Vol. 48 No. 13, February 29, 1996

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— NEWS —
Housing problems have officials
looking for off campus solutions.
Body piercing takes the traditional
pierced ears to another level
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Volume 48, Number 13
— SPORTS—Men's swim team take MAAC
Championship at Iona
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The Student Newspaper of Marist College
February 29,1996
Ferraro coming tomorrow to kick off Clinton declines invitation
Al Gore forwarded the request
Women's History Month at Marist
by BEN AGOES
by STEPHANIE MERCURIO
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on
human rights and former vicepresidential candidate, will be on
campus tomorrow to kick off
women's history month.
Ferraro will speak about human
and women's rights, as well as
the Beijing document, in the
Nellie Goletti theater at 1:00 p.m.
Please see related story on the
Women's Awarenss Club, p 6.
Ferraro was active in efforts to
pass the Equal Rights
Ammendment, and sponsored
the Women's Economic Equity
Act, which ended pension discrimination against women, provided job options for displaced
homemeakers and enabled homemakers to open IRA's.
Eileen Hickey, Marist graduate
and former member of the New
York state assembly, helped organize the event.
"The Beijing document ad"- -* ' -*• ~~~ Photo courtesy of Public Relations
dresses the human rights of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Geraldine Ferraro, is coming to
women, and how they are treated campus tomorrow and will speak in the theater at 1pm.
in third world countries," said Ferraro's speech is phase one of speak is'perfect'way to kick off
Hickey. "Even though the United the project."
women's history month," said
States is an advanced country,
Hickey said she hopes the pro- Assalti. "Our club will be havsome issues that relate to the glo- - gram will bring women together ing discussions about the issues
bal world can apply to U.S. is- to study the Beijing document she brings up."
sues."
and apply it to women in the U.S.
Sophomore Jaimee Nardiello
Hickey, also a member of the
Joanne Myers, assistant profes- said she is also eagerly awaiting
board of directors at .Eleanor sor of political science, also Ferraro's arrival.
Roosevelt's former residence, helped organize Ferraro's visit to
"I think it's very important to
ValKil, said the board invited 10 Marist.
hear her perspective on the
women who had been in Beijing
"We're working on a proposal Beijing document," Nardiello said.
to speak at the estate.
to have the speech taped and
"We were so moved by the aired on C-Span," said Myers.
women speaking about what
Sarah Assalti, treasurer of the
they had seen in Beijing that we' Women's Awareness Club at
developed the idea to create a Marist, said she is very excited
program called Bring Beijing to hear Ferraro's speech.
Home," said Hickey. "Geraldine ' "Having Geraldine Ferraro
Hopes of having President
Clinton speak at this year's commencement were shattered last
week in a letter from the White
House Scheduling Office.
According to Marist's Chief
College Relations Officer, Tim
Massie, the letter said President
Clinton would not be able to attend the college's commencement
ceremony in May, but that the
request was being forwarded to
Vice-President Albert Gore.
In a recent letter to Gore, Massie
said Marist President Dennis
Murray tried provide several reasons as to why it would be beneficial for Gore to speak at the
college.
One reason, according to
Massie, is the vice-president's
commitment to furthering technology as an educational tool.
Marist is in the forefront .of acquiring new technologies
through its joint study with IBM
and the FDR Library partnership,
Massie said. _ •
Gore is also concerned with environmental issues, something
Massie "said the.coliege excels in
through its.strong environmental science program.
Likewise, Marist is very active
in recycling because of such
clubs as Students Encouraging
Global Awareness (SEGA), said
Senior Class President, Nicole
Montipagni.
Because of this, Massie and
Montipagni said they believe it
would be more appropriate to
have the vice-president come
rather than Clinton.
. "I think Gore will have a message that might be more appealing to Marist students," Massie said.
Montipagni said she thinks
college students would be able
relate to the vice-president more
easily.
"Gore is younger, more our age
bracket," said Montipagni. "I
think his speech will be more directed towards us as youth."
Concerns over security inconveniences that were associated
with Clinton's visit have been
calmed with the prospect of Gore
speaking instead. Massie had
described the security needed
for President Clinton as being a
"logistical nightmare" for the
college, but he expects the atmosphere to be more relaxed if Gore
accepts the invitation.
"The man is only one heartbeat
away from the Presidency," said
Massie, so there will have to be
a certain amount of'security to
ensure his safety.
. According to Massie the col, lege will look outside the political reahrPif Gore cannot attend
commencement.
' Potential alternatives include
people from the business, arts,
or communications fields, but no
names were given.
One concern is that some of the
people in consideration do not
have strong ties to Marist.
"We need to find someone that
is directly or indirectly involved
with the college," said Massie.
Grease fire breaks out
in townhouse kitchen
by TOMMY SCHWAB
Staff Writer
open the window, and the pot had
caught on fire by the time she
turned around.
"We were just heating up oil,
and all of a sudden,'the pot just
caught fire," Thrasher said.
Thrasher said she called
Darragh to help her-put out the
fire, but Darragh stood too, far
from thefireto douse it with a fire
extinguisher.
Darragh then pulled the alarm,
and Thrasher called security.
When security arrived, the eight
residents of the house were
evacuating to the lawn to wait for
the fire department to "respond.
Meanwhile, a security officer
entered the house and doused the
flame with afireextinguisher.
The Fairview Fire Department
arrived at 6:13 p.m., and the firemen inspected the kitchen.
Senior Charisma Thrasher prepared to cook french fries on the
kitchen stove in town house B1.
Moments later, the pot was engulfed in flames, and the fire department was on its way.
According to head of safety
and security Joe Leary, security
received a call about the fire fiom
Thatcher at 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20. Simultaneously,
Thrasher's roommate, junior
Jackie Darragh, pulled the fire
alarm that notified security and
the Fairview Fire Department
"When the call came infiomthe
complainant, we immediately dispatched our officers to the
townhouse," Leary said.
According to Thrasher, the pot
began to fill with smoke before
the actualfirestarted. She ran to Please see Fire, page ...
• Circle.photo/Chris Bcrinato
The Water Works plant is located on campus, causing higher levels of chlorine in Marist's water.
Chlorine level higher than local average
turizing lotion.
According to lab tests conStaff Writer
ducted by Smith Laboratories in
The recent rash of barsh Poughkeepsie, Marist's water
weather, combined with a higher has a chlorine level of 1.5 millithan normal chlorine level at grams of chlorine per liter comMarist, has had students racing pared to the state restaurant
to their nearest drugstore to get drinking water standard of .2 and
their hands, along with the rest .6 milligrams of chlorine per liter.
Freshman Monica Barattia said
of their bodies, on some mois.
by TIM MANSON
she has had to put lotion on her
skin at least twice a day.
"The water constantly dries it
out," she said.
The Environmental Laboratory
Director at the Dutchess County
Department of Health, Robert
Cicilioni, said there could be a
Please see Chlorine, page...
THE CIRCLE; February, 29,
.1996
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In a split second 'Sunday night,
Dole campaign recharged ster.
« "We're getting into a very
| the cord and the insfrurnent. MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Tired . important month, here," Dole
»p|cked satellite weregonerfpr--•;'•
of coming in second, Sen. Bob Dole told reporters. "The changes
ever.'a $400 million-plus experiput a new campaign team in place have been made and we' re movment now just space junk.
Monday, saying his polls had been ing on. That's it." :
\
A-.l-NASA flight director Chucks
too rosy and his ads too negative.
Shaw said it would be too dan- .
"I want to start winning," he as- Columbia loses satellite
gerous to 'send the shuttle after >
serted on the eve of three Western
| the Italian satellite' - the spaCAPE CANAVERAL, Ha.
primaries.
ghetti-thin cord could wrap itself
(AP) - Like a child watching a
Campaigning in Georgia, Dole
around the spaceship.
helium balloon slip from his
scanned the political calendar for
News from the Associated Press
hand, scientists looked on in
Columbiancrackdown
comeback prospects while his camdistress as a half-ton satellite
paign announced the series of perCHIA, Colombia (AP) - The
being towed by space shuttle
sonnel changes, including naming a Columbia broke loose and floated off into the black void, dangling 12 miles people whose greenhouses yield a
of frayed and curled cord.
new chief strategist and a new poll-
New York
and
H
Beyond
ye"ar r6u'nd suppty of cut flowers for
die U.S. market fear they may soon
fall yictini to the warpn^drugs.'.
On Friday, President Clinton will
announce whether the United States
will penalize.Colombia/or its; shortcomings in combating drug-related
corruption^
* ; ; ' -;
If he does; he could impose import tariffs on the roses, chrysanthemums and carnations grown on
this rich savanna outside Bogota.
The flower growers - like many
odier Colombian producers of legal
exports - are afraid.
Clinton orders retaliation against Cuban aggression
By SONYA Ross
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Declaring Cuba's downing of two
U.S. civilian aircraft a "flagrant
violation of international law,"
President Clinton today gave his
support for congressional legislation tightening sanctions
against Cuba.
He also halted all charter air
travel between the United States
and the island nation.
Clinton said he would ask
Congress to authorize the use of
Cuban assets frozen in the
United States to compensgte
families of the pilots, who are
missing and presumed dead.
The president also placed further restrictions in travel in the
United States by Cuban diplomats.
Clinton said the two Cessna
aircraft downed Saturday were
unarmed and "posed no credible
threat to Cuban security."
:
"This shooting of civilian aircraft was a flagrant violation of
international law," he said.
On Capitol Hill, outraged members of Congress predicted swift
passage of the sanctions legislation that the administration pre-
Coaliion seeks to overturn iridecency act
"
by CHRISTIONPER
dren than this or any other law from pornography than protectMcDOtGALL * '" • 1 "'"- could,".said Bill Burrington, gen- - ing children."- ' " ' / . . ., '
[' eral counsel for America Online,
"We don't allow children to
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A the largest commercial Internet " walk into adult-bookstores, and'
coalition that includes com- ,. service in the United States with shouldnTt allow them to freely
puter industry giants Microsoft; more than 4 million members. '
browse the" red light districts of.
and Apple filed a-federallaw-."
Enforcement of,the act has the Internet,either,"; Exon; D-suit Monday to overturn a "new been blocked temporarily by an- Neb., said in a prepared statement
law restricting indecency on the other lawsuit, filed hereFeb. 8 by
The new complaint will be
Internet.
a coalition led by the American consolidated with the ACLU
The lawsuit seeks to over-" Civil Liberties Union. U.S. Dis- - lawsuit, said B r u c e E n n i s , ,
turn the Communications De- trict Judge Ronald Buckwalter Washington attorney for the*
cency Act, which Imposes a said the definition of indecency coalition. A three-judge panel,
$250,000fineand up to six years in the act, signed Feb;* 1 by Presi-, of the U.S. District Court here
in prison for transmitting inde- dent Clinton, was too vague. . is to-consider the issue begincent material in such a way that
The law defines indecency as 1, ningMarch2L •- - ~ . ;.
children could find it,on the "any comment, request, suggest" - • The coalition also includes,
Internet.'..'.
• , ''* ' tion,' proposal; image or other" * among others, CompuServe and
The Citizens Internet Empow- communication that, in context, Prodigy, "both .commercial
erment Coalition argues that - depicts or describes, in" terms' -' Internetservices.theAmerican
there are less restrictive means, patently offensive as measured Library Association, the Socisuch as in-home blocking soft- by contemporary community ety of Professional Journalists,
ware, to protect children orother standards, sexual or excretory, the American Society of Newsusers from offensive material. -", activities or organs." ;\- paper Editors^ the* Association
. "We believe that parental in- ,
Sen. JimExon, on'eqf the law's;, of Aêncan'PubHstiers, the;
volvement, education and tech- sponsors, accused the computer Newspaper .'Association of,
nology provide far more effec- companies in the new lawsuit of America and the Association of
tive solutions to protecting chil- - being "more interested in profits Publishers, Editors and Writers.
viously opposed.
The legislation being considered by Congress would increase economic pressure on
Cuba by barring countries from
reselling Cuban sugar and other
products in the United States;
cutting aid to Russia to the extent that it supports an electronic
intelligence-gathering facility in
Cuba; and ordering the administration to try to block Cuba from
joining international financial institutions.
The House also wants to allow Americans to sue foreign
companies over property confiscated in Cuba. The Senate previously had opposed that.
"All charter air travel from the
United States to Cuba will be
suspended indefinitely," he said.
Clinton insisted the planes
were in international air space
when shot down. The Cuban
government has said they had
crossed into the island's air space.
Press secretary Mike
McCurry, briefing reporters before the president's announcement, said Clinton "approved a
series of steps that the United
States will pursue with the international community and unilaterally that we believe will make it
clear that there's a price for outrageous behavior."
Clinton's options were few.
Military action was not : under
consideration, aides said, and the
current economic embargo has
few loopholes for Clinton to close.
Clinton made the decision af-
ter a 75-minute meeting with his
foreign policy team. ;
They were considering tougher .
restrictions on travel, communications and some financial transactions that Clinton had eased
lastfaU.
Meanwhile, the president's
senior aides also planned highlevel briefings for the CubanAmerican community, hoping to
head off a political storm just two
weeks before Florida's presidentialprimary.
The White House, accused
by Clinton's Republican presidential rivals of being soft on
Cuba, adopted tough anti-Castro
rhetoric.
"This is a brutal regime,"
McCurry said. "It has to get with
history."
McCurry said the United
States still expects Fidel Castro
to abide by agreements that kept
Cuban refugees from flooding
the Florida coast.
In Havana, Cuba's official
news agency said the government has a pilot who had been
associated with the exile group
that operated the downed planes
and "this pilot knows a great;
deal."
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U.S. officials said they doubted
anyone aboard the downed
planes couid have survived the
attack/
The head of the group that operated the downed planes said
the pilot in question may be a
Cuban spy who has returned to
Cuba.
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Conservation group is alarmed about state agreement Mtii GE
copy of the agreement last week
under state Freedom of Information statutes.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - An agreeSheffer acknowledged that lawment between the Pataki admin- yers for state Attorney General
istration and the General Electric Dennis Vacco have raised conCo. absolves the company for cerns about the DEC signing the
blame for the worst current agreement without input from the
source of PCB contamination on attorney general's office.
the Hudson River, a conservation
"In retrospect, should we have
group contended Monday.
consulted the attorney general
Scenic Hudson of more? Possibly," Sheffer said.
Poughkeepsie contends that the "But that doesn't take away from
deal, made in June 1995, essen- the fact that this is a very good
tially removes penalties against order."
GE f or violations the state said
Vacco earlier criticized DEC's
the company had committed commissioner, Michael Zagata,
when PCB contamination was for not letting Vacco's lawyers be
discovered in 1994 at GE plants a party to negotiations leading
in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls up to last summer's agreement
north of Albany.
between the DEC and GE over
More importantly; last year's company pollution in Waterford.
agreement could also prevent
Under a new Pataki administraNew York officials from finding tion program, GE was allowed to
that GE violated a 1976 compact make tax-deductible contribuwith the state which limited the tions for conservation-oriented
company's liability for pollution community projects in the Althe Hudson in exchange for GE's bany area instead of being fined
promise not to discharge the by the state for the contaminachemical again into theriver,said tion.
Scenic Hudson environmental
The state Assembly is also
director Cara Lee.
looking into the June 1995 agree"By establishing these (1994) ment, said Richard Brodsky, a
violations, it would have re- Westchester County Democrat
byJOELSTASHENKO
opened the issue of General
Electric's liability for the contamination of the Hudson River," Lee
said. "That is a massive problem,
probably our biggest contamination problem in the state. It has
huge public health and economic
implications." :
Scenic Hudson released a letter calling on Gov. George Pataki
to undo the 1995 agreement.
A spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Conservation said the deal only
forces GE to investigate where
contamination from PCBs and
other substances is originating
at its Fort Edward and Hudson
Falls plants. The company will
have to develop a plan to stop
the chemicals from leaking and
to clean up the sites, he said. •
"It does not affect the state's
ability in any way to seek additional penalties," Sheffer said.
"It's getting a lot of work done at
the site. It gets done exactly what
the notices of violation sought
to get done."
The agreement was apparently
unknown to state agencies other
than the DEC or to state legislators until the past month.
Scenic Hudson obtained a
who chairs the Assembly's en- does not preclude penalties or
vironmental conservation com- prevent cleanup of the sites.
."The issue of penalties was
mittee.
;-;
Brodsky said he has asked neither raised nor resolved in the
Zagata for DEC documents re- consent orders, and the cleanup
lated to the 1995 consent order, has been underway for years,"
as well as copies of all consent the statement said.
PCBs, or polychloririated bidecrees between the state and
GE signed since Pataki became phenyls, where widely used in
GE electric products such as
governor in January1995.
Brodsky said if the 1995 deal transformers before being
precludes the state from holding banned in 1977.
GE responsible for long-term PCB
They have been linked to canpollution in the Hudson, then the cer in laboratory animals and
implications are "extraordinary many kinds of fish in the Hudson
serious."
•
have levels of the chemical above
GE released a statement Mon- that considered safe for human
day saying the 1995 agreement consumption.
Weekend
e
Cold weather is
returning!
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T H E CIRCLE, February
29,1996
3
:
Friday:
.
Fair and cold. High 15 to
25. Lows zero to 10.
Saturday:
Chance of snow. Highs in
the 20s. Lows zero to 10.
Sunday:
Partly cloudy, chance of
snow showers. Highs in the
20s. Lows in the teens.
Source: Associated Press
Ipusingron^^
looking beyond campus
concern," lie said.
Several offrcampus areas being discussed,bigSome
of the options the colincluding Sheraton Hotel. & West Cedar lege has been pursuing are lo-;
b y B E N A G O E S AND
STEVE LiNDEMAN
StaffWriters
Marist is searching for hew
ways to resolve its housing problems, which includes expanding
beyond campus.
.
According to Jim Raimo, director of housing and residential life,
Marist is seeking to end its 15year-old housing problems by
nexffall.
;
.;•• Most .of the problems, Raimo
said, revolve around finding
space for student housing. •.-•':•
The situation was better in the
past when the college owned
three off-campus housing complexes.
•
These housing accommodations were abandoned two years
ago when the Mid-rise was built,
but the need for off-campus
housing is still apparent. '>•
Executive Vice President Mark
Sullivan said the college is currently unable to provide all of the
students with the option of oncampus housing.
"We simply cannot accommodate all of the students that want
to live here," Sullivan said.
