Volume 14, Number 1 College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York September 26, 1990 Rodney Marriott, Barry-Figueroa, Shu I in an Adjunct Instructor Dies Denied Tenure By Jennifer Berge Adjunct Instructor in .Theatre/Drama B. Reasons Unknown Rodney Marriott, 52, died on September 9 at the Woodlands Nursing Home in Calcutta, India. He was scheduled to teach a seminar on auditioning By Diane Barracca might be voting for the right or wrong reasons. technique for the Theatre Program beginning Two professors fronrthc-€ollege at Lincoln One has to give people the benefit of the doubt." September 17, and wrote a letter to the depart- Center's Social Sciences division — Dr. Janis Dr. Harris strongly denied that personal or ment shortly before his death with an assignment Barry Figueroa and Dr. Dennis Shulman - were divisional politics played any role in the tenure for his class. denied tenure by the University Tenure Review review committee's decision to deny Dr. Committee at the end of the Spring 1990 Shulman and Dr. Barry tenure. Professor Marriott was in Calcutta directing semester. Now, unless the decision is overturn- "The Rainmaker" for Arts America, a cultural "Absolutely not." Dr. Harris maintained. "It ed by the Tenure and Reappointment Appeals program of the United States Information Agen- was a rigorous committee, but certainly a Committee, both Dr. Barry and Dr. Shulman cy. His distinguished theatre career was based scrupulously fair committee." must leave Fordham University'by the end of this in the Circle Repertory Company, where he serv- An important aspect of the tenuring process academic year. ed as associate artistic director and literary is that the deliberations and recommendations of manager. His most recent achievement at Cir- When faculty members are hired, their initial the members of UTRC are strictly confidential. cle Rep was "Amulets Against the Dragon contracts with Fordham are generally for two So confidential that in fact, the candidates that Forces," a new play by Paul Zindel. Matt years, according to Dr. Gerald Quinn, Dean of were denied tenure are unsure themselves exactly McGrath, a College at Lincoln Center theatre stu- die College at Lincoln Center. Following a "pro- why their applications were rejected. dent, was featured in that production. bationary period" in which there are periodic "The process is a very strange one," Dr. reviews and renewals of the contract by the Shulman said. "I don't know, Janis doesn't Professor Marriott taught acting and audition- University, faculty members usually apply for know, why we were denied tenure. We do know ing technique at CLC since 1984. His past tenure in their sixth year at Fordham. we didn't have the opportunity to respond to any mainstage productions at CLC included'"The critique. We can only guess at the reasons." Fifth of July," "Crimes of the Heart," and The primary purpose of tenure is to provide "Rimers of Eldritch," which he directed last teachers with "academic freedom" and "No one was able to say, 'He was denied year. According to 'Assistant Professor of "economic security," as explained in the Dr. Janis Barry-Figueroa tenure because of this,' " Dr. Shulman con- Theatre/Drama Rick Lombardo, who was also American Association of University Professors' tinued. ' 'There were some vague rumors about Co-Director of the Theatre Program last year, 1940 Statement of Principals. questions about my research methodology, and Professor Marriott was to direct CLC's third Granting a faculty member tenure is a serious given department or division. it (really disturbed me that there was no place in mainstage production this year, "A View From step by the University, Dean Quinn explained, "If the tenuring of an individual will put the the tenuring process for me to respond to these the Bridge." Gilliam Goll has been hired as an because those who receive tenure are then able division over sixty percent tenured faculty, and accusations." adjunct instructor to assume Professor Marriott's to effectively hold on to their positions "for life.'' if the recommendations of the division and of the "The reasons for my denial of tenure as pro- courseload, although it has not been determined At present, there is a mandatory retirement age dean are favorable, the application is referred to vided to me by the Academic Vice President are who will direct that show. of seventy, at which the faculty member gives the University Tenure Review Committee," extremely vague by anyone's interpretation," up tenure and can stay on as an adjunct, but prior Dean Quinn said. Dr. Janis Barry Figueroa stated. "I and many Professor Lombardo noted how "shocked and to that time it is very difficult to remove a tenured The University Tenure Review Committee in my department are very unclear as to what saddened" the faculty and students were at his faculty member unless they decide to leave volun- (UTRC) is made up of ten tenured faculty standards I did not meet." sudden passing in a telephone interview on Fri- tarily, he added. members from both Rose Hill and Lincoln Center day. He said that Marriott was a "significant Candidates for tenure are evaluated on their who are elected by the Facutly Senate and who theatrical artist" who was excited that his career serve three year terms. was taking him around the world to work. He educational background, performance as a According to Fordham's tenure policy, the described him as someone who "liked working teacher, research and publication, professional UTRC "shall recommend tenure only in rare with the young people" in contrast to working and public service, and contribution 4,0 the s University>and to their division. cases and for compelling reasons when it is clear- in the professional world. ly demonstrated that an exception to the tenure '- Professor Marriott received a B.A. from Yale Dr. Janis Barry Figueroa is presently an assis- tant professor of economics at the College at Lin- limitation is justified." But what actually con- University where he was graduated inagna cum stitutes "rare" and "compelling" is one ques- laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He previously taught coln Center. She is co-author and editor of Hispanics in the Labor Force: An Introduction tion that many faculty at Fordham University at New York University and the New School for seem to have difficulty answering. Social Research. He is survived by his mother to Issues and Approaches , and has been award- "When you say rare and compelling, of Sara Marriott, who lives in Brazil. ed two faculty research grants from Fordham as well as a grant from the Inter-University Program course, what you're talking about is something for Latino Research and Social Science Research which is really beyond the normal criteria for Council (IUP/SSRC) for her studies of women tenure," stated Dr. Frederick Harris^ who head- and minorities in the work force. ed UTRC last year and is a Professor of French Dr. Barry has presented her findings on labor and Comparative Literature at CLC. 3 USG Officers force participation by minority women at According to Dr. Anne Mannion, Chairper- seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of son of the Social Sciences Division, "Neither Technology, at meetings of the American Studies term is thoroughly defined, and how one's peers Association and at the National Puerto Rican decide that one is not just tenurable but rare and Resign Forum conference on Building Tomorrow's compelling beyond a certain point I just can't Workforce. Dr. Barry received a Ph.d in answer, because it's in the heads of the people By John Gardella economics from the New School for Social who made the judgement." Three United Student Government (USG) of- Research in June 1983. Dr. Shulman, one of the two applicants who ficers have resigned citing job restrictions as the Dr. Dennis Shulman is an assistant professor were denied tenure by UTRC, expressed his con- cause, said USG President Louis DeLaPrida. of psychology, and President of the Society for cern with the "subjectivity" of the "rare and Dr. Dennis Shulman Jennifer Dohrmann, Junior, Traditional Vice the Advancement of Quantitative Research in compelling" standard. President; Mike Dentato, Senior, Secretary; and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Shulman's theories and "It really makes me nervous for the Univer- Stephen O'Donnell, Junior , Treasurer, tendered research on the causes of narcissism have been sity, because it is such a subjective term, and "Assuming I have met the standards in terms their resignations August 30. All three students presented at the American Psychological therefore could be abused very badly, " he said. are Residential Assistants (RA) at the Lucerne. of scholarship, publications, teaching and ser- Association's (APA) annual convention and were "It could be abused, for example, in cases of vice, I do think there is a question here of in- O'Donnell said the RA job requires that you published in APA's psychoanalytical journal. discrimination, given that there's not any one par- limit extra-curricular activity to fifteen hours per adequate acknowledgement of Scholarship on Dr. Shulman was also selected to host several ' ticular standard by which one can be judged." women and people "of color, which is the kind week. episodes of a nationally televised PBS series call- O'Donnell said he, Dohrmann and Dentato of scholarship I do," Dr. Barry said. "There is ed "Abnormal Psychology: The Telecourse," "... it is somewhat perplex- the distinct possibility that the kind of work I do decided to attempt to balance both jobs but even- scheduled to air in 1991. He received his Ph.d tually realized they could not manage both ing and ironic that I am the is just not being adequately rewarded or from Harvard and has served as the Social acknowledged. There is a literature that social positions. Sciences Division representative to the College third female economist to be "The RA job is very demanding and the USG scientists have developed which is able to em- Council since 1985. denied tenure at CLC." pirically validate the fact tJial scholarship on was getting in the way." An application for tenure is first evaluated by DeLaPrida said he received the resignations women and minority groups does not receive as the tenured faculty of the candidate's division, * much weight or is as readily acknowledged or and has nominated "three students to fill the vacan- who make u positive or negative recommenda- —Barry - Figueroa cies. The students arc Marilyn Barbosa, Senior, rewarded." tion to grant tenure based on the qualifications "One would like Jo think thai each of the lacul- President of the Pre-Liw Society, for Traditional of the candidate and "the needs of the Universi- ty members arc thinking in terms of the can- Vice President; Andrew Griffin, Sophomore, for ty." In addition, the application is later review- didate's teaching skills, research, professional continued on pane 5 Treasurer; and Leticia Soto, Junior, for ed by the Dean of the College, who also makes service," Dean Quinn responded. "Again, there Secrclury. a recommendation based on the same criteria. arc no objective guidelines, liach person has their Elections for the vacant posts will take place However, there arc limitations on the number own conscience...I am in no position to judge during the Senate elections on October 3, said of faculty members that can be tenured in any whether or not n person who voted for or against DeLaPrida. Page 2 - CLC Observer - September 26, 1990

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By Veronica Williams sonal growth by continually making him ques- comes free and everything requires time, he very atypical of what we tend to think the "Fordham students are educational consumers tion his held assumptions. added. apathetic college student of the 90's is who don't take education for granted," says Kalina recently taught at Bennington College. Arizmendi has taught and lectured at Fordham about." Richard Kalina one of four new full time faculty He has also lectured at Drew University, Bates College, Manhattan College, Long Island In terms of her primary aim in teaching, members at CLC. Kalina joined the Arts Divi- College, Hunter College, and the New School. University, and the University of Lima. He is Wunsch says she wants her students to learn how sion as an Artist-in-Residence. "They want In addition, he was a regular substitute in the a member of the American Economic Associa- to reason and argue intelligently. "I don't believe something for their educational dollar. I find this Graduate Division of the School of Visual Arts. tion, the American Finance Association, the you can make a political arguement until you very motivating. His professional career has included numerous Royal Economic Society, the Assoiation for know what something is. I want my students to When asked about his primary aim in teaching, solo and group exhibitions at the Elizabeth Comparative Economic Studies, and Omicron first know how to reason and argue and then they Kalina responded that he wanted to make students McDonald Gallery, the Scott Hanson Gallery, Delta Epsilon (Honor Society in Economics). can critizize. That's a very important concern of aware of the complex visual world that most peo- the Gallerie Rahmel in Cologne West Germany, A new addition to the Political Science Faculty mine. I don't like conclusionary arguments. I also ple tend to take for granted. the Jacob Javits Center, and the Museum of is Paulette Wunsch, a former assistant district at- hope my students will put as much energy into "Visual environment is absolutely essential to Modern Art. As critic, Kalina writes for "Art torney with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Of- the class as I put into it. I demand that kind of one's state of well-being. [It] has a language you in America," "Tema Celeste," and "Flash fice. She has studied at Columbia University rapport. And I think they know it." can understand and influence. You can create in Art." School of Law, Yeshiva University, and Univer- Unavailable for comment was, Lisa Gim a new your own life a visual world that is enhancing Teacher of Economics, Luis Arizmendi is a sity of Chicago. Ms. Wunsch has also worked member of the Humanities Department, she will and nurturing." graduate of Fordham. He obtained his Master of as legal intern for the City of New York Law be teaching English. Gim who comes from Kalina went on to say that in his classes he was Arts in Economics at Fordham where he is also Department. Publications now in progress by Brown University, has been the recipient of not trying to teach skills so much as ways of see- a Ph.D. candidate. Ms. Wunsch deal with topics centering on numerous academic honors. She has studied at ing. "It's not just a matter of teaching facts but He has made a commitment to carry on the Humanistic Education in Law School, the Equal the University of California at Berkeley and more a matter of teaching a grammar and way tradition of a Fordham style teaching which he Protection Clause as a way to re-evaluate fun- Georgetown University and is completing her of processing information. I am trying to create sees as "a unique balance between discipline and damental rights, and criminal procedure. Ph.D. in English at Brown. Her areas of an informed eye." freedom." "I received a lot here. My teachers She said she finds the Fordham student very ur- specialization include Renaissance and Seven- A practicing artist and critic, Kalina would also were outstanding ones. Now I have to give even ban oriented and extremely aware of political and teenth Centurey literature, Shakespeare, and like to convey his professional experience to his more. I have to teach following their examples." legal issues. "I'm amazed at how carefully they Feminist theory. Gim has taught at Brown students. He sees a great advantage to teaching In turn he expects his students to be dedicated read the New York Times. I have two students University where her courses were self-designed, in that it provides oppurtunity for his own per- and patient and always mindful that nothing who read the Wall Street Journal. I think this is Berkeley, and Georgetown.

