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Students to Cuomo: "FAX YOU" disperse and many people started
by Josh Gazes Campbell marched to the Javits
Lecture Center, where they leaving, other students began a
proceeded to march into Javits different chant, "we want to
By the end of the day, the
room 101, disrupting the class as register, we want to register," but
organizers of the rally to stop the
they stormed through shouting, this was quickly stifled by the
proposed SUNY tuition hike
'fight, fight, fight, education is our ralliers, "students united will never
estimated that there were well over
right." From there they went into be defeated."
three hundred students gathered Vice President for
inside the Administration building. the classroom across the hall where
the group gathered in front of the Student Affairs, Dr. Fred Preston
At 10:00 A.M. on Thur-
classroom. A student in the class said, "they'll get to register, " and
sday April 18, a dozen or more
screamed out that his class was added that he was concerned about
students gathered in front of
the state support for higher
Administration. After hanging up a being disrupted, and that the group
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sign on the front of the building that was preventing his education. One
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While occuppyiong the
read "Stop Tuition Hikes," they of the ralliers shouted back, "We're
Administration building, students
began marching in a circle holding saving your education!" When all
wrote letters to legislators, and
signs and chanting in protest to was settled down, Slepian spoke to
the class, informing them of signed what looked like the world's
Governer Cuomo's latest proposal
Cuomo's proposal, and inviting largest FAX, to be faxed to
to cut SUNY funding by 160
them to join the ralliers in protest. Governer Cuomo. The FAX in-
million dollars.
WALTER CHAVEZ cluded such comments as
The group began to The group continued on to other
"education is our right, and we will
attract attention, including that of rooms in Javits, with more students
an anchorman from channel 12 joining the group every step of the get our rights by any means
news. As the crowd started to grow way. Slepian continued to address office. "These people are Slepian offered these words about necessary," "no increase," "this is
assholes," said one student who was the day's events, "it is really total bullshit. Cutting TAP and C-
larger, Anita Elliot, vice president each group, with the cooperation of
for student affairs for SASU, and professors and usually that of the supposed to register, "do they really important students stay united and Step yet raising tuition. Don't you
Randy Campbell, USB's represen- students. In one class, a student think they are gonna make a take a stand against innacessible know a lot of people (esp.)
tative to SASU began addressing yelled out Ironically, "What are difference." education." For the most part minorities wont be able to go to
the crowd about Cuomo's proposed you doing, I'm trying to learn about Organizer Randy students were united, sitting down school. Kiss my mother fucking
economics." Campbell had a different outlook on the floor in Administration and ass! Mario." and "Mario, don't even
policy.
The budget cuts may At approximately twelve, on what was being done. "We must occupying the building for most of think of running for president."
cause a $500 tuition hike and a cut the now large group of protesters educate the students" he said. Dan the day. As the crowd began to
in TAP of up to $400 per person. marched back over to Admini-
SASU predicts, as well, that there stration, where they paraded around
will be course and program the building until eventually going
cancellations, larger classes, loss of into President Marburger's office
student services including health where a Public Safety officer was
Non-Violent Revolution
services and childcare, reduced already waiting. About 40 students By John Sealy philosophy and methodology of Dr. with Brenda Carter, who co-
library hours, unsafe campuses due continued such chants as "students King. Dr. King's method, ordinates educational efforts in
to less maintenance and cuts to united will never be defeated," but sometimes called "The Power of elementary schools, and Executive
Public Safety, and enrollment cuts. President Marburger never came Nonviolence," included six steps Director Thomas Cooper, both
Elliot proposed other resolutions to out of his room. From there the for nonviolent social change. agreed that Kingian nonviolence
the state's recession other than ralliers went to Staller center, and The first of Dr. King's methodology could be used in
cutting the SUNY budget, and then waited briefly as someone "six steps" was information Czechoslovakia, East Germany, the
making students responsible for the went to get more batteries for the gathering in order to understand Soviet Union, and now in the
state's economy. Middle income megaphones. It was then on to the and articulate the issue at hand. Persian Gulf.
New Yorkers have had their Union, where the group continued The next step was education, which Two Copiague Junior
personal income taxes rise by as to increase in numbers. They is essential to inform others about High School students, Nikenge
much as 20% from 1980-1988. On marched through the library, spoke your issue. Step three, personal Crowe and Rashida Craddock,
the other hand, New Yorkers who to students in the computer center, commitment, states that you must attended the USB seminar on April
earn more then $200,000 a year had and then went back to the front of be prepared to accept suffering 19 with teacher Ms. Valerie Tutt. It
a personal income tax cut of 26.5%. Administration to plan the next (including arrest) to further your was apparent that they were then
If these New Yorkers had their move. cause. The next step calls for equipped to return to Copiague with
taxes raised by 3% points, it would A little more then a "In 1959 ... non-violent negotiation; nonviolent communi- a wealth of information to share
produce 1 billion dollars. Another hundred students then went back to protests to end segregation swept cation does not seek to humiliate, with their peers.
solution would be to get rid of Javits and on to the Engineering the nation, as inspired by Dr. but rather to call forth the good in On a somber note,
corporate loopholes in New York's buildings, where classes and exams Martin Luther King, Jr. hundreds an opponent, using grace humor although not devastating, the April
corporate tax laws, to make big were interupted as the ralliers of thousands of people, young and and intelligence. Direct action is 23 issue of Newsday mentioned that
businessses pay 1.5 billion dollars continued to educate students and old, black and white, conducted sit- used to morally force the opponent after weeks of accusations of
in taxes. start more chants. A new song was ins, freedom marches, and freedom to work with you in resolving corruption and fraud at the state-
Elliot also updated the added to the groups repertoire, rides to achieve equal treatment for injustices. The final step is funded King institute, Gov. Cuomo
crowd on the 13 CUNY schools which was sung to the tune of the all people in restaurants, libraries, reconciliation. Nonviolence does was not willing to shut down the
where students shut down the Oscar Meyer commercial, "My hospitals, schools, and other public not seek to defeat the opponent but agency. The Governor established
administration buildings, and of baloney has a first name."- "My places." Last week Stony Brook's to seek his/her friendship and the agency in 1988 in the wake of
SUNY Purchase who has been governor has a first name, its M-A- Student Union was the site of the understanding. It is directed racial tensions surrounding black
successful in closing down admini- R-I-O, my governer has a second New York State Martin Luther against evil systems, forces, teenager Tawana Brawley's
stration. Elliot then told students name its C-U-O-M-O, we'd like to King, Jr. Institute For Nonviolence, policies, and acts, not against accusation that she was raped by a
about a letter to the Governor thal kick him out today, and if you ask hosted by The Long Island Black individual people. group of white men. With an
President Marburger signed us why we'll say: 'cause Cuomo Educators Association. Mahatma Gandhi helped annual budget of $1.5 million, and
requesting a tuition increase. went to school for free and now he Helen Brannon, Presi- break the power of British rule in in spite of Inspector General Joseph
Apparently, these words wants to raise our fee." dent of the Long Island chapter of India by appealing to the con- A. Spinelli's findings, Cuomo told
had their effect on students whc Students then marchec Black Educators coordinated the science of his oppressors. Martin reporters on the 22nd that the
became vocal, and one by one out into the loop where the busses workshop and emphasized that the Luther King studied these agency, "absolutely must stay in the
began addressing the crowd. Many take commuters to south P-lot. The program was for all youths, in an principles. budget" Further, he said, "It's an
students spoke of how they valued students stood in front of a bus and attempt to eradicate violence Amazing but credible, on idea that I'm not going to give up
their education but probably woulk prevented it from moving. From among them. Ms. Brannon men- August 1, 1988, Mario Cuomo of."
not be able to afford to come bacl there it was back to Administration tioned that the violence stemmed signed into law the Institute for Helen Brannon can be
to Stony Brook if tuition hikes are chanting all the way, until 40( from a change in society, and a Nonviolence. It received a broad contacted at 729 Wilson Blvd.,
imposed. A man who said he wa students shut down Administratior degeneration of the moral code. but precise mandate: "to develop Central Islip, 11722, Telephone
a representative of the communit) almost immediately after occupying The instructors concurred on the new techniques to promote non- (516) 234-1758, concerning
and its unions spoke as well, sayinj it. The windows of the Bursar's fact that violence has a historical, violent solutions for social con- information on conflict solutions
that the community supports the office and Student Accounts did no and not so much ethnic, precedent. flicts" and to do so by means of and access to a staff of qualified
students. take long to close. Other students They stated that violence is a "education information and training and experiencedprofessionals.
It was now 11:00 A.M who were trying to register at the philosophy of life. aimed at every resident of New
and the group of ralliers led b3 time became quite upset as the This introductory semi- York State."
Polity President Slepian ant ralliers closed down the Registrar': nar was transfused with the In a printed interview
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SUNY Stony Brook Chapter of

THE INSIDE S TORY Students United for a Responsible Budget

Dear Dr. Martburger:
While the targeting of your office may seem inappropriate, there are
by Lara Jacobson the phone calling Dr. Marburger no written guarantee that the group important reasons why the occupation of your office is important to us. We sincerely
immediately after the doors were will not face disciplinary action apologize for the inconvenience which these next two days will undoubtedly bring to
completely sealed. Marburger was when the emerge on Friday you and your staff, but we plead for your support and trst.
At approximately 7:50
yesterday morning a group of not at home, so the group morning. Although no word has Your office is a symbol of our cause. We do not want to hamper students
students stormed the doors of established communication with been received directly from and professors by stopping classes or further interrupting class registration and room
Fred Preston, VP for Student Marburger because he is in selection through the halting of all functions in the Administration Building or any other
President Marburger's office with building. After all, we are struggling for their right to an accessible and quality
the full intention to seize the rooms Affairs. The protesters urged Washington D.C., various education. However, it is crucial that our State's governmental leaders recognize the
for 48 hours in protest of the budget Preston to call off Public Safety administrators, such as Preston and seriousness of our demands and the catastrophic impacts of the currently proposed
cuts and the impending threat of officers, who were attempting to VP for Campus Services Harry SUNY budget cuts and tuition increases. We are acting in solidarity with students,
open the door. Literature was slid Snorek assured the group that both professors, staff, citizens, and unions statewide. We will not accept the proposed state
major SUNY tuition hikes. budget.
Immediately prior to this action the under the door to the officers on the the objectives of the demonstration
protestors requested that a reporter other side and they were asked to and the conduct of the protesters We trust you will listen to our demands and represent our goals as the top
wait for further orders from their are such that they seem willing to official of our university. In return, we ask that you trust us. We have planned our
from The Stony Brook Press action differently from some other schools in that we guarantee that we will not tamper
accompany the group to document supervisor. A detective was allow the action to run its 48 hour with anything for our own protection and that we will show respect for you property and
the events that would take place. It contacted and was also urged to call course without interference or the proerty of your office suite. We will hold ourselves responsible for our actions.
has also been requested that the off the officers for five minutes, pursuing disciplinary action.
wherein the order was carried out. At Stony Brook's Earth In this spirit, we request that you respect our struggle and not have us
names of individuals involved, the invaded, arrested or suspended. We hope that you see that our actions are not directed
number of the group, and certain Preston was again phoned Day celebration one of the group against you, but rather that they are for your benefit, as well as the benefit of your
security tactics not be released until and he assured the group that no appealed to the crowd via walkie- students.
after the protest. immediate eviction would ensue. talkie and bullhorn. This brought a
With respect and thanks,
The students gained entry He was then read a letter drafted by group of about 30 people to the
to the president's office while a the group to President Marburger. Fine Arts Loop in front of the
custodian was cleaning the suite. He was also read a draft of the Administration building at 2:30 pm
When the group entered they students' goals in taking the action,chanting and cheering in support of
respectfully, but hurriedly, as well as a list of rules that each the action. About one-half hour
requested that the cleaning lady individual in the group had agreed later baskets were lowered by rope GOALS of the SUNY Stony Brook Chapter of Students United
leave immediately. She became to abide by. Among these were from the windows of the occupied For a Responsible Budget
upset and pleaded with the students agreements that while in the offices offices and food was sent up to the
no one would steal anything, masked protesters. Provisions have Given that our occupation protest is limited to 48 hours, we can not truly
to leave as she was very much
been offered by various demand that our goals be met during that time. However, we stand in solidarity with
afraid that "they will think I left the tamper with any files, criticise or CUNY and SUNY protestors who are involved in indefinite occupations to pressur for
door open." The group assured her harass any administrator or PS adminstrators as well. their demands, and list our goals as follows:
that she was in "no way at fault," officers. The group made it very "We took this action
clear that their protest was to be because we felt it was essential that 1. No SUNY and CUNY budget cuts (subsequently, no faculty, graduate student TA's,
but that she had to leave "for her R.A.'s, GA.'s, Undergraduate TA.'s, or staff layoffs
own convenience." She was also peacefully conducted. The Stony Brook demonstrate its
told that the action was being taken protestors also had drafted letters solidarity with CUNY and SUNY 2. No tuition hike
to bring attention to issues that addressed to the students and students who have taken bolder
actions and are facing severe 3. No TAP or state-funded scholarship cuts and reintroduction of the Liberty
concern workers as well as faculty of the university and Public Scholarship Program
students. She was eventually Safty urging their support disciplinary measures and possible
directed to a stairwell inside the This literature plus other criminal charges for their courage," 4. No new fees, as promised by the SUNY Board of Trustees in December of
leaflets were slid under the door says the designated group leader. 1990
rooms and escorted out.
The protesters then continuously as a barrage of These students feel very 5. Greater student involvement in budgetary decisions at Stony Brook, including the
immediately began to barricade the questions came through. The group strongly that, "The budget cuts are hiring and firing of faculty, staff, and decisions regarding the future of academic
doors. Once everything was secure wished to speak only to student unacceptable" and have taken the programs
they hung banners outside the media before noon and only later President's office because "it 6. Progressive state tax reforms as proposed by the New York State Black and Puerto
office windows emblazoned with would speak to outside media. As belongs to the students ... this office Rican Legislative Caucus
slogans such as, "Why Pay More of press time the action is being is a symbol - it encompasses the
reported by The Press, USB entire university." "Education 7. Full amnesty from any punitive actions on the part of the college for all students
For Less?" and "They say cut back: involved in our cause and other peaceful protests that may subsequently occur.
We say fight back!" One was hung Weekly, Statesman, WUSB, should really be free," says one,
behind Marburger's desk: "Keep Newsday, WBAB, and CBS radio "but if this is impossible then at
SUNY Affordable and Accessible." to name a few. least make education affordable.
The group leader was on At present there has been This should make Albany listen."

