U.S.Postage PAID Bronx, N.Y. VOL 59 Permit No. 7608 NO. 10 Non-Prof it Org. MONDAY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK APRIL 11,1977 Election Results Appealed Challenged Spending, Leaked Info Make Run-off a Possibility by Charlie Kelly and Bob Ehalt The USG picture is just as Fazio said that he had told this?"he asked. cloudy now as it was before the members of the election commit- Fazio admitted that in light of election. No one knows who won tee earlier in the week that as long this development, it appears that yet. as disputes were still unsettled, there was "an ax to grind" by the Due to an appeal lodged with they should not release any in- last student government. Fazio Assistant Dean of Students Peter formation to the press on cam- also said that it seems that the Fazio, all executive USG positions paign spending. The members of election committee is "taking overt have been frozen, and the newly- the committee who agreed to this steps against Odyssey" which elected officials cannot take office. position were Eric Duke, Chris should be taken into account. The appeal revolves around two Boylan and Louis DeJoie. The charges brought against the issues —handling of the election by "All the election committee has elections committee on its handling the USG election committee and done by giving this information to of the campaign now seem to be the assessment of the Odyssey The Ram is make themselves look more than random complaints, party's campaign spending. like total asses," Fazio said. Fazio Fazio said. The Odyssey campaign was added that the action was "short- Fazio also said that if the assessed at a value of $482 by the sighted, stupid, and perhaps pur- investigation into alleged abuses is election committee. This exceeds poseful." not conclusive in exonerating the Wicker Reviews Attica Odyssey's allowed budget of $250. Fazio further said that it would elections committee there might be Tom Wicker, associate editor of limes. According to receipts submitted .seem that The Ram was given a run-off. Though he is not sure, The New York Times, will present Avowedly skeptical of advocacy by Odyssey to the election com- spending information from the all parties may be involved in it. a lecture on "Attica Revisited" journalism, Wicker has often mittee, the total bill for the committee in an attempt to insure "I am going to look at the tomorrow in the Campus Center argued his own opinions, disre- campaign was $260.14. This bill is that Fulcrum stay in office. "What charges in a completely different ballroom at 12:30 p.m. garding charges of bias. "Spurious broken down into three separate else am I supposed to think, after objectivity is the press's biggest items. The first bill for $134.96 [continued on page 6] His membership on the Citizens' weakness," he has said. He has covers the first set of Odyssey Mediating Committee at Attica long disagreed with the "press box material. The second bill is for State Prison was recounted in his mentality" that uncritically passes items ordered after the large Fazio to Students: book, A Time to Die, published in on offical press releases as news, Odyssey poster was stolen from 1975. and in recent years he has often the Campus Center. This bill was Be Responsible, Ethical The 50-year-old writer joined renounced the role of impartial for $107.83. The final bill was for The New York Times Washington observer for that of a participant. the large poster which cost $17.35. by Bill Schmitt Bureau in 1960, covering the Wicker is the author of eight The Odyssey party has also "I'm very happy," said Peter White House, the Capitol, and novels and three non-fiction presented other grievances to Fa- Fazio on Thursday, March 31, as national affairs, and becoming books, including Kennedy Without zio, which cite examples of how he reflected on the Fulcrum Party's chief of the paper's Washington Tears and JFK & UiJ: The the ruies and guidelines for the USG victory and on Fulcrum's Bureau in 1964. His column. "In Influence of Personality on Politics. elections were broken. Fa2io said place in his office's operating the Nation," first appeared in His articles have appeared in The that he was investigating all philosophy toward all student or- 1966. Two years later he was New Republic, New Yorker, Play- charges and did not wish to ganizations—don't permit groups named associate editor for The boy, and Harper's Bazaar. comment on what the speci- to be irresponsible; offer occasional fic charqes are. administration input and oversight regarding club actions; and en- courage integrity, justice, and an Fordham Plaza Gets Top Priority atmosphere of realism. Fazio. Rose Hill's Assistant Dean of Students for Student Activities, by Al