LO-- G \.l 0--" d\ ~ (1,. " \~ c Lo \\ e.q e... r cJ L~· 1ioreIIo' s lIate Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College 28 Pages February 14, 1980

The Flute Salutes LaGuardia's Sweethearts

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Flute Charged With Ethnic Slur page 9

New Registration Procedures page 13

Sports Commentary

page 26 Rock Quiz - Free Tickets page 18 10· THE FLUTE. February 14. 1980 POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIE POunCAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIE POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POunCAl VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIE POUTICAL VIIiWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIE Tuition "ilce may "urt students By Kevin Hui senior colleges of the state universi­ I have some distressing news to ty system. report to the student body of Fellow LaGuardians may wonder LaGuardia. Mayor Koch, in his plan why the propoSals would only affect to tighten the fiscal budget for 1981, the community colleges and not the hu proposed a ten percent increase senior colleges of CUNY. The in tuition for the nine community answer lies in t.he agreement made colleges of the City University between City HaU and the officials System. In addition, a nine million in Albany. It has been a long· dollar cut of New York City's allot­ standing wish of Governor Carey ted budget for the tWlTyear colleges t.hat CUNY should be incorporated will likely take place over the next into the state univesity system, but two years. City Hall and the Board of Higher Education have adamantly resisted I n order for these proposals to be this notion on the premise that enacted. they must first be approved CUNY is in itself a distinctive and by the City University's board of an identifable symbol of New York trustees. From recent events and City. Because of the fiscal mismag& past experiences. the board of ment of prior mayoral administra· trustees liLs members are appointed tions and the rising costs of main· by Governor Carey and Mayor tainig and upholding the academic Kochl will in all likelihood give their integrity of CUNY, City Hall sycophantic approval for" the two recognized the need for financial proposals. assistance outside its boundaries, The approved increase will boost It was under this compromising the tuition rate from $900 to $990 mood that an accord developed bet.­ per year, whereas tuition charges at ween CUNY and the governor. The the senior colleges of CUNY and the state assumes the majority of the There is a recurring theme in aU of stand powerless and mute. If the colleges of SUNY will remain at senior colleges' budget in return for this naivety. Whenever there is a current stale of affairs remain as $900 per academic year. This would the right to appoint the seven tightening of the fiscal budget, the they are. and the continuance of the then, in effect. make LaGuardia the members of the fifteen member decision makers always assume financial burdens of which they most expensive public college of board of trustees, while the city upon themselves what the proper place freely on the community col· higher education in t.he State of New assumes the major portion of the remedy is. The pre-conceived notion leges nourish; then t.he incipiency of York in comparison with the senior budget for the nine community col· is that the community colleges can decadence of this fine educational in­ colleges of CUNY and the junior and leges. always function adequately with stitution will mark a shameful much less and then even some more. blemish on the City of New York STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI And we the students and faculty with the closing of this century. STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI continued from page 9 and self-aggrandizement. you have ing is a valuable eeonomic factor read over it. I can say to all LaGuar­ Mr. Mayor: because it is the cheapest way of dia students that. I apologize that By John Oowd selling goods, particularly if the William Cross has belittled himself Yvonne Cannon is a representative of a student coalition of voters that will goods are worthless." and the college by resorting to his be used to insure t.he continuation of student needs. I urge every student to The "Godfather" comic strip was Richard Nixon type of antics. register to vote and keep informed on the issues so the delinquent politician not intended to offend anyone and. I f he attempts any other such has others' needs in mind and not t.hose that serve himself. in my opinion, I feel it has DOL. distortions he wiU be met with a Joe Trp lawsuit. It is hard to believe that the As you know, the Mayor is trying to balance the budget "on the backs ot whole of the student council has the poor." For the city colleges it means a 9 million dollar cut in aid and in­ Fire three gone along with this, do t.hey think creased tuition. He also plans to layoff 600 sanitation men and 7,000 staff the paper is a tool and its writers members in the city school systems. Fire-engine crews. usually manned by Dear Mr. Cross: puJ1pets to support t.hem toward five men will be cut to four. Concerning your reply to my t.heir petty pursuit of power? Do I Nick Mancuso, President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, accus· editorial on the Irish, you are correct have to tell them what their opinion ed the Mayor or "endangering the lives of its residents and firefighters" with in saying that 1 have done very little is worth? Let the battle die away in his cuts. The Mayor it seems, is not living in the real world; a balanced research on Irish history: rat.her it is this issue so t.he council may tum budget means nothing when the human misery it causes is overwhelming. the news coverage over the past itself to more local problems and decade that has angered me the Economists and conservatives don't think about people, they only feel prevent the nowering of student dis· alive when they see a set of figures evenly balanced on a city budget record. most. I remember the "bloody Sun· sension. day" of 1972 when British soldiers Austerity wasn't the Mayor's theme when pay raises for himself and Sincerely, legislature were introduced. Forcing sacrifice upon others outside the secure murdered 13 innocents because they John Dowd dared to stand up for an Ireland free gates of government is the soul of the American political system, and Mayor from English C'ppression. No, I have Koch is its most notorious practitioner. not done any deep research but then Special (rom Christine North President Carter recently pledged over 400 million in aid to the city, a everyone can see on television what. Student. Counci l measure used to win votes and influence people; routing political hackwork brutal oppression is like. I desire 8 correction on for a president seeking re-election. About 60 million of that will go to close I n your second observation you something printed in The Flute the budget-gap. the rest is obliged to the rest of city government_ This is a have misleadingly omitted two which implied "Christ.ina North gift for Mayor Koch's behind·kissing of the Carter administration; and a words important to the statement. was evicted. from a SFA meeting clear signal to all that federal aid depends upon their loyalties, Mayor Jane In full it reads, "I DOUBT the Irish because she said the room was Byrne of Chicago learned this when she declared her support for Ted Ken· have a built·in mechanism that bugged:' nedy and found that admnistration henchmen cranked back millions of creates an inherenUy unforgiving 1 stated that I had discovered dollars in funds for transportation. nature: rather it is decades of discrepancies in the budgets. Political budget· restraining tends to sag near election time and probably English domination, oppression and Because the former Vice-Chair, when election day arrives for Mayor Koch he will change his fiscal tune like bullying that causes generation who was an accounting major, President Carter and plead for a second chance to redress his wrongs. after generation of Irish hearts to be and myself would not be a "rub­ If we are stupid enough to do so it will be through our own voter apathy, hateful" ber stamp vote" on any of the the friend of every insincere politician in the country. It kept alive our inept Whether you have omitted the I SFA budgets, we were never per­ Albany Legislature and our own local curses; Ed Koch, Pat Moynihan and a DOUBT purposely to discredit me. mitted in a budget meeting. host of other less recognizable shysters. A strong student lobby will treat or in your quenchless thirst for glory these politicians to what they're most deserving of, political oblivion. February 14, 1980. TH E FLUTE . 11 Minority programs benefit all In high school, A change in attitude toward ethnic of being involved on campus and were says. Programs include: dances, perfor· less pot, studies must. be made if such programs aware of organizations, but didn't join mances, dinners and speakers, all with are to survive in the 19808, says the because Lhey felt more comfort.able in ethnic themes: an annual cultural director of a 8uCC4!ssful maticultural organizations that deal just with blacks reLreat.; a newsletter fOCUSing on minori· more coke center. and because they didn't feel wanted in ty events, news, scholarships and pro­ Marijuana use among American teen· Charles Taylor, director of the predominantly white groups, grams: a Saturday morning children's agers may be leveling ort for the first Multicultural Education Center at. tile Thylor says universities and colleges program and rap sessions. The center time since 1970. but cocaine use among U. of Wisconsin·Oshkosh. says college cannot simply recruiL minority students: has .seen a steady growth in both minori· high school students is increasing at. a administrators "must understand that they musL make them feel an integral ty and white student participation and faster rate than previous yean. muit,iculturaJ programs are not. just for part of the campus by sponsoring ac· research shows that those minority The trends were revealed in a new minorities but will benefit aU." Without tivities to meet their cultural needs. students who get involved achieve drug study by three social psychologists 8uch understanding, he Says. ethnic When minorities race cultural isolation greater academic success. at the University of Michigan's In· studies programs will continue to be and neglect, he says, Lhey Lend to cluster Thylor tires to motivate that involve­ st.itute for Societ.y Research. among the first things cuI. in tight for supportive reasons, thus heightening ment by telling minority students they The three psychologists-Llyod economic times. the aliena Lion between minority and are responsible for catTYing on their own Johnson, Jerald Bachman, and Patrick The head of the U.S. Student Associa­ white students. Those of all races culture. He reminds students that O'Mally-found that marijuana use, tion'8 Third World Caucus says many beneift from a multicultural program. unless they get involved, and become which had been almost doubling every people believe apecial minority program· Thylor says, because all students are part of the decision·makirl"g process, year since 1976 among higb school ming is no longer needed because then better prepared for a multicultural they have no right to complain, and student!!. abruptly stabilized in 1979. "blacks have it. made," Yet. Thylor'! world. challenges them to lean! to articulate surveys of students on the UW·Oshk09h Activities at Lbe UW·Oshkosh their own needs. He also encourages ad· "We think the rea!lOn is that more kids are hearing that daily marijuana use can campus ahow many minority students Multicultural Education Center are ministrators to attend and be involved in fact make you sick," Bachman will don't feel a part of the college com· equally divided into educational, with minority student programs. n­ plains. Students can still get marijuans munity. Most recognited Lhe import.ance cultural and social programs, Thylor -On Campus Report easily-one out of ten seniors surveyed said they could get it within 24 hours­ but "Significantly more" 1979 seniors PPL nuclear research not 'secretive' believe regular users assume s "great risk" of hurting themselves. Some 60 percent of the 17,000 sur· A recent spat.! of articles in the press remains the development of a pure fu· Critics of nuclear power warn that a veyed had tried marijuana. More than a has left Lhe impression that the sian reactor." hybrid would prolong the use of fission third of those who had tried it. had con' Princeton Plasma Physics Laborat.ory Allegations that PPL was diverting reactors. For example. Mother Jones sumed it in the month prior to the sur· has shifted its research efforts from fu· its focus from. t.he long·range goal of charged that the money currently going vey. Ten percent of the seniors who used sion to a nuclear reactor known a8 the pure fusion to the in termediate toward fusion research is being "quietly marijuana claimed to be daily con· fission· fusion hybrid. technology of a fission'fusion hybrid Lumed into a subsidy of nuclear fission The impression is false, says PPL was first aired in a recent issue of power." thanks to "secretive" research sumers. The Michigan study also found "s director Melvin B. Gottlieb: "The Mother Jones, a counter-culture in· on the fission·fusion hybrid which would Plasma Physics Lab's goal has been and vestigative magazine. "extend the lifetime of Three Mile substantial and a('<:elersting increase in Island·type plants indefinitely:' • Lhe use of cocaine" among high school seniors. In 1975, only two percent of the In reply, Gottlieb has pointed out t.hat cocaine users interviewed had consumed Students input struggle no secret research is being conducted the drug in the month prior to the Faculty members in the California reduce the number of students on that and that the scope of the research pro­ survey. The rate hsd tripled to six per· State Univer!!ities and Colleges system board from seven to two. gram is publicly on record. cent among 1979 seniors. are .seeking to reverse a decision to allow Faculty members say putting 'lWelve percent of the 1979 seniors "Small·scale theoretical studies said they'd tried cocaine, compared to students to serve as non,voLing students on RTP committees is an at­ relat.ing LO the hybrid reaCLOr have been Lheir professional stat.us and 1975 's six percent. The increase in use members of retention, tenure and pro­ tack on carried out as a very minor fraction of motion (RTPI committees. threatens the peer review system. has been accompanied by a perception of t.he lab's overall theoretical work, but no increased availability of the drug, and The issue has provoked faculty· Steve Glazer, legislative director of experimental work involving the h.vbrid by a decrease in Lhe percentage of student conflicts on !lOme CSUC cam· the California State Students Associa· has been done or is planned," students who think cocaine use is per· puses. Reportedly, the UC Board of tion, which originally proposed the idea, -lntercollegi(Jt~Press sonally risky. Trustees were to meet late in January to says SLudents support the concept of determine the exsct language of RTP peer review. "we just don't believe in the policy change they approved last exclusivity of peer review. In our November. !!ystem. the prime consideration for RTP The Congress of Faculty Associations is supposed to be teaching effectiveness Kidney Foundation Race is expected La present a petition with and we didn't know how thaL was rated T he Kidney Foundation of New failure: The Kidney Foundation of 10,000 faculty signatures opposing the withouL student input." York in cooperation with the Subur· New York is the largest health agen· trustees' action. Both the United Pro­ If ttie trustees don't reverse their ban Sports Shops are presenting the cy dealing exclusively with t.hese fessors of California and the Statewide November action, Glazer says the CUSC Second Annual Ocean Run at Jones realities. Academic Senate have been vocal in will become one of less than five state The Foundation receives no their opposition. and at one campus, college systems to allow students to Beach on Sunday, March 16.1980 at CSU·FullerLOn, the Faculty Council serve on faculty per!lOnnel committees. 11 am. The race follows a 9.3 mile money from any government agen­ responded to the RTP VOte by trying to - On Campus Report (15.000 meter) course along the cy. It is wholly dependent upon the beautiful grounds of Jones Beach private sector for financial support. State Park. The entry fee is 15 for I t. is through the participat.ion of the President's turn to protest pre-registration and $6 the day of pubUc in such events as t he Ocean t he race. Registration will take place Run that t he Kidney Foundation The letter contained Lhe familiar list of for fairness in Lrying LO meeL a list of until 10:45 on the day of the race. can continue its lifesaving work. demands. backed up with an equally studenL demands, made earlier this year The first 500 entrants will receive familiar threat of protest demonst.ra­ during a protest march by 300 students. a T-shirt. a wards will be presented tions if it wasn't heeded. Such a leLter BEOGs: over shouldn't be unususl on the State Uni· to the top three finishers in each versity of New York·Stony Brook cam· Fighting apathy category (male & female), all those and underpaid pus, which is noted for an active running will receive a certificate of More Lhan half the Basic Educational student·rights movement. Student apathy is a common problem participation, and a special drawing Opportunity Grants (BEOGs) given out But this letter came from the presi. on campus these days, but at one school will be held for all participants. in 1978·79 were awarded in the wrong Yet Another Committee has come to the _ dent. nOt of the student government, Applications for the race may ob­ amounts to students. A U.S. Depart· rescue. but of the university, And it should a tained from the Suburban Sports ment of HealLh, Education and Welfare promise from student government that That's the name of the group the U. of (HEWI report has found Lhat 55 percent Shops. from local community recrea­ it would Missouri Students Association formed of the awards were either overpaid or tional centers, track department of • see that students study harder to rekindle student interest, and the underpaid, and LhaL the major rea!lOn • stop all vandalism and littering committee's first project was a film pr~ the nearest coUege or by sending a was that the BEOG application fonns • eliminate bomb threats and noise gram including six of the "worst movies stamped self·addressed envelope to were so complicated. eminating from bars of all time:' It cost. st.udents only a the Kidney Foundation of New Among the two million students who • run all student businesses legally and quarter to get in to see such flicks as York, Inc, 432 Park Avenue South, participated in the BEOG program. • stop using obscenities in print or on Santo Claus Conquers the Martians and New York, NY 10016. Telephone about 720,000 got an average of $397 public address systems. Dr. Goldroot and the Bi~ini Mo.chine. 212-683·8018 or 516·486·7903. more financial aid than they were entitl· If t.he demands aren't met. warned but getting out was anOLher matter. To ed to. About 380.000 sLudents were Proceeds will go to further the pa· Stony Brook Acting President Richard leave during the first 15 minutes cost underpaid by an average $255 each. P. Schmidt he and other administrators 8lO and during the next 15 minutes, $5. tient service and research programs Most of the errors could be traced to may picket inside student government. After that sLudent!l could leave for of the Kidney Foundation of New "problems encountered by students and offices. another quarter but those who lasted for York. One out of every four people instit.utions in filling out and handling a StudenL government President David aU six hout!! got out free and received a will suffer a kidney problem some­ complicated application form:' Most of Herzog says he'll believe that when he button saying, " I survived the worst: ' time during his or her lifetime. the errors, moreover, concerned sees it, but he also gives Schmidt credit - On Campus Report Thousands die each year from renal estimates of families' financial status. 12 · TH E FLUTE. February 14, 1980

GOSPEL EXTRAVAGAZNZA

Text by Pam Evans of beautiful music. The event was Photos by Howard Carter very welJ received. Howard Carter and I (Pam Evans) On Friday, January 18 the were assigned to cover the event. Seekers Club presented a Gospel Ex- They set. out to win souls for Christ travaganza Concert. The concert, and they did. The audience reaIJy en­ which was the first gospel concert to joyed t.hemselves, one minute they be given at LaGuardia this year, were listening to the beat and then featured many choirs and a wide standing on their feet shouting, variety of groups who gave us hours singing and rejoicing in the Lord.