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Charges Not Dropped

HSO Case Continues
by John Sealy only did the FDA policy cause the April 29 at 2:00 p.m. O'Bri en
April 1990 demonstration involving contended that his clients were ilot
(April 24) Attorney over 100,000 Haitians, Hispanics, involved in the second wave of
Henry O'Brien continues to exhibit Africans, and progressive whites, protests, and that the superceedled
his judiciary skills in the Haup- but that it has.also caused untold file apparently does not invol ve
pauge crimminal court where he turmoil in Haiti. It has been a Emmanuel and Philippe since their
provided character witnesses to detriment to careers, social lives, arrest was completed at that time.
Sonny Seraphin, tthe
introduce a history of nonviolence possible jobs, and has stigmatized
among Haitians and the two many people in Haiti and Africa. Haitian Vice Consulate to the U .S.
defendants in question. Emmanuel He went on to testify that being of was in the court room along w ith
Severe and Philipe Valbrune had Haitian descent his community about 40 HSO members. Profes sor
their cases heard before judge dissented against the charges Owens and Professor Cash btoth
Francel T. Bellinger after Judge against Emmanuel, and Philipe testified in defense of the accused,
Newman excused himself from the examining that the court should claiming that they were b(oth
case on the basis of impropriety examine the big picture. ambitious students of exempl;ary
after someone questioned him O'Brien told the court character, whose behavior vwas in the light of Public Safety's respectively starting this Sep-
concerning S.U.N.Y.'s Public that President Marburger was not considered to be beyond repro;ach inconsistent and inconclusive tember. Then according to the most
available to testify in court, because before the December 4 ral ly. testimony. Dan went on to say that recent GSO report, public safety
Safety.
The first witness, Franck of a prior engagement in Washing- Polity President Dan Slepian I ater the judiciary sentence included has been ordered to rreset them if
testified that both the studient
Laraque, Professor of literature and ton to address a session of congress hours of community service but the they are seen on university property
economics, testified that "this case on education. O'Brien called government and the GSO w ere university augmented the sentence during that period.
has a more far reaching effect than Albany twice to subpoena Mar- appalled by the verdict han(ded to a year and six months suspension
is apparent." He stated that not burger for a hearing scheduled for down by the student judiciary, e ven
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The Few Who Will Prosper

presentations-there's lots of helpful
information out there, volunteer for new
projects, embrace change, and keep faith in
yourself.
Some may ask what happened to
by Laura Rosenberger the state. Marburger said that of the Brook got right to the point of what we will the Career that was popular in the last 2
university's $500 million annual operating have to cope with. The lecture, "Career decades. A career involves putting your job
The Alumni Association organized budget only one-third of it comes from the Planning and Networking" was taken from before everything else in your life and joining
a day long series of events on April 13 state, hence the state school is a "state several books, magazine articles, and his so- the corporate culture -which entails fine hair
entitled, "Playing Out the Recession:, assisted institution." Marburger said that called bible - the Wall Street Journal. He cuts, Rolex watches, BMWs, and associating
Strategies for Success in the 1990's." presently the food service, dormitories, cautioned that most popular magazines are with executives. In return, you receive
That Saturday, about 200 SUNY hospital, and the student health service are all not helpful in coping and are merely silver company benefits and retirement pensions.
graduates and career people returned to USB. self supporting, and that one-half of the linings which confirm the decline. Actually, The fate of the career is mentioned in the
They appeared diligent and somewhat medical school is paid for by fees generated the recession itself is becoming a profitable book, The Death of The OrganizationMan.
optimistic as they listened to the lectures and by the hospital. The incubator for high-tech industry. He advises obtaining information Edelson went back in time to
conversed with the well-dressed educators companies, and the planned conference by networking - calling friends and attending explain the increased lay offs of workers -
during the breaks. center are expected to bring in cash to the job interviews in other parts of the country. blue collar workers in the 80's and now
Most of the people did not show up school, according to Marburger. The But networking means more than this. white-collar workers too. S. Zuboffs book,
for the continental breakfast which kicked off development of outpatient care services at the Edelson claimed that networking is the key to In The Age Of The Smart Machine (1988)
the day, but by 10:00 am the Harriman hospital is also seen as a potential revenue career advancement and business success, revealed that computers eliminated many
lecture hall was jam-packed. The raiser. today. The great corporations are becoming middle management positions and entire job
introduction was given by Sheldon Cohen, more loosely organized. According to the units. This led to J.M. Bardwick's book, The
Vice President of the Stony Brook Alumni At 10:20 everyone headed for book, The Age of Unreason, something Plateauing Trap (1988). About 99% of
Association. Then, President Marburger gave lectures. The lecture on "New Business called "shamrock" organizations are forming. employees don't achieve upper management
an account of what the university is doing to Opportunities in a Changing Economy" by Only one small, third part consists of full- positions, which creates complacency and
cope with the recession. He said the state's Gerrit Wolf contained a true story of a time members. Another growing part diminished self-esteem among workers. In
$6 billion budget gap left the university in a college freshman who produced IBM clones consists of part-time contractors, many of her book, she recommends shifting to jobs on
difficult position to solve some of the and now has earned $1 billion in revenues. whom are involved with "telecommuting" the same level which you enjoy more as a
institutions biggest problems, amongst them: You probably heard of his company, Del (organizing people by computer mail at means of renewing self-esteem - a
completing the medical school and hospital Computers. home). The third part is a subcontracting developmental view.
staffs, maintaining an extensive research A main point was that all of the business. Today, people from other areas of Edelson concluded with the 1991
program, and improving the quality of life on Fortune 500 companies got smaller in the business are coming together to work on book by A. Saltzman, Down Shifting. The
campus by physical improvements which he 1980's and 100,000 new businesses formed. projects. One person will be in 5 or 6 term, down shifting, describes a popular trend
says will attract high achieving high school However, I attended another of the three different networks. Networking allows the of leaving the fast track, rejecting
students. lectures offered in that time slot.... mobility necessary to cope with this changing promotions, and going from careers to less
The President's strategy for savings The lecture by Paul J. Edelson, economy. Edelson advises us to avoid tunnel competitive jobs, and looking for personal
includes gaining further independence from Dean of Continuing Education at Stony vision, get as big a picture as you you can, salvation outside of the workplace.
continued on page 5
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and large chunks of American real estate,

Lean and Mean Levine further limits their ability to offer cash.
Germany, formerly a large source
of capital, now has its own investment needs
as it develops the unified nation's economy.

Financial Reporter Says Recession's End Near The oil countries, too have diverted funds.
Kuwait is busy rebuilding the country after
the Gulf War and Saudi Arabia has become a
borrowing nation for the first time.
by Fletcher Johnson 81-82 recession. He said that lower Stumbling Blocks
inventories have been the norm lately as to Economic Growth Saving Opportunities
Veteran journalist Irving R. Levine conservative ordering patterns and the wide
said last week that the economy would soon use of computers will in turn increase the Although citing reasons for a quick Levine said a tax increase would
be "on the go," possibly by summer. The factory demand/production figures. recovery of the economy Levine recognized not help the economy in the long run. High
internationally renowned correspondent, The correspondent cited jobs as problems as well. 1,000 banks have failed in spending is what makes and moves the
called the "pioneer of economic reporting" another key difference in the two recessions, the last six years - Levine claimed this to be economy. Saying that 2/3 of all spending is
by Time magazine, was the keynote speaker and a factor in his prediction of a short lived significant but not overwhelming as there are consumer spending - the other third
at a tunafish and pasta salad luncheon which slump. According to Levine the first quarter 14,000 banks left. comprising government and business - it is
was part of a program devoted to recession of the 80's recession saw a 7.5% The $220 billion Federal Budget vs. crucial that people have money to spend.
survival techniques. unemployment rate which eventually grew to The $320 billion deficit is a major block to a High taxes would only limit available

ILECTURE 10.8%. The current rate is 5.3% and Levine

says it will not reach 7.5%.
Businesses in the past several years
have peeled layers of middle management
and trimmed personnel. This "lean and
low prime rate as the government must
compete with corporations and individuals to
borrow from a limited supply of money.
High flow of foreign capital helps
to keep interest rates down. Saying that
personal funds.
He advocated deactivating the
304,000 troops in Western Europe in light of
the relatively unnoticed dissolution of the
Warsaw Pact during the Persian Gulf War.
Drawing on more than 35 years of mean" attitude, says Levine will allow the relying on foreign capital of $100 billion a He said the savings would be 1/3 of defense
experience (he is currently Chief Economics economy to spring back in the near future. year is "imprudent if not immoral." Levine spending or $95 billion.
Correspondent for NBC, based in Levine said that the high inflation then retold a Jay Leno gag: If Japan bombed In conclusion, Levine said the
Washington D.C.) Levine gave reasons why of the previous recession and the low Pearl Harbor now they would collect home greatest step in dealing with the deficit would
he feels the current recession will be short purchasing power of people raised the owners insurance. be a limitation of terms for congress. He said
and investigated problems that must be faced Consumer Price Index. According to Levine, Not content with that he followed this would allow representatives to vote in
to boost the economy. He also offered ideas the low CPI is due to cheap oil - a result of with this anecdote: A teacher asks her class to accordance with the general welfare of the
on how the government could save money the disarray of the Organization of Petroleum identify the quote, "Don't ask what your country in order to placate a particular
including dismantling American troops based Exporting Countries. country can do for you, but rather, what you constituency as representatives scratch each
in Europe and plugging a proposed limit on The reporter labelled the current can do for your country." After no one in the other's backs for votes.
the terms of congressmen. woes a credit induced recession A hopeful class responded a Japanese boy said, Mr. Levine's address consisted of
Levine defined a recession as a sign, says Levine, is that federal regulators "President Kennedy 1960." The teacher an analysis of the national economy. A
decline in economic indicators for two are now telling the gun-shy, S and L - scolds the class for being unable to compete professor at the Harriman School of Public
consecutive quarters. He then compared the shocked banks to loosen their grips on cash with foreigners in knowledge of their own Policy and Management predicted the local
16 month recession of 1981-82 to the current and allow it to flow into the economy. history. When someone shouts: "To hell with economy will languish two to three times
economic situation. He said, "there is reason Most importantly, says Levine, the Japs," the teacher says, "Who said that?" longer than the national recession. He
for optimism" and that the recession would high interst rates starved the economy of the One boy responds, "Harry S. Truman, 1942." attributes this to the particular problems of
be brief due to several key differences. 80's, the Federal Reserve pushed the prime "Morality" aside, Levine said that the region such as the crash on Wall St.,
rate up to 21.5% to combat inflation. The foreign capital is being diverted. Japan is inaccurately overvalued real estate in the 80's.
Why the current recession current recession began with the prime at becoming more of a consumer society. The source claimed the decreases in defense
will be short 12% and has now reached 9%. Levine Spending more entails saving less therefore spending have also left Long Island in
predicted the rate would continue to decrease. these funds are no longer available to the U.S. difficult economic times.
Levine said that overstocked Major Japanese purchases, such as
inventories wallowed on the shelves during Rockefeller Plaza, MCA/Columbia Pictures

