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INEIVVS ""*-• - . •*-^- cl,r » s ' Students build houses over spring break - PAGE 6 Z S S Z Z g ^ * * * - . . actic W s t e r Wangled -PAoE U points for employment ,. - PAGE 3ImartoCTldeath by Senator -SPORTSBaseball wins 2 of 3 against PAGE 16 FDU this weekend T H E 'CIRCLE Volume 49, Number 17 March 26, 1997 The Student Newspaper of Marist College Activities fee increase approved to fund clubs and campus programs $20 at the most," Mara said. "I wouldn't want to go too high Editor-in-chief because just about everyone has a loan, and you feel every little Bringing high profile entertainbit." ment, such as the Dave Matthews According to the proposal that Band or the Indigo Girls, to Marist may now be possible, due Mara and Knapp submitted, 60 to an increase in the activities fee. percent ($57,600) of the additional funds will be used for The new activities fee became clubs, and 40 percent ($38,400) law on March 6, when the Board will be set aside for programming. of Trustees unanimously apKnapp said he thinks students proved the proposal. will not mind paying the extra The new fee will be a $ 15 per ; Pholo courtesy of Tim Massie money to enhance the programsemester increase for full-time President Murray had the opportunity to march in the St. Patrick's Day in New York City. ming at Marist. undergraduate students and a $5 Pictured above on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral (L to R) are Brother Patrick "I think that when students see McNamara, Provincial of the Marist Brothers' Poughkeepsie Province, Brother John Klein, per semester increase for all partProvincial of the Marist Brothers' Esopus Province, President Dennis Murray, Cardinal time students. It is expected to the better name entertainment John O'Conrier, Archbishop of New York, Bishop Anthony Mestice, Vicar for Central generate approximately $96,000 in that will come out of the increase, Westcester and former Vicar of Dutchess County, and Marilyn Murray. additional funds for clubs and they will be willing to pay for it," he said. programming. Junior. Robert Hoey said he is Brent Knapp, sophomore class willing to pay the extra money, president, said he believes the as long as programming at Marist that an 80,000 sq. foot library will through its work with IBM and additional money for program- improves. by MICHAEL GOOT ming is especially important. be constructed with faculty of- the electronic reserve room. "I agree with the increase if Managing Editor "I hope the students can be fices. He said several architects "We have been working with they can show some results," he have said this site is-aprimelo- IBM'ih'ouf joint study to iden- much more satisfied with the en- said. tertainment that comes to Marist may be .only slightly cation for the library.tify.and develop issues that .need Knapp sald._ . ..-•'• Mara said he asked several stumore than a year away from con"Almost all the architects agree to be raised as'you move into "a- • Marist," r . • dents tlieif opinions of "an activi, t " stnicting'a' Tiew *st'afe '6f-the-art" • the' library should pp. in the. cen- ' full-'scale'digital Iibrary;".he said. \The activities fee'vifas the ma- ties fee_ increase prior to_drafting library.' ' ' ". ter of campus," the said. "The,- - "Merolli said the college is work- jor-issue of the 1996~SGA'Pres'ir tfie proposal;' and the response Tom Daly,'director of physical - site will have "spectacular views, ing out some of the problems in dential Election, and Student was generally positive." Howplant, said planning for the library and just from a master planning having so many materials avail- Body President Patrick Mara said ever, Mara said he has not gotadditional funding is necessary is well under way. point of view, it seems most ap- able electronically. ,. ten.much response since the in"Our goal is retain an architect propriate at that site." "A lot has been accomplished because the financial board has crease was approved. only been able to fund approxiby May 1 of this year and begin All of the options include de- in the way of basic.issues in "I'm sure some people will construction after graduation by molishing Fontaine, which was terms of organizing and indexing mately half of the amount of club complain and some people will next year and completion of it by originally build in 1955. Accord- material to put in the electronic budget requests. The Student be happy," he said. Programming Council (SPC) also the summer of 1999," he said. ing to Daly, the building is se- reserve room," he said. Freshman Pete Pelczar said he According to Roy Merolli, ex- verely outdated, and renovating Merolli also said the new library desires additional funds to bring in more high profile entertainecutive vice president, there are it would cost more than new concurrently five different options struction. Please see FEE, page 4.. Please seeLWRARY, page 13... ment and lectures. "I wanted a modest increase of on the table. - According to Merolli, the Board One option is to build a 60,000 of Trustees will make the final sq. foot building on the current decision. However, whatever site and relocate the humanities shape it takes, Merolli said the office to Donnelly. Another op- new library is going to have a tion is to build a 60,000 sq. foot heavy digital component. library and build a new office "We obviously think digital tainly deserves a lot of credit for building. A third option is to technology is going to be used teaching, Kelly will serve as a liby MEGAN ST. JOHN what Marist has become today." build an 80,000 sq. foot building to enhance teaching and learnaison for the two appointees to StqffWriter Kelly said he has witnessed with office space incorporated in ing,, so we want to create an enthe positions he is currently fillobvious changes in the student it vironment in the new library ing, sharing his experience and population through the years, as Other possible sites that have where technology can develop," Dr. Jack Kelly has come full easing their entrance into the well as changes of goals and atbeen discussed are the Lowell he said. college. circle in his professional life. titudes. Thomas parking lot and near Merolli said Marist has already Kelly is planning to go on sabKelly, dean of the School of "When I started, it was an all Sheahan. had some experience with plan- Management, is stepping down batical next spring to take time to Daly said he is 95 percent sure ning for this digital library from his position at the end of prepare for full-time teaching in - male population; 3/4 of whom were young seminarians. They this year. He said he has been in the fall of 1998, and he will finish used to start and end class with administration since 1980, but he out his career at Marist. a prayer," he said.'The changes According to President Denis planning a return to teaching. from one generation to another "I'm going back to my first love. nis Murray, Kelly's career has have been great. When I first I always loved the classroom," enriched the school and helped came in the 60s, students were it grow. he said.. very career-oriented. The later "Jack Kelly not only helped 60s and 70s was the hippie genAccording to Kelly, Marist has changed dramatically in the 35 build the School of Manage- eration, and the 80s and 90s are years he has been here. In addi- ment, but he also helped build career-oriented. The pendulum Do you approve of increasing the activities fee tion to his position as dean, Kelly Marist College itself. He's al- has come around." to get more money for clubs and programming? is acting as the associate aca- ways been able to work with adKelly said he has noticed four demic vice president temporarily ministration and faculty and has events in particular that have always kept student interests at until a replacement is found for the heart of all of his decisions," greatly shaped Marist over the - the recently-vacated position, years. NO-42 YES -105 Although Kelly is stepping he said. "Jack started out as a "The four biggest events that down as Dean, he said he will teacher in the early days, became • really shaped this institution was chair of the business department, remain an integral part of the going co-ed, the order giving up Marist community. Kelly said he and served as acting vice presiThe Circle conducted an unscientific poll on March 16-22. One plans to teach economics classes dent. He has always advised me hundred Forty seven students were asked this week's question. Please see KELLY, page 3... part time next fall. In addition to and my predecessors. He cerbyKiusTiN RICHARD Plans for digital library continuetoprogress Kelly steps down from dean position Kelly prepares to teach economics classes at Marist £ THE CIRCLE, March 26,1997 THE CIRCLE World News Briefs1,"\ /V ', ; \'.,; from the"As$ociatedirt'es$ ' . Marist and Beyond March 26,1997 Israeli soldiers open fire on P^estinians in H^rbii Netanyahu blames Arafat for Tel Aviv bombing; peace process at standstill •by DAN PERRY Clinton, Yeltsin agree on arms talks, disagree on NATO Associated Press Writer were plotting attacks in Israel. Israeli troops enforced a curfew today in the suicide bomber's home village of Zurif in the West Bank, barring residents from leaving their homes. Israeli radio stations said troops sealed the home of Mussa Abu Deiyah Ghneimat, 28, and witnesses said soldiers were preparing to blow up the house. In nearby Hebron, Palestinian stone throwers clashed with Israeli troops for a second day. "We don't want peace, we want Hamas," chanted the crowd of several hundred. Some threw firebombs at soldiers, who hurled tear gas, rubber bullets and stun, grenades.. More than 100 Palestinians were taken to hospitals—27 with live bullet wounds and 80 wounded by tear gas and rubber bullets, a hospital official told The Associated Press. Five Israeli soldiers were also injured from stone throwing. Dr. Yousef Sharawi, the director of Hebron's Alya hospital, said the soliders are currently being treated. "Three of the wounded are in critical condition and are undergoing surgery," he said • ./ One Palestinian policemen was spotted by his superiors joining stone throwers and was ordered to leave the scene. Both Israel's military commander in die area and the top security chief for the Palestinians arrived at the scene to calm die two sides. Israeli troops imposed a curfew on the downtown area of Hebron, which remains under Israeli control. Troops also barred more than 2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering Israel, keeping tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs. •Palestinians have been furious with Israel for breaking ground earlier this week for a Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as a future capital. - , Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat denounced the bombing, but his aides said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line policies had paved the way for violence. r Netanyahu blamed Arafat, saying the Palestinian leader had led Islamic'militants to understand that they had his approval to carry out attacks in Israel. Meanwhile, in a 13-1 vote, the United States on Friday night vetoed a Security Council resolution against die construction in Jerusalem. It was the second time this month the United States has blocked council action on the issue. . -.;... .. Jordan's King Hussein was expected to fly to Washington on Sunday to lecture on Mideast peacemaking and meet with President Clinton. The talks were expected to focus on Israel's 6,500-home construction project in east Jerusalem, which Israel seized from Jordan in 1967 and later annexed. • Israeli and Palestinian security officials met repeatedly after Friday's bombing to coordinate the crackdown on Hamas. Arafat, however, will have a difficulttime justifying mass arrests of Islamic militants at a time when many Palestinians are angry over what they see as Netanyahu's high-handed approach. In Zurif, the village of the suicide bomber, troops arrested several Hamas activists today, radio stations reported. Israeli jeeps patrolled the deserted, potholed streets and windows were closed with iron shutters. . Radio stations said the bomber had an Israeli work permit and in recent montiis was employed at a restaurant in me central Israeli town of Rishon Lezion. He had been arrested repeatedly by Israel on suspicion of Hamas membership, the reports said. Security officials said police arrested the restaurant owner and were questioning'him about die bomber HEBRON, WestBank (AP)—Israeli soldjers fired live bullets and tear gas today at Palestinian stone throwers in the worst clash in this West Bank city in months. More thari 100 Palestinians were injured, three of them critically, a hospital official said. Elsewhere, Palestinian police arrested a leader of the militant Islamic group that claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed three Israeli women in Tel Aviv on Friday. Ibrahim Maqadmeh, a leader of die Hamas military wing who was released earlier this month from a Palestinian jail, was rearrested late Friday at his home in the Bureij refugee camp in the GazaStrip. Maqadmeh was detained hours after he told several thousand Hamas followers at a rally'that suicide bombs, not negotiations, would stop Israel from building Jewish settlements in disputed east Jerusalem. Maqadmeh, a 47-year-old dentist, spent 10 years in Israeli jails and a year in a Palestinian lockup. Hamas sources speaking on condition of anonymity Clinton fires veto threat at said five other members of the group congressional'comp time'bill also were arrested late Friday and early today. ' WASHINGTON (AP)—President Clinton reitFriday's blast at the Apropo Cafe erated over the weekend his pledgetoveto Repub-, happened on trie eve of the Purim holilican legislation offering workers a choice between day, which celebrates the deliverance overtime pay and time off. of the Jews of ancient Persia from a -Last week, as die House narrowly approved the plot to slaughter them bill, Clinton threatened to veto it in a letter to The attack, which also wounded Speaker Newt Oingrich. The legislation is now in \ <, the,bands of the'Sewt^i-wheteett-faces strong op'- \ more>than 40 people, carrie after sev' position.- .•'•• ,~..,\l\ --.< --i »< ,-- w.-< ' eral days of warnings by Israeli intelli>-JWhUc Clinton-and congressional Republicans-, gence officials that Islamic militants agree in concept mat workers should be able-to choose compensatory time off, or comp time, in, stead of pay for overtime work, the administration Youth News and unions contend mat die GOP billgives too much control to employers. Clinton vetoed a similar bill that reached his desk last year. The House comptimehill amends the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, which covers some 70 mildrinking produces worse effects than MOULTONBORO, N.H, (AP)— by drugs or alcohol. lion hourly wage workers and guarantees them 1 1/ Looking through me goggles is simiblurry vision. It also alters the brain's Driver's education students in 2 times regular wages for every hour worked beMoultonboro are.not only being lar to looking througha fish bowl full of ability.to function. yond a 40-hour week"It all has to do with your brain which Democrats argue die bill provides inadequate taught how to steer, turn and stop on water. They impair vision to simulate the sight of a person with a blood-alcoprotection against bosses who would discriminate is your main power plant and tells your a dime, they're also learning to see against works's, asking for pay rather than time offhol level of : 15 ; o r more. New body what to do," he said. the road through a drunk's eyes. er who might force workers to take time off at Rowland also said alcohol and drugs Parents and students at the Red Hill Hampshire's legal limit is .08. management's discretion. Peter Beznoska, who was among the slow reaction times. Driving School strapped on special "Everyone saw how poorly people goggles that simulate the warped vi- student drivers who tried the goggles, said his vision of realitywas distorted. did on the tests wearing the goggles," Albanian premier: elections may be sion of someone who is drunk in or"Everything looked where it shouldn't he said. "Imagine how they'd perform der to understand just how dangerdelayeddueto internal strife ./[ > -, have been," he said. if they were also dealing with the brain pus it is to drink and drive/ Those wearing the goggles had impairment of being'intoxicated or New Hampshire State Trooper , - TRANA;Albama(AP)—Theleaderof Albania's trouble navigating the series of tests, high." ;; v Steve Rowland led the group through coalition government said today he could not guarwhich included walkings straight line, The lesson hit home with many of a series of sobriety tests used by , anteetiiatelections would be held by June, as the reaching out to touch? a pen and standthe students. police on the road to demonstrate the 'parties had agreed. * -' - -'""'I'*--. Student John Joyce said he got a toll drinking or taking drugs takes on ing on one leg. .'