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3 if Whiter The L.A. than White Ballet page 5 page 9 -The Fourth Estate: Editorial To Carry a Gun

Whether or not campus security forces should body who feel threatened and intimidated by the body who feel threatened and intimidated by the carry side-arms depends solely upon the urgency note is that the National Guard were empowered flaunting of guns on a generally peaceful cam- of the campus situation. The relevence of such an with the same use of deadly physical force Stony pus. The need for guns is not justified, and if extreme measure at Stony Brook is clearly non- Brook's officers would obtain if they carry guns. officers are permitted to carry guns, student existent, yet, public safety officers pursue the At Kent State it was used as a deterrent, a must perceive the act as an incredible abuse of claim that increased crime here requires fire- method to preventassembly by the people. They authority. arms. were entrusted with discretionary power over The showing of force to deter crime at Stony An armed campus security force will inevita- life and death so broad and ultimate it will Brook is not only unreasonable but hypocritical. bly create hostility between students and public forever echo throughout history as a contempti- Public Safety, in recent months, has stressed that safety officers, and by merely pursuing the ble and criminal delegation of authority under its role is service in nature and cooperation in notion of deterence through show of force, Public the circumstances. The delegation is continuous practice. These intentions' cardboard nature Safety is creating a dangerous "Us" versus in all weapon carrying agencies. have already become apparent since cooperation "Them" atmosphere on campus. Last year at Adelphi University, a Garden City between weapons worshipping Public Safety Although Stony Brook's new Public Safety police officer used his discretionary power and officers and student will never by achieved. If the Director, Gary Barnes, maintains that guns are killed a student. It was a travesty which could show of force mentality is pursued, a polarization rarely used by officers, he feels they are a neces- have happened on many campuses. But, if it of the two groups can be assured, pitting students sary deterent to crime. These assumptions may occurred at Stony Brook, an arrest would have against officers and officers against students. be valid since the proximity of a .38 caliber resulted, not a death. Even though Stony Brook's Unless the affirmative is taken by Public Safety revolver will determine a potential criminal's Public Safety officers may possess wisdom in dis- to deal with students and low-level crime on an actions, and officers rarely do fire their guns but, cerning potentially explosive situations, the intelligent basis, communication between the rarely does not mean never. Historically, the introduction of a gun, or the threat of using it, two groups will never be realized. presence of armed officers on campuses creates further complicates the matter. Before the paranoid premise of "Us" versus additonal hostilities and unrest, not the preven- The relationship between students and public "Them" is reinstated on this campus, Public tion of it. safety can develop along two lines at Stony Brook Safety should consider carefully the implication Kent State need not be elaborated to our Public and the adoption or pursuit of firearms is essen- of pursuing the show of force rationale, before Safety Director since Mr. Barnes was appointed tial to that development. If members of Public students are left no option but to fight force with Assistant Director of that school's public safety Safety persist in the quest for side-arms, they will force. unit shortly after the shootings. What is worthy of eventually alienate a large portion of the student

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In the October 15 issue of the Press, a photograph was run atop an article con- cerning resistance to draft registration. The photo was taken at an unrelated campus rally, and the students pictured are not connected with the registration resistance movement, nor did the Press intend to con- vey such. Apologies for any misunder- standing that may have resulted.

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The Stony Brook Press

- Letter --.. Executive Editor ...... Scott Higham Arts Editor ...... Jeff Zoldan ity to moral injustice and attacking distasteful humor. Photo Editor ...... Eric A. Wessman To the Editor: unending concern for the body Better to question the basis of Assistant Editor ...... Debbie Silver politic via the student activity the problem on a consistent and Assistant Arts Editor ...... Larry Feibel Personally, I find the moral fee elicited a fatherly scolding more positive level than to Assistant Photo Editor ...... Shirley Zrebiec uproar sparked by the Press's directed against the Press for reduce its rebuttal to apology or Bob Romer now infamous "off-color" pic- ,widening the bottomless cre- attack. Individuals with a con- Business Manager...... Sue Draper torials rather educative and vasse between students and cern for issues greater than Editor Emeritus ...... Eric Brand amusing. Though the evidence 'administration. Certainly anti- tomorrow's paycheck or plea- is overwhelming that their climatic, this blatant attempt sure are rare in this school and News and Feature: Joseph Caponi, Rose Cian- underlying comment pertained to play the budding politician for that matter in society. For chetti, Paul DiLorenzo, Henry Ellis, Ned Goldreyer, to the sexist attitudes and came across as shallow and this reason an open atmosphere Jesse Londin, Christine Manos, Barbara Marcos, Noreen moral hypocrisies that run laughably naive. What this is necessary to foster the McLaughlin, Artie Rothchild, Corinne unabated through our society, I school's administration needs is growth of such human beings, Schruhl, P.A. Scully, Peter Smith, Lisa Stender. feel the intent was not to pro- a good kick in the pants to wake the only hope of all who feel the Arts: Audrey Arbus, Nicole Bokat, Alysa Chadow, mulgate these views but in the it up to students' needs instead need for real social change. Ron Dionne, Laura Forman, David Gresalfi, R. Jonathan last analysis to parody them. of budgetary shenanegans. Let's at least praise the Press Kurtz, P.F. Sullivan. Perhaps in poor taste, yet it is Yes, the pictorials were a for its continuing effort to Photo: Linda Calcano, Steve Daly, Lee Edelstein, easy to set up elephant guns to "cheap shot" at the expense of bring insightful journalism Stu Davis, Sam Glass, Lisa Simkin. blow away stray flies than to women (slap, slap) but I'll and meaningful issues to light Graphics: Clare Dee present a coherent and consist- admit they gave me a much in an intellectually and emo- Miscellaneous: Melissa Spielman ent feminist, humanist view- needed belly laugh. tionally detached establish- Advertisements: Mary Caulfield point other than by an explosive In an institiution which lays ment. Remember, if you cannot Production: John Tom one-shot slap on the wrist. bare society's moral hypocrisy laugh at life's absurdities you I find a strong note of hypoc- and the mindless indoctrina- are doomed to live them! Phone: 246-6832 ricy in the letter written by a tion that passes as higher edu- Sincerely, Office: 020, Old Biology Building concerned student representa- cation, I think it ludicrous to Robert Safner Mailing Address: tive whose deep-seated sensitiv- spend such enormous energies P.O Box 591. East Setauket, New York, _ _I_ __ ,,, __ __ -_NW11793 page 2 The Stony Brook Press I L I I , I MA C- I I I · I · , I I Fort Apache - The Brook Public Safety revamps its training program

