INSIDE:
A second look at the music business -
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A class struggle -
page 9
Hockey heats up -
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Volume 34, Number 14
Marist .College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
February 25, 1988
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fStudent leaders· plagued by campus. apathy
b~ D,11 Johnson
body president dunng the 1986-87
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frankly a lot of people aren't
dtffcrcnce,
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academic year, said: "T~ey don't
interested."
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a_ sopho'!lore business adminis~ra-
A campus who's who
A sign hung· on the door of·
know enough about
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to be
Some students do call
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apathy.
tton maJor from Bedford Htlls,
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Fireside Lounge last week, inviting
apathetic. J wonder how many peo-
.
"I
think apathy is a very real
N.Y.
Herc's an outline of how student
students to come in· and "meet
pie know who their student leaders
thing,"
said Glenn Onos, a
Onos said student government
government operates at Marist:
your student leaders."
are."
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sophomore computer science ma-
should
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improve communication
The Council of Student Leaders
Few students did.
If they do know who their
jor from Glen Head, N.Y. "Just
between the administration and the
represents all students and student
Last • week
was
Student
leaders are, statistics show many
look at how many students go
student body, so students are aware organizations.
It
is the primary
Awareness Week, an effort to im-
students didn't vote for them. Last
home every weekend."
of administrative policies and stu-
decision-making body of student
prove the image of student govern-
spring, ,369 students -
fewer than
Onos
says
the large number of
dent government's impact on them.
government. CSL sends informa-
ment, according to Bob Lynch,
15 percent of the Marist student
people leaving the campus on
tion between students and the ad-
assistant
director
of college
body -
voted in the election for
weekends con1ribu1es 10 a lack of
Jon Urban, vice president of the
ministration, oversees operation of
activities.
student government officers. The
involvement in campus activi1ies. junior class, mentioned junior class
the financial board and judicial
There is little understancling of
previous year, that figure was
"Students have little faith in the
meetings which were attended by
board
and appoints·
student
student government, students and-
slightly lower. Candidates for all
ability of student government to
only a few students, and he said the
representative_s
to
ca.~pus
administrators
agree.
Voting
CSL offices, except College Union
handle their complaints," Onos
administration seems to be more
activities.
statistics show that participation is
Board president ran unopposed last
said, "because they feel the ad-
concerned with getting students
The student body president, Jef-
slight. Attendance at many college-
year.
ministration
is not concerned
here than with keeping them here.
frey Ferony, serves as chairperson
sponsored events is low. Many fac-
.
"I think students are very busy,
enough with what the students
of CSL. The student body vice
tors indicate that apathy exists
and they're busy going about their
want."
Bell, the
advisor
for student
president, Jill Anderson, elected
toward student government and its
own lives," said Deborah Bell,
Onos also said no pr·oblems were
government, and Lynch said the
with the· president, also serves on
role of sponsoring activities and
assistant dean of students. "The
serious enough to cause
students
to
administration do·es look after stu-
the CSL. The president appoints a
communicating with ihe college
people who get interested in student
take action and voice· their opinion.
dent interests.
secretary and treasurer•
administration.
government now are the ones who
"I
never voted because I never
Peter Prucnel, who was student
have in interest in that area. I think
thought my vote would make much
Wiring mishap leads
to cainpus
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by Annie Breslin
A mischievous squirrel is said to
have caused the six-hour power
failure which struck the south end
of campus early Tuesday morning.
According to Anthony Taran-
tino, director of physical plant, the
squirrel
shorted out wiring for Leo
Hall, Champagnat Hall and Cam-
pus Center, when it found its way
into an electrical service box,
located on a telephone pcile adja-
cent to Sheahan Hall.
"It
shorted
out ro the point
where (the squirrel) caught fire and
the entire pole caught fire," Taran-
tino said, "all new wiring was need-
ed."
Residents of the buildings were
left without electricity, hot water or
water pressure at approximately 9
a.m., when the fire occu~red
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All
power was restored by 3 p.m.
It took six Central Hudson Gas
and Electric employees and two
Marist servicemen to· replace the
damaged wires, which
.stretch
the
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length of the pole. The damaged
wires were connected
to an
underground wiring-system, which
did not have to be serviced.
Signs posted in Leo and Cham-
pagnat warned
st·udents
that the
blackout was expectea to last into
the night, causing many students to
panic and rumors to fly. Tarantino
said the damage could have taken
up to ten hours co repair: "We
were ready to pitch tents out
there," he said.
During the emergency,.students
traveled to other campus buildings·
to shower and use electi:_ical
ap-
pliances. Candles were used to light
bathrooms in Champagnat, until
residents assistants removed the
potential fire hazards.
"Two minutes before the lights
went on we. were still thinking we
had to sleep in Mccann," a Cham-
pagnat resident said.
Full
house
Over 3,000 people packed the McCann Center last Saturday
night for Marist's heartbreaking 78-75 loss to Fairleigh Dickin-
son University.
(Photo
by
Mark Gottcent)
IBM
interns warm
up to life at Big Blue
by Chris Landry
Cheri Ne\vsheller was ready to
take on the corporate world. She
had gotten up extra early, dressed
in her favorite blue skirt and bor-
rowed her mother's car for her first
day as a communications intern at
the Poughkeepsie IBM plant.
But it was only thirteen degrees
that morning and the car would not
start. She arrived an hour late -
"totally frazzled." -
Newsheller thought she would be
yelled at -
maybe fired. But the
first words spoken to her were,
"sit
down while I get you a cup of
coffee."
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"I expected the people to be rigid
and strict," said the senior com-
munications arts major. "But they
were easygoing and laid-back."
While the image of IBM as a
strict businesslike corporate power
can be intimidating, Marist interns
at IBM find themselves working in
a relaxed and personal atmosphere
surrounded by helpful people ..
There are currently 25 Marist
students working in six different
IBM plants across Dutchess Coun-
ty. The Marist Field E:icperience
re-
quires a 2.5 cumulative grade point
average and the completion of 60
credits before an internship is
given.
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IBM, which is usually ranked in
the top five in F:ortune"SOO's
list of
corporate leaders, pays its interns
a substantial amount more than
other employers.
The image of IBM caused many
interns to feel intimidated and out
of place because they were merely
students
involved
in a large
corporation.
"At first the job was imper-
sonal," Leo Roselli, a computer
programer at the East
.Fishkill
plant, said. "But, as time went on,
I found that the people were very
' helpful -
everybody wasn't a
backstabber."
The seriousness of the IBM
world is exaggerated, according to
Mark Husted, a computer pro-
gramer at the Poughkeepsie site.
"You really don't have to wear
a white shirt and a red tie," he said.
As a drawback to this relaxed at-
mosphere students find themselves
in
situations'where
a great deal of
pressure is put on them to do their
job quickly and efficiently.
Newsheller, who writes and edits
information communicated bet-
ween the IBM branches in the area,
was faced with writing 22 pages for
22 bulletins in one 8-hour day.
"I got the job done but,to say
the least, that
.was
a lot
·or
pressure," said Newsheller.
Although working for IBM in-
volves the pressure to produce,
these added responsibilities give
students self-esteem and a sense of
importance.
.
"It's exciting because you go to
meetings where your opinion is
heard," Roselli said. "That makes
you feel important."
Husted said he cannot help feel-
ing important when he can shine
his shoes by using a mechanical
buffing ma.:hine in the bathroom
before he steps into his own office.
-Students do not merely learn the
different
aspects and respon-
sibilities of their jobs.
, Newsheller began to think of her
life in the future after talking with
a fellow worker who is soon-to be
a mother.
"IBM is such a big company that
you get to interact and learn from
a wide variety
of people,"
Newsheller said.
An internship helped Roselli
realize that in order to succeed in
life he had to take an initiative he
said.
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"l realized that you have to per-
form to get somewhere in life,"
Rosdli said. "You can't just blow
off your future like vou blow off
classes i_n
school."
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While student interns are gaining
practical experience through IBM
they are not guaranteed jobs with
the company and very few have
gone on to work for IBM im-
mediately after school, according
to Gail Ziamandanis,
target
development specialist for the Field
Experience program.
Despite this, students said they
still feel they have an edge because
they have worked for one of the •
largest corporations in the world.
"You can never take a job for
granted,"
Husted said. "But I
think that this job can only be
viewed as a step up the ladder of
success."
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Fdiror's
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A ftcr Class" ill list thi: di:taib
of
on- and
off-campus C\
cnt~. such
as
lectures, meet1nµ~
After Class
~lid L'Oll,'i:rt~ Send inlor111at1on
to l\lichacl Kinanc.
c/o
The Clrdc, Bo, ll59. or call 471-6051 after
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Workshops
Creative Writing
Registrations
are being accepted
through March 1
O
for a short fiction writing
workshop at the Adriance Memorial Library
in Poughkeepsie. For information, call
485-3445.
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Life drawing c;lasse.s
are ott,ered at
.the .
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Garrison Art Center in Garrison,. N. Y
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every
Tuesday from 7 to 10 p.m. and $aturday
from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For informa-
tion, call 424-3960:
Entertainment
Foreign Films
Two foreign films will be shown on cam-
pus this week. "Camila," a story revolving
around around an upper-class young girl
who falls in love with a young priest, will
be shown in D245 tonight and tomorrow
night at 7:30 p.m. "Ivan the Terrible," a
drama about the czar that unified Russia,
will be shown Saturday and Sunday at 7:30
p.m. in 0245. Admission for all shows is
free ..
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Wascally Wabblt
The Marist College Council on .Theater
Arts will perform "Harvey" this weekend
in the Theater. The performance takes
place at 8 p.m. tonight, tomorrow night and
Saturday night. Sunday, the performance
begins at 2 p.m.
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Tal·e~ieisi~dents
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.The Coll~ge Union Bpard is sponsoring
Student
.Talent
Night tonight in the River
Room. The show begins at 9:30 p.m. A<t-
mission is $1.
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Southern Rock
Tonight, The Charlie Daniels Band will
take the stage for two shows at The
Chance in Poughkeepsie. The first show
will begin at 7:30 p.m. and the second is
scheduled for 10:30 p.m. For information,
call The Chance at 452-1233.
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1990's Dance
The Class of 1990 is sponsoriryg a dance
tomorrow night. Admission is $1. For more
information, stop by the Student Govern-
ment Office.
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Beaver Brown
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John Cafferty and the • Beaver Brown
Band will perform at The Chance tomorrow
night. The band, whose hits include ,"O_n
the Dark Side" and "Tender Years,' wtll
take the stage at 10 p.m. For ticket infor-
mation, call "fhe Chance at 452-1233.
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Leon Redbone
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The:.ToWne CrierCafe iri Millbrook is
presenting a. concert by Leon Red~one
tomorrow night at 7 p.m. For more infor-
mation, call the Cafe at 677-9999.
Eek-A-Mouse
"A
night of reggae featuring thE; band Eek-
A-Mouse will occur Saturday night at The
Chance. The show is scheduled to begin
at
9
p.m. For more information, call The
Chance at 452-1233.
Ar Bras and Hyde
The music of Dan Ar Bras and Barbara
Hyde will be the feature attraction at the
Towne Crier Cafe Saturday night. The
show is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. For
information, call the Cafe at 677-9999.
Keith Sweat
A performance by Keith "I Want Her"
Sweat is slated for The Chance on Sunday
night. The show is set to begin at 9 p.m.
For more information, call The Chance at
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452-1233.
Uncle Bonzal
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Uncle Bonzai will appear at the Towne
Crier Cafe in Millbrook on Sunday. For
more information,
call the Cafe at
677-9999.
