Albany Student Press, Volume 75, Number 27, 1988 October 4

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October 4, 1988

NUMBER 27

Guinness attempt fails to bring record home

By Tim Devane

SUNYA/’s bid to recapture the
record for the largest musical
chairs game Saturday was not as
successful as had been hoped.
With a total participation of
2,000, comprising students, facul-
ty, and members of the Albany
Community, attendance fell far

short of the over 5,150 players.

needed to break the record set by
Notre Dame in 1985.

However, what the crowd lack-
ed in numbers, they made up in
spirit. ‘“Yes, I’m disappointed we
didn’t set the record,’’ said Guin-
ness Day coordinator Jonathan
Waks, Bee everyone had a real
good time.’

‘*“Also, 90 percent of the people |

stayed for the whole day, which is
something we’ve never had
before.”’ :

Registration began at 9am on
the administration circle and con-
tinued until after 12 noon.
A disc jockey from radio sta-

tion PYX 106 FM was the emcee
for the game.

For those who were unseated

early in the game, there were |

Various carnival games were set

up, Benetton sponsored a fashion -

show, and Smartfood held a best

legs contest.

For those who found that walk:
ing around rows of chairs increas-

‘Approximately 2000 participated in Guinness Day.

ton candy was sold, and bags of
Smartfood were handed out.
Members of the SA executive
branch also. bacame involved in
the event. SA President James

‘Lamb was even seen manning the

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Day took full advantage of the
afternoon’s weather by playing
frisbee, laying out in the sun, or
watching the game.

Usually Guinness Day is held in
the spring. However because of

til the fall.

Students opinions on this issue
varied. Sophomore Scott Payne
was celebrating his birthday, so
he did not seem to mind. ‘‘I think
they should have it on my birth-
day every year,”’ he said.

John Murtha, also a
sophomore, said he felt fall was a
better time of year to have Guin-
ness Day than the spring. ‘‘We
need something like this to lift us
early in the year.’’

Junior Andrea Harris simply
felt that ‘‘it doesn’t make much
of a difference.”’

The tension of the game
mounted with each elimination.
Finally, after nearly four hours of
play, Adam Lustig, who
graduated last May, emerged the

“weary winner.

“T’m so beat right now. T’ve
already played two softball games
earlier today,’’ he
economics major, Lustig par-
ticipated in the original record-
breaking musical chairs game
while attending SUNYA.

Lustig said he felt the change of

said. An-

other activities to amuse
themselves with. a

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ed their appetites, a Smartfood
refreshment starid was set up, cot-~

_ cotton candy stand.
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Reorganization bill defeated after lengthy debate

By lan Wagreich

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

A bill designed to reorganize the
SUNYA Student Association executive
branch was defeated by a 13 to 3 vote in
Wednesday’s Central Council meeting.

According to SA President James
Lamb, who introduced the plan to Central
Council four weeks ago, some aspects of
the executive branch, as delineated in the
SA constitution, needed to be changed.

‘‘T tried to restructure it so I was able to
present a plan to Central Council based on
my responsibilities as stated in the con-
stitution,’’ Lamb said.

‘It was not massive, just controversial,
it cleaned up a little,’’ Lamb continued.

Central Council Chair Shawn Thomp-

son said that the proposal should be
reviewed by the Internal Affairs Commit-
tee as is the standard procedure for pro-
posed policy changes. Thompson said,
‘The president has the opportunity to sub-
mit reorganization to the council. I ‘felt

that James’ proposal was more or less a

policy change rather than a restructuring.”

“TT won’t rubberstamp anything,”’ said
Steve Rhoads, newly appointed Internal
Affairs Committee chairman, ‘‘I won’t as
a chair suggest anything but I will look at
proposals objectively. I want as much in-
put as possible.”’

Lamb said he plans to be at Internal Af-
fairs meetings.

Disagreement arose in the reorganiza-
tion of the executive budget process. “If

the president makes up the budget he

should decide what and how to fulfill that
task. The check is that then the council can

“amend or change whatever it deems
‘necessary,’’ Lamb said.

“‘Most of the reorganization was based

on the budget of 1984,’ Lamb com-

mented. ‘“‘I assimilated the duties and

responsibilities of last year with my

ideas.”’
Lamb also made some technical changes
that he said have been needed for many

years.

Lamb attempted to split the respon-

sibilities of University State liaison into
two positions, one of informant to Central

Council and the other as chair of the stu-
dent delegation, with responsibility to in-
form University senators. The Council
liaison would be appointed by the SA
President.

“They didn’t understand that liaison to
council was for them and not for me. He

would just be an informant expressing a

non-biased position,’’ Lamb said.
Thompson disagreed with Lamb’s pro-
posal. ‘‘I felt the job could be done by one.
When you divide the responsibilities, one
to inform the president and one accoun-

table to the Council, instead of the total.

senate and senators, then you have poten-
tial for conflict. Interpretations could be
mixed,’ he said.

‘*The liaison in 1987-88 was picked by

the SA President. We then passed a bill -

that no longer allowed the president to ap-
point, but rather put the position up for
election by the senators,’’ Thompson ex-

plained. ‘‘James reverted back to the old —

policy.’’

The controversy surrounding University
Senate liaison is a technicality of Lamb’s

proposal and is one of many ideas that

- were rejected.

‘**The loss is disappointing and upset-
ting, but it is important to get back to
work and put it into the past,’’ Lamb com-
mented. ‘‘I will seek other ways to fulfill
my duties. Any other responsibilities I
need to fulfill will be through the special
assistant to the president.”’ :

‘“What we need to do now is to be united
better, to work on issues that affect the
student body and remember what we’re
here for,’’ Lamb added.

‘‘It may be viewed as a holding back,” —

Thompson commented, ‘‘but it’s back to
the drawing board. When the Council

votes something down, that’ sno the end of —

it. 99

“After the elections, I foresee a good
council. The council’s past is still fresh,
and we have to prove we’re not the past
and we want to do good things,’’ Thomp-
son said. ‘“‘Once things settle down, the
people on the Council are more accoun-
table to their constituency and the people
they represent.”’ = 2

Senate outlines four by four system

turnout. ‘‘It seems to me a better ‘
idea to have it in the spring”. C3.

sun tans during musical chairs will be rare in the coming
days. It’s getting colder at SUNYA, and signs of Autumn
are upon us. The shorts will soon be in the trunks, and
we'll be breaking out with the winter-wear sooner than
you'd want to.

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By David Lett
Upcoming budget cuts, the nee for a four by four

credit system, and guidelines limiting freshmen from
rushing fraternities and sororities were discussed at the

University Senate meeting on Monday.

University President Vincent O’Leary reported the $2
million in budget cuts slated for this year. O’Leary
discussed the distribution of the budget cuts, saying that
the Graduate Research Initive (GRI) would take the ma-
jority of the cuts.

O’ Leary called for immediate action stating that ‘“‘We

must be as aggressive as we can so that reductions don’t —

take place.”’

Without ruling out tuition increases, O’Leary stated
another source of income must be found to make up for
the cuts in funding, and that there would be a good deal
of trade-offs in the budget.

The tas saat institution of the four by four bere

system was oa as an incentive for students to focus
more narrowly on their studies?
Under the four by four system, full-time students

would take four courses at four credits a piece per

semester. This would replace the current system of five
courses at three credits a piece.

Consideration of the four by four system aa its im-
plications will be decided at the next meeting, to by held

“on Monday, October 31st.

A representative of the Intra Fraternity Council (IFC)
made a report to the floor regarding the new University
Freshman rushing policy which prohibits first semester
freshmen from rushing.

The representative. cited a study which showed that
Greeks have higher grade point averages than non-
Greeks. The council is is seeking to have the new regula-
tions repealed on the basis of the findings of the study.

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2 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 1 TUESDA Y, OCTOBER 4, 1988

NEWS BRIEFS

The World

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Top Russian replaced

Moscow
(AP) Soviet officials Monday capped the
biggest shake-up in Mikhail S. Gor-
bachev’s 3 1/2 years in power by replacing
Politburo member Vitaly I. Vorotnikov as
premier of the Russian republic.

The Supreme Soviet of the Russian
Republic, the largest of the 15 Soviet
republics, elected Interior Minister Alex-
ander V. Vlasov — an ally of Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev — as the new premier.
Vlasov was named a candidate member of
the Politburo during a central committee
meeting Friday.

The 62-year-old Vorotnikov was moved
to the ceremonial job of president of
Russia. Vladimir P. Orlov, the 67-year-old
president of the republic, retired.

Vlasov had been named a candidate

member of the Politburo during a Central

Committee meeting on Friday.
Tass, the Soviet news agency, said Gor-
bachev recommended the changes.

Hundreds die in flood

Chandigarh, India

(AP) Authorities Monday stepped up

rescue operations in four flood-covered

states in northern India, where news

reports say as many as 800 people have
died.

In Pakistan, government officials said

Sunday that more than 1 million people

had been left homeless by flooding in’ the
eastern part of the country. The official
death toll was at 31 but unofficial reports
have said many more died.

