OBSER VER Volume 16, Number 6 College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York April 15, 1992 CONGRESS USG PROPSES CONSIDERS HIGHER EflSINGLIMIT ACTIVITY FEE
ON RID By Anastasla Damlanakos The United Student Government met on FArr-"B"f agteagMsa—^-^: .- April 8th to discuss several proposals. The agenda included the first draft of the new Constitution, plans for Senior week, a proposed increase of the student activity fee, and future plans for the the Student Lounge. Although many senators did not attend, =_= z —"•fir ~* • • » • this meeting was crucial in deciding the budget for USG. The Student Activity fee may be increased up to $75 by Fall 1993. "We desperately need the money... it would make the quality of life at Fordham a little p*«r« »j ««j Locke The Council also announced allocation of beds in the donn bit better", said Freshman senator Mike Murray. A petition for the increase has to be signed by 15 percent of the undergraduate student body ( 265 students) before it goes into effect. COLLEGE COUNCIL DISCUSSE The Student Lounge will be furnished will a VCR , a television.and a a stereo sound system if the Fall budget allows. QUINN MEMORIAL The Senior Week cruise will cost $60 per Sheila Harris beds which students can choose on a fust .ticket. Plans to name the Lowenstein Library after come first serve basis. the late Dr. Gerald M. Quinn, Dean of CLC, CLC was allocated 295 out of the 400 beds phmtm by Roy Loekt and the status of the new Lincoln Center that were asked for, said Bristow, and along By Sean Gallagher Dormitory were some of the topics discussed with the pooled beds, CLC should have from G.R.E. Computes at the College Council meeting on April 2. 350-375 beds. He said that one of the criteria t Legislation now in a Congressional for allocating pooled beds is based on the committee has the possibility of increasing The College Council, announced its plans to have a plaque in honor of the late Dean distribution of full-time students on each By Rebecca Sausner financial aid to students at CLC, according The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) will to Mark Goldstein, Associate Director of Quinn. An unveiling ceremony of the plaque school's campus, which we have more of. is scheduled to be held on the first CLC will have floors 3-8, the 9th and 10th be available in a computerized format, Financial Aid. beginning in October 1992. The format of "Every so often the government looks at anniversary of his death, Wednesday floors are the pooled beds, and floors 11-20 November 11,1992 at 4 p.m.. are for the graduate students. the test is being designed b'y the the whole financial aid component in Educational Testing Service (ETS) and terms of the basics, from filing to the After Quinn's death there was "a Organizing Freshman life was another topic spontaneous outpouring" of suggestions of relating to life in the Dorm. Having faculty will be available at 400 Sylvan Learning allocation of it [aid] and they see what, in Centers across the country. the past few years was wrong about it, what what the University should do to members working with Freshmen in groups commemorate Dean Quinn, said Edward J. that dealt with certain themes, such as The computerized format that will be needs to be changed," Goldstein said of available in the fall is an exact copy of the the reauthorization of the Higher Bristow, Acting Dean of CLC. A committee service/volunteer work, was one of the ideas met and decided to make a request to the brought up at the meeting. standard pencil and paper version that will Education Act, which covers most federal be given at the same time. 'In this linear student aid programs. Congress last looked Board of Trustees of the University to name "It's a way of underscoring to incoming the library the Gerald M. Quinn Library, he students what makes us different than other form, the questions proceed in a at the financial aid system in 1986, said predetermined order, just as on the paper Goldstein. The reauthorization process is said. institutions," said Michael Marine, Assistant Professor of History, after the meeting. version. Research on the 1,200 students influenced by the fact that it is an election "With its "encyclopedic quality, it's most who participated in the pilot studies year and the country has been in a appropriate for carrying Gerry's name," The Council also announced its plans to showed students scores were comparable recession, he said. Bristow said. develop links between CLC and the Alvin between paper and pencil tests and the Both houses of Congress have been Another topic discussed was the allocation Ailey American Dance Center, which is linear computer test. of beds in the dormitory, which is slated to located on 61st Street near Amsterdam involved in looking at the system of aid to Another type of computerized GRE is college students. The House of open in Spring '93. Out of the 861 beds in Avenue. It is hoped that by January "93, CLC the 20-story dorm, which will house grads students, and the Dance Center's students, tentatively slated for release in September Representatives overwhelmingly passed a of 1993. In this format, the questions are bill that would raise income eligibility for and undergrads, 18 are for handicapped will be able to take courses at each other's students and 38 are for residential assistants campuses. CLC students can take courses at selected by the computer, based on all students to receive grants and loans to whether you answered the previous $49,000. The vote took place on March and faculty, said Bristow. This leaves 805 the Dance Center through the theater program beds, and there is an additional 110 pooled or as electives for credit. question correctly or not. The questions 27th and signaled the beginning of the keep getting harder, until you answer final phase of reauthorization. The Senate incorrectly. The next question is easier, voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill and so on. The computer is able to test on financial aid in February. Both bills are around this level, each question now in committee to work out a NEW YORK'S RAUCUS determining your score more precisely. compromise. Congress wants to institute "This test allows for less of a standard the changes by 1993, "but as anything in deviation, allowing it (o be a far more politics you're going to have squabbles," CAMPAIGN : accurate test.",, said Fred Danzig, Vice Goldstein said. He said it was more likely President of Product Development and that any changes would take effect in Research at the Stanley Kaplan test prep 1994. CLINTON WINS, JERRY SPINS, center. The House bill raises the amount of The linear version of the test will money a student can receive, and at the & TSONGAS DECIDES TO GET OUT eventually be phased out in preference to same time widens the pool of students that By Cecil Harris the computer adaptive version. However, are eligible for Pell Grants, said Goldstein. eligible Democrats chose not to vote at all. the pencil and paper version will not be "In the past few years to receive a Pell Arkansas governor Bill Clinton revived a Clinton won in each of the five boroughs completely phased out in the foreseeable Grant has been petty much difficult," said flagging campaign and significantly with Brown placing second, more than future, said Danzig. unproved his chances of capturing the Goldstein. The House bill would raise the 100,000 votes behind. Clinton beat This test will also be about $45 more than current limit on Pell Grants of $2400 to Democratic presidential nomination by Tsongas in the suburbs, and outdistanced winning the New York primary on April 7. the standard linear version, though fee $4500 in 1994, when the changes are Tsongas in the upstate counties by roughly waivers will still be available for hoped to take effect, said Goldstein. Clinton received 41 percent of the vote, 100,000 votes financially eligible students. The The Senate bill takes a similar approach defeating runner-up Paul Tsongas, the Clinton's hard-fought New York win computerized test will provide greater to Pell Grants, but it does not raise the former Massachusetts senator who capped an evening of important victories flexibility in scheduling, immediate score maximum a student can receive as quickly. suspended his campaign last month. for the candidate, who had lost to Brown reporting to examinees, faster reporting It would be raised slowly and would reach Tsongas got 29 percent of the vote to in Connecticut three weeks ago. Clinton time to institutions, and a shortened $4800 in 1999. The House bill also allows Brown's 26 percent. The remaining four also won in Wisconsin and Kansas on April period between registration and testing. percent was split among former Irvine, CA 7, increasing his overall delegate count to an inflation index to be attached to the Students who are not computer literate maximum grant. Goldstein was not mayor Larry Agran, former Minnesota 1,267, leaving him 878 short of the 2.145 senator Eugene McCarthy, Nebraska delegates needed to win the Democratic may feel more anxious in this situation. optimistic about the changes saying, "I Neither computerized version allows you don't believe the government has the senator Bob Kerrey and Iowa senator Tom presidential nomination. Harkin. Kerrey and Harkin remained on to check your work, or to go back and funding for it right now." A week before the New York primary, change answers. the ballot although they dropped out of Clinton and Brown met at Lehman Congress also addressed the Stafford the race earlier this year. Tsongas This test could be offered 365 days a Loan program, formerly the Guaranteed College in the Bronx in a televised year, though in, 1992 it will only be announced on April 9 that he would drop "Debate for Urban America." The format Student Loan. Currently the government out of the race to avoid further offered 150 times. The paper test is offered pays the intereit for students who have of the one-hour program was rigidly 5 times a year. fragmenting the Democratic vote. structured and discouraged specific gotten the loans, while they are in school. The Kaplan test center will be The House would retain the current On the Republican side, President responses from the candidates. The George Bush won all of New York's 100 panelists' questions habitually took longer restructuring its test preparation to program for needy students and create new accommodate those students who wish to umubsidized Stafford Loans for all delegates by default as state party leaders to ask than the 45 to 60 seconds sllotcd for kept potential challenger Patrick answers. take the GRE on computer, said Danzig. students, while raising the amount that can The newly designed course will include a be borrowed. The House bill would not Buchanan off the ballot. Brown, running what he calls an Only 27 percent of New York's registered short tutorial on how to lake the exam, as raise the amounts students are allowed to "insurgent, anti-establishment campaign well as a windows bated preparation borrow from the current levels, which are Democrats voted in the primary. Fifty- to take back America from the greedy system. A diagnostic, practice and final $2,625 for freihmen. $4,000 for other nine percent of the voters chose someone elite," scored more stylistic points in the exam will be administered on computer at continued on page 3 \ other than Clinton, and 73 percent of the debate by making immediate, visceral part of the test preparation course. continued on page 5 Page 2 - CLC Observer - April 15,1992
