Volume 33, Number 10
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
December 12, 1986
Murray: Violations also occurred after Perry
by Paul Kelly and Bill DeGennaro
Violations of NCAA rules occur-
red during former Head Coach
Matt
Furjanic's coaching tenure
even as a two-year NCAA in-
vestigation of the men's basketball
program was in progress, The Cir-
cle learned last
week.
In confirming that violations of
NCAA rules did occur under Fur-
janic, President Dennis Murray
stressed that the violations were
minor and inadvertent.
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''There were very minor viola-
tions during the Furjanic era,"
Murray said, "but not necessarily
associated
with
Furjanic."
A program in turmoil
there's no chance that any
players will face penalties and
lose eligibility to play," said
Murray.
May 1986:
Furjanic, facing
widening player dissension,
resigns. lie cites "personal
reasons."
Previously, college officials had
said all violations occurred under
Furjanic's predecessor, Mike
Perry.
Revelation of the Furjanic-era
violations comes amid the suspen-
sion of three of Marist's foreign
basketball players by the NCAA.
Rik Smits, 7-3 junior center, was
suspended indefinitely Nov. 26
after the NCAA alleged Marist
violated rules in recruiting the Ein-
dhoven, Holland, standout.
Miroslav
Pecarski,
6-11
sophomore forward, and 7-0
sophomore center Rudy Bourgarel
were declared ineligible for the first
seven games of the 27-game regular
season.
Pecarski
and Bourgarel's
suspensions stemmed from the
alleged violation of NCAA rules
regarding extra benefits and ethical
Appeal decision expected
The NCAA Subcommittee on Eligibility Appeals heard yesterday the
appeal regarding the eligibility of three suspended Marist basketball
players.
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Junior center Rik Smits, sophomore forward Miroslav Pecarsk1 and
sophomore centet Rudy Bourgarel were declared ineligible Nov. 26 for
NCAA rule violations.
The Subcommittee on Eligibility Appeals condu_cted the M~ist appeal
via telephone conference call, according to President Dennis Murray.
Murray indicated in an interview with The Circle last Friday that if
Smits was not reinstated yesterday, he is ineligible for the remainder of
the season.
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However, Brian Colleary, Marist director of athletics, said Smits, if
the appeal is unsuccessful, would be ineligible to play at Marist
permanently.
Jim Marchiony, a spokesman for the NCAA in Mission, Kan., said
Smits would be eligible to play elsewhere, although he might have to sit
out a year after transferring.
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Because The Circle has a Wednesday morning deadline, results of the
appeal were not available at press time.
March 1984:
Mike
Perry
chosen to succeed Ron Petro as
head coach of the Marist men's
basketball team. The search was
conducted by a 14-member
committee of faculty, trustees
and alumni, and headed by
Marist alumnus Thomas
Mc.Kiernan.
Sept.
28, 1984: Perry resigns
amid reports of an NCAA
violation and allegations that a
personal complaint was filed
against him by one of his
players.
June 10, 1986:
Former Iona
Assistant Coach Dave Magari-
ty is hired to replace Furjanic,
becoming the fourth head coach
in four
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years.
conduct.
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Sept_. 28, 1984:
Marist reports
Perry's violation to the NCAA
and initiates its own six-week in-
vestigation. Gerard Cox, then
dean of student affairs, heads
the investigation.
October 1984:
The NCAA
begins what will be a twQ.,.:f<;aJ
investigation of the Marist
men's basketball program.
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10, 1984:
Former Robert
Morris Head Coach Matt Fur
-
janic is hired as head coach for
the men's basketball team
.
Nov.
1,
1984:
Perry admits in
an interview with The Circle
that he
"
probably committed 40
violations."
Nov_ 15, 1984:
Murray
acknowledged in an interview
with The Circle that Cox's in
-
ve
s
tigation had concluded.
"There won't be any action
Nov. 21, 1986:
The NCAA
calls Brian Colleary, director of
athletics, and says Marist has
serious eligibility issues to deal
with.
Nov. 25, 1986:
Marist must
declare Rik Smits, Miroslav
Pecarski and Rudy Bourgarel
ineligible. The school expects
tile
.
NCAA
to resJore the
eligibility.
Nov. 26, 1986:
The NCAA
does not restore the players'
eligibility
.
Smits is suspended in-
definitely, and Pecarski and
Bourgarel are suspended for the
first seven games of the season.
Nov. 28, 1986:
Marist for-
mally announces the suspen-
sions of Smits, Pecarski and
Bourgarel.
Neither the college nor the
The NCAA investigation of the
forced to resign by college officials,
NCAA has released an official
men's basketball program began in
who admitted there had been a
September 1984 after Perry was
violation of NCAA rules.
report.
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In other eve opments concern-
ing the NCAA and its allegations
against the Marist men's basketball
team:
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-Murray confirmed allegations
that an assistant coach under Fur-
janic gave Smits and Pecarski a car
ride to an NCAA-sanctioned sum-
mer league game in 1985.
-Murray indicated that institu-
tio~itl pena).ties are po~sible,
:._M1,may would not deny that
Perry paid the plane ticket for
Smits' trip from Holland in the
summer of 1984.
The specific violations occurring
under Furjanic included players
making phone calls from coaches'
offices and the ride to the summer
league game in 1985, according to
Murray.
rt.
taken against the coaches and
Dee. 10,
1986:·
The NCAA
Subcommittee on Eligibility Ap-
peals hears Marist's appeal on
the three players' suspensions . .,
Sidelined Marist players from left, Miroslav Pecarski, Rik
Smits and Rudy Bourgarel at the Pepsi-Marist Classie last
weekend. (Photo by Yete Daly)
In the summer of 1985, Fur
-
janic's assistants were Jim Todd,
Bogdan Jovicic and Steve Eggink.
Todd and Eggink have since left
Marist to pursue other coaching
Continued on page 2
Officials cautiously discuss Thomas center's opening
by Bill DeGennaro
next month.
necessary approval of building in-
spectors, according to Vice Presi-
dent for Administration and
Finance Edward Waters.
Office and classroom areas of
Marist administrators were the Thomas center are to open at
cautious last week in discussing the start of next semester, but plans
plans for the opening of the Lowell could be delayed by inclement
Thomas Communications Center weather or by failure to get the
Classrooms equipped with desks
ind chairs should be available for
,
Working behind prison bars
by Mike Grayeb
Paul Thompson wanted to be an elementary
school teacher when he graduated from college.
Instead, he became one of the 550 men and
women who serve as correction officers at Green
Haven Correctional Facility, a maximum security
prison in Stormville,
N.Y.,
located about five miles
east of Fishkill. He says it's an occupation that of-
fers job stability and a great salary -
if you can
accept the dangerous and depressing conditions.
"In the six years I've been working as a correc-
tion officer, 1 'm making more money than I would
in teaching after 20 years," said Thompson.
The starting salary for a correction officer at
Green Haven is $17,100. After a year of employ-
ment, the salary is increased to $21,000. Within
three years, a Green Haven correction officer earns
$25,000 annually.
Thompson, whose name has been changed for
this story, said he feels the public is unaware of
the life-threatening risks he and other correction
officers face ~ight hours a day, six days a week.
Forty percent of the inmates at Green Haven are
serving sentences of 25 years to life. Most of them
have been convicted of drug-related robberies or
murders. Most of them walk through the corridors
of Green Haven, right alongside the correction
officers.
"I still get butterflies in my stomach every mor-
ning when I arrive at the facility," said Thomp-
son. "The fear is always in the back of your mind."
Still, Thompson said he often feels sorry for the
Continued on page 4
the beginning of the semester, but
classes have not yet been schedul-
ed for the spring semester in the
Thomas center, according to
Academic Vice President Marc
vanderHeyden.
In other developments concern-
ing the Thomas center last week:
19, but will not be ready until two
weeks after the beginning of the
spring semester, according to
Waters. "The television studio is
the most difficult move," Waters
said.
"If
probably will not be ready
-Vice President for Student Af-
fairs Gerard Cox has initiated a
Students propose change
proposal to relocate the offices of
.
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The Circle, The Reynard, Mosaic,
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WMCR and MCTV to the base-
ment of the Thomas center.
-Student leaders expressed
anger over the administration's
decision to hold the official open-
ing of the Thomas center during
the college's spring break.·
-Vice President for College Ad-
vancement Anthony Cernera said
the college continues to be short of
funding for the project.
Among the areas of the building
that will not be completed for the
start of next semester is the Beirne
Media
Center.
The Beirne center will begin its
move to the Thomas center on
Dec.
the day we get back."
In addition, a second television
studio and other computer lab
areas will not be ready until later
in the semester, according to
administrators.
Dr. v·anderHeyden said the
Thomas center should not be con-
sidered a classroom building in the
traditional sense. There is only one
instructional classroom on the
ground floor, with studios, seminar
rooms and computer labs occupy-
Continued on page 13
Happy holidays from The Circle ... see you
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NCAA--
Continued
from
page
I
jobs.
Furjanic resigned
last
May,
citing
"personal
reasons."
A source who wished to remain
unidentified said he saw Todd and
Jovicic at a NCAA-sanctioned
summer league game at City. Col•
lege of New York in the summer of
1985. Smits and Pecarski played in
the game, according
to
the source.
In November of 1984, following
Perry's departure, then Dean of
Student Affairs Gerard Cox had
conducted an internal review of the
program and verified all players
had signed a NCAA-required form
stating they understood NCAA
rules. The six-week review was con-
ducted at the request of the NCAA.
"The review is done to make
sure you don't get into further pro-
blems with the NCAA," Murray
said in the Nov. 15, 1984, issue of
The Circle.
"Dean Cox met with the players
to make sure they were aware of
the rules and had
·
signed the
forms," Murray said at the time.
"He spoke to the coaches, and I'm
sure administrators at Mccann
were talked to. He wanted to make
sure everyone understood the
rules."
At" the
time
of Cox's review,
Smits and Pecarski were players,
and Todd and Jovicic were on the
coaching staff. Bourgarel came to
Marist in the fall of 1985.
Institutional penalties could
be
levied as a result of the NCAA in-
vestigation,
according to Murray.
He
said the penalties could come
in
the form of private or public
reprimands, or probation with
penalties.
NCAA probation involves close
monitoring of the program and can
include such penalties as the loss of
scholarships or ineligibility in
postseason play.
The investigation involved ex-
amination of records, statements
and telephone bills and interviews
with Marist players, coaches and
boosters, said Murray,
Murray suggested that the
penalties against the three players
were too harsh, given the nature of
the infractions. "The players didn't
know that those things were viola-
tions," Murray said last Friday. "I
can't see them (NCAA) getting that
severe."
When asked whether the allega-
tions concerning Perry's payment
of Smits' plane_ticket from Holland
were true, Murray replied, "I
won't refuse, but I can't discuss
specifics."
"How does he know that?" ask-
ed Perry, reached by phone in
Deerfield, Fla. "I'd like to see him
prove it."
Perry also disputed Murray's
claim that he was responsible for
all violations lejlding to Smits'
ineligibility.
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"I don't know that," said Perry,
who now works in the harness rac-
ing business for Team Nordin In-
ternational. "I don't know what
we're talking about. I've got
nothing in writing from them
(NCAA). I've got nothing verbal-
ly from them. I talked to them
months ago."
The NCAA does not prohibit
Marist from discussing the in-
vestigation, but recommends the
administration withhold specifics
until the investigation is completed,
according
to
Murray.
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A b o rti on debate planned for next semester
by Julie Sveda
The abortion debate, postponed
last September, is tentatively
rescheduled for the week after
midterm break next semester, ac-
cording to Linda Imhof, College
Union Board president.
The debate, which was to feature
pro-choice advocate Bill Baird and
right-to-life advocate Lee Klimek,
was postponed, along with a week
long series of events dealing with
the issue of abortion, because of
planning problems, said college ad-
ministrators earlier in the semester.
The debate will take place in the
fourth and final phase of a year-
long p_rogram dealing with human
sexuality sometime in March, ac-
cording to Gerard Cox, vice presi-
dent for student affairs.
Cox denied in September that the
postponement of the debate was
the result of pressure from the
Catholic Church or members of the
college community. He said the
college would deal with the issue of
abortion within the context of a
larger program dealing with human
sexuality.
According to Cox, the events
that were scheduled for the week-
Jong program in September will be
reconstructed by the CUB.
"Linda is responsible for putting
the whole week back together,"
said Cox. "We want to try not to
have snags like last time."
Although Imhof said that she
has not yet talked to Baird or
Klimek, she said that an effort will
be made to reschedule the debate,
but it will depend on
dfo
availabili-
ty of the speakers.
"We are shooting for the
debate," said Imhof. "I think it is
important to have the two oppos-
ing sides."
A committee comprised of
members of the student affairs
staff, the personal development
center, campus ministry and Imhof
have been working together on the
series of programs, which is titled
"Identity, Sexuality and Respon-
sibility ln College."
Members of the Marist com-
munity had expressed concern that
the postponement of the debate
had been a restriction of freedom
of speech on campus.
Unpredictable Performance art'
finds home in Hudson Valley
by Ellen D' Arey
The flame follows her beckoning
finger. As it grows, she crawls cat-
like behind a larger than life
photograph of herself. It blows up
in an inferno as she recites a poem
of fiery fear.
Bizarre? Insane? Maybe. It's
performance art introduced to
most of us this summer by Darryl
Hannah in the hit movie "Legal
Eagles.''
Although it's nothing new, per-
formance art clubs, venues and ar-
tists have sprung up all over the
metropolitan area in the last year.
And yes -
even in the Hudson
Valley.
Performance art, which is call-
ed conceptual art, body art or even
life art, has different definitions
and connotations depending on the
artist and/or the audience.
It began in the 1960's as an ar-
tistic/political movement called
"Happenings."
Creative political
activists devoted their bodies and
imaginations
to expressing their
political and social convictions.
From civil rights, to the ERA, to
the Vietnam War, progressive ar-
tists gained attention to their beliefs
through
unique and sometimes
shocking displays of theatrical and
visual experiments which became
known as performance art.
However, in the 1980's, politics
have left performance art. "It's a
personal experience," said Lyon
.
Balliet, a dancer and performance
artist from Woodstock. "What I
like to do is jar people out of their
natural thought.
If (
can jiggle
them off normal paths oflife, then
I've accomplished what I wanted."
Balliett recently completed a pro-
ject with five other performers in
a baseball field. "I wanted to
parallel baseball to life. There was
a lot of dancing, singing and call-
ing." Balliett said people would sit
in their cars and watch the entire
performance through all rehearsals
and the final production.
"Performance art is anything,"
Balliett said. "It's the combination
of sound, movement and acting. A
performance artist is one who
doesn't commit themselves to acer-
tain medium or confine themselves
to one outlet of an artistic world.
It's a step between worlds."
Mikhail Horowitz, a writer,
musician and performance poet in
the Hudson Valley, has noticed the
popular and recent interest in per-
formance art. "A lot of people
have been talking about
it,
but
there are very few places to per-
form," he said.
Currently, most performance art
is shown in galleries and private
locations, according to Horowitz.
The Unison House in New Paltz,
and The Omega Institute in
Rhinebeck are two art organiza-
tions that present performance art.
"I really think there will be more
venues opening up in the Hudson
Valley," he said, "considering we
have some of the most renown per-
formists in the country living in the
area."
The most publicized project in
the Hudson Valley is being done by
Montano. She is engaged in a
seven-year experiment involving
spiritual energy from yoga. Every
year, for the whole year, Montano
dresses in one color. She takes on
an accent and tone centered around
one area of the body. Her annual
change is Dec 14. She will change
her clothes from orange to yellow
in a ritualistic ceremony in her
apartment which she calls "The Art
Life Institute."
Whether performance art is
coming to Marist is hard to say.
The fact is that it's here
in
the Hud-
son Valley -
and people are talk-
ing about it.
"All you need is talk," said
Balliett. "Because people get in-
terested, they begin to understand
what it's all about, and whether
they hate it or not -
they know
what it is."
'Tis the
season
Marist students are in the
holiday spirit, as shown by these
colorful decorations
in
Leo
Hall. (Photo by Mark Marano)
For example, Linda Montano, a
well-known artist in the Hudson
Valley, began her performance art
career by tying herself to a man
with a ten-foot rope- for a year.
The couple never touched except
for accidents, and never spoke to
each other. For Montano, this was
a feminist metaphor expressing the
invasion of man, and denial of
privacy.
RD's radio stolen during holiday social
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Tom Martin, another artist in
the area, believed the Vietnam War
was wrong. To illustrate this, he
ran full speed between two brick
walls, crashing into each one until
he passed out. "I was young then,"
Martin recalled. "Back then it
seemed like the thing to do."
by Mike Gnyeb
Security and ho~sing personnel
are still waiting for the return of a
brand-new $1,000 two-way radio
that was taken during a social in
Fireside Lounge last Wednesday.
Peter Amato, assistant dean of
students, said no criminal action
will be taken against the person
responsible if the radio is returned
anonymously this week.
"If
it is
not returned, and we find someone
with it, we will press charges," said
Student committee urges
changes in Thomas plans
by Len Johnson
A special subcommittee of the
Student Academic Committee has
drafted a proposal calling for a re-
allocation of space in the Lowell
Thomas Communications Center
and the incorporation of the Beirne
Media Center into the Division of
Arts and Letters.
The six-page proposal, submit-
ted to administrators last week,
calls for the creation of more
classroom and student activities
space by dividing a large computer
room in half and by re-assigning
space intended for an executive
conference room.