Cynlhia Furrs Audience reaction Phyllis Jackson , i 1i1' j 1'1 Stormwatch-Jethro Tull's Newest By John Dowd "Flying Dutchman" and oil rigs by John Glascock, but during pro­ nama but still polished, contrasting At a concert in Madison Square abandoned to the encroaching, en­ duction he was diagnosed with a with Anderson's rusty and rough­ Garden this past Autumn, singer veloping ice-packs. heart ailment and had to leave. edged play. ]an Anderson's Ian Anderson lamented to his au­ Ian Anderson's flute and acousti­ Thereafter, Ian Anderson did the weakness in the guitar though. is dience the fact. that his band was cal guitar lend richness that is above guitar work in all but three songs: easily shaded by his masterful flute pushing his latest album, "Storm­ the heavy, overbearing ringing of "Orion," "Flying Dutchman" and and vocals. watch," of which he said that it the electrical guitars and syn­ "Elegy:' The bass used by Glascock ;·Stormwat.ch" invokes a clear pic· "isn't too good." That's very odd, thesizers of the hard-rockers. Also, in "Orion" renders its pulsing, dom­ ture of those dayless Antarct.ic for "Stormwat.ch" is the superior of his deep baritone voice is like cream inating navor. When used in winters and the flickering bands of his previous "Aqualung" and to the coffee, integrating superbly "Elegy" it is like the echo of a ghost phantasmal lights in the sky, the "Thick as a Brick" albums and when aided by the acoustical guitar in an untraceable subterranean belt of Orion. It. is vivid and poetic, gleaming icebergs above "Heavy and paralleling sharply and com­ passage, leaping out now and then pristine with its effect that will Horses." It is a pastoral on plastic of plementarily with the stinging quak­ with it.s stirring. always gripping gamer new fans for the band: and it the Antartic landscape: gloomy, ing power of the bass guitars. hauntedness_ In "Flying is a prime cut in the Jethro Tull orion-haunted with the ghosts of The bass was formerly performed Dutchman" it is charged like a dy· canon. Febru ary 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE · 13 We confess: we made a mista/lel Dear Me.lrene Newman. you receive your copy of The least. twice befor: 1 completed my Aid." It was an honest. mistake. The Financial Aid: Flute?" That's when I heard, "Get statement. "a's dumb, it's stupid," c~worker said. "Oh," and walked We made a mlstake! l.ast month that paper out of here! I don't want. she insisted. "Do you know how back to her desk with a copy of The we printed a headline which read: that stupid paper!" I stood there many st.udents we're gonna get. in Flute. We apologized for t.he error "Financial Aid: LaGuardia College shocked and a lit.tle embarrassed. here about. t.hose grants!" Just then again and we left t.he office. announces new grant.s." Well. we William and I exchanged glances a c~worker came over to see what. Ms. Newman, we thank you for would like to say that it was a typo. and asked, "Why?" was happening. She said something your criticism and we hope that you but it wasn't. We made a mistake. " You want some constructive to t.he effect of, oh, The Flute, may 1 will in t.he future be a Hule more con· Three weeks ago, Mr. William criticism?" she asked. She had to have one? structive with your ideas. Calling Laundrie, The Flute's office manag­ ask twice becau;;e we were so Just as William handed her a copy, the paper stupid and dumb is not. an er, and 1 were distributing our latest devastated_ Finally, we said, " Yes." Ms. Newman made a smart remark. example of construct.ive crit.icism. edition of The Flute, and we thought She t.hen took t.he paper from I don't remember what it was. The We're sorry if the headline caused it wodd be nice to give a few to the William and quickly t.urned to page co-worker frowned and said, " Why, any inconvenience. Financial Aid Department. William SA and asked us to read t.he did they say something against us?" Sbaron Brown. Editor walked into the office feeling quite headline. It read: "Financial Aid: I managed to squeeze in a "no" and P.S., Sticks and stones may break cheerful and I followed a few feet. LaGuaradia announces new grants." I explained what. had happened. On our bones but words will never hurt behind him. Immediately, 1 tried to offer some my copy I wrote: "New Grant.s" but. us - unless, of course. they aN! "Good morning," he said. "Did explanation: being interrupted at t.he typeset.ter typed "Financial wrapped around sticks and stones. Early Registration Early registration 'for.the Spring Quarter will take place according to the schedule outlined below. Students are requested to register during their assigned " registration hour." II you do not have a registration hour, please come to the' Registrar's Office, M104, before February 19th.

Extended Day Students Pre-Registration Advisement Tuesday Registration Hours - February 19 Wednesday Registration Hours - February 20 for Day Students Thursday Registration Hours - February 21 Saturday First Laue. 01 Last Name A·L - February 21 Saturday First Lener 01 Last Name M·l - March 1 (All Flrst·Quarter Freshment Will Receive Advisement in Advisory Hours) Monday Registration Hours - February 25 Pre· Registration Advisement and copies of the Spring Schedule of Classes will be available according to the tollowlng schedule Students on Coop Internships M AJ 0 R DATE TIME ROO M During Registration Hours Accounting 1 Business . February 20 9:30- 2:30 Thea!r Lobby Saturday February 23 First Leuer 01 Last Name A·L February 21 9:30- 2:30 Thea!r Lobby Saturday March 1 FIrst LeUer 01 Last Name M·l Bilingual Education ... February 11 10:0().1 2:00 SB-6 February 11 2:()()' 4:00 SB-6 February 12 3:()()' 7fX) SB-6 February 13 10:O().12:00 SB-6 Day Students February 13 4:()(). 6:00 SB-6 Monday Registration Hours Dala Processing February 20 9:30- 2:30 Thealr Lobby First LeUe. 01 Last Name A-L - February 25 Flrst Leuer of Last Name M·l - March 3 February 21 12:30- 3:30 Thea!r Lobby Tuesday Registration Hours Dietetic Technician February 19 10:30- 2:30 M-I66 First Leiter of Las! Name A·L - FebfUary 26 February 20 10:30-12:00 M-I66 Firs! leiter 01 Last Name M·Z - March 5 February 21 10:30- 2:00 M-I66 'w\lednesday Registration ~ours Greek Bilingual February 14 5:30- 7:50 SB-6 First LeUer 01 Last Name A·Z - March 5 Thursday Registration Hours Human Services . February 19 12:0(). 7:OQ M-I25 First Leller 01 Las! Name A·I - February 28 February 20 12:0(). 7:00 M-125 First Leiter 01 Last Name M·Z - March 6 February 21 12:()()' 5:00 M·' ,2S Friday Registration Hours February 22 12:()()' 5:00 M· 125 First Lener 01 Last Name A·L - February 29 First LeUer 01 Last Name M·Z - MarCh 7 Liberal Arts .,. Liberal Arts students should contact their faculty advisor for advisement. Students without an aSSigned advisor may receive Students in Advisory Hours advisement on February 20 and February Duriflg Advisory Hour the week of March 3-7 21 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the Theater Lobby_ Mortuary Science . Feb 20, 21 9:30- 2:30 Thealr Lobby Students being Occupat i onal Therapy February 20 12:00- 2:30 5-114-O.T. Lab (Day , and Extended Day) February 20 4:00- 6:00 S-114..().T. Lab readmitted or reinstated Secretarial Science . February 20 9:30- 2:30 Theatr Lobby Thursday, March 13 between 2 pm and 7 pm February 21 9:30- 2:30 Thea!r Lobby

To avoid mistakes and save time, please bring with you a copy of your Fall Quarter transcript and a copy of your Oegree Requirement You must bring your most recent transcript to advisement. Checklist. No student will be permitted to register without an Day students should speak to their Co-Op Advisor about when they will adrisement form signed by a counselor. next be on Internship. 14. THE FLUTE· February 14, 1980 LaGuardians Testify at Qu

By John Dowd • CUNY system. totalling 60,000 persons, now at· QueenshQrougl\. Hall was the location for a racy meeting of the Board of Trustees of tend part-time. Councilman Simonerio described CUNY on January 17. It was the first such meeting in Queens since the institution of a t he mayor's plan as making "no sense at all." Mrs. Francis Gresch, representing a coalition New York State law prescribing the trustees to hold one meeting each year in each of the dedicated to the "enhancement" of Queens' four five boroughs. Communit.y Colleges. said that over 6,000 As many as 40 speakers stepped to the microphone and addressed issues importance to students have had to leave Queens College due to the residents of Queens. Among the topics discussed were implementation of Phase II tuition costs. The part·time student. she explain­ construction at York college in Jamaica, the importance of Queens' four Community Col­ ed, wiU face impossible hardships. Dorothy King of the New York Urban League, an organization leges to their neighborhoods and Mayor Koclt's proposed nine million dollar cut in aid to committed to minorities for more than half a cen­ the Community College system. This lat­ tury. vocalized her concern over tuition jumps. ter concern was roundly criticized, at She was another backer of the completion of a campus for York College. Councilman Archie times scathingly, by a powerful group of Stignet said that as a member of t.he city council Thom. Gilmartin opponents. he will do all he can to frustrate the Mayor's prl> They included LaGuardia's own Yvon­ posals, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to The vice-president of a student organization at speak to you about a matter that is extremely im· ne Cannon, who spoke of the "coalition" of students who will gather to form a Queens college, young Judy Shapiro, voiced the portant, not only to myself as a recent graduate discouragement felt by many young students of LaGuardia Community CoUge, but to the en· voting block to discourage the delin­ when she deplored the increases. saying it puts tire Borough of Queens and to the City of New quent politician. Are you listening, Don­ stucents in a "vicious cycle." She also reported York as well. ald Manes? sombrely the decision of our Albany legislators One of the most important events to occur in who have now made it mandatory for all students Queens County in the past decade was the open· As the trustees sat half·amazed by the receiving TAP to take at least 12 credits or lose ing of LaGuardia Community College. especially massive turnout, half-numb at having to ac­ their aid. She pleaded with the trustees to listen. in the light of the many contributions made by cept the needles of those who fe lt that really listen to student concerns. "since so many the college to the community. Queens was a borough overshadowed by adults don.t" It is of course impo~nt to mention the Manhattan, they must have wondered over academic contributions: the ~urrent curriculum the slight showing the Brooklyn Borough (day and evening), the internship programs (a Hall meeting and the one they now chaired. relatively new concept in education), the Continu· Andres Rasado ~ ing Education Program. a nd the new series of Senator Gold st.arLed the proceedings by saying that the many programs offered by the four Com­ televised classes scheduled to being on Channel It is indeed an honor and privilege for me to be munity Colleges are greatly beneficial to the over 13 beginning February 2nd. here tonight at this public hearing of the Board of two-million Queens residents, a point alluded to It is even more important. in my opinion. to '1hlstees of the City University. mention the intangible contributions of the Col· by many other speakers. lege and its staff to the community. I refer, of • His main concern however, was over the law First let me say, that I consider myself privileg­ ed to have attended LaGuardia Community Col· course. to those contributions which cannot be school recently approved and soon to be im· measured in dollars, in grades. or in the number plemented at Queens college that has become the lege. Having the college in our neighborhOOd has of hours spent in the classroom. source of a tug·of·war with other counties wishing given my wife and I. and many others. the oppor­ For example. the LaGuardia Consumer to call it their own. He referreed to these at· tunity to enhance our education. In return. it has Assistance Bureau, founded by Professor M. tempts as "childish" and said that the law school given LaGuardia the opportunity to enhance and David Wertheimer. has helped hundreds of con· will be a plus to the entire university system. better the community. sumers not only in New York but as far away as Senator Gold also condemned the city ad­ Not only has LaGuardia provided the youth of Maine and California. The Accounting Society. ministration's complacency towards Queens say­ the community with the chance for an education. led by Professor Emil Wittek, annually sends ing that he had been struggling for a long time to it has also availed itself to the adult population of trained volunteers into the community to assist enjoy at least "equality" under city ha ll . the community. Many adults would not have had the poor and the elderly with their income tax One major concern of the evening was York Col· the opportunity to attend college because of the problems. The Economic Development Commit­ lege in Jamaica, which according to Senator everyday hustle and bustle of working and hav· tee of Community Board Two, of which I am a Weinstein. "has no real campus." The buildings ing to take care of a family. By having a city col­ member, is chaired by Professor John Hyland used are at different locations in Jamaica. He said lege in the community, it has facilitated life for with important contributions by Dean Sheila new students and business will be drawn there our residents. Gordon. because it was recently announced that a new LaGuardia has also been very inst.rumental in Professor Richard Lieberman, in conjunction federal office building will be built while a nearby the education of the non·English speaking with other representatives of the college and antiquated elevated subway has bee~ scrapped. population of our community by availing t hem to members of the community, was instrumental After this came the first of many attacks on numerous programs which have made these pel>­ together with President Richard Salem of the Mayor Koch's proposed mauling of the CUNY pie an important part of the community, Greater Astoria Historical Society in developing budget. Calling it "outlandish" and "discrimin­ As proven by statistics, LaGuardia has one of a beautiful piclorial calendar depicting local ating" and claiming that it "Oys in the face" of the highest. if not the highest, percentage of historical events. the open admissions policy. one of the many State entering freshmen of any collge in the city, For a I n closing, I wish only to add that in a city fac· senators was deeply ruffled over the plight of the school of its size. it has one of the largest student ed with possibly its greatest crisis since World part-time students. He said that usually these populations in the city. War 11, LaGuardia Community CoUege stands students must work full· time to support them­ The cooperative education program at LaGuar­ out as a beacon on hope in an ocean of confusion. selves and that 36 percent of the students in the dia must be considered one of t he best in the Dorothy Pakula After 15 years of working as an IBM Keypunch lips. For the last three years I always had notes Operator and Verifier, I was terminated. I became taken and understood everything whenever the a volunteer for JHS 47, School for the Deaf, and professors wrote on the blackboards. after two months I was hired as a school aide, I took a non-credit course. "College Study I enjoyed the job very much and I decided to go Skills." for two quarters at LaGuardia. The to college in 1971. After one year of aggravation course was conducted by Mr, Frank Bowe, a hear­ from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, I ing impaired instructor. He got me an OVR coun· came across LaGuardia Community College and selor, Miss Zucheman, from NYU after I told him met a wonderful and understanding professor­ about my problems in lack of communication bet· Fern Khan-who was the Coordinator of ParQ' ween the professors and myseJf. Miss Zuckeman Professionals at LaGuardia. In 1972. I was admit· finally got me an interpreter for the last year ted to LaGuardia Community College with the before graduation. From that time until gradua­ aid of Ralph Garrett who was in charge of Ex· tion, I was a new person because I could ask and tended Day Programs. answer questions in class. At first I had a difficult time and became very Mr. Glenn Anderson, the Coordinator of Con­ Thomas Gilmartin frustrated because 1 couldn't read the professor's tinuing Education for Deaf Adults, hired me as a February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE· 15 tens Borough Hall Meeting

Our most unmentionable Mayor may have caused a downcast mood but there were the positive reports of those businessmen and civic leaders who work with the community colleges. Yvonne Cannon Especially handsome praise was given to LaGuardia Community College by Mr. William When I first became aware that I would have Slaboda, President of the New York Board of the opportunity to speak before this distinugish­ Trade. He said LaGuardia has "nurtured" a feel· ed body of trustees from the Board of Higher ing of "interest and trust" between business and Education, I wondered what I would say to you. students. Thomas Gihnartin sai.d LaGuardia was a I could teD you about LaGuarida Community "beacon of hope in a sea of confusion" and its College and how LaGuardia is an excellent school. opening was the highlight of the decade. But I don't believe I need to repeat the words of others. You only have to read the articles written The LaGuardia students* " * and former students in the Village Voice on several occasions or read who requested an appointment to speak before the Final Report by the Chairman of the the Trustees were Yvonne Cannon, William Cross, Evaluat ing Team who recently accredited. Thomas Gilmartin, Christina North, Dorothy LaGuardia for the next ten years. Pakula, Robert Piper. and Andres Rosado. Ms. This evening I come before you to say how im· Pakula, who is a LaGuardia graduate and cur­ portant it is for students, such as 1. single and in­ rently coordinates the tutoring program for the YvoDne CannOD dependent. to be able to continue our education at College's Program for Deaf Adults, is deaf herself an institution of higher education such as and gave her speech in sign language as well as LaGuardia Community College. But the future verbaUy. looks dim for us because yesterday Mayor Koch The texts of t heir remarks are presented in the announced that he proposes a "$9 miUion dollar accompanying articles. cut in the city's contribution to the City Universi­ Photos by Gene Luttenberg ty of New York's nine community colleges over the next two years." This proposal, if supported by you, the Board of Trustees, will have a devastating affect on the students enroUed in t hese community colleges.

country, if not the best. Under this program, I and other students are terribly concerned and many youths, as weU as many adults. such as I, vehemently opposed to the proposal because we, have been given the opportunity to prepare them· or students like us, wiU be closed out and unable selves for the working world. Many of these to afford an education beyond secondary school. students have been fortunate to have obtained Yes, there are other types of schools located in permanent employment through the program, the metropolitan area. Many of these private pro­ therefore reducing the unemployed population of prietary schools are ideal for those students pur­ the city. suing vocational training. According to recent Having worked in the financial aid office at ·the government statistics, the future looks very coUege for several semesters, I had the opportuni­ bright for these adults who simply want to learn a ty of coming in contact with many students. Andres Rosado trade. WeU, many of us want to learn more than a Many of them had problems. Many were just trade. looking for guidance. Although all their problems could not be solved, a good majority of them When I entered LaGuardia in January, 1978, I were. I n many cases the problems were domestic enrolled in a Business Administration program. and were not related to the school of their studies After successfuUy completing fifteen credits, 1 at all. If they were not solved by the faculty, the realized that. I already knew what my professors students were always referred. to an agency that taught because I had worked since I was 14 years could help them selves their particular problems. old. After speaking with my counselor we decided My wife and I had a most satisfying and grati­ that. I want.ed a liberal arts education. Now as I fying experience with the members of the faculty complete my last 19 credits, I am pleased that I at LaGuardia. They have a faculty that gives.a made that decision. At a vocational school I damn about humanity and works very hard at would not have been able to pursue an education making the world a better place in which to live. in liberal arts. My only regret is that I was not able to continue Ladies and gentlemen, the point I am making is at LaGuardia in my quest for a Bachelor's De­ t.his: if you approve Mayor Koch's proposal to cut ",ee. $9 million from the CUNY community coUege In closing let me say that LaGuardia is not only budget and increase the tuition. then decent men just an educational instit.ution, it is also a guiding and women will be forced out and not have the op­ light in our community and I urge you to expand portunity to realize their dream - to receive a col­ the coUege so it can meet the ever growing needs LaGuardia a lumna Dorothy Pakula (left) and lege degree. of our growing community. Margaret Ransom, an interpret.er for the deaf During the past summer. I had the opportunity and privilege of visiting the Hon. Borough Presi­ dent of Queens, Donald Manes, along wit.h other students. We asked for his support in urging the Board of Estimate to vote against the proposed tutor for four deaf adult.s in March 1977 and I me in this course and for supervision of tutor.:; on tuition increase for community coUege students taught them English, readihg, vocabulary and an ongoing basis. I also assist tutors in the use in September, even though it was a fait acompli. grammar four days a week from 4:00 P.M. to 9:00 and preparation of instructional materials. I hire I left his office with a feeling that New York P.M. This class grew and is still growing and has tutors from LaGuardia Community CoUege. politicians believe that t.he present constituency between 25 and 30 students at this time. These tutors, both hearing and deaf, have had ex­ of CUNY does not vote. I must agree that at pre­ Last summer I became the part-time Coor­ perience with handicapped children or adults. sent this fact is quite obvious. But. I assure you dinator of Thtorial Services in the Guided In­ 1 have good news to tell you. So far, 16 deaf t.hat this will change. In recent months, the con­ dependent Study program. The purposes of the adults have passed coUege entrance exams since stituency of CUNY has formed a coalition. We Guided Independent Study program are to teach 1977 and two students have passed High School represent every racial group in this city. We are deaf adults on different levels of English, reading, Equivalency tests. determined not only to get an education but to vocabulary, math and 'Ibtal Communication This proves that deaf students can function get that education through the CUNY system. !which means fingerspeUing, speech lipreading, better in LaGuardia Community CoUege or other As a representative of this coalition, I ask you, American Sign Language and ManuaUy Coded colleges with interpreter services and staff the newly appointed members of the Board of English) and to prepare them for the High School members who can communicate with an work 'Ihlstees, to work with us so t hat. we can continue Equivalency and College Entrance exams. with deaf people. These services are desperately the system, improve the system and thus im­ I am responsible for selecting tutors to assist needed. Iprove this great City of New York. 16. THE FLUTE· February 14, 1980 February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE· 17

d~«f~!/~Ih~ .This is a day to share. And others will propose, And show that special someone that you care. This day should be set aside. a day withstanding all others, This day should have remembrance too, Whether you're sharing it. with the best. of friends, family or lover, To show t.he good the both of you do. Everyone should have a special someone, whom he or she could love in A,day that's with candy and flowers. his or her own way, With constant hugging and kissing for hours. To show appreciation, long after Valentine's Day. A day for some, who will share a rose, -L.S.