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5) Thursday, September 3 DRV CLRSSES '-•-- .-:.. - • ------• BEGIN - April 15, 1992 - CLC Observer - Page 3 NEWS BANCROFT WILL HELP YOU Congress continued from page I GLC HOSTS undergraduates and $7,500 for graduate students. • The Senate bill would keep the current RELIGION START YO1 CAREER! need based Stafford Loans in place and would raise the limits on borrowing to & ART $3,000 a year for freshmen, $3,500 for sophomores and $5,500 for juniors and seniors. Graduate students would be able SYMPOSIUM to borrow $9,000 each academic year. The Senate would scrap the current interest By Danette Medina rates—the House bill would not—on Stafford Loans of 8 to 10% and replace it "Artificial life supports in our culture," with a rate 3.1% above the 91 day treasury said Senior Religion Correspondent for bill rate up to a limit of 9%. The rate the New York Times, Peter Steinfels who would inciease to as much as 11% in the was one of the speakers at Fordham's fifthyear of repayment. conference on Religion and the Arts: Images of Belief and Unbelief. The House bill would eliminate the The President of the Pontifical Council Perkins Loan by 1996-1997, while the for Dialogue with Non-Believers, Paul Senate bill would reduce the federal Cardinal Poupard also addressed the government's share to 75% of the loan, but audience on Friday, April 3. The would continue the program. Before 1996 conference was a weekend long lecture and the limits would be raised to a maximum discussion from April3-5, which looked of $6,000 by the end of a student's second at the influence of religion on art year, $15,000 by the end of senior year, and up to a limit of $25,000 by the Fordham's president Father O'Hare, S J., completion of a graduate degree, by the Dr. Healy, Vice President of Academic House bill. Affairs, and Dr. Ewert Cousins, chairperson of the committee for the conference, along The Senate would raise current limits to with the committee members began work $15,000 by the end of senior year and for the weekend conference last November. $40,000 by the completion of graduate Poupard spoke on "Arts as Witness of the school. The Senate would also provide a Spiritual." He stressed the need for artists 10% work study and Supplemental in the church because of their "unique Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) language for the invisible." Art and bonus to colleges that graduate more than religion reach for infinity and there needs half of their Pell Grant recipients. Other to be a "dialogue between faith and campus based programs, such as work study imagination," said the Cardinal. This and SEOG would have their government dialogue needs to be present according to subsidy reduced to 75% in both versions Poupard because "when religion losses of the legislation. contact with art, it can lose contact with EXTRA \% DISCOUNT Congress is looking at the way the assets the spiritual journey of wonder." of a family are viewed during the financial Peter Steinfels' talk was focused on aid process. "They want to change how "Religion in American Culture." He they look at that, if they review that at received most of his statistical data on all," Goldstein said. In addition to Americans and religion from Professor FOR FORDHAM STUDENTS omitting the equity a family owns in a Harold Bloom, author of The Book of J. home, business, or farm, the House bill and The American Religion which is yet You only have one chance for a would simplify the application procedure. to be published. Bloom, according to first impression. Make it the right one. The bill stipulates that the government Steinfels, considers the "essence of the would provide a single free form to American religion" to be the. belief that Bancroft has the correct traditional clothes students. many Americans feel God has an The Senate bill would exclude the equity individual love for them. The American you need for your interviews. And in homes and farms for families earning Religion also supplied Steinfels' talk with to help you on this all-important less than $50,000 a year. The bill would statistics such as 94 percent of Americans keep the current application process in believe in God and 46 percent can name first step, well give you a 15% place. Students would be expected to make the writers of the four gospels in the New contributions to their education from any Testament. Bloom sees America as discount on all your purchases. income they might receive up to a certain "religion soaked." Steinfel goes on to say limit. that the nineteenth century notion of the "One, big criteria [under review] is who's "inevitable passage from religious to BRING THIS AD TO ANY BANCROFT STORE independent, who's dependent," Goldstein scientific societies [are in fact] in our said. Currently if your parents claimed you intellectual and cultural consciousness." as a dependent in the two years preceding an academic year, you are viewed as a The United States' diverse religious dependent by the government, said organizations according to Steinfels may Goldstein. "They [lawmakers] want to be "the major reason why our mass media change how that's viewed," he said. A and popular arts scrupulously strain out student can be independent in reality, but references to religion or reduce religion to 363 MadisonBANCROF Avenue (corner 45th St.) 1250 Ave. of AmericaTs (bet. 49-50th Sts.) a puree. Religion in the popular arts is still be considered as a dependent based usually suppressed or diluted and religion 575 Lexington Avenue (at 51st St.) 54 W. 50th St. (Rockefeller Center) upon the government's formulas for allocating aid, Goldstein said. in the contemporary high arts tends to be 477 Madison Avenue (at 51st St.) 45 W. 48th St. (Rockefeller Center) extreme, apocalyptic, idiosyncratic, Goldstein warned however that," being detached from tradition or community." AMERICAN EXPRESS and other major credit cards HONORED independent doesn't mean that you're going to come in to all this federal and stale school money." He said that claiming yourself as an independent may hurt you THE MEDIA STUDIES DEPARTMENT, in certain cases since the number of dependents in your family is taken into THE HUMANITIES DIVISION AND THE account for deciding the aid package, among other variables, Goldstein said. ARTS GUILD "If they do make those changes it will INVITE YOU TO ATTEND bring more money into Fordham because I'm sure more students will show an eligibility", Goldstein said. New Courses for Fall By AnasUsia Damlanakos offering Modern Hebrew Literature in the Many of the divisions in CLC are offering a Fall. Dr. Anne Hoffman will trace the variety of new courses in their department for development of modern Hebrew Fiction and the upcoming Fall semester. These elective poetry and the revival of spoken Hebrew courses can.be applied to undergraduate from late nineteenth century Europe and majors. Russia to modem-day Israel. Literary texts The Humanities Division is presenting will often be studied in relation to the cultural twelve new courses for the fall term. Dr. politics of nationalism. The relationship of Louise Miner will be teaching a Comparative secular language to sacred language and the Literature course in Medieval Women theoretical issues this relationship raises will Writers. The course will be a study of also be discussed. The class will meet on women's influence, image, and language, in Thursdays, 6-9 pm. works written by women in the thirteenth Dr. Frank Boyle will teach The through fifteenth centuries. Female authors Scriblerians (Group ID), a course which will from many countries will be studied, focus on the Scriblerus Club and eighteenth analyzed arid discussed. century satire. The association was formed in Among these authors will be* Marie de 1714 and comprised of the Prance, Christine de Pizan, Margery Kcmpe, most well known' authors of their time, and Leonor Lopez de Cordoba. The class including Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, will meet oh Mondays, 6-9 pm. John Arbulhnot, and Thomas Pamell. The Dr. Joseph A. Perricone will analyze the most important satiric worki of the time, like FORDHAM STUDENT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL evolution of Modernist literary texts and Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, critical expositions in Modernist Poetry. The can be traced to the ideas developed by this IN THE McNALLY AMPHITHEATRE movements which will be studied are club's members and will be the focus of this Symbolism, Futurism, and Surrealism. The course. Dr. Boyle's course will meet on FRIDAY, MAY I writings of Pound, Eliot, Huysmani, Tuesdays and Thursday!, 12-1:30 pm. SESSION I 6 pm Lautreamont, Breton, Soffici, and Ungarelti Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck will will be discussed. Modernist be the focus of Dr. William Tankiley's new SESSION 2 9 pm Poetry will be held on Tuesdays, 6-9 pm. A RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW THE FIRST SESSION The Middle East Studies Program Is amtlntml on Page 4 - CLC Observer - April 15, 1992 Jordham University College at Lincoln Center Cordiatfy Invites Joii to Attend the fifth Annual CLC
, May 8,1992 from 8 p.m. to Midnight "Evening includes an elegant dinner, dancing, and open bar (21 and over). THE PEACE CLUB INVITES you PROTECT YOUR REGISTRATION TO A THABVYWHAL Students born on or after January 1, 1957, taking 6 credits or more must have proof of 2 measles CttANUPA (SACHET) PIPE) 1 mumps 1 rubella vaccinations given after the first birthday FREE MMR VACCINATIONS THE CHAPEL 2nd FLOOR LOWENSTEIN LOUNGE THURSD^l), AP%\L 30 TUESDAY, APRIL 21 10 am - 8 pm WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 10 am - 8 pm A7 7 pm THURSDAY, APRIL 23 10am - 8 pm Any questions call STUDENT HEALTH CENTER 579-2648 WE WANT WORLD PEACE April 15,1992 - CLC Observer - Page 7 FEATURES Face in the Crowd By Tina Flllato Fordham University has a wide range of feels this is due to the fact that he has spent students from all backgrounds, including Brother Martin Sellenge time with people of different nationalities many foreign countries, who have unique before. "I came to know that if one person personalities. One of Fordham's students says this to you it might mean that. This is has come from the southeast African nation what the missionaries have to know in of Malawi, which gained its independence Africa," he says. "They might misinterpret on July 6, 1964 and became a republic in the action of someone else when it is done 1966. The student is Marist Brother Martin in good will. They don't know what it Sellenge and this is his story. means and it takes them time to learn." Brother Sellenge said that he came to Living in two different cultures, Brother America to study. "My superiors, the ones Sellenge notices differences. "What is who sponsored me, met in Rome at a interesting about my people is that they Provincial meeting, where they discussed welcome visitors. It is their attitude - their where one brother would like to go for relation to all outsiders is quite cordial. further study," Brother Sellenge This is what is special about the people from says,"Where do you think it would be good my country." On the other hand people of for him to study in the United StateSand at the United States, he offers, are usually the same time be in a community not to far busy. "Lots of people, doing lots of tliis from the university?" Fordham was one of and that. Especially in school. They have so many different schools that were chosen, much to do and that keeps you busy, but but Fordham was the one that Brother that would apply everywhere." Sellenge agreed to. "They received the At this time Brother Sellenge is only in brochure from the university and I agreed Molimo. "If there was a chance of going to to the courses. The Provincial in the U.S. other clubs, I would chose the ones that deal and Canada also agreed. I chose Fordham with my major. I am in Molimo because I because of the easy transport, class size, and want to see how the people in America feel, all the services that were available." how they deal with their affairs and how they go about their business." Brother Martin Sellenge closed by saying something about the religious order he belongs to. "The Marist Brothers are a teaching congregation. It is an "I am in Mplimo because I international institution and there are 7000 want to see how people in members world wide in more than 72 countries." In a time when the United States America feel..." is strapped for people who want to enter Photo by Rbyl religious service, he says that Malawi has a Is school in Malawi different than school large population coming into the in the United States? "Yes," says Brother institution and is hopeful that the first At the present time. Brother Sellenge says world nations will soon follow suit. that he is studying the social sciences, but Sellenge. "The classes are different in size. he plans to do graduate work in social Classes in my country are bigger. We have "What is interesting about Brother Sellenge is just one part of the science with a specialization in the same courses, but there is less of a choice my people is that they mosaic that makes up Fordham, but he is an administration after he graduates in May involved." Brother Sellenge believes that important piece. Zikomo, Brother Martin 1995. When asked why he took these he has adjusted to America well. "I would welcome visitors.." Sellenge. That is "thank you" in Chichewa, courses, Brother Sellenge answered, "It will not say that I have had no trouble settling the official language of Malawi. Thank you help with education administration and down here. People call it culture shock, but for choosing to come here and enhance human resource management" I didn't experience much of it," he says and Fordham with your presence. Friends Forever? By Halyna K zyszyn Once in a while if you're lucky, there's we had some great times. Sometimes we someone in your life who means a lot to you. .would sit on stools by the windows of the y best friend decided that everything that This special friend often knows you better pizzeria where we "hung out," sip coffee and than you know yourself and is always there observe the different people walking by. We when you need advice. However, it is would try to see into their lives, and into sometimes rare for a certain friend to remain what kinds of characters they had. There were we went through together was oldnews. faithful forever. This is why long-term friends things we only told each other, and that no should be respected and cherished. other living soul could hear. Our thoughts and I'm sure everyone has experienced many feelings about many things connected us, and friendships in their life, and has learned from friendship was based on trust - or so I important What was important was for me to I think that friendships should be a priority them, and enjoyed their unique character. But thought. get on with my life, and put things in the in every person's life. It's important to have there are times when friendships can become past. For some reason though, a future friends in life that you can count on and share bitter and can slowly lose their meanings. without a "best friend" seemed pretty sad and and