According to Sullivan, the
Building and Grounds Committee
is considering several proposals
that would disperse Marist students
throughout
the
Poughkeepsie area.
According to Tim Massie,
Marist's chief college relations
officer, one option is for the college to renovate existing buildings in the downtown area, such
as the Luckey Piatt building.
Massie said he thinks offering
housing in the downtown area
would be good for the community.
"It would revitalize downtown
because there would be a steady
stream of-new.residents every
year," said Massie.
' Raimo said turning the area into
a college town may also help increase thequality of life for Marist
students in Poughkeepsie.
"I think the (off-campus) housing places have realized the importance and value of this college," he said.
^However, Raimo said security
could be a problem associated
with downtown college housing.
"How safe the area is will be a
cated near low-income housing
complexes, which Raimo said
he does not consider the most
ideal living environment for students.
Marist is also looking into offering housing at locations such
as the Sheraton Hotel, Corlies
Manor on Flannery Ave., and
Hunnington Estates.
Raimo said he does not expect
it would cost any more to live at
the Sheraton or Corlies Manor
than it does living at Marist. He
also said students may havethe
option of living at the Sheraton
by this fall.
Long-term housing solutions
include Marist erecting.new dormitories. One possible site for a.
new dormitory is, a seven-acre
plot on West Cedar Street that is
currently being used for storage.
Marist Real Property Services
Inc., a non-profit corporation
owned by Marist, purchased the
- land last September. According
to Sullivan; the corporation
bought the land primarily for
long-term tax liability..
Raimo said planning the development of the land will be slow
because of the college's tight
budget. Aside from housing,
Marist is.also trying to find solutions for library expansion and
McCann Center renovation.
One reason Marist abandoned
its college housing complexes
two years ago was because the
college was losing money. Just
one complex cost $1.5 million for
upkeep, which was more than the
amount collected from its residents.
Raimo said another reason was
the inconvenience of students
having to commute 5 or 10 minutes to class. If a student forgot
his or her homework, it would not
be as simple as sprinting across
campus to get it.
According to Marty Rule, the
assistant director of housing and
residential life, the cost of student housing will be raised by
$10 or $15 per semester per person next year. However, the exact raise in cost has not yet been.
approved by the Board of Trustees.
Last year, the cost of housing
was $1968 for dormitories, $2237
for Gartland and the old
townhouses, and $2288 for the
new townhouses.
Rule said room selection packets containing priority point information will be out in about a
week.
Shawn McGuirk, resident director for the North End, said problems with a lack of priority points
will be about the same as last year,
which left about 150 students
without campus housing.
"The admissions office constantly lets more students in than
they can house," he said.
Mara elected as next leader of SGA
Many candidates unopposed
Class of 1999 had only contested race
by STEVE GEOGHEGAN
Staff
Writer
. N o w that class elections are
over, many students are wondering why so many candidates ran
unopposed.
Although the class of 1999 was
an exception, many positions in
student government had only
one nominee; and only two candidates ran for student body
president. ;
Mikael Carlson, the current Student Government Association
president, attributed this to a lack
of interest among uppefclassmen
in wanting to make a difference
during their last years atMarist.
"Many of those students who
live offkeampus and are sopho-
since I've been at Marist, and
student government hasn't done
anything to change my life significantly," Spittler said.
.. However, some students feel
SGA is doing a great job and will
continue to improve in the future.
Freshman Craig Coulter acknowledged that although student government has problems
in trying to change things at
Marist, those involved are working hard to benefit the student
body in the best way possible.
"If a student needs help in any
way whatsoever or has a prqbr.
lem, I know student government
is there for them," Coulter said.
Bob Lynch, Director of Student
Activities, said he believes the
main problem as to why so few
"Many of those students who live off-campus
and are sophomores and juniors feel that there
is no need for them to participate."
- Mikael Carlson, SGA President
mores and juniors feel that theres
is no need for them to participate\
because they are almost finished1
with their education," Carlson1
said.
Liz Spittler, a junior English1
major, said people who may wantt
to run for office may also be in-timidated by those who have;
been immersed with SGA for an1
extended period of time.
"I think students are discour-aged in running because thosej
involved with student govern?r
ment at this time have been in itt
for a long time, and a person1
competing against them may feelI
they don't have a chance due to>
n^lackofexpenence,"Spittlersaid.L
Spittler also said that SGA hass
a few flaws due to a lack of impact the association has on thee
college careers of many upper-classmen.
"I've voted every semesterr
members of the student body, did
not run for posts within government is due to the fact that some
may just be concentrating on
their futures.
"A lot of students are here for
academic pursuits, and they are
really gung-ho about it, and they
have other things going on in
their lives, so maybe they don't
have room for it at this time,"
Lynch said.
Whatever the reason is as to
why students haven't taken a
greater interest in student government, the fact is those newly
elected officials will be trying to
improve campus life at Marist for
the better within the next few
years.
"I think the new officers are
going to do the best they possibly can to speak out for those
students that want to be heard,"
Carlson said.
Circle photo/Chris Berinaio
THE VOTES ARE IN - Junior Pat Mara was
elected the new SGA president last week. A
total of 837 students voted over 14 hours, representing 29 percent of the student body,
Mara, who ran against Erik Molinaro, vowed to tackle
the activity fee issue by proposing to raise it $5 or
$ 10. He also said the campus needs to be more unified and actively involved in the community.
Events being planned to utilize campus green
by T I M MANSON
Staff
Writer
As warm weather gradually
becomes the norm and the grass
begins to turn greener, the campus green awaits activities that
will make it live up to its billing
as the focal point of the campus.
Appropriately, Earth Day will
be the first major event to take
place on Marist College's new
green.
Other possible events include
graduation, concerts, class wars
(a type of field day), and a
psuedo drive-in movie.
Robert Lynch, director of Student Activities, said he is very
excited about the new site.
"We want to celebrate spring
just as much as the students do,"
he said.
The Student Activities Office is
working overtime, according to
Lynch, with a number of events
planned or in the early planning
stages.
Earth Day, which will take place
on April 27, is the biggest activity and interactive event planned
Please see Spring, page 7...
THE CIRCLE, February 29,1996
Students-Want advisor who pushes them in right direction
Staff Writer uS
Finding the perfect advisor may
involve both planning, and a little
lUCk.
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They eaihe regardless J
of riiihy sleetor sno w...
...the junior class
by STEVE GEOGHEGAN
Staff Writer
'
The office of Academic Advisement places ihcoithing freshmen and transfer students with
advisors in their major. If the student is undecided, he or she is
placed with an advisor in an area
of interest the student may have.
Kelly Kenefick, a freshman,
came to Marist undecided and
was placed with an advisor from
the Math department.
"My advisor answers questions about other classes, but we
don't talk about what fields I can
go into," said Kenefick. "It
would be better if I had a different advisor, because I know my
major will have nothing to do
with math."
Robin Torres, director of Student Academic Advisement, said
that students can change their
advisor at any time.
"The student can.fill out a
change of advisor form, or when
the student changes or declares
a major, they can request a new
advisor," Torres said. "The process takes about one to two
weeks to complete."
Torres said that if the student
does not request a different advisor when they change their
major, they will not receive a different advisor.
"If the student gets along well
Circle pboto/Jasoa Liguori
A students meets with Professor Bibrecently.Students look to their advisors for guidance aobut course choices and careers.
but they still need guidance,"
with the advisor, they'll want to said he was unaware of the forms to change to a different one.
keep their current advisor, even needed for the change.
"Our schedules conflict, and I said Torres. "Not only do adviif the advisor is not in their new
"My advisor pushes for fi- can't get an appointment with sors help pick out classes, but
major," Torres said. "A consis- nance classes, even though fi- her," Engler said. "I need some- they can direct a student towards
a major or minor that's right for
tent relationship with an advisor nance isn't my major anymore," one who is more available."
them."
is the real heart and soul of ad- Larco said. "I need an advisor
vising."
who can help me choose the best
Torres said that finding the
Torres said students can pick
Sophomore Tony Larco re- classes for marketing."
right advisor is very important.
up forms to change their advisor
cently changed his major from
Meredith Engler, also'a sophofinance to marketing, but did not more, said that she is unhappy
"Students use the course cata- in both the Registrar office and
change his advisor because he with her advisor too and wants logue to pick out their courses, Office of Academic Advisement.
Marist asking FCC for non-eommercial radio
station; wcmld broadcast to 3 local counties
by MICHAEL GOOT
"The campus is really rich in terms of talent
and personalities. I am sure that will lead to
Marist is trying to boost its radio power with a bid to the Fed- interesting on-air programs."
Staff Writer
eral Communications Commission.
On Jan. 11,1996, Marist College filed an application with the
FCC for a non-commercial radio
station located in Rosendale, NY.
The radio station's signal, originating from an antenna on top of
Shauperteak mountain, would
cover the area east to central
Dutchess County, west to central Ulster County, north to die
Columbia County border and
south to Wappingers Falls.
Dennis J. Murray, president of
Marist College, said students
have inquired for years about the
possibility of a radio station that
would reach off campus.
"I told them if the FCC had a
new frequency open up or if a
station became for sale at a reasonable price, the college would
try to acquire it," he said.
Susan Roeller Brown, executive assistant to the president,
and Guy Lometti, dean of the
school of communications,
worked with Murray on the proposal.
One thing the college had to
list on the application was how it
would integrate the radio station
into it's curriculum. Brown said
Marist also had to demonstrate
how the station would be used
to benefit the community.
"Radio and television stations
are licensed in the public interest They go over the airwaves,"
she said. "Part of your qualification as an applicant is how you
- Dennis Murray, Marist College President.
will do public affairs programming, programming in the public
interest."
Brown said if the college acquires the radio station, public
interest programming could be
developed that would make use
of established Marist institutions, like the Bureau for Economic Research and the Marist
Institute for Public Opinion. The
radio could then report on current issues raised by these outlets, v
Brown also said the station
would keep people informed
about news.
"Programming could include
remote broadcasts of local government sessions and town meetings," she said.
"There
would also be an effort to share
cultural activities, and it would
serve as an outlet for events happening on campus."
Murray also said die station
would benefit all Marist students,
not only those majoring in
communications.
"Political science students
might do something relating to
current issues. Science students
might investigate environmental
science issues," he said. "Even
students in the fine arts could
contribute something."
According to Murray, the station would be an asset to the
community.
"It gives us another way to
develop good programming that
is beneficial to the Dutchess and
Ulster County communities that
really is not available over commercial stations," he said.
Murray said Marist has a wellrespected communications program and long tradition of service to me community. In addition, he said the campus has a
wide variety of people who could
contribute to the radio station.
"The campus is really rich in
terms of talent and personalities," Murray said. "I am sure
that will lead to interesting onair programs."
There are seven other applicants for the station. According
to Brown, the FCC first has to
make sure all applicants meet the
criteria and can be considered for
filing. It could take from 12 to 18
months before afinaldecision is
made.
The process is being further
delayed pending the FCC's rewriting of the criteria it uses to
grant licenses, Brown said.
There were some legal complications that forced the FCC to reevaluate its criteria.
"There apparently was a court
challenge by an applicant as to
how the decision was made to
grant a particular radio station,",
she said. "The courts upheld the
plaintiff and ordered the FCC to
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"As a class, we don't have
many opportunities to get
together as a whole, but I
think everyone had a great
time Friday night, and the
snowstorm made it all the
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Snow and icy weather could
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The weekend of February 1618 included the annual junior
- Chris Laline, Junior .
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Although the snowfall that ac- taken care of last year because
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students who had to wait quite a
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Junior John Fiordalisi, who
lives on Academy Street, waited
more than an hour for a cab before one of his housemates decided to bring him and his friends
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However, Terri Carrozza^ who tables," Carrozza said.
put in a lot of time setting up this
According to Laline, the formal delivered."
and the rest of the junior class
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Candidates not allowed to explain platforms
when soliciting signatures for their petitions
Staff Writer
Although campaigning for student government is over, some
students feel the candidates
could have done a better job in
making themselves and their
goals known.
Campaigning for the student
. government candidates began at
midnight, Feb. 12 and ended at
midnight, Feb. 18. During this
time, candidates had the opportunity to hand out propaganda,
hang up flyers, and go door-todoor explaining their platform to
students.
Melissa Rout, a sophomore,
feels the candidates did not
spend enough time campaigning with the. students.
"The candidiates should have
interacted with the students
more," said Rout. "I have no idea
who they are. The only person I
know who's running is Pat Mara,
and that's only because his posters are so funny."
According to Kate O'Callaghan,
elections commissioner, the candidates are required to petition
for student signatures, so that
they can run for an office. This is
not atime,however, to talk about
their platforms.
'The petitions are a way for the
students to be able to see the
candidates faces, and put a name
with the face," said O'Callaghan.
'The candidates want to be endorsed, and this is an opportunity for them to meet people."
O'Callaghan said that the candidates cannot talk about their
platforms while petitioning because of Student Government
standards set when the organization began.
"Petitioning is not a time when
candidates are allowed to campaign," said O'Callaghan.
However, Gina Aitch, a junior,
said that the only time she saw
the candidates was during petition time.
"I have no clue about their platforms, and if I vote, I'm not going to have a clue who to vote
for," said Aitch. " I signed a lot
of petitions, but I don't know
what the candidates' platforms
.were.".-;'-..
Candidate debates were held in
theNellyGolettiTheateronFeb. 13.
Nicole Lombardo, a junior, said
that she never saw the debates.
"I think the candidates should
have done something other than
just the debates;" said
Lombardo. "They really didn't
do anything to promote themselves."
Donna Nastasi, a sophomore,
said that the candidates' lack of
publicity has prompted her decision not to vote. . : .
"The campaigning and the voting aren't a big deal on campus,"
said Nastasi. "They're really not
a big deal to me."
Mara wants to see student escort service
bySTEVE LlNDEMAN
Staff Writer
The main concern of Pat Mara,
President elect of student government, on his electoral campaign focused on the security
guard rotation and the security
escort service.
The security Guard rotation is
apriority issue for Mara's presidency. This would permanently
station the Guards at a particular
post at one of the five dormitories on campus.
Currently, security guards rotatefrombuilding to building on
a weekly basis, making them more
familiar with the building, and
knowing all the, students living
there, said Mara.
"A security Guard posted at
a permanent dormitory would
prevent any noh-Marist students from entering the building," who may have found, stole,
or borrowed someone else's ID,
he added.
Not knowing the students at a
personal level may increase the
chances of any problems, said
Mara. The second issue which is still
in it's rough stages of production is the proposed escort service.
The current system of escorting students from one part of the
campus to their dorms or housing complex leaves open the post
Jiat the guard was attending to.
Mara said the new system would
have a specialized escort that
would specifically be used to
escort students. Problems of the
escort service are the costs of
training the guards, which hold
at $130. per guard.. .
The legality and finances of the
system are the biggest concerns,
said current SGA president Mike
Carlson who is hopeful about the
issue.
"I think the idea would be a
benefit to Marist," said Carlson.
Most of the decisions on the
escort service proposal cannot
not be made until after the yearly
safety and security report, put
together by SGA.
The number of security Guards
on campus has decreased over
the years, says Carlson.
Women's Awareness Club-preparing
for Women's History Month
Women's History Month is
being kicked off with a bang, but
it won't end quietly either.
According to Rebecca Lane,
president of. the Women's
Awareness Club, they have some
interesting ideas for throughout
March.
"We plan to have two round
table discussions, and a coffee
house," said Lane.
Lane said there are also some
other projects in the works, but
did not want to speculate on
them until they are confirmed.
The round table discussions
Numerous activites are being planned
throughout March to commemorate women
who made a difference in fighting for the
liberation of women rights. Here are a few events:
• March 1-GeraldineFerraro Visits
The U.S. ambassador to the UN will speak at Marist at 1pm in
the Nelly GollettiTheater.
• M a r c h 7-Career Expo
The National Organization of Women (NOW) will hold an
alternate career expo in CC Room 125 at 7:30pm. A panel will
discuss alternate career choices for women.
• March 9 - Rally at SUNY New Paltz
The Internatinal Women's Day March for Women's Rights
will take place at SUNY New Paltz from to 2-5pm. Speeches,
music and poetry will be featured.
• - March 20 & 27 - Roundtable Discussions
The Women's Awareness Club is sponsoring roundtable
discussions in the Performing Arts Room during activity hour.
Distribution of condoms and women's issues will be discussed.
• March 21 - Coffee House
A Coffee House will be held in the Cabaret, with the time
announced at a later date.
Fire is second of its type in one week period
...continued from page L
According to Deputy Chief Richard Dormeyer, the firemen had
to break a hole in the wall next to
the stove.
"The hole was made to make
sure the fire hadn't extended
through the wall," Dormeyer
said.
After the house was secured,
the firemen questioned the girls
about the situation. Dormeyer
said the fire department determined that the fire was accidental.
A maintenance technician later
entered the house to examine the
overhand he discovered that the
fire had been caused by grease
that got into the burner.
Darragh and Thrasher explained to security, maintenance,
and the firemen that the oven had
not been working properly.
"Itwouldsometimessparkifwe
would cook on the stove,"
Darragh said.
However, the maintenance
technician told the girls that the
oven was in good condition without faulty wiring.
Thrasher said the security of-
are planned for the last two
weeks ofMarch and will involve
both faculty and students. The
first discussion will center
around the distribution of
condoms on campus. The second will be an open discussion
about women's issues.
A decision hasn't been made
yet as to where the discussions
will beheld.
The coffee house will also be
held towards the end of the
month and will focus on women
in literature, poetry and music.
Source:-Women's Awarensee Club
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...continuedfrom page 1.
number of factors contributing to
the high level of chlorine in
Marist's water.
Cicilioni said one possibility is
the recent water contamination
problem in the area. There were a
high number of protozoan in the
water, which can be killed by
chlorine as long as a lot of it is
used.
Another possibility, according
to Cicilioni, is Marist's geographic location.
The Poughkeepsie Water
Works plant is located on the
college's campus, next to the railroad tracks by the Mid-Rise. As
a result, students are likely to get
the first glassfulls of newly filtered water
The government tries to maintain an overall chlorine reading
of .2 milligrams per liter throughout Dutchess County, said
Cicilioni. In order to maintain this
level, they have to start with a
lot of chlorine. When the chlorine filters out through the rest
of Dutchess County, the average
level will only be .2 milligrams.
"Marist will probably always
have one of the highest residuals around the area because it is
so close to Water Works," said
Cicilioni. "It is most likely one of
the first service connections."
