Bits 'n Pieces The Ski Team will have its last pre-season meeting Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. in the Davis Gym upstairs classroom. All past team members planning to ski this year must attend; interested students are QFiat Lux encouraged to attend. The Student Newspaper of Alfred University • December 7,1988 • Issue Number 7 • Volume Number 80 If you have a 3.2 GPA or above, you can apply for the AU Honors program. The course selections include Extremities: A Performer's Fantasy Come True Africa, Superconductivity, Sociology Julee Allen Through Literature and Fiction Into Film. The production notes in the program gave If interested, see Dr. Strong in 212 a little hint as to what the audience would Seidlin. experience last Friday night: "Extremi- ties" is an inspiring play; the kind of ^ All students not returning to AU script actors love. It gives the performer next spring (excluding graduating seniors the power to reach out and grab the and students on a leave of absence or audience by their throats, to scream at study abroad) must officially withdraw them in pain, and to shake them to their prior to leaving campus. Call 2134 to set souls with a question of injustice." up a withdrawal appointment with a The Alfred University Division of Student Affairs staff member. Performing Arts production of Extremi- ties by William Mastrosimone, certainly Last Chance For Killington did shake many audience members. It is There are a few spots left for the Killing- a rape fantasy~a woman's fantasy to get ton ski trip. The trip will occur Jan. 8-12, revenge on her attacker. five nights lodging and five days of skiing Mastrosimone wrote the play after with 1500 other college students for only meeting a rape victim who shared her $255. story with him-she had been beaten and If you are interested, come to the last- raped in her own home. The case was chance meeting Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the brought court, but it was her story against Parents Lounge or call Kim at 3218. his. The rapist was released. She lived in constant fear of being Students In Rendez-Vous Meetings visited again by him; eventually, she There will be a Students in Rendez-Vous moved away. She told Mastrosimone that in Extremities, Marge (Selby Bierman) tells Terry (Rachel Roberts) about Raoul's meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 7 from 4 to if she could have had her attacker under (John Fergosi) attempt to npe her. 5 p.m. in the Mc Namara Room of the her control for five minutes; she wished with different ideas and solutions. questions. I hope we have helped to dash Campus Center and another on Thursday, she could have made him feel what he did This play had a chilling force to it-a the dual myth of rape-that it is done for Dec. 8 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Video to her. Extremities is that woman's wish powerful script and four very capable, sex and that the victim brings it upon Lounge. for five minutes extended to an hour and talented actors who definitely left an im- themself." a half long play. pression on the audience. It can almost Mastrosimone's friend and Marjorie Pioneer Center Managerial Posi- The play begins with the attempted rape be guaranteed that this production will were victims of circumstance-rape can tions Available: Alfred State College of Marjorie, (junior Selby Bierman)by not be too easily forgotten. easily happen to anyone. Marjorie, is looking for Pioneer Center managers Raul (freshman John Fregosi) Director Leo Schlosser wrote "Rape is however, made her assailant come to for next semester. Those interested Maijorie sprays Raul's eyes with Raid, to kidnap and hold a person hostage in terms with what he had done to her. A should contact Deirdre Shaffer at 587- ties him up and puts him in the fireplace. their own body, to pierce the soul with a fantasy come true-a fantasy hopefully no 4354 or at 587-4326. Applications are It's up to her to decide his fate, until her burning poker. I hope our production has one will have to ever wish for. available in the Pioneer Center at the two roommates Terry (Rachel Roberts) caused you to ask yourselves some Alfred State Office of Residential Life or and Patricia (Bridget Parlato) walk in in Orvis Activities Center at Shaffer's office. Ceramics College Expects Budget Cut ~ Senate Elections Committee Those who wish to be members of the Brian Folker money it expected. any estimates on tuition increase or where Elections Committee should contact The College of Ceramics may have a The College of Ceramics is waiting to the cuts will occur." Nessa Connor at 587-9572 or leave a larger tuition increase for the 1989-90 hear how much the budget cut will be for Tuition usually increases every year in message with the student senate. school year than previously estimated, SUNY, and then decide where