Vo. 9, No. 15 @ University Community's Weekly Feature Paper * May 5, 1988

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Corridors of Power The SUNY Central Building in Albany -The Fourth Estate: Editorial I._I Total Integration: Total Paralysis

Welcome to ROLMphone. True, the computer, like any other man-made And the phones themselves are cheaply made. Sounds like the bad guy in a schlock science fiction device, is subject to its quirks, but the phones are not Eight months and the buttons start to stick When the film But the bad guy is really the brochure printed up an occasional luxury like a video game. A telephone volume button sticks, you've got to hold the phone at yesterday morning for the benefit of each and every system is not something that can or should be arms length in order to keep from going deaf Think of campus resident subject to periodic downtime. Even after Hurricane the Bank of New York cash machines. You really need Welcome to a flat $65 per semester charge. No Gloria, while the Three Village area was without that $10 bucks, but either the machine is "tempor- choice, either. Everybody will have a ROLMphone in power for over two weeks, the phones worked. And arily out of service" or it eats your card when you can't their room, three phones in a suite. Everybody that when ROLM crashes, you can't bypass it with any- tell if you entered in the right password because the opts to.will get an access number to punch into the thing. Al the lines are tied into the computer, a fire in buttons are malfunctioning, phone to allow off-campus calls (on campus calls are the computer room, and it's all over, no dial tone, no .All this and more for $65 dollars a semester. free). Everybody, thus, will get their own computer- way to reach the hospital, or the police, no way to call a According to Dallas Bauman, Director of Residen- personalized bill And everybody will be subject to cab. ce Life, the portion of the system for the dormitories the quirks of the tempermental ROLM computer that And it's not too difficult to get the system to crash. is leased from ROLM at a cost of about $1,000,000 a handles all the phone traffic on campus. When the system was first installed, an over-abun- year. The money from the phone charge will pay that And believe us, that computer is quirky. All the dance of incoming calls to WUSB caused the entire lease. offices on campus have had ROLM phones for over a answering-machine section to gag and shut down. The least that can be expected for the charges is year, so we've been thoroughly ROLMed atthe Press The system, when it's working is less than would prompt and competent maintenance. Before AT&T What's supposed to make the system so wonderful is be expected from IBM, the self-proclaimed leader of was trust-busted, and everyone had to rent phones, a modern, high-tech IBM manufactured computer the computer age. Just to call an ambulance you have telephones were solid, abuseable, and dependable, controlling all the phone lines. No aging electro- to dial 122-22-8888. like an old American V-8. If the phones did fail, AT&T mechanical switches, no mazes of wire to fray and Nasty loopholes exist, that have already been would send over a repairman right away. The ROLM crack. exploited by hackers with the time to poke around. A phones are more like Yugos with all the options. But the computer is, in a word, cracked itself (Or writer in 2600, a "hacker" magazine, gives all the Hopefully, repairs won't be a problem. should we say its'software', in this computer literate details necessary to "kidnap" calls going to another Residents of G-Quad have probably already seen age?) When the computer crashes, as it has a number phone to your phone. Others have been able to con- the crews installing the new phone lines. The rest of of times already, the phones crash. That means no nect two parties together and listen in on the results, a the installation will be completed over the summer, incoming or outgoing calls, on or off campus. Three sort of prank party calL Fine, until you really want to so don't be surprised in the fall when you see that weeks ago, the system was down for an entire use your phone and you discover Marburger's sec- sleek little piece of phone wizardy in your dorm weekend. Two days; no calls to or from any office. retary, or phone sex, on the other end. room. The contract has been signed. -Letter Welcome to ROLMphone. informative, but is especially so to artists to film-makers. potential writers, artists, and film- The I-CON committee has a makers. responsibility to produce the event This is directly related to the on minimal funding. Many of the The Cons events that Mr. Silfer frowns comment regarding just who is upon being honored, to quote Mr. Silfer help finance the programming and Stony Brook To the editor: again, "the source because of the speakers that we hope will make the We at I-CON are grateful for the product or the product because of difference. It comes as little sur- Press extensive coverage of I-CON this the source?" This wrongly suggests prise that the most well-attended year. In contrast to most of those that I-CON attendees praise the panels and talks were not those of who covered our event, it is evident packagers instead of the creative the actors, but those of author that Kyle Silfer attended some of sources. When the attendees have HarlanEllison. Itis the sort of result Executive Editor ...... Craig Goldsmith our programming. the opportunity to meet the author that we have been working for year Managing Editor. . Kyle Silfer However, there are points made of a piece of work they admired, be after year. Also the science and Associate Editor ...... Quinn Kaufman by Mr. Silfer which appear to be it in print,paint, or celluloid; it is far technology programming that Mr. Photo Editor ...... Ed Bridges coptradictory. In particular,there is more likely that the meeting will Silfer just touches upon was more Science Editor...... Ryder Miller extensive and well-attended than a comment regarding our diversity produce a greater understanding of Assistant Editor...... Karin Falcone of programming which Mr. Silfer the creativity of the individual than ever before. Both of these points described as "perpetuating-in its the faceless corporation which say something positive about the Business Manager...... Kristin Rusin own innocent way-the same evils packages a product We would like attendees of the I-CON program in Editor Emeritus...... Michael DePhillips so graphically described by its to know of any other program which ,egard to their curiosity and con- guests." Yet Mr. Silfer admits that presents the opportunity, to the cern for the future. News and Feature: Lisa Caiafa, Joe Caponi, Joe our guests are free to (and often do) same extent that ours does, to meet DiStefano, John Dunn, Socrates G. Gianis, Rob Gil- John speak out and inform the public in on an informal basis with profes- Madonia heany, R Sienna, Paula Tishin, Rich Wieda regard to exploitation of their ta- sionals in so many different fields, Vice-chairman lents. Not only is this generally from writers to scientists, from I-CON VII Committee Arts: Rob Becker, Joe Castelli, John Gabriel, Peter Kang Alexandra Odulalk Rob Rothenberg ~·//~7/~/~7~/Js5~-//~7/6~7~7~'~7/~ Graphics: Stephen Coyne, Jennifer Flatow, Greta Guarton, CJ. Morgan, Mary Rafferty, Joseph Sterin- bach, Warren Stevens, Pippy the Zinhead

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by R. Sienna ation of the State University-and only one tuition hike within the next year, and his tained that a "tuition hike is inevitable in a ALBANY, APRIL 27-Amid the nearly student sat on the Advisory Committee, alleged lack of minority recruitment at year". SASU representatives feel that a deafening student chants of "Vote Down former SASU President and Trustee Buffalo State have not endeared him to chancellor should be pressuring the Gover- Bruce!", the SUNY Board of Trustees Everett Joseph, leaving students nearly students. nor for a larger-or at least level-budget, formally appointed Dr. Bruce Johnstone as voiceless in both the Chancellor search and Johnstone's resume is impressive: cur- rather than giving in easily to budget cuts SUNY's Chancellor. Johnstone is currently any major decisions of the Board. rently a Director of Key Bank West; as- SUNY s tuition has been frozen since 1983; President of Buffalo State College. Blinken claimed that it has taken a year- sistant to Walter Mondale while Mondale the Board (including the Chancellor), the Almost 40 students gathered in front of and-a-half to hire a new Chancellor (Clifton was a senator, VP of Administration at U. Legislature, and the Governor must all SUNY Centrars castle-like headquarters Wharton left that post in February of'87 to Penn (he was also an associate professor approve any tuition hike before it goes into to protest Johnstone's impending appoint- run a pension fund in NYC) because the there); a BA and MA from Harvard; a effect "They [studentsf see someone in me ment, as well as a proposed mandatory Board "did not actively pursue the search Doctorate in educational economics from who is not as resistant as they would like to athletic fee [see related articlel. ...until we received auth:r: from the e University of Minnesota an extensive tuition increases," Johnstone said, "we've SUNY Central officials at first only al- seen trimming and reallocating...we'll just lowed ten students to actually attend the have to cut some more." Board meeting, but a half-hour of arguing in Although students were not allowed to the building's lobby enabled an additional question Johnstone directly-being told ten students to attend The Board meetings "You're not the press!"-Johnstone ad- (when not in "Executive Session" where the dressed the public accusations made by real dirty work is done) are supposedly open some students that he was not an effective to the public on a first come, first served President at Buffalo State. "I am the only basis. SUNY officials said thatthe space in campus President recruiting among minor- the Boardroom atop SUNY Central's high- ity organizations," he claimed. est tower was needed for members of the The minority populatiox of the city of press. Buffalo is about 41%; the minority popu- The Board seemed quite unprepared for lation at Buffalo State is about 10%, about twenty boisterous students bearing pla- 5% of the faculty and staff are minorities. cards and wearing gags that symbolized "Do they want 41% minorities at Buffalo lack of student say in SUNY Central de- [Statel?" he asked rhetorically. Johnstone cisions. After the actual vote, one student, maintained that the budget cuts and staff depicting the SUNY system, fell to the firings of recent history account for the lack ground in a mock death and was carried out of minority reprsentation at the, campus. by two pall-bearers. "We went many years without having a new said. Johnstone's Chairman of the Board Donald Blinken .J - -- colleague," Johnstone area is the positive was forced to halt his introductory state- Governor and the Legislature-in July of publishing record. ace-in-the-hole in that given to the Board by the ment several times as the students hissed 1987-to set the salary of the SUNY However, Duarte said "how he plans to recommendation respected Shirley Chisholm, the first and booed and coughed. Students became Chancellor." The Board raised the Chan- cultivate working relations with Legislators highly black woman in Congress, and a long-time particularly enraged when Blinken stated cellor's salary from $93,713 to $150,000 and the Governor is not evident." It is the civil rights leader. that the search for a new Chancellor was a because the position "requires a competi- Chancellor who is faced with the difficult Johnstone became flustered as the press carried on by a committee con- tive salary", according to Blinken. task of negotiating SUNY's budget, a "process conference wore on and student antipathy Trustees and an Advisory Unfortunately for Johnstone, he is al- budget which has been cut steadily in sisting of SUNY increased. One student, Eric Wilson of Committee representing all of the major ready under attack from students before recent years. meeting that "tax- Binghamton, was allowed to ask Johnstone SUNY constituencies-students, faculty, even taking office, which he will do on Johnstone said at the to the Gover- a question by virtue of his position at Bing- alumni, presidents, and governance." August 1. His lack of experience running an cutting is deeply important cuts would be felt hamton's radio station. Wilson wondered Only one of the 15 Trustees is a stu- immense bureaucratic machine, his sup- nor" and that these the state. Johnstone main- continued on page 6 dent-the President of the Student Associ- port of mandatory fees, his support of a everywhere in Trustees Propose Athletic Fee