Representatives at Smith Laboratories, said the end result is
mat Marist's water might be bad (sure tb\MaristWa..scbj^
enough to cause annoying little • t ^ t u d e n l ^ o u i d ; | ^
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"You can drink pool water and
make a big difference oh your
it's not going to kill you either,
resume," he said.
but that doesn't mean it tastes
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good," said Dennelly.
know how .competitive"curLapr;;
^plication- is going to bj&'y;'• '\' : ;c
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Murray;sa&l'the college will
remain; committed to meeting
the communications needs of its
students, even if it is not
-granted the:license. • -" ' s.
"If this 'doesn't work, we'll
continue to find a way to deliver a station for the students
on campus," he said.
ID swiping and 'changing of the guards' part of effective security
by MICHAEL- GOOT
Staff Writer
^Security measures are "constantly changing at Marist in order to provide the most effective
means of enforcement.
First there was the initiation of
the I.D. card swiping system in
the freshmen and sophomore
residence halls. More recently,
the entry officers are rotating
among the residence halls with a
new guard being posted in each
dormitory every week.
According to Joe Leary, director of safety and security, some
people thought that with the introduction of the swiping system,
the dorm guards would be
phased out. Leary said there is
no such plan at the moment.
"I know there is some thought
in some of the administration that
we would phase out the security
guards," he said. "I have been
fighting it."
Leary said both the swiping
system and entry guards are
needed to prevent unauthorized
people and contraband from entering the building.
The entry guards began rotating posts at the beginning of
this semester. Leary said he initiated the change to ease the
burden on entry officers so one
guard, for example, wouldn't
have to do a large residence hall
like Champagnat for the whole
year.
He said he also did it to decrease familiarity between guards
and students.
"There's nothing wrong with
familiarity," he said.; "It is wrong
[when] the rules are not being
enforced equally because 'I
know that guy'."
Leary said that although some
resident directors and students
especially were not thrilled about
the change, he felt it was needed
to restore the security guard's
objectivity.
"I think when I start hearing my
security officers referring to the
students as 'my kids', I know
they're losing their objectivity
and if they want to be loved,
they're in the wrong business,"
he said. ..
Bill McPeck, an entry officer,
said the swiping system started
in Leo and Sheahan halls and it
was never part of any plan to
phase out the entry officers.
McPeck said having the swiping system as well as the entry
guards is beneficial because of
the amount of information it provides.
"It keeps a record into the computer of who went into the building," he said. "It also makes the
student aware that they should
hayetheir I.D.^cafd with them at :
all times. As for people who
don't live in the residences, it still
has to be written [down] where
people are going and coming
from."
McPeck said the entry officer
is needed to observe what's going on outside and to watch
packages kids are bringing into
the building to make sure there's
no alcohol. Also, if students
come back from being put drinking and need medical attention,
the entry officer can contact a
resident assistant.
McPeck said the swiping system Marist uses has gotten a
positive response from parents.
"Parents love it, just from what
I've heard being in the mid-rise,"
he said. "When they have parents weekend and they see the
swiper, they think it's the greatest thing in the world."
McPeck also said students
from other colleges seem to be
impressed with the security that
is present here.
"They all wish they had something similar in their school," he
said:
McPeck, who used to work in
the mid-rise, said he doesn't
mind the hew rotating system. He
said it has given him a better understanding of how to do his job.
He said that although it is important to get know the students,
students shouldn't take advantage of security officers.
"Even when I went back to the
mid-rise, I handled things differently," he said.
Entry officer Jerry Guido said
he does not like the new rotation
system because it hinders the
entry guard's ability to know every student
"I think theentry officer should,
know the students who live in
the dorm," he said. "When the
dorm guard doesn't know a student, too many things can happen.
Guido said the possibility of
switching over completely to an
I.D. card system is too risky.
"Then you don't have any security, because anybody [can
come] through these doors,' he
said.
Guido said that people can try
to fool the security guards by
swiping an. ID- that isn't their
own. It's often too difficult for
the security guard to take a look
at the photo of every person who
swipes to see if it matches the
person who is holding the card.
"You only hear the beep and
the guard let's them go
through," he said, "but if the
dorm guards know the [students'] faces, that can be prevented.
Circle phoiu/Jason Liguori
The LD. card swipe system left many students thinking that entry guards would be eliminated.
Guido said students are not
enthusiastic about the new system.
"It really bothers them that they
don'thave a [regular] guard anymore," he said. "They don't feel
secure."
He also said if familiarity with
students is causing lax enforcement of the rules, then individual
officers should be spoken with.
According to Kelley Martin,
resident director for Marian Hall,
students may feel like security's
regulations are infringing upon
their freedom, but they are very
necessary to protect their safety.
"When students first go away
to college, at any college or university, they think they're going
to have ultimate freedom and no
college or university offers that,"
she said. "We have a little community to protect and just like
any community, you're going to
have your regulations."
Martin said security has done
a great job in protecting the students, however it is impossible
for security to come up with every possible scenario that could
happen.
"You can't secure everything
110 percent and still give students independence," she said.
"I think security has tried to be
pro-active, but we can't secure
ourselves against every type of
incident that may or may not occur."
Martin said students can also
take steps to improve security
themselves by doing things like
reporting incidents they see,
walking in groups and realizing
they need to take safety measures
when they're outside the Marist
community.
A spring approached so doesuse of the green
fect is the commencement cer...continued from page 3. \
emony" af graduation.
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; Amy Donahue, president of v- -TimMassie, chief relations qfthe Social -Workers Association, - ficer,saidhavihggraduationoutsaid "as much .willL be "done as. • side was one of die original reapossible to publicize this event, sons.that the green was built.
including notifying local news;'. However," no one will be able to
media. Speakers will address" say whether graduation will be
this, year's .theme y of "* held inside or outside until afew
homelessness. There will also > days before graduation. •
Massie said another plan for
be a homeless village and posthe green is to have a regular,
sibly a concert
- :
Lynch said the key to haying concert series, outdoors. Marist
. is working on booking the
these events is the weather
"It can quickly put an end to Hudson Valley Philharmonic for
this summer, as long as thegrass
all the fun," said Lynch.
.One event the weather can ef- and ground setde, he said.
.However, junior Tim O'Brien
said he has other ideas for.out-.
dooractivities on the green. "
*I think we should have floor/
dormpahies, where a particular
floor or dorm gets to have music^ foqd, and activities, so
people can get to know the
people they live with," said
O'Brien.'
. John" Krokus, a-sophomore,
said he agreed.
"I think there should be more
barbecue type events with
sports during the day," he said.
"Then at night, maybe some
music and a bonfire."
Martin said she misses the
support system that a permanent
entry guard provided, but can
see the reasoning for the change.
"The benefit is that they don't
know everyone so they can't be
lenient," she said. .
Sophomore Traci Davis said
she likes the LD. swiping system.
"I think it's a good way for security to keep track of who's in
the building," said Davis.
Davis said she disapproves of
the rotating guards.
"It makes you feel more comfortable when you walk in the
door and the security guard
knows your name," she said.
Freshmen Marybeth Mullhal
said she likes the new system.
"I think it's a good idea," she
said. "I guess people can't get
away with as much."
Sophomore Adam Schmidt said
he thinks security is too tight at
Marist. He said the entry guards
are unnecessary.
"I'd be much more appreciative
if we had the swiping for the
day," he said. "I don't think we
need to have guards at the desk.
Maybe if you had students sign
people [from other buildings] in,"
he said.
Schmidt said he wishes the
guards would stop rotating.
"It breaks the whole trust and
just getting to know the security
guards," he said. "I'd really like
to be able to know who I'm talking to."
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8
Security Briefs-
Presidential candidates are wired^yQ:
Students will no longer be
able to plead ignorance as an
excuse for not voting in presidential elections.
Each of the four GOP presidential candidates - Bob Dole,
Pat
Buchanan,
Lamar
Alexander and Steve Forbes have created homepages on the
World Wide Web. This means
that information about the candidates will be available seven
days a week, twenty-four hours
a day.
Here is a list of what's available:
BOB DOLE
(http://www.dole96.com)
Message to voters:
"My mandate as President
would be to rein in the Federal
government in order to set the
spirit of the American people;
to reconnect our government in
Washington with the common
sense values of our citizens;
and to reassert American interests wherever and whenever
they are challenged around the
world."
Available on his website:
1. About Bob Dole
2. Dole Coast to Coast
3. Dole Interactive
4. E-mail List
5. Dole Library
6. Coalitions
7. Technology
Dole's home page offers a
section with trivial-pursuit style
questions about the candidate,
allows you to send an electronic
postcard to a friend with Dole's
photo on it and invites you to
take a glimpse at his family photo
album.
2.. Press Material
3. Campaign Info
PAT BUCHANAN
4. Biography
(http://www. buchanan. org)
5. Students for Lamar
6. Correspondence
7. Back to the states
Message to voters:
Alexander
provides a "VCR
"When I am elected president
of the United States, there will Alert" on his page that lists the
be no more NAFTA sellouts of dates of his upcoming
American workers. There will be apperances on television. You
no more GATT deals done for the can also listen.to a lengthy
benefit of Wall Street.bankers. speech by Alexander on why
And there will be no socialists, he is in the race.
whether in Moscow or Mexico
City."
STEVE FORBES
Available on his website:
(http://forbes96.com)
1. News Room
2. Library
Message to Voters:
3. Why he's running
"Scrap their corrupt, loop4. On the Issues
hole-ridden
tax code—with its
5. Articles & Essays
8,000
pages
of confusing rules
6. Message Board
and
regulations.
Scrap it and
7. Photo album
start
over
with
a
simple,
honBuchanan's site is deemed by
est,
low,
flat
tax."
Time magazine as the "most infoAvailable on the Website:
packed (candidate web) site." He
1. Newsletter
offers a message board which
2. Issues
you can read through and see
3.
Schedule
what messages have been left by
4.
Press Releases
Buchanan supporters around the
5.
Speeches
country.
6. News Articles
7. Biography
LAMAR ALEXANDER
8. Primary & Caucus Info
(http://www.nashiville.net/
9. Forbes Campaign Head
-lamar)
quarters
Forbes has what he calls the
"Rat Tax calculator" on his site,
Message to Voters:
"Our purpose is as great as this which shows how your income
country itself; to restore would be affected by the 17 perAmerica's sense of confidence cent, across-the-board tax that
through growth, freedom, and Forbes wants to implement.
You simply type your annual
personal responsibility."
income
into a box and see how
Available on Website:
the
flat
tax
would affect you.
1. The Issues
Liquor confiscation
cerned that she would not make
it home by herself, Leary said.
On Saturday, Feb. 17 at 9:45
p.rri. security officers were called
to assist in a liquor confiscation
in Gartland Commons.
According to Joe Leary,' director of safety and security, the call
came from Resident Director
Colin McCann and was in reference to a keg of beer found in
apartment F2.
The keg was taken by security
and the incident was directed to
housing, Leary said.
Robbery victim
Drug use reported
She was reportedly forced into
a white car by the unidentified
man and a female was also in the
car.
A freshmen female from Leo Hall
was sent to security when she
They proceeded to drive up
reportedly, told the entrance officer to the Midrise that she was Fulton Street and then relieved
high on Ecstasy, on Saturday, the student of $20, three rings,
and a necklace and then released
Feb. 17.
;,
her from the car, Leary said.
The first year student was
Town.of Poughkeepsie Police
brought to the Rotunda by two
unknown women who saw her in were contacted.
The Palace Diner and were con-
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by KRISTIN RICHARD
Asst. News Editor
Ten years ago, two earrings in
one ear were enough to attract
stares. Today, piercings are becoming common, and they are no
longer just for the ears.
Sophomore Kristin Petrizzo has
her naval and her tragus (the
thick cartilage of the ear connected to the head) pierced, and
she has two barbells through her
eyebrows. She also recently took
a barbell out of her tongue.'
Petrizzo said she has always
liked body piercings, and she did
not get pierced just to be unique.
"I just love how they look," she
said.
Senior Jeniffer K. Gomez
pierced her nose in October. She
also said she thinks body
piercings are attractive, and she
was eager to get something
pierced aside from her ears.
"I like how they look, and it was
either my naval or my nose," she
said.
Junior Meredith Hawk, however, said she does not like to
show off the tongue ring she got
last May. In fact, she said she
got her tongue pierced primarily
or call us at
2&IMMYS
and I have come out a lot more,"
Gina* said.
According to Gina*, BiGayLA's
main function is still as a support group, but she believes
the members are moving towards
a charter, which would allow them
funding to bring in speakers and
to hold awareness raising events.
"We want to raise tolerance,"
said Gina*. "People have to be
faced with the fact that homosexuality exists and that Marist
isn't a glass bubble where everyone is the same."
According to Gina*, BiGayLA
has a core group of about six to
seven members, but as many as
16 or 17 people have attended the
weekly meetings.
Gina* explains that things are
a little different a few blocks away
at Vassar College.
"Vassar's BiGayLA has been a
chartered club for a long time,
they have an annual budget of
about $6,000 so they can sponsor a variety of speakers and
events to raise awareness,"
Gina* said.
Vassar's BiGayLA president,
Devon Lindow, said their organization has been chartered for
about 20 years, has approximately 30 active members and a
mailing list of about 80 people.
According to Lindow, Vassar's
BiGayLA is an umbrella organization to seven other groups.
These groups include a separate support group for men and
women that meets once a week.
There is also the Continuum,
which explores bisexual issues,
two separate confidential groups
for men and women called First
Step, the Gay Straight Alliance,
and People of Collective Color.
Lindow said according to their
constitution, the mission of
BiGayLA is to provide a safe
space for people to talk openly
about a variety of sexual issues.
"On a more personal level, I see
BiGayLA as a way to increase
visibility and promote accep-
tance as opposed to mere tolerance," said Lindow.
Lindow said Vassar held a formal last week that was expected
to draw about 150 people. The
formal was open to the entire
campus, as well as to students
from the BiGayLA's at Marist,
Bard, SUNY New Paltz and the
C.I.A.
According to Lindow, Vassar
will have many events in April to
celebrate Gay PrideWeek. Events
include a punk show, speaker
Urvashi Vaid, a woman of color
and Vassar alumnus who heads
the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force.
Lindow said she advises the
members of Marist BiGayLA to
keep pushing for a charter.
"Keep trying and don't give up
hope," said Lindow. "People
need to learn to be open and that
tolerance is not acceptance."
* Gina's last name was not
printed for privacy.
for herself.
"I'm shy, so I don't like showing people. It's for my own ben- '.'
efit," she said. "I'm not one of
those people who sticks their
tongue ring out and plays with
it."
However, Hawk said she gets
strange looks when people do "=
notice her piercing, and she said
many of her friends think she is
weird because of it.
Gomez, however, said her nose
ring does not really attract much
attention at all.
"It's mainstream now. Maybe
people look, and that's it,"
Gomez said.
According to Diane M. Assefi,
Circle photo/Kim Garrett
a'staff nurse at Marist, several
students have visited health ser- Naval rings are the most popular, but at the same time the most dangerous, form of body piercing.
vices with infections and other requires the removal of the ring, in the middle of the tongue," like to add to the six piercings
problems resulting from body and it often causes the piercing Hawk said. "But I was in so much she already has. She said she
pain."
plans to get various surface
piercings.
to close.
piercings with barbells in her
Petrizzo
and
Hawk
said
they
Assefi said naval piercings
But although there is a risk of
bring students to health services painful infections, Petrizzo said could riot eat for three or four lower back and possibly the back
the most often. However, she the art of piercing does not usu- days following getting their of her neck.
tongues pierced.
However, she said these
said ear and nose infections are ally hurt very much.
piercings
would not be permaHawk
said
she
also
had
a
lisp
also relatively common.
"It really truly hurts for just one
nent
because
they usually grow
for
the
first
couple
of
weeks,
but
"The number one problem is second," she said.
out
of
the
skin
within six months.
the
barbell
no
longer
gets
in
her
belly button piercing because it
Hawk, however, said getting her
Gomez also said she would like
is a dirty area and an area of con- tongue pierced hurt much more way.
"I can't even tell I have it any- to get more piercings, and she
stant irritation," she said.
than she was prepared for.
more,"
she said. "It doesn't plans to get her naval pierced
According to Assefi, treatment
"It's not supposed to hurt beduring spring break.
bother
me
at all."
for piercing infections generally cause there are no nerve endings
"I do want the naval pierced
Gomez said piercing her own
nose with a needle was surpris- because I know I'm going into
the job market, and it's a pain to
ingly not very painful.
"It didn't even hurt as much as take it out to go to interviews,"
Gomez said.
the ear," she said.
Hawk and Petrizzo, however,
Gomez also said her
piercing has never been infected, said they do not think their
and she is easily able to take the piercings will interfere with their
"Freshmen year your mentor don't want them to be depencareers.
ring out of her nose.
. lived in the dorm with you and dent on us," Cox said. v
Hawk, an art major, said she
According to Hawk, her tongue
you could.walk by and they " Cox describes her job as the ring will probably not be her fi- hopes her tongue ring will not
would have their door .open and academic component of student
lessen her chances of getting a
nal dramatic body piercing.
you could come talk to them. . affairs. Students go on acajob
in her field.
"It's almost addictive," she
Now, the mentor is in a corner of demic probation through stu"Hopefully,
with the major I'm
said.
the student center; you don't- dent academic affairs and are rein,
they
will
be
a little more open
Hawk said she plans to get her
quired to meet with their menthink of seeing her as much."
to it," she said. "If I was going
septum
pierced
over
the
summer
Gox thinks this is good because tor regularly.
because she does not like naval into business, I'd have a big
students are supposed to grow
Cox said that being on probarings, and she said nipple rings problem."
as'they become upperclassmen. tion is not a punishment, but a
Petrizzo, a communication mawould hurt too much.
She is there to help students in way to remind students.why
jor,
said she would like to even"Maybe I'll do the septum in
all the upper-classes, but her they came to Marist
tually do public relations in the
the
summer,"
Hawk
said.
"That
main focus is working with stuStudents go on probation
way, if I don't like it, I can take it music industry. However, she
dents on academic probation
when their grade point average out before I come back to said she would probably refuse
"Freshmen year we want to fos- has fallen below a 2.0 for a sea job if she was required to take
ter students to grow, but we Please see Transfers, page 10.. school."
Petrizzo also said she would her body jewelry out.
Upper class mentor available to help
students in all aspects of campus life
. byCbariottePartridge
StaffWriter
There is someone to listen.