If I began to dcscribe you, the I don't think of love onJy on description may go on eternally. Valentine's Day But because 1 have strong feelings Love is not just for the very young towards you I couldn't resist the I t is for everyone. temptation. You se it everywhere Your Lips are like sweet, juicy You see it when a bird is making peachcs and your eyes are like the its nest open sky, dark in the night like the You see it in the children playing moon reflected upon the sea. in the park in the flight of a lark Your arms Bre strong, but gentle It is not just a feeling in your and yet I'm confused because I heart don't know if they're fully closed Love is everywhere or open, -Brunilda Angueria Your innocent smile projeCts in­ dependence and yet some rejection. Everyone should have a special someone, that t.hey could love on this day, Vour skin is smooth and 8 Someone who is caring and kind in his or her own way. beautiful brown. its radiance is Everyone should take the time to find love. and give love wonderfully displayed. in return, Remembering that in everything and in every way we learn, You're sexy 8t. times you don't It's aLi around you and within, even realize and most sensitive All you have to do is give it to a stranger or a friend. when most. demanding. Take the time to say, three words, making sure that I love your open-ness, your they're true, debating indifference and your We can say it easily, t.hese three words, " I love you." To open up and share emotion, is a facial expressions make me guess self-satisfying stimulation to one's and learn what you are sometimes mind, body and soul. about. If a man opens up to me whole­ You're most beautiful when your heartedly, without withdrawal, intelligence comes through. which because of selfish pride, society's seems t.o me essential: at all times. rule or silly stereotypes, this makes I so enjoy your boyish ways at me feel needed, wanted and loved, times. which goes to show me that you're still growing in every way, And I in return could love him as a whole, I could love him for showing I love you and I'm not ashamed his true feelings and yet know that or afraid of the unexplainable, he was willing to let. me make judg­ undeniable and universally needed ment against him, love I have for you. So I say again and again, To cry, to speak, with an open I love you heart' and true mind, only brings I love you you more pride, less selfishness I love you and an everlast.ing love for all 'i.;;;'jiIIi~"''' ~iIi ____ ~",.,~.IIi'' mankind, -L.S. __ •• L.S.

She was like a red rose. She was like a rose, Her beauty was flawless. Her beauty was flawless, Her love and understanding is like that of an evergreen tree. She gave and gave until she couldn't give any more. She brought happiness into everyone's life. We'D never forget her, not even if we tried; who'd want to. Everyone loved her. In her home. you felt welcomed at all times. She gave and gave and never felt it was enough, You'd always seem to want to be adopted by her, She was ev;lJ'ybody's best friend, first love, aunt. Men, women, children and animals felt her warmth and love. and/or mother. She prayed for all. Love projected from her, Always praying more for the other than for herself. When she'd entered a room, all wanted to know her and It was like, she always looked out for the other guy. be near her; maybe confess their life history. Never asking for much and yet. appreciated what was given. She had this way about her Many tears will be shed and hearts will be broken. She was envied by some and enjoyed by most. But, in remembrance of her, many minds will be cleared and our days She was a daughter; a wonderful daughter, will be made. She was a wife; a loving wife, As we go along, the thought of her will make our day. She was 8 grandmother; a giving grandmother, In remembrance of her, we'll see t.hat loving smile She felt pain, she received it, but forgave, that personality, that won our hearts. Peace fonowed her; she followed peace. And we'll remember, that love is all she wanted, and hapDiness, She'd help the sick and the poor; physically and mentally. unity, and love is what she gave. She could never help enough. Written by her daughter, She seemed to always be there. Lovie O. Sayles 18 . THE FLUTE· February 14, 1980 Match the lyrics and the song title and win 2 tickets to see Sha Na Na at Madison Square Garden. ROCKWIZ Think you are a rock wiz? What to wi n TWO 7 "My (ather was a gambler down in Georgia 19 "No regrets, no tears TICKETS (value o( at least 125) to the SHA NA But he ended up on the wrong end of a gun Living alone was the least of my fears NA CONCERT at MADISON SQUARE GAR· 1 was born on the back seat of a All I gained was heartaches DEN on February 22, 19801 Greyhound bus All I made was mistakes" 'The "rocltwotes" below were liCled mainly (rom Going down Highway 41 " rock songs, most of which are currently popular. 20 "Your sister's gone out, she's on a date Match nch with its song title and rock atar. Mark 8 " If you want it, you got it forever You just sit at home and masturbate the letter of eacb correct song title and its artist This is not just a one night stand" You just can't wait for that caU" in the answer (onn. Tbe first student wbo suo. mits the most correct matches of SEVENTEEN "'Stop! a voice said, 'you best beware' 9 A. "Mother's Little Heipere"- ROLLING STONES or MORE DO later than Feb. 19, 1980 will win the 'Stopl bad luck is everywherel' " two ticketa. T bere are more answer items than B. " Crui.ing" -SMOKEY ROBINSON C. "00 t he Radio"-JOE JACKSON "rockwotes." Good Lucld "So I wrote to the papers 10 D. "The Long Run"- THE EAGLES Took out a personal ad "We don't need no education E. " Captain J ack"- BILLY JOEL Though I am nobody's poet We don't need no thought control F... S . ...h " - FLEETWOOD MAC 1 thought it wasn't half bad" Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!" G. "Ladiee Night"-KOOL I. THE GANG H. "Eacape"- RUPERT HOLMES "All you leather friends don't scare me 2 "I pick myself up off the ground 11 1. .. Romeo's Thoe" -STEVE FOaBERT But you just knock me back down" one bit J. "The W. U"-PINK FLOYD Because I know that it's only leatherette K. "RambUng Man"-ALLMAN BROS. I get all the love I need in a luncheonette 3 " Th avoid complications L. "Sead Oae Your Love"-STEVIE WONDER With just one glance, so let's dance" She never kept the same address M. "Subterranean Blue"-BOB DYLAN 'lb avoid conversations N. "Take Me to the River" ··TALKING HEADS '''Bring me Southern KiS8e8 from your room She spoke just like a baroness" 12 O. " Killer Queen"- QUEEN Meet me in the middle of t he night P. "Why Me?"-S'I'YX Let me hear you say everything's aU right 4 " Show him your love Q. "Frenehette"-DAVID JOHANNSEN Let me smeU the moon in your perfume" Don't hold back the feeling R. "The Bed's Too Big Without You"-POLICE You don't need a reason S. "Cruel to be Kind" -NICK LOWE "There you are in the sea of love When it's straight from the heart" 13 T. "AU of My Love"-LED ZEPPELIN Where everyone would love to drown" U. "Running em Empty"-JACKSON BROWNE V. "Beautiful Loser"-BOB SEEGER "Got to do what you can 5 .. He wants to dream like a young man 14 W. "Maggie Mae"-ROO STEWART Just to keep your soul alive With the wisdom of an old man Y. "Refugee"-TOM Pl:TTY HEARTBREAKERS He wants a home and security Tty not to confuse it X. "Candio" - THE CARS He wants to live like a sailor at sea With what you do t.o survive"

6 " Did you do it for love­ 15 "Though she's not really ill You must use only this entry form and put it in a Did you do it for money­ She goes running sealed envelope with your name, student 1.0. Did you do it for spite- for the little yellow pills" number and telephone number on the entry and Did you think you had to honey?" on t.he front of t.he enve1ope. Bring it to t.he Stu­ 16 "I suppose I could collect my books dent Activities Office, Room M·122, where it will .------­ and get me back to school be stamped with the date and exact time. If you • A nswer form: Or steal my daddy's cue I , _ 6 _ ,, - 16 _ are the winner, you will be notified by telephone 1 ' - , _ 12 _ ,, - and make a living immediately. Deadline is February 19, 1980. Deci· I 3 _ 8 _ 13 _ 18 _ out of playing pool" sion of the judges is final. Questions were compil· 1 ' - 9 _ 14 _ 19 _ ed and answers authenticated by Umoja I 5 - '0 _ lS _ '0 _ 17 "If you don't want to be a bum Kwanguvu. I Name ______You better chew gum" f( there is no winner, four ticket.s will be offered in the nut ROCKWIZ. Staff members of Fiorello's I• Address______18 "Somewhere, somehow. someone Flute, the Student Council, the Student Ac· must have picked you around some tivities Department and their relatives are ineligi· • Phone Who knows whether you were kidnapped, ble as contestants. L• Student____ 1.0 ._._._.. No. ______~ tied up, Laken somewhere 'Sponsored by Fiorello', Flute and he1d (or ransom?" Wltat is your definition of love?

By Howard Carter Miriam Correa-Love is a strong feeling which comes from the in· ner most depths of one's heart. Love is dominant over hate. Love cannot be repossessed like a materialistic object. It can't be bought-it's given freely. Love is an everlasting emotion. H oward Carter-Love is an undefinable thing-a thing of the spirit which should last an eternity. Joseph S iciliano-Love is never having to say you're sorry. Carmen 8avtista-Love is to be honest with someone. And to love someone is the most beauti­ ful thing in the world because love is pure. Daisy Ramirez-Love is when two people have trust in each other and a mutual understand­ Howard Carter Daiey Ilam.iftz J oee:pb SiciUano ing. (Flute pbotognphtT) February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTe. 19 The Sweethearts of LaGuardia Researched by John Oo..td The feast of SainL Valentine on February 14 seems to be intended to commemorate two Saints of the same name. According to legend. one was a Roman priest who suf­ fered martyrdom during the perse­ cution of Lhe emperor Claudius and was buried on the Flaminian way. and the other a bishop of Interamma (Te"ni), who was martyred apparent­ ly a lso in Rome. and whose relices were later translated to Terni. I n their present form the acts of both martyrdoms are legendary. but.­ they seem to be based on a historical foundation_ It is possible that they may actually be different develop­ ments of the same original account and refer only to one person. Saint Valentines day as a lover's festival. the choice of a ValenLine. and the modern development of sending valenLine cards has no rela­ tion t.o the Saint or to any incident in his life_ These customs seem rather to be connected either with the pagan Roman festival of, the Lupercalia which took place in the middle of February, or with the spring season in general. LupercaLia: An ancient Roman festival Its rites were under the superintendance of a corporation of priests called Luperci. whose institu­ tion is attributed either to Evander or Romulus and Remus. The festival was held on February 15. The Luperci sacrificed goats and a dog. after which two Luperci were led to the altar. their foreheads touched with a bloody knife and the blood wiped off with wool dipped in milk: then the young men were re­ Quired to laugh. after which oc­ curred the sacrificial feast. Then the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims and ran in two bands round the walls of the palatine city_ A blow from the thong was sup­ posed to cure sterility. The ritual is apparently in honor of no God: Lupercus. whom some authoriLies name. seems a mere invention. It was connected by the Romans to the Greek Lycaon. Lycaon was turned into a king wolf for his cruelties. The world Lycanthropy. is a psy­ chiatric term for someone who suf­ fers under the delusion that he is a wall. Joey Rivera and Maria Lopez Brenda Galindez and Miguel Aponte

By Laurie Brockway my first real love. my high school My very first valentine. at age sweetheart., who I was madly in love nine. was a memorable one indeed. It with but who had another girlfriend came from Robert M. Fischer. the and refused to sign the card because notorious nose-picker of P.8. 91 in he was afraid I'd show it to her. the Bronx and there was a dried which I did. after scribbling a few in­ FOR booger sitting right smack in the triguing. mushy sentiments in it and center of the "0" in love. I flicked it forging his signature. away and kept the card. She was unimpressed. since she Whether Robert Fischer in­ was getting ready to dump him. And tentionally included the snot in my by the time he started signing his V.D. valentine I never did find out be­ own valentines and sending me cause soon after he gave me the card cards with his own mushY' senti­ Get a man he suffered infected knee scrapes ments scribbled inside, I was unim­ and had to have his legs amputated pressed and I dumped rum. But all and never returned to school. those now unimpressive cards and and The second valentine was from my letters still clutter up my father. who enclosed money. I kept memorabilia box and I take them train him the money and gave him back the out to read occasionally. card. In between. I've received a few My first real valentine was from Continued on page 20 Laurie Brockway 2. THE FLUTE · February 14, 1980

SHARON BROWN-Ednor

-Leo NewbIIII-Acting F.cult, AflrlSOt F~IIo's Flu,,, Is the official student newspaper 01 laGuardia Communlly _c--Co·A_ College. II is publlahed monthty by an Independent stltdenl ala" and linanced by montes from student aC!l'llty lunds. Opinions elCpressec:l In the paper are not B-. _ ... 1I-ocy Bonl, _Old c._ neenaarliy those 01 lhe College administration, faculty, Of the student body JolIn Dowel, P.... e...... 0 __ Editorlat opinion e.pteaaed herein is determined by a majority 'Iote 01 the Flu'. Ita"_ Not responsible for unsoUcited materials and aU materlat subject to editing Ooronl ntc:.rIco, Joo lrp The Flu,e ollien are located in the Satellite Building, In the back of the Student caletena, .tLaGuardla Community College, 31·10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City. New York 11101. Telephone (212) 1137·6566. ComposJlkIn and printing by ConIrIbuIIng _-J.. Hu'" 8rooIc/yn M«Ii8. 28 Coun Street, 8t'oc*1yn. New York. Te\epho¥ (212) 834·t3!KI

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN The Development Ctr. By Marlin C. Moed I'd like to first compliment The Plute By t.oriie Sayles offered and many to choose from. editor, Sharon Brown, and staff on the quality of the last issue. Your student "Would you like to learn how to Workshops: newspaper ia a project that comes take tests better?"· Self-awareness ~~dou.f1a~ ~'fut~':~ftd efforts of Sharon "Would you like to learn more Study skills - develop good study The Mayor's budget proposes a 19 about yourself?" habits million cut in the City University Com· ·'Would you like to make better Nutrition - health, weight munity CoUege budget and he suggests decisions and be more assertive?" Test taking - effective skills and that 15 million be made up through a ninety dollar tuition increase effective in Well, these are a few questions strategies September 1981 . The decision of that the Student Development Cen­ Smoking and many more. whether to increase tuition or not rests . ..1I.:-o_"l ter presents to you. Between the hours of you can with the Board or Trustees of the 9·5 City University. I mention this because What. is the Student Development. register in the center, room M8-27 a number of sludenta asked about what Center? I asked myseU t he very for all or anyone of these work­ ~te.~th~il~i-:~ · Ilti:~~~t.e:at! same question until I interviewed shops. 1981. not Sept.em~980. I believe the Ms. Karen Pearl (counselor). The Drop-I n Counseling Service community college tuition level ror City The Student Development Center at. the center, wiIJ provide students ~i;~i~~!r !~dlr!~d~li~: d:~~e~~e~~ was developed through a college with the opportunity for direct con­ thing possible to see that no new tuition grant. Jane Schulman (director) and tact with counselors. A student can is imposed. make an appointment. with a par­ The Student Council has met since the Karen, along with other counselors, last issue, elect.ed officers and begun its worked on the grant. wit hout "Title ticular counselor or if he/she reaUy important tasks. Congratulations to ~he 3" funds (federal money). needs information on t he spot, the newly elected orficers. counselors are t here. Any counselor The center was first. made known on duty is available to faculty and th!h:t~~~~~,t ~~v~~~1i:n:X~~~e~:~~ j ~':nry ~:~~t =I~~e t~:a~~: ~~ to the faculty and students last spr­ LaGuardia·a original atudentorganiz.ations. The tfreek Club which has recently staff for consultation and/or a refer· ing '79. It. was a small·scale. five ral of a student having some kind of ~:..t:;~~~~ :~~~g~hctit~~a~i~b :n~ aS~~~b!rC:;o~~i!:if=~f~ ~~~: workshop center. There was im­ difCiculty in his/her c1as. dent activities are also being planned such as the Fourth Annual LaGuardia mediate counseling. Now, there are There·s a program for probation t.h.irLy-six workshops. &~~~ ~~:e~in~~;~ :t~hde~~:!~~du~f:'~i~~: :n~: !~dhe~iJl:~11:;i~ students also. I was told that by the office where students can ~L accurate and timely information on regiatratlon. financiaJ aid, student activities and other happenings. Ms. Pearl stated that the St.udent spring, the center will form groups Development Center had a lot to of­ for peer counseling as well. Many of~t;:~~a~:i~:n:iv: I :~taro;adS~!W~~n,!q~:~~~~~head~b!::t'aaan~ror~ fer. not only to t.he st.udents. but students do their coop andlor work­ mauve and I look forward to receiving their recommendations. Professor Mary to the faculty 8S well At. the center. study there. I asked a student who Lee Abkemeier. the Senate Chairperson, reminds us that the meetings are open you can work with counselors on cer­ was working on coop did she enjoy to the whole community. tain issues and/or concerns that working at the center. She said, I am happy to be able to announce to students that we·ve just added a new academic program. Professor Avis Anderson and facult/; in the Secretarial usually develop in LaGuardia Col· "It's okay. 1 enjoy it here," Her lege. You have the opportunity to responsibilities were to assign a ~::;~:~Dii:it!~ns~~e~ :h:t~a:e~ Pt~i::i~in:r;in~a~a:~al:r~hit! talk with other students who share students/faculty t.o counselors and operate sophiaticated machines now founlln many businesses, It does not the same interests and learn new teU them about the workshops. ~::. T~:op::ao~hr: ':~S:let~r:pe~n n~:t fJi~~~":~n:l :~~n~f Rr:; skills. You'll be able to talk in Anyone truly interested or if you students. groups, SO you may further your would like to see certain programs in I would like to share with students the news that our Oceupational Therapy development and understanding. t he future, d rop by t he Student 0 & bc~~:'~i~~:~ ~e~~:: l~':i~~i~~i~t~:a~~i~~a:~sk.a~rs:::d':n~~~~r~:fTI~ There are many workshops being velopment Center. MB27. Occupational Therap~ for this vote of confidence from the National Association. de!'~~ S~~~bi!s~::~h?tn;:t ~r::o=~t! :~~~ ~hia:r:ork~~po: :ilrt:~~vd over t~e next two months. they cover such are.as as Career Exyloration, study skills, test taking st.rategies, self awareness and probation, I you feel these could be helpful to you, you may sign up for.t.hem In the Student Development A new organization Center. I have noticed a number of concerns from students about some campus H i Fellow LaGuardians: Hola querid08 companer08 del facilities, especially the cafeteria. The committees that handle these areas are Allow us to introduce our organi­ colegio communal LaGuardia: ~~~:O:::::'~t=o:~~ ~~~~ria~~S::'~,C:ndP;rt~~t.Cf.d:r~~~ zation. Our name is "A qui NOSOL­ "Aqu NosLaros" es un gropo de es­ urge students who are seriously interested in working on these lasues to make a ros." Our objective is to assist you in tudiantes organizado con el proposi· special effort to join these committees. You can do SO by filling out the applica· whatever way possible. to de ayudar en la mejor forma posi­ tlon form in the Coller Senate Office. Room M 124, ble. New lIludents ocC8Slonall.y want to know why the College does not. have a var­ In our short existence, our group sity basketball team. We rod have a team for several years: however, the Stu· Por medio de este organismo quer­ dent Council decided to switch available funds to the present intramurallreerea· has been able to help many of our emos introducimos. En nuestra cor­ tional program. The choice was betwee.n using our limited budget and space for fellow students get through the ta existeneia nuestro grupo tiene la a team versus using it for the entire student body. It was felt that more hassles of registration and academic gran satiraeion de haber ayudado a students would get a chance to benefit from the recreation program through an matters. We also have a Conversa­ muchos de los companeros estu· ~nt:G~~~Tr~llmS~~d~~!: ~~~St8:!ct m~t~~!~;er:~a~ !r~et~~~r~~~r~i tional English tutoring class on diantes de LaGuardia durane los dif· teams. The All Stars play in the ~MCA Open Basketball League. So far they Thesday from 11:00 am to 12:00. eiles moment.os de matrcula y conce­ have an undefeated 9.0 record. These games are usually held here at the gym on jeria academics. Monday evenings. We are trying to reach out to you "Aqui Nostros" ests conduciendo College Director of Security, Mr. AI Longobardi. has been working with so that you can benefit from our ser­ c1ases imformales de Ingles conver­ :~~~~~~O~ni~ f~~~~~:;:;,:~~v: :~~nf:!vb~ka;~unt i~St~:w:~en~~~k::~~~ vices. For more information, contact sadonal, lOdos los int.eresados en usin the Sony 8uilding, S8-16. Yo u esl.as e1ases pueden partieipar. el v:Z ~~:!I~l~~:~h:nufi~~':!~U~~i~: ~::tio~sl ha:~ ~~n:O~~ ti~ee~~~~~~ will fi nd that we're ready. willing, horario es de 11:00 am a 12:00 todos and able to help you in whatever los mart.es. Es nuestro deseo que se r:~e~:r!:: ~:;:t.i~~ ~~~~:::Ii s:ffiP~~dl:~ct~:ti~~i,11~i~ r:::;'~'n~ unan a nosotros para que 8S nos ayu­ way we can. ~~ta~:e°;:;'~:be

By Gabriel J. Brisson Ever since God creat.ed woman there has been love. One may even consider woman the greatest gift God ever gave man next to life. In the past up to the present date, the great international past time has been boy meet girl and off sparks the fireworks. It's a passion, and a8 one great man once said, "You haven't Lived until you've loved."