AIDS Awareness CLC Team Priority for Task Force Raises Over $6000 in

By William Brooks AIDS Walk In an attempt to educate the College at Lin- will be booths on the plaza set up all day to pro- coln Center Community about AIDS, CLC has vide information to the CLC community. On begun an AIDS Education/Awareness Task Tuesday volunteers .will be enlisted to join the Force.It has been meeting to decide in what various organizations aimed at combatting the capacity it can be useful in offsetting and help- spread of AIDS. Wednesday is dedicated to ing to clearly define the severity as well as the education on the issues concerning AIDS. And Organizer to Branch Out perplexing nature of the AIDS disease. Thursday there will be an Inter-Faith Prayer The Task Force is comprised of members from service. the office of Campus Ministry, the Student Ac- Cantor said she hopes that this effort will in- tivities office, the Counseling Center, the office terest the CLC community enough to take an ac- of the Vice-President of Student Affairs and CLC tive stand against and for the eradication of the students. ignorance and fear, as well as the actual disease "This is an unprecedented effort to work itself. together to educate and activate the Lincoln According to Jim Plasko, a concerned student Center community on AIDS issues' said Lynn and member from The Student Activities Office, Cantor, a CLC student who is a representative there will be a concerted effort to form and for the Task Force. legitimize the AIDS Task Force so that this ef- The week of October 22 has been designated fort will in the future be a student funded AIDS Awareness Week. Starting Monday there

Majority of CLC Students Members of Fordham's AIDS Walk Team Happy in New York By Jean-Marc Archer to help not only the victims of AIDS, but other l.ast semester Lynn Cantor, presented to the organizations as well. Vice-President of CLC, Father Edward Zogby, These charitable foundations are organized by the idea to coordinate a team from Fordham Cantor and are student run. She said a major idea University to participate in the AIDS Walk for which seems likely to come into fruition is to By Jean-Marc Archer the Gay Men's Crisis. Cantor, a student at CLC have a student-run volunteer placement type of New York is where you go to get mugged or shot When one looks at a cross-section of CLC said the idea was accepted and the team raised organization, she said What this will do is at- students, one will notice there is a wide variety or something. If they looked around, they would well over six thousand dollars. tempt to find volunteeis with specific hours sec that crimes arc committed everywhere. The i)f nationalities, races, and places of origin. There Cantor said, Alice Silverman and Juan Cortez, available for charity work; ;hc organization will majority of the people here are very good peo- is one thing that all CLC students have in com- students at CLC, assisted her by advertising, then attempt to place the volunteer in different ple; it's just a small minority of bad people who mon; we are all studying in New York City and making and receiving calls, and gerterally help- areas and situations which match the volunteer's ii majority ol them, said they would stay. Con- give the city a bad name." ing her with her task. She said through their ef- available time. Joan Suarcz, a sophmorc, added, "There is trary to a Time Magazine poll which says 59 per- fort the walk ran flawlessly, raising $6537 and Cantor feiid an example would t/: if someone so much to do and everything is around you. cent of New Yorkers would leave the city if given the interest of the University in the process. was interested in volunteering one hour a day for Crime plays a role in why people would leave, the opportunity, most CLC students asked, said To put the team's success into pcrspcctfvc, charity but was only free between 3 and 4 but there is crime everywhere. There may be New York is the ideal place to live in. Cantor said, one must realize they only hud two o'clock, the organization would place that Many students said they would remain in more crime here but New York has so many months to prepare, were participating in the volunteer somewhere where there was ,i need for Manhattan even it given the oppurtunity to leave. more people." benefit along with major corporations which had help between 3 and 4 o'clock. She added, it A female student said of New York City, "I can't There were, however, some people who had a year to prepare and yet they |Fordham's tcam| would be and organization which put people in think of a better place to be; there is so much negative responses about the city. Several New were ranked twenty fifth in terms of money rais- the right place at the right time. Jersey residents said they felt New York City "Was here that can't be found anywhere else in the ed. She said she would also like to plan charity just here for them to go to school. country." The student added she has been a resi- Due to the overwhelming success of the team. events such as Softball games, dinners, and One Junior said, "New York City is too hec- dent of Manhattan for fifteen years. Cantor said CLC has set plans to begin an AIDS dunces. She will attempt to coordinate and Of the native New Yorkers asked, the majori- tic... und it's too easy to get mugged," Awareness program in the Fall of 1990. Accor- educate CLC and she said it is highly possible ty answered with positive responses. Many » Another student, also a Sophmore from New ding to Fordharn^s policy statement on AIDS, that Rose Hill will be her next target. defended the city from the negative media Jersey claimed it was too dangerous to live in "the primary response to the concern about AIDS Cantor added it is important to know that her the city. coverage New York has received recently and is educational facts should be made available ideas are not simply AIDS related. The receivers Yet overall, the majority of CLC students the perception that it is more dangerous than and myths dispelled." of her benefits will change from time to time in other cities. would remain in New York City if they were Cantor said she is also working hard in order order to help as many as possible. One CLC Junior said, "People always say given and option of leaving. Page 4 - CLC Observer - September 26, 1990 CLC ALUMNAE OUTRAGED! DR. DENNIS SHULIMAN DENIED TENURE

As alumnae and former students of Dr. Shulman we feel the Tenure Review Committee has made a terrible mistake.

WHY« ? DR. DENNIS SHULMAN EXCEEDS FORD HA MS TENURE STANDARDS

• He is one of Fordham's most outstanding teachers—a rare and compelling human being, held in high esteem by all his students.

• His research is recognized as exceptional—he has published extensively in some of the most prestigious scientific journals of our time.

• He is President of the Society for the Advancement of Quantitative Research in Psychoanalysis. The most prominent names in Psychology and the Academic World regard him as a leader in this area.. .especially since his research has been successfully replicated by others. ; • Dr. Shulman is such an exceptional teacher that he has been asked by PBS to teach Abnormal Psychology on television!

As teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend, Dr. Shulman has profoundly touched and shaped our lives. We would not be where we are today—in clinical and school psychology, medicine, social work and many other fields—without Dr. Shuhnan's guidance and support. His incredible courage and generosity continue to live on in our minds and hearts.

WHAT MORE RAR£ AND COMPELLING REASONS MUST THERE RE TO GRANT HIM TENURE?

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"I might add that it is. somewhat perplexing "As far as I'm concerned, I don't think you even that needs to be revised." When you parly and ironic that I am the third female economist can top Dr. Shulman's practicum class," she "Both professors are in specialties that are just to be denied tenure at CLC," she continued. said. "Dr. Shulman brings something very special increasingly hard to get academics in," Dr. Man- remember to... "Based on my rating of the uptown campus, to the department here. He is exceptional." nion stated. "Any kind of economics is getting there is only one woman in their much larger Students do have a voice in the tenure process tough, because you can instead get a job in the economics department and that I am the only af Fordham during the review of a candidate's real world that is certainly financially very at- woman economist here at CLC." qualifications by the division or the UTRC. tractive, and yet I know Janis Barry chose to Dr. Barry maintained, "To me, there was a "Over the years, we have built into this pro- be an academic, even though that wasn't contradiction between University goals such as cess about as much student input as we can in- necessarily the only option available to her." equity and a desire for diversity in both faculty stitutionalize," Dr. Mannion stated. "The stu- "Dennis Shulman is a practicing clinician and student population, and institutional practices dent evaluations are gone over with a fine tooth which is another difficult one to replace, because such as this, which caused me to be the third comb and are taken very seriously, and students most clinicians have their interest primarily in woman in a row to be denied tenure in. the are invited to testify or send letters of recommen- their practices and use the academic part to economics field of the Social Sciences Division." dation." credential their practices," she continued. "Den- Students of both Dr. Barry and Dr. Shulman Nevertheless, Dean Quinn acknowledged, nis has always worked the other way around. have expressed discontent over the possibility of "When all is said and done, the process, however He's really used his clinical practice to fuel his Don't get wrecked. If you're not losing their professors because of the tenure imperfect, is one in which faculty as a peer group classes." sober- or you're not sure- denials by UTRC. probably has the predominate role." Dr. Janis Barry Figueroa said, "What I hope let someone else do the driving CLC economics major Louis DeHaro is tak- Both students and faculty at CLC have express- that people would remember about me is that I ing two courses taught by Dr. Barry this ed their feelings that the loss of both professors grew up in Fordham. This is my ninth year here, A message pruiided by this newspaper and Brer Drinkers of America semester, Labor Economics and Introduction to would be unfortunate for the division, and for and I believe that I have a real sense of the For- Micro Economics. the school. dham community, a sense of the type of students "I will miss Dr. Barry tremendously," A candidate for tenure during the spring and that go here and the needs that they have. Over DeHaro commented. "There are some subjects granted tenure. Associate Professor of African the years I believe I've also developed a col- in Economics that can be difficult to understand American and Urban Studies, Dr. Fawzia legiality with faculty and administrators here at but she makes things very clear. She has an abili- Mustafa recalled her intial shock to becoming CLC, and I hope that I will be missed as I will ty to point people in the direction that's very aware of the decision made upon her two col- miss them." valuable." legues. "News that somebody hasn't got "To be honest, I did not expect to get denied "I don't see why she was denied tenure," he something that you did get carries with it a cer- tenure, so I wasn't quite emotionally prepared tain magnitude, it's a shock to the system . . . for it," Dr. Dennis Shulman said. "I was sur- continued. "A professor can't hide any secrets FARTV*SMART or any flaws from his students. I think we stu- it cuts into you." Mustafa went on to say, "on prised at how upset I was about the decision. It's dents deserve an explanation why this happened." a personal level you just feel awful; on an in- very disturbing to get denied tenure but also to According to Rachel Campbell, a psychology stitutional level, it doesn't really tell me anything get denied for reasons you don't know. And then National Headquarters major who is among a group of students organiz- about the system or the process. One thing that it also disturbs me to talk to students here that 150 Paularino Ave., Suite 190 ing a petition to protest Dr. Shulman's denial of strikes me is that the element of the abitrary has I care about, and they want to take the Costa Mesa, CA 92626 tenure, "Dr. Shulman's Introduction to Social played a part, you can't put your finger on the Psychology Practicum or Advanced Abnormal 714/557-2337 Sciences class is one of. best classes I've ever definition or finite reason, why Janis or Dennis Psychology, and I can't say I'm ever going to 1-800441-2337 taken. -I think because of his intro class a lot of were denied tenure." ^ teach those again." people decide to go into psychology." Dr. Mustafa pointed out that she will be ' 'very Campbell says her experience in Dr. self-conscience" about becomming aware of the Shulman's Psychology Practicum class recently full tenure procedure and how' decisions are gave her the opportunity to work in the made. Mustafa concluded by saying she hopes Psychiatric Emergency Room at Bellevue both of her collegues are successful in their ap- Hospital, a unique opportunity for an peals. "It remains to be seen if the modes of undergraduate student. redress or appeal are adequate enough or whether ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, OR. BARRY-FIGUEROA, DENIED TENURE * Dr. Barry-Fiqueroa is widely praised for her dedication and ability to motivate students of Economics. This denial of tenure is being considered by her students to be a great potential loss to their education and to the Economics Department of The College at Lincoln Center. * Professor Barry is known for teaching courses of great relevance to work- ing students, women and minorities, such as Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, and Government Regulations. Her methods of teaching prepares her students to meet the demands of the work place and the economy of the 1990's. * If the decision to award tenure to Dr. Barry-Fiqueroa is not reversed, she will be forced to leave Fordham University at the end of Spring Semester. Her denial of tenure has already caused another highly repected faculty member to leave Fordham University in the belief that tenure would also hp HpnipH '