In India’s Punjab state, governor S.S.
Ray said the three major rivers in the
region had receded below danger level,
allowing workers to step up relief efforts.

However, he said about 200,000 people
were still marooned in 1,650 villages and at
least 142 people were reported missing.

Relief workers used boats to try to

rescue trapped villagers, officials said. -

Helicopters dropped packages of food and
other supplies into the flooded areas, and
Indian air force transport planes carried
gasoline, diesel and kerosene into areas
where road and rail service had been cut
off.

The Nation &

Sales ban reviewed

Washington, D.C.

(AP) The Supreme Court, in a case of
widespread interest among educators,
Monday agreed to decide whether New
York state universitities may ban some
commercial activities in dormitory rooms.
The court said it will review a ruling that
students’ rights were ignored when college
officials barred a Pennsylvania cookware
company from conducting its sales pitch in

Free Listings

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

357. The program is spon-

dormitories.

An appeal by the State University of
New York to revive the ban on its various
campuses received support from university
officials in 10 states and groups represen-
ting thousands of college administrations
nationwide.

The SUNY board of trustees adopted a
rule in 1966 to prohibit most commercial
enterprises from operating on state univer-
sity campuses.

Bush leads in polls

New York
(AP) Republican George Bush, benefiting
from general satisfaction with the state of
the country, leads Democrat Michael
Dukakis 48-41 percent in the race for the
presidency, according to a new Time
magazine opinion poll.

Bush’s margin was one percentage wider
than the lead he held in a similar Time na-
tional survey in August and it was a few
percentage points more than other na-

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The State

Quarrel ends in death

tional polls have given the GOP nominee
in recent weeks.

The vice president is leading partly
because most of those surveyed are pleased
with the state of the country, according to.
Time. Seventy-three percent of those
surveyed said things are going ‘‘fairly well
or very well,’ the highest proportion since

-October 1984.

However, a majority of those polled
believe that blacks, the young, the elderly,
low-income families and the middle class
are worse off under Ronald Reagan.

Cadosia
(AP) An argument between two men about
one’s alleged drug use and exposure to the
AIDS virus apparently led to the shooting
death of the afflicted man, state police

PHILLIPS UPS

Wake up! Midterms are just around the corner.

Sisters will

be holding a

ae School.

said.

Harry W. Janner Jr., 51, of Cadosia in
Delaware County is charged with second-
degree murder in the death of Steven V.

Bekus of Hillsborough, N.J. Bekus, 29,

died early Saturday after he was shot in the
head with a .38-caliber handgun, troopers
said.

Bekus had been staying at Janner’s
house for a couple of weeks while visiting
the suspect’s son, Robert Janner, said
trooper Jeffrey Strong of the state police
at Deposit, N.Y.

Bekus and Robert Janner had gone out
drinking Friday night, and when they came
home Bekus and Harry Janner began argu-
ing about Bekus’ supposed contraction of
AIDS through intravenous drug use,
police said.

N.Y. Times assailed

New York
(AP) The publication of leaked grand jury
information in the Tawana Brawley case
was illegal, a lawyer for the Brawley family
said Saturday.

Attorney Alton H. Maddox Jr. contend-
ed at a Broklyn news conference that news
organizations can be prosecuted for
possession and publication of grand jury
materials. :

Special State Prosecutor Charles J.
Hynes, who is investigating the leak, said
Friday that he would try to speak infor-
mally to reporters for The New York
Times, but that he would not force them to
talk if they invoke the privilege provided
journalists under the state’s shield law.

Maddox referred to an article Tuesday
in the Times, which was based on evidence
summaries from the special grand jury in
Dutchess County investigating the
reported kidnap and rape of Brawley.

Hustler murdered

New York
(AP) A man who had been arrested three

| times on drug charges was doused with a

flammable liquid and fatally burned near
‘Penn Station, and his assailants escaped,
police said.

Michael Howard, died Sunday morning at
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical
Center, about 10 hours after the attack
Saturday at 10:30 p.m.

On Sunday, Capt. William K. Roe said
nobody had been arrested and police did
not have a motive for the attack.

“It’s narcotics related to the extent that
the man had narcotics on his person, but
that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s why
he was killed in this manner,’’ Roe said.

The man, who identified himself as

Submit listings of
_ group activities
to CC 329

|

be held at 4 p.m. at Albany

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
Gala will meet at 8 p.m.
tonight in CC 361.

The Class of 1991 meets every
Tuesday at 8:45 p.m.in the SA
Lounge. New members are
weicome to attend.

ACOA, an organization for
those who grew up in a

every Tuesday at noon in CC

dysfunctional family, meets ©

sored by Middle Earth.

The Office of International
Programs will be holding infor-
mational meetings this week.
The agenda will be: Grenoble,
October 4th at 4:00 p.m. in HU
290; Brazil, October 5th at 3:00
p.m. in HU 290; Braun

Schweig, October 5th at 4:00 -
in HU 354; and Moscow

p.m.
Thorez, October 6th at 3:00
p.m. in HU 354.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
SUNYA’s Big Brothers and Big

general interest meeting on
Wednesday, Oct. 5th in LC 2 at
7:30 p.m.

The Albany Economic Society
will be holding an_ interest
meeting at 7:30 p.m. in LC 1.
Everyone is welcome to

attend.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 -

An open forum will be held
about the upcoming re-
hearing by the Supreme Court
of the landmark Runyon vs.
McLeary case of 1976. It will

The University Club s starte up
tonight at 8 p.m. in the Cam-
pus Center Ballroom.
Featured will be the Believers,
the B.C., and the Stomplistics.
The cover charge is $2. The
event is sponsored by WCDB
and SA.

The Bloodmobile will be at the
Brubacher Hall Ballroom on
Alumni Quad from 1:00 p.m. to
7:00 p.m.

Chavurah Reform Services are

held every Friday at 6:15 p.m.
in CC 370.

Aipha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc. presents “A Ripped Jean
Affair’ tonight at 9:30 p.m at
Brubacher Hall. Admission is
$1 for SUNYA students with
ripped jeans and $2 for
Students without; and $2 for
other students with ripped
jeans and $3 for others
without ripped jeans.

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Internal Affairs

Steve Rhodes was appointed Chair of
the Internal Affairs Committee if Central
Council at the September 28th meeting of
Central Council. Rhodes replaced acting:
chair Evan Hines, who decided this
semester not to continue as chair.

According to Central Council Chair.
Shawn Thompson, Hines replaced Jeff
Flynn, who resigned from Central Coun-
cil last semester to take the position of
Educational Affairs Director.

Rhodes stated that the goals of Inter-
nal Affairs will be geared towards those
intended for the Review and Revision
Committee, which is no longer active.

‘*This will be the main role of Internal
Affairs this year,’’ Rhodes said.

The Review and Revision Committee
that Central Council hoped to implement
would have focused on ‘‘shaping am-
biguities of policy,’’ Rhodes said.

Greek changes

Two local sororities on the SUNYA
campus recently went national. Delta Psi.
Chi, a local sorority on campus, was col-
onized into Alpha Omicron Pi. .

Cheryl Markowitz, President of Alpha
Omicron Pi, said the reason Delta Psi
Chi felt a need to go national was because
“‘as a local, you come to a point where
you can’t expand anymore.’’

The sorority felt it could grow stronger
through national support, Markowitz
said.

According to Markowitz, going na-
tional is a very long process. The sorortiy
first. did extensive research on eight
sororities to determine which was best
suited to the members of Delta Psi Chi.

Each national, in turn, responded if

they were interested in being part of this
campus, Markowitz said. Finally, Delta
Psi Chi invited Alpha Omicron Pi to
come and visit the SUNYA Campus.
_ “It?s the best decision our sorority
could ever have made,’’ Markowitz said
in reference to the sorortity’s decision to
go with Alpha Omicron Pi.

Alpha Omicron Pi was not the only -

sorortity to go national. Kappa Zeta Tau,
a local sorortity, also went national and
formed a chapter of Alpha Phi on the
SUNYA campus.

Smartfood stuff

One of the more popular attractions at
Saturday’s Guiness Day was the Smart-

natural’’ cheddar cheese popcorn). Both
Tandler and Kennealy took paying jobs
with the company following the ending
of the internship.

Tandler and Kennealey came to
Guiness Day to give free boxes of Smart-
food to the two thousand plus students
that had a part in Musical Chairs.

After the game was over, they headed
for the University of Massachusetts,
where another big function was awaiting
their promotional tools--Smartfood
Popcorn.

Jeff Flynn

Political month ©
designed to
involve voters

GERSHON UPS

By Regina Moraitis r 4

The month of October has been set aside
as Political Month on the SUNYA cam-
pus. Several guests have been invited to
give lectures and interact with the students
. The lectures are scheduled to run through
early November.

The purpose of Political Month is to in-
crease student involvement in politics and
the government, according to Educational
Affairs Director Jeff Flynn.

