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Blizzard causes historic power outages
By
KRISTEN DOMONELL
News Editor
Two storms lingered over New
York State last week, dumping 14
inches of snow and slush onto many
parts of the Hudson Valley. Not
only did the storm halt much of the
activity in the region, including
classes held at Marist, is also left
numerous residents stuck in their
homes, many without power.
According to a report on Central
Hudson's Web site, 150,000 of its
customers were without electricity
on Friday, Feb. 26- the largest out-
age event in the utility company's
century-old history. Of that total,
2,462 town and city of Poughkeep-
sie customers were without power.
The largest outage previous to this
occurred in August 2003 when
100,000 Central Hudson customers
were without
J)t)Wer.
This was the
result of an energy grid failure in
Ohio that led
to
a blackout in large
portions of the Midwest, Northeast
United
States,
and
Ontario,
Canada, affecting 50 million people.
Sophomore Maggie Barbera lost
power in her apart:µient 20 minutes
away in Wappingers Falls, where
she said half the town was without
power. Barbera was without elec-
tricity from Thursday, Feb. 25 at 10
p.m. until the following Monday
morning.
"It was ridiculous," Barbera said.
"Half the time I didn't have running
water. I had no water heater, no
shower, no way to check homework
·
online, no Internet, no way to
charge my phone."
Barbera said aside from the cold
and inconvenience, the power out-
age left her struggling to complete
all the homework she would have
done since Thursday
on
Monday
night. Fortunately, though, she said
losing power wasn't as huge of an
RYAN HUTTON/THE CIRCLE
issue as it could have been, as
Several storms hit the Hudson Valley early last week, can~lling classes and
leaving
classes were cancelled all day Fri-
many area residents without power for numerous
days. Over 150,000 customers
day.
were left
in the dark
from
one
of the largest
outages
in
recent
history.
The heavy, wet snow forced Marist County Highway Department. We the Highway Department tells him
officials to cancel various classes have our own weather service that the roads are going
to
be clear by 9
Tuesday through Friday of last we subscribe to. Plus, I check a.m., the decision is made during the
week. According
to
John Gildard, di-
weather.com and the national day, depending on what actually ends
rector of safety and security, a lot is weather service online, so I get the up happening with the weather.
taken under consideration when
.
information from all those different
''There is a process," Gildard said.
making the decision to call off places. Then I talk to the Registrar ''We try
to do the best we can. We're
school.
and I discuss the class schedule."
at the mercy of the weatherman, and
"Early in the morning I get up and
Gildard said
if
the weather is ex-
he or she is not always right, but we
I call several police departments," tremely bad, administration
will de-
try to make the best choice.
Gildard said. "I call the Dutchess cide to close school for the day, but
if
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MAAC TITLE QUEST
Students educated
on identity theft
RYA
HUTTON/THE CJRCLE
Senior Rachele Fitz and the rest of the Marist
Women's
Bas-
ketball team look to capture their frfth consequtive MAAC tour-
nament championship. The Red Foxes play their
first
game on
Friday at 1:30 p.m.
at
the Times Union Center In Albany, NY.
For a complete
MAAC
preview, see page 10.
By
MONICA SPERANZA
Staff Writer
Identity theft in the second de-
gree is a class E felony and can re-
sult in up to 11 years in jail. To
have a credit score of around 700,
you should have a credit debt of
less than 35 percent. The CARD
Act of 2009, effective Feb. 22, pre-
vents credit card companies from
retroactively raising the interest
rate on your credit card.
The above were only three facts
included in Mark Hoop's pres
.
en-·
tation on identity theft Tuesday,
March 2. Hoops, the senior con-
sumer frauds representative of
the Poughkeepsie Regional Office,
talked about many issues pertain-
ing to credit and identity theft,
with two major points being how
an identity gets stolen and the
best way to virtually ''bulletproof'
your identity.
Identity theft itself is using an-
other's personal information like
Social Security number and dri-
ver's license to fraudulently use
their funds and credit. This can be
as small as someone finding your
lost debit card and using it to buy
something, or as big as someone
opening a credit account in your
name and taking out an equity
loan. Hoops made it clear that too
many people are unawar~ of how
severe identity theft can be.
People who commit major identity
theft crimes go "dumpster diving,"
Hoops said. They basically track
you and figure out what your credit
report would look like based mostly
on what ends up in your trashcan.
Then they can "spoof you," start
using credit in your name, and go
unnoticed by companies until a
credit report monitor puts out a
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fraud alert (which happens "after
you've been robbed," Hoops said).
The way to make it impossible
for your identity to be stolen is to
block your credit accounts. This
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Thursday, March
4, 2010
THIS WEEK
Thursday, 3/4
Guest Speakers: Stanley Fish
&
Paul Griffiths
7 p.m., Nelly Goletti Theater
FIim: America the Beautiful
7 p.m., Cabaret
Free tickets SC 352
Fashlonology Grand Opening
10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ON Fashion Plaza
Beach Booze
&
Bingo
9:30 p.m., Leo Stone Lounge
Free with Marist ID
Friday, 3/5
SPC Movie: Twlllght: New Moon
Starts at 10 p.m., PAR
Saturday, 3/6
Shopping Shuttle
12 p.m. - 8 p.m., $1 day pass,
$5 semester pass
Bus leaves from Midrise
Women's lacrosse vs. LeMoyne
1:00 p.m., Tenney Stadium
Sunday, 3/7
No Events Posted
Monday, 3/8
No Events Posted
Tuesday, 3/9
No Events Posted
Wednesday, 3/10
No Events Posted
campus
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Security Briefs
Snowdays more popular than Nickelback
By
CHRIS RAIA
Sidney Crosby made me upset
Sunday night. And the fact that I
allowed Sidney Crosby to affect
my mood at all forced me to leap
from just upset to all-out de-
pressed. So I did what any good
American would do in this time of
crisis: YouTube'd scenes from
"D2" and watched Julie "the Cat"
Gaffney stone Gunner Stahl cold
in the shootout to take the gold
medal in the Junior Goodwill
Games. Go America!
Oh, and did anyone else see the
closing ceremonief'\? In case you
missed it. here's what happened:
there was an enormous inflatable
moose, an enormous inflatable
beaver, a little kid dressed as a
big hockey puck, Mounties and
Canadian girls dressed as slutty
Mounties. Girls dressed as big
leaves were suspended from the
ceiling, a mime came out to light
the last torch and William Shat-
ner gave a speech!
Oh no, I almost forgot the mu-
sical talent: Nickelback, Avril
Lavigne, Alanis Morissette, and,
are you sitting down for thie last
one? Simple Plan. "WELCOME
TO
MY
LIFE!!" Final questions.
Where was Drake? Where were
Terrence and Philip? And why in
the world did they not invite Lil'
_
Mama to perform the "Girlfriend
Remix" with Avril?! Thanks a lot,
Canada. Your national anthem is
freaking awesome, fires me up
every time; I was this close to
being ready to stand on guard for
thee! But then you go and do
this. Nothing makes sense any-
more. God Bless America.
2/24 Cha;mpagnat -
On the first snow day of the
week (Wednesday), somebody ap-
parently called a noise complaint
because kids were having a loud
snowball fight outside. Can we
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all agree that this person sucks?
I don't mean to be rude, and I
don't like being mean, and maybe
I even got the story wrong. How-
ever, if somebody in .their dorm
called security to break up a
snowball fight that was happen-
ing outside, I'm standing by what
I said. Have a heart. Anything
can happen on a snow day ... Neg-
ative 15 points for ruining fun.
2/26 Donnelly Lot -
A cabbie wanted to make a
quick stop at Donnelly, and a
group of students didn't want to
wait in the cab that long. Bottom
line, the students got kicked out
of the cab. Lesson: fin4 one cab
driver, get to know him and al-
ways call him. A lot of cab driv-
ers have been known to be a little
questionable;
so
make
sure
they're licensed and approved by
Marist if you don't have your very
own go-to.
2/26 Midrise -
Vodka and Strawberry Mar-
garita mix were confiscated.
Sounds like a classy night. Alas.
10 points.
2/27 Marian -
According to the security re-
port, a student "maliciously"
pulled the fire alarm in Marian.
The student was never caught,
but it's never O.K. when the word
"maliciously" is used.
Appar-
ently, the penalty for pulling the
fire alarm is an extremely hea~y
fine and dismissal from the
school! Doesn't seem worth it. 10
points.
2/28 Midrise -
At around 5:00 p.m., two stu-
dents exited through the Midrise
doors that lead directly
to
the
parking lot. That apparently sets
off the alarms. I definitely did
the same exact thing the second
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week of school last year, when I
was living in Leo. I walked down
to the baf;ement and went
straight through that fire exit,
because I didn't want to walk all
the way down the hallw~y to go
out the front door. I heard the
alarms and just kept on walking.