The Oink
Tuesday, March
15,
the musical stylings
of Englebert Humperdink will be the attrac-
tion at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. For
more information about the "King of
Romance's" concert, call the Civic Center
at 454-5800.
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Auditions
City. Lights
Entries for~the third annual one-act play
contest, sponsored by the City Lights
Theater· Group, are being accepted
through April 18. For more information, call,
462-5228 or 297-5554.
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;listens
to students and
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trustees is really interested in \Vhat
the students have to say," Bell said.
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Attention All Seniors ...
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that· an award is. pre~ented t~ the Teacher of the
year. at your commencement?
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Ferony cautioned,' however, that
it is not the role of student govern-
ment to push changes through the
administration, but to act as a voice
of the students.
"It's
not our job to get them to
change their mind and do the right
thing," said Ferony, a sophomore
business
administration
major
from Marlborough, Conn.
"h's
effective to its limits,"
Lynch said.
"A majority
of
students have not res:o¥nized !iOJPe_
of
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Lynch ~redited'stuo~~t,gbver'nn'lelft •
with increased participation and
programming of college activities,
holding the activities fair at the
beginning of the
year
and holding
an open forum for discussion of
the Marist Village.
Ferony said the CSL
voted
against
the propos~d
Marist
Village, bringing students' interests
to the attention of the administra-
tion. The college continues to
develop plans for the mall, propos-
ed for the north end of campus,
however.·
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'Chi-istb'pfl'e(E~ifo:; a'"i:g'S6"
d1q-
didate for
'stud~ni
bod)• pre~icforit','.'
disa!!rees with the practice of the
CSL- holding its own vote to pre-
sent
to the
administration. "Every
student should have the opportuni-
ty to
vote
in a circumstance
such
as this," Lezny
said.
Lezny, a senior computer science
major from Greenvale, N. Y
., said
students, for the most pan,
arc
justifiably
apathetic.
"Student 1wvernment does not
represent the student body," he
said.
"The
reason why we're
apathetic is we know we·re not
go-
ing
to decide."
-Lezny and others
said
poor com-
munication on campus
also
hurts
the
effectiveness
of student
government.
Bell said: "I think there are
some
weak
areas.
One of those weak
areas is lack of communication. I
think students need to learn more
about student government, and I
don't know where the fault lies,"
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Other members of the CSL for
1987-88 include:
Cathryn Cuccia, president of the
Student
Academic Committee;
Frank Doldo, president of the Col-
lege Union Board;
Jack
Lake,
president of the Resident Student
Council; Royal Ricci, president of
the Commuter
Union; Pamela
Shewchuck, Judicial Board; and
Carmon Lyon, president of the
Adult Student Union.
Your chance to vote for the teacher of your choice is coming
up soon!
Keep an eye out for further information about
The Teacher of the Year Award!
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,Back from NH, Miringoff sizes up the race
by Tina LaValla
Due to the Jack of a clear front
runner,
the New Hampshire
primary, which was held last week
will not have the same effect on th~
1988 presidential -race as it has in
the past, according to Dr. Lee Mir-
ingoff, director of the Marist In-
stitute of Public Opinion.
"New Hampshire was somewhat
unusual this time around," said
Miringoff. "Tr~ditionaly, it has
served to dramaticaly thin out the
field but no front runners have ap-
peared yet."
The reason that no clear front
runner has emerged, according to-
Miringoff, is that this is the first
time there is no incumbent presi-
dent running for re-election since
1968.
. A group of people from .Marist,
including Miringoff and Barbara
Carvalho, director of research and
data analysis at the institute, travel-
0
ed to New Hampshire to view the
primary and other events that were
involved with it.
This is the only time that all of
, the Presidential candidates/ their
staffs and the maior networks are
in the same place at once, said Mir-
ingoff of the primary.
Band tries· to blend
music and business
by
Steven Murray
Jersey's largest radio stations,
played at parties in places such as
While Joe O'Donnell plays a Vassar College, and played at the
synthesized version of the "Hill famous Jersey Shore club the Stone
Street Blues"
theme in the Pony.
background, Bob Higgins and
With a kind of progressive rock
John Macom talk of drugs arid sound in their music, Second Look
rock and roll.
presents a different style of music
"Tripping out and getting on than that of the typical Jersey
stage isn't going to get you Shore band.
anywhere anymore," Higgins says.
"AH of the origii;tal bands out-of.,
"Rock and roll is a business, and New Jersey tend to· sound like
we're approaching it from that Bruce (Springsteen)," Macom,
aspect."
from Pt. Pleasant, N.J., said. "We
Along with Matt Browne, Hig- just try to be ourselves and play our
gins, O'Donnell and Macom com- own music,".
prise the rock band Second Look.
"I think that's what makes us
With approximately
170
original different, we don't try to be
songs to their credit and a serious, anything different than what we
businesslike attitude towards their are," Macom said.
"We saw how gruelling the cam-
paign is for the candidates," said
Miringoff. "Day after day, week
after week and month after month
they try to achieve a positive public
image."
In the primary itself, Republican
Vice President George Bush and
Democratic Gov. Michael Dukakis
of Massachusetts were the victors.
Bush, taking advantage of his
ties to the pi:esidency, gained 38
percent of the vote to beat out Iowa
Senator Bob Dole. Representative
Jack Kemp of New York took third
place while Pete DuPont, the
former governor of Delaware came .
in fourth.
Former television
• evangelist Pat Robertson, who
finished second in the Iowa
caucuses,. finished".in fifth place.
As for the Democrats, Dukakis
received 36 percent of the .vote.
Rep.
Richard Gephardt, who won
the Iowa caucus, received 20 per-
cent while Sen. Paul Simon receiv-
ed
17
percent·.
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. Miringoff said that, although th~ •
media does play a large pi,ut in the
campaign, the people musr make
their decision· based ·on the can-
didates and not. on the media.
Entrance into the presidential
race by New York Gov. Mario
Cuomo is ·unlikely, according to
Miringoff.
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is highly unlikely that he will
emerge at this point," he said.
"If
he does, I think he would have a
difficult time."
musical careers, the band hopes
Another aspect that makes Se-
their unique style and public ex- cond Look different than other
posure will get them a shot at a hopeful bands is their ability to
record contract.
conduct themselves as a business.
The band Second Look, compri~ed of both ·current and former Mariststudents,
has
gained
HigginsmetMacomandBrowne
"Alotofbandsfailbecausethey
exposure by playing clubs such as the.Stone Pony along the Jersey Shore.·
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and that's what rock and roll is, a
ment can be the deciding
"fat:for
hi~. • According to Macom playing at -~ored.
by an anti-crack \)~gani~tion •
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Marist, joined the band wh_en the
Macom is currently working as
"You could have all the talent in valuable exposure because of the viewed on WCCC m Han•ford,
Ct.
threesome decided to enter Marist's corporate director of communica-
the world, but if you don't have the repuJation of the club.·
"Battle ohhe Bands" contest.
tions for the New America Group
right people guiding you than
"A lot of famous people have
Macom and Browne have since corporation in Bayhead,
N.J.
you're in trouble. That's why I played there. Bruce (Sprmsteen),
graduated Marist, Higgins is now
Macom said his involvement in
trust only myself," said Macom. Elvis Costello, Timmy Page-,, us!"
a sophomore.
business, marketing, and public • Higgins, from Baldwin,
N.Y.,
In the near fi.~ure Second Look
In the year that they have been relations at New America Group
said right now the band is will return to Asbury Park to play
together, Second Look has won will help him guide the band and
"shooting for exposure," and atthe Stone Pony ctnd another club
two "Battle of the Bands" con- make financial decisions.
hopes to tour the Jersey Shore club called The Green Parrot. The band
tests, been featured on one of New
According to Macom, manage-
circuit this summer.
will also be playing in contest spon-
As for the future of Second
Look being a successful o:ie, in
Macom's eyes it is inevitable
"It's just a matter of time and
money, I know we have the talent
to make it."
S tu dent -run 21 Club gives dough to charity
by Beth-Kathleen McCauley
Perkins, co-president of the club.
night of the event and the students
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Brookville N.Y. "I feel better
b · h ,,
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At Manst, passa~e 1~to your 21 Manst
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to . about the 21 Club.
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year means legal drmkmg and en-
Appalachia.
Dawn Murphy, a seni'or from anyway "
trance into the 21 Club, one of the
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According to Palermo, ifit was
few campus functions equipt with
Rockaway, N.Y., worked an hour
. "Sometimes I wish it (the pro-
held more frequently, a permanent
alcohol.
The club raised approximatley
at the ticket table selling 50 cent ceeds) would go towards Mayfest staff would have to be hired.
The hundred or so people who $500 last year but Perkins, along tickets for beer. "The hour goes or Senior Week ... something to "Right now everyone doesn't mind.
walk into the River -Room these with co-president Robert Palermo,
really fast," said Murphy. "Plus,
benifit just the senior class," said putting in an hour here or there,"
special nights each semester to sees this year's proceeds amounting all my friends are there so it's not • Perkins. "But Sister Eilleen is great he said. "But if it became more like
dance, drink and chat with friends to close to $3,000,
like work and of course, it is for a and, in the long run, I know it real- a job, I think some of the fun
are simutaneoulsy -
sometimes
good cause."
ly is the best idea."
would go out of it."
unknowingly
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giving to charity.
"Right now we have over
Currently Perkins is writing a
Proceeds from the 21 Club are $2,000," said Palermo.
"If
we
However, not everyone is aware
"how to" guide to the 21 Club for
donated yearly to a charity by have another two nights we could the money is donated to charity but . Although planning each event the College Activites Office. "No
Sister Eileen Halloran, director of definately reach $3,000."
flyers adorn the walls asking
takes two weeks, Perkins and one ever put all the instructions in-
Campus Ministry.
students if they do. "I just found
Palermo would like to see the 21 to writing," she said.
"If
we want
"Last year the money went to
Perkins and Palermo agreed that . out last semester that the money
Club more frequently throughout this to continue, we have to make
homeless children,,, said Sara student volunteers who help on the goes to charity," said Angela
the semester.
it easier for the next class."
Freshman becomes new campus funny guy
by Wes Zahnke
You'll probably never see Stan
Phelps' name in lights. But then
again, you can't blame him for a
Bake-off results in
The word is out.
Marist math professor and
Pillsbury Bake-off Finalist Barbara
Van ltalie revealed her secret recipe
for Broccoli Cauliflower Tetrazzini
on the Gary Collins Show last
week.
Although she didn't win any ad-
ditional prizes she expressed delight
at the trip and the publicity it
received. She said that 20/20 and
Newsweek covered the event.
lack of trying.
"Even if I'm not funny," Phelps
said, "I'm funny looking."
Phelps,
a freshman
from
Shelton, Conn., recently won the
"Funniest Person on Campus"
contest, and the right to compete
against people from four area col-
leges: Vassar, New Paltz, the
Culinary Institute of America, and
Dutchess Community College.
The contest will be held this Fri-
dav nighf at "Banana's" comedy
club in Poughkeepsie. The winner
of the event will receive
$100
plus
the distinction of being the funniest
college student in the area.
Phelps said that doing what you
want to do and having a good time
are part of the family tradition.
"I just feel like it's always been
the case with my family that if you
just want to get up and be creative,
you should," said Phelps. "Hav-
ing fun doing it is what is impor-
tant."
Phelps said that he had no
previous acting experience but did
have some courses last summer that
prepared him to speak in front of
people with confidence.
"I took a couple of speech
courses and a Dale Carnegie course
over the summer which really
helped me a lot," said Phelps.
