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October 27, 1999 Volume XLIII Number 2 17 Cheshvan 5760 Giuliani at Odds A Comparison of with Brooklyn Funding: Museum of Art YC and SCW SARA KoSTANl SA..RA Ko-STA, T News Editor News Editor . igs and fish in formaldehyde were not the only items housands of dollars .':"'ere.spent Pthat attracted over 9200 visitors to the Brooklyn Tby the student councils on both Musellm of Art on Oct. 2nd . campuses dunng onenlat1on to Tickets to a new exhibit of young British artists ease incoming students mto college sold that Saturday surpassed all previous opening day life. A Circle Line tour of Manhattan, attendance records in the museum's 175-year existence. ! a ~ee-hour evening cruise, a trip to The lines of people waiting to enter the museum stretched Great Adventure, a Yankee game, the around the block while protesters shouted and waved plac musical "Stomp," and a chagiga ards. threatened to burst the SCWSC and The popularity of this exhibit is unusual, but so is YCSC accounts before budgets were the exhibit itself. It is called "Sensation: Young British even made. Artists from the Saatchi Collection," and Wilike other art But thanks to Student exhibits, it features a sign advising museum patrons to Services, the week after Orientation. enter at their own risk. "Health Warning: The contents of the student councils of SCW and YC this exhibition may cause shock, vomiting, confusion, were still financially healthy. Student panic, euphoria, and anxiety. ff you suffer from high blood I Services covered the entire expense of pressure, a nervous disorder, or palpitations, you should Orientation, according to Dr. Efrem consult your doctor before viewing." Nulman, University Dean of Students The artworks that "may cause shock" include Although students were charged for _____ Cl::ris_ Ofilf~ The Ho_ly Virgin M_~, a depiction o~Mary inj _ the Great Adventure trip. Yankee a painting daubed with elephant dung and pornographic Game, and the showing of "Stomp." images. The exhibit also includes a tiger shark .suspended I Student Services heavily ,subsidized in formaldehyde and a dissected pig similarly preserved. these events. The latter presentations sparked protests from the People Financial help from Student for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), but it was Crawling Pace of Construction Services is not unusual. This office often sponsors SCWSC and YCSC Highlighted by 1991 Petition events that may be incompatible with the counq:~ls' budgets NEHAMA MILLER & RACHEL ELBAUM News Editors The Student Council Budget hen an airline overbooks changed," said SCW Dean Karen Student councils' budgets are W a flight, they usua.!ly Bacon. "The problem -has gotten provided for by three different compensate the bumped bigger... If we had purchased sources, according to Dr. Nulman. passengers with free round-trip tick Schottenstein in 199 l, things would The student activities fee is the main ets to keep them as valued cus- be different. But in the eight years, component of these budgets. SCW , tomers. At Stem College, where the needs became twice the size." and YC charge each :,tudent fifty dol overcrowding is the regular subject In the time between the two peti lars, which is then divided up among of hallway conversations and the tions. the administration established the ,·arious student organizations, such cause for a petition sent to YU the Schottt!tlstein dormitory, began as SCWSC and TAC at Stem, and President Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm constrnction on the 34th St. theater, YCSC and Student Organization of at the end of last yeasc, students feel completed renovations on new Yeshiva (SOY) at YlJ. of Art Preserved shark at Brooklyn Museum that their needs are put on the back chemistry labs, and ·purchased the "There's a formula for divid burner. 205 and 215 Lexington buildings. ing up the money, which was made up "I am thrilled to have these the exhibit of Ofili1s painting that prompted Mayor "We keep hearing rumors by the student leaders themselves." Rudolph Giuliani to launch a legal attack again:;t the muse that they are being prepared," said new facilities." said Risa Solomon, explained Dr. Nulman. Jonathan Mell, um. Kinneret Cohen, an SCW senior. "I an SCW senior. "But if the universi President of the YCSC, said that he Giuliani threatened on September 22 to end New don't know what is holding things ty would stop using the Band-Aid does not know the exact breakdown of York. City's funding of the Brooklyn Museum of Art if it up." approach and instead plan ahead, money to the various student councils opened the "Sensation" exhibit. According