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Homosexuality Takes Centerstage in Campus
Center

Presentation traces history of the homosexual experience

By Sean Hourigan
Staff Writer

A narrated slide show documenting the evolu-
tion of humanity’s conception of homosexuality
through the ages and its protean, ever-changing
place and role in human society was presented
by Warren J. Blumenfeld, on Tuesday,
February 16th. Blumenfeld, long considered a
gay, lesbian and transgender scholar, is the
founding director of the

atmosphere that gave rise to such evils as
McCarthyism, . but which also created a cultural
backlash of sorts towards more progressive
ideas and concepts. Allen Ginsberg published
his celebrated poem “How!” in 1955, the begin-
nings of more widespread acceptance and
acclaim for homosexual artists and their art,
often pertaining to the homosexual identity and
experience. Additionally, the civil rights move-
ment that culminated during this time period,
long associated with the African-American
plight for rights and equality, did not bypass the

homosexual community.

National Gay Student
Center, co-author of the
book, Looking at Gay and
Lesbian Life and editor of
“Homophobia: How We
All Pay the Price”, and
the Journal of Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual

It was not until the
advent of widespread
Christianity in Europe that
homosexual relations were

deemed a sin and a crime

Popular demands for
justice tend to bring
many issues to the politi-
cal forefront, enlighten-
ing the populace as to the
injustices suffered by all
peripheral groups within
society. The call for

Identity.

Blumenfeld describes an experience filled
with both celebration and inquisition, of pride
and pretense where homosexuality itself. has
come to mean many things in the great expanse
of time. Looking back to “Before the
Homosexual,” a time when there was no devia-
tion made between gay and “normal” individu-
als, Blumenfeld chronicles the role of same-sex
relationships in the great societies of antiquity
where commonly there was little hostility
toward such social practices.

Many illustrious civilizations such as the
ancient Romans, Greeks and Chinese not only
accepted homosexual practices amongst their
populace but often embraced them, as they
were considered a routine part of the maturation
of young men. Even the ancient Greeks, wide-
ly considered the founders of what was to
become modern Western society, practiced
“eros,” a custom by which male warriors select-
ed an adolescent male as a companion.

Blumenfeld uses these facts to rebuff the
notion that homosexuality is a social vice that
derived from the vagabonds of history. It was
not until the advent of widespread Christianity
in Europe that homosexual relations were
deemed a sin and a crime by the aristocracy, an
act considered so unscrupulous as to deserve
the punishment of death for its implementation.

The “Early Emancipation Movement” saw
the term “homosexual” coined in 1869 as a
nomenclature used to describe an individual
who feels sexual desire for a member of his or
her own sex. This era, Blumenfeld details, saw
the acceptance of homosexuality only marginal-
ly more so than the previous. No longer was
‘sodomy’ a capital offense punishable by death,
but it was still a crime and a sin against God.

Even the world renowned Irish author Oscar
Wilde fell victim to ‘buggary’ ordinances and
was sentenced to two years hard labor for per-
forming a sexual act with another young man.
These advances, nominal as they were, eventu-
ally led to more acceptance of the homosexual
identity and to the “Homophile Movement” of
the 1950’s and 60’s.

Blumenfeld describes the era of the
Homophile Movement as a time of conserva-
tive ideology and politics in America, an

rights by one group often
leads to similar demands from all groups
excluded from the mainstream, hence the
homosexual community became politicized by
the mass movement era of the twentieth century
- a phenomenon that culminated with Stonewall
in 1969, the benchmark for the gay rights
movement.

Blumenfeld then entered into his next section
of the presentation - “Post Stonewall”. The
Stonewall incident was the inception of what
was to become the modern movement for gay
rights. Gay men and women began organizing
themselves in order to call attention to their
plight and to some of the discriminatory laws of
the United States. Feminism embraced the les-
bian movement into their demands for equality
under the law for all women. Groups such as
the American Civil Liberties Union advocated
for the equality of homosexuals under the law.
No longer was the homosexual lifestyle hidden
from the public eye as gay men and women
who had for so long kept their sexuality
beneath the surface began proudly showing it to
the world, without shame or compunction.

The next stage in the history of the homosex-
ual experience, the contemporary era of “AIDS
and Beyond.” According to Blumenfeld, the
advent of AIDS has had an incredible impact
on the gay and lesbian community. It has
served as both enemy and concealed ally, steal-
ing the life from countless individuals, both gay
and straight, while centralizing the survivors
and bringing their crisis to the forefront of
national attention. Today, more than ever in
America is the gay and lesbian lifestyle accept-
ed by the mainstream, but the advances are not
complete.

Trivial as they may appear, television shows
such as “Ellen” demonstrate at least some
progress towards universal acknowledgment by
the cultural elite and the media, those who so
often dictate what is and what is not acceptable.
Despite the efforts of the Christian Coalition
and ‘righteous’ cavaliers like Pat Buchanan -
author of the infamous jibe that AIDS is a retri-
bution from God for the sins of gays - to keep
homosexuals and other disenfranchised groups
on the periphery of society and without natural
rights America seems to be transforming for the
better. Hopefully the trend of increased expo-
sure will continue to lead to more and more
acceptance of homosexuality in our own culture
that one day, finally there will be no real dis-
tinction between one’s gay friends, and one’s
straight ones.

Female Student Assaulted in
Dutch Quad Lot

Tuesday night, Feb 16, 1999 at approximately 7:30pm a female resident
student reported to the University Police that she was assaulted in the
Dutch Quad Parking Lot near Alumni House. The female resident student
was grabbed from behind by an unknown male. The suspect had a sharp
object, possibly a knife, that he used to cut the student causing minor
injuries. The student was transported by Five Quad Volunteer Ambulance
Service to the hospital, examined, and released.

The suspect is described as 5’8” to 5’10” with a small build. He was
wearing dark, hooded sweat clothing. He is described as dark complex-
ioned, but not black. The motive for this attack is not known at this time,
but there is no indication that this was intended to be a robbery, sexual
assault or abduction. University Police is increasing its patrol in this gener-
al area using its Quality of Life Unit.

If anyone has any information about this or may may have seen or heard
something Tuesday night please contact UPD at 442-3130

Problems
Plague
Dutch
Quad
Phone

System.

ACC forced to upgrade

By ANNE LINDNER

After a problem that left 200 Dutch Quad residents phoneless, ACC, the
phone services provider to the University, has decided to upgrade the soft-
ware that runs the switchboards.

The current system that operates the phones gave no specific status as to
why the problem occurred. The company claims that the problem is
“somewhat strange.” They don’t know what was the exact cause of the
problems, and that the last time anything similar happened was about three
and a half years ago.

The problems that occurred in the switchboard were that people trying to

call into Dutch Quad heard ringing, while the people that were being called

never heard that ringing. It also affected residents who tried to use their
phones, which resulted in them hearing a busy signal or a voice mail tone.

According to Valerie S., a freshman majoring in business, “One day I .
couldn’t even get through the phone lines and I was trying to call home.
There was a constant busy signal.”

“It was frustrating. My friend called me two times and he didn’t get
through.” claimed Ester Jenty, a sophomore and undeclared major.

The company that performs maintenance operations and holds a contract
under ACC, NEC, had to reboot the system at approximately 5 p.m. when
the problem started. After rebooting the system, the phone services
resumed, but they lost voice mail. The whole system was running again at
about 11pm the same day.

“It was very inconvenient to have the phones busy on Dutch for half a
day.” claimed Matthew Cieri, a junior majoring in planning. Desiree
Maldonado, a junior majoring in Human Biology claimed, “I don’t get call
waiting at all.”

