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Volume 6, Number 10 College At Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York September 4, 1985-September 17, 1985 Co-Op Program Gets New USG V.P. Working With Federal Grant Leaves CLC By Robert Dunne

By Tom Wrobleski United Student Government Academic Vice President Vielka Holness has transferred from CLC to New York University, leaving her position The Lincoln Center Co-Op Program has re- vacant. No decision has been made yet as to how ceived a $54,000 grant from the Federal govern- a replacement will be chosen, said USG President ment, according to Assistant Dean Ully H'rsch. Robert Picistrelli last week. The grant will be used for administrative pur- o "We (members of USG) are going to discuss poses, to hire a Co-Op coordinator and part-time what to do and decide what will be the best way help, and to "market the program to both employ- to put someone in the position," Picistrelli said. ers and students," Hirsch said. There is also match- ing University money involved, so that during each "The fairest way is to have it open to anyone in- year of the five-year grant, the University matching _ terested," he added. But as to how the replacement part will increase, while the Federal money de-' will be chosen, Picistrelli said he was unsure, un- creases. "So gradually, the University is going to til the USG holds its first meeting sometime this take over the cost," said Hirsch. "The idea of the month. "It might be a presidential appointment grant is to give the University money to get the pro- with senate approval, or an election," he said. gram started," she added. When asked if he thought Holness had planned Co-Op is a program whereby CLC students are to transfer from CLC before the CLC elections taken in by employers to work in the student's field were1 heldJasfApril, Picistrelli said, "That's a very of interest. Students caiheither alternate between Cloudy situation. I realized she was interested in going to school full-time and then working full- ULLY HIRSCH putting in an application, but I didn't know she ac- time, or working part-time while still going to cepted until the summer." school. "It differs from internships in terms that such as history, or philosophy." A student wishing to enter the Program must be the students get paid," said Hirsch. Holness could not be reached for comment, so "The point of Co-Op," she went on, "is to give of upper-level sophomore status or higher, and it is not known when she applied for her transfer, Pliolo hy /triH students a chance to test career choices and get an must be maintaining at least a B-minus academic average. And, of course, there must be a placement nor when she chose to act on NYU's acceptance. experience in the field that they may think of go- VICKY HOLNESS available to fit the student's needs. A Co-Op com- "She was forced to do what her academic career ing into. What we are looking for are the kinds of advised her to do," Picistrelli said. "The choice was jobs that tie-in with the student's majors." mittee of ten faculty members representing all ma- jor fields of study, co-chaired by Hirsch and Career hers." for handling a situation when a member leaves After a small-scale pilot program last year, the There are no provisions in the USG constitution office. Federal money will allow the Co-Op Program to Planning and Placement Director Steven Berko- move into full-time operation in 1985 and beyond. witz, works together to place the student. Hirsch, however, did point out one problem that Letters were sent out with this semester's registra- to entry level positions with well-established shops would help with this. she sees in the Co-Op Program. tion material, and when a new program director companies." "I think that an understanding of gradual career is named by the end of this month, those students "One of the problems we found in the pilot pro- development has to be sold to the students. The ad- who expressed an interest will be contacted. gram was that it was difficult to convince students Hirsch said that it was going to take some "re-ed- vantage of Co-Op, from the student's point of view, "It's relatively easy to get positions for business to take entry level positions just to get into the field. ucation" on the part of the students to understand is that it gives them a chance in one, or two, or students, computer science majors, and even It seemed that our students, for instance some of the whole notion of career development. This task three possible placements to prove themselves and media majors," Hirsch went on to say. "It's more the media majors, had sort of unrealistically high would fall into the hands of the new Coordinator, to fall into a career path. I don't think our students difficult to get positions for the liberal arts majors. levels of aspiration, and were not willing to go in- and Hirsch suggested that Career Planning work- realize this." Fordham, Union Reach Peaceful Accord

By Robert Dunne sentative John Dunn negotiated foi"thc clerical employees and re- ported to the elected union leaders of Rose Hill, CLC, and the Law Fordham University and clerical employees of the Office and Pro- School. Dunn declined to comment on the negotiations, but referred fessional Employees International Union, Uocal 153, reached an all questions to Mulligan. agreement in contract negotiations on July 1st, one day after the It didn't come to quite the confrontation that previous contract expired. The two sides reached a compromise on ... .1 thought," Cella said. the issue of the five-day summer work week, and the clerical em- ployees made gains in wages and some benefits. Mulligan said she was pleased with the arrangement for the sum- On the issue of the five-day summer work week. both sides agreed mer work weeks and spring recess. "The free week in March is very that the University will remain open on Fridays starting from good for new employees, who only have two weeks vacation." She commencement in May through the first week in July, and then will added that clericals can still take the beginning summer Fridays off, be closed for the following six Fridays, according to Personnel as vacation days. Director Frank Cella. Besides the work-week issue, the three-year contract contains wage increases of 5, 5'A, and 6 percent. The union had also tried The five-day summer work week became an issue last spring to bargain for better coverage in their health plan, but the current when then-Executive Vice President Dr. Paul Rciss issued a memo- randum stating, "I should emphasize. .. .that the University in any plan remains the same as the previous one, said CLC union shop 1 steward Kathleen Mulligan, a secretary in the Physical Plant office. event will continue to be open five days a week" over the summer. The union made gains in other benefits, however. The five days Reiss said in the memo that the University needed to be open five of spring recess will now be University paid holidays. These days days a week in the summer"... in order to succeed in the increas- were given, said Mulligan, in exchange for the Fridays the Univer- liwut R\ Rtthrrt Ihmm ingly competitive climate of higher education." Reiss cited that "pro- sity will be open in the summer. Martin Luther King Day will also FRANK CELLA grams, conferences, meetings, and camps" could be made available be recognized as a paid holiday, beginning in 1987; and employees over the summer to generate revenue, and added that administra- can now take up to 24 credits per year free-of-chargc, up 6 credits former job scale ranged from I to 5, the latter rank given to secre- tive and academic work would be better performed in a five-day from the former contract. taries who work in a supervisory role or in a high administrative work week. A "shift differential" is now in effect, whereby the University will office. The change is a higher scale ceiling of 6, to be assigned to pay cmpUiyecs working shifts that end at or after 8 p.m. 22 Vi % more qualified secretaries niter II meeting litter this month between the The clericals' argument to that was thai be ug open the extra day per hour. In addition, the University will give a $3 meal balance union shop stewards and Cclla. over the summer would only add three hours to their weekly work to clericals who work in excess of two hours overtime. There was Cclla negotiated for the University and reported to Acting Finan- hours, since over the summer clericals udd tin extra hour to their jilso a change mudc in the job classification, Mulligan said. The cial Vice President Dr. Joseph Cammarosano, and union repre- work schedules each day. page 21 The Observer/September 4, 1985

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featuring free food, beverage, and loads of CLC fun. September 4, 1985/The Observer/ page 3 Helen Lange, Professor MARK TWAIN NEVER Of U.N. Course, Dies KNEW RIOT PEN. By Adriana ^Andrea three weeks. During that time, Adjunct Assistant Professor Michael Geoghigan took over the He wrote beautifully without our Razor Point marker pen ardour'IJetter Ballpoint Pen"... course. When Lange's condition did not improve Assistant Adjunct Professor of Pol ideal Science but Imagine what he might have written with them. after those three weeks, several members of the So- Helen Lapge passed away last Spring after having cial Science Division, including Beck, Travis, As- cancer. Lange coordinated and taught the United sociate Professor of Political Science Ralph Meyer, Nations course at CLC which has been offered for and then assistant Social Science Chairman Clive the past eight years. Daniel took over the course. At that point students Lange was born in Germany in 1913 and emi- were given the option to either drop the course and grated to the U.S. in the 1930s where she eventu- have their money fully refunded or, to stay in the ally became a citizen. She attended the University course and work on their individual projects under of Berlin in the early 1930s but her studies were the guidance of one of the four above-mentioned cut off in 1933 by political circumstances and even- professors. About half the students took the refund, tually Hitler's rise to power which had caused her according to Beck. Lange passed away later in the to emigrate. semester. Lange was an associate member of the U.N. As- The course will be offered again in the Spring sociation and co-founder of that institution's head- under the instruction of Leila Doss, a retired Assis- quarters in New York. "She believed strongly in tant Secretary General of the U.N. Beck describes the U.N.," said Assistant Professor and Chairman Doss as "very experienced" with the U: N. "She is of the Social Science Division, Frederick Travis. a marvelous woman and will be absolutely dy- The U.N. Association was founded in 1945 along namic," said Beck. with the United Nations. "I know that they had a hard time replacing her Lange brought her knowledge of and experience (Lange) since she was especially good with her stu- from the U.N. to CLC when she started teaching dents," said Assistant Professor of Psychology Har- at the College in 1975. She conceived of the course, You may not be o Mark Twoin but You'll wont Pilot's "Better Ballpoint old Takooshian. According to Takooshian, Lange's entitled The World at the United Nations: a Field with a Pilot Razor Point there's no Pen" as well. Its tungsten carbide course was so popular that it always had a waiting telling what you could do. Thoughts ball, held securely within o durable Study. The six-credit course included classwork. list. will flow effortlessly onto the page stainless steel tip, insures a non-skip attendance of briefings at the U.N. and internships. with a thin crisp line. The Razor Point's ink delivery and smooth write-out "She was very knowledgeable of the U.N.,"said According to Assistant Professor of Political Sci- durable plastic point, conveying Multiple carbons? They're o breeze Daniel, "and she exposed herstudents to interesting every word in a smooth, thin because of its uniquely ribbed grip— ence Susan Beck. Lange took ill just before the be- and there's no writer's cramp. U.N. offices. She helped many students to get in- unbroken flow, will express your ginning of the spring semester, but was expected individual . —. r^,,-yi Finally, you'll sights into issues that came before that organiza- to recover and return to teach the U.N. course. personality [ PILOT | [PILOT | experience the tion." Daniel also described Lange as "very friend- However, she"iook a bad turn for the worse," said ly" and "very dedicated to her students." SET* RAZOR POINT* THE BETTER Beck. only 98* marker pen BALLPOINT Once the semester began, Lange was expected Meyer described Lange as a hard worker who to recover and return to teach the U. N. course in was "eager to do new and unique things" and who "conveyed a certain amount of excitement within the Department." A semce of Barnes & Noble Four Profs Granted Tenure

