Students to
·
explore Judaism abroad over break
By
S
HAU
N K
IPPIN
S
· Circle Contributor
While many Marist students
will
be
embarking on trips to the
Caribbean, Florida, and many
other traditional spring break
locations this March, a few
opportunistic students will be
exploring the fundamentals of
Judaism in Berlin, Germany and
Prague, Czech Republic.
From March 10 to 19, the
Marist Judaism History and
Culture Program led
by
professor
Steve Sansola will
be
making the
trip.
The
program is actually a
three-credit course offered
by
Marist called Special Topics:
Above, members of the
Menst
community, lnctud
Ing students, alumnl, and
staff,
martll
In
the
2005
St
Patrick's Day Parade
In
New
YO<k City. All
mem
befs
and friends of
the
Marist community
are
Invited
to
wallk In this
year's parade, on Fnday,
March 17.
Rl&ht.
members of the
Am,111COtt Highland Band
Pipe Band march down
Ftfth
Avenue
during the
2005 St. Patrick's Day
Parade.
Principles of Judaism.
Sophomore Joe Teahl
addressed this unique opportuni-
ty by
explaining why he was so
interested in it.
"I wanted to do something for
spring break, and since I needed
to catch up on some credits I
thought this would be perfect for
me," he said, "Also
,
I came into
the class
with· a different view
from most other students because
my
h
ometown of Highland Park,
New Jersey is
73
percent Jewish,
making a lot of my friends
Jewish
,
so
I
felt that
it
would be
a good idea that
I
learned what
my friends' history is all about."
The trip was advertised on the
walls within most academic
The program consists ofa com-
While in Europe
,
and finally
buildings on the Marist campus,
binat
i
on of 13 pre-departure lee-
completing a research paper
and Professor Sansola did his
tures, and readings as well
as
upon their return.
Saferin, who is Jewish, sa
i
d
this experience is something she
has never seen offe
r
ed before,
and any s
t
udent of any re
l
igion
or c
u
lture could benefit from an
opportunity the
l
ikes of this one.
best to spread the word wherever seminars and activities
in
Berlin
''I
look forward
to a
ll
of the
he could get it out.
and Prague. These activ
i
ties
museums that we are going to.
I
"I'm a
inc
1
u de also want to learn about the cul-
member of
1
1 look forward to all of the mus
e-
visits
to
ture
in Berlin and Prague," said
Desp
i
te the trip's focus on the
se
ri
ousness of the program and
the educationa
l
opportunity,
many students st
i
ll plan to have
fun.
the Greek
ums that we are going to. I
a
ls
o
museums,
sophomore Katie Shea.
Counci
1,
want to
l
earn about the cult
u
re
I
n
historical,
A
ll
interviewees shared that the
and
one
religious, pre-departure lectures have been
d
a
y
Berlin and Pragu
e.'
cultural helpful in teaching the s
tu
dents
Professor
sites
and
about Jewish culture and the reli-
"Even though we
are
going
to
be going to musewns and wa
l
k-
ing around the cities, we are able
to have
free
time at nig
h
t. And
you know what that means," said
Katie Shea.
S
ans o
1
a
- Katie Shea o
t h e r gion. Joe Teah
l
seemed particu-
came
in
Sophomo
r
e important larly moved by many of the
and spoke
landmarks.
things he has
l
earned thus far.
about the
program
and it sounded Students are required to write a
"The Jewish popu
l
at
i
on has
like something
I
wanted to do,"
short paper before departure, as
suffered so much aqd has been
said Tori Saferin, a sophomore, well as keeping a journal of aca-
forced to relocate time after time,
who is enrolled in the course.
demic and personal experiences
they are true surv
i
vors," he said.
Efforts to clean up
Hudson abound
By MALLORY MURPHY
Circle Contributor
Whether it's because of the land-
scaping or the luxurious properties
tucked within it, there is one true
focal poi
n
t s
u
rrounding Marist
College - the Hudson River.
It's
something no Marist student can get
through a day without looking at.
"I love walking back frorn class
when the
sun
is setting behind the
river.
It
r
elaxes and refreshes me
after a long day," said sop
h
omore
Sonia Botero.
However, gett
in
g a closer look, the
river itself is brown, murky, and
filled with harmful po
ll
utants
l
ike
PCB.
In
fact, when the same student
the water and surrounding areas.
To personalize the issue, the stu-
dents interviewed class
r
ooms of
high school stude
n
ts in
H
udson
Falls, the site of the original d
u
mp-
ing. While severa
l
of the s
t
udents
had paren
t
s and relatives sufferi
n
&
from cancer as a resul
t
of t
h
e PCBs
in the area, everyone seemed to be
affected by the pollution.
And
the
risk
spots
along
the
Hudson only begin there
,
according
to the film.
\Vhile most po
ll
uted
areas are from Hudson Fa
ll
s south
until New York City
,
but surprising-
ly, these are not the only places
affected.
''Even polar bears up
in
the Arctic
are getti
n
g sick from the water,"
was asked if -
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Daymon
says.
she
would
ever swim
in
the water, a
simple "No,
ew1" was her
o
n
1 y
'At
my
senior year
I
nternship
,
I
wanted
to do something big. Yes
,
It meant
skipping the party scene
,
but It was
worth It.'
T
h
ere are
approxi-
mately 200
miles
of
toxic waste
response.
- K
a
t
e
0
ay
m
o
n
in the river,
However
,
M
a
rist Al
u
mn
ae and in
t
he
there
are
•
New
York
some efforts
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
City
·
area,
already in p
r
ogress by Marist alumni
nea
rl
y
50
percent is dtie to GE's
Kate Daymon, Danielle
Mahan,
and dumpings. GE has recently agreed
Alex Bea, to make
a
d
i
fference.
to clean up
IO
percent of the waste,
On February
22,
in the Ne
ll
y
but
were
to
l
d
by
the
EPA
Galetti Theater, these Marist gradu-
(Environmenta
l
Protection Agency),
ates, a
l
ong with Janielle Mahan,
that they could opt out of the othe
r
showed their independent film,
90
pe
r
cent.
Taking Back the Hudson.
However
,
things aren't e
n
ti
r
e
l
y
A
imin
g fo
r fir
st a
t St. Patrick's parade
The three former students decided
h
ope
l
ess. There are organ
i
zat
i
ons,
to independently make the film their like Scenic Hudson, that co
n
tinually
senior year. They were working at a
work to get the river c
l
ean.
local internship for credit When the
According to their brochure,
as
a
idea came about.
result of their efforts
,
they
h
ave
"At my senior
year
inlernship
,
I
picked
u
p 300 tons of riverside trash,
wanted to do somet
h
ing big,
"
saved 20,000 acres of
l
and, and have
Daymon said. "Yes,
it
meant skip-
created
29
p
u
blic parks.
On Friday. March 17
,
\fanst College \\ill partici-
pate in
the
2451h
Ne\\
York
City St Patrick'~ Day Pamde
Th!.!
parade
will
be
led
bv
lhl.!
Manst Colorguard. fol-
lowed
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llw Amcrscot
Highland
Pipe
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Murrav \\ ill b ... - marching
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v.
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was
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worth it."
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l
ong wjth dedicat•
Danielle added, nwe•re all env
i
ron-
ed peop
l
e like Oaymon, Mahan and
mentalists, so we're all very excited
Bea, improvements on the H
u
dson
about this stuff."
River will contin
u
e, an
d
someday
The
film
itself deals with severa
l
soon
people won't have to worry
controversies involving the river,
about
h
armful poll
u
tants or contam-
mostly foc
u
s
i
ng around
an estimated
1.3
mil
l
ion pound dumPing of PCB's
back in 1977 by Gene
r
a
l
Electric.
Since then, the waste has been
leaking out of bedrocks into the sed-
iment and is therefore co
n
taminating
inat
i
on.
L
i
ke Daymon said in the video,
"We are the future - this is o
ur l
ega
•
cy. What exactly
is
it we want to
~ass on?
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for St. Jude's Chi
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THURSDAY, MARCH
9, 2006
www.marlstclrcle.com
Security
Briefs:
Spring break plans a rift between students
One student: Malibu Another: Watching Fresh Prince reruns at 3AM
IIICHI-
C1111•Evelll
By BRIAN SABELLA
Round
Mound of
Rebound
To my Babes in Toyland,
It's your ole pal again, Brian "Can't we bring
back
Jerry Orbach?" Sabella. This is our last brief
prior to the spring break and let me say I don't
know what I'm going to do with myself next week.
I'll
be in Daytona, granted, but I'll be missing
you the whole time. (sniff) Hopefully we can get
through this
together.