by Ned Goldreyer With Stony Brook's rapid growth has come the inev- itable expansion of its police force, from the untrained security men of the 1960s to the present college graduated public safety officers who claim an urgent need for sidearms. The Department of Public Safety has been a center of controversy throughout its history, and now, with uncertainty still lingering in the campus community, it works to improve its procedures and shore up its image. In 1976, a bill was presented to the New York State Legislature that would change the role of all SUNY campus safety personnel from police officers-while-on- duty to peace officers while both on and off-duty. Under provision of the bill, safety officers would derive their powers from the Criminal Proceedures Law instead of the State Education Law, from which they had initially received their authorization. Having gone into effect just this year, the implications of this relegation of authority have not yet been fully realized, though projected changes in Public Safety's new responsibilities have already brought about the need for an improved regimen of training for officers of that department A senior officer, who requested his name not be revealed and shall hence forth be referred to as The Lieutenant, described the new training program as "the highest requirements for any police officer in the State of New York." Minimally, candidates must have either an associates degree in police science or crimi- concur with The nal justice, ninety-six college credits in any field, or officers with only a twenty percent rate of attrition. Director Barnes does not wholly though in meetings two years of law enforcement experience with forty- The current attrition rate among Stony Brook officers Lieutenant's view toward arming, agreed that new "tools" would five credits in any field. They must then undergo writ- is forty percent. with his officers it was of more effectively dealing ten and oral civil service exams, followed by medical "The academy will be more in tune with a university be examined as a means event a situation merits the examinations for fitness and agility. The entire pro- setting," explained Barnes. "Stony Brook is like a with violent crime. In the highly concentrated city, a city in the woods. Very few possession or use of firearms by safety officers, the nights go by without a major party of some kind, and decision to issue those weapons rests with President this constant proximity to one another can sometimes Marburger. According to Robert Francis of the Office friction." He emphasized the necessity to have of Campus Operations, who would advise Marburger type of peace cause 'I'dbe hard pressed to name another officers who took into account the unique nature of a on such a decision, "Currently, there are no circum- society comprised almost exclusively of seventeen to stances under which arms would be issued to Public twenty-four-year-olds. Safety officers." "we want to make the officer who isn't required to carry firearms...' Little added that "This administration's main con- "Primarily," said Barnes. cern is the quality of campus life." indicating that department proactive rather than reactive." and he while past administrations did not entirely ignore the emphasized that Public Safety will become a more "We want to do wha- needs of the students, their primary responsibilities "service oriented" organization. were simply to establish the existence of a school here. tever we can to stop a crime before it's committed. But. cess is known as Supervisors Field Training, and A number of factors, including the sheer growth of of course we all live in the real world and understand will be includes two-hundred and eighty-five hours of police the University, contributed to the need for an that being prepared to halt crimes in progress academy classes plus forty hours of campus orienta- improved Public Safety force. During the 1960s, when part of that reality." produces offic- tion. Failing any single part of the curriculum imme- some of the now more experienced officers were hired, Whether the new training program increasing fre- diately disqualifies a candidate from possible service. the function of securing the gestating campus was ers more capable of dealing with the remains to be seen. Upon successful completion of the program, the candi- vastly simpler than it is today. An officer's duties con- quency of violent crime on campus John Marburger to date is hired as a Campus Public Safety Officer II, sisted of little more than patrolling the grounds for Whether such training will enable service revolvers to State Pay Grade 12. vandalism, break-ins, and other forms of property- permanently stay the issuance of sure. Asked about those officers who had been hired related criminal acts. In terms of the New York State Public Safety employees is even less What is certain, at least in the mind of one Public before the intensified requirements went into effect, Employee graduated pay scale, these offices were Safety lieutenant, is that the number of students and The Lieutenant said that "everyone with the exception rated only Grade 3, as opposed to their contemporary faculty arming themselves with lethal weapons is of those hired during the past six months has been to counterparts, who are, as of 1971, Grade 12. "I don't growing at an alarming pace, and that it may be only a the police academy" in order to comply with the new even know if they needed a high school diploma back matter of time before a violent conflict erupts in which regulations. However, one officer, who would not then," said The Lieutenant of the Grade 3 officers, officers of the law will be insufficiently prepared to agree even to have his rank disclosed, said that a whom he referred to as "watchmen." respond, or will respond too abruptly. "number" of the older employees "on the force wouldn't Toward the middle of the sixties, the pay rank of go to the academy if you shoved...unless very forcibly security officers was increased to Grade 8, and it was persuaded." during this period that they were relieved of their Suing Suny One veteran, when questioned regarding his reluc- sidearms. Public Safety officers have not been autho- tance to augment his police skills, maintained that his rized to carry firearms since. "years of experience and dedication to the patrolment "What we are, at the moment, is peace officers with Postponed of the campus" exempted him from further education. the powers of police while on duty," said the Lieuten- The Lieutenant conceded that there were maybe three ant, "And if you asked me, I'd be hardpressed to name postponed until [officers] in the entire department who haven't had any another type of peace officer who isn't required to Suing SUNY Part II will be college, but they could easily trade in their experience carry firearms in the line of duty. Probation officers, next Thursday. action suit against for an associate's degree. "According to Community correction officers, even dog-wardens are armed." He Both the women's class and the university's defense rely Relations Director Douglas Little, only one officer has spoke of the respect received by a uniformed officer Stony Brook statistical reports and interpretations. The not experienced the new training program, as his posi- with a gun: "Even though it collects dust on his side for upon availibility of this information, until recently. tion in Records and Files does not warrent it. twenty years, it acts as a deterrent.... We have to do has been elusive and protected. Officials work- Gary Barnes, former associate director of the Kent what we are required to do by law, and we can't do that ing close to the case have also been instructed by State Police and the new Director of Public Safety at adequately unless we have the tools for the job. It's no the Attorney General's Office to limit comments Stony Brook, intends to make more far-reaching different from a nightstick a flashlight, or a first-aid on the case since it is still under review. improvements in the way in which campus law kit." The Press, however, will be sifting through enforcement officers are taught their jobs. Toward The solution regarding the arming of campus safety sys- statistical reports in U.S. District Court this this goal, Barnes has set in motion the formation of an officers is far from unanimous within the SUNY afternoon and tomorrow. President Marburger on-campus training facility designed specifically to tem. While most New York state colleges do not cur- will offer his insight to the class action. If all goes educate University safety officers. At Kent State, rently permit their officers to carry weapons, Geneseo well, part two of Suing SUNY will hit the stands where Barnes served immediately subsequent to the and Oswego do. Public Safety members are armed next week. Thanks for your patience. murder by National Guardsmen of four students, he after dark at Albany, and only supervisor investiga- instituted a similar program. orocessing six thousand tors are allowed to carry sidearms at Buffalo.

