\ -b •e® ^ Q g to ^ %^rt^ <5v^ <5v 9 \°® H^' CP CP <g g <5. Q. % February 21, 1986 COmENTS Volume 61, Number 17 Reportage 6 Women skaters, though not in the limelight, Departments are having a good season as well. Tuition and other charges will increase this fall. Letters 4 Zodiac 13 S.U.N, is growing and will hopefully bring Reprofocus 11 Portfolio 16 positive changes to student life. Senior skaters lead another championship team into the NCAAs. Tab Ads 28 The RIT Singers liven up Valentjne's Day Bloom County 29 Weekend. Reproview 22 What's Happening 30 RIT announces the establishment of a Check out Louise Erdrich's first novel Love gravure fellowship. Medicine. The T&E Center is anxiously awaiting the Black Moon Rising is just not good. installation of it's new press. FiX is a special effects thriller. !4 A laser light show brings a new type of Cover: entertainment to RIT. Scoreboard 26 Paul Crammer Ingle Auditorium may soon house a new With only one game remaining, the women prepares freshly audio/video system. icers are 9 6 1 after a 2 1 week. made breadsticks Although playing strong, the men hoopsters Features 9, 14 & 21 dropped two games. Photo By: Local children and the RIT community were Four women swimmers gain berths in the Scott Daniels brought together for a special day preceeding NCAA Championships, while the men's Valentine's Day. swim team drops two. Hospitality studenu and faculty serve 70 Men's club bowling team will participate in guests-Ritz style. the Eastern Regional Sectionals. REPRORLE A friend of mine put it as ehnjuently as possi dollars in rent for the land our two huge will have to guarantee a number of conces ble. "Marcos is slime, " she said, referring to military bases occupy. sions which will hopefully appea.se the the president/dictator of the Philippines. The Unfortunately, Marcos has been using Aquino supporters. This, it is argued, will man has systematically ruined the Philippine this money to wipe out his non communist allow Marcos to fight the growing com economy, suppressed the people he political opponents and to amass a private munisi movement in his country. It is the represents, killed his political enemies, and, fortune in the U.S. In short, the U.S. is sup American way when a problem arises, through his wife, spent millions from the porting his corruption. Marcos has illegally throw money at it. We should have learned state treasuiy- to buy property in the U.S. All engineered the defeat of his political oppo our lesson with the Shah of Iran. We can not of this in the name of Democracy, and with nent C'orazon Aquino through ballot stuff count on the deceitful Marcos to keep his the support of the L nited States. ing. multiple voting, miscounts, payoffs, and word, and he would probably use the money The Philippines are 7,000 miles away military intimidation. The event has become to furthur suppress his people. from sunny Rochester, and not an everyday a standing joke on Letterman and (Larson, as It seems to me that the Philippines is concern for most of us. Many of us don't get they and the rest of the world realize how headed for a civil war. We should discon a newspaper, and when we cKcasionally get ridiculous the "election" was. tinue all of our aid (except rents) and support the time to watch the news, it is such a con Because of out longstanding support of the passive resistance Aquino is already call densed and processed interpretation, that we Marcos, it may lcH)k as though we helped ing for. Marcos is an old, sick man. When he often miss the whole picture. It is on this him beat Aquino. However, the U.S. had dies, his government will fall apart and the assumption I write this, realizing that most of decided before the election to stay away, and group which should triumph is a unified, my comtemporaries are completely unaware the administration had secretly hoped that U.S. supfjorted, democratic organization led of what is happening and where the U.S. through the fair democratic process, Aquino by Corazon Aquino. stands in this matter. would be elected. She would have been On this group of islands, the most elected of course, but Marcos did not play politically significant of world events is tak fair fK)litics, and the U.S. looks pretty bad. ing place, more significant than AIDS, the Aquino will probably denounce the U.S., shuttle disaster, and yes—even South Africa. after all, we are the self prcKlaimed steward The current president, Ferdinand Marcos, of democracy. "How could we allow the has received millions of dollars of support democratic system to be so perverted," she from different U.S. administrations in order will say. to fight the rising communist movement and What will make things worse, is what the to support a sagging economy. The U.S. also Reagan administration is currently consider pays the Philippine government 180 million ing. In exchange for more U.S. aid, Marcos REPORTER MAGAZINE is published weekly during the scademlc year by students at Rochester Institute of Technology. One Lomb Memorial Drive. Rochester. New York 14623. Editorial and pro• duction facilities are located in Room A 283 of the College Alumni Union, telephone 716 475 2212 Subscnption $4 00 per quarter. 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Editor in Chief Please don't spoil RIT's hard earned Congratulations! To extend last week's reputation with indiscreet displays of ir- Kevin J. Minnick "Letters" section was probably one of the responsibility Mr. Minnick and friends. Managing Editor Ix'st editorial decisions your staff has vet True, vou do pay to go here and therefore Bill Amstutz made. Not only were the letters more should find ways to enjoy RIT like the rest Executive Editor interesting, controversial, at times funny ol us, hut not at other's expense. That is all Scott Stockham and (yes!) NKWSWOR PHY than some of that all of us ask. RS.As only try to see that News Editor vour past articles, but they also gave a a careless few don't cost the rest of us. voice to |X'ople who are part of a "silent George Greven Gritic|ue on a certain journalistic im majoritv " here at RI T. Writers propriety: The students I refer to are neither Maxine Isaacson Ignatio Kang 1. .An RSA's unit numlier can he cross HEI'OR I EH staff memlx-rs nor student Andrew Renna Mark Robinson matc hed to his name and therefore defunks leaders who might whisk Dr. Rose off to Tanya Farquharson that anonymity nonsense. Is an author he lunch in a limousine and then address a ing anonymous when he uses his fx'n name? Entertainment Editor crowd of l,.r()() students and the local Would it Ix- professional in my position to Kris Argento press. (Please dctn't get me wrong! The risk having a routine incident escalate into sham "kidnapping" all semantics aside, Entertainment Writers a malaise when I arrived at a scene wearing despite what Webster says prcxluced a Dean Cummings Jim Winiarski mv name plate? needed energv and interest among students Francisco Aliwalas Marc Evans The safety and well being of c»tln rs was and placed the well fed "victim " in a Steve Argento mv primary concern when choosing to use liigliiv \ ulner.ilde position: Ixdore a crowd Features Editor mv unit numlx-r for identification. Vou had of 1,500 and the local press. Ah, strategy! Ix'st re evaluate me if vou think I wouldn't Barton Rske How could he not have delivered the jump at an opportunity to debate this entire Sports Editors promises vou sought.'' Ah, willpower! I'm matter with anyone while off duty. Catherine Pick Dan Long trying not to discuss words vs. deeds, '2. 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