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VOLUME 64, ISSUE 20
FOUNDED IN 1965
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010
Foxes to dance for fifth straight year
By
PHILIP TERRIGNO
Sports Editor
It comes down to personnel that
can overcome adversity.
Ana
although the other nine
teams in the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) might want to
believe otherwise, the Marist Col-
lege women's basketball team has
it.
Even with the preseason loss of 15
point-per-game scorer Julianne
Viani after graduation last May, the
most conf ere nee losses since the
2003-2004 season, and a slew of up-
start MAAC teams looking to de-
throne them, the Red Foxes
captured their fifth consecutive
MAAC title at the 2010 MAAC
Tournament in Albany, N.Y.
Using an
11-0
run late in the first
half of play to establish a lead that
they would not relinquish for the
rest of the game, Marist defeated
the third seeded Fairfield Stags to
advance to the NCAA Division
1
women's basketball tournament.
"A lot of people, I think, doubted
us," Marist senior and MAAC
Player of The Year Rachele Fitz
said. ''They didn't think our team
could win a championship. It I}lade
us want to come out there and prove
RYAN HUTTO
THE
CIRCLE
Members
of
the Marlst Women's Basketball team hoist the 2010 Metro Atlantic Ath-
letic Conference tournament trophy. On March 7, the Red Foxes defeated the Fair-
field
Stags,
66-49, clinching their
fifth
consecutive tournament championship.
everyone wrong."
The Red Foxes' offense was eff ec-
tive in the contest, getting 17 points
from Corielle Yare and 15 from Fitz,
but it was Marist's defensive play
that allowed the squad to capture
the tournament title.
Allowing just 85 combined points
in its first two games at the MAAC
tournament, Marist played stifling
defense and held the Stags to just
one field goal over the final five and
a half minutes of the game.
In a similar fashion against its op-
ponents in games one and two,
Marist held Canisius and Niagara
scoreless for periods of 8:43 and
4:14, respectively.
''We talked all weekend that de-
fense was going to carry us," Gior-
gia said.
"I don't think our kids get
enough credit for their defense be-
cause they've led the conference in
scoring."
Giorgia, along with Fairfield coach
Joe Frager were forced
tp
enter into
a strategic coaching battle in re-
gards to two of each team's premier
players.
For Marist, Fitz was hampered
early by foul trouble and was forced
to sit at the same time as Fairfield
forward Stephanie Geehan.
Geehan came into the contest av-
eraging 14.8 points and 11.6 re-
bounds per game, the only player in
the MAAC to average a double-dou-
ble, but was also forced to sit on the
bench early due to foul trouble.
Giorgis countered with the play of
senior reserve Lynzee Johnson,
noted for her defensive smarts and
awareness.
"We wanted Lynzee [Johnson] in
the game as much as possible,"
Giorgia said. "Lynzee is the type of
person who can frustrate you. She
really, really can play [opposing of-
fensive players] smart."
The contest was extremely close in
the early going; it was tied four
times with just two lead changes
and neither team holding more than
a four-point advantage until Marist
embarked on its 11-0 run and held a
34-24 advantage at halftime.
SEE
SMART,
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13
Spring break
not
just fun in the sun
E. HUTCH ENTERTAINS
By
ALYSSA LONGOBUCCO
News Editor
With midterms coming to a _close,
there is one g_leaming light at the
end of the tunnel-spring break.
In
hopes of escaping Poughkeepsie for
warmer weather, many students
are
heading off to Mexico, Florida,
and numerous other locales this
year.
While spring break is an occasion
to let lose and have a good time,
there are several things a student
must be mindful of in order to keep
their possessions, and themselves,
safe during the upcoming week.
When planning her spring trip to
Punta Cana, senior Michelle Con-
ston was very aware of the possible
risks involved in going to a place
such as the Dominican Republic,
where in the past few years, crime
has been prevalent.
"I've heard that it's not safe to
leave the resort, especially at
night," Conston said. "Our parents
are all nervous about us getting into
trouble when leaving the resort, so
we are just going to stay there and
party at the bars and clubs they
offer. It's an all-inclusive, so we
shouldn't have any reason to leave."
Conston, who studied abroad last
spring, credits traveling around Eu-
rope with making her aware of just
how dangerous some places can be.
"My friend was pie-pocketed [in
Madrid] when we were sightseeing
so I'm definitely more aware of my
surroundings now," Conston said.
"It's important to keep track of all
my belongings and make sure my
friends are around me at all times.
We plan on staying safe through
safety in numbers. There are 12 of
us going so we
will make sure every-
one is constantly accounted for."
Recent statistics compiled by the
American Medical Association show
that students on spring break "use
alcohol as an excuse to engage in
outrageous behavior." The study,
conducted in 2006, stated that, of
spring breakers surveyed, 30 percent
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to
a
crowd of
enthusiastic Marist students. The concert, held Wednesday, March
3,
was
the
third time Hutchinson has
performed
at
the college. He per-
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Security Briefs
Gum incident sticks student behind bars
ByCHRIS RAIA
Staff Writer
I am in an awesome mood. And why
wouldn't I be? It's finally nice outside
again, I threw a baseball for the first
time since last year, and David
Wright is hitting home
runs in spring
training games. Add College Basket-
ball Championship Week going on,
my random decision to start replaying
the
-
Playstation
2
games Ratchet and
Clank and Crash Bandicoot
2,
and, of
course, the fact that "sundress week''
is quickly approaching, I honestly
couldn't be happier.
Note: I won't get into "sundress
week'' (admittedly spun off of ESPN
writer Bill Simmons' coined ''Halter
Top Day") because A) it deserves its
own column, and more important, B)
rm afraid that
if
it is officially recog-
nized before it happens, it won't hap-
pen. I guess, the point is be happy,
Marist! Midterms suck, true, but it's
too nice outside and there are too
many wonderful things about to hap-
pen to let that affect us.
3/2 Sheahan -
An
RA
on duty claimed she could
smell marijuana from her window
and saw three students standing out-
side smoking ... something
.
Officers
responded, searched the students, and
found nothing. I don't have much else
to say on this one. 5 points? Sure.
3/4 Upper West Lot -
A student reported his car being
scratched and dented when he finally
went out to check it after the snow.
He said he suspected the snow plow.
Mean old Mr. Snow Plow Man. You'd
think he'd learn after the kids stole
his truck and unplowed the streets so
that they could have another snow
day. Okay. rm glad winter is over. I
really, really need to stop referencing
that movie. I'm sorry~ it just always
fits. Shut it down.
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3/5 Leo and Champ -
More sexual prank calls! We haven't
had tp.is story in a while; I guess it
was due for a comeback.
5
points
each.
3/5 Marian-
A
drunk
student tried to enter Mar-
ian without an
ID.
When security
said he wasn't allowed, he broke into
a sprint. He made it around fifteen
feet before the
RA
on duty stopped
him. He was transferred to St. Fran-
cis. Why would you start sprinting? I
don't understand.
It
never works out.
Actually, you know what, scratch
that, because I remember a few
sto-
ries from my previous articles in
which case sprinting did work. So,
let's just say it rarely works out.
15
points.
3/6 Midrise -
Security was checking guests' suit-
cases and found
a
big bottle of liquor.
I love this because security couldn
'
t
remember the brand of liquor,
so
he
checked on his cabinet full of confis-
cated liquor, took down the exact bot-
tle
from the story, awl .theri told me
that it was Bacardi Peace Rum. I
swear, this man's office is a bar.
10
points
.
3/7 Donnelly -
Okay, this story took place at 1:46
a.m. And no, I am not malting this up.
The security officer sitting at the front
desk of the Donnelly security office
spotted two females rolling around on
the floor by the ATM, wrestling. rm
·
serious
.
Not kidding
.
This
happened
.
At 1:46 in the morning, right outside
of our campus security's headquar-
ters. So many things are running
through my head. I have an "Old
School
"
reference, but nobody wants
to hear about KY jelly in a college
newspaper. Anybody could make an
inappropriate joke about girl fights,
involving anything from pillows
to
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mud to, actually no, I'll just stop right
there. But after minutes of thinking,
rve decided to settle on Mean Girls.
''It was full-tilt jungle madness. And
it was not going away
.
" ''Hell no, I did
NOT leave the South Side for this!"
Movies are fun.
100
points to every-
one. Just because this is awesome.
3/7 Campus Deli -
This is a great way to end a surpris-
ingly good week. A Marist student
went to Campus Deli, took
a
pack of
gum (retail price:
$1.67), didn't pay for
it, and tried to bounce. Yeah, um,
ready? He got arrested!
This
wasn't
a slap on the wrist, give me two bucks,
and you can leave type of deal. The
police showed up, cuffed him, read
him the Miranda, and took him to the
police station! That's so incredible
.
Another
100 points to all of us, a
mil-
lion points to the student, and nega:
tive
infinity
points
to
the
Poughkeepsie police and our criminal
justice system, who apparently have
enough free time that they actually
spent more than zero seconds dealing
with a kid who stole a pack of gum.
Thanks, everybody. Have a great
break!
