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Don't follow leaders when power is the opiate of the fairly forgetful concerts, and one offensive as well as lost building parties and beer blasts? What of the masses, since then leaders either become tyrants for forgetful speaker John Valby. protection of student rights via action or rallys, their own causes or politicians lost in their own something other than printing "Save the Whitman inexperience and unsure of which act to follow. This semester, with a major portion of S.A.B.'s Pub" T-shirts and collecting a book co-op? Democracy never insures majority rule, as proved budget spent on a poor three months, and with a new While it might be unfair to launch a vendetta through Ferdinand Marcos' games with the Phillipine Concerts chairperson, S.A.B. thundered in the new against current leadership, since previous leaderships system, or with myriad other travesties ofjustice even year with Phantom, Rocker and Slick. Of the 3200 were not all too active, more things were being done within the American Judicial system. The specter of tickets bought by the S.A.B. leadership, 262 were for the students at large unlike today where Polity Democracy on any scale, even over something as sold, 75 to Stony Brook students. Of all those sold off- can't buy beer, and the only band S.A.B. is even trivial as our own student government, allows leaders campus, almost $1500 was spent on radio spots on rumored to have booked to play Stony Brook is Mike to lose touch with the majority either through apathy WBWB and WRCN. After such a blatant flop, one and the Mechanics, another big name guaranteed or stupidity and little becomes accomplished for the foreseen by many even within Polity itself we question money-maker. power base. whom the leadership is serving. While Stony Brook's undergraduate "democracy" While apathy is many a student leader's claim to a may be somewhat contrived, those students yearly Stony Brook's Student Government, Polity has as crown of thorns, for a leadership with such resources donate $100 a person, altogether over 1.2 million its premiere entertainment organization with the as Polity its no solid sheild. What was done last dollars to a leadership which does not answer to its largest chunk of its budget the Student Activities semester by Polity in, say Programming? What of this people but plays the games of young politicos in Board, S.A.B put together one of theirworst semesters semester, with a two month old 21 year drinking age, search of we know not what. Watch those parking in the history of the organization last Fall, with five where is the alternative porgramming to replace the meters. mmmý cover Photo by Haluk Soykan

Art The Stony Brook Press The spectacular explosion of the spacecraft television, or scattered throughout newspapers Challenger earlier this week represented in and of throughout the world, elicited positive emotional itself something intrinsically aesthetic, and as pleasing feelings from most viewers prior to learning what had as any pure form found within nature. otherwise occured and in that pure form of smoke and Could morbid curiosity lead us to question what is light even unknowing friends and relatives of those Executive Editor...... Ron beauty, or do our social norms and rules of behavior killed viewing the liftoff live applauded, oohed Ostertag and Managing Editor...... Paul Condzal prevent the actual spectacle from leaving the realm of aahed. The natural social response to learning of the Photo Editor ...... Scott Richter "...a tragedy for our nation." What was the emotional consequences of that particular event is a complete Assistant Photo Editor...... Albert Fraser response to the explosion, barring any thought of emotional turnaround, cheers of joy into chears of Business Manager ...... Frances Westbrook "consequences" or the "reality" of the situation, on a sorrow, where those at deaths door have died. Office Manager ...... Egan Gerrity purely visual level? As an explosion it was quite While many people do seem to have an affinity for Production Manager...... Anthony Tesoriero spectacular, and any photograph or painting of it can exciting their senses with the spectacularor dangerous, Editor Emeritus ...... Joseph Caponi represent a work of art. - when such is carried to its possible final outcome, that The form created by the explosion having been is death or tragedy, it quickly becomes vulgar or News and Feature: Sara Clemens, Neat Drobenare, Andy Koff, purely natural and not being planned warrants morbid in a social context. Any explosion, from the Julie Lieberman, Sandy Nista, Mark Powers perception as a purely aesthetic form.-Such being the smallest firecracker to a nuclear explosion such as case it can be likened to a work of art, although it that occurring in experiments or over Hiroshima, Arts: Michael Barrett, Ed Bridges, John Madonnia, Paul Yeats comes to us pure from the empirical world. contains an essential form which can evoke aesthetic The explosion as an experience either live, on pleasure apart from all else. Photo: Mike Ciunga, Mike Shavel, John Tyrnczyszyn

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P Phone: 246-6832 Office: Suite 020 Old Biology (Central Hall) S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794-2790 The Press publishes Letters and Viewpoints page 2 The Stony Brook Press - · __ I I __AMIIMIIm Find Myself A City Andrew Young At Fine Arts By Joe Caponi and the black community leaders of the city. Over the last 25 years, Andrew Young has They worked to solve civic problems before been one of the most influential figures on they became crises. "That was the forum the American scene. Beginning in the Civil that worked out the integration plan for our Rights movement and becoming one of its schools," Young said, and they made the major leader's, Young became a congress- politicians go along with them. The Forum man and then a controversial U.N. delegate also works to create thousands of summer during the Carter Administration. He is jobs within private industry. now the mayor of the city of Atlanta, where Young spent the bulk of his talk on three he has been instrumental in the city's re- problems and Atlanta's response to them: vitalization through