That great man is now dead. He died from loving too many. As a matter of fact.. he died while loving at the age of 80. The cause of death was induced by a jealous husband, What a way to go, Grandpa, Who can say for sure, maybe I will follow in his foot.sLeps.

Love comes in many shapes, many sizes, and many colors. There are many st.yles and many ways of ex· pressing one's love. The caveman us· ed to express his love to a woman by clobbering her over the head and dragging her away by the hair. Now that's when love was much simpler to express. Much later, came the French and the I Lalians, and lhey expressed their love with wines, flowers, can· dies and poetry, AU of these things made love an art.. After that, things got a Little complicated. Now, one would get down on his knees and charm his way to a girl's heart,

February is t.he month of Aquarius, Pisces and the lover's holiday, which we call Valentine's Day, As a special feature for The Flute, I questioned several LaGuar­ dians and they responded to one of Camelo Mirando the following: "Whal does Valen­ Freshman PhotOfl by Gabriel Driaaon tine's Day mean to you? What do you look for in a lover'! How do you celebrate Valentine's Day?" Getting a man for V. D .... Camelo Mirando, freshman - Valen· Continued from page 19 strict my love-life to pen-charged. wardrobe for him. taughl him how tine's Day, to me is an expense in my valentines, from girlfriends who felt horny inspirations and anonymous to talk and now he is a real calch and pocket, I really had to dig in there. I r bad for me, from guys I didn'l really Valentines_ I date, I fool around, but will probably be up for grabs come I have a girlfriend I have to give her like and Qne anonymous carc;l from I don't allow one man to monopolize February IS, allhough I may keep a rose and a box of candy, plus me, someone who could only have been a my emOlions and passions, because him for a while. At any rate, he wrapped up with a nice little card_ guynamedWalterWhite,whowroLe boyfriends only tend to complicate knows just what to do on sluff about tyying me up and beat- my life and distract me from my im- Valentine's day. Stanley Scott, sophomore - Valen· ing me because he knew that was portant job on a large metropolitan Two dozen long stemmed red tine's Day should be spent with a what I really wanted. The police newspaper. roses will be delivered to me one at a loved one whom you're very fond of, were impressed with that one and But on Valentines Day, it sucks, time, each hour of the day at work Someone you're going to be with for handled it personally. because it is on February 14 that I and at home. He will serve me a a long time - the kind that's not The last few years though, have allow myself to indulge in romantic specially prepared French dinner limited. been dry and I've regularly sent tradition and lustful abandonment, promptly at eight and keep my glass myself anonymous valentines and even though there is work the next full with vintage wine. After dinner Nancy Serra. fre8hman - Th me, a have continued to act surprised and day. But it's nice to do that stuff he will take me dancing and then lover should be sweet and generous. curious when they arrived in lhe with someone other than a casual home, where he will bathe me in He must have a nice personality and mail, date, a good male friend or a pick up scented oils and later me with pas- be warmhearted , . . Ob, yes, of Other boring things I've done for - Le., it's nice to do it with a sion, etc. course, hot and juicy. Valentines Day are: sending cards to boyfriend. But most important, I will receive men in advance (Like December), So this year, I've got myself a one valentines day card each morn· Renee Weeks, sophomore - Valen· hoping they return the thought. Oh. man. A tall, blondish, blue-eyed ing, beginning February 7. tine's Day should be celebrated with I've called old boyfriends and guys specimen, specifically picked out Perhaps it sounds cruel, but just flowers, candy, a card from and to, who've sUpped me their numbers in and trained to be my valentine, think, in exchange for one day of the one you love. and that loved one bars for amusement on Valentines 1980. thoughtfulness he has had the should be considerate, trustworthy, Day. And 1've begged girlfriends to 1 found him in a sleazy local bar pleasure of my company for a whole • dependable, devoted and loving to fix me up with dates. But I haven't last month and have taken precious month, is entitled to sex on Febru- had a real valentine in years, moments of my busy schedule to ary 14, and has become a dashing, because real valentines only come train him. When I got him, he was sophisticated kind of guy with Marie Leach. lophomore - from real boyfriends. sleazy, he had no class, and no money, which will enable him to pick Although I will be spending Valen- Because I am a young, hip and money - except beer money. up women with ease in the future. tine's Day along, I feel that it should aware, career oriented, working I have since inspired him to be- Not a bad deal. huh? be spent with flowers and candy and woman with feminist tendencies, I come a productive, working, money- (Submitted by the editor who someone whom you love very m.uc. h." _.dO. ".·t_ kee_ p . bo. Y. f.ri.e".d.S"_ 1 .d.o". ·'_ r"_.m. akin_ " ..:g..:pe.-_SO."." .I.p.ic.k~ed_ou.'.a.".e.w_.p.,..c.ed.e.d .S.ha.ro.n.B.ro_w.n..1 ____ February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE. 21

LaGuardia CC present s

Valentines Disco Dance Feb. 15, 9 pm . 3 am

Tickets-$3.00 Students $4.00 Non-students Advance Tickets for Couples: at Discount Students $5.00 for 2 Non-students $7.00 for 2

Student/Faculty/Staff Talent Showcase and Beer Bash March 7, 7 pm . 10 pm Aviation H.5. Queens Blvd & 36 5t. Try Outs Feb. 6, LaGuardia Theater 1:20 pm·4 pm

Easter Recess Trip April 4·6 Sunny Croft Ponderosa Ranch Resort

Students Non-Students 2 in a room $85 2 in a room $95 3 in a room $75 3 in a room $85 4 in a room $65 4 in a room $75

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Tuesday, April 8, 1:30 and 6 :30 Wednesday, April 9, 1:30 (only) ====- Thursday, April 10, 1:30 and 6 :30 February 14, 1980. THE FLUTE· 23 Splitting hairs A t Student Development Center for pres.­ workshops stress self-improvement mostly gray By Arthur Hoppe At laGuardia, you are being asked to learn so many new skills.But, did you ever think about "Now that. aU t.he major eaodiat.eI!J for the presidency have announced," writes learning skills just for yourself and your own improvement? At the Student Development Center, a reader, "would you please describe Lbe you have the chance to do just that. At the Center, you can work with counselors on issues and differences between them 80 that • well· informed electorate can wisely choose concerns that normally develop in the college setting. You will have the opportunity to learn new among them?" skills, talk with other students who share common interests and work in groups to understand I'd be glad to. Let. us begin with and further ~our development. Mr.Cart.er and Mr. Kennedy. There are many. many major dif£erence!l between II\\)rkshops are being offered throughout this quarter on topics including: study skills, test­ these two men. The fint tbat strikes lobe taking, self-awareness, career exploration, nutrition, smoking, and more. The workshop political analyst. is that. Mr. Kennedy is t.aller. He also bas longer hair, a bet.ter schedule for the Winter quarter is listed below. Information about all of the workshops can be tailor and 100'" happier. picked up'in the Student Development Center, Room MB-27. You can register in the Center for Mr. Carter looks worried. He has every right. to look worried. He is Lhe any or all of these workshops. President.. He is also lower in the polls Group counseling is also available to any student who wants to be a member of a small group than Mr. Kennedy. Who wants a Presi· that talks about personal problems that come up at home, school, on the job, with friends dent who looks worried? This may also be why he looks worried. On the credit and lor family. These groups will be organized for those people who are motivated to explore any side. he has a closer reJationship with his of these areas. These counselor-led groups will meet for one hour each week throughout the wife t han does Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Carter tells Mrs. Carter everything. She looks quarter. 88 worried as be does. Please come down to the Student Development Center to meet with a counselor, sign up for a On the issues, Mr. Kennedy is for 8 workshop and sign up for a group. Looking forward to seeing you! healthy economy. peace in Lhe Middle East. a Itrong America and vigorous leadership. Mr. Carter, on "'e other hand. is for a healthy economy, peau in TIT L E DATE DAY TIMECOUNSELOR the Middle East. a st.rong America and leadership t.hat doesn't panic in a crisis, Career Exploration (Sec. Sci. MaJors) . Feb. 20 V\ednesday 12:00- 1:10 Judy Gazzola Mr. Kennedy t.hinks t.hat's a dirty crack. Career Exploration (Hum. Serv. Majors) . Thursday 12:00- 1:10 Lynn Byk There are also ten Republicans runn­ Career Exploration ...... Feb. 29, March7 Friday 1:20- 2:30 George Chieffel ing for President. The front-runner is Career Exploration . Feb. 20 V\ednesday 6:40- 7:50 Aida Ceara Mr. Reagan. Mr. Reagan is taller, hand­ somer, more charismat.ic and has rar All th e above workshops will meet in th e Career Resource Center more experience than any other Republi· can runing for President. StudySkUls ...... Monday 10:4G-ll:50 Karen Pearl Mr. Reagan aJ80 doesn't have a gray Study Skills...... Feb. 27, March 3 V\ednesday 12:00- 1:10 Jane Schulman hair in his head even when it rains. This Study Skills . may be a mistake. His chief competitor ...... -.... Feb. 19, Feb. 26 Tuesday 1:20- 2:30 Karen Pearl at t.he moment, John Connally, has Test-taking Strategies Vlednesday 12:00- 1:10 Jane Schulman many. many gray hairs. Congequently. Test·taking Strategies ..... Feb. 28, March 6 Thursday 10:40-11 :50 Karen Pearl Mr, Connally looks more like a president Decision'Maklng Feb. 15, Feb. 22 Friday 2:40- 3:50 Manuel Perez t.han any other contender. He looks like • president of a Texas oil conglomerate. Test-Anxiety . Thursday 12:20- 2:30 Ruth Lebovitz He talks like one. too. CUNY & SUNY College Transfer Thursday 1:20- 2:30 Andy Saluga Mr. Reagan is for a st.rong America. Judy Gazzola vigorous leadership, a healthy economy How to Wile a Resume . Feb, 19, Feb. 26 Tuesday 12:00- 1:10 Bob Durfey and peace in t.he Middle East.. Mr. Con­ Relaxation nal1y. on the other hand. is for a atrong ...... V\ednesday 6:40- 7:50 Ed. Hallauer America, vigorous leadership, a healthy Relaxation Thursday 2:40- 3:50 Ed. Hallauer economy and oil in the Middle East.. Relaxation Feb.21,28, Mar:6 Thursday 2:40- 3:50 Ec!I . Hallauer Also give'n a chance are Mr. Bush, Mr. Self·Awareness Tuesday 12:00- 1:10 Lynn 'Byk Baker and Mr. Dole. Mr. Bush used to be director of the CIA. He may also have Self-Awareness ...... Monday 2:40- 3:50 Jane Schulman other liabilities that have not yet been Self-Awareness Feb. 20 'Aednesday 12:00 Karen Pearl made public. Nutrition and You. March 3 Monday 1:20- 2:30 Judy Gazzola The difference between Mr. Baker and Susan Hessner Mr. Dole is that Mr. Baker usuaUy Preparatlon_for Parenthood ...... _ Feb. 21 , 28 wears blue suits and gray ties. while Mr. .... Thursday 6:40- 7:50 Ellen Rodriguez Dole usually wears gray suits and blue Stop Smoking .. •...... -.... March 18 Tuesday 2:40- 3:50 Susan Hessner t.ies. Or perhaps vice veras. It's difficult •Slop Smoking , ...... March 26 'Aednesday 6:40- 7:50 Susan Hessner for us political analysts to keep track of \o\bmen 's Health ...... Monday 2:40- 3:50 Susan Hessner everything these day.. What distinguishes Mr. Bush. Mr. \o\bmen's Health ...... Thursday 2:40- 3:50 Susan Hessner Baker and Mr. Dole from t.he other five W9ight Reduction Group EveryW9d. 12:()()' 1:10 ~usan Hessner major Republican contenders is t.hat no Probation ...... W9dnesday 12:()()' 1:10 Diane Ducat one ever heard of the other five. AU Probation (81I1ngual) . Monday 2:40- 3:50 Glona Garcia eight, however. are for. strong America. vigorous leadership, a healthy economy. Probation Tuesday 2:40- 3:50 Arthurlne DeSola peace in the Middle East and a dead­ Probation (C.D. students) Tuesday 12:00- 1:10 Karen Pearl locked Republican convention. Probation Monday 1:20- 2:30 Bill Surila As to political philoeophy. there are Probation ...... Thursday 10:40-11:50 Ruth Lebovitz sb,arp differetK'.98 between the leading hopefuls. Mr. Kennedy used to be a Probation Feb. 27 Vt.ednesday 6:40- 7:50 Aida Ceara liberaJ. He is now a moderate. Mr. Carter" Probation . Feb. 28 Thursday 6:40- 7:50 Joan Edmonds used to be a moderate. He is now a moderate. Mr. Reagan used to be a con· servative. He is now a moderate. Mr. Information sign-up lists are available In the Student Development Center, The Center Is open Mon· Connally used to be a Democrat and a day through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm. It's located in MB-27, the phone number is 626-8562. During these defender of the common, hardworking hours, a counselor)s always available to speak with students, faculty and staff about any problem, oil conglomerates. He is now a Republi· · can. The counseling staff hopes you will use the Center's services, attend the workshops and participate Many voters haveaaid t.hat what this in small groups. country needs is a presidential can­ didate who ia "really different.. .. DROP·IN to the Center anytime for additional information, or to speak with a counselor. I have told many voters that Jeny Brown is also running. Detailed information about each workshop is available In the Student Development Center. Please "Not that different." said many stop in to read about the workshops and sign up! voters. Copyri,/1t 0 CIlro,.ick Publi.hingCo. 1979 24 • THE FLUTE. February 14, 1980 The Good Mister Nagen By Phil Arra raised Xmas trees) there came by a wicked ugly Once upon a time there lived a man on the out.­ woman and her rotten even uglier daughter. The side of a town called Sillyville. Sillyville was woman's name was Idle Love and her daughter's located south of the Tuckahoe Creek and just name was Nasty Heritage. After learning from west of the Sugar VaDey Mountains. The man's the local townspeople about Nagen's inability to name was Nagen. Nageo was a good and kindly say no. the two scheming ladies decided to visit so many wrinkles on their faces that they lookecl soul who could nevel;' say no to anybody. Nagen in order to try to borrow money from him. as if they had t.o screw their hats on. Well, one day while tending to his trees (Nagen When they got to Nagen's house and saw what a As Nagen opened the door, the two pushy and lovely home he had, the two thought, how arrogant women burst into Nagen's house and pleaded as women sometimes loften) do, "Oh please, kind sir, marry my daughter Nasty. for she will make for you a very good and loving wife." Since Nagen was unable to say no, he could on­ ly say, "I. . . I. . . oh my God, I. . . I will." The two evil women jumped high into the air and screamed wit.h joy. for they both knew that soon they would be living in Nagen's wonderful wonderful it would be if Nagen would marry one house. They both t.hrew their bony arms around of them. The two evil ladies could then move into Nagen's neck and wrapped their dirty skinny legs Nagen's beautiful house. But which one would he around his waist. marry. that was t.he quest.ion? Then suddenly, as if by magic. the two evil After giving the matter at least five seconds of women began to feel a warm glow within their serious thought, the two creepy ladies decided bodies. They also began to feel ashamed at what t.hat. Nasty was the prettiest of the t.wo, and if they had done to get the good Nagen to consent. Nagen was to marry one of them, he would most. to marry the evil Nasty. likely choose to marry Nast.y. When Nagen turned around, where there once So both of them waddled up to Nagen's door stood two of the ugliest and meanest· looking and began to knock, knock, knock. on the door. ladies anyone could imagine, there now stood two "Who is that knocking and banging on my of the prettiest creatures he had ever seen. door?" cried Nagen. Nagen had immediately fallen in love with Nas­ "It is 1. Idle Love and my lovely daughter Nas­ ty and he really wanted to marry her. ty," the rotten old lady cried back. The kindly and What had happened? Could it be that when the handsome man, not knowing what was in store evil women touched the good man. they had for him, opened the door. somehow been t.ransformed from rotten ugliness Thur.d., Feb. 14 Much to Nagen's surprise, there stood two of to good and prettiness? Film: " Three Rhythms" Culture and Carnival In Trinidad. 10 pm. the most horrendous monsters he had ever seen in Yes. yes. that is exactly what. happened. And Thursdl, Feb. 21 his entire life. Nasty was so skinny, he thought, if when Nagen saw how pretty Nasty really was, he Films: Qusmane Sembene's luillenglh Alrlcan 111m it wasn't for her Adam's apple she would have no married her in spite of her previous ugliness. And " Black Girl," and animated Ashanll folk shape at all. And her mot.her looked like the from that day on, Nasty and Nagen lived happily tales.IOpm. Thur, d., Fltb28 poster girl for acid indigestion. Both women had ever after. Films: Qusmane Sembene', full length African tum " Mandabl" and '·Tauw " 10 pm Thursdl, M.rch e Films: Afro-WeS! Indian Setles " Another Kind of SOCIAL ESSENCE Music" (Jamaica), " Trinidad Trails," and animated Ashanll folk lales. to pm. Thur,d., Mlrch 13 Film: " M, Father Sun·Sun Johnson·' (from Jamaica) 10pm. "Skates into the 80's" TWIN CITY RINK Elizabeth, New Jersey ART EXHIBIT r!.I

