PUBLISHED AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY BY THE ALBANY STUDENT PRESS CORPORATION
VOLUME LXX IV
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ALBANY
STUDENT
PRESS
November 20, 1987
NUMBER 37
Taxi overcharging situation improving,
but fares are still inflated, report says
By Robert Wieland
A follow-up investigation in taxicab charging practices
shows that consumers still are being overcharged.
“The students of Albany are being ripped off says An-
drew Greenblatt, a student representative of New York
Public Interest research Group (NYPIRG), the group
conducting the survey.
In March, NYPIRG revealed that taxicabs were
routinely overcharging customers — especially SUNYA
students — by as much as 250 percent.
The follow-up report, released at City Hall Tuesday
morning, states that customers are still being overcharged
95.8 percent of the time. Out of 95 passengers polled, on-
ly four were charged the correct fare.
The original report showed that each ‘‘average multi-
fare rider’? was charged two and one-half times the cor-
rect amount, Greenblatt said.
The survey released Tuesday shows ‘‘those days are
gone,”’ Greenblatt said, that the overcharge factor has
decreased to only one and a half.
“It’s true, cabdrivers are overcharging, said cab driver
Plumhof, ‘People don’t know the current fare because
they don’t know how to read the map.”’
The city of Albany uses a ‘‘zone system’’ to set specific
fares for cabdrivers to charge. For example, if two
students were to take a taxi from State Quad to the Lamp
Post, they would be going from Zone “‘E’’ to Zone ‘‘B’’,
making the correct fare $3.35 (before 6).
The NYPIRG survey also showed that out of 72 people
who rode in taxis, only three remember seeing a zone map
in the cab. And only one person said he had time to study
Cabdrivers are required by the Code of the City of
Albany to “prominently desplay’’ the following informa-
tion: the Chief of Police phone number, zone maps, and
badge number of the driver.
“Students who are being abused because of high rates
can get in touch with [Public Safety] on the spot,’’ said
Greenblatt,’’ or take down the badge number of the
driver and call the NYPIRG offices.
“If the taxidriver doesn’t have a badge number, then a
$25 fine could be levied against him if a consumer com-
plains,’’ Greenblatt said.
Following release of NYPIRG’s March report, the
Albany Common Council Taxi Committee held hearings
to discuss possible legislation to correct these issues.
Seven months later, no laws have been passed, and the
current laws have not been enforced by the City of
Albany, Greenblatt contends.
“No legislation has yet been pased, so Albany taxicab
passengers are still subject to a poorly regulated system
and all too frequent overcharging,” Greenblatt said.
NYPIRG held an informal press conference on the
stairs of Albany’s City Hall to emphasize the fact that it is
not the fault of the individual cab drivers, but of the
Albany legislature, which they claim has dragged its feet
during the last seven months over this issue.
As the legislature decides what it should do, NYPIRG
has published a consumer guide to the Albany taxi
system, to be distributed in supermarkets, hotels, and
SUNYA so students and other consumers will be better
educated about the zone system.
NYPIRG has also established a taxicab hotline
(442-5650) in the SUNYA NYPIRG office to aid
passengers with problems in using the city’s taxis.
“*We hope that the city will now act promptly to protect
the people its:supposed to serve,’’ concluded Greenblatt.
“Too many things have been in the planning stage too
long, at the community’s expense.”’ 0
Programming director quits
Four new SA positions open for applications
By Jennifer McCormick
NEWS EDITOR
McCrensky
The first vacancy in this year’s
Student Association executive
Berke, and
served as
programming director
together
responsible for programming events
even know, is appalling.’’
Central Council representative
Jeff Flynn said ‘‘we don’t think
they’ve been above board with it.’’
co-
with Rob
they were
branch opened up Wednesday when
Programming Director Paige Mc-
Crensky resigned for ‘‘personal
reasons.’”
The position, along with four
newly-created posts, are open for ap-
plications through Dec. 4.
Our fickle weather takes a turn
for the frigid this weekend. Today
looks to be mostly cloudy, with a
good chance of light snow mixed
with rain before evening.
Temperatures will hit 40.early to-
day, but will drop in the afternoon
and bottom out, somewhere
around 20 degrees later today.
Very windy tonight. Mixed clouds
and sun Saturday, with some flur-
ries likely, high in the low 20s.
Continued cold Sunday.
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Letters & Opi
Sports .
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Upcoming Events
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See centerfold
for SA and its groups.
McCrensky said her resignation
“was best for myself and for SA.””
SA President Matt Doddo said
that although there are no bad feel-
ings, it ‘‘was kind of a mutual
thing,” that McCrensky’s personal
difficulties had been affecting her
job performance. >
Berke said that dividing the posi-
tion between two people, a concept
SA instituted last semester, had been
hard from the start, explaining that
he had done work alone over the
summer, making it difficult to incor-
porate McCrensky into the job once
the semester began.
Berke said he was surprised at the
resignation. He had attributed the
problems to “‘a slow transition.””
“Tm really upset, because she
really knows what she’s doing and
on this campus, a spirited person is a
rare thing,”’ Berke said.
One problematic situation
resulting from the resignation is that
Central Council, SA’s legislative
branch, was not informed of the
resignation at Wednesday’s meeting.
Some SA officials say this ex-
emplifies-a communication problem
between the two branches.
Internal Affairs Committee Chair
Lori Ann Fee said not being inform-
ed “really aggravated’’ her, that to
find out Thursday ‘‘an ad was plac-
ed in the ASP for programming
director, and Central Council didn’t
He found out Thursday after notic-
ing her nameplate had been removed
from her office door.
Doddo said Council should have
been informed during the executive.
reports, and had asked Vice Presi-
dent Steve Harrison to make the an-
nouncement because Doddo
couldn’t be there. Harrison ap-
parently did not do so.
Doddo said Harrison told him
Thursday morning that he had not
said anything at the Council meeting
because McCrensky had not submit-
ted a written resignation. Doddo
said he ‘‘was upset’’ with Harrison,
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ILEANA POLLACK UPS
SA President Matt Doddo
HOFFMAN UPS
Assemblyman Ed Sullivan
Sullivan urges
student unity
on dorm issues
By Howard Fox
STAFF WRITER
Ed Sullivan, chair of the New York State Assembly
Higher Education Committee, was guest speaker at a
residence hall hearing which drew 13 people outside the
Student Association Lounge Thursday night.
Sponsored by Student Association of the State
University (SASU), topics discussed ranged from dorm
self-sufficiency and bathroom maintenance to the
presence of asbestos.
The Higher Education Committee of the Assembly
deals with, ‘‘all education beyond the secondary level:
colleges, universities .. . vocational licenses, CUNY
[City University of New York], SUNY, money for the
private sector. New York State gives more to the private
sector than all the other states combined,” said
Sullivan.
Sullivan explained that the dorms used to be subsidiz-
ed by the State. With self-sufficiency “‘you [the
students] are financially responsible but you, as a class,
did not agree fo it,’’ said Sullivan. “‘Look into it to see if
it’s constitutional.”
According to Sullivan the reason for self-sufficiency
was bonding which finances big capital structures such
as dorms. Payment is thus stretched out. New York
state put in a covenant that guaranteed rents in the
dorms make the bonds attractive. ‘‘That’s why rent
keeps going up. Dorms must be filled or rent increases.
The state needs guaranteed incomes,’’ Sullivan said.
“Covenants can’t be changed but they can’t be il-
legal. Look into it, it could scare people,”’ Sullivan said
to a student who didn’t like the concept of self-
sufficiency. .
“You should be allowed normal use of your room to
chat, have a party [at 10 p.m.],”’ said Sullivan, adding
students are entitled to ‘‘locks, water, repairs . . . elec-
tricity. This is known as the ‘warranty of habitability’
but it doesn’t legally apply to dorms [which are exempt
from the rental law].””
Sullivan urged the audience to not get bemused by
names and to concentrate on substance. ‘Find out what
a license or lease does for you,’’ Sullivan suggested as an
example for the presence of the license system a person
who might want to live in the dorms even though they
graduated and no longer attend the university.
“‘Many groups have floundered because they only
had a vague idea of what they wanted,” Sullivan said.
He emphasized that “‘you must organize yourself, iden-
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NEWS BRIEFS
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Soviets sell photos
Moscow
(AP) Wheeling slowly in orbit, a Soviet
satellite snaps a sharp picture of the Seattle
scene 150 miles below: a ship cleaving
Puget Sound, the Kingdome stadium, fac-
tories, jets lined up at an airfield, even
cars.
Soviet prowess in military recon-
naissance from space is no surprise, but
this photo is available for $70 from a ven-
ture begun this year to sell Soviet satellite
photos and mapping skills abroad.
“‘We are open to do business, and to
make money,’’ says Vyacheslav A.
Piskulin, general director of Soyuzkarta, a
company based in Moscow.
In the opinion of Soviet and Western
specialists, however, pictures from a
camera with a 1,000mm lens, and other
Soviet cameras, surpass anything now
available to private users.
Group claims protest
Stockholm, Sweden
(AP) A human rights group said Latvians
protesting the takeover of their homeland
by the Soviet Union 47 years ago fought
with Soviet authorities in the streets of two
Latvian cities.
In Moscow, an official of the Soviet
republic of Latvia denied the report.
“There were no cases of violence,”
Leonard L. Bartkevich, the Latvian
foreign minister, told reporters in
Moscow. “‘I am stating this officially.’’
The Baltic-Helsinki Group said about
8,000 Latvians fought with police Wednes-
day in the Latvian cities of Riga and Lieba-
ja. The group, based in Stockholm, cited
Latvian exile sources in West Germany. It
mentioned many arrests and injuries, but
gave no figures. Wednesday was the 69th
anniversary of Latvia’s independence from
Russia on Nov. 18, 1918.
The Nation.
Deficit debated
Washington, D.C.
(AP) Talks -between Congress and the
White House on shrinking the deficit are
snagged over details of the plan, but
negotiators predict they will strike a deal
before Friday’s deadline.
The bargainers, set to hold a 19th
closed-door session today, were hoping to
shake hands on a proposal that would save
about $30 billion in fiscal 1988, which
began Oct. 1, and at least $45 billion more
next year. About $9 billion in new taxes
this year, and more next year, would be
included.
But the negotiators still have several per-
sistent problems to solve, including the
threat that even if they reach an agree-
ment, the House or Senate might reject it.
Ve...
Liberals have complained that more
military cuts are needed, while conser-
vatives want more reductions in domestic
programs and fewer taxes.
Couple kills teen
Hartford, Conn.
(AP) State police say a couple involved in a
love triangle with a 17-year-old runaway
arranged her strangulation in a wooded are
of western Connecticut before going out
for pizza.
Raymond E. King, 17 and Katherine
Witkowski, 25, of Goshen N.Y., on
Wednesday were charged with murder and
conspiracy to commit murder in the death
of Mary Vickery of Shipman, IIl., state
police said.
King was being held on $250,000 and
Witkowski was awaiting extradition from
New York,
King’s aunt, Joanne Moore, 35; of New
Fairfield, was charged with intentionally
aiding to commit murder and ordered held
on $100,000 bond pending arraignment to-
day, state police said.
The State
Immigrant shot
New York
(AP) Police are unsure if the execution-
style shooting of a Russian immigrant on
probation and awaiting trial on weapons
DONNETT BARNETT UPS
Laying new pavement — so that’s what they’re doing in the wooden box at the fountain.
PREVIEW OF EVENTS
charges had any connection to the ‘“Rus-
sian Mafia,”’ a small Brooklyn gang.
The shooting Wednesday of Boris
Rubinov, 31, occurred several hours
before another Russian immigrant was
shot twice in the back on a Brooklyn
Street. Police said they did not know if the
shootings were related.
Rubinov was found shot five times after
the car he had been driving smashed into a
parked car in Brooklyn, Police said.
A law enforcement source, who asked
not to be identified said Rubinov’s arrest
tecord, which dated to 1983, included
charges of being a pickpocket, criminal
Possession of a weapon, grand larceny and
menacing.
Gates: trial was just
Albany
(AP) Wyley Gates, the 18-year-old con-
victed of conspiracy in the shooting deaths
of four members of his household, believes
justice was done at his trial, according to
an interview on the ABC news program
“2020.”
According to a transcript of the inter-
view obtained by the Albany Times-
Union, Gates answers a number of ques-
tions about himself and family, but is not
: permitted to answer by a voice off-camera
when reporter Tom Jarriel asks Gates if he
committed the crime.
Wyley Gates was charged with eight
counts of murder, but was convicted only
of planning the deaths. Despite a confes-
sion, jurors said they could not convict
Gates of murder because his rights were
violated when a lawyer was barred from
the room during police questioning.
Blake found guilty
Syracuse
(AP) Convicted) murderer William R.
Blake Jr. was found guilty of robbery and
drug charges that could add another 12
and one half years to a prison sentence that
already stretches well into the next
century.
The verdict was returned Wednesday in
the same courtroom where Blake was
found guilty in June of murdering Onon-
daga County Sheriff's Deputy David R.
Clark. After the jury foreman finished
reading the verdict about 6 p.m., Blake
turned to his attorney, smiled and said,
“Better luck next time.”?
Blake faces a maximum sentence of 12
and a half to 25 years for the new convic-
tion. Senior Assistant District Attorney
Richard P. Plochocki said he will ask
Auser to impose that sentence and order
that it be served consecutively with the 57
and a half years-to-life sentence Blake is
serving for killing Clark and wounding
Deputy Bernard J. Meleski.
The robbery and drug possession occur-
ted a few days before Clark and Meleski
were shot Feb, 10 outside DeWitt Town
Court.
Visiting County Judge Wallace Van C.
Auser scheduled sentencing for Dec. 3.
Free Listings
FRIDAY, NOV. 20
Telethon ’88 Dance marathon
will be held in the CC
Ballroom from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.
This year’s theme is Dirty
Dancing.
The Jewish Student Coalition
is holding Shabbat, Tradi-
tional in the Shabbos House
(corner of Fuller and
Perimeter) at 6:30 p.m.
Conservative Services will be
held in CC 373 at 6 p.m. All are
welcome. :
Russell Sage College will be
showing Yellow Submarine to-
day and tomorrow In the
Schact Fine Arts Center at 7
p.m. Admission is $1.
SATURDAY, NOV. 21
Biloxi Blues will be showing
tonight for the last time in the
Performing Arts Center, Main
Theatre at 8 p.m. $6 for the
general public, $4 for students
and senior citizens.