encouraging civic, school integration, affirmative action in business, and community cooperation and government, and low and middle-income racial harmony. Young'spoke at the Fine housing. Arts Center Main Stage Monday Night on On school integration, Young argued that the subject "The Future of the American Atlanta has been less than totally successful City." Whites and many upper-class blacks have "Overwhelmingly optimistic" was the left the public school system. The public way Young described his feelings toward schools are still thriving, though, and im- the future of cities. In cities "people come proving according to Young. "We realized together and have an amazing effect on one that it was important to integrate the another... they're better able to deal with administrations of public schools before we challenges, and they thrive, not just sur- integrated the students. So now, everywhere vive." there is a white principal we have a black Using examples such as Rome, which assistant principal And everywhere there is Young said was "still thriving after 3,000 a black principal, there is a white assistant years, even though it was probably bank- principal We don's have any all-white or all- rupt for 2,000 or so of them," and cities with black schools." massive problems of war and oppression Young supports affirmative action as the such as Beirut and Soweto, he explained the means to achieve a "political sharing of vitality of cities, saying "people are still power...if you don't have government that working, they're still trying to become more reflects the makeup of your people, it is de educated, they're still going to their facto unrepresentative of those people... an example, Young described the interest rates. churches." what we have in America is a democracy, As of a woman deputy police chief, who In response to questions from the aud- Turning to the specifics of Atlanta's not a meritocracy, and you can not govern efforts moved to stop the verbal harrassment women ience, Young condemned the Reagan budget success, Young attributed much of it to a without the consent of the governed." walking in Atlanta's downtown that were cuts to cities, but said that they had an- conscious decision on the part of Atlanta's The Atlanta police department is inte- subject to construction workers and unem- ticipated the cuts in Atlanta, and are working business leaders 25 years ago to prevent grated along the same lines as the school ployed men. Over a three day period, to generate more wealth on their own. plainsclothes police women made 200 ar- In addition, he described much of the "If you don't have a government that reflects rests, and broke the bulk of the problem problems of New York City as arising from almost immediately. the gap that exists there between the governed the make-up of your people, it is de-facto Atlanta's newest problem, according to and their leaders. "Most of the problems of Young is the same as has already hurt older New York City are problems of a lack of unrepresentative of those people..." cities such as New York, London, Paris and majority rule." his optimism Rome: the reclaiming of the central city by Concluding, Young reiterated in the future of cities. "Cities are still the _ ·- I and Young described wealthy people ("yuppie heavens"), pushing racial turmoil from shattering the city. system, he explained, wealth in the world, and a out poor and middle class people and leaving basic generators of "Atlanta had the capacity to destroy itself," the praise he received for appointing create, and to them unable to afford housing. Currently, a people will still go to cities to the city Chamber of Commerce, along white man Chief of Police several years ago. but group of bankers is preparing a report for struggle against their environments and with the city's churches and colleges, began Young's goal has been "to create a part- and ung on suggestions for creating more low adversity in order to solve problems," Busy to Hate" program. nership between the police and the com- Y the "A City Too housing. Its appropriate he said that, ultimately, "to believe in cities Atlanta munity," rather than the antagonistic re- and moderate income As part of that program, the Young, is to believe in yourself." lationship that often exists, and the way to that bankers do this, according to Action Forum was begun in 1960, consisting construction Young spoke as part of the University do that is to have a police force that reflects because the greatest obstacle to of monthly meetings between the Chief high Distinguished Lecture Series. communities they protect is not the cost of buildings, but overly officers of Atlanta's largest corporations the -- 'T~ 1 The U.S. and South Afica By Angela Tormin 12:00 noon, Javits Room A two day teach in on apartheid will begin * Panel "South Africa Close Up" today in the library and Fine Arts Center at Prof. Ernest Dube, SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook University, in order to "heighten Prof. Don Ihde, SUNY at Stony Brook attention to Apartheid in South Africa" Prof. Neil Tennant, Australian National according to Chairman of the Planning University of Black Committee and Dean of Humanities and Sponsored by: National Association Fine Arts, Dr. Don Idhe. Workers, Stony Brook Chapter The Apartheid Teach In Planning Com- 4:30 Javits Room Belongs to mittee, comprised of mainly Stony Brook * Video film: "South Africa on" Women in Faculty feel that this subject is of such Us." followed by a discussion importance "that it deserves more than the South Africa" 1i, 5:30 Panelists: usual one evening symposium." "Because 0, National Congress apartheid has international moral and Noma Ziva, African 0 for Racial and political impact," this disregarding of human Sonia Metzger, Women rights should be of concern to all and basically Economic Equality Fine Arts Center understood. 8:00 Main Stage Panel, "America's The essential hope of the apartheid teach Main Public Event: with South Africa: What should in committee is that "more people become Relations be?" aware of the fundamental problems and they conflicts in South Africa." The scheduled Panelists: The Honorable John Conyers, Congressman films and speakers include: Ms. Gaye McDougall, Director of the African Project of the Lawyer's Friday Feb 14: Southern for Civikl Rights under Law 10:00am Javits Room Committee Neo Mnumzana, Chief Representative * Film: "The Island" award winning Mr. of the African National film on political imprisonment, followed of the Observer Congress to the United Nations by a discussion and talk by the producer, Mr. Daniel W. Purnell,International Council David Goldberg, "The Force of Language for Equality of Opportunity Priniciples and the Language of Force." Friday 14 and Saturday 15