This is the first time that this type of
event has been held at SUNYA, Flynn,
who is in charge of organizing Political
Month, said.

Two weeks will be devoted to women
and minorities in politics with an aim to
present as role models people who have
achieved success in government, Flynn
said.

The speakers are expected to emphasize
the role of students as citizens and the im-
portance of student political awareness
and activity.

According to Flynn, Political Month is

intended as a non-partisan event focusing
on individuals who have been successful in
government. The selection of speakers was

- based on an individuals position in govern-

ment irrespective of their political party af-
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Six local rock groups donated their
talent Sunday as part of the New York
Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG) Rock-n-Register party design-
ed to register students to vote.

Bands featured were The Stomplistics,

The AD’s, IWA, the BC, Rubberband, —

and Joint Distribution. Rubberband and
Joint Distribution are both local bands
made up of SUNYA students.

The event, held from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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“TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1988 ©) ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 3 3

By Sandie Weitzman
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
_ SUNYA administrators are attempting
to combat the problem of vandalism that
exists in residence halls.

According to Dennis Stevens, Vice-
President and Director of the Physical
Plant, the prime concern of the Universi-
ty with respect to vandalism is when it in-
terferes with safety systems, such as fire
alarms, smoke alarms, fire extinguishers,
exit signs, and stair railings. .

Stevens explained that there are ‘‘in
place a number of programs to combat
vandalism.’’

He added that Mitch Livingston, the
vice-president of Student Affairs, was
“instrumental in putting those into
place.”’

‘‘We’ll spend a good portion of this
year letting residents know the cost of
vandalism and the affects those costs
have on their contract rates,’’ Livington
explained.

The residence hall system is self-
sufficient, Livingston explained. Each
year, every student who lives in the halls
is required to pay a portion of the cost.

Vandalism costs from the previous
year are ‘‘put right into the pay structure
the following year,’’ explained Liv-
ingston.

As a result, the less vandalism there is,
the less the cost will be to each student.

There are many programs planned to
combat vandalism. First, there will be in-
formation sent to the students explaining
the affect vandalism has on residence hall
costs.

Secondly, when individual students are
caught vandalizing, immediate
disciplinary action will be taken. ‘‘If
we’re going to pass cost,’’ Livingston
said, ‘‘we have to have the names of who
is allegedly involved.’’

SUNY <A creates cleanup
programs to fight vandalism

Livingston added that the ad-
ministrators intend to be more diligent in
apprehending individuals, and once
students are found responsible, they will
be forced to pay restitution (so as to keep
all students from having to pay for it).

The most important program being im-
plemented is that of Quad Aid. Although ©
tested last year, this is the first year it will
be fully in effect. Livingston explained
Quad Aid is an ‘‘Anti-Vandalism incen-
tive program.”?  —

Although not all the mechanics have
been worked out, $5,000 to $7,000 per
quad has been set aside for Quad Aid.
There are two portions to the program.

On each quad, whichever hall (halls)
gave the least amount of vandalism at
periods during the year will receive a
special prize from the monies allocated to
the quad. On most halls, this is done ona
point system.

On a quad-by-quad basis, at the end of
the year, after an assessment of the
amount of vandalism which has occured
during the year has been made, the quads
with the lowest vandalism rates will
receive money which they can use for
special items of their choice on their
quad.

As the responsibility of vandalism is
going to be returned to the students Liv-
ingston explained, there is a good chance
that rates will go down as a result.

“‘Without an incentive program like
Quad Aid,”’ Livingston said, ‘we have
no recourse but to add up the cost of van-

dalism and simply pass that on to next
year’s residents.’’ O

in the Campus Center Ballroom attracted
over 200 students, and about 150 new

voters were registered at the door.

““Rock-N-Register was part of a huge
drive by the Student Association of the
State University (SASU), United States
Student Association (USSA), and
NYPIRG to register at least 40,000 new
voters by October Sth, which is being call-
ed ‘‘Student Vote Day,’’ Kate Bogart,
head of the NYPIRG voter registration

‘project at SUNYA, said.

-NYPIRG party registers 150 new voters

By Gregory Kersh

‘‘We’re trying to heighten awareness

. and get students to vote,’’ Bogart said.

‘*Students are not participating enough
in the voting process,’’ Bogart continued,
explaining that senior citizens vote more —
than any age group and, as a result, often
have legislation passed in their favor.

‘SA perfect example is the drinking age. -

‘Legislators in Albany raised the drinking

age because they were not concerned about
losing the student vote.’’ Bogart said that
if more students took part in local elec-
tions as well as the upcoming presidential
election, their opinions on the issues would
be more important to politicians.

The event was also organized by
SUNYA students and Laurie Valeriano.

: food truck that randomly distributed free Many other people helped set up oe
-/ popcorn to students. Two men were ment and register voters, Bogart said.

: behind the promotional campaign. The bands played free of charge and the

: Both Mike Tandler and Dave Kennealy sound crew was paid for by NYPIRG, she
S| started with Smartfood, Inc., as summer said, adding that a generous discount was

interns, where their main function was |. J" given on the equipment, which was provid-

: the promotion of Smartfood (a ‘‘totally ed by Starfire.

The BC didn’t get a chance to perform
because they had a problem with their
bassist, who could not show up, Bogart
said.

Stomplistics, one of the more an-
ticipated bands, was not able to play either
because they were having sound crew pro-
blems, she added.

‘‘The bands were great... we had a
really good time,’’ said NYPIRG

spokesman Andrew Greenblatt, who

helped organize sound crew and other
aspects of the event.

‘“‘The AD’s were really hot. It was too
bad the Stomplisitcs couldn’t play, they’re
a really good band,”’ Greenblatt said.

The event was co-sponsored by the

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By D. Forster

There is a new organization on
campus aimed at supporting the
fight against one of our nation’s
| most debilitating diseases, multi-
ple sclerosis.

The organization, Students
Against Multiple Sclerosis
(SAMS), is in its second year on
the SUNYA campus, according
to Steve Harrison, the chair of
; SAMS.

SAMS is a national student
movement constructed to increase
‘public awareness of the disease
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system to the point where it af-
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functions such as walking, talk-
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awareness of MS on the SUNYA
campus.

‘‘We don’t know why but this
area [upstate N.Y., New England
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cidence of MS for people in their
20’s,’’ Harrison said.

SAMS, which presently has on-
ly 15 members holds onto some
great expectations for fundraising
events for this year. The biggest
event will be the ‘‘Rock-alike’’
airband competition, and will in-
clude the 200 campuses which ob-
tain SAMS chapters, Harrison
said.

** . would charge admission
at the door and every vote for a
band would cost a dollar,’’ Har-
rison said. ‘‘The incentive for
participation would be the grand
prize, which would be a paid trip
to Florida during spring break,
where the winners could compete
again.’’

MTV, one of the organization’s.
biggest sponsors, will provide

coverage for the competition in

Florida.

‘‘Skip-A-Meal’’ is another
SAMS event, which would entail
students on campus to forego a
meal as a contribution to the MS

Society. ‘People are more willing
to donate time and money to
charities than anything else,’’
Harrison said. Every meal skip-
ped would be worth approximate-
ly two dollars.

Harrison discussed the
possibility of co-sponsoring a par-
ty with one or two of the campus
fraternities. The proceeds would
go almost entirely to the MS
Society. The party would feature,
as a special guest, wrestler Lou
Albano.

The Off-Campus Association is
sponsoring a block party on Hud-
son Ave. in downtown Albany,
on Saturday, October 22nd. Har-
rison said he plans to work with
the group and hopes to sell t-
shirts, mugs, and other items.

“If our events are successful,
we will accomplish two things,’’
Harrison stated. ‘‘We’ll raise
money and initiate some public
awareness.”’

Other fundraising activities in-
clude credit card application
drive, during which Master Card
would donate $6 for every ap-
plication received on the SUNYA
campus, Harrison said. Each card
would have an MS seal, and a
percentage of every sale made
with the credit card would be
donated to the MS organization.

‘*We are trying to get two foos-
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By Shery! Rubin

Upon entering their first year
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faces certain questions and an-
xieties,such as: Who am I? Will I
fit in? Am I as good as everyone
else here? Can I compete?

The ‘‘Freshman Experience’’, a
program that the faculty at
SUNYA has been researching for
years, is designed to combat these
anxieties.

According to Mitchel Liv-
ingston, Vice-President of Stu-
dent Affairs, the freshman year
sets the tone for the next four
years of college. Drop-outs main-
ly leave during the freshman year
because they are afraid to face

. what lies ahead of them. The new

programs for freshmen will help
them build up confidence and
self-esteem, in order for students
to succeed academically and
socially.

Livingston stated that in his ex-
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has observed incoming freshmen
have problems in seven basic
areas: identity, competence,
managing their emotions, manag-
ing their time, interpersonal rela-
tionships, integrity, and purpose
in life. The goals of the new
freshman programs are to deal
with these issues and ease many
students’ lives, according to
Livingston.