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11.,
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E-books cheaper, but still unpopular
Publishers making more textbooks available online at reduced prices
By
MIKE MULLEN
The Minnesota Daily
On Monday, March 8, Donald Liu,
applied economics professor at the
University of Minnesota met in his
office with a sales representative
from McGraw-Hill, a major textbook
publisher.
Liu said he pre~ed the represen-
tative on the publisher's price of
electronic textbooks, which had pre-
viously been offered at a discount of
only around 10 percent
.
'1 said that the production cost for
a copy of an online textbook, I mean,
it's almost zero;'' Liu said.
Electronic textbooks are cheaper
for bookstores and students, but
University of Minnesota Bookstore
Director Bob Crabb said they have
yet to catch on with students.
Electronic books have been offered
for only a few semesters, but Crabb
said he is surprised that their sales
trail so far behind traditional books.
The bookstore sells about 500,000
books every year, and Crabb esti-
mated that only two percent to
three percent of these are electronic
books.
"It's a slow go," Crabb said. "It's
catching on a little bit, but there's
still an awful lot of resistance from
Fr0m Page One
students."
Crabb said students have cited eye
strain and their familiarity with
using regular books as problems
with electronic textbooks.
But even if students are resistant,
publishers are pushing forward.
Crabb said more than 500 textbook
titles are currently available in dig-
ital versions, and more appear each
semester.
DynamicBooks, a new project
launched by Macmillan, one of
America's largest textbook publish-
ing houses, offers a further innova-
tion in electronic texts. Using
DynamicBooks, textbooks would be-
come living documents, with profes-
sors able to reorder, edit or delete
entire passages or chapters.
Beginning in August, 100 of
Macmillan's books will become
available to students on Dynamic-
Books.com and through university
bookstores. These books could be
read online or using an Apple
iPhone.
Liu said he would be interested in
the program but would want to poll
his students before making such a
decision. He said that whenever he
can, he opts for smaller, more con-
cise versions of textbooks. With
many students studying a given
Alcohol an issue for
students on break
said that alcohol was an "essential
part of life", 74 percent said that
spring break meant increased sex-
ual activity, and 40 percent said
that they passed out from ingesting
too much alcohol at least once dur-
ing their spring break trip.
A student at the University of
Conn~cticut, Sue Ledversis, has
seen the dangers of spring break in
action during a past trip to Miami,
Fla.
"When I was in Miami for my
spring break, there were a few very
drunk girls going off with guys I lit-
erally just watched them meet,"
stated Ledversis. "For all I know
they could have been nice guys, but
I could tell with all the girls had
drank, they weren't thinking about
the danger they were putting them-
selves in."
Dr. Pearlman, an English profes-
sor at Marist and an expert in the
arena of sexual assault, believes
there are several ways for students
to keep themselves safe this break.
The first, and arguably most impor-
tant way to stay safe, is to monitor
their alcohol consumption.
"Alcohol is the number one date
rape drug, used in as many as
three-qu¢ers of sexual assaults,"
Pearlman said. "A rapist is more
likely to pull a six pack or tequila
shot than a knife or a gun. So watch
your alcohol intake, as well as that
of those around you."
Because sexual assault primarily
occurs with someone the victim al-
ready knows, Pearlman encourages
students to always be aware of the
company they keep. A second rec-
ommendation of Pearlmans' encour-
ages students to always travel in
groups of three or larger, as Conston
pointed out her group was planning
on doing.
"Isolation is the second common
factor in most rapes," Pearlman
said. "Isolation can occur even just
a few yards away from a party, so
make a pact with a group of friends
to keep an eye on one another."
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Excessive
alcohol consumption
can
lead
to
other dangers for
students
on spring break.
topic for only a single semester, he
believes that an expensive and
lengthy textbook is often not j;he
best option.
"I think most instructors find that
a very thick textbook containing
many, many chapters is sort of a
waste for students," Liu said.
Like the digital books currently
available through the University
Bookstore at the University of
Min-
nesota, DynamicBooks
will be con-
siderably cheaper than printed
textbooks.
A 2005 report to Congress from
the Government Accountability Of-
fice found that textbook prices had
nearly tripled from 1986
to
2004.
Crabb said he saw electronic books
as a "significant force" in the future,
but as long as students are willing
to spend nearly $150 for a printed
textbook rather than $40 for its dig-
ital version, the market will be lim-
ited.
''Whatever the students want is
what we need to deliver," Crabb
said. ''The jury's still out. Everyone
in the industry is still waiting to see
whether students would really end
up wanting to read their material
on
a device or on paper."
Liu said that in his meeting with
the McGraw-Hill salesman, the rep-
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While electronic textbooks seem
like a
practical
solution, many
students
still
prefer the traditional paper version.
resentative told him that the pub-
lisher's online textbook prices had
come down significantly -
in some
cases offering a 50 percent discount
compared to the original, which Liu
described as "a movement in the
right direction."
''The objective is to save students
as much money as possible," Liu
said. "I mean, they spend a lot of
money on texf:books."
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1.1,
2010 •
PAGE 4
Facebook expansion roasted over
.
coal
Greenpeace criticizes location of popular Web site's new server facility
By
IAN GERONIMO
Oregon Daily Emerald
Facebook has attracted the atten-
tion of concerned environmental ad-
vocates with the construction of its
first data center in Prineville, be-
cause the electrical provider that
will power the center uses coal en-
ergy.
Facebook's rapid expansion in-
spired the company to construct its
first data center
,
or server farm,
which will increase storage capacity
for the Web site to meet the needs
of the social networking site's ever-
growing user base.
Critics of the contract between
Facebook and Pacific Power say the
electrical company relies heavily on
coal-burning plants in its electricity
supply grid, and the social network-
ing Web site should set an example
by choosing a cleaner source of en-
ergy to power its data center.
Pacific Power is a subsidiary of
PacifiCorp, and 60 percent of Paci-
fiCorp's total supply of electricity is
sourced from coal power, according
to a company fact sheet.
Coal provides half of U.S. electric-
ity -
it is a notoriously cheap en-
ergy source -
and use of the
non-renewable resource accounts
for about 20 percent of global green-
house gas emissions, according to
the Pew Center on Global Climate
Change.
Other
environmental
repercussions of using the non-re-
newable energy source include land-
scape destruction from mountaintop
removal and contribution to acid
rain and mercury poisoning.
Despite Facebook's public defense
of the Prineville data center and its
pledges to support sustainable de-
velopment
,
the company faces
mounting pressure from activists to
reassess its contract with Pacific
Power.
In an irony more and more famil-
iar in post-modern controversy
,
Greenpeace is using a Facebook
group called ''Tell Facebook to Use
Clean Energy for its Data Center" to
spread the word about its beef with
the Web site's Pacific Power con-
tracts. The group received the sup-
port of almost 130,000 users in its
first
10
days of existence. Also in cir-
culation is a petition sponsored by
Change
.
org aimed at convincing
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to
reconsider the data center's energy
provider. The petition has 8,812 sig-
natures with a goal of 10,000
.
"The information technology in-
dustry is one of the largest, fastest
growing, most energy-consumptive
industries in the world right now.
Face book is symbolic of this,"Green-
peace spokesperson Daniel Kessler
said.
Kessler thinks Facebook, head-
quartered in Palo· Alto, Calif., has
an opportunity and an obligation to
set a sustainable standard for IT de-
velopment.
"If
they're going to expand, they
have to do it responsibly," he said.
Defenders of the project respond
to these criticisms by pointing out
that the design of the data center is
already aimed at reducing energy
consumption. According to Face-
book, one of the main reasons for
choosing Prineville to host the dat·a
center was Central Oregon's arid
and temperate climate, which will
allow the company to use an evapo-
rative cooling system to chill the
fa-
cility,
rather
than
a
more
energy-intensive cooling system
,
such as air-conditioning
.
On Feb. 24, Facebook responded
to criticisms of its new data center,
saying sustainablity was high on
the list of priorities in its site selec-
tion.
''This climate enables us to design
what we believe to be one of, if not
the most, energy efficient data cen-
ters in the world," Facebook said.
Facebook also argues that the
electrical grid supplies electricity
from a multitude of sources and
that the choices the company face
for electricity providers in Oregon
are not as simple as clean versus
dirty.
''The suggestions of 'choosing coal'
ignores the fact that there is no such
thing as a coal:powered data cen-
ter," Facebook said. "Similarly,
there is no such thing as a hydro-
electric-powered data center. Every
data center plugs into the grid of
-
fered by their utility or power
provider."
Jason Carr, manager of the Crook
County economic development pro-
gram, said that of the electrical
companies Facebook had to choose
from, Pacific
Power
offered the most
competitive electricity prices.
"Electric cooperatives face im-
pending costs for larger users be-
cause
a
lot
of
the
cheap
hydroelectricity that's been around
is dwindling," Carr said. ''There are
only so many dams in the region,
and with growth in the region and
the electricity sold to California, ca-
pacity is reducing ..
..
Given some of
the proposed energy plans, Pacific
Power was more competitive in
their pricing."
Carr also said he thinks Face-
book's energy efficient building and
use of "outside air economization
"
in
its cooling system, are reason to
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Facebook draws concern for environ-
mentalists
with
Its
decision
to
build
its
first
data server center In_ Prineville,
OR.
give the company credit.
