VOLUME 59, ISSUE 16
TMURSDAY, FEBRUARY
16, 2006
Rugby club
·
out, Rugby football club chartered in
By
TODD BIVONA
Staff Writer
The Men's Rugby Club is no
more.
The Men's Rugby Football
Club is
in.
"After two semesters of work-
ing
with the SGA and adminis-
tration
,
"
co-captain
Dave
Heinzinger said, "and going
through a long series of meetings
and bearings
,
and trying our best
to keep team interest and morale
high,
we could not be more
excited to finally get back on the
field and play some rugby."
Due
to
some issues
with
the
past leadership of the then,
Men's Rugby Club, they lost
their club
status
in the fall of
2004.
''The Men's Rugby organiza-
tion failed to perfonn both on
and off the field," Matthew
Hinenmark, the Vice President
of Club Affairs
in
the Student
Government Association said.
"They neglected their duties as a
club, failed to do any service for
Charter
members
inducted to international
educatiors
honor
society
By
TODD
BIVONA
Staff Writer
Kappa Ocha Pi. a n"--w mtcr-
nat1onal
hon\lr
society for cdu•
caton.. inducted
atlou1
I S5
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dents m two ~cparatc ccri:-
monies this
pa.,;,t
Saturday al
:!
Md l45 pm m llu; Cabaret
fhe large response from fiun•
1h~
an<l
fnend
of the
"\\ 'hen
I told
ffl)
par•
cnts, e~rec1ally my
mom. ·he was almost
m tears and
stt1<l
it
wa!-1 belier than am•
ha,kc1hall award
1
had c.-cr
gutU:11 "
Junior Diana
'dson
h3d !i1m1lar
feelings
and was
h:trry to be
ft
dtttr1er
mcmlx't of lhc soc
tC•
111Juc1c1.-s, required two luuc
,lots to
be
Opcrll.'d Ill order h\ f)
acc~1mmoJ.1te 1hc:- cn..,wd.
I
Y.as
tc:1lly h<m
orod
to
be
apart
of
lhc
tnduch n
n ·•
The
rudctn
1h01
...,ere wcl-
womcd intu th nct,1, ly
und
i;oc1e1y were part of 1hc Alph1t
(Ja1mn:.1
Kappa chapter.
fh1!!.
chaplcr no\\ Jccompan11.~ lhc
13 ,,thcr ac
1dcmic
honor SOCJ·
ct1c,. currtntly at Ma11i,L
mtCl th1 .. "·hapu.·r. I m
cagi.:r to rake ad"'an-
tagc
of
the ,,pponuni-
ucs
rt presents
inc
\I.Ith in the fulun:"
the campus, and
did
not do any
type
of administrative duties that
should have
been
done by the
club's leaders."
In order to better their tarnished
image
,
the new leaders and
members of the organization
made themselves visible at many
campus events. At
last
spring
'
s
"Relay for Life" they were
among the top organizations to
raise money for the fight against
cancer. These efforts did not go
unnoticed by one member of the
Athletic Affairs Committee
in
S.GA.
"Being apart of the AAC, I
think it is excellent that the
Rugby Football Club has been
instated
,"
junior Matthew Devita
said. "They
.
have been giving
back to the Marist community
0
through community service
,
and
many
other on-campus events."
The leaders of the organization
received support from the stu-
dent body
as
more than
1,000
signatures from Marist's student
population were taken.
"I
think it's great that this
unique and dedicated club
bas
been able to
revitalize
itself and
reclaim
its
legitimacy," junior
James Sheehan said. "The mem-
bers and the team leaders
seem to be exceptional individu-
als and the Marist community
should
look
forward to their
reemergence."
"Team Co-Captain Mike
Temblador should be commend-
ed for his tireless efforts and per-
sistency
in
pulling
together
the
pieces of the mess of a team that
we
inherited,"
Heinzinger added.
SGA dfficials are happy
that
the club has overcome its issues
and
have become
a good exam-
ple for other clubs to follow.
"I could not
be
any more proud
of
the
new
leadership,"
Hittenmark said, "the sopho-
mores and freshmen really
stepped up and took charge
in
order
to
pull
it
back
into exis-
tence, and make it into the club it
is really about;
teaching
new
goals and
leadership
characteris-
tics."
Spring 2006 SGA
Elections Calendar
N A a l S T
•
••·•••.O•••q••••-.4iNMl•tl••
Tuesday,
Feb.
14
Informational
Session, 9:30
p.m., SGA Office
Wednesday,
Feb.
15
Informational
Session, 9:30
p.m., SGA Office
Thursday,
Feb.
16
Informational
Session, 9:30
p
.
m
.•
SGA Office
Friday,
Feb.
17
-
Declarations
due by 5 p.m. in the SGA
Office
Wednesday, Feb.
22 -
Student Body President
Orientation, 9:30 p.m., SGA Office
Friday,
Feb.
24
-
Petitions
Due
to
the SGA Office by
5
p.m.
Sunday, Feb.
26 -
Campaigning begins
in the
Champagnat
Breezeway
Monday,
Feb. 27 -
'Speech
Night,' 9:30,
PAR
Tuesday, Feb.
28 -
'Presidential
Debate
Night,'
IO
p.m.,
LT 210
Wednesday, Mar. 1
- 'Meet the Candidate
Day,'
12
p.m.
to
2
p.m.,
Cafeteria
This society, KDP.
1,1,ai
1n..,u-
tu1cd bn\.·k m
1911
and $Ought
to recogm,~ cducalors a1
"di
l&!i
:.cholars for tht•1r at·h1ev~
mcnts m i:ducalion. fh,.• KDP
pledge 1hat. • ,
o other drgam
nni,,n confinn:. (onc'-il statu-.
as a l>\.·holar
and
leader and
keeps [one] connc-ctcd
to the
bcs.1 and brightest ideas and
pcopk
in the fidJ of
educ.1-
1ion."
\
professor ot edu-
cation
and u faculty
surcrvJ)iiur,
Sally
Piumnn-Snuth,
ts
lurgdy
re:-.ponsible
for bnnging the \Oicc
ot student, into
full
On
Saturday,
February
U.155
students
were Inducted es
charter
members
to
lnntmn,
m
lbeir
Kappe
Delta
Pl, a
new
lntemation8I hOnor
society
for
educators. Because
of
desin.: to have a chap-
the
'8(18
respgnse from famWes and
friends,
two separate
lnductk>ns
were
Sunday,
Mar.
S
-
Campaigning ends
at
midnight
Monday,
Mar.
6
-
Online Voting
begins
Many
i;tudents. i,,uch as
junior
Meg Dahlman, \\ere
"'ery
excited up1.m rcccn·mg !he
nc"'s their inductmnn and the
ceremony.
"When I
fin.t
gl)t
it
I c,)uldn
't
beli.:H·
11." Dahlm11n
sJtd.
tcr at Mari st.
held
to
accomodate
the
crowd.
Pittman-Smith felt
lhJt
1hc society 'has hlclong
bencfiL, for the ~ludenls
and
promote~ v.urkJng to\.\arJ..,
r.:111
pn.'ft.~sional1:-1m."
Junior Corrie-Beth Hughes
foh
a
:sense of ac1;0111ph,hmcn1
folluwi11g lhc ceremony.
-It
\\a a
,ery :special induc-
tlt)n ceremony.
Hughes said.
"in wh1cb \H'
y,
L'rc honored
for our
hard work that will help
us m
our
lives and our
future
careers
a~ tc-achi:rs. ··
Wednesday, Mar. 8
- Online Voting ends,
results
announced
live
on
MCTV, 8:45
p.m.,
LT 210
Thursday, Mar.
9
- Official results
posted outside SGA
Office
Iranian nuclear program controversy poised to create international incident
Jetf Zimmerman
Circle Contributor
Considering the dangers of a
nuclear
Iran,
one should be di$-
mayed at the
lack
of people who
understand the country. Its lan-
guage and geography have long
isolated it. Recent
news
of its
plans to continue enriching
ura-
nium has brought it to the fore-
front of international news
rooms and diplomatic roundta-
bles.
There is, right now, a general
consensus among the major
international players.
Israel,
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India,
Russia,
Japan, the EU3,
and a reluctant China have all
spoken out a'.gainst allowing Iran
to
proceed.
The IAEA's
February
4th
decision
to
refer
Iran's case to the
UN
Security
Council looks promising because
diplomacy alone seems unlikely
to
deter Tehran. Iran
'
s hard-line
president Mahmud Abmedinejaa
bas a knack for not caving
in
under the pressure of the interna-
tional
community.
The UN has two kinds of
options to stop Iran: sanctions, or
military action. There are two
types of sanctions: symbolic
,
such as travel
restrictions,
and
economic.
The
UN
could
impose trade/investment restric-
tions. Such restrictions could
lit-
erally cripple Iran's economy
(think Iraq after the first Gulf
War}.
The Security Council
could also use
military
force
to
deal with
Iran.
The Pentagon has
already started outlining plans
for
a combination submarine
cruise missles/82 bomber strike.
Despite reports of an "over-
stretched military'' this is still
well within the capability of the
US anned forces because it
involves little if any ground
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forces.
The real question is
whether or not Europe will put
its money where its mouth is.
If
diplomacy fails, coercive
actions will become inevitable.
Three
problems
instantly come
to mind. First is how the Arab
street will take this. The ques-
tion isn't if they will rlot over it,
but how much they will riot over
it. Secondly, some fear the 65
percent Shiite majority in Iraq
will side with the 90 percent
majority Shiite in
Iran,
Right
now the US and the entire
Middle
East
are relying on the
Iraqi Shiites to keep Iraq moving
in
the right direction. Some
peo-
ple, though, point
to
the
Iran/Iraq
war
as
a counter-example, where
they seemed to have no problems
shooting at each other for eight
years.
Third,
and most impor-
tant, is
the
fact that
Iran
is one of
the largest energy producers in
the world. They export 2.5 mil-
lion barrels of oil and
3.4
billion
cubic meters of
natural
gas per
day. They have the potential
to
disrupt energy prices worldwide.
Fonner
president
Mohamed
Khatarni threatened to cut output
over any actions that infringed
on their ''right"
to
peaceful urani-
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enrichment.
Iran
would be
hesitant to do this
because
it
would further alienate
them
from
the
rest
of
the
world, and
it
would cut into their oil revenues.