"Preparing to give a speech for
three or four minutes and then
speaking confidently is what it's all
about."
Phelps will not be alone when he
takes the stage Friday night. He
said that his parents will be com-
ing up joined by his sisters and
brother. He also hopes to bring
about 20 or 30 people from Marist
with him.
In preparation for the campus
event and the big contest at
Banana's, Phelps said that he prac-
tices his ideas on his neighbors, on
the second floor of Sheahan Hall,
whom he would like to thank.
"They have to put up with me,"
Phelps said, "and they're really
good sports about it. They came
out and cheered for me which was
great."
Don't let it be said that Stan
"The Man" is one dimensional
though. He is currently trying to
hold down the spots on the tennis
team that he had in the fall. He
played number one doubles and
three, four, and five singles, and
said that with the additition of
more players it will be "tougher to
hold down my spot."
Phelps got a chance to master his
routine and experiment a little bit
last Thursday night, as he opened
up for singer Paul Strowe in the
River Room. He said he enjoyed it
more because the pressure of com-
petition was off.
"Everything went real well,"
Phelps said, "I had lots of fun and
tried out some new things I liked."
Looking towards the future
Phelps said that he doesn't forsee
himself doing comedy, but rather
owning his own business.
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1988
My.· meeting with the governor and Grandpa
Editor's Note: While working at
his internship in New York City,
senior Joseph O'Brien had the op-
portunity to meet with Gov. Mario
Cuomo. Here are
his
views of that
event.
Some people handle meeting
celebrities well, acting as if it is nt>
big deal. l 'm not one of these peo-
I had taken sand-
wich
eating
for
granted and I wasn't
quite sure of the basics
pie. In fact I'm almost obsessed
with the notion of meeting famous
people.
This obsession leads me to places
like "Grandpa's"
in Greenwich
Village in hopes of catching a
glimpse the Mater'de, Al Lewis,
who played Grandpa on the
"Munsters."
Recently, 1 had the opportunity
to meet Gov. Mario Cuomo when
he came in to do his "Ask the
Governor,'' a monthly radio show
done at WCBS radio where I have
an internship -
an opportunity I
was quick to jump on.
He was at the station an hour
early and a buffet-style cold cut
selection was set up in a conference
room. This was my big chance to
meet him but the thought of
assembling and eating a sandwich
in front of the governor terrified
me. I had taken sandwich eating
for granted and l wasn't quite sure
of the basics.
When I finally got the nerve up .
to introduce myself, the governor
had already made his way to the
studio. The show was starting and
it seemed like I missed my chance.
In a panic I quickly formulated
what my claim to fame would be.
"I had cold cuts for dinner and so
did the governor," or "I think the
governor and I might have made
eye contact from across the room
but I'm not sure."
It's in the cards
for lqcal factory
by Shelley Smith
cards
-a~e
bend.able,
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resistant and washable.
Kactus Kate and Whiskey
These cards are priced higher
Pete use them. The Pioneer
than the average paper deck of
Club and the Palace Station
cards. The average price of a
even use them but the only place
deck of KEM playing cards is $9
they are made is right here in
but "the average life of a plastic
Poughkeepsie.
playing card is 20 times that of
They are KEM plastic playing
a paper card," said Albright.
cards, the Cadillac of cards, and
"The people that play with 69
they are the cards of preferrence
or 90 cent cards are not people
at Kactus Kat:: and Whiskey
who would play with KEM
Pete, the Pioneer Club, the
cards but people who play with
Palai:e Station.and other casinos
KEM
cards will refuse to play
in
Las Vegas, California,
with cheaper cards,"
said
Australia, the Caribbean,and.<.-Albright
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directly to stores. or throu·gh'
across from Donnelly Hall on
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Route 9.
worldwide to all countries. Ex-
KEM
employs 50 p~ople and
ports are an important part of
produces over one mtlhon decks
our mar_kets, both for casino
?f cards
J?C~
year, each ?eek tak-
business
and
private
in-
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ks
dividuals," said Albright.
from start to finish, accordmg
The world situations and the
to Bob Albrigh_t, vice president
value of the dollar are affecting
of manufacturmg at the plant
KEM's markets favorably right
for ove~ th~ee years.
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The time
1t
takes to make the
KEM's business according to
cards is well worth it, said
Albright.
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Iran, once a good source of
KEM Plastic Playing Cards
business, according to Albright,
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is the ortly compa·ny in the
is no longer. '' Iran had a lot of
world that 'manufactures cards
casinos under the Shah and us-
made of JOO percent
of
ed our cards, but since the
cellulose-acetate, a long-lasting,
Ayatollah took over, he doesn't
durable, flexible plastic. The
allow it," said Albright.
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These ideas weren't cutting it. In
order to have a story, l had to meet
him ..
The show ended and was follow-
ed by a brief press conference.
Then Cuomo, a few security peo-
ple, an aide or two, and about ten
members of the press made their
•
way down the hall towards the
elevator. It was now or never, do
or die.
"Hello, governor. I'm a an in-
tern here and a big admirer of
yours. I just had to meet you," I
said offering my hand.
Our hands touched. It was of-
ficial I had met the governor.
At best I thought l would get a
quick hand shake and he would
move on. I was totally taken back
when he starting talking to me.
Questions that are usually sim-
ple and routine suddenly became
very complex. "What do you
rt~ -
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your intern?" and."Where
t
go to school?" seemed diffil.lllt to
answer when asked by the gover-
nor as his photographer snapped
pictures and the press watched on.
He had heard of Marist, which
was nice. He asked about Rik
.Smits. We both agreed he was tall.
At this point, I was wondering
if Smits had met the governor and
if there conversation would go like
this:
•
"Marist?· Doesn't Joe O'Brien
·go
there?" the governor would
query.
•
"Sure,'' Smits would reply.
"Isn't he really about average
height, something like five nine?"
the governor would ask.
"Well, actually I think he's more
like five ten," Smits would reply.
As the conversation came to its
fruition the governor asked me
what I might like to do when l
graduate. Not wanting to show a
total lack of direction I said, "I'm
not sure, I think I want to be a
game show host."
After spending four years in col-
lege and a great deal of my parents
money getting an education and
bettering myself, I had nothing bet-
ter to tell the governor than a game
show host as a career goal.
However, he agreed it might be a
good profession for me.
As quicklY. as it began, it ended.
It was great. The only thing detrac-
ting from the experience was a
reporter who seemed to take some
I'm not sure. I think
I want to be a game
show host.
joy in pointing that my tie was
crooked and my collar was messed
up the whole time. It didn't really
matter though.
This news had to be immediate-
ly shared with parents. So I called.
·"Hello
Mom, remember the time
I saw Al Lewis, the guy who played
Grandpa on the Munsters? Well,
your not going to believe this ... "
Choral competition to be held in Chapel
by Wayne O'Brien
·
The Marist Women's Chorale
will
-host
the 21st annual Inter-
collegiate Catholic Women's Glee
Club Association's competition
Saturday in the Chapel.
The festival will feature singers
from seven colleges performing
contemporary and broadway songs
by George
Gershwin,
Burt
Bacharach and other modern com-
posers, according to Dorothyann
Davis director of musical activities.
Among the acts planned is a per-
formance of "Puttin' on the Ritz"
by the Marist Women's Chorale,
who will be singing with tophats
a~d canes. Other songs in its pro-
-· graitfinclude "0, What a Woncler-
.
•'ful ·Day" from the Broadway· hit
•
"Grease."
Each college's club is responsi-
ble for its music selection
·and
choreography, Davis said.
While some schools may choose
to sing just for fun, Marist will at-
tempt to win one of the medals that
will be awarded at the festival, ac-
cording to Davis.
"We're in it all the way," she
said.
In the last seven years, the Marist
Women's Chorale has won two
gold medals and three silver at the
competition.
The current Marist Women's
Chorale is younger than groups
from previous years. Only three of
its
twenty
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members
are
upperclassmen.
The seven groups performing
will vary in the number of singers.
The largest club, from Cornell
University, has more than fifty
members.
This year's competition almost
never happened, according to
Davis. Originally,
Worchester
Polytechnic Institute was to host
the performance. However, WPI
was forced to cancel its commit-
ment because of scheduling pro-
blems, she said.
Davis, who was elected president
of the ICWGCA in September,
said she tried to relocate the festival
to
other colleges but had en-
countered
similar difficulties.
When she decided that Marist
would host the festival, neither
McCann Center nor the Theater
were available for the 7:30 p.m.
show.
"There was no other place on
campus except the Chapel,'' Davis
said.
She was hesitant to ask to use the
Chapel because she did not know
if the show would be permitted in-
side, Davis said. However, she was
soon given permission to use the
Chapel, which seats 350 people, by
Rev. Benedict D' Allessandro.
"Just as long as it isn't rock
music,'' Davis said she was told.
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Fired Up
Marist sophomores
brave the flames
by
Karen Cicero
Sophomore Mike Wolfe predicts
that someday he will collide with
classmate Mike Hafner -
not
coming back from class or
a
party/
1/
.
but on his way to a fire.
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"Between Mike and me
JI'
race to see who gets ther,<Y
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said Wolfe,
"But
du(
the game disappe
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It began
Wolfe, wh
years at a
hometown
proached H
he would
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volunteer
Company.
fire trucks."
But they both inisit fire fighting
is a hobby
and
they don't want to
make it a full time profession. "I
have il,\e'.•greatest
respect for these
u
Y'"
H '(ner safdl "But
it
just
1
'_!ment
job."
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at he and
ten calls
Often we
because
College."
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Company)
Dwith
false
.
!ed.
"People
ilon't realize
;
'their
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lives
,.Jm
the
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fire
ccidents are a
sJ'
said
Fairview
athetic about
115.
"We keep
to standard,"
enlist in his loca
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e and Hafner were
Ringwood,
N
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among the first to arrive at the fire
lege commitment, Hafner grabbed
in the Champagnat basement last
the opportunity to join here.
semester.
Although Hafner and Wolfe do
In fact, Fairview would like to
not get paid, they said they gain
have more volunteers from Marist,
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feel good to take a child, especial-
wants to look at Marist as a
'place
ly from an upset stage, and make
to h_ave firemen instead of the an-
them feel comfortable and safe,"
noyance
of students
pulling
February 25, 1988- THE CIRCLE - Page 5
Wolfe said.
alarms."
Sophomore Mike Hafner is constantly on call as a volunteer fireman
for the Fairview Fire District. Obviously, his license plate tells no lie.
(Photo by Alan Tener)
Volunteers play vital role
by Maureen McGuinness
"Honey, I smell smoke! Get the
kids! I'll call the fire department
from the neighbor's!"
"You
have
reached
your
volunteer fire department. There is
no one here to take your call ... "
This is not the script for a TV
.
show, or an excerpt from a
short
story. It is a commercial that is be-
ing used by the Town of Colonie
Volunteer fire department,
in
Albany
County,
.
to attract
volunteers.
The ad states this is not the case
yet,
but it coulq,J-1appen
in
the near
f
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the depu(y:{:
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totall.
·Have
to
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that also.
fir.,e·Jtbpartment is
,aici,fireer firemen
and 20
'lunteers,
Dormeyer
said.
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ll.-;fr,i'~Wtl,,responds
within nine•,squar€miles and in-
cludes several
rriajor
sites like the
Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center,
St. Francis Hospital and Marist.
During
nights
shifts,
on
weekends and holidays there are
only two people at the fire house
so the department
needs the
volunteers to respond if necessary.
"!f
those two go out of here on
a call and it's a false alarm there's
nobody left," Dormeyer said.
