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September 19, 1989
NUMBER 28
NYPIRG takes credit
for irradiation vote
By Gal Mayer
STAFF WRITER
This summer Governor Mario
Cuomo signed a bill prohibiting
the sale of irradiated foods in
New York State citing “public
reaction” as the reason, according
to a press release from his office.
Much of that “public reaction”
was generated by the New York
Public Interest Research Group
which has a chapter on the
SUNYA campus according to
SUNYA NYPIRG Project
coordinator Geoff Boehm.
NYPIRG has been the only
organization in the state lobbying,
generating public response and
working on banning food
irradiation for three years - a short
time for progressing to getting
state legislation passed, Boehm
said. <
At first, he added, they
concentrated on the campuses
where NYPIRG was prominent
and worked on banning irradiated
food on campus. Albany was the
first SUNY school to convince its
food supplier «Waiversity
Auxiliary Services, to ban
irradiated food - “a major step”
according to Bochm - and only
the second in the state after
Syracuse University.
Although UAS was not serving
any irradiated food when the
campus-wide ban went into effect,
it did inform its suppliers that it
would not buy irradiated food,
according to UAS Director of
Contract Food Service Ron
Clough. “What we were doing is
taking a stand against irradiated
food,” Clough said.
Food irradiation is a
sterilization process that may
prevent spoilage and kill bacteria
and parasites by exposing the food
to gamma rays emitted from
radioactive materials. Proponents
of the process point to its shelf-
life prolonging abilities as a step
toward solving the world hunger
problem.
However, the controversy
surrounding the process is over
whether the benefits obtained
outweigh the possible dangers of
irradiation which include tumors,
low birth weight and blood
disorders, according to a NYPIRG
new release.
NYPIRG’s efforts to ban
irradiated food went from on-
campus education to public
education by-placing: students
outside supermarkets with
information on irradiation, writing
letters to public officials and
legislators, and lobbying, Boehm
said. According to release from
Cuomo’s office, “That negative
reaction is reflected in the
LARKFEST '89
Food, music, merchandise, and people lured
thousands to Lark Street for the ninth annual fall
festival.
overwhelming passage of this
bill with only one negative vote
in the Senate [of 60] and 26
negative votes in the Assembly
{of 151]. Continuing doubts
about the safety of this process
and:the wholesomeness of the
food after irradiation stand in the
way of public acceptance ... It is
for this reason that I am
approving this bill which
provides a two-year period for
further review of this process.”
The bill exempts spices and
irradiated food used clinically in
hospitals from this prohibition.
Boehm said that this victory
was important because food
irradiation is still in the first
Stages of mass use. “As the
government-is:corsidering. this:
process, we want to let them
know that consumers don’t want
irradiated food,” he said.
Boehm cited this victory as “a
tremendous example of how the
students (of SUNYA and other
schools) took a major issue and
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won it.”
The SUNYA chapter of
NYPIRG - a “very strong”
chapter, according to Boehm - is
an organization of which every
student is a member through a $3
student fee included in the tuition
bill. This year, NYPIRG will
work on environmental
preservation, educational reform,
small claims court help,local
government education, energy
efficiency, student banking and
Continued On Page 17
Hurricane Hugo leaves thousands homeless
San Juan, Puerto Rico
(AP) Hurricane Hugo’s 125 mph
winds pounded Puerto Rico on
Monday after ripping across
other islands in the eastern
Caribbean, leaving at least 14
people dead and tens of
thousands homeless.
The National Weather Service
said Hugo, the most powerful
storm to hit the region this
decade, slammed into the eastern
tip of Puerto Rico and skirted the
northern coast before roaring to
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Weather
Although it seems a bit
cooler (a sure sign of Fall)
it looks as if we may finally
be in for some nice days
Letters and opinions..12-13
Sports. 23-24
Editor-in-Chief gives a
news analysis of his recent
trip to the State of Israel
See Page 4
the west-northwest toward the
edge of the Dominican Republic
and the Bahamas.
Late Monday, Puerto Rico
Gov. Hernandez Colon said he
will “ask President Bush to
declare the island a disaster area’
after a tour showed at least
27,900 people were made
homeless by the storm.
Colon and Police
Superintendent Ismael
Betancourt said there were no
immediate reports of hurricane-
related deaths but that poor
communications across the island
prevented any definitive tallies
on damages or casualties.
Hugo is next on line to hit the
northeastern coast of the
Dominican Republic, which
shares the island of Hispaniola
with Haiti; civil defense
authorities in the Dominican
Republic before dark Monday
declared a state of emergency and
the island’s four international
airports were closed.
Meanwhile, Bob Sheets,
Director of National Hurricane
Center in Coral Gables, Fla., said
Monday evening it’s still too
early to tell whether Hugo will
strike the U.S. mainland,
“About two days from now,
three days from now, it'll be out
in the Bahamas, and about
Wednesday, we’ll be making
decisions as to whether or not we
need any (hurricane) watches or
warnings for anywhere along the
U.S. coast,” he said. £
Sheets said however that
sophisticated forecasting models
indicate the hurricane will travel
in a northwestern direction for
several hours
then,”Unfortunately, our best
(hurricane computer projection)
models indicate that it will tam
back: toward the west - and the
U.S. mainland.
At 6 p.m. EDT, Hugo’s center
was latitude 19.5 degrees north
and longitude 67.0 west, or 90
miles northwest of San Juan, said
the National Hurricane Center in
Coral Gables, Fla. It said Hugo
was moving 13 mph in a wobbly,
west-northwest to northwest
direction.
Maximum sustained winds
declined slightly over the day, to
115 mph, and hurricane-force
winds extended up to 75 miles
from its center, the forecasters
added.
Tropical storm Iris rose in the
wake of Hugo and forecasters
advised residents of the battered
Leeward Islands to keep a close
watch on the new storm. The
ysaid Iris, with 50 mph winds,
was about 300 miles east of the
Leeward Islands at 6 p.m. EDT
and was moving north-northwest
at about 18mph.
The Hurricane Center said
swirling weather pattems left by
Hugo made further strengthening
unlikely for Iris through Tuesday
evening.
The Storm’s winds overtumed
cars and stripped roofs off houses
and office buildings and sent
chunks of concrete plunging into
Streets in San Juan, where one-
third of the U.S. commonwealth’s
3.3 million people live. Fifty
airplanes were reported destroyed
at the airport in Isla Verde.
There was widespread damage
in San Juan’s Condado Beach
area, the site of many of the
island’s large tourist hotels.
Shattered glass, strips of roofing
and overturned trees littered the
streets, and few drivers ventured
out in their vehicles.
Hugo cut power and disrupted
international communications to
the island.
One woman in a San Juan
high-rise told radio station
WOSO of watching sections of
the city darken one after another
as the high winds and heavy rains
moved across San Juan.
Widespread power outages also
were reported in the Dominican
Republic.
There were no immediate
reports of casualties in Puerto
Rico although hone man was
electrocuted Sunday while trying
to remove a television antenna as
he prepared for the storm.
Bands of people, mostly
youths, looted storm-damaged
shops in San Juan and police
patrols were reinforced at the
main Post Office, political party
offices and shopping areas.
In a boutique on the ground
floor of the two-story building
housing The Associated Press
bureau in San Juan, young looters
defied winds hitting 100mph at
the peak of the storm and carried
out armloads of women’s
clothing.
The storm’ blew out the
windows in the AP office on a
peninsula between the sea and
San Juan harbor, destroying its
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2 ___ALBANY STUDENT PRESS _ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1989
NEWS BRIEFS
The World >)
Exodus Comaingce:
Budapest, Hungary
(AP) East German refugees say
Czechoslovak and East German
authorities are seizing their passports and
travel visas to stop them from reaching
Hungary and emigrating to the West.
The crackdown has forced emigres into
acts of desperation. An East German man
taking part in the exodus to West
Germany drowned while swimming
across the Danube “River from
The two-hour outdoor Mass in the
Ukrainian city of Lvov, which Western
witnesses said drew up to 100,000
people, came on the 50th anniversary of
the dictator Josef Stalin’s annexation of
the western Ukraine from Poland.
Ukrainian activists carrying candles
planned to line up at dusk in the
cobblestoned streets of the city of
650,000 to mourn the anniversary of the
Soviet takeover, said Anatoly Dotsenko,
a Moscow-based member of the
Ukrainian Helsinki Group that monitors
human rights abuses in the republic.
The Nation Whig
Czechoslovakia to Hungary, refugee
workers said today.
The man was forced to swim because
he had no travel documents, they said.
A Czechoslovak man today managed to
cross his Communist homeland’s border
to West Germany on a homemade
motorized hang glider, Bavarian border
police said.
Israel, Egypt talk
Cairo, Egypt
(AP) Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin, associated in Egyptian minds with
harsh military action against Arab
protesters, flew in today to discuss
Egyptian proposals for settling the
Palestinian question.
His one-day mission sent into high gear
efforts by Israel and Egypt, which made
their own peace more than 10 years ago,
to arrange for elections in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip of Palestinians who would
talk peace with Israel.
Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid
greeted Rabin at Cairo International
‘Airport and drove with him directly to a
meeting with President Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian officials said Mubarak hoped
to get positive answers from Rabin to
questions that the president sent to Israel
seeking clarifications and assurances on
an Israeli peace plan.
Ukrainians protest
Moscow
(AP) Tens of thousands 6f Ukrainian
Catholics gathered on Sunday for the
biggest religious service since their
church was outlawed four decades ago
and demanded that Mikhail S. Gorbachev
grant them legal status.
-~PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Hostages freed
McKee, KY
(AP) An armed teenager stalked into a
high-school classroom, fired a ship at
the ceiling and took 11 classmates
hostage Monday, police and witnesses
said. After a day-long standoff, he
released them all and surrendered.
Several shots were fired, but no one
was injured in the confrontation, which
began about 9:50 a.m., the police said.
There were conflicting reports that a
shot was fried at a television news
helicopter.
The state police declined to identify
the hostage-taker, but classmates said he
a
was Brian Pierce, a 17-year-old senior at
Jackson County High School. McKee is a
town of 250 people about 50 miles
southeast of Lexington in the
Appalachian foothills.
The State all]
Landlord guilty
White Plains
(AP) A landlord whose Yonkers
boardinghouse was gutted by a fire that
killed eight people was convicted
Monday of criminally negligent homicide
because the building failed to meet safety
standards.
State Supreme Court Justice Nicholas
Colabella convicted Frank Thomas, 67, of
two counts but acquitted him of five
additional counts. He had dismissed an
eighth count earlier.
Colabella’s verdict came after a two-
week, non-jury trial. The judge made no
comment, except to say the case had been
a difficult one.
Thomas, who lives in New Rochelle,
had been charged with the deaths of the
eight people because the boardinghouse
violated several provisions of the fire
code. A fire door was missing and the
front door was secured by a double dead-
bolt lock, which required a key from the
inside to open.
‘As autumn slips away, outdoor pick-up games dwindle...
Four out on bail
New York
(AP) Four of the five defendants charged
with murder in the racial killing of a black
youth in Bensonhurst pleaded innocent
Monday and were allowed to remain free
on bail, sparking an angry outcry from the
slain teenager’s father.
“You should have kept them in here,”
Moses Stewart, father of Yusef Hawkins,
shouted at Justice Thaddeus Owens at
state Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
“Letting murderers walk home ...”
Owens responded by calling for order
in the courtroom, which was filled with
supporters of Hawkins’ family, including
the Rev. Al Sharpton.
“T do a solo act here,” Owens said.
Minutes before, he accepted innocent
pleas from James Patino, 24; Keith
Mondello, 18; Pasquale Raucci, 19; and
Joseph Serrano, 19.
r— Correction —
In the Sep. 15 edition of the Albany]
Student press, Sen. Olga Mendez’
ethnicity was misstated. She is of Puerto
Rican descent.
‘We regret the error.
JIM LUKASZEWSKI UPS
Free listings
TUESDAY September 19
Contemporary Issues in the
Bible will be discussed at
7:30 pm in CC 320. Call 442-
5670 or 442-6987 for more
information.
Revisionist Zionist
Alternative (RZA) will be
holding its weekly meeting at
8:30 pm in HU 125. All are
welcome to attend.
