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Where the burden of funding cuts will fall, with 9th with a 75 to 24 vote, and could come to vote in
36 billion multiplied by six yeilds 180 billion, a the House as early as next week. President Reagan,
simple problem in multiplication yet not so simple part of the Pentagons' 61% of the budget exempt
and Social Security and debt interest exemptions, impatiently awaiting the passage of the debt
when applied in monetary terms as a cure to the ceiling bill, finds the ammendment an excellent
United States budget deficit Legislation which is the 28% of the budget making up domestic
programs. Once again lower and middle income idea. The proposal, however, bodes ill for almost
passed through the U.S. Senate two weeks ago, and all non-military programs, and even Defense
could leave a House of Representatives conference Americans would pay, and student aid would be
devastated. Secretary Weinberger has complained that such
as early as this Friday proposes to reduce the
According to calculations made by the Student budgetary constraints should not be levied against
federal governments' $2.1 trillion deficit by $180
Association of State University, students of higher the security of the nation. The Secretary further
billion over six years, while concentrating $36
education would suffer drastic aid cuts do to the claimed, in an interview with the conservative
billion per year budget cuts essentially on domest-
Gramm Rudman Ammendment They estimate a weekly Current Events, "Besides, we have made
ic programs devestating student financial aid.
15% cut in Pell Grants, or 400,000 students elim- major reductions in defense requests and every
Senators Gramm and Rudman have devised this inated. Supplemental Educational Opportunity time we do it, the deficit goes up."
Grants (SEOG) and College Work Study could Despite Weinbergers' claims, 61% of the federal
deficit reduction program in an ammendment to
the bill which would raise the national debt ceiling find a 60% cut. Trio programs such as Upward budget remains allocated to the military, and any
to $2.1 trillion. This ammendment, in proposing to Bound, Special Services and Talent Search might budgetary cuts would hurt those programs the
reduce the debt by one sixth per year over six find a 42% cut, with the elimination of Upward least For whatever reasons, though, the Gram
years, calls for across the board cuts in case the Bound. Guaranteed Student Loans although they Rudman Ammendment poses a serious threat to
deficit were to grow beyond the set ceiling of a could not be cut in mid-year after receipt, could be federal financial aid as well as other domestic
particular year. Exempt from these cuts would be cut later, according to SASU. programs. Cuts in federal funding should be made
Social Security Payments, interest on the debt, The balanced budget ammendment to the debt equally among all programs, without bias towards
and any existing military contracts. ceiling act passed through the Senate on October the military or against the poor.
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obstacle towards building a a centralized bar at beverage center. After overcoming personal and
Stony Brook out of the way, with the final space administrative obstacles, the trashing of the bever-
allocation having been approved this week, F.S.A. age center idea and a 21 year drinking age passed
can now persue the construction of the long await- this summer, FSA persued and finally won every-
The
ed and long expected Stony Brook Ratskeller. thing else but the space. The Union Advisory
Board finally came through this week with the full Stony Brook
space allocation and the go-ahead for what FSA
Three years ago (and we hope that this is the last President David Hill sees as "the most exciting Press
rehashing of this history) with the closing of the project in FSA's history..."
Henry James Pub and the last, save for one, dorm The persistence of the current FSA administra-
social and drinking establishment on campus, the tion should be commended by students, as well as Executive Editor ................ Ron Ostertag
administration and FSA promised and committed the university administration, Union Advisory Arts Editor ...................... Paul Condzal
itself to building a centralized campus social area Board, and all those involved in making this project Photo Editor ...................... Scott Richter
and bar. Proposals for how and where to build a rat happen for what the students need and justly Assistant Photo Editor.......... Albert Fraser
at Stony Brook quietly jumbled through the minds deserve: A central campus bar, a place for more Business Manager......... Frances Westbrook
of three FSA administrations, and early this year than fourty students to socialize comfortably, an
FSA finally found itself in a position politically, a hopefully good quality and diverse coffee sho News and Feature: Joe Caponi,, Andy Koff, Ken
Kruger, Neal Drobenare
economically, and administratively to persue lounge of which this university has been direly i
honestly a viable proposal through to the first need of.