November 12, 1981 pag,e3 mm Checking Changes FSA negotiates for new check cashing machine

by Christina Manos The Faculty Student Association is presently involved in contract negotiations with the Bank of New York over the installation of an Automatic Teller Machine. According to Rich Bentley, President of FSA, the machine will be installed outside the Union's main entrance by January. FSA's main goal for acquiring the ATM, said Ben- tley, is to provide students and faculty with better banking services. "It can prove quite advantageous for its users. It allows for automatic withdrawal of up to $400, it runs twenty-four hours a day and it won't run out of money like the check cashing facility does," he said. Since the Bank of New York is a state-wide bank with 190 branches, students will not have to call home asking their families to mail checks. Bentley stated that the student's family can deposit money in their neighborhood branch and the student can withdraw from Stony Brook's ATM the same day. Besides, the current check cashing system is losing thousands of dollars. "There is a large concern by the FSA over the check withdrawing from the machine; while at the Bank of accounts," he said. cashing facility because it lost approximately $26,000 New York, funds can be withdrawn immediately. The bank will accept demand deposits, convenience last year due to the expense of keeping full-time tellers The Bank of New York is also responsible for the savingsand convenience credit upon immediate instal- and from the loss of money from non-collectable ATM's cost, construction and installation. According lation. Starting the first quarter of next year they will checks," asserted Bentley. "The fee charged for checks to Dick Bartolomeo, the bank's administrative officer, accept cash advances with a Bank of New York Master cannot cover the cost of workers. It's not that the check the total cost of the machine will be $150,000. When or Visa card, on utility payments and mortgage instal- cashing facility has poor workers," he said. "This is asked for a break down, Bartolomeo explained, "The lments. Bartolomeo also expressed the hope of begin- FSA's best facility as far as employees go, but. it just ATM itself costs approximately $33,000. The rest of ning construction on the ATM before next semester. can't break even." FSA is hoping that increased use of the cost is due to the machine's enclosure. We're instal- He stated that the bank must wait for the approval the ATM will allow them to cut hours of at check cashing ling it in an unmanned vestibule lobby unit. There will the regulatory authorities or eliminate them altogether. which normally takes 45-60 be an additional cost over the $150,000 for the setting days. A complete banking system, according to Barto- Check Cashing Supervisor, Elsa Jona, said, "I don't up of a temporary manned table to help people open lomeo. could take even longer. think check cashing will be affected since there's only one bank involved and one must have an account with that particular bank. Hopefully it'll help shorten lines." she said. "After the ATM has been in service. then we shall see how check cashing hours will be affected." When asked if cashiers will lose their jobs as Coram Bus Stops a result of the ATMs, Jona stated, "Check Cashing cashiers are assured of jobs with FSA even if check by Joseph Caponi cashing closes." Unless something unusual happens in (oram apparently neglected the dis- According to Bentley, the immediate effect of the the next couple of weeks, some Stony count agreement. ATM on check cashing will be the need for increased Brook students will find themselves On September 15. it was reported to personnel in the cash room to handle the transaction's with at best higher transportation bills. the Polity Hotline that Coram was bookkeeping. The cash room is an integral part of the and at worst no transportation at all. charging 75C per ride on the loop. Jane check cashing facility. "A decrease in check cashing The Coram bus company will either Lieberman and Steven Kohn, officers of volu me probably won't occur in the first year because raise fares on their night loop Polity Hotline, and others, quickly people won't be getting accounts with service the Bank of New through the university determined that the rate increase was York immediately," he stated. or cancel the run altogether. illegal as it had not been approved yet by FSA is presently researching several locations for Last year, Polity subsidized the the state department of transportation. the ATMs to further alleviate the check cashing prob- Coram Company at a rate of $96 per day. They reported this to the Suffolk County lem. "We'd send out proposals to different banks as we for a total of $14,000. For that subsidy. Department of Transportation and did for the first ATM. We're not trying to give one bank the Coram Co. agreed to run the night C(oram agreed to lower their fares a monopoly, but to get the most convenient bank hours loop, which runs from the Smith Haven immediately. But, according to Kohn. for students," he said. FSA is considering the Health Mall to Port Jefferson through Stony "They (Coram) didn't lower the fares Science Center for an additional ATM site. They are Brook from 7:30 AM to 11:30 PM, and to back until October 27." At the same also considering a bank on campus to allow for com- give students with Stony Brook I.D. a time. Coram applied for the rate plete banking services in addition to check cashing. 25¢ discount off the 50C fare price. increase to 75C. and have said they will The SUSB Federal Credit Union recently merged At the beginnning of this cancel the run entirely if they don't with the Teacher's Federal Credit Union and, with the semester Polity again tried to renew the arrange- receive the increase. increase in capital, they were able to put a branch on. ment. The Coram Company, however. All of which leaves Polity in adifficult the third floor of the HSC. "We would like students to did not want to negotiate. According position. Levy and the Polity' Council use this bank to help alleviate the problem at check to Lew Levy. executive director will go back to Coram and attempt to cashing and to improve their of Polity, own banking services," Coram claimed negotiate some sort of discount. Levy stated Bentley. that they were having troubles with the system then in effect. feels that, as there have been agree- According to Bentley, the Bank of New York is not Particularly, there was said to be trou- ments made with Coram in the past, it used on any other SUNY campuses. SUNY at Bingh- ble with the students showing their ID's. will only take a short time, on the order ampton has Marine Midland in combination with Levy said, "Coram claimed that stu- of less than two weeks, to come to an -check cashing facilities which have a $25 limit. The dents would show room keys, or claim agreement. If Coram doesn't get the rate University of Buffalo has five ATMs, also Marine Mid- that the 'other driver never increase, Polity will try to use its fund- land, and although asked for Albany uses Marine Midland, the ID'." ing to save the existence of the run. service is limited to payroll checks and money orders. Consequently, what the Coram Com- Money has become a serious issue. Originally, FSA was bidding with both Marine pany wanted to do, and what they told Under the old setup, for Polity to break Midland and the Bank of New York. They chose the Polity they were going to do, was to keep even on their $96 a day investment, latter for several reasons, many of which involved fees. the night loop running, but just charge nearly 400 students had to ride the loop According to Bentley, the check cashing account fee is 50¢ each for everyone. Under these cir- every night. Levy has no idea if that cheaper at the Bank of New York than Marine Mid- cumstances it would have been "monu- many students actually rode. but he also land. The fee for bounced checks at Midland is $7.50 as mental foolishness," as Levy described said that as they were trying to provide compared to the Bank of New York which is $4.00. The it, to pay $7,000 a semester just to gua- service to students, breaking even finan- Bank of New York also have lower fees for stopping rantee the existence of the loop without a cially was not one of their highest priori- payment on checks and plan to pay a higher annual fee discount. Since the Polity Council had ties. If the next discount is only to 60T or to FSA for the University location. Another considera- already allocated $7,000 for that pur- 65C from 754, then will it be worth the tion in the decision was that at Marine Midland stu- pose, the money stayed in the Polity investment? The Polity Council will dents would have to wait a