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IiIo 4 wso I, ~2 ,p I _ EDITORI AL Our Space New Enclosures The Stony Brook Press The following positions have been filled A Campus such as Stony Brook Chemistry. The decision to close the temporarily as follows: can best be thought of as a microcosm GSL was made during the summer of society in general. It contains when there was little chance for Executive Editor: James Barna within it the same diversity that student protest, and the admini- Associate Editor: Lara Jacobson makes The United States whole. Like stration's response to the demand for Managing Editor: Steven Kreps Business Manager: Inju Keum the United States, however, with the another alternative to the E.O.B. has Minister Sans Portfolio: favorable aspects comes the been painfully slow. At this time the Fletcher Johnson unfavorable. Throughout the United project is mired down in unending States, run-away conservativism has bureaucracy. This has left the End of challenged many of the freedoms by the News and Features: Fred Mayer, Robert the Bridge, which is run V. Gilheany, Emily Schwartz, Lara once held absolute, such as privacy wonderful Daka food service Corp., Jacobson, Chris Saporita, Walter and free speech, while budget crises as the only bar on campus. Schneider, Scott Warmuth. eat away at funds for all sorts of This is only one of the many social programs. Such trends are monopolies which has been esta- Arts: Rudy Babel, Joe DiStefano, Scott just as readily apparent at U.S. B. blished to assure profits from poor Skinner, Eric Penzer, Kate Owen, Laura Rosenberger, Andrew Fish Most recently, two student parking students; Barnes and Noble is the only lots were changed to faculty/staff, bookstore, Daka runs the dining Graphics: Inju Keum, Lara Jacobson,Eric causing an uproar among students halls, runs the only deli , as well as Penzer, Joe Distefano, Rick Teng, Kate Owen who already face a lack of parking. the only bar on campus, and finally, While protests were quickly despite a referendum to the contrary, Production: James Barna, Don Fick, Rudy Babel, Kate Owen, Inju Keum, Robert organized, both parking lots are still Coca Cola is still the only soft drink Gilheany, Rick Teng in jeopardy. vendor on campus. A second loss for students was the years ago there were eight Ten The Stony hockey pit in G Quad. Over the Brook Press is published bars on campus, now there is one. biweekly during the Academic year and summer, while most resident Ten years ago there was a student intermittently during the summer session by students were away, the admini- book Co-operative which gave an The Stony Brook Press Inc., a student run and stration decided to end one of the alternative to the high price of new student funded not-for-profit corporation. truly great traditions of Stony Brook. text books. The book co-op was on the Advertising policy does not necessarily reflect The Administration did this by third floor of Central Hall, now it's editorial policy. planting trees and shrubs just a locked room. *For more information on advertising and throughout the area that was the pit. Ten years ago there were two other deadline, call 632-6451. Now one of the most vital activities at student run alternatives to Daka food. Stony Brook and a Backbone of the These were Freedom Foods and the Staff Meetings are held weekly in the Press annual G-Fest is gone. Pit hockey Harkness Cafeteria, now both are offices each Monday at 8PM. was student run and totally just memories, their demise caused of the The opinions expressed in letters and independent of the bureaucracy by an unsympathetic administration. viewpoints do not necessarily reflect those of administration, or Polity, or the Graduate students, for their part, our staff. residence halls. The bureaucrats center, faced losing the daycare Phone: 632-6451 must resent people who act which they fought to retain. In Office: Suite 020, Central Hall independently, it must undermine addition, as the state cuts the SUNY SUNY at Stony Brook their control. Next we might see the budget, it is graduate students who Stony Brook, NY 11794-2790 administration harassing our most quickly feel the bite. skateboard friends! We are rapidly approaching a The Stony Brook Press exists as a collective. Students returned to school pivotal time for SUNY students,one All editorial, content an presentation decisions are made with the agreement of the group. this fall to find the library hours cut in which the very nature of university once again. The administration life will be questioned. With each loss seemed to think that a nightly closing of student rights, a message must be time of 10pm was tolerable to the sent to the administration and the Next Issue :Monday, October 15th student body. It took a student state, that these losses will not be Deadline : Thursday, October 8th coalition and days of protests to tolerated, and that education must be finally convince the administration .a top priority for this state, no matter that perhaps the library should stay ' what economic conditions exist. [J open until midnight. Within the Union students LETTERS have lost many of the means used to To the Editor: are the most dangerous in the exchange ideas. Valuable tabling country is ludicrous. To report space in the Union has been cut from Your September 18 that Stony Brook has the three large tables to two smaller issue's irresponsible misre- highest crime rate even among ones, and groups can no longer have presentation of the University these few displays negligence (headline a table after five p.m. In addition, "The Worst Public on your part and ambiguous University in America" and intent at best. postering space has been lost. related pieces on pp. 4 and 5) only some I asked to see and was However, these are should be included on any list shown by the Department of examples of the rights and privileges of crimes perpetrated at Stony Public Safety the figures upon which have been taken from the Brook. To suggest that the which your wildly misleading students in recent years. In 1989 universities whose reported conclusion was based. Had students lost The Graduate Student crime statistics provide the you taken the trouble to Lounge, once housed in Old basis for your pronouncement calculate the rate of crime per ow~ continued on page 7 The Stony BWook Press page 2 III I I I , I i _ I i_ A Simple Monk by Lara H. Jacobson -orW. 1111 0 wWýv Ik . Ar"Ida I Two men in simple red and orange robes of the great Kublai Khan, and that (Gyatso had house. As the company was having tea a two- stand at the garlanded podium on the left side been his spiritual teacher. In token of his year old boy came running up alongside Ke- of the stage. They face an audience of over appreciation, Khan bestowed the title of Ta-lai Tsang Rimpoche and jumped onto his lap. one thousand people in the auditorium of Lama upon the monk - ta-lai meaning 'ocean The boy grabbed onto a string of beads around Stony Brook's Staller Center for the Arts. The wide', referring to his wisdom. The title and the monks' neck. "They're yours if you tell famous holy man says something in a thick the monk are the same over four hundred me who I am," said the disguised dignitary. yet flowing langauge, and the interpretor at years later, a legacy created. Without delay the child responded, "You are his side translates: "Normally I consider When a former Dalai Lama dies, it is a lama from Sera" He spoke the dialect of myself a very lazy student, but over the years believed that he passes into the body of a Lhasa, which few spoke in his region. it seems this lazy student has recieved many newborn child. It is then up to the most The government was greatly involved with awards and degrees!" The audience laughs revered monks in Tibet (second to the Dalai) the affairs of the monastic system, especially in response. to seek out their old master enveloped within a this search. All findings of the dignitaries And so begins the acceptance address and brand new package. The methods used in this were reported to the Tibetan rulers. As out of lecture given by Tentzin Gyatso, the search are ancient and mystical. Only three choices the little boy from Takster Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. A panel of shortly after the death of the Thirteenth Dalai seemed to be the one, the search party went Stony Brook administrators presented His L e back to the farm and thoroughtly tested the Holiness with the honorary Degree of Doctor child, asking him to choose between objects of Humane Letters at an unprecedented visit that belonged to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama to the campus Monday, September 17, 1990. and oftentimes flashier, gaudier items that For two years Arthur P. Grollman, Stony normally a boy of two would grab for. Each Brook's Professor and Chairman at the time he chose the possesions that had belonged Department of Pharmocology, had been to the former god-king. When eight requesting the Dalai Lama's visit to the birthmarks were discovered on the child that University. Finally, the offer was accepted, are the attributes of this holy incarnation, the and as part of the University at Stony Brook's monks were convinced. The child was bought Distinguished Lecture Series, the holiest of from the governor of Takster for 100,000 holies was to give an address here, open to the thousand Chinese dollars and at the age of public. As part of his visit the monk would four was taken and raised in accordance with also attend private meetings, receptions, and his title. He was enthroned as the Fourteenth a press conference before being ushered off to Dalai Lama of Tibet in the year of the Iron Newark, New Jersey for yet another event. Dragon, February 22, 1940. Who is this god-king that is worshipped and Tentzin Gyatso was taught an immense