Iran
has
started bracing itself
for what could
lie
ahead. They
have insulated themselves from
possible
sanctions by
diversify-
ing their
trading
partners, as well
as
withdrawing all
their
assets
from European
banks.
The stage
is set, and it could get
messy.
But,
the
head of
the JAEA,
Mohamed EIBaradei, summed
it
all up when be said
the
situation
is "critical
but
not a crisis."

















































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THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY
i6,
2006
www.martstclrcle.com
Security Briefs:
Students decide to quietly drink alone in rooms
Week was one to bitterly reflect on life
s
missed opportunities and failures
By BRIAN SABEUA
Security Announcements: In the month of January, the
town police issued Marist students five jay-walking tick-
ets
and 59 traffic summons's. 8% bf the tickets issued by
the To
wit
of Poughkeepsie police during January were to
Marist students. Please drive more carefully and obey
the
rules
of the road. For your sake and the sake of the
community.
Also,
remember
to
lock
your doors whenever you leave
your room, even for a fire drill. Too many doors are
being found unlocked. Lock it or lose it.
Dear faithful fans,
Another one of the bright lights we call Marist fresh-
man got caught a wee bit intoxicated this night. And
obviously wheri you're
drunk
the best place to go is right
in front of the security office. This young
lady
was
caught right in front of Donnelly and was sent to St.
Francis for "Get your stomach pumped, your friend gets
pumped
half
off'' night. No word on profits yet.
**
BRIAN'S BRIEF OF
THE WEEK
**
2/9 Gartland
1:44
AM
This next brief only confirms my beliefs th
'
at aU girls
are crazy. Someone called the police when they saw a
crazy
drunk
person running around the parking
lot.
When the Po-po arrived, they found
the
seemingly intox-
icated
student banging on the windows of another stu-
dents car. They say she was drunk.
I
just say she was
crazy
.
2/9
McCann
Center
:fley hey. Its your ole pal Brian "Crimina1 Intent is the
worst Law and Order" Sabella. And this is a vecy special
Valentines Day edition of the Security Briefs. In
honor
of this holy day
,
I
am going to
be
extra
special and
lov-
ing. HA! Only a select few students got nailed by secu-
rity this week
,
so
I
will be feasting on all of you. You
lucky
few are in for a treat.
2/7
Fulton
6:30 PM
This
is
a first. A guest doing some laps in a crowded
- - - - - - - - - - -
McCann center
pool
was joined in his
And obvlously when you're
lane
by a polite lady. However
,
this
drunk the best place to go
person
felt
it was his lane and lane
Is right In front of the secu-
only. He decided to tell
the
wo
_
man
this physically
.
Sccunty was
notified
I'm noticing
a
trend.
'
Marist students
have issues with fire alanns. They
just love to set them off. This week
,
a
rlty office.
and they came and ex.plained to the
fire
alarm was set off by a pork chop. You heard it right.
A PORK CHOP! Now, a resident of this culinary chal-
lenged hou
se
is near and dear to me,
so
I promised her
that
I
would be nice. But come on, how
long
do you have
\Obl~l~v
,~
1
~)10~
,
~~?P,,'.'n
,
't;~
,
'\9\'~1o
sl:t
ttt~
alarm
off/
It's
n
f
;lk:e
tHil
'
"1oots1e rop
mink
people
.
•
rr~rnnn
,
a·u1,
2/8
Marian 2:23 AM
man that if he wanted to continue to
use the pool, he would have to p'Ut his big boy pants on
and
s
hape
up
.
Last thi
s
report
e
r hear
d
th
e
man
had
strapped on his H uggies and continued swim.ming
.
2/10
Marian
12:05AM
A
non-Marist student
was
caught trying to enter the hal-
lowed
halls of
the
mighty Marian with another students
ID.
He swiped the card and took off up the stairs, but
security was much
too
quick. This guard wasn't
born
yesterday, that's for sure. The anonymous swiper was
booted off campus without ever getting inside the belly
will be welcomed
into
my home with open arms. WE
WILL GET YOU WINDOW
SMASHER!!
2/12
Champagnat
Another day, another fire alarm. But this
was
no ordi-
nary fire alarm. This was set off by popcorn. That's
right, POPCORN! This amazes me even more
than
the
pork chop. Even my roommate doesn't burn his popcorn
,
and
he
doesn't
have any anns. You should be ashamed of
yourself popcorn burner you. Now you have to watch
the Land Before Time without your tasty movie treat.
**
JOHN
GILDARD
QUOTE
OF
THE
WEEK
**
2/12 Leo 9:45 PM
Here's one we
haven't
had in awhile: a good old fash-
ioned melee. Two students were found
fighting
over last
weeks episode of Desperate Housewives. There was
pushing, eye scratching and
hair
pulling. Both men were
sent to their beds without any Teri Hatcher. Crying and
screaming could be heard through the halls all night.
~~~:l~g~e~ beast. Better luck next
-E-ve_n_m_y_r_o_o_m_m-at_e_d_o_e_s•
n't burn his popcorn, and
he doesn't have any arms.
For once, a freshman was taken to
St. Francis for something other
than
intoxication.
It
was food poisoning
this time. Instead of joining in on my
blaming the Dining Hall,
Mr.
Gildard
**
GUEST BRIEF OF THE WEEK**
2/9
Leo
12:55
AM
By: Alex
"I
Eat Way Too Much Pasta" Huot (He really
does,
that fatty)
2/11
Lower West Cedar
This one hits close to home. A win-
- - - - - - - - - - - could only chuckle
,
smile and say
dow in MY house was found with the outside pane bro-
ken by a
security
guard on patrol. Now
let
me say, this
saddens me. A window was broken, I didn't get to have
the
fun
of doing it, and the assailant is running free
.
Any
one with information on this unknown window breaker
"We
don't
know
where
he
ate
yet."
Suuuuumrrrreeeeeeeeeeee. And I'm not going to smack
around the person who broke my window.
WINDOW
SMASHER•
.
Friday, Feb.
17, 2006
Comedian
Nigel Lawrence
9
P.M.
Cabaret
Sunday, Feb.
19, 2006
SPC Comedian:
Lewis Black
7:30
P.M.
Mccann Center
$10
Student tickets
on
sale
now.
$25 General public
Sunday, Feb.
19,
2006
SPCTrip:
Rent
10A.M.
Bus leaves from Midrise
$25 With Marist
ID
Wednesday, Feb.
22,
2006
Novelist:
Michael Bartone
SP.M.
Nelly Goletti Theater
Frlqay,
Feb.
24,
2006
SPC Broadway Trip:
The Phantom of
the Opera
4
P.M.
Bus leaves from Mldrise
$25 With Marist
ID
Thursday, Mar.
2, 2006
Poet,
Memolrlst:
Mark
Doty
8P.M.
Nelly Goletti
Theater
Disclaimer: The Security Briefs are
intended
os
saJire
and
fully protected
free
speech
under the
First
Amendment of the Corutillllion.
Comedy fans change plans to see Lewis Black
By
ALEX PANAGIOTOPOULOS
.
campus
Editor
dormitories,
where some stu-
dents have to get up for
8
A.M .
class.
All Marist and non-
Marist visitors must leave their
hosts by
-
I A.M.
added that not having enough
priority
points to get any hous-
ing was also
a
factor.
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Expecting friends to visit for
Sunday night's Lewis Black
concert, a crush of underclass-
men
have become acquainted
with Marist's guest pass policy.
40
residents of Champagnat
Hall alone have requested guest
passes
for Sunday night · into
Monday, which is prohibited
except
in
special
cases.
Resident directors and security
officers have been instructed to
not
make any exceptions
,
a pol-
icy
that
has
been
used
in the
past
for popular concerts such
as Dashboard Confessional and
Dane Cook.
Mark Gamarra, Champagnat's
Resident Director, said that nor-
mal
requests
to stay overnight
from Sunday through Thursday
face an
uphill
battle.
"Typically there aren't any
guest passes on weeknights
anyway,"
he
·said.
"[The stu-
dents] have asked to stay up
through Monday
morning."
Ostensibly, the aim of the
weeknight policy is to prevent
potentially rowdy visitors from
creating a disturbance in the
The policy applies to all on-
campus
housing,
although it is
virtually unenforceable in dor-
mitories other than Marian,
Midrise, Champagnat,
Leo,
and
Sheahan Hall.
Gamarra said that his resi-
dents
have deftly adjusted to
the change in plans.
"Because the concert gets out
kind of
late
,
people have had to
make other arrangements," said
Gamarra.
Matthew Blair
Hitteomark,
Marist
Student Government
Association's
Vice
President of
Club Affairs, was irate about
the pdlicy, but
declined
to go
into a Lewis Black-style rant.
"I
think
it's completely uneth-
ical, and you can quote me on
that
,
"
he
said simply, adding
that the Housing Department
does "things
like
this" all the
time.
For Matt Maul, a senior, such
red tape was what helped him
make the decision to move off-
campus last year, although he
"Living on campus had its
pros
,
but it is definitely nice not
to
have to hassle with Marist
policies (such as that)," said
Maul.
"That's the kind of rule where
the left side of your brain looks
at the right side of your br~in
and says, 'it's dark in here, we
may die," he added, paraphras-
ing a Black comedy routine.
Chris Nojman, a senior who
shares a sparsely-appointed
,
dimly lit apartment with Maul
and
one
other roommate, said
that being denied housing going
into last year was a
blessing
in
disguise.
"When
I
hear about not being
about to get a guest pass, my
mind goes blank, and after a
few seconds, blood shoots out
my ears, but what
I
heard might
have
been
the dumbest thing
ever," shouted Nojman
,
af
flecks of spittle spewed
forth
from
'
his mouth. "Why not be
able to get a guest pass any
time? That's hogwash."
Courtney
J.
Kretz
Cassi G. Matos
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Alongi
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2006
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News Analysis
Intelligence gathering practices reveal possible misconduct
By
JOSEPH GENTILE
Staff Writer
Whether or not the Bush
administration circumvented the
1978
Foreign
Intelligence
Security
Act
to
wiretap
Americans making
international
phone ca11s still is scrutinized,
subsequent information regard-
ing Pentagon surveillance and
intelligence-gathering methods
are surfacing. Presently, federal-
ly-endorsed operations targeting
college students protesting the
military's "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell"
ban
on homosexuals are
among other
social
and political
activists identified
by
a fluny
recent media reports placing
them under F.8.1. and military
observation.