The subcommittee made its
recommendations after reviewing
blueprints for the building, which
is
scheduled to open next month.
Under the SAC proposal, the
large computer room in the east
wing of the building would be
divided in half to make room for
classroom or activities space.
According to SAC President
Gina Disanza, who toured the
building with the subcommittee
early in the semester, the computer
room is much larger than needed,
and the intended placement of the
computer terminals along the out-
side walls wastes valuable space.
The proposal suggests that a wall
be erected in the center of the room
enabling the north part of the room
to be used for print journalism
classes, while leaving adequate
space for the computer facility.
The proposal also calls for cam-
pus radio station
WMCR
to move
from its present Champagnat Hall
location into the space now allot-
ted to one of two executive con-
ference rooms on the first floor of
the building.
The size of the room would
allow ample space for
WMCR,
and
its location near the main doors of
the building would prevent possi-
ble security problems, according to
the proposal.
Amato. "It's a felony."
The radio, which was purchased
by the Housing Office last month,
is used as a means of communica-
tion between residence directors
on duty and Security personnel. It
was taken at approximately 4: 10
p.m. during the Holiday Tea 'On
Dec. 3, according to Security super-
visor Roland Quinlan.
Quinlan
said
Town
of
Poughkeepsie Police have not yef
been contacted. "They (Housing)
are waiting to see if it's going to be
returned," he said.
Carol Graney, residence director
of the North End, said she put the
radio, her coat and a RD's Jog
book on the stage in the lounge and
went to get a cup of tea. Then, she
was told to answer an urgent phone
call in the Housing Office.
"Five minutes later, when I
returned, the radio was missing,"
she said. Her coat and book were
not taken.
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Graney said there were about 10
administrators and 25 students at
the gathering. There are no
suspects at this time, she said.
During that night, stereo music
and the phrase "Scotty, beam me
up" were hear!! over Security's
radios, said Graney. The special
type of batteries in the radio have
since worn out and are no longer
operational, she said.
"It's absolutely incredible," said
Graney. "It obviously wasn't a
prank, or it would have been
returned by now."
As the Lowell Thomas Center nears completion The Student Academic Committee has pro-
posed reallocation of some of
its
interior space. (Photo by Sharon Gardiner)
"WMCR
should be a part of the
Letters in order to "integrate it in-
Several structural problems in
broadcasting curriculum just as
to
the
communications
the Thomas Building were also
The Circle is part of the journalism
curriculum.''
addressed.
curriculum," Disanza said. "Being
"We don't think that Beirne
The subcommittee noted "cracks
off in a dorm it cannot achieve that
Media is getting the use that
in almost every floor space," and
end."
students are entitled to. There are
inadequate sound-proofing in
In addition, the committee
-students who have taken all the
television studios.
recommends that the Beirne Media
(television) production classes, but
vanderHeyden was out of town
Center be placed under the jurisdic-
have no where to go to do the pro-
earlier this week and could not be
tion of the Division of Arts and
ducing," Disanza said.
reached for comment.
































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Tr ans fer students tell of wows and woes
by
Michele
O'Connor
One of the first questions a
Marist transfer student hears is,
"So, how do you like Marist?''
Stephanie Biear, a 20-year-old
junior from Rockaway; N.J., says
she transferred to Marist because
it's the only school outside of New
York City that offers a B.A. in
fashion design. "I had some trou-
ble at first because my teachers
kind of shuffled me around
.
"
Now, she says, her teachers have
taken the time to find out what
classes she needs
.
Many of the 200 new transfers
t.his year chose Marist because of
its location and the size of its stu-
dent body.
Richard Quinn, a 20-year-old
crimin
.
al justice major, chose
Marist because it's so close to his
home in Rockville Center, Long
Island, and because it's a small
school. Quinn's former school, the
Univesity of Dayton, in Ohio,
boasted a student population of
10,000. He feels more at home in
New York, because in Dayton most
students were from Kentucky and
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inmates. Even though he feels many of them
said Thompson. "It's like being ma car accident,
sincerely try to better themselves while in the facili-
where the driver dies and you survive -
it could
ty, he knows their criminal records wiU follow them
have been any of us."
long after their release.
Although correction officers are provided with
Thompson spends most of his workday super-
a wooden baton, Thompson said less than half of
vising inmates at their workplaces within the self-
.
the officers carry them.
contained facility. Inmates work at the facility's
None of the CO's carry firearms.
general store, kitchen, farm, laundry, hospital and
"You have to remember that the inmates are
industry workshops (where furniture is made for
walking through the corridors with us," he said.
other correctional facilities).
"We can't risk one of them getting a hold of our
Throughout the day, he periodically inspects the
weapon."
cells of the
SO
inmates on his "tier" (floor), sear-
Thompson said there is an even-tempered rap-
ching for weapons like "shivs," which are
port between the inmates in his tier and himself.
homemade knives made from scraps of metal,
"l know the men in my tier, and I can tell right
drugs and other contraband. He also signs and
away if one of them is not having a good day,"
checks the passes carried by every inmate who
he said. "That's when you have to watch them
travels through the numerous gates which separate
more carefully, and tell other officers to watch
the cold, damp corridors of the facility.
them very carefully."
''Most of it is a daily routine,•' said Thompson.
On some days, however, it
is
the actions of other
"It
gives me a lot of time to think about my life."
correction officers that he has to watch.
Each correction officer has been trained for the
Thompson admitted knowing of officers and
use of weapons, defense tactics and hand-to-hand
visitors who smuggle cocaine, marijuana, and
combat techniques. ln addition, they must take
alcohol into the facility.
"It
happens too often, and
four annual review training courses, and repass
we might lose two officers every year because of
tests on their training in order to continue work-
it," he said. Sometimes, Green Haven officials will
ing at the facility•
have surprise checks of officers at the entrance to
Correction officers have also been trained in the
the facility, in an effort to curb the problem.
field of interpersonal communication, so they can
communicate with inmates and recognize potential
The worst part of being a correction officer at
psychological problems with inmates.
Green Haven, according to Thompson, is not the
Still, sometimes the training is not enough.
underlying fear• but the loneliness. "You are locked
Thompson described the 1981 brutal murder of
into this building for a day, and you feel like you
Donna Payant, a Green Haven correction officer,
are serving the time
.
with the inmates,'' he said.
who was strangled and beaten to death by an in-
Thompson said he will probably remain a cor-
mate while she was on duty. Her body had been
rection officer at Green Haven for another three
thrown into the prison's dumpster.
years. "Then, I think I'll find that teaching job I
Illinois.
However, George Sabo, a
20-year-old business major from
Prospect, Conn., says, "So far l
like the freedom· campared to
Massachusettes
Maritime
Acaderff'y
.
It was a big adjustment,
but I'm used to Marist now and I
like the social life as well as
academic."
Mike Dunn, a 20-year-old
transfer from Mitchell College,
Conn., said he feels the priority
point systefn is unfair because
transfers have no way of gaining
points for housing. Dunn, who
lives in the Canterbury Gardens
Apartments, says he would have
rather been in the Townhouses or
Gartland Commons Apartments.
Carolyn Halavaty, a 19-year-old
junior from Port Jervis,
N.Y
.
,
says, "I really didn't know that
rnuch"about Marist. I had a Physics
teacher who graduated from Marist
and he always talked about River
Day." Halavaty said she is happy
with the academic program overall,
but said she did have trouble with
Marist "ped tape".
"A lot of my transfer credits
•
were screwed up," said Halavaty
.
A Canterbury resident, she express-
ed her dissatisfaction with the
priority point system and living off
campus. "I think it's very unfair.
l have a clean disciplinary record,
and a strong grade point average
and I'll be a senior next year so I'm
hoping."
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Upperclassmen
honored
by Alice
Chahbazian
The New York Theta Chapter of
Alpha Chi, the college's honor
society, recognized dozens of
juniors and seniors in a recent
ceremony.
The junior and senior Alpha Chi
inductees who were recognized for
their academic achievements are:
Diane Adams, Jacqueline
Adragna, Virginia Armstrong,
Kathleen Bartfai, Frank Bellacicco,
James Beretta,
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Debra Bramley,
Carolyn Buckley, Lynn Cardone,
Mohammod Choudhry, Marilyn
Coleman, James Cormier, Cheryl
Cummings, Martin Daley, William
Degli Angeli, Mary Devenny,
Laurie Dewitt, Donna Duncan;
Susan Erikson, Darrin Everleth,
Maureen Fitzgerald, Darwin Flinn,
Karen Freligh, Troy Ganzer,
Valerie Gerwickey, Linda Gorsuch,
Ronald Gouldner, Bonnie Grasso,
Ian Green, Joanne Greene, John
Guercio, Andre Hanim, Diana
Hauser, Thomas Heer, Lora
Hilaire, George Hoffman, Donna
Hood, Jon Hunt, Thomas Huss-
ing, Maria Hyatt;
Ruani Jayasinghe, William E.
Jones Jr., Charles F. Junjulas Jr.,
Heidi Klein, Elaine Kolor, John
Kontoyianni, Georgette Kurdt,
Paul Kutch, Laura Jeanne Laub,
Erin Mabey, Andrea Malin,
Dominique Martinez, Donna
Mayer, Antonio Mazzarelli,
Harold A. McKinney, Dawna
Motise, Christine Mulvey, Daniel
Napoli, Michael Nolan, Thomas
O'Connell, Ardith Orr, Andrea
Orzechowski;
Harold Ramsey, Stephen Ricca,
Edward Roberts, Leo Roselli,
James Ross, Margaret Roush, Bar-
bara Sideris, Arthur Spina, Joseph
Stepani, Shelly Denise Strydio,
Kathleen Szarek, William Torpy,
Cheryl Trask, Cheryl Umhoefer,
David Vanleuvan, David Vaughn,
Jean Vernacotola, Kevin Wade,
Allen Westerman, Toni Wilson,
Allison
Wood,
Todd Wysocki and
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O nce convinced to join, -they ,re full of Spirit
by Michael McGarry
.
want it to become a ritual that's
taken lightly."
The people of the Faith
Assembly of God, an evangelistic
and pentecostal church, aren't
afraid to preach about their beliefs.
"Are you born again?" asked
member Marilyn Miller. "It's the
best thing that will ever happen in
your life. I'm praying for you."
Sitting at the top of a hill off of
Spackenhill Road in Poughkeepsie
is the red brick building which is
home to the Faith Assembly of
God. The church belongs to the
Assembly of God Fellowships, the
No
.
I pentecostal denomination in
the nation, having a membership of
1.9
million people.
Evangelical pentecostal churches
are characterized by beliefs in a
literal interpretation of the Bible,
the teachings of the Holy Spirit, in-
dividual charismatic leaders and a
desire to spread their message to
other people.
The Faith Assembly of God
draws about 600 people to Sunday
services. Five percent of these peo-
ple are college age, according to the
Rev. Tim Baldwin, the minister to
youth.
The fellowship is centered in
Springfield, Mo., and it is the 14th
largest church in America. Televi-
sion preacher Jimmy Swaggert is a
member.
The building which houses the
Faith Assembly of God is im-
pressive, though not yet finished.
The Sanctuary, where the services
will take place, has a wooden beam
ceiling and
hanging lights
decorated with crosses. It seats
1,200 people with the potential of
accommodating
2,000.
The
building also contains offices,
classrooms and a gymnasium.
Services take place each Sunday
and are conducted by Damiani,
Baldwin and Dr. Al Wallace, the
... and they even support a TV station
by Michael McGarry
At the end of the Sunday service at the Faith
Assembly of God Church, the Rev. E.C. Damiani
encourages the crowd to continue to support
WTBY, channel 54, Poughkeepsie's own affiliate
of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
The Trinity Broadcasting Network was started
in 1973 by Paul F. Crouch and his wife, Jan. Chan-
nel 54 became a member of the network on June
13, 1983. The station is located in Fishkill on the
c• 11er of Route 9 and Merritt Road.
The network's goal, according to Crouch, is to
reach the "yet unreached." Besides Poughkeepsie,
TBN has stations in California, Arizona, Florida,
Indiana and Oklahoma. It is also beamed into
several foreign countries.
Channel 54 broadcasts 24 hours each day, seven
days a week, with the exception of a few lv>urs late
Sunday night when the station is shut down for
maintenance on the transmitter, according to Sta-
tion Manager and Vice President Campbell K.
Thompson.
The majority of funding for the station and net-
work comes from its viewers, according to Thomp-
son. "What we receive in income exceeds our own
expenses," said Thompson.
.
Thompson says the station has no idea of their
ratings or how many people watch.
minister of counseling and Chris-
tian education. Services consist of
singing hymns, reading from the
Bible and a sermon from Damiani.
after a friend invited her to a ser-
vice. "Other Protestant churches
don't have the spirit," said Miller.
"The spirit is here."
·
sickness; physical or emotional and
need to be touched by God are
anointed with oil by the elders of
our church," said Baldwin.
During the service the pastors sit
above the crowd on a platform and
Communion is handed out only
the first Sunday of every month in
order to preserve the uniqueness of
it, according to Baldwin.
"Communion is something that
needs to be done in a purposeful
manner," said Baldwin. "We·don't
There is no consecration of the
eucharist during the service. In-
stead, 12 men in blue and gray suits
hand out communion and small
glasses of wine. At Damiani's
word, everybody, while sitting in
the seats, eats and drinks at the
same time.
The church also runs a school.
The Faith Christian Academy runs
from kindergarten to the sixth
grade. The school is a conventional
school system, according to
Baldwin, and is registered with the
Association of Christian Schools
International
.
Besides the regular Sunday ser-
vice, the church runs a special ser-
vice on Friday nights for teens and
people in their early 20s.
"This service is less formal then
the one on Sunday, and people
often stay afterwards for a period
of recreation," said Baldwin.
Recreation includes lip sync con-
tests and pingpong matches, accor-
•
ding
to Baldwin.
.
speak from a podium. An organ
and drum player are to the right of
the platform, while a man operates
a sound system in the back of the
church. Backround organ music
accommpanies almost everything
said.
The people at the service are
more vocal· then the average
parishioner at other Christian ser-
vices. The crowd will join Baldwin
in a reading from the New Testa-
ment, people raise their hands, bow
their heads, close their eyes and
mumble praise to the Lord.
The people appear happy and
are looking to convert others.
Newcomers at the service are
greeted by Baldwin who asks them
to stand and identify themselves.
Ushers then hand the newcomers a
packet with a name tag and an
envelope used for the offering.
The Fellowship's main doctrine
is the 16 fundamental truths.
"They are guidelines for looking at
the Bible," said
Baldwin.
''Everybody needs to go by them."
An example of one of the truths:
Debaters top Harvard, take first
Ask the people of the Faith
Assembly of God what makes their
church special and they will say the
Holy Spirit.
"It's a blessing, it really touch-
ed my heart," said Everdon Smith.
"The Lord is here and we feel
it," screamed Ann Andrews.
Miller came from a Protestant
backround and joined the church
Jesus is God.
The church takes the Bible
literally and does not accept the
theory of evolution, according to
Baldwin. "We believe the Bible is
a source of truth in its original
manuscript," said Baldwin.
The church also believes in
divine faith healing and conducts
anointing ceremonies during its
regular Sunday services
.
"People who have any type of
The Marist debate team took
first place last week in a tourna-
ment at the University of Rhode
Island.
The Marist team won six times
without a defeat in the preliminary
rounds, then topped Rhode 'Island
in the semifinals and Suffolk
University of Boston in the finals.
Marist was represented by
freshman
Mike
Buckley and
sophomore Joe Ruta. Buckley was
judged the second best speaker in
the tournament, and Ruda finish-
ed sixth.
the two schools.
Marist is now ranked fourth in
the Northeast.
The overall record for the Marist
team is 46-33. Fourteen debaters
have represented the college in its
eight tournaments so far this year.
Marist teams have
·
competed
against five- of the top 20 schools
in the nation and defeated all of
them at least once.
2 hoop players get probation
In sweeping the preliminary
rounds, Marist defeated Harvard.
It was the first encounter between
The team of Buckley and Ruta
now has a record of 15-2. The
team's ,two losses were against
Wheaton College of Illinois, which
is ranked second nationally, and
the University of Wisconsin at
Oshkosh, another top 20 school.
Len Johnson
Two former Marist basketball
players, accused of using a credit
card stolen from former Assistant
Coach Jim Todd, have pleaded to
a reduced charge and were sentenc-
ed to probation.
Tim Beckwith, a sophomore,
and Carlton Wade, who left Marist
early this semester, pleaded guilty
to a misdemeanor charge of petit
larceny and were sentenced to three
years' probation, according to their
attorney, Donald Brown Jr.
Beckwith has been indefinetly
suspended from the team since the
incident, but will be notified this
week about his future eligibility,
according to Brian Colleary, direc-
tor of athletics.
Wade of Clairton, Pa., and
Beckwith of Hampton, Va., were
arrested last May and charged with
possession of a forged instrument,
a felony, in connection with a
credit card missing from Todd's
gym bag at the McCann Center.
The two were arrested after
allegedly purchasing several hun-
dred dollars worth of merchandise
at the South Mills Mall in
Poughkeepsie.
They were released after arraign-
ment without bail, and Todd has
since left Marist for Manhattan
College.