WEDNESDAY September 20
Hillel is forming a bowling
league on Wed. evenings
beginning Sept. 27. Call 442-
5670 or 442-7199 for more
information.
NYPIRG will be holding its
General Interest Meeting at
8:00 pm in LC 19. Everyone
interested is urged to attend.
Don't Walk Alone General
Interest Meeting -- Earth
Science 143 at 7:15 pm
THURSDAY September 21
ACOA (Adult Children Of
Addictions) meets at 7:30 in
the Health and Counseling
Building (Infirmary) Rm. 202
FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
On Campus Meetings of
Alcoholics Anonymous are
taking presently taking place,
and will continue throughout
the semester. Call 442-5777
for times or more information. ;
Preview of Events is a free service
to campus groups. They are not
ads, but just a bulletin board of the
happenings at SUNYA. Bring your
free listings to CC 329. Deadlines
are Wednesday's at 3:00 pm for the
Friday issue, and Sunday at
3:00pm for the Tuesday issue.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1989 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3
-CAPITOL CAMPUSES.
NEWS FROM AREA COLLEGES
Siena's president
steps down
Father William McConville will become the
eighth president of Siena College early next
month.
McConville replaces father Hugh Hines,
who held the post for 13 years, according to
Siena Promethean news editor Dan
Pickett.McConville’s administration will be
heralded in inaugural ceremonies from Oct. 2
to 5, Pickett said. Among the alumni and
administrators from other schools on hand to
honor the new president will be SUNYA
president Vincent O’Leary, Pickett said.
O'Leary and McConville may have plenty
to chat about: the SUNYA president last week
announced his plan to retire from the
presidency and return to teaching at the end of
this academic year.
RPI hopes to raise
$200 million
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will
soon embark on a ambitious fund raising
campaign designed both to upgrade facilities
and to recriut students to use them, a school
official said.
Alan Moorse, a communications officierat
RPI, said the school’s New Century campaign
will fund new buildings, renovations,
“endowed chairs, and scholarships, including
an effort to recruit minority students who
would not normally be able to afford the
school’s tuition. The program’s goal is to'raise
$200 million, mostly from alumni and
corporate sponsers, Moorse said.
Moorse said that the nation’s engineering
and science schools have “been ignoring
women and minorities”. RPI will seek to
encourage and support minority students to
pursue a college education in science, and to
encourage all students to go on to advanced
studies.
The nation is just not producing enough
people who are knowledgeable in the
sciences,” Moorse said.
The New Century concept is an extension of
a 1970's program known as Rensselaer 2000,
Moorse said. Rensselaer 2000 was designed to
forecast and meet the Institute's needs
throughout the turn of the century. The New
Century campaign is designed to take over
where the old program left off.
Martin Luther King III
to speak at Skidmore
Martin Luther King IJ, son of slain civil
rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Jr., will speak at
Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs
Monday.
King’s visit kicks off the second season of
monthly convocations designed to celebrate
diversity of cultures, diciplines and
perspectives, the school said. King’s visit,
which is co-sponsered by Skidmore’s Student
speakers bureau, is free and open to the
public.King will discuss “Levels of Love.” at
8:15-pm in the college’s Sports and Recreation
Center.
King, who has an bachelor’s degree from
Morehouse College in Alanta, is active in the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-violent
Social Change and in the Fulton County (GA)
Commision, where he has promoted equal
opportunities, minority business enterprise
and environmental awareness. For further
information from Andera J. Wise, please call
(518) 584-5000. extension 2635.
Street Parade
Larkfest crowd huge, but quiet
By Morgan Lyle
NEWS EDITOR
Cloudy skies did not keep thousands.of
people from jamming Lark street
Saturday for the ninth annual Larkfest.
The street was jammed from sidewalk
to sidewalk as vendors offered clothing,
jewelry and food, and visitors listened to
music and looked at each other. People
watching seemed to be the order of the
day.
Tom Mottolese, Larkfest event
coordinator, said the showers that came
late in the afternoon may have dampened.
attendance a bit, but was still pleased with
the crowd.
“i wouldn’t say it was an unqualified
success, but it was a qualified success. I
think everyone got a return on their
money and work,” Mottolese said.
Larkfest is a “self-sustaining, non-profit
event” designed to familiarize people with
the Lark street area, Mottolese said. Most
of the event’s $15,000 budget comes from
rentals of booth space by vendors, with
the Lark Street Area Merchant’s group
footing the rest of the bill, he said.
And while the city of Albany gave no
direct contribution to the event, Mottolese
said the work of the city police, fire and
public works departments was
indispensable.
“Without the city, (Larkfest) would }
never happen.”
Community Services Officer Tom
Fitzpatrick said that some 125,000 people
visited the event. He agreed with Sgt.
(CPS) In what was either a student party
run amok or a re-escalation of campus
racial tensions, thousands of students
battled with police officers and National
Guardsmen during four days of rioting at
Virginia Beach, Va., Sept. 1-4.
Other College parties gone bad:
See Page 6
Primed by three years of burgeoning
racial tensions on campuses nationwide
and the August murder of a black teen by
white assailants in New York, many of
the rioting students - most of whom were
black - attributed the violence to white
racism.
“The shooting in New York might of
had something to do with this,”
suggested Norfolk State University
(NSU) student and weekend veteran
Willy Lindsey. “Basically all racial
incidents over the past two months...
have been building up.”
The students were visiting the mostly
white beach resort for the annual
Greekfest, a four-day celebration
marking the end of summer.
When they got there, however, they
complained that many hotels required
payment in advance, that, to get into their
paid-for hotel rooms, students had to
wear identifying armbands, and that they
weren’t allowed to bring guests from
neighboring hotels to their rooms.
“Students as a whole just wanted to
come down and enjoy the beach and be
treated with respect,” said George
Timmons, student government president
at NSU. “it was almost as if we were in
jail or military camp.”
the students, already made wary by the
New York murder and the militarist
atmosphere at Virginia Beach, then heard
Leonard Crouch, who said the crowd was
well-behaved.
Entertainment was provided by area
musicians. Slated to perform were
doubtingthomas, Riprock Bop, Matt
Smith Band, Hal Miller Band, Plus 24,
Greg Speck and Supernova, and Vision,
but when the occasional drizzle turned
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into a steady light rain, the performers
called it a day.
Dwellers of apartments along the street
had the best view of the throng. Parties in
second - and third - floor apartments
were common, with the revelers standing
on balconies or sitting in windows.
SUSAN COPENHEAVER UPS
An estimated 125,000 people turned out despite the clouds.
Labor Day Greekfest turns into riot.
Black frats battle National Guard; 260 arrested
rumors the Ku Klux Klan would make an
appearance. “It was public information
in this area that the KKK and skinheads
were coming with the intent to help with
law and order,” said Gerlad Tyler, NSU’s
director of university relations,
“T saw a lot of Confederate flags,”
reported Chaz Blanks, a junior at
Morgan State University.
As if to underscore how many of the
students battling the police felt the
confrontation was racial, some chanted
“fight The Power!” a call taken from
“Do The Right Thing”, a current movie
about how a series of petty incidents led
to a riot in a black New York
neighborhood.
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"It was public information
in this area that the KKK
and skinheads were
coming with the intent to
help with law and order."
-Gerald Tyler
Norfolk State Univ.
director of university
relations
Greekfest began in 1985 as a
telatively small beach party for members
of predominantly black sororities and
fraternities at southeastern Virginia
campuses and Howard University. Last
year, many non-students attended, and
the number swelled to 40,000. Minor
damage was reported.
With growing anxiety about the
expanding celebration, city officials
beefed up police patrols and announced
that state police and National Guard had
been asked to help.
An even larger crowd - estimates were
as high as 100,000 people - jammed the
area this year. Confrontations broke out
late Saturday night, Sept. 2, after students,
left with little to do, apparently went on a
rampage through the main thoroughfare
looting more than 100 stores.
On Sunday, Sept. 3, after a day of melee,
Mayor Meyera Oberndorf called in the
National Gurad, claiming “We will not
tolerate lawlessness from anybody.”
Police arrested at least 260 people - half
of them locals - and issued hundreds of
summonses.
Students charged city officials unfairly
singled them out because they are black.
“Virginia is not too keen on black
students,” said Sunni Acoli-Squir,
president of the Interfraternity Conference
at Howard University.
“T’ve been to Daytona Beach and it’s a
Jot worse there,” student Blanks said. “In
Daytona Beach, (the cops) don’t do that.
The police just got out of hand.”
Virginia Beach officials also contributed
to revelers’ lack of things to do by shutting
shut down many of the facilities students
had used for dances during past
Greekfests, students said. They added that
the Greekfest activities held at nearby
Norfolk State And Hampton universities
went off without a hitch.
Milford Grain, a NSU student, said he’ll
try to form a “coalition” of students from
different campuses to voice the campus
view of the riot and to meet with Virginia
Beach officials.
Grain predicted many students would
return to the area next year, if only because
officials have said they don’t want them.
Grain hoped the meetings could help avoid
a repeat of this year’s disturbances.
4 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1989
A tour of Israel yields questions and hopes
Along with 14 other college newspaper editors from across
the country, Albany Student Press Editor in Chief Bryan
Sierra had the opportunity to examine the Israeli political
situation during a nine-day seminar in Israel. Represented in
the trip,which was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith, were schools such as Michigan State, Rutgers,
Minnesota, Duke, Columbia, Oklahoma, Dartmouth, and
others.
The trip was a densely packed study of Israeli politics,
journalism, culture, religion,and most importantly, the
intifada—the Palestinian uprising in the Israeli occupied
territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
The network news flashes images nightly of stone-throwing
and Molotov cocktails, while newspapers report daily
fatalities and injuries. But what is the real story in
Israel—these images, or a peaceful country that millions
across the world consider to be the Holy,
Land?
Our hosts, members of the Israeli office of|
the Anti-Defamation League, candidly,
explained that the purpose of the trip was to’
“correct misinformation” about Israel in the American media
by allowing us, as young journalists, to see the situation first
hand, and decide for ourselves. Although we questioned, at
first, the objectivity of the program, we soon saw that the
agenda included interviews with both Israelis and
Palestinians,
Our tour guide, Ron Perry, gave us a brief introduction to
Israeli history and politics shortly after we arrived in Israel.
Perry, incidentally, was a SUNYA student in 1973 when he
left briefly to fight in that year’s Yom Kippur War. Perry
encouraged us to keep our minds open, and said at the
beginning of the trip that if we left with more questions than
we came with, it would be a successful trip.
And it was successful. Following our first interview, with
Dr. Yacov Goldberg of the Dayan Center of Tel Aviv
University, our minds were already filled with questions.
Goldberg provided an overview of the Middle East, and
maintained that despite the intifada and problems within
Israel, the real places to watch were Lebanon (with a civil war
being fought “in proxy” between Iraq and Syria) and Egypt
(with a huge population growth and a faltering economy.)
“Tsrael is not the major dominating force in the Middle East,”
Goldberg stated; but he added that Israel must relate to every
problem and situation in the region.
The issue of why the occupied territories are so critical to
Israel was addressed by Col. Raanan Gissin, the deputy
spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Gissin said
that because of Israel’s size and geographic location, a strong
defense was necessary for its survival. Gissin strongly argued
that Israel had to do what was necessary to stay alive.
After leaving Tel Aviv and departing for the north, we
stopped in the Arab village of Acre to meet with Hussein
Fares, one of four Arab members of Knesset (the Israeli
parliament). Fares is a member of the Mapam, or United
Workers Party, which he said was at the forefront of the
elimination of the military government as well as extending
relations between the government and Arabs.
“To my great sorrow, the Arabs have continuously felt that
they are second class citizens,” Fares said, citing examples:
funding to Jewish towns or villages that is four times greater
than funding to an Arab village; a shortage of classrooms for
Arab children; and a 40 percent unemployment rate among
Arab college graduates (Israel’s overall unemployment rate is
News
Analysis
an already-high 10 percent).