allow more money to be Duarte openly attacked the proposed fee. by Paula Tishin Students are free at any time to cut off The fee would funnelled into athletics because Student "There is no clear documentation of The SUNY Board of Trustees has pro- funding to one or more sports, and changes Activity Fees are limited to a Chancellor funding problems in student governments" posed that a mandatory Student Athletic be in enrollment and the size of the Activity imposed ceiling of $120 per student per he said. Duarte pointed out that there are instituted-at campus presidents' discre- Fees can affect the amount of funding that year. Almost %80 of the twenty-four largest other student-controlled, student-initiated tion-to fund intercollegiate sports. an NCAA club receives on a yearly basis. SUNY schools (including Stony Brook) methods of ensuring the stability of NCAA proposal, which was written by The proposal, one that has been kicking The already have fees of over $100 per year, funding. "Cortland students had the idea of SUNY's Vice-chancellor for Student around Albary for several yers. is intended New Paltz, Purchase, Canto, and Farming- continued on page I 1 Frank Pogue and Associate Vice- Affairs dale ave already reached the $120 cap. chancellor for Student Affairs Norman The Athletic Fee would either free money would allow campus presi- Hostetter, for other uses or allow the student govern- the Chancellor's approval-to dents-with ment to lower the Activity Fee. Election up to $30 per student per semester charge The proposal, which will be voted on later sports. NCAA sports are to fund NCAA this month, has split students state-wide. by Student Activity Fees Question currenty funded The Student Association of the State by student governments. and allocated University (SASU), as well as several The Polity Elections may not be over proposal Hostetter and In their written student governments, adamantly opposes yet sports are" crip- Pogue contend thatNCAA the fee, calling it an attempt by SUNY While presidential candidate John Cucci any direct state fun- pled..by not having Central to assume control of student and vice-presidential candidate Kurt Wid- of the annual student ding...the mechanism money. maier both won Tuesday's eleciton run-off budget process is disastrous and occasion- Lynda Lippin, the Finance Coordinator of by sizable margins, the Polity Judiciary will ally catastrophic-in addition to being SUNY Purchase's Students' Union [govern- meet tonight to hear charges of election- clearly illegal according to NCAA regula- mentj addressed the Board during discus- eering against Cucci and Widmaier. tions." NCAA guidelines require that sion of the proposal saying the proposal The problem is a chalk-drawn campaign athletic funds be under the auspices of a "singles out athletics as an activity that slogan that was painted on the cement campus' administration, but since the pres- comes above all others" and that the fee below the walkway between Amman and of SUNY campuses collect the idents Francisco uuarre would be discriminatory because "part- Gray. Election rules forbid any campaign Student Activity Fee and then sign it overto time students must pay a pro-rated fee, but materials or personnel within 100 feet of a funding, and ensure the long- the student government, the NCAA has to stabilize can not participate in varsity sports". polling box, or within earshot or eyesight of NCAA programs. never disputed the legality of SUNY's evity and health Varisty sports are limited to full-time stu- The Judiciary will have to decide if the collected from the fee would be NCAA ftnding. Funds dents. Lippin asked the Board to "give us slogan affected voters; if it did, the Judi- under the eye of an Intercol- The problem that Pogue, Hostetter, a distributed the vote of confidence that you as Board ciary will have to decide whether another Athletics Board, that if set up, would number (of trustees, and several students legiate members trust student leaders to distribute run-off will be held or if the candidates in an unspecified amount of student gover.nents have with student control of include our money as we choose." question should be disqualified. NCAA funds is the volatility of those funds. representation. SASU President and Trustee Francisco May 5, 1988 page 3 mllmaý Peace Walk Planned by Ryder Miller groups in the LL Coalition movement Insufficient communic$tions, teacher, who "taught his opinion as fact" At the Ethical Humanist Society, a Hum- the LI Alliance has met little resistance and lack of positions of authority have lead She told how her teacher referred to her as anist church in Garden City, NY, members so far, and most people they have come in to problems slipping through the frame- "Comrade" and made allegations that she of the Long Island Alliance to Prevent contact with have reacted favorably to this work, but the group is prepared to make the would be the first to join the Soviet Union in Nuclear War, gathered for their weekly concerned group of high schoolers, spread- demonstration work. case of a war. Tuesday meeting to organize the Long ing a message of peace. The students are These students have questioning minds. Regina, a Stony Brook student, drove me Island student Peace Walk for a World not power hungry; they dread the respon- In conversations with the students they told to the meeting, and told me how her in- Without War. sibility that they are placing on how they weren't happy with their high volvement was the end result of long held Participants will walk four miles to themselves. school curriculums, and that their current beliefs. She said that she always had a Eisenhower Park where there will be an In its first weeks, the Alliance is still events classes weren't teaching them any- strong feeling about these issues and was afternoon of music and speech. Though dealing with many of the organizational thing, One organizer told a story about how happy she could incorporate her beliefs into some of the plans are currently sketchy, problems which can be seen in the Peace she was treated after she queptioned her her way of life. people are invited to come down alone, or with their families, to their church in Garden City, at 9 am on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend (May 29) whichThe worksLong Islandinconjuimntio Alliance iswioh a small the largergroup Vanishing Oaks L Student Coation for Peace and Justice. The core organizers are a handful by Ryder Miller of Long Island) red oaks are not replacing the local woods. Soon, almost all will be of school sudents from Syosset In the local campus woods, the red oaks themselves. gone. Their main objective right now is to are disappearing. These acorn bearing Ecology Lab students walked through Looking at the trees that will replace the spread news about the march. Most of the trees which we know and love, are facing the Schiff and Weld preserves, recently, canopy layer, revealed another interesting -nuts and bolts" are not tightened yet, but rough times these days. In recent years, looking at which small trees will replace fact The number of red maples in the appear to be put in place. Only a few they have faced competition from other individual canopy trees. In the next -tree canopy during the next tree generation, will speakers and musicians have been confir- trees, hurricanes and Gypsy moths which generation, red oak would only hold one be close to four times bigger than the med for the 29th, but permits have been prefer oaks over other trees. If you get the fifth of the spots it presently holds in the number of red maples in the canopy at obtained for the March route and the rally chance, give a beleagured oak tree a hug canopy. present site. while they are still around. Though oaks appear to be having it bad, Red Maple's success is probably due to The Alliance to date, has received TV Though still dominant in the local woods dogwood trees are dying left and right. its ability to thrive under a wide variety of coverage, has been written up in local of Long Island (at least at the Schiff, forever Recently, a fungal blight which blocks the soil and shade conditions. newspapers, and bas receivedpromises and wild, nature preserve on campus, and the air pores in dogwood bark has spread to monentary support from many of the Weld preserve located on the North shore Long Island, decimating the dogwoods in Philosophy, Fabrics, and Food

