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Junk Jack's Bob INSIDE BondsPad Bonds Pad Dylan mmain CIA On Campus? University Senate Reaffirms by Robert V. Gilheany responsibilities of covert action Principle of Free Expression rests with the President...if you cation incident, she stressed the A new course on Intelligent don't like the covert actions of the By Fred Mayer for such behavior was unclear and appeared as an act of censorship." need to make it clear that Studies being taught by Professor CIA, don't vote for the President" "something like this appears to be Dr. Michael Turner's title is the Of principle concern for the Lester Paldy deals with the history A resolution reaffirming censorship, and that's the exact way Coordinator for Academic Affairs critical importance of free expres- resolution's promoters is their of U.S. Intelligence, the covert it can be interpreted."9 for the CIA. The title suggests that in belief that "the consequences for actions and the dichotomy of secret sion, including free expression While the resolution, which had the CIA is trying to reach into the campus newspapers, the university community went far organizations such as the CIA and a the pages of been introduced and tabled during academic affairs of the university. was overwhelmingly endorsed by beyond the momentary non- democratic society. last month's University Senate Dr. Paldy explained that Brook's University Senate availability of a student news- When asked about Philip Agee's Stony meeting, passed at Monday's universities and the CIA have Monday, May 6th. The reso- paper." The incident's possibly book Inside the Company, Paldy meeting (24-8-0), contrary voices exchange programs whereas a lution's successful passage was the chilling effect on the open said, "No, that is not a good book." were heard during its discussion. professor would to to the result of patience and energy on the expression of dissenting and non- Agee's book is about the actions of Richard Cole, a Senator the CIA while he was a station "company" and the CIA agent part of a small committee of mainstream views is of far greater representing Polity, voted against chief in South America. It details would come to a university and students led by Jean Rousseau, a concern to these students. the resolution and spoke quite activities such as political torture, teach or do "research" on campus. graduate student in the Chemistry Before the start of Monday's strongly against its passage, stating covert actions, and the U.S. hand in John Stockwell, a former CIA Department and a member of the Senate meeting, Rousseau stated that he saw "a group of students overthrowing a democracy in agent and former head of operations Stony Brook Press. that "we wanted the people to who want to be Brazil. Even though the course in Angola said, "The CIA is using While the - r professors to produce its I resoutio. iy-.part of something, syllabus emphasizes the history of aesnospelui "the consequences for the university and are making an CIA, the book would be considered propaganda, and at the same time of a historical document. Les Paldy sending operatives on campus. fic references to community went far beyond the ning.out countered with, "This class deals Dr. Paldy said, "The idea of the any particular n g. with changes in congressional exchange program is to increase infringements of momentary non-availability of a o hefinlversion oversight..because of congressional understanding of the CIA on the the right to free f the resolution committee's investigation of CIA campus." He added, "I had people expression on student newspaper." reads: I S* "WherTea aqs activitie's new laws on oversight from the CIA speak in my classes." campus, there I I I- - I have been passed." Dr. Turner said, "The CIA even can be no doubt consequence of Since the Church Committees sponsors an officer in residents that the principle motivation behind consider the question of freedom of recent events, the University Senate investigated CIA atrocities in the program which makes CIA its adoption was an incident that speech in itself..." He continued, has the responsibility to remind the mid-seventies covert operation of operatives available to campuses." occurred on Friday, February 22nd, noting that "the responsibility of an university community of the the CIA continued in the 80's that When asked if these programs will at the main entrance of the Union educational institution is to make importance of the unfettered hand included the mining of the be used for CIA recruitment on building. At that time, copies of the known that it stands for freedom of of the press, therefore, the Nicaraguan harbors and the passing campus because the mechanism is Press were confiscated by a inquiry, freedom for education, and University Senate reaffirms the out of the infamous Assassination there. Paldy said, "No, people can member of the Union staff. (See "2 freedom for different forms of principles stated in [Administrative Manuals to Latin American Right join the CIA through the Career Live Press," Stony Brook Press, speech." Policy Manual section] P107, and Wing Death squads. Dr. Paldy Development Office." March 8.) Although no one has Also present at the meeting was denounces any act of censorship expressed his opinion on covert Dr. Les Paldy was on a nuclear denied that copies of the Press were Jane Ely, Graduate Student against newspapers on campus, action, "I'm opposed to the mining testing negotiating committee last confiscated, there has been some Organization president, who and the chilling effect it would have of Nicaraguan harbors," but he said summer in Geneva. disagreement as to whether or not supported the resolution and saw on freedom of expression which is would support covert action that censorship was involved. the passage, many weeks ago, of a indispensable to academic freedom frees American hostages. Paldy The preamble to the draft similar resolution by the GSO on campus." went on to point that "the ultimate resolution noted that "the rationale Senate. Referring to the confis- EARTH DAY ESCAPADES

s the d by Josh Gazes and Bruce Tamarin nad bread for scenery of route 347, and the which continued the whole day at paid to these businesses, than the To our astonishment, as we had thought of the winding, anmuse- South Street Seaport and along issues and politics of environmental With only a few bucks between never before been up so early on a ment park-like turns of the Water Street. The resounding consciousness. us, some oranges and lettuce from Saturday morning, the Union was Northern Parkway were enough to melodies echoing from the faces of Many times we witnessed DAKA, and two wine sacks full of not open, and would not be open keep us awake for twenty minutes. tall buildings were in stark contrast pedestrians shrug off NYPIRG beer, we embarked on a journey to until 10:00 A.M. We decided to It also helped that our spines were to the normal sounds of car engines, volunteers asking people to write the concrete jungle of New York wait around, and were filled with completely contorted, but Sleep still horns and cursing drivers. letters, the way they probably shrug City in order to attend the Earth much joy as the Union was managed to seduce us. As we made our way up the off homeless people asking for Day festivities. promptly open at 10:00. We were We awoke to the exhaust laden streets closed off for the event, we money on a normal day in the city. The one obstacle that stood in the once again filled with surprise, and sounds of that dynamic duo, the found ourselves amidst a large Even so, it was wonderful to see so way of the inevitable fun, anger, when we discovered that the Belt Parkway and stop and go "ecology market", where various many people come out for Earth environmental education, and the deli did not open until 11:00 A.M. traffic. Our fearless friend still vendors plied their environmentally Day, what ever their reasons feeling that we did something In fact nothing in the Union opens persevered though, and three hours safe wares. Strategically placed (music, vendors, to be trendy) but morally correct (for a change), was until 11:00 A.M. If anyone can later, we were in New York City. between these booths were of course, "everyday should be getting there. We could not afford explain the functional purpose of Any grouchiness, or bad temper NYPIRG information and recycling Earth Day," as one T-shirt read. to take the LIRR, and because we the Union being open when that may have filled the car during centers, where one could talk to From our experience, we learned are both environmentally conscious everything inside remains closed, the trip, was completely wiped some of the 1000 plus volunteers some vital facts, which we offer (as well as poor) neither of one of please enlighten us. We must admit, away as we shot out of the that were instrumental in this year's here so that we all can live up to the us has a car. Luckily, we did have a that being inside the illustrious Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. This as well as last year's celebration. T-shirt's motto: friend willing to drive us into the decor of the Union, a part of that nearly placed us directly on Water At these booths one could purchase 1. Oranges, although not as tasty city, since he had to be there later in stimulating ambience at 10:00 on a Street, which was closed for many environmentally safe, official Earth as twinkles, are still good eatin' and the day for a previous engagement. Saturday morning, does sound more blocks to accomodate the Day T-shirts, write letters to the come in naturally bio-degradable Now that nothing stood in our appealing then being in your own festivities. We continued to drive governor or other legislators, and wrappers. way, we were sure to have a fun bed. around circling the area, our backs deposit empty bottles, paper or 2. Traffic sucks, so car pool even filled day of mingling with Nevertheless, we remained in immobile, until our friend's car metal into recycling bins. We each if it literally means breaking your crunchies, self-righteous liberals, high spirits, and still felt as one stopped performing its duties and bought buttons, as they were in our back, of course using a car that and anti-technology nature nuts, (as with nature. Settling for the affor- died. It was determined that he price range - cheap. actually works is a good choice. well as car thiefs and muggers) mentioned oranges and beer, we would some how manage to get the Although New York City's Earth 3. People do things even for the whose company we so thoroughly met up with our friend to leave for car back to Brooklyn, where he had Day was truly a wondrous event dumbest reasons, such as, ever enjoy. the city. an uncle (doesn't everyone), to be this year, one could not escape its body else is doing it. So recycle With our declining balance meal Accompanying us on our trip was repaired. So we bid adieu to our product oriented design. Although and all that other nature stuff, cards, which must be used down to our friend's sister and her three companions, and resumed our the goods being sold were all safe, maybe you'll start a trend. the very last cent, so that we do not boyfriend. The five of us squeezed Earth Day escapade. practical and recyclable, not to give any money back to DAKA, we into a Ford Escort, and set sail on We started off at Battery park, mention necessary attractions for headed over to the union at 9:30 the open roads and paved highways where we enjoyed the carnival-like the masses of people which A.M., hoping to purchase cold cuts of Long Island. The breathtaking atmosphere created by live music, attended, there was more attention The Stony Brook Press page 2 I I · · I · MHMilMilMIMW TELEFUNK University Fund Raisers Are Talkin' 'Bout Yo Momma ;i!! :•

•. •i i:: :;•l by MJXII Remarks such as "speaks very I thought it was in poor taste to be bad English", "financially unable", asked to donate especially in the Your mother is naked in the "husband unemployed at the time", light of Cuomo budget cuts and shower and the phone rings. Hastily medical information and marital tuition hikes", said another parent 1•'I ii .!I:' -;i: - •" she gets as dry as soon as possible status are all carefully written as who was quoted on one of the ::: : I- and races towards that persistent reasons why the parents were forms by a Telefund employee 11 : ring. Triumphantly she answers in unable to give. during during the course of the time only to find a friendly voice Last week one student passer-by conversation as saying "I could kill from Anywhere, U.S.A. asking for picked up a completed form from Cuomo for what he's doing." money to assist the Benefit Cause the floor and read aloud, " 'Parents Kim Messina, who gave of The Month. Curtly she ends the financially unable...divorce permission to use her name, said caller's pleas with a dripping "No pending'... Hey, I know this guy!" her parents were called several thank you", but somehow she Take, for example, Mrs.R-,whose times, each time politely informing comes away feeling violated. name we withheld upon request. the Telefund of the tight financial Stony Brook University has it's Her son attended Stony Brook until situation of the family."It's hard own telephone solicitation outfit. the second week of the spring enough to put me through school...I It's called can't afford to "Telefund" _ live on campus and it raises so I drive for money for the Sou over an hour to Stony Brook S U nds as thoi g hget to school. I Annual Fund. also work full- They concen-there ss time to help trate on solici- th e re Swas carele pay." One stu- ting funds dent's brother from alumni h d *.jsaid, , "It's an and other hand ling of reco rd s" outrage, the "friends of the motivation for university" calling was not who wish to Anonymous Universilty Official made clear and set up scho- I never heard larships and I _ of this before. foundations It just came within the University arena. Their semester. He was forced to leave out of the blue." annual report of 1989-90 states that because he needed $40,000 worth Evidently the reason why the "almost 4,000 alumni, who had of surgery. The University refused University needs the money is never contributed before to their to refund the tuition paid by this unclear to some of the parents. One alma mater, pledged $210,000." single mother, and she had to fight student was called by his parents Another important part of their and appeal in order to get the after Telefund called them, and they the salaries of the Telefund information that may cast the activity is soliciting funds from refund, which she got three months were wondering why his tuition management are paid for by the Annual Fund in a bad light. faculty and staff members. later. Only part of the money was wasn't paid. These misunder- state including that of Elizabeth Dan Forbush, Associate Vice- A small part of the money refunded, however, and Telefund standings are common, as many Hayes and the Vice-President of President of University News solicited is from parents. Some on February 21st called up Mrs. R-, parents are left thinking that the University Affairs, Carol Cohen. Service, said "Private funds help us parents are called and asked to for a donation. Annual Fund is a mandatory part of The office of University Affairs to offer a great deal more." pledge money in addition to the She refused a gift and she their son or daughter's school bills. seemed very interested in seeing However, a University official rising tuition that many of them are outlined her situation to "Frances", Some of the money goes for good that this information not be made who requested anonymity said it already struggling to pay. Only one of the 'Telefunders", and causes, however. According to the available to the campus community. "sounds as though there was about 30% of parents are willing to thought that was that. One day later, annual report, the fund helped raise A Stony Brook Press reporter went careless handling of records... give money with an average gift however,Telefund made what $13 for a box of computer diskettes to this office on Monday, with another procedure will have to be being $96, according to Elizabeth amounted to another phone to help an African student learn some of the documents found by found." Hayes, the Telefund Coordinator. solicitation, where Mrs.R- repeated English. They allocated $45 accident by a student. Elizabeth Another procedure has been Students of the University are herself. The Telefund personnel, through the Chaplaincy Services in Hayes proceeded to get very initiated by the Telefund following trained in hard-sell telephone namely someone named "Pam", University Hospital for food for a agitated and refused to give the exposure of the sloppy solicitation techniques by Miss documented the personal infor- family of a child brought to the answers to any questions compromises of the former Hayes,and make $5.50 an mation disclosed to her by Mrs.R-. pediatric emergency room. $96 concerning Telefund policy. She procedure. After calling the parents hour,along with other commission If this wasn't bad enough,the dollars