day after depositing before treasury, where it still sits. decide within the next few weeks. - -rr I II I c - __,,_ "- mi Car ~7 page 4 Ine stony trooK rress man - I I I I I m Whiter Than White Long Island's detergent ban is lifted by Henry Ellis Emancipation for the clothes of Suffolk County is here. No more will people have to smuggle Tide across the county line, or risk copping nickle bags of Cheer in some dark alleyway. Those washday greys will be washed away, because last Tuesday, November 9, County Executive Peter Cohalan signed into law an amendment to the decade old detergent ban which will allow detergents to be sold in the county. Under the amendment, which two weeks ago passed in the county legislature (13 to 5), all detergents can now be sold in Suffolk except those containing a chemical called ABS, which hasn't been used by the detergent industry since 1965. Due to a New York State law, once the ban is amended it can never be reinstated without the entire state outlawing the sale and use of detergents, which is a practical impossibility. In the late 1940s, detergents began to replace soap as a cleaning agent. By the 1950s it was not uncommon to get a glass of water from the tap with a head on it. Foam appeared in springs and streams. The chemical time...and 53% of the time they are going outside Suf- irreversibility of the amendment.-"Our option to rein- ABS slowed down the destruction of detergent foam- folk to buy it." The conclusions of both surveys are state the ban is preempted by the state. Anytime a local ing. So extreme and universal was the foaming prob- further confounded by the fact that amphorteric, a government gives up some of its authority it is a lem that in 1965 the detergent industry voluntarily detergent used in shampoo which was not outlawed weighty matter." Wayne Prospect (D-Dix Hills) stated stopped using ABS in their formulas. under the original ban, was grouped with detergents that the recent study discrediting the ban is "basically ABS belongs to a group of chemicals called surfac- which were outlawed. a slop job which relied heavily upon sampling done in tants, which serve the function of keeping particles of (One unlikely opponent to the ban amendment is the Nassau, which is 90% sewered, as opposed to Suffolk dirt and grime suspended in solution. ABS was Sunshine Chemical Corp. of Commack. In the early which is mostly still using cesspools." The environment replaced in detergent formulas by LAS. which, seventies they began producing and marketing deter- is anarobic; sewers are arobic. The biodegradability of although also a surfactant, possesses a greater ability gents using amphorterics, bearing such timely names detergent is dependant upon the amount of oxygen to allow for the destruction of the foaming properties. as "Suffolk" and "Environment." They stand to lose a available, therefore breakdown is much slower in Suf- Long Island's one and only source of fresh water lot of profits because of the ban amendment). folk. comes from precipitation which percolates downward Legis. Rizzo maintains that "...there is no danger to "The whole detergent ban issue, while important. is and collects in subterranean waterbearing formations health from the use of detergents, the Health Depart- over emphasized," continues Prospect, "The most called aquifers. There are four layers of aquifer under ment backed me all the way on this." Most of the stu- pressing issue that LI faces is the illegal dumping of Long Island, and the deeper the aquifer, the less water dies conducted, and all of the ones by Suffolk, relate highly toxic industrial wastes into LI's environment. it contains and the harder it is to extract. Nassau health effects to biodegradibility not toxicity. And Instead of wasting our time amending laws which county has long since abandoned the use of the upper biodegradibility is based upon the concentration of could only help improve the environment we should be most layer (the Glacial Stratum) due to massive indus- contaminants in a given groundwater sample. concentrating issue which are clearly detrimental to trial and detergent contamination. They now tap the In the early 70s, the concentrations of detergents the environment," he stated. deeper and less polluted Magothy aquifer. Suffolk found in water samples began to drop. This happened Mike White, the Environmental Resource Planner still relies on the Glacial Stratum, but more and more, in both Nassau and Suffolk. Nassau had the advantage for the Huntington Dept. of Environmental Control, especially in non-sewered areas,Suffolk is tapping the of sewage treatment; Suffolk had the detergent ban, agrees with Prospect that most of the data was drawn Magothy. The time it takes for the aquifer system to go and they both were using detergents which had not from sewered areas. He goes on to state: "The Environ- through a complete replacement of water (recharge) contained ABS since 1965. The improvement of water mental Impact Statement is supposed to review all takes about a century. Due to the tapping of the aquifer quality in Suffolk was attributed to the combined alternatives. From the very beginning this current system and the dumping back into the ground of waste effects of the detergent ban and the removal of ABS EIS seems committed to its eventual conclusion. water, the recharge period is now only about 2V/2 from the market by several Environment Impact There's some questions as to whether it followed the decades. Statements and Water Studies conducted by the Suf- guidelines mandated by law." The detergent ban became law in March of 1971. It folk Health Department, including one called 'the 208 Gus Guerrera, the chief chemist of the Suffolk prohibited the sale of ABS, alcohol sulfates, MBAS study' conducted jointly by the Nassau-Suffolk Plan- County Water Authority also disagrees with the (methane-blue active substances) and nonionics. The ning Commission. The most recent Environmental results of the EIS. He feels that the research is far from ban was instituted solely on the basis of the unsightly Impact Statement, which was requested by Rizzo, has complete and he charges the author with "selective use foaming, according to Leg. Joseph Rizzo (R-Islip Ter- made a turn around and maintains that the detergent of data." Guerrera also states that the author. Joe race). "Detergent was banned because of the foaming," ban had "no significant effect on the quality of LI Baier, as the author of several documents, which, in maintains Rizzo, "no health reasons were ever consi- groundwater." The improvement, the statement main- the past, had creditted the ban with the improvement dered; the opposition concedes this." tains, is a result of the absence of ABS. of water quality. "It seems wasteful to invite possible Rizzo is the sponsor of the ban amendment. He has There were five legislators who voted against the recontamination," says Guerrera. "There's no scien- been fighting for almost two years to once again allow ban amendment. Jane Devine (D-Huntington) stated tific merit to removing the ban, it becomes a political detergents to be sold here. He is a happy man, now that that the date was incomplete. She also emphasized the decision involving tax revenues and re-election votes." Suffolk's laundry can be as white and bright as everyone elses. "The main point here is; why should LI consumers be denied the right to purchase any cleaning product which the rest of the country, and the Everyone's Coming to world, can buy?" he asks. Stocking Suffolk County supermarket shelves with the Bridge for Breakfast detergent will mean a windfall sales tax for the county to the tune of $285,000. "The increased revenue to the & Sundays county is not at issue here; it's comparatively small," Saturdays says Rizzo. He conducted a survey to find out how 11:00 AM 'till 2:00 PM extensive detergent smuggling was. It was statistically flawed. Post cards were sent to each household in his district. Judgements about the entire population of Suffolk were made based upon the I 990 Breakfast Special twelve-hundred cards which were returned. The peo- § ple who bothered to return Rizzo's survey cannot be considered a random and representative sample. 2 eggs, toast, potatoes, "How many people do you know who use just plain coffee soap?" asked Rizzo, "Soap clogs up cesspools. I've gone (we also have our regular menu) to Nassau to buy detergent for the last 9 years." Another survey was conducted by the Suffolk County Dept. of Health, which posed the question to county The Bridge Restaurant is employees and was similarily conducted. The Health on the second floor of the Stony Brook Union. Dept. concluded "...the results of the 1665 returns indi- cate that residents are using detergent 87% of the