share your experiences with. Even after There are circumstances in life which dull. That's when I began to examine just my best friend deserted me I felt like I drastically change friendships, even erase how "good" our friendship really wasn't couldn't trust anyone. But I've been lucky enough to find true friendship again. I've them. Sometimes it's as simple as one friend I realized that she never really took other ft day didn't go by people's feelings into account, so why should developed new friendships with many of moving away, leaving the other behind. On my old friends and have met many new other occasions, greed, jealousy and the need mine have mattered? She had a habit of talking about other people in a negative way, people I carf trust and talk to. One to be liked by everyone can plague a good particular friendship, I hope, will stick with friendship. I say these things because I've without and seemed to always put herself on a me forever. This special friend's name is experienced them personally. pedestal. A number of other bad habits she Lev, and he is my personal partner as well as had came to mind, and after some time away my best friend. His everlasting support has While I was growing up, I had a "best from her, I began to feel belter about myself. friend" who I trusted and cared about. We were taught me how to trust, and believe in us talking on the phone. I enjoyed not being dependent on her for friendship all over again. inseparable, and underwent life experiences company and advice, and began to see that our together, always giving one another help and friendship was over for the best. Despite this, guidance. She and I would meet after school seeing her in public places is still a little and "hang out" in one particular pizzeria hard. I keep remembering how things used to downtown. We talked about many things: our I alway* considered myself lucky to have a be, but time goes on, and I've met a lot of lives, our goals, our futures and everything friend like her, and never thought that a great people since then that I call friends. I that would be considered "personal." We knew person could turn out to be so cruel and learned that having one single friend is not as I (earned that having we were "best friends," and that we could untrustworthy. My best friend decided that important to me as having many friends. count on each other for anything. A day didn't everything we went through together was old go by without us talking on the phone, even news. She felt she needed new friends, a new We used to not even acknowledge each though we had just seen each other a few life • new everything. I would not have had a others' presences when we saw each other, but hours before. She and I were like a team, and problem with that if she would have told me it's gotten a little better over time. One of us even our other friends thought of us that way. how she felt. Instead, she. ignored me when always says "hello" first, before an awkward Despite this union, I can now sec just how she saw me, stopped calling me, and it feeling overcomes us. However, I can still very different we were from each other. From seemed - wiped me off the face of the earth. feel an icy aura when I'm near her, but after a friend is the physical characteristics (her blonde hair This hurt me more than anything in my lifo, "Hello, how are you?" the feeling fades away. vs. my brown) to the way we interacted with and what was even worse was that she didn't 1 sec tho direction her life has taken and I other people. She had a way of making people care. understand why I couldn't fit into her world any longer. At times I feel sorry for her, since not as like her instantly, even though their It didn't all happen overnight • it drugged on I've heard her name get drugged through tho intentions were usually not "friendly." She from one painful day to the other, until a few mud many times, for many reasons. But I'll was funny and witty, and could make me months wont by. Our friendship was over, mid never forget that not so long ago, we had a important as laugh in a minute. 1 felt like I'd been pushed off a cliff. I could special friendship that I will always cherish. We probably explored every inch of Now not comprelicnd how someone who knew me York City together, always eating nt different for years, boiler than I knew myself, could rcfltniirnniK/ciife'v, and always shopping at just desert me. Did she suddenly lose .ill different stores usul hHitiutu",. Out favorite -emiilivity anc! feelings? 1 didn't know wlmi to DIIICC to '"ill WHS n sjHirt1. bur irsimiriwii on 2nd Ihink, ntxl trunkly, i didn't i-ar«. At this ]>uim ivciiiic, Ihat •Jrrves the Ix-st buffalo u\\\y>\ in i was so upset, i|ii»l trying tn IIKUK mil tin- •iiwti, There v/r ivcrr "ii'KiilarN.' and !)»•)'* Ion 'riisnris lor ;:rr Ivlmvior n'rir \\v,\ not Page 8 - CLC Observer - April 15, 1992 FEATURES By Cassandra Hayes GRE Test Dates: Registration For years, college seniors have Deadline: Taking the approached the standardized college exams June 6,1992* May 5,1992 with a combination of fear, ambivalence Oct. 10.1992** Sept.4,1992 and confusion. Finding themselves buried Graduate in pages of directions, applications and Fee: $13.00 for each score request for wjjen the «x«tt will be put Into study aids, not to mention the very thought either the student or the institution. Fee computers, Sfodents will mttttttfft of having to take another exam, some waiver available for those who qualify. School toe ^i&ptffttteed ie« ia jnwh ft* students have decided to delay taking the Msmmtytetjf «w>uM with aywteegame, exam, or have even reconsidered graduate Scoring: There are 186 questions on the /. Tr& «dyan«5 in «$Un£ will eUow me school at all. Now with the threat of General Test. Scores can range from 200 Exams •exam ip &* Scoring: 4 separate scores; Verbal LSAT Exam Dates: Retesting: Not recommended unless score is Registration substantiallylower than expected. Reasoning, Biological Science, Deadline: Physical Science graded on a scale o-f 1 June IS. 1992 May 12,1992 (lowest) to IS (highest). Written Sample is Oct. 3.1992 Sept. 1,1992 given an alphabetical grade from J(lowest) t There are also some other points to note: T (highest) Fee: LSAT $71.00 - Special accomodations are made for the LSDAS $72.00 handicapped and the disabled, i.e., Braille Retesting: You may take the exam as many Visa, Mastercard are accepted as exams, readers, translators, special testing times as you want but it is suggested payment for both. rooms, and extended testing times. no more man twice. Methods vary as - Sunday (MCAT) and Monday test dates for to how admission officers view multiple Scoring: As of June 1991, LSAT scoring has those applicants whose religious beliefs sets of scores. Most use the scores equally been changed. Raw scores of 120 (lowest) interfere with Saturday testing. and note improvements. to 180 (highest). - If you wish your exam to be hand corrected, it is possible for a special fee. Retesting: Again, only if initial scores are The Graduate Record Examinations - You may cancel your test scores at the test (GRE) are given in two parts - the General unsatisfactory. site if you don't feel that you have done Test, which measures the students verbal, Another exam that is very popular at CLC your best, or by mail within 5-7 days of the quantitive and analytical ability, and the is the GMAT or the Graduate exam's administration. Please note, that for Subject Tests that cover 16 disciplines and Management Admission Test for the MCAT this can be done at the test site measure the student's knowledge and admission to business school. This exam only. understanding of the related Held of also measures the examinees verbal and - Social security cards, birth certificates and graduate study. The exam takes quantitative ability and what is very Photo by Roy Locke credit cards are not acceptable forms of approximately three and a half hours and is important about the GMAT is that guessing identification. given in seven sections - one undefined and could be detrimental. For every wrong answer, a quarter of a point is taken from! timed section is not used in scoring, but The Faculty - So numerous that there is no cause to blame evaluates questions for use in subsequent your score. It is better to just omitj exams, don't waste time trying to fiqure out answering the question at all since you will- It this legend fails to credit them by position or by name which one it is, you only have 30 minutes not be penalized. Special Lecturer Coudert, distinguished Professor Dee, for each. Professor William Keener - State Supreme Justice - Nineteen-0-Two/-0- GMAT Test Date: Registration Three Deadline: In Nineteen Eleven, the College moves once more June 20.1992 May 26,1992 One-Forty Nassau Street - Entire Ninth Floor Space for four hundred students - And on their Graduation Day M DearDiary Ignatius Wilkson - John Loughran - R. Albert Conway A column, modeled after the Metropolitan Diary of The Bar Examination - Fordham Students - Successful and Great the New York Times, is filled with brief poetry, Double the new lawyers than any Law School in the State musings and anecdotes about life. Enrollment past four hundred - Once again insufficient space Woolworth Building - Floor twenty-eight - Nomad again - New place The Legend of Fordham Law To heed the call for Womens' Rights in Fordham Law is seen 1 Female students - Accepted now - Year- Nineteen Eighteen In a rural Fordham village in the year Nineteen-O-Four The students in the thousands now - The Faculty inspire University President Collins, paced the College floor - Carmody, Wormser, Blake, Bacon, Smith, Finn, and Mclntyre - His plans for his new School of Law had just fallen through - McGivney, Keefe, Kane, Ronan, Kilkenny, Brooks, and Meagher - No space in all Manhattan - Now - What was he to do - Corcoran, O'ConnclI, Mcgovcrn, Howcll, Kennedy, and Carr - For this infant School of Law - We've got to find some space Threc-O-Two on Broadway - Nomad again we sec The Rose Hill Auditorium can only provide a temporary place So in the year Ninctcen-O-Fivc • A tradition was begun Top five floors of the Vincent Building in Ninetcen-Forty-Plus Three Thirteen students started class - When their daily work was done The Fifties brought Dean Mulligan - On his talents now depend Transportation problems to class was soon revealed A permanent Fordham Law School Home - Nomadic travels end Working law clerks found the Bronx - Much to far afield This impressive Lincoln Center site - In the year of Nineteen Sixty-Plus One Number Forty-Two on Broadway - With Forty-Two enrolled Attorney General Robert Kennedy - There before ceremonies had begun Including "The Great Mouthpiece" - William Fallon - So I am told In the Seventies Dean McLaughlin takes over the command Students come from far and wide - And many a foreign land Dean Fuller, Father Shcaly, how successfully you cope Great were his accomplishments - A Federal Judge now seen Aided by genius of the great Professor Pope Then, the distinguished Professor Joseph A. Pcrillo became the Acting Dean The legal end of Fordham Law • All others, they soon outshine Along comes a graduate of Fordham Law - The Claw of Nineteen Sixty • Plui One First Law School Commencement Day - Year Ninctcen-O-Elght With the awesome responsibility for the new building and its fund Principal Addressee - The Governor of the State Our present Dean - John D. Fccrick - What Paul Fuller had begun Again, this nomad College to Vcscy Street, is moved The Greatest Law School here on earth • For Fordham he hag won And a full-time curriculum, about that time, approved His Faculty - the Greatest Men and Women Past and Present Directed by Ralph Gifford • His council and advice • His staff - Beyond Compare His course or lepl aptitude - So thorough and precise: The Students - IIy the hundreds now - Unroll at Vcscy Street And may I put the future in the Supreme Being's Hands and Care The Faculty enlnrgcs their requirements to meet -1.tike Carolan April 15,1992 - CLC Observer - Page 9 FEATURES Dare To Be Different' Plaza People A column in which questions asked have some social, political, historical or ethical relevance to something, somewhere at sometime. What was- the craziest thing you've ever done to attract someone's attention? By Mina Landriscina Screaming usually works. . - Linda Salavarria, Assistant Director of Student Activities Two friends of mine - who are a couple - had stayed over at my place and they were sitting on my couch completely into one another. They weren't even noticing me. Sc, - I got up and I put on a papier mache" donkey mask and my pajamas. I walked right in front of their eyes to see if they would notice me and they never did. - Stephen O'Donnell, senior I've worn a lot of perfume on purpose. - Anastasia Damianakos, sophomore My music teacher, a woman, in St. Agnes High School, and I mad a bet on who would win the World Series between the Mets and the Red Sox. If die Mets won, I would give her a big hug. I liked her. and since the Mets This student is hoping this phoUo will win him the Rail Europe contest. won big, I gave her the biggest hug By Laurie D'AttUio possible. Why not make this summer the most it includes room and board, field trips, travelers. The arrangement is a dorm—like atmosphere although some are in homes - Hiram Aponte, (call him a senior, exciting one of your life? A variety of courses, seven