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By Neal Drobenare The RCP was composed of faculty, staff, and students. In 1962 when the fledgling State University College of Originally, the faculty involved created a Council of Masters Long Island moved from Oyster Bay to its new campus at that set policy for the RCP. These policies were imple- Stony Brook, it had only four academic buildings and one mented by the director of the RCP, Larry De Boer. On dorm building that was later to be divided into O'Neill and paper the job for the Masters was to "blend the academic Irving Colleges. Called "G-Dorm", it originally housed 540 and social activities in the dormitories." Helping the Faculty students. It was a squat structure built in the neo-colonial Masters to bring academics to the dorms were their as- style thatwas to typify every building to be built before sociates who were faculty members who devoted a limited 1967. amount of time to the dorm instead of the larger com- The lives of the students that inhabited G-Dorm's halls mitment of the Master. Part-time program coordinators were far more restricted than those of its present residents. assisted the Masters in initiating programs and facilitating Unlike G and H quads today which are co-educational by the organization of activities. Within some colleges were floor, G-Dorm was divided into a male wing (present day additional residential counselors who assisted distressed Irving College) and a female wing (O'Neill College). Then, students. The RA's of the Dorm Mother days still existed, as now, student life was governed by the Student Conduct but their role as assistant disciplinarians changed essentially Code, which in the early sixties mandated lights out at into that of student hall leader as defined by the students in 11 pm and required females to keep their doors open if they the building. had male company. To encourage participation in the Resident College Supervision of these and a myriad of other rules were in Program, faculty members involved received a 20% increase the hands of university hired "Dorm Mothers". These in salary or a reduction in the number of courses that they "Dorm Mothers" could key into rooms then just as the. had to teach during the year. The primary incentive though RHD today, though they were more likely to be letting the was the recognition by their faculty peers and departments. FSA linen service in rather than an insect exterminator. At In such a young institute as Stony Brook where resources this time the Faculty Student Association provided a were scarce, any additional demand on departments of mandatory linen service for which all students were billed. faculty resources for the RCP was immediately resented, Dorm Mothers had the right to enter a student's room as which changed the nature of the program. Where originally RHDs do today because the "housing agreement" that senior faculty members were going into the dorms to calm students sign doesn't constitute a lease, and hence the them, soon only junior faculty members who were nearly as University can legally deny students any rights which they radical as the students themselves went into the colleges. normally would be entitled to as tennants. These young assistant professors such as Norman Goodman, By the late sixties, Stony Brook University had become a Theodore Goldfarb and Ashly Schiff joined with the students hot bed of student radicalism. A constant source of problems in creating a comminity that brought academics into the for then University President John Toll, student unrest home and self government into the colleges interfered with his plans for national recognition for the An early innovation of these young Faculty Masters was university and its acceptnace by the local community. the creation of college legislatures. These bodies were When a professor .and extremely conservative totally independant of any forces except the students that gentleman suggested to John Toll that Stony Brook have a elected them. The Faculty Masters and the program program similar to Harvard's resident houses, wherein Scoordinators became the advisors to these groups which senior faculty members resided in the dorms to calm the Stook the lead in initiating nearly all college activities, while students, the president jumped on the idea. Besides, whalt also allocating the money which the state gave them to betterwayto make StonyBrook a "community of scholars" Scover its needs, including staff salaries. of Masters as he had promised in his inaugural speech in April 1966. Three years after its inception the Council The initial plan to gain greater control over residents was chairpersonship changed from Norm Goodman to Theodore to place senior faculty members in each dormitory building SGoldfarb and the directorship was changed to Dr. Richard including the payment of faculty college masters. Norm for at least twenty hours a week, along with a programi Solo. Solo was later to give up his position in 1971 to Dr. as Goodman, former chairman of the Council said the move to coordinator who would facilitate social and other dorm i Alan Entine when Dr. Sid Gerber replaced Bentley Glass dissolve the Council of Masters, "was a political move...we functions while the faculty member would bring academics SAcademic Vice-President. were trying to force the administrators hand in the matter into the buildings. The idea became the Resident College the and (make them) give us backour budget...looking back, the Program pilot project which started in the later half of the Because of the self-governing aspects of the RCP, move was a mistake." 