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March 9, 1990
NUMBER 12
IFC amendment mandates future rushes be "dry"
By PJ. Marcus
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Last Thursday, the Inter-
Fraternity Council (IFC) passed
a constitutional amendment
mandating a “dry rush” for all of
its member fraternities, starting
in the fall 1990 rush period.
Craig Snyder, the IFC vice-
said that as a
constitutional amendment, this
measure needed/at least a two-
president,
thirds majority to
he was unable to comment on the
exact numbers of the vote, as it
was held by secret ballot.
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page 3,8, and the editorial
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Snyder also
committee would
at some point before the start of
the fail rush period to draft
clearer guidelines, in order to
insure that the rush is consistent
with the amendment.
“This was not pushed upon
us,” Snyder said.
ourown.”
Scott Leeman,
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity(ZBT),
said his‘organization was 100
percent behind the amendment.
“Without a doubt we’re behind
dry rush,” Leeman said. “It can
only help the Greek community
here. I think it’s a great idea.”
Leeman also said that his
fraternity’s national organization
is in favor of dry rush.
“T am behind the change
because I believe it’s a good
move for the Greeks on this
campus because it promotes
good relations between the
community and the university,”
Mike Farcas, chairman of the
IFC expansion committee said.
Both Farcas and Snyder spoke
of the importance of self-
regulation.
Pies .Ueea Farcas said
said that a
be established
the IFC.”
“We did it on
“We are taking responsibility
for our actions,” he said.
Farcas said, “The key to good
relations between us and others
is to keep our problems and
to have a dry rush.
fraternities have
FIPG is a national organization
that provides insurance coverage
to various fraternities.
requires any group that it covers
In addition, many national
already
their chapters.
FIPG
mandated a dry rush for all of
The second
paragraph of the amendment
States that all national fraternity
groups have risk management
policies which prohibit or
strongly discourage the serving
of alcohol at rush events.
The National Interfraternity
Council and the Fraternity
Executives Association advocate
a dry rush as well.
University Vice-President for
Continued on page 17
CARP recruits on campus
the- IFC is
implementing a system of self-
regulation, whereby anyone
having a problem with any of the
IFC’s member organizations
need only approach the IFC, and
they will deal with it internally.
Snyder called the amendment
an “incredibly large step in the
direction of self-regulation for
solutions within our own
president of phere.”
amendment.
to guilty verdict for
SUNY Oswego student
Oswego, NY
(AP) A college student who spun a false tale of rape
and murder as part of a class assignment has been given a
one-year conditional discharge.
Valerie Prysianzniuk, 21, of Baldwinville, a senior at
the State University of New York at Oswego, pleaded
guilty Wed. night in Oswego town court to a reduced
charge of disorderly conduct, a violation.
Prysianzniuk and Stephen Rorke, 21, of Nesconset,
both communications majors, were arrested last
December on a misdemeanor charge of falsely reporting
an incident after giving an emotional, unannounced
speech as part of a public speaking class assignment.
The speech was supposed to be given in a previously
approved classroom, but the students gave it in the wrong
classroom and left without telling the students they had
made up the story.
The two students’ Dec. 4, 1989 tale of rape and murder
and an alleged cover-up by the university spread quickly
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There are a few other reasons
for the support of the dry rush
The first article of the
amendment deals with the eight
IFC members who are also
linked to the Fraternity Insurance
Protection Group (FIPG).
Class assignment leads Mal
By P.J. Marcus -
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
A petition to hold an impeachment
hearing for Fuerza Latina President
William Malpica was declared void
by the voting members of the
organization on Wednesday night.
At the meeting, presided over by
Student Association Comptroller
Denise O'Hanlon, it was decided that
the petition, started by Fuerza Latina
member Giovanni Serna, had not
gathered the necessary signatures to
mandate such a hearing.
According to Fuerza Latina’s
constitution, 20 percent of all
membership must sign a petition in
order to mandate a hearing.
O’Hanlan said that according to SA
policy, every student who pays the
student activity fee is automatically a
member of every SA funded group.
Fuerza Latina is SA funded.
O’Hanlon said the Fuerza Latina
constitution did not make a
distinction between voting members
and general members with regard to
petitions for impeachment
procedures.
The voting members in attendance
tule that due to SA policy, and the
lack of a clarification of membership
in the Fuerza Latina constitution,
over 2,600 signatures would be
necessary to validate the petition.
After the meeting, Serna said
O’Hanlon’s “recommendations led to
Fuerza Latina President William Malpica
the cancellation of the petition.”
“It is incredible that an
organization can not take care of
internal problems because of a badly
written constitution,” Serna said.
“My petition was voided by majority
vote without even knowing the
precise allegations that I was ready
to bring forth.”
“His (Malpica’s) negligence in
appointing a secretary was brought
up at the meeting. That in itself
should be more than enough to allow
my allegations to be set forth,” Serna
said.
Serna said the position has been
vacant for over two months. He
added that this is a violation of SA
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policy. Malpica shows “very little
concern” over the vacancy or an
appointment, Serna said.
“Tt is unfortunate that according to
SA policy, or our constitution,
whichever our chancellor
(O’Hanlon) was referring to, that I
have to resort to 20 percent of over
13,000 students on this campus to
take care of a problem which is
existent in our organization and
which seems, and by the actions
taken today, will not be resolved,”
Sema said.
Serna said he hopes that more
students will become active in and
aware of the organization.
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2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _ FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990
NEWS BRIEFS
The Wedd “43
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Border dispute arises
Bonn, West Germany
(AP) Parliament agreed Thursday that a
united Germany should honor Poland’s
western border, and Chancellor Helmut
Kohl tried to fend off charges that he
heightened international fears about
unification.
A lawmaker from the opposition Social
Democrats, Juergen Schmude, said during
a raucous debate that Kohl’s handling of
the border issue amounted to “political
arson in the European house.”
Parliament passed a resolution that said
the two Germanys should adopt twin
declarations that “the Polish people are
assured their right to live in secure
borders will not be questioned by us
Germans through territorial claims either
now or in the future.”
It says the future government of a
united Germany should sign a border
treaty on the basis of those declarations.
Demonstrators protest
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
(AP) Thousands of demonstrators across
Haiti set up flaming tire barricades and
burned cars to protest the army’s killing
of schoolgirl. Three people were killed,
including a soldier beaten to death by a
mob.
Two people were hospitalized with
bullet wounds and at least 10 others were
injured in clashes with soldiers.
About 3,000 people, shouting
“Liberty!” and slogans against Haiti’s
leader, Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril, converged
in downtown Port-au-Prince near the
National Palace after attending a
memorial service on the outskirts of the
capital for 11-year-old Roseline Vaval,
shot to death by the army Monday.
The Nation Gite
Proceedings Begin
’ Washington, D.C.
(AP) John M. Poindexter lied to Congress
and ripped up a key presidential document
to “rewrite the history of the Iran-Contra
affair,” a prosecutor declared Thursday in
the opening argument of Poindexter’s
trial,
Prosecutor Dan Webb also told jurors
that Oliver North, Poindexter’s former
aide, will testify that “he lied and he lied
and he lied” to Congress on Poindexter’s
instructions.
As the proceedings got under way, U.S.
District Court Judge Harold Greene dealt
the defense a setback, ruling that the
prosecution could put North on the stand
and ask him about Poindexter destroying
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the finding. The judge suggested that
North had changed his story on that
subject since his own trial last year.
The.case is about “cover up, deception
and concealment,” Webb told the jurors
who will decide on the five felony
charges facing the retired Navy rear
admiral who served as President Reagan’s
top adviser on national security matters
from late 1985 to late 1986,
Poindexter and National Security
Council aide Oliver L. North tried to
cover up a 1985 shipment of U.S. arms to
Iran and the diversion of profits to the
Nicaraguan rebels to “avoid tarnishment
of the Reagan administration,” Webb
said.
Agencies disagree
Washington, D.C.
(AP) The nation’s main intelligence
agencies disagree on whether the waning
Soviet military threat could be revived, a
Pentagon official suggested Thursday.
Pete Williams, a spokesman for
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney,
acknowledged that Cheney differs on the
issue with CIA Director William Webster,
who told Congress last week it is unlikely
the Soviets would pose a major military
threat in the future, even if President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev were replaced by
hardliners.
Cheney contends that Moscow’s move
towards a less aggressive military stance
could be reversed if Gorbachev lost
power. Cheney argues that this possibility
alone is reason not to rapidly reduce U.S.
troop levels and military spending.
The Stote all
Ads raise objections
Albany
(AP) Two Democratic lawmakers,
objecting to ad campaigns they say lure
young people into smoking, said
Thursday they want New York state to
stop letting tobacco companies deduct
advertising costs from their taxes.
“We, at a time when our budget is
under attack, shouldn’t be subsidizing a
product that is so devastating to our
citizens,” said Assemblyman Alexander
Grannis, a Manhattan Democrat.
Grannis, author of the new state law
that bans smoking inmost public places in
New York state, estimated his measure
would add $9 million to the state treasury
each year.
A spokesman fro the Tobacco Institute,
Walker Merryman, said the bill would
make advertising in New York state so
unattractive tobacco companies wouldn’t
do it. That, he said, represents an
unconstitutional use of the state code to
ban free speech
Pot used for seizures
Rochester
(AP) A man who says marijuana controls
seizures he blames on the Vietnam War,
has been sentenced to five years
probation for growing the drug in his
back yard.
“The law is a big Ferris Wheel, and that
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the general way the wind blows is the way
it goes,” Robert Saurini, 44, told a Monroe
County judge Wednesday.
Saurini, who was convicted in
November of first-degree possession of
marijuana, a felony, said he uses
marijuana regularly for medicinai
purposes and claims it is the best drug for
the seizures he suffers as the result of
exposure to Agent Orange in 1965.
Saurini said he never sold marijuana
and should be allowed to do what he
wants in the privacy of his home.
“I wasn’t hurting anybody; I wasn’t
being a nuisance,” he said. “Marijuana is
safe to use. It’s safer than aspirin.”
Trails built for ATVs
Summit
(AP) The state wants to put some 20 miles
of trails for all-terrain vehicles into a tract
of state-owned land in Schoharie County.
The trails are proposed by the state
Department of Environmental
Conservation at the Burnt Rossman Hills
State Forest in Eminence, about 30 miles
northeast of Oneonta. They would be the
first state trails for ATVs.
“We call it a pilot program,” said Dan
Weller, chief forester for the DEC. “We’re
hoping to get some expansion to other
areas, but we don’t expect a large number
of trail systems in the state. It takes a
fairly large area of contiguous lands.”
Local residents don’t like the idea, but
AYV clubs have made demands for access
to the state land. On Saturday, the DEwill
hold a public hearing on the proposal at
the Summit Conservation Club.
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FRIDAY, March 9
The Classic Film Series
presents Jules and Jim
directed by Francoise Truffaut
lat 7:30 at Page Hall. Free
admission.
[Don't Walk Alone with Sigma
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begins weekend service 10:30
Ipm-12:30 am at CC info desk
levery Friday night.
SATURDAY, March 10
Don't Walk Alone with Sigma
Nu and Alpha Omicron Pi
weekend service begins 10:30
pm-12:30 am at CC info desk
every Saturday night.