by Lisa Caiafa cians." He teaches his course in parables Herschbach's main concern. Science is not ternalize the information. But this concept Nylons won WWIEI with appropriate music And if you don't in the background. an isolated field. is almost unheard of although it has been believe it, you can take Freshman chemistry He uses parables because they teach many Herschbach had his chemistry students known for quite some time that people have with Professor Heschbach at Harvard things at once. And that is what science write plays, develop poems, and paint pic- different styles of learning. In this respect University. Or go see him lecture, like I did should be. Also, when you hear a parable, tures of their perceptions of science In Herschbach is at the forefront of a teaching Wednesday, April 27th. you are more likely to tell it to other sta- doing this, he is providing students with a revolution. dents. For instance, one of the classes deals creative dint their moment to shine People The aspect of integrating other fields His lecture, Artistotle Nylons, and Rice with how much alchohol you can drink be- learn in many different ways, and straight with science is especially apropos to our Paddies, was sponsored by the Provost's fore the LSATs. lectures are only one way of learning. We present society. "We're producing students office under the Visiting University Scho- This approach is not often employed. should enhance students' learning experi- with blinders on. Too many aspects of our lars Program. Mostofthe material was from Most decidedly not at the university level ences, he said, instead of merely asking lives require an understanding Herschbach's freshman chemistry course. of science," where you find only hard-core scientists them to memorize Herschbach said. Most A very ordinarycourse, most would say, but of the other disci- and mathematicians in upper-division One of the new concepts in teaching is plines want nothing to do Herschbach sheds a whole with science, he new lighton the science courses. Butthis is not what science using a 4-Mat system (named subject. for the four commented. It's as if science is for one is about Most discoveries are made out of quadrantsof learningtypes) to teach. In this sector of To teach science, Herschbach proclaims, society and the humanities for necessity or at a time when the sciences are teaching style, you teach both to the right another. "We must bring "You have to treat it like a part of humani- science into hu- given large endowments. Students are and left hemispheres of the brain and to the ties. manities courses," Herschbach exclaimed, Branch out to philosophy, history, rarely told the history or economic situ- four quadrants of learning. All students will "we must bridge this dangerous gulf be- economic&s. Science is not just for techni- ations governing a discovery. This is have the opportunity to develop and in- tween the two disciplines." 1ý Crustaceans & Cattle

by Joe DiStefano Once I overcame my aversion to eating a Images of countless cheap horror flicks near cousin of that most illustrious member and cuttlefish dissections flooded my mind of dormitory fauna, our friend the cock- as I crashed and pierced the shell with my roach (funny, prestige food evolved from bare hands wrenching pincers and outlan- insects) I found it well worth $5.50. Al- dish appendages from the segmented body though fm not the world's greatest fan of in order 'to get at the succulent meat slabs of red meat, I have to admit the steak A teeming crowd gathered in the Fine was easier to consume than the lobster and Arts Plaza for the arduous (and rather mes- certainly better than the average DAKA sy) but rewarding task of eating lobster sans specimen. nutcracker. The upper level in front of the The Lobster Bite was possible because of library resembled any other sidewalk cafe, an unexpected surplus in the FSA budget except for the telltale sign, paper table- Nothing against fun in the sun, cheap surf cloths. Twenty six hundred lobsters, along and turf dinners or great live music, but with an alternative entree of steak, and side perhaps FSA could have sweetened the orders of steamers, corn and potatoes were deal by making it free for non meal plan dished out by DAKA at the University's students. First Annual Lobster Bite Tuesday. As I left the Fine Arts Plaza with a bellyful The event, sponsored by the Faculty Stu- of lobster and steak I was amazed at how dent Association and the University Dining quickly it was transformed back to its ori- Service, featured live music by the Elevator ginal state. rm quite sure that DAKA re- Men. The band really motivated the crowd, sumed "normal" operations just as quickly Dead meat everywhere. energetically playing their own songs as well as they dispensed with cleaning up on as several covers including "Not Fade Tuesday night page 4 The Stony Brook Press Away". The Administration Shuffle Marburger Reorganizes University Posts

by Rich Wieda been named yet The search committee nent Vice-president can be appointed. This appointment has been created, and will be President John Marburger has started to holds its first meeting next month. new position will oversee finance, budget, chaired by Ms Florence Boroson, the implement a reorganization plan of the Carl Hanes, the Vice-president for and management control functions in the assistant Dean of the College of Arts and entire Stony Brook administration, as rec- Administration, is being moved into the Budget Office and the Grants Management Sciences. ommended by a Presidential Ad-hoc newly created, but ill-defined, post of Office. The three remaining departments cur- Committee on Administrative Reorganiza- Deputy to the President for Special Pro- The rest of the duties of the Vice-ptesi- rently under the control of the V.P. of tion. jects. According to Marburge' smemo"Mr. dent for Campus Finance and Management Administration's office-General Institu- The Ad-hoc Committee was formed to Hanes, Stony Brook's most senior admini- have yet to be finalized. tional Services (GIS), Physical Facilities, pinpoint deficiencies in the administrations strative vice-president, will assume The interim between the acting Vice- Human Resources-will report to the Pres- operations. responsibility for certain large, extremely president and the permanent one will be "a ident's office for the time being. In addition, According to a memo from Marburger's important projects that profoundly affect time of experimentation with the new ar- GIS will be enlarged to include the Purch- office "these changes are intended to per- the future of the entire campus." These rangements" the memo states. Some of the asing and Transportation Services Current mit new levels of institutional effectiveness projects include overseeing the campus responsibilities might include control over GIS head Richard Wueste will assume that will benefit all aspects of campus power facility, which is currenly running Public Safety and the Environmental direction over the enlarged department activities." over four million dollars in debt, and others, Health and Safety department. The final change in the administration Among the actions ordered is the iniation which the memo says "have been identified The current Vice-president for Campus shake-up is the appointment of Harriman of the search for a new Provost Current and will be described in subsequent Operations position, which has been vacant School Professor Stan Altman as Deputy to Provost Jerry Schubers two-year appoint- reports." since Bob Francis resigned last semester, the President The position will be a two- ment is up next year. Professor Edward Associate Vice-president and Controller will be replaced by a new position, Vice- year term that will include the responsi- Katkin of the psychology department will Richard Brown will assume Hanes' current president for Campus Services Hanes had bility of improved reporting and program- be chairing the search committee, although duties as acting Vice-president for Campus assumed direction the Operations post this matic control in a number of priority the members of the committee have not Finance and Management until a perma- year. A search committee to decide the areas. Open Discussion Justice for All on Closed Minds Ramsey Clark Speaks

