of the young party
to the improvement of the
situation of their communi-
ty. Tores, commented on
the similarities between the
film and “The Black Pan-
thers.”

The cultural presentation
was closed by a banquet
offered in the ballroom.
Afterwards, Dr. Marta
Marano Vega, the director
of the Caribbean Cultural
Center gave a speech
which was “a call for the
Latino youth to become
instruments of positive
change and action and to

realize the urgency with
which this needs to be
done.”

The last.day of the con-
ference comprised of a
career fair. The presence of
sponsors allowed students
to network with companies
like Earyd and Young,
E-Enterprise, Rent-A-Car,
and the US Army. Repre-
sentatives explained to the
students the types of oppor-
tunities they offered and
the vocation of their com-
panies. Also some colleges
were present to offer
internships for prospective
graduates. Also present
was the Girl Scout Council
which was recruiting vol-
unteers.

Gonzalez and Tores said
the conference and its
objectives were made with
“the hope that the expres-
sions of our culture through
the Welfare Poets inspire,
the facilitators and “Palente
Siempre Palente’ motivate
(students) to realize the
power of action.”

Study shows that remedial college courses are necessary for education

(CPS) About 1.6 million
students—or 13 percent of
all college undergradu-
ates-—take at least one
remedial course, according
to anew American Council
On Education report. Stu-
dents who do take remedial
classes are more likely to
come from low-income
families than their peers.

The ACE study comes at
time when some states,
including California, have
debated restricting remedi-
al classes. The report
warns that efforts to elimi-
nate or restrict students
from remedial classes
could prevent individuals,
including many low
income and minorities,

from receiving a college
education. The latest fig-
ures, which cover the
1992-93 academic year,
indicate that nearly 90 per-
cent of all two-year

schools and 64 percent of
all four-year colleges and

universities offered reme-
dial instruction in fall
1989.

Professor speaks about election coverage

Professor Kathleen Kendall spoke in
the Library last Thursday about the
recent New Hampshire primary. Kendall,
an associate professor of communication

credence, establish who and how and
what kind of characters will perform in
the electoral drama,” Kendall said.

Kendall received her PhD at Indiana

at SUNYA, had just returned from cov-
ering the primary for area radio station
WAMC, National Public Radio.

Kendall was in New Hampshire during
the primaries, and filed regular reports to
WAMC.

“The words and pictures from New
Hampshire, and the votes that give them

University. Her first book, Presidential
Campaign Discourse: Strategic Commu-
nication Problems, was recently pub-
lished by the State University. Kendall
received the 1994 Goldsmith Award from
the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press,
Politics, and Public Policy, awarded by
Harvard University.

nal arrangements were mai

: The tater Fraternity Council’s Spring Rush 1996 i is off to an ‘excellent |
| start! Events have taken place throughout the week and will continue through |
| this week. If you have any questions about Rush, please call the IFC Office at

| 442-3392.

In keeping with “IFC Leading the Way,” the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity and
| Pan Hell are teaming up for a blood drive on February a1. There ‘will pe
| tabling next week, so please stop by andsignup!
Greek Week has been scheduled for April 13-19. Teams are posted in the
| Campus Center. Look for them in the Somiauter icant

“Morality” expected from profs at BYU

(CPS)Like any good partnership, a univer-
sity expects.a lot from its employees—hon-
esty, integrity and commitment, just for
starters.

But what about a university that forbids
professors from having a smoke or a drink
after a long day of teaching class? Or,
what if it restricts single employees from
having premarital sex?

And what about the clause in the con-
tract that asks for health food diets and
exercise routines?

On some campuses, requirements like
these could send professors fleeing, per-
haps into the nearest courthouse to file a
lawsuit. But at Brigham Young University,
where employees and 30,000 students fol-
low the standards of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, requirements
like these are expected.

Recently, BYU’s new president, Merrill
J. Bateman, ordered all university employ-
ees to undergo a yearly review by Mor-
mon-church officials, just to make sure
they’re sticking to these standards.

Employees who pass the review, a com-
mon practice in the faith, will receive a
“recommend,” which means they can
enter Mormon temples for the most sacred
of rites, such as marriage.

According to Brent Harker, BYU’s
director of public communications, the
president’s order is not a significant
change in the school’s policies.

“When people are hired, it is written out
for them: you will be expected to uphold
these standards,” Harker said. “This
expectation... has been around for many
years. What’s new is the practice of
...checking up.”

Since 1988, students have been asked to

undergo an annual review. The university
wanted “to have the same expectation
placed on [employees] as the students,”
Harker said.

However, the new requirement is trou-
blesome to some faculty members, but not
because of the strict standards.

“Most employees realize at the begin-
ning of their employment here they’re
expected to be faithful,” said William
Evenson, a professor of physics and for-
mer associate academics vice president.
“But this goes really to another level.”

“It’s controlling, manipulative and
intrudes into a part of people’s lives that
should be personal and private.”

At least half of the university’s employ-
ees agree that being monitored by church
officials is “a counterproductive way to
hold people accountable,” he said.

But unlike what might happen next at
other schools, the faculty is not organizing
a strike or a public protest. The BYU pres-
ident, by virtue of his office, is considered
a general authority of the Mormon church.

As such, “faculty and employees are
properly reluctant to be overly critical,”
Evenson said. “I don’t know if there’s
going to be much speaking out, but I think
there’s going to be a lot of discomfort.”

The review process already is underway.
In fact, Harker said: “It’s constant.”

Any faculty found not adhering to the
proper standards will “be given a reason-
able amount of time, about six months, to
change and come in line with expecta-
tion,” he said.

If they don’t change, “they would dis-
qualify themselves from working here,”
he added.

French studies to be discussed at SUNY

_ New research on Franco-American his-
tory will be the subject of a lecture to be
held at SUNYA March 14.

Sylvie Beaudreau, a professor in the
history department at SUNY Plattsburgh,
will speak about Franco-American histo-
ry in the northeastern United States. Her

presentation will begin at 4:30 p.m. in
Humanities 354.

The lecture is co-sponsored by}
SUNYA’s Department of French Studies
and the Franco-American Federation of
New York.


; 4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1996

Knowing the signs of drug adduction can save the lives of those in need

The ability to recognize signs
of alcohol or drug addiction,
dependence, and tolerance can
enable you to help yourself or
someone else.

A drug, broadly defined, refers
to any substance that, by its

chemical nature, alters the struc- |

ture or function of a
Middle living organism. To

be considered
Earth addicted to a drug,
Roots

the presence of an

increased tolerance
and dependence are necessary.
Tolerance refers to the need for
larger and larger amounts of a
drug over time to produce the
same effects. Although more of
the drug is required to have the
same high effect, the “crash,” or
the low experienced when the
drug wears off, becomes increas-
ingly lower as more of the drug
is used.

Drug dependence is divided
into two components, physical
dependence and psychological
dependence.

Physical dependence refers to
the body’s need for the drug, in
order to remain chemically bal-
anced. The presence of with-
drawal symptoms are the only
sure signs of a physical depen-
dence on drugs.

Psychological dependence is
separate from the person’s physi-
cal need for the drug. Rather, it
refers to the person’s belief that
he or she needs the drug to func-
tion mentally, to feel normal, and
to improve their mood. The need
for the effects of these drugs ca
range from mild to intense.
Psychological dependence is just

-as real and severe as physical

dependence, it is not simply a
figment of the person’s imagina-
tion.

In order to scientifically qual-
ify as a drug addiction, three cri-
teria must be met:

1. There must be increasing tol-
erance for the drug.

2. Physical and or psychological
dependence must be present.

3. Withdrawal symptoms must
be present upon cessation of
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University of Maryland
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laughter is no joke: it’s a science.

“First we analyze the sounds
of laughter,” says Provine,
whose study of laughter appears
in the February issue of
“American Scientist.” “Everyone
laughs the same way: chopping
up breath into little fifteenth of a
second [blasts], and it reoccurs
regularly. Some vowel-like
sounds change (example: ha, ha
or hee, hee), but it’s basically
these little pulses of sound.”

The goal: to eavesdrop on
anonymous conversations and
record them when laughter
occurred. “I thought, what kind
of crazy idea is this?” admits for-
mer eavesdropper-turned-medi-
cal student, Lisa Greisman. “It
didn’t sound like research.”

But Greisman and her col-
leagues took copious notes on
more than 2,000 cases of natural
laughter: When do people laugh?
Who was laughing? Who was
speaking? Does the speaker
laugh? Did researchers notice
gender differences? “I’m not
sure I want to hear laughing ever
again,” says Greisman, jokingly.

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exclusively social. You are 33
times more likely to talk to your-
self than to laugh to yourself.
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‘ The speaker generally laughs
more than the people they are
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Generally speaking, women
are better laughers. But a male
speaker is more likely to get
laughs than a female speaker. If a
women is speaking—no matter
what gender her audience
is—she’s less likely to get a laugh.

“I don’t agree with that,” says
Chicago-based comedienne
Caryn Bark. Bark is a 10-year
veteran of the comic-circuit with
her own one-woman show and is
a founder of Chicago Women in
Comedy. Bark suggests what
Provine and his students are see-
ing is a prejudice against women
being funny. “[People] don’t
expect women to be funny,” says
Bark, “so they don’t get it at
first.”

Before she was a professional
comedienne, Bark worked in an
office and found that her quick
wit, an asset to most men, made
people uncomfortable. “‘I’m kid-
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say, ‘I’m kidding,’” says Bark.

For female comediennes, Bark
adds, it’s important to be intro-
duced as a ‘comedienne,’ so peo-
ple know what to expect. “If
you’re not a character, they think
you’re a singer. You don’t look
like a comic.”

But once on stage, Bark says
she is able to get just as many or
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to his. waist and a synthetic anti-
gen coursing through his veins,
University of Massachusetts
graduate student Michael Moret-
sky bravely faced the enemy: a
pudgy orange tabby called Pene-
lope and a sleek black cat name
Sebastian.

This time it took 45 minutes
before his allergy to cats caused
him to begin wheezing. Having
been inoculated with an experi-
mental peptide, Moretsky report-
ed that his allergic reaction took
a full 15 minutes longer to kick
in than three months earlier. That
is when he first met the furry
duo, who happily reside in the
cat room at the New England
Medical Center.

Afterward, Moretsky pocketed
$405, one of hundreds of adven-
turous students who mine the
rich supply of research projects
underway around the nation that
require human experimental sub-
jects.