She is there to help students
adjust to Marist academically,
socially and personally.
Peggy Cox is the upper-class
mentor at Marist Theroleof the
upper-class mentor is different
than the freshmen mentors.
The freshmen mentors live in
the dorms and are conveniently
located for the students. The
upper-class mentor is not in
such an obvious place for students, as senior Meg Gilboy
noticed.
;
at
5SO Albany Post Rood
focused her efforts on building
group unity.
"The group members were not
unified, we needed a strong base
in order to grow and
become active," said Barcia.
Barcia said she brought in
speakers from the Mediation
Center of Dutchess County to
teach the members about the importance of group dynamics.
"From there we just exploded,
we kept sharing and opening and
we knew that we could turn to
one another for support," said
Barcia.
BiGayLA's new president,
Gina*, said the focus of the club
is widening to not only provide
support for its members, but also
to lessen ignorance and
homophobia on campus.
Gina*, a junior, who has been a
member of BiGayLA for two
"years said that being out on this
campus is very difficult.
"BiGayLA has allowed me to
become more confident in myself
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Staff Writer
When you're straight, you get
your name in the paper for getting married.
When you're lesbian or gay,
you get your name in the paper
for committing sodomy.
Powerful statements such as
this are proclaimed by Marist
College's BiGayLA organization.
BiGayLA stands for the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance. According to Daisy
Barcia, the former President of
BiGayLA, the club has been in
existence for about 10 or 11
years, but does not yet have a
formal charter.
"In order to be a chartered club,
ten students need to sign their
names," said Barcia.
"With the sensitivity and confidentiality issaues many students
are not ready for that
yet."
As President, Barcia said she
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several students recently...simultaneously. Sulman is
ranked in the top 1 percent of nationally ranked chess
players in the United States. He is seen here making a
move against senior Chris Bramfeld, a member of the
Chess Club. Sulman won 28 games and lost 3.
romotes more than just tolerance of gay community
A female student reported that
she was a victim of a robbery at
5:26 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18.
The student, a junior, said she
had exited a taxi near the front of
the college's main entrance when
she was approached by. a man
carrying a gun, Leary said.
February 29,1996
THE CIRCLE
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10
29,1996
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S.A.D. proyides explanation
for students' winter blues
by JACQUE SIMPSON
Feature Editor
Many people are feeling the
winter blues. You may think it's
because of the snow and cold
temperatures, but you may be
wrong.
What you could be suffering
from is a condition known as
S.A.D., or more commonly referred to as the winter blues.
S.A.D. stands for seasonal affective disorder. An estimated
12 million Americans, both men
and women, suffer from this form
of depression.
For people who are afflicted by
S.A.D., their condition results
from a lack of sunlight.
Junior Kristen Froliger said, "I
think that some sort of depresv
sion happens to everyone about
every three months, the cold,
and darkness of winter is enough
to give both men and women
PMS."
S.A.D. was first recognized
about 10 years ago, and it was
distinguished as a disorder only
five years ago by the American
Psychiatric Association.
Michael Terman, director of the
Winter Depression Program at
Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center in Manhattan, said people
affected by this disorder begin
to feel better as spring approaches.
"To the victims of S.A.D, mild
weather is a god-send," said
Terman.
Lack of basic sunlight causes
the winter blues. This condition
not only affects adults, but at
least one million children are affected, and women are more likely
to suffer from it than men.
S.A.D. is often distinguished by
prolonged periods of deep depression that generally occurs in
the fall or winter.
It is expressed by sadness, fatigue, irritability, difficulty in concentrating, increased appetite,
and other similar characteristics
of depression.
Instead of bouncing out of bed,
S.A.D. sufferers tend to have
trouble waking up in the morning because of the delayed dawn
of late fall and winter.
One possible treatment consists of staying up later at night,,
and then waking later in the morning. However, this treatment is
out of the question due to employment and educational commitments.
Another treatment for S. A.D involves prescribed therapeutic
dosage of high intensity light in
the morning, in order to force sufferers biorhythms back on a feasible schedule.
But, possibly the most interesting treatment involves exposing
S.A.D patients to an artificial
dawn while they sleep.
About 1 in 4 New Yorkers suffer from the winter blues. Unfortunately, only ten million with
serious cases of S.A.D receive
treatment.
It is also interesting to note the
artist Vincent Van Gogh had
S.A.D. To overcome it, he began
painting brilliantly-colored paintings, such as his famous Sunflowers.
Northern and Northwestern
Alaska are the regions of long
dark winters and short cool summers.
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With twenty-four hours of
darkness during part of the
winter, it has the highest suicide rate in the United
States.
Researchers have concluded that the main cause of suicides is an outcome of S.A.D.
Due to the darkness of winter in
Alaska, it's residents are not subjected to what is seen as a normal level of sunlight"
According to psychology major Georgia McKenna ,everyone.v
is affected at some point by the
lack of natural light.
"I know that my moods are af- weather is dreary We work with
fected by the winter. Everyone what we have," said McKenna.becomes sluggish, and the
But sufferers need not be sad,
because thereâre
treatments for
S.A.D.
Light therapy can
help those who are
down in the dumps.
Some other recommendations : include installing
brighter light
bulbs in the
house,
painting the
walls with
brighter colors, exercising
outdoors, eating
sensible amounts of carbohydrates, and if necessary seeking
professional advice.
England offers Circle writer new experiences
by KARA FLYNN
Special to The Circle
Tea, toast and beans, and the
expression, "Cheers!", may not
be familiar to the typical Ameri^
can college student, but
to a British one,
these are
a part of
daily life.
They
have also
become a
part ofmy
life,
thissemester, I am at the University of
East Anglia in Norwich, England.
I have been here only a month,
but a month is long enough to
realize what an opportunity this
is.
Since my senior year of high
school, I have been interested in
studying abroad. Now, my interest has become a reality.
Through the Marist Abroad
Program, I researched which
country I wanted to go to and
which school I wanted to attend.
As an English major, I decided
that England would be the best
place for my semester abroad.
Here, I can visit the places that
our language originated from
and actually see where
Shakespeare lived.
Of course, there are other reasons besides academic ones for
studying here. I wanted to experience another culture first hand
and travel and see the world.
With some of the most exciting
places in the world only a train
ride away, traveling is not difficult. In the month that I have
been here, I have had many new,
fun and interesting experiences.
Sometimes a new word or
phrase will come along, and I will
have no clue what it means. Luckily, the blank stare on my face
usually gets me an explanation.
Every time I cross the street, I
have to remember to look right
instead of left so I don't get hit
by on-coming traffic (I have
heard some foreigners have!):
These little everyday things
keep me on my toes, which I need
because the usual "dossing"
(hanging out, slacking off) by
British students is a very contagious habit.
Although there is never a dull
moment in England, I do miss the
little things of American life
(friends, Mac n'cheese, MTV). It
makes me feel better to know that
if I were home, I would be missing out oh such a great experience.
Sometimes, when I am walking
down the cobblestone streets of
Norwich or listening to the
Beatles or Oasis, I can't help but
be amazed and think to myself,
'Wow, I'm really in England!"
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Food Guy sheds light on
Cappucino by Coppola's
by. CRAIG GOTTILIA
Food Guy ••
A number of people have told
me that Cappucino by Coppola's
on South Road in Poughkeepsie
is a romantic restaurant, so I decided to try it for the most romantic night of the year, Valentines Day.
When I walked in, I noticed a
dimly lit room immediately to the
right, and was pleased when the
hostess told my date and I to follow her to our table.
Then she escorted us to a table
underneath the only light in the
center of the room.
At first I didn't mind, after all
the glaring light only made my
Valentine more visible, but after
awhile it became annoying.
I asked our waiter if we could
move to an adjacent table away
from the light, but this was not
allowed. I was forced to eat
squinting.
Cappucino had certain special
dinners for two to coincide with
the holiday. They included a
Caesar Salad for two and a vari-
Spring break taking some students to the tropics
Senior Jose Villafane will be
heading to Mexico for his vacation.
Snorkeling, para-sailing and
getting tan are just a few of the
items on his list of things to do,
Villafane said.
Although it is his senior year,
this is the first time he has ever
gone on spring break with his
friends.
by JEANINNE AVILES
StqffWriter
Spring break is almost here,
and students are getting ready
to party where it is warm and
sunny.
Whether it is their first spring
break, their last or both, young
adults are traveling to sandy
beaches everywhere.
Inmatefinedfor frivolous
lawsuit brought before court
ALBANY,N.Y.(AP)-Aninmate
who sued the state for a broken
typewriter was fined $ 1,452 by a
judge for bringing a frivolous ;
lawsuit, in a-decision issued
Tuesday.
State Court of Claims Judge
Louis C. Benza dismissed the suit
and ordered Great Meadow state
prison inmate George S. Collado
to pay a fine. It was a ruling immediately hailed by Gov. George
Pataki.
"We have been inundated by
asinine lawsuits by prisoners
that just disrupt the court system, take an enormous amount
of assets and it's about time they
learn it's a two-way street,"
Pataki said.
It was believed to be the first
time a state judge has fined an
inmate for a frivolous lawsuit, according to Attorney General
Dennis Vacco. Other citizens
have been fined for such actions,
he said.
Collado, who has been in jail
for eight years on drug sale and
possession charges, claimed that
on Aug.31,1993, two corrections
officers entered his cell and damaged his typewriter and broke a
typewriter ribbon cassette.
- Following a non-jury trial in
November 1995, the court dismissed the claim.
"We also found that claimant's
testimony and the evidence presented were inconsistent and
lacked credibility," the judge
wrote.
Thefinerepresents three times
what Collado claimed in damages.
'This will further deter the flood
of frivolous lawsuits. If they
bring a phony lawsuit they might
get fined," said Vacco, who estimated that 90 percent of the lawsuits filed by inmates are frivolous.
Vacco has proposed legislation
that would charge inmates with
the same fee that private citizens
pay to file lawsuits and fine inmates for frivolous lawsuits.
It would also require inmates
to go through administrative procedures to resolve their disputes
before going to court.
Enjoy Spring Break!
&
February 29,1996
Good Luck on Mid-terms
Look for our next issue upon returning
from your week-long haitus.
- The Circle staff
"It's my senior year so it's the
last time I'll be able to do it with
my college buddies," Villafane
said.
Cancun is a hot spot for many
college students.
Both Jennifer Benoit and
Michelle Bourque have gone to
Cancun on last year's spring
break.
•'
"We really had a great time. We
would have gone back there
again this year, but we wanted to
trysomelhingdifferenV'Benoitsaid.
This year, the two housemates
are planning a trip to Daytona,
Florida.
"Daytona has always had such
a reputation for spring break,"
Bourque said, "we just wanted
to see what it was all about."
Benoit and Bourque are driving down to Florida to try to save
some money.
"It was so expensive last year,
with the airfare and hotel rooms,"
Bourque said.
"We just decided it would be
better to save money and drive
down. The hotel room is also really cheap, so we'll have more
money to do more things down
there."
Many students are being more
cost conscious this year.
Senior Beth Dooley also decided to drive to Daytona rather
than go on a cruise with some
friends.
"The trip to Daytona is the
cheapest spring break trip I could
find. Some of my other friends
are going on a cruise, but it was
too expensive for me."
"I only really want to lie on the
beach, get very, very tan, meet
new people and hang out with
my friends. You don't need a lot
of money to do that," Dooley
said.
Last year, Dooley spent her
vacation on South Padre Island
in Texas where she met a lot of
new people, some of whom she
still keeps in touch with.
"I still talk to someone from last
year's spring break," Dooley
said, "but there was no romance
involved."
San Diego, California is the
spring break choice of senior
Blythe Mausolf.
"I'm going to visit my best
friend and I wanted to really get
a feel for the place since I'll be
moving there after graduation,"
Mausolf said.
Not only will Mausolf be sunning herself in San Diego, she will
also have the opportunity to visit
Tijuana, Mexico.
'Tijuana is practically next door
so we'll be going there," Mausolf
said. "They have a lot of clubs
that cater to young Americans.
You never have to get up and get
a drink yourself the way you do
here. The waiters and waitresses
are very attentive.
"We're also planning on renting a convertible and driving
along the coast to Palm Springs
for a day or two."
ety of seafood combinations for
about $25 each.
The restaurant offers a variety
of appetizers, many of them from
the sea such as Baked Clams
Oregante ($6.50), Calamari Fritti
($5.95) which is fresh succulent
squid, lightly floured, fried
golden brown and served with a
spicy fra diavolo sauce.
I decided to try the Seafood
Sampler ($5.75) a combination of
two clams casino, shrimp scampi
(2) and one stuffed deviled clam.
I had hoped that there would be
more to the plate than just these
five items, but I was wrong.
My Valentine ordered a Shrimp
Cocktail ($5.95) and received
aboutfivemedium sized shrimp.
The restaurant has a variety of
choices. Chicken Vincenzo
($11.50), which is scallopini and
chicken topped with artichoke
hearts, prosciutto ham and mozzarella cheese, sauted in a white
wine sauce and served over angel hair pasta, is among the many
chicken dishes.
Cappucino has many seafood
dishes available like a Zuppa Di
Pesce Ala Livornese ($16.95)
consisting of a half Maine lobster, little neck clams, mussels and
shrimp sauted with marinara
sauce, served over linguine, and
Fresh Deep Sea Scallops ($11.95).
Cappucino's also has an extensive listing of pasta choices ranging from Spaghetti with Tomato
Sauce ($4.95) to Pasta Santa Fe
($9.50) which is sun-dried tomatoes, fresh button mushrooms
and chunks of chicken in a
creamy amaretto laced alfredo
sauce and serve over imported
fettuccine.
I decided to try something from
the grill and ordered a Sirloin
Steak ($11.95), a three-quarter
pound grade A choice sirloin
smothered with sauted mushrooms.
I had no problem noticing that
although I had order it medium
rare there was very little pink left
in the meat and it was overcooked.
My Valentine was a bit more
pleased with her Chicken
Scalopini AlaMarsala ($9.95), so
the dinner was not a complete
failure.
I was extremely disappointed
with my Steak and maybe had the
light not been so bright I would
never have noticed it was overcooked.
I don't want to sound as though
I am obsessing about the light,
but it pretty much dominated the
meal.
Panel stresses need to report sexual assaults
The panel stressed the need for
the reporting sexual assaults.
StqffWriter
Only 16 percent of all rapes are
Students packed the Perform- ever reported.
Sophomore Melissa Ruot, who
ing Arts Center last Monday
night for a seminar about what attended the seminar, said socito do if they are ever sexually as- ety often makes the victim look
like the bad person.
saulted.
"That's why so many women
The seminar, conducted by a
are
afraid to report incidents of
"support system" panel consistrape,"
she said.
ing of Marist security, city and
Despite how people may feel
town of Poughkeepsie police officers, and the district attorney, after a sexual assault, the panelwas a follow-up to one that took ists stressed that victims must
not shower or throw away their
place in November.
by TIM MANSON
clothes or sheets. They said this
is the only true evidence police
have in a sexual assault case.
After everyone from the panel
spoke, a question and answer
period followed.
One student repeatedly asked
why the topic of women falsely
accusing men of rape was not
brought up. The panelists said
that although this does happen,
only two percent of all reported
cases turn out to be false.
Please see Support, page 19...
12
THE CIRCLE
EDITORIAL
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Something to think about...
February 29,1996
THE CIRCLE
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by Christian Bladt
The Circle apologizes...
The Circle would like to apologize to Eureka Higgs for not
being able to interview her for an article titled; Man carrying
gun arrested in townhouse incident prior to publishing of the
article on Thursday, Feb. 1.
We regret any inconvienence this article might have caused
Ms. Higgs.
Editorial
Students always complain about
them, but nobody ever listens
I am sure you have all heard things that go bump in the
night, but Marist seems to be especially fond of cars that go
bump around campus.
Itis something that students are always complaining about,
but no one is ever listening.
I am speaking of the speed bumps; or should I say speed
mountains, mat cover the campus' roads.
In particular, there are three speed bumps that are unusually large - the ones on the stretch of road between Dyson
and the old townhouses.
I am sure everyone knows of the three bumps I am speaking of. It is the only place on campus where it is almost
necessary to have a four-wheel-drive vehicle to conquer
the heaping mounds of asphalt.
The other week I actually saw a car roll backwards because it tried to go over one of the speed bumps too slowly.
Speed bumps are certainly a necessity on campus to guard
pedestrians from any wanna-be Mario Andretii's driving
through the college, but these three speed mountains do
more harm than good.
It is especially detrimental to emergency vehicles making
their way through campus, and we all know how often fire
engines are called to Marist.
Fire engines and ambulances alike must nearly come to a
complete stop before attempting to cross the speed bumps
or it may damage their equipment
Just think about what would happen to a heart attack
patient in an ambulance if theparamedics did not slow down
for the speed bumps at Marist.
Two weeks ago, during a fire drill in Dyson, it took the
fire company about a minute and a halfjust to drive from
the main entrance to the side of Dyson because of the five
speed bumps the driver had to conquer before reaching the
academicbuilding.
If there were actually alife-threatening situation, 90 seconds can easily mean the difference between safety and
serious injury, or worse yet, death.
There are plenty of other areas around the college where
the speed bumps are more reasonable sizes.
I think the three by the old townhouses need to be cut
down in size for the safety of both student drivers and emergency vehicles.
We enjoy hearing from our readers! ^
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at HZAL or by dropping letters in campus mail addressed to
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The Circle reserves therightto edit letters for spatialreasonsor
otherwise. Please include your name and class year.
February 29,1996
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VIEWPOINTS
Is something art simply because you hang it on a wall? It is
an old question, one that does
not have simple answer. In the
days of old, aspiring artists in
numerous fields were eligible to
receive funds from the government. This money made it possible for creative minds to express themselves beyond their
meager incomes.
It also prevented them from
getting jobs. This is fine provided that the recipients put their
money to good use. An artist's
grant from the National Endowment for the Arts provided us
with beautiful paintings, exquisite dancers, even programs for
(gasp) public television.
As with many things, art is subjective. Someone's Monet is
another's Manet; someone's
"Persistence of Memory" is
another's portrait of
dogs playing poker.
So, it is not surprising that a
wide variety of public figures
have spoken out against art that
rips into the fibers of this nation. The most visible of these is
a wicked southerner named Jesse
Helms. Helms is the senator who
acts as the crusader of decency,
who periodically lists scores of
indecent works.
