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Vol. Clll, No. 4

PHILADELPHIA. Thursday January 29. 1987

Student says he took keys

College Hall history unearthed Archives reveal strange tale of a cornerstone

Accuses janitors of poor security

By ABBE KLKBANOFF You carTt really call Sheldon Hackney the goose that's got the golden egg because it isn't exactly an egg and it hasn't yet hatched. But the University president is sitting directly above College Hall's cornerstone — an unopened piece of University history that dates from the beginning of the building. In 1870, the University decided to move out of its declining neighborhood at 9th and Chestnut Streets to the rural farmlands of West Philadelphia. The class of 1871 placed a lead box containing memorabilia into the cornerstone of College Hall, the first building constructed on the new campus, with instructions that it be opened 100 years later. According to University archive documents, the memorabilia included drawings of the campus, memoirs of past University presidents, an 1871 catalogue, the June 1871 copy of the Penn Monthly, and boxes deposited by the Philomathean and Zelosophic Societies. But 100 years later, the class of 1971 couldn't find the cornerstone, even with the added advantage of electronic detecting equipment. Five years later. Assistant Archivist Hamiliton Elliott discovered the clue which

Inside 34th Street Republican wonder boy Marc Holtzman wanted to be the youngest member of Congress. Last year he came up far short. Read all about the campaign in this issue of the weekly entertainment magazine.

30th to 63rd Street West Philadephia Police Officer Mike Sosnowyj has been working his beat on foot for the past eight years, helping the people who work or pass through the University area. He says every day is different. Page 8.

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College Hall's history: a lime capsul e, a horse, a dead professor, black smoke, melting walls and secret stairwells led to the discovery of the hidden wall of a basement rest room. But Shabel relented and the wall was opencornerstone. "When we realized it was it in the base- ed exactly 105 years to the day after it was Elliott said yesterday the reason they ment in a newly renovated bathroom, placed in the building. But even after the efcouldn't find the stone in their original [former Vice-President for Operation Ser- fort the stone could still not be removed search was because they were looking in the vices) Fred Shabel said 'we just re-did the because it is part of a structural column. wrong corner and on the outside of the men's room six months ago and a lot of peoElliot said that the contents of the 1871 building. A letter from the building's ar- ple are really happy with the way it is,' " he chitect clarified where the stone was — in the said. (Continued on page 9)

Settlement ends 9-day Rutgers strike By EILKEN CHANG An nine-day strike which shut down many classes at Rutgers University and left some school administrators in the awkward position of cleaning dormitory bathrooms, may finally be at an end. The strike by blue collar and clerical employees virtually paralyzed the university, leaving campus roads clogged with snow and many faculty members walking picket lines instead of teaching class. A tentative settlement ending a nine-day strike at Rutgers University was reached between the administration and two unions Tuesday night after eight hours of bargaining. The settlement details, which have not been revealed publicly, will be voted on by union workers on January 30. A statement issued Tuesday night by Rutgers University President Edward Bloustein expressed

relief that the strike has been resolved. "My sole desire now is simply to welcome our employees back warmly and to work once more with them in building a better university to serve our students, our faculty, and the people of the state and the nation," Bloustein said. "In an academic institution which depends on collegiality and teamwork, there are no winners in a strike," he added. "Everyone has suffered dislocation and inconvenience. . . We are grateful for the patience and cooperation that almost all members of the university community have shown under difficult circumstances." Unions leaders could not be reached for comment. Some professors taught shortened classes or canceled their sessions in sympathy with the strike. Others taught their classes at non-university loca-

tions, such as fraternity houses and meeting rooms in local churches, and even a pizza parlor. The strike began on Jan. 19, 1987. On that day, the representatives of two AFSME unions. Local 1761 representing 1600 secretarial, clerical and technical employees and Local 888 representing 1200 blue collar employees, walked out of a mediation session. Supporting the strike, although not striking themselves, was the Rutgers Chapters of the American Association of University Professors, consisting of 3700 faculty members and teaching and graduate assistants. The unions originally threatened to strike over a number of issues including pay increases, overtime procedures, clothing allowances, and better harassment protection. (Continued on page II)

B> DALE MA/m An Upper Quad resident yesterday claimed that he KOfle .i Ml >>t janitor's keys reported miuini January 16 to prove that maintenance workers are too lax with lecurit). The student, whoso name is being withheld by IheDaih I'trinwlvanian, added he had a friend return the keys to the Ouad Monday. January 19. He also claims that maintenance workers routine!) use marijuana in their locker room in the (lass of 1928 dormitory basement. Maintenance worker! and a spokesman for the union representing the workers denied both the drug and WCUrit) charges, but several students who live in the dormitory basement Mid lasi nifhl rti.it they have frequently noticed the smell of marijuana coming from the jahitor's locker room. In a written statement, the student admitted he stole the keys from the keyhole of a locket room door. "The technicians are supposed to help Insure safety," the statement lays. "Instead, they are promoting danger." The ttudeffl said that he often noticed "a vast array of keys ranging from UTV keys u> / ke>s dangling from the keyhole, just waiting lor an unsavory characta to |rab." Custodian Bill Stebbens acknowledged yesterday that he left his keys in the keyhole of the locket room door January 16 while he went inside lor a short while. "It was probably a prank which turned out to be a pretty poor prank." Stebbens said of the theft. The maintenance workers in question are Environmental Services Technicians, according to the student. A spokesman for John Morris. secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local Union 115, which represents University housekeepers and maintenance workers, yesterday defended the workers and said that the student should be prosecuted as a thief. "If the kid stole the keys, then the University should deal with him as a thief," the spokesman said. He added that other methods of ac(Continued on page 10)

Bad weather causes construction delay By LESLIE KKRR Rain and snow have caused a delay in the 3401 Walnut Street construction, pushing the expected completion date of the complex back by approximately one month. Real Estate Consultant Paul Levy said this week that because of rain in October and the recent snow, construction of the project may not be complete until this November. The construction contract originally stipulated that the building would be completed in early October. A spokesman from Kravco Leasing Company, contracted to lease retail space by the University, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Daniel J. Keating Construction Co. Project Manager John Danowski said yesterday that construction workers have been working on clearing the snow from deck forms in order to be able to pour concrete since Tuesday.

Because the rain and snow are not something the contractors can control, they will not be penalized for the delay, Danowski said. Each day lost because of problematic weather will be added to the deadline agreed on by the University and Keating. Danowski estimated that there are presently 40 workers on the job, and said that more will be added next week when electric work will be started. Currently, contractors are preparing to pour concrete into the complex and have also begun mechanical and plumbing work for the building's basement retail area plumbing. According to Levy, current goals for the center include opening of the retail portion of 3401 Walnut in early September, completion of second and third floor offices by October, and completion of the upper floors by late November. (Continued on page 5)

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Extremities THIS PAINTING IS ONE of the works in Gary Chapman's recently opened one-man exhibit at the Houston Hall art gallery. Known for

realistic portrayals of the human anatomy. Chapman has a strung grounding in the religious tradition of painting. Page 3.

U. debates merits of undergrad. business degree By ART BURKE Even as College students scramble to tranfer into the Wharton School, there is no consensus among educators or business professionals on the value of an undergraduate business degree. Wharton Graduate Division Associate Director Howard Kaufold said last week that the rising demand for MBAs in American industry has forced many individuals with undergraduate degrees in business to seek advanced business degrees, sometimes rendering their undergraduate education redundant. But Kaufold added that a Bachelor's degree in business can be useful if an individual is not interested in graduate business school or plans to complement the degree with some other graduate degree. Wharton Undergraduate Associate Director

Byron Dresner agreed that many businesses ultimately demand that their managers receive MBAs. Dresner added, however, that an undergraduate Wharton degree is still worthwhile because it allows graduates to take more advanced courses when and if they attend graduate school. "Some MBA programs will allow the waiver of introductory courses for which credit has already been received," Dresner said. "The students can then spend their two years taking upper level graduate courses." Dresner said that Wharton administrators have also advanced the argument to some companies that recruiters should view the Wharton undergraduate degree as equivalent to an MBA. Despite this argument, he said that students

with an undergraduate degree in business don't have an edge in getting into top business schools. Harvard Business School Spokesman William Hokanson agreed that an undergraduate degree, regardless of its value in the business world, has little bearing on acceptence into graduate school. "Most of the students that come to Harvard have not studied business undergrad," he said. "We don't place a lot of emphasis on this. Only 15 percent of our students have undergraduate degrees." Aside from disagreements about the practical relevance of an undergraduate business degree, Economics Professor and Faculty Senate Chair-elect Gerard Adams has raised questions about the degree's educational merits.

"The undergraduate education is really supposed to be a liberal education," he said. "You don't want it to be professional." Adams said that many schools have removed their undergraduate business programs for this reason, and he contended that for students interested in business, any liberal arts degree, coupled with work experience and an MBA, can be adequate for success. But while questioning the value of an undergraduate business degree, he defended Wharton's relatively balanced curriculum, saying that the school is doing its best to give students a broad background outside of business issues. Wharton Undergraduate Associate Director William Whitney also stressed the school's extensive liberal arts requirements. "A Wharton undergraduate degree is a

valid education because two-thirds of the requirements are liberal arts courses and they will give the student a broad backgroud if they are chosen wisely," he said. Whitney added (hat many Wharton courses should be of general interest to students in the College. He cited economics, statistics and accounting as courses relevant to almost any field of endeavor. While educators disagree on the practical and educational merits of an undergraduate degree in business, industry recruiters say that the title offers many opportunities. James Grady, employment director for SmithKline Beckman Corporation, a leading Philadelphia pharmaceuticals firm, said (Continued on page II)

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THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN - Thursday. J«mi»r> 29. 1987

Iranian Speaker says his nation won't help U.S.

International Gorbachev gains more control after expulsions MOSCOW — The Communist Party expelled two old guard stalwarts from its highest ranks yesterday and gave Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev greater control of the powerful secretariat, but it did not make some reforms he proposed. The two-day plenum of more than 300 Central Committee members did not fulfill the rumors of dramatic leadership changes, and its results suggested disagreement over some programs Gorbachev included in his lengthy speech Tuesday. It endorsed Gorbachev's insistence on accelerated economic change and more openness in Soviet society, however. A final resolution said: "There is nowhere we can retreat."