1966-1967 academic year. Dr. Bently Glass, AcademicSprogram was not popular among the more traditional campus "his" After the Council ended its existence, the responsibility Vice-President, headed the program which operated out olF administrators. Even though Toll "bragged" about in the for supervising the program was shifted from the academic the recently opened H quadrangle (a group of approxi innovative program when he visited other colleges, was terminated and Vice-President to the Vice-President for Student Affairs. mately four buildings). The following year it was full 1971-1972 fiscal year the RCP budget to radical changes. With a Robert Chason, acting Vice-President, ran the program for recognized, funded, and expanded into the rest of the the program was subjected to be eliminated two years with the assistance of his aide Donald Bybee. campus. reduced budget much of the program had buildings on When Elizabeth Wadsworth became the Vice-President for Student Affairs in 1974, Bybee was removed and the- RCP was put under the control of the Office of Housing which, for all practical purposes, ended the program. That the RCP was run by mostly progressive junior faculty they pulled out remaining support for the program by alienating the senior and more conservative faculty members. Though they did not uphold the program, the faculty is not directly responsible for its demise, that responsiblity falls to President Toll and the rest of the campus administrators. As ex-Polity President Gerry Manginelli (1975-1977) said "He (Toll) was the perfect enemy. President Toll was a man you loved to hate." Toll was a particularly autocratic leader. Perhaps more impor- tantly, it was a bureaucracy that ran the university and by definition a bureaucracy is a rigid hierarchal structure for exerting authority and control The RCP did not neatly fit into that centralized power framework The colleges did more or less what they wanted to and many times that meant opposing the administration. The colleges were politically active and oppposed issues the administration favored. The RCP was a slap in the face to both the University's power structure and the conservative attitudes of the people who ran it. Perhaps the worst thing about the RCP was that it worked. The students and the faculty involved were forming tight bonds that were becoming stronger and more dangerous to administrative domination. Next Week: Part I The College Legislatures and Today's Residence Halls February 13, 1986 page 5 S-Time Trippers By-Bil

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page 6 The Stony Brook Press -- The Third Estate: Viewpoint Mýý Deficit Reduction USSA On the Federal Budget

Why the investment in future generations of students is 1986 appropriation, despite having been budgeted for not a priority of the current federal administration is inflation increases in the first Concurrent Budget Resolu- currently the major concern of the United States Student tion?! Association (USSA). Under the rhetoric of "balancing the Rescissionsrequested by the Administration could cause budget", the fiscal year 1987 budget calls for a massive 1,186,000 students to be dropped from eligibility from the defense increase of 8.2% after inflation while proposing to whole range of student aid programs. They include: cut the overall education budget by 21%. The total FY 1986 * Cutting Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants appropriation for education - funding for elementary, (SEOG) secondary, and postsecondary education is $18.4 billion. * Cutting College Work Study This level is less than 2% of the overall federal budget of * Cutting TRIO, Upward Bound, Talent Search, Educational $994 billion proposed for FY 1987 and falls $5 billion below Opportunity Centers, and Educational Opportunity Centers the level needed to maintain 1980 level of services for * Elimination of State Student Incentive Grant (SSIG) education programs. * Elimination of new funds for the National Direct Student Secretary of Education, William Bennett asserts that the Loans (NDSL) effect of these proposals will be "minimal" since "only 7% * Elimination of all Graduate Fellowship Programs of the funding for education is federal funds." That 7% has * Elimination of Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) been the Federal government's contribution towards a These rescissions would cut funds out of already ap- commitment to help ensure access, equity, opportunity, proved funding levels for FY 1986 and must be approved by and hope to millions of students - both elementary, Congress within 45 days to become a law. The Admini- secondary, and postsecondary - during the past twenty stration's budget request is assuming that all of the proposed years. The Higher Education Act of 1965 is currently being rescissions are approved when calculating their budget reauthorized in Congress. This budget jeopardizes the goal projections. of maintaining access to a postsecondary education at a Guaranteed Student Loans time when the need for education is increasing. The FY 1987 budget proposals for GSL directly threaten The current deficit is not a result of increased education the ability of nearly 4 million students to afford to borrow a funding during the past five years, yet student aid is GSL while also puttting into question whether banks will disproportionatley hit by both Gramm Rudman Hollings continue to participate in the program. The key parts of the (GRH) proposed cuts and the President's proposed budget GSL program- the in-school-interest subsidy, the interest Approximatley 20% of the entire budget is on the chopping rate, and the special allowance to the lender are all threatened block under GRH with almost all of education vulnerable to under this proposal the cuts. Proposed cuts for postsecondary education are The entire GSL proposal is shift of the federal deficit to nearly $3 billion which is 33% of the current budget This an already excessive student deficit The alternative for massive cut is a result of potential FY 1986 GRH sequesters many students if this budget is approved is a decision to on March 1, proposed cuts, shortfalls, new eligibility Sforego a postsecondary ed ucation since no other funds for criteria, and the total restructuring of current student aid Sfinancing an education will be available. programs. Independent Student Definition: These are proposals