Arts: Michael Barrett, Kathy Esseks,
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John Madonia, Hubert Moore, Paul Yeats.
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Lefkowitz
fight Butsince the Attorney is an appointee charged: "Our community deserves a full-
of Cohalan, Engelbright supporters say time representative
Legislature."
in the County
Times said, "there is a stench coming from
the campaign for the Fifth Legislative
District of the Suffolk County Legislature..
. the campaign between Lefkowitz and
she hasn't run on these talents, nor her
stands on the issues. Instead, she has
offered a campaign of character assassina-
that will "open the back door to Lilco," to Engelbright is distinguished for its gutter- tion."
plant Engelbright literature
open the In response,
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open the plant. Engelbright literature , 1 sniping. We, the people of this district, are "Sophisticated voters in an area like this
displays graphically their feeling that charge, explaining that he has a 100%
equals attendance rate at Legislature and commit- offended." expect effective, informed representatives,
"Cohalan plus Lefkowitz
Shoreham." tee meetings, the highest of any member, While the Times places blame for the not name-callers. It is sad Helen Lefkowitz
In response, Lefkowitz hasmade a and that his other work gives him greater conduct of the campaign in both camps, The didn't see this."
deal with Three Village Herald put the blame The Herald endorsed Engelbright. The
In response,
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number o ha e b E f i e i, environmental and other issues. squarely at Lefkowitz's door. "Helen Lef- election is Tuesday, November 5.
of which led to his being officially repri- environmental and other issues.
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Efficacy Or Epitaph
Dorm Self Sufficiency
by Mark Cantales
Dormitory Self-Sufficiency is a budgetary plan by which in fact, SUNY increased room rents by$150 in five consecutive
the costs of running S.U.N.Y. on campus housing is shifted
from the state to the students, until those students finally
years, except last year, with the express reason of shifting
pay all of those operational costs. The idea behind self- dormitory costs on to the students
sufficiency is not a new one, only the name has been .
choose a College based on costs rather than academic The second proposal, developed by the Student
S.U.N.Y. increased room rents $150 over five consecutive Association of State University(SASU), is termed the
programs to suit the individual's needs.
years, except last year, with the express reason of shifting "walls in" model This would require students to pay only
dormitory costs to the students. Last week, the S.U.N.Y. Student's power to influence room rents would be
severely limited if the authority to set them was removed those costs directly associated with the dorm, such as
Board of Trustees approved a measure to generate ap- utilities and maintenance.
proximately $5.4 million through room rent increases. from the legislature. Currently, students are able to
influence legislators decisions through letter writing and Clearly, the second model is preferable to the first from a
In addition to raising room rents, the self sufficiency student perspective. Stony Brook will be particularly hard
model shifts authority for setting room rents from the lobbying. Campus presidents, however, do not have to be
responsive to their electorate, in fact individual campus hit on utilities alone here in LILCO country, where those
SUNY Trustees and the state legislature, to individual rates are among the highest in the nation. In fact, University
campus presidents. Thus, differential room rents could be presidents could try to exclude students entirely from the
decision making process. PresidentMarburger is already considering a $280 per year
established based on calculated costs of operating each room rent increase.
dorm on the individual campuses, and among the different If campus presidents are to set price based on costs, a
formula is needed to determine what those costs are to Dorm self sufficiency could mark the death of SUNY as a
SUNY schools. public institution. At a time when declining enrollments
include. The SUNY Trustees are considering two different
There are benefits to campus presidents having added models. threaten programs, the Trustees should be taking measures
authority, if you are a campus president, but for students to increase them rather than pricing many students in New
the consequences can be disasterous. The first model, developed by McMannis Associates, York State out of an education. Self sufficiency seems to set
Differential room rents among individual dorms could would require students to pay for such items as grounds up- the stage for shifting more and more of the costs of
create student ghettos by seperating out economically keep, Public Safety, overhead for heating facilities, road education from the state to students. Students must
disadvantaged students, thus creating divisions among the repair, and Residence Hall Directors salaries to name a few. mobilize to defeat self sufficiency in the legislature, and
reverse the trend that makes getting an education a rare
student population. Further, differential room rents among This plan would shift many of the costs to students that are
privilage in this state.
individual SUNY campuses will compel many students to appropriately funded by the state at present.
