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By
LAUREN ZAKNOUN
Because the grandjuryverdict was ''Know Justice, Know Peace!" con-
civil rights movement of the '60s. A
Circle Contributor
released at an inconvenient time fesses that it was very disappointing generation later, his activism has
On Nov. 24, the St. Louis grand
jury ruled not t.o indict Darren Wil-
son, the white police officer
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shot
and killed Michael Brown, an African
American teenager, in Ferguson, Mo.
Protests have been erupting around
the world in solidarity with Brown
and t.o prompt justice against Wilson.
According t.o ProRepublica, black
teens are 21 times more likely t.o be
shot dead by police than their white
counterparts. Black men are killed by
cops at a disproportionately high rate
in the United States. Demonstrations
against such racist aggression have
erupted worldwide, prompting the
Black Lives Matter movement t.o end
racism
and
police brutality against
the black community.
It was only a matter of time before
the movement came
to
Marist. On
Dec. 1, sophomore Jada Anderson
and
junior Star Irizarry along with a
handful of Marist students gathered
in front of the library for the Hands
Up walk-out in Brown's honor. Bear-
ing handmade signs, the small group
gathered at 12:01 p.m., the time of
Brown's death, t.o honor him as well
as all other black victims of police
brutality. This struggle is very per-
sonal t.o them both, as they are both of
African American background.
when most students were returning having t.o write, ''black lives matter'' been passed down t.o her. '1t's hard t.o
home for Thanksgiving, there were on poster boards t.o remind people of see how deflated he is watching all
worries that the movement might
fiz-
this fact. ''We're all human and hav-
this happen because it seems like
PHOTO COURTESY OF LAUREN ZAKNOUN
Students gather outside the library with powerful signs stating "Black Lives
Matter• protesting the Michael Brown ruling.
zle out before students returned t.o
carry its momentum. Through social
media Anderson and Irizarry heard of
the nationwide #HandsUpWalkout
and felt it was only right t.o bring the
movement to Marist. "We just wanna
bring awareness," says Jada Ander-
son.
Anderson, bearing a sign reacfuig
ing t.o write that my life matters, I
would think that was a known thing
already."
Star Irizarry admits that it's de-
pressing but necessary. ''There are
people who are like 'This is ridiculous,
this is so stupid."'
Irizarry's father, a man of Afro-
Latino descent, was very active in the
after all this time nothing has
changed ... "
Police accountability has become an
extremely prominent facet of elimi-
nating racism and police brutality
from law enforcement. Many are now
calling for police t.o be outfitted with
cameras to monit.or their actions.
"You need people in the police de-
partment to rise up and fight the
racism and the corruption that's in-
herent in the police department," says
Irizarry. She also mentions that peo-
ple are trying t.o have legislation
passed that would hold law enforce-
ment accountable for their actions. As
fate would have it, just hours later
President Obama declared that Con-
gress would be asked for $263 million
t.o equip police with body cameras and
more sufficient training and over-
sight.
Thurman Reed and Ashley Haynes,
both black students at Marist, are no
strangers t.o discrimination. Since he
became a young adult, Reed has been
at peace with the fact that he's at a
higher risk of being hurt or killed
simply because of the color of
his
skin.
''To be honest I've known that since I
was young ...
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MICHELLE COSTELLO
ate" by the NLRB. On the upheld
Adjuncts currently do not have
Editor-in-Chief
charges, Cannon said that Marist access to department meetings,
"disagrees."
something Kenton believes would
On Monday, Nov. 17, the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board ruled
that Marist College practiced "ob-
jectionable conduct" during the vote
t.o create an adjunct union in June.
Because of this, the NLRB ruled
that the results from the first elec-
tion be thrown out and that a new
election be held, after the original
election results were a "no" for the
union.
Conduct during the election by
the college included charges of
"stacking the ballots" by including
faculty members whose voting eli-
gibility was questioned (80 votes
are in question) and announcing a
raise for the adjuncts during the
election.
Since the ruling, Marist has ap-
pealed the decision involving 11 al-
leged charges by the union. Of the
11 charges, eight were "found to
have no merit" and three were up-
held, according to Marist College
Chief Officer of Public Affairs Greg
Cannon.
The upheld charges included
communication between Marist and
''We think those are valid meth-
enhance the educational experience
ods of communicating with employ-
for students. Adjunct professors
ees," Cannon said.
also do not have permanent office
The college is also challenging space on campus. The formation of
the ballots in question, claiming a union would allow for a bargain-
that "faculty that serves part-time ing unit to be set up to discuss is-
still has a right to vote." The ad-
sues with the administration, as
junct union argued that the college well as arrange a contract spelling
sent out ballots to ineligible mem-
out the rights of the adjuncts.
hers of the faculty and that their
"All we're fighting for is to be able
votes should not be counted.
t.o sit down
as
equals and negoti-
The process of voting on an ad-
ate," Kenton said.
junct union has been in th~ works
A more involved adjunct faculty,
since late February of this year. Kenton said, would be in the best
The adjunct union organizing com-
interest of the students. In his
mittee has been working with the seven years as an adjunct, Kenton
Adjunct Action/Service Employees said that he has never been ob-
International Union, Local 200 served, despite asking.
United.
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"No top institution of higher
Gary Kenton, on~ of the members learning should ever have profes-
of the committee and an adjunct sors not being observed," Kenton
professor at Marist for the past said.
seven years, spoke about the rea-
Nicolas Veroli, another member
sons why the adjunct
organizers
of the adjunct organizing committee
hoped to have
an
adjunct union. and an adjunct professor of philoso-
Though conflicts with wages and in-
phy at Marist, agreed that an ad-
surance are areas of concern, junct
union
would
improve
money is not the most important students' education.
issue for the adjuncts.
He said that the goal of an ad-
strengthen the academic experi-
ence." Adjuncts go "above and be-
yond" for their students and they·
"want to be able t.o do [their] jobs."
''We're teaching at Marist because
we love
our
students, we love our
work," Veroli said. ''We all love our
jobs, and so we all want to be ac-
cepted."
However, it remains to be seen
whether a new election will be held
in the near future. The union or-
ganizers are "currently having a
conversation" whether to hold an-
other election or not. People are
"exhausted" by the process, Veroli
said.
"The question is whether or not
people have the energy for it,"
Veroli said.
If
a new election is held, Cannon
~tated that Marist would respect
the results of the election.
''We will absolutely abide by the
results of a fair and open election,"
Cannon said.
Veroli and Kenton expressed in-
terest in more student involvement
in
the process.
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''It would be for the students' own
benefit to start expressing support
for this cause," Veroli said.







































Thursday, December 11, 2014
THIS WEEK
Thursday, 12/11
The HuMarist's BIG SHOW
9:30 p.m.
Nelly Goleti Theater
Friday, 12/12
SPC Movie: Walk Among the Tomb-
stones
10:00 p.m.
SC
3101
Saturday, 12/13
Women's Basketball vs. Boston Uni-
versity
7:00 p.m.
Mccann Center Arena
SPC Movie: Walk Among the Tomb-
stones
10:00
p.m.
SC
3101
Sunday, 12/14
Giving Tree Ceremony
7:00 p.m.
Chapel
Monday, 12/15
Flnals
Start
8:00a.m.
All Across
Campus
Friday, 12/19
End of the Semester
No More Classes or Finals
GO HOME!
Saturday, 12/20
Men's Basketball vs. St. Joseph's
7:00 p.m.
Mccann Center Arena
Sunday, 12/21
Women's Basketball vs.
South
Dakota State
1:00
p.m.
Mccann Center Arena
campus
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2
Letter from the Editor
Two
weeks
have
passed
since
Tlianbgivipg
break,
and
hopefully
most
of
us h'ave
recovered from our
.
.
turkey,
pie
stuffin:g, cra.nberry
sau¢e
and assorted food comas.
With
tliat
said,
tne
semester
is
winding
down ant as finals w~k
approaches,
Mari.st students
go
to
sleep with
dreams of holiday
food
fu theu- heads. Before
all
th,,it
qab
become a reality,
take
a
study
break
and
pick
up
a
;copy
of·
The
Circle to .find out what's happening
on campus.
Ov~r
in News, the return Il'()m
th.e holiday
break has meant
protests from poth
faculty and
stu-
dents.
There has been
controversy
among the faculty
as
the adjuncts
work
to form
their
own union,
while
students
bring #BJackLives•
Matter to Marist.
Also, the SGA report is baclt,
Jared
Aswegan took students
through
ajouro~Y.hit4 tlie
HOQs
m
his
fashion exhibitt and a Lowell
Thomas award is given to a fvorlhy
recipient.
Headto the
Features section
and
meet
:y9u,r:
favorite
Sodexho
wotk~
ers as we
take
a look.
at
the·
,uni
known
liv.es
of those
familar
aii.ij_
welcoming
taees'.
oh
campus.
Further, lea.rn.abo1,JtPRSSA
and
their
work
with
.North
Road
Com-
munications
and
tlie puzde
over
why
therets no
track:
at
Mari.st.
In
the
Lifestyles section,
get.the
most out
of
your
reinaining
meal
swipes
with
tip$
on how
to
get
cre-
atfre with
Sodehxo meals. Also,
leat'.ll
about the world c,f
'
sustian-
able fishing.
Check
out
the Opinion section
to
find
out
wb.EJ.t
students
think
8.oout
Ferguson
and the
Kim
Kardashian
controversies.
Witli
the
winter
break
kmming,
that
means loads of free time with-
out schoolwork, so
what
to do?
Well, A&E provides suggestions on
fun
holiday things to
in;
NYC.
For
everyone
else who
is teeoverm,g
from
holiday
t$ti
~ere are
also. re•
co~endations
un the
best shows
and
movies to binge watch ot1
~et--
flix
Finally,
winter
means
the
end
Qf1
the football season
iind
the begin-
lilllg,
of
basketball season.
The
Spotts
section highlights the foot:
ball players y./:ijo
received awards
for the
season,
and
recaps
the
lat-
est men's
and
women's basketball
game.
So from all of us at the Circle, we
ho~you
have
an enjoyable semes•
Ur
and we
wisµ yi>,~
a
wonderful
holiday season
and
break!
Amber
Case
Managing Editor
Kathleen
O'Brien
Managing Editor
In case you missed it, here's what's happening at Marist
BY AMBER CASE
Co-Managing Editor
On Monday, Dec.
