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(02/18/94 10:00am)
Medals · Hockey For the third time in three Olympic games, the U.S. hockey team rallied to a draw, tying Canada 3-3 last night on Todd Marchant's power-play goal with 28 seconds left. It was the strongest game yet for the United States, which probably needs to win only one of its two remaining preliminary-round games to make the medal round. The Americans play Sweden (2-0-1) tomorrow before meeting Italy (0-3). The United States, which had rallied from two-goal, third-period deficits to tie France and Slovakia in its first two games, is only the second team to record three Olympic ties. Sweden did so in 1988 and won a bronze medal. Canada coach Tom Renney called the tie ''a good win for both teams.'' It certainly was as good as a win for Canada (2-0-1), which clinched a medal-round berth. · Alpine Skiing Tommy Moe celebrated his 24th birthday with a silver medal in the men's super-G. He won the gold in the downhill Sunday and becomes the first U.S. man to win two Olympic Alpine medals in the same Games. Markus Wasmeier won Germany's first men's Alpine skiing medal since 1936 in 1 minute, 32.53 seconds, .08 ahead of Moe. Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway was third, 1:32.93. · Figure Skating The past two Olympic champions, Brian Boitano of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Viktor Petrenko of Ukraine, both stumbled during their programs to finish eighth and ninth in the men's technical program. Russia's Alexei Urmanov won the portion, worth one third of the final score. Second was Canadian champion Elvis Stojko, and France's Philippe Candeloro was third going into Saturday night's free skate. American champion Scott Davis of Great Falls, Mont., was fourth. · Cross-country skiing Bjorn Dahlie of Norway, a triple gold-medalist in 1992, won the gold in the men's 10-kilometer classical-style race in 24 minutes, 20.1 seconds. Vladimir Smirnov of Kazakhstan was second in 24:38.3 and Marco Albarello of Italy was third in 24:42.3. Favored Vegard Ulvang of Norway finished seventh. Todd Boonstra of Eagan, Minn., was 41st (26:56.3); John Aalberg of Salt Lake City 45th (27:02.3); Ben Husaby of Eden Prairie, Minn., 52nd (27:11.3); and Luke Bodensteiner of West Bend, Wis., 58th (27.22.3). Lyubov Egorova of Russia won her eighth Olympic medal and fifth gold in the women's 10-kilometer pursuit in 41:38.1 seconds. It was her second gold and third medal overall in Lillehammer. Italians took the silver and bronze medals. Manuela Di Centa was 8.3 seconds behind and Stefania Belmondo was third, 43 seconds back. · Speedskating Defending champion Gunda Niemann fell early in her 3,000-meter race. Svetlana Bazhanova of Russia won in 4 minutes, 17.43 seconds. Niemann finished the race in 5:10.28, almost above her world record of 4:10.80. But she was disqualified because she skated in the wrong lane.
(02/17/94 10:00am)
Medals · Today's highlights Medal events: men's super-G, men's 10-kilometer classical cross-country, 10-K women's freestyle pursuit cross-country, women's 3,000-meter speedskating. Also: Technical program in men's figure skating. Hockey: U.S. takes on Canada, Slovakia vs. Italy, France faces Sweden. · Luge On her speedy sled Blue Max, thundering down the washboard luge course, Gerda Weissensteiner's shyness melted away. The 24-year-old forest warden from the Italian Alps laid down four ferocious runs to clinch the Olympic women's luge gold yesterday at the leading edge of a European medal sweep. Cammy Myler of Lake Placid, N.Y., seen as a contender for the first U.S. Olympic luge medal after finishing fifth in the '92 Games, came in six places lower this time. Myler couldn't make up time lost when she bounced off the course's icy wall in Tuesday's second run, and put a foot down to stay upright. It happened at turn 13, which is called the Billy Goat Ride in an image drawn from the Norwegian folk tale Peer Gynt. The same curve threw Erin Warren and also knocked Duncan Kennedy out of the men's race. Myler, 25, held 11th place with two respectable windup slides Wednesday. Weissensteiner, one of eight children, lives in her parents' farmhouse in Italy's northeastern Alto Adige region. Clearly into speed, she trains ''like crazy'' and rides motocross motorcycles for fun. Her Olympic gold crowned a year-long string of luge triumphs that included titles in the world championship, World Cup and European championship. She said no one found a perfect line down the icy 16-turn Hunderfossen Olympic track. But Weissensteiner came closest, with a four-run total of 3 minutes, 15.517 seconds. Usually reserved in public, she jumped for joy on the medal podium. Germany's Susi Erdmann, the 1992 bronze medalist, took silver, .759 seconds behind Weissensteiner. Andrea Tagwerker of Austria won the bronze, 1.135 back. Erdmann moved temporarily into the lead with a fast fourth run, and Weissensteiner responded with a final-run pace of nearly 75 mph, her body jiggling like jelly in the shiny blue suit as she hurtled down the rutted course. Tagwerker says Weissensteiner's secret is pressing her head further back toward the ice than other top racers, which cuts wind resistance while lying belly-up, feet-first on her sled. Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon, 19, of Waterford, Conn., finished 12th, .271 seconds behind Myler. Defending gold medalist Doris Neuner of Austria was a distant 10th, more than two seconds off the lead. Her sister Angelika, silver medalist two years ago at Albertville, France, was fourth, 1.384 seconds behind the leader. · Freestyle skiing Defending Olympic champion Donna Weinbrecht of West Milford. N.J., was seventh in the women's moguls, won by Norway's Stine Lise Hattestad. Liz McIntyre of Winter Park, Colo., took the silver medal and Russia's Elizaveta Kojevnikova captured the bronze. McIntyre had the best qualifying score and went last today, but was slower than Hattestad in the event that combines two jumps and speed through moguls. Ann Battelle of Steamboat Springs, Colo., placed eighth. Jean-Luc Brassard of Canada won the gold medal in the men's moguls event. Sergei Shoupletsov of Russia was second and Edgar Grospiron of France, the 1992 gold medalist, was third. · Speedskating HAMAR, Norway -- Two races, two golds, two world records. For the second time in the Olympics, Johann Olav Koss and his adoring fans were too much. Koss was guided to yesterday's gold in the 1,500 meters by roaring Norwegians waving their country's red, white and blue-crossed flag, popping flashbulbs and chanting his name. ''Koss Is The Boss,'' proclaimed a sign hanging from a football field-long wooden rafter in the Viking Ship arena. Powered by a frenetic final lap that raised the noise level inside the tubular hall to rock-concert levels, Koss won in one minute, 51.29 seconds -- .31 faster than the old world mark set on the same ice last month by the Netherlands' Rintje Ritsma. Ritsma had to settle for silver Wednesday with a time of 1:55.99 -- the third-fastest 1,500 ever. Fellow Dutchman Falko Zandstra was third in 1:52.38. Koss' final lap was a surrealistic vision of speed, power, grace and adulation. Down the backstretch, he picked up speed, and a burst of flashing cameras created a strobe-like reflection off the ice to light his way. He rocketed into the third turn, then the fourth, until even the orange-bedecked Dutch fans, silent until now as they saw gold slipping away, were screaming. When he accelerated across the finish line and his time flashed on the scoreboard, the metallic roof shook and shimmied with the noise. Koss peeled back the hood on his redder-than-red racing skin, pumped his fists and held his face in his hands in near-disbelief. · Hockey Oh, great. The U.S. hockey team is winless after two games for the first time in 10 years, its hopes for a medal vanishing, and guess who's dead ahead. The Next One, Olympic version. Paul Kariya, a 19-year-old who is the latest hockey-playing Canadian teen-ager to bear the burden of being the next Wayne Gretzky, must be contained if the United States is to finally win one tonight. It's also accurate to say that, unless the United States (0-0-2) can keep Kariya in check and beat Canada (2-0-0), chances of making the medal round are virtually through. A loss would leave the Americans with just two points from three games, and top-seeded Sweden still to come. They could beat Italy but that would leave them with a just four points, in all likelihood too few to advance. Kariya, a Vancouver native who attends the University of Maine, scored 100 points in 39 games and was the top U.S. college player in leading the Black Bears to the 1993 NCAA title. Five of his Maine teammates are on the U.S. team. · Harding HAMAR, Norway -- Face to face in the Olympics at last, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan greeted each other without rancor yesterday, chatting during a chance encounter, then smiling together for a U.S. figure skating team picture. Everyone around them sighed in relief. Whether by request or circumstance, though, Harding and Kerrigan posed in the photograph from opposite sides, separated by four teammates. They hadn't planned to see each other so soon. Kerrigan's coach, Evy Scotvold, hoped she wouldn't see Harding at all, except on the ice. But by midday, the two skaters had already met in the athletes' village, where they share a house with teammates. Kerrigan was walking up a path from the main building, while Harding was walking down with some friends. They stopped, looked at each other, and spoke a bit. There were no handshakes or hugs, but also no hostility in that awkward first meeting. · Freestyle moguls Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway won the gold in the women's freestyle-skiing moguls event. Liz McIntyre of Winter Park, Colo., won the silver medal and Elizaveta Kojevnikova of Russia, silver medalist in 1992, won the bronze. Jean-Luc Brassard of Canada won the gold in the men's freestyle moguls. Sergei Shoupletsov of Russia was second and Edgar Grospiron of France, the 1992 gold medalist, was third.
