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The Inner
Circle
Rumor had it that
this
morning's
issue
would present
a factual
report
of the week's
campaign without
committment
to any candidat~.
Rumors are never anything
more than rumors:
consequently
with the
aid of positive
a:r;i.d fa.ctual
inforP,1ation
9
The Circle
wishes
to endors6
the canidates
who, in our opinion,
will
be most beneficial
in the
o·peration
of an effectual
and progressive
Student
Government.
!chievement,
regardless
of its
seemingly
trivial
importance
to some, must be ta1rnn
into,
strong
consideration
when choosing
any
canidate.
Tim Keneally
has,
over the course
of his three
years
at
Marist,
excelled:
a reiteration
of Mike Tobin"s nomination
speech is
u:nnece3sary.
Keneally,~s
tenure
as President
of the Class
of
'6'
is
impressive;
he is the only class
prexy who availe~
himself
of the
right
to voice
~l)inion at the Council
proceedings,
to work with a
positive
attitude
for the group he represented.
Although
protions
of hi3 platform
contail'). the expected
loopholes
which can be found in
any slate
of proposals,
featm:·es
such as the Publicity
Board are def-
inate
steps
foward to accomplishing
the badly needed link
between
Student
Government and the individual
student.
The reinstatement
sf
the d.efmwt Council
Bulletin
:proposed by Mr. Hulett,
falls
far
behind Keneally's
scope.
The proposal
along with the guarentee
which we will
demand be
met concerning
the C01..u·se Guide cannot be overlooked.
The pre$ent
Council has planned
to publish
a "clean"
Guide to Registration,
but
Mr. Hulett
has made no mention
in this
area of furthering
the work
and plans
0£
the Cou_~cil upon which he proposes
to build.
The question
in point
is to decide
which candidate
will
be
able to work effectually
with the administration.
We hold that Mr.
Kew~ally will
maintain
student
support
in correlation
to adminis-
trative
rapport.
The Vice-I>residential
race was the most heatedly
oontested
J.
position
for the
'69
S.G ..
Les Lombardi presented
a platform
un-
equalled
by anyone,
save his opponent.
Lombardi's
explie.ation
and
ampl-j_:fj_oation of the ex-officio
a.uties
cf
the Veep are q_ui te substan-;
f
tial,
and eq_ual:J_y desireable.
However~ the scope of his platform
is
t
quite
evidently,
too limited.
If elected,
Mr. Lombardi would super-
vise
club activities
mid little
more.
He has no proposals
for defin-
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~i:eas
of academics
and Eithletics,
save
the
all
contingent
ther;10
bf
club
cooperation.
Sh uld
caE\pus
crg2nizations
refuse
to assist
and
support
him,
j
·r.
Lomba:tc!.i is left
as
t1,_c
h,30.d.
of the
Viarist
Blood _
Bank.
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JJr.
l'.!ahoney has
gone far
b0·
·ond
tb.e
consti tutionci,l
scope
of
~i:;he
V
oP..
He has seon
the
offico
as a produ.cti
vc
0110
in
corr·clD.tion
:to.:.
Prcstdential
affairs.
In
esnoncc,
)\!IO'rH,
not achievement
for
clubs.
Lahonoy
looks
·co
advcmcemont
for
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It's
a shame that
tlrn ca.ndido.:c;c=;s
for
'frcasuror
f
,JJ.d.ed d1:.ring.
the
debates:
both
could
hayc
deco.pi
tc.1.tcd
each
other,
but,
for
re~-
sons beyond
us ...
The choice
for
.,:rcasurcr'
must f al}.
wi-tl1
Dro.
Jack
I,ohman,
for
tho
same reasons
as those
of
i
:ahoncy.
Lehman
I
s
scope
c:::cells
the
proposals
of
Lir. l:Tcliga:.1; he
talcea
c:n active
interest
in Student
Government
affairs,
rather
th2.n concentr2ating
on tho fur.clamental
principles
of bookkeeping.