. -Two weeks after Prime Minister Bashkim Fino "I feel like I'm on a boat," said student different perspective from the goggles. took the helm of the new government of national one's ability to drive. "Everything looked like it was curvreconciliation,Albaniaiemainsin crisis. Gunmen Rowland said 32 of the drivers in- driver Molly King as she attempted to .rule much of the countty,-cjtizens are suffering negotiate the line. ing," he said. "Anyone who drives volved in the state's 167 motor ve'shortages offood and medicine, andKoo is .caught Rowland reminded the group that drunk is a retard." hicle fatalities in 1994 were impaired between the conflicting demands of insurgents in 'the north and south of the country, ", Xeaders of-12 rebel-controlled districts in die south reiterated on Friday that they wanted Fmo , to appoint a special multiparty committee to re" place President Sali Berisha before the elections. ' Fino expressed willingness to meet with indiOn March 22 Security was called to assistin transporting a Today: vidual local committee^, but not widi orgatd2attonsdaimiftg to represent broad regions, Ortfiimale student t o St Francis due to complaints of a stomach Rainy. High 53. Low day, Interior Minister Belul Celo had said the govache. It was later determined the causeof the stomach ache 41. ernment would not recognize the rebel councils. - One topic will be reopening the port to allow in was die consumption of a bottte of tabasco sauce on a dareforeign aid shipments. ThefirsthumanitarianshipThursday: rnent, from Italy, was expected to arrive in Albania On the night of March 18 there was vandalism done to the this weekend. - ' fouru%$ixth, and ninth floor bathrooms in OiampagnatThere Sunny. High 64. Low 48 Fino said the government's greatest disagreements centered on how to handle die secret police and the was damage to paper dispensers, overhead vents, and toilets state media. According to the Albanian constituFriday: werestuffed with toliet paper. tion, the parliament appoints the heads of those institutions. Sunny. High 70. But the legislature is overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, and it has refused to cede Low 61. control over either the security services or state broadcasting to die coalition government Source: Weathernews Inc. HELSINKI, Finland ,(AP>—Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agreed Saturday to secure, passage of the START II nuclear-missile treaty in the Russian State Duma, a longtime'goal of the'lkS. administration, and pledged that'they will go even further/ " ' Russian critics say the treaty is a bad deal that was accepted out of weakness. It sets a warhead limit of 3,500 on each side, down from pre-treaty levels'of about 8,000, strips Russia of its most powerful weapon, the SS-18 missile, and forces it to build new missiles it cannot afford. The agreement on "guidelines" for the next step— START III negotiations—aims to reduce strategic' warhead stockpiles for both countries by 2007, the presidents said. The leaders got nowhere on NATO, however.' NATO's near*certain expansion-into countries of the former Soy iet bloc remains a sore spot in U.S.Russian relations. The top candidates for NATO membership are Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, with invitations expected to come at & NATO summit in July in Madrid, Spain. While criticizing the expansion, Yeltsin said that the leaders of all 16 current NATO nations are to sign an agreement with him for closer military and political ties, formally giving Russia a consultative role in NATO. Priority point system revised to stress :W^^ academics and include employment of^sexual^viblencetdM^st students •'#."*$**?J ,.••- by AMANDA BRADLEY Staff Writer It is March already, and for resident students, that means tallying up priority points to see who will get the prime picks of housing next year. Marist set up me priority point system in the late 1970s. This year, however, a change has been made to the system. Students will be able to receive up to 12 points for their GPA, as opposed to the former eight. Another change that has been proposed by the Student Government Association (SGA) addresses the inclusion of employment on or off campus in the distribution of priority points. A student can receive one point for 16 hours a week or two for 20 hours a week. Patrick Mara, student body president, said the change to include employment in the priority point system was done to make the system more fair. "A person who worked would not get as many [priority points] as someone who just received good grades, so mere was a need for a fairer reward system," said Mara. Mara said the low amount of points one can receive was done for a reason. The points are not to be given as an incentive to work, as opposed to joining and be active in campus clubs. The points given for employment are for those students who need to work to pay for their college education and do hot have time to join clubs on campus. Priority points are distributed to resident students! They are used to deter- mine the "pecking order" for choosingdormitory housing for the following \ by JJUL GtocoNDol school year. -.^' ' < „ ' / Staff Writer' '- t \ - v Students can now receive priority points tfirough many different venues. The most points can be received from one's GPA. - Rqsa Parks did not get off thehus and Up to eight points can be received by camwalk. ' " ' ', pus involvement in clubs and club-sponWell-known speaker and; date rape sored activities. survivor Katie Koestner made several re r , Disciplinary incidents can decrease the marks like this throughout'her speech,' amount of points a student is allotted, as showing her determination to overcome well as room damage and room checkher experience and to educate others/ outs. Koestner told what happened to her According to Gerard Cox, vice president during her freshman year at William and and dean for student affairs, the priority Mary College to a predominately female point system is based on a principle audience that filled the theater on March known as me "Rites of Passage." 17. '- "As students move through college, Koestner said she was raped by a guy they are given recognition for what they she met during freshman orientation. have accomplished," Cox said. According "to Koestner,' she received Cox said individual housing selections, little support from the college and from as opposed to an assignment by the luck her Mends and family. The college adof the draw, is important for college stuministration told her to go home and fordents. Thus, this privilege became the get about what happened. reward for students who achieve a great Koestner said she instead filed charges deal Uiroughout their college careers. against him, and he was suspended from In the past, it was found that students the college for a year. who became bored of the same living arAs a result, Koestner said she faced eas would end up transferring to other harassment from the students at the schools. Marist developed variations in school and is no longer close with her housing styles to give students someparents. thing to work for and look forward to. Throughout telling her story and those Cox said he believes Marist is very lucky of other survivors, Koestner emphasized to have such a successful system, and he the importance of knowing about date said outer colleges have expressed an inrape and the fact that many people do terest in starting a system such as mis in not realize they have been a victim of their schools. date rape. "It [the priority point system] is an excellent system. The lottery is very unfair to students," he said. The Weekend Weather 4 Dean of School of Management steps down ...continued from page 1. "FatalVision" goggles show students dangers of drunken driving Security Briefs ' ' ' '., Despite what,she faced, she has moved forwards She has presented her lecture at more than 350 schools, and HBO made a movie ofher story in 1993. ' Koestner said when she was 18, all she bad was her voice to make changes and all the right things have happened to make her voice heard. - . , Koestner, who plans to continue lecturing for the next two years/has written a book on policies for college administrations. She is now engaged and is eventually looking to go to graduate school. Twenty-nine clubs and organizations came together to bring this dynamic speaker to Marist and to foster a sense of cornmumty action against this problem, Wendy Kennerson, member of the Sexual Violence Task F o r c e / said Koestner was an excellent speaker. "We wanted a well-known speaker. That way, more people will come. The task force wanted to get rape and sexual assault issues out there," she said. "Her stories arc good and she is not telling us to feel sorry for her, but that it could happen to anyone." The PEOPLE peer education group was also among those who sponsored the event Member Meredith Engler said it was beneficial to bring Koestner to Marist. . " Katie Koestner left no doubt that rape can happen to anyone on any campus," she said. Fax Service ~ Sending $2.00 forfirstpage $1.00 for each additional page the college and the college going private, the addition of graduate courses, and goring Division One in athletics. Those four Changes have had the biggest impact on this campus," he said. Kelly said he has noticed the increase in college attendance among families as well. "In the early years, all of our students were the first generation of their family to attend college," he said. "Today, most of the parents of our students are college graduates." In addition to his work at Marist, Kelly has served on many accreditation teams and is the president of the RooseveltVanderbilt Historic Association, which oversees the preservation of those sites. Jean Talbot, a secretary for the School of Management, has worked with and for Kelly for many years. "I've worked withDr.KeWy for \Qyeats, and he's the best person Y ve ev er worked for," she said. " He'd be a hard man to replace, and every office on campus that I know of is crazy about him, too. He's going to be missed by not just this area, but the whole college." Kelly's accomplishments and expertise have made him a valuable asset, and many members of the Marist community were happy he decided to stay and finish his career as a professor. "We're going to miss him as dean, but we're pleased he will continue to serve as faculty, and we know he will continue to play an important role in the college," Murray said. NY TIMES BESTSELLERS 25% OFF PUBLISHERS LIST PRICE REFERENCE BOOKS SPECIAL BOOK ORDER SERVICE IF IT'S IN PRINT WE CAN ORDER IT! COMPUTER SOFTWARE RF. A GOOD NEIGHBOR DISCOUNTS OF UP TO 85% SNACKS & REFRESHMENTS FRITO-LAY, KEEBLER, PEPSI CLOTHING CHAMPION, GEAR GIFTS, GREETING CARDS ...Plus school supplies, decals, and more!!! STORE HOURS MONDAY THRU FRIDAY: 9 AM TO 5 PM SATURDAY: 10 AM TO 4 PM *MARIST MONEY* VISA -MASTERCARD- AMERICAN EXPRESS -DISCOVER ACCEPIEDHERE During these last weeks of the Spring Semester, whether you live off campus or not, consideration for the good people of the area, in their homes and in their neighborhood, is important. The Marist tradition includes consideration for and committment to the well-being of our local communities. ^:;- THECIRGLE, March 26; 19.97 ' THE CIRCLE Increase in activities fee pfovides for needed club and programming funding ...continued from page 1. Photo courtesy of Frank Maduri Frank Maduri, student body president elect, prepares to focus on clubs and concerns about campus safety and security. Maduri prepares to 'hammer' away the problems at Marist by STEPHANIE MERCURIO News Editor . Marist has someone new to "hammer" away at some; of its biggest problems. Junior Frank Maduri is die new student body president elect. Maduri, or "The Hammer," as some administrators have nicknamed him because of his persistance, said he has a lot of plans for the up-coming year. "My biggest goal is to work with the clubs," he said. "With the increase in the activities fee that was just passed, new clubs will be able to be chartered, and more money will be allocated to the existing clubs. I think this.will lead to more interesting programs." Maduri said the raised activities fee .will also lessen the worries of the clubs. v ~ "I'll be able to cut down on the red tape the clubs have to go through, as well as open the lines of communication between the clubs themselves and the students," he said. Maduri said he would like to see the campus become more unified. • "I would like to have a diversity day in the fall, which would be a big festival," he said. "I envision the Black Student Union, El Arco Latino Iris, Gaelic Society and the Italian American Society together on the campus green in a celebration of ethnic foods, dancing and bands." Maduri said he would like all students to be involved in this day. "I would also like to invite the students of BiGaLa and just open up the programming to everyone," he said. "It is too big of a campus not to celebrate the diversity." Maduri said that unification goes beyond programming. "There is a council of clubs which has fallen apart. Only the Greek council continues to meet," he said. "It is necessary to bring them back together to communicate with each other and to co-sponsor events, which will bring a lot of students together." Maduri said he would like to see more on-campus program. ming. "Student Programming received $38,000 with the increase in the activities fee," he said. "Hopefully, this will enable some big name bands and entertainers to come to Marist" Maduri also said he thinks the 21 society is a great idea. "A lot of schools have on-campus pubs, which is something I am working on with the strategic planning committee," he said. "I think it- is beneficial because it brings a different group of people to campus." Maduri said events need to be planned for those under 21 as well. "I would like to see the South End Society possibly become a club, because mey have done so well this year,".he said. Maduri said he is also concerned with safety and security. "I have gone so far as to stake out security to count the number of foot patrols and drive-bys they do in the parking lot," he said. "I think the Safety and Security committee is one of the most important on campus." According to Maduri, lighting in certain areas is also a;|>rp^lerffi "I have gotten a lpt;;of cqm-. plaints about the lighting behind Leo and Byrne," he said, "I have talked to Joe Leary, who has put in three requests to the physical plant this year. I can just keep pushing for it." Maduri said he will push for what the students who elected him request. "If the students have a concern, I would meet with administration and voice the concerns, and get administration to listen," he said. "I would not go alone to meet with administration. I would take a group of students who felt strongly about me issue and encourage them to voice their opinions as well." Maduri said his personal opinions will not come before the voices of the students. "Even if I don't necessarily agree widi the issue, I will try to represent the student body who elected me," he said. "I will do whatever it takes to make meir voices heard." Maduri said students should be aware of the problems on campus. "I think it is important students should know the full picture. It is important to make them aware," he said. "Although I might not be able to discuss confidential problems, I would inadvertently try to address and solve these problems. The issues the student government deals with, for example, are open to all." Maduri said he is very excited about the presidency. "I think it was a great experience simply to run for the position," he said. "A lot of people helped make diis possible, and I will always keep them in my mind." does not mind the hike in the activities fee because it is so modest. . "If you're already paying $20,000 a year, then $15 doesn't really matter," Pelczar said. According to Mara, requiring a $90 per semester activities fee for full-time students is not outlandish. In fact, he said Marist's fee is now comparable to other institutions of similar size. "The increase is small enough to be competitive with other schools," he said. Mara also said some