by Robert V. Gilheany their Supreme Court nominees," Clark by Socrates G. Gianis and Dean of the division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, spoke of the "The noblest quest of the American pointed out According to Clark, President Eisenhower felt that the worst mistake he One great step for mankind? This was the positive aspect of The Closing of the people is the quest for equality" said ever made was appointing Earl Warren to question put to a panel of deans and direc- American Mind by explaining the value of Ramsey Clark at a lecture in the Fine Arts the Court. "I think that's the best thing he in the Fine Arts Center yesterday in a a historical perspective. Douglas also ex- Center last Thursday. Clark is former tors did" Clark said. He explained that the much heralded plained that the science division of our Attorney General and a human rights ever critical discussionvof Warren was appointed because Warren was book by Allen Bloom, The Closing of the school always gears itself toward pro- activist. Clark spoke about freedom, civil rights, a tough prosecuter in Calfifornia, and that American Mind gress. the roll of the Supreme Court in American he had overseen the incarceration -of The panel critiqued Dr. Bloom's strategy Brook Larson, assistant Professor of His- life, and comparisons between 1968 and Japanese-American citizens during WWIL for a restructuring of American educational tory, read a riveting story encapsulatingthe now. "Who ever thought he would've turned out systems which calls for a re-emphasis of the dogma of Western idealogy and the need for Clark said he upheld the office Attorney to be a liberal Justice?" Clark asked. "classical texts" as a prescription for our society to break with the" pedagological General like many, many, Attorney Gene- Another example that Clark gave was Hugo change in education today. Vice- patriarchism" of our white male dominated healthy als before him. "Unfortunately the integrity Black, a southern Klansmanrwho went on to provost Aldona Jonaitis moderated the dis- social structure. of the office is become a liberal Justice on the. Supreme cussion, placing emphasis on dethroning Amiri Baraka ended the presentation .ge strafin- tth whe e not upheld now" Court. the "nostalgic dicourse" of Western with a poetic mot:no~ ;-t Clark said. Clark Clark described 1968 as "the best of TA kj"%-hackwardnp-rn"TV LAý ý-- I -I - ! %- ' - -I ý 11 blamed the prob- times and the worst times." He spoke of an lem on "the a- awful time during the height of the Viet buse of political Nam War, a sweeping fear of crime that had figures in public no rational explanation. office" and men- There were 200 race riots in our cities in tioned that Ed- the late 1960's and Martin Luther King and win Meese's pro- Robert Kennedy were asassinated. It was blems with doing also a time when people worked for change. favors for noliti- "We the people took to the streets to end cal associates, and selective enforcement of the war...and end poverty." The civil rights laws are a result of political appointments acts of 1968 concerned open housing. to public offices. Meese was active in According to Clark these laws made it il- .I Q) L'c i -"m;in5' nz nd 'RA andr na- in housing on the basis neagyan 8 Wcaumpagn n ov ais-*u ,alm ao legal to discriminate sisted Reagan while Reagan was governor of sex and race. "1968 was also the first year of California Clark called for an end to pol- we the people did not execute someone," itical appointments to the Department of said Clark, referring to the absence of Justice. capital sentences, "We did not execute Clark spoke of the historical trend of anyone until 1977." Clark spoke about expanding freedom in the U.S. and rever- today and said"If we executed three people sals of reactionary Supreme Court de- a day, at the rate people are going on Death Row, we would be executing people every- bility to see blatant constrictions that cisions. Some of those decisions include E. Ann Kaplan, English professor and day until the end of the century." plague our school country, and global fam- Dredd Scott, the barring of women from the Director of the Humanities Institute, fol- Clark would like to see the rightto food as Baraka espoused a wonderful but com- practice of law, and the federal govern- lowed with a pointed critique about ily. * well "Eight million infants starved to death plex discourse that focused on the need to ment's inability to legally prevent the Bloom's closed-mindedness, and added her he said. "The right to food has to Senrich real needs" by allowing for an equal commerce of products produced by childI last year," strategy for helping the fallen state of - come from the will of the people, not the voice on all social issues. labor. Those decisions have been re affairs of the Stony Brook educational pro- courts." He spoke of how this has to work The presentations were followed by a dis- versed. cess. She suggested an enhanced, enriched through our democratic institutions to cussion which drew out powerful insights on "The quest for greater freedom is thi humanities curriculum that would highlight I enable the courts to enforce it the problem of educational reform. Beyond steady progress of its understanding an( the need for understanding cross-cultural D Clark also talked about voting rights and a doubt, the question of educational reform attainment of freedom," Clark said. Th< values and the diversity of conflicts that r voter registration during this presidential runs parallel to the needs of social reform, trend towards greater freedom has beei keep occurring throughout our world. She r election year. He said "the fact that a black and currently Stony Brook seems to be a backed up in court decisions such as Browi also c-arefully noted the problem of chang- man, running for president in a major leading force in the quest for these healthy vs. Topeka Board of Education and Roe vs ing the "structure" itself in Stony Brook's party...won Alabama, Mississippi and and innovative changes. Wade. educat: mnal rocess, which is the hard part, h is a victory for equality." Let's all hope for continued progress. "Many presidents were not pleased witl Georgia abcve and beyond simply enriching the core cu rriculum. Ronald Douglas, Mathematics professor May 5, 1988 page 5 - The Fourth Estate: Commentary Mýý Cold Turkey

by Michael DePhillips relatively smoke-free for months before the law. 26.5 however, workers are being forced to quit smoking or lose America has a new outlaw. One that is not breaking the percent of American adults now smoke, that is down form their jobs, the restrictions have gone too far. law yet, but is none the less a social outcast A great deal of 42.2 percent thirty years ago, a time when America's Even if a smoker wants to quit, they want to do so on their the public now views smoking as a deviant behavior. greatest heros had a cigarette permanently glued to their own, not because they are pressured or blackmailed into Now, New York City has joined the battle against this lips. The army even issued cigarettes with K-rations. The doing so. These restrictions do little to help the smoker illicit pleasure and passed an ordinance that bans smoking decline began in 1964 when cigarette ads were banned from along in their struggle or help make arrangements for those in most public places. Although this law will be widely TV and the Surgeon General began issuing warnings on who prefer to continue to smoke. accepted, for good reason, it can not be forgotten that every pack of cigarettes. The Yankee Trader newspaper in Port Jefferson, is smokers are people, who pay taxes in a society that values offering a class to any employee who has trouble quitting individual freedoms. When regulating these freedoms we As of last Monday, however, it's cold turkey in the building. must be careful not to ostracise or deny rights to any group This has cause an uproar from its writers who claim that a of people. cigarette and a cup of coffee are as essential to their job as a The new legislation prohibits smoking in stores, theatres, "..all of America will be pen and paper. Unhappy writers are not beneficial to the hospitals, offices, museums, banks and most other en- production of a newspaper. It would behoove the paper to closed public places. Also, the new law requires that half the smoke free, thin, muscu- take steps toward a compromise, instead of jumping on a tables in a restaurant with more than 50 seats be reserved aational bandwagon. for nonsmokers. The Federal Aviation Administration lar, and sober. Then what This example should be followed by other companies joined the battle by prohibiting smoking on flights of two who now impose strict non-smoking regulations. There hours or less. Northwestern took the cause one step further will happen to all the should be aid for those who want to stop smoking and by banning smoking on all its North American flights. people?" arrangements made for people who can't, or don't want to These new regulations are widely accepted and reflect stop. as far as public places are concerned, they will be what seems to be a smokeless wave of the future. The non- ruled by a direct form of democracy, the laws will just smokers sense this and approach their cause with an almost enforce the majorities' sentiment militant attitude. Reflective of this is a Northwestern People don't like to be insulted or badgered by strangers, Airlines television ad announcing their new ban. A smoker We've come a long way from "you've come a long way, so the smokers will confine their addictions to back alleys lights up, the ban is announced and the rest of the plane baby," but there are still many people who smoke. with their fellow junkies. However, if we are not careful cheers. The smoker then fades from the picture In fact, there are still a lot of people who need to smoke anything that goes against the rationality of the majority. So far this is exactly what has been happening. Smokers and that's where the conflict really sparks. The work place will be labelled as deviant If this occurs all of America will have been compliant On the now smokeless LIRR there has been the battle ground for years. Restrictions on be smoke free, thin, muscular, and sober. Then what will has only been one arrest and public places have been smoking in work are not new, nor are they altogether bad. If, happen to all the people? -I-- " Nothing Doing

continued from page 3 times he would like to side-step meetings how often Johnstone would meet with with SASU represntatives and meet direct- students to discuss important issues. John- ly with students at SUNY campuses in "a stone replied "I stand for collegiate gover- random fashion." nance. I might urge luniversity and college] Johnstone also denied the charge that he Presidents to listen more" Johnstone said might be censured by the Faculty Senate at that he would work with SASU on budge- Buffalo State, saying that he had "declined tary matters, but continued, "'ve forgotten in a taped closing hearing" concerning a if rve answered your questions." faculty grievance. Because of his refusal to Wilson repeated himself and Johnstone testify, the Faculty Senate is "critical of said he would meet with students on "a me" he said, but the student charges of a regular basis." He also stated that he meets possible censure next week "are in error." several times a year with student govern- In a prepared statement Johnstone said ment leaders at Buffalo State and has he will continue "carrying through with "breakfast several times a month with landmark legislation initiated by Clifton various students." Johnstone said that at Wharton and Jerome Komisar [currently l Vx.4 t+%kl..- -al_ - ,, -L~c~-- s 1------acting uILancetiLor] lreellUrrigjo eV "urauu- ate Research Iniative which is aimed at funding research and improving the quality of life for graduate students. Johnstone also stressed that he would like to see an Undergraduate Initiative, similar to the GRI, implemented soon. "The cornerstone of SUNY is the quality of its undergraduate education" he said. "We iave a lead. We must work to maintain and wen increase that lead," he continued, although he did not say what that lead was over, or what SUNY was leading over. After the Board meeting and press con- ference, SUNY students-those who had remained outside the building and those who had attended the meeting-gathered in front of the building and held a mock funeral for the dead SUNY system. With lowered, gagged heads, the stu- dents listened to Duarte read a eulogy in front of an open casket Duarte said stu- dents "make this statement to point out that fifteen individuals [the Trustees] a autonomous and unaccountable to the University community have decided the 1 fate of all faculty and students. Obviously .0PS under the secret search process, students and faculty were not afforded the forum to f0 debate openly the merits of Bruce John- S E stone. Our outrage is justified simply on the fact that once again our voices have not been heard. Unfortunately, today's con- Marburger cuts a big one. Stony Brook turned 30. frontation with the Board could have been avoided had the search process been open Just another day in paradise. -to members of the University."