National Worrisome moms detail whacky excuses for kids LEESVILLE, La. — "My son is under the doctor's care and should not take P.E. today," one parent wrote. "Please execute him." That death sentence was inadvertently recommended in a note which a parent who was in a hurry or possessed of an uncertain vocabulary wrote to excuse a child's absence from school in Vernon Parish. "Some of them [duplicated copies of excuses] were obviously made up by students," Richard Carter, assistant principal of Leesville High School, said yesterday. But most, he said, were probably legitimate excuses written by parents. In these samples, names were replaced with either Fred or Mary to protect innocent and guilty alike. One parent appeared to have taken drastic action: "Please excuse Mary for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot." "Please ackuse Fred being absent on Jan. 28, 29. 30, 31, 32 and 33." wrote a parent who lives by an unusual calendar.

City I av in's request for early release is denied PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge denied convicted cocaine kingpin Lawrence Lavin's request for a reduction of sentence yesterday, saying Lavin's problems adjusting to prison life did not justify an early release. Lavin was convicted of heading the largest drug ring ever prosecuted in eastern Pennsylvania and must serve at least 17 years of his 42-year sentence before he is eligible for parole. He began serving his sentence in I.eavenworth federal prison but according to the Federal Bureau of Prions in Kansas City, he was moved recently to an undisclosed facility. Lavin's attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, filed a motion in December to reduce his client's sentence. Bergstrom described the former dentist's mood as "utter despair."

Kidnapper-rapist admits guilt, gets life sentence DOYLESTOWN. Pa. — A Common Pleas Court judge yesterday sentenced a man who confessed to the rape and murder of a 13-yearold Northeast Philadelphia girl to life imprisonment. Albert Altimari, 35, of Oxford Circle, was sentenced to life on the murder conviction plus 10 to 20 years on kidnapping and rape, said Kathleen Fluehr, spokesman for the Bucks County district attorney's office. The sentences were imposed by Judge Isaac Garb after a two-day non-jury trial in which Altimari pleaded guilty to the rape-slaying of Tina Severns. He confessed to raping her twice, beating her and dumping her body in a drainage ditch in Falls Township. Bucks County District Attorney Alan Rubenstein said Altimari pleaded guilty because the evidence against him was "mind-numbingly overwhelming."

Weather Sunny this morning with increasing cloudiness in the afternoon and highs in the low to mid 30s.

Penn Press-on Nails The latest addition to the University's line of merchandise is this set of 'Penn Press-on Nails,' available in six fashion colors. Just one trip to The Book Store with dad's credit card and you can be

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the first in your dorm to show your Penn Pride from the tips of your ringers to the bottoms of your feet. Actually, the nails belong to Michelle Forand, a prefreshman who really wants to go to Penn.

Group claims to have Americans BEIRUT, Lebanon — A group calling itself Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility yesterday for the abduction of three Americans and an Indian professor from a west Beirut campus. In London the Church of England said the Archbishop of Canterbury had received assurances that his envoy, Terry Waite, was safe and continuing his mission to free foreign captives in Lebanon. The four professors were "conspirators under the pretext of education," said the handwritten Arabiclanguage statement delivered to the west Beirut office of a Western news agency. The group had not been heard from before. The statement was accompanied by a polaroid picture of one of the hostages, American professor Robert Polhill, 53, of New York City, a lecturer in accounting. Polhill and three others were seized Saturday at the campus of Beirut University College by gunmen posing as Lebanese riot police.

The other hostages are Alann Steen, 47, of Arcata, California, a communications instructor; Jesse Turner, 39, of Boise, Idaho, a visiting professor of mathematics and computer science; and Mithileshwar Singh, 60, a visiting professor of finance. Singh is a native of India and resident alien of the United States. The group said in its statement: "The Islamic Jihad Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, as it announces its debut, declares responsibility for the abduction of four Americans who are conspirators under the pretext of education. "They have been using the facade of teaching to carry out American intrigues at Beirut University College," the statement said. It could not be determined whether the group is related to Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, the pro-Iranian Shiite Moslem extremist faction that holds American and French hostages kidnapped in west Beirut in 1985.

TEHRAN, Iran — Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani yesterday flourished a Bible he said was sent by President Reagan as a token of goodwill, but he said Iran is not ready to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The speaker, Hashemi Rafsanjani, called on the United States to release $507 million in Iranian assets frozen by President Jimmy Carter after the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. "The Americans must release our assets and when they give the orders for their release, we are prepared to help them," he told a news conference. The United States and Iran have been negotiating over the assets at a special tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Rafsanjani displayed the leatherbound "Open Book Bible-Expanded Edition" at a news conference, holding it open to the title page which bore Ronald Reagan's name and a handwritten New Testament verse: "And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentile by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, 'All the nations shall be blessed in you.' Galatians 3:8, (signed) Ronald Reagan, October 3, 1986." In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said he did not know whether Reagan signed the Bible. Rafsanjani said the Americans tried about a month ago in Frankfurt, West Germany, to renew contact through Iran's arms dealers, this time with a "Mr. Dunbar" of the U.S. State

Department in the delegation, but Iran rejected the initiative. "I think the time is not right that we have talk or discussion with the United States," said Rafsanjani, considered the second most powerful man in Iran after revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Sources in Washington last week said Secretary of State George Shultz told a House committee that he sent a State Department team and CIA negotiators to Europe on December 6 to meet with Iranian representatives, but that the State Department officials refused further arms-forhostages deals. Rafsanjani also displayed a photocopy of what he said were false Irish passports carried by Robert McFarlane, former U.S. national security advisor, on his secret visit to Tehran last May. One passport had McFarlane's picture but gave his name as Sean Devlin and said he was born in Dublin on August 14. 1937, lived in Ireland, had hazel eyes and was 5-foot-10. The journalists, mostly from the foreign press, had to leave watches, wallets, rings and all other personal items except money, a pen and a note pad in a rigorous security check at the gate of the Parliament complex in central Tehran. Only cameras and tape recorders left overnight for inspection were allowed in the hall. Rafsanjani said Reagan showed courage in seeking better relations with Iran and in saying there was no evidence Tehran was responsible for any terrorist acts in the past year and a half.

Dems: Reagan responsible for Iran arms sales Wright (D-Tex) said Congress was "chomping at the bit," for instance, to pass legislation providing insurance to ease the financial burden of catastrophic illness. Even though Reagan and congressional leaders pledged bipartisan cooperation, both sides quickly gave way to partisan sniping. Amid a chorus of Republican praise for the president's speech on the House floor, Representative Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) rose to declare: "The Gipper has fumbled the ball, and he hasn't yet recovered."

WASHINGTON — Democrats controlling both the House and Senate served notice yesterday they won't let President Reagan off the hook despite his plea that Congress not "let partisanship weaken us" over the Iran arms deal controversy. The day after the president made the appeal in his State of the Union address. House Speaker Jim Wright said Democrats will waste no time pursuing their own legislative goals this year, without waiting for Reagan's specific proposals.

While Wright derided Reagan's sincerity as a self-proclaimed champion of balancing the federal budget. White House spokesman Larry Speakes charged that "a few old soreheads hooted derision" at the president's call Tuesday night for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. "If they want to do something about the budget, the action starts in Congress," he said. "Were the hooters the ones who voted for the bill? Let them stand up and be counted." But Wright said he doubts Reagan will accept

his offer to sit down and fashion a "nogimmicks," pay-as-you-go plan for balancing the budget deficit. The speaker complained of a "gap between rhetoric and reality" in what Reagan says and does about government spending and dealing with terrorist nations. While pledging to "get to the bottom of this and. . . take whatever action is called for," the president urged Congress to avoid becoming "obsessed with failure" and letting "partisanship weaken us" over the Iran affair.

Filipino rebels under siege by Aquino gov't MANILA, Philippines — Government troops fired warning volleys of tear-gas grenades today at a broadcasting center held by more than 200 rebels who defied an ultimatum to surrender. Military chief Gen. Fidel Ramos met through the night at a military base with 200 officers who urged violence not be used to end the twoday siege by mutinous soldiers supporting former President Ferdinand Marcos.

Up to 1,000 heavily armed soldiers, marines and riot police took positions around the walled broadcast center in suburban Manila. It was the last position held by rebels who attempted a pre-dawn coup Tuesday, the most serious challenge by right-wing military men since President Corazon Aquino came to power eleven months ago. "The Filipino people are asking you to please think this over thoroughly so we can solve this pro-

blem. We beseech you to come out," Brig. Gen. Alexander Aguirre, acting commander of the Manila district, shouted through a bullhorn. Late last night, Aguirre gave the rebels a half-hour to leave the studios of Channel 7 and DZBB radio station and surrender. Heavily armed troops wearing gas masks moved toward the station in a five-truck convoy. Marines in civilian clothes and wearing yellow armbands — the color of Mrs. Aquino's "peo-

ple power revolution" against Marcos — were on standby to move in. The deadline passed, and five teargas grenades were fired near the station wall as warnings. There were no reports of fire by the mutineers. Aquirre later ordered a resumption of tear-gas volleys but suspended the order one minute later when a busload of wives and children of the mutineers arrived. "To those inside the Channel 7 compound, your wives are here and

want to talk to you," Aguirre said through a bullhorn. The rebels ignored the appeal, and a tank fired more tear gas. During a lull in the tear gas volleys, an unidentified woman inside the broadcast center issued a defiant warning over DZBB that the mutineers would not give up. The woman was among about 5.0 pro-Marcos civilians who joined the estimated 190 mutinous military men.

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Compiled from the Nation's collegiate press

Rally held to remember attack

Prof follows his proboscis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Standing amid hundreds of small brown glass bottles in his "flavor library," Gary Reineccius selects a vial and unscrews the cap. "Ahh," he says, sniffing. "This is one of my favorites." "This" is mcthylcyclopentolone, more commonly known as maple syrup. Another bottle contains a familiar summertime smell — cis-3-hexenol, better known as freshly cut grass. In other bottles are the flavors of green bell pepper, mango, anise and orange blossom. Flavors and aromas are Reineccius' specialty. A University of Minnesota professor of food science and nutrition, his research focuses on identifying and isolating the flavor components in food. "I do it out of love," Reineccius said. When he first started at the University 16 years ago, his research involved studying the food nutrient loss. He doesn't deny this is an important area

of food science but said he soon switched his focus to food flavors "because I just felt this was a more fun area to do research in." In addition to the enjoyment Reineccius derives from his work, he said that it has a practical side. He studies bad flavors to determine what causes food to spoil and how this can be prevented. In some ways, he said, off flavors are easier to identify because "you're just looking at one part of the flavor that makes it go bad, rather than identifying everything that makes it good." — The Minnesota Daily

HANOVER, N.H. — Approximately 100 people gathered on the Green last week to commemorate the first anniversary of the attack on the anti-apartheid shanties by 12 students. Professors and students called on Dartmouth College to divest and urged a strong commitment against apartheid and racism. . Chris Benner '87 opened the rally with the announcement that several members of the Dartmouth Review who attacked the shanties will be "celebrating the bashing" tonight. "A black tie dinner to commemorate the first anniversary of the demolition of the shanties" was held Wednesday evening, according to Gerald Hughes '88, managing editor of the Review.

