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Volume 59 Number 13 Rambler Page 5 April 19, 1989 Rambler Calendar Of Events: April 23 to May 6

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Backstage Theater ^Backstage Theater PASSOVER PASSOVER PASSOVER PASSOVER PASSOVER Co.:GREASE 8pmLT Movie :Big 7pm LT Films in Humanities Backstage Theater Co.:GREASE 8pmLT Baseball v Westch- Baseball v Rockland Open House 10a-4p sponsored by CAB "Long Shadows" Poetry: Macdara Co.:GREASE ester CC 3pm (A) CC3pm (A) Roosevelt Hall 7:30pm LT Woods 12:30 RmTBA 8pm LT Softball vNassau 4pm Baseball vOueens- Baseball v SuffolkCC Speaker: Baseball v Nassau (home) boroughCC 3pm(home) Col. James Irwin 11 a CC 3:30pm (A) Softball V Kingsbor- &8p LT ^ — 11 am (A) 23 oughCC 3:30pm(A) 25 26 27 28 . 29 ^asoball v Bergen ^oyal Hanneford Films in the Humani- Baseball v Suffolk Author:Joyce Carol Royal Hanneford Movie: Coming To CC 3:30 (H) Circus, Tickets at ties "Before Stone- CC West 3:30 (H) Oates 4:30pmWard Circus, Tickets at America 7pm Little STU AC, wall" 7:30pm Lit. Hall, 8pmLT STU AC, Theatre 11am,3pm&7pm Theatre Royal Hanneford 11a&8P Baseball v Kingsbor- Circus, Tickets at oughCC 3pm (H) STU AC, 11a&8P M m 1 4 Freddy's Place: A Survival Guide

By Herman J. Asides Step 5) Come back, pick up your food for thier styrofoam one. and pay. ( You don't have to eat it if you don't * COUNT YOUR CHAI^GE ! Rambler Staff Wriffer want to.) * Don't order after eight p.m., they usu- Step I) Step to the back of the line. (This Some nelpful hints; ally shut off the grill and the friers, so all they can will be somewhere near The Sweet Shoppe, but * Although the prices on the menu board serve is the old pizza don't worry, most of the other people will give up have not changed since Pi Tech, they now * If the food tastes familiar, it should. and go to McDonald's.) calculate the tax separately, so a slice of pizza Freddy's place is run by the cafeteria people. Step 2) Yell out your order. (Twice.) now costs $1.08. * Despite popular belief ( and justice ) Step 3) Remind tnem. * Don't order water unless you bring Freddy's Place was not named after Freddy Step 4) Play pinball for twenty minutes. your own cup. Otherwise they will charge you Kruger. Astronaut James Irwin on Campus (Release) James P. Irwin, a member of Irwin was selected as an astro- Born in the mission who participated in his- naut by the National Aeronautics and Space on tory's fourth manned lunar landing mission, will Administradon (ASA) in 1966. He was subse- March 17, 1930, be a guest speaker at the state University of New quently a member of the astronaut support crew Irwin graduated York College of Technology at Farmingdale on for and backup lunar module pilot for from high school Tuesday, April 25 at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. . in , The event is sponsored by the Campus On the Apollo 15 mission, he served as , then went Activities Board,Alpha Eta Rho (an aviation lunar module pilot. This fourth manned lunar on to earn a fraternity), and the Inter-Varsity Christian Fel- landing was distinguished by the first use of the Bachelor of Sci- lowship Club (IVCF)-all student organizations. Lunar Rover vehicle. While Colonel A1 Worden ence degree form Both appearances are in the Roosevelt Hall Little orbited the in the command module, Colo- the U.S. Naval Theatre. The event isfree an d open to the public. nel Irwin and Apollo 15 Commander Colonel Academy in 1951 Co/. James P. Irwin "The student organizations have been Dave Scott explored Hadley and the Apen- and a Master of fund-raising for this lecture since last year," said nine Mountains of the moon, collecting 180 Science degree from the Louis Scala, Professor of Aerospace Technol- pounds of lunar material, including the Genesis in 1957. He is also the recipient of three honorary ogy, "The College community is very excited Rock. On the light of Apollo 15, Colonel Irwin degrees. ' about the visit by Astronaut Irwin." According to logged 295 hours and 11 minutes in space, 19 Astronaut Irwin has received the NASA Scala, students from Alpha Eta Rho and the hours and 46 minutes of which were spent out- Disnnguished Service Medal, Air Force Distin- IVCF have raised over $1(X)0 to help defray the side the spacecraft. guished Service Medal, the Peace cost of Colonel Irwin's expenses through plane "The hours I spent on the moon, " Irwin Medal, the Robert J. , the George washes and cake and candy sales. says, "were the most thrilling of my life." Washington Medal for the Freedoms Founda- Irwm, a retired Air Force Colonel, made Colonel Irwin is also the author of three tions, and the Military Chaplains Association's history from July 26 to August 7,1971, when, as books: To Rule the Night (Holman Publishers); National Citizenship Award, among others. the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission, his autobiography. More Than Earthlings; and He and his wife, Mary, live in Colorado he became the eighth man in history to set foot on More Then an Ark on Ararat (Broadman Press), Springs. Their children are Joy, Jill, James, Jan, the surface of the moon. the story of this search for Noah's Ark. and Joe.