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His closing statement was "Depend commuting expenses. He spoke of Helen
more on yourself. There is no more 'golden Toppler's book, Power in the New Economy,
parachute'". which noted a convergence of the 3 variables
The next series of lectures included - information, money, and powe r- behind
Whose Name Is It?
"Will your house be your home in the 90's." computer electronics. Also, computers are by MJXII
The main point was that real estate useful tools in networking.
investment on Long Island is not the best way The last lecture "Leaving New
If you've been confused about which came first, the chicken or the egg, you
to go unless you have a long term York Behind" was like a vacation. It was might try solving a new campus twist to this age old puzzle. On April 8 Statesman ran a
committment. Instant profits are not being humorous, turneing ito a travel guide of the new column "USB Weekly-Calendar of Events." This was a half page feature that the
made. Affordable housing is becoming more main tourist attractions of each region. Statesman says will run every Monday. Last week former staff members of the
of a possibility. It is definitely a buyer's Tucson, Arizona was portrayed as
the major cultural center of Arizona - famous Statesman successfully published a new campus newspaper, called -you guessed it- "USB
market. Although the speakers (Brokers Weekly."
Arnold Petz and Diane Sullivan Orens) said for its University, bird-watching, arts, and Well whose name is it? Is it rightfully Statesman's, whose own portly Charlene
that the current slump in the market is no violent thunderstorms. Miami is growing Scala says was obtained through the Statesman's gimmicky "Name the Paper" contest?
more than a typical dip in a regular ten year because of travel and tourism. The whole Or was it originally Otto Strong and his staff who "wanted a name that showed two
cycle, one man in attendance questioned that country is showing decline, but the Mid-West
things, where the paper was from, and that it wanted to be a weekly..."?
interpretation, claiming that Long Island real and agricultural areas were not hit as badly. I You might ask "Well, if Statesman printed it first, it must rightfully belong to
estate is deteriorating due to increased taxes learned that entry level jobs are easiest to Statesman, right?" That's where it gets complicated. (If there were no eggs to hatch
for less services provided and that the Island obtain in th South-Eastern U.S. Some wanted
information on particular jobs in the regions. chickens, how could there be chickens to lay eggs?) Evidently after the succession of
just does not have what originally attracted several of the Statesman's editors due to allegations of embezzlement by the present
peopleto the area. They were advised to look up the Economic
editorial staff, unethical conduct, and the fact that several of the staff wanted a more
Edelson mentioned that career Development Agency, Chamber of
subscribe to local ethical atmosphere to work, a group of these set into motion the mechanisms needed to
shifts have proven more successful than Commerce, or start an alternative paper. Some of these included "rate cards," documents which quote
entering completely new careers. newspapers. But, it is best to connect with
advertising rates to prospective advertisers, printed way before April 8, and including the
Everyone returned to Harriman people in the area through clubs, fraternities, "USB Weekly" logo. Then Otto Strong visited several journalism classes where he asked
Hall for the remaining 3 lectures. "Living and sororities, because of the 3 month lag in for student writers to work for the fledgling journal. Some of the Statesman's editorial
with Less" by Gerrit Wolf began with people the media coverage of economic events. board attended these classes, and were privy to the information prior to April 8. Then
in the room listing ways they have saved Around 4:00 the event culminated
in a wine and cheese reception. Strong and staff applied to Polity for recognition and got the go ahead for this new
money. He mentioned the Price Club, buying
newspaper.
food in bulk, thrift shops, and telecommuting So whose name is it???
Only time will tell, but already the rumors are flying as each side pledges to
Lym Johnson, Career Development and Training Specialit at Stony Brook,
gave some tipe on resume writing and interviewing: resolve the matter, if necessary with legal action. Miss Scala put it quite gracefully when
she said she "feels that the campus community would benefit greatly from a quality
On the resume:
* Put most qualifying and relevant information first. publication...I wish Otto the best of luck..."
* Don't waste space with detailed references.
(make references available upon request)
* Dont be too wordy. Instead use powerful action-oriented words.
* Omit age & marital status.
* Add a customized hand-signed cover letter.

Interviewing tips:
" Research the job beforehand so you know what transferrable skills are applicable.
*r Weekly
CAENAROFVET
" "You control the content ofthe interview; dont volunteer negative information."
e "ffyou were fired from a previous position, respond: "There was a mutual breakdown of communication."
* If the interviewers question makes you uncomfortable, offer to return it in a momment.
* Maintain eye contact when the employer talks to you. Don't forget to send a thank you letter.

Gerrit Wolf, Dean of the Harimmn School for Management and Policy at Stony Brook
provided the results ofa survey of the people who attended the program; out of 129 respondees:

*76% are working now.

* 64% were more optimistic than pessimistic about the industry they are working in.
* 40% were more optimistic than pessimistic about their own careers.
MAlW Weekly
* 59% were thinking of changing jobs.
* 53% were thinking of changing careers.
* 40 were male, 70 were female and 19 didn't know.

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Ceremony Recognizes Teaching, Student Excellence
Editor Honored for Success of The Press
by Lan Wo In the rah-rah department,
Michelle Pipia was congratulated University Association Awards hlfse tate Intuersitt of New jork
The program and the for making us all feel good in John Liuzzo Shawn Moltin
award certificates at last week's chairing "Hands Across Campus"
Michelle Stephens at *trug Srok
ceremony honoring undergraduate and the "Support the Troops" Martin Buskin Memorial Award
and teaching excellence were not rally. Otto Strong Cttfitatt of Exrtltrct
sporting the new USB logo (the tree Robert Serratore was Babak Movahedi Senior to
of knowledge) but there was a recognized for his abilities in Leadership Award
forest on the stage; dozens of trees, lacrosse. Ranked as one of the best Angela Tu
plants and flowers. goalies in the country, he was
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Undergraduate Entrepreneurial for
named Most Valuable Player for Achievement Award

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IAWARDS
the past two years. Ben Katz
Glenn Soberman was
Alumni Association Awards
nominated for his research
expertise. He is currently working Elizabeth Couey Alumni
in!

on the equation of state of matter at Association Award ,^^/yA^^ jii^

Vice President supernuclear densities. Alyson Gill
for
Student Affairs Fred Preston and Erenisse Tavarez was Ashley Schiff Alumni
David Pomeranz, Acting Vice lauded for promoting cultural Association Award
Provost for Undergaraduate Studies awareness at Stony Brook. Alan Fritzhand
presented nearly 100 awards Lara Jacobson, Executive
Senior Scholar
honoring undergraduate achieve- Editor of The Stony Brook Press, Athlete of the Year
ment in athletics, academics, was said to be instrumental to the Roger Rospar Laura LaRock
Hisham Awad Kaye A. Gordon Scott Kuduk Monica Petrizzi Daniel Slepian
research, journalism, and leader- sucess of The Press this year. She Football Volleyball Keith Babich Wiliam Laura LaRock Craig Petry Lorale Smart
Dino Basso Greenberg Glenda LaSalle Michelle Pipia Glenn Soberman
ship. recruited and trained a student staff Daniel Beckels Consuelo Gross RusseNl Lawrence Lemont Platt Janine St. John
Freshman Essay Peter Bernstein Susan Hart
Winners included and put the paper's production and Joan B. Levine Sara Proctor Michelle Stephens
Contest Winners Arthur Bozza Jeffrey Hartge Scott Levine Meegan Pyle Otto Strong
Michele Stephens, President of the financial needs in order. Michael Giacalone Brett Freese Kathleen Stephen Hayn George ULiakeas Paul Recchia Erenisse Tavarez
David Spinelli Browngardt Christine Ca LoBue Stephanie Marie Turchiano
Sigma Beta Honor Society and a President Marburger Hermann Beverly Longo Rothman Michele Turchiano
member of the Phi Beta Kappa presented his Awards For Creative Writing Awards
Dorothy Butler Yuming Lu Jennifer Van Sleet
Troy Caitahan Seth Hopkins Vincent Lupo Naala Royale Julia Vecchio
Honor Society, the English major Excellence in Teaching to Jonathan Prose Essay Essay Alejandra Castillo Heung Hui Hania Majzoub David Ryals David Vikas
Joann KIrkland Agnes Chen Lara Jacobson Wallace Marshall Adam Sah Sinisia Vukic
held down a 3.97 G.P.A. Levy (Dept. of Theatre Arts), Sukhang Chin David Joachim Steven McCabe Alan Saporta Michael Walsh
Michael Schwartz' Harvard Lyman (Cellular and 1990 Ureca Awards Cary Chu FrancisKatsar Gladys McMsh Martin Schwartz Joyce Warner
Luis Cifuentes Mark Anthony Doreen Mensah Marzya Sdrewsld Debra Whittemore
nominator called the returning Developmental Biology Program), Karen Lutzer Kevin Cordes Knight Shawn Mollin Arun Seraphin Lee Wiedl
GlennSoberman Karen Correia Michelle Myer Robert Serratore
student, "a role model for the and Michael Zweig (Dept. of Cosette Witty
Maxine Douglas Darlene Valerie Palmer Donna Shapiro Penny Wong
class." Economics). Curtis Francis Kozlakwski Peter Parides Henry Shaw