8
eight Marist
students appeared on The Ellen De-
Generes Show via Skype: Angela
Carone, lµisten Lopes, Caroline
Til;)rney, Julia Lista, Meg McEnroe,
Gabriella Fra:rigella, Ellen Molinari
and Alayna Krug. The girls are huge
fans of the show and schedule their
classes around the
4:00
p.m. time
slot so they can watch it every day.
DeGeneres let them participate in
her
12
Days of Christmas Giveaway
and awarded all eight girls with a
trip to a future taping of her show in
California.
The ground floor boys in Leo Hall
made a music video to the popular
Christmas song "All I Want For
Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey
that has gone viral with over
59,000
views on YouTube. The video fea-
tures the residents lip syncing to the
song and dancing through the hall in
Christmas hats. Check it out to get
in the holiday spirit!
The condemned building adjacent
to the Beck parking lot has been
knocked down. Construction appears
to be taking place on the new Science
and Allied Health Building proposed
for
2015. A
Master's in Physician As-
sistant Studies has been approved
and classes will be held in this new
academic building, along with the
other science classes. More updates
on
·
construction around campus to
come next semester.
OPENCUPART.ORG
A public service announcement from SGA
The Student Government Associa-
tion encourages all student and fac-
ulty to practice peaceful protesting
while demonstrating for a cause.
This includes not swearing, yelling,
chasing or physically engaging with
others.
The Circle
Editor-In-Chief:
Michelle Costetlo
Mlchelle.Costello1@marlst.edu
Managing Editors:
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Kathleen O'Brien
Amber.Cssel@marlst.edu,
Kathleen. Obrlen~@marl$tedu
Please be mindful that everyone
has their own opinions and the right
to defend those opinions.
Should there be any problems,
please contact Marist Security.
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Editor:
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Llfestyles
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News Editor:
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Conlon,
cathryn Opinion Editor:
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Thursday, December
11, 2014 •
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3
From page one
Students make their
•
voices heard
.
on ca1npus
I feel like as a black man, we need
to do better as well on our part.
We can't be thugs, we can't be rap-
pers, drug dealers. We have to be
more than what the media por-
trays us to be."
When asked
if
he had any family
members that were subject to the
brutality like the Mike Brown
case had been, Haynes answers,
"Yeah, a lot actually."
"To be honest, too many," Reed
adds.
"This is nothing new [to us],"
Ashley Haynes says, a bit more
subdued. "This is what you know
coming from the hood or the inner
city. You know family members
dying, cousins, and uncles dying
because they're black... This is
what we've grown accustomed to."
Black people are continually held
to a higher standard. Despite bru-
tal mistreatment, for the voices of
the oppressed to be heard over
dissenters they must often turn
the other cheek to the discrimina-
tion turned against them.
"I'm really emotional about this
situation," Haynes says. " ... I have
family members who suffer from
this so I take it hard." She feels
it's difficult to constantly be bet-
ter than those who oppress her
and her family but her actions, ally kind and I'll show my love
standing out in the cold with a and my gratitude for everyone.
handmade sign and little more That's the only way I can go about
PHOTO
COURTESY OF LAUREN ZAKNOUN
These Individuals stood outside
the
library holding signs expressing
how
they
felt
about the resu~ of the Michael Brown case.
This
small group
of
students caused
other Marlst students
to
stop and pay attention
to
their cause.
than a jacket and gym shorts on
this frigid day, speak volumes.
Reed asserts that it doesn't
bother him that he must always
take the highroad. "The bible says
kill 'em with kindness so I'll be re-
it ... Peace ends everything."
As all movements do, the small
group has been getting supporters
and cynics.
"Just general ignorance. Some
people don't wanna fight for any-
thing positive," says Irizarry.
If
anything, William Vra-
chopoulos feels even more moti-
vated to advocate for change in
the face of the dissenters. "I think
it really speaks to the silent
racism we have on campus, that
my white peers are gonna walk by
like this is something that doesn't
affect them," says Vrachopoulos.
Fortunately, the positive reac-
tions have far outweighed the neg-
ative. All day, people walking by
on their way to class have ap-
plauded the protesters and com-
mended them for being outspoken.
Just hours after this humble
protest, President Obama de-
clared that the nation would no
longer sit silently while police are
not held accountable for their mis-
conduct. Every voice that has spo-
ken up in honor of Mike Brown
and the countless other people
killed by police has been an im-
portant part in moving forward
and leaving racism behind. Those
who don't believe a small group of
people can cause change are not
paying attention to the world
around them.
"Marist College, come together,"
says Haynes. "Let's change the
world."
Judy Woodruff wins Lowell Thomas award
By ROSE SHANNON
and Ifill were named Co-Anchors honoree.
Marist alums and got to speak
to
Staff Writer
and Managing Editors of the news
Since then, other well-known and them about my major [journalism]
program, becoming the first female admired journalists who have been and how Marist has changed."
Judy Wood.ruff of PBS News is the
latest journalist to be honored by
Marist, as the 2014 recipient of the
Marist College Lowell Thomas
Award.
An Oklahoma native and graduate
of Duke University, Wood.ruff began
her career in broadcast journalism
as an anchor for the CBS affiliate in
Atlanta.
Wood.ruff joined NBC in 1975 and
two years later became the net-
work's Chief White House Corre-
spondent, a position she held until
1982.
In
1993, Wood.ruff joined CNN
and served as an anchor and senior
correspondent until 2005.
Wood.ruff has been at PBS on and
off since 1983, where she has hosted
multiple news programs and docu-
mentaries. Wood.ruff has also hosted
both online and television programs
for Bloomberg Television.
In addition
to
her journalism cre-
dentials, Wood.ruff is a wife, mother
of three, author, a former visiting
professor at Duke University's Terry
Sanford Institute of Public Policy
and a former visiting fellow at Har-
vard
University's Joan Shorenstein
Center on the Press, Politics, and
Public Policy.
.
According
to
her PBS.com biogra-
phy, Wood.ruff is a founding co-chair
of the International Women's Media
Foundation, an organization dedi-
cated
to
both promoting and encour-
aging women in the field of
communication worldwide.
Wood.ruff is currently the Co-An-
chor and Managing Editor of the
PBS NewsHour, along with Gwen
Ifill.
In August 2013, both Woodruff
co-anchors of an evening newscast, honored with the award include
Figures from both the journalism
according
to
a statement from PBS.
Walter Cronkite, Diane Sawyer and and media world attended including
The duo also made history d~g Christiane Amanpour.
Wood.ruff's husband Al Hunt, a
the 2012 election when they were
President Dennis Murray pre-
columnist for Bloomberg and fellow
the first all-female pair
to
host cov-
sented Wood.ruff the award on Nov.
political journalist; WCBS anchor
erage of the two political conven-
19 during a ceremony at the Metro-
Maurice DuBois; Becky Quick and
tions.
politan Club in New York City.
Sara Eisen, the Co-Anchors of
PHOTO COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
President
Dennis Murray
honors
Woodruff
for her outstanding achievements in
the
field of Journalism.
According
to
a press release about
the event, the Lowell Thomas award
"recognizes outstanding individuals
in the communication industry,
whose lives and
work
reflect the
imagination, courage, ambition and
humanity of the legendary newsman
and adventurer for whom it is
named."
The award has been honoring jour-
nalists since 1983, with CBS jour-
nalist Eric Sevaried as the first
A select few students from Marist
were able to the event, including
Michelle Costello, editor-in-chief of
the Circle and senior Christos
Pietris, senior and student body
president.
Sophomore Erin Murtha also at-
tended. Although she did not get
to
meet Wood.ruff, she enjoyed the
event.
"It
was a great experience,"
Murtha said. "I sat a table with
CNBC's Squawk on the Street; and
NBC Universal Executive Producer
Steve Friedman.
Legendary journalist, friend, col-
league and past Lowell Thomas
Award recipient Barbara Walters
attended as well and praised
Wood.ruff.
"I'm here today because I love
Judy Wqodruff," Walters said. "She
is one of the few strong, independent
journalists who tells it like it is."




















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Thursday, December
11, 2014 •
Page 4
SGA Report: PSA campaigns and puppies
BY MAGUIRE DREW
Circle Contributor
During last week's meeting, the
Student Government Association re-
capped how the Thanksgiving shut-
tles went and started looking roward
what needs t;o be done going int;o next
semester.
The Thanksgiving bus shuttle
worked fairly well.
·As
for next year,
the Lmg Island bus needs t;o be
dropped in size. Not enough people
rook it hom:e and that really hurt
SGA's profit margin. However, the
Bost.on bus shuttle got great feedback
and in the future
this
may very well
be the only roundtrip shuttle.
As for the oopic of the shuttle run-
ning in the future, a member of the
student Senate stated,
'This is bigger
than us.
This
will
not be sustained by
our budget." It takes a lot out of SGA's
budget t;o run these buses and while
this year it might have been okay for
them t;o do so, in future years when
their budget is tight, it's not going t;o
be as practical.
With that being said, the next ques-
tion is who
will
then run the bus shut-
tles?
If
SGA doesn't give the bus re-
sponsibilities t;o someone else, they
will
have t;o come up with different
ways t;o advertise them, such as ad-
vertising t;o parents through the par-
ent portal. There
will
also have t;o be
adjustments in the return trip from
Hartford. It works perfectly going
there, but the return is a little more
complicated than SGA would like.
For those of you who did take the
shuttle home for Thanksgiving, look
for a recap survey coming your way
soon.
If
any of you have used the comput-
ers in the SGA office you know they
are old and slow. The past members
of SGA who ordered the computers
did not do it so they could be updated
cyclically. Thus, SGA is looking int;o
the back stock computers to replace
the on~ currently in the office.
In
addition, they would like t;o pur-
chase a television for the office in
order t;o show presentations and up-
dates. They're also hoping it
will
bring people int;o the office and keep
them there for longer periods of time,
building a community.
U>Ok for new PSA campaigns com-
ing your way next semester. SGA
filmed about five academic PSAs ear-
lier in the year and is working roward
editing them hopefully over winter
break. They are also hoping t;o
film
PSAs pertaining t;o sustainAbility and
encouraging students t;o look up and
not text while walking.
SGA President, Chrisros Pietris, re-
cently met with faculty t;o discuss
CPR stations and a solution t;o the
puddle leading t;o the bridge for the
underpass. While the CPR stations
seem t;o be under way, the puddle
will
only be fixed
if heavily documented
and repeatedly brought t;o the atten-
tion of the faculty.