Wimin recent years, he has
taken aim numerous artists,
whose works (and this is a direct
quotation) "...give him the heebie
jeebies." Number one with a bullet on Helms list is Robert
Maplethorp, whose homo-erotic
photographs make Madonna's
"sex" look like something that
came out of the Dr. Seuss library.
In fact, in the event of the election of a Republican president
this November, Helms and other
key senators will bankroll a national exhibit showcasing these
horrible sights. It will be called
Entarte Kunst (or, for those of
you not privileged enough to
speak the holy language of
German: "degenerative
art"). Moral citizens will
e encouraged to
scream obscenities at
these works. Anywho oppose the exhibit, or appreciate
any of these dirty
works, themselves
Why don't Forbes and Perot just combine
their personal fortunes spent on
campaigning' and balance the national
debt...at least then they would actually
have a chance at being" elected.
must be degenerative and will ceremoniously be
hanged for treason.
The problem with
the debate over
slashing NEA funding is that, in prin-
ciple, it makes sense. People
have taken their grant and spent
it to get the proper "inspiration"
for a white canvas with a straight
orange line down the left third of
itBut, we never hear about the
people whose grants led to the
creation of something.wonderful.
Those who were able to create a
symphony, only because they
did not have to work at the local
taco shack. Those are people
who put their grant to use. And,
so do the people that create unsightly messes. But, that is what
art is all about. It is not for us to
say who cannot make what they
want to. After the fact we can
look at something and decide that
it really would look better in a
landfill than in a frame.
The problem with the government telling us what is truly art is
that we end up with museums
filled with nothing.. This past
summer, the late and much lamented 'TV Nation" visited nongovernment funded museums
and other attractions. What
they found were entire buildings
devoted to beer cans, Colonel
Sanders of Kentucky Fried
Chicken and other such corporate sponsored edifices. .--. There have already been
enough studies that show intelligence levels in this country
have been going steadily downhill. (I trace it back to the year of
the first Foreigner LP.) Without
artistic expression to open our
minds, we could become a nation
where 'Dumb and Dumber' not
only grosses millions of dollars,
but can be considered a documentary.
To the staff: Thank you and try to enjoy a restful break
It is 11:30pm on a Tuesday spends about 20 hours laying out Kennedy, Brian Frankenfield,
night and you have an exam in their designated pages for their Kristin Richard, Amie Lemire,
Jackie Simpson, Chris Smith, Sue
ethics tomorrow, which you have section.
Whether it is news, features, Fischer and Jason Duffy.
yet to begin studying for.
These editors exemplify the
However, there is a newspaper opinion, the arts or sports, each
to be put out and all your other editor takes responsibility for concept of student involvement
projects must be put on the back every word that is printed on and are dedicated to providing a
their pages.
service to the college community.
burner until it is completed.
I urge each of them to make the
Although the finished product
This is often the case for the
editors ofThe Circle, who spend is a neat, clean-cut package, there most of spring break. As if the
long hours in a sterile-looking is a lot of grunt work that occurs newspaper was riot enough to
drive them insane, mid-terms will
room1 that'has no windows and behind the scenes.
I would like to thank the fol- make them cherish the week off
is filled with the sound of fingers
lowing people for maintaining evenmore!
rapping on a keyboard.
Good luck on exams and I hope
I think all of the students who their sanity despite having to
help produce each week's issue work until 3am each week on a every student has a restful vacaof the newspaper deserve recog- college newspaper: Meredith tion.
nition for their dedication.
8
Without my editors'
help, it would have
The Student Newspaper of Marist College
been an impossible
task to improve The
Daryl Richard, Editor-in-Chief
Circle to what it is to- Meredith Kennedy, Managing Editor
Chris Smith, Sports Editor
day. And it is espeHolly Diaz, Feature Editor
cially commendable Sue Fischer, News Editor
that these editors, most
Brian Frankenfield, Opinion Editor
of whom are seniors, Larry Boada, A&E Editor
Jason Duffy, Business Manager
have fought off the
enticing pull of
G. Modele Clarke, Faculty Advisor
"senioritis."
Every week this The Circle is published every Thursday. Any mail may be addressed to The Circle,
group of students Marist College, 290 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
THE CIRCLE
jbV. these past few' :weel£s.l'came to " - 4 / Demand that Hallmark,'ahd ' 'word'Xerox starts; with a 'Z*
tcafize that the rtal'Mareh Madness'' air.calendar -and greeting card', sound.'but ends with an 'X*.
ww not college basketball,'but the manufactured'put more empha- sound?';
" . y ." -.
presidential primaries that start in. sis on the "cool" but over looked
8.. Change the ingredients laFebruary and get ugly by the time holidays like April Fools Day, and bel on mayonnaise from eggs,
March comes m like a lamb.- 'And'' National Coffee Drinkers Week. - salt, etc., to simply read: STUFF.
9. _ Assign David Letterman
television has bored me to such an ' Also, get our new'Ambassador.
extent that 1 started following" these'. . to Canada, Paul Schaffer, to spill as Official Head Honcho of the
primaries, (with help from a certain- the beans about that "Boxing newly formed National Funny
person whose parents bung out with Day" .thing and find out why Persons Council. The first goal
thereis no corresponding "Wres- for the NFPC will be to discover
former President Jimmy Carter).
new funny people, and make
1 realized all these presidential tling Day," or "Grappling Day".
waniiA-be's each have their own in* ' . 5. ' When kids are labeled. sure they do their damdesl to
dividual
political platforms. "troublemakers'.' simply because' make America live up to the
they blow stuff up with fireworks NFPC motto of "laugh more,
Hmmm.
Upon coming to thu> great realiza- and shoot at each other with BB grumble less." Also the NFPC
tion, I decided that just in case the - guns', they should not be will weed out those who think
masses demand that I, Scott K. scorned, but their penchant for they are funny, but are simply
Wyman, run for the office of the destruction should be utilized. annoying and put them to work
president, I should have my own plat- ' They should be steered towards as tour guides at theme parks.
a career in the military. And when Thosewh^juônly;^mi-fuhnyform
1. Change the name of certain cities. New York City will
be known as Gotham, Chicago
will be known as Metropolis (or
possibly Chi-town), Boston will
become Bean-town, and Washington, D.C. will become Capital City, just to make other countries even more jealous of just
how "cool" America is.
2 Upon rc-nammg Washington D.C to Capital City, the
President of the United States
will become known as The Capital City Goofball
3. Reinstate the legality of
Iawn-darts/jarts You know what
I'm talking about—they're
about ten times the size of normal darts and are designed to
be lobbed into the air at targets
that look like big hula-hoops sitting on the ground But they
are also really iun to throw at
each other, at trees, cars, annoying neighbors, etc.
kids are labeled "bullies" they
should be steered towards lawenforcement. Because you know
the cops could always use some
more bullies on their side.
6. Put a blue-label panel together made of Holly wood's legends to decide on the fate of
today's action movie stars. If the
panel finds that a action star con
in fact act well (Bruce Willis) then
encourage them to keep up the
good work. If they are poor actors (J.C. Van Dam) then demand
that they must do all their own
stunts (a la Jackie Chan) just to
make up for Iheir acting deficiencies.
7. Put a team of the nations
best scientific minds together lo
unlock the mysteries of the universe. For example "What
rhymes with orange? What is the
half-life of a Twinkie? What is
this strange power that women '
have over most mortal men? How
does Velcro work? How come the
wiU fe^siglied.tp,\rate for that
newârnerBrothersnetwork."
This will be a nlajor Movement
overiwho wri^,,for<WB xiow.'
ActuMy^teampf monkeys
would bV%"improvement:; As
the second order of business,
the'.NFPC will look into getting
Bill* Watterson to re-start"the
Calvin and Etobbescpniic'senes,
as this^was a^majors6urce;of
daiiy;. humor for "millions of
Americans. V.'-'•"'.
10.7.Tjte'Ba/ebaiLBUl: Assign
former major Jeagrier and hot;
dog.connoisseur John Kruk to.
be the head of the Presidential
Physical Fitness Council. Asa
rejoinder to this act, require.that
every/single living-American
should attend one or more baseball games a year, and have Mr.
Steinbrenner beaten^ about the
head and shoulders.; •';;- - i.'-
Letters to the Editor
Stop ignorance, open your mind
Editor: .
Of all the vast literary works in the Marist College Library, we find
it amazing some chose to write their own. "Die faggot, die" is not the
only ignorant graffiti found on campus. But we suppose there is
more than one ignorant human being among us. In yet another
building, the phrase "No faggots allowed" can be found scrawled on
a restroom wall. In response to a prior message quoting Cyndi Lauper,
someone took it upon themself to further deface college property by
writing "This quote was written by one of the many gay men who
help make Marist College the gay asylum it is."
We wish to bring to the attention of all students, faculty, and staff
. the obvious ignorance and stupidity of many of the people we must
associate with on a daily basis. In a respectable and distinguished
educational institution such as Marist, most would expect anything
but this childish behavior. Marist College is not grade school nor
high school. It would seem that anything other than adult-like behavior would be intolerable, but we suppose we could be wrong.
Perhaps, children do attend Marist, for it seems so after such a degrading, ignorant and vulgar display.
Not only are these individuals defacing private property, but they
are defacing a civilized human race to which they belong. We thought
such shallow behavior was behind us, lost in the maturing process,
but obviously not. Maybe those who write such ignorant messages
are trying to promote their child-like attitudes.
This behavior does go to show one thing, though. It shows that
the "faggots" they write about are not only better than they, but far
more cultured than such bigots. Perhaps, the ignorant only set out
to attack homosexuals, but you cannot contain and categorize ignorance. Not only do we see an attack on gays and lesbians, but an
assault on all races, religions, sexes, minorities, etc.
The world is changing, and in such a world, there is no room for
bigotry, only room for equality. There will always be races, religions,
minorities, and sexes different from one another, despite how hard
the ignorant promote their racial messages, and people will continue
to fight back. Unfortunately, there will always be ignorance and
racism, although there does not have to be. The first step is to open
ignorant eyes, and to educate. Without the education, ignorance
will continue. Therefore, the ignorant need to learn, and what better
place to learn than at college?
Our warning: It is easier to accept than attack. One day, the ignorant may attack the wrong person. Only then will they regret such
crude and coarse behavior.
Scott W y i n a n , humor A obluramst; ,:• •>.: ''^:••;"{•<-;•' Edmund M. Ereole, junior Jamie P. Olmstead, sophomore
Liberal Arts colleges generate 'passive consumers' Library hours are too limited
by Brian Frankenfield,
opinion editor
Recently, as I have discovered
a little "cabin-fever" along with
a bad case of what I guess has
come to be known as the "seniorslide" setting in, I have found
myself caught in this surrealistic
world somewhere between the
immaturity of childhood and the
so-called maturity of adulthood.
In this world, I have come to
contemplate a number of things,
yet through my jumbled
thoughts I have rarely come to
find satisfactory solutions for
any of them.
Most recently, partly due to the
writings of a.literary theorist
named Henry A. Giroux, I have
come to question my college
education, and, more generally,
the college education received at
any liberal arts institution
throughout this country.
When I first came to college, or
had even thought of going to
college, I had this ideal in my
head-of the transformation, the
metamorphosis, that was supposed to occur sometime during
the four years I would spend
there.
.1 had this idea that I would not
exit college as the same person
who entered it; that somewhere
along the line I would almost
magically become a mature, selfsufficient, individual who somehow, through some epiphanous
experience, would, by the time
graduation rolled around, be
ready to take my place in the'real
world* — that I would be mysteriously transformed into someone who is ready to help run the
world, rather than be served by
it, or worse, hidefromits responsibilities.
Have I experienced this transformation, this metamorphosis?
It scares me to admit that I am
not sure.
However, one thing I am sure
of is the fact that as I reflect upon
my four years liberal arts education, academically it seems to fall
short of the expectations — of
the idea — I held of what a
'higher education' would be
when Ifirstentered this academic
atmosphere, and a numberof my
peers have voiced their general
agreement.
In a way, it seems that in the
past several years we, speaking
of undergraduate students at liberal arts institutions as a whole,
have become nothing more that
'passive consumers', while our
professors have taken on roles
as 'dispensers of information'.
We sit and take notes and digest fact after fact after theorem
after philosophy after theory, and
then, upon command, we regurgitate them on an exam, in an paper or for a presentation.
It seems that the current, dominant approaches to a liberal arts
education are more concerned
with initiating students into an
existing society rather than edu-
cating us in a manner that enables us to change that society.
With a few exceptions, it appears that the teaching of critical thinking, of reasoning, of independent thought have been
pushed further away toward
something that is done now if
one pursues their studies in
graduate school.
The ultimate consequence of
all of this: undergraduate liberal arts institutions are graduating an abundance of students
who are well prepared to 'fill'
decent salaried jobs today's
competitive job market, but are
graduating very few who are
well prepared to alter, to have a
significant impact, to make a
difference, on that job market.
This must change.
I do not at all feel that I have
not learned anything during my
four-year liberal arts education,
for I have learned much; however, I, along with numerous
other liberal arts students
across the country, have been
in many ways a 'passive consumer', doing what the dominant social and political forces
in our society have established
as enough to satisfy me, to provide me with a decent income, a
decent job, a decent life — to
make me a passive member of
society....
...well, I want more than a decent, passive life and so should
you.
Editor.
As concerned members of the senior class, we feel obligated to
address the problem of inadequate library hours. Currently, the Marist
College Library hours are too limited. As a result, students do not
have access to the materials and space necessary for study at a
convienent time.
Students library hours should encourage students to spend quality time during the weekend (when most student schedules are less
hectic) in the library. As they stand, the hours restrict the students'
choice to study at free will.
The library is not only a place where students can access books
and other research materials, but is also a refuge for study away from
crowded living environments both on and off campus. Perhaps, the
library should be open during the week until 2 a.m. and on Friday and
Saturday nights until midnight, in order to better facilitate student
academic needs.
Extended library hours would benefit all members of the Marist
community. We realize that all requests cannot be granted, however,
we feel that the library hours should be given immediate consideration by administrators, faculty and students.
Michelle Andrews, Clementina Tortora, Ruth Ursome, seniors
Kids' Day Out clinic a success
Editor
On February 18, the Marist Red Foxes and the Office of Special
Services hosted the Sixth Annual "Kids' Day Out" basketball clinic
to benefit the Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. The staff of
the Office of Special Services would like to thank the members of the
Red Foxes basketball teams who participated; including, Stacey
Dengler, Darrah Metz, Jill Heller, Kimberly Horwath, Alan Tomidy,
Kareem Hill, Danny Basile, Chris Grill, Randy Encarnacion and Tomer
Kami, as well as members of the Red Foxes staff, Pam Dezago, Ken
Babineau and Kevin Sherman, who helped to organize and run the
event Thanks to the effort and support of these individuals, the
Office of Special Services was able to host approximately 80 participants and raise over $800 for the scholarship fund.
The Staff of Special Services
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The Year of Response
SGA president reflects
on election turnout
The S.P.C. Board Needs YOU!
Dear Undergraduates,
Just Because Elections are over
doesn't mean you can't still get involved!
At this point the election is over and
the winner is decided, and although the
official results are probably not out, you
have made your choice. As I sit here first The S.P.C. Board is looking for students interested in joining our Exthing Monday morning, I wonder how ecutive Board. At this time we have two position available: Publicity
many ofyou have actually voted. I guess Officer and Diversity Awareness Chair. Applications area available at
only time will tell to see how much you the Student Government Office and if you have any additional quesactually care about life atMarist.
tions please contact Lynn at ext. 2828.
On another note, I was intrigued by
the live MCTV Presidential Debate last
Tuesday. I hope that the people reading
this article watched, otherwise you may Descriptions of S.P.C. Executive Board Positions:
have no idea what I am talking about.
At the debate, there were two ques- * PUBLICITY OFFICER is responsible for the advertisement and promotions from the panelists that troubled me. tion of all S.P.C. events. Often times professional posters are provided
The first hadtodo with the NOCCAR Dis- but supplemental publicity needs to be made. Utilization of all avenues
ciplinary Matrix., The question: pertained for advertisement through the college mediums is anticipated and comto the criticism some clubs have expressed mittees may be created to assist with these projects.
about it as being too harsh and unfair. Just
to clear things up - the Matrix is only an t DIVERSITY AWARENESS CHAIR is responsible for introducing diverse
assembly of-the sanctionsthat have been and multi-cultural pipgiraLmming tojhe Marist Community. This posiof all
handed down in the past by the Vice - Presi- tion requires anl^nTmlnd and-afak assess
dent for Clubs. The only differences be- students on campus. This position includes evaluating all incoming
performers on how diverse or multi-cultural they are.
tween the Matrix and what we have been
doing for years is the community service
aspect, the 3/5 rule, and the fact that it is
actually in writing.
Perhaps this has not been made clear
This Sunday, March 3rd:
to our student organizations, or perhaps it
is too tough. Either way, the Matrix will
Student Programming Council will be having a
be reviewed the next two weeks by the
GENERAL MEETING. All new and old members are welcome.
S.G.A., and I encourage all clubs finding
Join us at 2:00 PM in the Student Government Office,
the Matrix unfair to attend.
* We will be discussing upcoming events, assistance with publicThe second questioned pertained to
ity and ticket sales for the Carrot Top Comedy Club and handing out
the Circle non-scientific poll regarding how
applications to anyone interested in joining our Executive Board.
much students feel S.G.A. affects their life.
So come on down and check it out!
The panelist had commented that the numbers were not very high. Well, yes they
are not high. However, in a country where
only 30% know Newt Gingrich and national
T.G.I.F. comedy clubs are back!
elections yield a less than 50% turnout,
those numbers were not all bad. And alThis Friday, March 1st join us in the CABARET and laugh the night
though they are not where we want them
to be, they are an improvement over sta- away with our double header comedy club featuring Leighann Lord and
Robbie Printz. Doors open at 8:00 PM with the show beginning at 8:30
tistics in the past.
PM. Admission is free with a valid Marist I.D. General Admission is
My congratulations on an excellent
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A & E Editor
As the days draw closer to
the most cinematic celebration
of the year, I've come up with a
list of my very own predictions.
As we all know, the Academy
is probably made up of stodgy
old men, so they are to blame if
your favorite movie isn't being
nominated.
So, without further ado, I
present my Predictions on Oscar
Night.
The most important Academy
Award category is that of Best
Picture.
You can tell this is the best
award because they save it for
last, forcing you to sit through
the boring ones like Best Editing, and Best Lighting.