e5 November 12, 1981 pagr The Society of Physics Students presents i Sexo, Drugso, Moneyo! Guest Speaker i Sexo, Drugso, Moneyo! Professor T. Owen (ESS Dept.) (are you Latinos with me now?) The Latin American Student Organization "Planetary Atmospheres & the (LASO) is going to hold a general meeting today, Origin of Life" Nov. 12 in Union room 214. We need you to help discuss important activities! Refreshments will be served!

Date: Friday, Nov. 13, 1981 Time: 2:00 PM Astronomy Club is showing videotapes of Place: S-240 Basement of Grad. Physics voyager I & II's flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. Come Wed., Nov. 18 at 8:00 PM to ESS 177. Everyone's welcome! Commuter College will hold a general meeting on Thurs., Nov. 12 (today) at 1:30PM. Undergraduate Come to Union room 080. We'll have our 1st Psychology annual turkey fest & square dance on Nov. 24. Organization Watch for more info. is holding a meeting at SSB 118 at 7 PM to discuss our Campus Crusade for Christ holds meetings future events. An undergraduate hypnotist, Lino Thursdays from 7:30 to 8:30 in Union room Faccini, will be present to demonstrate and discuss 213. See you there! "hypnosis." All members and prospective psych Womyn's Center is organizing a bus trip to students, please attend! Washington D.C. in order to voice women's opposition to U.S. military aggression. Cost of bus trip is $17.00. Call the women's center for more information.

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r We're for you! b c Submit work to room 245 in Humanities, no material will be returned without a stamped, self addressed envelope. All submissions must be typed. C - p. c-~------,,,,_,,_ _ •- . TvT T . ' - Ti ,I.~ 'frj~ am n~ page 6 The Stony Brook Press I What About the Monkeys? New Kiosk upsets a few monkeys by Paul DiLorenzo means there are already electric lines. Several monkeys on campus are get- They could have extended the water ting upset. lines out another 50 feet." STwo weeks ago a Faculty Student Tom Schmidt, a graduate psychology Association owned and operated food student working with the monkey stand opened in the engineering loop but experimentation stated, "The Psychol- the Psychology Department is protest- ogy Department also contacted the ing the stand's location to the adminis- Board of Health to see whether there tration on the grounds that its proximity might be a health code regulation that to the greenhouse, which houses a mon- would apply to this case." There is, how- key colony, will interfere with behav- ever, no law concerned with how close to ioral experiments. an animal colony food may be served. Jim Mazza, manager of the green- Schmidt added, "The health hazard I'm house stated, "The experiments are con- worried about is people transmitting cerned with how the monkeys react to diseased to the monkeys, by feeding certain stimuli. As little as possible them." He asserted, "Infectous diseases external stimuli must be encountered such as herpes, which only may cause a by the animals. There is already some mnor sore on a human being, can kill a external stimuli caused by the people monkey." But Schmidt added that walking by." He explained that with the "there is no danger to the campus from crowds generated by the food stand, the the monkeys because they are periodi- animals will be subjected to much more cally screened for disease." external stimuli. Mazza added that A pseudo solution to the problem was when he witnessed the stand's initial finally arrived upon which calls for the construction, Professor Menzel, Direc- construction of a fence around the tor of the monkey research program, greenhouse. Mazza said, "We want a consulted the Administration on the fence erected because it would stop the apparent problems of the location of the students from looking in and disrupting stand. Mazza said the administration's the monkeys, and also make it impossi- response was, "The plans are in and ble for them to feed the animals. The that's it." noise," he said. "would still be a prob- "Another request was made by the lem." To this date no construction order psychology department to have the for a fence has been placed because stand moved closer to the engineering nobody is sure who will pay for it. building, and further away from the Rich Bentley, President of FSA said, greenhouse," said Mazza. The Adminis- "I don't think it's fair for FSA to have to tration, according to Mazza, com- pay for an Administrative mistake of plained that "It would be difficult to not consulting the Psychology Depart- hook up the water and electric lines if ment." He added, "I would think it reas- the stand was moved closer to the engi- onable for FSA and the Administration neering building." But, he asserted, "It to each pay half for the fence." could have been moved closer to the Mitch Gerstel, a member of the Uni-- engineering building because there is a versity Facilities Planning Board stated little plaza there with a light, which with conviction. "FSA will pay for it."

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and aid the ailing nuclear industry, the will of the U.S. Parents The Reagan Administration has lifted the ban on people determines what course our energy policy w:ill commercial reprocessing of nuclear fuel. (Newsday take. Oct. 9) Aren't we the lucky ones? Now we can have In 1974 there were 20,000 active solar water and plutonium produced throughout our country. This will heating systems in the U.S. This mark now exceeds That's right. Work for the Stony Brook increase tremendously, the possibility of this raw 300,000-an increase of 15 fold. The number of instal- Press, neglect your school work and material being used for the manufacturing of atomic lations is growing at a rate of 37' a year. (Solar Age blow your LSAT's. It'll kill them. bombs. Hand in hand with this risk to our health. 7/81) Opportunities now exist: comes the prospective licensing of 33 U.S. nuclear In Denver. Colorado, a passive solar demonstration power plants within the next two years. home drew 100.000 viewers in a single month and On an equally sour note, the Department of Energy generated $10 million in contracts for participating (DOE) has criticized a study by Solar Energy contractors. (Solar Age 10/81) News/Feature Research Institute as being against administration The present government policies and related busi- policies. The DOE funded the study but will not pub- nesses are not willing to admit their mistake. They lish it. The report A New Proslperity, BRildin•l A Ss- entered the nuclear industry head first, countless bil- Arts tainabi,h Energy Future, states that the United States lions of dollars worth, without looking. Lilco. for exam- can achieve a full-employment economy and increased pie. has invested $2.5 billion of its ratepayer's money Photography worker productivity, while reducing national energy into Shoreham against which opposition is steadily consumption by nearly 25%9. The strategy is built increasing. Lilco also owns 18",.of the Nine Mile Point Business around the widespread use of renewable energy 2 (quite an ominous name) reactor in Oswego. New resources, and could result in the virtual elimination of York. This plant with its $5.2 billion price tag is the Advertising oil imports. The study's authors, Kelly and Gawell, also most expensive power plant ever conceived. (Con Edi- :testified that their jobs and programs had been indi- son has been having problems with its Indian Point Layout/Paste-up rectly threatened by DOE employees in the depart- Power Plants along with 16 other plants throughout ments efforts to keep the lid on the study for as long as the country. They might have to be shut down for 2 possible. (Solar Age 7/81) years while repairs, costing $100 million for each are made. (N.Y. Times Sept. 21, 1981) At a recent Passive and Hybrid Solar Energy plant, Join Stony Brook's Feature Investiga- Update Conference it was announced, much to eve- We will have to rely on the common sense of the ryone's dismay, that funding for research would becut people of this country and of the world to promote tive weekly. The Stony Brook Press. from $30 million this year to $10 million next. to $3 environmentally safe. renewable energy sources in the Maybe it'll kill your little brother too. million the year after. (Solar Age 10/81) future. ,In the Reagan Administration's war against renewable energy sources there is one flaw. The administra- (Viunrcvt Min, i S.,ior E'etri;-l ,r qti,,cr,'iSift- A tion does not realize that although its policies defend d.t ,ud1r vjert ('rrdin frfou r .V('T). _ LI - LL~ ·C_ r · _ 1-77 · I I - -- I