Similarly, the classroom furniture
in Dyson has been brought up. Ac-
cording t;o several members of the
Senate, the chairs are so uncomfort-
able that they can't fold their legs and
they have t;o lie down or put their feet
on the chair in front of them t;o feel
comfortable. There are new class-
room chairs in srorage but according
t;o several sources, Dyson
will
be the
next renovation after Gartland and
the new chairs
will
not be used until
the renovation is complete.
On a positive note, last week's noted
complaint about the lack of lighting as
you go down Hoop Lot between Foy
and Gartland
will
be fixed. Timos
Pietris, SGA Vice President has
talked t;o Marist's Safety and Security
Direct.or, John Gildard, who has said
that as long as he knows the exact
spot of where the lack of lighting is, he
can do something about it.
As always, there's a want t;o bring
puppies t;o campus for finals week.
SGA is working on that and hopes
that at the very least Marist
will have
puppies for spring semester finals.
There are many exciting events
coming up next semester. U>Ok for
events regarding PS I Love You Day
on Jan. 20 and Feb. 13. There
will
be
new speakers coming t;o campus re-
garding sustainability in the spring.
Unfortunately, the senior class beer
tasting is on hold for right now.
Please try to bring old shoes with
you when you come back from winter
break as there
will
be a shoe drive
taking place on campus.
Jar
·
ed Aswegan discusses men's 1450s fashion
BY BERNADETTE HOGAN
Opinion Editor
Devotion t;o unequivocal brilliance
launches an artist from obscure t;o
professional extraordinaire. Alas,
these exceptional experts are few and
far between, costumer Jared Aswegan
shines amidst the darknes~his con-
stant progression rowards glory is ex-
emplary-it
is all or nothing.
Aswegan could be found on campus
Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7 pm in the
Fusco Recital Hall delivering a pres-
entation regarding his passion: men's
fashion in the 15th century.
If
this
specific and intricate interest doesn't
provide access t;o the delicate con-
scious of the artist, then allow us t;o
delve int;o the depths of Aswegan's
creative genius.
Mr.
Asw~gan has spent the past 30
years working as a theatrical cos-
tumer and designer. He served as
per-
sonal assistant t;o designer Barbara
Matera and ra~ her workroom, Bar-
bara Matera Ltd., in New York City.
He has worked with San Francisco's
Western Opera Theater, and
Min-
neapolis's Guthrie Reperoory Theatre
amongst other prominent venues such
as Broadway, ballets, operas and on
film sets. Aswegan, born t;o a mother
who taught her children t;o sew metic-
ulously at a young age, is a perfec-
tionist, admitting, "I'm very picky
about visuals," assuring that
his
deci-
sion-making skills are exacted.
'Tm sure some of you are asking,
'Why this? Why 15th century men's
fashion?"' Aswegan projected t;o a full
house (well over the maximum capac-
ity of 180). He continued, "As hobbies
go, this is certainly bizarre, am I
right?" Students, professors, and the
interested meanderer alike flooded
chair, stair and windowsill.
Aswegan decided t;o focus on this
pe-
riod in men's fashion because, in his
words, "Frankly, I was going t;o wear
it." And wear it he does. Aswegan is a
Renaissance man; this summer he
participated
in
Pennsylvania's
Pennsic Wars, entailing a two-week
"camping
trip" that provides old world
enthusiasts the opportunity t;o partic-
ipate in battle reenactments while
outfitted in ootal period dress and
tra-
dition. As an accomplished equestrian
and fashion
guru,
the garments
Aswegan creates do not just attach
themselves t;o hisoorical accuracy, but
are intended t;o be worn ooday as well.
Aswegan brought along a collection
of hand-made pieces: leather boots,
spurs, jewelry, glasses, hats, shirts,
doublets and gowns, offering one
grand amalgamation of a fur-lover's
heaven. His clothes are authentically
crafted, pieces taking as long as two t;o
three weeks t;o create depending on
their complexities. Creation is per-
mitted via sewing machine, but most
work requiring finite detail is done by
hand-an admitted therapeutic exer-
cise. "Learning by doing" is Aswegan's
mott;o because the more use he gets
out of his clothing, the better he un-
derstands its very nature.
But how does a designer deem 600-
year-old garments as adequate mod-
els from which t;o recreate replicas?
Worldwide possession of artifacts
from the Northern Renaissance are
few
and
far
between, and even being
able t;o work with such recovered ma-
terials, how they provide good repre-
sentation for the clothing in its prime?
Aswegan's answer is oil paintings. He
referenced painter Jan Van Eyck
amongst others for his expertise in
capturing light, color p.nd ability t;o
configure depth, thus creating a
framed ''reality surpassing phoro-
graphs." Through examination of de-
pictions, Aswegan finds that the
background information lends ex-
traordinary detail, which tells a st;ory
and yields clues t;o how that clothing
was worn. It is not just paintings of
royalty and opulence that he focuses
on, but al·so on daily life in "a grand
celebration of the mundane."
When one wears clothes, Aswegan
explained, there is a requirement that
one achieves understanding "from the
inside." Aspects going far beyond the
aesthetic triumph, proportionment,
PThis Iconic look, dubbed
by
Aswegan a
•amoks
Brothers look," meant as much
to
a person as their very reputation.
flexibility and comfort allow the gar-
ment itself t;o transcend the boundary
between materials and being, trans-
forming clothes int;o live energies
themselves.
This
is exactly how Aswe-
gan perceives his work-a living sym-
biosis. Every garment from the braise
(underwear,) t;o outer belt buckles, t;o
the soft leather shoes, matters so as t;o
create a picture perfect presentation.
Clothing was meant t;o be practical,
but also depicted a certain status and
power. Aswegan oold a srory about a
merchant in violation of England's
sumptuary laws-upon entering court,
the length of his shoes were measured
and at once deemed too long, and
knifed down a size.
To Jared Aswegan, costume making
is calming. A very high level of skill is
needed t;o create such lovely clothing,
allowing him t;o step through the
frame int;o the world of his beloved
paintings, becoming alive in the out-
fits. Nonetheless, how does one go
about sourcing fabrics, a feat Aswegan
admits is ''impossible?" Typically, he
buys brocades from an Italian
mill,
importing and measuring fabric
al-
though; surprisingly much can be
gained from thrift st.ore costume
scouring.
A form.er acror, Aswegan first fell in
love with costuming at the Guthrie
Theater and never looked back. How-
ever, after all these years he coyly ad-
mits, "I never really left the stage."
Such talent is hard t;o stifle.
The lecture would not have been
possible without the sponsorship and
coordination of the Leaders of Cre-
ativity Series hosted by Marist. A spe-
cial thank you t;o
art
history professor
Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap and fashion
Professor Richard Kramer's event
planning class.















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Know your Sodexo: Cafeteria sushi workers have hidden talents
BY ALEXANDRA BOOTH
Circle Contributor
Kyaw Kyaw Naing and his wife
Tihn Tihn Hla are two friendly
faces to anybody who has been in
the dining hall. Most of us know
them as the couple who run the
sushi bar but Naing and Hla have
much more to off er than a simple
California Roll.
They are from Myanmar, Burma,
a country which they both agree is
very different from the United
States. "People in my country are
fighting ... that's why I came here,"
N aing said. When discussing their
experiences at Marist and in the
U.S., the pair stressed that they
feel safe here.
Naing never saw himself work-
ing in the food industry. Growing
up, he wanted to be like his fa.
ther, a well-known
·
Burmese mu-
sician who performed in countless
countries around the world and
led the Burmese Orchestra's per-
formance the last time they per-
formed in New York, in 1975.
Naing was taught how to play
classical Burmese music at the
age of six by his father and went
on to win notable prizes before
coming to the U.S. His specialty is
pat waing, a Burmese drum circle
instrument.
The University of ealifornia,
Los Angeles invited him to per-
form in 1999, and after realizing
that Americans were gen~rally
unaware of Burmese music he de-
cided to stay in the country. He
hoped to introduce the music and
culture of his home country into
the U.S.
Since moving here permanently,
Niang has travelled as a drummer
with the group "Bang on a Can"
and has performed at Lincoln
Center and numerous universi-
ties. Referring to his CD, the New
York
Times called his music, "an
exhilarating tease, defying expec-
tations of symmetry or steady
tempo." Last year, he had a con-
cert in Taiwan and still continues
to perform as much as he
<:an..
Most students are not aware of
these talents. Freshmen Brandon
Miller and Connor Kamczyc both
said that they had no idea. "I
think it's crazy that we interact
with people every day but know
hardly anything about them,"
Kamczyc said. Miller, who eats
the dining hall sushi almost every
day, said that Naing is "a really
humble guy" and that the quality
of the sushi is so great that he
would have never expected them
to have second careers as well.
Naing and Hla have worked at
Marist for five years now. Naing
learned to make sushi from his
cousin but said that it is a com-
mon skill among Burmese people.
The couple own a restaurant in
Hyde Park called KT Sushi but it
is temporarily closed due to fi-
nances. They still use the sushi
shop every day to make all of the
sushi for not only the dining
·
hall
but also the Donnelly cafe, the
Dyson cafe and Jazzman's cafe.
Every day, between the two of
them, 5,000-6,000 pieces of sushi
are made and transported to our
campus.
You might assume that after all
of this, they would be sick of
sushi, but the couple admits to
still eating it two to three times a
week. Naing's favorite is the tuna
avocado roll, while Hla's
.
is the
shrimp tempura roll. They have
two daughters who love sushi and
traditional Burmese cuisine - they
appreciate their parents' talents.
Bot~ have positive perceptions
of Marist, saying that they think
the students are nice and that the
campus feels comfortable. Though
they enjoy making sushi on cam-
pus for now, they hope to return to
their true passions in the future.
"Right now it is hard
t9
find a job.
This is how we survive. We don't
have a choice," N aing said.
Marist College Track and Field ... Minus the Track
By CATHRYN VACCARO
Co-News Editor
It's a cold winter day in the mid-
dle of December. There are about
four inches of snow on the ground,
which is very typical for the Hud-
son Valley. Coach Pete Colaiz"zo,
the Marist College cross country
and track coach, tells the team to
get ready for practice. Most peo-
ple would not know that this in-
cludes about an hour's worth of
travelling in order to run a track
work out on an actual indoor
track.