World
News
In
a February 7 report issued by
United Press International, the
Department
of
Defense
(DOD)
testified in a letter to the Senate
Anned Services Committee to
accumulating .. inappropriate"
infonnation about protestors as
part
of the department's 2003
TALON domestic surveillance
program.
Originally intended to
gather infonnation documenting
potential threats by foreign ter-
rorists against U.S. forces and
military facilities, DOD officials
acknowledged that certain infor-
mation
wasn't
discarded after the
90-day disposal period for data
deemed invalid. Counterterrorist
agents identified
the
severa
l
gay
and anti-war university groups,
naming the .. potentially violent"
OUTLaw, the gay
legal
group at
New York University Law
School in Manhattan as well as
student groups at the State
University of New York at
Albany,
the
University of
California at Santa Cruz, and
William
Patterson
University
in
Wayne, New Jersey, falling
under
the
federal government's
radar
last
year.
Surfacing weeks after a
December
16,
2005 article pub-
lished
in the New York Times
exposing the president's personal
approval for wiretappings with-
out a court order, these latest rev-
elations
are
merely a thread in a
web
of
federally-endorsed
domestic
s
pyin
g
which has also
ensnared People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA),
Greenpeace, and the Catholic
News Briefs
Workers.
the paral-
ln
a February 3rd speech deliv-
leis
he
ered to the National Press Club,
drew to the
Defense
Secretary
Donald
i
n
t
e
I I
i -
Rumsfeld admitted that the
g e n c e -
Pentagon conducted
"counter-
gathering
surveillance" of civilians so as
to
fa
i
I
u res
safeguard
U.S.
military person-
leading
up
nel and bases, but
deflected
criti-
to
the
cisms that the Department of September
Defense bas overreached in its
11
terrorist
attacks.
"So
here
they
are
trying
to
USSllG
II&
KAY OOIIS!I'l'IJa
UJIBOIUS'l'
.t.C!IVIIY.
monitoring of activist groups,
condoning systemic patterns of
domestic
spying as a
"pe
rfectly
understandable
thing."
Disregarding
the
growing com-
plaints being raised by
an
inter-
nal Pentagon unit called the
Counter-Intelligence
Field
Activity, Rumsfeld defended the
vital role of
government
agen-
cies in
"connecti
n
g
the dots" to
connect the
Cowllllf•WVt'lllf'.
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dots,
and
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somebody
The Servlcemembers
Le&al
Defense Network (SLDN) ere•
looks at it
ated
this
t-shlrt In
response to
a11epd lnteltlpnce prac•
and
says,
tlces
discriminating against
gays
and lesblans.
'Ob,
my
rible you're collecting infonna-
goodness
gracious, isn't that
ter-
SEE DEFENSE, PAGES
First freshman
'Winter Wars'
Hussein continue, to delay murder
trial
proceedings \\ith outbursts, contesting legitimacy of
Iraq, go,cmment, courts
As the Winter Olympics ensue, what
better time to have a campus winter
compet
ition
than now?
The Winter Wars, made possible
by
RSC and SGA, are about to
unfold.
Students
from
Champngnat.
Leo
.
Sheehan, and Marian are invited to partic-
ipate
in
this freshmen
residence hall
~ompetiQon.
!1'.r
~~\hhm• H~'!ti!l
ttml
t\'.!lllll,'l!llll TY'.'\llil} "llhi
ikl.larlliua
hy
II ,:in llwl ~and
h1
!di""
dtt~ud.1111.nmc protoslmgdu: tnat h, hmn~ a hung,.,
stnkc.
Jhc fonncr
Jn1q1
pMtu.icnl
also
tnadt
!lhltcmt!'Dl!i
caJhog 1hc:
l.raq1
cour1 lt.1:,,Ttlimatc
and dlr:i,tul. Hc-al~o tlucdly
1ns1.1hcd
the chief
judge
and
the
11':tiqi
iJOVt:mmcnl,
acclL<;ing
them
ot
bcm •
pawns
ol th1.· UniteJ State!
l)nplte
sinnlar vuthul"lU lhl'Qughoul !he tnal sev~ral
y,
1t11csscs
\\<C"tc
pul on
the
ta11d lo
dc!>,nbc
1hc1r
mnure
a.llcgcdl)
ordcrro
bvthe HWi em
fl!
imc
in
lt)Ml
National
News
Patriot Act modified, extended to preserve national secunty interests. remedy unease about pos
1bk
ci,il lihertie, violations
( nngreo1;!-
i1p;rct."J
la~1
wecl It mah rn0Jificat11.)0S
lo th
L
SA
PAl RIOT
,\CT.
1111cndmg
lo
cu111mue to ~he
homeland
i.ccunly
.iml la"
t"nforccm«.·ut
agcnl'i-
na11011W'\Jt:
th~ pm.,'"'1' t11 tkfcnd
the
f
'ni1ed
Slate$
l!J<IUUt
terronsm Y.tule allc...iattng fc1m, abow violal1llM of
c,,.,1
ri~hb
fhc ·h,tni;1.~· G1\~ tlm c ,ubpocn:1i:J
for informu11on iu krron.-.t m,csllgatwns
lhc
righl to
cuote.t
the rule dutl they not tell ttn)QflC. get rid of
II
rcqu1rt"11w 11 thal pc11pk tell lhc Fill .ahoul IJwyers
confi·tr d
v-
t1h concenung
"tl1
rrquc&t.s for leneN, and make clear 1h41 hbranc
an:
1l\1l
ub,~ct
tv d~ands
fi.ir
~ui.:h ·"·ref~ rt:~Ut:$ "Jbout 1erromt
Senal~ committee contmucs investigation about federal response to Katnna.
looks
nt FEMA, Homd,md Secunty
Scnall:
lit.>:111n£.li
1.l1rnmue to mv1$Ugate tbe role
ur
the
h.-dcr.tl
Eml.'rgency Management Agmq U,-EMA) and 11:. d1rcctor of the mne. M1~hacl
1:Jw"
n
8r~11,
1c: ... 11f)'m~ bclon· 1hc Scnak'
Homdand
ccurit) and
GllVemmcntal Affuin, Commince. sa,d that he ha.!i become the ,capcgout for the entire d1~ster. I le rro•
u.'Cded
tO
pul blame on the Department
of Homeland
Sccurit)'
for
1he
sin,~ ledc-r&I n.,-,:;ponSt" lO
K.3trtnil
Sct.:rchu)' ofHmndand
Sc1.:uri1y
M1~had (
bc.rtoff ntatk
:-.tatemcnt~
\1ondJ,
in
Alc.:rumJna,
\ug11n.a
~ymg.
1hat
the dep.irtmtnt ha:-. n .. 'i
s.ac...-ntir.:ed
f\!source1t tor naturnl
Lhsa!'ltcr-.
hl.c Kamna m
Uic
mtcn:,ts of dcfendmg
<lt,:amst tmorH,1n. (. hertoff also 53id 1ha1 f'Ol-illve
changd
arc
being made to
f
EMA to better respond to future disa.'i1cr,
Whittington in stable condition after wounds sustained in hunting accident with Vice President Dick Cheney
HoirT)
'wh11tmgton.
?S,
app(W:,
Ill
be io !able c-onditioo after sutf4."Jlng a mmor
heart
attack when pellets
imbedJcJ
in
his bod)
mn11e<l
10
his heart
He \\:JS
i.hot
in
a
hunting accidi..-nt this past Saturda) b)·
\!il;C President
Dick Cheney in southern Tex.as. Wlumngton
w:,~
.,.,ount:kd
11
the
ri£'h1 side of his fa.cc, n ck
and ch\·,t.. hut duJ nor lose
conM"mw;m:ss. Chene)'
had
fin,<l
at a
quail but ac~1dcntally
'\IUunded
\\h,mnglon
\\1th
bird:iohot from hts 28 ~uuge shotgun. a
typi•
c.al
p1ect
USt."1.1
for
hunting birds.
ulhonttes
tuve
cleared the \·1ce presi~'llt
ofwr(tngdoing in the- case. ruling
it
a"
nn
acddcnt
The
WIJ!N~,Pre
~;~ill"•~
tg,Ktcili-
tate a posittve social environment for
students, giving them
an
opportunity to
get to know each other better and have
fun.
The residence
hall
teams will be award-
ed points based on their perfonnance
in
each
of
severa
l
competitions. Each
resi~
dence ball team
will
have a corresponding
color:
red
for Charnpagnat, yellow for
Leo, and blue for Sheehan and
Marian
.
The Wimer Wars Cup will be presented
to the winning residence
hall team
with an
engraving
of the winning residence
hall.
Free food and
hot
chocolate will
be
pro-
vided.
The Winter Wars will take
place
on
the
Campus Green Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 6
p.m.,
Wednesday, Feb. 22 at
I
a.m., and
Thursday, February 23 at 6 p.m.
Flyers will be put
up
and voicemails will
be
sent to everyone
in
participating
dorms.
The schedule of events and sign-ups will
be announced at floor meetings.
Contact Erik Zeyher, RSC Freshman
President, for more infonnation at
Etjk.Zeyberl@Marist.edu or at X4072.
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i6,
2006
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be heard.
PAGE4
Former FEMA director shirks responsibility of Katrina disaster, blames others
By
DAN Bl.ACK
Staff Writer
The ongoing mudfight
in
Washington D.C.
just acquired
a
new contender: Discontented
ex:-
Busb employee
Michael
Brown,
who last weekend radically
shift-
ed the focus
of
his blame
for
the
slow and inadequate disaster
response to
Hurricane
Katrina.
gencies to the
demanding
com-
mitments of an extensive three
year old
military
campaign
can
be complicated;
let's
talce a
look
at
how
Mike attempted to do so:
Post
9/11
thinking
set
in
motion
the back burner. Enter HUJ11cane
Katrina;
the
Meteorological
catastrophe that discovered a
nation asleep at the wheel.
Anything resulting
in
the loss-
es of 1417 people warrants the
t
h
e
rapid
a
n
d
auda-
c
i
OU S
restruc-
turing
Anything resulUng In the losses of 1417
people warrants the asking of loaded
questions and reflection on how else
business may have been conducted that
would have reduced the death toll.
asking
0
f
loaded
q
u
es-
ti on
s
a
n
d
re flee-
even holds my interest anymore.