revered by some fourteen million Tibetans amount; Sanskrit, logic, metaphysics, music, and Buddhists? Tenzin Gyatso was born on a poetry, astrology, and much more. He small farm in northeastern Tibet on July 6, acquired the geshe lharampa, the Buddhist 1935. Tibet's recorded history began in 127 doctor of law. He has spent his life doing B.C., and its independant status and its hours of intense and -strenuous meditation. borders remained largely unchanged from He has a love for assembly and reassembly of the 10th century until the Communist Chinese machinary, as well as a passion for invasion in this century. In Tibet there photography. Although many years of his existed for hundreds of years a huge Buddhist young life were spent in World War II, due to monastic system, incomparable to any other. Tibets' isolation he and his country were The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of this barely touched by it. However, political unrest system as well as being a sort of god-king, bubbled underneath the surface. It was at this revered by many other Buddhists all over the time that the newly-communist Chinese world. He is believed, according to the government began slyly an attempt to of the overtake the independant Tibetan nation. In Tibetan Buddhist concept 1949 they had gained control of mainland transmigration of souls, to be the incarnation photo: Maxine Hicks China and it was announced on Biejing radio of Gedun Truppa, a fifteenth century monk that Tibet was a part of China. In 1950 Tentzin who who was an avid disciple of another holy Fourteenth was on. Reportedly, a few days Gyatso was fifteen years old. At this time Mao man. Gedun Truppa had a monastary built, after his death the Thirteenth's corpse's head Zedong seized Tibet. It was imperative for the yet, as it was more than a lifetime job, swore mysteriously turned to face eastward, giving people that the adolescent god-king claim his on his deathbed to return and continue. The dignitaries the first clue as to what direction authority. In response to the cries of his people qualities of this monk supported the notion his newborn incarnation was to be searched he did as he was asked - and entered into a that he was an incarnation of the Tibetan god for. On the shores of the sacred Lake Lhamoi struggle with a gigantic regime in which both Chenrezig, Lord of Infinite Compassion, an Latso, a group of monks led by the regent of sides would never relent. In negotiations idea which the Fifth Dalai later confirmed. Tibet meditated on where the newborn god- with the Chinese the Dalai Lama and his Gedun Truppa ushered in the first appearance king was to be found. The regent, Reting democracy were forced to sign the famous of the concept of the bodhisattva, or the Rimpoche, was said to have had a vision in the Seventeen Point Agreement , which provided enlightened being that exists to serve lake of a building with turqoise tiles, and a that China would have full control over the humanity. Some years after his death, the brown and white speckled dog frisking foreign policy and military affairs of Tibet, high dignitaries of a famous monastary in around. These details were recorded. Other while the Chinese would not impose any Drepung declared Gedun Truppa's return omens and portents of ,such kind are reported upon Tibetan political and religious under the name of Gedun Gyatso, thus to have aided in the search of the Fourteenth reforms Lama alleges that the beginning the Dalai Lama line. Gyatso too Dalai Lama. Nearly a year after the systems. The Dalai of Tibet on claimed he would return and continue his excursion to the lake, in 1936, a party of high treaty had an illegally forged Seal existence, and in 1543, a year after his death, dignitaries left the Land of Snows, a central it. Sonam Gyatso was proclaimed to be the monastary in Lhasa, to begin the search. Still, the peace-loving Dalai Lama reincarnation of the former. In 1578, Sonam They were disguised as traders, and the attempted to act out his principles of non- Gyatso went to visit a Mongol sovereign, leader of the party, Ke-Tsang Rimpoche, was violence, and was convinced (as he still is) Altan Khan, supposedly performing miracles dressed as a servant. Following visions and that the only way to deal with the Chinese was and displaying his supernatural powers all omens they found a farm with turqoise tiles in through cooperation and persuasion. For throughout Mongolia. Sonam Gyatso the Amdo region, in Takster, and the named eight years he tried to resist Chinese convinced Khan that he was the reincarnation above dog was running about in front of the VIu continued on page 5 October 1, 1990 page 3 I _ ·... I Uniti Diversiti By Walter F. Schneider in 1982 when students got together and the Center so far. There was the L1 .od pressured the administration to fill this Sargent Leadership Conference - a cultural void. After this concerted effort the symposium for educating students on The Uniti Cultural Center was designed to administration allocated space where the becoming student-leaders. The Center helped make all students aware of African Fanny Brice Food Mall is now located. to promote the celebration of Kwanzaa (also American, Caribbean, Latino and African According to one of the main people known as "African Christmas") - a seven Culture as it has been in the past, and as it is involved with Uniti over the past few year, day festival to begin on December 7th this now in the present. Uniti is an acronym for while the center was at Stage 12 things went year. Uniti is also the core of all the activities United Nationalities and Transcending along relatively smoothly. Well known during Black History Month, in February. Ideologies. Uniti was created to enhance the speakers were invited to the center, a Since its inception in 1983 Uniti has of being USB community. It does this by informing collection of artifacts was put together for remained true to its original purposes black students, in the midst of a clearly display, student organization meetings were a Third World Community Center, an oasis eurocentric education, that they have a proud held, and a study area was set-up. Uniti was in the context of the surrounding eurocentric cultural heritage equal to that of european building up both its reputation and its environment. What has changed is the civilization, which is actually a partial following. Then in 1986 sources within the Center's level of organization. When Uniti foundation to that civilization. Uniti exists to University forced the Cultural Center to move was at Stage 12 it had an inadequate display to everyone at our University the to Tabler Cafeteria; they claimed that it was infrastructure, and during the time spent at many different perspectives of the African necessary to expand the dinning facilities at Tabler things were harder to organize. Now Diaspora with regards to the world of today Stage 12. The move to Tabler was anything that Uniti is at Roth it's back in top shape, and and to show that people of African descent still but good. The Center no longer had its own the USB community is more aware of the share a strong common bond. separate space, it was just part of a cafeteria. Center. There is a potentially harmful This location was truly inadequate for the The Uniti Cultural Center has a number of misconception here at USB held by much of the purposes of Uniti, a very poor quality programs in store for this semester. Black student body. This fallacy is the belief that atmosphere compared to Stage 12. Solidarity Week will be November 2nd to 5th The Uniti Cultural Center's main purpose is Things turned for the better in 1988 when (Nov. 5th is Black Solidarity Day). There to try to unify everyone on campus as one big Orin Roberts and others pushed for Uniti to be will be various types of latino, ballet and happy family. Although the Uniti Cultural moved to Roth Cafeteria, its present location. caribbean dance classes held two times a Center has in the recent past shown support for Once it was moved to Roth, The Uniti Cultural week, $30 per month for students, $40 per racial harmony by organizing the student Center was again able to fulfill its main month for faculty. Kwanzaa festivities begin community forum known as the United goals. There is no blurring of the division on December 7th. The Adajio Theatre Club Colors of Stony Brook, Uniti was in fact begun between Uniti and the cafeteria itself, as will be meeting at Uniti. This theatre club with an equally positive concept in mind (an found at Tabler. The rooms are big enough performs plays written by non-western or idea with a firmer basis in reality.) for almost any activity and have been third world playwrights. Adajio's advisor, The following information was organized furnished in a way that conveys both comfort Loyce Arthur will also be directing Ama Ata from an interview I had with Sean Joe, and a businesslike atmosphere. Aidoo's play Anowa for the Theatre whom I thank for helping to educate me on Over the years Uniti has been host to a Department. Martial Arts and Self Defense both the history of Uniti and the Center's number of highly respected speakers from classes will also be held at Uniti. To find out current programs. around the world such as Luis Rivera, Sonia about Adajio call Shirelle Roebeck at 632- The Uniti Cultural Center was born in 1983 Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and Chinua Achebe 3637. If you want to know more about Anowa because African American, Caribbean and to name a few. Since Uniti is a unique call the box office at 632-7230 For Latino students on this campus had felt for a program among Long Island Colleges, information on all other activities call the long time that there was an absence of students will often bring outside people to take Uniti Cultural Center at 632-6577. Uniti's programs at Stony Brook related to the rich advantage of the many positive activities at operation hours are 12pm to 12am Monday- culture of the African Diaspora and that a Uniti, thereby benefitting people in the entire Friday and 12pm to 8pm Saturday & Sunday. black student union was desperately needed Long Island and New York area. Students As a final comment, at the beginning of this at Stony Brook. The discontent came to a head have organized many sucessful programs for •iv continuedon page 9