When prospective students, who
may be looking to participate in
the Division I track and field pro-
gram, take a tour of Marist, they
will not find a track. The team has
to travel to sites off campus in
order to practice. Most of these re-
cruits end up not pursuing their
college education at Marist be-
cause there is not a track on cam-
pus. One prominent issue at
Marist College that has been cre-
ating more and more dispute is
the lack of and desire to create a
designated track and field area.
"I beat them over the head with
honesty. I say, 'Look, Marist is a
great school.
If
you want to come
here and do this, you can. You
have to understand that there are
going to be hardships and here
they are.' And nine times out of
10, those kids are not going to
come. My job as a coach recruiting
prospective students is an arm of
admissions. We want to encourage
kids to come to Marist, but I am
not going to encourage them
under false pretenses. People
have come to me and said this is
the most beautiful campus they
have ever seen. It's an easy school
to sell, but not for me," explained
Colaizzo about the challenging re-
cruiting process.
Colaizzo has been a coach at
Marist for the past 24 years. Be-
fore that, he was a Red Fox as
well and was a long-distance run-
ner. This generation of Marist
track and field athletes probably
may has not seen
'
the indoor track
that was actually in the McCann
Arena. Once the arena was reno-
vated, the indoor track was re-
moved which really hindered the
program.
Colaizzo considers himself a glo-
rified van driver traveling back
and forth from multiple practices.
The athletes have adapted to this
method of training. It does get
complicated scheduling around
the teams' class schedules while
incorporating the traveling time
to get to training sites. Colaizzo
often has driven students directly
to class if they hit too much traffic
or lights on the way back to cam-
pus. He does not want students to
ever use track practice as an ex-
cuse to be late for class.
"The whole Marist community
would benefit from having a track.
Every athletic team would use
that track. It would give us a
home. Our athletes do not have a
home. We are nomads. Even when
we come to practice, we gather in
the racquet ball courts," said Co-
laizzo.
Fallon Quigley, ·a new freshman
and one of the three jumpers on
the track team, came to Marist
College with a personal record
that already beat the school
record. She came to Marist ex-
pecting to succeed not only aca-
demically, but on the track and
field team as well. She was told
before she came here that she may
not be able to regularly practice
her high jumping event before
competing in meets. Quigley's
broke the Marist school record at
the Boston University Season
Opener this past weekend, jump-
ing 5-feet-1. 75-inches.
Quigley has to practice her
jumps in the gym on her own
time. Even the high jumping
equipment Marist has is broken
and cannot be adjusted past a cer-
tain height. She has to frequently
ask people that are using the gym
to move to another side just so she
can practice. Quigley has a com-
petitive drive and many goals to
continue improving at her event.
It is hard for her to do so, without
the appropriate equipment and
up-to-date facilities.
"I think if we had a track it
would draw more talent to the
team and more diversity. I am one
of the only field people on the
team. I know people who just
came to Marist, but are really
good at track. One of them is a
thrower and is not on the track
team because she just asked her-
self, 'Where am I going to throw
when there is not even a track?'
There is a lot of running talent,
but we can never win at meets be-
cause there are not many mem-
bers of the team participating in
field events," explained Quigley.
There are 87 student athletes
listed on the roster of the Marist
College track and field team. Each
of the students can participate in
cross-country, as well as fall and
spring track seasons. The track
team makes up over a quarter of
the entire athletic department.
The opportunity to participate in
multiple seasons gives these stu-
dents a chance to delve into dif-
ferent areas of track and field.
Because of Marist's limited facili-
ties, there are only three jumpers
on the entire track and field team.
A recent survey conducted of the
Marist College track and field
team shows that this team is ded-
icated and wants Marist recogni-
tion.
The
way
Marist
can
recognize this team's desire to im-
prove is to build a track and field
facility that reflects the dedica-
tion of the track and field
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Marist Track and Field wants to get on track ... literally
program. Over 90 percent of the
85 participants on the track team
that were surveyed believe that
having a track on
_
campus will
benefit the entire Marist commu-
nity. When asked how often they
would use this track
,
more than
half of the respondents said daily
.
"We deserve a track here at
Marist. I feel like we would defi-
nitely get closer to breaking more
records and doing better in Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
(MAACs). Maybe we can host
MAACs. That. would be fantastic.
The best spot I think for a track is
North Field, right by the softball
fields. You can easily put a turf in
the middle and use it for every
other team on campus too," ex-
plained Danie
.
Ile Asaro, who is the
senior captain of the
sprinters.
According to Colaizzo, a track
would fit perfectly- right in North
Field. One day, he went out with
a measuring wheel to the field and
measured the area. It ended up
fitting exactly in North Field.
There is enough room for bleach-
ers on either side.
During the winter season, the
team has to travel to SUNY New
Paltz three times a week in order
to run on an indoor track. The in-
door track is an elevated three-
lane track, with a concrete-filled
steel base. Many of the athletes
receive more injuries, such as shin
splints, from running on this type
of track.
According to a New York Times
blog, recent studies have indi-
cated that people are more in-
clined to flex their ankles when
running outside on harder sur-
faces. These studies show how
running on these surfaces sup-
ported by concrete or outside can
cause more injuries
:
There is often a set time for the
Marist team to run at New Paltz.
More often than not, the track
team does not have the track to
themselves because SUNY New
Paltz students are often using the
track.
In
addition, there are no
jumping or throwing pits avail
-
able. So, even in the winter season
these athletes are very limited in
terms of training facilities.
In order to travel to SUNY New
Paltz, unnecessary fees in tolls
and gas need to be paid. According
to Colaizzo the team spends about
$1,000 in traveling expenses per
year. These fees should be used
for the funding of Marist's
own facilities on campus.
and field team supposed to com-
pete with these other schools if
the Red Foxes do not have the
basic facilities to train to the best
of their abilities?
The Marist College track and
field website description of where
the team trains states, "As you
may"already know, we do not have
track facilities on our beautiful
campus at Marist College in
Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.
For the
track/cross
country
staff at
Marist, this is not a factor in the
ability to train and compete as a
quality and competitive middle-
and long-distance program."
With most of the training sites
listed being off-campus, the time
taken away traveling to these
sites could be spent on practicing
and improving together as a team.
The Walkway Over the Hudson,
the Hudson Valley Rail Trail and
the Dutchess County Rail Trail
are all very beautiful places to
take long runs. Certain workouts
along the Vanderbilt National
Historic Site and the Roosevelt
Farm Lane Trail provide the team
with varying workouts outside.
On the other hand, competitions
in the winter seasons will not all
be held outside. The team needs to
be accustomed to running on an
actual track in order to compete at
the highest level. Building a track
at Marist will give the track team
the home they deserve and can be
proud of. A state-of-the-art track
and field facility equipped with
areas for jumping and throwing
will only bring positive results for
the track team, the rest of the ath-
letic department and the entire
Marist community.
Some of Marist's leading
competitors in the MAAC
conference have the most
high-tech track and facili-
How often would you use a track if there
was one on campus?
ties readily available. Mon-
mouth University has a
six-lane indoor track and
an eight-lane outdoor track
Never
with jumping and throwing
Monthly
zones. Siena College has an
elevated indoor track, and
Manhattan College has an
·
weekly
indoor track as well. Rider
University has a brand new
track and field complex
equipped with all of the
necessary
facilities
for
throwers and jumpers.
Daily
How is the Marist College track
0%
10% 20% 30% 40% SO% 60% 70% 80%
■
Percent ofMartst College
Track and Field members
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Meet North Road Communications: Marist's student-run PR Firm
BY LAYREN ZAKNOUN
Circle Contributor
Looking for work experience
can often seem like a daunting
task. Students at Marist are
sometimes encouraged to look for
real-life experience in New York
City, which initially seems excit-
ing: as one of the world's most lu-
crative and fast-paced cities,
opportunities abound. That is
until students factor in the cost
and time to travel on the train
·
anywhere from one to three
times a week, usually for little to
no compensation. It may come as
a surprise for some communica-
tion majors, but there's a great
opportunity for hands-on experi-
ence right on campus.
North Road Communications is
Marist's very own student-run
PR organization. Run as a part of
Marist
'
s Public Relation's Stu-
dent Society of America (PRSSA)
chapter, NRC is a nonprofit
group that works with other local
nonprofits to help promote them
in the surrounding communities.
Organizations such as the Bea-
con Independent Film Festival,
Family Services, Beacon Arts
and the Joint Journalism Confer-
ence are clients of NRC under
the direction of Faculty Advisor
Dr. Nadine Hoffmann. North
Road has created a symbiotic re-
lationship with the Hudson Val-
ley community where the
community benefits from NRC's
firm members, and students gain
invaluable working experience.
This past September, NRC
worked alongside the second an-
nual Beacon Independent Film
Festival. Not only did the firm
work
throughout the summer to
promote the festival to the local
community, but the entire organ-
ization also volunteered its time
to help with ticket sales, mer-
chandise sales, setting up ven-
dors and tents and ushering.
NRC isn't just about business
and experience; the firm also pro-
motes unity and cooperation
among its students as well as the
community they work so hard to
aid.
A study conducted among 110
communication students shows
that North Road was almost ex-
clusively known by PR majors
while those in other communica-
tion concentrations were much
less aware of the firm's presence.
Nearly 60 percent of respondents
cited gaining professional experi-
ence as very important to them.
The firm is currently undergo-
ing some huge changes. It is cre-
ating a brand new website and
establishing an annual newslet-
ter for the communication de-
partment.
In
addition to several
job vacancies which are waiting
to be filled, the organization has
been experiencing some very ex-
citing growth with room for fresh
new faces.
Communication majors outside
the PR concentration shouldn't
be discouraged by PR exclusivity.
As a professional environment
that works with reallife clients,
NRC's pool of workers is <µverse
and well-rounded with experi-
ence in fields outside of public re-
lations.
Account executive Shannan
Costello feels that NRC has given
her experience she can be proud
of when preparing for the real
world. Not only has she built con-
nections in the area, she's.built a
great body of content to share
with future employers.
Costello had a few words of ad-
vice for those who might be look-
ing to get involved with NRC in
the future.
"I would say it's definitely
worth applying and you can learn
so much from it! It's a great way
to get experience ... and-it's such
a unique opportunity that our
school offers. It's great too be-
cause you can [work at NRC] at
the same time as interning ... so
you have some experience to talk
about, or once you've interned
you can apply the things you've
already done."