"The reality is the carbon footprint
is less building here than it
is
any-
where else,"
Carr said.
Kessler
urged people to consider
the big picture when thinking about
this debate.
"Everyone loves Facebook. I think
that's why we have so many people
concerned with this," he said. "This
isn't only about the efficiency of
their
building.
... This is really
about the whole IT industry. When
you're are talking about Microsoft
and Google and Facebook, these
guys have a tremendous influence
on policy, and they can be leaders in
a number of meaningful ways, in-
cluding advocating in Washington,
D.C., and setting green standards
for the rest of the IT community.
But first it means cleaning up their
own footprint."
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Thursday,
March 11, 2010
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College smoking bans stifle rights to indulge
By
CHRIS TUREK
Staff
Writer
Recently, the University of Maine
has imposed
a
smoking
ban on its
students,
forbidding them from
smoking
any toba"'cco products on
campus
grounds.
Other colleges,
such as Vassar, are considering
sim-
ilar bans on smoking.
I can see why colleges would con-
sider such bans. Smoking leads to
an increased risk of health problems
such as cancer and strokes. By mak-
ing it against school policy to smoke
tobacco products on campus, stu-
dents would be less likely to keep
smoking because it would be
too
in-
convenient to keep going off campus
to have a smoke. It's good to see that
colleges care about the health of
their students and faculty; however,
the way they are going about catjng
for the health of their ~ommunities
is both ,oppressive and wrong.
Think about it - a college or uni-
versity bans smoking in an attempt
to keep its community healthy, and
the number of people in the commu-
nity who smoke goes down. Due to
this result, the administration de-
cides to outlaw all junk foods and
red meat because they contribute to
hypertension and morbid obesity.
Wait,
what?
Exactly.
By allowing the
college
to outlaw
smoking,
a completely legal
activity,
they are opening the floodgates of
fascism that would allow the ad-
ministration of the
college
to impose
whatever restrictio~s or
sanctions
they wish on the
community
of the
college, all in the name of "the good
of the community."
If
they wanted,
they could outlaw certain kinds of
clothes or music, because they may
"upset" the mental or moral well
being and status of the community,
or whatever other reason they may
want to give.
Don't get me wrong, I am not ad-
vocating smoking. I am just saying
that the idea of banning smoking or
another legal activity would set a
precedent that could later be abused
to take away freedoms and liberties
that we are able to enjoy under the
law. It is a good thing the people at
the University of Maine want to
try
to make their community healthier,
but rather than playing the role of
big brother and outright banning
smoking,
they should instead off er
programs and support groups to
Letter to the Editor:
Call to
action for immigration bill
Dear Circle Staff,
Immigration is a hot button issue
in our society today. There is a lot of
focus on ways to put a stop to illegal
immigration, but a lot less talk
about what we can do for the immi-
grants that are already here. There
are many legislative bills that have
been submitted in hopes of being
written into law. Similar to other
bills drafted, there is one bill in par-
ticular that has yet to leave the New
York State Social Service Commit-
tee since its introduction in 2003.
State Assembly Bill A0054 7 calls
for funding to assist in establishing
programs that
will
ease the transi-
tion for new Americans. The enact-
ment of this bill will allow the Office
of Temporary Disability and Assis-
tance to administer funds to com-
munity based organizations that
provide necessary services to immi-
grants. These services include, but
are not limited to, citizenship serv-
ices, Eµglish classes and legal and
employment services.
Since immigrants are an impor-
tant part of our society, it is impor-
tant to help make their transition
into our country as quick and easy
as possible. Contrary to popular be-
lief, immigrants are a huge contrib-
utor to our economy and do not
place a strain on our social service.
Immigrants are more willing to take
on the necessary and undesirable
jobs that are crucial t-o maintaining
our society. I urge you all to partici-
pate in the support and passing of
Bill A0054 7 by contacting your leg-
islators and encouraging their sup-
port. You can contact your legislators
through
the
following
website:
http://tinyurl.com/ydm53nx.
Send letters of support so that we
can be successful in turning this bill
into law. Remember, we help our-
selves through our support of immi-
gration.
Sincerely,
Niasia Kemp
'11
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Food, water should be free
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all
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If
you took Biology 101, you may re-
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air
and
clean water, an~ therefore, must re-
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Air
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With desalination technology, we
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now
tum
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and we do. Until recently, only one per-
cent of the earth's water could be :used
for drinking and irrigation. Now, almost
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is
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now
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With hydroponic technology, we
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do.
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If
food no longer
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Thanks
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only water is free, how do yc;m ac-
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only clean, safe, environmental, sus-
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electricity that comes from geother-
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Some people say "I don't like elec-
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than 80 mph." Well, look at your
dashboard: who drives 150 mph?
Why make road signs that say
"speed
limit 70 mph," when cars can
be designed that do not exceed those
limits.
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all cars
were electric, and elec-
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The spiritual life confronts 21st century issues and theology
By GAIL
GOLDSMITH
Features Editor
On Feb. 20th, Matt Reiman,
2009
Marist graduate, walked into Our
Lady of Wisdom Chapel
on
campue1,
as he had many times during his
four years here. This time, he was
wearing vestments and helped Fa-
ther LaMorte conduct the service.
-Reiman is currently studying at St.
Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, and
will be on campus several times
each semester to participate in wor-
ship, Catholic Students Association
activities and to serve as mentor for
students.
Reiman
,
however
,
is not the only
Marist student pursuing the priest-
hood.
After senior Matt Janczyk puts
aside his graduation gown, it won't
be long before he dons a habit as a
novitiate in the Dominican Order.
Janczyk, a biomedical sciences
major, had planned on going to
medical school after college, but in-
stead will study to be a friar in the
Dominican Order.
Janczyk and Reiman cite the sup-
port of Father LaMort,e as well as
their own process of insight into a
feeling of being called, as big factors
in their decisions to seek out the
consecrated life.
Reiman felt as though he had
been called to join the seminary.
"There has been a feeling since
I
came back to practicing the faith,
that it is something I am destined to
do," he said. "A big part of my deci-
sion was having great priests in my
parish, Father LaMorte and Father
Luke Sweeney here at the semi-
nary-people who are happy with
the vocation they chose and sup-
portive of others."
Father LaMorte remembers meet-
ing
Reiman
when he was a i:;opho-
more, get.ting to know him better
during his junior year,
and
living
next door to
him
senior year.
'We
began
to
talk
about [seminary]
at the beginning of his senior year,"
LaMorte
said. ''Whenever he had
questions
or
thoughts he wanted to
bounce
off me,
I
responded to those
from the vantage point of my expe-
rience."
Janczyk also talked with LaMorte
as he began to consider a life of reli-
gious service.
"I didn't grow up in an overly de-
vout family," J anczyk said. ''When I
came to Marist, the idea of the
priesthood came into my life briefly.
Over a few months, it became a
common thought and a question I
needed to address."
While talking with LaMorte about
this dynamic question, Jancyzk ex-
pressed concerns about the life of a
diocesan priest.
"I had the idea that it was lonely,"
Janczyk said. "Coming from a close
family, having close friends
,
this
was something I was initially wor-
ried about. That is definitely what
pushed me to explore other options."
LaMorte recommended that Jan-
cyzk look into the various religious
orders as an alternative.
Through his research, Janczyk
was interested by the "charisma of
the Dominican Order" and its struc-
ture of communal living and prayer.
Going into an Order requires a
dif-
ferent
.
trajectory than the one
Reiman will experience as he stud-
ies to be a diocesan priest
.
Janczyk was named an aspirant,
in recognition of
his
application, last
April, and was accepted
on
Jan.
12th.
On July 5, he will begin
Postu-
lancy, a month-long residency and
crash course in Dominican life at
Providence
College.
In August, he will don the Do-
minican
habit and begin his novi-
tiate year at St. Gertrude's in
Cincinnati. After this orientation
and discernment process, he will
take a vow of obedience, in antici-
pation of later taking his solemn
vows of obedience, chastity and
poverty.
Then
,
he will move to the
House of Studies in Washington,
D.C., to begin the one to two years
of philosophy and four years of the-
ology that comprise seminary study.
Nearing the end of his first year
at St. Joseph;s, Reiman reflected on
what he describes as "a pretty wild
couple of months.
"
LaMorte also noted that while the
basic seminary curriculum of Latin,
philosophy and theology remains
unchanged, policy on teaching
methods is fluid and adapts to the
times.
"One of the side effects of this rig-
orous curriculum was that then,
most of our textbooks were in Latin
or
for Scripture, in Greek," he said.
During LaMorte
'
s seminary study
from 1960 to 1966, the Second Vat-
ican Council began and many of the
faculty were advisers to participat-
ing officials.
The teachers would discuss pro-
posed changes with their students,
energizing debate on key issues, but
ultimately taught approaches and
practices that had been around
since the Council of Trent in the
16th century until the Second Vati-
can Council concluded.
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REIMAN
Matt Reiman, a 2009 Marist graduate,
Is studying
for the
priesthood
at
St
Joseph's
Seminary in Yonkers.