Now, as they say back home: GO TIMEI!
3/1 -
2:05
AM
Student Center
A young fawn was found a little far from the
thicket
on this quiet evening
.
My one question is
what po
s
sessed them to go near the student center
lounges. Upon further
investigation
on the part of
this
reporter, it was discovered the student was
desperately trying to get into the ping-pong room.
As tbey were sent to St. Francis
,
I've been told,
they kept yelling something about wanting to
"Bump
like Gump." Crazy kids
.
**GUEST
BRIEF OF THE WEEK**
by the man known
only
as,
"The
Walter"
3/2
-
10:15
PM
Marian
A fire alarm sounded late in the evening alerting
all of the fine
residents
of the old gym to drop
whatever they
had
in front of them and get out. A
simple smoke detector malfunction caused this
one
,
but it prompted Marist's finest to check each
room just
in case. Security hit the jackpot with the
guerilla search tactic. Among items found
in mul-
tiple rooms were a baby beer pong table
,
cans of
Bud and Nalty Light, two 40's, a 12.:pack of Bud
Light
,
and even a lit fatty boom batty blunt. SURE
it was a "malfunction
.
"
I bet you'll be seeing lots
more of these "malfunctions" in weekends to
come. Enjoy Talmadge next year, guys.
3/4 -
12:28 AM
Upper West Cedar
3/1 -
9:
.
0S
PM
Oh
man, the upper classmen on campus have
Gregory
been making a comeback with a vengeance recent-
Surprise surprise
,
a fire alarm was set off on
ly. And I'm proud of every last one of them. Ten
campus. But this time, I'm not exactly sure who to party
-
goers were found in this casa with 20 cans of
make fun of
.
A
young college co-ed was drying Bud Light and
17
cans of Natty. Now
1
applaud
her hair underneath the smoke detector when the the effort
,
but haven't we outgrown Natty (ell~
s?
alarm went off
.
WMAT?!?!
?
C0"ihe on now
,
we're old and fat. Ge"t 'sorn'e
N
ii
~i
Y
Either her blow dryer has fladi'
tS
2om'lttg out
or
1
't!i~t and
s'
Hirt
worryntg
atH:nJt
'
tRlHe ca1on
-e
s
!
the end or something is rotten in the state of
Denmark ..
.
or Gregory, either works.
**JOHN
GILDARD
QUOTE OF
THE WEEK**
3/2
-t-
7:55
PM
3/4 -
12:15
AM
.
Marian
3/4 -5:45 AM
Leo
Here's a new one. A student came to the securi-
ty guard and REQUESTED a ride to the hospital.
No, he wasn't drunk (get your mind out of the gut-
ter kids). He had decided to pick a fight.
..
with
the wall. Nice job. No, seriously
,
it's a good idea
to punch inanimate objects. I hear the sidewalk
holds its
left
a little low in the early rounds so you
might
have
a chance against that instead.
3/4 -3:58 AM
Champagnat
A
few non-Red Foxes were seen trying to get into
Champagnat. They
,
however
,
feft they were too
extreme for the door and tried the window instead.
Security
,
upon spotling the scene
,
captured the
crazy kids. They were lined up against the wall
where they were
lectured
on what being extreme
entails. In an unrelated incident
,
apparently there
were base jumpers on top of the Poughkeepsie
Public
Library later that evening. Cra
z
y stuff.
3/4 -
10:15
PM
Marian
Oh boy
.
On the tails of last week's quail inci-
dent, a
s
hotgun shell was found
.
Before J make the
bbvious joke
,
let me just say I'm proud of Marian
Hall.
1
The
_
r, fe
.
~
.
'?~?de~
(
~ell th~s week and
1 c;o\lld,
-
n1t be prouHer
d
t~a~ if t
.
hey'd
atr
Just ch.'i!&&ed a 40
~d
n8
'
slllasli1J8
·
1
!
on thCli
lib
.,
a;rs
·.
SU
'
f
b
'
iick
to'
'
t1iC
shotgun shell. The secret
s
ervice was called
,
but
they said that Dick Cheney had not been in Marian
that evening (wink
,
wink)
3/5
-
12:38
AM
Mldrise
This next brief disappoint
s
me. Makes me dis-
gusted. Burnt popcorn set off the fire alarm
.
After
nearly two weeks of
no
burnt food we have pop-
corn. Whoever you are
I
want you to cry yourself
to sleep this evening because of what you did. All
of Marist is disappointed in you.
I
hope Santa
A young
·
woman was enjoying some tasty
(cough, cough) Sodexho cuisine on this quiet
Cvening when she left h'er table to get a napkin.
Upon return she found that her ID and keys had
been
juiced
from her table. Now this is
low.
This
m~ans we have students plotting and planning for
their
crimes. Come on smile
·
on each other, every-
body
g.et
together
,
try to love one another right
now.
An unauthori
z
ed gue$t attempted to enter the
belly of the beast that evening and was
laughed
away by the security officer because of this weak
attempt.
Upon recalling the incident
,
Marist
College's very own John "My
last
name should bt
Wayne" Gildard had this to say·
"He
was captured
and sent out of Dodge by sunrise." Anybody else Claus brings a shovel to the bathroom after Alex
feel like saying "pilgrim" with a slow drawl right Huot goes in it to fill your stocking this year.
now?
Thursday, March 9
SGA
Election Results
Postedl
See if your candidate got
elected!
Check the SGA website!
SGA
Housing Rap Session
Student Center
348
at
8
P.M.
Think the priority point sys-
tem is unfair?
Having
problems with guest
passes?
Come grab some free food
and speak your mlndl
Friday, March
10
Residence Halls close at
6:30 P.M.
March
11-19
Spring Recess
Sunday, March
19
Residence
Halls
open at
10
A.M.
MqnRaY, ~arch
..
~O
Classes Resume
Friday,
Mar.
31
OAR.
Ticket Prices:
Marist students:
$10
Other students:
$15
Public tickets:
$25
Student pre
-
sale:
2/27
General on-sale: 3/7
Disclaimer: Tire Security Briefs are
i11tended as satire and fully protected
free
speech
under
the
First
Amendment of the Constitutfon.
Lynch explains club financing
BY ALEX PANAGIOTOPOULOS
campus
Editor
year."
concern, CFO Webster said.
TfIE ,CJRCLE
During
the SGA elections
,
it
became
painfully apparent to
Bob Lynch that many Marist stu-
dents
don't
know how their
school clubs are funded.
The Director of Student
Activities and administrative
advisor
to
·the
Student
Government Financial Board
has
fielded questions all week
from concerned and confused
club
members.
The inquiries
stem from rumors
flying
around
campus after last week's
heated
SGA
speech
night,
where Class
of 2008 President- elect Omar
Diaz suggested combining the
Black
Student
Union,
Appreciating Races Creating
Opportunity
and the ASian
Alliance
to
pool their funding.
Many students took the sug-
gestion as fact and became dis-
tressed.
''The
amalgamation
of.minori-
ty groups is totally false
,
"
said
L~ch. "Those are three of our
moSt' successful organizations ..
.
I
am extremely proud of them,
they take the
lead
every single
Diaz said on Tuesday that he
intended to help the clubs with
his suggestion.
"Sometimes they don't get
the
money that they request
during
budget allocations," Diaz said.
"Because
I
don't want that to
happen,
the
only way to fix that
is to
increase
their numbers
,
Whatever it is you can do to
make people
be
more interested
in the clubs, just find new and
interesting
ways
to recruit
more
members, it's a members game."
The
Financial Board website
[http:
//
clubs.marist.edu/sga/fin-
boar~finboard.html] says
that
club funding can be requested by
filling out a form once a semes-
ter, which is then reviewed by a
board comprised of
Bob
Lynch
,
Chief Financial Officer Patty
Webster, and representatives
from the six Club Councils.
Lynch said that clubs are gen-
erally
reasonable
with their
requests.
Requests are some-
times denied due to vaguene
s
s or
gross impracticality, but
there
is
ple1,1ty
of opportunity for expla-
nation.
Fiscal issues are not a major
"There is not a culI'ent funding
problem for the clubs
,
" said
Webster. "As long as they fulfill
their Club Guidelines and the
Financial Board Guidelines
,
1
don't foresee any groups being
reconstructed
against their will."
The $110 activity fee that
about 4,000 undergraduate stu-
dents pay per semester is divided
among the Student Programming
Council, intramural
leagues,
and
various guest speakers and lec-
turers.
Workshops are available to
help answer frequently asked
questions from clubs.
"My
responsibility is making
sure money is given
,
"
Lynch
said.
"I want to spend that
money because it is the students'
money."
