CAMPUS RACISM INSIDE. DISCRIMI- NATION p. 2. Activism, Press Busters, p.4 Women in Politics. p.6 Troupe/ Baraka, p.15 The doors, mestisslt. p.

Transcription

1 m NSDE mestisslt j i V y t shae s 'tt - m p i u ty DSCRM- NATON p. 2 Activism, p.3-4 Pess Bustes, p.4 Women in Politics p.6 Toupe/ Baaka, p.15 The doos, backpage L lll CAMPUS RACSM i

2 CAMPUS RACSM/ TELECONFERENCE by StphenLShapo On Wednesday, Febuay, 20, 1991, duing Campus Life' Time, seveal USB goups spon-i soed a video confeence, boadcast via satellite fom SUNYV Albany, entitled "The Rise in- Campus Racism: Causes and Solutions." Featued in the pogam wee Psychologist/Educato Na'im Akba, fom Floida State Unive-: sity, as well as Jawanza Kunjufu,! autho of Counteing the Cons-' piacy to Destoy Black Boys. The two hou pogam,! held in the Javits Lectue Cente, was attended by thity individuals. One student commented " wish moe people would have attended so that moe people could benefit fom it." Paticipating in the po-, gam wee the Student Affais Equal Oppotunity and Affimative Action Committee, the Depatment of Student Union and Activities, and the Student Affais Staff Development Committee. "We need moe pogams like this at Oientation at all levels," stated; Stessoi Altemis, who woks with the depatment of Student Union and Activities. Senio Libeal Ats Majo Adienne Hawthone commented, " think that the issues aised by the teleconfeence was cental to what colleges need to addess: acial tensions within the college campus. Education on cultual divesity fom the peschool age to matuity will dimi-: nish the ugly face of acism indefinitely." Recently, thee was an i incident on the Stony Book campus at a blood dive. As a; esult of demonstatos' actions, two Afo-Ameican students face univesity and ciminal chages. On the condition of anonymity, one student said, "The way that the situation was handled by the univesity's administation was epulsive. (Pesident) Mabuge and his inept administation ae acist. This campus needs some fast efom on acism." Mabugej was unavailable fo comment as he was meeting with SUNY officials in Albany. As she continued, "Diffeences ae good - yet, afte close examination, you ealize that we ae all moe simila than diffeent." Last Januay, at a Town of Bookhaven youth leadeship weekend, an oganization was fomed in ode to combat acism and bias of all types. ts aconym, S.T.A.R. - stands fo Students' Togethe Against Racism. n no time at all, this oganization was at the foefont of addessing acism and bias. t is completely opeated by students unde the diection of an adult leade. Goup facilitato Neil Cuy stated, "Ou goal fo this yea is to ceate awaeness, to educate, and bing about change." Stony Book's Acting Diecto fo Affimative Action, Monica Roth, explained that "vey few.incidents ae epoted" and that when they ae, "evey attempt is made to ectify the situation amicably." n addition,1 Roth wished to convey the mes-j sage to all membes of the univesity community that any victims of acism should contact he office, located in the Administation Building, Room 474, at extension All mattes bought to the office's attention Sae kept stictly confidential. eads in pat: "Afte holding discussions with Senate Executive, Committee and eceiving mateials fowaded to me by vaious membes of the campus community, and statements made in subsequent meetings of the Senate, decided that my oiginal esponse to the Senate Recommendation on ROTC and Militay Recuitment of Novembe 22 still epesents my position." Mabuge's position is and has been that it is inappopiate fo the Univesity to make a policy decision that bas cetain oganizations fom ecuiting on campus, no matte if they do disciminate in those pactices. This position came in esponse to the Univesity Senate's oiginal Resolution on Non-Disciminatoy Recuitment that was passed in Octobe of 19?0. That esolution ead: "We popose that any oganization, in ode to use the sevices of (the Univesity)... towads attacting new employees, membes, o estudents demonstating against aqi slaughte. v... Come on Jack Mabuge Doesn't Budge Concening Militay Recuitment by James F. Bama Afte thee months of anticipation, USB Pesident John Mabuge esponded to the Univesity Senate ecommend-, ation that he econside his decision concening the Resolution on Non-Disciminatoy ecuitment. His esponse, which was the eighth of nine items in a witten memo to the Senate, was vey bief, and gave scant explanation fo his position. He made no vebal mention duing his esponse to the Senate, until Senato Robet Hawkins questioned him about his esponse. Mabuge's esponse' cuits, be equied to sign a statement that it does not disciminate in its employment pactices on the basis of ace, gende, age, sexual oientation, eligion, disability, national oigin, maital status, o Vietnam ea vetean status." Pofesso Robet Hawkins, of the School of Allied Health, is esponsible fo much of the action that has been taken concening this issue. "'m not supised at his esponse," he said, " am cetainly disappointed by it, because think he had a chance to eally make an impact, and he chose not to do that." He continued by saying, "Until ecuites ae denied access to this campus, they don't have to listen to diddly-squat. t will only be when they ae denied access that they will undestand that they have to stat ethinking what thei policies ae." When Pofesso Hawkins was asked whethe he thought the Senate would do anything moe concening this issue, he said, "No, don't. Meanwhile, 'm not waiting... 'm going to do my best to at least bing the issue to whateve legal bodies ae willing to hea it." He finished by saying, "t is now time fo those of us who want things to change to get togethe, and see what we can come up with." * TAKE -- - DRUGS - AND LOSE Recognition O Rewite? NYS Boad of Regents Ties to Even the Histoical Scoeboad by John Sly & Ga Noiega Fo yeas, the "minoity" goups in the United States have appealed to local school boads to include moe non- Euopean histoy in its cuiculum. n 1987, the New Yok State (NYS) Boad of Regents decided to evamp its high school histoy pogam to include a two yea wold histoy couse. The feshman-sophomoe couse contains Afican, Asian and Euopean Histoy. The NYS Boad of Regents is the oldest oganization of its type, and is often the educational standad othe states set thei own pogams by. Afte deciding on its Wold Histoy couse, Educational Commissione Thomas Sobol instucted a committee to investigate minoity histoy in the NYS cuiculum. n July 1990, the epot, called "A Cuiculum of nclusion", was eleased. t stated that minoities and non-euopean wee sadly epesented in the NYS cuiculum, and that NYS should stat to make plans to add moe minoity histoy, Now the debate is focused aound how to implement the changes. How does one give cedit without ewiting histoy? Many expets fea that e-witing histoy is exactly what will happen if the "Cuiculum of nclusion" becomes law and not a epot. David Noble, Donna Ravitch, D. James Come and othe top educatos claim the epot is nothing shot of acist popaganda. Even the epot's many suppotes have thei doubts. D. Sobol is woied about a hodge-podge effot, and the state's histoy books becoming disjointed and confused. The United States unique histoy has placed a buden on the education system in ou state. Thee ae so many diffeent nationalities epesented in both state and national histoy that including all of thei accomplishments in one coheent histoy -could become a bigge task than anyone imagined. New Yok State aleady has an excellent pogam, augmented by many excellent teaches. The "Cuiculum of nclusion" epot could be what many of them have been waiting fo. t could also become a catch phase fo many goups who feel disciminated in ou nation's ich histoy, and wish to pomote thei cultue at the expense of othes. On the othe hand minoity histoy, so to speak, should not continue to be excluded fom the histoy books. Accoding to Randy Bown, "A Po- Anglo-Saxon Social Studies cuiculum is damaging to ace elations." The task foce epoted that fo this same eason thee is a high minoity dop-out ate in high school. Also, Maki Mandela (at a lectue on Febuay 5, 1991 at Stony Book) said that 99% of elementay school pupils do not make it to gaduation. * mamm The Stony Book Pess page 2 _ ;-- C"7NvuC

3 -- mmwýý The Sixties and Social Change - Then and Now hit -klm eaek UJ U% a %-MaJ Segegation vs. ntegation S.B. Coalition fo Peace in student mach on Malcolm X Day The Road to the '60s byjohn Seaty Afican-Ameicans have been ebelling' evolting, potesting, and oganizing against oppession since setting foot on Ameican soil. The civil ights movement can be viewed as a continuation of the Civil Wa. Although thee is no specific cause pe se, of the civil ights movement, the moden movement is geneally dated fom the 1954 Bown decision. n his book, Oigins of the Civil Rights Movement, Aldon Mois (who eceived his PhD fom USB) tackles the question by focusing on those factos which helped enew and sustain mass mobilization fo change. Among these factos was the Black chuch, which since it was independent of White contol, seved as a cente of oganization and communication among Afican-Ameicans. Black-un media, which kept Afican-Ameicans infomed of cases of social injustice futhe aided the cause. Some impotant dates: 1619: Fist shipment of slaves to Ameica. 1664: The hash ealities of a land ich but labo-scace economy had become inceasingly appaent to the Mayland settles. The Colonial Assembly was eady to impose by foce of law the statutes of pepetual slavey. 1857: Ded Scott vs. Sanfod. Scott, a slave, was found not to possess the civil ights that othe citizens enjoyed : The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments confeed citizenship and the ight to vote. 1876: The Hayes/Tildman ageement saw the loss of the civil ights which wee gained as a esult of the Civil Wa. Reconstuction came to an end in the South. 1896: Plessy vs. Feguson. The "sepaate but equal" doctine (Jim Cow Laws), which enfoced segegation in public places and public institutions, became fimly entenched in Ameica. 1954: Bown vs Boad of Education. Allowed integation of schools. Pofs. Cash and McAdoo contibuted to this aticle. As pat of a Black Histoy Month Symposium, community, spiitual and business leade Tom Skinne contasted the activism of the 1960's with that of the 90's and said, "Afican-Ameican self-detemination can be ealized only though economic independence." Accoding to Rev. Skin-ne, although Ameica is viewed as a haven of toleance and feedom, the mateialistic aspects cannot be ovelooked. He continued by saying that slavey was chosen as the basis fo the economic system of this county, following a path fom the cotton fields to the textile industy. As the economic system upheld slavey, so did the political machine suppot it. As Rev. Skinne explained, "Of the following cases, Ded Scott (1857), Plessy vs. Feguson (1896), and Bown vs. Boad of Education (1954), only the Ded Scott Decision - which made blacks unequal to whites - was obeyed by the social ode." Ameica suppoted its economic system by legislatively making Afican-Ameicans less than human though taxing blacks at the ate of 3/5 a peson and dismissing adultey in cases that involved an Afican- Ameican. Malcolm and Matin by JohnSeay """"" % Llgl "- g --, Malcolm X, (bon Malcolm Little, late to be known amongst his pees duing his peiod of ciminal activity as Big Red and eventually adopting the name, El hajj Malik El Shabazz upon visiting Mecca), concluded that whites had puposely distoted the histoical ole of Afican Ameicans. He hoped also to impat pide, convey knowledge, and motivate black people. An enegetic Muslim leade and well vesed on the histoy of Afican Ameicans. He was a spokesman fo Black nationalism. Malcolm X knew Black heitage and spoke out against pejudice. He mentioned that the Black man came fom a high civilization in Egypt - the oiginal mastes of mathematics, achitectue, astonomy, and buildes of pyamids. Matin Luthe King J. and Malcolm X, although both sons of Baptist ministes, wee not of the same class and backgound. Fo example, Malcolm's fathe identified moe with the Gaveyite "Back to Afica" movement. They wee to foeve change the way in which the white man has teated Black people. They showed to the wold that Afican-Ameicans wee going to fight fo equality. Nevetheless, both men had many poblems because it was not easy to demand equality, fight fo the ight to hold civil sevice jobs, to be able to go anywhee and live anywhee. Howeve, it would seem as if both men wee peaching a conflicting line of philosophy o at best shaed a common end, but pefeed a diffeent means. Malcolm insisted that Afican-Ameicans should neve initiate acts of aggession, but that they had the ight to defend themselves fom butality whee the fedeal govenment was eithe unable o unwilling to potect them. He peached a physical defense as the means to the ends of acial equality, while Matin peached complete non-violence. Elijah Muhammad, Malcom's teache, did not want Black Muslims to get politically involved o oganizationally involved in the civil ights movementmuch to Malcolm's fustation. As.magnificent as Matin's deam was, many view his methodology as fundamentally flawed fom the onset by not!incopoating moe of Malcolm's philosophy. King undestood that feedom belongs to anyone who has the powe to take it. But Matin tanslated "powe" as "edemptive love and suffeing." [To kill a black man by Lois E. Lomax p.187 (King)]. King said that those oppessed Some civil ights activists believe that only a complete acial integation can guaantee tue equality. Othes disagee, citing that integation will des-toy the distinct ethnic identity of the Afican-Ameican. A positive aspect of segegation, said Skinne, was that thee was no need fo ole models. "We had them living on the block. Kids with holes in thei shoes lived in the same neighbohood as doctos and lawyes." Dopping the colo baie admitted a few to a white wold and left the black communities empty-handed. Appaently "Buppies" explain thei exodus fom the neighbohoods by saying, " paid my dues." Skinne says it is not a matte of the upwadly-mobile paying thei dues, but ealizing who is paying them. The ange of youth is left in the neighbohoods, but the expetise necessay fo activism has been co-opted. The Activism of the 60's Becomes the Apathy of the 90's continued on page 4 must be willing to suffe fo the highe cause of feedom, because etaliation against the evil-doe was moally wong and would only embitte both sides. Shuva Paul contibuted to this aticle. * Mach 8, 1991 page 3