LaMorte remembers the introduc-
tion of a psychology elective into the
curriculum, as well as an increased
awareness of administrative tasks.
The current seminarians at St.
Joseph's also
work
towards fluency
in Spanish to better serve the
changing linguistic demographics of
the Archdiocese of New York, which
covers 10 counties, from Pough
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Future priests look forward to life of social justice work
Every weekday begins with
morning prayers at 6 a.m., daily
mass; and a holy hour of Eucharistic
adoration and prayer. The rest of
the day proceeds as expected: class,
homework, and free time.
On Saturday morning, seminari-
ans serve at their apostolic assign-
ments.
"I go to a soup kitchen in the
Bronx," said Reiman. "It's some-
thing I look forward to all week. You
can immediately help a lot of people
in desperate need. It's good to see so
many others volunteering as
well."
Social justice is a large part of the
priesthood's role in the community,
as it is for manyl Christians.
'Within the order, what I think is
so provocative is the structure; it is
based on the pillars of community
life, prayer, study, and preaching,"
Janczyk said. "Friars are not al-
ways in the pulpit, they may be
teaching or working with the poor."
Janczyk has had foreign mission
experience. He traveled to Merida,
Mexico with Marist Campus Min-
istry's Global Outreach during
Spring Break 2009, where the stu-
dents worked in an impovetjshed
community.
"On the trip, I saw that his faith
and spirituality mean a lot to him,"
Katie Sullivan, Campus Minister
and Service Coordinator, said. 'We
experienced a lot of poverty. He was
trying to process what that meant
for him and what that means for the
world."
"l'v,e always wanted to work with
the less fortunate; this solidified
that decision," Janczyk said.
"We are called to live as Christ
did, not just celibacy, but also as a
preacher of the Gospel in the com-
munity, an example of virtues,
source for the sacraments, and
reli-
gious social worker," Reiman said.
''The current culture tells you to do
whatever feels good. That's where
we see over the top sexuality and
lots of relativism. The priesthood
stands as a contradiction-service
and total commitment. We've been
framed as the Church of No, the
Church of Judgment. I don't find
that to be the case. We are a culture
of life, caring, shared belief leading
to real action."
Dr. John Knight, professor in the
Department of Philosophy and Reli-
gious Studies and Coordinator of
the Catholic Studies program at-
tributes perceptions of stagnancy
and hard-to-relate-to tenets to a
conservative ~cclesial leadership
structure.
''The Church tends to not pay too
much attention to the views of lay
people, even if they are trained the-
ologians," Knight said. ''The bishops
don't tend to involve lay people in
the conversation about church
teaching,
creating an insular
group."
Knight also said that while sex
abuse issues have receded from the
headlines, they are still a big con-
cern for the church, parishioners
and public, and steps should be
taken by training priests, by includ-
ing psychological evaluations and
background checks.
St. Joseph's conducts workshops
addressing human sexuality.
"One of the biggest challenges is a
shortage of priests," said Knight. "I
remember my doctoral advisor, a
priest himself, told me that any an-
swers will have to have things:
women and marriage. This won't
happen in my lifetime, but it would
alleviate the shortage."
Reiman acknowledges a dour up-
side to the shortage o~ priests; he
and other seminarians
will
not have
to worry about finding jobs.
Janczyk, however, is excited about
the slow rise in people seeking out a
committed religious life.
"A lot of people aren't aware of the
movement of youth turning back to
the consecrated life," Janczyk said.
"My
novitiate
class
has
20
men~ .. numbers haven't been that
high since the 60s."
Janczyk acknowledges that disen-
chantment with modem life might
be an encouraging factor for youth
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Outreach 2009.
already interested
in
pursuing lead-
ership roles within the church.
''It offers a way of life that is so
dif-
ferent and full compared to the lives
we have been told we wa~t,"
Janczyk said. "People are beginning
to see through the vanities of mod-
ern life, the bits of glamour that can
be distract. People see that life in
these orders is a more solid life,
more pure and more real than a lot
of what's on the plate today."
Janczyk is excited about his future
with the order, and although he will
have taken a vow of obedience, he
does have a degree of self-determi-
nation.
-
I'd like
to
teach," he said. "Friars
can teach at the collegiate level. I'd
also like
to
be assigned to a parish
and work with families. I'd also like
to get a Ph.D in bioethics. I haven't
ruled out foreign mission work. I'm
excited about the opportunities of
living different places, meeting
dif-
ferent people, and new experiences."
Along with his enthusiasm,
J anczyk admits to a few outlying
concerns about a life dedicated
to
the church.
'·'I'm pretty nervous about the
whole thing," he said. "I'm not al-
lowed to come home during my ilovi-
tiate year. It will take a good
amount of adjustment .. As I get
older, I'm sure I'm going to have
trouble
with the 'what-if factor as
my siblings and friends get married
and have children."
Reiman embraces the priesthood's
leadership role within the spiritual
community and enjoys side trips,
such as attending the Life March in
Washington, D.C., and co
_
mmunity
work with the other seminarians for
their element of solidarity, but also
the accompanying visibility.
"It's so good when people can see
so many seminarians," Reiman
said. "It's good for people to know
that the clergy has a future."
Reiman sees a problem, more
sobering for him than the shortage
of clergy: a shortage of parishioners,
especially young people.
"The Church is a big family and
there are a lot of people missing, es-
pecially in college," he said. ''The
church is there for all the big mo-
ments of life-birth, marriage, and
death. However the church is not
just salvation but also getting
through daily life. At this age, it is
so important to be in touch with
your spiritual life and never be
afraid to explore that."
Talking Tarot: Queen of Wands offers support, encouragement
By
JENNIFER
MEYERS
Staff Writer
We should all have support
in
our
lives, whether that support comes
from a friend, someone on the fac-
ulty or a family member. This is
what the Queen of Wands does:
gives everyone the support that
they need
to
succeed.
Midterms week can be just as
stressful as final's week.
It
shows
us how well we have done halfway
through the semester and how we
will
do for the overall term. At this
time of the semester, we may start
to drag, spending hours in the li-
brary, barely seeing the light of day.
It's difficult to manage our time,
and talk to those who will under-
stand what we're going through.
The Queen of Wands is the person
that you need to seek out
to
get the
support that you deserve.
This
Queen is generally seen as a fire
symbol-a very strong person. This
is the person whot will encourage
you
to
do your best, no matter how
challenging the task may be. This is
the person that will cheer the loud-
est in the crowd when we finally re-
ceived our diploma at graduation. It
is through all sorts of appreciation
of every expression such as courage,
creativity and vision.
The Queen is a symbol of fire with
a touch of solar radiance which
means that there is no essence more
powerful than the sun's rays. This
person is the light that shines in
you to do your best. Sometimes the
Queen of Wands is illustrated with
a cat which symbolizes independ-
ence and devotion-they are very
loyal to the person they support.
They are passionate, optimistic and
imaginative. This person is very
nurturing, like the energy of a
mother that will always be behind
you. This person
will
find whatever
it takes to find the strength that is
within you to get
to
your goal. They
absolutely hate negativity, but is
still in the realms of reality.
If
you
were to drown this person in nega-
tivity, they will turn that uncon-
structive, unhelpful energy into
visions of possibilities.
The only "shadow" to this symbol
is the fact that they can be over-
bearing at times. Sometimes they
may lack the knowledge of how
dif-
ficult the task at hand may be, and
they keep telling you to just grow up
and get over it. Or, they could go in
a completely opposite direction, and
not talk
to
you at all-give you the
cold shoulder and disapprove 'of
anything that you have a strong
passion for. It is within human na-
ture that we may be compelled to
control another person;this happens
all the time.
If
this person has a
domineering attitude toward you in
any way, then this is not the person
you should seek support from. Find
someone else; it may be someone
you least expect it to be.
Spring break is around the cor-
ner .For some, it may be our last
year at Marist but don't get upset.
Some of us may not be
ready for the "real world," but its
life-everyone has
to
do it. The only
advice that the Queen can give you
is to strategize thet willpower you
have to make your passion into re-
ality. Be sure to keep the person
that supports you most close, and
never let that person go.




























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Film Review: Disney's 'Alice in Wonderland'
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currently
singin'
down with my popcorn and large
soda for the Tim Burton version, but
I was honestly extremely surprised
with how much I enjoyed it. Al-
though it was still a little bizarre, it
was nowhere close to weirdness level
of the original. The casting was
amazing, as can be expected from
Tim Burton
,
and the screenplay was
very well written. The makeup and
film sets were unbelievable, truly
capturing the sense of being in Won-
derland.
I won't give away how the story
ends, but I was very impressed with
the lessons that the film seemed to
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Johnny
Depp
and Tim Burton team up
once again in •Alice in Wonderland."
By
KELYN BORTZ
Staff Writer
Before I get start reviewi
.
ng the
new "Alice in Wonderland," I want to
briefly share my feelings on the orig-
inal version so you can understand
my rating better. I really disliked the
1951 version of "Alice in Wonder-
land."
AB
a child, I didn't understand
anything about it. Now that I'm
older
,
I still don't understand any-
thing besides the fact that the writ-
ers must have been under the
influence while in pre-production of
the film
.
