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Winkler's First A look at Peter Winkler and his new Symphony, ,album reviews and more in this week's Alterna L tives. PL.-1416- Judiiary In validates Ref e ren d m s - 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.