NoJvember 12. 1981 pa~Ke7 Film Banana Split Bandits Time Bandits, written by Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam. Directed by Gilliam. With David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, Jack Purvis, Mike Edmonds, Malcolm Dixon, Tiny Ross, and Craig Warnock. Also several cameos.

By Petrushka Fitzcarraldo Sullivan The executive producers of Time Ban- dits are George Harrison and Denis O'Brien, but looking at the movie one might have thought they were Sid and Marty Kroft, the TV masterminds behind such nervous Saturday morning kiddie shows as "The Banana Splits" and H.R. Puf'n'Stuf" of a few years back. There are a lot of silly places, in total disregard of one of the most basic rules of fantastic fiction in any genre: one either has normal people confronted with a strange environment or strange people in a normal environment. Two stranges. or two normals, together add Python, the British comedy troupe- in juxtaposing the normal and the Bandits is really nothing more than a up to dull, and Time Bandits generally three members of which are partly strange, in complicated ways. John string of unconnected cameos strung out is that. One of the marvels of Monty responsible for Bandits-was their skill Cleese, in an interview with the BBC through a movie about six silly dwarves filmed shortly after the release of Life of and a precocious little English boy. Brian, described working in the troupe To sell this movie, step one involved as a process of coming to regard abso- Palin and Gilliam getting Doubleday to lutely anything as funny. The key word publish the filmscript in trade paper there is process, and Time Bandits is vis-a-vis Life of Brian and Monty Pfython definitely short on process. and the Holy Grail. The next step is the The premise of the movie-six dwarf tip-off that the producers are really servants of God stealing from Himself afraid of finding themselves with a tur- and using a map to all the holes in the key on their hands. The last time a film fabric of time and space to get "stinking premiere party was advertised with rich"-is a gold mine or ideas for crea- stars attending and night-club backing, tive anachronisms and eclectic assemb- as was the case last weeek with Time lages of people. But Napoleon (Ian Bandits, was for Can't Stop the Music, Holm), Agamemnon (Sean Connery), -the Village People turkey that and Robin Hood(John Cleese), while (deservedly) was one of the biggest flops they appear in the film, never appear of 1980. Step three, which also does not together. This is a real disappointment. bode well, is the showcase distribution Connery and Cleese and Shelley Duvall pattern, as opposed to careful bookings (who plays a fictional whiny prude, in first-run theatres in a few major cit- twice) on the screen simultaneously ies. Instead, Time Bandits is playing on would be a very interesting combina- hundreds of screens now across the tion. And anachronisms and eclectic country, and the newspaper and TV ads assemblages were what Monty Python are heavy. Big parties, wide distribu- were best at. Vikings chanting "Spam- tion, and unusually prominent display spam-spam-spam" in a diner; a London advertising usually betray desperation suburban couple welcoming home their on the part of the producers. Time Ban- son-a Watusi in full native dress- dits is nowhere near as bad as Can 't Stop from studies abroad; Marx, Lenin, Cas- the Music. but it really should be on Sat- tro and Che Gurevara on a TV quiz urday morning TV rather than in movie show-the list is long and clever. Time theatres at four dollars a shot.

II _ ~e ldll' · I=l-L LII··l-hll~l I~~·I I IILsllLI IIImm Fine Art 's 'Other Season' by Alysa Chadow A diversified schedule is planned by Armstrong, faculty advisor and Theater Shakespearean play will be presented. after taking a theater course at the Uni- the Theater Department both in its for- Arts Department Chairman. It is to be the guest directed by Elsa versity. The final production, a series of mally presented productions and the According to Inkles, "The Other Sea- Erickson, a Smithtown woman who one act plays, is scheduled for December informal productions staged by stu- son" really took shape asa major theater iecame interested in the production 14-23. dents and others. event this year because of the activities - -- r - __ I_ --IL IL__I____ IL ~_ -·- - · 1___ -- II · A full schedule is planned for "The of William Bruehl and his senior Other Season," Stony Brook's theatre seminar class in current productions. series for University community talent. Students in the class are those tradition- Big Brother An adaptation of a well-known novel ally involved with "The Other Season." and an independent theater project are "The Other Season's" first production the distinguishing elements in another starts November 18 and runs thru the is Here semester of drama for the university's 21st. "Theater of the Obvious." an exper- academic year. imental work directed by Frank Huggel Several years ago in response to Meyers, will be followed by two one-act "1984," the classic movie based on Produced independently in 1956, this thiater arts students' demands to par- plays directed by Brad Hodges. The George Orwell's frightening novel, is controversial film stars Edmond ticipate in all aspect of theater. "The evening will conlude with a production being revived and will be presented by O'Brien and Jan Sterling. Since efforts Other Season" was started. It has won from Long Island Theatre of the Deaf Unity Resource and the Committee in have been made to keep this film from campus and community-wide acclaim directed by Karen Barro. From Solidarity with the People of El Salva- the public, this may be the only time for the work its students have done. "The November 30th thru December 5th dor (CISPES). This rare print, possibly "1984" will be made available to the gen- Other Season" is run by a five member Michael Cristofs Pulitzer Prize win- the only one left in existence, will make eral public in Stony Brook. group consisting of producer Michael ning "The Shadow Box" will be pres- its Long Island debut at Stony Brook on Donations for this' show are $2.00. For Johnson. assistant producer Allen ented. "The Other Season" is jointly IWednesday. November 18th in the Lec- further information call CISPES at Inkles, house manager Cheryl Mintz, six)nsoring it with the university Drama ture Hall, room 100 at 7:30 and 9:30 PM. 751-5605. technical director Tony Ciccon, costume Club. The play will be directed by Beth I- designer Steve Haber, and Gordon I Kaske. From December 9 to the llth a ~·C I r' · r · '·· r '··-·I' -- I = II B page 8 The Stony Brook Press -Dance Ballet Brilliance on S.B.'s Main Stage

