CGA candidates voice qualifications

Dave "Pinhead" Gerlach
CGA Presidential Candidate

Kris Rowe
CGA Presidential Candidate

Howie Liberman CGA V. President Candidate

Ray Matty
CGA V. President Candidate

Maria Makowski
CGA Treasurer Candidate

Activities: Junior, Marketing
major; BACCHUS Vice
Resident; Kehr Union Gov;rning Board Secretary; Kehr
Jnion Renovation Commitee; Strategic Planning Budget
Committee; CGA Executive
\ssistant.

Activities: Freshman Class
President; CGA Parliamentarian; Pi Kappa Delta Pledge
Educator; Forensics Team
member.

Activities: Junior, Political
Science major; CGA Senator;
Northumberland Hall Council
member.

Activities: Junior , Accounting
major; Rugb y Club Treasurer;
Delta Pi Representative for the
I n t e r - F r a t e r n i ty
Council;
Schuylkill Hall Council President; Luzerne Hall Council
member; Bloomsburg Universtiy Cheerleader.

Activities: Sophomore, Math/
Computer Science major; CGA
Senator; Commuter 's Association Vice President; Editor,
Senior Section , The Obiter,
University Scholar 's Program
member.

Viewpoints: " I would like to
create a Fall Break. I would
ilso try to gain the sale of
;ondoms in the University
\tnre for ATDS nreve.nrinn "

Viewspoints: "I would like to
continue on the parking situation ... Lwould also like to see
the repairing of the Centennial
Parking lot done faster. I think
(Andruss Library) p arking
should be expanded. "

Viewpoints: "I want CGA to
become more visible to tire students. I was surprised when I
found out that a lot of students
did not know what CGA really
does. I think CGA should be
more accessible to the students
and they shouldn 't be afraid to
n sf. it when thev need it. "

Jim Shevlin
CGA Treasurer Candidate
Activities: Junior, Accounting major; Tau Kappa Epsilon
Fundraiser Chair; Accounting
Club member.

Viewpoints: "Ip lan to stick to
the budget and make sure that
no organizations takes preceViewpoints: "I believe I have dent over others. I will also
the knowledge and experience watch what will be going on
Viewpoints: "M y experience needed. Through working (in and take it from there."
will aid in decision making."
Community Activities), I have
become familiar with how the
monev is; heinp snent."

Bork speaks at S lippery Rock University, Masts Sen. Kennedy
by 'The Rocket ' staff
Slippery Rock University
After walking into a standingroom-only audience of 2500 students,
faculty, media, and some visitors at
Grove City College Arena on Monday, former Federal Appeals Court
Judge Robert Bork blasted Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The appearance at the Mercer
County private Presbyterian College
was Bork's first since his resignation
from the federal bench last month .
To set the record straight, Bork told
the capacity audience of his "unique
perception ," of the process he went
through during his 1987 fight to obtain a U.S. Supreme Court justice's
seat.
Bork, a Pittsburgh , Allegheny
County, native, said only 45 minutes
passed between his nomination by
President Reagan last July and the
first attack on him by Kennedy.
In that attack, Bork said Kennedy
presented a view of "Bork's Amer-

ica," which would consist of women
being forced into back-alley abortions and blacks sitting at segregated
lunch counters.
Bork claimed that all of Kennedy 's
allegations were untrue.
He said Kennedy's actions were
outrageous and intellectually vulgar,
even in the political arena, but especially out of place in the judicial selection process.
The judge said his support of the
judicial conceptof original intent was
at the root of Kennedy's blast against
him , because Kennedy supports a
rival philosophy of judicial legislation. The difference between the two
philosophies is the interpretation of
the Constitution as it applies to legal
situations, he said.
Original intent means judges attempt to decide what the framers of
the Constitution intended, and apply
those results to current legal problems. Bork cited decisions about electronic surveillance as they apply to

the Constitutional prohibition of illegal search and seizure.
Judicial lawmaking occurs when
judges at any level attempt to insert
new, or their own, meanings into the
body of Constitutional laws, he said.
Bork cited as an example of judicial
lawmaking the Supreme Court 's
1973 landmark Rowe vs. Wade decision permitting legal abortion in
America for the first time.
Bork told the largely student audience he was not bitter over the outcome of his confirmation process. He
went so far as to say there may have
been legitimate opposition to his
nomination .
Still, Bork admitted that Kennedy 's
tactics in gaining support for opposition to Bork's nomination among
southern political , civil rights, religious, and labor leaders left him bitter.
Bork said Kennedy had launched
his opposition with tactics including
what Bork called "false claims'' that

he was racist in some of his Washington, D.C. Circuit Court decisions.
Bork said his claims were substantiated in a Boston Globe interview
published last summer. Bork denied
this claim saying that he had supported the Civil Rights movement,
and blacks in general, in the bulk of
his decisions concerning minority
affairs. The NAACP supported nine
out of 10 opinions he wrote, Bork
said.
The confirmation process for judicial selection is in danger of becoming highly politicized , Bork said. This
could lead to what he termed "political judges," who would make decisions about the country 's laws based
on what was politically expedient , he
said.
This has been the case for the last
200 years, but is becoming even more
true today, he said.
These political judges would be
reduced to making "campaign promises" to the Senate in order to gain

confirmation to their judicial posts.
Such trends violate America's rule of
law because they let judges make,
rather than interpret the law, Bork
said.
Such a system of political judges
would allow Congress to usurp Constitutional authority it was never

meant to have, he said.
The judge said he believes this
unfolding process, initiated by the
Congress, could lead to Congress
taking a dominant role that could
reduce that Constitutional separation
that exists between the three branches
of government.

by Karen Reiss
Editor-in-Chief
Mansfield University students will
receive a surprise in their campus
newspaper, The Flashlight , this
morning. The 2,500 issues will contain condom inserts with the message,
"Don 't take chances, take precautions."
According to the newspaper's editor-in-chief Corbin Woodling, the
issue will be distrubuted by hand
beginning at 9 a.m. this morning.

There is a chance that students
may try to hoard them ," Woodling
said.
The student-funded newspaper is
the first newspaper to take this approach to create AIDS awareness.
Along with the condom, a 12-page
section giving facts about AIDS and
other sexually transmitted diseases
will be distributed.
According to an article printed in
the Daily Item, Public Relations Director Dennis Miller said Mansfield's
administration supported the
student's effort to educate the student
body about AIDS.
"Students at a university are preparing for life, not just careers,"
Miller said. "We support any educational effort as long as it is sincere."
Dr. Jerrold Griffis, vice president
for student life at BU, said that after
the shock value of the event wears off,
the paper may get reprecusions.

Condoms to be issued
in college newspaper

Parking dominates first Town-Gown Council session
by Ted Sarnoski
for The Voice
The Town-Gown Council met
Tuesday for the first time this year in
order to discuss some of the current
issues affecting Bloomsburg and the
university.
"Town-Gown is an organization
which meets at irregular intervals,
and the effort is to provide a forum
for issues, for calling attention to
issues that are solvable, and for
clarify ing and sharing information,"
said Mr. John Walker, vice president
for Institutional Advancement and
co-chairman of Town-Gown. While
the organization has no official authority, their suggestions are helpful
to both the university and town.
The first issue on the unofficial
agenda was parking. Mayor Bauman, co-chairman, said, "The current situation on Second and Third
Streets is working 99 percent. Still ,
we have no intention of making any
more parking 'permit only. ' "
Florence Thompson , of the
Town-Council agreed and said ,
"The council has no intention of
doing anything more with this situation until we review it in one year."
During the discussion, a town
resident commented that many of
the parking spaces in the hospital lot
are vacant while many of the spaces
on First Street are occupied by college students.
In response, Chief of Police Larry
Smith and Mayor Bauman said an

investigation of the matter has been
conducted, and the best solution at
present would be restricting First
Street for one-way traffic. The issue
was passed by the Town-Council the
previous week, and will be implemented by the end of the month.

BU's sexual assault policy, discon- Fclkcr said that many of the security said the use of alternate non-alconecting of security systems in hous- systems used for fire detection and holic beverages at parties would
ing, and underage drinking were also other safe-guards arc being discon- remove the peer pressure on undernected by students when they have age students to drink.
discussed.
Mayor Bauman said the meeting
Thompson
said
she felt parties and are never reactivated.
Bloomsburg had an inadequate policy
Mr. Darrin Love of Lambda Chi had a positive attitude of cooperaon sexual assault, and that many inci- Alpha and Mr. Tim Kurtz of Tau tion and accomplishment. "We are
dents were never reported to the Kappa Epsilon said that both of their spending less time complaining
Other solutions suggested by the proper authorities.
fraternities card everyone for proper about one another and more time
Town-Gown Council include making
Code Enforcement Officer Charles age in reference to alcohol. Kurtz also working on solutions."
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Street and the existing hospital lot
non-permit parking for BU.
Regarding recycling, Thompson
said, "Many students are not participating, and it is mandatory in the town
of Bloomsburg." Tim Kurtz of CGA
said, "Most students are not aware of
the law and throw everything away as
a matter of habit. I have never known
a place that has mandatory recycling."
According to Thompson, it is the
landlords' responsibility to inform
students of the law, and StudentLife's
responsibility on campus.
A Student Life representative said
that recycling bins are in the residence
halls, but there is no way to enforce
recycling on campus. Students attending the meeting said that they
were unaware of the law and would
try to follow it.
Thompson said that recycling takes
place every third Saturday of the
month, and that all paper, glass, and
aluminum should be sorted and Karen Cameron, Tim Kurtz and Ed
Gobora listen to students and Bloomsburg citizens converse during the first Town-Gown
placed on the curb in the morning for Council meeting of 1988.
Photoby Cknii.ow.r
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'The problem in conservative area
the outside community may not
understand," Griffis said. He said that
when a campus organization does
something like this, it affects many
groups - community, parents, alumni,
and facultv.