"If
we have another call on the other
side of the district those two men
are tied up, so we rely heavily on
volunteers.''
False alarms are one of the
reasons
that
people
fail to
volunteer, according to Dormeyer.
Each time a volunteer answers an
alarm they put themselves in
danger, even if there isn't a fire,
Dormeyer said. There is the
possibility of someone getting in an
accident with the
fire
truck or their
own car while answereing a false
call.
False alarms also damage the
morale of the volunteers, since they
may respond to a false alarm in the
middle of the night, go back home,
a few hours later respond to
another false alarm and still have
to go to work the next morning,
Dormeyer said.
The false alarms at Marist place
the firemen and the Marist com-
munity
•
in danger according to
Dormeyer.
"People are tending to say the
heck with it -'it's only going to be
a false alarm.' We've got two paid
firemen in the fire house we know
they'e going let them handle it,"
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safety effort
Although all is quiet at the Fair-
v_iew.,F.i~e,,
Staticm }.n,
_tJtis
phoJo,
.
f1r~me11
leap ,into action. when ~n
alarm is heard in their.jurisdiction,
which includes Marist.
(Photo by Bob Davis)
decreased in recent years, and
some
of the alarms
are
caused by faults
in the system.
Students would be in less of a
danger if they followed the
ap•
pliance regulations, according to
Dormeyer. The nurnber of outlets
in the rooms indicates how much
the system can handle. Extension
cords can overload the system.
Another reason fire departments
are having trouble
attracting
volunteers is the recent AIDS
epidemic,
according to Dormeyer.
When there is
a
rescue
situation
or
an ambulance call the firemen may
come in contact with the AIDS
virus.
"It's kind of hard to leave your
home, go out and help somebody
and come back with-the fear that
you've touched that person's blood
and got it on you and possibly be
in a position now to contract
Dormeyer said. "The downfall of
AIDS, It's much easier to stay at
that obviously is when they get
home and not join," Dormeyer
there and it's not a false alarm -
"'said.
it's a real fire and you have two
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Dormeyer said that the number
after five years of membership and
of false alarms at Marist have are exempt from jury duty.
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Contraceptives·
To the editor:
It is about time that Marist Col-
lege speak openly about Planned
Parenthood and contraception. As
a spring transfer student
I
was
unaware of the program that
Health Services offers. I guess it
was my fault though, I only read
the student handbook. It is my bet
that there is another book with all
the pertinent information about
Marist floating around somewhere.
I now understand that Health
Services has been QUIETLY pro-
viding gynecological care and
counseling for the past two years,
including prescribing contracep-
tives. Well this must just be great
for those who know about it. A
female upperclassman tells us, "It
isn't publicized because they (must
I assume Big Brother?) don't want
to make it apparent that people at
Marist are having sex." That's
good, we wouldn't want.to be the
only college campus wit~ students
who have sex.
Ann Bollmann, the nurse prac-
titioner and physician's assistant
whd provides the service says,
"Contraceptives are not supplied
through the school, th~ student has
to go ·to a pharmacy." What a
shame that I, as well as many
others, left the car at home. If free
condom distribution is too much to
. ask for then at least they should be
put on sale in the bookstore. One
consolation, however, if. that if I
can't get free condoms, I can get
free penicillin from the program.
The same upperclassman goes<.
to make a very important state-
ment. She says, "They should let
the students know about it in case
they have a problem, even if it's not
just for birth control. A lot of girls
can't go to their parents, this is
someplace to go if they need help."
Wonderfully put, the college is here
for us. Our vocabulary must be
more direct and we must face the
"problem." It is fact. that women
get-pregnant, they don't get "pro-
blems." Men get diseases, some of
which are deadly.
It makes me feel good knowing
Continued on next page
Editor:
The
~Y Carol Falcinelli .
I would like to just once walk in-
to the Donnelly Hall coffee shop
and NOT be surrounded by a sea
of beige. I am not referring to a'n
overabundance of bland color
coordination
by coffee shop
patrons. No, I am speaking of the
proud uniforms of the Marist Col-
lege maintenance staff.
I
have nothing against taking
breaks -
l
'm a coffee achiever
myself. But seeing these p·eople'
drinking java while there are press-
ing maintenance problems at hand
really rubs me the wrong way.
• Everyone I've asked has some
kind of gripe with maintenance,
but being that
I
am certain my own
story is true,
I
will now indulge in
my past experience with the men in
beige.
. No one will argue the point that
today, a refrigerator is a necessity.
The refrigerator. in my (Garden)
apartment broke last April and re-
mained broken through the first
week and a half of last September,
despite repeated calls to and visits
from maintenance. They finally
took away the-broken refrigerator
".for repairs," replacing it with a
refrigerator they· said they took
from Father Benedict. •
·"You
took
that
from a
PRIEST?!"
complained
our
friends.
•
"Look,''
I
said, "for the first
time in weeks, our milk has not
turned to cheese -
a nifty little
twist that makes for a lumpy cup
of coffee. Priest or no, we're keep-
ing it!"
About a week later, we received
a knock at our door. They brought
back our old refrigerator because
it was "fixed."
Sports Editor:
Page 6 - THE CIRCLE- February 25, 1988
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men in beige
. "I've·had i_t running, aHplugg-
ed iii' arid ·everything, for a week
now in the shop. It's just fine
now,'' said the maintenance man,
denting our walls and leaving a trail
of brown sludge as he carted the
fridge across the living room.
Being
that
the
trusty
maintenance man had just told us
he'd had the refrigerator plugged
in for a week, you can imagine our
surprise when we opened the fridge
and found mold all over the inside ..
I'm no scientist, but if the pillar of
truth had actually had the fridge
plugged in, wouldn't it have been
• kind of impossible for the mold to
grow inside? I thought so.
This little story has a happy en-
ding because we did get a new
refrigerator -
but not before my
roommates went to speak to hous-
ing about the problem. They were
later reprimanded by our residence
director for "going over her head."
She was well aware of the problem,
but did nothing to help us. We
didn't care whose toes we stepped
on, we just wanted a place to keep
our dairy products fresh.
Our unit coordinator informed
us ·that all housing could do to help
us was to put a complaint and re-
quest in to the maintenance office.
She said housing couldn't tell
maintenance what to do.
Housing-can't tell maintenance
what to do? Does anyone else find
this odd? I don't care who does it,
when there's a problem, just get the
job done. I don't maj<e out
separate checks to housing and
maintenance when I pay my board.
I'm really not interested in the
chain of command that runs this
particular aspect of our school. All
I know is that if I have a problem,
there is someone I call for help.
They have· to help me because I pay
them to help me. When I pay them
to fix that which is broken and they
don't, I get angry. .
.
I could go on - oh, could I go
on! - about the many gripes regar-
ding the maintenance staff, but
I
have neither the time nor patience
to do so. Right now, I'm going
home to watch the Celtics. Maybe
I'll have a nice cup of coffee, and
thank my lucky stars I can drink it
and not chew it.
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the freed om fighters
by Imre Bcke Jr.
"revolutionaries."
burned, and my husband shot to
death."
In January of this year, the U.S.
House of Representatives defeated
a measure to continue supplying
the Nicaraguan freedom fighters
with military equipment.
The
liberal front
in
America is cheering
this as a victory for peace and, in
some cases, freedom. But is it?
Aside from the terrorist connec-
tion~ there are numerous instances
of Hitler-like cruelty and human
rights violations. The following
two examples are taken· from a
pamphlet published by The Coali-
tion for Jobs, Peace and Freedom
in the Americas.
These quotes are perfect
ex-
amples of a tactic that has become
standard among the forces of
Marxist
governments
and
rebellions, especially in Third
World nations.
That is, the
systematic use of terror and cruel-
ty to intimidate the defenseless in-
to submission. Mao Tse-Tung said
that any guerilla movement must
have the support of the masses to
succeed. The Sandinistas are ter-
rorizing the peasants to deny the
contra revolution this much need-
ed support.
Those people who decry contra
aid are the same peoplewho attack-
ed the current administration for
trading arms to Iran. They ranted
that this was "negotiating with ter-
rorists." They seem to be ignoring
the fact that Nicaragua's dictator,
Daniel Ortega, is buddy-buddy
with Libyan terrorist supplier,
Muammar Qadhafi.
"The army was moving fast,
treating everyone with extreme
cruelty. They wanted to make us
leave town as quickly as possible.
Gabino Flores approached me
from behind and quietly said,
"They killed Christina Mercado
while she was giving birth to her
twins
... she
could not finish quickly
enough to leave town with the
others."
The problem here in America is
not that this much needed informa-
tion is being kept from the people,
it's that the liberal majority in con-·
gress, and those who put them
.there,
are too naive, too ignorant,
or too blinded by the propaganda
to understand
what kind of
There are also photographs of
Ortega. joining Qadhafi in the
clenched-fist salute used world-
wide by socialist terrorists who dare
to
call
themselves
Another vitim recounted, " ... I
was taken
by force to the
Evangelical Chapel
.and
raped.
Later that night, the•military com-
mander beat me. my house was
Winter Olympics,
North End style
by Ken Foye
I love the Winter Olympics. But I didn't know
they were holding one of the events here, right at
Marist College.
.
Unfortunately, this event is so dangerous that
nobody has won so far. There are no medals award-
ed. Plenty of people have lost, though. Falls in this
event are far more frequent than in skiing or figure
skating -
and more dangerous.
It's the Gartland Commons Apartment stoop ice-
walk.
I said before that"this event has had no winners,
•
but plenty ofiosers. The biggestfoser was a Marist
student named Dawn Suriano.
.
Dawn, a junior, was attempting the dangerous
icy run on the stoop in front of apartment E-12
when she slipped and hit her back directly on the
corner of the step. She was taken away in an am-
bulance, her neck in a cervical collar.
Dawn slipped because the apartments don't have
gutters -
a basic element in residential construc-
tion for scores of years (the stoops also don't have
railings, but that's another matter). The water runs
down the roof, lands on the stoop, and freezes. The
result is an ice patch that looks like a skating rink
after the Zamboni just ran over-it. Slippery stuff.
Dawn missed a whole week of classes and could
not even walk for several days after the accidenL
I suspect that Dawn woJtd rather not compete in
this grueling and dangerous Olympic event ever
'again.
But since the apartments STILL have no gutters,
she might have to.
It's a thought she doesn't relish.
"I'm afraid to walk on ice now," Dawn said.
"Whenever I see a shiny spot on the ground, I walk
around it because I think- it's
ice."
I called up the International Olympic Commit- •
tee to find out more about this dangerous event.
But they told me they had never heard of it, let
alone sanction it. So this whole thing must be
Marist's doing. Imagine four years down the road
when it is an Olympic event. The Americans will
dominate for a change.
Besides, in most Olympic events there are
measures taken to insure the safety of the athletes.
The ski runs are equipped with safety nets, so that
skiiers don't go off the trail and
crash
into the trees.
Bobsledders, lugers, skiiers and hockey players
have to,wear helmets. Even figure skaters wear
padded suits when practicing new moves.
What has Marist done to insure the safety of the
apartment residents? Frankly, I'd rather strap on
a pair of skis and try flying down Nakiska than
attempt some of those apartment ice runs.
And I can't ski.
The sad thing about Dawn's accident, and the
dozens of others that have occured, is that they
could have:been prevented.
But somebody out there - physical plant direc-
tor Anthony Tarantino, or maybe somebody else
- must think that we either go to school in Florida,
or sit down and slide out of the apartments on our
butts. A Marist student was taken away on a stret-
cher three weekends ago, and nothing has been
done about the ice runs yet.
