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A- L- l 12 W;2 S "WOW - Take Off in AL TERNA TIVES SB Physician' Ass'ts Program-.- Ranks Second In the Nation The physician's assistant program at Stony Brook has been ranked second in the nation. Edmund MeTernan, dean of the School of Allied Health Professions in Stony Brook's Health Sciences Center, said the program was given its high ratings through the National Commis- sion on Certification of Physician's Assistants. Professor Paul Lombardo, who heads the program, was informed by David Glazer, executive director of the Na- tional Comnmission, that all of Stony Brook's 23 graduates taking the certifi- cation examination for the first time passed. "As Mr. Glazer points out," Dean McTernan said, "this is an ex- 50 Students Receive Awards; Chancellors 'The -program t was given its high Awards Also Given ratings through More than 50 undergradute students were awarded- some given monetary, some certificate awards- for the - National research and achievement yesterday at a ceremony in the Fine Arts Center. -Commissionon Certificates were presented to 48 undergraduates who Certification of had been nominated by a faculty member for outstanding achievement. The students are: Kim Alexander, Dawn Physician's Assis- Barrett, Susan Bausert, Janice Bender. Jacqueline Ber- Saaiesman pnoxos/ vIVKe t-nen man, Fred Cirilo, Simonetta Cochis, Donna Danahy, tants.' (Top): The 50 undergraduate students who received awards for research Pedro D'Aquino, Anthony Dibettista, Ira Didner, Ste- and achievement; (above): Provost Homer Neal presents Chancellor's phanie Doggins, Meri Franco, Richard Giambrone, Award to Christina Bethin, assistant professor of Germanic and Slavic Catriona Glazebrook, Judy Hass, Bjorn Hansen, Fran- Languages; (below): Neal presents Chancellor's Award to Albert Carlson, cine lannotta, Gregory Jay. Jasmine Jeffers, Indrani professor of Neuro biology and Behavior. l~ ~~I - Joseph, Sean Kane, Craig Keller, Peter Kelsey, May Ki. Susan Lambiase. Ying He Liu, Barbara Luck, Joseph t traordinary achievement." McKenna, Michael Michaelides, Fergil O'Doherty, On point scores, Stony Brook's 545 Elaine Resch, Mary Louise Rochon, Kathleen Rollman, performance average was se- composite Andrea Rosenberg, Stacey Sack. Thomas Semetsis, a 560 total earned by the cond only to Kathy Slezak. Gemma Solimene, Stuart Stanley, Lauren at one physician's assistant program Stroh, Dwayne Taylor, Honey Teich, Warren Teubner. (unnamed, since other institution Suzanne Wagner, Peter Weinberg, Margaret Weiss and How- rating lists are not published). Leta Wong. the ever, Glazer reported, because Of the Undergraduate Research Awards presented, of measurement exam's standard error there were three categories. In the first, those for Crea- ar- rate was 19 percent, "your program tive and Scholarly Achievement, the winners were Fred guably tied for number one in the na- C irillo, Jonathon Esser and Michael Rezanka. The Sigma tion. Our congratulations." XI Research Awards were given to Michael Anderson - McTernan, adding his congratula- and John Lewis Le Guyada. The English Writing Awards tions, noted, "Graduate performance on were given to Philip Garfield, Richard Simon and Gre- standardized national certification ex- gory Scandaglia. amination is certainly one criteria The George Costigan Award for the outstanding under- which is often considered as an indi- graduate from a community college was presented to cator of quality." Grace Hocheiser. F- - Trackster, Swimmer And Polity Hotline Conducts Two Stony Brook Coaches Survey on Campus Security Top Off Season With Awards -Page 3 lBack Page _ N - -- Compiled from Associated Press Reports This Wbeek' Senate Nears Showdown ;Spec/als At OnIr Rival BIudget Plans - e i; ...q . .. I. deficits down. The five- Senators John Chatee o~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I-;e., t -x. Washington-The Republican-led Senate neared a showdown today on rival budget plans of Rhode Island, Mark Hatfield of Oregon, Cha- settling whether taxes should rise significantly rles Mathias of Maryland, Robert Stafford of next year and curbing the pace of President Ro- Vermont and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut- nald Reagan's proposed defense buildup. were under pressure from Baker to offer their After nearly two weeks of intensive maneuv- proposal first ering, Majority Leader Howard Baker (R- According to several sources, Baker's hope renn.) said he is "mildly optimistic' the Senate was that Chaff and his colleagues would lose o f : a : . *.;/ I.