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Students Rally
Against the Cuts

By Maria SCHIRO WITH CHRIS EBEL

On Thursday, March 21, approxi-
mately 800 Hunter College students,
faculty and staff assembled at Times-
Square to gather for a noon-time rally
against the Governor's 1996 - 1997 pro-
posed budget cuts to the City
University of New York system.

Under stormy skies the march cul-
minated in a rally at Madison Square
Park on 23 Street and 5th Avenue. The
march was sponsored by SLAM!
(Student Liberation Action Movement)
and endorsed by many student groups
‘meradimg those at Hunter, City College,
the College of Staten Island, the
Graduate School, La Guardia
Community College, Baruch College
and the New School.

Marchers carried banners and con-
tinued on Lexington Avenue to East
25th Street, the site of Hunter College’s
Brookdale dormitories. With the excep-
tion of heavy rain showers, which
began at about 3pm, the rally was
enjoyed by all who attended. Unlike
last year, the police who manned the
route of the march, did not make any
attempt to restrain or confine any of the
respectful and considerate marchers.

“The rally was very encouraging
for all of us. It showed that it is possible
to mobilize CUNY students on very
short notice and in spite of very poor
weather conditions to demonstrate
against the Governor’s proposed higher
education budget,” said Diana Fryda of
the New York Public Interest Research
Group (NYPIRG). =

A view of part of the crowd at the March 21 rally.

By MARK BENTFORD

“It’s about time the students
have more of a say in their book-
store” said Tami Gold, a Hunter
communications professor question-
ing the pricing policy at the Hunter
College Bookstore.

In a recent interview, Professor
Gold said that she is very upset over
the sharp increase in the price of a
book she is using for her Television
Production I & II classes. The required
text, “Modern Video Production,” is
published by Harper Collins, and is
currently being sold at different book-
stores for different prices.

Gold said she ordered the book

photo by: Manuel Hebron

Barnes & Noble Under
Fire Over Pricing

last December, but that the order
never arrived at the bookstore. When
students complained they couldn’t
find the book at the Hunter book-
store, she called several booksellers to
see where it was available. Two book-
stores had the book: Barnes & Noble
on 18 Street, and Coliseum Books on
57 Street.

“Tt was very inconvenient for stu-
dents to travel all over the city to find
a book, so I ordered 20 additional
copies from the school bookstore,”
Gold said. “I was surprised when I
found out that some students paid
$45.00 while students [who bought
the text at Hunter’s bookstore] paid

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Beyond the Sensation 3-D One-Shots
of the Month By: Jennifer Lee

There are flyers celebrating
events in honor of Black History
Month or Women’s History
Month blanketing the school, but
do they really do any good?
Certainly many of them are wor-
thy and real opportunities for
learning and entertainment. One
should take time out to recognize
figures from a multitude of back-
grounds and histories. But why
limit the efforts to twenty-eight to
thirty-one days per year?
Respecting someone's heritage
cannot be done within the nar-
row space of a month and then
forgotten. The lessons we may
learn from a lecture or a poetry
reading need to be carried out on
a day to day basis.

There are no easy answers
and no simple route to a quick
grasp of any culture. While the
basis of the phenomenon— to
demaracate a particular month

and promote awareness for peo-
ple who have not traditionally
been represented adequately, is
good, one needs to get beyond
the one-hit flavor of the month.
Similarly, the rally on March
21 is already history, but it is not
a dead end for students who may
have become politically aware, as
a result . Rather it is a potential
starting point for all of us to learn
more about the political process
and how we can initiate change.
If you are interested in learn-
ing more about Black Studies,
Women’s Studies or Political
Science at Hunter, we have fine
departments offering a variety of
classes on subjects to further your
studies. Many may be taken to
fulfill distribution requirements.
The point is to think of the events
as appetizers, you haven't even
gotten to the main course, yet.

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By Curis EBEL

At a recent Hunter Urban Lecture
Series program sponsored by the
Urban Affairs Department, New
York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi
took issue with Mayor Giuliani's
budget priorities. Hevesi, the main
speaker at the gathering, gave a lec-
ture called “The Fiscal State of New
York City”, in which he described his
concept of “3-D one-shots.”

A former professor at Queens
College, and currently an adjunct pro-
fessor at Columbia University and
Fordham University Law School,
Hevesi described 3-D one-shots as
“delayed deficit detonators...that solve
today’s budget problems by taking
substantial revenues or savings from
later years or by transferring huge
costs to the future.” Hevesi was refer-
ring to Giuliani’s practice of selling
city-owned assets to close budget
gaps, and singled-out the Mayor’s
attempt to sell the city’s municipal
water system to a private concern for
$2.3 billion. “The Mayor is selling pre-
cious assets for quick cash to balance
the budget. I rejected the deal because
it is an illegal financial gimmick... and
the New York State Supreme Court
agreed with me, and on March 1,
declared the deal illegal.”

Another example cited was the
Giuliani Administration 1995 attempt
to sell off WNYC, the municipal radio
station that was started during the
LaGuardia administration and pro-
vides an award winning line-up of talk
radio shows, as well as the City’s only
access to National Public Radio broad-
casts on 820 AM, and commercial-free

Comptroller Alan Hevesi
photo by: Marla Maritzer

classical music on 93.9 FM. Intense
lobbying efforts, in which Hevesi was
involved, persuaded the Mayor to sell
the radio licenses to the WNYC foun-
dation, thus preserving their commer-
cial-free status, however the WNYC
television station, New York 1, was
sold to the Dow Jones News Service
last summer, and will soon change to a
financial news network.

Hevesi also spoke on the current
financial crisis that the city is in the
midst of, intensified by the reduction
of state and federal funding under the
Pataki Administration and _ the
Republican-controlled Congress. One
of Hevesi’s ongoing initiatives is to
eliminate waste and fraud in city gov-
ernment. “Every dollar wasted
because of mismanagement or fraud is
a dollar less we have for health care or
education.” =

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