Elise Delacruz, Vice President
of the Black Student Union, said
that her or-ganization didn't need
to
change
in order to get more
money from the budget.
"The [Financial Board] does
work with us," Delacruz said.
"We will strongly stand against
anyone who threaten
s
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s
affi
rm
co
rrzmittment
to
uph
o
ld
v
alu
e
s of
'
truth
,
re
s
pe
c
t
,
honesty
'
.
By
D
I
EGO CUEN
CA
Circle Co
n
t
r
ibutor
National educator Rick Barnes
addressed the Greek institutions
in an anti-hazing seminar, about
the importance of preventing
hazing within fraternities and
sororities, during his first appear-
ance at Marist College.
The seminaf was sponsored by
the Greek Advisory Council on
February IS, with members of
every fraternity and sorority in
attendance
including
Greek
Council
President,
Brian
Halabuda.
hazing. Barnes explained to
us,that prevent
i
ng hazing would
facilitate Greek unity," said
Halabuda.
Halabuda said that Greek insti-
tutions hold anti-hazing informa-
tional mee
t
ings every semester
for the incoming pledges. New
York state law and Marist
College policy prohibit hazing
and define it as "any means of
abuse and humiliation."
A
first
degree offense in hazing is a
$120
fine (or up to
$1,000
fine)
and may be punishable by up to
one year of imprisonment.
Director of Student Activities
"Having a guest speaker like
Bob Lynch said that hazing is not
Rick Barnes helped to show how
to
l
erated by any means on cam-
serious we are about the issue of pus and charters will be disci-
plined.
"Accountability and responsi-
bility
are
words we use with our
students," said Lynch.
respect and honesty," said
Herring.
"Hazing overshadows Greek
institutions and
it
gives us a
bad
Plti
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
reputa-
tion," he
said.
in
the
deaths of college students
p
l
edging for fraternities at Alfred
University
and
C
l
arkson
University, with the most recent
case occurring in the fall of
1997
at
MIT.
Kapp a
Sigma
fraternity
member
Z
a c
h
Herring
said his
'
People outs
i
de the Greek
community
don
'
t realize how much
we
offer to the
campu
s
and community. We are a
pos
i
tive fo
rc
e
.'
Lynclt
agreed
t h
a
t
Greek
Counc
i
l
P
resident
Halabuda feels that haz
in
g takes
away from Marist fraternities
and sororities' academic excel-
institu-
tion does
not touch or force any of their
p
l
edges or members to do any-
thing they don
'
t want to.
"
Why would you want to join
an organization
that
would
haze
you? Fraternities are about truth,
..
h
azing
Jenee and community service.
- B
ria
n H
ala
bu
da is
not During the
fall
semester, Greek
Pr
esident,
gr
eek
council just
a
institutions were ab
l
e to raise
G r e e k
over $400 for the Katrina Relief
issue, it
'
s everyone's issue.
"
He
Fund.
said that all organizations from
On Saturday, February
25,
the
at
h
letic teams to bands must
fratern
i
ties and sororit
i
es partic
i
-
address the issue across the
pated in the
Heart
Walk. in an
natio
n
.
effort
to
raise $3,000 for the
In
the past, hazing has resulted
American Heart Association.
"People outside the Greek
community don't re
a
lize how
much we offer to the cam
pu
s
and
community," said
H
a
l
a
bud
a.
"We
are
a pos
i
tive
fo
rce
.
"
"Once you get
l
abe
l
e
d a
frat
guy, not too many peo
p
le
look
past that," added
Herrin
g.
Director of Stud
e
nt Ac
ti
vit
ies
Lynch feels the frate
rn
it
i
es
and
sororities
are
among the
most
socially active organ
i
zatio
n
s
on
camp
u
s.
"The Greeks
are
va
l
ued
mem-
bers
of our comm
un
ity/'
sa
id
,
Lynch.
Fitness club starts first year with strong student support
By
KYL
E
CA
RSON
Ci
r
c
l
e Contributor
A
new club on campus
,
the
Fitness Club, got off the ground
with
an
inaugural
68
member
class this semester.
When students first sign up
they must sign
8.
contract stating
goals they wish to achiev
e
by the
end of the program. During the
weeks
they
recorded
their
progress and when they achicvi=
goals they gave pH'te~ away
,
Prizes include $50 gift certifi-
cates to Modell
'
s
,
jump ropes,
and hand weights
.
North End Resident Director
Cletra Peters said she created the
club because students needed
some guidance in learning how
to get fit.
"If
you learn
to
get healthy
,
everything else just falls in line
,"
she said.
Peters organized the six-week
program,
which
started
in
January right after winter break
,
and will end
in
March before stu-
d~nts leave for
spring
break. The
m~J11~r~ al
_
\ ~
.
al\ diffFrenJ rea-
sons for joining the club. Fitness
.club member Dave Hochman
exp
l
ained why he wanted to join.
"This last semester
I
really got
into eat
i
ng a lot hea
l
thier and
I
was hoping the fitness club
would give me some great new
ideas and tips,
"
he said.
Besides try
i
ng to achieve indi-
vidual goals, the members must
attend a mi
n
imum of two pro-
grams designed to teach them
about fitness. One program con-
sisted of the dance team showing
the members how to stretch and
warm
4p.
Anot
h
er inW'Y~
a
kic~~o;-cJn,.& lesson
~y
a certifil;4
kick boxing instructor
.
The large club makes it easier
for students to stick with their
hea
l
thy diets.
An
assistant pro-
fessor of sports and exercise sci-
ences at Ohio State, Janet
Buckworth, encourages students
to participate together in fitness
activit
i
es because the group
atmosphere is beneficial for stu-
dents. A study by the Society for
the Advancement of Education
found that college students are
more likely to exercise if they
have social support for being
active.
"The
ste<:pest decline
in
the
number of people who are
invo
l
ved in physica
l
activity
occurs during adolesce
n
ce and
early adulthood
,
" Buckworth
said
.
"It
is crucial that we reach
those college students who are
not yet regular exercisers. We
need to find ways to help the
ro
u
gh
l
y ha
l
f of co
ll
ege students
who are not exercising regular-
ly.
"
Even though the study suggests
fitness groups encourages exer-
cise, Peters still feels that it only
takes one or two people to make
a
d!f!'F!.CflCe
.
.,,i
'
1
"
¼.,
l~ng as even four people
come
to
an
event,
j
aon•t care,"
she said.
"If you can change
even one person's life, it's cool."
With the success of the fint
semester of the
Fitness
C
l
u
b,
s
tu•
dents like
H
ochman
plan to
co
n
•
tinue their workouts.
"I
definitely plan to keep work
-
ing out. The last few years I've
really been into work
i
ng out
and
this
h
ealthy eating an
d
s
tu
ff
(Fitness Club) is more or less just
a
dd
-o
n
s."
Peters plans to contin
u
e
th
e
program in the fall of~~:
,
Crosswa}k timing on Route 9
_
causes angst among drivers, students, staff
By
JAM
ES
BU
N
CH
Circle Contributor
Motorists
,
Marist students, and
staff agree that there is a current
problem with pedestrian and
automobile traffic on Route
9
in
front of the main campus
.
Motorists on Route
9
want
something to be done to alleviate
the problems involved in passing
Marist College. Long waits for
pedestrian crossings and reduOOd
speed
limits make driving the
OJl)y road past the college an irri
-
tating experie
n
ce for motorists.
"I'm sick of having to wait two
and sometimes three
light
changes to get past the college on
my way home
,
" said local driver
David Garrett.
When
24
students were asked
what they thought the worst part
of crossing Route
9
was, the
most common answer was that
there was too long of a wait in
between walk signals and not
enough
time
to cross.
It
takes
four minutes for the cross walk
light
to
make a comp
l
ete rota-
tion. Weather plays a major role
in
the d
i
scomfort level for pedes-
trians.
"The worst part is when it's
12
degrees
,
windy, raining
,
and
you're late for class," said fresh-
man student Jason Hensley.
John Gildard, Marist Director
of Safety and Security,
has
worked with the New York State
DOT in the past to increase
pedestrian safety around the
campus. New cross
l
ights, a traf-
fic light, and a diagona
l
cross
walk have been insta
ll
ed within
the last two years.
Other ideas, such as co
n
struct-
ing a catwalk or underground
tunnel
have
been
deemed
impractical alte
rn
atives
.
G
il
dard believes that a tunnel
would be an upsafe environme
n
t
in an emergency situation and
would require constant patroll
in
g
and surveillance.
Based on past results of cat-
walks in New York City, the idea
has been dismissed because of an
average of 40 pe
r
cent pedestrian
use.