I felt b.ad about it at the time, but
now I'm wondering: why aren't
those doors accessible? Are they
too convenient? Is that the prob-
lem? Just put a swipey thing at
the entrance of all them, and the
problem is solved. 10 points.
2/28 Fulton -
Fire alarm due to burnt sauce.
If
that were me, I'd be way more
upset over the fact that the sauce
was ruined than the fact that I
set off the alarm. Last week, I
went to Stop & Shop, and their
Italian bread had just come out of
the oven, so I got really excited
and bought two huge loaves of
bread.
I knew they would go
stale quickly; so I ate bread for
breakfast, lunch and dinner for
two days straight. I could have
used that sauce.
Sad day.
5
points.
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THE CIRCLE •
THURSDAY,
MARCH 4, 2010 •
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Law makes obtaining credit cards diffi~ult
BySARADORN
Flyer News
As
of Monday, Feb. 22, in order t.o be
issued a credit card you need t.o be of
the legal drinking age due t.o a credit
card law passed last May in
Con-
gress.
This law
will
protect card holders
from being exploited by credit card
companies. However for many college
students, it means goodbye plastic
money. Those under the age of 21
can-
not be issued a credit card unless a
parent,
legal guardian or spouse co-
signs, making themselves the primary
card holder and responsible for any
debt the card accumulates. This may
hurt students in developing credit
score and credit card responsibility.
''I
think students should build up
their credit hist.ory," said Ralph
Frasca, professor of economics at Uni-
versity of Dayt.on.
"Students
should
have credit cards and should use them
responsibly. They should use them as
a transaction account and pay them
off every month. If they can't they
should lOQk for other sources of bor-
rowing at lower interest."
A credit card
is
important for stu-
dents not only for building credit his-
t.ory, but also for paying for many
other necessities.
"Because
my parents encouraged
me t.o open an account at 18, I would
not have had any trouble getting
them t.o co-sign on my card," Univer-
sity of Dayt.on
Senior
Jim Ortman
said. "I am currently the only person
on my card and do not have a
cosigner."
Ortman's
parents
encouraged
him
t.o open an account at a young age in
order t.o build credit history. It also as-
sists him in
making
easier purchases.
He uses his card for tuition pay-
ments, online purchases, travel and
often simply when he has
no
cash on
hand,
he said.
Although it was never a common oc-
currence at UD, the new laws also re-
stricts the availability of credit card
applications to college students on
campus; companies
can
no longer
market on college campuses.
Another restriction
is
that the card
holder must grant permission before
allowing the company to let them
overspend which creates additional
fees. Frasca said this
is
one aspect of
the bill that
will
benefit students.
''I
think a lot of times students
will
overdraw their accounts and get hit
with additional charges without even
recognizing it," he said.
However, Frasca also said that sur-
veys have been done that don't show a
significant correlation between college
students and those in credit card debt.
In all, Frasca says she is against this
law.
~'The government always feels it
can
solve problems with additional regu-
lations, but sometimes regulations
create problems," Frasca said.
''I
don't
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A new federal law makes applying for credit cards more difficult
for
those under 21
years old. Students who use their credit cards
to
purchase school necessities
like
books
or groceries will have
to
have an alternate plan
if
they cannot get a co:-signer.
see why we need the government t.o
interfere in this anyway."
According t.o CNN.com, the average
student credit card balance was
$3,173 in 2008, up from $1,879 a
decade earlier. With the current sta-
tus of the economy, it will now be
much harder for students under the
age of 21 t.o find a co-signer with the
financial stability to be responsible
for a young person's finances as well
as their own.
The other option aside from assign-
ing a co-signer
is
to prove a substan-
tial source of income, which is
another task that is difficult in
t.oday's economy.
Like Ortman, many students use
their credit cards to purchase school
books, pay for tuition or as a conven-
ient alternative to cash. For some
who find th,emselves in need of a
credit card, it may no longer be an
option.
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Main c~mpus facilities
Block stops thieves
equipped for outages
from ruining credit
the
best decision. We also have to
be
wary
of the number of hours re-
quired fo:r
class
to certify
·
the
class.
We can't
be willy-
nilly
ei-
ther,
and cancel at the first
snowflake.
We
try to
balance all of
those things
together
and come
out with an educated guess."
Gildard also
said
they consider
weather conditions, road condi-
tions, the ability of faculty and
staff to get here to support the
students who come, and the com-
mut~rs who have to get here by
car.
Besides the need for some
classes to be cancelled, Marist was
not as affected as the surrounding
area. This is because all of the col-
lege's electricity runs through un-
derground wires that can't be
weighed down by snow, according
to Justin Butwell, director of the
physical plant at Marist.
In
the event that Marist ever
does lose power, Butwell said
there are seven
emergency
gener-
a tors that can cover emergency
lighting and
"essential services"
in
Fontaiµe, Dyson, Lowell Thomas,
Champagnat,
Sheahan,
Leo,
Midrise, the McCann Center, Ten-
ney Stadium, the library, and the
student center.
"If
the power went out we have a
very close relationship with Cen-
tral Hudson and we would work
with them to restore power as
quickly as possible," Butwell said.
"Being a community of over 5,000,
[Marist] would be a very high pri-
ority to be restored."
There are no generators on the
East side of campus, but Butwell
said most of the townhouses are
on the same electrical grid as
Saint Francis Hospital.
"-[The
hospital] is the number
one priority, so they're actually a
lot safer than the others," he said.
Mati Spillane contributed reporting.
means that a wall is put up between
your credit information and the rest
of the world. For example,
if
some-
one attempted to buy something
though your account when a block is
up,
·
it would be as
if
you did not even
exist
in
the system and the identity
thief wouldn't be able to use the ac-
count. This block can be taken down
at any time when you know you are
going to be using your credit. The
first block and takedown are free,
and every subsequent one is a five-
dollar charge.
This ability to block was created
with the Security Freeze Act. Ac-
cording to Hoops, there are many
advantages to the Security Freeze
Act: you stop getting prescreened of-
fers of credit (you won't get solicited
by credit card companies), it takes
you off credit report radar, so third
party credit monitors become obso-
lete, it does not hurt your relation-
ship with your creditors and it does
not affect your FICO score.
''This is not for people who often
need to get credit," Hoops said.
"This system encourages people to
use credit less and to remain as pro-
tected as possible from identity
theft."
Hoops described the protection
blocks provide by saying that your
personal infprmation-your Social
Security number, your driver's li-
cense, your birthday-could be
dis-
played for all to see, but because of
the block on your accounts, no one
could do anything with it.
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keyboard
to
get
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Letter to the Editor: Responsible social networking
skills prove necessary in communication careers
Dear Circle Staff,
I read with interest Michelle Car-
penter
'
s commentary about the
risks associated with using social
media tools and networks to share
information ("Social networking
threatens privacy, jobs," Feb. 25,
2010, p. 1). I agree with her cau-
tionary observation that posting pie:.
tures, videos, and other personal
material on a social network has
"come to serve as a way to investi-
gate the personal lives of anyone
who is a member." However
,
before
anyone considers
·
canceling his or
her Twitter
,
Facebook, MySpace,
Linkedin
,
blog, or podcast account,
consider the value of these tools and
the need to balance the risks with
the benefits of social networking
.
For instance, Marist alumna
Laura Dempsey (COM, '06), now an
account executive with Middleberg
Communications in New York City,
recently reported results of a survey
of social media conducted by her
firm. Among journalists surveyed,
nearly 70 percent use social net-
working sites,
48
percent use Twit-
ter or similar microblogs, 66 percent
use blogs,
48
percent use online
video
,
and
25
percent use podcasts.
N ear~y all of these results rey_i:_esent
a dramatic increase in social media
use compared to last year's survey
results, which suggests that use of
social media is becoming much more
widespread among communication
professionals.
Even more compelling, the survey
reported, "more than 90 percent of
journalists agree that new media
and communications tools and tech-
nologies are enhancing journalism
to some extent." You can read a
summary of the survey results at
http://bit.ly/9aApJe. These results
tell me and should convince others
that you must become familiar with
social media tools and networks
if
you plan to enter any profession
that depends upon communication
(are there any fields that don't de-
pend on communication?).
For instance
,
I noticed that the
U.S. Defense Department released
at the end of February a new social
media policy for its millions of uni-
formed and civilian employees,
worldwide. According to the De-
partment of Defense
,
the policy
(summarized at http://bit.ly/cHqb3l)
allows information to be shared se-
curely, "providing the balance
needed to tap into the capabilities
social media networking provides
without compromising security."
