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Thursday March 11,1982 Volume 64 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK Number 8

M E M 0 R A N 0 U W McKinley Voted President;

Chris Falco Box 420 Progress Party Romps Mary Mowrey-Raddock /)C^i Associate Dean of Students by BobTulini The Progress Party easily swept Principles The Progress Party, led by newly-elected and Genesis in the Fordham College Class of President Matt McKinley, ran off with 45 of 1985 races. 52 offices in this week's Rose Hill United Stu- In the CBA Class of 1985 election, the Date . .Feb. 5, 1982 dent Government elections. Spectrum Party took five of six positions, Progress' executive slate of McKinley, defeating opposition from Progress and the newly-elected Executive Vice President Todd Utopia Party. Wynkoop, Vice President of Operations The Smoke Detector law was to go into effect The Progress CBA Classes of 1983 and Tom Brady, Vice President of Finance Julie on January 1, 1982. The University applied 1984 tickets, along with the CBA executives for an extension until June 30, 1982. Esposito, Vice President of Student Life slate, ran unopposed. Another disappointing Carol Greto, Vice President of Academics aspect of these elections was the extremely Mr. Mahon assures me that they are presently Peter Ianniello and Vice President of Com- low voter turnout. Only 20 percent (798) of interpreting the law for-our residence halls munications Mariellen Lane trounced the the approximately 4000 Rose Hill under- and a design for our system is in progress. opposition O.P.U.S. and Knights candidates graduates eligible to vote for the USG execu- After the design is completed, the Universityl by more than a two to one margin. tives did so, and turnout in most other races will go to bid for the best price.from a The Progress Party also captured the Ford- also hovered around 20 percent. roliable contractor. ham College and College of Business Ad- ministration executive offices. Brian Kelly Complete election results—page 5 (lope this helps you. and Pennie McLaughlin handily defeated Apathy Party opposition by almost 12 to 1. And CBA executives President Margaret Breen, Vice President Marc Wille, Secretary Eileen Fitzgerald and Treasurer Kevin Lynch ran unopposed. cc: Dr. Joseph J. McGowan, Jr. The tightest race took place in the Mr. Peter Perhac Fordham College Class of 1983, where the Beta Party's Carol Kozeracki defeated by Leslie Manlrone Progress' Jim Harrington by two votes In its continuing investigation into Fordham University's non-compliance with a New while Progress candidates swept the other York City fire detector law, The Ram this week obtained a copy of a memorandum six positions. dated February 5, 1982, from the Dean of Students office in which Director of Physical Fordham College Class of 1984 President Plant Robert Mahan is indicated as saying that the University had applied for an exten- Mark Hartnett was also the only Beta Party sion to comply with the law. candidate to win on his level, stopping However, in the February 25, 1982 edition of The Ram, Financial Vice President Progress from sweeping on that level. Matt MtKinley James Kenny, S.J., who also oversees Physical Plant, admitted the University had not filed for an extension by the December 31,1982 deadline. Kenny said in the article that Mahan had been responsible for filing the application 2nd LC Hike Plan Readied forms. Kenny was quoted saying he was "disappointed" upon learning that Mahan had sonable by not considering the other options missed the filing deadline. by Richard Santaguida which included "a last ditch effort" to raise Associate Dean of Students Mary Mowrey-Raddock issued the memo in response to The Lincoln Center United Student Gov- ernment Senate voted on Tuesday to approve the ESC proposed hike to $6 per four credit questions from Rose Hill United Student Government President Chris Falco as to course and $3 for two or three credit course. whether the University complied with the law, which was passed last July. the original proposal of the Evening Student Harkey explained, "After hearing the Raddock confirmed in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the statement in the Coalition for a student activity fee hike. By possibilities that they (USG) came up with, memo that the University had applied for a six-month extension was based on informa- this acceptance, USG hopes to gain ESC ours is the one that we can support in good tion given her by Mahan. But she said when she had spoken with Mahan about the support for a second student referendum ten- conscience." memo earlier in the day, Mahan denied ever having made such a statement. tatively scheduled for the week of March 22. The USG Senate, although presented with "At this point he [Mahan] tells me that he did not tell me that [the University applied The first referendum, which Vas held two several options, felt it had only one option, • for an extension until J une 30,1982] weeks ago, was soundly defeated by a vote of choosing the ESC's proposal if it had any But Raddock said, "The memo accurately conveyed what he told me. I'm usually 522 to 287 due to the ESC's intense cam- paign against the USG proposed fee hike. hope of passing the referendum. USG needs pretty sure about hearing things as they're told to me." the support of the USC and the evening Mahan declined to'speak with The Ram. USG is hopeful that this change of the ESC's position from opposition to ally will aid in students, and could not afford opposition the passing of a fee increase. similar to the one ESC displayed during the The USG voting, although resulting clear- first referendum. ly in favor of the ESG proposal, was charac- Harkey was pleased with the Senate's de- terized as apprehensive and backing down to cision to go with her group's proposal, but is Fordham Plaza Project: ESC demands. The proposal, which was for- cautiously optimistic on the upcoming ref- mulated by the ESC and used as an optional erendum. "I think it's going to be tough but I choice against USG's proposal in the first ref- think it has the best chance of any of the erendum, calls for an increase in the student other proposals," she said. Action At Last? activity fee to $5 per four credit course and The ESC estimates that $77,000 would be $2.50 for each two or three credit course. raised under their proposal. USG's initial by Maryellen Gordon remainder of the grant will be used to clear The acceptance of ESC's original proposal proposal have raised an estimated $90,000. Fordham Plaza, the commercial develop- the property and to fund the site acquisition for the second referendum is the result of a With less of an increase, certain club imp- rovements will probably be delayed. These ment area located on Fordham Road across and demolition for a new postal facility on series of meetings between USG president include making The Observer, Lincoln from Fordham University, may finally be- the site. Don Vandergrift and ESC representative Center's newspaper weekly and providing come a reality after over 12 years of broken Bryan Byrne, assistant to Finlay for urban Sharon Harkey, to institute a compromise free yearbooks for seniors. promises, following an agreement between affairs, stated that the UDC is presently proposal acceptable to both USG and the USG would like to have the referendum the United States Post Office and the New moving ahead with development plans, al- ESC and with the greatest dance to pass. This passed and submitted to Vice President for York State Urban Development Corporation though there are several steps that must be compromise could not be reached, as the Student Affairs Joseph McGowan before the (UDC). approved before any construction can begin. ESC would not back down and threatened to March 31 meeting of the Board of Trustees, The meeting, which was held between "A formal environmental impact statement once again campaign against the referendum whose final approval is needed to pass the fee United States Representatives Mario Biaggi, must be obtained (which determines the if their proposal was not used. hike. Jonathan Bingham, Fordham University effect of construction on sewage, air quality, Vandergrift felt the ESC was being unrea President James Finlay, S.J. and the Post- pedestrian and vehicular traffic), and an master General William Bolger, was called in Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) order to discuss the past 30 month impasse in proposal will be presented to the Board of negotiations. Biaggi and Bingham explained, Estimate before the end of April," explained "After over a year of negotiations, the Postal Byrne. The UDAG is a low-interest loan for Service has agreed to sell the property it owns projects in which the property is held as the across from Fordham University to a New equity. The grant request may range from $7 York State agency so the land can be used for to 8 million. a multi-million dollar office/retail complex. Robert Esnard, the UDC's vice president The project will create hundreds of jobs and in charge of economic revitalization who has generate millions of dollars in new business been with the Fordham Plaza project almost for the Bronx." from the start, was quoted in a March 7 Daily The block of land, known as Block A in News article by explaining, "We see this the development area, is located between latest move as a shot in the arm needed to get Third and Washington Avenues and Ford- new business activity in the area. A lot has to ham Road and 189th Street. It was sold for be done; there is a lot of places where the $700,000 and will be paid for through the project can fall apart. I want to say that we $2.7 million Economic Development Grant are quietly happy but are a long shot from received for the project last July. The Continued on page 4 2/THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982 THE CAB CALENDAR

Sunday, March 21 Friday, March 26 Cinevents presents Tommy at 8:00 pm in Keating Fine Arts Committee presents "The Bronx Arts En- WAC presents Faculty vs. Student Olympics at 3:00 1st. semble", at 3:00 pm in the University Chapel.

Tuesday, March 23 What can you say about a man Cinevents and The Undergraduate English Association present Rules of the Came at 12:30 pm who has '750,000,000? in Freeman 104. Fordham Debate Society meeting in Keating 104 at 12:30 pm. All welcome.

Wednesday, March 24 ENDLESS Cinevents presents its Classic War Series featuring LAUGHS" Patton at 8:00 pm in Keating 1 st. Senior Class meeting concerning Senior Week entertainin plans every Wednesday at 5:30 pm in the McCinley movie Center in room 229. Society for the Advancement of Management .' e ^ "A mwmui madCOMEDY... presents Mr. Van E. Langley, Manager, Project ct Development for CONOCO, Inc. discussing issues v«'t' MINW IS FUNNY. MOORE concerning corporate social responsibility in the McGinley Center room 229, 8:30-4:30. WELCOME CBA Orientation. All interested in being Freshmen moderators for the class of '86 pick up applications in the CBA Dean's Office. "'Arthur' is fun entertainment - the Sa" Diego Umo Thursday, March 25 Cinevents presents Arthur in Keating 1st at 10:30 am, 8 and 10 pm. A Rollins- JoHe-Morra-Brezner Production Fine Arts presents "Buffo" Innovative Mime Dudley Liza John Theatre at 11:00 am in the McGinley Center Ballroom. Moore Mlnnelli Qielgud Fordham Debate Society meeting in Keating 104 at "Arthur" 10:30 am. All welcome. Muucby Eiecglive ProOgcei Produced tiy jgltj»lt« wiitjiE tw »A»»n iWs I Burt Bacharach Charles H. Joffe Robert Greenhut La Academia Hispana general meeting for all Whiten and Onecled by St6V6 Gordon technicolor • 198' 0"on Pictures Company All H^hli Reserved members in Keating 116 at 11:30 am. Modern Ancients present the film Phaedra in Freeman 105 at 10:30 am. Thursday at 10:30 a.m., 8 and 10:30 p.m.