Six or seven of the original 12 shanty-attackers, several staff members of the Review and professors Jeffrey Hart and Douglas Yates attended, he added. Professor Leo Spitzer spoke against the present College policy on South Africa. College President David McLaughlin and the trustees claim they "abhor apartheid. . . [but they) are unwilling to confront the fundamental issue," Spitzer said. Although the administration has advocated disinvestment and has established a South African student scholarship and a data base of South Africa-related materials, they are "mere cosmetic window dressings" when contrasted with divestment, Spitzer said. Spitzer called for a reaffirmation of commitment to solidarity with South Africa. — The Dartmouth

Olympics allows women to bare it all PRINCETON, N. J. — Exams or no exams, flocks of people gathered in Holder Courtyard last week for the traditional sophomore Nude Olympics. Of the crowd, an estimated 125 to 150 people actually participated in the event. The occasion was one of only a few times in the history of this longstanding tradition that women were among the participants. "We are a part of the class of '89," said an anonymous female partici-

pant. "[The males] looked like they were having a lot of fun. The only thing that was standing between me and having fun was that I was a woman." As the snow started to fall Monday evening, students became excited at the prospect of the games. According to Peter Frelinghuysen '89, "It's one of the finest things that's ever happened to Princeton. It provides focus of unity." "This should happen everywhere,"

said Ameen Jan '90, who hails from Pakistan. "Nude babes, man," he added. "Nude babes." "Women always have the right to run naked in my backyard," said Holder resident Mark Rubin '90. "I'm no chauvinist." The spectators appreciated the various dimensions of the event. "I love the tribal ritual aspect of it," said Melissa Sydeman '88. an RA in Rockefeller College. — The Princetonian

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THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN - Tbunda). January 29. 1987

Spotlight Chapman's surreal art at Houston Hall 9

Painter s works in the Romantic tradition

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Chapman's artificial limbs hang suspended in space

By DEBBY JACOBS "Almost surreal," one woman said to artist Gary Chapman at the opening reception for his latest oneman art show, while Philip Glass music floated through the background. The exhibit, entitled The Figure Enlightened, opened last week at the Houston Hall art gallery. Chapman's work is certainly unusual. His art is shocking as well. The dramatic shimmering lights

from above, piercing into the deep, receding black backgrounds of all his paintings catch the observer's eye and hold him captive. "I like the contrasting Yin Yang — light and dark.'' explained Chapman. Although he has mastered portraits as realistically as a draftsman, he remains primarily a sculptor His figures seem not drawn but carved. Veins pop out, fingernails shine, and his graphite renderings are built of such strong, bold lines, bright, white areas and dark shadows that his forms emerge out of the canvas like hands growing out of a wall. In fact, hands are mainly what Gary Chapman paints, in one form or another. Chapman's haunting images of disconnected limbs are his striking trademark. Similar to the Romantic painter Gericault's precise "Severed Legs and an Arm," Chapman's

paintings include seemingly seveted extremities in tight, dissected interiors. "Extremities" is one example .«i IIHS form. A frighteningly realistic hand. arm. foot and leg jut out from the bottom of I dark window, hung by strings in horror movie fashion "Enlightened." an extension ol Oericault's work, shows the silhouette of a man sitting on the floor, facing front. While his feet and legs arc brightly lit in the foreground, the rest "I the figure fades into u unrecognizable shadow with the head cut out ol the frame. Chapman's satiric intent becomes cleai in a piece such as this Most of Chapman's work revolves around similar themes ol Isolated sufferers, tootightl) framed or even disconnected, somehow hid den. weighty, sombre, turning awav in anguish, or reaching out from the darkness like a disconnected pair ol

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while gloves dancing about a black field. The title of his show. The Figure Enlightened — A One Man Show, seems singularly appropriate, A recent graduate of Berea College. Kentucky, Oar) Chapman has a strong grounding in the religious tradition ol painting. His work has been exhibited lor the last two years in churches in such places as Kentucky. Ohio and Michigan. I rotn the heavenly beam ol light in his "Sell Portrait." to a work (Ihapnsan claims as one of his personal favorites, "One of Two Sons." a nude figure turning to a wall, a Romantic vision beams light on the suffering of the ordinary. "I isten to the voice within you," said American painter Washington Albion, of that rebellious school of painters, the Romantics Oar) l liapman seems to have heeded his words

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Campus one-night stands j^gjj By DAVID TURNOFF When students think of the Annenberg Center, they usually think of expensive productions in the large Zellerbach Theatre. However, the Annenberg Center frequently receives the opportunity to host performances of plays by small avant-garde groups. For example, last week's Faith Journey, a musical based on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement which he led during the I960's, had its only showing in Philadelphia at Annenberg's Harold Prince Theatre. The showing, in honor of the anniversary of King's birthday, was offered free to the public. The performance was given by a New York-based ensemble called Afri-Productions. The incisive production was given a rousing ovation by the audience.

Afri-Productions is not scheduled to perform at the University again for the rest of the year. Last Friday's performance was sponsored by the president's office in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Annenberg spokesman Judy Moore said that most other small productions are sponsored by the Festival of New Plays or various student groups. "Penn Players and the Penn Singers, as well as other off-campus groups, use the smaller Annenberg (heaters for their productions," said Moore. Ticket prices for smaller productions, according to Eileen Rauscher, manager of the Annenberg Box Office, are considerably less than those of most professional shows. Prices range from under five dollars to around twenty, she said. Shows like Afri-Production's musical are usually shown at 8 p.m.

SHOWTIMES THURSDAY

NEIGHBORHOOD FILM/VIDEO PROJECT, national Independent Film Competition Winners. International House's Hopkinson Hall. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $2.50. for films and times, call 387-5125. PENN UniOPI COUNCIL FILM ALLIANCE. The Phtlndelphim Story. Irvine Auditorium. 10 p.m. Admission $2.30. PHILADELPHIA DRAMA GUILD. The Foreigner. Annenberg Centers Zellerbach Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets $13.50 to $26.50. For more information call 563-7529. PIANO HOUR. Slngmlong Piano Hour. McLelland Hall. 9:30 p.m. Free admission.

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The University Museum will celebrate its centennial this year

University and Philadelphia Museums share exhibit By JENNIFER BAYER Lurking in the dark storage rooms of the University Museum is a world of masks and magic, a side of the museum's collections that most people rarely see. But in honor of the museum's Centennial Celebration, The Philadelphia Museum of Art is mounting a unique exhibition of 89 pieces of African art from the generally hidden, but vast collections of the University museum. The exhibition runs through February 8th. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of lectures and performances at the Art Museum. "Because February is Black History Month, we're trying to incorporate as many programs [that] tie in as we can," said Assistant Manager of Public Relations for the Philadelphia Museum of Art Barbara Jordan.

The two institutions involved enjoy a historic connection through a gentleman's agreement not to collect in the same areas. "We work as a team lo offer the Philadelphia audience the most comprehensive survey of art and artworks." said Jordan last week. The exhibition was originally initiated on an informal level between the directors of the two museums, and utilizes the strengths of each to present a unique view of the works involved. The University Museum has been collecting archeological and anthropological materials from Africa for nearly a century. "We were in a sense the experts on the objects," said University Museum representative Cathy Grabowski, "since the art museum was to take a different approach than we might take, we were able to provide them

with vital information on the objects." "In this exhibition, the emphasis is on the actual form of the objects," Grabowski continued. "The curatOl wanted people to look at an object and really experience it." Programs on African music, aesthetics, and an history by well known artists are only a few of the many scheduled to take place in February lo enhance the show, along with a scries for elementary school kids. The traveling exhibition program of the University Museum was instituted about a year ago to give olher, particularly smaller institutions a chance to take advantage of the museum's singular collections. A slightly altered version of the African sculpture exhibition is scheduled to go to four museums around ihe country after its

slay al the Art Museum. "We hope lo share this exhibition wilh a much wider audience, and to bring the colleciion back inio the public eye in a way it hasn't been in thirty years/' said Grabowski. "This is an exciting exhibition for the University Museum in lhai al one lime, ihe museum's African collections were quite famous," she added. "Ours was the first attempt to acquire an extensive African collection, so we were able lo collect some of the finest examples of African material art." As of January 14th. almost 66.000 people had visited the exhibition. "I hope thai the Penn community will take the opportunity to visit the Art Museum, only twelve pieces are on exhibiiion at the museum normally." said Grabowski. "This really is a national treasure (hat is not always going to be on display."

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NEIGHBORHOOD TUMI VIDEO PROJECT. National Independent Film Competition Winner*. International House's Hopkinson Hall. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $2.50. For films and times, call 387-5125. PENN union COUnCIL FILM ALLIANCE. Love and Death. Irvine Auditorium. 10 p.m. Admission $2.50. PHILADELPHIA DRAMA GUILD. The Foreigner. Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Tickets $13.50 to $26.50. For more Information call 563-7529.

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COUNTERPARTS. Fourth Annual Jamboree. Annenberg School Theater. 7:30 and 9 p.m. Tickets $4.50. NEIGHBORHOOD FILM/VIDEO PROJECT. The Paaaion of Remembrance. International House's Hopkinson Hall. 8 p.m. Tickets $2.50. For films and times, call 387-5125. PENN Union COUNCIL FILM ALLIANCE. 9 1/2 Week: Irvine Auditorium. 10 p.m. Admission $2.50. PHILADELPHIA DRAMA GUILD. The Foreigner. Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theatre. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets $13.50 to $26.50. For more Information call 563-7529.

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CLASSICAL GUITAR. Roberto FerraremL St. Mary's Church. 3 p.m. Tickets $2. For more Information call 898-8279. NEIGHBORHOOD FILM/VIDEO PROJECT. Love Brewed in the African Pot. International House's Hopkinson Hall. 4 p.m. and 7-.30 p.m. Tickets $2.50. For films and times, call 387-5125. PHILADELPHIA DRAMA GUILD. The Foreigner. Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theatre. 2 p.m. Tickets $13.50 to $26.50. For more Information call 563-7529.