"It
would be pointless to spend
mi
ll
ions of dollars if the catwalk
was not used by
I 00
pe
r
cent of
the pedestrians
,
which we cannot
ensure
,
" said G
i
ldard
.
Justin Butwell
,
director of
physical plant, said although
there have been ideas brought
forth, there
are
current
l
y no new
plans for a
ll
eviating traffic prob-
lems in front of the college.
''The work we have done in the
past has yielded positive results
,
"
Butwell said.
"I
believe
speed-:
ing motorists cause the greatest
N
ews
B
r i e & - - - - - -
Wortd
News
Solution to Iranian nuclear program still in limbo
,
pressure mounts to assure world Iran will not acqmre nuclear weapons
Iran·~
nuclear amb111011-.
rem.am ao
item
1)f
mtl!nse nc-gatu.m
with Rus~ia, and one
of
intcn5C
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by
thi.: United Stutes Ru.,~ia
still offers
il
deal
that would
allow
uranium crmchmcnt on Rt11»ian 011,
provided
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this week that at-. }'lf(lpos:11 had
been
modified to
allow
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l1trtitcJ enrkhmfnL
in
lnin. Anenipb to prcs,urc a
Ru~s1en-baned
cnnchmcot
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stated
Tuc..,Jay that
the Unil
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CIRCLE •
THURSDAY,
MARCH 9, 2008 •
PAGE 4
Wal-Mart to carry Plan-B contraception pill
Retail
giant forced to sell
prescription drug after
losing
lawsuit in Massachusetts
By
JOHN
SULLIVAN, KATE
GOODIN, VALERIE
CAPULLO,
PATRICK
TULLY, AND CHRIS
YUSKO
Circle Contributors
Wal-Mart stores will begin car-
rying Plan B, an emergency situ-
ation contraception pill, in all of
its United States pharmacy loca-
tions by March
20, 2006.
The decision to start carrying
the pill stems from a court deci-
sion filed in Massachusetts when
three Boston women pressed
charges against Wal-Mart when
one of their phannacies refused
to file a prescription for the pill.
Wal-Mart only stocks the pill in
its Illinois stores, where
it is
mandated by state Jaw.
Wal-
Mart, which owns
3
,
700 pharma-
cies, bad been the only major
chain that did not carry the
"morning-after pill," which can
help prevent pregnancies if taken
within
72
hours of intercourse .
.
Wal-Mart has never publicly
objected to the drug but decided
not to carry it because of .. low
demand."
However, a catch to the policy
that Wal-Mart has adopted
has
angered some women's groups.
Wal-Mart
pb.timacists
who
object to filing a Plan B prescrip-
tion can refer customers
•
to
another pharmacist or even
another pharmacy.
Some
women's groups
,
such as Naral
Pro- Choice America and the
Planned Parenthood Federation
of America are angered by this
because Wal-Mart
.
is sometimes
the only pharmacy in an area.
David Osipovich
,
Ph.D, asstis-
tant professor of ethics at Marist
College, said the conscientious-
objection policy applies to the
morning-after pill for two rea-
sons.
'
'There are arguments made on
both sides of this issue,
"
he said.
"This is the kind of medication
that terminates a pregnancy. and
a
powerful constituency agrees
the pill is immoral."
But Osipovich said be does not
think the sale of the pill at Wal-
Mart will affect any decisions
related to Roe v. Wade.
"
I
don't think this will affect it
at all," he said. "The difficulty
there is what counts
as a person."
Ron Chomiuk, the vice presi-
dent of Wal-Mart's pharmacy
division, said
in a statement that
given the impending state action
and the fact that Plan B was
approved by the Food and Drug
Administration
,
Wal•Mart would
be bard-pressed to justify not
selling the drug.
Dianne Luby
,
a member of
Planned
Parenthood
of
Massachusetts, said she was
happy when Wal-Mart decided
to
sell the
Pill in all of its phanna-
cies.
"We
'
re thrilled
-
we think this
is a great first step for Wal-
Mart." she said.
Luby was one of the three
women that filed
the lawsuit
against
Wal-Mart
in
Massachusetts. Even though the
lawsuit
only
affected
Massachusetts
,
Wal-Mart made
the decision
to
stock the product
in all pharmacies due to increas-
ing pressure from
New
York and
Connecticut and the possibility
of othCr states following this
lead.
Chomiuk: said be thinks this
decision will spread to other
states in the future.
"We expect more states to
require us to sell emergency con-
traceptives in the months ahead
,
"
said Chomiuk.
Sergio Boniche
,
associate pro-
fessor of business and manage-
ment at Marist College
,
said
Wal-Mart pharmacies have an
obligation to serve the public's
demand
for
the
pill.
"Wal-Mart
.
said it does not
stock emergency contraception
for business reasons, including
low demand," said Boniche.
"But pharmacies are not in the
business of carrying only high
ticket or turnover items
,
but are
there to serve the public with a
wide-selection of products ...
As
a
publicly traded company, Wal-
Mart
has
an obligation to follow
the
law
regardless
of any possi-
ble moral
dilemmas
faced by the
management team.
"
Osipovich
,
said that it is
unlike-
ly the pill will have an effect on
Wal-Mart's reputation.
"I
don't think it will make that
big of an
impact,"
he said, "Wal•
Mart is bad for other unrelated
reasons."
Here at Marist, students are
reacting to the issue in various
ways. Rachel Worell said she
thinks
that the legislature and the
people who want the pill are con-
fused between the moral aspect
and medicinal aspect. Also, she
said that attacking only Wal-
Mart is
pointless
since other
chains carry the pill.
"The fact that they are suing
Wal-Mart is ridiculous," said
Worell.
Chris
Kelly
said that CVS said
that they recommend a competi-
tor to the customer that has
the
product if they don't
,
so there is
no reason for them to
carry
it.
"I think the three women are
just looking for money," said
Kelly.
"You can't find, every-
thing anywhere; sometimes you
have to search for it."
Rachael Seminara said that
Plan
B pills should
be
in pharma-
cies.
"I
think it's unnecessary to
have to go
to
a different area to
receive a pill," said Seminara.
"You have to trust your plianna-
cy."
The pill will
be
available in all
Wal-Mart
pharmacies
around the
country by March
20. The local
Wal-Marts plan to stock
the
pill.
Plan B,
a
product produced by
Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., was
approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration in
1999
as a
prescription-only drug, The FDA
has been deliberating since then
on whether to
grant
the drug
over-the-counter status.
DP World ports deal elicits strong reactions from Marist
By
GREG HRINYA, JAMES
PAFUMI, RYAN RESTIVO,
AND SARAH
SANDSTED
Circle Contributors
Congressional opposition to
the Dubai Ports World deal
remains strong despite the UAE
based company's agreement to a
4S-day delay
.
According to Time Magazine
,
Dubai Ports World (DPW)
closed a deal that included termi-
n
a
l
o
p
erations
in
f
h"C
United
States' ports including New York
City and Miami
.
Tue
de.al
is
pendiua
a
45-day
national-secu-
rity review that the Dubai Ports
World asked for to gain support
and knowledge of their antiter-
rorism agenda.
Congressman Tom Cole, R-
Oklahoma told Time Magazine
that the White House is being
overwhelmed by this deal.
"
The White House has a huge
challenge on its hands." Cole
said.
"
They don
'
t have the abili-
ty or credibility to carry this deal
on their own.
"
Some Maris! College students
,
like Craig Hogarth differ in their
opinions concerning this issue of
port
security. Hogarth
,
a senior
math
e
matics education major
,
said that tension will increase
regardless of the outcome of this
debstc.
"It
seems to me that whether or
not Bush or Congress succeeds
over the other
,
tensions will
mount,
"
Hogarth said.
Jared Penetla, sophomore,
political science major, defended
the
actions of President Bush
concerning this deal.
"I
understand
the concern with
security; however
I
feel that
because there is no law barring a
foreign company from running
the day
to
day operations, you
cannot differentiate between any
one country because it's inher-
ently racist." Penella said.
"
I
feel
strongly that opposition is proba-
bly misguided and over
ampl;...
fied. It's pretty evident that Bush
didn't
get out ahead of this issue
like he should
have,
and that
has
cost him a lot of PR and GOP
support."
Like
Penella
,
John James
Fahey, associate professor, com•
munication
,
supported Bush's
decision, saying that the disap-
proval of the deal 's critics is hyp-
ocritical.
"Since
18
terrorists
from Saudi
Arabia
were involved in Sept.
11,
the United States still contin-
ues to buy oil from that country."
Fahey said.
"
However, two ter-
rorists obtained funding from the
Dubai bank. The Dubai bank is
not funded by the country,
yet
people don
'
t want to use their
po
rts
based on the
ac
tion
s
of
these two people."