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by Mary DiLandro which the Student Activities Council would fund. Rather, if considered a University Trouble ? A recent report released by the United service, SERG would be entitled lo diiect Student Government Subcommittee on by Ellen McClure University funding. Health calls for a 25-hour increase in Health Fordham President James C. Finlay, S.J., Reiss pointed out that the Health Center Center hours, more physician hours, and said last Wednesday that Jesuits don't try to has been given the okay to provide SERG direct University funding for the Student with "bandages.. .and whatever else is need- cause trouble, even though they usually are in Emergency Response Group (SERG). it. Speaking to approximately 100 people in ed." SERG was also given a transport ve- II the 25 hour increase in hours is imple- Bishop's Lounge as part of the newly formed hicle and an oxygen tank by the University. mented, the current closing time during the Jesuit Lecture Series, Finlay said the Jesuits "It was formed initially.. .and got its rec- week would move from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. have caused controversy ever since they were ognition as a student activity," Reiss said, Closing time on Saturday, which the sub- President Ja iu I i/ila "but that does not mean it shouldn't receive founded. committee considers "a day of increased ath- University support." The question that must Finlay started his talk by giving a brief feel the government is ••unjust and exploits letic activity at Fordham," would move from be raised, however, is the degree of reliance history of the Jesuits. Established in 1540 by the poor" and Finlay himself said he saw 5 p.m. to7 p.m. the University should have on a student St. Ignatius Loyola, the purpose of the much suffering during a visit in the Philip- The subcomittee referred to the minimal group, Reiss said. Also, a cost-benefit analy- Jesuits was to help keep the faith during the pines. And in a visit to China, Finlay spoke number of current physician's hours as a sis must be undertaken. critical time of the Reformation. The Jesuits with two Jesuits who were imprisoned for 20 "major inadequacy in the present system." In response to Reiss' statements, Todd were almost disbanded, however, by Pope years. Just two weeks after Finlay left, the The four hours—two hours on Monday and Wynkoop, chairperson of the subcommittee, Clement. priests were in prison again. two on Wednesday—during which the phy- stated, "I don't think you can put a cost- Finlay said recent Jesuits are still having sician is available "is entirely insufficient," Although Finlay admitted the Jesuits have benefit analysis on something like that." problems being accepted. One Jesuit who the subcommittee said. gotten in trouble for their liberal views, he Wynkoop feels the additional $20,000 allo- was under "constant attack" was the Rev. said most American Jesuits were surprised by An ideal schedule, the subcommittee cated to student health services for both the John Courtney Murray, who received an The New York Times Sunday Magazine ar- decided, would be two hours each weekday; Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses honorary doctorate from Fordham. Murray, ticle about the Jesuits being in trouble with yet, it realizes that the University is hamper- should be augmented by an "earmark" taken an American scholar, held different ideas the Pope and Opus Dei. ed by "lack of funding and high medical from the tuition of each student. He is calling about the American political experience than Finlay did say, however, that American costs." on all students to take an active interest in the many Catholics. After he was denounced by Jesuits were "annoyed" because the pontiff University Executive Vice President Paul improvement of student health services. theologians, Murray had to renounce his own Reiss responded, "You know you can't did not appoint the Rev. Vincent O'Keefe to The subcommittee now plans to evaluate beliefs! However, Murray did live to see his afford everything." The situation must be be the interim head of the Society of Jesus. the health services of other institutions com- ideas accepted by both scholars and the viewed from a realistic vantage point, he Finlay said O'Keefe, a former president of parable in size to Fordham. Catholic church. Fordham University, is a "good man, an ex- said. "The issue is priority." All proposals, he In France, meanwhile, Pierre Teilhard de traordinary linguist and very bright". Finlay said, whether for student health services or Chardin was considered a heretic for teaching said he believes O'Keefe was not chosen to any other service, such as the upkeep of Darwinism. Although de Chardin went temporarily lead the Jesuits because he was Duane Library, must be viewed collectively, against the Catholic Church's teaching, "too involved" with the work of the Father eel collectively. Finlay said he made a "tremendous impact General Pedro Arrupe, who espouses very Whether or not a proposal should be im- both intellectually and scholarly," even liberal ideas. plemented relies on a cost-benefit analysis, though he had to "wrestle with a serious However, Finlay agrees with the Pope on which determines if the benefits or improve- problem". the concept of separation of church and ments are proportional to the increased cost, Another Jesuit who has been questioned is state. Finlay said priests should stay out of Reiss explained. The importance of the the Rev. Richard McCormick. Finlay said politics unless they are being oppressed. addition in relation to other things is not "cut and dry," he added. McCormick feels it is his duty to study and Although the Jesuits have been criticized speak about genetic control, even though he for being liberal, Finlay doesn't think Jesuits "In the past," Reiss admitted, "we may has been attacked by Catholics lor it. live "worldly lives". In high administrative not have given enough priority (to health services) basically because there was a lesser Finlay said Jesuits have not only been at- positions such as his, though, Finlay said it is number of boarders." The University is at- tacked on social and moral issues, but on sometimes necessary to move in worldly cir- tempting tn expand its health policy in ac- political stances as well. Many Jesuits were cles to solicit money, and he added, the cordance with student needs, Reiss added, people who live in these circles also have criticized for denouncing the Marcos gover- "and we should." nment in the Philippines. The Jesuits there "souls to be saved". The subcommittee also proposed that SERG not be considered a student activity, Dr. I'tiul Reiss Hooks On Civil Rights

by Tricia Phelan Director of the National Association for the Saying that the United States presently has Advancement of Colored People spoke to a W*J Reasons "an administration which is actively anti-civil sparse crowd of 65 students and faculty rights," Benjamin Hooks, the Executive members Tuesday in the McGinley Center Ballroom. • Conceding thai the topic ol his lec- ture—President Reagan and Civil Students Rights—was "almost a non-subject," Hooks presented his version of the Reagan response to the civil rights issue. Hooks believes the /DISCOVER President evades civil rights by citing isolated To Pay For instances and anecdotes which are in tune with the Administration's policy. Hooks said the University of Reagan "thinks in terms of an individual per- son which becomes a standard. He is proving ri Vermont This Damages difficult things by relying on personal exam- by Mark Dillon ples." Hooks feels this is "disturbing" for Students trapped in a 555 East 191 Street those who are trying to make progress in the elevator last Sunday are appealing a decision area of civil rights. Summer. made by Area Coordinator Julie Murphy Hooks' criticism of the Reagan Ad- 1. Sailing on Lake Champlain. 6. Music Festivals: Folk, Jazz, requiring them to pay for repairs. Although ministration includes some harsh words on Classical concerts. the Westinghouse Company has not yet sent the proposed budget for fiscal year 1983. a final bill to the University, Assistant Direc- "Although many people see it as a Black 2. Day Hikes in the 7. Ben & Jerry's Mint Oreo tor of Residential Life for Physical Plant problem, the budget is having a terrific im- Green Mountains. Charles McNiff estimated the cost to repair pact on the entire population," he said. Ice Cream. the elevator at approximately $300. Hooks expressed concern over the 3. Night Life in Burlington 8. Over 300 accredited Alan Blecher, CBA '82, one of over 20 "rapidly approaching 10 percent level of people who were trapped in the elevator, unemployment." He cited Census Bureau or Montreal. courses, 49 Departments feels the group should not be held responsible and a distinguished faculty. statistics to prove "there are more poor 4. Cosmopolitan Restaurants. for the damages. He said that when the Whties in America than poor Blacks," yet (Yes we know we said "7 elevator arrived at the first floor someone percentage-wise there arc more Blacks than had kicked the doors, throwing them off the Reasons" — we're just Whites living at or below the poverty level. testing you!) (Send the track so they would not open. Blecher feels Although the NAACP has negative views 5. Antiquing. the cost of repair should be paid for by the towards the present Administration, the coupon anyway!) University, making the analogy "if you do NAACP's main gripe is not with clown into the subway and the train breaks Republicans, but rather with an ultra- down, is the City of New York going to make conservative political philosophy. you pay?" Accordingly, the only way to combat the I want to discover the University of Vermont However, McNiff believes that incident Reagan Administration's "anti-civil rights" was caused by reckless overcrowding in the policy, Hooks said, is to encourage this Summer. elevator and said "they were lucky no one maximum voter participation, a project on Please send me: was hurt." He stated that while the capacity which the NAACP is now working. University of Vermont D Some More Reasons D A Catalog of the elevator is 2250 pounds, an estimated Black people have a "date with destiny," Continuing Education 3700 pound load was on the elevator at the Hooks stated. They arc "not hogging but Name. Grasse Mount time it broke down early Sunday morning. demanding rights of first class citizens," Burlington, Vermont 05401 -3482 Street. He added that no nameplate indicating the Hooks added. "This nation can no longer 802-656-2088 capacity of the elevator was present at the exist with half first-class citizens and half City _ State. Zip. time because it had been stolen. second class citizens. America cannot he Telephone. The final decision regarding payment of great unless it recognizes the problem of damages is in the hands of Assistant Dean for racism." Residential Life Peter Pcrluic. 4/THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982 Fordham Plaza

Continued from page I home." Reaction To Plaza Plans He also said (he plans for development of by Maryellen Gordon city's fiscal crisis had set-in and Korvettes anything 15 years ago when they threat* the site are tenuous bul that the present was having financial problems of its own, ened In the early 1970s, when real estate in Man-. us with eviction, so why should it make anv scheme is for a commercial/office space leaving the Fordham Plaza project in the air. hattan began to belong in the millionaires- difference this time around?" he mentioned complex that will include from 50,000 to But several of those tenants had already been 100,000 square feet of retail space, 200,000 to only zone, the City of New York and some Krug and his wife continued to explain that forcibly evicted and their businesses lost, for 500,000 square feet of office space (such as a Bronx politicians decided to try to provide they have had "everyone in here already" no apparent reason. 10-story high office building) and a parking some prime real-estate in the Bronx to pick meaning the housing and development garage for 200 to 600 cars. up the overflow from Manhattan. Thus the With a record of this type, it is of little corporations, and that the only result of the dream of Fordham Plaza was put into per- wonder that the remaining few merchants on "whole Fordham Plaza business" is heart Esnard added that David Chase and Asso- Fordham Road between Third and Washing- ciates has been selected to develop the prop- spective. It was just at this point when things break. "We'll leave it to God," they decided ton Avenues react rather skeptically when erty. "Chase was selected for several reasons, started moving and Korvettes department Andy Bronen of Bronen's Music Store is asked what their plans are now that the one, he is very bullish on Fordham Road and store displayed an earnest interest in develop- prepared for the big move, should it ever thinks the site is ripe for development; two, ing the site that was finally sold by the Post project is finally "under way." come. "Since we're all on month-to-month he has dealt with the government before and Office last week. William Krug of Krug Religious Supply leases, we never knew what would happen so has a reputation as a man who keeps his With this in mind, the city moved ahead Store, on Fordham Road across from the we bought a building three blocks away'on word; and three, he's willing to stick with the with plans and evicted several tenants from Third Avenue gate, expressed bitterness at Webster Avenue," he stated. He added that project even if he has to do a more modest their small, mostly family-owned businesses the thought of being evicted from his 20-year although he doesn't anticipate any problems scheme," said Esnard in the article. located on the site. However, by 1975, the business. "They (politicians) could not do with the initial act of relocation, a problem will arise when the City offers compensation for the move. "After years of being located here, we have our clientele and there's always the chance of losing a large amount of them after moving...there will be very costly moving and advertising expenses that I'm probably going to have to fight for." Bronen conceded that although the company does not want to move because of the low rent and complicated relocation pro- cedure of transporting musical equipment, they were lucky in finding another place so close to where they are presently located. And after serving the Fordham communi- ty for 50 years, Nicholas DeMaio and son don't think that things will change very much in the area, whether the Plaza is built or not. "I can't see this area supporting the Plaza," explained Nic's son, Nicholas. "It's already hard to make a living around here; the merchants are always complaining," Would the EL-D be relocated or just close? "We're not sure, there are a lot of factors to consider," Nicholas said. "It depends on what the city or state offers to pay for; the price of relocation, closing or what. If we're offered the opportunity, we may reopen within the Plaza if the rent is affordable." Although the DeMaios have not yet heard anything about being evicted or asked to relocate, Nicholas stated that they will leave if forced to. "There's not much you can do but leave if they turn off all the water and elec- tricity on the street," he said, "but I hope they at least give us a reasonable time to do so,"