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iAPPENED

Take the time to vote

by Karen Reiss
Editor-in-Chief
Today is one of the most important
days of the year for student involvement, yet less than 15 percent of the
BU population will participate in
today 's event.
Beginning at 10 a.m., voting begins
to elect the new executive board of our
governing body, the Community
Government Association. It is up to us
to choose a new president, vice president and treasurer to repicscnl us in
the coming year.
In the past, turn out on election day
has been minimal. Onl y a small portion of the BU population lakes the
time to do such a simp le but important
thing: Vote for our leaders.
A seat on the executive boi» .'i is a
prestig ious position . However, it is
not just getting a seat at the head table,
a name on the inside cover of the
student directory , or something to
beef up a resume. It is caring about the
peop le who put their trust in you. It is
acting as a spokeman for the student
body and doing what is in the best
interest for all.

The cxecuUvc board should be
comprised of enthusiastic people who
arc interested in everything that concerns the university as well as the
Town of Bloomsburg. They should
be people who will stand up for the
ri ghts of BU students and respect
opinions which they themselves n:ay
not hold.
The executive officers should be
skillfu l in communicating their ideas,
yet at the same time they should be
willing to listen to others ideas.
Many issues that arc of concern to
the BU community are still unresolved. Topics such as the parking
situation , condoms on campus, and a
fall break are just a few topics that
the new officers will have to deal
with. It will be up to them to find solutions that will satisf y the majority .
The leaders we choose today will
have the responsibility of making decisions for the students they represent.
They will have the power to allocate, or refuse to allocate, money
from their enormous budget to various campus organizations.

Remember that $50 Community
Activities fee you never pay in time
and puts a hold on your schedule? The
monev CGA spends is our money.
if you are planning to vote today,
don 't vote for the popular names and
the pretty faces. Make your decisions
based upon the qualifications of the
candidates. If you are not familiar
with the candidates, talk to people.
Learn who plans to do what and make
your decisions accordingl y.
If you were not planning to vote
today, please reconsider. It docs not
take much time to vote nor docs it cost
any money. It docs, however, help
choose several of the most powerfu l
student representatives on campus.
If you don 't take the time to execrcise your freedom of choice now , you
will have no one to blame in the future
when the situation is not to your liking.
The roles of the CGA president ,
vice president and treasurer arc important ones. Even more importan t,
though , are students who care enough
about themselves and their campus to
lake the time to vole.

To the Editor
Lately there have been rumors
floating around campus inferring that
our local sororities and fraternities are
going to be faded out. Being sisters of
one local sorority, we don 't want that
to happen. We are sure the other local
organizations feel the same, also.
We believe most of this is because
of our new Greek coordinator , Lori
Bareness. Wc thought her title was
just that, "Greek Coordinator", not
"National Coordinator." We don 't
have anything against nationals , but
Barsness' job is to be working with
the entire Greek system. Instead she is
creating tension between the two that
has never existed before.

Barsness seems to be working only
with the nationals. An example of this
is bringing in two new organizations ,
Theta Chi and Phi Sigma Sigma. Each
is a national , probationary organization. We alread y have a very (and we
stress very) strong Greek system at
Bioomsburg with enough sororities
and fraternities.
Just how many of each can a school
this size handle? Barsness has made it
clear that she favors nationals and that
her goal is to fade out the locals. What
kind of Greek Coordinator wants to
get rid of almost two-thirds of her
Greek system?
She has been at this campus for only
a few months and she is.trying to get

rid of organizations that have existed
for five, 10 and even 20 years.
With sorority rush beginning this
week, rushees will be told over and
over to "follow their hearts" and
"keep an open mind" when choosing
a sorority to pledge. How can these
girls do this when Barsness is try ing to
persuade them to block out six of the
nine sororities?
On the other hand , we are not trying
to persuade rushees to look at only the
locals. We are trying to convince them
to do what rushees have done in the
past - pledge where they feel they
most belong!
If you are rushing this semester,
don't.let rumors influence.your.dcci-

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sion of where to pledge. Because we,
the locals , are as strong as we have
always been , and wc do not intend to
ever die out.
When it comes down to it , "NATIONAL" and "LOCAL" are just twowords in the dictionary. The choice
between the two must be made with a
lot of thought and feeling, not a turn of
the page.
Wc are proud to be part of
Bloomsburg 's Greek system, and
even prouder to be sisters of such a
strong sorority, which just happens to
be local.
Proud to be sisters
of a local sorority
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As a graduating senior, I can relax
awhile and watch my friends apply for
jobs and go to interviews. Unlike most
seniors, I chose my career a year and
a half ago while in my junior year. If
you think trying to make a career
choice now is difficult , try making it
your junior year. At that time I de-

geration but like many careers in the
Air Force, responsibility for large
amounts of equi pment may be given
to a person on their firs t day of work!
Becoming a military officer is a
profession which lakes long hours of
training and intense study ing. Being
an Air Force officer requires an indi-

cided to enter the Air Force for four
years after graduation.
The purpose of this article is to
point out some of the differences in
the "not so common" career path I
have chosen as compared to careers in
private enterprise.
Most people have received recruiting letters from the Armed Services
for years. The usual slogans are "Aim
High" and "Be All You Can Be." In
the end , the letters usually get thrown
in the garbage.
To my surprise, life in the Air Force
is a challenge and an adventure. My
three years in ROTC have taken me to
Boston, Mass., San Ontario, Texas,
Del Mio, Texas, and Rome, New
York. I have flown a T-37 training jet,
participated in a KC-135 tanker mission to refuel a C-5 (largest military
cor^o plane) in flight, and flown a A10 ground support attack plane simulator and a B-52 bomber pilot simulator.
One main reason why I chose to
enter the Air Force is for the challenge. An Air Force officer is a demanding profession which requires
great dedication and hard work. This
may sound like all employers but
when you are responsible for the
upkeep of 15 B-52 bombers worth
more than $200 million it adds a new
dimension to the word responsibility .
This may sound like a gross exag-

vidual to be dedicated to the ideals of
a code of ethics. The person who
wears his country 's uniform represents the morals and ideals of the
society.
This is an awesome task , which is
complicated even more by a very
critical public opinion concerning the
military. Those who wear the uniform
have a sense of obligation to benefit
the society which he serves.
So the next time you sec a person
wearing a uniform on campus, I hope
you will look at them a little differently. Consider the training they go
through to be workers, managers and ,
most importantly, responsible leaders.
One will truly leam the meaning of
Duty, Honor and Country. To quote
Douglas McArthur, "These words
teach you to be humble and gently in
success; not substitute words for actions, not to seek the path of comfort,
but to face the spur of difficulty and
challenge; to have a heart that is clean ,
a goal that is high; to reach into the
future yet never neglect the past; to be
modest so that you will rcmebcr the
simplicity of true greatness, the open
mind of true wisdom , the meekness of
true strength."
Good luck to all in search of their
futures.

To the Editor
I wish to personally thank "One
Disappointed Senator" for the letter in
the Jan . 28 issueof The Voice. I would
also like to thank the senate for
passing The Voice ' s financial proposal. The letter and passage of the
proposal made all of the crap we (The
Voice) endured at the hands of the

guiding the senate, it attempted to
control the senate's actions.
It was unfortunate Ed Gabora either
could not control his executive board
or chose not to do so. I am glad to see
that the senate saw it was being
"duped" and put a stop to it.
I do not beleivc the executive board
will deceive the senate again. I know

Q3S9

Dave Lesko

A word of thanks

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M' is for mother, money and mess

by Ellen Goodman
What are we to make of the lives left
dangling like participles after the
court's final sentences?
TheNew Jersey Supreme Court has
sensibly concluded the legal drama of
Baby M. William Stem will retain
custody of the daughter he calls
Melissa. Mary Beth Whitehead (now)
Gould will regain the title "mother" to
the daughter she calls Sara. The
$10,000 contract that brought about
this toddler's conception is void.
Issues of motherhood - one of the
"M" words in this case - were handled
carefully by the court. A pregnant
woman is more than a vessel, they
ruled. A woman cannot sign away her
maternal rights before birth. Even if
Mary Beth Whitehead broke a promise to give up her child , the court
wrote, "We think it is expecting something well beyond normal human
capabilities to suggest this mother
should have parted with her newly
bom infant without a struggle."
Issues of money - another "M"
word most frequently heard - were
also resolved. "It is unlikely that surrogacy will survive without money.