credits and a tutor. Airfare, he has enough credits) programs are offered both in the United which is not included runs $800 rent. that only offer one or two beds. The hostels Those of you who prefer the wild side of have separate sleeping quarters for males States and allover the world — from taking The craziest thing I ever did was on classes in Japan to building asuspended life should check out the American Hiking and females. A kitchen area is included in Society (617/545—7019) The program is a most hostels. Reservations are not required Valentine's Day. We had to buy presents for bridge in Yellowstone National Park. If someone in our church group and there was you plan onworking tftis summer you rewarding experience which offers hikers and there is a three day limit which can be the opportunity to give something back to easily extended. They are open to members a girl that I liked. I was 13 and she was 16.1 might as well make jt interesting went out and saved my money and bought byworking in a foreign country. nature. Since the project is usually in a of all ages. To become a member the cost is remote area, the team must hike in a group $25 annually and you will also receive a her a half of a dozen long stem roses - for 30 The Council on International bucks. At that time, I wasn't working, so that Educational Exchange (212/661- of about ten individuals. Although the free directory of all the hostels in the ages in the group range from 13 to 70 years United States and Canada. was pretty stupid. Then I bought her a little 1439.ext.1439) offers students the chance teddy bear from my high school. She was at to work abroad in a number of countries old, each shares a love of the outdoors. Perhaps one of the most exciting Since many of the sites are in grizzly bear Brooklyn Tech and I was at Stuyvesant. The including — Jamaica, Germany, Costa Rica, alternatives for the summer is the Rail writing on the teddy bear said, "Someone at New Zealand, and Canada. The length of territory, all members must be experienced Europe Adventure (203/847—2200) The and be willing to work hard. Over one— Stuyvesant loves me." And 1 bought her a the program varies from country to country contest is open to all students who are singing card which sang, "Love Me from three months to six months. The most third of the hikers return to the program. . traveling or studying abroad this year. It is The National Wildlife Federation Tender." When I handed it to her, she popularprogram is the work in Britain a scavenger hunt/photo contest that started crying but told me that nothing Programme. The majority of the students (800/245—5854) offers courses each encourages students to visit important summer for graduate credit which also gives would ever happen between us because she work in the service industry in jobs such as European landmarks. Students must have a was three years older than me. waiters, bartenders, retail and office work. you a chance to be outdoors. The most Rail Pass to participate. The entry fee is $15 Most jobs offer room and board in addition popular programs are those in California, if you purchase your pass from the college - Roy Locke, freshman to wages. The program assists students in South Dakota and Montana. The program connection and $25 if you buy the pass on getting permission to work abroad which is includes "Outdoor experiences in- beautiful your own. Upon entering, students receive Four years ago, I was working for very difficult to get. Fordhaml990 settings, nature walks, recreation activities, a treasure map of Europe and a list of clues, Educational Foundation, a student graduate Chris McNalley "highly discussions led by knowledgeable plus a Rail Europe Adventure T—shirt. Out * exchange program. I was working at JFK, recommends" the program and said "It was naturalists, and more." The program is very of the list of 25 clues students are only meeting and greeting the students as they the best experience. I got a lot out of it." popular with families because it also offers required to find four. 'The contest gives came from the European countries and I had The Council also offers a Japanese programs for children three and up. The students the chance to see Europe in a to make sure that they got on the right pogram which enablesstudents to "get an average cost for a family of four is about different light," said Marne Berta, a Rail flight for their American connection. One insider's view of Japanese society and its »1,600 and includes housing, meals Europe Adventure spokesperson. "It forces of the Spanish students had the wrong culture." The program runs from June 11 to lectures and classes. them to look closer. Sometimes students ticket and he had already passed the August 3 in Tokyo and includes two You don't want to limit yourself to one don't look close enough. It helps them to security check point and was heading for courses. During the program students are location? Then you should try American seek things out." Although the contest 'the wrong plane. I had the right ticket and taken on field trips to business firms, Youth Hostels. (202/783-<161) There are began in March it ends inDecembcr so there since he wasn't responding to me yelling his government offices, labor associations, and over 200 alone in the United States. The is still time. The prize is a trip for two name, I jumped the security check point factories. They are housed with Japanese largest one, which is in New York, has 400 around the world and will be awarded on and got him his ticket. families. The requirements for the program beds. The hostels cost between $7 and $15 the basis of artistic expression, humor and - Normand Parenteau, are a 2.75 GPA and a business or economics per night offering a nice alternative in photographic quality. Associate Dean of Students background. The cost is about $4,750 and accommodations for cost conscious I don't have to do anything to get attention - it just comes. - Donna Hemans, junior A Visitor in the Neighborhood 3SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS By Geoft Stoner Homelessness continues to be a hair was matted and dirty, and though I was because I identify with them. The perplexing and coirfplicated problem I pushed my way out of the train. It had not yet close enough, I assumed, as usual, vulnerability of their homelessness scares nationwide. On a personal level, my been one of those remarkably disheartening that he would be surrounded by a strong me, much me way mine terrified me. When donations to City Harvest, an organization days: the key to my desk broke in its lock, I stench. His eyes were liquid, vacant, and returning from a low-paying summed stock that feeds the homeless, are designed to mistakenly faxed a highly sensitive and crystal clear. job as an actor in 1983, my only housing alleviate my general sense of guilt, but like confidential document to the wrong firm, option was a cheap SRO Hotel whose all fraudulent panaceas, it does not last and on the trip home I sat in the tunnel over "I found myself trapped tenants, in my mind, were vagrants. My long. I know that* in reality, my donations twenty minutes in a hot, crowded subway settlement, that summer, for a low paying make life marginally more bearable for a car. With relief, I trudged up the steps out of between him and a job out in Colorado was, according to my few. It is a heart rending situation to which, the 86th Station to Central Park West, youthful reasoning, an expression of as a society, we have grown calloused. turned the corner and walked toward parking meter." freedom; increased mobility and "living on Homelessness needs a concerted effort by Columbus Avenue. I stopped at the dry I hoped that, seeing me loaded down with the edge." But upon my return to New York, the Federal Government to assure its cleaners for my suits, crossed the street and I felt unsafe and exposed. I had demise. picked my shifts up at the laundry, and had bundles, he would decide not to approach me. I pretended I didn't see him and looked miscalculated the odds in my pursuit of an Hence, nothing I do appeases my dispirit, the arm on my glasses tightened at the acting career and my financial situation at when I encounter homeless people. When I optometrist's. Finally, I bought dinner at at the sidewalk, as I passed. But he was not easily dissuaded. Out of the comer of my the time offered little room for error. By give money, I wonder if they put it to the exorbitantly priced "Gourmet working long hours as a waiter, I was able to good use. I then deckle it is none of my Delicatessen" at the corner and eye, I saw him scuffling toward me in shoes held together by little more than duct tape. save enough to move into an apartment a business. If I do not give, I feel cruel and cumbersomely made my way home- couple of months later. The entire heartless. If I tell them about a soup kitchen After walking a half a block, I looked up. He launched into an rapid and urgent sales pitch of some obscure magazine he was experience left me with an acute where they can at least get a decent meal, I He was at the comer again. He had been understanding of homelessness and the wonder if asking them to travel to another standing there, on and off, for a couple of selling for twenty-five cents, that had a newsstand price of two dollars. He thrusted rapidity with which it can take place. For part of the city for a meal is a gargantuan weeks, calling out in what must be the moit instance, what were this man's bad breaks or request and then wonder if they even have damaged and disembodied voice I have them toward me.I hunkered down into my coat and swerved away from him. misguided judgements? What was his life the strength or means to get there. ever heard. It was as if his vocal cords, in like before? , Confronted with a problem for which some bizarre operation, had been levered. "Not today, thanks," I mumbled. I picked then) seemed no. immediate solution, I stood Their raspy sounds made me shudder every up the pace. there in front of him, feeling tremendous time I heard them. The rattle in his chest was Not to be easily rejected, he jumped in sadness. I wrestled with my packages, took thick, suffocating and claustrophobic. Hit front of me. "It's only 25 cents, man," he out my wallet, gave him a dollar and took a croaked, "Gimme a break, huh?" paper, I told him to keep the change. I I found myiolf trapped between him and a "Homelessness needs a braced myself against tho wind and headed parking meter. As I looked into his face, I home. After a few steps, I turned around and "It mas as If his uocal was flushed with a wave of emotions: concerted effort by the saw him hawking to a woman. I decided life impotence, rage, hate, pity, guilt, sadness, Federal Government to was tragic, difficult and astoundingly cords, In some bizarre get-the-hell-iway-from-me, I'm-rcally- complex. I turned and started walking, operation, had been •ony-for-you. assure Its demise." thinking about sitting in front of the tube It nover fails to amaze me that the reason with a couple of friends, a cold Corona, severed." homeless people make me no linguini and steamed asparagus, trashing uncomfortable, in addition to the obvious the Academy Awards. inhumanneif and injustice of their plight, is Page 10 - CLC Observer - April 15,1992 ARTS By Lori Majewskl It would be hard to imagine a more complete list of fashion names than the guest list for Vogue's 100th birthday party April 2 at The New York Public Library. The event attracted the most noted fashion makers and wearers, from Donna Karan, Jean Paul Gaultier, Isaac Mizrahi, Gianni Versace, and Betsey Johnson, to Chanel's chic, pontytailed Karl Lagerfeld who arrived with his trademark fan in one hand and supermodel Claudia Schiffer, dressed in one of his black and white designs, on the other. This time it wasn't Linda Evangelist* whose haitcolor caused the chatter, but her friend and fellow model Christy Turlington, who decided to try blonde. Other models included Michaela Becru, Beverly Peele, Roshumba, Rachel Williams, and Veronica Webb. Niki Taylor, Cindy Crawford (sans hubby Richard Gere), and Yasmeen Ghouri represented today's elite muses whom Vogue honored by placing on the magazine's anniversary cover. Vogue's first black cover model, Beverly Johnson brought her future model daughter Asasha, while yesterday's cover girl face Kim Alexis left her kids at home. Model Carre Otis, perhaps better Models Niki Taylor and Nadege ran known for her relationship with Mickey from fashion show to fashion show. Rourke than her modeling, showed up after her on-again, now off-again movie star boyfriend. Should've known something was wrong when Otis looked unhappy after a photographer told her Rourke was already inside. The best arrival award went to Matthew Modine and his wife who got out of a pick-up truck, star DB Sweeney came alone. Other guests included Kelly Klein in a short, silver variation of her husband's design that she's been wearing to Fashion Faces every party, and Blaine Trump,'who looked as elegant as ever. Fashion Week may have been kicked off by the star-studded Vogue party, but the official fall collections were shown last week. The shows brought out lets of noteworthies. Lady Miss Kier and Dimitri of Dee-lite and Alec Baldwin came to the Mizrahi show. Spotted Mariah Carey, Joan Rivers, Beverly Johnson, and Christie Brinkley at Giorgio di Sant'Angelo's presentation an hour later. Celebrities also like to party with the supermodels. As usual, rocker David Lee Roth came to the end of the week party at Rex. Model Helena Christensen arrived with her beau, INXS singer Michael Hutchence. But NEXT Models' Hale House benefit at Laura Belle's proved to be too much for Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, Chris Farell and Chris Rock, who came upon the party's emcee, John Lovitz' request. The threesome left just moments after they went in. For Farell, it was a particularly tragic experience. "They fondled me!" Farrell said, shaking. "They man-handled me. They pawed me." "Yeah, that's the problem," sympathized Carvey, "Women love him." Wondering where Carvey's Wayne's World co-star was? "Making sweet love to his girlfriend," said Carvey. They're too sexy... SNL's Dana Carvey and Chris Farrell didn't have too The charity auction, which much fun at NEXT Model's benefit at Laura Belle. included designs byAnne Klein, Ralph Lauren, Anna Sui, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Todd Oldham, and Calvin Klein, among others, raised $50,000 for the Hale House organization which provides for homeless and drug addicted children. Yes, the supermodels are beautiful and glamorous. And they do wind up with handsome actors and rock stars as boyfriends. But they lead very busy lives. During fashion week the models had up to three shows a day, all within two hours of each other. All that and not a wrinkle... The stars of the runway this .season were 17 year-old Niki Taylor, Montreal native Yasmeen and Parisian Nadcgc. Notice any significants missing? Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelism, and Christy Turlington reportedly felt the New York shows didn't pay enough. Remember, Evangel is ta docsn t wake up for leas than $5,000 a day. Photos by Lori Majewki Designer Jen Paul C.nutlcr «nd Christy Turlington at Vogue* 100th Annlvemnry April 15,1992 - CLC Observer - Page 11 ARTS Mizrahi Mellows Out Designer covers up his usual splashiness pouf skirt. The white silk dress, with its By Lori Majewski uncomfortable. Very, sensible were the suits and black, lacy crinoline, could have outfitted Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina. When Isaac mizrahi ran out onto strapless dresses in a subdued plaid. The the catwalk following the showing of his knitwear, in a pallette of tan and grey, There were few skin-revealing fall 1992 collection, the designer's face hugged curves, yet were very cozy. pieces. The majority of the line held the same goofygrin he's known for. Cozy, too, were the fabulous concentrated on outfitting the entire body, He playfully acknowledged the faithful leather jackets. Some had built-in change using turtlenecks and long skirts. following as the audience in the East purses that opened to reveal rich plaid Nevertheless, Mizrahi's long, lean look Village showroom clapped along to Mary interiors. Others had built-in backpacks. was very sexy. Poppin's The use of color for daywear was Like the black evening dresses Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious. The limited to black and earthy shades. that featured glowing color underneath, silly, childish mood, though, was not a However, the spot color of neon; yellow, Mizrahi's black velvet evening coats' fitting ending to the presentation, as the green, and pink used in his evening wear bejeweled brightness was covert, the new line lacked the flash and pizazz which lit up the white catwalk and sharply sparkling beads sewn on the floor-length is so characteristic of Mizrahi. contrasted the rest of an all-black dress. wraps' insides. Instead, smart and sophisticated Some pieces boasted thigh-high slits clothes glided down the runway; no would- which revealed bright colors of lining, Mizrahi's fall '92 collection was you-be-caught-dead-in-these-outfits that matching hosery and shoes. Others had not openly as loud as his other, more are visually stimulating, so long as they color peeking out from flouncy retro daring ones. But the fun is still there, it are not on your body. Mizrahi's new line crinolines or mermaid-like ruffles at the just requires a game of hide and seek. might be surprisingly quiet for the ankles. Perhaps next season the innovative designer, but chalk that up to a The finale dress also borrowed suppressed, jovial Mizrahi will bust back more laidback decade, when sensible from feminine fifties fashion, with its out. reigns over glamourous but high, pointed collar, cinched waist and A Peek at Fall As usual, the designers are one step ahead of us. While we're all enjoying the sunny, warmer weather and planning a lighter, brighter spring wardrobe the fashion world is celebrating autumn with their new fall collections. So, what is going to be the rage this fall/ Like 1991, plaids will bo big again -- but not loud. Both Donna Karan and Isaac Mizrahi featured sophisticated glen plaids in greys and browns. Also, blazers, both double breasted and single breasted will pair up with straight, below-the-knee skirts, rather than the short ones that bared pecked out from beneath the jacket last season. Both Adriennc Vittadini and Mizrahi day with sheer separates, but it is leather that both designers arc putting in the spotlight. Karan. too, designed some impressive leather pieces for fall, including a sexy, yet sensible leather vest. Velvet and vclour will figure prominently again this fall and winter. Giorgio di Sant'Angclo's painted stretch velvets drew gasps at his recent New York show. In general, hemlines are down this year, with many designers going for a lean, polished look. Make no mistake, however, most of die designs arc very alluring, wrapping the body for evening or providing a change of pace for the office. Only Geoffrey Becnc dared to be differnt by sticking to Uncrwoar on the outside is still a hit with the dciigncra, especially Donna Karan. Citsuiu and jumpsuit* arc Mill useful, to don't throw yours out. Throw • baseball or Photo by Lori Majewtkl bomber juackct over a black catiuit like Karan, did. Page 12 - CLC Observer - April 15,1992 United Student Government Wants You!! Traditional and Non-Traditional Students are needed to fill the following positions for the 1992 - 93 term: President Traditional Vice President Non-Traditional Vice President Treasurer Secretary Traditional Senators: Two Seniors, Two Juniors, and Two Sophomores Six Non-Traditional Senators Petitioning during the week of Mon., Apr. 13 to Thur., Apr. 23. Campaigning during the week of Fri., Apr. 24toFri., May 1. Presidential platform speeches on Wednesday, Apr. 29 at 5 p.m. on the Plaza level. Elections on Monday, May 4 from noon to 6 p.m. on the Plaza level. Election packets and further information will be available in Students Activities Office, Room 408 beginning Mon, Apr. 13 April 15, 1992 - CLC Observer - Page 13 EDITORIAL Student Activities Fee Increase Each year as tuition increases and Every year the Government publishes thousands oTbookt. And every year the US Government Printing (Mire sells these hooks to financial aid decreases, enrollment of the public Now there'* * hook Out tells you •bout the Government's new and popular students drops another notch. And each pubbcaoora-but «•« not for ute ... it's tint It's our catalog of bookj- hundreds of books from virtually every Government agency. The sub- year as enrollment decreases the SABC jects range from agriculture, business, children, and diet to science, space, transportation, and receives less in student activities fees for nations. And there are tides on mfWary histwy. education, hobbies, physical Btneu. JJrdenJn* am) much, modi morel There's also a special sec- club allocations. Clubs are needing and tion lor recently published books. requesting larger amounts of money to For your free tony iif this catalog, wrttt- Free Catalog serve the community. Pel Htm 1-IXK1 IX It has been five years since the last increase in Student Activities fees. The USG is petitioning for an increase to $37.00 from the $17.00 part time students now pay, $75.00 from $34.00 BE AN EDITOR for full time students and $20.00 for The Applications for Sports College at Sixty. Editor are being accepted. Please submit applications It is your student activities fees that to the Observer, Box 18, sponsor and fund the various club Room 408, or come to activities, most of which are free or a| Room 420. Please include year and date of graduation, minimal cost. Let us sign the petition for as well as your the increase and. support the USG in qualifications. their endeavor to provide more and The Observer provides varied activities for the school. valuable experience for resumes. jfllllllllll! illinium iimimr imiimmm ! 1111111111illllillllilUt IIBSIIIh tSIIIIIH iiuini FORDHAM UNIVraSITY f" Write Letters to ATTJULfl C OtN C EJNJ E R. \ the Editor Staff: Hiram Aponte, Ji-Hye Choi, John Editor-in-Chief ' Donna Hemans Cummings, Laurie D'Attilio, Rob Managing Ferraiuolo, Cassandra Hayes, Vanessa Hernandez, Josh Kosman, Danette Medina, Editor Mina Landriscina Asst Managing Julio Santana, Rebecca Sausner, Christine Campus Mail Stamas and Paul Wontorek Editor Anastasia Damianakos News Editor Vivian Lake Asst. News Editors Sean Gallagher Th« CLC OBSERVER is the irrdspandent Sheila Harris student newspaper of the College at Features Editors Tina Filiato Lincoln Center, Fordham University, Box 18 HalynaKuzyszyn Arts Editor LonMaJewski New York. 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They even hustle each can shoot hoops with friends, show up solo other. for a pick-up game, or use the court to The court is a place where egos battle out differences. For many city kids clash, and a slick mouth usually shows up a and adults, basketball in a schoolyard or playground is a sacred ritual. It includes slick move. The court is equai ngnung physical moves, shrewdness and ground. There is no black or white. It commraderie. They argue, they play. comes down to the real deal: ability They argue, they play. They argue, they against ability, smooth talker against play. Ultimately the game becomes smooth talker. another world, where one can retreat and The players scream, yell and become master. curse. They crack jokes about each other's In a recent press release, Wesley ancestry, real or imagined. Snipes, star of "White Men Can't Jump", is "Your mother's an astronaut!", quoted as saying," It becomes a mind yells Sidney. Another player calls Billy, game., being able to psyche a guy out and "Opie Tanner", and another calls Sidney, throw him off his game... actually works to "Cream of Wheat". The trick is not to be your benefit." Snipes stars as Sidney psyched out by your opponent Deane and Woody Harrelson stars as Billy Though the two hustlers are Hoyle, two basketball hustlers who team pretty slick with the ball, they are big up to run a fast, funny and risky con game softees when it comes to their women. on L.A.'s toughest courts. Sidney has a good heart and honest eyes that any women would fall in love with. We all know Harrelson as Woody His wife, played by actress Tyra Ferrell, Boyd, the somewhat naive but very makes the king of the courts melt likeable bartender on Cheers. Woody's instantly. Rhonda is a strong wife and last movie was Doc Hollywood. Then he homemaker. She is the backbone of the landed a part in White Men Can't Jump. family. She tries to manage their money This movie gives the Woody and their baby, as she tries to save up for Harrelson to act like Harrelson, and not her dream home. There's only one problem. Cheers' naive Woody Boyd. In the movie /„_. Sidney likes to play. He has a contracting Harrelson gets a chance to .blend two of his Woody Harrelson challenges Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't F' job, but he stills likes to be king of the passions, basketball and acting. court. " I remember my agent ragging on me to Billy's girlfriend, Gloria spend less time playing basketball and Clemente, is a off-beat, fonner disco queen more time going up for movie roles," he from Brooklyn, who is a Jeopardy fanatic said. "But when "White Men Can't Jump" and a nymphomaniac. ( Actress/Dancer came along, I was able to say- See? All that Rosie Perez was perfect for the part. She basketball paid off!" was in "Do the Right Thing" and she * Snipes is a very powerful, choreographs "The Fly Girls.) Through athletic actor. His latest movies include all of her quirks, she tries to save the New Jack City and Jungle Fever. He's money Billy wins so she "could by a nice appeared in films as a boxer, a baseball dress to wear on Jeopardy" and pay back player and a football player. He met the $8,000 they owe to the mean Stucci Harrelson on the set of Wild Cats, so the Brothers. Billy, like Sidney, two have been friends already knew each unfortunately likes to play . He is hooked other. Snipes also appeared as a rival gang on hustling and every time he is up on leader in Michael Jackson's "BAD" video, some cash, he winds up losing it in a game. which was directed by Martin Scorcese. Though Sidney and Billy argue Harrelson is funny as Billy on court, they develop a real friendship off Hoyle, the slightly cocky, all- American court. They try to help each other with looking "chump", who shows up for a pick money and relationship advice even up game on an LA court, and really gives though alone, they can't even manage Sidney Deane and his buddies a run for themselve their money. Billy's baggy shorts, droopy socks and