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V.P. office is currently moderating the dispute Polity cuts off Statesman's funds

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Statesman loses $1,550 a week

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As time went on, these three males were re- range of 18-22,who are now receiving their first The catchword in the current Statesman-Polity placed by three females who proved to be just experience in the business world, directing a dispute is "lawlessness." Not the breaking of as incompetent at this task. Laura Craven, quarter of a million dollar a year operation for laws but the lack of them. The Press has un- Tracy Edwards and Adina Finkelstein allowed which they are totally, legally, responsible. covered in its investigation of the controversy, the situation to grow well out of hand, until the Corporate responsibility in terms of law can that Statesman, unlike every other student or- current clash occurred between Craven's and mean personal lawsuits against corporation dir- ganization on this campus, can apparently Edward's successors. ectors and jail legally sentences. Documents obtained operate without the hinderance of An attempt to rectify the situation is now un- SUNY guidelines. by the Press prove that last year some of States- derway. If one would guess that it would not man's top officials came dangerously close to The essential question here is whether or not take long to draw up a new contract, they would this fate. It was only because, as students, any student corporation should indeed be able be wrong, because the negotiations are not Polity did not wish to prosecute other to operate as independently as any outside corp- students attempting to solveithe~ i problems.According to that charges were not filed. oration. Unlike outside corporations, student Emile Adams, arbitrator for the negotiations, Any corporation should have a financial direc- run associations experience rapid turn over of such a discussion between our once-happy :tor who will be around longer officers, making it impossible for these corp- than one year. couple would end in litigation. In a desperate This would ensure the stable business practices orations to operate as smoothly as needed. attempt to avoid this, much of the preliminary Some constant element must be present. of the corporation and keep its directors out of discussions centered around the corporate status jail. This constant element is provided for Pol- of Statesman and the date of Statesman's in- This editorial also serves as an Introduction to ity clubs and businesses by the executive direc- dependence from Polity. the Polity -Statesman dispute story. tor, firstly, the Vice President of Student Through its investigations the Press has come Affairs, secondly, and the President of the up with six possible dates, -one is in , the future. University, thirdly. When the goal of indepen- These dates are: 1975, when the Statesman was dence at all costs outweighs corporate respon- incorporated as an independent not-for-profit sibility, as in Statesman's case, crisis like those corporation, 1977, when Statesman and SUNY EDITOR'S NOTE: Due of last year and now are bound to occur. But signed the revocable permit (A document issued to the complexities of interpereting by no means can Statesman be held soly res- only to independent corporations), 1981, when legal documents and filling in areas where ponsible for the current situation. There's the last Polity-Statesman contract elapsed, 1982, these documents were missing in the lead plenty of blame to go around when Statesman stopped using its signature card, story, the Press was forced to come out a day late Let's start with the basics...contracts. Polity March 1983, when the Polity Council declared and Statesman currently do not have one and them independent and May 1983. when States- have not since August '81. On this firm ground man may cease to be a line budget item L, L 1 LI , IIIII II· I__I I of agreement, based ori mutual admiration and The actual date is very important, because, ac- respect these Brook superpowers transferred cording to Polity's financial policy and pro- $100,000 of student activity fee money in 18 cedure, a document Statesman once agreed to, The Stony Brook months. Each side is now considering sueing the Polity is entitled to all equipment purchased by Press other for not fulfilling the spirit of their non- Statesman prior to that date. contractual agreement. All these important negotiations, which are The two people responsible for insuring the debating the avenue which large sums of money welfare of student organizations were Ex Vice shall and have passed through are not nearly as Executive Editor...... Paul Dilorenzo President for Student Affairs, Elizabeth Wads- important as the ramifications that the speedy Managing Editor...... oe Caponi worth, and Polity Executive Director Levy decisions will have on the future of Stony Brook Assistant Editor.... Gregory Scandaglia They did nothing while the contract between We are primarily addressing ourselves to the is- Senior Photo Editor.... Eric E.Wessman two largest student corporations lapsed. Blame sue of whether or not independent student cor- Arts Editor...... Kathy Esseks also rests with former Statesman editor Hloward porations that deal in any way with activity fee Arts Director...... Blair Tuckman Saltz, Polity Treasurer Chris Fairhallt and Pol- money should be bound to the Chancellor's Business Manager...... Dawn DuBois ity President Jim Fuccio, who were responsible guidelines. Student Affairs, through its com- for drawing up the agreement. Their summer ments, seems to be leaning toward the opinion News Feature: Eric Corley, A. Cunning- 1981 contract was a masterpiece of detail which of Statesman that they are not responsible to ham, Ned Goldreyer, Dave- Goodman, even F. Lee Baily would love. But when it ran anyone but their own board of directors. This Kathy (iont, Patrice Jacobson, Barry out, there was not another to put in its place. board is composed of individuals in the age Raigin, T. S. Fapasak. Arts: Hob Goldsmith, Paul Gumpol, Dan link, Ralph Sevush, lared Silbersher, SLetter -ony VjhitJ,J.f f Zoldan. Photo: (Chthy Dillon, Dan Mangus, Gail Matthews, Paul ()'Flaherty, Chris Von TO THIE ED ITO R: officer that you may encounter. Anc ken. As the Administrative Super- One difference between the officers visor of the Volunteer Resident of this campus and those of Suf- Advertising Director.. Samir Makhlouf Dorm Patrol, I would like to res- folk ('ounty is that the police of- Ad Design...... Maria Mingalone pond to the recent article which ficers of our campus are not al- Graphics/Cartoon...... Ken Copel was printed concerning the iUni- lowed to carry'sidearms. The other R. Gambol versity Police Dept. I have no ob- difference is that many of the jections to any individual stating police officers that work for the Office Manager.J...... J ohn Tom his/her opinion. But if that per- campus community were once son is going to make the kind of members of the campus com- The Stony Brook Press is published waves that Mr. (oldreyer was munity. In addition to that, they every Thursday dluring the academic year trying to make in Thursday's have also received special training hy the Stony Brook Press Inc., a student issue of the Press, then he should in dealing with a community such run and student funded not-for-profit first become educated about what as ours. 'This type of training is corporation. Advertising policy does not he is addressing. not routine for the officers of necessarily reflect editorial policy. The point in question is that of the Suffolk County Police De- the Department of Public Safety partment. Now the question is The opinions expressed in letters anc taking on the title of thel ni- posed: who would you rather viewpoints do not necessarily reflect versity Police )ept. The fact have patrolling our campus, Uni- those of the staff. Please send letters anc stands that this campus no longer versity Police or the Suffolk viewpoints to our campus address. has a security agency patrolling County Police Department? the areas. Every officer that you Many times I hear people talking Phone: 246-6832 see out in the public has been about the University Police De- Office: 020 Old Biology Building trained for the p)urpose of being a partment. Most of the time what I police officer for the State of New hear is negative. I would like to Mailing Address: York. Every officer in the depart- state at this point that no matter P.(). Bx 591, East Setauket, New York ment has the same rights, respon- what police department you deal 11733 sibilities, and power as any police with, you are going to find that

