The Ticker, April 25, 1989
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.. r·... - * 1932 * The Students' Voice for Over S5 Years * 1989 * Vol. 57 No. 6 Baruch College, CUNY April 25, 1989 The Report: Candidates DSSG Fund An Upda·te· State .Their Allocation Debate Funds originally approved to send a bus &:0 the March On Washingtorr-have been retracted by Campaign .Divides Couneil the Day. Session Student Govern ment. Platforms Sharon Gordon resigned from Some Say It Has DSSG upper council. During Open Become A Racial Council Forum MinutesReveal Issue By EDWARD ASANTE By TONI COLAVITO Wilson Shum, lower council On Tuesday, April 18, the Day member and vice-presidential can Candidates past Candidates running for positions significant changes in the govern Session Student Government voted didate of the United students for in the Day Sessions Student ment, and should he be voted to of 5-3 not to allocate $975 for a bus Action ticket, voted yes to the Government participated in an fice he would make it his duty to History At to take students on the April 29 (Continued on Page A6, open forum held Tuesday April utilize his experience to the service march on Washington. 15 at the Oak Lounge, Student Ac of students. Mitchell Cooper9 upper council DSSG tivity Center. Butti said in his address that member 9 said that the DSSG should Among the speakers were Sean not only does he have experience in not fund the trip because not every Meetings Mason Presidential Candidate for government in his former school, student in Baruch agrees with all the the United Students for Action par but is also familiar with· the strings issues the march will fight for. "If ty; Scott Butti- an independent can of effective management, since he we use government money, we are By. GEORGIA KONTOS didate for president; Michael Fox has 'cheld a couple of businesses in taking a position that we shouldn't . Elections for positions on the -vice-presidential candidate for the the real world" and would gladly be taking•.•We9 11 alienate large Day Session Student Government Concerned Baruch Students Party;. put this knowledge to work. He groups of students that don't agree wiIl be taking place on May 2, 3, Toquir Choudhri and Allan went on to say that this school has with these issues." He said that if a and 4 . There are three candidates Szydlowski·both C.B.S. party can "too much talk and no action and a club wanted to sponsor the march for the position ofossa president: didates for upper and lower coun lot of students' are- totally and had asked council for money ScottButti•. ~~.;t.."aJd.aDd ... @S. respectively. uninterested in the school, totally for ~.. ~~..then, "I wouldn't ha~e ~ wDnteiestC:d-m:'-~.:tHltiDr't-1my~roIt._':-~!IBe~I"'-1I"'''''~ sean MasOn . Iti:-tbls s- onlUSo'pl&fform, __ ... __ . __ fitzaerald and Mason are • H'_ ._ .~mcilJther& BUt~ t-~eoiI~RIIi. people WiPixw__~we.!JE:1PitJi:.t.iiIH!ll~~_A-eHlte1"eIItlt-teH8H11dJiee-t-ea-8JQiiiae werk.witi'·... eo ~ ~.~r ti is not currently boldiDaa council ubriDs about chanaes and to keep tive. leadership of the present AccordiDa to the April 29 March position. working bard for students." He DSSG. ulf tile government cares, on Wasbingtma Ryei'. the marchers Wilson Shum, council member I stated that "there is nothing we students will care, if the govern will rally for such issues as "an end and vice-presidential hopeful, is II cannot do as students but it must be ment does what students want to racism, the death penalty, abor Mason's running-mate. done' togethes and it must be done tion, roll tuition, full student aid (Continued on Page .48) Michael Fox is not a 'I asagroup."Hewenton to say that and an independent Palestinian Mitchell Cooper, upper (Continued on Page A8) no one individual can bring about state." mem_. proposed the roof-party idea over a year ago. Vice-Presidential Fox stated that his party's pro Independent Candidate posal is "not the same idea," only a Candidate variation of it. He said that "Ob viously if it was the same idea and it Runs For DSSG Fox Defen~ President In Student CBS'Party Ill: W ~ Platform Elections W ~ / -e a: By LUISA RESTIVO < By RITA LEAHY =a: Scott Butti, junior, has declared established party candidates. "By ~ According to Michael Fox, the himself an independent candidate running my own real estate Concerned Baruch Students' party for DSSG president. He is running brokerage and auto mechanic shop vice-presidential candidate, charges independent of the USA and CBS I have learned how to effectively that several of the party's ideas parties and hopes to bring years of apply book knowledge to real world and i!, bettering Baruch for have already been proposed are working experience into Baruch's situations." them. I am a free thinker and false D. student government. Butti feels he can resolve pro- choose