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THE NEWSPAPER OF STOCKTON STATE COLLEGE Historian and AcM charity basketball game Environmentalist by Valerie Eachus Last Thursday night in the I-Wing gym- four quarters. coordinated by faculty member Vincent Comes to nasium, faculty, students, brothers of the The first quarter of the game was played Jenkins and Alpha Phi Delta Brother John Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity, and NFL play- by the faculty, who gave the football players Harding. According to President of the ers all got together and played basketball for the best competition. The faculty team was fraternity and Andrew's brother, Paul Stockton the United Cerebral Pigoncelli, the fac- Palsy Foundation. ulty members were Columbus sailed the ocean blue. The proceeds from very supportive and In the year fourteen hundred ninety-two, the game went to it was "great to see Columbus sailed the ocean. buy a wheelchair lift them outside of the -Child's Rhyme for 10 year old An- classroom." All of drew Pignocelii, the faculty mem- That Columbus sailed the ocean and who has Cerebral bers made dona- that it happened in 1492 is almost all that Palsy. tions to the cause Kirkpatrick Sale, historian, environmental- The game was even if they could ist, and Columbus scholar is certain about broken down into not participate. The the Spanish sailor. He's also certain that four quarters, with support from them Columbus is responsible for much of the the faculty, stu- was overwhelming destructive attitudes that American's have dents, and brothers and it helped to toward nature and American Indians. all playing against "bring the college "The reason we care about Columbus is the football players. community to- that he brought Europe, including its envi- The final quarter gether," said ronmental view, to the Americas, at least was played by an Pigoncelli. Some what he thought was the Americas," said "All-Star" team, of the faculty par- Sale when he spoke Wednesday night at 8 with members of ticipating included pm in the A-Wing lecture hall. The lecture, each group playing Vince Jenkins, Art which was sponsored by the International together. The NFL Davis, Mike Busier, Student Organization, Stockton Action Vol- players played all The Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity and NFL Players Margo Storm, and unteers for the Environment, and Follet Steven Kabricki. According to Jenkins, rin i n i « n » is ® j ® if® Bookstores, was attended by over200people. "The fraternity did a wonderful job organiz- Sale who wrote "Conquest of Para- 1 he Endless Possibilities of ing the game. It was very entertaining and it dise," a controversial book questioning Co- was for a good cause." lumbus' hero status, found fault with Co- The next group to go up against the lumbus' motivation for searching for new Memories football players were the students. What frontiers. Sale explains that Columbus was by E. C. O'Hanlon E.C.: What made you decide to write a was refreshing to Pignocelii to see was not very greedy for gold and silver, and so sailed Stephen Dunn, a nationally accliamed collection of memoirs and essays at this only the guys out there playing, but also the south because Aristotle proposed that these writer and professor at Stockton, has re- time in your life, when you had previously girls. All of the sororities got involved. The students elements were more often found in cently published a new collection of essays dealt mostly with poetry? general consensus was that it was nice to see the warmer climates. According to Sale, and memoirs, entitled S.D.: Well, it happened all of the Greeks get involved for a good Columbus' greed put him on the sea. Walking Light. He somewhat by accident SEE AOÀ ON A6 Another myth that Sale, who is the will be reading from at first. I had written author of seven books and the founder of the the new book on talks that I had given at Green Party in New York, disposed, was Thursday, April 15, at writer's conferences that of the belief that Columbus discovered 8p.m. in RoomB-126. and so I had some things Inside: America. Many think he landed in what later The new book, ts avail- that seemed like they became the West Indies, but he "obviously able in the College could be made into es- -How do you feel about the couldn't have discovered a place that had says . But I still didn't bookstore. He has Rodney King verdict? See been settled for 50,000 years by natives. Nor been a professor at work on them with the was he the first European, either, because Stockton for almost sense of writing