Fahey also said that using the
ports would help to promote
"
world peace through world
trade.
"
Conversely,
Mark Morreale
,
lecturer
,
English said that the
major issue concerning the
Dubai deal is the way
it was
han-
dled by
the Bush administration.
"The
problem
is not so much
that it's Arabs who will be
run-
ning these
ports."
Morreale said.
"The problem is that the whole
thing was dealt with ineptly. Our
ports
are so vulnerable in the first
place and nothing
bas been done
to
bolster security. This issue is
shining a light on this
problem."
John White
,
assistant professor,
hi
s
tory
said that the whole ordeal
should not shock the American
people.
"This shouldn
'
t come
as any
surprise considering that the
Bush administration is perhaps
the most secretive administration
in
history."
White
said.
"Republicans and Congress
are
going to
distance
themselves
from Bush because they have to
run
for election, Bush doesn't."
Dubai has amassed over
$IS
billion in overseas investments
over the past decade while
run
by
emir Mohammed bin Rashid al-
Maktoum. One of their
domestic
goals
includes becoming
a
leader
in multiple industries. Dubai has
become one of the healthiest in
the Middle East as oil accounts
for
6
percent of their Gr6!
!
Domestic Product. The govern-
ment has built higb-tech
media
and internet outlets that are
attracting Microsoft and IBM.
DuBiotech, a research park built
by Dubai, is
luring
drug compa-
ny's interests
,
New administrative campaign attempts to prevent hazing on campus
By
ERIC ZEDALIS
Circle Contributor
Starting this semester, Mentors
for First Year Programs
,
Valerie
Turco and Kristin Bretz
,
began
an
administrative movement to
prevent
hazing
at Marist College
,
particularly
in
Greek
Organizations.
Both mentors say this is a pre-
emptive movement rather than a
response to accusations
;
howev-
er, according to Turco
,
tht: likeli-
hood of unknown hazing inci-
dents necessitates urgency.
"I think that although we don't
see [hazing}, we may be ignorant
to say it doesn
'
t happen on our
campus
,"
Turco said. "Hazing
does happen
,
and even the little
things
can
be considered hazing
in a way. So we need to raise
awareness."
The first preventative measure
was taken back in Novemt?er at a
conference in Atlanta when
Bretz arranged for speaker Rick
Barnes of the Intra Fraternal
Council (IFC)
to
come speak to
Marist Greeks.
Senior Masha Mitsengendler of
Kappa Lambda Psi noted that
nonnally only new members
are
required to attend
a
meeting
about hazing, but this year was
different.
"Every year there's a meeting
for all of the new members so
they know what constitutes haz-
~ng," she said. 'This year the
school also hired [~a
mes]
to
come and talk to everyone about
hazing and how
to
strengthen the
chapter."
According to Turco
,
Barnes
was
a unique speak.er because he
did not talk down
to
or
lecture
the students in attendance
"
[Barnes] wa5n't someone who
came in and said, 'This is hazing.
Don't do ir,"' she said. "He told
them these
are the consequences,
this is what happens, and this is
what happened here. Now here
are some other things you can
do.
"
"He really tried to relate to
them and bring his ideas and
what he's learned at other institu-
tions here, and it was
like
a back-
and-forth conversation where he
wasn't yelling at them, and I
think
they appreciated that."
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Before Barnes came
to
speak,
Bretz said that she held the annu-
al meeting to educate new mem-
bers about hazing, offering
recent examples of hazing inci-
dents that received national
attention.
"We explained to them that
even if it's not to the same extent
as those Cxamples, if they start
to
feel any discomfort, they need to
go in and talk to someone," Bretz
said.
According to Bretz, Marist
College defines
hazing
as any
intentional act that causes
ph)'si-
cal, mental, or emotional dis-
comfort.
Bretz said she and
Turco also
include,
as a "general
rule of thumb,
"
that if only new
members
are
forced to do some-
thing and old members are not, it
is hazing.
If anyone is singled
out
,
then it is
hazing."
With that
in mind
,
another
way Turco and Bretz
are trying
to
curb hazing
is
by requiring
each organization
to
submit
to
them
an
outline of activities for
its new members.
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Fear of Iran's weapons may provoke terrorism
Americans eager to restrict the development of
foreign nuclear programs
-
By
DAN BLACK
Staff Writer
It
seems a recurring theme in
the
typical American's day-to-
day
life:
the threat
of extermina-
ent, the numbers and the statis-
tics are different, and
the
promi-
nent characters are different, but
the scenario
is
essentially identi-
cal.
What has caused this influx of
employ these last-resort tools of
Judgment Day-diplomacy? The
answer is, obviously, the
terror-
ists. Attempt for a moment to
view the situation through terror-
ist eyes: The
1945
United States
methodology, not
the probability
,
of the
U.S.
falling under attack.
I
propose
the greatest weapon
we have in defense against being
attacked by terrorists is a
passive
one:
a
different
face for America.
tion.
We are, as a society,
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This nuclear
'crisis',
as
it has
been described,
is just another
example of America finding
something it
is
afraid of
and
then
throwing a tantrum of
The United States
Is
inviting terrorism, fostering the very hate-
born cultural motivation these foreign peoples have to make
war simply by the foreign policies It has adopted to combat
them.
always within
arms-reach
of
our
peril.
Today it is Iran,
coincidentally of geographical
adjacency to
the last
threat,
Iraq, that the press informs
us
must be
expediently disposed
of
lest they
become the cause of
untamable
emotion and
pas-
sion whose end-result is
our
demise.
used nukes
in
the interest of end-
ing a war and preserving their
way of life; we
are
going
to
use
nukes because it is the will of
God, to purge the world of an
ungodly civilization.
Frightening but true, this belief
makes
it is easy to see why they
crushing the threat through force.
Honestly, we have
no
courage
woven
into
our cultural fabric,
only fear and guilt, and the
resulting behaviors
reinforce
Arab people's hatred of the
U.S.
Imagine
the
power and respect
we could establish if,
instead
of
the eyes of foreign nations
unable to
look
away, the U.S. is
seen as a country that attempts to
prove nothing except through
its
composure that it is
unafraid.
Visualize us permitting the free-
doms
of other countries to
pursue
their own research, research we
completed ourselves
last
century,
and carrying ourselves with
utmost confidence and grace
because we are not scared. The
Arabs would see the change and
they may come to know a differ-
ent United States, one
that
does
not oppress the societal rights of
foreign nations. one with a more
egalitarian approach to foreign
policy, and finally one
that
oper-
ates with an up-right moral
integrity that refuses to be thrust
message
that we are the U.S. and
nothing
is
more important in the
world than our survival, we will
take absolutely any action neces-
sary to ensure our self-preserva-
tion and Lord have mercy on
what gets
in
our way because we
will not-a message that guaran-
tees the persistence of terrorism.
We could convey the message
that we are the U.S. and we are
unafraid; you
will
not attack us
with these nuclear weapons
because you will not want to.
We will work together, coopera-
tively
,
and you will come to dis-
'
cov~r America is not the enemy
of
Islam
or of any other religion
or belief system; this world is
large enough for two peoples to
share and share it we shall do.
The board of
the International
Atomic
Energy
Agency and
the
UN Security Council
are
work-
ing together to decide
if
talks
with Iran have failed and if tak-
ing
"punitive" (infer what you
will)
measures
are
necessary,
the
threat
accompanying
Iran's
nuclear programs bas
been
iden-
tified using mostly complex
rea-
soning and confusing
terminolo-
gy,
but the politicians
very care-
fully do not affix
the
following
label, the label
I
will now use, to
describe the
Iranian
threat:
threats that the U.S. must keep
running around to the far reaches
of the planet to quash? Your
answer lies in your question and
your presumed effect is actually
your cause. The United States is
inviting terrorism, fostering the
very
hate-born
cultural motiva-
tion these foreign peoples have
to make war simply by the for-
eign policies
it
has adopted to
combat them.
feel
justified
anacking the
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Sound idealized to the point
U.S. All the more reason for
Picture the U.S. standing on the dlplomatlc playing fleld cool
of absurdity?
It
may sound
'
us to impose sanctions and
and unafraid, permitting the freedoms of other countries to pur-
so
,
but it has not been tried, ,
put a halt to Iran's nuclear
sue their own research, research we completed ourselves last
and tbis current model ofhyp- '
programs, even if it entails
ocritlCal war-mongering and
the use of military force?
century, and carrying ourselves with confidence because we are
double-standard imposition is
Nothing could be further
not scared.
not working.