“T knew the experiment was for
a good cause, plus I figured I
could take home some easy
cash,” said Moretsky, who joined
270 other subjects participating
in this one particular study that
seeks a potential treatment for
cat allergies. Like many colle-
giates, Moretsky is always look-
ing for ways to supplement his
meager income as a graduate stu-
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“It was my first time as a
research guinea pig, and it was
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Marian Krueger and her hus-
band, Richard Wein, meanwhile,
each collected $300 for spending
a weekend together chowing
down on high-fiber foods. With
Wein a third-year medical stu-
dent at Tufts Medical School and
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studies at the University of Mas-
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“Being students, there are only
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money, and this was an easy
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For spending a long weekend
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What was it like? The accom-
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by nurses, and the meals were
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less than romantic was the
requirement that they collect
their own fresh stool samples.
But, Krueger added, “We got to
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alone together, except for the
nurses, which is rare for us these

days. We played pool, we read, .

we watched videos, and we took
in the great view of the city. We
even marked our first anniver-
sary and celebrated my birth-
day.”

A lot of people have this mis-
conception that the researchers
usé participants like rats in a lab-
oratory, said Krueger, who along
with her husband has collected
about $2,000 from experiments
in the last two years. “Some peo-
ple say, ‘Oh, my God, how could
you two do that?’ But we’re not
prisoners. The money’s good, the
experiments are carefully moni-
tored, and you get the extra bene-
fit of having an extensive physi-
cal exam before each study.
Since my husband is going to be
a physician, we just jump at
chances to further research and
help improve medicine.”

Krueger has participated in a

Lyme vaccine study, which paid
her $100 for tracking her temper-
ature during a three-month peri-
od and submitting to a few blood
draws, a pregnancy test and a
vaccine inoculation. Having a
full-body MRI paid her $30. Fur-
ther, a dermatology study requir-
ing the use of special soap,
shampoo and cream and keeping
a diary paid $90.

Krueger finds that being a veg-
etarian excludes her from lots of
experiments but a considerable

number of opportunities remains.
She said research experiments
are easily discovered by reading
hospital newsletters, checking
the heath and science section of
the local newspaper and calling
the research departments of near-
by medical centers.

“The hard sell around Boston
right now is for sperm and egg
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Federal judge blocks enforcement to Internet law

(CPS) A week after hundreds of web-
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freedom of expression, a federal judge
blocked the government from enforcing it.

U.S. District Judge Ronald L.
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the telecommunications act that bans the
transmission of “indecent” material is
“vague [and] would leave reasonable peo-
ple perplexed in evaluating what is or is
not prohibited.”

Buckwalter granted the request by the
American Civil Liberties Union and 18
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that stops enforcement of the law, which
would be punishable by $250,000 or a
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students could relate to, “It brings it
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The case will proceed sometime in the
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Many colleges are anxiously awaiting
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On the front page of last week’s ASP ran the
headline “GE donates $60,000 to school of busi-
ness.” The budget ax has been chopping away at
programs, professors, and classes; any donation
should be appreciated. The model class created
through the grant is to be called “The Social, Polit-

Stacy Pettigrew

ical, and Ethical Dimensions of Business.” All the
article mentioned pertaining to the curriculum was
the incorporation of computer technology. The title
of the class created with money from General
Electric is more than ironic. General Electric is one
of the most unethical and socially irresponsible
companies in our nation.

A complete lack of ethics can be traced back to
the Great Depression, when GE developed a policy
to age its light bulbs, thereby shortening their life
as to obtain greater profit by increasing frequency
of purchases. The company was convicted with
collaborating with one of the main economic sup-
porters of the Nazi war machine during the second
world war. In 1961 GE was caught again, facing
convictions for anti-trust violations, price-fixing,
and bid-rigging. Yet the company was allowed to
write off the damages paid. Tax-deductible crimi-
nality indirectly enables big business to pass the
bill on to citizens. Tax codes do not seem to pre-
sent many problems, while profiting $2.66 billion
in 1981, GE received a $90 million rebate from the
IRS after paying not a penny in income tax, That
same year, in an attempt to obtain a power plant
contract, GE was caught and convicted of bribing
an official in Puerto Rico. Not stopping there, 1985
brought a conviction for overcharging the United
States government on military contracts. GE is the
second ranking military contractor, and produced
every nuclear detonator in the US arsenal.

Politics play into the past of this corporate giant.
Many claim Ronald Reagan’s political career was
launched by GE. In the fifties he was hired to tour
the country publicly bashing labor unions, social
security, public housing, and corporate taxes. Is
politics much more than a cunning art form? With
strategies from attempting to swing public opinion
to finding friends in influential positions, the polit-
ical game is easily manipulated. The US Attorney
General, (nominated by Reagan), under which the
modification of anti-trust laws legalized the pur-
chase of NBC, was formerly on the GE board of
directors. -

To delve deeper into GE’s murky waters we
need to look no further than the Hudson River. Of
the hundreds of thousands of pounds of PCB’s GE
dumped into it, 250,000 pounds remain on the
river bottom. GE also knowingly released 300,000
pounds of CFCs into the atmosphere during a
refrigerator repair campaign. General Electric is to
blame for the most Superfund sites in the nation,
the last count numbered 51.

Extensively involved in the nuclear industry, GE
runs numerous nuclear reactors, and has been
charged with intentionally contaminating residents
of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho with radiation.
The first 11 operating years of their Hanford pluto-
nium processing plant on the Columbia River

radioactive iodine. Comparatively, thirty years
later Three Mile Island was termed an accident due
to the release of 15-24 curies of iodine. By 1957,
the plant was dumping 50,000 curies of radioactive
material into the Columbia River daily. In 1976 the
worst recorded US worker related nuclear accident

See GE’s Past on page 7

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The New Trial of the Century

For anyone who missed the spectacle of the OJ Simpson
trial, the new “trial of the century” began on Thursday of
last week with the impeachment of Larry Kauffman. Like
anything else Kauffman is involved with, no one can take
him seriously. As usual, Kauffman has rounded up his sup-
porters, who clap when he says just about anything, and
Larry is... well, he’s Larry.

The proceedings began with Larry making all sorts of
unnecessary and ludicrous demands. He forgot what the
demands were half way through his speech, but he found
new ones, since Kauffman’s purpose is simply to drag out
the trial so he can last through the next election.

Kauffman, much like Colin Ferguson, has a very interest-
ing court room style. He banged the podium for dramatics
(or melodramatics, maybe), spoke directly to the people in
the Lecture Center who really have no baring on the case,
and insulted the prosecutor directly (what starts with a “c”
and rhymes with “hunt’).

Kauffman has threatened to subpoena just about everyone
from the Albany Student Press personnel to UPD officers.
Over 150 witnesses are on his list, both hostile and friendly.
In the meantime, the money which was left after Kauff-
man’s misuse is just sitting in the budget doing nothing, and
we have no Student Association president.

Well, Kauffman wasn’t much of a president to begin with.
It’s a wonder he even made it to the impeachment trial.
Actually, Kauffman was waiting in the wrong room on
Monday night’s trial for twenty minutes, wondering where
the judges were. So, he sort of made it to the trial in the end.

I took very seriously the racial incident involving Mr.
Prealieu, reported in the February 13, ASP article enti-
tled, “Professor accused of making racist remarks” and
discussed in an editorial of the same date entitled,
“Racism Ignored at SUNY Albany.” I, too, have a simi-
lar story to tell about racial remarks within the class-
rooms of our campus; one that perhaps should have been
told long before now.

Glenn H. Inghram

I am a white graduate student who is concerned with
race relations in general, and racism in particular. Dur-
ing the fall 1994 semester, while a student in a graduate
teaching practicum, I listened with disgust while a “dis-
tinguished” professor discussed his negative attitudes
about students who wore baseball caps, as well as his
views on how declining academic standards at UAlbany
were the result of an increase in “minority” students.
Another student in the class, noted for his outspoken
views, agreed with the professor, adding his own racial
remark to the discussion.

I was stunned. This was a course designed to teach
graduate students how to teach. I was further alarmed by
the overwhelming amount of agreement with the discus-
sion by my fellow classmates. Why was I silent during
that class? For the most part, I had sat with that same
group of students for three semesters (we all entered the
program at about the same time), and had been brow-
beaten on numerous previous occasions for my views on
racial issues. Perhaps it is almost as difficult for a white
person to address racial attitudes within a white crowd,
as it is emotionally painful for a person of color to expe-
rience it.

After that class, I addressed a three page letter to the
professor, detailing all that was said by. him and by my
classmate during that class period. I received a two page
written response (which I had requested) a day later, but
he had made no reference to the offending remarks. We
then sat down for a closed-door, personal discussion
later that day.

During this discussion, I brought up numerous insidi-
ous aspects of racism, including institutionalized racism,
but he could not understand the hidden nature of reified

Kauffman also seems to have watched one too many
Oliver Stone flicks. Why? Well, Kauffman’s selling point is
a conspiracy (as if the strip tease for the student body isn’t
grounds enough for impeachment). It was all greedy, ambi-
tious Central Council Chair, Mike Castrilli, in cahoots with
members of Central Council and the Albany Student Press
editors. That’s right, Larry. They’ve all been planning it for
months, just to bring you down.

Well, it doesn’t take a conspiracy to bring Kauffman
down. He has managed to strip both the office of the Presi-
dent and himself of any integrity. Although his errors were
minor violations, they have added up to a very major con-
clusion: Larry Kauffman is an incompetent president. He
doesn’t understand the concept of serving the Student Asso-
ciation or any of the students who forked over their money
so that Kauffman could be where he is now. The only thing
Kauffman seems to understand is the meager power given to
him as SA president, and how to hold on to it for as long as
he can.

Where is Kauffman going with his team of lawyers, in
court dramatics, and general Larry-isms? Straight out of the
presidency. If Kauffman would just act in a mature, profes-
sional manner, if he would take his job less seriously and
himself more seriously, he would have a much better chance
of defeating the charges against him.

Kauffman can only be described in his own words. As he
said in the September 15, 1995, issue of the ASP, “I’m com-
pletely ignorant and quite perplexed.”

No one could have said it better.

behaviors and attitudes. I brought up the fact that the
past ten years of admissions statistics did not reflect any
increase in “minority” enrollment, and pointed out that
he could not use these figures to justify a decline in aca-
demic standards at UAlbany.

Moreover, I mentioned how inappropriate it was that
he had not questioned my classmate’s racial remark. The
only concession granted was that he “regretted the com-
ment” made by my classmate. Some two weeks later, he
made a very broad, vague apology for “offending certain
sensitivities” within the class (a response similar to that
of the professor in Mr. Prealieu’s class, as reported in the
ASP article).