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By Scott Skinner Howevei r, this superficial comparison does not it is a "breeding ground for demons." reveal tl he true essence of being a member of Unfortunately, the discussion soon What is it like to be a Christian at Stony Interva rsity. Despite the similarities between degenerated to questions concerning my own Brook? More specifically, what is it like to be fraternilties and Intervarsity, we must not religious beliefs. "Are you a Christian?" was a member of Intervarsity Christian forget that the latter is a religious followed by "Why aren't you a Christian?" Fellowship? On the surface, it is not much organizaition. This fact places Intervarsity and finally "You know you should be one of different from being in a fraternity. When into a hiigher echelon of immunity from public us." Tactfully avoiding my questions, the you join a fraternity, they call you a brother; scrutiny. While numerous attacks are levied Intervarsity members were trying to convert when you join Intervarsity, they also call you fraternities, against one will search in vain me! Visions of Moonies and Hare Krishnas brother (and sometimes father). Fraternities for a printed article openly criticizing entered my mind as I watched the glazed-eyed use Greek letters to symbolize their Intervsirsity. Certainly an organization as Christ Crispies ramble on about their own organization; Intervarsity uses a cross. Beer mysteri(Dus as Intervarsity merits discussion. elite position as inheritors of the Kingdom of is the favorite drink of fraternities; For insttance, what kind of social hierarchy God. For those of you who have never been Intervarsity prefers the blood of Christ. does In tervarsity have? Do some Christians sermonized, I must tell you that it leaves one Fraternities have numerous social have mo)re power than others? What does this feeling spiritually raped. Their sermon gatherings that include (but are not limited) power eintail? I recently talked with a number ended with some generic Bible quotes and a sex, drugs, and loud music; Intervarsity has of cam]pus Christians in an attempt to pat-on-the-back. I left feeling a little uneasy, Bible studies in which they probe the mysteries undersitand the power structure of and with the knowledge that Intervarsity is of the Virgin Mary. In addition, both of these IntervaLrsity. first we discussed Christ and still shrouded in mystery. Q organizations have their own peculiar why He is such a "groovy guy." Next we assortment of rites, rituals, and rules. talked albout the Occult Studies Group and why The Stony Brook Press page 4 -'. ,' * . ' -. p . • „ ;ART continued from page 11 it-

Lerman is very much involved with the This table is definitely for adults. There are them visually yourself. spacing of objects. Let' go back to The Tree also vacant seats around it. You scratch your Note: Re: Fantastic Voyages Goddess Returns. In the foreground, things head. Perhaps it has something to do with September 19 - October 31. get cluttered in order to define an intentional time. Is the artist trying to show how some University Art Center, order of things. In the background, the people become artists through educational Staller Center. amount of space is huge and empty, placing processes? Or is this a statement of the artist's more emphasis on foreground objects. This own artistic roots and upbringing? Q

effect pushes these objects towards the realm of You look at the wall that has a sign saying, SIIIIIIIIUgIIIIUI IIIIUUUlhIIUUlUIUIUlIIIIIIUlsUIIIIIIIUIIiniUlUllIItIIIIIUII illusion (poetic space), that is, shifting Activity Center - Please Touch. This is attention onto these objects which are already James Connor's idea. Two drawing boards S..H. Presents A WUSB spaced irregularly in a fixed, poetic and hang on the wall. One blue marker is at- dimensionless manner. What is interesting tached to them. Then, you hurry out the Benefit With Norman Bates is that the spacing of these objects is similar to gallery door because you have just scribbled & The Showerheads interior decorating, as if all the objects are an obscene image on one of the board... furnitures. A clean and elusive atmosphere Overall, the show is pretty good. The first = YUPPICIDE is achieved, but the cluttering of the half of the show gives a nice presentation of a And From New Jersey foreground objects is very distracting and voyage into colors, dreams and images in SBig Nurse claustrophobic. gigantic proportion. The other half takes you October 6th 8PM Stroll into the next half of the gallery. on a trip into a world of time, places Check out the scene around you. It looks like a (particularly the Eastern regions of Earth) Bt On1) Brook Univer it 9 playroom for "mature kids." You wonder how and "past events incorporated into the future," - at the Student Union Bi-level serious this can be. Two tables are in front of in miniature sizes. Watching Jame s all Ages you. One has colorful learning blocks Connor's and Judith hufs works will make $6 in advance sprawled across the surface, including stuff you feel extremely large (Flight,The Journey, such as coloring pencils and scrap papers. Egyptian Funerary Box, Tiger Balm Box) $8 day of show This looks like it came out of an elementary because many of their works deal with lifesize Ticket On Sale At The Stony art class (What the hell is this doing here?). objects in miniatures. This Fantastic Brook Box Office There are seats around the table but they are Journey will transform you from an ant into Call 632-6465 for Info vacant. You say to yourself, "Maybe this has a giant. Or WUSB 632-6901 meaning...Am I missing something?" But Note: My favorite artists in this show are I u.u...u.u....u.. iu...... u...uuu...... u wait, another table is next to it. This one has Judith Huf and Charles Parness (Sittingon the game Masterpiece on it. The box is open the Dock of the Bay). Since I did not discuss and things (fake money, the gameboard, an their works, which are strikingly dramatic, array of art postercards, etc.) are spread out as you will have to go see the show and analyze if a few people have just played the game. them visually yourself. And one more

continued from page 3 :ri enchroachment without angering the Tibetans have been victims of this holocaust, himself, came to Eastern Long Island to Chinese. In those years he met with Mao as well as the destruction of 6,254 appeal to the sensibilities of the Stony Brook Zedong several times but the military monastaries. Tibet's Chinese population is campus and community encouraging, as occupation kept increasing. In 1959, after the 7.5 million, outnumbering the 6 million usual, support for his people and his cause, the Dalai Lama was prepared to go into China to Tibetans, land and race of Tibet. At a press conference attend a theatrical performance and was Yet, despite this cruel and vicious behavior, before his address, the gracious holy man took stopped by thousands of people in fear of his the Dalai Lama still lives up to his title. In the time to answer questions. The previous life, he decided that the tension was too great July 1969 he told an interviewer in The New weekend, we were told, His Holiness had for him to stay. On March 20, 1959, Tentzin Yorker, "You should love those people who spent in Vermont at an environmental Gyatso slipped out of the palace disguised as a irritate you, because they are your gurus. In conference. He entered the press conference bearing an almost mischevious yet wide-open soldier and walked all the way to the that sense, the Chinese are our gurus." grin, and responds to someone's question that Tibetan/Indian border where he crossed on he thinks Long Island is very beautiful, "not March 31. Two days after his initial escape like New York City, which is not so clean!" the Chinese launched an attack on the Tibetan When asked if His Holiness had rebellion, murdering thousands. A flood of considered linking with solidarity with other some 87,000 Tibetan refugees have managed nations in his struggle to free his people, he to follow thier god-king into India. There answered, speaking in his broken English, Tentzin Gyatso was granted political asylum, "No, not now. There is a lack of enough and has lived in exile ever since. During his Our freedom struggle must stay he has founded fifty-three large context. of non-violence." agricultural settlements for the refugees to accompany the principle Lama is now travelling in America, live , as well as his own residence in Since the in relation to this struggle, Dharmsala. he spoke of the U.S. happy to see more and more The conditions of the Lama's asylum were "...I am very people, especially in America, concerned." to refrain from political activity as long as he At 4:00 V.M. September 17, the presentation was to stay in India. Although he has began. President Marbuger welcomed the refrained from direct political activity, he Dalai, and the audience ushered in the god- worked extremely hard in keeping the has king with a standing ovation. His Holiness Tibetan issue alive. Between 1959 and 1965 bowed to the audience in response. The the United Nations passed resolutions In 1989, in addition to his many honorary degree of Doctor of Humane letters demanding respect for human rights in Tibet other humanitarian awards and was then conferred upon him. Professor due to the Dalai Lama's urging. In retaliation acknowledgements, Tentzin Gyatso recieved Edelstein, one of the panel of administrators, the Chinese began destroying Tibet's people a small fruit for his efforts; the Nobel Peace had the honor, and without much furthur and culture. It seems certain that they Prize. His response: "The prize reaffirms adieu, the Dalai Lama began his speech. massacred tens of thousands, imprisoned our conviction that with truth, courage, and The first two sentences were in Tibetan, thousands in work camps, and tore apart determination as our weapons, Tibet will be and translated. Thereafter His Holiness much of Tibet's religious culture - burning liberated. Our struggle must remain spoke in fairly good English, his monastaries and ripping apart precious nonviolent." 17, 1990 this incredibly translator/monk at his side aiding his speech religious artifacts and relics. In the forty- So on September as he likes to call W~ycontinued on page 10 year Chinese rule in Tibet over .1.2 million famous "simple monk" October 1, 1990 page 5 mmmmmmmý Cooper Union and Beyond