-~l'ho
·rrcasurcr,
an Bro.. Lehman proposes
should
be a
dynamic
cog
in the
S.G.
wheel.
}Jr.
lJeligan
failed
to
visualize
this;
the specifics
of
tho
Noligan
platform
follow
too much
debit-credit
thought,
arid the
computer
proponals
have been
planned
since
October
(you can
read
i-c
for
yourself
in tho Oct.
5th edition
of The Circle).
The ref ore,
Bro.
Lehman
looks
like
toda::'
s winner.
Jack
11
Peaches
11
Corcoran
ran the
best
campaign
the
campii
has
seem
in
many a year;
his
candidacy
speech
vm.s
the
best
of last
night
1
oeven
speakers.
")?eache:s"
receives
a unanimous
cmdorsement
from
r?he
Circle
because
of
his
dri
vc
2:r.d
imagination
in
rum1Jng
a perfect
campaign.
Ho feel
he
would
have
easily
defeated
any
opponent
had
the
office
boon
contested.
The can.didates
for
cla.Js
rc1)rcsontc,tivo,
as
we sec
them arc:
Senior
1, Shanley,
2,
Davis;
Junior
- 1, ~:oho, 2,
Ulasewicz;
Sopho-
more - 1,
'.i:ortorici,
2, we can sco no other
co.ndidc::..te to definitely
recommend.
1.rhe
o·chor
throe
have issues
to
both
recommend and
reject
them.
'.Jo
call
it
a tosr;
up -
you
:
ick.
\Ie
have attempted
to
present
lcgical
and factual
reasons
for
I"
I
endorsing
thio
slate
of candidates.
•J~hc
final
decision
is Jo ft to
r~
the reader.
Should
tho
studon·t;
disagree
,vi
th our madness,
we hope
that
our prenentation
will
cauao hir:1
to
vote
rationally,
c,nd
only
after
careful
consideration.





































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Given the accomplishments
of the
Brosnan
adr.1inistr~\tion,
the
cam-
paign
for
Stud.en t Govo:;.---nmcnt President
for
tl1c
'68- ~.69 year
was
bovn
to
be
a letdown;
·wan bound to be aJ.most an anticlimax
to,
actually,
Joe Brosnan
himself.
It
was.
Tim Keneally,
Junior
Class
?ronidcnt,
was
pitted
against
Alan
Hulett,
Ju.n.ior R0:prcsc:1te.ti
vc to the. Student
c+or
crnment.
'J'.he cam-
paign. which, commenced laot
Woclncmlay,
start0d
off
slow
2.nd
never
re-
ally.
got off tho ground.
Kcacally
suff ci---cd f:;_~orn
an initial
di sad var
tag0~
that
being
he
vms
considered
tbc front
runner
for
so long
that
people
would easily
spot
faults
in his
□cthods.
Hulctt
1
s
campaign
started
off
on a
dyn2.mic note
--
tho
11
mc.n
with
idoas
11
--
he was
pic-
tured
as tho thinker,
the
only one
tho
rc::.cc
wi-i;h
brains.
The contest
brought
the
baGic
in::;uoo dmvn
tc
e
:;::perionce
vs ideF
The platforms
did
suggest
a
few delineations
which
2.llow
an element
of
rationality
to
the votors
choice:
-Comrnunicatim.1G;
Kencall;'{
:oroposos
the
establishment
of a Pub-
licity
BOB.rd,
while
Hul0tt
recor,une:ndr:; tho reincarnation
of the
Coun-
cil
Bulletin.
-Student
Academic
Committ00;
Hulett
spoke
basicly
in
the
inter<
of involving
more of the
student
body in the ,1.cti vi ties
in this
are,
and
made several
worthwhile
proposals
and endorsements
of
SAC
pro-
grams.
Keneally
stressed
involvement
of
the 8.li..C
on
the
departmcntaJ
levol
to reach
an 02.rlier
stago
of
decision-making
on
the
part
of
tho
APC.