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1982-83 UNITED STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION RESULTS RESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Malt McKlnley and Todd Wynkoop Progress 526 flick Alimontl Progress joe Viola and Bill Suplk O.P.U.S. 228 Gigi LaFiura Genesis Tom Kolakowaki and Anthony Sokol Knights 44 Christopher Divlny Graffiti Genesis VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS Anita Moynihan Genesis Lisa Egan Tom Brody Progress Principles 543 Clara Conconnan Maria La Rosa O.P.U.S. Principles 182 Paula DiDonato Continued from page 10 Bamber Marshall Knights 35 Principles ment. The new philosophy was a feeling of Andy Giangola Apathy VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE praise. Others even piun....> luseean aesthetic black unity: Soul Natron; Brothers Only; COMMUTER COUNCIL (2) Julie Esposlto Progress 478 value in the obsession of the writers. Harlem is Mecca. The inscriptions on the Jackie Mooney Irv Gonzalez O.P.U.S. 241 Progress Janice Yee walls also challenge the legitimate form of William Malin Knights 39 Progress "We sense there is a lot of creativity in Alan Baer authority: STOP lying; STOP racism; STOP Genesis these graffiti," says David Katzive of the VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT LIFE Lynne Beccaro Genesis sexism; STOP Nixon; STOP war. Carol Greto Progress 493 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Philadelphia Art Museum in a 1977 Tine Dave Kuplec O.P.U.S. 233 PRESIDENT magazine article. "Most interesting, the VICE PRESIDENT OF ACADEMICS Graffiti also appeared during urban riots Margaret Breen Progress 141 trend is away from profanity and toward Peter lanniello Progress 491 VICE PRESIDENT or before and after major confrontations. Tony Catalano O.P.U.S. 254 simple signatures—a kind of identity thing." Marc A. Wllle Progress 131 "Burn, Baby, Burn" was a symbol of racial VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY violence, "Soul Brother" was an indication Marlellen Lane Progress 515 Eileen Fitzgerald Progress 150 Since the mid-1970's, there seems to be a Julia Morettl O.P.U.S. 223 that a certain location was black-owned and TREASURER FORDHAM COLLEGE PRESIDENT AND trend toward romanticizing the new wave of therefore not to be trespassed by whites, nor Kevin Lynch Progress 139 SECRETARY/TREASURER graffiti artists, especially among some writers to be "hit" by black gangs. The walls were Brian Kelly and Pennle McLaughlln 395 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CLASS and other observers of the scene. In 1976, for OF 1983 used to communicate to people by the areas Philip Cohen and Paul Morrlsroe Apathy 33 example, one New Yorker wrote to the MTA FOROHAM COLLEGE CLASS OF 1983 PRESIDENT which were rebelling against the control of Patrick Zacchea Progress 52 suggesting that as a bicentennial project the PRESIDENT the legitimate authority. Graffitologist VICE PRESIDENT TA sponsor a contest in which graffitists Carol Kozeracki Beta 91 Herbert Kohl goes so far as to declare that a Joanne DeSantls Progress 49 Jim Harrington Progress would be permitted to decorate subway cars purpose of the graffiti is "to negate the so- SECRETARYfTREASURER SECRETARYfTREASURER red, white and blue. The winners of the Boomer Flahlve Progress 48 called legitimate owners of property." Nina DeCew Progress 86 various categories would be allowed to sign SENATORS (2) Kevin Munnelly Beta 82 John Gallagher Progress 49 their names on their prize-winning car. But today, this form of political and social SENATORS (3) Eva Nardl Progress 48 commentary once strewn across the walls of Cathy Maher Progress 115 COMMUTER COUNCIL Norman Mailer, in his book.entitled The Harlem and Chicago no longer exists. As the Pete Santagb Progress 99 Dlno Moshura Progress 47 Timothy Carey Progress 87 Faith of Graffiti, contends that graffiti reveal iCivil Rights movement of the Sixties died out. Kathleen Brady Beta 70 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CLASS "macho qualities and esthetics and political so too did the political protest graffiti. The Barbara Durkln Beta 61 OF 1984 John McLoughlin Beta 59 values." But New York City Transit murals that depict heroic leaders of the black PRESIDENT liberation movement stick out awkwardly in COMMUTER COUNCIL (2) Maryanne Duke Progress 5! Authority officials find little to admire. To Monica Treltmeler Progress 75 VICE PRESIDENT them, graffitists are using the city as a costly an urban community where there seems to be Janice Manganello Progress 72 Sheila J. McCann Progress 55 canvas. only apathy and acquiescence to the present Patti Kldd Beta 47 SECRETARYfTREASURER social situation. Michael Ammazzalorso Beta 46 Joseph Kline Progress 5: It is a decade since the advent in New York FORDHAM COLLEGE CLASS OF 1984 SENATORS (2) The vibrant communications that once James Raphael Progress 53 City of graffiti tags, often simply newly- PRESIDENT existed in graffiti and served as a viable Tim Smollan Progress 5; minted nicknames or random combinations Mark Hartnett Beta 107 reason for the inscriptions, is now diffused, Lisa Lysko Progress 94 COMMUTER COUNCIL of letters—a far cry from the political in- Robert Tarangelo Progress Jemoralized, dead. SECRETAfWTREASURER scriptions on the walls of the Sixties. Angela McCabe Progress 96 COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CLASS Kathy Quirk Beta 91 OF 1985 With the arrival of the Sixties came the The only feelings communicated by graffiti SENATORS (3) PRESIDENT words and writings of such black political today are the frustrations revealed in the es- Ellen Hanley Progress 115 John Antretter Spectrum Kevin Galvin Progress leaders as Malcolm X and Elijah calation of obscene and violent inscriptions. Lawrence Keane Progress 101 Allison Louise Rellly Progress 100 Jeanne Killcommons Utopia Muhammed. As a result, the graffiti of the In graffiti, themes emerge and then disap- Thomas Lassandro Beta 88 ' -VICE PRESIDENT street gangs became more politicized and pear. Graffiti merges with social protest and John Calvelll Beta 87 John Eucalitto Spectrum moved from established spray can boundari- gang warfare. The walls say many things in Colleen Carolan Beta 74 Charles Mancuso Progress Joseph Calvo . Utopia es to focus in on one common enemy and many different languages. They lead away COMMUTER COUNCIL (2) SECRETARYfTREASURER James Rlley, Jr. Progress 101 philosophy. Evident in the Civil Rights from themselves to the complex collage of Darline Beddow Spectrum Tonl Don Vlto Progress 101 culture that constitutes the urban districts Michael Moreno Progress Movement and in the scrawls on the walls, FORDHAM COLLEGE CLASS OF 1985 Melissa Vallas Utopia the common enemy was the white establish- throughout the United States. PRESIDENT SENATORS (2) Matt O'Toole Progress 101 Edmund J. 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Tim Wheat FC '85: "From my perspective of Ed Edylaine Gh'rael FC '83: "Not too well. From the way Paula DiDonato FC '85: "His chances are very good Koch, why governor? Why not president? He brings he's handled himself, I don't think Iv would be in the city because his detrimental effects have not yet an openness to politics that 1 think we can all ap- capable of holding higher office." been felt. He'll win the primaries, but not the elec- tion." preciate."

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SAC is eager to fund any and all intelligent plans and programs 8/THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11, Viewpoint HERA "I Am A Student Richard Dooley Editor-in-Chief Leslie Mantrone Executive Editor John McLoughlin Sports Editor Bob Tulini Executive Editor Bill Ruflin Photography Editor Kevin Cusick Copy Editor Maryellen Gordon Managing Editor Fordham University is a world of its own, one in and two children, ownr Cathy Woods Senior News Editor Bob Ponichtera Copy Editor which I might be considered alien. I am nearly twice insurance busings Bob O'Keefe Editorial Page Editor Meghan Lynch Business Manager the age of the other undergraduate students who sur- street life ha^ been a;cJ Rich Santaguida Lincoln Center Editor Jeff Sacchet Advertising Manager round me in classes and I can't help but remember and Sciences has beciTsJ Andrea Messina Arts Editor Joan Mandaro Subscription Manager what 1 was doing when 1 was their age. At twenty 1 was my classes respond to 7 in a place very far from college classrooms and very far timately for years ,f. News- Rick Allessandn • Bo Bawne • Tern Bottier • John Breumg • Charles Cain • Colleen Carolan • Cathy Carroll • John Cavaliere • Jim from anywhere 1 had ever seen before—1 was a soldier attending Fordham was Cooke • Anqeline Davis • Jim deWind! • Mary DiLandro • Mark Dillon • Barbara Durkin • Sheila Fay • John Fedenco • Mary Galligan • Elaine walls. ] Giacomello • Julia Hall • Jenmler Holness • Pal Honan • Calhy McAuley • Ellen McClure • Betsy McCormick • Bngid McCue • Henry in South Vietnam. Menendez • Pat Miler • Kevin Milne • Tim Oliver • Patricia Onalavia • Greg Pamco • Tncia Phelan . Genevieve Pilurro • Kerry Quinn • Adrienne Quirolo • Carol Reilly • Patty Russell • Joe Spampinato • Ann Sullivan • Monica Treitmeier • Manorie Varrichio • Matt Wagenhals Sports: I was a member of one of the first helicopter com- Most Fordham studerl Christopher Alvarez • John Despagna • Penme McLaughlin • Ron Rohn • John Scuden • Jim Smith • Pete Tomaszewski • Greg Venuto • Jim panies to reach South Vietnam, and none of us had late, knowledgeable of \ Zanor Arts- Dave Alessandnni • Cynthia Amendola • Lou Cammarasano • Mike Cipot • Donna Englund • Ted Hilscher • Peggy McPartland • ever heard of the place before we were sent there. In their studies. At timcs [ Vincent Marano • Patrick Mullen • Ann Murphy • Dorian Tenore • Joseph Wassong • Joe Wiley • Photography: Andy Congelosi • Joe Ferone • Mary Pat McAlister • Sue McGowan • Hugh McNally • David Montague • Brian Whiteman Graphics: Peter Amato • George Mansfield • Jim fact, we had to leaf through an atlas to see which classmates because of \\ OGrady Production: Rosemarie Brescia • Barbara Durkin • Julia Hall • Betsy McCormick • Bngid McCue • Eileen O'Shaughnessy • Suzanne direction we would be heading from the U.S. But once express themselves but J Priore • Matt Wagenhals Business: Dam Dean • Virginia Hunt • John Proto • Ginny Ruegamer Advertising: Linda Carlozzi • Chris Fitzmaurice • there, there was much to learn. Instead of getting to helpful and respectful an Gerri Galanli • Stacy Goodrich • Margaret 0 Bnen ' Am Suarez know where Faculty Memorial Hall was or what easier for me. THE RAM is the University wide newspaper ot Fordham University, serving campus and community since 1918. THE RAM is published each iambic pentameter is, we were trying to learn Wednesday and distributed free of charge every Thursday during the academic year. Correspondence should be addressed to THE RAM, Box Once students realize! B. Fordham University. Bronx. NY 10458 Rose Hill editorial, copy and business oflices are located in Faculty Memorial Hall Rooms 428, 429 something about the South Vietnamese—who were "one of them" they ahl and 443 Telephones (212) 295 0962. (212) 933-9765, |212) 579-2082. (2121 579-2093. (2121 579-2665. Lincoln Center copy office is located in Leon these people we would soon be fighting and dying for, possibly attend college f Lowenslein Room 408 Telephone (212) 841 5250 THE RAM is represented nationally for advertising by CASS and CMPS. Ad rates are available on request from the business manager Ad deadline is Tuesday at 12:30 pit The opinions expressed in RAM editorials are those of anyway?—and trying our best to avoid contracting have a family and two bi| the editorial board, those expressed in columns, letters or graphics are those of the individual writers or artists. No part of THE RAM. including some strange type of Asian disease. For a year we lived I want to move beyond] text, photos, artwork, ads and ad designs or logos may be reproduced without the written consent ol the editor THE RAM is composed on want to become a lawy r in tents, running a mile for water and fighting off huge campus at Fordham Student Print, and printed by offset lithography or recycle^ >,-:\f" in a union printing plant rats that kept stealing our Oreo cookies. It was all very different from the comforts of dorm life and the neatly structured life of academia, but I enlisted because following in my family's footsteps meant working at a factory where the highest .,"?•: aspiration was to someday head the shipping depart- ment. But that was nearly twenty years ago and today I am a junior at Fordham University. But even as a junior I still dread the first few classes of each semester, much as freshman straight out of high school would fear walking into his first class here. But my fear is also quite different. When I walk into class at the start of a semester, many students think 1 am the professor and wonder why 1 am sitting at the back of the class. Recently during registration, I went to purchase a parking sticker for my car and was asked what class I was teaching that semester. And at the Bursar's Office, while paying tuition, 1 was asked if I was paying for my What Have son and if so, what was his first name. I am certain that 1 could enjoy a leisurely lunch in the faculty dining something or other, and never be discovered to be a lowly undergraduate. Perhaps next semester I will have a tee-shirt made up with large printing across the chest saying, "I AM A STUDENT!" Admittedly, I am not a traditional Fordham full- time undergraduate. I am forty years old, have a wife We Learned? room and pass myself off as a visiting professor of