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NAME: DATE: Page 6 - CLC Observer - September 86,1990 FEATURES Students Look A Name at Life in the City

By Donna Hemans 1077 in comparison to the same period of 1989. The upsurge in crime and the prevalence given The murder rate is up 18.3 percent. and it by the media has had many New Yorkers com- While some students are considering flight templating their life here in the city. There is others feel just as safe here as they have always city wide concern about the safety of our streets, felt. "Well I haven't thought about it much but our subways and even our schools. Many I don't think it has gotten worse.' I don't want A Place - residents are considering relocation while others to leave New York," says Daniel Denver, a feel it is just as unsafe here as it is anywhere. junior who is originally from Idaho. Maria, a freshman here at CIC says she does For some students the advantages of living here not think that the crime rate has risen that much. are greater than the disadvantages. "Culturally By Bruce Rerer "It has always been this bad. It took the killing and financially New York has many advantages A workman applies smooth white spackling to of the boy from Utah to make people more aware to offer. The good it offers outweighs the bad. the bare walls. What had been torn away, eras- of what is happening in the city." Maria resides It has everything and there are not many places ed had been the names of many lovers, in Brooklyn and to ensure her safety has schedul- like that," says Nicole Robinson, a sophomore. anonymous poets, as well as individuals who had ed her classes so that she leaves home early, While there is no area in New York that is left their mark on Julius' ceiling. It is painful to when there are more commuters, and returns watch each swipe of the trowel and to know that crime-free, Nicole cautions students to "watch home in the early afternoon. where they are going and to keep away from my name and a past lover's will no longer be For some it is no longer a question of a good there. But are they really gone for good? dangerous places." She also advises students who salary but also the question of safety for leave school late at night to make arrangements A lot has changed at Julius'. Scores of people themselves and their families that prompt their so as not to be traveling home alone. are no longer present; many more simply no career decisions. "If I had the choice I would A freshman, who wished to remain longer come to the bar because the majority of leave now...and go to someplace safe where I anonymous, has said that she was perturbed when their friends are dead. As people I know grow can go out at night without getting mugged. I she heard about the wave of killings. "I had a weaker, I loathe myself for not wanting to know definitely wouldn't live in New York after I hard time deciding whether I still wanted to come if any more of my friends have tested positive graduate," concludes Maria. to New York or remain in Washington. I had for HIV. I don't want to struggle to make sense "I like living here but I have come to hate it,'' of what all these deaths mean, not at thirty two. always wanted to come to school here and says Fatmeh, a sophomore. "After graduating couldn't throw all my dreams away." As a Yet, as one who is healthy, I must enter a record I would like to move to a nicer place or even or all memory ceases, and everything is forgot- theatre major the opportunity of studying in New return to my own country." York was a chance she could not afford to miss. ten. To bear withness is to go beyond survival, "The New York Times of Sunday, September perhaps to even redefine continuity. "My parents worry a lot. I just have to stay alive 16 reported that for the first six months of this and do well to show them it was worth it." At the Waverly Street end of the bar an image year the number of killings had risen by 240 to strikes me as a symbol of What we are experien - cing. It is the portrait of Lou Gerhig and Babe Ruth. The photographer captured all the pathos and.dignity in the tragedy that fell Lou Gerhig in his prime. Yet, the pain remains stagnant. How Mugger's does the grief becqme resolved if the agony is perpetuated? It can not. Behind the plastic curtain the workman applies the compound. Behind how many curtains, in Eyes how many hospitals have we seen the ones we loved, and knew we were not going to see them again? All of us have been severed from our By Brian McDonald , macismo. Finally, the deed done, the 'busted human networks that kept our lives in stable or- Andrew had finished his closing shift at the virgin' waved Andrew away and the gang of four bits, The balance was pended, everything is out restaurant. He thought he would walk the ten ran down the block and disappeared. of sink. I don't care what people say about time, blocks home. It was a nice night for it. It helped Andrew walked dazed for a few blocks until the healer. For some, the hands of the clock on- his head to walk home after work. It gave him he found himself at a phone booth dialing 911. ly document the hour. Time to do this, time to a chance to think out the night, his life, perhaps Soon he was in the back of a patrol car looking do that: the monotonous commerce of human dream a little. for his assailants. Over the radio came a descrip- activity. There were the usual sights on the way home. tion of four Spanish youths just five blocks away. In eight years the world we had built, defin- Homeless black men routing through piles of The cops sped to the address. Four boys faced ed, wrote, acted, and danced was shattered. Gone black plastic garbage bags. Young partiers, down on the sidewalk, beneath two cops with were not just the baths or the Saint, but the holding long neck beers, falling out of the popular guns drawn and trained. The cops stood them up familiar circles that we thought would remain spots. A Cutlass Supreme, headed uptown, win- one by one and asked Andrew if he could constant. In that small ghetto, despite its limita- dows down, Salsa music filling the night. He lit positively identify them. As the first three stood, tions was safety and refuge from an otherwise a cigarette and walked through the 3 a.m. car- he said he couldn't be sure. He said he was ner- vous, that it was hard to be sure with a gun hostile world. nival like the ferris wheel operator who just pointed at you. Then the cops stood up the fourth. And so Babe Ruth is perpetually on the verge finished his shift. The boy's eyes were fixed to the ground. An- of tears while he hugs Lou Gerhig. No resolu- He first noticed them, notice him, when he drew thought of the money; thought of the gun tion: the flag always flies at half mast. The turned onto 78th street. The block was dark pushed into his chest. He felt the violation, he spackling will continue despite the fact that the ahead. Fear crept up in him, but he wanted to felt the rage. He pushed the thought of those workman has come out from the plastic curtain believe they were just kids, fooling around. He helpless eyes from his mind. to pause for a cup a coffee. B—is drinking a soda; thought of walking back to the safety of the Karposi blotches cover his emaciated neck. His Avenue, but as he turned he saw two figures, part Andrew told the cops that the 'tips' that he skin is dull and waxy, and his eyes are weary of the same group, behind him. His mind raced made that night were wrapped with a rubberband. of the pain. For this is a daily pain, manageable with the possibilities. Run. No, stand and fight. Inside the money was a piece of paper with other one day to the next; hurry up and wait. We do No perhaps it was nothing. Too many "Dodge waiter's names on it. The cop put his hand into our best to cover our ears but still the ancient City" headlines over the past few days. Yes it the gunman's pocket and pulled from it 80 song comes through, "For what is man, his days was probably just kids. He would give them the dollars. He removed the rubber band, and out are of grass, a flower in the field..." benefit of the doubt. An idealist, an innocent in fell a piece of paper reading, "Carlo, Jose and I leave Julius' and walk to the peers. It is the a city that sits in wait, and salivates over his kind Jack". The cops put the three accomplices into first warm day of spring, late March. A slight of prey. the back of one patrol car. Then they threw the chill still prevents wearing shorts. Still, many He dropped his cigarette as the group leader ring leader hard against the trunk of the remain- ing cop car and handcuffed him. Andrew look- bicycle and socialize while on the Hudson. Cargo approached. The mugger was still in his teens. ed as the boy winced from pain. The young gun- ships from Hoboken and Weehawken glides Out of his jacket he pulled a gun, silver plated, man's eyes opened as his face, still pressed down the river. Men still cruise, lovers are heavy, glistening from the street light that did against the cold steel of the cop car, looked at unashamed to embrace and kiss; this is our nothing for safety but offer a staged theatrical Andrew's for the second time. This time the roles neighborhood, for we paid dearly for it- and in glow to the scene. The boy pointed the gun into were reversed, No words were spoken. They full. his chest and in broken English demanded didn't even speak the same language, but all was We are still here. I rest and look towards money. Andrew felt a strange calmness. He sur- said in that small binding glance. The boy's eyes Christopher Street. This horror, although rendered to the moment. The boy and the gun devastating has not destroyed us; it has neither pled nor did they threaten vengeance. had complete and utter control over his life. In There was instead a look of hopelessness, a boy strengthened us. It was with amazing tenacity did moments like these, senses become acutely being swept down the rapids. Andrew looked we alone face this disease. No one is forgotten; aware. As he reached into his pocket he looked back, knowing there was nothing he could do. names are so important. Numbers are for up into the boy's eyes, and saw that they had not statistics. Blessed be David, Jaun, Orlando, and yet been steeled over by stays at Riker's Island: Both lives turned on those events. The brown Jules. May Ed's memory be sustained, keep to that they weren't the eyes of a junkie that had so(t eyes of the young Spanish boy would sure- my heart Pat and Michael. A name and a place. shot trunk loads of drugs: that they weren't, yet, ly die or begin to die behind the bars on Riker's The names of my people, your people, and the the eyes of a killer. These were the helpless eyes Island. He would undoubtedly hold a gun again. continuance of our place. We wilt always be of a boy as powerless in his own situation as his Perhaps the next time he would kill. Andrew here. I know this. I am convinced. victim. In thai instant, that moved as if it were realized his part, no matter how innocent, in the In the West, .the sun is illuminating the fast, in slow motion, Andrew was perversely bonded death of those eyes. He would loose some more grey, clouds to a coppery pink. From across West to, the neophyte criminal. Strangely, he felt for faith in God and (his city. Perhaps move to Hawaii or New Jersey, some place safe. Still Street, groups of friends cluster around the en- the gunman as he handed him the money he had every once in a while he will remember those trance of Bandlands. The music is that kind of -worked hard for (hat night. The boy's eyes had eyes, and the helpless feeling of watching fate loose shouldered sassyness that makes one wish trouble breaking the hold. Three accomplices sweep a life away. to dance. Around me, I hear laughter. watched intently, as if judging this test of September 26,1990 - CLC Observer - Page 7