The Roman Catholic Com-
munity Council is sponsoring
A Night at the Movies in
CC 375 at 8 p.m. Everyone is
welcomed. Free refreshments
will be served.
SUNDAY, NOV.22
The Hartwick College Choir of
Oneonta, the SUNYA Chorale
and The University Communi-
ty Orchestra will be perform-
ing Mendelssohn's Elijah in
the Main Theatre at 7 p.m.
General Admission is $3,
students $1. Tickets will be
available at the door one hour
before the concert.
The Off Campus Association
will hold ‘its regular weekly
meeting at 2 p.m. ‘in the
Washington Tavern.
The Class Council of 1988 will
hold its regular weekly
meeting at 9 p.m. in the SA
lounge.
The Class of 1989 will hold its
fegular weekly meeting at 6
p.m. in the SA lounge. New
members are welcomed.
Russell Sage College will be
showing The Lion in Winter in
the Schact Fine Arts Center at
7 p.m. Admission is $1.
MONDAY, NOV. 23
The Central Council Safety
Committee will hold its
regular weekly meeting in the
SA lounge at 9 p.m.
Peace Project will hold its
regular weekly meeting at 7:30
p.m. in CC 361.
COMING SOON
TUESDAY, DEC. 1
CUE will be sponsoring a
special meeting for Pre-Health
students (juniors only) at 4
p.m. in LC 5.
SUNDAY, DEC. 6
Friendship Across Borders, an
international gathering, will be
held in the PAC lounge at 3
p.m. The topic will be Brazilian
mystique, music and singing.
en RI
Budgets approved
Wednesday’s Central Council meeting
passed two budget lines for two organiza-
tions previously not Student Association
Funded: the SA Supreme Court and the
Student Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism (SCARR).
Supreme Court received $435 to be
divided among SA services, secretary
wages, room rentals, and supplies. David
Ettinger, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, was pleased with the budget,
stating, ‘‘I feel this is a big step for the
SA Supreme Court. The funding that
Central Council has provided will allow
the Supreme Court to run in an efficient
and proper manner.”
SCARR received $420, to be split bet-
ween conference fees and SA services.
They had applied for a budget last year,
but were rejected and did not appeal.
Receiving these fundings moves the
two groups from being simply SA
recognized to funded status. The fun-
dings will be coming out of the Emergen-
cy Spending Funds of Central Council,
according to the discussion at Wednes-
day’s meeting.
Coke is in!
Club Coca-Cola, a corporate-
sponsored fund-raising tour is scheduled
to come to the University Gym Saturday
beginning at 10 p.m.
The event is a dance club party, co-
sponsored by the Coca-Cola corporation
and Student Association programs.
Large screen TVs and a sound system will
be set up in the gym especially for the
event, Admission is $5, also making
students eligble for the door prize:an
answering machine.
The event is being scheduled despite
University Auxillary Service’s Pepsi-Cola
contract for exclusive distribution of
Pepsi products. Club Coca-Cola,
however, is independent of UAS.
All proceeds from the event will be
donated to Special Olympics.
Chairman elected
Dr. Rajender Abraham of Albany was
recently elected chairman of the Nor-
theastern chapter executive committee of
the March of Dimes, announced Nov. 11
by Pat Fattibene, the executive director.
Abraham has served on the executive
committee for three years, during the
third year as treasurer. An ex-professor
of toxicology, pharmacology, and tox-
icological pathology, he currently is em-
‘ployed: as a professor at the SUNYA
School of Public Health.
For 50 years, the March of Dimes has
been raising money to conduct research
towards the ending of birth defects.
“This is the first time a doctor has been
chairman of this chapter,” Fattibene
said. ‘‘We are fortunate to have Dr.
Abraham’s expertise and dedication in
our fight against birth defects.”
Education lauded
A statement released by Governor
Mario Cuomo, declared the week of
Nov. 15 through Nov. 21 ‘‘American
Education Week’’ for New York State.
Similar proclamations have been issued °
throughout the nation as the country
prepares to observe this annual event.
This year’s theme — ‘‘We the Peo-
ple . . . Building Schools Together” was
selected to commemorate the bicenten-
nial of the Constitution. All citizens are
urged to make a commitment to public
education by donating their time and
talents to help make public schools even
better.
“The public schools are an important
and integral part of our society,’’ Cuomo
stated. “The concept of a free and equal
education is an American tradition and
this country’s strength.
— Compiled by Eric Lehrfeld
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1987 0. ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3
DAVID MORRELL UPS
“Jews tor Judaism” official Lawrence A. Levey
College students are ideal
cult targets, speaker warns
By Bryan Sierra
Deceptive tactics used by certain cult
like religious groups to convert Jews were
discussd at an informal seminar Thursday
night.
About 30 people attended to hear
Lawrence A. Levey, director of the East
Coast Branch of Jews for Judaism, discuss
methods used by some Christian mis-
sionary groups to draw Jews into their
belief system and organization.
Levey classified groups such as Jews for
Jesus as “cults” because they “‘manipulate
and deceive Jews by false claims,’” and use
submission or repression of individuals to
follow an authoritarian leadership.
Levey said that Jews for Jesus is only
one of perhaps one hundred groups na-
tionwide that use these practices, but it is
the best known of it’s kind.
During the presentation, Levey, himself
a former member of a fundamentalist
group known as ‘Beth Messiah,’ showed a
videotape preduced by another fundamen-
talist group known as Assemblies of God.
The videotape, called Twice Chosen,
depicted Jews who had joined Christian
groups. It claimed that the ‘‘chosen few
can be born again” and that ‘‘Jews have a
criminal view of Christianity.””
The film showed graphic pictures of the
Holocaust and of concentration camps. It
also attempted to show how Jews can lead
happy lives as Christians.
Levey explained one of the most com-
mon tactics used, which was presented in
the videotape. The attempt to create a
Christian environment using Jewish
themes, such as the Sabbath, or symbols
such as the Star of David, is intended to
make an easier transition for many Jews,
he explained.
Levey worked for a Washington, DA.
law firm, where he came in contact with
clients who were members of Beth Messiah
in Rockland, Maryland. He joined the
organization in January, 1981. The
ministry was headed by a “rabbi,” really a
Christian minister using Jewish ter-
minology, he claimed.
Levey said he joined because he was a
“perfect target.’’ His belief in Judaism
was not solid, and he was having doubts.
He said that college students, especially
freshmen and seniors, were ideal targets of
these groups because they are at a time of
great transition and therfore, the most
vulnerable to these ideas.
Upon reading the New Testament,
Levey said that he found it to be “‘anti-
semitic”’ and lost his belief in Jesus. He
found that the claims that led him to the
mission were based on ‘false and
mistranslated quotes’? from- the Old
Testament.
Levey said that the purpose of the
organization was to show the public and
both the Christian and Jewish com-
munities what tactics are being used by
these groups to recruit members. He said
that it was important to establish a defense
against these methods.
The event was sponsored by World
Jewry, part of an organization known as
the Jewish Students Coalition. Oo
By Andrea Orrill
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
The Public Safety Department has
issued a composite sketch of a male
suspect who assaulted a female State
Quad resident Oct. 22.
According to Assistant Director of
Public Safety John Henighan, the
suspect pushed the female up against a
wall and began to sexually assault her,
ut fled when two students responded to:
her screams.
Henighan said the attacker has not
been identified and he hopes the com-
posite will help.
“Nobody has been apprehended yet,
but if he shows up, he’s going to be notic-
ed,’ Henrighan said.
Investigator John Hayner said he is in-
vestigating the possibility that the suspect
“may presently be under arrest by
another police department for a similar
offence.
“Ihe composite has been distributed to
Public Safety officers and to some
residence halls, Henighan reported. He
said hé did not expect a repeat of the Oc-
tober incident, but that “residence staff
is aware that we’re looking for this guy.””
The suspect is described as a six-foot
white male of medium build with very
light blond, almost white hair. He has
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UPD issues composite
sketch of male attacker
Brubacher door
decoration set
on fire Thurs.
By Colleen Deslaurier
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
A Brubacher door decoration on Alum-
ni Quad was set on fire early Thursday
morning, making this the third fire of
similar type of the week.
According to Director of the Physical
Plant, Dennis Stevens, the alarm was
sounded at 1:30 a.m. when someone set
fire to a paper turkey hanging on the Resi-
dent Assistant’s door of Brubacher’s third
floor.
‘Minimal damage” was done to the
door, and no one was hurt, Stevens said.
“There were a few char marks [on the
door],’’ said the Brubacher RA, who ask-
ed not to be identified. ‘“The smoke was
very extensive.’’ ‘‘The hall needed to be
cleaned up”? Dorm Director Adam Berman
said, because of the fire extinguisher and
ashes from the decoration.
Brubacher residents were evacuated, but
were able to reoccupy the building at 2:30
a.m., Stevens said.
Residents were let back into the building
after arson investigators and Public Safety
investigators arrived, alarms were reset,
and smoke from the fire extinguisher had
cleared, according to Berman.
Although no arrests have been made,
Stevens said that they do have some leads
and the incident is currently under in-
vestigation by Public Safety.
Using the fire extinguisher in her room,
the RA’s roomate put the fire out, accor-
ding to the RA.
“She reacted quite well,’’ Berman said,
adding that the student was responded to
the alarm system, notifying her ‘‘there was
a problem.”’
Two separate incidents occurred on the
uptown campus last week, Stevens said, in
which another door as well as a
wastebasket were set on fire. A fourth fire
destroyed a Colonial Suite last week.
Although Stevens said he ‘‘would
doubt’? the three lesser fires are connected,
he added that they are similar because
there are, ‘‘three individuals who care very
little about the people they live with.”
Stevens said these fires, “‘place a'lot of
people in danger and should not be
tolerated,”? adding that fires such as these
are seen as a prank.
“Iv’s a recent rash of recent incidents
that are some concern.” Stevens said.
blue eyes and a pale complexion with a
dangling gold earring in his right ear.
Haynar described the suspect as
““somewhat unique” because of his ‘‘ex-
tremely pale blue eyes lost in a sea of
white skin.””
Anyone with any information about
the suspect should contact the Investiga-
tion Unit at 442-3177 or 442-3130. Oo
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State Quad sexual assault.
suspect has platinum blonde air,
unlike that pictured in the composite.
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Career women discuss job market experience
By Heather Levi
STAFF WRITER
Is it possible for women to
“have it all’’ in our highly com-
plex and fast-paced world? This
was discussed in a seminar spon-
sored by the New York State
Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG) Thrusday at 7 p.m. in
the Assembly Hall.
A panel of six career women
from a wide spectrum of fields
spoke about their experiences as
working women. The panel in-
cluded Chris Kapostasy , co-
anchor for the six and eleven
o’clock news on Channel 13;
Louise Stoney, executive director
for the New York State Child
Care Coordinating Counsel; Bon-
nie Spamer, director of Women
Studies at SUNYA; Marie Max-
well, director of Nursing at
Capital District Psychiatric
Center (CDPC); Macey McArdle,
a programs coordinator at the
Albany Medical Center daycare
center; and Loretta Benjamin-
Samuels, Residential Life opera-
tions coordinator.
Kapostasy discussed women’s
career development, saying,
“There is discrimination in
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Anchorwoman Chris Kapostasy at Thursday’s forum
broadcasting as well as in any
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for women to become a TV co-
anchor. One way is to go to
school and work hard in the fields
of journalism and broadcasting.
The second way is to enter a beau-
ty contest.”
Kapostasy added, “‘It is not go-
ing to get better for women until
there are women in key manage-
ment positions.””
Two other panelists also
discussed problems working in a
male-dominated field.
Benjamin-Samuels said, ‘“‘I
work mainly with men and the
challenge I face everyday is being
gentle and soft as well as acting
like a man.”
“have to work not only at-the,
level of my male co-workers but
at a higher level.” said Benjamin-
Samuels.
Maxwell added, ‘‘I have moved
up the ladder and am now in a
management position. There is.
a lot of stress but also a great
deal of satisfaction.””
Another main issue raised at
the seminar was that of childcare.
“The major responsibility for
child care is still up to the
woman” said McArdle.
According to Stoney, ““Women
are turning back the clock and
taking a personal responsibility.
This is the whole superwoman
issue.””
“We have to act and stop tak-
ing personal responsibility,” said
Stoney. ‘We have to change our
society and our government.”’
All panelists agreed that the na-
tion needs to help in general with
this childcare problem and that
childcare needs to be a more of a
shared responsibility between
spouses.
According to Stacey Millman
who organized the program,”’ this
project originated when we
(NYPIRG) were thinking about
career barriers for. women. Upon
doing research, we discovered
that one of the main things that
prevents the advancement of
women in the workforce is
childcare.”’
“This problem does affect the
college woman. In 5 to 10 years
college women will be in the
workforce and within 10 to 15
years they will be having
children.”’ said Millman ‘‘The
best way to educate the college
woman is learning from women in
the workforce today.
Students generally reacted to
the program in a very positive
way.
According to senior Sherrie
Ballaro, “‘I thought the program
was really interesting although it
doesn’t apply to my particular
situation. However, it’s good to
start thinking about it.’’
Junior Ira Cohen said, “I felt
that a lot of things came out that I
didn’t know about. It will make
me think twice when I decide to
have kids of my own.”
Millman added, ‘‘I was ecstatic
that there was an equal balance of
men and women in the audience.
It proves that childcare is a family
issue not just. a ‘women’s’
issue.”” o
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who could have explained a ‘‘for-
mal letter was forthcoming.””
“They feel it’s a lack of
respect,”’ Doddo said. ‘‘And I
understand that.”
Applications for a replacement
programming director are being
accepted through Dec. 4 at the SA
office, as are applications for the
new positions: technical director,
art director, public relations
director, and Test Bank manager.
Berke said these positions are
part of a “‘pilot program,” and
are therefore not salaried. The
directors should act as assistants
to the programming office, he
said.
Berke explained that the idea
behind creating the new positions
is to ease some of the burden of
the programming director,
especially in terms of publicity.
The public relations director
will coordinate the art director’s
designing with the technical direc-
tor’s use of typesetting equip-
ment, and will be in charge of the
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Lankowski emphasizes well-rounded educating
By John Malitzis
Radical in thinking, but caring at heart,
Professor Carl Lankowski is an intelligent
and concerned man involved with the
students and University.
As a professor of political science,
Lankowski is dedicated to educating the
SUNYA student body. Lankowski, who
considers himself a ‘‘Europeanist,’’
teach an array of courses in comparative
politics and international relations, at both
the graduate and
undergraduate levels.