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page 2 The Stony Brook Press Frozen Admin moderates student dispute

By Joe Caponi and President Fred Preston Paul DLorenzo The role of Emile Adams as mod- A continuing controversy bet- ,erator has also come under dispute ween the Polity Student govern- because of charges made by anon- ment and Statesman was rekindled ymous members of the Polity at the beginning of this semester, Council that he has not been im- when, in a routine check of Polity's partial. "We believe that the Of- files, assistant Treasurer Brian Kohn fice of Student Affairs is on States- discovered that Statesman did not man's side," said one source. The have a standard signature, card on Press has also learned that prior file. The signature card is used to to the negotiations members of guard against forgery in the Polity Statesman had at least one meet- vouchering system. It is the only ing with Student Affairs personnel, check in the accounting system in which the current dispute was which insures that the proper mon- discussed. Council members in a ey reaches the proper organizations. meeting last Thursday also pointed Kohn reported the missing card to a proposal they received from to acting Treasurer Belina Ander- Adams entitled "Proposal for resol- son who, in accordance with Polity ving the differences that have exis- bylaws, automatically froze States- ted between Polity and Statesman." man's budget until a card was filed This proposal states in its opening with the signatures of editor Glen paragraph: "At a meeting on Taverna and Business Manager Thursday,March 3rd, representa Nancy Damsky. Statesman refused tives from Polity and Statesman and hence has not recieved its tentatively accepted the following eOCu $1,550 per week checks since. proposal pending approval of their Ns However, Statesman continued to governing bodies and the Vice Pres- run Polity's ad pages for over a ident of Student Affairs. Polity .0C3 0 month, ceasing only at the begin- president Adina Finkelstein claims, ning of this week "the negotiating team never accep- Upon request of Statesman the ted the proposals." All five of the '5 Office of Student Affairs entered proposals are an attempt to clarify into the negotiations in the capaci- the contractual relationship bet- ty of mediator. Associate V. P. ween the two entities which cur- Emile Adams was named modera- rently do not a formal contract and tor for these negotiations by Vice (Continued to page 6) r~l-1 r I r I II Is I - I , r g ' P9 I II I II I L --a I II r r ~1-1 MI I A Night At The Vigil