Deputy Defense Secretary William
J. Lynn III said that the new policy
"
recognizes the importance of bal-
ancing appropriate security measures
while maximizing the capabilities af-
forded by 21st-century Internet
tools."
David
M.
Wennergren, deputy as-
sistant secretary of defense for infor-
mation management and technology,
added, "the world of Web 2.0 and
the Internet provides these amazing
o
ortun
·
ti
e..s.
to co1Lab01:ate."
According to another defense offi-
cial, "responsible
,
security-conscious
use of social media networks (is] a
win-win proposition for the Defense
Department and its members, enabling
them
t.o
take
full
advantage of the power
of
social
media
networking."
I noticed an example of secure and
responsible use of social media net-
worlqng in the aftermath of the re-
cent earthquake in Chile, which
created the potential for a tsunami
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Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Linkedln are all sites used
by
individuals seeking
Jobs and
by
communications institutions looking
to
reach more people.
that could have threatened coastal
areas like Hawaii. I found it difficult
to obtain timely, reliable
,
and co-
herent reporting on this issue from
traditional news sources. However,
when I turned to the U.S. Navy's of-
ficial Twitter and Facebook pages
J
found a stream of information and
eye-witness
accounts,
updated
every few minutes, about ships de-
ploying, safety advisories, and other
useful messages. This information
c.ould have saved lives
.
had a
tsunami hit Hawaii -
yet the in-
formation was shared safely and
securely with no risk to people
or military operations. See
http://twitter.com/navynews and
http://www.facebook.com/Chiefof
Naval Operations.
Using the policies established by
organizations like the Department
of Defense and the U.S. Navy, I be-
lieve the key is to develop your own
personal social media policy or en-
<;ourage your organization to de-
velop such a policy. This policy
should guide use of social media
tools and networks in a way that
leverages the power of the Web and
permits safe, responsible, and se-
cure communication. For instance,
before you post that picture, video,
or other personal information on the
Internet, take a few moments to
think of the risks that release of this
information might have in terms of
personal .secµri~, job sec~ty., em-
barrassment or harm to you, your
school, your organization, your fam-
ily, your friehds, etc. So,
if
you don't
have a social media policy, isn't it
about time you developed one?
Sincerely,
Mark A. Van Dyke
,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Communication
Marist College
In feminist
battle
for
equality
'we're still
not
there yet'
By
MEGAN GRAHAM
The Daily fllini
I was one of those kids who
changed hobbies more than I
changed my socks. There were peri-
ods of big-wheel drag racing on the
sidewalk, the week where I planted
Tootsie Roll trees all over the neigh-
borhood and the inevitable pony
and Barbie fixations (hindered by
my brothers' enjoyment in defacing
them). At some point, I became fas-
cinated with the women
'
s suffrage
movement. With the same level of
fanaticism most girls my age had for
Baby Spice, I read every book in my
library's Junior Room on the sub-
ject. I counted down the days till I
c;ould vote. I wanted to be Elizabeth
Cady Stanton.
Not to diminish the work of the
women of the suffrage movement in
any way, but I almost envy the bat-
tle they got to fight. There was con-
creteness to the movement, an end
goal that was measurable and even-
tually attainable. Now the very con-
cept of feminism is considered taboo
by some people. But though we have
equal voting rights, women are still
not considered to be equal to men.
We've come a long way since 1920,
but we're still not "there" yet
.
Almost a hundred years later,
women get paid 77 cents for every
man's dollar doing the same jobs.
Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin's
political merits are judged by their
parenting abilities and wardrobe
choices. Women in the workplace
are often considered to be inferior
to
men and "too emotional" to be effec-
tive leaders. We are still treated as
potential housewives, and it's get-
ting pretty old.
Out of curiosity, I asked a friend
what he thought about feminism.
He laughed in my face. He com-
plained about the girls he knows
who
~n.
around boasting massive
cleavage and begging for drinks at
bars. His perception (probably sim-
ilar to that of many people our age)
was that women want to be treated
the same as men, but don't neces-
·sarily always deserve it. I'll concede
that feminist activists do a lot of the
marching and protesting and don't
necessarily do much to earn a
higher opinion from men, or even
other women. Though bra-burning in
the sixties certainly got an idea across,
I don't think it ever did a whole lot of
good
to
promote equal treatment.
If
women are ever going to be on
an equal playing field with men, we
have to remember that our own
mothers and grandmothers faced
inequalities that we will never have
to. That means we shouldn't settle
for the way things are right now, be-
cause they aren't perfect. Until
women and men alike feel that
women have the capacity to be just
as successful as men, we aren't
where we need to be. As a college
woman
,
I think it starts with being
independent, making my own deci-
sions and offering to pay for dinner
every once in a while. Mostly, I
think it means remembering how
far women
·
have come and realizing
that there's always room to take an-
other step forward.
Feminism may have a new face;
but until we have a world where
gender isn't so divisive, it's certainly
nothing to laugh at.
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Art makes masterpiece of Marist music
By
CASSIE FAVROT
Circle Contributor
While the majority of students and
faculty smile when they see him
around campus in his unique
sweaters-many of which were gifts
from his mother, friends a.nd stu-
dents-and affectionately refer to
him simply as
"Art," a glimpse of his
true accomplishments can be seen
through his proper title of "Sergeant
Major Arthur Himmelberger."
Prior to becoming the Director of.
the Music Department, he earned
his bachelor's degree in music from
the University of Michigan, a Mas-
ter of Education with an Adminis-
trative Certificate from Temple
University and the "Legion of
Merit" medal for 26 years of com-
mendable service as a
member
of
U.S. Military Bands in Washington
D.C., West Point, and Berlin, Ger-
many.
Himmelberger's
teaching
repertoire includes stints at the
University of Michigan,
Dominican
College, University of Albany and
West Point, but he considers about
one-third of his life's work to have
been the development of Marist's
music program.
When he agreed to help out in
1986,
there was no real band; only
two students-both trumpet play-
ers-volunteered for the first band
event, a basketball game against
Fordham University at Madison
Square Garden. Himmelberger ac-
companied them on a drum set.
Though faced with a dismal turnout
and seemingly little interest, he was
determined.
Himmelberger's dedication to the
music program is evident to all who
interact with him; Rob Hom, fresh-
man percussionist, said, "He is very
very passionate with his work for
the band and always [brings] out
the best in us." What Himmelberger
likes most about Marist is the brand
of young adult that comes here; he
believes that he's been blessed with
great students.
Marist has also been blessed with
a great Music
Director,
deserving of
fanfare equal to that which he con-
ducts at all ofMarist's sports events
combined. Khalid Barnes, sopho-
more clarinetist, said, "He is the
most amazing faculty member
on
campus and I love him."
Under Himmelberger's leadership,
band membership has grown from
two in 1986 to 350 in 2007, to its
current count at 450, while the choir
has increased from 140 in 2007 to
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scription is the guiding of the entire
music program, and primary direct-
ing of the marching, pep, wind sym-
phony and symphonic bands.
}-Iimmelberger also teaches music
history courses while supervising 15
adjunct faculty members as they
help instruct the 55 sections of
music courses offered here. His po-
sition here is all-encompassing and
he has great-though not enough-
help, as they all perform herculean
tasks on a regular basis and work
very long days. Himmelberger's in-
tention has always been to provide
music for as many college functions
where it makes sense to do so, and
even for some non-college events,
such as an upcoming concert this
weekend at the FDR homestead
where the gospel choir
will
perform.
Also occurring this weekend is the
MAAC Tournament in Albany.
Himmelberger affirmed that the
band
"will
be travelling ... to support
both the men and women's
basket-
ball
teams," and with a chuckle he
said " ... hopefully when the opposing
team is
taking
foul shots down at
our end of the floor, we can make
them miss a couple." He is also
hopeful that the women's team will
make it to the NCAA tournament,
Hlmmelberger
gets
Into
the game.
because it's
another opportunity
to
take the band out and support the
team.
SEE MARIST'S, PAGE
7
Marist mentors encourage
local students to succeed
By
LISA GLOVER
Staff Writer
Poughkeepsie and Kingston public
school students in the Liberty Part-
nership Program (LPP) meet with
their mentors at Marist on a weekly
basis and form a connection that, it
is hoped, will motivate them to
achieve success both academically
and personally, through ~cademic
work, discussion, debate and dance.
LPP is a dropout prevention pro-
gram directed by Susan Repko,
serving approximately 240 students
each year within the schools of
Poughkeepsie
Middle
School,
Poughkeepsie High School, J. Wat-
son Bailey Middle School, M. Clif-
ford Miller Middle School and
Kingston High School. Students in
LPP are referred to the program by
principals, guidance counselors,
teachers and parents who foresee
them as a risk of dropping out of
school due to academic difficulties,
family circumstances and negative
peer pressure.