HOW A SHAPED DRIVE—IN, A JOCK, AND MY VIEW OF A BARRETTE, TWO GIRLS LOVE

By Bobby Williamson In the midst of our avoiding each other, the class I'll never forget the day she walked in. Third was informed of yet another new student. Her grade had been nothing but a series of casual name was Amy Noone, and if I thought I liked flings and unbounded promiscuity up to this Mary Helen, then this was definitely love. This point. The three most important words a guy \ blew the head on the lap thing away. could say to a girl at this stage were not "I love To make matters worse, there was another boy you" but "let's play doctor". Love was vowing for Amy as well. His name was Jay something you felt for your dog or a stuffed Fields and he was the most popular and animal, not a girl. But on this fateful day, it all good'looking boy in the third grade. He was a changed in my eyes. regular jock of all trades. How was I to com- Her name was Mary Helen Collins, and she pete? The only sport I enjoyed was gymnastics. had just moved to my town from Missouri. When I would make up my own routines and perform the teacher assigned her a seat next to me, I could them in my front yard while Barry Manilow's hardly breathe. My heart began beating so hard, Daybreak played full-blast on my portable record I was convinced the whole class could hear it. player. It was three days before I even spoke to the girl, I eventually worked up the nerve to make my but I was just so afraid of messing up. When, move on Amy. On a field trip one day I sneaked on that third day, she dropped her pencil, I knew up on her and kissed the back of her head. She it was my chance. I quickly scooped down, paus- never even knew it. I was pleased with myself ing briefly to glance longingly into her eyes, pick- and for a few days was content with the fact that ed up the pencil, and said, "Here." I considered I had marked her as my territory. I was oblivious it a major breakthrough in communications. to the fact that Jay was busy with his own plan. As the weeks went by, I picked up more pen- I still, to this day feel, he cheated by using cils, and she even picked up a couple of my own, material things to win her over, but it worked. I stopped paying attention to the teacher and sat I walked up to Amy on the playground one after- anxiously awaiting the next time that pencil noon and saw that she was wearing shiny new would slip out of her perfect fingers. Then silver barrettes. At closer inspection, I realized something terrible happened. She quit dropping that there was a name inscribed on each one: Jay. it. I knew it was her way of telling me, "Make Needless to say, I spent the rest of that recess a new move, buddy, or we're history." After alone with my sorrow, while Amy and Jay walk- much deliberation, I went to my older sister for ed around holding hands. advice. Her answer was a miracle. I went home that night and listened to Barry It just so happened that she had been babysit- Manilow's / Can't Smile Without You about thirty ting for a new girl in the neighborhood lately. times, andultimately changed the title to simply That girl was Mary Helen Collins. With my sister 'Amy's Song'. I tried to get Mary Helen back, as mediator we became fast friends. The rela- but she was still bitter over the false pregnancy tionship peaked one October night. My mother thing. took Mary Helen, her brother Guy and myself My outlook on love has been the same ever to the drive-in to See Herbie Goes Bananas! Mary since: love hurts. I'm wary of relationships even Helen and myself were sitting on the hood of the today, deeply fearful that the girls of my dreams car, but she couldn't get comfortable. I finally will show up, only to be wearing a shiny, silver made a bold suggestion and offered my stomach pair of barrettes with Jay on them. All the good as a pillow. She accepted and preceded to lay ones are taken. down on the hood. When her head touched my My only comfort is knowing that Jay Fields stomach, I was convinced it was love. I could eventually got fat, did drugs, and wasn't a great have stayed like that for hours, but alas, Herbie success in high school. Mary Helen was caught came to a close. having sex in a neighborhood clubhouse in the The next day it school we avoided each other. ninth grade, and was rumored pregnant months It wasn't until years later that I would find out later. Amy became a model and moved to Mary Helen had thought she was pregnant just California to finish high school. And I am pa- because she had rested her head on my stomach. Craphii by CAwanl Gorellk tiently waiting with my third grade view of love.

By Brian McDonald on the smell of a pet store in neglect. My friend's DEJA VU: It was along the beach on the highway through white pants looked as though she had sat on a the Robert Moses Park that I began to notice it. pizza. And even with these distractions HER This day trip was suppose to help me forget about presence loomed larger. In East Hampton there HER, but the memories came back as clear as was a theatre where SHE and I had gone. A ALL OVER photographs of the same route taken two winters restaurant where WE had stopped for lunch, the before. Sure the faces were different this time gas station where I had filled the car with super around- now a woman with hair the color of cot- unleaded. The past became clearer than the pre- ton candy and a rat sized lap dog, and then, well sent. I rubbed my eyes and tried to shake it from AGAIN then it was HER, dark hair flowing, Michelle my head. The present was O.K. The girl with Pfeiffer eyes. A sulking sultry beauty. Even the bubblegum bouffant was pleasant and maybe though the cast of characters had changed and even pretty and although the dog didn't travel years had past, the first trip loomed like a heavy well, we could probably make a fine couple. Why morning fog over this sequel that began to pale did SHE hold me, freeze me in my life from such in comparison. Gingerbread (I think that was the a distance, all the way from Fort Lee? Petal animal's name) started to make noises like a fat (Maybe it was Daffodil) started to wretch as the Italian man after a sausage and pepper lunch. (No landscape again became the sea. I had stayed with it wasn't Gingerbread, it was some kind of HER in these hills that overlooked Montauk. The flower; Rosie? Geranium?) I tried to stay in the 'Hither' cabins or something. We had walked moment, concentrating on the small conversa- along the beach and looked silently out on the tion; weather, jobs and the like, but my atten- rough winter sea. We shared our lives so com- tion wondered out beyond the pink and white of pletely in those moments. Our hands connecting her hair to dunes and sea that passed behind her. two bloodstreams, two nervous systems. My Although a bright summer blue, the sky became heart pumped for HER and HER's for me. Daisy that same winter gray. This woman next to me (Yes. I'm sure the dog's name was Daisy) threw now became a stranger whose lips moved with up again, and I wanted to. words that evaporated before they reached me. The beach helped. Oceans arc big enough to Something about paper training and Clairol. I swallow any problem. My date dug herself and thought, no not a thought, I felt, HER. I looked her ddg into the sand and tried to get enough sun in the rear view mirror half expecting to sec HER to match her skin to her hair. I looked out into sitting in the back scat grinning at me and my the vastness of the sea and saw the hole SHE had date, Lucille Ball. Tulip got sick. I hadn't notic- left in me. . ed the event, neither had her master It was the On the way home, headlights lit her lace as smell that alerted me. A pungent acid smell of she slept lightly, holding the sick dog to. her chest. predigested Cycle One. We slopped in She was sweet, this one. Perhaps if the dog would BridgcHampton for towels and cleaned the mess, meet some untimely fate and I could talk her in- an amazing amount for such a small animal. The to some basic shade, maybe I could put the pant Jeep, although cleared of the puppy puke took behind inc. Page 8 - CLC Observer - September 26,1990

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By Mina Landriscina When we were leaving, we tried our hand at the The question has been posed to me by everyone emergency exit. By that time, the guard was roll- I know, since I returned from the overseas trip ing his eyes heavenward and his face clearly anyone else. Take a map. It is helpful when you I took with Fordham this past summer. How was registered, "American! stupidi!" ultimately get lost. But, getting lost does have Rome? "Well, ..." . My friend, Cathy and I planned to take a nor- its advantages. It is one way of finding other After the Alitalia airlines plane landed in the mal tourist trip to Venice. Almost everything things - like the museum you could not find "Eternal City", a bus took the group of forty went wrong. The bad luck started when I miss- yesterday. On our first walk, Marisa and I were Fordhamites to our residences. For no apparent ed the train. I hardly panicked at first because "walking aimlessly" - and bumped into the Col- reason, half of the group was dropped off on a I figured that, since most everything in Rome is osseum. Lastly, watch out for those ten year old comer that was three blocks away from "home", so inefficient, it was the train that was late not gypsy girls who have mastered the "distract-you- Via del Macao. Living on Macao had its pros myself. Unfortunately for me, the trains run to with-a-cardboard-sign-and-take-all-your-money'' and cons. In the mornings, there was a quaint the minute and my train was already on its way trick. How did I come up with these rules? and convenient fruit and vegetable market down north. I decided to take the next train even though Well... One day, my friends and I walked to the the block. We were also "centrally located" and I would have to pay extra, it would arrive an hour Vatican which was at least five miles away. We near the railroad station, "Termini". Unfor- later than Cathy's, she had the map, the list of went around mid-day afternoon and visited every tunately, the neighborhood was not the best. hotels and we had no reservations. There was fountain along the way. We rested at, stared at, Other students will accuse me of understating the a better chance of a mid-summer snowstorm in and took pictures of the Pantheon - but did not situation since a porno theater, a brothel and con- Florida than there was of me bumping into Cathy. know what it was. There we were "attacked" spicuous drug addicts were the local sights. That Seven hours later in Venice, the woman at the by gypsies who luckily only got my (clean) first evening, the night guard told me and another hotel reservation center have me the confusing tissues. They seemed satisfied w>th that, though, student from my suite, Marisa, stories about kid- directions to Hotel Silva and a useless map. This for when we turned around they were saucily nappings, robberies and shootings that had oc- plus the darkness, my eye's weariness and the dancing and waving my Kleenex in the air as if cured recently. Unnecessarily he added, "Don't tiny street names upped the odds that I would get declaring victory. go out alone at night." lost. And I did. More than once. Tired and con- There are still many stories I could tell. Once, Doing anything that involved venturing out in- fused I stopped at one point and debated whether I helped the night guard retrieve a key from the to the Italian world always turned out to be a lit- or not to go down the street. Then I looked up bottom of the elevator shaft. Since I am small tle nerve wracking - and usually embarrassing and saw Cathy! As much as I thought I had enough to be pulled out easily, I was elected to on my part. Take for instance the day my friend, lost control of my senses, Cathy was no mirage. jump in. Another time, Cathy and I thought the Brenda, and I went into a bank, which like all As Cathy said later, "God must have been smil- man who sold us out train tickets stole our others had very tight security. To enter, you ing down on us." Amen! money. We made out accusations to the.com- walked through a futuristic contraption one at a Taking a long trip is one way of having an plaint manager, a police-man, and a military time. All we had to do was put our feet on the adventure, but taking a simple walk can be an man. It turned out that we made an itty-bitty markers, press a button, and pull the door. Sim- experience also. In Rome every tourist needs to mistake... On my last day, I was locked in a cour- ple right? Well first, we went in together, then know a few cardinal rules. Do not take long tyard and jumped off the seven foot wall in order I failed'to put my feet on the outline- and I also walks in the mid-day heat; you will wither away to get out. Yes, I got hurt. So, will I be carried pushed the door instead of pulling it. When Bren- like old Romaine lettuce. However, if you do off by white coated men if I said.this summer da made the same mistakes I did, the guard began take the walk, you will discover all those drink- turned out to be one of the happiest times of my to gesture impatiently from- his glass cubicle." ing fountains Rome is-famous for, faster than life? Bring out tl.e stretcher