a book what Grambart and Busier the Norse were probably there in 795." twenty years, and has until I wrote one called have to say! A2 The largest myth that has been estab- traveled extensively "The Good and the Not lished about Columbus and was disproved around the world. so Good". It was sort of Dunn lives in Port Re- Stephen Dunn advice to poets. And it by Sale was the fact that he sailed to discover -Is the Student Senate repre- if the world was actually flat. This, however, public with wife, and distinguished itself, it is not true, according to Sale. Anyone who has two daughters. seemed to me, from other things I had done. senting you? Students give cared to think about it or cared to watch the E.C.: How many bopks have you written? After that, I started to see the possible shape their side of the story A3 sun dip over the rounded horizon knew that S.D.: This is my ninth book, and my first for a book. Then, quite by accident, I be- SEE SALE ON A6 book of prose. SEE "DUNN ON A5 The Argo April 15,1993 OP/ED The Legacy of Rodney Maybe Rodney King King by James Grambart verdict is right by Michael Busier ast April, a racial time bomb ex- men deployed through the threatened areas ll of us remember watching last more than four days. This length of time ploded in the black ghetto of South- as the jury deliberates. Almost surely the year, with horror, as four members generally indicates that no easy-to-see, clear- LCentral Los Angeles. It was trig- court will notify Chief Williams of the ver- Aof the Los Angeles police force cut decision can be made. With a copy of the gered when a Simi Valley jury found four dict before it becomes public. Should it be brutally administered a beating to a hand- video tape in hand, how can this possibly L.A. policemen not guilty of using exces- "not guilty", Williams and his men will cuffed Rodney King. We were sure that the occur? sive force when they arrested Rodney King. The answer is that the video tape is The fact that the cops had been video- by Greg Barna simply not the whole story. While it is diffi- taped as they continuously beat ana stomped mms cult for any of us to imagine how a brutal beating like we saw can possibly be justi- their prone victim didn't count with the y/Vien SC. A v/wiJt wall< la jury. They were all white; they lived in an Woods c fied, the juries, who are presented all facts y o^ J\r4- Hgjor^L all white suburb, the home of many L.A. spe hour? u/i K chose to see it differently. Maybe they are policemen. Given that background, the vioviji ^oy) right. jury's decision was a certainty. But it was C^oWes. 4nd syericf Interestly, the riots that occurred prob- the costliest verdict in history; the havoc it ably had little to do with the King verdict. unleashed cost 54 lives and close to a billion my That is, the verdict probably just triggered dollars. Even today much of the damage jSjOorâûCC hostility that had been brewing for some hasn't been repaired. time. There is definitely some pent-up anger On the anniversary of that disaster, the t ^ fyfi and resentment that stems from one minor- city, waits fearfully for a second jury to rule ity being better off economically than an- pkce Hien... whether or not the officers had violated other. King's civil rights. For too many years, poor inner city For months, the whole Los Angeles residents have had little opportunity and basin has been on a gun buying frenzy as fink VW bwil+ we have become trapped by the welfare system day , rn e (in general) and the protective role of gov- fearful citizens arm themselves in expecta- caM W 1 e tion of another disaster. Gun shop owners tu Vy CO X D beepersi i ernment. Probably, none of those people want anything "given" to them. All, how- (themselves heavily armed) enjoy a boom- ivrt a \00 cUsdpp**** ing business; some are open 24 hours a day. ever, want the opportunity to earn. The riots Citizens walk into a shop and buy one or were not specifically a result of a particular more weapons, to be picked up after the seemingly unjust act, but were really a result mandatory 15-day waiting period. of years of anger which has built from the Koreans, many of them owners of shops lack of opportunity. looted and burned last year, are prime cus- "The hate must stop somewhere," a tomers, their favorite weapons: large-cali- victim of the riots was recently quoted as ber magnums and 12-gauge riot guns. Many saying. The hate will stop, the potential for swear that, if necessary, they will die de- rioting will disappear and people will live in harmony together when the government fending their property.