bought personal supplies for then proceeded to sneak into the and writing personal information incentives. The students must call document contained the phone patients in University Hospital's reporter's bookbag and confiscate about the reasons why they are and begin asking at $1000 dollars, number at the R- residence, which AIDS Treatment center. A the documents in the reporter's unable to give, the documents will hitting every step of the ladder as Mrs.R- had paid to be unlisted. This whopping $2,500 was raised so possession while he was from now on be kept on file until they plea-bargain down with the information was included in the some faculty members could interviewing a secretary. She the end of each fund-raising season customers. During the course of the documents, found and subsequently deliver papers at a National locked herself into her office and and then will be shredded and conversation they are shown how to examined by Press staff. Conference on Diabetes Research. refused to return the documents. recycled. document the responses from When confronted with the $188,594 was raised so far this After an editor of the Press called Many parents are nevertheless alumni's parents on forms on which information many parents were year through the Telefund, much of the office of University Affairs, and very annoyed that they are being Social-Security numbers, phone outraged. Some insisted that the that from alumni and faculty/staff. Officer Borak of Public Safety called in the first place, and that any numbers, addresses, academic forms in Press possession be $40,000 went to P.M.I.,a consulting spoke with Miss Hayes, she student who gets hired to do information, and other personal mailed to them so they could be firm hired to oversee and manage reluctantly returned the sensitive Telefund has access to so much information about both the parents assured that their personal the Telefund. Another $180,00 information that she had stolen. personal information about them. and the students are printed. information not be spread any dollars of Annual Fund money goes Later in a meeting with staff Since the money raised hardly These forms have this very further. to administration and expenses. members of the Press, Carol Cohen seems worth the effort, parents are sensitive information on them and "I don't think it's anyone's Professor Robert Lefferts, author of accused the Press reporter of being wondering if this type of have been found carelessly strewn business", said one parent who "The Basic Handbook of Grants "a thief and a harasser", and solicitation is appropriate for the about the hallways in the basement asked not to be identified, and who Management", says that Telefund croaked that that reporter was not a institution. of Central Hall outside the Telefund said she was given several phone "follows the usual procedures foi journalist, and he had some hidden office. calls asking for as much as $1500." this kind of fundraising." Howevel political agenda in bringing out May 10, 1991 page 3 PUBINGJUNK SOOK REVIELI PULLING JUNK BONDS OUT OF THE TRAS] Yago sees the overwhelming reaction to rhetoric fueled by anxiety due to a fear of debt in the economy regulate the market's success motivated by a economic arguments and claims that extended leverage strips funds desire to discriminate in favor of larger, well- that contradict empirical rom R&D and capital spending. established companies with higher credit ...... evidence. He claims Recommencing the history lesson Yago cites ratings. According to Yago capital is the that public policy :he use of leverage to buy property as a lifeblood of a a business and regulation may ...... formation is pressured popular tradition in U.S. history. He says that as a tourniquet misapplied. by big cor-porations in "deconglomeration" is the central tendency of act Who is responsible for the clamor against state and federal corporate restructuring in many cases the banks ictiLra e ;l nttamnte He the bonds? According to Yago, l 6 resulting in streamlined operations. ICgzilat.u•s nI al vLllpji. are the culprits. The by corporate behemoths discusses types of LBOs and the ways value and large corporations of takeovers and to make up for is created including tax advantages, economic myths (the results plant closings) internationally undistributed Shave been con- competitive inade- cash flow and "Th by quacies by changing the increased "Things are jjust moving tradicted rules of the game. A management f t an we need to Yago's empiri- we need to cal research. practice Yago criticizes: ownership (as too fas , an "A country that 9Public policy is opposed to slow them dc wn.." forged finances on the basis of absentee from -Ui, to Yago inside trading past performance will corporate S,senator to Yago and greenmail never finance the control). future." Yago scandals and the Yago lauds conducts a blaming of junk bonds by saying that broad investigation of the performance of bonds for failed thrifts. The economist says high yield securities LBO companies before and after the buyout; that failed Savings and Loans have resulted historically built Ame- examining sales, productivity, operating from bad real estate, energy and agricultural rica, high yield companies surpassed income (a corporation's ability to generate loans and not from high yield debt, and that industry-wide performance measures, and the cash flow), employment effects, working "trying to stop the scandals by regulating the JUNK BONDS democratization of capital is essentially in capital, and interest-coverage. The LBOs in use of junk bonds is like trying to stop bank HOW HIGH YIELD SECURITIES pulling us out of the current recession and put the study all improved in the chosen indices. robberies by closing all the banks." RESTRUCTURED CORPORATE the U.S. back into the global marketplace. Again going beyond general patterns and Today 800 companies in 100 industries AMERICA Yago says that high yield securities are not trends Yago examines ten LBO companies have raised over $200 billion utilizing junk By Glenn Yago new. He cites economist and historian Robert that have undergone strategic or defensive bonds which comprises 25 percent of the 249 pp. New York: Sobel's research of Alexander Hamilton's use Oxford University Press. $21.95 of junk securities to repay the expenses of the revolutionary war anticipating cash from the a parable about the political controversy surrounding such sale of public lands to cover the costs. Junk In writing this book I heard its way around the junk bond market. The interpretation of this has financed many of America's most well- financing that had made by Fletcher Johnson volumes about the political economy of junk bonds and known companies including US Steel, baseball analogy speaks buyouts in our time. Imagine there was once a baseball team with the biggest and eighties. Recall the reign of General Motors, and International Business Oh, the opulent strongest players in history. For years, they always won. As baseball was played at Reagan, the rise of a material girl, the Machines. Yago's book is an interesting Ronald that time, the sheer magnitude of the size and girth of the players determined who the yuppies; back when real estate blend of history, economics and political invasion of would win. Suddenly, the team started losing games. Puzzled by this turn of events, the were soaring and Trump was king and science. He refutes claims that junk will ruin prices owner went to the manager and asked how this could happen. How had their playing or The decade slammed shut as the economy but advocates that it will not court jester. the competition changed? Wall Street witnessed the largest bankruptcy instead promulgate efficiency, productivity, "Well, there are these new guys," said the manager. "They move fast and throw fast in its history - that of Drexel Burnham profit, and growth. balls, curve balls, and sliders." Lambert and the conviction of Michael "The Detailing changes in financial regulation, "Okay," replied the owner, "teach your guys to hustle and how to hit fast balls, curve Trashman" Milken. foreign competition and credit market balls, and sliders." Assuming that the manager could manage and the matter of losing Junk bonds have been dragged through the demand, the author studies the changing role would end, the owner turned on his heel and left. proverbial mud by much of the financial of debt in corporate capital structure. As the weeks went by, the team kept losing. Once again the owner approached the press and their critics saying that funds raised Changes in various regulations created manager, who confessed, "I'm sorry. I've got the biggest and strongest players. But through the high yield instruments were used favorable conditions for the rise of the high they're also the dumbest players I've ever worked with. I've tried, but they just can't to finance hostile takeovers that resulted in yield bond market. The cost of capital learn to move fast, hit curve balls and sliders, and compete the way the game is now plant closings and the loss of jobs in order to increased as banks attempted to cover their being played. You've got only one choice if you want this club to win. Go to the enrich raiding Wall Street paper shufflers. own cost increases by passing the check to commissioner and change the rules. Slow the game down, get him to outlaw fast balls, Critics also charge that in companies corporate borrowers. Meanwhile other curve balls, and sliders." purchased utilizing substantial amounts of regulation changes made available more For nearly three decades after World War II, American business played slow, strong, high yield debt, assets are unavailable for funds for high yield investments from and easy. Each year the largest corporations capital spending or research and development increased foreign investment and the entrance increased their employment, share of profits and sales, and concentrated (R&D). Some have gone so far as calling use of pension funds institutions into the high their corporate power. By the mid-1970s, however, the great push and of the financial instrument a betrayal of yield marketplace. shove of international trade and technological change caused the large American capitalism. Between 1980 and 1986 1100 firms raised businesses to lose their competitive edge... Private organizations, such as Moody's or $113 billion utilizing the high yield Standard and Poor's, rate bonds according to securities. Yago found that 74 percent of that -from Junk Bonds past performance. Only 800 companies have cash was used for corporate growth and only issued corporate bonds in the investment four percent was used in unsolicited grade market. The other tens of thousands of takeovers. The midsection of the book calls buyouts. An example: current bond market. Yago concludes that firms' bonds are ranked non-investment the crucial question: "What effect did high Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc., was the high yield market created conditions for grade or "junk" credits which are also termed yield bonds have on corporate performance?" originally a Texas based newspaper business the reintegration of ownership and control, high yielding due to their higher rates of The answer lies in an exhaustive review of that has expanded into consumer direct increased capital access for smaller interest. Bond rating agencies perform a employment, productivity, sales, and capital marketing and broadcasting. Prior to the companies through the democratization of "gatekeeping function" to lock out young, spending. He found that high yield firms buyout the company sold several newspapers capital resulting in increased competitiveness. smaller companies from the public debt raised capital spending at about triple the rate and radio stations while investing in cable TV Junk bond financial technology found market. of the overall economy, created four times as systems. With further investments planned appropriate application in small, innovative Prior to Milken's sentencing U.S. District many jobs, and grew fifty percent faster ir and amidst concern of shareholder reactions companies and restructuring low growth Court Judge Kimba M. Wood received a draft sales. to the incurrence of additional debt, Harte- companies through buyouts. The purpose of of Junk Bonds, a Stony Brook business Going beyond industry wide surveys, Yage Hanks was purchased by Harte-Hanks the market is lower capital costs. Yago professor's new book in defense of high yield provides case studies of high yield companies management and members of the Harte and predicts that existing and proposed securities. Glenn Yago is Director of the and the strategies employed by them. The Hanks-Shelton families for $457 million in restrictions on capital markets could stifle the Economic Research Bureau and Associate term leveraged buyout (LBO), generall cash, equity, and high yield securities in economy. Apparently junk has provided a Professor of Management at the Harriman refers to an acquisition in which the acquiro; 1984. Post buyout performance included healthy shot in the arm for the economy. School. His new book is being received as uses substantial debt to restructure control o increased net sales of $165-$576 million from The author who gives advice to the the nation wades through the current a business. It is estimated that high yiel< 1984-1986. Harte-Hanks employed 4220 Bolivian government and the newly formed recession - the nineties have hatched. bonds are used in only 8 percent of all merge. people in 1984 and 10,000 in in 1986. Hungarian State Property Agency sees Calling bond raters overrated, Yago says and acquisition financing but may account fo If junk bonds do everything but grow hair expanding economic participation as key to the backlash of anti-junksters are spitting 25-30 percent of LBO financing. LBOs caus< why all the opposition and ugly nicknames? continued on pagelO The Stony Brook Press page 4 EDITORI IAL I - The Stony Brook Press

Jacking Off Executive Editor Lara Jacobson Managing Editor President John H. Marburger is Marburger slammed down a specifics concerning the incident. Joe Distefano clearly out of touch with the resolution from Polity last year The man has a PhD in Laser Associate Editor University and is not directing the that condemned the practice of Physics and walks into a Walter Schneider path of this institution in a way holding blood drives on campus courtroom performing the role Business Manager worthy of its potential. that apparently discriminated Reagan played during the Michelle Fleck On Wednesday, scandel (which few of News Editor May 8th First against a segment of the Iran/Contra John Sealy District Court Judge Francel community. The resulting blood us remember!)? Arts Editor Bellinger criticized President John drive incident was caused by the Although military recruiting has Eric Penzer Marburger's testimony at the trial University's failure to respond to- been voted on by the University Photo Editor of Emmanuel Severe and Philippe a racial situation on campus - a Senate and was decided as Greg Forte Valbrune. Her Honour skewered situation the administration was discriminatory and violating Production Manager Jack, saying that he was "evasive" more than aware of considering University policy Marburger Rick Teng the HSO petitioned the President continues to sanction this practice Minister Sans Portfolio and delivered contradictory Fletcher Johnson statements as he was called as a for four years to stop having on campus. witness. The case of second campus blood drives. This The University must be a STAFF degree inciting to riot charges deliberate affront is hardly up to progressive model in the way it Walter Chavez, Uly Eng, Josh Gazes. Robert Gilheany, Daniel Glasner, Fred Mayer, MJXII, levied against students Severe and par in an institution that flaunts operates sociologically and Wayne Myer, Jean Rousseau, Dave Suarez, Valbrune stemmed from an it's diversity like USB does. politically. Just as the institution Scott Warmuth incident at a December 4, 1990 Judge Bellinger found it hard to generates progressive research it CONTRIBUTORS James F. Barna, Randy Campbell, Chris University-sponsored blood drive believe that Marburger was so must also promote social equality Delvecchio, Andrew Fish, Robert Franza, Robert at which the Haitian Student unaware of matters pertaining to on campus. The voices of this Rothenburg, Todd Stephens, Bruce Tamarin, Argyle S. Thomas, Trish, Robert Willis, Mitchell Organization was protesting the the December 4th incident and school are ignored by the Weissberg since rescinded Food and Drug previous relations with HSO. administration. How can we have The Stony Brook Press is published bi-weekly during the Academic year and intermittently during the summer Administration's discriminatory Marburger's vague recollection of a President that does not follow session by The Stony Brook Press Inc., a student run and student funded not-for-profit corporation. Advertising policy banning Haitians and Sub- the situation counteracted the his own policies? policy does not necessarily reflect editorial policy.