(02/16/94 10:00am)
Hockey Sloppy puck handling plagued the United States in the 3-3 tie at Gjovik Olympic Cavern Hall, the underground arena carved out of a rock 28 miles south of Lillehammer. Trailing 3-1 early in the third period, the United States battled back but still is winless after two games for the first time since the 1984 Olympics, when it lost both. The Americans are 0-0-2 in Pool B with yesterday's tie and a 4-4 tie against France in their opener Sunday. Having already played the two lowest-seeded teams in the pool, they face tougher competition against Canada (2-0) and Sweden (1-0-1) in their next two games. Goaltender Garth Snow made his Olympic debut, replacing teammate Mike Dunham, who gave up 4 goals in only 14 shots in Sunday's tie. Snow gave up three goals before the Americans rallied with two third-period goals to salvage the tie. The Americans spent much of the game's final minutes on the power play after Peter Stastny hit Craig Johnson in the face with his stick. Stastny was penalized seven minutes for highsticking and roughing with nine minutes remaining in the game. The Americans needed the man advantage to close the gap to 3-2 at 14:23 of the third. Mark Beaufait's pass found Peter Ciavaglia in front of the goal and the puck ricocheted off his skate into the net. John Lilley tied the game with a slapshot from the far side of the left circle that just found the net's upper reaches with five minutes to go. Finland's seventh-ranked hockey team shocked a young and inexperienced Russia 5-0 Monday in the worst Olympic loss and first Olympic shutout suffered by the squad formerly known as the Soviet Union and Unified Team. · Figure Skating HAMAR, Norway -- Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov of Russia won the gold last night in pairs figure skating, regaining the crown that they captured in 1988. Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev of Russia, the 1992 gold medalists, won the silver. Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler of Canada won the bronze, as they did at the 1992 Olympics. The top Americans, Jenni Meno, Westlake, Ohio, and Todd Sand of Thousand Oaks, Calif., finished fifth. · Alpine Skiing Diann Roffe-Steinrotter made it 2-for-2 in Alpine skiing for the United States, winning the women's super-G in 1 minute, 22.15 seconds. Russian Svetlana Gladisheva was second with 1:22.44, .01 ahead of Italian Isolde Kostner. Shannon Nobis of Park City, Utah was 10th in 1:23.02 and Hilary Lindh, Juneau, Alaska, was 13th in 1:23.38. Megan Gerety of Anchorage, Alaska, missed a gate and did not finish. · Cross-country skiing Lyubov Egorova of Russia won the women's 5-kilometer classical-style cross-country race by 19.5 seconds over Manuela di Centa of Italy. Egorova, who won three gold medals and one silver in 1992, clocked 14:08.8. Third went to Finland's 38-year-old Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, in her record-tying sixth Olympics, in 14:36.0. Nina Kemppel of Anchorage, Alaska, was 28th (15:44.8), Leslie Thompson of Stowe, Vt., 40th (16:08.0) and Ingrid Butts of Park City, Utah, 53rd (16:33.6) · Luge Cammy Myler of Lake Placid N.Y., brushed the wall in her second run and was 11th at 1 minute, 38.964 seconds. Gerda Weissensteiner of Italy led at 1:37.630. Erin Warren, of Somerville, Mass., crashed in the first run. She flipped upside down and slid feet-first down the run with her sled draped across her shoulders. Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon of Waterford, Conn., was 13th (1:39.275. · Freestyle skiing Liz McIntyre of Winter Park, Colo., was the surprise leader in the elimination rounds of the women's moguls. Defending champion Donna Weinbrecht of West Milford, N.J., was sixth after a stumble. Ann Battelle of Steamboat Springs, Colo., was the third American qualifier. In men's qualifying, Jean-Luc Brassard of Canada was first. Troy Benson of Englewood, Colo., qualified 13th and Sean Smith of Park City, Utah, was 16th. Craig Rodman (18th) and Trace Worthington (19th), both from Park City, failed to advance. All qualifiers start from scratch in the finals. · Alpine-women's super-G America's Alpine team scored another gold yesterday. Diann Roffe-Steinrotter won the women's super-giant slalom to bring home the second gold of the Games. The only other U.S. gold so far came from Tommy Moe, who won the men's downhill Sunday. · Today's highlights Medal events: women's singles luge, men's and women's moguls, men's 1,500-meter speedskating. Hockey: Austria faces Russia, Norway vs. Finland, Czech Republic against Germany. · Medals Russia was leading with eight medals -- three gold, four silver and a bronze. Norway followed with five, two gold and three silver. Italy was in third place with four medals, one of them gold, and the United States was fourth with two gold medals. · Harding PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tonya Harding made a final plea to ''keep believing in me'' before leaving her hometown yesterday for Norway, a trip that was anything but certain a week ago. The white stretch limousine carrying the U.S. national champion figure skater drove directly to a terminal at Portland International Airport moments before her flight was scheduled to depart.