Over 5000 students, sporting bright blue buttons claiming "We are the future," converged on Washington last Monday to protest impending cuts in student aid. As the group gathered outside the Capitol Building, the chairperson of the U.S. Student Association told them: "I thoughtapatln was the word for our generation, but maybe there's hope for us >et." Of the five thousand, 650 came from NNeslevan University. Fordham's constituency included all of 13 students. The three letters to the editor this week discuss apathy at Fordham and the need to rise out of it. Fordham has developed a strong reputation of apathy, and it is not undeserved. A recent college guide described the Fordham student as "conservative and conformist all the way." The 1ETTERS Tl University's recent history offers little to contradict that assessment. students do not think it wo But Fordham has not always been so sedate. In the late Sixties, students rallied around a proposed budget cuts." Tf body of issues, at the national as well as the University level, and raised a little hell at Rose Hill. Apathy Fordham students no longi The national issues were Vietnam, civil rights and social reform. On campus, the issues were for Fordham itself. Quilcs To the Editor: lack of administrative response to the students, the presence of ROTC and military recruiters at which have befallen Fordh; Rose Hill, and, in general, the schism between Fordham the institution and Fordham the I am writing to you concerning last week's article as the aforesaid, the Unive community. In the fall of 1969, 7,500 students, teachers, and people from the Bronx engaged in concerning the University's poor turnout at the tim to Murphy's Law. It is National Lobby in Washington. After reading the ar- a peaceful candlelight vigil on Edward's Parade. The next year, 250 students "took over" the it. ticle 1 feel that the question of the student's interest of Administration Building, and five students involved in an earlier protest were found guilty in .and about Fordham itself should be raised among the Bronx Criminal Courthouse. members of the University. But while the activism eventually died down, the issues remained, and are now resurfacing in Fordham's present student body, particularly the full force. Under the auspices of Reagan, we have a blossoming \ ietnam in El Salvador, and a classes of '84 and '85, seem to suffer from an appalling dangerous reemphasis on the arms race. The ideals of "The Great Society" have all but lack of concern about themselves and their relation- vanished: while defense spending climbs ever higher, aid to the poor and underprivileged faces ship to the University. More drastic reduction. Cuts in student aid seriously endanger the educational opportunities of The trouble began in the fall of 1980 when the America's students, and Time magazine reported last year that ours is the first generation in University inaugurated the New Curriculum. The class American history that should not realistically expect to achieve a higher standard of living (han of '84. as well as the class of '85 the following year, To (he Editor: our parents'. It seems clear that apathy can no longer be "the word for our generation." Quite found themselves as guinea pigs in this new University 1 admit 1 am one oltlief simply, we can no longer afford it. institution. As all new projects are begun, snags and to let what di-iurbs mesw Vet it seems doubtful that Fordham students will so quickly shrug off the cloak of problems had to be ironed out. The first two semesters went fairly well. We soon learned from Dean much ofaneMort tostopl complacency. Even vital issues at the University level often go ignored. We can write editorials Loughran that the new curriculum received a fairly justice to mw-lf or other J ad nauseam about the Administration's disregard for students' rights and safety, but if they are positive response from the students. As to be expected, admit thai niN.noiceH'Kj not followed up by student action, the Administration can retain its smug silence. there were complaints, but these were soon corrected four vear> is no; so There is a dire need for concerted, goal-oriented action on the part of Fordham students to or are now in the process of being done so. During this have decided to Jo sorncin oppose both the Administrative neglect on the national level which threatens the future of time we had elected a new president and our country horribly unjib'. sit American education, and the Administrative neglect at the University level which threatens our was entering into a new era. Fordham was then at its I am currently a-n very safely. While the Administration can easily ignore the printed words in a campus publica- pinnacle of success; a workable curriculum, a seminar which r< tion, it can not ignore direct action on the part of the student body. The letter sent to students' dedicated faculty, and more importantly an active the semester on inu^n parents in protest of tuition hikes is an example of the type of action needed. student body clearly indicated better times ahead for the University. Edward's Parade was then a veritable There was a refreshing difference in the student rail) at Washington last week. Instead of the lores! of posters with eacli post advertising every con- chanting and picketing and token acts of civil disobedience that have elicited yawns from D.C. search topu-no ceivable activity. policemen for years now, there was direct interaction between the students and their legisla- these book. I * The students should be made to understand what the tors. For what it is worth, some congressmen were put on record as opposing the cuts in student could not rcnc^ real p:oblem at hand k Perhaps it the budget cuts aid. Most participants, students and legislators, labelled the rally an immense success. One con- student. Oh ic.i were explained more dearly to the students there gressman even opined: "We are moving into a new age of political activism." would be a much better response from the students g the idea in higher cd Fordham should also be a part of this new activism. Of all the lessons learned in our college towards the University. The inception of the new one could ren^bojjks education, the most basic should he an understanding of the democracy in which we live. With curriculum, the budget cuts, and the tuition hike all -academic cine ^ that understanding comes (he reali/ation that inaction is not only unethical but dangerous. We have oceured simultaneously, which in turn, are the much for me to ^Ik• have let things lit* fur too long already. driving the Univeristy students out of their minds. to the honor, program*" Chris Falco was wrong in saying that "...Fordham semester at FJhw THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982/9 school is great. The only way I am going to make it is F by showing my determination to get the very best edu- The Uneasy Chair cation and training possible, 1 tell them, and Fordham gives me such an opportunity. I attended two other schools before Fordham but neither offered what I was looking for. Finally I spoke to a representative from Fordham's Admissions Office Writings On The Wail who insisted that the School of General Studies was for ^=Roy Perei me. I explained that I had been majoring in business and that I wanted to enter law school. After a few Bill Gyves m as well as two moments, she suggested I change my major to liberal In the likely event that our world leaders should see Sociologists have been telling us for years that , New York City's arts because it would challenge me with a great deal of fit to destroy the world with their growing arsenal of gralfitti is the mark of identity by a people, a folk art, wsure to the Arts skills that would be essential to a law school educa- shiny nuclear warheads, many large institutions have a statement of purpose. If this is the case, Fordham ile the students in tion. At that point, I knew Fordham was for me. planned to make the most of what promises to be a y had known it in- had better get rid of those restrooms before the Big It seems ironic that I have lived most of my life in bad situation. Take the U.S. Government as an knew prior to One is dropped and its name is written in cement. the Bronx, just ten minutes from the University, that 1 example. me finds on toilet "But graffitti at all colleges are the same," you have travelled to the other side of the world to fight in If the Big One were to be dropped, the U.S. Postal might say. a war, that I have built up two businesses to a level Service would distribute millions of Emergency "Not quite, bimbo," I would reply. me to be articu- where I can afford to raise my family in a comfortable Change of Address Cards, so we could quickly locate Why is it that one can go to a Harvard bathroom and serious about section of Westchesler—and after it all, that I should our loved ones and invite them to a final little glow and read: itimidated by my come to attend Fordham University to complete my together at which we could watch one another disin- Ige and ability to SHE OFFERED HER HONOR undergraduate degree. In many ways I have come full tegrate into equally little amounts of smoldering ash. hem are friendly, circle. HE HONORED HER OFFER The Federal Preparedness Agency has prepared a i everything much As a junior I have only one year until graduation, AND ALL NIGHTLONG National Defense Stockpile of Strategic and Critical IT WAS HONOR AND OFFER ? and then I will hopefully move on to Law School. It Materials so that we will have plenty of everything for he fact that I am Why is it that one can go to Columbia and read: has taken all my life to reach this point in my educa- the rest of our lives, everything from top-shelf opium know how I can tion, twelve years to build up my two companies, and for our little glow togethers to high grade plutonium TIME FLIES LIKE AN ARROW onsidering that I seven years to raise my children. But I will never be for those of us who might feel inclined to get a fast FRUIT FLIES LIKE A BANANA un. 1 answer that more proud of myself than when I am called up one start on the next Nuclear Age. right now, that I hot, muggy day in May to accept my diploma from and And the Emergency Management Agency has npetition for law Fordham University. RONALD REAGAN IS A HEMHORROID compiled a computerized listing of two million farms, ON THE COSMIC A SSHOLE ? factories and banks, assigning each a "vulnerability factor." The idea here is to enable the government to Why is it that one can go to Princetown and read: quickly determine the next best place to go after its EXISTENCE BORDERS INFINITY favorite farm, factory or bank has been blown into LIFE-DEATH MARKS THE STATION BREAK /1 i'tf *<• eternity by a Cruise Missile or some such thing. STA Y TUNED! So the U.S. Government has neatly covered all the And when at Fordham one has to read such un- bases, but what about another large bureaucracy: inspired, illiterate, adolescent garbage as: Fordham University? Does Fordham have a Plan for the End of the World As We Know It? It was not MY EYES HA VE SEEN THE GLOR Y possible to get an official answer to this question, since OF THE GREEN BERETS attempts to contact administrators in their offices and THE Y WERE RUNNING THROUGH LIB YA hard at work were repeatedly unsuccessful. Neverthe- BLASTING EVER YTHING AWAY KID A Fl 'S ON THE RUN NOW JiidlSUm* less, it would be safe to assume no such plan exists, judging from the difficulty the University has had in HE IS GOING TO DIE TODA Y handling such relatively minor emergencies as treach- GOD BLESS THE GREEN BERETS erously icy walkways and smoke detector-less dor- and mitories. KEEP GA Y DICKS OUT OF FORDHAM This being the case, perhaps the University would consider one modest proposal for its Plan For the End and of the World As We Know It: Destroy All Bathrooms. HOW MANY NIGGERS DO YOU OWN? Or, D.A.B. for short, although it should never be con- and dozens of fused with the exquisite German beer DAB, the con- BRUCE IS BA CK, CLAPTON IS GOD, sumption of which should never be put off until the THE SIXTIES RULE, etc. end of the world. The need for D.A.B. is clear. In the event of a The large proportion of graffitti even today at nuclear war, the University won't be able to do a thing Fordham runs along these lines. And in a million years about it so it might as well cover its own bases. Every- from now, if some nosey archaelogist were to peruse thing about Fordham will be destroyed—the archives, the writing on these walls he would have to conclude year books, newspapers, etc.—except for its bath- that Fordham's student body was homophobic, violent, close minded, illiterate, boring and above all, rooms. These graffitti filled restrooms will offer ar- unimaginative. He would then put his notebook and chaeologists a million years from now their only hints pencil back in his pocket and set off in search of other as to what Fordham was all about. And if there is bathroom walls in the hope of finding some indication anything Fordham does not need, it is to be remember- ; the 20th century man attempted to guard li m»dl ed by the writing on its walls. The answer then is against ignorance and violence. simple: destroy all the evidence, say goodbye and hope for the best. Graffiti is dumb, and the ions of garbage written trying lo analyze it is only worse. Still, sonic of it can The system behind D.A.B. is also clear. If a nuclear be mildly amusing. 1 have rarely seen a snatch of war were launched, a phone in the shape of a little red graffitti at Fordham that rises above being merely school house would begin flashing in President Fin- stupid, and much of it is ugly. Too bad Father Finlay lay's office. Finlay's decision would have to be imme- doesn't have a button that would erase all of it from EDITOR diate in order to be effective, and for this reason he Fordham's walls. Perhaps the University ought to stays in razor sharp condition, making one decision begin to ask itself how much its liberal arts education is Fight the rather save for another letter. each day. If he decides the University is better not doing to liberate the minds of some of its students |e matter is that Does the library (the administration?), actually remembered than to be remembered by what is writ- from the confines of adolescent ignorance and hang- fthwhile to fight believe that only those with a GPA of 3.6 or better are ten on its bathroom walls, he will press a flashing ups. It's not just one or two people running from wall all the events in need of books for more than a three week period? If button in his briefcase and every bathroom through- to wall with magic markers. [semester, such this were true, and only a small percent of the student out the University will immediately disappear. If his But most importantly of all, perhaps those who are | has fallen vic- body participated in research throughout the semester, decision is the right one, Finlay will be a hero but no doing the scribbling should begin to ask themselves bdent to correct Fordham would be in a rather sorry state. one will know because we will all be dead. If, however, what they are doing here. Fordham is an expensive Let's see, at a rate of five cents a day per overdue the little red school house warning mechanisms flashed place to sit around in writing poorly and drawing ICepero FC '84 books on loan and a total of seven books, in order for for no reason, and Finlay were to activate D.A.B., terribly; and if they are going to stay, and insist on me to complete the research for my paper due May Finlay would be out of a job immediately and the writing on bathroom walls, perhaps they could learn to 7th, the total cost should be approximately $25.00 Board of Trustees would hold their meetings in the 1 spell, to punctuate and most importantly, to be (that is excluding the cost of any books I take out after Bronx Park Motel, where the service is poor but rest - creative. We have read it all before, long before we today). I guess that's the price you pay for higher rooms are plentiful ever arrived at Fordham. education. Diane Greenhill FC '82

