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By TABASSUM ZAKARIA officials did not begin Referendum (10/16/79) Referendum (10/16/79) counting the ballots until 3 Vote for A or B or both Vote fS_ B or both The Polity Judiciary in- AM, when the judiciary validated the NYPIRG and adjourned its meeting. Also Shall the student activity fee Shalll s t activity fee be increased by $5.00 per student Abe inc $5.005sed per student intercollegiate athletics ref- on the ballot were contests r per semester for the purpose of: O sem ^or the purpose of: erendums early this morn- for Polity senate seats, one ing, after ruling that the judiciary post, the offices of A) Designating $1.50 per stude ;_ B Desigating $5.50 per student text of yesterday's election Polity treasurer and fresh- per semester for the New Jw _ Her semester for the inter- Public Interest Research Coup ollegiate athletic program for ballot was misleading. The man representative, a refer- Inc. (NYPIRG) for fojr coz B men and women beginning spring secutive semesters Whinny_ _ semester 1980 and remaining other questions on the endum on graduation n ballot were not affected, format and a number of spring 1980. i i effect through spring semester ^^, X ~ 1984. but because of the delay, no amendments to the Polity A "wNOQ"VOTE Of_ EFERENDUM v election results are expected constitution. WILL MEAN THAT Y. - YES NO early this afternoon. Misled STONY BROOK WILL SPONGER before BE A PART OF N.Y.P.I.R.G. The judiciary met for The referendums came nearly four hours, hearing a into question when Charlie YES NO number of grievances, but Jordan, a candidate for only upheld the contentions judiciary, argued that the of two students com- wording at the top of the judiciary hearing. If neither authorized. He went on to illegal. plaining about the wording ballot "Vote for A or B or referendum passed, the pro- say that the referendum was NYPIRG member Paul of the referendum. The ref- both" misled voters into posed activity fee increase not properly explained in Diamond explained that erendum called for a $5 thinking that they had to itself would have failed, as that it should have been NYPIRG people have gone per semester increase in the vote for one, or both of the it did last year. I made clear that any surplus around to all the dorms student activity fee, ear- proposals without leaving The referendums were of $1.50 on the NYPIRG during the past few weeks marking $1.50 to directly the option of voting for also challenged by Larry question would go to Poli- telling students about the fund Stony Brook's chapter neither of them. "I'm afraid Siegel, a member of the ty. referendum. He said that of NYPIRG, the New York this referendum won't re- Stony Brook Council. Siegel Siegel argued further that they should have been clear Public Interest Research flect the true feelings of the said that the referendum the wording led some voters of what was being asked. Group, and $5.50 per stu- student body, but is instead that was presented to the to think that if both the ref- "People are settling their dent to fund intercollegiate a choosing of the lesser of students was not worded erendums were passed, the differences with election athletics. two evils, " explained exactly as the one which activity fee would be raised night antics. They com- Student government Jordan in his speech at the the Polity Council originally $20 instead of $10, which is (Continued on page 10) Hundreds at 'Quality o-f Lifer RallhJ
By MITCHELL MUROV Waving signs that read "Sorry Williams, the Position of God is filled," "Tow Administration not cars,," and "Relocate Liz Wadsworth," and chanting "Action! Action!" a crowd ranging between 100 and 500 students ral- lied in front of the administration building for nearly six hours yester- day. The rally, the second thi- Amnes- ter, was concerned with a va.iLvcy of grievances including the recent clos- ings of Kelly Quad coffee houses and the delayed reopening of the Benedict Saloon. At the rally Faculty Student Association Business Manager Larry Roher announced that the Univer- sity would allow the Saloon to open that night, now that a second fire door has been added to the saloon. Also, at a question and answer session held after the rally, Uni- AT YESTERDAY'S RALLY, Polity President David Herzog (lower left) addressed a large crowd of students. Among the admin. versity Business Manager Paul istrators present was Vice President for Student Affairs Elizabeth Wadsworth (right). Madonna said that the investigation held but nothing changes. Some- halls, the reinstatement of the pri- on campus. into the Kelly Quad coffee houses thing else has to be done." ority system in the dorms and Among the requests made, were is over and, "there is no reason to Her sentiments were echoed by increased bus service. Herzog said if the replacement of residence hall keep them closed." Herzog who submitted an official the demands are not met, another directors (RHDs) by the "Harvard But students seemed dissatisfied list of demands to acting