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difficult to sing but rewarding when we get it right." "We sing a braod spectrum of stuff," Tuck continued. "There are so many people in the group who have different styles: some are funky, some sing with soul, and some have sweet, melodic voices." Counterparts hope to attract a larger and more varied audience with their guest performers and more "intricate pieces," Tuck said. "We really love it when people who aren'i involved in the performing arts themselves come to our shows," she added. "The arts always support the arts at Penn, and we want to broaden our spectrum." New Counterpart Doug Jabara said he is confideni that the performances will be popular. Brian Lavln/Daily Pannaytvaroan "We sold 32 tickets on the first Jamboree day." the College junior said this week. "Usually we only sell about four." According to Jabara, the show Two University groups will host the two-hour show: the all-male promises to be an "upbeat, jazzy, singers Pennsylvania 6-5000 and the swinging celebration," and he is improvisational comedy group "on top of the world" over his first jamboree performance. Without A Net. Calling his decision to join Coun"Pennsylvania 6-5000 has a big campus draw," Tuck said Tuesday. terparts "the best thing that "They've been practicing hard and happened lo me at Penn," Jabara they're in good shape. We invited said that the group is "a lot of fun, Without A Net to break up a full and a lot of energy." "I'm really happy to be devoting show of a capella. We though it would be nice for the audience just so much time to so much fun," he added. "Even if it means rehearshto have some straight comedy." Tuck said that this year may be ing two hours a day for the past two the best for the five-year-old weeks." Saturday's jamboree coincides Counterparts. "With the many members of our with the release of Counterparts' group we can do many more harmo- first album. Vintage, which will be nies and it has a much fuller on sale at the show. Proceeds from sound." she said. "We're singing Ihe performances and record sales really complicated music that's (Continued on page 7)

Counterparts to host jamboree Saturday By JENNY NOTZ Comedy, acting and a cappella singing will be in the spotlight Saturday night as Counterparts sponsors a jamboree featuring three arts groups. Counterparts will take the stage Saturday at the Annenberg School Theatre, along with guests Pennsylvania 6-5000, Without A Net and the famed Beelzebubs from Tufts, for the co-ed a capella singing group's Fourth Annual Jamboree. According to Jamboree Director Alex McKay, the two evening shows promise to be Counterparts' best yet. "We're really excited about it because we have the strongest group we've ever had," the College senior said this week. "Everybody has a lot of energy."

The 18 member group will perform "a variety of all types of music," McKay continued. "We sing a lot of songs with a jazz feel, and we're doing a really good kind of a gospel song." The performances will not be straight song, however, but will be injected with more than a touch of humor, she said. "We try to combine our musical ability with a sense of fun," McKay added. To this end, the Beelzebubs are travelling from Tufts to appear in the jamboree. "The Beelzebubs are really funny and very well-known," said Counterparts member and College senior Stephanie Tuck. "We're really happy to have them."

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SHABBAT LUNCH now offered weekly at Hillel Sign up by Thursdays at 5 p m For info call x7391 TECH POSITIONS still available for Quadramics Spring Fling musical Celebration Interested? Call Beth at 349-8575 for information THE BLACK STUDENT LEAGUE will meet on Thursday. January 29 to discuss the calender ol events for this semester Low RN Multi purpose room 8 30pm

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THE MODERATE PARTY of the PPU will meet Thursday Jan 29th at 8 30 in the Ben Franklin Room. Houston Hall New members welcome

ATTENTION ALL CAMPUS performing arts groups1 Are you interested in performing at Spring Fling? To sign up call Tern 386-4307 or Kelly 243-7881

UKRANIAN WEEKLY MEETING every Thursday 6 30 p m at Skolnik's Come lor dinner or coffee and conversalion Nonspeakers welcome

BROADEN YOUR EDUCATION' Join SCUE Applications available today at 127 Houston Hall Interviews begin next Tuesday We are the student voice on educational issues

UNDERGRAD PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY presents Psychology and Business where do they meet?'' Speaking Dr. Jerry Katz. Sue Rodriguez Thursday Jan 29. 4 30-6 Smith-Penniman rm . Houston Hall All welcome

HILLEL'S THURSDAY Lishma classes begin 1/29. featuring beginner's Hebrew. 5 15 pm. Advanced Hebrew. 6 30p m . JThemes in the Ethics ot Interper sonal Behavior. 5 30 p m For info call 898-7391

WOHS - Perm's only student-run radio station Intio meeting Thurs January 29th. 6 00 pm Ben Franklin Room Houston Hall Interested but can't attend? Phone 243-8874

INTERESTED IN WORKING with preschool children? The Cedar Children's House needs volunteer leaching assistants during morning hours Contact Penn Ecxten sion. H.H , tor more into'

YOU CAN HELP the University Hospitality Coalition serve meals to the hungry today at Saint Mary's Church 3901 Locusl Walk Info Eileen 3860905/ Beth Ann 222 3577

AUDITItONS FOR INTUITONS production of Vaclav Havel's The Memorandum. Sun feb 1. 7 p.m. SP room Houston Halt and Feb 2. 9 p m. rm 245 Technical and production people needed, too. 386-2328

LESBIAN/GAY STAFF/FACULTY ASSOCIATION Meetings Noon. Thursday, 1-29-87. second floor lounge of the Christian Association Bring your lunch Information Larry Gross. 8-5620. or Bob Schoenberg, 8-5044

BLOOMERS IS HOLDING production interviews and band auditions for our spring show For into call Lisa 243-5486. Musicians call Heather 243-5155 Join usl

MATH MAJORS INTERESTED in actuarial positions for summer see CPPS books under "Financial Services" for firms seeking students.

SHABBAT CLASSES at Hillel feature readings in Sefer Kakuzan & Gemara Maaachel Makkat & Beginner's Shabbat service For mfo call 898-7391

MINORITY PRE-MED STUDENTS CPPS has information on summer enrichment and research programs at medical schools throughout the country For information, see CPPS books under "Medical "

WANTED1 Student Organizations interested in adopting a public school for tutoring Excellent community service protect with support Contact Hayley Bryant at 898 8514 or stop at Penn Extension

WEEKEND" FEDERATION ALLIED JEWISH APPEAL Super Sunday Phone-athon January 18th at (he Philadelphia Civic Center For information on student participation call Barbara Hirsh. 898-8265

INTERNSHIPS AT THE CLEAN AIR COUNCIL: work in any number ol research programs investigating pollution problems or ALL INVITED TO Shabbal assist with grant writing Contact Services with RJP Friday night at Penn Extension. 115 H H 6.30 in Hillel downstairs lounge for more information call Anne LEARN ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY 386-0058 or Hillel 898-6227 HAPPENING in Central America ADVERTISING WOMEN OF The Central America Solidarity CAMPUS MEDITATION GROUP Cleveland/Meldrum and Fewsmith Alliance is having an introductory meets Fridays Irom 1:10 to 2 00 seeks interns tor summer with meeting tonight at the Christian Third floor Chapel. Christian Asso legal residence in Cuyahoga or Association. 3601 Locust Walk at nation 3601 Locust Walk Instrucabutting county Juniors. Details tion available Information Dr 8 p.m CPPS Books. Marketing'' Feb Mark Giesecke 662-2860 or Jeff 28th Deadline. LEARN SELF-DEFENSE and Meyers 592-0135 relaxation techniques through KiALL STUDENTS Design 1987 Ivy Aikido Improve coordination and DISSERTATION MOTIVATION at Slone Rules in Office of Student concentration Meet every Tues- low ebb? Need some support? Life- Houston Hall Prize: $25 day and Thursday 6-7 30 p.m Come )Oin our ABD strategies and Entries must be received by Hutchinson Gym Lower Level All survival group Call UCS Friday. February 27 898-7021 Group begins 2/6/87 at welcome1 ATTENTION RICHARD EISNER 12 pm' LESBIAN/GAY STAFF/FACULTY & CO will interview for summer ASSOCIATION Meetings Noon. ISRAEL SHABBATON WITH auditing interns in 3/2/87 Thursday, 1-29-87. second floor GUEST SPEAKER Rav Mordechai Resumes will be collected in Rm lounge of the Christian Associa- Vin Yarz Friday night dinner 6 30 302 HH 2/2/87-2/5/87, 9 a.m. to 3 tion. Bring your lunch Informa- p m Topic Who is a Jew? Discus- pm tion Larry Gross, 8-5620. or Bob sion following sponsored by BE A FRESHMAN ASSISTANT in Schoenberg. 8-5044 Yavneh OHarni Lubavitch House Harrison Freshman Proiect PROGRESSIVE STUDENT 1987-1988 Applications available ALLIANCE intro meeting Thurs- LESBIANS AND GAYS AT PENN, Friday 1/30. Harrison front desk social event, Friday, January 30 day Jan 29 Smith Penniman and Wesl Campus Residence Room Houston Hall 9 p m All Starts at 6 p.m . Smith-Penn room, Office Deadline February 11. HH New people welcome Please Welcome 1987 bring munchies Thanks RADIO' Want to be a detay? Get GRADUATE STUDENTS LILLIAN RUBIN Urban Studies involved with college radio? CAREER SEMINAR Careers in sponsored lecture on quiet rage Come to WOHS Intro Meeting market research Monday, Feb 2. Bernard Goetz in a lime of Thursday January 29. 6:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m, Ben Franklin room. madness Friday 4 30 Annenberg Ben Franklin Room Houston Hall Houston Hall Call 8-4381 to sign School Auditorium UP STUDENTS ACTIVITIES COUNCIL REPRESSENTATIVES don't SHABBAT SHALOM! Services at JUNIORS AND SENIORS thinking forget to come to the mandatory Hillel for Fri 1/30 Conservative about graduate business school meeting January 29. 6 p m m Law and Orthodox at 5 pm, Reform application workshops (MarchSchool 100 Your funding 6 30 p.m. RSVP for dinner by April), advance signups in CPPS. depends on it' Thurs at 5 p m tor info 898-7391 see Jan

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ROYAL SOCIETY MEDAL/Weiss Memorial Award open to seniors with minimum GPA of 37 and outstanding campus leadership Forms 4 info in Student Life 110 HH Self-nominations welcome