Galgano government. Yet government red members of the Bronx Chamber of outlined those goals Thursday and A- giant step toward the con- tape still halts ground-breaking on Commerce, voiced a concern over also in a more recent interview. struction of the much-stalled Ford- the already five-year-old project. the further prolongation of the During both meetings, hi? compli- FAZIO ham Plaza was taken March 31 Acquisition of the site, vestige project. Zuccotti was reportedly mented the newly-elected Fulcrum No to Idealism slate as "a group who know what in the office of Deputy Mayor John rights, re-zoning, and air quality "flabbergasted" at the data and Meanwhile, he criticized many they're doing," and on Thursday Zuccotti. tests are among the 15 obstacles promised to move the project of the candidates and party plat- he predicted, "This could be a very At a meeting which included standing in the way of a construc- along as quickly as possible. forms for being too ambitious and important year." prominent businessmen from the tion date, according to Robert Two years ago, Beame an- impractical. He cited one particular Fordham area, members of Bronx Esnard, director of the Bronx office nounced the mall would be "well But. regarding the runner-up USG candidate who "thought he City Planning and University presi- of the City Planning Commission. under way" by the end of 1975 Odyssey Party's recent contesting was running for president of the dent Rev. James Finlay, Zuccotti Esnard predicts that the process of and completed by mid-1977. The of the election results, Fazio said university, not of USG." pledged to give the project top winning environmental clearance fiscal crisis, however, negated his he would act as final arbiter and "On an idealistic level, Tom stressed, "I haven't made up my priority. from the U.S. Department of predictions. Zuccotti's interest in Maier [of Abraxas] might have mind yet." The acquisition of the land, Housing and Urban Development the mall dated to 1973 when as been the best of the candidates," which runs from Fordham Road could be cut from eight months to city planning commissioner he He blamed "the general nature Fazio continued. "But idealism h.eld hearings on the development. of student government elections" — south on Third Ave. to 188 Street two with backing from the Beame isn't what we need around here." The community backed the mall as in which incumbents supervise the one block west and back to administration. What is needed, according to a means of putting the Bronx balloting and students must police Fordham, has been given a $4.7 Finlay, Don Jennings of Ford- the Assistant Dean, is a practical- securely in the city's economic other students—for tending to million boost from the federal ham Ford, business leaders, and minded student government that mainstream. ptovoke charges of unfairness and handles its, basic service functions After acquisition of the land and favoritism. responsibly. "The USG is most Votes In at L.C. approval of the surrounding en- He saw this general tendency, visible in its agencies (such as the by William Bole vironment by HUD, the land will and not any conscious effort to locker and travel agencies and In one of the closest elections ever largest vote getter in the election be given to private realtors to build affect the 77 election, as the most services like the student direc- to take place at Fordham Uni- pulling in more than twice as many a $20 million mall on the site. The likely cause for the problems tory)," Fazio insisted. versity, Ed Stroligo edged out Bob votes as his nearest rival for mall will include a shopping center, Odyssey cited in its appeal. Good performance in these Leeds by two votes (68-66) in the secretary-treasurer. parking garage, and office space, Regarding his complaint about roles is essential before the govern- race-for president of Liberal Arts Stroligo, who is president of the and is expected to add 2,000 jobs the nature of the elections, Fazio ment can effectively spearhead Student Government. Gary Ador- Student Programming Alliance to the Fordham area, as well as commented, "A lot of things could larger projects; "If they can't run nato placed third with 41 votes. and a College Council and Student add millions of dollars to the city be done differently." He criticized the locker agency and get their In the election for academic Government member, said he tax roll. the USG's election committee for directory out on time, no one will vice-president, Susan Grosh won intended to "get things started right Felice Marchetti. director of the making its campaign guidelines too believe they can do other tasks." by a seven vote margin over Liz away." project at Bronx City Planning, vague.