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Dear Mr. Barnes, areas where children play. Whkat kind of To the Editor. through questionnaires and then acts to
I am writing to call your attention to the message are we sending our students and Have you seen those signs about "Polity resolve problems. Recent research projects
appalling lack of safety that exists in front of workers and community? There is already Hotline" all over campus? You have probably included surveys on campus lighting and
the Student Union, where thousands of much evidence - and feeling - that the wondered who they are and why they're safety, and a study on maintenance problems
students and staff cross every day. It is a University ignores needs of various kinds, around. Why do they keep beckoning "Call in the dorms. The team will continue work
situation I have noted with fear and anger -ommon sense needs the State need not Hotline"? on the latter project this fall
ever since I came here. approve of human, humane needs concerning This legitimate question deserves an Hotline serves the SB community by
To wit I refer to the fact that there is no food, lighting, living space, study space. Is answer! Polity Hotline is an information,' helping individuals solve problems and by
forc e ds topjn frontofthe Union, on the road this to be added to the list? complaint, and referral service run by and surveying general problems. (For example,
- no stop sign, no traffic signal, no road May I ask that you respond to this note as for Stony Brook students. campus safety has suffered due to insuf-
marker. The cross-hatched pedestrian walk soon as possible. Is it too much to ask that Exactly what does this mean and how do ficient lighting. The lights on the path from
might be construed as a forced stop, if action be takn on my suggestion before the we serve students? Twenty-four hours a the Gym to North P-Lot were installed as a
anyone could see it Legally it isa stop. But situation produces an event that all will day, our phones ring. Students call us for result of our campus safety surveys.) Hotline
this cross-hatched area has been wiped regret? Iam prepared to take this complaint information; they ask"Can I have the number resolves these conflicts with actions; we
virtually blank by the elements of several as far as I can. for Goodie's Pizza?" or "What's the bus confront administrators or those who can
years. rve seen no effort to re-paint it. Thank you for your attention. schedule?" The number at Polity Hotline is resolve the problem. Our research indicates
Indeed, student campaigners openly disfigure Sincerely, 246-4000, and we'll do our best to answer that ninety-five percent of the cases
the road with signs and announcements. I Paul B. Wiener information requests. registered are solved. Students, like yoursel
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bureaucracy, or if you just don't know where
more pedestrians are drawn there, of course, the student has used proper channels. to turn, call Polity Hotline, 246-4000.
by the flea market, the bus stop, the pitiful Students can either stop by our office We are here to serve you!
lack of any other place to congregate - II (Room 251, in the Polity Suite, Student Note: Are you interested in helping
have seen cars, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, Union) or call 246-4000, and Hotline workers students solve these problems? Students
even buses barrel through the intersection will do their best to see complaints heard, run Hotline and we always welcome new
as if it were Nesconset Highway. I've :onflicts resolved, and action taken. If workers. Stop by Room 251, Student Union,
witnessed close calls many times. students don't know quite how to approach or call 246-4000: We would like to have your
It is inconceivable to me that the State a problem, we advise them. If they have input and creativity.
and the University should risk so much ried to resolve the problem themselves and Jacqueline Hrivnak
danger and liability - and reputation - by ncounter difficulties, we open a case and Director, Polity Hotline
not requiring of every vehicle a forced stop he entire Hotline staff works to resolve the
in front of the Union, surely the busiest >roblem.