to an Oct. 8 On Nov. 24, 1991, two these problems would have been because he had never investigated it. Associated Press article, Giuliani called the exhibtt "sick Stem students sent a petition to Dr. solved 8 years ago. If the adminis "I'm happy with the amount we get." stuff" and said that public funds should not support it. Lamm, signed by nearly 400 stu tration made our needs a priority, he said. "If it changed, and it wasn't The Mayor's vociferous attacks on the museum dents, addressing nearly identical and did these changes when they · enough, then maybe l would try to echo the sentiments of Catholic leadCrs in New York City issues as a petition sent last May and should have been made a long time find out more. Why stir the pot if who are dismayed by the Ofili painting, which they see as published in the Sept. issue of The ago, then we wouldn't be having the : everything is fine? l haven't heard the desecration of a religious symbol. William Donahue, Observer. Namely, a lack of space same problems we have today. anyone complain." president of the Catholic League, lashed ~ut at the art for a burgeoning student population. We're squeezed into classrooms and This source of money is dri world in general. A "Sensation" press 'information website Eight years ago. sew students were - donnit0ries now because the admin ven by enrollment, according to Dr. quotes ltjm as saying, "I know of no other enterprise, pro grappling with the same dilemmas istration didn't take action fast Nulman. When more students enroll fession or industry that allows as many frauds to perpetrate as the current srudent body - lack of enough when that petition was sent in YC and SCW, their student councils lack of readiness on part 8 years ago." more money to spend that on it than the artistic community. H According to space arid ¼ill have ArtNewspaper.com, Cardinal John O'Connor of New York of the administration to take imme "The facilities in need year on activities. Dr. Nulman empha range from adequate dorm space to City stated that 0 one must ask if it is not an attack on reli diate action. sized that YCSC does not have more gion itself and in a.special way on the Catholic church." Dr. Lamm had no comM an office for the Student Council. money to spend per student than the "' The Orthodox Union (OU) and Agudath Israel of ment. and from a place to gather as a stu scwsc. America have also expressed support for Giuliani's censure "The petition that year did dent body and a place to study," Since the budgets of the student coW1- do something~ things did improve continued on page 20 but the contours of the problem have continued on page 20 continued on page 20 llhscn,cr Police Department has denied a :i.ry throughout the year, report · dropped out of high school, permit request mid-October by l',i the Israeli r..1anufiKturers 1wice. Bekhi Makhubu has lost Bn11sh (~.1s t:,,.peds ft' the Ku Klux Klan to hold a rally Association. Saks \Vc;-nt up five his joh, been suhject to public Virginia to announce his deci in Manhattan. The group applied tind .:1h1ugh natw-al g<L\ ri:scn cs percent \\-hen ..-:l)mpared with scorn and ridicule and could sion, informed sources said. The m ·brJd\ offshore wJters to for a permit to demonstrate on s~tks from this tune last year. spend up h) s1:\ years m prison. action comes after weeks of hints m-,'t't ail nf th.: c1)Wltt) 's mdu..1;tn Saturday, October 23rd in front Tiillt!1sm1 5ale$ have also from Buchanan's campaign that .1t !!a.-; TTL't'ds, said a semor com of the Manhattan Criminal Court nKreased Cl)mpared to last year. National: he would leave the Republican r,u~~ [)ffo:1al in :m mk'f\ ie\\ \\ ith party to join the Reform. Building, downtown. Officials Researchers from Nev-.' Od ,mJ Gas Jlmmal. If gas 1s Buchanan's campaign had no say the decision was made York's Memorial Sloan Kenering h1und, Bntish Gas and its thff1..· International: immediate comment on the because of the Klan's refusal to Cancer Center say they ha\.e hr:wlt p.utn;.:r-; \\JI! ht: dig.1bk t,, A ('oca-Cola sa!t'sman report. Most national polls show assemble without weanng bred mice resistant to cancer. Or. ,1;.n ..1 ..~tl-yt'M pwJu;.:tion .:1.m- m Br.uil was tired after his boss Buchanan with less than 5 per masks. According to New York Robert Beneua and his col 1r:1d \\Ith tht' gp,emment 1.'Jt1ght him dnnking the ri\al cent support among Republicaµs. State law, people who gather leagues ha\e identified t\',O :--nJa. Saksman Webs ton with masks are considered guilty genes responsible for the forma Dt)zen::- of lsrae-\1 Arahs R!\ dmo argued that he took a of loitering.

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