We doubt that infertile couples in the
low-income brackets will find upperincome surrogates," the court wrote.
A surrogate-mother contract is simply
baby selling and therefore "illegal ,
perhaps criminal and potentially degrading to women."
But there is a third "M" word
scrawled all over this case - "M" for
Mess - and I'm afriad that no court
ruling, however well-crafted, can
reconstruct the lives and futures of the
families caught up in the swirl of surrogacy. There were more people involved than mother, father, child.
Reading the decision , I couldn 't
help thinking of Elizabeth Stem, who
will now not be allowed to adopt her
husband's offspring. It was Dr.
Stem 's health concerns that prompted
the search for a surrogate. From now
on , she is to be what? - a stepmother,
foster mother, custodial mother - to
the toddler who calls her just plain
mother. What subtle changes occur in
a relationship when one spouse has a
stronger claim to "their"child than the
other?
Elizabeth Stem was court-determined to be an outside in this biologi-

cal tie. But how much further outside
is Richard Whitehead? The husband
who helped his wife abduct her baby,
who stood by her, is now an ex-husband, with visitation rights to his own
children and none to hers. Indeed
Richard, sterilized long ago and now
divorced, appeared supporlively in
front of cameras at his ex-wife's news
conference. It is said he looked raptly
at the woman now visibly pregnant by
her new husband.
As for the Whiteheads' two children , Ryan , 13, and Tuesday, 12, I
cannot imagine how they could come
out of this unscathed. Baby M's life
took over their own. These are children who watched a mother grow
pregnant with a half-sister she was to
give away. They saw this mother turn
everything upside down - including
their own lives - to get back that baby.
They have had to cope with that plus
divorce, a new stepfather, another
pregnancy. All in three years.
And then, of course, there is Baby
M herself. In criticizing surrogacy,
the court said: "A child, instead of
starting off its life with as much peace
and security as possible, finds itself

CGA Executive Board last semester the senate will not allow such a thing
worthwhile.
to happen again.
The letter touched upon the heart of
the problem. The CGA Executive
Sincerely yours
Board had abandoned the role for
Don Chomiak Jr.
Former Voice editor
immediately in a tug of war.... Even which it was intended. Instead of
this high court cannot resolve all the
tugs to come.
Mary Beth Whitehcad-Gould said:
"I just can 't see how four people lovEditor-in-Chief.
Karen Reiss
ing her, five people loving her, can
Managing Editor
Tom Sink
hurt her." But Mary Beth is not faNews Editors
Lisa Cellini, Tammy J. Kcmmercr
mous for her far-sightedness. To
FeaturesEditors
Lynne Ernst, Glenn Schwab
share this child , to arrange visits, to
Sports Editor
Mike Mullen
put the baby 's needs above their own
Photography Editor
Christopher Lower
arguments may not be possible for
Assistant Photography Editor.
Chrissa Hosking
parents who cannot even agree if the
Production/Circulation
Manager
Alexander
Schillcmans
toddler 's name is Sara or Melissa.
Advertising Manager
Susan
Sugra
The New Jersey Supreme court
Assistant Advertising Manager
Kim
Clark
applied a brake on the surrogate mothBusiness Manager
Richard Shaplin
erhood business. With dozens of laws
Assistant Business Managers
Jen Lambert, Adina Saleck
being presented to state legislatures,
Copy Editors
David Ferris, Chris Miller
with ,/ihousands of infertile couples
Illustrator
David K. Garton
rifling desperately through a file cabiAdvisor
John
Maittlcn-Harris
net of options, this decision hasn 't
Voice Editorial Policy
come a moment too soon. But a more
Unless stated otherwise, the editorials in The Voice arc the opinions and
powerful message may well come,
concerns of the Edltor-ln-Chlcr, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions
not from the courthouse, but from the
of all members of The Voice staff, or the student population of Hloomsburg
University.
obvious human muddle, the emoThe Voice Invites all readers to express thei r opinions on the editorial page
tional shambles we've all witnessed.
through letters to the editor and guest columns. All submissions must be signThe Baby M legal case is finally
ed and include a phone number and address Tor verification, although names
over. But the families are smack dab
on letters will be withheld upon request.
Submissions should be sent to The Voice office, Kehr Union Building,
in the middle of a lifelong Baby M
Bloomsburg University, or dropped off at the office In the games room. The
story.
Voice reserves the right to edit, condense or reject all submissions.
The "M" that stands for mess.

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Family
receives
money

CGA news

Elections today

by Kelly Cuthbert
Staff Writer
Two Bloomsburg organizations
last ni ght presented a local family
with money collected last semester
from fund raisers.
Miles L. Applcton , Berwick has
been asking himself, "Why my kid?"
for a long time. His son Danny developed a brain tumor three years ago
when he was only nine and a half years
old.
Applcton answers the "why" with a
"how."
He is fi ghting for his son's life by
becoming an advocate for aiding catastrophicall y ill children everywhere.
But this road is long, hard and racked
with frustration.
Besides being frustrated by legislative, insurance and social security
policies, the Applctons have to face
the added frustration of Danny being
turned down by every state school,
private residential school, stale hospital and private rehabilitation hospital
in Pennsylvania.
This frustration eventually led to
App/cton becoming active in getting
House Bill 1898; the Catastrophic
Relief Fund for Children bill , introduced into the Pennsylvania Health
and Welfare Committee.
This bill could set some major legal
and educational precedents for these
children. But the process takes time
and money.
Danny 's hospital visits and medical
costs have placed a $250,000 strain on
the family, but they are doing everything they can to combat the growing
costs. There are also others concerned
for Danny 's welfare.
Last night three Sigma Iota Omega
brothers presented the Appleton 's a
check for $411. Two-hundred dollars
came from the Sigma Iota Omega
ball-bounce marathon last semester,
which was dedicated to Danny.
The other $211 came from a sandwich sale which was sponsored by the
Columbia Association for Retarded
Citizens (CARC) and the Council for
Exceptional Children (CEC). The sisters of Alpha Sigma Alpha made the
sandwiches and the Sigma Iota
Omega brothers delivered them.
Among the Sigma Iota Omega
brothers who presented the check
were Paul Hayward, president, Ed
Pfeiffer , vice president, and John
Jones, who represented CARC and
CEC. Joni Deakin was also present,
representing CARC and CEC as well.
While visiting, Danny proudly
showed everyone his baseball bats
autographed by the New York Yankees, and his autographed pictures of
Sgt. Slaughter, Mike Easier, Rickey
Henderson, and Dave Winfield. Later
Paul Hayward tuned Danny 's guitar
and played him a song.
Appleton reminds them, "we take
things for granted," and as far as his
son is concerned, "we'll never know
that feeling."
Meanwhile, he'll keep fighting for
his son, "You see, that's my son's purpose in this world, to inspire me to
fight for him and all the children, our
Children."

Bloomsburg men sign up for the Spring 1988 rush before the All-Presidents' talk Tuesday night in the Kehr Union Building
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by Michele Bupp
Staff Writer
Seven fraternity presidents delivered speeches at the Inter-Fraternity
All- President's Talk Tuesday evening describing the assets of Greek
membership in order to persuade male
students to rush a fraternity this semester .
Each fraternal president, acting as a
representative for his respective fraternity, pointed out the benefits of
rushing. Delta Phi President Chad
Stevens and Phi Sigma Zi's Kyle
Kem said fraternities help the student
learn about himself through his interaction with others.
"You can really start depending on
other guys," said Stevens, "because
you 're together through everything not just the parties, but sports and
community activities."
Yet Lamda Chi Alpha President
Mike Bryan strongly recommended
rushees to carefully examine each
fratern ity before accepting a bid to see
what they have to offer. "Keep what
you arc looking for in mind. Don 't
accept one (bid) just because a bunch
of guys you know are going for that
one program," he said.

Paul Hayward, Sigma Iota Omega
president, added that a decision to
accept a bid should not rest solely on
the fraternity 's image. "A fratern ity
should not be chosen because it looks
good from the outside," he explained,
"Get to know the brothers!"
"Pledging consumes a lot of time ,"
said Tau Kappa Epsilon President
Mark Beaudoin, "but it teaches one to
budget time effectively."
Jim Bums, Gamma Epsilon Omicron president, and Zela Psi President
Ron Miller pointed out the leadership
responsibilities which can be acquired in fraternities if the member is
dedicated and becomes involved in
the fraternity 's activities.
Nearly 120 rushees signed the
President's List which is a record of
information about those interested in
pledging. Attendance of the event is
mandatory to rush this semester.
Rushees must have earned at least
12 credits prior to the present semester and maintain at least a 2.0 cumulative academic average.
Although hazing policies were not
mentioned during the speeches,
Greek Advisor Lori Barsness said,
"Tonight is necessarily the appropri-

Following a proclamation by President Harry Ausprich, the University's
first Drug Awareness Week, Feb. 814coincided with National Collegiate
Drag Awareness Week (NCDAW).
NCDAWis sponsored by the InterAssociation Task Force that represents all college student personnel
staffs across the country.
During the week, brochures and a
video tape entitledDrwg Dependency:
The Early Warning Signs were on
display in the student union along
with balloons and buttons.