Division of Laboratory Animal Medicine workers that have been plagued by rashes and skin lesions were presented yesterday with results of a Dermatology Department investigation into the causes of the disease. Occupational Health Director Carol Tinklepaugh said last night that she and Dermatology Vice Chairman Brian Jegasothy met yesterday with most of the workers to update them on the probe. "Dr. Jegasothy and I met with the individual people who had had a rash to explain what we thought was the reason for each (worker's case)," Tinklepaugh said. She would not release the results of the investigation until Medical School Resource Management Associate Dean Harry Halley is presented with a full report of the findings within the next several days. Fireman and Oilers Shop Steward Stanley Robinson, a spokesman for the DLAM workers, said yesterday that the workers he spoke with after the meetings generally seemed pleased. "It went pretty well," Robinson said. "I think everybody was satisfied with the diagnosis." — David l.asko

SENIOR HONOR AWARDS Nomi nations now open All seniors in good academic standing with significant campus leadership are eligible Forms & info in Student Life 110 HH Self-nominations welcome

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TUTORING OPPORTUNITY invest in your future and in the community Volunteer to be a tutor m a public school Orientation on 2/2 Smilh-Penniman at 7pm Contact Penn Extension 898-4831 TUTORING OPPORTUNITY Invest in your future and in the community Volunteer to be a tutor in a public school Orientation on 2/2 Smith Pennimen at 7:00 p m Contact Penn Extension 898-4831

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PRELAW STUDENTS planning to attend Law School Fall 1987 Mandatory application workshops available Feb April Advance sigh ups in CPPS, see Jan

SOL FEINSTONE AWARDS tor sophomores, |uniors and seniors who have contributed to social or educational change Forms a into in Student Life 110 HH. Sell nominations welcome STUDY ABROAD Information meeting for the Penn/University of Ibadan. Nigeria, exchange program Thursday January 29. 4-5 00 p m . 133 Bennett Hall

Bestselling author and Harvard faculty member Samuel Shem will lecture at the School of Medicine today on the rigors of medical training. According to second-year Medical School student Steve Brown, Shem will answer the question, "Is it possible to go through medical training and retain your compassion and humaneness?" Brown said that most of the interns he knows have

read House of Cod, Shem's bestseller. The book deals with a first-year intern and how he is treated by his superiors. Brown asserts that while Shem's book is funny, it is also disturbing in that "it takes much of the glamour out of being a physician." Shem has also recently published a second novel, entitled Fine. The lecture will be held at 6 p.m. in Dunlop Auditorium in the Medical Education Building and is open to the public. A question and answer session will follow. — David Bomstein

Former news exec to discuss Vietnam War The Annenberg School will present a discussion about CBS coverage of the Vietnam War with former CBS news producer Leslie Midgley today. The discussion is the first event in a series of talks by five former producers, two of whom were CBS presidents. Midgley, former executive producer of CBS News, will discuss the Cronkite evening news during the Vietnam War. Organizer Robert Sajyon, former CBS writer and an emeritus professor of communication at the Annenberg School will also serve as moderator for the series of discussions. Midgley has produced more than a thousand special news and documentary broadcasts, many of which were Emmy and Peabody award winners. He also began a half-hour series called Eyewitness which was a precursor to the present half-hour evening news format. Other notable speakers in the upcoming series are Ernest Leiser, creator of CBS News Nightwatch and Richard Salant, former president of CBS and vice-chairman of the board at NBC. The discussion will take place in room 110 of the Annenberg School from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. — Tom Wilson

UNIVERSITY READING/Study Improvement Service Free interviews and tutoring for Penn students A-10 Education Building, 3700 Walnut Call 8988434 VISIT AT4T HEADQUARTERS. Friday, Feb 27 Leave Penn 730 am/ return 4 p.m. Talk, tour, lunch, all free! Submit name, address, phone number & why you want to attend to Mehri in CPPS by Feb 4th. WEXLER REYNOLDS HARRISON & SCHULE, Washington bipartisan government relations and public affairs firm seeks summer interns. Typing, word processing required March 1st deadline CPPS books under "Government" YEARLONG INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE for May graduates without certification For listings. see CPPS books under Education "

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On Monday, I spent an hour in the library looking for a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1 wanted to write an informed column on the man, his principles, ethics, charisma and character. What I found, after a painstaking search through the stacks and a mindless stab at learning the Van Pelt computer system, was a pocket-size, hardback volume written by a Russian reporter and translated into English. Stanislav Kondrashov on Martin Luther King — 260 pages, copyright 1981. Needless to say, I'm not a King scholar. The perception — and perceptions are supremely important here — that I gleaned repeatedly from Kondrashov was that King was the embodiment of untainted conscience. To white supremists, he was a thorn in their immoral flanks; to blacks, he was Moses. King spoke not out of vanity, pragmatism or appearance but .mi of a genuine, and near perfect, ideal of right and wrong. In King's world there was bad, and there was good. The charge of the good was not to fight the bad or kill the bad, but to educate the bad. Our world is not much different than King's; though overt racism has fallen out of favor, covert discrimination is rampant in the workplace, universities and communities. In Howard Beach, whites chase blacks onto highways; in an all white county in Georgia, residents throw rocks at antidiscrimination marchers; in southwest Philadelphia, a predominantly white community burns crosses and threatens the life of a mixed-race couple; in the Quad at the University of Pennsylvania, someone throws urinefilled bottles at black passersby. These incidents, all of which occurred in the last year, are sure signs that Martin Luther King's dream is just that, a dream, and that our world is still a nightmare. How would our world be different if King were alive today? I recently asked a few knowledgeable individuals this question, and I was surprised to see that many of their answers were similar. • History Assistant Professor Evelyn Brooks marched on Washington in 1963, and there, she heard King speak. "I knew that I was making history," she said recently. Brooks argues that if King were still alive, he'd be an active opponent of such evils as apartheid, homelessness, and military expansionism. "Martin Luther King would have continued to be very much interested in the economic and social issues of black America, but also very interested in where his country stood on issues of peace and justice. He would have been very much concerned that America take a stand on South Africa. If America had even a very small role in supporting apartheid, he would have called that a threat to justice. He would speak out very clearly on what would be the right policy for America to take — he would advocate dialogue with the Soviet Union. He would have advocated nuclear disarmament — he would have done these things out of a sense of conscience, which is the way he did all things." Regarding the homeless. Brooks reasons that King "would have thought that we have to save these people because they're a part of humanity. Today he would see hundreds of thousands of people on the streets who might not know that they are somebody." At Penn, the administration continues to invest in South Africa and continues to neglect the plight of the homeless. Just recently, the University asked a group of demonstrators to remove shelters for the homeless from

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bother." "The typical Penntrex user is saving about $20 a month." he continued. "You must understand that 23 cents or so(for unanswered phone calls] is not something that can equate for what the students are saving using Penntrex instead of Bell of "A brochure came out during the Pennsylvania." summer that explained the (RoomApproximately 8000 on-campus mate Identification) codes," Murray telephones were potentially billed for said. "It did not explain the one-' unanswered telephone call charges. minute billing process." Russel Green, an Illinois attorney He added that the explanation of involved in a similar billing disclosure the billing process came out with the case, said last night that he thought it first newsletter in October. would be inappropriate to comment Murray also said that the University on the legal aspects of the Penntrex did not foresee the necessity of notifysituation. But he did say that the Pening students of the phone billing ntrex customers should receive policy until after the possibilty was refunds. pointed out. "For what it's worth," Green said, "You have to realize that hindsight "assuming that [Murray] has concedis 20/20," he added. "Maybe we ed that there may have been an overshould put something in next year's sight, good will is at stake here, if information packet about the billing nothing else." of unanswered phone calls." Green is representing the plaintiffs Penntrex customers were charged in in the class action suit of kellerman v. September for unanswered longMCI Telecommunications Corporadistance phone calls without any tion, which is awaiting trial in the Cirnotice. Murray said that the Universicuit Court of Cook County, lllinios. ty has no plans for providing refunds "If Pennsylvania had a similar act to the entire Penntrex market, [Illinois Deceptive Trade Practices although he did say that some Act], then in my opinion, [Murray] students have come in asking for would have a duty [to provide money back. refunds] legally," Green said. "When "We've given out a fairly minimal anybody in business fails to disclose amount of refunds," Murray said. some practice to their customers, then "If students want a refund, some they should be held to rectify the choose to get it, and some just don't situation." Business Services Director Sieven Murray acknowledged last night that •he University did not take proper measures to notify students of Penntrex billing practices concerning unanswered long-distance telephone calls.

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For Sosnowyj. the condition of the homeless in Iniversity City is an acute problem which he said needs to be aUoiated "' You see them cold and sleeping on the grates." he said. "You hate to see people like that. 1 wish that there were more places that we could take them." He noted that some of the destitute people he comes in contact with are mentally ill, which can make it difficult to reason with them. "At times you have to deal with demented people," Sosnowyj said. "At that time you have to be courteous because you cannot judge how they will read." He added that he will refer people who appear to need help to the nearesi welfare office in his effort to improve the lives of street people. "I'll even give them car fare to the place closest to here so that they can go there as soon as possible." he said. "I want them to get some help so that they do not have to panhandle." But despite the desolation he sees on the street, Sosnowyj said he finds satisfaction in his job. "There is nothing like it," he explained. "You get to know people on

a personal basis." Walking down the street, he is a regular face to the people who live and work around 40th Street. They greet him with smiles, calls of "hey, Mike" and "how's it going." To Sosnowyj, his section of 40th Street is a "whole little city" that the community is striving to protect. "Everybody is trying to make a living here and they try to make 40th a safe and happy street," Sosnowyj said. "It's nice to get a smile and a 'good morning' from people. But despite the congenial atmosphere on his beat, crime still exists and presents a problem in an area packed with stores and vendors. Sosnowyj said his goal is "prevention of a crime," rather than the apprehension of a criminal. Leon Levin owns a check cashing service near 40th and Ludlow Streets, a block away from the subway entrance. Levin said Friday that he ap predates Sosnowyj's efforts to combat crime in an area which he said is a gathering place for drug addicts. But he added that the presence of the police — especially Sosnowsyj — has acted as a deterrent in the neighborhood. "We have a problem with methadone addicts around here and [Sosnowyj's] presence definitely helps to keep it down," Levin said. "Without him it would be terrible." According to 18th District Police Captain Francis Kerrigan, high visibility and experience are two important traits for a foot patrol officer. "We normally utilize experienced officers." Kerrigan said last week. "The main reason for that is they have to be a jack-of-all trades." Currently the 18th District is conducting an experimental neighborhood foot beat patrol. Kerrigan explained that this type of patrol has not been widely used in the city because of a manpower shortage. Bui he added that this form of policing is making a comeback. "It is something that has been proven successful in other parts of the country," Kerrigan said. "The basic purpose of it is to get back to the onhands type of policing." He claimed that the police department has suffered from officer attrition, and that it has been difficult to hire new recruits. Kerrigan said he was hopeful thai the foot patrol will give officers a chance to come into closer contact with the community, although these officers do not take the place of patrol cars. "The foot patrolman comes into closer contact with ihe residents of the community." Kerrigan added. "The foot patrol is not a substitute for motorized patrols."