I admit
i
was a skeptic when I sat
Most of us know the original. Alice
falls down a rabbit hole as a child
and winds up in Wonderland. She
encounters an impatient white rab-
bit with his pocket watch, the Mad
Hatter, the Cheshire cat, and finally
the Queen of Hearts who is all too
friendly with her words "off with her
head."
The Burton film was created as a
sequel to the original. Alice (Mia
Wasikowska) is now 19 years old and
has just -been proposed to by a rich
lord. After running away from the
proposal, she falls down a rabbit hole
and, again,
winds up in Wonderland.
The twist to this story is that she
does not remember her first visit,
though everyone else does her and
expects her to return Wonderland to
the hands of the
White
Queen (Anne
Hathaway)
.
The plot leads Alice to
decide whether or not to save Won-
derland from the Queen of Hearts
(Helena Bonham Carter) by destroy-
ing her prized weapon~the Jabber-
wocky (a dragon, basically).
convey. First, having an imagination
of the la test songs
in a society where conformity is the
only acceptable path is not bad and
can lead to unique journeys. Second,
loyalty, honesty, and friendship are
keys to success, which is expressed
by the almost brother-sister rela-
tionship between Alice and the Mad
Hatter (Johnny Depp). Also, deci-
sions cannot be forced, they must be
a choice made by you.
AB
far as acting goes, Johnny Depp
plays an incredible Mad Hatter, get-
ting into the character as naturally
as tying a shoe. Helena Bonham
Carter creates a different, yet unique
image of the Queen of Hearts and
pulls off a gigantic head at the same
time. Personally, I think having a
no-name play Alice was an excellent
choice. Newcomer Mia Wasikowska
was a great addition to the script and
lived up to my expectations. The only
person I was not impressed with in
her role was Anne Hathaway.
Though I didn't expect her to be like
Glinda from ''Wizard of Oz," I did ex-
pect a little more from her acting-
wise. She, as well as the rest of the
actors, played a strange character,
but it was definitely not her best job.
Best known for "Nightmare Before
Christmas" (1993), Burton doesn't
let you down in this film. Although it
wasn
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it was still a movie worthy of seeing.
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method of
distribut-
ing
his
new single
from his highly an-
ticipated
debut
album, "Thank Me Later," is a no-
strings attached free downl@d, the
song itself is hardly absent of
strings. This modern hip-hop_ an-
them plays out like the opening se-
quence to his metaphoric film. His
movie is his music. After gaining as-
tonishing success without ever re-
leasing an album, this is a mere
taste of what is to come from this
ex-''Degrassi" cast member.
T
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"I'm Back" - On the same
day one rap giant, Lil Wayne, is
sent to jail, another is released. The
ap}fropriately titled "I'm Back"
rages on with
'
ferocity as T.I. re-
minds listeners, "I never let you
down." The song attempts to re-
claim the relevancy he had in main-
stream hip-hop during the days of
''Live Your
Life"
and ''Whatever You
Like" dominated clubs everywhere
.
The result is meaningless, rapper
angst and arrogance.
Alexander McQueen remembered as fashion punk
royalty
Hole "Skinny Little Bitch" - No
it's not 1990, but it has been nearly
a decade since we last heard from
Courtney Love and her band, Hole.
Love is the quintessential sex,
drugs, and rock 'n' roll star. And she
lives up to this title on "Skinny Lit-
tle Bitch." The attitude is there, and
even the dirty grunge rhythms cre-
ate an atmosphere that seems to
linger like Kurt Cobain's ghost is
present. Love is back.
By
MEGHAN WALSH
Circle Contributor
On Feb.
11, news of Alexander
McQueen's
apparent
suicide
shocked the world of fashion to the
core. At only 40 years old, his body
was found in his home in London.
No one could wrap their heads
around why a man of such vivacity
and creativity would take his own
life only days before London Fash-
ion Week.
To those closest to him, and
quickly to those around the world, it
was clear that McQueen
'
s death
was linked
to
that of his mother's,
who pa.ssed away only nine days
prior. Twitter posts following his
mother's death indicated the extent
of his grief. Her death took a great
toll on McQueen and resulted in his
devastating suicide.
Alexander McQueen was born
March 17, 1969 in the East End of
London with the birth name of Lee
Alexander McQueen. He was 16
when he left school for several ap-
prenticeships and worked for people
such as Koji Tatsuno and Romeo
Gigli.
In
1994, he moved back to
London and enrolled in Central
Saint Martin's College of Art and
Design
.
There he earned his mas-
ters degree in fashion design, and
the fashion stylist Isabella Blow
purchased his complete graduate
collection.
Alexander McQueen's earliest
fashion shows earned him the repu-
tation of the ''bad
boy"
of the fashion
world. He became known for his use
of drama, technology, innovation,
and fantasy in his collections. In
1996 he became the head designer
of Givenchy, but his out of the box
designs and rebellious tactics did
not fit well with the line, and he left
in March of 2001. By the end of
2007, McQueen had boutiques in
London, New York, Los Angeles,
Milan, and Las Vegas. He received
the title of "British Designer of the
Year" four times between 1996 and
2003.
It is obvious that Alexander Mc-
Queen has had a serious impact on
the world of fashion. He is one of the
few designers who have been able
to
stay avant garde, while accomplish-
ing worldwide commercial success.
He is known for his outlandish fash-
ion shows and his love of the ex-
treme. He has opened the doors for
many designers to take risks and
make runway shows more theatri-
cal than just cut and
dry.
From the outside world of fashion,
at Marist's own Fashion Depart-
ment, McQueen's death has had
similar reactions.
Professor Lydia Biskup, the
Marist Fashion Department's in-
ternship
·
coordinator, said, ''There
was shock and sadness when the
news of Alexander McQueen's death
circulated throughout the Fashion
Program at Marist College. Alexan-
der McQueen was a master of tech-
nique, but he did not follow what
one might consider 'rules,' when he
designed."
McQueen' s rule breaking is one of
the characteristics that he will be
most remembered for.
"He cared little about what the
fashion establishment thought of
him and that more than even his
brilliant de.signs impressed me,"
fashion professor Sonia Roy said.
"He was a punk kid from a working
class neighborhood and fit no part of
the profile for a successful designer.
More impressive
to
me was that as
successful as he got, he was still
that same punk kid."
While the affects of Alexander Mc-
Queen's death will be seen world-
wide, they are also seen on campus,
in the Fashion Department. Mc-
Queen has been an insp~ation to
many, including myself, as he beat
the odds and became a designer
that did not follow the typical "rules
of fashion," but rather, paved his
own way.
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biting extraordinaire Kristen Stew-
art, may resemble Cherie Currie
and Joan Jett, but they sure are far
from sounding like them.
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Go loco for local at Hudson Valley Restaurant Week
By
LAURA SHERLAND
Circle Contributor
Are you getting tired of the
food in the cafeteria, or just don't
feel like cooking dinner for your-
self tonight? Does the idea of
going out to eat suddenly sound
like an awesome idea? Well get
ready: Restaurant Week is coming
to Poughkeepsie. From March 15-
28, more than 125 restaurants in
the Hudson Valley will be offering
a three-course prix-fixe lunch
menu for $20 and a prix-fixe
three-course dinner menu for $28
(prices exclude beverages, tax and
gratuity). Many ch.efs will be uti-
lizing seasonal, locally grown
products from farms in the Hud-
son Valley. In addition, the
restaurants will also-be featuring
locally-produced wines, beverages
and spirits that pair well with the
meal. Many eateries in the Marist
area will be taking part in the
event:
Crave
is a new restaurant and
lounge located on Washington St.
situated next to Lola's Cafe and
Catering, which was opened by
the same owner. It offers contem-
porary food with a modern twist
that reflects the seasonal ingredi-
ents of the surrounding area. The
chefs at Crave, who are all gradu-
ates of the Culinary Institute of
America in Hyde >
ar ·, a.
ir t
o
create excitement through their
impressive menu and an overall
dining "experience" with excep-
tional hospitality.
Twist
is a casual American
restaurant in Hyde Park. The
decor is unique with brightly col-
ored walls and abstract art that
create a hip and fciendly am-
biance. Because Twist features
an open kitchen, diners can enjoy
seeing their food being made
while the chefs can see the cus-
tomers' enjoyment. When first
seated, a plate of puff pastry
dough twisted with olive oil, salt,
pepper and Asiago cheese greets
you. These are Twist's signature
cheese twists that the restaurant
describes as "light, flavorful and
delectable" and will provoke you
"to anticipate the possibility of a
fine meal to come."
Babycakes Cafe,
located in
the Vassar College area, offers a
funky take on European-style eat-
ing.
This casual restaurant
serves breakfast, lunch and din-
ner, all prepared from scratch and
using quality ingredients. Here
you can enjoy everything from
hand-made butter croissants to
house-mad'e pasta. Additionally,
every Friday and Saturday night,
the cafe features live entertain-
ment for its customers to enjoy.