Director of orientations, Mary
Schimley, indicated that there are

five ideas which those who are in-
volved in orientation leadership
want to integrate into residential
life at the university. These in-
clude academic affairs, students
as active learners, preparing for
the 21st century, diversity and
pluralism, and mastering study
skills.

Academic affairs pertains to
students and faculty working to
better the academic and social at-
mosphere inside and outside the
lecture halls. The difference bet-
ween high school and college can
be overwhelming for some
freshmen, so the professors will
be on hand to advise freshmen on
how to handle college fears,
Schimley stated.

Voting push conference held

By Joe Peterson
STAFF WRITER

A coalition of student govern-
ment presidents, campus
newspaper editors, and state stu-
dent associations, representing all

50 states and the District of Col- —

umbia, met in Washington, D.C.
this weekend in an attempt to in-
crease student voter registration.

_The three-day conference drew
many influential speakers
representing both the Democratic
and Republican parties. Jesse

Jackson spoke of ‘‘1,000 students
each registering 100 students’’ as
a means of increasing student
turn-out
election.

in this November’s

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The conference was an attempt
to ‘‘generate the excitement
necessary to motivate campus
organizers to make a final push to
register students before the
deadline, which is October 11th in
New York,”’ Director of the Na-

tional Student Campaign for

Voter Registration Catherine
Crane said.

The University of the District
of Columbia, the site of the con-
ference, hosted many workshops
aimed at teaching voter registra-
tion techniques to the assembled
representatives, explained Jim
Cullen, Vice President of Campus
Affairs for the Student Associa-
tion of the State University

COME & ENJOY

(SASU).
Cullen called the event ‘‘really
worthwhile,’’ and noted as a

. highlight the debate between Col-

lege Republicans and Young
Democrats from campuses across

the nation. © -
Both organizations discussed

issues such as higher education,
the plight of the homeless, and
other social issues in an attempt
to win voter registration
organizers to their party, Cullen
said.

About 300 to 400 people at-
tended the conference, Cullen
said, in an effort to ‘‘develop a
core group of committed

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Students must be able to learn
inside and outside the classroom
in order to be fulfilled. Too many
freshmen are afraid that their
studies will suffer if they join any
extracirricular activities.,

Studies show that students who
get involved in the social aspects
of college life do significantly bet-
ter academically than students
who study all the time, according
to Schimley. :

Preparing for the 21st century
will expose students to new educa-
tional opportunities as well as
new majors and career choices.
‘Students who are prepared for
today are not good enough. We
must prepare students for future
times,’’ Schimley said.

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cultures.

From the summer planning
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'S. African vote no real vote at all

By Sean Lewis

The system of apartheid in
South Afirca cannot be reduced
to a simple equation, or even to a
complex set of statistics. It is not
sufficient to say that although
South Africa has a population of
over 32 million people, only 4.5
million whites have full rights of
citizenship, i.e. the right to vote.
‘Is true, but not sufficient. Apar-
theid of the 80’s has a slightly
modified appearance. They now
talk about the ‘‘vote’’ of the so-
called ‘‘coloreds’’ and ‘‘Indians’’
in South Africa. But there is no
real vote. There is no power at-

tached to the seats these traitors ©
to the struggle of black people ©

hold in the fraudulent tri-cameral

parliament. The
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parliament is a The
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and entrench
minority white dominance.
Therefore it has been designed in
such a way that ‘‘colored and In-
dian’? members of parliament
cannot deal with any meaningful
and fundamental issues. Even
within those very narrow
parameters in which they are
allowed to function, they can be
very easily overruled by a number
of structures within the cabinet
structure which owe allegiance
only to white minority dominance
and interests.

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(1)special committees appointed
by the president, who can only be
white, (2), the numerical and
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‘called homelands,

‘‘coloreds’? and ‘‘Indians’’ (in
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ancestors were in South Africa
before colonial Europe
‘‘invented’’ Africa (and the
Americas for that case), comprise
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African population and are ex-
cluded from the _tri-cameral
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‘*Indians’’.

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been reserved for the exclusive
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The Grass is always greener. ..

was sitting on the Podium the other

day and heard a couple of guys
talking. On the whole, they were glad to
be back at SUNYA but then the conversa-
tion swung around to how bad living on
campus truly was. In the words of one of
the two, “it’s hell, man, living hell.” The
other responded with, “it would be ‘rilly
great y'know if we, like, could get, like, an
apartment off campus, y’know?” To them,
I can only reply that off campus life is hell,
man, living hell.

Greg Vitoul is

I ‘m angry and let me tell you why. I

To begin with, everyone living on cam-
pus knocks the food. But let me tell you, if
you don’t know one end of the kitchen
from the other, campus food looks like it
was prepared by Julia Childe.

Last year my housemate Sara decided to
make some macaroni and cheese from
scratch and since she thought that one box

of elboe macaroni would serve only one

person, she used three. The end result was
ten pounds of macaroni and cheese which
took nearly a month to polish off. Do you
know what it’s like to eat macaroni and
cheese for breakfast five days in a row?!
Then there was the time that Donna, my
other housemate, wanted to make Vienna
dream bars for a Christmas party she was

invited to. The results of her foray in the _

kitchen I can only describe as dessert from
hell. The “dream bars” looked like adobe
bricks and had the same taste. As for
myself, I can’t follow directions. Instead of
adding a cup of water to a quarter cup of
rice, I reversed the instructions. We still
haven't been able to get that pot clean. I
tell you, it’s rough.

Parking is no joy either. At least
SUNYA considerately provides nearby

packing for students. Off campus, it’s all

The Dollhouse

drivers for themselves. On Tuesdays, all
parking spaces are grabbed by’ noon, and
on Wednesday your car has to be parked
by eleven to grab a space before everyone

— else.

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are the neighbors. We students certainly
have improved our image with. the com-

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follows is a list of ten basic greetings:
1. Hey you! Quit puking and get outta

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2. Humph!

3. Git that car outta my driveway!

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5. Stay away from my son.

6. Stay away from my children.

7, Stay away from me.

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breath)

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You might expect that we would at least

get along with our college age neighbors,
but NOOO! I happen to live in a hause
that’s broken uf into seyen. apartments, six
of which are inhabited’ with women. It’s
not unusual for a drunken boyfriend to
pound on our door at three in the morning
(on weekends as well as during the week).
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during the day, I don’t lose any sleep, so I
can deal with it. But it’s always the same
song that she plays, “I Wanna Have Dinner
With Gershwin,” by Donna Summers. I ad-
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perhaps even twice, but not thirty times in
a row.

Another drawback is the landlord. Mine
pays for the heat, electricity and water.
The only problem occurs during the
winter. Since he comes from a much
warmer climate and loves the warm
weather, as soon as November rolls.
around, he turns the heat on to about
ninty-seven degrees. During the coldest
months of the year, my housemates and I
run around the apartment wearing shorts
and drinking iced tea. I tell you, it does
great things for your health to walk out in-
to ten degree weather covered in sweat
(pnuemonia is such a fun thing to catch).

Finally, there is the issue of privacy. A
lot of. people living on campus whine that
they don’t get enough privacy in the
dorms, particularly in the bathroom. But at
least dorm bathrooms provide enough
space for more than two people to “do
their business.” Last semester my two
housemates and I all had morning classes.

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taller,” explains Jeremy Irons as one

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nonetheless significant.

Stef McDonald

Dead Ringers is Croenberg’s latest film
(he wrote, produced and co-directed), a
deviation from the traditional horror genre
— Croenberg is best known for his films
The Fly and The Dead Zone — but horrific
just the same. Dead Ringers is essentially a
movie about siamese twins, joined not
physically, but psychologically. Twins
Elliot and Beverly Mantle are close — so
close that they share a proffession, they
share an apartment, and when it’s conve-
nient, they occasionally share identities. It’s
when they share a patient and lover,
however, that their closeness becomes
complicated and disastrous.

Scene one of Dead Ringers shows Elliot
and Beverly as boys performing a mock
intra-ovular surgery on a toy model. Next
is a scene at Cambridge, where the twins,
still together, are performing on a cadaver.
Then, the film brings the Mantle twins to
1988, where they are practicing
gynecologists at their Toronto based fertili-
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Genevieve Bujold), an actress unable to
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between Claire, Elliot and Beverly, who ”
fills in” for his brother when needed.

Ironically, Elliot warns Bev, “She's an ac-
tress, she plays games — you never know
who she really is.” He may as’ well be
speaking of himself.

As the Mantle twins pull off the stunt
with Claire (unsuspectingly, she tells Bev
that he’s “subtlely schizophrenic”), Jeremy
Irons succeeds in masterfully juggling both

| ‘m actually a couple of millimeters

parts. When it’s clear that Beverly is Bever-
ly and Elliot is Elliot, Irons is to be credited.
Even when both share the screen, the
distinction can be made, down to the man-
nerisms of each. Similarly, when the twins’
characters overlap and co-exist (“we are
percieved as one,” says Elliot), Cronenberg
is to be commended for creating a perplex-
ing and bizarre tale of horror.