It's clear what's going on, what
has been going pn, and what will
continue to go in; what makes
this case special?
those
living
back at home sup-
porting them.
dead because their
lives
were
calculated as a conceivable
price, unforeseen but
one
we
must be willing to pay, should
the price be demanded.
If
this
is
not the case, this is not a war
in
war's purest sense.
As fonner FEMA
director, be
originally said the Jack
of pre-
paredness
was
the
fault of two
Democrats: The
mayor of New
Orleans,
Ray Nagin;
and the
governor
of Louisiana,
Kathleen
Blanco.
of
the - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
tion on
Imagine:
Michael Brown chose
the war in Iraq for his patsy,
claiming that resources and
funds which could have enabled
a faster, more efficient and effec-
tive hurricane response were
committed to Iraq, paralyzing his
already derelict organization.
This is a sensible argument, but
fundamentally flawed in a way
you cannot appTeCiate unless you
ponder
We, the American people, have
forgotten our responsibilities; we
no
loiiger
grow
potatoes instead
of petunias
in
our backyard to
increase food production, as we
did
in
WWII.
We no longer
demand
politician-accountabili-
ty,
holding
rallies and demon-
strations around the country
around the clock, as we
did
toward
the eod of Vietnam. We
have defaulted on our side so
severely that we don't even take
seriously the unspoken implica-
I
do not support the war and
I
do not accept the principles
I
have identified above
,
but
if you
are one
Qf
the
few who still sup-
ports
the war in
Iraq,
you forfeit
the right to finger anybody
in
the
government the way Michael
Brown does. You must
·
swallow
hard and accept the fact
that the
freedom of lraqi's citizenry
has
cost not only the lives of
the
2265
servicemen who died
in
Iraq,
but also of 1417 civilians
whose deaths we bad to accept
because our
diplomatic
engage-
ments precluded our ability
to
save them.
Brown
has since stepped
down
from his position
as FEMA
director,
is
no
longer on
President Bush's
payroll, and
now attributes
the gross missteps
of 'disaster
relief to, among
other things,
domestic con-
straints
stemming from the war
on
terror.
Attempting to
string
together
a
fluid chain
of logic that bureau-
cratically
correlates the inability
to respond to large-scale
emer-
government's departments and
agencies. Among the overhauls
was
the
department of homeland
security
becoming
the 'surrogate
mother', so to speak, of
FEMA.
A few years of negligence, mis-
management, and funds going
from
here to
there
to
God-
knows-where (and everyone else
can accurately guess),
left
FEMA
incapacitated. Priorities
had
literally
been
flipped upside
down
by Bush and his visionar-
ies for a 'safer America' and
maintaining a
high
degree of
readiness for non-terrorist relat-
ed
emergencies was placed on
how
else business may have
been conducted
that
would have
reduced the death toll.
The
Republicans see this excuse is as
it.
good
as
any to put their gloves
What
on and start venomously attack-
is going
ing their own kind. Yesterday's
o
cohorts become today's targets,
across
targets you will hopefully fatally
t
h
e
We, the American people, have forgot-
ten our responslbllltles; we no longer
grow potatoes Instead of petunias In our
backyard to Increase food production,
as we did In WWII.
ti on
s
when
we utter
t
h
e
word
'war'.
The
strike if doing so leads to your
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
own escape from the s_()Otlight or
swelling of your bank account.
The Democrats want answers
and the Republicans endeavor to
fabricate believable alibis, a pre-
dictable pattern
in
politics that
has become so stale it barely
Atlantic that Michael complains
about
,
though
everybody over
here on this side seems to con-
stantly forget, is a war. A war
involves a degree of sacrifice not
only on the part of soldiers in
theatre who fight, but also on
resources are over there and out
of our reach because, doctrinally
speaking, our circumstances dic-
tate that's where they belong.
The victims of Hurricane Katrina
are dead not because of
mi stale es
or improper war fighting, they're
Students respond negatively to liberal viewpoint on Bush
1/eged
miscalculation of statistics and.facts
Future Marine defends military
action in
Iraq
)'OU
today
Wlth
grc.,t
and
dtstrt1,s
J.~1ut a
lisb.ed
article
enh
. redefined:
pn'IM-
at
literary distor
ed.
II 5adl)
•rP"•"
ntcr Dan
Bl.a.cl
wf
I 1c-mbl)'
..,inJ!cm
hronic
at».c-n1-mind-
ybe
I
can
be
of some
ber
11. 2001
at
American
Airlines
smashc-s
through.
the
at
the
'w'orM
Trnde
mety~two li\.eJ, are
the
blink .;,fan eve.
FDNY Baualion I
requests, "e, ery
ambulance,
end
you goL
no"'"
ihMBI
\lrubl n:spor,d
,ccnc, c1tywid~ lib
pah.b relays re-P'.ins of multiple
people
ra~4 uu
upp,:r ilv~.
likewise vn sc('nt rersonncl
t\."f'OM m11Jt1ple
Jump,:n,
Jmrn
At Y:03
am
Umted Atrlllh":i.
flight 175 Mna:;hc~ through the
South Tower i5l
the World
Trade
C\:nb:r aL1 add1t,~1naf 65
liH."'!t
ar\l' tom froin the 1.:<tnh. Ai tht
md of the day.
roughly
2,819
ch ihans hoJ. beC'n
m11rdc100
in
ew
York
nlnnc.
In case
Mr.
Blad. i
111!
h:iv-
ing
dJ.lliculty
mancu"mng
through th
fog
(1 know
it'!>
d1f-
fi ...
uh
1t,
remember wha1 hnp
pen~
fiV"e
years
ago),
kt,-,
go
o\'er . oine more
numbers
Amcncan f\1rhn~i. Htgbt ?7
i1na.~c~
through the pentagon
a.r 9.37 nm. killing a total of
(
8Q civili:-m,
and
military per-
sonnel At
10:03
a.m United
Atrhnes Flight
9:\
craslK."5 mt\)
the ground m Shank~,..,u~ and
Stonycrc.el
Township
Pcnnsyl'lauia
k.illing
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Federal intelligence gathering practices protested by activist groups
tion on people in the United resources to spy on peaceful
States'
,
" said Rumsfeld, convey-
groups and on grandmothers
ing a mocking contempt for his
really raises questions," said
critics
,
"And of course, if you Belkin. "It's a very sad story,
look at it, that's what it
is.
It's
maybe more sad than scary."
information about people who
In a fo
ll
ow-up to these reports
are in the United States, who are
first released by NBC News this
observing a base in some way."
past
December,
the
Otherwise
, '
'In short, it's no big
Servicemembers (egal Defense
deal.
"
Network (SLDN),
a
Washington-
Even still, Prof. Aaron Belkin, based advocacy group for gay
the director of the Center for the
and
l
esbian soldiers
,
along with
Study of Sexual Minorities in the
other gay rights groups, fi
l
ed a
Military and educator at the Freedom of Informat
i
o
n
Act
University of California at Santa request earlier this January
Barbara
,
chides the federal gov-
demanding that the administra-
emment for earmarking funds to
.
tion re
l
ease "any and all docu-
further the improper role of sur-
ments" detailing the "susp
i
-
veillance
,
reflective of the much
cious
"
meetings by these civilian
l
arger inefficiencies behind the
groups with the
·
"reports, video
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy
recordings, audio recordi
n
gs,
straining the military
'
s avai
l
able
and photographs'
'
docume
n
ted
resources.
"
When there aren't by the Pentagon. However,
enough Arab linguists
,
not
Steven
Ra
ll
s,
an
SLDN
enough boots on the ground
in
spokesman, expressed bis rese
r
-
Iraq
,
not enough money for the vations that the administration
State Department dip
l
omatic ini-
would respect their req
u
est
,
tiatives
,
and we are waging a
referring it to matters of national
global war on terror, to allocate security.
"
We
'
ve seen under the
Fro
m
Page
Four
Bush administration especially
lawsuit with the U.S. District
that the government has pushed Court of the District of Columbia
back bard on the issue of materi~
alleging that government agen-
al being classified when we've cies have
'
"wrongfully withheld
made FOlA requests
,'
' said Ralls.
agency records" and that the
So, on January 23rd
,
after the
government intentionally
imped-
National Security Agency, an
ed
the requested 20-day process-
agency of the Department of ing of their January inquiry
,
ask-
Defense
,
rebuffed SLDN's initial
ing the court to "establish a date
req
u
est by refusing to confirm or certain" to speed up the handling
deny surve
i
l-
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
of the original
lance activi-
'To suggest that a gay
ki
ss-In
~~nIA applica-
~=~stea:c! t!~
I
s a
"
credible threat
"
Is
"The federal
those records,
absurd, homophob
i
c, and
government
he had bis
lnatlonal'
has attempted
to stonewall
doubts r~con-
finned when
t
h
e
Department
- C.
D
ixo
n
Os
burn
the
public's
Exec
u
tiv
e d
i
r
ecto
r
,
SLON
right to know,
and SLDN is
of Justice
(DO]),
led by Atto
rn
ey
Gene
r
al
A
l
berto
Gon,:a
l
es,
o
b
structed a
ll
such attempts,
claiming the FOlA
r
equest dido 't
"reasonably
"
describe
"
the
reco
r
ds
in
quest
i
on
,
adding that
their office
"
would not mai
n
tain"
the·sought-after files. Now, as of
February 6, the SLDN has filed a
agg
r
essively challenging its
decisions
,'
'
said
C
.
Dixon
Osburn
,
SLDN executive
dire..c-
tor
, "
The Bush administration
cons
i
stently tell the public that
surveillance is conducted only
on terrorists and Americans com-
municating with terrorists
;
yet
infonnation obtained by credible
media sources indicates that it is
aJso spying on groups that sup-
port civil rights
,
,animal rights
,
and the environment. To suggest
those groups are terrorists is an
act
of
modem
day
McCarthyism."
Yet, of the four student groups
being
·
moltitored
,
only Students
Against
War
at Santa Cruz were
actually
l
abeled "a cred
i
ble
threat" for terrorism after an
April 2005 protest
in
which 300
demonstrators surrounded cam-
pus recruit
i
ng tables, launching
into an anti-military teach-in
which curtailed student access
with Pe
n
tagon representa
t
ives.
Soon
afterwards,
Students
Against War engineered an alter-
native protesting strategy that
featured same-sex partners lock
-
ing lips in an October kiss-in.
Now, they
'
re on notice for
domestic terrorism.