not to obligate myself to a The CBS (John Fitzgerald- blems between student government party's fixed ideas. Fixed ideas tend Michael Fox) platform states that (Continued on Page A 6) Butti, 29, graduated from and school administration with his to compromise student's needs, one of the party's goals, if elected, ;-------------- LaGuardia Community College mediator skills. "My tremendous Parties create dissention between will be to attempt to arrange for with an associatedegree in Business amount of real estate negotiating people who should be working recreational activities to tkae place Adminsitration and was actively in has taught me how to resoIve pro- tog'ether." on the 'roof of I' Lexington volved with the student government blems between two groups with With voter turnout being less Ave. However, this idea .~ . for two years. maximum benefit for both than ollC-fQW'th the student popula- had already been suggested last EDITORIALS A2 .,1 "Activities shouldn't on parties." tion, Butti feels the present student semester and was pub.icly posted as LmERSI t ly be enjoyable but also Butti says III believe in Baruch, government is not reaching a ma- something for the DSSG to in- A3 f profitable,It said Butti. At LaGuar it's'outstanding reputation, and feel jority of the students. "Many vestigate. The possibility was in OP-EDS dia I coordinated a four-band con- the students deserve the total com- Baruch. students have a hectic .vestigated and found to .be FEATURES B1 .cert where everyone had a great mitment I want to offer as presi- . school and work schedule and can- unrealistic due to zoning restric time and we made a S1,200 pro dent. I want to make being presi- not participate in clubs. They feel lions and the fact that the area is ARTS B7 fit for the school which was dent my full-time job." abandoned and ignored. But they residential and forbids school ac- reinvested for another project." Butti believes an independent still haye the.riaht to be beard!'~ tivities to take place after 10 SPORTS 819 Butti believes his work experience ticket will give him more flexibility. BUtti continually stresses unity. .p.m. AccordiDI to Wtlson Sbwn, is what sets him apart from the "My goal is tbe students' interests (Continued on Page A6)' ~-pr~dential ca~te, he ~_ _:."~·'-·.·4'- ~ ~J~ ;"~ J~+."I' ~ :.",~ ".'~' c > :,. ,' ri"•••: e••.••• -".4...,: .. .. ,..., . .;. 't- ' .. .. '~ '. Q .t• • . - . Paae A2. April 25, 1989 TbeTicker EDITORIALS 'OP-ED BLACK MAGAZINES IGNORE TEENS Caitlin Mollison USA Do Baruch College a favor. Vote . By FREDERIKA WATSON DSSG DIVIDED editor-in-chief wisely, Vote USA. CANDIDATE Sincerely, Anne E. Schwimmer Sean Mason (USA Party) Black teenagers continue to treme labor shortage was caus increasing need to continue the managing editor ADDRESSES Presidential Candidate be an untapped market for rna- ed by the exodus of white males effort undertaken by the early A racial gap is slowly eroding the Day Session Student Government's objectivity STUDENTS jor black-magazine companies. into the armed forces. In black publications, hit the Barbara A. Meissner Though their publications ad- dustries were now forced to newstands. and effectiveness. Over the past year the clashes between whites and blacks on the news editor To The Editor: CBS V-p dress issues related to. the open up jobs to those groups, In an attempt to "mirror the Upper Council have grown increasingly disruptive and voluable. Both sides are My fellow students, please allow tastes and customs of blacks .blacks and women in particular, brighter side of negro life" John me to briefly address you as a CAN.D.IDATE .as wen as create a positive setf· .who had traditionally been H. Johnson, a pioneer in the Linda Zuech becoming more and more sensitive about this, issue and yet, for the most part, none representative of the United URGES~ image, they ignore the par- denied these opportunltlee. As black-magazine business, of the council is' willing to talk about this problem. features editor Students for Action Party and as tlcular concems of black youth. a result, the economic status of . created Negro o.Ig681 in 1942 its presidential candidate. The Seventeen and YM (Young blacks increased. and the well-known Ebony elections are almost upon us and it VOTING Just recently the division became even more obvious when financial-support for a Martin Starkey Miss)~ MagaZine in 1~. A wave of is imperative that as educated two of the more popular Continued racial discrimina editor Washington protest march was debated in council. Some feel that the disagreement arts voters, you make the right choice. To The Editor: teenage magazines on the tion and segregation led to early black-oriented magazines , In the last week, our opponents, the It was the warm early afternoon market, fail to appeal to most black-business growth.