pedestrian walkway on campus. Requiring Most complaints we receive are dorm
it would be nearly effortless, almost cost- naintenance problems. Broken sinks, stoves
free, a logical move everyone could under- nd showers are frequently reported, yet
stand. Traffic is constantly on the minds of lotline will help students with almost any
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when cars speed through quiet residential Our research team reaches out to students
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Male Culture
By Petros Evdokas same time within public life; while in our private lives, we lood is fine to these men when it flows out of crushed
In the Freudian labyrinth-worlds of graffitti smeared and only serve as the agents of oppression in the bedrooms, the kulls and cut-off fingers to serve the Imperial death
scribbled over the bathroom walls of mens' rooms all over bars, the toilets, the relationships, the person-to-person mnachine, but invisible and of no concern or interest if its
this University, rules a limited and very strictly defined moments of intimate excruciating pleasure. peaceful cycles are linked to the moon and the tides and the
array of topics serving as channels of communication and natural flow of life. So, out of the toilets and into the halls,
cultural expression for us. One may say that these topics Women, who only for these last two decades have been women's anger has begun spreading, first targeting the
comprise, perhaps, the totality of men's culture. broadly participating in the sphere of public life, traditionally perpetually empty tampon dispensers with an organized
In all their glory and terse, single-mindedly enforced were trained to be chained to (and reproducers of) private raffitti campaign, then evolving into a slogan-sticker protest;
precision, the topics are: oppression now recently in the public sphere. They are yartl
to address these authoritarian men's sensibilities (if
developing new, ingenious ways of response to the pain. hey have any), and partly in order to build an independant
1. Despaired yearnings for sexual happiness (ie. -'Both their collaboration with the monster and their resistance campus womens' power-base.
intense longing for orgasm). against it are pouring forth the acid that's eating away the
2. Vengeful hatred towards women (supposedly plastic barriers between private and public. And so it's in With the initiative and leadership of the Womyn's Center,
because they "don't satisfy" these passions). the public realm, that the women's liberation movement, the protest is growing and embarassing the Administration.
3. Hatred towards gay men and lesbians. especially the radical sectors of it, have brought out a new It has now surfaced and become accented by public letter-
4. Sadistic racism. :and healthy approach to the private pains of our lives, one writing and petitioning in the community. Petitions hung up
5. Politics, expressed both in philosophical ab- that's a few centuries ahead of the ugly world men live in, in womens' bathrooms all over campus are overflowing with
stractions, and in naive, simplistic "good" vs. desperately smear graffitti on, and work in. A new collective signatures, and women are adding extra spaces for their
"bad", communism vs. capitalism, Reagan vs. approach developed out of women's struggles to re-establish name along with their own angry comments. The Admini-
Mondale-type candidates. control over their own bodies, sexuality, reproductive stration so far has responded with the usual combination of
function, and personal and social lives; whereas men are the "We don't care" attitude quickly modified by the "but
Don't talk of love, squash emotion, kill sentiment -that's still scribbling on the caves, tunneling beneath paranoia so-and-so is responsible, it's not our fault, we care!" at-
the simple guideline that chains us to the common culture city, illiterate, unable to read and write the signs of our titiude. And the response is the same as when Stage XII is
we share as men. And the common denominat.or of all times. And if that sounds like vagina envy, it is! purported as the place always picked to have to go without
fractions in this world of sub-human existence is the fear of A lot of bloodshed, perseverance, bitter, courageous toilet paper - "it has nothing to do with the fact that they're
sensuousness. The agony - that agony! - rushing forth battles - armed and unarmed - by women have won all dirty foreigners and used to it, we care, it's just that we
with every nanometer of closeness, closer to the body, the tremendous victories for all of us over the years, and as a have no funds!"
closer, more intimate the sensation is, the more vulgar, result of them we live in a society which contains within it The two thirds of a million dollars that goes to biological
disgusting and revolting it's felt to be, and the more today the very real possibility of overthrowing male supre-. warfare research on campus funded by the Pentagon (to
vehemently it becomes expelled with the violence of spatum macy, patriarchal authoritarianism and capitalist power one Dr. Bauer of Microbiology) is a good place to start.
spat out flat on the toilet floor propelled by a hissing curse relations once and for alL Smiling History and Herstory looking for funds. And also the tens of thousands they give
and a touch of muscle felt hatred. playfully watch us on the verge ofa new human era, a rocket- to Dr. Patrick Herley in Engineering (who is a white South
It's not that the world of women is any less deep, or that powered fully automated digital age of matriarchal equality, African with "interesting" racial politics) to make Navy
the emotional and mental upheavals tied to and triggered love and the sensuous merging of work and play. weapons burn people better when they go out to rape the
by bodily functions are of less significance to the individual But the end of the present era (the one Mitchel calls next Black Socialist Greneda.