I decided not to pursue this incident with campus offi-
cials at the time for several reasons. First, his written
response did not address the offending comments, so I
had no proof in writing. Second, my fellow classmates,
whether out of apathy or agreement with his views, saw
nothing wrong with the discussion during that class, so I
likewise had no witnesses who could collaborate my
story. Third, as a white student listening to racial

See RACISM on page 8


cA y &, February 27, 1996

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It’s an imperfect world. If the world were fair I would not have
caught glimpses of people’s date planners this week, far too many
of which read, in letters big enough to extend through each day of
next week, “CANCUN” or “PANAMA CITY.” If the world was
perfect my buff, diesel body and I would be counting the hours
until my plane to the Sundance film festival, which had been
postponed until I could make it, took off. There at Sundance I
would win best screenplay and all the Gwenyth Paltrows and
Elisabeth Shues of the world would be sucking up to me in hopes
of being in “the next Jason Black film.”

But the world isn’t perfect: I have no plane waiting, in fact, I
don’t even have a guaranteed car ride home yet to count down the
hours to. Instead of skiing around Utah with Robert Redford,
dining out with Quentin Tarantino to discuss the finer points of
dialogue writing, and getting to see Uma Thurman’s talents, I’ll be
moping around a vacant Queens (did SUNYA decide on this
obscure time for vacation to insure that no one would have a
chance to enjoy themselves with friends from home, thereby we
would all return happy as a Babe in shit to return?). Instead of
discussing screenwriting, I’ll be yelling like those cranky old guys
in the balcony on The Muppet Show while watching the Grammies,
trying to explain to mom why PJ Harvey is a more legitimate
performer than Mariah Carey, even if that “Fantasy” song has
“such a playful beat.” Yes, I know the Grammies are on this
Wednesday, but anyone with their head outside of their rectum
knows what goes down Wednesday night (9 p.m., Fox
Network...).

If it were a perfect world, watching the Grammies would be fun.
We wouldn’t see Hootie & The Blowfish win eight awards, as they
are bound to do. We’d see cooler things like the guy from the band
Pulp who, according to London’s Daily Mirror, interrupted:
Michael Jackson’s performance of “Earth Song” at the Brit awards
(the British version of the Grammies) by leaping onstage, allegedly
assaulting three children performing with Jackson. Onstage, he
also “tried to flash his bum as he danced like a demented puppet”
(although his label claims it was Jackson’s bodyguards). The
beauty of this is, just when you may think this is completely
un-American, the parents don’t seem to care too much about their
kids, they will only say that they want to sue someone — and the
English say they never learned anything from us. The Grammies
need that kind of spontinaiety, not just Sinatra threatening to kill

| some usher he believes is responsible for cutting off his speech.

If it were a perfect world, while at Cafe Hollywood, instead of

| running into a drunk radio talk show host from WCDB looking to
| add me to his list of potential crash sights during his tenure as a

homeless person, I would run into my twin. You know how

- people say everyone has a look-alike somwhere in the world? I

could use him right now as my will ID expire by the time we’re
back from spring break. After having fool-proof ID for the last two
and a half years, I am no longer prepared to stand outside quickie
marts and beg guys named Earl, as they’re getting out of their
pick-up trucks, to get me a sixer. I know someone out there looks
like me (and it’s not Leonardo DiCaprio or Brian Austin Green as
people seem to insist-better than Tom Petty or the crater—faced
chief from Miami Vice, I guess) and if he would simply come
forward, donate his ID, and maybe even get into all sorts of
mischief with me in the way only twins can (I’ve seen The Parent
Trap, so I know about these things), the world would come a little
closer to being perfect.

But maybe I’ve got it all wrong. Maybe our attempts to achieve —
perfection in this imperfect world is what keeps us going. Maybe
all the Silverchairs, Demi Moores, and Melrose Places are what
makes the taste of the Liz Phairs (taste being used figuratively, of
course), Daniel Day—Lewises, and Party Of Fives so very sweet. Or
maybe on two and a half hours of sleep, pseudo-intellectual pop
psychological random babbling seems to make sense. Not to
mention the fact that on such a small amount of sleep, if you can
find something in the recesses of your mind to fill this space, you
can convince yourself it’s a valid, intellectually stimulating
concept. Have a good vacation, I’m going to sleep.

Ja BAe


February 27, 1996

Flawed in structure, Georgia, opening
Friday at the Spectrum, overwhelms in both
character and acting. Leigh plays Sadie, a
jazz/rock singer in ambition, a
self-destructing alcoholic in reality. With
smudges of black for eyes, and liquor, drugs
and cigarettes as her only regular dietary
intake, this dithering damsel travels along
the West Coast living under the shadow of
her country/folk-singing superstar sister
Georgia (Oscar nominee, Mare Winningham).
To make ends meet Sadie cleans motel rooms
or goes to bed with various men, including a
gun-toting, schizophrenic jazz singer, so he’ll
use her as a back-up singer. But when her
luck really fails, she’ll always return to
Georgia, and Georgia will always be there for
her, though more and more reluctantly.

Why? Sadie’s sure her pain fuels her art.
She knows “everything (that happens) must
be for future use. There has to be a pony.”
Georgia just finds her younger sibling an
abyss that drains all those around her. She
can’t stand much more. Georgia’s art is
fueled by a talent she was blessed with, one
she never expressly wanted. Her success just
happened. As Sadie notes, “God kissed that
girl. God kissed her.”

Director Ulu Grosbard (Falling in Love) has
milked his cast for all they’re worth, and
almost every scene has a raw emotional
honesty about it; but since their focus is often
askew, the expected build up is not realized.
For example, the plight of a drug-addicted
drummer receives too much attention while
there’s not enough of Georgia—even though
she’s the title character. (Was Grosbard afraid
no one would see a film called Sadie?) Also
certain scenes are patently bogus (e.g. Sadie’s
band playing at a Jewish wedding).

Yet with so many American films boasting
paper-thin beings, Georgia is one of the best
palliatives around. Courtesy Critics’ Choice

"IVE

A WALK IN.
THE
CLOUDS

A WALK IN THE CLOUDS-lt
you're in the mood for a big, warm,
over-the-top World War II love
story, look no further. There’s
humor, tears, a big fire, a drunk
daddy, under-the-window
serenades, a whole lot of grape
close-ups, and B-movie direction.

Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves), a
young soldier, returning Stateside
to reunite with his bride. Having
only known her for a few days
when they tied the knot, he
discovers a woman he has nothing
in common with. After a night of
copulation, Paul flees to resume his
cross-country job of selling
chocolates. Hopefully, he’ll find
what the hell he really wants to do
with his life along the way.

But on this path to discovery, he
runs into Victoria Aragon (Aitana
Sanchez-Gijon), a beautiful,
pregnant, unwed college student.
She throws up on him immediately.

After a few more mishaps, the two

decide Paul will go home with
Victoria, make-believe he’s her
spouse, and the next morning he'll
disappear. This way her father
won't kill her for ruining the
family’s reputation.

But together, as one day turns
into another, the fraudulent couple
falls in love-what are they to do?

There are a few cute Reeve
laughs, but when the guy yaps, it's
like fingernails scraping against the
Biackioard of Talent.

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Video Notes

PARTY GIRL-Parker

Posey is on her way

to becoming

America’s greatest

comic jewel-at least

according to folks

who've met her off

screen. Her every line

has a waggish edge,

and the trajectory her

eyes, neck, and hands

take is always

puckish. It’s as if

mad scientist had

welded the eggs of

Beatrice Lilly, Debra

Winger and Annette

Funicello and

fertilized the result |

with Rodney @

Dangerfield’s well- -you- know- -W what
As the lead in Party Girl, a

Flashdance for librarians. The

star-on-the-make portrays a

24-year-old Mary, a druggy,

constantly-ready-to-copulate,

fashion victim throwing a rent

party for herself. The cops arrive

and she’s arrested. Oh, no! How can

she pull her life together again? Her

godmother is a librarian. Can

checking out books salvage her

soul? You're darn-tooting it can.
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learning the Dewey decimal system

will replace. methadone as.a

dr ug-addiction curative. Before you

can say “no more marijuana,’ ’ Mary

is jumping on tables, carting tomes

to their proper shelves, and doing

———
GIRL

. The cast of
A Walk In
The Clouds

backflips just knowing that while
she’s around, Wolfe will always be
found after Wilde in fiction.
Surprisingly, there is more Call of
the Wild on the shelves than wild in
Posey’s performance here—and that
simply has to be because of Daisy
von Scherler Mayer's often w obbly
direction and script. The film flirts
with romance, gay friendships, and
outrageous New York underground
types but with scattershot expertise.
Instead of a knife-sharp wit, we’re
fed with often dullish plastic
utensils. But if Party Girl is never as
funny or daring as it ought to be, it
is unendingly lovable. With Parker
Posey starring, how could it be
otherwise?
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Robert Redford in
Up Close And Personal

Come by the ASP office (CC323) for
a free pass to a screening of the
new Robert Redford &
Michelle Pfeiffer film,

“Up Close And Personal.” The
screening will take place Wed., 2/28
at Crossgates Mall Cinemas. Passes
are good for two people each but
supplies are limited. Brought to you
by ASPects and Touchtone Pictures.

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Releases Tentatively Due Today (2/27):
The Band—High On The Hog (Pyramid/Rhino)
Combustible Edison-Schizophonic (Sub Pop)
The Odds—Good Weird Feeling (Elektra)
Too Much Joy-...Finally (Discovery)
Buckwheat Zydeco—Best Of Louisiana...

(AVI)

Seattle Rock Will Take You home Alive

Home Alive is an activist collec- |

tive based in Seattle with roots in
the local arts scene—and in tragedy.

It was founded in response to the |

rape and murder of Mia Zapata,
singer for the Gits, in July 1993, a
crime that left many in that com-
munity shaken and wondering

what they could do to express §

their rage, fear and frustration
while also providing some posi-

Alive evolved into a core group of
ten women who decided to focus
on self-defense in its many forms.
Inevitably, they decided to draw
on the wealth of talent, passion,
and commitment that makes the
Northwest scene so insular. Home
Alive (Epic), a two-volume compi-
lation, is the product of that pas-
sion.

Home Alive serves excellently as
a sort of Northwest primer—proof
that “the Seattle sound” itself is
alive and well. The mood is grind-
ing, dark and heavy. Things
become riotous early on with the
Fastbacks’ cover of the UK Subs’
“Time & Matter” and Tribe 8’s
anthemic “Frat Pig.” There’s an
old live number from Nirvana,
and star turns by Joan Jett,
Soundgarden and Pearl Jam (who

tive direction for change. Home fF

do a Motown cover, “Leaving
Here,” that’s already made it to
radio). And then there’s “Guilt
Within Your Head” by the Gits
and “Social Love,” an acoustic
song by Mia Zapata herself, both
of which are hackles-raising and
heartbreaking by turns as you fall
under the spell of Mia’s
tough-love voice-and then
remember she’s dead.