1 Coleman lantern that hangs from white in preparation of some slo- hot chocolate. Now they're sitting a pole which looks strangely like ganeering tomorrow. There's a in their car, after some brief and It's cold, clear, starry; a gib- a shepherd's crook. The Flame of lean-to, covered with 10 mil poly- awkward attempts at conversation. bous moon hangs, glowing, over- Life, they call it. ethylene for shelter from the rain. Dave's Toyota has the trunk and head. There are eight of us out on "No," Peter says. "There's Two tables, one near the roadside doors open, the Thompson Twins the side of Rte 25A, standing really nothing else I'd want to be covered with literature, a second up blasting on the tape deck. Betel- mostly, sipping tea from covered, doing tonight." He has his dog against a snow fence some twenty- guese, the bright red star in Orion's horizon. styrofoam cups. Puffs of steam with him, a huge sheepdog with five feet from the road. That one shoulder, is just above the is mark each breath. This first enough fur to stuff a bean bag has food, instant coffee, tea bags, Orion setting around midnight is almost Friday night in March, surely there chair. "Fluffy," he says, when and two somewhat unusual con- a sure sign that spring prompts a spontaneous must be something else to do, asked the dog's name. Everybody versation pieces. The first is a jar here. This lesson, and Taurus, something fun, a party or a rock laughs. "My kids," he explains, and of sprouts, and the conversation it astronomy Cancer, Leo, and Scorpio and roll band in the city. suddenly there is the image of engenders goes "How in the world Gemini, identified. The lesson is Something. Christmas, five kids running down do you get alfalfa to sprout in are soon weather?" "I by the arrival of a Peter is from Rocky Point. With stairs and a little grey and white, thirty-five degree broken up step-van. The driver's his thick black beard and eyebrows, puppy with a red bow tied around don't know, it was here when I large green Frank. "I deliver bagels," red-checkered coat and cap pulled is neck underneath a flashing tree. got here." The other is a box of name is "I've got a few extra. I down low on his forehead he could The image is dissipated by a car Nestle hot chocolate envelopes, he says, you might like to have a Mediterranean fisherman out horn, in fact by several car horns. and people are debating what to thought be 'em." A round of introductions, to check his nets. He's got five Most of the traffic just drives by. do with it. "It's already been and general assent, and Frank walks kids, five good reasons, he says, to Maybe three cars in ten blow paid for and donated; I don't see back to his truck, disappears for be standing out here in the middle their horns. Less than one in anything wrong with drinking the an instant, and returns with a four of the night. twenty shouts some unintelligible, stuff." "Well, I do. I think we foot tall bag of bagels. Standing on property that but clearly negative, comment. should send it back to Nestle with Half a minute later the stove, doesn't belong to him; property Get a job, perhaps, or go home, or a note telling them why." This with its donated container of pro- that belongs to the Long Island fuck you. The first two elicit the debate is not resolved on this pane, is boiling a large pot of Lighting Company. Property that response we have jobs, or we are occasion. water. "Tea and bagels, yeah. houses the nearly completed Shore- home. The last is generally ig- There are other folks standing Makes it all worthwhile when some- ham Nuclear Power Station. nored. Maybe one car in fifty will around too. Jim, Patty, and one stops to do something like this, For almost the past two weeks, stop. "I pass you guys every day," Connie are all Stony Brook stu- y'know?" "Well," says Frank, "ya Peter or someone else, or several says one driver. "I've read about dents. Dave is from Setauket; just gotta do what ya can. I'd like people, have been standing on this you in the paper. I just wanted to he teaches at an alternative school to be out here with you guys, I property that doesn't belong to thank you for what you're doing." on the South Shore. Two people, really would, but I got my job. Ya them. They've been keeping a There is a blank sign behind the a married couple from Shoreham, gotta do what ya can. lantern lit over that period of time, lantern. It's just been painted had been standing outside, sharing just

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Tues., March 15, 1983 237 at 8 p.m. Union Rm. T7he Haitian Student Organization will be' 0 holding Guest Speakers: a Soccer Tournament for Haitian ll 'eken(d, April 22nd and 23rd. Teams Rose Myers, R.N., M.A. Sshould consist of 9 players. Anyone inter- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs eslted please contact Pierre Blot at 246- and Continuing Education 4307 (1ater 6 p..m. Stony Brook Nursing School

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Island is becoming increasingly un- growers from the west and south to by hioned. Julie Fleisher, profitable and environmentally un- supply their produce sections. Al- Recently, however, dif- Laurie ferent Rowinski, and safe. This is mostly due to the de- though local agriculture cannot sup- regions in the east have been Stephen Kester pendence on the potato as the key ply consumers with produce all using this vehicle to support local NYPIRG, in association with agricultural mainstay. Potatoes year, the viability of local agricul- agriculture and ease the burden of Long Island Cares, Inc., is working comprise about forty percent of the ture can be maintainc '. _rough an high food bills to consumers. Far- to establish a farmers' market at or agricultural land in use on Long increased share of the market mers' markets, which have a long nearby the Stony Brook campus. Island. Cultivated primarily as a during the local harvest season. history on Long Island, are cur- By inviting farmers to sell their monoculture (planting in the same For Long Island consumers, the rently being revitalized. Last fresh fruit and vegetables direct- acreage year after year), potatoes dependence on distant suppliers year markets were established with ly to consumers, this project hopes demand an increasing amount of to meet daily food needs will mean great success at the State Office to help preserve farmland and lower inputs (i.e. chemical fertilizers and increases in food prices and less Building in Hauppauge and at the cost of food to consumers. chemical herbicides and pesticides) savory items for local consump- Brookhaven National Laboratory. Long Island Cares, Inc., is a re- to maintain yields. As production tion. Compare a California tomato Besides this project, the New York gional anti-hunger organization prices rise and there is no com- to a New York one. California City Council on the Environ- founded by the late Harry Chapin. parable increase in the price of po- tomatoes are specially bred to ment is planning to establish One of its programs is the forma- tatoes, there is a greater tendency withstand long distance transport. farmers' markets at three other tion of an ad-hoc committee of for farmers to sell out to develo- Thus, the California tomato is locations on Long Island through farmers, consumers, and public- pers. By increasing the marketing hard, picked a week before it's the greenmarketing program. interest organizations which are outlets for farmers (especially di- ripe, and chemically ripened on its Before setting up the market at uniting to plan a regional food rect marketing to consumers), this way to your table. A tomato Stony Brook, NYPIRG is trying to policy that has as its goals the pre- project hopes to keep current fruit grown by a local farmer is vine- determine public interest in the servation of farmland, the alle- and vegetable farmers in produc- ripened and bred for your palate. project. This is done through sur- viation of hunger and malnutri- tion as well as add a push towards Through dependence on remote veys, distribution of questionnaires, tion, and the deterrence of ground- the diversification of Long Island farmers, the island will also be and tabling. The next step is to water contamination. The farmers' farmland. increasingly susceptible to trucker inform and encourage local far- market project is an outgrowth of Currently, New York State im- strikes, crop epidemics, and natural mers' involvement. Anyone who the discussions of this committee. ports eighty percent of the vege- catastrophes, all of which have oc- would like to help is welcome to Suffolk County is the largest ag- tables it consumes. Long Island is curred frequently in major growing contact NYPIRG at 246-7702 or ricultural county in New York no different. Most supermarkets regions. Long Island Cares, Inc. at State, and yet, farming on Long now contract year-round with Farmers' markets are old fas- 435-0579. Up The Brook

DO YOU IDOCA 9r I ^YOUto, al- ' NIVI IL THi SEE THE A SEMI- REALITY MILITANT OF A CHEAP, POLICE FOR QUALITY OUT THER EDUCATION WOULD LI K BEING NOTHING THREATENED BETTER T $ TO BEAR ARMS AGAIl US?