“Not all the phones are on the same system.” said Director of
Telecommunications at the University of Albany, Gary Pelton. He went on
to say that the phones are scattered throughout the complex in order to pre-
vent the loss of a whole hall. “The company does that so if anything like
this ever happens, anyone affected can go down the hall and use someone
else’s phone.”

Palesa Dalrymple, a sophomore, major undecided, said “It was frustrating
because my mom was supposed to call me and I didn’t know if she was
getting through. I had to call her and let her know just in case the phones
weren’t working, because I wasn’t on it.” “Everytime you pick up the
phone to dial, you got a busy signal,” said Andrew Morris, freshman

Pelton stated that “Software to upgrade the system is en route to us now.”
As soon as it arrives, they will perform a “Transparent” installation, mean-
ing that the company will upgrade the system and no one will notice or be
affected by the installation process.

A resident that wished to remain anonymous said “They don’t let you
chose your own telephone company so you can’t get better service when
ACC service is not up to par.” ;

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Dear Editor,

minded states in the region so
that the large multi-national oil

EDITORIALS

By Greg SanGermano
Managing Editor

I once thought the Grand Canyon was big,
but this winter I learned what a truly big
hole in the ground looks like...and what it
feels like. Some drivers may already know
where I’m going with this, I’m talking about
those damn potholes on and around the
uptown campus.

The basic principles behind the problem
are simple; cold weather causes the pave-
ment to constrict and cracks appear, as
trucks and cars drive they expand the cracks
until whole chunks of road are being
knocked loose. I understand why it hap-
pens, I just can’t figure out why neither the
administration or the City will do anything
about it.

Do they think the potholes will simply dis-
appear on their own? If so, I propose a
quick revolution to send these geniuses
packing. Maybe they think no one will
notice. However, this seems even more
improbable.

Near the Dutch Quad pay lot there is a
pothole big enough to swallow a Buick.
The series of potholes on Washington
Avenue just outside State Quad have given
our Business department alone three flat
tires. To drive on the stretch of Perimeter

Road from Indian Quad to the Western
Avenue exit reminds one of the simpler
times when roads weren’t paved with pesky
asphalt, but rather with the more romantic
cobblestone. Sure it’s bumpy and potential-
ly dangerous, but hey, it was that bad before
winter even started.

The Master Plan calls fror the “reallign-
ment” of Perimeter Road. Basically, they’re
ripping it up and putting it down somewhere
else. I have great news for the University;
save half your money, the road is already
ripped up.

It all comes down to this; I want my roads
paved! I pay money to park my car on cam-
pus, and I pay my “transportation fee,” I
expect the roads to be paved well. The City
of Albany has money from all sorts of
places, and I hope it doesn’t catch anyone
by surprise when it gets cold in winter.
Why aren’t they fixing these potholes?

I’m delighted the University is improving
everything from facilities to food, but it
should spend some of that money on smooth
roads. I’m equally glad to learn the City is
improving.....well, I can’t think of anything
the City is doing. All I’m saying is asphalt
doesn’t cost that much. Albany should buy
some pavement, hire some of those 10,000
workers fired by GE and get to work. We’re
not paying you for nothing, you know. You
do know that, right?

By Avi Saks
Editor-in-Chief

Quit man. Just Quit. These are four words
I constantly hear from friends, my roommate
Dave, my Mom, and basically everyone I
form a relationship with. I've been smoking
cigarettes so long,I can't even remember
when I started. No one at my home ever
smoked. No classmates smoked. Why me?

Why did I have to start? Why is it so hard to

quit? Why am I so stupid? These are ques-
tions I constantly annoy myself with in the
hopes that I can give it up. I began smoking
during a summer job I had in New Jersey.
Sunday nights, the boss, Darren used to rent
us a hotel room for the night instead of mak-
ing us go back home to Brooklyn at 2am and
being back at Princeton at 9am. So there we
were. Me, Doogie, so called because of his
Doogie Howser abilities on computers, and
his little cousin whom we called Junior.
Junior was 14, and if I recollect accurately,
Doogie and I were 15. We decided that to

best pass our time, it would be "cool" if we

smoked cigarettes. No other kids in

Princeton smoked cigarettes. Us Brooklyn
kids just wanted to look tough. Man, that
was pathetic. So here I am 5 years later and
still puffing away. I have tried to quit more
times than the years "Landslide" Larry, SA
President 2000, has been at this school. I've
tried cold turkey, the gum, and even tried
going down from.a pack a day to one. And
guess what, I'm smoking a cigarette as I type
this. So far I guess it didn't work. Getting to
the serious side, smoking is terrible. I know
it looks bad. I know how tobacco companies
illegally target minors. And worst of all, I
know I'll die from it one day if I keep at it.
Yet I still smoke. This horror addiction has
become so bad, that it sometimes affects my
daily routines. For example, one day I tried
to quit cold turkey, and had no cash on hand
to go buy a pack. That day I ended up run-
ning to A-Plus with 350 pennies in a cup to
buy a pack of Marlboro Reds at 6 in the
morning just because I could not fall asleep.
Am I addicted or what? You make the call.
But for now, know one thing. As long as I
keep smoking, I'll keep quitting. And so
should you.

Many Americans were outraged when
President Clinton looked straight into the
camera and, with an air of complete sinceri-
ty, lied about an affair with Monica
Lewinsky. Some of these same Americans
would applaud an attack on Iraq and accept
as gospel truths the lies the government and
media give them as reasons for the attack.

An attack on Iraq has nothing to do with
weapons of mass destruction (several coun-
tries have them), violation of U.N. resolu-
tions (Israel has violated many of them),
Saddam Hussein being a brutal dictator (the
United States brought Pinochet to power),
democracy or human rights. It has every-
thing to do with oil and the desire of the
United States to weaken all independent

companies can dominate the oil
reserves of the Middle East. War also seves
as a showcase for the new high technology
weapons produced by military contractors.
Some rationale must be given for the bloated
military budgets and the tremendous subsidy
to high technology industry, which has sup-
ported the capitalist system since World War
2. Since the Soviet Union dissolved, new
enemies must be found or created.

The sanctions against Iraq have killed over
two million Iragis- five hundred thousand of
them children. The use of depleted uranium
in the Persian Gulf War has caused an alarm-
ing ‘increase in cancers and other diseases in
Iraq. I think it is very ironic and sad that con-
servative Republicans, who are always com-

plaining about
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lack of family

PARKING. values, find noth-
STUDENTS ing at all immoral
FARKING |i about what has

been done to the
Iraqi people for
the benefit of the
oil companies.
P.S. For those
who believe in
the idea, repeated
ad nauseam in the
media, that the

HERE Witt
Grane roi
ADJ0S TED.

“Showdown with Saddam” is about weapons
of mass destruction, I think these questions
need to be asked:

1. Why, during the Iraq-Iran war, did the
United States supply weapons to both sides,
and why did U.S. corporations supply Iraq
with chemical and biological weapons?

2. Why, during the past thirty years, were
the Kurds, twice urged to revolt against
Saddam Hussein and supplied with weapons
by the CIA and then abandoned when it
appeared they might be successful? Possibly
to weaken Iraq?

3. Why was Saddam Hussein originally
put in power by the CIA, and why was he
not removed at the end of the Persian Gulf
war, when the United States had over-
whelming military superiority?

4, The British and French Colonialists
drew the boundaries of the various countries
in the Middle East so that no country would
become too strong. That is why Kuwait cuts
off Iraq’s access to the sea. Are American
Imperialists simply too. moral to follow the
same policy of weakening troublesome
countries? Give me a break!