Asian Stereotypes Dispelled

by Josh Gazes case. The recent conflicts between attributed to genetics instead of
Democracy In Action
Korean grocery store owners, and work ethic. The predjudice that
Internationally acclaimed the Afro-Americans in their Asian-Americans experience, is by Dave Suarez
author and educator Dr. Albert H. neighborhoods, represent a division represented by recent "Japan
Yee began his lecture on "Asian of the minorities, not a unification. bashing," as well as the The University Democrats of Stony Brook held
Stereotypes and Identity" by stating Dr. Yee demonstated the imprisonment of Japanese- elections for club officers on April 10th. The results were:
that he was pleased with the identity problem by relating how Americans during World War II. Darren Thomsen-President, Dave Suarez-Senior Vice-President,
involvement of students and student different Asian-Ameriscans classify German and Italian Americans Lisa Hornfleck-Junior Vice-President, Chris Caro-Secretary,
organizations in this program, themselves. In the 1980 census, were not imprisoned. Dr. Yee Rosa Abbate-Treasurer, and Michael Marino-Sargeant-At-Arms.
because it represented how college many Japanese did not write that suggests that part of this animosity Professor Wishnia, chairwoman of the Women's History
campuses promote understanding they were Japanese, but "Japanese- may be caused by envy. Department is the club adviser.
and appreciation of cultures Americans." Similiarly, Asians in The success of Asian- The club will be meeting every Wednesday at 12:30
different then their own. Oakland, California referred to Americans, which has caused many p.m. in the Student Union on the second floor. The room
Dr. Yee addressed a themselves as "Whellows," major universities to adopt location may vary from week to week. Upcoming guests will be
mostly Asian and Asian-American meaning white and yellow. When nicknames (UCLA - Caucasions Richard Blakeslee, Democratic candidate for supervisor in
audience, that represented such one student in the audience referred lost among Asians, and MIT - Brookhaven (4/24), Craig Segal, NYPIRG Coordinator at Stony
countries as Tawain, Mainland to Caucasion-Americans as Made in Tawaiin), can be attributed Brook (5/1), and Mark Grossman, President of the Suffolk
China, the Phillipines, and Korea. Americans, Dr. Yee made the point to what Dr. Yee calls the "Stepping County Young Democrats (5/8). Also in attendance on May 8
The crowd looked small, seated in that this was a misconception. Stone Syndrome." It is founded on will be Stony Brook Internship Coordinator Debbie Swoboda
the Student Union Auditorium, but "Asians are often perceived as the principle that there is "no who will discuss how students can intern in political campaigns
was actually a large turnout that strangers, sojourners, even though substitute for family relations, for college credit.
included Dr. Fred Preston, Vice many of us have lived here all our which maintais culture." This fall the University Democrats will be involved in
President for Student Affairs. After lives." Dr. Yee went on to say, According to Dr. Yee, this ideology the Brookhaven Supervisors and Suffolk County Executive's
introducing Dr. Yee, Dr. Preston that he is often asked, how he is comes from the Chinese people's race, as well as the Fifth Legislative District. The club also plans
returned to his seat, where he able to speak English so well. This dissassociation with their on addressing issues on and off the campus pertinent to students.
promptly fell asleep. point not only represents the government. The hostile Club meetings and membership are open to all interested parties.
The rest of the audience, problem of identity, but the positive relationship between the Chinese For more information, contact Darren at 979-8458.
however, attentively listened to the and negative stereotypes that are people and their government, which
soft-spoken Dr. Yee, who discussed attributed to Asian-Americans, who has always been a dictatorship
his latest book, A People Misruled, are just as American as anyone (recently masked by communism),
his "Stepping Stone" theory, and living in this country. makes for a family oriented ar.-
the question of identity. "Asians have helped to clannish society. If one were to
Identity, according to Dr.
Yee, compromises basic questions
that everyone asks themselves from
build a better America," said
Dr.Yee, "especially in fields
demanding education, ingenuity,
compare Chinese heroes to that of
other societies, they would see that
the Chinese always martyr those
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"Who am I?" Dr. Yee paralleled characteristics often expressed by government. In addition, respect is
the Asian-American's problem with Asians, and recognized as so by all always given to family elders. TAKING PHONE ORDERS
identity to that of Malcolm X, and Americans, do not always lead to During his lecture, Dr.
hoped that Asian-Americans could such positive stereotypes. Yee hopefully joked, that Stony
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empathize with struggles of Afro- Amittedly. Asian-Americans are Brook would be the stepping stone
Americans and other traditionally often referred to as "Whiz-Kids" for better future relations amongst
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Support Our Troops Executive Editor
Lara Jacobson
Early Wednesday morning never been a friend to SUNY and Recently the U.S. govern- Managing Editor
a group of courageous activists likes to take our money to build ment revised its immigration Joe Distefano
took over President Jack prisons. This seems to be the policy to make it easier for Associate Editor
Marburger's office to protest the only thing that the state legislators educated people to enter the Walter Schneider
impending tuition hikes and the and Cuomo can agree on. The country. At the same time they Business Manager
newly approved cuts to education. real trickling down of Reagan- are making it harder for people to Michelle Fleck
These people are putting omics is causing the federal go to college and pursue a higher
themselves on the line and are budget deficit and passing it down education. As the marketplace News Editor
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cause; that cause being access to creating a shrinkage in services to for higher education is greater. Arts Editor
higher education. The impact of Eric Penzer
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these hikes and cuts will hurt Reagan himself says in his recent right now than ever before. Photo Editor
people of modest means, as well autobiography, that his "biggest Investing in higher education is an Greg Forte
as those who will be paying more disappointment" was failing to cut investment in the people. Production Manager
for less, hitting the traditionally federal spending and balance the The U.S. government just Rick Teng
underrepresented groups on budget: "I just didn't deliver as spent $130 million defending Minister Sans Portfolio
campus hardest. The activists much to the people as I'd monarchies and justifying future Fletcher Johnson
who took over Marburger's office promised." increases in defense spending. STAFF
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I I· I , - -- - - _ _ · LETTERS
Luck of The opposition to the further de facto
"confessionalization" of the constitution.
When Eamon DeValera, hero of the
gang (otherwise known as the Irish
Republican Army) should be granted political
asylum in the USA. And I deliberately use
votes in Northern Ireland. There is very little
support in Ireland for political asylum for
I.R.A. escapees in this country. They are
Irish (?) I.R.A. struggle of 1916 and 1918-21, and
archnationalist premier of the 1930's, was
making his draft of the new constitution, he
"terrorist gang" rather than "liberation force"
here because I believe the latter term belongs
outlaws in the Republic as well as in the U.K.
5. I don't recognize "Charlie Peirce" from the
to armed groups who've proven, over some Easter Rising of 1916. Could it be Patrick
To The Editor: worked closely with a priest who would soon length of time, that they have majority Pearse to which you allude, the romantic poet
I was pleasantly surprised to see become Archbishop of Dublin. This support from their respective populations and and death-cultist, who declared himself
monseignor sent the final draft of the new do represent majority will in some country or President of the Irish Republic in that
Robert V. Gilheany's "Irish Eyes" (Stony
constitution, he worked closely with a priest territory which could constitute a state. glorious self-immolation of 75 years ago?
Brook Press, March 22) under "Women in
who would soon become Archbishop of Typically, where there is an alleged national Before Irish-Americans expend too
Politics," because it began with a tribute to
Dublin. This monseignor sent the final draft liberation struggle conditions of "normal" much energy on moaning about Catholic
the new Irish President, Mary Robinson,
to the Pope for review before Premier democracy (free press, free assembly, freely grievance (even the legitimate ones) in
someone I've admired for years, and spent a
DeValera showed it to his cabinet! The irish contested elections where the legally-defined Northern Ireland they should thank God
day with on her last visit to New York.
constitution does specify women's primary winners occupy the offices in question rather they're not black in Britain. The New York
Mr. Gilheany laments that the
(not exclusive) roles as wife, homemaker and than jail cells) do not prevail. British Ulster Times has recently reported that the
library carries no Irish papers. I too regret
mother. All Northern Ireland members of the is one of the rare examples where basic (but maximum fine in mainland Britain for racial
this, for his sake, because his article - which
british parliament, by the way, opposed the far from perfect) democratic procedures do discrimination in employment is $17,000.
shows "good instincts" - contains a number of
extension of the liberal english abortion law prevail in the midst of on- going, if low level, But in Northern Ireland the maximum penalty
errors and a political assumption.
to their part of the United Kingdom. terrorist insurgency. for discrimination against Catholics in
1. Mrs. Robinson has never spoken of a
Abortion is legally possible in Northern This current terror campaign began employment is $60,000. Old Mother
"woman's right to abortion," nor, I believe,
Ireland - but difficult. in 1971, just as the militant and obstreperous England seems to love some of her "colonial"
has she ever publicly advocated liberalization
2. Charles Haughey is still (unfortunately) (but not with guns and bombs) civil rights children more than others.
in the absolute ban on abortion in the Irish
head of government, he never was president. movement was winning it (our!) goal in law. As to Mr. Gilheany's celebration of
Republic. Her enemies have claimed that she
So Mary Robinson is a sort of queen for And advances - uneven, to be sure - have irish paganism: I can introduce him to an
is for abortion, and a member of parliament
seven years with only slightly more political continued to be made even in the face of the Orange Lodge Master in Ireland who's "into"
asserted that, if elected, she would turn the independence than Her Majesty of the U.K. I.R.A. terror - and limited, if hideous, celtic paganism too. Last summer I filmed a
presidential palace into an abortion advice
It is possible that parliament has followed Protestant counter-terrorism. Not only have pre-Christian pilgrimage site in County
center. Very few leftists or progressives in
European "orders," as Mrs. Robinson urged, the I.R.A.'s political allies, Sinn Fein party, Donegal (Ulster) which has been visited for
Ireland publicly argue for abortion choice; and decriminalized homosexuality but it failed to win a majority in Northern Ireland, over 2,000 years by people seeking cures and
Irish women who are determined to have could only have been within the last few where minimally, 60% of the people see yet has never been "covered" with Christian
abortions try to get to "imperialist" England.) weeks and, if so, I certainly missed the news. themselves as british, but Sinn Fein has fallen myth or Christian architecture/appurtenances
What she did oppose was the constitutional
3. Yes, Cardinal O'Connor was visibly cool to under 3% of first preference votes in the 96% as have other pagan holy places. The people
amendment (it passed, circa 1982) enscribing
the mayor. I saw the scene. But His Catholic Republic (they never topped 10% who frequent this holy well see themselves as
the Roman Catholic doctrine of embryology
Eminence was standing on the steps of his over 20 years) and, worse still, they have pious Catholics, but the site may be unique in
in the constitution. Her opposition, like that cathedral (not sitting) when he "greeted" His never won majority support among the 40% remaining "of the people" and not taken over
of the Protestant churches (less than 2% of
Honor. of the Ulster nationalist people whose by the church.
the population, none of which countenance
abortion) was on antisectarian grounds, i.e.,
4. Your correspondent never explains why in champions they claim to be. Indeed, they Robert St-Cyr
the world a self-confessed killer in a terrorist have never topped 13% of first preference continued on page 10
April 25, 1991 page 7
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Recreating The Elite Universit
are attending our nation's schools. These conditions have
Tuition hikes and funding cuts * By Dinesh D'Souza: "The Visigoths in Tweed," in the
April 1st issue of Forbes. The author is a "research fellow" prompted some schools to adopt rules which are intended to
are key components of a from the American Enterprise Institute. The subtitle of his discourage hate crimes and protect the dignity of campus
minorities. There can be no doubt that the attempts to paint
dangerous reactionary movement article reads: "A new barbarism -- dogmatic, intolerant and
repressive -- has descended on America's institutions of such moves as deliberate attacks on freedoms of expression
sweeping through America's higher learner. We who pay the bills ignore the outrages and are in reality nothing more than cynical attempts to
subsidize those who would do us in." manipulate public opinion. The success of this campaign has
colleges and universities... been remarkable. Within the last month, Representative
* By Dinesh D'Souza (again): "Illiberal Education," in the Henry Hyde of Illinois, a conservative Republican, has
By Fred Mayer March issue of The Atlantic Monthly. In this article the author introduced a bill in Congress designed to discourage private
targets a long list of university professors, attempting to smear colleges from disciplining students "solely on the basis of
American students have a great deal to worry about these their reputations by characterizing them as flaming radicals conduct that is speech or other communication."
days. If it isn't desert warfare, then it's the prospect of losing left over from the late '60's and early 70's. In one paragraph The real attack on free expression is being carried out by the
access to the most fundamental resources required in order to he writes that "These academics are the bellwethers of the neoconservatives themselves. The primary target of their
obtain a decent level of education. The escalating struggles victims' revolution. Already their influence is in many places assault is a huge, multifarious body of intellectual creations
now unfolding on numerous campuses in the state of New dominant; soon they will displace the old guard. As it is, which the neocons refer to using the term "multiculturalism."
York have to a large extent taken on the characteristics of senior members of the humanities and social-science faculties Fred Siegel defines multiculturalism as "a useful shorthand
purely economic conflicts. Simply put, Governor Cuomo and frequently acquiesce in the changes..." for the new orthodoxy." He seems to feel that the classical
his crew in Albany are trying to hack off the bottom rungs of white male traditions are not being fairly treated by feminists,
an educational ladder which until now has provided the only * By William A. Henry III, with reporting by Anne deconstructionists, and 20th century philosophers such as
available route away from second class citizenship for Marcuse and Michel Foucault (for whom particularly
Hopkins and Daniel S. Levy: "Upside Down in the Groves Herbert
millions of financially disadvantaged sisters and brothers. pointed criticism is reserved). For neoconservatives, any
of Academe," in the April 1st issue of Time magazine. Once
After years of mismanagement that have led to crippling thinker who dares to question the hegemony of the classical
again, the author smears numerous academics, and then asks
deficits for our state, we are finally discovering that Cuomo's
the question: "Why are Western cultural and social values so tradition which begins in the slave holding city of Athens and
ultimate goal is to protect the interests of the richest New of Chicago) is guilty
out of favor in the classroom when so much of the rest of the ends at Yale (or perhaps the University
Yorkers, who in effect make up his true constituency. of excess, radicalism, and counterculturalism - in short,
world has moved, during the past couple of years, to embrace
Supporting this conclusion is quite easy, as was proven by multiculturalism. It should-be noted that what is now referred
them?"
State Senator Franz Leichter (from Upper Manhattan) in a to as multiculturalism used be called "relativism" by the
report issued by his office on April 16. The statistics of all neocons himself, Allan Bloom, whose
* By Michael Kelly: "The Derisory Tower," in the Feb. 18 grand-daddy
presented in this report are staggering. The devastating 1986 book The Closing of the American Mind is by now
economic violence inflicted on New York's poorest during the issue of The New Republic. This piece introduces an entire almost biblical in its stature and influence within the
last decade involves sharp declines in income along with issue devoted to the task of reclaiming the glorious past. The
neoconservative community, and in the country at large.
snlhctantial tax hikes. Not nsurriinplv_ the author informs us that '"Multiculturalism' turns out, then, to
richest New Yorkers fared far better. I , Brown Shirts For The '90s - The
During the period 1980-1988, while the National Association Of Scholars
poorest fifth of New York's wage earners
experienced a 45% decrease in income,
"T e m ost popular weapon among Sthese
h
In November of 1988, a group of 300
the wealthiest fifth experienced a 40% Writers is The Big Lie Technique, c Sr BLT.
;
American scholars gathered at the
increase. Sceptics might argue that local sion Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to hold the
governments cannot protect individual Users c}f this method achieve persua ion y first formal meeting of an organization
states from the effects of national
i n g to defend that which in reality is which calls itself the "National Association
economic downturns. Yet when one looks c lai m of Scholars," or NAS. Anyone who doubts
at changes in local tax policies, which are
under the control of local governments,
being talrgeted for destruction." that neoconservatives are waging an
organized war against progressive
and ought to reflect some small sense of intellectuals should consider the words of
economic justice, this argument falls Alan C. Kors, a professor of history from
away. In New York State, the top income tax rates have the University of Pennsylvania, who at that meeting
fallen by more than 50% in the last decade. be neither multi nor cultural. In practice, its objective is a
One can only marvel at the abilities of Cuomo's media unanimity of thought on campus that, if successful, would exclaimed to his eager audience: "The barbarians are in our
advisers, who have somehow perpetrated the notion that our effectively end open exchange -- exchange that would have to midst! We need to fight them a good long time. Show them
Governor cares for anyone but the rich. Recall Cuomo's include the alleged representatives of patriarchy -- and reduce you are not afraid, they crumble." (See The New York Times,
the nuances of culture to the determinants of race." Other Nov. 11, 1988, page A22, "Scholars Attack Campus
recent visit to Stony Brook, and the cheers which greeted his
arrival! How deluded can students be? Let's face reality. articles in the same issue include: Fred Siegel - "The Cult of "Radicals"') At the same meeting, Dr. Stephen H. Balch from
Governor Cuomo has deceived this state. Senator Leichter Multiculturalism;" Irving Howe - 'The Value of the Canon;" Princeton, who serves as the NAS president and executive
and Dinesh D'Souza (again) - "Sins of Admission." director, stated that the organization would try "to redeem
has aptly pointed out that in 1989 Cuomo said: "I don't American higher education from intellectual and moral
believe you should raise revenues on a taxicab driver or a
These citations provide a tiny sample of the rhetorical servitude to forces having little to do with the life of the mind
struggling schoolteacher. You should tax the wealthiest
people... Tax only the top, the people over $20,000." (The tactics currently being implemented by neoconservatives in or the transmission of knowledge."
the mainstream press. The most popular weapon among these The NAS is now very well funded and drawing new
Buffalo News, Oct. 25, 1989.) Yet when a proposal to do just members from faculties all across the country along with
writers is the Big Lie Technique, or BLT. Users of this
that was put forth in the State Senate last November, Cuomo
method achieve persuasion by claiming to defend that which ever-increasing public recognition. The NAS produces a
promptly rejected the plan, promising a veto. Similar plans
in reality is being targeted for destruction. The most classic journal called "Academic Questions" (published by the
proposed since then have all met the same fate. Cuomo has
example of the BLT can be found in the history of the Nazi TransactionPeriodicals Consortium at Rutgers University)
_ provided us with an excellent example of the Big Lie
party's rise to power in Germany during the early 1930's. which contains regular updates from the neoconservative
Technique, which I will discuss further.
Hitler's propaganda stressed that his party was the "true" frontlines. And there is more. An NAS "Research Center"
socialist party (hence the name "National Socialists") when in under the direction of Dr. Glenn M. Ricketts and Thomas 0.
Beyond Economics: fact the very opposite was true. (See the 1939 classic Fascism Meehan has been formed in order to "collect and interpret
.The Ideological Frontlines & Big Business by Daniel Guerin for detailed documentation). data on higher education trends and issues..." The NAS has
Neocons apply the BLT by claiming to be the "true" also formed a speakers bureau and a fellowship program
New York is not alone in its condition of acute class defenders of academic freedom and liberal education. To designed to extend outreach and to "promote original research
warfare. A majority of states in the nation (most led by make this lie more believable, they have flocked to the notion on the more problematic aspects of contemporary academic
Democratic governors) are slashing budgets for education, that certain radical academics are committing the crime of life." Most interestingly, however, the NAS has formed a
health care, and headstart programs. Yet, with respect to the threatening "free speech." I put those words in quotes faculty and executive "search service" which appears to be a
issue of education in America, there is another and perhaps because in some cases there is a rather bad distinction made mechanism for screening out undesirable candidates for
more important war being fought - a war being waged by between free speech and malicious harassment. While there university positions. Could this be, in effect, the roots of a
highly organized neoconservative intellectuals whose central can be no doubt that there have been cases of oppressive blacklisting mechanism? Certainly the potential is there.
goal is the recreation of the elite universities of the past, policies on some campuses, most neoconservatives fail to
universities free from the perceived dangers of feminism, mention the context which motivated many of these policies. The First Sparks of Conflict
"multiculturalism," and Marxism, among other threats to the Indeed, there is ample evidence to support the assertion
status quo. By allying themselves with the most powerful that American colleges and universities have seen alarming Recently, the NAS was indirectly involved in a
conservative organs in the mainstream press, they have seized increases in both racial and homophobic violence during the controversial incident which took place on March 14 at the
the opportunity presented by our nation's recent shift in focus past five years. For African Americans such violence is made Binghamton campus of SUNY. Apparently, a lecture
from foreign to domestic affairs. Consider the following even more poignant by the fact that in this country there are continued on page 10
sample of articles printed within the last ten weeks: more college-aged black males languishing in jail cells than