White will discuss "Howard
University and the Civil Rights
Movement." The lecture is free
and open to the public.
Official class schedule cards
for the Spring Semester 1988
have been mailed to campus
mail boxes.
Students have until Friday,
Feb. 12 to report any errors in
courses to the Registrar's Office.

be compiled by executive council for
later discussion.
The Senate passed a request by
WBUQ to send 14 representatives to a
broadcasting conference in New York
City. They also passed reallocation
requests by several organizations that
had been previously approved by the
finance committee.
Finance committee Chairperson
Mark Beaudoin reported that a request by the Husky Ambassadors to
send students to a convention in
Maryland was defeated because they
are a closed organization. The Husky
Ambassadors, an organization to promote relations between Alumni and
students, has restricted membership.
Students must have a 2.5 GPA, at least
15 credits, and interviews with present ambassadors before they can be
admitted.
The Senate also announced the
meetings of the Awards committee,
Student Organization committee,
Town-Gown and the Kehr Union
Governing Board for Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week.

Tickets for the Alvin Ailey
Repertory Ensemble performance will be available beginning
Feb. 10 at noon . Community
Activities card holders may pick
up their ticket(s) at the Kehr
Union Information Desk fo r the
Feb. 24 performance.
All tickets are limited and are
available on a first come-first
serve basis.

The CGA 1988-89 Budget Request forms have been mailed to
all organizations on campus. All
requests for funds must be submitted to the Community Activities Office on or before Feb. 26.
If your organization is eligible
to submit a request but has not
received a form , please contact
the Community Activities Office as soon as possible at 389446,.
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Students interested in participating in the annual phonathon ,
held March through April,
should contact the Development
Office at 389-4213 to sign up.
A training session will be provided,
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A mandatory meeting for the
entire Voice staff will be held
toni ght , Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. Students interested in joining the
current staff are encouraged to
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meeting Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7
p.m. in the Coffeehouse, KUB.

Today is the day to vote for CGA
officers. Remember, they represent you and your interests.

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Research historian Vibert
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by Melissa Harris
for The Voice
Community Government Association exeautive board elections will be
held Thursday, February 11 in the
Scranton Commons from 10:30 a.m.
until 1p.m., and from 4 p.m. to 6p.m.,
as announced at Monday's Senate
meeting. Elections will also be held in
Kehr Union from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m.
Karen Cameron, CGA's elections
committee chairperson, announced
that senators should inform off-campus and commuting students about
the elections.
Kris Rowe , parking committee
chairperson , explained the need for
limited parking on East Second, Third
and Fourth Streets in Bloomsburg.
She reported that surveys will be
conducted to determine approximate
hours students park on those streets.
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Russia 's true history
by David Remmck

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. The world according lo Mikhail
Gorbachev is now playing at neighborhood theaters. "More Light ," a
90-minute documentary, lauds
Lenin 's "favorite " ideolog ist ,
Nikolai Bukharin , vilifies Stalin 's
purges and cult of personality and
praises Khrushchev for his "'honesty "
though , the narrator says , "he sometimes made a fool -of himself. " A
filmmaker named Babok is cited as
the creator of the documentary', but
Gorbachev is its true "auteur",its
Cecil B. DeMille.
"More Light ," above all , is a kind
of visual survey of the way the Soviet
leader sees the history of the revolution and its betrayals. More than
shedding a full and unforgiving light
on 70 years of Bolshevik history, the
film seems to select moments and
figures of the past that arc now useful
to "Gorbachev's reform movement.
For instance, Bukharin , a supporter
of the liberal New Economic Policy
(NEP) of the 1920s who was sent to
his death by Stalin in 1938, is a kind of
for
historical
endorsement
Gorabachev's own economic flexibility .

Subjects missing from the survey
arc some of the very ones that have
caused Gorbachev to bristle and lecture in interviews: the war in Afghanistan , the repression of religious and
political dissent. Films have always
been essential political documents in
the Soviet Union.
On a concrete wall outside the
Rossiya movie theater, Lenin 's dour
face looms over the marquee. And
under his portrait is his well-known
rubric: "Of all our arts, the most important is the cinema." Under Gorbachev , Soviet audiences have
flocked to several films that have
tackled contemporary and historical

problems. "Is li Easy to Be loung?
showed young people disillusioned
with the state and suffering from alcohol and drug addiction. Tcngiz
Abuladzc 's "Repentance, " which is
playing now in U.S. thea ters, is a
thinly disguised allegory about the
Stalinist "great terror. "
For "Mo re Light ," ever)' row is
filled. The lights go down. There are
no coming attractions. The narrator ,
stage actor Mikhail Ul yanov , intones ,
"Everyone is sick of the silence. Wc
are going to try to talk about die past
with more honesty, more light."
Lenin and allegiance to Leninism arc
at the core of the film. And alter staring long at his portrait, wc hear , "With
these following people, Lenin made
the revolution ... " Suddenl y images
that were rarely, if ever, seen in recent
years flash on the screen: Bukharin ,
TroLsky, Kamcncv , all figure s who
were destroyed by Stalin.
History is central to politics in the
Soviet Union , and those who follow
these developments have learned
more from newspapers, journals ,
books and even Gorbachev 's speech
on history last November than from
"More Light. "
But there is something about seeing it on the screen that is deepl y
affecting. The NEP period , which
featured private enterprise , is celebrated as an economic cornucopia
with plump people in the streets buying goods at well stocked markets.
"The sound of Russian rubles , real
money, that 's what NEP was," the
narrator says.
The film describes Lenin 's death
and his last testament , in which he
described Bukharin as "the most
powerful and intellectual of the
party 's theoreticians ," though "capable of straying from pure Marxism." Trotsky is "the most capable."
but is "too proud and self-confident. "

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So, little loveliest lady mine,
You and 1 have found the secret way , Here ' s my heart f o r your valentine!
None can bar our love or say us nay.
- Laura E. Richards
- George Russell
Love me and the world is mine.
- David Reed
You are so beautiful tliat time and
Thou wast all that lo me love ,
space
For which my soul did pine:
Have held none other like you, nor A green isle in the sea , love ,
shall hold.
A fountain and a shrine
- George Sterling
- Edgar Allan Poe
Still so gently o' er me stealing,
Let tlwse love now who never loved
Mem ry will bring back the feeling, before;
Spite of all my grief revealing
Let those who always loved , now
That I love thee , love thee still.
love the more.
- Felice Romani
- Thomas Parnel l
But if the while I think on thee dear
More shower than shine
friend ,
Brings sweet St. Valentine.
All losses are restored and sorrows
- Christina Rossett end.
- Shakespeare

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Features Editor
Whenever Jane goes through the percent binged once a month, 29
lunch line at The Commons, she percent twice a month and 15 percent
quickly hurries past the meal entrees twice a week.
Even though people with a compuland heads for the salad bar. But as she
takes her last bite of salad, her sive eating order may not see any
thoughts travel to the bag of cookies physical signals showing a decline in
she will cat as soon as her classes end health, damage is being done. It 's
for the day. Because like many indi- been shown thatovereatcrs often have
viduals, especially women, Jane is a high cholesterol and fat levels. Too
much of both can increase the risk of
compulsive eater.
Unlike anorexia and bulimia , com- heart disease and cancer.
pulsive eating doesn't involve starvMany compulsive eaters turn to an
ing yourself for a great length of time organization formed in the 1960' s
or eating excessive amounts of food known as Overeater's Anonymoils
and then purging . But like anorexia that can work the same way Alcoholand bulimia , compulsive eating is a ics Anonymous helps alcoholism.
serious eating disorder.
Ovcreater^s Anonymous holds the
•In an article entitled , "Women Who belief that , "compulsive overeating is
Love Food to Much " by Kathy a progressive illness that can't be
Koontz , Dr. Albert Strunkard, MD, cured but can be arrested." It recogprofessor of psychiatry at the Univer- nizes the disorder, for what it is - a
sity of Pennsylvania defines compul- disease.
sive eating as, "Eating a large amount
If you anscr yes to at least three of
of food in a small amount of time, the questions
developed by
usuall y followed by guilt and self- Overeaters Anonymous, you might
reproach and not stopped unti l the be a compulsive eater.
food runs out or until someone comes
*Do you eat when you're not hunin and interrupts. "
gry?
Most people who eat compulsively,
*Do you give too much time and
explains Gale Schneider, coordinator thought to food?
of the Eating Disorder Program at the
*Do you look forward with pleasSouth Oaks Hospital in Amityville, ure and anticipation to the moments
New York , are not able to stop eating when you can eat alone?
until long after they 're full. They eat
*Do you plan these secret binges
not because they're hungry, or even ahead of time?
because they are deriving pleasure,
*Do you eat sensibly in front of
but solcy for the sake of eating.
others and make up for it alone?
It's important to realize you don 't
*Is your weight affecting the way
have to be overwei ght to fall into the you live your life?
category of a compulsive eater. In fact
*Have you tried to diet for a week
most of the people who are affected (or more), only to fall short of your
with this eating disorder don't have a goal?
weight problem. Many people main*Do you resent the advice of other
tain there weight through constant ex- who tell you to "use a little willpower"
ercise, starvation for a short period of to stop overeating?
time, or diets.
*Despite evidence to the contrary,
A study done by Dr. Strunkard have you continued to assert that you
showed that amoung 2,000 students, can diet "on your own" whenver you
compulsive eating was prevelent. The wish?
study showed that 45 percent of the
*Do you crave food at a definite
women in the group binged at least time, day or night, other than at mealonce a month, 32 percent of the times?
women binged twice a month , and 10
*Do you eat to escape from worries
percent binged twice a week.
or troubles?
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Holiday posse sses
a unique history
by Imtiaz Ali Taj
Staff Writer
When even Dave Ferris, the staff
troublemaker, was not certain why
we celebrate Valentine's day, I
thought I should research the subject.