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Of the five faculty members up fortenure last spring, four were granted tenure: Dr. Patricia Clough of the Social Sciences division, Dr. Anne Hoffman of Excel, Bill Conlon of the Arts divi- sion, and Dr. Louise Mirrer-Singer of Humanities. These instructors received letters of their approval in July. According to the faculty handbook, "Academic tenure is a guarantee of continuous appointment of a faculty member until he reaches the age of re- tirement." Tenure is granted only to full-time fac- ulty members who are ranked as Professor, Asso- ciate Professor, or Assistant Professor. According to an excerpt from the faculty hand- book concerning the norms for granting tenure, the "qualifications of the applicant" and "the needs of the University" are what determines the granting of tenure. The "qualifications of the applicant" in- clude "his educational background, his perform- ance as a teacher, his research and publications,

BILL CONLON his contributions to the work of his Department or School, and his University, professional and pub- lic service." The "needs of the University" include those that are "related primarily to the particular fields of spe- cialization needed by the Department or School, the prospective needs of the curriculum or research Get down to business fasten programs, and the faculty needs viewed in context of the present distribution of the faculty by rank, tenure, and fields of specialization. The tenure procedure involves the meeting of all With the BA-35, the tenured faculty members in a Department and/ If there's one thing business calculations, amortizations A powerful combination. or School as a Committee with at least five mem- and balloon payments. Think business. With bers who each vote by secret ballot. students have always needed, "I'm glad that the process is finally over with," this is it: an affordable, busi- The BA-35 means you the BA-35 Student said Associate Professor of Studio Art Bill Con- ness-oriented calculator. spend less time calculating, Business Analyst. Ion, who describes the procedure as "difficult and The Texas Instruments and more time learning. One disruptive." Said Conlon: "It's nice that they BA-35, the Student Business keystroke takes the place thought enough of an artist to grant one tenure." of many. TEXAS Excel Chairperson and Associate Professor of Analyst. Comparative Literature Anne Hoffman said she Its built-in business The calculator is just part INSTRUMENTS felt "terrific" upon receiving her tenure. "It's a con- formulas let you perform of the package. You also get Creating useful products "firmation of your work," she said. "It's wonderful, complicated finance, a book that follows most and services for you. I couldn't be happier," said Assistant Professor of accounting and statistical • business courses: the Business Sociology Patricia Clough, upon receiving her functions - the ones that Analyst Guidebook. Business tenure. professors helped us wrfte it, The only faculty member not to make tenure was usually require a lot of time Assistant Professor of Economics, Dr. Laura No- and a stack of reference books, to help you get the most out wak. Nowak and Assistant Professor of Spanish, like present and future value of calculator and classroom. Louise Mirrer-Singer, were unavailable for ©i?95TI comment. page .4/ The Observer/September 4, .1985 OTHER VIEWS

Strikes 1, 2, And 3 United Airlines New York City hotels How Public Opinion Kd Workers This Summer major-league baseball By Thomas Waite that strike-owners never strike. Workers take the positive ac- tion of the strike, and it is the strike that directly harms the hose arguments would all end the same way. "You know, public interest. Owners can only engage in non-action. Owners Cniplm M' Jttan DiPitrni it's the fans that are really hurt by a strike." someone often do force a strike by their intransigence at the negotiating Twould say. Everyone would nod in agreement; table, but forcing a strike is not striking and is anyway difficult who could knock innocent bystanders? to prove. The night before the planned major league players' each an admittance that only on the outside of society's civil- A third party has entered labor negotiations. This was the strike, fans at Yankee Stadium chanted ."No Strike! No Strike!" ities can they have influence. By bringing to the surface so- summer that air travelers were delayed by a United Airlines The direction of the protest was down at the field, not up at the ciety's normally dormant conflicts, strikers are confused with pilots' strike, that hotel guests were inconvenienced by a hotel owner's box. The fans well knew that Dave Winfield, not those conflicts. Equated with conflict, strikers are condemned workers" strike, and that baseball fans were forgotten during a George Steinbrenner, was about to jilt them. by a public intent on condemning conflict on principle. Conflict two-day major-league players' strike. The side of the public, of The last reason for the public's bias against workers in a is bad; strikers are bad. Strange.. . .weird. the public interest invariably harmed by a strike, has risen to potential strike situation is that by threatening to strike, workers o how does the public's bias-against striking laborers in- prominence in the national consciousness and in the reporting drag to the surface something most of us would rather ignore crease the likelihood of strikes? Wouldn't that bias have of the national news media. What does this addition to labor- ... the underlying tensions in American society. The Sthe opposite effect? Workers, knowing that a strike will management relations mean for the likelihood ot strikes in the American public does not like to acknowledge that there is a draw upon them a rain ot condemnation, should shy away from future? It means strikes, lots of strikes. Not even Dwight fundamental conflict between workers and management and a strike action Shouldn't they? Workers do control a slrikc Gooden will be able to keep pace. that this conflict is regulated, not by good will, but by the con- decision, don'l they' Generally, a third party to a conflict is a moderator, if nol a test of power against power. Americans don't like to ac- Yes, workers make a strike decision; that is: the final choice mediator. When it's not, often a bias is the problem. It is here, knowledge these facts in the same way that they don't like occa- of whether or not to slrike. Control of that decision; well, that and good intentions are not enough. Yes', the public will always sional reminders that in our free society the police power of the depends on the situation. Normally, labor unions arc the ac- want a strike to end quickly or to not take place at all. but these state is what finally preserves order. A strike raises to the sur- tivist side of labor negotiations. During contract negotiations, a ends are not the usual outcome of the force of public opinion. face the inherent conflict between labor and management. A union will request wage hikes. Management's response to that In truth, the innocent bystanders of the summer were their own strike airs dirty laundry so to speak, and labor appears to be. request will be the basis for the union's strike decision. But worst enemy.. . but only because they weren't so innocent. and is condemned for. creating conflict, as if it didn't exist whatever management's response, control of the slrike decision The American public is instinctively biased against workers already. lies with the union. involved in a labor-management dispute. This bias is flexible - This is, of course, the same strange reasoning that can por- If, on the other hand, and this is becoming alarmingly com- it will increase as a strike seems more likely-and is explained tray the South African police as controlling the violence of mon, management takes the activist side of negotiations and de- in several ways. Blacks, rather than being the cause of that violence. Strange, as mands a contract with lower wages, the union is forced to strike The first explanation for the public's anti-labor bias is that if there was no violence in the everyday operation of Apartheid, lor self-preservation. This summer's baseball strike provides a most Americans, not being in a union themselves, cannot feel both threatened and real. Similarly, nuclear deterence, by this good example. Owners demanded a salary cap system-for empathy for those who are. To the average American, unions weird reasoning, can be considered non-violent. Weird, a fa- players a retreat from previous contracts. Acceptance of such are foreign, unnatural, and slightly more Red than red, white, natic that explodes a single nuclear bomb is called a terrorist, terms would have effectively broken the players' union, whose and blue. And while Americans who don't own a business often but a nation that perpetually terrorizes the world with thou- whole purpose as an organization is to fight just such wage wish they did, Americans not in unions are invariably glad of sands of nuclear bombs calls itself and its weapons cuts, to be progressive and never regressive. The baseball strike that fact. When the time comes to choose sides in a labor "peacekeepers." was inevitable as long as owners wanted a salary cap system dispute, who doesn't ally himself with the party he hopes to Public opinion condemns strikers for the same reason that it and players wanted their union.. .and the owners knew that. So someday be a member of? condemns revolutionaries and terrorists. All three break the who controlled the strike decision? Second, workers are seen as the cause of all the discomforts rules of order established by an implicit acceptance of society's The strikes of the summer show that management has dis- a strike causes the general public. It is, after all, the workers power relations. All three betray weakness by their actions, covered the benefits of forcing workers to strike. Public opinion and its effect on a settlement is a key factor in that discovery. Management will hold out with impossible terms until the force of public opinion extracts concessions from the union. Baseball owners were thwarted in their manipulation of public opinion only by a lack of strike insurance and an underestimation of Are you using less tlian H)% players' res"olve and thick skin. Still, management has other weapons to use alongside public opinion once a strike begins. United Airlines tried to break the of your success potential? Why Koch pilots' union by forcing a strike and then bringing in pilot trainees as permanent scabs. This attempt at union busting was defeated only by a union organization thai extracted promises from most of the pilot trainees not to cross picket lines. New York City hotel owners, hoping to destroy the hotel union be- f I Deserves fore it could move into the huge new hotels opening soon at Times Square, forced a strike and then tried unsuccessfully to outlast a union with limited reserves. Finally, management can always use the blunt weapon used against the PATCO air traffic controllers. It was. after all, the firing of those strikers several summers ago that has encouraged the boldness of management Your Vote this summer. Public opinion, though, remains management's most consis- tent, most durable, weapon against workers, and is still their best reason to force workers to strike. 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CITY STATB ZIP such alternatives and don't face political She docs mention cost-sharing with'the state realities as the Mayor docs. government, but even here the plan is nol Some evidence of my contentions are as fol- continued on pliRc 5 September 4,1985'/TheObserver /page 5 OBSERVATIONS Executive Burnout