woman. Just as many anxieties, just as many fears are neither History nor Herstory, but Twistory), will not come The Womens' movement on campus is involved in a
implanted there to control all of us. And the pain goes on, about without the conscious intervention, participation of struggle that's aimed at reclaiming a life of dignity and
and we resist as we can. In the men's world, the vast gap every little segment of all the sleepy Stony Brooks, freedom for all of us, and the rest of the sick world that
between the public sphere and the private sphere helps to Suburbanvilles, and Countryvilles, USA. conspires to thwart it will eventually come to crumble along
further the oppression. Men, trained to be fighters for The men in business suits who run our lives here pay one with the ruins of the present social order. But for now, the
"justice" and all "high" bourgeois ideals are at the same million dollars to Dr. Gelernter of Computer Sciences to sit duty of all caring and sensitive men is to show that we'll put
time made into sergeants whose job it is to keep the order in and figure out better ways to kill people, but decided that our bodies on the line, too, when we're called on to show our
our continent-wide barracks of life, responding to the pain they "can't afford" to supply free tampons and pads for the support We wait for the Womyn's Center call to act. We'll
by collaborating with the monster and resisting it at the ten thousand women on campus who need them daily. be there - please count on us!
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the 1985-86 Men's Ice Hockey season power play and to protect a lead in the
figures to be a rebuilding year for coaches waning moments of the game. Returning
George Lasher, Rick Levchuck and assist- forwards George Resnick, Tom Oats and
ant coach Mike Flaherty. with the departure Andy Kinnier may have to shore up this key'
of 3 time All Star defenseman Kevin area of the team.
Cavallo and all-time leading scorer Marty
Schmitt as well as defensemen Eddie The coaching staff willbe returning intact
Barham and Joe Yallowity due to gradua- for its fourth consecutive year. The team
tion, the team will have some huge voids has qualified for the playoffs in each of the
that must be filled. In addition, the team will last three years, bowing to eventual champ-
have to replace last year's MVP John Mudy ion Manhattan College. The team had and
who is now playing for the Islander farm 11-4-2 record for the regular season and
team. placed third in the Empire division of the
However, the outlook is far from a gloomy Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey Confer-
one. Returning this year will be junior Jerry ence. This bested the 9-7-1 record of the
Bonfiglio, last year's leading scorer and last previous campaign, but fell short of the all-
year's Most Improved Player. Veterans time record of 15-2 set in the 1982-83
Shain Cuber, Chris Panatier, Courtney campaign, the first season of coaching for
Kwas, and Danny Riemer round out the the current staff The club's history is a
nucleus of returning players that figure to solid one and hockey has existed at Stony
once again make the Patriots a playoff Brook as far back as 1972-73, when the
contender. The success or failure of this team even made an appearance at Madison
year's squad will depend largely on the Square Garden.
Pit team's defense.
Only Jay McKenna and Paul Blanis will
return from last year's defense wings. At the
No campus team has as many alumni
involved, making it a Stony Brook team,
from top to bottom.
By Dave Schapp what will surely be remembered as one of
the best pit-hockey games ever played. The outset of training camp, the coaching staff
On a cool October evening, under SAB
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light , 4 pit-hockey teams and a large crowd game remained scoreless, thanks to with the poise and experience to guide a FreeportRec. Center.
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gathered at the G-quad pit to
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Roadside
Women's Rugby... Thursday, Invite
November 14th
The Players November 4th
as hard hitting," according to Rosen. by Ellen Mitre didn't make the difficult conversion.
By Neal Drobenare
In its first season last Fall, the rugby team This Saturday, the Women's Rugby Later in the second half after a long
Woman's Rugby, like the surge in working
woman, is redefining what activities are played "Hofstra, Hofstra, and more Hofstra," Team held its first Annual Roadside Rugby penalty kick from the 40 meter line by S.B.