colleges, including Siena and Providence College, are researching activities fee increases, and many of them also receive programming funding from other areas. "We're going to end up being right in the middle because other schools are also researching their activities fees and looking at an increase," Mara said. Another factor that should be taken into consideration, Mara said, is that Marist's fee increase was approved before the tuition increase was voted on. Therefore, the activities fee should be taken into consideration as the tuition increase is calculated. Comparison of the activities fee for full-time students School Fee/Yr. School Fee/Yr. Fairfield SetonHall Hartford Stone Hill Quinnipiac L.I.U. Manhattanville Monmouth $510 $410 $408 $250 $240 $240 $200 $200 Vassar $180 Fordham $160 SUNYNewPaltz $150 Iona $150 Marist $150 Siena $135 Providence $130 St. John's $130 a Fairfield BSetonKal O Hartford QSioneKa •Qutnropac DUU OMartiartanvtte D Monmouth •Vauar Q Fordham OSUNYHewPaV Dtona n MARIST • Siena a Providence • Si. John's Courtesy of Patrick Mara Mara strives to fulfill remaining campaign promises Students find building houses provides for a uni<fue s|)ring break the trip, said it was her best spring break ever. "I went to Cancun sophomore year and Daytona Beach last year.. This by far Eleven Marist students opted to spend topped them all," Von Ende said. "I their spring breaks in Connecticut, instead learned more about Uiese 10 people in five of Cancun or Florida. Through the Habi- days than I have about friends I've had tat For Humanity program, students for years." worked in Bridgeport, CT building houses Habitat For Humanity is an international for families living in poverty. organization with a goal of eliminating Sophomore Julie Gadarowski is the poverty housing. Linda and Millard founder and chairperson of Habitat For Fuller founded the organization in 1976, Humanity at Marist. She was involved and it is an Ecumenical Christian miniswith a similar organization in high school, try. The branch which Marist students and she brought the group to Marist as a are involved is the Collegiate Challenge, committee of the Social Work Associa- which began as an alternative spring break tion. program. "I expected that there would be (HabiAccording to Gadarowski, the program tat) here at Marist," Gadarowski said. has grown quite a bit, and she attributes "When I found that there was not, I went this to the people involved. to SGA to see what I could do." "Everyone there really wants to help othThe group began fundraising in Decem- ers, which is what makes this such a great ber and raised more man $2000, which experience," she said. helped to provide lumber and equipment Shelly Stefanik, a co-chairperson of for the houses built in Bridgeport. Habitat For Humanity at Marist, said the "It was required that we gave the host trip was incredible. affiliate a contribution of $70 per person," "There was a tremendous feeling of hope Gadarowski said. in the community and that what we did The group raised the money dirough sev- would last a long time," Stefanik said. eral avenues, including a 50/50 raffle, a Although the trip was chaperoned by restaurant gift certificate raffle, donations Resident Director Sam Johnson, it is a stufrom Marist, and contributions from the dent-run/student led organization, accordchurches of the students involved. The ing to Gadarowski. students also had to donate some of their "The challenge is to go beyond the week own money, in order to fulfill the required in spring break, and to raise money and amount. organize throughout the year, as a group While in Bridgeport, the group of 11 of students," Gadarowski said. stayed at the Golden Hill Methodist The students stayed in Bridgeport from Church. March 9-15, and they worked on three difJennifer Von Ende, a Marist senior on ferent houses. by LEAH SHELTON Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Patrick Mara approaches are organizing the Around die World on the camEditor-in-chief pus green, placing blue lights over the phones and supplying better campus lighting, revamping the priority point system to As junior Frank Maduri pre- include points for employment, pares to take the helm as the and beginning die tradition of 1997-98 student body president, having a student speaker at the incumbent President Patrick commencement or the baccalauMara continues to work diligently reate ceremony. to fulfill the last of his campaign Mara's list of accomplishments promises. as student body president so far Mara said he took every step includes the chartering of seven to ensure that each of his goals clubs, selecting Susan Molinari was realistic. As a result, he said as the commencement speaker, he has not encountered any ob- and gaining student representastacles significant enough to tion on several committees at prevent him from fulfilling his Marist. campaign promises. Mara said he believes his great"I was very careful when I cam- est achievements were raising paigned because I didn't want to the activities fee to provide more not follow through on some- money for clubs and programming {see related article, page thing," he said. Mara said his principle con- I.) and helping students indicerns as the end of the semester vidually with small problems. by KRISTIN RICHARD 'Taking care of all of the things that nobody really gets to see and really helping people individually was die best part of it," he said. Dealing individually with students also allowed Mara to strengthen the relationship between SGA and the student body. He said he was able to keep the students better informed and interested about the student government by providing a bulletin board outside die SGA office, keeping the SGA office door open for people to walk in, and by talking with students to find out tiieir concerns. "In the fall, I walked around three different times to the different residence areas to meet people face to face," he said. "Everyone usually waits for the students to come to them, but you really need to go to die students." -*~. «' / ' * ;i l Iioii •.mull i ot JLIH) iLf \ N I «_ ' ' i t jrf* * ... _ •*** ••••fcv.V' 1 Recreational sleeping pill use can be fatal by GYNA SLOMCINSKY Student Body President Patrick Mara, pictured above as 'Clean Pat,' is working to wrap up the last of his campaign promises, which include the Around the World and safety and security issues. March 26, 1997 ftS^* «-.-.- - 'Feature'Editor Roffies prove that not knowing can be scary. Rohypnol is a commonly prescribed sleeping pill in Europe and Mexico. It is similar to Valium, but 10 times more potent The characteristics of this drug include slowing down motor skills, inducing amnesia, and relaxing muscles. When mixed with alcohol or other drugs, it can lead to respiratory depression, aspiration, and death. The Hoffman LaRoche company produces Rohypnol, commonly known as "Roffies, Roaches, or the date rape drug," as a pre-surgery relaxant. However, it is now being abused by recreational users. According to Roberta Staples, director of counseling services, when used in high doses, it can be very dangerous. "The effect of the drug is very severe," she said. "It has effects like amnesia, reconstructing is very difficult and near impossible." At a college in Chicago, Illinois, 218 members of the Greek population were asked if they have used Rohypnol for recreational use. 35 percent of the men responded yes, while 13 percent of the women also responded yes to using this drug 16 or more times recreationally. Staples said many teens and young adults perceive die drug as being harmless. "Kids say it looks safe," she said. "They see it as a cheap fast high, but they don't realize the dangers, like blacking out for up to eight hours." When combined with alcohol, the effects of the drug triples. People are unable to respond and get depressed. Staples said mere are some colleges where die use of die drug is a problem. "The University of Florida is having a big problem with this drug, not only in cases of sexual assault, but in recreational use. According to an informational sheet handed out by Health Services to students' mail boxes, there has been a growing " amount of reported incidents in which the •• drug is unknowingly ingested by women who are then subjected to sexual assault. Rohypnol is tasteless, odorless, and colorless and dissolves quickly into liquids, making it easy to put into drinks without anyone knowing. Staples said the victim does not realize what was given to her. "The victim doesn't know it is there," she said. "After the incident, the victim regains consciousness. Her memory comes back slowly and in fragments." When me police are called to a case where sexual assault is in question, there is a chemical test that can be given to see if there is any signs of Rohypnol in the blood. If possible, the officer will take a sample of her drink to also test it. According to the informational sheet, there are some precautions which can reduce the risk of die drug. Some of the precautions include never accepting a beverage unless it is in a sealed container, never leaving a beverage unattended, never going out with or going home with anyone you do not know well, and never leaving a friend who is displaying any effects of this drug. In this case, it is important to be sure to see him/her safely home. It is illegal for Rohypnol to be prescribed in the U.S., but it is not illegal in places such as Mexico and Europe. Jane O'Brien, director of health services, said the timing of die informational sheet was perfect. "We put it out at this time because it is legal in countries like Mexico," she said. "A lot of our students go to places in Mexico, like Cancun, for spring break and they need to know the dangers of this drug." In the early 1990s, it was legal to purchase a three month supply of the drug in odier countries and bring it back to the U.S. But, as of May 1996, it is now illegal to bring Rohypnol across the borders. As of now, there are no known reports of any cases with Rohypnol at Marist. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Von Ende (TOP) The entire group of students from Marist and Bloomberg, who worked in Bridgeport, CT over spring break. (BOTTOM) Chris Maclnnis and Julie Gadarowski put up siding while their friends from Bloomberg hold the ladders in place. The Greek organizations of Marist would like to invite all students and faculty to come out from April 8th to the 12th to watch the various fraternaties and sororities complete in various events. The Events will be held as Follows: Tuesday - April 8th: 9:30 pm Caberet Wednesday - April 9th: 11:00 am Student Center 9:30 pm McCann *Thursday - April 10th: All Day Outside Champagnant Friday - April 11th: All Day Campus Green Saturday - April 12th: Noon until 3:00 Campus Green 7:00 pm Gym *On Thursday, outside the Breezway, the Greek Organization will be competeing in various fundraising events to benefits Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Student and Faculty participation would greatly be appreciated for such a good cause. If any Faculty Member would be interested in being a judge for any events, please contact Janice Kelly @ 452-T1ME. Thank You. Advisors are needed for various Greek organizations. If you are interested in becoming a faculty advisor please contact Steve Sansola in the Student Affairs Office. Thank you. „ _ »^:«^t-viw-*v^rt^»^tMi.f*J^#^fci&^^ •THE CIRCLE, March 2 6 , 1 9 9 7 THE CIRCLE; March 26, 1997 Career Quest: Where the sidewalk ends happen, get yourself together and figure out a plan to make something.one thing, go right.." These words went through me like a shot. I realized how true they were. Instead of actively pursuing my options and seriously thinking about what to do with myself and how to go about it, I was sitting around complaining and convincing myself I could never get a job I loved which paid well, so why bother? My resume needed some polishing. I have not even begun to think about cover letters, and job hunting? Besides some halfhearted web searches, I was not even trying. I realized these past few days that I really need to get in gear. Graduation is only a blink away, and if I continue on this way, I will never go anywhere. So I sat down and seriously considered my options. I shaped up my resume and downloaded some sample cover letters off the Internet. Tomorrow, I am going to ransack the Career Center Office (which is where I work, so my lackadaisical, reluctant attitude is even more pathetic) and seriously do some job searching. I knew all along that the at least some of the answers were at my fingertips, it was just a question of how badly I wanted to reach. And, by the way, that voice of wisdom? Thanks, Mom. by AMY LEMIRE Special to The Circle Photo courtesy of Jacque Simpson The lacrosse team travelled to Virginia. Pictured above at Macado's Restaurant (L to R) are Colleen McMahon, Lindsay Bennett, Alison Occhicone, Sue Frost, Kara Drown, and Amy Hoey. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Mabcc Senior Jennifer Mabee spend her Spring Break overseas...inYork, England. She is pictured above at 'The Shonbles.' Today is March 26, only 52 more days until graduation...you know, graduation—that day when life as we know it ends and the real world begins. How I hate the sound of that! I have been a tight bundle of nerves lately, excited about this momentous time in my life, but also extremely....scarcd. Yes, I admit it. I am a Grade A chicken when it comes to thinking about life after May 17. Most of my apprehension comes from being uncertain, of not knowing what is going to happen next. How will I pay off my student loans? Will I ever find a job? What if I end up in a job I hate? How can I possibly live at home—my parents are already driving me nuts! These are the thoughts that keep me up at night. This past weekend, someone gave me some sound advice. I was, as usual, complaining about the turmoil going on in my life. I discussed all my options, and then I proceeded to explain why I thought each one was doomed to failure. In the midst of my carrying on, this person interrupted me and said, "Why are you complaining about what hasn't even happened yet? Why are you setting yourself up for failure? Instead of focusing on what could : : A l p h a Phi Delta \ ' \ " . , We would like to welcorhe our N» class; -,SteveBarry, Pat G'Hara, -;. Joto^all^W^Jeretny^i^bitsek, Feter Colf^y, MiksSperaaaa, x-* Crafe* CohiSjr'Ihsi Tiiompson^&eott £ifea{bt^'a'nd:Ryan;;':; N Whitehead— "*• ^ - \ -N - - ^ Y;\ ' \ \ , v ; " \ ~' Photo courtesy of Erica Wittman Seniors Kim Showers (L) and Erica Wittman (R), pictured above Photo courtesy of Jacque Simpson at the Excalibur Hotel & Casino, spent their break in Las Vegas. Members of the Marist College Wonen's Lacrosse team in Virginia. Pictured above in their hotel room (L to R) are Kim Matera, Jacque Simpson, and Amy Glennon. Stephen Hawking, wired for the Web, is more switched on than ever Voiceless since the removal of by RON KAMPEAS his trachea in 1985, he pioneered Associated Press Writer the use of an electronic syntheCAMBRIDGE, England sizer to keep talking. (AP)—Stephen Hawking's uniHis latest model, designed by verse is expanding now that he's Intel, expands on the synthesizer plugged into the Internet. by making it Windows-friendly The world's best-known physi- so he can communicate on the cist, whose unified theory of the Internet. universe contradicts the big bang In addition, it includes innovatheory, on Thursday showed off tions that allow him to phone a new computer that plugs him through cellular phone networks, into the 'net,' and allows him to manipulate doors and lights in hold forth on everything from his home, and turn the stereo and this morning's headlines to TV on and off. tomorrow's theorems. Were there any glitches? "It is a bit slow, but I think "This computer makes me the most switched-on person alive," slowly," he said in the artificial Hawking said in an interview accent that lands somewhere between standard American and with The Associated Press. Confined to a wheelchair, Scandinavian. Hawking, 55, has suffered from Intel president Gordon Moore Lou Gehrig's disease^- said the machinery lacked comamyotrophic lateral sclerosis— mercial potential since his 20s. and would probably be confined He outlived early predictions to Hawking's use alone. of his imminent death to impress "Just helping him be produchis peers with a revolutionary tive is extremely important," 1974 paper on miniature black Moore said, watching Hawking holes and the rest of the world use his thumb, one of the few with his lucid 1988 account of parts of his body he still