By Fred Mayer Excerpt From Ramsey Clark's Speech: the elected branch, the first branch, the Congress. When this terribly dangerous On the evening of Thursday, September 13th, ... to protect ourselves internationally, crisis erupted on August 2nd, the Congress nearly 4,000 people gathered at Cooper Union we've engaged in the creation of the most was out-to-lunch, and they never took the out- in New York City to hold a rally against U.S. devastating capacity for destruction in to-lunch sign down, they never [came] back, escalation of the Persian Gulf conflict. The history. Even at this moment we're still they never said a mumbling word... [words Great Hall was full to capacity, and over 3,000 outfitting twenty Trident-II nuclear drowned by applause] stood outside listening to the proceedings submarines. Each, unbelievably, could It's been 37 years since Justice Robert H. which were piped through a hastily set up PA launch twenty four missiles (while Jackson, in the Youngstown Steel case said system. submerged) containing seventeen separate that "We the People delegated the powers of The list of invited speakers reflected the independently targeted maneuvarable war and peace to Congress, and we have let diversity of opposition to U.S. actions: Bishop warheads ten times more powerful than the those powers slip through our fingers." And Paul Moore, attorney William Kunstler, one that incinerated the beautiful people of now we've completely dropped [them]. The Wilhelm Joseph from the National Nagasaki in 1945. One finger pressing one courts offer absolutely no protection. They Conference of Black Lawyers, David Cline button on one boat can destroy 408 centers of will not entertain any case that investigates from Vietnam Veterans Against the War, human population, and perhaps cause what the anything of importance, like the question of Ella Horne, mother of a reservist from New poets have called the Nom Shantu - nuclear legality of a war. When lawyers dared to York City, Anan Ameri, President of the winter - rendering this planet as lifeless as [point o:t] the people killed while sleeping in Palestine Aid Society, John Jones, a Vietnam their beds in a surprise air-raid at 2:30 in the combat veteran, Esmeralda Brown, a 'He had responded that morning on the cities of Tripoli and Bengasi, Panamanian human rights activist, Leslie and a collateral effort to assassinate the Cagan, a longtime peace activist, Eric we could win a nuclear leader of a foreign nation, the courts Larsen, a newly declared conscientious exchange..." sanctioned the lawyers for their arrogance in objecter and former marine, Jean Butterfield daring to question the legality of the power of from the Palestine Solidarity Committee, and the moon. And now while the welfare of our the President of the United States. We Gavrielle Gemma, the coordinator of the children has deteriorated consistently, we are watched the war in Vietnam, where we used recently formed New York Coalition to Stop moving that terrible capacity to destroy life to Agent Orange, where we carpet-bombed people U.S. Intervention in the Middle East. the sands of Arabia and the seas of the Persian sleeping in their towns and villages, Finally, the gathering was graced by the Gulf, to have our way. We might ask whether mercilessly, where we employed technology presence of former U.S. Attorney General President George Bush would take the risk of against life, where their body count was a Ramsey Clark, who initiated the formation of beginning a war there. Let me remind you, source of joy to us, failing to see that their the Coalition, which has been joined by over 75 because we must remember, what he said in a children each were as precious as any of ours. other prominent organizations and very telling interview in 1980, with Robert When people attempted to stand on the dikes to individuals. Shearer of the LA Times. He had responded resist the American bombers which would The atmosphere in the hall was electric that we could win a nuclear exchange. starve the people of Vietnam to death, we throughout the evening, as speaker after Shearer, in apparent dismay, asked him, called them "traitors," and threatened them speaker denounced U.S. intervention, while "how?" He said, "you have a survivability of with prosecution. calling for a massive public demonstration to command and control," (that's him) The United States is the scofflaw of the take place in New York City on Saturday, "survivability of industrial potential, international community. When the [United October 20th. Perhaps the most inspiring protection," (I have to underline thz word) Nations] Security Council resolved to make speakers were David Cline and Ramsey "even,"."of a percentage of your citizens." any purchase of chrome from racist Rhodesia Clark. Excerpts from their speeches follow Imagine that. "And you have a capability to illegal, the United States preferred chrome to below. inflict more damage on the oppostion than he international law - and bought it. When Coverage of this significant rally by major can inflict on you. That's the way you have a Nicaragua went to the International Court of print and broadcast media outlets was winner." You remember Herman Kahn Justice, and demanded justice for our virtually nonexistent. This did not go saying that in a nuclear war we could lose 60 criminal acts against its people in mining its unnoticed by the participants. While there to 90 million Americans and the survivors harbors and strafing its towns, we rejected the was some local TV coverage, no national would lead happy and normal lives. jurisdiction of the court. We invaded networks covered the gathering. Incredibly, We've seen our Constitution - trashed. Grenada and gave seven thousand medals, the New York Times failed to print a single There is no more legal restraint manifest in when we had a military - full time, uniformed word concerning the rally. When contacted, the United States today on the arbitrary -service 25 times greater than the population of the metropolitan editor claimed not to have actions of the President of the United States... Grenada - every man, woman, and child - known that such a rally had occurred. But the [words drowned by applause]. And there isn't and a nuclear warhead for every three people participants were not there for the sake of the any on any military dictator that ever lived. that lived there. We invaded Panama, we media. The sense of communality and All he has to do is do it - nuke 'em. And who killed thousands - and lied about it, just as we positivity which was generated will prove will say a thing? We the People delegated the lied about what happened at Attica [prison]. vital to peace efforts to be undertaken in the powers over war and peace, when we created Originally, we have to remember, that we said weeks and months ahead. this particular experiment in government, to it was the inmates that killed those nine The Stony Brook Press page 6 VIEWVPOIN ITS corrections workers. We contended they had or they're trying to convince us - that Salvador, we have the Philippines, you know, been castrated and gutted, but then they found everyone's excited about this war. Everyone I'm starting to run out of fingers... but I think bullet holes in them - each of the nine - and no thinks that it's a just cause. Everyone's you get the idea. I'll tell you this: Martin inmate had a gun. excited about sending their son off to die. I Luther King talked way back in 1967 about All of our institutions are failing to resist know alot of people read the article in the New this issue. Martin Luther King said, "If we the American war machine. The President York Times last Saturday, where it did want to get on the right side of the world intends to use force, the Congress will not stop mention that there were opponents: revolution, we better begin to deal with these him, the courts will not stop him, the press "Opponents to US Move Have Poverty in issues of poverty, and justice, and racism, urges him on... A newspaper like the Times to Common." The article says quite simply and militarism." I don't know about you, but this date has paled the yellow journalism of [that] it's a class thing. "To some degree a I don't think we're on the right side of the William Randolph Hearst... [words drowned division along class lines also means a world revolution, and when they talk about a by applause]. And recall the slaughter of division along racial lines." Well isn't that "new international order," they just missed hundreds of thousands of Philippine people, interesting. The people that are going to fight the whole point of his address. which we should never forget. On the island in a war, are against it... because we don't see I'm speaking tonight - and I hope I'm of Sumara the order was to murder every a reason for it. I'll tell you the truth though, speaking on behalf of all the veterans here, man. When a colonel asked a general "above I'm not so sad about not seeing the media here and a large percentage of Vietnam and other what age?" he said "ten," and it happened. veterans and their families in this country. And we did it because the President of the You know when we start looking at it more in United States McKinley said it was our duty to 'Everyone's excited this country, we come to realize that at least "uplift, educate, civilize, and Christianize" about sending their one quarter of all Americans have been those poor people. God help us. touched directly - through themselves or a..