-Academic
Grievance
Do2.rd;
Hulett
proposed
the.
inauguration
oi
this
body to
assist
the student
in fo.culty
encounter,
Kenc2lly
de-
murred,
feeli11g
that
stu.dent
should
bring
their
grci vrmccs
direct
tc
the teacher
rather
than
chs.ncinG
an
a·ctcmpt
to
pillory
a
teacher.
-Academic
Dismissal
Board;
Another
:proposLl.l of
Hulett
would
press
for
student
rc:9rcstation
on
this
board.
Keneally
desires
first
to oxmine
the
criteria
for
dismissal
and
then
act
on
the
find-
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of this
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL
RACE
The campaign
of Lester
Lom-
bardi
:for Vice-President
during
the
past
week has been a remarkably
g0od one.
Les'
picture
is admirably
etched
on the
front
page of his
platform
pamphlet,
lending
it
an ex-
tra
bit
0f
class
that
no one has yet
equaled.
It
even makes Les'
plat-
form a pa:ge longer
than
his
opponent.
To,
date,
the campaign
has
been
fairly
quiet.
There
are,
of
course,
the
"Don't
Mess with
Les
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posters
on every
bulletin
board
on
campus,
but until
Monday night
at
the
Freshman
Class
meeting,
the main
issues
of the
race
were not
kicked
around
in public.
Lombardi's
campaign
is
divid-
ed into
two main he;-1,dings - CoorcUn-
ation
and Communication.
He
seems
to
have put forth
some
good
solid
ideas
into
the
office
of the Veep.
Under
Communication,
he
is
in favor
of a
weekly
radio
program
on
v!HCR
where the Student
Government
"should
avail
i tsel:f.
11
Centrali
zod bulletin
boards,
inform.tl
meetings,
and a re-
vived
agenda
of
S.G.
proceedings
warrant
further
inspection.
Even
the
idea
of the
~r:.tst
__
Journal
sound
great.
Under communications,
Les
hopes
"to insure
a baJ.anced
calend.ar~
In
contrast,
Les'
opponent,
Dan Mahoney,
does not
seem
to exem-
plify
as much inventiveness
as
the
Tall
Day
Hop.
Danny says
thaJ
he 1dll
"work actively
for
new
proposals,
11
but
mci.kes no
men ti on
of what these
new
proposals
are
or whose ideas
they
will
be.
Maybe the
fact
that
Dan
is active
on the
Student
Academic
Committee
is
the
reason
for
his
8eemingly
drought
of ideas.
Dan
can
pos::d
bly
see that
much of Les'
proposals
can never
get
off
the
ground
and
thus
wishes
to improve
&1d
not
invent.
Dan has proposed
to attack
existing
problems
and solve
them
first.
He sees
no reason
for
cre-
ating
new pro bl ems to go· along
with new ideas.
There
can be no doubt
thai
the Vice-Presidential
race
is the
one to watch
today.
Both speech-
es were excellent
and the
rebutt-
als
followed
suit.
Things
really
began
to
take
on form early
this
morning,
however,
1
c"·hen
Les and
Dan met in
room 411 Champagnat
for
another
debate.
The room became
so crowd-
ed with
interested
students
that
the
confrontation
had to be moved
into
the
fourth
floor
lounge.
Lombardi
beg2n with
his
platform
ideas,
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listened.
Les
becrune all
wrapped
up
with
centralized
bulletin
boards
and athletic
grants.
He
ke~t pounding
on
these
and similar
ideas.
Mahoney stressed
the fact
that
the offiue
of V
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will
be a
full
time
job and that
the Veep
will
have little
time
for trtvia.
Dan seems to have
the
stronge1
points
and
went away
from the
debates
looking
more like
a
Vice~President
than
Les.
The
only mystery
still
left
unsol,
ed seems to be
why
Mahoney dii
not run for President.