controls, the mysteries of the universe, A to speed through an on-screen Brief History of Time. vocabulary. "He's an outstand- ing scientist." Hawking met a reporter in the winter sun-brightened library of Cambridge University's Isaac Newton Institute, where he holds the Lucasian chair, once occupied by Newton himself. He said his favorite site was a physics and mathematics papers archive. The designers obscured the address, Hawking said, because they wanted to discourage laymen from downloading the papers. ~ "Some service providers ban contact with sites with such names on the grounds that they are pornographic," he explained. "Anyone looking for sex on xxx.laniel.gov will be disappointed." He pulled his lips back into his trademark wry, gummy grin. Aside from the esoterica of theoretical physics, Hawking was keeping up with front-page science news as well. "The fuss about cloning is rather silly," he said. "I can't see any essential distinction between cloning and producing brothers and sisters in the time-honored way." What about science writer John Horgan's book, "The End of Science," which posits that as science moves from its fundaments into theoretics, it has lost its true meaning? Forget that, Hawking said: his complete unified theory of the universe would be borne out by fundamental physics. "We should find experimental confirmation of this idea with the next generation of particle accelerators," he said. Under the watchful eye of his second wife, Elaine Mason, Hawking seemed in excellent spirits, flirting with a photographer. Hawking married Mason in 1995, four years after an acrimonious divorce from his first wife, Jane. His relationship with their three children has remained strained. What did he think of daughter Lucy's statement, shortly after his second marriage, that her father maintains an exasperating "inability to accept that there is anything he cannot do?" "I accept that there are some things I can't do," he said. "But they are mostly things I don't particularly want to do anyway." Once again, the grin. . "I seem to manage to do anything that I really want" If YOU received THE CIRCLE SEX SURVEY in the mail, please be sure to return it by April 7 to the drop box in SC368^ v This is a legitimate and approvedsurvey, andwe would appreciate as many responses , , as possible, , - , , Alpha Sigma Tku - ' ; -. "s % , ';', . - / „ . _ : s , We would to welcome and congratulate our Epsilon class: Maral ; Arslanim, AndreaDeilarco, Erra Doughty, Nancy Esposlto, Erin . ,Pelligrirto\ Kelly QuiB»;LizHobteT, KsriftDaniels^ findMarga ^ ret Farley.,, ", , 'C a m p u s Ministry \ fuse's; , r g # r i e d ibtyfeitiup rac& ;Q$\ pork,-" raspberry . (brown; yeiyeV;dress;'serisible - Sauerkraut, Mbhordt potato : heels-atid eyeliner} and'set'off-', fakes'and" wild mushroom .saucer, - - /' i: ,«no the unknown. ' " ; -,- " '-More^an:JMyears/o!d;pre'S'-', ,,- The conversation was'more : ,^ot»/{soh)i#t.Wpa!d kayyefeei' ;snrprising^lio6k in^what^v' cheO, Mohbnk^qu^taift House,! -eryone did for a llving'and tfifeir is sHuatedpn the outskirts of the"' agcandl guess^i lhat the pretown of New Falte.' Althougtjt it 'dtnner talk wouldbe^one ofso• was darict 1 cpsld'teli this'-plaee phistication and intellect. Boy,, ' was' absoiuteiy; stunning! -After =was 1 wrongl The first topic my car was taken by a valet, r was on traveling, and men it purchased my meal ticket ($30).' verved into the subject of asbyJosmlNALOo' Upon entering the house, I was trological signs!, I could not Foorf Babe, "" giddy by the old-time grandeur believe it. that greeted me.. If you can pic- - Not only were they discusstore the charm of the hotel that ing an old clique at the-singles ' With every passing day, Christopher Reeves stayed'at in scene, but with a gusto that was graduation and the uncertain the movie Somewhere in Time, not to be-imagined I Noel arfuture gets a Jiute closer. I do you will know what 1 am tal&og gued that Taurus people were more sensitive.' Harriet was not know about the r«stof the abont. seniors, but I aro freaking oat. Approaching the dining room, saying ihat Scorpios were the So,-I was at my internship the 1 felt mass hysteria welling up most difficult to live with (her other day, looking through rar inside ofm e . ' What was 1 think* husband was a Scorpio). Pottghteepste Journal. In the ing? I cant possibly go through I was glad when my meal arweekend section, I found a with Ihisl" Fd rather starve!' I rived and the food was exquismention about & "Choeoiate rationalized with myself, <-¥bu*re ite (the chocolate fettuccine and-Conversation Singles an adult, not a child. If you can wasn't as scary as I thought it Weekend" at Mohonk Moun- do this-you can do anything. would be). I sat there enjoytain House. I debated over This will make you a- stronger ing my desert, the ganachelunch whether I should make • person. Yo« do want to be a glazed passion fruit mousse reservations. stronger person, don^tyou*?' So cake with white chocolate 1 knew it wotiid be perfect-in- I gave the hostess a brilliant sauce* and I could not believe vestigative reporting in finding smile and Dong, my waiter, how I was dreading this evening. And I thought to myout what it is like-to dine out seated me at an empty, table. V alone. Do not get me wrong, I Next to sit down was a \0id- self, I do believe I'm thrivi ngr ,have spear a week in Spain ^ower named Marilyn. Wesmiled It was amazing. After dinner, we convened to traveling alone. I also enjoy- ,and introduced ourselves. going oat for breakfast and Others soon followed suit: the beautiful parlor to listen to lunch without,others, but go- there was Stan, an MYC finan- a motivation speaker, Leil ing to a "nice place" for-din- cial analyst, Noel* a software Lowndes, on how to communer alone is totally something programmer from Connecticut, nicate better. Through her iceelse* But I faaow in a few . two friends from Long Island, breaking techniques, I met months time, 1 might find jmy- ' Joanne and Harriet, John, a busi- Ivan* a young man who was a self in a-newiows; a different ness man from Princeton, and promoter in the city and Rose, , state, or hell, on.',a; whole new Sandy a,quiet English high. a smiling older woman. ;.y\ was^hap^ftialltxiadfemy-, coast,- If i,ca&-^na^^>™^ out by/^y^P^I^ilFbli'mori ; r : ; ' £ ^ | r x o n e ^ s e ^ s ' ^ ^ a n ' - ' '?se\f go: --Mttoough'tJdid' aot'geV s prena«^Wr«Gcateanywhere.' ; ' tiaily older thaii'mefbut-'i Vas .picked up, which is the main Fromfeetime! mad&the res- 'comfortedto see ojherkaround objective at one of these functions, I did learn a lot about ervations to the' time i goMnto roe who were around my age , my ear forthfe half hoar trip to s% The menu was exotic to say the -rnyself. New Pattz/I made'exensex ' least I was;brave and'ordered 1 /When the time comes when ;NOT to go, I was tired from the ,ando«illc sausage with Igct *Mt$9(KdQ0 salarytostart work. My room needed clean- chocolate feitticcine, jalapeno 'and asked to move to the Midings I had to wash my hair* I cornbread and tequila -lime West, I know J &m more than had to write a letter to my vinaigrette for my appetizer. For 'able to pack my bags and walk grandmother. Amid all the ex- my entree, I chose the roasted out the door.' Tuesdays at 12:30 pm> m the Cfeapetis "the Bayer Vigil jtor Peace ,& justice - Gyna's recipe of the week K a p p a L a m b d a Fsi -/', We would like to cangtatuilate our pledges of &e Ma {lass. Good: Luck-onypurpafe'to sisterhood!! Laura Ailing, Janice, Ibrig, Ann , , Marie B^ude2^ Alison Kimb^ly,E)e&&teDeC^fO,'HfiIen. McSvoy^iCara Elliot, Alyssa Murray, Jenifer Ferris, Leanno S^&T^MatisaForte^ilachelTollenjMaryelfenHeld/Allyson .: ^Tkvis,l^afln&H#y^«BdI^u^eenWjsnjewsH„ , We would like to congratulate our sister, Ie$sicaHip6fito as being • named to represent Marist College in the Council of Fashion De ' signers of America Sehoatshiri Compeiitio». Jessica is ajunior 1 andmeaiber. of the Eta class. Great going JessMWe would like to congratulate our Scholar of the Sernester,Jumor LisaTortora, ^vjbo ended lastsetnoster. with a 3,7 GPAl Oreat -Iofe!l _ . ^ » :„ ' , ' v -,:. f i t e r a i r ^ A r t s Society , , April l \ T r i p to Woodstock ; Mnrirf United Nations P u b '; \ ; _',,.<-*'- ^ f - * * : "5 .~ / ^ / - Stgm^Sfo»7>S8ffoa\' \/•' ^ Ingredients: 4 washed and peeled potatoes 1 can of stewed tomatoes • 1 onion sliced 4 boneless breast of chicken cut into cubes (beef or turkey can also be used) 3 cups of Italian dressing 2 tablespoons of olive oil garlic salt parsley Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Pour olive oil into a saucepan. Next, cut potatoes into small chunks and place into pan. Next, spread chicken, onions, and tomatoes into the pan. Pour the Italian dressing over the ingredients. Sprinkle an ample amount of garlic salt and parsley over all. Bake for about an hour, mixing every 15 minutes. Put over spaghetti. /-\.; /Meetings ate schednMThursday Nightsat93G in die downstairs library study room. A^o^'interestedlftao^tdingirKjdelUJSf. < conference hi New,YorkCity this April 25 to 29 smst attend this Thuif^y nights noting, ^tiaoreipfomationealiOiristine : The Apology Dinner , \. - 'We-would liketo.wetcomeourkudass: CanePluS,ErinKenney, .Allison Joyjjer, Tara Poehank AliisonClough/Jalie McEride, \ Mis&y;KeenatuAmy Burke, Anna DarpiiKt, AmyMeFall,Brin " BeeH Sue'Lowry* Megan Hendrixsoa; Kristi Gisenhall, £ol lee« Malosfty*KarfiBfckr«g;:Wd^iro Israeli (' _ ' x JOB OPENING: COPY EDITOR The Poughkeepsie Journal, an award-winning Gannett Co. daily in New York's historic Hudson Valley, seeks a news desk copy editor. Strong copy editing, design and headline-writing skills required, as well as flair, creativity and vision. Write managing editor, Poughkeepsie Journal, Box 1231, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12602. Or e-mail [email protected] The Journal values diversity in the workplace. ^"-^a^;W/^*fr«v*fc;v*W.^^ 8 THE CIRCLE EDITORIAL THEORCIE • Albania at the& l&ttffc (f/tffc w&4 The Student Newspaper of Marist College Kristin Richard, Editor-in-Chief Michael Goot, Managing Editor THE CIRCLE March 26,1997 ' , . ChrisSmith, Sports Editor Stephanie Mercuric News Editor Gyna Slomcinsky, Feature Editor Tim Manson, A&E Editor Christian Bladt, Opinion Editor "To avoid criticism, dp nothing, say nothing, be nothing" Diane Kolod, Photography Editor Jason Duffy, Business Manager • G. Modele Clarke, Faculty Advisor vv - The Circle is published every Thursday. Any mail may be addressed to The Circle, Marist College, 290 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. Letter to ihe Editor Editorial Missed opportunities of a would-be college town Thanks for making Kids Day Out a success As I am rapidly approaching the end of my senior year here at Marist, I am beginning to reflect on the past four years, including a few missed opportunities. One of these opportunities that never dawned on me until recently is that after nearly four years of living in Poughkeepsie, I have never even met a Vassar or a Bard student, and only occasionally have I crossed the path of a CIA or Dutchess Community College student. It seems to me that with five area schools, Poughkeepsie has the potential of being a true college town, but for some reason, there is little to no interaction between schools. I think it would be great if the events at each school were more widely publicized and students at each college actually felt welcome to attend events at other schools. I have heard that Vassar has had several interesting lectures with well-known speakers, and Bard is constantly hosting poetry readings and concerts, but I have never felt welcome to go to any of them. Sadly enough, I do not even know how to get to either of these schools. By operating as completely isolated entities, I think all of the schools are missing out on a lot. Each school has so much to gain by interacting, but it seems nobody is willing to take the first step. I wish I realized earlier that it would have been a good idea to at least visit the other nearby colleges, even if only to learn what students there do for fun. As it is, there is no sense of camaraderie between colleges. There is not even a healthy rivalry between the schools. There's nothing. And I think that is a shame. ESSAY CONTEST •i * '"" Sp6ris'6ri •'* •>•••*:-,%: ;•>••*•>• ; ^ 7 ^ - > : ^ ! ' ,-J? Essay should bebased on EEe Wiesd's memoir- NIGHT* The essay should show how the student's readinghasenlarged his/her understandingoftheHoiocaust ' ,/' Otherreadingsmaybereferredtomfeeessay,,; Length of essay:,3-5 double-spaced pages* Aprizeof $150 will be awarded to the au&orof Uieoutstanding essay, (Half the prize to bedonafsd to a charity of the student's choice.). Entries willbejudged by theMaristHolocaustMemoiial Committee. Deadline: March 27,1997 Entries should be mailed to Father LukeMcCann, KiikHquse ALLMARISTSTIJDENTS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE *Copies of NIGHTare available on reserve in the library ' V' \; '^ErMail a£H&y^'or,dropped in campus mail >:c y; '\ Editor: On Sunday, Feb. 23, the Marist College Red Foxes and the Office of Special Services hosted the 7th Annual "Kids' Day Out" basketball clinic to benefit the Marist College Scholarship for Students with Disabilities; The staff of die Office of Special Services would like to thank the members of the Red Foxes basketball teams who participated: Torie Anderson, Cortney Blore, Cortnie Ciaccio, Carrie Ciancone, Stacey Dengler, Coleen King, Jean-Marie Lesko, Beth Shackelj Alex Stephens, Sabrina Vallery, Sebastian Bellin, Tom Kenney, Borja Larragan, Joe McCurdy, and Manny Otero as well as members of the Red Foxes' coaching staff, Ken Babineau, Rich Conley, Norinne Powers, Kevin Sherman and Steve Sauers who helped organize and run the event. . Thanks to the effort and support of these individuals, and the Office of Special Services was able to host approximately 75 participants and raise almost $ 1,000 towards the Scholarship fund. The Staff of Special Services 7\\ese Ai>b-br^p urns fl£e To Ttfe,fr£ArVf 0PMION •'. March 26,1997 ', Americans know what's important If you lovedrthe old sit-com Cheers as much as I did; you might remember the [episode when Sam Malone studied for his high school; equivalency test with Coach. ICoae^-showed Sam,atfold memonzation^ digger die geoIgfaphic location of Albania. Th'esbrigwehflike this: "Albania, Albania. You border on |theA-dri:atic..." tothe tune of "When the Saints Go Marching In." Blood shed and unrest tear through this tiny soudiern European nation today, as its feeble economics took a crippling blow from a derelict government. The reason Sam Malone, and many other contemporary Americans, does not know the location of countries like Albania sheds light on the purpose for the violence that tends to erupt within the diminutive borders. Witii such small economies that depend on the status of one or two major industries, seemingly insignificant swings in the world market could thrbw^their delicate balance for a catastrophic loop. The physical boarders squeeze multiplying populations into unlivable space, and lack of technology thwarts the societies natural tendency to attempt progressive movements. , The opposing clan-like factions that comprised the cultural and social makeup of little fiefdom nations like Albania cannot compromise with each other anymore; the complexity of world wide relationships and the interdependency of foreign markets has forever tainted the intimacy of inter-..', boarder trade. These little sovereign nations tick silently like deadly time bombs, and their eruptions have far reaching consequences with enough influence to rope powerful nations with dynamic economies and massive military force into the heart of their conflicts. The lack of governmental complexity makes dealing with these unobtrusive nations difficult because the leaders have almost no accountability. The Albanian government faltered in their responsibility to the people when they failed to inform them of shifty monetary practices. The United States government goes a step beyond that everyday; not only does our government not inform us of immoral distribution of funds, but it benefits from its participation. Barisha, the president of Albania, stands steadfast in his reluctance to bring justice to his savings purged citizens. But, citizens of Albania do not have the opportunity that exists in the United States to protect their wealth, accumulate their wealth, and sell their labor on a thriving, dynamic open market. Barisha belongs to a faction of Albanians that speaks a different dialect then the southern Albanians who have taken up arms. Differences of opinion tend to diffuse.in multi-factioned societies; but build up unbridled force until detonation in the volatile smallness of third world nations, or nations whose economies and technologies linger below the level of self sufficient powers. The unrest that ensues gives the government an opportunity to tighten its grip on the people, and in turn the people flee into boarder nations; international incidents often begin this way. Bill Mekrut is the political columnist for The Circle. These Newts Were Made for Walking • Fjor one'reasort or anbtherj the' ^fofrfi»gs,'-Wds,'ahd yes, newts.' \MANDERSH" Hethetfmadea word "newt" is associated wjdj A few summers ago, my cous- dash for die garbage'ean and skeevy, slimy characters. My ins audi found an abundance of . ^dove in to retrieve his newly family often visits my 'uncle's' slimy orange creatures-'dwelling, adopted family. After this small ordeal and we country house up in,Sullivan under just about every rock were back on the road again, Couriry,NY(no,my Uncle isnot throughout the foresC one of these slimy creatures in . Whetherthey werenewts* sala- newts and ail, Mom hesitantly question}./ ' ' - manders, lizards, orillegally im- glanced into the coffee cup. Along with sudsy green portedrare Guatemalan baby gtla "Stephen? How many of these tinted foam, lots of tales and - monsters, we hardly,cared. We things did you take home?" * Dad looked over at Mom nerfolklore have, accumulated on piled them into our mayonnaise the rocky, muddy shores of jars^shoeboxes, and yogurt con- vously. "Well, um, how many are there in the cup?" Highland Lake over the years. tainers. 