f I , 'S T I : : '........i 'i.!.! Pub Lives F.S.AA . to determine Pub's vialbility NI ------h " ia The Godfather of punk page 11 Three Play page 2 page 12 -The Fourth Estate: Editoria1' I Like the French Maginot Line of WWII, Pres- 3. Violations of the SALT 1 and the unrat- brought to bear on Congress, through letters, ident Reagan's dense pack plan for the MX ified SALT 2 treaties. The ban on new fixed phone calls, and public demonstrations will missle is technologically obsolete before it's silos was pledged to be respected by both bear the fruit of disarmament if it is maintained funding is even secure. In the same manner as Washington and Moscow, yet is Congress passes the fortified trenches along theFranco-German the dense pack plan, the United States will be This guest editorial woas written by Barry Ritholtz. borders proved useless in the face of strategic the first to break either SALT treaty, which and technological innovations, so will the 25 up to now have been honored by both super- billion dollar Wyoming MX Boondoggle. powers. It is in fact saying to the world, "We What is the dense pack plan? A 14 mile do not honor our own treaties, our word is no strip, 1½ miles wide, containing 100 MX mis- good, we do not want peace. sies buried in hardened concrete and steel 4. Disturbing the Strategic Balance.- In the silos 1800 ft apart. This distance has been paranoid ridden game of nuclear deterence determined by Pentagon planners as being too there exists a phenomena of "Worst case sec- great for any single Soviet warhead to knock ond guessing scenarios." Each side tries to out more than one silo. As the theory goes , guess what the other side is doing, and must the electromagnetic pulses, x-rays, gamma-rays plan not optimistically, but that Murphy's and neutrons emitted by the first explosion laws will be working against them and for the will deflect or disable the following warheads. other side. This sets off the This "Fratricide Theory" is hotly debated overreaction chain, i.e. : They build missile Z among nuclear physicists, and if proved valid, we build counter defense Y. In order to insure leaves 60% of the remaining missile silos intact. overcoming defense Y, They build counter- You shouldurge Congress not to support the counter defense X, adding Satellite W and Dense Pack basing mode for the following five further srenghtening ICBM V. Not to be reasons: outdone, we Strengthen submarine U, cruise millile T, and multiple warhead missile 1. It will not work. Plain and simple, there R. And so on; the Arms Race, based on are too many untested and untried calculations fear and paranoia is reborn. and assumptions on which the Dense Pack The MX, with a top speed of Theory is based. 5000+ miles per hour, can be easily interpreted by the Sov- First is Simultaneous Detonation- while it is iets as a potential first-strike weapon. This, tentatively aknowledged that the Russians do coupled with the fact that the United States Front Page Photo Credits: not currently have the High-Tech capabilities *does not have a "NO FIRST USE" policy, required for a simultaneous only 100 missile deton- serves to intensifythe Russian paranoia, James Pub by Cathy Dillon ation within the timespan hence of a millionth of a destablizing the balance of terror. second, ( to avoid Fratricide ) by the time the Dense ~ Pack is fully operational in 1989, they 5. The Ecology Don't laugh, there are still might. The Stony Brook CIA estimate calculations conclude that some people who do the environmental impact they are approximately ten years away. So the studies as required by federal law. The Press system is obsolete in 1992, three years after its Wyoming Nebraska areascarce in water, is a Executive Editor ..... Paul completion. DiLorenzo cow and sheep-grazing farmland, with some Managing Editor.......... Joe Caponi Second is Slow Walk- by dropping single marketable crops. The high prarie economy of Assistant Editor ... Gregory Scandaglia warheads at the rate of one every 20 to 40 southeast Wyoming is moderately dependent Senior Photo Editor... Eric A. Wessman seconds , starting from the south end of the on such operations. Surely the farmers and Arts Editor. ........... Kathy Esseks strip would avoid Fratricide, according to IBM ranchers who \ill lose their land or water sup- Arts Director ......... Blair Tuckman design engineer and Dense Pack critic Richard plies will raise strenuo is objections to the MX Business Manager ....... Dawn DuBois Garwin. being in their backyard. The third is the Earth Penetrator ipissile ,the News Feature: Rose Cianchetti, Eric Soviets could develop an ICBM which would The Senate Armned Forces Committee has Corley, Eleanora DiMango, Henry Ellis, bury itself in the earth and then detonate , refused to endorse the dense-pack basing mode. Ned Goldreyer. destroying the more delicate internal optical A presidential aid? says there was "something Arts: Ron Dionne, Bob Goldsmith, Jeff fibers and