Sincerely,

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Friday, February 19, 1999 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3

Carr Makes Contribution To Community
EOP Director Fundamental To UAlbany

By JUSTIN WALDEN
Associate Managing Editor

When Rasheem Ameid-Rooke arrived
at the University at Albany he came here
with only three packed bags to his name.
Rooke was a poor, black student from
Mount Vernon with seemingly little
prospects for his future. Enrolling in the
Education Opportunities Program (EOP),
he began to work on his future.

Rooke left UAlbany after serving as
Student Association President for the
1997-98 academic year and is now pursu-

ing his master’s degree from Howard

University. “This is where his life started,
in terms of upward mobility,” said Carson
Carr.

Helping Rooke along the way was Dr.
Carson Carr, Vice-President for
Academic Affairs. Rooke’s story is simi-
lar to that of many UAlbany students who
have worked and been under the tutelage
of Carr.

in the summer before her freshman year
Pengthieng made it into college, with the
help of Dr. Carr. “He’s done.a lot for so
many students here. I’m just one of
many,” said Pengthieng.

A graduate of West Chester
University, a state college in
Pennsylvania, Carr was instrumental in
the recruiting of young minority students
to Cornell University during the early
70’s. Carr worked with James Turner,
who was Cornell’s first director of
African Studies.

In 1969 students at Cornell staged a
takeover of many of the campus’s admin-
istration buildings, demanding among
other things a black studies program.
Colleges from across the country have
copied the curriculum that Turner devel-
oped. “We came in as a result of the stu-
dent takeover,” commented Carr.

Carson Carr’s responsibility was to look
for minority students who could handle
the highly competitive atmosphere at
Cornell. In 1969 Carr recruited 250 stu-
dents and by 1971 he had worked out a
network of high schools in

Five of the past 13 Student
Association presidents have been
involved in EOP, despite the fact
that only 8% of UAlbany’s student

body is involved with the program

_ upstate New York to help iden-
tify promising minority stu-
dents. Carr helped develop
some of the support services
that made adjusting to life at
Cornell easier for the students.
“You have to have a complete
student support system for stu-

Valeska Pengthieng, now a senior at the
University at Albany. student teaches sev-
eral classes at the Troy Middle School.
Despite having a mediocre high school
average and ‘despite applying to the EOP

dents,” said Carr.

The University at Albany acquired
Carr’s services when he came to the
school in 1985 to direct EOP. His office
is in Academic Support Services, at the
bottom of the steps before the library.

Carr helped with the setup of several
study skill workshops and faculty/student
mentoring programs aimed at helping
minority students. “It’s a testament to the
university to prove
that diversity does
work,” said Carr.

Close to 60% of the
students enrolled in
EOP graduate from
the University of
Albany, a relatively
high figure consider-
ing many students
coming out of high
school are from diffi-
cult environments.
Five of the past 13 Student Association
presidents have been involved in EOP,
despite the fact that only 8% of
UAlbany’s student body is involved with
the program.

According to Carr the number of minor-
ity students was down, though today
UAlbany’s student body is made up of
approximately 20 to 25 % minority stu-
dents. “It’s like day and night now, in
terms of people coming.”

In a column that ran in last week’s edi-
tion of the ASP Jeffery Atencio contended
that many students tend to gradually drift
towards people of their own group. Carr
tends to agree, though he sees it as a
reflection of a greater societal trend. Carr
cites problems such as trust as one reason
why people are unwilling to befriend one
another. “I’d like to see more of a mix-
ing,” he said. “Once we leave here we are
going back to our polarized communi-
ties.”

Aside from his: work: in the academic

affairs office at SUNY Albany, Carr is
involved in many off-campus programs
within the Capital District region. In
March he helps put on a luncheon to cele-

brate the leadership capabilities of area
minority students in their junior and
senior years of high school. Carr is the
statewide coordinator for the Youth
Construction Initiative Program. It’s an
experience that takes “at-risk students”
and places them in construction related
projects. Six cities across New York par-
ticipate in the fourth year program. It is
funded through a grant from the
Department of Transportation. Students,
most of whom don’t even consider col-
lege as an option after high school, are
either sent to vocational schools or are
placed in a pool of eligible construction
workers.

Dr. Carson Carr’s respect and dedica-
tion to his students transcends the class-
room and the office of academic support
services. A demanding, yet fair, leader on
this campus Carr seeks to reach the best in
all of the students that he interacts with.
Said Pengthieng, “It’s Black History

-Month, and he exemplifies a, black hero.”

UALBANY FALLS SHORT
Black History Month Does Not Receive Attention

By MARISSA TUCHBAND
Staff Writer

Although February is Black History Month,
there are few events occurring on campus to cel-
ebrate African Americans and their vast history.

Some of the few that are planned so far
include a speech by Oba T’shaka, a teacher and
activist at the University of San Francisco who
wrote the book Return to the African Mother
T’shaka will lecture on February 23

Principle.

So why are there so
few events planned
to celebrate this

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in LC 20 at 7PM. A poetry cafe will also be held on
February 24th with renowned poets Heru and Tehutine.
Both events have been put together by Albany State
University Black Alliance (ASUBA). The other events
that are occurring have not been publicized and therefore
the student body is not fully
aware of them.

So why are there so few
events planned to celebrate this
month, and why is the public
not made aware of the select
few that are going on? This is a
common question that many

Australia, China, Costa Rica,

England, France, Germany,

Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy,

bration.

students have been asking recently and the answer
remains unclear.

Perhaps it is because the university has left the plan-
ning up to student groups and organizations like Fuerza
Latina, ASUBA, and the Pan Carribean Associaion.
Since these groups have only organized a few events,
those seem to be the only ones that are going to take
place. No outside organization has lent a hand to this
cause, except the few specific organizations whose mem-
bers include African Americans and Latinos.
reasons, it appears that not enough is being done to cele-
brate Blacks and their cause during their month of cele-

For these

Recently some people were asked if they thought

tion.”

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Black History Month was being recognized, and
whether or not enough was being done to realize
its importance. Christine Blain, a senior and vice-
president of ASUBA said, “The school in general
is not doing enough to celebrate Black History
Month. Also, it is unfortunate that Black History
Month happens to be the shortest month of the
year. I consider these two things to be pacifica-

Christian Santiago, another student replied by
saying, “Blacks are not represented enough.”

Afi French, a junior at the University, feels,
“African Americans can’t depend on others to edu-
cate the public. If they themselves don’t inform
them, who will?

“I am proud that we get a month of recognition,
but at the same time it is unfortunate that after this
month we go back to being slaves like we once
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As leftist as I am,
store where I work when F
employees are required to j
initiation fee when I return home
I’m home. I know that as a seaso
union’s services. While I wholehearté
responsibilities to keep employers in ch
sneak quietly past the union, knowing they"
fired in the few months I’m home. For most:
absolutely vital purpose of protecting the rights o!
nies and their financially powerful executives.

I see these issues of power in the business world c¢
next millenium. We have recently seen a trend in governmes
to laborers’ rights. Much legislation has been passed to pf
exploitation, primarily beginning with the National Labor Rel t
which aimed to protect workers’ right to organize and defined “uF
tices.” More recently, the Americans with Disabilities Act of .1990 a i
nation against any qualified individual with a disability in employment
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 allows an eligible employee to ta
up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave because of certain changes in his/her
family life. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 1998 increases the rs a mini-
mum wage to $6.15 an hour by the year 2000.