'Three." One of my favorite stories is . If any creature was truly game, "Three. Er, yes. Good. aboutthe people down the road: itwasus- We had the welts, courwhose grandrsbther died up in tesy of the mosquitoes to prove There were diree." the country. Well, the, tragic it. When we came back to the , Thistemporarilyput to rest death of this- fabled grand- house with our catches, the Mora's notion that there were mother is by tio means fherea-. adults serenaded us with a weary five, tiiough it was only moson this is one of my favorite chorus of "That's nice, now put ments before Mom popped another question. In turn, old dad tales. them back, dears," just about popped a blood vesThe family had taken her up , My father sang to a different sel. "Stephen?" out of the city with hopes that tune. He was actually thrilled by "YES?" the fresh-air would do some ,our catch and decided to take "Are you sure that there were goodXoverlookedwas the high some home as pets. My mother altitude, thus therather thin air). was slightly disgusted at such a THREE?" "YES.n There was nowhere to take the though, but dad took five home "Well, pull the car over. body m the heart of the coun- in a little coffee cup with some try, sotheyttekkedbacktbthe. holes carefully punched in the There's another on the floor and it's right nexttomy foot." dry.. The family wrapped the,, top. . Dad complied. This sort of grandmotherVbody in a canoe On the way home, my family tethered to the roof of the car. stopped atBairy Queen. We had activity continued until it was They made , a stop , at a cones and Blizzards in the park-, established that there were inMcDonalds on the way back, ing lot with- legions of other deed FIVE newts and dad was only'to;come,out and find Uiat homeward bound families after a absolutely positive that there the car had been stolen.. summerweekend in the country. were FIVE and only FIVE. So dad took them home and Along witli great bid stories As we were leaving, Mom de(and fun times worthy of a cided to clean out the car,-and doted on the lot of diem in a yawn- er-yam or two), another she discarded all of the empty small aquarium. I suppose they lived rather thing associated with trips to cups, "muraate Paint Ball" brochures,' and other stuff that clut- happily, for well over a year. the Jake is hunting. Granted, there are deer, bears, tered the car from a weekend up- And the only lying these newts did was, on the little syndietic and other game frolicking state. log dad put in the aquarium. throughout the forest^ but for Dad turned around tbsee Mom years, my cousins and I set our tidying up, and shouted a blood sightson creatures that were on curdling^OOOOOr a, much smaller, if not slimier Only after he gained the attenscale. Heck/perhapseven crea- tion of the entire establishment, Tarn Quinn is The Circle's tures with scales. We hunted he continued, "MY SALA- humor cobtmist •• It seems like every time some major event occurs in another part of trie world, we do not hear much of anything about it here in the United States until Americans are directly involved in the events. Maybe the media prefers to use the old "You could be next" scare tactic that was so successfully employed in those drug educationfilmsfrom die early 1970s that they were still showing when I was in junior high. The recent evacuation of Americans living in Albania is an excellent example of keeping us in the dark until it hits close to home. Of course, this may be due to the fact that we as a country simply cannot relate to the present situation there. After all, what would we know about being immensely dissatisfied with the results of a national election? Okay, so, maybe we could relate to that. But, how could we possibly imagine what it is like to live in a country where groups of rebels take up arms against an unpopular government? Come to think of it, this story should have been right up our alley. Actually, it is probably for the best that the earlier stages of this story did not receive a great deal of media attention. One of the last things that we still have faith in is the election returns, so why put silly ideas like election tampering into our head? At least we live in a country where the people directly elect our leader, and it is not determined by a small number of representatives from each state. Or something like that... The situation in Albania is actually far more dreadful than anything that our government has done in recent memory. Their problems all stem from an election last summer that elevated President Sali Berisha's Democratic Party to such a degree of power that Albania essentially became a one-party state. There was a widespread belief that the election results were not honestly arrived at. Of course, anyone who protested these results were severely beaten by police. Understandably, fewer people began to turn out for the protest rallies. Since the start of the new year, though, there has been a renewed state of uijrestAri^ Albania,.due to.tlie fact that a significant percentage of the population poured their money into a pyramid scheme. This in itself is a cause for alarm, as pyramid schemes do not work in a country where most people have money, not to mention the poorest country in Europe. I am ramer wary of any nation mat thinks that a pyramid scheme is the best way to handle the nation's finances. Of course, it was a step up from the previous attempt at raising funds through a chain letter detailing what happened to those who broke the chain. So, as if being denied of theirrightsin the election process, a great deal of Albanians were now broke. This was enough to motivate people to do something about their corrupt president. Just like any good people dissatisfied with the ruling class, a group of rebels stormed the munitions cache of an abandoned military academy. Shortly thereafter, another group stormed a barracks in a suburb of Tirana. Two more arms depots have been stormed in more recent days. So, I think that the lesson learned here is that this is not the time to open up an Albania franchise of Bob's Gun Exchange. " This is about the time that all Americans were evacuated from the country. After all, if Americans want to be in a hazardous situation where there is a high risk of being shot, they could go to a public high school. While things are beginning to look a bit more promising for a resolution of the conflict, it does not appear to be coming soon. President Berisha tried to make amends by appointing a Socialist Prime Minister in the way of Bashkim Fino (which will actually get you triple word score in Scrabble). Unfortunately, Mr. Berisha soon realized that the gun-toting rebels will only become happy gun-toting rebels when he resigns. Berisha has already promised to step down, but it seems to have been an insincere promise. This really should come as no surprise, though, as his previous promise was "Read my lips: No new taxes". Berisha may still be in power, but it is unclear how long he can hold of die rebels while also maintaining his hold on the government. It does seem mat Berisha is already on his way out, as he has already been replaced by his eight-year-old understudy in the revival of Annie. The bottom line is, though, that whatever happens in Albania, it is unlikely that we will ever hear much about how everything turns out. After all, our guys are out of there, and it is not like the revels are going to try and take on the U.S. So, this story will probably get put away in the vast "Who Cares?" file, along with the Falkland Islands and Yahoo Serious. Maybe one day we will all hear about it when our kids are doing Uieir History homework, and have to read up on the long-lasting effects of this conflict. Then, they will tell you all about the drug prevention film they got to see. Christian Bladt is the opinion editor for The Circle, i 10 THE CIRCLE, March 26,' 1997. Taking a Closer Look at SGA NEWS •x%-:««<-;-x»x->;«^x«-x«-:':-:«»m'/*^w-j«-:v Jedi caps off successful return of the Star Wars Trilogy Name: Olivia Fernandez Year: March 26,1997 THE CIRCLE by Christian Bladt Opinion Editor Junior Hometown: Avon, CT Major: Biology Favorite Band/Musician: Groove Connection Favorite Movie: How to Make an American Quilt Favorite Food: Chinese Role Model: Mom and Dad Circle Photo/ Susan Goulet This past year was filled with positive changes and achievements academically for Marist. At the forefront of these accomplishments is Olivia Fernandez, the vice president for academics. Olivia has served Student Government in this capacity since Spring 1996. Previously, she held the position of assistant VP for academics and was class secretary for her freshmen and sophomore years. As a part of her position as VP, Olivia is also the head of the Student Academic Council (SAC). This council is'comprised "of a secretary^ treasurer, and student representatives for each academic division, as well as a coordinator for the division representatives. The SAC works closely with the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), which consists of a faculty representative for each division and the Artin Arslenian, the academic vice president. These two groups are responsible for the changes in the Communications and Arts Division, which was recently declared the School of Communications and Arts. Another accomplishment of the SAC include the College Bowl, which is a game similar to Jeopardy', in that it is a competition between teamsrcompetingforthe most points obtained by correctly answering academic-re-. lated questions. There are four members to a team, and teams may be made up of all faculty members, all students, or a combination of faculty and students. The SAC is also the sponsor for most of the departmental socials. These events give faculty and students a chance to mix in a more relaxed, less academic setting. The SAC is also responsible for the elections in determining the "Faculty of the Year" award. When Olivia is not in the SGA Office, she can be easily located across the hall, working in the College Activities Office. Among other responsibilities, Olivia is the Alumnae Liaison for the,sorority.Alpha Sigma Tau. She is also co-founder of the Phi Delta Epsilon Pre-Med fraternity, and she is an ambassador for Admissions. Attention All Senior Vocalists! Auditions for Commencement 1997 3 Solo Singers N&eded 1—Mezzo or Bass for National Anthem 2—Of any voice part to sing the Marist College Song Contact the Music Department to set up an audition e-mail [email protected] Auditions close April 22, 1997 Student Programming { Council (SPC) needs your help!!! The following positions lieed to be Secretary; '<3*8 X2828 ifyou are inUmsied Get Involved with Student v Government! Proving once again the old adage that things must get worse before they can get better, Return of the Jedi puts Luke Skywalker and company into a number of no-win situations. But, of course, in true Hollywood fashion, they find their way out of it. Which is probably why Jedi is my favorite of the three existing Star Wars films: because it has a happy ending. The dire circumstances that the previous installment, The Empire Strikes Back ended on kept audiences in suspense for three long years (or three weeks for both of you who had never seen the films until the release of the Special Editions). We always knew that everything would turn out all right in the end. We had to believe that, otherwise we would not have cared about the next film. The cliffhanger ending was so frustrating because we needed to see how everything would turn out okay. While we always knew everything would be fine, it was in this film that we were finally able to see just how everything.turned out all right. I have never seen any flaws with the way in which George Lucas decided to end his trilogy. It had to end on a positive note, with the good guys "winning. Anybody who can feels otherwise should gear up for the next trilogy of prequels. Those should end on a sufficiently down note, as they will portray how the galaxy got so messed iip in the first place, in the time before Star Wars. I, for one, was glad to finally get to see these movies on the big screen again, after the long ments are in the film anymore. It dry spell since Jedi's first re-re- just goes to show you that you lease in 1985. You forget just how cannot go home again. Of course, that is my only comgross Jabba the Hutt was until you see slime oozing out of his plaint about Return of the Jedi: nose and mouth projected onto The Special Edition, and it is not as much a complaint as it is my a huge screen. I was also elated over these lamenting my misbegotten Special Editions. Return of the youth. On the whole, this film is Jedi was no different from the just as exhilarating and compelprevious two re-released Special ling as it was fourteen years ago, Editions in that Lucas's Indus- and it warms my heart just the trial Light and Magic tampered same to know that, once and for around with some of the footage. all, the good guys win. There is a fun little production So, why do people like to comnumber in Jabba's palace that plain about mis film? Well, for precedes Oola the slave-girl's un- one thing, people just like to comtimely demise at the hands of the plain. Also,' some people probRancor. When I first heard that ably feel a lot cooler dismissing this would be one of the addi- Jedi as offering nothing more tions to the film, I was afraid that than "a bunch of muppets". this would be too much of an atBut, that's why I like it. I do not tempt to show off the new tech- go to the movies to see the pronology, but the song does not tagonists dismembered or frozen last long enough to be irritating, in carbonite. I go to see them and it actually fits in pretty well strangle Jabba the Hutt or outto the rest of the scene. smart some Imperial troops. Which is exactly the sort of Ultimately, though, the most significant change is the ending thing that we get in this film. of thefilm.The Ewok celebration When Jedi opens, the Rebels are Photo courte\t) of Lucasfilm Ltd. has been edited together with already in a desperate situation, Luke (Mark Hamill) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) prepare to swing to some scenes of celebration what with Han Solo still frozen in safety from the top deck of Jabba's desert sail barge throughout the galaxy. We still carbonite, and in the clutches of see all the dancing and warmth Jabba the Hutt. The situation generator (only possible with travel at hyperspeed does not between the Rebels and the worsens as, one by one, the rest some assistance from the Ewoks), mean that you cannot be Ewoks, but gone is the catchy of our cast of characters fall di- the attempt by Lando and the rest whacked with a couple of logs. So, say what you will about rectly into Jabba's rather large, of the fleet to destroy the seclittle Ewok Celebration song. ond Death Star, and Luke's con- the Ewoks, but to me they will I was glad to see this alteration, oily hands. Then, just when it looks like frontation with Darth Vader and always be one of the