Saharan Africans from donating University's desire to see Severe President Marburger, this is a (516) 632-6451 Suite 020, Central Hall blood. and Valbrune judged criminally public institution so get your SUNY at Stony Brook It is not wrong to criticize or guilty. The Judge nailed him. hands off of your privates. Stony Brook, NY 11794-2790 complain about a system whose Marburger denied that he was leadership is so far removed from evasive, but that he just didn't Vol. 12, GerryNo.13 Stte-OTERSlFront Page Photos: the population it leads. know that he would be asked LETTERS straight, I am one woman who does not exist term training specifically for the task of crime consolidation itself. We would only be given CHECK YOUR FLY to get fucked by men, and I am not the only fighting and criminal situations. the opportunity to vote for or against double one!!! The mission of the University must be to singles which would incorporate forced Dear Editor: Suzanne M.Bojdak educate students, not threaten them with consolidation. Residents should have the Sophomore violence. Think of the public image of a opportunity to vote for or against double which finds it necessary to have singles and then if double singles are to be I am appalled by the blatant sexism and University the campus. In this period of made available, residents should vote absolute misogyny this publication expressed armed guards on can the State afford to whether or not forced consolidation should be in its cartoon "Sex in the 90's" [April 25, FIRED UP budget restrictions, Public Safet personnel? incorporated into the double single policy. 1991; p.5] What The Press published was not adequatly train Safety officers will only b) What the RHA representatives were to a comic view of contemporary life or a quick- April 25, 1991 memorandum to President Arming Public of damages. Is Public read indicated that not having forced witted social commentary, but a woman- John Marburger and Vice President increase the possibility force or a police force? WE consolidation would cost residents an hating pornographic image. Frederick Preston from the Faculty of the Safety a security INSTEAD OF additional $19 a semester. In reality this is The object of pornography is to humiliate, Africana Studies Department on arming NEED FEWER GUNS MORE. GUNS ARE NOT A CURE FOR A the cost of not having any double single degrade, objectify, and control women. The PublicSafety: GOOD SECURITY PROGRAM. policy at all. Press' recent cartoon accomplishes all of c) According to RHA if double singles were those objectives. It is humiliating and We, the members of Africana Studies not to be made available it would cost degrading to women for images of women to faculty, wish to issue a statement with regard Amiri Baraka, Floris B. Cash students an extra $19 a semester. They also be published with the focal point being the to arming Public Safety personnel. We Bill McAdoo, Leslie H. Owens said that this $19 amounts to an 3 1/2% vagina. Manipulating a woman's body in adamantly oppose arming officials who are Louis Rivera, Femi Vaughan increase (19/1250 = .0152). such a way that she is displayed as a sex toy primarily responsible for campus security, I pointed these problems out to Ruthie and or a myriad of orifices awaiting penetration is including the safety of faculty, staff, and she told me that she agreed with me. She dehumanizing. The message of this cartoon students on this campus. This has been our DOUBLE DILEMMA asked me to rewrite the material, separating is that woman are objects to be fucked. And view in the past and it is our present position. the double single vote from the forced the "social commentary," a zipper on the Two questions are crucial at this time. What Dear Editor: consolidation vote. She told me that if I did vagina reminiscent of real-life genital is the purpose of arming Public Safety? this she would use the version that I would mutilation that continues today in some Furthermore, who would the officials arm During the week before RHA was to write for the vote. I did what she asked me to twenty-six African nations, is that the AIDS themselves against - the students? Outsiders? conduct the vote on forced consolidation I do but she disregarded what I wrote and still crisis forces men to think twice these days There have been many demonstrations in the spoke to Ruthie Ginsberg who is the used the original version. about what they can and cannot, or should past and all have been handled without guns. president of RHA and the chairperson of the I don't know why she disregarded the and should not, fuck. There are several factors which must be room rate review committee. At that time she material I wrote but what really puzzles me is The unfortunate reality of sex in the 90's is considered. Is the University at Stony Brook told me that the vote was to take place during that she went ahead and conducted the vote that this "women as sex toys" mentality is in such a crime ridden and dangerous the following week and she showed me using the 3 1/2 figure. Since I showed her the self-perpetuating in the $12 Billion U.S. environment that we need armed guards? Do exactly what the RHA representatives would mistake it could not simply have been a pornography industry and has sent the Public Safety officials need arms to make read in reference to forced consolidation for careless mistake. It seems to me that it was occurrences of violence against women the campus secure? In life-threatening the residents to vote. Upon reading this an intentional attempt to mislead the residents (including the rapes victimizing 25% of situations and incidents of domestic violence information, I noticed the following and to manipulate the outcome of the vote. college women) sky-rocketing. The Press' on campus, Suffolk County Police should be problems: yours truly, contribution to this mode of thinking and called. They are nearby and could respond as a) Residents would not be given the To set the record quickly as Public Safety. They receive long- social practice is abhorrent! opportunity-- to vote for or against forced David Rubin May 10,1991 page 5 __Bush's Bogus "EducatnCOMMENTA RY Bush's Bogus "Education Strategy" by Josh Gazes this will lead to more parent involvement in government would rather try and trap high branches of the military, and the result is a lot education, but it will more likely encourage school students into accepting grants to go to of weapons nobody needs. The General President Bush recently proposed a new segregation. This can be seen in the schools school their first two years, only to have to Dynamics and Boeing Company, for plan that would provide federal funding for in the Dix Hills and Wyandanch rely on loans they will never be able to pay in example, have a solid base of military orders colleges as well as new schools. The neighborhoods of Long Island. These their last two years. for the next two decades. proposal, known as the America 2000 bordering districts represent the rich and poor The $690 million dollars Bush proposes to Meanwhile education has to concern itself Education Strategy, was designed by of Long Island, and the schools, although give to education, is only slightly more than with next year, and relatively no money (in Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, and close in proximity, are for all practical the $600 million it costs to build the B2 comparison). As a solution to the financial will cost the U.S. government $690 million purposes segregated. Stealth Bomber. The cost of a couple of F- woes of higher education, secretary (Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24 , Higher education is almost completely left 15's, $45 million, or F-16's $20 million will Alexander has praised the functional purpose 1991). out of the proposal. Other than a training balance out the difference (New York Times, of Community Colleges, a cheap alternative The plan, which would begin in 1992, ground for workers whose deficiencies will April 29). The government does plan to spend to four year colleges. Alexander cited as would use colleges to train adults for job be assessed by employees and improved $6.7 billion on financial aid in 1992, which if reasons for their praise, that community skills, and use colleges as academies for through training clinics, colleges will not be you remember will go down in the colleges are inexpensive, open at convenient teacher training. Apparently, the planned included in the plan, and receive no money. subsequent years, and is not much compared times, handy, and give people what they goals are to address the complaints of The plan did not call for any increase in to the $1 billion a day the U.S. defense want (Chronicle of Higher Education, April, employers, who are upset with the deficient financial aid to help students receive a budget is alotted to spend a day. During the 24), which is the same reason people eat at skills of adult and student workers, and to secondary education. Gulf War, the U.S. spent $30 - $60 billion. McDonald's instead of Tavern on the Green. improve the quality of education. "If we want America to remain a leader - a The weapons the U.S. has at the present Whether or not fast-food education is a In addition to teacher training, the proposal force for good in the world - we must lead the moment easily out weigh those of the Soviet viable solution to anyone who can not afford is dedicated to setting national standards for way in educational innovation," said Bush Union. Nevertheless, the military is still to go to college, which is not just poor people children in different academic disciplines, about his proposal (The Chronicle of Higher spending money on weapons, such as the but middle income families who will receive namely: english, math, science, history, and Education, April 24). If not giving students stealth, which is designed for a nuclear attack even less financial aid in coming years, geography. Part of this is to be achieved the opportunity to go to college is innovative, against the Soviet Union, a country actually Bush's proposal is not a solution to anything. through the developement of national tests, then the U.S. will be leading the way. In in a worse financial crisis then ours. Education secretary Alexander summed it up which will assess students progress in these some countries, such as China, and Germany, Arms manufacturers, such as the General best, "There will be no silver bullets, there categories. As well, by 1996, 535 "New college is free. But in the U.S.A., and New Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat, and will be no great transformations by the next American Schools" will be set up, with one in York in particular, tuition is going up. Tenneco Inc.'s Newport News, lobby in presidential election, everybody ought to each congressional disrtict, and an additional However, in 1992 there will be no increase congress for defense contracts for the settle in for the long haul and hope for two schools in each state. The federal in financial aid. This will eliminate 270,000 building of weapons such as the Seawolf success and expect some failures" (Chronicle government will provide 1 million dollars to students from the aid system in the 92-93 Program of nuclear submarines. Electric Boat of Higher Education, April 24). a school district, community organization, or school year. To increase its innovativeness, won a contract for $726 million to build the One wonders, that with the current military group of business leaders to develope a the administration will decrease the federal first Seawolf. Since then, the Navy plans on spending is Bush planning another war? school modelled after the above priorities. spending in financial aid in 1993, and again buying 3 or 4 submarines a year. However, Certainly, he has declared war on higher The plan also emphasizes the right of in 1994, below its spending in 1991. Juniors because of heavy lobbying, the Navy has felt education, but will anybody fight back? parents to choose the school their child and seniors in college can look forward to no obligated to split the work between the two attends. The administation is probably hoping longer receiving Pell Grants, as the companies. This has been the case in all the -COMMENTARY

Calvin Without Hobbes a-AJJL. b« Jlt«bhh S l I I In uy oil UI eaiy salvation and stressed that man should not be man's neglect. everyone who is to be saved is saved. God preoccupied with his salvation but rather Point 1: Total Depravity is a concept that is cannot lose; his purpose will be Calvinism, once the doctrine of the Presby- honor God no matter what. somewhat hard to come to grips with. It does accomplished. This doctrine relieves us of the terian Church, is shaken to the core. The Born on July 10, 1509 in Northern France, not mean that man is as bad as he can be, it burden of Total Depravity, and a trip to hell, Presbyterian National Committee Chairman Calvin was a lawyer at the time of the does mean that man is incapable of doing the but limited to those chosen by God and not John J. Carey's recommendation is what the Protestant Reformation in Germany when right thing for the right reason, unless he is everyone. Bible says as "the right will be wrong and the ripples of changes were reaching Paris. He "born again." Jeremiah: 17:9 tells us our heart POINT # 3: Limited Atonement says that wrong will be right."Carey told The was chased out of France when a fierce is deceitful above all things and desperately God has from the beginning been selective Washington Post, "The history of Christianity campaign of prosecution was launched wicked. Man's depravity is verified in and if election is a valid doctrine, the is to regard anything from the waist down, against Protestants. Calvin withdrew to Basel, everyday news. The Persian Gulf War and atonement was limited. Nevertheless, 'the stirring of the loins' as demonic." That's Switzerland, where he became a Bible Saddam Hussein...Back in the 1970s in New Evangelism is not to be governed by this all boloney. We think it is time to affirm the teacher. In Calvin's own words, "God by a York, a woman named Kitty Genovese was doctrine. That is, Christ only died for those eros." This could only happen in a land where sudden conversion subdued and brought my attacked and killed in front of 28 people. The whom the Father pre-destined for salvation. everything is permitted. It is both unhistorical mind to a teachable frame." point is that no one reached out to help her. This would seem unfair to the finite mind, but and ridiculous. Calvin wrote volumes of books on the We must thank the Lord as He has ordained God is infinite and all-knowing. Mona Charen, a syndicated columnist and Bible, some larger than the Bible itself. He is human government to restrain evil in the POINT # 4: Irresistible Grace teaches that political consultant wrote recently in known by his Five Points, T-U-L-I-P; T for hearts of man (the Police). Yes, even George man is born spiritually dead and the dead Newsday that "there is a school of thought Total Depravity, U for Unconditional Bush and some of those crooked cops are cannot resist being acted upon. that says that the solution to America's social Election, L for Limited Atonement, I for God's ministers. Yosef Hawkins, a kid, was "Predestination and election are from the ills is a return to religion." Carey