However, what we often fail to remember in times of a good economy and
low unemployment rates is that our American government is a business. As a
business, its first priority is financial success. In order to operate in the interest
of the American people, it must continue to run, paying salaries, financing pro-
jects, and ultimately continuing to grow. We would like to think of our govern-
ment as an unbiased organization with no allegiances working to better our nation.
Realistically, though, little of that ideal is in practice in today’s world of commerical-
ism and corporations. Corporations are some of our nation’s s biggest landowners and
certainly some of the biggest taxpayers.
Furthermore, as we have recently seen with

_the tobacco industry, corporations and law-
makers can often strike some sort of deal
beneficial to the industry and the individual
politician, and usually not so beneficial to
the average citizen. With this in mind, I
think we will soon see a trend in legislation
in favor of employers and business rather
than the individual employee.

Change is generated by necessity: when
circumstances are intolerable, individuals
form groups and organize to initiate change. In this case, the groups already exist —
labor unions. When people become dissatisfied, as they were in 1935 (the time of the
NLRA and the beginning of laborer-friendly legislation), I predict that laborers will
run to labor unions and bind together for support in the face of anti-laborer legisla-
tion and hostile corporate policy. We will see a movement back to the fundamentals
of grassroots labor unionizing and a strengthening of already existing unions.

So maybe I should go home and join my store’s labor union. I might need its sup-
port sooner than I thought I would. :

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union, but if things go sour,

The Teamsters

raised a fuss over
jobs that no one ,

their role as a collective-bargainer
fact that they do not represent all the in
involved. A vicious tailspin ensues, as
loses members, becomes weaker, and loses “tt
union is completely devoid of both members an
What about the victories that unions has seem t@
were to examine the. agreements that were inked betw
will find the “gains” are illusory. Take the much-vau
crippled the corporation. The deals were ambiguous at be
porary and part-time workers, and an increase of nearly $5 an ho
ees. However, the Teamsters overlooked several factors: many of}
want those hours because they have other obligations. College studen
make up a significant portion of this sector of the workforce, and they‘!
stay full-time. The Teamsters raised a fuss over jobs that no one wanted. *
raise they received was still less than their target, by at least’ $4 an hour. Additi
loss in market share as packages piled up and accounts were lost during the str
that the workforce is too large for the work available, which means a trimming of hu
of jobs (held by Teamsters members, no less). Even as the Teamsters were crowing |

EF their win would spread into a mass movement into

wanted

other companies in the shipping business, (Federal
Express, Airborne Express, DHL, etc.) there has been
no such activity to date. So much for the unqualified
triumph of organized labor.

Even the Judicial system, which in this century has
been favorable to the unions, has chilled considerably.
Recently, with the American Airlines “sickout” (where
the strikers all called in sick) of their pilots, the court
agreed to an injunction filed by the corporation and
ordered the pilots back to work. The unions, believing
they could withstand such a ruling, refused. The
response was a contempt-of-court ruling that slapped a
$10 million fine on the union, and a fine for the
President and Vice-President of the union. The strike
has all but collapsed, as pilots grudgingly return to the
cockpits, and the bankruptcy of the union is almost a
certainty. In all, not a very good day for labor.

Labor Unions have done an incredible amount of
good for this nation and its citizens. Unions have made
working in the United States, and elsewhere, tolerable,
well-paying and safe. It is nearly impossible to imag-
ine what conditions would be like had unions not been
formed. However, the world has changed, and
Organized Labor has to realize that it has passed its
zenith. In the future, there will be agreements between
- management and labor, but unions may no longer be a
_ part of that picture, a relic of the 19th century disputes

that forged them so long ago.

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6 Friday, February 19, 1999: ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Feature

The Erugh,

Behind Our

Party Reputation

Why we rank #1 and why the administration is silent

By Greg SanGermano
Managing Editor

Like any college, the students at
UAlbany have paid for an education that
serves two functions. First, students
expect to be taught new things, and new
ways of thinking. The traditional role of
education is to educate for education’s
sake; believing that educated people
improve society as a whole. The second
function is to ensure that students are
given the skills they need to get a job after
school. While the reputation of UAlbany
as the number one party school may have
no bearing on the traditional education
offered, it greatly impacts on the school’s
ability to assist students in finding
employment after graduation.

There is no question that being ranked
as the number one party school by
Princeton Review has

public relations blow is to meet the rating
head-on; showing Princeton Review, and

the rest of the nation the University at .

Albany is anything but a party school.
However, the administration did not react
like this, and in six months UAlbany was
moved up to number one.

There were no press conferences; there
were no letters to newspapers; there were
no notices sent to students to assure them
the University was working to improve its
image; there was nothing. The adminis-
tration has not done its job in the begin-

ning of 1998, and it has not done it since,

and the students, present and future, will
suffer.

There are several things that could be
done by both the administration and the
Student Association to remedy Albany’s
current situation. First, whenever
Albany’s ranking as the number one party
school is mentioned in the media, Albany

administrators should

affected the students at the
University at Albany. A
better question might be:
What has the administration
done to improve UAIbany’s

The common sense
response is to meet

the rating head-on

emphasize Princeton
Review only ranks the
300 best schools in a
country with over
5,000 two- and four-

situation? The answer,
sadly, is very little.

A year ago, the University at Albany
made national news. The occasion was

not for any of its academic achievements, .

rather Princeton Review, in its biannual
school ratings, ranked UAlbany the num-
ber three party school. This was the first
time many people had heard of the
University, and it was not a good way to
be introduced. But what has upset so
many students was the school’s reaction.
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schools to develop it’s lists; it is a process
that is far from scientific, and often con-
sists of asking only those in cafeterias,
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Fifth, with the understanding that the
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UAlbany Makeover

$130 million Master Plan will change face of both campuses

By RUSSELL DICKSON
Staff writer

Students at UAlbany have drastic changes ahead over
the next five years as the $130 million dollar “Master
Plan” project continues in March. The first job on Bohl
Contracting’s list is to realign Perimeter Road. The price
tag of this project is $1.3 million. The section of road tar-
geted for this change is between I-90 and Tricentennial
Drive.

University Update says the intention of this project is to
create an aesthetically pleasing ‘Green Belt’ of open
spaces and walkways circling the podium. The changes
that lay ahead for the university are nothing new to

_ administrators. University officials say that the school

has always been a work in progress since its founding in
1844,

“The school keeps changing and growing to meet chal-
lenges dictated by the ever-changing times of our soci-
ety,” said a school official. In 1914, UAlbany became a
teacher’s college, and in the 60’s the uptown campus was
constructed.

Today the university has three campuses, one located

uptown, one located downtown and the East Campus in
Greenbush. UAlbany is one of 4 research centers in the
SUNY system and is among the top 20 research universi-
ties in the country. Our environmental sciences program
is rated the best in the country, our criminal justice pro-
gram is in the top 15, and our business school is in the
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the beginning of the master planning process, the univer-
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Zone 3 will be called the
perimeter zone. This zone.
will include most of the

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The University at Albany has a
strong academic record;

Princeton Review’s methods for
ranking schools are questionable;
The University hosts national aca-
demic competitions;

High school students are aware of
Albany’s achievements;

The students think of the school
as a place of academics, not party-
ing;

And those who are supposedly
doing the partying, the students,
are publicly defending the school
and criticizing Princeton Review,
who’s doing the partying?

The answer is no one.

Perhaps this is too optimistic.
For starters, there is at least some
partying that goes on at UAlbany;
this is obvious atleast to students.
“Never have I seen such a large

population of people craving the
bar scene,” said John Salls, senior.
Administrators too, are aware of
the partying that takes place.
“There are students here who

party hardy; I’m not stupid, I’m
not blind,” said James P.
Doellefeld, Vice President for
Student Affairs. But how big is
the party scene here? Doellefeld
believes it’s 10% tol5% of the
student population; far less than
what could justify a number one
party school ranking.