North Road Communications
has some very exciting things in
store, and if there are any stu-
dents who want to be a part of
the firm, now's the time polish up
those resumes.
If you'd like to find out more
about North Road Communica-
tions, contact
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Know your Sodexo:
She remembers
your
name, here's hers
By SHANNON BALES
Features Editor
The whir of hot espresso shots
pulling and soft bubble of steaming
milk can often
be
heard amidst the
chatter as students and faculty
enter the Hancock center. However,
the familiar voice of a Sodexo
worker in the small cafe ju~t beyond
the entrance lounge rings above the
background noise.
"Josh, how are you?!" she says to
a student who asks politely for a
black and white cookie. ''You're Is-
landers won last night ... oh no, your
team is the Rangers isn't it?" she
says as she hands hiin the pastry
bag. ''I try my best Josh, I just can't
get into it." He thanks her with a
nervous chuckle and they chat
about their Thanksgiving breaks
before he heads off.
Chances are, if you have ever
ordered a coffee at this 'we proudly
serve' Starbucks location, she
knows
your name. Do you know
hers?
Born and raised
n Millbrook,
N.Y.
just
30
minutes
northeast of
Poughkeepsie, Suzanne Rizzo, 55,
has been working for
Sodexo
at
Marist College for about
seven
years. Rizzo saw a job offer for a po-
sition at Sodexo in the newspaper,
applied
and was asked to work as a
supervisor in the dining hall. She
spent a year and a half working in
the dining hall before she heard
that Sodexo was looking for some-
one to transfer to the Dyson cafe.
Rizzo decided to make the transi-
tion, "I thought -- oh this would be
fun and different," she said.
''I loved working at Dyson ... it was
the people I worked with, the pro-
fessors, the students and it was
busy all of the time," Rizzo said. "It
was lively, you know, it was just a
such a fun atmosphere." Her eyes
lit up at the memory. However,
Rizzo began
working
at the Hancock
cafe when the building opened in
2011 and has felt at home there
ever since.
Two students approached and or-
dered caramel macchiatos. ''Whole
milk, right Danielle?" Rizzo asked.
Outside of her
work
at Marist,
Rizzo has her husband Joe, three
daughters and an interesting work
history. She has juggled roles as a
stay at home mom and working in
customer service at several banks.
Rizzo learned how to memorize
names and number sequences as
part of her training in customer
service. ''It means a lot when you re-
member people's names, when you
do it with students especially, it
makes them feel special," a faculty
member said after she ordered a
blueberry muffin.
"I
learned that
the secret
is
that you say their name
twice
in
30 seconds," Rizzo replied.
Over the years, she has also
worked as a teaching assistant, re-
turned to school and sold antique
wood to Mariah Carey's ex-hus-
band.
"My husband and I had our own
business for years
in
the village of
Millbrook. It was called Country
Road Associates," she said. "We
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were the brokers for businesses and
residents who wanted to buy an-
tique wood." Rizzo and her husband
got into the business as a result of
their unique home -
a converted
dairy barn. Rizzo explained that she
was hesitant at first. However, her
husband and his friend spent every
night working on the barn's bottom
floor until it became a home. When
the couple started having children,
they restored the upper portion of
the barn and people in the commu-
nity started offering them old pieces
to add to their home.
"One thing led to another where
Joe had access to the old wood and
people were saying 'hey, do you
have extra wood?' so he saw a de-
mand for it," Rizzo said. Together,
the Rizzos started a small business
from their home office that kept
growing- at its peak, Country Road
Associates had a large showroom
featuring furniture made from the
antique wood.
''We sold wood to a lot of interest-
ing people," Rizzo said. ''We became
friends with Barbara Streisand be-
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certs."
The couple sold the business five
years ago when Rizzo's husband re-
tired. ''It was nice, a preservation of
Americana," she said. However,
Rizzo couldn't be happier with her
job today.
''I've had
a
lot of interesting and
fun jobs ... but I just love coming to
this job," she said. "Every year I love
when freshman come in, you know,
they just look so young and scared
and a little naive ... It's
so
nice to see
their progress, going from being a
freshman to a senior with confi-
dence, ready to tackle and go out
into the world, make their mark in
it."
Rizzo experienced the same ttans-
formation
in
her youth.
"I
did start
college and I think that if you took
all of my topics and subjects of in-
terest, I'd probably have, like, three
different degrees ... I was always
searching," she said.
Rizzo didn't return to college her-
self until later in life when she
earned an Associate Degree in Hu-
manities and Social Sciences from
Dutchess
Community College. Then
she transferred to Marist, but her
studies were cut short as she chose
to focus on her daughters. "At that
time, my older two daughters were
a junior and a senior in high school,
so I figured, it's time for them, to let
them get their degrees and start
their lives," she said.
Yet, Rizzo still gets to enjoy inter-
acting with students, faculty and
her fellow Sodexo workers at
Marist. She sees students grow, and
asks them about their lives over a
cup of coffee. ''I love seeing that and
that's why I like being in this set-
ting. Working for Sodexo allows me
to do that," she said.
"It's a great place to work, for the
company and to be at Marist Col-
lege, and I'm not just trying to sell
that," she said. "It's just that I really
do like coming to work and I finally
found it later in my 50s."
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Sustainable fishing: Food for the
future
By
TIM MCGRATH
Circle Contributor
There was a time in the rela-
tively recent past when harvesting
Atlantic cod was
~
relatively lucra-
tive busirtess up and down the
East Coast. It seems like no mat-
ter how many fish you caught, they
would just keep coming back. But
as commercial fishing reached a
peak in the 1960s, the catch began
to decline. By the 1990s, American
and Canadian fishermen were left
with no fish left to catch; the At-
lantic cod, so plentiful in the past,
had vanished.
This was by no means an isolated
incident. The pattern was repeated
all over the U.S. and all over the
world. Solutions for how to replace
this large chunk of the food indus-
try began to crop up and as 2014
rolled around, two techniques have
emerged as replacements. The
first and the easiest to implement,
would be to approach our current
fishing methods differently.
The first is to use similar meth-
ods to past fishing operations, but
to carry them out in a way that is
environmentally viable. Sustain-
able wild fishing is possible, and in
use around the country today. The
concept behind it is to catch spe-
cific amounts of each type of fish in
an area, so that no one population
drops below a sustainable level.
This is the easiest technique to im-
plement, since it involves using
the same infrastructure (like fish-
ing boats and processing plants),
just on a smaller scale. Because of
this smaller scale, however, the
supply of fish on the market would
drop and cause prices to rise. Al-
though this is an environmentally
viable option, it may not be finan-
cially viable for the consumer or
the industry.
The second option is one that
could be the future of the fishing
industry for generations; commer-
cial fisheries. These are massive
facilities where fish are raised in
enclosed conditions and in close
quarters to one another. These fish
are not designated as "wild" in
U.S. markets; instead, they are
"farm-raised." Unlike past efforts
to farm fish, new companies like
Open Blue have embraced a type
of research that has been gaining
ground; aquaculture. If ''normal"
wild
fishing is the equivalent to
hunting, then aquaculture is the
ocean's equivalent to farming. The
idea is to raise fish and shellfish in
controlled conditions, without
them ever going out into the wild.
Open Blue has been raising cobia,
a popular white fish, in controlled
conditions in order to bring it to
market cheaper and quicker.
Other fish and shellfish, like
tilapia and shrimp, are easy to
farm and cheap to produce. The
·
aquaculture business has grown
steadily over the past decades, and
as demand for food increases,
farm-grown fish become a much
more attractive option. As re-
search continues to unveil new,
cheaper methods, the price of
these fish continue to fall. How-
ever, aquaculture still has its
diffi.
culties, and skeptics point to
numerous environmental and nu-
tritional issues.
One issue that can affect people
directly is the nutritional deficits
that may come from farm-raised
fish. One of the most popular farm-
raised fish, tilapia, has been
shown to contain more fat and
omega-3 oils than its wild counter-
parts. T}lis could become an issue
if farm-raised fish become more of
a staple in the average person's
diet. The other issue is an environ-
mental issue.
Although this
method is overall more friendly to
its surrounding environment, fish-
eries can still damage the ecosys-
tem around them. They have
become points of contention in
places like Indonesia, where
shrimp farms have destroyed thou-
sands of acres of natural mangrove
forests.
There is no easy solution to the
issue of growing more food at
cheaper costs. There is no method
for growing food with little to no
impact on the environment, or else
we would already be using it. How-
ever, while wild fishing was the
way of the past, aquaculture is
likely to be the way of the future.
It
is in no way a perfect solution,
but it provides a cheap and attrac-
tive option that could lower food
prices and make fish available to
everyone, while making sure na-
tive fish stay where they've been
for millennia.
The
fishing Industry Is rapidly changing in order
to
make fish available
to
everyone
at
lower prices without endangering any species or
the
envlomment.
How to spice up your meals at Sodexo
By
SARAH GABRIEW
Circle Contributor
Last year I began my love affair
with Cold Stone Creamery. Actu-
ally, it all started in Poughkeepsie
at the Cold Stone off of Route 9. For
those of you who either haven't been
there or have stuck to the menu,
Cold Stone is a magi.cal place where
all of your ice cream dreams can
come true. First, you get to pick
your base ice cream, then mix in
syrups and candies, ultimately cre-
ating your own ideal flavor. Now, I
take food experimentation very se-
riously and after this first trip I
couldn't shake a craving for Cold
Stone. With the perfection of my
peanut butter, cupcake swirled fla-
vor as reassurance, I started en-
hancing ice cream outside of Cold
Stone, along with every other meal
of the day.
Marist is no exception to my ex-
perimentation. I like to consider my-
self the personal savior of Sodexo's
lame ice cream bar. I never confine
myself to the few repetitive flavors
of the day; instead I mix my ice
cream with peanut butter and pas-
tries like a Cold Stone pro. Any of
the desserts can revolutionize your
simple ice cream (though I wouldn't
recommend trying the jello). You
can mash up cheesecake and jam,
crumble up cake, or sprinkle in gra-
nola. Don't forget to take advantage
of the toppings on Cupcake Tues-
days!
The ice cream possibilities branch
off even further from there! Plop a
scoop of vanilla into a glass of or-
ange soda or root beer for a refresh-
ing mid-day treat. Have your
brunch a-la-mode by topping off
your waffles, french toast or pan-
cakes with some ice cream.
AB
obvi-
ous as this may sound, I must
remind everyone to follow the pat-
tern "cookie, ice cream, cookie."