has Irresistible Grace, and P for Perseverance of shot in Bensonhurst when he was looking for Lord, and man is powerless to alter either of recommended that the denomination rid itself the Saints. a used car to buy. He was shot because he them. When God determines to place his of sexual taboos and view sexual relations as Since the reversal of the moral code is was black...those boys who raped that Central wonderful grace on an individual, given the a God-given gift to be enjoyed by single men frightfully at hand this brief review on the Park jogger and beat her almost to death...a ability to hear the gospel, believe and make a and women, gays and lesbians, as well as Five Points of Calvinism would be panhandler late last year stabbed a man to commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ, it is responsible adolescents. Ms. Charen opposed paradoxical. America's hearts, though death for a dollar, then a telemarketing firm totally irresistible - immutable." this idea, saying that "thousands of teenage modestly contrite, is the very definition of was accused by state law enforcement agents POINT # 5: Perseverance of the Saints: girls are walking around pregnant - being depraved by nature, or Total Depravity. of massive fraud using free gifts as a True followers of Christ are obedient to him. potentially ruining two lives at once - For instance, there are the Hyper-Calvinists gimmick...a former welfare chief in Jersey Because God is faithful, the Saints will precisely because no one taught them that and Arminians. Hyper-Calvinists think that City, along with twelve others, were accused persevere. According to Edwin H. Palmer, premarital sex was morally wrong." since God controls everything that happens of stealing $300,000 from the Welfare the shortest and simplest description of the The sovereignty of God is the cornerstone and pre-ordained it to happen, they can sit System...the Savings and Loan mess Saints is "once saved, always saved. It is one of Reform theology, which laid the back and do nothing. They are wrong. (embezzlement extraodinaire) with $500 of the grandest thoughts in the Bible: once foundation of Predestination otherwise Arminianism is the opposite of strict Billion in loses...abortion...the drug you believe, you are never lost and you can known as Calvinism. Calvinism favored the Calvinism. They think it is impossible for all traffic...should I go on?...are we depraved or never go to hell. Christ will always be your idea of the Holy Commonwealth, a to be saved. This is against Limited not? savior. It is possible to get your eternal community unruled by the church nor clergy Atonement. The problem for most is that POINT # 2: Calvin's "unconditional destiny settled once and for all, so that you in which God is glorified by every member. "GOD IS ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN election" says that no one is saved, apart from can never have to worry about it." Initially, the activism of Calvinism was an OVER ALL THINGS AND EVENTS. WE God's elect. We do not understand election Man is totally depraved as a result of aggressive one when a group of Liberal ARE NOT REQUIRED TO UNDERSTAND because we live in a system where election is Adam's sin, saved only by grace. We were in Catholics in France were concerned with THE BIBLE BUT IT MUST BE conditional; we have to be elected by a group. "seed form" in Adam when he ate the apple reform. Among them was John Calvin, a BELIEVED."Seeing is not believing, In a monarchy, there is one ruler who rules, and cast sin on all mankind. This is only a humanist well trained in classical studies. He believing is seeing. It is a matter of faith. The and the succession is governed only by condensed sample of John Calvin's work and rebuked Cardinal Sadoleta's [the Catholic solution is reform and the application of the dynastic succession. Salvation was we can see his interpretation of the Bible as it bishop of Geneva] offering of a safer way of word. God's sovereignty is no excuse for predestined before the beginning and manifests itself in our time, the end of time. The Stony Brook Press page 6 - VI EWPOI NT

ar Resist To Exist (r m -T1 l^4/ Ia^.r So by Chris Delvecchio Ginsberg, Tuli Kupferberg, and Anne Waldman, outspoken community activist and It's only fitting that the NYC area's MC Lori Rizzo discussed such current issues -r r '. .o%4 te cr primary May Day celebration was in as the Shawn and Joe case and that of the Tomkins Square Park this year, the site of May Day 29. much community resistance and many a In the Shawn and Joe case, a woman and a police riot over the last few years. Tomkins man climbed atop the Times Square Square Park is the only one left in the city Recruitment Station and after raising a red without a curfew and that's solely due to the flag in place of the American flag they rft< coverage and determination of the squatters attempted to burn, poured oil and fake blood and other local activists who have been over the station in protest of the war that had wi^' demanding both that the park be the yet to be launched. Consequently, the Joint recognized property of the homeless women Terrorist Task Force was called in and the and men living there and an end to police two were charged with Attempted Arson, a brutality against them in this ongoing charge that carries a maximum sentence of 10 struggle. The people of Tomkins Square years. Park and the people who went to the The case of the May Day 29 centers around celebration for the entertainment and to offer the arrestees of 1990 May Day celebration in support seemed to generally recognize the the park where the cops pulled the plug on affinity of the war against the working class the sound system, violently stormed the stage homeless there and the war against the and crowd, and a riot broke out. working persons, many of whom socialists Consequently, Ms. Rizzo and others are and anarchists, throughout history facing sentences up to 7 years. responsible for unions, better working Fortunately, this year's celebration didn't conditions, shorter work days, higher wages, end on a bad note, but rather on one of etc. It was a day where we were able to resistance to a system that, when it's not freely share food (all vegetarian & non- using the working class to fight its wars, dairy), our experiences, our politics, and our keeps the same people homeless, hungry, and love in the comfortable atmosphere of uneducated to act as cheap labor and scab solidarity. labor all year round...the idea that fuels the Between the bands and performers of sorts fire for those who feel for the spirit of May such as the False Prophets, Yuppicide,-- Allen Day. Audit SUNY Talkin' To The Prez By Robert Rothenberg can put more emphasis on learning, especially if the knowledge is needed for the Administration, certainly as represented SUNY is chilling in the shade of massive later, more difficult classes which are graded. continued from page 12 different kinds of by the people that you've been dealing with, budget cuts and tuition hikes and the SUNY Students can also put quality into papers and there's a...there are...there's campuses, have actually tried to help. Becuase, the community is readying to hold a wake over exams which they are graded for that issues there. None of the CUNY population objectives and the issues are ones that most the decline of higher education. But what is semester. (If some form of registration is for example, have any residential big difference in how people are sympathetic with. This is a terrible needed are innovative and flexible solutions, required for full-time status, why not use at all, and there's a certainly has been a time, I don't think we yet know what the survival techniques for the quasi-apocalypse. some form of S/U or P/NC grading.) they're managed. There on the CUNY impact of these budget reductions and So here's an idea to chew on: kill the The Mathematics and science departments big difference in the reactions by the administration too, uh, it's whatever tuition increase or change finally mandatory, lower-division prerequisites and could also do with the same policy. Rather campuses too bad... happens. We don't yet know what the impact encourage students to audit the classes than stress over a grade in Calc-I or Intro to and again, just to touch on that, will be. And, I really am worried...I almost instead. Students who are already familiar Physics or Chemistry the students could just GB: Right, efforts are being made to coordinate and don't want to find out because I know it's with the basic skills taught in such courses sit in and learn it, if they need to. "Survey of unify CUNY and SUNY students, as you going to be a lot worse than anything that need not waste their time, while those who Psychology" (103) is another waste of credit the rally that is planned for April 30th we've had before. So, it's really...not enough need to learn them, or would like a review, hours - one can get by skimming the reading know, Park is an attempt to do that. So, people taking it seriously and I think your could sit in on the classes for the sake of while not attending classes yet still qualify in Battery we have been very clear to articulate to actions have made people realize it's a heavy LEARNING the subject And the class need with a C for the core requirements, students at other campuses that we've talked issue. not be overcrowded nor be in as many essentially learning nothing from it. If such to while we're here and to the statewide GB: ...we've already gone and we've talked sections. classes were for auditing only, they would be leadership, that with CSEA leadership about this yesterday, An example: EGC-101 is a waste of time forced to become interesting and perhaps student movement and their we didn't want to be seen as trying to foster we've talked with Dr. Preston about this, and for many students who have no problem with educational (while those who were pursuing kind of split between the two Mr. Snorek about this. We hope that you will, writing - and if they did better on the the major and who might already know the any organizations because our tactic is so again, verbalize to the woman who was in placement exam they would only have been subject-matter could skip the classes). radically different form what they've done. here, the employee who was in here... required to take EGC-102, which defies all Along similar lines students should be We went in with the idea of a short stay - JM: Oh, yeah... sense. (a remedial writing course seems required to do more independent study. This mainly we figured that we could get GB: ...that we were very saddened that we flawed when you're taking an upper-division will force students to learn practical clerical cooperation from the Administration instead had to shock her and do what we did - she class and the professor complains that most skills of library research and reading, to of having to deal with a situation where you was very upset, she was afraid that she would of the students, presumably juniors and interact with their professors on a human might have to oppose us becuase of our be held accountable for having left the offices seniors, do not know how to write and should level, as well as encourage creative thinking, continued occupation of your offices. open, and you know, by the nature of our stop by the Writing Center...) if not studying a subject they find interesting JM: Well, let me say again, I think you've shocking her...she was very upset at the time. Another example in the English department and that they can use for a future dissertation. done it well, you've caught us by surprise We want to again convey our apologies to her is "Literary Analysis" (205), which many Students can also work responsibly and and I think you not only captured the for what we did and we hope that you will be majors prefer to save until their junior or independently. attention of a lot of people but also did get a able to do that personally. We will probably senior years. Although a "prereq" they get By loosening the lower-division lot more support than you otherwise would make attempts to let her know, once we're by quite well without it. It makes much more requirements (which are often dull, to put it have. I mean, it's very difficult to get a out of here, if we can... sense to have fewer sections of this course as politely) students can take the time to favorable reaction for something like this out JM: Send her some flowers or something. audit-lectures for those who need or would actually learn the subject-matter. Resources of staff, people who really don't understand GB:...flowers or something. like to learn the subject rather than require from fewer class sections (if they exist) are these things very well. But I think the staff JM: Harry Snorek told me that he felt that actually taking the class, thus forcing an freed up to add a wider variety of upper- people, they have a fairly positive attitude the situation was o.k., that in fact you were as overcrowded and uncomfortable environment division courses to the department. And most about this, and that's been a surprise to me. I gentle with her as you could be and he was which is anything but conducive to learning, of all, Stony Brook (and other SUNy schools) think that that's typical of a positive reaction pretty impressed. and overburdens the teachers and students may have a chance to become institutions of that you might find throughout the GB: O.k... with grades that fail to really indicate what higher learning and creatively thinking University. So, I think people are intrigued JM: Very good. O.k., thanks very much, the students knows. individuals rather than degree factories which by it, I think that they are pleased that it was have a good night, and I hope you get some Without a concern for what-grade-am-I- chur out automatons able to complete the so different and that it came off well and I work done! Bye-bye! going-to-get-on-this-test/paper (and thus less assigned task of the day... hope that people are pleased by the fact the test-jockeying,.j W 4.0 cheating and competition) one May 10,1991 page 7 Ir - · · mmillimm Claiming Pad by Lara Jacobson would take over Marburger's offices in the For days before the April 24th student Administration building and occupy it for 48 takeover of President Marburger's ten-room THE INSIDE STORY, PART II hours. They had asked a Stony Brook Press suite of offices a large group of students reporter to come along with them and vigorously discussed and planned the observe. One reason for their asking a prospect of a takeover. After the April 18th reporter to be present was because many student demonstration protesting proposed students were still expressing concern about budget cuts and tuition hikes shut down arrest. All involved were well aware of the Administration in numbers, many students ever-present risk of arrest and were willing to were inspired and met to discuss further face that, however, people expressed mistrust actions. The general feeling of these meetings of Public Safety. was excitement and various ideas about how The group was intellectually very prepared. to "fight back" were introduced. People They intended to go in for 48 hours, calling seemed to want to carry out a radical action themselves "Students United for a that was similar to the recent CUNY Responsible