ntsat Fordham, nehow manage " "Sleep of Apathy" [it making too feel is an in- To (he Kditor: bdents. I also Students are being charged for the repair of an fetic for the past elevator in which they were trapped for 1 Vi hours. pout, I'm not Were this not so typical of the attitudes of the For- nyself now. I dham Administration towards its students, it would be fhat I feel is a almost comic. Perhaps this will be the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" which will i Politics awaken Fordham's student population from their good portion of sleep of apathy. We seem to be conditioned to accept [for a paper that every utterance of the Administration with a polite "lately three bow. We pay clearly to come here and what do we get hicial to my re- for our money? A lack of University Services ranging fwent to renew from Health to Food to Security to Fire Safety to the belief, that 1 general physical upkeep of the area. Yet, the voices of l^as an honors complaint are few and far between, allowing the i University to go on offering token gestures which placate ils students for their four-year stay. It takes |ept this innova- Please address all complaints about lack of smoke detectors to The Department of Housing, |en told that no only a few minutes to write a letter to either of the |s privilege to papers or to the Dean of Students but the results can Preservation and Development, Office of Evaluation and Compliance, 100 Gold St., New I was a little too be far-reaching. It must be the student body which York, N. Y. 10038, or call 566-133.1 lone is admitted initiates the process that leads lo change. sne's first Michael McNiffFC'82 ce I would 10/THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982 consciousness. The old masters are known WAR—writers, already respected-and ife masterpiece (a graffiti picture at least four The Graffiti Controversy five feet in any direction) is not to be coven over. The penalty for doing so, accordina in one graffitist, is 30 to 50 cans of spray nain. by Bill Paulus Who Are These "Artists"? scars of a fight they cannot seem to win. from the offender. ) Paint Presently, the city's clean-up effort is re- Who are these so-called graffiti "artists", Graffiti. Some consider it a demoralizing, Among his peers, a graffiti artist's stat stricted to removing racial slurs and the and what motivates them to so furiously Ure disgraceful urban problem caused by dis- is determined by how many times he tags his murafs that cover windows or otherwise pose practice their "art"? respectful juveniles. Others see the problem signature, the relative difficulty of the places safety hazards. Graffitists are generally teen-age males as emblematic of the frustration of the times. he puts it, and its style. These underground The most common complaints about graf- with time on their hands and a feeling of In just the last 10 years, graffiti has been artists have even formed a league, the United fiti are that they are multi-colored eye sores alienation, stemming, perhaps from a feeling elevated to the status of a full-fledged urban Graffiti Artists. UGA was started in 1972 by and nuisances. One transit official noted in a that society's rules are ambiguous or un- problem. Time magazine reported that in Hugo Martinez, then a Ctiy College student 1980 New York Times Magazine article how enforceable, or because of a perceived sense 1977 the New York subway system spent studying sociology. In 1973, according to spray-painted maps and windows cause con- of powerlessness and of meaninglessness in a $500,000 to clean up after just one writer, 1972 article in Newsweek magazine, Martinez fusion, particularly among the elderly. "It life. Taki 183 and his cohorts. It was also estimat- organized an art exhibit of graffiti where the generally doesn't stop the trains from Graffiti offers a fleeting experience of ac- ed by New York City officials that in the pictures at the gallery were selline for running," he said, "but it's a vandalistic same year it would have taken an additional complishment and satisfaction to these between $200 and $3,000. • blight. People can't even see what station young people. To the writer striving for in- $2,3 million in cleaning materials alone to To people like Martinez, graffiti is a legiti- they've come into. The train gets delayed." dividuality, graffiti is a tangible record to cleanse its schools, bridges and recreational mate form of art. This art-deco comes in But the MTA's and the city's fight against centers. demonstrate that this person is not as anony- various styles: the geometric, known as graffiti goes much beyond a desire for Two years later, in 1974, the cost of com- mous as the crowds around him make him "Broadway"; the billowing "Bubble"; and sparkling cars. Beside losing passengers, the batting graffiti for the Metropolitan Transit feel. the calligraphic approach, which is the style MTA loses advertisement revenue from com- Authority (MTA) rose to two million dollars. In the ghettos and crowded neighborhoods most commonly used. By 1975, due to the "level of recurrence", panies fearing their ads will become illegible of the inner city, it is difficult to define boun- from graffiti. the MTA appropriated five million dollars to daries because there are so few natural NOGA formed continue the removal of graffiti from its markers, like parks, railroad tracks, or wide physical plant. People see graffiti as a avenues. Thus, as a need develops to demar- In August of 1975, another graffiti organi- Today, the cost of combatting graffiti in cate the neighborhood, graffiti are the clear- zation, NOGAj The Nation of Graffiti New York City—considered a fruitless effort symbolic assault on them. est way in which to establish desired boun- Artists, was established to attempt to re- by many—is estimated at $10 million. Al- They feel frightened, violated. daries—to rope together a piece of security. channel the rampant defacement of public though half of this sum goes for mainten- Uusually graffiti marks boundaries and and private property. Located at 589 Colum- bus Avenue in New York City, the workshop ance of the cars' facades, the other half rep- In recent years, however, the MTA reports sets territorial spaces on an ethnic or racial is funded through endowment from the resents revenues lost from "graffiti sick" a rise in the incidence of graffiti-related basis. And where territorial control is un- Council of the Arts. The building thai passengers who have stopped riding the vandalism—cracked windows, broken switch certain, graffiti turns aggressive, obscene and NOGA occupies was once an abandoned subways. signals, and physical attacks by graffitists violent. In changing neighborhoods like these , property which the organization has comp- Early last month, the Koch administration against car cleaners and transit employees. in which, for example, a once-white area is letely refurbished in exchange for token rent announced its newest battleplan in the A Transit study of 750 youths arrested for seeing a heavy influx of blacks, residents— rate, graffiti war. Beginning next month the city is graffiti violations shows a strong link especially youths in the form of gangs—feel to enact a public relations effort against between subway vandalism and more serious pressured. Graffiti boundary markers do not, graffiti through radio and television by sports crimes. The study, as noted in a 1980 New then, indicate the limits of pre-established figures and celebrities, and subway posters. York Times Magazine article, revealed that territory, but reclaims the space it bounds. There is a lot of creativity in The aim of the campaign will be to urge kids 40 percent of the 750 youths arrested for Graffitiologists David Ley and Roman Ly- to "make your mark in society, not on graffiti violations in 1973 and 1974 were later brinsky term these areas "defended graffiti. society." arrested for other, more serious crimes. neighborhoods," and state that graffiti is "What we're trying to do is to create a The MTA has received countless letters "internally supportive and externally ag- Livi French, director of the program, said climate where it is more difficult to spray over the past several years displaying an gressive." They believe graffiti serves as a that the program deals with two concerns: graffiti, where people won't tolerate it quite almost unanimous condemnation of graffiti message for two audiences. curbing subway graffiti and rechanneling the as easily," mayoral aid David Jones was on subway cars and in stations. The general talented youths' energy into the positive ex- quoted in a February 5, 1982 New York tone in the letters is one of disgust and. anger Graffiti Subculture pression method. (One young artist who Times article as saying. The $100,000 —very few of the angry citizens consider Today, an entire subculture exists which passed through the program went on to campaign pricetag is to be raised from private graffiti "art." Most see it as a senseless abuse centers around the activities of graffiti. To receive a scholarship from Pratt Institute.) sources. of public property. The fury finds expression become a member of a graffiti clique, an in- French's belief is that this workshop, while "The premise," the article states, "is that in irate letters, such as this one, which was dividual writer must ascend through a highly not completely eradicating the problem, may graffiti writers spray their names across trains quoted in a 1973 memorandum on graffiti developed hierarchy. help to discourage the defacing of subway in part for recognition and that celebrities from then-MTA chairperson David Yunich: When a writer graduates from tagging— cars. Moreover, she states that NOGA's might be able to lead the youngsters to find "Who dares call this corruption, this above ground writing, to motion tagging— concern is for the young people of the city. more acceptable ways to assert themselves." violation of our public transportation, an art inscribing moving trains, he is likely to have Many have little opportunity or motivation Currently there is a bill before the City form? It is a pollution—a disease whose his first encounter with spray paints. To be for positive expression. The workshop is a Council that would ban the sale of spray- cancer must be removed at once as it already accepted in the graffiti clique, one major re- start, she says. paint cans to minors, but according to the has claimed too much of our public funds quirement is to steal the magic markers, With all the protest, however, the writing article, it is not a bill that the Koch admin- and of our labor force. What have our public spray paint and india ink needed for the of graffiti is nevertheless gaining more inter- istration will fight for. representatives and our elected officials done project. national recognition as a legitimate means of The MTA also announced that in April it to curb this mania? A silly law on the books? When a writer's pieces achieve a level of communication than it ever has before. will commence a $15 million project— "1 sit on the trains and I want to vomit." proficiency and he has tagged enough, he will Sweden has set up an official "communica- installing fences with barbed wire at 19 not have his work covered up. But until that tion" wall in Stockholm and a man is paid to subway-car storage yards. "A Symbolic Assault"? time, the apprentice graffitist, or "toy," is repaint it ever day to ready it for the new Graffiti is removed from the interior of 64 fair game to have his tag written over, to be Graffiti frightens subway travellers day's passing commentators. cars per day, 1600 cars annually, according to because it seems to indicate that our society is slandered and challenged by fellow graf- Some critics find the "art" worthy of a 1980 New York Times Magazine article, unable to protect public property from the fitists. and the cleansing cycle is repeated every 20 whims of vandals. A psychologist who Graffiti masters have their own status- Continued on page 5 weeks. Graffiti can most easily be scrubbed counsels graffitists explains the anger in these off the 2600 stainless steel subway cars. In terms: "People see graffiti as a symbolic 1980, the article reported, approximately 600 assault on them. They feel frightened, cars had been given a polyurethane coating violated." — the most graffiti resistant. At the present Another psychologist suggests that the STUDENT CREDIT rate of 700 polyurethane coatings a year, it is scrawls contribute to a "general feeling of estimated that;by 1985, all subway cars will anxiety and hopelessness in the face of urban Ever wish that while traveling, receive the protective treatment. vandalism and lawlessness." Yunich summed vacationing, or maybe just for up the department's traditional view toward Graffiti: Battle Scars graffiti in the memo saying, "We are respon- emergencies, you could have a To the officials of the New York Transit sible for maintaining this public property in national credit card? Authority, graffiti, perhaps the most special- good condition. Graffiti artists are not harm- ized form of vandalism, resembles battle less; they are an expensive nuisance." 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by Bill Thompson applicable here. Both characters have solo In an age when the well-made play has moments: Arnold backstage musing in his given way to the well-dressed one, it is a glass darkly reflects that "being a drag queen . pleasure to announce that there is presently isn't easy" and warns us that "a thing of running a play that is both well-made and beauty is a joy till sunrise". Ed, groping well-dressed, so to speak. The play is Harvey awkwardly for his sexuality in a gay bar, Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy and it is strikes up a conversation with an invisible currently carrying its torch down at the Ac- stranger in heels whom we discover to our tors' Theatre. delight, and to Ed's enchantment, is Arnold. Torch Song Trilogy is an always The dance continues to a final dressing-room humorous, often brilliantly witty three-play duct that culminates in a very real moment of "tour-de-farce," concerning the life and pathos, charged with emotion without being loves of one Arnold Beckoff, a drag queen sentimental. cum torch singer and his sometime lover and Fugue In A Nursery, the second of the inconstant companion, Ed, the closet three, is a cleverly-structured and witty piece, homosexual's closet homosexual. For Torch revealing the foibles of the characters with Song Trilogy is, at the bottom of its gold Arnold acting as chief foil. We find that a lam? heart, .an old fashioned romantic year later, Ed has found a girlfriend and Ar- comedy, proving by the curtain's drop that nold has found a model, who, though hardly flats and heels (and whose wearing them) Mr. Right is at least faithful to Arnold. don't much matter when love is the matter. Fugue In A Nursery provides an entertaining The plots of the three plays go something like and enlightening comparison of homosexual this: Boy meets boy, boy gets boy, boy loses and heterosexual relationships with Ed's boy. alleged bisexuality providing a segue between Fierstein is more concerned with putting us the two. in our place than, as in so many plays, just Fierstein manages to further the structural putting us on. Truth is the demand here, theme of comparison in this play by struc- and comedy the means by which it is amp- turing the drama after the manner of a fugue Jy and amusingly supplied. For between with a subject, counter subject, stretto, etc. the quips, quotes, and epigrams Torch Song The effect of this musical framework is to Trilogy examines the fundamental problems produce a house of mirrors of relationships of any human relationship, dealing maturely that refract and reflect one another ad in- and accurately (laughter being one of the finitum till one is unrecognizable from the surest signs of accuracy) with such matters of other, which is, I believe, the point intended; the human heart as commitment, honesty, proving that in the eyes of love all men and fidelity, and just what it is we are saying women, be they gay or straight, are equally when we say, "1 love you". Happily for us, jealous. Fierstein doesn't approach these issues too Though the first two plays are rather un- heavy-handedly; instead he lets them ripple, traditional in their make-up, tending more to shark-like, just beneath the shimmering sur- a filmic understanding of theatre, with cross 1 face of the play, always ready to snap or, if cutting scenes, interpolating dialogue, and necessary, break a heart or two. the sometimes partial, sometimes complete The first play of the three, The Inter- destruction of the famous "fourth wall," the Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein and Estelle Getty in a scene from Torch Song national Stud, is a prancing pas-de-deax bet- Continued on page 13 Trilogy. ween Arnold and Ed. The dance analogy is Off-Beat Off-Broadway Amity