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A history of College Hall (Continued from page I) lead box were probably ruined in any case due to ground water seepage. And how does President Hackney feel about protecting the golden egg? "It's like the stone of scone — only truth can be spoken in proximity to the cornerstone," Hackney said yesterday. Other chapters in the history of College Hall include a horse, a dead professor, melting walls, private stairwells, and black smoke invading classrooms. In its infancy. College Hall housed the Law School, the Towne School, the College, the library and the gym. It was the first home of the Wharton School and the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences. Fine Arts, Education as well as the Chapel (now room 200). At one time the basement was house for a horse, but Elliot said that Bessy (not its real name) was probably not used for riding. "I have no way of knowing this, but my guess is it was used to pull a lawn mover," he said. Besides the smell of the horse's manure, Elliott said the building was plagued in the early 1900's with clouds of black smoke emanating from the University's power plant. "The power plant which stood where Irvine Auditiorim is now had a large smoke stack and when the wind was right it would blow right into the College towers," he said. While many University professors have died during their tenure, only one is known to have passed away during a lecture in College Hall. Shortly after classes began in 1872, Professor Frazer Sutence arranged a tour of the new building for some of his friends. In the middle of a spirited presentation on the Gothic building he suddenly staggered, sat down and died — though no ghosts have yet been sighted. Plans to move the University

westward in 1870 were nearly thwarted because of the poor financial condition of higher education. But Provost Charles Stille fought for the move, saying that the center city location was cramped and that saloons and billiard halls surrounded the campus. The building cost $231,900 to build and originally included towers lopping the flanking wings, a bell that called students to class and a clock tower. Against the advice of Minerology Professor George Augustus Koeing, the architect used green serpentine stone to build College Hall. Koenig feared that over the years the stone would deteriorate. By 1913, Koeing's predictions proved correct — the building was literally melting because the combination of city pollutants and rainwater ate away at the serpentine stone. Both of the building's towers had to be removed. The school bell now sits in the lobby of Houston Hall. In the 1920's, additional renovations revealed a tunnel connecting College and Logan Halls and four hidden staircases. One of the stairways has since been removed and the remaining three were covered by walls. The only other secrets waiting to be unearthed in the building are those being kept by the current occupants — the History and American Civilization Departments and the Admissions, School of Arts and Sciences, legal affairs, provost's, and president's offices.

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A case for more recreational facilities

(I anlinurd from (mm back hat-L page) n»..i (Continued ihe owners of that lot — ihe United States Post Office — to work out an agreement through which the University could either purchase or lease all or part of the 11-acre parking lot/trailer storage area. Of course it isn't as easy as that. The Post Office, you see, doesn't want to sell that land. It has only been five years since Post Office employees have had access to park there. Previously, workers had to fend for themselves in a free-for-all on Walnut and Chestnut Streets. So, the idea bounced around that the University should lease part of the land for construction of a field house and help the Post Office build a parking garage to accommodate its employees. It certainly sounds feasible enough, but to date, the Universi ty and the Post Office have not been able to reach an agreement. If and when they do, problem number two comes into play. How does the University fund a project which was estimated at $15 million if it had begun two years ago? Well, for starters, last year's realignment of the athletic depart ment helps. With the promotion of Carolyn Schlie to senior associate

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athletic director, and the addition of Denis Cochran-Fikes and Skip Jarocki as associate athletic directors. Athletic Director Paul Rubincam should have significantly more time to work on fund-raising projects such as this.

school's football stadium. After all, facility shortages are easily masked to the public with winning football and basketball programs. But those few successes do not mean that the University is truly accommodating its students. Instead, they make the University look like an elitist institution. The winter sports at Penn which attract the largest crowds and most interest have adequate indoor homes. The same can not be said of gymnastics and the two indoor track teams. Until it can. the athletic department should persist in its effort to get the administration to facilitate construction of a field house. The Committee on Student Life has already announced that discussion of a new student union building will be postponed in order to discuss athletics at its March 31 meeting. Certainly, the need for a field house should be near the top of the agenda for that meeting. It's time for the University to stop dragging its feet on the field house issue and take some concrete measures toward insuring that Penn doesn't become ''another Columbia."

The problem of overcrowded facilities is not a new one. In fact, it is one which has plagued Rubincam and Associate Athletic Director for Facilities Jim Tuppeny for some time. Tuppeny has pushed for the inclusion of athletic space on the roofs of all new buildings at the University to no avail. Rubincam has said that "I don't ever want to become a Columbia. I don't want to commute a half hour to desirable fields." Yet now, there are two varsity teams with nowhere to practice. There is another that gets in the way of the intramural basketball program (or vice-versa). Even the prefabricated Butler Building, which was scheduled to be completed in the fall for the track teams' use, is nowhere to be seen. To the naked eye, Penn is not on the verge of becoming "another Columbia," where students have to bus across Manhattan to reach the

Fortsch, Rath top Ivies in scoring . (Continued from back page) Freshman progress report — Leslie Miller. "Leslie is our most talented freshman," Ashley said of the 6-1 center who leads Penn in block shots with 10. "She has to build her body up, but she has all the tools. In the last few weeks she's become very aggressive." Freshman progress report — Rose Ann Lucas. "Rose Ann is one of the stronger rebounders on the team," Ashley said. "We put her in during tight situations because she is mentally

tough."

"I don't think those stats mean much," Ashley said. "We run. So when we score, we give the ball back to you quickly." • Penn's opponents this weekend, Yale and Brown, squared off last Saturday in New Haven. Behind sophomore Randi Meberg's 16 points, the Elis defeated the visiting Bruins 65-54. • Cornell's 6-0 center Tracy Sullivan earned Ivy Player of the Week honors as she scored 19 points in the Big Red's 69-67 win over Columbia.

• The one Quaker substitute who has probably progressed the most is 5-11 Nanci Wodzenski. Wodzenski has seen her playing time grow as a result of Janet Blair's foul trouble. "Nanci is slowly developing into our best big girl," Ashley said. "She probably can't give us 40 minutes a night, but she gives us quality time." • Penn is leading the Ivy League in team scoring at 74.5 points per game but is only sixth in team defense, yielding 71.5 points per game.

W. Swunming in tri-meet (Continued from back page) as opposed to three per event in a dual meet. However, scores are kept as in a dual meet. That is, first one team is disregarded while the other two teams are assigned points for their comparative finishes in a race, then the second team is disregarded, and then the third, yielding three sets of dual meet scores. Lawlor is hoping to see the Quakers attack their opponents today as they did in their early season competitions. "We need to sink our teeth into this meet."

Querubin feels that Penn is ready to once again show the talent that earned it five consecutive victories. "I think we're rested," Ihe senior backstroker said. "With all that endurance work, you're bound to get tight. We had to try to get back to swimming fast. We feel quicker in the pool now. We have a lot more speed." The Quaker co-captain also had one simple ingredient for success today. "If we all swim like we know how, we'll do well."

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(Continued from back page) world happened to the Quakers' pair of ail-Americans. Stewart Ballard and David Proctor, both of whom made it to the national collegiate semi-finals last year, well, they lost too. Ballard went down at the hands of Maurice Clothier in the number-one spot, 3-1. Clothier, an all-American himself, executed brilliantly throughout (he match and never really gave Ballard much more than a fighting chance. "I was very disappointed with the way I played," Ballard said. "Against the really good players you have to stay with them all the way and try to force him to make the mistakes. Today, I made the mistakes. "We can offer a multitude of excuses," Ballard continued, "but the sooner we realize that they were the better team on this day, the better off we'll be. I was making mistakes at the crucial points and that's why he was better than I was." Proctor dropped his match to Chris Spahr, the brother of Penn's Terry Spahr, in what turned out to be the upset of the day. Spahr, who simply outslugged and outmanuvered the Penn captain, played virtually a perfect match. "That guy played out of his mind," Molloy said. "He'll spend the rest of the year trying to play games like the way he did today. He hit some really fantastic shots." Chris Spahr, who after the match was rather generous with his words for the Quakers, explained why he was not surprised that the Diplomats won. "We felt confident we could win because of the home court advantage

and the temperature of the courts," he said. "It's hard to adjust to these courts from the Penn courts." The Quakers have been knocked from the ranks off the undefeated, and will now have to reassess their season and move on. While the players were disappointed by the loss, they were not completely discouraged. Penn is still a talented team that is capable of beating any team in the country. It would take a much better effort than last night's, but they are capable of doing it. "We played a lousy game but the season is not over yet," said Panos Biazzos, who was one of the many Quakers to get his clock cleaned by

the Diplomats. "We still have the potential to beat Harvard and Princeton." "We're down but we're certainly not out," added Proctor. Out, of course, is a relative term. Out to lunch, out of time, out of a job — 1 mean, what exactly does this mean? Whether or not the Quakers are out of the running for the national title remains to be seen. Should Penn come back from this thrashing and reemerge as a national contender in the upcoming weeks, they could once again stir some interest when they meet Harvard and Princeton at the end of the season. But this again remains to be seen.

Quaker Oats BILL PARCELLS — had other things to do last weekend, so he wasn't at the DP Inauguration Banquet. But The Only Staff that Matters was there in full force, living up to its well-known reputation. Doing his part was The Hollc who consumed 19 rum-and-Cokes to claim the 'shmen drinking record formerly in the possession of Punxy, Stal-man and Manute. PHIL SIMMS — couldn't win either of Sportin's awards presented in The Mummy Room. Wink was tabbed as the DP Sportswriter of the Year. Not too bad in his old age. For the youf, Cementhead was cited as Most Improved Sportswriter, even as he was sizing up the hostesses (hi julie). PHIL McCONKEY — didn't bother returning to the place where he made a name for himself. Berk, Scoop and Stef did though, adding a touch of class to the otherwise rowdy procedings. Their presence was well appreciated by all, especially upon observing Scoop's crooked gait. CHIP BANKS — played at Michigan State where they know a thing about hockey. Banks may hit like a defenseman, but even he can't answer today's John "I wish I could carry 44 guys on my back in Pasadena" Elway Trivia Contest: Who are the three Philadelphia Flyers to be enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame? If you have an answer, call Jon ("Big Blue") or Neil ("Hail to the Redskins") at 898-1900 after 9:21 p.m. Good night. No more Gatorade.