Put together by Valerie Agnew,
drummer for 7 Year Bitch, and
Gretta Harley, Home Alive is a mix
of songs and spoken word. Too

A Tribute Making Willie Nelson

often albums that wave their polit-
ical flags so fiercely are good for
your conscience, but not that tasty
to your ears. Home Alive with a
total of 45 tracks, is bound to be a
little uneven. But aside from a few
heavy-handed rants, like Lydia
Lunch’s-who can be breathtaking-
ly ferocious-Home Alive is a
worthwhile exception to the rule.
All the proceeds from Home
Alive go towards funding self-
defense instruction and work-
shops.
Courtesy MTV Online

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It’s a dicey proposition, trying
to turn the Nirvana generation
on to country music. But Willie
just another
wide-brimmed Nashvillian. He’s
a visionary so far out there that
his stripped-down style was
once labeled “outlaw country”
by the mainstream. No wonder
several of rock’s more ambitious
buzz bands jumped at the oppor-
tunity to pay tribute by tackling
his tumbleweed musings on love,
drinking and the stratosphere.
Never has country music been so
mosh-able.

Most prevalent on Twisted
Willie: A Tribute To Willie Nelson
(Justice) is the Rock Band 101
to country
music-meaning crank it up,

1 dude. The Reverend Horton
| Heat, L7 and others give Willie’s
| songs such safe but potent treat-

L7, featured on Twisted Willie

ments. Extra credit goes to the
Supersuckers for giving the hon-
oree his own guitar solo.
Nelson’s Latin-tinged acoustic
guitar noodling clashes glorious-
ly with the band’s southern fried
punkification of “Bloody Mary
Morning.” None, though, nears
the goofball fun displayed by
those rascally Presidents of the
United States of America: their
“Devil In A Sleeping Bag” is as
irresistible as their own
mega-hit, “Lump.”

A one-off super-group of
Seattle heavies checks in by back-
ing Johnny Cash on “Time of The
Preacher.” Along with Cash’s
own son, John, Kim Thayil
(Soundgarden), Krist Novoselic
(Nirvana), and Sean Kinney
(Alice In Chains) provide some
headbanging massiveness to pro-
pel Cash’s croaky vox. Obvious

|but engaging. It’s
Screaming Trees’
Mark Lanegan who
delivers the album’s
most stunning
j moments as his vio-
1 lin-fueled, slowburn
jtreatment of “She’s
1 Not For You” smoul-
ders under the
weight of his
| whiskey-scorched
4 baritone.
Under such
jy genre-crossed cir-
cumstances, it’s hard
o say what would be
" more challenging, the
slanted art-noise of Steel Pole
Bathtub or the sparse country
warbling of Nelson pal Waylon
Jennings. Regardless, the true
twistedness is demonstrated in
the never-never land to which
the Breeders’ Kelley Deal travels
in “Angel Flying Too Close To
The Ground.” Suffice to say that
Deal’s cat—in—heat howl, which is
set to little more than the rhythm
of a Kenmore 12 Stitch, could
clear a party in ten seconds flat.
Good thing it’s the last track.
Twisted Willie is non-stop piss
and vinegar that should make
Willie proud. Plus, it presents the
rare opportunity for country
music to sneak on to rock radio
and MTV. Who knows, maybe it
could also turn some shit kickers
on to grunge. Okay, maybe not.
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From This Body With

Ghastly memories haunt the poor lad’s heart

this alone incaptivates his most hardest parts

His inability to feel is a wound most profound

the blood sanguine drizzles across his hollow frown.

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Spellbound
as the drooling hound
the silent whistle heard
I salivate at my plate
of poetic words

Lying on my quilted sheets

His chalked up eyes are now full to their rim my head against the wall
: : reading words that seem absurd
of tar—black stained tears that are much full of glim. my eyelids slowly fall

This vagabond boy feels the purging of inviolable destruction
his monolithic race is torn down for new construction. vaecapaacane cdmmeysag hig bs “sic phage
my soundless sleep destroyed
it leaves me quite annoyed.

It makes me want to howl at the moon
But, again, I know
I'll breakdown soon

How can we begin to know his story if it ceases to wither away?
Like his mother, brother, and sister who are no longer here today.
They were once his embodiment who would form his individual soul;

Now they lay weeping for what can no longer be told. Now, in a cloud of haze

my mind a complex maze
wandering in a daze
quickly becoming crazed
I’m plodding down the stairs
to God knows where?

I meet her gaze-less stare
hypnotized right there
without a neurotic care

just a feeling of lust -
passion void of trust .
but, this unquenched thirst
I must relieve it first
because, my hormones
constantly
are deceived

He, now a bird of passage, flies over a bloodstruggle land
where thermonuclear warheads overshadow atomic sands.
Wide open carcasses sprinkled with sundried violets and rain
angelic echoes sing the melancholy cries of pain.

Breathe deeply now soldier child, you must now carry your sword;
for glory has it’s price as I’m sure you have been told.

One swallowed tongue and a couple of fresh limbs

is good enough to carry you through your solemn night dims.
And as we know his story through the midst of our night

where heavy hearted fogs carry echoes from their plight.

One soft, chilly cry is heard amidst the brim;
it is surely having come from this boy within.

—Farrah Ashline

nothing is as it’s perceived -
false signals its receptors receive

But, like a submarine
with periscope unseen
I search the desert-like sea
to discover where she lurks,
desperate to claim
her boundless perks

—-Micah Zevin

es

2/27 - A theatrical adaptation of
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of
Wrath, will be performed by the
Capital Repertory Company
through 3/17 in the Market The-
atre, 111 N. Pearl Street, Albany.
Tickets are $22-$29. Showtime is at
8:30 p.m. Call 462-4534 for tickets
and additional information.

2/27 - Diesel Meat and Sub Atom-
ic Genius will be performing at
the QE2, 13 Central Avenue,
Albany. Call 434-2023 for info.
2/27-28 - Formerly on Broadway,
An Inspector Calls will be per-
formed at Proctor’s Theatre, 8p.m.
Tickets are $29.50-$34.50. Call 476-
1000 for info.

2/28 - Open mic night hosted by
author Bob Commendale at Barnes
and Noble, 20 Wolf Road, at 7:30
p-m. Call 459-8183 for additional
info.

2/28 - TollBooth, Atlantic record-
ing artists Solution A.D., and
Mercy Twin will perfom at Bogie’s,
297 Ontario Street, Albany. Call
482-4368 for additional informa-

tion.
2/28 - The George Muscatello Trio
will perform at the QE2 from 9-11
p-m. Ages 21 & up.

3/1 - Folk trio The Roches perfrom
at The Troy Savings Bank Music
Hall at 8 p.m.; tickets are $22. Call
273-0038 for info.

3/1 and 3/8 - Former Robert Plant
guitarist Francis Dunnery will be
performing at The Metro, 17 Maple
Avenue, Saratoga Springs. Call 584-
1424 for info.

3/2 - Comedy and improvisation
group Chicago City Limits per-
form at the Empire Center at the
Egg. Showtimes are at 3 p.m. and 8
p.m. For tickets and info call 473-
1845.

3/3 - G. Love will be playing a solo
acoustic performance at Caffe
Lena, 47 Phila Street, Saratoga
Springs. Call 583-0022 for further
info.

3/3 - The Home Alive Benefit con-
cert at Bogie’s, promoting self-
defense awareness will feature
Conehead Buddah, Michael Eck,
All Fall Down, Doug, and Paddy
Kilrain. The show will begin at 7
p-m.

3/6 - Former Sebadoh member Eric
Gaffney with guests Cellophane
will perform at Bogie’s.

3/8 - John Gorka brings his folk
music to the Eighth Step, 14 Willet

Francis Dunnery, see 3/1

Street, Albany. Call 434-1703 for
info

3/9 - Father and son jazz greats
Ellis & Branford Marsalis perform
at The Troy Savings Bank Hall at 8
p.m.; tickets are $22. Call 273-0038
for info.

3/9 - Folk godess Ani Difranco
comes to the Albany Palace The-
atre, at 8p.m. Call 465-4663 for tick-

ets and info.

3/9 - The Big Geraniums will be
performing at Pauly’s Hotel, 337
Central Avenue, Albany. Call 426-
0828 for tickets and additional
information.

3/14 - Del Amitri with Josh Clay-
ton Felt will be playing at Saratoga
Winners, Route 9, Latham. Call
783-1010 for info. |


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Abortion and
Universal Law

To the Editor:

The Universal Law is to love one’s
neighbor as one’s self. But America is
suffering for its failures to heed this law.
Legal abortion has ruptured the ties that
bind us, delivering the message that
human lives have value only when wanted
by those more powerful. This has deep-
ened the alienation, anger, rebellion, and
hopelessness that feed crime and social
ills. “Every child a wanted child” has
made every child a conditional child to
immature parents, contributing greatly to
postnatal child abuse (contrary to popular
myth, abused children were wanted - for
the wrong reasons - more often than non-
abused). Abortion’s easy availability has
exposed women and young girls to
increased sexual exploitation and subse-
quent coercion to use this deadly cover-
up. It has been disastrous to the physical,
emotional, and spiritual health of women,
the breast cancer connection alone now
killing far more women than illegal abor-
tion ever did. A more powerful vehicle for
the abuse, subjugation, and suffering
could hardly be imagined.

Human history is littered with failed
attempts to mistreat others without conse-
quences. How much must it cost us before
we concede that the Universal Law is as

real and immutable as the law of physics?
Alfred Lemmo

Republican
Party Problems

To the Editor:

The Republican presidential race has
become a horror movie. Bob Dole has lost
his third consecutive New Hampshire pri-
mary in 16 years. Losing this time to
Patrick J. Buchanan must have convinced
the GOP Senate leader that his chances of
reaching the White House are minimal.
London and Las Vegas oddsmakers cer-
tainly agree. i

Moreover, Dole immediately targeted
populist fire-eater Buchanan as a fear-
mongering extremist. Buchanan says it’s
“castle” conservatives vs. “pitchfork”
populists. The Republican Party is on the
verge of imitating the former Yugoslavia.

The second part of what’s turning
Republican national headquarters into a
haunted house is that, during the last 50
years, New Hampshire has been a critical
pulse meter. No GOP presidential nomi-
nee has won the White House in Novem-
ber if he didn’t first win the New Hamp-
shire primary. No one. Credit these prece-
dents and, for the GOP, if Buchanan isn’t
a winner, no other Republican is, either.

The nomination odds are strongly
against Buchanan, of course. The Repub-
lican establishment loathes his economic
populism - his Fortune 500-bashing, Wall
Street-baiting, and attacks on New York
banks - much more than they worry about
his views on abortion and cultural war-
_ fare. However, it will emphasize the lat-
ter, because this is where Buchanan, like
similar right-wing populists here and in
Europe, has flirted most with extremism.
Over the next few weeks, GOP centrists
can be expected to accuse him of every-
thing from racism to secretly favoring
Saddam Hussein.
Buchanan will have trouble exceeding 30
percent - 35 percent of the vote in
March’s upcoming wave of major Repub-
lican primaries.