Fares argued that as long as the problem of the
Palestinian people is not solved, the Arabs of Israel will
identify with the Palestinians, because they feel they don’t
have all their rights. He said, however, that the Arabs are
not unified, and cited the fact that 42 percent of Arab votes
in the last election went to Zionist parties. Most of the
Arabs vote in protest against other parties rather than vote
for a party that can improve conditions, he said, adding, “if
you can anger the establishment, so be it.”
Although he said Israeli newspapers generally treat the
Arab/Palestinian problem well, “sometimes the public
opinion in this country hurts...the country is not aware or
awake enough.” The response of the average Israeli reader
to this problem, Fares said, is “who cares?”
Although nobody in the entourage questioned our safety
during the first few days, it was a trip to Kibbutz Menara
that provided the first sense of unease. Menara, a non-
religious kibbutz, seemed to be a peaceful, quiet area set in
the hills. Yet that sharply contrasted the fact that it shared a
border with Lebanon, a high-security barbed wire fence
being the only indication that life in the kibbutz was not
always calm.
Shimon Shagig, a native of Holland who led the tour
through the kibbutz, explained that as in all kibbutzim,
exercise. Thesé exercises are held in an area with
ground conditions similar to those in Syria, the
battalion commander explained, and live ammunition
is always used. We watched as Israeli soldiers charged
a hill, firing rounds into balloon targets located on the
hill. A Merkava (Chariot) tank, which can take a direct
hit from any side, fired into the hill. One soldier was
wounded as he was approaching the hill and got
caught in the line of fire.
The Israeli soldiers we spoke with afterward
answered our questions about the army. All Israeli
citizens, including women, must join the army upon
turning 18. Two we spoke with—one from Kibbutz
Zakim in the south, the other from Cleveland,
Ohio—said they must always carry their weapons with
them. When asked about the intifada, both agreed that
most of the soldiers in the Israeli army are apolitical.
We arrived in Jerusalem just as the sun set, and a
watm golden glow surrounded the city. This warm
glow suddenly chilled when the bus stopped at the first
traffic light. Roy Isacowitz, news editor of the
Jerusalem Post, attracted my attention and pointed out
an Arab being searched by Israeli soldiers. A woman
stood by with small children and watched as the man
was searched, and as the bus pulled away, I wondered
if this was the Istael our hosts wanted us to see.
Our hosts did not attempt to hide anything from us,
however. On our first day in Jerusalem, we traveled to
Jalzone, a Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem.
For “safety reasons” we switched from a Maya tourist
bus to a UN bus, complete with shatterproof glass. Our
guide, Claire Grimes of the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency, explained that 469,000 refugees lived
in the West Bank, and defined “refugee” as someone
forced to leave their home when Arab/Israeli fighting
began in 1948.
Our first stop in the camp was at the office of
Medical Services, where Dr. Salah Safi, the only
doctor at the refugee camp, explained that he treats an
average of 150 people per day. Babies are checked
every month, Dr. Safi said, and pregnant women are
given monthly checkups. Dr. Safi said there are many
intifada-related problems, such as gunshot wounds, but
those victims are usually referred to hospitals in
Jerusalem immediately.
Gunshots rang out as we left the medical center. We
were led into a feeding center below the street level,
where UNWRA member Tim Ryan, an Australian
native, explained that there was no confrontation, and
that single shots were becoming the norm in the camp.
The shot, Ryan said, probably came from an Israeli
daily life usually went uninterrupted, as people worked on
the farms and children went to school. However, there are
attempts at crossing the border by terrorists, Shagig said,
most of whom are killed. Rockets and gunfire, he added,
gun turret overlooking the camp.
A small group of Palestinian children followed the
group as we headed for the bus. Carrying empty
are a common sound at night.
We again approached the Lebanese border at the Good
Fence. Perry said it was so-named because Lebanese
seeking medical aid or other help:can pass through the
border at this point. The security here was heavy, and
consisted mostly of United Nation Intervention Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) troops. This UN peacekeeping force,
comprised mostly of soldiers from Scandinavian countries,
was a fully-armed and prominent force at the Good Fence.
On our way to Jerusalem, we stopped at the Mahal Army
cannisters of tear gas and flashing the peace (or
possibly the “V” for victory) sign, the children posed
for our photographs and answered questions, through
translator. While the bus was pulling away, a few of
these children began throwing stones at the bus, but
stopped when Ryan asked them why they were doing
so. There was no reply
The following day was relatively peaceful, as the
beauty of Masada and the relaxation of the Dead Sea
calmed our investigation into the intifada. However, at
Base in the Golan Heights and witnessed a military
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DIGESTS
Randy Levin
Village Gate regular, Comedian
Randy Levin will bring his laughs to
SUNYA Thursday.
Levin frequently performs at The
Village Gate in Greenwich Village and
has visited more than 300 college
campuses during his tour.
Sponsored by the Student
Association, Levin will appear at the
Campus Center Ballroom Thursday
night at 8 pm.
Students will pay $5 and non-students
pay $6 for tickets that went on sale
Monday. They are available at Copies
Plus in the Campus Center.
Take back the Night
Women will march against sexual
assault Friday night by holding a “Take
Back the Night" march.
The Albany County Rape Crisis
Center is organizing the march and said
they hope students will join other
women in their fight against crime. T h
Center said marchers will gather at the
Women’s Building at 79 Central Ave.,
and march to the Capital and stage a
Tally.
The center will also organize a “Men’s
Vigil” in support of Women and will
meet at the same location, also at 7 pm.
Donations rise
Donations to SUNYA from Alumni
and parents has risen 60 percent, the vice
president for University Advancement
said last week.
The University at Albany Annual Fund
reported more than $718,000 in
contributions, the largest increase in its
16 year history.
Christian Kersten said the rise is “an
increased commitment by alumni toward
the advancement of their almamater.”
The fund also reported a 77 percent
increase in contributions for the fiscal
year which ended June 30.
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(AP) Environmentalists have to broaden
their ranks and change their focus as they
approach Earth Day 1990, says the organizer
of the original Earth Day, the 1970 event that
spawned the modern environmental
movement.
“We've turned the environmental
movement...into something that solicits
money from people across the country and
hires professional staffs to work on
government,” said Dennis Hayes, who
dropped out of Harvard Law School in 1969
to organize Earth Day.
“The environmental movement for the last
20 years has focused much too exclusively
on government and politics as the savior,”
Hates said Saturday in an interview. “T think
to too great an extent they have ignored the
other tools that are available to the
environmental movement.”
Advocates should turn more attention
toward corporations, Hayes suggested. “It’s
very impressive how boycotts or threats of
boycotts will turn McDonalds around on a
dime in terms of what packaging it’s willing
to use,” he said.
On April 22, 1970, an estimated 20
million people participated in Earth Day in
one form or another.
About 10,000 schools and 2,000 colleges
sponsored Earth Day programs. The mayor
of New York City banned cars from Fifth
Avenue. The U.S. congress adjourned.
People wore green, planted trees, organized
nature walks and took some time to think
about the state of the environment.
Twenty years later, Hayes envisions an
Earth Day celebrated by 100 million
people around the world dedicated to
individual changes in lifestyle and new
international policies.
Earth Day 1990 will begin a crucial
decade for the global environment, he said.
“Everybody talks about the 1990s as the
“Decade of the Environment’” said Hayes.
“The 1990s are our last chance to address
some of these issues before we cross some
irreversible thresholds.” he said.
The increased attention on
environmental issues following the first
Earth Day eventually resulted in the
federal Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act
and the Environmental Protection Agency.
But the world needs to refocus its attention
on the environment, which is losing
ground to pollution and other threats,
Hayes said.
“Global warming is in much worse
shape now than it was 20 years ago. The
destruction of the ozone layer is far worse
now...The oceans are vastly more polluted
than they were 20 years ago. The country
has a multiple of toxic wastes in landfills
than we had 20 years ago.”
A ban on chlorofluorocarbons, an 80
percent reduction in acid rain and an
increase in renewable energy sources are
among the goals for Earth Day 1990, said
Hayes.
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College women say they
still aren't men's equals
(CPS) The Sexual Revolution has come and gone,
but college women and men still aren’t on equal
ground in the bedroom, says sociologist Janet
Lever.
Lever drew her conclusions from an October,
1988, roundtable discussion for six women
attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
They discussed things like fear of AIDS and
pregnancy, condoms, oral sex, mutual satisfaction,
date rape and intimacy.
“The biggest change I see in the last 25 years is
that a guy doesn’t have to say ‘I love you’ anymore
to get a woman in bed,” said Lever, whose thoughts
are published in the current issue of Playboy
magazine.
once in bed, women typically are responsible for
protection against pregnancy and sexually
transmitted diseases. If they don’t bring the matter
up, their partners won’t either, Lever found.
And some women on the pill will say they’re not,
just so the man will use a condom.
“It’s okay to worry about pregnancy, but
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protection against disease is still taboo,” Lever said.
“Women are still sexually active,” Lever observed.
“AIDS just makes them wait until the third or fourth
date to have sex.”
the women ranged from Carolyn, a 20-year-old
junior who'd been having sex for more than three
years but had never used birth control, to Emily, a
19-year-old sophomore who tries to use men before
they can use her.
Other research has indicated sex habits of college
women are about the same as in the 1970s.
Iowa State psychology Prof. Meg Gerrard last
spring surveyed female undergraduates at the
University of Texas, finding that 34 percent reported
having had sex within the last month.
Similarly, her 1974 survey found that 35 percent
were sexually active.
But in 1979 she found that 51 percent were
sexually active. “it was an aberration,” Gerrard
maintains. “Everyone thought they ought to be
having sex, even if they really didn’t want to.”
Student gatherings
show chaotic trend
(CPS) The four-day conflict between National Guardsmen and
students at Virginia Beach, Va., during the Sept. 1-4 holiday
weekend was one of the most violent collegiate confrontations in
years and, in its aftermath, was shrouded by racial overtones, but it
was only the most recent example of student gatherings
deteriorating into chaos.
Fistfights, vandalism, mass arrests and even riots have marked a
number of gatherings of students both on a nd off campus since
1985.
Block parties and campus functions have spun out of control and
into riots at Indiana, Colorado State, Iowa State, Mankato State, St.
Cloud State and universities as well as at the University of
California-Santa Barbara in recent years.
The melees frequently led to hundreds of arrests. At Colorado
State in 1987, 91 people were injured.
Huge numbers of students , often lubricated by excessive
drinking, funneling into certain vacation spots also have sparked
confrontations.
In 1985, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., officials decided to start
discouraging students from vacationing there after police failed to
stop large roving gangs of drunken youths from vandalizing
properties and harassing residents.
In 1986, Palm Springs, Cal., police arrested 500 vacationing
youths who rioted in the streets, throwing bottles, ripping the
blouses off passersby and breaking store windows. Nine people
were injured in two days of rioting.
In March, 1988, an estimated 3,000 students rioted on Mustang
Island, Tex. Four people were stabbed, 8 were arrested and nearly
100 police officers had to call in helicopters and tear gas before
peace was restored 24 hours later.
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Colombian bombs target U.S. embassy
Bogata, Columbia
(AP) A homemade rocket hit the U>S> Embassy, but did
not explode, and six bombs went off in the capital and the
cocaine trafficking center of Cali, authorities said.
A security guard was killed in one of the Cali bombings
on Sunday and another guard was hurt in a blast in Bogota,
police said.
Newspapers on Sunday quoted the governing party’s top
presidential contender as urging that no more drug
traffickers be extradited to the United States, and one paper
that has crusaded against the cocaine cartels said one of its
Teporters was slain by thugs.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Peter Samson said by
telephone that shortly before 9 p.m. “a homemade rocket
propelled by a homemade launcher” struck a comer of the
building, causing no injuries.
Embassy officials said the rocket did not explode and
only chipped away parts of some bricks. Police were
investigating. e
Also Sunday night, three bombs exploded in the
northern part of the capital, heavily damaging three
banks and 30 other businesses and shattering windows
over a large area. One security guard was injured,
police said.
Two other bombs were deactivated by police.
In Cali, 185 miles southwest of Bogota, three bombs
exploded shortly after midnight Saturday at two banks
and a shopping center, killing a security guard, police
said.
the city of 1 million people is home base for one of
Colombia’s two most powerful cocaine cartels. the
other is in the northwest city of Medellin.