~::Iii ~ February 14. 1980 · THE FLUTE · 25 Bette electrifies as 'The Rose' By Peter K elm M idler says she ultimately accepted Midler was even considered for the role. Bet.te Midler's hallmark has aJways Lhe role because it would be a personal And protests Lhat. hI¥' and Rose'l been her versat.ility. . She can ling departure for her. outlooks were different. didn't prevent anything: nostalgic renditions of old "The thing I've alwaya Lried t.o do in Midler from getting oddly emotional chestnut.s from the thirties and forties, my career is nOL to do the expected. As iL when discussing the character. At one early rock classics. ballads, blues. even Lurns out. this was jusL as unexpected as point in the interview. when she discuss< counLry music. anything could have possibly been. If r ed Rose's barely·filmed relationship And now ahe's tried something else: had played the Queen of Poland, iL with her parents, Midler became 80 tear· acLing. As the lead in 20th Century couldn'L have been any more shocking to ful she couldn't. continue talking. Fox's The Ron, she plays a high·strung. people who know me." She recovered quickly. though, saying. self-destructive rock singer of the late She figured that differences in vocal "I'm really tired. I need a year off." It sixties with such verve and intensity style and appearance wo.ld make it im· was a line for t.he film. Lhat she seems a shoo-in for an Oscar possible to impersonste Joplin anyway. Does she want. to take thaL year off to nomination. But her performance is "I really did try to stay away from (im· go back home, to parade her success like more than Lhat.. It's probably the most itating Joplin) .. . I was a big fan of Rose wanted to? electrifying screen debut. since Oarbra Janis' and I didn't think I could do " I used to want to go home a lot, and St.e.isand'a in Funny GirL justice to her memory." show 'em ail, but then there came a point The happy fit of adress and role, If she wouldn't imitate Joplin. did she where I didn't need to. It didn't make though. almost never happened. Midler. base the role on her own experiences? any difference. They would alwaYI say 1 for one, didn't Lhink much of the role was the same, no maLter how many when she lint read it.. " I didn't, like it "I was never in as much pain 89 that character. I've been in the soup. but I've yearl would go by, no matter how much lot, and tell jokes, and wear. scanty particularly;' she recalled at a recent. weight 1'd lost. no matter how wierd my never been 80 far down that I r;eally clothes, bleached blonde hair." interview in Loa Angeles.. " thought the hair was." couldn't see any way out." There might be television work as language was too rough. I'm very schD" Home for Midler. now 33, was well. One of her favorite performance!l80 larly under all this. y'know?" Several a<:enel in the film, however, Honolulu, where she was "the only far was. special for cable TV she did She wasn't too happy about a role that sure look like allusions to Midler's own Jewiah girl in an otherwise Samoan called "The H BO Show." cou ld be 80 casily traced to its leSS'Lhan­ life. In one sequence she visita a neighborhood." A role in the film "That had &orne real tacky moments subtle similariLy to Lhe life of Janis transvestite night club. She Lears "Hawaii" inspired her to leave for New Joplin. Although Lhe filmmakers insist through a men's bathhouse looking for York . She struggled there for six years. in it:' she recalls fondly. " I loved Lhat. j'd like to do another one for them. They Joplin's life was only the inspiraLion for her boyfriend in another scene. working her way up in the cast of the let you go on for hours. It's a lot like a script abouL the SLresse! inherenL to M idler. whose career took an improba· theatrical version of Fiddleron the Roof. British TV. They'rejustfilthyon British rock 'n roll l'Iupentardom, Lh"e's ble tum up while working at the Con· She left the show for the nightclub cir­ TV. They encourage you to say things enough onstage drinking and pathetic tinental Baths in New York. confesses cuit, the Continental Baths. and finally you would never get away with on urges to please old, uncaring families in she asked herself. "Did they put that in the records and revues thaL made her American television. I loved that show." the film to keep the charges of !lena­ there because they thought I would like famous. tionalisL grave-robbing alive for a long Lhat'P" The sctef!nwriters assured her She wouldn't mind going back to live time. the scenes were in the script before shows for awhile. "It keeps me alive. It's The eckctic Dr. Petflr Xlem ;:. a great stimulation." p:.ychiatri:.t, a noted film reuiewer, fmd There'll be more films, too. "I'd like to th. author of The Doctor's Bag. a .yn· do a comedy, a comedy with music. I'd dicatro column of medical Muise. The mind conceives, like to play someone who gets to smile a -CPS the person achieves collegiate camouflage

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N R 0 K A 0 Y H N U G R K. R R make By Ken Charles your goals. or better a larger H E A C N E W E C A B 0 N 0 A This is the first article OD fitness poster. Look at it at least twice a and nutrition and the title gives you day and say your goals aloud or 0 R T S A C L r T 0 A E R 0 U everything. This is the secret. the silently with a serious positive at.­ essence and the Zen of success in at.­ titude. You are giving your subcons· J U A E B A R r M N H R A U J tainipg your goaJ~-be it in physical dence mind positive suggestions. fitness. sports or business. or what· The mental aspect of your training Can you find the hidden statesmen? ever you want. is crucial. Positive suggestions Whatever your goal may be the equal positive results, and converse­ ACHESON no au MINH key is the same-concentration! The ly, negative suggestions equal BEN GURION JUAREZ mind and body must work together negative results. You can go to a BIS~lARCK LENIN as a unit. The first step is to healLh club or train at home-it's BOLIVAR LUMUMBA establish a realistic goal and .really a moot point. BREZHNEV ~IAO TSE- TUNG meditate on it. Physical training without the CAESAR MIRABEAU If. for example, your goal is to lose mind will lead to results of poor CASTRO NEIIRU weight. use your imagination, and quality and quantity. Conceive the amROHLL PERON visualize yourself looking slimmer idea. concentrate and you will DrSRAELI SADAT and trimmer. If your goal is to win a achieve it. DUBCEK SARAGAT sports competition. use your mind. Remember-use your head! Con­ GANDHI SUKAR..'lO and draw a mental picture of centration is the key. HENRY TRUDEAU yourself winning that game. HINDENBURG U lllA.'lT The second step, is to write down © Copyright Ken Charles 1980 26 • THE FLUTE. Febru. ry 14, 1980 SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORT SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORT SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORT SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORT SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORTS COMMENTARY SPORT Baseball gets rich at fans' expense By Gerard Tricarico Bob Myrick they can up three players. great game because there is a popularity B(J$. ballJ Remember that game? I t is And if t.hose three playera happen to he due to players going the free route? supposed to be played on a diamond· stars such as a George Brett, Bruce Sut­ Baseball drew over 43 million fans t.his shaped field with nine men and a fence ter and Jim Rice that would be quite a past year. establishing a record. Con· (or "Green Monster" for you 8080X swap, huh? So what's to stop a team sidering teams like Oakland, 1bl'Onto fansl. However, it is often played off the from deliberately letting go some lesser and our own New York Mets play before field, namely in Steinbrenner and players by not siloing them to contracts 50,000 seats a night, that stat is Aut.ry ', wallets. The subject is and picking up stardom ball players? remarkable. baseball's free agent market. The one Still another rule depends on the supply It is the fans' money in the first place that begins in November and allows the of free agents that. are available. If 25 that. causes the problem at hand. In our players to go to t.he highest bidder. players decide to play out their options? inflation·ridden society, is the. fans' Rich Gossage is known as "the goose A player Is no longer tied to one team. In contrast, if the time came when every dollars that allow a ball player to make a that laid the golden egg." Dave Each year players play out their options. player in baseball were a free agent, million dollars. Judging from the tur· Kingman wanted the Daily New. to take Money making is okay - but. fellow s, So what happens it three hundred nout tNS year the fans don't realize or a survey amongst the readers to see if let's keep it reasonable. players decide to play out t.heir optinos? don't want to realize the problem. Last they thought he deserved more money It's just wonderful how Bowie Kuhn. In contrast, if the time came when every year the California Angels and Gene from the Mets. The survey was taken the commissioner of baseball, and the player in baseball were a. free agent, Autry drew over Sl,(lOO fans a game. and "Kong" lost and 900n he was gone baseball world itself can ignore the pro­ there would be such a confusing situa· Geo.-ge Steinbrenner and "'Catfish" form the Mets. Dave Parker feels he is blem and make a set of rules to govern tion that by the time every player was Hunter started this trend in baseball worth a million dollars a season also. the situation. For instance, a team can signed, the all star game would be and Steinbrenner and Autry have helped Finally, Nolan Ryan became baseball's s ign as many players as it happens to played on "Super Bowl Sunday:' it a long. Remember, both these owners first player to r1!Ceive a million dollars a lose. So if the New York Mets happen to Bowie Kuhn recently stated that have that bait to lure. season. He has signed with Houston lose Ron Hodges, Dwight Bernard and baseball is the greatest game. Is it a So Autry and Steinbrenner will buy who feel that there are a few more strike players with the fans' money to get into out.s in Ryan's arm. the playoffs. Meanwhile a rocking chair We have looked at the money aspect of ran yells, "Marge, get me another beer."' the problem. But there is still one mMe Question 0# the month He watches players with incredible 6 thing that bothers me and I am sure digit figures for salaries. some of you. What about the fann S ince there were no responses to the Reds 22 to 8 . Harrelson and Rose got in· Is baseball a sport or a business? You sys tem? The Yankees are supposed to question of the month, I would like to to a fight and the fans showeNld Pete be the judge! Is it right for some player have the best fann system. After all, share one of my favorite memories. wit.h bott.les ... And finally. the Mets go to make a million dollars for smacking a that's what we hear from old " Huckle­ I first started following baseball in into the Series where they lost in round object with a wooden stick? berry" Phil Rizzuto any time the Yanks 1973. My team was the Mets. I couldn't Oakland because Reggie Jackson hit a Let's lake a look at the baseball world are t railing by six runs with twO out in understand why some Yankee fans homerun . today. We have Reggie Jackson who is the ninth. Yet with the exception of a laughed at me when I said that the Mets * • * making 1600,000 a year. Then t.here is few players, the Yanks have resorted to could fini sh in first place. or course, I Should the United States boycott the George Foster of Cincinnati who signed the free market.. On the other hand, made that statement in June, but as we Olympics? a contract for three years at 2.2 million what.·s the sense of the Meta developing aU know, look who fmished in firat place. In a 50 to 100 word essay, explain why dollars. He said that money didn't mat.· a Lee Mazzilli if he plays out. his option? I remember the Mets knocking of( the you feel the U.S. should or should not ter. He just wanted to play in Cincin· It's an ironic aituation. The average Bucks four out of five games ... then boycott t.he Olympics. nati. They took his temperat.ure but no star is making between 1400,000 and there was the teary-eyed Willie Mays The two people with the best essays need to worry. He's got more than 1600.000 a season. It haa hit. seven goodbye speech . . . five teams could will win two tickets to either a Knicks or 1700,000 a year coming to him. The digits in Ryan's salary. In a few more have finished in first ... then on a Rangers game. retired "Catfish' came to play every· years it will he eight digit.s and I wonder gloomy day at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Drop off responses in the Student Ac­ day. If I could make three million dollars if I wiu have passed on when what ·s·his· the Meta won the most dramatic race in tivit.ies office, M 122. All entries must he over the course of five years ofreaJ work, name demands 1100,000.000 for one baseball history, a day after the season received by February 19, 1980. The win· I too, would come to play everyday. Pete season? For every divot a player takes was supposed to end. ning essays will be printed in the next Rose wanted to make a million dollars a out of the dirt wit.h his spikes, that's In the playotrs, Rusty Staub hit three issue. season but settled upon the petty cash another divot taken OUt of the fans' homeruns and t.he Mets out8cored the -G.T. of S8OO,ooo a year for three seasons. waJlet!l! How much competitiveness is there in sports? When the California Angels won their Since the four division system took eight times during the span including with others for profit, prize, or position. divison 's title in September. the fU"st. one over in '69. fifteen reams have won their the la8t four. Oh, by the way. the Bruins Funk & WagnalJs I nternational Diction· for them since the club's birth away respective division. In the National and Flyers are the other twO clubs. ary descri bes competition as contention back in 1961 , sports fans began to say League, the Mets. Phils. Pirates, Reds, In football, the Stealers, Cowboys, of twO or more for the same object or for and think how the compet.ition in base­ Dodgers, Giants and Braves have climb­ Dolphins and four·time losing Viking, superiority; rivalry. ball had increased. In addition to that, ed to the top, and in the American have appeared the most in Super Bowl Now take the "others"' found in the de­ the Yanks, Phils, Dodgers and the Roy. League. the Yanks, Orioles. Red Sox, games. finition given by the American Heritage. aJs didn't win their divisions like it was Tigers, Royals, Twins. A's and the Football even added an extra wild· I n baseball. ftfteen teams have seen thought to be. It cet"tainly looked like Ang6ls have had the honors. card berth. but the same teams keep place, but eleven "others" did not. There the competition in baseball had in· Today, there are 26 teams in baseball winning. is rivalry between the Yanks and Box01, creased. and 15 have felt the October air. Eleven The sports fan tends to like t.he AFC but there is no rivalry between the Ironically, t.his is not the case. It is not others wiu have to have their boilers over the NFC. In the AFC. 8.500 record Yanks and Blue Jays. the case in baseball, hockey or football. break down to feel the October air. won't get you a bar stool to sit on to The Yanks are capable of winning 90 Basketball is the only exception and I What's more is the Mets, Braves, Gi· watch the Super Bowl. However in the or 92 games. On the other hand, the Blue shall uplain why later. ants, Tigers and A'a are longing to be NFC, a .500 record could win a division. Jay, have t rouble avoiding a hundred The competit.ion in sports is • dwind· competitive. I t has been several years After eleven games, t.he Giants stood at l08seS. And it will continue that way ling factor. What's more. the league since these ball clubs have been in fU"st 5-6 and had a good chance for a playoff unless something is done to balance the presidents and commissioners have hid· place and the free agent list Is not help­ spot. On the other hand., the Jets had leagues. den tor at least have cleverly tried to ing them so Bowie Kuhn's statement that same record in the AFC, but they After considering the whole mess, I hidel that. fact. can indeed be quest.ioned. Perhaps what could only think about where they want feel that basketball is the most. com· Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner, Kuhn should say, is that the free agents to spend 8pring vacation. petitive game. A different team wins has told Willie Mays, a real competitor, have helped two clubs in particular. The Every team can't win every game. each year. And some fans resent that not to as80ciate himself with baseball if Yanks and Angels have signed the bulk That's understood. Yet, when all is because it. is apparent that. they like he participates with an Atlantic City of t.he free agents because they have the reckoned together. there is more com­ dynasties. Fans don't want to see their gambling casino. He has gone down on bulk of the money in t.he league. Along petition in t he NFC t.han the AFC be­ teams win every six or seven years. As a record as saying, "Baseball is the with weakness comes a lack of money. cause you don't need a pair of binoculara result, we have our "'Fly·by·night.-fans,"' greatest game." He also stated. "The But Kuhn insista that the weaker clubs to locate the front runners. those t.hat root for the winning team free agents have helped the weaker have been helped. This brings us to basketball. Since the each year. clubs. The weaker clubs are more com· In hockey, there are 21 teams. 16 of 70-71 seaton, eight teams have won the A different champ every year makes petitive." which will make the playoffs. If t.he team NBA championship. Milwaukee, L.A .. good competiton. Adding ext.r'8 playoff Sports fans take a good look at the can spell their name right. on the playoff N.Y., Boston, Golden State, B08ton bel"ths in hockey will not do t.he trick finaJ standings in baseball. With the ex· tickets, they're in. But that does not again, Port.land, Washington and Seat.­ because it doesn't balance the leagues. ception of the Angels, the O's, Bues and necessarily mean good competition. tle in that order. Nine seasons and eight Perhaps this is why basketball atten· Reds have all won before and all in the Since the 67-68 season, only three teams different. champs. danee has gone down over r9Cent yean same year. One need not look too far have won t.he cup. The Canadians, per­ What ia competition? The American - fans are not. ready to accept competi· back to find out when. haps bom with skates, have won the cup Heritage Dictionary defines it as a vying tion yet.! -G.T. February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE. 27 REEREATIBN at LaGuardia Open Recreation Intramural

Att/.,I"•• open 10 .tuden,. end .'e" on _ drop In "..1. Basketball . . . Mon 8:30 am . 9:45 pm Contests Erent Roster Due Begins Day Time Handball/Paddlebal1 . . .. M·F 9:00 am . 4:45 pm Softball, league 4/14 4116 Wed 1:30 Paddieball doubles, sing· 4/16 4121 Mon 2:30 Rollerskatlng . . .. Wed, Fr! 12:40 pm . 2:30 pm Table Tennis, sing 4/21 4123 Wed 1:30 Handball Doubles, sing 4123 4125 Fri 2:00 Tennis/Baseball Alley Faculty bowling, contest 4/26 4/28 Mon 5:30 (by reservation only) ...... Fri 2:40 pm . 6:30 pm Backgammon, Sing 4129 4/30 Wed 1:30 Hole In One, contest 511 511 Thurs 12:30 Volleyball .. M, W, F 2:40 pm . 3:50 pm Hot Shots, contest 512 515 Mon 2:30 Faculty table tennis. sing 516 5J9 Fri 4:00 Weight Tra ining . . . M·F 8:30 am . 9:45 pm Club Volleyball. round robin 5114 5116 Fri 2:40 Weight Training ..... , Sat 9:00 am . 4:45 pm Battle of Depts.round robin 5/20 5121 Wed 5:00 Pitch & Putt. contest 5123 5/23 Fri 2:00 Table Tennis . .... M·F 8:30 am . 9:45 pm Tennis Tournament, sing 5122 5/26 Mon 3:00 Table Tennis ...... Sat 9:00 am - 4:45 pm For locations, please consult Aecreation Dept. ' ''Slng'' represents Single Elimination events Chess/Checkers/Backgammon .... M·F 8:30 am • 9:45 pm ChessfCheckers/Backgammon ... Sat 9:00 am . 4:45 pm

Tha above acti'tlties .t" scheduled open ,.crutlon act/'tltles and will have priority during the times listed 0"8' other tect •• tion activities. 8uluttbaU. handball and paddlaball: Instructional At lauf ana court will be arallable during these time periods. Weight Training will be conducted In the Auxiliary Weight Room, G122, Workshops during the hours of scheduled Modern Dance and Yoga Worlrshops.