•palge 6, TheS.tony Brook Press --Viewpoint i i Pigeons Home to Roost It's Time to Restructuire Polity by Frank Vaccaro There are countless other curious lines on the new'88-89 Polity, the autonomous student government here budget, and they may have justification. But as mentioned at 1111 SUNY Stony Brook, has come under serious scrutiny this a]bove, the building senators neglected to attend the meet- Spring after dozens of clubs vehemently protested the new inigs where they could ask questions and make changes. Do 1988-89 line budget Many club leaders, as well as mem- yqou think that a club senate would display that kind of bers of Polity itself have publically denounced the organ- iiidifference? Furthermore, club senator attendance would ization and a recent campaign by the Polity President be high all year long if frequent club absences mandate that himself came within 300 votes of seeing Polity dissolved. tlhe club lose its seat for the remainder of the year. There But Polity's problems go beyond the recent budget would be other clubs eager to quickly jump in and get r* complaints and getting rid of the organization would do epresentation. The Senate's attendance would rise from more harm than good. What Polity needs is a leader willing 510% to over 90%. to make the necessary adjustments while clarifying its The club senate could have some disadvantages as well, purpose. S UULNT but nothing that can't be ironed out A cast-iron, sergeant at Like a majority of state universities, Stony Brook's arms would be needed to keep the traditionally emotional undergraduate tuition includes a $114.50 "Mandatory POLITY c!lub Presidents at bay. Strict rules would have to be im- Activity Fee" that adds up to a little more than one million Plemented and enforced from the beginning, regarding dollars. This money is Polity's budget, and gives Polity a ASSOCIATION both Senate procedures and official club membership _ _ viable administrative and representative power. The numbers. Some major non-club issues listed before might money is to be allocated to the many student clubs and Lame Organization, Lame Graphics be overlooked by club senators looking out for their club's organizations that make up this university's social life, s4elf interest Then again, could they be any more overlook- providing escape from the cold and callous academic en- ed than they are now? vironment Polity's important feature of being able to act The members of the inner circle are expected to make The main attraction of the club senate is its legitimate independently of the administration is underscored by the up for the Senator's lack of Polity knowledge as the full representation. This would breathe a fresh sense of co- administrations' many attempts to limit student power and weight of major student issues falls upon their shoulders. 0 peration and potential achievement into Polity. Couldn't student activities. Council members have seen the students lose ground in you see the Carribean Student's Organization President whole- Since 1979, growing student apathy and a lack of student almost every student issue this decade. stand up during a debate and say, "The C.S.O. and will be present at the rally activism have played major roles in undermining the The Vice-President also acts as the chair of the Senate hieartedly backs the protest On the other hand, seriousness in which Polity sees itself. Major issues like the and sets the Senate's agenda, thereby controlling the ntext Wednesday 150 students strong" really see the Cardozo building senator say, "The almost ghetto conditions in the dorms, the lack of a reliable Senate's priorities; most senators are intimidated by his or could you of Cardozo College are opposed to the lack of campus security, the dioxin contamination of the lecture her presence. Even outspoken senators rarely challenge residents ampus security and will be at tomorrow's protest" Of center, the carbon monoxide fumes in the HSC, and the these agendas. What better example of growing Senate c ourse not- the building senator from Cardozo represents Police brutality at he Kelly D party two months ago, have all illegitimacy exists than the declining Senate attendance. c lobody. Few people in any building even know who their but been forgotten in Polity's muddled present state. What The hotly contested '88-89 budget passed through their n uilding senator is. Polity needs is a leader who can make the necessary chambers by default when the senators repeatedly failed to b Right now, Polity veterans are tailoring a brand new changes that will refocus Polity on its important achieve quorum. structural Polity Constitution that takes a few good steps, but it still administrative and representative functions. building senators in charge. One thing that the Improving togetherness and communication could be 1eaves Polity The first step towards improving Polity should focus on place quad representatives on the achieved by replacing the- building senators with club ]new constitution does is improving student solidarity and communication. Polity is representation is moved, not lost senators. The first levelof student activism this decade is in Council, so that building a three tiered organization made up of an eight member If is unable or unwilling to adopt these necessary the clubs; why not tap it to create a thriving and concerned I Polity inner circle - the Council; an outer circle - committees of representation and administration, branch of student representation? Let the 25 clubs and five

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"God Bless America" @1981 Gary Johnson I (Suitable for Framing) - Viewpoint I Letting it Fall Apart

