OBSERVER Vol. 98 No. 15 December 7, 1990

Page 1 Chace Continues Series of Panels on Gulf Crisis Emily Horowitz Alarm for Real This Time Tom Chase Dutchess County Discusses Funding Cuts Kristan Hutchison Hello, Broadway Pizza? Jason Van Drische Page 2 Lecture Examines the Last Bastion of Socialism Emily Horowitz Israel Today Emily Horowitz A Re-examination of a Classic Angela Alexander Page 3 John Dalton ’74: Lawyer and Bardian Emily Horowitz College Flashes Homophobic Backlash Results in Clash of Symbols at Harvard Students Get Drunk on Placebo Five+ Year Plan Popular Police Overreact at Campus Concert Page 4 Senior Project: Culminating Project or Perpetual Guilt? Andrea J. Stein Page 5 Yearbook Shoots for a New Record of Bard Life Greg Giaccio Seriously Now, This Comedian is Actually Funny Greg Giaccio Page 6 An Upbeat Look at AIDS Sarah Scully Rajan Q. Bery Supplies a Little Back Talk Jonathan Kushner Page 7 Spandex’s Return ZZYZX The Church of Roland Ian McGrady Obsession Michael Stimac

Content Summary Continued on Next Page Page 8 Blum Gallery Experiment Weaves a Transparent Thread Gregory Donovan Predator 2: Quality or Commercialism? Tom Hickerson Page 9 “Another I Dies Slowly” Revives Awareness Kristan Hutchison Page 10 Morrow’s Come Sunday: Are You Up to the Challenge Jonathan Miller Look Out, James Dean—Morgan is on the Move Jonathan Miller Page 11 Swim Meet to be at Bard First meet ever held at Stevenson Jody Apap New Intramural Director Page 12 Classifieds and personals Page 13 Stop the Pizza Pirates Kristan Hutchison Outlook From the Editor’s Sanctum A Call For Unity Kristan Hutchison Let’s Get Our Priorities Straight Kristan Hutchison Page 14 Gender Specificity a Distraction Jeremy Miller Observer Lacks More Than Grammar Letter From Poland: It’s Just Life Beata Beczyniska Press Must Remain Free Bruce Hutchison Page 15 An Open Letter to Ian McGrady Dave Rolf Keep Up the Good Work Paul Connolly Page 16 Calendar Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No.1 Bard Annandale-on-Hudson College's I may rwt agree witli wfiat you say, 6ut I News, Arts, wi{{ defena to tlie death your rig/it to say· it. & Sports Weekly -o/o[taire

Dutchess County dis.usses funding cuts

I RAN by Kristan Hutchison Over 10,000 women come to Coalition for Choice. David Rolf, Planned Parenthood every year, said David Miller, Fiona Lawrence, Heidi Cuts in funding for Planned Par­ Steve White, Director of Planned Tremaine, and Jennifer Blank a11 gave enthood/ I.:iteracy Volunteers of Parenthood. The county funding al- short speeches before the assembly Dutchess County, the Department of 1owsthemtocarefor100morewomen on behalf of Planned Parenthood, History, and the Cooperative Ex­ every year, at $55.00 per woman per which were well received by the change were debated at the annual year, than they could otherwise, he audience. Dutchess County Budget Hearing on said. The same care would cost Rolf said that by removing money Tuesday December4. Over a hundred $341.00 from a private doctor, ac­ from Planned Parenthood, the county residents, including about 26 Bard cording to White. If the county Social has "placed $9,500 into a budget for students, went to the Bardavon to Services, which has lost 13 health the spread of AIDS, into a budget for express preferences on the allocation workers,attemptstoprovidecompa­ the spread of unwanted pregnancy, of the $18 702,506 county budget for rable care it will cost $27,000 a year, Iraq and its Middle East neighbors 1 into the budget for poverty, and into the fiscal year beginning January 1. predicts White.The family planning the budget for chiJd abuse... These Chace continues The proposed budget would re­ programs actually save $4.50 in fu­ arenotthekindsofdecisionsanintel­ move all $9,500 of county funding ture care and welfare for every $1.00 ligent legislature should make." series of panels from Planned Parenthood and put it spent, according to Willa Friedland Veronica Morson, a Poughkeepsie into the General Contingent Fund. of Planned Parenthood. resident, disagreed with Rolf, saying on Gulf crisis Planned Parenthood is a non-profit Marianne Barret Errot requested that "Giving Planned Parenthood by Emily Horowitz health care agency, which provides all the people who favored funding money from the contingency budget women with professional reproduc­ Planned Parenthood and/ or the Lit­ can cause death by abortion ... An­ The Gulf crisis was the focus of a tive care and education on a sliding eracy Program to rise, and approxi­ other lady [Heidi Tremaine] used the discussion on the evening of Decem~ scale, according to a description pro­ mately half the people in the audi­ expression that Planned Parenthood ber 4, sponsored by James Chace, vided by Dr. Karen Blonga,_ m~lllber ence stood. Among those who stood is one of the few organizations left to Henry Luce Professor of Freedom of of the Planned Parenthood Board of were the Bard students, who came keep children from dying. I say that Inquiry.ltis part of a seriesoftalkson Governors. together in a van organized by the continued on page 11 the crisis that Chace plans to sponsor According to recent articles in the monthly throughout the crisis. Daily Freeman, the decision to defund David Fromkin, author of The Peace Planned Parenthood wasmadepartly to End All All Peace: Creating the Mod­ because of protests by the Society To ern Middle East, began the discussion Outlaw Planned Parenthood. The of the Iraqi invasion. His commen­ county legislator for the Bard area tarywas followed by comments from took part in that decision. The contro­ Chace, Professor Mark Lytle, and versy has been mistakenly linked to Caleb Carr, contributing editor of the volatile abortion debate, though Military History Quarterly. Planned Parenthood does not give Fromkin opened with a historical abortions and 95 percent of their continued on page 5 programs are preventive, said Blonga. Alarm for real this time byTomChase ond time to tell them it was not a false alarm. They then got the fire-extin­ Early in the morning of Sunday, guisher from the first floor and put December 2, the fire alarm in Potter the fire out themselves. The fire had began to ring. According to Stone melted the garbage can (a full sized by Jason Van Driesche insulated pizza cases as well, val­ Row residents, most did what they one, not the small recycling variety) ued at $25 each. always do; ignore it anP. try to go to approximately ten inches high. At Deliverypeople for Broadway This same kind of incident hap­ back to sleep. Third floor residents this point Seclrity arrived. Pizza have been robbed four times pened at Bourne, Tewksbury, and Efsane Demiryontar and Elizabeth The incideilt has caused concern in the past week, according to Dean one of the Alumni dorms during Kontarines called SeCurity to report among Potter residents about the Diamond, owner of Broadway. the past week. Four other insulated the alarm. While trying to go back to frequency of false alarms in Stone In the most recent of the inci­ bags were stolen over the course of sleep, Kontarines noticed that there Row and the degree to which they dents, which took place about those three incidents. was a funny smell in the room. She are ignored. 'The alarm system has midnight on Tuesday, December 4, Though Diamond is upset about left the room and saw that the third to be seriously overhauled," says a student or group of students or­ the fake pizza orders, he is espe­ floor lounge was filled with smoke. resident Carolyn Daruka. "Because dered one pizza to be delivered to cially angry about the theft of the Kontarines and Demiryontar then of the number of times the alarms Manor, and two others to be deliv­ bags. "I can't deliver food hot if I went down to the second floor lounge mysteriously go off, nobody pays ered to Robbins. When the first don't have enough insulated bags,'' and found the garbage can on fire. "It attention. 'Wolf" can only be called so order arrived at Manor and the he said. "Students are just hurting was burning very quickly," said many times." deliveryperson went inside to de­ themselves." Demiryorttar "the flames almost Demiryontar complained, ''The liver the pizza, the other three piz­ Diamond is offering a reward of reached the ceiling." alarm goes off everyday. Nobody, zas destined for Robbins were sto~ three free large pies with unlimited The two then called Security a sec- continued on page 11 len from thecar. The thief took three continued on page 11 Lecture examines the last bastion of socialism lower mortality and illiteracy rates tive aspects of the situation in Cuba. by Emily Horowitz Florida mote a "decentralizing than anywhere else in Latin America. The Cuban economy, he said, suffers trend if they get through Andrew Zimbalist, a professor of Zimbalist attributed much of from large trade deficits as well as a this crisis," Zimbalist con­ economics at Smith College, began Cuba's growth to its pro-develop­ mounting de~t. d uded. He urged the his lecture 'The Future of Cuban ment government, which aggres­ In addition, while Cuba benefits United States to help end Socialism" with three jokes that are sively suppresses luxury items and from the pro-development govern­ J ~ Haiti the blockade as well as popular in Cuba today. One mocked stops profit flight. Zimbalist said this ment, it "also suffers from all the "promote the free flow of - Castro's popularity, and the other forces people to keep their money in waste of central planning, [such as] 'Mexi~ -Cuba~ [--~ capital." He believes that if two the strict censorship of the press. Cuba, which stimulates domestic shortages and excess demand." These the U.S. lifts its embargo, ~__...,-...._ , Dominican Zimbalist said that the jokes "reflect economic growth. problems result in hoarding, a prac­ -- - \ Republic this will foster the trend of the cynicism in Cuba today." Cuba has also increased its invest­ tice that plagues the Cuban econ­ decentralization. Zimbalist Zimbalist addressed the positive ment ratio gradually, unlike Eastern omy. Zimbalist argued that most of execution of a government official, feels that the "justification for cen­ and negative aspects of the current Europe and China, which Zimbalist these problems are the result of state who was also a revolutionary hero, tralization is that the United States is Cuban situation, concentrating on believes increased their ratios too involvement where '1the state exacerbated the current crisis. The an aggressive neighbor .. .if we take economic issues. quickly. He highlighted the fact that shouldn't be involved." The area of leader was implicated in a drug scan­ away the aggression, the justifica­ He began with the good news. the Cuban government promoted de­ public services, such as buses, car dal, which had a serious psychologi­ tion goes away." Cuba's economy has grown mark~ velopment, and "made a commitment repair and restaurants, said Zimbal­ cal effect on the Cuban people, said At the end of the presentation, a edly, in sharp contrast with those of to make new products," focusing on ist, is an example of unnecessary in­ Zimbalist. It showed them that '1ead­ member of the audience brought up the rest of Latin America. The indus­ non-traditional export development. volvement. ers were corruptible," and also raised an important point, asking "What is trial sector has grown particularly Unlike other Latin American gov­ Finally, dependence on the Soviet ''serious questions about the nature the future of Cuban socialism?" Al­ rapidly. The comparitively strong ernments, which attempted to de­ Union and on the sugar trade are of Cuban leadership." though the title of the talk was "The economy has allowed great strides in velop new products, "Cuba stayed hurting Cuba. Until this year, said The economic and political 'diffi­ Future of Cuban Socialism," the overall distribution of income. with the development... until the fi­ Zimbalist, 71% of all Cuban trade culties in Eastern Europe and the questioner felt the subject was never Zimbalist also pointed out some nal completion," said Zimbalist. "At was with the Soviet Union. During Soviet Union are also contributing to addressed. other positive trends in Cuban sod# least it happens from beginning to the last five years, sugar accounted Cuba's crisis. This factor has hurt Zimbalist replied that he felt opti­ ety. He noted that Cuba has the '"best end." He feels that this is why many for 75% of all Cuba's exports. Cuba both economically and ideo­ mistic about the future of Cuban so­ health system in Latin America," a of the state-initiated development Zimbalist then addressed the seri­ logically, and created an "ideological cialism. He said that if Cuba comes high percentage of college graduates programs have been successful in ous Cuban crisis that began in 1989. and material crisis" of unprecedented out of this current crisis, which he (30% higher than in the German Cuba, but not elsewhere. Many of Cuba's problems have been proportions. believes it will, then it will "reshape Democratic Republic), as well as Zimbalistthanaddressed thenega- magnified in the past year by the "Internal forces" in Cuba will pro- socialisn:t is a dramatic way." Israel A re-examination of a classic ... by Angela Alexander discovers that he plans to eat her, she then, can be seen as a temptor, trying begs be permitted to go outside to to lead to girl astray. She and her The tales of our childhood are not relieve herself first. The werewolf grandmother are rescued by a hunts­ today always so innocent as they may seem agrees but ties a rope to her foot .. She man/ gameskeeperwho kills the wolf at first glance. Professor JackZipes of goes outside, ties the rope to a tree, and and slices him open. The male by Emily Horowitz the University of Minnesota, in a and escapes. fantasy of rape is countered by a lecture entitled "A Second Glance at Zipes suggested that this version picture of the male as saviour. The Issac Rubinstein does not rep­ Little Red Riding Hood," discussed reflects the values of female peasant women involved are not so much resent any Israeli or Jewish or­ the evolution of this folk tale in terms sewing communities which flour­ responsible as helpless and in need of ganization. He came to Bard, he ofsocial function and social attitudes. ished during the 16th century. The proper male guidance and protec­ scpd, only to talk about his per­ He suggested that it went from a girl proves, by taking the path of tion. sonal experience. story of a girl's initiation into a fe­ "needles," that she is ready to be a Zipes criticized psychoanalyses of male peasant community to a narra­ of Ru'bellstein came to Bard in full-fledged member the commu­ folk and fairy tales such as those of tive of male fantasies of, and female nity, that she can replace the grand­ Freud and Bettleheim, who have ig­ September 1987, and remained responsibility for rape. mother who is no longer productive, nored the function of the adult male hereuntUthespringo£1988. After Issac Rubenstein, speaker on Israel The original folktale, part of the and that she can deal with men. authors, concentrating instead on the his sophomore year, he decided to He explained that at an Ulpan, one medieval oral tradition of southern In 1697,CharlesPerraultwrotethe tale as a parable about "coming of spend a year in Israel. He returned can study Hebrew intensively as well France and northern Italy, was sym­ tale down, changing it to suit 1 the age." He also showed slides of early last Friday, November30, to tell about as work. He then spent about a month pathetic towards the plight of its audience of the court of Louis XIV. illustrations of the tale, pointing out his experience and lead a discussion in Cairo, Egypt. During his last heroine. She meets a "werewolf'' on The girl gains her trademark red hat the dominance of an all-male guild in on Israel. He began with a brief his- months in Israel, Rubenstein "took her way to her grandmot,her's house and becomes "Le Petit Chaperon printing and illustration up to our tory of his ten and a half months in part in a training program designed and tells him that she will take the Rouge," a bourgeois child whose century, and showing ~ow the illus­ Israel. for immigrants." path of "needles" rather than the path naivete makes her seem responsible trations often reflect ideas of the girl's When Rubenstein first arrived in After describing his personalexpe- of "pins." for her eventual destruction by the reponsibility for her fate, eye contact Tel Aviv, he ~pent two weeks basi~ rience in the Midd.le East, he dis­ When she arrives, the werewolf is wolf. Zipes asserted that the tale with the wolf representing a "pact" cally "walking C\l'Ound." He then cussed the history of Israel. Ruben­ in bed masquerading as her grand­ becomes a narrative of rape, reflect­ between them. Often the wolf is spent six wee~ on a kibbutz near stein listed the wars that Israel has mother. He tells the girl to help her­ ing bourgeois values and Christian dressed and standing upright, repre­ Jerusalem, where he worked as a fought, and the background of the self to some meat and drink, (the ideas of sin and responsibility. sented as a male figure. A few of the volunteer and cooked food. establishment of the state of Israel in flesh and blood of her grandmother), A German version written by the illustrations indicated a more graphic, He spent the majority of his stay, 1948. He led up to the Intifada, which and then invites her into bed where Brothers Grimm in 1812 features a violent reading of the text, clearly thenextfourandahalfmonths,onan Israel is taking place in Israel today. she notices the werewolf's hairiness, mother who warns the girl not· to suggesting the idea of rape. The Ulpan in the northern part of Israel. continued on page 8 big arms, and big teeth. When she stray off the correct path. The wolf, huntsman is portrayed as a father figure. The story and illustrations have continued to evolve in our own time. Zipes indicated that there has been a "sanitizing" of the tale recently, which may reflect modern anxieties about the talc. There is less emphasis on the responsibility of Little Red Riding Hood, and the wolf has been made into a comical figure, fully dressed YOU CAN USE: Member FDIC OUR.SMARI' 24ATM and often caricatured. SMART 24 / DISCOVER IS CONVENIENTLY The tale of the Brothers Grimm has EXPRESS CASH I VISA RHINEBECK RED HOOK LOCATED IN THE been read as a tale of chastity, for at NYCE I CASHERE I PLUS 20 Mill St. • 876-7041 Rt. 9 South • 758-8811 SFUD.NT c•NI'.R the end, the girl is no longer curious and has learned self-control. 3·

John Dalton '74: lawyer and Bardian , by Emily Horowitz he wrote 'this isn't a creative writing college and ripened it into a place course.'" Dalton feels that the profes­ where the spirit is deepened as the John Dalton graduated from Bard sor was wrong. Bard taught him that mind is broadened." in 1974 with a degree in Psychology. "that is what law and life is all about." Although he feels that Bard has al­ Stuart Levine was his advisor, and Dalton's brother attended Bard, ways had an "intellectually gifted, heremembersStuartfondly."Hewas and since he graduated in 1977, Dal­ creative and free [student body of] the best," says Dalton. "He essen­ ton did not return until1987. In '87, thinkers", the difference is that "now tially encouraged intellectual pur~ after being recruited by the develop~ we have them in-depth." The only suits without allowing me to drift ment committee, he attended an other difference between the Bard he into dilettantism. [Stuart's approach alumni/aegatheringthat made him graduated from in 1974 an~ the Bard to] broadening the base of one's mind realize that he was "screwing up by of today is that the "level of~om pos~ allowed me to achieve the l?ard ideal: cutting off something. that was so ity has risen. In fact, it has gone ballis­ not knowing the answers but know­ precious" to him. tic." While Dalton is not sure if this is ing the questic.ns:'~ Now he has joined the Board of a negative or positive tum, he be­ Dalton is now a la-. ~yer, and his Governors to attract alumni donors lieves that "pomposity'' is a new John Dalton '74 -lawyer, fund raiser, and Bardian at heart. legal career has been a varied one. and provide support for Bard. He feature of Bard. He has practiced everywhere from likes working with the Board, noting He believes that it might "be neces­ zation. However, he was assured by 5000 alumni/ ae and make them real­ Wall Street to Germany and repre­ that he is good at getting donations. sary'' to have all the benefits that Botstein and McCabe that they ize, like I did, that they can never sented clients from the Chinese Army 11I could cold-call a stiff and get him have recently come to Bard, like the wanted to "develop the alumni asso­ really leave Bard." to a DWI defendant with a record to give money," explains Dalton. Olin building and the Stevenson ciation into a powerful voice within Dalton's involvement with Bard high blood alcohol content. In addi­ Dalton is impressed with how far Gymnasium. He points out sarcasti­ the Bard community, to enhance the was fostered by his marriage to tion to his work, Dalton pursues Bard has come since 1974. When he cally that an achievement of the old student life." His goal on the Board is Daphne Ross, Assistant Director of creative writing, and he has written left, Leon Botstein, the current Presi­ days is Kline Commons. It exempli­ to 11awaken the sleeping giant of the Admissions at Bard. thirteen "totally awful" unpublished dent of Bard, was just coming in. He fies to Dalton a "lack of vision" novels. "Stuart is not a character - remembers that the students "were He adds that a characteristic of Bard yet," he adds. horrified at the idea of Leon." How­ students is that they will gripe about After Bard, Dalton went immedi­ ever, he is now a great fan of anything,. "and he is no different." r------.--l ately to Tulane Law School. His Bot stein's. "If imitation is the highest That is what "makes us stand out," 1 A re.c.ord.iv-'1~ o~ -the- C'nrb\:rn". I called one instance where the law He thinks that Botstein, along with ernors, he makes it a point to ques~ -to 'Ba.rcl c.hCl.p~L ~u..'0cl -I;oiJ ~ rU'\0\IO.:t\.or-. a{. J professor asked the students to write David Schwab, Chairman of the tion everything. When he first joined on the legal definition of death. He Board of Trustees, Peter McCabe, the Board of Governors, he was not 1 t.~-. .. £>o..rcl. t"'"F ".... '!"-"· I received an A-for his answer, butthe and Mary Backlund, have #taken a sure that he wanted to be involved I '3.u"'"\e.~tetl do~on: professor "saw fit to add a comment- weird, dynamic and dangerous little with what he saw as a puppet organi- \\-;.oo I 0 I 'tt5.M -~ .. ~-\:~ I I~ 10\l. ~e.ru:l ()_ n~~ C\D YY\~V\. c..u..~se...tte.., -th~ re..c..a'Nhn~ ·~s

most effective way. Seriously now-, this Fromkin believes that our "most Iraq panel plausible goal," which we do not comedian is actually funny continued from page 1 openly admit, is to attack Iraq, "with note about the Middle East. He ad­ its weapons systems," and due to our by Greg Ciaccio edyHour. dressed the claim by Iraq that the perception that Iraq is some kind of Steve Van Zandt, who appeared invasion was justified on historic "Frankenstein's monster." '~rom Caroline's to Bard to Car­ during L&T this year, had trouble grounds ..While From kin admits that Fromkin then questioned our meth­ son and then back to Bard for more playing to a Bard audience. Jokes like Kuwait's current borders were ods for achieving these goals. He said money"" is how comeqian Bill Mc­ "Red Hook will be a nice town once "drawn by Britain," he points out that he believed the embargo that the Carty envisions his career taking off they finish it" really hit home. Mate­ that "many of the [borders in the United States is supporting "isn't for after playing the Student Center on rial about Watergate and Woodstock Middle East) were created by Britain real." He said that "history has shown November 26. Bill McCarty has bro­ was not a big hit, though, probably in the 1920s." He added that '1raq that embargoes rarely work, and they ken a big tradition with comics that because most of the audience mem­ itself was created by Britain" at that take 5 or 6 years to take effect," citing appear at Bard, for he is the first bers were zygotes when they were Unlike Bill McCarty, comedian Donna time. If the Iraqis want to claim that South Africa is an example. He feels really funny one. written. Van Zandt also offered to Cooper did not go over well at Bard they have historic grounds for in vad:­ that the United States army is in "an McCarty's act touched upon many impersonate any celebrity the audi­ ing Kuwait, then the whole region unsustainable position," and we are -aspects of life, from his Catholic ence requested. However, he didn't More recently we had Steve would "have to start from scratch attemptingto pursue a goal"by meth­ school education to driving a rented even attempt to mimic the first two Rodman, a comic magician, in the and you're back to chaos." ods that will not achieve our goal~." car to the Amish tourist trade to the requests: Sid Vicious and Andrew coffee shop. Actually, calling Rodman Fromkin said that he believes that He concluded his talk with three enigmatic piece of string that hangs Dice Oay. He did manage a reason­ a comic magician is using the word if the countries of Middle East want questions. The first asked what would from the Student Center wall like a able Pee Wee Herman, though. comic a little too liberally. His act peace, they can have it. However, he happen if Hussein agrees to evacuate /'Rorscarch test." His ability to im­ Donna Cooper was also not such a went quickly downhill when his first feels that they are not "looking for it." Kuwait according to our terms. This, provise and to keep his act moving huge success. Apparently overshad­ gag, a magic explosive device, didn't They have the opportunity to create said Fromkin, would be pro~~matic without the use of transitions kept owed by the upcoming Halloween work. (I guess you could say it peace, but, argued Fromkir,, ''they'll if our real goal is to topple Hussein. the audience amused all night. This is festivities, she had to play to a very bombed.) Rodman relied heavily on [have to] give something up." The Secondly, he asked what we would a feat that has not been accomplished small audience. How small? Let's just an arsenal of penis jokes aimed at problem, he says, is that they won't. do if there was a real war. He added by any other comics at Bard in recent say that they didn't have the requi­ embarrassing the female audience He questioned the United States' that he believes that this is "what our memory. site number of people for a game of members he had chosen as assistants. motives in Iraq.lf we are, as we claim, government plans to do." Finally, he Bill McCarty did not fall into the checkers. Seriously though, any comic For example, he made a foam penis ·there to defend Saudi Arabia, then asked what would happen if we win. rut left behind by the other comics. would have a hard time in front of appear in the hands of one unfortu­ "we could have used a trip-wire," He said that a victory might raise One audience member remarked, '1 just ten to fifteen people. The audi­ nate woman as a partofhisact. These said Fromkin. The fact that we did other problems that could be as seri­ think he caught a big dose of Bard ence did laugh at her jokes, but it antics kept the audience dwindling not illustrates that that is "not our ous as those which we are facing already." · seemed to be motivated more by pity all night long. goal." If we are there to "punish now. "Really? I thought it was the clap," than by humor. The majority of her The comics that appear at Bard are aggression, and make sure that it is Carr, Chace, and Lytle th~l\ r.~-: McCarty responded. McCarty has act was negative humor directed at arranged by Beth Frumkin and the not, rewardip.g," on principl~, . sponded to Fromkin's talk .• For, the been in the business for ten years and the audience and herself. Since she Student Activities Committee. Their Fromkin noted that we did nothing most part,' they echoed positions put has appeared on Showtime, M1V, appeared an half hour late, the act names and tapes of their act are sent when China invaded Tibet. If we are forward by Chace and Carr at previ­ the Comedy Network and the Com- was fortunately cut short. in by the comic's agent. The comics thereto "keep the prices of oil low," ous panels on the Gulf crisis organ­ are paid anywhere from $200-$600. an invasion, says Fromkin, is not the ized by Chace.