So why is UAlbany number
one? The answer may have more
to do with Princeton Review than
with the University. Princeton
Review’s primary audience is
New York City and its downstate
neighbors. Coincidently, eastern
schools, those in the SUNY sys-
tem especially, dominate their

best/worst lists. Beyond the east
coast focus, Princeton Review’s
methodology is far from scientif-
ic. One year Princeton Review
surveyed students coming out of
the library, the year before sur-
veys were done in the lecture cen-
ter and in front of the Campus
Center; only certain segments of
the student body are questioned.
A survey technique separately
rumored among students and fac-
ulty, but unconfirmed, was that

Princeton Review
would not stand

behind its rankings

Princeton Review called an
Albany area bar at night and had
the phone passed around to stu-
dents who were there. The loca-
tion of the bar is unclear, some
say it was on Washington
Avenue, others say it was located
on Lark street. Regardless, the
result is the same, skewed survey
answers and inaccurate rankings.
In fact, Princeton Review would
not stand behind its rankings. In
the opening to the 1999 school
reviews, Princeton Review
reminds readers “our survey
included only students at the Best
311 Colleges, and that all schools
appearing on negative lists have
many assests that counterbalance
their various deficiencies.”
Princeton Review’s rankings are
less concerned with academics
than with reputation. UAlbany is
in the process of improving acade-
mics, service, and quality of life
on campus, but rankings such as
the Princeton Review’s often fail

to even notice such changes are
taking place. Other, more scien-
tific studies such as that done by
US News and World Report, sys-
tematically rank UAlbany among
the best in the nation. Doellefeld
asks, ““What’s more important
Princeton Review or US.News?”
Armed with such information,
we return to the original issue:
why isn’t the University doing
anything to dispel the obviously
inaccurate label of number one
party school. “You don’t talk
about it, you do it. That’s my phi-
losophy,” said Doellefeld.. “I wish
we didn’t have the ranking, but at
the same time I’m not going to
turn myself and the Office for
Student Affairs upside down.”
The unfortunate fact is this, if
UAlbany declares itself a non-
party school in the media spot-
light, the press will focus just hard
enough to see parties and drinking
to declare the University’s
improvements (successes by any
other measure) a simple failure.
“T do my best to please my clients,
the students, not the Princeton
Review,” said Doellefeld.

All this has led the University at
Albany to precisely where it is
now; a very good school strug-
gling to rise above its past reputa-
tion. Whether it’s obvious or not,
the school has come a long way in
recent years. Such improvements
have been to the credit to the stu-
dents and faculty who work hard
to make the University better.
Sooner or later people like those
at Princeton Review will realize
what UAlbany is like. Even then,
as we are now, we will probably
be far beyond their expectations.

continued from page 7

dorms). The construction in this area will include buildings of
different sizes and styles.

Carol Johnson, a Junior at UAlbany says, “I think the changes
are great. We all see the need for better facilities, especially the
students that got stuck living in lounges in the fall semester.”
Many students have been complaining about the overcrowding
of classrooms and dorms at the university and say they welcome
any improvements.

Two construction projects recently completed include the elec-
tronic library scheduled to open in 2000, and the refurbished
Pierce Hall. The student body is expected to swell from 13,674
full-time students to 17,475 full-time students by the year 2006.
University officials say, “this 27.8% growth in student popula-
tion is driven by two factors, a modest increase in entering
undergraduate students and improvement in student retention.”
This projection demonstrates the importance of improved facili-
ties.

Some students say that with the school’s continual growth,
and the ever-increasing frequency of problems caused by it, it is
nice to see the university has a plan. Students currently attending
college at the university unfortunately have to bear the brunt of
the inconveniences caused by parking and housing shortages.

A professor at the university said, “Rome was not built in a
day, neither shall the University at Albany.” While most stu-
dents seem upset by the school’s shortcomings, others are excit-
ed by its plans. John Parker, a Senior says, “I like the idea of the
school trying to improve itself. It is sort of like a diamond in the
rough. All our teams just went to division one status and now the
school is going to be bigger. 10 years from now a degree from
this school will be worth a lot more.” The wind of change is def-
initely in the air, and it appears that a good portion of student
body is greeting it enthusiastically.

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PRIVATE RYAN BEHIND THE T'HIN RED LINE

By E.V. Ragasa

The original poster captures the essence of Saving Private Ryan.
It shows a single, faceless, anonymous soldier on top of a hill. It is
an American soldier, but it could be any be any soldier of any
nationality from any era. The soldier represents the hardened,
almost forgotten heroes of war who most often did the unimagin-
able task of doing the job in combat, in any reason if there is one.
Many never came out alive and those who did are scarred, both
physically and mentally, forever. The movie tried to shows us a
combat experience that we don’t want to be part of, yet are fasci-
nated by it. You can’t help but watch and hear it.

Ryan became notorious for the unbelievable amount of violence,
but surprisingly enough, it didn’t get an NC-17 rating. Violence
and war movies go hand in hand, but Ryan somehow made a dif-
ference to it. There is a purpose to the overkill. It tries to capture
the harrowing experiences of combat, and its scope would be
greatly decreased if it were toned down. But the most disturbing
aspect about this, is that the almost all the characters in this movie
are “average joes,” and they were killed because they were wear-
ing a different uniform. There are no villains in this movie. The
saturation of colors heightened the already vivid effect: You can
clearly see blood red out of the drab colors of grey and green.
Finally the sounds of gunfire and bullets
hitting flesh assaults your senses and
your mind.

It was necessary to introduce us to the
combat that was read about but never seen
or heard, and to at least capture the scope of the whole combat
experience. We experience what the characters experience and we
feel a degree of disdain towards anybody who never landed in the
beaches. This notion would be prevalent in the rest of the movie.

We see the collection of characters, the cool and stern leader
Capt. Miller (Hanks), his trusty second-man Sgt. Horvath
(Sizemore), a wise-cracking city slicker (Burns), so on and so
forth. There are moments of violent encounter, including the sec-
ond most disturbing scene, along the way. It is very bloody/gory
but comparably less than the other two acts. What makes up for
the cliche is the somewhat unpredictable journey of the crew to
save Ryan. We are introduced to a soldier who never experienced
combat, which makes him an outsider to everyone else, including
the viewers. As they go along searching we learn more about
them. We see them complaining, their motivations, and their ideal
purpose to end the war (unlike in other recent war movies, the
characters here believe in the war but doubt the purpose of their
mission).

Based on a James Jones novel, The Thin Red Line is about an
Army company’s assault of Guadalcanal Island, and was directed
by Terrence Malick, best known for Badlands (1973) and Days of
Heaven (1978). The movie is deliberately slow so a cup of coffee
and a good night’s sleep is recomended before shelling $8 at the
theater. There are, like rest of the war movies, moments of vio-
lence, but The Thin Red Line has comparably less blood and gore
than Saving Private Ryan. This movie’s central point is the pur-
pose of violence. This film is obviously anti-war, but it shows its
message in philosophical ideas and symbols. There are moments
of flashbacks that sometimes clutter the movement of the film,
even though it gives the film an ambitious, renegade look.
However, some of the symbolism
here is so obvious that it is at most —
contrived and cliched, and some
takes awhile to realize. The cine-
matography is nothing short of

excellent, some of the best in recent memory.

Probably the best action sequence in the movie is the 7-man
assault of the Japanese machine-gun bunker on top of the hill. The
scene is a brilliant job of creating claustrophobia for the soldiers
in combat in relatively vast openness of their surroundings. The
blending of beauty of nature contrasted to the chaos of war is
prevalent throughout the movie.