4 Change continued fom page 3. "The envionmental movement, the women's movement, and the peace movement duing Vietnam all came fom the, activism of the civil ights' movement," said Skinne. "ni the 60's, activism was a common denominato. People would say, 'Hey, have you been aested lately?' o, 's thee any action coming up?" People wee inteested. He said that in the 90's, we' have apathy. "Today, you can't: get students to ally aound a! gabage pail." Rev. Skinne discussed the powe of 60's, activism: "We got id of a pesident (L.B.J.). The last poll saw had 84 pecent of the county in appoval of Bush." Rev. Skinne emphasized the youth of the civil ights, activists of the 1960's, but citicized thei failue to pass the eins on to the next geneation. A main ift in the activism of the 90's is the split between Afican- Ameicans and Caibbean Afican- Ameicans. "The symptoms emain," Skinne says, "The activism does not" continued on page 6 : --. w _ a Potestes Mach Against aqi Slaughte )h Say n You See..." GG 4 by Robet V. Gleany The Stony Book Coalition fo Peace in the Middle East planned an anti-wa vigil andt mached though the campus last week [Febuay 28]. As it tuned out, a cease-fie was announced that day. The unfoeseen ceasefiwe visibly affected the size and the chaacte of the the action. Because of the cease-. fie, the tunout fo the vigil was down to 25. The mach was led by a demonstato who woe an amy office's jacket, hat and a small Hitle moustache with a yellow' ibbon tied aound his am. People mached and cicled the sundial in font of the Administation building, chanting, "New, Wold Ode, Same Old Shit!" and othe vaious slogans. The; demonstatos then headed towadl the Javits Lectue Cente. i The mach poceededl silently with a steady slow beat of a dum and went though the classooms quietly. Hostile vibes! fom many students wee felt - it' was clealy a ough day to be an anti-wa, anti-impeialist activist. Cat-calls stated coming fom the classes, as well as chants of. "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!." At the same time some of the maches aised thei hands in a mock fascist : salute to the chant. Mache, Shoshanna Wingate said, "You'll The Stony Book Pess page 4,notice that the men yelled and chanted 'U.S.A.!' and the women said, 'Let them [the maches] make thei point."' At one point, the maches went into a classoom whee a test was taking place. They left immediately without a distubance, and the class was thankful fo that. The pocession then went though the Administation and Psychology buildings befoe coming to the Student Union. The peace demonstatos held a "diein" in font of the Union. Seveal potestes smeaed thei faces with ed paint and lay motionless on the gound, symbolizing the canage of the wa. A few aguments boke out between the, potestes and passes-by. People talked about the "evil" Saddam Hussein and how he needed to be stopped, while the activists answeed back, telling how the U.S. govenment had given, the aqi Regime the geen light on,the invasion of Kuwait, and hadl stated that the U.S. would <be neutal in an aqi-kuwait wa. Othe potestes pointed out that fome U.S. Attoney Geneall Ramsey Clak had ecentlyl etuned fom a fact-finding tou of aq and had concluded that the U.S.-led coalition foces delibeately bombed civilian tagets inside aq. 1 n h b nw n 2" n an appaent violation of a Constitutionally guaanteed civil ight, an employee of the univesity illegally suspended distibution of the Stony Book Pess in the Union lobby Febuay '21. Mike Ring, the Evening Coodinato fo the Depatment of Student Union and Activities, said 'he found the cove "questionable" and afte binging it to the Sattention of his supeviso, Ca- 'men Vazquez, the Diecto of the Depatment, said the issue was, banned fom the Union because its cove was "obscene." S The act of censoship lasted five hous, duing which time the newspape's staff sought the suppot of vaious oganizations, including the National Lawyes' Guild, the Ameican Civil Libeties Union, and the media. Polity Pesident Dan Slepian was among those contacted. He was able to get the ban lifted afte talking with Vazquez: "She [Vazquez] thought it would be wise if the Pess staff could hand the pape out in the Union so that they could eceive feedback fom thei patons. Mike Ring sot of took that to mean you have to hand out the papes. She neve told Mike to outight ban them fom the Union." Shotly afte ten-thity PM, Ring called the Pess to lift VE PRESS the ban: " basically thought was doing my job. Honestly, think don't feel as stongly as Camen did. think [the cove] is a good comic. have had a lot of poblems at wok whee didn't call my supeviso in times when should have, and since she was in the building bought [the cove] to he attenion. and want to apologize." The Senate of the Gaduate Student Oganization passed a fou point esolution denouncing the attack on the feedom of expession, eaffiming the Constitutional ight of the feedom of the pess, equesting the Union management not to epeat such behavio, and infoming the' management and othe officials of the univesity of the pevious thee points. The G.S.O. dafted a lette to Ms. Vazquez Mach 1 eminding he that, "The Fist!Amendment...applies to all of us...we cannot...accept the fact that you o one of you employees Scan jeopadize at will and without accountability the expessions of feedom on this campus. Stony Book is an educational institution, not a mall, not a pivate copoation. t gathes a community that stives to develop a fine and fee intellectual envionment that will stand to ealize its mission." The Univesity Senate was appoached Mach 4 with a motion to take a position on the action, but the item was eseved fo one month to allow fo investigation of the incident. Simila esolutions wee bought befoe the Residence Hall Associabon Mach 4 (it is expected to pass next week) and the Polity Senate Mach 6 whee it passed easily. Nom Pusslin, Geneal Manage of WUSB and Chaiman of the Campus Media Council said that he assumed the situation was esolved. He also said, "My sense is that the Depatment of Student Union and Activities is econfiming ou commitment to the ights of ou campus' pint and electonic media." Vice-pesident of Student Affais Fed Peston said, " guess he [Ring] was botheed by what was on the font. As fa as can discen, thee was no intent on the pat of the Student Union management to violate the fist amendment ights of the Stony Book Pess." Two weeks afte the incident Vazquez called the Pess to offe an infomal apology. The newspape has fomed a committee to unequivacally eaffim the ight to feedom of expession of the campus community though the continued ecuitment of assistance of campus govening bodies and the application, of available legal esouces. 0

5 Commute College: Had Pessed fo a Fie Exit by Deba McKee Most Stony Book students ae apt to pass though the Student Union evey day. Some may even linge in this mainsteam cente, be it on the long line at the deli, located on the main level, o on the long line at FSA check cashing, located on the uppe level. But how many souls have actually ventued down into the dak achives of the Union basement? Thee seem to be many secets down below, fo this is pimaily unexploed teitoy. Among the hidden entities ae the Rainy Night House, an acade, a pool oom, LGBA...and oh yes, of couse, the Commute College headquates. Just what the Commute College is, and what it does, seems to be a vague issue fo many. f one looks in the Student Handbook in the fist section (befoe the daily planning section), the College will be descibed as a "student un oganization whose membes include all activity fee-paying undegaduate commuting students." All? Duing a ecent inteview with a commute she said she "didn't even know the Commute College existed." t appeas that at Stony Book you can be a membe of an oganization and not eunt know it. When walking by the College, clustes of commutes can be seen playing ping-pong, studying, o just hanging out. But the activities of the College un much deepe than those of a supeficial social level. Also -listed in, the Student Handbook unde the heading "Govening,". this goup holds Legislatue meetings and elects senatos who attend Polity Senate meetings. n consideation of the lage numbe of Stony Book commutes, the College is allowed to have twenty-thee senatos to epesent them in Polity. The cuent figue of thiteen senatos is actually a good numbe in compaison to the five that wee in office at the. beginning of last semeste. Howeve, thee is only so much infomation that can be gained fom a student handbook. To eally undestand the Commute College, it is necessay to talk to some of its membes. One of the most vocal pesences in the College is Steve Mauiello. n a; ecent inteview he expessed some of his ideas fo the futue ofj the College and attempted to! claify some myths suounding i the oganization. Regading the potential that can be developed within the College, Mauiello said that a! pimay goal of his is to get moe' epesentation and ecognition fo' commutes, who he feels ae an unecognized goup on campus. One means of accomplishing this, he suggests, is to wok within the College itself and encouage the commutes to take a stand fo: themselves. n addition, he has been encouaging fellow senatos to sign up fo committees in ode to play a moe diect ole in campus activities. Like most subjects that ae not that well-known, many assumptions have been made about the Commute College. One of the most pominent to suface has been the idea that the College is dominated by the pesence of College Republicans. Mauiello seemed genuinely supised at this. "Thee ae no College Republicans in the Commute 'College," he said. He believes 'that one poof of this is the fact,that the ecent poposal fom SACA, egading offeing altena- tive options fo students who ae against dissection of animals, was!appoved of by the Commute College. S Anothe popula belief ithat Mauiello addessed was whethe o not he is a College Republican, himself. "Contay to popula belief, Steve Mauiello is not a College Republican... They ae okay guys and hang out with them often, but they ae not eally my cup of tea. [They] ae moe concened with political aspects. am inteested in campus-wide issues." He also added that one eason he did not,attend thei meetings was the fact that the meeting time conflicted with anothe oganization he was involved in. A Suppot the Toops ally was held on Febuay 13. Politics wee to be put aside and it was stessed that neithe po-wa no anti-wa sentiments wee to isuface. That goal was oveidden when speakes voiced thei pesonal views on the United States's position in the Gulf. Although Mauiello did speak, and a fellow commute senato, who wishes not to be identified, said that Mauiello's speech was "vey passionate and patiotic," Mauiello himself clealy said, " deny that it was Po-wa." He did add, howeve, that "Both sides wee vey built up...[thee is] no way people could totally ease thei ýbiases." Anothe occuence at fthis apolitical event, which was not quite as publicized but spued a geat deal of talk, was the confontation between Mauiello and an anti-wa activist. The activist is cuently in the pocess of pessing chages against Mauiello. When asked exactly what did happen, the Polity senato simply eplied, " am fully confident that the tuth of the matte will be bought out though the student judiciay boad." Pehaps the best way to undestand the collective conscience of the Commute College is to see them in action. Recently the Polity senate poposed a esolution egading the wa with aq. This piece was actually composed of two poposals. While both de-claed suppot fo the toops, one took a stand against the wa itself and the othe suppoted the wa. Afte a vey heated senate session, which was held on the vey same day as the ally, the latte po-posal was passed and deemed the official stand of students at Stony Book on the Gulf Wa. Befoe the decision was made, howeve, thee was a dispute whethe o not to even vote on the esolution. One!commute senato opposed (addessing the issue at all. He dubbed the discussion as "ideological" and said that it "did not affect the campus." n addition, he expessed no faith in the body of senatos that have been chosen to epesent the student popula-. tion when he added, "We do not affect them [the students} at all." n the midst of all of the confusion Polity Pesident Dan Slepian summed up the almost comic iony of the situation by saying, "We ae voting if we'e in favo of voting." Once pandemonium was ovecome, the votes of esident senatos wee also lacking in clea-cut quality, fo they included not only po-wa and anti-wa, but also abstentions. Some of the Leg's felt that the esolution was not pesented to them in the best manne possible, and that they wee not allotted significant time to addess such a seious matte. Othe Leg's simply had touble oganizing themselves. These two situations led to the abstentions. "Contay to popula belief, Steve Mauiello is not a College Republican." The Commute College also expeienced poblems duing thei Leg when poposing the esolution - such poblems, in fact, that the offices declaed the vote invalid. Yet, despite the invalidation of the meeting, the Commute senatos voted anyway, and thei votes wee split. When asked why the Leg had been invalidated, Commute senato Paul Mille eplied that the meeting had been hectic. Although thee is an aveage attendance of ten to twelve people, ( a figue smalle than the numbe of senatos in the College), on this day thee wee appoximately foty people in attendance. One of them, identified by Mille as a membe of the Stony Book Coalition fo Peace in the Middle East, stayed only to vote against the wa and then left. Many othes wee "unfamilia faces." n light of this chaos, someone asked the commutes how they could vote and honestly say that thei constituents had been faily epesented. The same senato who dubbed the whole issue as ideological eplied that if one had all 5,000 commutes in one place, they would be "had pessed fo a fie exit." When it was announced that the official stand of Stony Book Univesity was to be in suppot of the toops and in favo of the wa, a wave of boisteous chees boke out among a numbe of the Commute senatos, including Steve Mauiello, who jumped out of his seat with his ams aised in victoious glee. Distubed by this outbust, Dan Slepian denounced these actions. "Fo me, " he said, "it's a vey solemn issue." n addition, he offeed two pefaces fo the esolution. Fist of all, he said that "No one - whethe a Republican, o Libeal - no one favos wa... No one likes death o killing...that's fai to say." He added that many Stony Book students who had to go to Saudi Aabia wee against the wa, and had joined the militay only to pay fo college. One commute senato's esponse to that was that "t was thei own tough luck." n closing, Slepian said "The issue hee is not J.... STAC Club Focus by Stephen L Shapio Students Towad an Accessible Campus, o STAC, was founded in 1978 as an advocacy oganization fo the disabled at Stony Book Univesity. Mem- -beship is open to the entie univesity community, handicapped o non-handicapped. The goal of STAC is to bing the univesity to the individual student and to "help othes help themselves." Seveal students gave advice on how to appoach Stony Book - whethe o not one is disabled' As Bian McCabe, a leaning-disabled sophomoe states, "Thee is a lot of help available if 'you make the effot to find it. Teaches ae coopeative and usually ae willing to accommodate you." Yet, as Junio Eunjoo Lee insists, "Be vey pepaed - look at all you options and take USB fo all its woth. Come to USB each day as if it wee you fist and don't be ovewhelmed by Stony Book." Feshman Mike Cush admits, "Being blind has its obstacles, but one must always keep thei head held high - do whateve is necessay." Section 504 of the Fedeal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a vital piece of legislation affecting the life of the physically disabled student - that is, a student who has a physical o mental impaiment which substantially limits one o moe basic daily activities. These egulations place cetain esponsibilities upon the Univesity so that the special, unique needs of disabled students will be met. Equal oppotunity to all facets of college life confoms to the stuctued equiements set by the fedeal law. The Office of Disabled Student Sevices, located in Humanities 133, povides suppotive sevices fo those students on campus with special needs. Such sevices ae available upon equest. As one STAC membe claims, "People who have no disability at all sometimes take things fo ganted - that is, until the toops-polity always suppots the toops." Slepian descibed the wa as "babaic and pimitive." "t's a good thing that wa is so teible o else men would love it too much." Spoken by Geneal Robet E. Lee afte a fightfully easily won battle, this statement addesses how easy it is to get caught up in the gloy of wa and the shine of medals. This is one man's opinion. But in the wods of Dan Slepian, as he sat diectly facing the Commute College Cone, "We will always be against the wa as human beings.". something happens, and they stat appeciating what they have." One concen of STAC is the plight of classmates, faculty, fiends, and family of the disabled student. " believe that my handicap has enabled me to undestand and appeciate people moe," said STAC Pesident Valeie Palme. "Things aen't as Monica Roth contibuted to this stoy. SOCCER FEST Have you eve gone into the ndoo Spots Complex? This building is band new and spic- :and-span clean. Stop by on Satuday, Mach 9 and watch the Women's ndoo Socce Tounament. Time is fom 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Call fo info. Women's Histoy Month On Mach 13 at the Fannie Bice Theate fom 12:30-2 PM, Panel women activists will talk about the Peace movement and thei ole as well. Sponsoed by Roosevelt Quad, you may want to expess you opinions on the issues involved. Cv meuico Space still available!! El Batab/Downtown... $399* Laguna/Acoss Beach... $469* Solyma/Beach Econ... $499* Las Pelas/Beach Med... $519* Conad Hilton/Supe... $559* Cancun Playa/Deluxe... $589* *Pices based on Quad occ. Oganize a goup & get a fee tip' 800fl31.g0(iT2 -Fo moeffi* 6 call Mach 8, 1991 page 5