(02/14/94 10:00am)
Hockey It was a disappointing opening night for America's Olympic hockey team. It went 0-for-3 on disputed goals, 0-for-7 on the power play, handed the French three late goals, and needed their generosity to salvage yesterday's 4-4 tie. There was a positive side for the Americans only because French goalie Petri Ylonen, who otherwise played a splendid game, misplayed long shots by Peter Laviolette and Brian Rolston in the final 8:37. First, Laviolette's floater from outside the zone eluded the goalie. And with 6:02 to play, Rolston's soft shot from the left corner got under Ylonen's stick and between his pads. · Alpine skiing Tommy Moe of Palmer, Alaska, won the downhill by .04 seconds over Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt. Moe's time was 1 minute, 45.75 seconds. Third went to Ed Podivinsky of Canada in 1:45.87. Moe joined Bill Johnson, the 1984 winner, as the only American men's downhill gold medalists. · Cross-country skiing Manuela Di Centa of Italy won her first major title in the women's 15-kilometer freestyle race, with a time of 39 minutes, 44.5 seconds. Lyubov Egorova of Russia, who won three gold and two silver medals at the 1992 Albertville Games, was second in 41:03.0. · Speedskating Norway's Johann Olav Koss set a world record of 6 minutes, 34.96 seconds in winning the men's 5,000 meters, shaving .57 off the mark he set on the same Viking Ship Hall track 10 weeks ago. · Luge Duncan Kennedy has a chance to take America's first Olympic luge medal after two runs of the men's singles, standing fourth behind defending champion Georg Hackl of Germany. The last two runs are today. · Figure skating Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov of Russia won the technical program worth one-third of the total mark in the pairs event. The 1988 gold medalists edged the 1992 Olympic winners, Natalia Mishkutienok and Artur Dmitriev.
(11/17/93 10:00am)
The North American Free Trade Agreement will most likely pass today's House of Representatives vote with major repercussions world-wide, former House Ways and Means committee member Hal Daub said last night. "It's a slam dunk – it will pass no sweat tomorrow," he said. Daub, who is currently National Director of Federal Government affairs for the accounting firm Deloitte and Touche, spoke to over 100 students in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall last night. According to Daub, NAFTA was conceived out of fear of the economic potential of the European Economic Community, and was inspired by the success of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement signed in 1988. As both Mexico and Canada have already adopted NAFTA, Daub said, it is up to the U.S. to make NAFTA a reality. "This vote is the turning point for the way in which the world is going to evaluate whether we mean business or not," Daub said. Daub predicted that the world will separate into three trading blocks: Europe, the Western Hemisphere and Asia. He added the world's trading problems could be more easily resolved between these three trading blocks than between individual nations looking after their own interests. Daub explained that the U.S. "can gain the quickest and easiest" in the Western Hemisphere. He pointed out that per capita, Mexico consumes more American goods than any other country in the world, making Mexico a logical choice for free trade. Daub said that, contrary to oppositional criticism, NAFTA will secure jobs Americans already have, and will in fact provide the opportunity to create more jobs. "For every one billion dollars of exports, we add 20,000 new jobs in this country," he said. Daub said that another reason to support NAFTA is the positive effect it will have on foreign policy, bringing two of America's closest trading partners even closer. "If we're not going to take advantage of the opportunity to compete, somebody else will," Daub said, citing competiton as an argument for the House to adopt NAFTA. During the question-and-answer session following his lecture, Daub said that NAFTA is a stepping stone towards realizing the goals of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which is a global approach to a common set of trading standards. "[NAFTA] enhances our opportunity to achieve the very important GATT agreement," Daub said Wharton and Engineering junior Vasan Kesevan, an organizer of the event, said he was pleased that the opening lecture of the Deloitte and Touche lecture series had been so relevant to current events. "We tried to secure the most timely presentation, and we were able to secure Hal Daub 24 hours before the house vote," he said.
(11/11/93 10:00am)
Football is just a game. This concept may seem perfectly acceptable and even self-evident coming from the average American. But to hear these words come out of the mouth of a man who has dedicated his life to the game is astonishing. It may be even more than astonishing. It's unbelievable. Yet, Harvard coach Joe Restic, who has spent the last 38 years teaching this game, uttered those very words. And as he leads the Crimson against Penn this Saturday, he will be at the helm for his final appearance at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge. "I'll leave with a clear conscience," Restic said. "I'll feel that I've served as well as I could have and that has nothing to do with wins and losses." Restic is able to say this because he cares. Of course he cares about winning, but more importantly, he cares about his players. Even entering his final few games as the coach of Harvard he has his priorities in the right order. Sure he has had success, compiling a 117-95-6 record during his 23-year reign over the Crimson. But that has never been his top priority. "Serve the people who enter the program," Restic said of his priorities in coaching. "Put them in the best position. Give them the best program you can. That doesn't mean you're going to win every year." This philosophy has continued to be a mainstay of Restic teams for his entire stint as Harvard's leader. Even in the recent lean years, he's always stayed loyal to his players. "He has an active concern for the players," Harvard senior quarterback Mike Giardi said of Restic. "With me especially, he has always been concerned with how things have gone on that particular day and how classes have gone. He has always been a friend." It is this level of dedication to his athletes that has consistently driven Restic-led squads to success. From his early days as Brown's offensive coordinator – where he helped lead the Bears to three-consecutive winning seasons – to his head coaching position of the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League, he has always managed to win. In his three-year stint as the Tiger Cats' head coach, he reached the Grey Cup once, Canada's equivalent of the Super Bowl. "Never lose sight of the winning part," Restic said. "You must play to win. The thing that's tougher than losing is not knowing how to win." Even though Restic obviously wants to win, as he has done throughout his entire career, he knows that there is an integrity to the game that should not be broken. He has been around long enough to see dozens of coaches lose their jobs because of recruiting violations and pay-offs. "I see things happening to this great game," Restic explained. "If we don't protect the integrity of this game, then it's all gone. If money and television become the controlling forces, then it will self-destruct. "You sell out to the world. There's all that money and exposure, and schools want to become part of that. It's like a treadmill – once you get on, it's tough to get off." This vision of the rest of the collegiate football community may explain why Restic coaches the way he does. He opens his offensive strategies up to interpretation from both his coaches and his players, because he does not want to get stuck on that treadmill. He always wants to be able to see the big picture, and never get forced into doing things just to make more money for Harvard. "He's very open to his players and to his coaches," Giardi said. "He presents his point of view and then he looks for feedback from his players and from his coaches. He really values the players' opinions a lot." Not only does he value his players' opinions, but Restic also values their friendship. He knows what it is like being a student-athlete with all of the pressures in the world on their shoulders. For this reason, Restic never lets his players forget that he's been there too. "He always tells us little stories about things that happened to him when he was playing," Giardi said. "In the Dartmouth game, I got knocked out of the game with a concussion. That following Monday, he told me about when he got knocked out playing against Army. He got up and sat down on the wrong bench. He never realized it until he looked around and saw the other players wearing different color jerseys. He always has a little story here and there to remind you that he was a player too. He's fun that way." That is exactly what Restic is all about – keeping the game fun while at the same time giving it his best effort, even if that means getting knocked unconscious in the process. This way might not be the best for every coach, but it sure seems to be working for Restic. And as he is about to hang up his coaching headset for good, that is enough for him. "The love of the game," Restic said. "If you're gonna do it, you have to love it."