However, Dole’s own weakness has
also been building. Three land mines have
long been visible on the road to his nomi-
nation. Congressional leaders of either
party have no record of winning party
presidential nominations; Dole will be 73,
a record, before the January inauguration,
and the Kansas senator has been running
for national office since 1976, which adds
to the public’s perception of his staleness.
This negative convergence intensified in
recent months, when Dole bungled his
harsh reply to Clinton’s State of the

So bombarded,

Union address and when, last week, he
stunned pundits by saying he’d been sur-
prised by the emergence of the trade issue
in New Hampshire. Debate-ducking has
also become standard Dole operating pro-
cedure.

Dole’s February ineptitude and his idea
gap may reinforce this point, but Alexan-
der’s actual campaign circumstances pose
a major reality check. The Tennessean
doesn’t have much money, he doesn’t
even have delegates on the ballot in states
like New York and Pennsylvania, and not
a few media people regard him as just
another aw-shucks Southern governor
who does investment deals in tandem with
his wife and has minimal commitment to
anything beyond his own career. Dole
understandably feels that he hasn’t spent
20 years near the top of American politics
to get out of the way for an empty red-
flannel shirt.

Even so, Alexander’s own ambition
should keep him active, even brutal,
because the stakes are so high. By staying
in the race and dividing the anti-Buchanan
vote, Alexander could help assure the pri-
mary defeats and consequent embarrass-

the receiving end of such oddments as 12
maids a’ milking.

One of the problems of Feb. 29 is the
lack of self-esteem (a 20th-century prob-
lem) of those born on that day, those
whose birthdays close up three out of four
years, like a mini-Brigadoon. I have not
heard of a 12-step group to bring relief to
those so afflicted, perhaps Leapsters
Anonymous, but that may simply be that
the eligible members are already 75 per-
cent anonymous and don’t need the added
dollop of invisibility.

As it is, many inspirational books of
daily readings have no entry at all for Feb.
29, leaving spiritual contact for that day to
the individual’s imagination, or faith,
without external agents, sort of like the
Reformation taken to its logical absurd.
Roll your own.

One of the quaint bits of folklore about
Leap Year is that it is the one year out of
four when it is considered appropriate for
a woman to propose matrimony to a man.

This was taken to a raucous extreme for
a couple of decades this century by the
late Al Capp, whose L’il Abner comic
strip featured “Sadie Hawkins Day,”

99

day...

ments that would make Dole look just as
ineffective as Alexander’s TV commer-
cials will, with feigned reluctance, insist
upon. It.is conceivable that several more
bad Dole defeats could increase the pres-
sure on the Senate GOP leader to step
down.

Other beneficiaries could be potential
third-party contenders such as Perot and
Nader, who may find out that the
Buchanan surge - on top of the Gingrich
revolution flop and the Steve Forbes flat-

tax and ego trip - has set the Grand Old

Party up for a Grand Old Fall.
Kevin Phillips

Distributed by The Los Angeles Times

Have a Nice
Leap

To the Editor:

Thursday is Leap Day.

We have one of them early in every
Leap Year, in case you’d forgotten.

Leap Year comes every four years, like
presidential elections. In fact, presidential
elections always come in Leap Years, a
basic that had eluded me for decades, dur-
ing which I could always find out if this
was Leap Year by counting forward by
4’s from 1944, which is the first year I
was aware that there was such a phe-
nomenon.

Others have it much simpler. They look
at the plumbing company’s calendar they
got for Christmas and find out if February
has 28 or 29 days, and if it is the latter, it
is Leap Year.

Why this pileup of odd seconds and
minutes occurs in February is a question
for one of those experts on everything, but
we can all be grateful it is then instead of
in January. The extra day in February
does pose a few problems, but none is
insurmountable, as would be the case if
we had it a month earlier.

A January Leap Day would surely clog
up any understanding we might have of
the difference between Christmas and Old
Christmas, which you think is 12 days,
but which by now is clearly 13, or maybe
14, because of the elaborate set of rules
made up a few centuries ago to account
for the differences between the Julian and
the Gregorian calendars.

We would have to rewrite the lyrics as
“The 13 Days of Christmas,” accommo-
date the extra syllable in the meter of the
song and wrench our collective minds
finding one more something for my true
love to send to me, considering the
already strained notion of having been on

“One of the problems of Feb. 29 is the
lack of self-esteem of those born on that

Robert H. Williams

when women in flour-sack chic chased
hillbilly men, but with more apparent
anger than lust or love. Only Moonbeam
McSwine remained aloof from the role
reversal, keeping her deluxuous langor to
herself and the pigs among which she
lived.

My own experience with Leap Year has
been less than dramatic, although I did
marry in one of them, 1956, to a woman I
pursued with great ardor and at consider-
able cost to me in terms of emotion, pride,
time, effort and money and IOUs to
friends whose cars I borrowed to conduct
this surely anti-Sadie Hawkins exercise in
humility. This will be the 10th Leap Year
that this marriage has endured (William
Faulkner’s word, not mine).

I was brought to my knees in another
Leap Year, 1980, by serious illness and
began a miraculous healing that same
year, but the rest of the quadrennial years
were devoid of genuine personal interest.

You may have found the Tall Ships of
the 1976 Bicentennial awesome, for
instance, but that is as subjective as my
own perceptions of that year, the highlight
of which in my view was an account by
Post reporter Margot Hornblower of a
Bicentennial Rattlesnake Roundup in
Texas.

The extra day we’ll have this year is
one we might ought make better use of,
symbolically. It is a throwaway now, a
collection of unaccounted-for seconds and
minutes built up like unlinked clusters on
a damaged computer disk.

But it should be a towering reminder of
the fact that with all of humanity’s hubris
in its technical progress and prowess,
amazing feats of engineering from pyra-
mids to space travel to nuclear sophistica-
tion, with self-reliance simultaneously the
great blessing and dark curse of the
human race, no system or method or for-
mula or device has been discovered that
can hammer God’s time into concurrence
with ours, except by piling up the pitiful
leftovers until they make up a whole day.

This Thursday, Feb. 29, ought to be a
global holiday, celebrating the universal
and somehow appropriate lack of self-
esteem and true humility that come with
having time on one’s hands with no idea
of where it came from or what to do with

it.
Robert H. Williams

Distributed by The Los Angeles Times

GE’s Past

Continued from page 7.
occurred at one of Hanford’s reactors.
The Department of Defense has projected

8

the clean up of Hanford and the surround-
ing area will cost anywhere from $46 bil-
lion to $100 billion.

A corporation with a past such as GE
lends proof to the fact that in the world of
business, ethical and social considera-
tions, and even legality, rarely override
the profit motive. The political dimen-
sions they have lent to their business have
enabled these externalities to proliferate
unnoticed. The present Congress is cur-
rently gutting the Superfund program and
OSHA safety regulations, illustrating that
GE is not the only company well learned
in the political worlds of campaign contri-
butions and connections. The ultimate
cost is passed on to all of us, not only as
taxpayers, but as residents of polluted
areas.

As a public university we are responsi-
ble to teach the truth. While accepting
donations from private interests, a strong
caution must be exercised to avoid the
dilemma many organizations fall into.
When concerns directly conflict with
those of their donors, too often the result
is silence for fear of future financial
reprisal. Although it appears the main
thrust of the class concerns new computer
technology that will be made available to
students at Albany, the title of GE’s spon-
sored class includes the phrase: social,
political, and ethical dimensions of busi-
ness. As a University we are obligated to
increasing student knowledge; the many
dimensions lent by GE as a business in
these respects cannot be hidden. Money

must not mask the truth.
Sources: Lee and Soloman, Unreliable

Sources ch.4; May, John, 1989. The
Greenpeace Book of the Nuclear Age
New York: Pantheon Books; Monhiber,
Rassell “Corporate Crime and Violence in
Review: The 10 Worst Corporations of
1991,” Multinational Monitor v.12 n.12
December 1991.

Racism

Continued from page 7
remarks from a white professor and a
white classmate within a class of white
graduate students, I was unsure of the role
I would take in formalizing a racial com-
plaint. Fourth, and the reason for which I
am most ashamed, I was concerned with
how such a complaint might affect my
graduate program of study.

Why have I now decided to speak out
about this incident which occurred well
over a year ago? I have chosen not to
reveal my department by name out of a
desire to focus on the broader issue of
campus racism, rather than a specific
department’s politics. I realize that I may
still be ostracized within my department, »
since my name will undoubtedly be rec-
ognized. This is of concern, as I have not
yet completed my program. Moreover, a
paper that I am submitting for an annual
departmental award competition this
spring may receive “less” consideration,
depending upon whose “sensitivities have
been offended” by this letter. However,
the current incident involving Mr. Pre-
alieu spoke very deeply to my soul about

‘the continuing ignorance, apathy, and, in

some incidents, disapproval of the insidi-
ous nature of contemporary racism. For
too long I have witnessed friends of color
suffering from both overt and covert
forms of racism: the stares from store
clerks when they enter a store; the over-
heard racial comments about a “welfare
job seeker” from a personnel officer when
my friend, with college degree in hand,
applied for a position with the NYS Leg-
islature; the comments from UAlbany
professors whom we had hoped were the
most enlightened on our campus. I hope
my letter will provide further evidence of
how prevalent inappropriate racial
remarks are within the classrooms of our
campus. For too long, I have been
silent...For too long, we all have been
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University of Illinois students rally for campus wide ban on Playboy products

(CPS)Think 1960s. Long-haired
student protesters armed with
placards, angry speakers shout-
ing into megaphones, policeman
standing by anxiously,And soul-

ful tunes played by Credence

Clearwater Revival. 7

Thirty years later, the scene is
familiar but different. The protest
song has changed to “What’s
Going On?” by Four Non-Blon-
des, and in this 1990s-style
protest, students are rallying’ for
pure love, not free love.

On Feb. 13, about 50 students
from Chicago-area colleges
marched outside Playboy Enter-
prises, chanting and carrying
neon-colored signs that read:
“Not Born for Porn,” “Stop Sell-
ing Cheap Sex,” and “Do Your
Homework, Not Yourself.”

The “Valentine’s Day Rally”
was sponsored by the new Pure
Love Alliance, a national coali-
tion of student groups and social
organizations that promotes
abstinence on college campuses.
In part, students were protesting
a recent Playboy magazine cover
that shows a woman in a typical
Catholic-school uniform undress-
ing.