"
To suggest that a gay kiss-
i
n
is
a "credible threat" is absurd,
homop
h
obic
,
and irrationa
l
,"
explained
Osburn.
"The
Pentagon is supposed to defend
the Constitution, not turn it
upside down."
Elsewhere, pub
l
icly disclosed
documents by the Federa
l
Bureau of Investigation are stir-
ring controversies that govern-
ment agencies are equating "civil
disobedience" with "terrorism."
Even though F.B
.
L officia
l
s
maintained that their investiga-
tors were d
i
spatched to study
advocacy groups motivated by
criminal or violent activities
,
civil libertarians are ske
p
tica
l
of
their rationale which yielded
more than 2,300 pages of data
examining about 150 protest and
social groups
.
One of these files
provides a detailed blueprint fo
r
age
n
ts in Indianapolis canvass-
ing
a "Vegan Comm
un
ity
Project,'
'
while anot
h
er analyzes
the Catholic Wo
r
ker's "semi
-
communistic ideo
l
ogy
,"
and
another attempts to pinpoint the
exact locatio
n
of PETA members
protesting the manufacture of
llama
fur.
Alternative statistics used in response to liberal view
deput
i
es) is killed
,
Ibo al-Sbaykh
al-Libi (head of al Qaeda training
camps) captured 12/01, Omar al
Farouq (al Qaeda Southeast Asia
chief) captured 6/02, Ramzi
Bina1sbibh (would-be h.ijacker
and 9/11 "moneyman") captured
9
/
11/02, Qaed al-Harethi (head
of Yemen al Qaeda cell) killed
I 1
/
3
/
02
,
Khalid
Shakih
Mohammed (9
/
11 mastermind
and al Qaeda chief of operations)
captured 3
/
03
,
Walid Attash
(organizer of the 2000 bombing mid~2002 effort to hijack planes
of the USS Cole) captured and bit specific targets on the
4/29
/
03. That's a lot of names
West and East Coasts of the
(note: the above list isn't nearly country. However, even prior to
complete) for "zero terrorists."
this week's announcement, a plot
This week the White House to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge,
released information regarding
involv
i
ng a
l
Qaeda operative
ten large-scale terrorist attacks it,
Lyman Faris was publicly report-
along with international partners
,
ed on June 19, 2003 by then
had foiled. It seems as though Attorney Genera
l
John Ashcroft.
Mr. Black
,
once again
,
has made Not only has Mr. B
l
ack pre
-
a severe and embarrassing mis-
formed a horrific job at reporting:
calculation. The plots include a the facts but he bas lied to the
Marist Community
,
painting a
fallaciously bleak picture of our
government's ability to protect its
citizens.
As
much as many would
like to deny it, it is a matter of
fact
that
the
Bush
Administration's down to busj-
ness attitude on the terror war
has been centra
l
to dismantling al
Qaeda and preventing further
attacks.
I'm quite tempted to continue
,
but for
Mr.
Black's sake I'll
try
and wrap things up. It disturbs
me to read articles, like Mr .
.
Black's, that are not only laced
with lies but vacant finge
r
point-
ing. However
,
what truly revolts
me is the continuous
,
conscious,
·and convenient disregard for the
events of September 11, 200 I.
Nearly three thousand _peop
l
e
were deliberately murdered that
day yet Mr. Black and others
have cfecided to li!t their memory
dwindle into a mere ~lip on the
radar. Next time,
Mr.
Black
,
I
polite
l
y suggest you do some
research before you fire off a few
more salvos at
the Bush
Adm
i
nistration. One ~ast thing,
never forget 9
/
11/01.
,
Respectfully Yours,
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No limita
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ions 1n sight for Olympic athletes
By
ADAM GUARINO
Staff Writer
tors. Furthennore, the current record for the I 0,000
meter
is
12:57.92, over two minutes faster than the
previous record.
Heart, passion, and achievement are three words at
So how do these athletes continually push the
the core of the grealest
sporting
event the
world
has
barriers of perfonnance and rewrite the recoJd
ever seen: the 01ympics. Since the first
competi-
books? Answers aren't immediately attainab
l
e, but
tion in Greece, men have fought with every it seems to
be
a combination of things like better
essence of their bei
n
g to take home the grand prize.
training methods, improved technology, and grow-
Today, despite monumental changes, such as a ing g
l
obal interest
in
the sport.
much wider range of events, the introduction of
Carl Foster, a professor
in
the department of exer-
women, and the installment of the gold medal, the cise and
sports
science at the University of
basics remain same.
Wisconsin, La Crosse offers his view on the sub-
The biggest draw of the Olympics is no doubt the ject.
highly trained and disciplined athletes. They have
"Those
who competed in the early Olymp
i
cs
dedicated every facet of their lives to the pursuit of were almost en
t
irely the social elite. That's a very
success and glory. These athletes, it seems, are the
smaU slice of humanity," Foster said. "The
fall
of
top physical peak of the human race. However, as
social and economic barriers means that a potential
we continue to evolve, training methods and tech-
world-record holder no longer works in the fields
nologically advanced gear propel them to new
or in a factory. He's on the world stage."
heights.
No
less significant are radica
l
improvements in
In
the
1980
winter Olympics
in
Lake Placid,
training methods. Today, researchers understand
N.Y.,
one of the greatest achievements in
sports
the physiology, biomechanics and biology
of
sport
history was thought to have occurred. Eric Heiden,
in
ways that would have seemed incomprehensible
a
21
year old Wisconsin native, won five gold
only a couple of decades ago. Not only is there a
medals in speed skating ranging from
sprints
to
·
greater understanding of how the body burns fuel
long distance. His greatest accomplishment came and bow muscles work, it's possib
l
e to develop
in the
form
of sett
i
ng an unprecedented world
specific training regimens that push
an
athlete to
record
in
the
10,000
meter race. Heiden completed the limit without risking injury and burnout.
it
in
a time of
14:28.13,
over six
seconds
faster than
Psychology also enters into the picture. "At the
anyone before
him.
elite level, there are a lot of people with incredible
Fast forward to the
2002
winter Olympics in Salt physical skills. It's often the mental aspect that
Lake City. Heiden's record sett
i
ng time would have
determines who wins races and sets records," says
placed
him
dead last amongst the other
18
competi-
Judy
Van
Raalte, a professor of psycho
l
ogy at
Physicians a
r
en't
'
lovin
'
it'
McDonald's nutritional info out of date, new food allergens posted online
By
JESSICA BAGAR
F
oreign Correspondant.
grams
of trans fat as previous
l
y disclosed."
Collsidered by health experts to
be
particularly
dangerous, trans fats raise cholesterol levels and
Let's face it.
It's not easy to say "no" to
lead to an increased risk of heart disease.
McDonald's french fries, what with their greasy
According to the latest U.$. nutrition guidelines,
goodness and convenient palm-sized packaging.
one should limit his or her intake of trans fats and
Any college student
.
who bas found him or herself McDonald's has said "it is working on reducing
staring up at the ninety-
_ _
_
_ _
_
_
_ _ _ _
_
_
_ _
trans fats in its cooking
nine cent menu whilst " •••
To all yo
u fr
en
c
h f
r
y fiends:
oil."
Cathy
Kapica,
j
u
ggling all the possibili-
trench fries conta
i
n more fat and
ties for
a
fatty snack can
McDonald's
head of
attest that french flies are
calories than previously thought
global
nutrition,
us
u
ally one of the first
and
h
ave
I
ngred
i
e
n
t
s t
hat could
«pla
i
ned that the d
i
sclo-
orders placed.
aggr
a
vate
s
ome all
e
rgies ...
,,
sure of wheat and milk
A fair warning, howev- _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_
_
_
_ _ _ _ _
allergens in the flavoring
er, to all you french fry
used to make
its
fries
fiends:
french fries contain more fat and calories
was a result of the compa
n
y's decision to comply
than previous
l
y thought and have ingredients that with U.S.
Food
and Drug Administration
l
abeling
could aggravate some a
ll
ergies, a Reuters report
standards.
found.
"Consumers
should
have an extremely high level
Though McDonald's
Corp
has been printing
of confidence
in our numbers because of the fact
nutritional information such as calories, fat grams,
that we continually update them ... even if it's not to
protein, carbohydrates and
sodium
on its packag-
our advantage," she said. She further ex.plained
ing since last year, the company admitted last week
that "the
company
wanted its
data
to
be
familiar to
that the printed n
u
tritiona
l
information about its
those
used to reading packaged food labels.
fries was incorrect. The correct data can be found
Though it's hard to overcome those severe salt
on the McDonald's Web site.
cravings, the next time you get the munchies, steer
Reuters reports that "A large
serving
of fries bas clear of those Golden Arches and co
n
s
i
der a
570
ca
l
ories,
30
grams of fat and
8
grams of trans
healthier, lighter option.
fat,
,not the
520
calories,
25
grams of fat and
6
Springfield Co
ll
ege in Springfield, Mass. "Just as
it's possible to train physically, it's possib
l
e to train
mentally," Van Raalte says. "The end goal is to get
an ath
l
ete in the 'zone' on the day of the event
rather than on a ra
n
dom basis."
Yet another piece of the puzz
l
e is technology.
Over the years, vast improve
m
ents in clothi
n
g,
equipme
n
t and facilities have radica
ll
y changed
many sports. "[f we continue to improve technolo-
gy there is no practica
l l
imit to what ath
l
etes can
By
ALEXAN
DER TINGEY
Health Editor
ITAUAN snJDY
FEEDS RA
TS ASPARTAME
for as
long
as v.c can
remember people have
louted
the mythical
dangers
of
celJ
phones,
powi:r lines- and amfie1al sweesener. However.
a
report
filed
last
week ponlll 10 rbe carcino•
genie
nature of
aspartame-.
America's favornc
anif-icial sweetener.
The
study surveyed
the
condition of
rats
fed
aspartame over
the
course
of
the clinical
study.
Dr.
David
Katz.
Yale
pro--
fossor and author, commented on
the study.
"'h1ch
took pla~e in Italy, stating
\bat
the
res~•ah;h
demonstrated
a "stanstically
significant
increase in
l
ymphomas and
leukemaas over
three y-:ars. ·• The
study
simulated the equivalent
of
5 s.xla,
µ<r
<illy
worth
of'
aspartame
and
recorded the
effects on
the
1.900
rats
involved in
the
~tuJy. Dr.