(04/06/93 9:00am)
Almost 500 experts, enthusiasts and amateurs celebrated the ancient Mayans at the University's 11th annual "Maya Weekend" on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend's activities included workshops on deciphering hieroglyphs, Mayan-style meals and lecturers on various aspects of Mayan culture. Topics included "ecology and the collapse of Mayan culture" and "women and ritual along the Usumacinta." John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy, delivered the final lecture. He focused on the coming of the last katun -- or 20-year period -- of the current 5200-year Mayan epoch. Carlson pointed out the ecological damage caused by every technological society, explaining that "success is our greatest danger." He went on to suggest that humans and the other species of the earth "get some of our genetic material off the planet" before the earth becomes incapable of supporting life. The weekend attracted enthusiastic participants from as far away as Canada and California. Jeff Splistoser, a University of Maryland graduate student, said this was the third Maya Weekend he attended. According to program coordinator Elin Danien, only 30 percent of the attendees were professional scholars. The rest were amateurs attracted by the program's strong reputation. Danien added that the Museum's permanent Mayan display is "one of the finest collections in the country." Anthropology graduate student Ellen Bell said that her experience at the Maya Weekend two years ago was "one of the things that made me decide to come to Penn." Bell realized, however, that her fellow University students were all but absent from the event. "They haven't been taking advantage of it," Bell said. However, there were still young scholars at the event, such as 12-year-old Matt Stokes and his father, who came from Warminster, Pa., to attend the program. Asked what he thought of the exhibits and lectures, the younger Stokes responded simply, "They were neat."
(03/22/93 10:00am)
After a hectic year at the University, most students are only too eager to escape the streets of Philadelphia and head to the beach for some rest and relaxation. This is not the case for 120 students from colleges around the country who will slip on their helmets and spandex this summer to embark on a cross-country community service and cycling journey. The students are part of the Bike Aid program which is sponsored by the Overseas Developmental Network, a 10-year-old national student-based organization. "ODN is dedicated to the belief that people can best meet their basic human needs, build stronger communitites and improve global welfare through grass-roots organizing and locally initiated action," said Michael Spiegel, Bike Aid director. This summer, six groups of 20 cyclists will set off from different points around the United States and Canada to converge in Washington, D.C., for a finale and workshop seminar on this year's theme, "AIDS: A World Development Crisis." Cyclists are hosted throughout their journey by community activists in exchange for the cyclists' cooperation in community service projects. Bike Aid participants solicit sponsors before the start of their trip. Student aim to raise at least $3,600 each, although many students exceed this amount. The money raised goes towards funding for community projects in over 14 different countries. This year Bike Aid participants will educate citizens throughout the heart of America about AIDS and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. These citizens are from small communities often excluded from traditional educational and resource methods, said Stephano Dezeraga, a 1989 Bike Aid alumnus and volunteer at the organization's San Francisco office. "A lot of the educational work goes on on an informal basis," said Dezeraga. "For me it was a total education," he added. "I went out thinking I would be teaching a lot of people but I ended up learning more than I taught." The trip can be depressing at times when the cyclists see extreme poverty first-hand, said Clark Miller a 1989 Bike Aid participant and Brown University sophomore. "As we would pass through these communities we tried to spread hope by showing people that things can improve little by little," Miller said.
(03/16/93 10:00am)
A 1992 University graduate died late last month in a skiing accident in the former Czechoslovakia. David Garner, a 23-year-old Wharton graduate, died February 28 while working in a ski area, his father, Greg Garner, said yesterday. "He was working in Czechoslovakia for an enterprise fund," Garner said. "They were up looking at a ski area to put money into it." Garner said that his son was an expert skiier and a passionate believer in the free enterprise system, both of which compelled him to work in that area of the world. Assistant to the President Nicholas Constan, who taught Garner in legal studies class, called Garner an "unusually nice and good humored kid." Constan, also noting that Garner was an expert skiier, said there suspicions that he may have triggered a mini avalanche which led to his death. "It's one of those things that humbles us all," Constan said. "My generation is supposed to die before his." Although a memorial service for Garner was held about a week and a half ago in his home town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, not all his friends could make the journey up north. Several of his fellow classmates have organized a memorial service this Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Christian Association. "We wanted to do something at Penn because a lot of his friends are still there and a lot of us live in the area," fellow 1992 graduate Lisa Scopa said. "The service is for anybody that wants to come. We wanted to have a central place to be." Scopa said that Garner was involved in many activities while he at the Unversity -- he was captain of the ski team -- and was an avid mountain biker. Andy Beckwith, a 1992 graduate who is also helping to coordinate the memorial service planned for this Saturday, said that he is expecting a lot of people at the service. "We'll be showing a portion of the service that was held in Canada and will encourage anyone who wants to say something, to do so at the service," Beckwith said. He added that they have received many calls from people wanting to make donations to charities in David's name. Beckwith said he hopes that instead they can "erect some kind of memorial" with the help of his family and faculty who knew him. "Maybe a Canadian Maple tree with a plaque, or a bike rack, or possibly a bench in Steinberg-Dietrich [Hall]," Beckwith said. He added that one of the main reasons for the memorial service is to have everyone get together and remember their friend. "The best sort of therapy is to come together and tell funny stories of how much fun Dave was," Beckwith said. "We'll probably all move over to the Palladium after the service." Garner is survived by his mother and father, sister Wendy and a number of other family members.
(11/24/92 10:00am)
For University students, Thanksgiving weekend is a chance to leave homework, dorm rooms and Dining Services in favor of family members, better food and, unfortunately, long lines at the airport. In fact, despite blizzards and lingering economic problems, more Americans are expected to travel this year than in any of the past seven years to celebrate Thanksgiving, automotive industry officials said yesterday. An estimated 28.9 million people will travel 100 miles or more by car, plane, train or bus, the American Automobile Association predicted. Many University students said they will be joining the traveling millions this weekend to celebrate the holiday in traditional fashion, with large turkey dinners and too many relatives. "I like eating, [and] I always get a lot of leftovers for the rest of the weekend," said Wharton freshman Jason Lehman, who is returning to his home in Connecticut via a 4-hour train ride. "It's an enjoyable holiday for me." And since the traditional Thanksgiving feast inevitably includes turkey as a main course, supermarket poultry sales skyrocket. Bennie DeLoach, a night manager at the Thriftway Supermarket at 4301 Walnut, said that regular turkey sales during the year are very slow. "Some people just buy turkey on Thanksgiving," he said. "It's not because they like turkey. It's just a tradition." Though she lives in Miami, Florida, College freshman Jane Grodnick said she is flying to Texas for both Thanksgiving and her cousin's Bat Mitzvah. She added that Thanksgiving is not one of her favorite occassions. "It's not a significant holiday," she said. "The Jewish holidays have more meaning than an American holiday." College junior Alahan Lee will not be traveling to her home in Canada this weekend since Canadians do not celebrate Thanksgiving on the same day as Americans do. The Canadian Thanksgiving occurs on the second Monday in October, while the American holiday always falls on the last Thursday in November. Lee said the two holidays have one major difference. "There's less emphasis on Pilgrims [in Canada]," she said. "It's more of a history here than at home." Even the University's administrators said they will be relaxing in traditional style this weekend. President Sheldon Hackney will be spending the weekend playing with his grandchildren, while Rick Nahm, senior vice president for planning and development, said he will spend most of the weekend trying to catch up on work. "It's another week with a day off on Thursday," Nahm said, adding that he will return to work on Friday. "There aren't many people around here [on Friday] to work with so I get a lot of paperwork done." Thanksgiving represents the anniversary of the Pilgrims' first harvest in 1621, but it was not celebrated in the U.S. until November 26, 1789, when it was proclaimed a national holiday by President George Washington. Canada officially recognized Thanksgiving as a national holiday in November 1879. Although Thriftway's DeLoach said the largest sized turkey available at his store is approximately 22 pounds, President Bush was handed a 55-pound live turkey by the National Turkey Federation yesterday. The bird was designated the National Thanksgiving Turkey. "This turkey represents America's 45 million turkeys who will begin making their irreplaceable contribution to our Thanksgiving celebration," said Bush. Then, while patting his new feathered friend, Bush said to the turkey, "Take it easy, turkey, we're just here to serve you." The Associated Press contributed to this story.