Concerning housing over the Winter Break: RED HODK'S**** R A UE SR T A N T & C R AE'T R E Robbins will be available for housing during January. Students need to have a receipt from student accounts and a letter from their advisor or onM DeWitt Bros. campus employer before they can request a room. Speclnc rooms can be Fine din in,_g requested. students lfvlng In Robbins will have to strip their beds. clear the in a relaxed tops of their desks. leave some space In their closets and in a drawer of their Tool Co., Inc. desks. students lfvlng In stone Row, the four Alumni Halls and Tewksbury second and third floors will also have to prepare their rooms In this manner setting. for conferences. 237 Lafayette St. Construction will take place In Manor House and l'lrstMnoor Tewksbury. All GREEN & BRESLER New York, NY 10012 Manor residents will have to clear their floors, while flrst-noor Tewsbury 212 226·6640 residents Will have to strip their beds. 29 WMARKET ST. OUTDOOR DINING REO HOOK . NV EARLY BIRD SPWALS Any questions should be referred to Gladys Watson. 914·758-5992 CAll FOR HOURS & RESERV. HOME OF DRILL AMERICA An upbeat look at AIDS (C.C.Y.P.) has given the children a chance. "A lot of these kids are affected by AIDS. There is a posi­ tive effect this program can have to show them that people are con­ cerned. It gives them an opportunity to do some­ thing they wouldn't nec­ essarily have in Hudson." Not only do the children have a chance to be recognized and given a standing ovation once, but each week Bard students go to Rajan Q. Bery, big man on campus. Hudson and work with the children. Raj an Q. Bery supplies a The drawings and photos the children have done with C.C.Y.P. were little Back Talk on display in the entry to by Jonathan Kushner the Gulf. - Olin, where the perform­ JK: OK, first things first, are you a ance was held. However, Welcome to Back Talk, a new col­ United States citizen? by Sarah Scully narily see them," said Leon Botstein, the clearest display of C.C.Y.P.'s umn bent on demystifying Bard's no­ RB:Que? and Kristan Hutchison President of Bard College. Many of success came after the ovation, as table guys and gals through short JK: Come again? the performers were children from Bard students and the children informal small-talk. The column will RB: Actually, my father is Indian '1love to live ten fingers at a time, the town of Hudson, a town with a hugged, talked, and interacted in un­ continue into the spring semester, and my mom is an American, so I not nine," said Jean de Castella, high rate of AIDS cases and a strong rehearsed love. interviewing various personali ties on guess that makes me an American summing up the sentiment of "Per­ underground trade in drugs and pros~ The program provided a new per­ campus. This week's column will kick Indian. I was born in New York in spectives: A look at AIDS and its titution. The energy and vitality of spective on AIDS, one of possibility off with Rajan Q. Bery. 1966. implications," a benefit held on Sat­ the children and their upbeat dance rather than dying. As Winston Lind­ ' JK: Raj, what would you say you urday, December 1. The benefit was a performances was poignantly inter­ sey, Minority Coordinator for the Bery, Bard's very own "wise-guy," like most about Bard? joint project of the Columbia County spersed . between more serious North-EastemNewYorkAIDSCoun­ is a graduating senior with a bucket­ RB: Well ... the fact that I'm leaving Youth Project (C.C.Y .P.), Campus speeches and slidesofpeopleaffli~ed dl, said, "The individual can make a full of memories and a keen sense of in May and never comin' back. Outreach Group (C.O.G.), and the with AIDS, taken by Jane Rosett• For difference; whether it be through the absurd. For the few of you who JK: Does that entail that almost no Bard AIDS Committee. Castella was the children, this contrast is a day to studying science, positively influenc­ don't know Raj, he's the slim-dark one is going to miss you? diagnosed with AIDSnearlyten years day fact, since they all have friends or ing younger generation by support­ guy with the saxophone who's often RB: Uh.. .if they want to buy me ago, but continues to live fully and is relatives who are afflicted with AIDS. ingC.C.Y.P.,orjustsupportingthose given to entertaining the masses at dinner they can surely look me up. an important memberofBard's Board "It is an effort to invite the whole infected with the virus by a new soccer garnes and the coffee shop. }K: Any plans for after graduation? of Trustees. Like many other per­ community for a positive [look at) outlook; we can make a difference." Besides being a professional musi­ RB: That's a good one... l'm going formers at the benefit Castella is de­ the AIDS epidemic," said Tucker This program took a clear look at cian, Bery is a philosopher and a to make lots of money, become very termined to overcome all odds. Baldwin. As the children gave the t~ lethargy and the pain of dying, · professional puppeteer. I caught up famous and donate a ton of cash to tl'he program "Provid~ an oppor­ audience hope in the face of the 1? ' tat the same time, fostered a posi­ with him at Stone Row for a brisk my Alma Mater to be used only to tunity for people to be seen and heard depressing reality of AIDS, the Co­ t ve outlook on' AIDS and on life in conversation in which he shared his build a golf course and a drive-in by an audience who would not ordi- lombia County Youth Project general. views on love, Leon, and the crisis in continued on page 12 TEACH FOR AMERICA application deadline for spring interviews January 4, 1991 Teach For America is a national teacher corps of talented, dedicated individuals from all ethnic backgrounds and academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas that have persistent teacher shortages. Applications are available at Career Development December 7,1990 Another View The Bard Observer will always be people more firm in the faith than you and you must be able to learn from SPANDEX'S them. For some, however, that won't satisfy them. Who is this TOTOA, and how come you RETURN know him. Some people have even suggested Obsession that he really is just a part of my subconscious. by Michael Stimac to hint that one should be more directed than to (part the ninth and tenth) To these people I just say think hard about who just hang out or walk around in his shoes. He TOTO A is and how to contact him (her? it?). If It's not that I set out intending to do it. should cross-train, play racquetball, go hiking, bylZYZX you are true to yourself, you too will under­ Really-I mean it. It just kind of turns out that play tennis, go seal-clubbing, etc. In short, he stand how to get in contact with TOfOA. TDIU! way. I can't help it. Despite hours of drooling should do any activity that demands that he The next few months passed by quickly. I had GRIFF-HO! over magazines, I still do it. I walk into stores buy another pair of shoes. newfound power because of my rebirth in Having cleared up my sense of priorities, I near my house every two years or so trying to In the introductory paragraph, I mentioned SPANDEX and I had to learn how to properly headed back east. There were still a few matters do it. Most times I leave the stores without magazines. These magazines would be the use it. For example, suppose ·some secular to be cleared up in Annandale, and I had better having fulfilled myself while the tongueless tennis magazines I read until very recently. I humanist type were to come up to me and start start heading that way. (By now some of you voices of society silently rebuke me for 'my might see a picture of Boris Becker in his Puma mocking THE WORD. "We know people don't are probably wondering what I was doing about near-sin. Perhaps it is a sign of my "illness" that signature-model tennis sneaks in flipping have souls. (Can you point to anything that I do my classes. SPANDEX will provide, and this I am not ashamed in the least of my little ritual. through, and say, "Wow... they'd surebeniceto and tell me that comes from the soul? Ha! I knew will be explained. Don't say I've never done Do I molest little boys or something else so have." Invariably, around that time, I would be you couldn't you silly Goldfish Junkie.) Now you any favors ... ) I locked the zzyz:x com­ common? No indeed; my affront is something in need of a new pair of sneaks. Launching you're trying to tell me that your cute little puter onto a course that led towards the New far more abhorrent by today' s standards than myself headlong into the acres of stupidity that that. Any common day-care provider could be Goldfish has a souL Not only that, but you say York area and turned on the Z'ZYZ:X control. comprise a shopping mall, I would begin. charged with a thing so ordinary as sexual Hopping from store to store and mall to mall, I that this Goldfish has the ability to make me This, despite its name, controls the ZZVZXmo­ abuse. Do I mug old ladies? Once again, I am would look at the model Boris had been wear­ happy. It's people like you that ought to be bile, not me, and enables me to catch an occa­ innocent. If this society cared at all for the locked up ... " ing and its price. Without fail, it would be in sional nap. elderly, they would ignore my "crime" in favor good supply. However, I always ended up Now what's the correct way to deal with this I woke up to the zz:yz:x alarm blaring. Look­ of the raising of consciousness about the prob­ thinking about its price in relation to mud. obviously deluded individual? In the old days I ing up at the screen, I saw flashing OVERRIDE, lemsoftheaged.Itseemsratherstunningtome Price/mud relationships are very important to would have argued with him for a while and OVERRIDE. The Z'ZYZXmobile moved over to that society spends as much energy as it does me in the purchase of sneakers1 and are proba­ then left, smug that she was going to fry. When the right lane and slowed down. I tried to trying to discourage me from doing something bly what keep me from buying "athletic foot­ presented with this exact attack eight days after reassert manual control, but I just got beeped at from which I derive so much pleasure. More­ wear." · my rebirth, I tapped the main line of POWER for my troubles. What's going on? I built the over, I potentially threaten only myself in this These relationships are rather imprecise ra­ and blissed out, ignoring him. Which approach 2ZYZXmobile and made sure that manual #depraved'' act. For that matter, it involves no tios involving how much I am willing to pay for is correct? The answer, of course, is neither. In control could be taken at any time. I wondered illegal substances. a shoe and how willing I am to get it muddy. the first case, I would have argued with her, but if SPANDEX was responsible, but this didn't What is my "crime," after all of this? Simply, One is usually inversely proportional to the out of anger of having my not very firmly held just seem to be his style. Besides, there would I enjoy to buy cheap sneakers. It is a fair reac­ other. For instance, either pair of combat boots beliefs challenged. The correct way to react is to be a note from TOTOA if this were the case. tion, I suppose, to wonder what I am talking I have ever owned was very inexpensive; one tap the line, feel the power, and have your faith Well, I was along for the ride; I guessed I'd just about. However, between a trip to any shop­ was $20 and one was free. In either case, I was, renewed - and then argue, not to silence a have to wait to see what happened. ping mall and a few hours of television, the and am, extremely willing to get these shoes voice saying things that you can't deal with, but I was near Pueblo, the town known for its answer should be obvious. By much such expo­ crusted with mud to their very tops. Any of my out of a vvish to have her experience the same Government Printing Office, when I finally sure, it became apparent to me that in this day pairs of $20 leather sneaks or Converse All­ bliss that you just did. Don't worry if you didn't came to a halt. I was inside what looked like a of the Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan Nike Stars (of that price as well) would Qe evaluated get the right answer; it takes some time explor­ military complex. There was a huge (electri­ advertisements, which nearly canonize their more or less the same as the boots. However, as ing the POWER before you learn such subtle fied?) fence that opened when I approached. superathlete subjects, that it is awfully hard to a counterpoint to this, somehow I would find buy a pair of sneakers. difficulty in likewise crusting in mud $100 ways of using it. After the aforementioned event After I entered, it closed with a rather menacing Please let it be noted that I did not use the purple Nike Air 3/4 height Michael Jordan (the one where rjust biissed out),l found a note click. I was parked in a reserved parking space. phrase "athletic footwear." There is an awful Flight basketball shoes. Is it only stinginess stuck under my windshield wiper from TOTOA The odd thing was that it said "Reserved for lot of "athletic footwear" available today, and which drives me to not to feel right about that gave me a clue to discovering this method. zzyzx." Welt someone was expecting me; many different kinds as well: cross-trainers, dipping the aforernentionedJordans in sludge? Now at this point I'm sure some of you are maybe it was time that I found out who. aerobics shoes, walking shoes, indoor soccer I'm not certain about the answer to that ques::­ shaking your heads. How can anyone be ex­ "'ZZ'/ZX!" boomed a loudspeaker, "you are shoes, racquetball shoes, wrestling shoes, ur­ tion. Perhaps I am just a cheap bastard, but I pected to figure out these things if evep I have to among friends. I'll meet you in the pink build­ ban hiking boots, and more than enough kinds don't think seriously of buying those Boris be guided by TOTOA? Well, in the first place, ing. TOTOA."TOTOA?!?! Finally I would be X of tennis and basketball shoes to boggle the Becker model Puma shoes anymore. As I look living in SPANDEX is a learning process. There continued on page 11 mind. Some have air-cushioning for shock back over my favorite pairs of sneakers, no one absorption, while other have little sacs of ge­ of them, including my current pair, ever cost latinous ooze. Most "athletic footwear" is re­ much more than $20. The Church of Roland plete with splashes of fashionable neon pink, The first of these was a pair of Asks Tigers green, yellow and purple. court shoes. They were very plain white leather forearms protruded from the sagging, rolled­ by Ian McGrady Is that a "sneaker"? Does a real "sneaker" low-cut sneakers. I bought them in sixth up cuffs of his flannel shirt. He looked away need to be rammed down the throats of the and they lasted through two years of COt\StCJtilttl from his page to me and my sprawled limbs. I didn't need to spin the tarnished brass public in television ads? These are the ads in use. The second was a similar pair of knobs on my tinny mailbox door to find out I opened my mouth to apologize, but he which a certain company commands, domi­ that lasted me two years as well. The next was that I didn't have any mail. The unshaded light looked at me softly with big eyes, and grinned. natrix-like, that we "just do it" in their($80-150) also a pair of Pumas bought in the beginning of in my mailbox told me once again, nobody Then his face exploded. He stomped