Speaker Unpacks Jewish Stereotypes

rrwcvnirv I *, (rail* on Anthony Lazzeri aims for high notes on page 5. Vol. 83, Issue 19 Youngstown, Ohio November 2, idpO By LISA WUYEK resources to YSU." the community." fanibar Reporter An additional benefit to YSU, Additional incentives he he said, is that his plan would cre• wants to implement include low- It may be the root of all evil, ate professional jobs in interest loans, to businesses. but in Youngstown, money is the Youngstown "so our children don't D'ApoIito focuses on YSU as a key to the future. flee the community chasing a job route to change. This is the one point all the because there aren't enough oppor• He said, "The economic 17th.District Congressional candi• tunities here." growth of the Valley is joined with dates have in common. The candi• Campaign volunteer Patti the university. As the university dates, agree that Youngstown's Fisher said, "Alberty is grows, so does Youngstown, and revitalization depends' on the Youngstown's best hope to bring vice versa." amount of money brought in professional jobs to the D'ApoIito said 1 through businesses. Each candi• Valley." he will work to "let the date, however, has a very different Low rents, espe• country know about idea about the best way to bring in cially in underutilized YSU's programs, facul• that money and how best to facili• buildings, are another 2000 ty and opportunities." tate the changes each believes are incentive for businesses He also plans to necessary. to locate in For more political incorporate the univer- Republican candidate Paul Youngstown, Alberty coverage, Check sity and downtown Alberty's plan emphasizes technol• said. TheJambCT Youngstown in order ogy. Alberty plans to draw in busi• He suggests a ONLINE at '*o expand both. He nesses by "providing a technology- "value proposition to httpy/CC.ysu.edu/'•would like to see some based infrastructure" and reliable avoid the tax-abatement' jambar university offices access to communication. game going on." Because moved to "the down- STUDY BREAK: A student takes time from Youngstown, he said, needs to the rents are so low, he said, the town area, he said. class to enjoy activities offered .at the Grand create a new niche for itself companies should pay their share "YSU is a reflection of what through technology to entice busi• of property taxes, thereby lessen• the Valley stands for — it's profes• Mali-BOO fest Tuesday. ' nesses to move to the area. This ing the burden on low-income fam• sional and high-quality," he said. will draw in supportive business• ilies. "This is the example we want to es, such as high-tech companies Taxes factor into Lou show the country." and law offices, said Alberty. D'Apolito's plans, as well, but In accordance with the His plan benefits YSU, he said, Independent D'ApoIito favors tax Natural Law Party's philosophy, because it creates a technological breaks as incentives for businesses Carol Ann McCoy emphasizes pre• network in Youngstown that to move to the area. vention of illness and job loss and allows the university to "tap into "Youngstown may lose tax reduction of stress as key elements low-cost, high-speed technology." dollars," he said, "but the business• in a well-functioning area. Alberty said, "1 will focus on es that move here will increase m bringing federal and state income and expendable dollars in See VOTE, page 11 The YSU literary magazine, which is located In Kilcawley West, may move spring semester. Speaker unpacks Jewish stereotypes BY CHRISTINA PALM going to pay and where we are J'ombar Editor going to find the money to fix the BY ANGELA GIANOGUO She used the traditional defi• Therefore, stereotypes were room in Fedor Hall." fanibar Editor nition of stereotype — a set of created to reaffirm the normalness Campus organizations are The Penguin Review is under images that a dominant group has of non-Jews. constantly being moved or updat• new advisement by Dr. Philip Most cultural studies scholars about another group based on par• Prell went on to say that anxi• ed at YSU. One of them, The YSU Brady, professor, English, and say it is impossible to study one tial or incomplete information — ety and fear were most often Penguin Review, is in limbo as to director of the Poetry Center. aspect of culture without looking for most of her lecture in referring responsible for the creation of where it is to go come spring "The money is not available in at the others. In order to look at to mainstream American stereo• stereotypes. semester. The Penguin Review budget; ifs race, one must also look at class. To types about Jewish women; how• In the case of the ghetto-girl The editor of The Penguin not available in the English depart• explore gender, one must