Budget" - protesting proposed takeovers - CUNY students all over New New York state budget cuts and impending York City were for weeks barricaded inside tuition hikes, and then leave, figuring that the schools with chains, welding and two-by- considering the particular atmosphere of the fours. school the action would be better received by A lot of argument arose when these tactics the administration. They had letters urging were proposed, especially from the more valid concern about student apathy and the forward and truly organize. The result of support to Marburger, the students, faculty, politically involved activists. Students from possibility that if such an action were to take these meetings was a small group of students Public Safety. They had a list demands (or Polity were wary of taking an action that place, outside student support could be who had chosen George Biederman, Editor of goals) of rules of conduct to be followed could amount to violence and vandalism. minimal. People were considerably very the GSO News & Blues and C&D agent for while inside which they all signed. They had SASU associates saw the movement to be too worried about arrest. the Statesman to be their "fearless leader" (as literature on the budget cuts and progressive shaky and unorganized, and warned that Student apathy seemed to have spread it's he was later dubbed in jest) in planning a state tax reforms. They had banners. taking such an action includes extensive opium to even the most radical USB student, radical takeover of some kind. Some of the However, tactically, Tuesday's early-morning planning and more supplies than one might as these meetings were highly scattered, and students involved were ready to go in, but takeover plan was very flawed. It was believe (at this point people were suggesting no central leadership reared it's head. Lots of most were to be designated as outside obvious that the plans were scattered - orders a takeover of the entire Administration ideas were tossed around - shutting down the assistance. Some students involved were were miscommunicated - people were not building), unwavering support from the University through it's computers - blocking Robert Willis; junior, Laurie DeLegrange; clear where their "stations" were, and a host unions, the University and the surrounding all the traffic with student-driven buses. junior, and Carol Cain; freshman. Although of other problems occured. community. Heady discussions about the link between these individual have chosen to make their Everyone arrived wearing black because Students expressed concern about this, Governor Coum1o and the cuts and U.S. names public, the group has requested that people assumed they were going to sneak in because they knew that in "Republican imperialism helped people to piece their the number of students inside never be while it was still dark. However, everyone Country," as one student claimed Long Island entire purpose and vision together. revealed. showed up late. to be, outside support would most certainly A lot of people seemed interested in doing After days of deliberation the group had a Biederman began by scouting out the be nearly nonexistent With this also came the something - but no one wanted to step plan. Tuesday morning, April 23rd, they Administration building, not so inconspi-

- cousl runnin arou talkie at five a.m. People were given orders to The following are personal accounts of with letters under the door of the offices. MYTH: We did nothing but sleep and eat move in at different times. The planned the April 24 takeover of Marburger'soffice Now that it is over I feel relieved that no and talk on the phones. method of getting in was shabby - someone from students who participated punitive action was taken. I have to get FACT: Everyone was on thephone at some would go check and see if the door to the back into the swing of school that I missed point throughout the occupation calling office was open. Basically, it was the lack of student while inside the office. I hope people state legislatures and fellow students at Needless to say, that morning's plan was awareness that helped me make up my realize how important this issue is to all CUNY and SUNY. Hours were spent insuccessful. At least twenty figures garbed mind to occupy the President's office. students here at Stony Brook. This is your talking to the media and to the in black creeping towards the building at 7, Although I was afraid of the ramifications state education fight to keep it yours. If all Administration. We became hoarse from a.m. brought Public Safety to the scene fo this action, I concluded that the profits the people who say, "It can't change a talking too much. Those who were not on immediately. One student, carrying a huge (being student awareness and getting a thing" got together than they would be the phone were occupied with security. bag over his shoulder that contained the two- message through to legislation and CUNY) surprised at what they could do. United we Even though we were assured for the first by-fours was met by an officer in the lobby of far outwieghed the risks. With this mindset stand divided we fall. day that we would not be removed without Administration. The officer asked if there I took my task of bringing the two-by-fours by Robert Willis a warning, this verbal promise alone was was a protest that day. To that the student into the office with relish. During the first not to be trusted. Every entrance or exit had replied that that day was Lab Animal few moments of the occupation my MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT THE to be gaurded plus people were needed to Liberation Day, and perhaps there was a adrenaline was sky high, running from door OFFICE OCCUPATION answer any questions that people outside rally. Through the officer's radio one could tho door with either wood or nails. After the door needed to ask. When tactical hear that Public Safety had spotted everyone. this I calmed down and began to relax. Full Many individuals in the Stony Brook meetings were held, they had to be People were wary of trying anything again relaxation didn't arrive, though, until I community think that the choice President taperecorded so that the others who were in the near future. However, they understood heard the voice of Fred Preston speaking in Marburger's office for a takeover was a on security duty could listen to it at a later very acutely the urgency of the situation. such a tone that led me to believe that we matter of convenience. Well, it was not, for time. Each person got, for the most part, six Finals were coming up, and soon the semester were not going to be ousted from our many reasons. So, here are some myths and hours of sleep during those 48 hours. Some would be over. They had to act quickly. protest. With this reassurance my facts about the occupation: stayed up all night studying and writing When it was suggested that the takeover be compadres and I set about the task of papers for their classes. again attempted the next morning, many making our occupation public. For me the MYTH: We knew there was going to be a The fact is, what we did was not easy. It balked, certain that Public Safety knew rest of the day was spent answering bathroom, with a shower available and a took weeks of planning, no sleep, not everything and would be waiting to greet questions for on and off campus media. kitchen with food. eating right, no classes, no social life, no them. They knew that it must be planned This stream of questions was broken by a FACT: This happened purely by luck, we personal life (yes, contrary to popular belief better or the same thing would happen. It was tuna fish sandwich, which never tasted so were prepared for the possibility of the we have other stuff to do with ourselves decided that there was no harm in good. I spent the night (while not on watch) trying. President's office being locked. So, we other than take over offices). Should we be Tuesday morning's failure was sleeping on the floor in the conference not took along with us a bucket and a bottle of complimented? Personally, I don't think so. complete simply because the group learned room. Early the nest moring I took a cold bleach - this would have been our I did it because I was fighting for the right what not to do. The next morning, everyone shower (no hot water) and had a cinnamon "bathroom" for two days. This would not to an affordable education, the right to was prepared. They knew they had Pop Tart for breakfast. While others were to wait for have been very convenient considering the demand a responsible budget from the the cleaning woman to open up on the phone to media and legislatures, I set the offices majority of the individuals in the office goverment. I knew what I was getting into. and what time, that way they could about the task of calling students' rooms to enter non- were females, like myself. The kitchen was What you can do is educate yourself - violently. They understood that strategically let them know that there was an occupation make not a big deal, we were willing to survive it your business to find out the issues every person must know his or her position and to see what their reactions' were. Most concerning on bread, peanut butter and jelly, tuna, the budget crisis - get and exactly what to do and when. responses were positive, which made me information. crackers, granola bars and plain water. There is just so much one The people going in plus a few others feel pretty proud of myself. person Luck was with us again when Domino's can do, but together we can all do a (aiding in entering and securing the protestors The rest of the second day passed in this lot. Hey, delivered via a box attached to rope I need to write papers, study, and inside) nervously waited at various entrances fashion. The rally was a disappointment but attend through an office window our last night classes also! to the Administration it was offset by people giving their support building at there. by Trish approximately 6:30 a.m., waiting for continued on page 9 The Stony Brook Press page 8 I - L _ _ , MIMMIIIIIIIMIB continued from page 8 Biederman, who was on the roof with the radio, to give the go-ahead to enter the back stairwell EYE TO EYE - that leads out to the President's offices on the third floor. Two of the people were late - the others had to go into the building without them. A conversation wi th USB President Marburger While waiting in the stairwell the other two showed up - but the person who went out looking The following are segments of a didn't haire it when I talked to then, they just JM: That's fine. for them was not back. Time was short and one transcription of the telephone conversation told me tdiat. Why don't you read it to me? GB: O.k. ... I already basically cleared this could hear people walking up and down the that took place on Thursday, April 25th at A: "This is in response to our telephone with Fred and Harry, that in addition to the stairs from the fourth floor where everyone was approximately 10 pm between USB conversaItion earlier today regarding a written or supplementary to the written rules crouched, waiting. All the people were in by 7 PresidentJohn H. Marburgerand the group commitnlent by the University to grant and agreements we had made, we did make a.m. Carol Cain, one of the people destined to go of student protestors who were occupying amnesty and refrain from any punitive it clear that there was some minor damage inside, was waiting on the third floor stairwell, his ten-room suite of offices in action ag,ainst the persons occupying the that occured at the entrances to the suite. t's listening for the cleaning woman. Suddenly the demonstration of their opposition to President offices from April 24th-April Obviously that damage was inflicted in static of a police radio echoed throughout the proposed New York State budget cuts and 26th. This commitment is made on the basis securing ourselves. Basically it just involves stairwell - a Public Safety officer was walking up subsequent SUNY tuition increases: of the oc

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I I II IL, •A Ir% %IL I1I VIfVVWUIN I Junk Bonds Tuition Oppression by Randy Campbell &Todd B. Stephens their taxes lowered! Meanwhile, the students solution. The progressive taxation proposal of the state are being "shook -down" to fill a from the New York Black and Puerto Rican continued from page 4 The media and administrators are budget hole that we did not create, at the Legislative Caucus is one offered solution. future economic success which would include conspiring to fool the students. They would expense of our very educations. The proposal advocates not only a mainstreaming minority businesses and have students believe that a $550 tuition hike, proportional taxation of the richest members reaching different parts of the world, i.e. a $400 TAP (Tuition Assistance Program) When considering this issue, remember the of the state, but also the closing of corporate Latin America and Europe in light of cut, the phasing out of Regents and Liberty following points: loopholes. Taken together, these measures geopolitical shifts in the post post-war world. Scholarships, and the elimination of student could potentially yield between 23 and $2.8 Conservatives have called on American support programs like C-STEP are not only 1. The increasing demand for higher tuition is billion in new state revenues. universities to produce more Milkens and the inevitable, but necessary! They would have nothing more than a student tax: students are Wall Street Journal praised the financier. In the students believe that these measures are being forced to bear the brunt of the state's Students must make themselves aware of his book Yago refrains from making legal needed to maintain the quality of the budgetary problems through tuition raises the forces at work against them. It is time for interpretations on the junkster, but credits education we currently receive at Stony that will not contribute to their campuses at the student to stand up for the rights and him for recognizing straight debt and equity Brook. I write this to inform students that this all, but will go to fill the state's budget gap. respect due to them; rights and respect that as unresponsive to the current economic not true. the state administrations have been violating environment. Forbes reports that Milken Mid-year, spring semester 1990, there was 2. The state created SUNY to guarantee for a long time. invited Yago to speak at a 1987 junk bond a tuition hike $150 (check your bill). For the accessibility to students who wished to attend conference for which Drexel (the dominating fall semester 1991, there will be another $150 college, but couldn't afford to do so -Randy Campbell is USB's current brokerage of the securities) paid the author tuition hike. For $300 there will be larger otherwise, By raising tuition, the state SASU delegate $1000. Drexel also partially funded the classrooms, less library hours, less course undercuts this original purpose by unfairly -Todd B. Stephens will take the post economist's research on his new book. offerings, course cancellations, and 175 setting the price of an education beyond the next year Yago has seen controversy before. In 1987 faculty lay-offs. Not bad for the low price of range of many students who will