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2 page e tony Book P s - The Fouth Estate: Editoial The Ronny Hoo Pictue Show The ecent Congessional decision to go ahead with the poduction of chemical weapons in the United States afte a 12 yea ban comes as no eal supise but the appopiation of $20 million to neve agent poduction becomes alaming since it maks the beginning of a fightening chemical ams ace, second only to the polifeation of nuclea weapons. The undelying themes of both uclea and chemical weaponay ae undeniably simila. They both involve the pemise of deteance, the poblem of veification duing eduction o teaty effots, and the pobability of being used. The employment of chemical weapons has not openly taken place since WW when thousands of toops and civilians wee killed by mustad gas. Since thedeployment ban of chemical weapony by Geneva Potocol in 1925, eseach has since developed gases which inflict fa geate damage than eve befoe. Discoveed in 1938, neve gas was found to attack the cental nevous system by seveing neve and muscle impulses. ntoduction of the gas esults in espiatoy failue and asphxyation, and death can esult in less than thee minutes. The newest of these gases is called binay munitions because they utilize two chemical elements contained in sepaate compatments within a shell. Upon impact, the shell explodes eleasing the gas. Govenment officials have stated that this fom of munition will be much moe acceptable to the public since it is elatively safe to tanspot and stoe. Whethe o not they have consulted the public is anothe stoy. Ou govenment's own ban on the poduction, but not eseach, of chemical weapons esulted afte an incident in Utah whee 6,000 sheep died fom a chemical testing mishap in Public opposition became so ovewhelming, Pesident Nixon withdew the pogam's funding. With chemical wafae off the battle and testing gounds and into the laboatoies, the public began to egad the tactic as a nightmae which would neve again occu. But with Ronald Reagan's election the nightmae may one day appea on you Tee Vee sceen. A 4"'i b -L ~ _ ~ -- _ That's ight. The Ronnie Hoo Pictue Show in you own living oom. You could dess the pat of you favoite playe. Become Secetay of State Alexande Haig who sinceely believes a limited nuclea wa can be fought, and won. O spot a $2,500 gown and eget that so many people ae staving in this county like Nancy. You could even dess-up like New Yok's own Alphonse and aise you expense account to an unlimited amount and cut educational and social pogams at the same time. Thee ae so many playes to choose fom. But if you don't act soon, the offe will become null and void when Uncle Sam desses you up in his own costume and send you off to Poland because emembe, student defeals ended with the Vietnam Wa. The opposition which was entiely effective in 1968 is once again needed. The penalty fo using chemical and nuclea weapons in a full scale effot will exact an enomous pice upon life as we know it. The many studies conducted and sceneios povided by social, political, scientific, and ecological expets all agee that not only will moe than half of the United States population peish in the event of a nuclea wa, but the afte-effects of adiation poisoning and damage to the envionment would mean cetain uncetainity fo those who suvive. And, although neve agent wafae has not been "battlefield tested," as has Nagasaki and Hioshima in the nuclea field, the esult fom chemical confontation becomes equally as fightening. Yet, moe money is poued into counte-poductive pogams at the expense of essential social pogams. Since Reagan took office, the Depatment of Education, CETA, day cae centes, food stamps, aid to public schools, VSTA, the Peace Cops, the National Endowment fo the Humanities, welfae, and the National Scientific Foundation, to name a few, all have eithe been eliminated o seveely affected by extensive budget cuts. Funding fo these pogams if now eamaked fo Defense who now possess a budget which epesents nealy 51% of ou total spending. Although the Reagan Administation's plan is discenable, the public's is not. Citizens must voice opposition to the pdlifeation of both nuclea and ch emical weapons and yok towads eventual disamament. Unless compehension of an oganization against the militay mentality which bings us close towads tavesty each day is initiatied, some of us may be foced to suvive what othes will be fotunate enough to escape. The Stony Book Pess The Pess has finally eached the conclusion of its pinting schedule and it's time now fo ou staff to cam 13 weeks of study into thei minds between now and finals. So if you don't see any Pess staffes showing thei lovely faces on campus in the weeks to come, it's moe than likely they'e off in the libayu feaking out. The Pess would like to wish one and all a Happy Chanukah, a Mey Chistmas, a jubilant New Yea and a fuitful, snowy ntesession. We will etun with ou fist issue of the new semeste on Febuay 4. n the meantime, tighten up fo those finals! Executive Edito... Scott Higham Assistant Editos... Debbie Silve Ned Goldeye News Diecto... Paul DiLoenzo Senio Photo Edito... Eic A. Wessman Photo Edito... Lois Mingolone Assistant Photo Edito... Linda Calcano Ats Edito... Jeff Zoldan Assistant Ats Edito... L ay Feibel Business Manage... Sue Dape Edito Emeitus... 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3 Pocedual Poblems Medical suspension pocess aises questions by Deba Silve " am concened that you behavio may be pesenting a dange to youself o othes on campus and, theefoe, a medical suspension may be in ode." On Octobe 26, 1981, a Stony Book student eceived this news in a lette fom the Office of the Vice Pesident fo Student Affais. On Octobe 30, 1981, Ms. Steele, a pseudonym used to potect he identity, eceived a lette fom the Office of the Pesident stating, "n the judgement of D. Peston and the medical evaluatos, you continued pesence on campus would constitute a seious theat to the health and safety of youself and othes and might well cause a seious disuption to the nomal conduct of Univesity functions." The lette also infomed he that she was medically suspended effective on Novembe 4, What action of Ms. Steele waanted he being suspended fom the Univesity? Theatening he neighbos with physical ham? Chasing afte students with a gun? Kimbeely Steele simply sought help fom the Univesity. She spoke to he Residence Hall Diecto (RHD) about he suicidal tendencies, and even committed heself to the Univesity Hospital fo obsevation. Discepancies, inconsistencies and lack of compassion chaacteize the medical suspension pocess. Fom the fist notification the student eceives, though the evaluation and final decision, the pocedue has flaws. Camille Giannattasio, Polity's pemanently etained lawye, stated: "He basic ights of due pocess of law wee violated." But impovements may be in the offing. Accoding to Noman Behannen, Univesity Judiciay Office, the Student Conduct Code, including the medical suspension pocess "has been aound since at least Medical suspension pocedues should be eviewed each yea as is the entie Student Conduct Code." Subsequent to an investigation by the Pess, D. Peston and othes have made aangements fo discussing impovements in the pocedue. Both the lette fom the Pesident's office notifying the student of his suspension and the one fom the Vice Pesident fo Student Affais' (VPSA) office ae fom lettes that wee witten in the VPSA office. Accoding to Geald Hatman, MD, Diecto of the Univesity Health Sevice, the lette "is 95% simila fo all students." Though he was eluctant to admit that they wee in fact fom lettes, Assistant Dean of Students Sam Taube admitted that "it's moe o less the same woding evey time." Neithe lette conveys any degee of sympathy. Joan Gieff, Diecto of the Bidge to Somewhee, "was appalled by the lettes. They wee theatening and insensitive. t seems to me that some kind of one-to-one communication could tansmit the same infomation. The lette could ead. fo example, "We hope that you'e feeling bette..." Home Neal, The Univesity Povost, "did sense that the lette wasn't as consoling as would have expected...t was my expectation that whoeve deliveed the lette would expess condolensces [fom the Univesity]. Those lettes didn't eflect the concen that the Administation has fo the student." D. Neal, in signing the lette, acted in place of the Pesident, who was out of the county at the time. Fed Peston, VPSA, "ageed that this lette unfotunately did slip by. This lette had been a fom used...befoe aived hee." He also ageed that a phone call is a viable altenative. D. Neal "cetainly expected human intevention so that the student would feel that the...univesity would welcome he back." M. Taube commented that the lette uses such hash, authoitaian woding because, "it is not meant to be open to intepetation and the people to whom this lette is diected at ae potentially physically theatening to othes." The fist lette Ms. Steele eceived (fom the VPSA office) spoke of concen that he, "behavio may be pesenting a dange to youself o othes on campus," and that she should, "be in touch with the Diecto of the Univesity Health Sevice, D. Geald Hatman, who will aange fo you to meet...fo a pofessional eview and evaluation of you situation." Ms. Steele called to set up a meeting as soon as she eceived the lette but in spite of he "dange to heself,: "she was not given an appointment until five days late. D. Hatman states, "We aely allow moe than five o six days between the time the student calls and the heaing. My feeling is that if the student is not executively suspended, then thee must be a leeway of thee to five days. We assume that the peson is not suicidal o a theat to othes until it's shown othewise." All people involved with medical suspensions agee that the lettes must be changed. D. Neal suggests, "the poblem is that the lette is not flexible enough. The Univesity should have lettes that ae gaduated, each of a diffeent seveity." The Bidge to Somewhee is dafting a poposal fo a lette and will pesent to D. Peston, accodingto Gieff. The teminology used in the pocess is often not clealy defined. The teminology used in the Student Conduct Code (SCC), is not necessaily the same that is used in the lettes. The actual pocedue may not adhee stictly to what's witten in the SCC and students' ights may be infinged upon. Thee ae no witten guidelines about the panel that evaluates the student. The fist paagaph about medical suspensions in the SCC states, "the Pesident may impose medical suspension based on a pofessional evaluation of student's physical o mental health," and the lette fom the VPSA office speaks of a "pofessional eview and evaluation." The emainde of the SCC and the lette fom the Pesident's office speak of a "medical evaluation." The actual evaluation fo a student with a mental health poblem consists of the student in a oom with thee evaluatos who inteview he fo minutes. One of the evaluatos is D. Hatman, one is Ed Podolnick, PhD in clinical psychology and diecto of the Univesity Counseling Cente (the Univesity Counseling Cente itself is in no manne involved with the medical suspension pocess) and the thid evaluato is someone fom the UCC who is a social woke with expeience in mental health poblems. f D. Hatman is on vacation, then D. Podolnick would call the panel togethe, and in D. Hatman's place, anothe social woke with mental health expeience would sit on the panel. Accoding to Sam Taube, "each evaluato makes an individual assessment" The panel's ecommenda- _ tions ae sent to the VPSA office and Taube goes ove the epot and discusses it with D. Peston and the Pesident's office. Camille Giannattasio, Polity lawye, said he "questions whethe the psychologist and social woke ae pacticing medicine without a license and whethe o not it's a cime unde New Yok law." D. Podolnick stated, "we'e not pacticing medicine without a license. The panel does not convene to teat o diagnose a patient. (Kimbeely heself epoted, "At the heaing they said nothing about helping me.") All the panel does is make an evaluation as to whethe someone poses a theat to themselves o othes." Podolnick also stated that, "the tem 'medical' is used boadly in the SCC." Taube says, "medical suspension pocedue is a pofessional assessment by people who ae tained to do it, people licensed by New Yok State."' D. Hatman stated that, "a potentially suicidal peson would be medically suspended if unde the same stesses the peson would feel suicidal again." Neal concued, " would think in cases whee thee is a docto on the panel it could be agued that the evaluation is medical." f Hatman is on vacation, howeve. Podolnick would have a panel with no medical doctos on it. Responding indiectly to this, Peston says that even in this case, "the people thee should be competent enough to evaluate whethe a peson's poblem is due to mental stess o a physical poblem like a chemical imbalance." The student is not advised, in the lette asking them to make an appointment fo a heaing, that they have the ight, as stated in the SCC, to pesent independent "medical documentation." Ms. Steele was not told of this ight even when she called to make he appointment. D. Hatman said that she was ead he ights at the heaing and has an oppotunity to eschedule the heaing. She was not told that "documented medical evidence" could mean he RHD o he family, as Hatman said he would advise Sam Taube. Hatman stated, "f we look at any ecods the student bings, they'll be biased [pesumably the student would only bing "good" epots]. 95% of he judgement is based on how a student acts at the heaing. We don't get fooled. We've neve made a mistake in ou ecommendatins. We look to see if the student has insight into his o he poblem; thei ability to compehend what's happening and the esponse a peson gives to cetain questions. This is the way the committee chooses to function.' D. Fedic Levine, Diecto of the Psychological eseach Cente, states. "thee's a good deal of evidence that esults of inteviews to detemine potential suicides may be invalid. [Suspending a peson fom school itself] could exacebate tension and feelings of inadequacy." Accoding to D. John Lee, full-time faculty membe in the Depatment of Psychiaty at the Medical school, the integation of infomation fom a vaiety of souces is what makes a judgement valid." Accoding to Giannattasio. due pocess of law may have been violated in this case and in othe medical suspension cases. " doubt vey much whethe the suspension would stand up in a cout of law," he said. Giannattasio believes that the heaing was a competency heaing that wasn't legal because Kimbely was neve advised of he New Yok State and Constitutional ights, she has no "oppotunity to coss-examine he accuses." Both of these ae standad pocedues in New Yok State Supeme Cout competency heaings. Babaa Benstein, Executive Diecto of the Nassau chapte of the New Yok Civil Libeties Union, asseted that "since a peson can have a lawye at a Student heaing Boad Heaing, thee is no eason why they can't have them at a medical suspension heaing." (continued on page 7) _ ~_i_ Decembe 3, 198]1 page i3