6 AFS accommodates the Homeless byjohnseay The AFS community outeach pogam invited a goup of homeless individuals to spend an evening with the pofessos and students of the AFS depatment of Stony Book. Refeshments, love and fiendship wee povided. Childen, small and not so tall sat quietly befoe paents who wee quietly expessing degadation. Twice a month, D. Cash, caetake fo this event, attended by Pofesso McAdoo and: 25 pesons including students, gathe in espect fo the unfotunate. This cultual and educational event featued films about how the media woks, Black. media, Black Histoy, stoytelling, video skits, etc. A stoy. about histoical tuth being left: out of the movie, "Gloy" was told' by Pofesso Cash. Cash noted that histoy has been distoted and! mentioned that Sgt. William Caney, the fist Black to win the Congessional medal of hono should have been acknowledged' fo his couage in the Civil Wa battles. Points of inteest wee bought out concening Fedeick Douglass and a Macus Gavey at piece was shown with a slogan. Change continued fom page 4 Skinne sees the acism of the past as moe clean-cut than that of the '90s. "n the past thee wee coss-bunings, white sheets, and Jim Cow laws. You knew who the enemy was. Now the enemy is moe poweful and subtle." Nap Time Afican-Ameicans have gone to sleep economically, and in egads to education, accoding to Rev. Skinne. He said, "Afican-Ameicans will spend $300 billion in f they wee anked as a single nation, &Afican-Ameicans would place as the 11th biggest spendes in the wold." As it is, 6% of Black consume spending is put into Black businesses. Skinne said that Blacks must believe that White-owned businesses have "white milk o colde ice" than Black-owned businesses. He questioned why Blacks buy 52% of the nation's peanuts, 45% of the malt liquo and $600 million woth of candy each yea, yet Blacks do not own any of these businesses themselves. "We have to contol what we consume," he said, "this is about moe than just getting a job." Skinne citicized the academic pepaation of Afo- Ameicans by compaing thei SAT scoes tothe national aveage (nat'l ave. = 940; A-A = 710, and 635 in the inne city). These kind of figues show that in the coming yeas Blacks will be unpepaed to function the wokfoce. This gap, Skinne says, is being filled by ecently passed legislation that will incease immigation levels that said, "A people without knowl edge of its histoy is like a tee without oots." nteesting but shocking wee s;ome of the vaious motives eveabed fo homelessness. Some of the Sold easons ae psychologica 1 illness, Vietnam vets and low wages. The new homelessness poblem is layoffs. The question. hee isswhat can we do with these people Sothe than tuning them ove t( o the steets. Some say that the system depends on this type of destitution. Jennife, a home- with a B.A. degee less wvoman fom ( Old Westbuy College with 18 po0st-gaduate cedits at C.W. Post and a 3.7 GPA, spoke to the! Pess: " have thee childen. woked in the Wyandanch school! distict fo 3 yeas. This was a, standaid pobational peiod, but unfotunately at the point of my tenue the school boad began expe iencing budgetay poblems.because had not commy mastes in histoy, my: pleted positicon was axed. 've wokedi many months fo the salay of a teache's substitution which evenled me into a homeless; tually shelte." Jennife descibed the sheltel in the context of a caste Boggs: by DaveSuaez Fome Louisiana congesswoman Coine Claibone "Lindy". Boggs was a guest lectue at Stony Book Univesity on Monday, Mach 4, addessing audiences in the Javits Lectue, Cente and at the Politicals Science confeence oom in the: SBS building. Boggs, a Demo-' cat, epesented the second congessional distict in Louisiana fom 1973 until last yea. She decided to un fo congess afte he husband Hale, who fo a long time had been a epesentative of the distict, was tagically killed in a plane cash. When Boggs made he successful bid fo office, she was no stange to politics. She managed most of he husband's campaigns and was well known by many of his constituents. Boggs encouages othe women to take an active ole in politics and has long been an advocate of women's political No Stange will eventually develop the same policy. Boggs's lectues wee pat of a semina seies on Women in Politics which is being offeed as pat of Women's Histoy Month at Stoiy Book Univesity. On Fiday, Mach 15, Celinda Lake, Chief Polling Analyst fo the 1984 Mondale-Feao campaign, will give a lectue entitled "Packaging Female Political Candidates: A Focus on Campaign Stategy, ssues, and Votes." Negotiations ae cuently being made to schedule othe speakes as well. All seminas will be held in the Political Science confeence oom, SBS N702 at 3:30 PM. Anyone who wishes to obtain moe infomation about this LECTURE system whee the homeless aei Black and the coodinatos ae, white. The "ules" ae oganizations. n 1976, she was eminiscient of a system Blacks. the fist chaiwoman of the Women's Democatic Committee. Lebowitz at have fought against fo 300 yeas. The Constitution says Regading women's oles in the that the govenment should take militay, Boggs paised the U.S. cae of the geneal welfae of the Coast Guad fo allowing women people. Tuly, those who oganize to seve in any capacity of thei this function have not only kept banch of the sevices. She hopes this in mind, but have acted on it. that the othe militay banches - - a, - - fom Easten Euope five-fold by Tom Skinne Associates opeates "tech centes" in Newak, Bed-Stuy, and Atlanta which delive thee yeas of standad education in one yea accoding to the Reveend. He says this end is accomplished though the use of "audio, video, and subliminal tapes." He defended the dispopotionate numbes of males in the pogam (65: 35) by saying that, "Young Afican-Ameican males ae an endangeed species... moe Afican-Ameican men, aged ae in pison than in college." The Death of deology The Stony Book Pess page 6 When Nixon went to Moscow, the concept "Detente" was intoduced as a tun in the ideological Cold Wa. 90 days late Fod, Chase Manhattan and Pepsi began business ventues in the Soviet Union. Recalling the film, "Netwok," Skinne said, "Foget ideology; Right wing, Left wing, Consevative, Capitalist, and the est, as economics is at the base of eveything. Thee ae no counties, only copoations." Stessing the fact that news souces ae economic oganizations, Skinne called "objectivity" nothing moe than the message of the ownes. n conclusion Skinne called fo a positive attitude to be displayed by each individual: "t was one woman, not 1000, that fist efused to sit in the back of the bus." Fletche Johnson contibuted to this aticle. ammk fflmuý sm ýý ýý R MM ý mm,,, , l 3 c,,,, l semina seies may call Leonie Huddy at o Gloia Fo moe infomation on Women's Histoy Month, contact Adienne Munich, Diecto of Women's Studies, o Connie Koppleman, coodinato fo Women's Histoy Month. They can be eached at THE GRADUATE STUDENT ORGANZATON S NOW ACCEPTNG NOMNATONS FOR THE FOLLOWNG POSTONS: PRESDENT: Pimay spokespeson of the G.S.O., epesenting it in the Univesity Senate and Gaduate Council. This peson will supevise and suppot execution of G.S.O. legislation, make appointments of epesentatives to campus committees as well as appoint chaipesons of G.S.O. committees, and, in geneal, help eveything un smoothly and effectively. VCE-PRESDENT: Will assume the pesident's esponsibilities in thei absence, convene G.S.O. committee meetings and aid in the geneal functioning and business of the G.S.O. TREASURER: Responsible fo handling all G.S.O. funds and pepaing the G.S.O. budget. Woks with othe offices to conduct G.S.O. business SECRETARY: Keeps minutes of G.S.O. meetings, supevises G.S.O. coespondences and publications and woks with othe offices in the planning and diection of vaious G.S.O. activities. -n--' u n l--- yc sl.ppllel m ---- ý ým m""n U 8 l i i. NOMNATONS END APRL 15, 1991, G.S.O. offices eceive a $200 pe month stipend fom the oganization., Any gaduate student may become a candidate fo any of the above offices., Anyone u inteested in these positions should inquie at the G.S.O. office, Rm. 20f6 (,,, Cental Hall -"lille, ill 111 t : a 3ill 3

7 Ameica: Shut Up o G4et Out -F "'Congess shall make no law especting an establishment of eligion, o pohibiting the fee execise theeof; o abidging the feedom of speech; o of the pess; o of the ight of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Govenment fo a edess of gievances." -The Fist Amendment to the U.S. Constitution t is easy fo us to question the beliefs of othes. t is easy to condemn expession that does not confom to society's standads. t is easy to censo that which confuses, challenges, o offends deeply held values and beliefs. What is difficult is toleating the inconveniences of expession. Fee speech is not subvesive. Opposing viewpoints do not weak havoc upon ou nation's moal fibe; quite the opposite, as though conflict solutions aise and pogess is made. n fact, in ode fo any positive pogess to take place in a society, thee must,-exist an open and honest exchange of infomation and ideas. Most often, the out-of-bounds expession esults in maximum gowth and change. The pinciple is essential OBJECTVSM: Pinciples Missing in Action This aticle is witten in esponse to Luis R. Muell's viewpoint entitled The Gulf Wa: Pinciples Missing in Action, which appeaed in the Febuay 22 issue, (Vol. 12, No. 9) of the Pess. The justification that M. Muell offes fo U.S. action against aq's invasion of Kuwait is that of taking back stolen popety. Pesumably, to follow Objectivist dogma, the ole of the govenment is to potect the inteests of its citizens, the paadigm cases of "inteest" being popety and the ight to do business unhampeed by any egulation. f this is the case, the U.S. is "justified" in tying to secue this. ight by peventing Hussein fom seizing oil fields owned by U.S. copoations. At least two poblems exist with this position. Fistly, M. Muell lays out some of the histoy leading up to ou cuent involvement in aq. He ightly notes that the U.S. povided ams to aq, eithe by diect subsidies o by "allowing companies to do business thee." Howeve, he then citicizes the U.S. fo allowing such tansactions. Given the Objectivist position on govenmental meddling in its citizens "inteests," how can M. Muell chastise the U.S. fo poviding ams to aq? Accoding to Objectivism, businesses should neve be hindeed by thei govenment fom making money (pusuing thei inteests) - o should they? Well, which is it? Ae these feedoms to be esticted, o should the govenment step aside and let these companies get on with business? Secondly, thee is this sentence: "The oil in the Middle East does not belong...to any nationality. t ightfully FC.. in the continuation of any democacy. The Fist Amendment was ceated with this in mind, as the basis of the democatic expeiment. We, as Ameicans, do not call upon the Fist Amendment with evey wod we utte. Only when ou wods ae questioned do we conside the pinciples of fee speech. n casual convesation, no one challenges ou ight to say what we want. Most situations do not equie us to whip out ou copy of the Constitution and emind people of ou ight to fee speech. We ae taught that we have this ight. We assume it. t is ingained in ou minds fom youth. Howeve, we can neve be sue that the ight is alive and healthy until it is challenged. Only when someone insists that we may not expess ouselves in a cetain manne is the law called in defense. The feedom of expession is a human ight that the Fist Amendment acknowledges as fundamental, egadless of the law. t ensues that majoitaianism and othe foms of tyanny and oppession do not occu, and that evey individual's voice can be head. A univesity, like a nation, could not opeate faily and belongs to the copoations..." he question comes to mind: f this oil tuly belongs to no nation, how did it come to be "ightfully owned" by anyone? By what system of ights? What powe authoizes this? A seious poblem exists in the ýappeal to "popety" and "ightful lowneship." The poblem lies in legitijmation. f we ae to acknowledge the ight iof a county to goven itself "fee of coecion of any kind fom any quates," ithen Hussein's claim that he is taking back land that ightfully belongs to his county must be admitted as legitimate. Should aq ibe foced to submit itself to the decisions and laws of othe counties (such as jbitain)? Futhemoe, whose laws detemine how popety is to be distibuted? We can begin to see the inconsistencies in this appeal to ight and justice. agee that Bush should have made it clea that ou toops fought fo the inteests of majo oil companies, if, indeed, this is the sole eason. But it seems doubtful that these copoations would show such allegiance to the U.S. unless thei intepsts wee diectly endangeed. One need only think of the closing of auto manufactuing plants in this county. Geneal Motos and othe ca companies have found that it is much moe pofitable to opeate plants in Mexico, whee labo is cheap and envionmental estictions ae vitually absent (o at least unenfoced). But suppose this is all well and good. Copoations should not be "hindeed" o "dagged down" by excessive egulation. f so, why should Ameicans fight fo these copoations? How is ou loyalty to be explained fom the position of Objectivism? M. Muell's viewpoint on the inconsistencies of Bush's maketing of the wa is somewhat insightful. But, like much of Objectivism's poud baying of pinciples, it is blinded by its own dazzle, A effectively without acknowledging the pinciple of fee expession. Education is deceptive and false without this basic human ight. Academia necessaily must ceate an open foum to foste pogess and leaning. The pinciple is intensified in the case of student newspapes. Evey newspape must have the Fist Amendment in ode to opeate. A student newspape is meant to be extemely open to expeimenting with it's ceativity, as well as it's feedom to do so. As Thomas Jeffeson said: "[A tue pess] is a noble institution, equally the fiend of science and civil libety." n othe wods, the pess should aid in the pogess of academia and democacy. Student papes must meet this high standad in a Univesity setting. Only un-ameican taitos espond to conflict with the altogethe mindless "Love t o Leave t!" Only cowads band togethe in fea of the avant gade. 'The tue patiots ae those who embace democacy, who fight not Sonly fo themselves but also fo the ights of othes, and who accept expession fo what it is; not as a pivilege, but as necessity; not as conditional, but as inalienable. * LETTERS of p4ml,, 1 -" *- -' -L deafened by its own oa. Cetainly the appeal to the Ameican-people's sense of sympathy fo the downtodden Kuwaitis is lacking in that it does not extend this pesumed sympathy to othes in simila situations. But Bush's skilled manipulation of public opinion has nothing to do with an iational chaacte (which one is to pesume of someone who does not follow Objectivist pinciples, since these pinciples ae deived fom "eason"). While it may be tue that, to win a wa, it is 'necessay that the nation attacked be "moally disamed," it is equally tue that, to fight a wa effectively, it is necessay to igain public suppot on the attacking side. n this espect, Bush has acted most ationally as egads his tactics. Futhemoe, if a nation is to be moally disamed, its "spiit" must be ascetained in some way. But this would be impossible in the case of aq, since, as we ae told, "one is in no position to detemine the spiit of a nation afte declaing that the nation is guilty at the stat." hope that though this necessaily incomplete esponse to M. Muell's aticle, some glaing inconsistencies in the Objectivist position have come to light. Of couse, it might be said that, since don't subscibe to its definition of eason, am in no position to demand consistency and unambiguous statements. must insist, howeve, that a philosophy which claims such incontovetible authoity must live up to such claims...o elinquish them. The tems which M. Muell (unde the guise of ational thinking) has gained so much mileage fom ae within themselves fa fom being "staightfowad" and "unambiguous." Geg Recc MAL CALL TORAL THE STONY BROOK PRESS Executive Edito Laa Jacobson Mnaing Edito Deba Mckee Associate Edito Scott Skinne Business nage Michelle Fleck News Edito Edwad DeFelippis Ats Edito Eic Penze Photo Edito Geg Fote Copy Edito Joe DiStefano Pduction Manae Rick Teng Ministe Sans Potolio Fletche Johnson STAFF James F. Bama, Walte Chavez, Lily Eng, Robet Githeahy, Fed Maye, MJX, Jean Rousseau, John Sealy, Walte Schneide, Scott Wamuth CONTRBUTORS Captain Ameica, William Capozzi, Daniel Mitcehl Cohen, Glasne, Ron Maimon, Wayne Mye, Geg Recco, Laua Rosenbege, DAve Suaez, Steve Shapio The Stony Book Pess is published biweekly duing the Academic yea and intemittently duing the summd session bt The Stony Book Pess nc., a student un and student funded not-fo-pofi copoation. Advetising policy does not necessaily eflect editoial policy. (516) Suite 020, Cental Hall SUNY at Stony Book Stony Book, NY FEBB91 S9 John, Johin, m a pat of a vey poweful amphibious assault foce. t is not only offensively poweful, it is highly defended. The taskfoce left Peal Habo on the 12th of Decembe. We then poceeded to the Philipines whee we spent 4 days. We then continued into the Gulf ofoman. 'We ae now within stiking distance of Kuwait City. 'We have been taining vigously as you should know. 'm confident that my fellow Maines can kit any aqi, who is tying to ice him fist. n all pobability 'll be a doo gunne. wouldn't be close enough to see the damage theefoe 'm not going to lose much sleep. 5ohn it's often good to be afaid - it ensues caution. On invasion day (-Day) ou squadon will dispatch 75% of its aicaft into the combat zones. Of these a ceain pecentage of the gunne cew will die. 'l have to supplement them. With GOD 's help ff suvive. 've infomed my wife about the danges involved. She undestands in a halfheated way - she knows she is caught in a Catch-22. My poblem issaddams usseinl You bothe Mach 8, 1991 page 7