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 SCIEI qICE

Deciphering Crystals
by Jean Rousseau loor. The tiles can be laid in different ways. For a crystal, By rotating the crystal, diffraction will occur at
he unit cells have to be arranged in a three-dimensional certain rotation angles, indicating the presence of an another
The chemistry department at Stony Brook recently attern. There are in fact 230 different ways to pack unit cells plane. A large unit cell will also increase the number of
acquired two X-ray crystallography units with computers for n a crystal. These different ways constitute the result of planes available.
$250,000. In the realm of chemistry, these analytical tools lisplacement operations that form the space group. The unit The intensity of the scattered beam will vary
have largely facilitated the determination of molecular ell can be replaced by point and their arrangement in space depending on the planes reflected. If a set of lattice plane
structures. What used to take months, and even allowed becomes a crystal lattice. happens to coincide, in orientation and position, with some
people to earn the Nobel prize can now be performed in a A crystal can be obtained be letting the solvent of a densely populated planar or nearly planar arrays of atoms in a
matter of days. Thanks to automation and high-speed digital ;olution, containing a molecule of interest, slowly evaporates. crystal, the diffraction maximum will be an intense one. This
computing methods, chemists do not need to devote their life the shape of the newly formed crystal won't look as will arise only if there is no other intervening planar plane that
to master crystallographic techniques. Very often their sole ;pectacular as huge quartz crystal. They may have the shape would cancel the scattering of the other plane by emitting a
responsibility will be to ascertain that the molecular structure of small needles or look like little blocks. This is more than scattering out of phase with the first one. This property arises
obtained is physically enough for crystallo- because X-ray scattering is dependant on the electrons in the
and chemicallv reason- graphy purposes. For atoms. More atoms, and consequently more electrons, will
able. certain molecules it then create a more intense scattering if there is no destructive
may be extremely interference.
Crystal difficult to grow cry- The diffraction pattern contains information
stal. Proteins that can describing the type of space group present and the structure
An amethyst, contain more than one present in the unit cell. There is then a reciprocal relationship
a type of quartz with a thousand atoms are between the diffracted pattern and the structure of the
nice violet color and especially tricky to molecule. The problem is to interpret back this information.
regular faces, is an crystallize. The deter- Mathematical techniques such as The Fourier transform
example of a crystal. A mination of the struc- Method or the use of Patterson Function can be employed.
piece of rock compri- ture of these molecules
sing many amethysts is an important part of Crystallography
can be sold for a large the rationale of drug
sum. The fascination design. One of the The crystallography unit shown on fig. 2 can
exerted by the perfec- only practical appli- determine the structure of a 3mm thick crystal. Mounted on a
tion of crystals have cations of the space needle, the crystal is illuminated with an X-ray beam. A
pushed some people to shuttle scientific pro- detector scans different position and determines if there is a
believe that crystals had gram has been the scattering peak at that position and also measures the
erepl r
i obtainment of more intensity. The sample is also rotated, which allows a better
s l the persons Fig. 1.An electron microcope picture of KCI c rystal spires condensed from gas at 550C. perfect protein crystal mapping. The data are recorded in a computer.
especially the persons
selling them. In the produced in zero- The determination of the structure is a two-step
new age fad, the so- weight gravity. process. At first, the computer searches for 25 different
called healing properties of crystals have been trumpeted. scattering intensity peaks. It can take a couple of hours. If
Supposedly, the crystal should be able to channel psychic X-rays there is enough information, the computer will suggest a unit
energy, redistribute it and heal the person holding the crystal. cell. If the user thinks that the result is acceptable, a program
The problem is that nobody knows what exactly psychic X-rays are electromagnetic waves, like visible light, will try to predict where the reflections should be. Typically,
energy is and how it can be physically measured. Many but with a much smaller wavelength. Visible light can be it will require 1 to 3 days to gather all the data. The analysis
criticize crystal healing as having more to do with fetishism diffracted when it passes through a grating or a series of of all these data is performed by the computer and will use
and gullibility than with sound physical principles. narrow slits. X-rays behaves the same way but one needs some of the mathematical techniques to predict what the
On a more extremely small slits. structure should be. It is not an absolute answer but it is
practical level, crystals In 1912 Von Laue definitive.
are now employed in Srealized that the An example of a structure determined with this
many watches to Swavelength of X-rays instrument is shown in fig. 3. It represents the structure of a
increase their precision. is of the same order of cadmium complex and was obtained by Jayson Moy, graduate
When compressed, a magnitude that the student in chemistry. Professor Stephen Koch of the
crystal will vibrate at a Saverage distance bet- chemistry department declares that the use of crystallography
specific high frequency ween the atoms in a has become a routine for small molecules. In 1970, it would
which can be measured solid. To test if X-rays have taken nine p~onths for determining a structure, now you
and used to calibrate the were effectively a form can obtain three structures per week.
mechanisms calculating of light, he reasoned
time. that a crystals could be
For chemists, considered as a three-
crystals are a regular dimensional grating.
assembly of molecules The passage of an X-
in a solid phase. As a ray beam through a
consequence, it can be crystal did produce a
said that a crystal is a diffraction pattern.
macroscopic expression von Laue obtained the
of a microscopic physics Nobel prize it
structure. Once 1914 for this achieve-
achieved, the macro- ment.
scopic structure is a When the
consequence of the X-ray beam meets the
internal cohesive forces crystal, part of the X-
between molecules ray is absorbed but
which form the material small amount is
and yield its general transmitted and scat
properties of density, tered in differen
hardness, ductility, etc. directions. The angu
To form a lar distribution of the
crystal, we can scattered beam can be
represent a primary understood by consi
unit, also called a unil dering that the dif
fracted beam behave<
cell, tnat piles up in Fig. 2. One of the new crystallography umit of the chemistry department. as if it were reflecte<
some regular way.
Interpretation of crystal- from planes passinE
lographic data showed that these unit cells may comprise a through points of the crystal lattice. By approaching such
single atom or molecule or a complex assembly of molecules, plane at a small incident angle with respect to the plane, th
or even part of a molecule. Such a molecule may be very beam behaves as if it bounces on a surface. If the incider Fig. 3. Structure of a Cadmium complex
large, like virus particles that can crystallize. The repetition angle is larger, the beam simply goes through the lattic
of unit cells can be represented as ceramic tiles covering a without reflection or is absorbed.
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 I · - ILETTE RS
continued from page 7 against Emmanuel Severe and Philippe 2. It was also the duty of the EOB to throw trash SUNY style would never pull ranks on
Valbrune, and to revoke any decision already out this much smaller and drunker guy who fellow students...no matter what their
taken as a consequence of those charges. posed a threat of some kind to these EOB status...correct me if rm wrong?
Outraged Sincerely,
Serge Hyancinthe
"guys" even though he was out numbered
and out weighted...when the guy being
3. This is the one thing that really pissed me
off, as if you couldn't tell that I'm a bit
Dear Dr. Fred Preston: President of HSA, ejaculated asked why he was being dissappointed in the EOB's attitude... I kind
It has come to our attention that Howard University ejaculated, they kind of mumbled something of complained about this old, fat piece of
two Haitian students, Emmanuel Severe and about him being a trouble maker...but they trash guy who was hanging out at the bar

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didn't even let him find his jacket, they made
calling women names and being a pest...I told
the guy to "f--k off! get the f --k outta' my
been suspended from the University as a other people scammer around and look for it, face" but I guess that was too subtle because
result of their participation in a peaceful
demonstration against the racist policy of the
To Nowhere which again...is kind of rude... seeing that not
only was this guy a paying customer, who is
the guy kept up with his lurking...so I asked
the EOB to do something...you know what
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that To The Editor: never allowed back there again at the #EOB's the EOB said? Sit down...don't laugh cuz' it's
excluded Haitians and Sub-Saharan Africans I, being of sound mind and body, command, but he is also a student...I don't not funny...the EOB said something to the
from donating blood. hereby risk the entirety of my drinking think he'd want to go back there anyway...and effect of ..."Did he grab your tits?" Did he
Dr. Preston, we, of the Haitian pursuits by out-right accusing a higher he wasn't violent...it's just one of those what? you heard him...they'd only do
Student Association (HSA) of Howard bureaucracy of wrong doing; i.e. the E.O.B., strange behavioral things that people get into something if the little weazle grabbed my
University are chagrined by this arbitrary which hereafter will be referred to as an when they are having difficulties excepting TITS! B------T! That fat old ugly dirt bag
decision which disregards the legitimate civil entity unto itself which a corporation is in the their own mediocrity, therefore feeling it isn't even a lousy student! This is serious
rights of individuals to protest. Moreover, we eyes of the law. Also, I am making reference necessary to exercise power over people who folks! The EOB threw out that other guy
deplore most vehemently the numerous to the EOB as an after 8pm Bar, not as the are smarter or more important on a societal without a second thought! But this little old
incongruities with respect to the trial fine eating facility which it is during the level...or something like that. Also, it doesn't pervert on vacation had 'rights' or
proceedings in which Severe and Valbrune earlier hours... There are three...count look good for a campus piece a' nothing bar something...They might as well put a sign up
were "found" guilty. Why were the audio em...three incidents of err... to go throwing out students and 86in' that reads: "KNOW YOUR LIMITS! THE
and video tapes of the demonstration kept 1. The E.O.B. has taken it upon itself to them...it's the only place on campus that GRABBING ENDS WHERE THE TITS
confidential from the "randomly" chosen relate to customers that they 'smell serves alcohol after 8pm, I thought it was a BEGIN! A friend suggested that, pretty
jury? Why was the trial conducted behind bad'...which is unnecessary seeing as that a place for students? They could have at least clever, aye?
closed doors? paying customer who is within the confines explained themselves because the impression ** Is FSA willing to paly roulette with the
Mr. Vice-President for Student of their expected behavior as a customer is they gave the 'other' customers was that they EOB's reputation? A CAMPUS/STUDENT
Affairs, as an official of an institution of permitted to smell however they want... If were just exercising authority, and it's not facility? THIS NEVER HAPPENED AT
higher education, we are certain that you another customer had 'complained' about the good to leave that kind of impression because THE GSL! Maybe the powers that be won't
understand and agree that the suspension of smell of an other, than perhaps the things like that spread like wild-fire...and send me any letter bombs or try to knife me
Severe and Valbrune is unwarranted at best, complainer should have voiced their 'opinion' people will be intimidated by that kind of on my way to class...maybe they'll read this
especially when there is strong evidence without ivolving the EOB, which is already happening and their patronage will letter and realize that they aren't some
suggesting the culpability of the campus seen as a cold and heartless establishment in decrease...I think a lot of students are exclusive Upper East Side restaurant and be
police as agitating agents during the said the eyes of the thousands of students who intimidated by the 'elitest' image the EOB has nicer, less uptight..maybe not? But they owe
demonstration. 'would not go in there if yoy paid them'. already, and "IMAGE is everything." Am I a couple of people a couple of
In the name of justice and respect Besides, its kind of rude...and I hate the smell right? If I didn't know any better, I'd say apologies...aye?
for civil rights, we ask that you act in the of Aqua Velva or whatever that stench is that there was some kind of 'discrimination' going Thank You
greatest haste to drop all the charges brought hovers above the small crowds at the EOB, on here? But, I know a piece of corporate anonymous