University rally would be held. Plan," which calls for the re-irstate- with the results of the rally. S~ainr president, Dr. Richard Schmidt. During the course of the rally a ment of Program Coordinators in Dori Weintraub said, "I thin. it is The list demands the removal of variety of speakers spoke out for the residential colleges, an end to ridiculous. This is the second rally Security officers from residen, e imrovements in the quality of life (Continued on page 5) Carter Proven Not Guilty "Our- audits and examina- Washington (APh- Spe- dence and the applicable cial counsel Paul Curran an- law, no indictment can or tion of the books and rec- nounced yesterday that no should be brought against ords leave no room for criminal charges will be anyone. None will be filed,"' doubt on this score," he brought as a result of a six- he said. said. "Every nickel and month investigation into Curran released an abbre- every peanut have been nearly $7 million in bank viated, 179-page report to traced into and out of the loans made to President the public. He said he was warehouse and no funds Jimmy Carter's peanut legally and ethically re- were unlawfully diverted in warehouse in Georgia. strained from disclosing the either direction." PIZZA> The special counsel "I believe it appropriate full contents of the grand also to state right here that there jury investigation into the said there are no grounds WE DELIVER! is no evidence to establish warehouse loans. for criminal charges based a hot,delicous pizza is that Jimmy Carter commit- In addition, he said his on the loans made by the as near as your phone- ted any crimes," Curran report to Congress was National Bank of Georgia to said in a statement accom- "necessarily incomplete." the Carter warehouse. J4Lst ci!a we deliver panying his 239-page re- Curran said there was no "We traced every advance r-wIht to your door! port. evidence any of the loan and every repayment into "Further, my overall con- money to the Carter family and out of the warehouse clusion set forth in great de- business was diverted to accounts and found them 751-9296 tail to the attorney general Carter's 1976 presidential all properly accounted for," COMPLETE ITALIAN DiNNERS campaign. Curran said. HOT AND COLD HEROS is that based on all the evi- 700 Rte. 25A SETAtFET N EWS DiGEST~- International---- San Salvador, El Salvador- Two colonels New Dehli, India- Loyal troops crushed who ousted the head of El Salvador's right- an attempt to overthrow President Hafizul- wing government announced plans yester- lah Amin a month after he ousted President day to set up a ruling junta of two officers Nur Mohammed Taraki, Radio Afghanistan and three civilians and pledged to redistrib- announced yesterday. It said six top con- ute the nation's wealth. spirators were arrested. Colonels Jame Abdul Gutierrez and Western diplomats reported gunfire Mon- Adolfo Arnoldo Najane also dissolved the day in Kabul, the Afghan capital, and tanks legislature that had been dominated by the outside key government ministries and at government toppled Monday night and other strategic points. But they could not promised a "moderate and eminently dem- confirm a coup had been foiled. ocratic" government. "A number of reactionaries, counter- But El Salvador's Radio Central said left- revolutionaries, traitors and treacherous ists from the LP-23 movement, in defiance elements have undertaken conspiracies of the new government's appeal for tran- against the interest of the people of our quility, had seized some facilities in the San homeland and have continued their anti Salvador suburb of Mejicanes, a city of -people activities," the government radio about 100,000. service said. National Chicago- President Jimmy Carter vowed Washington- The Senate Foreign Rela- yesterday that the U.S. will not recognize tions Committee voted yesterday to give Cuba until the Caribbean island nation re- written and oral assurances by Soviet Presi- calls its troops from "unwarranted involve- dent Leonid Brezhnev on the Backfire ment in other countries." bomber the same legally binding status as At a town meeting in mostly blue-collar the SALT II treaty itself. suburban Dolton, Illinois, Carter was asked The Soviet Union would have to agree why his administration will not accept the that Brezhnev's assurances are in fact legal- fact that the Cuban government "is here to ly binding before the treaty takes effect. stay." In its 9-1 vote, the committee directed The president responded by blasting Cu- President Jimmy Carter to sign an agree- ba for "constantly interfering" with the af- ment with the Soviet Union based on fairs of other nations. He repeated his view Brezhnev's assurances that "the production that Fidel Castro's government is a "surro- rate of this bomber would not excede 30 gate" of the Soviet Union. And Carter ac- per year." cused Cuba of being the "most militarized country." State and Local Albany- The state, plagued by marble pressure on rme heating prices, Governor panels coming loose at the huge Empire