8 Read My Apocalypse VEWPO NT Now that the wa is ove (o so we ae told), most of the U. S. toops will be coming home alive -thankfully! Let's think fo a moment, howeve, of this wa's human costs: Moe then 100,000 aqi civilians wee killed o seiously wounded by the U.S. bombadment An additional 100,000 aqi soldies, mostly teenages, who wee conscipted and foced to fight against thei will, wee also killed. The U.S. tageted and bombed evey fetilize factoy and agicultual manufactuing facility in aq, unde the guise that "chemical weapons could have been poduced thee," eleasing tons of deadly chemicals into the wate, ai, and food chain. The U.S. tageted and bombed evey dam, wate puification and desalinization plant in aq, focing the population to dink polluted wate fom the Tigis ive. Tens of thousands of childen ae among those who ae cuently sick and dying of cholea, dysentey, diahea, and typhoid as a esult, as if the bombs had fallen diectly on thei heads. The U.S.-not the aqis - used chemical weapons (such as napalm), phosphoous bombs, cluste bombs, and sophisticated anti-pesonal- bombs, and capet-bombed civilian population centes fom high flying B-52's, dopping the equivalent of one Hioshima bomb evey two days. The U.S. also bombed a majo nuclea eacto, eleasing high levels of adiation into the atmosphee. Whee is the moality? What did these people' (yes, they ae people, contay to the assetions of the govenment) eve do to deseve the teo the U.S. ained dpon them? Do Ameicans, beast beating Ameicans, not feel the slightest sympathy fo those who ou govenment mudeed, not one ounce of guilt, not a twinge of shame? Does it not occu to you that maybe the eason the U.S. was able to win so quickly, with so few casualties, is because this neve was a battle between equals o close to equals, but that we wee lied to fom the stat about aq's militay might, and pobably about eveything else as well? The U.S. govenment and its media mouthpiece is a "fee pess" in name only. The Ameican mainsteam media: -Ranted fo months about the dange of aq's chemical weapons. Yet, when asked about thei use on ABC on Feb. 28, one of the geneals said that none had been used in the wa, and that none had been found! -Built up hysteia about aq's "feaed nuclea capacity." As it tuned out (and as eveybody knew well befoehand), aq's nuclea capacity is non-existent, and was neve close to developing eithe the bomb, no the delivey system. -Painted Saddam Hussein as " insane," a "madman," and "wose than Hitle," who " gassed his own people." The CA epots that thee is no evidence that Sadaam gassed aqis o Kuds, and that it had been an who had gassed aqis duing thei eight yea wa. nsane? "He's insane fo not withdawing his toops befoe they wee annihilated," govenment spokespesons have said. And fo those who would be annihilating them? "Upight patiotic Ameicans" destoying 100,000 people "wose The Stony Book Pess page 8 by Mtel Cohen than Hitle." sn't that insane? t's inteesting that the leades of the U.S. undestand that the Ameican people would neve suppot. thei was unless the "enemy" was tuned into some sot of majo league demon on the scale of Lex Luthe, The Joke, and Adolph Hitle olled into one. And it's a sad situation when the Ameican people ae so gullible and so willing to believe all that cap. The govenment and the pess tuned Saddam Hussein, a two bit dictato - cetainly no wose than the Emi of Kuwait, the Saudi Sheiks, and the Pesident of Syia - into an integalactic cosmo-demonic monste! t was all so well choeogaphed and ochestated that we, fogot that Saddam was even unable to defeat pathetic ani in eight yeas of hoible wafae (a wa in which the U.S. and the othe "allies" amed both sides). S Saddam had, at best, a lage egional amy - neve a match fo the U.S., Soviet, Bitish and Fench supepowes. f he had gas and didn't use it even in the face of utte destuction, doesn't that make him, in fact, moe moal than the U.S.? And if he didn't have chemical gas, then all the bullshit that came fom the White Housei intended to geneate nationalistic feocity among the Ameican people was entiely deception. Lie afte lie was pumped though the pess; by the [time the lias wee efuted, the U.S. govenment was aleady a dozen lies down the oad. Remembe the aqi latocity, taking infants out of the 300 incubatos? [Ameican doctos who woked in aq now epot that thee ween't moe than 20 o 30 incubatos in the entie county, and that all of those infants wee accounted fo!' How gullible we Ameicans ae! How willing ae we to allow ou govenment to mude by the tens of thousands - allowing the elephant to cush the flea? n last SB Pess, thee was a stupid viewpoint by Luis R. Muell. Muell's claim was that the oil thee doesn't belong to the people who live thee but to "the copoations who's effot and money went into sinking those wells and poviding the oil that is vital to sustain ou economy." Fo Muell, people have no ights, nations have no ights, only copoations do! And yet he goes on to attempt to idicule anti-wa potestes fo coectly pointing out that the wa was indeed a wa fo contol of oil, pofits and contol of land. He wites that the anti-wa ipotestes "vainly attempt to foment hated fo the ich by denouncing the wa as being "fo oil company pofits" -- in othe wods, those who have nothing new to say." t is tue -- we have nothing new to say. mpeialism is as old as empie, and moal esistance to it is equally as ancient. The fact that Exxon made $1.4 ibillion in pofits in the last quate of 1990 alone, that Texaco was up 35%, Shell up 69%, Amoco up. 46%, that Chevon was up ove 400%, that the top five oil companies made $4.8 billion in pofits in the last quate of 1990, and that the total amount they wee taxed is at a ate equal to an /individual eaning $5,475 is an outage, and helps explain what the wa was about. Othe hints as to easons fo it: The Saudi Sheiks and the Emi of Kuwait have ove $1 tillion invested in westen banks explains why we defend thei dictatoships and tyannies, which ae fal wose than aq's. Aab oil wokes thoughout the egion had been oganizing ove the last decade and had been winning inceases in living standads that theatened to cut into pofits is pat of the eason the U.S. (and Russia, and Fance, and England) saw fit to militaily beak-up those woking class communities. The fact that most U.S. t4ops ae being foced out of Euope as of next yea and need some place to be based has something to do with ceating the need fo pemanent occupation of the Middle East. Oil pices had dopped dastically befoe the invasion of Kuwait by aq. Bush, with the othe oil company bigwigs, wanted to dive pices up to make thei fotunes. aq's oil poduction was nationalized - not un by pivate companies. This povided an oppotunity fo Exxon and othe companies to bust it up and take it ove in the name of democacy They needed to contol the poduction of aqi oil. Mak my wods. Bush will be making his pitch, now, fo new ;weapons systems. "See what geat mudees we wee in aq," should be his pitch. The fact is that the Ameican soul is owned by Exxon, Pennzoil and Chase Manhattan;.what's moe, it always has been, in one fom o anothe,. in spite of high-minded ideals and ules witten on pieces of pape, neve quite succeeding in eality. What's anothe couple-of-hunded thousand aqis to be added to the 2 million Vietnamese, the 30 million Black slaves, the millions of Ameican ndians and thousands of othe oppessed peoples? That's the pice of impeialism, and the elatively mino cimes of Saddam Hussein not only pale in compaison, but have vitually nothing to do with what this wa was about. Saddam povided U.S., nc., with the oppotunity to exploit and nothing moe.

9 End Noe CoOMMENTA ýry End Notes fo Phase 1 eally coecive hold on the membes of the goup pecisely because they follow his lead in committing outageous acts. He can then use use thei guilt against them, binding them close to himself. He uses thei anxiety fo his puposes, even aousing it as he needs to; and he can use thei fea of being found out and evenged by thei victims as a kind of blackmail that keeps them docile and obedient fo futhe atocities." This explains the fact that we saw no significant shift in polling data following the televised aftemath of the incineation of women and childen in Baghdad, as well as the incedible level of populaity which Pesident Bush now enjoys. The blood spilled in ou names povides the glue which holds togethe the impeialist wa machine, and makes new U.S. aggession even moe likely in the nea futue. Cuba anyone? On the Positive Side by Fed Maye [Autho's note: this aticle was NOT cleaed by militay censos.] " am convinced that this yea will be the cucial yea of a geat new ode. The wold shall open up fo eveyone. Pivileges fo individuals, the tyanny of cetain nations and thei financial ules shall fall. And last of all, this yea will help to povide the foundation of a eal undestanding among people, and with it the cetainty of conciliation of ou nation." - Adolf Hitle, Jan. 30, We have leaned a geat deal in the last seven months about the tue intentions of those who lead the National Secuity State of Ameica. We have leaned that thei goal was neve the defense of Saudi Aabia, o the implementation of United Nations esolutions, o the addessing of "naked aggession," o the secuing of oil fields, o the "libeation" of Kuwait. As was made abundantly clea duing the final days befoe the onset of the gound campaign, the eal goal was neve anything less than wa itself. Now the U.S. beast pauses, blood dipping fom its ginning teeth, pondeing the aftemath. Civil wa is speading noth fom Basa, and 600 oil well fies ae aging out of contol in Kuwait. Thousands of copses ot in the wind swept deset; one in paticula eceived the hono of an appeaance on the font page of the New Yok Post, undeneath a headline which ead "The End." Meanwhile, back at the anch, the boys ae hailing "victoy" ove aq. Totally unnoticed ae epots that U.S. combat sevicemen ae seeking psychiatic help in ode to deal with tauma caused at the font by the endless sceams of aqi soldies being buned alive in thei tanks. ntelocking Tiads We have "kicked" the "Vietnam syndome." Remembe Vietnam? That was the wa we fought "with one hand tied behind out back" despite the fact that, as in the Middle East, we dopped moe tons of high explosives than wee used in Euope duing all of Wold Wa. We ae back in the saddle again, and it feels so good to be "kicking ass." The question would like to addess now is this: What made this spectacula "success" possible? The answe lies in the mutually einfocing elationship between two tiads of Ameican life. The fist tiad is composed of thee diving pinciples, o attitudes: militaism, acism, and mateialism. Militaism is evident in the gloification of wa, the pedominance of the militay caste in Washington D.C. as well as in T.V. studios, and the buildup of a stong militay oganization in aggessive pepaedness fo wa. Racism is a hallowed tadition in Ameican life. Slaughteing hundeds of thousands of dak-skinned people has always been seen as honoable. n Southeast Asia ou boys called the Vietnamese people "gooks." n the Middle East ou boys call the aqi people "camel jockeys." Last but cetainly not least is the pinciple of mateialism -- the diving foce behind the capitalist powe stuctue and the consume cultue upon which it feeds. The second tiad is moe concete. t is composed of societal institutions which facilitate the expession of the attitudinal tiad descibed above. t is the academicmilitay-industial complex. The militay-industial components of this tiad ae faily familia to us. Pesident Dwight David Eisenhowe himself intoduced us to this subcomplex when he became a lame-duck. Recent Pentagon pocuement scandals assue us that it has not gone away since his time. The ole of the academic component of the second tiad is much less undestood. This is ionic because it is by fa the most impotant. f you don't believe this, than suggest you go to the libay and look up the Febuay issue of the esteemed jounal Science, which is the mouthpiece of the Ameican Academy fo the Advancement of Science. n it, you will find an editoial entitled "Wa and Science," witten by Daniel E. Koshland, J.. Using flawed logic along with skilfully applied equivocation, Koshland implies that science has "humanized" wa by impoving the accuacy of ou bombs and missiles. (Natually, he says nothing about cluste bombs, which have absolutely nothing to do with accuacy.). He also attempts to ewite eality when he claims that the technology of television has povided a "basis fo infomed consent by the electoate." The Blood Matix "These [anti-wa] people would have us fosake ou county... They yell and sceam, and they discedit ou leades. They would have us feel guilty fo ou county's geatness." - Steve Mauiello, Febuay 13, Having descibed the components of the two tiads which togethe make up the buzz-saw of the U.S. impeialist wa machine, we still need to addess an impotant question: What holds it all togethe, especially duing the most citical escalatoy phases of the cisis? The answe lies in the gowing buden of guilt which besets ou population, and the ability of national leades to use this guilt fo thei own puposes. Due to the fact that Ameican psychologists have fo half a centuy denied the existence of Feud's wok, we know vey little about this incedibly poweful foce. (n ou own depatment of psychology hee at S.B., thee is not a single couse available on Feud at eithe the undegaduate o gaduate levels.) Let me quote the late Enest Becke, autho of the Pulitze Pize winning book The Denial of Death. iconcening the powe of the leade, he wote: "Many people may feel deeply guilty if they violate long-standing and deeply-felt moal codes on his behalf. Yet,' ionically, it is just this that puts them even moe in the leade's powe, makes them even moe willing putty in his hands. f...the goup comes eady-made to the leade with the thist fo sevitude, he ties to deepen that sevitude even futhe. f they seek to be fee of guilt in his cause, he ties to load them up with an exta buden of guilt and fea to daw the mesh of his immoality aound them. He gets a n the face of the incedible disaste which this wa has wought, it is difficult to find easons to be hopeful fo the futue. Nevetheless, it is the case that a small but detemined peace movement has gatheed itself togethe in an extemely shot peiod of seven months, without a daft. (Yes, the daft was by fa the most impotant motivating facto behind the peace movement of the '60s, all claims to the contay not withstanding.). Within the last two weeks, two majo anti-wa events have added to a stong sense of solidaity within the movement. On Feb. 21, a spiited student mach though Manhattan, punctuated by a seies of allies, celebated the memoy of Malcolm X. The event was pat of an intenational day of student and youth actions. The New Yok Times coveage of the day's events once again demonstated the contempt which the Easten Establishment has fo the peace movement in this county. The Times aticle claimed that the day's events "fell shot," while absolutely nothing concening the ove 2,000 students who mached fom Fedeal Plaza to the New Yok Stock Exchange. n Chicago, on the weekend of Mach 1-3, a national student anti-wa confeence was sponseed by the National Netwok of Campuses Against the Wa. With ove 430 egisteed student activists fom all acoss Canada and the U.S. (including this autho) paticipating, the confeence featued plenay sessions and uncountable wokshops dealing with subjects as divese as "mpeialism and the New Wold Ode," "sael and Aab Nationalism," "Racism at Home and Aboad," and "Computes in the Peace Movement." (Audio tapes of confeence events can be obtained by contacting the Stony Book Coalition fo Peace, , o ) Finally, would like to convey an impotant thought. Those of us who have been woking against the wa can daw a geat deal of solace fom the fact that by standing up fo peace, we ae ejecting the guilt which ou sick society has been tying to shove down ou thoats. inevetheless, the stuggle continues, despite the claim that :"the wa is ove." Chis Sapoita geets the new wold ode on "V-Day" wvate. L1t av. Mach 8, 1991 page 9

