• Run-off necessary In• SGA president race by Sherr; Conyers

More than 900 votes were cast 350 against 310 for the Steve of the votes. a run-off election Frida y in one of the largest St udent Goodmanj David Rever ticket. between the top two tickets must be Government election returns in According to S.G.A. Election held this Friday, according to SGA recent years. The Terry Nolan/­ Board';s rules, since none of the election rules. ' Robin Kyler ticket carried a simple candidates in this multiple ticket Mike Rifkin, Chairperson of the majority of the Presidential votes, election won a 50 per cent plus one Election Board, said Goodrilanand Rever are contesting tb election, but Rifkin declined to comment on the nature of the dispute, since "it's FLASH! not resolved yet .. .it's not fair to any of the parties. " The SGA Election Board from the student Board is Rifkin said that several announced late'yesterday after­ expected tonight, according to I senatorial candidates had been noon that the Terry Nolan­ University Director of Judicial disqualified, some mistakenly, and Robin Kyler presidential ticket Affairs Barry Henderson. ,that the disqualifications fall into has been disqualified from The Nolan-Kyler ticket lead three classes, as fonows: ..'riday's scheduled run-off elec­ the four ticket general election . Two senior senator contestants tion. Friday with 350-votes. Nolan and Kyler immediately CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 filed an appeal with the campus Judicial Board. A hearing was Steve Goodman (I.) placed second In the presidential voting. held last night, and a decision RetRieveR Volume 15, Number 2:6 Unil'enilY (~l Maryland. &Ilimore County , April 29,1181 Subcommittee to review health fee proposal by Damian Jones A mandatory student health fee from UMBC, and six ofthese were awareness, family planning, and 'of $16 oer semester for full-time in the previous Health Service. CPR, among others. students has been proposed to "Because the (old) Health Health Service hours will also be University of Maryland Central Service did not see many patients. expanded from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 Adminstration, according to they stock-piled a lot of supplies. p.m. service, to an 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 Debra Sivertson, Nurse We have been running on those p.m. weekday service. In the Practitioner and Director of stock-piled supplies, plus evenings, Emergency Medical Student Health. returning what we could," said Technicians (student technicians The fee is slated for a Board of Sivertson, explaining how the Candidates Robin Kyler (near), Terry Nolan (r.), and campaign manager Regents sub-committee review Center survived this year. In CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 JIm List await election results outside the Student Union. May 26, and will be subject to addition to cutting other corners, Board approval June 6. If the nurse practitioners have been approved, the fee would be doing Health Service laundry in optional for part-time, summer their homes. UMBC students to session, and minimester students, "Next year there is no way we and would be instituted this Fall. can do this again," said Sivertson. • • The fee was developed by She warned that without the health Sivertson, Vice Chancellor for service fee, not only will services be JOin EI Salvador march Student Affairs, Scott Rickard, cut, but students will have to be by Beth Sturdevant Assistant Dean of Students Brent charged for certain services and UMBC students opposed to the Students on campus have also Steele, and the Health Services medication. that the purpose ofthe presentation U.S. government's distribution o~, sold buttons stating "Defend student staff, in consultation with A student health fee is not was to expose the U.S. govern­ $25 million in aid to EI Salvador are Atlanta's Children not EI the Student Health Advisory unusual for a university, Sivertson ment's position in El Salvador and planning to join a march in Salvador's Junta." Committee (S HAC). Health said; College Park and UMAB, for inform students of the alleged Washington Sunday sponsored by A slide show on the El Salvador Service's state funding, which was example, already have student abuses suffered in that country. the People's Anti-War Mobiliza­ issue was presented earlier this reduced last year, has not been health fees. Even with the new fee, Robert Sloane, an associate tion to Stop U.S. Intervention in El semester and was widely attended. enough to maintain the Center, she claimed the UMBC health professor of Spanish, recently Salvador. Dr. John Sinnegan, an associate and still provide an adequate level service cost per student will be the circulated a faculty petition calling Daniel Brafman, a student in professor of service. lowest of all UM campuses. of Spanish and a member for an end to U.S. involvement in El charge of chartering a bus, which of the Baltimore chapter of The Health Service was The fee will cover expenses Salvador. The petition has been will take the students from UMBC CISPES (Committee in Solidarity reorganized last Fall as a result of associated with visits to the Health signed by eighty faculty. members. Governor Harry Hughes' mandate to Washington, said that he was with the People ofEI Salvador) said Cente:-, some laboratory work, a "optimistic enough to order a big' to eliminate approximately 250 first day supply of medication, plus bus" in anticipation of a large turn "lines" (full-time positions) in the new and expanded health University of Maryland. Seven of out. Thirty students had signed up education programs, including as of Friday. these positions were withdrawn diet counseling, alcohol March to be vital step in Public opposition to U.S. support of El Salvador's ruling junta has increased since a reversal opposition's efforts of U.S. policy toward sending On The Cover military aid to that country. Many [(CPS) -On Sunday, May 3 anti call a "'transition period" from El Salvador observers, including sentiment against U.S. involve­ '~scattered; Freshman Senator Jessica Bower exits the voting booth during la~t community-based Friday's SGA elections. Bower won a second senate term. She will some members of Congress, claim ment in EI Salvador will go through protest" to a more "political·· serve on the Procedural Rules Committee. the junta is assisting paramilitary what amounts to a rite of passage phase. right-wing terrorists. The Reagan for political movements: it will Campus activiti~s in the last six Staff photographer Ed Fagan got the shot. administration has also been stage its own march on Washing­ months against U.S. El Salvador criticized for sending military ton, D.C. policies have indeed been both advisors to El Salvador. The march caps what organizers spontaneous and widespread, The march, which is expected to call "the busiest protest season unlike the more carefully-arranged involve approximately 50,000 since Three Mile Island," and recent campus rallies against Meszaros remains managment ...... , ...... , ..... 3 people, will begin at the Lincoln marks what these same organizers­ apartheid in South Africa. nuclear Photo works ...... 8 Memorial and proceed past the very aware of comparisons to the power, and the draft. A March Big Twist at the Fish ...... 10 offices of-the State Department, first college stirrings against U.S. protest at the University of Election results .. , ...... 19 involvements in Vietnam in 1964- ending at the Pentagon. CONTI, Nl)~D ,ON PAGE 2 March to draw attention to EI Salvaqor issue FROM PAGE 1 California-Riverside "peaked" at, more diversified groups to the are even denied recognition. SUNY's Petras finds "remarkable" estimates "a year or two at this rate 70 people, while a march at the cause, many with religious At New Orleans' Loyola comparisons. provided U.S. policies do . not University of Massachusetts­ affiliations. University, a newly-formed "The teach-ins and scattered change." Amherst surprised organizers a few "The striking part of the CISPES group received a Student protests we see now about El "We're in a very important days later when it drew 1200 enormous growth of the movement Government Association Charter Salvador roughly compare to the transition state right now," Petras students and faculty. is the religious overtone," Petras only after a long and heated debate . stage of the Vietnam movement in says. "We've been going through Not limited to larger state . observes. "Most prevalent IS the Law delegate Frank Milanese late 1964 or 1965," Petras asserts. the educational stage-consisting of schools, activity has been reported active work of particularly argued vehemently for the It's getting to the point where teach-ins, mostly-to the point from Loyola University in New Catholic organizations and nuns opposition in the student newsl)ap­ people with ,diverse interests are where there is protest and rallies. Orleans to Sinclair Community and priests. Considering the er when he warned the group "is a getting involved, not just people Now we have to see protest turn and Grand Valley State colleges in numbers of Catholics murdered radical political organization that who have a history of being into politics with more specific Michigan. All featured speakers daily in El Salvador, their just smacks of communism." politically active ... goals. " and seminars on U.S. foreign participating is not surprising, but Students at George Mason Active participants no longer Whether the El Salvador policies, colloquially called "teach­ Although Petras maintains "The University in Virgina were not so include only those people who were movement will successfully make ins." great bulk of U.S. faculty Opposes" lucky. Their application for a active in the Vietnam movement the transition from "protest to Services commemorating the American involvement, others may university chartt'r was denied on and are interested in finding a politics" will be most clearly seen at first anniversary ofthedeath of San not be quick to agree. A special the ground that" they lacked clear "cause" once more, nor is it limited the May 3rd rally in Washington. Salvadoran Archibishop Oscar faculty meeting called by Universi­ plans." A university spokesman to people who feel they "missed the Organized by the People's Anti­ Romero attracted 150-400 st udents ty of Texas President Peter Flawn denied the action was" politically Vietnam movement" and want to War Mobilization committee each at the University of Illinois, for the purpose of publicly motivated," but would-be CIS PES get in on these activities, agrees (PAM) based in Washington, the Iowa State, the University of opposing U.S. involvement failed officers remain unconvinced. C1SPES'Tarver. rally might attract as many as Maryland, and Yale University. to attain a quorum, much less a Granting university recognition "The breadth and nature of the 100,000 people from all over the The majority of those services were favorable vote. History professor hardly guarantees a group support movement against U.S. involve­ country, according to Dick sponsored in conjunction with the Thomas Philpo.tt called the low of the community, however. ment in El Salvador is analogous to Cushing of PAM. He says PAM Committee in Solidarity with the attendance "extraordinary" and Marchers at the UMass-Amherst Vietnam," she says, " 'But this is has developed a network of People of El Salvador (CISPES), a <4unthinkable," but colleague Ira protest drew heckles from dorm growing much faster than the organizations in at le.ast 70 cities in national ,organization boasting Iscoe replied, "Professors ought windows. Onlookers reportedly sixties." Petras is confident that five weeks to "do the leg work," membership of 100 college not to get involved:" insulted marchers, and students the movement will continue its including soliciting school funds to bran~hes and "countless' com­ The issue similarly polarizes favoring U.S. activities in El rapid growth if the U.S. govern­ cover travel expenses. munity groups. student governments, which. are Salvador drowned out the chants of ment refuses to alter its policies in Cushing calls PAM's progress in Tens of thousands, "perhaps typically forced to face the ISsue the marchers by plaving"'Ballad of El Salvador. He predicts a direct those weeks "pretty impressive." hundreds of thousands" have when debating whether to grant the Green Berets~ on a sound parallel between the growth of U.S. Over 500 individuals and become involved in El Salvadoran charters to potential CIS PES system. involvement in Central America institutions have lent their names to activities since September, affliates. Some branches of the The polarization of students and and the growth ofactivism at home. a list of rally endorsers, and, he estimates James Petras, sociology, organization have told Washing­ faculty over the El Salvador issue Asked how quic~ly the El says, "countless" groups have professor at the State University of ton headquarters getting recognit­ reminds most people almost Salvador movement will get to a turned over the receipts from New York-Binghamton. He says ion was "'no problem," but still automatically of the Vietnam anti­ stage comparable to the Vietnam benefit concerts and lectures to educational programs draw in others run into harsh debates and war movement, and indeed, -movement in 1968 or 1969, he PAM for the rally.