(11/19/92 10:00am)
To the Editor: The day after Gov. Clinton won the election, he continued to put down the economy, despite news of economic recovery and lower unemployment rates. This is his way of lowering expectations. The scapegoat of the Democratic party, the health care system, remains one of the best in the world; when people get sick they come to the United States of America, not Sweden, Canada or Great Britain. And it seems ironic that in a time when women's issues are being put at the forefront of society's priorities that the biggest womanizer since John Kennedy has been elected President of the most powerful and respected country in the world. Bill Clinton is the candidate who bribed Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York with a nomination to the Supreme Court for his support, after calling Cuomo a "mafioso." Four years from now, I am sure that the number of homeless people in the area will be the same as it is today. The people have chosen change for the sake of change, which in this case, is for the worse; they have accepted Clinton's empty promises. Last week, Governor Clinton attended a Veteran's Day service in Arkansas honoring the men and women that fought during the Vietnam War. This is only the first of many hypocritical acts which Clinton will have to perform as our new President. It's going to be a great four years. ABID QURAISHI Engineering '94
(11/12/92 10:00am)
From Nathaniel Cade's "The Sheriff of Ridge Rock," Fall '92 He is most remembered as the "Sheriff of Rock Ridge" in Mel Brooks' Western, "Blazing Saddles." I did not find myself worthy to follow in his satirical footsteps, thus I had to assume a new title. I moved to the town next door and anointed myself boss. · Speaking of bosses, now that the election is finally over, I thought I'd mention a few of the things I would do if elected president. With a little luck and your support, that dream might come true. Oh, before I start, would someone please help Dan Quayle find a new job in government? It's kind of hard thinking up new jokes. The first thing I would do if elected president, as a matter of national importance, is invade Canada. Oh, stop your whining! We all know that it is basically a U.S. territory like Samoa. The only difference is that Dan Quayle doesn't think they are happy campers. Some people may feel it's racist of me for not going with the option of invading Mexico. But Mexico has a lot of environmental problems that are just being discovered. When they clean up, I'll brush up on my Spanish. Besides, do you really want another New Jersey? I'd send the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions about 100 to 150 miles North, drop them in, and annex everything in sight, except for Quebec. They have too many problems to deal with. I'll bet that they would want French to become an official language. We're talking Civil War II. Screw them. They can keep Quebec -- and for that matter, their stupid hockey team. Why Canada, you ask? Well, think about what we would get. The United States would not only have a magnificent Olympic hockey team, but would also have a chance to pick up a few medals in the Winter Games. Next, we would get really good beer without having to pay import duties. Not the kind of beer that my old high rise hallmates thought was quality -- Keystone -- but superb beer: Labatt's Blue and Molson. Personally, the Quebecois -- the plural for the Quebec people Hey, I did my research! -- can have all the damn Keystone beer. Third, when the zenith of Canadian professional acting is epitomized by Mike Myers in "Wayne's World," then action needs to be taken to save them from the eternal damnation of B-movies. Finally, we would get the World Series back. Toronto would be an American city and we wouldn't have to worry about the humiliation the loss caused us. Even the flag would be flown properly. As a side note, the Canadian Football League would be abolished. It's just poorly played football. I realize that invading Canada would be rather pompous of a Cade administration. Think of the possible word association: "Get paid with Cade." "Got it made with Cade." "Vote for Cade, get la--" Well, I'm sure you understand. The second thing I would do as President, once we have the southern part of Canada secured, is to place all skinheads, Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan white supremacists -- and Rosanne Barr Arnold -- into Montana and Idaho. Those radical groups are always ranting and raving about getting an area of their own in the Northwest somewhere, to start an Aryan nation. Since I am a good-hearted President, I'll let them have it. Actually, I would get a real kick from having all those racists in one spot. A mandate would be in place which would allow only certain television shows to be broadcast to them, sort of like Radio Free America. The funny part is that the only shows they would be able to tune into would be the "Cosby Show," "Different Strokes," "Sanford and Son" and "Showtime at the Apollo." It would sure be a "hoot" to see that look on their faces. Many people might question why they even deserve a place of their own. Well, where else are we going to store our nuclear waste? Next, I would order all history texts changed. George Bush would get little credit for the things he claims to have done -- Bush is out, Saddam is still in, victory my ass -- and I would give Dan Quayle a much bigger role in the administration than he had ever known before. I might even consider getting rid of the "potato(e)" incident. My final act as President would be to place more women on the Supreme Court. Regardless of whether I am for or against abortion rights, that is not why I am going to nominate them. I think women definitely have more than one issue that concerns them. Before the males start to condemn me, think about this: How would you like it if a bunch of old women sat around and decided it was time for you to get a vasectomy? End of story! Well, I am outta' here like the Republicans. But before I go, remember to vote Cade in 2020. Your choice of beer may depend on it. Nathaniel Cade is a senior Economics and Political Science major from Detroit, Michigan. "The Sheriff of Ridge Rock" appears alternate Thursdays.
(11/06/92 10:00am)
Former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis told a crowd of over 400 in Dunlop Auditorium yesterday that health care and the national economy will be the second toughest challenge facing President-elect Clinton. In his speech entitled "Election Year Health Care Reform: Lessons from the States," Dukakis outlined the plans that various states have implemented in an attempt to combat the rising health care costs in this country. He covered plans that Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon and Minnesota have passed and addressed the pros and cons of each system. Dukakis said that the most successful of these systems is Hawaii, which implemented its policy in 1974. Hawaii's plan requires employers, regardless of size, to provide health insurance for its employees. Hawaii also has a small public plan to cover the temporarily unemployed and part-time workers not covered under their employers. The state also adopted technology controls and a single risk pool to help control costs in the state, Dukakis said. Dukakis said the results from the Hawaiian plan are very impressive. There is virtually universal health care coverage in the state and health care costs in Hawaii are equal to those of Canada. "Health outcomes in Hawaii are the best in the country," Dukakis said. Hawaiians visit their primary care physican more often but have 40 percent less hospital visits, Dukakis said. In 1987-88, Massachusetts also implemented plans to reform the health care insurance and delivery system, Dukakis said. The state reformed their malpractice laws, which resulted in a one-third reduction in malpractice premiums in the state, and tried to implement an employer-mandated system. This year, Oregon tried to implement a plan that would have provided the vast majority of its citizens with health insurance coverage, Dukakis said. This plan would have rationed health care to those on Medicaid in an attempt to contain costs. This rationing plan was ruled in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which took effect this summer, by the Department of Health and Human Services. This decision left the fate of the Oregon plan uncertain, Dukakis said. Dukakis said that he did not advocate a Canadian-style system for the United States because the political opposition to such a system would be strong. Instead, he advocated a system where the government does not write insurance policies but gives conditions that insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations are required to follow. These conditions, he said, would help provide universal access. Dukakis concluded his speech by saying that universal employee-based system must include provisions that cover small businesses. And any plan must include both primary and catastrophic coverage, he said. He added that a limited number of insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations working with health regulators can keep costs down, and that general practitioners must act as the entry point into the medical system. Dukakis also said that health care reform will not be achieved on a state-by-state basis but on the national level. The reaction to the speech delivered by Dukakis was very positive. The audience members included Senator Harris Wofford, who Dukakis credited with placing universal health care on the national agenda. "I came here to learn more about health care policies. I agreed with all that Dukakis said," Jeong Yoon, a College junior, said. Amy Sykes, a College senior, said "political opposition to a Canadian system is true. Clinton and the Democratic Congress will have to take the lead on this issue." The private market is in place and they will have to work within that context, she added.