10 Homeopathy, Does t Heal Anything? Science Scope Naha a M.N.Mmk %..*.. d%&%akam. Ah! the smell of coffee beans. Finely gound, they will yield a savoy delight, popitious to intellectual endeavous. Once in a while, need to esupply, and a good place is Village Natual Food on Rt. 25a. t is one of these stoes fo health-conscious people whee you will see shelves full of diffeent vitamins, oganically gown vegetables and also homeopathic medicines. Out of cuiosity, looked at a line of homeopathic emedies poduced by Biofoce Swiss Homeopathic Medicine. t caies the logo of the Ameican Association of Homeopathic Phamacists. could not find any indication of the ingedients on the label. On one box identified as "mmunofoce mmune Fomula," and it is witten that it aids in stimulating and building up the geneal immune system. Anothe box is called "Menosan Menopause Fomula." t is fo the elief of symptoms associated with menopause, descibed as hot flashes, mild depession, headaches, iitability and feelings of hysteia. The desciption of the symptoms ae vague and could be applied to many othe situations. But as you will see, homeopathists do not feel that thee is any fuzziness. They affim that thei emedies ae safe, effective and natual. Fom a compendium of hebs and mineals that teat diffeent symptoms, they will find the ight pepaation to help you. Suppotes of homeopathy: appeciate the attention they eceive when they talk to an homeopathist. A diagnosis equies a lengthy inteview that includes standad medical questions and many othe, questions about such things as emotions, moods, food pefeences, and eaction to the weathe. n an age whee a discussion with a physician is often impesonal, homeopathists seem to have the time to listen. Homeopathy is pat of the holistic medicine movement, which claims to be an altenative to moden medicine. "ts advocates blend a plausible equest fo peventive medicine and a easonable concen fo behavioual, and envionmental, and social causes of illness, with all sots of cank theapies and diagnostics." (Examining Holistic Medicine, Pometheus books, 1989, p. 10) Oigin of Homeopathy: Homeopathy dates back to the end of the 18th centuy. t's founde, Samuel Hahnemann ( ), a- Geman physician, fomulated its basic doctine. At the time, medicine consisted of bloodletting, leeching, puging and othe pocedues that did fa moe ham than good. Medication like calomel (mecuous chloide) was given at doses that caused mecuy poisoning. (Stephen Baett, Skeptical nquie, vol. 12) Hahnemann objected to this pactice and abandoned! conventional pactice. Afte a pesonal expeience he developed the "law of similas." Hahnemann stated that the symptoms of disease can be cued by substances that poduce simila symptoms in healthy people. He went on to test his theoy with healthy people. They would keep a ecod of the effects that they thought would be due to the hebs, mineals and othe substances they would ingest. But contay to contempoay pactices, whee a detailed potocol would include some double-blinded study with compaative goups who would eceive a placebo (inet substances) and some who would not be given anything, Hahnemann did not poceed this way. Any symptoms would be due to the substance. Hahnemann got all the headaches and dowsiness he asked fo, and much moe. n Hahnemann's own guide, which is still used by his followes, thiteen pages is filled with the effects of chamomile. These included vetigo, especially when talking...dull, aching pain in the head, when sitting o eflecting...single, long stitches in the ea, especially when stooping, accompanied by the inclination to find fault and getting angy about tifles...violent desie fo coffee...eection in the moning...buning pain in the hand in the aftenoon (Exam. Holis. Medic. p. 32). Hahnemann also dew the conclusion that smalle doses wee moe effective. Nowadays, phamacologists have shown that it is exactly the opposite. But Hahnemann went on to pepae emedies by diluting them ove and ove (he typically took one pat in 100 and epeated this step moe than 30 times). The emedy was' The Stony Book Pess page 10 still supposed to be effective. The poblem is that such a dilution goes beyond the Avogado numbe which coesponds in chemisty to the amount of molecules in: one mole. Stated diffeently, it means that the dilution is' so lage that thee won't be any molecules of the oiginal mateial left in the final solution. You then end up dinking a glass of wate. Fo Hahnemann and moden homeopathists it does not matte. What counts is the agitation of the solution. n fact, the agitation would ceate a pint o spiitlike essence in the wate of the active ingedient supposedly pesent initially in the dissolved mateial. The spiitlike essence would then cue by eviving the body's "vital foce." These theoies have neve been accepted by scientifically oiented physicians. They chage that these emedies ae placebos. "The placebo effect is well-known in medicine. t is a psychological eaction to teatment that esults in impovement of symptoms. t mattes little whethe the teatment is medication, diet o incantation. The key factos ae the patient's confidence in the heale and the heale's faith in the theapy - especially when the faith is communicated to the patient." (Consume's epots, Jan. 1987) Moden Days _ When homeopathy was intoduced, it was much safe than contempoay medical pactices. At the tun of the centuy, homeopathy had some 14,000 pactitiones and 22 schools in the United States alone. But pogess in medicine ceated a decline in homeopathy fevo. ts schools eithe closed o wee conveted to moden methods. The last homeopathic school closed duing the 1920s. Homeopathy gained official ecognition in 1938 though the Fedeal Food, Dug, and Cosmetic Act. A povision of this law ecognized as dugs all substances included in the compendium witten by Hanhemann. Now in its ninth edition, this collection of moe than 1000 dugs was based on "obsevations" obtained moe than 150 yeas ago, not scientific testing. n most states, homeopathy can be pacticed by any physician o othe pactitione who is licensed to pescibe dugs. The Ameican Association of Homeopathic Phamacists, a goup of leading homeopathic manu-,factues, has poposed that homeopathic emedies emain maketable without a pesciption fo mino ailments that' do not equie complex medical diagnosis o medical monitoing. This is contay to the pinciple peached by "classical" homeopathists: that each individual has a specific illness. Homeopathic emedies can now be found in diffeent food stoes. Public potection egading dugs is based on a famewok of fedeal laws that equie dugs to be safe, effective, and popely labeled. The FDA has not applied its own ules to homeopathic medicines because the active ingedients ae eithe absent o in such small amounts that they ae innocuous. t seems that the FDA simply has moe impotant things to deal with. f the equiement demanded fo phamaceutical dugs wee applied to homeopathy, this industy would disappea. n an aticle published in Consumes Repot's (Jan. 1987) and dealing with homeopathy, the autho concluded that: "Even though homeopathic dugs ae essentially non-toxic, self-medication can still be COMMENTE RRY hazadous. Using them fo a seious illness o undiagnosed pain instead of obtaining pope medical attention could pove hamful o even fatal. By spending a lot of time with thei patients, homeopathists also enew with a tadition fom the 20's when a good docto would tuly cae fo you. At a time when thee wee maybe less than 30 effective dugs, sympathy was sometimes the only thing a physician could offe. Beside attention, homeopathy has nothing else to offe. The Day The Mateialists Destoyed Themselves Economic scholas named a numbe of causes of this ecession: the wa, the fedeal budget deficit, foeign competition, bueaucacies, the S & L Scandal, but believe these ae only the symptoms of anothe disease. This disease is within the heats of evey individual. t is mateialism. Both the epublicans and the democats, ae blind to the fact that no matte how we divide up the luxuious gabage on the maket, it uins us. Take the example of the paents who showe mateial gifts upon thei child. The child becomes so spoiled and peoccupied with games that he doesn't feel like studying and woking. The ones who pass that stage sell themselves into slavey to maintain these "necessities" which, like othe addictions, can neve satisfy them. One day walked into the appliance section of Caldos and saw mechanical self-cleaning haibushes, nail-polish dyes, and othe things have lived vey comfotably without! Businesses ae stockpiling this stuff and hoping that people won't wise up. Just to be sue of this, they advetise, tempt, seduce, spoil, and manipulate the minds of the younge geneation. The Republican paty aids them in thei "noble" cause. Some distinguished economic scholas believe that' pumping money into the business industy will ceate moe jobs. People then will have moe money to spend and the economy will impove. This would not be tue if one defined the state of the economy as do: The G.N.P. is the atio of the numbe of hous you wok to the amount of fulfillment you get out of life. (Pesonally, think mateial things ae not too fulfilling.) Some believe in a society whee people simultaneously wok less and poduce moe. t would be wondeful, but it is as impossible as beaking the laws of themodynamics. At best, this condition can exist in only pat of the wold (at the expense of othes) but not in the whole wold. Bette technology may achieve this, although at pesent it's accomplishments have not exceeded it's expenses - time wasted in technical education, enegy shotages, health hazads, pollution to ou pecious envionment, and new poblems to be solved. My stategy to end this ecession is to boycott luxuy items (which emoves the cause, but doesn't teat the symptoms). Povety would decease temendously with the lowe cost of food. Then we would have to motivate people to have less childen. Ending mateialism may end the wa with aq. When we stop exploiting thid wold nations, they would no longe have eason to oppose us. When the ecession is ended, the wok week could be cut. The exta 20 hous would allow moe time fo the spiitual life- the family, fiends, elationships, dinne paties, stoytelling, etc. Actually, it's inevitable. People ae doing this now. Business will ediect its effots to poducing the essentials of life moe cheaply and efficiently, ecuiting the most billiant minds fo this task. Would you like to make this a eality? The Spiitual Revolution that begins in the yea t is in you hands. "You cannot seve both God and money." -- Luke 16:13