Mentor Jackie Greiner, a sopho-
more in LPP said, ''The program is a
great opportunity for underprivi-
leged students to have a role model
to look up to and to motivate them.
It is also an educating experience
for the mentors who are thinking
about becoming teachers and to see
firsthand different aspects of teach-
ing and the appreciation of life it-
self."
LPP's mission is "to secure re-
sources through the College, schools
and community, and provide di-
verse and empowering experiences
for students and parents. LPP fo-
cuses on educating youth to maxi-
mize their potential and understand
their intrinsic value as members of
society."
The program is sponsored by
Marist College and has been funded
by the New York State Education
Department (NYSED) since 1990.
At Liberty, mentors make it their
main go;1l to stimulate their
mentees to perform better in school
and actively consider a higher edu-
cation.
Mentors are typically education
majors whose goal is to pursue a ca-
reer in the field of education.They
discuss career goals and help
mentees
·
to understand and com-
plete homework, as well as give
them a tour of campus and an in-
sight to the college atmosphere.
Prior to each session, current event
articles are given out to the men-·
tors, which they read aloud with
their mentees. They are engaged in
a discussion prompted by analysis
questions, and a bond is formed as
both the mentor and the mentee
begin to know and trust one an-
other. Many of these students have
already had many difficult chal-
lenges to overcome and are very ma-
ture for their age.
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Himmelberger's energy essential to school spirit
Marist's Music Director strongly
believes that the band is the heart
and soul of sporting events and to-
gether during half-time shows the
cheerleaders, dance team and band
form The Spirit Team.
In
fact as Maristas, the band has
so much school spirit that it can af-
ford to lend some to another school.
In the summer of 1998, the Marist
Marching Band represented Florida
State University iii the Pigskin
Classic at Giants Stadium. In a
partjc, the leader of the Seminoles'
marching band had called around to
find a replacement for his unready
musicians. Marist's band under the
direction ofHimmelberger, who was
supposedly "just crazy enough to do
it,"
landed the job. Florida State
alumni in attendance believed that
the Foxes were really Seminoles.
In
regards to the music selected
for pep band and marching band,
Himmelberger said that it is easier,
more fun and more popular. But the
music for concert band is the kind
that will help the students grow as
musicians. He described the concert
music as being the meat and pota-
toes while the marching and pep
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band music is the dessert.
Although the band's marching and
pep music is more popular than that
of its concerts, the music depart-
ment-both the vocal and instru-
mental sides of it-is able to raise a
great amount of money for charities
such as Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights Aids and the Wounded War-
rior Project.
While the band and choir are rais-
ing money at concerts, Himmel-
berger raises school spirit and
morale at sporting events. Most no-
tably, during basketball at half-time
games he takes the microphone and
proudly belts out the Marist fight
song-which he wrote himself-as
he energetically claps and dances on
the court.
According to sophomore clarinetist
Katlin Davis, "He's an eccentric but
passionate little man."
Like a personal cheerleader for the
band, Himmelberger fires up his
musicians who in turn fire up the
crowd, all cheering the Foxes on
to
victory.
When asked about his sweet dance
moves, Himmelberger remarked
"I've always loved
to dance ... When
Partnership garners grant
They are interested in college life
and how mentors got to where they
·
are.
After academic work is completed,
students are given dinner in the
Marist cafeteria which is an excit-
ing end to their session, and they
are very appreciative. Many of the
students
voice their claims about
their cafeteria food and are over-
whelmed by the variety that Marist
has to offer.
Senior Ramzi Boutros, former
graduate from the LPP has contin-
ued his education and is now a stu-
dent at Marist College. He states
that,
"Liberty offers the students an
after school program where they
can be helped with their homework
and kept active." He also admits
that "without Liberty, I would not
be at Marist right now."
A new addition to the program is
the launch of debate ~essions,
taught by the Debate and Advocacy
Society to teach argumentation
skills that have been planned out
and modeled by Audra Diers, an as-
sistant professor in the Department
of Communication. Mentors engage
the students
to participate in proper
debate and argumentation skills
through techniques taught by the
Debate Society. At the end of the
program, students will engage in a
debate competition for their parents
with the potential to win prizes.
Along with debate sessions, the
dance club has also been involved by
teaching the students dance rou-
tines right at the college. Susan
Repko, director of the Liberty Part-
nerships Program of Marist College
is thrilled about the new additions
and growth of the program. She
states that she is "always impressed
with the leaders and mentors who
are involved" because they are help-
ing to e11hance the program for the
mentees. Each year, the program is
tweaked and improved, giving the
students the best experience possi-
ble.
According to the Marist website,
"During 2006
to 2009, 91 percent of
LPP graduates were accepted into
college. On a survey of LPP seniors
in 2008, 95 percent indicated that
LPP helped them graduate from
high· school and
84
percent indi-
cated that the program helped them
decide to go to college." This statis-
tic is extremely positive in terms of
feedback for LPP because it shows
that the directors and mentors are
encourage the students and really
making a difference in their aca-
demic and social capabilities.
Recently, the NYSED awarded
Marist College a grant based on the
highly competitive applications
from previous years, allowing LPP
to enhance its services beginning
this year continue to have a thriv-
ing program that has become so suc-
cessful in the lives of students.
RYAN HUITON/TH CIRCLE
Himmelberger conducts the pep
band,
energizing the game atmosphere.
I was in college I played in a jazz-
rock band. We kind of made our
band like the band Blood, Sweat &
Tears ... But sometimes at one
o'clock in the morning at some pub
we were playing, they would clear
the dance floor and the trombone
player would come back and take
over the drum set and I would go
out and do some dancing."
The admiration felt for him by
Maristas is evidenced by the "Art
Himmelberger Fan Club" on Face-
book which includes continually up-
dated quotes from the man, the
myth, the legend.
Himmelberger wished to share
closing words of wisdom with Circle
readers,
''Whatever
you're going to
do in this life, do it well. Put your
total effort into what is it that you
want to do or what it is that you
want to become. Do not allow your-
self to become a member of the vast
army of mediocrity."
Murphy's Law of Lateness
By
JESSIE
BORKAN
The Tufts Daily
My heart is racing, my breath
ragged. I am sweating a little under
all of my layers as I power walk
down an empty sidewalk.
I
check
my phone obsessively, in between
taking nervous glances around at
the ghost-town campus.
No,
I am
not afraid of being mugged. I am
just late.
Lateness is the perpetual state of
affairs for me. I am late to work,
late to class, late buying milk; I am
late to speakers, for buses,
to meals,
to parties. I get to the airport as my
planes are boarding, start papers
the morning they are due and call
my mom back after she is already
asleep. All my clocks are set several
minutes ahead, but I always end up
just calculating the actual time.
Sometimes I over-estimate how fast
they are, making me even later.
It's as if the things I need
to do be-
fore I leave my room magically ex-
pand
to fit whatever time I allot
myself to do them. It doesn't matter
if I get up two hours before my
lunch shift or ten minutes -
I will
still always walk in at 12:05 p.m.,
cringing as I see the rest of the staff
waiting at the front desk for me
to
arrive.
Somehow, however, my life is not
in shambles. I have not been fired
from my job. I have never missed a
flight. Professors whose classes I am
six minutes late
to every week give
me A's for participation. The worst
thing that has happened to me be-
cause of my unremitting tardiness
is that horrible, sinking, guilty feel-
ing I get in the pit of my stomach
when I realize that I am going to
be/already am/will for the rest of
eternity be late.
I feel like I'm sentenced to living
my own warped version of Murphy's
Law:
Whatever I can be late for, I
will be late for.
Try as I might, I
can't break the habit. But it has,
after years of distress, afforded me
one precious gift: the late chair.
For my last semester at Tufts,
some cruel twist of fate put me in a
9
a.m. Friday class. On my second
week of walking in at 9:07 a.m. with
my head down and tail between my
(just sobering up) legs, I took a chair
in the back, the only seat left in the
whole classroom. Just as I was ru-
minating on whether or not the
teacher hated me, I was bombarded
by pleasant sensations in my lower
back and behind. For the rest of the
class I sat feeling like Donald
Trump. I was so comfortable I actu-
ally learned something. This magi-
cal sitting device was even situated
high enough to give me a good view
and an excellent' post from which to
participate. I had discovered true
academic nirvana: the late chair.
The next week, I strolled in several
minutes late to discover that the
late chair had already been taken. I
was beside myself, or rather, beside
my coveted chair, for the next two
hours and 54 minutes -
I had to
win her back, and timeliness was
the only way I knew how to do it.