If
you're looking for a quick eat,
why not try Crew Restaurant &
Bar
on South Road in Poughkeep-
sie, voted best in the Hudson Valley
in 2004 and 2005? Offered here are
delicious soups, salads, wraps and
sandwiches for lunch and a diverse
menu of qua\ity meat, fish and
tiis~
fl,r-dinne!"
cc.'>Okl!d
:
graduates and current students of
the CIA. Crew Restaurant
&
Bar
has an open kitchen and an out-
standing bar that offers some of the
finest microbrewery draughts, a
first-class wine list and custom-
made martinis.
RYAN HUTTON/THE CIRCLE
Indulge on a
feast
for the
eyes
and stomach at the Hudson Valley Restaurant
Week.
At Terrapin in Rhinebeck, the
dishes "delight both body and
soul."
.
This restaurant serves
lunch in its Red Bistro/Bar and
dinner in its dining room seven
days a week. Its mission is to pro-
vide its customers
with
the fresh-
est and highest-quality food in an
inviting and personalized envi-
ronment. According to the restau-
rant Web site, the head chef at
Terrapin boasts a "unique style of
New American cooking, blending
a classical French approach with
the influences of Asia, Italy and
the American South West."
More than 150,000 people are
expected to dine out during this
time. With this in mind, reserva-
tions are strongly recommended
and, for some, they are required.
If you would like to learn more
about Restaurant Week, you can
always visit http://www.hudson-
valleyresta urantweek. com.
Besides the general information,
the site also lists all the partici-
pants, and has a tool to help
search for the best restaurant for
you by cuisine and location. For
select restaurants, reservations
can
be
made
through
OpenTable.c;om. You can also fol-
low The V~lley Table on Twitter
or Face book for updated
·
details.
Upon arrival back on campus
from spring break, keep the party
going and explore the culinary
creations from a variety of restau-
rants in the Marist community.
So convince your housemates to
skip the dining hall or the grocery
store and enjoy a satisfying and
delicious meal for a great price!
Intimate piercings overcome stigma, breach generational gap
By
ROBIN MINITER
Lifestyles Editor
You may have seen them: those
rabblerousing kids shellacked
with tattoos and drilled with
piercings.
In
the face of whole-
some Marist College, they buck
the status quo. Society tells us
that their pursuit of the B.A.M.F.
aesthetic is going to catch up with
them; with the onslaught of pierc-
ings and tattoos comes the expo-
nential decrease of marketability
upon graduation, thus forcing
these students squatting in a box
somewhere beneath the Brooklyn
Bridge. Or that's what they tell
us, right?
Piercings often come under fire
at the cross-section of work and
play. While it's true that candi-
dates with in-your-face {or on-
you
.
r-face) body modification have
been the cause of employer-snubs
in the past, curious consumers
have been increasingly inclined to
reach for a different - and often
taboo avenue for self-expression:
intimate piercings.
Long thought to be a sign of ex-
treme deviance and hush-hush
badasserey, intimate piercings
have experienced a resurgence of
popularity in recent years among
the same set who point fingers at
our visibly pierced generation: the
working professional.
Dave "Drwg'' Kurlander, a
world-renowned body modifier
from Paul Booth's Last Rite Tat-
too Theater in Manhattan who
has recently set up shop at Planet
New York on Rt. 9, has seen it all.
Since most piercings can't be
covered up, some simply have
gone undercover.
"The majority of people getting
genital piercing have always been
professionals," Kurlander said.
"These types of piercings provide
a way for an individual that nor-
mally has to maintain an image to
society
to express themselves
without the judgment of others."
On campus, getting pierced is a
freshman rite of passage (heck,
Marist College got extra brownie-
points from me at orientation
when I realized my classrooms
would be in close proximity to a
tattoo parlor).
According to a study published
by
Science Daily,
an estimated 30
to 50 percent of youth, ages 18 to
23, have piercings in places other
than in their ear lobes. A few
rings here and a stud or two there
seem harmless - but as students
move up in rank and that count-
down calendar in Donnelly starts
to loom, "graduation" is commonly
cited for quashing modification
urges. Enter the working world.
Though some industries are be-
coming more friendly to the idea,
piercings are still not wideiy well-
recieved in most environments.
Since most piercings can't be cov-
ered up, they simply have gone
undercover. The generational gap
is being breached.
Among the professional and col-
lege set alike, the Prince Albert
(named for said Prince himself)
for men and clitoral hood piercing
for women are the common go-to.
"They are requested often," says
Drwg, "I did three Prince Alberts
in the last four days." But, save
for booze-induced games of Never-
Have-1-Ever, we don't really talk
about them. What gives?
"I feel that [these piercings
have] become inappropriate and
unaccepted i'n 'civilized' society
and, therefore, hidden from plain
sight," said Kurlander, "I believe
that they are and have been grow-
ing in popularity since day one."
They have been popular through-
out global history, serving a vari-
ety of pleasurable and fashionable
means.
These discreet pleasure points,
available in array of locations on
the penis, vagina and nipples, owe
their seemingly "taboo" popularity
to high satisfaction and success
rates. "Not only do they have an
aesthetic appearance, but a func-
tionality," said Kurlander. "For
example, doctors have often rec-
ommended women to come to me
who have had problems orgas-
ming. Another underlying perk: in
comparison to other piercings, the
healing is relatively simple. Due
to the blood flow down under,
piercings
with
proper TLC will
,heal up in no tiine. "
Kurlander recommends that
if
you are looking for a piercer to
make sure they have a medical
background.
"They need some rudimentary
knowledge not only of how to
pierce you, but how
to
heal you,"
said Kurlander. "If you run into
an issue, never be embarrassed to
talk to a healthcare provider.
Chances are these professionals
may be able to relate just a little
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CIRCLE •
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 •
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Faithful fox fans travel to experience MAACs
By JIM URSO
Sports Editor
The Times Union Center
in Albany, NY may be the
home of Marist rival Siena.
However, Red Fox fans
made it their own on Sun-
day for the MAAC Women's
Championship game.
The Red Foxes prevailed
66-49, winning their fifth
consecutive MAAC champi-
onship. And whilethe game
was played an hour north,
Marist fans made it feel like
home.
Collaboration between
Marist Athletics Assistant
Director for External Affairs
Frank Lombardy and the
newly formed Booster Club
allowed 46 student fans to
make it to Albany oil Sun-
day.
"It's truly a team effort on
the part of the team, the ad-
ministrators, and the stu-
dents,"
Marist
Athletic
Director Tim Murray said.
''We worked closely with
Bob Lynch and Frank Lom-
bardy to get people up
there," Student Booster
Club Director of Operations
Patrick Dillon said. "I love
basketball Last year I went
and there were only two stu-
dents on the bus. The
Booster Club has allowed us
to send out a message to 750
people."
According to sophomore
Kate Tomaino, communica-
tion has really helped the
Student Booster Club at-
tract attendance at women's
basketball games.
''Last year, I would've gone
but I didn't know they had
the buses," Tomaino said.
Tomaino attended both
the
quarterfinals
game
against Niagara on Satur-
day and the championship
game on Sunday. After the
Red Foxes' victory over Ni-
agara, she and other Stu-
dent Booster Club members
spent nearly three hours in
the Cabaret making posters
and developing chants for
the championship game.
"Growing up, I always
watched women's basket-
ball," Tomaino said. ''During
my junior year, I heard they
were building a strong at-
mosphere. It was one of the
deciding factors for me to
come here."
For the season's entirety,
the Marist band's
presence
at games has helped to
pump up the crowd and pro-
vide entertainment during
timeouts.
And for those who tuned
into MSG for the game, they
may have head announcer
Dean Darling reference
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Vice President of the Ath-
letic Band,
junior
Mike
Walsh. Walsh's main re-
sponsibility is getting the
band fired up for athletic
events.
According to Walsh, Pres-
ident Dennis Murray ap-
proached him before the
game and encouraged him
to provoke a loud, enthusi-
astic performance from the
band.
For this year's MAAC
tournament, Walsh brain-
stormed a variety of ideas.
He and some other band
members collectively de-
cided to sport mohawks.
''We wanted to do some-
thing that would get peo-
ple's attention," Walsh said.
"Since we cannot change our
uniforms, we thought mo-
hawks were fitting."
Walsh had no problem
drawing attention to himself
and the band. Aside from
playing
music
between
timeouts and his crazy hair-
cut, he helped initiate the
popular Red Fox rumble
among the mini-sea of Red
Fox fans
within
the
arena.
The relationship between
women's basketball and the
band has mutually bene-
fited each party. While the
band supports the basket-
RYAN HUTTON/THE
CIRCLE
Senior Rachele Fitz exits the floor
to
the applause of Marist
fans.
ball team, the Marist's sue-
The band sent 75 people to
cess has helped the band.
the MAAC
tournament,
"President Murray saw more
than
any
other
the other bands when we school's band. The Marist
went to the NCAA tourna-
also bussed down over 50
ment 2007 and gave us fans from the Hudson Val-
more
funding
for instru-
ley.
ments," Band President
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wanted us to model our won with great class," Mur-
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Men fall to Canisius in MAAC play-in game
By JIM URSO
Sports Editor
In a microcosm of a difficult sea-
son, the Marist men's basketball
team's 2009-2010 campaign ended
with a 72-54 loss to Canisius in a
MAAC tournament play-in game
at
the
Times
Union Center in
Albany on Friday.