Following their arrest, Maris!.
suspended both players from the
team indefinitely, but allowed each
to return to school in the fall on
athletic scholarship. Wade left ear-
ly in the semester with the intention
of transferring to Salem College in
Salem,
W.Va.
A
decision will be made this
week on whether to allow Beckwith
to return to the team for the re-
mainder of the season, according
to Colleary.
"We'll let him know exactly
where he stands," he said.
As.ked if Beckwith will be subject
to additional penalty, Colleary
said, "He's already been punished.
He's been suspended from the
team."
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attend annual conj
ere nee
by Jackie Bono
It was an English major's dream
come true. Where else could one
talk to professors of literature from
124 colleges and universities?
The 12th annual Mid-Hudson
Modern Language Association
conference was held last week in
the Campus Center. More than 245
people, representing 21 states, par-
ticipated in the conference directed
by Dr. George Sommer, professor
of English at Marist.
Sommer decided to organize the
conference locally after many years
of participating in them elsewhere
in the country.
"I was coming home on the train
from an
MLA
conference I had at-
tended in Canada and was looking
over the program. I found that I
hadn't had the time to hear all the
papers I wanted to.
It
was then that
I decided to direct a conference of
my own," Sommer explained.
By organizing the conference,
Sommer takes on the responsibili-
ty
of compiling abstracts of all
papers to be presented at the con-
ference. Each spring, he also edits
the Mid-Hudson Language Studies
Journal, which contains
several
of
the papers read. Although Sommer
cannot attend each of the 195 lec-
tures given over the two-day
period, he has ample opportunity
to study them carefully during the
editing process.
The conference provided the par-
ticipants with the opportunity to
get other viewpoints on authors or
works they had studied.
There ~ere 59 sections in the
conference. Among these were
20th
Century European Literature, Ar-
thurian Literature, Literature and
Crime, Computers and the
Humanities,
Shakespeare,
Chaucer, Film Studies, General
Linguistics and Literature and
Psychology. Each section contain-
ed two to four papers.
The highlight of the program
was the banquet held on the first
day. An address was given by Dr.
Marleigh Grayer Ryan, prpfessor
of foreign languages (Japanese) at
the State University of New York
at New Paltz. The banquet drew
some 200 people to the River
Room, with another crowd wat-
ching on closed-circuit television in
an overflow room. Ryan spoke on
''The Dimension of the World in
Language and Literature."
"I am a medievalist," said Som-
mer. ''This young lady is a
humanist," referring to Dr.
Ryan.
Choral entertainment was pro-
vided by Marist's Les Chanson-
qiers, directed by DorothyAnn
Davis.
Many participants commented
on how friendly the people at the
conference were. Those who attend
every year make acquaintances that
turn into friendships, and plan to
meet each other again in another 12
months.
·
"There doesn't seem to be any
of the competition that exists at
other conferences. I try to create a
relaxed
atmosphere,"
said
Sommer.
Professors, as well as the
students, expressed satisfaction at
the success of the event.
"I usually go to one or two a
year. This has been very en-
joyable," said Dr. Barbara Traister
from
·
Lehigh University in
Pennsylvania.
The original conference, held at
Marist in 1975, offered 1 I sections
and 34 papers. It has now grown
to be nearly six times that.
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Not what, but how?
In
October
1984, the NCAA began its investigation of the men's
basketball team.
At Marist, things were also happening.
In
September,
Mike
Perry, the head coach, had been asked to
resign for committing NCAA violations, which involved the "of-
fering of illegal benefits to a player." Matt Furjanic was hired
to replace Perry. And, later, a six-week investigation of the pro-
. gram by the college was completed.
It seemed as if the Marist program was cleaning house -
a
house they meant to keep clean.
But now it looks as though the house wasn't maintained.
Why, amidst a formal NCAA investigation, were violations still
occurring?
.
While the penalties handed down by the NCAA seem harsh,
we are troubled by that question.
In interviews with The Circle last week, President Dennis Mur-
ray confirmed for the first time that NCAA violations did occur
during the Furjanic era -
during the NCAA investigation.
Murray was quoted as saying that the violations that occurred
between October 1984 and May 1986 (Furjanic's tenure) were
minor and inadvertent.
But a broken rule is a broken rule, no matter how minor it is.
In the internal investigation in 1984, all those directly involved
with the basketball program were informed of NCAA rules and
regulations by Gerard Cox, then dean of student affairs and now
vice president.
So the coach knew the rules. His assistants knew the rules. The
players knew the rules.
Then how, with everyone supposedly now informed, and under
the scrutiny of a formal NCAA investigation, does a violation
such as a trip in a car to a 1985 summer
league
game occur? How
do phone calls in a coach's office, also violations, occur?
In an interview with The Circle in November 1984, Murray
spoke of the six-week internal investigation. He said that the
"review is done to make sure you don't get into further problems
with the NCAA" and that it involved "interviews with players,
coaches and administrators at the McCann Center."
While
officials
claim they were unaware of the violations at the
time they occurred, we believe they should have known what was
going on, especially with the NCAA on the case.
That six-week investigation two years ago was a good idea. It
should have continued as long as the NCAA was involved.
So here we are. The NCAA investigation has spanned over 26
months, and it has found violations that occurred under two
coaches' tenures -
some of them right under the investigators'
fingertips.
Sloppy housekeeping. All they had to do was pick up the carpet.
letters
Give us a chance
To the Editor:
I would like to address the
edi~orial by Albert Stridsberg in the
Nov. 6 issue of The Circle. He said
that we, the students of Marist, ac-
tually strive to achieve mediocrity.
He made a tremendous generaliza-
tion about Marist students possibly
gleaned only from his classes. He
didn't give the rest of us a chance.
Furthermore, he could find no
fault whatsoever in our professors.
_
That this is mistaken is indeed an
understatement.
How many times have you heard
your professor tell you to ask ques-
tions and to participate more in
class discussions? Almost all of
mine have told me. The only pro-
blem with some is that, (definitely
not all) once you ask them a ques-
tion they either insult you by say-
ing "Are you so dumb that you
don't know the answer?" or by
continuously saying "Look it up!"
When I went to ask for extra help
on an assignment that
I-
was con-
fused about, my professor told me
that he really didn't understand
what my problem was. I had just
explained it to him and he looked
at me as if I was a stupid moron.
That was definitely the last time I
asked him for extra help. When we
don't understand something, it
often takes courage to admit we are
ignorant and to ask a question. We
certainly don't need to be belittled
and insulted.
If
I were a student in Prof.
Stridsberg's class, after reading his
article, there is no way I would say
a word. In one part of his article
he insults us when he talks about
Vidal, saying he's not Sasson, but
Gore, if we know the difference.
After hearing that remark, being
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The stress test
by Julia E. Murray
You can always tell when the end
of the semester is at hand. Every-
where you look there are pilei of
papers and books, and coming
from somewhere underneath one
of the piles is the tap-tap-tap of a
typewriter, as a dedicated student
feverishly tries to complete his term
paper, which is due in 15 minutes.
For some strange reason, though,
few students thrive on, or even
seem to enjoy, having three papers
due on the same day, or taking two
finals in a row. These people do not
know how to live.
There is a key to surviving the
last two weeks of a semester
without ending up talking to the
nice men in white coats, and that
key is stress. Worried about how to
write your American Lil term
paper for Friday and still have time
to study for your MOB exam on
Monday? It's easy. Just don't start
your Lit paper until late Thursday
night, and then you'll be too busy
to worry about possibly flunking
your final. The more pressure
you're under, the less time you
have to think about all the pressure
you're under.
Professors have known about
the maximum stress method for
years, though they haven't told
their students that they know.
After all, not everyone can use
stress to his advantage. Ideal can-
didates to test the method have
nerves of tinfoil and glass stomachs
and spend 90 percent of their day
trying to get a caffeine fix_. Anyone
who is strong in the face of adver
-
sity need not apply; obviously you
have some strange sort of prejudice
against panic.
It is a commonly held belief that
all college students practice the
stress method at some point in their
academic careers, but this is not the
case. There are a frightening
number of students out there who
begin papers the day they are
assigned (or at least the same
month), begin studying for a test
more than an hour before it is sup-
posed to begin and, when doing a
group project, actually expect to
meet with the other members of the
group at least once to discuss the
project. Shocking, isn't it?
It is because of these students
that professors bend over
backward to provide their classes
with enough opportunities to try
the stress method. Oh, they may
not tell you why they act as
if
you're only taking one class
(theirs), but you can guess. The real
world is no place for a punctual,
hard-working anti-procrastinator,
so it's up to your professors to
break you of these bad habits
before it's too late. What better
way to do so than to have a paper
due the day before the final, and
1
then make sure you have at least
·
two exams each day (preferably
back-to-back). You didn't think
these things were accidental, did
you?
·
Of course there are some times
when the method backfires, usqal-
ly in the hands of an inexperienc-
ed procrastinator
.
Every once in a
while you run across, or stumble
over, stress burnouts, but they're
usually pretty easy to spot, so try
not to step on them. Just keep an
eye out for the people staggering
around with a highlighted textbook
in one hand and an empty coffee
cup in the other. Anyone with any
practice at the stress method knows
enough to buy 10 pounds of instant
coffee before every exam, and no
true procrastinator takes the time
to highlight a text. Highlighting im-
plies you read the book before the
test, instead of after.
For those of you who wish to try
the stress method, but simply can't
get your professors to provide you
with enough, I have a suggestion
(provided you publish a list of the
classes you're taking)
.
Think of
vacation. Think of how broke you
are, then think of all the money
you have to spend on Christmas or
Hanukkah gifts anyway. Think of
the add/drop line you'll have to
stand on at the end of vacation.
Most of all, think of spending
roughly five weeks surrounded by
your family, telling them all about
where you're going, what you're
doing and when you'll be home.
,
Five weeks. That's 35 days; 840
hours; 5,040 minutes. Now, don't
you feel better?
Correction
One of the
Computer
Center's coordinators
was
misidentified
in
the
Nov.
20
is.me
of The
Circle.
The position
is
held by
Harry
Williams.
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Looking back from over there
by Roy Carpenter
It
is
perhaps best for me to first
present my reasons for writing this
piece
before stating my purpose. I
write not from Poughkeepsie but
from
Oxford; my only direct link
to
the students of Marist,
therefore,
has been The Circle, and
much to my
surprise,
this has in-
spired
me to create, not out of any
false sense of dedication, but out
of a feeling of comradeship and
concern.
I must confess it
is
the first time
I have felt
this
way, yet however ig-
noble my attitude has been, my in-
tentions are good.
Even after a very inattentive
perusal of the paper it became ob-
vious from several editorials that
their authors had adopted an at-
titude of hopeful toleration with
regard to their educational ex-
perience. Each student tops off
long paragraphs of complaining
with a feebly inspirational call to
take the situation into your own
hands, because Marist is what we
make it.
These conclusions are ineffective
and the overall mood is depressing;
and yet there is hope to be found,
for such are the expressions of a ge-
nuine intellectual dissastisfaction,
$Omething
qualitatively different
from the infantile, although com-
mon attitude of student-college or
student-instructor antagonism.
I write to those who are
frustrated in a more noble way
than the common lot, to those who
realize or at least have intimations
of the rape of the mind as a whole
by the modern educational system.
1 fear
there
is
no longer any hope
of reform through the institutions
which appear to uphold the noble
ideals
we
are worthy of; hope lies
now in a simple faith in our fellow
men.
The individual shall preserve
these ideals, students and instruc-
tors working against the forces of
ruin, or they shall not be preserv-
ed
.
Mine
is
a call to elitism, to
snobbery,
to self-preservation
through self-fulfillment.
Let us resume the issue where it
has been thus far left off. We have
heard talk of unrealized potential
at Marist - true enough. We have
also been directed to such concepts,
presumably desirable ones, as
foundations for a
good education,
and
fine institutions of learning,
but perhaps the authors have f>een
too liberal in their assumptions of
the reader's understanding of
these
concepts.
Undeniably, education has more
than lived up to T.S. Eliot's bitter
prophecy that education will ex-
pand beyond all proportion to its
capacity for providing quality lear-
ning -
that its goal will become
"getting on" or job-training, and
that "if left to themselves they will
overspecialize, they will
.
be wholly
ignorant ofthe general interests of
human beings."
And so
we
are. For anyone who
can confess to
the
remotest sense
of inadequacy or emptiness with
regard to his university level
studies, it is imperative to first
come to an understanding of the
ideal of education, then the reality
of his own, and then the task
becomes bridging the gap between
the two.
My task in this piece, then, is on-
ly to allude to a better educational
prospect than now appears to be
the norm for the intelligent Marist
student. The ideal I shall present,
however unattainable it is, both
here at Oxford, and elsewhere, if
achieved in the slightest degree
becomes a largely personal matter,
a conviction which travels through
time and space with the individual.
I shall argue from the position of
literature because it is what I am
most familiar with, yet 1 speak on
behalf of all the humanities, as well
as the sciences, in fact, this ideal is
the combination of many such
fields in their most abstract and
theoretical form.
It
is job-training
and courses geared toward career-
preparation which I speak against;
to be blatant, I oppose computer-
science, communications, fashion-
design, business and all other such
'practical'
majors, when they are
regarded as equal to those previous
fields of study
.
The accusation is commonly
made (though rarely substantiated)
.
that literature does not de-al with
reality, that it is abstract and
therefore separated from the 'real'
world.
It
is true that there is no
such immediately visible result as
when a button on the keyboard is
pressed and a light appears, but it
is my belief that the mind is capable
of more subtle forms of stimula-
tion, yet whose results are
nonetheless more profound and
longer lasting.
Literature deals with ideas as
presented through dialogue, verse,
symbol, etc., and to respond to
ideas necessitates thought; hence,
we are taught to think by studying
literature. To respond to the 'prac-
tical' subject, however, requires no
more than recital -
an action
devoid of thought. The language
used is accurate though
it
implies
no more than what is stated.
Continued on page 11
Mandatory service: Why
America needs it now
by David McCraw
Jan. 27, 1973, was a pretty good
day in my life.
It
was on that day that Melvin
Laird, secretary of defense in the
Nixon administration, announced
that the military draft was officially
ended. The United States, the
secretary proclaimed, was ready to
have an all-volunteer military.
I was 18 at the time, and Laird's
announcement was confirmation
of what I had seen coming for a
long time: I was not going to have
to serve in the Army or go to Viet-
nam or ·otherwise interrupt my
comfy college life -
unless of
course I suddenly got a great big
patriotic urge to do so and ran
down to the local recruiting station.
The chances of that seemed fair-
ly slim.
In those final years before the
draft became history, the govern-
ment had instituted a
-
lottery system
to determine who would be
selected. Each year, they would
dump all the dates of one calendar
year into a fishbowl, then hold a
drawing to determine which
19-year-old males were to be
drafted and in what order. Your
birthday, and the luck of the draw,
determined your fate.
If your birthday came up early
in the drawing, you could start
thinking about what to wear on the
bus ride to basic training. But if
your birthday happened to come
out 365th, or any other spot well
back in the pack, you could pretty
much count on being free and clear
forever. Needless to say, a lot of
beer got consumed on lottery night
.
The lottery had come about after
people
.compJained
about the un-
fairness of the earlier system, in
which people with power and
money and the right connections
found
ways
to sidestep the draft.
Being a fair-minded person, I ap-
plauded the idea of a lottery.
But my biggest applause was sav-
ed for the idea of an all-volunteer
Army. To me -
potential draft
bait that I was - that sounded like
one of the finest ideas to ever pop
into a politician's head. Let those
who had a burning desire to dodge
a few bullets for their country go
to the front of the line.
Now, nearly 14 years later, I'm
happy to see that I was right about
some things. Mandatory service to
one's country
should be meted out
fairly. And, in peacetiine, we
should have a volunteer Army_
But I was wrong about
something very important. I
thought that no American should
be required to serve his or her
country
.
To me, that was the
American way.
I was wrong, and I think now we
should do something about it -
specifically, begin a program of
mandatory national service.
I am not alone on this one.
Among the people supporting some
form of national service are Gary
·
Hart, Bill Bradley and Arizona
Gov. Bruce Babbitt, all of them
potential Democratic candidates
for president. Like it or not, it's an
issue about to be put on America's
agenda.
The specific proposals vary, but
a typical one calls for every
American, sometime between the
ages of 18 and 25, to spend two
years in national service at a
nominal rate of pay. The national
service corps would be a veritable
army, sent into combat against the
problems of the elderly, the poor,
the homeless and the
ill,
both here
and abroad. (Those itching for
some less metaphorical forms of
combat would of course still have
the option of joining the military.)
Is there any doubt that there;s
work to be done? ls
·
there any
doubt that young Americans could
make a major contribution? So
why aren't you jumping on
the
national-service bandwagon,
writing your congressman and
demanding action?
Right, because we're talking
about you -
you and
twb
years
out of your life.
I know the feeling. If you're the
way I was when I was 19, the idea
of giving up two good years is
about as apP,ealing as being stuck
in a broken elevator with Howard
Cosen and a pack of wild dogs. At
19, the only person I really cared
to care about was me.
1 think that sort of self-
absorption is a natural thing,
especially at 19, especially now,
when there's no draft, no war, no
no thriving civil rights movement
to raise the thorny issues of social
responsibility and social justice
concretely in our livFS. But it's not
a good thing -
not for us and not
for the people who need our help.