"proper" for women. Lisa Rosen, team leader said Johnston. The team added C.W Post invite at the rugby field on Stony Brook scrumhalf Jean O'Brien, hooker Lisa Ro*en
suggested "you don't have to be an amazing and the University of Pennsylvania to their Road. S.B., Southern Connecticut State, and O'Brien recovered the ball and Rosen
athlete (to play rugby), you just can't be schedule that Spring, and added more teams Hofstra, and the Royal Renegades played a scored before a Southern player tackled
afraid." That is a maxim that will serve the in the Fall '85 season. Rosen noted that round robin, but all three collegiate teams her. Stony Brook led 8-6. The game seemed
members of the Stony Brook Woman's
Rugby team well, both on the feild, and
"there are very few teams on the Island,"
with college competition only six years old.
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were outclassed by the Renegades. to be S.B.'s until the last heartbreaking 20
The Royal Renegades, an independent seconds, when once again Southern's
off. club based in New Jersey, is one of the center made a long run over S.B.'s try line
Most of the women who pick up rugby are oldest women's teams in the nation and has and Connecticut won 10-8.
As the hostess of the First Annual Roadside very inexperienced, a problem the team always been an east coast powerhouse. In An especially good game was had by
Rugby Invitational, the Stony Brook seems to be recovering from. "One or two their first match, against S.B., the S.B.'s Lauren Calanco, playing for South-
Woman's Rugby team will be making sports players had to tell everyone else what to do Renegades dominated from the start. By ern, Southern losing players to injury, in a
history. "This will be the first Woman's last year," complained Rosen, but "now a the end of the first half, they had amassed a motion of good will by Stony Brook.
Rugby tournament ever held," exclaimed little more than half the players are at a level 28 point lead, scoring six times and kicking The next match of the day was a Rene-
team president Lisa Rosen. "I even got a of play where thay don't need the direction." two conversions. The Stony Brook pack gade romp of Hofstra, 44-0. By this time
call from Newsday about it" In addition to fought hard and won the ball in scrums, but both Connecticut and Hofstra had lost
Though the team advertises for new team
the Stony Brook squad, 3 other teams from the Renegades skill, experience, and utter several players to injury, and it was decided
members, "...most people get involved
the metro area converged on the South P- brutality prevented the less experienced, to field a select side from the three teams in
Lot playingfeild on Saturday, October26 to through a friend," according to Johnston,
who had played in high school sports finding more civilized players S.B. wing from an attempt to score against the Royal
play. scoring. Renegades. Stony Brook second runs Vicky
that "playing rugby just seemed natural to
me. My father played in England, and my In the second half, S.B.'s defensive play Bindfeather and Mary Kate Michalak,
The Woman' s Rugby team has gone far in
brother played here for two years here." improved, and the Renegades became more Rosen, and Monica Silva all completed a
its one year existence to be able to host an abusive, with high tackles and clotheslining grueling third game. The match quickly
invitational; it was only last fall when Jonna Because of the unique position of rugby becoming a common sight S.B. could not evolved into a blood bath as two Hofstra
Shortino, a visiting student from Brockport breakthrough the Renegades, and the game players, two Southern players, and S.B.
in woman's competitive sports, team mem-
started the team. "She started to hang out flyhalf Laura Lekich were all carried off the
bers find that their femininity often comes ended at 38-0.
with the Men's Rugby team," explained The second match of the day pitted field. Unfortunately, even the select side
into question. Female rugby players take
team treasurer Helen Johnston, "and she offense to that '"We're not a bunch of mini- Hofstra against Southern Connecticut, with could not compete against the Royal
said, 'Hey, I play also so let's get up a mack trucks," exclaimed Rosen. The mem- Southern winning 22-12. . Renegades, who again held their opposition
woman's team."' The men's team had or- bers of the team don't look like they are Stony Brook's second match was against scoreless and racked up 40 points.
iginally wanted the women to practice with members on the Prussian Woman's Weight Southern, and it proved to be an exciting Although the college teams were dis-
them, a proposal Shortino balked at "She Lifting team. On the contrary. the average one. the S.B. scrum consistently won the sapointed at the unnecessarily vicious play
just started putting up signs," said Johnston, size of the team is quite small Though the ball and play was behind the Southern 22 of a team stratospherically better than all
"and started the team herself." game is tough, the team claims to be "a lot meter line for most of the first half. three, the tournament was a success.