with "athletic footwear." Is that an incentive to buy tenth grade which lasted me until last summer. cared. Hoping that a copy of the day's Times high knees and flailed his hands in the air as he a shoe in which to just schlep around? It would These were not the shoes in which one would remained in the book store, I turned with a marched about the vestibule shouting "MORE not seem so. Such an ad as that suggest to me Njust do it," to be sure. They were sneakers, and small spasm, eager, towards the vestibule that RAISINS! MUCH MORE RAISINS!" A red, that there is yet another area in which the consequently something much more valuable separates Annandale's U.S Post Office from -smoldering saxophone appeared in his bony societal attitude has gotten entirely too serious. to me than any symbol of the rabid yuppie Albee, and took speed towards the sunshine. fingers and he played descending chromatic Sneakers aren't just for "kicking around" in overachievement of cross-training could ever As I cruised past the white counter top, my scales repeatedly. as fire tongues danced from these days; the diversity of models would seem be. eyes glimpsed only too late the black socked the instrument's bell. ankles covered by wrinkled khaki pants that I hid my eyes in my armpit from fear. my feet grappled with. I sideswiped the opened The hideous music stopped as soon as I did, an alternative to abortion door and was shot upwards from the vestibule and then I looked back into the vestibule. The head first. I skidded onto the concrete landing linoleum was cold and white, and the canvas of the outside Albee stairway. U.S. Mail pouch swung from its frame in a light BIRTHRIGHT Embarrassed, my chest tight with pain, I breeze that spun leaves around within the cube. looked backwards to see who I might have As I continued to stare into the emptiness,_ an emergency pregnacy service destroyed in my thoughtlessness. hearing the fluorescent lights hum on the other A lanky man with thin hair flipped through side, the leaves drifted to a stop on the floor, 1-800-848 ... LOVE a Pen World magazine which had a green, and the mailbag creaked to a halt. gold-tipped fountain pen on the cover. The Roland had returned. In Red Hook area call 758-0324 skin on his arms was tight and smooth, and his A page of unedited observations from guest writers Blum Gallery exhibit weaves a Transparent Thread by Gregory Donovan inquiry into these same questions. show areJasper Johns, Robert Rausch­ The Ox-herding Tale not only corre­ enberg, and Robert Morris. All in all, The Blum Gallery's new exhibit, lates to the telos of modern art, but the exhibit is impressive and thor­ officially called the Transparent thread: also illustrates how much these ough. It even has a video detailing Asian philosophy in recent American American artists were actually influ­ howthe show was created. art, was organized by Bard College enced by Asian philosophy. As the show is fairly extensive, I and Hofstra University. The major The "Transparent Thread" is a the­ will high1ight only a few of its most theme of the exhibit, designed by the ory that traces many of the "most prominent works. collaboratingcuratorsofbothschools, celebrated" artworks ofmodern times First of all, Eric Orr's "Naked Sin­ is the application of the drawings of to their sources within the Asian gularity'' is made of slate and water. Shi Chu, a twelfth century Chinese world view. The eighteen artists in­ The water falls down the rippled side Buddhist monk, to recent American cluded in the show highlight paint­ of the slate and creates nif.ty patterns. art. ing from the 1950 to the present. The sculpture is about primal matter Shl Chu' s drawings are called "Ox­ In order to give validity to their - water and stone- in a state of per­ herding Pictures." These pictures tty concepts, the curators conducted a fect correspondence. The continuous to answer three almost existential number of interviews with the artists flow of water is parallel to the Asian questions: "Who am I?" "How can I themselves. Not surprisingly, they concept ''Mu," a part of essential self reach enlightenment?" "How can I found that a few of the artists had which is formless and found in all of recognize my true self?" formal scholarly understanding of nature, such as the gaps in thoughts. The American artists featured in eastern concepts, such as Taoism and Another interesting piece is Robert the exhibit are were chosen by the cu­ Zen. Morris' ''Box With Sound Of Its Own rators based on their interest in and Among the artists featured in the Making," which is actually a small teak box that plays a tape recording lence that is being escalated daily." of three hours of the box's construe- Marisol's "Fishing," one of the fibers of the Transparent Thread Israel He referred to the recent incident at tion. The sound is mostly sawing and view highlights the importance of a pieces should have been held back to continued from page 2 the Temple Mount as evidence of hammering, but it is enough to con­ cross-cultural anayisis rather than a prevent this tight squeeze. Literally, ''Intifada" means "to this. vey the feel of the the construction narrow-minded Western interpeta­ If you do go to the show, pick the rattle up," said Rubenstein. The Pal­ '1 support Israel," explained process the box underwent. tion. folder which decribes all the pieces estinians in Israel began this move­ Rubenstein, "but not Likud [the The focus of the work, therefore, is I believe these few pieces are the from a Western and then cross-cul­ ment in 1987 to bring attention to· right-wing government in power] not on the completed object, but on most compelling of the show, but the tural interpretation. and ultimately change their status and their policies." He likened the the process of creation. This focus is rest of the show is excellent and pro­ On Saturday December 8th, there within Israel. situation to the United States, where very much in keeping with Eastern vocative as well. will be a presentation of eight films Rubenstein addressed the ques­ many people support the United ideology that the act of achieving is The show takes up the entire Blum by the artists themselves, with a com­ tion of whether or not 11the average States but not President Bush and more important than the goal itself. gallery.Due to the resultant crowded mentary byboth curators: film-maker Israeli citizen wants a Palestinian his policies. The traditional interpetation of this conditions, some of the works are John Reed, an art historian, and poet state." He said, from his experience There is a difference between the wor~ from a very Western view, is crammed into small hallways down­ and Bard Professor Chuck Stein. The in Israel, thatthecountrywasdeeply PLO, which many perceive to be a that the box is dominating the re­ stairs, or in corners where the light is presentation is free to Bardians, but divided between "right and left." terrorist organization, and "the rest cording of its own production. This not the greatest. Perhaps some of the everyone else must pay to enter. He described the Likud party as of the Palestinian people," said right, and the Labor party as left, Rubenstein. He pointed out that '1.efter than the Democrats in the the Intifada ''is a grass-roots move­ Predator 2: Quality or commercialism? United States." The parties, he said, ment of the people." Rubenstein focus "on one issue and one issue feels that until the recent situation by Tom Hickerson Some of the scenes from the comic tons o' gore? Quality acting isn't only-and that is [the question of] in Iraq, the Intifada was "very ef­ are also in the movie. One notable needed. It wouldn't draw the same negotiations." fective - Israelis were begining to "People who find they like this sort scene is underground, where the crowd with it that went to see Preda­ Rubenstein reported that he at­ listen, and [the Palestinians'] group of thing will find this the sort of thing creature takes on a subway car full of tor.

tended two demonstrations organ­ of sympathizers was growing." they like." armed commuters. Guess who wins. All in all1 it can be either an exciting ized by "Peace Now," a group that Now, though, he believes that the -Abraham Lincoln As in the original Predator, the romp with bloody corpses, invisible is in favor of talks with the Pales­ right-wing in Israel will exploit the heroes are outmatched, outgunned, monsters and science-fiction technol­ tinians. He said that his impression situation in Iraq and encourage the The ad shows some original foot­ even outmanned. The movie screams ogy, or it can be a disgusting sequel was that about "almost half of the 11idea that we can't trust the Pales­ age from Predator; some shooting, for Schwartzenagger to come in at aimed at merely attracting a com­ country is in favor of Peace Now." tineans, and that Israel has to stand some violence, and the jungle from the last second and save the day, mercial audience. It's up to the indi­ He noted that the government is di­ tough and not negotiate because of the creature's infra-red point of view. but-the movie world is not so kind. vidual Bardian to come to his or her vided on the issue, and there 11is a their vulnerability." Suddenly, the jungle changes... to While 20th-Century Fox was shoot­ own conclusion whether or not they very close vote in the Knesset right While Rubenstein was optimis­ skyscrapers. ing Predator 2, Arnie was shooting want to s.ee a "Schwartzenagger now. Those against negotiations tic about the movement in Israel in Predator 2. He's In Town With A Kindergarten Cop. movie" sans Sch wartzenagger. seem to have a majority, though.'' favor ofnegotiations, a student from Few Days To Kill. "Oooo," the audi­ However, the movie has an experi­ Will there be others? The movie Another issue that concerns many Israel in the audience disagreed. ence goes. Gotta see that. en~ cast. It includes Danny Glover waffles on that point; there always Israelis is the problem of other hos­ 1"The majority is not in favor of People who read Dark Horse from Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon could be more, but the audience will tile neighbors, '1ike Egypt and Syria. negotiations - only the intellectu­ Comics weren't surprised when the 2 fame; Kevin Peter Hall from Misfits never know. Dark Horse, however, 'f.he Israelis are worried about more als and the university students." ads came out for the sequel. Origi­ of Science and the original Predator (he has announced plans for a second than just the Palestinians... " Rubenstein concluded that nally, the company published a four­ still plays the creature); Maria Con­ and third Predator series, but first, He expressed the feeling that "ex­ "something must be done," al­ issue Predator series between the fall chito-Alonzo from The Running Man; they'll be coming out with Predator tremists on both sides ....: left and though he is not optimistic that it of1989and thesummerof1990. This and Bill Paxton from Aliens. Also Versus Aliens. right - are responsible for the vio- will happen soon. quickly became the premise of the featured is Reuben Blades as Glover's movie. best (short-lived) buddy, Gary Busey Now that's quality. The rap concert had begun with The premise is thus: Cops of the big as the enigmatic government official News flashes an audience of 2,500 students and city (in the comic, it was New York; in and Morton Downey, Jr. as an ultra­ There will be an open Student continued from page 3 guests who were "orderly and the movie, it's Los Angeles) trying to annoying journalist. Life Committee meeting on University for students who had lively." It became violent when stop a huge drug war stumble upon While the movie has a cast of qual­ 1\lond.J.y, December 10, in ~he been involved in fights at a concert someone sprayed a chemical like some very strange murders. They are ity actors and actresses, saying that Kline Committee Rooms, 12-12:30. on October 27. tear gas into the crowd and people then forbidden to investigate them Predator 2 had quality acting is like On the agend.1 are the issues of: '"The alarming presence and dis­ rushed for the doors. by enigmatic government officials. saying Rambo 3 appealed to peace­ • Student space playoffirearms(bypolice) was un­ Seven people were injured at Curiosity kills the cat (and not a few loving, gentle people; it didn't. But • P,uties (rcgistr.ltion, regulillh?ri· c-~.1 called for by circumstances,u uni­ the concert, and no one was ar­ other things) as the cops investigate what could be expected from a movie Ylease come and let us know how }~u versity officials said in a statement. rested. anyway and uncover the ·creature. that promised thrills, violence and fl•cl .1bout these or .:mv other iS!rl.H!s pert.:~ining to student life .. by Kristan Hutchison Though most medical studies do into the audience and told his story, not give credence to this theory, Sapp the reality of AIDS also stepped into "Another I dies slowly," Steve points to the primary groups being the audience. Sapp's second play at Bard, is de­ killed by AIDS and the way it is The power of the play was most signed to make the television genera­ being dealt with as evidence. As of clearly exhibited as it ended. Each tion sit up and think about AIDS. October this year, 68,201 ofthe 154,917 audience member had been given a Written as a series of short, emotional AIDS cases reported nationwide in white ribbon on entrance to the play. vignettes tied loosely into a talk show the past ten years were blacks and Near the end, Rachi N'Dji told them format and interspersed with televi­ Hispanics. The disparity has grown, the ribbon marked people with AIDS. sion clips, the play confirms Sapp's as the homosexual population, which Each and every person in the audi­ reputation for "writing tough." While accounts for 90,599 of the AIDS cases, ence, holding a ribbon, was possibly other writers poke gingerly at the has educated itself and successfully infected with AIDS and had to face prickly AIDS issue, Sapp grasps it by campaigned for safer sex practices. what they would do now. If they the thorns and throws it directly into According to the New York State the audience's lap in a single play. Health Department, "The largest "AIDS is more universal than any­ growing area of new cases are IV The government is one thinks it is. I really wanted to drug users and heterosexual responsible for saving show the different way it can affect women/ a trend they link to prosti­ tution. Both those groups aredispro­ lives, not saving As of October 1990, portionately made up of people of souls. color. -TV there were 33,674 For those who do not accept con­ clip used in spiracy theories, the play gives an "Another I dies slowly" confirmed AIDS cases insight into the way the pain and in. New York State hopelessness of AIDS turns to anger and blame, and compels people to were certain, ''beyond a shadow of a constituting 21.7 accept conspiracy theories. fucking doubt," that they did not have percent of all "Another I dies slowly" provides a AIDS, they could drop the ribbon in convincing portrait of the flaws in the box at the door. As I left, only two confirmed AIDS cases current"solutions"totheAIDSprob­ ribbons had been returned to the box. in the U.S. lems, which fail completely because they are unwilling to deal with the Though it coincides with AIDS -·New York State Health other problems which interlock with Awareness week, 11Another I dies Deparbnent and exacerbate