t I nside Alternatives: Review of Woody Allen, reviews of some Statesman~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ campus and local events and more. Newspaper for the State University of New York WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 5, 1980 at Stony Brook and surrounding communities. VOLUME 24, NUMBER 15 I Albany St ude nt s WinVot ing RightI By Howard Saltz Snook said that, although McCurn's decision is not County that registered to vote since January must have A United States District Court Judge ruled last week binding on courts outside Albany County, it can their registration reviewed by the local Board of that students at SUNY at Albany can vote la the influence future decisions in other areas. SASU is Elections. In this review, however, the Board of communities in which they attend. school, overturning a currently negotiating wifth Attorney General Robert Elections cannot deny voting rights based on one's policy that required students to vote where their parents Abrams, Snook said, who can recommend that the residence being at a college, nor can it include a reside. decision be binding state-wide. "He said he would follow questionnaire that was previously given to all college Judge Neal McCurn's decision that eleven Albany the letter of the law," Snook said of earlier negotiations students registering to vote. This questionnaire, not students were being "unduly disciminated against" with Abrams, "but now the law has been set." given to non-college students, included inquiries as to applies only to Albany County, but can set precedent people's personal affairs, including questions pertaining A suit is now being contemplated by students in throughout the state. The eleven students were the to finances and marital status. Syracuse University, a member of the Syracuse chapter plaintiffs in the case, along with the school's student "They take it and try to find if they can find any of NYPIRG said, and a challenge from the Stony Brook government and the Students Association of the State mitigating circumstances on the questionnaire," said NYPIRG may also occur. Syracuse students have sued University of New York (SASU), a student-advocacy Snook, "No other registered voters were given the over the past few years, but none of those decisions were group, and were aided by the New York Public Interest questionnaire." The decision also states that students Research Group (NYPIRG). in the United States District Court, and were not cannot be asked to produce any information that other precedent setting. This was SASUs first attempt at people do not have to. "It's- an incredible victory," said SASU spokesman gaining voting rights through the courts, Snook sai?, Snook said that the fight is not over, as SASU is still Pam Snook. "Not only were those eleven given the right after 10 unsuccessful years battling the state legislature. seeking a special one-week registration period for to vote, but all students in Albany County." McCurn's decision says that all students in Albany students to register for the November 4 election. SUNY Sents - Dorm ReitH By Lis Ann Goldsmith promotes interests of SUNY front of SUNY Central. Trustees to give at least one self-sufficient was approved Students of 12 SUNY schools students, this -decision, made by Also -included during the month public notice before within several minutes. protested Friday -outside the SUNY Chancellor Clifton protest was a symbolic burning acting on any student fee The proposal was not on the SUNY Central Administration Wharton and the SUNY Boar of the campus housing contract. increase proposal; agenda of topics to be discussed Building in Albany to voice their of Trustees, will result in an According to students present, .- O*A comprehensive plan to that day. Sharon Wald, the opposition to a decision to incre_ of $600 for dorm few the contract was not valid. end tripling in rooms designed to president of SASU at that time, _^*Wa^ jsl ftat oor owt tW n~t- fwy ll v The inaw of $150 for t9 boom tw peple. 'ahispkE -q_ ted that the vote be tabled *caps dormiry homusing, _enl~iVwas activated after the should be ready by December 1. for one month but her proposal making dormitory fees Tent City," an the protesl housing contracts had been #'The replacement of the was denied. - self-sufficient was cad, included students Apled by students, thus students present housing contract with a SASU is now in the proess of According to Bruce Cr o m m, Albany, ad w not aware of the increase lease binding -on both Iseeking legal action against irp1 organizer.of the 9tudent Westbury, Purchae, Plattsburgh, when it was put into action. ministration and students to SUNY Central because they aer Associaion of the State Binghamton, Cortand, Buffalo, According to sources at the be bargained