not be able his Economic Research Bureau warned of a $300! to return to their studies. For many of these bleak economic future for the region citing a Now, Governor Cuomo has proposed that students the comparably affordable SUNY is An article in the Volume deteriorating infrastructure, high costs for students pay an additional $500 in tuition. their last resort for a higher education. housing, labor, energy and taxes, a steady That would bring the grand total to $800 in 12, No. 9 issue of The loss of opportunity for middle income new tuition that students will have to pay, 3. The proposed raise in tuition to 800 extra workers, and the continuing departure of which will go into a general state fund and dollars does not even take into account the Stony Brook Press young people who grew up here. Government not back to the campus. additional funds that will have to come out of misprinted the potential and business critics demanded a rewrite Understand: the tuition money goes to the students' pockets because of cuts in the TAP fearful that the report, "Long Island: Comihg state, and not to the campuses! system. Cuts of up to $400 have been annual savings of a of Age in the 21st Century," would frighten You should also understand that while all of proposed, boosting the potential out-of- Project Prometheus people away from the region. One econom this is going on, the richest residents and pocket raise in tuition to $1200. has called it a case of shooting the messenger businesses are being asked to pay nothing. study. The correct figure that bears bad news. Recent events seem to They have not been pressed to contribute to 4. Progressive Taxation: When one identifies is $630.46. prove the professor correct. this state fund-raiser, and, indeed, have had a problem, one must be prepared to offer a The Stony Brook Press page 10 _ __ __ FICTION Visiting Guests by Andrew Fish something new about it Turquoise presents a pact, but is it still your wish to remain yourself." shade of blue which appeals to me. And beholden to those to whom the pact has tied "It's a wonderful defense to protect me Nor Ladine sat atop his favorite hill, water and air, which provide such different you? A while ago, you chose to bind yourself from predators like yourself." asked, beneath the sleeping willow. He stared surroundings, fascinate me. Swimming is a to a group. That is what you wanted then, but "May I have that now?" Flent had not left around him at the land that no one owned and lovely form of transportation, don't you are you the same young man you were at the reaching for the gray sash which had no name. In his loin cloth of goat hide, think?" She suddenly realized how forward time? Must you abide by the rules agreed Nor's hand. Nor was hesitant. want it? I have, on and his yellow hooded cloak which fluttered she was being - forcing a response from upon by someone with whom you no longer "Are you sure you in my assessment of in the breeze, Nor's figure was in odd another person. She covered her mouth and agree? Time creates difference between man occasion, been wrong agreement with his surroundings. stepped back, ashamed. Nor eyed Flent, and himself as he was. Did your reasons, other people." give it to me before The willow had once wept, but now it whose expression confirmed Nor's back then, involve such timeless elements as "Yes, I'm sure. Now code obliges me to strike you for sleeps peacefully. Nor had spoken with the conclusion that Sarania was never known to love or true enlightenment? Do you want the fraternal tone, and your tree and had asked it why it wept. have said so much at once. what you have, or do you have what your both your patronizing to yield to my desires - "I weep," it had said, "because that is what "I wholly agree, Sarania," Nor answered, long time ago self thought would give you unwillingness the fact that I'll probably fall was given to me from my creation. I weep and observed the girl emerge from her what you wanted?" Flent's face remained notwithstanding down the hill again because that is who I am and that is what I abashedness. Her transformation was softly flushed, though in the attempt." must do." brilliant - an uncrease of an eyebrow, a curve perhaps for a Flent grinned, as "And how do you feel?" Nor had asked. of the lips, an unclenching of hands, and different reason. But hi wnrc nnt a•lurlt to his stomach "I feel tired." among and created by all this was a fine, convulsed in silent, why don't you sleep?" unwavering iridescence about her which capitulate. "Then friendly laughter. is not who .... I am." seemed a basic power within her which had "Time has little to "Because that Nor, who had are you?" come to light. Nor was pleasantly awed. do with me as I am," "Who remained sitting to sleep. Thank you." "Propelling one's body through the water," Flent announced. "I "I am .... going throughout, rose, was that among the weeping Nor continued, "solely by way of one's own have learned And so it and offered the willows, in the land that Nor could see, one natural facilities can be a soothing nothing new about sash to Flent. sobbed vacant tears. experience, as well as a practical way of myself since I of them slept. The others Flent accepted it Nor, "are all the tears of getting from here to there. And you," joined my land- "Though," thought and wrapped it some have grief, indicating Flent, "put this on." Nor produced brothers... and this is the willows vacant? Perhaps about his waist, and cry. I a gray sash from a pocket of his yellow cloak how the land- and must act upon their feelings, and the three The distant and presented it to Flent. brothers deal with must never be hasty in judgment. examined its weeping I hear may very well be the throes of "Why?" asked Flent. those who... who "You'd look better with it on." they wish to deal effect. It was saddened foliage." Sarania who hill, their "I look well enough without it. This is the with in this way." Ascending to the top of the voiced her opinion. footsteps were loud enough to attract the garb which is worn by my fellow land- Flent approached Nor - an attempt at "You do look attention of Nor, who turned to see who had brothers and myself. I'm sorry, but I will not %.'...... - . ... violate our tenets." the invasion of better, Flent. You come. He saw two figures dressed in white - a like "Oh, enough of this tainting of the fraternal Nor's space, which no longer look young bearded man and a fair-skinned young you are with woman - with similar noses and lips, and with code nonsense," assailed Nor. "Can the could be interpreted other way than that Flent wished to child." Flent smiled in surprise at his sister's hair to their shoulders. wrapping of a piece of fabric about your in no Nor watched as Flent slipped on a Iuncharacteristic response. Nor chuckled, and "Siblings, I presume," began Nor, "have waist truly have such a profound effect on strike him. of mud and lost his balance and rolled gazed at her incandescence. Flent looked over come to investigate. You have found me up your life? It's not as if you were losing half of stripe down much of the hill. to the hills, where the sun had recently set, here - is there anything that you would like? your mind, or receiving the gift of a third eye looked at Sarania, but she did nothing, and then looked up at the sky. "I am Fent, and this is my sister, Sarania," - I am merely suggesting that you put this on, Nor suppressed a smile. They waited as Flent, "It's getting dark," he said. "We ought to said the young man, "We saw you from the and you seem to wish to remain a submissive and had acquired a small laceration above build a fire." hilltop to the east, and were intrigued. This boy without a will of his own." Flent, who who right eyebrow, ascended again. Reaching "Why?" asked Sarania. "I think it should be willow does not weep. Is this your doing?" could not contain his words to which his his the top of the hill, expressionless, he stared at dark when the world gets dark. That's when "No," replied Nor, "it is its doing, and I tongue had been aching to give shape, Nor, who spoke. the sky opens up and lets you see the stars, would very much like to hear your voice as perhaps even had he wanted to, blushed red "Jack fell down and broke his crown, and and forever." well," he indicated to the young woman. and retaliated. Jill maintained her composure." Sarania "It is warm enough," Flent confessed. "I am Sarania," she said, timidly. "How dare you say that. I share my smiled and covered her mouth as she laughed "Darkness it shall be, then." "Is that all?" asked Nor. brothers' code because I wish to. It was my I a little. "Excellent choice," Nor remarked, smiling "What do you mean?" she asked nervously. own decision to sign the pact and join them. I certainly After a moment, Flent raised his arms in comfortably, and contented with the day What could she have done wrong? did it of my own free will, which interaction almost amicable surrender. which was over, now. That night they slept "Is that all you are?" do possess." Sarania watched this slightest sign of her "You've beaten my mind and body. I see under the sleeping willow and the opened up "I, I am sister of Flent, and daughter of with shy interest, and the enveloped her before. you've made use of that mud from the grove sky. Jerent and Melasha. I know many things, and brilliance which had to the north. I should have noticed the circle have experienced nearly none of them. I Nor responded to Flent. It was your wish to sign the of the stuff which you've drawn around enjoy looking at things until I know "I believe you.

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_ · r rr -~ I -- s FI-rLI -1 - II I II - -C11 I _ - - - - I-I May 10, 1991t page 11 TUN IES By Wayne Myer everybody would go there and think it was really great, but I thought 'I don't give a shit. On April 23, KMFDM, one of West I just do what I want to do and if I can't make Germany's leading industrial bands, played it here, I'll make it in America, or somewhere The Limelight, promoting their new album, else.' And that's what I do." Naive. The opening band was Braindead KMFDM lyrics are often controversial for Sound Machine, a California band that has reasons of profanity, but more often, for the recently become an addition to the Wax Trax! socio-political messages. I asked what he saw record company. The band started their set wrong other than that which he spoke of with a very driving and beat infested intro, specifically in his songs."I see, mainly, a lack but the music was downhill from there. The of responsibility. The politician who sells a heat that they started with soon dropped to piece of land to someone he knows because room temperature. After a grudgerous 35 he is the politician and he can make it [the minutes of their noise, they finally left the deal]. The person he sells it to builds a poison stage, albeit slowly. gas factory or something that really pollutes A DJ filled the interim with spun industrial the environment. That person is without music. Some people danced, most wandered responsibility. I think that, especially the around like exotic tropical birds displaying politicians that are elected by a democratic their proud plumage of leather jackets majority, should be more responsible, but encrusted with safety pins, names and since they are not, every single one of us, symbols of favorite bands, and hair styles that you, me, Mr. Shit from down the block, consisted of everything from dyed patterns to everybody has to wake up. If we don't wake dreads to freshly shaven wedges. As the up and take the responsibility that we have to intervening time wore on, more people take, it might be too late very soon." aligned towards the stage and filtering Sasha also talked about Alien Jourgensen towards the front. I decided that that was a (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Lard, PailHead). good time to reserve my position at the front, "He just created an image so extreme, that he unfortunately right against the stage. can't get away from it. Everybody thinks he's KMFDM came onto the stage a little after this skull-smashing person to interviewers midnight. The crowd went up in a roar of West Germany's and shit, so nobody is really wanting to excitement and anticipation. Soon after their interview him. Some people that do, find out, appearance on stage, the thrash-metal guitar 'Well, he's a good guy.' He's intelligent, he's riffs and the driving bass line thump of their nice... We try to just stay away from that shit single, "God-like" heaved the people forward K M F D M [maintaining an image]. If we want to do a in sync with its digital secretion. The exotic new age record tomorrow, I swear to God, we birds soon became a single writhing mass that stand against his crotch, and blasting out the Masturbate, Karl Marx Found Dead will do it." reacted in a ripple effect to the slamming that socio-political lyrics that makes up KMFDM. Masturbating, (laughs), and all this shit, you Sasha expressed a disdain for bands that At stormed on in the middle of the rectangular 1:15 A.M., they walked off the stage for know. And some of the meanings in German, just strive for money. "A lot of other people, room. the last time that night. well one of them, means something like 'no they fucking don't care, they don't give a shit Before the The smoke filled and humidity laden concert, I had an opportunity to pity for the majority, no majority for the about what is going around, what's going on atmosphere gave rise to a higher intensity in speak with Sasha Konietzko, leader of pity', whatever." around them. They just want more record the audience that augmented the music KMFDM, vocalist, and lead percussionist. The music of KMFDM, although it blasts sales, nicer clothes, nicer cars. Just all that blaring out from the amps. Many of the We sat in a room, dimly lit by black and red the workings of a system that is against the shit." people in this room were on an expressway light bulbs, that reeked of smoke covered up people, is not very well liked in Germany. KMFDM underwent changes in members to a higher heaven for the evening. The by too much carpet deodorizer. He sat "We're not very appreciated in Germany, over the years. Sasha explained the radical music, by virtue of sheer volume, located the opposite me across a coffee table stirring, and because we're Germans. I don't know if the shifts in the band. "Basically, En Esch and I occasionally resonance frequency of my body, especially sipping, his vodka and cranberry, same phenomenon happens here, but we used are KMFDM. There's people coming and my teeth, and I felt I was going to vibrate and chaining filterless Camels. His light to play in Hamburg, my hometown. People going that join the two of us." He also noted across the floor. There was a certain magic German accent poured out around the butt in would be totally arrogant about it, 'Well, they that, like a lot of other bands, things did not about being deafened and squashed closer to his mouth. cannot be good 'cause they're from alwa.ys run smoothly. "We have a lot of people than I would get even with those I was First on the list of subjects discussed was Hamburg."' "And the shittiest American controversy, a lot of arguments, but actually intimate with. what KMFDM actually stands for. "It stands guitar players, like Sonic Youth, a couple of that's