laser "mechanisms needed for counterintuitive" about the concept (that's a Zoldan. command, communication and control (C euphemism meaning it doesn't make sense). Photo: Cathy Dillon, Ron Kee, Dan cubed) of the Dense Pack nuclear warheads Even South Carolina's conservative Democrat Mangus, Gail Matthews, Paul O'Flaherty, and launchers asserted by MIT physicist Kosta Earnest Hollings, an influential military hawk, John Tymczyszyn, Chris Von Ancken. Tsipis. argues that, "The Soviets would love nothing The strongest liability to the MX system is more than to see us throw away billions of Advertising Director. ...... Rob Kurtz Pin Down- This tactic consists of continual -dollars on a system that can be easily counter- Ad Design ......... Maria Mingalone nuclear explosions high above the silos creat- ed." Graphics. ................ Ken ing debris, Copel thermal shocks, and high radio- Reagan's contention that the U.S. has fal- Pasteup ........... Ellen Brounstein active interference, effectively len behind Russia in military preventing the strength, derives Cartoonist .............. R. Gambol swceessful launch of any of the MX missiles. its rhetoric from graphs and measurements which give too much weight to American The Stony Brook Press is published These are just the critical analyses of weaknesses, too little the to American strengths, every Thursday during the academic year Dense Pack problems. To quote Newsweek and vice versa to the Soviet side of the scales. by the Stony Brook Press Inc., a student " Dense Pack is controversial for the simple Opponents of the dense pack plan raise the run and student funded not-for-profit reason that no one is sure it would work." objections that the 25 billion dollar cost is, corporation. Advertising policy does not If the "Technical dreams" on which the MX more than coincidentally, the exact amount necessarily reflect editorialpolicy. is based come true, there are other that Reagan wants to cut from social programs considerations that justify its trashing. (including the abolishment of Guaranteed Stu- The opinions expressed in letters and 2. Cost. A country with over 11% dent Loan programs, cuts in Pell grants, Gra- viewpoints do not necessarily unemployment reflect and a 200 billion dollar deficit duate Tuition assistance, Federally financed re- those of the staff. Please send letters simply cannot afford a 26.4 billion dollar toy. sesearch grants, and general aid to higher edu- and viewpoints to our campus address. This is the projected figure and does not cation. inc ude : a) Cost overruns This directly affects YOU- the undergrad, b) Design corrections in the the graduate student, the CSEA employee, the Phone: 246-6832 superhardening of the silos ( currently under faculty member, the administrator. Following Office: 020 Old Biology Building re-evaluation). the freeze referensums and grass-roots victories c) Pentagon planners desire for in November, the unwinnable bout suddenly Mailing Address: an anti- ballistic missile system (ABM) for becomes winnable. Add the further support by P.O. Box 591, East Setauket, New York defensive insurability. the upcoming pastoral letters of the U.S. Rom- 11733 So tack on another 3 billion dollars. Total an Catholic Bishop's conference to an already projected cost: 40 billion dollars +. volatile mixture; shake well. This pressure, page 2 The Stony Brook Pres Pub Surviving FSA To Determine Jams'P 'sViabilii ` ý- Mý W wIRMP4W lqlp wwmmI WýW I·vf •,,.................... by Joe Caponi The future of the Henry James Pub, the campuses' oldest social es- tablishment, is in serious jeaporday due to the twin pressures of eco- nomics and law. The Faculty Stu- dent Association, which has oper- ated the Pub since 1977, has as- sembled a high level committee to investigate possible ways of saving the pub, which may be financially ravished by the 19 year old drink- ing age law, which could cut the patronage of the pub by up to 60%, and which goes into effect tomor- row at midnight. o FSA President Richard J. Bent- IjlCi:a a, ~ 3 leyexplained that FSA would do 31 .~ anything in its power to keep the A pub alive, but that the projected ,a losses the Pub would incur after the drinking age rises and 75% of James college residents are legally barred from drinking there could force the Rob Brooks distributing beer a the James Pub. hand of FSA to close it in the fut- age residents prevail all over H and ure. equally certain hard choices may ents of James. But soon enough it G quads, from which most of the have to be made. According to figures from Bent- They are reluc- will be seen whether the Pub can re- Pub's business comes. tant to ley and MaryEllen Sullivan, the invest any additional money main alive or if it will go the way of The committee has to find a in Pub improvements FSA Secretary, the Pub has spent for fear of the Benedict Saloon and the Kelly way to reduce the Pub's losses, simply adding $10,000 more than it took in last to its debt.