Out of the many
courses he teaches,
Lankowski is probably
best known for In-
troduction to Comparative and Interna-
tional Relations, or POS 102. He aims tc
create in his course ‘‘an integrating mo-
ment so what is learned in one field will be
better related in another.’’ He presents to
his students many paradigms or models for
them to analyze, criticize and discuss.
His course is structured vigorously
because he “‘perceives it as a liberal arts ex-
perience, which is lacking at this Universi-
ty.”? He desires to make up for the gap
which exists in this University.
Furthermore, he believes the ad-
ministrators and professors have not tackl-
ed the virtually impossible task of deter-
mining ‘what courses make a well-
rounded student.”” He reasons that
because there are so many transfers, there
tends to be non-uniformity in the student’s
education.
Lankowski does say he likes the students
and says they are comparable to those at
the Ivy League schools. ‘They listen te
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He is stimulated by the fact ‘‘we are in a
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tage for him is he is allowed to teach both
undergraduates and graduates.
While pursuing his doctoral thesis,
Lankowski spent much time in Germany
gathering information on the Green Party.
While there a second time, he taught at the
University of Konstanz.
Presently, he is working with a graduate
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protests by the Green Party since 1963.
They are preparing for the writing of a ma-
jor grant to be funded by the National
Science Founcation.
He is involved in almost every aspect of
the University since he is a member of the
social science committee examining the
general education requirements, and is
also on the undergraduate committee for
the political science department.
Lankowski attended the Undergraduate
School of Foreign Services of Georgetown
University. He later moved on to Colum-
bia University’s Department of Political
Science where he received his doctorate.
The divergent ideologists or moods of
the two schools he attended shaped his
views and ideas. Where Georgetown is
very conservative, and boasts many of
“‘Reagan’s people,’’ Columbia is very
liberal.
At Columbia, he was active in anti-
apartheid and divestment movements, as
well as the successful movement to keep
Henry Kissinger out of Columbia. Being
parts of these movements helped shape his
views and ideas.
After receiving his. doctorate from Col-
umbia, he then taught at Hobart and on to
SUNYA.
“People want to come to SUNY
Albany,”’ said Lankowski enthusiastically,
“I had a couple of possibilities, but I chose
here.””
He believes that within the next 20 years,
SUNYA ‘‘will be among the top 20 [in the
country] in political science in
undergraduate and graduate, despite the
limited resources.’’ Aiding this, believes
Lankowski, will be the Graduate and
Undergraduate Initiatives.
Outside of his work at the University,
Lankowski loves foreign films. He also
spends much time with his wife raising
their two sons Matthew and Alex.
Lankowski challenges his students to
think, reason, and ‘open their minds to
enlighten them. He brings into the
classroom and his involvement with the
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Despite rules, residents house strange pets
By Bryan Sierra
Many students may find the
idea of having a pet in the dorms
very appealing, but unless you’re
an avid lover of tropical fish,
you’ll find that SUNYA may not
allow your favorite animal friend
in the dorms.
According to John Murphy,
Associate Director of Residential
Life and Housing, the Residence
Licence specifically prohibits all
pets other than tropical fish in the
dorms.
According to Murphy, the
University is sensitive to the basic
health standards of the students.
Therefore permitting pets in the
dorms would create unsafe, un-
sanitary conditions for the
students, Murphy said.
Sanitation is the big problem,
Murphy said. The University does
not have the proper facilities to
care for the needs of individual
pets, he added.
The rule was initiated to protect
the rights of roommates in these
situations. Many people do not
like pets, and it would be unfair
of a student to impose an un-
wanted pet upon his or her room-
mates or suitemates, Murphy
said.
However, many students feel
that if basic sanitary conditions
are met and there is no conflict
with roommates or suitemates,
they should be allowed to keep a
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students admitted housing cats
in their rooms. One student even
said she had a parakeet. Although
she knew about the rules, she
does not regret getting the bird,
“it’s somthing to look at other
than these ugly walls,” she said.
Many students agreed with
this,adding that pets add a home-
like environment to the rooms
that they’re sorely lacking.
One Indian Quad resident said
that his suitemates agreed to get a
hamster “‘since it’s quiet, clean,
and no problem to anyone.”
And residents of one Dutch
Quad suite agreed that ‘“‘as long
as our frogs don’t bother
anybody, why should there be a
rule saying we can not have
them?’”
However, there are pets being
kept on campus other than small One student living off-campus
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year. She bought it because it was
an interesting pet, and because
“pets are an enjoyable part of
life, and serve a positive pur-
pose,”’ she added.
a few weeks before school end-
ed, she said University officials
found her snake. She was asked
to take it off the campus and no
action would be taken against
her.
Murphy said that this was the
standard procedure. If a Resident
Assistant finds the pet, he may
ask the student to remove it. The
only time action is taken, Murphy
added , is if the student does not
remove the pet or if he blatantly
disregards the rules of the
University.
Other than the usual domestic
pets, Murphy said that there has
not been a strange assortment of
pets on campus because students
are aware of the rules regarding
pets.
While Murphy said that pets
are incompatible with an educa-
tional environment, one student
disagreed. She said there should
be an exception for Biology 110,
where a behavior project involv-
ing animals is necessary. There
are no exceptions, she added, and
said that “these people should be
able to work something out with
the people at Residential Life.
Murphy added that it is better
for the well being of the pet that
they are not allowed, since
students may not care properly
for these pets. This was the major
concern of those students who
wanted pets, but decided not to
get them.
In reference to next weekends
extended vacation, Murphy warn-
ed, “‘if there are pets other than
tropical fish, please take them
home.” He added that during any
recess, a pet left on campus may
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Reaching out
Dorm tenants rights is an issue that’s been
floating around campus ever since SUNY
announced that its dorms will be self-sufficient,
meaning that dorm rates would be set to cover the
costs of operating the individual dorms.
Some student leaders felt that students were
now being treated as renters and therefore should
have the same rights granted to those who sign a
lease and live in an apartment or house. Most
notable is the right to privacy — the University
currently has the right to inspect dorm rooms
whenever it wants.
Student rights are being infringed upon, some
say.
But just how many students are actually
complaining? Judging from the turnout at
Thursday night’s open forum with New York
State Assemblyman Ed Sullivan, chair of the
Assembly’s Higher Education Committee, it’s not
too many. The forum was billed as a “‘hearing on
residence hall conditions,’ and only 13 students
showed up. All but one were from Student
Association or SASU.
Are dorm tenant rights what the average
student cares about? Or is it an issue that was
created and is being promoted by student leaders
without strong backing from their constituents?
Perhaps our elected student representatives — in
both SA and SASU — should find out.
Most of the input SA gets from students comes
in the form of someone complaining about
something or other. A student’s room has mice or
somebody can’t have a Tupperware party because
the University prohibits private enterprise in the
dorms. But what about the other 99 percent of the
students who don’t walk into SA’s doors with a
problem?
SA must reach out to them. It has to find out
what they would like their student government to
do. A simple survey could accomplish just that —
and answer the question of whether or not SA is
wasting its time on dorm tenants rights.
Pet peeves?
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go
It followed her to SUNYA one day
Which was against the rules
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school. . .
Poor Mary. Too bad she didn’t have tropical
fish.
They’re the only pets students are allowed to
keep in the dorms, but that hasn’t stopped a
sizeable number of students from harboring
kittens, snakes, birds and ferrets behind closed
doors.
But do these animals create problems? That all ©
depends.
Ultimately, the University has a responsibility
to its students to maintain sanitary dorms and
promote an educational atmosphere there. When
animals come in the way of this, the rights of
students who pay for their dorm space should
supercede the rights of free-loading pets.
To effectively handle the situation, the
University has a blanket policy banning all pets
without gills from the dorms. This means that if
any student objects to an animal in the dorms, it
will be removed immediately.
Pets that aren’t a problem are those pets that
are well kept and loved by all. They tend to stay in
rooms and no one notices them, nobody
complains, nobody finds out and nobody cares.
But just in case you happen to walk into your
room to find a gorilla in your bed, its nice to
know that you can have it evicted mighty quick.
The University, however, doesn’t have to be
too concerned that its dorms are literally turning
into zoos. At least not until Mary’s lamb can keep
up with her car coming up the Thruway.
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If history is a testament to man’s short-sightedness,
selfishness and plain ignorance, the Reagan administra-
tion is just adding another chapter by its attempts to
finance and prolong a war in Central America which
undermines the steps for peace taken by the. region’s
heads of state.
Guillermo A. Martinez
The policy being pursued by the President is nothing
new and has been a fact contributing to the poverty,
underdevelopment and political instability of Central
America for decades, as Right-wing dictators have been
seated into power in attempts to promote American in-
terests — economic and political. With no real concern
for their domestic problems, these bureaucratic
authoritarian regimes have created worse situations and
in their attempts to stay in power, under great pressure
from populist movements struggling for a share of power
and wealth, have resorted to creating death squads. Their
intention is to arrive at an orderly society through mass
murder, terrorism and sabotage of opposing groups. A
look at the Civil Rights abuses committed by El Salvador
is a perfect example as American guns and money were
and still are being used to wipe out their civilian popula-
tion because their social uprising creates instability and an
arena for socialist and communist groups seeking to im-
plement their policies in hope to better the awfull condi-
tions in which these people live. It has been estimated that
125,000 Salvadorian men, women and children have been
murdered by these death squads and these figures are con-
servative because they are derived from the bodies which
are found. Tens of thousands more are missing. The car-
nage is unbelievable and yet American policy is persistent
in its attempts to use force as a means of diplomacy and
short term solution to the area’s problems.
Nicaragua, however, has been a different story as of
1979. In July of that year, the Sandanistas took control of
the country from a family which for 40 years had
relegated the people of Nicaragua to poverty through
massive oppression and death. Throughout the 40 years
which the Somoza family maintained control, American
weapons and financial support never stopped until the
Carter administration and its quest for peace saw an alter-
native with the Sandanista movement. There was a pro-
blem, however, not to the Nicaraguan people, but to
American politicians — the Sandanistas are socialists and
no matter if this was the solution to the social and
economic problems of the region it could not be allowed
to survive.
Just like the Allende government in Chile back in 1973,
it was a government put into office by popular elections
but its socialist nature led the Nixon administration to
destroy the country economically in order to weaken the
parties in control and the CIA added the finishing touch
in helping to assassinate Salvador Allende, Chile’s
president.
In Reagan’s pursuit of antiquated goals and ideals, he
has allowed the CIA to mine Nicaraguan harbors and
even though he doesn’t admit to it, stood by as a marine
colonel broke national law (Boland Amendment) and
conducted a monarchy type foreign policy which financed
the president’s freedom fighters.That is, if you can call
Somoza’s ex-national guard, the same group which ter-
rorized and murdered tens of thousands as freedom
fighters.
The President has tried to persuade the Amercian
public on the threat of the Sandanistas. He has presented
their military strength, the largest in Central America, as
a threat to peace, but he doesn’t realize that it is the fear
of the Sandanistas of a U.S. invasion which leads them to
a military build-up. Reagan accuses them of mistreating
the Church but he probably doesn’t understand that the
Church in Nicaragua is not its ten bishops, which are ad-
vocates for its displaced upper class, but the 3 million
Catholics which have lived in conditions worse than
anything imaginable. If Reagan is so concerned about the
mistreatment of the Church in Latin America why
doesn’t he denounce the Pinochete government in Chile
which is suppressing the Catholic Church at all levels,
both national and local?' Why hasn’t Reagan said
anything about the priests and nuns being murdered by
this American-backed dictator in Chile? Reagan attacks
the Sandanistas for their ties with communists states but
doesn’t realize that perhaps if the United States accepted
the Sandanistas as a socialist government with a ligitimate
concern for its people, not as some 1940’s ideology to
make the world communist, it could probably help
develop its economy and stabilize the region through
financial support,thereby eliminating the Nicaraguan
dependency on Marxist goverment.This would be an
alternative to arming a rebel group, which members
average age is 17 years old.
One has to ask why is the Reagan administration so
preoccupied with Nicaragua, a country which has a
population of 3 million of which 1.5 million are children,
children under 15 years of age. Why does this administra-
tion create more hardship for these people? Why can’t
Reagan use his position to create some real change in the
region and set a precedent enacting a revolutionary policy
which will benefit American interest while also preserving
the dignity of an adequate life in Nicaragua?
The reason is that Reagan is an elitist, self-centered in-
dividual with such a vendetta towards the Sandanistas for
tainting his presidency and macho image that he will go to
extremes, even violating the law of our constitution. This
is not a man guided by logic or any type of rationale. He
maintains his stance and is asking Congresss for almost a
quarter of a billion dollars to keep financing a bunch of
guerrillas who can’t agree on who to attack — peasants or
Sandanista troops.
Reagan’s persistence on the issue is creating even
greater problems. The president of Costa Rica, Oscar
Arias Sanchez,constructed a strategy for negotiation and
peace in Central America which four other presidents in
the area have signed and endorsed. This is a start to
creating some stability and communication between op-
posing factions in the region. It calls for a cease-fire, an
amnesty for the Contras, as well as insurgents in El
Salvador. Reagan opposes the proposal and has said he
wants more military aid for the Contras. Therefore,
Reagan is standing in the way for a peaceful approach to
the great problems of Central America. The Administra-
tion has helped push Colonel North’s slide show on the
Contras to colleges and universities around the country in
an attempt to misinform the American people on the real
problems and the alternatives to a military conflict in the
region, an undertaking which shouldn’t be so hard since
most Americans never learn about their neighbors to the
South. Perhaps it is left out of any high school curriculum
in an attempt to raise support against these misery-
stricken people if the need for Amercian troops in the
region is ever needed.
Just think of this:How long before Mexico becomes
another unstable and revolutionary state (the PRI — In-
stitutionalized Revolutionary Party — doesn’t live up to
its name) trying to overthrow Mexico’s “‘single party”
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Ah, Thanksgiving...
Family dinners, football games, the works. Tons o’ fun, right? Well . . .
Before I actually begin my tale, dear reader, let me explain something
pretty crucial; it’s about my Mom. She's the kindest-hearted person you'd
ever hope to meet, and these compassionate feelings become quite pro-
nounced during the holiday season — Thanksgiving in particular.
It seemed a normal, ordinary Thanksgiving . . . until I found out who
was coming to dinner.
“The Greenes?!?/ Mom, you don’t even like them that much,” was my
shocked reply upon learning the news.