Cali, Bogota, and Medellin have been the sites of
frequent shootings and bombings since Aug. 18, when
the government cracked down on the nation’s powerful
drug traffickers, who in turn declared “total war”
against the government, Forty-two people have been
killed and 116 injured in the attacks.
The war began after the assassination of Luis Carlos
Galan, a senator who was seeking the presidential
nomination of the governing Liberal Party and had pushed
for forceful action against drug traffickers.
Under emergency measures imposed since Aug. 18,
President Virgilio Barco has resumed extraditions to the
United States of suspected drug traffickers.
The Liberal Party’s current leading candidate, Alberto
Santofimio Botero, reportedly called for an end to the
extraditions in a speech Saturday in the town of Ibague.
“J do not support giving up Colombians to be tried under
someone else’s roof,” he was quoted as saying. Excerpts
from the speech were published in a dozen Colombian
newspapers Sunday.
So far, one person has been extradited to the United States
since the government anti-drug campaign began, and
authorities have said extradition proceedings are under way
against two others.
Congress considering new rules to deal with oil spills
Washington
(AP) The House will focus this
week on protecting the nation’s
waters against oil spills, while a
House subcommittee considers
President Bush’s bill to improve
America’s air quality.
Meanwhile, Republicans say
they may propose a new strategy
to pay for the war on drugs.
Senate Minority Leader Bob
Dole said Sunday the GOP could
make a counter-offer to the
Democrats’ proposed $2.2 billion
addition to President Bush’s
overall $7.9 billion anti-drug
plan.
the oil spill legislation will be
on the House floor Thursday, just
a week after Exxon finished its
summer cleanup of the Exxon
Valdez accident off Prince
William Sound, Alaska.
The cleanup of the nation’s
worst oil spill ended with a
dispute over the extent of
environmental recovery, and the
legislation to prevent future
accidents is just as controversial.
The shape of the legislation is
still under negotiation. Two
competing bills would establish
new shipping rules and make
those involved in oil
transportation pay cleanup costs.
But still unsettled is the most
crucial issue: whether the federal
government will be allowed to
pre-empt state laws, including
Statutes in 17 states, that have no
limits on liability for those
responsible for spills.
The two bills would allow pre-
emption, but environmental
groups and the National
Governors’ Association are
trying to convince their House
supporters to let tougher state
laws remain in effect. Reps.
George Miller, D-Calif., and
Gerry Studds, D-Mass., are
Preparing an amendment to
establish minimum federal
liability requirements but permit
States to enact tougher laws.
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Battles are expected over the
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requirements, sharing the cost of
acid rain reduction and strict
limits on utility growth after the
year 2000.
With just two weeks left before
a new fiscal year begins,
congress also is trying to pass a
dozen money bills to keep the
government operating. but there’s
a major disagreement over how
much to spend to fight illegal
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(CPS) Student government members at the
University of Central Florida are pushing to
replace their “wimpy” school-mascot with a
macho one.
The current mascot, Mac the Knight, isn’t tough
enough, complained government staffer Jeff
Laing.
So student leaders, along with the Entrepreneur
club, have come up with their own macho mascot,
Knightstalker, a big burly character who has
spikes protruding from his shoulders and carries a
big club.
He’ll be in front of the student section at the
football games, while alumni and other fans will
settle for the official mascot, Mac the Knight,
who, students say, is too much like the McDonald
‘s character who sings syrupy songs on television
commercials.
Fla. college dumps ‘wimpy’ mascot
“For football, you need a mean guy,” Laing
explained.
The athletic department has the final say, though,
and alumni response to the Knightstalker hasn’t
been good so far, Laing said.
Students and administrators have battled over
sports mascots frequently in recent years, mostly
because students wanted to replace mascots or
team images perceived to be offensive to some.
In 1988, St. John’s University in New York and
Northeastern State University both replaced their
Indian symbols, and St. Mary’s college in
Minnesota dropped its “Redmen” nickname for the
“Cardinals.”
In 1986, New Mexico State University revamped
Pistol Pete, its mascot, making him a symbol
“more deserving respect.”
Once again, a study says professors
find their students unprepared
(CPS) college professors think
their students are not very well
educated,
Three-fourths of the 5,000
college teachers queried last
spring by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching said their
undergraduate students are
“seriously underprepared in the
basic skills,” preliminary data
reveal.
Complete results of the
survey, which the Washington,
D.C.-based Carnegie group
conducts every five years, will
be released in November.
Professors at two-year schools
complained most frequently,
with 84 percent saying students
lack basic skills. Sixty-five
percent at liberal arts colleges
said their pupils don’t know
enough.
Two thirds of those surveyed
thought colleges spend “too much
time and money teaching students
what they should have learned in
high school.”
The data, says Carnegie
President Ernest Boyer, prove
“the nation’s public schools are
disturbingly deficient.”
To boost sagging language
skills, Boyer proposed that all
freshmen be required to take an
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By Paul C. Webster
With a gathering of more than 70 students, representing 10 different
West Indian and third world countries, the SUNYA Pan-Caribbean
Association welcomed new and returning students to the University and
pledged to continue being an active part of the Albany community.
The group, which was founded in 1976 to give students of West
Indian heritage a place to share their experiences and provide support,
sets as one of its priorities the education of all people about Caribbean
culture.
“We try to make people aware of their cultural heritage,’ said Annie
Kay Nelson, president of the organization. “It’s important that people
from the West Indies learn about each other.”
Nelson, a Jamaicanwho has been a part of the organization since
coming to the university, said that the greoup provides a link for
Caribbean students who sometimes face culture shock of feel alienated
at a large university.
“There are many students of West Indian descent who are sometimes
frustrated, because it is hard for someone with an accent to talk to
others,” said the president, who explained that many people have a hard
time understanding the different accent. “Pan-Caribbean was formed
out of the basic need for West Indians to talk about their problems with
people that they feel comfortable with.”
Because of their efforts last year to educate the campus about the
diversities of Caribbean cultures, Pan-Caribbean was named SUNYA
cultural group of the year by university President Vincent O’Leary.
In keping up their efforts to broaden the horizons of the college
community, the campus organization is planning to expand its already
varied programming. A walk-a-thon for Albany’s homeless and a
fundraiser for victims of the hurricane Hugo are already scheduled and
other events will include a talent show, tips to other college campuses
and a party.
“T am very happy to be with my people, my fellow West Indians,”
said Winsome Foderingham, a graduate student who emigrated to this
country from Jamacia eight years ago. “Here, we share a special bond.”
Foderingham, who is a coordinator for the university’s Minority
Assistance Program, said that Pan-Caribbean provides her and other
West Indian students with the opportunity to have a greater connection
with their culture and homeland.
“Pan-Caribbean is here as a form of unity for someone to turn to in a
time of need,” Nelson said. “We are many people, but one culture.”
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The Holy Land: the Palestinian struggle, the defense of a nation
Continued from page 4
a meeting with Palestinian
journalists that night, the
intensity of the program returned.
The journalists spoke at length
of military censorship, a concept
previously explained to us by the
editors of the Jerusalem Post
and Maariv, a Hebrew
newspaper. This censorship takes
place when the military decides
that information in an article can
endanger Israel’s security.
Military censorship is imposed
on Israeli , Arab, and foreign
journalists alike.
Asad Al Asad, editor of the
Alkteis newspaper and General
Secretary of the Palestinian
Writers Union, charged that “the
Zionist movement would like to
uproot us from our cultural
movement.” He claimed that
Israelis restrict as many as 5,000
books from the occupied
territories, don’t allow theaters in
those territories, and imprison
writers. Asad also said that
Palestinians are given
identification cards—green cards
restrict entry into certain areas,
while red cards provide normal
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political
science,admitted-to teaching
“underground” when Israel
closed Palestinian schools for
security reasons. He advocated a
Palestinian state, surviving side
by side with Israel. “We can both
be winners, each in his own
state.” F
When asked about funding and
support for the Palestinian
newspape-'s, Eraket admitted
support for the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO),
but stated he could not say
whether or not these papers were
PLO-funded. Israel has to prove,
in court, that support comes from.
the PLO, Eraket said.
“You can’t separate a
Palestinian from his profession. It
is in your inner system,” Eraket
said, when asked whether he
considered himself a reporter or a
crusader.
Our agenda switched from
Palestinian coverage of the
intifada to foreign coverage. Joel
Brinkley, New York Times
correspondent in Jerusalem, and
Bob Simon, CBS Jerusalem
correspondent, provided insight
into how their media reacts to the
intifada.
Simon said the appearance of
his television camera can incite
action in certain areas, and
recalled an incident where a
cameraman was injured during
stone-throwing. The instant
images of intifada-related
fighting carried by CBS and other
television networks was then
discussed, and the question of
whether ‘cameras promote
violence arose.
Brinkley acknowledges that the
intifada,and not terrorism, was
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the “big story” in Israel.
Although the story has slipped
off the front page in the
American press, it is still
newsworthy internationally.
Ironically, both Simon and
Brinkley rushed through the
meeting to cover the Israeli
bombing of Southern Lebanon, a
major news story the next day.
On our last day in Israel, we
closed the discussion about the
intifada after a meeting with
Benyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s
Deputy Foreign Minister.
Although our discussion was to
revolve around terrorism,
Netanyahu opted to discuss the
intifada. “The first problem we
have is survival,” he said.
Netanyahu provided the most
comprehensive understanding of
Israel’s position on a Palestinian
State. He said that a power
equivalent to that of the Warsaw
Pact surrounds Israel, and the
main question is how Israel can
defend itself.
“If we cannot answer this,
there are no more problems,
because we cease to exist,”
Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu outlined what he
saw as a two-point Palestinian
plan to destroy Israel: first, to
gain control over the occupied
territories; second, to use those
territories as a place of attack
against Israel. Netanyahu said the
world is not really listening to the
PLO, who claims to want peace
with Israel. “They’re saying ‘We
don’t want peace with Israel, we
want a piece of Israel first,’” he
said.
Negotiation with the PLO is
not an alternative, he said. “We
cannot collaborate with our
destruction...that is why we do
not support a PLO state.”
Netanyahu outlined an
initiative for eventual peace in
Israel. He called for strengthened
ties with Egypt, a peaceful
resolution of the refugee
problem, and a unification among
Arabs into an autonomous regime
that would get the territories calm
again. “And in five years from
that point, we negotiate what was
then unnegotiable.” Netanyahu
also said that if Israel had
borrowed from the tactics of
Syria or Jordan, the intifada
would not have gone as far as it
has.
Half of the Palestinian
casualties aren’t due to clashes
with IDF soldiers, Netanyahu
argued. Rather, they are the result
of PLO death squads that kill
Arabs who cooperate with Israel.
Many other sources say that this
is an increasing phenomenon in
the occupied territories. “Those
who want to participate in the
negotiation process are afraid of
getting a bullet in their head...not
by us, but by the PLO.”
Netanyahu cited “unilateral
apartheid” as a major obstacle to
peace in Israel. Arab reluctance
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to tolerate Jewish settlers in their
midst contrasts with the Israeli
government’s tolerance of Arabs
living where they choose, he said.
“The only obstacle to peace is the
notion that Jews and Arabs can’t
live together,” Netanyahu said.
Not all of the trip focused on
meetings and interviews.
Sightseeing, - such as an
emotionally-charged visit to Yad
Veshem (the Holocaust
memorial) and visits to
Bethlehem and the Old City
helped place a_histcrical
viewpoint into the context of
modern-day Israel and its
Situation. Religion is, and always
will be, the dominating force in
Israel, and it is impossible to
understand the political situation
without understanding that
almost every inch of Israeli land
holds religious significance.
What is the real Israel? It is the
teautiful Holy Land, but it is also
a land torn by internal strife; a
geographically small country that
needs strong defense and strong
borders to survive. It is, many
feel, a country that needs to
improve basic human rights for
Palestinians. An overall solution
seems, at first glance, impossible,
whether it be through nine days
or 41 years of study. Israel, to
stay strong, needs to have
stability within its borders, and a
peaceful, carefully planned end to
the intifada is the only way to
achieve that goal.