With each passing year in
Ronald Reagan's America, I'm
struck most by two things: how the
gap between the haves and have-
nots continues to grow and how
few people seem to care. As
Rosalynn Carter once summed up
Mr. Reagan's influence on
America: He's made it
OK
to be
prejudiced.
I'm not going to beat the drum
h~re for brotherhood, although I
wish someone would. Instead, I
believe the real argument for na-
tional service can be stated in the
pragmatic language of the accoun-
tant: We have a debt to pay.
Timothy Noah, writing in the
latest issue
~
of The Washington
Monthly, says of national service:
"Each of us takes so much from
society; and, in so many ways -
from polluting the air to not
devoting enough t~e to our elderly
kin - each of us contributes to the
problems our nation faces. We
need to start
giving
some more
back."
There are people who believe na-
tional service can work as a volun-
tary program. They think young
Americans will join up in droves
all
the
same,
happy to do their part for
their country.
I'd like to believe that, but I have
my doubts, and for very one good
reason: I remember what I was like
at 19. Nice guy, but no picture of
charity.
David McCraw is director of
journalism at Marist.
AIDS: The unknown fear and disease
by Dennis Creagh
For the longest time cancer was
the disease to fear. People became
vegetarians to avoid carcinogens in
meat. Smokers began to quit when
nicotine and tar were found to
cause lung cancer. Almost every
week,
doctors and researchers were
discovering new things that
somehow led to cancer. So many
warnings and discoverie5 were
made,you felt sure the researchers
were going to tell you breathing
caused cancer.
Today, cancer has taken the
sideline seat to the new epidemic of
the world known as AIDS.
Everywhere you go, there is some
news about the new killer disease.
Everyone from teenagers to
senior-citizens is discussing and
arguing about
it.
Even though
medical personnel are not warning
the public to stay away from
everything, AIDS is the number
one fear in the world today. AIDS
has caused more controversy since
the public outbreak of venereal
disease. The publicity and the ig-
norant society have caused more
social problems, created great
misconceptions, and inflicted more
damage than the disease itself.
AIDS,
Acquired Immunodefi-
ciency Syndrome, was an unknown
disease in I 980;
.
In 1986 we now
know what the fatal disease is. It
is a virus called HTL V-111 that
enters the bloodstream and attacks
the main white blood cells, known
as T
-4
lympho
.
cytes.
These T
-4
cells help control the
entire immune system of the body.
The virus hinders the T
-4
cells from
instructing the body to fight against
any
infections.
Many people who
contract AIDS are able to fight off
the virus but among those people
who cannot fight the disease only
a small number come down with
the AIDS disease most commonly
seen today.
The rest of this group, however,
carries the virus and can transmit
it to others. Although the number
of people dying from AIDS is
small, this group is increasing.
What is even more frightening is
the public's fears regarding the
transmission of the disease.
AIDS is a fragile virus. It can-
not survive outside of the body for
a long period of time. For this
reason,
AIDS
cannot be transmit-
ted through casual contact such as
breathing, coughing or sneezing. It
can only be transmitted in two
ways. One is blood to blood and
the other is semen to blood. The
first is most commonly seen in in-
travenous drug users. These users
share the same needle which
transmits the disease directly into
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by Eric Turpin
In a year which saw a number of
musical trends come and go, 1986
was very influential on the pop
music scene. We saw more of the
sounds that are changing the face
of rock. The re-emergence of
techno-pop and the synthesized
disco sounds have once again
found their place in music. New
wave and Heavy Metal developed
strong roots this year from a
number of artists. One thing is for
sure: the music of '86 won't be as
dull as it was in 1980 when Kenny
Rogers and Lionel Richie were bor-
ing us to death. Even though
Lionel Richie
is
still as mundane as
ever, I don't mind listening to
On stage
Campus
notes
TRYING TO "STIMULATE
DISCUSSION"
OF
TER-
RORISM,
U. Wisconsin,LaCrosse
dorm residents staged a ••mock
raid," held staff members hostage
for two and a half hours, "ex-
torted" $50 from them before set-
ting them free, and, in a final
gesture, donated the $50 to the
local Red Cross,.
But recently the Red Cross
chapter said it may return the
money because, Red Cross Chair-
man Tom Zurbriggen explained,
it's "a disservice to have (our)
name linked to terrorism,
regardless of scale or intent.''
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
SAYS
IT WILL GIVE DORM
RESIDENTS
$5 compensation for
each piece of room furniture
delayed at the beginning of the
semester.
In all, the giveback - prompted
by late deliveries by the Thonet In-
dustries
-
could cost NCSU $9,500.
But NCSU, in turn, promises to
withhold that much from its
payments to Thpnet.
.
STUDENTS AT THE
U. OF
ARIZONA WILL GET TO TAKE
"HISTORY OF HELL,"
a look at
"hell's
intellectual
and
philosophical origins in antiquity,
starting around 7 B.C." next
semester
.
BEST
NEW
STUDENT
GROUP OF THE WEEK:
At
Maryland, the student government
funded the 200-member SAINT
(Students Against Intelligent
Nonterrestrials).
SAINT originally asked for $4
billion in funding, mostly to
develop a particle-beam weapon to
fight aliens, plus $4,900 for a
barbeque, but got only"$ I to buy
matches.
This year's finest
Lionel on a station as long as I can
hear New Order, Ozzy Osbourne,
or Janet Jackson on the same sta-
tion. What makes 1986 a signifi-
cant year in my opinion is the fact
that it is the first year where all the
musical trends of the last few years
have come together.
If
we take a look at all the trends
in music over the last few years,
you would find a group for each.
The new dance music has the likes
of Madonna and Nu Shooz. New
Wave music was prevalant in the
form of the Pet Shop Boys and
O.M.D. Heavy Metal was alive and
screaming with Ouy Osbourne and
Bon Jovi. Rhythm and Blues was
as strong as ever with the acts like
Run D.M.C. and newcomer Anita
Baker proving that black music is
C'mon this song had everyone
still as influential as ever.
moving!!!!
Now where does that leave me
Album
of
the Year
on this day. Well I have decided to
"5150" - VAN HALEN
give my thoughts on what the best
Best rock record to come out in
in music was for
I 986. Please note
awhile and getting Sammy Hagar
that these choices are absolutely
to sing was a real plus.
subjective and shouldn't be taken
Runner-up:
any other way. So here we go...
"SO" - PETER GABRIEL
black
on
white
,
This record was too good to
overlook .
.
Male Artist
PETER GABRIEL
He did everything in one album
that Phil Collins still hasn't done
in three.
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Runner-up:
Song of the Year
"SLEDGEHAMMER" -
PETER GAS-RIEL
STEVE WINWOOD
You know, this guy is so talented
that he ~as playing with Eric Clap-
ton when he was 16 years old
.
The
tr.adition continues ...
Female Artist
JANET JACKSON
Sure the album
is
bubblegum and
Janet sounds like her brother, but
the writing team on this record was
great. You have to like her sound.
(She ain't bad looking either)
Group of
the
Year
VAN HALEN
The band really wimped on the
album, but it was great anyway and
it is good to see they look more like
a group now then when Dave was
with the group. Good effort.
Best New Artist and Group
ANITA
'
BAKER
This lady sings so well that you
feel like your whole bOdy is in lim-
bo. Awesome sound.
BRUCE HORNSBY AND
THE RANGE
A scene from the play "Dancing in the end zone" perform-
ed last weekend in the theater. (Photo by Sharon Gardiner)
This group takes fusion to new
heights and what's good about
them is that no one can seem to
label their sound definitively. It's
great when you
can
come out with
sounds to baffle people. RUN
D.M.C.
(tie) You have to like these
guys because they brought rap
music to a level of notoriety
(besides "You Be Illin' " is a great
song)
New Wave/English Pop
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVERS
IN
THE DARK
These guys and their Roxy Music
feel have to be the best thing com-
•
ing out of England these days. Pick
up the new record -
it is great.
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
This group was ihe Arts and Enter-
tainment Editor's pick. She says
you've gotta love the brassy sound
and Roland Gift's droning voice.
Not Bad!!!
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
(Well it aint Cinderella,
or Bon Jovi.)
OZZY OSBOURNE
"Ultimate Sin" has to be one of the
best metal records to come out in
a long time. Ozzy is really one of
the finest and most intelligent
(?)
people in the world of metal.
Hardcore
AGNOSTIC FRONT
These guys just impress me more
and more. Great lyrical content-
they aren't as serious as some hard-
core bands, which can make them
accessible to more than one kind of
music fan.
1986: a good year for rock and
roll. Let's hope that 1987 will con-
,
tinue to bring us some more
.
good
sounds. In predicting some of the
events in the next year, look for
Michael Jackson to make a dent in
music again, b.ut I do believe there
will be a new type of sound that
will permeate airplay. Enjoy and
have a happy holiday season.
this week
Good Luck
by Gina Disanza
As
we head into finals week, there are still a few events around
to help you cope with the pressures of exams.
On-Campus
Christmas
is
in the air at
Marist College, and
if
you've got the
spirit, there are still some things to mark on your calendar.
First, there will be a Social for North End residents in the River
Room tonight, beginning at
9:30 p.m.
.
Tomorrow the Commuter Union will be sponsoring a
Holiday
Tea
at 12:30 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge.
On Saturday, even thf biggest Grioches
will
be out at the
Christmas Dance,
sponsored
by
the CUB. The dance
will
begin
at 10 p.m .. in the Dining Hall and music will be provided by Star
Seach winners ''Jailbait". Tickets are $2.00 per person.
Also
on Saturday night, Marist's traditional
Midnight Mass
will
take place at
12:30
a.m. If you're wondering why that makes no
sense,
it's because at midnight, there will be a half hour of caroll-
ing.
If
you've never been to midnight mass before, or even if you
have, make sure you don't miss out (and have plenty of hot
chocolate for afterwards).
This
week's
CUB
film is
"Gremlins".
It
will be
shown
in
the
Theater on Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at
7
p.m. and 9:30
p.m. Another one of Speilberg's greats, "Gremlins'' will provide
just the right amount of comic relief during the studying grind.
Once again.
on
Tuesday there will be a prayer vigil for Dr.
Kayiira outside of the Chapel at 12:45
p-.m.
Off-Campus
The beauty and wonder of "The Nutcracker" is coming to the
Bardavon 1869 Opera House this weekend. A full length produc-
tion by the Berkshire Ballet Company will be presented on Friday
at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, there
will
be two one-hour mini matinees
for
children at 11 a.m. and
2
p.m. Tickets for the Ftiday show
are
$11, $13 and $15 and the Saturday matinee tickets are $5. For
more information, call 473-2072.
Miscellaneous
The Appalachian Volunteer experience will be from Jan. 4-10,
1987. The cost
is
$35 and if you are interested in attending, con-
tact Sr. Eileen at ext. 275.
The Campus Ministry is collecting simple items such as
toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, combs, etc. to donate to the
homeleiS of
Dutchess
County this Christmas season. The
collec-
tion date is
Dec.
15 in the Personal Development Center and the
Chapel. For more information, contact Sr.
Margaret
at ext. 275.
on
Exams
HAPPY
HOLIDAYS
ID
ENJOY YOUR
BREAK IN
JANUARY
Best Wishes from
Student Government
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The long-distance internship:
.
-
'Training' for real-life success
by Elizabeth Geary
G.
-
Anthony Lippera gets up at
6:00 every weekday morning, takes
the 6:45 train from Poughkeepsie
to New York and begins his day on
the job.
"I hate the traffic, the dirt, the
homeless people and the urine smell
in Grand Central," said Lippera.
"But I really like the city itself."
Lippera, a communication arts
major from Chatham,
N.Y.,
is
one
of several Marist students who
commutes to New York for intern-
ships this semester.
Lippera interns full time at EUE
Studios located on 44th Street,
which is the setting for the taped
"Search For Tomorrow" daytime
drama which airs on NBC televi-
sion every weekday from 12:30 to
1:00.
·
Lippera said the commute is not
as bad as people would think.
"You could live 60 miles closer and
still have the same long commute,"
he said. "Luckily, I don't have to
take the subways."
Eric
Turpin, a senior who is an
intern at WYNY-FM in New York,
enjoys the five minute walk from
Grand Central to the Avenue of the
Americas because one can see so
many different things. Turpin, a
communication arts major from
New York said: "I walked by a
Mid-Eastern embassy and these
two men were fighting. One guy
belted the other guy and five others
)umped in. I walked right on by.
It was a bad scene."
Chuck Gasser, a communication
arts
major from Huntin~on, N.Y.,
ty is something one has to get used
to. "You can't just walk up to so-
meone and say 'hello' like you do
at college," said Turpin. "The next
thing you know, they may blow
you away."
Lippera, whose internship is
worth
15
credits, said the New
York traffic can be a hassle.
"Sometimes they send you on an
errand to go pick up a script on the
West Side and it takes an hour
because you're stuck in lunchtime
traffic most of the time," said
Lippera.
Gasser, who drives the WPLJ
van, agreed. "The traffic
is
sick,"
he said. "I cut everyone off but you
have to drive aggressively to get
where you're g<_>ing in the city."
Lippera said he likes New York
because of the fast pace and the
availability of so many different
Tony Lippera (Photo by
things.
"If
you want to go out in
Mark Marano)
Poughkeepsie on a Tuesday night,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - it probably wouldn't be too busy,"
has an internship at WPLJ-FM in said Lippera. "In New York, even
New York.
Gasser
usually sleeps on on a Sunday night the bars are
the train in the morning and either busy. You can hop on a subway
writes in his intern journal or sits and be somewhere else - in a total-
in the bar car in the evening. "The ly different area with totally dif-
bar car is a pretty social place ex-
ferent people," he said.
cept it's a smoking car and I don't
Most commuter interns said it is
smoke," said Gasser.
a long day forthem. "At first I was
really excited and pumped," said
Gasser, who interns every Mon-
Turpin, whose internship is worth
day and Tuesday, said he would six credits. "But now I fall asleep
not want to commute on a regular at 3:00."
basis. "I sleep very easily on the
Gasser said New York is a nice
train but after talking to people, place to visit but he wouldn't want
everybody is pretty miserable," he to live there. "The bottom line
is
said. "It's like living on a train." that I'd rather have this internship
Turpin, who interns every than taking archery, golf and ten-
Wednesday and Friday, said the
ci-
nis," said Gasser.
Inside one prison cell,
an effort to do some good
by
Len Johnson
An inmate at the Greenhaven
Correctional Facility is helping to
make secondary education a reali-
ty for needy students half a world
away.
htmate James E. Pitt has laun-
ched a campaign from inside the
eastern Dutchess County prison to
send textbooks to students in
Kenya.
Pitt is a senior majoring in
business in the Marist/Greenhaven
program and is the student body
president at the prison located
about 20 miles from the Marist
campus.
As
president he represents
a student body of approximately
170 men.
Working in conjunction with a
friend serving in the Peace Corps
in Kenya, Pitt is soliciting books
from local libraries, high schools
and colleges in an effort to develop
a library system and to provide per-
sonal textbooks for students in the
Harambee Secondary schools
there.
"I feel that this would serve to
upgrade the quality of education
offered to the students of these
schools who are at an educational
disadvantage, he said, "and if the
project is successful, I feel it will
be a good reflection on the
country.''
Because Kenya is a poo~ nation
and has a weak agricultural system,
Pitt said, the ftlture of the country
depends on the knowledege and
skills of the next generation. But
education is scarce, and books are
badly needed, he said.
·
Pitt started his project last spring
by contacting 40 libraries in New
York state. Only eight responded
to his inquiries, he said, and none
of the respondents was willing to
help.
"I believe that (the lack of
response) is a direct result of my be-
ing incarcerated," Pitt said.
"Many people don't believe
prisoners possess the humanness or
conscience to do anything. positive
or worthwhile."
-
However, Pitt has been suc-
cessful in getting donations from
schools. A local high school recent-
ly donated a large number of
·
books. Dutchess Community Col-
lege and Vassar College have also
offered to help, he said.
His initial goal is 10,000
volumes, he said, but he hopes to
expand that goal in the near future.
"I believe if enough interest is
generated it has the potential to
become a major project."
Pitt is now looking to Marist for
help. "I need Marist students to
donate books. I am particularly in-
terested in help from freshmen,
because freshman-level material is
on par with senior-level material in
the secondary schools of Kenya.
Nevertheless, advanced-level books
can be useful for students who are
exceptionally bright, as well as be-
ing good reference materials."
Pitt is also seeking student
volunteers for an organized com-
mittee. Interested students can con-
tact Pitt through The Circle .
.
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So you want to quit smoking? Join crowd
by Elizabeth
Geary
You a
re
in a hospital, walking
dbwn
the
hall towards the room.
You
reach
the room and step in-
side.
There
she sits with two tubes
in her
arm
s and three more in her
breasts
.
She is suffering from lung
cancer
an
d has not had morphine
for six hours
.
She could be you.
This
is
the kind of story a per-
son under hypnotic influence may
be told if he/she is trying to quit
smoking
.
Fifty-two million Americans
smoke and
33 million have quit.
In addition to hypnosis
,
prescription gum, group therapy,
self-help manuals and cold turkey
are other methods that may be us-
ed. None is guaranteed to work.
I
classifieds
I
Florence, Through your support
and caring I will make out O.K. in
all
I
do
.
Mike
Now,
now girls, let's be
nice.
What's this DSB and TSB all
about?
The B.O.M.S.C. is now in action.
Wendybeth, Nicole, Suzanne,
Chris, Melanie, Ginger, Sarah, and
my Benoit friends -
I'll remember
my time with all you forever.