most fun in the sense that it better illusthings about these films. The trated the significance of the de- Han, Luke and Chewie will spend the Emperor. Particularly enjoyable is the fact clever methods that they devise struction of the Emperor and his centuries being digested by the fleet. But, I really did like those Sarlaaci R.2D2 shoots the that vye see the furry little Ewoks, for overcoming these seemingly r EwoksT Besides, I still have this ' lightsaberto Luke- tiius putting • with : a total lack of technology, unbeatable morvstrosmes, and 45 (it is a term applied to records, the film into high gear as it tries become victorious over the sin- the comical manner in which they which are these black vinyl disks to happily resolve all of the trials ister Intergalactic Empire, despite employ them will delight me to with music on them, kinda like and tribulations that have been their technological mechaniza- no end for the rest of my life. Not tions. In fact, that was the point even the Emperor could foresee CDs but they use a needle in- plaguing the galaxy, that Lucas always wanted to make the role that they would play in I have always enjoyed the stead of a laser) with Ewok Celwith this aspect of the story. It is the undoing of his vast Empire. three-pronged storyline that is ebration on the one side and The bottom line of this film is "Lapti Nek" as performed by Sy simultaneously woven through- the idea of man versus the mathat good will eventually triumph Snootles and the Max Reebo out the latter potion of the film. chine. Granted in this case, the "men" are not even human, but, band that I used to play all the There is, of course, the Rebels time. How, neither of these mo- attempt to destroy the shield it still shows that being able to Please see JEDI, page 12... COLLEGESTUDENTS by Tim Manson A&E Editor Applicants for the following positions are available in die Student Government Association Office^ or call extension 2206 Student^ody^ict^esidm^ ; ;^;^Executiye;'Secrefery: '" PkrMairientariaii Vice Preside^ofQub Affairs Vice Presiden^of Student Life Vice President of^ Studient i^ogramraing Vice president of Academics : Chief Financial Officer Director of Public Relations All applicants must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better Forget about it: Brasco a must see GET YOUR FOUR YEAR COLLEGE DEGREE T U I T I O N FREE Your college education may be closer than you think. With tuition costs constantly rising, the price of a college education may seem out of sight. The Nov.- York Army National Guard offers 100% tuition assistance to those who qualify. That's right, M056 tuition to all state colleges and universities, community colleges, and an amount equal to S U W s tuition at paruapatmg private colleges and universities. Part-time military service with the New York Army National Guard can get you a college degree. Go to school while you serve your country and community. CALL OUR CAREER CENTER 24 HOURS A DAY: I-800-356-OS52 Following in the tradition of The Godfather, Goodfellas and Casino comes a new look inside the world of organized crime. This time, though, we are not shown this world by an actual gangster. Donnie Brasco tells the story of FBI agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) who infiltrated the organized crime world of New York City in the I970's through a man named Benjamin (Lefty) Ruggerio (AI Pacino) Brasco was based on Pistone's autobiographical account of the undercover years in New York where he played the role of Donnie Brasco, a jewel broker. Joe/Donnie meets Lefty in a bar one afternoon because Lefty is looking to sell off some diamonds which have recently come into his possession. Donnie immediately realizes that the diamonds are fugazi (fake) and tells Lefty. But when Lefty does not believe Donnie the two go straight io the man who sold Lefty the diamonds and Donnie gets the truth out of him, as well as a Porsche. Since Lefty was thankful for Donnie's help he asks him if he wants to meet up again tomorrow and just like that Donnie Brasco becomes part of a crew. The most interesting facet of this film is that it is not Lefty's crew that Donnie has been taken into, but Sonny Black's (Michael Madsen). We quickly find out that Lefty is just a spoke on the wheel and not an overwhelmingly powerful gangster. If someone had told me before seeing this film that AI Pacino would be playing a sorry excuse for a gangster, yet I would walk out of it thinking it was great anyway, I would not have believed them. But Pacino delivers a powerful performance as a gangster with a dream. It seems that part of the reason he accepted Donnie so easily was because he wanted to bring someone up with his knowledge and then, like a son, have him excel where his mentor could not. Lefty's real son is a junky and Lefty does not have anyone he can trust in the family so when he says "I'll die for you Donnie," he means it. The plot of the film is the usual gangster activity with the blackly funny beatings and the hijacking of everything from lions to razors (literally). Sonny Black's crew, which consisted of Madsen, Depp, Pacino, Bruno Kirby and James Russo, control one section of New York City. They try to expand to Florida but are thwarted by Sonny Red's crew, which controls a different section of the city. This sets up the climax of the movie as Sonny Black tries to figure out what went wrong in Florida. But what of Johnny Depp you swooning ladies ask? Depp was phenomenal as Brasco and Pistone. It was nice to see Depp in a role where his looks weren't the focus, since those movies are usually terrible flops {Don Juan Demarco, Crybaby, just to name a couple). Depp fit in perfectly with Madsen and Pacino while bantering "forget about it" in his italian accent. Please see BRASCO, page 12... -*•«**& 12 THE CIRCLE, March 26,1997 E n t e r t a i n m e n t News Briefs of1997, behind the Star Burns heads poll opener Wars reissue. Selena, the story a slain Tejano singer, opened second place, pushing last on lack of values ofinweek's number oneReturn of the As Dan Quayle pointed out to Murphy Brown, TV is no bastion of family values. TV Guide pollsters asked Americans which of the Ten Commandments were broken most often on television, and adultery was the response of 32 percent, while 30 percent cited murder. When asked who was the most morally bankrupt character on the tube, 20 percent cited the conniving Mr. Burns of The Simpsons, while 15 percent named Dr. Michael Mancini from Melrose Place and 10 percent went with The X-Files' Cigarette Man. Jedi into third. Tim Allen's Jungle 2 Jungle fell two slots to fourth place. Howard Stem's Private Parts dropped two places to fifth.,- The superstar soldiers line up A superstar cast is lining up for The Thin Red Line, a World War Two film that will mark the return of director Terrence Malick. George Clooney, Nick Notle, Sean Penn and Woody Harrelson are already signed on and Variety reports that Malick is closing in on John Travolta and Oscar nominee Edward Norton. Malick also is said to be talking with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tim Roth. Malick has spent 10 years writing the script from James Jones' novel about the Jim Carrey's new movie Liar battle of Guadalcanal. Liar was No. 1 at the box office Malick made a made a splash over the weekend, collecting an with his 1973 debut, directing estimated $32 million. Liar Liar, Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek in which Carrey plays a smarmy in Badlands, but he has not lawyerwho must tell the truth for made a movie since the art house one day, is the second highest classic Days of Heaven in 1978. 'Liar Liar' is number one at box office -«S€gtel Downey and Out Robert Downey Jr. dropped out of Wild Things in a dispute over who would insure him, Variety reports. Downey had planned to co-star with Kevin Bacon in thefilmbut Mandalay Entertainment reportedly wanted him to pay the seven-figure insurance premium required because of his probation for past drug problems. Downey wouldn't go along with that. The actor has made two films, Two Girls and a Guy and Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, since his trip through rehab. Flynt Not Invited Another no-show at the Academy Awards will be Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, whose life was portrayed in the movie The People vs Larry. Flynt. He claimed Sony, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, did not invite him. Flynt, who has been attacked as a pornographer by feminist groups, was at the Golden Globes award ceremony in January with Woody Harrelson, who played him in the film, and Courtney Love, who played his late wife Althea. Brasco packs a punch and makes^you feel it ....continued from page 11. guy(Forget about it, by the way, was He commands respect throughone tYvmg v ou yAW suddenly find out trie .movie and -wiU hot back yourself saying a lot after seeing down from anything. Surpristhis movie.) ingly, the same could be said of Depp also brilliantly portrays his crew members Kirby and the struggle within Pistone to not Russo, who usually play small sell out Lefty, therby getting him roles in bad movies. Donnie Brasco is a hit in every killed for bringing a rat into the family, and the struggle to keep aspect and for all you organized his wife and children, who he crime fans this means it can be sees every few months at best rated below Goodfellas but above for a six year span. The irony Casino (since nothing will ever becomes that in a world of loy- top Goodfellas, including The alty and backstabbing, Brasco, Godfather). For those of you who are not the most honest man in the film, is also the Judas when the end particularly fond of crime flicks, you too can enjoy this film. The comes. Michael Madsen, as usual, levels of treachery and the porplays a great, in-control tough traying of the human struggle ^^asarsr*? within Pistone make this worth anyone's $12.50. (Is that how much it costs to see movies these days, I can't keep up.) And as a final footnote, I have noticed that Pistone has been popping up recently on television shows, suchas Dateline NBC and other entertainment shows. For those of you who do not know, Pistone still has a $500,000 hit on his head and even though, the men he ratted on are . all either in jail or dead, the mob is not the best thing to flaunt your victory over. Do yourself a favor Joe arid go back to witness protection land before you end up in the back of a trunk somewhere. Campus Community Prayer Vigil F o r P e a c e and J u s t i c e Every Tuesday 12:30 p.m.- 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel , (Come spend a half hour in prayer for our world) Sponsored by '* PRAXIS/CAMPUS MINISTRY Opinion Editor Christian Biadt relaxes outside the Ewok village at IflGKIMDisntey Studios in Orlando, Ft. this film is all aboat. There is good inside of everyone. It may be burled very deeply in overevil. Of course Dasth Vader -some of «s>butitis there* J«st throw theEmperor tohis death. like all of our deep-rooted deHe could not possibly stand sire to know tixat'good tri~ * idly by and watch his son be nrnpbs over evil. massacred. After all, he was We, as a society,, want the somewhat haman. Even if fee cowboy dressed in white towas not, I am sate that be win. I think that JLacas and -would have acted the same Lawrence Kasdan £who coway. Poes anyone donbt that wrote the screenplay) had to 'Artoo OjrThreepio would have know tnt$. responded similarly mthauituItreaiiyisrewiwdingandpersonally MBMng to know timt Bat, that-would not have been N everything is gomg'to'be,j$ t significant, because we hive right, :j£ everything tarns, out* always known, tfcarthey are the, olcay for Han, Lufcejaad Lesia,, 'good gays* For Darlh Vader to ;then (perhaps only oajlqrne^ sacrifice his own life to save, minima! level) that things will': that of his son is exactly what ;beall right foi-tiS, too, '~ „ ....continued from. page. 11, MOVIE TIME • ••:;^:-V,.TABLiE;... Hoyts Cinema Galleria 12 SELENA (PG).... 12:20 3:35 6:30 9:25 Starring Jeniffer Lopez and Edward James Olmos LIARLIAR(PG)....12:052:204:357:109:40 Starring Jim Carrey CRASH (NG-17).... 12:10 2:304:55 7:5510:00 PRTVATEPARTS (R)....4:50 7:5510:05 Starring Howard Stern and Robin Quivers RETURN OFTHE JEDI (PG)....12:0012:303:10 3:406:45 6:55 9:35 Starring Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford DONNIEBRASCO (R)....12:35 3:45 6:509:45. Starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino JUNGLE2JUNGLE(PG)....l 1:352:004:25 7:009:20 Starring Tim Allen and Martin Short LOVE JONES (R)... 12:504:00 THEEMPIRESTRIKESBACK(PG)...12:156:459:35 • '; Starring Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill v SLINGBLADE(R)...12:25 3:306:409:40 Starring Billy Bob Thornton The C i r c l e is searching for dedicated A&E writers Any students interested in reviewing movies, books, CDs, videos, or concerts should contact Kristin at X4428. 11 THE CIRCLE Digital library will accomodate for changing technology March 26,1997 TWA missle tlieGry revisited (AT) If TWA Flight 800 was downed,by-a shoulder-fired , missile, a theory still unproven, then the device would probably have been fired by someone ...continuedfrom page 1. aboard a boat in front of the jetliner, an unidentified investigawill be designed with some flex- tor has told The Associated ibility to accommodate changing Press. / . ' technology.' -' The investigator,,who spoke "We really don't know how on the-condition of anonymity education is going to be chang- and whose agency affiliation* ing over the next-decade, so we was not identified, said the atwant to provide some space so tacker would have to have been we can accommodate new facili- in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean ties," he said. in a five-mile-wide area east of In addition to the electronic where fragments of the Boeing component,Merolli said the new 747 came down last My 17. library will have room to house The crash of theNew York-to250,000 volumes of books, up Paris flight off the southern from the 150,000 now. It will also coast of Long Island killed 230 have the aspects of a traditional people. No final determination library, such as comfortable has been made as to the cause study space and space for stu- of the disaster. dent use. The FBI has not ruled out me According to John McGinty, possibility that a missile, a library director, the new library bomb or mechanical failure will contain space for 850 stu- brought down the plane. The dents. It will also double the FBI has eliminated the possibilamount of stack space currently ity that a Navy missile accidenused, and a 24 hour study area tally hit the jet. will probably be incorporate into the building. Merolli said if the current site is used for the new library, several issues will have to be raised to minimize the inconvenience during the transition year. "We have to provide space for temporary library services," he said. "We have to provide space to store library books and obviously establish a retrieval system that is^timely and efficient." McGinty said the library is currently looking into options for housing materials when''.th'e.li-' braryjisxbns^ college recently acquired the Hamilton Printing building nearby, and this could store materials. In addition, space would be set up oh campus for the most heavily used materials. Also, he said hopefully there will be more" electronic access to resources, something the library is working on now. -'-•" The library committee is also meeting with students to get their input on what should go into the new library. Several students have expressed discontent with the current library. Al Loderer, a freshman communications major, said he had problems with the library. "Whenever I've gone in there, I haven't been able to find anything," he said. Loderer said he thinks the current site is good to build the new library. Kara Chrzescijanek said she has also encountered some problems. "I've looked for journals, and they didn't have the journals I've needed," he said. The total cost of die library will $12-15 million, depending on the size. Marist has raised $5 million so far. Merolli said he hopes the new library will become a focal point of the campus. "Some of the reading I've done describes the library as me heart of the college campus," he said. "We want it to be an outstanding facility that students and faculty are comfortable in and it meets study, research and scholarly needs, and it is a facility that really links us with the community." If a heat-seeking missile had ' been launched'from behind the plane, it likely would-have locked onto the hot jet exhaust and hit one of the plane's four engines, the investigator said. But, the jet's engines, although battered and damaged, were recognizable when recovered from the wreckage, rather than blown to bits. That indicates a missile would have had to hit the plane somewhere else; "The conjecture is that if the plane was hit by a terrorist mis-' sile, the terrorist would have been east of the airplane when he fired," the investigator said. "He would have been in front of the flight path seeing the nose of the plane as opposed to the rear." 