SUNDAY, March 11
Robert Towers, novelist, critic
and educator will appear as a
guest on the Public Radio
Book Show on WAMC-
FM(90.3) at 2pm.
Class of 1990 meets in the SA
lounge at 5:00 pm. All
welcome.
MONDAY, March 12
University Concert Board
meets at 8pm in CC 375. For
more info call 442-6269.
Small Claims Court Action
Center meets every Monday
at 5pm at CC382. All are
welcome.
The Annual Student
Concerto ConcertUniversity-
Community Orchestra
presents classics and
romantics at 8pm at Page Hall.
Link Interest Meetings- Come
help new students feel at home
at 7:15pm in LC 19.
Narcotics Anonymous meets
on campus Mondays at 6 p.m.
Call 426-8832 for info.
Minority Affairs Office of SA
sponsors Black Quest Game
Collegewide at 7pm in LC 7.
Students for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (SETA)
meets every Monday in CC
346 at 8:30 pm.
Young Democrats meet every
Monday in cc357 at 8:30
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
Meetings of Alcoholics
Anonymous are currently being
held on campus. For further,
information on rooms and
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Stevens speaks out against hazing deaths
by Robin Fox
The truth about hazing was
illustrated Wednesday night by
Eileen Stevens, founder of
CHUCK, the Committee to Halt
Useless College Killings, and the
name of her son who died as a
result of a hazing incident.
Jessica Casey, director of
student activities, welcomed the
predominantly Greek audience.
The program was mandatory for
all pledges in Interfraternity
Council member organizations,
and SUNY Panhellenic
organizations.
Vince De Rogatis, president of
the Pi Alpha Nu fraternity,
sponsor of the event, introduced
Stevens.
Stevens described the events
leading up to her son’s death.
She said Chuck pledged a
fraternity. During Hell Week,
she said the pledges were
abducted by the active members,
and assembled in a parking lot.
They were assigned three
pledges to a car trunk, and told to
consume one pint of Jack
Daniels, a six-pack of beer, and a
fifth of wine, according to
Stevens.
Stevens emphasized
circumstances surrounding that
night; the freezing cold weather,
the boys had no jackets, and the
brothers drove around for a
while until they arrived at the
Fraternity House. The intention,
Stevens said, a fact Chuck’s
roommate later revealed to her,
was to get very sick from the
mixture. She said the roommate
told her it was a ‘tradition’ and
nothing had ever gone wrong
before.
Stevens questioned how Chuck
could not have refused, and said
the combination of alcohol
abuse, peer pressure and secrecy
involved in pledging makes for a
deadly situation.
As a result of the extreme
consumption of alcohol, she said,
later that night, Chuck’s body
was found dead and two other
pledges were rushed to the
hospital and listed in critical
condition.
“He did not expect to die. Iam
certain he expected to wake up
the next morning and it would be
all over,” Stevens said.
The cause of Chuck’s death,
she said she was told by the
doctor, was a condition when the
lungs fill with fluid - alcohol.
Stevens said she was told by
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Eileen Stevens addresses students on hazing
the doctor, “Your son didn’t
have a chance. I’m sure it was
not you son’s experience with
alcohol that killed him; it was
his lack of it.”
She said the words “isolat
id “accident” were two words
she could not accept surrounding
her son’s death.
She said she started a group in
order to channel her grief into a
positive direction. Because of
her highly publicized case, she
NYS test publication
law overturned
By Jude Usera
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Four weeks ago, a federal judge in New York ruled
that the state’s Standardized Testing Act of 1979
(commonly called the “Truth in Testing Act”) violated
federal copyright law by forcing the Association of
(American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.) to disclose
copies of its Medical College Admission Test
(M.C.A.T).
The ruling held that state law must yield to federal
copyright law, and that the test-disclosure provisions of
ithe New York law did not meet “fair use” exemptions to
copyright guarantees, in part because disclosing test
questions would “seriously impair or destroy” the
market value of the copyrighted exams.
The court accepted the A.A.M.C.’s claim that the
“marketability” of copyrighted material would be
destroyed because the questions and question
“stimulus”-the fact pattern on which a question is based-
could not be reused on later exams once such material
had been disclosed.
At the time the New York law was being considered,
testing companies and specialists in standardized testing
generally opposed its passage. After several years’
experience with the law, however, officials of some
testing companies, such as the Educational Testing
Service, the College Board, and the Law School
Admissions Council, have conceded that disclosure of
test questions after they are administered is an
educationally sound concept.
According to an article printed in the Chronicle of
‘Higher Education, Walter Haney, associate professor at
ithe Center for the Study of Testing, Education, and
Educational Policy at Boston College, said he agrees.
He said he believes that it is clear that current active
versions of the M,C.A.T. have questions based on “fact
patterns” very similar to questions already disclosed by
ithe A.A.M.C. itself.
“The fact that there is some similarity between current
questions and the test questions the association
disclosed,” Haney said, “certainly belies the claim that
ithe fact pattern on which a question is based can not be
used once the question is released.”
Hal Smith, a political science professor here at
ISUNYA, said one key point overlooked in the court’s
ruling is that an important admissions exam like the
IM.C.A.T. is not just a literary work like the J.D.
Salinger papers or President Ford’s autobiography
(works discussed in the court’s review of copyright case
law), but an “instrument of public policy” which will
determine who goes to medical school and who doesn’t.
The 3,000 students who took the admissions test in
iNew York in 1988 were not just buying a copyrighted
work in the open market,” Smith said. “If they wanted to
lattend medical school, they had to take the exam.”
Haney said he believes that whatever the ultimate fate
of the M.C.A.T. is under the truth-in-testing law, the
court’s decision is no more than a minor setback in the
broader movement to promote more openness and
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Full calender set for World Week IX
By Stephanie Orenge
STAFF WRITER
When can you see five films
dealing with the lives of Latin
American women, taste ethnic dishes,
discuss the anti-apartheid struggle,
recent revolutions in China and
Eastern Europe, learn how to cause
social change locally and
internationally, in only 7 days?
All these things and more are
possible March 12 through 17 during
SUNYA’s World Week.
The tradition of planning a week to
celebrate cultural diversity and
examine international issues to
increase student awareness of our
world began nine years ago,when a
group of black students decided to
raise the consciousness level at
SUNYA in regard to South Africa.
Today, the concerns that World Week
promoted originate in all reaches of
the globe.
The theme that the World Week
Coordinating Committee, composed
of faculty and student leaders, have
chosen for 1990 is “Students Uniting
for a Better World.”
Barbara Schoonmaker, committee
co-chair and director of research,
information services and
development for the Division of
Student Affairs, said not all students
realize they need a grasp of global
affairs to live and work anywhere in
the world.
Schoonmaker said it is especially
important to acquire an international
perspective in light of the fact that a
growing number of graduates pursue
careers outside the United States.
There are many opportunities next
week, for everyone to expand
personal social horizons as well as
international ones.
Wednesday, from 7 pm to 10 pm,
the Israeli Club will hold a social at
an as of yet unannounced location.
Students can raise money for
UNICEF at a 12 hour dance marathon
starting at 2 pm Friday, in a location
to be announced. Participants who are
not completely exhausted can then
head to the RAT for an Irish Club
social from 5 pm to 9 pm.
For those who would rather sit still
and watch other people dance,
students will explore traditional
movements from various cultures on
the podium near the small fountain on
the podium.
With this year’s theme, the
World: Week: ighlights
Ethnic block party _
Lam-3pm CC Ballroom
8pm PAC Recital Hall
TUESDAY
Student protests in China
12 pm-2pm CC Ballroom
International Careers Forum
IpmCC Ballroom
WEDNESDAY
Revolutions in Eastern Europe
_12pm-2pm CC Ballroom
THURSDAY
Student involvement in the
Anti-apartheid Stniggle
ue 2pm. 2pm CC Ballroom
Jon Patroon Lounge
Social Problems, 1
and ‘events throughou! i
Committee intends to emphasize the
role students play in social, political
and environmental reforms around
the world, Schoonmaker said. She
said that not only had many students
helped to organize World Week, but
ther is more volunteerism and less
apathy on campus than many
believe.
There are hundreds of students
every semester who are doing
something for many volunteer
organizations and political groups
around the campus, Schoonmaker
said.
“I think students are starting to get
more involved,” Schoonmaker said.
She also said that according to
Neil Cervera, the School of Social
Welfare community service program
coordinator, SUNYA has the largest
program east of the Mississippi.
This program gives academic
credit to students who work for
various community groups in
Albany.
There will be World Week
presentations on the efforts of the
SUNYA Homeless Awareness
Committee, student involvement in
the civil rights movement, and in the
Nicaragua/United States Social Work
Exhange, as well as a discussion by a
former volunteer, about joining the
Peace Corps.
These programs should prove that
“students can have a tremendous
positive force in the world,”
Schoonmaker said.
A highlight of the week is the
Campus Forum program, “Uniting
for a Better World: Revolutions in
Eastern Europe,” on Wednesday
from noon to 2 pm in Campus Center
361. Professors and students will
discuss the future of the region.
The same day, from 4:30 to 7 pm
in the Campus Center Ballroom, the
German Club will focus on the
prospect of a reunified Germany in
their presentation on the political and
cultural climate overseas.
The Ethnic Block Party is the start
of World Week. This exhibit of
multi-cultural arts and crafts, food
and educational information will take
place Monday from 11 am to 3 pm,
following opening comments by
University President Vince O’Leary,
and Vice President of Student Affairs
Mitchel Livingston.
Events actually take off Sunday at
noon, with the release of hundreds of
helium balloons from all residence
quadrangles except Freedom Quad.
University Auxiliary Service
(UAS) will prepare international
dinners in the quad cafeterias, and
hold an inexpensive all-you-can-eat
buffet Thursday from 4 to 8 pm.
Reservations are necessary.
The final program of the week will
be the popular World Festival of
Talent, Saturday at 7 pm in Page Hall
on the downtown campus.
Complete schedules of events are
available in the Campus Center, and
on the quads.
World Week is funded by the
Office of the President, the Division
of Student Affairs, and UAS.
4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS — FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990
Beyond the Majority
By Cassaundra Worrell
MINORITY AFFAIRS EDITOR
The idea to write a story on the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance (GALA) frightened me.
Last semester when I asked them if they
were interested in working on a story
about gay and lesbian students, they never
responded, so I thought I was off the
hook. When they got in touch with me
earlier this semester, my homophobic
fears began to resurface, and I did not
know how to deal with it. I pursued the
story anyway, jumping in feet first, and I
soon realized I had nothing to be afraid of.
There are homosexuals at SUNYA and
they cannot be ignored. This is the final
part of my investigation into gay life, and
it is a conversation that took place in an
extremely hot office on a Tuesday night in
the Campus Center. From working with
them, I got to know about a lifestyle
outside of my own which is what college
is all about, right?
A journalist is supposed to know a little
bit about everything, and because
homosexuality is not talked about, I
decided that it is time someone helped
them to tell their story. Hopefully they
will no longer be neglected or ignored, as
a result. So, instead of writing a story, I
transcribed the conversation and let them
speak for themselves. Here it is:
QUESTION 1:
C: When did you know you were gay,
and when did you come out?
Kim: I knew at five.
C: C’mon, how the hell did you know?