Dead Ringers is in the simplest analysis,
a film about the perils of switching iden-
tities. But it is a film about drug abuse and
obsessions as well, and following the in-
volvement with Claire, and Beverly’s
subsequent downfall, the film makes some
bizarre implications.

Cronenburg toys with the concepts of
role reversal and sibling homosexuality.
Surfacing again and again is the question of
whether the twins’ dependency is volun-
tary or inescapable. There’s the suggestion
that the fate of Bev, whose self-destructive

dependency on drugs gradually escalates
will inevitably determine the fate of his —

counter-part, Elliot.

There’s also the deliberate connection
made between Beverly’s work and his
need for an independent existance. The
twins’ fascination with a womans’ insides
(‘I’ve often thought there should be a beau-
ty contest for the insides of bodies”) along
with the fixation on finally breaking loose

from one another (“T’m not you,” Elliot tells
Beverly) proves to be deadly. Symbollical-
ly and literally, the tools that were created
for working on a woman’s body become
the tools used for seperating the “siamese
twins.”

With: on and beneath the surface
psychological questions raised in Dead
Ringers, Cronenburg ‘packs a lot into this
film; it is engrossing, chilling, and because
of the implications, Dead Ringers is all the
more horrifying. O

i) Ba

Master magician of metafiction reads

servatively dressed. Bald pate, red
faced and red nosed, this man with
the neatly trimmed greying beard and

ak all and thin. Long-limbed and con-

glasses looked more like the local barber

than what some critics have called, “the
pre-eminent high priest of post-
modernism.”

David Cunningham

John Barth. The author of seven novels
to date and a recipient of the National
Book Award for Fiction, this “high priest,”
who was further described as the “Bard of
Black humor” and the “master magician of
metafiction,” read for a little under an hour
at Page Hall, in a New York State Writer's
Institute presentation.

Barth read from his current work in pro-
gress, The Last Voyage of Somebody the
Sailor, which he described as “very much
in gestation.”

“If it’s safely into the second tri-mester of
it’s gestation, you're allowed to read from
it without necessarily precipitating a spon-
taneous abortion,” he explained.

To set the tone for his work, Barth read a
short epigraph from James Joyces’ classic of
modernism, Ulysses. Barth has himself
taken The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, ar
Arabic reorchestration of Homer’s Ulysses,
and in his own words, “re-reorchestrated it
in a post-modern key.” It is what he con-
siders a “return to an emphasis on storytell-
ing plot and the exploitation of situation.”

His reading which followed came from a
small part of two main series of tales. One
is the first six voyages of Somebody the
Sailor (the character from the work), who
grew up as Barth did, in “a certain part” of
the U.S.A. between the years 1930 and
1980. Somebody narrates these mainly
metaphorical voyages at the rate of one per
evening to no less than an audience that
old Sinbad the Sailer himself.

Barth labeled his reading Thursday night
as part of the overture to the last voyage of
Somebody the Sailor. The reading was fur-
ther described by Barth as an arabesque —
a contrived intricate pattern of verbal ex-
pression which leans heavily on
alliteration.

The reading itself was lively and occas-
sionally accented by Barth’s calmy
animated gestures. At one point in his
reading Barth held up a cover of a National
Geographic with the photo of an absolute-
ly stunning Arab girl on it. This coincided
with his description of Yasmin, Sinbad’s
daughter in the work.

“Her perfectly astonishing grey-green
eyes which flash so in every light,” he read.
“You still find it hard to believe they don’t
shine in the dark.”

As can be deducted, Barth’s use of
language can only be described as magical.
And his voice itself was rich and adroit.
Quite suited to the spinning of tales —
Barth has the kind of voice tailer made for
reading Dr. Seuss stories at bedtime. O


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O53. BoOASS

Call for Tradition

To the Editor: _
Are you listening, seniors? As a December graduate

myself, I have been informed that the ceremony, which is’
the highlight of a student’s life, will practically resemble a
simple class lecture. Also, I was told that we are not going
to receive our gowns! We may dress as casually as we’d
like to at this event.

Can you imagine this? Commencement, a traditional
ritual that declares that an individual has successfully
completed an institution’s requirements for a profes-
sional degree, is, at this institution, a sermon to which we
may wear jeans! I am outraged at this!

Why should December graduates be treated as second-
class citizens? Didn’t we study diligently enough?
Haven’t we earned the right to wear such a noble gown?

Perhaps I am sentimental, but I feel that wearing such a
cloth represents pride and dignity, and having one at
graduation makes the occasion proper and complete.

Remember, your graduation matters.

—Rosalba DeRobertis'

Disreputable Rep’s

To the Editor:

On Monday October 26, 1988, the Students for.
Dukakis-Bentsen received an unexpected vote of con-
fidence for their candidates from the College
Republicans. Unfortunately, the story behind the en-
dorsement is all too familiar this election year.

On Monday October 26, the Students for Dukakis were
granted a room to hold an organizational meeting. Note
that all the legal channels were utilized to get LC 14 at
7:30 pm. It so happened that the College Republicans had
a meeting this same night except in LC 21 at 8 p.m. But
wait! Somehow they ended up having their meeting an
hour early and seven lecture centers away in LC 14. How
did that happen? Students for Dukakis ended up meeting
Teo Se) 0 ee

The plot thickens... The following day, the Students for
Dukakis discovered that not only did the College
Republicans have no right to appropriate LC 14 but they
hadn’t gotten permission to even use LC 21. In fact, they
had no designated room, whatsoever. 2

At first I was a bit perturbed at how unprofessional and
unprincipled the leaders of the College Republicans seem-

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ed to be. Then it occurred to me that they knew. That one
fact was that Michael ‘Dukakis and his running mate

Senator Lloyd Bentsen are much more Honorable and

competent than their opponents. Or at least how the
Republican leadership on this campus presents them.
Obviously, the College Republicans have so little faith
in their candidate that they have to resort to such devious
and immature tactics as stealing a little room from their
opposition. This political subterfuge seems to typical of
them as they have repeatedly shown their true colors this
election year. With such children behind him, Bush has

~ little in front of him.

Henry Baranczak
Students for Dukakis

Give $60,000 Back

To the Editor:

How would you feel if you took your car to the
mechanic and he charged you $60,000 for a brake-job?

Unless you owned a gold-plated Porche or the space
shuttle, you would be enraged and demand why the
mechanic charged you such a ridiculous amount of
money for a simple service. However, if the mechanic
refused to explain why you were charged $60,000 and told
you to beat it, you would want to take some action to pre-
vent the mechanic from ripping you off in the future. I’m

sure you would be more sympathetic however, if you.

found out that he had a staff that made $1,400,000 a year
fixing brakes. :

Here at SUNYA, we are faced with a similar situation.
On October 11 and 12, you will have the choice to decide

_ whether or not NYPIRG and USSA can continue to rip-

off students to the amount of $60,000 a year. When you
go to the polls, the decision you choose to make should
not be based on NYPIRG’s “‘gallant deeds’’ alone, but

‘rather on a consideration between the action NYPIRG

takes on issues and the amount of money it receives each
year. Simply put, are NYPIRG and USSA worth
$60,000? The purpose of this letter is to show they are

not.

The case against student exploitation is a strong one.
NYPIRG is not your average student group, but rather a
statewide advocacy group that does its business out of an

office 200 miles away in New York City. The money |

NYPIRG receives from your student activity fee does not
stay on this campus. The money is pooled together with
NYPIRG’s list of activities, and we will get a meager

share of our own money. The practical effect of —

NYPIRG’s funding system results in SUNYA not getting
its full value of *‘public interest research’’ for the amount

of money laid out.

NYPIRG contends there is no price that can be put on >

the issues they handle. Let us judge them in these
“priceless issues’’. The great taxi cab caper. NYPIRG
claims they have stopped taxi cab overcharging 250 per-
cent. Now they only overcharge 249 percent. They are
working against the SAT. Four years and over $200,000
later, we still have the SAT.

Oh, let’s not forget the ‘‘gallant deeds’’. They’ve bann-
ed irradiated foods and stopped an incinerator. This cost
$200,000? Who are they kidding?

We find it amazing that ASUBA, SCAAR, JSC, etc.
are able to put a price tag on their issues, and spend their
money on this campus, but NYPIRG isn’t. It is unfor-
tunate that organizations like the ones mentioned, suffer

through budget cuts and must meet income lines while

NYPIRG enjoys the largest proportionate amount of the
SA budget each year without giving back a dime. If
NYPIRG is worth $55,000 a year, then there is justifica-
tion for the Pentagon to buy $300 toilet seats.
Additionally, there is no way to demand accountability

of NYPIRG on this campus. If you ask for a copy of

NYPIRG’s budget, you will be referred to their New
York office. What legitimate student group does not have
to present a budget when asked? NYPIRG seems to be the
only one. Why are we giving them $55,000 if we can’t find
out what it’s being spent on?