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According to some sources it goes
back to the third century when Rome
had the problem of hungry wolves
attacking flocks of sheep. There was a
God named Lupercus, who was sent
to watch over the shepherds and their
flocks. So in February, Romans celebrated a feast called Lupercalia. But
when Christianity became prevalant,
the priests wanted their converts to
give up former heathen practices.
Therefore, Lupercalia Day became
St. Valentine's day.
Other sources say that there was a
cruel Roman emperor named Claudius. When he tried to recruit soldiers,
he met opposition from men who
didn 't wanted to leave their wives or
sweethearts and go to war.

Claudius, angered by the soldiers,
declared that there would be no more
marriages. Valentine, a priest at that
time thought this proclomation very
unfair to young lovers, so he secretly
gathered them together.
Later, Claudius found out about
Valentines doings and threw him in
jail. Valentine's jailer had a blind
daughter. Valintine cured and fell in
love with the jail er's daugter. He later
wrote her a letter in which he signed,
"from your Valentine."
This made Claudius angrier then
ever, and he had Valentine beheaded.
His death is said to have occured on
Feb. 14, 269 A.D. Pope Gelasius in
496 A.D. set aside this date to honor
Valentine.
There was also a belief that the first
person of opposite sex whom one
meet on this holiday will be that
person 's Valentine. Shakespeare' put
this idea in "Hamlet " beautifully.
Ophelia, even in her madness, wanted
to be in Hamlets window on that day.
Shakespeare wrote:
Good morrow!
tis ' St Valentine 's Day
All in the morning bedtime ,
and I a maid at y our window
to be your Valentine
Well, now with these ideas about
Valentine's Day, who knows which
one to beleive. But it really doesn't
matter as long as everyone has a terrifec Valentine's Day with the one's
they love.

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'Th e Suicide ' a passable play

by Doug Rapson
Staff Writer
As the almost Siberian winds
whisked along the sidewalks of downtown Bloomsburg this past Saturday
evening, people sought refuge in the
Alvina Krause Theatre, the home of
the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.
The house was packed as the lights
came up on "The Suicide (A Comedy!)" .
Nikolai Erdman 's "The Suicide (A
Comedy!)" i s the story of Semyon,
(David Mocland) a Russian citizen
who has lost his job. Supported by his
wife (Tori Truss), Semyon also shares
his apartment with his doting, old
mother-in-law (Laurie McCants).
As the play progresses, Semyon
views two possible courses of action.
If he cannot learn to play the tuba to
support his famil y, he must commit
suicide.
As luck would have it , the word of
his intended suicide spreads and
brings many self-seeking individuals
to Semyon 's door. Each would like

1 he walk between classes turned Into a messy business yesterday as the warmer weather started to melt some of the snow
accumulated over the past few weeks.

Semyon's death to bring meaning to
their own purpose or cause. Some of
these unsavory characters include a
Russian liberal (Charles Queary), a
poet (Rand Whipple), and even a
butcher (Martin Shell).

Ton Truss is very lackluster as
Masha, the scatter-brained wife. This
may be due, in part, to the fact that she
is not part of the troupe. She is hardly
believable and overdoes many an
emotional reaction.
Martin Shell, who was fantastic as
the timid Charlie in last season's "The
Foreigner ", is also lacking in his performances. Although this may be due
to the problem of playing bit parts and
walk-ons, Shell has proved to bemuch
more expressive in the past.
On a closing note, Laurie McCants
is just great as Serafima , Semyon 's
old mother-in-law. McCants' double
takes and asides arc priceless and steal
many a scene.

Throughout the play, the warring
factions bicker over who will own the
final rights to the corpse. It seems
Semyon is worth more dead than
alive, and this fact is recognized by a
great many people.
"The Suicide (A Comedy!)" is mediocre at best. The first act is excrutiatingly long. The actors do their best
to pump life into the first half of the
show, however, it cannot move
quickly enough. At the intermission
you are left with cramped leg s and unanswered questions.
David Moreland, who has turned in
excellent performances in the past,
comes through once again as the
likeable Semyon. It is a true pleasure
to watch the character develop, as he

"The Suicide (A Comedy!)" will
run through February 20, Thursday
through Sunday. Tickets are free with
a vayd Bloomsburg Community Activities sticker and BU ID. For more
information or to reserve tickets, call
the Alvina Krause Theatre at 7848181

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deals with his intention tn lcill himsel f.

gress in 1956 that exposed Stalin 's
crimes to the people for the first time.
But as the film shows him grinning
and holding a huge, wriggling lamb
during apublic ceremony, he isjabbed
for swearing too often , and occasionally making "a fool" of himself.

orchestras, celebrations , put-ons. We
developed a parade mentality."
Echoing Gorbachev 's speeches, the
movie describes the corruption and
stagnation of the Brezhnev era as a
"pre-crisis" condition . "It's not that
we're not a gifted people," Ulyanov
says, "but something has held us
When the first shot of Leonid back."
Brezhnev flashes on the screen ,
Soon "More Light ," which has so
people in the audience beg in snickering. Even while the camera pans lov- far been a collection of black and
ingly over vast apartment blocks, white or tepidly colored newsreels,
dams and energy plants built during explodes into peacock Technicolor , a
Brezhnev 's 18 years as general secre- transition reminiscent of the one in
tary, everyone knows what is coming "The Wizard of Oz." Now there are
next. As an aging Brezhnev is p inned luminous images of the era of reform:
with a chestful of medals .even for his sparkling Red Square , diligent
literary achievements, he is mocked schoolchildren tapping away on comNikita Khrushchev is praised for his for his self-celebration and incessant puter terminals , secretaries of various
secret speech at the 20th Party Con- ceremonies. "We became too used to officials diligentl y answering letters

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Stalin is "rude," and Lenin "is not
sure that (Stalin) will use power as
carefully as he should."
Stalin's reign is portrayed in a series of terrifying images: crosses'
beingknocked off the top of churches;
banners calling for the execution of
"spies"; peasants, poets and, "most
important," hundreds of military
leaders executed during the purges
because of Stalin's paranoia about
insidious "foreign influences."
A zeppelin decorated with an
enormous image of Stalin floats
across the screen. "People believed in
his infallible wisdom,'' narratorUlyanov says. "Unfortunately, even today,
people' remain who don't acknowledge how much pain he caused the
people and the party ... the time meant

arrests, executions, knocks on the
door." Stalin 's purge of the military,
Ulyanov says, left the country unprepared for war with the Nazis, and "that
explains millions of deaths."
"It was a nightmare ," says an older
woman in the fourth row. In "More
Light," however, the nightmare periods never last for long. The film is
skillfully balanced, not only by images of Soviet heroism in World War
II and a countless series of shots of
economic triumph (dams, yaks, wheat
etc.), but also by a cloying cuteness.
The director is fond of long shots of
children playing in the bath , and
Young Pioneers trying in vain to knot
their kerchiefs properly.

by Terri Limpngelh
Staff Writer

Her apartment was renovated by its
corporate owner,and.now rents for
$675 a month. By December 31, she
and her family were out of the apartment. Homeless.
Teresa McQuire, a single woman
on welfare, had a similar problem.
McQuire and her five children were
evicted from their apartment when
McQuire could not afford a rent of
$495. She and her children never
found a home they could afford and
spent months in an emergency shelter
paid for by the government. McQuire
decided that neither she nor her children should lead this type of life. Fifteen months after they entered the
shelter, she and the children were
found dead next to a few bottles of
pills.
Nineteen out of the 25 cities surveyed last year reported an increased
number of families with children
among the homeless. We're approaching a point where 50 percent of
the persons in shelters are families
with children.
One New York reporter spent a day
with the 455 families living in New
York's largest welfare hotel. The
small rooms were shared by women
and typically, three or four small children. Drug dealing was commonplace.

from the people, Americans and
Soviets exchanging hugs, endlessly
lovely fields of golden grain.
There is some footage of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl , and grainy
shots of the violent protests 14 months
ago in Alma Ata against the ouster of
Brezhnev 's crony and native Kazakh,
Dinmukhamed Kunaev. Curiously,
the film never even shows or mentions
directly Yuri Andropov, Konstantin
Chcrnenko and, most obviously, the
film 's shadow producer, Gorbachev
himself. "We have to get away from
this business of, you know , 'On the
one ha nd there are glorious achievements, and on the other mass murder,'
" says liberal historian Yuri Afanasyev, interviewed last week in his
office. "What 's the point of that?"
Afanasyev, director of the Histori-

Number of homeless families
with children steadily rising

Blanca Gonzalez has a problem.
She used to live with her eight-yearold mother in a one-bedroom apartment in a dilapidated complex near
Washigton, D.C. She paid $485 each
month for rent. Yet, she brought home
less than $600 from several housekeeping jobs.