(10/02/92 9:00am)
It's not every day that the Greek Parthenon or Newfoundland icebergs can be seen in the Furness Building. Oil sketches of these and other exotic locations by the renowned nineteenth century landscape painter Frederic Church are on display in the latest art exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Over 50 of Church's sketches and drawings, on loan from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, appear in this inaugural event for the gallery's tenth anniversary. "We've wanted to put on an exhibition with works from the Cooper-Hewitt museum for several years," said Louisa Dorsey, the exhibition coordinator. "And as they have an excellent collection of his works, they suggested a Church exhibition." The exhibition, which has taken three years to organize, concentrates on the small working sketches that Church made during his regular summer trips abroad. In fact, despite the finished look to most of the pieces, the exhibition has only one properly finished canvas, a large oil painting of the Parthenon which is on loan form the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition's title, "Under Changing Skies," reflects Church's great love of the sky. As Dilys Winegrad, director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, pointed out, "The sky in its many moods is almost always an important element." Church was the preeminent landscape artist at a time when the landscape painting was regarded as an artist's highest achievement. Born in Connecticut in 1826, Church was apprenticed at the age of eighteen to the great landscape painter and founder of the Hudson River School of painting, Thomas Cole. He exhibited his first works at New York's National Academy of Design show a year later. In the 1850s he began to take long field trips abroad, first south to South America, and later north to Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. After the Civil War, he travelled to Jamaica and, as was common for American artists in the nineteenth century, took two trips to Europe and the Near East. Often painting in extreme weather conditions, Church even went as far to collect rocks from his travels to help him complete his paintings on his return to America. Although much neglected this century, he was an immensely popular artist during his lifetime, and was seen as comparable to the great English painters, Turner and Constable. His paintings of Niagra Falls, the Andes and icebergs off the Canadian coast - sketches of which are all on show in the exhibition - were greeted with almost unprecedented public enthusiasm in America and Europe. The exhibition runs until December 13 in the Arthur Ross Gallery, before moving on to the Katonah Musuem of Art in New York. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Friday, and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. over the weekend. Admission is free.
(09/29/92 9:00am)
Hundreds of starry-eyed children and equally impressed adults filled the University's Class of 1923 ice rink Thursday night to witness PennSkate 92, an exhibition of 15 international and Olympic figure skaters. Besides a team of amateur skaters based in the Delaware Valley, PennSkate also featured the 1992 Olympic Bronze Medalist, Nancy Kerrigan, and the 1992 U.S. National Pairs Champions, Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval. "It was like a dream for me," said Robin Hummel, 12, an aspiring skater. "Rocky and Calla were my inspirations during the Olympics, and they were tonight also." The skaters performed their traditional competitive routines during the first half of PennSkate, and concluded with their show routines. As a finale, the performers skated together to Neil Diamond's "Coming to America." Urbanski and Marval received the first standing ovation of the night after their performance to a James Brown medley. The second ovation occured after Kerrigan's routine to an En Vouge mix, after which four-year-old Shieva Zandi, the youngest PennSkate performer, presented her with flowers. "Nancy Kerrigan is my favorite skater," said Ashley Ricken, 6, who drove almost two hours to see PennSkate. "After watching her, I started practicing three times a week." Also warmly received by the audience was Heather Hughes, the only PennSkate performer from the University. "PennSkate was really a different kind of experience for me," said Hughes, a College junior. "It's always exciting, but the hardest thing is that you can never let go of your confidence." According to Hughes, PennSkate serves as a stepping stone to her goal of competing in international events during the 1993 season. Hughes is currently taking a break from competition, having already competed in national competition during the last two years. Many of the skaters agreed that PennSkate proved to be a helpful warm-up for the upcoming season, and a low pressure way to revive their competitive attitudes. "This was our first time using this routine," said Marval of his first performance. "We just trying to get a feel for the program and get back into the routine." Pairs skater Katie Wood said she viewed PennSkate as useful practice for her upcoming season of international competition. Wood and her partner McKeever will represent the U.S. in Skate Canada next month. While PennSkate may have been good practice for the skaters, PennSkate Organizer Jocelyn Cox hopes that the event will become an annual one. Having spent the majority of her summer vacation planning PennSkate, College sophomore Cox plans on its success growing every year. "I was really pleased with the way things turned out," said Cox. "I thought that the crowd was great, and the skaters were definitely on."