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By Paige Polisner If you're looking for a show that's moderate- ly funny-at the expense of gays, women, Jews, Italians (this was only the first episode the list By William Honan will probably continue as the show does)-then The Grateful Dead played to a sell-out crowd an improvisational jam that most closely NBC's Fanelli Boys is the sitcom for you. at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, resembles free-form jazz in structure and then Anthony, Dom, Ronnie and Frankie are four September 15,, the second of six Garden shows slip back into the song as quickly as they left. pasta mangaing brothers. Dom is the wheeler- that the San Francisco based band played this The second set certainly proved this as the band dealer who supplies family and friends with fake week. The Dead's recent swing through the followed their legendary guitarist, Jerry Garcia Rollex watches, porter house steaks, and Northeast caps off yet another sucessful North from the down home folk of "Playin In The' whatever else has "fallen- off the back of the American tour and precedes a rare European tour Band" into the patriotic "Uncle John's Band" nearest truck." Anthony is Dom's opposite, the ' that will last through October. and back into "Playin". good boy who inherited the family funeral parlor The Dead burst forth from San Francisco's hip- The band then fell ominously into somewhat the day pop kicked the bucket. Ronnie is the col- pie scene in 1966 and have enjoyed a colorful of an Orchestral movement centered around Gar- lege man-everyone's got big plans for him. And cult following ever since. "Dead heads" as many cia's meandering guitar. Bassist Phil Lesh, ex- Frankie's from the Vinnie Barbarino mold; of the fans are referred to, will go to virtually tremely powerful yet subtle at the same time com- tough, stupid, chauvinistic, but somehow any length to follow the band wherever they play. bined with the drumming tandem of Bill Kreutz- lovable...ok, likable-because he's such an im- Emerging from the Penn Station subway on mann and Mickey Hart for a formidable rhythm becile. Then there's ma. Ma announces that she's Saturday night, it was obvious that the Dead section. Guitarist, Bob Weir served as a liason selling the house and moving to Florida. She faithful had no problem making it to the Garden. between Garcia and the others, complementing wants to be with her friends, and besides, her The mass of humanity that Tilled a two block both Jerry's leads and the rhythmic undertones. boys are grown now. They don't need her, right? radius around the arena took on the air of a Experiments such as this are referred to as Wrong. "space" which is where many listeners seemed pseudo-60's counter-culture, most sporting tat- It seems that the Fanelli Boys-and these aren't to be during this part of the show, reduced to tered clothes, bells, beads and the trademark tie- teens that we're talking about-are a blubbering a meditative stupor, gyrating their arms to the dyed colors. The crowd ranged from fifteen year- mess. For starters (and a lame bit of conflict), whims of the music. Eventually, "space" olds playing the hippie role to extremely Anthony, in an attempt to save the family decayed into a dual drum solo by Kreutzmann unhealthy looking leftovers from Woodstock. business from dying a death of its own, has mor- and Hart, both of whom study with Tibetan Monk This is not to say that there were not curious fans tgaged the house for $25,000. Frankie, in an drummers. After about 10 minutes of this, the just there to see the band and have a good time, ironic twist of fate, has caught his wife-to-be in rest of the band members joined back in for a but the majority of the people in attendance seem- bed with another Don Juan. Ronnie, the little more "space" before slowly, instrument ed on a lifelong quest. youngest, has dropped out of school in pursuit by instrument, working their way into their ver- Cries of "I need a miracle" (a ticket) abounded of a girl, or rather, an older woman, as the case sion of Steve Winwood's "Gimme som Lovin." and as showtime approached, it seemed clear that turns out to be. And Dom, who looks die oldest, immediately sending the crowd back into a dan- as many people would remain outside as would is the farthest from getting his act together which cing frenzy. actually see the concert. Some were willing to is why his wife told him to take it on the road! trade clothing or jewelry for a ticket. Another added attraction of this show was Eventually, ma gets wind of all the news, in the Carefully watching the throng were what must special guest Bruce Hornsby who is currently sit- form of a hurricane, and tells them all to move have been a thousand police: some on horseback, ting in for recently deceased keyboardist. Brent home. others somewhat ominously twirling their Mydland. Hornsby. a star in his own right, fit When the show opens, lines like (to Anthony nightsticks. Most officers looked thoroughly comfortably into the Dead's spontaneous style, who's looking glum) "Why do you have to be disgusted with the whole long-haried scene. In contributed some impressive piano solos and add- such a stiff? Oh, you work in a funeral parlor, an effort to control the crowd, the police set up ed solid backup singing. This was particularly you bring your work home with you," make the a barricade through which they tried to herd the evident on the first song of the second set. a cover viewer brace for an unbearable half hour, but the fans into a single tiny entrance. This effort suc- of The Band's "The Weight ". which involved jokes pick-up and need less help from the cann- ceeded in causing more problems than it solved a round about four part harmony. ed laughter as the show unfolds. Unfortunately, and a forty five minute human traffic jam form- The Dead closed the show with their version half way through, they also become offensive. ed. At least a third of the fans did not get into of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away". The end Frankie instructs his brother, "You're a man, the show until three songs into the first set. of this number produced a chanting of the song's she's woman. Say NO!" And later, when Ron- Once the confusion abated and the lights went refrain "love is love and not fade away..." mixed nie, stammering, confesses that he dropped out down, it was time to move. The band broke into with clapping to the rhythm of the song. This of school, Frankie replies, "Thank God! I "Touch Of Grey'" and there was not a still bone continued for a good 10 minutes beore the band thought you were queer." The name of Ronnie's in the house, the Dead heads falling mesmeriz- returned with the raucous encore. "One More girlfriend, Becky Goldblum, obviously Jewish, ed into a twisting frenzy that continued Saturday Night." also gets an 'Oh Jeez!" from the Fanelli Fonz. throughout the show. After steaming through Although the band played for over three hours, Frankie is amusing, don't get me wrong. His ' 'Walking Blues'', the band settled into some of the show was far from over. Once outside, the delivery is good, and he has the right dazed ex- their trademark ballads which turned the rest of fans milled about enjoying reunions with friends pression in his eyes. But you laugh at what he the first set into a mass sing along (of course the from the tour and making plans to find a way says the way you'd laugh at a well-told ethnic fans know all the words to every tune). to the next show, even if that meant getting to joke when you know that it would be better not Highlights of the first set included "Camlymnn". Europe. to. It would be one thing if Frankie were the on- Bob Dylan's "Box of Rain", and "Birdsong". Finally.' the crowd once again began the chan- ly Archie Bunker in this bunch, but later at the While the Grateful Dead's influences stem ting of "love is love and not fade away..." Clear- dinner table the 'queer' joke gets milked by 'all from a mixture of blues, folk, and rock the band ly the love for the Grateful Dead shows no signs in the family'. With the endless stereotypes in has the ability to tum each and every number into of fading. this world that sorely need to be eradicated, I see no point in making room for more "Fanelli Boys". September 26, 1990 - CLC Observer - Page 11 ARTS The Irish Mafia Gets Its State of Grace

By Dan Jacob ed that sometimes there's an advantage in waiting If you've ever seen even a few gangster films for the most opportune time to blow up. It is his from the Cagney, Raft and Bogart era the general icy control that's gotten him to the top, and he theme of Orion Pictures' latest release, Stale of uses this against anyone who stands in his way. Grace may seem familiar to you but what keeps When he kills someone, its not the spur of the this film from being a tiresome re-tread of ganster moment; it's something he's been looking for- film cliches are its characters, the dialogue and ward to. the gritty authenticity of their surroundings. There are a number of good supporting per- It is a relentlessly brutal and dangerous world formances, including R.D. Call as Frankie's that the characters of State of Grace inhabit, and right-hand terminator, John Turturro as Terry's the choices they make to- cope with this world fellow cop and nagging conscience, and a cameo are what is depicted in this film. appearance by Burgess Meredith in which ht; "The Westies", a murderous Irish-American pleads poverty to Terry who has come as a loan gang in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan are at the collector saying - "I'm in here eating stewed core of Stale of Grace. Their leader is Frankie tomatoes from the can." Here, Terry is given Flannery (Ed Harris), who has chosen to con- a chance to show some of the decency which got tinue his quest for money and power by forming him started on this assignment in the first place. an alliance with the Mafia. His younger brother. Robin Wright's role does little more than pro- Jackie (Gary Oldman) repeatedly jeopardizes this vide a love interest which doesn't add much to fragile alliance with random attacks against the story, but her performance does show the members of the Mafia. Jackie makes his game struggle for sanity in an insanely violent world. plan clear when he says "We're Irish, we drink The script by the late Off-Broadway playwright and we kill people"; this*is his rationale for ac- Dennis Mclntyre, which uncredited contributions ting on any violent whim that comes to mind, by David Rabe, is filled with sharp street regardless of the consequences. Jackie's best dialogue and black humor such as when Jackie friend is Terry Noonan (Sean Penn). who has comments, "The luckiest day he ever had. his been away for about a dozen years and is now dog was run over." It also effectively shows how back, asking Frankie for a place in the gang. But the Westies feel about being squeezed out of their Terry is a cop working undercover to get neighborhood by gentrification. At one point, evidence to convict his friends. Terry knew he Jackie comments "Now Hell's Kitchen is call- was being seduced by the Westies' way of life, ed Clinton...sounds like the name of a steam- which was why he chose to leave, become a cop. ship." There's a quirky way in which characters in Boston, and return to try and stop his old deliver bad news. They dump the information friends. What he didn't expect was that his and then say, "I just thought you should know." friends' over-the-edge lifestyle would still be ap- State of Grace Under Philip Joanou's direction, the film pealing to him as would Jackie and Frankie's moves at a quick pace, with a good honest feel sister Kathleen (Robin Wright), his old love. The GaryOldman, Robin Wright and Sean Penn, getting their Irish up in a variety of ways for its crumbling urban setting.. Rooftops, only way Kathleen has found to cope with her tenements, old working-class bar rooms and fad- family was to move out of the neighborhood and ed churchs are home to the Westies,'and Joanou reject them completely. creates a grimy realistic environrnent for them. Terry Noonan sits at the center of the story, It is in the largely unbelievable ending that the and while Sean Penn gives a more than credible director stumbles; his slow motion Peckinpah performance, the most memorable scenes have charming Kathleen after she's insulted him so • reconcile this kind of sentiment with Jackie's day style shoot-out isn't effective.- been written for Gary Oldman. He gives a craz- she's genuinely sorry for hurting his feelings. to day business of extortion and murder, but Mostly this film works. When it does it is very ed and humorous energy to Jackie that steals One of his most moving scenes occurs when he's Oldman's performance makes it believable and engaging. Besides the ending, there are other scenes left and right. One moment he is display- drunk in a church, and after climbing over an all the more riveting. mis-fires: ©ldman, a Brit, sometimes slips with ing the severed hands of a victim" which he keeps alter to offer the statue of St. Anthony a drink, The character of Frankie is almost always his N.Y. Westie accent. In the slo-mo Shootout, in his freezer for whenever he needs an un- he falls to his knees to pray that his recently ready to explode with the same violence as his the blood really looks like ketchup. I just thought traceable set of fingerprints, and the next he's murdered friend be made a saint. It is hard to brother, the only difference being that he's learn- you should know. iSLAYER ART WEEK on the Plaza Concert Tuesday October 2nd — Thursday October 4th Review from 2-6 By Deborah Ash One of the most respected speed metal bands. Slayer, played to a full house at the Brooklyn rock club, L"Amour Saturday, September IS. Originating in Los Angeles, Slayer's tour is Internships, Apprentiaships, in support of their new, yet to be released album. Seasons in the Abyss , the bands Sth full-length the audience who showed their approval by dan- album. Opening with "Raining Blood", Slayer's cing the frenzied "mosh", a dance in which the performance featured the new songs, "Dead Skin participants slam into each other. While drum- Mask", "Blood Red", "Seasons in the Abyss", mer Dave Lombardo sounded a bit sloppy, the Workshops & Jobs and "Skeletons of Society". In addition to these speed at which he played double bass was new songs, Slayer played the old favorites like outstanding. Perhaps because of his lifestyle, "Postmortem", "At Dawn They Sleep", "Die singer Tom Araya's voice is not what it was three by the Sword", "Mandatory Suicide", "South years ago. His voice and his screams lack the of Heaven", and of course concluded with quality that they had previously, yet Araya's Performing Arts - October 2nd "Angel of Death". ability to play bass is as good as ever, althugh Although the audience's response to Saturday the music as well as the performance were fine, night's show was intense, Slayer's new music it would have been more easily heard if the lacks the speed of their thcird full-length album, volume was lowered. Fine Arts - October 3rd "Reign in Blood" and more closely resembles All in all, for fans of heavy metal, this show the style on their last album, "South of Heaven". was enjoyable. For those who have never Lead guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hannemann witnessed a heavy metal show and are willing played with machine-like precision, energizing to have a new experience. Slayer is a good in- Media Arts -October 4th troduction, primarily because of the energy level. Before seeing Slayer, however, an item one must not forget are earplugs. Even with this device, the music is more than loud enough. •HI"' •**»> **~ •*/•" >lt» Page 12 - CLC Observer - September 26, 1990