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ASPECTS on Tuesday ==
McFetchin Bones
Michael Ackerman
The buzz on Fetchin Bones’ latest, Monster, is that with producer Ed Stasium (Living
‘olour, the Ramones, Soul Asylum) at the boards, the North Carolina band’s kinetic sound|
is best captured. On stage in the SUNY Albany Campus Center Ballroom on Thursday,
night, the Bones made that sound even better.
Bopping onto stage with her bleached blond hair flailing about, sprightly frontwoman,
Hope Nicholls led the Bones through a fire‘n’bubble calisthetic workout. The sweet and
gnarly Nicholls took turns at playing with a whistle, harmonica, maracca, and rattle. She
worked best, however, with her elastic voice, playing it like a gymnast plays the mat —
and it helped that she had some juicy lyrics to sing. On “I Dig You” she was most fiery;
ailing, “You're driving me/ you're driving me through the valley,” but on their latest,
single “Love Crushing” she had something clever to bite into, singing “Be my flesh’
blanket...I’m a rug and you lay me down, I’m a rug and you walk on me.”
She's also perfected the wail, or the yelp, tagging a “whoop” to virtually every number.
‘Add to this the Billy Idol-fist-in-the-air thing she had going, and her act was down pat.
Of course, her routine could have gotten tiresome quick had the Bones not matched her
vigor. They did — especially on the guitar front — and even though Nicholls stole the
spotlight, she couldn’t have managed as well alone. Ironically enough, they seemed most,
like a band during their encore performance of “My Sharona.”
Of their own noteworthy material, “Kitchen of Life” and “Wine” from Cabin Flounder
were treated, and towards the end of their set they kicked into the quirky “Say the Word,”
another tender morsel from Monster. Here Nicholls was everything. “I’m the rainforest/
I’m a hamburger,” she sang, taking a bite out of the air. “I’m every war that’s ever been
fought,” she continued. Quite a lot to claim, but coming from her, it didn’t seem so
Pacino is
adrift in the
Sea of Love
There’s good news and bad news for
Al Pacino fans out there. The good news, of
course, is that after a four year absence
from the screen Pacino is back, and he
turns in a solid performance. The bad news
is (acting aside), his new film leaves a lot to
be desired.
Clarence Eckerson
Sea of Love is the name of his cliche-
filled latest effort. It also happens to be the
title of the famous 1959 Phil Phillips song
left playing at the scene of a grisly sex
murder. Investigating the crime is Frank
Keller (Pacino), a tough New York City cop ~
who hasn’t had much luck of late. He is _
divorced, he drinks too much, and he is in _
loutrageous.
ear plugs yofFrl
Nanci Griffith
Storms
,
Nanci Griffith has been creating storms
on the other side of the Atlantic for the past
several years now, with her honest-to-
goodness Minnie Mouse voice and simple-
structured country/folk tunes. The ground
in her home country is finally starting to
tumble with the release of her new LP
Storms.
On one track, “Radio Fragile,” Griffith
remembers “you wore your causes on your
sleeve” and “they all said you’d never
make it, because you had that fragile
style.” The “you” is Griffith and she still
posseses that deceptively fragile, yet
gorgeous, voice. Her causes, however, are
no longer on her sleeve; they are melded
into her cohesive, non-preaching story-
songs.
“Drive-in Movies and Dashboard
Lights,” a country-styled, piano pop tune,
details the importance of inner beauty; “It’s
a Hard Life Wherever You Go”, a
disquieting soon-to-be folk standard,
parallels life in Belfast with prejudice in’
Chicago, without all the bombast or
_preacher-fervor of many musical do-
gooders. Griffith is more of an observer on
these tracks, but when she sings about her
unsteady romances, she’s in there heart
first. Her voice is sweet and her songs are
intimate; listening to Storms is like having
Griffith right in your living room.
Griffith pays homage to her mentor
Loretta Lynn on the twang-tinged, two-
step twirler “Listen to the Radio”. When
you can’t find a friend turn on your radio
by Stef McDonald
— and hope to find Nanci Griffith singin
and a strummin’. A true southern comfort.
-- Raymond Rogers
The The
Mind Bomb
The The leader Matt Johnson has been
saddled with the heavy label of poet and
pop prophet by fans and critics alike, but in
reality, the group he fronts is nothing more
than an adventurous outfit aspiring to
much loftier heights.
Johnsons lyrics are pretty much a hit or
miss affair. “The Beat(en) Generation,” the
first single,is best in the message stakes,
telling of a generation “reared on prejudice
and misinformation.” In “Armageddon
Days Are Here (Again), Johnson sings,
somewhat truthfully, “If the real Jesus
Christ were to stand up today, He’d be
gunned down cold by the CIA.”
But over the course of a full length
record, The The’s fourth, Johnson’s
preachings on impending nuclear
destruction, religion, and love begin to
wear thin. Also, the much ballyhooed
addition of former Smith’s guitarist Johnny
Marr to the band (which on the first three
records consisted of Johnson himself with a
little outside help) is a slight
disappointment as Marr is almost invisible
throughout.
-- Richard Crist
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the midst of a mid-life crisis after twenty —
years on the force. Pacino teams up with
another cop named Sherman from across
town department who is investigating a
similar murder. Sherman is played quite
charmingly by burly John Goodman, the
other star of t.v.’s Roseanne. Goodman does
so well in the role of supporting actor that
at times this movie seems as much his as it
is Pacino’s. It makes both performances
that much stronger.
After a third homicide, the two discover
that the series of murders have a link in
common: all the victims had recently
placed poems in the personal sections of
newspapers hoping to meet other lovelorn
and lonely. Together the duo plans to catch
the killer by running their own ad, inviting
all the respondents to a restaurant under
police survaillence, where they take their
fingerprints from their drinking glasses in
an attempt to match those found at the
crime scenes. Their plan does succeed in
getting samples from all who respond,
except from one.
That one happens to %e shoe
saicswoman Helen Creuger (ever-
improving Ellen Barkin) who doesn’t stay
long enough at the rendezvous to take a sip
of her wine thanks to bumbling Pacino.
Gee, maybe she could be linked to the
murders, somehow? It’s a question even
the worst detective would have to ponder.
Well, by absolute coincidence (or
through the miracle of script writing),
Pacino runs in to Barkin once again, but
this time the chance encounter goes much
more smoothly. After a night's visit with
the birds and the bees, Pacino mistakenly
manages to obtain her fingerprints on a
coffee mug. But now he faces a new
dilemma: he has fallen in love with her.
Despite warnings from sidekick Goodman,
Pacino no longer believes she is tied to the
killings, nor does he turn over the prints.
The remainder of the film deals with one
question: Did she do it? But the way
director Harold Becker presents it, it really
doesn’t matter. The film is made
unenjoyable because of a built-in Catch-22
for the wondering audience. If she is guilty,
the viewers walk away unchallenged,
saying, “we knew she did it all along. Big
deal.” If she is innocent, Becker and
screenwriter Richard Price make the
mistake of not developing other characters
enough to actually suspect them of murder.
When the killer finally reveals himself (or
herself), the movie has wasted what little
tension it has built up in a quick and
uninteresting climax. And this is not the
only hole in the script.
Unexciting, Sea of Love doesn’t break
any new ground in exploring a fairly
common plot thread. It is a film that wastes
the talent of a seasoned veteran and two
promising newcomers. In ti end, this
scores as an aver. ge film and a large
disappointment. Qa
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This Cookie Doesn't Crumble
Why is it that an established studio like
Warner Brothers spends $8 million of its
own money on a film, then shelves it for
almost a year — and then releases it at a
time when no one will see it? In the past
this is indicative of a collosal turkey, which
is why the studio’s handling of Cookie is so
puzzling.
Ed Vaira
Here is a delightful, funny comedy that
has the makings of.a hit and because of
incompetence on the part of Hollywood,
hasn’t done very well. Cookie, directed by
Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking
Susan) and co-written by Nora Ephron
(Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally) tells the
story of Carmella, nicknamed “Cookie,” a
tough-but-nice girl who is the illegitamate
daughter of “Dapper Dino” (Peter Falk), a
nice mobster. After a minor arrest, Cookie
is recruited against her will by her recently
paroled father to help him reclaim some
old debts owed to him. Cookie is less than
pleased with Daddy, who has been
stringing along her mom (Dianne Weist, in
a very funny role) while trying to escaped
from his shrew of a wife (Brenda Vaccarro).
Cookie agrees to help him, if only to
make her mom happy. Meanwhile, this
also shapes into a nice love story Peter
Falk offers a pleasant, if gruff, character
who doesn’t have to be violent to be
effective. And Dianne Wiest (Parenthood )
plays Cookie’s mom completely different
from’ the other “mom” roles we're used to
seeing her in. She gets straight to the heart
of what could have simply been a
stereotypical neurotic ditz. The film’s only
major flaw is the performance of Emily
Lloyd, as Cookie, who's given a fairly juicy
part but doesn’t go very far with it. We
never really know very much about who
she is.
Fortunately, though, the movie really
doesn’t focus on her character and as odd
as it may seem, it actually helps the film
along. The script and direction work up to
par, particularly since Ephron’s script
never stoops to silly humor and
Seidelman’s direction conveys a real
feeling of New York. Cookie is an easy film
to like — one only wonders why the studio
‘didn’t have more faith in it. a
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September 19, 1989
Reliving the classics of yesterday and today
Classic Floyd. Classic Zeppelin. Classic
Hendrix, Joplin, Cream, Stones, Beatles,
CCR, Jefferson Airplane, MTV. Classic
MTV?
Brian Hartstein
It was a typical weekday night. I think it
was a Monday. Aimlessly, I flipped
through the buttons on the cable box,
spending no more than a milli-second on
any one channel. Suddenly, something
caught my attention. It was MTV and they
were playing a song J had not heard for
years, proving the adage, “old videos don’t
die, they just gather dust,” untrue. The last
time I heard “867-5309” I was under the
impression that a babe named Jenny would
answer the phone should I call (it was a
woman named Gladys, and she was not
amused).
Why would MTV play a dinosaur é
video? It’s crude by today’s standards. Yet
the biggest surprise came when they cut
back to the “VJ”. Standing before the
camera, still looking as perky as ever,.was
Martha Quinn.
No, this wasn’t the “Twilight Zone,” this
was MTV's way of patting themselves on
the back with a show entitled, “Classic
Classic. Used as an adjective it’s
supposed to carry some measure of
respectability. No longer. Now a-video no
more than seven years old is “classic.” At
this rate, three more years and the name of
the show could be changed to “Ancient
MTV.” The premise could go something
like this: Martha, Nina Blackwood, J.J.
all reunite in wheelchairs to chat, play
checkers and reminisce about the good old
days.
A scary thought. It’s aging as if you
were a dog.I’m twenty-one, which means
I’m one hundred-forthy-seven in dog
years, and four hundred-sixty-nine in MTV
years. Originally, the people at MTV
MTV executives changed the title. It seems
the average viewer couldn’t get the play on
words of the first title. This of course is a
promising marker for society.
But, forget for a moment what this says
about our generation, think instead of
future “classics” we have to look forward
to. The natural progression of time seems
to suggest a world in which Madonna is an
icon and Jackie Collins novels are used as
part of a college’s English curriculum. As
senior citizens we could wax nostalgic
about Big Macs, “they don’t make em’ like
they usedta’!”
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not blaming
MTV for the downfall of modern
civilization, but I think it and other
“classics” of our era can surely be held
accountable for cheapening our society.
Has originality and complexity left our
culture completely? Not necessarily. Yes
the average being of western civilization is
not the motherlode of creativity he or she
once was, but this will not last forever.
EPILOGUE:
One final thought on this subject. As I sit
here in my La-Z-Boy watching “Classic
MTV,” I must pause for refreshment, as my
throat is parched. What should I get to
drink, I wonder to myself. Ah, I know, a
can of soda. “Classic Coke,” and “Classic
Jackson, Mark Goodman, and Alan Hunter
heralded this show as “Deja Video,” but MTV” — perfect together. a
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EDITORIAL
Park your
problems
The University recently took steps to
alleviate a parking crunch on campus by
restricting freshmen from registering their
automobiles. That, in itself, is an idea whose
time has come. The ban on freshman cars
has been utilized by other.campuses in the
past, with some success. The administration
took proper steps to alleviate a problem that
aggravated all those who had their cars
towed last semester, and it would seem that
a parking problem was a thing of the past.