LC students last spring elected a United Student Government vice Cpresident who is devoted to her school, a USG vice president who cares about CLC and only wants what's best for it. That's why she trans- ferred to New York University. Good riddance. We would like to be all worldly and wizened about the matter-point out that Vicky Holness is not the first politician to run for office without certain plans for completing a full term; she won't be the last one; and Mario Cuomo might be the next one-hut we cannot help being openly disappointed by the whole affair. Fortunately, Holness' party was named Equity and not Commitment, as a student party at Rose Hill labeled themselves. Otherwise, recent events would be just a bit too ironic. Only USG President Robert Picistrelli's honesty, and certainly not his campaign silence, reflects well on him. Left now is to decide how to select a newUSG vice president,whether by Picistrelli with the approval of the senate or by election. Back during the spring elections, the Observer warned that an election sweep by either stu- dent party would leave the entire student government in the hands of ex- ecutives and senators dependent on each other for their positions. Well, Equity swept the USG election, and now, as if he doesn't already have enough allies on the executive board, Picistrelli may appoint his own vice president. Such a move would ratify the idea that members of the USG should be of the same party. We don't think this is such a good idea. Better to have the voice of dissent that only an election could produce. A Strike Averted

his has been the summer for strikes: the lengthy hotel workers and United Airline pilot strikes, and the shorter baseball strike. Each Twalkout was the result of sharply divided lines, lines drawn in thick an- tagonism and an unwillingness to compromise. Whether the three were cases of potential union-busting or greedy employees, what occurred cost both sides a lot of money and caused much inconvenience to the public. There may have been a fourth strike this summer, one maybe not of such magnitude to affect the general public, but one of close proximity

to affect us all here. Fordham's clerical employees negotiated their con- Phtttti By Doris Surn tract with the University, and the two sides reached a peaceful accord that clearly showed the rational signs of give-and-take. It seems rare these days The CLC Observer is an independent student The Observer Staff newspaper serving the Fordham University commun- that walkouts or sit-ins or lock-outs don't occur in union negotiations, so ity. The opinions in Observer editorials are those of we much commend the negotiators of both parties in this case, for avoiding the editorial board; those expressed in columns, let- EDITORIAL BOARD ters, or graphics are those of the individual writers a prolonged stalemate that would have hurt both sides and disrupted the or artists. No part of the CLC Observer-including administrative and academic life of the University. ads, articles, photographs, graphics-may be Robert Dunne Editor-in-Chief reproduced without the written consent of the editorial Doris Suen Managing Editor staff. Farad rates and other information, contact the Adriana D'Andrea News Editor CLC Observer, Box 18, Lincoln Center Campus, Ford- Mary Kay Linge News Editor ham University, New York, New York 10023. Room Feeling Small, Thomas White Editorial Page Editor 426 C Donica O'Bradovich Arts Editor Anahid Kassabian Assistant Arts Editor It is editorial policy that when a student writes Regina Mawn Music Editor for three issues or more, his/her name will be add- Thomas Wrobleski Feature Editor ed to the staff box. Ian Baer Sports Editor Thinking Big At-A-Glance Editor Terrence Prial John Hcinbockel Copy Editor cTp ¥7V)r how long could we expect our neighborhood to stay low-rise, when Photography Editor COLUMBIA Sergio Florez SCHOLASTIC M. the city of which it is part is sprouting high-rises faster than anything, Greg Lord Assistant Photograph) a PRESS ASSOCIATION Editor except maybe construction cranes. New York City is on a construction First Place Award, 1983 binge, and Fordham is being caught in its swirl of dust. Elizabeth Stone Faculty Consultant Second Place Award, 1984 1984 Mark of First, the spring semester produced a 52-story building skeleton across Excellence Contest our street, soon to be offices and condominiums complete with an indoor Typeset by Kells Typography, Inc. Second Place Award, 1985 pool. Now the summer brings news of a redevelopment of the familiar New York Coliseum. At one time, there was talk, mostly from Donald This election is not a matter of race as some Trump, of building the world's tallest building on the Columbus Circle have chosen to see it. Although in the pust, the site, but the proposal that was finally accepted from Boston Properties, Mayor has exhibited an insensitivity tojhe Primary needs of minorities, he has initiated discussions Inc. cuts that idea in half, literally. Two towers, instead of one, will be with black community leaders and apparently built rising 57 and 72 stories. Below, and down the block, the little 13-story continued from page 4 has abandoned such insensitivitics. I think that Leon Lowenstein building will be dwarfed by comparison. Even now, even detailed enough. the effort Koch has made to bring additional from the faculty lounge, Fordham's "observatory", we have to crane our I do not intend to portray myself as a Koch business and construction to this city, to cut the afficionado, but it appears (hat in this election, city's overall crime rate and to provide this necks to look up and see the New York skyline taking shape all around he is the only candidate who can continue the city's citizens with the amenities they so richly us. Soon, Fordham will be seen only from itstdoorstep or from a traffic all-important renovation of New York City's . deserve, warrant him another four years in helicopter. There's a putting green; there's a rice paddy; there's the Leon economy and the implementations of social and Gracic Mansion. Lowenstein building. judicial change. Koch has done a good job in The Mayor has offered practical plans for the his first eight years, On the issues considered rehabilitation of the city and has stayed within We only wish Foraham would jump on the construction bandwagon above, Koch favors a retention of the ninety- the boundaries of political reality. To use a and build a dorm. Yes, buildings are springing up like weeds all over the cent fare too, but favors doing so not by raising query that President Reagan put to the Lincoln Center area. But at Fordham the only weeds are those all over taxes but by using the revenues that arc produc- American public five years ago with tremen- ed by taxation on large rcal-cstatc transactions dous success against Jimmy Carter (with a the tennis courts. The University could get rid of those weeds by razing in New York City, which will place the burden slight change for this particular case), "Arc you hctter off now lhan in January 1977?" The their breeding ground. Then maybe something more worthwhile could not on the average citizen but on financial mag- answer is a clear yes. grow in its place. nates-a lu Donald Trump. page 6/The Observer/September 4,1985