This is a cheap, underhanded
trick, but it's worked so far, so
it'll never change.
The nominations for Best Picture are "Braveheart", "Apollo
13", "Babe", "Sense and Sensibility", and the Italianfilm"The
Postman".
I'm sort of inclined to go with
"Apollo 13", since the Academy
loves feel-good films, as well as
anything that has to do with Tom
Hanks.
"Braveheart" might be the first
runner-up;butMeV in akilt can't
compete with Tom lost in space.
"The Postman" doesn't have
too much of a chance, since the
last foreignfilmnominated in this
category was in 1973.
"Babe" was a wonderful movie,
but I don't think the Academy is
ready to give their most coveted
award to afilmabout a pig.
And, no offense, but if "Sense
and Sensibility" wins, I'll never
see another movie again.
I am very, interested to see who
wins the Best Actor Award on
Oscar night.
The competition is between
Massimo Troisi, for "The Postman", Nicholas Cage, for "Leaving Las Vegas", Richard
Dreyfuss, for "Mr. Holland's
Opus", Anthony Hopkins, for
"Nixon", and Sean Penn, for
"Dead Man Walking."
Troisi denied a heart transplant
to finish working on "The Postman", and just twelve hours after its completion, he died. He
gets the sympathy vote from
me.
Dreyfuss was excellent in "Mr.
Holland's Opus", but I don't
think he can compete with the
others.
Same goes for-Hopkins in
"Nixon", and I have to say that
he didn't look anything like
Nixon, either. •.;,,,.
Penn was intense in "Dead
Man Walking", but his major
competitor in this category is
Nicholas Cage.
Cage won the Golden Globe
award for "Leaving, Las.
Vegas"and some believe it foreshadows who will win at the Oscars.
I happen to agree.
The ladies nominated in the
Best Actress category are Emma
Thompson in "Sense and Sensibility", Susan Sarandon in "Dead
Man Walking", Elisabeth Shue in
"Leaving Las Vegas", Sharon
Stone in "Casino", and Meryl
Streep in "The Bridges of Madison County."
It's a three-way split between
Emma, Susan, and Meryl, but I
think Susan Sarandon will pull
Okay, this will most definitely
through because she's already be a toss-up.
won the Golden Globe.
I still haven't forgiven Ed HarI personally think Emma Th- ris for his participation in "Needompson needs to change her im- ful Things" a couple years back,
age. No more boring English so he's out on my list.
novel roles!
Tim Roth should have been
She's beat this to death (think: recognized for his work in "Four
Howard's End, The Remains of Rooms", not "Rob Roy".
the Day, Much Ado About NothIt?s another kilt movie, but this
ing)
one wasn't as popular. Forget
Wouldn't it be a refreshing the movie, stick with the drink.
change if her next role was a
If Brad Pitt wins, there will be a
hooker or a homicidal maniac?
universal shriek from pre-teen
I hate to say it but Elisabeth girls worldwide; I shudder at this
Shue and Sharon Stone have no thought.
chance in hell.
I truly hope Kevin Spacey wins
They both turned in terrific per- this one. His work in "The Usual
formances, in "Leaving Las Ve- Suspects" will knock you on your
gas" and "Casino" but their past butt. See the movie, and you'll
roles will come back to haunt know why.
them.,,
-••:Now for the Best Supporting
The Academy will never give Actress category. We have Joan
out an award to an actress who's Allen for "Nixon'', Kathleen
everplayed a babysitter or an al- Quinlan for 'Âpollo 13", Mira
leged bisexual murderer.
Sorvinp for "Mighty Aphrodite",
Remember, stodgy old men! Mare Winningham for "Georgia";
They're just not ready yet; they and Kate Winslet for "Sense and
couldn't handle it. What a shame, Sensibility."
too.
• . I think the overwhelming quesOkay, moving on to Best Direc- tion in this category is, Who the
tor, .Here we have Mike Figgis
for "Leaving Las Vegas", Mel
Gibson for "Braveheart", Chris; •,
Noonan for "Babe", Michael
Radford for "The Postman", and
Tim Robbins for "Dead Man
Walking.?' v
I think Mel Gibson will win it,
since "Braveheart" is up for ten
awards. { f
The Best Supporting Actor category has five contenders: James
Cromwell in "Babe", Ed Harris in
"Apollo 13", Brad Pitt in "12
Monkeys", Tim Roth in "Rob
Roy", and Kevin Spacey in "The
Usual Suspects".
hell are these people?
Either you've never heard the
name, or you didn't see the film.
Amlright?
My personal choice is
Winningham for "Georgia", but
only because it's my personal
opinion.
I don't think "Georgia" or
"Mighty Aphrodite" even came
to theaters near me. I don't have
much interest here, I'm sorry to
say.
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Honestly, I have no idea who
will take this category.
I don't think any actress has
much of a lead over any of the
others. To be blunt, I don't think
most American moviegoers even
know who these women are.
Okay, there you have it. Those
are my personal predictions for
the Academy Awards.
And don't forget to tune in on
March 25, to tell me how wrong I
was.
Arid just now, I was thinking
that I hope "Babe" takes the spotlight on Oscar night because
what a wonderful commentary it
would be if the pig won it all.
by Anne Tanner i
Anyone looking for a different
type of shopping expedition
should take a trip back to the
times of peace, love and bell-bottoms in Woodstock.
With the name Woodstock,
one generally visualizes the famous concert held in afieldin
1969.
While the field itself is nothing
to look at, the town of
Woodstock boasts of unusual
stores, good food and very
friendly people.
Most of the shops in the town
carry the typical items associated
with the 1960's: tie dyes, peace
symbols and jewelry.
Modern Mythology, located in
the center of town had an unusual mosaic peace sculpture out
front.
Inside, they carried the usual
items of candles and incense, as
well as a large collection of
cherub figurines, wall hangings
and picture frames.
While the store itself is not very
big, it is packed with gifts to look at
Walking into Stoned Peace, a
shop near Modern Mythology,
one is overpowered by the essence of patchouli incense.
This store offers items varying from bongs and tie dyes to
astrology books and herbal medicine. ••"•"•
Be prepared to make a quick
trip through this store because
the incense really is overwhelming.
The Golden Notebook and The
Golden Bough are next door to
each other, up the street from the
other stores.
The Golden Notebook carries
a wide selection of books, especially nonfiction. The topics
range from nature to business.
There is also a separate store
just for children's books which
carries a lot of old favorites as
well as new.
All the salespeople seemed
knowledgeable about various
authors and their works.
The Golden Bough carries a
very different selection from most
of the other gift shops in
Woodstock.
They have an unique collection of gift cards for all occasions.
Also, they have a large assortment of board games to choose
from.
The ultimate gift this store
holds, however, is for puzzle lovers. It is a 7500 piece puzzle of
the New York skyline.
The best store Woodstock has
to offer is Just Alan. At the very
least, it should win the "Friendliest Proprietor" award. Alan, the
owner, introduces himself as the
town magician and will gladly put
on a small performance.
Among the many items in 'the
store, are magic tricks for all ages.
Also, there are antiques, jewelry,
books and cigars.
Just Alan's also has wonderful
cappucino and fresh chocolates
that are to die for..
One other item that deserves
mentioning is the Zen meditation
fountain below the floor in one
of the rooms.
If one looks through a grate in
the floor, he looks down upon an
attractive fountain in a very
pretty setting. It's very unusual.
Before leaving Woodstock, everyone should drive by the Tibetan monastery.
The monastery is located at the
top of a mountain about three
miles away from the center of
town.
There's a little road that goes
right at the top of the hill off Rt.
212. Just follow it, ALL the way
to the top.
To find Woodstock: Take the
NY Thruway North to Route 32.
Follow32westtoRoute212. 212
leads right into the heart of
Woodstock.
by LARRY BOADA
Staff Writer
This year's Valentine's Day was not
spent cuddling, cooing or cozying. No, this year I donned much gear (for it
was mighty chilly) and trooped on over
to SUNY New Paltz to see Terry Zwigoff 's
film'Crumb.'
Zwigoff's controversial documentary
about the life of cartoonist Robert Crumb,
a counter-cultural phenomenon of the
'60s....
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scribes him as "someone who would
rather be a brain in ajar than a person in a
body."
Granted he has his problems, his own
brother reveals that he would masturbate
several times a day as a child, but we begin to appreciate him for pointing out to
us some of society's foibles.
No subject was considered too personal or provocative to escape Crumb's
commentary, and his work reflects a bizarre and very personal version of the
world around him.
According to film critics, Zwigoff's film
about Robert Crumb is as fascinating and
inflammatory as the man himself.;
- As strange as Crumb comes off to viewers, they can't help but like him in a sympathetic kind of way. His personality transcends its physical entrapment and lives
among his drawings:
We are given a Freudian tour of Crumb
through his animation that paints a picture of a man who acts from his most inert
sexual desires and needs.
Crumb is a boy who never grew up. But
who can blame him when he grew up with
an overly sadistic father and an amphetamine popping mother?
'Crumb' was winner of the Grand Jury
Prize at Robert Redford's Sundance film
festival and has made over 100 top ten
film lists for 1995.
The film was a two hour jaunt through
the life and times of one of the most recognized cartoonists of this century.
Crumb, much to his own disbelief as
Zwigoff is able to capture, is the originator of the 'Keep On Truckin' cartoon character often seen on bumper stickers arid
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penned him as well. v .
Zwigoff's cinematic adventure revolves
around Crumb's last two months in
America before moving to Southern
France.
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The audience meets Crumb's family—,
one manic depressive younger brother, an
elder who. spends his.days begging;and
nights meditating on a bed of nails, and a
mother straight out of aMaine trailer park
—- past wives, and fellow cartoonists.
Crumb, who is never seen without a pen
in his hand the entire time, is portrayed as
Zwigoff, who was a guest of the SUNY
simply a social outcast who draws what New Paltz Art Department Lecture Series,
he sees.
held a question/answer discussion about
At one point one of his friends de- hisfilmafter the showing.
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ers.
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. . . . ' . ' . . certainly different from just about everyThis bold left-hand turn away from the thing I've heard!
To imagine what Copper sounds like
'.'hip"- sound that the majority of rap artthink
of a band where most songs remind
ists are doing right now, shows that the
you
of
the Cranberries "Zombie", and
Pharcyde has avoided being defined by'
throw in a pinch of the pop song sensithe industry itself.
The focus is on the music, and the mu- bilities of Letters To Cleo, and don't forget the hard-core punk influences.
sic alone.
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This adventurous leap into a non-tradi- , Dare I say a female version of Quicktional sound shows real spirit and smarts. sand?
Overall, Coopers' "Drag Queen" is full
For this alone you should give this
record a listen. If you doubt me, hit the of angst and anger, but the unusual vo"advance" button on your CD player four cals put kind of a sickly-sweet spin on the
songs and lyrics.
times, to the tune "Runnin'."
I have to admit, hearing a women sing
This is one of the most, addictive tunes
I've heard since '.'Passin' Me By." and this of pain and regret has a much different
alone should be enough to turn you on to affect on me than when some stupid guy
tries the same thing.
the groove of the Pharcyde.
Also any of you Morrissey fans out
...And now for something completely difthere, Copper does a really cool version
ferent...
The name of the band is Copper, and of 'There's a place in hell..." that almost
this band is also doing it's very own thing. makes me feel bad for hating Morrissey
The record is called "Drag; Queen" and for all these years.
Put this together with a great unlisted
is on New York's own Equal Vision
track
that is hidden at the very end of the
Records.
EVR traditionally puts out hard-core re- CD, and you've got a really interesting
leases, so Copper is even more of a head- package.
Another CD that has been emanating
scratcher, but knowing the background
from
my room quite often recently is the
of the label is a good place to start.
soundtrack
to independantfilmThe BrothFirst off,'the nine song "Drag Queen" is
melodic, as in it's easy to pick up the gen- ers McMullen.
The Brothers McMullen soundtrack is
eral groove of each song and of the band
almost wall to wall traditional and pseudoitself.
It's also about two-thirds loud, and one- traditional Irish folk music arrangements.
Tracks two through twelve is music perthird quiet, with guitars and drums doing
formed and arranged by Seamus Egan,
some of both in each song.
And, the most important ingredient to who puts real life and feeling into these
this musical bouillabaisse, is the lead songs.
The one track from this CD that Egan
singer, who happens to be a very talented
isn't
responsible for is the opening track,
women with a great voice.
The best way to explain the music is to entitled "I Will Remember You (theme
say what it is not. It's not "heavy-metal," from the Brothers McMullen)" performed
by none other than Sarah McLachlan.
but it often times has loud guitars.
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by Scott Wyman
Music Review
It's a few short hours before
deadline, and it would seem that
now is as good a time as any to
discuss exactly what CD's have
been getting played most often
in my room.
They have been elevated past
the masses of crap that I am often subjected to hearing.
First off, the best rap/R n' B album I've heard in quite some time
has to be the latest from the
Pharcyde,en titled
"Labcabincalifornia."
I've been a big fan of the
Pharcyde ever since they broke
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'Leaving Lais Veg&
February 29> 1996
of a love0§^0^J^g^^
/.'• '';'• A m i d all
by-AMIE'LEMIRE
v.
A&EEditor
0 thie'jpain arid
.^frustration
Ben and
; Sera experience, they
..truly love
each other.
> It is the
classic tale
of
Boy
Meets Girl;
it's the right
girl, but
she's a bit
too
late.
There's no
hope of redemption
here, and
neither Ben
nor Sera are
asking for
Movie Review
There are countless flashy, bigbudget movies out there these
days that all sound the same.
And as a general rule, the ex :
Castmates of SNL must stop
making movies:
(Tommy Boy, Billy Madison,'
It's Pat, Stuart Saves His Family,
Black Sheep, Happy Gillmore).
Enough! How many times have
you left a movie theater saying,
"God, I spent $7.50 on that movie
and it wasn't even that good."
Hey, you could've had a V-8,
and some change to spare.
But, if you look hard enough,
past all those tiresome movies
with all those false, happycrappy Hollywood endings, you
might find a film worth your
money.
Leaving Las Vegas is that film.
It's all about a man who has had
it with life, and one day decides
to end it.
He empties his bank account
and drives to Las Vegas with the
sole intent of drinking himself to
death.
Actor Nicholas Cage brings the
character of Ben Sanderson to
life in the face of death, showing
the freedom and joy Benfindsat
last by acknowledging there is
nothing left to his life.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but
once Ben decides to die, he is
free from all the baggage life hung
around his neck.
Barely able to stand up
straight, Ben gives lopsided
grins and jaunty comments, smil-
•
• • • •
of five stars
'Leaving Las
Vegas'
ihg cheerfully at the horrified expressions on the faces of those
who encounter him.
On the first night of his drinking spree in Las Vegas, Ben happens across Sera, a hard-eyed
hooker played brilliantly by'
Elisabeth Shue.
Sera is initially uninterested in
Ben; it is only the size of his wallet that convinces her to give him
a chance.
He takes her back to his room,
pays her $500, and begs her to
talk, or listen, but please, stay the
night.
And they stay that way, sleeping peacefully through the night.
And as the nights go on this
way, they realize they need each
other.
Ben and Sera have a mutual
agreement.
He never questions her line of
work, and she promises never,
ever to try and save him.
It is this plea for acceptance
that keeps them together.
They are not asking for forgiveness, only a bit of understanding.
Director Mike Figgis knew he
was taking a chance with this
film
He barely had enough funds,
any.
Nicholas Cage and Elisabeth Shue star in Leaving Las Vegas.
They don't offer apologies either; they only want someone to
scraping together $3.5 million save him, and it's killing her.
All she can do is watch help- be there and understand them,
dollars—a paltry amount in
Hollywood's eyes, considering lessly as he kills another pint of and accept them for what they
that Waterworld cost about $1.5 vodka, smiling bravely at him are.
with tears in her eyes.
million each minute.
So, Leaving Las Vegas is defiIn one scene, Sera and Ben es- nitely not your typical blockBut his biggestriskwas his two
cape to a hidden place in the buster movie.
stars.
Nicholas Cage hadn't been in desert.
It isn't the kind of movie that
She pours a bottle of tequila will have little figurines or games
a decentfilmin a long time, while
Elisabeth Shue is best known for over her nakedflesh,desperately patterned after it.
trying to translate his love for the
Adventures in Babysitting.
However, Figgis needn't have bottle into love for her.
You won't find little plastic Ben
worried.
But it is too late; there is only and Sera dolls in your Happy
Both Cage and Shue turn in the enough room for one love in Meals.
Ben's life, and it isn't Sera.
performances of their lives.
The unofficial title of the film
Sera is a tortured soul, torn beBut it doesn't matter. Leaving
tween her loyalty to Ben and their is Leaving Las Vegas: A Love Las Vegas is speciaT in its own
Story.
agreement.
right, and deserves recognition
While some may find that per- as a powerful, gritty, desperate
You see her heartache as he
plexing, there is a passionate love love story. Do yourself a favor
wastes away before her eyes.
and see it; it'll blow you away.
She loves him, and she can't story here.
THE CIRCLE, February 29;
1996
Marist singers' CD in the works
< byANGIEGALGON
Staff Writer
* "[Making the CD] is like
being a published writer.
The one-hundred voice Marist Our work is now going to
College Singers, plan to record a be on the market for pubcompact disk with international
lic consumption."
opera singer, Rose Marie Freni.
-Joe DeBona, Marist
This holiday season will be a
special one for the Marist SingSingers librarian.
ers. The group has been asked
to accompany international op- and Marist faculty.
era singer, Rose Marie Freni, in
The music department at
the recording of a holiday CD.
Marist has been continually
The offer came after the Marist growing in reputation. The rePops Ensemble sang with Freni cording with Freni is the second
during at a Christmas Concert at big offer for the Singers. The first
Valor mansion, in Rhinecliff.
being the opportunity to perform
Mark Lawlor, the director of mu- with Grammy Award Winner,
sic at Marist College, said that Kenny Rogers, in November and
Freni "just fell in love with us, December of last year.
with the sound and the students
We're going up a staircase,"
musical ability."
said Rickert, "first it was Kenny
Cylinda Rickert, president of Rogers, and now Rose Marie
the Marist College Singers, Freni."
worked with Freni last year, when
Joe DeBona, librarian of the
she performed with the Hudson Singers, also sees the recording
Valley Philharmonic, and is as a big chance for the group.
thrilled to do it again.
"[Making the CD] is like being
"I've known her for quite a published writer. Our work is
awhile and I knew that she had a now going to be on the market
fabulous career in Europe," said for public consumption."