The team's have friendly relations though, mellower off the feild." Due to societal Southern attempts to bail themselves out
prejudices against competitive contact by kicking were repeatedly quashed by S.B. The referees and spectators alike were
and Sean Mulrooney, a player on the Men's
sports for women, members of the team fullbackKim Shaclady. The game remainea impressed by the agressive play and skills
A squad is the team's foward coach. He
works with Wini Dini, the team's player- found their sexuality called into question. scoreless until the second half when, upon of the women ruggers. Stony Brook's next
The actions of the team members seemed receiving the kickoff, Southern's inside match will be this Saturday versus Mont-
coach.
to be quite the opposite of the campus center ran 50 meters up the line to score. clair, another unaffiliated New Jersey
Woman's Rugby is played with the same reotype of them. "We're boy crazy," The conversion was good and Southern led women's club. Kick off will be at 1:00 on the
rules as the men's game, although there are b d Rosen. One of their favorite social 6-0. S.B. quickly got back the try when, Stony Brook Road field and spectators are
some differences in the actual play. The lvities is socializing with the men's rugby playing inside their 22, center Meg Car- ancouraged to come out The Women's
woman's games are like the men's except "We go to their home games and they rington received a pass at the try line from a rugby team practices at 4:00am on Monday
they are "scaled down a bit, slower, and not eto ours," she said. tackled Barbara McLauren, and touched it and Wednesdays and newcomers are
down. Mary Kate Michalak attempted but always welcome.
October 31, 1985 page 11
-- On Stage
.- Film -
dejection and anger at the system he has ings, but for all intents and purposes, it was
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November 6- 9.
Gory Vaudeville
The Re-Animator by Colorado Aces Slim
with the Dean's daughter doesn't matter,
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function without a head does. Yes, yes, yes.
Bodies are decapitated, stand up, find their
Night with fellor splatter adoree collegiate
respective heads, and leave to plan revenge.
pal Po-Cow. Sitting and jumping around in
And better than Sir Gawain and the Green
center of theatre, everyone is screaming,
cheering, yelling, while young adolescent Night. Intestines spring from reanimated
trunks to strangle like cobras from Egypt
Evil Ed undergoes brutal transformation
The crowd eats it up, reefer floats from the
from wolf to person on screen-Po-Cow
back rows, and everyone enjoys audience
knows the merits of crunching bones and
participation. The philosophical dilemmas
spurting blood in cinema. Another buddy,
concerning death, like who
Zippy, says I haven't lived unless I've seen presented
should decide who comes back to life and
The Mutilator and that 2000 Maniacs
who doesn't, aren't feathers compared to
isn't all its cracked up to be. Zip just goes for
what the perambulating meat-products
body disconnections while Po- Cow revels in
with bone saws will kill next on screen.
the thrill of disembowelment, like being in And that is the true success of The
the back of a pick-up truck drag racing Reanimator,
which is sure to become a cult
through sleepy upstate streets at dawn. classic. Viewers must abandon themselves
New splatter opens and theatre is buz- to frenetic
zeaL Its comic-book reality
zing big. The Reanimator, based on H.P.
captures and embellishes zombie nar-
Lovecraft's tale, works its mapic like rative producing
tremendous fun. Don't
SHoudini in a straightjacket. Power to bring
expect to be scared, that's not important,
back the dead drives Miskatonic Med
Zippy's eyes kicking back and lighting up
School student Herbert West nuts with describing
a horrible ax murder suggest
scientific passion. A la Frankenstein, he is that the
kick is in just throwing back your
compelled to perfect his creation and help neck and
saying, "oh, no... oh yeah!" Bring;
S humanity. But unforseen consequences the kids.
)arise complicating matters from all
angles. Colorado Aces Slim will be reporting occa-
What hannerrs isn't exactly as imrortant sionally for The Press on film and cinema
as how-the gore is what counts and 86th events.
street crowds know this. Who's sleeping