As for USSA, the case against that organization is
easier to present. If NYPIRG does little, then USSA does
less. There is no USSA presence on this campus; the
organization is invisible. Students on this campus give
$5,000 a year to an organization that does nothing for

them. If this happens to be the first time you ever heard -

~ does not justify

of USSA, then you see my point. Also, money is given to
USSA through our SASU donation, so in effect, we are
paying them twice. In the words of Jason Epstein, USSA
delegate, ‘“What we are doing now is unnecessary.”’

By voting against NYPIRG and USSA, what is gained
for this campus? To start, $60,000 is given back to our
Student Association, which can be put towards activities
on. this campus. By voting no, you will help put an end to
the cycle of exploitation NYPIRG and USSA have pro-
moted on thi since 1973. Finally, by voting no,
t activity fee money back in con-

nal al + a t e791 3n thz =
u elected to represent you in the Stu-

trol of the people y
dent Association.

In the past four years,
$240,000 to NYPIRC
have rece

Lé $60,000 to play with.
The time hi: © put an end to this shameless ex-
ploitation..Dr. Martin Luther King once stated: ‘‘It’s
always the right time to do the right thing,’’ and there will

_ be no better time than October 11 and 12 to voice your

oO e and VOTE NO! = °
utrag sees —Victor Cipolla

Chairman

Coalition Against Atudent Exploitation
—Robert Schmidlin

Co-Chairman
Coalition Against Student Exploitation

Benefit ’89
To the Editor:

Benefit ’89 is a student-run organization that is formed
to raise funds for a local children’s charity. These funds
are gathered through special events held over the course
of the year. Included in (but not limited to) these are: a
talent show, body-building show, The Charity Ball, and
the 12-hour Telethon.

If you have an idea on how to raise money, come and
join Benefit ’89. We’ll not only listen, but we’ll help make
your ideas become a reality.

Benefit ’89 is an attempt to bring Telethon into the
*90’s and beyond. If you would like more information,
please feel free to contact me at 393-7286 or through the
Campus Life Office.

Thank you for your interest and I hope to hear from
you soon.

—Stephen C. Schaeffer

| Chairman
No Exploitation
1.0 the Editor:

_ Here we go, again. Okay, folks, it’s referendum time
and NYPIRG and USSA are on the ballot. Students at
this fine institution will have the opportunity to decide
whether or not to throw away $60,000. You may be ask-
ing yourself, ‘‘How could students throw away

_ $60,000?” The answer is simple: just vote in favor of
NYPIRG and USSA’s funding.

You might want to know, ‘‘How’s this $60,000 spent?”’
Well, $55,000 goes to NYPIRG, $5,000 goes to USSA
and it all leaves this campus. This is very understandable
since NYPIRG has to support a payroll close to $1.5
million! .

What has NYPIRG done that is worth $55,000? They
register voters. But so do SASU, SA, the Young
Democrats and the College Republicans. Voter registra-
tion forms are free and it costs nothing to drop them off
at the Albany courthouse. NYPIRG got rid of irradiated
food on campus. Did that cost $55,000? I don’t think so.
Where’s the money? es

As for USSA, I don’t know what they do for us, I don’t
think you know what they do for you, so only God knows
what they’re doing! Why are we giving this invisible
organization $5,000? Once again, I don’t know.

Finally, Mr. Greenblatt, you can call us whatever your
heart desires; to me this stinks of McCarthyism.
However, you cannot put words in our mouths. | .

Students have a right to vote in this election, and we
urge them to vote against the exploitation that you,
NYPIRG, and USSA are promoting.

_ —Michael McChesney
Vice-Chairman
Coalition Against Student Exploitation

The ASP wants YOU
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Make your ideas known
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lan intan
i all intang

Discovery of the
Indomitable
Spirit

rhroughout history, man has been given
1 has taken advantage of numerous
ies to show his spirit. Through
| intangible quality not unlike a soul, its
embodiment can unite or shame an entire
people. :

Such spirit has been apparent at various
times but never more dramatically than in
the past two weeks. Or perhaps, in the past
two days. )

For, the two most significant events
which have transpired, the Olympic’s
Closing Ceremonies and the safe return of
the space shuttle Discovery, have filled the
columns and pages and screens of the
media in joyous abundance.

A unity of spirit which has transcended
actual and imposed boundaries to
encompass all mankind has become the
most valuable by-product of these
inherently ethnocentric occurrences.

Despite the highly publicized ‘Space
Race’ between the nations, viewers
worldwide held their collective breath as the
Discovery took off, and they breathed a

sigh of relief when it landed safely at

Edwards Air Force Base, finally pushing
the horribly tragic picture of the Challenger
into the back of everyone’s minds.
Temporarily gone but never forgotten;
another kind of spirit which lives forever
within us all, springing from the courage of
the Challenger crew. |
There is a feeling connected to such a
success which allows all to take a break .
from the constant competition and be
confident in the fact that after more than
two years, the United States is once again
moving forward. Forward into a future
bright with stars of all-kinds. | ei
Stars like the Olympic athletes who
represent not only the best of America’s
youth, but the youth and future of the
world as well. . . a
_ Case in point: hearts stopped all over the
world as Olympic favorite Greg Louganis
struck his head on the diving board during
the 10-meter springboard preliminaries.
Perhaps as many saw it on the repeated
showings of the slo-mo replay as viewed it
as it actually happened, in a silent, shocked

arena where the singular resounding was —

finally broken by Louganis’ hitting the

Water. : :
- When he returned to the board shortly

thereafter, it was with the added baggage of
several stitches, a waterproof bandage, and
the world’s eyes upon him. Still in shock,
Louganis went on to defend his title with all
the grace in the world, the result of true
dedication to his art and years of hard
work. |

During the closing ceremonies of the

Olympic Games, Louganis was awarded
Se ee Spirit Award by the U.S.
Olympic Committee. This, perfectly fitting,
in light of the fact that he overcame nearly
insurmountable odds -in recapturing his
golds.

Nonetheless, he succeeded. And the spirit
in which he succeeded was more than doing
something for oneself, or someone else, or
even one’s country. It is the spirit which
drives us all to do our very best.

The spirit (and courage) exhibited. by.

both Louganis and the Discovery crew
stands as a model for us all. It is the spirit
which enables us to gracefully accept our
defeats and exuberantly celebrate our
accomplishments as well as those of our
fellow men. |

Civil Rights | in Our Time

Recently, I addressed the annual meeting of the
American Council on Education, where there was much
talk about a crisis in minority, especially black,
enrollments in our colleges and universities. Blame was
assigned liberally. It was argued that colleges and univer-
sities aren’t doing enough to recruit and graduate minori-
ty students; that society as a whole has permitted the ex-

istance of an impoverished underclass; and that the

Reagan Administration has allegedly cut student aid.

William J. Bennett

_ The council appointed a 34-person commission, in-
cluding former Presidents Ford and Carter, to study the
problem. I’d like to bring up some salient facts which
bear on the discussion. eeiae

The facts are these: Minority enrollments in colleges
and universities (including Asians, Hispanics and blacks)
are up 20 percent during the 1980’s, to an all-time high of
2.34 million in 1986. Asian enrollments are up 50 percent
in the 1980’s, and Hispanics are up 58 percent. All of this
has occurred during a period in which overall college
‘enrollment has been virtually steady.

_ During this period, black enrollments have been steady
as well. After rising steeply in the 1960’s and 1970’s, they
dipped slightly in the early 1980’s, then rose in 1984, But
if we include black enrollments in for-profit career

schools, post-secondary black enrollment , too, stands at

an all-time high.

It is true that blacks’ share of the total population has
declined slightly during the 1980’s, but so has that of
white students. The reason: increased attendance by
Asians, Hispanics, and other minorities.

There is no disagreement over the goal of providing all

students, including minorities, with opportunities to bet- -

ter themselves through higher education. You should be

skeptical, however, of two false arguments for why

minority enrollments are not higher.

Alleged student aid cuts are mentioned by some. In
truth, there is no villain here. Federal aid awarded to

students on the basis of need (principally grants and
highly subsidized loans), has grown by 76 percent by
1980--or about twice as much as the Consumer Price In-
dex. The Administration will seek increases in student aid
in next year’s budget, including an increase in Pell grants
for the most needy students. |

The American taxpayer has been generous and will
continue to be generous in making college education
available to all students, but increased student aid is not
the key to increasing black and minority enrollments.

Nor is the principal solution a more aggressive
recruiting effort by colleges and universities. I believe
‘most institutions are now doing a conscientious job of

_ recruiting. Increasingly, however, institutions-- and par-

ticularly the best institutions-- are aggressively competing
against each other for minority high school graduates
who have demonstrated, through grades and test scores,
the ablility to do college level work. For these students,
there are plenty of interested colleges.