by Patrick Mullen Blue Morphan is a 120-year-old philoso- pher/wino who lives in a decrepit '51 Chevy, enjoying warm wine and cold pork and beans I while he watches the world drive by on the , highway. Blue is isolated but he's not lonely: 1 he keeps the car battery charged so he can j listen to music from the radio station on the kui [moon. Sam Shepard's The Unseen Hand js a LSAT j play about a night in the life of Blue and a I few guests who unexpectedly pop up at his I roadside residence. We meet Willie, on a j mission to Earth from her home planet in {another galaxy, and Blue's brothers Syca- imore and Cisco, both of whom have been REVIEW PROGRAMS Idead for more than a century. Also on hand I for the frenetic festivities is a kid from local ^1 jAzusa High, rumpled and tattered after a Our 15-hour seminar for the Mar. 20 Inighi of hazing at the hands of students from GMAT meets Mar. 13 & 14. Sa'rival school. Complete MCAT Home Study Course now available. Willie has come to Azusa to seek the aid of CALL NOW: Jthe once fearsome Morphan Brothers Gang in an effort to end the oppression on his —umuLJim__umm—m Continued on page 12 A scene from The Unseen Hand, now playing at the t'rovincetown Playhouse. 800-243-4767 12/THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982 Many of the laughs are touched off K Blue's reactions to the spastic gyrations f Willie, who is in the grip of the Unseen Hand, which throws him into contortio ALL CBA STIJDENTS Continued from page 11 comparable to Mick Jagger on speed ^ home planet. The gang haq been disbanded Another highlight is provided by the VA for years, but once Willie'resurrects Cisco played by David Watkins. His -m^ litany of the things about Azusa he lov Blue 90 years and Sycamore and makes from the bowling alley to Mom, with the oth' younger, the brothers are re;dy to ride again. characters providing a doo-wop background" Beeson Carroll reprises his Obie Award- is hilarious. INTERESTED IN FRESHMAN winning role as Blue Morp(ian. He brings a crusty sagacity and a warm! humanity to the Michael Brody as Cisco, and W'alte part. Blue is a guy who's been around too Hadler as Sycamore are entertaining in their long to lake anything too leriously, but he wonderment at the changes that have occur doesn't dismiss odd happer ings either. And red while they were dead. Anne E. Milite||0>" MODERATOR APPLICATIONS this is a play full of odd happenings. lighting and James Hardy's sound effects both add considerably to the evening's fun Shepard's plot is pleasaitly implausible, and most of what goes on could easily and The Unseen Hand can be seen at the justifiably be dismissed as ijlogical and odd. Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal St There's no logic in laughter, and this is a very in the Village. It's an offbeat and quite enter- AVAILABLE IN DEAN'S funny play. taining show.

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'OP/ROCK/JAZZ Kaiser Wood-wind Quintet C #4 J *4 1 A f j • • ft *4 Pope Auditorium March 26 841-5267 erry Jeff Walker Savoy, 141 West 44th St. March 18 921-9490 Schoenberg, Hindemith 113 West 60th Street Center, Falcon Concert ;huck Mangione March 25:26 " Series

}-2 Ritz, 11th bet. 3&4 Avenue March 17-18 228-8888 ART Jick Lowe with Screamin' Palladium March 26 249-8870 Nancy Celman Blue Mountain through 226-9402 ay Hawkins 14th bet. 3rd & 4th Aves. recent work 121 Wooster March 24 ;ool and the Gang Radio City Music Hall March 12-13 757-3100 "Imagery of Experience: Pratt Institute Gallery through 636-3517 50th & 6th Avenue Untutored Older Artists" Ryerson Avenue, Brooklyn April 6 onathan.Edwards Lone Star Cafe March 16 242-1664 "Selected American Marisa del Re through 688-1843 5th Avenue and 13th Street Masters" 41 East 57th Street April 10

heila Jordan & Harvie 3rd Street Music School March 13 777-3240 DANCE wartz, voice/bass jazz duo 235 East 11th Street Gail Donnenfeld 9 Murray Street March 13-14 964-4521 solo performance (east elevator to 6th floor) 20-21 lomeo Void Mudd Club, 77 white Street March 13 227-7777 Maria Benitz Aaron Davis Hall March 12-14 690-4100 aj Mahal Folk City, 130 West 3rd St. March 18 254-8449 Spanish Dance Company CCNY,W.134th & Convent

he Brains and Peppermint Lounge March 12 719-3176 Tandy Beal & Company Riverside Church March11, 864-2929 he Vipers 128 West 45th Street Riverside Dance Festival the Drive at 120th Street 13-14

:LASSICAL MISCELLANY La Traviata"-Verdi Metropolitan Opera House March 12 580-9830 "Double Infidelity" Pope Auditorium March 11-13 841-5267 Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center a play by Pierre de 113 West 60th Street Marivaux, Lincoln Center okyo String Quartet Hunter College Assembly March 14 586-4680 Theatre Arts Division Hall, 69th East of Park Ave. Jerzy Kozinski Bruno Walter Auditorium March 11 557-3750 Jueens Symphony Queens College Colden March 13 739-8080 Writers on War, 111 Amsterdam Avenue ext. 111 Orchestra Barber, Saint- Center, LIE & Kissena Blvd. sponsored by National Lincoln Center aens, Brahms 1 Flushing Committee for Literary Arts