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Laura Michaelis

What the hell am I doing here, I asked myself again and again. The question recurred with striking regularity, and it seemed as if every morning I could count on bringing renewed doubts about the psuedo-academic quest 1 had begun. There I was, living with strangers in a small village of northern Ecuador. In pursuit of completing the Independent Study Project requirement of my semester abroad program, I had arranged to spend three weeks living in Chota, a 500-person community just south of the Columbian border. Yeah, I'll be doing a "living history," I told myself. I'll find out all about family structures and the changes the old-timers have seen over the years. I'll find the "whys" behind their lifestyles. Yeah. I was gonna make history. Yeah, right. I guess it started innocently enough, even with my grandiose intentions. I was thrilled by the prospect of no running water. I couldn't wait to start eating goat, guinea pigs, and killing my own chickens for lunch. To bathe in a river and sleep on a mat — whoosh, how rustic — it was something out of Temple of Doom. But when I arrived I began to feel ashamed about all that. Ashamed that I could have reduced these people to the sort of coffee table experience I was looking for, ashamed that I could have seen them as anything but totally self-sufficient, but most of all ashamed that I could have slipped into that dangerous habit that I had so often criticized, a habit as prevalent in South America, (and in every other part of the world) as the Catholic prosyletization was during the colonization. That practice, might be labeled academic imperialism. The phrase sounds pretentious, but it's actually a rather accurate catchword for a number of disturbing techniques used by foriegn social scientists when they go to study other cultures or peoples. To define it is difficult, but as I see it, the term can be divided into three different parts — the imposition of pre-set ideas, an attitude of academic superiority, and the notion that your

work is isolated. All three are pernicious in their own right, all three mean that the researcher is treating the study-subjects more like specimens than like people, and all three are frightfully easy habits to adopt. From what I know about fieldwork. research topics are found in a number of ways. One of those ways is through the examinination of existing publication about a given work, and finding the holes in certain subjects. There is nothing wrong with this manner of choosing research topics, it is only when the theories are decided before the research begin that the problem occurs. It is easy to sit in a library and decide that Bolivian peasants are not rebelling because of fact X and fact Y, but then to go and live with these people and fit the findings of that field work into a set formula is incorrect and arrogant. The second factor involved in academic imperialism is the one that I found so tempting. Everyone wants to be another

STREET Margaret Mead, but the truth is that few ever can. The objective of all original scholastic research is the search for truth, but all too often that search gets lost in the quest for academic glory. Also lost are the real people being studied. Instead of discovering insights into the lifestyles of a different culture, the field work becomes an exercise in comparison — using zoological specimens to illustrate why some other group should become more like us. The final element of academic imperialism is the question of a work's isolation. Despite the fact that research is ideally a search for truth. I think that there is no such thing as impact-free study. It becomes necessary to consider what effects your role will have in a given situation. Of course that decision differs with the area of study, whether it be the farmers of Laos or the women millionaires of Los Angeles, but it is ignorance to pretend that your work will have no impact on those studied. How deeply will you get involved in the political struggles that can change their lives? Do you feel an obligation to use the increased access of a North American researcher. English speaker and uppermiddle class person to benifit these people in any way? These questions may seem

irrelevant, but even the most unimportant researcher will inevitably have an impact. I was a North American, I had seen cities, buildings taller than four stories, I could speak another language, had a Walkman, and, perhaps most impressive, had flown in an airplane. I was constantly asked about these experiences. But exactly what impact did I have? Are there kids in Chota who are now unhappy because they don't have a camera, or have never, and know they never will, fly in an airplane. Perhaps. In no way do I mean to condemn all academic research or field work. I am only pointing out the necessity of an accurate definition of a researcher's role before that research starts. Finally, research involves the examination of impact. It can be involuntary impact — as was my case with the children and their fascination with the unknown; or voluntary impact — a decision made by the entire community as to the needs and requirements of the group. Perhaps the easiest attitude for a researcher to take is that what they need or want justifies the research. But this mentality ignores the fact that you are a stranger living in another land, and that these people are above all humans — not to consider them, whether your decision is based on your personal need for Ph.D topic or a bloated righteousness. is blatantly ethnocentric. Another impact of field work is much more subtle, and that is the post-publication ramifications. It should be remembered that the strategies of the Viet Nam War were largely derived from the anthropological research of South East Asia. While this type of use cannot be guided or directed by the researcher, the academian does have a responsibility for complete accuracy. Yeah, I had some problems with living and studying in Chota, but I got over the feeling that I was somehow committing evil in this small village. More than anything else, these people taught me just that — that they would accept me and like me and not expect anything more. Both sides were honest about their intentions. I told them exactly what 1 wanted to do, and they told me yes or no. It took a while for me to get used to the rejection — being turned down when I asked for information from people I considered my friends. But soon enough. I learned to respect that rejection, and recognized that they were being as professional as I should have expected. More than anything, in Chota, 1 learned that respect is not culturally based and that ethics are universal. •

A giant Giants fan An emotional look at the new champs

Jonathan Bondy

On Sunday evening at 9:44 something happened that 1 never had the nerve to even hope for. The New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Now for some people the Super Bowl is nothing more than a day to get together with your friends, drink some beer, and watch what is usually a boring football game. Usually that's what the Super Bowl means to me, too. But not this year. Because the Giants were playing. For the first time. Ever. Now there have been a ton of stories written on the eternal suffering of the Giants fan, but only a Giants fan knows that the stories are all true. The year 1963 is always mentioned as the last time the Giants had been in a championship game. Hell, I wasn't even born until 1966. Older Giants fans at least had memories of Sam Huff, Y.A. Tittle and Frank G if ford My memories bring back Joe Piscarcik and Ron Johnson. But this year was different. Giants fans could tell. To me the signals began last January, when the Giants lost to Chicago. They weren't that far behind in terms of talent, but there was just that edge that the Bears had, an attitude that told them they would kick the crap out of everyone. This time I could see that the Giants had that edge. Games that in the past a Giants fan knew they would lose, they won. But it took a while. There was a typical heartbreaking loss to Dallas in the season opener. The type of loss where the Giants weren't beaten — they just lost. Then came a whole string of close games that, for the first time I could remember, the Giants were winning. It was obvious early in the season that the team was playoff material, but the Super Bowl, well that was just a tease, something reserved for the Cowboys, Steelers and Raiders. Even the most faithful Giants devotees had to admit the Giants certainly weren't the first team to pop into your head when you mentioned the Super Bowl. The first time that I felt the Giants had a real chance to win

it all was when they beat the Minnesota Vikings in October. When they pulled off The Play. When Phil Simms found Bobby Johnson for a first down on fourth ,ind 17 and Raul Allegre kicked the game-winning field goal. In my mind I could only recall plays like that happening against the Giants, seeing Roger Staubach and Joe Theismann pick apart the secondary in the final seconds. Now, though, it was Phil Simms doing the picking. See, it's the torture that separates Giants fans from other fans. In New York, people talk about the Rangers not winning the Stanley Cup since 1940. But since then there have been many years when the Rangers were able to give their fans hope, when they were able to flirt with glory. They were rare-

ly terrible. They played in championship games, and they had all-star players. The Giants had nothing. People may think that Mets fans suffered. No way. They were always numb by Memorial Day. The Mets were inept, and then they became great in a period of three years. The Giants would stick a knife in you and slowly twist it. In baseball a single game has little meaning, but in football every game is like its own little season. No matter how dismal a single Giants season was. there was always the hope that this Sunday they would play well. And so there was always the disappointment. This season, however, the talent was there. And so there was hope. But these were the Giants, the hope-wreckers, and the higher you allowed your dreams to soar the more of a crash you left yourself vulnerable to. To be a Giants fan is to expect the worst, even in the best of times. No longer. When the Giants played San Francisco on a Monday Night in November they fell behind, 17-0. It was a game where nightmares of past collapses haunted me But in one quarter the Giants won the game. From there the Giants got better and better. They had that edge that the Bears had in 1985 — no one could stop them. Then came the playoffs. The great unknown. Turned out to be a piece of cake. Blowouts. Over San Francisco and Washington, teams coached by so-called geniuses. All the Giants had was a coach who got

soaked in Gatorade each week. But Bill Parcells was an Einstein to me. Before it really sunk into me, the Giants were going to the Super Bowl. That's when I got scared. It didn't matter that the oddsmakers made the Giants 9Vi-point favorites. It didn't matter that they had destroyed the Forty-Niners and Redskins. What really mattered was Denver, and stopping John Elway. And for the first half I was terrified that the Giants couldn't. Play after play the Giants would get to him, and each time he got away. Run for a first down, pass for a first down, he looked invincible. But I'm a firm believer in the theory that you only get so many chances, and Denver blew theirs. When the half ended with the Giants only trailing 10-9 I felt relief. At halftime I realized that Denver was doing what the Giants had done for years, winning on the field but not getting the points to show for it. And I knew then that the Giants could win, that they had taken whatever the Broncos could throw at them. and held their own. As the second half progressed I saw what I had dreamed about unfold in front of me. I watched Simms and Carl Banks and Joe Morris and the whole team bring home a Super Bowl to their fans. I jumped up and down, screamed and hollered, and enjoyed every second of it. Monday it still hadn't really sunk for me. Maybe it will take a couple of months, until I can appreciate the memory of what actually happened Sunday. Because what's in my mind now are memories of past failures, of games that should

The face of the Giants have been won but weren't. Games that this year's Giants would have won. I thought back to the game in 1983 when Simms came off the bench to replace Scott Brunner against the Eagles and broke his thumb. I sat in Giants Stadium and wondered if this snake-bit quarterback would ever get his chance. I remembered Rob Carpenter and a rookie named Lawrence Taylor leading the Giants to the playoffs in 1981. And I remembered The Fumble, the one play which more than any other represented the Giants' futility. Now, however, those are memories which I can put in the back of mind. It's important to appreciate the successes because there will inevitably be

some failures in the future, and it's important to keep everything in proper perspective. There will certainly be some Giants fans who will boo if they play poorly next year, and some will criticize and bitch if they don't go back to the Super Bowl next year. But it's crucial for a Giants fan to remember that the Giants finally did get the chance to go to the Super Bowl, and that they won. After all. I had to wait 20 years to win it once. If I have to wait another 20 years for the Giants to win it again I'll be 40. Think about it. Let it sink in. The New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Sounds just great to me. ■

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the red ones are coming back. February 12. 1976 was the beginning of the end for the little rouge bits of encapsulated chocolate. On that day. the federal government announced a ban on a red dye used to color food, drugs and cosmetics. The dye, officially known as FD&C red II. was suspected of causing cancer. Mild panic overtook consumers as the ever-eager media latched on to the story and ran with it. "Red dye number two." as the populace called it. quickly became Public Enemy Number One.