“Now, honey, they're not so bad. And besides, they didn’t have
anyone else to spend the day with.”
“What about their kids??”
“Nice try, but you know they don’t have any,” Mom told me. We
were snagged .. . again. The only saving grace was that Grandma and
Grandpa would be there. Yes, I sure was thankful for the little things that
Thanksgiving.
In and of themselves, I don’t suppose the Greenes were that horrible.
But when you started taking certain things into account (like the fact that
they had their dog's nails polished — usually red), then they became very
strange. Very strange.
‘This should be interesting,’ | thought. Boy, was I ever right.
You see, my grandparents had never met the Greenes, so they were in
for a real treat. (Hee hee!)
The Greenes — Joe and Bertha — arrived early in the afternoon (oh,
joy of joys!), all set for a fun-filled day of conversation, eating, parades,
eating, ball games, eating, and giving thanks (for the stuff we had to eat!).
Surprisingly, things were going along pretty smoothly. Grandma and
Grandpa were holding their own, conversing pleasantly with the Greenes,
who were behaving themselves quite well; Dad was watching the game;
my younger brother Patrick was on the phone (and they thought J was
bad with that thing!). All this went on while Mom and I were cooking in
the kitchen where Smokey (our faithful family dog, who thinks he’s real-
ly a person and, of course, expected a place to be set for him at the din-
ner table) was keeping dilligent watch for any random flying scraps of
turkey, etc.
Yes, the world was at peace, and all was well on that pleasant
November Thursday. Until. . .
Grandma came into the kitchen for something. Drinks? Chips? Dip? I
don’t really remember anymore. Regardless, she came in for something.
And what she wound up doing was giving us the punchline to what has
since become a major inside joke, way up there on the family’s top ten
list.
“How’s everything?” (Please note the sarcasm in that... she did.)
“Oh, just fine. Why do you ask?”
“No reason. Just curious.”
Well, Grandma got what she had come into the kitchen for, or so she
thought. Halfway back to the living room, she turned around and came
back, with a look on’ her face that meant she hoped they (the now-
infamous Greenes) hadn’t seen her.
“Forget something?”
“What's his name?” Grandma looked from me to Mom and back again.
“Who?” We asked almost simultaneously.
“The fat man.” (Did I forget to mention that Joe weighed about
350-400 pounds?!?)
“What?” Then, almost as an afterthought, “Shhh!”
“What's the fat man’s name? Harry?”
Well, Mom and I lost it on that one. Harry?!? Where the hell’d she get
that from??? And to top it off, Grandma was sometimes (especially this
time) a lot louder than she thought. It was all we could do to get out
Joe's name between the laughs.
Ever since, whenever we've had company for Thanksgiving dinner (no,
thankfully, the Greenes haven't been back since that fateful long day's
journey into night), one of us will always walk into the kitchen and do a
repeat performance of “What was the fat man’s name? Harry?’
—— ud We
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November 20, 1987
Aspects 3a
Going back in time with Beehive
t was a show that overflowed with
if potential, but which only dripped on
stage. Beehive, a chronological
musical revue of rock and roll of female ar-
tists of the 1960s, had many elements of a
spectacular production, but was lacking in a
strong story line.
Matthew Mann
The show is narrated by Wanda, one of
the six female performers. She portrays a
teenager growing up during this era, who
recalls how she and her friends imitated the
great performers in her garage. Often, the
only indication that she was in the narrator
role was that she was wearing a juvenile
dress. However, this did not always prove to
be an accurate determinent, as she also sang
with the ‘pop’ singer she was remembering.
The stage was, appropriately, turned into
a giant jukebox, the kind that is still visible
on the tabletops in some old railroad car-
type diners. Set up against the song title
cards inside the juke box was the very
talented six-man band. While their music
was excellent, the electronic keyboard seem-
ed inappropriate for the time period.
By any measure, the best aspect of the
show was the forty-one songs, starting with
the innocent early sixties memories like “My
Boyfriend’s Back,” “Sweet Talkin Guy,”and
“One Fine Day” running through the British
Invasion and ending with the more mean-
ingful songs of “Respect,” “A Natural
Woman,” and "Society's Child.” The six
singers closely and expertly duplicated the
original performers, providing fine audio
likenesses. Most notable was an impersona-
tion of Diana Ross and the Supremes.
The cast of Beehive
While most of the songs were sung with
exactness by the pop-star mimics, Ann
Peck’s (“Ann”) rendition of “My Boyfriend’s
Back” was raspy. and off-key, one with
which the Shangri-Las would not want to be
asssociated, Fortunately, from that point on,
the music improved.
As ‘time’ progressed, and the music and
artists changed, the clothing and wigs did
also, intesifying the effect. The 32 wigs
moved women from the ‘beehive’ style (hair
teased and piled) to the natural (just what it
sounds like). Satin and chiffon gave way to
the mini skirt and then to bell-bottom jeans,
while the music progressed from rock and
roll through the British invasion to
Woodstock.
Each musical chapter was marked with a
run-through of some memorable history of
that year: Kennedy's election and assasina-
tion, Elvis’s release from the army, the ar-
rival of the Beatles, etc.
Some of the humor was of the “had to be
there” variety. It was evident, though, that
most of the audience had indeed been there.
The theatre, full of whispers and laughter,
merely indicated that most of the audience
The Hidden should be discovered
expect much from. The dearth of
mediocre action films in recent years
may lead many viewers to dismiss New Line
Cinema’s The Hidden as a routine cop film
at best. Yet, despite having a very familiar
premise — alien inhabitation — The Hidden
is one of the more enjoyable low-budget
films released since The Terminator. Making
the film different are very human acting,
and a well-crafted, often wickedly
humorous, script.
Ed Vaira
The plot begins as a seemingly ordinary
businessman, Jack DeVries (Chris Mulkey),
walks into a bank, pulls out a shotgun and
kills two guards. The ensuing getaway scene
in a stolen Ferrari makes some interesting
use of a Los Angeles park and Mulkey, as
DeVries, creates a very effective maniac.
LA-P.D. Detective Tom Beck (Michael
Nouri) leads the squad of police who track
the killer down and set up a roadblock to
trap him. Amzingly, DeVries barrels
through the roadblock and is admitted bare-
ly alive to the hospital. Crawling over to his
comatose roommate, he places his mouth
close to the other man’s and, in a marvelous
job of special effects, vomits a grotesque
organism into his roommate's mouth.
DeVries dies, but his roommate springs to
life, walks out of the hospital, and starts to
commit the same mayhem DeVries did. Baf-
fled, Beck (played nicely by Nouri more as a
veteran who'd seen too much action rather
than as just a cynical tough guy) reluctantly
accepts the help of a mysterious F.B.I. agent,
Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan). Beck
becomes immediately suspicious of
Gallagher's naivete and even more so of his
fierce determination to capture the rampag-
ing criminal. He learns from Gallagher that
the quarry they're after had murdered
Gallagher's family and former partner years
earlier, and Beck gains a little understanding
and compassion for his temporary partner.
He invites Gallagher to his home for dinner
and, in a beautiful wordless scene that's a
credit to MacLachlan’s quiet acting style,
Gallagher finds a picture of Beck's little
daughter and stares longingly at it, reminded
| here are some films that you don’t
ib
Michael Nouri and Kyle McLaughlin
of his own child. With his boyish face,
MacLachlan skillfully shows both the deep
pain and intense fury inside the agent
without ever changing expression. Beck’s
suspicion is rekindled as they chase yet
another receiver of the alien being.Bullet-
ridden yet seemingly unharmed, the victim
leaps to her death after Gallagher pulls out a
strange weapon. Beck learns that the real
Gallagher actually died a month earlier and
that a benevolent alien is inhabiting the
body. Skeptical at first, Beck finally trusts
Gallagher when Beck’s best friend becomes
still another receiver of the evil being.
Together, they pursue the being, leading up
to a very moving sequence.
The biggest of this film’s many surprises is
the company that it came from. New Line
Cinema has existed for 20 years largely on
very successful ultra low-budget horror films
(sub-$500,000 budget) such as The Last
House On The Left,The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre, and The Hills Have Eyes. They
branched out into the low-budget market
with 1984's Nightmare On Elm Street,
followed up by its two sequels, Nightmare 2
and this year's high-grossing Nightmare 3.
New Line has recently moved into the upper
ranges of low-budget filmmaking. Bob
Hunt's script, which required a very hefty
$7.8 million budget, was approved in the
post-Nightmare 3 success. And it’s a dandy.
was reliving the time period.
Other comical items were quite blatant.
For instance, “Annette Funicello” sang “I
Dream About Frankie” while holding a large
container of Skippy Peanut Butter.
Direct communication and_ interaction
with the audience contributed to Beehive's
unexpected action and reactions (most often,
giggles). People were invited on stage to
participate in the “Name Game” and the
“Twist.” Also, while the house lights were
on and the cast was gathering participants,
Wanda jokingly scolded late-comers. Clapp-
ing to the music was encouraged.
It was understandable that audience
members mumbled on through the name
game. The ‘cast members, however, ran
through it so quickly that their words also
sounded mumbled.
The audience could not help but relive
Woodstock through the thick smoke of the
Joplin numbers.
The first act, covering the earlier half of
the decade ran substantially longer than the
second, although it appeared that there was
a greater change in music and presentation,
and more room for more songs in the second
act.
The ending number, “Make Your Own
Kind of Music,” while commenting on
musical change, left unanswered questions
due to vagueness in the costumes and wigs.
(Was it 1970 or 19872)
Entertaining would best describe Beehive.
It was not a theatrical masterpiece, nor a
complete history of music of the 1960s. It
was a show to sit back and enjoy, one which
gave a nostalgic view of an era recently past.
Pop the money in the box office and listen.
The station house. dialogue is. surprisingly
fresh and crisp as are the exchanges between
Nouri and MacLachlan. And Hunt injects
some surrealistic humor into the action, such
as a prolonged sequence in which the
middle-aged hospital roommate steals a Fer-
rari and roars down the highway with heavy
metal music blaring all the time with a blithe
smile on his face.
Credit is due, also to Jack Sholder, who
helmed the moronic ripoff Nightmare 2 and
the cute Critters. Sholder handles all the ac-
tion competently, never overglorifying it,
and gives the film the steady pace it needs.
And he also gives just the right amount of
screen time to developing the two characters
and examining their little quirks. Kudos also
are due for Kevin Yagher, New Line’s resi-
dent makeup wizard (all three Nightmare
films). He creates some very impressive alien
sequences on the limited resources he has
but the gore never overwhelms the film.
The real key to The Hidden's success is
the interplay between Nouri and
MacLachlan. Nouri, primarily a TV actor
(Bay City Blues, Rage of Angels) handles his
role with great control, resisting the tempta-
tion to overact, and he never lets his
character's hesitency degenerate into stupidi-
ty. He carefully devotes equal amounts of
energy to portraying all the different sides of
Beck’s personality, from wisecracking
macho to familyman tender. And through
his efforts, Nouri makes Beck very human.
MacLachlan, a veteran of only two films
(Dune, Blue Velvet) gives Gallagher a
mysterious, gawky feel that one would im-
agine an outsider in a strange body would
feel. Yet, he also gives his kindly alien a
quiet grace and a stinging motivation that
helps the audience better understand his
slightly underdeveloped character, one of
the film's few faults. Another minor fault is
that the action drags a little during the mid-
dle half hour. However, these are only
minor problems. Overall, The Hidden is a
surprising action thriller with a wicked script
and very good acting. Well worth alook. 01
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4a Aspects
November 20, 19
t was a windy, stormy day when the
Pilgrims landed in the New World to make a
home for themselves. Captained by the
brave and bold Miles Standish, the Mayflower hit
Plymouth Rock with a crash so hard that Standish’s
black knickers fell to his ankles.
Although a tremendous amount of people
originally set sail for America, only a small percen-
tage managed to survive the rocky waters. One such
survivor was a young Pilgrim woman named Betsy.
It was she who nursed the sick, tended to the elder-
ly, and still had enough time three times a day to
serve Captain Standish his black coffee with cream
and sugar.
Not many people know this chapter of the
Thanksgiving story. However, it is imperative to
understand and totally know what Miss Betsy is all
about. You see, if it weren't for Miss Betsy and her
hastiness, the American tradition of Thanksgiving
would not be an annual event.
Miss Betsy, very much enamored of Captain Stan-
dish, based her entire New World-bound journey on
pleasing the Captain in every way possible. Unfor-
tunately for Betsy, however, Standish’s feelings
were not reciprocal. His every move was to ensure
that his followers got to the New World safely. This
was a very difficult task, being that Mother Nature
was not on his side. Everything seemed to go wrong
with the trip such as famine, wind, frost, storm and
death.
But lo and behold, on that windy day in 1620,
Captain Standish, followed by his secret admirer,
Miss Betsy, set foot on Plymouth Rock.
“Ay!” said Standish. “We have reached the New
World! Let us rejoice, for this is our new home!”
Miss Betsy was so proud of the Captain's bravery
that she gave the man a hug and said, “Good work,
Captain. You are the bravest man I've ever known.”
Betsy looked straight at him and batted her eyes
flirtatiously.
“Let's g0 ‘Pilgrims! We have a world to create!”
Standish'gave Miss Betsy a tissue. “Here Miss Betsy,
you must have a lash in your eye.”
Miss Betsy, very disappointed, did not despair.
She knew that one day she would gain Standish’s
love and have him to herself.
The Pilgrims walked on further uatil they found a
nice, clear spot to set up “camp”. Houses had to be
built, and food had to be found. However, a slight
problem arose. Before they had time to put their
baggage down on the ground, the Pilgrims were ap-
proached by dark, red men with feathers in their
long, brown hair. ,
“How!” said one Indian.
“By boat, of course,” Betsy responded, naively
rolling her eyes.
“We are friendly. We wish to cause no harm,” the
Indian stated. He was probably the chief. However,
he was very young, and extremely handsome. His
long hair blew in the breeze.
Standish extended his hand to shake the Indian‘s.
“I am Captain Miles Standish, captain of the
Mayflower and leader of the Pilgrims. We, too,
wish no harm.”
“I am called Squanto,” the Indian replied. “What
brings you to our land?”
Standish explained the whole story of the domi-
nant king and their long journey. In return, the In-
dians gave the Pilgrims corn and helped them build
houses.