4 PUBLC NTEREST RADO TOXCS pesents N THE ENVRONMEN1 Guest: Walte Hang, NYPRG staff scientist Host: Bian Hasbouck Time: Monday, 6:00 PM on WUSB 90.1 FM Hea the autho of Toxics on Tap, the epot on contaminated Long sland dinking wate, discuss othe envionmental hazads. LZ~ F~CZ~;L -~C+L" ~ ;";";R" ;Z:~~- ~-a a _~.~a l 11 3 C ll sz le i : 11111; pi5lhplic 1~lk;1 EROS EROS is a voluntee, pee counseling oganization seving the campus community with infomation on contaception, veneeal disease, pegnancy, abotion efeal and health cae. EROS's goal is to help people make decisions egading thei sexuality. EROS is located in the nfimay Rm. 119 and is open on weekdays fom 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The phone numbe is 246-LOVE. -- -' -- L1--- s -, _ =--, L-l 4-L, "- -- LASO is sponsoing a ROLLER SKATNG PARTY at Studio 25. A bus will leave fom the Union at 9:30 PM on Dec. 3d. Ou own DJ will play salsa, disco & w-q a 11 Wl m 'a 0. 1 h'v lu C% A% a -1- 'a '-11 n M -t a..0 f&-'... eggae. [he only money you1ll need is $ 1.U fo skate ental. Call Luis at b-7890 fo moe info. P.S.C. will meet evey Wednesday at 8 PM in the Polity office suite. A list of clubs to be seen will be posted in the Polity office evey Monday. PSC funding fo a club will not be consideed unless that club has filled out a equest fo PSC funding i STONY BROOK DRAMA page 4 pesents RENEWED HORZONS is a club fo etuning students, and is holding its next meeting on Tuesday, Novembe 10th at 4:00 PM. Come to ou new lounge, oom 211S, SBS. PLEASE JON US THERE! P.S. Meeting on Nov. 25 is cancelled. L- The Stony Book Pess THE SHADOW BOX By Michael Chistophe pefomances: Wed., Dec. 2nd, & Sat., Dec. 5th at 8:00 PM in Fine Ats Cente Theate numbe thee. Dcm gwmwpw.a% MN MR.J46 ý M ý = N,-M-a% 3225 "1!7! QQ 9 Sam GA Y STUDENT UNON SUNY (it Stom!/ Book Un ion oo, (045B Meetings: Thusdays at 8 PM COME OUT! -ip Fuel buyes Goup Join the Fuel Buyes Goup and save on hnptin.net.e ;ts ~yuvv* Fo moe infomation, call NYPRG office at 24(i-i70U o stol) y! Ask to Mike o Michelle.

5 by Paul DiLoenzo t's 2:35 PM on a Thusday aftenoon. Thee's going to be a big paty tonight but 'm cash poo. wait aound fo a bus but thee isn't one in sight so decide to leg it. dat out the back doo of the Union, spint acoss the athletic fields in a mad ush to catch the bank befoe it closes. By the time each noth p-lot my lungs ae gasping fo ai. As open the doo my heat is beating at mach speed, but my physical poblems ae supassed by the teible sight of the line to the telles snaking its way almost to the font doo. As stand thee obseving the situation, thee students ush past me and get in line ahead of me. get in line and make out my withdawal slip while wait. look up to the font of the line to see that six telles ae woking at an intentionally slow pace, and anothe thee o fou ae molling aound behind the counte, totally indiffeent to the masses waiting to be seved. think to myself, "Thee must be a bette way." n seach of a bette way The Pess has conducted a suvey and has ated 7 local banks. Each bank was consideed fo its location, types of accounts applicable to students, check cashing policies, attitude towads student customes, and hous. The bank's sevices ae ated on a one to five scale with one being the lowest, and then given an oveall scoe. Suffolk County Fedeal is located ight acoss the aiload tacks fom the Univesity and 25A and gets a five ight away fo its location. t yields 5%/% inteest on its savings (ates 3) and has no fee checking (ates 1). To cash a check at Suffolk County Fedeal one must have an account with them with enough funds to cove it a standad bank policy, it ates a 3). Banking hous ae: Mon.- Thus. 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, with dive in fom 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Fiday hous ae 9:00 to 3:00 and 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, with the dive thu open staight though. Satuday hous ae 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. (Aveage hous ates a 3). The attitude towads students at this bank is not hostile but it is not ovely hospitable eithe. Because this bank gets so much student business it should be moe appeciative and consideate of students (ates 2). Suffolk County Fedeal eceives a total ating of 17. Maine Midland Bank, located in the Cookies Shopping cente, is only about2 miles fom campus. But because thee is nothing of eal impotance in the shopping cente, it may be inconvenient fo those of you who depend on othes fo tanspotation (ates 3). You money yields 5%% inteest (ates 3) and checking is fee if you maintain a $150 balance in you checking account (ates 2). To cash a check at Maine Midland you must have an account with them with enough funds in it to cove it (ates 3). Banking hous ae: Mon-Thus 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the lobby and 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM in the dive thu. Fiday hous ae 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the lobby and 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, with the dive-thu window open staight though. Thee ae, howeve, no hous on Satuday (ates 2). Maine Midland also doe: not have any special policies fo student customes, but since students only epesent one bloc of its customes, this is an acceptable policy (ates 3). Total fo Maine Midland is 14. Citibank is located in the Pathmak shopping cente nea the Smithaven L s MMB Thee Has to be a Bette Way A Suvey of Stony Book's aea banks Mall. Since many students puchase food at Pathmak, Citibank is convenient fo those who have a ca and fo those who have fiends with cas (ates 4). Citibank yields 5 4 % on its savings, which is a little cheap (ates 2) and checking is only fee if you keep a balance of $3,000, which is eally useless (ates 1). Hee, you also must have an account with enought to cove the check in ode to cash one (ates 3). Citibank has those moneymatic machines which can be used 24 hous a day, as well as egula telle hous. They ae: Mon- Thus 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Fiday 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, and Satuday 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM (ates 5). But, Citibank is a little on the unpesonable side since thei attitude is, 'we have the geat money-matic machines so nothing else mattes.' t is obvious that a bank with a $3,000 minimum fo fee checking is not tying to attact the student cowd (maybe because we bounce so many, don't know). (Rates 2). Citibank's total ating is 17. Union Savings Bank is also located in the PathmakL hniina ent (ate A qjv OLV.jYJ p- x* ki au-b '*). A.n Hee you money yields 5%% inteest on savings (ates 3), and if one keeps a balance of $300 in thei savings, checking is fee (ates a 2). This, like all the othes, equies that a peson has an account with sufficient funds to cove a pesonal check (ates 3). Hous at Union Savings ae: Mon-Thus 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Fiday hous ae 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, with dive-thu open staight though. Satuday hous ae fom 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (ates 3). Union Savings had the best attitude towads student customes; all the employees wee helpful and fiendly. This bank also has a policy of calling its customes the moning they eceive notification of a bounced check and asking them if they would like the bank tocove the check fo 24 hous. Anothe decent policy is that if you balance dops below the equied $300 fo fee checking, Union Savings gives you one month to bing it up befoe chaging fo checking. The attitude of the employees coupled with these two policies make this the most consideate bank suveyed (ates 5). Seamen's Bank fo Savings is located in the Smithhaven Mall (ates 3). This bank offes the standad 5Y 1 % inteest on savings (ates 3), and equies $300 minimum in you savings fo fee checking (ates 2). All othe banks suveyed would cash SUNY checks even if you don't have an account with them. Seaman's will not cash any non-depositos checks and you must have enough to cove it in you account (ates 1). The hous at this bank ae: Mon-Fi 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM, and Satuday fom 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (ates 5). Seamen's Bank fo Savings had the wost attitude towads its customes of the banks su- The Pape Chase by Heny Ellis Dug paaphenalia, the fills of dug use and abuse, ae soon to have the same fate as dugs themselves. Head shops and the displaying and selling of paaphenalia may soon become illegal. Thee is a bill in Suffolk County Executive Pete Cohalan's office which is waiting to be eithe signed, vetoed o ignoed. New Yok state had passed one ove a yea and a half ago, but estaining ode has been obtained by the paaphenalia mechants of slip, it is illegal as of Dec. 1. Westcheste County has a ban which was upheld in the Cicuit Cout of Appeals and is waiting its tun in the Supeme Cout. But the futue of the 'head' mechant will be a lot moe cleae on Decembe 9th when the U.S. Supeme Cout will ende its decision on an llinois paaphenalia bill. Paul Sabatino of the Suffolk County Attoney's office stated that the "llinois" decision will petty much set the tone fo the est of the lowe level cout decisions. He said that "Depending on the outcome of the Supeme Cout deciupheld in the Cicuit Cout, and the emodling has aleady stated. The slip paaphenalia ban is modeled afte Westcheste's law and the attoney's office thee sees no poblem with its constitutionality being upheld. The Suffolk County Bill diffes slightly in that it doesn't list the items to be banned individually. But, again, depending upon the llinois and/o the Westcheste decisions, the lowe cout decisions may lose all thei impotance. sion, the legislatues will simply emodel thei bills afte the llinois bill. The mechants will know whee they stand-whethe o not it's useless to keep fighting." The bill fom Westcheste County, also scheduled to go befoe the Supeme Cout, has a good chance of being upheld should the llinois mechants win the Supeme Cout. The llinois bill was uled invalid in its Cicuit Cout decision, which is the fist level down fom the Supeme Cout. The Westcheste County bill was veyed. f you savings balance dops below $300 you immediately lose you fee checking. As fa as thei attitude towads students goes, it is one of total indiffeence (ates 1). Seamen's total is 15. Walt Whitman Fedeal Savings is located on 25A acoss fom the Feai dealeship; a little out of the way (ates 3). This bank gives the usual 5%% inteest on you savings (ates 3) and has no fee checking (ates 1). Hee, as well, to cash a check one must have an account with enough money to cove it (ates 3). The banking hous ae: Mon-Thus 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Fiday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Satuday 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM (ates 3). The attitude of this bank is fiendly and because it is not vey busy, it is moe pesonal than some of the othes suveyed (ates 3). The total ating fo Walt Whitman Fedeal Savings is 15. Sag Habo Savings Bank is located on 25A nea Aby's (used to be Gag in the Bag), which is about 2%, miles fom campus (ates 3). This bank also yields 5½% inteest on savings (ates 3), but has fee checking if the deposito maintains 10 dollas in his/he savings account (ates 5). n ode to cash a check hee one must be a deposito with sufficient fund to cove it (ates 3). Banking hous ae: Mon-Thus 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. with dive-thu fom 9:00 AM to 5:0t PM. Fiday hous ae 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Satuday hous ae 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (ates 4). This bank is not vey big, but the sevice is fast, efficient and pesonable. The ten dolla equiement fo fee checking makes it vey appopiate fo students (ates 5). The total ating fo this bank is 22. Though suveys cannot be accoded too much validity, they ae useful indicatos. Thoughout the bank suvey most consideations emained constant, but fee checking, locale and fiendly people become the deciding factos in ating a bank. Hope this suvey helps ya. _ L L L L L L -Y L -L L- May Shienwood, Commissione of the slip Depatment of Human Resouces said that the ban of dug paaphenalia was a "pactical esponse to a seious poblem. The sale and display of paaphenalia tends to legitimize the use of dugs. theeby sending the wong message-that dug use is acceptable behavio." The so-called "head mechants" stand to lose a lot of money. Diffeent Stokes, located in the Smithhaven Mall was one of the fist paaphenalia supplies on Long sland. Owne John Dougal was Pesident of the Long sland Tades Association, which obtained the estaining ode against New Yok State. He efused to comment on the business o if he plans to continue fighting egadless of the decision. John Dougal is not a happy man. But a Stony Book student who equested anonymity stated that the enfocement of the ban wouldn't affect his pataking of the heb all that much. " can always oll joints," he said L-- _ 1 -s d L L _ L L _ L_ ---, L ll Decembe page 5