A few questions to the Public Safety Traffic
Division: where are the parking spots this
year? If those aren't cars belonging to
freshmen that are creating the new parking
crunch, then whose are they? Are non-
registered vehicles being towed, as they
should be? Why would anyone register
15,000 cars for 7,000 available spots, as was
the case last year? And why is it so hard to
find a parking spot?
These questions, however, must be directed
to the administration, and not to Public
Safety. Traffic Division Director James
Utermark has stated that he's asked for more
parking sports, but the question comes down
to more parking spots versus the university
environment. President O'Leary also cited
being “caught between environment and
convenience."
With the fieldhouse currently under
construction, a new atmospheric science
building in the works, and a UAS complex
planned, why the sudden concern for the
environment?
The University has grown a lot recently,
in population, building are, and prestige.
Although measures should be taken to
preserve the traditional "lawns and trees"
college environment, isn't it important to
Satisfy the students, who do pay the tuition,
with simple things like ample parking?
Before the parking situation gets completely
out of hand, and a situation not unlike last
semester's tow fiasco is repeated, the
University should open more parking
spaces, as soon as possible.
Regardless of any traffic jams that occur
now, the future won't look any brighter.
When the fieldhouse eventually opens, the
whole Albany community will be attracted
to the campus. Aside from regular students
and faculty, where would anyone park for a
concert or a major sporting event? If there's
a parking crunch now, the University can't
just expect it to ease when the fieldhouse,
and other parking lot, opens. After all, you
can't fit 10 pounds of shit into a 5 pound
bucket.
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COLUMN
Communism: Riposa in Pace
Recently, many of our Western allies (as well as many
Americans) have rushed to offer praise and kudos to
Soviet Premiere, Mikhail Gorbachev. He is thanked with
awe and admiration for taking those few small steps
towards democratic reform and restoring limited political
and human rights in the USSR. However, prudence would
lead us to take a more sober-inquiry into Gorbachev’s
motives for reform and the prospects for glasnost and the
USSR.
‘We must first recognize that glasnost is a reaction to the
Rory P. Whelan
rising tide of dissatisfaction with a debilitating Socialist
economy and continued human rights violations. The
perception that Gorbachev is leading the Soviet people
towards democratic reform is a dangerous distortion that
does not acknowledge the dissatisfaction that has been
brewing in the Soviet Union. In actuality, it is the people
who have demanded change; Gorbachev for the sake of
maintaining powers into the next millennium, has sought
to pacify this dissatisfaction with mild, if not illusionary
reform. It is most important to understand Gorbachev's
motives in introducing glasnost and perestroika. It is the
maintenance of Communist Party control which serves as
his sole motivation for implementing economic, political
and social reform. It is not, as some would like to believe,
an attempt at achieving the “perfect communist society”;
a notion which has been promised by the founders and
Progenitors of communism since its birth. In short,
glasnost is purely Machiavellian. The Soviet Union’s
goals and aspirations remain the same, however, it is
| those instruments by which they seek to attain these goals
that has changed. As one former American statesman
keenly noted; Gorbachev has discovered a change of the
head, not the heart. Rather, it has been the world wide
recognition of the failure of Marxism and the socialist
economy, which has led the Soviet government into a
corner whereby the only way out (other than military
force) is reform,
The noted journalist Stewart Alsap said of death, “A
dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep,
and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as
useless, to resist.” In the same manner, communism is
indeed a dying ideology. This has been demonstrated
through recent events throughout the Soviet Union and
the Eastern-bloc countries. The withdrawal of Soviet
troops from Afghanistan marked a severe defeat for
Soviet world expansion. An‘ailing economy has caused
great financial constraints on Soviet aid to satellite nations
as well as restricting the exportation of Marxist
revolution. Within the Soviet Union, nationalist
sentiments in the Soviet republics have caused great
unrest. The people of Estonia, Latvia and the other
occupied republics, with their independent cultures,
histories and traditions are publicly demanding drastic
reform, if not complete independence. Elsewhere in the
Soviet Union, the so called “worker’s party” has been
crippled by striking coal miners and other union strikes.
The irony is painfully obvious.
The most convincing argument that communism is
dying is witnessed in the recent events in Eastern Europe.
In Poland, the overwhelming victory of Solidarity and the
election of a Solidarity member as Prime Minister will
change the course of Poland’s history. Prospects for
dramatic change in the Polish economy are promising,
however the Communist Party has retained control of the
military as well as some powerful civilian posts. Perhaps
most extraordinary though,was the exodus of thousands
upon thousands of East Germany, just one week ago.
What is more impressive, is the fact that Hungary had
opened its borders to allow those seeking freedom to
escape to West Germany. It is evident that oppressed
oppressed peoples around the world are discovering the
superiority of capitalism and democracy, and as the freest
people on earth, we should aid in their struggle for
freedom and liberty from communist oppression. The
world is discovering what we as Americans have always
known; communism is an unnatural, immoral and
inefficient system that is doomed for failure.
However, we should not for one moment, let our guard
down and neither should those who live under communist
oppression. The extraordinary events that have recently
occurred, can be reversed with the iron hand of police
State brutality. The Soviet Union has many historical
precedents for brutalizing those who seek reform. More
recently, we have witnessed the brutal massacre of
Protestors in Red China. The economic and political
reforms in China, which occurred as a result of cultural,
economic and social exchanges with the West, were, with
one bloody reign of terror, extinguished. We can only
hope for a different outcome in the Soviet Union and the
Eastern bloc countries, but as the noted scholar Dimitri
Simes observed, “the Soviet leopard has changed its
Spots, but it is still a leopard.”
Regardless of the reforms in the USSR, however
Promising they may be; Americans and more importantly
those who live under communism, must not mistake
illusionary reforms intended to perpetuate communist
control, for real change. In short, the death of
communism is inevitable, but we cannot be assured of its
peaceful demise,
The author is chairman of the College Republicans.
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be given. Editorial policy
will not permit ads to be printed which contain blatant
profanity or those that are in poor taste. We reserve the
tight to reject any material deemed unsuitable for
publication.
_All advertising seeking models or solicitying parts of
the human body will not be ac
cepted. Advertisers
eeking an exception to this policy must receive
permission from the Editor in Chief of the Albany
Student Press.
If you have any questions or problems concerning
classified advertising, please feel free to call or stop by
the business office.
JOBS
ee
GOVERNMENT JOBS! Now hiring in
your area, both skilled and unskilled:
For a current list of jobs and
‘application, call 1-615-383-2627, ext.
P 296.
WANTED
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‘Student Travel Services’ Sales Team.
Earn CASH and/or FREE Winter and
spring Break vacations. Travel with
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destinations. For information call 1-
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Immediate Employment Opportunities
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Excellent Income Opportunity
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Advertising department - Delivery
people. Call today
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Legal Secretary/ SA Legal Services
Abt 20 hours/ week $4.25-$4.75 / hr
Legal secretarial training or
experience necessary. Call 442-5654
Attention - Hiring! Government jobs -
your area. $17,840 - $69,485. Call 1-
602-838-8885, EXT R5715
Northeast Bartenders School
Call now for information regarding
upcoming classes. 2 week course -
hands on training 452-4315 Classes
iheld in Albany
Attention: Earn money reading
books!
$32,000/year Income
Entrepreneurs
($300-$500/Wk P/T)
if you have a genuine desire to make
‘$$$ and are willing to work fo it, 20
year old Co. seeks motivated
individuals to head up Campus
operation. Contact Mr. Bross at
(516)452-0244 for Appt.
SERVICES
Professional Typing/Resume
Service. Xerox work processor.
[Handyman Available - Any job
including phone installation, electric
repairs, fuirniture built, reasonable
rates . Call Andy 432-1230
Guitar Lessons - Rock, blues,
classical and finger picking styles
taught. Also harmonica, banjo,
mandolin, fiddle. Ask for Glenn
Weiser 434-6819
[Student paper, call Pam aft 6:30pm
272-2870. Pickup & Delivery
Need a paper typed? $1.25 a page!
Call Donna at 442-6327.
Word Processing: Resume:
papers. Professional, Reasonable
- Creative Resumes 432-9513.
FOR SALE
"Attention - Government seized
vehicles from $100. Fords,
Mercedes, Corvettes, Chevys.
Surplus Buyers Guide. 1-602-838-
8885 EXT A5715."
|Government Homes from $1
(U repair.). Delinquent tax property. ~
Repossession. Call 805-687-6000
Ext. GH-3106 for current repo list.
Mazda 323DX silver 5 sp
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Book value $4795, price $3950. 885:
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Is it True.... Jeeps for $44 through
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312-742-1142 Ext. 4253
“Attention - Government Homes from
$1 (U-repair). Delinquent tax
property. Repossessions. Call 1-602-
{838-8885 Ext. GH 5715."
|Stones Tickets!! Syracuse Carrier
Dome. Thursday Sep 21
Call 438-5427
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HOUSING
Copies. Evenings. 472-9510, t
Seeks nonsmoking
Furnished Townhouse
Central air, microwave dishwasher.
Plush carpet, fenced yard. No lease
250+. 456-5083 Days
GETTING
PERSONAL
‘California Couple. Happily married
for 10 years. Anxious to adopt
bv California adoption authorities
In advance of placement. State
supervised adoption procedures.
Call collect. The Handeimans
(818)986-4671.
ACIA Albany-Coed intramural
Athletics is looking for students
interested in joining intramural
council. Freshman are welcome.
Meetings are Thurs. 6:30 C.C. 370
Zetas
We finally made it! Look forward to
With Phi Sig Love,
‘Sheryl
Home coming '89 -- Oct. 27th-29th
A®E invites you to Fall Rush! Come
meet the sisters!
ACIA intramural Flag Football
Captains meeting. Mon. 9/5 LC. 12
8:00 P.M.
D Phi E Informal Rush General
interest meeting in the SA Lounge
9:00 Sept 20th
Noah and Dan,
Just thought I'd say Hi
Bill
ACIA intramural softball captains
meeting. Wed 9/20 7:00 pm Gym A
Hi Laura and John
Ru?
Ru Rushing?
Ru Rushing AGE sorority?
ACIA - Albany coed intramural
athletic program is hiring student
assistants to assist the intramural
program.
Alpha Phi would like to thank
everyone for their support and
Understanding. The memorial service
meanta lot to us.
ACIA intramural Soccer captains
meeting Tues. 9/26 L.C. 12 8:00 P.M.
‘Sure, I'd love a slice of watermelena!
Take one then - "petty cash” to me.
If you can't be yourself in the
bathroom where can you be.
Randy Levin 8:00pm C.C Ballroom
$5 student, $6 nonstudent tickets on
sale at tickets plus
Be a Hero: Give Blood; You too can
save someone's life! It's Fun it's
Free, and that blood donor card
Really opens doors for you! Come to
the Campus Center Ballroom 10:30 -
4:00 on Wed., Sept. 20.
AED
When we mix with the best there is
no other option then to have an
unbelievable time.
Thanks
KIA
Reward
$100.00 for return of 1980
Mercyhurst College class ring
No questions asked
(518)473-6191
The SUNYA Amateur Radio Club,
WA2ZWS, would like to become
active again. Interested parties
should come to Group Fair Day or
contact Bob Raffaele at 459-8435.
Randy Levin Sept. 2ist C.C.
Ballroom
That was no mixer that was a party!
K
Phi Sig
Get psyched for an awesome Fall
Rush ‘89 and an even more
awesome year!
F RS ORS GE
Happy 19th Babel | hope that you
enjoyed this weekend as much as |
did. Always and forever... You and
me! | love you, Celia - xoxo Glen
P.S. - This is good for free hugs and
kisses at your local Glen.
Randy Levin — comedy, magic, and
mime
Phi Sigma Sigma Rush Informally
9/14.- 9/26
Watch for details on campus
Catch a Rising Star O52
Congratulations on your much
awaited initiation! It's been a long trip
for you but you've finally reached
sisterhood. We are all very proud of
your accomplishments! The bonds
will only grow stronger now.