One starry night, Betsy was alone in her cabin and
feeling blue. Since the Indians started teaching men
to hunt and harvest, Captain Standish was not pay-
ing much attention to Miss Betsy. Angry at this, and
determined to get her man, Miss Betsy put on the
most revealing piece of lingerie she owned and
quietly snuck into Standish’s house. Being a light
sleeper, Standish awoke immediately to see Miss
Betsy’s near bare bosom close to his face.
“Miss Betsy,” Standish jumped up; he was very
shocked. “Is everything alright?”
Seductively, Betsy walked closer to the bed. “I'm
scared, Captain.” She used a very sexy voice. “I need
to be with somebody. I don't want to sleep in my
cabin all alone. I'm so frightened,”
Betsy got into bed next to the Captain. Standish,
being a proud gentleman, explained to her that nor-
mally, it would be improper for a woman to be in
bed with him, but since he regarded her as a
daughter, it’s o.k. Standish then got out of bed, and
went into another room in his cabin to sleep.
Very angry, Betsy got up and decided to try
another tactic.
“That's it,” she said to herself putting on her san-
dals. “There’s only one way to get to this
man... jealousy.”
Quickly, Betsy left Standish’s cabin and went out
into the dark Massachusetts night air once again,
Looking around, she spotted Squanto’s tepee and
hurried to it. She ran in to find Squanto sleeping
under his covers. Quietly, she creeped under his
covers with him, and started kissing his ear
Waking up groggily, Squanto turned to her. “Miss
Betsy. What is this you are doing? Is there
something Squanto could help you with?”
Grabbing his long, brown, silky hair and staring
directly into his eyes, Miss Betsy said, “Oh, Squanto.
I think you are so beautiful. | was admiring you to-
day, watching you plant that corn in the fields. Oh,
what a muscular Indian you are.” Miss Betsy started
to breathe heavily into his ear. Squanto was beginn-
ing to breathe heavily as well. Betsy continued, “I
think ...1 think...I think I'm very attracted to
you, Squanto. I'll bet you and I could make better
music with each other than you can with that old
Peace Pipe of yours.”
Squanto was breathing even harder now. His
bare, muscular Indian chest was throbbing to the
beat of his heart. He grabbed Miss Betsy and started
kissing her passionately.
Nobody really knows what happened in that
tepee, but Captain Standish heard from the
Plymouth gossip, Josephine, that Betsy and Squanto
were together in his tepee.
One day, while hunting with Squanto, Standish
asked him about his activities with Miss Betsy the
night before. Z
“There is an ancient Indian saying: If woman
enters tepee, you must satisfy her, or it is defiance of
the natural laws.” Squanto smiled to himself, know-
ing how gullible the white man is.
This was all that was mentioned about Squanto
and Miss Betsy.
It was a late November morning when Miss Betsy
decided to tell Miles Standish exactly how she felt
about him. He was out hunting some turkey when
Miss Betsy approached him.
“Miles,” she said quickly. “I am absoultely in-
fatuated with you. I've loved you ever since the first
day we boarded the Mayflower. If you don’t feel
the same way, I'll absolutely kill myself. Say you
love me, please.” Tears were falling from Miss
Betsy's eyes as she literally threw herself onto him.
Standish was shocked. He could say nothing. He
took her hand and kissed it gently.
“Til give you my answer tonight, Betsy,” Standish
was a bit puzzled. “Come to my home at sundown,
and I will tell you then.” He walked away from her
to continue his hunting.
Standing alone, Betsy began to pray. Slowly,
Squanto came up behind her and grabbed her. He
began kissing Miss Betsy, but she tried to resist best
she could.
“Get your red, slimy hands off me!” she yelled. “I
don’t want you, Squanto.” As she walked away,
Squanto was very confused.
“White woman. How do you figure them out?”
he said to himself.
Back at her home, Betsy made the assumption
that Standish would soon come to propose marriage,
and decided to throw a big reception in honor of
If Miles hadn’t been
so Stand(off)ish.. .
by Mitchell Hahn
their engagement. She hastenly sent her friend to
kill a large turkey while she set a table bedecked
with corn, vegetables, and flowers.
At sundown, the Pilgrims and Indians sat around
the table to await the guests of honor.
Betsy was in Standish’s room waiting for him.
When he walked in, Betsy jumped on him. “Miles,
the others are waiting to hear of our engagement an-
nouncement. Let's go straight away and tell them.”
“Tm sorry Betsy, I don’t love you. I want to be
your friend, but I don’t want to be your lover,” Stan-
dish said courageously.
Betsy was in tears. “I invited all our friends to hear
our announcement. Now what, Miles? Oh, you
broke my heart.” She sat down in a chair, in
hysterics.
“Miss Betsy,” Standish said co
sorry.”
“What am I going to tell all of t
embarrassed!” Miss Betsy was cry
ever.
Thinking for a minute, Standish s
an idea, but first, Miss Betsy, you n
You must pledge our friendship to
get over this young, girlhood crush
Wiping her tears, Betsy looked at
“I promise,” Betsy said. “But I just w:
that I will always think of you as mc
but I'll make sure I don’t show it.
sweet man, Captain, and a noble «
gained her composure. “Now, what
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indish said comfortingly, “I'm
; to tell all of the guests? I'm so
Betsy was crying harder than
nute, Standish stood tall. “I have
ss Betsy, you must promise me.
r friendship to me forever, and
girlhood crush of yours.”
Betsy looked at him and smiled.
id. “But I just want you to know
nk of you as more than: friend,
don’t show it. You are a dear,
, and a noble one, too. Petsy
re, “Now, what are we going to
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Pilgrim
Those damn
pilgrims
Standish gave a sneaky look. “Weil, we'll have to
work on the gullability of the people. Here's my
plan,” Standish told Betsy what he had in mind.
They went out to the table where everyone was,
and Miles Standish stood at the head.
“My friends,” he began quieting them down from
their ovation. “There will be no engagement as I do
not feel I want to get married anymore. It is my
fault, and I take full responsibility.”
Standish looked around the table at the people's
faces. They seemed awfully bewildered, and Stan-
dish knew he had to talk fast.
“Do not despair, my friends. We will still have a
celebration,” he continued. “I feel it is imperative
that we continue in honor of Thanks. We are
thankful first to God, for getting us to the New
World safely. We are thankful to the Indians who
taught us to harvest and hunt. But mast of all, we are
thankful for each other, each family member, each
friend we have. Each one of us gives each other the
strength, determination, and perserverance to make
a new life. Each yaer, after the harvest, we must
traditionally give thanks for all we have. And now,
a silent prayer.”
All the Indians and Pilgrims were quiet for a mo-
ment. All of Plymouth Rock was a peaceful silence
as tears fell from the eyes of Pligrims and Indians.
Miles Standish and Miss Betsy looked at each other.
“Do you think they bought it?’ Standish
whispered to Miss Betsy.
“You did fine, Miles,” Betsy responded. “Just
fine.”
So you see, folks; what began as a cover-up for a
foolish girl’s hasty assumptions about the one-sided
love she felt, evolved into an American tradition.
And this, my fellow Americans, was the first
Thanksgiving feast. Oo
English colonists had been born with it.
Then they would have known what they
have stuck us with. Of course, I'm talking about
Thanksgiving, a holiday so wrought with tension
that the very mention of the word can cause
stomach ulcers. In my almost twenty years, I have
gained insight into the mystique surrounding
Thanksgiving. It’s more than a parade (a la Macy’s),
or a turkey with stuffing and all the trimmings.
Rather, it is a family fiesta, complete with twenty or
so relatives you haven't seen since last year’s feast.
Relatives . . . the word is almost as ominous soun-
ding as Thanksgiving. I'm not talking about parents,
grandparents, or siblings. I mean those fifth cousins
nine-times removed. You have to love those family
vultures who come each year to eat your food like
they've never eaten a meal before, and then they
leave, slip five dollars into your hand and say,
“Don't let your parents find out.” The logic behind
this always boggled me. Do they think they are pay-
ing me for the dinner (and not my parents), or do
they think their five dollars is going to change my
life? In either case, | still vow to be mean to them
next year.
Conversation with these relatives during dinner is
usually less than thrilling. I say ‘usually,’ because
sometimes you might catch some good family
gossip. Things like who's cheating on whom, who
went bankrupt, and who's pregnant but not married,
generally perk my ears right up. However, juicy tid-
bits like these are rare to. hear in conversation, and
most of the topics stay in the realm of small talk. If
hear, “You've grown so much since last year,” one
more time, I'll clobber someone with a leg from the
turkey.
Which brings us to the matter of food. Let’s lay it
right on the line. Does anyone really like turkey? I
sure as hell don’t, yet each year my family (as well as
everyone else's) feels compelled to buy a thirty-five
pound bird. The only reason we have turkey is
because those moronic pilgrims could not catch
anything else on the one day they decided to be
thankful. If they had waited one more day, they
might have killed a squirrel instead. (Imagine sitting
down to down to a hot juicy slice of Thanksgiving
squirrel.) The only delight I take in turkey is wat-
ching the little timer pop out of its hide when it’s
done cooking. This joy is shortlived, as I soon realize
Til be eating turkey for the next ten days (turkey
soup, turkey salad, turkey ala mode).
Seating arrangements for dinner are always the
same. We have a grown-ups’ table, and we have a
kiddie table. When I was ten or eleven, I thought
this was rather chic. We kids would have a much
better time than the adults. The only problem came
in obtaining certain items of food or beverages.
Most of these were to be found at the older people's
table, and getting them was a pain in the ass. I used
to torment my little brother by telling him that if he
didn’t get the bottle of Pepsi from the other table,
the evil turkey fairy was eoing fo comme and peck his
eyes out when he went to sleep.
By the time I was fifteen, sitting at the kiddie table
was no longer chic. In fact, it was downright
degrading. I began to feel like a babysitter. I cam-
paigned for adult status one year by threatening to
F oresight is the key word. If only those first
by Brian Hartstein
hold my breath until I turned blue. Although it
wasn't the most mature move in the world, my
parents got the message.
Way back when, my elementary school loved to
have Thanksgiving galas. The year I was in fourth
grade they decided to recreate the first Thanksgiv-
ing dinner. A noble idea, you might think. So did I,
but something got lost in their translation of the first
Thanksgiving.
Each student was put into a family grouping and
given a new name. The names came from the actual
Mayflower Charter. I was John Carver. He was the
first leader of the Pilgrims, and he also had the
largest family.
I felt honored and proud to have been picked the
leader of those brave pilgrims. My pride was soon
dealt a serious blow, as | learned that John Carver
had died months before Thanksgiving took place. I
was the first leader, but I was also among the first to
die.
I shrugged this knowledge off and decided to be
the best damn leader those Pilgrims ever saw. Being
deceased was not getting in my way of celebrating
the holiday. As it turned out, I wished that it had,
The meal they served us could be described with a
four-letter word. . . vile. I feared for my pseudo-
family’s life and my own. I could see the
headlines... “John Carver Finally Makes It To
Thanksgiving Dinner, But Dies From Ptomaine Po-
sioning Next Day.”
A couple of years ago, my great-aunt brought an
unexpected guest for Thanksgiving dinner. I should
explain that my great-aunt is very eccentric and very
into nutrition. Every year she brings about a hun-
dred newspaper clippings on what you should or
should not eat. I always promise to follow her ad-
vice and then never do.
Anyway, this particular year she brought more
than clippings: she brought a little girl. “Jasmine, this
is your cousin Brian.” I stared down at the little girl.
Something was definitely wrong here. First of all;
my great-aunt is in her seventies and had never had
a child before. I was sure she was well past her child-
bearing years. Secondly, the girl was Chinese.
If my great-aunt was this girl’s mother, then who.
was the father? I was sure that my great-uncle had
nothing to do with the conception of this little
girl .. . so then who did? The girl was very cute, but
I wondered about where she came from all night
long,
I had to ask and blurted the question out during
the meal. It turned out that this girl was a foster child
and my great-aunt was playing “mother” to her,
since her actual parents had been abusive, to. her,
This had been one of the few Thanksgivings that I
realized, out of my ignorance, how much had to be
thankful for.
It would ‘be great if all Thanksgivings could be
like that one — the type where there is a moral, or a
lesson learned about life. | think I should confess at
this point that I really do like Thanksgiving.
Although those relatives can be noisome, and the
turkey tasteless, there is something special about the
whole idea that really makes it something to look
forward to. I guess the Pilgrims did have foresight,
after all. oO
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November 20, 1987
Riding the Crest with Jethro Tull
music, Jethro Tull has done no less a
task, by fusing the unlikely combina-
tion of lead singer/songwriter/frontispiece
Ian Anderson’s flute with hard-driving rock.
Area fans braved heavy snow to see the
legendary band in action last Tuesday night
at the RPI Fieldhouse, where they kicked off
the first night of their current tour for their
newest release, Crest of a Knave.
I f Yes has fused classical and rock
Danielle M. Gagnon
Striking his dramatic flutist poses, while
his guitarists crank out riffs on either side of
him, Anderson seems an anomaly, possess-
ing one of the most unique images known to
the music industry: the Pied Piper of rock
and roll, Though a consummate showman
during a live performance, offstage Ander-
son describes himself as “an unbelievably
boring person.” The owner of a salmon farm
in Scotland, he explained, “I just talk about
fish all the time. Sometimes I even get bored
of it.”
As the show began, attention was cast
upon a lighted pit where Anderson stood,
dad in yellow shirt, paisley vest and leather
boots, looking every bit the part of the
“Minstrel in the Gallery” which he describes
in one of his popular songs:"A. drartiatically
executed "Songs From The Wood” was
played, followed by an “extremely edited
version” of “Thick as a Brick.”
The stage design was fairly simple (save
for the labyrinthine drum setup), a navy
blue quilt hung behind, displaying a design
resembling a royal crest. Much of the lights
were uncolored but were displayed in such a
way that they resembled a rainstorm.
The band played the first single from
Crest of a Knave, “Steel Monkey,” which
has been receiving considerable airplay. The
upbeat immediacy was enhanced by Ander-
son's vocals, which can have a certain sinister
quality to them, as he sang the puzzling
lyrics, “Can you guess my name/Can you
guess my trade?/Guess what | am/I'm a steel
monkey!”
Anderson then sang “Farm on the
Freeway,” a quiet bluesy song in the John
Cougar Mellencamp tradition about the
“perils of rural life” and the “plight of the
farmer.” A screen was lowered on each side,
upon which silhouettes of bare trees were
cast, and the band played what could be con-
sidered Anderson's philosophy of style, “Liv-
ing in the Past.”