Hugh Carey said yesterday he hopes to ask State Plaza here, has filed a $25 million suit the Legislature back to Albany late this against a Long Island construction com- month or early in November to advance pany and a New York City architectural money to help poor people pay their fuel firm. bills. In a state Supreme Court complaint filed But Carey said "the whole operation is here Monday, the state charged that Penn premised on federal assistance" and that York Construction Corporation of Long Is- the state would not actually put up any land City and Carlson, Lundin & Thorson money of its own to help poor families of Manhattan were neglegent in their work with rising bills. ton installing huge marble slabs at the mall The governor told reporters traveling on complex. his plane from Albany that a legislative BuffaloPushedby growing political* session could "surely" be summoned be- Buffalo- Pushed by growing political fore election day, November 6.
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Page 2 STATESMAN October 17, 1979 Ai- - mmml.- o Color Blindness Researched By Geneticist and SB Senior The disciplines of psychology and number of color blind cells, along with genetics have teamed up to try and unravel normal ones, making them "genetic one of the mysteries of color blindness, and mosaics." it all began over a sink of dishes. "We're demonstrating this genetic Stony Brook's distinguished professor of prediction," said Carlson. "We have tested biology, and noted geneticist, Elof Carlson, female carriers under different light is currently working with Shari Cohn, a conditions and have found that in certain psychology student, on a research project ones, they, in fact, do not see the color. studying carriers of the color blind trait This raises another question - how does who are able to psychologically this female compensate for her mosaic of compensate for their genetic disability. color blind and normal cells? We believe The project is now entering its second there's a physical and also a psychological year of study. It began while Cohn was aspect. Something is going on in her eye - working two summers ago as a work study and in her mind - and our study is the first student washing dishes in Carlson's lab. She to link genetics with psychology in looking remembers discussing the idea for the for answers,," he explained. project with Carlson one day, when, "He Only six percent of males are color blind looked at me and said 'Why don't you do and this is not a health problem. It can it?' " cause the color blind person inconvenience Last year, Cohn, working as a research and shuts out certain fields of work where assistant at the lab, began the project for seeing color is important, such as art and psychology credit. Now, in her senior year, textile design. The study is, therefore, she is doing the research for her honors important for scientific, not medical thesis. reasons, Carlson pointed out. The theory they are testing begins with "It is telling us something about the way the known fact that color blindness is a sex-linked genes are distributed in the - S~~~196 Goe minor disability passed on to sons by tissues of the body. If we learn how people mothers, assumed to be genetic carriers, with partial color blindness compensate for not victims themselves of color blindness. this, that is useful scientific information," A New Angle However, a genetic prediction raised a he said. Works by Steve Solomon (above) and Bill Evans (best viewed from the cafeteria) were recently moved into the court- different set of possibilities, proposing that Carlson and Cohn are currently looking yard of the Stony Brook Union. Both sculptors are studio art normal vision female carriers are not color for volunteers interested in participating in majors at the University. blind free. They may, in fact, have a large their study. CED Informal Studies Reaching Ou I By MATTEO G. LUCCIO which also offers a part-time pro- formal luncheon-discussion series. pieces of art are an important as- gram of graduate studies leading to The former are designed for adults pect of the program. The Center for Continuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies who are considering career changes Classes are offered during fall Education's Informal Studies degree, which is not offered any- or re-entering the job market; the and spring sessions and are usually Program entered its sixth year last where else on Long Island. latter are based on discussions of late in the evening or during week- week, offering a wide range of short Nearly all of the instructors for books dealing with women, their ends, so as to utilize the University non-credit courses, workshops and the Informal Studies program come roles and status in different cultures facilities when they are free from lectures, primarily in the arts and from the local community because and at different periods of history, regular University classes. The cost humanities. institutional guidelines make it very including the 20th century. "We are