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continued from page 8 perfectly with this plan.
concerning the fall of the Berlin Wall - sponsored by the This fact struck me firmly in the face while I was
NAS - was being delivered by Professor Richard reviewing both printed and taped material for this article.
Hofferbert, a member of the political science faculty, when I discovered, much to my amazement, that the NAS has
a group of organized protesters including students and managed to become directly involved in the shaping of
faculty members disrupted the meeting. The protesters' opinions surrounding the CUNY occupations. Last
attempts to demonstrate their outrage misfired quite badly, Monday (April 15th) during a live panel discussion
because a physical confrontation arose, and as a result one concerning the CUNY protests carried by WNET TV, an
of the student protesters has been charged with assault. appearance was made by Professor Barry Gross, from
On April 10, The Wall Street Journal picked up on the York College. He attacked the CUNY protests, accusing
incident, and printed a wildly inflammatory editorial student activists of using "bullying and intimidation
running under the headline: "Return of the Storm tactics," (sound familiar?) and being "disruptive of the
Troopers." whole educational process." Viewers were not informed, /
The Journal compared the protesters to rioting book- however, that Dr. Gross is in fact an active member on the
burners, and claimed that they were "carrying canes and Board of Directors for the NAS.
sticks..." and threatening the audience with violence. A This really is war. This really is an "intellectual
more recent account of the incident printed by The New Vietnam" (Public Enemy gets the credit for that term). In
York Times ("Dispute Arises After Students Protest a my discussions with friends and fellow graduate students,
Lecture," April 21, page 43) made no mention of "canes a number of interesting observations have been brought to
and sticks," or of threatened violence. What The Wall my attention. Chris Murphy, a Stony Brook alumnus who
Street Journal failed to mention in its diatribe is the fact recently joined the psychology faculty at the University of
that Professor Hofferbert two years ago invited active Maryland, asserts that neocons have come to experience
members of the Ku Klux Klan to speak in his classroom. the writings of progressives as a kind of "silencing," which
accounts for their self-concept as victims of radical
What's The Link? injustices. The highly organized nature of the
neoconservative assault has prompted some graduate
What do cultural wars have to do with tuition increases? students on our own campus to consider the formation of a
Why should we care about a bunch of cranks who feel more coherent response to the NAS than was shown in
threatened by the thoughts of some of the world's greatest Binghamton last month.
thinkers? Isn't this just a tempest in a tea-pot? We should Such ideas should receive more attention, and should
care because the very principles of reasoned intellectual involve the participation of faculty members as well. The
discourse are at risk. The track record of American NAS has not made its presence felt on our campus yet, and
scholars has already been greatly tainted by the history of perhaps by raising awareness regarding the hidden
the academic-military-industrial complex and its critical agendas behind this rapidly growing organization, we can
role in the National Security State of America. Our most help to resist and minimize its retrograde influence. But
recent frolicking in the Middle East provides ample first, as long as the struggles on CUNY and SUNY
evidence to support that assertion. The project of campuses continue, we must demonstrate solidarity and
recreating the elite university Las ideological, political, strength in the face of all attempts to sacrifice the minds of
and economic components. Forcing millions of underclass our brothers and sisters on the alter of economic and
Americans to leave universities and colleges fits in political expedience.

