Elections to Be Held Tomorrow Fuccio, Ripp Run-Off for Polity President
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See Alternatives For: - Respect for Rodney, Accolades for 'Volpone' and much more... Elections To Be Held Tomorrow Fuccio, Ripp Run-off For Polity President I I I I I JIM FUCCIO MARTHA RIPP BABAK MOVAHEDI VAN BROWN Runoff elections for Polity president, Movahedi for vice-president and Dina was the chairman of the 1hituirt of Stonly at the expense of academic ones. She vice-president and i;cretary will be held Finkelstein and Benedict Senator Carin Brook Committee, which lobbied in would like to see, she said, "withdrawls" tomorrow in the lobby of the Library Anderson for Secretary. Three other Albany against those increases. removed f rom student's records, from 10 AM to 10 PM. Polity Council seats were decided last especially if Mid-semester evaluations do Vying for the post of president are week; Freshman Class Representative Fuccio said that studnets should be not become mandatory. Vice-President Jim Fuccio and Junior Dave Gamberg was elected sophmore allowed to select their Resident Assistants Ripp, a commuter senator in 1979-80, Class Representaive Martha Ripp. They representavie, Ellen Brounstein defeated and Managerial Assistants. He also said coordinated Polity's town hall meetings, were the first and second place finishers, Jean Partridge for for junior that he would like to see the dormitory where students and administrators met to respectively, in a field of four candidates representative and Lisa Simkin topped cooking program audited and put in the discuss problems. She also was on the in last Wednesday's elections. Neither Kirk Kelly for senior representative. hands of a private company. In addition, committee that distributed $25,000 for recieved a majority of votes, thus Fuccio, a Kelly E resident and a former he was angered at University President social/recreational areas, served on the necessitating the runoff. = > -^senator from that building, said he wants John Marburger's descion to downgrade committee that got fmture for some to make Polity more active in organizing campus bars. end hall lounges and was involved in Also involved in a runoff are Van students for such things as fighting Ripp said that she feels Polity has opening the Commuter College in the Brown and Commuter Senator Babak tuition and dorm rent increases. Fuccio placed too much emphasis on social issues Stony Brook Union. Dietary Employees Threaten To Strike By Ellen Lander benefits are not honored. wage", according to cook Bill 18 were not happy with that Dietary employees at the According to an employee who Milne, in addition to the In a meeting on March 11, decision and filed a 30-day strike University Hospital have filed a requested anonymity, the aforementioned excluded Service Systems offered their notice." 10 day strike notice against their average starting wage is $3.40 m edical coverage, three employees a ten percent, or $.35 In response to the strike employer, Service Systems, in per hour (about $100 per week). additional sick days, and one per hourraise and one additional notice, Service Systems arranged response to unsatisfactory Employees are given minimal personal day. sick day. According to an meetings on March 28, March 29 employment conditions and medical coverage which excludes In an attempt to arrive at an annonymous employee, "We (Conttillo<d oil pnf(1! 12) unsuccessful negotiations. The dental, optical and the obtaining agreement, Service Systems and strike is scheduled for May 7. of prescriptions. They also have dietary employees, along with The 60 employees have 26 paid days off (five sick days, representatives from the almost unanimously decided to 11 holidays and 10 vacation employees' newly joined Union In auguration strike if their requests for an days.) The employees are District 1199, have been involved increase in salary and additional requesting a "reasonable living in negotiations since February To Be Held On Friday By Nancy J. Hyman John Marburger will officially become the third president of Stony Brook University on Friday in a formal inauguration ceremony on the athletic fields. James Black, vice-president for University Affairs, will coordinate the ceremonies, which will begin at 10:30 AM, and will include representatives from more than sixty colleges and universities. There will be an academic procession including representatives from the University of California at Berk-ely, the California Institute of Technology, the Universities of Oregon, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio. Also included in the procession, which H. Bentley Glass, Stony Brook's first academic vice-president and current Professor Emeritus of Biology will be the chief marshal for, are representatives from Yale, the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. and Harvard. In addition, there will be color guards assembled by the Stony Brook and Setauket Fire Departments with music perfumed