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By Donica O'Bradovich she becomes sexual suspect.) Occasionally she chucks her conven- tional lifestyle permanently (like Lena and Madeleine) or for a glitzy moment (like Merry and Liz in Rich and Famous) to confirm her Two attractive women, who have survived separate wartime homoerotic impulses. She is often played by positive female stars traumas, meet at their children's school pageant. Lena, who is a like Jane Fonda, Jacqueline Bisset or Isabelle Huppert, all of whom little shy, a little bored, turns and sees Madeleine rushing in after are fantasy figures for men and possible role models for women who an appointment with her fortune teller. Madeleine's more outgoing, made it in cruel Hollywood and who risk their heterosexual images and, at least with Lena, is extremely talkative. Madeleine apolo- to play (possible) seductress opposite another woman. Does this gizes for leaving her son in the other's care. Lena doesn 't mind, real- tiptoeing through the titillation feed on our own androgyny sup- ly, momentarily distracted by a hole in her stocking, but staring at posedly lurking below the surface waiting to be freed, or is it soft- Madeleine's bare legs under her short slacks. It's hot, she says, she core porn, harkening back to girlie magazines and peep shows? Is put on some sun tan lotion to get a little sun. Then, as if to prove this new cinematic menage-a-trois all the rage? it, she casually rubs her finger against the scented leg and lets Lena It's hard to tell. On the surface, Entre Nous is the perfect female smell the finger. Lena likes the smell. They promise to cull, friendship film. It reveres its characters with a nostalgic 1950s ease tomorrow and grace; it has two appealing mature actresses in Isabelle Hup- pert and Miou-Miou; it's gently autobiographical, like a twinkle in the eye of its director Diane Kurys. It says to us that women can and should make heroic decisions in our lives. If that means I (the sparks seem to fly faster between Lena and Madeleine in cultivating one relationship at the expense of another, so be it. But Enlre Nous than in a singles bar, it's because there's a new eroticism that's all on the surface. between women in the new female friendship film. On the surface When Lena and Madeleine are alone, the kids and husbands are at least, this current hasn't been there before, except in films that gone and the pots aren't boiling over, there is an immediate feeling pointedly explore a lesbian relationship. The new eroticism, which of voyeurism, that the room has finally cleared and we can really is exclusive to women's films, is much more subtle and chaste, like get down and watch. The seemingly positive pictures painted by a a gentle come-on, than an overt proposition. It is justas titillating, woman behind the camera are a mere front to get us to peep. The and just as fundamental to the potential box-office appeal of a camera suddenly becomes very "male" as it picks up the way Lena's woman's film. Sex sells, but potential sex between women is sure and Madeleine's legs move in tight skirts, the way they silently stare to arouse. The fiber of the "woman's film" is being stripped down at each other on a bed after reading erotic literature, and the way to its most basic, sexual element-the unknown factor that made all these scenes might lead up to sex between the women, but the .Ws and 40s women's films so appealing-only now the rela- ultimately don't. Kurys doesn't objectify the women, but she sure tionship is based on seductive, non-physical "encounters." It's precise- portrays the husbands either as balding simpletons or failures, save ly the point to question the woman's sexuality in Enlre Nous or in for the positive family scenes. To be sure, one can say that the film Julia or in Tlie Bostonians. At the most primitive level, the films is a way for Kurys to work out her own doubts and suppositions, tease and dangle a carrot to our own sexual uneasiness. At the most for Lena's daughter Sophie, who is at the edge of many of these Sisterly Love: Bergman's The Silence explicit level, they cater to a new stereotype. Though we never see scenes, is Kurys as a child. any actual sex between the women, they fidget and gesture about Ingmar Bergman's films carry this curious mixture of innocence and sexuality; women are both innocent and sexual; together, it's in the murky waters between intense female friendship and les- erotic. He's always been fascinated by women as sexual curios, dis- bianism, between a celebration of the "new" sexually liberated ruptors, who are isolated, and together. He then heightens this tit- woman (who's heterosexual, but willing to profess her attraction for illation by filming them on a lonely island, in his house where they another woman) and the ever-lurking porn fantasy: two women hav- become his lovers, wives and (occasionally), his actresses. Though ing sex. The erotic element in these films may appeal to the male they're marvels of the wholesome Scandinavian woman, they alsp viewer, but do they alienate the female viewer? represent the flip side: the stereotyped Scandinavian sex tigress. . They carry both the implication of homosexuality through the donbl^y In the "woman's films" of the 1930s and 1940s, which were geared ing of Woman (Persona) or through lesbian incest ties between to a largely female audience, Molly Haskell, in her book From sisters (TheSilenee, Cries and Whispers). All his films either hint Reverence to Rape dmws the perfect parallel between these women's at or reiterate Woman's uneasy alliance with Man (the quixotic Max films and the audience: the glamorous Bette Davises and Joan Von Sydow or a weak-kneed Gunnar Bjornstrand) or a closer bond Crawfords were rivals for men, money and martyrdom, while the with a part of herself, expressed in a separate female character. Per- poor dowdy women in the audience saw the films as "soft-core emo- sona, especially with its enigmatic narrative and structure, in- tional pom for the frustrated housewife ."The films were fantasy and troduces us to the Liv Ullmann sensualist, psychotically withdrawn, a passive wish fulfillment in a darkened theatre where an illicit extra- ' but erotic in dress and manner, and the Bibi Anderson earth woman, marital affair with a dying doctor or a good old cat fight between selected to take care of the other woman, but instead intensifies the friends could release audience tensions; if she can't have him. she eroticism by feeding on the other's silence. And Ullmann again, in could watch someone else have him. Any homosexuality in the Cries and Whispers regains momentary love from her sexually films - directed by men - had to be hidden or absent altogether cither repressed sister (Ingrid Thulin, who is often Bergman's sexual because of the specifics of the Production Code or because of in- scapegoat) by seducing her, getting her to admit her humiliating at- dustry homophobia. Instead, women together, whether bitter rivals, traction to her sister. inmfcent friends, or enemies promised grand entertainment, and Bergman's stripping of the female psyche to its sexual cores is often maybe, just maybe, subtle eroticism. the result of the women rejecting their heterosexuality and biologi- cal rulings. Sometimes it's downright blunt, as in Thulin's self- Partners in Lipstick: Entre Nous But there were exceptions. mutilation in Cries and Whispers or in Ullmann's rejection of her But as a big girl and successful filmmaker, she can hardly be un- son in Persona. Bergman seems to say that women can be close only One couldn't help noticing that Anne Baxter's parasitic pursuit aware of the inherent seductiveness of her mother's story, regard- when they rule out men and children. of Bette Davis, her home, career and man in All About Eve was less of her backers who, oddly enough, wanted explicit sex scenes While it's a strictly male point-of-view, the formula has become titillating and peculiarly lesbian or that despite the draining of the between the women (she declined). She knows that she can whet imbued in today's female friendship films. Witness the Bergman- homosexual subtext of Hellman's Vie Children's Hour in Tliese an audience's appetite just by retaining the essence of an explicit like contrasting of female films of late: Lillian's coarse ag- Tliree, there's still sexual tension between Miriam Hopkins and sexuality. The flirtatious manner between the women, for the most gressiveness softened by the angelic Julia; or Lena, the fey bour- Merle Oberon. regardless of Joel McCrea. part, never out-and-out exposes their lesbianism (though Madeleine geoisie wife who doesn't even realize she's unhappy until the asks Lena to remain in Paris with her and Michel calls them dreamy Madeleine whisks her away from Michel;' Shelly Duvall "dykes."). At times, Enlre Nous and other female friendship films who, in j Women fancies herself the grand dame of the singles set, edge towards breaking'new ground in the treatment of female eroti- unknowingly coaxes the worshipping Sissy Spacek into a bizarre per- In the new "woman's films" however, the sexual signals cannot cism by advocating it as a natural result of their relationship. Unlike sonality switch. Or Jacqueline Bisset's clashes with Candice Bergen's be missed. All genres propose stereotype, but each succeeding film the stunted eroticism in male buddy films where back-slapping and Southern Belle parody in Rich and Famous. In each case, we learn is inevitably expanded, and new territory explored when the for- cliff-diving keep homosexuality at a distance, female friendship that women together are sensualists, while man is a Bergmanian mula becomes stale and audiences are restless. Today's Eves and films do the opposite: they dare the viewer to eroticize the relation- outsider, a materialist, or a school boy wimp who's worked hard Margos arc used as tools for titillation. Even the women behind the ship even where there might not be any. The perfect example of this to establish an ideal heterosexual structure-only to bo torn down camera- the ones who could be using their power to destroy stereo- tease may be Fred Zinncmann's Julia, which is not erotic per se, by the women. At other times, he may be the competitor for the cup, types and sexual myths-realized that the aesthetic pleasure and but is built around the sensual innocence of women's conversations, like Basil Ransom in Tlie Bostonians, one of the few female friend- erotic tension between women is a sure audience grabber. This private word games, and plans for the future. If anything the camera ship films adapted from literature. Literature is a perfect source for became clear when Julia, in 1977, received seven major Oscar idealizes the women to myth-like status, especially Julia (who we a Jane Eyre/Helen Burns privileged moment, which we have with nominations - Hollywood's sign of approval. Since then, the genre rarely sec) save for a series of flashbacks, unopened letters and dis- Verena Tarrant and Olive Chancellor in James' novel. James cer- has been expanding and an avalanche of female friendship films have connected phone calls, through another woman's eyes, Lillian Hell- tainly wasn't oblivious to the titillation: "she came to her slowly, been released. Some, \'\kc Julia, which positions its heroines out- man. Interestingly, Hellman, in her memoir Pcw/me/iM unhesitat- took her in her arms and held her long-giving her a silent kiss." side the house, in peril, arc in answer to the exclusionary male buddy . ingly states that she was attracted to Julia, but as a girlhood crush, Director James Ivory, however, gives James'pre-suffragctte New films that dominated the early 1970s. Others, like the ludicrous Tlie no big deal. The film never reiterates this, except by a slimy char- England a posi-fcminisl homosexual underpinning, turning Olive Turning Point (which turns Lincoln Center into a female friendship acter who, unlike Michel (who is losing his family), gels his drunken Chancellor into a solemn old maid who plays parlor games. The mud wrestling ring) arc steeped in phony female mysticism, or try kicks from telling Lillian that "the whole world knows about you communal "marriages" between New England women were a rather to disguise female titillation behind artsy-coated facades like and Julia," while Lillian, angered and unnerved by this remark, innocent alternative to marriage. In the novel, the physicality of their Altman's J Wmien and, interestingly, behind other genres, like Tlie knocks a table on him. What is she protesting? surroundings, their talks and dreams and their Boston are innocently Hunger featuring icy Catherine Deneuvc as a vampire with a taste ideal -they plan to liberate the sexes and wipe vipers like Basil off But what exactly does the whole world know or even see? Little for Susan Sarandon. the earth. But onscreen the characters arc so rigid in their beliefs, girls sharing a dance after New Years dressed in their nightgowns? so unwilling to make the first move, that Basil's aggressiveness is Two women hugging each other by a fire? So what? These are all actually not so bad, while Olive (a positive character in both works) scenes of women alone, playing out simple, non-sexual hopes arid ,,., Oencrully, though, the genre prescribes female friendship as a is presented as a bona fide lesbian who makes passes at her young fantasies not possible in their complicated sexual relationships with panacea for the maladroit males and fledgling careers the "new apprentice in soft-focus lighting. It's almost irresistible to sensualize men (Julia has an unplanned baby out of wedlock and Lillian shares woman" has to endure. The female friend nolonger conjures up Im- this time period and these women, especially in Olive's large Vic- too much rivalry with lover Dashiell Hammctt). It's precisely our uges of "pinched virgins" and "little old lady writers" as Haskell torian house. When the two are on Vcrcna's bed discussing their own sexual programming and uneasiness which we bring to these I aired, She's attractive, though this is secondary to her. She is point- commitment not to gel murried, we're witnessing two women who films and which makes us almost desire to label the women as les- edly heterosexual (but men don't offer a positive alternative) until might be seducing each other Olive seems to be straining not to bians-so we don't have to think about our relationships. The for- (he intense bonds with her friend relegates the man to a passive kiss Vcrcna, but she pulls her lips close to her and Verena seems status. (He always assumes the worst, becomes sexual accusor, and mula is given to us, and we play right back to it. September 4,1985/The Observer /MUSIC ome- PLAY THAT FAST