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Maruch 10, 19)83 pag ;e 5 I I I I, I I I I ii I II I r - -- "No Signature No The lack of a signature on a card or a contract nets

(Continued from page 3) agreement signed. It is this docu- revenue that has never been official- itorial, Statesman answered these re ad as follows: ment that Statesman believes Polity ly accounted for. That conflict led charges by stating, "As far as sti- 1) Both parties agreed that com- has to honor by virtue of the spirit to the early retirement of States- pends are concerned, it is a shame plete independance is necessary of contract tradition. This practice man business managers Cory Gol- that they charged last years and that this will be achieved pri- is usually used when a contract ex- loub and Alan Federbush. Accor- stipends were not justified accord- or to the 83/84 academic year. pires and service and payment for ding to Editor Taverna, Polity's ing to Statesman's bylaws. If these 2) Polity and Statesman agreed to )aid service continues until another "method of investigation used last people would have seen updated sign a revised contract similar to contract is negotiated. "Even year was very poor," and, to quote bylaws, they would have seen the the contract signed in the summer though a contract wasn't signed his editorial of March 9th, "when appropriate changes allowing for of 1981 to caver their relation- an unspoken agreement was in the books were inspected in such a stipends." ship to the end of the academic place, that we would continue to manner a few years ago, the parties During the course of this inves- year 1982/83 run their ad pages and they would doing the inspecting yielded inac- tigation the Press tried repeatedly 3)'Polity will provide payment for continue to fund us," Statesman curate charges which were irres- to see the alledged new bylaws and all past due services received and editor-in-chief Glen Taverna com- ponsibly blown out of proportion got a run around from Statesman services received through Friday mented. by many parties." "I'm not here executive to Statesman executive. ,March 4th at the rate of $1,550 The '81 contract is quite standard to take the money and run," Taver- Due to these documents' inacces- per week except for clause 12, which states: na told the Press, "there are no sability, the stipend issue at this 4 ) Statesman will turn over to Pol- "Statesman agrees to provide Polity unvouchered expenses, the receipts date can not be determined as ity a copy of its most recent fin- with financial statements for the are there, everything has been ac- clear, one thing that is perfectly ancial report summer operations. In addition, counted for." clear is that Statesman did not seize 5 ) Polity, upon written notice, quarterly reports must be prepared. may review the financial records Copies of the above statements of Statesman. Polity may not shall be filed with the Polity book- freeze the Statesman budget keeper and the Polity Secretary. (income as agreed) without invok- All financial records will be open to ing the following stepsi Polity review." a. Polity must provide States- Review is a key word when one with a written notice of its is dealing with Statesman. States- desire to freeze Statesman in- man is very uptight over how their come, and the notice must books can be reviewed and by state the reasons for such a whom. It is for this reason that freeze. they would not sign the signature b. At a time to be determined card that set off the current stale- by both parties involved, a mate. Signing the signature card meeting is to be held with the would force the newspaper to fol- Vice President for Student low Polity's Financial Policy and Affairs or his representitive to Procedures Guidelines (FP&P). examine and discuss Polity's Under Section VII subsection G reasons for a freeze and states: "Polity reserves the right Statesman's counter argu- to recall and inspect the books ments. of any organization it funds." When it did last year, Polity One key section of this proposal reported $450 in illegal loans illuminates major difficulties in the made by the Statesman Corpor- current debate. It is section 2, cal- ation President and editor-in- ling for a new contract based on chief Howard Saltz, to- himself, the surn.r HI ta

r~ · · r cnas Fairnau negotiate mtne last contract wimn statesman However, when asked for a copy the opportunity to back up the of the latest quarterly financial statements made in their editorial. report, Mr. Taverna replied that he did not know where they were Lost bylaws and nonexistent con- on file. tracts, though, pale in the face Other key Statesman documents of ignored SUNY Chancellor Guide- whose location Mr. Taverna claims lines. These guidelines are used to not to know include the States- govern every student involved man Bylaws. These documents are organization in SUNY. In the re- the laws and regulations by which vokable permit which is a contract the Statesman Corporation is between Statesman and SUNY governed. Due to its independent granting the Newspaper its office corporate status, these and the space inside the Union building New York State Not-for-Profit there is a clause stating: "Statesman Corporation Laws are the only shall restrict its activities to the laws that govern Statesman. States- purposes set forth in ;ts Certificate man has been accused of breaking of Incorporation and all corporate its bylaws by awarding the mem- expenditures shall be made in ac- bers of its editorial board stipends cordance with 'Chancellors Guide- last semester in far higher amounts lines for student Activity Fees.' than the bylaws on file in Polity Statesman may not enter into allow. The old bylaws contain a agreements or contracts with other ceiling amount of $225 per semes- agencies without the expressed ter; during the Fall 82 semester written approval of the University some stipends reached as high as Center." $600. In the afore mentioned ed- The Chancellor's Guidelines,