Paid Research Volunteers NEWS IEIIT Library 'fire' alarms students - Students were roused from their post-Ea&ter studying at the library last : $30. : Thursday at 10: 15 when someone pulled on the building's fire alarms. Dr. . . Billy Wilkinson, Director of the Library said that someone pulled it . PER: because he smelled smoke coming from one of the ventilation ducts, and that the smoke was from a fluorescent tube's ballest which had burst. The : DAY: students that were there were quickly evacuated and public safety was there on the scene minutes after the incident. Dr Wilkinson said he was pleased with the efficiency of his staff and that of public safety and that it was fortunate that the alarm was not a major problem. PAID VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED FOR STUDIES TESTING VACCINES THROUGHOUT THE COMING SPRING AND SUMMER. THESE STUDIES INVOLVE Calendar changes approved SPENDING BETWEEN 10 AND 20 DAYS IN A- PLEASANT DORMITORY LIKE A Board of Regents committee has approved changes in the academic ENVIRONMENT. AMPLE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES' ARE PROVIDED AND calendar that would result in ,uniformity among the four University campuses. The University Law school and some medical programs would VOLUNTEERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO BRING IN BOOKSI WRITING MATERIALS 1 be allowed to retain their present schedules_ MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSI ETC. Under the plan, the Fall and Spring semesters would have the same number of days-72 to 75, but the Fall semester would begin in early September and end in late December,. while the Spring semester would begin during the fourth week of January and last until late May. VOLUNTEERS SHOULD BE IN GOOD HEALTH AND BETWEEN THE AGES At UMBC, this new calendar would have the effect of shortening the Mini-mester to three weeks. OF 18 AND 35. ANYONE INTERESTED IN fo10RE INFORMATION OR WISHING It is felt that this uniformity will encourage student and faculty TO BE NOTIFIED BY MAIL OF STUDIES TAKING PLACE THIS SPRING AND mobility between the various campuses. The new academic calendar will be voted on at the full Board of

SUMMER 1 PLEASE CONTACT THE CENTER FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT. Regent's meeting. in early May.

Smith to perform at Gallery Center for Vaccine Development University of Maryland School 'of Medicine New Music Baltimore presents STUART SMITH: Music for o Percussion, Piano, Narrator, and Dancer on-Saturday, May 2 at Gallery 409,409 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. The event begins at 8:00 p.m. and a $4 528-5328 donation, $3 for students, $2 for former CETA employees, is requested. Dr. Stuart S. Smith is the Director of the New Music Ensemble at UMBC. This event is made possible by a grant from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, administered by the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art PAID ,RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS and Culture-City-Arts Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.- A federal agency. Additional funding was provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, the C&P Telephone C~mpany, the Equitable Trust Company, and Meet the Composer, Inc. . .. . April 29, 1981 Page 3 Meszaros chosen for fellowship ; y Denise Lee Dr. Pat Meszaros, a UMBC chance of staying in school." the Vice Chancellor's Academic developments in undergraduate _faculty member since 1970, has She also chairs a committee of Planning Council, the Dean's general education requirements; as recently been selected by the faculty and professional staff meetings with department well as faculty and professional American Council on Education interested in establishing at chairpersons, and the meetings of staff rights and grievance IS one of thirty-five Fellows in UMBC a center for the study of the Faculty Senate, plus meetings procedures. Academic Administration. adult learning. She is also a of the Board of Regents and the Dr. Madeleine F. Green, This program, established in memberofajoint UMBCjUMAB State Board for Higher Education. Director of the Fellows Program, 1964, is designed to strengthen committee studying the feasibility She will attend three week-long reports that in the program's first leadersh~p in American h~gher of transferring certain allied health seminars sponsored by the ACE fifteen classes, most of the 660 ~ducation by identifying and prog~ams to this campus. for Fellows, and will visit other participants have made significant preparing faculty for responsible Said Meszaros, "My role as an institutions similar to UMBC in advances into positions of positions in academic administra­ ACE Fellow is mainly to educate order to study their administrative leadership in academic administra­ tion. Fellows are nominated myself about issues- in higher­ structures and curricula. "It's like tion. Meszaros says that, "I don't ' nationwide by the presidents or education. I personally do not being a student again," said see adminstration, no matter what chancellors of their institutions; have the power to make any Meszaros. I do in the future, as taking me for the 1981-82 class there were 140 changes in existing academic During her fellowship, completely away from (teaching). I nominations. policies at U MBC." Meszaros will Meszaros is interested in studying think that after next year, Meszaros will serve her attend meetings of the the role of governing boards in I...probably will go back to the :lPat rOt M!,z,;c. • Photo by Rockhold fellowshjp, which be~i_ns in Chancellor's Executive Committee. higher education nationwide; new English Department. " September, at UMBC. Presently, ~~~~------_. she has been serving as Acting r------Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs since February, performing duties similar to those of a fellow. As Acting Associate Vice Chancellor, Meszaros represents Vice Chancellor Walter Jones on the Undergraduate Council and the Graduate Council. She is also co-ordinating the departmental triennial review procedures, processes of self-study whereby each of the departments examines its program's structure and effectiveness. Meszaros is also interested in programs and services for ESL (English as a Second Language) students, whom UMBC is getting "in increasing numbers." She is chairing a committee that will The band "Infinity" played in a packed commuter cafeteria Friday make recommendations to the afternoon to start off UMBC's Spring Week activities. Events scheduled Academic Vice Chancellor for for the remainder ofthe week include a tug ofwar competition today at 1:00 addit,ional courses and personnel and a performance by the band "High Point" in the Quad Friday "to make sure that these afternoon. The year's last mixer will finish out the week Friday at 9:00, with students ... have a reasonable Arch Rival .. the music.

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Nominations for elections meeting $1.50 6, 8, & 10 pm in L II. April 29, 1981 Page 5 Voter turnout large In• SGA elections, · candidates accidentally disqualified from race FROM PAGE 1 were "wrongly disqualified, so their not when they take office, which is under the assumption that any The group of candidates who election, or to run without a seats will be re-run next week," said in May." student whose grade point average were correctly disallowed included running mate, and appoint a Vice­ Rifkin. The SG A Constitution When asked whether he thought was under 2.0 automatically came . those students who were found to president later. The Election Board states that a senior senator must be these rules needed to be rewritten, under academic probation, which be on academic probation, as well voted not to honorterrell's contest. a member of the senior class, and Rifkin replied, "without a doubt," is not in fact the case. No student is as one candidate who was not on The SGA constit~tion does not the Election Board interpreted this adding that Vice Chancellor for eligible to run in the SGAelection if the registrar's list of currently specifically address the problem of rule to mean that candidates must Student Affairs Scott Rickard and he or she is under probation. enrolled students. a Presidential candidate's status if have fulfilled senior requirements Director of Campus Activities Rickard called the registrar's The Mike Terrell/ Glenda Bonner his running mate drops out of the when they take office. George Preisinger have consulted office to straighten out the ticket also contested the election. race. Rifkin asserted, however, that "The Constitution was vague on with the Election Board to re-word situation, and told Mike Rifkin to Rickard found that Bonner did not it "might not be explicitly stated, this point," said Rifkin. "-I was not the rules. put all such incorrectly disqualified meet o·ne of the academic but it's implied. It's not fair to the aware that the election rules stated Certain candicJates we.re contestants back on the ballot. By requirements for Vice presidential students to have a President elected that the qualifications for the class mistakenly disallowed because Wednesday evening, all the candidates. According to Rifkin. and not know who they're getting as offices had to be satisfied at the Vice Chancellor Scott Rickard, candidates, except one who had not Terrell contested because he felt he Vice-president. " . beginning of the academic year for who must verify all candidates's supplied a phone number.. had been should be permitted either to find which the candidates served, and qualifications, had been operating reinstated. another running mate before the

The. undersigned members of the UM~C faculty support the followi ng petition to the Presidentofth:e Un ited States concerni ng mil itary .aid to EI Sal vador.

The Catholic Church, US Congressional Representatives Mikulski, Studds and Edgar, former USAmbassadorWhite, and otherfirsthand observers have implicated the government of EI Salvador in crimes ranging from the assassination of religious, union and political leaders to "waging a systematic campaign of terror -against vi Ilagers." We support the January 18,1981 appeal of 76 members of Congress to the President of the United States: "IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE AND HUMANITY AND TO FURTHER THE LONG TERM BEST INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES, WE APPEAL TO YOU TO HALT IMMEDIATELY ALL MILITARY AID TO THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF EL