I'm not going to claim that the late
chair will change my ways. This col-
umn, for instance, was due at noon.
It is 12:27 p.m. I will, however, say
this: I have not been late
to my Fri-
day morning class since.




















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TV Review: 'How to Make it in America'
FROM DATNEWCUDI.COM
•How
to
Make
it
in
America• is a new show
that
centers
around Ben
Epstein (Bryan Greenberg) and Cam
Calderon
(Victor Rusk)
as they
attempt
to
succeed In the New York City
fashion scene and achieve their
version of
the
American
Dream.
By
REBECCA GOLDBERG
The
Tufts
Daily
What is the American dream of
the 21st century? Is it running one's
own company and finally experienc-
ing financial success? Is it being a
part of the melting pot, with friends
from all corners of the cultural land-
scape? Is it living in a scrappy apart-
ment on the Lower East Side ~hile
working on Fifth Avenue
,
going out
for sushi and partying with fashion
models and art gallery owners? Is it
finally paying a sketchy cousin back
and escaping without a broken arm?
HBO's "How to Make It in Amer-
ica" is like a hipster scrapbook of
New York City's unsung, struggling
dreamers. The new series is yet an-
other HBO entry -
like last year's
''Hung" -
with a genre that is
diffi.
cult to
·
crack. Rather than being a
comedy or a drama, it's more like a
visual experiment: part documentary
and part music video. Every minute,
however, paints a landscape, using
indelible images of areas all around
New York City and from all walks of
life to present its version of the Amer-
ican dream.
Principally, "How to Make It'' fol-
lows Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg),
an affably handsome design school
dropout looking to finally make his
mark. He and his best friend, Cam
(Victor Rasuk), decide to "f-k the
IQ.an" -
whatever that means - and
start their own denim fashion line
called Crisp NYC_. To do it, they bor-
row money from Cam's cousin Rene
(veteran character
actor
Luis
Guzman), who has recently been re-
leased from prison, and they make
plans to beat the odds.
Ben and Cam are not the only char-
acters with business in mind. Even
the soulful theme song,
Aloe
Blacc's
"I
Need A Dollar," makes it clear that
the characters think that "making it"
happens on monetary terms. Rene
decides to enter the legitimate busi-
ness world by distributing an energy
drink called Rasta Monsta. Ben's
friend Gingy (Shannyn Sossamon)
sells photos in her art gallery in order
to remain financially independent
from her rich father. David (Eddie
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Kaye Thomas), who knew Ben in
high school, works for a hedge fund
and lives in a lush uptown apart-
ment.
David, in
his
own opinion, has not
achieved the American dream. He's a
self-described '1oudmouth Jew'' who
hires call girls to shop at Barneys
with him and pays Ben and Cam
$3,000 to convince a club's doorman
that he's
cool.
David thinks that Ben
and Cam have it all: the hip, multi-
ethnic friends, the streetwise au-
thenticity
and
the
downtown
sensibilities. Though Blacc sings
about money in the opening credits,
the images that accompany the
music combine New York iconogra-
phy and colorful portraits of people to
depict the city as a hipster paradise.
The imagery subtly says that
if
one
experiences this New York, one actu-
ally has "made it."
The show's light touch works for its
visual component, but the writing
is
equally breezy to a fault. The jokes
don't go far enough to tease out a
laugh, and the drama doesn•t dive
deep enough to create an emotional
connection with the characters.
There's plenty of theme, but there
isn't enough plot to drive each
episode. A lack of back story also
means it's not a character-driven
show; these people only exist in a mo-
ment in time.
"How to Make It'' hints that some
events in the characters' lives have
affected them -
Ben's on-and-off
relationship with Rachel (Lake Bell),
for instance, or Cam's supposedly
dif-
ficult childhood -
but the show
never reveals any details. Most expo-
sition that's not doled out in the loose
dialogue comes in the form of rapid
flashes of photographs or images that
supply names to faces or fill in gaps
in time. This conceit is artsy and
clever, but it can't sustain a
long-form serial show forever.
The best way to describe "How to
Make It in America" to someone
who's never seen it is to liken it to
J
ay-Z and Alicia Keys' music video
for "Empire State of Mind" (2009).
"How .to Make It" is deft with quick
cuts, iconic imagery and an ad-
mirably firm grip on its visual repre-
sentation of New York. Even
if
the
show's storylines feel as
if
they -
and the characters -
are
running in
place, the tone and colors of the city
lend it a kind of buoyancy and pro-
fundity.
The
city
in ''How to
Make It" is a
rich, multiracial wonderland of crime
and family, fashion and scrappy ide-
alism. Maybe the city's centrality
provides an answer to the question of
the
·
"how'' in the series' title. After all,
there is a rumor that
if
someone can
make it there, they can make it any-
where.
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out
of 5
stars
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NBC's "Parks and
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ers may know him
from his appearance in "Funny Peo-
ple" (where his comedian alte
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r-ego
comes from). Ansari teamed up with
TV on the Radio's David
Sitek
to
create a comedy mixtape. The first
taste (yes it is spe_lt with eight A's)
calls out every single major hip-hop
star for not sending in any verses to
appear on his mixtape. Ansari calls
out Dr. Dre for making overpriced
headphones, Kanye West for need-
ing to speed up
his
verse process
like his soul samples and stop post-
ing cool couches and "treehouses in
Scandinavia." Ansari has built up
momentum to be the Lonely Island
of 2010.
Prince "Cause and Effect" -
After creating a theme song called
''Purple
&
Gold" for the Minnesota
Vikings that was used in the NFC
championship game against the
New Orleans Saints (we all know
how this ends), Prince has released
a new track exclusively through
Minnesota Public Radio station.
"Cause and Effect" starts with
cheers from an imaginary crowd be-
fore pummeling through this five-
minute disaster. The song is a mess
of genres from pop, surf-rock, funk,
and metal that fail to cohesively
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entirety on NPR's we},>sit~, but first
listen to "Superfast Jellyfish." The
song is as cartoony as the band it-
self.
Tom
Petty & the Heartbreak-
ers
"Good Enough" -
''Mojo" will
be the first Tom Petty
&
the Heart-
breakers album in eight years. The
first single is a loosely structured
jam song that starts right out of the
gate raging with the blues. The
screeching guitar riffs and heavily
present organ clue us in that this is
a different band than the "Free
Fallin"' days. The song tells the
story of a good girl who has gone
bad. Petty is a sucker for those.






























lifesty es
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Nipples are fascinating, fashionable, not frightening
By
RACHAEL SHOCKEY
Staff Writer
As
someone who shares her sex-dri-
ven articles with the entire
Marist
cam-
pus, I generally possess a very high
level of comfort with discussing issues
of sexuality, and use various sexual
terms accordingly. However, there is
one pa,rticular term that still gets my
goat.
one that I always feel silly bring-
ing up: nipple. They
lru!-Y
be the silliest
looking human organs of
all
time; even
the word itself sounds silly, like Skittles
or poodles.
It
seems inevitable for the
subject of nipples to yield a chorus of
giggles (yet another silly word that
sounds like nipples).
I think that many people shy away
from acknowledging nipples for the
same reason I do, because they may
have starkly conflicting feelings about
nipples (women's nipples, i n ~ ) .
One minute we're drooling over Jen-
nifer Aniston's pair, as seen on the for-
ever-frigid set of Friends, and the next
we're rioting and cursing our televisions
over
Janet
Jackson's
infamous
''wardrobe malfunction'' at the 2004
Su~_Bowl half-time show. It's all quite
a challenge to keep up with.
Curious as to how other people my age
feel about this seemingly taboo issue, I
ventured out to ask the opinions of
Marist students.
On
whether or not
conversing with a girl whose nipples are
.
visibly erect would make him uncom-
fortable, sophomore Steve Danziger
said, ''It depends on the level of attrac-
tion you have for the girl, and the con-
text of the conversation."
''If
you're not attracted to her, or if it's
in the context of a job interview or some-
thing, that's when it becomes uncom-
fortable. But it's
good
iffm attracted to
her, because then fm that much closer
to knowin~ what she'd look like naked,"
said Danziger.
The ladies I interrogated felt similarly.
Sophomores Carolyn Augustyn, Bri-
anna Kelly, and Katie Meena
all
agreed
with Danziger, in that the level of
fas
miliarity that they have with the girl
plays a big part in how they'd feel about
seemg her nipples through her shirt. I
asked them just how uncomfortable it
would be with an
unfamiliar
girl
''I might wonder why she's not wear-
ing a bra, and rd avoid staring at them,
but it wouldn't really make me uncom-
fortable," Kelly said.