(09/04/92 9:00am)
Former Associate Management Professor Rosalie Tung was denied tenure in 1985, and eventually filed discrimination charges with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Although the EEOC investigation was never completed, the professor took her fight as high as the U.S. Supreme Court. As part of the settlement, which was reached in June and announced in July, neither side is admitting any fault or liability in Tung's tenure denial. The University has acknowleged, however, that her tenure hearings "did not result in an adequate review of Professor Tung's performance, qualifications, and credentials," according to a statement agreed to by both parties. The University accepted a faculty grievance panel's finding that "certain procedural irregularities" had occurred that resulted in a "flawed review" of Tung's qualifications. But General Counsel Shelley Green said last month that acknowledging the "irregularities" is not an admission of guilt, because they may have been unintentional. Both sides refuse to say whether Tung will receive compensation for settling, and have agreed to keep any monetary portion of the settlement confidential. Tung, who is Asian, is now a full professor with tenure in the Business Administration Deparment at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. -- Michael Sirolly A former Veterinary School professor who filed a sex discrimination case against the University will return to the Vet School, under the terms of an out-of-court settlement announced this week. Veterinary cancer researcher Ann Jeglum -- forced out of her Vet School office in February 1990 following two tenure denials -- will return as an adjunct professor, according to Assistant General Counsel Elizabeth O'Brien. O'Brien said that both Jeglum and the University have agreed to keep discuss other terms of the settlement confidential, and that neither side is admitting any wrongdoing or liabilty. Jeglum was denied tenure in 1987 and 1989. She filed suit against the University in December, after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that her charges of sexual discrimination might have merit. The lawsuit claimed that sexual discrimination prevented her from receiving tenure or earning wages comparable to men in her department. Jeglum sought lost wages, benefits and expenses for both the alleged tenure denial and wage discrimination. She also demanded tenure retroactive to 1989, the time of her tenure denial. O'Brien said that Jeglum will not receive tenure and that the adjunct professorship is not a tenure-track position. -- Michael Sirolly A Veterinary School professor has filed notice that he plans to sue the University, claiming sanctions imposed on him by Vet School Dean Edwin Andrews irreparably damaged his research. A lawsuit would be the latest in Vet School Microbiology Professor Jorge Ferrer's protests against the research suspension, which began after 130 people were inadvertently exposed to sheep he infected with a leukemia-causing virus. In the April 1990 incident, Ferrer failed to separate 14 lambs innoculated with the cancer-causing HTLV-1 virus from the rest of the flock at the University's New Bolton Center, located in Chester County. Of those exposed, 31 have since been tested for the virus, which is similar to the HIV AIDS virus, and can only be transmitted through sexual contact, blood transfusions, breast milk or infected needles. All of the tests were negative. The summons, filed against the University, Andrews, Provost Michael Aiken, Vice Provost for Research Barry Cooperman and Vet School Associate Dean Jeffrey Roberts, claims officials wrongfully suspended Ferrer, defamed him and broke his employment contract. The punishment prevented Ferrer from conducting animal research and from conducting or supervising studies of the virus. The sanctions were imposed in February 1991 and ended in June. After the sanctions were imposed, faculty committees twice recommended that the punishment be lifted. Aiken rejected the recommendations both times. General Counsel Shelley Green said in July that University lawyers are aware of the summons notice, which was filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on June 22. -- Michael Sirolly A former Medical School professor has sued the University for not granting him tenure, claiming a supervisor intentionally tricked him out of taking a better job elsewhere to keep his research funding at the University. Michael White claims that Perry Molinoff, chairperson of the Pharmacology Department, teased him with offers of tenure to prevent him from taking a better paying job at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Lawyers for the University call White's suit "frivolous." In court papers, they say White's attack on Molinoff is "unfair" because Molinoff supported his tenure application "at every level of the University." The University says that despite Molinoff's support, the provost's office rejected White's tenure bid mainly because White "had yet to make the kinds of scientific contributions expected of those promoted to tenure." White, a former assistant professor of pharmacology, filed suit in state court in Montgomery County earlier this summer. He claims the University's actions have cost him about about $174,000. White says he made an unsuccessful bid for tenure here instead of accepting the Mayo Clinic job. Meanwhile, he claims, the University collected $200,000 in overhead costs on White's $1.7 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health. The suit claims Molinoff deliberately gave White bad advice while preparing the tenure file, and then misled him into thinking his tenure file was fine. The University, however, portrays Molinoff in court papers as White's chief advocate, "who plead Dr. White's case over and over again in an effort to convince the many who questioned Dr. White's qualifications." White, who specializes in molecular biology, now works in the Physiology Department at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. -- Scott Calvert and Michael Sirolly
(08/06/92 9:00am)
Attorneys on both sides of an ex-Wharton professor's tenure dispute say they are satisfied with a settlement agreement reached in late June and announced last week. Former Associate Management Professor Rosalie Tung was denied tenure in 1985, and eventually filed charges of sexual and racial discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Even though the EEOC's investigation was never completed, Tung, who is Asian, took her seven-year fight with the University as high as the U.S. Supreme Court. She is now a full professor with tenure in the Business Administration Deparment at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. "With the little trip to the Supreme Court this has taken an unusually long time to resolve," her lawyer, Mary Delano, said Wednesday. As part of the settlement, neither side is admitting any fault or liability in Tung's tenure denial. The University has, however, acknowleged that her tenure hearings "did not result in an adequate review of Professor Tung's performance, qualifications, and credentials," according to a statement agreed to by both parties. In doing so, the University accepted a faculty grievance panel's finding that "certain procedural irregularities" had occurred that "taken collectively result in a flawed review of Dr. Tung's qualifications." General Counsel Shelley Green said Tuesday that acknowledging the "irregularities" is not an admission of guilt, because they may have been unintentional. "Procedural irregularities can be neutral without malicious intention or discrimination," Green said. Both sides refuse to say whether Tung will receive compensation for settling, and have agreed to keep any monetary portion of the settlement confidential. The other terms of the settlement require that Tung dismiss her claim and that the University print a statement acknowledging the flaws in Tung's tenure review. The University published the statement in last week's Summer Pennsylvanian, and must also submit it to The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Academy of International Business Newsletter and The Academy of Management Newsletter. One item that was not discussed in the final settlement is whether Tung would come back to campus. Delano said that she could not remember if the matter had ever been discussed. "So much has been discussed over the years," she said. "At the time that we settled I think it's safe to say that she had no desire to return to the University." But she said that the conflict has had long-term effects on Tung, even though the professor may not have wanted to come back so many years after her tenure denial. "Put yourself in her shoes and imagine you were denied tenure and you thought it was for reasons unrelated to your credentials," she said. Before accepting her current job at Simon Fraser University, Tung also worked at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Delano said the EEOC discrimination case had been stalled for some time, after the lawyer conducting the investigation left the EEOC and the lawyer's supervisor did not work as hard to push the case forward. The delay helped bring about the settlement, according to Delano. "Obviously, the longer a matter drags out for something like this, the harder it becomes for both parties," she said. At one point, the EEOC's investigation reached the Supreme Court, as the agency tried to force the University to turn over Tung's confidential tenure files. The University said it was trying to protect the confidentiality of the tenure review process. In January 1990, the Supreme Court ordered the University to supply the EEOC with the confidential peer reviews of Tung's academic work that are part of the files. The University drew more criticism when it provided redacted copies of the statements, with the authors' names and other identifiable marks erased.
(04/20/92 9:00am)
Health Economics professor Mark Pauly appeared on Condition Critical: The American Health Care Forum, a nationally broadcasted forum hosted by Phil Donahue on April 9. The forum, which received many negative reviews, offered the three options for a national health insurance plan: single payer, employer based and market-driven. Pauly said he supports market-driven insurance plans which is available to federal government employees. The plan was introduced by Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation. The option entails many insurance plans competing against each other in an almost perfectly competitive market. Benefits of such a plan are include higher quality insurance plans at lower costs and gauranteed access. According to Pauly, this cures the root of insurance problems with existing policies, which is rapidly rising insurance costs. He said the current system causes a decreasing number of insured people and an increasing number of underinsured people. "I agree with Stuart Butler and what he said about a competitive market because that will bring down costs," Pauly said. Pauly and Health Care Systems professor Patricia Danzon wrote a book entitled A Plan for Responsible National Health Insurance, which proposes a national health insurance employing tactics that would make insurance more universal. "The book's basic plan is to obtain universal coverage but no high costs," Danzon said. But Danzon said she did not agree with Butler's plan. Other professors involved in health care issues said they feel the same way. "If everyone was paid the way federal employees are paid, then we don't have a problem . . . but that's not the situation," General Internal Medicine professor Sankey Williams said. "Some people don't have employment or their employer doesn't provide it." Pauly and his wife said the show did not give him enough of an opportunity to express himself. "We were proud of Mark, but we thought he didn't get enough time," Pauly's wife, Katheryn, said. "I thought the speakers in the audience got more time to explain themselves than the panel." Others did not like the forum focusing so much on Jane Fulton, the spokesperson for the Canadian system. The Canadian system is a government funded insurance plan that gives coverage to everyone but has has a longer waiting period for medical treatment. Pauly added that several of the participants did not have substantive enough arguments and that they were saying things mainly for show. "I thought there was too much pontificating going on," Pauly said. And some professors said they doubted the informational content of the show. "This [national health insurance] is a very complex issue and the stakes are very high . . . and as to providing people information it is far short." Williams said. "But if the purpose was to get people interested . . . it accomplished its goal. I don't know what the goal was. You can't teach brain surgery overnight." "The difficulty is there are hidden costs in the Canadian system. If they are considered, they could be as high as ours," Jennifer Conway, manager of Public Affairs at the University's Leonard David Institute, said. "There are a lot of issues that aren't addressed that make the view distorted. The problem for us is that although Canada has a lot of good points, it is comparably as expensive as ours to run."