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PETER H. ARGERSINGER ASSOC. PROF. HISTORY Jo.RGE LAWTo.N VIS. ASSIST. PRo.F. Po.LlT. SCIENCE JAMES ARNQUIST ASST. PROF. AMER STUDIES No.RMAN LEVINE PRo.FESSo.R HISTo.RY KENNETH H. BALDWIN ASo.C. PRo.F. ENGLISH DAVID T. LEWIS PRo.FESSo.R So.CIOLo.GY SUSAN BALDWIN ASST.,FIR. UNIV, RELATlo.NS ACKLYN LYNCH ASSo.C. PRo.F. AF. AMER: STUDIES ANNETTE BARNES ASSOC. PRo.F. PHILOSo.PHY BRIGITTE MAY VIS. ASST. PRo.F. GERMAN WARREN J. BEl:-ASCO ASST. PRo.F. AMER STUDIES MAUREEN J. McCONAGHY ASST. PRo.F. So.Clo.LOGY ALAN BELL ASSOC. PRo.F. SPANISH XERXES MEHTA ASSo.C. PRo.F. THEATER . SARI BENNETT ASST. PRo.F. GEOGRAPHY HqWARD L. MILLMAN ASSo.C. PRo.F. EDUCATlo.N THOMAS L. BENSo.N ASST. PROF. PHILOSPHY ANGELA Mo.o.RJANI ASST. PROF. FRENCH W.E. BETTRIDGE ASSOC. PROF. ENGLISH LESLIE A. Mo.RGAN ASST. PRo.F. So.Clo.Lo.GY PHILIP BRENNER ASST. PRo.F. Po.LlT. SCIENCE Ro.BERT S. o.CHSNER ASST. ENGLISH JUDITH E. BRo.WN ASST. PRo.F. HISTo.RY GLo.RIA C. o.DEN ASSo.C. PRo.F. ENGLISH SHANNON R. BROWN ASSOC. PROF. ECONo.MICS MARY o.'NEILL ASST. PROF.- GERMAN WILLIAM T. BRo.WN ASSOC. PROF. THEATER ED o.RSER ASSOC. J!Ro.F. AMER. STUDIES ROBERT F. BURCHARD PROFESSOR BIOLOGY RICARDO. D. PALo.MARES ASST. PRo.F. SPANISH LOUIS J. CANTORI ASSo.C. PROF.lCHAIRMAN POLIT. SCIENCE DEAN PAPPAS INSTRUCTo.R PHYSICS Jo.AN M. CICCo.NE ASST. PRo.F. EDUCATlo.N . FRED L. PINCUS ASST. PROF. So.CIOLo.GY JERE COHEN ASSOC. PROF. So.Clo.Lo.GY ALICE Ro.BINSo.N ASST. PRo.F. THEATER TERRY Co.BB INSTRUCTo.R THEATER Jo.HN Ro.BINSo.N ASST. PRo.F. MATH PHILIP Co.o.PER ASSo.C. PRo.f7 . . ENGLISH MAY Ro.SWELL ASSo.C. PROF. Mo.D. LANG. Ro.BERT H. DELUTY ASST. PRo.F. PSYCHo.Lo.GY WILLIAM G. Ro.THSTEIN ASSo.C. PRo.F. So.Clo.Lo.GY MARY M. Do.LAN ASST. PRo.F. So.CIAL Wo.RK WENDY SALKIND ASST. PROF. THEATER JEFF DUNCAN ARTISIT IN RESIDENCE DANCE MARYLYNN SALMo.N ASST. PRo.F. HISTo.RY WILLIAM C. EDINGER ASSo.C. PRo.F. ENGLISH CARL S. SCHRAMM ASSo.C. PROF. EDUCATlo.N Do.NALD V. FANDETTI ASSo.C. PRo.F. So.CIAL Wo.RK Ro.N SCHWARTZ LECTURER SPANISH/EDUCTlo.N THo.MAS T. F:IELD ASST. PROF. LlNGUSSTICS & FRENCH Ro.BERT G. SHEDD PRo.FESSOR ENGLISH RENATE FISCHETTI ASSOC. PRo.F Mo.D. LANG. LINDA SHOPES INSTR. AMER. STUDIES GERALD FISH VIS. ASST. PROF. GEo.GRAPHY JACK SINNIGEN ASSo.C. PRo.F. SPANISH LUIS FLo.RES ARTIST Mo.D. LANG. Ro.BERT A. SLo.ANE ASSo.C. PROF. SPAN ISH BABETTE FULTo.N INSTRUCTo.R MATH CATHY Po.PE SMITH TEACHER Co.RPS DAVID GISSELQUIST ASST. PRo.F. ECo.No.MICS STUART SMITH ASST. PROF. MUSIC MARSHA Go.LDFARB ASSOC. PRo.F. ECONo.MICS JAY So.Ko.Lo.VSKI ASST. PRo.F. So.Clo.Lo.GY D.D. HARRISo.N ASSo.C. PRo.F. AF AMER. STUDIES ALAN So.RKIN PRo.F.lCHAIRMAN ECo.No.MICS JACKIE HRABo.WSKI INSTRUCTOR EDUCATlo.N JUDY TAYLo.R ASST. DIR. UNIV. RELATlo.NS EDITH M. JACKSo.N INSTRUCTo.R SPANISH Ro.YE S. TEMPLETo.N INSTRU.CTo.R PHILo.So.PHY DAVID JACo.BS JR. ASSo.C. PRo.F. So.Clo.Lo.GY STEPHEN J. VICCHlo. INSTRUCTo.R PHILo.So.PHY WILLIAM R. Jo.HNSON ASo.C. PROF. EDUCATION HENRY H. WALBESSER PRo.FESSo.R EDUCATlo.N DANIEL P. KEATING ASSo.C. PROF. PSYCHo.Lo.GY CARL S. WEBER ASST. PRo.F. Blo.Lo.GY · TED KIRBY PRo.FESSo.R THEATER KIRSTEN K. WEST ASST. PRo.F. So.Clo.Lo.GY Jo.AN S. Ko.RENMAN ASSo.C. PRo.F. ENGLISH CYRIL M. WITTE ASSo.C. PRo.F. EDUCATION P.J. LANDo.N ASSo.C. PRo.F. ENGLISH BARBARA Wo.LF ASST.DIR. UNIVERSITY RELATIONS LAWRENCE M. LASHER ASSo.C. PRo.F. ENGLISH ELLEN D. YORKE ASSo.C. PROF. PHYSICS

,; .. : .•. . . , ." ... age 6 ., .Retriever Students picket Attorney lectures on abortion by Sherr; Conyers Judith Singleton, attorney and fertilization, but do keep a Baltimore Abortion Rights, lacrosse game speaker for Baltimore Abortion fertilized egg from implanting founded in March 1978, was Rights, Inc., lectured on itself in the uterine wall. originally affiliated with the "Abortion: The Law and Your Although she was not a ware of National Abortion Rights Action Rights" from a 'pro-choice' point any straw polls testing Senators's League (NARAL), but is now a of view, last Wednesday. positions on S. B. 158, Singleton is member organization of the Ms. Singleton remarked on the convinced that the 'right to life" Marylanders for the Right to current status of abortion law, movement is too well-funded a Choose, and the Reproductive both national and local; she also lobbying effort for the pro­ Rights National Network. discussed the various 'human life abortion groups to ignore, saying BAR supports unrestricted right amendments' introduced in the there.is "hardly a comparison" in of access to hospital or clinic Congress in the past several years. the amount of money spent by the abortion, as well as Medicaid Prominent among anti-abortion "pro-life" and "pro-choice" funding for abortion clinic services bills is Senate Bill 158, which groups. for poor women. would define the biological beginning of human life, making the fetus a legal person with civil FROM PAGE 1 rights under the Constitution. Health fee Under the provisions of S.B. Health Service Program) will be According to Sivertson, such a 158, said Singleton, "a woman on call in the dorms. A nurse shot administen;d in a doctor's Photo by Buie could be arrested if there was practitioner will also be on call,. at office might run as high as $35. reasonable cause to think she Six to eight students, including towards students Juan Holcomb, his or her home. Necessary offlce The former center had over 35 minister at arms of the Black Stu­ might get an abortion ... anyone and lab equipment will be more operating hours per week, Guy Cottman, and Cullen. The advising a woman to get an dent Union Curtis DeVance and staff members have admitted to purchased, and structural changes and, had a staff of five full-time abortion could be accused as an in the Health Services's building nurses and a part-time physician. student athlete Zachary Cullen, using the terms "nigger" and "white accessory to murder, and a woman will be made. In the past, "we ha-le formed a picket line at the men's trash". which the students say The present service, with a shorter lacrosse game Saturday to protest who got an abortidn could be had to refer some students out ~,chedule, uses three nurse should be grounds for termination. accused of murder." coach Richard Watts use of a racial because we didn't have the practitioners and one part-time The students gained access to the - Singleton asserted that S.B. 158 slur against Cullen last December. equipment," said Sivertson. physician. Use of the Center is up stands after being stopped by would allow abortion only to Carrying placards. lettered, The fee will be mandatory for 31 percent from Fall 1979, in a Associate Director' of Public Safe­ prevent the death of the mother; "Watts and Stout Must Go!'" and full-time students because "you third of the time and with a third of ty Greg Roepke, who questio,ned neither rape, incest, nor deforming "Dick, your mind is sick!'" the don't have to come here just when the~ staff. that the permit they had acqUlred genetic diseases of the fetus would students addressed spectators on you're sick," explained Sivertson, Sivertson explained that the from his office allowed them into constitute grounds for abortion. In their way to the game and dis­ who also noted the many doctor in the former center sawall the stadium. addition, the bill would make tributed handbills describing education services offered by the the patients, while at present the Spectators at the game turned and IUD's (intra-uterine devices, a Watts and athletic trainer Cindy service. Many students find patients are divided among the stared at the picketers. Watts did mechanical contraceptive) and Stout as rascists. themselves at the Center three nurse practitioners. Nurse not acknowledge the certain forms of low-estrogen birth Watts and Stout have been ac­ unexpectedly, says Sivertson, for practitioners are nurses who have demonstrators. control pills illegal, since these cused of using racial slurs directed example, because of a cut-­ completed a master's degree in contraceptives do not prevent requiring a tetanus shot. nursing.

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201 notes from the . counseling center ANNOUNCING The Counseling Center in the quality of supervision and collaboration with two graduate support provided b-y the students and an undergraduate placement site Itself. It is from the Department of envisioned that most volunteers INTER 4 )P ACT Psychology . is developing a will pe assigned two placements training program for student following core training: the first volunteers. ("apprenticeship"') for one A CAMPUS COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM This program is called I NTER­ semester and the second ACT and is, in essence, a ("internship") for two semesters. parap~ofessional training The "internship" would permit the DESIGNED TO: experience to equip students to volunteer to contribute * Provide practical job-related training and experience for do campus-community service. substantially to the operation of The prime objective of the the particular office. Both students Program is to facilitate the placements could be at the mlme building of community on campus siteand would likely involve four * Expand services and resources of departments and organiza- through volunteer student six hours service per week. The service. "apprenticeship" and "internship" tions The I NTER-ACT Program calls placements are explicitly seen as for a group of volunteers to experiential learning opportuni­ * Match existing service needs with trained resource personnel participate in a core training ties for a program whose prime program involving three main focus is educational. * Foster a sense of community and involvement strands: (a) communication and There are two other aspects of helping skills; (b) outreach and the Program whicharecurrently STUDENTS can train in paraprofessional helping skills, consultation skills: (c) surve"y being explored. One is the research skills. Following development of a grant proposal organizational intervention techniques, communication ski~ls c.ompletion of training volunteers to fund training; the second will be given a placement in a · involves eventually students' arid interview/survey research methods. campus - administrative office, being able to earn academic academic department or in a credits for their placement. In any DEPARTMENTS A~D ORGANIZATIONS can utilize these resource student club, organization, event, the Program will permit persons to promote programs, gather data, expand or improve fraternity or sorority. The selection volunteers ·to obtain excellent of particular offices, departments, training, valuable supervised the delivery of services a~d to meet other identifiable needs. or organizations will depend on (8) work":related experience. and the interests and capabilities of letters of recommendation for 'the volunteers, (b) the blend of entry into the work force or services to be performed, and (c) graduate training. INTER::: ACT-

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One of Pat Canavan's aerial photography students, Karen Atchison took the photo shown here while flying over the Chesapeake.

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This portrait by Mike Martinez is a sensitive and personal view of a friend.

This photograph is by John Faulkner a visual performing arts major. He is interested in pursuing a career in commercial photography.