'The missile would enter the plane at any point in order to get to that heat quickly," the investigator said. However, while it would have been possible for such a missile to be fired by one person, authorities suspect more people would have been involved. 13 s * ? V\, ris seeldrig a busiiiess: mmager for the 199^19^8 school year Responsibilities include: Contacting potential advertisers Ad layout Preparing and sending ad rate forms Billing advertisers Bieiaess/Conim^iiiGation^AdvertisiHgmajors preferred. Any students interested in this position should contact jfason Duffy at X2429. LSAT Take the June test and relax this summer! Poughkeepsie classes start 3/29 THE PRINCETON REVIEW (800)2-REVIEW • 14 » Men's lacrosse team 0-3 but gains respect THE CIRCLE, March 26,1997 THE CIRCLE, March 26,1997 Men's lacrosse team loses to Friars, 13-12, in overtime by Marty Sinacola bySTEVE WANCZYK Staff Writer ball, Martinez called Wilson on the big dance, but definitely leaving and reentering the Here I was on spring break in showed people they belonged crease, turning the ball over to Panama City with my friends. We once they were there. Providence. The Friars capital- are all having fun in a crowded So here we are, how sixty-four ized on this opportunity and bar which happens to have a teleteams have been whittled down ended the game with 1:12 left in vision set on. The television is to thefinalfour, and I cannot help overtime. playing a college basketball but be disappointed: Three numthis game with some last- game, which in the month of Sports With Smitty ingI left ber one seeds have lived up to As decided underdogs, they impressions about the men's March spells dismay for girlthere bill in the forms of UNC, realized their dream. They also team. First, the play of Wilson friends everywhere who probMinnesota, and Kentucky. came close to doing something was very surprising. Wilson, a ably get no attention because Of The Marist men's lacrosse team The only number one seed who beyond their wildest dreams junior, made some great saves, .it'- ' suffered a huge loss on Saturwill not be in Indianapolis in Kanwhen they nearly defeated North So here I am, with about 100 of Carolina. They had nothing to sas, the team everyone, includday afternoon at Leonidoff field was very vocal in instructing the to Providence College to drop defense, and shut-out the Friars my newest friends all huddled lose by giving one last all out ing myself, thought would roll to for the first quarter. If it wasn't around this television watching their record to 0-3 on the year. effort, and earned many people's the national title. for Wilson, the Red Foxes would The weather was crisp and the not have been in the game at all the Fairfield Stags play probably respect. wind was whipping but the by the second half never mind their best game ever against the There are no little guys to make Stories like this is what makes bleachers were filled with a sig- overtime. He has a promising mighty North Carolina Tarheels. it exciting. Sure it will still be great I cannot help but be happy for mis tournament probably one of nificant amount of fans: families future and assuming he gets more basketball, and better to watch the" most enjoyable months and students. I was impressed starts, needs to be the backbone the Stags, even though they ended up losing. They played known to sports. It is all that is than the NBA any day of the to see the amount of support the of the team. week, but there is something better than anyone ever expected good about sports. lacrosse team received after gomissing: You have no overpaid crybaby Secondly, coach Matt Cameron them to, and sure played better ing a mediocre 7-8 last season. This fan support will be crucial really proved himself in his first than Dean Smith and his Tarheels not living up to his potential, There is no 1985 Villanova Wildonly kids who get nothing, and to the Red Foxes success. So Metro Adantic Athletic Confer- expected them to. cats that came out of nowhere to play for nothing but pride. All of The Stags got into the tourney often do the spring sports at ence contest. Although his beat a heavily favored these players have to juggle squad stands at 0-3, Cameron almost by accident. They had Marist get neglected by the pubGeorgetown team. There is no school work and playing a sport, showed that he can hang at the -only two conference wins all year, lic since the promoting efforts 1983 North Carolina St. with while simply playing the sport is D.I level. The line-ups that he but all of a sudden go on a threeare not as strong as football and hard enough for many profesJimmy V running around the put on the field really worked well game winning streak to win the basketball. sionals. floor like a madman. This year however, the staff at and produced off some nice MAAC. The victory celebration The Providence team was playon the court was moving, as McCann are doing their best to plays. ing for every underdog recently , When David beat Goliath, that With this being Cameron's first some of the players had tears of make it interesting for the fans. until they were overcome by the was exciting. Now Goliath must For example, me baseball and la- job at the college level, his high joy streaming down their face. This to me epitomizes what col- Arizona Wildcats. With a little beat Goliath, and I can't help but crosse teams have public address school coaching experience and only graduating two years ago lege sports, especially the NCAA more luck, and some more disci- wish a Providence or a Fairfield, announcers, warm-up music is from Rutgers University really basketball tournament is all pline, perhaps they would still be or any team who experts think played and time-outs are occugave him the experience needed about The underdog, the little playing, but their season ended doesn't deserve to be mere, was pied with music from local radio and seemed to help him to make guy, finally getting a chance at such as no one would have pre- there to make it a little more interstations. the transition. We cannotforget his dream. For Fairfield the dream dicted in the beginning of the esting. On Saturday, the men's lathat he has not yet won a game was just to make the tournament. season. They barely even made crosse team, guided by first-year at the; college level but made ^ coachMatt.Cameron, were sub-, 'I- great^stridesmis^^t weekend^; ject toDoth-bad officiating arid' I am optimistic that Cameron bad luck. Marist seemed to conwill do a respectable job eyen trol the momentum.of the game GRAJ^RAimMicMAP) - and running. &fuckalt and the best pheckingjb> I've ever though he is the only coach of a Botterili added goals in the final, seen'by any team,", Biais saidx and led 12-9 with only a few minprogram with close to 30. non- Any te^ttathkhopestp dethrone I;i9ofthe-first period. Then - "We know all about.CC. and utes left to play. The momentum scholarship athletes. This is a defendingNCAAhockey chanv BofteriliandMatt Herr scored'in they know a lot about us,"' „ then faded as Providence scored tough job for anyone, especially pica Michigan is going-to have the first'57 see6ftds'6f the $ec-,- TheFightingSiouxjuppedout three unanswered goals to send its hatrfs fait a rookie coach. the game into overtime. /They give you so many dif- ond period to giVe ^ W o l v e r - to a 2-0'lead on go>is by Jay The Red Foxes host Fairfield ferent things to deal with* said ines a5-0 lead- , ' "-,-'-' - Panzer and Kevin Hoogsteen; Witfi overtime being four min*We had a little letdown after . but Cornell gota'power-piay goal utes sudden death, the Red Foxes University on Wednesday, Mjflttes^eeaslt Doug 'Woog, March 26 at Leonidoff field. The 'that," Botterili'sald; "We got a by Tony Bergia with 19 seconds needed to regain the momentum wioSpt^lrdWBxi»rlence. , v Stags are supposedly, the top little twjfteewheelingand spread left in'the, first period to cut the and come out aggressively. Usu• I^Wolvetuje&Foli^ipasEhls' ally the backup goalie, PJ. Wil- team of me MAAC and if Marist Gopher 7^4 m an NCAA West out on. defense'in.the second, margintoone, '' ' / /„ son made some unbelievable pulls off an upset, this will send regional game Sunday to earn a period, i>at after fliatwegotback' ; Cwfis-Mnrphyscaiedfor the FightingSiouxat 1:11'pf the'sec'"" ~ saves to keep the Red Foxes an important message to all of ^InllRnsday^naticraalsetni- to the basics." Marist's opponents. 'oiKtperiod, but ComeliVMatt alive. Then referee Andy finals againstBostontlniveisity. » Minnesota cut the lead to 6^3 Martinez decided Marist's fate. Chris Smith is the Circle's - Tlteothersemifisalistfrotnme, onconsecotivepowertphiygoals ' Cooney matched it'on a,power. After Wilson stopped a high shot Sports Editor. Westregionalis North 'Dakota, by Erik Rasmassen, his second- playat3:08. - \ ' '/;'; / ' " ~ and managed to hold onto the which skatedl»a6-2 victory over e d j h e game*1 and' Casey ' , North- Dakota goalie Aaron Cornell onSuhday. TheFighting - Hankinson-Jate in the second * -Schweitzer,made some good Sioux'wffiplayCoIorado College, - period, but Morrison-scored on saves to, preserve the one goal inmeh-se^n^algameJnMilwaa- - abreakaway wife 2:25 Ieft,in'the', lead until Buli$coredat9';2f. and kee: , , "*" /- • \ second period to up Michigan's DeFauw,made it/5-2 at 1&49. ./' - '• , Matt Henderson completed ;the ''Michigaaiias'spee'd, size,' .lead bacfcto four. hand sk01s,and good coaching," , Michigaaimproved to 35*3^4, , scoring with an empty-net goal; ...continuedfrompage 16 Woog satd« - *Tfcey gJve',you-a setting asehcdltecordfor; victor' s '; "The game'didn't start out the way we wanted,? .said^Corneli pretty b^moontaht tocIimW*- ' ries,in;a season.' ---'-. coachMikeSchafer/Tiie^whole Van Lenten, seniors Mark nament in a tricky situation. .' -NodK Dakota (2940-2) broke And If sevea bigger when the. Deluccia, Jeff Reese, Peter Regardless of these limitations, Wolverines' top line gets hot, open a close, game midway game didn!t,go the way we Haight, Gina Trapini, Cindy the club is still trying its hardest whkhna^jbeeamecaseinpost-' -thrqugK the third ' wanted/After'they called a Botticelli and junior Chris Jette. to make its name known. Ironi- season playlTlmtmlofBreHdatt ' periodon goals by Jesse,B»11and timeout (at 8:12 of theflurdpe-: The freshmen on the team are cally the hardest place to make a Momson^JasotiBoaerillandBill"•" Brad DePaiiw, and earned a trip , riod) they picked ;Up their level Cost and Vinny Commisso. name for themselves is here on Muckalthas|»roduced 29 goals-, totbeFjtoalFourforthefirsttime of,, ' ' / . ' : * < -"' ' s " "This is thefirstyear in a long the Marist campus. Deluccia intheC^HApIayoffsandNCAA - since wjinmng.the NCAA cham- intensity. When they,scored that time that I can say that the Presi- summed it up best by saying: "If tournament. , Morrison and pionship in 1987, , fourth goal, it was over as far as dent is leaving, but we still have we could get the Marist students Botterili each had two goals "We just hope we can keep on they were concerned.", ,* a solid future," Renda said. "Ev- to realize we have a team, we against Minnesota and Muekalr golng,".,said Fighting Sioux In Saturday^ NCAA Westreery year, when the President left would be a lot better off." coach,Dean Biais. "We didn't gionaigames>Np..6 seed Cornell scored one. the club took a step back." "Our goal this year was to be a think we'dbe in aposition to, win upset No. 3 seed Miami 4-2 and Despite the progress made, better team than last year and I the WCHA championship, but Minnesota rolled past Michigan there is still room for improvethink today we,showed it," . wedid.Itseernslikewejustkeep State 6-3. , / ' ,; ment. The club has been invited Muekalt sard. "We had a lot of knocking off one Attendancefiguresat both sesto the national tournament which ...continued from page 16 respect for Minnesota. It seems , challenge afteranother." sions set West regional records will be held in Idaho, but due to able to display their more aggres- likeeverytimewe'veplayedthem - North Dakota is 34-1 against with Sunday's ;crbwd of 8,926 budget constraints will not be sive play up north as of. yet the last few years WCHA,rival Colorado College breaking the-mark of 8,276 set able to attend. Compound that thanks to^ two rain-outs against it's been aone-goal game," (25-14-4), but that won't make Saturday, with the fact Marist only has two Iona and Fairfield. Marist will try - Momsonscojrea his first goal Biais and his players over-confi- " Botterili, who had two assists racquetball courts, both of which to get dieirfirsthome game in on of the game and 100th of his ca- dent,, to go with his two goals Sunday, are notregulation.That puts the Friday, March 28, against the Yale reer at the"33^secondinarkof the ° "In their game against Denver was named the outstanding club, which wants to host a tour- Bulldogs in a double-header be- first period to %el Michigan off. (in the WCHAplayoffs) they did player in the tournament ginning at 2:30pm. ; .^ IS if w a ii Mckgffli',NOTfl»I^akotaAdvance to NCAA hoclcey FinatFour The 1997 Marist College men's lacrosse team,has stumbled out of the starting gates. Two losses to tough non-conference opponents, and a heartbreaking conference opener against Providence have dropped, the Red Foxes into an early 0-3 hole. The MAAC schedule got underway last Saturday when Marist hosted me Friars of Providence College. Senior co-captain Greg Schneider drew first blood with his first quarter goal— the only shot that hit.the back of the net for either team in the opening stanza. Providence, tied the game 38 seconds into the second quarter, establishing a pattern that would continue for the rest of the game; every Red Fox goal was answered by the Friars as Providence battled from behind time aftertime. The largest lead of the game for Marist was three, which was the margin with 5:33 left in the game. With the score 12-9, Providence's Chris McManus scored two quick goals in less than two minutes, and then Ken Leahy knotted the score at 12 when he scored his third goal of the game, at,the 55:second mark. The Friars' comeback continued as the two teams headed into sudden-death overtime; Marist was unable to generate any offense to counter the Providence "We just gave them too many opportunities-at the end of the' game," the midfielder said. "We played hard, though. I don't really mind losing, one of these games, because the effort was there." . ./t The season began with two non-conference games, a 22-15 loss at me Virginia Military Institute on the road, and another defeat— in the home opener— to Lafayette, by a 9-6 count. At this point in the season, two juniors are the team's statistical leaders. Stuart McMillian, a midfielder, leads the squad with nine goals through thefirstthree games, and attacker Chris Pistello has racked up eight assists. The team's strength this year should be its experience; the six most productive players are all , ***\» juniors and seniors, and are ready to improve on last spring's 7-8 record. Cameron, a 1995 graduate of Rutgers University, spent two years coaching high school lacrosse on Long Island before coming to Marist for hisfirstcollegiate head coaching job. He is optimistic about this campaign. Charles May Senior midfielder Greg Schneider attempts to beat Providence defender on Saturday in 13-12 loss. "We've got a great group of guys here, and we're getting bet"We were playing great," Wil- tried to slow it down," the rookie momentum. ter every, day," the coach said. Red Fox goalie PJ. Wilson made son explained after the game. coach said. "Then they made a "I'm enjoying it so far— we're several quality saves in the extra' "Maybe they just wanted it couple key plays on defense, and just trying to put things together." got the momentum. We couldn't period, but, in his first career start more." Head Coach Matt Cameron, in get back in it. It's too bad, bein net, was not able to stop Matt Pymm's shot with 1:12 left, and his first year with the team, cited cause PJ. did a great job today." Schneider, a pre-season Allthe Friars left Poughkeepsie with a lack of aggressiveness as one reason the lead slipped away. America Honorable Mention sea uirilling 13-12 victory. "We had them at 12-9, and when lection, tried to put a positive The game was not quite as we had the balf oh offense, we spin on the loss. thrilling for the Red Foxes. season opener Raequetball gets recognitiott by MARTY SINACOLA Racquetball Softball- 15 m \ Senior Staff Writer Backinthe middle to late 1980's, some of the best racquetball play-ers in the nation formed a club on campus. Because of the caliber of players these young men were, the club was successful early. However^ after these founders graduated, the club fell uponhard' times* something it had not really completely recovered from until recently.