Life needs
to go f u ll
circle again

by Lynne Ernst
Features Editor
Mom told me there would be days
like this. She just never told me there
would be this many. Mom also told me
that everything in life goes full circle.
Do mothers always have to be right?

cal Archives Institute, says the emphasis in "More Light" is on leaders
and never on the fallibility of the
country as a whole. And this, says
Afanasyev, makes for a "lying film.
All these things can 't only be the fault
of several people." On the screen
Ulyanov says, "Our course is clear:
more socialism, more democracy,
more light." The credits roll, and the
audience files into Pushkin Square.

Outside, a married couple in their
early 30s, Sergei and Tatyana Prez
galov, stop and offer their view of
"More Light.""By now we know a lot
of it," Sergei says, "but we've never
seen i ton film." Tatyana smiles and
says, "To tell you the truth , I didn 't
like it much. I wanted more. I expect
more."

Two nine-year-old boys said they
preferred v the hotel to the shelters
because the hotel offered more pri vacy. "But there's a lot of stuff going
on here with females and with selling
'crack'," one of the boys said.
A new housing policy will focus on
providing incentives for buying or
building new units. These incentives
will be much the same as those signed
in the sixties, presently up for expiration. Federal subsidies will be afforded to homeowners to accept lowincome tenants rather than turn their
units into luxury apartments.
Housing for the poor can 't be built
and maintained without money and
lots of it. The government must step
up federal support for low income
housing.
Since the growth of the federal deficit poses a threat to our economic
health , federal appropriations must be
pay-as-we-go. Where we get the revenue-whether from fewer of less expensive weapon systems, or higher
taxes on the affluent, or caps on the
mortgage interest and property tax
deductions-whatever the source of
funds , new policies will hopefully be
made to focus on assisting our poorest
fellow citizens find places to live.

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Winter Olympics: for 16 days, the saga stops

by Thomas Boswell
L.A. Times-Washington Post Service

Americans love a saga. Lots of
personal details about the main characters. Loads of familiari ty with all
possible twists of plot. Plus plenty of
ways to take a moral stance toward the
action . Give us an ei ght-part series
any day, or a favorite TV soap that
runs for years.
That's wh y the Winter Olympics an interlude of lyric poetry in our
sports schedule - is an acquired taste
rather than a greedily awaited blockbuster on our calendar. As Opening
Ceremomics approach , it's time to
forsake saga for .awhile and focus on
the cut-to-the-quick couplet.
Yes, it s Ume to get our minds right.
Or we'll miss the fun in Calgary. The
Winter Games come to us on their
own wide-ranging, often inhospitable
terms - frigid , exotic, dignified , terrifying, spectacular - with several
events as dangerous as auto racing and
others as delicate as ballet. From
bobsled death to ice dance, these
Games give us the sort of alien athletic
experiences that fall outside our normal ultraviolent and infrared range of
tastes - all of them framed in scenery
out of an Ansel Adams photo.
Meet Nick Thometz, the speed
skater, and Matt Roy, the madman of
the bobsled. Brian Boitano, pursuing
the first quadruple jump in men 's figure skating, and his female counter-

part Debi Thomas, full of brains, joie
de vivre and injuries, are almost ready
to take the ice, too. Bonnie Blair, yes,
we'll definitely get to know her. But
will Josh Thompson make us learn the
nuances of the bizarre and brutal biathlon?
How strange that American TV
audiences take so warmly to a thing so
strange as the Winter Games. A Super
Bowl or World Series, now that's
perfect saga stuff. By kickoff , we
know every detail of Doug Williams '
existence. Or, by the first pitch , we've
learned Frank Viola 's brother 's
fiance's first name. Every possible
scenario - except, of course, the one
that actually comes lo pass - has been
imagined or predicted by pundits for
weeks. Wc know how wc feel about
the game. We're ready lo take a side,
argue, defend out favorites. Instead of
"How the West Was Won ," it's "How
the Championship Was Won."
Compared to Super Bowl XXII , the
Winter Olympics is almost everything we don 't normally fancy in our
sports. The history of downhill skiing
is a saga to an Austrian , no doubt , but
not to a Virginian. Where else is
America a ihird-rate power, rejoicing
over crumbs from the table while
nations like Norway listen to their
anthems daily? Where else do we
watch athletes of whom we have
barely heard competing in events
which we, in some cases , cannot even

Television Schedule

Saturday, February 13:
2:30 p.m.-5:00p.m. Opening Ceremonies
Ice Hockey: Czechoslovakia vs. '*
West Germany
8:00 p.m,-ll:00 p.m. Ice Hockey: Norway vs. Russia
Ice Hotkey: Austria vs. U.S.
Sunday, February 14:
Noon-6:00 p.m. Luge: Men 's singles and doubles
Cross Country:Ladies ' 10km
Ice Hockey: Sweden vs. France
Alpine Skiing: Men 's downhill
Ice Hockey: Poland vs. Canada
Ski Jumping: 70m
7:00 p.m.-ll:00 p.m.Speed Skating:Men 's 500m
Ice Hockey:Switzerland vs. Finland
Figure Skating.-Pairs

pronounce?
Yet, once every four years, the
Winter Olympics seem like a perfect
way to endure February. In fact , the
Games often achieve a simplicity and
beauty that we miss in our -regular
fare.
We watch many of our modern
American games with an ambiguity
born of our profound familiarity. We
can seldom detach the present athletic
moment from the past and future of
the individual. When we see Timmy
Smith gain 204 yards in the Super
Bowl , part of us wants to protect him
from the future. We have seen too
many Mark Fidrychs and Dwight
Goodens to think that such fame is an
unmixed blessing. Williams has
barely had time to walk off the field ,
holding his helmet over his head like
a Roman warrior, before we wonder,
"Will he be able to hold his job next
year?"
Our sports stories have become

such continuum s that we never seem
to have a clean introduction , then a
clean break .Do we always want to see
the whole tangled, turbulent life?
Occasionally, it is almost a relief to let
a hero or heroine recede into the shadows, glow intact.
Back in 1976, we only needed to
know Austria 's Franz Klammer for
two minutes in our lives, as he hurtled
downhill , far beyond words like reckless, with his nation on his back.
Couldn 't he have been kin to the Irish
Airman of whom Yeats wrote,
"A lonel y impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all , brought all to mind ,
The years to come seemed waste of
breath ,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this
death."
Isn 't it all to the good that we have
such a murk y sense of where Eric
Heiden has been since he won five

gold medals in 1980 in Lake Placid?
He is studying to be some sort of
doctor, which is all very nice. However, many of us prefer to remember
him , once and for all, roaring out of
the last turn at the speed rink in Lake
Placid, streaking alongside Russia's
legendary sprinter Evgenjy Kulikov,
skate to skate, then going on alone,
headed toward his place in.history. "I
felt," said Heiden , "like I was being
fired out of a slingshot."So did we all.
The Minnesota Twins and the
Washington Redskins have to come
back and play next season. The '80
U.S. Olympic hockey team will forever be dancing on its skate-tipped
toes in our memories.
Events at the Winter Games are
timeless bubbles caught in the flow of
athletic history, like those snow-filled
paperweights in which a pristine
scene is frozen. We only see the
competitors in their moment of brilliant youth and maximum accom-

plishment Even in failure, they have
a certain grand piquancy that penetrates like poetry. Other athletes can
fall back on try, try, again, but m®st
Olympians - amateurs on a four-year
cycle - only get to try once. We'll be
back to prose and sagas soon - the next
installment of Larry Bird, the St.
Louis Cardinals or the Washington
Capitals. But first, we have 16 days of
lyric poetry, in all its range of voices.
Where else do you compete to symphony or fly a hundred yards through
the air off the side of a mountian?
Where else do you risk your life so
brazenly for no prize money whatsoever? Where else do tiny countries
and unknown athletes capture the
world for an hour?
"All that's beautiful drifts away like
the waters," said the poet. But, for the
next 16 days, it will drift slowly.
"Time to put off the world and go
somewhere."
Somewhere like Calgary.