There is voice-over narration by different characters, but you
don’t know who’s doing the thinking or if he is even one of the
characters in the film. The many characters in this movie are inco-
herently written and pop in and out throughout the movie, so that
you don’t even have the chance to understand and know their per-

-sonalities or ideals. So many appear out of nowhere and so many
disappear at inopportune moments that it ruins the overall flow.

At times, it seems as though the only way to tell the characters

apart is by identifying the actor who plays them.

Sometimes there are few scenes that make an average film
excellent, and sometimes there are few scenes that make a poten-
tially excellent movie into a failure. There are few scenes in this
movie that are profoundly powerful which makes this movie a lit-
tle better than average. But a few scenes don’t make a movie,
there is just too much symbolism, too ambitious for its own

“Why did I pay
$8 for this?”

There is a purpose
to the overkill

good, and too little character
development. It seems this is. one
of those movies where, leaving the
theater afterwards, the question
that pops in the mind is: “Why
did I pay $8 for this?”

It is impossible not to compare
the two movies. Both are about
combat experience in WWII and
both came out in a span of six
months. The central theme of both
movies is the effect of violence on
the minds of the soldiers. How
they differ is in the way they
showed and represented it. Ryan is
a no-nonsense look at combat,
describing the horrors of war
through unpoetic and extremely
tenacious violence. Red Line
describes the horrors of war
through a philosophical mindset
and visual poetry. The former is
very fast-paced for a movie with
running time that clocks at almost

'three hours, while the latter is

.slow-paced and requires a great

‘deal of patience to watch.

Many who have seen The Thin

Red Line probably have seen

Saving Private Ryan, which came
out six months earlier. Many of
them are disappointed because
they expected another Ryan,
which was fast-paced and straight-
forward, and never expected the
deliberate slow-pace and the
philosophical implications follow-
ing the violent encounters in Red
Line. Perhaps it is better to see
“Thin Red Line” before “Saving
Private Ryan,” but in the end, it’s
up to the personal taste of the
viewer.

7 She Really All That?

By Sharon Druck
Entertainment Editor

Since before the first play
was ever written, authors
have been borrowing ideas
from each other. This prac-
tice has never fallen out of
favor, even though each gen-
eration has another name for
swiping ideas from one
another. This trend towards
recycling is-alive and well,
and very present in the new film, “She’s All That,”
wright George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece “Pygmalion.”
“Pygmalion” told the story of a phonetics professor who makes a bet
with a friend that he can pass a common flower girl off as a duchess
at an embassy ball, “She’s All That” tells the story of a high-school
hotshot who makes a bet with a friend that he can turn any girl in
school into the prom queen.

Zack Siler (played by Freddy Prinze, Jr.)is dumped by his long-time
girlfriend six weeks before the prom. Rather than wallow in the
humiliation, he decides to bet his best friend that he can take
absolutely ANY girl and turn her into the most popular girl in school.
His friend chooses Laney Boggs (Rachel Lee Cook), the stand-offish
art student who often condemns the more popular crowd for being
shallow. After the bet is made, Zack approaches Laney, but she is
anything but interested. The more she pushes him away, the more he
pushes back, and the two begin to form a friendship. This is compli-
cated by many things, from the Prom Queen race to the competition
from Zack’s best friend Dean (Paul Walker) who wants to make sure
that this is one bet that Zack loses.

The main strength of “She’s All That” is that it doesn’t take itself
too seriously. Many movies of this type fall into that trap, and they
become pretentious. “She’s All That” revels in its cheesiness, mak-
ing fun of itself every chance that it gets. R. Lee Fleming, Jr’s is
witty and charming, with very few sour notes. A choreographed
dance sequence and the running commentary of the school DJ high-
light the film, giving high school the same air as a surreal media cir-
cus. The greatest strength of “She’s All That” is the fact that it pre-
sents the message of being comfortable with who you really are
without turning into a stuffy after-school special. It would be going a
bit far to call ““She’s All That” the movie of the year, but it’s definetly
worth plunking down your $8.50 for 90 minutes of wonderful
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Springfest, a combination of four rap acts and an open-
ing act took place last night at the Racc. The four acts
were The Lost Boys, Brand Nubian, Lord Tariq and

opened at 7pm
as planned and the
show was slated to start at 8:30.
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen prob-
lems the show did not start until
more than an hour later. This unfortunate
happening made time a problem from the
start because the show had to end at 11:30.
The opening act delivered a full perfor-
mance of about forty minutes followed by
The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys, unfortu-
nately only performed for about a half-
hour before leaving the stage. They were
followed by
Brand Nubian
who only per-
formed three
songs, which
were wonder-
fully received.
At this point,
it was eleven-
twenty. There
were’ twelve
more minutes
of the show and
neither Lord
Tariq and Peter

Before during or after the show, all acts were
interviewed. Some of the highlights of the inter-
views are printed thus. .
Lost Boyz: “We’re from South Jamaica Queens,

and we’ve known
each other since we
were kids,” said
Mr. Cheeks, a
Lost Boyz
member. “We
were playing
together
then, and
we're play-
together

ing

”

“We may have
been cut short,
but we were still
good as all hell,”
stated a member
of the Lox.

now.” Apparently this summer Cheeks will be

releasing a new album titled after his Grandfather,
“John P. Kelly” with a new hopeful single titled,

“Take a Hike.”

Lox: The Lox, who consist of three members,
Sheek, Jada Kiss and Styles, have known each other

money.”

all of their lives.
They are from
Yonkers NY, a
suburb of the
Bronx.

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laborate on other
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albums,” claims
Jada Kiss.
“When someone
calls you to have
fun rapping on
their record, you

do that s**t!
Because you
make free

When asked of their competition, Styles replied,
“We are the best. It’s as simple as that,” boasts

Styles.

Styles continues, “I’m gonna have candy bars,
clothing label lines, sneakers and sweat suits, all

named after me.”

I Just Flew In and
Boy, Are My Arms Tired

By IAN LESLIE

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- Political correctness is
thrown out the window when
comedian Todd Parker takes
the stage. Combining the
brashness of a young Eddie
Murphy with his Generation
X persona, Parker brought his
raw style of comedy to the
SUNY Ballroom last
Thursday evening.

With a confident and cocky
attitude, Parker had no prob-
lems confronting issues of
sex, and drugs, while taking
the time to mention his own
genitals at every given oppor-
tunity. Addressing these top-
ics resulted in simultaneous
laughs of both embarrassment
and pure hysteria.

With only 30 individuals in
attendance for Parker’s per-
formance, the comedian
could have easily written the
night off and given a half-
hearted performance.
However, showing true
comedic talent by incorporat-
ing the small audience into
the act. Constant dialogue
between the comedian and his
audience made for more then
a few loudly amusing
moments.

Parker’s appearance at
Albany was part of a five-
school tour, which included

Paltz and Buffalo State.
Sponsoring the tour is
Campus MCI and Citibank.
The sponsors are hoping that
this tour will help to inform
students of ways that their
SUNYCards can be used as
more then just student identi-
fication cards said Jennifer
Fulkerson, a Citibank repre-
sentative. SUNY Cards can be
used at ATMs when you’ve
added a free Citibank Debit
Account and your student
identification can also be
used as an MCI calling card.

Describing his own style of|
comedy as “slightly offen-
sive” it may have been the
females in the audience
which he was offending.
While most of the males in
the audience appeared to be
enjoying themselves, many of
Parker’s jokes that were of a
sexual nature were not
laughed at by many of the
female students in attendance.
However the older women in
the audience did laugh at
these jokes. Just as every-
thing else in life, Parker’s
style of humor will be
enjoyed by some and not oth-
ers.