Katz pointed out the widespread
use of aspartame
'and
the relauvely
low
risks
report~ in i1's
fony
year
shelf
life as clues 10
its
rclati\ie health risks.
He
IS
also
careful
to
note
the di1T;..•rence
between animal
lelring
and those
involving human subjiecli NCllllflll
lbil.
"""'thCI-.S-
do," Says Nad
i
ne Gelberg, president
and
founder
of Get Charged, a Philadelphia organization that
examines
sports
technology.
For now, coaches
and
athletes are working
to
use
l
eading know
l
edge and techniq
u
es to maximize
results. Foster says that the rate of progress
i
on for
setting records has begWl to slow - though it's any-
one's guess when humans will reach their natural
limit
an ammal
study.
There's
outhing}to
md1cu1e 1h1s
1s
the
same
threat
in
humans"
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Black history
.
month heroine: Coretta Scott King
By
MICHAEL MAYFIELD
Features
Editor
This week, we remember the wife of
Dr.
Martin
Luther
King Jr., Coretta
Scott King. At her
husband's
side, she
worked vigorously in the civil rights
movement of the 1950's and 60's.
Coretta began her activism work in
1955 with
the
Montgomery bus boy-
cott.
Then,
in 1964, her vigilance
helped to pass the Civil
Rights
Act
granting equal votes for all, and mak-
ing
it
illegal to discriminate based on
race, gender or otherwise.
In
1985,
she and
three of her children were
arrested for protesting in Washington.
all
iance
of more than 100 religious,
labor, business, civil and women's
organizations
- a
nd the Coalition of
Conscience
-
a
union of over
800
human rights organizations. She even
took part
in
international politics
heading the U.S delegation of Women
for a Meaningful
Summit regarding
the Regan/Gorbachev conferences,
and worked
to
assemble the Soviet-
American Women's Summit
in D.C.
peaceful integration and desegrega-
tion.
King
served as president of the
center and was
its chief executive offi-
cer since
its creation. Coretta Scott
King was also a powerful force behind
making Martin Luther King
Jr. Day a
national
holiday.
King was a visionary in her own
right. She worked
with
her husband
for socia1 reform and equality in a
time when segregation occurred not
only on account of race, but gender as
well.
Unfortunately, King passed
away on January 30 of this year. She
is succeeded by her children, Dexter
Scott, Martin Luther King Jr. III,
Yolanda
Denise,
and
Bernice
All>ertine. Her message of interracial
solidarity and nonviolent change con-
tinues through her children and
in the
observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day,
A
proponent of peace
and equality,
she traveled to Europe, Africa and
Asia advocating this message. Mrs.
King also worked to fonn several
coalitions
including
the
Full
Employment Action Council -an
Following the assassination of her
husband, she was not about to
roll
over and give up. She published her
memoir, 'My Life with Martin Luther
King Jr.'
in
1969
-
followed by other
books
in subsequent years
-
and
founded the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Center for Nonviolent Social Change
located
in
Atlanta, Georgia. A
23
acre
lot surrounding King Jr. 's birthplace
was desigriated as the site for the cen-
ter. The center was created to carry on
Martin Luther King
Jr.
's dream ef
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against a backdrop
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her husband,
Dr. MartJn
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know about these people already.
At President Bush's State of the
Union Address he made
it very
clear that backing down from
extremists cannot
be
an option.
Toe global community failed to
recognize the threat that radical
Muslims posed to
us
as we
turned our
heads
in
a different
direction after a
747 was shot
down over Scotland, The World
Trade Center was bombed in the
early
90s,
et
cetera.
Unfortunately, the "et cetera" is a
pretty long list, Mr. Black.
It is
no
wonder
the
Clinton
Administration left us with such
a huge swplus, for during his
eight years in office he did
absolutely nothing_ to bolster our
defense.
Daniel Black
is
the reason why
people are convinced that
run-
ning like a scared kitten is the
best route to world peace.
People like Dan Black aren't
all
bad, however.
We know they
mean well, right? They have
an
incredible amount of faith in
mankind- the
type
of faith that
will
make
you
believe
Americans
are to blame for
9/11.
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"But only
1
%
of Muslims
are to blame for that.
The one's
resorting to extremism and vio-
blowing up their children, flying
lence!" as if that is a
solution
to planes into buildings, throwing
our defense issues. When you rocks, burning cars, and crying
take I% of the world's most over cartoons.
widely followed and f3:stest-
No one wants to see their child
growing religion it
is
not such a go to war, Mr. Black.
·
No one
is
silly thing to worry about.
happy
to
hear about "three more
George Bush isn't redefining the
Marines" being killed in the
word "defense'', Daniel.
As
you Middle East, either. But unfortu-
put it, our "alleged enemies" are
nately we have a job
to
do not
just for ourselves but for the
entire
world. Someday people
will begin to realize that fact,
including you. When that
day
comes, you'll
be
the one thanking
President Bush for spending
bil-
lions of dollars on a cause you
consider so futile.
-
Stephen Butka,
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Marine
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'Noises' goes off as planned
Complete absurdity, comedic redundancy of
''Noises Off' makes it an unforgettable comedy
By
JUSTIN CALDERON
Staff Writer
tines that
essentially
drive
the
initely
a driving element that
plot of "Noises
Off'
and makes
makes "Noises Off" successful.
you want
more
violence and
There is a strong sense of a
Comedy
took its toll
in
the
chaos
to occur.
building chaos
in "Noises
Off'
Nelly Gollcti
Theatre this past
Slapstick
is by far the
hardest
that
works extremely well. As
weekend,
leaving
only smiles on
form of comedy
to
act because the performance we watch goes
countless
theatre-goers
faces.
there is
so
much
movement and on, the performance on stage
Michael Frayn's
"Noises
Off',
timing involved in
the
perfonn-
gets worse and worse. The
cli-
directed
by
- - - - - - - - - - - -
a
n
c e
max of chaos is only
heightened
Matthew
'
"Noises
Off'
·
adds yet another
There are a
by the oddly arranged cast that
Andrews,
strlklngly funny and well played
lot
of quick must try to overcome their
depicts
an
perfommace to
the
Nelly Golettf
exits
and doomed perfonnance.
During
absurd
the-
entrances
in
the opening night performance
atre cast
try-
stage.'
"Noises
the
entire set is moved around so
~-~
~~if~-=--~-
to
pull
their
show together before
curtain call.
Despite
best
efforts,
the
cast and c·rew can't
seem to get
it right
as
the play
slowly begins to fall
into
pieces.
The complete absurdity and
comedic redundancy of
"Noises
Off' makes it
an
unforgettable
comedy
to
say
the
least. The
play is
broken into
three
differ-
ence aspects of the performance
by
the
cast and as
time
goes on
their
performance gets chaotic.
The constant bickering between
Garry
Lejeune
(Jay
Thalacker)
and Frederick Fellows
(Eddie
Storey)
that
eventually leads to
physical
abuse of Fellows
rear
is
just
one of many slapstick rou-
By
MICHAEL GELORMINO
Staff Writer
In
honor of Valentine's Day
many guys will do just about
anything to get on good terms
with their girlfriends
in
.
the
hopes
of possibly
making them
happy
.
They will
buy flowers
,
dinner
(or make it if they are real
good), chocolates (have you
sensed a theme yet), or just hang
around and enjoy each other's
company.
But the guys who
want
to score the extra points
this Valentine's
Day will put
aside their masculinity for just
one
night
and do the
ultimate
gesture of love: cuddle and
watch a movie ... ofher choice.
Admit
it
fellas
,
we have all
done it.
Whether
because we
loved
the girl or we wanted to
get lucky, we have all been
forced to watch some of the
worst girly
movies
ever created.
In
light
of this statement,
I have
compiled my
personal
list of the
top
4
worst chick flicks
that
all
men should avoid.
4.
Love Actually
-
This movie
had
all the
makings
of a good
chick flick...until
the end.
Someone please tell me what
eight year old would
run
through
an airport to
bid
farewell
to
"the
love
of his
life;"
a nine year old
girl who
he has
never spoken to
before. Also, what father in his
right mind would think that this
is a good idea? This ending was
incredibly stupid and
ruined
what would have
been
a good
movie for me.
3.
Sleepless in Seattle
-
Let's
all
thank Tom
Hanks for
making
us all
look
bad.
Kenn
Hoekstra
puts
it best in his review when be
says,
11
This should
be
called 'The
·
Impossible
Standard.'
Tom
Hanks' character WILL make
you
look
bad,
by
comparison.
the acting was slow the entire stage and the cast's turmoil face-
show would fall apart much like
to-face. Not only does
the
audi-
the
one being acted. Luckily the
ence see the underbelly of the
cast and crew
have
obviously put play, we also begin to see the
a
lot of
- - - - - - - - - - -
true sides of
work
into
'The complete absurdity and
the charac-
their
tim-
comedic redundancy of
"Noises
ters.
"
i
n
g
"Noises
s
e
I
d
s
O
n
Off" makes It an unforgettable
Off"
adds yet
Mowbray
comedy to say the least.'
another strik-
(
P b
i
I
- - - - - - - - - - -
ingly funny
Divuolo)
is a character that must and well played perfonnance to
be
performed with perfect mis-
the Nelly Galetti
stage
.
The con-
timing. In other words, the slow,
tinuous elements of slapstick
dimwitted
drunk
that
is
comedy that was maintained
by
Mowbray must
miss
his lines the actors throughout the play
perfectly
in
order to make the
made
it
an enjoyable experience
following gags work. Although
for
anyone in the
mood to
laugh.
bard
to perfonn,
slapstick is def-
Not only will she come away
from this with
a
'what have you
done
for
me lately?' attitude,
you'll
probably
end
up
bating
yourself by the time this turkey
is over.
11
2.
Titanic- The boat sinks. We
don't
need
to see a
three
hour
dragged out love story to figure
out the ending
to this
one. To
the
movies defense there are some
very
powerful
scenes in this
movie (i.e. the old couple in
bed),
but
overall it just didn't do
it
for me. It was WAY too long
and
1
just ean't stand Leo.
1.
Dirty Dancing
-
"Nobody
PATRICK
SWAYZE
JENNIFER GREY
RAVETIIR
TIME OF
YoURLIFE
puts Baby in the corner,"
PLEASE. This is hands down
the -:vorst chick flick
I
have ever
seen.
It
seems to me that this is
every girl's favorite movie and to
be honest,
I
just can't stand it.