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in retrospect these turn out to be the most memorable, with Arnold's rage at his torch Song mother's inability to understand his grief for his dead lover being the one that stands put Newly Formed Freedom Continued from page 11 most powerfully in my mind. ast piece— Widows and Children First—is as Torch Song Trilogy is a work that deman- Democratic Club leo-classical a work as any Jonson wrote, ds to be seen. As theatre it is almost perfect, ollowing even the much abhorred (and as comedy even more so. Fierstein handles his gnored) limitation of the action to the space characters with aplomb, never allowing them )f one day. to slip into absurdity, even while remaining Within this narrow though hardly straight gleefully absurd. It is quite possibly the best ramatic path Feirstein performs brilliantly, play about homosexuals since The Boys In Located at 405 E. 187th St., is now running 'he scenes unfold with the precision of a The Band, without the fin-de-siecle, hot- ^ell-timed clock to alarmingly funny ends, house, self-justifying, gayer-than-thou at- candidates for the Assembly, State-Senate, House of he means to which are paved with amusing mosphere that attends so much gay theatre. Representatives and Governor. We are looking for people if not altogether good) intentions. We see The play refuses to be stereotyped, and it is Arnold, his adopted son, his mother, and Ed best described simply as a well-made play. to work as campaign managers, public relations personnel now divorced) beat, break, make and put up Peter Pope's direction wisely takes a back and photographers. These jobs are paid positions. Volun- vith one another, trying desperately to con- seat to the play itself, that play being best tary jobs include petition drives, voter registration and of- lect. directed which seems to have no direction at fice staff. The committee members include Bill Rivera, Widows and Children First is the longest all, but rather unfolds with a quiet, but for- ind least overtly comic of the three. Fierstein ceful verisimilitude. Fierstein dominates the Nella Molinini, Hosea Gauthier, Frank Bianco and Dr. ibviously considers this the most important cast as Arnold Beckoff. A Tallulah Patel. )lay of the trilogy, having placed it, in the Bankhead with chest hair, he rasps his lines nost significant position, the last. For it is a with facial expressions that in themselves Anyone interested please call: 212-364-4200. umming up; Fierstein re-examines all the would constitute classic kabuki. Court Miller ssues the. other two plays touched on, is appropriately lukewarm as the lukewarm eferring back to those plays, as one calls on Ed. Matthew Broderick, Diane Tarleton, Ask for Bill Rivera or Nella Molinini. he witness of memory in personal Paul Joynt, and Estelle Getty more than eminiscence, thus giving the work the round out the cast, each giving a competent mthority of continuity, a sense of unity and and convincing performance. Torch Song :ompleteness in thought and feeling. Trilogy won't be playing forever, so gather ye Interspersed in this play are many fine ticket-stubs while ye may at the Actors' ierious moments among the lighter ones, and Theatre in Sheridan Square.

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Friends aren't hard to find when NIT Berth you're out to share a good time. But Continued from pa had oecn sidelined ,th a bad the crowd sure thins out when playno«.I ! appears to be ready nd •• there's work to do. And the ones lessens the depth pt blems up fr useofiipla who stick around deserve also gives Penders tr often come off the b ,ch to spark i I, a game a sometliing special. This will be as IOIL Tonight, let it be Lowenbrau. has played all year] but, a-. IVn mented, "there isn' a teaniini nient we can't beat With the im-iiH' last year's heartbrt Mg' d , loss to Dayton to s r them, ilif look to advance to l| second K'IH topple VIM, Fordha willplasil LoweiiLm au. Here's to good friends. on ganu' ai 1983 Beet Bw*ed oy Millet Brewig Co . Milwaukee Wu the Mississippi-Cler date to be announce^ torts Perspective': THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982/15 What's The Excuse This Time? —John McLoughlin Perhaps more distressing than the Rams' heart- breaking loss to Iona in the semifinals of the MAAC representatives ask to be guaranteed a certain number gone over a year without a loss txn;ic dropping that of fans to ensure that team a first round game close to playoffs was the realization of the lack of fan support contest to St. Peter's College by just three points. the campus. Penders felt that if the Rams were sched- afforded the team. Of the four schools that competed Even with this high caliber of play, boarders will not uled to play the first round of the NIT at a site far walk across campus and commuters will not drive 20 Thursday night in the Meadowlands, Fordham from the school, as they will be doing as they travel to minutes to provide the support that such a team deser- brought with it the smallest contingent of fans. Virginia on Friday, the main reason is poor attendance ves. The Rams have been able to sell out the tiny, The Stags of Fairfield .University, a school located .v 'iis team's games. some 50 miles further from the arena than Fordham, poorly lit gym, which holds only 3000 when including Basketball teams, as do most other teams, thrive on standing room, but once this season. was able to sell 2500 tickets while Fordham fans pur- and respond well to strong fan support and most of the chased a meager 350. What seems to be the problem Penders has been trying to get a move started to good teams receive it. When forced to travel a great renovate the gym to accommodate more people in a here? distance the only support the players get is from its Why are so few students interested in Fordham Ram more attractive setting. Unless we wise up and open own teammates while the home team has fans by the our eyes to the fine talent and exciting entertainment jasketball, especially when we are talking about the thousands. So why are the Rams different? When which is right under our noses, such a move would be a nost important game of the season? Many of the stu- Penders took over the reins there was nothing to cheer waste. It's awful rough to convince University admin- ients around campus were distressed to learn of the about. But four years later there is a great deal to cheer istrators to add more seats to the gym when it isn't ams' loss to Iona but when asked if they had attend- about. even filled now. d the game, most answered "no." This year, as last year, the Rams have earned an NIT Many of the excuses for the lack of attendance in- Unfortunately, the Rams may have already played bid, but neither year have they received the supportive iheir last game close to home this year. But I am sure olved midterm week. Since when have exams preven- backing they have deserved. Why is it so difficult to d Fordham students from hitting the Ramskeller for that the Fordham Ram players and especially Tom take a couple of hours off to attend a home game? Penders will have no objection if Fordham fans decide couple of hours? Many said that they were unable to This season the Ram fan has had plenty to cheer rrange transportation. That's funny. Section 8 to turn over a new leaf next season by coming out to about as the Rams dropped just one of eight games give the support they have earned and deserved for the bartered two buses to transport those who wished to played at the Rose Hill Gymnasium. Fordham had ttend. Excuses like midterm week and lack of transporta- on are poor ones. Where there's a will there's a way. Vhen you get right down to it, aren't we really dealing ith the question of whether or not Fordham students ive a damn about the fate of the basketball Rams? Vith the exception of those far-too-few members of ection 8, who display the allegiance and enthusiasm f a true fan, I would have to say that the answer to A "throng" of Fordham lat question is no, Fordham students, for whatever basketball followers at ason, don't care. (or not at) Friday night *s Unfortunately, most of the people that I talked to game against Fairfield. ho had not attended the semifinal playoff game were ancerned about the outcome but felt no remorse for aving not made an effort to get out to the arena. Even lore unfortunate is the fact that .most students do not ;alize that poor attendance in arenas such as the leadowlands and Madison Square Garden (at which ordham fans were scarce against St. Joseph's lollege) hurts the team's chances of playing in ational post season tournaments close to home, .ccording to Ram Head Coach Tom Penders, arena PORTS SHORTS™" Dud,Calhoun, Foust Continued from page 16 he replied. Foust didn't miss much and now what we tried to give them. We went out and Also competing for Fordham was Ginny he is "bearing the fruits of labor" as he leads played hard every night, putting in a lot of TNUC's Win Drew who was awarded fourth place in the the Rams into the NIT for the second year in time and effort. Even if we lose Friday night Novice Walk-Trot-Canter class. The parti- a row. Fordham should be damn proud of us. We cipant in this class must have competed in a Hockey Title "He has been a leader since his sophomore had a tough year and we still came out on the horsemanship class at a show recognized by year," said Penders. "He has gone past all winning end." The TNUC's of G-House, champions of A.H.S.A. or a state association. The partici- our expectations. He is a tremendous all- It is a very tough task not to notice a seven : boarder intramural floor hockey league, pant must not have won three blue ribbons in| around kid on and off the court. I can't say loot center, and there are times in his four jfeated the commuter league champs, Blitz- such competition. enough things about him." years at Fordham when Dud Tongal wishes eg, 1-0 on Tuesday to capture the Rose Hill Rounding out the competition for Ford- he wasn't noticed. "My sophomore year was jiampionship. Commenting on the Rams chances in the ham was Karen Miller who picked up fifth NIT, Foust said it was hard to predict how a very disappointing one," said Tongal, who The title marked the second time this year place in the Beginner Walk-Trot-Canter far they can go. "Anything can happen on was the rookie of the year in the ECAC his at the TNUC's have won a boarder league class, which is judged at the walk, sitting and freshman year. "People expected a great ampionship in an intramural sport and any given night, but it is my senior year and I posting, and trot and canter. would like to win 20 games and maybe season from me and it was, what some of |ve gone on to defeat the commuter Fordham will next compete in the West- them called, a junk year." ampion. The TNUC's won the intramural participate in a championship game," he chester Community College Intercollegiate replied, eyeing the tournament finals at "Tongal was obviously the most notice- atball championship this fall. Horse Show on Sunday. able kid," said Penders. "He's had most of The only scoring in the contest was pro- Madison Square Garden. What is Foust's most exciting moments? the pressure on him and I think he has hand- ved on a power play goal diagrammed by led it very well." ach Pete Reveille. Kevin Clyne scored the "I would have to say the Iona game (this This season Tongal has done his job . "He al and was assisted by Yogi Ferrara and year's 73-65 win at Rose Hill) and last year's Rugby Club has progressed fundamentally each year," f Romagnoli. game against Holy Cross. They're two tough said Penders. "There were doubts on The team's defense was led by Chris Smith teams, the games were close, and they were Wins Opener played in front of sellout crowds." Foust's whether he could play ball after he gradua- I goalie Boomer Flahive, who registered tes, but now 1 think he has a chance of (third shutout in eight games to finish with most depressing moment came in last sea- son's double overtime 66-65 loss to the Uni- playing somewhere." And that is something |oals against average of 1.00 per game. The Fordham Rams Rugby Club opened Tongal is looking forward to. "After the sea- The TNUC's finished the season undefeat- versity of Dayton in the NIT. "It was our their spring season last Saturday afternoon first time in the tournament and we wanted son I plan to go home and visit the family and |with a mark of 8-0-1. They had defeated with a 6-4 victory over Rutgers University. then see what happens in the NBA draft." I Maroon League champions Saipers by a to make a good showing. We had a good Despite the unfavorable weather conditions, Also in Tongal's plans are graduate school i margin in the boarder league finals chance of winning that game but unfortu- close to 50 Ram players made the short trek and maybe a chance to play some profession- bnday night to advance to the Rose Hill nately we came up short. to Van Cortlandt Park. "The field was a al ball in Europe. Ampionship game. Foust added, "1 would like to let them mess resulting in a lot of untidy play," said Earlier this season Tongal put himself in know that we appreciate the help they tried tc sophomore captain Jim Murray. However, the record books, scoring his 1000th point do for us and in turn I hope they appreciate we still had control of the ball, keeping it against Fairfield to place him 15th among the Equestrian Teamdown their end most of the time." all-time Fordham scoring leaders. "Today The Rams got on the Scoreboard first as almost every college player seems to be sophomore Jerry Salmon booted a penalty scoring a thousand points," said Tongal Does Well kick from about 45 yards away. The 3-0 Ram rather modestly. "If 1 had played as well as lead held up until 10 minutes into the second expected I could have done it a lot sooner but stanza, when Rutgers scored a try to take a it is still an accomplishment and I'm pleased \n Long Island 4-3 advantage. The Rutgers lead, however, and proud with it. I'm just glad that we are was short lived, for another penalty kick by winning." The Fordham University Equestrian Team Salmon, this time from aboul 20 yards away, Tongal doesn't know if he will be able to npeted in the Molloy College Intercollcgi- proved to be the game winner for the Rams. play tomorrow night against Virginia Tech. 1 Horse Show at Suffolk Farms in Bayport, "It was a learning game for us," Murray "That's left to be seen," he said. "I'm still t . on Sunday. replied. "We used a lot of different players, trying to get my speed back." n the Open Horsemanship Over Fences, a switching them around so that some of them Tongal is the man with a 1000 points, but is designed for riders of advanced skill, ended up playing in different positions. Our Bill Calhoun, Fordhatn's burly 6-6 220 pount ior Bill Barr turned in an impressive per- goal this spring is to hopefully go 7-1," said forward, is the man of a thousand injuries. Murray. jrnance to earn third place. "Bill played with a lot of injuries," said Pen- Jennifer Vandeinse took fourth place in The next game will be played on Saturday, ders. "More than anyone I've ever seen." March 27 at 1:00 on Murphy Field. The jNovice Horsemanship Over Fences class In his four year stay at Fordham, Calhoun Rams will be hosting Columbia, in a game ch is open to riders with at least six | had problems that could label him as a walk- which, according to Murray, will be a physi- Jiths of recent continuous professional £ ing clinic. A dislocated finger, a badly sprain- cal one. Columbia defeated the Rams last gjruction over fences. The participant in 5 ed ankle, torn tendons in his hand, sprained semester on a controversial call by an pvent must also possess sufficient talent 5 tendons in his foot, mesial up l-nc^, and official. avigate a single course on an unfamiliar Continued on page 14 Jimmy /.anor I on. loust Se. 16/THE RAM/THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1982