Augustyn said she would also be un-
comfortable.
''I don't need to see that business," she
said.
Meena would look for reasons to jus-
tify
the nipple sighting, saying that 'Td
take into consideration the temperature
of the room ... it's understandable if it's
really
cold."
Regardless of how much time we ac-
tually spend looking at visible nipples, it
seems we can't help but pay an egre-
gious amount of attention to them. It's
no wonder we do, with all of the acx:es-
sories and devices available to us, like
tassels, pasties and brooches;
all
of
these are designed to draw attention to
and
accentuate the sight of a nipple.
These accessories aren't even restricted
to the adult entertainment industry;
we've seen plenty of pasties (recall Lil
Kim's get-up at the 1999
VMAs)
and
nipple brooches (recall Janet Jackson
once again) in Hollywood.
At the same time, we enter panic
mode when we encounter nipples in
everyday life, exclaiming phrases like
"that cm.ck is nippling right now'' or
''ENA'' (Erect Nipple Alert), as if a nip-
ple sighting is a legitimate cause for
flee~_g to a bomb shelter. We have very
speclfic standards for nipple ~play: it's
sexy
to draw attention to the sight of the
nippl~
(with~
or tassels, or maybe
shoWlllg a Irint of m)> through your
shirt), but when we see a naked nipple,
or even
too
much nipple through cloth-
ing, we tend to qw.ckly lose our cool.
Some nipple must be left to the
imagi-
nation; it's alV\l'!J.YS been about teasin~.
Until now. We're seeing visible mp-
ples make unabashed appearances on
fashionable women. Last year, New
BOLSTON/FUCKR.COM
Unleash the
b(r)easts: Nipple
fascination
is
widely agreed upon,
seldom
talked about
York Fashion ma~azine released an ar-
that sells rubbery, attachable, pros-
ticle that semi-jokingly asked,
''Are
Nip-
thetic nipples, which th~y assure
will
ples 2009's Must-Have Fashion help you to achieve ''that Victoria Beck-
Accessory'r' They cited teat-bearin~ ham look."
In
the past year, nipples
photos of Megan Fox, Christina Ricc:i
have become no stranger to the enve-
and Victoria Beckham. Since
last
sum-
lope-pushing world of fashion. How-
mer, endless photos can be found online
ever,
will
they be able to make the jump
of the former Spice Girl, a pioneer of into the mainstream, or do they pose
too
nipple fashion, displaying her nipples
much discomfort for us to accept them?
prominently through sheer clo~.
In
case fve made anyone interested
Now we're seem~ women trailing in nipple liberation, I learned recently
breast implants for mpple prostheses, a
that it is legal (but still frowned upon)
procedure to make one's nipples more for women to
go
topless in the state of
defined and shapely. If you're not gung-
New York. The only
~
holding us
ho about plastic surgery, you could al-
back from proudly bearing our nipples
ways
visit
a
site
like in true Posh Spice style are our cultur-
.
Bosomfriends.co.uk, an online store
ally-constructed insecurities.
Want to
be
like your favorite
Olympian?
Eat at McDonald's, say advertisers
By
DAILY TITAN EDITORIAL BOARD
The Daily
Tuan
Nothing says "Olympic athletes
competing at the top of their game"
like a Big Mac, large fries and a
Coke. This year's advertising cam-
paigns for the Olympic sponsors are
a little more transparent than
usual.
McDonald's has been running ads
featuring young athletes celebrat-
ing a hard fought game with a
hearty meal of factory processed
food and high fructose corn syrup-
based b~E!:fages.
There is sbmething wrong about
telling children with dreams of com-
peting in the Olympics that the ath-
letes they look up to and aspire to be
typically eat a dose of fried foods
and sugar water after grueling
physical activity.
There may be a few athletes that
like to indulge themselves with the
·
occasional fast food burger, but for
the most part, these highly disci-
plined athletes maintain a strict
diet; one that helps them reach the
top, not get dragged down by their
own
mass to the bottom.
It is believable that someone like
Michael Phelps would satisfy his
munchies at Subway, an eatery that
provides low fat and nutritious al-
ternatives to the usual fast food of-
ferings.
But there is no possible way that
Apolo Anton Ono became one of the
fastest skaters in the world by scarf-
ing down a double cheeseburger and
guzzling a bucket o' cola after every
race.
Canadian McDonald's ads feature
various athletes talking about their
favorite items on the McDonald's
menu. In one of these commercials,
Canadian snowboarder Brad Mar-
tin talks about how he gives into
temptation and eats McDonald's
french fries every chance he gets.
McDonald's goes beyond simple im-
plication to directly telling the view-
ers that athletes in peak physical
condition can stay that way while
eating their food.
The United States Olympic Curl-
ing team is possibly the only group-
ing of "athletes" that could feasibly
eat at McDonald's on a regular basis
and still be competitive in sweeping
ice and sliding rocks (it's like bowl-
ing without all the cigarette smoke
and claw machines).
Can anyone imagine the typical
McDonald's consumer sliding down
the luge track without their gut ob-
structing their view or slowing them
down?
It
is understandable, however,
given the "state that the Winter
games are in, that the Olympic com-
mittee would accept any sponsors
willing to contribute money. But
consideration needs to be given
when it comes to the message being
broadcasted to children all over the
world. These messages of eating
''like an Olympian" are not exclusive
to the obese children of America,
but
to
children across the globe.
The Olympics and its audience
would have benefitted from featur-
ing more ads from companies like
GE, about energy conservation, and
Nissan, for their new all-electric
car, the Leaf.
There are several organic,
healthy-living food corporations
that could potentially advertise
with the Olympics but don't. Why?
Because of the financial risk of such
pricey ad space?
What better demographic
to
aim
for than thousands of children look-
ing ~o get fit and eat healthy foods
so they too can be an Olympian?
McDonald's is sending a negative
message that is being spread like
their special sauce, not only in the
U.S. but all over the world.
Burn
it off like
the Olympians ...
Deluxe Breakfast with a
Large Biscuit
1150 calories
Jump rope for 90 minutes
M&M McFlurry
600 calories
Kickbox for 60 minutes
Big Mac
540 calories
Circuit weight training
for 60 minutes
Large french fries
500 calories
Play softball for 120 minutes
Quarter Pounder
410 calories
Play competitive water polo for 30
minutes
Honey Mustard
Snack Wrap
330 calories
Running three miles in 30 minutes
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THE CIRCLE • THURSDAY, MARCH 4 , 2010 • 10
Men's basketball frustrated in home
finale
ByJIM URSO
Sports Editor
On a snowy Friday night in
Poughkeepsie, it wasn't only fans
who failed to show up to the James
·
J. McCann Recreation Center for a
men's
basketball
senior night con-
test
between
Marist and St.
Peter's.
Beleaguered from the opening
tip, the Marist men's basketball
team lost 62-39 to the St. Peter's
Peacocks in their final home game
of the 2009-2010 campaign.
"We couldn't make a shot early
on," Marist coach Chuck Martin
said. ''When you make shots, then
the energy level goes through the
roof and then you're feeling good.
There's a rhythm, you feel good
about yourself, the ball movement
starts to get better. But when
you're missing shots
,
man, it de-
flates you."
Attendance was listed at 1,725,
but hundreds of season-ticket
holders did not attend the game.
Marist went 4-for-23 (.175) from
the floor
in
the first half, including
0-for-7 from behind the arc.
Devin Price, the only Red Fox to
score in double digits, led Marist
with 12 points. Price had six
turnovers and just two assists.
Marist fell to 1-27 and 1-16 in
the MAAC
.
With the win, Saint
Peter's improved to 16-12 on the
season, including 11-6 in the
MAAC
.
Just under four minutes into the
game, a jump shot
~y'
Ryan Bacon
extended St. Peter's lead to 11-1.
At 10:43, Jeron Belin hit a 3-
pointer, extending the Peacocks'
lead to 15. Seconds later, Price
had the ball stolen near mid-court
by Brandon Hall, who dished to
Belin for a fast break dunk mak-
ing the score 20-3.
The Peacocks could smell blood,
and began trapping every Marist
ball handler. The approach led to
turnovers and hindered Marist' s
chances of getting into an offen-
sive rhythm. Maltin took the
blame for his t~am's inability to
handle the trap
defense.
"I have to do a better job of
preparing these guys for that
[trap]." Martin said. "I didn't
spend enough time in practice to
make sure that these guys under-
stood every [defensive] rotation.
'This is how they're going to trap.