This is Eric Klinefelter's last semester at UMBC. He will be attending Rochester Institute of Technology starting this fall. He is currently a photography major

The picture above is one of seven from Ben Wong's "arena" series. The last Photo Works page is planned for the last issue of the Retriever. May 13. we hope to continue this feature next semester. The deadline for the last displays will be May 6. Page 10 Retriever, April 2 No Fish wrings out blues with a 18ig Twist' by Patrick Pannella

It's quarter past ten when the Thursday night action finally starts. The lights around the hazy bar grow dim, and a fiery glow finally sets foot on stage, his large hand grips Twist that you want to find out what makes spreads like red dye over the small stage. the microphone. A couple of high-pitched him tick. A mustachioed, curly-haired guitar player piercing squawks ring out from the four horn However old he is, Big Twist still travels the ReviSiting the Ra~ named Peter Special clenches the players who are blasting their shrieking. country singing his own patented. way. "F~el­ microphone and slowly speaks. messages in the background. Just then, ing music", he calls it. The stout smger claims "Good evening, and listen to this," slurs the Twist's narrow eyes close. His chubby hips to hit the night clubs and the "'big concert at the new 1 entertainer. As Special continues, his voice sway and his free hand points toward the shows" 310 days a year. jumps to an enthusiastic shrill. "I'm talking ceiling. "Momma don't like that, but you make a by Barry Meisel about 385 pounds of soul! Let's hear it for "I feel like a man in love, come on baby," little money," he says. Twist adds, howeve~, Big Twist!" the singer bellows. Twist grits his teeth; that money is not the real reason for hiS And from the narrow side door of No Fish drops of sweat fall from his round, puffy­ singing. "It's a living, but I love peorle Fans of art films in the Baltimore area have generally had two choices. They would visit Today - national blues entertainers perform cheeked face. "Ohhhhh, come on baby!" enjoying it. And if you like it, ~ou are .goll~g at this downtown Eutaw Street hotspot With every syllable he sounds, this burly to do a good job of it. Yeah, If you hke It, one of several area colleges which hold during the week - he tumbles in, clad in an Chicago blues singer keeps on a com in'. you'll do it." weekly film "festivals", including U~BC, egg-white three piece deal and a Chicago Later, in an interview between sets, you get Has he lost a step or two over the years? Uohns Hopkins, and the Maryland InstItute. gangster hat to boot. Big Twist bursts up the nerve to ask him how it feels. You ask Well, if he has, he sure does not appear to 'or they could go to the Charles Theater. through the sardine-packed crowd like a him how it feels moving on that tiny stage show it. Heck, he intends to stick in this Well, now there is a third choice. A new film 'theater has opened up inside Charles Center charging bull moving in for the kill. When he and shaking those big old hips. You tell Big business for a little while longer. "I don't think I have much .·longer," says (North), called the To~er The~ter, which Twist. He peers around at the members of his Iwill be devoted to runnlOg art films. band, The Mellow Fellow. "Only about 150 Their current offering is a first-run French more years!" :film by Alain Resnais called Mon Oncle 'AmeriqUe. It deals with the efforts of three And he chuckles; laughter engulfs the smoke-filled room. Twist says that he has a people to maintain a semblance .of ~ontrol 'over their lives in the face of the mdlfferent couple of questions for U M BC. He wants to ~ frequently inimical world of work. Their know why he was not invited to sing at the ~nd (problems are exacerbated by the fact campus. He looks disappointed. As he slow­ t~at rtheir behaviors.; often have more to do With ly stands up to waddle out and perform his their situations when they were growing up second act he smiles and says, "just tell than with the situations they are attempting everyone I'll make a circle back through to deal with in the now. here. I am sure of it." The idea that the world of work is a rat race He shuffles back to the tiny wine-colored is not new. Neither is the idea that un­ stage. The crowd cheers in -approval. Twist .conscious force motivate human bebaviol" snatches the mike and away he wails: A one What makes this movie unique is its fresh and a two, and a one, two·, three, four! Baby, approach to these problems. . don't you go! The beginning of the film summanzes the A minute later, he cackles, "MY name? I'm childhood of each ofthe principals: an urban ano just plain ole Twist!" girl whose parents were Communist, a farm Plopped comfortably in a chair about four boy who was raised by devout Catholics, and ~ feet across from you, Twist gapes in your direction. H is face flashes a bulldog grin, and he leans forward. By now, he is only two feet away. Tension has just reached a peak. . "Son, don't you know anything? Have you Masochist~ ever heard about the birds and the bees?" he Photo by Meisel breathes in a serious manner. "It's a feeling No Fish Today you get on stage. And if it don't happen, son, Beantown rac« CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 by Bryan Denson by Robert Hart Werfington You finish the Boston Marathon and em, wander incoherently into the arms of a col. IN iRE A8'iE~CE or- I\ER -r .. E 'DE: ",e~SE. 'PLEAOS: ~or GUU:TI( 'Q¥ llE:A.E .. ~ 0 F It.)- t4u~&At.)', ",S ~.L ,¥.AGtlE.$IUM, TM.£ 'P~OS~cuTIOIll WILL SKow. frantic official who pushes your lifeless frame ex~ ~t-l~ ~EH"''l/I()R. W~ ~EEL "m5 Of' 'W&RI'INGTON.-mE -rNROOGH OAIE HUAlDRf:P say ""41. -~AT" InS \I4~6c -'(E... tl 1'l.oT through a narrowing chute that leads into the JO~ Of "'£$'I)\~G OVER. -m, EY'E-WITAJ ESS E S AAJD 'PIIOTb- -041.'" it... 1( TWo HOuR.~ 0 F ' basement garage of the Prudential Center. my Cou~T fAU.~(1"Oft s-e UhlElC- GR~PI{S A SWO~t.I CONI=6Sl/0iJ 'l>ET,t.,\..E'I> E.,cE CUTIOIll, It-l 1'\.I.'NeD ~EA~) To t»RI",,-e~~ "The Pru," your landmark, your quest as you of( AND ~ EVEAJ .sontE C~cL.us/ri "TI'.\S l-IoHRID CRIIU&, \~ CLEARLY CA-nl61l~& t>~. C~ERI£. wound from the rural fringe of Bosto'n tothe infl ~(DeAJCE. il\Ar "T\l6 Ac.cUSED !'lOT SA~ E: 'BE.\i"VloR! 000# ... zeE l-IoMMeR, NO? heart of the city, means only one thing to a seri IS GUll-TY! I spent maratho'ner: it's over! And so it seems 17- anticlimatic to finally reach THE END and staJ be treated like cattle while simutaneously 1 sidestepping puddles of Gatorade and vomit. To add insult fo injury, a handful of pubescent cheerleader-types continually }. harrass you with "Perrier, yogurt, Perrier. .. " Runnersicontinue to groan and some are S crying as you are pushed; shoved, and finally dragged into the entrails ofThePru. Outside t and above are the staggering booms of M several enormous drums set up by agroup of ac E WAKE uP i;;) ' oriental types and the ocean-like roar of the no A ~ thousands of tightly packed spectators who the I ~ouU~CUL~«E1V H oj.. , W \. 1 - cSLOB/ watch the event with an eerie mixture of Ea ~ ~ , sadism and admiration. And still the strident ab, I ..... 1 ~~ ~ "Perrier, yogurt, Perrier .... " yet L '

by Jay Grubb

The signs of spring are everywhere, shower / And she wasn't to keen on me flowers, birds, student demonstrations, hay sharing/ She came out well after an fever. ... and new releases. So sell your hour / And by that time I was past caring." roommate's books (or your roommate), and Also of note is the catchy hooks of "Daily take a look at some of these: Records", "I could be losing you/I could be coming through/ I'm unaware of any Brian Eno-David Byrne: My Life In The jifference", and of course the wonderful pop Bush Of Ghosts Sire of "You Better, You Bet" this year's true-to­ A few years ago, Eno was hailed as one of life love song. the leading edges of progressive music, a strange and imaginative rebel. So now that a lot of groups have caught up, Eno has ~ Race become the establishment. Oh, irony, you're never far away. Some have gone so far as to accuse him of being a has-been in search of relevancy. -ower Thea ter Well My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts shows that Eno is not out of surprises quite yet. Together with David Byrne of the Talking Heads, they blend heavy churning Mrican rhythms with the mechanical experimentalism of new wave. What the hell does' that all mean? It means taking the voices off religious broadcasts, call-in talk shows, Algerian Muslims chanting the The Who-Face Dances, Warner Bros. First a Qu'ran, etc ... manipulating them all around, lesson in relativity. An average meal at a and backing it up with throbbing music. gourmet restaurant is a hell of a lot of better What next? than the best thing McDonald's can scrape up. Now you'll understand that when I say Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles/Sire much of Face Dances is just average, that's for the gourmet Who (this would be a Mixing an eerie dreamlike quality with a masterpiece for REO). raw rock and roll edge might strike you as The sound here is an extension of Who Are difficult, but Echo has pulled it off. What You and Townshend's solo album Broken comes out is a hypnotic !'ower that has be~n Glass. But the trouble is that the described as frightening. The tunes introspection of those efforts becomes so Brian Eno alternately rock and writhe from anger to personal on this album that the listener is left anguish. scra~ching his or her head. One is not sure just Lyrically, th album is pure angst. There is who is being accused in "Did You Steal·My Rox-Self titled Boardwalk Pride with its, "Father said/ Brother Money", is it us? Let's keep this simple, Rox is about as said! Make us all proud of you/ Do There is a lot to be happy with anyway. interesting as changing your underwear, and something we can't do!" Then there ~J s, the Many songs have arresting melodies and just as imaginative. What we have here is yet digust in Monkeys, "Boys are the interesting instrumentation even if they another bunch of studio musicians copying same / Brains in their pockets / Girls are the sometimes lack full power. And then there everyone from Crack the Sky to The Knack, same/ Knock it and rock it." are the "tru~ Who's". There is "Another with all the zest and excitement of American t Tower Theater will present Baltimore While not immediately catchy, a couple Tricky Day" with it's message "This is no cheese. audiences with alternative art films listens will have you wondering right along social crisis/ Just another tricky day for you", "Okay, there is "Nervous Energy," a cut ther boy whose father was a doctor. In with vocalist Ian McColloch, "Is this the or the masturbation saga "How Can You Do that pushes along with relentless tension; but blues' I'm singing?" It Alone", "Back at the flat my girl sat in the what happened to the rest of the album guys? CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 putting holes in their soles