bv Denis Conrov Friday. Penders will alternate the two a, center, while Ed Bona will be counted on | With last Friday's win over Fairfield in the (]| his usual solid performances at foruaul MAAC Conference playoffs, Fordham fin- Rams OH To Virginia Fordham will also look to post Calhounlow ished the 1981-82 campaign with an 18-10 and take advantage of his strong inside »a record. Iona College chalked up 24 wins beating Louisville twice and absorbing a one- mc mon possesses a soft touch from the outside, if the opportunity presents itself. || against eight defeats, as they took the first point loss to eventual league champion Mem- ns netting 18.5 points per game on 60 percent worked to good effect against Fairfield in ih ever Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference phis State in the conference tourney, but they e shooting for the season. The prestigious Rams' last outing, as Calhoun scored a team crown. It had seemed that the arch rival have shown a tendency to let up against the Street and Smith's Preview called him the high 18 points. Gaels were a shoo-in for a coveted berth in best offensive big man in the country, while a lesser teams. They also have an impressive the NCAA Tournament, while the Rams and recent Sports Illustrated article said he is 10-2 record at home. Clearly, Virginia Tech Penders does not want to become invoked St. Peter's would defend the MAAC's good "nearly impossible to stop once he gets the will be a formidable opponent. in a running game, a style Tech prefers, and name in the NIT. ball." All of this does not awe Penders. "There one they have used to average 80 points a Wrong. Iona failed to get an at large bid, Despite the great talents of Solomon, are other teams I'd prefer to play," said the game. Fordham will use a high post offense and thus the conference will not be repre- coach vet Doug Moir does not field a one fourth year head coach. "But our kids have to spread out the suspect VPI defense (which sented in the NCAA's. "Thai's the price we man team. Speedy freshman Al and Perry been playing tough. This team is very resili- has allowed opponents a 51 percent a\urage pay for being a new conference—we don't Young (no relation) have been big factors in ent, we've had to play a lot of different ways from the floor), and control the tempo of ihe get an automatic bid," said Ram coach Tom the Tech fast break offense. Seniors Gordy to win." Fordham will need all of its resili- game. If Dud can play, the Rams will not Penders. The infant league does, however, Bryan (12.6 ppg, 6'8") and Calvin Oldham, ency if it is to win without the services of Dud worry about the speed of the game as nnidi have the distinction of placing three teams, the team's leading rebounder with a 7.3 Tongal. The 7'0" senior injured his ankle in and an already tough defense will be stiffen- the most of any conference, in the NIT field. average, join Solomon in a talented and ex- a four point loss to Iona on February 26 and ed by his shot blocking ability. With or without Dud, the backcourt will As cries of protest rose from New Rochelle perienced front court. Senior guard Jeff has not played since. "He's still not running over the NCAA snub, Fordham turned its Schneider (6'4") is the team's second leading well yet. Hopefully he'll be there by Friday, be crucial to Fordham's success. The Rams attention to its second consecutive NIT ap- scorer at 14.0 ppg and is a steadying influence but I don't know," said Penders. are five deep at the guard position, and quite pearance. In the pairings, the Rams were pit- on the court. His backcourt mate, 6'0" If Dud does not play, Penders believes the versatile as well. David Maxwell had two ted against Virginia Tech at their 14,000 seat junior Reggie Steppe, is a flashy crowd pleas- experience of playing without him will help. great games in the conference tournament. arena in Blacksburg, Virginia. The tough ing playmaker who orchestrates the offense. "When he first went down, he had become Mark Murphy and Tony Faust have been VPI squad matched Fordham's 18-10 record VPI's weakness is defense and the bench, such a large cog on both offense and defense consistent all year. Jerry Hobbie and Tony while finishing fourth in the Metro-7 Con- which is neither deep nor experienced. that we had trouble adjusting, We played Mclntosh give the Rams five quality players ference. The Hokies are coming off a disappointing well in the two games without him, so that is at guard, an important factor in the control The Hokies boast the first four-time first- 15-13 season after two straight NCAA ap- encouraging." of tempo. team all-star in the Metro Conference's pearances, so they have been subject to Dave Roberson and Bill Calhoun have More good news for Fordham is the return history in senior Dale Solomon, their all-time major tournament pressure before. Thev played very well lately, and they will be called to action of Mike Cooper. The 6'4" junior scoring leader. The 6'8" 220-pound Solo- have fared very well against good teams, on for big contributions if Dud cannot go on Continued on page 14

* v. the second. Maxwell threaded between three Iona players, got the rebound and was hacked by Springer with the Rams down by Iona Dumps Rams; Cop NIT Bid just two. But the Rams' hopes were dashed as the game's leader in assists (nine), scoring by John McLoughlin man defense but the Rams continued to hit through the period. Iona built the lead to five (17) and rebounding (10), missed the first free The men's basketball team's hopes of cap- from the outside, scoring their first eight as the Rams fell into a five minute scoring points of the stanza from long range. But as drought that ended with only two minutes to throw and hit the second. Grimes put the turing the first Metro Atlantic Athletic Con- game on ice as he sank two free throws with ference title were snuffed Thursday night as Fordham was shooting from the outside the play. Gaels were taking advantage of Tongal's ab- With just 33 seconds remaining it appeared just eight seconds left to propel the Gaels into the Iona College Gaels overcame a two point the MAAC championship game. halftime deficit to emerge with a 58-55 sence underneath. Grimes skillfully threaded the Gaels had clinched the victory as Troy "I'm extremely proud of our kids," said semifinal round victory at the Brendan Byrne passes to Springer inside as the Rams went to Truesdale went to the foul line to shoot a Ram head coach Tom Penders. "They con- Meadowlands arena. a box and one to key on Burtt. The momen- one-and-one with Iona up by three. But trolled the tempo and did the things down the The Rams rebounded on Friday, though, tum began to swing in lona's'favor. Truesdale missed the front end and the Rams stretch that put us in a position that we could as they trounced the Stags of Fairfield At the other end of the floor Fordham grabbed the rebound. Calhoun was fouled have won." University, 76-54, in the consolation game. became cold from the outside and Iona swit- and injured on the play and was unable to Penders felt the Rams were in the game The Fairfield win seated the second con- ched to a 2-3 zone defense to deny the Rams shoot his free throws. With 13 seconds left to right down to the buzzer. "If we had hit the secutive National Invitation Tournament bid inside penetration. Fordham shot a pathetic play, Jerry Hobbie, the nation's number foul shots down the stretch, we may have still for the Rams. Fordham will play at Virginia 38 percent from the floor in the second half three free throw shooter, stepped to the line. Tech on Friday night. as the Gaels took a one point lead midway After hitting the first shot, Hobbie missed Continued on page 14 Repeal of Las! Season For the second consecutive season For- dham received an opening round bye in its Dud, Calhoun, post season conference tournament and for the second consecutive season the team failed to advance to the finals. Last season the highly favored Rams were stunned by Long Foust Have Island University whom they had beaten only a week earlier as the Blackbirds came away with a 85-78 victory at the Nassau Coliseum. Coming off a 45-41 victory in their last Turned It meeting with Fordham and a 69-53 opening round rout of Army, the Gaels knew an NCAA bid was still very much a possibility All Around and they were emotionally charged for the rubber game with the Rams. But I'ordham by Jimmy Zanor was physically hurting as three of the team's top players, Dud Tongal, Michael Cooper, "All three played significant roles in and Bill Calhoun, were sidelined with in- turning the Fordham basketball program juries. around, a program which was considered the Despite the handicap, the Rams controlled worst Division I program in the metropolitan the tempo early. Mixing up strong inside area," said the Rams head coach Tom penetration and accurate outside shooting, Penders. "They helped turn us from the Fordham took a 10-6 lead early in the first laughing stock of the East into legitimate half. Iona was ice cold from the floor as a contenders. tir.iph 2-3 Ram defense forced the Gaels to The three players Penders is referring to shoot from the outside. are seniors Tony Foust, Bill Calhoun, and In an attempt to half Iordham's outside Dud Tongal, who will be playing their last shooting spree, ihe Gaels switched to a man- game(s) for Fordham in the National Invi- to-man defense and began to work the ball tational Tournament. "All three of them im- inside at their offensive end. While For- proved each year," continued Pemlers. dham's defense keyed on Iona's leading "They were a tremendous help to our scorer, Steve Burtl, Gary Springer was able younger players." to score inside. Tony Foust, a 5'11" guard, came to lord- ham out of Port Chester High School, where But the Rams continued to control the he was an all-league and all-county player in game as they worked the ball to the open man football, baseball and basketball. Most of the with ease and continually hit from the out- offers Foust received came from Division II side. Fordham shot a blistering 61 percent schools, until Coach Penders saw him play in from the floor in the first half as they opened a post season basketball tournament and ob- a 27-19 lead with just over four minutes to viously liked what he saw. play in the half. At that point though, the In his four years, here, Foust has been a Ranis' high scorer with 10 points, David pretty consistent performer, averaging Maxwell, went to the bench with three per- around nine points a game. During his soph- sonal fouls. omore year, he missed a large portion ol tne Suddenly the Gaels exploded as they cut season to concentrate on his academics. U the lead to one and held on to trail hy only was my own decision and something I lei' 33-31 al intermission. z had to do," he said. "At the lime we were Springer, Grimes and Durtt accounted for struggling for 'some recognition' Hie 26 of Iona's 31 points as I'ordliani balanced ^NS Rams finished that year with an 11-17 reci'id. its scoring between six players with at least - l=! "II Oifellt ihn(hat in fhthne II.»Ynext! fvvtwon venryears wwe would four points apiece. 3C5stronger and have a little mon' mating. ^ Iona opened the second half in a man-to- Dave Roberson shoots over Fairfield's Hank Foster. Continued on /''"''' '