VoL 7 No.7 * University Community's Feature Paper * Feb. 13, 1986 7 7* Battery acid gottago with the flow no show no flack on track gA potato sack telephonebookboo l Bishop rook paperback I dont stall 00o hall onion skin dead kin bury the goods. in the woods Chicago straight to jail last feast man beast fast talk bored walk tomato juice free base air space dont sin cant win , back beat F. crows feat bottled beer Nashville _ in the attic no static cigars and gin Cadillac fin _stand clear •• Shakespearee i cant hearii no fear - The Fourth Estate: Editorial The Undergraduate 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. 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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.