but to run 26 consecutive miles at that pace ... ~ not all it's cracked up to be An estimated 3 million people turned out to watch this year's event. The climate was perfect. The weather was 44 degrees, the sky was overcast and the field was loaded with otional rainbow. A close friend on your The Boston Marathon is the biggy. It's the world-class runners. So why couldn't last tege track team will wear the ghostlike only marathon in the country that requires a year's event have been so nice? )ression only a marathoner knows. He will qualifying time to toe the line. It's the oldest Last year was my first legal entry at Boston he's never run worse, "I just didn't have it, race, having begun in 1897, and and the first time I finished there. In J975, legs wouldn't respond after the hills." And it's the most/prestigious. ,This while a junior in high school, I lied about my ;ourse he is referring to THE HILLS, the years "race, the 85th running of the age on the application-you have to nineteen lmous Heartbreak Hill which is actually a event held on Patriot's Day Monday, will be to compete-and entered the race. es of three upgrades that hit you at about remembered most as the day The King was Unfortunately 1 pulled a muscle in my foot 20 miles, sort of a slap in the face at that uncrowned. two weeks before the contest and hobbled toa ~e of the game. Bill Rodgers, "Boston Billy," a native of .standstill at about fifteen miles. So last year I ~ he majority.offriends will stand, or lay, in Beantown and American record holder in the decided to go for it after having set a PR of 2:39 in the Maryland Marathon. It's amazing how a runner's levels of leartbreak Hill lies like a lumpy, open-mouthe~ aspiration wane as the temperature rises. Hot weather is the scourge of marathoners. !erpent prepared to regurgitate any runner as ill­ When the mercury climbs above 50 degrees the core temperature of a runner soars to an rained as I. alarming figure. In fact, if the weather is good for the spectators, in the 80's perhaps, frele of commiseration. But whoa, there is marathon, was soundly defeated by the same J the runners will suffer. In fact, some have commiseration. It's like some weird group man he crushed in the final miles of the '79 l even died from heat stroke. The 1980 Boston rapy where no one listens to anybody else. race. Rodgers, American record holder since Marathon was a scorcher. It was also the ch members ofthe circle mutters to himself 1975 where he surprised the world with his fourth Boston win for Bill Rodgers, although )ut how his race unfolded. No one listens, startling 2:09:55-at Boston- finished a his time was not scorching. they all nod and reflect on their own dissapointing third. Second place was earned To run a marathon you have to ish. They might as well be talking to the by Craig Virgin, perhaps America's greatest occasionally do long, slow runs of up to 20 lis, yet the spirit of the occassion, the middle distance / long distance runner ever. miles (or at least more than fifteen) to nraderie of the FINISH allows them to The winner, T oshihiko Seko, a 24 year accustom your legs to covering the ground ltinue. "Didjever have one of those days," student from Japan erased Rodgers' time of for long periods of time. Since my best time is ~ will ask. And you look a way because you 2:09:27 (the time he established in the '79 a 2:39 it'was,necessary that 1 take 5 or 10 of w what it's like to run a bad race and you race) by a mere second. His time of 2:09:26 these long, slow distance (LSD) runs. So why a't really care to discuss it. And then stands as the fourth fastest marathon in the didn't I? Well, after the Maryland Marathon heone u_t~ers the real question: "Why did it history of the world. For all you math­ (December 7) I was leveledior months. Still, 1 fe to happen at Boston?" By the tone ofthe oriented folks, that breaks down t04:56.4 per continued to train daily, although my longest rd Boston you know exactly what he mile. That, m'friends, is flying! Few people run was about ~ht miles which is considered ans. can ruri a mile that fast. still fewer can run six, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Page 12 Retriever Masochists p~tting holes in their sales FROM PAGE 11 by most marathon aficianados as lightweight this would happen. the weather warmed: my the pleasure of competing against. Finns, Framingham is a small town located at training. sissy stuff. I was prepared to run fast goals altered. Japanese, Brits, Kiwis. Swedes, Bermudans about the six and a half mile point. The for short distances. but according to a chart I It was 67 degrees when I picked my spot in and. - God help us! - New Jer:seyites filled the crowds grow deeper along the sides of the came across the day before the race my the roped oil section marked 551-950. My road. road. I managed to pickUp, from the hands weekly (perhaps weakly) mileage would number. ~76. meant that of the 4000 entrants We were a mile out when the ruck cleared of a little girl wearing a Snoopy "Joe Cool" prepare me for a breakdown somewhere I was seeded ~76th. I sat in the sun which and I found some running room. The time T-Shirt. two large chunks of ice which. when around 17 miles. which is where Heartbreak ~Iowly and deliberately zapped me of for the first mile was slow, around 6:30. held in the hands, serve as terrific coolants. Hill lies like a lumpy open-mouthed serpent ~trength and forced me to yawn.l realized which was due largely to the fact that a The frigid water runs down the wrists as it prepared to regurgitate any runner as numbs the palms. For the remainder of the illtrained as l. Somehow I maintained terrific race I continually searched out small. un­ confidence, despite the overwhelming odds On the side of the road stood a Japanese video crew armed children in the crowd and ransacked t ha: favored a terrific die long before the any cooler they had to obtain ice. Prudential Center. I even entertained taping a group of swift Nippons running at my side. The pace continued to slow: I went out easy thoughts of running my best time. Hah! and kept downshifting. it was going to be a In no way could I ever be considered a what was happening and decided to find number of sloggers had ducked under the long day. I suppose, retrospectively, that good. or even fair. hot weather runner. I some shade under a nearby tree. I strode ropes ahead of me and their pace caused me there was a degree of fatigue involved and 01 always croak in the final four miles of any across the narrow macadam street that to slow up. dodge. and weave all over the course there are several small upgrades that marathon where the temnerature isabove60. '~crves to start the 4000 official and an equal roadway. The pace continued at its rise before reaching Natick, the ten mile I have a stock answer for anyone who asks :imount of"outlaw" entrants. A row of Port­ pedestrian shunk until about three miles. point. This suburban village is headquarters what kind of weather I prefer to race in. I tel. A-Pots stole my attention, so I wandered That's when my feet began a monolgue: for madness. It is here that those ear- them the weather should be. cold enough to over to take a last minute pit-stop. When I splitting. crazy Bostonians have their day. A freeze my jawshutand numb my forearms. In emerged-from the throne of self-evaluation I "I say, Bryan old egg, perhaps we could hillbilly band played on the roof of a short, I like it cold. But, some like it hot. noticed sweat dripping freely from the mesh pack it in today, hmmmmmm? I mfl,an hardware store. A runner from Illinois. who Frank Shorter. 1972 Olympic marathon jerseys of my fellow harricrs. The conversa­ really old boy, the temperature is rising had been dogging me for several miles, kept champion. loves the heat and humidity. It tion my ego and my rational mind had while every moment and it's liable to be in the pointing out pretty girls. "Look at that one," was a warm day in August~ when he rounded in the cool confines of the Port-A-Pot is 80's by the time we're halfway 'round he'd say as his pointer-finger shot past my the track in Munich his bushy mustache amusing: town. Personally old chap, I'd just as nose. "Thank God for halter tops," he kept drawfing his scrawny frame. and captured soon pack it in than get all blistered up. . shouting. "Look at the chicks, look at the "Listen, ego of' buddy, this is crazy! ,The the gold medal. Unfortunately Frank and I By the way, these smelly Adidas you've foxes," he continued. A mantra for two more kid ain't gonna get no PR today. No way, have contrasting physiologies. wrapped around me, my word! And this miles: "Foxes, chicks, halters. foxes. chicks. man. Look, I tell ya what, instead of isn't the first time .... " shooting for 2:37 let's go for 2:45. I mean halters ..... We had gone through 10 miles in look, suppose we get heat prostration or 63: 15 which meant my early pace had settled Hot weather IS the something equally ugly. Brain cells fry in Perhaps in deference to the whining of the into about a 6:20 per mile pace. I was slowin~ that kinda atmosphere. Hell, we might feet I picked it up slightly. ever so careful not down. Even so,1 began to pull away from m} scourge of marathoners. end up getting spoon fed some sort of to push too hard at this early stage of the girl-watching adversary from Illinois. he creamy oatmeal in a hospital. race. Had I opted to charge ahead, probably stopped at Wellesly College just uJ: dramatically increasing the tempo, I would the road, an all girls school that turns out if' When I awoke on Patriot's Oay in the BANG! have been subject to one of three things. One, full force. Marlboro Holiday Inn. just four miles from The noisy mob of nearly 10,000 runners I might have doubled over with heat-induced By the time I reached the beautiful, scream­ the start in t.he hamlet of Hopkinton, I raced swarmed down the narrow suburban lane diaphragm cramps. Two, I might have run ing co-eds at Wellesly who line the street ir to the window to check the-weather. After that leads out of Hopkinton whose town out of energy long before 1 actually did. Or front of their dorms ten deep, I figured J tlinging open the drapes I saw a sunny sky population is roughly ~OOO. The crowd was could realistically expect a time in the hig~ with cool gusts blowing dust in little rivulets deafening. On the side of the road stood a two-forties. on the parking lot. The temperature was 50 Japanese video crew taping a group of swift degrees. I would have preferred 40 or even 30 Nippons running at my side. Elbows were degrees. but this would do. Perhaps I could Ilying. one runner went down. The mob was Some runners will think of still get that PRo But. I should have known the most international group I've ever has ice cream or sex or both. r------~------. work at .your local Speedy Muffler King shoP· I rolled through the 20 mile point before servwce . fon with other eoupons. • Not good on sale prices or In conJunc I really even realized I had been climbing Heartbreak Hill. to show you how numb - and dumb - I was. My 20 mile split of 2:m~ . meant I hadn't slowed too much. If I could hang on I would finish with about a 2:4~, not earth-shaking but not an entire loss of face considering the heat. which was now close to ~O. I had run 12 miles further than any workout in the preceeding 4 months. At the top of the hill. stood Boston College where a • Gu.o.AANTEEO ESTlIMTES -.,....- • MUfFLERS t_t""-- tr'OI"'~;;-::~l.E1\ mob of stoned and drunken rock 'n rollers • ~O( A85QRIIERS ~~~=::.~~-:: • w.cPHERSON STRUTS :;::;:"", ,.\ three, I might have simply run faster. The chased frisbee's in front of two enormous • OQWESTIC.o.NO fOREIGN c.o.R sPECI.o.USTS odds were not in my favor. speakers that blared Pink Floyd's new The five mile point loomed ahead. It was album. The Wall. here that the first official aid station is set up. The twenty mile point of the marathon is Thousands of cups of water and electrolyte often called the wall. It is here that many solutions sit in sterile looking cups atop marathoners begin to feel like they're run­ several tables. Unfortunately the hordes 01 ning in sand. The physiological implication I runners ahead of me made it impossible stop is simple: The human body can only hold on I without losing precious time pushing to glycogen (en erg·y stored by eating car­ \hrough the bodies to grab a drink. I spied bohydrates) for about 20 miles of continuous I my time 01'31: to and pressed on. That's when running. In addition to being mentally zonk­ I the stomach. which was on BROIL. spoke ed out. the body begins to slowly - and RIPUIDFF. up: sometimes not-so-slowly - fall into a state of I serious oxygen debt. This feels something IThat's right. We're inviting you to rip off one of our student I "Sir, I think we ought to begin looking for like drinking a six-pack of beer, holding your Idiscount coupons now displayed on your school bulletin board. a spectator with some water or ice. I breath and running up and down several % Perhaps we could get a drink and cool Ilf you're a student, it entitles you to an immediate 10 discountl flights of stairs. I! can get extremely ugly. In me down. It might make us a/l a little addition. you start to get a strange humming Ion shocks, mufflers, and all exhaust systems repair work at I more comfortable. Incidentally, do you in your ears and images sort of turn to black ISpeedy Muffler King. I suppose we could change .... er, uh adjust and whitc. The body is searchmg out the the 2:45 goal? I'm admittedly no expert, II If none is available simply bring in this ad and we'll give you thel muscles for energy. finding none. and literal- but I feel that a time of 2:50 might be a same 10% discount. more reasonable projection. It's just a CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 I Do it soon, though. This offer is for a limited time only. thought mind you, don't be alarmed." 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Towson Baltimore don't play it. If you are not sincere, son. don't sound one day that would eventually change 1532 E. Joppa Road 4110 W. Northern Pkwy. play it!" his life. He heard the voice of a blues singer. 301 296-3723 301 764-6630 Twist rests back in his chair: his eyes glow "He scared the living shit out of me when I ill when you ask him about his past. He is a big first heard him," remembers Twist. "I I Baltimore Glen Burnie I 6227 Belair Road 1440 Govenor Ritchie man in Chicago now. but it all started when wondered what the hell he was talkingabout. 301 444·1556 301 761·0450 he was a kid growing up in Terre Haute, I was not sharp enough to catch it." I Indiana. His father played in a gospel band, In his traditonal blues fashion. Big Twist's I Baltimore and Twist started with that spiritual flavor. deep sandpaper voice continues to sound as 5635 Bait. Nat'! Pike At the age of 13. Twist (known as Larry if it would bring Sachmo back from the dead, 1I ______~ 301 788-2900 Nolan back then) heard a sharp gnawing grunting with a rhythmic joy in his heart. April 29, 1981 Page 13 . Masochists putting In their soles FROM PAGE 12 ly eating itself. The tissues are devoured, it monitor their bodies for signs of fatigue. If and this constricts the diaphram, thus caus­ when I do, all you freaks at the 20 mile point hurts. So there you are, a living cannibal with they feel a slight twinge in a quadracep they ing nasty spasms. With a half mile to go I better watch out, because the droopy looking no one to feed upon but yourself, and you've might adapt their stride to a shorter or longer forget about the cramps. Time to pick it up, I guy that yelled" Drugs, Sex, Rock 'n Roll," is still got six more n.:les to go. reach. So essentially they are always trying to thought. coming your way! At Boston, and no~here else on earth, the relax. Somewhere along the line I learned to The finish is downhill. I saw the unoffficial runners get really vocal. One fellow in apack associate. I learned to distribute the pain. time clock ahead but I couldn't focus that 1 continually drifted in and out of kept through watery eyes. Two runners were just shouting to the crowds: "let's have some Somewhere around 23 ahead with 300 meters to go. They were encouragement," which was always mt!t with about to lock arms in an intentional ue, a a thunderous ovation and wild shrieks. It ~iles it all came crashing Mexican Standoff. I figured if I couldjust get was at the top of the hill, at the 20 mile point past them I could pick up an additional 2 with long-haired frisbee throwers scrambling In. places. They were smiling and waving to the all around and listening to Pink Floyd that I crowd when I jumped them. My time looked decided to give it a go. "Drugs. Sex, Rock 'n Why not let the entire body ache instead of like 2:51 and some change as I crossed the Rock," I screamed. My long blond hair rode just the calves and thighs? I suppose that finish line. behind me as the freaks went bananas. They sounds like pretty warped logic. It probably After a year of reflection and having seen had found a fellow crazy amongst the is. two of my friends, Bob McCubbin and Larry Stone, finish 'n 2:35 and 2:58 respectively in runners. It was beautiful. At nearly every marathon in the country, "T~e marathon is a very boring race." Somewhere around 23 miles it all came and there are hundreds every year, a meat this year's ra.::e de~ '~pd to wait until I am in Emil Zatopj:k, Olympic Marathon Champion, crashing in. The experienced marathoner wagon drives along the course picking up good shape before I go up there again. And 1952 exp~cts that it will happen sooner or later but injured runners, tired runners, and runners he prolongs it. who are fed up and; or humiliated and retire There are two ways to run marathons. You from. the race. At Boston there is no meat can associate or disassociate the pain. Dis­ wagon, so even if I wanted to quit I couldn't. FROM PAGE 11 association is easy at first, but becomes You get an empty feeling in your gut when Art film dreadful around the 18 - 20 mile point. To you realize this. disassociate you just think about anything Two miles from home and I'm overcome rapid-fire succession, each person narrates While she was growing up, she had been an but running. Some runners will think of ice with diaphragm cramps. I bend over for a his/ h;r own life from birth to the time they avid fan of the French film star Jean Gabin. cream or sex or both. The best runners second to stretch the stomach but it does very leave home and set out on their own, where At critical points in the film, brief vignettes associate with the pain. They don't enjoy little to alleviate the hot pain under the rib we pickt up the story. Much care was of Gabin are flashed on the screen to remind pain, they aren't massochists. They learn to cage. When I get tired I begin to lean over obviously taken in the construction of these us how she has unconsciously modeled backgrounds, and they are fascinating in herself after him. If this had been done heavy-handedly, it ~~~I111111~~~------lltheir own right...... Interspersed with these narratives, a French could have easily degenerated into satire of vloral scientist discusses how animals crude farce. Supported by an excellent cast people learn to adapt to their unique which includes Gerard Depardiue, Resnais tions. manages to bring if off beautifully. We are then thrust into the dramas of the Although the "head" of the film is un­ lives of the three characters. We are remind­ deniably the theories of the French ed throughout, both visually and with brief behaviorist , the "heart" of the film is the comments from the behavi.ori.st, ..how the drama of the lives of the three characters, principals' current behavior relates to their which are treated with compassion. Neither past situations. the "head" nor the ··heart" is given ascendan­ Nicole Garcia, for example, plays the girl. cy - a proper balance is achieved. After a brief fling with radical politics, she Mon Onc/e d'Amerique is a powerful, takes up acting and. has an affair with the challenging film. irector of the French national radio station.