The 10th-seeded Red Foxes shot
well and battled their way back
from sever~l deficits, but could not
overcome 1 7 turnovers and hot
outside shooting from the Golden
Griffins. For Marist, the defeat
was its 29th in 30 games, and its
22nd double-digit defeat of the
season. The loss capped the worst
season in program history.
"Tough, tough loss," head coach
Chuck Martin said. "Our kids
played really; really hard, li~e
they did all year."
Devin Price led Marist with 1 7
points on 7-for-16 shooting. The
freshman point guard knocked
down 3-for-7 from behind the arc.
Korey Bauer added 12 points on 6-
for-9 shooting. R.J. Hall scored 10
off the bench.
Elton Frazier led the Golden
Griffins with 17 points and Greg
Logins recorded a double
-
double,
scoring 11 points and pulling down
10 rebounds.
Alshwan Hymes hit a three-
pointer to give the Golden Griffins
a 14-6 advantage with 12:29 re-
maining in the first half. Hymes
scored 11 points in 20 minutes off
the bench.
"We came
in
with a game plan,"
Martin said. "We're going to play
zone and let Canisius either shoot
their way .out of the game or blow
us out."
Canisius finished the regular
season ninth in the MAAC in
three-point shooting percentage,
but were successful on Friday
night. The Golden Griffins hit 46
percent of their field goal at-
tempts, including 10-for-25 from
three-point range. Seven of those
threes came in the first half.
"We took a lot of them [three-
point shots]," Canisius head coach
Tom Parrotta said. "This was the
first time we played against that
much zone. At times you do have
to take what they give you, and
they were giving us three-point
shots. I thought the game plan
they put together was right on."
Less than five minutes into the
contest, Candon Rusin, Marist's
leading scorer and perimeter
threat, was given his second foul
and a spot on the bench. Rusin
took zero shot attempts in the first
half.
Hall came off the bench to hit two
In a season filled with unex-
three-point shots and spark a 12-3
pected obstacles, Friday's game Marist run. Fourteen bench points
did not stray from the pattern. kept the Red Foxes within striking
Soon before its 10 p.m. tip off, distance in the first half.
Marist learned
it
would be without
Rob Johnson hit a
·um er
with
the services of senior Daye Kaba, 6:30 remaining, giving Marist an
who was
ill.
18-17 advantage, its first and only
Canisius jumped out to an early lead of the night
.
Canisius re-
lead with a combination of perime-
sponded with a 12-0 run to gain a
ter shooting and Marist miscues. 29-18 lead. Again, Marist fought
RYAN HUTTON/THE CIRCLE
Point guard Devin Price scored 17
points
In his
first
MAAC tournament
game.
back with an 8-2 run, cutting the
deficit to five. A buzzer-beating
three-pointer by Tomas Vazquez-
Simmons extended the Golden
Griffins' lead to 34-26 at halftime.
An 8-4 Canisius run to start the
second half extended its lead to
double digits. Price then ignited a
7-2 run, making the score 44-37.
In a 90-second span, Price hit a
three, grabbed a steal and dished
two assists, one on a fast break.
"We went fast and small and we
got some buckets in transition,"
Martin said. "I think we opened
the court up, which allowed Devin
Price to really blossom; that's
l
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~eally
good."
This year has been a learning ex-
perience for Price, who's played
extended minutes due to Marist's
lack of depth.
.
"For me, it's just learning how to
read the game," Price said. "The
last couple games especially, Can-
don Rusin and Korey [Bauer] have
been just keyed on. When they
take those guys away and
they
help on those guys
it
just
gives
me
open looks and it gives me oppor-
tunities to score."
Trailing by seven, Dejuan Good-
win, Rusin, and Price all missed
three-pointers within one minute
.
The Golden Griffins went on a 10-
2 run over the next 3:4 7 to take a
54-39 lead with just over nine min-
utes remaining
.
They led by dou-
.
ble digits for the rest of the waY,,
While Marist shot
44
pei;cen~
from the field, fundamental err-or,s
took it out of the game. With every
glimpse of talent and potential
came a wild pass, a playe:r: catch-
ing the ball out of bounds, or a fail-
ure to get back on defense.
The victory was Canisius' third
double-digit defeat ofMarist this
season. The Golden Griffins won
each of the first two games by 15.
Continuously playing from be-
hind has taken its toll on the
young Red Foxes.
"It can be deflating, for us to al-
ways have to battle back," Price
said.
After the game, an exhausted
Martin and his players looked
back on a rough year.
"We understood that you 're
never as good as they make you
out to be and you're never as a bad
as they make you out to be," Mar-
tin.. said. "You have to have an
even keel."
'"i
ou can't put a price-tag on the
minutes these young guys have
played."
Men's basketball maintains optimism for the future
By JIM URSO
Sports Editor
Early Saturday morning, an ex-
hausted Chuck Martin approached
the press confer-
feature
ence podium at
the Times Union
Center in Albany, NY.
The Red Foxes season had just
ended in an 18-point loss to Cani-
sius in the first round of the MAAC
tournament.
"It's an opportunity to learn," the
Marist men's basketball coach said
after the Red Foxes lost their 29th
game in 30 attemp~s. "It's been a
rough, rough season, and if the only
thing you're taking away are losses,
then really shame on you."
From Page
1
Marist opened up its second half of
play with extremely cold shooting,
going just 1-for-8 from the field.
This allowed Fairfield to come to
within four points of the Red Foxes
after Desiree Pina hit a jumper and
Katelyn Linney, a selection to the
All-MAAC Rookie Team, connected
on a three-pointer to make the score
37-33.
With 8:30 left in the game, Marist
embarked on a 9°0 run and was
aided by the Stags, who missed
Throughout the season, Martin
h~s endured many unexpected set-
backs. The issues began in Novem-
ber, when sophomore point guard
R.J. Hall was declared academically
ineligible.
After sitting out the fall, Hall,
along with 6-10 Casiem Drummond,
was set to make his season debut on
Dec. 20 against the Binghamton
Bearcats. During the fall semester,
Drummond was completing his
NCAA mandated second semester
in residency. Marist lost its first
seven games, but coaches, players,
and fans were excited for a physical
presence in the middle.
However, Drummond was absent
from the McCann Center for
Marist's second home game.
their next eight shot attempts.
Allenspach and Fitz combined
points for the run, aiding Marist in
a similar fashion to how they have
led their team throughout the entire
season.
''They stepped it up when we re-
ally needed to, that's why I think
they're a very special group of peo-
ple" Marist coach Brian Giorgis
said. ''They know how to win. They
know what it takes to win, and they
know how to rise to the occasion."
Johnson connected on a long
Soon after, the Marist announced
that Drummond had left Marist
after being declared academically
ineligible.
·
After losing to the Bearcats,
Marist lost three more games before
notching its only win on the season,
a 72-66 defeat of Manhattan at
home on Jan. 2. The Red Foxes then
lost their final 18 games, their worst
losing streak in program history.
In mid-January freshman Sam
Prescott became the third Red Fox
to be declared academically ineligi-
ble, raising questions about recruit-
ing and the amount of empha&,i.s
being put on academics.
"I truly believe this is a spec;ial
place, and it takes a quality athlete
and person to succeed here," Marist
three-point attempt with 23 seconds
remaining in the game, putting her
team up by 17, Marist's largest lead
of the game.
Marist also got key contributions
in the game from sophomore
Brandy Gang, who went on a 6-0
run by herself late in the first half.
Gang struggled in the first part of
the season, but turned in perfor-
manced of 10, 11 and 13 points dur-
ing the last month of the season.
Increased production from the
sophomore that was selected to the
Athletic Director Tim Murray said.
''We embrace the fact that you have
to be special to be here."
In late February, 6'10" Naofall
''Ming'' Folahan, a native of Africa
playing at a prep school in Massa-
chusetts, revoked his oral commit-
ment to Marist.
"Some of the other things I can't
control. We talk about that every
day in practice: Worry about the
things you can control," Martin
said.
Another Massachusetts prep-
school player, 6'9'' Adam Kemp,
orally committed to Marist but has
yet to sign his National Letter of In-
tent. After being eliminated on Fri-
day, Martin said he received an oral
SEE COMMITMENT, PAGE 15
MAAC All-Rookie team last season
could prove to be a key part of an in-
strumental Marist bench that will
aid Giorgis' offensive arsenal when
scouting who the Red Foxes will
play in the NCAA Tournament.
In a tremendous display of consis-
tency, the Red Foxes advance to
their fifth consecutive NCAA Tour-
nament and their sixth in seven
years.
''It shows that we can handle
change, players leaving and new
players coming in," Fitz said.






















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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 •
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Baseball gets mixed performances from pitching
By
SCOTT ATKINS
Staff Writer
The Mari.st baseball team spent
the weekend in North Carolina as
they took on UNC-Charlotte in a 3-
game series. The Red Foxes dropped
two out of three and now stand at 3-
7 on the season.