11 You new balanc 0 byron M Bad --- n Cedit Pat Two Damnit, my hand huts, Jim thought, as he tied in vain to keep up with the pace of his Sociology pofesso, who was positively going a mile a minute and seemed not to even pause fo a beath of ai. Resignedly, he loweed his pen and decided that maybe something will sink in if he just sat thee and listened. "As was saying," his pofesso continued, "the yea 2015 maked a cataclysmic point of ou nation's histoy. Cime aged unchecked in ou steets, especially cimes of violence. The police foce was becoming less and less effective as the inceasing economic ecession caused many offices of the law to take bibes fom oganized cime and fom gangs. Afte long debate, ou govenment finally ealized that it had to take dastic steps in changing the laws and the economy of this nation. "Opeating with unchaacteistic speed, Congess quickly set up a thity yea plan to eoganize and efom the laws and economy of ou county. Fo this pupose, the D.C.F. copoation was bon. With all cedit companies united unde one oof, so to speak, the govenment would have bette contol ove the assets and debts of its people. By acquiing the latest compute technology, the One cad was bon, and now it's linked up in a satellite netwok, enabling D.C.F. to immediately infom cadholdes of any poblems with thei accounts. "n addition to this, social efoms wee needed immediately. Fo this pupose, each state was to come up with a plan of action to cutail the incidence of cime, as each state had diffeent levels of it. Califonia's plan of action, as was many othe state's, came up with the social eintegation plan. "Unde this plan, anyone guilty of a cime, no matte how small, be it shoplifting, loan default, mude...whateve, would be sent to a social eintegation cente whee they would use vaious psychological and psychiatical methodsincluding dugs-to alte a peson's patten of behavio and eintegate them into ou society. Thus it was intended to seve as a moe effective social tool than the pison system. This system has yet to pove its effectiveness, as it has not yet been implemented." Jim sat on his bed with his legs cossed and the blinds dawn. The only light was coming fom his Lv. set, but was downed out by his oom's ai-conditione. He was examining his face in a small mio, and noted his bown hai, eyes and tan skin, which he'd spent many hous in the sun to get just the ight shade and show that he was a eal sun-woshippe. All in all, he thought himself quite good looking. Evey single one of his fiends knew him as the displaced Califonian, as Jim lived in New Yok when he wasn't going to school. The only thing that botheed Jim about his appeaance was his balding hai, which seemes to be thinning on top, causing a small bald spot. To compensate, he gew his hai long on top in an effot to mask it. Howeve, the small bald spot could always be seen if you looked had enough, and his fiends always chided him that he would be bald at twenty-thee. Well, he thought, even if it was tue, he had five yeas befoe that would happen, and he would get a hai tansplant befoe it got eally bad. Casting aside his mio, he esolved to look at his mail. Only one lette was addessed to him. t had a vey vague etun addess, as if the peson mailing the lette didn't want Jim to know his identity. Cuiously, he opened it, not knowing exactly what to expect. With a shock, he discoveed that the lette was fom D.C.F. incopoated and ead like so: Dea M. Roth, Ou ecods show that you cedit account is maxed out. The date fo fist payment has been supassed. You ae aleady late one month, and a twenty pecent fee is being assessed. We uge you stongly to avoid geate difficulties and commence payment pomptly. You new due date is:02/20f44; we must have payment by this date. Stony Book vesus Toshiba Boo by Scott Skinne Once upon a time, not so long ago, a towe existed called Citicop. Unlike othe towes that dotted the land, Citicop Towe was unique. No, it wasn't any talle than the othe towes. And no, it wasn't lit up like a Chistmas tee all nice, shiny, and bight. n fact, Citicop Towe didn't even have a point. But this is what made Citicop Towe so special. While othe towes wee flatheads, o tied to stick the sky's eye with a needle, Citicop's summit was boldly slanted, foeve gazing upwad into the heavens. The vanguadian slope was so distinct that people staed fom miles aound, and Citicop Towe was tansfomed into a skyline. This made the othe towes jealous... Ameicans used to own Citicop Towe, but not anymoe.! Now it is owned by the Japanese. Does this make you mad? f it does, then the ecent Japadvetisement blitzkieg must be woking. Eveywhee look, it seems like the media is potaying Japan as ou enemy. wonde why? s Japan manipulating and invading smalle nations?' s Japan spending millions of tax dollas on conventional militay weapons fo the post cold wa ea? The answes aej unequivocal no's. Fa wose than being an impeialist nation stuck in a ecession, the Japanese ae guilty of being good capitalists, of beating us at ou own game. Little by little, they ae taking ove ou county. Haven't you head? The "Japs" ae even esponsible fo the ecession that we ae now wallowing in. What ae we uv---,, ia,, hinni'',cl 7UJ lit) Minimum payment:$ Thank you, Ray V. Ellswoth; Accounts division; D.C.F. nc. With a stat, he eached fo his wallet and pulled out his One cad. t was flat, the size of Jim's palm, and coloed a shiny silve. t had a keyboad and numbe. pad on it's suface, and a small sceen, like that of a calculato. On the uppe ight cone, thee was a space to a thumbpnnt, and, ight above it, potuding fom the cad, wee thee small metallic ods. On the bottom left cone was his name, and ight above it, pinted in bold wee the wods "One Cad." Jim's finges aced on the,keyboad suface, punching in his access,code and placing his thumb on the thumbpint squae when the cad pompted him to do so. "Access which account?," ap- peaed on the small sceen. "Checking. Veify balance," Jim typed. "Accessing...," and afte a few seconds," account balance: $15.21" appeaed on the sceen. Rapidly, Jim scanned his cedit and savngs accounts, and found to his dismay that his savings account was dained, and indeed on his cedit line appeaed, "Balance due:$1, " t had aleady been enteed on his cad! His heat now beating apidly,he opened his dawe and spilled its contents onto his bed. Soting though the vaious tash, he managed to find all his cedit eceipts and added them up. n disbelief, he found that they indeed added up to a thousand dollas. One eceipt in paticula caughti his eye. t was a eceipt fo the use of a. limo fo thee hous, dated almost a month ago. My date with Benda, he thought. What a waste! neve even saw he again. She just seemed to vanish into thin ai. Howeve, he was most shocked at his last puchase; an eighteen kaat gold heingbone necklace that he..bought a Macy's fo two hunded dollas. What a waste, he thought. He hadn't even won the necklace since he bought it; instead, it lay in his dawe. He pulled it out of the mess on his bed and put it on. f spent the money on it, might as well wea it, he thought. He could find no way to pay the bill, and he cetainly couldn't ask his mothe who was paying fo his education and baely scaping by as it is. Dejectedly, waiting fo? say we blow the fuckes up! On the othe hand, maybe blowing up othe nations is not the best foeign policy afte all. Maybe we won't be manipulated by copoate commecialism and mainsteam Ameica, which tells us all too clealy that Japan is ou economic enemy. "Don't buy Japanese," moans Big Business. "Don't buy Japanese," goan the Labo Unions. While Ameicans moan and goan and spend money that they don't have, the Japanese ae saving away fo a ainy day. Now we ae subtly and systematically being told not to buy Japanese poducts. don't know about you, but like my Toshiba laptop, my Panasonic television, and my Sony walkman. enjoy these amenities because the quality is decent and the pices ae affodable. Japanese poducts ae fa bette than Ameica's anemic offeings. Who caes if Japanese capitalists ae beating Ameican capitalists? f the end esult means bette quality and cheape pices fo me, the consume, then am all fo it. magine what would happen if the Japanese wee to compete with SUNY. Pictue Toshiba Book, a facsimile of Stony Book, but with the following diffeences. Fist, no self-especting Japanese would live in the dumps that esident-students live in, and cetainly $353 a month is not what they would call competitive. Toshiba Book would loffe quality housing with the featues that you expect fo you money. Heat and hot wate shotages, wate leaks and asbestos, inadequate secuity and lighting, and oach and odent poblems would be tademaks of Stony Book, not FCTON Lf he looked up at the t.v. sceen. Maybe thee would be something on to get his mind off of his poblems. The news was on, and Jim eached fo his emote contol to tun the volume up highe. "...ae hee today," the announce said, "at the.s.r.; the nstitution fo Social Reintegation, a new pogam intoduced by Califonia's goveno, Pete Johnson." The camea panned behind the epote, and the building came inte view. t was suounded by a high wall topped with a fence on which a sign could clealy be seen ead: "Dange! Electical fence! Do not touch!" The building itself was a gey monolith against the deset sky, fom which could be seen no windows. Only one lone oad could be seen leading into and out of the complex. The announce continued, "This expeimental poject is intended to eplace ou ovecowded jails and pisons, and to save the state millions of dollas in expenses. n contast to the cuent pison system, the.s.r. pomises to be the solution that the pison system pomises to be. n this pogam ciminals ae bought hee to lean social skills fom the beginning, as if they wee just stating out in life. Using the well poven techniques of Classical and Opeant behavioal conditioning, leading psychiatists have said that it could be done. Howeve, until authoities stat placing pisones in this pogam, it has poven to be an expense which cost the state appoximately a hunded million dollas. "Fo C.B.S. news this is Alfonso Myeson, at the.s.r. in the Palm Deset south of Los Angeles." "Hey, what's up?" Jim looked up and saw his oomate standing by the doo. He said, "Oh, nothing. Just watching some t.v. and tying to make head and tails out of my bills," and accentuated his last wod by tossing the papes on his bed into the ai. His oomate laughed. "You going to be doing that all day? 'Cause happen to know of a paty on fatenity ow that's going to stat in about an hou, so you bette get eady. You don't want people to think that you'e a ned, do you?" "No way, man.' 'll be eady to paty hady and won't be tady!" Jim ugently dialed the phone numbe to his house in New Yok, hoping his mothe would be home. He glanced down at his watch, specifically the small continued on page NNF t' bux Toshiba Book. Cutting the costs would be as simple as cutting the payoll of SUNY's bloated bueaucacy. Why hie so many staff pesonnel when students can do the same job without the union hassles? As fo education, Toshiba Book would hie teaches to do the teaching, not eseaches who couldn't cae less about the education of today's youth. Business and political science majos would assume the esponsibilities of ove-paid administatos, thus eceiving on-the-job taining with a salay and cedit towad thei majos. The Japanese know the value of competition, which is why Toshiba Book would neve pemit DAKA to have a vitual monopoly on all souces of food. nstead, space would be allocated fo a food mall whee diffeent companies would be equied to compete. n addition, Toshiba Book would neve allow Banes & Noble to mak up books fo the sake of pofit. nstead, the campus book stoe would be a non-pofit oganization un by the students. Finally, let us not foget the campus itself. At Toshiba Book, the icing on the cake would be Sthe soothingly scenic vistas which the Japanese ae so fond of. The subtle beauty and elegant simplicity of Japanese gadens would be a welcome change fom the eoding concete stuctues of Stony Book. With so much attention focussed on the needs of the students, Toshiba Book would cetainly give SUNY a un fo thei money. Who do you think would win? don't know about you, but my tansfe application would be in the mail faste than you can say "Japanese minimalism." This is why.pay to Buddha eveyday that the Japanese will soon takeove SUNY. Until such time, Toshiba Book will always emain the wet deam that it is. Mach 8, 1991 page 11

12 THE CENTER FOR WOMEN'S CONCERNS PRESENTS MOVE: Miss o Myth: Rethinking the Myths of Ameica's'Deamgil Wedensday, Mach 13 at 8:00 p.m. Langmui Fieside Lounge -Refeshmets and discussion to follow- Fo moe infomation coh 632-2C000 L _ - STUDENT ACTVTY 44 CHOCOLATE PBEl TO ENTER THE RNG: Open to all Clubs, Fats, Soos, Teams etc. FRST COME, FRST SERVED CHOCOLATE PUDDNG WED. MARCH 13 AT 9 p.m. UNON BALLROOM $2.00 w/ SUSB.D. o moe infomation call S.A.B. at "Attacked by the Digital Sound" by MJX RD D csants -,%no f you'e an altenative music love and love music on 'WDRE', MTV's '120 mins.', o even moe undegound music like you hea on WUSB's 'Happy Nightmae', thee may be a space opening up on campus fo you to hea, and dance to, popula altenative bands such as Skinny Puppy, New Ode, Font 242, and the Cue. "We want to set up a place fo people into altenative music on campus", says DJ Cicuit, whose patne DJ Slide oiginally came up with the concept fo Technetium Cossfie, a club set up in the Union Bi-Level, which will open Apil 4th. DJ Slide (Wayne Mye) is a Mechanical Engineeing majo in his feshman yea and. has been a DJ on and off fo about two yeas. He feels that "the altenative music, scene is anemic at best" on campus, and The Stony Book Pess page 12 q be elicited the suppot of his fiend DJ Cicuit. (Chis Kelly) to help him to "get some-' thing diffeent on campus-something that hasn't been aound." The club, named afte the adioactive element#43, will featue CD sound, ad clubbes, can equ.st songs and even bing in music to be played, although Cicuit and Slide will basically stick to thei mix of popula altenative bands. "We have moe than enough to play each night" says Cicuit. Apil 4th is a "test un" howeve, and "non-student attendance may be in jeopady" says Slide, due to administative concens ove the unfotunate incidents occuing at the ecent "Special Ed" concet whee seveal people wee injued befoe the scheduled pefomance. But Cicuit notes that the "Uban Dance Squad" and "Living Colo" concets, as well as two majo paties, have went on since then without incident. Slide and Cicuit have been woking with Bian Dooeck, the SAB/ Tokyo Joe's Chaiman, in beefing up secuity fo this event, and may sell tickets o passes to insue that only Stony Book. students and thei guests can "hang out, elax, listen to good music, and dance" as Cicuit puts it. 1 l LGBA Calende of Events Mach 1991: 3/5 Tues.- Suppot Goup fo Students 8:30 p.m. LGBA office..evey Tuesday. /6 Wed.- Lesbians and Lesbian Relationshi 3:30-6:00 p.m. HSC Lvl. 2. Rm. 4 /7 Thus.- Quee Nation Speaks S900 p.m. Union Rm /13 Wed.- nfomation Panel 9:30p.m. Table Quad. Hand %3/14 Thus. -Lesbian Film Festival 9 00 p.m. Union Rm /15 Fi. - nfomation Panel "a 9:25-10:20 a.m. Old Chem Rm /21 Thus. - Gay AA Speaks ' 99:00 p.m. Union Rm. 223 Long sland's Oldest Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Oganization 1 " Fo moe infomation call ^ k "i i Stony Book Students Against Dunk Diving Meeting: Monday, Mach 1, 1991 Union Rm. 231 you can make a diffeence! p So if dancing fom 10-2 to the likes of Ministy, the Pixies, and Depeche Mode is fo you, call Polity and expess isuppot fo Technetium Cossfie, and get,"attacked by the digital sound." At Tek f you ae boed, stuck on campus, boke, and nothing is happening, tuck aound and check out some of the at shows. You may invite a few fiends along o even a date to display you passionate love fo at. Fom Mach 4-15, the Depatment of Student Union and Activities will show "Painting, and Sculptue Exhibition" by atists Eika Votuba and Michelle Heman. Located in 'the Union At Galley, you can visit fom inoon - 5:00 PM (call ). n the Univesity At Galley at the Stalle icente, the woks of Fedeic Amat and Robeto Juaez will be on exhibit. Call fo details. Futhe into the futue, afte the pesent show in the Union Galley, "The Joycean: Yea" will be on exhibit, with paintings by Geald Davis. His exhibited paintings will elate to the witings of James Joyce. * ALL WELCOME i - LL 205 LE42nd St. New Yok 35 W. 8th St New Yok S mmmmm w