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Stickers whip Loyola, lose to Hobart by Leon Clark came back with four unaswered The University of Maryland­ the tight, suspense filled game the goals, three coming in the first Baltimore County lacrosse team thousand fans saw until the last quarter. The Retrievers rallied to faced two crucial opponents this three minutes. score six more goals in the second past week, beating Loyola College For the Retrievers, Jay Robertson quarter to take an 8-5 advantage to (MD), 13-7 and losing to Hobart had 4 tallies; whil~ Joe Baldini the locker room at half time. College, 11-7 at home before a scored one goal and had two feeds. In the second half, the Retrievers wind-chilled crowd of 1,000. Marty Cloud and Dave Quattrini defense shut down the Greyhound In the Hobart game, the two had a goal each, while Quattrini attack for 23 minutes as they teams used an overpowering also had an assist. advanced the lead to 10-5. The defense as both teams were held in Hobart outshot the Retrievers, Greyhounds scored two more check at 3-3 at the half. 34-46. Faceoff man Bill Slipperly before the final gun and the Matt Christian, UMBC goalie, controlled the tempo of the game Retrievers three more made the had an outstanding first half in the for Hobart as they won 14 of the 22 final, 13-7. net; he saved 16 Hobart shots on faceoffs. For the Retrievers, Dave Photo by Hall goal. Guy Van Arsdale, the Hobart Christian finished the game with Quattrini scored three goals; while Dave Quattrlni and Scott Hundertmark assault Loyola goalie, played an excellent first half 21 saves; while Van Arsdale Craig Linthicum, Tom Thibeault, in saving- nine Retriever shots on finished with 13. Joe Baldini, and Jay Robertson goal. For Hobart, Jeff Knaus led the each scored two. Around the Loop In the second half, the two teams way with 4 goals and one assist; Faceoff man Joe Gold controlled equally tough as they played to 7-7 while Bill Slipperly had two goals the ball for the Retrievers, as he deadlock with 13 minutes to play in and one assist. Marty Wood stole 17 out of25 draws. In the nets, Dribble 'til you drop the fourth quarter. added two more ~oals alon~ with Matt Christian had a fine day with Hobart, then, scored to break the Lar.ry Grimaldi 's~ tw.o ~oals: 14 saves. Loyola's goalie, Steve tie 8-7. The score remained that way McCloskey, did an outstandingjob The ITK, Iota Tau Kappa Association of UMBC staged a 24-hour until the three minute mark; hi ' an earlier game during the with 17 saves. marathon this past weekend to benefit The March of Dimes. It was run and Hobart took control with three week. the Retrievers down Loyola Tl¥ victory over Loyola, the one­ gun from 7:00P.M. Saturday until 5:00A.M. Sunday. Fromthenuntilthe quick goals. Or rather Jeff Knaus College, 13-7 with superb second ranked team in Division II,.8a ve the end of the marathon, the pace steadily slowed as cramps and fatigue took took control as he scored two and fourth quarter shooting. Retrievers a 7-2 record; while the their toll. Iota Tau Kappa hopes to raise about 200 dollars for The March unassisted goals and assisted on the The Retrievers grabbed the lead loss to Hobart, high-ranked in of Dimes. other goal. early as Craig Linthicum and Dave Division III, dropped their record The three goals made the final _ Quattrini scored on unassisted to 7-3 and may have hurt their 'Track shorts score 11-7, but this does not reflect goals for a 2-0 lead. But Loyol~ playoff chances. UMBC unoffic:ally won the Delmarva relays over Towson, Salisbury, and Washington College on a windy Saturday. The meet was not scored. The Masonl Dixon Conference is tough in track as evidenced by Mount St. Mary's Gudmond Olsen winning the decathalon at the Penn Relays. A discu thrower from Gallaudet set a world deaf record with a throw of 167'8" at the Mason/ Dixon Relays. A hammer thrower was killed last week in the midwest when struck by an errant implement. GOOD HUMOR ' CORPORATION 1932 GREENSPRING DRIVE TIMONIUM, MARYLAND 21093