You're all great -
I 'll miss you.
Remember you're a friend in me
always
.
Write to me!
I
love you
guys! Dawn Ellen
Are you into rock music, partying,
dating? Do you want to meet new
people? WELL, DO YOU???
OKAY! Then type Chit. Chat in
To the Girls of Leo 6,
If you need
something to do come up to the
clouds and we'll show you what
heaven is really like. The highest
floor on campus
Plato, Did you remember any new
theorms while you were home on
Vacation? Brewster
WE
NEVER had
31 days marked
on a countdown calendar and still
failed on the 28th day!! Deb
To
M.P.
(the Blonde Babe) of
Champagnat
S,
If only all entry of-
ficers were so incredible. Luv an
admiring fan
Big deal -
so the Tazmanians get
to wear the first place t-shirts - it
will just let the rest of campus
know who the real wimps are!!!!
A poet I'm not But I know words
that rhyme To send birthday wishes
To a good friend of mine. A
coupon 'tis not Nor a page six
review (As KL and
FG made their
wedding debut) So this I felt was
the next best way To wish JB a
happy birthday! SM
•
ISa
Ilene Frankel began smoking
when she was
13. The 21-year-old
senior at Marist has since tried un-
successfully to quit three times.
"I
know that it's bad for me and I
know it's unattractive and that I'm
looked down upon,•• said Frankel,
of New York City.
"I
also know
that I can't quit
.
"
The major reason it's so hard to
quit smoking is that people have
become habituated to nicotine, ac-
cording to Dr. Joseph Canale, a
psychologist who teaches at Marist.
"A lot of people have tried to quit
smoking and have failed; which I
think shows how powerfully addic-
ting it can be," said Canale.
"I'm always trying to quit," said
James Baumann, a freshman from
Madison, N.J., who smokes
10
Marlboro Lights a day.
Hypnotism is the only way to
stop smoking, according to Novle
McKee!,
president of the Empire
State Hypnosis Corporation.
A
hypnotic session lasts for an
hour and 70 to
7S
percent of the
people who attend them quit smok-
ing after the first session, according
to McKee!. It costs
$1S for a per-
son to
be
hypnotized individually
and $35 to be hypnotized with a
group. McKee! says there are never
more than five people in her groups
because there are only five recliners
in her office.
McKee! said people need will
power and motivation to
kick
the
habit for good. She told of one
man who quit smoking for nine
years, only tO""Start again after he
married a woman who smoked. "I
don't think he was aggressive
enough to stop completely," she
said.
Trinita McDermott, a senior
communication arts major, is go-
ing to get hypnotized over
Christmas break. "My mother
wants me to·go and she said she'd
pay, so
I
figured, why not?" said
McDermott.
McDermott quit smoking once
by using the cold turkey method.
She said it's best to completely stop
because if you slowly cut down
then you are teasing yourself. "It
only lasted for a week," said
McDermott
.
"Then
I
went out,
had a beer and had to have a
cigarette. They seem to go hand in
hand -
a beer in this hand and a
cigarette in the other one," McDer-
mott said.
The American Cancer Society
offers a free clinic called Fresh
Start to help people kick the habit.
It
meets two times a week for two
hours and lasts two weeks
.
"The
•
success of an individual depends on
how strongly the individual wants
to quit
,
" said Valerie Horton, pro-
gram assistant. Fresh Start has a
50
to
SS percent success rate
.
The American Lung Association
offers two self
-
help manuals to
help people quit smoking
,
a
vidoetape and workbook process,
along with group clinics
.
The suc-
cess rate of these programs is hard
to determine because it can never
be known if these people
·
quit for
good,
according to Jeannine
Hill,
program administrator of the
Dutchess-Columbia
Branch
American Lung Association of
New York state. "You might quit
with any one of these methods but
then something happens," said
Hill.
"It
might be stress, someone
else smoking or just the feeling,
'l
want to have a cigarette."'
Nicotine chewing gum is
prescribed to people who want to
quit smoking
.
H
has had mixed
results. The outcome seems to de-
pend on motivation and on inten
-
sive follow-up support, according
to the American Lung Association.
Sheila O'Donoghue, a senior
from Rutherford,
N
:
J
.
,
went cold
turkey last year after three years of
smoking. O
'
Donoghue said her
friends acted as her support group
.
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anymore -
from now on send us
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Dear Bombers, Thanks for all the
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come. Love C-6
To Whom it may concern, Merry
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12, 1986 - THE CIRCLE - Page 11
Hudson Valley winemaking is romantic job
by Beth-Kathleen McCauley
It may surprise you to know that
Marist College graduates are not
the only thing the Hudson Valley
is famous for. Viniculture, or wine
making, in upper New York state
produces 8 percent of the wine
made in the United States.
·
According to the New York
Tjmes, wine is commercially made
in 37 states and is sold almost ex-
clusively in the state in which it is
produced. The Hudson Valley,
along with the other wine making
regions in the state, has felt cons-
tant pressure from large California
wineries that hitve money to na-
tionally advertise their products.
Legislation, however, was pass-
ed last year aimed in aiding the
sales and distribution
for
small
wineries in New York state.
For smaller wineries, this system
is more economical then mass
distribution.
The
wineries
themselves do not have to add a
high mark up to the price of the
wine they produce
.
This makes
their products' prices much more
competitive.
llecome familiar with it."
He also stated that last year New
York state wineries, including
Cascade Mountains, broke even, or
in some cases, made money. This
is reflected in the 5.3 percent na-
tional gain in wine sales last year.
This is the first gain over 3 percent
since 1981.
"Wine making is more of a
romantic venture," he said.
"It
certainly is not one of the most pro-
fitable."
Both men said they feel a market
must be created for New York state
wines.
"People don't realize that our
wines are very similar
to
European
wines," said the elder Wetmore.
New York state wines, for the
money, are a much better buy, but
people are afraid to try something
new."
According to Advertising Age
magazine, advertising budgets are
"To generate income, we have
taste tests-, have tours and serve
lunch," said the elder Wetmore.
"Retail sales definitely generate the
most income, but every little bit
helps."
The main problem in competing
with California
\f'lnes,
he said, is
that they are basically very dif-
ferent in composition which makes
it hard to market one wine against
another.
"New York state wines are
sweeter and more fruity then
California wines and also are much
more acidic. California wines are
also heavier. It basically just comes
down to a matter of tastes," said
the younger.
The shorter growing season and
soil in New York also have an ef-
fect on the process, they said.
"Our soil is rr1ore climaiic then
in California. "Too much rain or
a sudden hot or cold spurt can ruin
a whole growing season, whereas in
California it takes a lot more
10
damage the vines," said the elder
Wetmore
.
Looking ahead toward next year,
he said that
1986
was only an
average year for his wines
.
"There was a lot of rain this
season and the sugar content was
not as great as it"s been before.
Last seasmi in comparison was
much better for
m,."
Nationally, 1985 was a bettt:r
vintage
year then the 2 previous.
Ac-cording to Focus magazine,
the weakening U.S. dollar will on-
ly help to make the imports more
expensive, while aiding the coll)-
petition of domestics.
"We'll
just have
10
wait and
see
,
" said the younger Wetmore.
"We have seen a lot of bad times
in this industry that it's time for a
big turn around
.
"
The legislation allows state
wineries to operate five off-
premises retail outlets. These
outlets can sell just the wines they
choose along with wine parapfter-
nalia, such as cork screws and
glasses. They are also sanctioned to
operate on Sundays.
Cascade Mountain Vineyards of
Amenia, in northern Dutchess
County, is one winery that's tak-
ing advantage of the legislation.
Cascade Mountains won more
awards nationally then any other
New York State winery last year
and is currently ranked third out of
225 wineries in New York state,
and 50th east of the Rockies.
Cascade Mountains and 2 other
wineries in the Hudson Valley are
in the planning stages for a retail
store in New York City. Bill Wet-
more, grower and owner of
Cascade, along with his nephew
Charlie
Wetmore,
general
manager, both see the venture as a
strong economic opportunity
.
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"Sure it's a gamble," said the
younger Wetmore, "but we have to
promote
a
wine so that net>l'Jte will
wineries and
.
promotion is generally
limited to consumer taste tests. The
market on a whole lacks organiz-
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.
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Of
this type of language the critic
Lionel Trilling observes, "this is
not the language of abstract
thought or of any kind of thought.
It is the language of non-thoµght.
But
it is the language
'
which we in
our culture have given to abstract
thought. There can be no doubt
whatever that it coristitutes a threat
to the emotions and thus to life
itself."
Indeed we have come a long way
from the idea of complaining in
The Circle to the threat of
life
itself, but such is the exact distance
which separates the ideal of educa-
tion and its reality; but this distance
is not all-together impossible to
traverse. The power lies in the
hands of anyone who wishes to use
it, and
I will not leave the reader
hanging in the void of generalities
as others have t)1oughtlessly done
.
I shall be very specific: sign up for
courses which will not insult your
intelligence; hold the value of ex-
panding your mind over that of
maintaining a superficially good
average, and demand the respect
you deserve by thinking and ex-
pressing these thoughts so that the
instructor will be forced to think as
well, for he will be confronted by
ideas, that spectre of the modern
college campus.
At Oxford this spectre is more
prominent, it is true, but this is
mainly because the expectations of
the students are different. Yet, the
need is the same in all men. lfyou
were mislead into being trained,
not educated, feel relieved that
there is still greater potential where
you are at Marist. This is the real
distance between Marist and Ox-
ford, and as previously stated, I
write not to the masses, but to the
aware, and these are few.
It is a lie that merely "getting in-
volved" will bring the much need-
ed change. Realize first what
Aristotle meant when he said that
the act of thinking is a means unto
its own end.
Roy Carpenter is a Marist junior
studying at Oxford University in
England.
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the bloodstream.
The latter is most commonly
found among homosexual men
who, through anal intercourse,
transmit the disease to one another.
In this case, the semen carrying the
HTLV-111 virus is allowed to enter
the bloodstream through the
mucous membranes which are
damaged and torn by the act of
intercourse.
There are two major risk groups
in which the disease is prominent.
The first is homosexual men who
by intimate sexual contact pass on
the disease. Seventy-five percent of
AIDS victims
fall
into this
category. The other twenty-five
percent make up the remainder
where twenty percent are IV drug
users and of the other five percent,
the majority are hemophiliacs.
At this time, there is no cure for
AIDS but it can be prevented. The
advice of doctors is to avoid con-
tact, specifically intimate sexual
contact with members of a high
risk group. Also, studies have
shown condoms reduce the risk of
spreading the disease. Get to know
your partners well and avoid pro-
miscuous sex. Also, avoid using in-
travenous drugs.
Homophobia, the fear of
homosexuals, has been the biggest
problem facing AIDS. Many peo-
ple have protested homosexual
gatherings and have tormented
members of the gay community. A
survey done here at Marist
discovered that homophobia is
higher than it has ever been. One
student said, "Gays are no longer
expressing themselves freely. Many
gays have been forced back into the
closet."
Another student said, "People
seem to fear gay people more than
the disease itself." The attitude
toward gay men is that they are
spcial outcasts determined to
destroy humanity.
As well, society has over-
dramatized the AIDS epidemic.
The general public believes the
virus can be spread by coughing or
sneezing. The truth of the matter
is that the virus is so minimal and
fragile that it is not a threat
through casual contact.
A
survey taken of Marist
students indicates the fears, ig-
norance, and llliteracy of AIDS
in
society. The most
_
important fin-
ding of this survey is that of the
1800
people given the question-
naire, only 39 people returned it.
The importance of this shows the
ignorance of the student body to
show some concern about such an
important issue. Of the 39
responses, 4 had to be disqualified
for the absurdity of the answers
given. Leaving only 34 to be
tabulated, the following results
were compiled.
1800 -
People surveyed
39 - Responses
4 - Disqualified
23 - Females
12 - Males
I.
Vo
you know what AIDS is?
Yes
No
12
Males
O
Males
20
Females
3Females
2. Are you afraid
of
contracting AIDS?
Yes
9 Males
7 Females
No
3 Males
16
Females
3. Do you think AIDS victims should
be allowed to attend school or continue
working?
Yes
6 Males
16 Females
No
3 Males
6 Females
Unsure
3 Males
I Female
4. Do you think heterosexuals are con-
cerned about contracting AIDS?
Yes
8 Males
16
Females
No
3 Males
7 Females
5.
Do you know what "Safe Sex" is?
Yes
8 Males
15 Females
No
4 Males
8 Females
6. Do
YOll
chink homophobia, the fear
of homosexuals, exists at Marist?
Yes
8 Males
19 Females
No
8 Males
4
Females
7. Do you think homophobia has in-
. creased due to the outbreak of
AIDS?
Yes
11
Males
No.
0
Males
Unsure
I
Male
21
Females
2
I:emales
Given the information above,
one can see the impact AIDS has
had on society_ Various solutions
can be projected from this survey.
Clearly, more programs have to be
scheduled, not only at Marist, but
within the communities for making
the public aware of the facts about
AIDS. As well, present inore infor-
mation on prevention of the disease
without scaring the public.
At the present- time, there is no
cure for AIDS. The medical per-
sonnel are projecting that a vaccine
will be discovered several years
from now. One of the biggest pro-
blems the researchers are facing is
that the HTL V-III virus mutates or
changes. The difficulty is trying to
find a vaccine that will kill all
strains of the virus.
Due to the fact that the AIDS
virus takes over the cells it attacks,
treating the disease is more·com-
plicated. The problem in treatment
is trying to fight the virus without
destroying the cells it has taken
over.
All of the information presented
gives a clear understanding of what
AIDS is, how it is contracted; and
what can be done for AIDS vic-
tims. The goal of those people who
are knowledgeable about AIDS is
to educate the rest of society to
allay the fears of the disease.
Every day studies are taking
place to answer the vast number of
unanswered questions. As the
world is exposed to this new infor-
mation, society's fears should sub-
side.
The day society takes a conscien-
tious stand on AIDS will be the
same day AIDS will no longer be
a fear but sadly, fatal disease along
with cancer and the many other
fatal diseases.
Dennis Creagh is a Marlst
student.
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O n e year later: The effect of the jump
·
to 21
hy Anu Ailawadhi
Area colleges have
t
ightened
their rules governing the serving of
alcohol on campus since the drink-
ing age was raised from 19 to 21 a
year ago. Neighboring colleges
have varied policies for enforcing
the Jaw.
The law states that no person
shall sell, deliver or give away
alcoholic beverages to any person
under the age of 21. It also makes
misrepresenting one's age to buy
alcohol illegal
.
Like Marist, four other schools
-
the State University of New
York at New Paltz, Mount St.
Mary College in Newburgh, Bard
College in Annandale-on-Hudson
and Vassar College in Poughkeep-
sie -
prohibit consumption of
alcohol by minors on campus, but
officials at all four institutions said
they generally do not enter
students' rooms to enforce alcohol
policies.
At Marist, any school official
may enter and inspect rooms
without notice where there is
reasonable assumption of violation
of school policy, as defined on page
64 of the student handbook. Ad-
minstrators at the other schools
said, however, they feel what
students do within their rooms is
their own personal business as long
as it does not violate the rights of
others.
A major concern for colleges is
an institution's liability if anything
should happen to a student as a
result of alcohol consumption.
Currently, the State University at
New Paltz
is
being sued for $11
million by the father of a student
who choked to death on his own
vomit last year.
Frank Freeman, 17, of Spring
Valley died Sept. 27, 1985, after
consuming a quart and a half of
vodka, according to his father.
SUNY policy states that no con-
sumption of alcohol or open con-
tainers
is
allowed in public areas of
the residence halls, according to
David Eaton, dean of student life.
In private rooms students can
possess and consume alcohol free-
ly but no kegs or beer balls are
allowed.
"We concentrate on regulating
(the liquor consumption) outside of
rooms and we provide students
with the appropriate knowledge
regarding alcohol, health and
law," said Eaton.
Jeff Hanrahan, 20, and a resi-
dent assistant in SUNY's Deyo
Hall, said that a student's privacy
is respected by the college. "What
happens behind suite doors or
room doors
is
your own business,"
said Hanrahan. "But since com-
mon areas are public areas, you
can't drink there."
"If
we walk into a student's
room and they are drinking we
can't do anything even if they're
underage because it's a purchase
age law," said the junior from
Mamaroneck,
N.Y. "We don't
know where they got the JiquoF."
Mount St. Mary College pro-
hi bits alcohol in all public
buildings, according to Kim
Fogelson, director of campus
activities.
But, the college takes action on-
ly if officials have cause for enter-
ing a room.
"If
you are noisy and
give an official cause to enter a
room and you're underage with
alcohol, then you can be fined $25
to $75, depending upon offense,"
said Fogelson. "Should it be
;
~ted, than stricter action will be
taken. For example, expulsion
from dorm or social events
.
"
A
new policy instituted this year
provides buses and designated
drivers to off-campus parties spon-
sored by the school, according to
Foge
l
son.
Students who do not sign up for
buses must go in a carpool with a
designated driver. This person must
fill out forms to take responsibili-
ty for driving, but if he should get
drunk, athletic vans are provided
to bring the entire car pool back to
campus. The designated driver is
then fined for breaching the
contract.
Another local college affected by
the ri~ in age is Bard College. One
obvious change is that the coffee
shop no longer serves beer or wine,
according to Sharon Kuriger, assis-
tant dean of students, director of
housing and director of student
activities.