EMINENT PROFESSOR AT FORDHAM DENIED TENURE!!

• Ranked by students as one of the most exceptional professors teaching today. • Praised for his unfailing dedication... a man who unselfishly donates his time and expertise to help others. • A brilliant scholar with a Ph.D. from Harvard. • Extolled as a role model—exemplifying triumph over adversity. • Host of the nationally televised PBS show Abnormal Psychology: The Telecourse. • Acclaimed nationwide by prestigious scholars for his research on narcissism. • President of the Society for the Advancement of Quantitative Research in Psychoanalysis. • • Author of numerous publications—read worldwide. WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?? DENNIS G. SHULMAN, Ph.D.

WHY HAS THIS MAN BEEN DENIED TENURE?

WHY IS HE FORCED TO LEAVE OUR SCHOOL FOREVER?

YOU CAN STOP THIS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.

Write to: Dr. Robert F. Himmelberg Send a copy Dean Gerald M. Quinn • President, Faculty Senate* of your letter to: Fordham University Administration Building 113 West 60th Street, Room 821 Fordham University - Rose Hill New York, NY 10023-7478 Bronx, NY 10458

YOU HAVEA VOICE. . . USE If. Paid by students in support of Dr. Dennis Shullman Saptambarae, 1990 - CLC Observer - Page 13

It's Up to Us Each semester when you go digging into your pockets for $252, excuse me, I meant to say $285 a credit, do you ever think - What am I really paying for at CLC? We can focus on the negative points of this institution, but we don't proven m the fact that We Pay, We Go. What then gives us the intiatiye to write those checks to Fordham? Possibly it is that course you took last semester which gave you some in- sight into yourself or the world you live in. Possibly it is the people you interact with here at CLC. Or maybe it is your professors, the ones that you choose to take as many times as you are able. Those teachers who inspire you to do well not only in their classes but in your daily life as well. Those teachers you give the fours and fives to on the student evaluations. We all know that not every professor holds these special qualities. However, there are two such teachers There at CLC who set an example for teachers everywhere. Unfortunately For- dham University arbitrarily denied these two ex- ceptional professors tenure. This means we will lose Dr. Janis Barry-Figueroa and Dr. Dennis Shulman at the end of the spring semester. Who will replace them? - With Fordham's record chances are a part-time adjunct professor. Dr. Barry-Figueroa's and Dr. Shulman's records speak for themselves. If you haven't taken a class with them, speak to anyone who has or better yet speak to them. You will see why the students of CLC cannot let this happen. The tenure committee is supposed to take our stu- dent evaluations into account when deciding issues of tenure, apparently they didn't - infact we feel they ignored them, considering Dr. Barry-Figuerosrs and Dr. Shulman's evalua- tions are among the most favored at CLC. It is our duty to make Fordham and the tenure com- mittee hear our plee, because they didn't bother L0WENSTE1N CENTER to listen to us the first time around tells us we need to do whatever it takes for them to listen to us. If you are saying to yourself why should I care •mm- I'm not an economics major or a psychology ma- Editor-in-Chief Mario Mama Staff: Gary Abasolo, Jean-Marc Ar jor, we strongly advise you to think again. If Managing Editor Denise Holzka cher, Deborah Ash, Diane Barracca Fordham can axe these dedicated, hardwork- News Editor John Gardella William Brooks, Brian Galvin, Edwarc ing professors, there is no reason they won't take Features Editor Brian McDonald Gorelik, Donna Hemans, Alma Jorge away the professors you admire and appreciate. Asst. Features Paige Rcfener Jeannie Krajcik, Mina Landriscina, Anr Arts Editor Dionne Ford Moisan, Stacey Riggio, Robin L. Sayers When the University redresses their cases again Commentary Editor Domhck Guerrero and Bobby Williamson in the appeal process, we students need to make Asst. Commentary Fernando Leal Sports Editor Joe McDonald The CLC OBSERVER is the independent a strong fight in order for the University to Assistant Sports Michael R. frig student newspaper of the College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University, respect ancTlisten to our needs and wants. We Copy Editor Michael J.Horan New York. The opinions expressed in all want dedicated and exceptional teachers, un- Photograhy Editor Luis Costa the OBSERVER, including those in col- Art & Design umns, letters, and graphics are those fortunately Fordham, in their effort to grant Consultant Edward GDrefck of the individual writer or artist. Those tenure to professors who fit the bill overlooked expressed in editorials aro the opinion! of the editorial board. No part of the two professors who define the bill. OBSERVER—including articles, adver- Faculty Consultant Szabeth Stone tisements, photographs, am graphics—may bo reproduced in any ©CLC Observer. 1990 way, shape, or form without the ex- press written permission of tha editorial board. For details, contact tha CUC OBSERVER, Box 18, Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham University, Maw York, New York 10083. Room 480. Telephone (SIS) 841-5384. Page 14 - CLC Observer - September 26,1990

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By Paige Dana Polisner tions. "Of course that is ridiculous," my mother It was 10:00 p.m. when I decided to leave the replied, and she hurried to the bedroom and party. I asked my friend, Gene, if he would walk returned with the book. She flipped through its with me to get a cab. He did, and we waited pages. There were Asians, and Eskimos, Mex- together, on the corner of 104th Street and icans, and Indians. But there were no blacks. Amsterdam Avenue, while taxis, their "on-duty" To say that blacks have a right to be angry is signs lit, passed us by. After fifteen minutes, or a gross understatement. Blacks have been 'cut' so, Gene broke the silence. "You'd be better off | most cruelly, all through time. But, to say that without me here", he said. "They won't stop blacks presently bleed alone would be stating a for. someone black.'' I muttered that I found that lie. apalling, and Gene replied flatly, "You really Two years ago, I was mugged in a parking lot. can't blame them. They get robbed up here all My grandparents and I were held-up at gun point, the time." and my grandfather, who stubbornly refused to Blacks and whites have alienated one another. part with his 'leather pouch', was pistol-whipped, There seems little hope of crossing the chasm that and hospitalized. Our attackers were black. I do widens with each passing cab, each mugging not suggest that all blacks are muggers. Nor do committed. Is there too much broken glass bet- I hate any blacks, because some are. Am I uneasy ween races, too much imbedded prejudice to when I pass a black man on the street late at touch without bloodying our hands? night? I would have to say yes. In spite of a desire Last Fall, I attended a forum at Fordham. The not to be, I would have to say yes. topic was the death of Yusuf Hawkins - why it I have a friend named Robin. She is a dancer had happened, and how to handle the razor-sharp and so am I. Robin is black. In 1981, we came issues involved. Unfortunately, the event, which j up with a 'brilliant' idea. We choreographed a had admirable intentions, turned into a total dance to the Stevie Wonder/Paul McCartney disaster. Speeches were hopelessly misconstrued, i song Ebony and Ivory, dressed ourselves in black Lecturers, ironically managed to offend the very and white satin stripes, and performed it at a people they were trying to entreat. Soon all church. Robin and I thought that our dance would semblances of reasonable discourse gave way to change the world. We honestly believed, holding a senseless and fevered debate over who had been hands on that day, that our number could do tor persecuted more throughout history, Jews or others what it hasn't been able to do, even for us. Blacks. The meeting hit its final low, when a To this day, Robin is important in my life. We young man approached the podium. Earlier, a share confidences, jokes, and our own private faculty member had asked in earnest what she, revelations. I depend on her because she helps as a white woman, could do to help mend the me to laugh about everyday things that I take too present state of affairs. The young man's reply seriously. Robin and I could talk about anything was chilling. "The only thing a white person can together and, yet, we don't. We don't discuss ever do for me," he said, "is to help load my the Bensonhurst case, the rape of the Central Park gun." jogger, or Do The Right Thing. I never told Robin There is a children's book called What Color that I went to the forum at Fordham, that my is Love? written and illustrated by Joan Walsh muggers were black, that I've read What Color Anglund. The theme of the book is that people is Love?, and I am ashamed of its blatant omis- come in all shades, and we should love one sion. I do not let Robin know that I do fear blacks another alike, no matter the skin tone, because because many seem hostile towards-whites, and 'all colors are beautiful'. The book is filled with I fear, even worse, that it's not without reason. pastel drawings of children of all ethinic Robin and I, even Robin and I, merely dance backgrounds. One day a black artist informed my around all of the broken glass. Someday we're mother (who swore by the book) that there was going to .have to find the courage to try and pick not a single black child included in the illustra- some of it up.

A Shining Lie: American Involvement in the Middle East *.

