B 3. Vol. XIX No. 6 Don't Let The Door Hit Ya On The Tex-Ass November 12,1997 ISSUES Beyond Bubba University EMS and Fire Volunteers Practice Heavy Rescues By Michael Yeh mary responder for fires, vehicular extrication, bondage that comes with spinal immobilization. "I and hazardous materials," said SBVAC President never, ever want to be in a KED in my life," said The Stony Brook Volunteer Ambulance Corps Tim True. Christina Freudenberg, EMT-D of the tight jacket- paid its last respects to an old veteran -- by hack- "We need a new door there anyway," said like protective device. "But everybody was pretty ing it to pieces. Deputy Chief of Operations Jason Hellmann while cool, and they did a very good job." Emergency medical technicians and firefighters surveying the metallic carnage. "Until now, some "I felt that the technicians had control of what who serve the campus community participated in people thought heavy rescue meant a really fat was going on and were taking care of details that a heavy rescue drill at the Setauket Fire EMT named Bubba!" the accident victim would not normally be aware Department's Station 3 on SBVAC participants entered the of," said Kevin Kenny, EMT-Critical Care. Thursday, October 23. This was ambulance to find two other But most importantly, this drill gave the SBVAC the first mutual training event semi-conscious patients in the and Setauket volunteers a chance to see each other between SBVAC and neighbor- back. Since high-speed car acci- in action and to learn how to work together at a ing fire departments. dent victims often have spinal rescue scene. "This is something we don't usually The hubbub of the evening injuries in addition to other com- face as a university ambulance corps, so it was a focused on a rusty old orange plications, the crews had to nice experience," said Penny Youngs, EMT-D. and white ambulance used by immobilize and remove the "I definitely think there was an increase in SBVAC from the early 1970s to patients quickly and carefully. awareness and trust in each other's activities," said 1991. Until recently, it remained "I found a patient with a head Zoltan Antal, Chief of Operations for SBVAC. untouched in the South P-lot injury and an open "There has been some tension in the impound yard. femur fracture, past, so it was nice to work face-to- An accident scene was set up while his arm was face with them." with the ambulance, and fire- stuck in an open Although car accidents are not very fighters practiced cutting off compartment," said common on the campus, emergency the doors using hydraulic tools Jonathan Leon, workers must' be prepared at all commonly called the "jaws of life". The wind- Emergency Medical Technician- times. In September, a midnight shield was carefully sawed off to protect two "vic- Defibrillation (EMT-D). crash involving three cars in front of tims" in the front of the ambulance. In less than an "The biggest problem was commu- Cardozo College left eleven people hour, the vehicle was reduced to an empty shell nication," said Leon. "There were too injured. SBVAC volunteers and and a heap of mutilated parts. many people in the back [of the Setauket firefighters were able to Although the student-run SBVAC is responsible ambulance]." clear the scene in less than an hour. for most emergency medical operations on cam- "It's amazing how many people you can fit in the "We stressed individual skills, teamwork, and pus, Setauket firefighters are occasionally called to back of a vehicle and still get work done," said scene control," said Tim True. "We hope for the remove trapped car accident victims and other Hellmann. "We couldn't find a Volkswagen, so we best and prepare for the worst." scenes requiring specialized rescue equipment. chose an ambulance." "The Setauket fire department serves as the pri- Some patients were not as enthusiastic about the THE STONY BROOK PRESS AND THE PEACE CENTER PRESENT .-.- (LL .^.-, ^ -,J . LL .- ~ L.- .- B t4 m°vz"d^Ue^ (^ 0"^te Aiew^€iM. ^€iewci^^~~~~~iiiiiiiwwoa wd"dedeecateei se/wt~wae€em e^tect^edaeaoL 4^mtC^ctC "dffte 1v ~e week one: lIYEanxufactw ixng Coynsenrt: N4Toaxn Chornmsky and the MIVasseM edia One of the most important and influential progressive films of all time, Manufacturing Consent tells the story of scientist/activist/philosopher Noam Chomsky and exposes how mainstream media marginalizes debate and abuses their power. A must see for anyone interested in politics, media and information. Tuesday, November 18th at 6:30 p.m. Javits 105 FREE THE SToNY BROOK PRESS PAGE 2 ISSUES UNSUNG HEROES By Chris Sorochin gory reality of war and are designed to seduce the costs of war impressionable into the Lie. b.) To restrain our government from the inter- "...the next great advance in the evolution of civilization Mainstream