Don't overlook the simple pleasure
of the chipwich.
•
With the Cold Stone mentality,
you can take control of any dining
hall drag, not just ice cream, and
turn it into something unique and
flavorful! Are you sick of the same
ziti and snowshoe pizza every day?
You can mix things up with hidden
sauces from
all
over the dining hall:
Broccoli cheddar soup makes a
great creamy pasta sauce. When
mixed together, peanut butter, soy
sauce, hot sauce and ginger becomes
a spicy peanut sauce for pasta and
veggies.
If
you are lucky enough to
catch the pesto at the sandwich sta-
tion, ask for a scoop for your pasta,
or create your own pesto pizza!
.
While most toppings will slide
right off a slice of pizza, you can hold
your creation together by rolling up
any entree into a makeshift calzone.
A plain slice of cheese, stuffed with
grilled
chicken and condiments can
become your choice of a buffalo,
ranch, or barbeque chicken calzone.
Go for a ha waiian theme anytime
with ham from the sandwich station
and pineapple from the fruit salad.
For breakfast, a lot of us under-
standably prefer the Cabaret's
freshly made egg sandwiches to
Sodexo' s rubbery eggs and defrosted
breakfast meats. But, if you have
extra meal swipes, you can pull an
early morning Cold Stone and avoid
the Cabaret prices. Customize your
own breakfast sandwich by pulling
ingredients from the Marist break-
fast. You can layer hard boiled or
scrambled eggs with bacon, sausage
or cold cuts, on a bagel, english muf-
fin or whole grain toast.
With a meal swipe and a little cre-
ativity, I have harnessed the power
to tailor to my own taste buds and
even manage to outdo the pricey
Cabaret options. Just think of the
dining hall as your kitchen from
home, where
if
you aren't into
mom's cooking, you can put a meal
together from ingredients in the
pantry and leftovers from the back
of the fridge. Or perhaps think of
Cold Stone, and its array of options
that can fulfill thousands of recipes
and satisfy any craving.
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11, 2014
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Lesson on Ferguson: Educate yourself and others
By
ADRIANA BELMONTE
Staff Writer
The situation in Ferguson, Mo., is
an
ugly
one.
The
st.my
put simply
is
that
Officer
Darren
Wilson shot Mlcbael
Brown,
an
unanned b1ackteenagerwho
had
just
robbed.a oonvenienre st.ore.
This
sparked an
immense
amount
of
oontro-
versy, igniting
racial
tensions
across
the
oountry.
A
grand jmy
decided
not
to in-
dict
Wilson
making the situation even
worse.
It
seems
like everyone
has
to say
something about the
case,
whether they
are
defending Wilson's actions or oon-
demningthem.
.
Did
Michael
Brown actually have his
hands up,
telling
the offirer
not
to
shoot?
Did
Officer
Wtlson provoke the
con-
frontation by
making
comments to
Brown as he walked down the
street?
We may
not ever know
the
truth
and I
ask all of you to remember that Inst.ead
of
saying that all
po]ire
offirers
are
out to
kill,
we need to
remember
that these
are
the same men
and
women
who
put their
lives
on the
line
every day
protecting
our
oommunities.
However,
the situation in
Ferguson
has
bighlight.ed
something
that
is
still
veiy
relevant: racism in our
country. Yes, it
does
still
exist. Again,
maybe
Wll.&>n
was
justdomghis
job
that
day but it
does
bring attention to the
other
cases
of
racism in ouroountry.
In
my
opinion,
black men and women
are
held to different
standards
than
white men
and
women.
There are thCEe
out there who feed into
the
stereotypes
by automatically assuming a black
teenager
wallcing
down
the
street
in a
hoodie is a thug.
let
us look at this from
dilferent angle:
if
you
saw a white
teenage
boy
walking down the street,
would you instantly
think
that he was
up to no
good?
I
read somethingrerently
which said that
young
black men
need
to
dress
differently
if
they
do
not
want to
change their opinions? It
gets
you
nowhere. If
the
people
of
Ferguson want
to take a
stand,
they should
rise
above
all of the animosity and
peacefully
prot.est.
Iha~afamilyfriendwhoisaoounty
pro:a::ut.or.
I
spoke
to
him
after
the
grand
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Ferguson has been a hotbed of controversy surrounding the death of Brown.
be
target.eel
by
police.
This
made me
think
of the rape
culture
that
exists
in
our
country.
Some people
oft.en
say that
if
a woman
dressed
differently, then she
would
not
be targeted
by
an
assailant
It
bothers
me that there
are
people
in this
oountry
who
think
that someone
needs
to change a harmless aspect
of
them-
selves to keep from hemming a
target
While the people in Ferguson have
every right to
prot;est
the docision, I do
not
think
that
the
proper
response
is to
riot.
Innocent
store
owners
have
suffered
at the hands
of
these prot.est.ers, st.ore
owners that might even be on their side.
How is it
fair
for
more people to
suffer
in
the
midst
of
all this tragedy? What
does
rioting
do to make the
polire
offioors
jmy decision
not
to indict
Wilson
and
learned some interesting
facts.
95
per-
cent
of
grand juries
result
in a
trial
The
remaining
5
pereent frequently involve
polioo
offirers.
Pro:iocutorsoften
go easier
on the defendants in
these
tria1s
boo:tuse
they
will
fare
bacldashfromfellowpolioo
officers
if
they
do
not.
These
are
offirers
they often have.to work with on
cases
and
will
go
so
far
as to bully
the
prosecu-
tors
into-not
indicting
the
offirer-0n
trial.
He
also
said that the
fact
that
Offirer
Wll.&>n
resigned
from his
job
is
probably
for
the
best.
Whether
he was doing his
job
properly
is
not
the
paint;
the poople
of
Ferguson
need
to be able to
trust
the
polire officers of
their town and
based
on
their
reactions,
they clearly do not feel
that way right
now.
Having
Wll.&>n
back
on the
polire
forre
would only make
things worse. Maybe he canre1ocate and
find
a
job
in
another
city away from Fer-
guson and be able to
start over. Who
knows?
Prior
to the death
of
Michael
Brown,
anotheryoungmanwasshotandkilled
on June 25 in New Jersey. His name
was Brendan Tevlin, a
19-year-old
mur-
dered by a self-proclaimed
jihadist
named
Ali
Muhammad
Brown.
While I
did not
know
Brendan Tevlin, I have
several friends
who went to
!rllool
with
him
and
took
the
death hard.
They
ex-
pressed outrage at
the
fact
that his mur-
der
was
not
receiving national
attention
sinoo
many considered
it
an
act
_
ofter-
rorism
on our own soil
As
I
read
more
about his death, it
frustrated
me as
well
that this did
not
reooive national
news.
While I am
veiy
bothered
by
the
situa-
tion,
I do
not
think
rare
p1ayed a
role
in
media
ooverage.
I
think
it
is more
about
the
fact
that news sources
are almost
scared
to
acx:use
something
of
being
an
act
of
t.errorism
without
receiving
back:-
1ash
from the public and the goVem-
ment.
Ali
Muhammad Brown was a
self,.proclairnedjihadist; he
was
never
on
any
terror
watch
lists.
What I am tcying
to say is that anyone can
call
th.emselve;;
ajihadist.
fu
thau:ase, is the
media sup-
~
to
cover
every murderci. someone
who
thinks
ofbimself
or herself
as
a
ter-
rorist?
Nevertheless,
Tevlin's death
was
brutal,
tragic,
·and incredibly
unneres-
sary
and I praythatMichael
Brown
sees
full
justice
delivered
to
him.
Ki1n Kardashian and her lucrative shock value
By
MALLIKA RAO
Staff Writer
Kim Kardashian's Paper Magazine
cover. Yes, we have
all
heard about
it, and we've certainly
all
seen it pop
up on our social media feeds. But
what's
all
the fuss about, exactly?
This
is
Kim
Kardashian, not Chris-
tiane Amanpour. Kim Kardashian
has been slowly but steadily building
an empire exclusively on her body,
namely her most prominent derriere.
So
it's not exactly shocking that the
same girl who proudly showed off her
assets on her infamous sex tape
would show them off again 10 years
later, with three marriages and a
baby girl behind her. She has made
a business out
of
her sexuality, and
is considered a pioneer in the
fa.
mous-for-being-famous industry.
What's shocking is the conversa-
tion that has emerged on race and
gender, with regards
to
the integrity
of this photo shoot. Who would have
ever believed that Kardashian could
put stereotypes of black women's
bodies and contemporary perceptions
of feminism under scrutiny? We are
ultimately having a positive conver-
sation about black woman's body,
minus the black woman, of course.
We are also having a conversation
about whether a woman making an
empire our of her body is a feminist
triumph or completely exploitative.
Each of these conversations sur-
rounding Kardashian has been had
before, but not quite on this level.
The photographer behind the now-
the African-American community
has been quite divisive. Black women
deride t;he hype around her volup-
tuous looks, which have been consid-
ered unattractive and unprofitable
Kim Kardashian shocks all, but something appears
to
be
different this time around.
infamous shoot is Jean-Paul Goude,
whose 1976 photo "Carolina Beau-
mont," or "Champagne Incident," is
thought
to
be the inspiration for the
magazine spread that was said to
''break the Internet," also known as
the biggest technology-related hoax
since Y2K The photo features a nude
black model balancing a champagne
glass on her behind. Goude's work
has been criticized for fetishizing
black women's bodies, and so has
Kardashian herself.
Kardashian's reception amongst
for them. Thick lips and voluptuous
curves were once viewed as unviable,
with blond-haired, blue-eyed white
women viewed as the standard of
beauty. Now, Kardashian has com-
pletely turned the narrative upside
down, with the male gaze turned
firmly at her. Kardashian has a re-
ported $30 million net worth, while
African-American female dancers
in
hip-hop music videos are lucky
to
make $1,000 per video. This has cer-
tainly not made many black women
happy with Kardashian's popularity.
Her marriage
to
rapper Kanye West
has also garnered negative press, as
have her other romances with
African-American public figures.
IDtimately, you cannot ignore her.
We're talking about her. Over 25
mil-
lion people follow her on Twitter, and
she has nearly 23 million followers
on Instagram.
Kardashian has
found herself a rather lucrative plat-
form to work from, and this platform
continuously garners attention year
after year, with news programs in-
terrupting more important segments
to discuss her latest controversial
pursuits.