to Congress, yet their future de- The budget proposes an independent student definition pends on the response from current and future studentsSthat assumes everyone under age 23 is dependent unless an urging rejection of these massive cuts and support foir orphan or ward of the court. In addition, all of the current or federal funding for education as a high priority. criteria for determining whether one is dependent independent (not on parent's tax return, not living at home Gramm - Rudman - Hollings Sequester RulecI for more than six weeks, not receiving more than $600 in Unconstitutional: assistance will be considered for two years prior to applying On February 7th, the Federal panel considering the case for student aid regardless of age. These changes if ap- of whether GRH is constitutioanl ordered, "that the automatic proved by Congress would go into effect immediately with deficit reduction process established by GRH, under whict Sno consideration of the status of students during past the President is required to issue a sequestration ordexr years. compromise, and come up with an alternative budget plan the implementing the budget reduction specifications of a An $800 amount minimum of student self help would be with an $144 billion deficit figure by October 15 to avert report prepared by the Comptroller General, be, and hereb3y required prior to receiving any student grant aid. Grants FY 1987 sequestering across the board. It is estimated that by is declared unconstitutional on the ground that it vestýs would be limited to 60% of costs of education minus the an FY 1987 sequester would cut federal aid programs Loans executive power in the Comptroller General, an office:r expected family contribution (EFC). The EFC would be 25% with the exception of Guaranteed Student removable by Congress." subtracted from one's eligibility instead of being in addition (GSL) whose cuts are minimized by a GRH Conference The February 1 GRH sequester order for implementatiolI to the grant aid. Furthermore, the EFC will be increased Amendment. representatives know that on March 1 was also ruled unconstitutional yet it will g<) since the Adjusted Gross Income will be taxed at a much It is up to students to let their futures are being into effect pending action of the Supreme Court Th4e higher rate. This has the result of artificially decreasing the this budget is totally unacceptable. Our of "deficit reduction". Supreme Court is not expected to rule on the case unti1 demand for the program when in fact an individual student mortgaged under the banner Summer. This decision affecting the sequsester order does or family may not have the funds available. Association is sponsoring a NOT mean that the deficit targets will be ignored b:y The President's budget is now under consideration by The United States Student D.C. from March 14 - 17, with Congress!! Congress. They must meet strict timetables to pass budget conference in Washington Day to "Put the Proposed Cuts for Academic Year and appropriation's bills under GRH. The deadline for the workshops preparing students for a Lobby 1986-1987 (FY 1986): First Concurrent Budget Resolution is March 25. It is up to Green Bak in the EducationBudget " Formore information paper. Education funding, with the exception of Guarantee4i the Budget and Appropriation's Committee's to deliberate, contact Polity or this Student Loans, is foward funded, which means that change in one fiscal year normally fund the next academic yea This is supposed to minimize confusion on campus an< provide adequate time to plan for major shifts in studen SASU's aid programs. This year the sequester orders and th rescission proposals threaten the timing and receipt c student aid on campus for this fall ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE The March 1, GRH sequester will cut higher educatio programs by $244 million this year, with additional cut resulting from the Department of Education's decision nc CONFERENCE 1,m D ~ -- e ~uu to request additional funds to meet a shortfall and maintai the Pell Grant program at the FY 1986 appropriated leve tJAM&We6y*»A^ A %.P JK puLm»& *% A 10% cut in Pell Funds - $369 million - will trigge with your legislative leaders "linear reduction". This process reduces awards resultin A Meet in over 290,000 students, those with the smallest Pe * Learn valuable lobbying skills grants, to be dropped from the program. An addition AiL T^ d;*»-» tF3m f rfoosslQ the state W rJOILI bAL/UIVCAl IVIu/O ILI CMOIV UIOO IVU IUCLLOVv 500,000 students with family incomes between $12,00 and $20,000 would receive reduced awards. * Have a Great weekend at The $244 million in Gramm-Rudman-Hollings cuts f< FY 1986 include a 4.3% cut in all student aid programs wit the exception of GSL which is cut by $34.1 million. Th February28 - March 3, 1986 smaller percentage is the result of a GRH Conferent amendment limiting the effect of the sequester order to a State Plaza * Albany, New York percen Empire increase in the student origination fee of %of one For more information call Gerry at 6-3673 and a reduction in the special allowance to lenders. The, cuts are in addition to no inflation increases in the F &-%W-IjasaWmayl i·ahm-ask u TVwpq J)1996FN"W Ap%na0 fto 77e MAIB 0 .I · · - . '- ~- -rPSaccrrs AT LAST ... ASSES AND TAPES ON CAMPUS THURSDAY MSB-1MS-B1 EVENINGS