the AIDS crisis. This slowly'' was not written with such a · is ov~rlly presented in an early scene deadline in mind. Actually, Profes­ yourlifedirectlyorindirectly," Sapp from the urban underclass. A preg­ sorofDanceJean Churchill suggested said. nant woman, Bebe, played by Vash­ to Sapp lastyearthathedoa play for What results is a fairly complete ine Brown, continues to shoot up Ephen Colter danced and acted the part of Kane ]evi, a choreographer with AIDS the Bard campus on AIDS, a subject overview of the size and complexity while her husband dies of AIDS, in Steve Sapp' s play "Another I dies slowly" Sapp had already been considering. of the problem, though Sapp concen­ which he presumably caught through oping homosexual identi!yin confes­ Sapp, the central character themati­ In October, after his fall travels for trates on AIDS as it affects people of sion, and the priest, played by Gar­ cally is the poet DuMas, played by Bard admissions, Sapp began to re­ color. The many short scenes and What I learned at rett Kimberly, cannot even listen, and Patrice Harper, who through his hearse the play after work. The cast barrage of emotional issues over­ only condemns Simon as a sinner in words links together all the issues. had only three weeks, he said, to whelm the audience, a reflection of Bard was to question the eyes of the church. Simon com­ The strength of the play is in its work out the play. • theoverwhelmingand complex traits everything and I pares the Catholic church, which he most direct interactions with the Sapp allows his plays to grow from of AIDS. says treats AIDS victims as subhu­ audience and the ability to make each a "skeleton script," through the sug­ Far more than a fatal virus which is think if we question man and offers no solution, disfa­ person feel AIDS as an immediate gestions and improvisations of the spreading at an alarming rate, AIDS things more we might vorably to ACI' -Up, which is at least issue in his or her life. When Tray, a actors and himself. "He is very guid­ is an emotional noose pulling together organizing and fighting for money famous actor with AIDS played by ing," said Colter, who worked with some of our most pressing social is­ find real solutions. for a cure. Kwami Reynolds, stepped almost continued on page 15 sues: drugs, prejudice, sexual differ­ In covering such a broad territory, ences, race, religion, politics, the class -Steve Sapp the play sacrifices some depth. Where system, education, and so on through ·television· dramas. pick out a single the headlines for the past four years. a dirty needle. Bebe knows the risks victim of AIDS, tie viewers to the Sapp highlights the ludicrousness of and knows that her addiction is kill­ character emotionally, and drag them political "solutions" which refuse to ing her and will cause her child to be both through the ordeal, Sapp'splay deal with the related issues along born addicted, but drugs are the only refuses to simplify into just one vic­ with the illness. way she knows of numbing the pain tim and a purging tale. There is no Building from the ineptness and of poverty. Neither the minimum end to the problem which can be cruelty of the white male power struc­ wage nor welfare can give her enough resolved with a sad burial. "Another ture, the play presents a conspiracy to live on. The Federal government I dies slowly'' is directed at the audi­ theory of AIDS. According to the refuses to fund programs which ence, to show how AIDS touches each theory, to which Sapp personally would supply clean needles, because of us as victims and as villains. adheres, AIDS was created and they are afraid of condoning drug 11 Montgomery Street • Rhinebeck, New York spread during the Reagan admini­ use. A few central characters tie together 914•876• 5151 stration as a way of killing off homo­ Hypocritically, the government the action. In a practical way, the talk sexuals and peopleofcolor, who were treats heroin addiction by replacing show host Rachi N'Dji, played by U P S T A T E ... f I L M 5 distasteful to the right-wing moral­ it with a new addiction to metha­ Khani Shaw, gives structure to the RHINEBECK 8Z6.·25 J 5 · ists. "It is the perfect killing machine," done, but never treats the problems separate pieces and fits them into the said Sapp, who read the theory in of poverty and prejudice which origi­ outline of the play. Providing an Fri &Sat., 7:30 &9:30 P' A 'THFINDER Mon,9:00, Tues, 7:00 SUn, 5:00 & 7:00 ..t1 Wed & Thurs. 8:30 several magazines, including Covert nally push people into drugs. emotional thread for the audience to From Lapland, a 1000 year old legend about marauding warriors, a shaman's teaChings, Action. "The American government A later scene similarly condemns follow, Kane Jevi, played by Ephen and the young man who holds the fate of his people in his hands has a very bad tr~ck record. If they theCatholicchurchforofferingempty Colter, is one of the few characters Sun, 3:00, Mon, 7:00, Tues, 9:00 Wed & Thurs, 7:00 only can tell you all these medical jargons, solutions to AIDS victims. Simon, a who is followed through the play HOLLYWOOD Mavericks Book Of Days but still can't solve it, then I just don't young man played by Jose Jorge, beginning from the moment he dis­ A mini-history of cinema tnbute to directors Mered~h Mort's stylized buy it." expresses insecurities with his devel- covers he has AIDS. But according to who bucked the system ••• WI Clips from 68 films vision of IWe in a medieval town Morrow's Come Sunday: Are you up to the challenge? is ''Berkeley,' by Jonathan Miller intricate weave of insightful charac­ mother who vanishes when her tornadoes. The book shows marks of student's last name ter analysis and dazzling creativity. daughter is only fourteen. Yet Han­ the dry structures of Joyce, and the Hannah's psychotic father who dr..... ps of her life is named "Ltr­ Come Sunday is published by Col~ Come Sunday's (alleged) plot deals nah stands out on her own, dealing soap operas of Faulkner, but it is also in and out careful blend of cJ-ar­ lier Books, and is available in the with a four-hundred year old con­ with the quirks of her uncle's will, spangled with the wild imagination den"), but the is bookstore for $10.95 quistador who is transported from and living her life free from the past. of Thomas Pyncho.n and Gabriel acterization and surrealist notio!''S Central America to upstate New York, You won'tfind any Ingmar Bergman­ Garcia Marquez. all his own. In its time, Bard College has been and the problems that this engen­ ish despair here; the cause and effects Morrow weaves this web by smash­ You guessed it-Come Sundayi ~n't keeps his home to some of the great literary ders. The reader will have to look of Morrow's book roll in along ing his clocks, shredding his maps, light reading. Morrow talents. Such noted writers as Isaac sharp to keep track of this, because combers across his text. Life goes on and scattering the pieces of the story characters artfully draped in shadow pages, leav·.ng Bashevis Singer, Toni Morrison, and Morrow expands enormously on his because it doesn't have any choice. throughout the book. Like in for nearly a hundred gomg Saul Bellow have all taught here at premise. This storyline is only the What makes Morrow's work stand Faulkner, flashbacks and flashfor~ you with little idea of what's phil0'SO­ various times, mostly before they most threadbare of excuses for pin­ out from that of your average, dime­ wards are all part of the book's intri~ on. The story is spiced with and !he became as famous as they are. wheeling through its cast of charac­ a-dozen Eighties minimalist litera­ cateweb. phizing on eugenics, racism Bummed that you missed out on ters, which range from aging Italian ture is the fact that his book is a work Mid way through the book, all-American desire to live forev.cr. of fascinat ~ ng learning from a famous writer? Don't revolutionaries to a brain-damaged of imagination, cautiously disguised Hannah's mother disappears when There's bushels the ncvel be. Right now, Bard is home to a new boxer caring for ranch animals in the as a work of literature. His focused, she is swept up into a tornado. Mor­ thought here-so much that occasionally derai~.ed. author with a rising star, Bradford heart of Manhattan. slightly-more-than-minimalist prose, row drops littlefragmentsoftheevent itself seems it breaks dcwn Morrow, a Professor of Literature The circus ring revolves around a and his tangled knotofinterrelation­ and the reaction to it in scrambled Like many first novels, bogged down bY its here, who has produced a first novel woman named Hannah Burden, with ships between his characters puts him chronological order, leaving it to us in parts, and gets happened. own weight of characters and ei::lo­ well~worth looking at. ~hom the conquistador and his kid­ well in with his contemporaries, such to sort out what exactly end so m-..1ch ComeSundayisanepicvoyage, both nappers spend a couple of days. Al­ as Walter Abish and Paul West, but Morrow doesn't flaunt his influ­ tions. The story doesn't its readers feel­ around the western hemisphere and though she has only the briefest par­ there is an inspired vein of creativity ences as obviously as other writers as fade away, leaving if yo-:1're around the human psyche. In a liter­ ticipation in the progression from swirling through it. Four hundred might. Like in James Joyce's ing slightly unfulfilled. But challenge, the ary period wherein the reader has to Central America to upstate New York, year old conquistadores shake hands Finnegan's Wake, the symbols illumi­ willing to take the Dme choose between being intellectually the book is centered around her. Like with failed Italian revolutionaries. A nate the story, lifting it into a three­ reward is more than enough. rarity-a work of Eigmies insulted by pop fiction, or bored stiff many other literary heroi~es, Han­ single mother with her alienated dimensional strata. He indulges in a Sunday is a by modern literature, Morrow's nah grapples with a past - a psy­ daughter arrives in a Nebraska town, little Pynchonian character-naming literature that keeps one's inte:-est smooth, undulating prose style is an chotic father, an abusive uncle, and a which is mysteriously immune to (the long-haired, travelling college with sparks of real imagination. Look out, James Dean- Morgan is on the move in San by Jonathan Miller of America. which he stole from Baby Jewels, the on as she narrowly escapes getting porting half the dopefiends Morgan's novel Homeboy contains local gangster and pimp who pro­ kiHed, and holding yourbreathas Joe Francisco' and hir.l rejoining, 1t's ~hat are or go sick,' wondering Why don't -she Do you think your life is dull and a parade of low-life characters that is duces pornographic films with the robs Baby Jewel's theaters. There Why won't she? until -she uninteresting? Looking for more ex­ equally part Henry Miller and part prostitutes in his stable who please few villains so comic-book as Baby leave me, flushed and flustered, citement in your world? Damon Runyon.lt'schockfull of hard him, and snuff films with the ones Jewels, yet there are few literary returned, never hurt half so bad as Try this. Go to Berkeley as a Lit stu­ drugs, gang rapes, prison riots, pros­ who do not. Joe lands in jail on an­ romances as emotion-tugging as t;hat maybe but would hurt until that tiny p:'ick dent in the late sixties, get engaged to titution, thievery, murder, snuff films, other charge, nobody knows exactly betweenJoeSpeakerand Kitty Litter. he most plunged away all feeling, swept a ..:ide Janis Joplin, drop out of school when and men eaten alive by killer sharks. where the diamond is, and everyone In the middle of the sleaziest, of shattered self like the she dies, become a barker for a strip It wades through a mire of what from Baby Jewels to the local D.A. is appalling conditions, Morgan will the shards that broken mirror that cuts to look in :o." show, becomea junkie, go to jail, win should be tabloid sleaze, yet it still searching madly for it, before every­ inj~ a scene of such tenderness If Morgan shows any one literary the 1978 PEN prize for American retains a sense of purity about the thing falls apart. it destroys all of your preconceptions. the influence, it has to be Dickens. The writers in prison, get out of jail, be­ characters who walk through it. Morgan is writing what he knows Morgan never fails to pack is actually Everyrr.an, come an alcoholic, take the cure, write Set on the San Francisco strip, the best, and it shows. The world of the action in. After the first few chapters Junkie-barker make a living and to s.ap­ a brilliant first novel, and then die book teems with oddly appealing San Francisco strip, and that of pass and the characters have all been trying to move, port his relationship. The hookers tragically in a motorcycle crash. characters. There are strippers with Coldwater Penitentiary where Joe is introduced, the book begins to of gold, and the Dis~ct Seth Morgan did, and if he doesn't names like "Bermuda Schwartze," incarceratedaredescribed withgreat and it never stops. Events come have hearts is actually trying to ~lp become a cult hero on the level of "Kitty Litter," and "Faye DuWeye" detail and realism.lt' shell, but it's an tumbling one after the other, packing Attorney get out of Jail. Joe gets the James Dean, there's something seri­ ("Love is real, not Faye DuWeye"); oddly compelling hell. Like in Chris­ a charge of real tension. Multiple Speaker of each opportunity to rise above his stat .on, ously wrong with the United States prison inmates who smuggle heroin tiane F. or Jim Carroll's The Basket­ storylines weave in and out into jail in tampax and make liquor ball Diaries, Morgan turns a clear, other, each raising the stakes, and as does Rings 'n' Things. Like N~on out of stolen pineapples; and comic­ non-judgmental eye on his world of welding your attention to the book. Algren (The Man With the Golden book villains with names like ''Baby junkies and prostitutes. His charac­ Homeboy is the kind of book that the Arm), Morgan has broadspr ~ad Jewels" and "Quicksilver Cicero." ters are a lot like the Sim psons-they cliche "pagetumer'' was invented for. compassion for all his characters. The book centers on an autobio­ are flamboyantly cartoonish, and yet But Homeboy is more than just a Only the prison guards and the pros­ graphical character named Joe achingly real. sex-and-drugs thriller. Morgan's titute-murdering pimp seem t~ly Speaker. Like Morgan, Joe is a barker There's a curious compulsion be­ prose is a breath of fresh air in the evil. for a strip-show, a junkie who deals hind Homeboy; like few other mod­ writing establishment. Shunning the Are the plotlines tied up in n:~lo­ ways? Arc the heroin on the side, keeping the bal~ ern writers, Morgan makes you care bland emotionless prose of Richard dramatic, almost trite loons tucked neatly in his cheeks. Joe about his characters in unexpected Ford or Walter Abish, the novel hasn't characters too Dickensian for t~eir is in possession of a priceless blue ways. You find yourself cheering the been written so much as painted, own good? Are the emotional rela­ diamond known as the '1ager Moon" Valley Girl Hooker Rings 'n' Things painted in the brightest of colors. The tionships strictly from Soap Opc:-as? book is filled with hallucinatory It doesn't matter. Homeboy is ore of prose, always skirting the edge of the best books to come out of 1 ~90, overwrought purpleness. and it alone will make Seth Morgan's "Joe was too weak to withhold the name be remembered for yean to junk from another sufferer, he lacked come. Buy this book, folks. You Fant Auto, Home & Life that essential pusher's obduracy. He to read it. took Poppa Whoppa's short money, MICHAEL HAGGERTY telling himself he'd have to hustle up (Seth Morgan's Homeboy, publlihed Account Agent some action for Kitty. And he could by Random House, is not available i~ the Allstate Insurance Company hear her now, 'Shit fire, fella, why bookstore, which is a crime. I'd a....:.Vise Route 9, Astor Square you gotta give up your stuff, so I you to go down and hassle them J&ntil Rhinebeck, NY 12572 gotta give up mine? Sometimes I feel they order some copies.) (914) 876-3632 like my big ass and chichis are sup~ Swim meet to be at New Intramural Bard Director First meet ever held at Stevenson Robert Wood has been named as byjody Apap take the sport seriously with the hopes the new intramural director for the of swimming becoming an official Stevenson Gymnasium at Bard. He On Saturday, December Sth, the varsitysportwithinacoupleofyears. coached Bard's women's varsity Bard club swim team will host its first Likewise, the two visiting teams, soccer team this past season. intercollegiate sw~m meet with two Skidmore and Russell Sage, will Wood replaces Rowdy Doug other colleges competing. consider Bard an official team that Dowdy who has been the intramural The team, coached by Fred Schultz, will count in their records. director for the past two semesters. is participating in its second year in a For any interested in watching and Rowdy has accepted a position of variety of individual and relay races, supporting the team, the meet will be Athletic director for a community along with diving competition. held in the pool at the Stevenson college in Michigan with a enroll~ Although the team is officially only Gymnasium at 3:00p.m. ment of 8,000 students and six varsity at.dub level, all of the participants programs. County budget nothing. In America,20% ofthe adults erypeople and lie in wait for thieves are illiterate and 26,000 ofthose are in Pizza theft in the back seat. ~'If I catch whoever is continued from FIRE! page 1 Dutchess County, according to Elo continued from page 1 responsible for the thefts, I'll make continued from page 1 they are one of the few organizations Gordon of the Literacy Volunteers of toppings to anyone who turns in the them pay for all the bags," he said. He that are dedicated to children dying." America. One of the students, Larry people responsible for the thefts. He has asked Security to keep an eye out not even Security, takes it seriously John and Whitney Fillbrook, a fa­ Severs, made an appeal to the board. will also give out a free large pie to forpeoplewithinsulated bagsaswell. anymore. This fire wasn't a big deal, ther and son from Poughkeepsie, "Doing their program has made anyone who finds an insulated bag Diamond added that although he but if it had burned longer it could spoke in favor of funding Planned amazing changes in my life," he said. and returns it to one of the deliv­ did not want to raise prices, he may have spread. The only reason we Parenthood. ''You cannot legislate "I don't have to hide anymore ... The erypeople. be forced to introduce a delivery noticed it was because we happened morality, sexual or otherwise," said funding that you want to take away As of Wednesday, Diamond has charge to recoup the hundreds of to be up early that morning." Whitney. ''The drive to continue our is veryimportant."The audience gave hired someone to accompany deliv- dollars he has lost in stolen bags. Security's response time was also a sp~es will be consummated whether him a standing ovation. concern. Kontarines and Demiryon­ or not the drugstore is open." Many speakers protested the prac­ tar estimated that it took about ten Some speakers pointed out the tical defunding of the Department of SPANI)EX'S : up and saw some plastic overhead. minutes to respond to the first call. irony of a budget that cut $9,500 from History, cut from $76,451 to $500. Both of them pulled out blunt instru­ Director of Security Bob Boyce Planned Parenthood, but gave Ten years ago the entire historical RETURN ~ mentsand moved closer. Theyproba­ stated that according to his log re­ $10,000 to the Fish and Game Oub archives was handed to Joyce Geeze, ' / bly were demons, but how could I be sponse was two minutes. ''The secu­ for the first time. A representative of the duly elected historian, in a brown continued from page 7 sure? And if I'm not sure, how can I rity guard was in the basement of Fish and Game said, "The fact is that paper bag. Since then, she has organ­ able to meet him fact to face. I won­ even THINK about fighting back? Stone Row when thealarm went off." wedomorethanfishandgamepropa­ ized a 40 cubic foot office of historical dered if my theories about him would -TO BE CONTINUED- Boyce advised students not to ig­ gation. We reach literally hundreds files and comprehensive history be correct. Author's note: Back in PART THE nore the alarms. "When an alarm of children in the county every workshops for teachers and school­ W alk.ing up to the door, I found it FIRST, it was stated that I took the !­ goes off don't consider it to be a false year.. .l'd rather have those children children. blocked. It was myfriend from Flor­ Ching along with me on my trip. This is alarm. It is better to be upset than out.!lUnting and fishing than stand­ ida. Looking behind me, I sawOMAR a{ltlt out lie planted by the ANTI-SPAN­ dead." ing on the comer hustling drugs." P{ease recyc{c tfiis paper. come up. He said, "We have erected DEX. I believe only in the ONE TRUE Demiryontar said that the alarm The Literacy Volunteers of Dutch­ a shield that will prevent you from GOD and need no fortune telling bric-a­ went off twice more the day follow­ ess County was cut from $11,400 to Or bl? dimuud· to fie([ for eternity. contacting your Goldfish." I looked brac. ing the fire.

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'Rte.9 North, One mile North of Marist on the right Back talk continued from page 6 C[assifieds & Personafs ' movie theater on campus. I also plan to buy Leon Botstein a new wardrobe 3 room apartment. Share bath & ATTENTION ALL: During the that killer look lies a sweet hearted 'The pit is large and quite deep and toupee. kitchen. $400 a month in German­ vacation is a marvelous time to be­ little witch. Love, C.C. I always fall in." , JK: If Rajan Q. Bery were to be town. Available immeadiately to come happily involved in a business :reincarnated as a tree, what type of female. (518) 537-4981. that generates massive, passive. in~ C. Ndy: She, la, la, la, la, la, my oh, Civilization tree would he come back as? come. Take charge of your future my! (Do the flamingo!) C.C. Can not be found in deserts, RB: You know, I was watching a Housemate Wanted: Starting with fun and challenge. Contact Box But vultures abound. Viking game last year, and that guy Dec. or Jan. 1. Share lovely 2 bdrm 615 or cal1758-1151. S.P.S.-Sotellmewhichoneofyou 'old Will', who sits in the coffee shop apartment with me and 2 cats in is the lush? Billy, perhaps? J & M Universal truths, writing his memoirs, came up to me Rhinecliff. Female, non-smoker An on-campus, off~mpus, two­ But one is most important. and starting talking about trees, you preferred. $300/mo. includes utili­ person apartment for rent. $240 a Bart-Bimbos are not smart enough Dave will not be mocked. know, how trees could communicate ties. Call Cindy, x417 or 876-5738. month. No utilities. Please contact to be bitches! better than human beings·. So I asked Joanna or Andrea at 758:-1067 ToZ'ZYZX.: Yes, thoseflyerssaid · him, "does that mean that a Poplar in Do your Christmas shopping in Robin-What's up with Cappuch­ ''benefit for the Poughkeepsie 21 ," New Jersey can talk with a Bamboo the silence of Tivoli. Artist's second FOR SALE: IBM PS/2 model 30, ino? Forget the romance and go for but they also said "and the Coali­ , plant in Otina?" Then there was annual holiday co-op. Creative w/color monitor. In perfect condi­ the d.d.d. tion for Choice." This is because touchdown and I couldn't hear his gifts; calm and fun shopping just tion. $900 or best offer. Contact the benefit in question was held reply. up the street from Santa Fe at 62 Amy at 758-2095. Wai-l have to go to my two-min­ before we went to trial, and we JK: Let's play a game. Word Asso­ Broadway. Open 1-8 Fri Sat Sun til ute work-study job. Mona. didn't know if we would be fioned. ciation: I'll mention a word or phrase Xmas. Every day Dec 17-24. Bring My dearest quasar: you shine In case we weren't, we wrote "and and you give me the first thing that family and friends. Snacks and brighter than a million suns. I want Micheal S.-Sorry about the other the Coalition for Choice" on the comes to mind. OK, Beth Frumkin .... wassail available. to tattoo a peacock eye feather on night. I'm still loving you babes! flyers, so we wouldn't be subject to RB: ... Kill. your perfect calf. You'll never precisely the kind of ignorant accu­ JK: Student relationships ... Query: Looking for professor to knowhow I figured out you were Mona-1 know someone who rules sation you're making. -No. 15 RB: ... Mommy. teach a tutorial in Yiddish. Contact born on Sunday. I love you. Tues­ theworldof"__ ". Whydopeople JK: George Bush ... Joshua Ephriam Israel Abrams, day's Child think I don't like them? If they asked No, Emily, you are most emphati­ RB: .. Sex. campus mail. mewhatmytruefeelings weretowrds cally NOT much of a loser. But JK: Rajan Q. Bery... To My Ace B.C.- You'll always be them l will tell them, along with a your car really sucks. RB: ... Que? Hunting season has opened. Be my first Roomie, and I'll always love scroll of reasons why. And I'm not JK: Is there anyone special in your warned that if you go walking in you-keep the car green-the eyes ALONE! I willli.ketothankthepeople Oh, look, guys! COOKIES!!!!! life right now? the woods, be sure to wear distinc­ open and the furry things out of your who were really bitchy when it came RB: If I was a virgin I'd be on the tive clothing. A handy message pocket. to our plans, even though they were SWFNPM looking for that spe­ verge of aversion of a version of a from Bard Security. not there when needed. Narda. cial someone with whom to share vision ... no, seriously, I'm in the Bubby, I love you, see you soon in her leisure seconds. No time wast­ middle of a long--distance relation­ CLASSICVWBUS. Red&white. the real world. Aida & Irene-When you doing ers, please. Apply in person to the ship that spans 10,000 miles. I enjoy Excellent interiorI exterior & un­ what you do best don't forget to "get blond 'n blue zombie who is NOT , being myself though, but I am as free der engine flap. Complete mainti­ H.E.O.P. '90, As much as I wanted that sucker straight"! the editor-in-chief. : as a bird. nance records. Sleep in it, ride it to go home, you guys made staying JK:TheU.N.hasOK'daJanuary15 across the country, or keep it as a worthwhile (and Lots-o-fun) Cood Patricia-Please stop by! your Look, Betsy, across the table. It's ultimatum initiated by the Bush conversation piece. Priced to sell. Luck! Vashine roommate. joanna! administration, do you think we will Many extras. (914) 876-6116. go to war with Iraq? Alta. . .(smile) at some point or P.N.-How are things at the other To my favorite Iguana/Wolver­ RB: I don't know .. .I think there are JAKE'S BIKESHOP-Repairs, another they're all illiterate-1 love end of the world? -ddd ine: You totally, completely, and points for and against, but war is so parts, tuneups, etc. Certified pr~ you-The Vague Vagina utterly rock!!! I love you lots, and pathetic I'd rather not think about it. fessional mechanic. Call now-Rea­ Happy Birthday Irene! So what it's I'll let you type now. JK: What ~.5 your opinion on the sonable rates. 757-5006. Desi: Do you really wonder why a week late! -Jessie -TheFNPM possible installation of a new hydrau~ you don't have any real friends? lie lift at SMOG (Student Mechanics' Dixieland band looking for pian­ Betrayed. I will like to thank Cindy, Celeste, Amy R. Thanks for coming to Open Garage)? ist and a trombone player. Contact Mona, Patricia, Monice, and my rescue. 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AGB. accusing everyone of being an A.A. only hope is to give me SimEarth or Asians in the way that they express­ gigs, Bard gigs, and/or fun. Con­ or druging, maybe if you weren't so I'll kill you even more dead you "I really dig you"? tact Pola Chapelle. 876-6116 d.d.d.: Excuse me! I happen to be nosy and gossipier people will think pulchritude! Mark DDT. RB: I cannot answer that question a shy person, and not everybody is as of you differently. Jessie because I'm still waiting for someone If anyone lost a ring on Parent's liberal as you! Besides, I'll be back Hi, Jeremy Soule! Thinking of to say ·that to me in any language. Day, please contact Assistant Dean next semnester. Love, C.C. P.S.-1 To Nancy "I want to be the Georgia you at an insanely late hour and JK:Thanks. of Students, Beth Frumkin, 758- saw him today! O'Keefe of vegetables" Urban: sad­ psyched to dust off the 'bone and RS: No sweat. 7456. dened to see you leaving. (An Ad­ play next year ... Billy Van-When do you plan to mirer) Death row prisoner, caucasian join A.A.? Ah, love those in-jokes for one!! male, age 44, desires correspon­ Kurt-1 speak for all; we will miss JUST SAY dence with either male or female Ohl Bart ... Bart ...! you. Mark. Dookie Bean! college students. Wants to form a Oops! I'm so sorry. That's Duki. NO! friendly relationship and more or Cindy-Sorry about the wake up Milo Bloom: Are we just friends or less exchange past experiences and call. Mona & Jesse. are we renting to own? -Confused Honey ideas. Will answer all letters and Bunny de Kline exchange pictures. Prison rules Where's Colossus? -M.D. My dog has no nose Schnookums require your full name and return Oh my God! How does he smell? Pie cafe/convenience store address on the outside of the enve­ M.A.: Can't touch this! C.C. He smells Plum Awful Yum. opening F~bruary 1, 1991 lope. Jim Jeffers, Box B-38604, in the student center Florence, AZ, 85232 C.C. 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Editor-in-Chief Stop the pizza pirates Kristan Hutchison Managing Editor by Kristan Hutchison Jason Van Driesche

News Editor There is no free lunch, and there is certainly no free pizza. The people at Emily Horowitz Bard who are stealing pizzas and insulation bags from Broadway delivery Features Editor vehicles are putting it on everyone else's tab. Eventually Broad way, which Tom Hickerson delivers at no charge later than anyone else and always accepts checks, will Arts Editor have to cut back its services, raise its prices, or both. Greg Donovan Sports Editor We pay for their slices with more than money. Any good name Bard had Jody Apap established in the community, any scrap of respectability, good will, and Photo Editor trust, will be smeared with sauce and blackened to a crisp. It takes much Fred Baker lon~er to earn back trust than it does to pay for a pizza. These theives are picking our pockets. Stealing pizzas is not only immature, Staff Writers immoral, and illegal, it is inconsiderate and shortsighted. Andrea Stein Greg Ciaccio Tatiana Prowell Sarah Gaughran Angela Alexander Jon Kushner Tanya Panin Lynda Fong Photgraphers Katrina Koenigs