cuts will both the University and the SUNY due to an increase in the New York State occur. The College already experienced a system, but the SUNY increase will AU Security Now Hiring: 3-4 deficit $42,000 cut in August which reduced the probably be more than the normal security positions are available. These According to The Buffalo News, amount of equipment and supplies for the increase next year. In the last 10 years positions are open to all students, and Budget Director D. Forsythe's Nov. 11 current year. Ceramic increases have been about half auxiliary or regular shifts are available. estimate was $800 million higher than his Susan Strong, Co-Acting Dean of the of the University's. Pick up application forms at the Security August 1 estimate, bringing the total College of Ceramics said, "We should The state budget cut will only affect the Office in the Physical Plant projected deficit to $1.94 billion. Due to hear any day how much the budget will College of Ceramics, and not the private a decrease in personal income tax be cut, but until then we can not make sector of the University. The Math Competency Signup revenues, the state did not receive all the Deadline is Thursday, Dec. 8 at 4 p.m.. Sign-up in Meyers Hall, rm. 334. Taylor Outlines Superconductivity's Potential As the nitrogen vapors cleared, the tors, which generate heat while carrying obstacles. Taylor explained the need to Inside magnet appeared, magically levitating an electric current. get electrons to flow through supercon- above the superconductor. This demon- Taylor explained metal superconductors, ducting materials and how this low Pelt Grants stration concluded Dr. Jennifer Taylor's which have existed since 1911, require current density might be improved by Pg. 3 lecture on the myths and realities of superhuman effort to cool them to their aligning the superconducting crystallites. superconductivity at the Nov. 9 critical temperature around -460F. Taylor believes society has already Bergren Forum. Ceramic superconductors function near benefited from ceramic superconductors. Ann Schultz Taylor, an Alfred University professor -300F making them economically feasible. "Superconductivity research has caused Pg. 4 of ceramics, began her lecture by defining Another application for ceramic super- electrical engineers, ceramic engineers, zero resistivity, the unique property of conductivity Dr. Taylor talked about was and physicists to work together and Senior Dinner superconductivity. Zero resistivity is the high voltage transmission. She told of the communicate ideas to one another," said non-existence of electron collisions as possible placement of an undeiground Taylor. She also spoke of the new Pg.5 they travel through a material at very low superconducting cable carrying electricity enthusiasm children have for science, temperatures. "Theoretically, the from Quebec to New York City. which in the past has been overshadowed Sporte electrons pair up when travelling through "High efficiency electric motors and by the emphasis on athletics. Pg. 6-7 the crystal lattice, eliminating collisions," superconducting magnetic energy storage Taylor sees Alfred University's role as said Taylor. / systems could reduce the need for power an educational institute first, with ceramic Taylor then discussed the implications plants by 10%," stated Taylor. superconductivity research to support Christmas Wishes of zero resistivity. Better computer However, commercializing supercon- industry but not research in the same Pg. 8 performance would result from using ductivity technology faces several league as the big national labs. superconductors instead of metal conduc- Editorial Fiat Lux « December 7,1988 • Page 2 Does school never end? A Paralyzed Senate Can't Represent Students The Student Senate has failed to do its job this semester. It has concerns and bring them to the senate forum, or if they don't at not effectively represented students' concerns, attitudes and least bring some spunk to the meetings, leadership is meaningless. goals to the administration. The senate can, and should be, the voice of the people. In some To understand this failure one need only listen to the stark respects, it has done an excellent job. The finance committee has silence which permeates the Parents' Lounge on Wednesday disbursed the students' money wisely, insisting on a full account nights. Senate executives have spent fourteen weeks getting of expenditures from all groups it supports. The constitution their house in order, revising their constitution and recommend- committee worked tirelessly to make the constitution more ing student budgets while senators sit idly by, approving almost readable. everything and questioning almost nothing. But now that it has its house in order, the senate must tend to the Both Senate President Edsel David and the senators must students.