The ultimate message girls contin-
ually take away from Kardashian
and her endeavors is that beauty
trumps intelligence. In spite of
all
the
progress we have made in achieving
equality for women, girls are still re-
ceiving the message that their bodies
are
all
that matters.
As
far as race is
concerned, black women's bodies are
now being glorified and fetishized
more than ever, thanks to a woman
·
who is not black. Kardashian has
blurred the lines on racial and femi-
nist commentary with this notorious
photo spread, and she
will
continue
to
do so as long as she remains in the
public consciousness.

































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Four fun ways to spread Christmas che
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er in New York City
By
TAYLOR
CLARKE
Circle Contributor
The hustle and bustle, the daily
commute, the sprint to the nearest
subway station, the search for a va-
cant taxi, the crowds of people and
the floods of tourists define New York
City. New York is one of the greatest
cities in the world, filled with unique
opportunities, a variety of cultures
and the wonders of Broadway. There
is truly something for everyone.
When the Christmas season rolls in,
this chaotic and crowded city is
transformed into one of the most fes-
tive and beautiful places to visit.
There truly is nothing like Christmas
inNewYork.
·
Are you looking for a study break
during the rush of finals? Or are you
looking for some
fun activities to do
during the winter break? New York
City offers a plethora of ways to· get
in the holiday spirit. So whether
you're looking to see a festive show or
an adventure filled day ice-skating,
the city has it all. So zip up those
jackets, put on those mittens, grab
some friends and check out these
awesome things to do during Christ-
mas time in New York City:
Visit the tree at Rockefeller Cen-
ter:
Where else can one find a tree over
75 feet tall covered in over 30,000
multicolored lights? What better way
to get in the
Christmas
spirit? Once
the tree is lit after the annual cere-
mony, it
is
displayed in the Plaza
Center for the duration of the holiday
season. The tree at Rockefeller Cen-
ter is the embodiment of Christmas
in New York. This is the perfect spot
to take pictures with your friends
and family.
The Iconic
tree will be on
display for
all
to
see for the remainder
of the Christmas
season.
Go Ice Skating:
Lace up your skates, grab some
friends and head over to the famous
rink
at Rockefeller Center! What bet-
ter location to spin and gli~
on
the
ice? Decorated for the
holiday
season,
this ice
rink
is a necessary
stop
dur-
ing your holiday visit
to
New York
City.
Head over
to
see the Radio
City
Christmas
Spectacular:
From Santa to the Rockettes, this
Christmas Spectacular captures the
true essence of Christmas. Located at
Radio City Music Hall, this show is
the perfect way to relax and escape
the cold after a long day in the city.
This is the perfect escape from the
stress of finals and a great way to
ring in the holiday season.
Visit
the
Window
Displays:
For a broke college student with an
empty wallet, stopping by the luxuri-
ous displays for some "window shop-
ping" at Macy's,
Bloomingdale's,
Lord
and Taylor, Henri Bendel, Bergdorf
Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue is
the definition of an ideal evening.
The windows are covered from head
to
toe
with holiday decor and provide
the perfect way to embrace the holi-
day season.
Almost every time you turn a cor-
ner on the streets of New York City,
you are engulfed in the spirit of the
best time of year. Even the Empire
State Building partakes in the joy of
Christmas, as it glows red and green.
For college students, the next few
weeks are packed with
exams
and
papers.
However, one
must always
remember to enjoy ti.me with friends
and family because that is what the
season is all about. And what better
way to ring in Christmas than an
evening in New York!
This
year's Sak's
Fifth Avenue
holiday
win-
dow display
will
be
•An
Enchanted
Expe~
ence and feature six animated, fairy-tale
inspired window displays
N etflix
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will stream new
•
movies and shows this month
By
JOHN MOSHO
Circle Contributor
'Tis the season to make a steaming
cup of hot chocolate, submerge your-
self into your fluffy blanket and start
streaming some of your favorite
movies and TV shows on Netflix.
Luckily for you, Netflix just released
a whole slew of new titles for you to
watch this holiday season.
Throughout the month of Decem-
ber, Netflix will be give you the ac-
cess to stream some of the hottest
movies released in the past couple of
years. The highlights of large block-
buster hits would be Martin Scors-
ese's "The Wolf of Wall Street,"
"Anchorman
2: The Legend Contin-
ues,"
"American
Beauty'' and "A
Knight's Tale."
As
Netflix continues to increase the
amount of blockbuster hits it makes
available for streaming, you continue
to see more people spending the eight
dollars a month and for their mem-
berships.
As of right now, Netflix has
36 million subscribers in the United
States and is also
streaming
in 40
different countries.
''I
believe that Netflix has definitely
improved," said freshman media
The Oscar-nominated film made its
Netflix debut on Dec. 11 along with
countless other films.
studies and production major Laura
Platts.
"They
are getting better at
putting up quality movies and shows
at a faster rate. I definitely think
people should invest in a Netflix
account because it's cheaper and
more accessible than purchasing a
physical copy of a movie or a
tv
show."
For those who are more interested
in getting swept off their feet with a
new television show series, Netflix
also has many new editions coming
into their lineup this December. For
those who are comic book lovers, you
will be excited to here that Netflix
has now added season one of "Mar-
vel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." to its
lineup. A couple of other notable ti-
tles would be
"American
Horror
Story: Coven'' and "Anthony Bour-
dain: Parts Unknown."
Netflix is also releasing a new origi-
nal series this month called,
''Marco
Polo." They are very excited to be re-
leasing this show and they feel as
though it will be able to rival many
household name shows such as the
History Channel's ''Vikings," and
HBO's hit series "Game of Thrones."
"During my free time, I like to
watch some of my favorite TV shows
on Nettlix," said freshman Ryan
Guzhnay. "Between 'Dexter' and 'Su-
pernatural,' I love to just be able to
relax and watch TV shows without
any commercials within them."
This month, Netflix also has their
On behalf of The Circle staff,
have
a
safe and happy
winter
break!
See
you
in
the
spring!
full array of Christmas movies on
dis-
play. Having many of the classics
such
as
Tim Burton's ''The Night-
mare Before Christmas," and "The
Muppet Christmas Carol," many of
you will be able to watch all of your
favorite Christmas movies whenever
you want. Not to mention that Net-
flix is also currently streaming many
new Christmas movies as well, such
as ''Happy Christmas," starring Anna
Kendrick and the holiday classic film
"Christmas
with the Kranks," star-
ring Tim Allen.
''There's nothing better during
Christmas time than bringing to-
gether all of your friends and family
and just watching countless Christ-
mas movies," said freshman Mandy
Cote. "Between ABC Family's 25
days of Christmas and Netflix, me
and my friends love to watch some of
our favorite holiday classics and rem-
inisce on our childhoods."
With finals just around the comer,
studying will be most students main
concern. However, after a long day of
studying, gathering a bunch of your
friends and watching a nice televi-
sion show or movie on Netflix might
just be the way to reduce your stress
during these last few weeks.































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Thursday, December 1.1, 2014 •
PAGE 11
Injuries hamper Fox.es
•
Ill
MAAC
start
BY AVEFN
DECKER
Sports Editor
Marist (1-7, 0-1
MAAC) head coach
Mike Maker was at a loss of words at the
post-game press conference. He
took
a
deep breath, and struggled through
his
opening statement as
tears
came down
and he st.opped to
dry his
eyes.
'They were dealt a tough hand,"
Maker stated. 'To be
this
competitive
with what we are going through, we
have made major strides with
this
bas-
ketball program."
No one could have predicted the hand
that Maker was ultimately dealt for the
opening game ofMAAC conference play
vs Monmouth (4-4, 2-0
MAAC). With
starting
point
guard
T
.J.
Curry sidelined
with a broken hand and reigning MAAC
rookie of the year Khallid Hart sidelined
with a broken
fuot, Maker was already
short two key pieces so early in the sea-
son.
The seventh game of the season saw
the
third
key injury for the
Red
Foxes.
Two minutes into the game, senior cap-
tain
and starting guard Chavaugh.n
Lewis
injured
his
ankle on a drive to the
basket. He stayed down and eventually
was helped off the court by two coaches.
Initial
reports indicate a sprained left
ankle for
Lewis,
who was seen getting
ice
on the injury during the
first
half and
then had it wrapped and was on
crut.ches during the second half.
"Were going to play
good
basketball,"
Maker noted about the upcoming games
against
Manhattan,
University
of
Pennsylvania and the
Virginia
Military
Institute. 'We're going to give it every-
thing we've got."
With the early injury to
Lewis,
Marist
had to get a variety of other players
scor-
ing to keep the game in reach. Junior
forward Phillip Lawrence hit back-to-
back threes early in
the
first
half to lead
Marist.
He finished the game leading
the
Red
Foxes in scoring with 14 points,
going
6
for
10
from the field, including
two
3-point.ers.
The Red Foxes shot 28.6 percent from
behind the arc in the
first
halt:
and 30.8
percent in the second half. For the
Marist offense to
click,
they need to be
knocking down their threes
.
Sophomore
guard Nick Colletta got off to a slow
start,
missing
bis
first
three
shot
at--
tempts, two of which came from behind
the arc.
It seems that
Marist
struggles with
getting open
threes
because on many
possessions, their ball movement
is
lim-
ited to the outside and they do not weave
many passes into the paint. Marist's
paint presence
has
been lacking all
year.
Monmouth put up 40 points in the paint
while Marist put up only 16.
With the injuries to Curry,
Hart
and
Lewis,
Coach Maker must
reassign
around 110 minutes a game to
his
other
players. Freshman point
guard
KJ.
Li,
is
the primary beneficiary
of
Curry's
lost
minutes. The true freshman, who did
not play at all during the
Red
Foxes'
opener against Bucknell,
finds himself
commanding the point
guard
minutes
while
starting
the
last
five games.
"College basketball
is
played very
fast,"
Lee
said about what he
has
learned as a
starting
guard. The man-of-few-words
continued saying that, "staying poised
and keeping calm," were other
take-
aways from
his
freshman
campaign.
The other freshmen that played
sig-
nificantly were
guard
James
Griffin
and
center Connor McClenagh.an.
Griffin
played
20
minutes, tallying
three
points
and an
assist. McClenaghan had a
t.ough assignment, as he was
faced
with
covering two big cent.era on Monmouth:
Zac Tillman and
Chris
Brady. Tilman
(6-10, 280
lbs) and Brady
(6-10,
240 lbs)
had the height and weight on McCle-
oagban
(6-9,
215
lbs).