•* We know perfectly well that this expedition son off to die..." loved one - by war. To one quarter of in Arabia is a classical form of colonialism Americans the Vietnam war was not a TV as defined in the dictionary. There's only war, it was turning on the TV and having one reason we're there and we know it - oil. If because I stopped watching them on August their hearts in their laps waiting to see if their the oil wasn't there we wouldn't be there. We 2nd when they started putting on all the lies son was dead. And what we're here today would sit back with Henry Kissinger and say and I became so disgusted... I watched the saying is that in a war, after all the politics is "I hope they kill each other!" But we intend to politicians [dressed in] the newest battle done, after all the speeches are made, after all have our way with that oil if it asphyxiates fatigues, and they're so excited that they can't the parades are over, people end up getting every last one of us, and it will if we continue stop themselves. So when you talk about a free killed. And I'm saying here from first hand on this course. So let's take to the streets, press - we don't have a free press. We have experience, we do not believe what's Americans. Let's show the President of the freedom of the press, but no free press. happening in the Persian Gulf is worth the life United States that the people will demand that You know, I wouln't be upset if it weren't for of one American or Persian... [words we withdraw all of our troops immediately. the fact that the bottom line is lies. We look at drowned by applause] Other veterans groups We have to work fast because he can work the President, and he gets on TV and talks will support the President. You're going to see to support thlr- fast. We have to build quickly for a massive about a "new international order." I don't some groups that feel compelled demonstration on October 20th. We cannot know, I'm not a big history student, I didn't President, to support the government, and they fail. A principle of America depends on it. take political affairs 101, I learned my lesson put out that they are supporting our soldiers. I in a Vietnam rice paddy, 11-Bravo-20, class of want to read to you from one of the objectives of Excerpt From David Cline's Speech: 1967. But to me it looks like the sane oAld Vietnam Veterans Against the War that was thing. To me it looks like a big country trying written in 1970, about opposition to war: Gavrielle [Gemma] mentioned that the to tell a little third world country how to run "Objective 4. To show that opposition to the war media isn't here, but the media is not here their affairs. To me it looks like the last ten does not stem from cowardice or disloyalty. because you're not here, because no one's years, we've been going into little third world The best way to keep faith with our fighting against the task force to the Middle East. So countries. We have Iran, we have Grenada, men is to bring them back alive." We support that's why they're not here because they've we have Panama, we have Libya, we have our soldiers against all who would put their convinced us through papers and through TV - Cambodia, we have Nicaragua, we have El lives in danger. [J LETT ERS

continued from page 2 CZI I - ' hundred or thousand students, and Cal Poly at San Luis William A. Stockbrine original 1938 Chevrolet Master a dramatically different Obispo. Stony Brook's reported University Registrar Deluxe at the age of 16 (no, it picture would have emerged. property crime rate of 5.1 per The truth is that Stony Brook's hundred students compares was not 1938, it was 1971). For us we are satiated by violent crime rate of 0.8 per favorably with the University most of thousand students in 1989 was of California's rates of 7.2 per To the Editor: going to shows like the ones at the one-quarter of that reported by hundred at San Diego, 6.4 Suffolk Meadows and of Boston College and two-thirds Davis, and 5.4 at Irvine. Thank you for Walter . For some must have a of Southwest Texas State's. Currently there are Schneider's article/review of us, however, we to old cars. Among the other twenty-one more than 220 public uni- the Suffolk Meadows hands-on approach This "drove" me to obtain a schools for which you had versities in the United States Racetrack car show entitled 1938 Studebaker three years violent crime statistics, Stony with enrollments of ten to Grand Tour Illusions. While ago, and to be shopping now fos , Brook's rate was lower than twenty thousand students. many who attend such shows a '60's car to use as a daily of Towson State, Colorado Your arbitrary decision to are fans of the "hotrod," there those driver. As I read the article I State, New Mexico State, assign equal values to crimes, are others, myself included, people began to wonder if there is Eastern Kentucky, and against property and who appreciate older Ame- of excluding others like me at Stony Brook, Central State University had the effect rican cars known as classics, of tweny-four who appreciate the older auto- (wherever that may be). Our from your pool antiques, or special interest but ten campuses automobiles bring mobile as a bit of nostalgia and violent crime rate was the all cars. These Virginia Com- a way to preserve a piece of same as that reported by (including back the memory of 'times monwealth and Northern history? [ Clemson University, Pasa- when gasoline was cheap and State Universities). dena Community College, Arizona cars were . lenders readers deserve better. -Joseph S. Topek George Mason University, and Your and bodies were -Ma4e from the editorial focus on Jewish Chaplain Washington State; not exactly While heavy gauge steeldand; .plastic safety is to be was rare ly use . Mr. hotbeds of crimes compared to personal the misleading of by speed urban campuses across the commended, Schneider's "baptism" students who as result will live in a 1974 Matador X reminds country. It's true that our rate more fearfully is not. me of my first ride in an all was slightly higher than those of Santa Rosa Junior College October 1, 1990 page 7 Redwood Summer

By Emily Schwartz September 1st, it was clear that the source of the an issue as the tree themselves. Aside from problem was miscommunication and not adding nutrients back to the earth, dead logs At heights of three hundred fifty feet and logging or protecting the land. Logging protect the forest floor from over-exposure to greater, the old growth Redwoods of the west companies feed their workers ideas that are the elements as well and provide homes for coast of the United States stand taller than the not always true. One concept which received many animals. One such animal in Eiffel Tower. These trees, that are between great applause was that the loggers were not in particular is the Mole; a rodent which lives in one and four thousand years old have an awe opposition with environmentalists. hollowed-out logs, eats from the dead trees, inspiring presence. Standing at the base of a Evironmentalists and loggers have a great and excreets the seed of new trees. When land tree, which could be the width of a small deal in common as both are living locally in has been cleared not only are homes taken house, an individual certainly feels the Humbolt, however there are other people who away from these animals and others timeless beauty of the largest species this have it in their interest not to let these people including the endangered spotted owl, the planet has ever seen. The old growth forests see how much they have in common. ground is over-exposed to the sun and it are full of life and history, both of which are becomes dry dirt. Heavy rains carry away top being destroyed rapidly. layers of soil removing minerals and deposit On September 1st through 4th of this year a large amounts of silt in nearby river beds thus rally washosted by Earth First! and other destroying the nesting salmon eggs. environmental groups in Humbolt County, This is a basic overview of the situation California, as part of their Redwood Summer taking place. The fact of the matter is that campaign. Bands played, information there is a great deal in danger. Not only is it tables were set up, and people worked together time to stop living an over consumptous in various workshops on alternative jobs, lifestyle which encompasses raping the earth, fuels, resources and solutions in general. it is time to focus on very plausable, cheaper Very unique to this event was the invitation of solutions. The entire sound system of this local advocates from both sides of the logging Redwood Summer rally was powered by solar issue. panels and storage systems that worked Despite Earth First! 