6 by Fank Giovinazzi On June 17, 1981 the Family Potection Act was intoduced in the Senate by Roge Jepsen (R-owa) and in the House of Repesentatives by Congessmen Albet Lee Smith (R-Alabama). Accoding to the bill, "...the puposes of this Act (is) the stengthening of the Ameican family and the elimination of govenmental policies which diminish its stength and pospeity." The bill is a athe compehensive piece of legislation, endeavoing to change many aspects of ou lives. The following ae excepts fom the Congessional poposal: GAY RGHTS "Pohibits the expenditue of Fedeal funds to any oganization which pesents male o female homosexuality as an acceptable life style. Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to povide that any action taken by an employe against a homosexual shall not be consideed an unlawful employment pactice. Pohibits any instumentality of the Fedeal Govenment fom seeking to enfoce nondiscimination of homosexuals." LEGAL RGHTS "Amends the Legal Sevices Copoation Act to pohibit legal assistance fo any poceeding o litigation: (1) to compel an abotion o State o Fedeal funding fo an abotion; (2) to obtain a divoce; o (3) to adjudicate the issue of homosexual ights." CHLD ABUSE "Pohibits Fedeal peemption of State laws elating to child o spousal abuse o juvenile delinquency. Pohibits the expenditue of Fedeal funds fo child abuse pogams in any state unless the legislatue of such state has specifically authoized such pogams." "Defines child abuse and neglect as physical o mental injuy, sexual abuse o exploitation, negligent teatment, o malteatment. Excludes fom such definition discipline o copoal punishment applied by a paent o an individual authoized to act in the place of such a paent." WOMEN'S RGHTS "Requies the notification of paents o guadians befoe a fedeally funded pogam, poject o entity may povide contaceptive o abotion sevices (including counselling) to an unmaied mino." SEPARATON OF CHURCH AND STATE "Voluntay Paye and Religious Meditation Act of 1981-States that individuals shall have the ight to paticipate in voluntay paye o eligious meditation in any public building o othe building suppoted by Fedeal funds. Pohibits Fedeal, State, o political subdivisions fom abiding the fee execise of such paye o meditation." EDUCATON "Pohibits payment of Fedeal funds to educational institutions which (1) pohibit the involvement of paents and continuation of eligious studies; (2) limit paental visits to public schools o classes o the ight of paents to inspect thei childen's school ecods; (3) equie the payment of dues o fees as a condition of employment fo teaches; o (4) pohibit paental eview of textbooks pio to thei use in the classoom...no Fedeal funds may be made available fo textbooks which do not eflect a balance between the status ole of men and women and do not contibute to the Ameican way of life." TAXATON 1) A $250 tax cedit o a $1000 exemption if a dependent ove 65 lives in household. 2) A deduction of up to $2500 a yea fo the establishment of an education savings account. 3) A $1000 tax exemption fo each child bon to a maied taxpaye. 4) A deduction of up to $3500 fo adoption expenses. 5) A deduction fo copoations fo contibutions to joint employee-employe day cae centes. The eactions to this bill have anged fom shock to ejoicing. The National Gay Task Foce has been ciculating petitions in an effot to defeat the act befoe it can advance in the Congess. They also send out 4 page summaies to people who equest them. These summaies outline the majo points of the bill and thei possible amifications. Fo example, accoding to thei pamphlet, the Congessional Reseach Sevice of the Libay of Congess stated that accoding to one Act Theatens Civil Libeties paticula povision of the bill "No peson who is P homosexual o who even intimated that homosexuality might be an 'acceptable' life style could eceive any Fedeal funds unde such pogams as Social Secuity, welfae, vetean's pogams o student assistance." John Boing, a epesentative of the goup fom thei Manhattan office summaized the bill's status as having just been intoduced to the vaious committees and sub-committees, whee no heaings o votes h ave yet taken place. When asked about the possibility of the bill's passage, Boing said, "Thee's been no noise fom the White House...eithe Reagan will sponso it o leave it up to the 'New Right' Congessmen to push it though-hopefully it will be the latte, because without Reagan's suppot we don't feel it will be able to pass." Accoding to The Congessional Quately seveal goups such as the National Po-Family Coalition and The Moal Majoity have labeled the passage of this bill a high pioity and they have fequently healded it in thei publications and mailings. Anothe goup paticulaly active in the anti-gay movement is a goup known as the Young movement is a goup known as the Young Ameicans fo Feedom. This goup has ecently been ciculating 8-page emotional pleas to sign anti-gay ight petitions. Two goups on campus which have been tying to educate students in what this bill is all about ae the Gay Student Union (G.S.U.) and the newly fomed Women and Men fo Equality. David Shea, Mayanne Robeto, and Paul Halaj, all of the G.S.U. all expessed thei feas that bills like d by Fank Giovinazzi Sex discimination. The aveage peson usually thinks of sex discimination as being solely a women's issue-exclusive of men. Thee is, howeve, a fledgling goup on campus designed specifically to include women and men in the discussion of, and quest fo, equality. Women and Men fo Equality was founded last month by Stony Book undegaduates Mike Ceevella and Lynda Goski. Accoding to the goup's constitution, "Women and Men fo Equality is an oganization of people dedicated to equality of the sexes. We've come togethe out of mutual fustation of continuously being affected...by sexual discimination. We ae an oganization designed to povide students at Stony Book with a place to expess and take action on equality issues..." Also accoding to the Constitution, the goals of the goup ae to suppot legislation mandating equality of the sexes (E.R.A.), to fight legislation which would stongly stuctue sex oles and bing less equality to the sexes, to povide a foum wheein women and men can openly discuss petinent issues, to fight sexism in all foms, to wok on issues in which men feel they ae disciminated against and to suppot funding fo day cae centes. Accoding to Goski, "We (the goup) don't want to call it ou official constitution until it's gone ove the whole goup-...it's open to evision," she stated. Co-founde Ceevella explained that, 'The pefect balance is one between political action and social action (with) a meeting place to ai views and opinions." When the idea of the goup fist geminated it was suggested that it be a pat of the Women's Cente. Goski, heself a membe of the Cente, pesented the idea at a Cente meeting. "They said it wouldn't be a good idea fo it to be a pat of the Women's Cente. But that it (Women and Men fo Equality) was a this will eventually tun into Gay "witchhunts, eminiscent of Nazi Gemany and the McCathy ea," as Halaj said. One of thei fist pioities is to become fully ecognized on all the S.U.N.Y. campuses. Towad this end they ae embaking on a massive phone-in to the Chancello's office and pivate numbe in ode to demonstate that they ae both significant and a foce to be eckoned with. The main enegies of the Women and Mento Equality's at this time ae diected at tabling the National Gay Task Foce petition and tying to educate people as to what it means. Judy Wishnia, associate pofesso of Women's Studies, offeed a vey gloomy view of the situation. "t (the bill) is so outageous people feel it can neve pass. t's not a joke-the big pessue goups that don't epesent the majoity have so much money that they have the ability to influence legislation. Unless a conceted anti-bill effot is implemented-it might just pass." Concening women's studies, she said simply that they would not exist. As fo New Yok State Senatos Patick D. Moynihan and Alphonse D'Amato, only Senato Moynihan's aides wee able to povide any viable infomation. Upon equest they mailed tanscipts of the bill along with additional infomation to the Pess. The aide inteviewed, Ms. Guevich, was extemely helpful in poviding insight into what the bill is about and whee Senato Moynihan stands (he is most definitely against it). When speaking to Senato D'Amato's office, no one knew the bill existed (it was intoduced almost 6 months ago) and when an inquiy was made as to why nothing was known about the bill, the eply was, "Well, we've been woking on the budget all week." tl ~L, - 'L ~, _ - L, l,, ~- People's Equality geat idea, and they'd help in any way they could," she said. Ceevella concued with what the membes of the Cente had to say-" basically feel the Women's Cente is needed on campus. Women need a place to discuss thei feelings with women, without men." Goski said the goup has also eceived suppot fom the Women's Studies Depatment, the Fedeated Leaning Communities, and "eveyone we told." Tuesday, Dec. 2 at 9:00 PM, the goup met in oom 236 of the Stony Book Union. The majo topic of discussion at the meeting was pepaing an effective opposition to the Family Potection Act which was followed by an unstuctued, infomal ap session about sex-ole socialization and pesonal expeiences. The Family Potection Act is a bill cuently in Congess which, unde the guise of stengthening the aveage Ameican family, the act is designed to stip homosexuals, students, and women of cetain basic civil libeties (see elated stoy). The goup has ecently been ciculating petitions, published by the National Gay Task Foce, to defect the bill. A lette and postcad witing campaign was also discussed as anothe tactic to influence Congessional votes. "The vey fact that this bill can exist is an unbelievable thing," stated Goski. The latte pat of the meeting was spent talking about how sex-oles pevade evey aspect of ou existence-and how one might be able to ovecome them. Undegaduate Angela Petaa said of the goup, " am glad to see that somebody is doing something about sexism in this wold... hope the goup will impove attitudes especially at this Univesity." Gaduate student and community oganize fo the ntevasity Chistian Fellowship Nathaniel Hendicks stated, "This is a long time coming...though active e-cultuation and e-education, hope to develop a deepe espect fo women." , '-,, L', ~- L L, _ d --- page 0 RY Ell R mmm ine otony BooK ess