Gymnastics, Trampoline ...... Wed 10:40 am -11 :50 am Gymnastics, Trampoline . ... Tue, Thurs 2:40 pm·3:30 pm

Ma rtial Arts .. _. Mon 2:30 pm -4:00 pm Martial Arts _ . Wed 4:00 pm -5:3O pm Martial Arts ...... _• •. , . _. _. Thurs 5:15-6:45 pm

Modern Dance I ...... _...... Wed 1:20 pm -2:30 pm Modern Dance II _ .... Wed 2:40 pm -3:50 pm Mod. Dance Performing Group .... Wed 5:30 pm-7:3O pm

Rollerskaling . .Wed , Frl 12:40 pm -2:30 pm Sl lmnastics .... Mon, Tue , Fri 1:00 pm -2:00 pm

Tenn is I ...... Tues 4:00 pm-5: 10 pm Tennis II ...... Tues 5:20 pm ·6:30 pm Tennis I & II .. Wed 2:00 pm -3:00 pm

Volleyball ...... Wed 2:40 pm -5:50 pm Weight Training ...... Man, Tue , Thur 4:00 pm· 5:10pm

Yoga I ...... Thurs 1:20 pm -2:30 pm Vogall . Thurs 2:40 pm -3:50 pm

Recreation Schedule Workshop Day & Time Place Golf T -4115-12· 1:10 Gym 4 GymnastlTrampoline W-4116-10:40-11:5O Gym 1 GymnastlTrampoline Th-4117 -2:40·3:50 Gym 1 Martial Arts M-4114-12·1:10 Exercise Am Martial Arts M - 4/14 - 2:30·4 Exercise Am Martial Arts W-4116-4·5:30 Exercise Rm Modern Dance 1 W-4116-1:2O-2:30 Exercise Am Modern Dance II W-4116-2:40·3:5O Exercise Am Mod Dance Group W-4116-5:30·7:30 Exercise Am Sllmnastics MTF - 4114-1·2 Exercise Am Tennis I T -4115-4·5:10 Gym 3&4 Tennis II T -4115-5:20-6:30 Gym 3&4 Tennis 1&11 W-4116-2·3 Blv Ten Gdns Volleyball W-4116-2:40·3:5O Gym 3 Weight Training MTTh - 4114-4·5:10 Weight Am Yoga I T - 4/15-1:20-2:30 Exercise Rm Yoga II T -4115-2:40·3:50 Exercise Am 2•• THE FLUTE. Febru.ry 14, 1980 February 14, 1980. THE FLUTE· 3 Your student activity fee - where does it gO?

By Sharon Brown 1978 during the Student Council Elec· it would not be possible without the help allotted to LaGuardia's official Have you ever found yourself asking, tions. of the Student Activity Fee. newspaper. ,h. Flute. The purpose of "Where does my $20.25 Student Ac­ Student Activities Department Reereation ~partment this paper is to inform you of the latest tivities Fee (SAF/go?" The 70% of Student Activities Alloca­ The Recreation Department receives happenings in LaGuardia, But. ~he news tion Fee is distributed among the units 20% of the S.A.F. Each quarter the does not stop here, we seek outside Have you ever heard any of these of Student Council, the Health Services recrea.tion department takes four dollars sources to obtain information to keep cries? - I pay my student activities fee Department, Student Clubs, Peer from each student fee and this money is you up to date On what's happening in and 1 don't use t.he gym or belong to any Counseling. (presently inactive) the spent on equipment including pur­ other metropolitan area schools and in of the clubs. I don't understand why we Multi-media unit. the Day Care Center. chases, repairs and installations. special Washington. From time to time bills are have to pay for refreshments aL the WLGC Radio Station. (presenUy inac· activities, s upplies (towels, soap, passed which affect education loans and dances when we pay $20.25 every tivel. Student Printing/Publicity, SAC, rackets. balls. etc.), rentals and travel grants and since 80 many of us rely on quarter? Why don't we go on more supplies, office equipment and Person· expenses IOULiogs and special activities these sources to continue our education, school trips? Why can't we have more nel pay, off-campusl. misceUaneous items, per­ it is pertinenL that we stay on top of concerLS? I don't understand why I have If this is not enough explanation. im· SOnnel pay !inclUding workshop leaders, what's happening. to pay a fee - I don't have time for ae· agine a school with no activities, equipment crew, equipment managers), PresenLly. the Plut. is functioning on tivitif's. Why can't we get. better equip­ classrooms holding more children than and other miscellaneous expenses are ac­ a small budget of 110,000. The cost of ment in the gym? Why, why, why? students, and no voice to speak for your counted for in this budget.. printing, travel expenses. supplies and Well, for every question there is some fight fM what you want as a student t.o Additional monies are allotted to this office equipment. a various subscripLion reasonable explanation and you deserve make tbings comfortable for yourself department through membership and orders are accounted for in tM budget. to know where and how your money is and those tbat will foUow you, _ donations, Community membership is Please IIote that the Studellt Actjujtie. spent. The Student Activities Fee does If you are won-ied that you are 150.00 a year. Community members do F•• doe. not tot41 a •• t amoullt for any not go entirely to the Student Activities wastill, money because you do not not. participate in the workshop ac· Oil. quarter. Th. stud.llt actiuity fee Department. Only 70% of it does. The belong to a club or participate in ac­ tivities and at present. Lhey do not par­ doe. II0t total $80,000 a quaner. Each other 30% is divided between Th. Flute tivities in the gym, there are' so many ticipate in our tournaments. quarter a Cflrtaill IIumber of studellu an 110%), which is under the jurisdiction of other activity fee funded services that J t i. imporront to remember that the out 011 co-op or jlltflm.hip. alld tho•• the Student Activitiea DepL. and the you could land most likely do) take ad­ equipmellt ill the gym belollg. to yo.... .tud.llt. an "ot requirrd to pay the PH. Recreation Department (20%). The 25 vantage of. If you are an honor student the .tudellt, mi.u.sillg equipmtmt alld Part·time .tudellts pay $2. 76 alld full­ cents tagged onto the fee goes to you deserve to be recognized. If you are supplies aff«U you, !lOt the R.c.reatioll tim• • tudellt. pay $2(l25 S.A.F. Senior (NYPIRG) the New York Public In· an art majO!' your work should be DepartmfmL citjzfI"" pay nothill', terest Research Group. This 25 cent in· displayed. If you want to apply for a Student Newspaper For spflcific dfltaj/S .ft the budget crease was vot.ed on by LaGuardians in scholarship to continue your education Each quarLer two dollars of the SAF is breaJi.dowf'L Students sue to test budgetary control How much control should s tate and had unanimously voted to spend that additiona1 research and re-me within ten should not be subject to reallocation univenity officials have over the U. of amount of ita reserve funds to investi­ days. Buically. the students need to from one program to another by the Florida student government's 13.2 gate the legality of budgetary con­ prove they can'L get the money to hire state legislature or the university presi­ million budget? straints imposed by the legislature and an attorney by going to the bank and dent. Three UF students intend to find out, university administration_ getting turned down, he says. Laslo spring the state legislature and have filed suit against the universi­ SO Pruident Doug Tuthill. one of the Tuthill. the student t.reuurer and a allocated additional money to the stu­ ty president. charging he violated their plaintiffs, says even though a judge member of Lhe service fee advisory com­ dent activity fund. but then ordered that rights to due process by refusing to ap­ dismiased the writ of mandamus at an mittee, maintains atudent fees of 12.49 the money be used to bring intercol­ prove. 15,000 expenditure for retaining October 24 hearing. he is "encouraged" per student c:red.it hour go directly into legiate sports programs into compliance an attorney. The student government because the students were urged to do the student government account and with TiLle IX guidelines. Despite ita support. for Title IX goals. tbe SG disputed the attempt to control allocation of its funds and approved the Student Activity Budget --- s5,ooo legal retainer. After the students re-file their writ, the university will have ten days to re&­ Student Day Rae- pond. -CPS Activities Care reation News· Clubs Nursery Program paper Combined INCOME Carter cuts, Student Fees $80,540 -0- $22,629 $11,314 $114,483 Social Functions ...... , ...... 6,066 -0- -0- -0- 6,066 students' loss Commencement Income 1,497 -0- -0- -0- 1,497 The Carter Administration submitted Student Printing 178 -0- -0- -0- 178 its education budget to Congress last Oay Care Nursery Tuition . ':"'0- 4,319 -0- -0- 4,319 November. and. d68piLe its promises Gym Rentals -0- - -0- 5,153 -0- 5,153 thaL the new Department of EducaLion USDA Food Program .. , -0- 403 -0- -0- 403 would increase education', fiscal and political clout. the budget request is Total Actual Income To Dal. , . . . . , . . , . $88,281 $4,722 527,782 511,314 5132,099 . . . lower than last year's. Total Annual Income Budget . 19,959 66,817 33,408 452,094 331,910 The official request is 11 million less than last year's education budget.. After EXPENSES inflation takes ita toll, education fun· Payroll ...... $26,949 5,794 7,590 235 40,568 ding could be down as much as 1900 Taxes . . , . . , . . , . . . . , ...... , .. 1,573 350 446 -0- 2,369 million in real dollars, according to an ac­ Scholarships . , ...... , . . , . . . . 1,000 -0- -0- -0- 1,000 companying Health, Education & Wel­ Graduation Expenses . 10,867 -0- -0- -0- 10,867 fare IHEWI analysis. Medical Health Plan 375 -0- -0- -0- 375 The budget is the last one fOl' educa­ Consultants . 358 -0- -0- -0- 358 tion Lhat HEW will ever prepare. AU the department's education programs will Temporary Services " 2,347 -0- -0- -0- 2,347 Meall Stipends 863 -0- -0- -0- 863 be reof'ganized under the new US Dept.. Repairs, 623 -0- 833 -0- 1,456 of Education. expected to be operational by the spring, Supplies .. 1,973 301 762 229 3,265 Advocates of the new department long USDA Food Program . _ -0- 352 -0- -0- 352 argued that centralizing federal educa­ Student Clubs . 15,081 -0- -0- -0- 15,081 tion programs would make getting more Books and Pamphlets ...... 103 25 -0- -0- 128 education money out of Congress easter. Film Rentals . . . . , ...... 507 -0- -0- -0- 507 Asked to eapLai.n what happened. HEW Contracts...... ' 1,370 943 791 3 3,107 legislative liaison William Blakey refus­ Student Accident Insurance . 1,091 91 -0- -0- 1,182 ed to comment.. Miscellaneous. . , . . , . . . -, . . ' 819 -0- 776 -0- 1,595 The budget request. however, will be Off Campus Tickets . , ...... , . . . .. 1,271 -0- -0- -0- 1,271 changed as Congress debates it.. Depreciation 2,000 -0- 3,000 -0- 5,000 As it currently stands, the proposed fiscal 1981 education budget would in­ Total Actual Expen ••• To Date 578,170 57,858 514,198 $487 5100,891 crease federal spending on university Total Annual Expense Budget . .•. 318,360 33,509 66,817 33,408 452,094 research and cut federal spending for student aid, and on construction efforts Exce •• ot Revenue Over Expen ... To Date 510,1 11 5(3,137) 513,584 510,847 537,879 to make campuses more accessible for Excess of Aeven ue Ove, Expense Budget 13,550 (13,550) - 0- -0- 27,100 handicapped students. -CPS 4 . THE FLUTE· February 14, 1980 Should women Vietnam vets should be drafted? By Brunilda Angueria use their benefits now Should women be drafted? Should they be home or fighting a war? That.·s how Veteran's Administ.ration benefits, versus 50 per<:ent of the World The issue of women being drafted chief ~ax reacted to the news that. Viet­ War II vet.s. is a very sensitive matter, because nam vets are neglecting their G I Bill The st.udy, however. found t.hat. a women in the past have always education benefit.s in record numbers. "high per<:entage" of !.he Vietnam vets stayed home and played the role or a SLaffers on bolh the Senate Appropria' who did use t.he GI Bill for education working women or housewives. tions and Educat.ion and Labor commit· went to college for one year or less. It's surprising t.hat it hasn't hap­ tees say !.hat. the failure of Viet.nam-era Veterans are entitled to 5SI1 a month in education benefits, no maU,er what pened sooner because of the women vets to take advantage of the GI Bill may result in a congressional move to college or vocat.ional school they at.tend. liberation movement which was a cut. funds for t.he program. There is also "I t has been a waste to allow this en· great relief because women were congressional sentiment to shift funds tit.lement. to slip by," Cleland said when made aware of their equal rights as from veterans' programs to other educa· he heard the news. individuals. tional programs in the 1981 fiscal year. The research indicated that. emotional. Before women's lib, the majority psychological, physical. and drug· An uncompleted study by the Center of married women were forced to r& related prohlems are the major reasons for Policy Research in New York shows main in unhappy marriages because why more Viet.nam vet.!! haven't attend· t.hat. people who served in Vietnam are ed coUege, or stayed in coUege longer. they were not prepared to support less likely to attend college thlln people themselves and be independent. decline. Many women have to pro­ Nearly 60 percent. of the veterans who weren't in the service. despite surveyed by the Center have had some It may take a few years before vide for their children and are need­ generous G I college benefit.s. sort of mental, physical. or drug·related Congress approves the draft. I ed at home. The news of the study's finding ap­ problem. About 40 percent said these believe that women are not According to the article in a Daily parent.ly upset some members of Con· problems persist, psychologically prepared for such a News, the draft is merely a possibili· gress, although Vietnam vet.s have a bet­ A bill that would give Vietnam vet.!! an move and neither is society. Should ty but should the draft come about ter G I Bill re<:ord than veterans of prior extra ten years in which to use GI Bill this issue be approved, women women will be considered as equally wars. Sixty·five percent. of t.he Vietnam· benefits was introduced in the Senate in should have the right to accept or qualified as men, era vets have used G I Bill education early October. 1979. Victim Services Agency reduces frustration and attempts to reduce the crime trauma The Victim Services Agency Attorney John J. Santuci. has Although the assistance VSA reno rangements for her to relocate. M. (VSA), is a not-for-profit corporation established Reception Centers in dars is different in each case, the was also referred to Queens General established by Mayor Edward Koch Criminal Court in Kew Gardens and following exemplifies the agency's Hospital's Mental Health Clinic for in July of 1978. The Agency's pur­ Supreme Court in Long Island City. efforts to aid crime victims: children. Finally. since M. was pose is to ease the inconvenience and The Reception Centers are located M .• the mother of three children afraid that she would find her hus· trauma associated with being 8 vic­ at 125·01 Queens Blvd., Kew was staying at a shelter because her band wiating for her outside the tim of crime. Gardens and 25·10 Court Square, husband had beaten her. M. came to court.house, she was escorted to the Some crime victims who become Long Island City. They offer VSA for relocation assistance and subway station by a VSA represen· involved with the criminal court pro­ transportation to and from court. in· for help for her two year old son who tative. cess find that they suffer at the formation and referrals to Social she believed had been affected by The VSA Reception Centers in hands of the criminal as well as the Services Agencies, emergency lock the situation at home. After talking Queens have lessened the problems criminal justice system. However, in repairs for senior citizens (through to M .• a counselor referred her to the associated with being victimized. an effort to alleviate the inconve­ Project Safe), court assistance. housing section of her Income Main· More victims are finding court less nience to crime victims and crisis intervention counseling. aid to tenance Center and made ar- confusing and frustrating. witnesses, the Victim Services intimidated witnesses and reloca· Agency, in cooperation with District tion. Conscientious objectors Survey predicts jobs The Central Committee for Cons· sincerity. "It sounds like a rat.ional cientious Objectors has announced approach," she said ... I t. shows the that they are registering individuals applicant. is not experiencing a late tor college graduates who are opposed to participation in crystallization of beliefs. the military. "They (CCCO) are a very organiz· Despite e<:onomisu' fear of a deep and Shingleton also discovered beginning Larry Spears, director of CCCO's ed group. They know a statement long·lasting recession, the 1980 coUege salaries will be up seven·to-eight percent Youth and Conscientious Objection made at this time would carry a lot graduate stands a one-t.o-two percent. over last year. Thirty·four percent of the better chance of landing a job than 1979 employers surveyed said starting Campaign, says, "The need for of weight. rf the draft is reinstituted grads, according to a new Michigan salaries they offer are negotiated during young people to go on record as con· and a young man can prove he went SLate University survey of large the hiring process, while the remaining scientious objectors to war has on record in a time when he was not employers. Students wit.h bachelors t.w~thirds of the employers set salary never been greater than it is today." in danger of going to war, then it degrees are going to be more actively levels before applicants walk through According to Spears. "There is a might have some influence on his recruited than !.hose with master and the door. very real possibility that Congress board:' doctoral de~s, according to the Even education degrees. until recently will pass a bill, after the 1980 elec· "The usefulness of this card." says survey. considered expres8 tickets to the tions, requiring the mandatory reg· Spears, "is that it provides a record "We hear a lot. of talk about a reces' unemployment line. are more valuable in istration of young people with Selec­ of an individual's opposit.ion to war sion." comments MSU Placement Dire<:' the job market.. the survey found. Oe­ tive Service. Young Americans and the military. Under current Se­ tor John Shingleton, "but college grads mand for math. ,science, industrial arts lective Service regulations, an in· are in good shape for two reasOns. First, and special education teachers is should start thinking about whether grads are being hired by companies for especially stong. they could participate in the mili· dividual who is called up for active the long run. We're not talking about The University of Wisconsin, for ex· tary." duty will have only 10 days to put positions t.hat will go up and down. Se­ ample, announced t.hree days after Spears says that CCCO has al· together his or her CO claim. This cond, if there are going to be cutbacks Shingleton announced his findings, that ready registered several thousand CO card wiD help demonstrate to the (in personnel during an ecnomic it had placed 77 percent. of its 1979 young people through its conscien· military the thousands of young slowdown), t.hey·re going to be in the educat.ion graduates in teaching jobs. tious objection card. "These cards people who will not serve in the mili· blue coUar ranks." Only two percent of t.hose graduates are available from CCCO, P.O. Box tary even if the nation returns t.o the Shingleton's study was a survey of willing to relocate didn't get jobs. 15796, Philadelphia, PA 19103. draft:' 471 employers across the country. The Michigan State study confirmed They simply state. 'Because of my CCCO was founded in 1948 as the The results convinced him t.hat the that relocat.ion is a major factor in most beliefs about war, I am opposed 'to Central Committee for Conscien· heaviest recruiting will be in accounting, hiring decisions. Most companies said tious Objectors and is a national aerospace, elecLronics, retailing, the convincing graduates to move is their participation in the military: " military, and by the petroleum indust.ry, most difficult recruitment problem. The According to Betty Alexander, a agency counseling young Americans though most employers said they were majority of job opport.unities this year National Selective Service spokes· facing the prospect of military ser· more interested in re<:ruit.ing students seem to be in t.he south·central. north· person in Washington, the cards vice. with bachelors degrees than those with central and south·west regions of the could carry a lot of weight in convin· For more information contact associate, masters or doctors degrees. country. cing a draft. board of an objector's Larry Speers, (215) 545·4626. Febru.ry 14, 1980. THE FLUTE. 5 DISCO vs. ROCK Text. and Photos music, 1 can't find a way of dancing about the music, I'm referring to the By Gabriel J. Brisson to it.. people who enjoy it. Blacks lean Have you ever walked into a sub­ more to the rythm of the music and way station and looked at. the Jvette Cunningham, Business Ad­ disco has rythm. In my opinion, rock writing on the wall? Among other minist.ration - I hate rock. It's too is a lot of noise and in the words is. "Disco Sucks." Have you loud and it makes no sense. When background is a person or a group of noticed it? I'm sure that you've you're listening to disco. you can people screaming. I'm not prejudic­ seen it at least a dozen times, Have hear t.he words and t.he songs have a ed.. I can get into disco but I can't you seen the WPW radio poster? meaning. get into rock. Well. I noticed that particular poster Wendy Lo, Business Administraiton on the train and right across from Kay Finney, BusinC8S Administra­ - I think that disco ia over tion - Disco gives you more of a that poster read "Rock Sucks." and popularized. There is nothing wrong under that particular sign read, beat that you can really move to, As with disco, but sometimes it gets on for rock, it's mostly a show. All you "Rock Lives, Disco is Dying," your nerves. Disco haa been around This is the rock·vs-disco war and it see is a freak show, You can't for a long time and I think it will be understand what they are saying, has been around for quite some time around for a much longer time. I'm now. Everyone has his or her own definitely into rock. Punck rock and Garey Main. Liberal Arts - I hate Jackie Gonzalez. Secretarial Science version of t.he story. Some say that new wave rock have a lot of expres­ - Disco is dying. Rock has been rock has been and will always be disco. I like rock because it's ex­ sion. It expresses "us" in the citing and it has a lot of beat. here for 25 years and we just here to stay. I've been walking eighties, very much as the Beatles' celebrated its birthday last month. around with my camera and tape music expressed the spirit of the six­ Anne Marie Newton. Accounting - Rock has changed since 1969. Van recorder and t.his is what I learned ties generation. I t really depends on how I feel like McCoy started the disco scene in the from a few students here at LaGuar­ moving. Sometimes you want to act Mid 70's and later came KC and the dia: Patricia Dumbar. Liberal Arts - crazy and do you own thing. Sunshine Band and Donna Sum­ Gary Gordon, Liberal Arts - I like Rock and disco are separate just. like Sometimes you get sick of disco mers. The music brought back the Disco because I can express myself black and white. Within this wide music, There's always a new dance st.yles and the fashions of the fifties. more when I'm dancing. Rock is scope there is a separation between in disco, and what's in this week is In the sixties rock was peaceful and more or less, a listening type of rock and disco, and I'm not talking out the next week. now punk rock is violent.