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\ _ ~prll 29, 1981 Men's b-ba// 8th Wonder takes intramural championship

by Leon Clark Intramural basketball, in the Demby scoring points on the court pressure," said Isaac Ryder, champs, to win the title 39-32. To In the Division III finals, the past, was owned by the likes of offensive boards and Mallory Martin L. King High graduate, get there, the Hillbillies went 4-3 in DoDads battled the Ludes to win Frank Wiley, Jay Moore, Howie scoring on the medium range Sammy Demby summed up the the regular season and beat Run the title, 48-41. Both teams finished the season with 8-1 records; with Kane, Enos Hill and others. But jumpers. attitude of the freshman team best and Gun in the semi-finals, 39-36. the DoDads beating the Griffins, now it's time to move over .for the Midway through the second half, when he said, "not at all, I love the­ Little Feet made it to the finals by 55-54 to get to the finals and the 8th Wonder, as they beat an the lead increased to nine as the pressure." going 6-1 on the season and beating Ludes beating the Muffsters, 46-37 experienced Celtic team, 73-57 two Wonders started pulling away with In Division II, the Hillbillies the Warriors 41-36 in the semi­ weeks ago for the Division I ful court defense. When Steadman outlasted Little Feet, the defending finals. to advance to the finals. intramural championship. followed a missed shot with a The all-freshman team, except slam/ dunk to make the score 59-48, for one, was led by the 25 point the Wonder looked like shoe-ins. performance of Sam Demby. Also A late surge byTommy Harrison contributing big to the win were kept the Celtics in it for a while but Students enjoy the sword Bernard Mallory and Bruce the Wonder prevailed as Booze Steadman with 19 and 18 points continued to feed Steadman the respectively. - - ball inside. When the game ended, t.he final score was 73-57 and it marked the and the bow in PE class first time a mainly all-freshman team had won the Division I title. compatible with my idiosyncratic by Carol Lewis "We got behind early, because we nature." (8th Wonder) were walking the ball Now attracted to the sport, some With faces covered with wire up on defense and standingaround. students intend to continue fencing mesh and upper bodies covered At the beginning of the game, the The Celtics were shooting hot and once the class concludes. Others Celtics came out shooting hot, as we were taking one shot and getting with soft protective padding, they hit 11 out of 14 from the floor no offensive rebounds," sc:.id Fred members of the fencing class express disappointment over the to take a commanding 25-13 bulge. Booze, a graduate of Southern voluntarily lunge and guard active elimination of the U M BC fencing A few minutes later, the score was High School. foils and saber. Once used to de­ team. 28-13 for the Ce1tics' biggest lead of "We started getting the fast fend fretting damsels and bruised If fencing is not enticing enough, the game, 15. breaks," said Mallory, a Laurel egoes, the purposely blunt end of the bows and arrows' of archery are With ten minutes remainiRg in High School graduate, who took the foil, saber, and epee are now ready for target practice. Just star­ the first half, Fred Booze came into control of the game at one point. instruments that implements grace, ting this section of the class, par­ play point guard. The lead started "Fred Booze started getting the skill, and prescision. ticipants are enthusiastic about to dwindle fast. The Celtics called a ball into Bernard and I and what we Thought provoking as chess, and learning the same skills that time out, when the lead was cut to missed Sammy Demby cleaned up as strenuous as running, fencing William Tell and Cupid executed nine, trying to stop the momentum off the boards," said Bruce satisfies the desire for intense so well. of the Wonder. Steadman, a Southern High physical and mental activity. Having already worn the required But at the half, the Celtics graduate also. Cielo Perdomo, freshman and uniforms of the high school gym would only have a meager four The mainly all-freshman team champion of the Tuesday­ class, the thought of having to take point lead. put it together to win the Division I Thursday class, speake. of the another Gym class breaks the spirit In the second half, it was the title. and it took a team effort. sport of fencing. "After one minute classmates, Perdomo was attracted of many. If utilized, courses of this Wonder, .who continued with the "Mike Withers helped us with the of fencing, you're all sweaty as if to the class because of its uni­ nature make sweating worth your hot hand. Mallory and Demby defense and told us about the full you have run a mile: It is a complex queness. while. Suddenly the thought of not continued to hit the boards; with sport," Like most of her receiving credit is menial when the '1. - Another classmate, Marlene Levin has another reason for tak­ touch of slender .metal presses ing the class. "I. thought it would be against your opponet'schest, while another point is scored.

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Please make an appointment at the further info. contact Prof. Sandra Guitar for sale, Yamaha FG 335 Part-time 4-7 pm Mon-Thurs, Sat Student Ministries will meet on Counseling Center or call ext. 2472. Herbert, AD 726 who will attend this Brand new with case. Best offer call ·10-2, $4.50/hr. plus bonuses, Thurs., 7:30 pm, Susquehanna Hall Mathematics Colloquium, Professor May 4 meeting, or Prof. Harold Levy, Ed, evenings, 730-3242. Canvassing. Call between 9-2 at rm. 058. Everyone is welcome. Peter Sellers, Department of AD 60!=! 664-8000 ask for Jean. U,S, Unlimited Inc. full or part­ Christian Fellowship meets Mathematics, the Rockefeller PROGRESSIONS: Robert Bly Wed. time sales or marketing experience Wednesdays, 1-2 p.m. AC 015 University, Fri., May 1, 4 pm - Room April 29, 8 pm Recital Hall. Dear Lisa, helpful but not necessary only one EM 103, "A Fundamental Alogorithm Thanks so much for doing my The Outdoor Club meets every Notice ' to Faculty, Staff and product; this is notAMWAYordoorto For Pattern Detection In Genetic Midsummer Nights Dream proud. Monday in AC 011 at 1:00 pm. GRADUATING SENIORS: Remem door; call after 6 pm, 655-7786. Sequences", Refreshments, 3:30 p.m. ber the May 1st deadline for Your singing was stupendous and The Women's Union will meet - Room 401C purchasing tickets to Con Grads my birthday was fabulous as a Part-time Make calls from our office. Wednesdays at 1:00 in the Women's The Malcolm Braly Writing Prize Elation. For more info. call x2498. result You are a "Gem" All shifts available. $3.50 per hour, Resource Center, EM 210. submission deadline has been Love, plus bonus. 664-2365 . 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May 6, 1981 May 8, 1981 U.S. and African Relations BUCAF-IN-THE-QUAD Speaker: Dick Clark~ Senior Fellow Carts and crafts displays, plants, Time: 2 p.m. and Diaspora foods and more) Location: Library 2nd Floor 12-4 p.m. Reception to follow The Black Theatre Workshop Production May 7, 1981 (consisting of three one-act plays) POETRY CORNER 7 p.m. Time: 7 p.m. Fine Arts Recital Hall Location: Lecture Hall IV BUCAF DANCE 11 p.m. - 3 a.m. Hillcrest Bldg. A~mission: Students $1 and Non-students $1.50 For additional information, please call 455-2495 ... t ," ••

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Faculty views this will happen immediately. As long as social and humanitarian concerns. What cutting tax rates doesn't c~use sufficient would be the main features of a "liberal" increases in tax revenue to finance govern­ supply-side strategy? ment spending, we will face larger budget Laffer curve fails deficits and stronger inflationary pressures. The first plank in a liberal supply-side strategy would be the development of our Of course, President Reagan's "Kemp­ human resources, or human capital, and Roth" campaign rhetoric was one of the first encouraging the more efficient utilization of things he dumped when he entered the to measure White HDU:st':.The President and his advisors are following 'a course of attemptingtocut'tax The first plank in a rates and cut government spending. This is consistent with most "supply-siders"" views liberal supply-side on productivity, and conservatives' bias crucial variable toward reducing the role of government. strategy would be the It is well known that President Reagan is d ev elopm ent of our proposing higher defense spending in the face of a decline in overall government human resources.... human element spending, and that will entail cuts in other programs. Whatever the merits of larger our human capital. Policies that would defense budgets in terms of national se­ guarantee at least minimal health, curity, defense spending doesn't co~tribute by Prof Michael Bradley President Reagan's supply-side policies and nutritional, and educational standards for proposals have any economic merit, or are to the expansion of economic capacity or all citizens would be the most basic item in The inauguration of Ronald Reagan they based on-in George Bush's terms gains in productivity sought by supply-side this category. Other policies under this and his "New Beginning" brought about during the primaries-"voodoo economists. On the other hand, some of the heading include job training and retraining the most dramatic shift in the focus of economics?" programs that are being cut-aid to students programs, assistance to students in higher economic policy since Franklin D. in higher education, basic nutrition education (particularly in fields most closely Roosevelt brought his New Deal to, Supply-side economics, not surprisingly, programs, and support of scientific research related to expanding capacity and raising Washington in 1933. The New Deal emphasize:. the supply side of the economy and development-do contribute to productivity). Affirmative action and other expansion of our capacity to produce. replaced the basically laissez faire and the capacity to produce goods and ~rograms that reduce immobility and stra tegies of Hoover and his services. "Supply-siders" tend to stress such discrimination, and improve the working of things as productivity and individual predecessors with a "demand Economists of widely differing ideo­ labor markets also fall into this category. incentives to work, save, invest, innovate, logical and political orientations support management" approach to economic and expand capacity. They tend to blame the some types of deregulation of the economy, policy. Very briefly, demand The second plank would be to encourage management policies seek to regulate scientific and technical research and de­ velopment. This would include such aggregate demand in the economy programs and publicly financed or sub­ through spending, tax, and monetary sidized research and development as w~ll as policies to stimulate aggregate demand public support of scientific research that in periods when private demand is would be likely to contribute to higher productiyity The "Kemp-Roth" Bill is The third plank would be a genuine reform of our tax systems so that the rules appealling to those who are simple, spe'cial tax treatments, and complicated "Christmas tree" tax laws are believe that Santa Claus scrapped. This would contribute to incentive because every ,individual could be is alive and well, and a reasonably certain that he or she is taxed on the same basis as other people in ' similar Republican, but there circumstances, and that the very rich would not be evading their share of the tax burden. are so m· e s e rio u s Rather than broad, across-the-board tax cuts, the tax system should provide problems with it. incentives ,to firms to replace obsolete plant and equipment to raise productivity. insufficient to generate full employ- \ ment (actually, an acceptably low rate The fourth plank in the platform would be of unemployment), and to dampen policies to encourage modernization in aggregate demand in periods when ex­ industries that will be able to compete in cessive demand generates unacceptable world markets and the growth of new "demand-side"and "welfare state" and the Reagan administration has jumped industries that utilize our comparative inflationary pressures. Demand orientation of economic policy over the past on the deregulation bandwagon with advantage. In this regard, some of our management and variations (such as generation for much of our current missionary zeal. It is true that some traditional industries may shrink, and "fine tuning") were the central feature of economic plight. In the supply-side regulations are obsolete and others tend to protecting against this will be expensive and economic policy during the Truman, arguments, demand-side economic policies restrict competition, but what the Reaganite inefficient. Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon (yes, even have ,underemphasized the supply side and Nixon), and Carter administrations. capacity, and redistributive tax and transfer programs have Teduced incentives-to work On the other hand, some of the programs that For historical (the experience ofthe Great hard and raise productivity. Depression) and political (the p'olitical are b'eing cut--aid to students in higher potency of unemployment as an issue), One of the cornerstones of modern demand management after W orId War II supply-side economics is something called edu cation, basic nutrition pro gram s, tended to emphasize stimulating aggregate the "Laffer" (not laughter) curve, and its . demand to reduce unemployment more than incarnation in such proposals as the "Kemp­ support of scientific research and development-­ dampening aggregate demand to reduce Roth" bill. In a nutshell, the Laffer curve inflationary pressures. In the process, a shows that if government tax rates are raised do contribute to expansion of our capacity to number of social programs were high enough, there will be less incentive to inplemented and expanded, and these work, save, or invest, the economy's output produce. programs created constituencies with a and employment will fall, and total tax vested interest in the programs. revenues will fall if tax rates are raised further. However, if tax rates lowered in this deregulators seem to ignore is that some of Finally, we m~st examine thisocial costs region of the Laffer curve, output, the regulations they would scrap. protect and social benelits of many existing and Apart from "birds and employment, and tax revenue will rise. society from important social costs that propo sed eCc.ln omic regulations. Thus, the "Kemp-Roth" Bill and similar would be generated by unfettered private Regulations that aren't consistent with their bunnies" considerat­ proposals argue that tax rates can be cut enterprise. For example, environmental goals, and regulations that generate social with no reduction in government spending pollution is one of the social costs we benefits far below their cost to society ion s, th e environm ent or social programs, because the increase in generate as producers and consumers. should be scrapped; b,ut this dOes not mean tax revenue will balance the budget or at Aesthetic considerations aside, to the extent wholesale dismantling of hea_h. safety, and is our most important least prevent a greater deficit. The "Kemp­ that pollution and envirionmental decay environmental regulations. Roth" Bill is appealing to those who believe contribute to such things as health economic resource. that Santa Claus is alive and ~well, and a problems, they tend to lower the Contrary to the. signals ana ~tOriC from Republican, but there are some serious productivity of workers who are adversely Washington, paying attention t the supply President Reagan and his entourage are problems with it. affected. Apart from "birds-and-bunnies" side of the economy need not fce us to shifting abrubtly from a strategy of considerations, the environment is our most abandon our social and humanitarian goals government intervention and demand Accepting the main thesis of the Laffer important economic resource. as a society, nor do we have to accept an management ot policies that would reduce curve that there is some point at which environmental wasteland as the price of the role of the government in the economy, higher tax rates lower tax revenue, we don't The President and his advisors are correct greater capacity and output. Of course, as all and a potpourri of policies under the gen­ dnow that our tax rates place us in this ' in looking at the supply side in their economics students know already. finding • eral heading of "supply-side" economics. condition. Also, if cutting tax rates economic policy strategy, but recognizing the policies to -do all of these things will not be What are the central features of supply-side eventually causes output, employment. and the importance of the supply side does not easy, and economists (even this one) do not economics and economic policies? po tax revenue to rise, this doesn't mean that mean that we have to turn our back on our have all the answers. Page 18 Retriever