7 S. B. Bids fo Engineeing Success by Joseph Caponi Hope may be in sight fo Stony Book students who find themselves in ove-cowded classes, o who become closed out of couses entiely. The SUNY Boad of Tustees has accepted a plan wheeby Stony Book would be able to incease its faculty with 81 new pofessos next yea, including 28 in the College of Engineeing and Applied Sciences, a move that would incease the size of that school's faculty by moe than one-thid. While it is uncetain if this o a smalle scale plan will actually be put into effect, (the decision ests with the goveo and the state legislatue) it is cetain that the faculty hee will be gowing and will continue to gow fo at least the next few yeas. Accoding to Academic Povost, D. Home Neal, the cuent situation leaves the faculty sevely "oveloaded." Binging in new teaches will allow the univesity to decease aveage class size and educe the numbe of students being shut out of couses, goals D. Neal sees as paticulaly impotant. While the cowding in the College of Engineeing is most citical, the povost also wants to add pofessos thoughout the Univesity, and he noted that the Economic depatment and othe Social and Behavioal Science depatments have shotages of teaches. A cuiculum eview committee has aleady been set up, and one of its objectives will be to conside new aeas of the univesity to expand with the aid of the incoming faculty. Fo example, the addition of a Maste's -pogam in At Citicism is consideed likely in the next few yeas, and a sepaate committee is studying the possibility of the Univesity obtaining a gaduate Business school. But, gowth in the engineeing depatment will be the most damatic, and it is widely consideed to be the most necessay. Povost Neal suggested that in the event of the Univesity not getting the equested amount of teaches, the Engineeing School would be hut least by the cuts. Accoding to the acting Dean of the Engineeing College, D. Stewat Hais, engineeing students "ae not getting the education they should," and the inceased faculty is needed to seve the students. n addition to the nealy 30 new faculty equested fo next yea, Hais says that the Engineeing School plans to double its pesent faculty in five yeas. The cuent full-time faculty of 76 is moe than 50 less than SUNY guidelines say it should be, and Hais feels that the school will need 150 full-time pofessos in ode to each its full potential. He said that the Engineeing School "could easily be in the top dozen ated schools in the county in five yeas. The college has one of the highest wokloads in the county fo an engineeing school, and in paticula the electical engineeing depatment pobably has the highest wokload of any electical engineeing depatment." But, an engineeing school needs moe than pofessos. Expensive equipment is needed both fo eseach and teaching. Also, the addition of depatments of chemical, civil, and aeonautical engineeing ae being consideed. These expansions must be consideed in tems of expense and impotance, and Hais cited the example of Bown Univesity, who upgaded thei engineeing school significantly without incuing excessive costs; an example Stony Book plannes to keep in mind. All of this will equie moe oom and facilities, and the engineeing buildings ae not the most moden on campus. D. Hais feels that in a few yeas the Engineeing School, because space is cuently vey camped, may find itself using space in many of the othe buildings since thee is "an excess of exta space aound campus," he said. One of the main poblems facing CEAS howeve, is attacting high quality pofessos. A few yeas ago. almost all new engineeing teaches came fom the anks of the newly made Phd's. But now, thee ae fewe Phd's gaduating and thee is geate competition thoughout the industy, making it a citical poblem to attact the best people. Povost Neal echoed these sentiments when he said that "ceating a easonable envionment...whee they [the engineeing pofessos] aen't faced with immense wokloads and huge.classes." Hais now pojects that as much as half of the new faculty membes the school obtains will have aleady been in the industy and have decided to move to academia. But, to attact vetean enginees away fom positions in pivate industy, the Univesity must offe them positions at the associate and full Mll - - _.7 _ A. A. M-` S-K AA -L- Vz:V_ Y.. pc)fesso levels, athe than at somewhat lowe pay- "too expensive to wait until Apil." in tems of ecuit- assistant pofesso levels, a situation the Unive- ing ing faculty. sit: y eally can't affod. Beginning the week of Dec. 14. the deans of the Fom a boade pespective, D. Hais stessed the colleges and divisions of the Univesity will make pesed to impove education in engineeing not only at ne( entations to a committee of Administatos and epe- Sto ny Book but acoss'the county. "Look at the cu- sentatives of the SUSB Senate about the needs of thei etit situation." he said, "The United States is losing schools in tems of money and new faculty fo next g )und technologically to counties like Japan and yea. Peliminay decisions on these mattes will be Gemany whee engineeing education is stessed made accodingly. mo)e." He waned that the U.S. must avoid the fate of Some time in Januay, Goveno Hugh Caey will cotinties like Geat Bitain, whose economy fell apat make his budget equests fo the state, including the on( ce they had lost thei technological lead. SUNY budget, to the State Legislatue. Whethe he What does Hais see in the next five yeas fo will accept the SUNY Boad of Tustees equest fo CE"AS? He wants it to be a school with. "easonably the 81 new teaches o ask fo a smalle incease in sized classes, moden laboatoies, and couses that unknown, pobably even to the Goveno himself. Fed- what a student needs to know fo his o he efflect eal aid cuts hut the chances fo getting the full caiee." All this is possible, but CEAS "needs the amount, but it is an election yea. Povost Neal says aimunition" to do it. that he is "optimistic." The Legislatue will have to Unfotunately, neithe CEAS no do Univesity deal with the budget, and it will not be until at least administatos know how much money and teaches Mach when D. Neal and the othes can make the th. ey will eceive. But planning fo that phantom final decisions on how many teaches Stony Book will m oney is undeway because, as Hais said, it will be eceive and whee they will go. PDsoluin. L - Ji AAAl 0 (continued fom page 31 sometimes used as a last esot." One diffeence between hee and Albany is that they may intevene with a student afte a counselo alets them. Giannattasio advises Stony Book students, "Unde no cicumstances go to an RA, MA o RHD because thee's no confidentiality with them." Accoding to Podolnick, "All visits to the UCC ae completely confidential," howeve. Because of the investigation into this paticula case, it seems some people ae woking to get changes made in this pocedue. Ms. Steele's RHD, who happens to have a counseling backgound, would like to see input fom the student's oommate, the people she lived with, and the docto she saw at the emegency oom. D. Peston has aanged a meeting "with people fom the UCC. the psychiaty depatment at the medical school, and othe inteested people to let them look at the medical suspension pocess." Podolnick has suggested changing the tem "medical suspension" to "involuntay leave of absence fo medical easons." Hatman suggested sending a copy of the SCC when the Oiginal lette is sent to the student. As D. Podolnick stated, "t's not meant to be disciplinay," Regadless of the intent of the pocedue, damage has been done. '11H MEN ', u L L Othe SUNY univesity centes deal vaiously with the situation. At the Univesity at Buffalo, thee is no specific pocedue outlined fo suspending students fo medical easons, accoding to Joyce Pinn, gaduate assistant to the VPSA. "f a peson is a hazad to othe people o distubing othe people because of a medical poblem, she might be suspended unde egula disciplinay pocedues." At SUNY Albany, the pocess is much moe compassionate. Thei Student Guidelines outline thee poblemsolving guidelines fo students who may have a mental health poblem, accoding to Assistant Dean of Students Heny Kishne. The guidelines state that "an attempt will be made to assist the individual." initially, the student health sevice and pee-counseling cente on campus will be utilized to help the student. Refeals to off-campus facilities will be made if necessay. The actual suspension pocess eads: The Dean of Student Affais, with appopiate consultation fom Univesity pofessionals, decides whethe an individual can accomplish objectives without haming themselves o othes. Student and faculty judiciay may be consulted." K ishne also stated that "many poblems ae woked out infomally with the families. Ou witten guidelines ae _ ' Y - - C L L l '1100s~ D~cem~be pai~ ge 7

8 Civil Defense: Foin Sheltes to Evacuation by Coinne Schubl Though the days when elementay school childen would scuy unde desks duing ai aid dills, o when fallout sheltes wee stocked with saltines, had candy and mophine to quiet potential cance victims ae long gone, the theat of nuclea wa duing the 80's has once again bought the pinciple of Civil Defense unde govenmental scutiny. But whethe o not a massive Civil Defense pogam will dete a nuclea wa o enable citizens to suvive one ae majo questions to be consideed befoe the pogams is stepped-up monetaily. While the United States cuently, spends $132 million dollas each yea on Civil Defense, the USSR allocates nealy $2 billion to its pogam. Since the 1960's, civil defense as a deteent to nuclea wa has been downgaded by the politicians of this county. Accoding to Hapes Weekly Magazine Pesident Kennedy stated in a 1961 addess, "We will dete an enemy fom making a nuclea attack only if ou etalitoy powe is so stong and so invulneable that he knows he would be destoyed by ou esponses." He added, "f we have that stength, civil defense is not needed to dete an attack. f we should eve lack it, civil defense would' not be'an adequate substitute." Civil Defense was ceated by an act of congess on August 29, Civil Defense made geat stides duing the 1940's establishing an office fo Emegency Management within the Executive Office of the Pesident. The Office of Civil Defense was also established with Fioello LaGuadia, fome mayo of N.Y.. as Diecto. On Januay the Fedeal Civil Defense Agency became an independent govenmental agency when Pesident Hay Tuman signed the Fedeal Civil Defense Act of Duing the 1950's and 60's Civil Defense sheltes wee built full tilt until the Vietnam Wa, when budget cuts along with public and administation skepticism foced the halting of thei constuction. Beginning in the 1970's though today. Civil Defense has stessed Cisis Relocation Planning (CRP). Relocation was an oiginal poponent of planning in the 1950's. Evacuation plans wee pat of the Civil Defense Pogam but these pocedues wee thought obsolete when the Soviets developed ntecontinental Ballestic Missiles (CBM'S), shotening the waning of nuclea attack fom hous to minutes. page 8 Ti'he Stony Book Pess Civil Defense now stesses elocation athe than ai aid sheltes and these evacuation plans, consideed obsolete then, ae the passion of today. The stess on etalitoy stength of the 60's emeged as the policy of Mutual Assued Destuction (MAD) when Soviet technology demonstated an equal level of ams with that of the United States. The stategy tuned to deteence when both ealized they could inflict unacceptable damage upon each othe. The United States feels that the MAD doctine will dete a Soviet attack, but the sentiment is quickll deteioating. Citics of Fedeal Civil Defense plannes agee many would suvive a nuclea blast. But, millions would die instantly by disintegating into the atmosphee and seveal moe millions would bun to death o be poisoned by adiation. But the Fedeal Emegency Management Agency (FEMA) insists that moe than 80 million Ameicans would outlive shot tem effects of a massive nuclea attack. Howeve, they admit that moe than one thid of the suviving population would be injued. With the usage of Cisis Relocation Planning (CRP) twice that estimate could suvive. But civil defense citic, Repesentative Ton Downey of N.Y. has echoed the statement made by Nikita Kuseckev that. "The suvivos would envy the dead." Newsweek assets that a nuclea blast based on a one megaton bomb would poduce the following scenaio: Within a 2 mile adius, all living things would be cemated by the heat and pessue. Most achitectual stuctues would be ganulated within 4 miles, suvivos would attain thid-degee buns, and fie would be ampant. Fatalities within the fist thity days could ange fom two to 20 million depending on how effective the elocation pocess is. Many victims would be poisoned fom adiation. and fom its symptoms: nausea, vomiting, and diahea. Two weeks afte adiation exposue, intenal bleeding. soes of the lips, and loss of hai would esult. Victims would be helpless against adiation sickness. The poblems to be faced by suvivos would be awesome. Pincipally the nation's economy would be obliteated. Because of this, along with an inevitable ecological imbalance, expets asset that a nuclea wa would deplete a majo potion of the ozone laye esulting in an epidemic inceases in skin cance. Psychiatists also speculate that Released in Septembe, 1978 by the Civil Defense Pepaedness Agency, this map identifies high-isk aeas on the basis of militay o industial impotance as well as high populations. Not all such aeas would necessaily be subject to 40, -. attack. as the geat human loss settles into the nation's consciousness, suvivos would be pone to psychological tauma leading to a sevely stained ecovey. This moose view of Newsweek's howeve, is not taken into seious consideation by Civil Defense plannes whose studies pesent a fa moe optimistic view. A Post-Nuclea Attack Study (PONAST ), 1972 by the Depatment of Defense epots that 109 million Ameicans out of a cuent population of 239 million would suvive a nuclea attack and that the economy would ecove in six yeas to the standad of living in A yea late, the study pojects that a 1970 standad of living would be attained. PONAST, howeve, admits that suvivos would face poblems. One thid of the 109 million Ameicans would be injued o become ill and a shotage of doctos is expected. Long tem effects of adiation would double the