"We got off to a slow start on the-
mcnind," head coach Chris
-
Tracz
said. "But how we responded was
really the thing to take away from
the weekend."
Junior right-hander
Kyle Putnam took the mound for
.
Mari.st when they opened the series
against the 49ers on Friday. The
home team jumped on Putnam right
off the hat scoring
10
runs in the
second inning and they never looked
back. UNC followed their explosive
second with five runs a piece in the
third, fourth and fifth innings. The
Foxes' solid day at the plate was not
enough to match the offensive erup-
tion by the 49ers, as Mari.st fell 26-
9 in what was their worst loss
of
the
season. Putnam received the loss
and was credited with seven earned
runs in 1.1 innings of work. His
From Page 14
commitment from another 6'10"
high school senior. NCAA rules
prohibit him from talking about
the recruit until Mari.st receives a
signed National Letter of Intent.
"If
there's a young man who de-
cides that he no longer wants to
come to
.
Marist, there's another
op-
portunity for another young man,"
Martin said.
Although Mari.st has 11 wins and
52
losses over the last two seasons,
Murray: maintains confidence in
his head coach, and he hope fans
will
do the same.
"I've never been through a sea-
son like this one," Marist Athletic
Director Tim Murray said. ''It's not
something you want to see, but you
have to look ahead, put it behind
us, and get better for the future."
Martin remains optimistic as
rn Page 16
far, but Marist is still trying to in-
crease its shot total.
''We're trying to get them to take
more shots," Campbell said, ''be-
cause our shot percentage is great.
~
quality of our shots is really
~~
we jttst have to get the quan-
WJ
up,"
'l'he Red Fo.x-es must also do a bet-
ter
jqb
of
taking care of the ball.
Marist had 44. turnovers in its first
two games, as opposed to 35 by its
opponents
.
"I think they're trying to do too
much," Campbell said. ''We have
such a complete team this year, so
everybody just needs to take care of
their job and not try and do too
much."
Dillon said that the team has been
record now sits at 1-1 and Tracz is
confident that his standout pitcher
will quickly return to form.
"It's only the third week of the sea-
son," Tracz said. "He's going to get
15 starts and I told him after the
game that you're always going to
have one or two that you aren't
going to want to remember, and this
is his one for the year. So I'm not re-
ally worried about him at all."
The Foxes would soon rebound in
a big
•way,
as junior left-hander
Sean McKeown pitched six scoreless
innings in an 11-7 victory the next
day. Marist's spectacular day at the
plate included 18 hits, three apiece
from senior left fielder Ryan Gauck,
junior catcher Bryce Nugent and
freshman second baseman Zach
Shank. Tracz was pleased with the
way his team rebounded from Fri-
day's lopsided loss.
"I think
it
just shows the mental
toughness that they have," Tracz
said. "They took some adversity and
moved forward.
•
I think a lot of
teams can really get demoralized
from a loss like we had, but our guys
kept their heads up and kept grind-
ing. It's a big confidence booster to
know that we can take some hits
and keep on going."
The two teams closed out the se-
ries on Sunday with a seesaw battle
in which Mari.st would forfeit
a
7-1
fourth inning lead en route to
a
13-
10 UNC-Charlotte victory. The
Foxes jumped in front early with a
five-run second inning, and entered
the bottom of the eighth leading 10-
6. But the 49ers would then score
seven runs in a wild inning that in-
cluded five hits, two walks, tw<? hit
batters and a wild pitch. Nugent's
bat was the silver lining in the
Foxes' loss, as he went 3-for-5 with
five RBIs and two runs scored. The
catcher continues to be a star in the
middle of the Mari.st lineup.
"He's been doing a spectacular
job." Tracz said. "He's one guy that
everybody knows is going to be in
the four-hole every day, and when
he's swinging the bat well he
changes the lineup and how pitch-
ers have to pitch to us which makes
everyone more dangerous and a lot
more effective."
While the foxes have excelled at
the plate, the pitching staff has
given up an average of 9. 7 runs per
game during the first '10 contests.
The coach is still in the process of
figuring out where all of his pitch-
ers fit in on his staff, but he remains
confident they will find their groove.
''We're going to have to continue
to identify specific roles and who's
going to pitch where and whe1;1,"
Tracz said. "But I'd be hard pressed
to think that they guys who have
struggled are going to struggle
much longer. Even thought the
numbers aren't great, I've seen a lot
less bad pitches being thrown."
Tracz is particularly interested in
the improvement of his starters,
which he feels will improve the play
of the relievers.
"If
we get good starts, it shortens
up our bullpen," he said. "And then
we've got a chance to really
win
those close games. We had to extend
our bullpen to six or seven innings
this past weekend, and I think that
any team in the country would have
a hard time on the mound when
they're not getting great production
out of their starters."
Mari.st will return to the field next
weekend with a four-game series
against Longwood.
freshmen, I started four at times, I
finished starting three."
Junior forward Korey Bauer,
whose play improved vastly this
season, said he will spend the off-
season improving his strength and
working on his offensive game.
"I've got a weapon now that I
didn't even know I had," Martin
said.
Starting freshmen point guard
Devin Price, said he'll use this sea-
son as inspiration for the future.
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Chuck Martin coaches Marist on Friday at the MMC tournament in
Albany, NY.
"For me, going through this,"
Price said, "I know I'll never let
this happen again."
well.
"When I. took the job over two
years ago, I got the job really, re-
ally late so we really pieced the
team together to get through the
season," said Martin. "But I.knew
forcing things, and that it is focus-
ing on keeping its composure and
not letting opponents dictate the
tempo.
In addition to improving its
turnover ratio, Marist is also work-
ing on its piay in the open field.
Littin said that the team is focus•
ing on cleaning up its transition
game and moving the ball up the
field, as well as sc9oping more
groundballs on the defensive end.
The Red Foxes traveled to
UConn on Wednesday, March 10,
but the game was too late for pub-
lication. Their spring break sched-
ule includes a home contest
against Yale and trips to Florida
and Vermont.
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that this was our first recruiting
class."
"Our nucleus is coming back next
year," M~rtin said. "It's taken us a
season to learn what college bas-
ketball is all about. I had seven
"Everyone wants to win right
now," Murray said. "And we want
to win now, but it's going to take
some time and some good decisions
in recruiting."
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Men's basketball looks to future
Baseball struggles In
trip down south
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Thursday, March
11, 2010
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16
Balanced offense leads women's lacrosse
By
MATT SPILLANE
Editor in Chief
man, followed by two sophomores.
Freshman midfielder Amanda Tuck
leads the team with six goals, fol-
Marist has found its goalie. After lowed by sophomore midfielder
Jori
starting the
season
with an unset-
Procaccini with five.
women's
tied situation in net,
Tuck was named MAAC Rookie of
lacrosse
the Red ~oxes ha~e the Week
on
Tuesday, March 9. She
found therr keeper m
tallied hat tricks against Lafayette
sophomore Alyssa Littin.
and LeMoyne, and is tied for fourth
Littin started the season opener in the MAAC with an average of
agai.p.st Lafayette, a 15-12 win, but three goals per game.
was pulled at halftime so that fresh-
The Red Foxes have had excep-
man Ashley Casiano could get a tional scoring balance thus far; they
shot. Although pleased with Littin's haa seven players score against
first half performance, head coach Lafayette, including hat tricks by
Laura Campbell also wanted to see Tuck, Procaccini, senior midfielder
what Casiano could do.
·
Morgan Dillon and sophomore at-
While Casiano held her own in her tack Kelly Condon.
Marist debut, Littin's play could not
Marist continued spreading the
be overlooked; Littin started the fol-
ball around against LeMoyne, with
lowing game against LeMoyne, six players finding the baok of the
making 10 saves and allowing just net. Tuck led the way again with
eight goals in Marist's 10-8 victory, three goals, while Procaccini and
and was slated
to
start Wednesday's senior midfielder Lauren Ciccarello
game against UConn. Littin said each scored twice.
that the defense worked well with
The score was knotted at 7-7 with
her to hold off LeMoyne in the clos-
19:09 remaining in the game, when
ing minutes.
the Red Foxes went on a 3-0 run to
"I felt really good about that retake the lead. Some offensive ad-
game," she said. "We all work to-
justments at halftime helped them
gether. We just kind of feed off each generate a late scoring surge.
other."
"We realized that the crease rolls
Marist's youth is flourishing on weren't really working and we were
the other end of the field, as well. getting a lot of turnovers," Cic-
The Red Foxes' top scorer is a fresh-
.
carello said. "We tried other things
MATT
SPILLANE/THE
CIRCLE
The Marist
Women's Lacrosse
team has Improved
to
2-0
this season after
victories
over the Lafayette Leopards
and
the
LeMoyne Dolphins.
like cutting from up top and work-
attack, from the girls off the ball,
to
mg the fast break, which proved to the girls who are finishing, to the
be beneficial."
feeders. Last year it was more of a
Senior midfielder Erin Wilson few people scoring, and it's great
stressed the importance of improv-
that everyone's getting open and
ing every aspect of the offensive doing the work for each other."
game.
Scoring has not been an issue so
"Everyone's just working to-
gether," she said. "It's everyone on
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