However, he did a
good
job, along with
st.arting
junior
cen-
ter Eric
Truog,
at
limiting
the big men's
production.
These early minutes that these true
freshmen
are
getting
will
bode well for
them when they return to being re-
serves and role players, and Marist
needs some experience off the bench not
named Manny Thomas.
Three Red Foxes make All-PFL team
By
DANIEL
ABRAMSON
Circle Contributor
Coming into
this
year, Marist football
lost many key players to graduation, in-
cluding
Miami
Dolphin Terrence Fede.
Expectations coming into
this
year were
lower
than
the year prior, in which
Marist won the division. Although
Marist ended the season at
just
4-7, 4-4
Pioneer League, three of their players
were named to the All-Pioneer Football
League First Team.
This
team
is
com-
piled of the best overall players for the
12-team Pioneer Football League. All
three of these players represented
Marist on defense as well
Defensive lineman Demetrius
Williams
had a
team
leading 14.5 Tack-
les
for
a loss, which was second in the
Pi-
oneer League. He
also
picked up
three
and a half Sacks, which led the
team
and ranked 18th overall in the Pioneer
League.
Williams
also
reoovered a fum-
ble for a touchdown.
"For me it was a great accomplish-
ment It
has
been something I have been
working for my whole life.
It
is
an
amaz-
ing feeling and an honor
to
be recognired
along with all these other great players,"
said the defensive lineman.
Williams
also
extended
thanks
to the
people who helped him along
his
football
journey: "[I'd like to thank] my
team-
mates who were always helping and
pushing me to be better, along with a
great group of coaches who have made
me into the player I
am
today. And of
course I have to credit my family for the
undying support of me throughout my
football career would not be here with-
out them."
Fifth year senior Paul Sakowski led
the
team
in Tackles with
90
and
finished
seventh in the Pioneer League in the
category. Sakowski finished second on
the
team
in tackles for a loss with
six,
behind qnly Williams.
Senior Safety Zach Adler led the
Marist defense, snagging seven inter-
ceptions. The
rest
of
the defense com-
bined for only
six.
Adler
also
led the
Pioneer League in
this
category,
having
two more then the next high.est
total
"It's always a huge honor being named
all PFL
first
team.
Paul and Demetrius
had a great year and
are
well deserving
of the award and everyone else on the
team
that got other awards. I
also
have
to
thank
the coaches and other players
on the
team
for putting me in situations
to
sucreed
and I am looking forward to
another great year next year," said
Adler.
Adler
has
already announced he
will
come back next season to Marist.
Williams
is
also
a senior who
has
a
pos-
sibility of returning. Sakowski
is
not el-
igible to play again, but ended
his
career
off on a
high
note with
this
award.
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Jarosz's return sparks hot conference start
By
JOHN FORNARO
Staff Writer
After a tough stretch of five
straight non-conference opponents,
the Marist women's basketball (3-5,
2-0 MAAC) team has begun a new
campaign against MAAC opponents
as conference play began this past
weekend against Monmouth.
The Red Foxes escaped the diffi-
cult beginning to their schedule
going 1-5 against prestigious college
basketball programs such as Baylor,
Delaware and St. John's. Since
then, the team has reeled off two
straight wins
·
by double digit mar-
gins against MAAC opponents,
Monmouth (4-3, 1-1 MAAC) and
Rider (2-6, 0-2 MAAC). Along with
the start of conference play, the Red
Foxes welcomed back redshirt Sen-
ior, Tori Jarosz, to their lineup
against Monmouth. Jarosz missed
the first six games of the season
with a foot injury and has had a
hard time staying healthy on the
court since she transferred to
Marist from Vanderbilt in 2011.
"I just wanted to get out there and
play," Jarosz said after her 20-point
performance against Monmouth
.
"I've been waiting pretty much my
whole career to play."
After just one game, the highly
touted redshirt senior sustained a
season ending wrist injury in 2012,
missed the opening 11 games in
2013, then the first six games of the
2014 season.
"She came in poised like an upper
classman and she really got it
going," Head Coach Brian GiQrgis
said about Jarosz. "She really gave
us a spark."
Along with Jarosz's 20 points and
seven rebounds, junior forward
Madeline Blais shot 60-percent
Redshirt senior Tory Jarosz
is
pictured above in her season debut last Friday against
Monmouth. Jarosz went on to earn MMC player of the week honors.
from the field including four three season. This past Sunday, Dec. 7,
pointers, giving her a team-high 22 Marist earned their third victory
points for the night. After 19 of and second consecutive win against
those points came in the first half of another MAAC opponent, Rider.
action, it seemed that Blais was in
Red Foxes such as Jarosz (17
a zone and on a different level than points and six rebounds) and Blais
the rest of the players on the court.
(12 points and four rebounds) re-
''I
was really confident coming into peated their solid performances and
the game," Blais said post-game. were helped by an unlikely team-
"Once I had the green light, I went mate in the 14 point win. Freshman
for it."
guard Allie Clement scored a career
With a healthy Jarosz and a con-
high 12 points in her first collegiate
fident all-around player like Blais, start for the Red Foxes. Eight of
the Red Foxes may have found their those 12 points came in the first 15
identity moving forward into the minutes of action eventually leading
to a 15-point lead held by the Red
Foxes heading into halftime.
"It
was great to get that experi-
ence," Clement said in a postgame
interview with the Red Fox Net-
work.
"I wasn't too jittery, I was
just focused on keeping calm and
contributing to the offense."
Clement earned the starting spot
against Rider, along with senior
guard Natalie Gomez-Martinez as
coach Brian Giorgia continues to
mix and match in hopes
to
find the
right combination in the backcourt.
Whether it is the start of MAAC
play or the return of Tori Jarosz, the
Red Foxes seem to be coming to-
gether as a team just at the right
time.
"I think as we go into the season
further and develop, (opposing)
players are going to have a really
hard time (guarding) all of us,"
Blais said postgame in an interview
with the Red Fox Network.
"It
feels
like we're getting a lot of good offen-
sive players."
Among those offensive
'
players,
Jarosz has been named MAAC
player of the week for the first time
in her career following dominating
performances against Monmouth
and Rider. Averaging 18.5 points,
6.5 rebounds, 2.5 blocks
,
Jarosz has
given the Red Foxes the extra en-
ergy and leadership they needed
after a slow start. These numbers
came in an impressive 35 minutes
combined in her first two games of
the season.
Marist will be back in action this
Saturday at Boston University then
back home against South Dakota
State Dec. 21 as they stray away
from conference play before the New
Year.
Volleyball falls a game short of MAAC title
By
ADRIANA BELMONTE
wick made 25 digs and Courtney while Lahey slammed 10 kills.
Staff Writer
Shaw slammed 18 kills. Amanda
For the Stags, Camille Coffey
Marist women's volleyball (25-6,
15-3 MAAC) reached the MAAC Fi-
nals, defeating Iona and Fairfield in
consecutive days before ending their
season with a loss to second-seed
Siena (19-14, 14-4 MAAC) in a
thrilling five-set match on Nov. 22.
According to
sophomore Lexi
Millington, the tournament was
something that the Red Foxes had
been ready for
all
season.
''We used the entire season
preparing for the tournament. Each
time we played a team
.
during the
regular season was a new chance to
figure out their strategies and learn
how we could beat them," Milling-
ton said. "Our expectations were
very high with respects to winning,
but we focused on getting better as
a team."
In Marist's first match of the tou,r-
nament, the team beat the Iona
Gaels (9-23, 5-13 MAAC) in five sets
by scores of 24-26, 25-21, 25-22, 25-
23 and 15-7. For Marist, Brooke Zy-
Schlegel posted a double-double on made a game-high 36 digs while
the day, with 61 assists and 10 digs.
Hadley Orr recorded a double-dou-
Kelsey Lahey tied the game-high 19 ble with 20 digs and 11 kills. Carsen
kills while Lexi Millington made 13 Mata completed 53 assists and
digs and Becca Jones made two Caitlin Stapleton made 16 kills.
service aces to go with her 12 digs.
Megan Theiller also completed a
Iona's Catrina Warren led the double-double with 12 kills and 21
match in 30 digs and 19 kills, com-
digs.
pleting a double-double. Kassandra
In Marist's final game of their sea-
Darnaby also completed a double-
son versus the Siena Saints, the
double by slamming 17 kills with 12 team fought hard but ultimately
digs. Caris Myles made 45 assists came up short in five sets, by scores
with 11 digs and Taylor Cembalisty of 20-25, 25-21, 20-25, 25-18, and
completed two service aces to go
12-15.
with 18 digs.
"I'm not going to lie; watching
The next game saw Marist face them lose was pretty hard. They
their rivals who eliminated them have worked so hard and come so
from last year's MAAC Touma-
far that it was devastating to watch
ment: the Fairfield Stags (18-12, 13-
the last game," team manager
5 MAAC). Marist won in four sets Rachel Danko said. "Going forward,
by scores of 25-22, 25-23, 17-25, and they have off-season practices and
25-20. Amanda Schlegel recorded workouts that will build up our tal-
her third straight double-double, ents even more to hopefully get that
with 34 assists and 21 digs. Milling-
ring in 2015!"
ton racked up three service aces to
Lahey led the team with 18 kills
go with her 11 digs on the day and while Schlegel completed her fourth
Zywick made 24 digs. Gena Russo consecutive double-double with 52
and Jones combined for 34 digs assists, 15 digs and a pair of service
aces. Zywick and Russo combined
for 21 digs while Shaw hit for 15
kills.
For Fairfield, Haley Howell com-
pleted a double-double with 51 as-
sists and 13 digs. Rachel Stoklasa
slammed 18 kills while Bobbi Lin
Kalama made 23 digs. Meghann
Wright made two service aces to go
with 15 digs and Sonja Vasovic hit
.419 with 15 kills.
"Both teams fought really hard
and losing such a close game in the
finals is motivation to do better next
year.
It
meant a lot to us this year to
have such great support from other
athletic teams and it would be
amazing to show that we can come
back and earn Marist their first vol-
leyball title," Millington said. "I
think, and I'm sure everyone on the
team agrees, that we gave every-
thing we had during each game. We
fought and I think we grew more as
a team than we thought we would.
We definitely had a goal to win, but
our main goal was to become better
teammates and players along the
way, which we definitely exceeded."