of the courses range from $15 to The program aim to offer com- difficult to have University faculty considering additional courses in $100 or, in a few cases, more. munity residents an opportunity to teach the noncredit courses. particularly interesting areas of For registration and information take advantage of campus special- Courses are offered in ceramics, women's-studies, to start in the the Informal Studies Office, Room ized facilities, such as art and craft sketching, Japanese papermaking, spring," Shea added. N-213, Social and Behavioral Sci- studios and equipment, lecture sculpture (with use of the very well Manv attractions, including art ences Building, is open Monday halls, and other campus facilities, equipped sculpture studio of the trips to New York City, open through Friday, from 9 AM to 1 and., at the same time, provide an University's art department), stone houses, and shows of student made PM and 2 PM to 5 PM. opportunity for Long Island artists lithography, watercolor painting, Mort snl nnllionhv ttatrall October 17, 1979 STATESMAN Page 3 I 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 I I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 p 0 0 TEST P"EPARATION 10 SPCIALSTS SINCE t9o 0 p p AN S« VWTI wsf 0 Call Days, Eves & Weekends 6 0 0 0 0 0 ROOSEVELT 0 FIELD gm I - Of%AM^ 4 4 &kIA Now at McDonald's Port Jefferson For Information About Other Centers In More Than ^*B 80 MaWr U.S. Cities Abroad Outside N.Y. 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V .-i -~~ ~~~~~I 4 -- - l lSl - | ------at +r He - -l[] z z; Hi - - - Page 4 STATESMAN October 17, 1979 Hundreds at ^Quality of Lifer Rallr y (Continued from page 1) not be made by low-level bureau- tripling and relocation, and a stop crats." Miller referred to the reas- to the harassment of students by signment of resident student park- Campus Security. ing spaces to Faculty-staff in the Junior Representative David G-Quad parking lot. Grossman, who is Polity's liaison to "Dump Liz" Residence Life, said that an RHD Sophomore Mace Greenfield, a has turned into "judgejury and member of the Public Safety Advi- executioner" citing a case where sory Board said that Security is two students were relocated by a, working at the whims of Admini- quad director. "One girl got her stration in their investigations. charges three days after being Greenfield then started a "Dump relocated," Grossman said. He Liz"' chant, referring to Vice Presi- called on college legislators to dent for Student Affairs Elizabeth "regain control" in their buildings. Wadsworth. Aside from the speeches by When asked what she thought of Polity officials and students, several the chant, Wadsworth, who was at faculty members also spoke at the /the rally, said, "I don't think per- rally. Dean for Undergraduate Stud- sonal attacks are the issue, I'm here ies Robert Marcus received applause to hear the real issues." when he said he "anticipated a new After the rally a question and STU DENTS at the "Quality of Life" rally protested against administrators and their era of campus militancy," but when answer session was held with Wads- polkicies. he said he was against bars in pre- worth, Public Safety Director dominantly freshman residence Robert Comute, Madonna, and halls, the crowd yelled, "bullshit, Assistant Business Manager John Doors bullshit." Williams. Saloon Opens Psychology Professor Brett When asked at the question and The sounds of shouting and the required facilities use form last Silverstein, a former undergraduate answer session about undercover laughter filled the Benedict Saloon week because a fire door had not at Stony Brook called for students Security officers, Cornute said that for the first time in six weeks as the been installed in the Saloon. to be more active on campus to Statesman had the name and photo- doors reopened last night at 10 PM. However, a team of Benedict solve the problems. graph of every Security Officer. It was that same set of doors which residents, including Saloon History Professor Wilbur Miller When a Statesman reporter said the had kept the Saloon closed an co-manager Donnie Thaler, worked told the crowd that the faculty sup- campus newspaper did not, Cornute additional week after it obtained a with a student contractor Monday ported them. "We were kicked out said he would be willing to provide liquor license last Thursday. night knocking down a wall and of our parking lot and put into such information in the context of Fire Door Installed putting the additional door in. yours," said Miller. "Decisions must a feature article. (See editorial.) The University refused to sign (Continued on page 9) - EARCHING 1980J [ENTATION LEADERS i 1.- 1|1 HELP WRNTED ;ations avaiilaie v Oct. 15 thru t. 24 it-110 ^^\/^%Wm I 11 i Mt r"uHI210I IUla lkKa I flllt i to all students i i except Graduating Seniors Late Night Typist i i P~or further info 246-7003 l For furter info246-700 ! T ^ ! l j I L _ _ 1 L x '!Lz1 ~ 1 1uw~~TIllllTT~ll1i ILI1 1 A L . 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