what makes KMFDM work. It's a The show powered on through for a lot of things in a lot of different the night, En years ago, was, like, really shitty. I mean compilation of two very extreme, very Esch (guitar, percussion, lead vocals) shaking languages; it stands for Kill Mother Fucking they still are, but now they have a major different people in one project." sweat on the crowd, rubbing the microphone Depeche Mode, Kylie Minogue Fans Don't [record] deal and stuff. But they came, and Occupation continued from page 9 inside it seemed as if no one knew, and the Public Safety retreat at 7:30 a.m. from the could not differentiate who was who. state legislatures, and SUNY and CUNY protestors understandably felt abandoned and front of Administration. A group of people While inside one of the main questions schools. The students got their message out discouraged. However, as it turned out, the would meet them wearing scarves and hats as asked of the protestors was, "why the on WUSB, WBAB, and CBS radio, and students got such a favorable reaction from the students exited the back stairwell, also President's office?" The answer: "It belongs eventually in The Press, USB Weekly, the administration student support was not incognito. This way, the students inside to the students...this office is a symbol - it Statesman, and Newsday. needed on that level. would be "absorbed" into the ones outside encompasses the entire University. It should The group found the bathroom in Biederman was negotiating with Preston for and anyone who could have been out front make Albany listen." Marburgers office, banana bread in the immunity from any punitive University or waiting to count or identify those leaving President's refrigerator (a note apologizing criminal charges for all students involved for which later made page four of Newsday) (provided the rules were followed). From the and ate it all, along with the rest of the food. beginning he conveyed the notion that They browsed through the President's book immunity would be granted, given the nature collection and admired the predominately of the demonstration. Preston and Snorek sent Conversation with Jack Asian artwork on the walls. There was a a memo to the offices the following evening television - however, there was little time assuring amnesty for the students. for However, continued from page 9 trying to say that, 'this is a better way to do it as as it was all a person could do to get a Marburger could revoke the decision at that, as you know, are starting to cause some it." couple of hours sleep in there. The toaster any time the students wanted a verbal or split among the student bodies there, that JM: Yeah. No, there's a curious decoupling oven in the kitchen blew up. written gaurantee from him on the issue. He students are now being alienated and are very between SUNY and CUNY and surprisingly Student support on the outside had was in Washington, D.C. until Thursday no upset about having classes closed down. We the two situations are rarely compared. In central organization, but the Earth Day evening, and when he finally called at around don't want that to be used against them, we fact, it's too bad, in a way, but there is a very celebration in the Fine Arts Plaza brought 10 p.m. the students were very glad to talk to don't want the connection being made to the sharp division, a tension, both on the political about 30 people around to the him. Included in this feature is a loop chanting, transcription effect that, 'well, why didn't they do what side and on the administrative side between "They say cut back, we say fight back!" of the conversation Dr. Marburger had with SUNY Stony Brook people did because look SUNY and CUNY. There's much less Provisions were sent up via rope pully. the students over speakerphone. Needless to how successful that was and how good the interchange than you might think, and I just However, the rally planned for April 25th say, all of the students were gauranteed full Adminstration responded.' So we hope that don't think there will be that kind of thing. I became a letter-writing campaign. Those amnesty upon their exit. you will keep that in mind in representing, think that people who are engaged in the students who did offer their support were Exactly 48 hours later the students exited you know, our goals and our decisions in CUNY situation really do understand that, dedicated, spirited, but few. While on the the office. The students had arranged to have taking this action. (It) had nothing to so with see Talkin' To The Prez on page 7 The Stony Brook Press page 12 TUNIES Symphonic Celebration: USBOrchesra PaysTrbute tSIravbty by Greg Forte Stravinsky. Director Bradley Lubman views Stravinsky's work as a "neo-classic, quasi- The walls of the Main Stage of The Staller tonal, rhythmically ultra-Stravinskian Center for the Arts once again rumbled as the symphonic masterpiece." It sounded much Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra performed better when it was performed, and in not so last Saturday evening. Under the direction of many words. Bradley Lubman, the program contained After intermission the concert continued as works by Ravel, Stravinsky and Brahms. Dena Levine played on Piano Concerto No.1 This closing concert of the season was in D Minor, Opus 15 by Johannes Brahms. performed in the memory of the late Levine was excellent on piano. She was right Stravinsky. on key and was the highlight of the entire The first piece was Le Tombeau de performance. Couperin by Maurice Ravel. This early With tickets sales doubling and attendance French piece was written in tribute to growing since the season began Mr. Lubman Francois Couperin, a famous Baroque should be very pleased. His first season as composer. For me, this work was enjoyable principle conductor with the Stony Brook but I felt that its meaning sailed over my Orchestra has been a big success. If you need head. further information regarding upcoming The second piece was Symphony in Three events contact the Department of Music, Movements (1945), composed by Igor 632-7330. -~--- , Is I -~d --- I ~--- · - - · I John does The Dead proud, adding his personal blues touch to "Deal." However, some of the renditions on the disc don't work well. Midnight Oil massacres "Wharf Rat" (which, prior to hearing this version, was one song that I thought could never be anything but beautiful). Jane's Addiction's version of "Ripple" is just plain 1) Urge Overkill a awful - although it has been getting 2) Flat Duo Jets considerable amount of radio airplay-don't ask me why. 3) Feelies No matter if the songs are all brilliant or 4) Dream Warriers not, it's good-to hear other musicians pay 5) Beatnik Termites tribute to a band so truly deserving of it. In 6) Citizen Fish addition, proceeds from this release go to 7) Didjits benefit the rainforest, so even if you're not 8) Action Swingers crazy about some of the artists on this collection, the money you spend will go for a 9) Hall and kramer good cause. 10) Black Sun Ensemble Another noteworthy addition to anyone's 11) BDP Grateful Dead music library is One From The 12) youth Gone Mad Vault (Grateful Dead Records). This is the 13) Dinasaur Jr. intended to bring first installment of a project 14) Fishbone many of The Dead's vintage concerts out of the vault, and onto disc. The concert 15) Bongwater presented on this set is their August 13, 1975 16) Legendary Pink Dots Great American Music Hall performance, 17) Butthole Surfers well known and respected as being one of the 18) Spacemen 3 band's greatest live shows ever. 19) Phranc The two disc set features possibly the 20) Beat Happening greatest all-time version of "Help On The Way>Slipknot!", and the only available live 21) Black Girls Keeping The Faith versions of "The Music Never Stopped" and 22) Ritual Tension - - "Crazy Fingers," among others. Bob Weir's 23) Ambitious Lovers by Eric Penzer outstanding, due to the artist's wonderful beautiful instrumental, "Sage and Spirit," is 24) Royal Crescent Mob voice and piano skills. Another excellent performed flawlessly, and at times, it is quite 25) Two Nice Girls contribution is Elvis Costello's "Ship Of away between the notes In the wide world of Grateful Dead, there possible to float 26) Jesus Lizard releases that warrant mention Fools." In the enclosed booklet, Costello being played by Jerry Garcia. are two new 27) Nikki Meets the Hibachi here. The first of these releases is a compact recalls listening to Grateful Dead albums, and Needless to say, there are selections on this disc entitled, Deadicated (Arista). This is a even standing in the rain to hear the band at collection that will seem useless to anyone 28) Pale Saints tribute to a band that has outlasted four U.S. one stop on their Europe '72 tour. In fact, but a true deadhead (the two drum segments 29) John Wesly Harding Presidents. The collection contains 15 Costello found a picture of the crowd at that for example). However, when you take inrto 30) Firehose 7" he can Grateful Dead songs done in other artists' particular show where, he swears, consideration the fact that the disc is being 31) Straightjacket Fits make himself out in the crowd (it doesn't Dead Records and renditions. The artists range from Los Lobos distributed by Grateful 32) Southern Culture on results of the efforts look like him to me, but I'm not gonna argue thus being sold at a reduced price (I paid to Jane's Addiction. The Skids presented are somewhat mixed. with the man!). Suzanne Vega shows her $15.99 for the two disc set), you may decide The tribute begins with Los Lobos respect for The Dead with two songs, the the set is worth the small investment. 33) Fiction Scene performing the classic rocker, "Bertha." better of which is Garcia's "China Doll." Certainly you will find that the performance 34) RIDE Although the song seems a bit too mellow at Other highlights of the set include Warren is superb, as is the crisp, clean sound quality. 35) Front 242 times, the version features an accordion that Zevon and David Lindley jamming out Whether you buy One From The Vault or a "Casey Jones." Zevon seems to be having a Deadicated , you will be treating your makes this effort a success. Bruce Hornsby, SUPPORT CAMPUS RADIO sometimes member of The Dead, follows lot of fun (perhaps even too much!) singing eardrums to a rare listening experience. with "Jack Straw." This version is "driving that train, high on cocaine...." Dr. May 10, 1991. page 13 r mlillI .. • . ______ART Q brownish-orange cartoonish piece has an air of sarcasm and humour mixed together. The -n two Crumbesque characters seem as if they 0 S, were frozen in time and recently turned to clay. And here they were, on display for all to see, particularly for the sinister but harmless common folks. Next to Joe Smoe and his friend is a new sculpture piece with three figures piled on top of each other to symbolize "the allegory of life; how life is balanced." This is also unglazed fired terra cotta and is at the moment his largest sculpture done on campus. The figure on the bottom who is lying on his back and holding a glass table is "the proletariat." The figure in the middle on top of the proletariat, separated by the glass, is "the everyday confrontation with death." The top figure represents "transcendence of spirituality, which is indicated by the figure JOE SMOE AND THE BOURGEOIS looking upward. This figure has no arms by Rick Teng going to have a show the following day. them everything is about economic because this tells us that the spiritual has no Staying up from 9 PM to 6 AM, the oppression and gains. Buying oil has been materialistic instinct." The figure on the top Currently on display in the Library Galleria preparation for the show was a tedious task, secured for these "well-edited, very clean looks like a human oddity or a strange icon of are artist Sheldon Iskowitz's latest works - as to put it mildly. And the first print came out hypocrites." When Sheldon was asked about a godhead eagerly praying or calling the sky well as a few old ones that were in an MFA perfect. It looks finished and complete. the physical deformity of each figure he said in celebration of his transformation from a Show that took place earlier this year. The Press asked Sheldon about this that the generic uniform means meager proletariat into a saved spirit. Other As you enter the gallery, a large print on the particular piece and he explained that it is "an transcendence, a way of "looking in" and than it being a work made up of teethful and left wall is Sheldon's newest piece. It is oil- -expression of his feeling towards the seeing the essence of the personality. There is big-mouthed human beings that is really a based ink (woodcut), 16' X 4', the largest American way of business." The bald, no vanity, no lies that lie within each one teethful and big-mouthed human being print he has ever made at Stony Brook. The deformed, tie-wearing mob symbolizes the "victim." There is of course a dual aspect of (like the figures Sheldon characterized in image, shown in the above photo, started out drive towards bankruptcy (Wall Street) as victim/victimizer in this expressively dark most of his works here on display) as a loose pencil drawing then reworked with strung-out capital-addicted businessmen print as each figure is trapped within their transformed, it is a polished, well-balanced a black magic marker. After this was gamble their lives away with repetitious self-made human web, snatching and pop sculpture piece that would look suitable finished, Sheldon began to carve, and carve. tension. "It's a dog-eat-dog world," said destroying, besides themselves, everyone in any environment, particularly in a sunny, When the carving was completed, the entire Sheldon. He began focusing on the previous else. sandy and open white space, or in a dark wood panel was inked, then he rolled a huge war (remember the Persian Gulf?). The image Next to the print is a ceramic piece entitled studio room with a single light upon it. printing paper (slightly larger than the of generic people is his perception of the Joe Smoe Meets Mr. PotatoHead. This fired The Library Galleria is located on the first woodcut) out on the woodcut face down. Did middle class, whom he calls "barbaric." terra cotta was unglazed for greater strength floor of the Melville Library and is open he use a roller for the printing process? No, Sheldon told The Press that, "There is no in imagery and to remove distractions to its from noon to 4 pm, Monday through Friday. he rubbed the back of the enormous paper gore in the media concerning the Gulf War." statement. The depiction of a Jewish Rabbi Browse in during your break. with a spoon. This task took 3 hours (the He expressed that the characters in his work and a young dude pointing and laughing at carving, on the other hand, took 50 hours). are apathetic and mentally inept, unable to him shows the lack of understanding and the Artist's note: Thanks to the Art Department, especially When asked "why the torture?," Sheldon said grasp reality, and fed by the comforting of the lack of communication between young Martin Levine & Toby Buonogurio, for the support and it was a matter of "do or die" because he was media. They lack humanitarian concern, for people and established religious figures. This guidance I receivedand thefreedom to express my ideas.