13 FCTON continued fom page 11 window that indicated the day of the moth., The little numbe was "19." Now he was stating to panic. "Hello?," came the voice ove the phone. Jim ecognized the voice only too well, it was the voice of his little siste. Having no desie to speak with he, he said quickly, "Lana, is mom thee?" "What's the matte with you, Jim? You didn't even say hello." "Nothing's the matte with me! Just give me mom o.k.?" "O.k., o.k., jeez! Hold on a.second." A shot silence followed as Lana, was getting his mothe. Then he head the: eceive being picked up and his mothe's i voice came ove it, "Hi, Jim. How ae! you?" "Mom! Hi! How's eveything?" "Fine," Jim's mothe said slowly,, then added, "How's eveything with you?" Jim knew the tone of voice that; his mothe had. She knows somehthing is i up, she's just waiting fo me to tell he, hei thought. Sometimes he just hated it thatl his mothe knew him so well. "'m fine. Listen, mom, was wondeing if you could send me some, money." "Jim, is something wong? You know how tight we ae with cash. That'sl why you have a wok study job; to take cae of you small expenses so that don't havel to send you money evey month." "Well, was just hoping you could give me a loan." "Fo what?" "You know. Fo clothes and stuff: that need, that can't affod on myy wostuuy m1oney." Jim could hea his mothe take al deep beath. "How much do you need?" "Not much. mean it eally isn't much if you think about it" "How much do you want, Jim." "Fou hunded dollas."' "What?! What do you need that kind of money fo? You going to buyl clothes made of gold thead? You know that! just enolled Lana in a pivate school, andi it's taken up all my exta money evey month. Do you know how long it's beenj since bought clothes?" "Yes Mom. You've told me that a! hunded times aleady. Well, can you send 1 me anything?" Again his mothe took a deep beath followed by, " can send you a hunded dollas." "Oh." "Jim, it's the best can do. Othewise, won't have money to buy food! 'll send it to you today by expess mail. You should get it tomoow, o.k.?" "O.k. Mom. Thanks." "You'e welcome. love you." " love you too. Bye Mom." "Bye." Thee was a loud knocking somewhee in the dakness, and Jim could not place its location. No matte which way he faced, he couldn't place the location of the sound. Jim awoke with a stat. He glanced at his adio and saw that it was a little afte thee a.m. He glanced at his oommate. He was asleep. Thee was a loud knock on the doo. Weaily, Jim got of bed and went to the doo. "Yes?," he goaned. "Open the doo, this is the police!" a hash voice esonated fom behinc the wooden doo. Jim unlocked the doo and opene( it quickly. Behind the doo was a ma dessed in a suit, holding a lage whit< envelope, and behind him wee two police offices in unifom. "Jim Roth?," the man in the sui said, in a supisingly high pitched voice. "Yes?" "M. Roth, have a waant fo ' - ou aest Please come with us quietly." "On what chage?," Jim asked labbegasted. "Fo having outstanding moneay obligations to the D.C.F. copoation. [n othe wods, bad cedit." The two offices came into the oom, gabbed Jim and handcuffed him. Fhey then dagged him out of the oom. [he last thing Jim saw befoe they closed he doo, was his oommate's face, asleep. S Jim opened his eyes and looked )ve at the opposite wall. Ebanize had finally fallen asleep on the floo. His stomach gowled and Jim ealized that he was hungy. Looking aound the oom caefully, he saw the small shape of the gey mouse slinking along the wall. Jim got on his hands and knees and stated to follow the mouse vey slowly to make sue that he made no sound. As he followed him Jim hummed quietly to himself a song that he knew fom a catoon he used to watch when he was a little kid. "A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go..." VW % VVS Ya tal odkuash'& Cone Scenes Fom a Mall is W. Allen's most ecent bombadment of ou fine sensibilities. Within the new e-vamped semiuban envionment of Los Angeles (o is it Queens?), thee is, despite all pobability, a e-enactment of a pituesque life; ovekill, no doubt. t would seem as though the 'ennui' pesent has not been popely Blood n The Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Ayan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Cultue By James Ridgeway Thunde's Mouth Pess, 202 pages, $18.95 papeback, '$29.95hadcove by Scott Wamuth BLACK BABoONS.. BRUTAL, WORTHLESS, "THEVNG GOON... OFTE H GH... THRVES N TA1L... 4S WELFTARE C ECK \S N TH E SoME qo o0 F! HAVE A Eml NOT ONE WLL. CALL HM D Aa 'let HE DPAY AND l BLAUES ce Fo may T'S NM SPR ALL Roua T'S HtM WHA SAO KfS HE PUS4 MY To B. ANJ SENDS OD OAT 9UT NCH sy Wc we T Ltlt WN DE WHTt STAv WE'LL OVERRUN YO HOMEss ANO sooj This is a heavy hitting book. Autho James Ridgeway, best known fo his wok as a staff wite fo the Village Voice, has delved deep into the wold of the acist fa ight and etuned with this epot. Ridgeway's witing is lucid and to the point. His eseach, often fom fist peson accounts, is top notch but what fist dew me into the book was the extensive,epoductions of anti-semitic and acist tacts, catoons and vebatim tansciptions of semons and speeches. Some of these ants ae among the most cazed that have eve seen. Fo example, a semon by Chistian dentity ministe Jim Wickstom is epinted in pat Chistian dentity is a eligion based on the notion that the Anglo-Saxons ae the tue descendants of the ten lost Tibes of sael so Wickstom is coming fom a stange angle to begin with, but he goes futhe into the twilight zone when he discusses the evils of soap. "They take that ba of Dove, which should be ispelled pig, and they take that sweaty, slimy piece of pussey pok and they wash,,... sublimated, just as the epession itself has again become undone. Thee is an absence of the oiginal powe and foce found in the ealy Allen days, howeve that classic naivete is no longe tuly significant. t would seem that W. Allen has been caught in a cultual phenomena ove the past few yeas wheein film has taken on a diminutive stance quality, exchanged fo obette cinematic technology. he ques,,tio!must be asked: "if W. Allen is no longe funny, can he claim malpactice? Can he somehow escape the new seiousness? Can he somehow not be nomal? Can he eve be funny again? Will he foeve become tiesome and doll?" Mitchell Weissbeg PAGES SS Popaganda postes distibuted by the White Ayan Resistance Af thei whole body with that piece of pig... you'e a geased pig when you come out [of the showe] just like the nigge caying the football down the field...," pontificates Wickstom. The book's title efes to the belief that one of the ways to detemine if a peson is a tue white (as opposed to one of the "mud people") is the ability to blush. This is just one of the myiad of cackpot theoies pesented which would be laughable if they ween't so dangeous. Ridgeway also outlines the oots of the mythical "ntenational Jewish Conspiacy," and the Potocols of the Eldes of Zion, an anti-semetic ant that was oiginally deamed up by the Cza's secet police, late spead though the U.S. by auto make Heny Fod, and which is still jwidely touted today. S Ridgeway also gives up pofiles of the main moves and shakes of the acist fa ight fom the founding fathes in the ealie pat of this centuy to today's leades. Thee is an in-depth examination of David Duke's tansition fom a Klan leade in the seventies to a seious mainsteam political candidate in the ninties. Ridgeway's investigation of Tom Metzge, the KKK membe who went on to fom WAR, White Aayan Resistance, is based in pat on fist peson inteviews. FMy -j. i s a Whi te ainl t. Xf yows L i s a uhinqp dnq]p hisn am E et a3 a-eel yii tye eajn scexwl <xevy -t -i^ s^yisa t el in"gewa an--aiysi Kidgeway s analysis anu investigation of the Skinhead movement is the most infomed that have seen in the mainsteam media, especially when dealing ;with its oigins, but thee is one aspect that take umbage with. The Skinhead movement is split today along acist lines 'but Ridgeway only gives the othe side a one sentence mention, "t should be 'pointed out that not all skinheads ae Nazis, and a movement of skinheads in opposition to the Nazi model has asseted itself in ecent yeas." This split deseves moe attention. A look at a goup like SHARP, Skinheads Against Racial Pejudice, would have povided a moe balanced look at the skinheads and could have helped to take the Nazi stigma off of non-acist skins. n Blood in The Face Ridgeway does a good job of keeping his own biases out of his epoting. He doesn't go fo the expoiotative flash favoed by the television pesonalities like Gealdo. nstead of baiting Nazis to thow chais at him, Ridgeway ties to gain thei tust and in doing so he also gains a deepe undestanding of what makes them tick. Ridgeway has poduced an indepth look at the state of the acist fa ight today, its oigins, the inteconnections of vaious goups and he shows thei tue colos though thei own woks. A film by the same name is a companion piece to the book and will make its boadcast pemiee late this yea on Public Television. * Mach 8, 1991 page 13

14 Sting's Soul Cage By Eic Penze n 1990, when Sting was pepaing to ecod his latest studio album, it had been about thee yeas since his last album, 's...nothing Like The Sun, hit ecod stoes woldwide. Howeve, Sting was faced with a poblem concening the new ecod: no mateial. Sting ecently said of his wite's block that, "since the ecoding of...nothing Like The Sun, in 1987, hadn't witten as much as a hyming couplet, much less a whole song." This stoy ends with Sting tying to give his mind a jump stat by booking a ecoding studio in Pais (to ecod what, he had no idea), and hiing studio musicians. The Soul Cages, ecently eleased on A&M Recods, is the esult of these sessions. The Soul Cages begins with the low-key "sland Of Souls." The lyics to this song, like many songs on the ecod, ae vey desciptive and naative. The FM favoite, "All This Time," follows next. Pehaps the most uplifting song on the album, the idea fo "All This Time" came, fom Sting's ealiest childhood memoy. When he was witing this song, he asked himself, "What's you ealiest memoy?" And his answe was, "Easy...A geat big bloody ship...and the ive...the ive flowed to the sea." "All This Time" is, melodically, simila to ecent upbeat Paul Simon compositions, but with a twist that makes the song unique. Pehaps one of the easons that this ecod is so appealing is that Sting enlists the talents of only the best studio musicians. The song, "Jeemiah Blues (Pat' )," featues expet saxophone wok by Banfod Masalis. Rhythm is also a key pat of this collection. The Soul Cages featues seven diffeent pecussionists. At all times, Sting's band pefoms flawlessly. t is my expeience that this flawlessness is not limited to studio wok, but is also appaent when the band pefoms live. Othe album highlights include "Why Should Cy Fo You," which is' pehaps the sweetest and most polific love song Sting has eve witten. "Saint Agnes' And The Buning Tain" is an instumental that featues an ea pleasing medievalstyled mandolin lead (this tune would have' been geat on the Hamlet soundtack!). The album's title tack comes as close toj staight-fowad ock as Sting eve gets. Not only do you have to admiet Sting fo his musical ability, you shouldl also know that he is an envionmental' activist. The Soul Cages sets pecedence as i being one of the fist majo atist eleases to foego the taditional, wasteful, CD longbox fomat. Afte the initial 300,000 units (shipped in longboxes), the disc is toj be packaged in the altenative Digitak, which educes pape and cadboad waste. t! is ae fo a majo atist to stand up to his. ecod company and insist that they spend moe money on a elease. Howeve, it is quickly becoming appaent that Sting knows how to beak all the ules. 1- v By Eic Penze The Stony Book Pess page 14 McGuinn s Back With the elease of Roge Mc- Guinn's fist solo album in ove ten yeas, Back To Rio (Aista), the ex-byd poves that he is definitely back in the wold of music. And he couldn't have come at a bette time maks the Byds' silve annivesay, which bings with it thei induction into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame. Yes, it is definitely time to celebate one of Rock and Roll's geatest talents. How does McGuinn stand as a solo atist? Tall and poud! The album's fist two songs ae the pleasant "Someone To Love" and the silly paody-like "Ca 'Phone" (Roge, don't believe in moden technology eithe, but this is idiculous!). The thid cut on Back To Rio, howeve, foces one to listen to the est of the album. The Elvis Costello penned "You Bowed Down" stands as one of the best songs on the album, cetainly the best song on side one. Back Fom Rio also maks the eunion of McGuinn and fellow ex-byds David Cosby and Chis Hillman. The tio hamonize on "Suddenly Blue" and "Without You Love" (the latte song is, pehaps, the sweetest love song the tio have eve sung). t's eally good to hea these thee men singing togethe again; thei voices!blend so effotlessly, it sounds as if they neve stopped pefoming togethe. Anothe collaboation that makes this album so enjoyable is McGuinn's long' ovedue duet with Tom Petty on the Mc-' Guinn/Petty composition, "King Of The Hill." This song has the two men singing about the misconceptions of life at the top: "You diveway is long, you pincess is lovely/ You sevants all wait fo you; knock on the doo/ How many yeas will; you cawl though this castle/ So satisfied' and still wanting moe..." Petty and' McGuinn have vey compatible voices (as should be appaent when Petty coves Byds' songs live), and the shea billiance of this song, along with the masteful: vocals, makes "King Of The Hill" a song, you will find youself listening to ove and 1 ove. Aside fom the fact that about: seven of the album's ten songs sound vey simila (also tue of many Byds albums), :Back Fom Rio is as good a comeback ecod as 've eve head. Although Mc- Guinn has been away fom the mainsteam, it's good to see his etun. Rio? Well, wheeve he was, make no mistake, he is indeed back. A Vl Sceaming Tees Ru Wouayne a Don't call them psychedelic. "t [the tem psychedelic] evokes images of a band tying had to be something fom the past, which we'e not," says Van Conne, the Sceaming Tees' bassist. The band, which stated six yeas ago in Ellensbug, Washington, has just eleased thei debut album, Uncle Anesthesia (Epic). Sceaming Tees is a hodgepodge. Thei influences ange fom The Beatles to Black Sabbath to Duan Duan, and ealy MTV. Band-membe's ages ange fom 22 to 28 yeas old. They ae Mak Pickeel (dums), Gay Lee Coe (guita), Van Conne (bass), and Mak Lanegan (vocals). n the six yeas of thei existence, each membe has left the band, and etuned, at least once. The music, although often sounding deived, etains its own style. Lanegan's vox beas a esemblance to that of Wayne Hussey (Mission U.K.). The guita commands attention and dominates the music, while the bass dives it. Sceaming Tees' lyics ae poetic and sueal, often holding meaning open to individual intepetation. t makes fo good iock and oll as well as fitting into the new "Mancheste Sound" categoy that includes By James F. Bama The mpeial Bells of China appeaed at USB's Stalle Cente's Main Stage, pefoming the music, dance, and poety of the Ancient Chinese Kingdom of Chu. The pefomance, which was on Satuday, Mach second, was centeed aound 120 musical instuments uncoveed in 1978 fom a tomb in China's cental Hubei Povince. "The tomb, which dates back moe than 2400 yeas, belonged to a highanking noble, a cetain Maquis Yi, of a small kingdom called Zeng. Of special inteest was a fully intact set of sixty-fou bonze bianzhong-chime bells. Not only was it physically impessive as an exquisite wok of at, it was, moeove, the ealiest example in China of an instument of such boad ange employing a chomatic scale,: with set pitch." The pefomance consisted of shot scenes that altenated music and dance. t began with taditional music and dance that was ceated though extensive eseach with indigenous people deep in' emote egions of Hubei Povince. One scene of note consisted of Faming Dances that wee inspied by the Zuo Zhuan, a VNYL the Chalatans U.K., Stone Roses, and My Bloody Valentine. This is music to be played (vey) loudly. Uncle Anesthesia is good "bumming aound" listening due to its laid-back style, yet fast and had enough to pemit slamming. Any fans of the Cult, Mission U.K.., "Mancheste" bands will. like Sceaming Tees. * WUSB TOP FM As of 3/7/91.Pop W Eat ttuetf z 2? Cocteau Twins - S 3. MJ Vonas Volnus = 4. Chick Asau Mud Puppes - 5 Mosey 5 6.Meat Beat Manitieso E 9. Blake Babies S 10. Hemet = 11. Daniel Ash 12. Plastic Land S 13. Daie Dax KMFDM 5 = 15. Dust Dents = 16. Lmbo Maniacs Babylon Pink Nine nch Nails S19. NRBQ 20. Buffalo Tom 5, 21. Pite On = S 22 Renegade Sound Wave 23. Bug-Out Society S 24. God's Ace = 25. Ming BlackTwo Ba Stong S26. Lush S27. Jlysh Kiss E 28. Thee Head Coats - S 29. Slapehot S 30. At Ensemble Of Chicago S31. Boss Hog S 32- SunRa = 33. Uban Dance Squad S 34. Unnyolux S 35. Tash Can SinaWes -- l - ' s- mpeial Ti nkle commentay of "Sping and Autumn" Sattibuted to Confucius between BC. The Bianzhong Chime Bell solos wee also an inteesting display of Chinese music. The second half of the pefomance was moe mithful than the fist. The ensemble elaxed its taditional style, and began to use moe Westen Dance styles and music. The dance became epesentational, like ballet, and the ensemble began to use moe Westen melodies. At the end, as a gift to the audience, the ensemble played a medley of "Ameican Folk Songs," including Jingle Bells. must admit that found the fist half of the pefomance difficult to enjoy. The melodies seemed stange and shill, and didn't undestand the dance. This, howeve, tuned out to be 'only a cultual diffeence. When spoke to a Chinese-Ameican woman about the pefomance, he opinion was the opposite of mine. Fo he the fist half was enjoyable pecisely because it contained taditional music, dances and poety, unadulteated fom othe influences. The isecond half was less enjoyable because it +attempted to mix Westen styles and melodies with taditional music. a Cove photo: Geg Fote