But a larger catalyst for the
rally was the group’s effort to
ban Playboy products from col-

lege campuses. The day before,
the group led a protest at nearby
University of Illinois at Chicago,
where Playboy magazines and
videos are sold at the campus
bookstore, and past issues are

available in the library’s reserve

section

“Basically we were protesting
pornography and promoting fam-
ily values,” said Kevin Brugman,
a UIC senior and a member of
the Pure Love Alliance. “Pornog-
raphy is like cheap sex. It’s really
undermining the values of com-
mitment, loyalty; the values of
family relationships.”

He recently encouraged some
of UIC’s 20,000 students to sign
a petition demanding the removal
of Playboy from campus.

“We were able to get over
3,500 signatures,” he said. Many
of the schcol’s ethnic and reli-
gious groups consider the adult
entertainment magazine offen-
sive, he added.

Robert Kittell, a national
spokesperson for the New York-
based Pure Love Alliance, also
was at the UIC protest. “By hav-
ing [Playboy] there, it condones
the whole philosophy of pornog-
raphy,” he said.

At issue is the fact that the
state-funded school, and others

like it, stock the magazine not
just in the campus bookstore but
in the library, say protesters.
“Tax-payers money is being
used to provide pornography to

~ young adults free of cost,” he

said.

Kittel plans to meet with
school officials to.discuss the
magazine’s removal. “We’re not
going to close down Playboy,” he
said. “But I think we can get
pornography off the campus. We
raised a pretty big ruckus ‘on a
small campus.”

Not big enough, apparently.
UIC spokesperson John Camper
said the school has no immediate
plans to remove the magazine
from its shelves.

“We don’t consider Playboy to
be particularly pornographic,” he
said. “There is a certain demand
for it. If you need it, we'll pro-
vide it.”

The videos in the bookstore are
not X-rated, he said. “These are
not hard-core.”

As far as the magazine being
freely available to students in the
library, Camper noted that some
students—like so many in Ameri-
ca say—read it for the articles and
might need it for class research.

While the school respects the
opinions of the Pure Love

Alliance, “if you get into that
business of stopping something
because a certain group doesn’t
like it, you’re not going to have
any books left in the library,” he
said.

Meanwhile, at the protest in
front of Playboy’s. national head-
quarters, students from UIC,
Harold Washington College and
Harry S Truman College cheered
as the Playboy bunny symbol
was burned in effigy.

Kathy Sumatani, president of
the Illinois chapter of the
Women’s Federation for World
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to anyone, and it’s definitely not
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campuses of this country!”

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violence,” he said.

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Pure Love Alliance, said pornog-
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crime than to art.

“This rally is about how
pornography is affecting our
society in a negative way,” she
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Students learn winter survival skills with “frosted gold” program

(CPS)—Picture this: you’re stuck
on a cold, blustery mountaintop
with only the barest of supplies.

With only your shoelace, you
can catch a rabbit, then skin it to
make a warm wholesome stew~.
You know which pine needles
are great for making tea, and
which bark is the most nutritious
to chew on. For shelter, you can
build a snowcave and sleep
inside it without freezing to
death.

Sound challenging? For a
select group of students each
year, it sounds like an average
day in class at Frosted Gold, an
annual military-training event
held each February at Norwich
University.

Each year, students from
around the nation, mostly Army
R.O.T.C. cadets, endure a week-
end of “roughing it” so they can
learn winter weather survival
techniques.

Students are met by skilled
Norwich cadets at the base of
Paine Mountain, a peak in
Vermont’s Green Mountains.
After hiking several miles up the
mountainside, they make camp
and spend the next two days
learning how to survive using
just the basic supplies in their
Army-issue backpacks.

“It’s this very weird, unique
thing,” said Norwich spokesper-
son Elizabeth Howell of the 50-
year-old Frosted Gold program,
the only one of its kind in the
nation. The War Department
decided in 1947 that “we really
needed to beef up on our ability

to train troops for winter warfare
survival,” she said.

So Frosted Gold was born.
Although the Department con-
sidered a school in Alaska, the
final choice was Norwich, the
nation’s oldest private military
college. With its mountainous
terrain and frigid winters, the
Vermont campus easily fit the
bill.

To this day, the weekend pro-
gram continues to teach male
and female students how to sur-
vive “using what you find in
your environment or using what
you have on you,” Howell said.
“If you were stuck in Bosnia,
you would need to know how to
do this stuff.”

Although there are faculty
advisors, the Frosted Gold pro-
gram has always been taught by
Norwich military students, elite
members of the _ school’s
Mountain Cold Weather
Company. Each fall, about 20
students compete for a spot with
the company, regarded there as a
sport—sort of the military equiva-
lent to football or hockey.

“It’s so time-consuming,”
Howell explains. “You do that
and nothing else.”

Senior Carl Mangona trained
for the company his freshman
year. “It’s very intense, physical-
ly and mentally,” he said. “A lot
of people aren’t ready for it or
don’t realize what it takes.”

What it takes to make the com-
pany, whose motto is “Climb to
Conquer,” is the ability to pass
physical tests, such as rappelling,

rock and ice climbing, and a
“confidence course,” which
includes suspending students 40
feet off the ground. There are
written exams as well, on day
and night land navigation, and
search and rescue techniques.

Those who make it through the
five-month training period
become members of the compa-
ny’s rescue team and teach the
Frosted.Gold program. Usually,
only three or four new students
make the final cut each year.

The upperclassmen decide who
make the team. “The big thing
with us is the ability to trust
one’s life with another,”
Mangona said. That, along with
leadership, knowledge and abili-
ty to teach, are sought in candi-
dates, he added.

This yeat, the 10 members of
the rescue team-—four seniors,
five juniors and one sopho-
more-instructed students from a
dozen colleges on winter sur-
vival.

For example, at the first signs
of snowblindness, when a person
starts to see spots, “basically,
what you need to do is put on
sunglasses,” Mangona said. Or
improvise by putting two slits in
a piece of cardboard.

And then there’s ways to deal
with frostbite. “If your fingers
are cold, put them on your
buddy’s stomach or under his
armpits,” he said. But if your
feet are extremely frostbitten, it’s
better just to keep them frozen
because thawing would make
them swell, preventing them

from fitting into your boots, he
said. Later, the feet may have to
be amputated, he added. If this
doesn’t sound like a course for
the weak at heart, it’s not.
Most participants hope to have
careers in the military, and must
always be prepared for a tight
situation, say instructors. For
example, Air Force Capt. Scott
O’Grady, shot down over Bosnia
last June, survived for six days
by relying on his training and
sparing his rations. And that
was in warm weather. Even in
cold conditions, Mangona said if
he were in Bosnia. “I’d have 100
percent advantage over other
people.”

Other students agreed that
Frosted Gold is good prepara-
tion. Although they spent the
first night in tents. students were
required to build shelters with
pine boughs, branches, ponchos
and whatever else they could
find for the second night out-
doors. (Unlike real survival situ-
ation, a warm tent was available
for anyone who got too cold, and
medics also were on hand.)
Other years the temperature has
dipped down to -30 degrees, but
this year it hovered around 30.
Jeff Glines, 20, a University of
Delaware sophomore, said he
was glad: “It could have been
miserable.”

Frosted Gold was an ideal
opportunity to learn some “good
stuff,” said Glines, an Army
R.O.T.C. cadet. “It’s always
good to be able to handle your-
self in whatever environment
you’re stuck in.” He enjoyed

the lesson about how to catch a
rabbit with your shoelace, used
as a noose. This year, the
Norwich cadets did not kill the
rabbits in front of the partici-
pants. “We didn’t want bad
press,” Mangona explained. But
students were taught how to skin
the animal and make a stew with
potatoes.

Capt. Shawn Phillips, an assis-
tant professor for military sci-
ence at U of Delaware, accompa-
nied his cadets and used Frosted
Gold as a refresher course. “You
kind of forget things,” he said.
An important lesson he took
from the program, which he
plans to attend next year with
even more cadets, is that gas
doesn’t freeze. So if person
working with kerosene and “it’s
30 below, that fuel is 30 below,”
he said. “If you spill it on your
hands you get frostbite.”

He said he also thought it was
good for cadets to know which
plants, berries and bark are edi-
ble.

Although this year’s Frosted
Gold is over, the Norwich cadets
still will be busy. During the
year, they assist local authorities
as a rescue unit and have been
called on to find missing hikers.
Mangona said his team members
can move out in 20 minutes if
called for a rescue. “And that’s
with getting everyone out of
class,” he added.

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Students working hard for GOP

(NSNS)— Pat Buchanan’s sur-
prise victory in the New
Hampshire presidential primary
on Tuesday has stirred up the
waters of the Republican race,
and conservative students nation-
wide are diving into the deep
end.

Buchanan’s win in the intial
primary threatened Senator
Majority Leader Bob Dole’s
position as the clear GOP fron-
trunner, and opened up the race
for more moderate candidates.

Prior to New Hampshire, vot-
ers had narrowed the Republican
field to four contenders. Dole

still appears to be the odds-on.

favorite for the nomination, but
th~ surging campaigns of
_ Buchanan and Lamar Alexander
have made the race anything but
certain. After his strong initial
showing, multimillionaire Steve
Forbes has dropped to a distant
fourth.

Dole, who would be the oldest
president elect in U.S. history,
has campaigned strongly by
emphasizing his political experi-
ence and service tO his country.

“(Dole’s) age doesn’t stop him
from being appealing,” said
Adam Bromberg, executive
director of the College
Republicans National
Committee. “Reagan had a huge
appeal because he had a vision
for America. Dole can be the
same. He has made sacrifices for
his country.”

While Dole seems to be the
Republican favorite nationally,
his position is tenuous. In
Arizona, many of the state-elect-
ed officials were supporting Phil
Gramm. Now with Grarnm out

of the race and the Arizona pri-
mary on Feb. 27, candidates will
be scrambling to garner
Gramm’s former supporters.

“Tt will be interesting to see
where that vote will go,”
observed Mike Juel, state chair
of the Arizona College
Republicans. “Most of the
Gramm support will probably go
to Forbes or Dole. Buchanan
doesn’t appeal to the fiscal con-
servatives, but he may get some
of the social conservative vote.”

Buchanan, who Bromberg
describes as a “take-no-prisoners
Republican,” appeals to different
sectors of the conservative vote.
With strong ties to the Christian
Coalition, Buchanan has a firm
voter base, but recently he has
alienated segments of the
Republican status quo.

“(Buchanan) appeals to a lot

of College Republicans, but a lot
of people are uncomfortable at
the same time. On some issues,
he’s starting to sound like a
Democrat,” said Bromberg,
referring to Buchanan’s populist
fiscal ideology and appeals to the
working class.