(02/28/92 10:00am)
Labor leader Cesar Chavez, who has been active in the struggle for farm workers' rights since the early 1960s, told a University audience yesterday that "the struggle moves on," but warned that "we have moved backwards." Previous reforms and legislation protecting farm workers have not been enforced, and instead have been eroded by politicians concerned only with corporate welfare and not with human welfare, Chavez explained. Chavez -- who came to campus yesterday for a four-hour visit sponsored by 28 organizations including Movimento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan and Connaissance -- spoke to more than 100 people in the University Museum auditorium about the continuing problems facing farm workers in America. The founder and president of the United Farm Workers of America urged the audience to join in his fight to ban deadly pesticides and improve conditions for farm workers. Each year, thousands of farm workers and their children contract cancer because of repeated exposure to the pesticides used to harvest grapes, Chavez said. "Pesticides are, by nature, poisonous; there are no safe pesticides," Chavez said. An imposing speaker, Chavez pounded on the podium several times during his speech to emphasize his points. Chavez was born in Arizona in 1927 and began working as migrant farm worker at age ten. Although he has endured three hunger strikes in his lifetime, the activist looked much younger than his 64 years and seemed to have the energy typically associated with college-age activists. Chavez gave a graphic description of working conditions for farm workers in the southwest, saying they are deprived of water and are not allowed to take breaks during their strenuous work days, even to use the bathroom. Migrant farm working women are often hired only after promising sexual favors to their employers in return, he said. "They force women to make a decision between their dignity and their livelihood," Chavez said. And although Chavez's topic was weighty, he peppered his forty-five minute speech with humorous anecdotes which left the audience laughing. "We're told pesticides are not really harmful," he said. "It scrapes the paint off cars, but it's not really harmful." Chavez said he uses humor when speaking about serious issues because it draws people into the cause instead of alienating them. Chavez said change will eventually come about. "[Public action] is not charity," Chavez said, asking those in attendance to join his struggle. "It's doing good work for social justice." Chavez, who recently spoke at several other Ivy League schools, is on a four-state tour and will later continue on to Mexico and Canada. Elizabeth Cedillo, vice-president of MEChA, said she was pleased with the large turnout. "To see so many people from a diverse background co-sponsor and attend [the speech] gives me faith in the community of the University of Pennsylvania
(02/26/92 10:00am)
From George Allen, Jr.'s "Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn," Spring '92.From George Allen, Jr.'s "Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn," Spring '92.· In retrospect, the Cold War -- and all the hot wars -- against communism were wars of freedom against slavery. It is now evident that the United States was not so bad after all and the Soviet Union was truly the Evil Empire. Anyone who does not believe this today is probably an educator, a Euro-liberal or Fidel Castro. The Vietnam War was moral because it was a war of good against evil. If a war is moral, it is not to say that the war was fought correctly. After World War II, the American foreign policy establishment, like the Europeans they prayed to, began to believe that freedom was not useful in warfare. American foreign policy became based on a defeatist principle of realpolitik and defensive action through which such progressive figures like Somoza, the Shah of Iran, Mobutu and Deng were supported to deter the red menace. Rather than fighting in hotspots, using the American ideals of freedom, big defense projects, big bureaucracies and big handouts were the weapons of the Cold War. Vietnam and its people were the casualties of this stupid policy. Unusually enough, those who were initially sent off to Asia were well prepared for a protracted guerilla conflict. All were volunteers and were specially trained to liberate the oppressed. The Special Forces successfully worked to promote freedom using unconventional tactics and techniques. They were constantly undermined by a bunch of bureaucratic yahoos in Washington who thought borders and individual rights were respected by guerillas and that offensive action was not a gentlemanly way to conduct a war. Bureaucrats who start wars think freedom is a messy thing. It can't be controlled, destroyed, or polished; consequently, they don't believe in it. Eventually because of this computerized, bed-wetting, realpolitik crowd, the idea of the war as good-versus-evil or freedom-versus-slavery was lost. The war was expanded into some strato-computer model with body counts and bean-counting of weapons. The Special Forces, as the most unbureaucratic and effective soldiers, were relegated by the anal retentive computer club crowd to supporting the large, unprofessional, unprepared, draft armies that were funnelled into Vietnam to die. The purpose of the war was lost, consquently humans were used like machines. Ronald Reagan belived in the revolutionary purpose of freedom. His basic premise was, let's get the Reds because they don't believe in freedom and are the bad guys. He took on the Soviet Union and took them down. This was a big shock for the European realpolitik defeatists of the previous 35 years who had lost or tied every debacle they had gotten into with the Reds. They couldn't (and still can't) believe it was that easy. If you use the ideas of freedom, you will win. In essence this proves that one side was good and the other was evil and the Vietnam War was moral, but fought the wrong way. The foreign policy adopted in Vietnam let some Americans die while others snuggled in their beds. (Or in the case of Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flower's bed) Essentially this is a bipartisan issue because both Billy-Boy (D -- Arkansas) and Danny-Boy (R -- Indiana) ran like hell when they felt the draft. A lot of people joined R.O.T.C. (be it Run-Off-To-Canada or the Reserve Officer Training Corps) to get a draft deferment. Others went to college and refused to leave until the real world became soft and fuzzy, like college. Many of these people are still on campus. They're called professors. I do not believe in the draft because, besides believing in individual freedom, I believe, as proven by the Special Forces, that a small professional military is more effective than a large draft military. During Vietnam, the draft, like all "equitable" socialist schemes, turned into a genuine class struggle, with the poor bearing the price. The kids of the rich went off to universities, paid for by the poor man's taxes, so they could whine about the class struggle and spit in the faces of returning soldiers; the children of the poor. All the draft dodgers I knew that attended the mental institutions -- known as colleges at the time -- became public school teachers. These "vanguards of education" then gutted my school's curriculum with their crazy ideologies. Hell, the draft must have been immoral if the idiots who tried to "reeducate" me weren't forced to go to Vietnam. If it is accepted that the Vietnam War was moral and that the draft was stupid, we can see Bill Clinton like he really is. He was against freedom and against the draft. He would have rather seen communism win than see his ass on the line. What a self-sacrificing individual. He should be president. Euro-liberals, thinking that everyone is self-centered like them, always ask me what I would have done if I was in a situation like Bill Clinton's. Since I love freedom and hate the draft, I would have enlisted in the United States Special Forces. · George Allen, Jr. is a senior Intellectual History and Political Science major from Alderwood Manor, Washington. Hey You Kids, Get Off My Lawn appears alternate Wednesdays.