15 İ The Wods Of Baaka By Jaes F.Bama Amiii Baaka, the awad winning poet, damatist, civil ights activist and pofesso, spoke at the Uniti Cultual Cente on Febuay 26, 1991 to help celebate Black Histoy Month. Baaka, who teaches Pan Afican Histoy (AFH330), ead fom seveal of his books, to give a geneal view of his poety and its changes ove time. He pefaced his eading by simply saying that his mateial "...goes back ten yeas, up into contempoay stuff. You'll know the diffeence." Baaka is known fo his distinctive use of jazz duing his eadings. He often pefoms with a jazz quatet behind him, poviding a necessay melody and hythm to his poety. Duing this pefomance he was without accompaniment so he povided it himself. He stated to use beats and hythms made with his hands on the podium. The poety came alive with the pefomance of Baaka, as he injected melodies, tempos, songs, sceams, hell and suffeing. The poems he pefomed wee alive with the stength and suffeing of Afican-Ameicans. As the eading went on Baaka poued moe and moe emotion into POET CS the poems, tansfoming them and himself. So emotional was his pefomance that Baaka began to lose his voice afte only ieading fo some foty minutes. At one point afte eading a,paticulaly fevent poem, Baaka smiled and quipped, "You stat eading about slavey too long you get bitte; you want to konk people on the head." Afte his eading, Baaka uged students to take thei education seiously, and to oppose any effot to lessen the quality of the univesity's education. He emphasized nealy eveyone at USB had elatives and ancestos that sacificed to get them thee. One wondes how long Baaka himself will stay at USB. While he is at Stony Book now, fo seveal yeas he has been tying to gain tenue at a Univesity close to his home in Newak, New Jesey. As was epoted in Newsday, on Mach 27, 1990, although Baaka eceived tenue fom USB in 1982, duing 1988 and 1989, he was a visiting Pofesso at Rutges. n ealy 1990 he was denied tenue at Rutges. At the time Baaka vowed to pusue the matte of tenue denial though legal means. At least fo now, Baaka continues to teach at Stony Book. by James F. Banma Quincy Toupe Retuns to USB Quincy Toupe J., who spoke at the Poety Cente on Febuay 28, began his talk by mentioning that the cicumstances of this visit wee diffeent then the last time he was in Stony Book. This time he was hee as a distinguished poet and wite, appeaing as the final speake in a month long celebation of Black Histoy. n 1989, howeve, he came to USB to aid his son who was accused of ape. The events began in Mach of On Fiday the 24th, duing the last days of sping beak, a 20 yea old female student fom upstate New Yok was assaulted, dagged to a gassy knoll between Douglass and Deise College, and violently aped. Accoding to police epots, the apist was black and woe a fatenity jacket. Howeve, as the days passed, the police made no aests. Then, one week afte the cime, in what many saw as a despeate attempt to pacify the public, the Police aested Quincy's son, a senio engineeing majo, and a fatenity membe. Almost immediately thee was an outcy among the students. n the subsequent days Stony Book was polaized by potests demanding the elease of Toupe. t became appaent that thee was no case against him. On May 10th, Toupe was eleased and cleaed of all chages. Toupe's mention of these 'events though bief, seved to validate his poety! and gave jts themes tangible meaning. One might chaacteize Toupe's; poety as woking to ecaptue and celebate: a cultue which has been epessed by "mainsteam" society. His poety emphasized subjects of paticula inteest to the Afican-Ameican community, evoked! though the mastey of tue Ameicani language. As he noted duing his talk,l "poety, afte all, is the at of language." Howeve, as he admitted duing the talk, he didn't always wite fo the' advancement,c. c-- of his cultue. He mentioned that "Being an Afican Ameican poet is a diffeent thing." He then showed though his ealy poety how he wote fo two diffeent goups. He wote fo a mostly white audience to gain notoiety and become established. He also wote fo himself and his own people. As his caee has pogessed, though, he has changed to witing moe fo himself. Today, Quincy Toupe is enjoying itemendous success with poety as well as lothe witings. n 1990 he eceived the SAmeican Book Awad fo "Miles: The Autobiogaphy, Miles Davis with Quincy Toupe," which was an intenational bestselle. He also edits seveal peiodicals, is a Pofesso of Thid Wold Liteatue at the College of Staten sland, and is a faculty membe of the Columbia Univesity gaduate witing pogam. * Calling All Poets Fannie Bice Theate/Capozzi pesents The ntenational Poety Reading (hosted by Captain Ameica) on Tuesday, Mach 12th at 7:30 PM. This is an open micophone Seading but, if you ae going to ead it would be nice to egiste by calling (516) The eading will be followed by an electic pefo-mance by B.C. (featuing the Anowa Dummes and membes of the Mighty Undedogs). Fannie Bice is located in Roosevelt Quad. Thee will be a $2 cove chage ($3; non-student) that will be used fo the publication of the 1991 Book Sping. Bing you poety submis sions with you fo the magazine CANYOUPASSTHETEST?CANYOUPASSTH ETEST?CANYOUPASSTHETEST?PSYCHED ELC/BLUES/LREGGAE/JAZZ/ROCKANDR OLL!!!t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deams of Damnation staed out my bedoom window at a black and clouded sky suddenly the clouds quickly took fom fist thee wee finges then seveal gey fists stetching out of the sky with divine stength and powe as thei guide bashing the buildings destoying man and his canceous ceations stood cying with no hope of salvation. Fleeing fom the fies of buning, sinful souls seaching fo safety fom the lusteous gasp of Satan the Chosen few finally settle in seclusion among thee toweing tees paying and pleading with God the Ceato that this would fee them fom the dakness of death. Rows and ows of lawn chais a Gound Zeo we sat talking and laughing nevously in anticipation of the flash of Light which would feeze this moment,in the shadows of despai. Mchee Reck PROTECT YOURSELF "One Spay & They Ae Down Fo 30 Minutes" A (C.S.) Militay Tea Gas Caniste in the hands of a peson about to be assaulted is the finest weapon of ou time. PARALY POLCE UNT $ POCKET UNT $10.95 KEY RNG UNT $10.95 AMT. TYPE COST POLCE POCKET KEY RNG.Name Addes- City State Mail to: Metopolitan Maketing Columbus Cicle Station, Box NYC, NY Zip $1.50 Handling pe unit. Allow 3 weeks. Check o Money Ode only. Scholaships, Fellowships, Scholaships, Fellowships, Gants Ed's Sevices Box 3006 Boston, Ma A Mach 8, 1991 page 15

16 SCRE --- by RickTeng Stange Daze the doos eopened The movie theate was litteed with young Ameican "ock-music-bed" people, casually waiting fo the featue movie about a paticula ock band fom the iug-cultued, and steetwise atmosphee of Venice, Califonia duing the existentially hedonistic peiod of the Sixties. The Doos, diected by the ambitious Olive Stone, eopens with an abupt tun of the knob, huling the audience into a histoical account of the goup on a wide sceen that, with incedible cinematogaphy and special visual effects, made eveything sueal and lage than life. Supisingly, the movie woked extemely well as a documentay; a deam-induced account of a social phenomenon that eventually lead to Moison's death in a Pais bathtub. The Doos, a band that came out of the Venice gutte, may seemed to have gone into the back alley when Jim Moison died in But this movie, made 20 yeas afte Moison's death, has made the myth even stonge, aising the dead ndians fom Moison's tomb and onto the sceen with such intensity that was sucked in, wide-eyed and thilled. The Doos is definitely woth you time and money; no one will be disappointed (especially with the peyote sequence in the deset). Even though the filmake's intent may have been to make this a documentaylike film, the movie emains as yet anothe statement, polished by Olive Stone (with the help of the book, Rides On the Stom, witten by Doos membe John Densmoe), on the deafening political voice of the ipyschedelic Sixties. Fo those familia with the goup, the film seemed to be a compilation of emade vintage Doos' concet footages (The Doos Ae Open and 'Live fom the Hollywood Bowl) and the music video, Dance On Fie, with familia Doos songs playing in the backgound duing almost evey scene. The film at times fades into a MTV-like spectacle, 'decisively patched togethe by a sceenplay that almost succumbs to the music itself. M. Stone has mixed this musical teat with' a vey simplified but daing dialogue, filled' with the madness and all the feas and hopes of the Doos geneation - at least the ea that made ock histoy as coined by the book, No One Hee Gets Out Alive, witten by Jey Hopkins and Danny Sugeman. M. Stone's visual statement woks vey nicely. The time comes alive in an awe-inspiing mesh of enegy, psychedelia, and confusion. The Venice boadwalk, the Sunset Stip and the Whiskey A- Go-Go flash into life like voyeuistic evelations. Thee wee a lot of vital ingedients missing though, such as a detailed account of the band's fomation, the UCLA yeas (when Moison lived pooly in a shack and on Dennis Jacob's ooftop whee he wote many of his poems), and many othe things a Doos fan would look fo. But of couse, this movie was made toi appeal to eveyone, especially to today'sl young geneation. t's making pofit and it's Hollywood. But M. Stone was caeful in not making the legend a weak one. The dead has come back to life. The movie is. flawed in not giving Moison an atistic bain. Howeve, we ae awae that he was once an intellectual loon, as depicted in a; scene showing him eading passages fom; Nietszche (the cove of the book wasn't yet i designed back then), and the camea zoomedi in on an aay of intellectually cool books, such as Rimbaud's Season in Hell and so' on. This pocess was slickly done as the& camea moved like an invisible obsevei pying into Moison's wold (opening thet doo, so to speak). But it was disap-. pointing when evey poem and lyic was cut i shot and fused togethe to ceate an uneven! dialogue. When Moison was singing The" Soft Paade, whateve happened to the line,: "The Monks bought lunch?" This is the best pat of the tip, this is the, tip, the best pat... The movie begins astonishingly as the title of the movie sweeps acoss the sceen (like in Sta Was) with an enomous Aizona-like landscape evealed in the backgound. Soon we, like an eagle, zoom into the scenaio of an accident on the New; Mexico highway. We witness Moison as a chubby child fist confonting death, as seveal ndians lie bleeding and dying. Then, afte his mothe has tied comfoting the confused Jim, "ghosts cowd the young child's fagile eggshell mind." The monochomatic (light oange) effect of this sequence ceates a convincing and nostalgic etun to the past. Suddenly we ae tansfomed into the tutue whee we encounte the steetitte of Venice as Moison follows a ed-head chick to he pad. Slowly, as the camea shifts and tuns, we see Moison spying on this gil behind a bush as day tuns into night. The effect hee is almost hypnotic. Thoughout the entie movie, this camea wok emains the same; shifting, tuning, and moving fom scene to scene like a time tavele zooming in on cetain moments of Moison's life and the Doos' adventues in the wold of fame and couption. Val Kilme's potayal of the public Jim Moison is excellent, and he!neve fails to captue the myth so embaced by the pess and media of that time. But the ;only things that came out of the acto's imouth wee glimpses of Moison's poety, lyics, and othe deep talk, mixed in with. some vey supeficial and "nonlinea" metaphos (including that famous line fom William Blake - "f the doos of peception wee cleansed..."). Kilme's Moison was convincing at all times, swaying with sexual gavity and defiance,, even while with his "cosmic mate," played by Meg Ryan. This stipping of the intimate Jim Moison as a eal peson has sadly educed the man to a dug-cazed, self-destuctive ock sta (even though he was) a disapied EN this limitation, since was hoping that Jim Moison, as an atist, would come into light and be justified. But how else can a two-hou movie appoach the sensitivity and sinceity of the Doos' stoy without fist addessing the contovesy involved; without binging back the sex symbol, alcoholic image of Moison that the public eye wants to know? The concet scenes ae geat. Waves and waves of a thousand extas acted out a hysteia so eal that it was like a tue Dionysian itual. Sceaming heckles, tipped-out fans and naked feaks danced into a fenzied oblivion that tuly believed was a eal Doos' concet. The image of the goup as a public theat is evealed as policemen lined up on stage wheeas Moison sceamed, danced, and jumped aound them like a neve-wecking time bomb. Kilme looked just like Moison. The policemen looked just like eal policemen. The audience looked just like a eal audience. The fie-like light show in the backgound gave the concet image a blisteing intensity. And at one point in the movie when Moison was swiling onstage, the sound faded away into a dying echo, showing Moison in a state of isolation and sepaation fom eveything. s Moison a victim of excessive demands fom his fans, a pawn in the hands of geedy pomotes and manages, demanding -fame and pessue? One would think. "Ghosts cowd the young child's fagile eggshell mind." The movie ends with a guide to Moison's gave in Pais' Pee Lachaise Cemetay (the eal one). But befoe this finality, we see Pamela, Moison's wife, in thei Pais apatment, calling fo Jim. She sees a tattooed, naked bald man walking out of the bathoom that Jim is in. The naked man then disappeaed into an astological dooway afte taking a final look at Pamela, an eeie scene that signifies Moison's depatue into the next wold (this man symbolized death, assume). Pamela walks in and sees Jim esting peacefully in the bathtub. He's dead, and Pamela weeps fom a distance. How did Jim Moison die? What caused his death? What caused his selfdestuction? We can only guess. The Doos Diected by Olive Stone; witten by J. Randal johnson and Olive Stone; music by the Doos; poduced by Bill Gaham and Sasha Haai and A. Kitman Ho; eleased by Ti-Sta Pictues; 135 minutes: ated R.