Since I don't even live in the apartments, some
of you might be wondering why the hell I am com-
plaining about this. If you are, I'll shut up for a
minute and let you know what Dawn told me.
"I thought about suing the school,· and my
parents talked about it," she said. "But I'm not
interested in money. I just want the gutters put up.
Maybe if (my accident) lights a fire under them
...
"
So when a student is taken away from here in
an ambulance as a result of an accident which
Marist College could have prevented, 1 have to
wonder if the safety of the college community is
a top priority around here. I like to think it is, but
Dawn's slip happened over three weeks ago and the
apartments still don't have gutters.
Until the weather warms, the Olympic event of
ice-walking will continue. There will be no judges,
no spectators, no awarding of medals, no points
for technical merit or artistic impression -
only
injured students and emergency medical personnel
carting them off to the hospital.
Please, Mr. Tarantino, put the gutters up soon.
Ken Foye
is
a junior
majoring
in
communications.
slaughter and terror is being pro-
pagated by the Ortega regime.
Our congressmen do not seem to
care that while the U.S. has a total
of 55 military advisors in the area
Nicaragua has 2,100 military ad-
visors from the Soviet Union,
Cuba, and East Germany in charge
of its military. What is worse is that
the number is increasing every day,
as is the sophistication of the
weaponry supplied by the Soviets
to the Nicaraguan government.
lfwe don't resume
shipments
of
the military supplies to the freedom
fighters soon, future generations
will speak of Speaker of the House
Jim Wright in the same way that
we now
speak
of former British
Prime
Minister
Neville
Chamberlin. This nonsense of
"gi.ving peace a chance" is nothing
more
than
an appeasement that
plunged Europe and the world in-
to World War II as well
as
the hor-
rors of Nazi death camps. Daniel
Or(ega is the new Adolf Hitler and
he must be stopped.
The original
revolution
in
Nicaragua offered hope to a peo-
ple oppressed by the Samoza
regime. Oncg<! has
stolen
this hope
away from the people. For this
reason many of those involved in
the
'79
revolution have joined the
ranks of the contras. We must
restore that hope to the Nicaraguan
people.
No
sane
person wants war, but
in some
cases,
it is a necessary evil.
Many well-meaning people parrot
the word "peace'' without con-
sidering that peace·is worth nothing
without the freedom that will back
it up.
Let's work on one goal at a time.
I say freedom first, then peace.
Irme Bcke
Jr.
is a freshman ma-
joring in political science.
cheap
leisure
suit
Dr. Chowder Breath
by
Don Reardon
though, he makes a mega-buck
either way.
My dentist is evil.
Indeed, a
simple
check-up costs
Hair o.n knuckles, hair on face,
$61.50. That's $61.50 of my hard
chowder on breath, he is evil.
earned skins for x-rays, a delicious
My dentist is Dr. Chowder
fluoride treatment, and a trip to the
Breath.
treasure chest, where I may get
Chowder Breath filled my teeth
balloons, a comic book, a balsa
last week'. l had two cavities. l
glider, or a po~ato.
gue:s the ~r~sueam
~s.
on ~tri.ke;·
,_;
.:t~
woJJ)cl::t>.~·.rewi}~)f;J·,•~iRn't-
1 ve noticed that my denllst has
mention ihe horror of die fluoride
wonderfully relaxing watercolor
treatment. For the fluoride virgins:
sea scapcs on his office wall. As he
Chowder Breath coats a little
picks and drills, I ninch and make
styrofoam
mouthpiece
with
gurgling noises at lobster boats and
fluoride goo. He inserts it in my
seagulls.
mouth and says, "Bite this."
"This won't hurt a bit," he says
The Bite this fluoride goo' comes
as his seven inch Novocain needle
in a variety of flavors including
dips into
rr-y
jowls. "It'll feel like
bubblegum,
cherry,
rootbeer,
a little mosquito bite."
coconut atmond, and shark.
Actually, it'll feel like a swarm
Shark is bad.
of South American killer bees in
Coconut almond tastes like Cop-
my mouth, but I can't tell him
pertone Suntan oil and batterv
because I hav! a suction tube in my
acid, and frankly it makes m~
mouth which severely diminishes
sweaty.
my verbal skills.
The drill makes me sweaty too.
Novocain and suction do not
But I could devote several pages of
help my speech patterns. Novocain
this periodical, let alone make a
docs, however. amuse me. I'm
sure
nine part mini-series, on "Dentist's
everyone bites their lower lip as
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Drill Hysteria, And Other Horror
hard as they can simply because
Stories
From the Hygienists
they can't feel the pain.
Chair."
Wouldn't Novocain be great for
To tolerate these occasional trips
party gags?
·I
could inject some
to the dentist follow my lead.
Novocain into my spine, chew off
I often imagine the drill is a tas-
all my limbs, and never feel a thing.
ty treat like candy corn (a delicious
Novocain does impair spitting.
halloween staple).
Hard as I may blow, I have yet to
Even more often I imagine my
Ian~ my spit in ~he little suction
hairy-faced,
hairy-knuckled,
basm. My paper btb always ends up
chowder- breathed dentist is a
saturated with water, spit, and
beautiful fashion model who only
silver filling particles.
wants to kiss me on my mouth.
Chowder Breath doesn't care
Continued from page 6
Letters-------------------
Drunk driving
my tuition money goes to _a pro-
gram such as this. I am, however,
To the editor:
•
It is unfortunate that none of the
distrubed at the fact my ~oney 1s
d
d
I
being wasted because only a very
ncwspap~r space evote ~ecent y
small portion of students know
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to reporung, or commenting on,
about the program. What is going . the two accidental deaths of Marist
students has been able to clearly
on here? Isn't the college suppos-
state the basic facts of these tragic
ed to help us, the students? Perhaps
the students are just being treated
incidents.
d
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The reports I have received in-
as meal tickets by the a m1mstra-
dicate that both were the
victims
of
tion. Things must change!
This is a time when life-
the driving of others. In one case,
a vehicle swerved into the lane in
threatening diseases such as AIDS
which one of our students was driv-
are on the rampage. Colleges and
Universities across the nation, such
ing.1n the other case, a car drove
as Princeton, Dartmouth and St.
off the road to hit the automobile
Lawrence to name a few, are pro-
in which Marist students were
viding their students not only with
parked. In both instances the driver
lectures and free condoms, but with
responsible for the accident was
over twenty-one years of age. In at
the
•
right of knowing these pro-
least one of these situations the
grams exist for them.
responsible driver was. charged with
Michael McAllister
substance abuse. Neither accident
occurred
locally. The drivers
responsible for the accidents were
not Marist students.
The.memorial service for Mario
Manfredi, '91, will be held on Sun-
day, 28 February, at 11:15
A.M.
in
Seat of Wisdom Chapel:Fifteen or
more of Mario's relatives are plan-
ning on being at this service. All
members of the college communi-
ty are invited to join in prayer with
the Manfredi
family on this
occasion.
Gerard A. Cox
Vice President/Dean for
Student Affairs
Circle complaint
To the editor:
In my view, the article entitled
"A dinner guest? No way!" by Bill
Johnson, which appeared in the
Feb. 4 Circle, should never have
appeared in a Marist publication.
It is a tragic example of the
negative stere!)typing of individuals
who suffer from mental disorders.
The use of such terms as "maniac"
and "psycho-ward" appear unwar-
ranted in the case of this confused
man who simply opened an unlock-
ed door and used the bathroom.
I am sorry that the girl was
frightened. If she had been made
aware through her education that
the vast majority of "mentally ill"
individuals are harmless, sad peo-
ple, her reaction, instead of terror,
might have been compassion.
• "Mental illness" can strike any
one of us at any time. The Marist
Community is no exception. As
educated people we owe it to
ourselves to do everything we can
to break down negative stereotypes
that lead to shame and guilt in in-
nocent victims and their families.
If the Circle article reflects the
values of Marist, we arc not doing
a good job in educating our
students and I, for one, am
ashamed.
Midge Schratz,
Director of
Graduate Psychology
Writing contest
To the editor:
Marist students have been in-
vited to compete in a research
paper contest sponsored by the St.
Patrick's Day Parade and Celebra-
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in
front
Not another
baby picture
by Ken Hommel
The title "She's Having a
Baby" isn't exactly appropriate.
Granted, it's better than "She's
Having Three Men and a
Baby," but it doesn't allow this
John Hughes film to stand out
from the current barrage of
baby pictures. And it should.
Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth
McGovern star as a young mar-
ried couple whose
struggles
are
the focus of much of the movie.
It isn't until the
second
half that
the idea of pattering little feet
comes into play. The first half
is Hughes' entry into adult films
and tends to need a little more
humor. Nevertheless, Hughes'
trademarks from his earlier
films -
the lead character
(Bacon) narrating, dream se-
quences, bizarre juxtapositions
and characters_ with last nam·es
for
.fir.st
Oc~!lles-: are. app;irent.
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Althouuh.-the first half isn't
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laugh~a-mi.nute, it certainly was
entertaining. Bacon is discuss-
ing his premarital jitters with his
best friend (Alec Baldwin) while
the ceremonv waits for him.
Herc, Hughe; really conveys the
ramifications of marriage and
changes in life, as opposed to
his assumptions of modern
teenage life in his previous
films. When Bacon finally
enters the church, the illusions
begin as
the
minister reads vows
in whicli Bacon not only must
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expensive car, a conclo and an.
agreement to cater to each of
her
emotional
needs.
The
struggles
of a new mar-
riage are also played well as
Bacon and McGovern use·
newspapers on the floor to
represent
furniture,
their
parents intrude and they attend
block parties with men involv-
ed in lengthy discussions about
power mowers and garden hoses
while the women gossip.
Hughes probably didn't realize
that along with his jabs at
. suburbJa; h'e·also'displayed the
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inevitable': problem of inany
-
screen families-
having to put
up with neighbors like Edie
McClurg.
There's also satire at the ex-
pense of college
grads
as Bacon
armed
with
a degree
in
Elizabethan Romance tries to
get a job at an ad agency (a
former workplace of Hughes')
and succeeds by impressing the
ad-men with a resume where his
Social Security number
is
the
only legitimate reference.
The second half is where the
humor comes into play as
McGovern yearns to have a
child while Bacon becomes
distracted by models at work.
Fortunately, the film's realism
isn't sacrificed by letting Bacon
ruin his marriage. They remain
fantasies,
despite
Bacon's
hesitation and and the film is
richer for it.
McGovern, who was a bitchy
best friend to Demi Moore in
"About Last Night," proves to
be admirable, especially when
resisting advances from Bacon's
best
friend.
Bacon
and
McGovern's characters have
uniqueness which is extraor-
dinary when most films are fill-
ed with "types." In the end,
Bacon gives a sympathetic por-
trayal when complications arise
in the delivery room.
The movie was made in
1986
but held from release when
Hughes decided to put "Planes,
Trains· and Automobiles" out.
Page 8 - THE CIRCLE - February 25, 1988
Students get ready for USSR trip
by Mary Stricker
been greatly reduced allowing
Students will have free time to
foreign visitors to see Vladimir and buy souvenirs in the "beryozka"
It is spring break - ocean, sand, Suzdal for the first time and to tourist shops and to sample some
tanning oil, beach parties or communicate with Soviet citizens notorious
Russian
vodka.
perhaps -
the Soviet Union.
openly.