by George Bidermann combat the image of administrators as faceless figures that, "If there's not enough spaces in Chapin and you don't The vindication of 30 Tent City protesters by two sepa- behind locked doors, and I can imagine that to some extent want a ticket, take a bus from South P-Lot" rate First District Court judges tastesreally good, and I just administrators consider the student body to be faceless. If accurately reported, this quote is scary. When was the wanted certain people to know that But when administrators are so disconnected from the Slast time Altman took a two-mile bus ride from a parking lot Wednesday, April 20th marked the anniversary of some- student body that they end up closing their own building in to get to his residence? How can the Administration believe thing I just happened to see a year ago while walking to my fear of them, or their silence illustrates their anti-student this is acceptable procedure for student tenants? 7 :00pm class in the Humanities building. A bearded, stance, it only serves to promote that image. If we look at several other aspects of the Chapin rent scroungy-looking man was sitting on the hill near the buil- Tent City has continuously been referred to as a graduate strike, there is similar evidence of the Administration's ding. He had several packs with him. When my class ended student protest, and most recently Stan Altman (SB Press distance from the student experience. The University's some two hours later, I walked by the oval patch of grass and 4/14) said that in the Chapin Apartments, "The graduates offer to drop from the rent increase $65,000 that it planned trees, with the footpaths in the dirt worn by thousands of seem to think that everything can be solved by striking." to charge Chapin tenants for unrentable apartments only student and faculty footprints, and saw the same man stan- shows me that before the threat of a rent strike, the Uni- ding with some other people around a couple of tents that versity found it acceptable to charge student tenants for had been pitched on the grass. I shrugged, not really sure these dilapidated, uninhabitable units. Similarly, the Uni- why it was there but not really wondering, either, and con- versity's plan to charge a mandatory monthly telephone fee tinued on. It wasn't until several weeks later that I met the of $12 to $17 for each Chapin resident, possibly including people who started the demonstration, and came to under- children, is not just ludicrous, it is unjust Why can't Stony stand what they were protesting. Brook students have the freedom to decide if they want to Within a week the campsite, which didn't get dubbed ". adm inistrators are so pay a fee for a telephone? Does the Administration really "Tent City" until much later, had grown and it stayed there " believe that because it signed a contract with ROLM, stu- a month and was then dismantled, set up again, viciously d iscon nected from the dent tenants should have to help pay for the phone system dismantled by the assistant directors of Public Safety, we or move out of their apartments? were busted, w weredismissed, end of story, right? student body that they I believe part of the problem is that the Administration Wrong. The end District Attorney's Office, surely at the ur- clg o n just doesn't know what the students want because they ging of Stony Brook's Administration and/or SUNY Cen- Up closingtheirownbulld- have trouble seeing us as individuals. Or maybe they just tral, has announced plans to appeal the dismissals. The sad ing in fear of them " have trouble seeing. It's been more than two years since the but laughable saga of how Stony Brook's Administration n F m ... clock in the lobby of the Administration building stopped arrested students who were demonstrating grinds on to working, and it still hasn't been fixed. Six weeks ago, at the another chapter, and innocent students must endure at rally against US intervention in Central America, I noticed least several more weeks of wondering whether they'll have that the foot-high letter"T" in the word "Administration", to appear in court to testify about their innocence, and which hangs over the main entrance to the Administration whether another judge will laugh the charges out of court or building, was missing, making it the "Adminis ration" buil- if these Mickey Mouse charges wil actually go to trial ding. As of last Friday, it was still missing. The University Senate first heard that there were plans Doesn't the Administration know that 14 of the 30 students Yet all last week, the academic mall buzzed with activity to appeal the dismissals at its April 4th meeting when Pres- arrested at Tent City were undergraduates? Doesn't Stan as cleanup crews worked to get the grounds looking nice for ident John Marburger, who ordered the arrests, brought it Altman know that there are undergraduate students who the 30th birthday party on May 1st. Do students and faculty up while responding to GSO President Bonnie Hain's re- live in Chapin and that they also are on strike? realize that all this spiffing up of the campus is only being port, which asked for the Senate's support of the Tent City; I find Altman's comment about the parking situation in done so that all the alumni, who haven't been at Stony protest After Marburger left, the Senate unanimously Chapin even more disturbing, given that he is the Pres- Brook in years, will see what a clean, well-maintained cam- passed a resolution urging Marburger to contact SUNY idential Fellow for Housing. With over 500 cars registered pus we have? I can't help but wonder if the Administration Central and the Attorney General's Office and ask that no for the complex and approximately 300 spots, many stu- is really looking at the problems here, or just concerned appeals be filed Did Marburger ever contact them and ifhe dents cannot find legal spots there, but the University says about glossing over the surface so it an did, why was be sure to get all he unsuccessful? it will be steppingup ticketing and towingof illegally parked those alumni bucks. At a university of Stony Brook's size, it is difficult to cars. As reported in the Press on April 14th, Altman said (The writer is a The Fourth Estate: Commentary former Tent City arrestee). No group or individual has has utilized Connolly also provides historical and ~___ the media in this country to prove a point, practical support for the communication If After the establish a position, or open provocative the "media telegrams" are sent to enough, established negotiating process between societies has discussion ince the publishing of the people, produced in enough quantity that failed or stalled, an alternative would be for one side to publish Federalist papers were published in New nearly everyone in a particular area would their detailed negotiating position in a widely York papers in 1787. distributed be able to know what other people are document. At the same time they could request a similar public The Federalist papers were expertly thinking aboutorwould like to do(or not do) response from their written, widely distributed, and designed to to improve living conditions. adversary. convince New Yorkers to ratify the newly- 14 Today hesn docstest are distr•utesd written Constitution. This i what oUld sn INC ache It thea aeriplace no wlouldar 1 take the of te'e-te-taso year has seen incredible attention netwsapern ad eaesigase for businesses they respose?. ar creoaelyrfrr d to a dv•artiltg meietting botale l1dAee " John 11M Connolly is a writer, buinesman te, ratM• A society could etill accoplslhat n ter o: se. It i. .a alternative paid by students to every detail of the U.S. lee goelas bringing that could he esd rwrld attentron to the sheeasuch direct teIe hra" down as hs often Hero this sedium• of foratis• is led as eprbles In their reglon. rallying and theorist who would like IdeLpedest nd" ComNmicnatl( .stport as eoccurred. to see docu- Presidential election A media communica- tM. the ir m•bersc rnd other., structuring a ments of this sort widely constetttion and posibly esggesting sanotlon distributed tion would help to bring more people into THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA Wo tfor ar INad bmhas homld throughout the media again COMMUNICATION CAN BE F- An Indepen- the fray of things How can someone act e'dy his it et if USED AS A MECHANISM TO rpre towa Sthefut busfeases he s.e.ed e dent Media Comunication is a format for ADDRESS DISPUTES BETWEEN they don't know what's going on, what other "in S T. i-te -- lets.,,to t , e. -,ognizedIn the INC,m ,nst o• r sosld• o SOCIETIESOfSOCIaETIES r fer ee thees"fi betes oness eadltIre ellLo dolarsincldn producing a large-scale document through people te rot. the th printig aed substantlal lgoitLrl are feeling? the doml of past asdd epese whohe dlstributed ln a mjor seas .. r tss•at gaezi•els. tsld which any group of people could propose, thee m ee tiehg hrdathedrees be experee that the U.5. The media communication won't make Se aiscitlt icn trs1mat of td- tr snedeforesoetle 2t hataemp tto for example, a piece of legislation, or terms conflict Utnlie earlier paid meigoes as InCin a nicihel rralt 4192-1964)Fraes. negotiatetith theaide-on mod disappear, but it would be an qualtatirvely ditteref t trotg*r a th the potental for muh gretoer impeat. A docsment Foucault taught that o• should seasrh for what of negotiation with an enemy. &aL- Ioedars o t eeriety to desoribo the le stresss excellent tool to start working with a ad ld eautsifl Lna mocity. why miud this cmnasiutio nstrategyhe details a"d problem of their region Is aee heH believed tht aasuperior courseo fi eatios derstandble t.o the oameners. It ould to create from se eIgelfarly diffoot tthanrasInu tbhraro be as o what already xisos.rathr than thr ih the med portunity for thet cieity to tearieng d-s asd eginnintg aws. Put mtheirraebefoere the samicansand World seeer tubliclsby relting a smpeothAti. aed compellig that tnfidenac e n Lmportnat sto ry. estWhat would be the 0e1sst Is en atereement heteasesieties. aor prlnctpal difference e•xple, isn Soutbhsrias the blachtledere her eteen esgotialng face-to-tfae and this attempted to lnstill csonf•idee that the rights What mid ·as sesesntisstrategy -mono ~ at astiatinte insublicr Of the White elserity mido beh respeted In goveIrmemt toelled by the biacks. Whenleders mestefsre-to-ftae, these tea SDeclaratins and P 14ý etmight began With the history atofthat are Judged by she pgarastees sof in a douatent region and lhy thee *people stareset of tre distriutedatrldide and esiged by lders oft are eeking chngso. rticlptlripai egotaltors. It a srolety were It m•ud Inc ude theirrgsleo e90a dlfferellt t•rti•sa of that eslet" wld tend to a"ttitionl alwdely ppblish an INCmany peorle aromsdthe L=art principoes. It could also inleld their world ould he greter conesldsee to the shites teed V reeivlng the sm dou•mfret. others) theamatemet stransmited thrshom 4"14ti"Otla...lauua gi9mu aGl by potlas, so --eee thle neagortatig that all cld un•dstand proeres ssoud aDoJ UG"atlcles. thse lsses. by ans•di•re vatly moreritftotmesd of the totality of that issue than ha anoeally boee S-- tthe ca. soeesmsbitteremeporlaseehehav eeeriee the see onleoosensto haht 4%r rwouldrate• leaders ofa aaciety•itsthm yaeesrer, f A ed e iI ethe pItsb-lica o.istitionst r t otiates o a . io < , metl-- to essg, ep.' "hAn that allociaedinial agrementprts of theod Incce toate&tts difterasen slmln ime he tartinsa within thatsciet truAsese Ae rI aeos m .ist. bhus.by W mom "me the \100 "o ronciliagse a dtdreergOher-differe••ed te *)tng seesees emiht he- creted is lightf a sarishaia the 'erLa t (Ill-le"0c Cie. g reater need .. to negotiate a taunified who. against their crms adversary. oadee•. 5aL (1s09-1 0 a1edie. hehas sobserved that the Reformation tooart Therewmild .mahatmas dhi areated a philosophy ThemediumisheJo ss dtplacr ealso ubeh powertfilr nestavo for olesader* eleht. crlied rhenthe intention ofrthe prining prees sade a scity heera thatheeesed filst ISouth Africa to partiatrete or riskatheg left ouseteatdlater isnadle. Sgtintw, the tIr the siels arrtalieh te the asea. The advent Of much a dreamtlcad of telisalironaad instatnt rpublic rroess. allm a iocietyto followseedhkie pianat see- ioaeunictionhas brought wred-aide revolutiol abouterther by bringisg the mird loser tagethex the'yalrot are daissirntgA aby wasseesiegsht they stete theaegueeleg mied shst [^ La a "Giebal Village." Beself that the sdisy A Negot-la tng Idea of ltforeation has prdofouvl effetsed prlti.r- ronolmc. and as a wholedeNO" -religdei. ss datdonteo avrsartliesthisharty (scity) Ithroughout humanhstery. r eldr ocdee to Lstrise thih rerey I No lasg mwoda scetyt' mNC 7Th . . . ue, tere IstIs antipe that It e the prty Image byJustin Parsons so t- w r - i *mr $di I ttett at i sl ed it the stati e Wit. "e0•e e n t• a l eLIOu d nh el e wa, y rd eI I hlle~t dyto be ylotu tvsi ostrPitseas ry I1. asses*Ag e y senyaldL reatst.· t eptgegstt2•fin or asdeit it widesreadd eribtim a" yet halong enoug.t•h foor. r t the oWreb "W~t beheals. the go"? This is a picture of a clock that used det r.t^t S u.at to hang in our office. We had this - 5 a 010»•011 w ouled beI bvieaa Whywouldsaarermt for odnough hie ta tbpisete atc•a the.The rmsn" sblL clock for a long time, and we have reepsondtoas157 aetestr ruller (It*I3a1 samted sit&tes. faoiof thtae etiatio ases " llsthat bathj become accustomed to its face. Last They eseld tesiles that If the ehallesg, e ru ler daesteatod that b yapplylng sacisetif1Csthe luhefes sersetoletire letesamlone laid set tsr all to ase rest sU Ct, hsesledge tlrltleatl 9 anIM m1dM orid euetbhy teecanProduEe Istra " to a*"&me t um fog week, some eight shift to these whshmde themrvreoutslut with less reee. 5 ealessed ctrol miy tee tawthe a inerts sleazy moron with nothing better Pehlc reese pis. Ales. to do stole it from us. So it they reJOred eh tha tthe tprrtunley exists, osasePoliticrl seshisr he"Sg rather thee esietieg it eatzigh tre psesihdty teatetsars tiarlasee esed fall whoever you are, bring it back. 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______Gang Bang In a World Hopper has come back into his own, star- continued from back page ring in a number of major pictures, includ- man who would sleep with a gang leader at a ing Blue Velvet, River's Edge, and party, particularly in the minutes between Hoosiers (for which Hopper was nominat- Gone Mad... the time the party was broken up by a ed for an Academy Award). With his back- machinegun attack, and the arrival of the ground, Hopper reportedly got along well police. She screams " You don't know me at with the actual gang members who played all" at Penn, and thatcould go for the aud- many of the small parts in the film. ience as well. In a tragic example of life imitating art, But Colors' strengths far outweigh its two gang members scheduled to appear as weaknesses. In the complex world of the LA extras in Colors were killed in drive-by streets, neither Penn's nor DuvalTs appr- shootings during the time the movie was oach will be completely right or wrong, but being made. each can learn from the other and live-or Colors has already sparked some gang die-with the results. violence at showings in Los Angeles and It is Hopper, though, who gives Colors its other cities, but less than had been feared brilliance. Only his fourth film (after Easy by many of the movie's critics, who origin- Rider, The Last Movie, and Out of the ally wanted the movie banned in many Blue), Hopper was recommended to pro- areas. ducer Robert Solo by Penn. A major star in As in Easy Rider, this movie ends in an the sixties, Hopper spent the next fifteen orgy of violence No one wins, but enoigh of years pursuing smaller parts and battling the combatants-cops and gangs alike- with a variety of problems and addictions. are left to fight and fly their "colors" an- Sober for the last three years, however, other day. I --- Smithereens