There are
,
from sound, rational strategy.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
avenues to world-peace
,
for in
•
The development of nuclear acting out as global jmperialists into
impulsive
impropriety by
the annals of history. peace has
'
weapons completed or
halted,
of ideology
,
we approached the
looming uncertainty. The United
been known to the world; per-
history has demonstrated in 'crisis' with a brave and
unruffied
States becomes suddenly more haps it is time we attempted one
recent
yenrs
that
Americans can
demeanor
Picture the
U.S.
difficult to hate
,
less desirable to that did not involve '-0 much
Weapons of Mass Destruction.
They're saying
it
without saying
it
bccaWK: tbcy'n: afraid to
"ay
it:
this is an Iraq Rerun. The facts
and
the
circumstances
are
differ-
The United States, for those
who have forgotten, is the only
country
in
world history that has
used nuclear weapons against
another counlry in the theatre of
war. The belief has since been
maintained
that our actions were
justified given
the
extenuating
circumstances. Who has the jus-
tification
now that we had than to
be killed with or without them;
standing calm and cool on
the
attack.
mindles
s
war.
their presence impacts only the
diplomatic playing field. With
We are currently conveying the
-,101nu1c
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i
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Toxic levels of carcinogens in the Hudson River
By
AMY AUBREY
the Clearwater organiza
t
ion.
Pirate Canoe club in Poughkeepsie,
more than 50 years for
t
he PCBs to dis-
perse through t
h
e env
ir
onment., flow out
to.sea, and evaporate. D
i
lu
t
io
n
is not the
solu
t
ion to pol
l
ution."
begin this spring by bu
i
lding the Fort
E
d
wa
r
d dewatering facil
i
ty in Hudson
Falls,
NY.
The dredg
in
g itself will
begin this time next year
.
Ci
r
cle Contributo
r
"Prior to GE.'s industrial dumping, addressing this same issue.
lt was a
there was a vibrant comme
r
cial and daylong event where the
H
udson River
There is a war being fought between
recreationa
l
fishery on the Hudson,
Environmenta
l
Society discussed these
General Electric and the Environme
n
tal
wortlt $40 mill\o
n
per year to
th~
peop
l
e problems.
They were worried about
Protection Agency. This war is ov~~
of the vafley," he said.
''Today,
fish
boating
in
the marina because sediment
The first p
h
ase of the dredg
in
g is set to
purifyingtbeHudsonRiverofpolychlo-
caughtintheriveraredangerouslyhigh from the PCBs is
r - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
rinated biphenyls or PCBs. Dredging is
in toxins and are unsafe
to
eat. PCBs caus
in
g erosion of
set to begin this spring
and recent events
from H
u
dson River fish are a serious the boats. Stephen
have attempted to raise awareness of health risk to poor and disadvantaged O
l
sen
is
the
Qlee::
GIRL
00
NOT
DIE FROM AUBlGIES
this problem.
c
h
i
l
dren whose parents must fish for
Executive Director
PCBs are carcinogens and
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
of the HRES.
8Y ALEXANDER TINGEY
:,es
:~:;~~rs
t~n :~s~
u
=~
'It was not untll 1976 that (PCB) use was
Prior to the
_eo_-H_e_a_lth_E_di_to
_
,
_
_ _
_ _ _ _ _
_
C
oming
day'i after
Canadian
coroners amended
the
ca~
of death from :dlcrg1c reaction to c:iu:;-
es
unknown for
a 15
year old
Qul!hec
girl. wh<.)
presumahl}
died
after
kissing h~r bo)
friend who
had
eaten
peanuts. the
American
Acadcmv
ot
Allergy. Asthma and
tmmunology
reponeJ · that
k.tSsing
in fact can
be
deadly
for
those
v.
1th
ru.:-ut~
peanut
allergies. The
follow•up research
done
by the A.A.A.A.I. suggcsL-; that ne.uly 150 to
200 million Am~ricans
mgcst alh..-rgt.-ns
every
year,
i1f which 30.000 tnent 11nmed1a1c m1.:dical
atttnhon. Peanut nllerirw1, which remain one of
the
most
dramatic and
deadly
foo<l
r1llcr~cn,
.
hm;
doubled in ch
i
ldren
o"cr
a
fhc
)'Car
pcnnJ. flu:
study
cxarmoed the lingcnng effect~
of cert:,un
oils
found
in pea.nub hnkctl
to
the
11llcrgtc rem:-
tJon anJ
lhe
amount t.Jf hme they (>C"nl m the
mouth
befort-
uoJ after brushing. The fl!!iUILs
were IUrpnsmg
The
A.A A
.
A.I. r\.lund that
some of the oil!i lingered
111
the mouth for up
t
o
an hour after mgc..-stmg
I\\O
t.ubles1>0on
-.
or
peanut
butter,
however.
nftc1
one hour rhc levels
of peanut oil
\H1"C
unJc1cctable
in
six or
$0:\
en
partJl·ipanbl
The
re~carchcrs "C:N conccmcJ
with
the
lethahty of these alkrgk reilctmos and
upon further study found that only 73 percent of
all
tecn.s
with
ICOOUs
food
alle
r
gies
carricd
1
tn
ir:pmephnnc mJecuon
Th1.·y
itrc.
SW 1hc impor-
w,ce
of v1gtlance un lh~ pllll of
ufft.'ttn
body.
GE used them
regulated by the federal government. By
confere
n
ce
,
he
FROM TEXAS:
VIT
AMIN ENRlaiED BEER
because of their properties
that time
,
more than seven mllllon pounds
~::~•in~.!:'.
of neither burning nor con-
of PCBs were found In local landfllls and
ence
will
ducting electricity, and the
more than 2.3 mllllon pounds had been
focus on sci-
PCBs made possible the
dumped Into the(Hudson) r
i
ver ••
•
,
entific
and
creation of profitable elec- _ _ _ _
_
_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
engineering
trical product
s.
sol
u
t
i
ons for
For more than 40 years
,
the PCBs were subsistence.
"
managing dredged
discharged into the Hudson River.
It
"Taking Back the
H
udson: The Fig
h
t
material.
"
was not until 1976 that their disposal
for our Stolen Future" was a recent
Genera
l
E
l
ectric
was regulated by the federal govern-
event on camp
u
s that showed the docu-
tried
to
avoid
ment. By that time
,
more than seven mentary of the prob
l
ems facing the
dredging for more
milli
o
n p
o
und
s
of PCBs were found in
river.
Three
Marist graduates, including
than
20
years
local landfills and more than 2.3 million
Valerie Ha
ll
, the Directo
r
of Special
because of the high
pounds had been dumped into the river,
Events at Marist
,
collaborated on this
costs that the com-
according to the Hudson River Sl~p research project over a period of seven
pany wou
l
d incur,
C
learwater
,
a non
M
profit orga
n
ization
months to create the documentary. Ms.
but it ca
n
no
l
onger
created to defend and restore the Ha
ll
said that over that time they 'con-
de
l
ay the dredging.
Hudson River.
ducted interviews
,
taped a
l
ot of It insists that the
During this time
,
the New York State
footage, wrote some narrative and edit-
PCBs will eventu-
Department
of
Environme
n
tal
ed together the documentary." In it they
a
ll
y evaporate, but
Con
s
ervation prohibited a
l
l fishing from
noted the health risks that
l
ocal families
according
to
the 40-milc area of the GE plant in
encounter because of the PCBs.
Swanzey
,
the oppo-
Hud
s
on Fall
s
down to Troy
,
NY. This
On
March I
,
the "
H
udson River site is true.
A
Oc'V.
hoer produ.:t'd
in
Tc:lCa.\
boasts
increased
lc\cl<1
of
\1larmns an<l miJJ011ls. some
of ....
tuch
mny redUt."e the
onset of hango\'ers.
Stampede
Plus,
pmduee<I
by
Fred Malt.
l!S
aimed
at an actl\·e,
healthy market of consumers. While
Matt
claims
the
Fe<lanl
government
won't
aJlow
him to
dis-
close all tho
"'plus .. mgm.lienl'i
in the beer,
he
hinL,
tha1 v11am111 R
tnJ)
play II ma.JOI' rule. A!Side
from
\>Jlamm
8. 01.hcr bn.-w
U18dc
by
the
same manufac-
n1rer
~
cootaio
vitamin
C
and fohatcs. both con-
sidered
bcotlicial
w
bodies undr:r
stress.
1 lowc\.er. DaviJ Robbins. an intcrrusl at
Beth
lsr-.iel Hm;p,tal m Ne,.., Y~ saiJ
that
\Jtamm B
v.as olK'
f1f
the nulncnl:i Ck.--plckd
by
ak(\001 con-
stunptioo, but doubted its
effect
m i;ombatmg
hangoveB.