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Keith Heina. Associate Director of Colors for the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Colors and Cosmetics, says the ban put some companies in dye-r straits. "In a situation like this, a company gets put behind the eight ball," Heina says. "Some companies had red products

that didn't use red number two. but because of consumer reaction, they were better off just pulling the product." Such was the case at M&M/Mars. where the repugnant dye was never used. "We didn't actually use number two in the product, we used red number three and number 40," says M&M/Mars external relations director Hans Fiuczynski. "But with all the hysteria surrounding the dyes, we figured it would be better for business just to eliminate red altogether." Fiuczynski confides. The move, however, did not go unnoticed. The company was soon bombarded with letters and phone calls from angry and disappointed customers. M&M fan clubs paying homage to the red ones sprang up on college campuses. "People really seemed to miss the red ones," Fiuczynski says. "One grandmother wrote in telling us how she used them to teach her children the difference between 'stop' and 'go,' and kids wrote how they used them in their various art projects." With such overwhelming response, the company began to have second thoughts. As the years passed, consumer awareness of carcinogenic dyes dulled substantially, and, since "number two" had never been used in the little candies. M&M/Mars began to consider once again offering the full

rainbow. "We have talked about reintroducing the red ones for years, and now we feel the timing is right to bring them back and satisfy consumer wants," Fiuczynski says. The company slipped the red ones back on the market this past Holiday season in special Christmas packages containing only red and green ones. Again, consumers noticed and asked the obvious question. "People wrote like crazy and said, 'Why not make them year round?' ' Fiuczynski says. Why not, indeed. The red ones, plain and peanut, will find their way back into the familiar packages

SIDE sometime in February. The folks at M&M/Mars feel they are performing a genuine public service. "We feel as though we're bringing back part of people's memories." Fiuczynski says. "M&M's are a part of growing up in America — everyone remembers the fun they had with the colors." Apparently, this is one time a company is enthusiastic about slipping into the red. M

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help with luck, success, prosperity, love, removing a hex. Removing a hex is the number one problem." Elmer, a truckdriver from Bethlehem, makes a pilgrimage to Harry's every two weeks. He suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure; he is also noticeably overweight. Harry listens, enthralled with the story the elderly man tells him. He stares hypnotically into his eyes, and prescribes a special health bath (honest) and a powder to combat the hex that is the source of Elmer's malady. Before Elmer leaves the shop, Harry puts his arm around him. "Elmer," he says, "You really should lose thirty pounds." Still, Harry insists that Elmer's excess baggage is not the source of his high bloodpressure. "He does have a hex," Harry says. "That's his problem." An equal opportunity adviser, Harry clearly attempts to convey genuine empathy to all his customers, regardless of race, creed or color. "My customers are black and white, old and young." says Harry. "There is no particular type of individual. It's just anyone who has a problem." But what could Harry possibly offer that would be attractive to both a poor elderly woman living in a condemned hovel a stone's throw from North Broad Street and a wealthy Penn student from Long Island? In a pamphlet he distributes to customers, Harry espouses his views on the occult. He

Jars and jars of Harry's panaceas . writes: "The OCCULT offers a freedom to seek and do as I want, a power to live as I wish, control of a world turned upside down, and to hell with the cuffs of establishment. It is a core of the quest for self-cognizance and inner strength." Surely such benefits would have mass appeal. "We see lots of students." he continued. Many want stones for peace and tranquility. or a special potion, mixed right there in the shop, whose recipe contains equal parts of Confusion Removing. Concentration, Self-improvement and Learning/Study oils. The tools of the trade are many and varied. At the shop you can buy powders, annointing oils and magical baths, even house sprays with assorted

mystical powers are available to aid the fight against evil. If that's not enough, there are figure candles, talismans, books, roots, herbs, dragon blood, crosses, frankincense and myrrh, in addition to "hundreds of alleged esoteric items." The products work, of course, by energy transference. According to Harry, the oils and powders align the energy of the body in a way that will produce the desired effect. But for our poor friend Dick. Harry might recommend a fairly complex love exercise. The first step is to spray the house with a love spray. Step two calls for self-annointment with a love oil — on the hands, forehead, cheeks, and back of neck. Other phases in this unusual ritual in-

clude: dressing figure candles in love potion, inscribing the names of the desired couple on a love control seal, burning a mix of love incense and powder, and reciting either Psalm 45 or 138. "When you talk to the person." Harry added, "you should touch them on the arm or the shoulder or the hand. That's very important." Harry offers no guarantees, but the stuff must work. It certainly seems to work for Harry. If you can't find him in his store, you might find him at the controls of his Bellanco Turbo Viking aircraft, headed not to the Oracle at Delphi, but rather to the slopes of his favorite New England ski area. Mystifying. ■

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January 1, 1987, however, TLA switched its format from revivals (although never fear, the midnight showings of Rocky Horror will continue) to first-run features. This move, which constitutes a final attempt to save the theater's business, means that TLA will present the same movie schedule as the Roxy — a theater half its size. It is the growing demand for South Street real estate that partially explains this turnaround. Drastic increases in commercial traffic, as well as general inflation, has meant skyrocketing mortgages for South Street businesses. When TLA owners Claire Brown and Ray Murray

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theater. This venture has blossomed, and they recently opened a second outlet on 20th and Sansom. Both stores have cashed in on the very industry that was killing the TLA's second run schedule. Even Moore describes business as "tremendous." The market for nonmainstream movies in Philadelphia, however, is not enormous. By switching to first run releases TLA may keep its video and theater branches from competing with each other but may doom the latter to serve a steady diet of obscure art films. TLA is now in direct competition with the Ritz bidding for the right to show the cream of the foreign and intellectual crop of films. Although the theater scored a coup and enjoyed a modest success by winning Sid and Nancy. the cinema more often offers such films as Dances Sacred and Profane — a conceptually intriguing yet completely unknown work about tribal rites. As for the Ritz, the response there to the new competition is nonchalant. Manager jay Ayrton said TLA's switch, "doesn't bother me." Even the Ritz reveals, despite its heavyweight status in the fight for art and foreign releases, a consciousness of the impact of video and television. They print on the back of each ticket a message: "People used to go to the movies as they now watch television — not to see something but to see anything. We're trying to select from the films available to us features for those who want to see something." Only by impressing upon people the quality and the exclusivity of their films can the Ritz pull viewers away from their VCRs. This reflects the industrywide dilemma caused by video: why go out to see a movie for $6 when you could see the same film in the convenience of your own home for less money only a few months later? This increased competition for viewers has hit the repertory film industry particularly hard — they can rarely, if ever, own a monopoly on the films they show. The result of the video invasion has been the closing of revival houses in metropolitan areas all over the country. Boston. New York and now

Philadelphia face the demise of part of their film culture. Ayrton is. however, optimistic that movie theaters will outlast video much as they did television in the fifties. "Video," he says,"is a complement" to films in theater release. Meanwhile, TLA's schedule change has left a void in the Philadelphia's theater scene. Where in the city is it possible to go to a theater and see an old movie as it was meant to be seen? In Moore's opinion, films on television, cut by commercials and censors, are "far inferior," and on video, they are often cut down to fit the dimensions of a television screen. The second technique used to adjust feature films to the "the small screen," is panning, which results, Moore explains, "in a lot of camera movement not in the original film. "You're not seeing the full picture at any one time," Moore says. This video tampering detracts from such classics as Lawrence of Arabia and the Star Wars trilogy which were designed for a wide screen. The alternatives available to film buffs yearning for repeat viewing of old favorites are few. On the Penn campus the Penn Union Council and its subdivision, the Film Alliance, make weekly offerings. The former typically chooses more recent mainstream hits while the latter shows movies much in the same vein as TLA. Off-campus, International House revives foreign films. None of these organizations have the resources to show the number or variety of films formerly to be found at TLA. Moore is not optimistic about TLA's future, showing material more suited to the Roxy's dimensions. "More experimental films do well in small theaters with small operating costs," he said. He does leave open the possibility that TLA can continue to hold its popular festivals of animated and erotic films and its yearly week of Woody Allen. "Those are perennial favorites. We would be foolish to drop them from our programming." he says. Nevertheless, the precarious financial state of this theater leaves repertory film in Philadelphia hanging by a thread. Warm up your VCRs.

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Listening to Terry Gross, you'd think she was a giant. Perhaps it's her composure, or the way she refuses to be intimidated, or maybe it's just the imagery that accompanies a beautiful voice. But it's more than a trick of the imagination that makes her sound so imposing. Actually. Gross is quite small, barely grazing five feet. But this is a gratuitous detail when describing the host of a radio show with the stature of Fresh Air. The show, which will go national this May, has been steadily gaining strength for the past 11 years, since Gross joined WHY Y radio as the program's host. As Philadelphia's only daily interview program. Fresh Air will soon become one of two daily radio programs broadcast nationally. For Gross, and the staff of Fresh Air. this achievement is an honor, but to listeners, it should come as no surprise. As the show's host. Gross lets the people of Philadelphia come into contact with guests as varied as Rosie Grier, James Baldwin and Linda Ellerbee. With years of experience under her belt, Gross has developed interviewing skills that have become an art of the most accessible kind, and that is what she seems >;i want. With a direct, lively style which translates into provocative and intelligent interviews, Gross builds a bridge between the listening audience and her guests. What is the key to successful interviewing? Gross, like most successful interviewers, will say that listening is the most important element of her job. Working with the show's co-producer, Danny Miller, and associate producer, Amy Salit. Gross firmly believes that it's been consistent group effort that has made national syndication possible. In a recent interview with 34th Street. Gross spoke about her work as host of Fresh Air.

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