However,
Norkeliunas
warns
While most college students are
"Freedom
of speaking
to students not to forget that Soviet
flocking to Daytona Beach or the strangers and foreigners since Gor-
customs and laws arc radically dif-
Bahamas for some "fun in
·the
bachev, is one of the visible signs ferent from our own and
to
steal
sun,"
others have chosen to of the openness of glasnost,' " said an ashtray from the hotel or to get
sacrifice a great tan to discover a Norkeliunas. "It's a real revolution involved in drugs would result in
culture quite different from our and
1
want
to
see it - we all want" severe punishment.
own.
to see it."
"If you are caught stealing or
Thirty-six Marist students, facul- -------------
with drugs they will put you in jail
ty members and area residents will
My
parents
won't
.
for six years, no questions asked,"
travel throughout the cities of Len-
said Norkeliunas.
ingrad, Moscow, Vladimir and put
me
on
·a
bus
to
The cost of the trip is $1214 and
Suzdal for 10 days beginning
Rh d
I I
·
d
-
b
t
students may also choose to earn
March IO. They will visit Moscow's
O e
S an
U
credits through the trip in a·class
Kremlin. Red Square. the home of they'll
put
me
on
,.
a
titled "Friendship
Educational
author Leo Tolstoy and other
-
Tour through the Soviet Union."
monuments that have survived plane
for a communist
according to Norkeliunas.
more than 10 centuries.
CO
Un try.'
Norkeliunas
·has
provided the
This is the first time the trip has
students with Russian language
been offered at Marist for more
cassettes
to
assure them that
al
least
than 10 years due to political in-
To make contact with the Soviet
they ,viii be able to ask directions
stability between the United States students, Norkeliunas said he plans
to the rest room and has met with
and the Soviet Union, according to to organize a basketball game, as
each student to discuss details and
Dr. Casimir Norkeliunas, Marist he did on the last trip, with students
procedures but for some students
professor of German and Russian, from the University of Leningrad
a feeling of
·anxiety
remains.
who organized the trip.
or Moscow University.
"I'm afraid I'm going to get
The "return to detente" with the
The Marist group will follow a
stuck
there,"
said
Roxann
Casimir Norkeliunas.
(Photo by Bob Davis)
If you are caught
stealing or with drugs,
they will put you 'in .jail
for six years, no ques-
tions asked.'
signing of the INF treaty and Soviet rigid
schedule
each day under the
Phaneuf, a junior from Coventry,
Prime
Minister
Gorbachev's
direction of an appointed guide
R.I.
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"glasnost"
policies have led from the governmental agency
"My parents won't put me on a
country,"
added
Maureen
Norkeliunas to believe that, "this
"INTOURIST"
which serves all
bus
10
Rhode Island but they'll put
McGuinness,
a junior
from
is the right time."
foreign travellers in the Soviet
me on a plane to a communist
Schenectady, N. Y.
-Restrictions
for. tourfsts have Union.
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Railroad bans smoking·
by Bill Johnson
"You can still tell which cars us-
ed to be the smoking car -
they
The two-hour commute from
still smell," said Russ Gerroir, a
Poughkeepsie to New York on
senior communication arts major
Metro-North trains probably seem-
from Maynard, Mass.
ed
a lot longer for some passengers
Fetterly and Gerroir say they
last week.
have noticed the ban has pushed
The smoking
ban by the
some smokers into lighting up on
Metropolitan
Transportation
the platform or between the cars.
Authority on all Long Island
_
Other smokers defied the ban.
Railroad and Metro-North Com-
The first night the ban was in ef-
muter R~ilroad trains_ went i!)t<?
cf•
Ject, m_os~.J?as~engers_in
a ca~ ~f
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feel M~l;
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'--~~om~~t~..i;_:healiing .. b~e."Jc~
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Poughkeepsie sang patnouc songs
~!though no arrests were made,
and puffed away in protest of the
pohce ~nd M.T.A. authorities rode
rule, which
they
claim violates their
the trams to enforce the new rule,
rights.
according to R.S. Hoffman, a con-
Smokers face a $100 fine for
ductor for Metro-North. Smokers
violating the han.
were asked
to
extinguish their
cigarettes, but they lit up again
when the authorities were gone, he
said.
Hoffman explained that police
officers ride the train from Grand
Central Terminal to Croton, where
passengers change trains. From
that point_on,. he sa(d, there are no
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mind
Godfathers
·of music
by Derek Simon
j
In lat~ 1985, two South London
brothers, Chris and Peter Coyne,
were struggling through their last
days with the Sid Presley Ex-
perience. In its short life, the SPE
had become one of underground
Britain's most talked-about units.
While this was due partly
10
the
band's on-stage brawls and antics,
it was chiefly attributed to their
highly regre~sive hence ultimately
progressive style.
•
While the SPE might have been
headed for disaster, the Coynes
refused to get trampled in the im-
pending chaos or relinquish their
hard-earned acclaim to what the
band described
as
"a host of dance
music poseurs and gutless glamour
queens."
In early 1986, they formed a new
band with two Yorkshire natives,
George Mazur and Mike Gibson,
and a fiery lead guitarist
.named
Kris Dollimore. The
.
Godfathers
had been born.
The Godfathers breathe new life
into the classic two-guitar, bass,
drums and vocals arrangement.
Their gritty sound and uncom-
promising stance· are part of the
legacy left by the early Who and
The Yardbirds.
The band's first release on their
own Corporate Image label was a
----The
Godfathers----
three-song 12-inch titled "Present
Capo Di Tutti Capi." "We wanted
our own label because we wanted
control over everything," says
Chris. "We just wanted our own
band, our own sound, our own
look and make records that sound
exclusively like The Godfathers,"
Peter adds.
In May 1986, a second single
called "This Damn Nation" rose to
number six on the U.K. indepen-
dent charts. lt was followed in
September by a double-A sided hit
"I Want Everything" b/w "Sun
Arise." By year's end, there was
enough interest in the band for the
"Hit By Hit" album to be releas-
ed in the U.S. by Link Records.
The album documented the band's
first year, including all three
singles, their respective B-sides, and
a previously unreleased version of
John Lennon's "Cold Turkey."
Through
1987,
The Godfathers
toured steadily around Britain and
Europe. Ironically enough, the
band's greatest success came in
Scandinavia, where they headlined
a 20,000 seat capacity two-day pop
festival in Helsinki. The band also
made its first trek to the States,
playing a few select club dates to
wildly enthusiastic response from
fans and critics alike.
The band's moderate success led
to an eventual signing to Epic
Records, who released the band's
major-label debut single "Birth,
School, Work, Death" in the U.K.
last October. The track was pro-
mptly named single of the week by
both
leading
British
music
magazines,
"Sounds"
and
"Melody Maker."
Worldwide
release of the entire "Birth, School,
Work,
Death"
album soon
followed.
Jn truth, there is not a single
weak track on "Birth, School,
Work, Death." But the obvious
standouts are the title track, the
neo-psychedelic "When Am I
Coming Down," and
"Cause
I
Said So," a ferocious rocker whose
lyrics make you an "offer" you
can't refuse, truly in the tradition
of a real godfather.
February 25, 1988- THE CIRCLE - Page 9
WPDH
wakes up
to listeners' gripes
by Cheryl Sobeski
If you've been listening to
Poughkeepsie's WPDH-FM in the
morning, then you've probably
noticed that "The Morning Show"
is back. Yes, confusion temporarily
struck "The Home of Rock 'n'
Kuu,
•
but now the station says it's
back on track.
The top-rated morning show was
replaced last month, with the hope
of attracting even more listeners,
by the new upbeat style of "The
Big Breakfast" show, according to
Mike Harris, executive vice presi-
dent and general manager of
WPDH.
But listeners didn't like the "new
and exciting" show and respond-
ed with "hundreds of letters and
phone calls" asking for the return
of the old, friendly, familiar "The
Morning Show," said Harris.
After two weeks of hearing com-
plaints, Harris switched gears and
brought back "The Morning
Show" format -
without its
popular co-host, Stew Schantz.
Schantz was fired by Harris on
Jan.
17,
and hired by rival station
WSPK-FM. Schantz, who taught
at Marist as an adjunct professor
last year, had been WPDH's pro-
gram director for four years.
Harris said he fired Schantz
because of the cancellation of the
show and has no plans to re-hire
him.
The new show, which started last
week, is produced and directed by
John Steffanci. He and Schantz co-
hosted the original "Morning
Show."
"I have confidence John can do
the job," said Harris. "He was the.
original creator of the show. He
made up the features, dial-a-diddle.
sports talk, etc. He has a friendly.
likable character."
Schantz said he wishes Steffanci
well, but would never go back to
work for the station that fired him
and cancelled his show with no ad-
vance notice.
"I think now they realize the\"
made a mistake in cancelling the
show," said Schantz. "It just hurts
me when they say 'The Morning
Show' is back, because it's not
back.
It
could never be the
same."
Joining Steffanci in co-hostinl.!
the new show is new WPDH pro':
gram director, Jeff Left. Left came
to the station last month. He
formerly worked as a morning disc
jockey and program director
al
WHEB
in
New Hampshire.
"Jeff's a real exciting and mO\.
ing man," said Harris. "He's l!0t
a lot of radio experience and a r'cal
creative and quick-thinking mind.
I
think the listeners of this area
will
like his personality."
The new program replaced "The
Big Breakfast" duo of Bob Bro\\:n
and Jeff Curtis, who were also
hired last month by Harris. The\"
both worked as D.J .'s for
~
Brownsville, Texas, station, and
have styles similar to that of
"shock radio". DJ Howard Stern
of K-Rock in
N.Y.
City.
Brown and Curtis will continue
to work at WPDH, although no
specific positions have been assign•
ed to them as of yet, said Harris.
For sophomores at the North End,
"I
think the listeners of the H ud-
son Valley liked 'The Momin!!.
Show' because we had a fricndl)\
one-to-one, laid-back approach."
said Steffanci. "We were just a
couple of local boys talking and
passing the time."
•
housing becomes a class struggle ··,
touch with our friends or being
"They watch,over us at first "
"The Morning Show" was the
,. area:s 1.1umber-01.1e-rated
program
•
-
in 'its time slot 'when
ii
,vas ·cancel-
ed, and the 50,000-watt station is
the top-ranked radio station in the
Mid-Hudson Valley, according
to
Arbitron.
by Nanc)· Bloom
Colleen LeMay arrived in
September looking foward to liv-
ing next to all her friends -
she
was disappointed.
LeMay, a junior from Hingham,
Mass., found that sophomores had
moved into the Townhouses where
her friends should have been.
This year was the first time
underclassmen were placed in the
Townhouses, an area previously
reserved for upperclassmen. The
change has caused some feelings of
resentment among upperclassmen,
while the sophomores themselves
say they have mixed emotions
about life at the North End.
George Dioguardo,
residence
director of the North End, said the
51 sophomores in the Townhouses
had some problems initially with
the unexpected move into the area.
The college was forced to put
sophomores into traditionally up-
perclassman housing when the
number of sophomores needing
housing exceeded projections.
Marist guarantees
on-campus
housing
for
freshmen
and
sophomores, and the presence of
underclassmen in the Townhouses
has meant the relocation of some
juniors and seniors to Canterbury
Apartments, an off-campus com-
plex leased by the college.
The sophomores were assigned
to
the
A-section
of
the
Townhouses, and priority was
given to those sophomores with the
highest number of priority points.
The sophomores had trouble ad-
justing at first because although
they knew their roommates, many
were not familiar with the rest of
their housemates, according to
Dioguardo.
"A lot of them didn't want to
live out there," Dioguardo said.
"They didn't anticipate it and
might have felt they weren't ready
for it."
Added sophomore Chris Ariot-
ti, a computer science major from
Stamford, Conn.: "At first we
were all thrown together. It took
some getting used to but now we
•
all get along fine."