the sweetest blue eyes, are all "WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP" is part of his con game. On the opposite end a Ron Shelton film, produced by of the scale, Sidney is a fast talker, and a Twentieth Century Fox. It's a funny movie slick player, with a perfect physique and about real people and real city basketball. an intimidating face. He tries to outwit the The actors are excellent athletes and make other players with his antics, insults and the characters so believable, they could be head games. He even nicknames Billy, friends from school or the "Brady Bunch" and "Billy Ho". "neighborhood". Siskel and Ebert gave it Tyra Ferrell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, and Rosie Perez two thumbs up. (I give it Three!) It is After Sidney is hustled by Billy, currently rated the number 1 movie in he realizes the newcomer is an excellent America. player and an excellent partner for the Photos courtesy Twentieth Century Fox hustle business. Billy accepts the business Ivana Be a Writer About Town By Lori Majewskl Everyone who attended Vogue's A few months back About Town 100th anniversary bash at The New York reported that singer Tommy Page Public Library looked fabulous. • But auditioned for the upcoming Broadway although the models shined and the musical Joseph and the Technicolor designers dressed only in their finest, it was Dreamcoat. Page was unhappy ttf report Ivana Trump that looked most stunning recently that he lost the part to Donqy when she arrived with jewelry designer Osmond. "That's ok," he said. "I got Kenneth Jay Lane. An on-looker observed something going with (singer) Safire. her sparking dress and said, "You're the We're going to do a dance record most beautiful woman in the world." together." Ivana turned to Lane. "Did you Duran Duran's new single, due hear that?" she asked. "He said I'm the out in May, sounds like "a world wide most beautiful woman in the world. Me." smash hit." Who says? Eric Clapton, that's Believe it Ivana, you look like a billion who. Clapton recently took a listen to a even if you don't have it anymore. The rough version of Duran's new song, woman just oozes class, "Ordinary World," presented to him by Ms. Trump has written a book. Steve Fcrrone, who drummed on the track. Or at least told the story to professional Duran's Simon Lc Bon, John Taylor, writer Camillc Marchctta who put her ideas Warren Cuccurrullo, and Nick Rhodes to paper. It's a romance novel -- a fiction-- hope Clapton is right. Their last album though the plot docs sound a little Liberty, while critically acclaimed, was a Familiar. commercial flop. For Love Alone, Ivann's first of Val Kilmer's off-Rroadway play two books published by Pocket Books, Tit Pity She's a Whore closes this week telift of Kalrinkn, |K!Mcd ln.il week. Mnrlit who? Ivana Trump show, oli her icw !;ooK, /or Love Atonv ;it V A J.iilnti in hhh Av<"Hti<-- April 15, 1992 - CLC Observer - Page 15 ARTS Famed Feminist Michelle Shocked Gets Political on Arkansas Traveller By Brian Hayes As her video, "Come Along Way" is being shown during a small press conference at the Shocking Material Hard Rock Cafe, Michelle Shocked stands in the back of the room. The video depicts Shocked dressed in a leather jacket and aviator cap, riding a motorcycle, which is uncharacteristic of her usual attire and style. For Shocked, dressed now not in leather, but a more comfortable black .two-piece outfit, nursing a coke with her straw, the video was amusing, but also embarrassing. "I am one woman Watching intensely as if for the first time. Shocked giggles and blushes as she rocks on with one woman's the balls of her feet to the music, from time to lime standing oh her toes to get a better view perspective * and one of the TV over the crowd. The video is the first single off her new woman's story to tell album Arkansas Traveler, an album which culminates a triology started in 1987 with the about what has release of Short Sharp Shocked, on through Captain Swing, and happened to me." ending with Arkansas Traveler. The triology was deliberate and focused from the start, she -Michelle Shocked claims. "The intention was to show my musical influences in a very deliberate way," says Shocked. Those influences range from Texas songwriters like Guy Clark evident on Short Sharp Shocked, to the blues with a swing rhythm to it on Captain Swing, and the fun "Flavor Flav (of Public Enemy) would be-. Country-jam music she grew up playing with the comtemporary version of Zip Coon- kind her father and brother. of foolish, harmless in his own way," she The concept of the triology, she says, says. "was something that has started with a vision Shocked also cites the rap group N.W.A. that I have been following for five years as following the tradition of'Black Face through all the different changes that IVe had Minstral. "It's playing up to white in my life." Shocked's music is not very mainstream. interpretation of what black culture is about Somewhere between folk and rock, her and they are willing to play these roles." songs are sometimes said to be protest songs and she is often called a feminist singer. What Shocked hopes to get but of this When asked how her music relates to discussion of Black Face Minstral, is a more feminism, she stiffens. open minded understanding of race relation It reminds me of Louie Armstrong being today. It is her belief that in opening up this asked what is Jazz." history for re-examination it will improve the Shocked describes her songs as her discussion of racism in today's society. It personal takes on the world. "I am one rv will according to Shocked allow people to see women with one women's perspective and "mat racism is not ah issue that we would one women's story to tell about what has discuss in order to assign guilt to various happened to me." parties but rather a discussion that takes place Her music has always stayed behind that between humans who are attempting to understand how people can deny people their line of monotonous pop music and Shocked basic humanity." And Shocked feels that is proud of that. music is the best vehicle for comminication. "I haven't taken a conventional route," says Shocked. "Artistic development has Shocked originally planned for the album been what has been at stake here and to say cover to have her in black face (Al Jolson in that I have completed this triology is a very The Jazz Singer), but decided against it because she claimed that anyone could use the satisfying thing, to have followed a vision >'„•*£, -•'-''*- •"',;••'•-'•> controversial image to their own agenda. with alot of support and artistic freedom in control." Shocked's understanding of popular culture is that too often the image is used to Her new album, however, does contain sell the music and the message. She cites the many songs that can be hits for Shocked. cover of Short Sharp Shocked where she is "Come Along Way" is a catchy narration of being dragged away at a protest. the City of Los Angeles from the seat of a Michelle Shocked motocycle. While there are some songs thai "Okay listen, I'm complaining about being labeled a protestor but what do you sound like they come off the soundtrack for photo courtesy Mercury Records expect, putting a protest photo on the cover Hee Haw, the album sticks to its goal of of your album," she says laughing. "That is portraying her musical history. how the culture works." The album was recorded entirely on the She hopes that in the future she can let the road in such places as L.A. . Arkansas, music and message sell the image. Sydney, and Dublin, and contains "As far as I'm concerned it's a life-long "It's a European perspective, a European As for the future. Shocked, has no idea collaborations with a diverse list of commitment now and for the rest of my interpretation of African or other cultures and what will follow. She says she is so happy musicians. Taj Mahal, Hothouse Rowers, career it will be an aspect of my work - it's presented as real. It is not presented as an to see the completion of the triology Uncle Tupelo, and a list of others each getting this concept refined," says Shocked interpretation but as the real deal." and staying dedicated to unfolding the provide their own sound and interpretation to intensely. Shocked related Black Face Minstral to history of Black Face Minstral that she has the album. According to Shocked, "Black Faced Paul Simon's Graceland, an album he made not thought of her next album. She does, In addition to being an album dedicated to Minstral is considered to be a historical with South African artists. though, reflect on her accomplishments so Shocked's influences, Arkansas Traveler is reference to a form of entertainment that was "When Paul Simon came back from his committed to changing the complicated notion most popular in the 1800's and ended at the far. safaries, his cultural explorations with other of the Black Face Minstral, a cause that she turn of the century." She goes on to say that "I've been willing to make the short term cultures, it was presented to you as 'this is was introduced to by her journalist/ fiance it was supposively replaced by Vaudeville. sacrifices for not only artistic development what this culture is like' , and not 'this is and now is totally dedicated to educating "From Vaudeville, things rolled along but I had alot to learn about how the musuic what my interpretation of these cultures'." people about. The Black Face Minstral started until Elvis Presley," she says. "The first business works." out as a white perspective of black culture, white man to mix white music and black This notion of Black Face Minstral So much for this country girl from the and how it was supposed to be. Eventually music, saved us with Rock and Roll." which included people like Zip Coon, Jim south, who still seems too modest for her members of the black race bowed down to the She continues in a deep, preacher-like Crow and Steppin Fetch It, Shocked stardom, blushing at the sight of her videos stereotypes set for them. This began early in voice. believes, is at the root of popular music and hanging out in the back of the conference today. Since the early days of Black Face the century, when black cork was rubbed on "It is this myth that we've all inherited and talking. She is content with her current status Minstral included not just white performers both blacks and whites for a "blacker" effect, its a convicnt myth because it separates our but what her futures holds worries Shocked. but blacks who had to "blacken up", and Shocked sees the idea still in effect today. comtemporary culture from this past which "I don't know and it scares the shit out of Shocked claims (hat gome performers today She thinks making people aware of it can help has a lot of very complicated history in what me." can be seen an modem day Jim Crows. change the situation. seems like a racist culture. Page 16 - CLC Observer - April 15,1992 ARTS FORDHAM STUDENTS CHOOSE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS FOR BEST PICTURE Rob Ferraiuolo Anyone who thought Barbara Streisand was overlooked this year as actress and director should consider, her lucky, for at least she didn't have to leave that night with the humiliation of being a neglected nominee, or as in the case of Bugsy, a multi- neglected nominee. Beatty's film didn't fare well with Fordham students, either. In a poll taken prior to Oscar night, Bugsy was the big loser. The film and Beatty each received ZERO votes from Fordham. Looks like students were a pretty good forecast in this category. HEADSHOTS! Students were also correct in the Best INEXPENSIVE, QUALITY Film category, choosing Silence of the SHOTS BY EXPERIENCED Lambs over much favored contender JFK, PHOTOGRAPHER. which came in second. The Prince of Tides CALL ANTHONY : 2Q1-795-2991. and Beauty and the Beast tied for third. That PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE. leaves Bugsy. 