to be straining not to struggle, just to heighten the titillation. THING. • . What I Did This Summer When a genre has been stereotyped and when the formula has been milked, genres become homages, as in Altman's, Truffaut's, und Godard's films while others turn to parody, like Mel Brooks. George Cukor's Rick and Famous is the parody of a female friend- ship film with Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz in the title roles. Ac- By Regina Mawn this band could become really big. Howard Jones, on die other hand, tually, Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen should be saluted for I hope everybody had a wonderful summer. I got to see some real- was terrific. He too is a first class entertainer. He sings, he dances, updating Old Acquaintance feminist-style, complete with lurking ly great and not-so-great concerts. Let's start at the beginning... he tells great stories. He uses a head set microphone. I think these studs and artistic careers for themselves. They're oufer shell female mikes are good because they make the audience feel closer to the friends - Lena and Madeleine on a bad day - who vie for the same May 17, Radio City Music Hail-Phil Collins. This man is a first- performer. It gives the performer greater mobility. I wasn't much goals: literary prestige, happiness with one man, a peaceful relation- rate entertainer. He gave a two hour and twenty minute show that of a Jones fan before I went to the show, but I am now. ship, while Cukor in this, his last film, unwittingly confirms what was filled with great music and a lot of laughs. The show opened we may have only vaguely suspected between women in "women's with "I Don't Care Anymore," Collins apologized that Ann Rein- August 15, Pier 84-The Truth/Squeeze. The Truth is an English films": rivalry masks eroticism and female bitchiness is a mere im- king would not be there to sing "Against All Odds." The sound mix band, who leave much to be desired. On the other nights that petus to female flirting. It is only after they torment each other to was perfect except for one section of "Only Ybu And I Know." Until Squeeze played. The Hooters opened but me night I went I got The the top of the literary set, and after numerous confrontations in New the final notes of "It's Alright," the encore, both Phil and the band Truth. Every song they played sounded like they had ripped it off York and California, do they suddenly declare their bogus undy- as well as the audience had a fantastically fabulous (as Phil would from another band. At one point my sister turned to me and said, ing love for each other. Bisset (who has writer's block because she say) time. "Isn't that a Who song?" It sure sounded like a Who song but it can't find a man) with champagne clutched in hand, eyes sparkling wasn't. Then came Squeeze. They opened with Is That Love?" Jules by the fire, methodically declares to Bergen that she needs some May 22, The Ritz-til tuesday. The absolutely worst concert I have Holland is back with the band and acted as die M.C. for most oi "flesh" and the only one around now is Bergen. Bergen, now smil- ever seen. It was boring. I loved their debut album, Voices Carry, the time. I don't think Chris Difford said two words during the en- ing on cue, seductively slinks over to Bisset with a kiss on the cheek, but live.the band messes up their harmonies. They didn't look like tire show. All of the old songs sounded great. The new ones drag- sealing an erotic friendship interrupted by one night stands, unscrup- they were having fun eirner. MTV was filming the show, so of course ged on and on and on. Overall the show was good. ulous literary agents and sappy husbands-and parodying every de- the band was under pressure. If they can't muster up a little elec- cent "woman's film" ever released. tricity for MTV I'd hate to see them when they're not being filmed. August 19, Pier 84- Men At Work. This concert is also known Even the inise- en- scene meant to appease the There was little interaction between the audience and the band. The as the show that never was or never supposed to be. Ticketron was eye with its "fe,maleness," is warmed over women's film cliches: show, which lasted a little over an hour, seemed to drag on forever. selling tickets to a show that wasn't scheduled, except in their minds. gauze netting over the camera lens, shots of the two quivery-lipped as they run to each other in times of stress. And the men. Every male character reeks of wimp, from Bergen's husband, who doesn't fight back when she interrupts their lovemaking to take notes, to the ho-hum studs Bisset casually picks up and beds in hotels and airplane bathrooms. But ah, we learn, that while sex with men is ! R140 6*2 aromantic and invites mechanical pumping, spiritual sex with 9 E. 11TH STREET. another woman is the prognosis for everlasting happiness. PRESENTS TIL TUESDAY SHOW 11PM NO RFNDS£NJ V MAI 22J 1985 TING 01 ADVNCi;

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Eroticism can mask rivalry, as in Robert Towne's Personal Best, about two women who train for the Olympics, but have an affair along the way. This film is a strange combination of a male celebra- tory idyll for the female body and a porn fantasy without overt cxplicitness; it's about as explicit a lesbian relationship as can be explored in the commercial cinema, though'it tends to wow in female bodies. Once they realize they are rivals (thanks to their manipulative male coach), their affair becomes a compromise of interests, and one of them turns to heterosexuality in the wink of an eye. But not before Towne and his exploratory camera celebrates the female body, in motion -via slow-motion athletic sequences and massive crotch close-ups-and in repose, during the lovemaking scenes between the women. And while it seems perfectly natural to stick a camera inside! the mysterious sensual world of the female athlete, the male body is not a thing to celebrate, especially in explicitly gay male Him like Makifin Love, which posits the actual lovemaking between the men as an obligatory afterthought to the heroism of the deci- sion to come out. And they make love in the dark. As is the case withany male character, careers and sex are things June 6, The Ritz-Chuck Berry. What a show! It lasted a mere August 20, Pier 84-Nik Kershaw/Paul Young. I wasn't impressed apart. Zack is a doctor, has a successful marriage, but is coming hour, but that hour was packed with such energy and charisma that by Kershaw except for the fact that he's extremely short. I don't out; Bart, n writer, incites Zack into his first gay affair. While the it seemed like the show went on at a fever-pitch for hours. He played remember much about his set. Yeah, he has a nice voice, but his marriage between Zack and wife Claire is obviously over, the em- all the classics, "Roll Over Beethoven," Sweet Little Sixteen," show was rather dull. Paul Young was great though. IF you think' phasis is not on any rivalry between the men or on the sensuality Maybelline," etc. During "Rock and Roll Music," he went into an the man can sing you should sec him dance. He's fantastic. He didn't of their relationship, but on their no-nonsense flirting, which strictly extended instrumental. When he got back to the microphone he said, talk to the audience much but he still was in touch with them. Darryl implies physical culmination in the dark and alone, as if there were "What was I singing?" and shortly thereafter ended the song. For Hall joined Young on stage for his encore of "Evcrytimc You Go something dirty about the whole thing cither for the female viewer his closing number he did "Johnny B Goode." About thirty people Away." which Hall wrote. or the gay male viewer. from the audience were up on the stage dancing with him. If you The question then is: do any female friendship films (or any films ever have the chance to sec him play. GO! He's amazing. Ibr that matter) fulfill the fantasies of the female viewer1? It seems This ryill many new records by major artists will be coming out. that the sexual liberation of one sex, the shooting down of rigid sex- ual roles, necessitates the passive voyeurism of the other sex. The June 28, Pier 84-Animotion/Howard Jones. Animotion also had There will also be several big concerts in the area. I can't cover machismo mentality and Playboy sensibility thut exists behind the an excellent debut album. They also weren't too good live. In all everything, so if you want to let people know about that great album cuniera exudes a peculiar two-sidedncss: while the new female fairness to the band, they were plagued by sound problems. Astrid or show or that lousy album or concert you wasted your money on. friendship films call the traditional institutes of marriage and Plane's voice is even better live but her dancing, if you can call it you should write for the music section. I'm u fairly nice person. I heterosexual union into question, they do so through a porn gaze. that, is laughable. There was little interaction between the bund and won't bite or anything. Drop by the Oltsmvr office 426-C and leave "I love you Julia" has too muny implications now. the audience here, too. I think given time (n lot of time on the road) a note. I hope to hcur from a lot of you. page 8/ The Observer I September 4,1985 Another Neighbor On The Selling Block