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or 15 Women Trapped m z -0m by Jean Rousseau (a deformation of the word cheval). At the time, the play was an instant success and also "Why do I always wind up in this shit, a scandal. How could someone dare to use when I only want to get out of it?" This harsh this low-level language? It also became a line, from the play Les Belles-Soeurs, tells revelation for many people. The emotions how pathetic life can be. For fifteen women and the alienation conveyed by this language from a low class neighborhood, it is their was powerful. daily reality. On one evening, they get Joual appeared at the beginning of the together to help Geraldine Lewis (Bethany century, when Montreal became the first Sandor, Theater Arts major) stick one million large industrial city in Canada. Michel gift-catalog stamps in a booklet. Finally, Tremblay declared in an interview (Geo, Oct. Geraldine's dreams have come true: get free 1990) that "while English people invest in new furniture for her apartment. For the businesses, people who still use the old sisters and neighbors present, it is unfair. French spoken at the court of Louis XIV, They never won anything, so why should came to work in factory and speak English. It Ilot-- during the play; not at what they say, but women can't do that! Women are caught to she? Geraldine suscitates envy when she talks is due to women, that the province of Quebec the way they say it. And when Theresa the throat, and nothing will change!" (my about her new possessions. Error. will stay French: they insist that French be Dietrich (Elena Miliaresis) slaps her senile 93 translation) The last spring production of the spoken at home. Men bring English words year old grand-mother "because she acts like Having seen the play in French (Quebec department of theater arts, Les Belles- Soeurs home. Joual takes birth from the encounter a baby" it is tragic; still everybody laughs. city) and in English (Toronto), I was or The Beautiful Sisters, is currently of two languages. But the genius of the In Tremblay's theatrical universe, men are wondering how the despair of these presented at the Theater One of the Staller Quebecois, which could have simply use either absent (as they are here), transvestite characters would arise. They complain a lot Center for the Arts. Directed by Terri Kent, these words in integrating them in their (Carmen de la main), or victims of incestuous about life, but between bursts of joy, like assistant professor at the department of sentences, was to transform them into French relations (Bonjour la, Bonjour). There is a during the ode to bingo, I could barely sense theater arts, Les Belles-Soeurs is a play words and make out of them perfect passage in the play, brilliantly interpreted by that they were exhausted with their life and without men. The challenge is to conduct 15 neologism. This inventiveness has stopped Amy Budd, a Theater Arts major, where she futile dreams. Even at the end, when women according to Kent and an opportunity with the appearance of TV. Joual is now describes her miserable existence and her everybody abuses Geraldine Lewis, I did not to explore female roles, she mentioned after becoming a simple accent." man. "My daughter, she will finish like me, at feel the dramatic dimension of her downfall. the Friday, May 3rd, performance. In the English version of the play presented forty four years old, with a four- year old kid Les Belles-Soeurs could have any Interpreted for the first time in Montreal in here, the language is pretty loose and in her arms, and a disgusting husband who nationality. They are losers that are present 1968, Les Belles-Soeurs has achieved contains a lot of swears, but no "fuck." I have does not want to understand anything, and everywhere, whose only hope is a lottery international recognition. The play has been heard coarser conversation on this campus. who asks his right twice a day, 365 days a ticket. They can only count on themselves, translated into 22 languages. Written by the Still, the language used is raw and purely year! When you become forty years old and which means very little. The production Les Quebecois Michel Tremblay, the play was descriptive. These women talk of themselves you realize you have nothing left behind, and Belles Soeurs deserved to be seen. It is fun originally in French. Not the parisian French, and more than often babble about others with nothing in front of you, you just feel like and some of the actors are really impressive. but the Montreal street language called joual vengeance. They are mean, but we laugh a leaving them all and starting over! But The Stony Brook Press page I , _ -r I , I ART 1tubes and glass beakers, from a distorted Imask that could very well be a self-portrait, a symbol of the restlessness of the artist. "'Talent' is the first word that comes to 1mind" says Jon Fliedner, a sociology professor at Suffolk, when he saw Ceramic Sculpture and Print, but certainly this could apply to the Senior Show in the Staller Center Gallery this week. A juried exhibition of 27 paintings and sculptures by 12 artists, the raw talent and maturity of almost every work in the show will make for some tough judging. What first catches the eye are the huge stark works of Ed Matthews. His acrylic works on canvas are studies in manipulation of color and nature. He uses a technique called "impasto," an Italian term for thick paint, where the thick layering of paint creates a living three-dimensional effect. He further brings to life Untitled (Work in Progress), (he left it in the forest for a week "to see what would happen") by the addition of leaves and dirt into the paint. "I try to manipulate the acrylic, and I let nature work it, seeing what would happen," says Matthews. "I like the physical substance of paint." Dream (Work in Progress), gets more personal and introspective, being drawn from a dream that the artist had. His technique of thickly laying on paint then scraping and washing it away brings a aged "cured", effect to his work, and it matures it, abstracting further already abstract images. One of two nudes at the show was done by the gifted Andrea Verluis, who painted Jade. I know the model, and Verlius certainly did her justice, but more than that she almost autobiographically did women justice. The artist shows a comfortable relaxed woman, emerging from a textured background, with natural pretty light and shading. A bright, optimistic work, the woman is complete and portrayed with sensitivity. I loved Metal and Glass Still Life, an impressionistic painting of some bottles and a toaster on it's side. The watercolors gave the painting a surreal and elegant stained glass effect. The artist wants to become a biological illustrator, and it's almost a shame, while her anatomical drawings are accurate and even clever, her other works are beautiful and highly successful. The highlight of this show had to be Trolley A Surrealist by Jon Rosenbaum. One could hardly keep from laughing out loud out of sheer joy, when approaching this hot pink plaster and steel sculpture. The whimsical animation of this insect-like fictional mode of transport, gleefully puts a smile on one's face. "I'm concerned with movement, " says Jon, "the Tupperware Pa idea of a teacart or a pastry cart," and also described his fascination with insects. Also hung were three paintings of his colorful lively works, also inspired by the swarms and forms of the insect world. Exasperation1 and Exasperation 2 deal with the movement of Senior Art Show 1991 death, but death in a re-creative sense, a natural sense. A heavy design flair was evident in and Become Dragons, ceramic characters Father Nurture and By MJ XII Leaping Dragon Gate Elizabeth Whiteman's works. This was Tree, and Spirit Lotus, Mother Time spill out of their own bodies. Running Brook Oak especially so in two untitled wood sculptures, natural images in Father Nurture is depicted as having his Spring 1991 might come to be known as all present their respective one of a lifesize horse with drawers in it's of that most ancient brain and spinal cord emerging out of hi,, "The Tupperware Semester," at least as far as the bright simple context belly, and one of a larger than life dog with a feeling she body, his own evolution as a parent., a the arts are concerned. Common themes of of motifs, the scroll. One gets drawers in it's chest. Half toys and half that man must nurturer, unhampered by his physical body. containment and preservation prevail in the sees nature as something furniture, these bring to life the artists past- in the recounting "All of my sculptures have an open head, artwork of Stony Brook's graduating seniors preserve, and must include she grew up on a farm in Eastern Long make a part of his which represent an open mind," she says. The and undergraduate artists Who have been of his past, and must safely Island. She has already sold the dog, and was one of the maternity of Mother Time is drained through finishing their work for the semester and are history. Embryonic Evolution wants to keep making these wooden a beautiful sculpture her open head, her body and breasts deflated, showing their work in various galleries on highlights of the show, sculptures, but she staunchly refuses to be and painted porcelain the old appearance of the flesh represent the campus. A few weeks back Con Artist and of a bronze egg crate called a craftsman.' And you can't help but to piece. Man tries timelessness of maternity, but maternity in Dot Peirce had a show in the Union Gallery eggs, another "containment" agree, for her work is pure art, with a succeeds, but when the face of changing social values. But the entitled Ceramic Sculpture and Prints, to contain nature, and utilitarian vision. get "broken," nature suffers highlight of her work was a new Untitled which was an interesting juxtaposition, their some of the eggs Furniture with drawers, open skulls, carts of The swirls and cracks in work. "I am disturbed, but that's good. work presenting two sides of the same coin. and breaks down. fancy, scrolls of preservation, all common a nature defeated by man's When art doesn't disturb me I rarely Connie's sculptures presented the the eggs show themes of containment and displacement, a containment, but this is not a remember it for very long," wrote one student containment side, while Dot's work dealt persistent Surrealist Tupperware Party thrown by the Rebirth is seen in the shells in Con Artist's comment book. One certainly preservation. defeatist work. youth and vision of some of Stony Brook's with could be disturbed by Untitled. Nothing Dot's recent works reach back into the most and sand that emerge from the eggs. more important artists. is ever opening the mind through escapes the surgical distortions of Con ancient human memory. She uses canvas Connie She's the artist-biologist. She's a Artist's alchemic scalpel. Inner worlds of scrolls made from porcelain, and simple and her work. Tupperware lady. Her thought and feeling spill out into medical natural imagery in her wall hangings. Carp pseudo-medical I May 10, 1991 page 15 ~~ =%"i~--~$ a ~,

Bob Dylan live May 7th at the Stony Brook Indoor Sports Complex. How Does It Feel At Stony Brook Dylan In The Field House

By Eric Penzer Sky. Dylan preceeded the song by actually check out our Champions!" When I inquired Dylan's concerts), I guess being a little talking to the audience (this might seem like as to what they were babbling about, they peculiar works for him. Notwithstanding the Enjoying a Bob Dylan concert is often a no big deal, but if you've ever heard an said that the last time Bob Dylan played at fact that he looks like he is going to kick off lesson in frustration. Not only does he often interview with Dylan, you know he's not the Stony Brook, in 1967, he mentioned at any minute, Dylan performed Tuesday change the melodies and rhythms of his most personable fellow). He said something something about sneakers. Different kinds of night with a youthful edge and a pleasant classic songs, his vocals don't always (in fact, to the effect of, "this is my ecology song." people indeed. disposition. At many points during the show, they usually don't) reveal what song Dylan is Granted, not the Gettysburg Address, but The show progressed with Oh Mercy's Bob was actually smiling, although at other actually playing. I need not mention his monumental enough to show that Mr. Dylan "The Man In The Long Black Coat," and a times it was almost impossible to gather what trademark ultra-nasal voice which, at the was actually starting to feel comfortable in rocking, raunchy version of "Highway 61." exactly he was smiling at (in fact, I often beginning of his concert, makes one think, front of the Stony Brook crowd. This song was played, according to Dylan, thought I might be mistaking what looked "Oh my god, there's no way I'll be able to sit Before playing the next number, Dylan said for all the people who "don't think god like a smile for a painful grimace). through the whole thing!" However, when that he was about to begin the "sacred part of exists." The relatively new "Shooting Star" Regardless, Mr. Dylan has chosen to continue Dylan is in good form, his performances can, the show." The band picked up acoustic featured a truly mediocre piano solo by the to play live, often yielding mixed results. But contrary to popular belief, be quite pleasing instruments, and started the crowd-pleasing, man himself, as did the beautiful "I Shall Be the real question: How did it feel at Stony experiences. On the other hand, Dylan didn't "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright." The Released." Lets face it, some poets just Brook? It felt wonderful. get his sometime reputation for being the acoustic format was also used for the night's weren't meant to be pianists. It's O.K., I bet worst live performer in show business by next three songs, "Gates Of Eden," Beethoven never wrote any truly excellent The show's opening act, The Raindogs, accident; many of his concerts are downright "Desolation Row" (which was played with a song lyrics. were better than any other Dylan support awful. different, but pleasing melody), and "It Ain't The next song was a tune that Dylan said group I've ever had the pleasure (or As Mr. Dylan began his show at Stony Me Babe," which Dylan said was "about Joan Baez told him never to stop playing. displeasure) to hear. Their rock and roll style Brook's Indoor Sports Complex on May 7th misery." What followed this introduction was a nice made me think of Tom Petty and Roger with painful, out-of-tune versions of three The band then changed back to their acoustic version of "Blowing In The Wind." McGuinn. Interesting was their songs including "Lay Lady Lay" and "The electric instruments, and Dylan said he was After an absolutely kick-ass rendition of fiddle/mandolin player, who added a nice Man In Me," I felt my worst dreams were going to play a song about "everything." He "Maggie's Farm," which Dylan often plays touch to the material. Look for their album, being realized. Then something interesting mumbled that there were "a lot of different live, but seldom with the same melody, the Border Driving Theater, out in June. happened. Never before have I witnessed people in the world." Although he didn't show closed with "Like A Rolling Stone." Congratulations are in order for the entire anything like it before at a Bob Dylan justify this statement with any other phrases, Although I was afraid I would not enjoy the staff of the Student Acivities Board. Not concert. In one fell swoop, Dylan turned the it still (sort of) made sense. Anyway, the tune concert, Bob Dylan restored my faith. Even only was the concert production smooth and performance around. "Gotta Serve that followed was "Everything Is Broken." though he is a sort of weird fellow (at one orderly, there were few, if any, negative Somebody" was performed in one of the most Speaking of different kinds of people, it point in the concert, he said to an overzealous incidents. Although the metal detectors were note-perfect versions I've ever heard. was about this time that two young men fan, "Don't take my picture. It's bad luck to a real pain in the ass, I guess they worked. Following this song was "Wiggle Wiggle," walked through the aisle waving their take my picture." Needless to say, no press The Dylan concert was a good way to end the from his latest studio effort, Under The Red sneakers in their hands, yelling, "Hey Bob, photo passes are ever given at any of Mr. Spring concert season on a positive note.