A “fan” appeared onstage, and Anderson,
feigning anger, vehemently chased the
pretender off stage, thereby disappearing
himself. It was here that the show became
cumbersome: two drawn-out guitar solos
lan Anderson
and a drum solo dampened the excitement.
Anderson reappeared, and the band
played “Budapest,” from the new album,
which he told the audience “sort . of
celebrates middle-aged voyeurism and that
sort of middle-aged untouchables.” The
mood created was enticing, as dry ice smok-
ed out, and Anderson alone was bathed in
pink light while light beams shaped in
triangles descended upon other band-
members; the song lagged, however, as it ex-
tended past the fifteen minute mark. Then
came the hard-rocking “Hunter Girl,” also
from Crest of a Knave.
The show began to regain some
desperately-needed momentum when a
rousing rendition of “Too Old to Rock and
Roll, Too Young to Die” brought the crowd
to its feet, proving the remedy for an au-
dience tiring of the abundance of new
material.
By preordination, the highlight of the
show was the band’s performance of the
hallmark “Aqualung,” title track of that
legendary album. The familiar first six notes
had barely been executed when the an-
ticipatory crowd went into an immediate
frenzy. They were not disappointed, as
‘Anderson danced about the stage, wildly
gesturing, striking his elaborate poses, and
during quieter parts emotionally singing
lyrics like, “You poor old son/You see it’s
only .. . me.”
Following the show, Anderson recalled,
“(Aqualung is) a little brief history, a mo-
ment that I ran away from school at the age
of sixteen. I was really brave, but I ran away
from school having done top in all my ex-
ams and having been a really good boy. I ran
away from school and I proved to myself
that I could do the academic thing. I would
hate. to advocate (jt to) anybody else,
because I got lucky. And I might not have
well been lucky, in which case I'd be a pen-
niless drunk now.
“It's an autobiographical song unlike
many I've had, which are observational. Ac-
tually, most of the lyrics were written by my
first wife.”
Incredibly, this high point after
“Aqualung” was maintained by one of the
heaviest versions ever cranked out of the
chugging album-oriented-rock staple
“Locomotive Breath”.A brief version of
“Bungle in the Jungle” was played, but sud-
denly, Anderson regressed, singing the last
chorus of “Thick as a Brick.” Upon allowing
the audience to sing the final line, the band
departed.
The walls of the Fieldhouse had probably
not contended with such reverberating
screams for quite some time, and Bic flames
glowed everywhere as the audiences stood
in ovation.
The band returned to play “Windup,” the
last track on Aqualung. Arguably, this song
lent the most meaning to the album,
poignantly describing the hypocrisy of the
Church with lyrics such as, “Well, you can
excommunicate me/On my way to Sunday
School,” and, “In your pomp and all your
glory/You're a poor old man to me.” Ander-
son concluded with the heartfelt lyrics, “I
don't believe you/You had the whole damn
thing all wrong/He’s not the kind you have
to wind up/On Sundays.”
“We haven't done that one for years,” ad-
mitted Anderson after the show. “I mean,
we were actually going to play ‘My God’
tonight, as well as one or two other songs.
But because I got blasted halfway through
the show by that wretched smoke machine, I
chickened out and did some easier ones.”
Crest of a Knave has been selling con-
sistently well in the Capital Region since it’s
release. Tull guitarist Martin Barre asserted,
“We wanted to make a record that people
who like Jethro Tull would enjoy. When
yout make records, it's difficult! Ifyou take a
long time you're ultimately only playing
music for yourself.
“You can’t lose track if you sit in the
studio for a year. You have no one else, it’s
not like you have ah audience out there.
You have nothing but two monitor speakers
and your own opinion.”
Attaining promotional support from your
record company, Anderson hastened to add,
is also instrumental. “We invited a number
of people, 844 or something, who thought
of themselves as Jethro Tull fans. They
listened to the album before it was released
in order to get some feedback from them ih
terms of what they thought about the record
and individual songs. A lot of the people
that work for (Chrysalis) are people I've
never met before because I haven't been
around for three years in the States. To give
them some feeling about the record and
about what people thought about it, we did
that and it was very useful. It didn’t par-
ticularly help me because it said what I
thought I would say, in terms of response
from the people, which is encouraging.”
Last Tueday’s Jethro Tull show was a pro-
mising debut for an extensive tour ahead.
Undoubtedly, it is one of the more
memorable shows to come to the RPI
Fieldhouse this fall.
a patron to artists these days,” said
Max Lifchitz from his office before
one of this past weekend’s performance at
the Performing Arts Center for the
American Society for Composers Region II
Conference.
Stef McDonald
Contemporary composers in particular
were patronized and given the opportunity
to perform in three public concerts for the
Conference coordinated by Lifchitz, a
member of the organization.
A composer himself, Lifchitz described
the weekend's conference as an outlet for
exposure for aspiring composers. “Certain-
ly it’s an outlet for exposure and it's also a
way of exchanging ideas,” he said. “Many
people meet here, listen to each other's
music. That's the conference/convention
sort of thing.”
The society itself, founded twenty years
ago to represent composers that are af-
filiated with schools, has close to 150
members and, for the conference, Lifchitz
had to choose from 75 submissions.
“We selected the best — or what we
5 he University in many ways acts as
thought would be the best,” he explained.
“Also the most various to try to give a
chance to different points of view.
“Most of the music played is not
availbale on commercial records,” he said.
“The problem is the record industry is in-
terested in very commercial forms of
music. What we do doesn’t fall into that
category so we have to wait very long till
somebody's interested in recording it.”
For the time being being, the composers
meet and perform their pieces.
The evening program in the Recital Hall
at 8 P.M. featured seven compositions
ranging from a solo cello piece to an elec-
tronic tape. Excluding Brian Fennelly’s
“SUNYATA” which was written in 1970,
all of the compositions are from the
eighties. Thus the program was represen-
tative to an extent, of what is being com-
posed now, given the label by Lifchitz as
“the new simplicity.”
Hillary Tann’s fiery “Doppelganger” for
piano started the performance, beginning
very climatically and dramatically, then
winding down to an almost sweet lyrical
number. “Soliloquy” for cello, a composi-
tion by Elizabeth Bell, continued the pro-
gram in like fashion in_ it's eight
Conference of contemporary compositions
movements, slightly and broken like what
followed.
Two of the performances were actually
tapes — electronic recordings by Brian
Fennelly and Charles Bestor. Fennelly’s
“SUNYATA" dualed the electronic quirky
sounds and twangs like a space battle bet-
ween the two speakers projecting the
music. Then, Bestor's “Pathways, From
The Dream Spell Series” was as mysterious
as the title implies. Abstract and
suspenseful with unidentifiable sounds,
bouncing around made for a very fantastic,
unreal effect and steps echoed as if from a
dark hallway consistently at random
throughout the piece.
Also using a tape, but not the same elec-
tronics was Thomas Ross’ “Patapan” which
included live voice and guitar to go along
with the tape. A borrowed bassline from
Jimi Hendrix in a cycle of backward fifths,
layers of voices on tape reflected Ross's In-
dian influences.
Not all of the performances, however,
were as innovative in the abstract sense.
Patsy Rogers’ “SUNJA” for the voice and
piano was very theatrical, like a one-
woman opera. Soprano Lucille Field sang
impassioned pieces of poetry broken like
scenes reaching a dramatic height midway
through "Nights I awaken/with awe at my
own breath . . . /How it varies with joy,
with fear!” she sang with alarming ferocity.
The lyrics and expression were touched
with regret but also with a celebratory
outlook. “Since I saw her right after she
stopped breathing/how could | ever take!
breathing/for granted again?”
Finally Lifchitz’s own “Yellow Ribbons
No.2” for violin, clarinet and piano was!
performed. A tribute to the former
American hostages in Iran, the violin and
clarinet took turns speaking sparodically
and when all three instruments raged they
did so fervorously.
“A problem with this music,” Lifchitz ex-
plained, “is that it doesn’t fit a category so
easily and you can’t just say this is new age
or old age or middle age. I find it very dif-
ficult to label what it is.
“The purpose of this conference,” he|
said, “from the composer's point of view is|
to hear what everybody is doing and in|
terms of the audience it would be a way}
for them to have a chance to listen to}
what's being written today by live com-|
posers — people that are making culture.”|
oO
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November 20, 1987
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The SUNY Albany administration is to be criticized
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Why is it that the ASP, as the voice of students’ rights
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The few articles I have seen in the ASP on financial aid
have been College Press Service releases. While it is in-
teresting to know that John Q. Public at the University of
Oklahoma is having finanical difficulties, my concerns
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What are financial aid delays attributable to and when
can 1 expect my financial aid? These are questions the
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concerns.
The Administration at SUNYA exists for the students
benefit. It has been sorely negligent in this regard. The
ASP exists to seek out news and report it, to inform the
student body. The ASP has not lived up to that
responsibility.
—D. J. Quinn
Harmful materials
To the Editor:
T have been interested in reading about the recent ef-
forts of NYPIRG to persuade McDonald’s to reduce or
abolish their use of plastic dishes and containers. This is a
serious problem that must be adressed. Not only are there
indications that such materials are harmful to the at-
mosphere, there is also the immediate problem of
disposal. Waste sites in New York State are rapidly
reaching capacity, and it won’t be long before there will
be nowhere to put the stuff. But the problem is much
nearer home. Right on our own campus there is
widespread use of plastic dishes and trays by the Universi-
ty Food Service. As a university that is spending millions
of dollars on research into ways to improve the environ-
ment it is indeed ironic that we are at the same time con-
tributing to one of its pressing problems. It seems to me
that the university must take a stand and set an example
to the community by abolishing the use of harmful
plastics in the cafeteria, snack bars, and elsewhere. Other-
wise, McDonald’s and other commercial establishments
can look at what they might consider self-righteous
picketing and criticism and reply, ‘‘Physician, heal
thyself.””
— Donald B. Stauffer
Associate Professor of English
Myth and reality
To the Editor:
Thomas Ellis starts off his Nov. 13th column in the
ASP by saying that he feels ‘‘the issue of Soviet Jews has
been far too high on the U.S.-Soviet agenda for way too
long,”’ because the two countries ‘‘have many more im-
portant issues to discuss.’’ But if one reads further one
discovers that the central issue of the editorial is not
Soviet Jewry and the U.S.-Soviet agenda. The author’s
main topic is Israeli crimes against Palestinians, and his
opposition to the release of Soviet Jews because ‘‘the set-
tlement of more Jews in Israel... will be used as an excuse
to expel more Palestinians.
Ellis implies that Israel (and American Jewish
organizations) is directing attention away from its own
transgressions by using Soviet Jewry as a ploy:
“«[CJonstantly harping on this issue [Soviet Jewry] serves
to perpetuate the myth that Jews are always the victim...
[And] complaining loudly about Soviet mistreatment of
Jews tends to obscure the reality that the Israelis treat the
Palestinians far worse than the USSR treats the Jews.”
Based on his opinion that Israel is a greater violator of
Palestinian rights than the Soviet Union is of Jewish
rights, Ellis seems to feel that the Soviet Union ought to
be allowed to continue their oppression of Soviet Jews.
Now Ellis, and the Capital District Committee for
Palestinian Rights, whom I assume he is representing in
this editorial, seems to want to educate the public about
the plight of the Palestinians. But if that is his agenda he
ought to come right out and say it, rather than pretending
his main concern is the U.S.-Soviet summit meeting,-or
straining to prove that Israel is worse than the Soviet
Union, or baiting Jews with anti-Semitic remarks like the
one about “‘the myth that Jews are always the victim.”
— William Scher
Podium commerce
To the Editor:
If you have walked by the small fountain in the past
two years there is no doubt that you have seen us selling
our tee-shirts, tanks and sweatshirts. First off we would
like to thank you for purchasing our products. Unfor-
tunately we are no longer able to provide you with this
service because of the new strict permit laws. This is un-
fair not only for us but it is also very difficult for SA
recognized groups to get a permit to sell on the podium.
This seems most ironic considering the business reputa-
tion of S.U.N.Y. Albany. You would ‘think that the
University would allow students to take what they have
learned in the classroom and apply it to the real world.
Personally we have learned more about business transac-
tions through our selling than we have through our
textbooks.
Selling on the podium also helps to create a flea market
atmosphere on the podium, which the majority of the
students enjoy. Perhaps the saddest aspect of this pro-
blem is that it forces the students to pay the usurious
prices of the book store when we and others like us can
provide better products at half the price.
— David Madover
— Marc Lichtenfeld
Neglected winner
To the Editor:
“Court Decision on Elections Due in Two Weeks’’
(news story, Nov. 4) and “‘Judiciary Vote Rules Against
Munk’ (news story, Nov. 13) both failed to focus on a
key issue: the only loser in the Cary Munk controversy,
myself, the victor in the election held almost a month and
a half ago for Dutch Quad representative to Central
Council.
There should never have been a Supreme Court hearing
to begin with. Mr. Munk skipped a mandatory meeting
held by the Elections Commission and gave a false excuse
for being absent, claiming he had a class. He cried that he
was “‘advised”’ by the Vice President of SA, Steve Har-
Tison, to ‘‘lie’’. It seems ludicrious that a candidate for
SA could claim innocence in that instance. Does Mr.
Munk still need a nanny to lead him around and tell him
what is right and wrong? =
In addition, Mr. Munk had no drive to win the first
election, telling me a week before the vote that he would
simply be asking his friends in his hall to circle his name
on the ballot. All he attempted to do was get press
coverage and ASP succeeded in giving it to him, lots of it.
Maybe Mr. Munk felt the attention he received would br-
ing him more popularity.
In the two articles mentioned above, ASP not once
even mentioned that I had won the election, let alone
printed my views on being left in limbo for weeks while
the Supreme Court first had to be sworn in and then
reviewed the case. Speaking to the news editor did no
good, as she deemed my struggle ‘‘not newsworthy.”’ She
did, however, justify the granting “‘megaspace’’ to
Camera Cary’s woes.
It was a tremendous relief when Central Council Vice-
chair Flip Posner phoned me the evening of 10 November
to inform me that the Court had turned down the peti-
tion. I was sworn in the following evening at the Council
meeting and am overjoyed to finally be a member. Cary
Munk’s disgraceful actions, however, will not be
forgotten.
— Jason B. Epstein
Editor’s note: Jason Epstein was interviewed for the Nov.
13 news story, but portions of the story containing infor-
mation from him were inadvertantly omitted from the
story during production.