at the beginning of said to have violated the open University (SAS" a statewide Fredon* Brockport,, Oneonta, Albany Student Press, the each rental period by student meeting laws. However, the fact student advocacy --whi ch and Oswego, who set up tents in Albany student newspaper, the negotiators and SUNY Central. that they raised housing fees protest was "a dismal failure." * "A Faculty Student after the students had signed the T ane nha us t;56- -Wharton attended the protest, Association-type governing contracts is legal, because it is answering questions and giving a board composed of students and written in the contract that speech, accoring to Cronin. resident officials be established additional fees may be added -Dies Suddenly When he went inside, students on each campus to administer and may be increased if the stood on platforms and shouted dorm governance procedures Board designates so. at the building because no one including policy-making and The Board's reasoning for :While on Le av e would answer their questions. hiring a presidential staff. making the dorms self-sufficient A statement of six demands W'All university and housing is that if SUNY Central turns Joseph Tuenhaus, former chairman of the Political Science was submitted to the Board agreements between students down money for housing, the Department and a national authority on the judiciary and the from SASU. 'Me demands are: and SUNY concerning fees be governor will grant more money history of American pofitical science, died suddenly of an apparent *A halt to any further plans honored by SUNY for their for academics. - heart attack (1as Tursday) at the University of Iowa in Iowa City to move SUNY dormitories duration." According to Cronin, that has where be ws serving as Ida Beam Dstinguished Visiting Professor toward -.self-sufficiency by According to Cronin, *the been said in the past and it has this semer. He was 56. recommending that the Board of second demand was made not been carried through as in Taenbaus came to Stony Brook in 1969 and headed the Pblitical Trustees proposal passed on May because all meetings held before the tuition increase in -1978, Science Department until 1972. 28 be rescinded. May 28 were held in private. On when Governor Hugh Carey cut He wrote two widely-used books on the history of American OPPubtic committment by lay 28, Wharton's p al that the budget $27 million after plitia wience, Amernan PitiSal nScce: A Profite of a SUNY Central and the Board of the dorms -be made increasing dorm fees. Dteipfee (1964) and he Debe nt of Am n Plitical - Sciene (1967). F a :Tmenhaas also co-authored three other textbooks F, nes o Judicial Resxrch (1969), The Study of Public Law (1972), and Comp0 tiye Constitutnal Law: Cses and Commentaries (1977), uhscontributed to four other books, aDd has pubibhed moe that 25 Uaticles on the soa sciences and affairs. - Frk Myer^ povtoet for Social an lk aVioral Scienen and a o1000ime cuklty colleaue of Taneh { t _s ot exelenXe for his students nd colleaes in every de -His n ind, forceful exso and unyie ding BMW of *fiimr and -&--ocy nude an idthhhe irpson ORan wbo work" wi him, Wen ad "His canoft'tuonal law toure wu ooe of te best aywhere. one cannot imagine how he wfl be "The t ment suffered a trerado s personal km in every way," id Sandy Gatten, tan the chairan of the Politlca Sciences Depaqtment. Tanenhus Ws eted vim pment of th Ameriean tip .Staten/Nancy J. Hyman PUBLIC SAFETY and the Stony Brook Voluntim Ambulance Corps Science Ao ni 1971. In 1976, be received the SUNY respond to a caN of a car (Continued on poe 7) acident at South Entrance and Wdols Road. Nobel Prizes Awarded STUCK WITHOUT | I'--- -- -A regarded as the "father ofI reinforce the disputed big-bang Stockholm, Sweden (AP) - genetic engineering," and Walter theory of the origin of the : WHEELS? ¢ The 1980 Nobel prizes in Gilbert of Harvard University. universe. and chemistry were j COACH LIQUORS is just o physics The three researchers were Seven of the nine 1980 Nobel awarded yesterday to four honored for their discoveries in prizes so far have gone to ¢ Americans and a Briton for | la short walk " the chemical structure of genetic Americans, discoveries that may shed light material, the master blueprints The medicine prize was shared p ' 'from the campus., on the universe of the dim past for life, findings that could help by Baruj Benacerref of Harvard. and could open the door to develop cures for inherited George Snell of the Jackson ' WATCH FOR OUR WEEKLY SPECIALS ^ medical cure of tomorrow. diseases. Laboratory in Bar Harbor, The choices continued recent Berg will receive half the Maine, and Jean Dausset of - American dominance of the $212,000 prize, and Gilbert and France. The literature prize went I r Black Tower Nobel science prizes.