Kim: I know I had feelings that were
different from “normal” feelings. As I got
older I realized those feelings were
headed towards homosexuality. I finally
decided to, and came out a month ago. I
was really hurting emotionally,
Dean: My first memory is at 12...I think
that’s when I became aware of it.
Frank: What grade was that? I can only
associate things about ages in terms of
grades.
Dean: Sixth. I’ve been openly gay for
about a year now. I didn’t announce it to
everyone, but my best friend and I had a
lot of friends in common so we just...
Kim: I can’t make as many friends as I
used to because, nows that I’m out... have
to tell them...I’ve...
Dean: Tell them I’ve chosen the honest
Toute.
Kim: Yeah, chosen the honest route.
Arlene: I didn’t know until recently,
until 12th grade, but I started suspecting
myself and it wasn’t until freshman year
that I came to terms. I didn’t come out
until another year later, I had finally
stopped hiding out...I just wanted
everyone to know.
Frank: I always knew I was different
and I withdrew. I always had female
friends and no male friends. I did not have
my first sexual feelings until 8th grade. I
went through two processes of coming
out. The first one was with myself and
with my family. In sophomore year in
high school, I met a guy and we had a
relationship. I knew this is what I wanted.
I came out to my loved ones the summer
before I came to college, that’s when the
s—t hit the fan. It’s funny.
QUESTION 2:
C: What are some of the problems with
being gay?
Doug: The stereotypes about
homosexuality, like promiscuity.
Nancy: Having to hide your lifestyle is
really painful.
Nick: The worst part is having to adjust
your life. It’s just that heterosexuals
assume that you don’t have a normal
lifestyle.
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C: I don’t understand something,
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always had bad grades, don’t laugh but
it’s true. Anyway, I always got A’s and
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Berry suggests that the U.S. be
By Brenda Kube
STAFF WRITER
The vast changes for
democracy and equality around
the world in recent months
should set an example for this
nation to begin reforms of its
own, according to Dr. Mary
Francis Berry, a noted civil rights
activist. Berry said Wednesday
during a speech at the Campus
Forum Spring Session, the need
for equality and justice in
American education is needed
now more than ever.
Our problem of creating more
opportunity which would make it
possible for us to achieve a just
community here at home and at
this university is exacerbated by
many of these world changes,”
Berry said. “We too here at home
should be on the periphery of
Espinosa
By Todd Wasserman
Many students, including
Student Association (SA)
President Fermin Espinosa, said
they think there’s something
pretty fishy about an
organization called CARP, the
Collegiate Association for the
Research into the Principle.
Espinosa said he has been
beseiged by students claiming
that the group, which has had a
table in the Campus Center all
week, has been harassing them.
Citing CARP’s “deceptive
recruiting tactics” and the
“ambiguous nature” of their
change.”
“The nation is lagging behind
other sweeping reform
movements across the world
because “we are in the cocoon of
Bush’s presidency, where his
rhetoric is better than Reagan’s,
but the action is slower than
molasses in January,” Berry said.
In her speech, entitled
“Creating a Just Academic
Community”, Berry told a crowd
of about 100 people, that action
is needed to combat racism and
discrimination, not words. Berry,
who was also one of the founders
of the Free South Africa
Movement, said “We want
fairness, and we want honesty
and equality.”
But many times people fail to
achieve these lofty words and
goals because the real “gut-
wrenching” aspects of issues are
not addressed,” but merely
glossed over, prettifying the
issue,” Berry said.
Berry said goals for equality
have to be set, and how people
measure up to these goals
depends on how much work is
put into the effort.
The University setting is one
of the places the march toward
equality has to begin, she said.
The faculty at colleges have
tremendous influence on future
generations, Berry told the
audience.
“The faculty and students must
communicate and cooperate for a
just community”, Berry said.
Berry, who currently is a
professor at the University of
Pennsylvania, said the lack of
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constitution, Espinosa said he
plans to check the group out
personally, and if possible
remove them from the Campus
Center.
CARP is a self-proclaimed
“student branch of the
Unification Movement” led by
Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
According to a delegate from
CARP, the organization has
attracted many students. CARP
held a seminar at the Recital
Hall of SUNYA’s Performing
Arts Center (PAC) Thursday
night.
Moon, although touted as a
‘new messiah’ by his followers,
faced mostly negative responses
from the U.S. public during his
hey day in the 1970’s.
Founded in 1954 in Korea, the
Unification Church has been the
subject of complaints from
numerous parents claiming their
children were brainwashed and
coerced into donating their
possesions to Moon.
Some ‘“Moonies” were
“kidnapped” by their parents,
and put through deprogramming
sessions to undo the harm Moon
and his followers alledgedly put
them through,
In 1984, Moon (whose New
York State real estate alone was
estimated at the time to be worth
over $75 million) was sentenced
to 18 months in jail for tax
evasion.
Although SA usually doesn’t
recognize such “cult groups”
according to Central Council
Chair Nadya Lawson, CARP
seems to have slipped through
their net.
Partially because their
constitution makes no execution
of their affiliation with Moon,
Espinosa said, the group was
given a solicitation permit, and
temporary recognition by SA.
CARP’s pamphlets, however,
which are being vigorously
distributed throughout campus,
clearly mention their affiliations
with Moon.
The group, which has
previously toured Leningrad
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University, and its stay at
SUNYA today.
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E. European experts speak on nationalism
By Benjamin Sofer
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The role of nationalism in Eastern
Europe amid the sweeping changes
brought about after the fall of Communist
regimes in Hungary and Yugoslavia, was
the topic of a panel discussion involving
experts from those countries and
SUNYA.
A debate at the Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall began when panelist Joseph
Zacek, professor of history at SUNYA,
said nationalism was not a mature thing
with (Eastern European) nations and
predicted separatism, rather than unity,
will characterize Eastern Europe’s future.
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“Nations, Nationalism, and Regional
Cooperation in Eastern Europe,” was the
first in a series of forums entitles “The
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Eastern Europe,” and is sponsored by the
Divisions of Academic Affairs, Student
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Some Eastern European countries have
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line communist rule. All but Albania are
expected to hold democratic elections this
spring, some for the first time since the
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The new wave of freedom, however,
has allowed for a re-emergence of
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the other revolutions of 1989.
Dissidents appealing to Romania
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Career center holds internship workshop
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students of the opportunities
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Rumore focused on the benefits
of internships and career-related
summer employment and
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students find such opportunities.
When considering summer
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something you're interested in.
Students are urged to contact
companies on their own. Rumore
said only 20 percent of the jobs
available are advertised.
“This is only a small portion of
what’s out there,” Rumore said.
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Internships may require a little
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An internship program must
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Eight more fraternities ban pledging programs
(CPS)—- In one of the biggest
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end hazing, eight more Greek
organizations said they would
ban their pledging rituals starting
next fall.
Two other national fraternities,
Zeta Beta Tau and Tau Kappa
Epsilon, banned pledging last
fall, and a host of national
organizations, including the
National Interfraternity
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Council on Education, have
urged changed in the pledging
process.
Now eight more sororities and
fraternities announced they
would stop making their pledges
go through all “activities” except
their initiation ceremonies.
“There shall be no ‘pledging’
or ‘pre-pledging’ process in any
of the constituent organizations,”
said a statement released Feb. 17
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and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternities,
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“Hazing is a problem
everywhere,” admitted Roy
Watson, and Alpha Phi Alpha at
the University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa, “but in our fraternity
we don’t condone it.”
Filmmaker Spike Lee, whose
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numerous scenes of fraternity
hazing, wanted it taken a step
further. During a speech at
Morehouse College in Adanta, he
called on his alma mater to ban
fraternities. Last term, freshman
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ailment aggravated by hazing
rituals at the school.
Thirty-one states have passed
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kinds of mental and physical
abuse inflicted on people as a
condition of joining some kind of
group — but deaths and injuries
from hazing have continued. In
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limited to men’s fraternities,
Most recently, three Florida
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Is He The Barry Manilow of Magic?
David Copperfield appears at Palace
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he did not have the touch, he drifted to
magic, what he calls an allied art to
ventriloquism. “Magic gave me an
opportunity to communicate and
express myself, and my passion for it
grew from that." He was soon
rewarded, as in 1968, he became the
youngest illusionist in history to be
admitted into the Society of American
Magicians.
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reached the zenith of his field, passing
such icons as Harry Blackstone Jr.,
and Doug Henning. Still, he says that
there is very little rivalry within his
profession, “It's like a brotherhood: it's
a small world, and everyone knows
each other.” Despite this, performing
500 shows per year prevents David
from “hanging out” with people in the
field as much as he would like.
He is even a big fan of Penn
and Teller, the renegades of magic.
Much of their act pokes fun at
establishment acts such as
Copperfield, but he takes it in the spirit
that it is intended, and he even has
them doing a cameo role in both his
live show and his upcoming TV
special.
The featured illusion in that
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Niagara Falls: He will be chained and
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strong that we had to go back and re-
do a lot of our thinking.”
Copperfield, who will be
admiration society with Eddie Money,
Michael Jackson and Rod Stewart,
among others who have been spotted
at his shows.
While many would believe that
vanishing the Statue of Liberty, walking
through the Great Wall of China or
levitating across the Grand. Canyon
would be the greatest accomplishment
of his career, Copperfield maintains
coming to the
Palace theater for
two shows on
Tuesday, March 13,
claims that he
enjoys doing both
television and live
shows equally well.
“Live entertaining
thrives on live and
immediate
feedback, while TV
gives you an
unusual opportunity
to entrench yourself
ona piece of tape.”
A small
image problem has!
h a ucntiend
Copperfield over
the years, but he
thinks he has
shaken the tag
“The Barry Manilow’
of Magic” by
introducing a lot of
rock and roll into
his act. He has
been known to
open with Guns ‘n
Roses’ “Paradise
City”, and a tune off
of Def Leppard’s
Pyromania album
helped inspire “The Death Saw”, an
illusion that finds Copperfield shackled
to a cable beneath a six foot lumbermill
blade. Other artists, such as Wang
Chung and Van Halen are also an
important part of his show, and he has
formed something of a mutual
" Magic gave me an opportunity to communicate
and express myself, and my passion for it grew
from that."
that the highlight has been the
development of Project Magic, a non-
profit organization that teaches magic
to people with disabilities in order to
motivate their therapy.
Nine years ago, Copperfield
got a letter from a young disabled man
looking for advice. He was a magician
who would hire himself out over the
phone, but lose jobs when he would
show up in his wheelchair. Copperfield
described the scene: “His attitude was,
‘Hey, this is their problem. I’m here to
do my job, and being a magician has
nothing to do with my disability.’ |
thought, that’s a pretty incredible self-
image — he’s not even
aware that he is disabled.”
Copperfield took his idea
o the Daniel Freeman
Hospital in Los Angeles,
land the therapists
immediately recognized
he potential in the use of
magic to help patients
develop dexterity and
inspire confidence. Since
hen, it has grown to be
used in 1000 facilities in
30 countries.
David's present role in
the program finds him in
hospitals and
rehabilitation centers,
doing seminars for the
doctors, nurses, and
administrative staff so
hey can integrate Project
agi into their programs.
Coppertfield’s advice
jto aspiring magicians is
practice: “Perform in front
lof as many audiences as
you can, because they let
lyou know what they like,
and that will help you write
your material.