While most of the sophomores
have adjusted, Dioguardo said,
some problems remain.
"The biggest problem is that
they feel ostracized," Dioguardo
said. "Upperclassmen seem to
think that living in the Townhouses
is their right."
•
He also said some upperclassmen
resent the sophomores because
their
friends
.
were sent
to
Canterbury.
"Because the sophomores took
an
entire
section
of
the
Townhouses, my friends were all
shipped to Canterbury,"
Rich
Sabol, a senior from Warwick,
N.Y., said.
"l
was set up alone
with nine guys I didn't even
know."
The juniors and seniors left in
the A-section of the Townhouses
criticize the Housing Office for
separating
members of their
classes.
Karen Gorman, a junior from
Valley Cottage,
N.Y.,
said:
"Separating class members causes
friends to separate. We shouldn't
have to worry about not being in
shipped out to Canterbury."
Duffy said. "They wanted us ~o
"People also seem to think these
mess up so they can say we failed."
sophomores were being given some
Sophomore Tony Santoro, a
typeofprivilege," Dioguardosaid.
marketing major from Suffern,
"It is just that we had to accom-
N.Y., said: "They are resentful
modate the underclassmen first."
towards us. But what makes up-
Another problem, according to
perclassmen so special?"
Dioguardo, is a feeling of isolation
John Allen, a communication
among the sophomores, most of
arts major from Burnt Hill, N. Y .,
whom live in Champagnat Hall.
said he can't understand why up-
"Living in the Townhouses real-
perclassmen don't associate with
ly makes you realize who your
the sophomores.
friends are," Amy Latourette, an
"You can tell their resentful," he
accounting major from Old Lyme,
said. "But why can't they talk to
Conn., said. "They're the ones
us here the way they talk to us in
who take the time to come visit
bars and stuff?"
you."
Despite the problems,
the
A-section sophomores said they
sophomores said the advantages of
feel resentment from some of the
living in the Townhouses outweigh
20 upperclassmen who occupy two
the disadvantages.
of the seven houses in the section.
Dan Tarara, a pre-med major
Brigid Duffy, a business ad-
from Boston, Mass., said it was
ministration major from Oneorita,
hard at first to adjust to living with
N.Y.,
said she thinks the up-
IO diverse people.
perclassmen
didn't
think
"Now we are one big family,"
sophomore
could handle the
he said, "and we have a free, in-
responsibility of living in the
dividualistic lifestyle."
Letters--
Continued from paie
7
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paper is, "American Contributions
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winners will receive individual
prizes of $600, $400 and $200,
respectively.
The deadline for application is
March 3. The final research paper
must be postmarked by March
17.
Interested
students
should see me
in my office in Donnelly 2:30 for
additional details and/or to discuss
possible topics.
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10
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by
-Jeff'.Nicosia
•. Have you eyer r~ad one of
those
·really
stupid newspaper
articles that appear"from
_time
to
time asking an individual what
•
they: would bring with them if
• they were" stranded on a desert
. island?
• The. whole idea is 'kind of
foolish because, let's face it,
• even the Professor and Mary
A_nn· didn't
pack. enough
underwear when they ended up
on. Gilligan's Island. Plus,
almost every critic lists the same
things; "Oh
i
just couldn't live
•
without The Beatles~• " 'Sgt.
Peppers' album" or "I'd need
a life supply of-Eviari water and
Dove Bars."
I've never been one to abstain
froin doing something really
stupid, so what follows is a ran-
dom Jis(of a few things I'd take
with me if, percha11ce,
I
knew
in advance that
I
was. going to
be stranded on a desert
-island
(excluding a lifeboat).
Basics: A VCR, a really loud
stero, my .1_967
Bing Surfb.oard
(for •a~pearailce'-oruy;-.:1•·m a
horrible surfer);
a
Honda
generator,
a microwave, a
maid/servant/ill-virtued
love-
goddess, a queen-size bed and a
fully-stocked Taco Bell.
Clothes: The entire Ralph
Lauren and Armani lines, lots
of big, baggy, cot ion things, 489
lies and no shoes (O.K., maybe
my red boat sneakers).
Shelter: Either Greg Brady's
hip bachelor pad (the attic), or
the. apartment
from "The
Courtsi,ip of Eddie's Father."
Music (very_ important):
Everything ever recorded by
The Clash, Sex Pistols, The
Replacements and The Smiths.
The
.
first albums from The
Specials, Led Zeppelin and The
Dead Milkmen. Sly and The
Family Stone: "Greatest Hits,"
UB40: "Rat in The Kitchen"
and Anthrax: "I'm the Man."
No
Tiffany,
Madonna,
Krusade, Beatles or David Soul
records.
•
Food: Fourteen billion-White
Castle hamburgers, gyros from
that greasy place on 42nd s"t.,
Wendy's Chicken Club sand-
•
wiches, Beef in Garlic· Sauce
from Wang Shu in Kingston,
N.Y.,
mom's cheesecake, fried
calamari from Lenny's Clam
Bar in Rockville Center; N.Y.
and 6008 boxes
.
of King
Vitamin.
.
Drink: Large quantities of
Corona Beer (no limes,. thank
you), a 42 gallon. drum of
Mountain Dew, a few cases of
Orangina, Stolavich Vodka,
Rose's Lime Juice, Schwepps
.
Tonic Water, Yoo~Hoo, Earl
Grey Tea, and some milk saved
from the bottom of a bowl of
Count· Chocula.
.
Movies: (VCR tapes): Repo
Man, The Song Remains the
Same, Stripes, SSSSSSSSS
(remember that movie where the
college kid turns into a snake?),
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World, The Electric Loveslut's
Hot Weekend, and Barbarella.
Reading
Material:
N. Y.
Metro, The Village Voice, Long
Island Newsday (old habits are
hard to break),The Sunday New
York Times, Spin, New York
Paper, and anything written by
J.D. Salinger, David McCraw,
or Larry Flynt.
People: The Dunking Den,
Johnny Rotten, Robert McCall,
Paulina Porzikova,
Maryln
Monroe (this is fiction, so why
not live it up?) and Joey
O'Brien.
Some Items I Would Leave
Home: A pre-greased rectal
thermometer, Morton Downey
Jr., Breakdancers.
'Nuff Said. Later.
Page 10 - THE CIRCLE - February 25, 1988
-_Leap
year is
-ba.ck.
again~
but how did•
it
.get
-here?
ACROSS
1 Lucid
8Keen
11"
Alter
12 Word of
honor
by n1eryl Sobeski
If you've been busy counting
down the days on your calendar to
Spring Break then you've· noticed
the extra day thrown in at the end
of February. Nin teen eighty-eight
ly but is no longer taken seriously.
•
14 Foray
Leap year can be traced back to
.
15
Large
voracious
45
B.C. to t~e calendar J!lade up by •
17
:'ached to
•
~oman Juhus Caesar.·.
.
·
18 ventilate
The earth takes 365 days, five
19 Steeple
.hours, 48 minut~s and_
a
liul~ over .
20
Eggs
31Suc:cesslonof
klnga
34 Strikes
35 American black
snake·
aeCoooernlng
37
Anger
30 Lock• of hair
39 Yellow
ocher
40 Parent: colloq.
41
Cowboy
·The
Weekly
Crossword
Puzzle
is a leap. year.
The addition of Feb; 29 has
caused confusion
throughout
history, and according to Jeff Ray-
mond, a sophomore from Bogota,
..
N.J., the present is no exception.
"My birthday's on the 29th; but
I.
tell everyone it's-on the 28th,"
said Raymond; whose birthday is
listed as Feb. 28 in Marist's files.
45
seconds to revolve around the
21 ReYerse:
abbr.
sun .. Caesar thought the world
22
Sows
needed a simple way to record
23
Encourage
time, and devised his own calendar.
24 Attar
He called this the Julian calendar
28 Cubic meter
but.we presently use the Gregorian
27
Nuisance
calendar.
.
28 Municipality
Caesar decided a year on his
29 Ear of
com
competition
42 River duck
43
Band of color
45 Stair posts
47 Ardent
48
Short jackets
DOWN
1
Seats
2Den
calendar would officially be 36S
..,...
......
2 ........ 3 ........ 4 ---,.,,.5 -
days long. At the end of four years-,
the extra six hours per year would
make an additional day which he
added to February because it was
the shortest !ll<>nth.
3Goal
4Symbolfor
silver
5 Regard
&Muta
7
Rabbit
8 Wooden vessel
9 Artificial
language
10 Shore bird
11
Wooden
container
13 Growing
out
of
18Conc:eal
19Judgment
20
Executes
the
commands of
22 LOOksfor
Raymond was born in the leap
year 1968. A leap year occurs every
four years and has 366 days instead
of 365, the extra day falling on Fc;b.
29. According to student files, no
other Marist student celebrates his
birthday ori the 29th.
Caesar's move to set the solar
year at 36S days,. six hours caused
an ever-widening discrepancy bet-
·ween
his. calendar and the seasons
of the year. The rounding off of
~
..... --1--t
23
Essence
Raymond said having Feb. 29
once every four years is an inconve-
nience but he's not the only_ one
who's thought so.
·
In the past, the 29th was not even
considered a
'°
"legal"
day in
England. Whatever happened on
Feb. 29 was dated Feb. 28 in legal
records. The 29th- was uleaped.
~ver,'' explainj(!~ the-~~gli~.~
ferm
leap year," according to Jane
Hatch's "The American Book of
•
Days."
•
It
was also known as Bachelor's
•
Day, a tradition allowing· single
women to propose marriage to un-
married men on Feb. 29 and
throughout leap year.
A fifth century Irish legend tells
of St. Bridget complaining to St.
Patrick that her nuns weren't given
the chance to propose marriage
(nuns weren't then required by the
church to be celibate). Patrick
granted women the- right to pro-
pose marriage every leap
-year,
bccaose:it was "the longest in the
101."
This right was legalized. in
England, Scotland, France and Ita-
. the solar year caused Caesar's
calendar-to be three years ahead of
·the
solar year for every
·400
years
that had
.passed_.
._
In time. the-calendar would not"
cor"respond with the seasons.
Caesar's calendar needed to be
changed.·
Pope Gregory XIII did.just that
in March 1582. He came up with
a new calendar (the Gregorian), us-
ed today by much of the world.
-After.
•
:Some calctilations,· the
pope ordered leap year to be omit-
ted in all centenary years except
those divisible by 400. For exam-
ple, 1600 was a leap year but 1700
and 1800 were not.
The pope's change
"brought
the .
calendar year closer in line with the
solar year but it still wasn't enough
to make the calendar correspond to
the seasons accurately, it is 26
seconds ahead of the solar year
with every passing year. After
3,323 Gregorian years have passed,
we will be a full day ahead of the
solar year.
.
.
TA
ON
25 Malk;e
26 Mathematical
formulas
28Tornado
29Vessels
30 Buccaneer
31
Challenge
32 Tests
33Shouts
35
More Impolite
38
Contend with
39 Observed
41 Outfit
42
Couple
44Sun god
46 Latin
conjunction
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·-------------------
thursday
morning
. quarterback
·Another
Olympic
Tradition?
by-Chris Barry
The XV Winter Olympic
games have provided me with
yet another sports memory that
I will cherish forever.
I have memories of watching
Muhammed Ali box. I have
memories of Raf1ger-lslander
playoff games. I have the
memory of Buckner's blunder·
and my beloved Mets going on
to win the World Series.
But I never had the oppor-
tunity to watch one of today's
truly great sports.
Of course, I mean curling.