's predominant image phenomenally well. These workshops as a radical environmental group (as noted by demonstrated alternative solutions for paper, the media), Earth First! is a strong advocate of oil, partical board, and even fabrics, from non-violence. Three loggers local to Humbolt annual plants that produce four times the County were invited to speak their rage as. normal amount of celluloid fiber per acre well as peace. They expressed their fear of As loggers see it this is their livelihood. than trees and doesn't destroy something being bombed or having logs rolled out in Logging is their job and an important one in thousands of years old to be used for such a front of their trucks while driving (which high demand. They do not just cut trees, they short time. would cause them to lose control). They actually plant more trees than they cut and The greatest progress may have been the relayed fear of losing jobs and even deep practice various techniques of "forestry removal of barriers between people. . After hatred for the environmentalists. This is all management." Redwood Summer is gone these groups in part of Earth First!'s strategy of letting the Environmental research however has Humbolt County will be talking with each opposition vent their feelings and be heard so proven many of these techniques ineffective. other; not through the media, not through the they will be willing to listen to the other side. The ecological web that must be maintained government, and not through big companies. This locally focused event was intended to in order for a redwood forest to thrive can not a raise money for political action within be sustained when clear cutting and slash Humbolt County. By the end of the evening on burning occur. Dead lumber is just as vital FOOTNOT ES They Shoot Horses, Don't They? students will be happening on Saturday, A....Car Pool - If you and other commuters The Department of Theater Arts presents October 13. This is sponsored by the Catholic added just one person to your morning drive to Peter Shaffer's Equus. It's about a boy who Campus Ministry Located in the Interfaith work, the nationwide savings would amount blinds a few horses, and his therapist Center of the Humanities Building. I want to to more than 33 million gallons of gasoline romanticizes the reason for it. Maybe it's too tell you all that this may be extremely each day - enough to drive all the way around deep for you youngsters. But then again, if important for you people who came out of the the world 34,000 times... - Diane you wonder why it wasn't done to humans Dalai Lama lecture confused. In other words, MacEachern instead, you've better check this out. A few get more confused. . .who is the one for us to insights into a troubled mind can prove follow? Where is the "lovelight?" Read Them A Poem effectively healing for all of us. Performance Poets! Wake from your creative meditations. will be held from October 11-21 at 8:00 PM and A Family Visit Someone wants to hear your work. The point 2:00 PM matinee Sundays at Theater II in the My grandmother will be coming to the Stony in time of Wednesday, October 3rd, and the Staller Center. Call 632-7300 for more info. Brook campus on October 4, at 4:30 PM to the location of the Emma S. Clarke Library in I - Union cafeteria. A discussion on the various Setauket, is where and when, oppositely Homophobia difficulties surrounding senior citizens to respectively, an OPEN MICROPHONE Are you afraid to even look at a work of art function properly in a youthful culture will POETRY READING will be occurring. created from the hands of a gay, lesbian or result after a brief lunch and an indoor Monologues, ballads, poetry, of course, and bisexual? Do you think that their influence or raindance. She's got spirit. And remember, anything else you can think of is what is what their presence will somehow trigger a treat her nicely! is in demand. Feel free to bring guitars, harmful reaction to your health, and image? drums, banjos, ant farm*-whatever may add Why? Be honest and consider the Run For Your Life! to the meaning of your pieces. And as an individuality and feelings of others who are You better run for your life if you can little added incentive, some members of the at odds with your own point of view. At the girl. Catch you with another man, that's the MIGHTY UNDERDOGS just may stop by. Union Art Gallery, on the second floor, an art end, little girl...Woman's Cross Country, The reading will be hosted by Billy Capozzi. exhibition will take place in celebration of Saturday, October 13 - PAC Championships. They keep the library, for those who do not Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Pride. Time: 10:30 AM. know, on 120 Main Street. According to Mr. October 5-12, Monday to Friday, noon-5:00. Capozzi, if you turn left at the next light after PM. Call 2-6822. Tips For Planet Earth the Finast grocery store, you should have no Q....Are there other things I can do with the trouble finding it. So rise and conquer, artists Have Faith Will Travel car itself to improve gas mileage and save - show the masses your passion. Day of Recollection for Undergraduate energy? The Stony Brook Press page 8 ; ~IVI EWVPO INITS Ain't No Hype Nowhere...

By Rudy Babel have found a few disciples to spread the word handedness striving to fit the vague and and nailed myself to a cross years ago. Some . vogue label of liberation, a new vanguard Slogans. Students admitted to a university people already have, and quite a few more will every day telling us just what it is. But with the intelligence to write slogan-riddled probably continue to as the multi-media extremes can be dangerous, left or right if the viewpoints for campus publications. industrial death culture carves its mark in path gets narrow. It's no line, just a sphere Slogans have no value except to arouse our heads before the apocalyptic steamroller with bumpy dogmatic discontinuities. People emotions and alter beliefs mindlessly, comes along. Only those with the hippest state opinions without facts: like what we whatever political bent. Walking around, the slogans and creepiest dogma (read: authority) should know or should have been taught, as if environment, people, sunshine or a cloudy will be remembered. we were lied to in some despicable cosmic day all inspire a complex mixture of emotions I don't really care much for Armageddon. conspiracy to keep us ignorant (when in - I don't need to be riled up or ridiculed by If it comes, it comes. What happens happens reality we never got off our asses to find out). faceless impersonal diatribes in newsprint I and I do my best to get by and make this a If you think you got a handle on something, am in school to learn "truth"- or at least some better world for myself and those around me by all means share the wealth. But give me a useful facts or skills, not to take sides in (and have a good time when I can too). People clue 'cause you're sayin' I don't know a thing. distant and metaphysical political issues. get by. They always do. Culture is dynamic Off the self-righteous hobby horse or self- The Persian Gulf build-up is one. I am in and fleeting, lifestyle a meaningless label on elected representative of the "silent majority" too much shock to absorb the details of what your FBI file. People hustle, scam, fuck, help throne and let us KNOW - useful facts, happened let alone take a hard stand like each other and do what is necessary to go on information, some sources we could look up, "pro" and "con"(no in-betweens). I still have with it. And if they don't, there's always something tangible for a sentient being, not a too many questions, distracting me from cockroaches. Obsession with destruction is a dance step for a marionette... questions I have on other issues... destructive thing. We fear fear most, History is one example - sexual history No hard facts, just slogans in another admitting we're afraid, and always want (whatever the orientation), black history, debate to distract us from ourselves and other people to fear for us. Nobody knows women's herstory, etc. categories they never everyone and everything around. I'd finish what's really going on, but we get by... taught us, as if they cared to carve out another off a bottle of whiskey or snort dope if I wanted Problems. We're all afraid of looking deep pidgeonhole. Stop telling me what authority distraction, and at least I'd be doing it to within ourselves, ever new levels (if you should tell me, as if authority should d myself. I don't need someone telling me what think you're not, keep looking). To weed out anything... the real world is like and what I should think each hypocracy. Some things are eternal, like The information is here. Even mind- or do. The gears in my old typewriter or the knowing what's bullshit and what's not if we blowing stuff is right there, in front of you, but Dalai Lama know about as much of what goes can forget trivialities. It's a matter of getting you need to look for it, and not be colored by on as anybody else. Reality is a pretty there, and it takes a lifetime, if not several. your biases. If you look for something, subjective thing. People lie and believe their Rationalization is a major problem. It eventually you'll find the most convincing lies, and another lie is a threat to the secure pretends to be truth, but college level evidence it's there, whether it really exists or little womb of truth one hides in. vocabulary or the logical extension of not. Lies. Truth. Illusion. I saw the picture of politically-correct morality doesn't make a The 1950's. There was a nuclear war. The the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait "surrounded" by slogan any more truthful. Soviets bombed the shit out of the American Iraqui troops on TV. Only the shot was of a The truth is there, it's always eternal but it Southwest, but the U.S. government lied and building and some trees, apparently in a changes all the time. I don't mean any New said it was "above ground testing" so nobody'd desert. It coulld be a warehouse in Montana Age double-think. I make sense if you think get panicky...No, I made that up. But if you for all I know. Orwellian shades of grey... about it. Think about it