Lou
.fliressi
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ALL CAMPUS CLUBS AlfD ORGJ
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We have spoken frequently
about Maristrs
growing committment
to the
Mid-Hudson Community.
Jc now have an op-portuni
ty
to demonstrate
tha~
commi ttment.
N:=trist haa been
8.s1$:ed,
as has b-:_,en Dutchess
and
Vassar,
to recruit
volunteers
to conduct
!.l
sur-rey which is fundemental
to thf
success
of
the
Model Ci ti es
.Proeram.
The MoJel Ci ti es Agency
has
approached
us for at least
200 volunteers.
An important
briefing
session
will
be
held
on 1'hursc1.ay,
March
7th
from
2:00-5:00
p.m. in th
Theater
for these
volunteers.
The survey
itself
will
be congucted
in
two sections
a.uring the last
two weeks of March.
I am urging
every
.
campus
organization
to
push
this
drive
for volunteers.
I think we
would all like
for Marist
to be in the forefront
of an effort
to make
a better
Poughkee-psi e.
He have long theorized
about ci vie and social
action
and are now
chall!mged
to do something.
For
the record
I would like
to hc:>.ve the names of those who volunteer
from your club or orga.-rii zation
by
Ifa.rch 6th,
ec::.rli er
if
possible.
Stephen Nohe is the Student
Coordinator
of this
project.
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CQRRI~ST'tNDI!TG SEClillTl'J1Y RACE
There hao been no race
for
the
p'3.
p<n"'
and rc:.&:..i.o
station
an
ways
t>f
position
of Correspondini:~
f:'.cc.cc·::ary
infor.
1
:rdnf~ ·t,t.c ctudent
population
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Student
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nrnont.
'l'ho only
of his
o_pi.nions concerning
social
oondidato
for
the
poGt
is
J·ack Cor-
and cultural
events
and the stud
en
doran.
One oft
he nain
objcc-tivcs
of lVir. Corcoran
is to
rovicc
this
office
from
its
present
role
au
mearly a letter
writing
fOst to
govcr.n_;r1t)Et 's
cctivitics.
Ho would liko
ttc
student
to
have a
great or
f 2m.U.i2rit
y
with
one performing
a more J:11.L~·.mic:
funct--
to e.chiovc
t~1i:::.;
encl would
t:r:.r to
ion for tho
campuo.
If elected,
Jack
30:s
hi~sclf
moving in the directi.::>:'J.
cf
f:3..i.'Cc:ctG:c
communication
on can1r
1
.1u,
Eo
1
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1
.:J.d.
like
to
se,::
a Public:
tJ
J~oa:.cct.
vfrd_
-;h
could
aid in achicvin,S
·:;l-:.c do;-..;2.::-os
unity
andcommunicatio.n
n1,
G·-1mrus,
o::j_J3.
nd.
J.;hc
:t:,
l1ors
of
tl1c
Student
f}p:.n:.i. ~.:n
:i.ii:~
rd 2.nd
alc:o
to have
a
p,1h~i
G~1•:d
rc~~urt
cf
tho findingc
c:f.
Cu.C.'.l
i:oJ.l.
,Jti.ck
C:orcoran
sayG that
his
baoic
ir1ccnti vc io that
ho wants
to Bork for
the
achool.
Ho fools
He would like
to utilize
the
scbool
thE.,t any lack
in cxpericnco
is
bal211ccd
by
his
desire
to perform.
Last night
J2,ck
Lehman
fms
and
Charles
Eiligan
prccontcd
their
platf
ornrn to tho otudont
body and~
countered
each other
in
tho J.igh-t
of tho
material
that
wr~o
p:.co;_,cntcd
jn the
inf
o:rmation
that
both
ca:::id-
Lchrtan otrcosed
in his
plat-
form,
o.c
wolJ
as in his
campaign-
ing
ti1ro1..\?;}1out tho
night,
that
ly his
voting
responsibility
i~
regard
to
s--..wh
commi tteos
a::-J SAC
J
i.datcs
had
published
:c-:ircvi,')ucly.