Calgary needs some more heroics

moon. At least we can relate to the weather country.
the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary
Summer Ol ympics. Swimming ?
Take the 1980 U.S. Olympic hardly stacks up as a U.S. gold rush.
Sure. Track? Sure. Cycling? Sure. hockey team that stunned the Soviets This team has no Heidens with a
John Elway , Doug Williams , Volleyball, basketball and (coming on its way to the gold medal. Those hammerlock on speed skating, no
Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux , soon) baseball? Sure. Everybody has guys made Americans proud from sea Mahres to make impressive tracks in
Larry Bird and Mag ic Johnson arejust tried those.
to shining sea, but they weren't ex- men's alpine. The women's ski team
But for most of us, the Winter actly a cross-section of American is in tatters.
a few in an endlessly thrilling cavalcade of winter sports stars who will Olympics is nothing more than a youth: Almost everyone on the team
Come to think of it, forget the cigar
not be competing at the 1988 Winter quadrennial curiosity . Biathalon? was from Minnesota or Massachu- box. A cigarette case should do.
Nordic combined? Sounds like a tryst setts.
As usual, most American eyes will
Olympics.
Our speed-skaters come almost be on the U.S. hockey team, hoping it
Forget the U.S. ice hockey team. in a Bergman film . Most Americans
Forget the figure skaters. Other than don 't like forei gn films. They 're more exclusively from the upper Midwest, can shoulder a nation 's outsized exour skiers from the northern mountain pectations better than did the 1984
them , can you name five athletes on subtle. So, uh , foreign.
There's nothing subtle about the states, our lugers and bobsledders team, which foundered early and finthe 1988 U.S. Olympic team?
Not including the three demonstra- Summer Olymp ics. The Summer from the ranks of the terminally ished seventh at Sarajevo.
This team features Whalers' No. 1
tion sports - curling, freesty le skiing Olympics are so big and boisterous, warped.
Our figure skaters can come from draft choice Scott Young and Lane
and short track skating - there are 10 so full of international intrigue, blasevents in the Winter Olympics. I've phemous boycotts and big-shoul- anywhere, as long as they have ice McDonald, who was acquired from
virtually given you three. Can you dered brawls among the world' s behe- time at an indoor arena and parents Calgary in the Dana Murzyn trade.
name five more?
If you can, moths that if the Greeks didn 't inven t prosperous enough to pay for private The hockey team's success will
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Not your everyday sports
by Lincoln Weiss
Staff Writer
Come on, confess, you sat there in
front of the television this past weekend and screamed, "Enough of college basketball and pro football already!"Especially pro football, every
year I watch the Pro Bowl and every
year I wonder why. Hey, if you think
the Super Bowl is bad, just check out
the Pro Bowl.
But never fear, our salvation is arriving and it is called the Winter
Olympics. These games are scheduled to take place in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada from this Saturday, Feb. 13 to
Sunday, Feb. 28.
ABC has 991/4 hours scheduled for
televising the games starting with
with opening ceremonies on Feb. 13
at 2:30 p.m., and ending with the closing ceremonies on Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
Listed below is an explanation of
the events at the Olympics.
Alpine Skiing consists of five
events for both men and women. They
are the downhill , super G, giant slalom, slalom, and the combined. In the
slalom event the skier must ski down
a course and pass around flags called
gates.
The skier must not miss a gate they
will be disqualified. The downhill is
simply that, downhill. Gates are used
only to show the skier which way to
go, but he does not have to go around
them. Thge skiers go one at a time in
each event and after all skiers complete the course, the one with the fastest time wins.
Four events make up Nordic
Skiing. They are cross-country for
men and women, ski jumping, biathlon, and the combined. Cross-country
is the skier's answer to the runner's
marathon. The distances in the crosscountry events for men are 15 km(9.3
miles), 30 km(18.6 miles) and 50
km(31 miles). There is also a 4 X 10
km(6.2 miles) relay in which each
skier on a four man team skis 10 km
and after he is done, the next man
goes. The women's distances are 5
km(3.1 miles), 10 km(6.2 miles) and

20 km(12.4 miles). The women also
have a relay in which four women ski
5 km each.
Again, very simply, the person or
team that skis the course the fastest is
the winner.
Ski jumping is an event in which the
jumpers ski down a ramp and at the
end of the ramp they jump. The winner in ski jumping is the skier who
jumps the farthest distance while
showing the best form .
The combined event is an event that
combines ski jumping and crosscountry. The winner is determined by
a point system.
The biathlon is a combined crosscountry skiing and rifle event. The
skiier must stop four times during the
race, take off his skis, and shoot targets. After shooting the targets the
skiier puts his skis back on and continues on. The winner is the skier who
completes the course the fastest and
shoots the most accurately.
Speed skating includes both mens
and womens racing. The men have
five races which consist of distances
of 500 to 10,000 meters(l ,640 to
32,800 feet) in length. The women
also have five races ranging from 500
to 5,000 meters(l ,640 to 16,400 feet).
In each race two skaters go at the
same time and after every lap they
switch lanes. After all the skaters have
skated in the event, the one with the
fastes time wins the event.
Jn figure skating there are four
events: Mens and womens singles,
pairs, and dance. In the singles and
pairs events, the skaters must skate
school figures based on the figure 8.
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short program. The winner is the
skater(s) with the best combined
scores.
The dance event has skaters dance
on ice in movements such as ballrom
dancing. The winners are the skaters
with the best scores. Remember, in
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looking glass

By Scott Ostler
Los Angeles Times
Wall Hazzard wore a sport shirt to
the office Tuesday, with no necktie.
Il was a sunny day, and those
doggone tics can be a pain.
When Hazzard wore one last
Sunday for a game up in Corvallis,
Ore., il was so uncomfortable that
Walt had to sort of adjust his collar,
reall y work on it wilh his open hand.
The referees and some sportswrilcrs interpreted this as a "choke"
sign.
Come on. Would the coach of the
UCLA Bruins make such an unprofessional playground gesture, even
il his team was getting beat, and beat
up?
In that game, as his Bruins slipped
under .5(X) (10-11 for the season),
Hazzard also had serious discussions wilh Ihc referees, opposing
coaches, opposing players, his own
players and himself.
Was Hazzard' s plaster cracking?
Il was certainl y one of his more
thea trical performances, reviewed
in detail by die local press, and the
attention made Walt a little grumpy.
"Other coaches do that (stuff),"
Hazzard said , a trifle indignandy .
"Oilier coaches curse the officials
and call 'cm all kinds of names. But
I' m in the fishbowl and under the
microscope.
That sounds like a problem for the
UCLA biology department.
Certainly ill is current position is uncomfortable. Since winning the Pacifi c 10 championshi p and postseason tournament last season , with
Hazzard volcd conference coach of
the year, ihc Bruins have been slipping.
There was a long NCAA investigation into the recruiting of Scan
Higg ins , a rugged nonconference
schedule that humbled the Bruins , a
starting center who ran off to Texas,
and now a serious battle to stay
above .500 (6-5) in the Pac-10.
So what has Hazzard been doing?
"Just survivin ' this gig," he said,
settling down behind his desk a nd
lighting a little cigar.
Noi exactly a quotation from
Chairman Wooden. But Hazzard
has always had a distinctive style.
One manifestation of that style is a
failure to come off as the Mary
Poppins of college hoops.
"The only thing that bothers me
about ill is (recent press mention of
his temper) is the imagery that is
projected ," Hazzard said. "I'm (portrayed as) a person that never smiles.
I' m a mean person."
Hazzard puffs his mini-cigar and
glowers at the thought of anyone
even hinting at such a thing.
It 's not easy trying to act out the
great American life story. Greatest
college basketball player in the land
(1964) helps launch a UCLA dynasty , marries college song-leader
sweetheart, raises great family,
battles up through the bush leagues
of his profession and winds up
coaching his alma mater.
The next chapter is the tough one:
Coach brings National Collegiate
Athletic Association championship
basketball back to UCLA.
"You 're always under the gun here,"
Hazzard said , denying that the pressure on him has increased this year,
that the heat is on. "I have a threeyear contract. We're working at our
job. We're not distraught. We're not
clicking our heels together with joy,
either ."
Hazzard said he ignores the critics, brushes off the "mixed reviews"
of his performances.
"A dynasty," Hazzard said reflectivel y, looking at the framed magazine covers on his office wall. They
oudine a 12-ycar stampede that
began with a skinny kid named Walt
Hazzard .
"People hope it would come back.
It 's not gonna happen. There is no
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, anywhere."
"But we shall persevere and keep
on pushing ahead ," he said.
Under the microscope, under the
gun , Walt and the Bruins will push
ahead , through the fishbowl ,
through the looking glass, toward a
crazy dream.

Playoff lights fading fast for Bloomsburg
Eggleston scores 30 for Bears ,
as Kutztown improves to 6-1
by Lincoln Weiss
Staff Writer
It was a game that the Bloomsburg
Huskies men 's basketball team
needed to win. It was a game Marty
Eggleston wouldn 't let them win.
Another nail was hammered into
the coffi n that is the playoff hopes of
the Huskies as Egglcslon scored at
will to finish the game with 30 points
and the Kutztown University Golden
Bears defeated Bloomsburg 75-64.
Eggleston also grabbed 20 rebounds with 15 of them coming on the
defensive end which prevented the
Huskies from getting many second
shot opportunities. This proved to be
a key in the game because
Bloomsburg shot a horrendous 36.2
percent from the field.
It was not that the Huskies played
poorly, especially on defense, as
Kutztown only shot 43.9 percent in
the game. The problem was that
Eggleston shot 13 of 19 and scored his
points at key times. Bloomsburg
could not hit key shots while
Eggleston gathered in every miss.
The game started off well for both
teams as Kutztown first jumped out to
a 8-2 lead with the scoring of Jody
McMillan . Bloomsburg then jumped
right back and scored the next 9 points
to take an 11-8 lead. Both teams then
exchanged leads a number of times
unti l Kutztown took control of the
game, or should we say until Marty
Eggleston decided to take over the
game.
The Golden Bears went on a 16-6
run to end the half and take an eight
point 31-23 halflime lead.
Bloomsburg needed a run early in
the second half to get back in the
game, but it was Kutztown that got the
big run as they opened up the half with
a 15-6 tear led by, you guessed it ,
Marty Eggleston , and the Golden
Bears opened up a 17 point lead of 4629 with 15:45 to go in the game.
The Huskies would not quit and cut
the lead to only five with six minutes
lo go.
But Kutztown then outscored
Bloomsburg 13-6 the next four and a