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III "- The Third Estate: Viewpoint Cogent Struggle The Red Balloon Collective by Mitchel Cohen concerning how to pay for all of this: cancel all debts, and sing! We helped occupy nuclear power plants to prevent of the Red Balloon Collective take it from the banks. them from being completed. Action after action, designed Ten years ago this semester I began teaching Red Bal- For us it was more than a demand in words. Indeed, we 1to teach people -- including ourselves! -- to seize what is loon's "Marxism for Beginners" class. This February the believed it to be the responsibility of all progressive people, rightfully theirs, and not to fall into the political game, class will graduate its 100th certified activist proficient in of striking workers (especially public employees), to say begging the politicians.with hat in hand for what you need, seeing their own lives, and the world in new ways and where the money was to come from to pay for their latest when their whole basis for being where they are is to keep as hopefully acting to change it wage increase, the new day care center, etc.). much in the hands of the giant banks and corporations as I remember the very first attempt to introduce Marxist In 1970 and 1971 at Stony Brook, the Womyn's Center, the people will let them get away with activism at Stony Brook, initiated by Ilze and myselfbecause radical faculty members, workers, students, Red Balloon Teaching people they don't have to take that shit, that of all the excitement happening around us. This provided members, and other leftist groups banded together and together we can create what we need and fight back. the context as well as the reason for us to share with people staged action after action to force the University to pay for By 1980 Red Balloon members had become so strongly .n some organized format what Marxism was all about, as the new parent/worker-run Benedict daycare center, that convinced that anyone demanding meor money for any- interpreted through our New Left eyes. .we all were creating together. The University refused to thing, especially fi it was to come from the public tilL(the The previous semester Red Balloon organized a state- even give space for it; it had to be battled out, taken taxes of working people), must also fight around the wide campaign against the budget cuts, which were causing Ultimately, everything worth having has to be fought for demand of where the money should come from to pay for-- students severe financial hardships. Schools closed down and seized, for that which is given (in the heat of pressure or the banks! -- that we took part in the strike of NYC transit important services and, programs such as daycare for in the times of plenty) is latr taken back, even turned into its workerw with leaflets entitled: "So, you think socialism is children were forced to compete with health clinics for the bullshit, huh?" These leaflets specifically stated that the crumbs that fell from the banker's tables. Week after week transit workers must break with their own trade union hack Red Balloon circulated in-depth exposes of the banks' roles leadership, in demanding no fare increase for riders (who in putting the squeeze on the rest of us. We learned, the are usually other workers too).Instead, to win public sup- State Dormitory Authority wherefore our tuition dollars "..the stultified, abysmal old Left parties, port, they must step beyond the very narrow (and solely went to pay off the perpetual interest on bonds used to 20th century American) bounds of trade unionism, as their build G & H quads, and to construction companies that which gave communism a bad name..." bureaucrats define it, and force their unions to make a refused to hire black people. Long afterthe original amount political and classfight out of it by posing "who' s to pay for borrowed was all paid off our money, which could have been it, workers or banks?" Anything less than thathistoric used for student services, continued to be dumped into the period, should not necessarily be seen as progressive, but black hole of never-ending interest payments fattening up simply the power-plays of the more powerful of the white- the Rockefeller boys even further, it also provided opposite and used against those who struggled for it. male-dominated organized mafia-ridden unions whose "necessary" jobs for slick state bureaucrats whose sole task (Witness the way public education, which was once the benefits would be a burden to everyone else, especially involved overseeing debt payments, while making sure that province of only the rich and won at the expense of thou- those who were not well-organized, white, male, or cor- the debt continued to grow. Their own jobs depended on sands of workers' lives, later became used as one of the rupt it! main brainwashing features of capitalism, getting people This was an incredible break with what we normally think As early as 1971 Red Balloon had begun raising the used to sitting behind bolted desks in regimentd rows for of as "progressive"! You can probably see how that seem- demand: "Cancel all debts to the banks!" It was becoming six hours a day for at least 12 years of our lives, learning to ingly tiny fine-point discussed at the beginning of this apparent to us, 19-23 year olds, that capitalism ws entering obey authority regardless of how ridiculous, breaking the article about the "new phase in capitalism's developmen" a new and different phase in its development "Fictitious spirit in poeple to mold them into compliant subjects fit for instigated very major re-orientations, and out-and-out re- value",money "made" through interest on loans without their later roles as word-process operatoors, parents, fac- versals of "what-we-should-do" that had been taken as representing the actual value of what was being produced, tory workers, waitresses, bank tellers, priests, and low-level givens for progressive people in previous periods. In failing had begun to dominate the growing world-system of capitalism. corporate executives, the yuppies' wet dream!) We organ- to recognize the new period we were entering,most left- This eventually forced some pretty major changes in ized elderly people in New York City into the "Senior wing groups ceased being so, even though they still went by commonly held notions about how capitalism works, even Citizens Organizing.Committee", which won rent freezes; radical-sounding names (Some of the best discussionof all among the Left. But at that time, no one --except for one we organized the NYC unemployed league; we helped or- this as it applies to workers on the job within trade unions group that was becoming increasingly fascist (the U.S. ganize squatters to take over abandoned buildings; we has been done by the mid-west group STO (Sojourner Labor Party, under the tutelage of Lyndon LaRouche)-- organized food drives for farmworkers who couldn't afford Truth Organization), in a book entitled: "Organizing especially in the left, paid much attention to the growing to buy ack the very food that they were picking and proces- Notes", available at Stony Brook from Red Ballon). debt to the banks.