by Lisa Napell What ballet wizard George Balanchine has done for the New York City Ballet Company has been faithfully reconstructed on the west coast in his Los Angeles Ballet company. Last Saturday evening their artistic brilliance was brought to the east coast on the Main Stage of Stony Brook's Fine Arts Center. The opening number, Scotch Symphony, is a classical ballet born out of Balanchine's admiration of the Scottish countryside. A wonder of the highlanders' native dances, it is a spectacle of ballet pink and scotch plaid. The pink tulle corps de ballet was exquisite; light, airy and graceful. Together, they danced in perfect syncopation with painstaking precision at all times. The first soloist performed a balletic rendition of the Highland Fling, her red pointed shoes flashed in the spotlight. She was followed by two dancers from a more classical school who worked wonderfully together. She led her alternately boyish, playful and romantic partner through the highland romance while he perceived her changing whim. Their style molded together with almost flawless technique, creating a romance that was a joy to watch. The Tarantella was a popular dance in Southern Italy where, in the 14th century, villagers believed that dancing rapidly until completely exhausted would ward off the poisonous bit of the tarantula spider. It is always danced in couples, although there the weakest piece in the show. The three premier cou- audience. It proved to be a successful tactic and when can be one or many couples involved. In Balanchine's ples were noticeably shaky in their arabesques. The the curtain did rise on the cafe the audience was ready choreography there was only one couple, but Ellen flaws in this piece were more choreographic than any- to see a Charleston. It was followed by a short softshoe Bauer and Kevin Myers needed no help. Their pas de thing else. The piece was choppy, its mood changed by a corps of flappers and black suited gangsters. deux did the grand masters vision justice. often without warning. The essential transitional Julianna Mathewson was playfully picked up-both This energetic sprightly piece had its dancers jump- moments were replaced with an empty stage. The two literally and figuratively-by Georges Vargas and a ing, spinning and alternately slapping and kicking soloists were, however, bright spots in the piece. smashing and amusing pas de deux ensued. their tambourines in a slightly zany and obviously The first to appear was a seductive blonde minx of a While Vargas and Mathewson were cutting up on friendly one-upmanship. But, as opposed to the ballerina. She flitted about the stage with the audience the dance floor, Lesli Weisner was busy getting sloshed obviously romantic mood of the previous pas de deux, it as her partner. The second soloist could have been the on champagne at a rear table. After Vargas escorted was competition. Bauer exhibited difficulty in control- ballerina's brother. He danced playfully about the his partner to her chair. Weisner reluctantly took to ling the tambourine since her wrist was not strong stage as one would expect Shakespeare's Pan to revel the floor on the arm of an eager and amorous Rudi enough. Her partner, on the other hand, had no trouble in the beauty of the wood. The choreography for the Simpson. She danced with incredible boredom and at all. His turns and leaps were unforgettable and L.M. solos were similar both in form and style. She used such a holier-than-thou look on her face that during a Gottschalk pranced along the keyboard with slightly numerous spins and leaps while he was feline in his romantic arabesque. she blew a bubble and cracked les energy and speed than Myers displayed on the grace and movement. her gum in his face. It was hard to tell who was more stage. Bauer consistantly looked at her feet during the The finale of this piece was a chaotic disaster, but surprised, Simpson or the audience. She finally rid performance but they were moving so quickly through perhaps Clifford wanted to get all his dancers on the herself of him and continued to dance with the same a complex series of pique turns she may have wanted to stage at once. Whatever his intention, an overcrowded insolent abandon that had characterized her pas de be sure they were still attached to her legs. and overworked parody of the choppy motions and deux of moments before. At the conclusion of the piece, Myers dashed hapha- splochy dim lighting so often found, with considerably Following Weisner's marvelous performance all the zardly across the stage to where Bauer was positioned more success in modern dance performances occurred. flappers present were given large balloons, five feet in with arms overhead and one leg raised high and However, Clifford redeemed himself in the fourth and diameter, shocking pink in color. The mirror ball was tucked behind her. He skidded to a stop and threw his final number of the evening. turned on and a fan dancer joined the entourage. She arms impulsively around her waist and pulled her Charleston, a ballet-burlesque created by him was amusing in her obviously staged embarrassment close, surprising her with a big kiss. The audience was included all the personna and style of the 1920's Spea- wearing very little beneath her feathers. stunned for a second by his advancement and then keasy. The flappers and gangsters moved about The entire piece, and for the most part, the entire burst into wild applause as the dancers took their amongst the champagne glasses and cozy tables for show, was inventively choreographed, well staged, bows. two with a delightful combination of grace and perfectly costumed and, above all, beautifully danced The ghostly Walpurgisnacht, choreographed by the comedy. To get the piece's mood a full minute of James by performers who knew what they were doing and L.A. Ballet's own artistic director, John Clifford, was P. Johnson's Charleston was played for the waiting loved what they were doing.

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President Reagan and Counts Press Secretary James S. Brady at opening ceremonies of new con- We have an interesting fact for you. What did it cost for the State Univer- gressional bullet-proof While you were reading, let's say the sity at Stony Brook to operate in a Beanie factory held in headline for this article and its first second last year? There were two calcu- Newark last Saturday sentence, three seconds have elapsed, lations computed. The first calculation night. Each Reagan and during those three seconds, the was the multiplication of 60 seconds per regime member will State University at Stony Brook has minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours receive and wear a spent about $18.06 in operating costs. per day, and 365 days of last year. This beanie, decorated with The SUNY at Stony Brook campus product equals to 31,536,000 seconds of cheery patterns of red, is very huge and spends a large amount last year. The second calculation was the white, and blue con- of money. The total expenditures, division of the total number of seconds of centric rings which, according to Richard Brown, Assistant last year into the total number of expen- when placed on the to Vice President and Controller of the ditures in the last fiscal year. Based on head extend over each University, were estimated to be about these calculations, it took, on the aver- temple. President Rea- $190,000,000 for the 1980-81 fiscal year. age, approximately $6.02 a second in the gan expressed the This figure includes the money spent by past year to operate the entire Univer- hope that the beanies The Stony Brook Foundation, the sity. will be made available Faculty Student Association, and to tLei+.+ puu*16n ibI isomeI LIlI e Polity. by John Tom before Christmas. I -- I- -- -- I ______----