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in the had a les are some to the there County is an exception )unch. The University Police De- rule? Many times officers come off Oartment is probably no better. with an attitude which is justly eing involved with the Volunteer deserved. If you have ever done )orm Patrol, I have been given an any kind of a task which is similar Dpportunity to see the University to that of a police officer, whether Police Department work. I have it be directing traffic or making a vorked with them and had an op- citizen's arrest, you would know portunity to get to know many of the kind of abuse that a police of- he members of the department. I ficer takes at times. The point that 2an truthfully state at this time that I'm trying to get at is that we have, :he members of the University in my opinion, one of the most ap- Police Department, as a unit, are propriate police agencies for our ,here because they care. The type of environment. They care a Volunteer Resident Dorm Patrol lot about what happens on this vould not be in existence today if campus. But please remember that t were not for the help of people they are also human and make ike Gary (U.S.) Barnes, Doug mistakes like any other human Mr. Big) Little, Chuck Lever, and being. They also have emotions. Dr. Bob Francis. These people And finally and just as important, not only help us, but they also help in order for them to be able to us help ourselves. Without the sup- serve us better, they need our support of these people and all the port. That doesn't mean that other officers and .administrators everyone has to agree with them, in the university, our organization but everyone should give them the could not and would not exist. respect that they deserve. And I As far as some officers coming for one feel that they deserve a off like they have an attitude, lot of respect for the type of work which Mr. Goldreyer's cartoon in- they do. sinuated, he's right. Some officers Philip V. Ginsberg do come off with a macho man at- Administrative Supervisor titude. Do you think that Suffolk V.R.D.P. Tracy Edwards the olity 'Treasurer wno aian i negouate a couitrac Ia SUNY meant for Statesman to fol- which, according to Business Man- low all of the Chancellor's guide- ager Nancy Damsky, Statesman did lines, including the requirement for not even have until Thursday, re- a C&D agent, who is integrally in- quire that every organization have a volved in all guideline expenditure Custodial and Disbursing Agent clauses. In addition, Statesman has Compete for a Good Cause! (C&D Agent) ,in charge of its mon- continued to be a line item in the ey flow. An example of such an Polity Budget every year since. Swim-Along Fundraiser agency is the Polity office of Polity defines a line item organiza- executive director, and all C&D tion as one that receives over $750 year, Statesman re- agents must be approved by the a year. Last i University President or his designee ceived $62,000 from Polity, and (at Stony Brook this is Fred Pres- has received over a quarter of a ton). million dollars in student activity Since 1977, when Statesman fees since the revocable permit was signed the revocable permit, it signed. has never had a C&D agent. The importance of a C&D agent During negotiations, Polity to a student run corporation is best Executive Director, Robin Rabii, summed up by Howard Saltz, who asked Emile Adams why Statesman said, "Had I been told by an expert doesn't have a C&D agent. Adams in the area (corporate law) that it I replied, "Independent corporations was wrong to take out the loan, C&D like Statesman do not need one." wouldn't have done it." A expert. Later Adams told the Press the agent would have been that of reason why clause 6 was in the This instance is a clear example are in permit was that "at that time, why student run operations Swim-Along on or Statesman was a line item in the definite need of a C&D agent Polity budget. Under these con- to be affiliated with an organi- M ich 21st ditions you have to spend that zation, like Polity, who has a C&D money in accordance with Chan- agent . The reasons are based on cellor's guidelines." the transitory nature of student officials and the need for stability There are problems with Adam's in a corporation. Student position on Statesman. Statesman corporate officials are legally res- (help raise money for specially equipped van has been an independent corpor- ponsible for their corporation for the disabled on campus.) ation since 1975; this status has just as their counterparts in the changed. Consequently, stip- never outside world are. It would be a put into the revocable con- Have friends pledge for each lap you complete ulations cruel hoax for them not to be were entered regardless of tract given every available assistance%. on Monday, March 21 (8-11 p.m.) Statesman's corporate status, and I I--·-'- -' -. I -r I I ~r = - 1 Swimmers of All Levels; pick up your pledge Demand sheet at Office of Disabled (Humanities 135) These Times or call 246-6051