Ann Marie Newton Garey Maire Wendy La 6. THE FLUTE. February 14, 1980 It's term paper time: plagiarized term paper business grows larger, more sophisticated By Slev\ Palmer 1974. Since then the business has spilled Frank Johnson of Research Assist­ a question abouL Pacific Research's ac· CoIkge Pre •• SeTtli« over from one to four converted houses ance told College Press Service thaL tion LhaL Lhe aLtomey general's office Like many studenta, Rainy Mendoza full of three doun employees on Queen such plagiarism ca.ses "have never hap-­ simply dropped Lhe investigation. Ac· had honorable intentions. She'd worked Anne Hill, and includes a graphics arta pened," and that while the firm had no cording to a 1975 Appeals Court deci· long and hard for her doctorate, and department, four divisions. and even editorial review board or fact-checking, sion in U.S u International firm labored many montha to develop computer time bought from a local bank. it had a "very reliable staff." Papers, Lhe rum doesn'L defraud anyone statistica for, her diesertation with a The number of computer terminals in And it happens often enough to gener­ unlesa it "contemplates a 'scheme' reluctant Bureau of Indian Affairs. Once lohe office, according to a Pacific ate a 10L of concern among educators. whlch involves misrepresentation based thaL was done, she got cold feet, Research em5l10yee, has doubled in just Plagiarized papers represent nothing on the materials (the finn) sends." "AILhough I had X amount of English the last year. Jesa than "a breakdown of trust in the That'a why the firms insist on training in college," Mendoza, now a In the process, Shere and Grosa, who academic community," according to publically calling their wares "research" guidance counselor in 'fulsa, Oklahoma, refused to comment, have cranked up an Layton Olson of the National Student rather than term papers. By doing so, recalls, " I felt that I was not adept impressive sales machlne that includes Educational Fund. they evade responsibility for how the enough with the lingo" to actually write widespread advertising in college news· "When a student who is studying feels material is ultimately used, Buyers of the dissertation herself. papers and magazines, bulletin board that other students may be buying a Pacific Research materials, for one, get a When she asked her advisor about coupons, and, of course, the catalogue, grade," Olson wrote in April, "there i.s a contract which swears the buyer is get­ commissioning someone else to do Lhe with some 7500 pre-written papers on breakdown in the roles of the game for ting data "intended to be used solely for writing, she says her advisor didn't for· subjects ranging from "America: Con· which the consumer has contracted." reserach and reference purposes:' bid her. So on April!7, 1978, she sent a temporary Society Life" to zoology. Thn stat.es (California, New York, Nevertheless, prosecutors still haven't 1400 check and a letter to Pacific The firm, like other research services, North Carolina, Illinois, Massachusetts, found a way to halt the firms. The d& Research of Seattle, a firm which sells also offers "custom research," whlch Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Mary-lanp., mand for the firms' services, meanwhile, "research" papers to anyone with the re­ currentJy goes for 17.50 per page of Washington and New Jersey) have tried seema to be strong, and the en· quisite cash. True to its word. Pacific undergraduate work. and 19 per page for to legislate against companies selling trepreneurs maintain the demand sanc· Research !lOOn delivered a dissertation graduate. scientific or technical work. term papers. Yet Lhey are tough laws to tions their conLinued operationa. with the impressive titJe of "The Their rates are compeLitive with the enforce. Students are entitJed to buy reserach. Weschler I ntelligence Scales for other major research companies. The For one thing, there are legitimate re­ says John Hopkins of Collegiate Children and Lhe Wide Range Achiev& most Los Angeles' Research Assistance search sources, and the line between pro­ Research Systema, because colleges ment Test: Their Uae on Native will ch~ge you for one of the 10,000 tecting legitimate research sources and themselves are hypocritical. "The educa· American Indian Children." titles it claims to have on file is S69.60, controlling retail plagiarism is a fine tionaJ system has their own problems," Does she have any · post.-graduate 50 cents less than Pacific's maximum. one. "If we're not careful," notes he told a Detroit newspaper. "The eLhlcal doubt.s about her t'Urchased Some of the other major and minor Washington legislator Don Charnley, presidents of some colleges in New York dissertation? Not really. She says her research firms around are Collegiate "we could put the Encyclopedi4 Brit· have abused the educational funds to purchase, which one Pacific Research in· Research, International Termpapers, tanica ouL of business:' . finance their own private trips to sider estimated probably cosL SIOOO to and such colorfully-named groups as Other kinds of problems in legally Europe and elsewhere:' complete, "goes on everywhere:' Planned Paperhood, Quality Bullshlt, stopping the research firms became evi· It. is doubtful. however, that many She's right. Though Lhere are no and Write-On, Inc. dent when the Illinois attorney generaJ's term paper customers view their pur· available sales estimat.ea in this closed' The quality of their work inevitably office investigated Pacific Research for chases 811 righteous blows againsL mouth industry, term·paper selling is en· varies. Mendoza found her dissertation four months in 1978. Selling term papers hypocrisy. In ita catalogue, Pacific joying a boom, if Pacific Research ac· was "inconclusive:' A student reporter in Illinois is illegal. so the attorney Research probably more accurat.ely sees curately reflects what is going on. at Youngstown State UniversiLy bought generaJ's office, according to staffer ita function as "making college life Gil Shere and Michael Gross, two a paper last year from Research Mary McCullagh, bought and received University of WashingLon grads, Assistance as part of a story on buying two papers from the finn in order to pr~ parlayed a copying business in Seattle's papers, and found that the research ve the firm was breaking the law:' What arc your uiews on plagiarism University Ol!n.rict into a mail-order she'd bcught was itself plagiariz.ed from Once the papers arrived, it became a and reuarch agencies? Write IU, we'd catalogue full of term papers for sale in a 1966 Saturday Reuiew article. mail fraud case. Yet, there was enough of tilrfl to Atnow. S. BrowD, Ed. Student Coun. minutes From Financial Aid January 90, 1980 appear st her home to infonn her of her Memben PreseDt: Haneefah Hasan, resignation. Rules and regulations Evelyn Pena, William Cross (Vice Professor Newball informed us thaL he Chairperson), Christina North, Denise cannoL give us the information about Walker, Laura Sheehan, Martha 'fum· Gov. Martinet's Grade Point Average. about book vouchers bull, Robert Piper, Roland Cousins, Joe He stated that we are innocent until pr~ 1. I n order to use your voucher, School's Control. The book voucher HunL. ven guilLy. you must have both your fee form only applies to this Bookstore, Gov. Sheenan made a motion to Guest8: Gary Dyken, Othon and a validated 1.0. when presen· however if a bet.ter price for books is Mourkakos, Danny Loper., Leo Newball nominate a committee to investigate your voucher offered elsewhere, you can purchase (Faculty Advisor). Gov. Martinez's resignation and it was ting at the final stop in them there. The Bookstore is an in· Absent: Wands MarLinez: (Chairper· seconded by Gov. 'furnbull. t.he Bookstore. There will be no ex· son), Michael Alvarer.. Gov. Hunt made a moLion to make ceptions to this. dependent business and is not con­ The meeting came to order at 2:10 pm. Gov. Sheenan president of the commit­ 2, Since the Bookstore is an inde­ nected with the Financial Aid Of· Since Chairperson Martioer. was not pre­ .... pendent business, we cannot. delay fice, sent. Vice Chairperson William Cross Gov. Cross handed out a letter stating payments. While we had wanted to 4. This program is an emergency took the chair. "'ow he felt about a cartoon article thaL take BEOG monies first. some measure, and the purchase of Gov. Huon mentioned that the appeared in Th~ Flute. He felt that iL students filed late and funds were clothing, jewelry, bookbags, and minutes of Jan. 24 be stated at the Feb. was prejudice toward Italian-American taken from the first available check. fancy pens cannot be deemed as 6_. people. The members decided thaL this It is necessary that you read the necessary items. Gov. Cross handed out a letter concer­ issue be discussed at the meeting of Feb. power of attorney on the voucher 7, with Sharon Brown, the editor of TIt. ning Gov. Martinu's resignation. which states that monies will come 5. It is your responsibility, not the Gov. Cross proposed to tum the Flut., present. responsibility of the Financial Aid Gov. North made a propoeai to let the from the next financial aid check. meetings over to Gov. North. Professor The burden of debt raUs back to you, Office, to find OUt what books you Is guest. Gary Oyken, Chair the meetings Newball stated ae advisor that not the student, if for some reason your need for your own classes. po8sible. becauSe no council member can chair the meetings. check is not split (or payment to the 6. Once a voucher is finaliz.ed, you Gov. Hasan wanted to know is that Professor Newhall stated that the Bookstore; this is also stated on the may nOt add to it. If you want to the proper nrocedure. council should writ.e their own outline on voucher. return something, you must return Professor Newball stated that Gov. how the meetings should proceed. 3. The above outlined procedures it with a copy of your voucher, in an Cross is not tak.ing the proper pro­ Gov. Hunt stated that we should have cannot be altered. Please note that unmarked condition within three (3) cedures. a Jl6rmanent chairperson to act until the State sales tax must be charged ac· days, We have a printed refund situation is settled with Gov. Martinez.. Gov. North agreed to vote on Gov. cording to law and book prices, esps. policy for the Bookstore on the CI"08S' proposal. A guesL, Gary Dyken, Gov. North made a motion to cially text prices. Bte not under the voucher policy, Please read it, stated that he knows for a fact that we eliminate the Jan. IStli issue with Pro­ are not doing the right thing, because be fessor Newball. took his time to read and acknowledge Gov. Cross stated he will inform Gov, Hunt and Turnbull made a m& getting paid." Professor Newball stated the constitution and By·laws, and he Sharon Brown to appear before the tion to find out where our money is g0.­ that council members cannot have other feels that until all members study their council at the Jan. 7 meeting about the ing. poeitions as paying jobs on the council. By·laws, we ahould ask the faculty ad· school paper. Gov. Cross also made a Gov. 'furnbull wanted to know where He stateli it is stated in the constitution. visor. He also wanted to know on what motion that the council accept him, us­ to go to get information concerning the Profesaor Newball suggested that we was the Vice Cb.airperaon basing his ing Student Council Stationery to com· Student Activities Budget. hire a College Work Study Student. The decision. pose his letter to the editors of the Gov. North wanted to know "why the idea had three nominations. Gov. North stated that Gov. Martinez: school paper. (S ext.entions. 2 oppose.) ·secretary who is a council member is DOt The meeting ""as adjourned at 4:15. February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE. 7

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Maurice Cower. Busines8 Wayne Allen. Liberal Arts Beverly Shields. Secretarial Sandra McGrath, Ac:ooun· Lois Caicedo, Liberal AdministraLion freshman freshman- My resolution Science. freshman -My ting Freshman-My New Arts- My resolution was - My resolution was to stop was to have fewer women. resolution was to have fewer Year resolution was to keep not to smoke too much. and smoking and I kept it for pay more atLention to my fights with my boyfriend off junk food and get in I kept it 80 far, due to the about two weeks. I stopped. school work. be successful in Bnd I haven't. fought with shape. So far. it has been fact that I had a cold and my smoking around December t.hings I do in general and him SO far. good until La st. week when I nose was so stuffed that I 25t.h and I kept. it up until I'm still keeping my pr~ ate t.hat Snicker candy bar. couldn't smoke. I t makes me January 7. mise. feel like I have conquered PhOt08 by Gabriel Bri850n one thing. I feel healthier. Nuclear dump closings threaten to halt university research programs