No
kegs
are allowed on campus,
but if one is located, Security is
brought in and the students are
asked to remove it from campus,
according to Barbara Sampson, 21,
a peer counselor.
After a second warning the
discipline can lead to social proba-
tion or loss of housing, according
to Kuriger
.
"We felt the policy change
because now all students drink on
campus whereas before everybody
went down to a local bar," accor-
di
.
ng to Kuriger.
If
a student has a drinking pro-
blem or is drinking in excess, other
students usually inform the peer
counselor, according to Sampson.
"I think our alcohol policy
makes it safer than having peer
counselors police the dorms," said
Sampson. "Students will help their
friends and
if
they were afraid of
what would happen to them then
they wouldn't. I think they would
have been in trouble if they were
too scared to seek help."
Sampson continued by saying:
"I would be worried about the
dorm if we
were
stricter because it
would promote a very tense at-
mosphere. It would be like a cop
in your own house if we had peer
counselors policing the dorms."
Dean of Students, James
Kridler, said that the new law does
not state whether colleges can .allow
their underage students to drink or
not. "Institutions are put in a bad
position because the law doesn't
prohibit people under 21 from
drinking or possessing liquor,'' said
Kridler. "It's a pwchase age law."
Vassar's alcohol policy is similar
to Bard's in that no alcohol con-
sumption is allowed within a dorm
room where minors are present,
but student privacy is enforced
.
The school will take action only
if there is a medical emergency.
"We do not enter student rooms
unless we suspect an emergency,
such as a student passed out, and
we will respond in a medical
fashion not a disciplinary one," ac-
cording to Sheila Gillert, director
of housing.
Gillert emphasized the role of the
students in actively enforcing the
policy themselves. "We haven't
banned alcohol from campus or
kegs,"
said Gillert. "But we do ex-
pect any school organization spon-
soring an alcohgl event to go
through procedure, checking ID's,
providing non-alcoholic beverages
and security."
According tO' Dixie Sheridan,
press secretary, no one makes
rounds in the residence halls. "We
·
don't have people patrolling the
dorms but we expect the students
to obey New York state law," said
Sheridan.
Privacy within student rooms is
enforced by the Vassar communi-
ty. "You can have alcohol in
rooms and houses because what
happens is your business, as long
as it doesn't extend outside," said
Neil Cohen, a 21-year-old senior
from Brooklyn
,
N.Y. "I'm very
happy that the college has a certain
degree of faith in their students to
handie themselves with a certain
degree of responsibility."
Richard Feldman, student body
president, agreed with Cohen and
said,
.
"The college has the attitude
that it's a place to learn and there
is an-education in learning how to
drink and it hopes they make
educated choices."
David Fisher, a 21-year-old
senior from Philadelphia, Pa.
disagreed with Feldman and said:
''The administration
is
acting as
Ii
-
quor enforcement agency to a
much higher degree than a state en-
forcement agency would act on our
campus. Our school has chosen to
enforce the state liquor laws to a
fascist degree."
To promote safe drinking,
Vassar instituted a ticket system at
the
Mug,
their pub, and at other
functions serving alcohol. When a
person enters the ~ug he presents
a blue ID
if
he is of age and then
receives a bracelet or a stamp and
drink tickets. These tickets allow
the purchaser to have only one
drink an llour, according to
Raymon Parker, director of cam-
pus activities.
Besides the Mug, a non-alcoholic
dance club named Aula is located
on campus and is open Thursday
through Saturday nights.
''The aim was to bring a variety
of cultural and social events to the
Vassar community with student
theater, dinner theater and other
functions," said Zachary Kaplan,
student manager of Aula.
Kuriger from Bard College said:
''We neither discourage or en-
courage students to drink but since
it's a purchase age law.we do not
tell people not to drink. I'm sure
there are underage students drink-
ing on campus
.
That happens in
every college."





















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12, 1986 · THE CIRCLE· Page 13
Thomas
ing the remainder of the building.
There are still no concrete plans
for allocation of space in the base-
ment of the Thomas center, but
Cox proposed to the board of
trustees on Nov. 24 to have the
basement house the offices of The
Circle, The Reynard, Mosaic and
studios for
WMCR
and
MCTV.
It
was noted at the meeting that the
college has not designated any
funds for the completion of the
basement.
However, amid speculation of
·
what will actually occupy the space
in the basement, the possibility re-
mains that construction there could
be delayed for one year, according
to administrators.
The official op!!ning of the
Thomas center, which will be at-
tended by Lowell Thomas Jr., son
of the noted broadcaster, has been
scheduled for March 14, according
to administrators.
Student leaders on campus ex-
pressed concern with the college's
decision to hold the opening dur-
ing spring break.
Thomas, who lives in Alaska and
has donated $300,000 to the
building, will be in New York for
that weekend only, according to
administrators.
"Over winter intercession I'm
going to work with Dean Cox to
try
and come up with an idea for an
opening for the students," said
Peter Prucnel, student body presi-
dent. "We want something on
either the Thursday, Friday or
Saturday we get back. It will be in-
formal, but an official opening for
the students."
Vice President for College Ad-
vancement Anthony Cernera said
the college has managed to raise
$2.6 million to fund the building
ccsts of the Thomas center.
Cernera estimates the total cost
of building the Thomas center at $3
million, but would not render an
estimate for the total cost of equip-
ping the building. In the past, the
total cost of the Thomas center has
been estimated at $4.5 million.
President Dennis Murray, in a
press conference with student jour-
nalists in November, said the col-
lege will use ;is much as
$
I million
from its operating budget to meet
the total costs of the building if
needed.
Marist announced in November
that a second television studio
system would be purchased for the
Thomas center and available for
use in March. The new studio, pro-
Continued from page
1
posed
·
by Pierce-Phelps Inc. of
Philadelphia will cost an estimated
$220,000, according to Cernera.
In addition, Carl Gerberich, vice
president for informational ser
-
vices, and Wendy Whiteley, opera,
tions manager, said they are not
certain what level of computer
equipment will be installed for the
January opening of the Thomas
center.
By utilizi1w one new 3274 ter-
minal controller, and by moving
existing equipment in Donnelly
Hall, they hope to have 40 devices
interfacing with the main frame,
said. Whiteley.
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Con_on_ued_fr_om_pa_ge6
unfamiliar with the works of Gore
Vidal, would you dare ask him? I
doubt it, you would just get a smart
remark in return and rem
.
ain
ignorant.
I would not degrade myself by
trying to puf down our professors
since on the whole, they are ex-
cellent teachers and worthy of
much respect. It's too bad that
Prof. Stridsberg didn't have the
wisdom to give us the respect we
deserve. I'm not trying to say we
are perfect, wonderful students and
Prof. Stridsberg is
an
idiot, because
that idea is ludicrous. He raised
many interesting points in his
editorial, but some I can't even
dignify with a response.
We had a discussion in my
philosophy class about what would
happen if a student went around
and questioned all the professors at
Marist and asked them what they
knew. That is just what Socrates
did in Athens. He walked around
the city asking all those who pro-
fessed knowledge just what they
knew. Many were quite insulted, as
would be some professors. They
claim wisdom and knowledge yet,
as Socrates discovered, many of
them really didn't know
a wttote
lot. They belreved that they knew
everything and therefore stopped
questioning things.
Socrates said that
if
you think
you know everything you are not
open to new ideas. By questioning
we show that we do want to know.
We are saying "We are ignorant,
please teach us." Only he/she who
questions truly knows. Socrates
learned that he didn't know
everything. He freely admitted it.
Some of us try to question but we
are slammed into silence by an ig-
norant professor. How can we
learn without questioning? Yet how
can we question when we are often
affronted? I think that many pro-
fessors should reread Socrates but
in a new light with a different
perspective. They might realize that
they are not "gods" of their fields
of knowledge
.
They need to come
down to our level, basic human ex-
istence. We don't strive for
mediocrity, but if you won't help
us when we need it, how can we
achieve anything but?
Now, I'm not here to place
blame on any one group as Prof.
Stridsberg did. I just feel, as I know
·
many of my colleagues do, that he
is
very wrong in what he said.
Maybe if the students and faculty
worked together on subjects, more
could be accomplished. Unfor-
tunately, though, with articles like
his, it only serves to push us far-
ther apart.
Wonderful college
To the Editor:
Since Convocation Day, l have
listened to both students and facul-
ty express their opinions on the
quality of Marist students. I am a
full-time adult student at Marist
and I feel that I have a unique
perspective on this matter.
I entered Marist College ·in the
fall Qf 1985. I spent much of the
first semester that year in constant
fear. I am twenty years older than
most of
the Marist students and
older than many faculty members
as well. The one thing which kept
me from leaving Marist was the
support I received from the facul-
ty and students.
Yes,
the students.
Those much maligned, supposed-
ly unproductive, uncaring Marist
students. I was made to feel
welcome here. I was invited for
coffee, asked for advice, and made
to feel as though I, too, was a part
of Marist.
College years are trying years.
Caught between the pain of youth
and the promises of adulthood,
many students become lost along
the way. The escape offered by
drugs and alcohol attracts as many
young people of this generation as
it did 20 years ago when my peers
entered college. Constantly remind-
ed that the "real world" awaits,
students rebel. This world of
Marist is a real world. It is here that
students prepare for the life ahead.
College student.s aren't supposed to
be adults when they enter; it is
hoped that they will be when they
leave.
I've observed the students here
fot some
time now and
find
them
to be no worse than any young ·peo-
ple I've known, and quite a lot bet-
ter than some
I've
had experience
with. This is not to say that obnox-
ious, lazy, selfish students are not
around, but then, those people ex-
ist everywhere.
I would like to say to the Marist
sttfdents, "Thank you." You make
my classes rewarding and my life
richer. Life is what you make it,
and most of
,
you are making it
meaningful for me. I learn from
you, as I hope you do from me.
Anyone who says there is no diver-
sity of opinion here hasn't talked
to you. I find interesting people at
all levels; Marist students are no
exception.
For those students who feel un-
fulfilled at Marist, I would advise
that they talk to the faculty. The
Marist faculty is responsive and
receptive to students and they care.
Special projects are available for
extra cfedit, or just for the
experience.
Life is, after all, what you make
it. Each of us is responsible for
what we are and what we will
become. The only way to find out
if you are capable of doing
something is to try it. So, have fun
and try it all. Life really is wonder-
ful, and so is Marist.
Carmen M. Lyon
Foreign study
To the Editor:
Elizabeth Geary's article "Marist
-
through eyes of foreign
students" certainly struck a cord.
Being a foreigner myself, I can em-
pathize with the foreign students at
Marist.
You cannot comprehend cultural
differences until you are subjected
to them.
1
now know what foreign
students at Marist go through. I
give them so much credit
beca¥M
their st;ty is four years, as c ~
jared
to mine which isn't
evd<•·
full year. The adage about not ap-
preciating what you have until you
are separated from it is so true -
and it is a shame.
But perhaps it is in retrospect
that we can truly appreciate what
once was. Being away ha,s given me
the opportunity to view things from
a different perspective. It is as if I
have stepped out of me and
everything I know -
enabling me
to see things differently and to
discern what is really important.
Living in a foreign country has
forced me to reevaluate many of
the ideas and notions
I had
previously held. I knew the year
would provide me with a source of
self-knowledge that I would not
have been able to find otherwise -
but I didn't think it would happen
so fast. I know that you feel only
what you allow yourself to feel, so
you have to take your chances and
make the most of your life.
Nobody else is going to do it for
you.
•
Admittedly, there are many
times when I need to remind myself
that I have been afforded a terrific
opportunity, and I often berate
!!1.l
.
s~(.{.C?I nos~l~ax_s,
~~!.1&
total-
ly happy. Efut 1t is tfie senes
of
ups
and downs which constitute the
whole experience. l suppose I had
envisioned spanning the globe and
setting Europe on its ear -
but it
is the reality of everyday events and
special times that helps us to see
what life is really about.
~
Last week was Thanksgiving,
which really doesn't mean too
much to the British, but never-
theless I have a great deal to be
thankful for. Although I am
separated from those I love,
perhaps especially because l am
separated, I have come to realize
that they mean the world to me. I
also realize that it is in living that
we learn -
and I am just beginn-
ing to learn.
Eileen Reese
Faith in students
To the Editor:
.
I would like to respond to Albert
Stridsberg's article published in the
Nov. 6 issue of The Circle, which
stated how Marist students are so
mediocre. First, why is a professor
such as Mr. Stridsberg, who has
such little faith in his students and
the school for which he works,
working here? How can he possibly
encourage his students to reach
their academic goals? I strongly
believe that I am speaking on
behalf of many students here at
Marist who read the past article.
As a response to why she didn't
speak out in class with questions to
the teacher, one freshman said:
"I'm totally intimidated by my
teachers. One time, I asked my
teacher a question, and he rudely
spurted out 'What, are you
stupid?' " This is not uncommon
among students here. We should
not have to feel intimidated at all,
but that just isn't the reality here
at Marist. Each individual should
be given a new, unbiased chance
from their professors.
Students realize that
the,majori-
WIH the material for
eact.daS8 is
self-taught, which must be done
outside of class. Yet professors
should set aside a realistic amount
of time to answer any questions the
students may have.
I
personally resent comments
made which state that we are
mediocre, predictable, and above
all, "so homogeneous." there are
many different kinds of people
here, from many different places
.
Myself, coming from quite
.
far
away,
I
see new trends, dialects,
ideas, or beliefs. Many students un-
fortunately don't feel free to ex-
press their feelings as well as
possibly someone from Mr.
Stridsberg's generation did. Well,
let me inform one who finds it so
easy to go off and speak national-
ly about us, the Marist students.
Mr. Stridsberg mentions in his ar-
ticle that he obtains his information
from one class from which he then
draws a stereotype. But, the times
are changing, and it is not possible
for one professor to get such
general information from one
class. Were these reliable students,
who disrespectfully debased educa-
tion, approached at the lively hour
orabom-~p.m:,
-or
most'iike-
ly, the unbearable
8:15,
which the
students attend usually still half
asleep and irritated, to say the least.
True is the fact that peer pressure
is a large problem here, but by no
means should it be assumed we are
all what Mr. Stridsberg may say
'weak.' In today's society there are
so many criticisms to youth. Lt's
quite evident in the rapid increase
in the suicide rate. Don't we hear
more than enough of our faults?
It's about time youth were com-
mended for the good they
do.
Teachers
should encourage
students in obtaining their goals,
but through compliments after
their hard work, not criticism and
nitpicking.
Heidi Bacher
Computer thanks
To the Editor:
Often there is cqnfusion about
what the people in the Computer
Center do, or why we perform
backups every night. This past holi-
day weekend, we e~perienced
a
ma-
jor hardware problem with one of
our disk drives, and lost
all
data on
that set of disks. While most of us
spent Thanksgiving weekend with
family and friends, several com-
puter center staff members spent
'most of their holiday time at Marist
·
working with IBM
to
correct the
problem ana restore the disks. Next
time you see Wendy Whitely,
Karen
Flowers,
Martha
Mcconaghy, Donna Guilbault,
Frank Bellacicco, or Chris
DeRobertis in the hall, thank them,
for because of their diligent work,
very little work was lost; giving us
som'ething else. to be thankful for
at this time of the year.
Paula Wolf Trimble
Homeless
To the Editor:
With the winter season already
upon us, 1ife will become more dif-
ficult for the many homeless peo-
ple of ~utchess County.
Campus Ministry is sponsoring
a Survival Kit collection to assist
Gannett House, a temporary
shelter for the homeless located in
Poughkeepsie. We ask the Marist
communit.y to donate one, or a
few, small personal items (soap,
shampoo, Q-tips, band-aids, etc.)
to help Gannett House administer
to the needs of the area's homeless.
Boxes are currently located in
Byrne House and in the chapel, and
items can placed in these boxes
anytime during the day. Donated
items will be collected and remov-
ed on Monday, December 15.
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THE CIRCLE-
December 12, 1986
New NCAA academic rules stir controversy
by Paul Kelly
2.0, 15
and 700.
These numbers are now impor-
tant to
every
NCAA Division One
basketball coach attempting to lure
top
high school players to his
school
for a free four-year stay.
And they are not basketball
statistics.
Bylaw 5-1-(j), better known as
Pr
_
oposition
48,
was
passed
Jan.
11,
1983, at the NCAA annual conven-
tion.
It
stated high school seniors
must obtain minimum college
board scores and grades
to
gain
eligibility their
freshman
year in
Division One competition.
The enactment of this rule has
commenced
a stormy controversy
between coaches, who feel the
bylaw is unfair, and educators,
who believe Proposition 48 is a
landmark ruling preventing educa-
tional abuses of athletes.
Prospective freshmen rec~its
leers hit skids;
drop 3 straight
by Ken Foye
The Marist College ice hockey
team has hit thin ice.
After defeating Fordham
University
Nov. 22, the team drop-
ped
its
last three games of the 1986
portion of its schedule, losing to
County College of Morris,
Southern Connecticut State and
Manhattan College.
The Red Foxes
will
have a month
and a half to lick their wounds
before
their
next game on W ednes-
day, Jan.
28, at the Mid-Hudson
Civic Center
against SUNY
Maritime.
Faceoff is set
for 9:30
p.m.
Saturday's
loss
to
Manhattan
dropped the
Red
Foxes'
Metro
Conference
record
to 2-7.