By Adriana D'Andrea

A proposal to buy the New York Coliseum for $455 million was chosen by the city and state of- ficials in July, according to a New York Times ar- ticle on July 12. 1985. The four-acre site, which is owned jointly by the Metropolitan Transit Au- thority and the City, was announced to go on sale in February. According to the Times, the proposal must first "survive an estimated 12 months of govern- ment-mandated analysis and approval" in order to become a reality. The prospective developer, Boston Properties,

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By Robert Dunne

Dr. William Tanksley, new dean of the College at Lincoln Center, spoke with the Observer recently, and discussed topics pertaining to the University in general, and especially to CLC. Below are some of his views on a variety of issues from CLC's relationship to Rose Hill, to the College's curriculum, to Fordham's Jesuit tradition. Questions were submitted in advance. In a May Observer interview with former Dean George Shea, Shea expressed concern that many in the University were worried that CLC may be a threat to the uptown campus, that the com- petitiveness of the two campuses would create a sense of can- nibalism. Tanksley, however, feels that the (wo colleges arc not com- peting for the same students. "We're competing for different kinds of students." he said. "There are students who clearly want to be connected with the vitality of the city," he added, while other students, he said, are more attracted to the traditional college atmosphere uptown. As for people out- side the New York area, Tanksley feels that these students may on- ly know about the "Rose Hill identity," and so, would be inclined lo show interest there. "Students outside the New York area do not know we exist," Tanksley said. Another drawback to out-of-towners who think of attending a city campus, Tanksley believes, is the fear of city liv- ing and expenses. "With the availability of dorms," he pointed out, "we can show people that it's affordable." Concerning thc.nature of CLC's relationship to the uptown cam- pus, Tanksley said that "communication with Rose Hill and this cam- pus have to improve." He believes that there has been a "misunderstanding" on CLC's part. The lines aren't open very well," he said. "Both sides jump to conclusions. We should take advan- Plniliiln .Vi-ijj/..7/.i. tage of their resources. "We have to be masters of our fate. We need to be able to use faculty, students, and alumni and raise money. I think we've "We have to initiate that relationship. They communicate better done that. I think we need to do more of that." among themselves.. .It just doesn't occur to them to include us." The Mellon Project is currently undergoing a re-examination, with the probability that a revamped Mellon program will become the core curriculum for new students next year. Although Tanksley tion," he said, originating in the 1960s. Tanksley said such a cgre a student or a Jesuit." is not a member of the Mellon Committee, comprised of faculty "deals with student unrest by responding to it," while also leaving Tanksley has had teaching and administrative experience since members and administrators, he hopes the new core will provide itself open to charges that it may be a faddish approach to education. 1970. soon after attaining his Ph*D. in English and American a "basic knowledge" to students, making them want to ask "basic " literature from the University of Illinois at UrtJana. He held teaching questions" Tanksley next spoke of the Jesuit tradition in terms ot its effect positions in universities across the country and abroad, beginning Tanksley believes there are three philosophies to structuring a core on the overall education of students. at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, then going on to Idaho curriculum. One allows a student to "tailor his/her own needs." He "What is it that makes Fordham different?" he asked. "I want facul- State University, from 1972-74. He had a four-year stay at said at Penn State, where he was Director of Academic Affairs, "We ty and students to turn that over in their minds." With the Jesuit SUNY/Brockport. and from 1978-1980 he was dean of the School had a core of questions," which had a flexible core curriculum education, often identified with Fordham. "everything is up tor of General Studies of Victoria College, in Melbourne. Australia. available to students, pie results, he said, were "chaotic" grabs." It asks, he said. "Lcl's sec. let's turn it around The world His experience as dean continued at the University of Texas of the Another core philosophy, Tanksley said, is what he called the is not set in cement. Permian Basin., where he was dean of the College of Arts and Educa- traditional core, involving a return to the classics. "As far as I would "I hope the Mellon Project asks these questions: "Who are we? tion; and at Ernest Holmes College, in Los Angeles, where he was commit myself. I'm suspicious of nostalgia. . .the way it was." he What can we offer of value to others? " dean of the School of General Studies. Since 1983, he was Direc- said. "Part of the assumption-that we can deal with a complex tor of Academic Affairs at Penn State University at Shenango Valley. society - was because of a traditional core - classics." While Tanksley Concerning Fordham's Jesuit tradition, Tanksley said. "1 don't In his positions of teacher and dean. Tanksley organized various said he is not against such a philosophy, he added, "I don't think think the concept of the Jesuit tradition is threatening. (Yet) there's new programs, from coordinating a special services project for it's necessary to return to that to gain a sense of purpose." some apprehension that it's a return to religiosity." But, he said, ques- disadvantaged students at Bemidji, to starting special writing pro- A core based on educational innovation is what Tanksley believes tioning that argument, "We have a very broad constituency." He said grams, to organizing the first MFA in writing and creative writing to be another philosophy, where universities offer courses students another apprehension is that people might feel they have to explain in the SUNY system. currently want to take. "It was a response to the market idea of educa- to themselves "why they're at a Catholic university." Tanksley believes the University must also ask itself "if we're a Jesuit or Returning to his present status as CLC dean, Tanksley talked again Manhattan university." about the education of the student. "Education centers on the person." he said. And, "at the center In all its current advertising literature, Fordham calls itself "the of education here ought to be the free inquiring quality of the per- Jesuit university of New York ."Tanksley doesn't agree with the ap- son. The more questions to bring up. the more understanding, the proach. "In itself, I don't think its a good marketing tool. We're not better the job you're going to do." communicating (only) to Catholic students. "We must develop the person into thinking that it's not finished "It probably stigmatizes or alienates non-Catholics," he said. Non- after four years." Catholics, Tanksley feels, "would feel they're outsiders, not in that As for Tanksley s own relationship with faculty members and ad- Catholic tradition." He also said, "I don't think to the public-at-laree ministrators, both here and at Rose Hill, he said he has already met that it works." with many administrators at both campuses, but wishes to meet with more of the faculty. He said he wants to set a faculty meeting Dean Tanksley officially became CLC dean June 30th, when sometime in October. Shea's resignation took effect. Tanksley said he came to the Univer- sity twice for interviews, with the committee to select the new dean "I've been in places where the goal was to train the student to get and with Fordham President Fr. Joseph O'Hare, S.J. The interviews a job, even if he was semi-literate," he said. The goal of a liberal were held three weeks between each other, and three weeks after arts education, Tanksley believes, is that "you train the person to the second interview, he was notified by Fr. O'Hare. understand the process of thinking and analyzing. Train people to "I didn't have an official letter until I got here," he said. be problem solvers. . .(to) think, manage, understand." Tanksley believes that one reason he was chosen to be dean was Thus education, Tanksley feels, should not begin and end in the because he had worked with communication problems among the classroom. "Some of NYU's Continuing Ed programs, forcxam- various units of Penn State that seemed parallel to the CLC-Rosc ple-they're very nice, but confine knowledge to the classroom." Hill relationship. He said that in the interviews there were discus- Tanksley said he believes education should show students that what sions about the CLC campus, tp which he said he stressed that more they learn in the classroom goes beyond there. "recruiting and advertising decisions must come to this campus. Tanksley has come to CLC having inherited several issues from Shea-the coming of dorms, new programs (such as the proposed "I realize that some decisions must include the entire universi- BFA, the fate of the Mellon Project-but he also has come in with ty," he said, but added, "they (at Rose Hill) should delegate that several of his own ideas that he hopes to use to build up CLC's pres- responsibility (of recruiting and advertising) to us. If we screw up, ence within the University. Tanksley said he wants to make CLC chop us off at the knees." more economically independent from uptown, and he wants to make Tanksley further advocated lor more control to be delegated lo more use of the surrounding Mid-Manhattan community to add to CLC: "We've got to have some control over our budget. If we don't, CLC's presence. then we float here for a while. We have to be dynamic." • "We have to be masters of our fate. We need to be able to use facul- ty) students, and alumni and raise money. I think we've done that. Referring again to (he interviews, Tanksley said, "They wanted I think we need to do more of that. . somebody here to take charge and take risks. They wanted somebody "I want to tap the imagination of the community, take advantage familiar with the Jesuit tradition, which 1 am. of where we are-the resources around us. An awful lot of doors "They're afraid of the Jesuits being conservative - returning to the can open up if we think about it. We have to go in ull directions at I'lmiiiln Sru'iii I lure; old way. I'm a questioner and u risk-taker. I think they needed once, to increase awareness of our presence. "I don't think the concept of the Jesuit tradition is threatening." somebody who understands the Jesuit tradition. I don't have uny "We can show that we havewonielhing very different, that we're problems fighting with or standing up to a problem-either with involved, and we're doing it." 'V page 10I The Observer/September 4,1985