veterans' organizations are similarly vening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs cannot take place until war is abolished." programmed to perpetuate the ideology that any- of other nations one who speaks against war or a foreign policy c.) To end the arms race and reduce and eventu- -Gen. Douglas MacArthur based on force is spitting on those who've taken ally eliminate nuclear weapons and part in such doings in the past. Especially repre- d.) To abolish war as an instrument of interna- What do Philip and Daniel Berrigan, Kurt hensible is the American Legion, which throughout tional policy. Vonnegut, Howard Zinn, Rod Serling, Ron its history has been not merely, or even primarily, a Veterans for Peace was founded in 1985, at the Kovic, Tim O'Briend and Claude Eatherly all veterans' advocacy group, but a tool of reactionary depth of Reagan's covert wars in Central America. have in common? politics. Founded in the "Red Scare" hysteria and There are members in all fifty states and liaisons They are all veterans of US wars, and all later repression that immediately followed WWI, the with similar veterans' organization in seven foreign became pacifists, many actively condemning mili- Legion has been used like a US version of the countries, including Russia. They use their experi- tarism, and some, like the Fascist Black Shirts in ence to educate the public at large about the threat Berrigans, Zinn and Kovic, Europe, intimidating and posed to democracy and real national security by a are spending time in jail. often violently attacking culture of secrecy and a mentality of "Might Makes These were not inactive or leftist groups and labor Right." They advocate peaceful means of resolving unwilling draftees. Philip unions. They helped drive conflicts and seek to end production of weapons of Berrigan (who has just been Charlie Chaplin out of the mass destruction. They can be contacted at: sentenced to two years behind country when he dared 100 Maryland Ave. NE, Suite 106 bars for a disarmament action make an anti-war film Washington, DC 20002 in Maine this past February) (Monsieur Verdoux) in the (202) 488-7225 describes himself as an enthu- dark days of 1947. Their Citizen Soldier is a branch of Alternatives to siastic participant in World Peekskill chapter were Militarism and they're relatively new, having come War II. Zinn was a bomber among the thugs who set into being around issues engendered by the Gulf pilot and his most searing upon and beat the audience War. Like other groups, they're active in pursuing memory is of annhiliating the of a Paul Robeson concert the claims of veterans stricken with war-related ill- French town of Rovan. There during the same era. nesses and penetrating the veil of misinformation was a contingent of German soldiers holed up Most recently, they were part of the censorship of around the use of depleted uranium ammunition there, along with a population of French civilians. the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum when that and mysterious vaccines given to troops sent to The Allied advance had already moved well east- institution planned an exhibition of the Enola Gay make Kuwait safe for super-wealthy oil monarchs. ward and bombing the town was of no strategic that they felt was just a little too irreverent in its Unlike some other groups, Citizen Soldier also value what so ever. Zinn says the purpose of the intimation that the vaporization of two cities full of concerns itself with the devastation and misery mission was to test a new weapon -- "jellied gaso- civilians was something less than an honorable and visited on the people designated as "the enemy." A line" -- which we know today as napalm. The jelly courageous act. I remember hearing one legion- video they coproduced and offer for sale details adheres to the skin and just keeps burning. It was naire on NPR pushing for a fully jingoistic monu- the journey of US veterans back to Vietnam to seek employed in great quantity some years later in ment to the Korean Conflict, which was in many reconciliation and help the Vietnamese rebuild and Kovic and O'Brien's "dirty little war"; Vietnam was ways a dress rehearsal for Vietnam, growling like a to work with them to find cures for the poisons the recipient of 18 tons of chemical defoliant and crazed jackal that a nation must be willing to sacri- both groups were exposed to. Another big part of Citizen Soldier's work is com- more explosives than used by the US in all of fice its youth for freedom. You could almost hear bating the military's multimillion-dollar indoctri- World War II. him drooling over the airwaves at the prospect of nation of youth in ROTC and JROTC programs in A more famous test was conducted on the people feeding fresh-faced recruits into the belly of around the country.