cance ate, and because of genetic damage to most of the population, tiple the numbe of bith defects. PONAST intejects that thee would not be a food o labo shotage because the pecentage of suvival of food and industy outweighs the suvival of human life. But advocates of elocation ae at a disadvantage because of the widely held belief that all will die in a nuclea wa. f the blast does not kill you. the heat will kill you; if the heat does not kill you, the adiation will. A 1974 National Academy of Sciences study stated howeve that this is not a ealistic view. They concluded by asseting that "homo-sapiens-but not necessaily thei civilization-would suvive a majo nuclea exchange." But, thee ae seious poblems with elocation. Evacuation fom the city to the county would pobably take a week o moe, which becomes ineffective upon a half-hou's notice, accoding to U.S. News and Wold Repot. Pentagon expets figue if a false alam followed by complete evacuation, the nation would face a loss of 90 billion dollas in poduction and expenses in evacuation. Fall-out sheltes ae anothe poblem. The sheltes built in the 50's and 60's ae now without supplies. The shelte cackes ae ancid and if eaten will poduce dysentey. Unde the Johnson Administation and in ecent yeas. thee have been effots to phase out the sheltes. n all pacticality, the sheltes ae phased out. With the USSR's expeience in WW, a wa in which Russia suffeed the emphasis on defense, the Soviets have' developed an extensive civil defense pogam. D. Leon Goue. Diecto of Soviet Studies at the Cente fo Advanced nte- national Studies, feels that the Russian's civil defense system ios the most inclusive in the wold, and in ode fo the U.S. to duplicate the effot it would take fou to five billion dollas a yea. Soviet childen eceive at least 12 hous of Civil Defense taining beginning in the 2nd gade. 15 hous in the 5th gade, and 20 hous in the 9th gade. n the last yea of hjigh school they eceive pactical taining to help in the event of emegency. Accoding to D). Goue the Soveits have an estimated full-time civil defense pesonnel, with million pefoming voluntee wok. The Soviets also have militay civil defense units staffed though consciption. The United States Civil Defense Bulleting states that the USSR has extensive blast sheltes, subways with blast doos at entances, and blast sheltes connected to buildings by undegound tunnels. They also have blast sheltes to house all top level govenmental officials, and million othe Soviet citizens. The emaining civilians would be evacuated fom the aea. The Bulleting adds that the Soviets' shelte plan combined with thei evacuation plans, could save nealy 90% of the Soviet population wheas only 40% of the Ameican people would suvive in the event of a majo nuclea wa.. eseved fo govenmental officials only.. Though a etun to toddles scambling unde desks fo "potection" duing an ai aid dill is unlikely, a evisitation of a civil defense pogam of some sot is pedictable. When Reagan was Goveno of Califonia, he stated in 1978 that, "(A) enewed emphasis on civil defense pepaedness is neccessay. t should be an integal pat of ou national secuity." Reagan, as Pesident, has also allocated $6.8 million moe to the Civil Defense Pogam than Jimmy Cate, but despite the moe geneous appopiations, the most distubing question aising fom civil defense still emains: will Ut be effective o will it meely povide a false sense of secuity? Since- civil defense plannes have The objectives and pioities of the Soviet civil defense ae the potection of human esouces, the leadeship of the Soviets, the wokes, the uban populous. the stockpiling of food aid medical supplies, and the Civil Defense Depatment states. The Soviets also have an economic mobilization capacity, wheeas the Ameican govenment has well-stocked bunkes and blast sheltes, abandoned the concept of fall-out sheltes of the geneal public, and have embaked on a massive elocation pogam unde the auspices of the Cisis Relocation Plan. the validity and effectiveness of civil defense becomes obscue and questionable. When fall-out sheltes wee maintained. they povided little f any potection fom a lage scale nuclea wa since they simply could not accomodate eveyone, and wee unable to suppot those that they could accomodate. The latest civil defense consideation, elocation. can be viewed only with skeptisism. How can Manhattan esidents ealistically evacuate the city and tavel to thei elocation cente in Sullivan ('ounty upon a half-an-hou notice when the same tip un(dt' the most favoabh conditions takes up to an hou and ; half? l'ehaps civil defense will tbe effective in (letteing nuclea wa o potecting the citizens of the United States. lpehaps it will not. but one thing stan(ls clea. f and when the suvivos of a majo nuclea wa emege fom thei bunkes o elocation centes, what they will witness may vey well make them envy those who did not suvive. An ealy Civil Defense manual advises, "Befoe e-enteing the shelte, bush off any fallout paticles which may have accumulated." A paade in the Soviet Union displays CBM's. Gimme Shelte Fom the Stom by Catheine Synan f ou govenment o the Soviet govenment o anyone of a half dozen othe nuclea amed counties decide tomoow duing you 8:30 AM lectue to launch a limited o unlimited nuclea wa, do you know whee you designated elocation cente is? SStony Book has two fallout sheltes. But fallout sheltes have been passe fo yeas now. Too much touble keeping the cacke supplies fesh and all that. Besides, thee eally ween't enough to go aound. n 1968 Suffolk County had shelte space fo about 300,000 people. That left about 700,000 people out in the heat, so to speak. But that was 1968 and nothing like a nuclea attack has happened, yet. Since fallout sheltes ween't catching on. the fedeal govenment shifted to a civil pepaedness policy of cisis elocation planning. n the event of a nuclea attack the citizeny will be moved to elocation centes in "safe" aeas. That means untageted aeas. Accoding to D. Lee Koppelmen. Diecto of the Suffolk County Planning Depatment, in ode to have a elocation plan "you have to have some idea that you ae tageted fo attack." Once you know that. said Kopplemen, then "if you could physically move all the people-and don't believe thee is a way to do that-you would have to know whee the safe aeas would be." Accoding to the Fedeal Emegency Management Agency (FEMA) this island is a "low isk." But John Billelo, Deputy Commissione of Suffolk County Emegency Opeation Cente says. " have been aguing with them." Appaently, acoss the Sound in Connecticut, Electic Boat has been manufactuing Tident submaines and so they ae a high isk aea. And. of couse. New Yok City is a high isk aea because it's New Yok City. But M. Billelo feels that since "we have a lot of aiplance factoies." Long sland should also be designated a high isk aea. " wasn't slighted, but thought we should get moe fedeal aid." said M. Billelo. But since Long sland is a "low isk" thee ae essentially no plans to move people off the sland in the event of a nuclea attack. nstead, people will be "shelteed" in "the basements of schools-schools pimaily," says M. Billelo. "You have 1.300,000 people in Suffolk County and a simila numbe in Nassau County." he said. "You couldn't possible evacuate all by automobile because evey oad would be a taffic jam." Billelo explained that "the thinking is: you'd be just as safe in a shelte as you ae on a oad." Whethe it's a nuclea attack o a nuclea accident at the Shoeham plant, it looks like Stony Book Univesity is being counted on to handle lage numbes of evacuees. The Univesity is a key pat of mandatoy fedeal evacuation plans still being devised fo the Shoeham plant by Koppleman's office. The Univesity is expected to house up to 15,000 displaced pesons is classoom and coido space, accoding to Geoge Mashall, h ead of Stony Book's Emegency Health and Safety Depatment. Also, unlike St. Chales and Mathe hospitals, the Univeisty Hospital is outside the 10 mile adius. Accoding to Mashall. "Ou hospital is also involved as a teatment cente fo decontamination of adiation." n case of a nuclea attack, "we'd have moe poblems than anybody could handle." says Mashall. Refeing to an attack on the metopolitan aea, Mashall explained, "You wouldn't be taking people out though a hot aea. You'd move out futhe onto the sland-away." Because of that. he said. "we'd by ovewhelmed by people coming fom the city." He added. " don't know who would be capable of coodinating that." f an attack occued, Mashall could find himself involved in coodination of emegency sevices since the county is designated as a "host" aea and the Univesity is one of the lagest facilities in the county. n such an emegency, all state facilities would be designated as emegency sevice o elocation centes by the goveno. Although Mashall said. "We don't have the facilities to povide any sevice." he pointed out that "We have kitchens and that sot of thing." "The county." he said. "has plans to mobilize people to staff kitchens, etcetea." But while official policy counts on shelteing people, escape fom the island would seem to be pefeable. "Unfotunately. we don't have enough boats to evacuate that way," Billelo explained. As if in conclusion, Billelo emaked. "And then thee is West Hampton aipot." But Kopplemen feels that "to suggest an escape is in some way misleading. Thee is no safe place." he confimed, and epeated, "Thee is no safe place." "The eal question." Koppelman said, "is how to avoid nuclea wa...we'e in a nuclea age and we'e suounded by nuclea bombs...evey goddamn pip squeak county in the wold has one.""the only ultimate solution." he suggested. "is to eliminate all nuclea weapons, and don't think society is moving in this diection. Do you?" But almost as an aftethought to the convesation he added, "n tems of you oiginal question, can we evacuate 3.5 million people fom Long sland in one half hou-the answe is No." F-mh R-q iil b 1U7p4 LYMCLuM qp_9%1 c31 u4o-c7

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10 _,. L,, MM Binging Back Chemical Wafae by Scott Higham and Jeff Zoldan "The opening attack of WW commences at 0400 hous with an intense atillay pepaation and ai stikes in a U.S. bigades secto. Both chemical and nuclea weapons ae employed along with conventional munitions. Nonpesistent agents ae employed against the fowad defending battalionspesistent neve agents ae used in depth against division combat suppot elements and logistics installations in the cops' ea," states the Association of the U.S. Amy in a special epot entitled The Ugent Need fo Chemical Weapons. The Amy, howeve, is not the only banch ofgovenment adovcating United States capability to enact this chemical wafae scenaio. Duing the summe of 1981, Pesident Reagan signed into law a Congessional appopiation of $20 million, beginning once again the poduction of chemical weaponey in the United State. This county has not poduced chemical weapons since Voting 50 to 48, the Senate ageed last May to go along with the House in appopiating the funds to equip a munitions facility at Pine Bluff, Akansas..Reagan signed the bill last June. The plant will be capable of poducing atilley shells to cay a new fom of neve gas called binay-munition. And, accoding to the Depatment of Defense, $2.47 billion will be allocated fo the development of chemical wafae pogams ove the next five yeas. The employment of chemicals duing battlefield wafae has not been used since WW. Accoding to the Congessional Reseach Sevice, 1.3 million casualities esulted due to chemical wafae, with the Soviet Union suffeing nealy half of those losses. But despite technological advances in chemical manufactuing, no one has daed to wage potacted wa with lethal gas since Although non-lethal gasses and hebicides wee used duing the Vietnam Wa by Ameican foces, chemicals such as Agent Oange and tea gas ae not consideed lethal unde the Geneva Potocol of Napalm is consideed an explosive. But this is not to say that chemical o biological wafae has not been used in isolated instances. A epot which appeaed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist last month epoted that an undetemined numbe of Ameican soldies duing WW wee killed in Japanese biological wafae expeiments. The soldies wee pisones of wa. The infomation, obtained fom the Depatment of Defense though the Feedom of nfomation Act detailed the expeiments which included exposing pisones of wa to anthax, smallpox, and plague. Some wee killed by adiation poisoning o by being pumped full of hose blood. The epot also documented coespondence between Japanese and U.S. officials who coveed up the expeiments in etun fo esults of the Japanese study. Moe ecently, souces in Kampuchea, Afghanistan and Laos have epoted instances of chemical wafae, allegedly by Soviet Union andvietnamese foces. Accoding to a Depatment of State Bulletin entitled "Human Rights," cables in Januay 1980 fom five diplomatic posts in ndochina epoted chemical weapons attacks in Laos in May Although the evidence in Kampuchea is less substantial, the Human Rights epot states, "thee is enough cicumstantial evidence to waant seious concen and a caeful investigation and analysis of the possible use of lethal agents." n Afghanistan, the epot states, "We egad it as highly