‘With love, The Sisters of Sigma
‘ Delta Tau
The University Orchestra is
looking for serious musicians to
join our ensemble. All Instruments
are encouraged to call 442-4187
for Information. Earn one
credit/semester. Rehears:
Mon. 7-9 p.m. and Thurs.
Adopt. A caring couple wishes to
give newborn good home with
love, security, and strong family
values. Expenses paid. Call Bob
and Karen collect any time. 212-
799-2753.
Lou-
Well, things are bound to change.
This afternoon meant a lot to me, as
if you couldn't tell | was shitting a
brick. I'll always love you,
|
Hey mo-
Mighty fine job, my boy, mighty fine
job. You're destined for greatness.
Hey, what's that they. say about 10
Ibs. of st? Good luck!!
EiC (71?)
John Ritter-
Hey, | heard all of campus cen. is
talking about us. Wanna give them
something to talk about? | heard
from the bird that you shaved your
head! Is that cult rumor true?
—the Holdout
Thank you both for your help these
past few nights. Without it, we
would've ceased to be. | wish | could
give you raises instead of praises.
Thanks again
Bryan
Sandie, and everyone else | forgot to
thank, thanks. Oh, and Sandie, you
Thank you. You are the best. |
love you. Sorry if | hurt,
: mascot
To Bryan,
If we could run the world, what do
you think it would look like ?
AAAHHH!!!
Mitch
Althe,
Happy 21st birthday
Hove you,
Mitch
SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, | AM
Dear lan,
‘Sorry, couldn't think of anything-
Mitch
Sandie,
You saved me, thanks for donating
the blood.
Mi
Hey Bryan & Morgan, isn't this new
system great ? | can't wait to hit the
bars after this issue- how ‘bout you?
Ea
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To John Jaxon-
So what's a whip or a chain, the
job gets done, doesn't it?
-a fellow stud
To my boobie,
You don't need any football
game, you have me instead.
love,
your sex chicken
JOE'S A DICK
Dear Sharibear,
Well, it took a few months, but
here's your personal. Enjoy your
new apartment-
Matt.
2nd floor, Montauk spr.'88-
Hi guys- Al alert!, just kidding- we
have to get together one of these
days, ya know ?
Matt
Dear President Bush,
As an American taxpayer |
demand that you send a secret
service detail to CC 329 and drag
my dumb ass out of here!
Thanx
Morgan
Listen -
I don't care how bad a night you
think you had, if you weren't here, it
wasn't shit.
Me
To the people at Apple:
Nice. Real Nice.
Me again.
HOLY SMOKES!
HOLY SHIT!
HOLY SNAPPING
ARSEHOLES!
OHNO!OHNO!OHNO!
To my roomie in Michigan -
Psyched for New Orleans. You'd
better br there, BUD.
Bryan
‘HAPPY BIRTRDAY JEREMY —
YOU'RE FINALLY GETTING THE
PERSONAL YOU ALWAYS
DESIRED. SO NOW YOU CAN
LEAVE ME ALONE AND I'LL GIVE
YOU MORE TIME TO GO OUT AND
BUY ME THE BIRTHDAY
PRESENT THAT | ALWAYS
DESIRED.
LOVE,
KIM
XOXOXOXO
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S.A. Lounge 9:00pm
Thurs Sept 21st - Fraternity Mixer Party!!!
Sun Sept 24th - Surprise Theme Party ???
Tues Sept 26th - Getting To Know Your Party
Wed Sept 27th - Invitation Only Party
IW check Us Out
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ACIA
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INTRAMURAL ATHLETICS
UPCOMING EVENTS:
AIPLELELEL ELLE ELE EL TELE,
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Wednesday, 9/20
6:00pm Gym A
FLAG
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Monday, 9/25
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SOCCER: Captains' meeting
Tuesday, 9/26
8:00pm LC 12
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computers and office equipment.
One staffer said his furniture was
blown out the windows of his
apartment on the 20th story of his
building.
In Miami, Eastern Airlines
spokeswoman Karen Ceremsak
in Miami said the carrier was
able to fly a special Boeing 727
charter to the Dominican resort of
Puerto Plata earlier Monday and
returned to Miami with about 135
vacationers.
NYPIRG
Continued from Front Page
voter registration.
This year’s concentration, said
Boehm, will be on environmental
topics such as: on-campus
Tecycling, a campus-wide
styrofoam ban and the prevention
of the building of a garbage
incinerator in the Port of Albany;
and Education Watch, a podium
survey about the fairness of the
Scholastic Aptitude Tests.
NYPIRG claimed victory last
year when a state Supreme Court
Justice ruled that SAT scores
cannot be the sole.criterion for
granting Regents scholarships.
The group had been working
against standardized testing and
plans to continue, according to
Boehm.
Students interested in
becoming a more active part of
NYPIRG may come to the
general interest meeting on
Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in
Lecture Center 19 or contact the
office at 442-5658,
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Standardized tests seen as biased
(CPS) Nearly two-thirds of the
students who became National
Merit Scholarship semifinalists in
1989 were males, and the
phenomenon was more proof that
Standardized tests are biased
against females, a test critic
group said in early September.
After combing through public
records released by the
Educational Testing Service
(ETS), FairTest, based in
Cambridge, Mass., reported that
only 32 percent of the
semifinalists last year were
female, even though they earned
better grades in high school.
Females are under-represented
because the Preliminary
Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) -
the test used to award the
scholarships - is slanted against
women, charged FairTest’s Sarah
Stockwell. “Any time a test score
is the sole ‘criterium for
scholarships it is unfair.”
Tests aren’t the problem,
claims Nancy Burton of ETS, the
company that writes the PSAT.
“Men and women aren’t getting
equal educations. We can’t agree
that any question women don’t
do well on should be thrown
out.”
Test critics scored a major
victory last February when a
federal judge ruled that New
York State could not rely solely
on Scholastic Aptitude Test |
scores to award scholarships j
because the test questions reflect
a male bias.
This year, the first one in
which grades were factored into
the New York scholarship
formula, females won $2.8
million more in scholarships than
they did in 1988.
Janice Gams of the College
Board, which sponsors the test,
says the disparity between scores
is because women take more
liberal arts courses, which tend to
be easier than math and science
courses, which males are more
likely to take.
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aGENERAL INTEREST
MEETING
Wednesday, September 20
7:15 pm ES 143
ARE YOU: Friendly and Outgoing?
Socially Concerned?
Willing to Volunteer One
Hour a week?
Concerned with Campus
Safety?
Interested in Meeting
New Friends?
DON'T WALK ALONE CAN'T WALK
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Drop by the DON'T WALK ALONE office
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1989
lthaca, Cortland triumph; Brockport State defeated
(AP) Three weeks into the college football
season at least three teams stick out: Ithaca and
Cortland State because they seem to be as good
as they were last year; and Brockport State
because the Golden Eagles are bad and getting
worse,
The Bombers, last year’s Division III
beat Williams
By Rob Permutt
victory raised its record to (2-1).
didn’t allow a goal.
Williams’ last serious threat at a a goal.
Danes’ defense wouldn’t bend.
|Albany’s side of the field.
jassist on it was credited to Jennifer Zajac.
score,
Women booters
The Dane women’s soccer team defeated
Williams College 1-0, on Saturday. This home|
The game represented a fine defensive effort}
lby the Danes. Despite having the ball on their}
~ |side of the field for most of the first half, they,
The defensive play of the game occurred late}
in the first half. With 7:33 remaining, Pam
Stow, made a sensational block on defense. On|
ithe very next play, freshman goalie Meredith
Jacobs made a save that turned out to be|
Jacobs, who replaced injured starter Dawn|
Dieckman, played her first full intercollegiate}
game. The remaining time in the first half was
also played in Albany’s end of the field but the|
The second half started out the same as the|
first, with much of the action being played on!
With 23:00 remaining in the game, the|
Danes’ fortunes changed as Alyson Kaye]
scored the game’s first and only goal. The|
The remainder of the game saw Albany play]
ja tough defense, as they failed to let Williams|
national champion, continued to roll
Saturday, crushing St. Lawrence 28-0.
And so did the Red Dragons, who shut
down Hobart 17-0. Both teams are
unbeaten after two games.
Cortland State defeated Ithaca 21-20
during the regular season last year, but the
bombers came back and beat the Dragons
24-17 in the second round of the Division
II playoffs and went on to win the Amos
Alonzo Stagg Bowl for the second time,
The teams meet Nov. 4 at Ithaca, and the
outcome of that game might decide who
makes the playoffs this year from New
York.
As for Brockport State, its season has
been anything but golden. After two
games the Golden Eagles have been
outscored by a whopping 85-3. They were
pounded 40-3 by Mansfield in their
season-opener last week and lost 45-0 on
Saturday to Geneva of Pennsylvania.
Geneva outgained Brockport 433 yards
to 88 and averaged 9 yards a play. Three
Brockport quarterbacks were intercepted
five times.
Jeff Czartoryski scored twice and Scott
Schmitt passed for a pair of scores to lead
Geneva, which buried the Eagles with a
28-point third period.
Cortland State 17, Hobart 0
Quarterback Dick Puccio threw for one
touchdown and ran for another and flanker
Mark Houghton caught 10 passes for 106
yards to lead the Dragons.
All of the scoring came in the first half.
Women's x-country wins Wagner Invite
By Jerry L. Kahn
STAFF WRITER
“I was hoping for third or better,”
Albany Coach Ron White said. However,
the Albany women’s cross country team
did even better than that. They won the
Wagner Invitational on Saturday.
The final scores were Albany 74,
Wagner 88, St. Peter’s 105, Monmouth
119, St. John’s 135, Long Island
University 153, Glassboro 160, Seton Hall
188, Hunter 210, Marist 259, Upsala 298,
Brooklyn College 313, and St. Francis
385. Ramapo, william Patterson, Marcy,
St. Thomas Aquinas, Lehman, and
Towson State were incomplete.
“Tt was an excellent race,” Amy Mack
said. “We aimed to come out on top. It’s
increasing our positive attitude.”
It was a five kilometer race which was
held in a drizzle. Twelve Great Danes ran
in the event, including Dawn Dansky and
Jeannine Brinn, who are from Staten
Island, which is where the event was held.
Since the top three teams got plaques
and the top 25 runners won trophies,
really well...as a whole. Many of our
runners dropped their times from the
Hamilton meet. The course was
relatively easy,...relatively flat.”
Dansky, who was running
competitively on her high school course
for the tirst time since she entered
college, was number five for the Great
Danes. She had a time of 20:31 and
finished 24th among all of the harriers.
“The team ran great. It was great being
back home again. We all ran tough and
strong,” Dansky said.
“Our fifth person stayed solid...all of
the way,” White said.
Sexth for Albany was Denise Buneo,
who, at 21:06, was the 31st to complete
the ourse.
“Denise can move up as the season
goes on. Six runners (can be) running
within a minute,” White said.
Amy Quinn was seventh for the Great
Danes. Her mark of 21:52 netted a 35th
place finish for her.
The other Albany runners were Diana
Peralta, whofinished 38th, with a time of
22:10; Brinn,41st, 22:17; Amy Biddle,
49th, 22:50;, Ingrid Gonzalez, 56th 23:21;
and Samone McDade, 61st, 24:21.
“It was my type of course, It was great. I
was really happy,” Biddle said.
“We're a team of 18 reunners,” White
said. “It takes more than three runners...(to
be in) the top. We’ve got a very up team
right now.”
“We have a chance to do something this
season,” White added. “We’ve got some
objective results. It’s just a matter of
shooting for the top. It was a good choice
to go to Wagner.”
The next meet will be the Williams
Invitational on Saturday.
About the Williams Invitational, Mack
said, “It was very hard for me last year. I
can’t wait. I hope we do well this
weekend.”
Biddle added, “It’s supposed to be
harder, too, I’m psyched.”
Shultes said that she hopes that the “team
places in the top three. I’m just going to do
my best.”