The story line has been done
time and time again and the act-
ing
is sub
par. If
one more
girl
tries
to force this movie on me
I
may
just go postal.
If
you are lucky you will find a
way out of these
horribl
e
films
before it is too
late
.
I'd recom-
mend some good old cuddling
and
spoo
ning
.
Just remember
folks; spooning always leads to
forking.
COUrtesyofQOOQL£JX)M
Movie Trivia
Madness
The film
Zoolander
has
been
banned in Malaysia because of the use of a fic-
tional
Ma/aysiiln
Prime
Minister
as the
subject
of assassination.
Donnie Darko was shot in 28
days,
exactly
the time-span of the movie
itself,
on a budget of under US $5 mil/iolL
A Metro North Commuter
Railroad train from the New Haven line (red
striped) doubled for the
long
Island
Railroad (which are blue striped) in
Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind.
Despite
being
bleeped out
in
the film, tire name of The Bride is revealed
on her
plane tickets to Okinawa
and Tokyo in the film Kill Bill: Vol I.
In the short scene in Fight
Club when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are
drunk and hitting
golf
balls,
they really
are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing
directly into
the
side
of the
catering
truck_
l,n the Singaporean
version of The lncredibles, the company
"lnsuricare" is translated into "Black-hearted
insurance company"
if
read lit-
erally in the Chinese
character
subtitles.
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Quinn gets IC4A Championship bid
Team sets school record, sends three runners to IC4A Championships
By
ANTHONY CRISTIAN!
Staff Writer
Three individuals from the
Marist men's track team quali-
fied for the IC4A Championships
last
Sat
u
rday
at
the
St.
Valenti
n
e's
Invitational
in
Boston.
Junior Brian Quinn, and fresh-
men David Raucci and Girma
Segni all earned qualifying
times
,
and a piece of Marist his-
tory, as the program sends three
individuals
to
the
IC4A
Championships for the first time.
Quinn's
1
,
000 meter qua
li
fying
time of 2:28.56
~as
not only his
persona
l
best
,
but a school record
as well.
Quinn trumped the old school
record of 2:29.33 set back in
2003.
It didn't take Marist's freshmen
too long to prove themselves in
their young careers. Both Raucci
(8:26.78) and Segni (
1
4:43.29)
posted qualifying marks in their
first collegiate attempts in their
events, the 5,000 meter and
3,000 meter
run,
respective
l
y
.
A
l
ong with overa
ll
program
success came several perso
n
al
bests on the day for the Foxes.
Junior
Matt
Syzmiiszek
destroyed
bis
previous time in
the 3,000 by nearly twenty sec-
"We had a great overall day.
onds running an 8:52.75 in the
There were a lot of persona
l
event. The 3
,
000 meter
run
also
bests set by the guys, and we did
produced personal best times for
something that was never done
sophomore
Mike
Rolek
.
before
,
" he said. "It's important
(8:49.79), and senior captain for the program to continue to
Sean Prinz (8:56.96).
reach new heights.
"
Coach Pete Colaizzo boasted
Marist will be in action again
the significance of sending three
on Friday
,
as they compete in the
members of the team back to Metro
Atlantic
Ath
l
etic
Boston
for
the
IC4A Conference
(MAAC)
Championships in March.
Champions
h
ips at the Armory
Track and Field Center in New
York.
"After our success at the St.
Valen
t
ine's Invitationa
l
, we
are
rea
ll
y geared up for the MAAC
Championships," Co
l
a
i
zzo said.
"We look to carry our momen
-
tum
into the Armory
.
"
Rider not only team to challenge Red Foxes
Seniors eager for second straight title
,
want to leave as .MA.AC victors
By
DAVID HOCHMAN
Staff Wr
i
te
r
out
l
asted Marist for the title
those two years, was Rider.
Senior swimmer Joe Pilewski
Feb. 16
starts
the defense of the remembered that one loss and
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
(MAAC)
Championship for the Mari
s
t
men's swimmmg and diving
squad. The team heads down to
Loyola
,
Md. to compete with the
rest of the conference for that
weekend
.
Alt
h
ough ten teams are
involved, the final standings will
come down to Marist and one
other team, Rider.
There is a tradition for this
team at Marist; that tradition is
winn
.
ing. Two years was the only
time the Red Foxes did not take
home the MAAC title since join-
ing the
l
eague. The team, who
how difficult it was to take, but
he also knows about all the posi-
tives this year.
"This a winning tradition
,
" the
MAAC Swimmer of the Week
said
.
"The tradition has only
been broken once.
I
know how
painful that bus ride back is. So
if we go in not for Rider, but for
our own records
,
we can win. We
have a lot of momentum go
in
g
after the last few wins, so that is
a
l
so good.
"
The Red Foxes'
l
one loss in
dual meet competition this year
was to the B
r
oncs early in the
season in
a
close 127.5-115.5
contest. That was actually the
first conference match up of the
season for Marist, who conse-
quently garnered eight victories
to this point.
Coach
Larry
Van
Wagner said
he knows that Rider won't
be
his
team's bigge
s
t challenge thoug
h
.
"The b
i
ggest cha
ll
enge is going
to be within our own team
,"
he
said.
"
The hardest thing is to
try
to get 19 ath
l
etes to perform at
their peak for three days after 23
weeks of perfonning. The other
teams can only provide a distrac-
tion
.
"
There
are
four seniors on this
team who wou
l
d like to finish
their careers strongly and on top.
Kevin Bobenchik and Pilcwski
,
a
l
ong with their capta
i
ned class-
mates Alec Troxell and Kevin
Connors, finish their four-year
careers
this weekend.
Connors said he couldn't think
of a better way to go out.
"After knowing how hard we
worked and how sweet it was last
year,
"
he said, "I wouldn't want
to go out any other way."
Connors is looking forward the
100 butterfly most of all
the
races. He is seeded second
behi
n
d Ramunas Radzeviciuc of
Saint Pete
r
'
s College.
"It's been my favorite
race
since I've been here and I like
being the u
n
derdog
,
I'm not
expected to win," he said
.
Junior Pat Collins may have
some pressure on him though; he
has the fastest 50
free
time in the
conference this year (21.00.)
Collins said he has cdme a long
way in his past two years
,
start-
ing his career as an exhibition
swimmer.
"It
shows
l
can improve so
much from hard work and dedi-
cation," he said. "Everyone's
improving though. We've just got
to get up there and swim our
events to the fullest.
"
Colli
n
s
l
ooks to break David
Dobbins' school record of 20.93
seconds in the 50 freestyle.
Dobbins set that record in 2002.
Despite the swimming, the
meet could actually come down
to the diving portion. Assistant
coach Me
l
anie Bo
l
stad said that
the outnup,.bering of Rider's
divers will be a huge advantage
.
"They only have two
,"
she
said. "As a team with three
,
we
will score more."
And
so
much for predicting a
winner based on prior perform
-
ance.
"Whoever is ready to dive at
MAACs
will
win," Bolstad said.
"It
could be anyone.
"
Sophomore Devon O'Na
l
ty is
one of three sophomore divers
who Could possibly be that win-
ner
,
but first, he needs to do some
final p
r
eparations
.
"I
need to stay calm and not get
too hyped up
,
" the MAAC Diver
of the Week from two weeks ago
said. "Obviously I want to win.
It
is the champions
h
ip, but
I
have
to ba
l
ance my emotio
n
s first.
Preparing mentally is the most
importan
t
thing to do. No matter
what tho
u
gh, I'm still going to
bring my game."
Women hungry for third consecutive MAAC title in Md.
By
DREW B
U
DD
Staff Writer
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win
the tourney.
Marist has won three champi-
The Metro Atlantic Athletic
onships
i.n
the last four years,
Conference
(MAAC)
seven in,the
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nine. They
arc
Champ
i
onships for women's
swimmi
n
g and diving starts this
coming weekend at Loyola
Co
ll
ege in Baltimore.
The
women Marist Red Foxes
are
coac
h
ed by
Larry
Van Wagner
,
who is a frequent visitor
to
the
MAAC Championships and has
been to them since 1989, which
was the first time he won the
title.
BetYlecn the
meA and women
squads, Vanwagner has been to
the championships every year
since 1995.
The one team the Red Foxes
could be worried about in the
upcoming tournament is Rider
University. Rider
,
h
aving won
only five games in 11 matches
while p
l
acing sixth in the
Rutgers Invitationa
l
, does
n
't .nee-
e
ss
arj.ly scare anyone on paper.
Neverthe
l
e
s
s, they match well
against the women Red Foxes.
Back in the beginning of
November
,
Mar
i
st
defeated
Rider 127.5-115.5. Rider won
seven of the races during the
meet, and Van Wagner has said
in
the past that Rider was the best
team they played from the
MAAC.
"We cannot worry about other
teams
,"
he said.
"
However
,
Rider is a team we are worried
i
ndivid
u
ally about, because they
are very competitive, and we just
squeaked past them last time we
went aga
i
nst each other."
Rider is corving off of a strong
win against Iona while Marist
has dropped their last two match-
es albeit against non
-
co
n
ference
Jcams.
The Red Foxes als6 gamer
some of the top individual per-
formers in the conference with
senior diver Meghan D
u
ffy, who
has now won MAAC Diver of
the Week honors six weeks
in
a
row.
Despite loss
,
men's tennis still finds suc~ess in doubles match play
By NAlE
FIELDS
Staff Writer
After claiming victories in their
first two matches of the year, the
Red Fox men's tennis tea'm lost
their second consecutive match
by the score of 5-2 last Sunday at
SUNY Binghamton.
Marist won two of six singles
matches and one of three doubles
matches,
narrow
l
y
missing
another doubles victory
,
which
would have resulted in an addi-
tional overall point.
Junior Pedro Genovese and
senior Leo Rodriguez, compris-
ing Marist's number-one doubles
team, at one point led their oppo-
nents 7-4 while serving. They
surrendered their lead, however,
forcing a tieb
r
eak match, which
Binghamton eventua
ll
y won 7-4.
Head coach Tim Smith said he
enjoyed the teams competition,
but first doubles lost hurt them.
"I
was happy ove
r
all with the
way the teams competed," he
said. "But
I
was disa
p
pointed
with our lost at first doubles,
which
I
think could have given
us
an edge goi
n
g into the sin-
gles."