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This made me laugh, which 1 decision to hand the child over to strangers? This is my junior year at Fordham, and I am I am disturbed by Mr. Smith's suppose I should thank Mr. Smith for. It is I am a woman., and I cannot even begin to embarrased to say that I haven't written so statement that the feminist/pro-choice always nice to have a good laugh, especially understand how difficult a choice such as much as one letter to the editor or responsed movement wants to "shirk responsibility around that time of the month . And, of that must be. I realize that, and struggle not to anything I have read in the Observer. I'm when they feel like it" course, as rational, reasonable people know, to judge the actions of a young woman faced glad that I have finally been spurred to This sounds like Mn> Smith would like to we women get especially emotional around with that difficult choice. respond to something in our school paper. punish the female who has an unwanted that time. Pity we cannot be like rational, While I have my own personal beliefs So, let me get this right, Mr Smith. A pregnancy by forcing her to carry that child reasonable males. and wishes regarding abortion, 1 would not • woman having an abortion is like the to term. If you are not so bent on punishing So the feminist/ pro-choice movement like to see a young woman have to respond government killing people just because the young woman, then at least tell me what is emotional. Oh and I suppose that the to the dilemma posed by an :un,w$uteU people use the government, the parallel you think will happen to the child, born movement against a woman's right to being that the fetus uses the woman's body, unwanted, and will likely be cared for by a choose is not emotional? I suppose bombing pregnancy. And I do not wish to impose and the governed use the government Wait woman who is facing too many difficult clinics is not emotional. These are activities them on others. a minute. Doesn't our government already struggles of her own to provide it the care that certain people who call themselves pro- Mr. Smith is not a woman , and will kill people? Have you heard of something that it should recieve. But Mr. Smith is life engage in. To say that they are never have to face an unwanted pregnancy. I caled the death penalty, Mr. Smith? Oops, .concerned with responsibility. emotional is being kind. I find this worship do not say this to rub it in his face, but to didn't mean to get into something so Responsibility? You want to talk of the fetus, to the point of forgetting that a plead with him to show some compassion emotional it must be those hormones raging responsibility? Aren't you embarrassed to child has basic needs which will have to be and to be less judgemental of others who are in my body. After all, we women are like live in an industrialized nation, one of the met in some way, disturbing. I'd like to faced with a situation that he will never have that. Not like you, Mr. Smith, all rationale wealthiest in the world, with such a startling know what Mr. Smith would tell a woman to deal with (and if that sounds "emotional," and reason. Yeah, right! infant mortlity rate? I am. who has been raped and impregnated or who and typical of a woman, so be it. Ha. So The word feminist is applicable to was otherwise faced with the problem of an there!) Perhaps Mr. Smith's energies spent How responsible are we as a nation, in many different women. Some women are unwanted pregnancy. Would he tell her to on opposing abortion might be better utilized providing our children with an educational hesitant to label themselves as feminists for carry the child to term and then give it up for in trying to help some of the unwanted or system that does not serve them, much less fear of having people assume they hate men adoption? Certainly, there are many people poorly cared for children in this city, which, prepare them adequately for employment and don.t shave their legs, and other yucky who are unable to have children, and would I am sad to say, are numerous. Other countries are kicking our tails, and stuff. And who can blame them? Some make fine parents when adopting a child. I I'd like to know just what course of that is no surprise at all to me. There is a lot people, intend to' put others in a box, so they am just afraid of what would happen to that action Mr. Smith would propose to a young of Japan-bashing going on right now, which can dismis their beliefs. Still, I would agree child after it was born. A mother could woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy. I certainly do not condone. I'd like to kiss that feminism and the fight for choice are change her mind during the pregnancy, Then, I'd like to know what kind of support everyone in Japan for showing people here extremely intertwined, although, I am sure deciding to keep the child. This would be a he is prepared to provide for the young that there are women who would describe in the U.S. just how far we have to go. difficult decision for any woman to face. woman after the child is born. (Oh, but I themselves as feminists but who do not (Gosh that sounds like such an emotional Does Mr. Smith really think that in this suppose that would be relying "on society to support a woman's right to choose an thing to do. Well, we women are like that, country there is the kind of necessary clean up." Never mind that we as a society you know. Yeah, right!) support system available to help that young already do provide for our children.) You woman raise the child? Does he honestly may not like it, Mr. Smith, but there are already unwanted children in the world. I do ••••••••••••••#•••• not like this, but I realize it is fact. (Gee, that never questioning it, never doing anything : sounds like I am being reasonable and you Socialism, Subjectivism, Liberalism, and are being emotional! Nah, I'm just a woman. Really Mario free-choice-above-all-else. After being told more than making a mental agreement and j moving on. jj Must be all those hormones again tricking for years that there is no objective truth in me into thinking I'm not emotional.) If we the world, that morality is an old-fashioned Mario Cuomo does not have the | By Rob Smith intelligence to recognize that the increased : do not care for our nation's children now, In response to the recent rise of concept, and that instinct and emotions are we pay the price later, in our struggle to far more important and reliable than reason, violence in America is due to this nation's • violence in New York State, Governor lack of moral conscience, and our increased | fight crime, drugst and needing to build Mario Cuomo made the following statement the masses have finally listened. The ones more and more expensive prisons, instead of who listened the best are the animals who support of Atheistic philosophies. I 'There is less bread to go around, there is Economics has little to do with one's | working on keeping young people out of more uncertainty. People are afraid they are would .violently attack other people simply them. Our children are our most precious because they felt like it. The minds of these behavior. Morality and reson hold up in spite I going to lose their jobs. The American of economic standing. Only when a nation : investment, Mr. Smith. Correct me if I'm dream is vanishing for some people. People violent offenders have no system by which wrong. But I assume that you would like to they can understand law, morality, truth and relegates morality to fall under the category ; are Tightened, and when you are frightened, if religious and spiritual nonsense and reason : see abortion outlawed once again. what do you do? Especially if you're the logic and the reasoning behind these ddncepts. They have been taught that such to be too abstract, and unnecessary to spend ; Making abortion illegal will only result encouraged by politicians, you find someone time on, as ours does, is it forced to blame j in more unwanted children coming into the to blame " The New York Post commented concepts are nothing more than subjective, abstract ideas not worth investigating. low economic standing for increased ; world. Think about that for a while with on Cuomo's statement by saying, "Cuomo violence. .. I your rational, reasonable mind, Mr. Smith. says that the rise in racial attacks is Rather than being taught to think, these f connected to the soaring unemployment and offenders have been taught to feel. Instead of The difference between the society that | sour economy." being taught to understand ideas, these Mario Cuomo's philosophy seeks to create I offenders have been lobotomized, left unable and' the society that I dream of is simple. ' minds , armed with the truth on thejr side. These quotes are interesting for two Cuomo's philosophy requires a Socialized reasons. First, they infer that one's behavior to respond to anything more than the slogans The proper response to these acts of of their teachers, and set loose on society. society where every man is entitled to violence is not, "They were feeling the strain is directly related to one's economic money from the government, (taken from standing. (Note that Karl Marx spent a These offenders are nothing more than of the recession." The proper response is, confused, neurotic, unthinking beasts. the citizenry, more specifically those who "No one ever taught them to think. No one lifetime touting such philosophy, the well off) so as to make sure that no one is philosophy of Communism, and ultimately Society doesn't understand them because ever taught them about God, morality and our society is just as confused, just as economically unsettled and therefore non- reason - we no longer teach such things in the philosophy of Atheism. It is Marx who violent. Such a government requires insisted that one's reality is the result of neurotic and just as clueless. Our society is America!" America doesn't need economic as much a victim of this lobotomy as these unthinking men to exist. The people are recovery to stop these acts of violence, it one's economic standing.) Secondly, they nothing more than dogs being throw meat, in indicate that Cuomo'agrees with nonsensical offenders are. needs an intellectual overhaul. In the '60's, the form of government money, to remain prodded by these empty philosophies Marxist philosophy. Who is to blame? The teachers and civil. Anyone capable of thinking would If we follow Cuomo's line of thinking, philosophers who have told mankind that the claiming man's mind to be impotent, the have to be eliminated as such a person from hippies rose out of the gutter and rebelled for there will always be people in any society thoughts which he believed has produced would, by his or her very existence, threaten prone to violence because of their low were really manufactured in his crotch, the the right not to think. In the '90's. after to challenge the philosophical nonsense that living with the disastrous effects of their economic standing, .and anyone who is not result of the weather, and a product of his created such a society in the first place, and violent is only this way because he or she economic standing. These teachers and movement, we must rebel for the right to in doing so dismember the government. think. has money. Cuomo, like Marx, argues that philosophers informed us of our own Cuomo would be left without a "vision," and man's mind is not his ruler, money is. intellectual impotence and we bought it. We he would be out of a job. What is to be done? No government Morality is not something an individual can opened our arms and embraced our program, no economic recovery, no threat of control; morality is at the mercy of a executioners. When they said stop thinking, Whereas Mario Cuomo needs billions punishment will change the minds of those person's economic standing. we cried "Yes!" When they told us only to of dollars to run his society, I need men who individuals prone to violence. They have no feel, that our thoughts were of no can think. Not one cent is needed for a intellectual foundation. They were not given The reality of the situation is that the serious discussion about God, and why He savages who would attack people because of consequence, we cried "Yes!" When they one by those who educated them, It is told us morality was subjective, oppressive must exist. Not one cent is needed to America's educators who embraced gutter their skin color, or rape and sodomize young understand the implications of God's children, have no concept of objective and primitive, we cried "Yes." We no longer philosphy and soaked the nation in it. When had the ability to question them for we had existence - that our thoughts arc valid, that they should have been developing minds, morality. They have no concept because of reason is more important than emotion, that the intellectuals and progressives of this stopped thinking long ago. America's educators aborted them. Mario man does not need money, proper sexual Cuomo has been right alongside of them. nation, like Cuomo, who have spent careers We now have a society whose people rearing and good weather to think straight, and lifetimes claiming God to be nothing cannot produce a single logical thought. We Worse than violent individuals are those and that morality is something more than a who created them. Mario Cuomo is one such more than a primitive stab at philosophy have a society of people led by slogans, puritanical restriction of freedom, and is not (created out of fear), and man's mind to be whoso teachers condition their pupils to creator. His quote provides tangible something we can adjust nnd alter from evidence of his philosophical outlook. An impotent, with his thoughts being the result respond to and to live by these slogans, situation to situation. of nothing more than the money in his whose leaders are those best able to outlook that is inherently destructive and pockets (or lack thereof), and/onhis sexual articulate these slogans, we have a society Whcarcas Mario Cuomo and his' wrong. What we can do, to stop the violence glands. The Cuomo's of this world who will where the intellectuals can boldly proclaim intellectual cronies seek to eliminate the idea in our country, and halt much of the wonder how such individuals slipped "We have debunked God and reason enough of personal responsibility, I insist on it. The nonsense that goes on, is IKS! articulated by through the nurturing fingers of the tliat we now have men who can kill, feel no only response an unthinking Cuomo-like philosopher Ayn Rand, "Ideas cannot be establishment must realize that these guilt and go unpunished." (Unpunished "intellectual" can give to acts of violence is fought except by menus of belter ideas. The offenders arc not the result of the because they weren't responsible in the first n shrug, followed by the words, "they bailie consists not of opposing, but of