half minutes to pull away from the
Huskies and eventuall y won the game
75-64.
Alex Nclcha had another strong
perform ance and led all Bloomsburg
scorers wilh 20 points in the losing
effort.
The week started better for the
Huskies as John Williams caught fire
and scored 25 points last Monday
night in a thrilling 86-82 victory over
the Millersville Maurauders.
That game started off ju st the same
way as last night 's game as the Huskies found themselves behind early
with Millersville opening the game
with a 18-7 run.
Bloomsburg then slowly battled
back throughout the half with key
scoring by Alex Nelcha and John
Williams and were down by only five
at halftime 47-42.
Millersville just shot the lights out
in the first half by shooting 63.6 percent. What kept the Huskies in the
game is the outstanding shooting of
Williams and some fine free throw
shooting by Bloomsburg.
Both teams played solidly in the
opening minutes of the first half , but
the shots that were going in for Millersville in ihc fi rst half just were not
going in in the second half.
Shooting became a nightmare for
both teams wilh the exception of
Williams, but his scoring was good
enough to give the Huskies a 66-63
lead with 10:26 lo go in the game.
Then came the free throw shooting
contest. Bloomsburg scored their
next seven points from the charity
stripe, but Millersville also scored
seven points from the line and a few
from the field too to take a brief 78-76
lead with 2:15 to go.
Bloomsburg next scored two big
buckets. The first a three pointer from
John Williams. The second from
Kevin Reynolds who got fouled on
the play and hit the free throw to
convert his three point play and give
the Huskies a four point lead.
Millersville would not quit and got
to within two twice, but the Marauders efforts were killed by important

free throws by Matt Wilson and Joe
Stcpanski as the Huskies went on to
win 86-82.
Williams led the Huskies in scoring
with 25 points while Claude Hughes
led Millersville with 28 points.
After last night defeat, the Huskies
drop to 14-8 overall, but more importandy fall to 4-4 in the PSAC East
division. A quick look at the East
standings will show why these games
were vital.
At the beginning of the week.
Millersville 5-0.
Cheyney
5-1 .
Kutztown
4-1.
Bloomsburg 3-3.
Now.
Kutztown
6-1.
Cheyney
6-1.
Millersville 5-1.
Bloomsburg 4-4.
Since only the top three teams make
the playoffs , the Huskies' fate is now
out of their own hands. We must beat
Cheyney at home this Saturday and
hope that somebody in the top three
loses at least three division games.

by Mike Mullen
Sports Editor
The women's basketball team survived a bit of a scare last night at
Kutztown to defeat the Bears handily
by a 76-61 score.
But the big game was played this
past Monday night at Nelson fieldhouse when the Huskies took on visiting Millersville and handed the
Maurauders their second conference
defeat, 63-45.
Monday 's game began slow between the two powerhouses, with the
first four points coming on free
throws. Eventually
Bloomsburg got their fast break
going, something head coach Joe
Bressi said they would have to do to
win , and Bloomsburg steadily built a
lead to ten , 29-19, with 2:30 left to go
in the first half.
Folowing a Millersville timeout,

the Marauders rattled off seven
straight points to cut the lead to three
at the half , 29-26.
Millersville head coach Deb Schlegel wanted no part of the Huskies
running game and tried to slow the
pace down in the second half.
Still Bloomsburg was able to score
at will, and superb team defense denied any attempt at a Marauder comeback.
Freshman Nina Alston led all scorers with 19, while teammate Theresa
Lorenzi netted 16 and handed out four
assists. Barb Hall was next with 13
points and she also hauled in 11 rebounds to lead everyone.
The win avenged the Huskies only
loss in the PSAC so far this season and
ran their conference record to 6-1.
Last night they improved on that
downing Kutztown to go to 7-1 in the
PSAC.

Despite the final score it wasn 't
easy. Bloomsburg went out to the
early lead, but much like Millersville,
Kutztown came storming back.
With Bloomsburg ahead 26-16, the
Bears staged a 16-4 run to take a 3230 lead into the locker room.
Things were much different in the
second half , though, as Bloomsburg
dominated every aspect of the game
and outscored their opponents 46-29
in the second half.
Freshman Nina Alston went the
whole way for the Huskies scoring 24
points and pilfering three steals. She
aldo had five rebounds.
Theresa Lorenzi led all scorers with
31 points, on the strength of 14-18
shooting from the field. She also had
eight rebounds and two assists.
Carla Shearer only had four points,
but handed out an incredible 10 assists to lead the team in that category.

by Mary Ellen Spisak
Staff Writer
Last night was the second meeting
between Bloomsburg University and
cross-state rivals, the Bald Eagles of
Lock Haven.
In a heated team battle that saw the
Huskies capture four bouts and the
Bald Eagles win four (with two
draws), Lock haven downed the
Huskies 21-16.

Bloomsburg won decisions at 134,
150, 158 and Hwt. while drawing at
126 and 142. Lock Haven won 118
by a major decision, 167 and 177 by
technical falls and 190 by a decision.
Bloomsburg took their first lead at
150, when Dave Morgan beat Thane
Turner 8-4, putting BU ahead 10-8.
The bout at 167 left the team score
at a tie as Lock Haven senior Jody
Karam, using a series of takedowns,

handed Roger Dunn a loss 24-9 by a
technical fall.
Action at 126 saw Dave Kennedy
draw 2-2 with Eagle opponent Jeff
Husick, and at 142 Tom Kuntzleman
drew 1-1 with Gary Chaddock.
Lock Haven is currently ranked
6th, and are undefeated in the EWL
with a record of 3-0. Bloomsburg is
ranked 12th by the Amateur Wresding News and is ranked 14th by the

National Coaches Poll. They own a 31 EWL mark.
This Saturday the grapplers go on
the road to take on Cleveland State.
Weight Class Results:
118-Craig Corbindec. Supsicll-3
126-Kennedy draw Jeff Husick 2-2
134-Reed dec. Anthony Melfi 4-3
142-Kuntzleman draw Gary Chaddock 1-1
150-Morgan dec. Thane Turner 8-4

158-Banks dec. John Barrett 4-1
167-Jody Karam technical fall
Dunn 24-9
177-Brad Lloyd technical fall
Holier 17-2
190-Bill Freeman dec. Brown 3-2
Hwt.-Ippolite dec. Mike Mazza 3-1
Bloomsubrg's grapplers will also
be preparing for the upcoming EWL
tournament which will be held at
Lock Haven this year.

Senior Joe Stepanski played an outstanding game aginst Millersville. The Huskies
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won Monday night's game 86-82.

Women win, now 7-1 in PSAC

Husky grapplers suffer first EWL loss to Eagles

Ski racing club is fairing well

The Huskies' men's team had their playoff hopes dimmed when they suffered an
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eleven point loss to Kutztown last night.

by Vic Scala
Staff Writer
With only a few days remaining
before the main sporting event of this
winter, the Olympics in Calgary,
there will be a group of students on
this campus who will pay particular
attention to the Alpine disciplines.
They are the re-born Bloomsburg
University Ski Racing club.
After a couple of years of almost
total absence from intercollegiate ski
racing, Bloomsburg has come back
strong in the Allegheny Collegiate
Ski Conference of the National Collegiate Ski Association (NCSA).
The conference, which includes
teams from Penn State, West Chester,
Bucknell, Kutztown and others for a
total of twelve schools, has already
met trhee times since the beginning of
the 1988 season. Meets were held at
Tussey Mt. (State College), Elk Mt.
and Wisp (Maryland) for a total of six
events, four slaloms and two giant
slaloms.
The ski club is composed of 18
students divided in men and women's
team. Although most of the team

members are getting their first racing
experience, both the men's and
women's teams have already shown
some good potential obtaining good
results like the fourth place finish by
the women's team at Tussey ML and
the fifth place obtained last weekend
by the men's team in the slalom at
Wisp (Md.).
Each team is made of five racers
and the usm of the three best times
makes the team's time. Individual
results are also considered and this
year BU two captains, Pat Barry and
Jill Firmstone, have brough
Bloomsburg's name up to the top of
the conference with one victory each,
Barry at Tussey ML and Firmstone at
Elk Mt. These two outstanding skiers
have also some good chances in the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships as they have placed in the top
five in most of the races.
There are only a few races left in the
season but the BU Ski Team is ready
to conclude the season in the best way
by gaining that little experience
which lacked this year. Italsomustbe
considered thatas a new organization ,

the Ski Racing Club has had this year
many economic and organizational
problems.
Hopefully the Winter Olympics
will be a good stimulus for the BU Ski
Team, which is looking forward to
sending some of its representatives to
the Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships at the end of February.

INTRAMURAL
DATES

-The Men's Intramural Wrestling Tournament will begin on
Monday, Feb. 22. All rosters must
be turned in by Feb. 18.In order for
a team to obtain team partici pation
points, they must have participants
in two-thirds of the weight classes.
-Rosters forRacquetball are due
today,Thursday, Feb. 11. Competition is open to men and women
(singles and doubles) and co-ed
teams. Play will begin Feb. 15 at 9
p.m. and will run Monday through
Thursday until completed.