The master illusionist
land his entourage of 25
humans, and four animals
(including Elvis the Pig) cover an
average of 3000 miles per week, (“our
touring schedule makes rock and roll
look like Club Med, says Dave”) but
that’s the price that you have to pay if
you want to be the magician of the
1990's.
Handsome Captain Sails into PAC
In conjunction with the celebration of
World Week IX, Students Uniting for a
Better World, Simone Schwarz-Bart’s
“Your Handsome Captain” will be
performed on March 12th - 14th in the
PAC Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Ariane Kamp
Hold tight for an evening of intensity.
This production runs the gamut from
comedy to tragic sorrow.
The play emotes an unsettling
feeling of precariousness and
deprivation, not uncommonly
experienced by numerous Caribbean
workers who must migrate abroad to
not only make a better life for their
loved ones, but also to survive.
Wilnor Baptiste, played by Patrick
Ramean, is a Haitian cane-cutter
working in Guadeloupe to provide
means of sustenance for his family. His
wife, Marie-Ange, is in Haiti. The
couple must communicate by love-
filled audio cassettes.
“It is a love story,” states Francoise
Kourilsky, director and producer of the
play. “The play develops the universal
idea of exile and rigors of separation in
a challenging form. One actor on stage
with the voice of his wife to react to.”
Francoise stresses the play is
pertinent to every one. “All of us will be
confronted, at one point in our lives,
with separating from a loved one.” The
hardships of Wilnor are reflective of
this condition.
Francoise, also founder and director
of the Ubu Theater on West 28th St.in
Soho, selected the play “because |
loved it. And | was deeply moved.” She
explained that the play is one which an
actor can’t do unless he digs deeply
into himself. “It springs from the guts.”
She fondly speaks of her work with
pride, “At one point, words are not
enough to convey Wilnor’s deep
feelings, he must express his mind,
soul and heart with musk and
movement. He is so overwhelmed by
the news his wife relays over the
audio-cassette.”
She continues that the play is based
on real life, yet given the desolation
and hardship, Wilnor resorts to dreams
to express himself than the use of:the
imaginary space, movement, and
music during the production. The writer
does this to expand reality in order to
reveal a greater truth, Francoise says.
Despite the tremendous amount of
work to come from Manhattan to
SUNY-Albany, perform for three
evenings and strike the set, Francoise
and members of her repertory theater
are pleased to be a part of World
Week.
“I've always been interested in
different cultures,” she added. “Not
how they blend, but how they can
reinforce each other.”
Francoise also feels that “the
wonderful part of theater is that it is a
sharing process.” She believes that
just as the audience here in Albany is
enhanced from the production, so too
is the repertory.
“World Week had an appeal to me.”
A word to the curious and emotional
— “Your Handsome Captain” is a play
which you should go into open-minded.
Listen with your heart, be attentive —
it's like a chamber music piece. So, if
you leave yourself immersed in its
brilliance, be sure you can retrieve
your composure at the door; one man
in tragic exile is enough for one day.
Yet, it is sure worth the time, and if
you doubt that plays about love are a
dying enterprise in today’s bedlam,
think of the romantic French/American
director who concluded this interview
with this message: “Love will be written
about until the end of this world.”
Simone Schwarz-Bart, novelist and
cultural historian, last year completed a
six-volume encyclopedia tribute to the
black woman, which is called
“Hommage a la Femme Noire.” “Your
Handsome Captain” is Simone'’s first
play.
March 9, 1990
WCDB
Top Tens for the Week:
Rock:
1. Peter Murphy.....Deep
2. King Missle.....Mystical Shit
3. Public Enemy...Welcome To The TerrorDome 12"
4. Third Base.....Cactus Album
5. Giant
6. 14 Iced Bears
7. Grant Hart.....Intolerance
8. Cramps.....Stay Sick
9. They Might Be Giants.....Flood
10. Cynics.....Rock and Roll
seeeececscescncees,
Jazz:
1. Benny Green.....In this Direction
2. Jimmy Smith.....Prime Time
3. John Cambell.....After Hours
4. Hank Jones.....Lazy Afternoon
5. Terry Gibbs.....Bopstacle Course
6. Art Farmer.....PH.D
7. Peter Leitch.....Portraits and Dedications
8. Laurel Masse.....Easy Living
9. Marty Paitch.....Featuring Art Pepper
10. Benny Goodman.....The Early Years
THOUGHT of the Week:
GOOD LUCK TO THE DANES' HOOPSTERS THIS
WEEKEND IN THEIR GAME AGAINST NORTH ADAMS
Aspects on Friday
Spectrum
: film film film film film
$ Crossgates (456-5678)
= Born on the Fourth of July (R) .
3 Driving Miss Daisy (PG)
$ Enemies, A Love Story (R)
? Hard to Kill (R).
; Internal Affairs (R) Please
: Madhouse (Pg-13) Call
: Men Don't Leave For
3 My Left Foot (R) Times
: Nightbreed (R)
: Revenge (R)
: Stella (PG-13)
: Bad Influence
3 Joe vs. the Volcano
: Hunt for Red October
= Spectrum (449-8995)
= Glory (R), 6:55, 9:30
= Henry V (PG), 7:30.
: My Left Foot (R) 7:05, 9:35
3 Roger & Me (R) 7:15, 9:20
3 Repo-Man(R), 9:30, Sunday only.
} Madison Theater
Always (R), 7:00, 9:20.
University Cinemas
Cine 10 (459-8300) call for movies and times
mysie drama mysie drama mysic
Half Moon Cafe (436-0329)
: Cygnus(Jazz), Friday
¢ Beginners Mind, Saturday
3 John Snyder, Sunday brunch; Afro-American Writer's Collective, 7 p.m.
The Interns, Tuesday
Bobby G(guitar and vocals), Wednesday
? Pandora Nickerson(blues and folk), Thursday
= Palace Theatre (465-3333)
Caffe Lena (583-0022)
Chris Proctor(guitar), Friday
: Critton Hollow String Band, Saturday
STATE ©
KICK
SOME
: ASPects
(and watch out for their center, Uncle Fester)
? QE2 (434-2023)
3 Every Fri: DJ RealGeorge.
; Dynamojo, Wed
3 Proctor’s (382-1083)
? Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (273-0038)
3 Sweet Honey in the Rock. Fri.9.Mar.
} Capital Rep.(462-4534)
} Burn This. Sat 10.Mar.
‘he Queen's Theatre
William Hoffman's "As Is." AIDS Benefit
Straub's refreshing Mystery
When Peter Straub published his first
novel, Marriages, in 1973, it was - to be
blunt - a flop. He couldn't even sell his
second novel. It was around this time that
the horror genre, presumed dead and
buried, began to claw its way out of the
grave following the publication of Ira
Levin's Rosemary’s Baby and William
Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist. So Straub
turned from mainstream novels to horror,
and wrote the mildly successful Julia. He
didn't hit it big until 1979 with Ghost Story,
which has become a genre classic. Since
then he has had a long list of best sellers,
including Floating Dragon and The
Talisman, a collaboration with Stephen
King. Then in 1988 came the thriller Koko,
which marked the beginning of his
departure from straight horror. With his
latest, the aptly titled Mystery, Straub
moves even further away from horror and
into the mystery genre.
Adam Meyer
The novel takes place on a Caribbean
island called Mill Walk. At the start, a ten-
year-old named Tom Pasmore is hit by a
car and dies. But he miraculously comes
back from the dead, and his life is
changed forever. Now we jump forward
and see Tom at age seventeen, an
awkward, geeky kid with a passion for
reading and a fascination with:death (he
keeps a scrapbook with clippings of Mill
Walk murders).
One murder in particular interests Tom,
that of Marita Hasselgard, sister of the
island’s Finance Minister. Following a
hunch and a few clues, Tom discovers
that Finance Minister Hasselgard
murdered his own sister. Tom then sends
an anonymous letter to the police, telling
them where to find the evidence of
Hasselgard’s guilt. When the cops arrest
the wrong man, Tom gets his first glimpse
of the corruption that runs rampant on Mill
Walk.
By solving the murder Tom attracts the
interest of his neighbor, Lamont Von
Heilitz, once a famous detective
nicknamed “The Shadow.” Nowadays, the
Shadow is a retired eccentric whom most
people have forgotten, but he and Tom
become fast friends. Von Heilitz tells Tom
about a crime in the resort.town of Eagle
Lake, Wisconsin, which occurred forty
years prior. A woman named Jeanine
Thielman was found murdered, and Von
Heilitz, after investigating, concluded that
her killer was Anton Goetz, Jeanine’s
lover, who committed suicide shortly after
her body was found. Or was Goetz
murdered too? And did he really kill
Jeanine Thielman?
Soon after, Tom is sent by his
grandfather, Glen Upshaw, to spend the
summer at the Upshaw lodge in Eagle
Lake. Off Tom goes, and, by sorting
through old newspapers and asking
questions, he endeavors to find out what
really happened to Jeanine Thielman.
Of course, our amateur sleuth puts aside
the magnifying glass long enough to start a
romance with the beautiful Sarah Spence.
Only problem is that Sarah is “engaged to
be engaged” to Buddy Redwing. The
Redwings are the wealthiest, most powerful
family on Mill Walk, and Sarah’s parents
insist that Sarah marry Buddy. But Sarah
doesn’t love him, she loves Tom. So Buddy
sends out his thugs to rough Tom up, but
that doesn’t stop him and Sarah from
having sex in the rear compartment of a
plane among other things.
Meanwhile, Buddy isn’t the only one not
in the Tom Pasmore Fan Club, for Tom has
two nearly fatal “accidents” at Eagle Lake.
Evidently, someone wants Tom out of the
way before he discovers the untold secrets
of Jeanine Thielman's murder. But who?
1 won't give away any of the surprises,
and there are a lot of them, as Straub
shows that appearances can certainly be
deceiving. One interesting note is how
Straub ties together these mysteries to his
last novel, Koko, and to the short story
“Blue Rose.”
Fans of Agatha Christie and John D.
MacDonald should be warned that this is
not traditional mystery fare. There is simply
not one clearly defined mystery and one
solution. Also, Tom Pasmore is no Hercule
Poirot or Travis McGee (or Mike Hammer,
for that matter); he is an ordinary person
with extraordinary skill, not.a demigod
whose brilliant mind makes deductions that
a reader cannot understand.
Let me point out that Mystery, like any
Straub novel, is not the sort of material
you can read during the commercials of
“Murder, She Wrote.” Straub is a writer
who likes to give the reader as little
information as possible. Few things are
ever outright said in Mystery; you've got
to be a detective yourself to keep up with
what's going on here, but if you stay alert,
you'll be rewarded. The problem with this
style is that because Straub floods you
with so many names and events, it’s hard
to keep track of which way is up. Still,
better for an author to assume the reader
is intelligent than to hit him over the head
with everything, which is what most
“popular” writers do.
There are some other problems. First,
as usual, Straub has a tendency to dawdle
before getting to the point, and Mystery
only really gets going at about page eighty
or so. Also, in portraying the rich elite of
Mill Walk the book often descends into
caricature and cliche. One more thing: The
conclusion isn't very decisive, and there is
still a lot left unexplained, but that’s also
typical of Straub; presumably he wants
you to think about the novel even after
you've turned the final page, and believe
me, you will.
Mystery is a good, solid piece of work
from a good, solid writer. Straub brings to
the mystery genre a fresh perspective that
makes this a wonderful, one-of-a-kind
novel.