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 .....- ,-,,-,-,,,,,COMM ENTA RY
Bush Wimps Out!
Squanders Opportunity to Make Serious Gains on Energy Policy
by Bruce Tamarin Club of New York, Mr. Bush assured Automobiles, buses and trucks account for plan.
executives from Blue Chip firms that he two-thirds of U.S. oil use, and Bush's energy It is quite apparent that President
Once again it's that time of the year would, "avoid unwise and extreme measures strategy shuns the two most effective means Bush has both a mandate and the
when people everywhere come together to that would seriously hurt American for reducing fuel consumption, a hike in the technological means to institute the energy
celebrate life on our beautiful planet Earth. It industries," while outside an estimated 3,500 gas tax, and a higher federal fuel-efficiency plan that Jimmy Carter was in favor of but
is hard to believe that a year has passed since antiwar protestors waved signs and chanted," standard for U.S. autos. In this we once could not effectively implement. A highly
the tremendous 20th Anniversary Earth Day No blood for oil." again see the influence of Bush's big business effective national energy plan is not only
event held in Central Park last Spring. The official national strategy that constituency, as well as a reminder of his practical, but also possible. In the 1970's
Seeing over 1 million people in one place the President made public consists of those days as a Texas oilman. And of the many energy-saving devices were mere science
laughing, singing and just enjoying the Energy Department suggestions that suit the other conservationist measures to be fiction. Since then much technology has
sunshine was truly a moving experience. Administration's philosophy. The resulting suggested to the Economic Policy Council, arrived. Double-paned windows can cut
Similiar, although less spectacular activities plan emphasizes increased domestic oil only the most modest were considered valid, home heat loss by 30%, while compact
are planned for this year as well in Manhattan production and fast-track construction of and have made it through. These two fluorescent light bulbs provide the same
at the South Street Seaport, New Jersey at nuclear plants rather than conservation. One measures are well-meaning, but are almost amount of light as incandescent bulbs but use
the Garden State Arts Plaza, and also at Stony major element of the policy consists of completely insignificant in the larger picture. only one quarter of the energy. Studies have
Brook University. Events such as these are increasing domestic oil prodution by opening Tax-breaks for the construction of energy shown a 21% increase in U.S. energy
incredibly heartening because they show that up areas now off-limits to exploration, efficient homes and office-buildings, and efficiency between 1973 and 1987. The
people can indeed take time out of their busy including 1.5 million acres in the Arctic energy efficiency labelling requirements for implication: a national push to maker better
schedules to contemplate ecology, national Wildlife Reserve in northern Alaska. products do little to point the nation in the use of conservation technologies could pay
conservation, and the environment, even if This controversial point is considered to be right direction, as far as energy consumption off big with little sacrifice.
only for a single day every year. the most serious offense to some is concerned. It is also worthwhile to note Jimmy Carter endorsed a goal of
Yet despite this recent public environmentalists. This ecologically that recent studies of international electricity energy independence and a program of
outpouring of environmental consciousness sensitive area has been closed to drilling production have shown that while the U.S. conservation measures that his ultimate
and concern, not to mention various since it was established in 1960. uses coal to produce 33.5% of its electricity, political fate has obscured. Current White
international crises involving the United Environmentalists fear irreversible and alternative measures (hydro-electric, House officials ridicule this policy and the
States' dependency on foreign oil, President damage to the ecosystem and have promised solar) for only 5%, Japan, also a leading man who created it. President Bush was
Bush has recently presented proposals for a to fight the proposal tirelessly. "We'll fight to industrial nation uses coal to produce only recently criticized for riding in his gas-
national energy program that can be the end ," says Sierra Club spokesman Marty 9.5% of its electricity, at the same time it uses guzzling speedboat while American soldiers
described as nothing less than an insult to Hayden,"There's no compromise on ANWR." alternative measures for 15.8% of its risked their lives for national oil interests.
environmentalists. The White House plan also electricity production. When questioned about this activity Bush
Nearly two years ago President includes proposals for a streamlined Considering recent current events it responded that he wasn't going to be held
Bush asked Energy Secretary James Watkins regulatory process for nuclear power plants, is hard to believe the Bush Administration's hostage in the White House, implying that
to formulate a cohesive national energy providing for "one-stop" licensing of energy strategy is not focusing national Carter was. He also added that conserving
straregy. Watkins, former head of Ronald construction and operation. This would attention on saving energy. This becomes energy need not conflict with the right to
Reagan's commission on AIDS, conducted decrease the number of public hearings even harder to believe when one looks back "prudently recreate." Unfortunately Carter
many public hearings and read many written required before a license is granted, greatly at recent history. Three times in the past two was not able to implement a truly progressive
statements from individuals and facilitating the production of dangerous decades the U.S. has been hurt by its policy. Bush, on the other hand, has the
organizations, in order to obtain proposals. nuclear power. An easing of restrictions on voracious appetite for energy and its popular support, the increased public
He then sent these proposals to the White the disposal of nuclear waste was also dependence on foreign oil. First was the environmental concern, as well as the recent
House's Economic Policy Council where a proposed, whereby states would be cut out of OPEC oil embargo in response to the Arab- Gulf crisis push forward a plan that would
White House official has said," Watking the approval process when selecting sites for Israeli War of 1973. Then came the second rally the nation around more prudent energy
proposals just got blasted by Sununu, Darman storing nuclear wastes. Proposals such as oil shock six years later administered by Iran. use. He has however, opted to squander
and Boskin. They just tore them apart." these illuminate the President's insensitivity Both episodes drew attention to conservation optimal conditions, taking no bold steps to
These three White House aides, Chief of not only to environmentalists, but also to measures that cut imports in half between reduce energy consumption. Bush has the
Staff, Budget Director, and Chairman of the state lawmakers as well. No one wants to be 1977 and 1985. But as a result of the chance to do much more than focus national
Council of Economic Advisors, respectively, told that a nuclear waste dump is being collapse of world oil prices in 1986, the attention on saving energy, yet he will not
considered most measures aimed at constructed in their backyard. nation's per capita oil consumption began to even attempt this much. In order to do this he
conservation as unwarranted government Not only are President Bush's climb again, while automobile fuel efficiency would have to take a few brave steps away
interference in the free market. It is obvious energy proposals severely deficient in slid downward, and oil imports returned to from his business constituency, his
from this action that a dichotomy exists meaningful alternative methods, he has the levels of the 1970's. Considering this as conservative aides, and his political
between safe methods of reducing our energy completely ignored some other important well as the recent sudden increase on the cost cautiousness. By presenting such proposals
dependency on foreign oil, and the interests conservationist measures. A plan that doesn't of energy dependency in both dollars and for a national energy strategy he has proven
of big business. In fact, at a recent forum in seriously address transportation won't human lives, now seems to be the perfect that he lacks the courage to do so.
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by Andrew Fsh on my body. The transition from one state to unable to recognize my transition from one housed his biology course, as he rotated
another remains incomplete. I must state to another." around and around on his swivel chair in
Ron was walking on the linoleum improvise." Ron began hopping in the "The attraction which I had previously felt order to atone for the fact that his coat
tiles of the floor of the hall of the institute, on direction of the room which housed his toward you has now abated, Ron, due to your remained undoffed. Eventually, the instructor
his way to the room which housed his course biology course. As he hopped, he began to deviation from cultural normalcy." of the biology course was compelled to
in biology, when he realized that he had feel discomfort due to the fact that his knees "Your interpretation of my actions is address Ron's behavior.
neglected to remove his yellow raincoat. and ankles were unaccustomed to this type of woefully misguided. My intention was to "I must turn and turn." responded Ron, "in
Being obliged to abide by the cultural norms stress. He attempted to alleviate it through a adhere to the accepted facets of our culture, order to attain cultural normalcy. My
of his society, and thus determined to system alternating legs after a leg had hopped rather than to stray from them." intention is sound, though my action may
recognize the transition from the outside, two times. Though alleviation tactics had "Your motivations mean little to those seem out of the accepted order."
rainy state, to the inside, dry and warm state, "The ability of mine to instruct, and the
Ron knew he must remove the protective ability of these young brains, within their
outer garment from his body. Ron had heard respective bodies, to absorb my instructions,
nothing of the factory recall of all Smithshine are severely curtailed by your deviant
yellow raincoats, model 2A47. He had not behavior which is, by your own admission,
seen or heard the current event depictions out of the accepted order. It therefore
regarding this or any other issue in any of the behooves me to verbally coerce you to exit
media forms, for the preceding five days due from this room in which I instruct this
to his involvement in several projects of high biology course."
difficulty rating. He had not been enlightened Ron rose from his swivel chair, and
as to the surprising nature of the new hopped from the room which housed his
waterproof, heat-circulating material of biology course. He thought,
which his raincoat was constructed. "It seems odd that as I exercise this
According to said depictions, a feature of the substitution method, which enables me to feel
material, which had not been an expectation confident in my own cultural normalcy, I am
of those who designed the product, became chastised due to the deviant appearance of my
apparent, which causes it, when stimulated by behaviors. I must weep now." Ron wept tears
body heat, to form a non-distance related of disbelief and resentment.
chemical bond with cells of the appendix of As Ron's tear ducts were issuing tears
the organism which it surrounds. Ron had which slid down his cheeks, he began to sing.
both body heat and an appendix, and was "Throughthe hills, and 'roundthe creek,
surrounded by this material. He was unable to Though some are subtle, and some are
remove his coat. meek,
Though able to unzip the coat, all else Accepted actions are held dear,
entailed in the removal of such a garment was While I sway from all those, I fear."
problematic. He attempted to slide one arm Ron's voice gathered strength and flowed
from its coat-sleeve, and such an endeavor from his lips with greater intensity, as he
proved futile. He tried to do the same with
two arms, in unison, and then, again with a
single upper appendage. His attempts were
not to be successful. Ron felt as if the coat
Culture Shock
been executed, hopping up steps remained a
began to sing from his diaphragm.
"If they won't accept mefor what I must
do,
Then I will departfrom all else they want,
were attached to his skin through his purple who witness your behavior. Your substituting too.
plaid flannel shirt, and he was certain that the hurtful endeavor, and was the cause of no of a transition ritual of your own design for I have found the way, though they may
pang he felt in his innards was caused by his pleasure for Ron. one which has been accepted by our society think it mor harm, and
attempts to obliterate this attachment. Ron As Ron approached the room wherein his bears the result of your ultimate pariahic I owe it all to my stubbornprotective outer
ceased his battle when the pain in his biology course was taught, he was existence. According to all those outside garment."
abdomen became too great to be tolerated. approached from behind by a female, who your mind, you deviate. Therefore, whatever As he finished his song, he felt he knew
The pain ceased when Ron did. was of slight mass compared to the size of his might have occurred between myself and where he would go.
And thus Ron encountered his dilemma. own body, to whom Ron felt an attraction. yourself, shall never be." "Goodbye," he stated in a voice which
How now should the transition be "Why are you hopping on one leg en route Ron hopped inefficiently toward the room resounded through the halls, and throughout
recognized? to our course in biology?" she asked. which housed his biology course, while the the surrounding area. "I will now go and be
"I am within a shelter," he thought, "and "I must do this in order to off-set my female's relative high speed brought her there without pants and talk funny. And teach
yet my protective outer garment, reserved for inability to remove my protective outer within a small number of seconds. others to see the smell of cultural abnorm."
wet, windy, out of doors conditions remains garment, for such an inability renders me Ron sat dejectedly in the room which
t'TA f'F-
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Off Broadway Sounds Off was nine. In New York she is hailed as a
child prodigy and is sent to Europe to hone
her skills further. There she meets her first
Where her acting is sometimes
flawed, Ross's piano playing is absolutely
flawless. Her recital is mostly made up of
husband, a violinist, and runs away with him Chopin and Schuman and is carried out
at the age of seventeen. They tour abroad beautifully. The musical pieces perfectly fit
together, leaving her young daughter with her moods and various life stories. They are
relatives, until her husband becomes jealous performed with the elegance and passion that
of her superior musical abilities and leaves is sometimes missing from today's musicals.
her. When she returns home she finds out Considering that Ross has to add drama to the
that he has put their daughter up for adoption. music, this is quite an accomplishment. The
She then realizes that the only way to get her final blend of music and monologue is
back is with money and influences, so her stunningly smooth, and is only interrupted by
quest for the three things she desires most her violent mood swings.
begins. Carreno's life is interesting enough Ross makes this musical one of a
that even a dull monologue would have kept kind, and although it will be most enjoyed by
one enthralled, but Ross' writing is crisp and admirers of classical music, the play will
keeps the audience's attention throughout. most certainly appeal to those who need to be
She plays Carreno as a likeable, carried away from life for a while, and what
and somewhat angry character. The anger can better way to fly than with the sounds of a
be understood though. After all, her grand piano. That and the fact that Carreno's
daughter, whom she had been searching for adventurous life is told in an endearing way
for twenty five years, has just turned down an should make the play a stop on anyone's tour
invitation to see her play. At times, however, of Theatre Row in Manhattan.
but those times are few and far in between, Ross' explosions seem unnecessary. Her Carreno plays Wednesdays through
By Alon Hacohen
and are mostly forgotten when Ross sits at anger is too exaggerated and instead of letting Saturdays at the Intar Theatre at 8 P.M. with
the piano and starts playing. her piano show her emotions first, she matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2
If nothing else, "Carreno"is one of
The play opens with Carreno screams at images from her past. By the time P.M. Sundays shows are at 3 and 7 P.M. On
the more interesting musicals to come our
reading a letter from her long lost daughter she finally lets the piano speak, the audience's Thursdays, the show is performed in Spanish.
way in a long while. It tells the story of
who refuses an invitation to see her mother eardrums are already quite irritated and The Intar is located on Theatre Row, 420
Teresa Carreno, a Venezuelan pianist who
play for the first time in two years. The letter unable to pick up a few of the first notes. West 42nd St. Students with college ID can
reached the height of her career at the turn of
of refusal opens the way for Carreno to tell Otherwise, her acting is adequate with a quite get tickets for half price ($12) and a group of
the twentieth century and is virtually
the audience at her recital about her life. It believable accent thrown in for good 50 or more may arrange a post-performance
unknown today. Pamela Ross, the writer and
all started, she says, when her family left measure. Her character jokes with the discussion with Pamela Ross. For ticket
star of the one woman show, has a huge load
Venezuela for the United States when she audience and is rather lively throughout her information, call (212) 279-4200.
to carry. At times she folds under the weight,
performance.
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baby is. Linda replies, "I don't know, I'm can!" "Mabel Rock" is a song about Mabel among the school's pre-teen rockers. It
Elton Johnny Cash is the title of tripping!" but then says, "I think I put him King, the woman who played Mrs. Thomas made the record even more desirable (he
a new album that features Elton John in the kitchen." Muffy runs downstairs and on the TV show, "What's Happening." The softened up a few ears later when he
doing covers of Johnny Cash songs and finds the baby in the refrigerator. He is a Lunachicks proclaim her "The hottest babe allowed not one, but two groups of kids
vice versa. The idea for the project was little cold but still kicking. Linda follows on the seventies scene" and sing about her dressed in full Kiss costume and make-up
proposed by producer Sy Menchin when he and asks Muffy if she has any downers. toilet habits: "Butt cheeks spread all over lip-synch to Kiss records in the school
sat between the singers at the 1987 Rock Muffy, absolutely livid, starts to scream at the seat/ For you takin' a shit aint too neat" talent show). The excesses of Kiss Alive II
and Roll Hall of Fame awards ceremony. her. Linda tries to calm her down by In "Glad I'm Not Yew" and "Born 2B made sense. At the time the band was one
The album starts off with Elton and Johnny saying, "So5don't pay me! Don't pay me!" Mild," the band proclaim their greatness. of the most popular in the world. Their
dueting on "To All The Girls I've Loved Muffy then conks Linda on the head with a The music is raw punk rock with elements marketing people had a Kiss product in
Before." The rest of side one has Elton frying pan and then smothers her to death of hardcore and seventies metal. Guitarist every market and the money was coming
singing the best known hits of Johnny in a big b footsteps of in faster than they could count it, so why
Cash. Elton claims that he chose this outrageou Johnny not package the album so outlandishly?
particular group of songs after consulting scene from Ramone Babysitters On Acid has a fantastic cover.
the I Ching. His version of "A Boy Named film fille and the The band is standing in a kitchen with
Sue" plays upon the controversy that arose w i t MC 5' s empty bottles of wine and Stoli scattered
when Elton announced his bisexuality in outrageou W a n e about. Theo is holding a tot who looks like
the mid 70's. Elton incorporates the bass scenes, bu Kramer and he is scared shitless. Bass player Squid is
line from Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild the Luna F r e d about to ram the nipple of a giant baby
Side" into "I Walk The Line." Johnny Cash chicks g "Sonic" bottle down the kid's throat. Drummer
is most associated with country music and one up o Smith . Becky Wreck is holding a huge butcher
rockabilly, but he is no stranger to the rock J o h T h e i r knife. A similar photo graces the cover of
Their
world. He sang with Bob Dylan on Dylan's Waters guitars roar, the twelve page deluxe photo scrapbook
Nashville Skyline LP and he also covered They sid crash, and that is inside the record. A Kiss poster is
Bruce Springsteen's "Johnny 99" a few with th scream with visable on the wall. The booklet has the
years back. His patented "boom-chicka- babysittei all the deli- story of the title track told in comic strip
boom" guitar style adds a new flavor to The song' cacy of a form. Inside are great pictures of the band
"Crocodile Rock." A slow tempo, along chorus pair of jack- in performance. A sticker on the cover of
with Cash's deep baritone, give a richness "babysitter hammers. the record that tells you about the enclosed
to '"The Bitch Is Back" that Elton's version on aci, The album booklet also dares you to "lick this tab
lacks. The cover of the record is amusing. every town Uiss Alive II. sucker!" The dust sleeve has all of the
Elton is decked out in Cash's traditional taken as a rallying cry, not an ominous Kiss Alive II was a tribute to excess. The lyrics and lots of strange drawings. A
black western garb and Cash is resplendent warning. In their version of the tale, double album was their second live record number of them are of ugly little creatures
in a silver sequined jacket and a pair of vocalist Theo sings as both the babysitter in less than two years. The inside of the squeezing out turds. The album comes
huge sunglasses covered in crimson and the mother. The babysitter sings, gatefold sleeve showed the band in all their with tattoos too- lots of real ones decorate
rhinestones...Babysitters On Acid is the "Take the tab, stick it on my tongue/ Now glory with flashpots flaming, gigunda the arm of drummer Becky. This type of
first album from New York's Lunachicks. this crummy job will be some fun/ Lord, I lighting rigs, and walls and walls of amps. packaging is unprecedented for a band's
The title track is inspired by a scene from hope they never come back/ Ok kid, step The record contained a booklet called "The first record, especially during a time when
John Water's 1977 film DesperateLiving. on the oven rack." When the mother calls Evolution Of Kiss," which showcased the the record industry is tring to kill off vinyl
At one point in the film Muffy St. Jacques, to see how the child is, the babysitter tells bands' yearly costume changes. Kiss Alive (you're a sucker if you buy this on disc),
played by the lucious Liz Renay, returns her that "she's almost done." She also says II also came with a sheet of temporary but I can imagine nothing less for a band as
home from a cocktail party with her that she is "not leaving without getting tattoos. The tattoos became quite the rage great as the Lunachicks. This record is a
drunken husband and finds her babsitter paid." This type of raucous, low brow, when I was in elementary school. When truly great work of trash art, one that your
having a wild bash. Muffy runs tq the gross out humor is found in most of the one kid decided to put one of them on his life will be incomplete without; one that
nursery and finds the crib empty. She album's songs. In "Makin' It (With Other forehead, he was sent to the nurse so that will make my elementary school principal
locates the babysitter, Linda, in the master Species)," one verse goes, "I'm makin' it she could remove it with an alcohol soaked wish for the good old days.
bedroom. She is naked and having a bum with other species/ Lickin' up their little cotton ball. Fifteen minutes later, the
trip with some hippy jerk. Muffy smacks feces/ A German shepherd/ A big strong principal came on the PA system and

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School of Fish
By Wayne Myer slides into three, in the manner with which
Depeche Mode seems to have a tendency to
They hate fish jokes. School Of do. "Deep End" sprouts out of the tail end of
Fish recently released its debut album on the track three with distant lyrics and even more
Capitol label, and the quartet is making a distanced vocals that ring of something
big...splash. The Fish are Josh Clayton-Felt Robert Smith might do. The disc spins on
(vocals and guitar), Michael Ward (guitar), into "King Of The Dollar," another tribute to
Dominic Nardini (bass), and M.P. (drums). Elvis. Another dreamy song is injected into
Clayton-Felt and Ward first teamed up in the the stereo on "Speechless." The album is tied
Los Angeles based band, Francis X & The up with "Euphoria," a track fed by a drum
Bushmen, although the two have their roots machine, vocalizing the immunity to
in Boston and Minneapolis, respectively. emotional damage that eventually comes after
Nardini hails from New York City, and M.P. a heartbreak.
is from someplace like Cleveland. Add The band was signed in a fashion
producer/engineer John Porter (bassist for very different from he norm. Signed by
Roxy Music and Eno days), shake well, and Capitol in the Spring of '90, the band lacked
out comes a euphony that may sound a little any significant following. It was a gamble on
overproduced, but still manages to please the the part of Capitol Records, but one that has
aural senses. produced a viable product. School Of Fish
Their work is a dreamy, mood has the potential to make a (gasp, puke,
stirring sound that is feuled by heavy guitars convulse) Top 40 hit.
and a driving bass line. A near reference School Of Fish epitomizes
point would be The Jesus and Mary Chain progressive rock of today. The sounds of
meets Jane's Addiction. The sound defies R.E.M., The Jesus and Mary Chain,
classification. Replacements, and The Cult are packaged,
The 11 track album opens with mixed, cut, and burned into the aluminum
swirling intro and the luxurient "3 Strange vapor condensated onto a disc of
Days," about losing one's self for 72 hours. It polycarbonate to produce many pleasing
even turned up in a movie soundtrack, effects when inserted into the laser storage
"Reversal Of Fortune" starring Glenn Close, retrieval system. Net the Fish at your local
Jeremy Irons, and Ron Silver. Track two market for audio.