likely that the Soviet invasion foces have used iitant agents in thei effots to suppess the Afghan esistance. And thee ae a numbe of efugee epots, which we have not been able to pove so fa, that the Soviets have also employed lethal qnd incapacitating chemical agents as well." Since Pesident Reagan stated in the Chemical and Engineeing News Magazine nealy a yea ago that, "n light of the ecent Soviet use of poisonous gas in Afghanistan and in othe conflicts..., we should poceed with the pepaations to convet to bin ay(neve gas) weapons." The United States thubeganits inescapable commitment to the chemical ams ace. Reagan's ecent decision to go ahead with neve gas, potective equipment. detection devices- d decontamination e ' stanaaa cnemical waa.e outil. instuments, aises seious questions of enomous significance. Fist of all what ae chemical weapons, how will they be used, whee will they be used, and most impotantly, will a chemical ace second only to the nuclea polifeation of weapons by initiated by Reagan's,decision? To undestand the impot of the situation one need go no futhe back than 13 yeas ago. Accoding to the New Yok Times, on Mach 14, 1968, 6,000 sheep gazing in Skull Valley, Utah, 85 miles south west of Salt Lake City, wee killed by neve gas known as VX. The gas had difted 30 miles off the open ange of Dugway Poving Gound, an Amy esevation which is the main test site fo chemical and biological wafae in the United States. Following public outage ove the incident, in 1969 Pesident Nixon odeed an end to the manufactue of lethal chemicls, and Congess imposed stict legal and envionmental estictions -on open ai testing. Reseach, howeve, has contnued since the ban on the poduction of chemicals and laboatoies have since developed chemicals which leave mustad gas light yeas behind. Duing the couse of insecticide eseach in 1936, the fist neve gas, tabun, was discoveed by Geman scientists. ts militay possibilities wee quickly ecognized by the Geman govenment which poceeded secetly to poduce it and develop poduction methods fo a elated agent found in 1938 called sain. Though neve gas has neve been used in combat, the potential fo chemical wafae inceases daily though the manufactue of binay munitions. Binay munitions ae neve agents which impai the body's ability to egulate muscle action, causing uncontollable muscula activity which leads to death though espiatoy failue, accoding to the Congessional Reseach Sevic i Thei effect is almost immediate. Neve gas can be disseminated as vapos o liquids and binay munitions ae the United State's pime; offensive chemical in the modenized effot. The binay agent diffes fom peceeding neve agents in deployment. Two elatively safe chemicals ae placed in a munition, such as a bomb, with the mixing of the chemcials to fom the neve agent occuing afte the munition is fied o eleased to its taget. Govenment officials claim this system is theoetically safe in stoage and tanspotation, making it moe publically acceptable than peviously poduced neve gasses. Othe lethal agents which cause death o seious injuy include bliste agents such as mustad gas which ceated tempoay loss of vision, povokes buns and poduces geneal tissue iation. Blood gases intefee with cell espiation and lung iitants injue espiatoy tissues. Death by neve gas, which is cuently being manufactued in Akansas, is gusome to say the least. Since neve impulses to muscles ae seveed, a whole aay of eactions take place:.intense sweating, convulsions, vomiting, diahea, and final asphyxia following paalysis of the espiatoy system. Depending on the dosage, this may occu within seveal mintes o hous afte contact. Defense against these agents equies complex technology, a high degee of taining and efficient and sophisticated suppot oganization. Detection is also an impotant consideation in chemical wafae and in secuing an effective defense system to chemical and biological tactics, half the appopiated funds will be diected towads this end. The fist factoies to poduce neve gas wee built duing the Koean Wa in Alabama and Coloado. Poduction peaked in 1963 with Kennedy's Administation and ended duing Nixon's. But the United States had been poducing chemical weapons since WW with vaying intensity. Accoding to the Congessional Reseach Sevice, the total U.S. chemical agent stockpile is estimated at 38,000 tons. Nealy half of that stock pile consists of neve gas while the emainde consists of mustad gas. Ou chemical munition stockpileincluding bombs, ockets, o shells-is estimated at 150,000 to 200,000 tons. 70% of the munitions ae neve agent weapons. The Depatment of Defense alleges that since a lage pecentage of the munition stockpile ae no longe opeational in today's ocket launches, the stockpile has become basically obsolete. Opponents of chemical wafae maintain, howeve, that the weapons have stumbled into obscuity because of simple neglect. As fo the Soviet asenal, almost nothing is veifiable since the last open efeence to chemical wafae capability by a Soviet official occued in Estimates fom militay souces, accoding to the Congessional study. place the Soviet stockpile of chemical weaponay at 30 times lage than the United State's. But, in the Chaiman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff admitted that "it is not possible with any easonable degee of assuance to pedict o estimate the size of the Soviet Union's agent stockpile." Though the Geneva Potocol of 1925 povides fo the pohibition of the use of in wa of asphyxiating poisons o othe gases and of bacteiological methods of wafae, the doctine does not pohibit the testing o stockpiling of chemical weapons. The cuent chemical ace is undetaken in the name of deteence and the United States feels a stong chemical wafae pogam is essential fo secuing etalitoy capabilities. The paallels betv ven the nuclea ace and a chemical ace ae staggeing: the inability to establish veification measues, the philosophy of peace though stength, huge fedeal expenditues, little public suppot, and, of couse, the theat of a wold-wide communist conspiacy ae all elevant issues which suound the chemicalwafae question. When Mak Hatfield (R.Oe.) called the $20 million chemical poposal "shee madness" in the Washington Post last Sping. he aised an impotant question. "My God." he stated with futility, "is thee no limit to the voacious appetite of the militay machine that wants to suck up evey dolla that we have?" The question has gone without eply. m1 Lkeclenbe ptaget 11

11 Spending fo Students $25,000 in Univesity funds impoves domitoy life by Matteo Luccio "On no issue has the Stony Book concen fo the quality of student life geneated moe debate than on the opeation of student businesses in spaces set aside fo social and eceational puposes in the domitoies," stated Pesident John Mabuge in a memoandum addessed to "the univesity community" in late August The statement was duing an ongoing debate on the "quality of life" hee-a debate which had eached its peak duing the Schmidt administation, with the appointment of an ad hoc committee, headed by V.P. fo Student Affais Elizabeth Wadswoth. t was also the stt of a new effot, launched by Mabuge with a shewed sense of political timing, to povide students with the oppotunity and some means to begin tackling the poblem themselves. The Mabuge memoandum odeed the ending of alcohol sles at the "Benedict Saloon," the phasing out of all alcohol sales in the doms within thee yeas, and the foming of two ad hoc campus task foces dealing with food and beveages and with "student social and eceational life" espectively. The same document also contained the decision to allocate "univesity funds of not less than $25,000 duing the 1980/81 yea" fo impoving the quality of "soc/ec" spaces in domitoies. n Decembe, 1980 applications fo gants out of this fund stated to each the Student Development Committee, set up to, inte alia, to accept and eview poposals fom students and campus oganizations fo the spending of the money. By the beginning of this semeste most pojects had been completed. Though the delays wee many and often fustating fo the students active in the vaious building committees woking to implement thei plans, the whole funding idea seems to have been successful. So successful that anothe $20,000 has been allocated along the same lines fo this academic yea. Mabuge also appeas to be happy with the way the money was spent. "The money cetainly seems to have been spent on 'social and eceational aeas'," he explained ealie this semeste, concluding that he felt positive about the whole poject..the immediate issue confonting the new Pesident in dealing with the "quality of life" question was the heated debate ove campus bas. He attempted to summaize both sides of the agument in his memoandum: "Those who focus on the undesiable effects of alcohol in the [soc/ec] aeas ague that thei opeation encouages vandalism and unacceptable behavio, and believe that thei closue would impove the campus atmosphee. Those who emphasize the social and eceational aspects of the use to which these aeas ae put ague that thei closue would futhe depive students on a campus which aleadysuffes fom a seious shotage of social foci." The Pesident also stated that while some of the "wost abuses" had been coected duing the 1980 Sping tem, the bas in the doms wee still a poblem. On the basis of his analysis, the epot of the "Wadswoth Committee," and the input of othe campus goups, Mabuge adopted in his document a whole new set of policies on the matte. These included a clea statement of the need to enhance the quality of "soc/ec" aeas and to ceate moe; the decision that "the seving of alchoholic beveages in domitoy soc/ec aeas must be limited to wine and bee"; and the decision that "alcoholic beveage sevice of any kind in domitoies must be phased out as non-domitoy altenatives ae ceated. Plann;ng fo such altenatives," Mabuge futhe added, "must begin immediately and move towad execution on a time-table not to exceed thee yeas." Following Mabuge's decision, the Student Devel- - /pment Committee was set up to accept and eview poposals fom students and campus oganizations fo the spending of the money. Chaied by Samuel Taube, Associate Dean of Student Affais, the committee included Wadswoth, Bill Fonadel, the Acting Diecto of the Union, Kaen Joskow, Diecto of the Student Acitivities Office, Jeold Stein, Associate Diecto of Residence Life, Dick Solo, Diecto of the Oientation Pogam, Ann Bynes, fom the Univesity Counseling Cente, students Matha Ripp and Ruth Sepovitz, Haold Mendelsohn, fom Residence Life, and Kathy Wang. Accoding to Taube, the Committee hoped to eceive plans to impove lounge aeas and ceate "social spaces" and "efeshment aeas." The Committee advetised its existence as widely as possible, by putting, fo example, ads in Statesman and pinting up a leaflet claifying the equiements fo students to apply fo funds. Accoding to Matha Ripp, the Student Development Committee is a standing committee fomed to deal with a vaiety of camus poblems. "t's one of the best, if not the best committee at Stony Book," she asseted, adding, "t's the only 6ommittee on campus that eally helped students." Poposals stated flowing in to the committee and most wee in by Decembe of last yea, and accoding to Taube's ecods, out of 31 poposals submitted, 11 wee appoved. n Benedict, the building at the oigin of the whole stoy, the funds allocated went to efubish a lounge (the "DE" lounge): a seving counte was installed, new floo tiling was put in, ecessed lighting was added, the walls wee epainted, the fiplace was esufaced, new funitue was added, and the walls stuccoed. The impovement is impessive. Accoding to Benedict esidents, the lounge is now mainly booked by the College Legislatue fo majo building events. An inauguation evening is planned fo the coming Fiday. James College eceived funding fo its James Food Room. Hee the money went into installing a counte, new flooing, lighting, and ceiling. Jeffey Vlack, a esident of the building, stated that the Food Room was "a fantastic idea." And he added: "The Food Room is impotant fo the students of James College so that we may h ave some fom of elaxation o altenatives othe than the James Pub which seves alcoholic beveages." And anothe James esident, Byan Matthews, stessed the convenience of having such a place ight in the building, and added that in :-is opinion it's a geat place fo study beaks. Accoding to Steven Esposito, James College M.A. and manage fo the oom, no food will be seved this semeste because the place lacks electical outlets, and he thus cannot plug in the equipment he was given o that he bought fo the place. Commenting on the histoy of the poject, he explained, "The oiginal idea was that the oom would be a game oom, so that people could use it fo beaks and fo building tounaments (ping-pong tounaments, fo example). But last yea RV's Food Room in Langmui was closed. Theefoe we saw a need fo a food oom to eplace it within H Quad." n Deise College, the building's soc/ec aea has been painted and new floo tiles have been placed (coutesy of Stony Book). Also, thee is a patial new ceiling with ecessed lighting. A new counte was put in, appoximately 25 feet, and a new doo was put in. At this point all they'e lacking is a lock. The Had Rock Cafe, located