They're going to trap on the side-
line. Here are your reads. You're
looking at the corner. You're look-
ing for the diagonal skip, and now
this is what you should be looking
for."'
With 10:43 remaining the game,
Marist trailed 57-23. The Red
Foxe~ finished the game with a 16-
5 run to tighten the deficit.
The most positive moment of the
night came before tip-off
.
Seniors
Javon Parris and Daye Kaba were
honored at mid-court. Both Kaba
and Parris made the Dean's List
for the fall 2009 semester.
Kaba, originally from Cergy,
France, will forgo his fifth year of
eligibility and attempt to play pro
ball in Europe.
Parris, who played two seasons
under Martin, spoke highly of his
coach and his experiences at
Marist.
"I know he's [Martin] taking
lumps now -
we're taking lumps
now -
but if anybody knows and
comes to practice, he coaches us
like we're 25-1 every single day.
That's a testament to him being
tough and being a good coach,"
Parris said.
"The last few years, it's been a
dream for me," Parris said. "I'm
able to do something I love, and
coach Martin gave me a chance to
live my dream. I didn't dream
about going to the NBA, I dreamt
about getting a college degree and
playing college basketball."
"I felt really bad for our two sen-
iors." Martin said. "These guys de-
served to have a better night but
that's life sometimes. That's life;
the sun will come up tomorrow.
You have to figure it out."
Sunday
Two days later, Marist concluded
its regular season schedule with a
76-51 loss to MAAC opponent
Siena in the Times Union Center
in Albany, NY.
Much like their first matchup
with the S-aints, Marist played
well early. The Red Foxes led dui_:-
ing the first half, and trailed by
just six at halftime. Siena re-
sponded with a 15-0 run to open
up the second half and pull away.
Poughkeepsie High School grad-
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HUTTON/THE
CIRCLE
Guard Devin Price was frustrated
by
the
St.
Peter's trap defense on Friday night
uate Edwin Ubiles scored 21
points. Alex Franklin scored 15
points and grabbed 13 rebounds.
Price led Marist with 12 points
and five assists.
The loss dropped Marist to 1-28,
and extended their losing streak to
1 7, the longest in program history.
Marist will be in Albany on Fri-
day for the MAAC tournament.
The 10th-seeded Red Foxes will
play at 9:30 p.m. on Friday night
against seventh-seeded Canisius.
The Golden Griffins defeated the
Red Foxes by 15 points twice dur-
ing the regular season.
Marist primed to capture MAAC title, return to NCAAs
By PHILIP TERRIGNO
Sports Editor
The MAAC women's basketball
regular season was filled with pleas-
ant surprises from
resurgent
squads, and dire disappointments
from teams that were expected to
perform much better than they were
able to.
Along with the Manhattan
Jaspers
,
the resurgent Fairfield
Stags represent two squads that
surprised the league with their ex-
cellent play this
season.
The Canisius
Golden
Griffins
and Siena Saints, contrarily, stand
out as two teams that had the po-
tential to finish much higher in the
standings than they did at their sev-
enth and ninth seeds, respectively.
Yet, one team has weathered the
rigors of an 18-game conference
schedule and appears poised to con-
tinue its recent run of dominance in
the league.
The Marist College Red Foxes are
at the top of MAAC with a 15-3 con-
ference record, having won their
seventh consecutive MAAC regular
season title.
Go the extra Yarde
It's no secret that Rachele Fitz and
Erica Allenspach represent Marist's
top two scoring options.
With defenses focusing on Fitz
and Allensbach
,
it's crucial that
sophomore guard Corielle Yarde
contribute consistently during the
possible three games that Marist
will play at the tournament
.
Yarde has shown flashes of bril-
liance this season, including a 28-
point
performance
against
Oklahoma State University and a
career-high 32-point performance
against Boston University.
,
Yet, heading into the Red Foxes'
recent contest against the Iona
Gaels, Yarde's scoring was slightly
down. She had a 20-point perform-
ance against Loyola that was sand-
wiched between two six-point efforts
in other games.
Coming into the tournament,
Yarde is averaging 13.5 points and
5.9 rebounds per game.
If
the sec-
ond-year player can fill the stat
sheet like she already has shown
the capacity to, the Red Foxes will
be a team with three excellent scor-
ing options.
Who
can
pose a challenge?
After a nine-game winning streak
earlier in the season, the Iona Gaels
have suffered a serious fall from
grace, propelled by two losses in
head to head matchups against
Marist.
The two-seed finished with a 13-5
overall record, certainly a re-
spectable mark, but not one nearly
impressive enough to challenge
Marist for the top spot in the con-
ference
.
In the most recent contest be-
tween the two squads, Marist
needed an Allenspach basket with
1.2 seconds left to seal the victory in
overtime, 82-80.
With the loss of power forward
Anda lvkovic (8.8 ppg, 4.0 rpg), the
Gaels do not have another front-
court player to complement center
Anna McLean
,
and this leaves the
Gaels susceptible to being keyed in
on defensively when attempting
outside shots.
Editor's Picks
The Red Foxes will repeat as con-
ference champions this season.
. Although Marist has suffered
three league losses
,
the most since
the 2003
-
2004 season, its third loss
came to Manhattan after Marist
had already clinched the regular
season title.
Niagara and Manhattan, who both
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CIRCLE
Marist enters the upcoming MAAC tour-
nament as the
number
one seed.
defeated the Red Foxes during the
regular season
,
are on Marist's side
of the bracket.
Still, the Red Foxes have to be con-
sidered the favorite in a single
-
game
playoff considering how they have
performed in the MAAC tourna-
ment in recent years under the tute-
lage of Brian Giorgis.
Marist will top Fairfield, 72-61, to
claim the MAAC championship.
Upset special
After defeating the 10th-seeded
Rider Broncs, the seventh-seeded
Siena Saints will advance to the
quarterfinals and play the number
two seeded Iona Gaels.
Th~ Saints will edge the Gaels and
advance to the semi-finals.
Siena topping Iona has to be con-
sidered one of the biggest upset pos-
sibilities of the entire tournament
.
The two teams split their regular
season series, and the Saints appear
to be the antithesis of the Gaels that
could allow them to edge the higher
seeded team.
The dominant frontcourt of Serena
Moore and Sarah Fullmer will be
too much for McLean to handle as
Iona's lone true post defender.
Siena also features just enough
outside shooting from guards Allie
Lindemann and Merrick Volpe to
offset any matchup zones that Iona
may employ, and they
-
feature the
ball-handling skills to outmaneuver
the heavy press that the Gaels often
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THE CIRCLE •
THURSDAY,
MARCH 4, 2010 •
PAGE 11
Women's lacrosse seeks
return
to
championship
By
MATT SPILLANE
Editor in Chief
The Marist women's lacrosse team
wants revenge.
Two years removed from a MAAC
championship, the Red Foxes went
12-5 in 2009 but dropped a 19-9 de-
cision to Fairfield in the title game a
year ago.
Marist has a goal of exacting re-
venge in 2010, but it will have to
.
reach it with new faces.
Picked to finish third
in the MAAC preseason
poll, the Red Foxes
graduated five starters, including
their top three scorers. With 57 per-
cent of its scoring gone, Marist will
have to rely on a balanced att~ck.
Its go-to scorer will be senior mid-
field Lauren Ciccarello, who enters
the season as Marist's lone presea-
son All-MMC selection. A second-
team selection a year ago, Ciccarello
was fourth on the team with 25
goals and 37 points. She will look to
spread the ball around even more
this season.
"Scoring could come from anybody,
which is beneficial," she said. "Any-
body can be a threat."
Senior midfielders Erin Wilson
and Lindsey Rinefierd will also be
relied upon on the offensive end.
The two tallied 31 and 23 points, re-
spectively, in 2009.
Morgan Dillon, a senior co-captain
with Wilson, is a returning starter
who will be taking on a bigger role
offensively. The midfielder, who tied
for fourth on the team with 30
groundballs in 2009, scored just five
goals in 2009 but has taken more
initiative in her offensive role.
"Morgan is going to be much more
of an attacker this year," head coach
Laura Campbell said. "She's got a
little confidence taking it to the
cage. She's just an excitrng player to
watch."
The offense will be guided by first-
year assistant coach Hannah
Rudloff, who has implemented new
offensive plays and given the of-
fense more structure. Dillon said
that the new approach will allow
the players to utilize more of their
strengths and stick skills, as well as
employ a style of play that relies
more on personnel and less on one-
on-one ability.
''We need to control the tempo for
60 minutes," Dillon said. ''We had
lapses a lot of times last year."