Banner blues
To the Editor:
On Friday night, Nov. 13, between the hours of one
and two A.M. the banner hanging in front of the Perfor-
ming Arts Center (PAC) announcing ‘‘Biloxi Blues’’ was
ripped off and stolen from its ropes.
Members of Theatre Concil spent many hours of pain-
ting the banner and consider this juvenile act unnecessary
and immature. What reasoning could possibly be behind
such an act but the stupidity of removing it because ‘it
was there’?
This was an unfair and unjust act, and to those who
have committed it, you have violated and destroyed
private property, in addition to stifling creativity.
We would appreciate and expect better respect for
future banners and other property of the PAC. There is
no excuse for what has been done.
— Members of the Theatre Council
Reagan’s policy
From previous page
system (PRI) which has begun to decline and its economic
troubles grow as fast as its population. A population
which will double by the year 2000, a population of which
almost 25 percent don’t own shoes or have ever seen a
toothbrush. How long before American troops will have
to line up on our Southern border to prevent huge waves
of refugees from escaping the political struggle and
destitution which they will inevitably face in our lifetime?
Who will be our leader then and what will he or she call
the peasants who will no longer stand by and watch their
children die of malnutrition or from lack of basic medical
care, and take up arms to fight a system that has been
unable to provide any minimum standard of living. We
will probably call them communist rebels who want to
take over the world — and somehow the problem might
never be dealt with adequately because of people like
Ronald Reagan.So the future peace of our hemisphere
rests with you and I,no matter if you are a liberal,a con-
servative,a capitalist or a socialist the concern for a well
rounded non-aggressive approach should transcend any
political ideology which shapes our behavior and style of
thought.The careless and selfish actions of past and pre-
sent policy toward Latin America must undergo extreme
changes because the social, political and economic im-
plications and complications which it will create at home
are too grave to this nation’s well-being to agree with our
President. 3
The writer is editorial pages editor of the Albany Student
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By Colleen Sexton
STAFF WRITER
All smokers who always wanted to quit
but never did had the chance to participate
Thursday in the llth Annual Great
American Smokeout.
Sponsored by the American Cancer
Society, the smokeout aimed at getting at
least one in every five smokers to give up
cigarettes from midnight to midnight.
According to a Gallup Survey, a record
23.8 million smokers participated in last
year’s 10th anniversary smokeout by quit-
ting or cutting down for the day.
“The Great American Smokeout is a
light-hearted event, but it is a serious at-
tempt to deal with a serious issue,” said
Roger Freestone, Smokeout chairman of
the American Cancer Society Albany
County unit.
“The tragic fact is
that 350,000
Americans die each year of smoking-
related illnesses. It’s time to put a stop to
. and the only way
this needless waste . .
to do that is to convince smokers that quit-
ting is desirable and possible,’’ Freestone
said.
“The Great American Smokeout has
had a pretty convincing history. We plan
to keep it up for as long as needed,”
Freestone said.
The national campaign also touched the
SUNYA campus. Both television commer-
cials and word of mouth convinced some
SUNYA smokers to kick the habit for the
day.
Freshman Sali Williams said that giving
up cigarettes ‘‘wasn’t as hard as she
thought.’’ Williams said the strongest urge
to smoke was in the evening and that at
midnight, she was “‘definitely having a
cigarette.””
Another freshman, Andrew Gold, also
participated in the smokeout, and hopes
not only to stop smoking from midnight to
midnight, but hopes to quit smoking en-
tirely, “I know smoking is dangerous, it’s
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in my best interest to stop.’’ Gold said.
However, not all students were able to
quit for the day.
Sophomore Sedrick Carter said he
“knows many smokers who will continue
smoking all day Thursday.” And Jill
Weisbrod, a sophomore, said she will
smoke Thursday because she has two tests
Friday and smokes in response to stress.
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asmoker and supporting them through the
By Colleen Deslaurier
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Ever wonder what would happen if
you won the lottery? Ever wonder about
what you would do to the person who
told you you did and then said it was a
joke?
Well, sophomore Adam Bell found
out. After being the brunt of earlier prac-
tical jokes, Stuart Felson decided to get
even.
“Tt took careful planning for all this.””
Felson said.
The story began Monday, when
Felson, Bell and two other students
bought a lottery ticket each cking
numbers. Felson said he held the ticket.
Wednesday night, Felson said he
‘‘made sure they weren’t around [to
watch the drawing]”*. Thursday morning
after finding out the winning numbers,
he bought a ticket containing those
numbers, only for Saturday’s drawing.
Felson then broke the “‘good”’ news to
Bell — in his math class. ‘‘He still had his
doubts,” Felson said, but after checking
day.
Dutch resident Debra Colderwood spon-
sored Williams and another suitemate.
Colderwood said she made sure that her
suitemates didn’t succumb to temptation,
by substituting lollipops for cigarettes.
The American Cancer Society is offering
a follow-up program called Freshstart to
smokers who want to quit for good. Group
sessions led by trained former smokers
consist of your one-hour sessions held dur-
ing a two week period.
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One-hour Lotto millionaire?
Well, almost, but not quite
the numbers, Bell called his father with
the ‘good’? news, who then called his
lawyer to see what should be done.
However, Bell insisted when he called
the lotto agent and was told no one had
won, “right away I thought something
was up.””
After hearing that Bell had called a
lawyer, Felson said he ‘‘thought the joke
had gone too far,” and informed the new
millionaire that he was no longer rich. ‘I
didn’t expect it to go this far.’’ Felson
said.
Felson said he ‘‘hoped it’s all over’’
and that this prank would ‘‘even the
score. I’m willing to forgive everything
and call it even.””
However, Bell has other plans for
Felson. ‘He nailed me, I feel like a big
idiot, but he’ll get his and it will be
good.””
“Tye done 10 [pranks] to his one,”
Bell said, remembering his best joke on
Felson in which Felson wandered around
looking for a non-existent ice cream
machine that Bell told.his was there.
Ronnie:
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| know we can make it work.
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Despite more lots, parking tickets abounding
By Mitchell Hahn
Leaving a $5 parking fine on
123 cars a day, SUNYA’s Traffic
Division takes in approximately
$615 daily.
And that figure has grown,
from last year’s 111 tickets levied
per day.
One reason people may find
such difficulty in parking is that
10,000 registered cars compete for
only 6,500 spaces across the cam-
pus, according to Traffic Division
Director James Utermark,
although ‘“‘we added 461 spaces
last year,”’ he said.
But, Assistant Vice President
of Physical Plant Dennis Stevens
said, ‘‘I believe there is ample
parking space if the people are
willing to use the lots available to
them.””
A new lottery system was also
created in which some students
were ‘‘picked-out-of-a-hat’’ to
ensure that they receive a parking
space.
All money from traffic viola-
tions goes into a special account,
used only by Public Safety and
the Traffic Division. Last year,
two new patrol cars were purchas-
ed with the money.
The cost of building the new
spaces, last year combined with
relining and straightening old
spaces was $180,000 Utermark
said.
“What students must unders-
tand is that there is a group of
people who do not want more
parking,’’ Utermark said, refer-
ing to those dedicated to preserv-
ing campus trees and grasslands.
“The problem (with parking) is
worse during inclement weather.’’
“People park anywhere they
want,”’ calling this a ‘‘fear of
walking.”
According to the Parking and
Traffic Regulations, the Universi-
ty President is authorized to
declare a snow emergency if
“snow accumulation impedes ac-
cess by emergency vehicles, access
by persons who need to park in
authorized areas, or when snow
removal operations must proceed
for the general health, welfare,
and safety of the community.”
If a snow emergency is in ef-
By Jaime Hariton
Personal problems common
to University students was the
focus of a ‘‘round robin’’ Tues-
day night, featuring four
speakers on four different
issues.
Although turnout was not as
great as expected — only 12 peo-
ple attended — the presenta-
tions did provide information
about resources available on
campus.
Guest speakers from Planned
Parenthood, Middle Barth, and
Residential Life addresses issues
ranging from sexuality and birth
control to counseling and
substance abuse.
Michelle Kern, a counselor-
educator at Planned Paren-
thood, discussed birth control.
“The best methods of birth con-
trol are first abstinence.Second,
sterilization. Third, the pill, and
fect, temporary signs will be
posted to tell car owners to move
their cars within a 12-hour period,
or it will be towed at the
operator’s expense.
If a person exceeds a certain
number of parking violations and
runs up a large bill, the car will be
towed away, as well as if a car is»
parked illegally in a handicapped
space, Utermark explained.
Special Permit parking is given
for medical reasons, hanicapped
people, vendors, or anyone else
fourth foam and a condom used
together,” she said.
Some services Kern said Plan-
ned Parenthood provides are
pregnancy test, sexually
transmitted disease test, and
counseling, Planned Paren-
thood personnel are in the infir-
mary on Mondays and
Thursdays.
Middle Earth peer counselor
Tracey Meyer said, ‘‘the basic
difference from professional
counseling is that we are an
undergraduate approach. The
point is that peers can call us —
a friend — rather than seeking
professional help.’’
Middle Earth provides an
ongoing component where a
graduate counselor sees the per-
son once a week. The Middle
Earth outreach tries to deter-
mine students’ needs to accom-
modate them, according to
with an extremely valid reason to
park very close to a building.
Recently, Utermark has gotten
request to expand Colonial
Quad’s lot, and to pave the
Alumni Quad parking lot, and
hopes that eventually he can do
this.
Hazel Farrell, an English
department secretary, sees the
parking situation as ‘‘kind of
bad. They do a rotten job on
keeping the snow away from
parking places.’”
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Resources can aid stressed students
Meyer.
Mediation Director Karleen
Karlson explained the mediation
process. ‘‘We’re coming up to
one of the most difficult times
— the after Thanksgiving, pre-
holiday crunch. A lot of people
lose it then, Karlson said.
Mediatiors divide their time
between male-female problems
and suitemate-roommate pro-
blems.
Neutral mediators work out
an agreement that the involved
parties must abide by, according
to Karlson.
Dutch Quad resident director
Matt Burns spoke on substance
abuse, that ‘‘one out of every
five people is an alcoholic on a
college campus. It is how you
drink and why you drink that
determines that,”’ Burns said.
After distributing statistics on
Professor Sandra Fisher said,
“there is always glass in the
Dutch pay lot. They really ought
to clean them.””
Utermark, having the position
of Director of Traffic Division
for only a year so far, recom-
mends to students that ‘‘if they
don’t absolutely need a car on
campus, don’t bring one.’”
“We're here to provide ade-
quate, safe, parking for
everyone,’’ Utermark said. ‘‘We
are not out to get anyone.”” EF
substance dependence, Burns
concluded, ‘‘there really is a
problem and we really need to
be concerned with it.’’
Students reactions to the
round robin were generally
good. ‘All of the speakers were
great, but one in particular real-
ly settled my mind,” one person
said.
Another student said , ‘‘I had
no idea that these places (Middle
Earth and Planned Parenthood)
offered as much as they do.””
People stayed for the parts
they thought they needed to
learn about said Matt Mann the
Resident Assistant who coor-
dinated the program.
Mann said his main goal with
the Round Robin was to ac-
quaint students with the
resources that exist on
campus.””
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Strike leads to
arrival of new
powers in NFL
By Christopher Sciria
| ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The National Football League just
passed the halfway mark of its 1987
season. It has certainly been a season to
remember so far. The 24 day strike had
mo effect on the owners, who used
replacement players. The regulars soon
came back and the league is showing
signs of returning to normal.
Normal? The San Diego Chargers who
were 4-12 last year, now own the league’s
best record, 8-1. Mean-
while, the defending
Super Bowl cham-
pions, the N.Y. Giants,
are tied for last in the
INFC East.
What’s going on here?
Well, let’s first start with the AFC’
East. Let’s see, the Jets are in first,
nothing new there. Wait, hold on, the In-
dianapolis Colts are in first, too? What
gives?
What gives is that after five straight
last place finshes, the Colts have drafted
some talent. Add on Eric Dickerson and
suddenly the Colts are. playoff con-
tenders. The rest of the AFC East looks
like five o’clock traffic — bumper to)
bumper. The rest of the division is 4-5
and only trails New York and the Colts
by one game. Stay tuned folks, this could
go down to the wire.
Moving to the AFC Central, the
Cleveland Browns, last year’s winner,
lead the pack at 6-3. But, here we go
again, another surprise, the Houston
Oilers, now are sharing the lead, too.
Sports
Column
Heading to the AFC West, we see the
biggest turn around of the the year, the
Chargers. Air Fouts is still flying, but the
defense is actually showing up for games.
They are fourth in fewest points allowed,
a dramatic reversal. Hanging tough are
the Seahawks. The Boz has shored up an
already strong Seattle defense.
The only other team in the division
with a fighting chance for a playoff spot
is the defending conference champs:
Denver. Never count out John Elway;
the Broncos will challenge.
In the National Conference, Eastern
Division, the Washington Redskins are in
first. Despite having quarterback pro-
blems, the ‘‘skins’’ are 7-2. Dallas is try-
ing to overcome injuries and team dissen-
sion, If one coach can hold a team
together, it’s Tom Landry.
The Eagles, though not playoff
caliber, are much better. Randall Cunn-
ingham is showing Philly fans why Coach
Buddy Ryan cut Ron Jaworski. As for
the poor Giants, they should quit writing
books and try to play some football.
The Central Division is it’s normal
self. The Bears. are in first and Jim
McMahon is healthy. The Bears look like
Super Bowl champs again. The Vikings,
with D.J. Dozier, are a couple years from
challenging the Bears. As for Tama Bay,
Detroit, and Green Bay, there’s next
year.
The NFC West is a two team race. The
49ers are 7-2, and in first, as they always
are. But coming up fast are the New
Orleans Saints.. The Saints, who in their
20 year history have never had a winning
season or made the playoffs, could do
both this year.
The Rams, who have quarterback Jim
Everett and a load of first round draft}
picks, are definitely a team for the
future. The Atlanta Falcons have no}
“|past, present, or future. Someone please!
put this team out of its misery.
This year of Strike II has signaled a)
changing of the guard in the NFL. Old
powers like Miami, the Raiders, Dallas,
and the Steelers, are suffering. New con-
tenders like the Colts, Chargers, Browns, |
and Saints stand ready to take over the
mantle of power. Stand by and see what
happens in the next couple of years.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
TYGAR UPS
Carlin has 81 receptions in his three-year varsity career, including seven touchdown
catches this year.