Alexander, whose time cam-
paigning in Iowa and New
Hampshire has paid off, may be
the most surprising candidate
now that the Forbes phenomenon
is fading. Bromberg says that
since Forbes has become
involved in negative ad cam-
paigns, Alexander is now the
“outsider candidate” in the
Republican primaries.

In Arizona, however, the
College Republicans are working
on all of the contenders’ cam-
paigns except for Alexander.

(CPS)—David Letterman has
been up, down and even side-
ways, but he s always been
there. in the game. fighting for
laugh. And, chances are, he
always will be.

Lately. of course, Letterman’s
“Late Show” has been duking it
out with both Jay Leno’s revital-
ized “Tonight Show” and the
still-potent “Nightline,” and
through it all, Letterman has
tried to simply do what he does
best..As part of an effort to let
the TV viewing world in on the
fact that his best remains better
than the rest’s. Letterman went
prime-time Feb. 19, with his
hourlong CBS “Late Night
Video Special 2.” The show was
devoted to remote segments, the
ones in which the, intrepid
Letterman leaves the ice-cold
confines of the Ed Sullivan
Theater seeking laughs on the
streets of New. York City.

So it is then that Letterman,
one of TV’s more elusive inter-
view subjects, is on the phone
talking about his recent “Late ~-
Show’ special and other topics of
interest.

“Over the years, even going
back to the morning show (he
did in the 1980s), there have
been certain people who have
been guests on our show who
have been very nice to us and
have always wanted to go out of
their way to be cooperative and
helpful in producing something
that would be a memorable
moment.

“From the very beginning, the
guy who was probably the best
at this, although there have been
many others, has been Steve

Martin,” notes Letterman, talk-
ing from his Manhattan office
after taping an evening’s show.
“Y can remember almost every
one of his appearances with us.
The videotape Steve did with us
this time, he came in two or
three nights before he was an
actual guest on the show and
also the day of his guest appear-
ance. This is a huge, huge star
who had one play in production
and another play opening that
very weekend. Yet, he had time
to come in and work with us.
I’m so pleased with that piece.
It’s things like that that make me
think there’s still hope for show
business.”

In the segment, Martin does a
spoof on a documentary-style,
behind-the-scenes look of what
goes into a “Late Night” appear-
ance. The video segment focuses
on Martin’s elaborate plans to
prepare for the
appearance—down to measuring
his derriere to see if it would fit
in the guest chair. (Martin’s
post-appearance confession in
the segment: “The cup. The cup
just didn’t feel right to me.”’)

The end result is something
Letterman says he is excited
about.

What Letterman is not very
excited about is the upcoming
HBO cable movie, “The Late
Shift,” based on Bill Carter’s
popular book, which delved
behind the curtains of the late
night war between Letterman
and Jay Leno.

“I’ve not read the book. I
talked to Bill Carter. when he
wrote it. In talking to Carter it
helped me formulate a timeline

HBO movie on fight between Letterman and Leno

of points of interest along the
way that I enjoyed remembering
and talking about,” he explains.
‘When that process was over for
me I had no interest in the book.
I have less interest in the motion
picture. As I have expressed in
the past, it’s the biggest single
waste of film since my wedding
photos. To me, it couldn’t be
more—pointless. -

“T could understand if Jay or I
were both dead. Then, OK,
here’s a fond remembrance, or
look at what idiots these guys
were. But we’re still alive. I’ve
seen clips of it and the guy play-
ing me, they’ve got him in red
hair! I’m thinking, ‘Wait a
minute! There’s no videotape
available on me?’ We’ve done
2,000 shows! Nobody ever
thought, ‘Maybe if we get a
tape...Ah, red hair is close
enough. Screw it. Let’s go with
red hair.”

Dave’s critique doesn’t end
there. “And it just goes on.
There’s one scene where every-
body’s at my home, and I’m
telling you that would never
happen. That was completely
inaccurate. There’s another
scene at my home, where I’m
relaxing on the weekend and I’m
wearing a tennis sweater out in
my backyard, and throwing soft-
balls at an archery target. It’s
just like, ‘Dave’s a little simple.
Here’s a little game he’s invent-
ed for himself that he likes to
play at home.’ My God! So, God
bless the folks at HBO. I hope
they increase their subscriptions,
but I’m telling you something,
let’s just go to the moon next
time.”


TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1996 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Albany State Hockey pulls off upset [

By CHAI KARNSOMTOB
Staff Writer

Maybe the biggest win of the season for Albany
State hockey came last friday night over hated rival
Siena College. Siena went into the game as the
heavily favored home team, but were rudely sur-
prised by the visiting Danes. The Danes routed
Siena to the point that the game was cut short after 2
periods when the referees called the game when
Siena players began cheap-shotting Albany players
and playing dirty hockey.

The final score of the game was 7-4, with
Albany’s offense led by junior Ian Wisotsky who
netted three goals for his third hat trick of the sea-
son. Another bright spot for the Danes during the
game was the play of senior goalie Adam
Warshowsky who filled in superbly with 24 saves
on 26 shots in his last regular season game in an
Albany uniform after starting goalie Kevin Scarton
was ejected from the game for an altercation with a
Siena player.

The scoring was back and forth the first couple of
goals before ASU broke it open. The first goal of
the game was scored by the Danes when assistant
captain Vinny Esposito scored during an Albany
power play. Shortly after Siena tied the game at one.

In the closing minutes of the first period, Wisotsky
scored his first goal of the evening while killing off
a two man advantage. Defensemen Jeff Hill’s clear-
ing pass landed on Wisotsky’s stick and ended up in
the back of the net. The goal set tempers flaring for
the Saints when their frustrated center delivered a
elbow to the throat of Wisotsky after the
short-handed goal. Emotions were high after the
cheap shot, and when the Saints crashed the net
after Scarton made the initial save, pandemonium
broke loose. Scarton took exception to a hit and
started the altercation that eventually saw his ejec-
tion. Captain Chris Cortelli stood up for his goal-
tender and exchanged punches with the Siena player
who ran the Danes’ net. Unfortunately Siena tied the
game before the intermission.

The second period was a little more wide open
than the first and that is just how the Danes like it.
Although Siena scored the first two goals of the
period to go up 4—2, your Danes didn’t throw in the
towel. Wisotsky cut the lead to one with a backhand
wrap around. Another power play goal for Albany
and Wisotsky’s third of the night and 20th of the
season tied the game. The Danes took the lead to
stay when freshmen Scott Solomon picked up a
loose puck in the neutral zone and scored with a
wrist shot high stick side. On the same shift

ASU hockey is on a roll.

Solomon scored his second
of the game off some great
puck movement from
Wisotsky and Scott Fierstat.
This time the freshmen took
the other corner and beat the
goalie high glove side to
give Albany a 64 lead. The
scoring was closed out when
senior Jason Kule’s deflec-
tion in front beat the Saint’s
goalie between the pads.
This win was the first
win in the last few meetings
against Siena. They played
the best hockey all season
against Siena. If they can
keep the momentum and
playing hard the Danes
should do well in the play-
offs which begin after
spring break. More info is

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Dodgers ite win NL West

In a little over a month the baseball season will be underway.
This week I will begin with my predictions for division pias
‘ment plus ateam by teamanalysis.

Ast Place: Los Angeles Dodgers. This team is young and
loaded with talent. Eric Karros has emerged as an all~star calibre
first basemen and he combines with Mike Piazza as one of the

By GareETH M. SMITH

most lethal 3-4 combinations in the game today. The key to LA
is their young pitching staff. Hideo Nomo, Ismael Valdes, and
Ramon Martinez anchor the best young staff in the National
League. Throw in highly thought of Chan ho Park and veteran
knuckle—baller Tom Candiotti and the Dodgers should secure the
division easily, Martinez is 28 which means he is entering his
pitching prime, and is the ace of the staff. Look for him to
improve on his 17—7 record.

2nd Place: Colorado Rockies. Three words sum up the Rock-
ies, offense, offense, offense. The Blake Street Bombers led the
National League in batting, homeruns, and RBIs. You gotta love
that air at Coors Field. The Rockies’ bullpen was the key to their
success last year. The starting staff is barely mediocre, and don’t
expect Bill Swift or Bret Saberhagen to make much impact, their
injuries are serious. My problem with Colorado jumping past LA
is that middle relief tends to be inconsistent from year to year.
While they were solid last year, they were overused, this usually.
leads to a poor following season. If the pitching comes together,
and the new outfield alignment works (Walker in center, Bichette
in right, Burks in left) then the Rockies could pull of the division-
al win, but if the bullpen falters even the wild card could be out
of reach.

3rd place: San Diego Padres. They have improved offensively,
but still lack power in both the outfield and at first base. They
have good young pitchers, but none of them are legitimate #1
starters. 25 year old Joey Hamilton will be called on to fill this
role. It’s hard to figure this team out, they’ ve added a lot of aging
veteran talent that will not be around when their prospects finally
make the league. The additions of Wally Joyner and Ricky Hen-
derson are more of a distraction than an addition. Steve Finley,
Andujar Cedeno, and Tony Gwynn are the key to this team. If
Cedeno can come into his own, they might have enough to pase
Colorado, but don’t bet on it.

4th Place: San Francisco Giants. To think that only dune years
ago they were poised to win their division. Barry Bonds and Matt
Williams are still the best combo in the game. Their pitching
after Vanlandingham is more than suspect. Look for either

Williams or Bonds to be dealt mid~season for young arms.

Knicks free up money to

Kentucky to be number one

By Stuart J. SMILOWITZ
Staff Writer

Saturday afternoon something
happened to the UMass Minute-
men, the number one ranked team
in division one basketball, that
has not happened to them all sea-
son long. They lost a basketball
game. UMass has been ranked
number one since the end of
November but will lose that spot
to the Kentucky Wildcats who
demolished the Florida Gators
later that day.

Umass faced the George Wash-
ington Colonials, a team that the
Minutemen should have thor-
oughly beaten. Instead G.W.
came and gave the nation, as well
as UMass , a shock. It
shouldn’t be too surprising since
G.W. had won 9 of their last 10
games. The Colonials jumped out
to an early lead and never let up.

Nothing seemed to be going
UMass’ way this day. With about
ten minutes left in the first half
head coach John Calapirni
received his second technical and
was ejected from the game. The
lead reached double figures
quickly. In the second half the
lead got up to as many as 20
points. It didn’t briefly dip down
to single digits until there was
about three minutes left in the
game. However due to the slow
start, lacking their coach, and a
deep deficit, UMass could not
come completely back and lost by
10.