* Things started to look up when current captain and club president,- senior Chris Renda, went out for the club a couple of years ago.' The steady progress they have made is astounding. iC In the last four years, I have not seen this.much,success or turnout," Renda saidv "We are now a constantin the league.** The league is the Eastern Collegiate Racquetball Conference, and it is made up of thirteen teams, but otherteamsnot in the conference are allowed to compete as well, bringing the total to nineteen teams, that compete. The season finished up with Marist finishing fifth among the teams^hteh-as Renda said, is tt^jtehe^showinginthe lastfour yeaife^ThfrRed Foxes finished behind Penn St, Nichols College, Army,andRPl;i , by CHRIS JETTE Staff Writer • The men's tennis team learned. ' that even indoor tennis matches can be canceled if the weather is too cold,. The Red Foxes' scheduled match against NEC rival St. Francis NY was canceled on Sunday because the temperature in"In the conference, we are ex- side of the Dutchess Racquet posed to probably the best-col- Club was toofrigid for the playlege talent out there right now," ers to compete. The match is tryRenda said. "Future profession'-1 ing to be rescheduled. als for sure, and probably OlymThe Red Foxes however were pians." , ' ^ -' able to compete last Wednesday The two names that immedias they opened their season ately come'to mind are Shane against Central Connecticut Wood and Erik Eckmatvbotb of' State University. The Red Foxes Nichols College who are the top were unsuccessful in their opener, 1 two players in the conference. as they dropped to Central ConWood is the fop ranked player in necticut by a score of 6-1. the nation, and is on the junior,' Despite the loss, word around Olyropicteam. -' the Dutchess Racquet Club is The Marist program has made that the Red Foxes are on course strides to make itselfknown, and - for a successful year. is starting to get what they have An assistant for Head Coach been longing for, - , , • Charles Hardman sounded opti"Overall itwas anexcellentsea-' mistic. son, I could not have asked for a' "The team is looking real better season," Renda-said.' strong and should look to win "Now we are getting invitationsdie conference." to numerous tournaments outside of our league, because - One of the players who will people are starting to hear about probably carry the load for the us, and respect our program Red Foxes this season is their No. 1 ranked player Clint Van more." - ' Aswegen. Van Aswegen, who The latest such case wasthe is a junior from Poughkeepsie, in New York State Championships. fact accounted for the only Red Theteamplayed extremely well, Foxes point in the loss to Central and three players made it to the Connecticut. finals of there respective brackRanked second for the Red ets, bringing home trophiesto Foxes is Nathaniel Ferris. Ferris Marist: seniors Ken Prole, Dena is a senior from New York, New Van Lenten, and freshmen Nick York, who is paired with Van Kost. * Aswegen to form the No. 1 The team is made up of eleven doubles team for the Red Foxes. players. They are Renda, Prole, Junior Tony Yacobellis and SePleme$eeMacquetbationpJ4». nior Andrew Janes are returnees from last year's squad who helped propel the Red Foxes into a fourth place finish at last season's Northeast Conference Championships held at Mount St. Mary's. Also looking to have an impact on the Red Foxes success this year is junior transfer Santos "Tito" Orellana, who hails from Newburgh,'New York, and freshman Mike Racanelli, who is from Bedford, New York. Among the top NECrivalsthis year for the Red Foxes include Fairleigh Dickinson University. FDU won the Northeast Conference Tournament held in Emmittsburg, Maryland last year. Although the Red Foxes goal was to finish second in last year's tournament, they finished fourth behind third place Mount St. Mary's and second place Monmouth. This year the NEC Championships are also being held at Mount St. Mary's in Emmittsburg. Besides the aforementioned powerhouses FDU, Mount. St. Mary's and Monmouth, the Red Foxes will also face strong competition from conference rivals Rider and Wagner. As far as non-conference matches are concerned, the Red Foxes battled Fordham University on Tuesday in the Bronx. However, results were unavailable at press time. Besides Fordham and Central Connecticut, other non-conference matches scheduled for the Red Foxes this season include the University of Rhode Island, Siena College, Fairfield University, Manhattan College, Iona College, and St. Peter's College. Perhaps one problem in the scheduling for the Red Foxes this year could be the fact that they have to play against six different teams within a span of just one week. During this week span from April 2nd to April 9th, the Red Foxes have two sets of consecutive matches. They battle Iona on April 5th and then URI on April 6th. Then the Red Foxes travel to Siena on April 8th and come home to take on Monmouth on April 9th. The Red Foxes next match is on March 28th against conferencerivalRider University. Anyone interested in cheering the Red Foxes on can go to the Dutchess Racquet Club. Match time is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Women's Lacrosse...continued from page 16 "Melanie has proven to be a solid player as well as a true goalie, she helps keep us in the game making clutch saves in the final minutes of close games," Piechocki said. On die road this weekend, the Marist women's lacrosse went 11, defeating Duquesne 16-8, and losing to Mount St. Mary's 20-5. Scoring for the Red Foxes in the win, were Amy Hoey with 6 goals, Allison Occhicone with 5 goals, Lindsay Bennet widi 2 and Colleen McMahon with 1. Next up for Marist are the Lady Danes of Albany, at Albany on Wednesday April 2. The Red Foxes open their home season Sunday April 6, at 2:00pm at Leonidoff Field. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: ",.:we have more talent, the players have a better attitude, and we have more ability to win games," —— John Szefc, Baseball Head Coach STAT OF THE WEEK: Senior softball pitcher Michelle Hudson has an ERA of .19 in 29 innings. SPORTS March 26,1997 Baseball wins FDU series; now stand at 8-5 overall 16 THE CIRCLE by PHILLIP WHITE Staff Writer The Marist baseball team won two out of a three game series against Fairleigh Dickinson University this past weekend. On a cold Saturday afternoon at McCann Field, the Red Foxes ended their double-header against FDU with a one and one record. The first game ended with a 9-1 FDU victory, then Marist slid by FDU in the second game with a score of 9-8. On Sunday, the Red Foxes narrowly defeated FDU by a score of 3-0. . "I was happy with our performance, we won two put of three and this series ended better then it started," Head Coach John Szefcsaid. Despite the outcome of this series the Red Foxes do not consider FDU one ofthe their toughest opponents. "They are good at defense, but • •overall they are not one the toughest teams in the NEC (North East Conference)," senior Mark Barron said. "I would say that Monmouth, Rider and Marist are the best teams in the NEC." After the first game, the Red Foxes seemed to focus in on the series. Senior Michael Speckhardt, with a .489 batting average, helped the Red Foxes win the second game by batting in a homerun and a triple. The second.game proved to be the most difficult for the Red Foxes. FDU's pitcher, Acosta with a 4.00 ERA, made it nearly impossible for the Red Foxes to score. Barron's homerun in the sixth in- r^Sr-r; & Charles May Senior shortstop George Santiago at bat in double-header against Fairleigh Dickinson on Saturday. ning allowed Marist to surpass pitcher in the NEC because of his header and finishing it here at performance at this past game Marist this weekend. FDU. "The sixth inning is where we with FDU and with his three seaDuring spring break, the Red sons at Marist," Szefc said. came through," Szefc said. Foxes had a arduous schedule in The third game was a stalemate Another pitcher that proved his Fort Myers, FL. Marist played until junior Eric Becker drove in worth to the Red Foxes is junior teams from all over the country. the winning run. Barron proved Jim McGowen. McGowen has a Marist.ended their exhibition sehis skill by pitching a seven in- ERA of :000. He has three con- ries with a 5-4 record. The Red ning shut out with ten strike secutive saves, one being from Foxes defeated Hofstra, Ameriouts. Szefc considers Barron the this previous series with FDU. can International, New,THamp- Marist plays Sacred Heart at shire and.St. Peter's., Marist lost best pitcher in the Northeast Conference. Barron was. named home on Tuesday, then Hofstra to Valparaiso.and Northeastern. NEC Player ofthe Year in 1996. on'Wednesday and travels to Marist then broke even with Mi"I consider Barron the best Rider-on Friday for a double- ami at Ohio and Pace. "We played good baseball, but we should have beaten Pace," Barron said. Despite the loss to Pace the Red Foxes have a optimistic outlook on their upcoming season. "I feel that our performance in Florida will be a good indication for our season up ahead, but we will win more games," senior George Santiago said. •-•' Szefc feels that this year's team will do better than last season. "We should do much better then last season because we have more talent, the players have a better attitude and we have more ability to win games," Szfecsaid. One of the main obstacles that seemed to be a constant problem to Marist last season was injuries. Barron was out for all of last season due to a minor elbow injury. Szefc looks to improve upon this season because Barron is fully recuperated, who Szefc feels will be a key asset when it comes to must win situations. The Marist baseball program has been getting some attention from Major League Baseball teams. Apparently the.'Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers are interested in some of the Red Foxes players. Their scouts are looking at Baron, McGowen, Santiago and Speckhardt. However, the Red Foxes do not let these scouts affect their level of play and or hinder on their concentration on the game.. ., , "We want to impress the scouts, but we .are more, interested in winning the game and doing our best," Barron said. Women's lacrosse wins Softball looks tofinallyopen season.vs. Yale first game in Division I better the season she had a year captains Hudson and senior out' agoi and'the Red Foxes' ability fielder Roseanne.Daly will at5 tempt to follow the departing duo 1 '-Staff Writer , \ - * to avoid injuries. . • After going-10-5 with a 1.36 outside the lines. - :r Returning players who will gether for a couple of seasons •• It isn't that often that JMarist BRAin'1996, Hanson struggled prior to becoming a varsity sport; has. an-All-American candidate in the'Collegiate Classic, suffer- need to stepup theirievel of play they communicate very well on on a; major-Division I program, ing alossin each,of her three from a year ago are five sophoso naturally wh£p - pitcher^ -starts. -JBSanson amassed an ERA t mores: Andrea €fegliardiTKatnryn thefield,"Piechocki said. The Marist midfield also con- MicheUeHudsoncamebackfix>m . . over eight,.giving up 17 .earned Cheskir Maria Saracinb, Hanson, and Harris. -Junior second sists of senior Jacque Simpson, the softball team's trip to Florida, . runs in 14 innings.' junior Amy Glennon, sopho- wifha4-l record anda0.l9BRA^ -. .With such-a-young and krnall baseman MariaLandolfi will join team;-there.are only 12 players , this list of talented sophomores mores Lindsay Bennet, Colleen heads begad to tup,,, / , ' ; Considering'the;'fact that Onthe.TOstefj-hineofwhich are - in trying ft) lead Marist to the McMahon, Kara Drown and freshman Allison Occhicone. Hudson was named -Northeast " freshmen add, sophom ores; , -NECtitte. „ -•- . Occhicone will be a key role as Corrfererk^PitcherandPJayerof' ;Maristimist stay he&ithyif they, - Hudson is one person who is an offensive catalyst, adding .the Year last-season, lost three want,t6;i,raproveon their,25-12. impressed with^he returning speed and agility to the offen- 'Mmesia;Roridaatu%.CoHegiafe. -oyeratt-iecord and.a~D-3 NEC '-playersshe wuTeount on behind Classic'apd Only losjf three'roore' "record oM.year ago and repeat her.' •""'-.•/, sive rush. times theirestof the season, she •a^cc4ifererK:e'championsJ. < ' W e have a nucleus of young Piechocki is very optimistic appears,*© be Jn good position', ' IHoweVer, sophomore Kern about the youth of the offense. Cor an Aj^American rnu,-'even.if * Halms ,dQes;not;see .aproblem players returning.'Soeyen if ihey are young,, they .provide a solid "We have a very talented she'djbje&-rkrtf^i;sljejs^-, .->-.; - foundation for us to stand on," young offense, who play well \ , 'idon"ire^Iyfetnki^reath ; with^eir^x^enceofhertearn^ • -'-'AIfhoagh:weareyo'ung>the '.• i together." * that level;' Hudson said.-"When';' sophome^-who, start~this'sea- Hudson said./c - ~ • ,••/~ Sofar'Harris has made the bigOn the defensive for the Red I thinic of thecaliber©£players> Foxes are senior Suzanne who are AIl-Americans; it i$ drff ,son played'aiot last, season" so}' geststep .towards improving on O'Brien and juniors Kimberly ftoultfo/rne topatrnyself at that, . we are ali'ased'to, one-ahother. -•her performance/, HaWhatted Metera and Mary Martello. Off level;; Trieteare only 12 or.so Evenby;the'endof Jastyearyou - only .144 iastyear^butaftereight the bench, junior Jennifer players who receive-that honor couldn't-consider us young;*' ^games thisseason hasimproved Mancinelli will challenge the and it is tough forroeto think of* Hairissaid.- -.-' -} % ., "',,.' "•her average .by more than-200 three starters for playing time. myself asone'ofwent,*' she said.- '- Marist's toughestjob this sea- 0 points' to .368. Harris attributes Piechocki looks to her defense - Ho matter how well Hudson* soninay bereplad^gryuaring, some of-her'successto a new as the team's inferno. pitches ^this year,-if third year' ' seniors Laurie Sleight .and Beth * addition to the'Red Foxes. "Our new hitting coach, Joe "They play aggressively and Head Coach Jormah O'Donnell Murphy!. Sleight and Murphy with a great deal of intensity, it and.the Red,Foxes?are planning - -both batted over .300 and pro- .Reardon, has worked a lot with helps boost the level of play on a successful season, they will vided/leadership that must'be -us on being more aggressive at when we are down," Piechocki need <x>atribution$ froim the: en- filled by newcomers and return-' the plate and it has realty paid off for me and everyone else," said. tirejteatn^Two huge factors could ing players. Freshmap Kelly Becker and Harrissaid. ' , , v ; 0 . * „ In goal for the Red Foxes is .determine rhe^fatepf Marist's The Red'Foxes hayehot been sophomore Melanie Kopf. season^'Jenn Hanson^ success v•sx)phorrK)reRacbaei'Amm6ns will at-No:'2 starter to equal if not assume Sleight's and Murphy's , Phase see Softball on p,14.~ Please see W. Lacrosse on p. 15... position on the field* while txh : \ by RACHAEL VOLLARO Staff Writer In their first year as a varsity sport, the Marist women's lacrosse team enters the 1997 season. Coached by Marie Piechocki, the'Red Foxes look to make an impression on the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. This is Piechocki's second season as Head Coach of the women's lacrosse team. Although this is the team's first season at the varsity level, Piechocki is more than familiar with the MAAC, as head coach of the Marist women's soccer team. Piechocki looks to senior cocaptains Amy Hoey and Sue Frost to lead a heavily experienced team. According to the team prospectus, Hoey is described as a strong, powerful player who demonstrates great leadership on both ends of the field, while Frost is dominant on defense, agitating to the opposition. The Red Foxes will be a reputable force at midfield. Seniors Katie Patenaude, Jenna DeMarco and Tracey Skulley will lead the charge. "They have been playing to- - by THOMAS RYAN '