aI 'Ap- --ML VOLUME 17 NUMBER 80 STONY BROOK, N.Y. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1974 [ Mc~~owell1Cup MoveI -",GG Distributed free of charge throughout campus and community every Monday, Wednesday,-and Friday III II Ph o t o f o r St a t e sm a n M a r GGB WON THE 1974 McOOWELL CUP by over 200 points. by ci Glicksman By ALAN H. FALLICK columnist, cited two reasons for GGB's crown. "Most According to an admiission by one of its team of the guys on the hall are seniors so they had time to members, "a group of degenerates" has won the do it," Spiler said. "We knew all the rules, and could 1973-74 McDowell Cup, the symbol of excellence in use sneak plays (like backward passes in football)." Stony Brook intramural athletics. Oddly, GGB did not intend to try to win the Cup The B-Wing team of George Gershwin College, back in September recalled senior Mike Dunn, who (GGB), after a slow fall scart, has coasted to a more noticed that his team was in tenth place after than 200-point lead over its nearest rival and, with football. "I said, 'Sure, we have nothing better to do only intramural track remAn.-ig, Intramural Director this semester', 1 said Dunn. Bob Snider has declared GGB this year's winner of It was the team's consistency which perhaps could the trophy and prize of a half keg of beer. best account for its destiny. In football, GGB made Group of Degenerates the semi-finals. In soccer, it got into the "WeWr more of a group of degenerates than jocks," championship game. GGB made the second playoff said GGB member Mitch Bittman, "but we're round in basketball, and won golf, tennis, together degenerates n and volleyball. The team finished third in Chariie Spfler,, last year's Statesman Intramurals (Continued on page 13) Athlete, C oach of te 'ear Awtarcds See Pages 16 and I17 L.h 1%--- - ---------------- - . NY State Assembly Approves INews Briefs 1 Wider Finance Disclosure Laws Gangster Gets 15 Years Albany (AP)-The New York after passing 141-3, would Franz S. Leichter (D-Manhattan) State Assembly voted Tuesday require candidates for elective said. 'When we have a lieutenant Carmine "Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti, reputed underworld leader, in favor of a bill sponsored by office in the executive, governor of this state who goes received a 15-year prison sentence yesterday on his conviction for Assemblyman Peter J. Costigan legislative and judicial branches and practices law and deals in his part in a major narcotics conspiracy. (R-Setauket) to broaden to file financial statements with the stock market, the people A co-defendant, Joseph DiNapoli, partner in a printing firm, was financial disclosure requirements the New York secretary of state have a right to know." given 20 years, concurrent with a three-year term he was already to include all candidates for all at least 45 days before the Leichter was referring to serving for loan-sharking. Tramunti, 64, lives in Whitestone, Queens. state offices, rather than only election. Governor Malcolm Wilson, who Described as the financier of a dope ring supplying the New York elected legislators. They would be required to list maintained his interest in a area as well as Washington, D.C., Tramunti has spent most of his life The bill, sent to the Senate financial interests in any Westchester law firm and in criminal activity, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Curran told U.S. District enterprises regulated by the received income from stock Court Judge Kevin T. Duffy. state. These would include investments during his 15-year banks, insurance companies and term as lieutenant governor. Abrams Enters Race utilities, for example. In other action: State law currently mandates -The Senate approved a Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams said yesterday that he such disclosure only by measure to prohibit smoking in will seek the Democratic nomination for New York state attorney legislators after their election. indoor theaters, libraries, general. 'Mis bill reproduces the museums or on public mass Abrams becomes the second candidate for the Democratic requirements for the legislature transit facilities. The bill, passed nomination for that office. Rockland County District Attorney in every jot and tittle," said 32-12, had been rejected by the Robert E. Meehan threw his hat into the ring several weeks ago. Costigan, the bill's main sponsor. Senate several days earlier. It In making his announcement, Abrams vowed that as attorney But several Democrats objected has been sent to the Assembly. general he would monitor the Public Service Commission and that the legislation did not go far -The Assembly passed a bill investigate every rate increase by utilities and "battle them tooth enough. 