EDITORIAL==
Greeks reconsider
their image
Not long ago, alpha, beta, and
gamma were obscure symbols rarely
seen, except in the scientific scrawlings
of professors from the eastern end of the
podium.
Now, a myriad of sweatshirts and
baseball caps are proudly emblazoned
with them. Car window stickers, Lecture
Center blackboards, and Campus Center
banners all provide innumerable
sightings.
What are these symbols and what are
they doing here?
In recent times, Greek life has surged
on this campus; it has gained many new
members, started new organizations
and grown in visibility.
This may in part be due to the increase
of the legal drinking age from 19 to 21.
Whereas local bars may have offered a
forum for undergraduate socializing in
the past, the higher drinking age took
away this forum. The Greek lifestyle now
provides an alternative.
Despite the popular stereotypes,
excessive drinking and rowdy
hooliganism are not the only things that
Greek fraternities are good for. Asa
result of students' involvement in the
fraternity system, there has happened
upon us a renewed sense of school
spirit. It can be observed both within the
university and abroad in the community.
Many fraternities and sororities adopt
"pet" projects that members volunteer
their time and effort to support. The
organizations have become invaluable to
the community.
But intermingled with all of the good
that the Greeks bring, there are negative
aspects that can be seen as well. Over
the last few years, the problem of hazing
has been receiving more and more
publicity. In the eyes of some, hazing has
become such a serious issue that they
have taken a public stand against it. The
Committee to Halt Useless College
Killings (C.H.U.C.K.) works to end the
hazing policies still carried out by some
fraternities. With flyers still on the
podium, it seems that C.H.U.C.K. is
accomplishing something, and is at least
getting itself noticed.
Coming under this recent scrutiny the
Greeks are looking to clean up their acts.
The idea of socially upright fraternities
and sororities is becoming a self-fulfilling
prophecy, one that just may see itself
realized. The change to a "dry" rush is a
positive movement towards this ends
and at this point, looks like a wise move.
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U.S. youth not prepared for WW III
My friend Jim sits in front of the television
playing Nintendo and is skeptical about the future He is
in his second major at SUNYA, he laments, and doubts
very much that he’ll remain loyal to his current
department of studies.
Jim (not his real name) has immersed himself in the
social offerings of our college. He has sought the reigns
of brotherhood in a fraternity, marched with them in
proclaiming their strength and unity, and now spends his
effortless dwindling hours scheming how to spend the
upcoming weekend in the finest drinking fashion.
The future, he says, holds a worthy job - something
which yields a paycheck worthy enough to enable him to
keep season tickets to the Yankees.
There are many students like my friend Jim at Albany
State, students whose background consists of the Tri-
State area; a power base of mass communication which
produces some of the most sophisticated and
knowledgeable young adults in the world. They, and
Benjamin Sofer
much of our generation, are graduating into society
without direction, however, and the lack of a challenging
call for them to embrace will lead to America’s demise as
a super-power in the 90s.
When the Berlin Wall collapsed last fall, and the world
rejoiced at the end of an era, the students in my
dormitory hall gathered around the television to mock the
citizens of East and West Germany as they hammered it
down piece by piece, bit by bit. “Why all the fuss?” They
raged, as they scrambled for Billy Joel tickets. “It’s just
another wall!”
Yet with the coming of spring, and German unification
imminent, the world is bracing for the birth of a new
super-power, whose students are produced with the
genius to shape the planet we live on.
Competing with the Germans for the new East
European markets will be the Japanese, who already own
more than 50 percent of Hawaii’s land. They are buying
up American companies and property at an
unprecedented rate. The world is learning to depend on
them for the new technology, as they had on the U.S.
They have recently entered the space exploration
business by launching an unmanned probe to the moon; it
is a business in which America’s supremacy is ending.
World War III will be fought in the courts. Nations,
acting as huge conglomerates, will engage in economic
global warfare. The soldiers. will dress in business
jackets; the maps replaced by engincering charts. The US
has won the Cold War, and now it will have to change its
strategy for a battle the tariff-raising Japanese have
already prepared for.
Chrysler/Plymouth last week began a campaign that all
but declared war on Japan’s auto industry, calling for a
revamping of the American spirit. Perhaps he should
charge for a new American soldier, instead of
complaining thatthe other side’s armies are better
equipped.
My friend Jim, playing Nintendo (yes, it’s made in
Japan), wants to know how all this will affect him. Last
month, SUNY students protested in Albany against
raising their tuition. On Sunday, the New York Times
reported that half of the states in the country are “battling
serious budget problems” because no one wants to raise
taxes, Tuition will be raised, however, this year and the
next, as the world around a weak American economy
becomes stronger and can afford more tariffs.
Another friend tells me that this is Albany State, not
Harvard or Cornell, implying that students in here won’t
make a difference out there. I disagree. We all have a role
to play, and we must play it, in order that we may
continue to be able to choose that role individually.
Those with money and the highest education affect those
with less money and less education, and vice-versa. It’s
not the education alone which levitates people; it’s the
power of attitude, as other nations already know, and
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are learning.
Gertrude Stein dubbed those in the 20s as being the
“Lost Generation,” an age in which people lived the high
life in illusions until the crash of the stock market and
subsequent depression. The tate ‘80s felt the tremors of a
market crash, and with the recent fall of the Drexel
Burnham Lambert Group, the end of the youth rush for
quick profits made from the junk bond industry may be in
sight.
Thirty years ago a president gave America’s new
generation the call, and they responded, with the Peace
Corps, major strides in space exploration, etc., until
Vietnam took its toll.
Today, we have no Vietnam, or depressions, or wars to
contend with. George Bush, unlike JFK, is unwilling to
make the call or to direct us with a vision. Nor is he
attempting with clear cut action to deflate the deficit,
which will also have a direct impact on our future.
The students at Albany, like all Americans, are a gutsy
bunch. We organize to banish styrofoam from campus to
protect an unraveling environment. Society has given us
AIDS, and we respond with sexual awareness week to
publicize prevention. We are a diverse group, like our
nation, and our strength over other countries is in that
diversity.
The battle lines are being drawn by others, though. The
world around us is changing and for the first time since
the beginning of this century, the U.S. is losing its say.
SUNY students, as well as the rest of this generation,
must withstand the challenge laid before them, or at the
end of this decade all we will be capable of fighting are
Nintendo aliens.
And students in Japan will gather around a television
and mock us as our walls begin to fall.
The writer is a student at SUNY Albany
SASU out for blood
To The Editor:
SASU is a bad dog! They bark up the wrong trees and
right now, they're at the blood bank, tearing up the kitty.
“Heal,SASU!”
This week, SASU distributed flyers blasting the
American Red Cross for heeding recommendations made
by the FDA regarding deferment of potential blood
donors from so-called high risk areas of the world.
The flyers have not effected a change in Red Cross or
FDA policies. They have succeeded in undermining the
Pre-health Professional Association’s efforts to recruit
blood donors.
As to SASU achieving its presumed goals, this
technique has proven at best ineffective, at worse
murderous. So far, blood donor recruitment has been
reduced to less than one half of what this group collected
last semester. So now, SASU is putting innocent lives at
risk so they can fail to achieve their own relatively petty
goals. Just exactly what did they expect to achieve,
anyway?
The Red Cross is under intense pressure to maintain a
safe and healthy blood supply. Let’s ignore (for a
moment) the fact AIDS actually originated in Africa. If
the Red Cross were to simply disregard
recommendations handed down by the FDA, then they
would be responsible and perhaps even legally
accountable for every bit of AIDS infected blood which
slipped through “the system!” I don’t want to scare
anyone, but let us not forget that the screening process is
still not entirely fool-proof!
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If SASU wants to go off half cocked to pursue the
prejudicial issue, the place to do it is in Washington, or at
their local Congressman’s office, and with the FDA. For
that matter, why don’t those knee-jerk, bleeding-hearts
go harass Andy Rooney: At least then they will only ruin
one person’s life for a lame cause and not put us all at
risk due to an insufficient or unstable blood supply.
I hold SASU directly responsible for the blood
shortage caused by this inappropriate action. I hereby
challenge them to make amends by sponsoring a blood
drive in the name of this tragic error.
Richard M. Bunt
Community Service Director SUNYA Pre-Health
Professional Association
Don't ride Greyhound
To The Editor:
On March 2, 9000 members of the Amalgamated
Transit Union went on strike against Greyhound. The
drivers and maintenance workers, who have taken 40
percent pay cuts in the last seven years, are fighting for
decent wages and job security. The company has not
passed the savings along to passengers, and now, they
want to eliminate routes to thousands of communities.
Union members told me that a great deal of
Greyhound’s business depends on students. If students
can find other ways to get home during the strike, such
as Trailways, Amtrak, or the Ride Board, the workers
can win this one. During the strike, boycott Greyhound.
If you go Greyhound, you're leaving the driving to
scabs, untrained drivers and mechanics who can’t
guarantee your safety. In fact, one of them ran over and
killed a striker in California last weekend.
David Finz
Senior-SUNYA
Robert Woods
A.T.U. Local 1202
Caution, lungs working
To The Editor: =
J was sitting in the Campus Center on a Sunday
afternoon, reading. I had been in the library and needed a
change of atmosphere so I opened my books in the
corner and began studying. The change of atmosphere I
received was more literal than I anticipated.
After about forty-five minutes of reading, a girl sat
down next to me and proceeded to light a cigarette.
Cigarette smoke bothers me, but since it was time for a
study break, I took a walk. I got back ten minutes later
and began studying again. Soon after, two more people
sat down directly across from me and lit up. The girl,
taking a cue from them, lit up another cigarette. I looked
around and noticed two other people smoking across the
Campus Center. Suddenly, I realized that I was a
minority by not having a cigarette in my hand. I left and
studied in the library.
There are signs posted all over the Campus Center
prohibiting smoking there. Recent laws have been passed
by State Legislation banning smoking in public areas, yet
people smoke in the Campus Center without regard to
the non-smokers using the Campus Center. There is a
similar non-smoking rule in the library and people obey
it; why should the Campus Center be different.
If someone lights up a cigarette next to you in the
Campus Center and it bothers you, tell them. Don’t be
polite about it, be rude. And if you smoke and light up
next to someone who tells you to put it out, don’t be
offended; you are offensive.
Stephen Jarossy
ASP article biased
To The Editor:
This letter is written as a response to the article dated
Tues., Feb. 27, 1990 by staff writer Catherine Hoey
about two separate attacks on area college students. We
feel there are obvious negative connotations in this
report. In the first incident involving a male R.P.I.
student, Catherine reports a group of three to five black
males approached the student.
In the second incident, involving a Russell Sage
student and her boyfriend, Catherine reports they were
addressed by a group of twelve males. Without trying to
accuse anyone that uses a racial term when reporting
news as racist, we would like Catherine to clarify her
reasoning for selecting the term “black” in one incident
and omitting it in the other.
As we view this article, the term used in this context is
blatantly racist and perpetuates racial stereotypes. We
have attempted to interpret it from several viewpoints
and unfortunately it appears nothing can result positively
from the use of the term as it is used in this article.
For instance, the first incident reports black males
were offenders and the second incident doesn’t mention
the race of the offenders. What are the options of the
reader? We feel it it is quite logical to assume the second
offenders were also black or that they were not black and
therefore the severity of the crime is somewhat
diminished.