Th~ manufacturer's wehauo leaves
much of
the
mkmnaw.m regardmg
the
beers
ingrt'
d1enL"I to
gucs.~ work llus
ne-...
product
ltmcd Bl
young consumtrs comes on the
heels
of
ocher
such
hnn~over-aids
a,,;
the commemally fl)Uted
"Cha.,cr'' and olhc:r similar supplements which
gWLrantcc to reduce lhe
pamfuJ
after effects of
..vmnduJgmce
wa~ ha
nn
lu
l t
or lhe loca
l
area econo
m1
-
M
a
nn
a
Dr
e
d
g
in
g:
Pr
o
bl
e
m
s
a
nd
"
W
i
th
o
ut
dredgM
c
ally
,
a
cc
ording to Gregg Swanzey of So
l
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[the out
l
ine], and see what their
plans are, what their process is.
And they
'
re supposed to tell us
ev
erything that they
'
re doing in
thei1 proc
e
ss
,"
Tu
r
co said. "As
advi
s
ors
,
it'
s
our re
s
ponsib
il
ity
to keep track of what's going
on."
However
,
Greek organizations
value tradition and secrecy,
which
,
can conflict with reveal-
ing their plans to advisors.
"There are rituals and stuff that
they can
'
t specifically write out
,
so th
e
y tell us a general idea of
what th
ey're
doing
,"
Turco said.
Therefore
,
tn
•
is also a key
i
ss
ue when the two advisors ask
the organizations to tell them
everything that they are doing.
"They could not write some-
thing down
,
and do we know?"
Turco asked.
"No, we don't
know
what
they
'
re
doing
because we
'
re not there for
it.
"
Being honest on the outline is
difficult at times for certai
n
Greek organizations because
they have to follow their
n
ation-
al organization's tradi
t
ions, but
also comply with
Marist policy
.
"It's rea
ll
y a gray area, beca
u
se
there are so
m
e rules that Marist
puts down that may go aga
in
st
an organization's nationa
l
rules,"
Turco said. "I think it's hard for
[the presidents of the organiza
-
tions] because there's a
l
ot of
pressure from their nationals and
from (B
r
etz and me]. They have
to answer to so many diffe
r
ent
people."
As a result of this incongru
i
ty
betwee
n
Greek organ
i
zation tra
-
dit
i
ons and Marist po
l
icy
,
Turco
and Bretz a
l
so work with the
Greek Counci
l
to work out prob-
lems.
·
"We
'
re trying to figure out how
we can come to a
l
arger under-
standi
n
g of what the organiza
-
tions need to do," Turco said. "I
think the organizat
i
ons are excit-
ed about having a set of rules
that will let them do their own
thi
n
g, but within reason
.
"
Staying wi
t
hin reason is the
key though, according to
B
retz,
who says that if she and Turco
feel strongly enough that a
Greek orga
n
ization's trad
i
tion is
violating Marist po
l
icy, then tha
t
tradition needs to be changed
,
''If an organizatio
n
is forc
in
g
its members to perform certain
acts that make t
h
at person
uncomfortable, why would any-
one join
in,
th
e first place?" Bretz
asked.
Bretz said s
h
e thinks there is a
stigma
surrounding
Greek
organizations o
n
ca
m
pus that is
mostly untrue.
"I
think
people who aren't
i
n
volved in Greek organiza
t
io
n
s
assume that they are like the
Greeks
in
An
im
al
H
ouse, and
that Greek organizations
,
espe-
c
i
a
ll
y fraternities, force their
members to do things
in
order to
become brothers
,
" she said.
"B
u
t I
d
on't
think
it
'
s true of
every organization. It's really
only the weak organizations."
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006
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PAGE7
Caution encouraged when studying abroad
International
travel brings with
it
eye-opening
experiences, hidden dangers
By
ADAM
PITEO
Circle Contributor
They held on
to
their purses
tightly
as the pair entered the bus
that would carry them around the
foreign
city.
Alison Wallace and Meg
VanDervoort were two Marist
students embarking
on a 13-per-
son
trip
to
Italy.
The entire group
had been warned repeatedly by
the chaperones that traveling in
Italy was dangerous and they
needed to pay
special
attention in
order
to have a
safe
trip.
The bus was
a safe
place com-
pared to the streets they had just
left.
''One
man
asked
me
'where
are
you sleeping
tonight?"' said
senior Meg VanDervoort, who
before we left. They made
it
was traveling abroad for the first
sound so dangerous," said Alison
time. ''Toe men were very for-
Wallace.
ward; nothing like here."
Toe
trip organizers had pre•
What these girls
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
pared the stu-
experienced was
'It
was not that bad. It was
dents
for
~:~cy
un:;::~e::
stlll dangerous, but I actu•
:x~~ct wh:~
students go abroad
ally
felt safer
In
most of
they arrived.
with the
goal
of
Italy than
I
did In New
Foreign trav-
foaming
about
York.'
elers are an
other cultures and
easy
target
having a
fun
expe-
_
Alison
Wallace
for criminals
rience. Safety
is
a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ because they
crucial
element
are not accus•
while
enjoying
a trip. Every year tomed to the culture.
students arc warned of the dan•
Director
of
Public Affairs and
gers
of
traveling outside of the
trip chaperone, Tim Massie, told
United
States.
students
of his past experiences
"I
was worried abovt the trip to address
specific
dangers.
During one of the meetings prior grew accustomed to thier new
to the trip, be discussed a time surroundings. They realized it
when he
was
mugged in Italy.
was different, but the experi-
Even Massie, a seasoned travel•
ences they bad from home could
er, was caught off-guard.
be applied abroad. Every
city
"He told us a
- - - - - - - - - -
bas
panhan-
story about when
'Whenever
I
was In a
his wallet was
crowded area,
I
paid extra
::01
:;hat ~: t~:~
attention to the people
dlers and other
criminals wait•
ing
for
an
opportunity.
wrong and why
he was vulnera•
around me.'
"It
was not
that bad. It was
ble.
It really
-
Meg
VanOervoort still dangerous,
stuck with me
Senior but I actually
while I was trav- - - - - - - - - - - felt
safer
in
ellng,"
sllid
VanDervoort.
"Whenever I was
in
a crowded
area,
I
paid extra attention to the
people around me."
After a couple of days
,
the girls
most of Italy' than
I
did in New
York," said Wallace.
0
Last
week
when I was in New York
City,
a
man took my picture and then
tried
to sell it to me.
It
was the
same kind of thing we dealt with
in
Italy, but just culturally differ•
ent."
The Mari st Abroad Program's
mission states; abroad programs
exist to "enhance the global per•
spective
of academic programs."
The trip to Italy has done just
that
for
VanDervoort
and
Wallace. An important part of
that perspective was
learning
about the culture and how to be
safe in an unknown
country.
"It
was the best way to see the
country,"
said
Van.Dervoort.
"I
would love to do it
aga
in
."
Alum's international
j oumey better forgotten
In January 2004 former
international
student, Kuna/ Anand, experienced a
trip
he
hopes no
other traveler must endure.
During
his journey
from N Delhi to Marist,
he was
detained
in
Moscow, Russia and endured three
days
of "torture. "Below is
his log from
those three
days.
Moscow <Mosko}
➔
RUSSIA
(A journey
better forgotten)
January
24, 2004
to Jan~!r
26
,
2
_
0
_
04'
_ _ _ _ _
_
4:10
a.m.
➔
Landing
at
tbe Moscow
t:,rl"(,,:nsiffiJI
fi'oni"N.Delfii
to
Jfyf
4:15 a.m.
➔
Transit
check and collecting the boarding pass (asked me to pick
it
up
after
11 a.m. from the
'Transfer
Lounge
'
)
4:20
a.m.
➔
Started having an upset
stomach,
went to the lavatory.
4:45
a.m.
➔
Slept on a
bench
at
the useless
airport,
was weary from the last 48hrs.
10:30
a.m. ➔
Woke up, went to the lavatory again, this time felt much better after
coming
out.
10:45
a.m.
➔
Breakfast at the Taj Mahal restaurant.
11: 15
a.m.
➔ went
to the Transfer Lounge to pjok up my
'Boarding
Pass.' Asked the front
,
desk lady for
a
medicine for loose motions and
J
was
forwarded
to the pharmacy
sh0p
with a note writ-
ten in Russian, but they had no medicine/solution
for
me. When I went back to the transfer
lounge lady (she knew English), she asked me to wait for
a couple
of minutes, and she spoke
to
someone (in Russian)
over the intercom.
11:30 a.m.
to
11:45
a.m.