The nail-biting, breath-taking,
make-my-heart-skip-a-beat
sport of curling.
Many of you may have been
.
•
busy doing more exciting things
than watching the Olympics this
weekend - like cleaning the dirt
from underneath your toenails
-
so let me explain a little bit
about the sport.
••
Some people thought the
SP,Ort
involved a bunch of scan-
tily clad· females elbowing and
•
fighting their way from a com-
munity shower up an oiled-
spaked ramp to a curling iron in
front of a. ;two-way mirrpr,
February 25, 1988- THE CIRCLE - Page 11
Aerobics classes bulging at seams
by
Helen Gardner
the large classes held in the gym.
Schulz, also a psychology major,
- Marist
sophomore
Jessica
said the classes had to decrease.
Valente plans to leave for aerobics
One of the program's student co-
at least 30 minutes before class directors,
MaryEllen
Cardin,
begins.
realized the classes had to be reduc-
No, she doesn't leave for the ed after teaching a class of 64.
McCann Center early so she can get
Cardin, a communication arts
into the dance studio and stretch
major from Nashua, N.H., said,
before class, or to mentally prepare
"It gave me an uneasy feeling
herself for the workout ahead of· because I knew it was an unhealthy
her.
environment; not only because Qf
•
She leaves early so she can get in-
.
the danger of injury but more so
to the studio -
period.
the air itself would get too heavy
Valente is one of 225 active in such a small un-ventilated area
members of Marist's intramural
and cause people to hyperventilate
aerobics program trying to squeeze or pass out."
into eleven-weekly classes.
Cardin, however, said she does
To Valente, a psychology major
not believe the number of active
from Rhinebeck, the hour
·or
two
members will remain as high as the
she spends waiting for her two or
semester progresses. "I think the
three workouts a week is well worth
•
surge of interest is because spring
it. She said, "In the beginning of
•
break and spring itself are both ap-
the semester there were s·o many
proaching," she:said.
people in a few of the classes that
Co-director Donna Revellese
you really couldn't do anything
also attributes
the program's
right and you had no idea of what
growth to a lot of positive talk
the teachers were saying."
around campus. Revellese, a com-
"Now that they have limited the
munication arts major from Ver-
amount of people I have to come
non, Conn., said, "We knew peo-
early, but at least I know what the
pie were catching on to the.
instructor is saying and I can see aerobic's program and that after
her," Valente said.
this. break we'd have a lot of
Stacey Schulz, a junior from
newcomers."
Huntington, N._Y
., said she agreed
To alleviate overcrowding pro-
there was a lack of organization in blems; the instructors added two
more classes during the weekdays
and placed a 40-student limit on
each class.
"We've se-t the limit at 40, but
it's really up to the instructors and
what they're comfortable with,"
said Robert Lynch, assistant direc-
tor of intramurals. "We all realize
that the classes earlier in the week
are the easiest to make time for so
we expect
them
to remain
popular," he said.
Possible solutions to the over-
crowding problems which were
discussed included holding larger
classes on the weekdays that
everyone could attend or the im-
plementation of a rotating weekly
,, Mom says the
house
just
istit the
satne without me,
even
though
its
a lot cleaner.,,
schedule that different groups
would
follow,
according
to
Revellese.
Revellese said, "These girls and
guys want to keep in shape and if
the overcrowding remains a pro-
blem, they'll figure a way to get to
all the classes they can."
Until the overcrowding subsides,
Schulz and Valente will still leave
for McCann early to ensure they're
within the 40 person-limit. Valente
said: "The wait is worth it because
they do a really good job here.
They definitely compare to the
workouts you get at All-Sport and
it's free."
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rises ,vhen the opponent's rocks
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12
is a fine line, you work them hard
but not so hard they wan·t to quit."
Since the beginning of the season
not a single swimmer has left-the
team.
At the championship meet, the
·
team did well because they felt
good about themselves, Backlund
said.
"We had tee-shirts made up,
shorts, two large banners, a cow
bell, and two dozen balloons sur-
rounding our area. \Ve had the
most fun yet worked the hardest.
and we looked good" he
said.
Out of the 12 teams at the cham-
pionship meet, tvfarist received
compliments from nine other
coaches on their enthusiasm and
ability, much which was attributed
to Backlund's enthusiasm.
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O'Connor, Smits key
in Re,d. Fox victory
by Chris Barry and Dan Pietrafesa
Marist turned the ball over on four
~ey possessions down the stretch
enabling the Knights to run off 11 •
The tvlarist College
men's
basketball team bounced back
from a disappointing weekend by
beatmg Loyola, Md .. Monday,
100-86, improving their record to
16-8 overall and 11-2 in the ECAC
Metro Conference.
Tonight, the Red Foxes take on
Monmouth College in West Long
Branch, N.J., at 7:30 p.m. Marist
downed Monmouth,
67-66, in
overtime last month.
Joey O'Connor set new school
records for 3-pt field goals and 3-pt
field goal attempts as he went
8-for-11 from that range setting a
new career-high point total with 24.
New team records were also set in
those categories as the Red Foxes
shot a combined 13-for-22 from
3-pt range.
Rik Smits led Marist in scoring
with 29 points as Marist reached
the 100-point total for the second
time in history. The Red Foxes also
scored 100 points in 1981 against
head coach Dave Magarity's
former team, St. Francis, Pa.
Last Saturday Marist lost sole
possession of first place in the con-
ference by losing to Fairleigh
Dickinson
University,
78-75.
·straight points.
The loss gave both teams 10-2
records in the conference, but if the
season ends with both teams hav-
ing equal records the Knights will
be crowned regular-season champs
because they are the Red Foxes' on-
ly two losses.
The Knights entered the game
with a different defensive strategy
than most opponents have shown
Marist this year. They denied the
Red Foxes a perimeter game.
"They have excellent shooters on
the perimeter," said Knight guard
Charlie Roberts. "We gave them
respect."
"We know that Smits is going.to
do his thing," Roberts added. "We
had to stop their secondary
threat."
•
•
Smits led Marist with 37 points
- going over the 30-point total for
the fifth time this season. Roberts
and Damari Riddick led FDU with
19 points each.
.
Another key was the Knights' 56
percent shooting from the field.
Entering the game, Maris! was se-
cond in the nation in defensive field
goal percentage, trailing only top-
ra_nked Temple University.
Page 12 - THE: CIRCLE - February 25, 1988
Junior John K ijonek goes for a.lay-up during Marist's 78-75
loss to Fairleigh Dickinson University last weekend.
(Photo
by
Mark Gottcent)
Coach-of-year Backlund credits his team
by Pamela Shewchuk
After receiving the highest award
in the conference and coaching the
entire team to life-time bests, Doug
Backh1nd; .. head .coach of ,.the
women's swim team, said coming
into a program with such a good
team made his job easy.
Backlund received Coach-of-the-
year honors at Trenton State Col-
lege when Marist ended up with a
first-place
finish
in
the
l\-Ietropolitan Conference Swimm-
ing Championships.
Vie contributes his success first
with showing his team he cares. He
said he tries to treat each swimmer
equally, yet at the same time he
tries to give them each a lot of at-
• tent,ion. r{e_sa,id,,
'.'.They know that
I care, basically my life revolves
around swimming, I don't care a
whole lot about much else."
Before
coming
to
Marist,
Backlund was a graduate assistant
at Montclair State College in Mont-
clair, N.J., for two years.
"Coming into a team like this·
makes life easy, ri~l11 from the
start," said Backlund, "they did a
great job of recruiting and it paid
off." "The girls are the best and
really easy for me to coach," he
said.
•
Backlund said he believes there
is more to motivation than just
talking. He said if he knows each·
swimmer's goals it gives him an
idea what they're working for and
he can help them reach their goals.
One of Backlund's coaching
techniques came from his father.
He said his father used to tell him
everything he did wrong, then men-
Ski
team just misses regionals
b)·
Brth-kathleen McCauley
The l'vlarist College women's
ski team finished it; season on-.
ly five seconds out of second
place
and
the
regional
championships.
Marist finished just behind
Yale University. The two teams
had been neck and neck in· the
standings all season.
"It
was great coming this
close," said senior co-captain
Laura Murray, "Marist has on-
ly made it to the regionals
once."
-
The team, because of its club
status, has no coach or practice
sessions.
"When you arc up against
teams like Yale and Vassar that
practice weekly and have a
coach it's great to do as well as
we do. The natural talent on the
team is great," said Murray.
The men's team, however,
didn't have as good a season as
the•women.
Murray explains: "Only three
.of-the members returned from
last season, so basically it is a
. brand new team. Next season
they should do better just
because they will know what to
expect."
Although the team didn't
qualify for the regional cham-
pionships, co-captain Florence
Slour has the chance
to
go
individually.
. The members of the Marist College ski team.
tion the things he did right. He
found on many occasions he would
ignore c,r tune out what his father
was telling him. Backlund turned
this around and found that people
respond better to positive rein-
forcement followed with negative
but constructive comments. He
said people are more open to the
criticism if they're not overcome
with it.
Backlund said he feels he is. a
demanding coach. He said, "there
Continued on 1rngr 11
Lady cagers fall to FDU,
losing streak reaches three
by David Blondin
The Marist College women's
basketball team dropped its third
straight game last week, losing to
ECAC opponent Fairleigh Dickin-
son University, 59-37.
Marist also lost to Colgate
University, 72-57 and Manhattan
College, 60-45.
Against FDU, the Lady Red
Foxes shot 22 percent from the
field as Marist fell to 7-17 overall
and 4-9 in conference play.
FDU's Diane Campbell led all
scorers with 21 points and Danielle
Galarneau led Marist with 12
points and eight rebounds.
Marist made only 14 field goals
in the game, while FDU shot 44
percent from the field and out,
rebounded the Red Foxes 50-36.
"The .biggest thing that happen-
ed is that frustration set in," said
Ken- Babineau,
Marist's
head
coach.
"They did nothing we didn't ex-
pect them to do," said Babineau.
"We prepared for it all week."
Marist turned .the ball over 11
times in the first half and the Lady
Foxes were down 34-14 at the half.
Sue Blazejewski had eight points
and Annette McKay chipped in five
points and had three steals in the
Lady Red Foxes' losing effort.
The loss to FDU doesn't
eliminate Marist from the ECAC
tournament picture.
Three conference games remain,
against Loyola, Md., St. Francis.
Pa., and Robert Morris, with the
games against St. Francis and
Loyola becoming "must win"
situations for Marist.
The Lady Red Foxes need to get
back to the same intense level of
play they had prior to last week,
when Babineau said Marist was
playing its best basketball.
''They need to listen and_ learn
from their mistakes," Babineau
said. "Those two big games are the
kind of games we can win." •
Babineau said he had intended to
give the women the ·ctay off last
Thursday but after the loss to Col-
gate he said the defense needed
work.
"It
seemed like our feet were in
cement." said Babineau.
Colgate's Wendy Bleier led all
scorers with 23 p~ints arid had four
assists. Marist was led by Jacalyn
O'Neil's 16 points and four assists.
Babineau said that poor shooting
in the second half and a defensive
let down hurt Marist.
Marist played well in the first
half, shooting 43 percent from the
field, but still lrailed, 35-31.
"It
was like night and day," said
Babineau about his team's overall
performance.
Other leaders for Marist were
Danielle Galarneau with 12 points
and seven rebounds and Annette
Mckay who had nine points.
Maureen Dowe had a game-high
five assists.
Against
Manhattan,
Jacalyn
O'Neil had a game-high 20 points
and Michelle Michel had 11 points
including three 3-point field goals.