the Week- Except folks in Red Balloon. Although we were barely - -Stra of not even barely!-- conversant in Marxism political-econ- yw v lL omy at that time (let alone with the recent and very in- triguing work of Anwar Shaik, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Robert Fitch), the general trend towards the emergence of "debtor" nations was becoming very clear to us, especially when New York City (a "debtor") could not afford to pay back its $2.6 billion in annual interest payments in 1975, even though its original principal had been paid by then drunk (drungk), adj. three times over. (This same scenario was to replayed in Characterized by no self control or sanity; Poland four and a half years later. Poland owed $22 billion to western banks, the equivalent of its entire gross national unreasonable; irrational. product for a year. Instead of defaulting, which some people in the recently-established Solidarnosc favored, basically telling the banks to go to hell, who should move in to guarantee the loans and force re-adjustment and repay- ment (at the expense of the Polish worker) but the Soviet DRUNK IS SMART. Now is the Union, the best friend that Chase Manhattan and CitiCorp time to think about drinking in a ever had! That, by the way, is atleast one half of its reasons whole new light Drinking makes for suppressing Solidarnosc.). By 1975 Red Balloon was saying. "Hold it!" Take the you cool It's a guarantee of success. money ear-marked for the banks, declare a debt morator- It's a prerequisite to having fun. ium or cancelation, and use those billions for things that The fact is booze really gets you people need: 1) Meaningful jobs at union wages building inexpensive housing, 2) Free universal education; 3) Free everywhere. Drink about it mass-transit; 4) Development of alternative energy sour- ces; 5) Expanded and improved health care; 6) Production of healthy foods, and aid to the small and medium farmers. While the Old Left still saw its role as influencing State policy (which invariably led it into the electorial arena), Red Balloon helped organize and joined in actions to put these demands directly into practice. We believed that only through people acting directly, for themselves --and not through intermediaries, such as government or corpora- tions-- could we begin developing the kind of "liberated DRUNK IS SMART zones", or communities of permanent resistance and sustenance, that we needed. Actually, this was more a difference between a New Left message from the Stony Brook Press approach --which always based itself on direct action-- and A public service of Alcoholism and Alcohol Research. that of the stultified,abyssmal Old Left parties, which gave Division communism a bad name (the Communist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party, etc.). What Red Balloon added, in addition to a certain amount of zaniness, was the demand February 13, 1986 page 9 ;ddmlmtl mNE C h^ b SAB C,,F t SIPa t? / estivities

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By Colorado Slim Now the effects of these posters on the students is only They'll say thatthe posters and pictures of Tom SellE part of the picture. They are in contact with them for a and Robert Redford are harmless diversions in the Stiud< relatively brief amount of time, the posters' offensive Accounts Office that serve to liven up the place and provi characteristics and pretty persuasion wear off in a few a smile for the weary worker. They'll also say Im o' hours. But what about the workers in the office? After days, sensitive and shouldn't be concerned with their office a weeks and years of subjection to this Hollywood perversion, its respective decorations. They'll bring up the point t] can the Student Accounts employees really operate at the Student Accounts does a swell job making sure this univers peak of their intellectual qualities, what effects do these maintains its financial balance and shouldn't be trifled w posters have on the workers? Perhaps misdirected bills, simply because they hang large and explicit posters of m general foul-ups and lack of compassion in dealing with celebrities on their walls. After all, it is their office and tl other individuals are valid answers. should be entitled to do with it what they like. However, And what if the office were predominately filled with men issue isn't that simple and presents numerous consid who hung large colorful posters and photos of attractive ations regarding sex exploitation, reverse descriminati women, like Debra Harry, openly and without qualms? To administrative taste and judgement, say the least, the ramifications following this act would be But under no circumstances can huge smiling photos devestating. The operative word is controversy. Protests, such an outwardly sexual nature be harmless. Large cdo sit-ins, media coverage and the National Guard would ups of unblemished holiness with twinkling eyes wreak converge upon campus in pursuit of justice. Could it be rampant desire, they might not cause one to faint, rape acceptable for a state university to allow such blatent murder - their harm is physically less severe though jusi sexism?! I mean, by virtue of the fact that it is a state subliminally damaging. In fact, the offense transcends mi university, funded by the state, indeed, an agency of the sexuality and lands feet first in the metaphysical mud. 1 state in business to educate, shouldn't the certain guidlines effects are initially unnoticeable, but soon the photo, in which apply to other state agencies be recognized here? Of its raging glory, begins to softly massage the brain. 'I course. perfect face creates a new reality. It overpowers the vieN The workers who hung posters of attractive women into unconscious perception and action. At the same ti would need to be reprimanded. But, reverse discrimination the viewer knows its a photo of a make-believe idol, someth sees hanging pictures of men as absolutely fine and dandy. unreal and untouchable, but still with all the characterisi However, as untainted glance at the issue declares that any / of the real, magnified beyond proportion but still kee kind of display, posters and photos of men or women, in the grasping reality. In turn, the viewer's perspective is sl view of the ones currently on parade, is inappropriate and irreconciably in two - a huge make-believe sexual obj degrading. that contains nothing remotely tangible except its t mendously magnified human, real characteristics. A freak Through allowing this to continue, the University is in combination of the real and unreal effect, patronizing the