in Tuscanini and sponseed by Scoop, is anothe ecipient of funding. Hee a walk has been put in. n addition new floo tiles wee put in place and the ceiling tiles wee epaied. Lighting was up-gaded and a ole gate was put in to povide secuity fo the seving facilities and the business itself. Muals adon the walls and a display efigeato was also installed. Niel Spiegel, the manage of the Cafe, explained that Gay Matthews had povided 4 tables and 16 chais, while SCOOP has povided thee muals, had built a sink, and a counte. A sound system is pesently being installed. Also, the most ecent addition to the business was a feeze, so that ice ceam will begin to be seved soon. Accoding to Spiegel, thee has been live entetainment at the Had Rock Cafe evey Thusday, since opening night, Octobe 9th. Fom now on, though, entetainment will be on Sunday evenings. The poject was initially financed with $3,200 out of Mabuge's allocation of $25,000, and $1,000 fom SCOOP. Accoding to Spiegel this was the only poject on campus that managed to stat something totally new and have it un continuously fo nine weeks. While SCOOP has applied fo moe funds, mainly to up-gade the Rainy Night House, any futhe impovements at the Cafe will have to be financed by the Cafe's own pofits, if they make any, o by SCOOP's othe on-campus businesses. The Had Rock Cafe is pesently seving bagels, all sots of salads, yogut, soda, coffee and tea. Hee too the eaction of the esidents, of the building and the whole quad, was vey positive. n Stimson college (Stage X A), the walls in the building's soc/ec aea have been painted, a seving alcove has been built, and countes have been constucted. Accoding to the building's R.H.D. Jolinda Fenahout-who was, togethe with R.A. Paula Chazen, the staff adviso fo the Stimson poject-"the Physical Plant people, especially the capetny shops, did a mavelous job at pepaing some funituecoveed booths and some tables fo some walls whee thee was some space." "Now that we have some builtin funitue," she added, "esidents ae moe awae of the fact that we ae tying to get a student business going." The poject, a necessay one on this campus accoding to Fenhout, was ppaently vey well eceived by the esidents "t involves students' egos," said Paula Chazen, while stimulating thei involvement, and, in the case of Stimson, ceates a "building spiit." Now it's only a matte of painting the oom, buying the food, and the place is eady fo opening night. Accoding again to Chazen, this will be eithe take place ight befoe o ight afte intesession. She commented that the whole idea of the fund is "wondeful" and will especially encouage esidents to stay on campus on weekends. When it opens the business will seve pepaed pasties and packaged goods such as candy and gum. t will also seve, Fenhout said, tea, coffee and hot chocolate. Asked about he feelings on the whole campus-wide poject, she explained that "Thee seems to be a tend...thee seems to be a commitment moe than just a tempoay allotment of funds..." And she concluded, "Hopefully Pesident Mabuge will be able to continue to find souces fo this fund so that it will gow into a pemanent souce of funds." A simila opinion was expessed by the SCOOP pesident, who chaacteized the whole pogam as "despeately needed on this campus." He too, though, lamented the long time it takes fo pojects to be appoved, the money allocated, the puchasing done and the actual wok done. Asked about the poblem of maintaining continuity of leadeship fo these types of effots, he eplied that SCOOP was in the best position to deal with the poblem. He too hopes that the pogam will be continued and suggested that the Administation incease the amount of money allocated. page 12 The Stony Book Pess

12 - On Stage C1 Stop-Stop the Go-Go's by Jeff Zoldan The Go-Go's' pefomance in the Stony Book Gym almost two weeks ago was testimony that ock bands needn't be oiginal, cleve, o excessively talented in ode to enjoy popula appeal. t was equally distessing to see the same audience who so thooughly enjoyed the Go-Go's' eady-made, pefabicated set emain dumb and glued to thei seats when Joe "King" Caasco, a talented musician with enegy, wit, and a band to match, mounted the stage and gave it his all. t seemed that the audience pefeed the popula athe than the unknown, even though the fome seveely lacked in the qualities known as depth and talent. t would be inaccuate to say that this phenomenon is indigenous to Stony Book audiences because they'e not the only ones esponsible fo making the Go- Go's' debut album Beauty and the Beat each numbe 19 on the Billboads chat. Loaded with tite, banal hooks and inane, supeficial lyics, Beauty,and the Beat has become the favoite of music fans in seach of that untalented, edundant band to-love-even-thoughthey'e-teible, especially since the Ramones have shoed up thei act and made thei new music moe palatabl. Yes, the Go-Go's' songs a: e infectious-anything that has as many hooks as "Ou Lips Ae Sealed" would be-and fun to dance to. So ae a few dozen Long sland copy bands, but that doesn't give them the nod to assume they'e wothy of headlining in a venue that is used to the likes of Santana, Todd Rundgen and Pat Metheny among othes. This is Stony Book, not Tuey's. The Go-Go's don't stand to compae with anything moe than a bette than aveage gaage band. Fist, the Go-Go's' lush hamonies wee distoted by the most atocious mix that one could possible toleate, even allowing fo Scoop Audio-Visual's nomally defective and tone-deaf sense of heaing. Second, it would have sufficed and been a lot cheape to have gatheed a goup of fiends and played Beauty and the Beat all the way though fo the Go-Go's' did little moe than epeat the LP note fo note. No impovisation, no spontaneity. All thei songs, with the same 4/4 mete, wee ehashed and seved in the same pefunctoy fashion. Thid, but most impotant, the Go- Go's' mateial boows fom evey facet of 60's pop-ock-fom the thee and fou pat hamonies of the Ronettes and the Belmonts to the unvituostic guita style that ties had to imitate the Ventues. n fact, Chalotte Caffey's and Jane Wiedlin's guita playing is so bland and dismally simple that any fist yea student of the guita could easily pefom the same songs with minimal effot and pactice. Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine popel the diving hythm section which, given the simplistic and almost minimalistic mateial, is no geat feat. Ms. Shock, though, exhibited exteme deftness behind the dums, poving to be moe than an adequate pecussionist. have been ecently chided that should give cedit to the Go-Go's' because they ae an all-female band, a,supising aity in today's polific music wold. Fotunately one's sex is no citeia in judging musical achievement and those who allow the Go-Go's' gende colo thei own opinions about what they may othewise egad as contemptible o tedious music execise the wost and most dangeous kind of sexism. Pehaps, then, one should make allowances fo evey novelty act that can about the limit fo the Go-Ge's' whose such was the case that fateful Sunday play thee o fou chods and cay a musical ange extends as fa as the New night in the Gym. Caasco's aucuous tune, even though they fall fa shot of Yok Giants' offense. R&B guita style, backed by a eedy evey standad we set fo othe moe Opening fo the Go-Go's' wee Joe ogan and a elentless hythm section. established atists. "King" Caasco and the Cowns, the teemed with enegy that was conspicuously absent duing the Go-Go's' set. "We Got The Beat" and "Ou Town" fome dalings of the CBGB cowd and ae danceable tunes that ae moe enjoy- the headlines of last yea's Get Stiff Regetablly, the impatience of the able than the nomal fae head these tou. t is always embaassing when the audience blunted what could have been days in the city's dance clubs. But that's opening act outplays the headline and a wild ock and oll occasion. _ s. L _ - ~C _ ~ Big Bothe is Watching You Stay Hats by P.F. Sullivan The Pess stated it. t was a Wednesday night at the Lectue Cente, and evey othe peson had The Pess' latest issue. They wee thee fo the movie 1984, but the "Stay of the Week" offeed a set of instuctions fo making a pape hat. Complicated instuctions, they unintentionally contained a gem of mischief. Those who couldn't manage constuctive folding became mastes of destuctive folding. What they folded glided spectaculaly fom the uppe tie to the gound floo and sometimes back again, ganeing hoots, applause, bemusement. The catch was that newspape doesn't make a paticulaly good aiplane-what usually found itself gleefully spouting wings and flitting acoss the oom was good, infomative, political liteatue. Standing on line befoe the show, one could ovehead undeclassmen noticing the Ronald eagan 1984 ad, eyes whited-out, pointing at the onlooke, the quote beside: "Big Bothe is watching you." Said one undelcassmen to anothe: "Hey! Maybe Ronald Reagan is Big Bothe!" t was that kind of cowd. The showing of the film was by design moe a political event than a film event, though you wouldn't know it by the cowd. Chosen fo its obvious cautionay themes, the film is being used as a fundaise fo Unity Resouce, a two month ond New Yok based oganization whose aim, accoding to John Matin O'Casey, one of a goup of housemates in New Yok City who founded the oganization, is to help coodinate the dispaate left against the oganized, monied ight. "The one wod they don't want to hea", O'Casey said, efeing to the Reagan egime and all its conies, "is Unity. Once they hea that they know they've gove a fight on thei hands." O'Casey pointed out the distessing fact that leftist student goups, gay libeation goups, migant famwokes, missionaies, black libeation goups, foeign policy analysts, and human ights activists aely talk toeach othe. One is eithe a membe of Amnesty ntenational o Science fo the People, aely both. While membeship in moe than one pogessive oganization is admiable. in unity's eyes, the lack of communication between the vaious goups is the eason the Right pevails. n keeping with Unity's thust towad unification. invitations went out to many campus oganizations to set up tables outside Lectue Hall 100 and distibute liteatue. Howeve, only CSPES (Committee in Solidaity with the People of El Salvado). the campus contact fo Unity Resouce, and Hugh Cleland. histoy pofesso and membe of the Democatic Socialist Paty who canvassed the line. Bay Ragin. membe of CSPES, expessed chagined disappointment. "ts a golden oppotunity," he said. "You've got seveal hunded of the most apathetic people on campus ight hee tonight, and nobody's hee." Unity Resouce is a two month old oganization based in New Yok City. Thei showing of which involves a nation wide campus-to campus touis, in O'Casey's wods, only the fist of thei pojected activities. Within six months, full-time poduction employment involving cable TV. film. and jounalism will be available to all the goups shaing the oganizations political bias. Since the media ae what get the Right's messages acoss. Unity Resouce sees the use of the media as a pimay stategy fo social change. -- 1'1 ~ - - -' --- )~c~cvdti 1: s 1 p~agte

13 The Univesity Wind Ensemble by Alysa Chadow The Novembe 11 pefomance of the Univesity Wind Ensemble got off to a slow, disjointed stat but by ending in pefect hamony the Ensemble secued the pivilege of an encoe. The wind ensemble, fomely The Univesity Band, was led by M. Jack Kieselman, an atist in esidence fom New Yok Univesity, and assisted by M. William Sniffin, Assistant Music Diecto. The pogam opened with the pelude to Richad Wagne's opea Die Miestesinge Von Nuembeg. The wok stated out slowly, without any cohesiveness. About midway though, howeve, the playing became quickened in tempo and the ensemble's playing tightened, both elements in binging the piece to a lively finish. Second on the pogam was Geoge Bizet's L'Alessicnne Suite #2 which exhibited liveliness touched with just the ight amount of pathos so as to make the piece sombe without being heavy. Thee was with each successive change in each of the fou movements a smooth tansition fom the quickness of the pelude to the delicacy of the minuetto, ight down to the sweeping elegance of the adagietto and caillo movements. That liveliness and eageness of spiit was even moe evident in M. Sniffin's conducting of selections fom Richad Roge's musical Caousel. The pefomance was stiking. t was jubilant enough to make the listene faily dance in seat in exhilaation while it was emotional enough to bing actual teas to the eyes. Hecto Belioz's "Hungaian Mach," fom "Damnation of Faust," was a ousing and uplifting wok which was again conducted by M. Keiselmen. Following a fifteen minute intemission, M. Sniffin etuned to lead the ess Photo tv Stu Davis ensemble in Claude Monteved's sonata sopa, "Santa Maia Oa Po Nobis." Unlike the pevious woks, Santa Maia was based on ich melodies and deep olling tones, making it possibly one of the best pieces of the pogam. M. Keiselmen etuned to lead in highlights fom Jey Book's stage hit Fiddle On The Roof, with a unique sound made by the bass and wind aangement of a taditional all sting intoduction. No woodwind/bass concet would be complete without the music fom John Phillip Sousa, who was epesented by the "Rifle Regiment Mach" and the "Picadoe Mach." The two maches wee gandly executed by excellent aangements-sousa himself would have been impessed. The pogam closed with the finale fom Pete lych Tchaikovsky's "Symphony #5." The wok had a momentay elapse demonstated in the Wagne piece, but by the wok's middle, it had once again picked up and displayed the tightness of the peceeding woks. The audience's eception had inceased thoughout the pogam fom a polite acknowlegement to unmitigated enthusiasm. t was no wonde then the ensemble was able to do one encoe, Sousa's "Washington Post," which, in addition to being the highlight of the evening, was, by the enthusiasm of its pefomance (it is extemely difficult not to become enthusiastic at a Sousa wok), able to evoke visions of college football homecomings and ah-ah fans in accoon coats wildly cheeing the uddy-faced young athletes as they jog,onto the field. The concet was an excellent one, both though divesity of pieces and highly polished pefomances. t is no doubt the upcoming Chistmas concet by the ensemble will be eagely looked fowad to by this night's audience....and its Diecto by Alysa Chadow " studied with acouple of membes of the New Yok Philhamonic when was a boy of about eight yeas old. One man's name was Simon Kova, a bassoonist. He taught me all the opeatic and symphonic liteatue. Anothe man was a clainetist named Simon Bellison (M. Keiselmen is himself a clainetist). Then also studied with my fathe, a violinist with the Philhamonic. He played with them fo foty five yeas. Most of my chambe music expeience came fom him," explained M. Jack Keiselmen duing a ecent inteview. Keiselmen is an atist-in-esidence in the Depatment of Music as well as the cuent conducto of the Univesity Wind Ensemble, fomely known as the Univesity Band. "At the age of seventeen became a clainetist with the New Oleans Symphony. At the age of eighteen etuned to New Yok and became a membe of the Little Ochesta Society as well as playing on ecodings fo movie soundtacks and on the adio, as well as a geat deal of feelance wok. "As the yeas pogessed, played with such ochestas as the New Yok Philhamonic, the BBC Sym- -,phony Ochesta, the Bolshoi Theate Ochesta, the Metopolitan Opea Ochesta, the Casals Festival Ochesta in Pueto Rico, and all the famous conductes such as Dimiti Metopolis, Eich Leinsdof, Leonad Benstein, Thomas Schippes, William Steinbeg, Cal Bohm, Leopold Stakovsky, and many othes. S" was a membe of the Goldman Band fo sixteen yeas, unde both fathe and son." " played fo thtqueen's SilveJubilee in England in 1977, and toued as a soloist, a chambe musician, and a membe of music clinics. am a pofesso at New Yok Univesity's School of Education, Nusing, and the Ats Pofessions. conduct the NYU Concet Band page 14 The Stony Book Pess and while teaching conducting at NYU, 'm a codiecto of that univesity's contempoay playes with D. Dinu Ghezzo. t's a vey famous goup with a lot of ecodings." M. Keiselmen has been an atist-in-esidence hee at Stony Book since When asked how he came by the position, Keiselmen explained, " was inteviewed hee. One of the pofessos who inteviewed me was the late saac Nemeov (one of the foundes of Stony Book Univesity and the bothe of contempoay poet Howad Nemeov). The ensemble is new. t is a continuation of the had wok of Simon Kaasick, which he did ove the yeas hee at the Univesity." Keiselmen selected the pieces fo the Novembe 11 concet, "Mostly by popula demand. pay attention to what the musicians like to play, not just thowing it at them. Since played about 1,000 band and ensemble concets, 've had a lot of old mateial to choose fom. like eveything play. t depends on the mood am in. have no favoite composes. They've all witten something like." Keiselmen has ecently taken ove the ensemble fom Kaasick. "We have a band and we wok had to make it geat. owe a lot to my assistant M. Sniffin (who had been pesent duing the inteview), who is a temendous conducto. have anothe assistant, my music libaian Lisa Blackmoe, without whose assistance in finding music would be lost. "The thing about this goup is not only ae the kids enthusiastic and had woking, they ae vey intelligent. They have a geat deal of wamth." n addition to his othe accomplishments, M. Keiselmen has been the teache of many outstanding musicians, one of whom is a bass clainetist in the New Yok Philhamonic. M..Keiselmen is not only an outstanding musician, but his wam and enthusiastic pesonality is eaching the students of the Stony Book campus. ONO"=

14 -mfilm Galaxy: Anothe Bad, Bad Movie by P.F. Sullivan Galaxy of Teo Diected by B.D. Clak Poduced by Roge Caman and Mac Siegel With Edwad Albet, Ein Moan, and Ray Walston n the movie wold, thee ae amongst us those who will go to see almost anything. And thee ae those who will make absolutely anything. The poblem with going to see anything egulaly, and likewise with making, almost indisciminately, anything, is that the things seen and the things made ae aely any good. Thee must theefoe be some othe motive o eason fo going to o making bad films-we can't all be pevets. Thee almost by definition must be something about bad films that sates some desie on the pat of the moviegoe, something pehaps cathatic and pehaps even peveted, in the stict sense of the wod (i.e., pesisting in that which isunconventional Y.alaxy of Teo, the Roge Coman famteam's latest enty into the quickie exploitation hoo film maket, is just such an execise in existentia silliness. One looks at the sceen, looks at oneself looking at the sceen, and says "Why am hee?" Even among bad films, howeve, distinction must be made between films that ae flops and films that set out to be bad. Some bad films actually ty to be god, but fail, like Galaxy of Teo. They don't ty vey had, tue, but thei fist concen, afte all, is to make money, not at. While poduced on elatively low budgets, they ae not meely ippingyou off, exploiting maket staples (weid monstes, spaceships, explosions, flashy video display boads), o pandeing to the dak side of human natue (apist woms, on sceem dismembements, neo-taoist male supemacist fantasies). Thee is a way to enjoy these bad bads films. One just has to find it. (On the othe side pf the bad film coin ae the intentionally peveted films the ones that ae bad but well made-good bad, so to speak. Easehead, Pink Flamingos, and The Rocky Hoo Pictue Show ae examples of this kind of bad film.) When one is asking oneself those deep dak questions like "Why am hee?" while sitting in that deep dak usually moe than half-empty theate, its a matte of self espect to come up with a satisfactoy answe. Often it takes an act of downight ceation. One might go to a Godad, Besson, o Antonioni film fo education of the conscience, but not to something called Galaxy of Teo. Thee's a kind of casual, sophomoic, comic gluttony involved. One laughs, makes jokes, heckles. The geneal tone of an audience-a seasoned audiencefo a film of this sot is sadonic, elaxed, flippant. Comments fly feely once its established that the film is bad enough not to be taken seiously, which usually takes no moe than five minutes and/o a disbelieving glance o two in a fiend's diection. Somehow, without making much money at all (its woking on its thid title, the fist two unsaleable ones being Mindwap: An nfinity of Teo and, late, Planet of Hoos), Galaxy of Te - o has achieved some notoiety, o else moe people ead Vaiety than one would suppose. When saw the pictue, as the lights went down a man in the back of the theate shouted "We want the wom!" n its eview of the film, Roses ae ed Violets ae blue On a scale of one to ten This album gets a five plus two and Afte six yeas of cetified linoleum albums, the last two of which wee spent label shopping, Ringo Sta has eleased his last ditch plea to e-ente the Billboad Top 100. Coutesy of Neil Bogat (the man who has bought us such gems as the Village People and the 1910 Fuitgum Company) and his new Boadwalk label, Stop and Smell the Roses (the plea) pulls out all stops to eaffim Ringo as a membe of the comical pop gene. Spoting a gimmicky cove (scatch and smell the oses), a who's who of musicians and poduces, and a sheet ienumeating the uttely peposteous lyics, Stop and Smell the Roses anges fom the idiculous to the sublime. Fist, the sublime. Paul McCatney's beautifully melodic "Admial Halsey"-like the tune "Attention"-finds Ringo's voice (believe it o not) as a majo foce. Ron Wood's "Dead Giveaway" has a Fende Rhodes and bass iff, immaculately pefomed by Cusades Joe Sample and Vaiety (which eviews eveything)' noted that Galaxy of Teo's main selling point with the "yahoo cowd" was the film's only "sex scene", wheein a blond "space jockette" is aped by "a wom of Kongian dimensions". This scene ammounted to fou guys in a ubbe wom suit ubbing glyceine all ove a moaning, withing nude woman. This latheed foam ubbe butalization pompted a peson thee ows down to declae plaintively: " don't believe it." The cowd, sadonic and flippant, esponded with applause and shouts of "Autho! Autho!" Eithe the guy in the back saw the film befoe o ead Vaiety. Bad bad films like Galaxy of Teo demand this sot of attitude on the pat of the audience. Moe often than not films like this ae made out of leftove sets to milk still existing poduction setups. Galaxy fo example was made by the same special effects goup, and at the same studio, that made last yea's Coman quickie (which actually made a lot of money) Battle Beyond the Stas, the pastiche of science fiction westens that staed Richad Thomas, as a sot of Space Johnboy, and Robet Vaughan and Geoge Peppad. Coman is notoious fo exploiting fleeting maket tends. n 1959 he made Battle of the Planets, the fist film to cash in on the Sputnik supise of the summe of that yea. t was eleased within two months of the satellite launch. n the sixties Coman poduced and/o diected seveal Edga Allan Poe pastiches (/The Raven, Tomb of Ligeia, Pit and the Pendulum, and The Masque of the Red Death) which solidified Vincent Pice's eputation as a ceep-show MC. He cashed in on the bike movie caze, with Hell's Angels on Wheels (1967) which staed Jack Nicholson. n fact, the list of names that is associated with Roge Coman as a sot of foste fathe is quite impessive. He's poduced the fist film of at least fou notable diectos: ving Kischne (Stake out on Dope Steet, 1958), Fancis Coppola (Dimentia 13, '62), Pete Bogdonovich (Tagets. '68), and Matin Scosese (Bosca Betha, '72). John Sayles, the diectos of one of the best new Ameican films of ecentyeas, The Retun of the Secaucus Seven, has witten scipts fo him-alligato, Pianha, The Lady in Red, Humanoids fom the Deep. ctos often find oppotunities to, if not beak out of, at least augment any image they may have acquied, whethe Ringo Rides Again Wilton Felde. that is so bluesy it will knock you socks off. McCatney's "Pivate Popety," aside fom its awful lyics, has a punchy hon iff and bass line is typically McCatneyesque. These, while not amodng thei wite's best woks, offe some appealing ock 'n' oll. And now fo the idiculous. Hay Nilsson's "Dumming s My Madness," an attempt at humo, in fact does tun out to be the most humoous thing on the album. Afte utteing the line...'dumming makes me ock and oll...watch me now...", Ringo poceeds to play a solo which sounds like a want ad fo Buddy Rich. "Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses" sums up the pupose of this lp. Ringo uttes "Stop and take the time to buy this album so can plant oses..." to a agtime beat. He obviously knows this is his last chance. Geoge Haison's "Wack My Bain" is so bad it was discaded fom his last album fo two Hoagy Camichael tunes. 've got to admit Ringo Sta is a funny man. Seeing him in an inteview will attest to that. When Ringo gets some good mateial the esults ae vey appealing. n his heyday, he would intespese these with successfully though TV, o othe movies. n Galaxy of Teo, Ein Moan gets to go a whole hou-and-a-half without saying "Oh Fonzie" once. Edwad Albet poves he's old enough to gow a moustache. Alas, Ray Walston seems to have no othe eason fo being thee othe than pehaps to pay some ovedue bills. He seems so often to be thinking "Why am hee?" -, ~l~ - ' ll ii ' T 1~lllsl MMB humoous nonsense. On Stop and Smell the Roses, howeve, you'll be laughing at these attempts, not with them. You've got to like a man who impoves on his instument. On this album, Ringo has cut his need fo a studio dumme to half of the selections. shouldn't come down too had on Ringo, howeve. His dumming is a majo pat of his humo (it is what gives him his chaacte) and these attempts aen't all that bad. Stop and Smell the Roses will encounte one majo poblem in attempting to each its sales goals. t will be difficult fo a peson to plunk down six o seven dollas fo this album when they could take thee steps ove to the cutout bin and get Ringo's last six albums fo the same pice. Stop and Smell the Roses is an uneven effot. At times billiant and at times absud, it will pobably have modeate success, as Boadwalk is giving it excellent pomotion. To this wite, howeve: Roses ae ed Violets aen't tan You'l loea this album f you'e a Ringo Sta fan. f not. one might be affoded the afoementioned advice... -Lay Feibel ' i Decembe page 15

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