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The Vote : NYPIRG Yes, Polity No Treasurer* Freshman Rep Races to be Decided in Run-0 ff By Ray Fazzi 221 and 182 votes respectively. Elimi- Students voted to accept a 90 cent per nated in this race were Michael semester increase in funding for the Naglieri, with 132 votes, and Paul New York Public Interest Research Carsch, with 92 votes. Group (NYPIRG) yesterday, and to The vote for the NYPIRG referendum reject a referendum asking for a five ensured funding for that group for the dollar per semester increase in the stu- next two years. It passed 1,547 votes to dent activity fee. 758. The Polity referendum, which was Also in yesterday's Polity elections, the first request for a raise in the stu- the race for treasurer between Brian dent activity fee in several years, lost Kohn and Michael Doroski went unre- 1,511 votes to 704. solved with the former getting 941 votes The following candidates won posi- and the latter 918&The two candidates tions as senator: Hal Goldberg, repres- will run again in a run-off. enting Stage XII A; Lydia Terry, Stage The race for freshman representative XII C; Ron Glick, Kelly A; John Wei- aldird~fldn Ad-AdU xJobb will also be decided by a run-off election berg, Kelly D; Gerald Seagars, Kelly E; Brian Kohn (left) and Micha" Doroski willbattle out the race for treasurer in a run-off between candidates Neal Drobenare Steve Kahn, Whitman College; Linda el«ton tentatively scheduled for Oct. 26. and Michael Berkowitz, who received (continued on page 7) Soundings Poem Stirs SB Godlw Jew his grandmother emnembers the holocaust.. Jewish Croups, English Dept and themfore God could not exist and he affirms his Jeuxiom 1 By Elizabeth Wasserman others who had been privy to a copy of the poem about "It's the culture... A poem published in a campus literary magazine its interpretation. A few English professors used the "It's the Jewish State... has the Humanities Building abuzz lately because of poem and even the accompanying letters to provoke Israel, Israel differing interpretations. The principle participants discussion in their literary Analysis classes. have you heard? in this controvers are the editors of Soundins an Parts of the letter from Hillel read as follows: 'The Hiter kled the God f Abraham- annual publication, the poet, members of the English allegation that Jews 'hirefd] the nazi [sic] to waste did you find his cok#e Department, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation and [your] God` is one that sickens any rational individual. in the Mounds members of the students club Hillel. The author uses this convoluted idea to claim that the of Jewish fles? The not-yet-fully-released Spring 1983 issue of late' deity' forms the 'first bricks of an imposter state,' are his remain te first bricks Soundings (250 of 1,000 copies are in circulation) con- an obvious reference to Israel....we question the wis- of an imposter date? tains a poem (ace inset) titled 'jodlews Jew, "written by dom of publishing this in a literary arts journel that is did you hire the rna a graduate student Members of B'nai B'rith Hillel funded by graduate student activity fees and sup- to waste your God? Foundation and the Hilled Student boards found the ported by the Administration and by business adver- content of the poem offensive and authored a letter to tisers. We think tht poor judgement was shown by the He's a liberated Jew the magazines editor saying so Copies of this letter editors and that the Jewish community is deserving of frw from Judaism were mailed to advertisers in the journel, officials in an apology." the firs of the war The Stony Brook Administration, the Graduate Stu- Marcia Dickson, a grduate assistant here and senior have purged his soul dent Organization (GSO), which provided most of the editor of Soundings, said, The issue here is the misin- he dances to magic fire music publication's funding and an official of the Anti- terpretation of a poem...This poem was not lightly and sigs a breat Defamation League (ADL" thrown in (to the magazinel We knew the images were that IekN The editors of Soundisli respond ed with a memo really hidous images, but we feel that the poem of i blood axd bone with the poem attaehed uldri to the same individ- reflects a state of mind.' This was one of 350 poems, he ories a smirk uals stating that e poom had been misinerpred-it short stories and one-set plays they received and the JA edM was not a n anti-Jewish pam but a pro-Jewi h poaI Greviewed carefully, she said. God did not according to thetter.What fowed this e, dated Joe Caoandrino (continedon page 5) Oct. 6, was dausoamn tdts faculy and - - - I - Second Victory Soccer Team Ha -Baek Page -Newzs Di, s iL- Radar Failure Cited In Jetliner Incident -Moscow-An official source said yes- confirmed until it reached Sakhalin terday that two Soviet radar failures Island, 400 miles southwest of and confusion by defense commanders Kamchatka. allowed a South Korean jetliner to fly Air defense commanders reacted in confusion after l through Soviet airspace unnoticed for the intruding airliner more than two hours before it was shot was found in Soviet airspace, the source down. said, and Soviet commanders and pilots The source, who spoke on condition involved in downing the plane down did that he not be identified, contradicted not know it wa a civilian craft carrying the official government version of 269 people. All aboard were killed, events that led a Soviet warplace to des- including 61 Americans. troy the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 The source also claimed that air near Sakhalin Island in the Sea of defense commanders ordered the plane Japan. shot down because they had proof it was He said two of three radar stations on transmitting intelligence information the Kamchatka peninsula that should to U.S. spy installations. He did not say have detected the plane Sept. 1 were not what kind of proof they claimed to have. -Israeli Government Devalues Currency Tel Aviv, Imel - Israelis new nine-hour overnight Cabint meeting goe ment devalued the currency 23 held just hours after Prime Minister perent yesterday and raised the price Yitzhak Shamir was sworn in by Parlia- of basic foods 50 percent, setting off a ment as Menachen Begin's successor. stampede to buy meat, milk and bread Motorists quickly lined up at gas sta- before the increases took effect. tions and shoppers flooded stores to The Histadrut, Israel's 1.5-million- dump devalued curreny and buy goods member labor federation, setatwo-hour before prices row The main purchases warning strike for Thursday to protest were basi like frozen meat, milk, the steadily eroding purchasing power flour, bread and cooking oil, whose pri- of working people. ces were to go up 50 percent Wednesday Mle devaluation of the Israeli shekel as a result of a redauction in government and the price hikes were adopted at a subsidies. Manries Mobilize Amid Iranian Threats Wasidngt - A Navy amphibious The PentagonI soures lwhoasked not group carrying some 2,000 Marines is to be identified. , summed the amphib- en route to the Indian Oeatn amid Iran- ious force and, its Marine complement -ian thresto ckoe the Persian Gulf and have been detbached from the Beirut cut off the movement of oil tankers, it region e the1 come-fire in the LIb- was learned yeserday anese civil war iahore in the Beirut area Pentagon re saidtheamphibious seens to have dliminished. group headed by the 40,000-ton amphi ious assault ship Tarawa ped through the Suez Canal yesterday under Officiab wer* unable to say how long orders to sail into the Indian Ocean. It theMarineam phi'bios unit wil reanin was not iilaediately clear whether the in the Indian <Dcean. It was told to go mxwe was linked to the new Iranian there and awailit Other ordersorces threats . said. Burmese Police Clash With -Alleged Terrorists Ravgoon,Burma-Burmese police 200-man advance South Korean secur- clashed with three "Korean eroriss ity contingent, or gotoffaNorth Korean near the Rangoon River, killing one, reighter that called at Rangoon last capturing o rand chasingthe third month. who fled into the jungle, the state radio The state radio did not specify said yeIerday- whether the 'Korean eroriss were m North or South Korea. The goures Unofficial Nores seued the said they were bolievOd to be North three were invole in the bomtbing Sunday that killed 16 South Korean The state rad id one s was four of them Cabinet ministers, They seized trying to flee in a rowboat Mon- were omn ing President Chun day night and s being inerrogated in Doo-hwan on a state visit hem tbesour- a military hospital aftwer sing off a 6W9 --V%" W*^ fvgg*flgl*H* * « sg*i&I w l-*ln ft* who declined to be kdentified, said gSeiaeNW t seeod his right arm and * * * w m m * * »* the three terroritat either infiltated the d ther seve l GSO and Polity Search for Common Ground By Rebecca Mandelssohn I The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) and Polity are seeking a com- I promise on how to elect a stu- SUSB Senate to Hear dent representative to the Stony Brook Council and a way to deal with graduate students' State Legislators complaints about a new policy Members of the Univer- Allen Siegel. Senate which requires them to pay 50 sity Senate will have the members will "have the cent; more for COCA movies opportunity to listen to and chance to talk to these peo- than undergraduates.