* ' "". will approve a budget scheme that he backs and when too few Democrats supported their prop- w0's T0J In: f ; A-f Reagan reluctantly supports. osal, and then would join other Republicans in 'I hope it will pass," said Baker, who pre- voting for the Baker-endorsed plan. But aides viously had flatly predicted the budget alterna- said the five moderates were reluctant to offer tive he favors would be approved. Baker is set to their plan first, for fear it would fail. bridgeU test the rival Republican budget plans, the one Democrats, whose unanimous support is ne. he wants and another which would permit a cessary for the moderate GOP plan to succeed, lounge and restaurant $300 cap on this year's 10 percent income tax were expected to meet privately to plan their W- - cut strategy. White House spokesman Larry An alternative approach, put together by five Speakes was asked which Reagan would choose Republican moderates, called for raising taxes if it came down to a choice between "no budget by $14.3 billion in 1984 and 170 billion over resolution and a tax increase." Without hesita- ITHURSDAY; three years as part of a plan to force budget tion, Speakes replied: "No budget resolution." The End Of The Bridge --News Briefs- presents International Hamburg, West Germany-Reporter Gerd and military secrets, the Tass news agency said Heidemann claimed today he gave a Nazi me- today. morabilia dealer in Stuttgart $3.75 million of The Tass report apparently was prompted by Stern's money to buy the bogus Hitler diaries a statement by Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonner, Thirsty Thursday from an East German general, but the dealer who said her husband was prepared to leave the later admitted the general never existed. Heide- country if he were invited and if the Soviet go- mann identified the middleman as Konrad vernment would grant him permission. DANCE CONTEST Kujau, a Stuttgart shopowner who used the alias Fischer. Attempts to contact him proved Jerusalem-Foreign Minister Yitzhak $50°° first prize fruitless. Shamir told Parliament yesterday the troop withdrawal pact with Lebanon will be signed Stern magazine said when it filed a fraud woon but that Israel will be free to act in its own complaint against Heidemann with the state interests if the Syrians and PLO refuse to leave -D.J. DAVE prosecutor Monday that an internal investiga- Lebanon. tion had concluded Heidemann's source "prob- Shamir said the pact "will be signed in the ably does not exist." -oming days by Israel and Lebanon with the Stern has since said Fischer is the name Participation of the U.S. government." He Heidemann gave the magazine as the mid- called the United States "a full partner" in the NEW WA VE-*ROCK dleman in obtaining the documents. Stern fired accord which Secretary of State George Schultz Heidemann on Tuesday, and two of its three worked out in two weeks of Middle East shuttle DISCO & chief editors were forced to resign in the diplomacy. MORE scandal. But if Syria and the Palestine Liberation Or- ganization do not match Israel's agreement to Moscow-Andrei Sakharov, who was a prime withdraw, Shamir said that "the agreement will Happy Hour 4-8 developer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, may not be considered suspended. Israel will be free to Beers 3 for $1.00 leave the Soviet Union because he knows state act as it sees fit and according to its interests." 'Free Munchies National 85¢t Bar Drinks Washington-The House Foreign Affairs rection that has lasted more than three years. Committee approved a compromise aid package On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations yesterday for El Salvador that would cut off Committee approved $176 million Salvadoran FRIDl A M U.S. military assistance if the Salvadoran go- military aid this year and the same amount next vernment balks at unconditional talks with lef- year. The Reagan administration asked $110 "Entertainment By'' tist guerrillas. - million for this year, on top of $26 million ap- propriated in January, and $86 million for fiscal The vote was 36-1. The dissenter was Rep. 1984 starting Oct 1. U.S. ROOTS George Crockett (D-Mich.). who said he opposed The House committee approved $65 million military assistance in Central America or for next year and the same amount for fiscal DRINK SPECIALS 85¢ bar drinks elsewhere. 1985, with $5 million each year earmarked for It was the second time in two days that a con- medical supplies and $10 million a year for gressional committee had voted to curb Presi- training outside El Salvador. The committee dent Ronald SATURDAY Reagan's proposal to help the had voted earlier to deny any additional mil- Salvadoran government fight off aleftist insur- itary assistance to El Salvador this year. State & Local ^ Mineola, N.Y.-Robert Golliver, charged that Gruhn had no money, he pulled the boy into Drink Specials-850 bar drinks with murdering newsboy Christopher Gruhn, a two-foot-wide alley between an abandoned gas was ordered held without bail and segregated station and a factory building, where he was from other prisoners Tuesday s police investi- sexually assaulted and stabbed more than 20 gated events leading to the 14-year-old boy's timen W-<M slaying last March. - Police found the body a few hours later after The devil made me do it," the 17-year-old they responded to a burglary alarm that was Golliver said, as he was led to 1stDistrict Court accidently set off at the factory.