The most serious underlying barrier to greater black
college enrollment is the need to enlarge the pool of black
‘students who have had the right preparation. This pool
has been limited because, too often, we have not provided
black students with the first-class academic elememtary

and secondary education they deserve. Indeed, in a way,
the overriding civil rights challenge for our time is this: to

ensure responsible, serious education reform of elemen-

tary and secondary education, to promote equal intellec-
tual opportuninty for all our young people.

Students, all students, learn best when they are offered
the best--clear standards of behavior, a curriculum that is
rich and challenging, and vigorous teaching. I have seen
this proved at extraordinary elementary and secondary
schools in disadvantaged communities across the country,
from Garfield High in Los Angeles, to Garrison Elemen-
tary in The Bronx. To offer students anything less is to

relegate them to second-class intellectual and academic
status. ; .

But, in addition to good teaching and a sound cur-

riculum, important structural reforms of the education
system are needed. Let me mention only four.
_ First, permit the alternative certification of teachers |
and principals. We have many excellent teachers and

principals, but we need more. We can attract them by
opening up the profession, by removing regulatory bar-
riers that exclude from the classroom all but those who
have been education majors in college. Governor Thomas
Kean has done this in New Jersey with great success-- and
with the unexpected benefit that alternative certification

has raised the number of minority teachers in New Jersey
significantly.

Second, demand accountability. Unfortunately, in

most localities today, there is a greater penalty for serving
up a single rotten hamburger then for providing a rotten
education to a class full of children. We must reward suc-
cess and penalize failure. Give principais the authority
and the quotonomy to get results; make their jobs con-
tingent upon success. Similarly, provide merit pay for
teachers. ; :

Third, insist upon assessment. We must devise more

_ and better ways to measure the performance of schools

and school districts. The Education Department has, for
example, proposed expansion of one improtant measure
of student performance, the National Assessment of
Educational Progress. Without clear assessment, increas-

- ed accountability is not possible.

Finally, increase choice. We need a system of public
education in which parents have greater flexibility to

select the schools that best suit their children. Plans that -

increase choice, such as the plan tried with great success

_ in Harlem’s District 4, introduce a healthy dose of com- —

petition and excellence into public education. The suc-
cesses of magnet schools, which draw students voluntarily
to unique curricula, are now widely recognized.

We have made great progress in civil rights in the last
two decades, yet we have reached an impasse from which
it is necessary to look beyond the traditional civil rights
agenda. To increase minority enrollments in higher
education, we must stop accepting excuses for educa-
tional failures in elementary and secondary education.
We should begin to act on what works. We should insist

on substantive education reform as the civil rights im-

perative of our time.

The writer is the U.S. Secretary of Education.


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[T PRESIDENT’S TASK FORCE
ON WOMEN’S SAFETY

The President’s Task Force on Women’s Safety has been actively
working for a decade to help insure the safe environment necessary for
work and study at the University. It provides a forum for discussion
and an initiating point for action on issues of women’s safety. The
Task Force seeks to identify and mitigate potential dangers, clarify the
campus community’s perceptions of women’s safety concerns, and
assure the availability of preventative measures, remedies and support
to anyone who finds herself in an unsafe circumstance.

The onaneiee vitality and usefulness of the Task Force depends
on the active participation of all segments of the campus community.
Our meetings are open to all interested persons, and we welcome stu-
dent representations. Meetings generally occur every third week during
the academic vear. The Fall, 1988 and Spring, 1989 meeting scnenie

is as follows:

Tuesday October 11, 1988 Tuesday , "FOB 2, 1989
Wednesday November 9, 1988 | Wednesday March 2, 1989
Thursday December 1,1988 | Thursday March 31, 1989
Monday January 4,1989 =f Friday ~ April 29, 1989

Meetings are held from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm in AD 253.
December 1 meeting will be held in CC caine

The President’s Task Force on Women’s Slee is also sponsoring workshops on personal
safety. If you are interested in participating in a personal safety workshop, gather together a

group of ten or mare people, and call the Affirmative Action Office at 442-5415 to make ar- Goteneeneasam
rangements. If you have fewer than ten people, call the Affirmative Action Office and they
will notify you of the next scheduled workshop.
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Academic group provides support for students inneed

By Bryan Sierra
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

To help alleviate the feeling of
impending doom students often
feel when they become completely
lost in a class, Academic Support
Services has recently implemented
tutoring services.

Academic Support Services is a
new organization designed to pro-
vide tutorial assistance and study
sessions for students having dif-
ficulty with classes, according to
‘independent tutoring supervisor

Jeff Horn. Two programs, study
sessions and independent tutor-
ing, are available, Horn said.
According to Horn, the
organization came about through
a meeting with Dean of
Undergraduate Studies Sung Bok
Kim and other faculty members.
Students signed up to be
facilitators for the study groups
during the registration period,
Horn said. This program offered
three credits to gradutate students
or upperclassmen undergraduates

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with a 3.25 grade point average.
Horn said facilitators for these

programs have already been

hired.
Tutoring services, as well as the
study groups, are available to

every student on or off campus.

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Horn said that lists of tutors for
every course in the University are
being compiled.

Horn explained that although
the study groups are offered free
of charge, the tutoree pays $6 an
hour for tutoring services. He

Political

filiation, Flynn said.

said that his office was looking
for a lot of tutors to work 10-12
hours a week, tutoring about four
to five people.

‘It’s an amazing opportuni-
ty,’’ Horn said, explaining that
although many other jobs don’t
pay well, this job is on-campus
and convenient.

Horn said that about 25
students were currently signed up
to tutor. ‘‘We need an awful lot
more,’’ he said, adding that they
were looking for about 100

Kaye, the only woman justice on
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Included among those invited ecutive Director of the Center for
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In the past, students had to put
up signs advertising for tutors or
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was a really haphazard way of do-
ing things. They had no way of
knowing how competent the tutor
was,”’ he said, adding ‘‘Now they
have a place to turn.”’

Tutors are registered, accor-
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should be confident in the course

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1988 (] ALBANY STUDENT PRESS 17

s. Africa

anybody who is perceived to be
opposed to this heinous policy.

There has always been.

vociferous and organised opposi-
tion to the process of colonisation
and now to white capitalist
dominance and control. This has
been met, in every instance, with
ferocious armed savagery. Just as
colonialist Europeans came into
the United States and massacred
the native Americans who op-
possed the wholesale colonialist
expropriation of their land, so
these same coloniasts massacred
African rsistance to European ex-
pansionism in South Africa. This
policy is being continued today.

The period from 1976 to 1988
has been characterised by the
South African Defense Force
waging war on the people of
South Africa. It was characterised
by the South African police being
mainly the enforcers of Apartheid
law and not the protectors of the
citizenry. It was characterised by
peaceful organised protest, grow-
ing stronger and stronger through
the building of strong organisa-
tions that articulated the demands
of ordinary voteless people;
Organisations like the United
Democratic Front, the Congress
of South African Trade Unions
and numerous others.

Now February 24, 1988 has
Seen the banning of 17 major na-
tional organisations in an attempt
to silence all organised and
Peaceful resistance.

The South African army is
reportedly the strongest army on
the African continent, and it is
this army that is waging war on
the unarmed and defenseless peo-
ple of South Africa. In addition
to this, they are waging war and

supporting subversion in Angola,
Mozambique, Namibia, and have
on numerous occasions violated
the sovereignty of and attacked
Botswana, Zimbabwe and
Swaziland. Clearly the advance of
racism and facism as practices by
the South African Apartheid
regime must be annihilated. It is
therefore a source of immense
frustration that the major sup-
porters of the South African
government are Reagan in the
USA, Thatcher in Britain, Kohl in
W. Germany, and Chirac in
France-leaders of four countries
who have apparently learned
nothing about the evil and
destructive nature of racism and
fascism, despite their very in-
timate encounters with Hitler and
the Nazis during the Second
World War.

Just as the people of South
Africa cannot be equated with the
government of South Africa,
South Africans do not equate the
citizens of the western countries
with their facist-supporting

governments. They are therefore |

asking that people do more than
just express moral outrage and be

horrified at Apartheid. There isa

dire need for countries to actively
and in practice oppose Apartheid.
There is a dire need for ordinary
people to force their political
representatives to take strong ac-
tion against the Apartheid regime
and anything short of total sanc-
tions will be seen as a compromise
with racism and fascism.

The Dellums bill to impose
Total Sanctions on South Africa
has already been passed in the
House of Representatives and is
to go on the floor before the
Senate within the immediate
future. Senator Ron Dellums
foresees an uphill battle in the

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proceeds going to the MS founda-
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At the end of the fundraising

the campus which

raises the most money for MS will

be featured in an on-campus pro-
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Albany turns the lights out on the Dutchmen

By Christopher Sciria

SPORTS EDITOR

The Great Danes must be vices that
they’ve played their last night game of the
season.

A blackout at University Field Saturday
night halted play for 20 minutes. A faulty
circuit breaker was the cause.

None of this affected Albany as they
beat Union 28-12, behind three Pat Ryder
touchdown runs.

The win raised Albany to 3-1 and drop-
ped Union to 1-3.