Production Manager Keightie Sherrod Assistant Production Manager Mark Delsing Senior Copy Editor Anna Lukash-Harrison Copy Editors Olivier Compel Anne Marie Coletta Senior Typist Andrea J. Stein Technical Consultant/ Computer Graphics Michael Conelly Business Manager Usa Folb Advertising Manager Karyn Klouman

Circulation Managers Amy Sechrist Ina Chaudhury Let's get our Official Cute Person Jeung-Hee Khang priorities straight The Bard Observer is published by Kristan Hutchison every Friday while class is in session. Editorial policy is determined "I'd rather be fishing" is the message sent by the Dutchess County legis Ia· by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation ture with the proposed budget for fiscal year 1991. They have decided that with the editorial board. Any stocking ponds for fishermen is worth $10,000 more than providing repro­ opinions which appear unsigned are ductive health care for women. They have decided it is worth $10,000 more those of the editorial board and not than educating people about birth control and how to protect against AIDS necessarily of the Observer staff. and other SfD' s. Letters to the Editor must not "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," they say, as they defund the eceed 300 words and must be signed Literacy Volunteer program and the Youth Board. Just keep the mutts in line legibly. All articles, cartoons, and with three new probation officers, at a cost of $90,570. photographs that are submitted by "Bury old times with the old timers," quips the budgetary board, as it cuts deadline will be considered for to the quick the History Department. The educational efforts and archival publication. Turn all material in at work of the History Department over the past ten years are worth a measly the £ron t desk of the library by noon $500, says the budget. Friday a week before the publication Sounds to me like the people who designed the board need the dedicated date. The Editor reserves the right to county historian, the literacy tutor, or the sex educator to come teach them a editallarticles(exceptthoseintended lesson in planning, priorities, and doing a job right. In the end, abandoning for the Another View page) for style educational and preventive programs, as they are doing, will cost the county and length. a great deal more in lost productivity and money poured into a preventable Classifieds: Free for Bardians, problem. This does not even take into account the thousands of dollars they $5 for all others. Personals are free. are losing in grants for the History Department. Display ads: $5 for local, $10 for Certainly the economic outlook for our country is grim, but in adding the national. expenditures of the county budget and comparing it to the revenues, I actually find an extra $1,279,594 that the county is just sitting on. Bard College Then there are all the uncollected tax revenues the county could hunt down Annandale, NY 12504 and use. Better to hunt down the rich and make them pay their share, than to (914) 758-0772 just go hunting in county stocked forests, while life hunts down the poor, the uneducated, and the disadvantaged. Gender specificity a town. Suddenly it was given to a portant (politically) than these two. previous owner who demanded such It's ironical when one considers that distraction a great rent that it had to be liqui­ they used to be close friends, but it's To the Editor: dated.. It was real dramatic. But it's a politics. Everything is possible. There have recently been a series of partofthenewpolicyand new order. There's a terrible mess. The move­ letters herein the Observer, mine being I'm in a good position because I'm an ment "Solidarnosc" lost its popu ~ ar­ one of them, all dealing with the optimist, but really fewer and fewer ity at;td respect. More and morepecpl~ subject of sexual harassment. So far, people believe that everything will say that it will do the same as :h~ these letters have discussed only the end well. PZPR (Working Party- which consti­ topic of gender specificity. The last I think that many people dealing tuted our previous state). M ~ ny two letters to appear concerning with politics want to change Poland people who want revenge, ver~e­ sexual harassment asserted the opin­ but they do it as if from the end. It ance hide under they label of Solidar­ ion that, for one reason or another, looks that the most important thing is-.· ity. This vengeance isn't execu-:e;I discussion of harassment should be · to put the past into order. We have radically but there's something in th? limited to, and directed towards, only talked about Hitler enough and now air. men. One letter stated that to include let's do the same with Stalin and Good Lord, I'm almost crazy at women into the discussion of harass­ Russia. Instead of peace and under­ writing this letter. What am I to ¥.;ite ment was to offer a "dangerous dis­ standing we have an atmosphere of to you about Poland? For me, it's :ust traction from the actual problem," grief and aversion to the Soviet Un- life. I'm at the advantage. I st~dy while the other letter asserted that . ion. Besides, there is a strong anti­ English Philosophy which means that men bear the greater responsibility semitic attitude. It's terrible, it's para­ I won't have problems with emp!oy­ to end the problem for, "the vast noic, it's wretched. It looks as if the ment. Even now I can earn my liv-:ng majority of sexual harassment is com­ Polish couldn't live in peace, as if easily. Everybody wants to lorn mitted by mef!. against women." they needed an enemy or maybe we foreign languages; English, Gerrr...an. The very heart of the problem is are only???. Look what's going on at Russian ceased to be a com pulwry being overlooked. The very reasons the west border. We are afraid of and now these two languages toot its people harass are not being sought Germany, but it's not only so. A lot of place (It's a disaster for people on­ out. There has not yet been a serious people, of Polish people, want to nected with Russian, teachers and discussion concerning the nature of prove their German origin so that students) so I'm in a privileged posi­ sexual harassment. That has not been they could go to Germany and more tion. But every day people lose their discussed. and more people look forward to work and their standard of lh :ng The nature of sexual harassment is attaching pre-war German territories drops significantly. It seems that this not addressed by asserting one ex­ to Germany. But it isn't yet so bad, I situation won't end quickly so n:ore pression of it. The nature of sexual think. and more people are disappoir:.~ed harassment is not gender specific. quixotic adherence to standards of interesting and useful. For example, Everything changes: way of think­ and frightened with the policy of the The discussion needs to move from journalistic "objectivity'' which have recently I used [one of] your articles ing and acting, everything. Shop new state. Walesa seems to be a str Jng merely viewing the end result to why little meaning on a 1,000-person in my speech during our ''English assistants do not treat you as an in­ figure, somebody who have a r.ew the acts take place. No one needs to campus, and its outright lack of con­ Spoken" class. truder, but they are extremely nice program. Many of these poor un..;m- be told that men harass women, for cern for the needs, wants, and tastes Now, a vecy difficult task for me. I and even very tiring with their readi­ ployed people count on him. this is well known. This assertion of the Bard reading public (witness, want to write you something about ness and willingness to sell you any­ Beata Baczyniska 10/12/90 accomplishes nothing. We need to for instance, the review of Less Than Poland. I haven't the slightest idea thing. Previously (just a year or so make an effort to find out why har­ Zero a full four years after its publica­ what you read and hear about my ago) I could get into a shop and watch Press must assment takes place. tion, or a page devoted to the busi­ country in the U.S.A. The truth is that "safely'. Now shop-assistants are Jeremy R. Miller nesses of Woodstock, a town inacces­ there's a ~errible paranoic mess both really making nuisances of them­ remain free sible to the two-thirds of us who don't in politics and on the streets. I'll start . selves. We Will have to get used to Dear Editor, Observer lacks more own cars and already well-known to from the second. There is plenty of that. Thisletterhasasitsorigin,ourc:m­ than grammar those who do). expensive western products: food Now, as you probably know, the ve~sationSaturdaynight,17Novmt­ The Observer has progressed in (juices, chocolates, citruses, hard ~nd presidentia~election is the main topic ber, in which you informed me·of To the Editor: ,... : quality and reliability over the last software), clothes, shoes. Many Pol­ of the day. Walesa is surely a candi­ your worries and concerns lest the In your coverage of the Forum'~ three years. It is still not a high..qual­ ish go abroad, buy things and then date number one. He's very active. power clique which has dominated discussion about the Observer ('~o­ ity publication, however, and is by sell them in Poland. You can see He goes here and there, gives inter­ the Forum, place The Bard Obse:ver rum Debates Role and Rights of Ob­ no means an indispensable part of hundred of people starting on the views, makes meeting with people under their heel. A human experi­ server,'' Nov. 23, 1990), your reporter campus life. If the newspaper is to streets with their mini shops. Para­ all over the country, boasts of his new ence, I think shared by all, is to lay suggests that my chi~f aim during continue to be funded by the student doxically, you doh't even have to go programs (nobody knows anything awake composing some l~er orre­ that discussion was to criticize the convocation fund, it must continue into shops to buy things. You simply about what these are), ridicules his .sponse. Such was my situation S:.m- ufew'' typographical errors that oc­ to improve as well. If the Observer go down a street, look right and left opponents, says clever things--a lot day morning between 5:00a.m. -'nd cur in each issue. Since such a misun­ staff persists in spending its money and buy. The choice and number of of rubbish. I, personally, don't like 6:30a.m. Oh! lt was such a marvel.Jus derstanding could easily pave arisen on unnecessary purchases and its goods can be really shocking. But, as him. Of course ies not only me. He and compelling response. If on:Y I from my comments · during last time defending them while still pub­ you know, it's no longer a shock but really lost his good value. Now he's a can·recall and capture that disscta­ Monday's discussion, I feel obliged lishjng a third-rate newspaper, then I just a normal ev~ryday situaqon. If very, very controversial person. tion. Of course the other side of this· to clarify my statements and my in- · suspect that neither continued im­ anybody, let's say a y~r ago, told us I have seen Tadeusz Mazowiecki. common human experience is that· tentions. provement nor continued fundi~g is about it I wouldn't believe, .nobody He came to Pozusei to meet with you nev~r can capture your own t-ril­ Ftrst of all, I understand that copy part of the paper's future. would. And imagining that many people before the presidential elec­ liant words from the hours of d.:trk­ editing is a difficUlt job and that "five ,Sincerely, shops (almost all which belonged to tion. I really like him, although I don't ness~ errors in a twenty thousand word the state) cease to exist and instead think he would make a good presi­ • have expressed my astonishrr,ent: · issue" is not a bad figure. What con­ Letter from Poland: there are empty places and people dent. He is simply too tired. He looked . that educated and idealistic students cerns me more than the small num­ It's just life. selling on streets. Why is it so! First of to me as somebody ill, old and really would trammel a. sacred institut::on, ber of errors in each issue is the over­ all many shops bankrupt. Secondly, tired. Maybe he won't be president a free press. Perhaps it would be more all lack of professionalism shown by Beata Baczyniska is a third year stu­ many places go back to their previ­ but asa politician he did a lot. First of correct to' marvel at my own nah-cl:e. the Observer and its staff.lnadequate dent of American English at Poznan ous owners so the shops have to be all he managed to make Polish soci­ History abounds with examples proofreading and a poor command University in Poland. She receives a wound up. (During the Stalin period ety trust the new state. People tend to where those in positions of p\l!}lic of English constitute just one of the subscription to the Observer and from the old Polish aristocracy lost their speak about him with respect, while authority have wished to contr~ or many ways in which the Observer time to time she writes of the situation properties). Eventually, rent for a Lech Walesa lost his popularity and curtail the press. Where they 1:-..ave falls short. Other ways include the and changing life in her homeland.ln the place got so high that some small trust even from people who were had the power they have frequ~1tly Observer's refusal to deal sensitively following letter she writes of the elections shops can't afford to pay them. Such fascinated by him (I wasn't). He be­ acted on this impulse. These wr:.-re/ and intelligently with pressing cam­ for president, which took place last week. dramatic situation was with our camea verycontroversialfigure. He'll are the acts of educated men .and pus issues, its frequent use of irrele­ -Editor Zywiec book store. For us it was probably win, but a lot of people are women. History also shows that ideal­ vant material to fill up space (e.g. the something like a church, something against him. Apart from these two_. istic men and women, whether bey personals, or ''Kline chef 'Slingshot­ Thank you very much for the Bard indispensable, a tradition. It was in a Mazowiecki and Walesa, there are 13 be rulers or revolutionaries, t..ave ling' to S·{.\<:c~," Nov. 23, 1990), its Observers. 