Rickert, "I'm excited to work with The holiday CD will include an
her again and making a CD is orchestra, organ, children's choir,
thrilling."
chorus and soloist. All proceeds
The one-hundred voice Marist will benefit the Dutchess county
College Singers will be accompa- ASPCA.
nied on the CD by other members of the community. IncludDespite the fact that the recording some members of the Marist ing date has not been set yet, nor
faculty, who will be playing in- has a contract been signed,
struments, and a 50 voice Marist Lawlor said the recording will
college Community Children's most likely take place at a local
choir. The Children's choir church, and the CD will probably
blends the voices of children be released in October or Nofrom the Dutchess community vember.
Circle photo/Chris Bcnnato
MARATHON WITH MILTON - Professor Mahachek brings Milton's Paradise Lost
to life during a 12 hour reading of the epic last Saturday.
Two musicians share stage in coffeehouse
byANGIEGALGON
Staff Writer,
The Student Program Council
(SPC) offers students a chance
to gain experience as they perform for their peers.
On Thursday, February 15, the
SPC sponsored a coffeehouse
featuring Christine Kane.
However, Kane was not the
only one who shared her talent
with the Marist community.
Karen Landry, a third year English/writing major, also pleased
the audience with her voice and
guitar.
Kane began her music career
sitting in her kitchen, playing for
her cats. One day a fellow musician offered her a gig that he was
•- unable to keep,- and a year later
she was playing full time.
...continuedfrontpage 11. "~ vKellypraised.-bdth the sup'"there's no one way to [sucport and legal .systems,' despite
ceed],"
said; Kane, "each
Roberta Staples; "director of the fact that her assailants* were
musician's experience is their
counseling services at Marist, acquitted of all charges.- •' '
own."
said that being accused of such
"The support system, it's
Kane advises aspiring performa crime is a devastating occur- there," said Kelly. , > . .
s
ers
to "Be open. Write songs
rence.
.
:Fre§hman Kelly Kenefick said
and
try them out on
she
thoughtit
took
a
lot
of
cour"Unfortunately, that was not'
everyone....It takes a lot of hard
the forum for him .to" address,^ age for Kelly-to stand up and
work. You got to practice singwhatever his personaf posi- say what'she did.
ing and playing a lot."
"I wouldn't have been able to
tions were," she said.
Marist College was just one
After the question and answer do it," she said.
stop
on Kane's road trip. Events
After
the
seminar
ended,
all
period, three students - KellyT
Alison, and Erica - spoke emor panel members remained to an- like the SPC sponsored coffeehouse offer all types of people,
tionally about their own experi- swer any additional student
at all levels of success, to per- ences with sexual assault and questions.
form in front of an audience.
how helpful the support system.
Staples said she felt that the
Even those just starting out, like
was..
" . ' ' seminar was a great success.
Landry, are given a chance to act.
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Landry began performing her
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Accompanied by acoustic guitar,
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have earned her a small group of
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Although Landry appreciates
the support of her friends, she
said she "likes it best when
people she doesn't know show
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Even though Landry's main
pursuit is her writing, she would
love to have a career in music.
At the moment she is trying to
earn enough money to make a
professional recording.
Landry has also performed in
several plays within her three
years at Marist. Most recently
of which was her role as Tzeitel,
in the MCCTA's fall production
ofFiddlerOnTheRoof.
The SPC offers students the
chance to gain experience performing in front of an audience.
Bob Lynch, director of student
activities, said that all students
have to do is apply.
Lynch also explained that students' talents do not only have
to be in the field of music, and
that students can also recite
poetry, display their art work, etc.
The SPC will be sponsoring an
open microphone for students on
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There are no auditions; students can register with the SPC.
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At first glance, the men's swim
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three weeks ago about their three
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the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship meet last
weekend.
Well, they did prove that they
are a spectacular team but that
was never a question. The question was 'why did they lose three
in a row after 17 straight wins?'
Everyone knows some of my
opinions already, such as traveling, less competition within the
team, lack of experience, and
overconfidence.
These don't really matter any
more since the team can now call
themselves MAAC champions
this year and conferencechamps
for the second season in a row.
I thought that three losses
might have some sort of psychological impact on theteam going
into the championships; Head
coach Larry VanWagner disagreed.
He expressed that the losses
didn't affect them at all. "
"We use the dual meets as
learning
experiences,"
VanWagner said.
Even if the losses did "have
some sort of impact on the team,
it was probably for the best.
These losses could've helped
motivate the team to stay focused
especially witMthe:hype about
the end of the winning streak.
The team must be congratulated on this accomplishment.
VanWagner said that this was
the number one goal of the team
this year- to be MAAC champs.
He also said that it was much
more important for the team to
win back-to-back champion-
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A Closer Look At
Jan Martin
ships than to remain undefeated. ;
The team must also be given
Team: Swimming & Diving
credit for enduring such a long
season. Practice started September 10 and still hasn't ended for
Age: 21
some. After 21 weeks, three
divers and five swimmers head
to the ECAC championship meet
Hometown: Burnt Hills
next weekend.
NY
Since they did not swim against
half of the schools in the MAAC,
the coaching staff was a bit conClass: Senior
cerned about how they were going to be received. According to
Major: Communications
VanWagner, many schools commented on the Marist swimmer's
Advertising/Journalism
performances, attitudes, and behavior. It's also nice to know that
when Marist went up to receive
the trophy at the awards ceremony, there was other schools
chanting "Marist."
Moving up into the MAAC
gives me swimming and diving
program a greater level of reJan was on her high school diving team for two years. She also was competitive in high
spect. They are now competing
school gymnastics. Currently, Jan coaches gymnastics at Gymnastic World in Fishkill.
with teams that the rest of the
school is competing with. As
VanWagner said, swimming is
"now in the same game."
With moving into a more reFavorite Food: Anything Italian
spected conference, the swim
team has taken a step up.
As they take this step up, they
Favorite Musical Group: Hootie and the Blowfish
are going to be watched and examined more carefully by the
Future Goals: Hope to coach diving and work for an advertising agency
press, the fans, and other
schools. Along with this comes
the challenge of being able to
Reason Came to Marist: The communications program
handle criticism, to turn this criticism into something positive that
could help them be motivated.
The Red Foxes look like they
were able to do this with their'
J recent victory. . ••'. ~ - ~;.' • .>!_' " '.'
VanWagner also seemed very
confident that they will beat
Colgate in the ECAC meet.
Russo, a transfer student,
Melfi felt the pressure of be"We are the better team," , ...continuedfrompage 23.
came off a knee injury to post
ing the top seed.
VanWagner said; "We will prove said." . •
-'
his best time of the season.
thisintheECAC's."
The key event for the men
"Coaches
were
caiiing
Pete
The meet is this weekend so
was the 5000 meter run, in which
"I felt strong in the race,"
we'll just have to wait to see if
six Red Foxes competed. Top asking him what time I was gothe Red Foxes cash in on . seeded sophomore, Mike Melfi, ing to run. There was definitely Russo said. "I've been trainVanWagner's promise.
let! the pack with a time of 15:35 a lot of pressure," Melfi said. "I ing and building up my mileage
to finish third, whilejuniorTim led for the first two miles and then since the break. I'm back into
Chris Smith is the Circle's Russo ran a personal best time I realized I couldn't keep up that racing shape."
pace."
Sports Editor
of 16:34 to finish seventh.
Runners
Women's basketball continues up and down season
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Staff Writer
The Red Foxes seem to be in
the midsrof a vicious cycle.
For every good game the Marist
women's basketball team has
played of late, a bad game always
looks to follow.
"You could've predicted it,"
sophomore guard Jean-Marie
Lesko said. "When we play well
one game, for some reason we
usually play bad the next."
Two weeks ago, when the Red
Foxes beat Wagner and St.
Francis (NY) on their way to a 21 record, they were talking of a
third or fourth place finish and a
possible first round tournament
home game. Seven days later,
after a disappointing 0-2 stretch
on the road, Marist is now pondering a sixth or seventh place
finish and a dreaded return trip
to Brooklyn to face Long Island
University - a team they have had
trouble with in the past.
TneRedFoxes'(12-16,7-10NEC
- 7th) toughest loss to swallow
of late, and maybe all year, was
their heartbreaking 75-74 decision against the Monmouth
Hawks last Thursday night in
West Long Branch, NJ.
With six seconds remaining in
the game and Marist down, 7574, Beth Shackel got the inbound pass and raced downcourt to try to get a shot off. She
didn't, but she did get fouled in
the process. With a chance to
tie the game and possibly win it,
Shackel came up short on the
front end of the one-and-one.
According to Lesko, however,
the blame should be shouldered
by the whole team* hot just
Shackel. She felt the team's poor
play in thefirsthalf is what really
lost the game for them.
"We looked at the scoreboard
at half-time and said, wow, we
played horrendous," Lesko said.
In that first 20 minutes, Marist
shot a dismal 24.2 percent from
the floortoput itself in a 16-point
hole at the break, 42-26.
In the second half, the Red
Foxes played with a little more
vigor. They shaved 15 points off
the spread, but in the end that
was still one'point short.
Lesko led Marist with 26 points.
Stacey Dengler and Liz
MacDougal also played well with
17 points and 15 points respectively.
On Saturday, the Red Foxes
again came up short against the
first-place Mount St. Mary's
Mountaineers. A 12 assist to 21
turnover ratio spelled the 69-53
Marist defeat.
Tara Walsh and Dengler were
the lone bright spots for the Red
Foxes. Walsh equaled her careerhigh with 17 points to go along
with eight rebounds while
Dengler tossed in 16 and pulled
down 12 boards.
In Northeast Conference action
from two weeks ago, Marist's
best win was a 82-69 victory
against Wagner on Girl Scout
night at the McCann Center.
Before the loss, the Seahawks
were 8-5 in the conference and
alone in third place.
The Red Foxes seemed energized by the spirited crowd of
nearly 700, and they didn't disappoint. Marist treated its
young fans to one of its strongest showings of the season.
They used a 27-9 run over the
last 10 minutes of the first half to
go up by 20 at the break, 49-29.
The game would never again be
in question.
"I thought we ran the ball extremely well," head coach Ken
Babineau said. "We were able to
get out in transition which led to
some easy baskets."
Dengler was another main story
of the game as she had her way
with the Seahawks inside, depositing 28 points and 13 rebounds.
"It just seemed like everything
was going well for me that
night," Dengler said in reflection
of her 10-14 shooting performance.
The Red Foxes, however, also
showed great balance. JeanMarie Lesko and Liz MacDougal
each scored 17 points, while Tara
Walsh and Jill Heller added eight
and seven respectively.
Marist's other win of the week
was a 78-69 defeat of the St.
Francis (NY) Terriers.
Dengler was again untamable
in the post. She highlighted a 24
point, 16 rebound effort (7 offensive) by also becoming just the
sixth woman's player in Marist
history to reach the 1,000 point
plateau.
Oddly enough, the junior
center's 1,000 point came almost
exactly four years to the day from
when she reached that mark as a
high schooler (February 18,1992/
February 17,1996). She now has
1,010.
'The guards made it easy for
me," Dengler said. "I've got to
give credit to them and my teammates for the help."
And unfortunately for St.
Francis (NY), whenever they collapsed inside to handle Dengler,
Jean-Marie Lesko's eyes got
brighter as she leaned behind the
three-point line.
Lesko torched the Terrier nets
by nailing six of nine triples on
the night tofinishwith 21 points.
The Red Foxes play their last
regular season game at home tonight against Fairleigh Dickinson
before the conference tournament gets under way March 2nd.
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THE CIRCLE, February 29,-1996
Hocl^M
Men's basketball secures seeoind with win over Monmouth
Circle photo/Jason Liguori
Kareem Hill drives past Monmouth's Giedrius Aidietis in Marist's Monday night win.
took control of the scoring early on aspects of his game odier than
by CHRIS SMITH
scoring.
on in the game.
"It wasn't one of those nights,"
Sports Editor
Seniors Danny Basile and
he
said. "I tried to concentrate
Kareem Hill led me way for the
The home court.
on rebounding and defense."
RedFoxes.
This is where the men's basHead coach Dave Magarity
ketball team wins, (12-1) at home Basile scored 26 points while said Monmouth's plan was to
playing
40
minutes,
14
of
diem
this season, the latest coming
stop Tomidy.
Monday
night .- against coming in the first 9 minutes and "Stopping the 6'-l 1" guy was
50 seconds. He went 8 for 14
Monmouth University, 56-49.
Monmouth's strategy," Magarity
from
die
field,
and
5
for
10
from
With this win, indiefinalregusaid. "However, when guard
lar season game, the Red Foxes behind the diree-point line.
play
is good we're in great shape
Basile.said he took what
improved their regular season
to
win."
record to 21-5 overall and 14-4 in Monmouth gave him.
Magarity said he was happy
"I was open, so I shot," Basile
die Northeast Conference, capwith
Basile's performance.
said.
"I
shot
until
they
started
turing second place.
'Tonight defines his career," he
playing
me."
Already, the Red Foxes have
broken the old record for wins, Hill then took over, scoring the said.
Basile was the only guard that
overall in.an entire season .in- next 11 for the Red Foxes. He
cluding the playoffs (20), and the scored 21 points and racked up excelled in scoring on Monday.
playoffs haven't even begun yet. 16 rebounds to record yet an- Sophomore guard Tomer Kami
The old record was held by the omer double-double on the sea- rand junior guard Randy
Encarnacion both were scoreless
1986-87 team who were the ECAC son.
on
the night.
Tomidy,
however,
was
quiet
on.
champions.
At
4:15 left to play, the lead was
It was senior night for the Red the night scoring-wise, with only;
cut to two, 48-46 with Marist
three
points;
but
made
up
for'it
Foxes, where the four Marist seahead. Marist had a,13 point lead
niors were honored before the with 16 rebounds. .
twice in the game until
Tomidy
said
he
concentrated
start of the game and two of them
Staff Writer
Imagine this scenario if you
will. Marist College is in a national tournament with me likes
of Penn. St., and Indiana University. Simple you say, the men's
basketball team realized its goal
of making it to me NCAA tournament.
AUhough a national tournament may be the basketball
team's goal, it is the hockey
team's reality as they travel to
Tampa Bay, Florida to participate
in the American Collegiate
Hockey Association Division n
national tournament. '
"It's amazing," said goaltender
Carl Wagner. "I am a freshman,
so I didn't really know what to
expect mis season. It is great that
we have the chance to go to
Tampa and play teams of the caliber these teams are."
Marist got mere by virtue of
finishing number two in the
Northeast Region behind
Rutgers, whom they beat only
days after the final Northeast
rankings came out
Sixteen teams are entered in the
tournament from four divisions
nationwide. The Western,; Central, and Southeast are the wree
other regions, all of which produce four teams to the tourna-
ment.
. The tournament got underway"•'
this morning at me Tampa Bay
Skating Academy, and will run :
until Sunday, March 3. In that
time me sixteen teams, which are
split up into four pools, will be
whittled down to one lone
ACHA national charnpion. •
"We want to win it'all," said
sophomore defenseman Mark
Avagliano. "That would have to
be what our goal is when we go
down there."
Sophomore forward Joe Brooks
agrees wim Avagliano. "We have
go down to Tampa and prove
ourselves. Our attitude is that we
are not just happy to be mere,
but we want to win it all, and we
feel mat we can."
"We are excited to go," said
head coach Kevin Walsh. "We
are not happy just to be there,
we want to win it all."
The pools are split up into
A,B,C, and D sections. Marist is
; in pool C wim Penri St. getting
the top ranking, Marist at number two, the University of Cal.Berkeley at the number three
seed, and number four Illinois St.
University closing, out the pool.
"We are not sure what to expect, because we have never
faced any of the teams in our
pool before," said Avagliano.
"There are some big name
schools, so we can't take any-,
one lightly. We just have to go
out there and try to play our
best."
The tournament is split up
into two parts. The first part is
me round robin section, in Which'
each team plays every other team
in its respective pool once. The
four leaders after the round robin'
section from each pool then advance to the semi-finals. It is
single elimination after that.
The round robin will be based
on a point system, and in the
event of a tie, a tie breaker system has been established consisting of four categories, which
are applied in me order of: head
to head competition, number of
wins, goals against, and goal differential in all tournament games.
"I am happy about the round
robin," Walsh said. "I think it
gives every team a fair shot, and
will bring out the best team in
each bracket."
While teams can play to a tie in
the round robin section, a winner must be determined from the
semi-finals on.
Although the tournament
started today, Marist arrived in
Tampa on Tuesday, which is
probably a good thing seeing
that their first game was at 5:45
this morning against Illinois St.
If that looks bad, consider that
Track-
;
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Mangan, and- Meredith behind six other women. Last
Halstcad each ran "tremendous year, Murray turned in a fifth
v
races," according to Kelly.
place finish in the same event.
,''' -'TheyWere;inthe; hunt the " ;•; As";expected; -Mount ^St.
whole way," he saidi,'- %%.":-;\• •--_
•Mary's ^duplicated tHeir .1995
.-Nadine'Simpn&fifth place in:x:vjctory/arid easilyôutdistanced
the high jump w^-a pleasant . • Fairleigh Dickinsohib claim the.
surprise.'/'" ' /• - >v..'. iy---"-^;;; •*.' "overall teamcipwri. ;I^ng Island
v
;"Nadine has worked real hard; (University^
She.sh6wed character arid. menr .the Mount and FDUirithe> upr,
tal toughness; Mist missing 6n -i per echelon qf NnEC.track;^-.
hetfirst.tvro,attempts," Kelly; ; .vRidertiedôtert^Morrisfor.
:6;5vppihts;ahead;of;
^ d o U ^ ^ c V ; ? ! ^ / ; ' ^ ^ ^ " ' \::fpurihi
:/
''-'•'<î-f-'•••''•'*}2 -^-v'rîv-^v'
:
•-Maiist*^Monm6uu^;Wagrie
;r, St:
'-"•Simon's jump of-5--1/4"seta - Francis; (PA) arid, St. Francis
-Marist indoor record:-.; . C -l : v'(NY) rounded out the field;V:>':']'-. Coach Kelly was yeiy pleased
y Ahotherschool recprttfellari with his team's results. ;',Tra very.the 5pQ,,c.ompImentsbf AUisqri
Murray, putmefield w^slrphg
.this .year, andûrjay^finished ^fifth 6rvsixth,; and we did it;'
tomorrow, Marist plays Cal.-Berkeley at 10:00 AM, and then
again in the evening at 9:30,
when they must square off
against Penn. St.