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by Jeff Zoldan at the 4077. Also "the countless Volvo or in a board room of 20th all the hoopla surrounding the epi- There are many things wrong old jokes and antique lines of dia- Century is irrelevant. The only im- sode as Hank would like people to with network TV programming as logue" that Hank referred to portance is its effectiveness in the believe. People turned on their any educated TV viewer will attest. eluded me. Maybe it's the con- medium it's presented. The sets because MASH has always been But after sitting through the debris ditioning I've undergone from "bug-out" scene which utilized a great show and it was going off of what is known as prime time watching MASH so long that I no shots from an episode long ago and prime time television. Since such broadcasting, an occasional longer react with horror when the footage of the fire that did in- a large audience share guarantees diamond in the rough can be found. Hawkeye constantly borrows shtick deed destroy the set that the MASH exposure and visibility to almost One of these gems has been MASH, from Groucho Marx. But even if crew lived and worked on for ele- 3/4 of the country's population, which for 11 years has given the dialogue was a little strained ven years did nothing to detract the network that is presenting the viewers an intelligent, comical look for originality, it must be kept in from the episode's overall effec- show can command a ghastly sum at a little slice of life during the mind that the show was coming to tiveness or emotionality. In fact of money for a minute's worth of Korean War. After a lucrative run an end for that reason alone - the the destroyed set served as a re- air time. Or in the words of a great which reaped great fortune, fame, difficulty of creating new and minder of the show's fragility and President, "whatever the free mar- and Emmies for the elements that interesting ideas for the show and humanity that was not beyond the ket will bear." $900,000 a minute made up this number one show, an its characters. effects of everyday tragedy. To is more money than most Ameri- only befitting MASH movie be- To castigate the writers for giving have taken the destroyed set and cans will ever get to see so it should came the farewell episode for a extremely well developed charac- placing it in the context of the come as no shock that (Chevys or series that has given so much to ters lines that correspond to them farewell episode was not a "ploy" Hondas came roaring into our so many for so long. and labeling it "antique dialogue" but rather the idea of a creative living rooms because those are the It's only after I put all these would be foolish because it was producer or director. Some of only kinds of corporations that can things in perspective that I be- precisely this kind of writing that Hollywood's greatest moments have blow a wad as large as that for 30 came very disturbed by Daniel made MASH a success for 11 years. resulted from directors like Howard seconds of commercial time. On Hank's view on MASH's final For Charles to have been anything Hawkes and Leo McCarey's abili- any other night of the week when episode in last week's issue of but concerned about his pompous, ties to capture ad lib situations MASH isn't bidding farewell or the Press. Hank allowed his dis- stuffy New England hospital posi- involving Bogart, Bacall, and the there isn't a wedding for the British taste for network programming to tion or for B.J. to be anything but Marx Brothers on film. Con- royal family, advertising rates are overcome his ability to clearly a bleeding heart family man would demning the producers of MASH exhorbitant. Had Hank's point in evaluate MASH's final episode. be a slap in the face of years of for capturing a real life event that this area been made in the course His opinions on the episode (story solid writing and the strong charac- did effect the dramatized per- of discussing network procedures line, direction, et al) can be literal- ter development. MASH's tran- formance is outrightly absurd. and economics it would've been ly thrown right out the window. sition from Marx Brothers cyni- Furthermore, it appears that Mr. well taken. But using network At the start of Hank's article, he cism to a more serious portrait on Hank, in his self righteous uproar overzealousness in cashing in on a states that "the final show had no the cruelties of war was a reflec- about MASH's final episode and the cultural event to pan a show that story" causing me to wonder tion of the writing staff's desire network's role in bringing it to the was more meritorious than not is whether Hank and I saw the same to open up new areas of the show's screen, fails to recognize what the merely looking for a chest to pin show. The 2-1/2 hour show I saw development. The ideas that sus- television business is really all a medal on where there is no chest. not only had a story but several tained the show's high caliber of about and how it works. I don't MASH's final episode did serve plots entwined MASH-style. Hank writing finally became exhausted want to come off sounding like "as a reminder of what MASH once continues to debase what he con- and so we have witnessed its end. some rabid Republican who starts was," a brilliant, gallant show that sidered to be a lack of an ade- Hank becomes even more insul- foaming at the mouth every time proved that TV situation comedy quate storyline by casually eli- ting when he describes the segment Reaganomics is discussed, but could be at once thoughtful, ir- minating segments of the episode as where the camp is forced to eva- prime time television costs a lot of reverent, and sensitive. Maybe it's rehashes of prior episodes. Cer- cuate because of a spreading brush money. When you say goodbye a little sad that one of the biggest tainly Hawkeye went a little crazy fire as "a ploy by the production to a show that's been as popular cultural events of this newborn in eleven years worth of plots but crew to capitalize on actual film as M.ASh, you're going to have an decade is the finale of a televisibn he was never institutionalized. And footage of a fire that accidentally audience as large as 60.3'%of the program. Nevertheless, for all it perhaps Charles had been in con- destroyed the MASH set in Malibu nation's TV owners tuned in (not was worth, Hank's article on the to mention the millions of VC'R "failure" of MI\SH's final episode tention before for a position as a Canyon last year." It is not for one the episode is obscured by his inability to see chief surgeon at home but going to question where, when, or how an owners wtho recorded the where the show began and the net- home was always a far off dream idea is born; whether an idea is con- for future posterity). And jured in the back seat of a '67 audience didn't tune in because of work programming ended. that eluded him and everyone else I · - I ' ' · r' '· I 7 -r , I r'lC I' F · II 41 I I · I I I L~ C