1 find them really very perfect place, in the middle of the candidates. They are much less im- often felt that their noble cause jt,;sti- fled the ignoble act of crushing, lim­ . to alumni wi.th The Bard Observer. The mention is that this "re-write" is ac­ iting, or manipulating tlie press. altimni can first bring pressure to tuaiiy just an attempt to update the - Keep up the good -work I conclude that the ultimate proteC­ bear on the college administration constitution to include all -amend­ tor of a free press is a free people. It is (presumable to $peak out in favor of ments passed (by a 2/3 vote!) in the To the Editors: not clear to me that the people (popu­ a free press). I also suspect that there last two years, and that no new mate­ Every time I read the Observer I to see you become discouraged, for lous) must be free or merely strive/ may be alumni who would help rial will be included in the updated intend to write you a brief fan note, you truly are doing an excellent job. yearn to be free. I know that you are support an alternative 'free' press. constitution. He also neglects to saying "keep up the good work." But I know too that it's not always a student of the underground press This support might well include fi­ mention that the authority to update You often seem under assault by crit­ easy to distance yourself from de­ and have some appreciation of how nancial support. My guess is that The the constitution is one of the ics who believe they know your job bate, to not feel at least some of the difficult it is to stamp out all vestiges Bard Observer is working from a capi­ Secretary's constitutionally en joined better than you do. (It is a wonderful criticism personally. So I wanted to of a free press. You also have some talized base on the order of $10,000. duties. He further neglects to men­ feature of Bard, though, isn't it, that write to assure you that there are also appreciation of the power of an That is a large sum of money, but not tion that the authority to conduct this so many care passionately about the readers, probably many of us, who underground press, in the hands of out of range for some Bard alumni, particular update of the constitution issues covered in the paper.) It must admire greatly the way you work to an enslaved people yearning for lib­ either individually, or acting together. was given to the Central Committee at times be discourag~ng to be the discover, articulate, and defend the erty, over time to contribute to the An effective alternative 'free' press by a unanimous vote at a regularly target of so much flack, but you re­ principles by which you report the process of revolution and change. might be established with a more scheduled Forum meeting. Mr. spond {in the paper at least) gra­ news. Protection for The Bard Obseroer is modest capital base. To find such McGrady, incidentally, was not pres­ ciously and professionally to sugges­ Sincerely, to be sought from the greater student supportive alumni may require the ent at that meeting. tions and criticism. I would not like Paul Connolly population of Bard. Your adversary guidance of a supportive dean or a The last, and most absurd of Mr. is not really the power clique, which mailing. It could be that a face-to-face McGrady'sstatementsconceming the Another I dies slowly tiring. Though Sapp cut the play now dominates the Student Forum, meeting with some alumni leaders current state of student government back from three hours to a little continued from page 9 but the student apathy which makes could prove very productive. is the suggestion that some Central over two, a few audience members it possible for them to dominate. . I have referred to any actions by Committee cabal is plotting to make Sapp as both an actor and choreog­ complained that it was too long. Somehow the greater student popu­ the Student Forum to suppress or all the editors of campus publica­ rapher. "He knows what he wants Sapp and most of the actors were lation must be made aware of the control The Bard Observer as 'tyranny.' tions student government officials. and he waits until he gets it ... satisfied with the production and trammeling of their privileges and This is a case o~ 'by their works you He includes de rigueur reference to Somehow, through magic, he the improvements they made in the liberty {i.e. the suppression of a free shall know them.' Suppression ofthe Orwell and the "horrific Ministry of makes a play." three days of performances. and independent press). If the stu­ free press is one of the defining acts Publications" which he seems to be­ This allows individual actors to Sappsayshedidn'twritetheplay dent population is unwilling to stand for tyrants. lieve is the future for our student develop characters with which they for the audience to enjoy, but to up on behalf of a free press, then one Courage! paranoia. No-one has ever discussed identify and can give all the reality make them moreaware.He wanted must educate the populous and await Bruce Hutchison such a plan in any Forum meeting, or of their own experience. It also led them to "take it for the things that a more enlightened age. As an aside, An open letter to Ian in any Observer, or anywhere else to several shining performances they saw or the things that they I would observe that the population that I know of. To imply that the which pulled no emotional felt .. .it wasn't meant for people to changes much more rapidly on a McGrady current Central Committee is trying punches. In particular, the dance like, it was meant for them to think." college campus than in the 'real' I am writing in response to Ian to control free speech on cam pus is so pieces by Colter were physical so­ world; changing as it does evezy four McGrady's column in last week's Ob­ groundless an accusation that it liloquies which brought the audi­ Just think about what the years. Nonetheless, if the revolt server ("An open letter to clubbers approaches libel: Mr. McGrady owes ence in sharp contact with the hell is going on around against this tyranny is not swift and and dubheads/' Nov. 23, 1990). In both the members of the Central wordless pain of dying, and the effective, you may not be at Bard by this column, Mr. McGrady makes a Committee and the readers of the tense sensuality of living. Keep an you. I don't want anyone eye on Colter; he is a true dancer, the time the students revolt. welcome plea for attendance at the Observer an apology. I to feel safe [from AIDS]. I have stated that support for your Forum and against the characteristic Re-readingMr.McGrady'scolumn moving his body with incongruous -SteveSapp cause is to be sought among the apathyofBard students toward their and thinking of his own recent ap­ contortion and grace. Colter also greater student body. You have ex­ own student government. For this he pearances in the Forum, it occurs to choreographed the dance/per­ plained that the faculty and admini­ should be applauded. me that voting blocs and updating formance art piece, Plinth, which One woman liked "Another I dies .stration are either indifferent or out­ Less laudable, however, are the the constitution and schemes to con­ preceded the play. Choreographed , slowly" enough to invite Sapp to right hostile to journalism. You have reasons Mr. McGrady gives for atten­ trol artistic expression are probably from the perspective of his charac­ produce the play, along with his stated that, academically, they regard dance: stripped of their allusions to not his chief concern: note that he ter, Kane Jevi, the dance expresses first play "Purgatory'', in Manhat- journalism as a lower form. The Rousseau they are predominantly calls not for the abolition of such the issues, sexual and emotional, , tan. Meanwhile, Sapp has already administration, I suspect, regards half-truth, innuendo, and outright blocs, but for the introduction of new with which Jevi was concerned in begun a new script under the work­ journalism, and more specifically The error. His first assertion, for instance, ones. It seems, rather, that Mr. his life. The dance creatively used ing title "His Eulogy," which he Bard Observer, as a nuisance (at best). that a voting bloc controls the Forum, McGrady is less upset about these the entire foyer, with dancers even describes as more of a character This latter reaction is not unlike the is nonsense.lf one were to review the chimerical threats to democracy than swinging from the rafters. study than his past plays. It maybe regard of the power elite and the records of recent votes taken in the he is about the fact that the Forum is Covering such vast territory in a ready next semester, and Sapp is Student Forum. Those in power fre­ Forum, it would become apparent more democratic than he might wish. single play, without an intermis­ also co-directing Anthony quently do not appreciate the scru­ that no such bloc exists: some votes As the frequent spokesman for un­ sion, has the danger of becoming Demore's play. tiny of a free press, though they may are split almost evenly, others are popular opinions in the Forum, Mr. yearn for the perceived advantage unanimous; some candidates run McGrady often finds that his views (to them) of a controlled press. None­ uncontested, others have many op­ have little support. Such a circum­ theless, I perceive that you have at ponents. Furthermore, those who stance is, of course, a useful and So long, and don't least one friend on the faculty and I attend forum meetings come from all necessary part of any democracy. But believe that one of the deans wrote a four divisions, all four class levels, Mr. McGrady should not let himself letter to the editor which was favor­ and most clubs. And while Forum believe that his lack of support arises forget to write!!! able to The Bard Observer. If even meetings are certainly characterized from any misrepresentation of the one spokesman from the faculty and by informality and camaraderie, this general will when it arises instead The Bard Observer will continue to accept one from the administration were to' is probably due more to their sparse from the very expression of the gen­ speak out on behalf of a free press, I attendance and the generally infor­ eral will. letters to the editor, articles, graphics, believe the remainderof the faculty mal social atmosphere at Bard than Like Ian McGrady, I would like to cartoons, personal, and any other and administration would at least to the existence of any ''bloc" to which urge all Bard students to attend· the lend their support in the form of si­ most attendees belong. Would any Forum. As he rightly points out, at­ submissions throughout the winter vacation. lence. After all_ I believe that at some bloc have elected personalities as tendance is the only way to insure They will be printed in the first issue of next" level the faculty and administration disparate as David Miller and Tho­ that our democracy works and that do recognize the sacred value of a mas Chase to the Planning Commit­ all students have a voice in determin­ semester, to come out on Friday, February 1. free press, and they do not truly wish tee? Would any bloc have been able ing the policies and expenditures of Send submissions to: to be caught acting against freedom to sustain a fierce two hour debate _ Student Government. I assure you of the press. over the Obseroer? Probably n-ot. that if you do attend the Foruin~ you The Bard Observer There is another source of support Mr. McGrady goes to to state that will find a democratic body that~ for which may prove important. The "The Central Committee is currently all its inefficiencies, carries forth the Box 759. alumni could prove to be a powerful re-writing our constitution." Techni­ spirit of Rousseau far more than it force on your behalf. I observe that cally speaking, I guess this is correct, does the shadow of Big Brother. Annandale, NY 12504 you have made an effort to reach out but what Mr. McGrady neglects to Dave Rolf BARD COLLEGE DECEMBER 8 TO 1 4 ' 1 9 9 0 WE .E K L Y }~ll}lllllf& COIIIIUNITY INFORMATION -~-~~~[jiii~~lt;;,; N E w s L E T T E R B r o u g h t t 0 y 0 u B y T h e D e a n 0 f Students Lecture at Levy: artists have utilized the medium on film. These Da Capo Chamber Players: The Costs of Inflation: Higher Than We Think? is a artists are: John Baldessari, Robert Morris, Bruce ·The Da Capo Chamber Players in concert. The lecture that will be given by Peter Howitt. Dr. Howitt Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Program for the evening will feature Ameki ~Professor of Economics at the University of West­ Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, and William Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, in Andrew Porter's em Ontario, Canada. His research interests focus on Wiley. The film festival is free to Bard students and English translation, with guest artist Lucy Shelton, monetary and financial theory. He is the author of staff. Pre-registration is requested. This festival is in soprano. The program will also include works ty The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays as well conjunction with the exhibit: The Transparent Mozart, Carter, and Ravel. December 10 at 8:00PM a:p numerous journal articles, including Gradual Thread: Asian Philosophy in Recent American Art, in the Olin Auditorium. Reforms of Capital Income Taxation and Fiscal at the Blum until February 14, 1990. f?eficits, International Trade and Welfare. The lee- On December 12, the Da Capo Chamber Players W.ll . ti.ue will take place on Thursday, December 6 at 8:00 The Antigone Legend: perform Bard student works at 7:00PM in Bard Ha!l. ~Min the Conference Room of Blithewood. Performances of The Antigone Legend will take All are welcome to attend. place on December 8, 9, 10 and 11 at 8:00PM and De­ Flute and Harpsichord Recital: cember 9 at 3:00 PM at the A very Arts Center on Bl­ On December 7, Patrica Spencer (flute) and Freder­ ithewood Road. All are welcome to attend. Weekend Movies ick Hammond (harpsichord) will perform Obbli­ gato (Being Obliged to Fly) which will include Christmas Candlelight Service: Showings are at 7:00PM and 9:00PM in the Stude,;.1.t works by J. S. Bach, Teleman, Ingolf Dahl, Murray The third annual Christmas Candlelight Service Center. The 7:00 PM showing is always non­ Schaffer and Couperin. 8:00 PM in the Olin Audito­ will take place Sunday, December 9, at 6:00PM in smoking. rium. the Chapel. There will be scripture readings, carols, and pieces by J. S. Bach, Couperin, Preatorius and This Weekend: Asian Influence on American Art Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (Baroque Mexican com­ Friday, December 7: Sleeper, Woody Allen Festival: poser). Featuring the Candlelight Choir, Flute Choir, Sunday, December 9: Juliet of Spirits Flugelhomist Jeremy Soule, and soloists Kelly Eld­ This is a day-long festival,December 8, from 10:30 ridge and Jennifer Diamond. Tree trimmings will AM to 6:00PM, exploring the way eight prominent follow the service. Calendar of Events Saturday 8 Sunday9 Monday tO Tuesdayll Wednesday 12 Thursday 13 Friday 14

3:00PM 3:00PM 6:00PM 5:00PM 6:30PM 4:25 PM, 7:25 PM, & 8:40 10:30 AM Antigone Legend U.N.Gub Anmesty International Spanish Table BBLAGA Meeting PM Fil.J:n Festival A very Arts Center Kline Committee Room Olin Kline Commons Albee Social Room Bard vans to Rhinecliff train Bard Hall station 6:00PM 6:00PM 6:30PM 7:00PM 7-10 PM Morning Ecumenical Worship Environmental Qub Debate Oub Al-Anon Writing Tutors 6:30PM Bard van shuttle runs to Service: Christmas Committee Room Kline Commons Aspinwall 302 Albee Annex 103 Bard van to Poughkeepsie Rhinecliff, Red Hook, &: Candlelight Service Kline Commons train station Rhinebeck Chapel 7:00PM 7:00PM 7:30PM 6:00PM Christian Meeting Christian Meeting Narcotics Anonymous 5:45- 10:30 PM 7:00PM French Table Bard Otapel Basement Bard Chapel Basement Aspinwall302 Trip to Hudson Valley Alcoholics Anonymous Committee Room ~~ Kingston Aspinwall 302 Kline Commons 7-10 PM 7:00PM Writing Tutors Flute Choir 7:30PM 7-lOPM 6:30PM Albee Annex 103 Bard Chapel Yale Russian Cll.orus Writing Tutors Vegetarian Society Olin Auditorium Albee Annex 103 Committee Room 8:00PM 7-10 PM Kline Commons Listening to Jazz Writing Tutors 8:00PM 7:19, 8:20, & 9:30 PM Bring Your Records Albee Annex 10 Antigone Legend Van meets trains at 7:00PM Bard Hall Avery Arts Center Rhinecliff station Women's Center 7:00PM Meeting 8:00PM Bard Student Work 7:00 & 9:00 PM Student Center Antigone Legend byDa Capo Movies Avery Arts Center Bard Hall Student Center 7-lOPM (See Above) Writing Tutors Albee Annex 103 8:00PM 7:43PM Antigone Legend Van meets train at 8:00PM: Avery Arts Center Poughkeepsie station Da Capo Concert Olin Auditorium 8:00PM Antigone Legend Avery Arts Center