'We find there's no that would give publicly and nail when they are unjustified." substance to the jot and no body established local industrial Abrams said there has not been a Democratic attorney general in to the tittle," smiled development agencies the right New York for the past 32 years and the people are suffering the Assemblyman Irwin Landes to issue bonds and make loans to "grave effects of one-party domination." (D-Great Neck). refinance existing industrial The Republican hierarchy has become "cozy with the corporate ASSEMBLYMAN PETER J. 'There are other financial facilities at low interest rates. establishment," Abrams charged. COSTIGAN. (R-SETAUKET) was a main sponsor of a bill nterests which you may have The agencies are now restricted expanding financial disclosure which the people have a right to to financing industrial Democrat Cites inpeachable Offense laws. know about," Assemblyman expansions to create new jobs. A Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee said yesterday that President Nixon's discussion of a payment to Watergate defendant E. Howard Hunt 'is a clear violation of federal Gleinn, Wallace Win Primaries law" and grounds for impeachment. "It is a clear, indisputable article of impeachment," (AP)-Formner astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. won despite the 1972 assassination attempt that left Representative John Conyers of Michigan said of a conversation the Democratic nomination for senator from Ohio him partially paralyzed. between Nixon and former White House Counsel John W. Dean III on his third try and Alabama Governor George C. Democratic Senator James B. Allen, a Wallace on March 21, 1973. "Dean was ordered to accede to Hunt's Wallace won renomination for an unprecedented ally, easily won his bid for renomination and is request." Conyers spoke at a news conference. third term on the first big Tuesday of the 1974 unopposed in November for a second six-year A transcript of the conversation released by the White House primary season. term. indicates that Hunt was demanding $120,000 to keep silent. Nixon, Candidates for three Senate seats, two In North Carolina, where veteran Democratic in his television address last week, said he was "thinking out loud" governorships and more that 50 House seats were Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. is retiring. Attorney General Robert Morgan was leading a field of ten, about having to make the payment in order to protect the national chosen as Alabama, Ohio, Indiana and North primaries for the November but it was unclear whether he could surpass the 50 security. Carolina held mid-term elections. needed to win the Democratic Conyers said the conversation indicates an obstruction of justice per cent in the District of Columbia, meanwhile, nomination without a June 4 runoff. Former that would be a violation of federal law. Voters Representative Nick Galifianakis ran second. "So the whole question of whether we need a criminal offense for gave overwhelming approval to a charter that a measure of self-government to the State Representative William E. Stevens, a impeachment is moot," he said. restores nation's capital for the first time in a century. furniture manuracturer and brother-in-law of The 52-year old Glenn, who 12 years ago Representative James Broyhill (R-N. C.), won the U.S. Aid to Saigon Cut became the first American to orbit the earth, GOP primary. showed surprising strength in Ohio's urban areas to Denouncing the Senate's rejection of additional military aid for end the brief Senate tenure of Howard M. Saigon, the White House warned yesterday that North Vietnamese Metzenbaum, appointed last December when infiltration of troops and arms poses a growing threat to stability in Republican Wfiliam B. Saxbe resigned to become Southeast Asia. Attorney General. The Senate voted a temporary suspension of U.S. military aid Opposed by organized labor and the state Statsman shipments to South Vietnam Monday by approving an, amendment Democratic organization, Glenn projected himself by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) denying an increase in the as a symbol of integrity in the year of the This is the last issue of Statesman this $1.126 billion ceiling imposed for the fiscal year ending June 30. Watergate scandal while Metzenbaum suffered semester. The amendment was added to a supplemental military from the disclosure that he paid no federal income However, the newspaper will be procurement bill. taxes in 1969 because of business losses. publishing a weekly summer edition. Thie House Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren charged that Glenn will be favored in November against Distributed both on and off campus every since the January 1973 ceasefire, "Hanoi, with outside assistance, Republican Mayor Ralph Perk of Cleveland, easy Thursday beginning May 23, the paper will has illegally infiltrated into South Vietnam more than ,120,000 victor over Peter E. Von of Canton. cover events at the University and in the troops. ." The nominations for governor in Ohio were won local community.