continued from page 13 though You look around and you see that Beach Boys, The Who, The Kinks, Stan certainly, it does. But we've all worked too Kenton; so many different bands, the Ra- hard and too long for fame to make any mones. We've had many, many different weird changes in our personalities. influences. Do you consider yourseltes a close-knit Who's your favorite current band. group' Young Fresh Fellows, from Seattle. I would say for sure. Three of us, exclu- Do you like to perform in small intimate ding Mike, have known each other since 3rd clubs or large ones:' grade. 've known Pat for over ten years. I like to play anywhere as long as the We're more like a family than just a musical audience is good. Really, the size of the group. place doesn't make as much of a difference What are your vieu's towards the music as the attitude of the audience. industryv Describeyour typical fan. They offer people with dreams a chance That varies. Judging from our fan mail to help realize them. They make your re- and the people we meet, there are all dif- cords heard and put your music in front of ferent age groups. Sometimes we get letters people. from 9 year-olds then forty year-olds...It's What's your advice to sprouting bands quite varied. uho are trying to make their music heard: Qre you afraid that if you become famous The most important thing is to believe in v' one day, you may turn into an"outwuardly" yourself and what you're doing and realize dead minded-robot-freaklike Michael-Jack- success is not going to happen overnight. It son: usually takes a number of years of hard No, definitely not. We feel our music is work and low or no paying gigs. You have to universal It's for everyone who likes it. The tolerate traveling around and beating your more people we can reach, the better. head against the wall; be prepared for a Well, that's very nice but that's not exactly tough ride. But if you really want to do wuhat 'm asking. Do you think fame takes its something, you make your mind up and just toll on an individual's character: do it. For us, it's a dream come tiue, Sve never been in that situation. I'm sure, really. ,, I "Our Activity Fee is tied into athletics, we should be using it for cultural activities," he Athletic said, "take our money out of the hands of amateurs and put it into the hands of administrators." Fee What the Board will actually do is not continued from page 3 clear yet. While Johnstone has openly supported the fee, some Trustees need in approving athletic budgets two years convincing if the fee is to go through. advance and placing the money in an ac- Trustee Mele told Pogue and Hostetter count to gain interest" Duarte explained. that their "goal could still be achieved Student governments at some schools, without creating another monster...another however, whole-heartedly support the fee. set of administrative posts." Mele also Clayton Lavanti, Buffalo State College's suggested that if NCAA teams need more Vice-treasurer (Chancellor-elect Bruce money, that the Board could pull $1 per Johnstone is currently Buff State's presi- student out of State funds. "If you take one dent) asked the Board to pass the proposal dollar, no-one will mind," Mele said, "take $25 and you'll hear screaming." ... None are I - - Madder The Stony Brook Press o- Image by Justin Parsons III May 5, 1988 page 11 --L" MMM _ II I I I -- ...... :-:- ...-:. :: :: . ..:0.:--.:..:.:-. -:.-.-:. . . .:-.:..:.: ::-- :::::.::.-::".:..- ::.:::-::. ::::::.::: :: · .==~'.''.'=== r · ~·~...... ·. · r r=·~·...... ~'''·''r~r··rr...... r·

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page 12 The Stony Brook Press MMIR March of 1980 marked the official begin- Who is the ringleader of the Smither- ning of the New Jersey band The Smither- eens? eens. PatDiNizio, lead vocalist andguitarist Ringleader? It's a democratic type of had been strumming his guitar since boy- Four group. However, I would have to say since hood Ugly Guys His ad in a newspaper for musicians Pat is the front-man and writes most of the was answered by Jim Babjak, guitar and material, he is the main focus. I really vocals; Mike Mesaros, bass, vocals; and wouldn't say, though, that Pat is the main Dennis Diken, drums and vocals-allgram- An Interview with Dennis Diken focus on stage. There are four distinct per- marschool buddies-whowere themselves in sonalities in the band and I guess Pat gets search of a lead singer. Mesaros has said of the Smithereens quite a bitof attention because he writes the that, "The band had its own sound from the songs and sings lead...we're a very demo- very first moment that the four of us sat down cratic situation. to play together-itwas chemistry." You guys will be playingthe Bottom Line in The Smithereens immediately began tour- Manhattanfrom May5- 7th. Is that showpart ing clubs all over the East Coast In 1983-4, of a long tour? the band hooked up with Otis Blackwell We just hit the road about a week and a ("Don't be Cruel" and "Great Balls of Fire') half ago. We started in Norfolk, Virginia and for a series of live performances and two we're booked until September right now. Blackwell-produced LPs. In October of There's dates being added all the time. 1985, DiNizio sent out demos with just his Where will the band end their tour? name and number. Days later, Enigma Re- Well, we don't know exactly where the cords signed the band tour's going to wind up. But after our Bos- As the bandgelled the album Especially ton show, we're going to do a couple of other For You was released on Capitol Records dates in the New England area. We go to with Dan Dixon as producer. It became one Philadelphia, New York, the Midwest, in- of the top 100 LPs of 1987 and gained a spot cluding Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis. We at the top of most year-end critics' lists. work our way west and play four nights in Especially For You included "Blood and LA, Portland, Seattle, Southern California, Roses," "Behind the Wall of Sleep" and "In all over the place. a Lonely Place". Do you take your families on the road with Last month, the Smithereens released you? Green Thoughts on Capitol, and like Oh no, no. It's not like a vacation at all It's Especially For You it's sure to be a suc- a lot of traveling, a lot of work. There's really cess. no time to spend with friends or families. The boys are in town this weekend to It's just basically the band members. perform at the Bottom Line in Manhattan at When you're on the road, do you party 4th and Mercer (tonight/tomorrow/Satur- much? day: 8:30 & 11:30). Tickets are $12.50. All Usually, although I wouldn't say a lot. shows are sold out, but Standing Room There is some time for that, but most of the Only tickets will be sold at the door. time we're traveling, doing sound checks or The Press spoke with Smithereen going to used book stores. Dennis Diken on April 27th about all sorts of Which countries are you most popular important monumental things: Mik* Msoaw5M>.7.io Pat int America. What message does your music try to We embellish songs with our own ideas. Pat What about England? Interview by Quinn Kaufmann convey? will have the basic idea; in rehearsal, he'll Yes, there too. We also do very well in We're here to entertain. There's no pro- bring in an acoustic demo and play the How did you get the song Iceland, Spain and Uruguay. name "The Smither- found message. We just try to share our for us. Then, we'll all add eens'? our own parts and .lret you recognized as a Smithereen on the emotions with people. unite what you hear on our records We got the name as kids. I thought and at street. it up, Who wurites the music? our concerts into a unit. after watching cartoons and hearing the Yeah, last night we were at an Alarm con- Well, Pat usually writes the music and Sometimes do you improcisce phrase, "I'll blow you to smithereens." cert. lyrics. And although Pat usually writes the Oh yeah. That's How t'ere theyt really where it came from, and I had songs, we usually arrange them together. just compiled a list of possible band names Good, but we didn't stay for the whole in the late '70s. I compiled a couple of hun- show. I only saw a bit of it, and in the lobby dred names and that was one of them. "The we were talking to quite a few kids who Smithereens" just stuck out and it sounded the universally known La Bamba tune, "My recognized us. best buddy just decided to end it all and like it should be a name for a band. After we Green Thoughts What are The Smithereens' long term decided to call ourselves The Smithereens, took forty-four valiums; and now he's ?goals? dead." someone actually wrote us and said "Smi- Basically just to keep doing what we're The Smithereens have admitted that the thereen" was an Irish word, and we looked'it doing now. It's great that we now have an sound on this album strives for a stronger looked it up in the dictionary and found that audience. After doing this for so ~c~ musical impact many it meant "little pieces". LcX::':..·· :.·.-si;. However, DiNizio, who ·ii· '4~, years, it's great that finally people have rz.. ·.i· writes the music, should learn how to act a Someone told me the name Smithereens picked up on what we're doing and enjoy ·i:~-. make the songs play as a whole. sounds sort of violent bit, and what we're doing. We really don't look be- iijd fci~c:w~~ As said, this album will Ilaughsf It wasn't thought of as such when ::~:::% be adored by yond doing what we're doing at the moment. we did it, but you can interpret it any way radio stations. The songs are short and the We just want to keep on making good re- you want. lyrics, emotional. The song, "Only a Mem- cords and hopefuly sustain a career that The name of your new album is Green ory," has aready become a hit on the air. people will enjoy and that we'll enjoy what Thoughts. What does that mean? DiNizio has a voice like salty butter, we're doing too. It's a career now and now Well, there's a song on the album that's which makes him unique. He is himself, and we're getting paid for what we're doing- it's called "Green Thoughts". The reference is completely original. wonderful Some to envy or jealousy and after we recorded songs have classic ability.The I)o you guys hope to be mega-superstars the album, we didn't have a title that we lyrics of " The World We Know," unlike one day? some songs on the album, compliment the were sure of and upon looking at a number Our focus is really not on that It's really powerful music. DiNizio sings, "Broken of tunes on the album, we noticed there was just keeping the integrity in our music, and heariTtime to go/torn apart/Romeo." Del a theme of jealousy in a couple of them, so hoping that we could keep doing quality we thought "Green Thoughts" would be an by Quinn Kaufman Shannon sings backup like the backup on work. "Gimme interesting title. Shelter" by the Stones. He's al- Because of your success has there been an Is that why there most better than DiNizio. increase in your finances? is a grceen haze over the Thoughts, an album about album cover? Also, a potential classic is "Especially I guess so, yes. jealousy and love was released on For You." Yeah. he Smithereens Green DiNizio sings like a melancholy Has money changed your life? T Capitol Records last month. Al- poet, "It'sthe same every night/ when I turn Is the sound in Green Thoughts dif- No, not at all Well, now I can afford to though, it is at times a bit too repetitive, too ferent from the previous off the lights/hugging my pillow instead of buy new shoes once in a while. Especially For long in spots, like an extra verse or beat in a You album? you/In the morning I rise, and tell myself What's the biggest change in your life be- song- it is overall a catchy album which has Yes, we have a tougher sound on the gui- lies/ I pretend that rm happy/In spite of cause of your increasingpopularity? an abundance of radio appeal you." tars and drums. We think it's a logical step We just spend more time on the road, and Pat DiNizio, lead vocalist, has claimed This album is meant up from the last album. to entertain briefly are busier with our careers. that love songs are the only ones worth and not make a lasting impression. It makes Songs from your last album, Especially Who are your influences? listening to; and the eleven cuts on this one feel good. It's the type of tape you pop in For You, seem to lament a lost love, as can Well, we grew listening to radio in the album are all about love. DiNizio's lyrics when you're happy and you listen to it to be heard in "Blood and Roses". Are your '60s, and that was an inspiration, making us often rhyme, making him appear a true maintain your happiness, and it's the type songs >ased on personal experience? want to learn how to play. Anything that was poet, yet the happy melodies often clash of music you listen to before you go out It's Pat wrote "Blood and Roses". I think he really good, of quality while we were gro- with his gloomy themes. a good walking/Walkman LP. However, if would 11yol, that some songs are based on wing up in the late '50s, early '60s, was an Take their song, "Elaine." The lyrics are you're set to just hang out and muse about personal experiences. Others, he would say influence. Ohhh, geez, I could rattle off a completely depressing- lamenting lost love life, skip this album, lock yourself in your are written from his observations of things bunch of influences; certainly the Beatles, - yet the music is off- base. It's like singing to room and put on some old Cure. around him. continued on page 11 - --- -C I II May 5, 1988 page 13 - -- __ I · J MIIilll ,TALES-OF:THE SLUG-