The losses
to CCM and Southern
Connecticut
equalled each other as
the
worst
defeats ever handed to a
Marist hockey team. The Red
Foxes lost each game 15-0. Marist
was then thrashed at home by a
10-3 count at the hands of a strong
Manhattan team.
Penalties dragged the Foxes
down
against
Manhattan, as seven
of the Jaspers' ten goals came on
power plays. Marist was whistled
down for more than 80 minutes in
penalties, including two miscon-
ducts, three five-minute majors and
a game
ejection
issued to freshman
Brian
Young.
Rob Goyda, Jon Blake and John
Reinhart scored goals to lead a Red
Fox attack that produced only 28
shots on goal. Marist goaltender
Greg Whitehead, on the other
hand, was subjected to 58 Manhat-
tan shots. The junior netminder
played all 60 minutes of the
Manhattan massacre, performing
well despite the score by making 48
saves.
Swim---
Continued from page 15
At the
Iona
meet, personal
records fell to
seniors
Fred
Dever
and
Rob Stenhouse.
Dever
placed
second in the
1000-meter
freestyle event
in
a time
of 11:11.80
and Stenhouse's
2:29. 70 in the
200-meter backstroke
was good for
fourth
place.
Marist's sole victory
came
in
the
400-meter
freestyle
relay.
In the
one-meter diving
event,
senior Larry Canonico
and
freshman Todd
Prentice took
se-
cond and third, respectively.
Mov-
ing to the
three-meter boards,
Prentice
finished second and
Canonico
placed third.
Freshman
Mike Petronko, in his
first
year
of competitive swimming,
established personal records while
scoring
in the 50-and 100-meter
freestyle events.
must score at least 700 on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test or 15 on
the American College Test to be
eligible. In addition, a grade point
average of 2.0 (on a scale of 4.0)
has to be achieved in a core cur-
riculum of at least 11 courses in the
areas of English, math, social
science and natural oi physical
science.
Players declared ineligible have
three options to choose from when
confronting their initial year at col-
lege. Incoming freshmen may ac-
cept a scholarship and forego play-
ing
and have three years of athletic
eligibility remaining.
Or, players may pay their way
for the first year and sit out from
basketball actiVI1y. They would
maintain four more years of
eligibility.
The final option to ineligible
freshmen is to transfer to a Divi-
sion Two or
Three,
NAIA
or junior
college, where Proposition
48
has
no effect.
The rule, which went into effect
Aug.
I,
1986, received little opposi-
tion from educators. They pointed
to such examples as Creighton's
Kevin Ross -
who enrolled in a
seventh grade class to learn to read
and write after his college basket-
ball career -
as abuses of educa-
tion that could be alleviated by
Proposition 48.
However, coaches, even those
who head teams at schools not of-
fering scholarships, had dissenting
opinions.
"It
enhances the hypocrisy of the
NCAA," said Brown University
Head Coach
Mike Cingiser in a
telephone interview. "Schools are
using their athletes as profes-
sionals.
lf they're professionals,
what difference do college board
scores make? It's a sham."
The average SAT score of ap-
plicants to Brown is 1,320, accor-
ding to Cingiser.
Many coaches said they were
un-
sure if Proposition 48 was the solu-
tion to solving the balance between
academics and athletics on the col-
legiirte level. "In theory, its a good
rule," said Marist Head Coach
Dave Magarity. "But
I'm
not sure
if they gave it enough time. They
(the NCAA) gave kids in 10th
grade in 1983 only a year or two to
improve."
When Proposition 48 was pass-
ed in 1983, most coaches applaud-
ed the clause requiring a minimum
grade point average in a college
prep curriculum. "We need to put
a burden on the students," said
Jeff Bower, Marist assistant coach.
"A year out is a great motivation
to compete in the classroom."
However, the controversy sur-
rounc;ling Proposition 48 began
when minimums were established
for SAT or ACT scores.
A consensus of coaches inter-
viewed nationwide indicated the
SAT is not an indicator of a stu-
dent's prowess in the classroom
and said a student's eligibility
should not
be
determined by one
standardized test.
"That's a $50,000 bill hanging
over that kid's head the day he
takes the test -
that's pressure,"
said Wagner Head Coach Neil
Kennett in a telephone interview.
Wagner, a Marist ECAC Metro
Conference foe, lost two players to
Proposition 48 this year, including
Parnell Woods from Rondout
Valley High School near Kingston.
Cries of cultural bias inherent in
the SAT have abounded since Pro-
position 48's inception. Many
coaches felt the SAT or ACT was
not designed with diverse
backgrounds in mind.
"The test
-
is clearly culturally
biased," said Cingiser. Kennett
said the SAT is biased toward
students in upper-middle class sur-
roundings, traditionally not a hotb-
ed of basketball recruits.
Statistics have not yet been
finalized, but initial reports state
nearly
90
percent of non-eligible
freshmen this year are blacks from
the deep South or urban
areas.
The
fact Proposition 48 was written by
an all-white group of college
presidents has intensified cries of
racism,
particularly
from
predominantly-black institutions.
Recent statistics show the na-
tional SAT average score for whites
is 940, and the median score for
blacks is 722.
The anticipated influx of
talented ineligible Division One
players to the junior college ranks
due to Proposition 48 has never
materialized. "There was no
significant impact this year," said
Dr. Dean Evans, athletic director
at San Jacinto College in a
telephone interview.
San
Jacinto,
located in
Pasadena, Texas, was the No. 1
junior college basketball team in
the nation last year. "The really
good players will filter down, and
we think they're better off playing,
and that's what we
try
to sell to
them," said Evans.
Magarity indicated a solution to
the dilemma of education of priz-
ed student-athletes may be the re-
institution of freshmen ineligibili-
ty. Until the mid-1970s, players
were forced to sit out their first
year.
"I wish they had thought about
that instead of the stupid three-
point rule," said Magarity.
"It's
something that will help the kids."
Closing Procedures for Resident Students
The College Residence Areas will close..on Friday, December 19, 1986 at 6:00-p.m. The last meal
served on Friday will be lunch.
After your last final e~am, your room must be cleaned, inspected by your RA/UC and vacated
immediately there
.
~fter. (Please
take
a\1 gar~age and trash bags outside to the dumpsters.) Students
who have an evemng exam must leave their area no later than
11;,0QJR.:m.
See your RA/UC for
local instructions. Remember
1-
any student who requested a room changt
.
for the Spring Semester
or is withdrawing at the encfofthe Fall Semester, must clear th~ir toom
'
~mpletely!
Those students
who rented a college refrigerato.r
.and
are transferring, withqrawing,
<ft
participating in an intern-
ship, must return the cleaned aad<jeftosted refrigerator to th~ flpusing
.
Office by Friday, December
12, 1986. Otherwise, refrigerator$ Jn~y be left in your room.
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The College assumes no liability.for lost, stolen or datllaged items
.
left in students rooms. Be sure
to take all valuables home with you. If you are interestedJn
off
campus storage service, please
drop by the Housing Office
(b
deta·1~.
Thet,twill
be a
-char-~e
for this service.
Fine and/or loss of priority po:ints
Will
be
.
assessed
·
to:
•
any student who fails to clean and vacate
their r?om as requ~st~d. A~y urlauthorize~
·
arly r~tUrf! tdtli~!rsidence a':"eas in Januarr will also
result m loss of pnonty pomts.
}1ep_iember,
otp.er factors wn1~h may affect your housmg status
for the Spring 1_98? ~emester even
.if
you h~ye
,
be,ep. assigned a room are:
1) D1sc1plinary Recorl
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2) Academic Standing
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3) Unauthorized early ~rrwal
in
Januafy
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Students who have registered for classes
an(iillaVe
been denied a
toom
f9i:-t.lt~ Spring 1987 Semester
will be notified by mail at
their pe~m
.
an~n,t
"nlaiJiilg address
by
,
Janyary
l6,
1987.
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Housekeeping Services will be
cleaning tbe
Public
·
Areas
(bathrooms
and lounges) of Leo, Marian,
Sheahan, Champagnat, Benoit
and Gregory
Hall). they
Wjll also be cleaning the public areas (liv.:
ing room, dining room, kitchen, an(i
bathroom(s.)
·
of the Townhouses and Gartland Commons
Apts. Students living in thes ~partments shou,Id
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remove
,
all
valuables from the common areas
either by taking them home or locking
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them in their bedrooms.,
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~parture Procedures
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Your RA/UC must inspect your room ,and file a Room Inspection Form with the Resident Direc-
tor. Students must make an appointment with their
_
RA/QGto bave their room inspected before
leaving. When departing, you must secure the room (lights
off~
ele¢tocal plugs disconnected, cur-
tains drawn, windows §ecured.f
,
and refrigerators defrosted at1;d cleaned). Only those students who
are not returning to College Hcl'using 'for the Spr1ng
1-987
Se~~ster MUST return their room key
to their RA/UC upon cp-eck'out ~!ud~nts.
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whod~
rto.t
returntl\eir key will be billed accordingly.
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ediiesday, January 21st at noon.
The first meal served will be dinner on Wednesday l /21. The first scheduled class of the Spring
Semester is Thursday, January 22nd at 8:15 a.m.
On behalf of all the staff we wish you a safe, enjoyable, and Happy Holiday Season and offer
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12, 1986 - THE CIRCLE - Page 15
by Paul Kelly
The dimensions of McCann are
perkct for it.
Seating capacity is a cozy 3,200.
The seats are just a scant eight to
10 feet from the floor. When noise
is made, it reverbates off of the
wooden walls and metal ceiling like
your little brother screaming in an
empty room.
Plain and simple, we have the
makings of a pit, a mad house dur-
ing hoop season. The joint could
be jumpin', the house could be
rockin'
,
as they say.
But it's not.
The question that has to be ask-
Women swim
and men sink
in competition
by Annie Breslin
The Marist men's and women's
swim teams finished at the opposite
ends of the win-loss column in
competition last week
.
The women's team took third
place in last Saturday's Stony
Brook Cup and thrashed host Iona
I 14-65 on Dec. 3
.
They will host
Hunter College tonight at 7 p.m.
in the McCann Center pool.
Against Iona on Dec. 3, themen
were not as fo
rt
una
te,
losing
137-68.
The men's team visited William
Patterson College on Tuesday.
Results were unavailable at press
time. The squad will travel to Long
Island Saturday to face SUNY
Stony Brook.
In the Stony Brook Cup, the
women were paced by the first
place finishes of Deb Aierstok, Deb
Noyes and Lisa Burgbacher.
In a field of 16 teams, they
finished third with 289 point
s
behind Trenton State ( 400) aria
SUNY Stony Brook as predicted by
coach Jim Billesimo
.
Aierstok was an unsurprising
winner in the SO-meter freestyle
event, finishing in
26. 13.
Noyes captured the 1,000-meter
freestyle in 12:16.13. Marist's third
win came from
Burgbacher,
who emerged the victor of the one-
meter optional dive.
Women's Coach Jim Billesimo
took advantage of a consistently
weak Iona squad to give the Red
Foxes a little variety.
Because Iona lacks a strong
team, the women swam events they
normally do not. "This allowed
them to be fresher for the Stony
Brook Cup," Billesimo said.
Continued on page 14
MEN'S SWIMMING
&
DIVING
Montclair 119, Marist 97
(11/15/86)
400
medley relay -
1, MONT,
3:54.4
.
2, MAR, (Levie, Barrett,
Oliveto, Petronko), 3:59.1. 4,
MAR, (Schaefer, Edmonds, Masi,
Stenhouse), 4:12.2.
1000 freestyle -
1,
Pecoraro,
MONT, 10:51.7. 2, Barrett, MAR,
11:38.1. 4, Chludzinski, MAR,
11:42.4.
200 freestyle -
1,
Eaglesham,
MONT
,
1 :56.1. 4, Edmonds,
MAR, 2:04.6. 5, Schaefer, MAR,
2:09.6. 6, Stenhouse, MAR, 2:10.9.
50 freestyle -
1, Taylor,
MONT, 23.6. 2, Levie, MAR,
24.2. 4, Petronko, MAR, 24.9. 5,
Favata, MAR, 28.11.
200 individual medley -
1,
Ansbro, MONT, 2:15.2. 3, Dever,
MAR,
2:16.6.
5, Andreasen,
MAR,
2:17.2.
I-meter diving -
1,
Canonico,
MAR,
166.75. 2, Prentice, MAR,
124.15. 3, Stickel, MAR, 112.95.
200 butterfly-], Dever, MAR,
2:10.S. 3, Oliveto, MAR, 2:15.7. 4,
Masi, MAR,
2:20.1.
400
freestyle relay -
1, MAR,
(Andreasen,
Masi,
Oliveto, Chlud-
zinski), 3:35.9. 3, MAR, (Taylor,
Get
off your
hands
and watch them go
.
Place a "fan"
in Magarity's shoes and
w
atch the
team compete for the
cellar
of the
ECAC Metro.
ed is, "Why not?" Why is it that
with 19 seconds left in last Satur-
day's 65-64 heart-stopper over
Lafayette that junior point guard
Dr~fton Davis, probably the most
enthusiastic of the Red Foxes, had
to wave his arms upwardly to per-
suade the crowd to get its hands out
from under its rear ends and stand
up and howl?
Why is it, with the Poughkeep-
.
sie annex of the United Nations
building (Smits, Pecarski and
Bourgarel) missing, that the locals
who come to McCann every game
still do not get behind this team -
a team now more than ever in need
of support?
Going up
Favata, Chon, Cole), 4:33.4.
100 freestyle -
1, Taylor,
MONT, 52.1. 4 Petronko 55.6. 5
'
'
,
Favata, MAR, 1:04.2. 6, Taylor,
MAR,
1:05.9.
200 backstroke -
1, Ansbro,
MONT, 2:16.8. 3, Levie, MAR,
2:20.7. 4, Schaefer, MAR, 2:24.4.
6, Stenhouse, MAR, 2:34.7.
500 freestyle -
l,
Eaglesham,
MONT, 5:16.5. 2, Chludzinski,
MAR, 5:27.9.
3,
Dever, MAR,
5:35.9.
S, Andreasen, MAR,
6:00.5.
1-meter diving (optional) -
l,
Canonico, MAR,
244.20.
2,
Pren-
tice, MAR, 191.25. 4, Mellor,
MAR, 138.30.
200 breaststroke -
1, Barrett,
MAR,
2:27 .S. 5, Edmonds, MAR,
2:37.2.
WOMEN'S
SWIMMING
&
DIVING
Stony Brook Cup at
SUNY Stony Brook (12/6/86)
I-Trenton State 400; 2-SUNY
Stony Brook 364; 3-Marist 289;
4-Seton Hall 260; 5-Mount St. Vin•
cent 164; 6-New Rochelle 0.- In-
dividual results not available at
press time.
MEN'S
BASKETBALL
Joe Lapchick Tournament at
Admittedly, the students this
year have done a good job in the
"zoo." They have been loud,
boisterous and full of support.
However, the locals, the
"townies," the average Joes who
shell out
$5
for a seat, have been
thursday
morning
quarterback
pathetic, absolutely pathetic, in
their vocal support for the team.
Saying you are a true Marist
Sophomore center Peter
Krasovec
goes
up
for
two.(Photo by Pete Daly)
scoreboard
St. John's (11/28-29/86)
Youngstown State 56, Marist 52
(11/28/86)
Sduthern 89, Marist
82
(11/29/86)
SOUTHERN(89)
Florent 6-10
6-8 18, Washington 1
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2
0-0
z;
Pollard 5-11 7-8 17, A. Johnson 2-5
1-1
5,
D. Johnson 12-20 4-5 33,
Faulkner 7-9 0-1 14, Williams 0-0
0-0 0. Totals 33-57 18-23 89.
MARIST(82)
Murphy 0-1 0-0 0,
Shamley 3-13 0-0 6, Krasovec 9-13
8-9 28, Davis 3-7 0-0 6, Mccants
ll-17 1-4 26, Sharpenter 3-11 1-1
7, Green 3-6 1-1 7, McClung 1-4 0-0
2, McFadden 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
33-72 11-15 82.
Three-point goals - D. Johnson
5,
Mccants
3,
Krasovec 2.
Halftime - Southern 43, Marist
34. Fouled out -
Florent,
Shamley.
Rebounds
Marist
42
(Sharpenter 10), Southern 29
(Faulkner 8)
.
Assists -
Southern 14 (A.
Johnson 10), Marist 10 (Davis 4).
Total Fouls -
Marist 19,
Southern 16. A-6,008. Marist 0-2.
Peosi-Marist Classic at
basketball fan does not end with
putting down 50 bucks to join the
Red Fox Club and rubbing elbows
with pals while drinking a Scotch
on the rocks in the Red Fox Den.
It also includes a Jittle vocal sup-
port, positive vocal support, for the
team.
One other disgusting aspect of
Mccann crowds is its constant
questioning of Head Coach Dave
Magarity
.
Ask Magarity, and he
will probably say fan abuse is part
of the game. But abuse from your
own fans, many who sit a free
throw's length from the bench?
Players are not mechanical dolls.
You simply do not wind them up
Come on, locals, you
ar
e paying
money to see Division One basket
-
ball. A team that made t
h
e NCAA
Tournament last year
is
even in-
volved in the package
.
The money you pay entitles you
to get a little excited. Clap your
hands, stomp your feet, scream a
little. Go for it-I don't think you
will
be excommunicated from the
church or lose your job.
Oh, and don't worry, no NCAA
rules
will
be
violated in the process.