ICC,
ard
th,::
EOA program.
lTiligan
After
Lehman prescnt·:xl
vcrba1ly
:fol
t
·'.:;J1Lt
nuch voting
responsibil-
his
opiniono
in regard
to
-d.,c
of:?ico
ity
did1:
1
t
cerry
the vveight that
of tho trcaov..rcr,
lTiligan
c.e:cuscd
Lohman imiJlied
i.n
regard
to the
him
of
dealing
in
goncralitic □~
office
of
trea3uror.
Niligan
proposed,
what he con::;iclcred
1-lilic;:.:-,.n rrt1·csscd
the practica-
to be specifics
that
wore impo:r-tc:.nt
cido
of -ti1e offico,
while
Lehman
in carrying
out his
du:Lioc
in elect-
ondcavorod
to ozprcss
his
theory
ed of:fice.
of progrcnsivnosn.
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renrese~t~tive~
to the
next
Mike Shanley
hes 1::ieen his
class'
rapresentatlve
to the
Council
for
the
past
y;_;a:-..,
He
ha3 been
extremely
actlYe
on the
Council,
having
been
a delegate
to the
Intercollegiate
Council,
the
author
of the
guidelines
for
responsible
ettend8nce,
8nd one
0f
the
delegates
to the
Campus
Life
Committee.
Although
Mike
dl.d ~.ot campaign
t
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h
,,
ex ens::.vc
y,
0
did
st8te
to the
Circle
that
he
felt
that
his
job as student
rep-
resentative
has been
"not: 1r;,:;rely
that
of a legislator,
but
that
of
an
int:ermed1
:1.1·y
betwcee
~11-y
c:.ar,s
nri,l
_
the
Council.
11
Dudley
Davis
is the
present
recording
secretary
of th& Class
of 1969.
He
1s a member of the
Theater
Guild,
the
Italian
Club,
the
ReynRrd
editorial
steff,
and
the
Navel
Reserve.
In his
plat-
form he asserts
the
imryortance
of cornr.mnication
between
his
class
and the
Counc!l,
and among
the
members
of the
class
itself
by the
anncintment
of two repre-
sentAtives
~o eRch senior
floor
a~d to the
Conwuter
Union.
He
elclo
dt~Bsses
a greAter
respect
L
..
>"i'
s,~h,)1)1 pronerty,
and promises
that
he will
work hard
for
the
quality
of the
1969 Reynard.
Gerry
Landers
hes been
an
~ctive
member of the
crew·te-am
and the
ski
c1ub.
In his
plat-
form,
he says
that
he feels
that
it
is the
duty
of the
executive
boRrd
of the
Council
to initiate
major
progrRms
and that
ell
rep-
resentatives
should
be informed
in this
action.
He
also
feels
that
there
is a lack
of communi-
cat-lon
which
needs
remedy
And
that
the Council
must
help
the
Residence
Board
in concreti·tlng
the
policy
on drinking
in the-
dorms.
















.,
Des pi to the la.st
u::.L1ute
d.ci~z le
of ca:r.p2.iGn li tcra tu1·0 o
1
tr,e
pra-t
Junior
.'..{eprese:atc.tive
uis
relative-
ly u.:1eventful.
The Scei!...in....; 13.c;c of
by
ery
of the
cendidates
t'.!.2.t
caused
2.
sti:c
,:as the
sta11d.
t3.lme
by Ulase
1
.:icz
agains
th,:~ p.t'O)osed
J3;,·.seball
teac1.
interest
0.::1
the pa:ct of
t\10
Cln.ss of
t:lis
c<1.,:;pF.1.i
.