Later Saturday afternoon, Ken-
tucky continued on their demoli-
tion streak. They went down to

Gainsville and beat the Gators in
a convincing fashion, by 31
points. Kentucky has become
unstoppable since an early season
loss to UMass. Coach Rick Pitino
has depth with the players on his
team. He was able in the game on
Saturday to go ten players deep.
With the skills and unity the
Wildcats exhibit, when a player
came in off the bench you
couldn’t even notice. Kentucky
dominated the Florida team never
allowing them to challenge.
Kentucky with their hard nose,
aggressive, fast break playing
style has now achieved the num-
ber one rank in the nation. They
are ready to defend their rank and

gun for the championship. UMass
who could fall as far as fourth in
the nation need to work off this
loss to get ready for the NCAA
tournament. If the Minutemen
don’t want this amazing season,
excluding Saturday, to go to
waste they need to forget about
the loss and refocus on winning
and the national championship.
They tournament is usually
hard to predict. Don’t be sur-
prised however to see these two
teams, Kentucky and UMass, on
the opposite sides of the brackets
and battling in the finals in the
beginning of April for the NCAA
National Championship.

_ Photo courtesy of America OnLine

Marcus Camby and UMass aren’t #1 anymore.

make off-season moves

By THOMAS MCMAHON
Sports Editor

The New York Knicks let last
Thursday night come and go. It
was the NBA trading deadline,
and plenty of high priced talent
was on the move.

A week earlier, New York
traded away the overpaid and
bad basketball playing Charles
Smith in a package that includ-
ed Monty Williams, to obtain
Brad Lohaus and J.R. Reid.
Soon after, the Knicks traded
garbage-time, fan favorite Herb
Williams and Doug Christie for
Willie Anderson and an over-
weight back-up center who
hasn’t played a game all season.

These moves will allow the
Knicks to spend almost 10 mil-
lion dollars over the off-season,
not to mention the value they
got to close out this season. Just
getting rid of Smith made any
deal successful for New York.
You could get a couple a chairs
and towels and come away a
winner for unloading his salary.

Besides Hubert Davis, Brad
Lohaus is the best outside
shooter on the team, and J.R. is
the only big player on the
Knicks willing to play inside
besides Patrick Ewing. Willie
Anderson adds more outside
shooting to this team. Do you
think John Starks is going to get
the hint?

The Knicks have two first
round picks and tons of money.
Reggie Miller would be a great
acquisition, but then he and

Spike Lee would have to get
along, so don’t expect to see
him here. New York needs a
second scorer, and it has to be
someone who plays outside.
Maybe a trade for high priced
scoring like Chris Mullin or
Latrell Spreewell is the way to
go. Besides Miller, this is the
off-season of the big man.

The two picks should go to a
center and a true small forward.
Ewing isn’t going to be around
forever. In fact, it looks like he
won’t be around in four years.
It’s time to start building for
that day when Patrick says his
body can’t take it anymore. A
true three is hard to find these
days, but it’s basically a guy
over six foot five that can shoot
and score. I’m sure that the
Knicks will be able to fill this
hole with one of these picks.

Don Nelson has taken his
share of heat, but the Kriicks are
in fourth place in the Eastern
Conference, and still have a
bright future ahead. As you can
see by Pat Riley’s record with
Miami, it certainly wasn’t him
winning all those games with
the Knicks, and Nelson is just
continuing to win, but also
preparing for the future.

Think about it. What would
you rather be, a team like the
Magic that has the talent to win
it all, but won’t do it because of
Chicago, or a team that will
consistently win and get a better
shot at the title in the next .two
years?


Sea

: February 27, 1996 Covering University at Albany sports since 1916

Albany advances to NECC Tournament semi-finals
Lady Danes upset Sacred Heart, 74—69, in first round

By THomMAS MCMAHON
Sports Editor

Entering this season, the Uni-
versity at Albany women’s bas-
ketball team was enthusiastic
and excited about their first ever
season at the Division II level. A
pre-season poll had the Lady
Danes finishing seventh, but
Albany did one better and quali-

135-98 score. The Lady Pioneers

fied for the New England Colle-
giate Conference Tournament.
As the sixth and lowest seed,
Albany traveled to Sacred Heart
to take on the third seeded Lady
Pioneers, in a first round
match-up last Sunday.

Sacred Heart had taken the
two regular season meetings
from Albany by a combined

Margaret Feerick attempts a free throw.

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were led by Maureen Delaney,
who scored 24 points and hit a
school record six. three-pointers
in a 64-38 decision over Albany
on February 12.

The Lady Danes were looking
to revenge these losses and more
importantly advance to the
semi-finals of the NECC Tour-
nament. Albany came out strong
and played solid basketball to
take a 41-37 halftime advantage.
Although the Lady Danes were
playing well, they knew this
game was long from over.

The Lady Pioneers scored four
quick points to open the second
half, and tie the game at 41.
Albany responded with the next
seven points, and took the lead
for good. Katie Zeglis, who
scored twelve points, began the
run with a baseline jumper, and
Samantha Ginsberg capped it
with a three-point basket.

Minutes later, the Lady Danes
used a 17-5 spurt to take a
65-50 lead with 6:49 remaining
in the game. Freshman Alison
Bowe scored five of her six
points to close out the run.

Sacred Heart wasn’t ready to
give up yet, and Albany was
well aware of their comeback
potential. Earlier this season, the
Lady Pioneers trailed Albany

34-25 at the Recreation and
Convocation Center, before beat-
ing the Lady Danes by eleven.
The Lady Pioneers scored ten
straight points, and closed to
within two points at 66—64 with
2:30 left to play.

Sacred Heart had Albany on
the ropes, and was looking to
take over the game. Then, with
2:12 remaining, Ginsberg hit a
three-pointer from the left wing
to end the Lady Pioneers threat.
This was the biggest basket of
the game, and maybe the biggest
basket of the season for Albany.
The Lady Danes played tough to
the very end, and came away
with the 74—69 upset victory.

“This matches our wins in the
NCAA Division III Tournament,
considering where we came
from,” head coach Mari Warner
added, “We were 10-10 in the
conference, and now we’re going
to the semi-finals. This team
really came together as a group,
and played a total game today.”

Michele Davis led Albany
with 16 points and eleven
rebounds.

“We played great today, and
played with lots of emotion,”
Davis said after the game.

Ginsberg added 15 points and
four steals, and Erica Witham

River Rats sweep four game homestand at

By DONALD MILLER
AND JARED TROPP

The Albany River Rats
returned home last week for a
four game homestand. Since this
homestand was their longest of
the season, the River Rats were
hoping to take full advantage of
x.

On Wednesday, February 14,
the Prince Edward Island Sena-
tors visited the Knickerbocker
Arena. The Rats welcomed them
with five goals in the first period
en route toa 7-3 win. The Rats
fired 50 shots, as second year
sensation Steve Sullivan had two
goals and three assists to lead
the way. Mike Dunham
improved his record to 20—4—1
on the season, as he made 19
saves.

The Saint John’s Maple Leafs
came to town on Friday, Febru-
ary 16. The Rats launched a sea-
son high 53 shots at Leafs’ goal-
tender Marcel Cousineau.
Albany scored five times to win
the game 5-2. Steve Sullivan
scored his second hat trick of the
season, while Dunham made 25
saves to improve his record to
21-4-1. The Rats’ fourth goal
was very controversial.
Cousineau believed that Scott
Pellerin was in the crease area
when Sullivan’s shot flew by

Basketball

him. He immediately skated up
to the ref and argued the call.
The goalie then slammed his
stick against the plexiglass by
the penalty box, proceeded to
skate back to his net, and break
his stick in half over the cross-
bar. Cousineau was the second
star of the game, as he made 48
saves and earned one ejection in
the process.

On Saturday, the 17, the Rats
hosted division rivals, the
Adirondack Red Wings. Steve
Brule opened the scoring with
his 23rd of the season, and
Bobby House later added his
24th to give the Rats a 2-0 lead
after 2 periods. Early in the third
period, Steve Sullivan started on
a breakaway and was pulled
down from behind. This led to a
penalty shot. Sullivan beat Norm
Maracle, with an exciting combi-
nation of moves for his 30th goal
of the season. This gave Albany
a 3-0 lead, but it was the Wings
who began an impressive come-
back. Brandon Smith and Mark
Major scored two minutes apart
to cut the lead to one with nine
minutes left in the period.
Adirondack had several chances
to tie the score, but it was the
solid play of River Rats goal-
tender Peter Sidorkiewicz down
the stretch which prevented a
Wing comeback. Sidorkiewicz

made 41 saves and is now
144-3 on the season.

The Rats played their first
Monday game of the season
when the Maple Leafs returned
to the Knick for their second
game in four days at Albany. The
Rats were poised and ready for
the Leafs as they jumped all
over them from the first drop of
the puck. Bobby House beat
Cousineau high on the glove side
for the first goal of the period.
Defenseman Geordie Kinnear
and center Denis Pederson also
connected for Albany as they
had a 3-0 lead just 8:11 into the
game. Brent Gretzky (Wayne’s
younger brother) rifled a hard
shot past Dunham at the 13:50
mark of the Ist to put the Leafs
on the scoreboard. This was the
final goal of the period and the
Rats led 3-1 after one. The sec-
ond period was played fairly
even, with neither team scoring.
The shots in the period were 14
to 11 in favor of Saint John’s.
Albany continued to hold back
the offensive attack by the Leafs
for the remainder of the game.
Patrik Elias added a late empty
net goal, as Albany won the
game 4-1. Dunham made 31
saves as he won his 22nd game
of the season, while Leafs’ goal-
tender Cousineau lost his fifth
consecutive game to fall to an

Baseball

even 17—17-7.

Albany skated into Bingham-
ton to faceoff against the
Rangers on Wednesday, Febru-
ary 21. Binghamton opened the
scoring at 7:30 while on the
power play when Chris Snell
scored. Albany answered with
goals by Darin Kimble, his
fourth, Denis Pederson (19th),
and Vadim Sharifijanov (13th) to

Michele Davis.
scored ten points and tied a sea-

son high with eleven rebounds.
This was the Lady Danes first
post-season win in their last six
tries, and improved them to 13-
13 on the season.

This was not only a big win
for the Lady Danes, but for the
entire program and all athletics
at the University at Albany. This
team is a prime example of how
Albany athletics is ready for the
Division II level.

Albany will now play second
seeded Massachusetts—Lowell.
The semi-finals are held at
Bridgeport this Friday night.
Albany plays the first game of
the double-header which begins
at 6 p.m.

the Knick

give them a 3-1 lead early into
the third period. Binghamton got
a power play goal from Brad
Jones to cut the lead to one goal,
and later tied the score with a
late goal by Maxim Galanov to
send the game into overtime.
Pascal Rheaume had a chance
to give the Rats a victory, but it
was Binghamton goaltender Jon

See RIVER Rats on page 10

File photo

File photo

The River Rats played a hard hitting game against Binghamton.

UMass gets shocked and Kentucky will
become number one — see page 11

The race for the NL West crown will be a
tight one all season long - see page 11