The third doubles team of jun-
ior Ray Josep
h
s and sophomore
Greg Marks p
ull
ed out a victory
before the senior duo of Mark
Santucci and Brendon Van
Wasbeek fell 8
-
3.
Santucci enjoyed success in
singles action, however, dealing
the Bea
r
cats' Aurelio Martinez a
loss.
Goach Smith pra
i
sed the effort
of his senior.
"Mark played the best singles
matc
h
I
have seen him play since
his 6-4
6-4
loss
to
the University
of Alabama in the first round of
the NCAA's bis freshman year,"
be said.
Also putting a point on the
board for the Foxes was
Genovese
,
who
knocked
off his
opponent in four sets, 6-3, 6-7,
7-
6 (10-8).
The loss drops the team to 2-2
overall, but they remain 2-0
in
Metro
Atlantic
A
t
h
l
et
i
c
Conference (MAAC) play.
Marist has been facing some
tough competition of late, and
the schedule doesn
1
t
get any eas-
ier.
"This is the second team we
have played that is
r
anked in the
top 12 in our region
,
" Smith said
of Bi
n
ghamton.
Marist goes on the road to
oppose Brown this Monday, Feb.
20 at4 p.m.
According to Smith, Brown
is
a
fonnidable foe.
"We look forward the next two
weeks to playing nationa
ll
y
ranked Brown
,
" he Said.
Marist downs
J
aspers for sixth consecut
iv
e MAAC win
,
leads Griffs by two games
By
MATT A
N
GR
I
SANI
Staff Writer
Senior forward Fifi Camera
and red-shirt sophomore Meg
Da
h
lman co
m
bined fo
r
forty
points last Sarurday as the Lady
Red Foxes defeated Manhattan
58
-
42, winning their ninth
straight home game.
Manhattan took
an
early lead as
Caitlin Flood scored the first
basket of the contest; howeve
r
,
that would turn out to be the
Jaspers only lead of the night.
Dahlman was the leading scor
-
er for Marist
in
the first half,
making shots
in
the paint as well
as outside the perimeter
.
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Red Foxes ended the half strong
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Camera took over, taking the
majority of the Red Foxes' shots
and going to the line seven times
,
making 9-of-l 4
free
throws. As
Camera made her shots
,
the
Marist defense contained the
J
aspers to one to win the game.
Camera finished the game with
22 points, including her 800th
career point on her final shot,
nine rebounds, and four assists.
Dahlman bad eighteen po
i
nts,
five boards, and two steals.
Forward Sarah Snndel saw 23
minutes of action, scoring ten
points
and
getting
seven
rebounds.
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Red Foxes sweep season series against Golden Griffins
By
ER
I
C ZEDA
US
L
ayout Staff
Heading into Monday night's
game against the Marist Red
Foxes, the Canisius Golden
Griffins focused their defense on
the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) leading
scorer
,
Fifi
Camara, and the
reigning two-time
MAAC
player
oflhe week
,
Meg Dahlman.
Little of their attention, howev-
er, was for the
b
irthday
girl
,
Sarah Smrdel.
So the sophomore took advan-
tage, tying her career-high
with
16 points
on her 20th birthday to
help Marist sweep the season
series against Canisius
,
81-69
.
Canisius head coach
Terry Zeh
said that going in, his staff and
players knew Smrdel was a
fo
r
ce, but Camara still com-
man
d
ed a
l
ot of the
attention.
"We knew [Smrde
l
] could
shoot, it's just sometimes when
you've got Fifi in there and
you
1
re sort of
l
ooking at her won-
dering
if
you
'
ve got to help in the
post," he said. "She can get free
for those shots.
"
Smrdel said she was happy to
step
in
and help her team when
she was needed off the bench.
"It's a good feeling knowing
that
I
can help out the team when
they
focus
on Dahlman and
Eifi,"
she said.
Zeh pointed out the importance
of role players like Smrdel step-
ping up at crucial times at this
poi.nt in the season.
.. This
-
time of year, I've always
thought you need a game from
people like that
to
keep going,"
he said.
•
°Everybody knows that
Fifi is going to get her points
,
and you're going to try and
game-plan
to
stop her. So play-
ers
are
going to have to come up
and make shots for you to keep
going."
With this win, Marist needs to
win just one of its remaining four
games to clinch at least a share of
first-place in the regu
l
ar season.
But Canisius did not make
things easy.
The Golden Griffins, after
being blown out by the Red
Foxes on their home court earlier
this year, gave Marist everyth
in
g
they had.
"This was one of the best bas-
ke
t
ball games I've ever been
involved in, because
I
think we
beat Canisius at their best,"
Marist head coach Brian Gio
r
gis
said.
"
They
'
re a tremendous
shooting team, and they shot
lights-out
in
the second half.
They did everything that they
needed to do to try to win it."
Marist led by as much as
J
3
early in the second half, but
Canisius kept fighting its way
back
and
cutting the margin
down to four or five points
.
But whenever it seemed that
the Red Foxes' lead was in ques
-
tion, Marist bad an answer.
"
[
MaristJ made big shots
against
us
in crunch time
,
" Zeb
said. "Every time we tried to
make a
run
to get back within
four
or five points
,
they made big
ones."
Coming off the bench, Nikki
Flores sco
r
ed five consecutive
points after Canisius had cu
t
the
lead to four,
·
and both Courtney
Kolesar and Meg Dah
l
man hit
t
hree-point fie
l
d goals once the
lead was down to five,
Each shot Marist made down
the stretc
h
looke
d
as
though it
would be the knock-out pWlch,
b
u
t Canisi
u
s bWlg in and kept
playing hard.
The fact that the Red Foxes
matched the Golden Griffins'
intensity the who
l
e game showed
the mark of a truly specia
l
team,
according to Giorgis
.
"
[
Canisi
u
s J kept cOmi
n
g back
with their best shot
,
and we kept
answering
,
" he said.
"I
was just
so proud of the kids. They d
i
dn't
panic
;
they didn't get down. We
found a way to get the ball to our
scorers and they did a great job
."
While Canisius did manage to
score its season per-game aver-
age
,
Canisius guard Becky
Zak
said that Marist's defense made
harder for our baskets
than
they
did,
"
she said.
"
They got quick
,
easy shots, and we bad to rea
ll
y
battle fo
r
ours."
Acco
r
ding
t
o Zeb, turnovers
were a decis
i
ve factor in a game
the Gol
d
en Griffins out-s
h
ot
Marist (43.5
p
ercent to 37.1 per-
cent) from the field, and out-
re
b
ounded
t
hem 40
-
3
1
.
"We had
20
turnovers and
(Marist) had
t
hree," he said.
"That's a huge difference. That's
17
more opportunities that
t
hey're getting that we aren't.
They talce care of the baske
t
ball
really we
ll
."
Taki
n
g ca.re of the bal
l
is some-
thing Alis'a Kresge has done
extremely well all year, particu
-
larly against Canisius.
"[In two games
against
Canis
i
us]
,
A
l
isa bas 20 assists
and no turnovers
.
That's pretty
speci.al," G
i
orgis said.
Kresge is second in the nation
in
assist to turnover ratio after
distribu
t
ing eight assists with no
turnovers Monday
ni
ght.
Camara finished the day with
20
poi
n
ts
,
seven boa
r
ds
,
two
assists
,
two b
l
ocks and two
steals.
Dah
l
man added
1
6
points
,
six
rebounds two blocks and three
steals. Dahlma
n
scored
14
of her
the Go
l
den Griffi
n
s work for points in the second half to fuel
every baske
L
the
Red
Foxes down th
e.
stretch
.
"The whole game
it
seemed
like we had to work so much
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O'CONNOR
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Sophomore Sarah Smrdet
tied
a
career
h
l&h 16
potnta
on
hor
20\h blnh
day
wh
ile
s
h
ooti
ng 53 pe
rce
nt from the
fle
ld.
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Red
Fo
xes
def
eated
Ca
n
ts
us
8
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y
nl
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at
the
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mes
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By
JOE FERRAR
Y
Staff Write
r
The men
's
basketball team
rebounded from a to
u
gh loss at
Niaga
r
a on Saturday
,
by defeat-
ing Canis
i
u
s
74-71 Monday
night
in
Buffa
l
o.
With the win the Red Foxes are
guaranteed a first round bye for
the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference
(MAAC)
Tournament
,
which will be held
in A
l
bany
.
Assistant men's basketball
coach Rob O'Driscoll said this
was a crucial win for the team.
'This was a very important win
for our team," he said. "Coming
off that tough loss we needed to
get back on track and we did that
with a big win last
ni
ght."
The Red Foxes had four
starters score in double figures
,
led by red shirt sophomo
r
e Ryan
Stilpben's career high
22
points
and 13 rebounds.
O'Driscoll said the game plan
was to go into the big men early
and often.
"
Can
i
s
i
us real
l
y has no big men
on their team,
"
said O
'
Driscoll
.
"It
was our game plan to throw
the ball deep into the paint to
Stilphen and [
J
ames] Smith.
Smith got into some early foul
trouble and Stilphen came up
big."
During the first half both teams
traded baskets with no team
building a lead b
i
gger then six
points. Canisius led at the break
31-29 on a controversial tip-in
by Joe Young as time exp
i
red in
the first half
The Red Foxes responded after
shooting only 33.3 percen
t
from
the field in the first half
,
by
going on a 9-2 to open up in the
seco
n
d half.
The Go
l
den
Griffin
s
fought back
to
tie the
game at 45
.
However
,
the Red
Foxes would go on
9-4
spurt to
take control the game.
Red
shirt sophomore
Ryan
Stilphen
notched a double double
acort1111
22 polms,
a career
high,
and
pulling
dOwn a game high 13
boeros.
Stilphen
shot
four
of
11w
from
the
tree
throw
line In a 74-71
win over Canlslus
Monday
.
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The Red foxes shot 47 percent
Will
Whittington scored
16
from
the field in the second half.
·
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n
ts for the Red Foxes, incl
u
d-
The Griffins wou
l
d conti
n
ue to
ing four three pointers whi
l
e
fight back and foun
d
themselves
Jared Jordan added 14 points and
down just
three
po
i
nts
as
time
7
assists. Jordan c
urr
ently leads
expired when Kevin Downey,
the nation in assists averaging
who led Canisius
with
19 points
,
8.6
per game.
missed a three-point field goal
The Red Foxes return to action
which would have sent the game
when they visit Old Dominion in
to overtime.
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The game
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Canisius into 17 turnovers which
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