now, think about it wanted to, you could prove it. Distance From a few self-proclaimed conservative: I until you're 103. I make sense and it's through space and time will make things dim will die for your freedom. Well then, just die. confusing. All and none of the above. and metapysical. I'd be honored for a few minutes before I forget Paradox. truth doesn't get you anywhere but Funny things like seeing Rastafarian about you altogether. Somehow I'm sure I it'll get you by day to day. Nonsense, this is images of the Last Supper where the diners are could make a better contribution to the well- drunken babble and shame on you if you all dark-skinned with dreads, like it was being of humanity (one of those ideals that thought I knew anything about what you just some radical idea...until a roomate showed we're in school for) by staying alive instead of read. me a book of Medieval religious paintings. sacrificing myself. If I thought differently I'd The underdog. The Left Wing. Left Or did the paint just faded and got all blurry or something...No such a new idea, but nobody went out of their way to show and I never did the same for myself. Discoveries like that are by accident. Drivers wanted P/T F/T But if it's something I can really get off on, Earn up to $10.00 an hour. I'll spend hours in local libraries researching I continued from page 4 irT Must know campus & Stony Brook the most bizarre subjects. I've probably U n tI area& own a car. learned more that way than over twenty years semester the administration distributed a Must be able to work up to 2 AM. at school (Stony Brook itself is a bizarre large quantity of small white pins to students. Station Pizza anybody tells you These pins stated that a University is a 751-5549 subject. Don't believe what Press and combination of Unity and Diversity. This about it, but back issues of the - seems like a good attitude for the Coppertone: Statesman are on microfilm in the library deactivists administration to have as long as they back Energetic person to be a repre- Hints for budding activists and up their words with actions. The attitude at sentative for Coppertone Spring- who haven't been there for five years...). The world is a strange place. People, Uniti and among much of the students here at break trips to Cancun, Daytona, Stony Brook is that this administration Nassau and Jamaica. Best places, ordinary objects are absurd and programs available ANYWHERE. should follow their own advice and show wonderful. Knowledge is sleeping, hidden in Great incentives and free trips support for programs that promote Unity and the dark corners of reality, right under a hard possible. Call for more information to find streetlamp. If you want to know Diversity (like Uniti, and the AFS program - 1-800-222-4432 and ask for anything, you have to play archaeologist and that should be a department.) For if there is Brenna or Bruce. only lip service given to these students' needs dig deep to the core, and whatever you find there's always more questions and more then the admininstration may as well give Services: out beer can tabs to the students, because the worlds to dig up. Study Abroad In Australia. Oh yeah, slogans...get it? L small white pins will only be useless pieces of Information on semester, summer, tin. Q J-term, Graduate, and Internship programs. All run for under $6000. Call Curtin University at 1-800-878- 3696. October 1, 1990 page 9 _ __ Y uu-ru~rurrc-wlr~Cur1~TYIIIIYrlry#l~lrT- lit continuedfrom page 5 IBo when it was needed. "Essentially, every The office of Tibet states that "thousands of + WUSB+ human being is the same," he stated. religious and political prisoners are being TOP 35 "Human nature, is basically, I believe, held in prisons and forced labor camps in 1. Lunachicks gentle...non-violent..., therefore I am always which the use of torture is common. Tibetan 2. Alice In Chains trying to practice that nature, that quality,...it woman are subject to mandatory sterilization 3. Silverfish 4. Boredoms us hope, it gives us strength." He later and forced abortions." This office also says gives 5. Primus went on to say, "I believe it is possible for us to that "From September 1987 to March 1989 more against 6. Jane's Addiction come together for the betterment of than 20 major demonstrations 7. Die Kreuzen humanity." Chinese rule were held within Tibet, resulting 8. Skin Yard deaths." Much of the speech revolved around the topic in many 9. Dwarves Lama had to say, "If of Tibet. He spoke of the geography and This is what the Dalai 10.Pump Uip Tbe Volume I will withdraw history of his country, influences that shaped my people are happy, 11. Frequency the Tibetan culture, '"Tibetan culture is much accordingly. But I received messages...I 12. Thee Hypnotics of influenced by Buddhism.....the Eastern would say the majority, eighty percent, 13. Antbrax Chinese nieghbor, China, had a constant influence Tibetan people are against 14. Heretics there." He also felt Tibet to be an unusually occupation." He also stated in reference to the 15. Chainsaw Kittens gentle country, "Basically, Tibetan society, it matter of whether or not Tibet is a part of 16. Charletans seems, is quite compassionate...quite jovial." China, "We are seperate countries. This is 17. Pixies Later on the topic he went on to say, not the Dalai Lama's creation but histories 18. Chumbawamba "geographically, racially, linguistically, creation. 19. Dread Zeppelin historically, Tibet is a different culture with However he is optimistic. "I feel in the next 20. Cocteau Twins different people." In otherwords, Tibet is an five or ten years things will change...we need 21. Lemonheads independant nation. This was in relation to world support... please help us...it is most 22. Mother Love Bone Tibets' situation with China. He spoke of crucial...Tibet will become insignificant if 23. Bob Mould 24. A Split Second of the history of what happened, his 1959 nothing is done in the next fifteen years...I some 25. Soup Dragons Chinese. "In would like to see Tibet free from any exile, his negotiations with the 26. Soul Asylum the initial stage the Chinese told me, 'no such weapon...generally speaking, Tibet is quite a 27. Mark Ribot thing as a Tibetan problem!' Then I told peaceful nation." This inspiring speech given by the 28. Inspirai Carpets them, 'this is not the case! The Issue is six 29. Neville Bros. Fourteenth Dalai Lama was accompanied by million Tibetan people, this is the case, this is 30. Just Say DAH at least five standing ovations. Whether or the issue!'" He went on to state that after his- 31. Dee-Lite that shrouds this intriguing exile there was no communication between not the mysticism 32. Uncle Tupelo not, his love of his people himself and the Chinese for twenty years. On figure is myth or 33. Deuo is definitely heartfelt the basis of information recieved, the Tibetan and fight for freedom 34. Living Colour of non- freedom fighters capitulated that 1.2 million and true. His Buddhist philosophy 35. Ultra ividtScene one, and Tibetans indeed died as a result of Chinese violence and peace is an endearing we have on earth a asuiuutIIIUINhIflflhIIEIIIflhIIIIIIIEIIIHIIIIflhIIflhIIIIIInflSIuIUIw occupation; more than 200.000 died due to it is sure that at present starvation. legend in the making. Q

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By Rick Teng walk up to the paintings,The Limb for wooden toys. Take The Tree Goddess Returns - example, you will notice that massive to New York. The Tree Goddess looks like a Walk into the Staller Center. Escape from amounts of paints are intermixed with sands totem pole statue from the Aztec region of the the outdoor atmosphere and enter into a or elements of such texture. The brushworks Southwest. At the bottom center of the painting relatively clean, functional and man-made are highly similar to many early is a camel remotely attached to everything environment. As you float through the door of Expressionist painters who'd used short but around it. This camel mediates between the the art gallery you are now in a vast open thick strokes creating a patchy and chalky world of the Tree Goddess and the space with minimal seating. The carpet gives feel to the work. Picasso's and Cezanne's metropolitan city life, symbolized by the silence to your wandering. You sense an echo works are among many that can relate to this traffic light. A journey into different realms, but there is no sound. And .feeCou sn-ma style. you would guess, is significant here. A The colors and style of painting are equally transition from the ancient to the modern is same in all of Jessup's paintings here. The expressed by way of travelling rather than imageries are not really that much different. time itself. The travelling is by ancient The pyschological impact of Surrealism is method, something very pertinent to the idea apparent. Dali's influence immediately of the Tree Goddess sustaining its own comes into mind. What is unusual is that the spiritual entity and way of life. For this subconscious never fails to bring out images reason, everything in this painting is in the so recognizable to our feelings towards and present. It is to show that different and notions of material and natural objects we ancient cultures still exist in the modern have conjured up in our dreams that were world. taken from "reality." Things such as trees, However, the title is confusing and rocks, vague faces and objects perhaps of puzzling. It states a return to New York. sentimental values are here again expressed What does this mean? That ancient culture in deformed manner. can coexist with present culture? Does the Let's re-examine The Limb. The arm of a snake that coils around the Tree Goddess and tree replaces a human arm, perhaps the traffic light corresponds to this return and signifying The Limb. It is holding