also ever, she also included stereotypes image, Prell said, "Anxiety was Review, Christyne Kotel, senior, ment budget. The cost needs to be explore .race and sexuality, and-so held by Jewish people, mainly created by the Jewish girls' inde• professional writing and editing, defrayed by the university if it on. men, about other Jews. pendence and experimentation said the office is supposed to move wants us to move," said Brady. The case of Riv-Ellen Preil, an "I want to use Jews as an with fashion. Her desire for things into 0006, Fedor Hall, but was told "It's unclear where the money is anthropologist at the University of example of the dynamics of stereo• made her dangerous." the organization was to come up going to come from. The Penguin Minnesota who spoke Monday types working within minority The result was the label of" with the $3,000 needed to fix the Review doesn't have that kind of evening in the Chestnut Room> groups," Prell said. "Stereotypes "cheap, excessive and tacky." room before The Penguin Review money nor is it appropriate for it to Kilcawlcy Center, is no different. are with us everywhere and are Prell used the popular stereo• could move in. have to pay." . Prell spoke about Jewish gen• based on a grain of truth that, gets types of African-Americans as lazy Kotel said she was told Kotel said Gaines told her the der stereotypes over the past cen• exaggerated." during the early 20th century to Student Affairs can give $1,500, but publication probably will have to tury and how those stereotypes Prell used three popular demonstrate how mainstream cul• she still needs to find the other be out of the space in Kilcawley have changed according to chang• stereotypes of Jewish women — ture "blamed the outsider" for its $1^500. • Center before spring semester. The ing mainstream American culture. the ghetto girl, the Jewish mother plight. "I don't understand why we publication has a temporary space Prell is the author of "Prayer and the Jewish-American princess During the times when have to pay. I don't know where where The Jambar was formerly and Community: The Havurah in — to demonstrate how stereotypes America was industrializing, white the money is going to come from," located in the Center for Student America," which won the National are created and used. Americans were being used as Kotel said. Progress. Jewish Book Award, and "Anyone who fell outside the machines, working 12 hours a day Judith Gaines, executive direc• Gaines said, "The decision to "Interpreting Women's Lives," norm, German, English, et cetera, in factories. tor, Student Life, said, "The move The Penguin Review was which won the Critics Choice was in a position to make, it So the whites projected their Penguin Review was never expect• part of the decision to move every- Award from - the American Dncomfortable to all the others," ed to be a self-supporting entity. Educational Studies Association. she said. See PRELL., page 2 We just need, to figure out who's See REVIEW, page 11 2 The Jambar Thursday, November 2,2000 batteries power sics Tonic has cancelled its concert at Beeghly Center due to routing research problems. The show was scheduled for Friday. BY SUSAN KELLY physics and- astronomy, said. students in his work in the future. The Congressional debate, which was slated for 7 p.m. Jambar Reporter "When you consider that Sir Isaac "It's quite an opportunity for Wednesday has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday. The debate Newton invented the calculus students who have interest in will still be aired live on WFMJ-TV 21. , efore he started explaining specifically for physics applica• physics," he said. .the research he does, Dr. tions, you understand the com• Several of the potential uses James Carroll, assistant pro• plexity of the field. for Carroll's research include fessor, physics, looked at a picture Carroll is both an excellent applications for the Department of on top of his computer and smiled. researcher and a good communica• Defense and in nuclear medicine. "My 3-year-pld daughter does tor of complex issues. That combi• "Ultimately," Carroll said, Preventing more amazing things in one day nation is important for the class• "one might have a gamma ray than I've done altogether," he said. room." laser, in some sense the ultimate rape "She and my wife are my motiva• Part of the research' money light source, if the energy released tion." Carroll earned was used to pur• from nuclear batteries can be con• Keeping things in perspective chase a $100,000 radiation detector, trolled well enough." has helped him to attract the atten• mini-ball. In the example of cancer sur• Safety tips tion of the U.S.

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