csatblishmcnt's opponents. They arc it's place, being the victims of their economic couldn't help it" nnd a neurotic giggle exposing; not of denouncing, but of horrid results. standing and their glands,) We live in a Whereas Mario Cuomo would hnve us disproving; not of evading, but of boldly society whore Mario Cuomo can suggest thai believe that man is nothing more tluil a proclaiming a full consistent, and radical These nets of violence arc committed slobbering beaut unable to control hit mind iillerimlive," We can educate oursclclven by individuals whose minds, directly or the poor slate of the economy is the reason for New York's increased violence, and we and therefore unablo to control his actions, I solidly, and truthfully no thai America's indirectly, have been created by those who wuni 0 society of men with backbone*, clear idiol-philodophcm will slink away in ihnnv support Atheism, Marxism, Freudianinm, wil rood hit quote, never biking offense to it, Page 18 - CLC Observer- April 15, 1992 COMMENTARY MIND IF I COUGH By Roy Locke It amazes me the way people become tffttyf so defensive when someone threatens to deny them their right to smoke in public places. But what amazes me even mole is that my right, as a non-smoker, to breathe fresh air (what little there is in New York) is never taken into consideration. When I see someone smoking in any given area, as much as I hate smoke, it would be rather brazen of me to place myself next to him and then ask that individual to extinguish his cigarette because it bothers me! No smoker would like that sort of infringement on his right to smoke. Is it not fair then for me to receive the same respect I give to you smokers, so that when I am approached you will have the decency to ask me if it is okay to "light up." I really don't appreciate it when a friend of mine (who probably won't be a friend after he/she reads this) comes to speak to me and habitually lights up a cigarette. Maybe it's a pet peeve of mine, but carbon monoxide going straight up my nose is not a desirable sensation! So to all the smokers out there, please, if you demand your right to smoke, I'll exercise my right to cough, hack and wheeze in your face - even if you are not smoking! Global wanning. Destruction of the rain forests. Toxic waste. These aren't the legacies we wanted from the "environmental" President. Urge George Bush to attend the U.N. Earth Summit in Brazil in June. Right now, the United States is the only-major industrial power refusing to do its part. Ask the President to stop America's role as leading producer of greenhouse gases. Tell him to support the global treaty for reducing carbon dioxide Commentary for the April 29 emissions, ban the exportation of toxic waste, and save the world's- rain forests. The issue should be submitted to the President is the only person who can effectively lead the struggle for our planet's future. Observer, Room 420,by April 21. Please include a phone number NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION and class standing. Strut coupon to President George Bush. 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Call: (212) 866-3283 & export proced- GMAT & ORE prep • I offer prof, one-on-one tutoring - SIS/hr - Call Ray Bacchus 718-493-6942 after 4 pm. Page 20 - CLC Observer - April 15, 1992 SPORTS in overtime and Duke' having to go the When a knee injury ended my length of the court, Pitino chose 'not to police career after eight and a half years, I BflSEBflLL guard the inbounds pass (fine). .However decided to enroll in Fordham. It seemed the double-team on Christian Laettner saw like the right thing to do. I grew up about both of the defenders standing BEHIND five minutes from Rose Hill. I even llDBIlS Laettner, what stupidity. That's like 2 listened to their radio station, WFUV, and defenders standing behind wide receiver I thought, maybe, just maybe, I could get ANALYSIS Jerry Rice. Montana to Rice, Rice does a into broadcasting and do some Fordham by Hiram Aponte move, TOUCHDOWN! SIMPLE! SIMPLE! sports. With some hard work, and a few SIMPLE! So much for that Daily News lucky breaks, > I found myself doing Here are my predictions (in very, Sweepstakes, the winner goes to the Final analysis on the air for Fordham Ram brief form) for the 1992 baseball season. Four... I've already unpacked my bags. basketball. It was a great season for the There may be one or two surprises in •NUFFSAID. stoie. Here we go. Rams, but when somebody mentioned the Meanwhile, the Knicks have let their words "spring training" my ears really Last issue, I said I would throw lead in the Atlantic division dwindle down perked up. up on it. Nahl I'll use it as a pooper to 2 games over the Boston Celtics, yet In the back of my head, I had scooper. they still control their fate. Forget about NL ZAST this notion, that if I made plans to go to S3 games, they would have to win five in a Florida, and visit my now retired parents, 1)N.Y. Mets row, just win the division fellas. On the that somebody at WFUV could get me 2)Chicago Cubs heels of a sucessful West Coast swing thru press credentials for spring training. 3)Pittsburgh Pirates TV BASEBALL: Anybody who Denver, Seattle, and Portland (cause for Much to my surprise, I headed to Tampa, 4)Philadelphia Phillies watches the Yanks on MSG should hope), they then lose to Chicago (the elite) knowing that both the Phillies and the 5)St. Louis Cardinals complain about announcer DcWayne at home, Cleveland (the elite) in Cleveland, Reds had extended me press credentials. 6)Montreal Expos Staats' hair. Boy, this guy has been and Boston (not the elite) in Boston (cause On a bright Sunday morning, I doing play-by-play for about three for grief). Mark Jackson stepped up pulled my rent-a-car into the parking lot Comments: The Meis will land seasons—AND HE STILL HASNT HAD A (player of the week after the West Coast of Jack Russell Field, in Clearwater, Fla. I in first place though they will have a hard #$A&*-K§) HAIRCUT YET!!! Jeez, did you swing), and John Starks stepped up (kept walked past the big PHILLIES sign and lime getting there thanks to all those see his hair? Looks like a big bush! You them close to Chicago with all his treys), picked up my credentials. They come on a unbelievable sex scandals. Thank God the can start a forest fire on his head! MOW but never at the same time or during the little string, so I put it over my head, and whole mess has been settled. Let's hope rrOFF.DEWAYNEM! same games. Will the real Xavier McDaniel armed with my tape recorder and >hp Mets can concentrate on baseball step forward. I'm Spartacus, I'm Spartacus, microphone (complete with theWFUV and smash some homers. no I'm Spartacus. One must wonder why logo) I headed through the tunnel that ANACAD6tiy some of the Knicks collect their leads to the playing field. I kept waiting checks..OAKLEY...WILKINS...it's the for somebody to stop me, or say "Hey Titian equivalent of Congress' check bouncing where do you think you're going?" but all NL WEST scandal, we the fan are being undermined anybody said was, "Good morning", or 1)L.A. Dodgers I am very happy that77ie Silence by the incumbants. Trades please. "Nice day isn't it?" I came out of the 2)Atlanta Braves Of The Lambs swept the Oscars with How about San Antonio, with Mr. tunnel and made a left turn towards the 3)San Francisco Giants Robinson's Neighborhood under siege? The infield. I walked passed players who I 4)Cincinnati Reds FIVE awards including Best Picture. Spurs were 0-5 on a recent road trip. Terry probably should have tried to interview, 5)Houston Astros However, I found it hard to believe that Cummings has stepped up but, Sean Elliot but there was something else on my mind. 6)San Diego Padres the audience gave Best Actor Anthony must do the same. However, the key is Rod Hopkins a standing ovation. I mean they Strickland and I didn't really like him in I walked down the three steps, Comments: All I can say here is were applauding a cannibal who loves to New York. Isn't former coach Larry Brown and sat in the Phillies dugout. Sat and that there will be another head-to-head eat men's livers with fava beans and a (now with the healthy playoff bound watched. I watched the coaches instruct battle between the Dodgers and the Braves glass of chianti. C'mon! Clippers) so lucky to have been fired? the rookies, most of whom are probably at the end of the season. This time L.A. Unless Danny Manning, Ron Harper, and ten years my junior. I watched the players could be the champs. Charles Smith all get injured in a brawl dig their spikes in the batter's box. I with the L.A Lakers over who will reign listened to the old timers telling stories STAFF supreme in L.A, I don't think so. Homey and the sound the ball makes coming off a don't play that! bat. AL EAST PICKS...MAJOR P.S Check out While Men Can't Jump - --- it's goooodddd!!!! I thought about all the time I LEAGUE spent in the upper deck, or the bleachers, l)Detroit Tigers about two miles from the field. I thought 2)Baltimore Orioles BASEBALL about Yankee Stadium, and all the "tall 3)Toronto Blue Jays people", and the belts and the butt cracks. 4)Milwaukee Brewers I thought about my father and his 5)Boston Red Sox John Cummings: MY FIELD scorecard. Most of all, I thought about 6)N.Y. Yankees Orioles, Twins, Mets, Reds how lucky I was, to be sitting in "my 7)Cleveland Indians OF DREAMS field of dreams." • Julio Santana: by John Cummings Bluejay s, A's, Pirates, Dodgers Comments: Detroit Tigers-first place? I just have that foggy feeling. My earliest memories of baseball William Millte: was going to Yankee Stadium with my The Tigers have a tough, sharp pitching Bluejay s, A's, Pirates, Dodgers staff (Frank Tanana, Scott Aldred, and 20- father, in the mid 1960's. It was usually game winner Bill Gullickson). Expect bat day, a day when thousands of kids would show up in hopes of getting a THE Cecil Fielder to slam SO homers this Mickey Mantle bat, but usually went season. For the Bosox, pitcher Frank TAKING IT home disappointed with a Ray Barker or a Viola will muck up again just like what he Horace Clarke. But being in a sold out NHL did to the Mets last year. As for the Yankee Stadium was thrill enough for me. Yanks and Indians, they will be dead last TO THE MAX as usual. My father would get seats in the by LOGAN ANALYSIS back of the second level, or if he wasn't STRIKE lucky, upstairs in-the upper deck, which, Emotion is what you live for; Logic is when your six years old, seem like they're what you die by. No one in their right two miles from the field. If there was a IS mind should have picked Michigan over great play, or someone hit a home run, Duke for the national championship. everyone would stand up, and I, (along People did, I did, but I'm willing to admit with every other kid) would be treated to a l)Minnesota Twins my error (may my decision R.I.P). But now sea of belts, and the butt cracks of those OVER 2)Texas Rangers think about this, Michigan has all the who didn't wear belts. When everyone 3)Kansas City Royals world watching them, they have to win a finally sat down, my father the Yankee 4)Seattle Mariners championship within the next three years fan, (from Flatbush Avenue no less) would 5)Chicago White Sox or else they should have done it now. tell me what happened, and then write it 6)Oakland A's Did you see how the Blue Devils were in his scorccard. I remember telling him, HIP 7California Angels clutching the bottom of their shorts from "Dad, some day we're gonna sit in the the opening tap? The Wolverines should front row, so I don't have to ask you have run on these boys. Duke look tired what's goin' on." He looked at me and Comments: I can't believe that and worn out but, Michigan coach Steve said, "Why don't you get a seat in the Texas is doing so well so far after Fisher didn't recognize this... hence the dugout?" This past March, I did. HIP sweeping (and slamming) the Mariners. sayings from the sportcastcrs that Chris What did Kevin Mitchell do for Seattle? Webber and Jalcn Rose were playing NADA1 Seattle better shape up or else brillant and that Christian Laettner ( Spls, The dream to play major league they will be near the pits. The A's will 6 turnovers) was playing horrible. Yet the baseball ended a long time ago, although lose steam this year while Jose Canseco score was only 31-30, Michigan at half I still occasionally daydream about HOORAY could be arrested for something pretty bad lime. Duke had it all tho way from there making tho catch that saves ,the World but I don't know what. baby. Scries. However the urge to stand around This had to be one of Ihc best NCAA tho batting cage and listen to stories, and tournaments (all around in a long lime). the sound tho ball makes coming of a bat, Tho Kentucky-Duke gnme was one of those never left me. Even during my career as a games that you just didn't want to end, But Now York City Police Officer, my mind it did, the outcome? Duke is a loam that is was always prc-occupicd with baseball, I'd WRESTLING: All right, this ii rarely befallen by misfortune. Rick Pitino, walk a beat, or drive around in the car, tho moment you have been waiting for. the coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, i« a with one ear on the police radio, and the From the WWP Citalog, hero ii THE SIO brillant baikclbtll coach, but hid brain left other one on the game. JUSTICE PILLOWCASE: hit skull for awhile, With 2.1 nocondi left