"We don'L have any problem now severe. Most. campua research projects The big concern at health·related of the president'. office," O'Brien com· because we only ship this s~un Lwice a are being continued, even though some nuclear programa is that. patients mented facetiously. ,. But we must find a year." says Bill Wilson, a nucleaT resear­ are concerned about oncoming storage needing radiological treatment will soon way to store it indefinitely, or stop the cher at. Washington State Univenit.y. problems, be Lumed away. research," "But in six mont.hs. we'U have a pro­ At. Purdue Lhe disposal of radioactive Leonard Freeman, president of the O'Brien pointed ouL t.hat nine ouL of blem," trash is contracted out to Atomic Dis­ SocieLY of Nuclear Medicine, has ssked Lhe last. ten Nobel prizes were won by He's not alone. UniversiLiea aU over posal Co., an IllinoUr firm thaL sent Pur­ the governors to allow hospit.als and people using radioactive research the c:ounLry LhaL do nuclear research or due's last !lhipment of waste to the Han· re8earch laboratories to continue shipp­ materiala. ford site in Waahington, use ra.diation LreatmenLs in their ing waste until some other means of Chairman Joseph Hendrie said Lhe medical facilitiea have had no place to " We can hold out abouL t.hree disposal can be found. NRC is stepping up inspecLions of in· diapoae of their nuclear w8Ste since Lwo monLhs," Dr. Richard Vetter, AssisLant The WISte problem "creates an im' terstate waste shipments. and will be of the naLion's three commercial nuclear Radiological Control Officer at Purdue mediate crisis for nuclear medicine," "preasing enfon:ement and inspecLion dumpa were closed lasL month. said, "Then we will have to go back to Freeman declared. "and for Lhousands responsibility very hard," Dumpa at Hanford, Washington and the university for more space," of Americans who need its viLa I BeaLty, Nevada were closed in the wake '" don't perceive Lhis as a t.echnical services " If all of these things fan into place:' of a joinL let.ter from Washington Gover· problem. It seems to be more a political BuL Michael O'Brien, UniversiLY of Governor Ray replied, "Lhen I Lhink we nor Dixie Lee Ray, Nevada Governor problem:' Vetter observed, " If the NRC Washington radiaLion safeLY officer, can say we will make Lhe site available, Robert List, and South Carolina Gover­ can insure safe disposal and transport, I said, "The medical use does not generate part.icularly for nuclesr medicine nor Richard Riley to the Nuclear think WashingtOn and Nevada will open much waste." wsstes," Regulatory Commisaion INRC). righL up." "We'll store it in the hallway in fronL -cps The letter warned Lhey'd close the dump sites if Lhe NRC didn 't clamp Library Advisory down on packaging and transporL of radiOllcLive waste. Ray and Li!lt carried Credit for activities to be formed ouL their threats in October. Now Riley Since the Library wantS to res· has threatened to close. down the dump Acc.rediLation for collegiate sLudent Input. from members of Lhe various 88- pond to the needs of aU segment.s of at Bamswell, S,C. service programs may nOL be "just sociat.ions is encouraged. Slagle says, The closing at. BamweU would make a around the comer," but it definitely is EventuaUy. the accreditaLion guide­ the coUege population, an Advisory bad siLuation worse, since the Handford creeping over the horizon, according to a lines wiU be forwarded to Lhe Council on Committee of Adult StudenLs is be­ and BeaUy closings have already lefL spokesman for the NSLional Entertain· Post Secondary AccrediLstion in ing formed. The Committee will m08L achools wiLhout a place to dispose: ment and Campus Activities Associa­ Washington, D.C, for implementation, meet at a time convenient to the of Lheir nuclear waste. tion. schedules of the members to discuss MosL campuses report they have lOme N ECAA and such organizations as possible Library events of special in­ limited room to store wasLe unt.i1 the the American Coll ege Personnel Ad­ A pat on the back terest to the adult students. to make dumpa re-open, but many research ef­ ministrators. the College Placement Th Whom It May CoDcem. suggestions of materials the Library forts have been slowed to cuL down on Council and the American Council on I want to congratulate all of you might acquire to answer the special waste production. Thus faT only one Education are actively paTticipating in a on ~he fantastic job you did in the needs of the adult students at research program has been severely consortium to. develop guidelines for ac­ LaGuardia. and t.o discuss other resLricLed by the closures. crediLing campus activities progt"8ms. school newspaper. which as a matter " Right now we're stopped," Paul De " It's a long range project, with the ac­ of fact, was the best paper I've read topics of special interest La such Luca of Lhe University of Wisconsin told tual accreditation process probably two from LaGuardia's newsteam. It has students. If interested in serving on Lhe Chronicl. of Higher Educotion. or more years away," says Steve Slagle. intelligent. arLicles which I know the Committee, please get in t.ouch "We've been atopped for three to four NECAA's aSSiSLanL director. "MOSl ad­ myself and others will benefit. from. with Ms. Ann E. Coyle, the Acquisi· weeks. and if something doesn't happen minisLrators don't knGw ab.... uL the In relation to the blue pamphlet of tions Librarian, located in t. he lower pretty soon. I 'm not. sure what we'll do." move, however. And when thert" '1 know· discounts for students. I am pleased level Library. Telephone extension De Luea, a physicist, has been involv· ledge, there's apt 1O be defenSiveness," to roceive some advantages as a col­ 552l. ed in cancer re!learch u!ling a "fast" Instead of viewing accreditation as a lege student, I would like t.he oppor­ You can also fill this out and drop neuLron generator, the omy one of its threatening process. Slagle says, iL t.unitv to go see a few Broadway it off at the Library. kind in the naLion, De Luca's work was should be seen as an effort toward quali' play, at a discount. OUf preferred atopped when the University of Wiscon· ty control. The consorLium is charged sin 's quOts of triLium -a radioacLive iso­ (' ho; :es r..re: Euita. The Elephant ------­y,!s I will be interested in serving with suggesting minimal standards fOJ" on ti.t! Library's Advisory Commit· tope-had been filled. The NRC regu· campus aCLivities and program offices Mara, Annie, A Chorus Line. I really tee fo r AduJt.s. lates Lbe amount. of radioacLive material and. in general. "coming up wiLh a hope to see thesc plays advert.ised any university may have alone time. manageable set of accreditation around campus soon. My name is ~ _____ But De Luca's problem is unu!luaUy guidelines:' An interested LaGuardian MyteJephoneis _____ 8· THE FLUTE · February 14, 1980 Astrology - Angles and degrees By Kara Seere divisions called houses. Well, you approach it from another angle lex· Qui~ what. comes La your mind k.now that a circle has 360 degrE\es cuse the pun pleasel. Have you ever when you see the word square? and by dividing that 360 by twelve heard anyone saying, "I'm a Taurus What. does t he word opposition con­ we find that each of the twelve signs (or any oth~ sign for that matter), jure up for you? Did you get. a sense (or twelve houses, they're both the but actually I was born on the cusp, of conroct.. or diffi,ulty. or of ilJ-wiU? same) has 30 degrees in it. When the and I feel more like a Gemini." What Can you unagine returning La your astrologer looked up the position of does this phrase "on t.he cusp" car ooe day La find that it. now has the planets for your birth date. he mean? What this personal is actual­ square wheels? How comfortable found those positions written in ly telling is the degree that his or her possibly have difficulty wit.h s0- would you feel having t.o spend degrees. For instance, let's say we sun happened to be in. We saw that meone born on the 22nd of Novem· t.went.y-four hours with someone have a chart with Mars at 1 ° of each sign has 30° in it, and you have ber, because that. person's sun would whO bas views in direct opposition Libra and Venus at 1 ° of Cancer. probably noticed. t.hat each of the be directly opposite to his own. Then to your own? See. I told you you What does that. teU us? If we placed sun signs have about thirty days a again, other planets in the chart already understand astrology! The these two planets within the circle sign. It's pretty easy to see that the could have very good aspects which very dermitions of these words are and looked at. them, we could easily degrees fit evenly into t.he days of wou ld counteract this one affliction, in direct association with the act.ions see that the angle formed between the month, For instance, the sun or a third sit.uation might arise. The "f the planets in our chart.s. Let.'s ex· them looks exactly like a go o angle_ moves into the sign of Taurus about opposition might be very good for plore it some more. That's because it is a 90° angle. The April 21st (it differs each year be­ him. It might get his blood moving, Remember in the last episode we two planets are 90 ° apart and this cause of the earth's progression and for a Taurus, this is an excellent discovered !.hat. t.he study of astro­ kind if angle or aspect, as it. is called around the sun not being exactly tonic. logy was more than just knowing in astrology, is called a square. 365 days), and it leaves Taurus and I'm sure someone out t.here is won· what zodiacal sign you were born There's that word again. We imagin· goes into the sign of Gemini on dering about the harmonious as­ under? We found that certain calcu­ ed. all sorts of difficulties when we about May 20th. So our friend up pects or angles in t.he chart.. There lations told us where t.he planet.s saw that word. And it is exactly that there was probably born on the last are some. In fact, there are several were on the day we were born. The sort of thing that happens bet.ween day of the sign (May 20th) which angles which space won't allow us to planets. we ment.ioned, are t.he ac­ these two planets in astrology. The makes him unsure as to what sign he delve into. But. two of the harmon· tors of the chart, and the st.age t.hey two planetsin question are having act.ually is. But actually, there is no ious angles are the sextile (60 0 1and act upon is !.he circle of the horo­ difficulties, and t.hey are not. work· such thing as being born on the the trine (120 °). There's just one scope itself. This horoscope chart is ing harmoniously. "cusp" because your actual time of thing that is somewhat. of a divided up. as you may recall. into But what does it. atl mean? Well. birth determines (via a mathemati· Catch·22 with these harmonious as· twelve parts, or houses, each of we'll go back and see what kind of cal calculation) exactly what degree pect.s. The planet.s involved tend to which describes a certain port.ion of personalities are attributed to Mars you were born in. In his case, he give us talents and abilities that your life. The personallities of t-he and Venus. Mars is the warrior, the would be eit.her 30 ° of Thurus or 1 ° become second nature to us. What planets are modified by their place­ aggressor: Venus is the harmonizer, of Gemini. and an astrologer would happens to those things that become ment in this chart_ I f they hold a the peacemaker. What. would we say be able to tell him which. second nature to us? Usually be­ place of importance, then they tend about. such a person? Well t.his is on­ Degrees can also tell you some­ cause of the ease with which such to reaeL strongly in your life. But ly one sect.ion of this person's chart, thing about how well you get along things come to us, we tend to ignore now. if each of the planet.s is a type but from this one indication, we wit.h another person. I'm sure some t.hem. Some of the laziest people I've of "character" in the play, what hap­ would say that such a person might of you have read astrology columns known had charts full of trines and pens when two (or three, or more) of have difficulty balancing his wish to that warn one sign never to date sext.iles. They simply didn't have t.hese planets interact with each be aggressive with his wish to be another, because "they just don't the tough things thrown at them by other. After all, the actors in any sociable. Just as an added piece of get along." But. this is not necessari­ t.he adverse aspects of the square or play have some conenction with information, such a strain might ly so. First of all, we now understand opposit.ion. and their lives seemed to each other. right? Like any good manifest itself in sexual tensions, that you are much more complex just roll along without. too many play, a dialogue is carried on be­ because Mars represent.s the male than just your sun sign land basical· bumps or snags. So you might. be t.ween the actOrs (t.he planet.s), and principle and Venus the female prin­ ly t.hat is all most astrology columns thankful for your squares and op­ t.his dialogue describes what events ciple. Also, to roun~ out our ex· deal wit.h). Secondly, just taking posit-ions. They make you work, but take place in your life. planation of what might happen in your sign into consideration, t.he they also make you learn a lot. Now I might. hear you ask, "How such a case, we may find that. such a degrees of the sign will make all the Shakespeare often used references can we tell if t.wo planets are interac­ person stores up his (her) tension difference. If one person's sun hap­ to ast.rology in his writings, and who ting in the chart?" Good question. and holds it in the stomach, since pens to be exactly square or op­ knows how many poets wrote under Basically it is a simple process. Re­ Cancer (the sign Venus is in) rules posite your sun sign, then you may the influence of t.he stars. member we are dealing with a circle. t.he stomach. find t.hat you two have difficult.ies. Next. time we will try to explore and within !.hat circle are twelve If this is getting confusing, let's In our friend's case. he could t.he reason why astrology works. r Sharlllin... Dear Sbarmin. that night?") This way you can go to up a wall_ I have a boyfriend whom I tions. I'm sure that your problem My girlfriend found a pack of your girlfriend with first·hand infor­ love very deeply, I just. can't stand will be solved. Good Luck! birth cont.rol pills in my jacket. maLion and the t.ruth as you know it. him sometimes. I know that.' it's Dear Sharmin, pocket last night.. I don't know or Maybe next time it'd be best if you possible La love someone and not My boyfriend says he loves me remember where I got them, because st.w.ck to studying. That goes to like him or her but my problem goes but he still has his old girl£riends' I was stoned out. of my mind. We show you that lies get you into more a little further. Although I love him phone numbers in his new phone have separated temporarily until 1 trouble than good clean honesty. I feel that I can never marry him. book. 1 want to trust him. but it's can explain myself. 1 have exactly Be Sincere and Good Luck! What do you think about this situa­ very difficult for me to trust him three weeks to come up with a good tion? I've thought. about it and when he still has their numbers in alibi. What should I do? The night Dear Sharmin, thought about it and t.he more I his possession. He says they mean she found the pills is the same night I used to get a lot of dates and think about it. the more confused t nothing to him. He spends the holi­ that I told her that I wou ld be study­ phone calls, but now, a lot is a Iit.tle, become. days with me and he never makes Help me, ing. I remember going to a friend's to few, to almost none at all. What's the mistake of calling me by one of Confused house and we got high. That's all I wrong with me? I'm beginning to their names - like some guys do. remember. What am I going to tell feel depressed quite often. Dear Confused. Although he calls me Carla some­ ber?1 love ~.o.1r and I wouldn't ever Desperate If you truly love your boyfriend, t.imes, I don't count that because then confusion is liable La interfere. that.·s his sister's name. I'm not do anything to hurt her. Help! Dear Desperate, Remember, love is bit.ter and sweet. jealous of her. I know that he loves Three week deadline! Maybe you were overconfident Dear Help, You said that alt.hough you love me, but those numbers bother me. and now overdoing it.. Learn to be him, you know t.hat you could never First thing, you have to Jearn to yoursel£ and don't push so hard. Do you think I have anything to control your "highs:' Getling to the marrry him. Has he asked you to worry about? Worried. confused Check personal hygiene and ap­ marry him? Have you weighed out aDd nervous point. where you're stoned out of pearance. Remember, "Smile and your mind is totally uncout.h. The' his good and bad points? Obviously Dear WCN, the world smiles with you! Cry and you may love him, but not as deeply If your boyfriend says that he best. solution as always is to tell the you cry alone." Smile llnd Be Happy. as you try to convince yourselr. Are truth. Backtrack your thoughts aDd Good Luck! loves you and has continued to pro­ whereabouts 01"' that particiuJar you sure of his feelings? Ask ve it. then there should be no need to night. Go to yOU f friend's house and Dear Sharmin, yourself these quest.ions and con­ worry about t.hose numbers. ask questions (e.d' .. "What happened I have a problem that's driving me front your mate with these ques- Good Luck! February 14, 1980 • THE FLUTE. 9 STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEA STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEA STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEA STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEA Flute charged with ethnic slur

Dear Students, President Moed. Thank you for your cooperation in your intelligence (Council in Dean Kleinberg, Faculty, and Staff. Letter B reprinting this letter verbatim in the general). I think that this is an appropriate The following are letters written To Sharon Brown. Editor. "Students Speak Out" column. (Bill) time to urge all LaGuardians to at.­ by Governor William Cross in As acting Chairperson of the Stu· William Cr088 tend Student Council meetings. collaboration with Governor Chris­ dent Council and with the acknow· Acting Cbairper80n. tina North in which they tried to un­ Without a doubt you, too, will be ledged suport of its governors, 1 Student Council dermine the Council and the student would Uke to take issue with several overwhelmed. body. articles which appeared in the last Is Governor North still speaking Letter(A) was submitted fo r publi· through you? For some reason this issue of Fiorello's Flute. Mr. Joe Fire one cation in the "Student Speak Out" reminds me of a puppet show. I Trp's defaming "cartoon" concern· Dear Governor CI"08S, sectwfL Governor Cross managed to spoke to her about the quote I ing his apparent prejudices toward is this a joke? Has the month of geta majority vote on letter(A) to be printed in the last issue and I the Italian·American community M!lrch come and gone so quickly? Is reprinted on Student Council let· assured her that I would give her a has no place as an appropriate arti· it April fool's day? terhead. After getting the majority space to explain whatever it. was cle in our college newspaper. The Governor Cross, you are the only vote he then, without the Council's fact that. our school is named after a student thus far who has made such that she wanted to express. There is knowledge, wrote ~tter (B) in col­ no need for Christina to press the well·respected and prominent 1tal· a complaint about the cartoon. If laboration with Governor North, matter; that space has been award· ian·American mayor of this city you think this cartoon expresses ond stated that he had the "ack· should be reason enough for Mr. Trp predjudices toward the ItaHan· ed. nowledged support" of the other to make a ret-racton of his "cartoon" American community, I suggest you Of course, students may still leave Governors. J have taken the liberty with its Mafia reference, apologizing find some means of proving it. a note for Governor North in the of reprinting both letters. J think Student Activities oUiet! (M·l22). to the ltalian·American students at­ The cartoon depicts instances of that some action should be taken Please be informed, Governor Cross. tending this college. I do not see any crime and has nothing to do with the when a Governor(s) try to undermine that there is no SAC oUiet!. need for such a bigoted article to ap­ Italian community. We wiU not the Student CounciL Governors In closing, I suggest you take pear in our newspaper. and as its retract the cartoon from The Flute should not get away with such another look at the January issue editor, I can only surmise that you unless I, the ediLar, find it necessary. schemes. What's your opinion? and reread t.he headline above Mr. personally endorse such passe bias. Joe Ttp, the creator of t.he cartoon, Sharon Brown, Editor Dowd's article. Mr. Dowd is merely I am shocked that a black woman had no intentions of offending any· voicing his opinion on Iran and would allow such an article to be one, be they black, white, yellow or Ireland and note that the headline printed; if Mr. Trp's cartoons are to Letter A aquamarine. reads "Political Views" not once but. be meant as an ongoing regular I know that the reporters on staff To Sharon Brown. Editor: 24 times. feature of our newspaper, I suggest are talented but I must confess­ I would like to take issue with Mr. The "Students Speak Out" se<:­ he find employment elsewhere, Joe Trp did not create "The God· Joe Trp's defaming cartoon in the tion is primarily concerned with stu· preferably at BeUaccio's Bakeries. father," I strongly suggest that. you last issue of our newspaper concern· dent opinions and Quesl.ions. Gover· Another slight directed at Gover· not publicly surmise or assume that ing his apparent feelings toward nor Cross, please be informed that. nor Christina North and myself I allow my reporters to write articles ltalian·Americans. As a student at· the news does not stop here at wherein we allegedly "appear over· against certain ethnic groups be­ tending a city college that is named LaGuardia. whelmed" (Review Section B. page cause if you do you're headed for big after a prominent and well·respected We have made an effort to cover 7B, "Senate in Action") can only be trouble. Italian·American. I feel that runn· school news and I think we've done interpreted as the personal observa­ Governor Cross. please read your ing this particular cartoon mocking a good job thus far. Again, I am the tion of the staff writer responsible constitution and don't bypass your the intelligence of this ethnic group edit.or and I set the standards for for the caption. I did not see any job descript.ion. You will find that a direct slur and an uncalled·for in­ this paper. No one has the right. similar reference to other senators in you have absolutely no power over sult to the consciousness of all legally, to tell me what should or the paper, and if Yvonne Cannon's this paper and that's status quo for Americans, regardless of nationali· should not. be printed in this paper. intentions in taking the photo­ every single Governor on Student ty. We want to cover world politics graphs were to vent her personal Council. The cartoon will be an ongo­ I demand that Mr. Trp print a because we feel it may stimulate grievances against our collective in· ing feature ~n The Flute and if you retraction of his piece in the next students and faculty to submit ar· telligence, then I suggest she take have any connections with BeUac· issue. making a public apology to ticles to The Flute. We wanl. to in· her camera to a Student Council cio's Bakery, I suggest that you fill the Italian-American students here crease student participation and in· meeting. She may be overwhelmed the joh yourself or offer the job at LaGuardia Community College as terest. We feel that if we cover issues herSelf, as she frequently is, by our elsewhere. well as members of the Italian· concerning students both directly body's civil intelligence. Please choose your words more American community who were sub­ and indirectly we could possibly in­ Governor North would like to take carefuUy Governor, Joe Thp is a staff jected to his immature prejudice. If crease our chances of getting some the opportunity through this letter writer for The Flute- he is not he chooses not to do so, then I sug­ response. to speak with anyone concerning employed by The Flute. Had I not gest he run an equaUy appropriate I am aware that this is also your clarification of a misunderstood known any better I'd think that cartoon knocking his own national· goal as a Student Council Governor. quote which has resulted in con· such a remark was a trick of some ity, whatever that may be, in order I feel that we are fulfilling our job as tinued misrepresentation by certain sort. You don't set the rules to to see how it feel.!! to be the object - newsbreakcrs. Are you fulfilling parties. Please feel free to drop a govern the newspaper. I'm in charge rather than the perpetrator of such yours? note in her mailbox at the SAC of· here, not you! bigotry. Sharon Brown, Edilor fice and she will be glad to speak As for the caption which read, P.S. Don't make demands on me and I consider your position as editor with anyone. "appeared overwhelmed" (under be careful when you distribute cer­ an endorsement of Mr. Trp's views In closing, I fail to see the need your picture), I was told by Gover· tain papers to other people concern­ and find it very surprising that as a under the "Students Speak Out" nor North that you both were ing the Flute. Until March - member of a race that has endured column for Mr. John Dowd to air his "bored to death" and if anything such prejudice you should feel opinions on' world issues when we you "were about to fall asleep." justified to throw stones at an hsve more than enough issues here Since she made such a big deal out of Fire two ethnic group that has provided the at LaGuardia facing our attention. I it I thought that I would print the Dear Governor Cross! name and dignity of Fiorello would like to correct his observation picture again with Governor North's In response to your letter dated LaGuardia to your school. Let she on " Ireland" in the second para· exact words, but after considering January 31. 1980 concerning the who be without sin cast the first graph that "the Irish have a built-in that I would probably get another " Godlather" comic 8trip which ap­ stone, so to speak. mechanism that creates an inherent· "petty letter" I squashed the whole peared in the January edition. I feel I request that this letter be Iy unforgiving nature; rather it is thing. We both know that such a it was not biased again8t Italian· reprinted verbatim under the decades of English domination. op­ move would be unprofessional and American8 and/or any other ethnic "Students Speak Out" column, as I pression and buUying that causes tacky. Despite the fact. I'm sorry group. have made copies for myself and generation after generation of Irish Ms. Cannon gave you the benefit of Students, it i8 my contention that others. hearts to be hateful." Mr. Dowd the doubt. I am delighted, on the Governor Bill CI"08S is using the Thank you for lett.ing me share my does not speak for me. as an Irish· other hand, that you suggested that school paper ('Fiorello's Flu te) 88 a opinions. American, and should have substi· Ms. Cannon bring her camera lO a source or publicity and advertising WilUam Cr088 tuted the word "centuries" for Student Council meeting. I have at· through the suppression of satire. Acting Chairperson, "decades," if he had done any tended several Council meetings To quote Sinclair Lewi8. "Advertis· Student Council research at aU to begin with. myself and I am overwhelmed by Continued on page 10