Carlin leaves Great Danes
as all-time leading receiver
By Kristine Sauer
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Glenn Carlin used to be throwing foot-
balls instead of catching them.
He had his heart set on playing football
at an Ivy league school and wound up at
Albany, his last choice.
Carlin was predicted to do spectacular
things in his junior year (1986) at Albany.
He was called the player who would make
everyone forget about John Donnelly, a
1985 graduate, who set numerous receiving
records. Instead, Carlin turned in an
unspectacular 25 catches for 434 yards and
only two touchdown receptions and Don-
nelly was_still on everyone’s minds.
But whatever hand was dealt him,
Carlin has learned to turn things around.
With Carlin, apparent failures become
eventual successes.
Carlin attributes some of the adversity
in his football career to his dimensions.
The split-end is 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds,
not big enough to be a quarterback, nor
Ivy league material.
“T played quarterback until my
sophomore season in high school,’’ Carlin
said, ‘‘but then everyone kept growing and
I sort of stopped. I couldn’t see over the
line .”? ?
Carlin had an impressive junior year at
Oceanside High School, making 40 catches
and setting some school records.
“That was the best thing that could have
happened,”’ he said about the switch to
receiver.
With all eyes on him, Carlin’s senior
year was just the opposite. The team
was 0-8 and Carlin caught only half the
passes he did the year before.
“That year hurt my college aspira-
tions,’’ he said. ‘‘I had hoped to go to a
bigger school. I was being recruited by
some of them. Albany was my last choice.
It was at. the bottom of my list. As the.re-
jection letters started to come, Albany got
higher up on the list each time.
Just the opposite happened in college!
After a disappointing junior year at
Albany, he certainly made up for it this
season.
“I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else,”
he said. “If I had to do it all over again
and I knew what I’know now I’d come
hereagain.”’
Carlin shattered nearly every receiving
record in the Great Dane .annals. The
senior broke Donnelly’s career yardage
mark of 1,269 set in ’85 by finishing his
career at 1,392. His 81 career receptions
also tops the list, surpassing Donnelly’s 78
catches. Carlin broke the single season
reception and yardage marks with 47 cat-
ches for 755 yards and set the record for
most catches in a game with eight
He improved all aspects of his game
ocekew —
I STORES
from last year to this year, not just in
terms of numbers, but in consistency as
well. Last year Carlin felt he dropped quite
a few ‘‘easy”’ catches and also a number of
touchdown passes.
Over the summer Carlin worked at im-
proving his concentration. Three times a
week Carlin and former Albany State team
manager, Lenny Marcus, who is also from
Oceanside, practiced for one and a half to
two hours on simply catching a football.
‘We worked on the fundamentals,”
Carlin said, ‘‘Concentrating on the ball,
watching it into my hands. We did some
over the shoulder drills.
Carlin felt his troublesome junior year
was due to a lack of concentration and in-
tensity, combined with the pressure to ex-
cell that he had placed on himself.
“T put the pressure on myself,’’ Carlin
said. “I wanted to step in and make
everyone forget about John Donnelly.”
“Once we left I felt he was a great
athlete. I thought this guy’s going to be
good,”’ said Donnelly, who lives in Hun-
tington with teammate.Chris Haynor,
“He definitely had the potential »»
“It’s sort of unfair to John,” Carlin
said about breaking the records. ‘We
rotated three - two then, and now it’s just
me. I guess what John did was pretty
awesome considering he was sharing
time.””
As for breaking the record, Carlin said,
“Tt’s something I’m gonna look back on in
a couple of years, but right now I’m disap-
pointed about the team and record (5-5).
It’s nice to say you set a record. At least
you left something behind.’’
Records don’t last forever, as Donnelly
knows.
“That’s what they are there for,’’ said
Donnelly, who now works for Dunn and
Bradstreet. ‘‘All the power to him.”
« Carlin, 21, would like to go into physical
therapy and sports medicine. But before he
goes to graduate school he has a little un-
finished business with football. ¢
“Pd like to tryout’ forthe. prds,’” he
said. ‘“Coach Ford is always saying have
no regrets and I don’t want to say I should
have tried. I know it’s a huge longshot.”
In that respect Carlin is once again
following in Donnelly’s footsteps. In 1986
Donnelly,’ after“trying ‘out for two free
agent teams in Canada, got called by the
Jets for a tryout, but was cut after playing
in a few exhibition games.
“If Glenn gets to a point where he can
go to a tryout or camp, even though his
chances are slim coming form Div. III,
he’s got to go for it, otherwise he’ll end up
regretting it the rest of his life,’” Donnelly
said.
Regrets are something, despite some set-
backs, that Carlin doesn’t have.
OSIRIA,
0, 1987 | ALBANY STUDENT PRESS Sports 15
Writers should
vote for MVP,
not best player
By Arie Wollenberg
STAFF WRITER
Most Valuable Player — the award
given to two individuals in the Major
Leagues, one in the American League
and one in the National. Each is suppos-
ed to be the most valuable player in his
league.
Most valuable, maybe, best player,
definitely!
Year in and year out, the baseball!
writers continue to select the best player]
from each league and
not the most valuable.
Yes, every once in a
while they make the
right choice, but that’s
usually because the best
and most valuable player happened to be
‘one and the same.
With the recent selection of George!
Bell of the Toranto Blue Jays and Andre}
Dawson of the Chicago Cubs as their]
league’s MVP, we have once again seen
that your team doesn’t have to come in|
first place to win the Most Valuable]
Player. Granted, Bell and Dawson had
awesome seasons and were the best!
players in their leagues, but were they the!
Most Valuable?
In Bell’s case he put great stats on the
board, but Alan Tranmell of the Detroit
Tigers also had some great ones too. The
difference is that Tranmell’s Tigers won
the American League East over Bell’s
Blue Jays, but still Bell wins the MVP.
It doesn’t make sense. Don’t you think
Tranmell would have been more valuable
to his team then Bell to his, considering,
the Tigers won the East? I do, if you’re|
going by the term, “‘most valuable.”
Andre Dawson’s case is a special one.
Dawson became the first player to ever
win the MVP award while playing for a
last place team.
Dawson had an incredible season, a
.287 batting average, a league leading 49
home runs, a Major League leading 137
RBI’s and a great year in right field.
Definitely the best player in the majors
this year, but the MVP from a last place!
team? I’m sure the Cubs could have!
finished last without him.
Ozzie Smith and Jack Clark both had
great seasons for the Cardinals, and they
made it to the World Series. Sure, their’
seasons weren’t as good as Dawson’s, but
would they have made it to the Series
with them?
My main argument is not that Bell or
Dawson or whoever has won the MVP in!
the past hasn’t deserved it. It’s just that if}
the writers are going to give the award to
the best player in-each league, then they
shouldn’t call it the Most Valuable!
Player. Call it the ‘‘Player of the Year’’
or the “‘Don Mattingly Award,’ but not!
most valuable, because that’s not who it’
goes to.
Major League. Commissioners Peter,
Ueberoth, who has already made so
many changes, should simplify this one.
Either give the award to the real MVP or|
change the name.
How can you explain that the Most
Valuable Player, the man who meant the!
most to his team, the guy who they
couldn’t have won without, comes from
a last place team? a)
Women swimmers
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finishers Muller, in the 200 yard free, and
Cauley in the’500 yard free.
In the 1000 free, which is 40 laps of the
pool, Cusse swam a great race. For forty
laps, Cusse and Hartwick’s Susan
Reynolds seemed to be a pair of syn-
chronized swimmers. As the gun sounded
for the final lap, both racers sprinted for
the finish with Reynolds just edging Cusse
out by four tenths of a second.
Turnage added, ‘‘Now the main goal is
to get better each meet. It’s not just good
enough to win, you have to improve.”
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Column
ILM AIS
Glen Carlin rewrote the
Dane record book this
season.
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‘CRAIG HOFFMAN UPS
The Dane swimmers will be taking on New Paltz Tuesday.
Great Dane men look impressive in easy victory
By Arie Wollenberg
STAFF WRITER
In rather convincing style, the Albany
State men’s swimming and diving team
won 12 of 13 events as they easily defeated
Hartwick College 130-79 in their duel meet
>pener.
The men, who had many great perfor-
mances, were led by the diving of Greg
Stowe and the swimming of Rick Van
Brunt.
Stowe, a former gymnast, won both div-
ing events and was named the mens
“Swimmer of the Meet.’’
Van Brunt, a junior, won three in-
dividual events: the 200 yard free, the 100
yard free, and the 200 yard breaststroke.
Van Brunt said about his performance, “‘I
was looking to win all of them. I knew it
“was going to be hard.’””
The Danes received other fine perfor-
mances from Mike Jackson, Ed Burton
and co-captain Mike Koutelis.
Jackson blew away the field in winning
the 1000 freestyle and the 500 freestyle.
Co-captain Pete Farman finished second.
Potash took second.
Dane women
surprise visitors
with big win
By Arie Wollenberg
STAFF WRITER
In what was supposed to have been a
close battle, the Albany State women’s
swimming and diving team opened up the
dual meet season with a strong 116-92 vic-
tory over a tough Hartwick team.
“We weren’t expected to win,’’ said
Captain Linda Ellermets, ‘but the girls
really came through. We showed real
strength by beating them.”’
The Danes were led by “‘Swimmer of the
Meet’? Andrea Caporuscio, who took first
in the 200 yard individual medley, 100 yard
freestyle and anchored the winning 400
yard free relay team. In the 100 free,
Caporuscio made a great sprint to the
finish to beat out a Hartwick swimmer by
seven tenths of a second.
“Tt was a good way to start off the
season, hopefully it will be like that the
whole way through,’’ Caporuscio said.
Other outstanding performances by the
women were given by diver Brenda Braun,
who won both diving events convincingly,
Burton, who transferred last year from
the University of Massachusetts also had
two individual victories. Burton won a
tough race in the 100 yard backstroke
against Hartwick’s Friedel, a transfer from
Maine. Burton was also victorious in the
200 yard individual mekley.
Koutelis scored an impressive victory in
the 50 yard freestyle and also finished a
close second to Ban Brunt in the 200 yard
breaststroke.
Both relay teams for Albany were also
outstanding, winning both of their races.
In the opening 400 medley relay, the
team of Burton, Koutelis, Pete McElerney
and Steve Stern were victorious. Strong
legs by Koutelis in the breaststroke and
McElerney in the butterfly helped insure
the win,
In the final relay, the 400 yard free, the
Danes took both first and second place.
Jackson, Farman, Stern and McElerney
took first place in a time of 3:36:77, while
the team of Luks, Pagoda, Hardy and
Head Coach Dave Turnage said about
the meet, ‘“‘Even though we won easily, we
still have some events we have to work
on.”
Assistant Coach Andy Kaufman said,
**We won some close races, Hartwick im-
proved a lot from last year.”
“‘We’ve had two good meets so far,’’
Kaufman added. ‘‘We had some good
times for this early in the season and we
just want to see more improvement.”’
The men’s next meet is Tuesday against
SUNY rival New Paltz. It expects to be a
real dogfight, as Albany barely defeated
them last year in a meet surrounded by
controversy.
Andy Kaufman said, “It’s a bitter
rivalry, there were hard feelings after last
year’s meet, but we’ll be ready for them.’”
“We're going to be battling for first
place all the way down,” said Van Brunt.
The meet will be hosted by the Danes on
Tuesday at 4:00 at the University Gym
pool. o
and freshman Jacque Courtney.
Courtney won both the 50 yard freestyle
and the 100 yard backstroke. In the
backstroke, Courtney broke the pool
record that she just set in the Great Dane
relays. Courtney also just missed the na-
tional qualifying time with a 1:03:65.
Also taking a first place for the women
was Lisa Braun, who along with teammate
Ingrid Muller, came in first and second
place, respectively, in the 200 yard
freestyle.
The 400 yard freestyle relay team of
Kris Cusse, Lisa Braun, Audrey Olson and
Capruscio also came in first.
Overall, the women took first and se-
cond in three events, the 200 yard free, 50
yard free, and 200 individual medley...
They took no less than second place in any
race, and won eight of 13 events. They
showed lots of depth as they took several
third and fourth place finishers.
Others who raced well were second place
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Danes set to tip off at Capital District tourney
‘COHEN UPS
By Mike Brewster
SPORTS EDITOR
Even an old friend, it seems, will not give the Albany
State men’s basketball team a moment’s peace.
Playing a schedule already peppered with traditional
Division III eastern basketball powers, the last thing that
the Great Danes want to hear is that this weekend’s
| Capital District Tournament — annually the Danes’ in-
itial regular season competition — does not appear to be
the stomping ground of the past, but a testing ground for
the new look Danes.
“I don’t know about anyone else, but I know we’re a
better basketball team,’’ said RPI Head Coach Mike
Griffin. ‘‘And I know Union should betough, and we all
know how you guys do every year.”
“You guys,”’ of course, meaning Albany Coach Barry
Cavanaugh’s Danes. For the past few years, this has been
Albany’s tournament, a confidence builder of sorts.
Although one would have to favor the Danes leading
into the tourney, it is certain that at least two of the three
other teams in the tournament are solid basketball teams.
RPI, as Griffin explained, is far from last year’s team
that slogged through their Independent College Athletic
Conferences with a 7-17 record. And Union, the Danes’
opponent on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m., is notorious
for giving thé Danes’ fits, both in this tournament and in
regualr season match-ups.
One may remember the final team in the tournament,
Skidmore. Barring any very bizarre events, RPI should
beat Skidmore and meet either the Danes or Union in the
3 p.m. final on Sunday.
The Dane’s John Carmello will be making his first start
as the point guard. Usually in a position to score, not to
set up others to score, Carmello is gaining a grip on his
new job.
“J hope I can do it,’ Carmello told the Times —
Union.
Taking over Carmello’s scoring guard position will be
junior Andy Goodemote. The Gloversville native is not
shy when it comes to shooting long jumpers, and will
hopefully come out smoking against Union. ‘‘Goodemote
is a good player,” said Griffin. ‘‘He can drive as well as
shoot.””
Brett Axelrod and Russ Teague will bring their physical
game to RPI on Saturday in the hopes that Goodemote’s
shooting will open up a little elbow room inside. Axelrod
is a senior and Teague, a junior.
Senior Tom McGuire will find himself in the unfamiliar
position of starting. McGuire, 6-4, will be at the small
forward position.
Following the tournament, the Danes will be off until
after Thanksgiving Break when they play New Paltz on
the road on December 2.
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