Parker has been a guest on
the popular television show
Married With Children‘in
addition to an appearance on
MTV and has recently audi-

Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz:

“We’re from the Bronx. We’ve been together for

ten years and before that, our high schools used to

battle. We had different rap styles so there really
was no way to tell who was better, that’s why we
joined together.”

When asked what their future aspirations were, Peter
Gunz said “To own the Bronx and make it a separate
city,” and Lord Tariq said, “To be mayor of New York
City.”

Brand Nubian which
consists of Grand Puba,
Sadat X and Lord Jamar is
one of the few pioneering
rap group that still is push-

Gunz, or the
headlining act,
The Lox, had
yet performed.
Programming Director Matthew Susser decided to cut
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz from the show and have the
Lox immediately get on stage. The Lox did thus, and ten
minutes later the event was called to a halt. :
“They [the administrators of Springfest] disappointed
the fans. We really wanted to per-
form for everyone and it wasn’t
our fault. Hopefully we can come
back again and things can be done
differently,” stated rapstar Peter
Gunz in an exclusive interview

performances at the State
Universities of New York at
Geneseo, Brockport, New

tioned for the Just For Laughs
festival in Montreal.

named Bang. He was quite skilled at what he did. ‘

“These kids have a lot to offer,” claimed President of
Highwire
ce¢o.rds;
Edward
Heelam. “They
write their own
songs and there
is no one better
than our pro-

Styles continues, “I’m gonna
have candy bars, clothing label

lines, sneakers and sweat suits,

directly after the show. all named after me.” ing out hits. They are from 4UCET; ORY
“T got the chedda’ [money], so I New Rochelle. They will Stuvdivat. : ; e.
don’t care,” stated a member of the have a new release in the Highwire : : *

didn’t seem to
have any prob-
lem with the show. “I think the show went really good,
really good. This is the biggest show we’ve done,”
explains D-Mob. “I think we were treated fairly, said sev-
enteen year-old member Bliz. I mean no one knew us
right? We got a good deal.”

Highwire is currently working on a great number of
projects, all those interested, point your browser to:
www.Highwirerecords.com.

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late summer, because
they just started record-
ing.

The opening act,
Highwire consisted of D-
Mob, Tone, Mad Dog,
J.B., Soundwave, Big
Turk, Bliz, Strauberi, and
Meekah. Strauberiand

Lox. “We may have been cut short,
but we were still good as all hell.”

Unfortunately, the timecuts were
not the only problem according to
some students. “I think it was horri-
ble for three different reasons: First,
it was a wrong decision to have it on
a Thursday night. Second, there were
really no special or big acts. All of
the acts were corny. Third, there
were too many guys and not enough
girls. Oh, and the sound equipment
sucked,” stated Junior Greg Dixon.
His cousin, Andrew Dixon agreed,
“The sound equipment was s**t on
fire.

Some audience members however,
did not share similar views. “It was a
good show,” explained Officer Robinson of the
University Police Department (UPD). “Artists needed a
little more time to represent, but at least we had a show.”
According to Jay Stuart of Guilderland High School, just All of the members
because the show had flaws, it was not ruined. “Brand hail from Albany
Nubian was hot,” stated Stuart, “They made the show _ besides D-Mob, who is
good.” from the Bronx. There

All Student Association members who were asked ___ was also a local break-
refused to comment on the show. dancer with the group

Meekah are female,
while the rest of the
group remains male.


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Gordon Captures Second
Daytona 500

Mistake by Wallace costs
him lead with ten laps
to go in Daytona

By JEREMY MorRISSEY
Sports Editor

The Super Bowl of auto racing, the
Daytona 500, had its two biggest names
battling for the checkered flag up to the
final lap. Jeff Gordon and the Intimidator,
Dale Earnhardt, finished in first and second

place with only a .128 second difference:

between them. NASCAR's season didn't
take long to heat up with a very competi-
tive opening race.

Though Gordon only led seventeen laps
in the race, he led the last ten to pull off his
second Daytona 500 victory in three years.
The three time Winston Cup champion had
already made some groundwork to his
third straight Championship by taking the

his decision with just over 25 laps to go
may have cost him the race. He fell from
first to eighth in the final ten laps and
missed out on his first chance to win
NASCAR's most prestigious event.. The
slip was blamed largely on his decision not
to make a pit stop during a caution period.

With only 27 laps to go, Bobby Hamilton
crashed and the yellow flag signaling a
caution came out. Wallace and his crew
decided not to go into the pits, but
Earnhardt and Gordon went in and got new
tires. Ultimately, it was undecided whether
the fresh tires made the difference, with
even Wallace saying that he wasn't sure of
the decision.

Chevrolet took four of the top five spots,
with Kenny Irwin, last year's top rookie,
being the only Ford. Three others were in
the top ten.

Pontiac had their most disappointing day
of the three major automakers. There only
appearance in the top ten was Kyle Petty
with his seventh place finish. Only two of
their drivers, Petty and Ernie Irvan finished
on the lead lap of the race. Another Pontiac
driver, rookie Tony

pole in the qualifying round.
However, when the race
started Gordon's lead was
quickly lost to Bobby
Labonte.

NASCAR's season didn't
take long to heat up with
a very competitive
opening race.

Stewart, shocked racing
when he qualified second
but ended up finishing the
race in the 28th spot.

The first sixty laps saw
eight lead changes between six drivers but
at lap 58 Rusty Wallace took over. Wallace
held the lead for laps 58-121 by himself
and then switched on and off from then on.
However, Wallace's day ended in disap-
pointment.

Though he led the race for over 100 laps.

The race started off with
Gordon in the lead and
ended with Gordon in the lead. To some-
one not watching the race it would have
sounded pretty typical. However, this race
was anything but typical or boring. Gordon
has had three consecutive seasons with
over ten wins and appears to be well on his
way to his fourth.

Memorabilia Sold
Off at Auction

OJ’s

Some of the Juice’s items
that were auctioned

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Hall of Fame Award.......... 11,500
Number 32 Jersey.............5. 5,175
University of Southern Cal.

Hall of Fame Trophy........... 2,070
ABC Wide World of Sports

Player of the Year Award.....1,955
Two Tiffany-style lamps.....8,050
Life-sized OJ Statue........... 3,738

Painting........ Sy eee) ere 6,325
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auctioned off this week

Many of OJ Simpson’s items were sold off this week by the Butterfield & Butterfield
auction house to pay off the $33.5 million dollars owed by Simpson to the families of
Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown. The debt stems from the civil wrongful death suit filed
by the families holding Simpson liable for the two deaths in 1994.

Simpson’s Heisman trophy was the most expensive item sold. Though it was estimat-
ed to be worth four million dollars it cost just over a quarter of a million. The trophy
received more than half of the total money earned by the auction.

One man, who bought a jersey and a Hall of Fame award of Simpson’s, said he was
going to burn the goods in front of the Los Angeles County Courthouse. However, most

_of the buyers were not so opposed to the former Buffalo Bill.

The auctioned items were obtained by the sheriff’s office of Los Angeles county and
were placed in storage. The reason it has taken so long for the items is to be sold is that
lawyers have been battling over what could and could not be auctioned.

Recently, Simpson’s house was put up for auction and sold. It was destroyed though
not for any political reason: The owner wanted to build a different house in its place.

Simpson still owes over $30 million dollars. The auction raised nearly half a million
dollars to go to the two families.

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Great Danes Have Tough Time on the Road

Men, women lose conference games

On Saturday night, Mike Sales had 20
points and 10 rebounds and Steve Pratta
scored 16 points, all in the second half, as
Stony Brook rallied in the final period for
a 65-63 New England Collegiate
Conference victory over Albany on
Saturday at USB Sports Complex.