The biggest question mark will be
in goal, where Marist must replace
starter Kelsey Thoms, who left
school this past summer to join the
Air Force. Sophomore Alyssa Littin,
who started last year's season
opener but played in just one other
game, enters the season as the
starter but will be challenged by
freshman Ashley Casiano.
''We'll have to talk more and rely
on our field players while we let
them [the goalies] get confident,"
Dillon said. ''We'll use more presses
and work as a full-field defense."
Although the goalie situation is
unsettled, the defensive unit is· tal-
ented and experienced. Senior
Madeline Schuck and junior Jessica
Guarino are returning starters and
will look to gel quickly with the
newcomers in goal.
''We're working on getting them to
communicate," Schuck said. ''We're
working on trusting each other, and
with those pieces we have a good
unit."
Those pieces include junior trans-
fer Erin Betsch, who will immedi-
ately step into a starting defensive
spot. A starter at Davidson College,
Betsch
has already stood out as a
key contributor.
"It was a good fit," Campbell said
of
Betsch's
arrival. "It's a win-win
for everyone. She's a solid ... de-
fender, ap.d she's really good. She's
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Senior
Lauren
Ciccarello
is a Preseason
AII-MAAC
selection.
going to be our top defender."
The Red Foxes were scheduled to
open the 2010 season against Al-
bany on Feb. 24, but the game was
postponed
due-
to
inclement
weather. Marist played Lafayette
on Wednesday, March 3, but the
game occurred after publication.
The team's next game is a 1:00
home contest on Saturday, March 6,
against LeMoyne.
Men's track achieves personal tiines at NYU invi~ational
By
VINNY
GINARD!
Staff Writer
The Marist track and field team
returned to action this past week-
track
&
end at the NYU Fastrack
flel
Invitational held at the
New York City Armory.
Junior Jillian Corley, from North
Sutton, NH, led the way for the
women's team. Shortly after finish-
ing the 800-meter run in a season-
best time, Corley ran a season-best
in the mile. Corley finished the 800
in a time of 2:22.99 and followed it
up by finishing the mile in a time of
5:17.77
.
''That was a really good double for
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12
participating. The competition was
once again highlighted by Bolstad,
who won the men's one-meter dive
with a score of 321.15 and was
named men's Diver of the Meet, all
with a sprained right ankle.
Katz finished fourth in the same
event with a score 263.30. Bolstad,
who will wrap up his record break-
ing junior year when he competes at
the NCAA Zone Diving Champi-
onships, will be looked at as one of
the top divers in the nation as he
enters his senior season.
"Not having any understanding of
the incoming recruiting classes, he's
by far the best diver in the confer-
ence right now," VanWagner said.
''There's a huge gap in diving be-
tween the rest of the conference and
her, especially going into the big
meet this weekend," Marist coach
Pete Colaizzo said.
Sophomore
Brianna
Crowe also
ran a season-best time in the
800,
crossing the finish line in 2:20.58.
The
men's team also saw a few
personal
best times, particularly in
the 3,000-meter run.
Freshmen Arquimedes DelaCruz
and Sean Nestor
each
notched per-
sonal best times in. the 3,000 .
.
DelaCruz finished the event in
8:4 7.44 while Nestor improved
on
his perso_nal-best time and crossed
the line in 9:04.58.
Patrick Dugan just missed his per-
sonal best time in the race, finish-
ing in 8:55.14; one second off his
Brian Bolstad."
As part of the season wrap-up, the
MAAC Conference announced the
2010 men's and women's Swimming
and diving All-Academic Teams.
Marist had a total of 23 student-
athletes selected to the squad, in-
cluding
13
women
and
a
league-leading 10 men. To qualify
for the All-Academic Team, a stu-
dent must complete two semesters
at his or her current school and hold
a cumulative grade point average of
at least 3.2.
''The men finished fifth in the na-
tion in selections to the All-Acade-
mic team," Van Wagner said. "[T]he
women finished in the top 50. I
think that's just tremendous."
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career mark.
"He [Dugt;tn] is one of the hardest
workers on the team," Colaizzo said.
"He had a great indoor season."
The Red Foxes will next travel
to
Boston, Mass. to compete
on
March
6-7. The women's team will be com-
peting in the ECAC Championships
while the
men
will be competing in
the IC4A Championships. This is
the final scheduled event for the
Marist track and field team
·
and is
for select runners who have quali-
fied based
on
times throughout the
indoor
season.
Corley, Crowe, Jackie Gamboli,
and Kimberly
Bartlett
will all be
competing for the women's team in
the 4x800-meter relay.
"We are really hoping for the
school record in the 4x800," Colaizzo
said.
The following runners will be com-
peting
for
the men's team: sopho-
mores Will Griffin and Matt Flint in
the 3,000, graduate students Girma
Segni and David Raucci in the
5,000, and a Distance Medley Relay
team of seniors Matthew
Janczyk
and Colin Frederickson, freshmen
Matt Panebianco and Arquimedes
Delacruz.
"For the guys we are looking for
personal-bests,"
Colaizzo said.
"If
they
can
run personal-bests they
will all do very well."
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ZINDEL LIFTS MENS LACROSSE
FROM GOREDFOXES.COM
Junior Corey Zindel and
the
Red Foxes maintain a 2--0
record after victories over Sacred Heart and Holy Cross.












Thursday, March
4, 2010
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MAAC Tournament
preview
Women prepare to defend league tltle
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Swimming and diving wins big at MAACs
By
SCOTT ATKINS
Staff Writer
The Marist men's and women's
swimming and diving teams re-
swimming
cently competed in
&
diving
the ~etro Atlantic
Athletic Conference
(MAAC) Championships in Balti-
more. The men finished third in
what was an excellent all-around
performance, but it was the women
who had a record-breaking weekend
as they lead from start to finish and
took home their 11th MAAC Cham-
pionship
.
.
''We were confident going into the
meet," coach Larry Van Wagner
said. "In analyzing the qualifying
times from each school, we thought
that the depth of our women's pro-
gram would be an advantage and
that we would win by a small mar-
gin ... We certainly didn't expect to
win the way we did."
The women's three-day perform-
ance concluded with what was the
largest margin of victory in the his-
tory of the MAAC Championships.
The Red Foxes finished with 921
points, 324.5 points ahead of sec-
ond-place Rider.
Several women left Baltimore
with excellent times, including
fresh.man Katie Larkin who won the
200-yd. breastroke, and Chelsea
Unger who finished first in the 100-
yd. breaststroke.
Freshman Kate Conard turned
out to be the star of the contest. She
set conference records in the 500,
1,000 and 1,650-yard freestyles, one
on each day of the competition. She
was also part of the 400-yard
freestyle relay team that broke
Marist's record by three seconds.
For her outstanding performance,
Conard was named the women's
most outstanding swimmer of the
meet.
The young standout's versatility
has been invaluable to the team.
"She's so important because she
swims in seven events," Van Wagner
said. "She swims in not only three
events in which she won and set
new conference records in, but she
also swam on four of the five team
relays."
The men's squad wrapped up the
event with a third place finish be-
hind Loyola and Rider. Sophomore
Kevin Shoemaker had the top per-
formance for the Foxes, finishing in
second place in the 200-yard butter-
fly.
Junior Brian Bolstad finished
third in the 1-meter diving event,
and senior Mitchell Katz finished
sixth.
The two teams then traveled to
Pittsburgh for the Eastern College
Athletic Conference Championships
this past weekend. The women con-
tinued their dominance, bringing
home the ECAC title for the second
time in school history. They had
consistent top-eight finishes in al-
most all of their events, including
all three competitors in the 3-meter
dive. Sophomore Meredith Michl,
senior Katherine Carpenter, and
freshman Chelaine Eliazar finished
second, fifth and sixth respectively.
"Placing all three of our women
divers in the top-eight of their
events was a great accomplish-
ment," Van Wagner said.
Marist carried a slim 27.5 point
lead into the final day of the event,
and was able to hold on due to a
fourth place finish in the 400-yd.
relay which was the final event of
the
cha~pionship.
Sophomore
Michelle Fountain, Caroline Skjong-
Nilsen and Conard combined for a
time of 3:29.90.
The Marist women conclude their
season having won the ECAC and
MAAC Championships in the same
season for the second time, the
other being in 2006, and VanWag-
ner was named ECAC Coach of the
Meet.
"[The award] was very nice," Van-
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Both the Marlst men's and women's
swimming and diving teams enjoyed suc-
cess at the recent MAAC Championships
in Baltimore.
Wagner said. "It was an added
bonus to the meet but the most im-
portant thing was the incredible
team performance. Without that
there
"
s no opportunity to win an in-
dividual award like that."
The men had another solid effort,
finishing seventh out of 21 teams
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