If the race of he second group of perpetrators is not
known, the reader can only focus his/her frustrations and
fears on what they do know; that the first group of
perpetrators are black males. If the race of the second
group is not black and the purpose of the article is to
make students aware of assaults on students, then this
article actually sets students up to be assaulted by any
other perpetrators who are non-black.
If however, the inclusion of race in one instance and
exclusion in the other instance is due to the
indiscriminate reiteration of the information you receive,
we feel it is your responsibility to obtain complete
information or edit information that could perhaps be
construed as racist.
But, again, this letter is not written for condemnation,
only for clarification of the use of the term in the context
it was used. We look forward to reading Catherine’s
response in the near future and are optimistic that all
persons involved can only grow with this experience.
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism Student
Committee
Men not the enemy
To The Editor:
I would like to address the misconception of the
content of the materials that are discussed in Women’s
Studies classes. Let me assure everyone that these
classes do not teach man bashing nor do they teach man
hating. Recently, I overheard such a misconception
spoken by a male student. Apparently, he is bothered by
the material that he thinks is presented in Women’s
Studies classes and he is perturbed that the desks are
always arranged in a circle.
As a Women’s Studies major, I assured him that I have
never been taught how to bash men, I really would riot
know just how to go about doing such an act. As for the
arrangement of the desks, a circle allows for easier
discussion with one’s peers as you can look at their faces
instead of the backs of their heads.
The Introduction to Feminism (Women’s Studies 210)
is taught by two female facilitators and supervised by a
professor. The students of the class, both men and
women, are encouraged to discuss issues with the
facilitators in place of a 55 or 80 minute lecture.
Women’s Studies does not discriminate against men,
nor do Women’s Studies classes teach women to hate
men (just ask one of the many men who have taken a
Women’s Studies class or classes). The Women’s Studies
program offers an alternative to women and men. It
offers students a chance to learn about women’s history
and women in history. Much of this information is
oftentimes absent from our traditional history texts.
Women’s Studies opens people’s eyes to the blatant
discrimination in our society apparent to so few.
I have heard many people criticize the Women’s
Studies program, both women and men. Perhaps these
people do not feel that they are victims of sexism,
Tacism, ageism; nor have they been the victim of
discrimination because they are differently abled. In the
Women’s Studies program, someone who is or who is
not directly affected by these forms of discrimination can
learn more about them. Victims of discrimination know
the feeling of being treated as deviants of the “norm” or
less than human.
I am a Women’s Studies major and a feminist. The
American Heritage Dictionary defines feminism as “a
doctrine that advocates or demands for women the same
rights granted men, as in political and economic status”
(and in other aspects as well). Forget all the negative
connotations that come to mind when you hear the term
feminist. These ideas are merely notions made up by the
people who oppose women’s equality and feel the need
to lessen its importance.
People who have not taken a Women’s Studies class
have no right to criticize something that they know
nothing about. I am making an appeal to the students at
SUNYA: open your eyes and open your minds. Take a
Women’s Studies course and find out for yourself what
the program is all about.
Marianne Ruddy
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The mixer was great!
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Michael,
Happy Anniversary sweetheart. | am
so in love with you. You mean the
world to me, and have made me so
very happy. You are the only one for
me - forever. My love for you is
eternal. | molove you,
Your Claire Claire
Gold Team 1990
AOI, TIA®, TKE
A® appreciates everyones support in
Greek Family Feud!
ZAE-@EE—KIA
The all-powerful purple! We're gonna
rock Greek Week!
ATQ
Thank you for helping out with Greek
Family Feud. You guys are
awesome.
The Sisters of ADE would like to
congratulate the Social Club on
becoming sisters of OIE.
IT'S NOXIOUS
Orange you a lucky crush, if you
found a new mate!
To my Big Sister Lisa,
I'm sony | couldn't be there last
night, But I'm Proudil! to be your
little sister.
Love,
Seliena
AD
Despite a broken leg and a little pain,
our mixer was nothing less than
crazy insane - it was a bone crushing
chin splitting good time. Let's do it
again.
IAM
EAT wishes congratulations to the
@ZX sisters and Social Club
Members on their merger! Good
Luck.
Jessica K, Jessica B, Nikki & Christy,
Greek Family Feud was awesome.
We couldn't have done it without you!
‘We love you,
A®
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You looked great in those boxers!
Let's do it again soon.
AOTI
The sisters of EAT wish a very happy
belated 21st birthday to Lynne
Weiss! We love you!
EAT lotas Your Big Sisters are
coming! Get Psychedi!!
Love, AT
AOT
Saturday was terrific! We had fun
“getting leied” with you!
Love,
OIL
PS. - Just say "No!"
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\s it brotherly or sisterly?
LB
TKE
“There are people in your life who've
come and gone. They'll let you down,
you know they'll hurt your pride. You
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cause life goes on. If you keep
carrying around that anger, it'll eat
you up inside."
Don Henley
"Shit Happens”
Chris Candee
No hard feelings
Good luck to the lotas!
"Nuff said
Candee-Man
Tami
Thank you for an excellent week of
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Your Secret Admirer
Linda & Lauri,
Thank you for the warm welcome!
Your New Suitemate,
Amy
Cowboys & Cowgals,
Come one, come all & shake that
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night.
See ya there partner,
Texas.
The mixer was awesome, thanx to
you.
We danced, partied, and had fun too.
You guys are great, you make it right.
Let's do it again and party all night!
AE®
To the lota pledge class of Sigma
Delta Tau - all the love and yellow
tea roses in the world!
We love Ul! The Sisters
AE® of EAT
Ao, TIA®
We ee a great time at Greek Fued. | Mixing with you was like finding a
‘eep the tradition going! on sunken treasure!! Get psyched for
are finally visiting
Grandmaster Nellie-B! Those crazy
white boys are reunited once again!
Greek Week.
AOTI
Happy B-day to Michelle Litvack!
Celebrate in style!
Love, EE
IAT
Skiing was awesome but the partying
was sicker-looking forward to next
year.
EAM
TEO
Thanks for another terrific mixer.
Graffitti was never mor fun!
Love, A®E
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 1 5
United States population hits 250M mark
By William Dunn
The United States population reached a quarter of
a billion Tuesday — that’s 250 million people and
still growing, reports the Census Bureau.
If every person stood shoulder to shoulder, Census
analyst Frederick Hollmann calculates, the line
would stretch “roughly four times around the
globe.”
For the past several years, the world’s fourth most
populous nation has grown by 6,000 people a day.
The top three nations: China, 1.1 billion; India,
833 million; and the Soviet Union, 289 million.
While some may think the country is getting
crowded, it’s still wide open once you get away
per square mile.
The first census in 1790 found only 3.9 million
people, roughly the current population of Dallas.
Since 1980, the U.S. population increased 10.4
percent. Two-thirds of the 1980s growth came
from an excess of births over deaths; the rest came
from immigration.
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and within three days had
reached students’ parents as far
away as New York City.
Under the conditional
discharge, Prysazniuk must stay
out of trouble for a year or face a
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consideration of how much
people really didn’t know,”
O’Hanlon said. “Your
constitution is there, it exists, but
“An Average Joe.
An Adventurous Comedy.
until things of this nature
happen, you don’t sit down and
read them.”
A motion to bar the press from
the meeting was introduced
before the issue of the petition
was looked at, and it was passed
by a majority vote. After the
group was advised that such an
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open meetings law, O’Hanlon
advised the group to vote to
change the status of the meeting,
which was initially billed as a
public forum, to a closed
meeting.
“I only did it to clarify the
situation...They. didn’t know what
they were doing,” O’Hanlon said.
Serna said he plans to take his
case to the SA Supreme Court.
Dry rush
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Student Affairs Mitchel D.
Livingston said, “I think it’s an
excellent idea.”
Livingston also said, “It’s a
way of the organization to
recognize the problems they have
had on this campus.”
He said it was great that this
amendment came unsolicited.
“T think the dry rush resolution
is a wonderful way of starting to
address the issues of alcohol in
the Greek community,” Director
of Student Activities for Campus
Life Jessica Casey said.
“Tt is an acknowledgement of
the fact that alcohol isn’t the only
thing the Greeks have to offer to
this campus,” Casey said.
Testing
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accountability in testing.
Haney and a growing number
of supporters said in the article
there are continuing pressures to
reform standardized testing, such
as the impact these tests have on
minorities and women(as the
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recent debate over the SAT’s
reflect), growing awareness that
over-reliance on multiple-choice
tests is undermining educational
reforms, and evidence that
results of some testing programs
are simply wrong.
“It seems to me that
enlightened test developers will
work to achieve further
accountability and openness in
testing,” Haney stated, “if for no
other reason than a hope to avoid
further government regulation of
the enterprise of educational
testing.
State officials have not
announced whether they will
appeal the ruling.
Hazing
continued from page3
received hundreds of letters,
from all types of people,
admitting to hazing incidents in
their past.
When an anti-hazing bill was
introduced in New York, its
passing was only due to another
hazing tragedy that pressured
former Gov. Hugh Carey to
change his view, Stevens said.
Stevens said she has heard
many reasons why Greeks
believe forms of hazing are
necessary. She cited as examples
unification of the pledge class,
character building, and tradition.
However, she said, tradition is
a “misnomer” and no Greek
organization had hazing in their
original charters. “If founders
knew about hazing, they would
hang their heads low.”
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Berry
Continued from page 5
communication between faculty
and students is one of the most
significant problems in dealing
with racism on campus.
Also, the communication
between students on campuses
around the nation is crucial to
further the development of a
“just community”.
“Students must work together
inside and outside of the
classroom,” Berry said. She
I
Proposed to require students to
take a course that deals with
cultural diversity, especially in
regards to the gay and black
community,”so that bigotry can
be challenged.”
Q&A
Continued from page 4
QUESTION:
C: So, then what’s happiness?
Frank: Being confortable with
myself.
Dean: When I walk into the
cafeteria and a group of people
look at me starting to whisper. I
just want to yell, "Yes, I’m gay
and I’m proud."
Frank: I don’t care what people
think, I know I’m different but
everyone else is too, so why
shouldn’t I be different too?
Kim: Now I realize who I am
and my attitude is more relaxed
than ever before. Sometimes I do
care what other people think
because it bothers me that they’re
so narrow-minded.
Frank: My sister asked,
One trip to our store and
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“Frank, are you happy?” I said,
“Yes.” And then she said, “Well,
then you continue to be happy.”
I am not exactly sure what
they got from this, but I got a
chance to know about the gay
lifestyle and am proud to say
they deserve their chance at
happiness, whatever it is for
them, so be it. Homosexuality
did not make me see them as
freaks but as human beings. I can
only wish them the best of luck
in their lives, hoping that they
find that happiness, and calling
them my friends.
The students were not
representatives of GALA, just
students who are gay and
lesbian. I would like to thank
them: Dean, Frank, Doug, Kim,
Tony, Nancy, Arlene, NIck and
GALA for helping me in my
pursuit of free press. GALA
meetings are held Tuesday nights
8:30 at CC 375.
Socialism
Continued from page 6
governments.
To avoid confrontation, the
respective nations will need to
follow the rules expressed by the
.. Helsinki Accord, said Altman.
These include non-intervention
by other countries, a respect for
minorities, and the observation
of human rights, he said.