"the American way of life" by making it a lot By Steven Mezheritsky more expensive. The Desert Shield operation is truly an exer- The second hypocracy of the Desert Shield is cise in absurdity. Officially the United States has the notion that our forces are there to protect sent tens of thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia and free Kuwait. These two to protect that poor-little-rich kingdom and win kingdoms, who without their petrodollars would back the freedom of that other bastion of still be in the Middle Ages are the same two coun- democracy, Kuwait. Unofficially our men and tries that support the terrorist activities of the women are baking under the desert sun to pro- PLO. An organization which»thinks nothing of tect the investments of the oil companies. Due attacking an overfilled Israeli beach packed with to a peculiarity of import laws the government civilians or killing innocent people in an cannot regulate the price of the oil that has Australian airport. In actuality our soldiers are originated outside our borders, which basically there to protect those who wish to see them dead; means that the oil companies can charge us a truly mind-boggling concept. When a couple anything they want. The formula is simple: the of years ago the United States tried to protect the oil companies buy the oil, or extract it cheaper intergrity of shipping in the Persian Gulf, Kuwait by using foreign labor; then the oil is transfer- condemned the action and tried to play-off on the red across the ocean on tankers that seem to spill super-power rivalry by asking the Soviet Navy most of it into the water, finally ending up* in the to step in. United States where the oil companies sell the . Now the U.S. is sending advanced weaponry oil at market rates which are currently inflated to Saudi Arabia which is hoping to use them not artificially. For proof, one just has to look at the Iraq but on our most trusted ally in the region, gasoline prices. Despite the fact that the onset Israel. Training the Saudis to fly the FIS's and of the crisis would precede the an oil shortage fl6's is a mistake which may in time cost us dear- by several months and the willingness of other ly. We must remember that these are the same nations to raise their oil production to offset the people Who condemn our actions seemingly every loss of Iraqi and Kuwaiti crude, the oil companies week. They do not desire our friendship, only immediately raised their prices higher at home our protection, our dollars, and blood. To bor- whereas (he gasoline and heating oil rates have row the title of the Neil Shcehan's book about reached record levels. In a real unpatriotic our involvement in Vietnam, the U.S. involve- gesture the oil companies are thanking our ment in the Middle East is "A Bright Shining soldiers in the desert who arc there to protect Lie." Page 16 - CLC Observer - September 26, 1990

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Some Thoughts To Stay or on a Leave, That is the Eventful Summer The value placed on life in this city is negligi- On Mo' Better Blues: ble. People murder other people as easily as they It wasn't mo better than Do the Right Thing Question would step on a roach (another of New York's but I enjoyed it just the same. One criticism problems). Many think the state of New York By William Brooks though, Spike if you don't have an ending in is in immutable, but its not. And. that's the sad This being an eventful summer, I have some mind please try not to improvise. You left the By John GardeUa part because something could be done, but the interesting thoughts to share with my fellow For- biggest question unanswered: Did Denzel's I'm not too crazy about New York. To be less steps necessary to remedy the situation will not dham peers. character ever resume his musical career? I ambiguous -1 hate it. It isn't because I'm a bum- be initiated by the powers that be. On the Middle-East Crisis: understand, you did this one for dad. pkin who's spent half of his life in a backwards There would have to be stricter gun control This is George Bush's second military action On the Two Live Crew Controversy: hick town, sitting in his living room, watching laws. There would have to be an overhaul of the in one term. I wonder what happened to our I won't say that it is Racism that caused them primetime T.V. depict the horrors of "big social service programs. The educational system "Gentler Kinder Nation" he once spoke of. I tru- to be arrested and banned in some states. I'll let cities". And it's not because I'm an out of towner would need drastic improvements and more ly do not believe Saddam Hussein wants to fight the reader decide that - although Sinead O'Con- who can't seem to find his niche in such a qualified teachers added. More federal money for a war. I hope Bush doesn't allow too many nor said it on the MTV Awards. I will say that dynamic place. I'm a native New Yorker who drug rehabilitation programs would be needed. American men and women to die over some oil those who opposed diem have underestimated the has seen enough to realize "the greatest city in And a dramatic escalation in the police force we should not be depending on in the first place. premise of "Freedom of Speech" and the desire the world" is dying. would be needed; more than the 5000 officers I understand George needs to do something with of all who will put their life on the line to uphold Its bane is a combination of prejudice, pover- pledged by Governor Cuomo. Legislators and that trillion dollar artillery that he inherited from it. ty and squalor. That mix breeds crime, violent policy makers won't take these steps unless the his predecessor. On Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour: crime. It's a fact that big cities will have their citizens demand them and that seems very unlike- On Jesse Jackson's visit to the crisis area: I'll just say that I have the utmost respect for share of crime, But the type committed over the ly considering the apathetic state most New It was a grand show of diplomacy, which can Madonna and 1 am a fan who is compelled to let past few years in New York has been percep- Yorkers are in. only be displayed by a righteous leader seeking this be known. I understood the Like A Prayer tibly more brutal and vicious. The events of this So we, much by our own volition, are left with peace. video. past summer have crystalyzed the blight of the two options. We can remain in New York and On the Historic Nelson Mandela Visit: On homelessness in New York: city. live by the Darwinian principle of survival of the I cannot accurately describe in words the joy It is a serious eyesore to say the least. But to In a nine day period five children were either fittest. In this case the fittest are those with the and emotion I felt while vigorously following the new student from out of state I say to you: killed or wounded by random gun fire. An Assis- biggest guns. Or, we can get out while we're ful- Moses, I mean Mandela around this City. I just as you look about and notice the young black men tant District Attorney from The Bronx was also ly intact. hope it will not be reduced to a mere historical and women on the street begging, let it be a killed by random gun fire. A recent high school I graduate this semester and have had to decide event. I remember having a premonition the reminder of the on going war America graduate was murdered by a pan handler - for where I want to begin my post degree life. Do evening of Ted Koppel's show when, at the end, perpetuates against black men. Those young men one dollar. And, in a killing that received nation I stay in New York or move on? I mulled it over a boy told Mandela "If there is anything you need and women are merely casualties. wide attention, a twenty-two year old man from for a minute or.two and decided I couldn't or want me to do I will do it just send me a let- Finally in defense of David Dinkins- it is far Utah was stabbed to death in a mid-town sub- squeeze semi automatics and Ju Jitsu lessons in- ter." Finally, my children will experience real from his fault that crime and murder is up so way station he went to aid his parents who were to my budget, so I opted for the latter option. freedom. high. First and foremost, America was built on being mugged by a gang of teenagers. That was I probably would have relocated even if On the Central Park Jogger trial murdering and stealing let's not forget that. And the eighteenth murder in a subway station this everything was peachy, I prefer a more They incriminated themselves on tape thus the secondly, Dinkins inherited a mayorship from year. 1990 has four months left. panoramic environment, but the daily hazards jury had all the evidence they needed. It's hard probably the worst mayor in this city's history. to concieve that anybody can be coerced into say- Former Mayor Koch, for twelve years, was bent This rash of violent crime is not, as some New Yorkers face clinched it. t ing that they participated in such a gruesome at- on gentrification. It did not work. Now we have would have you think, an aberration. At year's The ubiquitous danger also supports a theory tack if they had not, especially with their parents the backlash. I feel for the Watkins and Central end New York will have accumulated over two I have: New York's a jungle where rapists, present. Park jogger families, but this is what happens thousand murders for the first time in its hisory. murderers and an assortment of other reprobates when we have such large gaps between the haves That figure does not include rapes, muggings and have total control. At least they've managed to and the have nots. This is a dog eat dog/survival other violent crimes. carve a niche for themselves. of the fittest society anyway, right... T H L Don't. .Worry... E New York...is... a safe...city!?.' I B O T T O E Page 18 - CLC Observer - September 26, 1990

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Major Issues Confronting the Presidency Thursday in the 21st Century Apr. 25 Spring Sievtrs Lecture Daniel Patrick Moynihan 5:45 pm United States Senator McNaily (For information/res.: Keating 222) Amphitheater

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By Cheryl Roloff The most common cause of skin cancer is burning hours, around 11 am to 3 pm, has a good overexposure to the sun. Skin cancer is one of chance of avoiding skin cancer. It is much less the most curable forms of cancer when it is common among people with deep brown or black discovered early. Better still, most skin cancer skin, although even they can develop some forms can be prevented. of skin cancer. Your skin is the largest organ of your body; There are three major types of skin cancer: it protects the rest of your body from harmful 1. Basal cell carcinoma - This is the most com- chemicals, infections and radiation. Some skin mon type of skin cancer. It is a slow growing cancers result from repeated exposure to in- cancer that usually begins with a small shiny dustrial or medical X-rays. Usually, the skin bump on the hand, head or neck.This cancer itself is not damaged by normal wear and tear usually doesn't become life threatening, but it can because skin cells are dying off and being replac- continue to grow. ed by fresh cells all the time. Any unusual growth 2. Squamous cell carcinoma - This may start or color change in the skin whould be checked as red patches on the face or ears. Squamous cell by your physician, as should any mole that carcinoma can spread to other parts of the body. changes size, shape or color. 3. Malignant melanoma - This is the least com- Skin cancers occur on parts of the body that mon but most serious of the major skin cancers. usually aren't covered by clothing. The main It may originate in or near a mole. If melanoma areas exposed to the sun are the face, hands, is not treated promptly, it can spread throughout shoulders, back and legs. These have become the body. common areas for skin cancer. This is because The only way to know if you have skin cancer, more people are sun bathers who deliberately ex- is to see your doctor. Too much exposure to the pose themselves to the sun's ultrviolet radiation. sun can lead to a number of skin problems, which During the summer, everyone enjoys going to can in turn, lead to skin cancer. Keep in mind the beach for the day, swimming and tanning for that exposure to the sun has a cumulative effect hours at a time. With all the health warnings on your skin. Every time you get a tan, you are about tanning and the harmful radiation from the harming your skin. Continuous tanning at the sun, due to the deteriorating ozone layer, one beach, tanning salons, or tanning pills will even- would think that people would be more cautious. tually show effects of aging skin, wrinkles, and Many people take for granted that they are young skin cancer. and skin cancer would never happen to them. Even though overexposure to the sun is the Well, skin cancer can happen to anyone at any leading cause of skin cancer, it isn't necesary to age. Anyone that is planning to go outdoors, give up the outdoors altogether. Using sunblock wherever it may be, including the beach, should will help to prevent skin cancer as well as wear a sunblocking lotion. premature aging of your skin. Skiers should People who sunburn easily and have fair skin remember that snow reflects the sun's rays and with red or blonde hair are most prone to develop also, you can get sunburned on a cloudy day. skin cancer. The amount of time spent in the sun Taking simple precautions such as using a effects a person's risk of skin cancer. A, fair per- sunblock lotion containing a high SPF (sun pro- son who wears protective clothing, uses a strong tection factor) and avoiding the sun during peak sunblock, and stays out of the sun during peak burning hours, will help prevent skin cancer.