several coexistence? objects that seems to be taken from an attic. The colors Lerman uses are again very rich Old antiques that transport one into a memory and bright. The smoothness and clarity of the stage are placed side by side. At the end of the details and lines by fine brushworks offer a arm, a mummy's head rests carefully if not polished- wood sensation (i.e., As the Sun Sets glued onto the arm. A few objects float in the in Sidilkov, Eggs Become Golden Suns, dimensionless background. Try to figure 1986). this out. This may be a waste of time. The Lerman's paintings seem more like they images Jessup is presenting us are not here to were painted on wood instead of on canvas. create meanings, only moods. It is spooky for The brushwork is very flat, unlike Jessup's definite. heavily expressionistically bumpy and Starting from your left a series of huge Go to the back wall of the gallery. Stare at tumorous mountings. Lerman's draftman- paintings hang on the wall like windows the works for a few hours (only serious). Ora ship is very careful and precise, while Jessup hurling you into another world, a world Lerman will be taking you into another comes across as explosive, but methodical. created by Robert Jessup. The colors are journey. However, the colors used are equally intense extraordinary. They are so rich you can taste You somehow feel very small because the and vivid in both of the artists' works. them. The glowing intensity of mixed paintings resemble giant postcards. You look Jessup's volcanical brightness and Lerman's primary colors mediates between luxuriance a little closer and suddenly remember the sharp brightness. and "colorful ugliness" due to the way the works of Rousseau and Magritte. The images uI continued on page 5 paints are mounted onto the canvas. As you are clear and playful, like hand-colored '' -- BOOKS VIDEOS - -- -- The Melville Library receives 25,000 new Tube of Plenty. Erik Bernouw. The The Audio-Visual department of the Main books each year. 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How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood Cover Up Behind the Iran Contra Affair. and Never Lost a Dime. Roger Corman with Picks up where the hearings left off. Jim Jerome. A must for all Joe Bob Briggs year old boy wanna be's this is the no holds barred account Salaam Bombay! Mira Nair. 10 Winner 1988 of such films as The Wild Angels, Gaaas!, alone in the streets of Bombay. Slumber Party Massacre and Piranha. Camera D'or. Ingmar Bergman. Two women Bones. Chenjerai Hove. First published in Brink of Life. 1957 winner, Cannes. Zimbabwe, this recipient of the 1989 Noma Juke Joints. Birney Ives. Photographs of in a maternity ward. award is dedicated: "For the women whose present day joints in Mississippi. children did not return, Sons and daughters, House of Games. David Mamet. First class those who gave their bones to the making of a City Slickers. William E. Geist. A collection psychological thriller new concience, a concience of bones, blood of his New York Times portrayals from and footsteps dreaming of coming home Buford Bavis the hotdog vendor to Ralph Mishima: A life in four chapters. Paul someday in vain." 1 Lauren Schrader. The life of Japanese author. Q October 1, 1990 page 11 VINIYL "sets." These sets read much like the set-lists favorite Franklin's Tower. New Live Dead that make up a concert. Set one Although the instrumental Slipknot! , which includes 7 songs and sounds as if it could features Garcia and late keyboardist Brent have been taken straight from a soundboard Mydland playing the lead melody line in tape of a recent Dead show. Highlights in- sync, is brilliant, the Franklin's Tower that clude Walkin' Blues (which has never before follows leaves me a little empty inside. Dead been on -a Grateful Dead album), Althea, and Set contains a much better live version of the 's brilliant Bird Song. The first song. The set closes with 's set closes with 's Let It Grow ( a inspiring rendition of Traffic's Dear Mr. standard Dead first set closer). Fantasy. It is important to note that if you are a person Although most of the songs presented to us who likes to hear music played without any on Without A Net have been released on prior flaws, the Grateful Dead is not the band for studio albums, we can see from this set that the you. The songs on Without A Net, at some Grateful Dead is a livy. band. Without A Net points, reveal the blemishes that make every shows how the band sounds today, after 25 Grateful Dead concert unique. Producers years of doing what nobody else can. John Cutler and have, apparently, Arguably, they sound better than ever. [J not tried to cover up these imperfections. Garcia's voice has become a bit rougher since the last live Dead release, 1981's Dead Set. In addition, the improvisational technique that Cocteau Heaven the Dead have always used in concert might leave today's listeners a bit bored when the solos takes off in the many different directions like they always do. However, if this style of music is appealing to you, set two of Without A Net will bring you into a state of ecstacy. The second set opens with a standard Dead set opener which, traditionally, leads directly into I Know You Rider. Although these songs were released, in By Eric Penzer definitive versions, on the 1972 live set, Europe '72, they get things moving nicely. Heaven or Las Vegas Grateful Dead / Without A Net Looks Like Rain is musically excellent, but I Cocteau Twins find it disappointing that the band didn't After 25 years, the Grateful Dead can select a version where Weir's vocals were a More like Las Vegas than Heaven, this finally say that they have mastered the art of little stronger. album is unmistakably Cocteau; it is also making a live record. After all, they've had The treat of the package is Eyes Of The unmistakably missing something. Missing plenty of practice; since 1969, the Dead have World. Although this song made its live debut is the dulcet dichotomy of Elizabeth Fraser's released a total of eight live sets, almost all of in early 1973, it has never found its way onto a chirps in soprano and warbles in alto. them more than one record long. The latest live Dead album until now. This version, Missing is the rhythmic intensity that Arista release, Without A Net, celebrates 25 recorded at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum animated Cocteau's previous works. Las years of, what some called, the greatest rock last march, features saxophonist Branford Vegas is Cocteau stuck in a watered-down band ever (certainly the most unusual rock Marsalis soloing right along with Garcia. mainstream groove (note the major record band ever!). The two compact disc/three The blend between the two musicians is label). Although you could make love while record set is the finest compilation that the successful, and the song is delivered with the listening to Las Vegas, it would be band has put their name on since 1969's Live strength and conviction remnant of versions passionless. My advice is to sit back, relax, Dead. of Eyes from the early 70's. and spin some classic Cocteau (Pink Opaque While some of band's past live albums were After an uninspiring Victim Or The Crime, or Blue Bell Knoll). [ organized to sound almost like studio albums, Garcia leads the band through Help On The -Scott Skinner Without A Net's two discs are divided into Way > Slipknot! which flows into the

_ ------n ~-- r - I FILM Future Schlock ---By Joe DiStefano laws imposed by the government and the latest just don't compensate for the movie's lack L radiation counts. The protagonists of the film plot development. Lots of groovy infra red In the interests of consumer advocacy and are mercenary types who salvage old shots taken from a robot's eye view, a la saving fellow students a few dollars, I urge machinery that they find in the desert, hence Predator. There's also one wild scene using you not to catch the new flick Hardware. This the film's title. spiralling fractual animation, which is movie was a painful ordeal and should be The movie's plot centers around a berserk supposed to show the euphoria induced by the avoided at all costs unless you are die-hard robot which we later find out to be the very robot's poison before the victim dies. gore freak or bored to tears with chasing device that the government will use, if The ad copy for Hardware reads, "You can't around the cockroaches in your room. necessary to keep the population within the stop progress." It seems like the film's Hardware is set in a post-holocaust world legal levels. The broken down android is creators can't start progress in this movie, where the barren rust colored desert resembles given to the main character's girlfriend Jill, which is just a garble of sci-fi cinema Mars. Like many of the post-holocaust worlds a sculptress who uses the unassembled parts to stereotypes which have been done better in from better sci-fi flicks (Road Warrior, Blade make a sculpture. Jill and her beau have no dozens of other movies. The good news is that Runner) the world is a barren wasteland idea that the robot is in the process of repairing the movie probably won't spawn a sequel. best plagued with radiation. The inhabitants of itself and is also a computerized voyeur. The to wait for this one to come out on video before •this world are left to their own designs and rest of the movie consists of the robot wasting a trek to the mall, or better yet rent receive no assistance from the government. terrorizing Jill and her boyfriend, and. something better and less derivative, like Iggy Pop plays radio announcer Angry Bog gutting the peeping tom who lives in the Blade Runner. Q who brings the populace of this bleak world apartment across from Jill. such cheery tidings as the new population The film's special effects are good but they