“Change in Eastern Europe is
Not a guarantee that things will
get better,” he said.
The importance of the U. S.’s
presence in the region was
something which was stressed by
all three. “We ought to keep our
presence there,” said Zacek, the
only American-born person on
the panel.
“(The U.S.) is still loved in
that part of the world, one of the
X few places left which still does,
and we ought to capitalize on
that naive admiration,” he said.
Altman underscored America’s
_ im, ortance to his country in its
moral support, rather than solely
for its economic aid. “Yugoslavia
is not interested in a handout,” he
said. “We need cooperation and
investment.”
Jaszenszky traced the history
_ of nationalism to its roots in the
19th century, when it blossomed
in the years which followed
- World War I, after European and
Asian when empires were broken
up into smaller countries,
Zacek said he believes that
communism has not been wiped
out of Eastern Europe, and that it
is “only in a slump now.”
“Marxism will be revived if
capitalism doesn’t work,” he
said, in response to a question
from the audience, which totaled
close to 100 and contained a
number of history and political
science professors.
Jaszenszky, a professor of
history, reflected on the need for
scholars such as himself fo play
an important part in his country’s
development.
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Continued from back page
By Neil Koppler
The field for next week’s 12-team NCAA hockey tournament is gradually coming
into focus.
And when playoff champions from the four major conferences are crowned Sunday
and Monday, most of the questions will have been answered.
The favorites, contenders and longshots have been established heading into the final
four championships in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, Western Collegiate
Hockey Association, Hockey East, and Eastern College Athletic Conference.
Playoff champions’ from each of the four leagues receive automatic berths in the
INCAA tournament.
On Monday, the four-man NCAA Hockey Committee will announce the complete:
field with the addition of eight at-large teams, including one Division 1 independent
team.
“There's a lot at stake in the conference playoffs because for some teams the only|
way they can get into the tournament is by winning,” Michigan State coach Ron
Mason said. “And others are looking for high seedings and getting the first-round bye
and home ice in the second.” :
Michigan State, ranked No. 1 in the NCAA poll, is considered a cinch to get into the
INCAA tournament regardless of how the Spartans fare this weekend at the CCHA
|\Championships in Detroit.
Others in that category include Lake Superior State, runner-up to MSU in the
ICCHA; Wisconsin of the WCHA; Maine and Boston College of Hockey East; and
Colgate in the ECAC.
Teams with hope include Michigan, CCHA; Northern Michigan, WCHA; and three
teams from the ECAC: Rensselaer Polytechnic (RPI), Cornell and Clarkson.
In the semifinals of the the CCHA Championships on Saturday in Detroit, Michigan
State plays Michigan and Lake Superior State meets Bowling Green. The third-place
game will be played Sunday at 1 p.m. and the championship game is set for 4:30 p.m.
The WCHA semifinal matchups on Sunday in St. Paul, Minn, feature regular-season
champion Wisconsin and Northern Michigan, and Minnesota against North Dakota.
The third-place and championship are will be played Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m.,
respectively. ~
Boston College, the regular-season titleist, hosts New Hampshire, and Maine is
‘home against Boston University in Hockey East’s semifinals on Friday. The winners
imeet for the title on Sunday at 5 p.m. at site of the finalist with the higher seed in the
league.
It’s an all-New York State field in the ECAC Championships at the Boston Garden.
First-place Colgate meets Clarkson, and RPI plays Clarkson in semifinal games
Saturday. There is no third-place game, and the title game will be played Sunday at 8
p.m. :
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“While it is my hope that the parties
will be able to reach an agreement, it is
how apparent that this must be
accomplished in the next few days or we
will have to postpone the start of the
1990 championship season,” Vincent
said.
But union chief Donald Fehr said no
deal.
“That would be wonderful,” Fehr said
sarcastically. “They get another year
where players get underpaid while
they’re making $1.5 billion.”
Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig
Said that Vincent’s proposal “is
Consistent with our desire to protect the
integrity of the season.”
Negotiations have been stalled over
the issue of salary arbitration eligibility.
The two sides talked long into Tuesday
and Wednesday nights, but got no closer
to solving the problem.
The union wants players to be eligible
for arbitration after two years: the
owners want it to remain at three years.
On Wednesday, the owners offered a
bonus pool for players with between two
and three years of service. The union
rejected that proposal and countered
with one of its own own: that all players
between two and three years be ranked
in order of experience, with the top half
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Proposal on Thursday, but still neither side
likes the other’s suggestion. And, after 31
bargaining sessions and baseball’s seventh
work stoppage since 1972, Vincent, who
has been in the middle of the negotiations,
presented his own plan.
“I am asking the clubs to open the
training camps in exchange for a pledge
from the players not to strike during the
1990 season,” Vincent said. “In the
meantime, the parties can continue to
work towards the best of all results ... a
negotiated agreement.”
Fehr said there had been “informal
suggestions” that owners would propose
to end the lockout in return for a no-strike
promise. The union has rejected that idea
all along, saying it would lose its
bargaining power without getting anything
in return.
The two sides have made progress on
every matter except arbitration, prompting
Fehr to say carly Thursday, “with an
exception or two , maybe all of the other
issues are settled.”
Rosters will be restored to 25 players
for 1991 and 1992. The sides have moved
closer on minimum salaries, with the
union proposing $105,000, $15,000 more
than the owners are offering: and players
have proposed a $57 million yearly
contribution to the benefit plan, $7
million more than the owners offered.
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Trifectas becoming the way in the N.B.A.
By John Myers
It is the home run ball of the
National Basketball Association
— the three-point shot.
It has become an effective
weapon to use anytime, not just
for late-game heroics. It has
brought the little guy back to the
land of the giants. And it has
helped spread the defense to give
the post-up players more room
to operate.
Not only are there more shots,
there is a higher success ratio as
well.
It has not led to more scoring
— the team scoring average a
decade ago was 109.3 points a
game; last year’s mark was
109.2.
But since its inception 10 years
ago, the three-point shot has
gone from novelty to being an
integral part of the NBA game.
Only five years ago, the season
average per team was 249
attempts, making 73 (24.3
percent).
Last year, the season average
per team was 537 attempts,
making 173 (32.2 percent).
Through March 4, the team
average is 365 attempts, making
118 (32.3 percent). Projected
through the rest of the season,
the team average will be 523
attempts, making 170 (32.4
percent).
“It’s added another element of
high-level excitement, like the
home run in baseball, like the
dunk in basketball,” Indiana
coach Dick Versace said.
“The exciting part of the game
was the slam dunk, and now you
have another thing that excites
the fans and can get your team
fired up; (it’s) pretty close to a
good slam dunk,” said
Cleveland guard Mark Price,
who hit three-pointers in 34
straight games this season, the
second longest string in NBA
history.
Indiana and Cleveland are the
top three-point shooting teams.
The Pacers have made 40.3
percent of their shots (213 of
528), while the Cavaliers have
made 39.9 percent (248 of 621).
The league-wide percentage is
.323; five years ago it was .293.
Indiana’s Reggie Miller likes
the trey because it opens the
game to the smaller players,
even though he is 6-7.
“Tt seems the game has beca
growing to bigger and bigger
players, and I think it brings
back the point guard’s
availability for hitting the three.”
The 6-foot-1 Price, 5-11
Michael Adams of Denver, 6-1
John Stockton of Utah and 6-3
Craig Hodges of Chicago all fit
into that category.
But sharpshooters like 7-foot
Jack Sikma of Milwaukee and 6-
11 Bill Laimbeer of Detroit also
can hit the shot.
Hodges, an eight-year veteran,
leads the NBA in three-point
shooting this season at an
incredible 49.3 percent (82 of
166). He is one of 13 players
shooting 40 percent or better
from three-point range.
Said Trent Tucker of New
York: “The jump shot is a lost
art in the game today. I try to
inform kids to work on their
jump shots. If you make the
shot you have an opportunity to
play.”
The opportunity for Cleveland
(25-32) to deploy its three long-
range shooting specialists —
Price, Craig Ehlo and rookie
Steve Kerr — came early in the
season when center Brad
Daugherty and forward Jim
Nance were sidelined by
injuries.
Kerr ranks second at 48.2
percent (53 of 110), Ehlo is
seventh at 43.3 percent (74 of
171) and Price is 13th at 40.1
percent (105 of 262).
“We didn’t have Brad in the
middle, that’s 20 points a game
and a threat on the low post that
we didn’t have the first half of
the season,” Price said. “So you
have to find other ways to help
yourself win, And a lot of times,
it was live or die by the outside
game, which is how you don’t
really want to play the game,
but we were put in that
Situation, unfortunately, and had
to do the best we could.”
Added Ehlo: “We didn’t want
to rely on it at all, just all of a
sudden we were taking a lot of
shots, but when you’ve got
three guys like us shooting over
40 percent, it’s a good shot.”
“Tt can be a killer if you keep
a team on defense for 20
seconds, then, at end of 24
seconds, (you) hit the three,”
Coach Jerry Sloan said. “It lets
the air out of the defense.”
“Tf you’re down eight, and all
of a sudden you hit a couple of
them, you’re down two, it’s a
big swing,” Kerr said. “It’s a big
play. ... (and) the crowd gets
into it.”
“One of the things it does for
a team is it creates great
spacing; it makes it difficult to
trap back off of the passer onto
the post person from that far
out,” Versace said. “If you have
to respect a guy’s three-point
shooting range, then it’s difficult
to come off of him and trap the
post.”
While proficient at hitting the
three-pointer, most of the
league’s top shooters say they
don’t consciously seek the shot.
Rather, they let the opportunity
to fire up a trey come in the
natural flow of the game.
“I’m never conscious of
whether I should shoot the
three,” Chicago’s Michael
Jordan said. “If I’m open I might
think about it, but mostly, I pick
and choose my times if I feel
good.”
Players and coaches agree it is
better not to mess with the
distance of the three-point arc —
23-feet-9 around the perimeter
and 22 feet in the corners.
“T think it would be crazy to
move it farther,” Kerr said.
Said Stockton: “It’s a
challenging distance. You earn it
when you make it from out
there.”
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By Steve Weiberg
One by one by one, they’re picking off pieces of
college basketball’s prize property: the NCAA
tournament.
— Arkansas: 23-4, Southwest Conference regular-
season champion and a potential No. 3 or 4 seed.
— Minnesota: 20-7, a Big Ten’s Big Four, also a lock.
— Memphis State: 17-10 against a difficult schedule,
not as dead-certain but a likely invitee.
— Robert Morris: 22-7, Northeast Conference regular-
season and tournament champion, assured of a second
consecutive berth,
The common denominator here is the man in charge,
the head coach. Nolan Richardson at Arkansas, Clem
Haskins at Minnesota, Larry Finch at Memphis State,
Jarrett Durham at Robert Morris. All are talented. All are
respected.
All are black.
And they won’t be alone when the Division I men’s
tournament opens. Add a coach from each of the two
predominantly black conferences, the Mid-Eastern
Athletic and Southwestern Athletic, perennials John
Thompson of Georgetown and probably John Chaney of
Temple and as many as five or six others from Tennessee
to Ohio State to Oklahoma State, and blacks will have
their best representation to date in the 64-team field.
“J think a big corner has been turned,” says NCAA
executive director Dick Schultz, the head coach at Iowa
when Illinois State’s Will Robinson broke the color
barrier in 1970.