“‘They did a nice job, but we didn’t
make the big plays when we had to make

them,’’ Union Head Coach Al Bagnoli

said.

The tempo of the game was established
early in the first quarter. Union started the
game at their own 20. Horace Griffin rip-
ped off gains of 13 and 14 yards to set
Union up with a first down on their 47
yard line. After an incomplete pass and a
two yard Griffin run, the Dutchmen faced
a third and eight on their 49.

Union quarterback Brett Russ dropped — =
back and fired into the Albany zone. Dane.

defensive back Brad Acker picked the pass

off at the Albany 31 and brought it back

21 yards to the Union 48.

From there, Albany didn’t waste any
time in getting on the board. Ryder fired a
perfect strike to halfback Kevin Adams.
The pass play covered 31 yards and set up
Albany with a first and ten on the Union
17. ‘The other Albany halfback Steve
McNeil swept left and scored with only
12:32 left in the opening period. Tony
Chechile converted the P.A.T. to make it
Albany 7, Union 0.

The Danes took advantage of a 16 yard
Jason Krause punt and had a first down on
the Union 28. McNeil (four carries, 45
yards) swept left again, this time for 22
yards.

On first and goal from the six, Pete
Pedro (seven carries, 19 yards) went up the
middle for three yards. A Union personal
foul penalty moved the ball to the two.

Ackerman UPS

The Great Danes had to wait out a 25 minute blackout bejore defeating Union.

From there, Ryder (17 carries, 103 yards)

- went in for the Danes’ second touchdown.

_ Chechile again made the P.A.T. and it

was 14-0 Albany with 1:44 left in the first _

quarter.

Dominating the first quarter was impor-
tant for the Danes.

““You let them (Union) dominate the

_ first two series, then it’s another Western

Connecticut, R.P.I. game,’’ said Dane
Head Coach Bob Ford. oo

_ The Dane defense played another great
game as they didn’t allow a Union score
for the entire first half.

After an unsuccessful Union field goal

attempt, the Danes got the ball back with
9:18 left in the half.

Ryder kept the ball for a 41 yard gain to

the Union 39. From there, Albany moved

the ball to the Union 17. Facing a third and
one, Ryder went up the middle and scored

his second touchdown. Another Chechile
P.A.T. made it a shocking 21-0 Dane lead
with still half the second quarter
remaining.

_ Union finally got on the board with a 32
yard Krause field goal with 15 seconds left
in the quarter, to make it 21-3 Albany at
the haif.

Union had a second and eight with 11:52

left in the third, when the lights went out.

The players went to their sidelines and
could only wait until they came back on.

“*T wondered if the TV people had over-
charged the circuits (with their equip-
ment),”” said Ford. ‘‘Then I wondered,

‘what’s going to happen if the lights sit
come on?’”’ ;
It took until 9:12 p.m., but the lights
were back. Not that it helped the Dut-
chmen. They did get another field goalon

the series but still trailed by 15, 21-6 with |
8:15 left in the third.
Ryder scored his third touchdown, a one

yard run, with 13:25 left in the game. The .

score was set up by a 36 yard pass from
Ryder (5-11 for 91 yards passing) to
McNeil that gave Albany a first and goal
on the Union five.

That sealed up the game for the Danes.
Union did score one touchdown, a 14 yard
pass from Russ to Griffin with 5:22 left in
the game. The Dutchmen went for the two-
point conversion, but Russ was incomplete

On a pass attempt. That left it 28-12, the

final score.
Acker played the game of his life. He in-
tercepted 2 passes, recovered an onside

_ kick, broke up several passes and made

key tackles.

‘We expected them to come out throw-
ing,’’ Acker said. ‘‘We’re (the defense)
playing better each week.’’

Albany now has tied the series with
Union at two wins apiece. ‘‘There isn’t the |
intense feeling as when we play Ithaca or

Hofstra, but their (Union’s) freshmen,

sophomores and juniors will remember
this. They’ll be back,’’ Ford said.
The rivalry has started, with Albany
drawing first blood.
‘“‘We never capitalized on anything,”
Bagnoli said, ‘‘It was a frustrating game;
Albany made all the plays, when they had
to make them.”’ j
Union was hurt by the fact that Russ, a
freshman, started for Jim Poirer at
quarterback. Russ was 26-54 for 280
yards, but was intercepted three times.
**You’re gonna suffer when you playa
young q.b.,’’ Bagnoli said, ‘‘but mark my
words, he’s going to be a good one.”
Albany with their three game winning
streak travels to Fordham this Saturday to
face an undefeated Ram team. a

Dane men 'S tennis team routs Siena to even record

By Gregory Localio

Coach Bob Lewis and the
Albany men’s tennis team travel-
ed to Siena in Loudonville this
past Thursday evening and pro-
mptly greeted their respective
hosts with a 9-0 sweep. The vic-
tory evened up Albany’s overall
record to 4-4.0n the season. _

The shutout of Siena served as
a tune-up for two upcoming mat-
ches versus West Point and
R.P.I.; both of which promise to
be more challenging. First, the

Danes top two singles players,
sophomore captain Adam Cohen

and junior transfer David.

Lencewicz, remained behind to
practice with one another. Cohen
and Lencewicz also normally

team up to form the Danes top

doubles tandem.

‘Facing a relatively young and
inexperienced team like Siena,”’
Coach Lewis said, ‘‘enabled us to
work some new guys into the
lineup. They’re only going to get
better.”’

Great Dane volleyball

By Sandie Weitzman

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Barely two weeks into their
season, the Albany volleyball

team has already posted a record

of 15-1.

The team is presently ranked
first in the state and the Northeast
region (New York, Vermont, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts)
and is currently fourth in the
country in NCAA Division III.

‘<I thought we’d do well, but I
didn’t know how well we’d do,”’

said Coach Patrick Dwyer, “‘I

didn’t expect us to win as much as
we have.”’

Dwyer explained that this was
because this year’s team only in-
cludes two starters from last year.

_ “This year is a rebuilding year,”’

said Dwyer.

Starting this year are three
sophomores: Vanessa Docharty,
Susan Daly and Liz Smith,

juniors Laura Larock and Cap-

tain Jill Roos, and seniors Julie
Silberbush and _ transfer senior
and Captain Darby

-Ballschmeider.

“Darby and Jill are doing
fine,” said Dwyer. ‘‘Basically

their main roles are as leaders on
the court.”’

Leading the charge for the
Danes on Thursday were
freshman Dan Brahler and Bill

Demars, the sole senior on the

Albany roster. Brahler, who
played first singles, displayed
poise and persistance in his com-
eback victory over John Dobis of

Siena. He emerged victorious

after three sets by the scores of
4-6, 6-1, 7-6.

‘‘Brahler had many double
faults early on,’’ said Lewis, ‘‘but
he hit the ball well. I think the key

singles competition

to his victory was when he held
serve at 5-6 in the third. He just
wasn’t going to quit.’’

Senior netman Bill Demars

displayed similar tenacity in

disposing of his adversary Dan
Curry in two sets, 6-4, 6-3.

Other Great Dane winners in
included
junior Ruben Santos, 6-0, 6-2,
junior captain Dave Mohl, 6-3,
4-6, 6-0, junior Kahn Koseki, 6-3,
6-3, and sophomore David Lee,
6-3, 6-4.

The Danes cumulative 4-4 mark
thus far may not allot proper
praise to Lewis’ solid twelve man —
squad. Three of their four losses

have come against Division I

teams, including Central Connec-
ticut, who ended up winning the

ECAC Tournament. Binghamton
accounted for the Danes fourtt.
defeat, while on their way t0 a ~
victory in The Great Dane Classic
back in the made of se

team ranked fourth in the nation

This as has been ap-
parent as Albany has not lost a
final or semi-final game the entire
season.

In their opening esirnaisat.
the Great Dane Invita-
tional, they captured first
place for the third year in a row.

The Danes played against a six —

school field. After beating
Brockport 18-16, 15-12 in the
quarterfinals, they received a bye

and went on to beat Cortland

15-3, 17-15 in the finals.

The next tournament the
University of Rochester Invita-
tional, the Danes again downed

Brockport, this time in the semi-

finals, 15-1, 15-4. The finals were

against Rochester, where they
_ won 15-6, 15-6.

The Danes then tallied another
win after beating NCAA Division
I Siena 15-10, 15-4, 5-15, 15-1.

The team upped their record by
beating out a four team field to
win the Springfield Invitational in
Massachusetts last weekend.

““We jumped out to a large lead
in most of the games,’ said
Dwyer, ‘‘then they (the oppo-
nent) caught up and it was back
and forth.’’

‘‘There were a lot of casa

before anybody scored,” said
——s

The Danes opened by beating
St. Joseph’s in straight games
15-5, 15-4.

After going on to beat Division
II American International College
15-11, 12-15, 15-8, they met
Bryant: (also Division II) in the
semi-finals.

Because of the small amount of
teams, the semi- and final mat-
ches were played best out at five.