marketing of human flesh for re- The posters' placement in the Student Accounts Off probate consumption, while grossly abusing student directly over the service counter, about twenty feet behind. "-Notanmg emotely Iangiie- sensibilites. The public nature of the posters' display only it, assures unavoidable visual contact The viewer, essentially Their very communicative skills are destroyed because the compounds these facts. students, after being bombarded with these various and differences between real and unreal, poster and person, If pictures of this type are wanted in the work place they sundry images is left in a numbed haze; unable to adequately man and meat, have been obliterated No longer are there should be kept in more private places, say on the inside of a deal with their own administrative chores (after waiting on distinctive lines separating the realms - they've been locker, and not on the center wall Perhaps instead a few line the posters' work their subliminal magic), the students melted into one leaving only an obscured, barely decipherable paintings, copies of finer pieces, green plants, and nice are alsorendered helpless in relations with fellow students. picture of what is. curtains, I reckon, would be more acceptable. I I mmmmm Free Creativity

By Ed Bridges Updike as Technical Director (Robert Antis Brook's only independent student theatre From Hampton, Virginia A powerful musical The center of campus cultural activity is currently acting Budget Director as well). and strives for an atmosphere of profes- message is brought to Fannie Brice. before the Fine Arts Center was a quaint With this core of six and about six co-working sionalism while at the same time providing cabaret in the quad office building of Stage members, they managed to get their first and encouraging an open forum (and market) April XI. Known as the Fanny Brice Theatre, it show out last October. Patterned after The for student creativity. Although most of the * Celebration of Diversity: Th. Apr. 3 was the place where students and Tbnight Show, it was set up as a talk show events are free, some shows have a very 8:00pm. Film and discussion. Featured: faculty would go to see the latest campus and included professors who talked about reasonable ticket price ($1 - $2). Turning Point. theatre production, hear a concert, or at- their work. The show turned out to be a The company is searching for interested * Shake Your Fannies Down to the Ground: tend that week's COCA presentation, en- popular success, filling up all available seats people who are thoroughly encouraged to Th. Apr. 10. 10:00pm. Dance, Dance, Dance. joying the intimacy that its small setting had in the theatre. join them.in their weekly meetings on Contests. Prizes. D.J. Refreshments. Join to offer. As the university community ex- With this success behind them, they set Wednesdays at 9:00pm in the Fanny Brice your friends and shake em! panded, however, the Fine Arts Center. set out to raise money for their Spring of Theatre in the Stage XII cafeteria For * Celebration of Diversity: Th. Apr. 17. eventually became the cultural center of the 1986 season last November. By going to the further information call 246-8688. 8:00pm. Film and discussion. Featured: campus (not to mention Long Island), and GSO, RHA, the Office of Student Affairs, Coming Home. the Fanny Brice Theatre slowly faded into PSC, etc. they managed to obtain enough February obscurity, leaving as its legacy the painted money to go ahead with much needed * Aerobics: M.W.F. 8:00am - 9:00am. May doors nested in a corner below the Stage renovations to the theatre, all of which were Start your day right with lively music and * Film Festival and Coffee House: Sun. XII cafeteria. Along with the expansion of done by company members themselves exercise. (Throughout Spring Semester) May 11 - Th. May 15. 8:00pm. Escape the campus' Fine Arts Center came the over intersession. The theatre department * T.A.S.T.E: Wed. Feb. 19; Sun. Feb. 23. Final's Week madness for coffee and inevitable loss of intimacy that one would donated equipment including a stage that 4:00pm - 7:00pm. A tasteful student art confectionaries while enjoying great surely miss in performance events, some- only required minor repairs and the Ed- exhibition thatwill satisfy your senses. film classics at The Fannie Brice Theatre. thing that Fanny Brice had once possessed ucational Communications Center donated * Celebration of Diversity: Th. Feb. 20. Ten blockbuster films are featured... in her magic, but, her intimacy was un- six television monitors. The space is managed 8:00pm. Film and discussion. Featured A So give yourself a break! fortunately turned into a practical storage by Residence Life, who basically make sure Soldier's Story. space. that they are not breaking any building !!!!! Fannie Brice Productions' General But, like an actor who performs menial codes in their presentations but do not March Meetings: Wednesdays, 9:00pm at the tasks waiting to be discovered, Fanny Brice hamper their creativity in any way. * The Mess: Sat March 1. 9:30pm. Rock n Fannie Brice Theatre. Be a part of Stony worked as a warehouse until discovered last Moving foward into the spring, they have Roll invades The Fannie Brice Theatre as Brook University's only independent student summer by Peter Rajkowski, a student of set up a schedule that includes such diverse' The Mess and a warm-up act heat the stage theatre. theatre here at Stony Brook. Last August activities as Aerobics, an Art exhibit, rock for a show you'll never forget The Fannie Brice Theatre is located in the Mr. Rajkowski began thinking of trying to' concerts, a student written murder mystery, * The Real Inspector Hound: Wed. Stage XII Quad harken the Fanny Brice theatre back to its. and movies with discussion sessions following March 12 - Sat March 15. 8:00pm. Tom original fame. He began by establishing it as (see the accompanying schedule). Stoppard's roaring murder mystery offers *TICKETS a Polity Club. Peter was elected as Company This student run production company an evening of comedy that will knock you Tickets for all paid events are available at the Director, Robert Antis as Assistant Director, offers well-rounded experience for anyone out of your seat Union Box Office. All paid events (*) are either $1 Delores Ford as House Manager, Alex interested in learning the workings of the * The R.A. Fox Gospel Ensemble: Wed. or $2 per ticket BUY IN ADVANCE and Harrison as Publicity Director, and Daniel theatre at all levels. The company is Stony March 19. Perfs. at 2:00pm and 5:00pm. SAVE! page 12 The Stony Brook Pres