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Tape of Frippertronics 3/11 @ 9:00 5,7 Rickie Lee Jones at the Dr. Pep- The Press welcomes classified ads Johnny 3/12 0 9:00 6,8. 10 per Music Fest 1982. Also Savoy Southside to music: tapes, records, Dickey Betts 3/19 @ 9:00 6,8,10 and Palladium 1981. Tape or pertaining trade. Jared, Room A-03-B tickets, instruments, etc. FREE. Drop them by Room 020 Old fUEY 'S 3 Vi llage Shopping Ctr 516-751-3737 Whitman. Bio anytime. Vandenberg 4/7 @ 11:00 9.00 Wanted: Tape of Bobby and the Midnites at Stony Brook. Copy of VILLAGE VANGUARD 7th Ave. 212-ALS-4037 Jerry Garcia's first album. Buy, PIqui to D'Rivern tape, or trade. Andy, 246-4530. Quintet 3/18-3/13 I 'P -I I- 1·II ' ·Ir I' -I IIII I I I--. II _ III'' I . -' I - II II - ~CI · ---·- --~~T· I '1 -II LI 'I I g- page 10 The Stony Brook Press mmis Too -Rye -A y Dexy's Midnight Runners Swing High by Bob Goldsmith I feel sorry for eight of the songs mitment. In "Plan B", he says, on Too-Rye-Ay. Some of them are "I'll never sell you anything," quite good but they're all doomed and it's true, Dexy's music is as to languish in the shadow of the honest as the Flint, Michigan mighty "Come On Eileen". "Ei- unemployment line is long. leen" is to the rest of Dexy's Why Rowland traded in his long coat, second LP what Wayne Gretzky is woolen cap, and horn charts to his linemates, what Herschel for suspenders, a female chorus, and a string section Walker is to the rest of the New Jer- is a mystery. And it would probably take sey Generals, yea, what Jesus was a psy- chiatry convention to explain his to the twelve fullbacks, er... dis- ciples. sacking most of the original Dexy's members and refusing to speak to Beginning to get the idea? the English press for a year be- "Eileen" is as good as pop music tween the first and second albums. gets. From the first bass note, a Not all of Rowland's moves have feeling too exuberant and over- paid off. Too Rye Ay's slow songs whelming for mere words to des- are as eloquent as Elvis Costello's cribe bounds off the vinyl and ballads but at times they sound lights up the sky: joyful strings, and like Procol Harum with a steel over-the-top vocals ride on a sub- ,wool singer. Rowland always lime rhythm to a land few songs strives for intense emotion, but ever reach - the land of swing. sometimes he misses nuances which "Eileen" is so bouncy, happy, and make emotion valid and thus ends alive that nothing can control it; up coming off like a ham actor, all there is no malaise it can't over- bravado bdt little feeling. To get come. If "Eileen" can't cheer you the lot and it's really pretty good Show You" medley in which two really picky, 4 of 9 Too Rye Ay up, call the undertaker. In fact, but I just can't judge it in its own good songs combined are some- tunes were previously released as why not bestow the highest praise context. It's a blast of high step- how less than the sum of their singles, albeit some in different possible for a pop song? "Eileen" ping 60's style soul much like the parts. versions. However, the splen- is as good as any Motown classic. marvplous stuff on Dexy's debut "The Celtic Soul Brothers" is the dor of "Eileen" makes most of this I would give all my Grandmaster album Searching for the Young most lively new style Dexys; here trivial. Besides, the best thing Flash and Clash singles for a chance Soul Rebels which was released in the violins really bustle and shout about Rowland is that he takes to meet the woman who inspired it. total secrecy in America about a but, unfortunately, up-tempo string chances. Few people other than Things can't be as bad in the Ameri- year and a half ago, about a year soul sounds too much like revved- Costello and Bowie have been as can music "scene" as I usually after anyone who was interested up Horslips to me. successful with transitions as that think - "Eileen" is in the top 20. had already bought the import. Actually, all this won't matter if from Searching to Too Rye Ay. Why, even Imus plays it along with "Plan B" is a remnant of the you can't get past Kevin Rowland's It's too early to put him in their Culture Club and the Stray Cats. earlier Dexy's too but it sounded voice. Dexy's enigmatic leader's category, but already I anticipate Dig it - WNBC - New York's New a lot more gutsy as a single when it pipes are as abrasive as porcupine the next Dexy's record as much as Wave. had a full blown horn arrangement. needles on a baby's bottom but his anyone's. And the most exciting There's nowhere to go but down On the new LP, some of the horns music makes them worth getting thing about great pop musicians for the rest of Too Rye Ay. "Let's are replaced by strings and the song used to. Certainly, there's no is seeing what they're going to do Make This Precious" is the best of appears as half of the "Plan B/I'll doubting his fervor and com- next. "Another Show" And Its Challenges

continued from pg. 12 osity, the second act became mud- in the case of Nick, chock full of a character that exudes more bra- territory. The reasons behind dled by awkward plot contri- clever witticisms. vado than Tim Roepe displayed. Zero's suicide become clearly over- vances. When Bobbie announces In addition to Louis Peterson's The performances of Janet Gold- shadowed by the needs of those he she is carrying Zero's baby, I innovative approach to readers' stein and Alex Morrison troubled left behind. The fact that these could not help but imagine hearing theatre, high praise must be ex- me for two separate reasons. Al- needs are not always benevolent the somber chords of some soap tended to the director, Tom Neu- though Bobby is not a fully fleshed contributes to the novel circum- opera organist. After Stash gets miller, and the cast. Together they character, Goldstein failed to make stances of the play. Zero's parents, arrested on drug charges, Booger compensated for any rough spots in the most of what she had. Her love for example, never really grieve just happens to find enough money the script with precise character for Zero appeared superficial as did over the loss of their son but in- to raise bail in a hat. Worst of all, portrayals. John Bavaro and Elana her tears. My problem with Alex stead seek to ease their own con- however, was the manner in which A. Tasso were extremely persua- Morrison's performance focused on sciences by prodding Booger, Bob- Zero escapes from limbo. Through- sive despite the added burden of his choppy delivery. While he con- bie, and Nick for information about out the play Zero desperately tries playing middle aged characters veyed sincere emotion, his syn- Zero. Already divorced, Con- to communicate with his parents while in their twenties. Matt Ellis copated rhythm became mono- stance and Alexander hope to and friends. Each time he fails un- delivered an honest moving per- tonous. put more distance between each til miraculously, towards the end of formance however, at times his Louis Peterson's play, quite elo- other by finding a solid reason to the play, he breaks through the quick pace detracted from the quently, pinpoints the nexus where cast the blame for their son's un- barrier and speaks with Booger. emotional content of his lines. pathos and humor merge, cap- timely death. Hovering above the Booger somehow knows the magic Although a secondary character, turing an important aspect of the constant bickering between Con- prayer and as she chants it in uni- Mark Bridges was outstanding as human experience. As a readers' stance and Alexander is the voice son with Zero, he is set free. While the cannoli munching stuffed shirt theatre production, the script with- of Zero who undermines his Peterson exhibited expertise when Dean Palotti. Karen Varro turned stood the emphasis placed upon it parents' self-righteous facade. It interwening alcoholism, divorce, out a convincing portrayal as the by the absence of action and props. was in these interchanges that the and lechery into the first act, his perceptive warm hearted Booger, a Although it stumbled late into the play slid smoothly from mere treatment of similar issues was both young woman wise beyond her second act, the plot was rescued drama into reality. awkward and implausible in Act II. years. Her boyfriend Stash, Tim from a fall by outstanding per- As quickly as the first act com- For the most part, however, the Roepe, however, fell short of the formances. What more could you manded my attention and curi- dialogue remained interesting and, potential his role offered. Stash is ask from just Another Show?