Although Marist does not
know much about any of;the
teams in their pool, Walsh feels
they will have a chance to feel
out the other teams. "After we
play Illinois St., we get to see
Penn. St. and Cal.- Berkeley play,
so that could help us out."
"We have to go down there and
want to play," Wagner said. "We
really have to get our minds set
to play some great hockey.". If the Red Foxes survive the
round robin, they will play the
winnerof pool B in the semi-finals. This pool consists of Western Michigan University, Weber
St University, Mass. Institute of
Technology, and Miami UniversityofOhio.
The championship game will be
held Sunday, March 3, at 12:00
noon, and if all goes the way
Marist wants, they will be returning to Poughkeepsie victorious!
"Our primary goal is to win it
all," said assistant coach Kent
Rinehart. "If we play pur best
and get beat, I would still have
to be happy."
"I've never been satisfied with
losing," Walsh said. "But if we
do Ipse I'll still be very proud pf
title match
by MARTY SINACOLA
"It's hard watching these guys
step onto the floor for the last
time in a regular season game."
With this win, Marist secured
second place in -the conference,
and the No; 2^seed in the NEC
tournament; They will.be playing either seventh seeded
Fairleigh Dickinson, or tenth
seeded Robert Morris at home
Friday night. -> ;
On Tuesday night the members
of NEC teams were announced.
Tomidy was voted to the First
All-NEC team; Hill was voted to
the Second All-NEC team, while
Kami was voted to the NEC AllNewcomer team.The Red Foxes host the NEC
quarterfinal game tomorrow night
at The James J. McCann Recreation Center.' The winner of this
game moves on to play Monday
night in the semi-final game.
Ice hockey hopes t6 bring home national championship
by MARTY SINACOLA
for
I told them that
A stunned crowd saw the Red most importantly,
?
we
don
t,lose
at,
the McCann .
;'Fpxes failbehind 1-0 only 37 sec- \
Staff Writer
center,
and
they
didn't
let rhe
onds into the game, and then
down."...
The hockey team isjn Florida were hushed again .when the Ti-. ; f Despite the effort made-by'
participating'iri the national, tour-: tans extended meir lead, to 2-0. . CCM; Marist wasvictorious 7-6,'.
.Marist and their neyer-say-die
nament in Florida. Why then
pushing their record to 22^3; 15- would they care about last Fri- attitude were able,to.tie up the.
day night's hockey game against., game, at 2-2 before the end of me Lin me:MCHC.:All of this'de- •
' :,:
.....'- spite being shorthanded. "CCM i
the County College of firstpe'riod.
The game was a close battle played a good game," Walsh
Morristown (NJ)? The reason is
simple. A win against CCM puts throughout with Marist never said. "But Whenfiveof our best ;
a.
Marist in the drivers seat to win leading until the winning goal players.are out, it becomes
: ; ;
ciosergame."
K..
^•
"'
was.scored.
CCM
never
held
the Metropolitan Collegiate
;
moretiiana one goal lead the rest; . ;The five players who ;did. not .
Hockey Conference. dress Were Mark Avagliarip, Ray .
Had they succumbed to the of the way.
After two periods, Marist was Kehahan, Brian Warzecha, Frank.
pesky CCM Titans, the Red
Berri'an, and Grayson Dewitt.Foxes would be digging them- trailing 6-5, with meir 11-0 home Only pewitt's absence will be;,
selves a hole in the MCHC from record in jeopardy; "After the long term, as he will miss the rewhich they wpujd have to climb. second period,! was drinking it mainder of me season due to a
"This game was very impor- wasDeja Vu." The last time. hand injury.
tant," said head coach Kevin Marist faced CCM, was.on die
After returningfromnationals,
Walsh. "It was instrumental for road. They, went into the third -Marist closes out die regular seaperiod
down,
by
one
goal,
and
us to have a chance at me MCHC
son'at home against Wagner
regular season title.". ,
. . ' ended, up being handed one of College on March 8. The winner
If you missed the game think- meir three losses by the score of of-ithat contest will take "the
...;.;.;.'..
ing you would see another.mercy 4-2. .-.:.y
"I told me players mere were MCHC regular season title and
rule blowout, you were mistaken.
an easier route to the finals in the
The Titans gave the Red Foxes a no more chances against this MCHC tournament man the numrun for their money, giving team," Walsh said. "I made diem '. ber two seed would. That'tourMarist their biggest test at me aware.ofthe harsh reality that we ' nament gets underway on March
-.
Circle photo/Jason Liguori
McCann Ice Arena this season. could get swept by them, but 9, and runs through March 24.
Drew Bowdenreceivesa passfromJoe Accisano in win over CCM.
Head into NEC playoffs on Friday with home-court advantage
Monmouth went on a 14-4 run in
the middle of the second half.
Magarity said they always
seem tofinda way to win.
"We almost gave it away with
some bad turnovers," Magarity
said. "We always seem to step
up and make the big plays and
some big stops."
Junior forward Lucas Pisarczyk
did not get any minutes last
night, due to senior forward Scott
McCabe getting his first start in
his Marist career.
In his first game McCabe
played for 11 minutes and: recorded two rebounds and two
personal fouls.
Two out of the three seniors
scored in double figures.
Head coach Dave Magarity
said he was very uptight:
"I'm always very skeptical on
senior nights," Magarity said.
23
. what we have accomplished. I am
very proud of this team, and I am
also confident that 'we can be
national champions."
"When we come home from
Tampa, we want to be national
champions," said Avagliano.
Plans for an information number have been organized to keep
students informed on me team's
progress. Anyone wishing to
stay on top of how the team is
doing can call extension 7125.
Updates for each game, and how
the team is doing will be posted.
• Rinehart said the team will try
to win for the fans..
"The team would just like to
thank the fans for their outstanding support all year long. We will
try to make theih proud."
"This is not an easy tournament to get into,"-Walsh said. "I
want to be able to say that I took
me most successful team down
to Florida and I want to come
back national champions."
With the confidence and talent
this team' has, that scenario is
something that could very well
turn out'to be the case, it is more
than just a pipe dream, but something that if worked at, can bring
Marist College a national championship.
Last chanceforrunners
at Seton Hall IMversity
by GIANNA PINO &
STEVE WANCZYK
Staff Writers
I
The men' s' track team rebounded from a disappointing
Northeast Conference Championship meet with an encouraging performance at an informal
event at'SetbnHairUniversity
;:
last weekend.
"
The Seton Hall "Last Chance
Meet" was held on Saturday, and
Coach Pete Colaizzo sent seven
of his runners to compete with
some of me best collegiate runners in the. area. For many athletes, this event is an opportunity to qualify for bigger and better championships, and to advance past the local track scene.
While none of Marist's runners
had a chance to reach me next
level of competition,; the meet
provided an extra week of competition, and let the Red Foxes
put meir eighdi place'NEC finish
behind mem. "Our results at me
conference championships were
not good," Colaizzo said. "We
weren't really concerned with the
team's position in the final standings; we had just hoped that
some of the individual performances were going to be better."
On February 17 and 18, the
men's indoor track team competed in die Northeast Conference championship meet.
Hosted by Fairfield Dickinson
•: Of the seven Red Foxes that University in Teaneck, New Jertraveled to Seton Hall last week- sey, die Red Foxes met their conend, one stood out. Sophomore ference opponents: Mount St.
MikeMelfi solidified his position Mary's, Monmouth, FDU, Rider,
as the top runner in die track pro- Wagner, Robert Morris, Long Isgram with a strong third place fin- land, St. Francis(N.Y) and St.
ish in the 3000. Melfi's time of Francis(Pa.).
The Red Foxes went into the
8:48.40 was anew personal record'
for him, and completed what has
been a'very solid;season* for
Marist's star distance runner.!
Earlier in the indoor season,
Meifi had surpassed personal
records in the 1500, the 5000, and,
the mile; when he crossed the
finish line on Saturday, he added
me 3000 to this list, completing a
season of remarkable individual
success. 'This capped off a
good season for Mike in all me
distance races," Colaizzo said.
While the meet was informal,
and no team points were
awarded, Colaizzo was entiiused.
"This week was much better
than last week (die NEC's). It was
nice to see some individuals perform as wellastiieyare able to."
With die indoor season over,
me men's track team has already
begun to train for the spring.
Marist has four full weeks to prepare for its first nieet of the outdoor season, on March 23, Versus Iona and Fordharii. '
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hurdles, replaced Chuck Williarns
who could not compete due to
illness.
Head coach Pete Colaizzo was
pleased with the all-around performance by the team.
"Eric (Deshaies) ran the four
hundred, and he performed admirably. It wasn't our best team
out there, but it was the best for
the team that raced," Colaizzo
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meet setting individual goals
ratiier than anticipating a team
contention.
On Saturday, junior Pat Casey
ran a time of 9:07.5 tofinishnintii
in me 3000 meter.
Casey also ran anchor leg in
Sunday's distance relay medley
which placedfifthwitii a time of
10:55.6. The team was comprised
of John Lasker, Eric Deshaies,
and Eric Bergmann. Deshaies,
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"WE WOULDN'T HAVE COME CLOSE TO
WINNING THE CHAMPIONSHIP WITHOUT A VERY STRONG DIVING TEAM,"
-Larry VanWagner |
February 29,1996
Men repeat as conference champs; capturefirstMAAC title
by MIKE GENTILE JR.
Staff Writer
Going into the championships
they didn't look like winners, losing their last three dual meets of
the 1995-96 season.
Coming out of the big weekend they not only looked like
winners, but like champions.
Theirfirstyear in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC) as an associate member, the men's swimming and diving team seized first place and are
now champions once again.
For the first time in the men's
swimming program, the Red
Foxes own back-to-back championships, and this is their third
championship in seven years.
The Red Foxes beat their opponents by more than 60 points
finishing with 981, while their
MAAC rival Rider obtained 920
ending up in second place, on
the weekend of February 16-18.
Sophomore Chris Blackwell
came away from the event with
the most outstanding male diver
award, finishing first in the three
meter and the one meter diving
events.
Winning this award is what
diving coach Melanie Bolstad
wanted to do.
"We wanted to go in and dominate and win the outstanding
diver of the MAAC conference
championships," Bolstad said.
Blackwell won the one meter
diving event posting a score of
409.68, beating last year's winner by more than 100 points and
also won the three meter event
with 434.16points, breaking the
pool record of 397.35 set two
years ago at Iona College, the site
for this years championship.
"It's really nice to win and be
c
• after being members of the Metropolitan Conference since:1978.
"The MAAC conference is
more professionally run," Van
Wagner said. "In the Metropoli;
tan Conference the coaches did
Hf*
everything,
but now the conferfe.
^
ence (officials and other coaches)
was responsible for doing, the
P* iM§8P **'<
things we use to do."
Bolstad also said the conference was run professionally and
that other teams accepted Marist
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from the beginning of the championships.
'Teople came up to me and said
they were happy because we
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(Marist), upped the level of diving," Bolstad said.
Van Wagner also recalled how
fh f
the Loyola and Niagara swimmers were cheering for Marist
swimmers when they were receiving their awards at the end
of the meet.
"I think that is a great stamp of
• K &-**-'3M^BBR!.*
approval from the rest of the conMen swimmers and divers celebrate their MAAC championship at Iona College on Feb. 18.
ference," Van Wagner said.
Although the Red Foxes are
the strongest diving team in the are determined by depth and not Greg Christman and freshman
champions once again, their
conference," Bolstad said.
individuals," Van Wagner said.
Griffin McNeese.
Head Coach Larry Van Wagner Rider won nine of the individual . Also, on the first day of com- training is not completed yet.
Eight members of the team
also was satisfied with the divers events while Marist won only six. petition, sophomore Chris
have
qualified for the-ECACs.
performance.
Rider, won four of the five re- O'Conner came in first place in
"We wouldn't have come close lay events while Marist swept the 500 freestyle, the same day This is where the top swimmers
to winning the championship the 400 yard individual medley Blackwell captured the one from every Division I school, except the Ivy League, compete
without a very strong diving and the 1650 yard freestyle meter diving event.
team," Van Wagner said.
events.
The Red Foxes, after capturing against each other for a bid to go
Another member of the diving
Freshman Craig Chatlos also first place early, never relin- to the nationals.
All three divers have qualified
squad is junior Brenden Leddy broke a pool record during the quished their lead in the standfor the ECACs this weekend
who totaled 403.00 points in the weekend.
ings all weekend.
three meter dive beating last
In the 200 backstroke, Chatlos
After day one, the Red Foxes March 1 and 2, along with five
year's winner, as did Blackwell, posted a time of 1:54.06 narrowly led second place Rider by three swimmers. Of the eight males,
and finished third in the one breaking the record by .91 tenths points! and after the second day three are freshmen and four are
meter, once again ahead of last ' of a second on Sunday February Marist increased their lead to 31 sophomores.
year's winner.
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And since diving events are
18th, the final day of the champi- points, 647-616..
Of the eight schools in the con- onships:.
Bolstad and Van Wagner were scored by points and swimming
ference Marist was the best conChatlos also came in third place impressed with the way the meet events are scored by times, the
ditioned at the meet, according in the 400 individual medley, an was held.
. divers, after the ECAC go to the
to Van Wagner.
event that the Red Foxes swept,
This was the swim team's. first JMCAA Zone Qualifier where just
"Conference Championships finishing behind sophomore year competing in the MAAC, diverswho qualify participate.
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Women's trackfinishes6th Women capture second place in MAAC
Lose championship to Loyola by 1.5 points
at Fairleigh Dickinson
pressed with Martin's perforby PAT REYNOLDS
produce at least 5 points on her
mance on the one meter.
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own, in the 55-mctcr dash, and
, . "She's won three meter but
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the 300 meter, with her, Marist
she's never even placed higher
One and a half points.
could have challenged' for
than third on the one meter," she
That's
ali
that
prevented
the
:
The women's track team fourth place.
said. "It was the best perforwomen's
swimming
and
diving
ended.its indoor season on a
Several of Pino's teammates - team from capturing the Metro mance she's ever had."
positive note last weekend.
stepped up in her absence, and
Atlantic Athletic Conference
But, unfortunately to Marist,
Fairleigh Dickinson University helped the team reach the goal
the meet could not be won by
hosted the Northeast Confer- that Kelly had set during the Championship. . . .
It seemed like an unfair outcome dives alone.
ence Indoor Track and Field week of practice leading up to
to
a team that had lead the standGoldstein said although his
Championships, beginning on the championships—sixth
ings
until
they
gave
it
to
Loyola
troops
remained confident after
Saturday and continuing place. through Sunday. -The Red • Marist's top performer was : in the last leg of the,three day . the strong showing on the spring
meet held at. Iona College.
boards, they knew they had their
Foxes, coached by Phil Kelly, long'distance runner Kathleen
But
according
to
head
swimwork cut out for them.'.
headed south for the weekend, Woodson.1 She ran the 3000 m
ming
coach
Lloyd
Goldstein,
a
- "They could see it on the
and competed in only their in 11:05.79j good enough for
strong
ending
wasn't
expected.
[score]
board that it was a fairly
fourth meet since winter inter- fourth place, and finished third
- "We knew it was going to be close meet," he said. "But they
cession.
in the 5000 m, with a time of
tough going into Sunday," he knew going into Sunday that we
The squad had showed signs 19:17.38.
said. 'To be honest, I actually had some strong events."
of continuing improvement at
"Kathleen really showed what thought we weren't going to have Two of the strongest events for
some of the earlier meets this she was made of," said Kelly.
Marist came in the 200 butterfly
season, and the trend continued, , "She rebounded from a bad a chance."
The
opportunity
opened,
howand the 400 freestyle relay.
at-the championships.; Marist ;T"wee£-jina came jteough big in
In the butterfly, juniors
claimed sole possession of sixth \ ;'< a1>t^-m^"V-V;'V«.^î^ ever, with an unexpected and
place in" a ten'team' field, and.', ;?.,Twp R^Fpxes^scored points outstanding performance by the Stephanie Raider and Becky
Tatum took first and second, reKelly called the two day event"«'f in feSOpOâs freshman Karen Marist women divers.
If
the
divers
were
the
key
to
spectively.
"our'best indoorperformance * Dbnafiuejdined Woodson in
giving
Marist
a
chance,
the
diver
The relay, which has almost
e y e r " ; X , ^ - £ l .•••,.,:*.':- '-K'-: .... thetop^fiye.! Donahue set a per^
V But it; couldfiayebeen better.*- iona! rec^pfi9:58.82, aridfuir most responsible was senior co- become an automatic win for
Marist during the regular season,
The Red Foxes' erriergingfiesh- •/ ishedfifth:'t->.''\,}.[. • K }~k ;.• captain Jan Martin.
r
Martin, who was named the did not change at the championman leader, DoniiniquePino, * T-The distance"medley
relay
hurt her thigh in thefirstevent - team crossed the finish linejir meet's most outstanding female ships.
The team of Raider, junior
of, the meet—the long jumpr^- ^.13:0^.03, less than onesecpnd diver, took control of not only the
three
meter
board,
but
the
one
Allison
Morilla, sophomore
and w?sforced tp.wfljdravyfrom
,out of! secondI place. 'Allison meter as well.
Danielle Mitchell, and freshman
the rest of the. weekend's com'Murray. Beth Cimino, Karen
Women's diving coach Melanie Jennifer Jaeger, shattered the
petition. ^"'V%vi.t-->:c:i -;\"|V =
Bolstad
said she was most im- pool record by almost four secrPino had been' expected; to /;PkaseJ5eiT&k; page 2£„~~
by STEVE WANCZYK
onds, to get their first place finish.
Now. that the meet is over,
Goldstein had some time" to look
back on what might have put his
team over the victorious edge.
"There's a lot of things that you
could look back on," he said.
"We had a couple of events
where we looked to improve our
position a little and wejust didn't
doit."
Regardless of the team's outcome there were many outstanding individual feats that shined
through the .cloud of defeat.
Jaeger set two MAAC records
with her performances in the 100
and 200 backstroke and qualified
herself into the ECAC meet held
in a week.
In fact, Marist had the most
swimmers they ever had qualify
for the ECAC meet.
Coach Goldstein said the
team's tough weekend at Iona
should not play a role at the
ECAC meet
"They have their heads
screwed on right," he said.
"We're looking for faster performances at the ECACs."

Vol. 48 No. 13, February 29, 1996

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