One Man's View of The Baseball

By John GardeUa Season Here are some predictions and observations on nore clutch team than those Yankees. the 1990 baseball season from a die-hard baseball The majors' most scintilating rookie has been fan. Atlanta's Dave Justice. He's done an excellent- By acquiring Harold Baines and Willie McGee job in helping Braves' fans forget about Dale (on the trading deadline!) the A's will dominate Murphy and their team's won/lost record. baseball into the 90's. Bip Roberts of the Padres is around the cor- Dave Stewart won't win the Cy Young Award ner from super stardom and parennial All-Star (Clemens & Welch have been better) and he pro- game appearences. bably never will, but two more twenty win When Nolan Ryan is done his most telling seasons and he'll be awarded a free trip to statistic will not be strike outs or no hitters, but Cooperstown. «. an ERA under 3.20. If fate had placed him on The Yankees' future isn't as bleak as everyone competitive teams he would have won 400 thinks. They have a surplus of young players who games. have proven they can play at the Major League After watching a rejuvinated Cecil Fielder one level. And the best one is Kevin Maas. His pro- wonders why most players don't take a trip to digious home runs in the second half of the season Japan. have kept Yankee fans coming back to The Would you pay a .270 hitter with a below Bronx. average glove $5 million per season? Neither will When Ryne Sandberg retires he'll be con- the Mets. But the Yankees should. Mattingly- sidered the greatest second baseman ever. Barfield-Strawberry would rival the Giant's So far there have been nine no hitters thrown, Clark-Mitchel-Williams and put the Yankee's in a record, and three stand out. First there's Nolan contention immediately. Ryan's. The ageless wonder pitched his sixth Forget Hersheiser and Gooden, the eighties career no hitter at the age of 42! Then there is didn't produce a better pitcher than Roger Dave Stieb's. Mr. One Hitter finally got a no hit- Clemens. He stands on the mound and gives you ter. And finally there was Andy Hawkin's. He the ball to hit. The only problem is most players had the dubious distinction of pitching a no hit- can't. ter and losing the game. This season's MVPs: Barry Bonds and Rickey If the Dodgers had Orel Hcrshiser and Tim Henderson. Cy Young: Doug Drabck and Roger Belcher for the season, the Reds would be chas- Clemens. ing them; not the other way around. Playoffs: A's over Blue Jay's in four. Pirate's Joe Carter and Mark McGuire post anemic bat- over Red's in Six. ting averages and consistently drive in runs. World Series; A's over. Pirates in Five, That's clutch: And finally, Commissioner Fay Vincent should I constantly hear the A's being compared to recieve a humanitarian award for sucessfull) the Red's and A's of the 70's. What about the disposing of baseball's reigning despot, Kinj Yankee teams that made three consecutive scries George. George's abdication allows the Yankee.1 uppcuranccs (76,^7,78)7 I have never seen a to rebuild a once proud team. Thanks Fay! Page 20 - CLC Observer - September 26, 1990 SPORTS Youth Movement Highlights

the U.S. Open By Jim Keenan When play began at the U.S. Open on August 27 there were many questions. When it was all over on September 9, the questions had been answered and there were many surprises. The main question concerned John McEnroe. Was this his farewell tour or comeback? Could Boris Becker go O-fer on the year in Grand Slam events? Could Ivan Lend! rebound from a disap- pointment at Wimbledon? Could Stefan Edberg, who recently claimed the No. I ranking, advance to the final? What will Andre Agassi wear? Who is Pete Sampras? On the women's side: Could two time defending U.S. Open women's cham- pion Steffi Graf, who lost two consecutive Grand Slam events, lose a third? Would Martina Navratilova give Graf a run for her money or 5 3' would it be the rising star Monica Seles? What about newcomer Jennifer Capriati at her first U.S. Open as a pro? What happended to Gar- 3' briela Sabatini? Who among the 128 men and 128 women will win the titles? This was the first year that both Chris Evert StefTi Graff and Jimmy Connors were not participating in the Open, Evert retired from tournament play last year. The week before the Open, Connors took part in the Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills, an exhibition tuneup. It was the first time he had played in a tournament since February in Milan. Connors was forced to retire in the quarterfinals against Ivan Lendl. With a special Gabriela Sabatini feeling for this area's fans, Connors would not permit a less than solid performance in the Open. Had he participated, Jimmy Connors, whp amassed 109 tournament wins and five U.S. txa Sanchez-Vicario (6) 6-1, 6-2 in the quarter- Open titles, would have been unseeded for the finals and semifinals respectively. ' first time in 18 years and would have played To advance to the women's final, Gabriela Kevin Curren in the first round. Sabatini had to get by Kathy Jordan, Isabelle Demongeot, Sabine Appelmans, Helena Sukova The big story at the U.S. Open was John (II), Leila Meshki, and Mary Joe Fernandez (8). McEnroe. Four time U.S. Open champion, Sabatini defeated Leila Meshki 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 in McEnroe, now unseeded in his fourteenth Open, 2 hours and 29 minutes in the quarterfinals. There had been eliminated in the second round of the were eleven breaks in the match, six for Sabatini, last two years had no great expectations. Earlier five for Meshki. In the semifinals, Sabatini this year he was thrown out of the Australian outlasted Mary Joe Fernandez 7-5, 5-7, 6-3. Open and lost in the first round at Wimbledon. Prior to the U.S. Open Gabriela Sabatini was However, for almost two weeks John McEnroe already being compared to Pam Shriver, as so- was the center of attention, and it had nothing meone who would spend her tennis career rank- to do with temper tantrums. He defeated Javier ed in or near the top five without a Grand Slam Sanchez, David Engel, Andre Chesnokov (10), title. There wasn't much pressure or attention on Emilio Sanchez (7), and David Wheton, advan- Sabatini. Much of the pressure and attention had cing to the Open semifinals for the first time sine been on Graf and Navratilova of course, ad up 1985. Then he ran into Pete Sampras.losing in and coming Monica Seles and newcomer Jennifer four sets, 6-2. 6-4. 3-6, 6-3. With his perfor- Capriati. Gabriela had a new coach, Carlos mance at the U.S. Open. John McEnroe may not Kiramayr, an improved slice backhand, and a be finished as many had thought he was. complete approach shot and volley package. A The first upset of the tournament came on the new Gaby. A big help was that Grafs cross court Pete Sampras second day of play. Top seed and 1990 forehand was not explosive as usual. Sabatini ad- Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg, who had vanced to the net 43 times winning 25 points. Boris Becker (2). In the quarterfinals, Agasi recently ascended to the No. I ranking for the Her net play spared her the marathon ground defeated Andrei Cherkasov 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 and in first time in his career was eliminated in the first stroke exchanges which in past encounters against the semifinals eliminated Boris Becker (2) 6-7 round by Alexander Volkov in straight sets 3-6, Graf had exhausted her. Sabatini broke Grafs (10-12), 6-3. 6-2, 6-3. 6-7 (3-7), 6-2. It was the second time this year serve four times in the match. She broke at the Witfi Agassi and Sampras advancing to the that Edberg lost in the first round of a Grand Slam start of the match and in the third game to go final, it marked the first Ail-American Open final event. He lost to Sergi Bruguera in three sets at up 4-0 in the first set. Graf had 40 unforced er- since McEnroe beat Vitas Gerulaitis in 1979. The the French Open. The last time a No. I seeded rors to Sabatini's 23 in the match. Sabatini last victory by McEnroe in 1984 was the last win player lost in the first round of the U.S. Open defeated Graf for the fourth time in 22 career by an American in the Open. In the final, Sam- was in 1971 when John Newcombe lost to Jan meetings 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) and captured her first pras continued to display his strong service game. Kodes. It was the sixth time at the Open and the Grand Slam title. He would collect 13 more aces against Agassi eigth overall for Grand Slam events. En route to the men's final, Pete Sampras (12) to finish with an even 100 for the tournament. Andre Agassi Linda Ferrando defeated Monica Seles (3), 1-6, defeated Dan Goldie, Peter Lundgrcn,Jakob Sampras pinned Agassi to the baseline with his 6-1, 7-6 in the third round and Manuela Maleva- Hlasek, Thomas Muster (6), Iva Lendl (3), and serves. His fastest serve was clocked at 124 mph Fragniere (9) defeated Martina Navrtilova (2) John McEnroe. In the quarterfinals, Sampras and the others were between a Nolan Ryan Elizabeth Smylie and Todd Woodbridge (8) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 in the round of 16 in other upsets. defeated Ivan Lendl in five sets 6-4, 7-6, (7-4), fastball and an Al Mac Innis slapshot. Agassi was defeated top /anked Natalia Zvereva and Jim However, Volkov lost in the next round to Todd 3-6, 4-6, 6-2 in 4 hours and 5 minutes. Sampras reluctant to approach the net and did so only 7 Pugh in mixed doubles. Witsken as did Ferrando to Leila Meshki and had 24 aces and 27 service winners. Lendl, the limes wining 5 points. On the other hand, Sam- A grand total of $6(349,250 was awarded in Maleeva-Fragniere to Mary Joe Fernandez (8). Australian Open Winner this year, a three lime pras approached 62 limes and won 39 points. In prize money at the U.S. Open. Sampras and Fernandez broke her serve seven times in the champion and five time runnerup, had advanc- jusl I hour and 42 minutes, Sampras defeated Sabatini each receive $350,000. Runnerups match. ed to every Open final dating back to 1982. Ivan Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to capture his first Grand receive $175,000. Even those who were En route to the women's final, Steffi Graf (I) Lendl became a father earlier this year, could his Slam title and become the youngest man to do eliminated in the first round receive $5,195, some eliminated Maureen Drake, Rachel McQuillan, game be suffering as did Jimmy Connors' and so al the U.S. Open at age 19. pocket money for Stephan Edberg. 1990 mark- Elna Reinach, Jennifer Capriati (13), Jana Novot- John McEnroe's when they became fathers? In doubles competition, Martina Navratilova ed the first lime since 1966 that eight different na (12), and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (6). Four- Sampras, on the other hand, had never been to and Gigi Fernandez defeated the top seeded players captured Ihe eight Grand Slam titles. At teen year old Jennifer Capriati (13) defeated the quarterfinals of any Grand Slam event. In women's double team of Jana Novotna and the Australian Open they were Ivan Lendl and Maria Strandlund 6-1, 6-4 in the third round mat- Grand Slam events, the farthest Sampras had Helena Sukova, who were in pursuit o Ihe Grand Steffi Graf, at the French Open Andres Gomez ching herself up against Graf in the round of 16 every advanced was to the round of 16, whicht Slam, 6-2, 6-4, for the women's doubles title. and Monica Seles, at Wimbledon Stefan Edberg for the second consecutive Grand Slam event. he accomplished in the 1989 Open and earlier Novotna and Sukova were 44-0 coining in and and Martina Navratilova and at the U.S. Open Graf eliminated Capriati at Wimbledon in two this year at the Australian Open. In the hftd cilptured titles a the Australian, French, and Pete Sampras and Gabriela Sabatini. Tennis is sets and did so again here 6-1, 6-2. In the se- semifinals, Sampras met the crowd favorite John Wimbledon this year. Navralilova and Pam by no means finished in New York for 1990. In cond weekof the Open, Steffi Graf entered her McEnroe and eliminated him in four sets 6-2, Shriver are the only learn able to capture all four November, the women will play in the Virginia 160th consecutive week atop the women's rank- 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, with 17 more aces and 12 service Grand Slam events within a calendar year in slims Championships and in December the men ings. She passes Jimmy Connors' record for the winners. 1984. The title was Ihe 31st for Navralilova in will play in the Nabisco Masters. Both events will longest uninterrupted hold on No. I. Graf has Advancing to the men's final, Andre Agassi Grand Slam doubles anil 54th overall. Peter be held at Madison Square Garden and should been top ranked since August 16, 1987. She (4) ousted Grant Council, Petr Korda, Franco Aldrich and Danic Visscr (2) defeated Paul An- be very interesting and exciting as all the others. defeated Jana Novotna (12) 6-1, 6-2 and Aran- Davin, Jay Bcrger (13), Anilrei Chcrkasov, and nacone and David Whcaton in men's doubles and have, been this year.