pa~,ell March 10, 1983 Dizzy Gillespie Live The Most Entertaining 65 Year-Old in The World

Saturday night's show. Enriqucz's by Arthur Rothschild spectacular improvisations were a When the bebop sound was first welcome compliment to Gilles- introduced to the jazz world just pie's leads, and an eight minute after the second World War, critics piano accapello tribute to Eubie were skeptical. Not only was it a Blake (Blake's "Memories of You") far cry from then-popular swing, it was greeted with a standing ova- was so difficult a musical and tion. rhythmic style, that most jazzists Assisted by the Ward Melville couldn't make the transition even if High School Jazz Ensemble, Gilles- they cared to. pie's "Mantecca" came off just fine. Dizzy Gillespie helped create The 20-odd 16 and 17 year-olds bebop back in the 40's and he were a pleasure to watch under the hasn't stopped playing it since. direction of one of the world's Saturday night he brought his quar- most famous Big Band leaders. Gil- tet to the main stage of the Stony lespie's long-time friend and asso- Brook Fine Arts Center and pre- ciate Hale Smith arranged the num- sented the sold-out auditorium with ber for the high school band and it a sampling that represented much - was Smith who helped close the though by no means all - of his evening with Gillespie's standard five-decade career. From the bril- "Copapada". Together, the two liant fast bop of Thelonius Monk's jazz old-timers charmed the audi- "Straight-Note Chaser" to the ence right out of their seats with strong rhythms of Gillespie's own dazzling vocal improvs. "A Night in Tunesia" the band per- Gillespie is as charming on stage formed some of the finest jazz that as he is talented, and his humorous can be heard today. asides, plus Enriquez's acrobatic Gillespie's band cohsisted of a keyboard assault added up to a de- stunning rhythm section in Michael lightful evening. Besides his claim Howell (bass) and Ingnacio Berroa to the ranks of jazz genius, Gil- (drums). But it was the piano work lespie is, perhaps, the most enter- of Bobby Enriquez that nearly stole ! taining 65 year-old in the world. -- I -- _ -13 L -· I Another Show Provocative Play At Fine Arts Center

Building. His suicide, however, did not provide the escape he had so desperately hoped for. Visible only to the audience, Zero is trapped in a state of limbo. His role becomes that of an observer and commenta- tor forced to witness the conse- quences of his deed as they affect his friends and family. The action surrounds the day on which Zero's parents, Alexander and Constance Oliver (John Bavaro and Elana A. Tasso), arrived at their son's dormi- I tory room to collect his belongings. =r While performing this task they

0 meet Dean Palotti (Mark Bridges), Zero's two 3. roommates Stash (Tim cr Roepe) and Nick (Alex Morrison), Stash's girlfriend Booger (Karen

> Varro) and Zero's girlfriend 3°C Bobbie (Janet Goldstein). The cast remains on stage throughout the show, even when not present in the scene, along with the narrator (Alan Inkles). by Gregory J. Scandaglia Another Show was performed as characterization. As a result, each While many playwrights have a readers' theatre production. This line becomes crucial both in its been rightfully accused of em- Would you call a play that means that each performer re- meaning and delivery. In this way ploying suicide as a last ditch covered alcoholism, abortion, drug mained seated throughout the readers' theatre represents a greater effort to resolve the fate of a dif- abuse. homosexuality, divorce, and entire show. While this format eli- challenge to the playwright and the ficult character, Louis Peterson suicide just another show? Well, minates the need for props and performers. During Friday night's cannot be counted amongst them. Louis Peterson, Stony Brook's resi- stage blocking, it creates a need for performance this challenge was He has given new life to a hack- scripts dent playwright did just that with on stage, a narrator, and a met on both accounts, but not neyed theme by beginning his relatively his most recent work. Another small audience. More without a few shortcomings. play where too many plays end. Show, despite its lackluster title, importantly, however, readers' The plot revolves around Zero By way of this innovative pre- was a provocative play well suited theatre focuses the emphasis of a Oliver (Matt Ellis), a college student mise, the action of the play grace- to the cozy atmosphere of the Fine play on its two most basic com- who has recently committed suicide fully proceeds into unchartered Arts Center's Theatre II. ponents: the script and vocal by jumping off the Empire State continued on pg. 11

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