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The Bootlegs Shall Be Released
by Josh Gazes fists flying, maybe we should call off the
picnic." As Dylan sings of his experience,
Bob Dylan has written and the influence that Dylan must have had on
recorded more material over his thirty year Arlo Guthrie and his song "Alice's
career than any other popular artist. Restaurant" become obvious.
However, only a small percentage of his Woodie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie's
recordings have ever been officially released. father, was extremely influential in Dylan's
The Bootleg Series, Volume 1-3 (Columbia) career, and is remembered in a poem (without
is a collection of previously unreleased music) on this CD-set called, "Last Thoughts
material, and although it is not as satisfying On Woody Guthrie." With all of the recent
as The Basement Tapes (a 1975 collection of attention being paid to Jim Morrison and his really believes him. "Subterranean The Band. The backing vocals of Rick
rehearsals with The Band), it is a testament to poems, people tend to overlook Dylan's Homesick Blues" (one of the songs that first Danko and other Band members makes that
the versatility and durability of Bob Dylan's verse. Certainly, he has written some of the established Dylan as a rock artist, as opposed tune one of the best on the set
music. best folk and rock and roll lyrics ever. It is to a folk singer) is also presented here in its The Bootleg Series also represents
The CD-set begins with early for this reason, and the simple three chord solo version. There is a rehearsal version of Dylan's ability to crossover into all kinds of
recordings, including outtakes like structure of many of his songs, that many "Like A Rolling Stone" which demonstrates music. He is a master of the blues on "Quit
"Moonshiner" (from The Times They-Are-A artists have done covers of Dylan tunes. Any Dylan's experimentation, but fails miserably. Your Low Down Ways," a soulful gospel-like
Changing sessions) and "Mama, You Been frequenter of Dylan's live shows can testify to At the end of the track, Dylan exclaims "My singer on "Lord Protect My Child" (which
On My Mind" (from the Bringing It All Back hearing songs they previously knew, being voice is gone man, wanna try it again?" suffers from extremely poor harmonica
Home sessions). These songs recreate performed in wildly different versions. Although there is a good chance playing), and a serious rocker on the tune "If
Dylan's folk hero persona as he sings about Sometimes these are not a success, as in the that die-hard Dylan fans will at least have You Gotta Go, Go Now," which was once
the blues, accompanied only by his own Dylan live album After The Flood, but comparable versions to most of the material covered by actress Mae West.
acoustic guitar playing. The early material on usually, such experiments on old material on the set, there are previously unreleased If you are not a big Dylan fan, you
this set is also proof that, at one point in his prove new and exciting. If you have tickets tunes that would be a bonus to any collection. probably won't be very interested in most of
career, Dylan's voice could be soothing and to the upcoming concert here at Stony Brook, "Let Me Die In My Footsteps" and "Quit the material on this set. A better investment
delicate as well as powerful and expressive. expect to hear songs that you know sped up, Your Low Down Ways," are two such songs. would be to buy his older studio albums. If
The song "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic slowed down, or played acoustic. There are "She's Your Lover Now" was recorded during you are a Dylan fan, you may have a good
Massacre Disaster Blues" from his early classic examples of this on the bootleg set. the Blonde on Blonde sessions, and would fit deal of the bootlegged songs, but probably
Greenwich Village coffee-house days, shows The classic "Tangled Up In Blue" perfectly on a tape of that album. "I Shall Be not of this quality. However, if you want to
Dylan's ability to charm audiences. Equipped is done in an acoustic format, as it is often Released" was recorded during the 1966 buy a new Dylan CD, and are unhappy with
with guitar and harmonica, Dylan relates the performed in concert. This adds to the sessions that eventually became The anything that he has put out in the last five
story of what went wrong when he answered intimacy of the lyrics. When Dylan sings, Basement Tapes. Although this song never years, then this is an enjoyable history of a
the advertisement for a picnic: "Dogs were "Lord knows he's paid his dues getting made it onto that collection,it epitomizes the true musical legend.
barking, children squalling, women crying, through/ Tangled up in blue," the listener masterful working relationship of Dylan and Bob Dylan is coming to campus on May 7.
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane, WUSB TOP 35
It's The Mighty Underdog as of 4/26/91

and way beyond! "When It Rains, It Pours" 1. Beat Happenings

is a funky number, and "Learn To Love" 2. Feelies
sounds like a mix between Sting and REM.
Other first side highlights include "The Toll
3. Ted
Man." This song's shuffle beat stayed in my 4. Bulldogs
head as I listened to the rest of the record. 5. Spaceman Tree
Side two of the tape is also 6. Front 446
excellent. The first track, '"Tangerine Skies," 7. Dinosaur Jr.
sounds a little like The Beatles circa 1967. 8. Cheap Trick
There is also a great version of "Don't 9. Lunachicks
Disturb Matter." As an added bonus, side 10. Ted Side
two also includes the studio version of 11. Lemonheads
"Elbow Room." After the energetic live
performances on this tape, I was sure that I'd
12. Butt Thorn Park
be dissapointed with the studio cut, but it
13. Bong Water
sounds just as energetic and spontaneous as 14. Horse Files
the live material. This should stand as further 15. Screaming Trees
proof that the Mighty Underdogs are truly 16. Citazen Fish
deserving of a record contract. 17. 360's
In addition to the musical talent in 18. Jeff Earing
the band, the lyrics are also worthy of 19. Reaiit Inversion
mention. Stony Brook University's own Billy 20. Coming On The Train
Capozzi, one of the band's lyricists, never
21. Two Nast Whores
fails to give the listener an earful of inspiring
thoughts. The lyrics are way better than 22. Cock Twin
by Eric Penzer Relix Records' Bay Music Sampler. When
some lyrics I've heard on the radio many 23. Jesus Jones
you add to their resume past performances
with The Ramones, Humble Pie, Richie times. 24. Negro Ladies
Few Long Island bands can claim
Havens, and even Debbie Gibson, you will After careful consideration, I fail to 25. Chickasaw Mud Puppies
to have the reputation for brilliance that the
Mighty Underdogs have earned over the past most certainly conclude that it is a wonder find any reason why the Mighty Underdogs 26. Hollow Parker Head
the group hasn't been snatched up by a major have not been "discovered" so to speak. The 27. Skidmarks
ten years or so. Actually, I would be hard
label. time is most certainly right, as the success of 28. Tony D.
pressed to name a half dozen bands that have
Label or no label, the Mighty bands like Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors 29. Ron Phillips and the Fun
remained intact (and unsigned) for almost a
Underdogs have recently released a new have shown us. After all, every dog must
decade. But, as I have quickly learned, the 30. Captain Crunch
cassette entitled In Black And White. The have its day.
Mighty Underdogs are the exception to many 31. Nova Mob
rules. Their debut casette release, We're All material was culled from the band's August 2,
1990 performance at Hofstra University. (To obtain a copy of In Black and White or 32. Naked Cit
In This Together, was critically acclaimed by 33. Sweatin' to the Oldies
Words cannot describe the energy present on We're All In This Together, send $5.00 each
local music critics, and their live appearances
this tape. The cassette begins with "The Real tape + $1.50 postage and handling to: 34. Castro's Testicles
seldom go unmentioned in music papers such
as Good Times and The Island Ear. The One," a pleasant rocker, featuring a great William A. Capozzi, 1676 First Avenue, New 35. The Children
saxophone solo by Fred Reiter. York, NY 10028. Make checks payable to B.
Underdogs' song "Don't Disturb Matter" was
Perhaps the reason that The Capozzi.)
the theme for two EPA Earth Day concerts in
New York City. In addition, their song, Underdogs appeal to so many people is that
"Elbow Room" was recently released on a their style varies from rock, to funk, to jazz, I I
April 25, 1991 page 15
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Time Trippers and Galactic Glasnost
by Rick Teng brown-nosers of all time." Shatner, he that an attempt to enter the Mars' atmosphere acting, stupid jokes and plenty of gore. The
recalled, once rolled into Ellison's driveway by balloon has been projected for 1994. film concluded with a duel between good and
After getting a Press pass to ICON- with his Harley. Shatner, however, fell off One question for Grechko evil as the lady killer (she's pretty hot) is seen
X, I slinked down to the Javits Center which his bike in the process. And when this concerned the 1969 Moon Treaty, whether a sandwiched between a car crusher in a
was converted into a magnet to attract sci-fi happened, his toupe (yes, his toupe) also fell prevention for re-ratification will result in junkyard. Blood splattered all over the place
buffs, their equipments, idols and other spacy off. (hysteria) 1992. Grechko in all modesty said, "I'm not as the freaky audience cringed with ecstacy.
goodies. Since I missed out on Friday's Stan Lee reminisced on his dinner so big as to answer. It's for politicians. But The next flick was at midnight,
events, I was lucky to catch all of Saturday with the Reagans and other famous the rights (property) to the moon should be called Frankenhooker, which came close to
night's activities. Checking through celebrities. With four martinis in his belly, international." Another asked, "How's it like rated NC-17 or X. This movie is probably
Statesman's ICON calendar of events, I came he casually said to the former president. "You to be in space?" Responded Grechko, "Quite the sickest movie I have seen in a long time.
across a panel called "Time Tripping Down must be relieved of not being the president sickening...your head feels full of blood. And It's about this part-time scientist whose
the Corridorsof Memory" after missing the anymore, with all those responsibilities off then you ask somebody to move or swing fiancee was torn to pieces by an electric
lecture 'The Hubble Space Telescope," and your back." Ron Reagan replied with you." Soon afterward, someone asked about lawnmower. After stealing her head, hands,
about a hundred other shows. Time Tripping childlike innocence, "Oh no, I love being the how the present political situation in Russia and a foot, he stores them in his freezer. As
was hosted by guests: Julius Schwartz, president!" (howl) Shortly, for unknown is affecting American and Soviet cooperation usual for all mad scientists, he wanted to
creator of the fanzine The Time Traveller, and reason, someone asked Ellison about interior in future space programs. The audience bring back life, but this time giving his
one of the greats in the fields of science decorating of some sort and he related the moaned and a person next to me was annoyed fiancee the "best parts." He went to Times
fiction and comics, Harlan Ellison, renowned question to his customized house with secret because this question "could jeapordized Square and came across several hookers and
short story writer who wrote 45 books, more rooms (bookshelves that open to reveal living American hospitality." Grechko, still rented six for a night so he could play doctor.
than 1100 stories, essays, articles and rooms and hobbie rooms). His wife (who enjoying himself, reiterated the idea of unity. But to kill these girls, he invented
newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays and happened to be in the audience) once said, Lastly, a space case asked the cosmonaut if SuperCrack, a drug that resembles crack the
a dozen motion pictures; and last but not "You make all these secret rooms but you he has ever seen Star Trek. Grechko smiled size of large rocks. As the girls grabbed these
least, comic genius Stan Lee, chairman of show them to everyone." (laugh) and triumphantly responded, "Today, it is not rocks in a frenzy, they smoked, strip-teased,
Marvel Entertainment and creator of Marvel Near the end of Time Tripping, a very good episode." (laugh) danced...and blew up. [One person from the
heros such as Spiderman, Iron Man, etc. someone walked in and screamed that the Dean Stockwell, star of Quantum audience exclaimed, "Just like a woman."
The lecture room was packed with Russian cosmonaut has arrived after a 5 1/2 Leap was next. With his cigar, baseball cap Ironically, the room fell into a stony silence]
enthusiastic cheers and laughter as the three hours delay. When the three quickly finished and tennis shoes, he gave answers to After bringing the pieces back to his lab, the
strolled down memory lane with stand-up their talks, they brushed the audience off to questions as if he was Santa Claus waiting to doctor selected the best legs, arms, tits and
comic humor. Ellison, the most outspoken of see the cosmonaut, whose presentation began have his picture taken with the next kid in ass. His fiancee came back to life, but as a
the three, took the podium and sent the at 9. As I skipped across campus to the line. Many questions dealt with story hooker with zipperneck and purple hair..
audience into a state. He told us that Lee Indoor Sports Complex, I slipped my way suggestions for upcoming episodes of the Unfortunately, all the guys who slept with her
does not liked to be taped in an interview. through traffics of ICON pilgrims, down the popular sci-fi series. Stockwell told us that also blew up. (funny) In the end, the doctor
Replied Lee, "I'll break those tape stairs and onto the track. On the stage, the hundreds and hundreds of ideas have made got decapitated and his fiancee had the
recorders!", to which Schwartz added, "Hey, cosmonaut, Georgy Grechko, flanked by two their way onto the thinking table, even the fortune of rebuilding him and bringing him
there's someone taking notes, get him!" student interpreters, sat behind the mike idea of Scott (Sam in Quantum Leap) leaping back to life, but in the body of a woman..
(heckle) After telling tales of the Village answering questions. The heavily accented into a dog. "I hope that will not happen," he Vengeance at last!
coffee-house days and the most hated man in fat, jolly-looking man was the first jokingly mocked. I missed the next day because of
Hollywood, who was actor Mickey Rooney cosmonaut to make a spacewalk to repair a Later, I slinked back to Javits and the rain, but that didn't stop all the other
(sorry, no explanations), Ellison also noted 'manned spacecraft, and the first to perform an saw two cult films which made my night. faithfuls, as some buffs were still visible on
another hated actor, who happens to be impromptu space rescue. People were quick The first one, Bloodsucking PharoahsFrom campus. ICON-X has proved itself to be a
Captain Kirk (William Shatner). to please him, making sure that his visit was Pittsburg, a low budget horror flick, was very professional convention with mind-
When asked why Kirk is so hated in light of American friendliness. American centered around a trendy whorehouse with blowing art exhibits in the bi-level of the
Ellison, with braggadocio, said, "Do you and Soviet relationship and an American- Egyptians as house clerks. A shadowy serial Union to satisfy any fantasy art fans. I only
want me to list alphabetically or Soviet effort in the Mars Project were often killer preyed on prostitutes, as one was attended the Saturday event, but it was fun, as
chronologically?" (laugh) Ellison said that the questions asked by people of all ages. impaled by a parking meter. Cheesy one- I went time-tripping down ICON lane.
Shatner is "ungracious with fellow actors..a Grechko said that "the best way in space is liners filled the film, which gave a demented
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