Marching 'on On Sunday, several dozen UMBC occasions bloodshed that accom­ . students will join a rally and march in panied those protests. But what Washington to protest military aid to keeps the memory of that time alive the government· of EI Salvador. in people's imaginatiQn is that it w~s Thousands are expected for the rally, an effective movement that united and already comparisons are being hundreds of thousands of Americans. drawn to the Viet Nam war 'years, As far away and as insignificant as when hundreds of thousands· of EI Salvador appears to many Americans demonstrated publicly Americans, the unabashed inter­ their opposition to the war. vention of U.S. power into the Student demonstrations are not to Salvadoran political and economic be looked upon as part of the nostal­ system needs to be abated. The U.S. gia associated with the 60's era. role inEI Salvador is not new, but as the days pass and assistance to the Demonstrations are an effective Salvadoran military continues, it political instrument with which moves from the tragic to the students can influence the formation genocidal. As in the Viet Nam war of government policy. years, it is only through direct action Fond reminiscences overlook the by citizens U.S. citizens that these anger, disorder, and on · many policies can be changed. lettef$

promise land. Mr. King worked towards UMBC community as well as with the outside . that end through means of foresight, love Millman and Brenton Steele, students are undertaking an unprec~ndented experiment society. Promise· and perserverance. Why push his great In fulfilling this role (as support system), progress backwards? Whites who persist in that will undoubtably yield excellent results. However, before enlightening the UMBC we are bringing our classroom experiences to J,iving in their make believe world of the outside world and also bringing the To The Editor: ;Ilrrogant, selfish grandeur will remain population about the experiment, there is a I am a white student in the Baltimorearea need to give some background information. outside world into our classroom. What we : llways one step away from the promise land. hope we have done, and what \\earecurrently considering transferring to UMBC because 'We must move on united for the results are The class, consisting of some one-hundred students was, more or less, randomly broken attempting to do, is to bring .t sense of trust, of its outstanding curriculum, faculty and !xtraordinary overwhelming." Sj~cer;ly, reputation as a superior institution of higher down into ten separate family units. Each understanding, guidance, emotional education. Students I've interacted with at Al Trevers family has ten to twelve members who support, and community a \\ areness to our UMBC have all been intelligently liberal interact within the family, the classroom freshmen colleague; and, wit h their help, we minded, black and white. Why, then, aU the community, and the outside community. Our hope that our experiences l.m extend and continued abuse of a man and woman's family is called "The Untouchables." grow throughout the UMB( community as dignity? These rampant cries of racism are Lonely? So, what is oneoftheexperiments thatisso well as the outside world. unjustified in the majority of the cases and unprecendented and remarkable? ... Each these slurs, the result of prejudice, is wha' member of the class has chosen a Freshman Hoping to enlighten the U M BC community needs to be curbed and ultimatly cured. To The Editor: student, outside the classroom. and acts as a "THE UNTOUCHABLES "of EDUC 0418 Blacks slashing out against attacks intended Can a freshman student find hap pines in "support system" for that student. Being a Mehran Abdeshah, Richard Baer, Harold to demean their race is required and should the big lonely void called UMBC? Is it support system involves personal interact­ Baker, continue if we are to erase this scab on man's possible to become integrated into the , ions with our freshmen on an individual and Barry Berman, David Hirsch. Barbara Hohn evolution. There is no justifiable excuse for academic and social misery? These questions group basis to discuss the problems that a Brenda Jordan, James. Ju. Kun Jung Kim, blacks creating racism out of prejuidicial' and more, are being examined in an unusual UMBC freshman must deal with, and to Jeffrey Margolies, Perry Reifler, Laurie whites slurs, the result of blacks failure tc class at UMBC. perhaps reveal information that we may have Stallings end their black against white attitude. In Education 0418, Mental Hygiene in the to help the freshmen solve the intricate Somebody saw that end, he called it the Classroom, being taught by Howard . problems involving their relation within the

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by Ed Thrush "Why bother?" Washimzton D.C. 20036-it's free). N ow you can go and make some waves, decisions for you. What kind of life is that? That seems to be the response I get every If letter writing is not enough for you and but "Why bother?" It seems as though it is Intimidation is something that seems to time I mention the idea of changing organizations are too rigid for Your not enough to know how to do, but also to hold people back, but it is quite possible that something on campus. The· notion that lifestyle, then do something more informal. have reasons. Well I do have some reasons, your notions and mine about how this change re-quires a great deal of time, is not Have a small group that stays in contact although these are just mine, 1 feel the campus can be improved could be better worth the effort, and that administration . when it can, keep in tQuch with the phone or general theme will draw some consensus than a high level administrator's. Most often officials are unresponsive is a deeply rooted by mail. An occasiOnal meeting wouldn't among students. they follow old examples and precedents, myth. hurt. especially if you combined it with some The main concern Ihave is the quality of doing what everyone else has done before To participate and make your concerm activity- you like to do; like going out to eat life. What kind of life dO' we really want? Do them, you can really see that with the known requires little time. Lobbying efforts or drink, whatever. The point is that you can we sit idlely by and watch construction go up . contruction going on. can take place by letters, meetings, get involved in changing this scpool and be on campus that will use--as does the rest of If you really want to change something, demonstrations and use of the media. able to fit it into your schedule at the same the campus--conventional heating, cooling you .have to shake off that notion of yourself Minimum participation only requires an time. and energy systems. Although this campus as a helpless little person. Well all of us can occasional letter or complaint directed to the Another method is to use the Retriever. I uses very modern energy systems they a:e do quite a bit. Even if you are not assertive, source of the conflict or where you feel mean really exploit it. This paper is here for still dependent on non-renewable fuel you inherently weild some power. Th!ough changes should take- place. This is very you, so use it. Write letters to the edi~or, do sources, fossil and nuclear (Calvert Cliffs). taxes and tuition, we all pay for much of simple and requires little time, especially if an article or two or even become a regular By not saying anything about the what goes on and at present what goes up. you have a general format for your letters writer, it's not as hard as you think. This construction. or even about improving the Because you have a vested interest in your and you keep - addresses and vital paper is read by a lot of people, including existing structures, we accept our education, you might just have some say information (like newspaper clippings and some up there in administration and even (to dependence on non-renewables and all the over the way it is conducted. Ask lots of statistics) handy. Besides it is generally good my surprise) down in Annapolis. I have problems they can cause. We also reject the questions, demand a more democratic form to keep letters brief and tOJ!le point. heard a lot of negative comments about this alternatives such as wind, solar, methane process of decision making on this campus, Organized action might require as much paper, as far as I'm concerned, the Retriever from waste and sludge and efficient ma\C.e this school more responsive to your as an hour or two out of your week. Once an is a neutral mechanism. Paper and ink that underground construction. needs. association or a grou,' forming a coalition must be used in order to be effective. If you really care about how you life is Small measures of support to one or more provides a basis for action a~d sets up Without a high degree of participation it will going to be affected, it really is nece&sary to of the organizations already in existance on projects, guidelines and assigns duties, there never be very~ively or exciting to read. It's a participate and to help create alternatives, campus can help make changes (visit is little time involved. If you are in an group of student writings and news, the no matter what the situation is. Do you Hillcrest or call the SGA office for organization that wastes your time, reform fewer contributions made to fill its pages, the really like the way the new apartments a·re information x2220). There are legislators it. The League of Women Voters has an more lifeless it will appear. Think about it, designed or the decreasing amount of down in Annapolis who make big decisions excellent catalog of publications dealing by using this publication, you can educate wildlife and foliage in the area? How about for UMBC and who don't get very much with-organizing, effective activism and other students and administrators about a the structrue of classes, financial aid, student mail. Either people.don't realize the impact political concerns. (League of Women particular concern or simply spell out what services?'Unfortunately it is because most of they can have or they simply don't care. Voters, Cat~log, 1730 M Street, NW you think. you have sat by, that others have made What about you? Apr1l'29, 1981 Page 19- SGA SPRING ELECTION RETURNS 1981

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