Says Rudy Washington, an assitant at lowa and
executive director of the 2,500-member Black Coaches
Association: “I don’t think we’re tuming a comer. I’m
Not going to give us that much credit. But we’re making
Progress.”
He looks at Haskins and Finch and up-and-comers
Randy Ayers at Ohio State and Wade Houston at
Tennessee, and says, “They’re doing a good job in terms
of public relations, showing that a lot of black coaches
are successful other than the Thompsons and the
Chaneys and the (George) Ravelings.
“There’s no question we can do the job. We just have
to be given an opportunity.”
The opportunities still come hard. Three years ago,
there were only 30 black head coaches at predominantly
white schools and 48 altogether in men’s basketball’s
Division I. This season started with a barely improved 32
and 49 scattered among 293 schools, and three of those
coaches — most recently Tony Branch at Lamar —
already are gone.
While far better than major-college football (two blacks
among 106 head coaches), it’s less than 17 percent
representation in a sport in which almost
60 percent of the athletes are black.
Washington is among the case studies. He has been an
assistant coach at Southern Cal, an administrative
assistant with the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers, a head
coach at Compton (Calif.) Community College, the top
assistant at Clemson and now a fifth-year assistant who
has been part of four NCAA tournament teams at Iowa.
He has shopped for a head coaching job for the past 10
years. Number of interviews before last season: zero.
Total number of serious interviews: two. Frustration
level: high and climbing.
“But I take a lot of satisfaction in the fact that
somebody else is getting the opportunity,” he says. “Jerry
Lloyd got a shot at Louisiana Tech. Wade got
a shot at Tennessee.”
And both, like Ayers at Ohio State, are making the most
of them. LaTech is 20-7 and, while an NCAA longshot, is
a certain National Invitation Toummament invitee. Houston
has guided a Tennessee team picked to finish as low as
eighth in the Southeastern Conference to fourth place, an
overall 15-12 record and a shot at the NCAA party
depending on the Volunteers’ performance in the SEC
postseason tournament.
Ayers, with a freshman and three sophomores in his
starting lineup, is 15-11 and expecting an NCAA berth if
the Buckeyes split their remaining regular-season games
against Indiana and Minnesota.
American’s Ed Tapscott, Oklahoma State’s Leonard
Hamilton and perhaps Boston U’s Mike Jarvis also will
wind up in either the NCAA or NIT.
“Tf people can look at me and say, ‘Here’s a young
Source: USA TODAY research
Black coaches finding success
Rod Lite, Gannett News sonics
in the NCAA
black coach who’s ... getting it done the right way,’ yeah,
I take a little bit of pride in that,” says Ayers, 33, an Ohio
State assistant who was promoted last July after Gary
Williams jumped to Maryland.
“No doubt about it,” says Houston, 45, named the
SEC's first black head coach in April after 13 years as an
assistant at ultra-successful Louisville.
“It’s a great sense of pride and one of the things that
keeps you going.
“My son (Allan, Tennessee's star freshman guard) told
me the other day that he may want to be a coach. It’s
about role models. If I’m a role model for a young
(black) kid who wants to be a coach, who maybe wants
to be a head coach in the Southeastern Conference, at
least he can see there’s been one before.”
Nobody, however, is saying anything about blacks
finally proving they can coach at the major-college level.
“T don’t think the reason young black coaches weren’t
offered jobs came from people who didn’t think they
could do the job,” says Georgetown’s Thompson, the role
models’ role model. “It came from other people’s fears
and reservations.
“T have definitely sensed, in people who call you up for
a recommendation or to use you as a sounding board,
more openness and willingness to talk about those fears.
Before, they would skip all around the issue. Now, (an
athletic director) will say if there’s a concern about a
person adjusting to the environment or the environment
adjusting to the person.”
That, Thompson says, is a much better gauge of
progress than win-loss records or the number of black
coaches’ photos in NCAA tournament programs.
But it’s still only modest progress. Houston was one of
college basketball’s most respected assistants, yet found
little interest outside Division II and other small colleges
for nine years before Tennessee came calling.
Washington wonders if Colorado might give him his
head-coaching break. Or Drake. Or if it will come at all.
The frustration isn’t limited to blacks, of course. “It’s a
highly competitive business,” Thompson says. “I know a
lot of young white coaches who are just as frustrated.”
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Sports
Friday
Rochester vs.SE Mass. - tonight, 6:30
Albany vs. N. Adams St. - tonight, 8:30
NCAA Sectional Final - Sat. 8:30
March Madness storms into Albany
Danes set to host NCAA Sectional tonight against North Adams St.
By Wayne Stock
SPORTS EDITOR
A capacity crowd is expected
tonight in University Gym, as
the Albany Great Danes play
host to the North Adams State
Mohawks in the Sectional
round of the NCAA Division
Til Tournament.
Albany (20-7, 18th in the
nation) advanced to the “sweet
sixteen” with an 85-75 victory
over Potsdam College last
Saturday. The Danes have
never reached the round of
eight. North Adams (21-4,
eighth in the nation) defeated
Southern Maine 88-75 to
advance to the Sectionals.
The Mohawks scoring attack
is led by senior guard Phil
Bledsoe. Bledsoe is currently
averaging 19.2 points a game.
“We're going to go box and
one on him (Bledsoe),”
sophomore guard Ed Feller
said.
With the success Albany had
with the box and one on
Potsdam’s Eric Gardner (3-13
from the floor), it is not
surprising that Albany head
coach Dick Sauers will be
looking to go to it again.
“We'll be changing defenses
trying to keep them off
balance,” Sauers said.
The Danes biggest problem,
however, may lie in North
Adams 6-5 senior center
Bernard Alexander. Alexander
leads the Mohawks in
rebounding, averaging 9.5 a
game, in addition to his 18.6
scoring average.
“We've got to try and get a
SE Mass to collide with Rochester
lot of help on him (Alexander),”
Sauers said.
The Mohawks’ third big threat
is 6-3 senior guard Andre
Washington. Washington is
averaging 14 points and 6.7
rebounds a game.
In a scenario similar to the
one they faced against Potsdam,
the Danes will have to establish
their inside game early on to set
free their perimeter game.
“We know they can score on
the perimeter,” North Adams
head coach Al Sokaitis said.
“They have a number of people
they can throw at you.”
Down low, Albany will go to
Michael Shene and Alex
McClearn. The tandem
combined for 26 points and 14
rebounds against Potsdam,
Shene, a 6-6 junior center,
leads Albany in scoring and
rebounding with 14.8 and 7.5
Tespectively. McClearn, a 6-3
sophomore forward, averages
9.2 points and 7.2 rebounds a
game.
“We can score inside,”
Sauers said. “We have to get the
ball in there and see what we
can do.”
McClearn, who is physically
stronger than Shene, will most
likely have the task of guarding
Alexander.
On the perimeter, Albany will
look to senior guard Andrew
Goodemote. Goodemote had a
team high 15 points, all coming
in the second half, against
Potsdam. He is averaging 11.2
a game.
At the small forward is senior
Dennis Walker. Walker is
averaging 9.7 points a game and
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leads the Danes with 50 three-
pointers.
Stephen Mulderry, Albany’s
starting point guard, may hold
the key to the game. If
Mulderry is able to penetrate
the North Adams defense, he
can create problems.
“The main thing that
established our outside game
last time was getting the ball
inside,” Mulderry said.
“We've got to shoot well
from the outside,” Sauers said,
“We have to take our shots
when we get them.”
Both teams competed in the
Great Dane Tournament in the
beginning of the season, but
avoided playing each other. The
Mohawks dropped to Alfred 75-
68 in the opening round, and
the Danes did the same, 77-66
in the Championship. Alfred’s
promising season collapsed
after Mike Falowsky, their
leading scorer, fell to an injury.
With only two home victories
standing between Albany and a
trip to the Final Four, the
adrenaline will be running at a
feverish pitch.
“T think we’ll be sky high but
hopefully not too high,” Sauers
said.
The game will be carried live
on WCDB radio. Tipoff is at
8:30.
The winner of the Rochester -
Southeastern Massachusetts
game at 6:30 will face the
Albany - North Adams victor.
Saturday night in University
Gym at 8:30. The consolation
game is at 6:30.
By Vincent Vincenzo
The opening game in Friday night’s
NCAA Division III Sectional, matches
two strong squads from the northeast.
The Southeastern Massachussets
University Corsairs will face the
University of Rochester Yellowjackets at
6:30 p.m. in University Gym. Both
teams have identical 23& 5 records.
The Corsairs advanced to this spot by
defeating Salem State on Saturday, 122-
112, while the Yellowjackets upset top-
seeded Buffalo State in Buffalo, 62-57.
The Corsairs are making their forth trip
to the Division III tournament in the past
five years, while Rochester is in the
tournament for the first time in nine
campaigns.
“We’re not a one-dimensional team,”
SMU head coach Brian Baptiste said.
The Corsairs are led by center
Waldemar Sender. The 6-8 center is
averaging 21.7 points and 7.5 rebounds a
game. “He does everything well,”
Baptiste said.
Sender has lived in the United States
only four years since defecting from his
native home in Poland.
Other key players for the Corsairs
include sophomore forward Bevin Ingram
and junior guard Robert Wiliams. Ingram
is averaging over 20 points a game while
Williams is putting in 14, and dishing out
7.2 assists.
SMU will be looking to play the same
up-tempo game they have played all
year, averaging 90 points a game.
Rochester head coach Mike Neer, on
the other hand, likes to play a defensive
game. His Yellowjackets have held
opponents to 63 points a game and a
38.2% shooting average for the field.
Rochester’s key player is 6-8
sophomore center Chris Fiteo. Fiteo
currently leads the Yellowjackets in
scoring, rebounding, assists and blocked
shots. He is helped out offensively by
two swingmen; senior Chris Johnson and
junior Greg Krohner. They are both
averaging 11 points a game.
The Yellowjackets have done well this
season despite losing starting point guard
Jim Jordan in the sixth game to a knee
injury. Krohner and Johnson have taken
up the slack caused by the loss of Jordan.
According to Neer, defense will be the
key in the contest with SMU.
“We have to hold Sender and Ingram
to 35 points combined,” Neer said .
The Yellowjackets will also try to limit
Williams’ penetration to the basket. “If
we could play our team game (on
defense) we'll do well,” Neer said.
Baptiste also sees defense as a key
factor. “(The keys are to) play our game,
not make mistakes and play defense.”
This may be a harder task for the
Corsairs. By playing an up-tempo offense
game, they leave the defense vulnerable,
allowing opponents to score 85 points a
game.
Only time will tell who will prevail in
this battle between offense and defense.
Vincent steps
forward in talks
(AP) Commissioner Fay Vincent
proposed Thursday that baseball
owners end their 22-day lockout if
players promise not to strike, an idea
the union has said it would never
accept.
Vincent has the authority to order
spring-training camps open, as
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn did after a
three-week lockout in 1976, but is
reluctant to do it without approval from
both sides.
“I do not like the idea of the
commissioner of baseball opening
camps,” Vincent said. “It is something
that should be achieved by agreement.”
Owners and players did not meet
Thursday before Vincent’s proposal and
no meetings were scheduled. Already
half of all exhibition games have been
cancelled and opening day is just 25
days away.
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