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This las is rebuilding for real now, and might not be able ly Sims and Gary Danielson (I still can't figure out After such disappointing results with our staff leaves Pittsburgh in third^and Cleveland in fourth, to compete with the league's big boys for another why they traded him) could be the worst team in baseball picks, I've decided to do what I copped , though they might be better if their 1984 defense year (though they're my long range pick for '86!), the NFL this year. out of last time around. I'll put my own neck on was no fluke, and if Bernie Kosar can make a no- especially if Gary Hogeboom regains the helm And finally, we come to the team that amazed the line for the Observer's 1985 pro football picks. ticeable contribution. from veteran Danny White, who has earned the 'em all a year ago when they trounced Miami in After all, I can't do much worse. The Raiders are managing to rebuild through the reputation of not being able to win the big game, the Super Bowl, 38-16. They displayed football's The Miami Dolphins have ruled the American draft while keeping an excellent team on the field, (and he to'earned it). St. Louis is New York's big- most exciting and versatile offense, led by quarter- Football Conference's Eastern Division for over a and I like their chances of wrestling back the AFC gest rival for the title, but can only win if Neil back Joe (geez, he looks a lot like Barry Manilow) decade now, and coach Don Shula's club will be West title from the hands of the Denver Broncos, Lomax can cut down on those big interceptions, Montana, and runners Roger Craig (71 receptions. 'tough again in '85, but problems have arisen which who I predict will fall off considerably from their and connect with All-Pro WR Roy (Jet Stream) 649 yards rushing) and Wendell Tyler (1,262 yards prevent me from picking them to repeat as divi- 13-3 record of a year ago. Los Angeles is develop- Green for those oh-so-beautiful 50-yard bombs like on the ground). They are the San Francisco Quarterbacks Dan Marino and NFC West with this team that finished second in Jim Jensen are refusing to sign, leaving veteran the NFL (to Miami) in total offense, and first in Don Strock, who has never started for an entire American Football Conference defense, which is led by the NFL's best secondary, season, with the reins. Linebacker Bob Brudzin- cornerbacks Eric Wright and Ronnie Lott, and ski is holding out, as is strong safety Glenn Black- Centra! .West - -' - safeties Carlton Williamson and Dwight Hicks, wood, and both are outstanding defensive players. Cincinnati LA Raiders along with pass rushing wizard Fred Dean. " Hwstoft Couple these holdouts with injuries to offensive Seattle > Trying to do the impossible will be the Los An- N.Y, let* Pittsburgh linemen Eric Laakso and Ed Newman, and defen- geles Rams, who made perhaps the most interest- ;'* Buffalo Denver sive All-Pros A.J. Duhe (who was waived due to Cleveland ing off-season move of all by signing Canadian Kansas City his injury) and Don McNeal, and there just may Football League quarterback Dieter Brock, a two- be some trouble in paradise this year. time league MVP who amassed some terrific stats New England looks tough with Tony Eason per- National Football Conference up north, but still keeps eyebrows raised as to his haps the NFL's most promising young signal call- chances down here. First of all, he's 34 years old, er, and Craig James, Mosi Tatupu, and Anthony East Central West and if that didn't limit him enough physically, he Collins comprising one of its most versatile back- . N.Y. Giants Chicago San FraneM«> wears a brace on his left knee. Secondly, he's never fields, and I'm picking them to win, with Miami St. Minnesota'. L,A< Ram* played in an NFL game. However, Eric Dicker- a close second, with or without Dandy Danny. TaMpa Bay,' New son is quite simply amazing (his 2.105 yards rush- Green Bay ' The Jets are my third place pick simply because ing lasSt year set a new league mark), and if Brock Detroit they can't keep up in a division this tough. Ken works out the Rams have a real shot at a wild card, O'Brien is a big question mark at quarterback, and which is a lot more than most can say for the other two teams in this lopsided division, Atlanta and they have made some questionable moves, includ- who proved you really can be tofftall to play quar- phia looks to improve, but is in over their heads New Orleans. ing the release of punter chuck Ramsey, linebacker terback in the NFL, they can win in the hands of with this group, and mav have a tough time match- Greg Buttle, and former All-Pro safety Darrol Ray. crafty veteran Jim Plunke_tt, who makes "winning ing last year's 6-9-1 mark. Atlanta is in dire trouble. Quarterback Steve Too many holes on the field and too many questions ugly" an art. Seattle will be strong too, and will Bartkowski is coming off of surgery, and at 33 is off of it (like why Joe Walton is still here after he win if they can acquire running back Joe Cribbs Last year, the Chicago Bears seemed to be the a real question mark. The rest of this team, aside followed Walt Michaels playoff season with back from the Bills. However, Seattle's recent audition- class of the NFC's Central Division, and can on- from running back Gerald Riggs, is weak, partic- to back 7-9 years) linger for the Jets to seriously ing of QB Bobby Hebert will severely dampen the ly get better with a healthy Jim McMahon at quar- ularly the defense, and they will have problems challenge. Buffalo is rebuilding, so you can count spirits of Dave Krieg, the 'Hawks fine young pass- terback. Their defense is now reminiscent of those with keeping themselves out of the division cellar them out along with Indianapolis, who are always er, and could hurt their chances. Dick Butkus-led "Monsters of the Midway" teapns they occupied a year ago. In fact, the only thing rebuilding, and could have a new owner by open- San Diego will be the NFL's most improved of the 60s, and particularly middle linebacker that might keep them out is if New Orleans reverts ing day as the result of a divorce settlement (Really. team, with the additions of USFL standouts RB. Mike Singletary, whose gutsy, no-nonsense style to its losing ways of a couple of years ago (when No joke!). Tim Spencer and WR Trumaine Johnson, and a has stirred up memories of bl number 51 himself. pooplc referred to the 1-15 Saints as the "Ain'ts," and The AFC Central has long been the stomping healthy Dan Fouts, to go with an improving young The Minnesota Vikings lured their legendary many a Superdome fan could be found with a paper grounds for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who now pos- defense. They will win if they don't allow a zillion coach Bud Grant out of retirement after going 3-13 bag over his disgusted face), and that's doubtful, sess little more than an erratic defense, a pult-putt points a game as in the past, and could even sneak in his absence, and the combination of Grant's especially with newly-acquired quarterback Bobby offense, and a great coach in Chuck Npll. It's time into a wild card berth. Kansas City will also be im- genius, a healthy Tommy Kramer throwing to new- Hebert, yet another USFL refugee, on the scene, for a new winner here, and I'm picking' Cincinnati proved, leaving open the possibility that each of ly-acquired Anthony Carter, and Chuck Muncie's who could give the Saints their best signal caller to rise again, behind ageless wonder Ken Ander- the five clubs in this division will have a .500 or return to form (perhaps a longshot) could resur- since Archie Manning's heyday. son, and a fine receiving crew led by all-world Cris better record in 1985. rect this club to a record better than .500, though So, can anyone stop the 'Niners? My feeling is Collinsworth. Another rising team should be Cheer up, o most patient Giants' fans, this will . not to the division crown. Green Bay just can't win no, especially if Dan Marino doesn't rejoin the Houston's Oilers, with former Heisman trophy be your year. I promise. Phil Simms, Lawrence that division. It can't happen in a million years, Dolphins by midseason. But, with parity presiding winner Mike Rozier (who.I'm willing to bet is a Taylor, and Co. learned how to win last year, and because a million years from now the Packers will once again, the NFL season is bound to throw fans lot better than he showed in the USFL) and quar- now it's time for glory with the NFC East title. still be the most inconsistent team in pro sports, more than their share of curves, and isn't that what terback Warren Moon playing behind the league's Washington is getting old fast, and not even the ac- no matter how good they look on paper. Tampa Bay kept you Giants' fans going for the last 20 years, best young offensive line. With any consistency in quisition of running back George Rogers from just doesn't have the horses to rise back among the anyway? The Mets' Dwight Gooden... redefine. When the Mets play on Game of the Week, and it's Gooden's turn, you can sec it in the newspaper ads: "Dwight Gooden scheduled to pitch." You don't see that when Andujar takes the mound, or when Valcnzuela does, despite their numbers. Not on- The Right Arm Of God ly is Gooden Mr. Excitement to long-suffering New Yorkers, but By Tom Wrobleski World Series. his influence is starting to spread across the continent. His talent Forget Gooden's current stranglehold on the Cy Young Award, goes beyond aloof fan loyalties and prejudices, and into a special When Dwight Gooden can no longer pitch, when his high heat and his shot at 25 wins. Ignore for the moment that he is the MVP land that so few have occupied. He is more than a good Met, he gets cooled by Father Time, and the understated goatee he's been if the Mets win the East. What Dwight Gooden has achieved dur- is a good pitcher. Even when he beats you on sixteen strikeouts and sporting of late has gone gray, maybe he can will his right arm to ing his brief tenure as the Mets' king of the hill goes beyond cold one earned run, you're forced to admit that it's good baseball. He science. Maybe then we can glean some human understanding from statistics. In a year when a baseball strike joined forces with an on- is an envoy for the game of baseball, and when Gooden pitches, this supernatural ability he has been displaying over the past two going drug investigation to threaten the game's very foundation, the it's the game that's paramount. And currently, there is no better summers, summers when Dr. K gave a vital injection to New York Good Doctor has brought a small measure of faith back to major spokesman for that cause. baseball and put the rest of the National League on life support. league baseball. It's no surprise that Frank Cashen can count on 10,000 more New Humid summer nights that have put the record books on hold. Had Donald Fehr and Lee MacPhail continued to rob New York Yorkers tipping his turnstiles when Gooden takes the hill. Any day Forget the numbers. Forget the strikeouts; the ill-fated Sid Fer- of its most glorious baseball season in thirty years, had Dwight the Doctor operates could be The Day; The Day a Met pitcher nandez has a higher strikeout ratio per nine innings than Dwight. Gooden not thrown another pitch after August 6, he still would've throws the no-hitter that has eluded the franchise since its incep- The "K"s have given way to the "C"s, as in complete games, and led the league in strikeouts with room to spare. He still would've tion. The Day that a major league pitcher strikes out 20 batters, or the "S"s, as in shutouts. And don't forget the "W"s, numbering twenty had the best ERA in baseball. He still would've placed in the top 21. A perfect game. You name it: Dwight Gooden on the mound at this Writing. Gooden has become the stingiest, most conserva- ten in complete games and shutouts, and in the opinion of many, opens up a world of possibilities, the least of which is the Mcts" first tive pitcher in baseball, getting the outs he needs as soon as possi- would've stood alone as the best pitcher in the major leagues, despite appearance in the Fall Classic in more than a decade. Every once ble. If they come on ground balls, fine, says manager Dave Johnson. Joaquin Andujar's sterling summer. in a while, a truly great baseball player comes along, and this time. Better an out on one pitch, than on three, or four, or six. Save that Just as he symbolizes the resurgence of the Mets us legitimate con- Providence deemed that he come to New York. I guess as New York arm for October, when we may have to throw it three times in the tenders, he transcends the very game that his talent is helping to baseball fans, we're spoiled. Don Mattingly fans know what I mean.