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May 5, 1988 pagee15 SS,.- '.-. - .'.* "*• ., *. *",. ',. . *» *;75 - Celluloid - lepl · r I ~ by Joe Caponi ! S ennis Hopper's Colors is a bru- I tal and brilliant tale of cops and street gangs in modern-day Los Angeles. Full of shoot-outs and spectacular chases, Colors nevertheless presents a thoughtful and honest look at outlaw society. Hopper's Easy Rider, of course, is the most famous, and perhaps greatest, outlaw movie ever, but despite the fact that both films are fueled by drugs and alienation, they are worlds, as well as de- cades, apart The difference is violence. Easy Rider's outlaws were its victims, while in Colors, victimized as the outlaws are, they are killers. Pot and Acid were the drugs that provided the force behind Easy Rider. In Colors the drugs are Angel Dust and Crack-not only more violent in and of themselves, but drugs whose money-mak- ing potential drives the gangs to ever great- er violence in order to control their turf. Sean Penn and Robert Duvall star as two Los Angeles policemen, members of the actual LA anti-gang unit CRASH (Com- munity Resources Against Street Hood- lums). Penn, nicknamed "Pac-Man" for his big yellow car (which "gobbles up" the bad guys), is young and aggressive, with a taste for humiliating those he arrests. In the bat- tle of the streets, he wants to win. Duvall, on the other hand, is a year away from retire- ment and wants to survive. He will give the Dennis Hopper and friends. gang members breaks in small matters, so they "owe him a favor," and might avoid a y more serious crimes. olooay revenge urten, the victims are m- zlng chase scenes and it is breathtaking in aspect will work out Most disappointing of Arrayed against them are Los Angeles' nocent bystanders. The fighting begins its speed and ferocity. In another, Penn all is the character of Louisa Gomez, played street gangs. A preface to the movie informs when the Crips drive by the home of a pursues a gang member into a crowded res- by Maria Conchita Alonso. Attracted to viewers that there are 600 street gangs in Blood, killing him in his front yard with a taurant and the two battle in the kitchen, Penn, she is also repelled by his brutality, LA with over 70,000 members, and that shotgun blast Later, his funeral is disrupt- fighting savagely until Duvall arrives to fin- particularly after he spray-paints the face of there were 387 gang-related killings last ed by machinegun-wielding Crips in anoth- ish the job. In both scenes, Hopper's superb her young cousin. She seems like a sensible, year alone. er "drive-by" assault visual sense comes through, with image likable character. Not at all the type of wo- In Colors, the "Crips" and the "Bloods" Penn and Duvall's pursuit of the church piled upon image in a rich mosaic. continuedon page 11 Tales from the Dark Side Hurly Burly Camps out in Theatre I

by Kyle Silfer ensemble cast gave no reason for dissatis- itself on sheer contrivance alone-but the in the actions of the characters on stage, and faction. plot drifts about elusively, evolving slowly, the laughs become less and less frequent Hurly Burly follows the daily then ultimately vanishing in a tide of dis- he Thursday evening crowd for lives of a The line between humor and horror is a fine T David Rabe's Hurly Burly was, pack of divorced (or separated) Hollywood parate, confusing events. one, and Hurly Burly dances purposefully initially, sizeable and reasonably career men who complement their desper- Rabe has not so much a story to tell as an along it, sometimes stumbling indiscrimi- enthusiastic. But by the end of ate, miserable, paranoid, feeding frenzy of ambience to create (hence, the tents). nately into one domain or another. the play's three-hour running time, at least an existence with frequent doses of drugs Eddie's apartment/campsite becomes a It was, however, director Farley Rich- half the audience had vanished into the and sex. The action takes place on a land- nexus for the unsavory power struggles and mond's harnessing of a spirited cast that night scape of sand, tents, and coolers--a weirdly crass interrelations that comprise the gave this production its ultimate success. In This high attrition rate stemmed, no symbolic representation of an apartment in friendships and love interests of Hurly a play so dependent upon the simulation of doubt, from a combination of the play's the "wilderness" of modern California- Burly's characters. The drama, and humor, reality, the seven actors and actresses offer length and its considerable demands upon and centers on the neuroses and paranoias that evolves is chiefly misogynous, mis- convincing performances that rarely let the the intellect A less-than-patient audience of Eddie, a casting director who finds his ogamous, and misanthropic, hitting close to text down. Morgan Margolis as the self- member might perhaps have found the pad the favorite crashing place of a variety the bone often enough that the play estab- destructive Phil, and Andy Steiner as the second ten-minute intermission too tempt- of friends, associates, and total strangers. lishes a rapport with the audience by success-minded Artie, play well off D.W. ing an escape from the drama unfolding The dialogue is swift, funny, and excruti- recognizing its darker tendencies. Reichhold's manic, sardonic Eddie. As stu- within the Fine Arts Center Theater I, but atingly clever--often so clever that it jumps With each successive act, those ten- dent theatre goes, it's tough to beat. the performances and pacing of the tight out of character and attempts to sustain dencies become increasingly more evident r I 1 111w -111 · -Ib rl ~ I ·- · I - lldl I - 3 · --~L LL- · L -I II mmmm