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Tubes Bring Originality to Stony Brook

by Jeff Zoldan stage of the Stony Brook Gymnasium month world tour and an album cur- Waybill. "It makes it harder but it's still To be a successful rock band, you need last Sunday night. "I could stand selling rently on the charts, the Tubes' prob- a lot less boring than standing there." that special quality known to all as sur- a million more records," he humorously lems usually had more to do with getting The current Tubes tour, which began vival. Though success can be measured added. But the most important aspect of gigs and finding people who recognized in April in'their hometown of San Fran- in innumerable ways, one gauge is per- self-satisfaction, as any Psych major them for more than "White Punks On cisco and ends on New Year's Eve right sonal satisfaction. would attest, is that "we're doing what Dope." where they started, focuses almost "We're starving artists-not happy, but we want to be doing." "I find myself looking forward to solely on their current Completion Back- satisfied," pronounced Fee Waybill, The Tubes have certainly faced more sleep, then breakfast, and after that wards Principle LP. The most colorful lead singer of the Tubes, during a back- bitter problems than the ones they deal lunch and dinner," says a weary Way- and outrageous of all their myriad dra- stage interview just before he took the with now. Instead of a grueling eight bill. Life could be worse. matics is centered on "Sushi Girl." per- Though the Tubes might not be the formed here in a very subdued fashion. most prosperous rock band as measured Aside from two dancers dressed as an by record sales, they are the most octopus and a tuna, there are usually extraordinary onstage performers. two other dancers who wrestle in knee- Sunday's deep mud centerstage. "l n-lMr. performance in the Gym was L- no exception. "We cut that because it's a one-time V1iU S 1C From the opening "Let's Make Some thing," joked Waybill. "You get mud all Noise" to the final encore of "White over the instruments, the amps, and it Punks On Dope," the Tubes mesmerized takes about two hours to clean up the Wired for Sound the audience with a spectacular one mess." Seeing the Tubes perform an all hour and forty five minute floor show out "Sushi Girl" as they did in an that utilized scores of props, several art- appearance on the "Tomorrow" show in Alan Tarney's (I mean Cliff always call them tracks) hints that we ful backdrops, and four attractive and August, was truly an unforgettable Richard's) latest EMI-America release, may see some new things in the future. barely clad female dancers. With all the experience. Wired For Sound, finds more of the for- More true to form are the upbeat. pomp of early 70's glitter rock incorpo- Aside from "Sushi Girl," (Completion mulated pop-oriented sound that has hook-laden "Once In A While" and the rated into their stage show, concept. Backwards Principle creates some very been Richard's staple since he broke title cut. With solos and harmonies lifted however, was not sacrificed, i.e., stunts odd characters: a deranged voyeur who onto the American scene with "Devil from many of Richard's previous endea- are not performed solely for their effect, takes a female in the audience hostage; a Woman." Indeed, the only things wired vors, these, aside from the banality of rather on how they relate to the the- baseball player who bats nerf balls; a for sound on this album are Tarney's their lyrics, have that certain air about matic content of the song. psychopath who is tied and restrained in synthesizer and sitar-sounding guitar. them that will leave you singing those The flair for theater-during the a white sheet; and seven businessmen in The results are, well, as programmed as trite cos' and woh's. On a more sensitive course of the concert, Waybill made grey flannel suits toting attache cases Kal Rudman's Friday Morning Quar- note, Richard includes the ballads "Bet- eleven character changes-stems from and umbrellas. terback. ter Than I Know Myself" and "Summer the group's roots where, according to "'Completion Backwards Principle' is I know, it's only English soul, but I Rain." These are not of the typical Waybill, "we used to mess around, but a sales technique that was developed in like it. Richard's and Tarney's chemis- Richard gfenre, i.e. no synthesizer to nothing like this. We just got tired the early 60's by a guy named Stanley try bonds like hydrogen to oxygen (with speak of and a slow meter, but his standing there and not doing anything. Patterson," explained Waybill. "It's Tarney being hydrogen, he does twice as familir inflection, in this context, makes It's too boring. I hate to go see bands not mainly used in large corporations. It's a much) to produce fluid and well harmo- these songs most compelling. do anything." motivational sales technique." nized melodies. Hell, water's formula While Wired For Sound is nothing Exciting and innovative as the Tubes "'Completion Backwards Principle' is hasn't changed and we still use that. new, I do like it. It suffers slightly in that may be onstage, they still must stand the a set of twelve records and it has this Tarney played most of the instru- the material is not quite up to the level of test of vinyl, where visuals do not exist. guy, Stanley Patterson, going through ments, wrote most of the songs, I'm No Hero, yet it yields somewhat Their hook-laden power chords sup- this dialogue on how to make your sales- arranged, produced and even sings more in diversity. This is probably ported by lush harmonies lean to pop men more effective. We just switched background vocals. Indeed, he dons because of the year-time constraint of sensibilities. Yet the Tubes defy easy record companies to the biggest com- more uniforms than all of George Stein- recording contracts. Tarney, et al, more labels. Michael Cotten's syntheseizer pany in the world (Capitol) and it's all brenner's ex-managers (he's better find than make up for this with better than puts the group in the realm of techn- very corporate and businesslike. We something else to do to keep pace.) Most average tunes and catchy hooks. rock, while Bill Spooner's and Roger were on a mom and pop label before that of the LP's 10 cuts are built around the Many bastions have had two first Steen's lead guitars lend an air of heavy (A&M). It was kind of palsy-walsy. hang similar chord progressions and solos names in their moniker: from James metal. Driven by a pumping rhythm out at the lot and be friends with everyb- that were evident on the score of I'm No Joyce to Ray Leonard; from Laurence section of Rick Anderson (bass), Prairie ody and this is business." Hero. Harvey to Bob James. I wouldn't go so Prince (drums), and Vince Welnick Even if the Tubes find touring"barely The one exception is a Flamingo-like far as to add Cliff Richard's name to this (keyboards), the decibel level easily sur- intolerable," they'll still stick to the fifties doo-wop ditty, complete with sax list, but I would give him honorable passes the standards for safe listening. road. As Completion Backcwards Princi- entitled "Daddy's Home", which also mention. Not bad for a guy who has sold But has the stage antics hurt the Tubes' ple garners more airplay and keeps happens to serve as the theme song to more records in England than the Bea- credibility as a band with serious musi- moving up the charts, the rewards Richard's BBC television show clverly ties and may one day break Dick Clark's cal ideas? become self-evident. Besides, Waybill entitled "Cliff." It is well executed, an Guinness record for most face lifts. "That's probably the biggest mistake candidly says, "we can't afford to break interesting change of pace and its inclu- -Larry Feibel we made going theatrical because peo- up. No one in the group wants to work a sion as the closing track (the British ple tend to discount the music," said normal job."

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