“The game was pretty evenly matched, but} Albany came home with a plaque and five
Albany coach Ann Depperman said.
lopponents in the scliedule’s first half.
p.m.
we got some good plays off the bench,”|
Albany goalie Meridith Jacobs credited the!
win to a tough defense. The win was important
for Albany who faces its four toughest}
In the season opener Albany defeated Siena|
College 2-1 in overtime, on September 9. The
second game of the season, proved to be more|
difficult for Albany as they lost to Westfield
State 3-1. The Danes’ next game will be home|
versus The College of St. Rose today at 4:00)
Depperman, in her first year, forsees a good
future for the team this season. IN addition to
ten freshman, many of Albany’s key players
are returning. Among these players are the
team’s leading scorer Marybeth Gazlay, and
goalie Dawn Dieckman. If Albany plays all of
its opponents as well as they played Williams|
they should have a fine season ahead of them.
trophies.
meet with a time of 18:03.
19:27.
stronger this race, too,” Mack said.
running of Amy Mack,” White said.
them the 12th and 13th spots.
really strong,” Shultes said.
Glassboro’s Linda Vaughan won the
Mack was the first Dane to finish. She
was seventh overall and had a time of
“TI was very happy with what I got. I felt
“the key to our success was the front
Tricia Shultes and Kerry Charron
finished back to back for the Danes. Their
respective times of 19:40 and 19:41 gave
“Tt feels good. It’s a team effort. I felt
Albany’s fourth runner in was Colleen
Shine, who finished in 19:59. She was
18th overall. “I ran my best time,” shine
said. “I was looking to break 20 minutes. I
broke it by one second. The team ran:
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Jeff Froio brought the ball deep into
Union territory. A high tackle, which is
called when an illegal tackle about the
head or neck occurs, afforded Albany a
penalty kick attempt. The three point kick
was made good by billy “Big Toe”
O’Connell. The Albany Ruggers stood
within striking distance for a veer but
were still down 4-3.
Time began to run out as*both teams
stuck it to each other. Valiant defensive
efforts by such men as Jeff Volo, kept
Union at bay. With only four minutes
remaining in the 80 minute match, Dave
“Pretty Boy” Lovell made a bounding
drive off a ruck, only to be narrowly
brought down only 10 meters from
R b scoring. His efforts did, however, bring
the ball in close so that O’Connell
could once again split the uprights with
a penalty kick. This put the Ruggers up
6-4. Union could not muster up the
offense to comeback.
“It was a tough game, but I knew we
could win it,” Albany rugger Mike
Schhickram said.
In the “B-side” game, Albany was
also victorious due to a try by “Gaz”
(four points) and an extra point kick by
“Little Toe” Termini (two points) to put
the Danes up over Union “B” 6-0 in a
game battled out under rainy skies,
Follow the Albany Rugby Club, who
play home games on Saturdays, this fall
at 1:00 on the fields behind the Gym,
Watch posters on the podium for
details.
Great Danes win first game in thriller over Alfred
Continued from Back Page
Some of the weapons that are making them
@ top New York team.
First and ten on the Dane 32, Pedro
8ained eight second and two. Ryder
Pitched to Kevin Adams, who threw to
_ Mike Giroux. The 38 yard trick play
Sot the ball to the Saxon 22.
Albany got the ball to the Alfred 12.
is gained two yards on first down. On
Second and eight, Ryder looked to pass but
_ 80t sacked for a nine yard loss.
Third-and 17, from the Saxon 20, a little
ver 3:30 left in the game. The ball was
Placed on the left hashmark.
___ You would guess that Albany would go
to the open right side of the field.
Guess again.
Ryder started to run the option with
three backs behind him. Two of them
Picked up blocks and the other trailed
Ryder waiting for the pitch.
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Alfred was waiting too.
Then at the last second, Ryder pitched
to the split end who had come in on a
reverse. Larry Jones took it and tumed
towards the left side of the line.
Jones blew around the corner,
followed a great block and got into the
end zone. The first T.D. of Jones’ career
gave Albany the lead for the third time
in the game.
“We called it,” Jones said. “I was
surprised when I saw that block. (Matt)
Ballard made the perfect block.”
Chechile’s fifth extra point of the
game made it Albany 35, Alfred 31,
3:28 left in the game.
Rogers who had 201 yards total, took
a first down carry 20 yards to the Saxon
47.
It looked like Albany’s defense was
about to fold.
Alfred got the ball to the Dane nine
yard line with a minute left. It was second
and five. Now it was only a matter of
time.
Locey rolled out to the right, his split
end in the comer turning towards him.
The Albany coverage; defensive back
Jay Austin, trailed the receiver. When
Locey released, Austin turned at the same
time.
Austin cradled the incoming ball and
fell down into the endzone preserving the
victory. This was the “biggest play.”
Ryder downed the ball to run out the
clock and give Albany its first victory.
“I couldn’t believe he threw it,” Austin
said. “It was either a win or loss on the
next play.”
“I wouldn’t have bet on us, “Ford said.
“That was a tremendous boost for us.”
“You have to give credit to Albany,”
Moretti said. “It’s a shame somebody had
to lose.”
The Danes lead the series against the
Saxons, 4-3. It was the first meeting since
1983,
“It looks like the beginning of a great
rivalry,” Moretti said.
A rivalry that will probably see more “big
plays.”
Afterthoughts: This game was a statistical
smorgasboard. combined, both teams ...
scored 66 points, had 45 first downs (25
Saxons, 20 Danes), 545 yards rushing (269 -
Alfred, 276 Albany) and 882 yards of total
offense (539 - Saxons, 343 - Danes).
Individually, Pedro had 83 yards rushing,
Ryder 81, Adams 43, and McNeil 38. Ryder
was 2-4 for 29 yards passing. Albany’s
defensive stats were unavailable,
The Danes open their home schedule this
Saturday, September 23 at 7:00 p.m. versus
Division II Springfield.
Sports
Tuesday
W-x-country wins- See page 23
Men's Tennis vs Cornell- Wed, 3:00
W-soccer off to 2-1 start- See pg 23
Albany victorious over Saxons, 35-31
Alfred, N.Y.
By Christopher Sciria
SPORTS EDITOR
Saturday was the “Night of the Big
Play.” For the Albany football team, it
was long overdue.
The Danes evened their record at 1-1
with a thrilling 35-31 victory over the
Alfred University Saxons at Merrill Field.
The “big play” keyed the Dane win.
Albany may jump back into the
Division III Upstate N.Y. Top Five Poll,
because Alfred was fourth. It will be
released later in the week.
The Danes, who looked lackadaisical
on offense in last week’s loss to Ithaca,
got the wishbone on track against Alfred.
It just didn’t happen until the second
quarter.
After Saxon Joe Iudice intercepted an
Albany Q.B. Pat Ryder pass at the Alfred
24, the game turned into the Ray Rogers
Show.
The senior tailback on a third and two
from the Alfred 46, hit the line, shed an
Albany would-be-tackler and went down
the right sideline untouched for a
touchdown. With 6:43 left in the first,
Steve Milne added the PAT to make it 7-
0, Saxons.
Albany got the ball back’and had to
punt on downs. Alfred took over at its
own 37. The Saxons drove to the Dane 17
and looked to blow the game open. Then
one of the “big plays” happened.
On first and ten, Saxon Q.B. Lance
Locey intended a pass to Rogers. It was
tipped on the line by Dane defensive end.
Don Hershkowitz, and was grabbed by
Albany cornerback Chris Pizzo at the
Dane 10.
Pizzo outraced the: pursuit onway to a 90
yard interception return for a touchdown,
It was the longest interception return in
Albany history.
Also important, was that it got the
Danes back into the game. Tony Chechile
converted the PAT to tie it up 7-7, 53
ASP Graphic
On this diagrammed reverse, Larry Jones scored from 20 yards. out to help the Danes win.
seconds left in the first.
Neither team could sustain a long drive
in the second quarter until Alfred started
one at its 13. Eight plays and sixty yards
later, it was first and ten for Saxons on the
Dane 27.
Locey handed off to Rogers who
passed back to him. The flea-flicker
fooled Albany, as Locey threw a scoring
toss toa wide-open Joe Haven in the end
zone.
Another Milne extra-point gave the
Saxons the lead, 14-7, with 3:08 left in
the half.
Then the Danes finally got the offense
going.
They started on their 13 as a result of a
clipping penalty. Then it happened. First
it was a Ryder eight yard keeper. Then a
14 yard Steve McNeil pick up. After
Dane ruggers comeback
to knockoff Union; 6-4
By John Jackson
ACTING ASSISTANT MANAGING
EDITOR
A “melee at midfield” would best
describe the Albany Rugby Club’s match
last Saturday versus Union College. A
hard fought game by both squads resulted
in a 6-4 Albany victory. :
Although Albany threatened early,
extensive kicking by both teams kept play
at midfield.
Scoring wasn’t apparent until Ted
“Happy Haircut” Borsky made a break-
away to inside Union’s 22-meter line.
Union spoiled two Albany scoring
attempts from “scrum-downs.”
A “scrum down” is when the two
opposing teams lock bodies in a low
crouched position facing each other.
When the ball is “put in” by a “scrum
half”, (one of the members of the
backfield), both teams then try to push the
other off the ball with tremendous force.
A “hooker” is a player which hooks the
ball with his. foot so as to pass it along
backwards through his teammates legs to
his backfield players, who in turn pick up
the ball to run with it.
The 40 minute half ended scoreless.
There was no score until midway in the
second half when a Union back ran down
the sideline to the try zone.
In order for the score to be legal, the
player must place the ball down on the
ground with both hands. This counts for
four points. The extra kick attempt for an
additional two points failed when the kick
went wide of the uprights. The score
stood Union 4, Albany 0.
Albany then came back. Hard running
backs like Greg “Whiner” Scheps and
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Ryder was sacked for a loss of four yards,
the senior took off on a 16 yard gain to
get the first down.
That made it first and ten on the Dane
47. Pete Pedro then blew through the line
to the right side and cut back for a 42
yard pick up to the Saxon 11.
McNeil carried for nine yards to the
two and Pedro: went in from there with 26
seconds left in half. Chechile again tied it
with the PAT, 14-14, That’s the way the
first half ended.
Albany received the second-half
kickoff and picked up where they left off.
Good solid running helped the Danes
on a 11 play 67 yard scoring drive. Ryder
capped it off on an important fourth and
one carry from the Saxon one.
His first T.D. of the season gave the
Danes their first lead. With 10:15 in the
third, Chechile’s PAT made it 21-14,
Albany.
Alfred wasn’t through as they got the
ball to the Dane nine. On first and goal,
Rogers fumbled a pitch, but he recovered
it. He lost nine yards. Locey was
incomplete on second and third and goal.
Milne kicked a 35 yard field goal to
pull the Saxons within four at 21-17, with
3:33 left in the third.
Ryder then drove the Danes across
midfield but fumbled at the Saxon 39.
Andy Mantella recovered for the Saxons
at the end of the third.
The Danes held the Saxons and sacked
Locey on second and seven. Third and 17
was an incomplete pass, so the Saxons
faced fourth and 17 from its 48.
Albany again was careless and it cost
them. The up man caught the snap and
passed to the tight end who gained 39
yards. An Albany face mask penalty put
the ball on the Dane eight. Rogers scored
again to give the Saxons the lead. Milne
21 with 13:32 left in the game.
“Tt was (the fake punt) an automatic
adjustment from my special teams
coach,” Saxon head coach Jim Moretti
said.
“I didn’t know about it,” he added. “T
said ‘Holy moley it worked!””
Albany’s Brad Acker returned the.”
kickoff to the Dane 48. Albany only used |
six plays and 2:16 to score again. Ryder
went around the right side and powered
his way to give the Danes the lead. The
PAT made it 28-24, Albany, still 11:16
left.
There was no defense to be found as
Alfred did it again. Rogers had 48 yards
on four carries, to highlight a ten play 64~
yard drive. Sam Goble went in from the
two. Another PAT gave Alfred a 31-28
advantage, 7:06 remaining.
The Danes could have warmed up the
buses and packed it in, but they used
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is .
. JIM LUKASZEWSKI UPS
Albany's Chris Martin brings down a Union ball carrier in the Danes’ 6-4 win.