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Al Should Sing A Different Toon By Ian Baer of starters Danny Cox (9-11 last year, 13-7 so far in 1985) and John to have the same basic team as last year, minus Alan Wiggins (and Tudor (15-11 this year with an ERA around 2.00, while turning un- second base has been a bright spot this year), but they've lost their GET A JOB DEPT.: Well, it looks like the Jets' first-round draft successful starters Ken Day ley and Rick Horton into excellent relief intensity. An overdose of Dick Williams, perhaps? The Dodgers are pick, wide receiver Al Toon of Wisconsin, will not play for them pitchers. Four pitchers with checkered careers don't all turn around amazing everyone, and it seems as though they would win even if in 1985. Recently Toon, through his agent, demanded a trade, receiv- simultaneously without a helluva pitching coach, and don't think they had the worst team in baseball, and offensively, they just might. ing a firm "no" from Jets* management. Well, even though / only Bruce Sutter doesn't miss him now. Bruce tried to get Roarke to move Overall, I guess you could say we did all right, but for all of you make $4 an hour making sandwiches in a cafeteria, I can under- to Atlanta with him, but the Cards wouldn't let him go. Now we know that bet the mortgage on our picks, don't say we didn't warn you. stand and sympathize with Toon for arguing over $1.9 over four years, as opposed to the Jets' offer of $1.6 million. In fact, J jhink ****** it's about time we get busy finding poor ol' Al a job. I asked my boss, BY THE WAY DEFT.: The NBA basketball season is a month away but he said he's not hieing any new busboys. I think I saw a sign in and Patrick Ewing still has not signed a Knick contract. Don't think the window at the health food store, but I think it's a night shift. Hubie Brown isn't just a little teensie bit nervous, 'cause I sure am... HI pick up a McDonlad's application for him tomorrow- somebody Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that wrestling will soon go the told me they're always looking for help. I always like to be of way of break dancing and the pet rock?.. .There hasn't been a more assistance to one in need. dazzling nor devastating 1-2-3 punch than the Yanks' Rickey Hender- son, Don Mattingly, and Dave Winfield since Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, and George Foster annihilated opponents with the Big Red CHECKS AND BALANCES DEFT.: Some four months have gone Machine/teams of the 1970s.. .1 don't know about you, but the by since we made our daring baseball predictions, and now it's time thought of Jim Kelly and Herschel Walker in the same backfield to face the music. Well, we sure blew the American League East, still doesn't thrill me with their playing in the USFL (the Utterly where we all went ga-ga over Boston's offensive firepower. However, Senseless Football League)... I used to love Mike Lupica's column . they have been beset by injuries and pitching woes, and have really in the Daily News, but I really wish he'd stick to sports. I'm much faded from the picture. You could say we all saw red when we should more interested in what he thinks of the Yanks dnd Mets than of have seen blue—a& in Blue Jays. Toronto, our third place selection, Madonna and Cherry Coke. Please, Mike, do what you do best and has been baseball's most consistent winner all year. The Yanks-have leave those two poor guys from the Lotto commercial alone.. .Geez, been hanging in at a close second, so we, of course, picked them I miss Reggie Jackson about this time every year... I don't care if fifth. In the West, we went for the Kansas City Royals, who have he's as old as Methuzalah, you don't trade Buddy Bell fora pinch- been in contention all year, although most of their time has been hitter and a pitcher who was 6-18 a year ago. Not even Charlie Finley spent behind the California Angels, whose success we just didn't would have done that. Well, okay, maybe Finley would have, but see, to put it midly. I'll admit it, I said they were too old to win. that still doesn't make it right. They didn't seem that good on paper, they still don't, and yet there ****** they are, atop the division, and here I am apologizing. If the Mets weren't as good as they seem to be, our staff could NOT ITS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO ALL OUR COM-PAN- 0 have been accused of blatant homerism. Actually, since we picked Boy, we sure liked the Atlanta Braves when the season began and, EEE DEPT.: Finally, here's a new addition to this column-the Gary Carter for Most Valuable Player and Roger McDowell for boy, we sure were wrong. Bruce Sutter has been less consistent than Sports Stumper of the Week. Now, for a pitcher of beer in the Pub, Rookie of the Year, we still could be, but one fact' stands out—the the man he replaced, Steve Bedrosian, who has been lousy since on me, here goes... Pete Rose is enjoying considerable success as Mets are very, very good. We figured the Cubs would give them his transfer to the Braves rotation. Sutter may be a perfect example player-manager of the Reds. Can you name the major league's last trouble, and we thought the Cardinals wouldn't. Surprise, surprise, of what happens when you move a pitcher from the biggest park player-manager? All answers should be brought to the Observer of- the Cubs can't win for beans, and the Cards can't lose. Nobody could in the league to the smallest, or it may just be the fact that for the fice, room 426-C, addressed to me, by-September 11, and please, foresee the contributions of speedy leftfielder Vince Coleman and first time in his career, he can't turn to Mike Roarke when he's on only One response per person, and only the first correct answer wins pitching coach Mike Roarke, the most unsung of unsung heroes in the ropes. We thought the Padres would contend, and they did for (remember, I only make four bucks an hour!). And on that note, the Redbirds' Cinderella season. All he did was make bis winners a while, but they faded, and it's tough to figure out why. They seem goodnight Celerino Sanchez, wherever you are... Fordham University Dining Service ART &? DRAFTING STUDENTS Personnel wish to SAVE TIME AND MONEY s& welcome you back. WITH ONE-STOP SHOPPING AT NEW YORK'S LARGEST Come by out our new menu ART SUPPLY STORE items and services. 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