ban members of Stony Brook's Gospel Choir, the Graduate Orchestra, the University Chorus and the Long Island Brass Ensemble. THE HOSPITAL DIETARY EMPLOYEES threatening to strike if their requests are not honored, Cook Ann (Continued on page 7) Kinon, shown working in the department's kitchen is one of the dietry department's 60 workers. Reagan Addresses Nation paved the way for the full Washington - President don't passhis economic package. Senate to approve the Presi- Ronald Reagan's health and the On his own health, the Presi- dent's economic plan. The com- unhealthy economy were the dent said it has improved a lot m ittee voted 16 to 6 in favor of a major themes of his address to since the assassination attempt budget blueprint that is almost Congress last night. March 30. This was Reagan's first formal public appearance identical to the one Reagan wants. The vote was a special The President told a joint ses- since the shooting and he took victory, because three Republi- sion of C ongress that his pro- the opportunity to thank Amer- cans who previously opposed posed spending and tax cuts are icans for the friendship, con- the plan changed their votes to "only answer we have left" cert and love they showed him the "yes." for the sick economy. He said after the shooting. He said the The Senate Arms Services that even with his plans, the messages, flowers and prayers Committee also handed Reagan economy will not be quickly provide a memory he will a victory today. It approveda cured. Progress, he said, will always treasure. bil- lion dollar military come "in inches and feet, not spending bill. That miles." The President also told Shortly before tonight's amount is only slightly lawmakers that they will incur nationally-broadcast speech. less than what the pres- ident wanted. the wrath of the public if they the Senate Budget committee - NEWS DIGEST International Northern Ireland -Pope John Paul's personal helicopter in Lebanon yesterday. But the Israelis envoy has arrived at Maze Prison in Northern did not confirm reports from government sour- Ireland, where IRA Guerrilla Bobby Sands is on ces in Lebanon that the second action came as a hunger strike. It's thought the envoy will try to Israeli jets rocketed Syrian positions near the see Sands, who is demanding political prisoner Lebanese Christian City of Zahle. status for jailed guerrillas. Authorities fear his Israel says the first helicopter downed was death could set off violent protests. near the Rayak Air Base in Lebanon. Reporters say the action took four Syrian lives. Israeli sour- Israel - The Israeli military command has ces say Israel wants to warn Syria not to broaden confirmed that its jets shot down a second Syrian its fighting against the Christians. btUCK vviinouT National Wheels? Boston - Officials have been ordered to keep the task force investigating the murders of 26 COACH LIQUORS the city's schools open, even though the system young blacks. is just a short walk from the went broke yesterday. campus. Superior Court Judge Thomas Morse said Atlanta - A medical examiner in Atlanta said WA TCH FOR OUR WEEKL Y SPECIALS classes must continue because students have a the 26th victim in the city's string of murders of PAUL MASSON l RIUNITE constitutional right to an "adequate education." young blacks probably died of asphyxiation. CARAFES C0n ROSE City officials have spent weeks arguing over bai- The body of Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, was found 50 but have not reached an agree- Monday floating with coupon with coupon ff lout proposals. in a river. Expires 5/5/81 Offt Expires 5/5/81 OTT ment. They say they will fight the judge's ruling Fulton County Medical Examiner Saleh Zaki in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. said the "working diagnosis" of asphyxiation was DwectlV across from the StonV Brook Railroad Station made by excluding other possible causes. To in the Station Commons determine a definite cause of death, he says, offi- Open Daily Atlanta - Authorities are looking for a black cials will need lab data that won't be available for 9 am - 8pm Monday COACH male who disappeared two weeks ago. He is 33- several days. through Thursday LIQUORS, year-old Richard Character, described as men- Zaki says the Payne case is "very similar to Friday 9 am - 10 pm *+X I tally retarded and having a youthful some of the other cases," 14 of which were ruled appearance. The case has not been turned over to deaths by asphyxiation. State and Local ---_ 1 1-I- I ' - AlbanyA IEI- ____ - TenI1 _ XTNew ___- AdYork rublic Interest from the roof of the hall last summer. Research Group (NYPIRG) has filed suit in the Mintiks' body was found on a ledge three floors Albany county Supreme Court enjoining any below the roof last July 24, the morning after she new state expenditures until a budget is passed. allegedly was attacked by 22-year-old Craig G^t^ouel iE3xckange Citing Article 7, Section 7 of the Constitution, Crimmins, a former stagehand at the met.