.3t1
02.::1
po:.sibl;y
be
a1y naja~
issues
to discuss
the candidates,
Ed ~~ll~n,
h~d
with-
ki~d
of
au effort
to nention
drawn from the r~ce~
This left
three
a~Yc
candidates
to
choose
fro~:
the
i~-
cumbent,
Steve
Nohe,
Jerry
J~rey,
for:m.e;rly of the
Hazine
Co1w'1i
ttee,
and Tom
Ulaseuicz,
an unsuccessful
oandlda te for
ireshL1C.:c.1
Class
Pres-
ident
last
year.
There
were no real
issues
dls-
cusse
at the clc:.ss
T::.L
·,tin2.
on














1.. d
I
'-'on
ay s
other's
uositioa.
John
Kaley,
cnrr.:f.
thE- hcrie•-
fuls,
began
his
taJ.k
1:,y .'..a,;~n-::h:'_::ig
of communi0ations
b:~
~"':G,}Yl
the
stu.i-
ent
and his
represe1:·i,::>,
i,1
'i.'t::
ex:i. .Jts_
0
Kaley,
as a part
of h:':_s pl<' ....
-~form,
promised
more persona}
c;:mta:::t wi.th
the
members
of
his
class,,
'T.'cJ
lceep
the
students
more informed
about
the activities
of
the Stu~ent
Gov
1
t
he also
proposes
a bi-monjh}y
bulletin
which
he
v,ill
:
:..½f:.Ue
8.long
with the other
class
rspp
One of the
in-Ju.:nbsnt:.3
s
J.?ete
his
work with
the
Student
Government
and
f,n.i.rl
th at the
,;mnmn11.i
cati
01,s
mentio-nod by Kaley infact
ex-
istsd
in the form of a ncws-
1
oti.f.:r-
r'J.bli
ffr1eo
whonovc:r tho
ncsJ ~T0se in order
to keep
tn:::
cl
;-1~;;::
int'or-me~!
of the
prob·
monthly tulloti~,
~ortorici
of~
iivsrzency
ai m~terial
of
by
the
C,:.un--::·LJ. to
w2.rrant
such
fr~~~0ut
publication.
He went
o.n
tc.,
say
tl",a,-l;
he was running
on h~.s :;xper(:;ince
and perform
&-nee~
v,,j
t:n
the
Student
G-overnme
The problem of
communica
ti
cm was nl so
raised
by
m
othc
candido,te,
Willi.am
Rooney.
He
stated
t~10:t
tho
1
J_gh
it
is nee es
ary for
the
student
to
coopera
with
rd
s representative,
it
is
a two
-..-n.;1
st n)et
arid
th,:~
rep.
must tear
a
great
deal
of the
burd2n~
In offering
his
ideas
the
(l,.,;:ti
nd
of a representative
Roonc1·
said
that
the
ren.
must
.c
8eek tr.:.e ideas
zrnd atti tu.des
o
hi~
clr::.sf:: and
emplo3, them as
a
guite
in dealing
with
matters
before
tho Council.
Fin~lly,
Tony Parga,
the
other
Freshman Representative
f






presented
his
views
to the gather-
ing.
Running
primarily
on his
know-
ledge
of Student
Government
acquired
during
his
tenure
of office,
Parga
agreed
with
Tortorici
on the
ex-
istence
of communicq,tions
between
themselves
and the
clanso
Ee said
that
the
rep is powerless
1dthout
the
full
support
of
!.ilic class
and
that
"• .. it
is the
job of the
student
to go to his
rep ..• "
The meeting
itself
was origin-
ally
scheduled
to be a panGl dis-
cussion
on select
issues,
but,
in
actuality,
it
was an opnortur:.i.
ty
for
the
candidates
to
prestmt
thci r
platforms
while
being
abl0
to pub-
lically
comment on the poPition
of
their
op11onents.
There
has been some 0ucstion
r8ised
by
J\1r.
Rooney
-:::>nd
Mr.
Kaley
that
they
were not given
sufficient
information
regarding
the nature
of the meting
and were therefore
unable
to present
their
ideas
as
effectively
as they
might
hr.ive
liked
to.