Stony Brook took over sole possession
of third place in the conference standings
after trailing 51-41 with 9:22 remaining.
The Seawolves regrouped with 14 unan-
swered points, while Albany went score-
less for nearly six minutes. :

Chriss Balliro, who had 12 points off
the bench, put his team ahead on a jumper
from the right baseline, and Josh Little
converted a layup off a steal to push the
lead to 55-51 with 4:47 left. Stony Brook
scored their final eight points from the foul
line to hold the lead down the stretch.

Todd Cetnar led the Great Danes with a
career-Figh 30 points, including 7-of-12
three point attempts. Will Brand had 11
points and seven rebounds for Albany,
while Matthew Haggarty added 10 points.

On Wednesday night, Brian McCulley
came off the bench to score 14 points and
Binghamton held off Albany, 72-70.

Petr Burda, who had 14 points, missed a
six-foot jumper in the lane at the buzzer

which would have forced overtime.

Albany trailed 69-60 with 5:31 remaining,
but closed within 71-70 on Matt

. Haggarty’s right baseline drive.

Binghamton’s Chris Ballerini split a pair

The Great Danes suffered

through 23 percent shooting

in the first half

of free throws with 10 seconds left to give
his club the slim two point lead.

Binghamton reversed a 40-39 halftime
deficit with 11-straight points to open the
final period. Nick Neumann, who had 14
points and eight rebounds, keyed that out-
burst.

Will Brand led the Great Danes with 19
points and nine rebounds, while Todd
Cetnar and Haggarty scored 18 and 15,
respectfully.

The Lady Danes also struggled this past
week. On Saturday night, Mary Schelp

scored 13 points and Stony Brook defeat-
ed Albany for the first time in NECC play,
58-49.

Albany trailed 27-17 at halftime, but then
scored 12 straight points to open the sec-
ond half. Megan Buchanan, who missed
her last two starts with facial injuries, tal-
lied 11 of her game-high 19 points in that
stretch. Buchanan’s three-pointer gave the
Great Danes a 29-27 lead.

Stony Brook responded with seven con-
secutive points to-go ahead for good.
Ruane converted a 3-point play when she
was fouled on a driving layup to put her
team in front. She scored 10 of her 11
points in the final period. The Seawolves
built their lead to as much as 12, at 45-33,
with 8:12 remaining.

Liz Tucker was the only other Albany
player in double figures with 11, as the
Great Danes suffered through 23 percent
shooting in the first half.

On Wednesday, Bess Greenberg scored
16 points and set the school’s single-sea-
son scoring record to lead Binghamton,
ranked 19th nationally, to a 70-61NECC
victory.

Binghamton earned at least a share of the

conference’s regular season title by jump-

ing out to a 22-8 lead in the opening nine

minutes. The Colonials extended their
margin to 49-32 early in the second half.

Albany rallied to within six points on
four occasions in the final seven minutes
behind the play of senior point guard Kelly
Paolino, who had 17 of her career-high 28
points after halftime. Megan Buchanan,
who had 18 points in her first start since
Feb. 3, hit a three-point field goal to close
the gap to 67-61 in the last minute.
Greenberg hit four free throws down the
stretch to seal it.

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Winter. cams..prepare for-Home stretch
Basketball looks for ECAC berths; track goes for NECC crown

By Mike Kiernan
Sports Editor

The University at Albany winter teams
are looking to finish strongly this season.
After starting off the season slowly, the
men’s and women’s basketball teams are
both in the running for an ECAC Division
II Tournament berth. The men’s and
women’s track teams. go to the NECC
Championships this weekend at Southern
Connecticut State. Both teams are the
defending champions.

The Great Danes play

keys to stopping Stony Brook Saturday
night will be on the inside. The Danes also
need to be able to put points on the board

-in both halves. They were held to seven-

teen in the first half at Stony Brook.
Warner also says they need to take advan-
tage of their second chance opportunities
as well as their open looks,.two things they
struggled with last weekend.

Warner believes the key to victory is how
the team will play together as a whole.
“Every player has a particular role on this
team and they are going to. have to play
those roles to perfection,” Warner said.
“When we do that, we play very good bas-
ketball.”

The Lady Danes need

Stony Brook on
Saturday night, trying
to win the right to play
in the postseason.
These two teams met

The Lady Danes have
a possible chance at
an ECAC berth

to win their last two
games. They have a
possible chance at an
ECAC berth, but will
have to beat Stony

up just last Saturday

with the Seawolves getting the best of the
Danes 65-63. Albany held a ten point sec-
ond half lead but fell apart in the final
eight minutes. Both teams have similar
records in NECC play. The Danes will
have a little more incentive to play hard.
It’s their last regular season game and it’s
Senior Night. The Danes graduate one
senior, guard Bob Markel.

Head Coach Scott Hicks feels the Great
Danes need to play well as a team to be
successful. “We’ve had a nice second
semester,” Hicks said. “We’ve played our
best basketball when the team has played
with discipline on defense and unselfish-

ness on the offensive end. We need to play —

sound fundamental basketball.”

The Danes are eligible for a berth in the
ECAC Tournament. They’ve already met
the standard, which is a .500 record.
However, winning will enhance their
chances of making the tournament and
possibly hosting a game.

The Lady Danes are in a must-win situ-
ation. Last weekend the Danes lost to the
Seawolves in what Head Coach Mari
Warner said was a “poor team effort.” The

Brook convincingly to
offset their past couple of losses. “We just

want to put ourselves in the position to be

eligible,” Warner said of the possibility of
postseason play. “After that, it’s up to the
committee to make the decision.”

The Men’s Track team will enter this
year’s meet possibly as a slight underdog
to Southern Connecticut State. Last year,
the Danes edged out SCSU by a mere ten
points. This year Southern Connecticut has
had their eyes solely on this meet, aiming
to knock off the two-time defending cham-
pion Great Danes. This meet has also been
the focus of the entire indoor season for
the Danes. SCSU is very strong in the
throws and pole vault. They could quite
possibly go 1-2 in each of those events.
The Great Danes look to score big in the
5000m, 3000m, and mile. Southern
Connecticut State is very strong up front,
but the Danes hope that depth will become
a factor. Head Coach Roberto Vives
believes it will take about 170 points to
win the meet and feels that his team is
capable of doing just that.

The Women’s Track team will have all
eyes focused on them. The two-time

defending champs look to be favored
again. They are not quite as deep as the
men, but are very strong up front. In the 18
events, Vives looks to possibly be able to
possibly win ten or maybe even more than
that. That’s 100 points already in a meet
that he expects about 170 to win. “The last
three weeks of training have been very
positive on both teams,” Vives said.

“We've been very focused on what we
have to do and. that should help us on
Saturday.”

The homestretch is here for the Great
Danes and with it comes the expectations
of success. All four teams have the oppor-
tunities to succeed. All questions will be
answered this weekend.

ALBANY SCOREBOARD

Men’s Basketball (14-12, 9-8 NECC)

2/13
2/17

Stony Brook 65
Binghamton 72

ALBANY 63
ALBANY 70

Women’s Basketball (11-13, 8-9 NECC)

2/13. Stony Brook 58 ALBANY 49

2/17 ~~ Binghamton 70 ALBANY net

DATE TEAM OPPONENT TIME

2/20 Women’s Basketball Stony Brook 5:30
Men’s Basketball Stony Brook 7:30

Men’s Track
Women’s Basketball

2/22

at NECC Championships 12:00
Southern Vermont 7:00