It's good, clean ma
y
hem at
Mccann
.
Marist
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rowers have
tough time
in Philly
but
exit above
water
by Paul Kelly
Statistics are not always an ac-
curate indication of athletic suc-
cess. Just ask the Marist College
men's and women's crews
.
Men's and women's crew travel-
ed Nov. 22 to the annual
Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta and
looking at the final stat sheet, seven
of the nine Marist crews appeared
to have a poor showing
.
However, Frostbite is not your
normal regatta
.
The limited schedule of races
held at the annual event on the
1,500-meter Schuylkill River course
caused many of the Marist boats to
row in races against heavier or
more-experienced opponents, said
Head Coach Larry Davis. Davis
also indicated the regatta lived up
to its name this year and Mother
Nature wreaked havoc on water
conditions
.
"Everytime we go there,
something strange happens," said
Davis. "The conditions were
changing, and the current was very
fast. It was more or less what the
Frostbite Regatta was billed up to
be -
cold."
Three freshman boats competed.
The men's freshman novice eight-
seat boat
placed
23rd out of 33
boats in a headstyle race, and two
women's frosh novice eights finish-
ed 21st and 26th, respectively, out
of 32 crews.
Two examples of a typical
Frostbite race scenario were pro-
vided when the Marist men's junior
McCan~ Rec. Center (12/5-6/86)
Marist 85, Maryland Eastern
Sb
S4
12/
ore
(
S/86)
Manst 65,
Lafayette 64 (12/6/86)
LAFAYETIE(64)
Lewis 1-6 0-0
2, Ellis 6-14
5-5
17, Roberts 2-2 2-2
6, Jerome 0-0
0-0
0, Reynolds 6-9
0-015, Davis0-00-00, Hughes l'-1
6-7 8, Wescoe 5-7 2-3 16, Soto
0-0
0-0 0. Totals 21-39 15-17 64.
MARIST(65)
Shamley 5-8 0-0 10,
Murphy 1-2 1-2 3, Krasovec 3-5 1-1
7, Davis 5-6 2-4
13,
Mccants 5-10
4-7 15, Sharpenter 1-3 0-0 2, Green
6-13 2-2 15. Totals 26-47 J.0-16 65.
Three-point goals -
Wescoe 4,
Reynolds 3, Davis, Green,
McCants.
Halftime -
Lafayette 35, Marist
27. Fouled out -
None.
Rebounds -
Marist 25 (Davis,
Krasovec, Shamley
6),
Lafayette 17
(Ellis
6).
Assists
Lafayette
13
(Reynolds 4), Marist 12 (Davis 8).
Total Fouls -
Marist 17,
Lafayette 14
.
A -
2,206. Marist
2-2.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Central Connecticut State 67,
Marist 49 (12/2/86)
MARIST(49)
Aeillo 1-7 2-4 4,
Je
.
O'Neil 9-21 2-2 20, Ja.O'Neil
varsity eight had to row against
varsity competition, and the men's
novice four was forced to compete
in the junior varsity four. The
junior varsity eight placed third of
four boats,"and the noviG(! four was
last in a four-boat event.
"When your racing above your
beads, it makes it tough," said
Davis. "It's like putting a
lightweight boxer against a
heavyweight boxer. It's not quite as
diverse,
but
it's
similar.
Heavyweights
have
more
horsepower.''
Two exceptions to the low posi-
tions occupied by Marist boats at
the finish line were provided by the
men's varsity lightweight eight and
the women in the college four
event.
The women's college four,
despite being lined up on the wrong
side of a bridge abutment at the
start, rallied to finish second, two
seconds behind the University of
Rochester. "We could have won
that race if we had got a decent
lineup," said Davis.
"If
they
(starters) get confused, somebody
gets the short end of the stick."
The highlight of Marist's day
was offered by the men's varsity
lightweight eight, who defeated
four other boats en route to a first-
place finishing time of 4:22.6.
"Our time put us well in company
with other crews," said
Davis.
·Davis said he was pleased with
the performance of both squads.
"Given the mixed bag of where we
could enter, I think most crews
rowed a solid race," said Davis.
0-0 0-0 0, Michel 2-14 0-0 4, Gray
4-13 1-2 9 Trevisani 0-0 0-0 0,
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1-8
O Halloran 1 5 0 0 2, McKay
0-0 2, Smith-Bey 0-5 0-0
0,
Lynn
4-8 0-0 8. Totals 22-81 5-8
49.
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT(67)
Gery 1-3 6-8 8, Lupacchino 3-8 1-3
7., Bodner 2-8 1-4 5, Sands 4-14 1-2
9, Linthicum 13-25 2-2 28, Gifford
2-6 0-0 4, Ostrander 0-1 0-0 0,
Stone 0-1 2-4 2, McDermott 2-7 0-0
4.
Totals 27-73 13-23 67.
Lady Pirate
Classic at
East Carolina (12/S-6/86)
Marist lost to Tennessee Tech
(12/5/86) Marist 77, East Ten-
nessee State 76 (12/6/86)
Marist vs. Tennessee Tech No
results available at press time.
Marist
0-2
MARIST(77)
Je. O'Neil 11-17
2-2 24, Smith-Bey 2-2 2-3 6, Gray
1-1 0-0 2, Aeillo 11-22 4-6
26
,
Michel 3-8 0-0
6,
Trevisani 0-0 0-0
0, O'Halloran 2-4 3-4 7, McKay 0-2
0-0 0, Lynn 3-6
0-0
6. Totals 33-62
11-15 77. EAST TENNESSEE
ST ATE(76)
Beckelhimer 2-8 0-1 4,
Beck 14-24 5-10 33, Marvin 2-7 0-1
4,
Rhymer 11-21 3-5 25, Skala 3-11
0~0 6, Jones 2-3 0-0 4, Newton 0-0
0-00. Totals 34-74 8-17 76. Marist
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16 - THE CIRCLE - December 12, 1986
Hoopsters go 2-2;
to play in Garden
by Paul Kelly
Last season, he probably only
dreamed of the shot. Last Satur-
day, he placed his dreams into
reality.
Sophomore Peter Krasovec, who
played only 96 minutes all of last
year, sank a 19-foot jump shot
from the. right corner with two
seconds remaining to give Marist a
nail-biting 65-64 victory over
Lafayette in the championship
game of the Pepsi-Marist Classic
last Saturday night before a
McCann Center crowd of 2,206.
"I felt like I was going to make
the shot," said Krasovec. "I'm just
happy that it went in."
Marist Head Coach Dave
Magarity was jubilant over the vic-
tory.
"It
was a great win and con-
fidence booster,'' said Magarity.
Senior guard Ron McCants
scored a team-high 15 points en
route to capturing tournament
MVP honors. Freshman guard
Chris Green emerged as an offen-
sive threat as he added 15 points on
a mixture of long-range jumpers ..,.,._..,.......,~..,.,
and twisting moves in the lane.
The
Red Foxes shot just 35 per-
cent from the field in the first half
and found themselves trailing at in-
tennission, 35-27. However, Marist
Marist (2-2) won its second con-
secutive home tournament. Last
year, the Red Foxes captured the
Pepsi-Poughkeepsie Classic.
used a trapping full-court press in
1------------------------------------------t
the second half to halt the
·
Junor guard
Drafton Davis looks to pass in Pepsi-Marist Oassic action last weekend. (Photo
An 85-54 dismantling of cold-
shooting Maryland Eastern Shore
Friday night allowed Marist to ad-
vance to the finals against
Lafayette.
Leopards.
by
Mark M
r
)
The Red Foxes hosted 1986
NCAA Tournament participant
Fairfield yesterday. Results were
unavailable at press time. Satur-
day, the Foxes will play the first of
two games this season in Madison
Square Garden-when they take on
Hofstra at 12:30 p.m.
"I didn't feel they (Lafayette)
handled pressure well,'' said
Magarity. "I think that won the
game for us."
Women's b-ball grabs first
•
Will
Friday night, Marist raced to an
early 22-2 lead over Maryland
Eastern Shore and never looked
back, earning its first victory of the
season. Krasovec and McCants
shared high-scoring honors with
21, and senior forward Mark
Shamley pulled down a career
a
high
13 rebounds.
by Michael
J.
Nolan
Freshman point guard Donna
Aeillo paced the Red Foxes with 26
points.
points.
The Marist College women's
basketball team is doing some
mimicking.
The squad's early-season woes
have been complicated by the loss
of three key members. Senior co-
captain Sue Blazejewski, a possible
starter, left school
on
a medical
leave of absence, according to
Babineau.
The team's season opener at the
Lapchick Tournament Nov. 28-29
at St. John's was marred by the
suspension of 7-3 junior center Rik
Smits, 6-11 sophomore forward
Miroslav Pecarski and 7-0
sophomore center Rudy Bourgarel
because of alleged violations of
NCAA rules. Without their "Tri-
ple Towers," the Red Foxes drop-
ped a pair of close games, losing to
Youngstown State 56-52 and
Southern 89-82.
"I was shocked when we got a
big lead," said Magarity. "They
held the lead well. I was pleased
with everyone's play."
Not ulike the men's hoop team,
the women's team dropped its first
two games before picking up its
first win of the season last Satur-
day night.
Last weekend the team played in
the Lady Pirate Classic at East
Carolina University and lost its first
game to No. 27 Tennessee Tech
75-48. In the second game, Marist
defeated East Tennessee State
77-76 in a come-from-behind
victory.
Marist Head Coach Ken
Babineau said: "It's one of the best
wins I've seen a Marist team have.
The team did the little things and
big things necessary to win and we
came together and played as a
team."
However, Marist did not fare as
well against Tennessee Tech, being
oversized and overmatched. Ten-
nessee Tech was led by forward
Cheryl Taylor, who scored 18
points and 14 rebounds.
Sophomore forward Jackie
O'.Neil -
a starter this season -
was injured in the first game of the
season when she sprained her knee
in the first three minutes of play.
She will miss the next three
weeks,
according to Babineau. Adding
in-
sult to injury, the team lost Dawn
Ednie, a freshman center, who
transferred
to
St.
John's
University.
Last Saturday, Lafayette (3-2)
took a 64-63 lead with 55 seconds
remaining when junior forward
Billy Hughes converted a free
throw to cap a three-point play.
Marist called time out with 19
seconds left.
One player who has especially
pleased Magarity is Krasovec. The
6-7 native of Budapest, Hungary,
poured in a career-high 28 points
in the loss to Southern at the Lap-
chick Tournament.
·
"Peter-is
Mr.
Consistency," said
Magarity. "He's so smart. He
reminds me of somebody from the
old days but I'm not sure who."
The Red Foxes begin ECAC
Metro Conference play Monday,
Jan.
5,
when they host Wagner.
The Seahawks' offense revolves
around senior guard Terrance
Bailey, the leading scorer in Divi-
sion One last year.
Marist hosted Siena Tuesday
night. Results were unavailable at
press tirne. The squad will host
ECAC Metro Conference foe
Wagner Saturday at 3 p.m.
The Red Foxes' high scorer was
O'Neil, who had 20 poi1tts. O'Neil
has scored 20 or more points in
each of the squad's three games this
season.
Marist dropped its season opener
at Central Connecticut State 67-49
Dec. 2. Babineau said the team
played tentatively and had first-
game jitters. Marist mirrored his
assessment, shooting 27 percent
from the floor and committing 30
turnovers. The Red Foxes' fate was
sealed by the Blue Devils' Hope
Linthicum, a Division Two All-
America candidate, who scored 28
That leaves the Red Foxes with
an inexperienced team. Babineau
said he is hoping to get quality play
from Jennifer O'Neil, Aeillo and
freshman forward Kim Smith-Bey
who has played well defensively
while replacing Jackie O'Neil in the
starting line-up.
Then, with five seconds showing
on the cloek, Krasovec, starting at
center in Smits' absence, took the
ball deep in the right corner on a
set play and hit the shot heard
'round Poughkeepsie. It was only
his second shot of the second half.
Bailey poured in a McCann
Center-record 46 points against
Marist last year.
Against East Tennessee State,
freshman forward Jennifer O'Neil
sparked Marist, which trailed by
seven with 4: IO remaining in the
game. The team registered nine
straight points to take the lead, and
with six ticks left, Marist led by
three. East Tennessee added a final
11-foot jumper before the buzzer.
Babineau said he feels this team
is talented, but
"it
will be up and
down during the course of the
year." He said, "My measure of
success is how we progress from
day one to the end of the season."
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Marist athletes: Success is all in the head
by Don Reardon
The psychology of coaching has changed
a great deal since legendary Notre Dame
Football Coach Knute Rockne told his
players to "win one for the Gipper."
Nowadays, a coach must play the dual role
of coach and psychologist.
Several Marist College athletic coaches are
no longer relying on just the pre-game pep
talk to motivate their athletes. They are now
using carefully researched psychological
techniques to help their athletes achieve
peak
performances.
Over the past 20 years, coaches worldwide
have realized the importance of training the
mind as well as the body, and this means
monitoring an athlete's behavior on and off
the field of competition.
Virtually all coaches still practice the art
of pre-game motivation, but many are realiz-
ing the necessity of long-term mental
training.
Marist Head Track Coach Steve Lurie says
an athlete with a negative self-image is an
athlete on the downhill road to mediocrity,
or worse -
failure.
.. I try to create an atmosphere of success
around an athlete," said Lurie. "Excellence
is
mediocrity to the mediocre, an athlete must
dare to excel."
Lurie, in his fourth year at Marist, noted
the case of Red Foxes' harrier Garrett Ryan,
who lowered his indoor 800-meter best from
2:08 to l: 57 last winter.
"During the recovery periods between
his
interval workouts I would walk with Gary
.._ and give total positive reinforcement and tell
him what he can do, not what he can't do,"
said Lurie.
Ryan said Lurie's mental coaching was in-
strumental in helping him achieve new per-
sonal bests, but added that the techniques
have their downfalls.
"The goals Coach Lurie set for me were
a little beyond my range of ability, so even
when I ran faster than I previoµsly ever had
I still fell far short of the goal,"
said
the
20-year-old psychology major.
Marist Head Swim Coach Larry Van-
Wagner echoed Lurie's sentiments about
positive reinforcement and said he uses a
three-step process developed by noted
psychologist Abraham Maslow to spur his
swimmers to success.
"I try to affect the swimmers by
eliminating all the negativism in their en-
vironment, and then I show them how to
control their own self-talk," said Van-
Wagner. "Finally, I help the athlete set
reasonable, attainable goals."
Self-talk is a technique practiced by elite
athletes worldwide. Self-talk involves the
elimination of all negative thoughts by con-
tinuously reflecting upon strengths and past
successful performances.
Mike Malet, head football and lacrosse
coach at Marist, said the potential for suc-
cess is determined by the individual goals an
athlete sets.
"During the off-season I have the players
bring in cards that have each of their in-
dividual goals written down," said Malet.
"This is very important to me because it gives
me some insight as to what the p
l
a
y
cri. want
out of the game."
Malet also stressed the importance of set-
ting attainable goals so an athlete has a
greater chance to achieve success.
Training an athlete's mind to reach peak
physical performance is a long-term task,
said VanWagner.
"When an athlete enters a college program
!:J.is coach is sometimes faced with the dilem-
ma of changing the sum total of everything
the person has learned up to that point and
it may take years," VanWagner said.
Van Wagner admitted a coach cannot
teach or motivate someone who does not
wish to be helped.
He pointed to the group of swimmers in
the pool. "One of those guys has the poten-
tial to be great, not necessarily an Olympian,
but at least one of the be3t in the conference.-
but he never
will
because he just doesn't want
to be motivated," said VanWagner.
Lurie ~d an athlete's receptiveness to in-
put is key when attempting to motivate.
The long-term mental commitment Van-
Wagner speaks of is more lhan just an ac-
tivity to Lurie, it's a lifestyle. Sports such as
running and swimming have no room for
athletes seeJCing instant gratification, said
Lurie.
Lurie pulled a large magazine clipping
from his wallet with two words on it: 'Ins-
tant Gratification'. "You want i::lstant
gratification?" he said with a grin, "Take
this, it's the onll place you'll find it."
Lurie said the mark of a psychologically
stable athlete is mental toughness.
"An athlete has to be ,tronl!-mmded. A
very strong minded athlete is one who never
loses his resolve, even if he has a bad day,
bad week or even bad month," said Lurie.
V .m Wagner said strong-mindedness
sometimes doesn't come until it's almost too
late. He pointed out men's swimming Co-
captain Fred Dever, a senior, as an example.
"The improvement in his race times was
minuscule until this year, but he's finally put
his
head into it and he's achieving his goals."
Each coach pointed out the importance of
long-term mental preparation and said even
when an athlete is positive things can go
wrong on competition day.
Another technique Van Wagner and Lurie
advocate for peak performance on competi-
tion day is known as imaging, or mental
simulation.
In a relaxed state, an athlete continually
envisions perfect performance. Every aspect
of the competition
is
visualized and the
athlete sees himself or herself moving
through exact motions toward the goal.
Lurie acknowledged the benefits of im-
agery, but said some athletes don't need to
use the technique.
"Imagery works, but the weaker one is
mentally, the more they should use techni-
q~es like imagery to help themselves," he
said.
One might wonder whether Knute Rockne
told the "four horsemen" of Notre Dame
to visualize themselves "winning one for the
Gipper." One would have to doubt it, but
one never knows - Abraham Maslow might
have had a seat
right
behind the Fighting
Irish bench .
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