➔
Two lady doctors came (who did not know English), checked if
I
had a fever,
pressed my
stomach,
and said
I
could not travel and had to be ~dmitted to the "Hospitole."
After pressing my
stomach
one o( them said
I
had an ulcer or stone in my
stomach.
She
called a third doctor (Russian speaking again) who snatched my boarding
pass,
and asked
me to follow her.
\I
have never seen such rude doctors).
12:30 p.m.
➔
Inside the airport medical room
(-as
worthless as the airport);
I
took a
'poop'
test.
I
was
forced to take rest in a secluded room and. asked not to leave.
I
:45 p.m.
➔
With tears in my eyes,
I
was forced out of the airport (without my ticket or passport.
I
was
not even
allowed
to give a call back home!) and into an ambulance, was driven to a distant
hospital.
2:45
p.m.
➔
Reached the hospital, straight away taken to the 16th floor.
2:55
p.m.
➔
A lady warden, Russian speaking, gave me a room
(which
was pretty
clean)
and
I
was asked
to change & wear the hospital provided clothes. I felt like
I
was trapped
in
prison; nobody
knew English and there was no way to call anyone back home in India or in the U.S.
3:30
p.m.
➔
A lady doctor came for a check•up, checked my blood pressure and stomach,
filled
out some
forms
I
needed to sign, and made me sign them, though I dido 't even know what
I
was sign-
ing.
3:45 p.m.
➔
She
said, "You
have to stay here for
2/3
days, depending on your health and ticket avail•
ability."
4:00 p.m.
➔
Slept (trying to forget whatever happened)
7
:00
p.m.
➔
Woke up, went to the lavatol'y to give them a sample of what they wanted and what they
deserved.
7:15
p.m
. ➔
Asked
the warden for food, but she said she was helpless.
(Thank
God mom had packed
some
parathas for me; ate those
and~ my novel).
10:00 p.m.
➔
Asked the warden for water and she refused to help me, so had
to
drink tap water and start•
ed reading the novel (my saviour) again.
11:00 p.m.
➔
At this point feeling like J.'m trapped in prison. I
was
locked in a room with closed win•
dows. I could see the sky scrappers from the window at one end, and from the
warden's
win•
dow at the other, but was not allowed
'
to even step foot out of the room.
12:05 p.m.
➔
Again
read my novel and requested they take me out of hc;re, ASAP.
(END
OF DAY I)
Good morning, Day 2
..
Time not known, was
sleeping -
The warden opened my rooms' door,
checked
for.fever and
shocked
me
by
saying - 'Doktor ..
come .. 4clk', Which means
➔
l
MOB.E....QAY...JN....fB.lS.
9:30 a.m.
➔
Got up, really tensed
-
worried about my family, but there was no way to make an
International call in Mosko,
except
from
the
airport or
somebody's
residence
(as
told to me),
I I
:00 a.m.
➔
The room cleaning lady
came,
gave me
.
breakfast
(egg+
I piece of bread+ butter+ dunno
what) and
again
locked me from the
outside
and went
away,
I
:30
p.m.
➔
With tears in my
eyes
right now, asked
tht
warden to open myrooni for2 minutes,
so
I could
sit
outside
(s
in
ce
I was feeling suffocated). Instead,
she
shouted in her Russian accent
-
'NOT
INDZIA, JIS MOSKO'.
I
:35
p.m.
➔
The lady doctor came. After almost 2
½
hrs,
I
heard a familiar language. She
gave
me
assur•
ance ofmy earliest departtm:, I didn't
know
if it was true/false,
and
said
my tests would
be
done tomorrow
-
means .
.
.
"ANOTHER
DAY IN JAIL."
I
:40~Gftl..k.lftehr-BoNch-(9oup)+ebat I
I
slice
b1ead
I
dunno
wftat+t.
5:30
p.m.
➔ Newhouse-keeping
lady came and got my
signature
on
something
that
I
again
could
n
't read,
and older warden then checked my fever. Finally,
l
combed
my hair
(without a
mirror
in
the
room)
and got back to my novel.
6:00 p.m.
➔
Tried
to
meditate, but failed.
6:30 p.m.
➔
Got dinner (mashed potatoes+
I
slice of bread+ dunno what)
8:40 p.m.
➔
There was nobody at the warden's desk.
I
NEEDED WATER.
10:15
p.m. ➔
The warden refused to give me water,
I
feel like a moron, bored of reading my novel,
sleep
circling around my eyes, but refusing a temporary residence.
11:45 p.m.
➔
Finally
I
got water (boiled), feeling hungry but didn't have anything to eat.
12:00 a.m.
➔
INDIAN REPUBLIC DAY (Jan 26th) and I am still in prison.
(END OF DAY 2)
Good morning, Day 3 .
6:30 a.m.
➔
A nurse came to check for fever, and aJso asked me
to
give
a
stool sample.
A
second
one
came and took a syringe
full
of blood out of my band.
6:45 a.m.
➔
I
thought they seemed
to
be in a huny, but nobody came thereafter so I slept again.
10:00
a.m.
➔
Breakfast time (boiled egg
+a
slice
of bread+ butter+ porridge). For the first time
I
knew
what
I
was eating.
I
0:25 a.m.
➔
A doctor came who asked me to give a poop test
1
told her the whole story, using my hands
to
gesture. She teft.
11 :30 a.m.
➔
FINGERS CROSSED
12:00 p.m.
➔
No
response
from the doctor, fed up of reading my Sidney Sheldon.
12:40 p.m.
➔
The doctor came, checked my
stomach,
saw my depressed face, finally said
- "Today
-
Car drive- You-AirpOrt" (allah be praised .
.!!)
12:55 p.m.
➔
The warden came in and gave me a bag which had all my clothes & shoes.
I :00
p.m.
➔
Left the hospital in an ambulance, towards the airport.
2:30 p.m.
➔
Reached the airport and was taken to the medical
room.
Nobody
came to help
·
me for the
first
5
mins.
2:35 p.m.
➔
Got hold of a doctor who, for a change, really
seemed
interested in helping me. He asked
me to sit and watch a tennis match
on
TV
until he came back and confirmed where my pass•
port was at the moment.
2:40 p.m.
➔
I
got my passport, he asked me where
I
wanted to go, and promptly my reply was
-
NEW
YORK, USA. To my surprise, he said
"Let's
watch this second set
tog
ether."
l
forced myself
to watch
for
a bit, and then asked him to confinn the flight times for me.
2:42 p.m.
➔
He came back
from
his room
&
told me that-
•its
at 3:30pm'.
I
suddenly felt a rush inside
of me, so
I
requested him to
get
me a ticket for the same.
2:50 p.m.
➔
Taken to the AEROFLOT RUSSIAN FLIGHT TRANSIT COUNTER. The lady sitting in
the chairman's office told me- "You are leaving by the 3:30 p.m. flight."
2:55 p.m.
➔
Got my ticket and she took a copy of the receipt which the medical room gave me (written
in russian)
2:57 p.m.
➔
Called Mom
-
she heard my voit;c and started crying
-
I told
her
that I was fine and just
had a minute to talk
to
her (using the $7 .card which the airline's chairman gave me) and in
brief told her what had happened, and also asked her to call up my cousin to ask him to pick
me up from JFK. The chainnan (lady) came to me and asked me to cbeck•in.
3:00 p.m.
➔
All set to go to NY!! (The flight was nine hours and I didn't
sleep
a minute)
9:05 p.m. (EST)
-
Finally arrived in the United States.
After all the torture(~ if it was not enough
fur
me
...
hahaha) when I came to Marist,
a
professor denied
me an override
(even after
listenin
g
to my story). What
should
I put
it as ... "Well
begun is halfdone"or
"All
is well that ends well"?!
Kuna/
can
be
contacted
at Kunal.Anand@marist.edu,






































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For Marist students, protection is a 'SNAP'
By
CHRISTINE SNYDER
Circle Contributor
With midtenn's right around
the corner, there are many stu-
dents out on campus at
later
hours due to late night studying
in
the
library.
The Student
Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol, also
known
as
SNAP, provides its
services to Marist students to
help make the walk around cam-
pus less of a concern.
SNAP was established with the
.
purpose of increasing security on
the Marist campus.
Devon
O'Nalty, an employee of SNAP
explained the duties of SNAP.
SNAP
has
specific 'swipe' posi-
tions which are the entry
doors
of all the freshman
donns
,
including Mid.rise and
Marian.
In
the other areas of campus,
SNAP
uses the laundry rooms
as
a swipe position. While swiping
those
positions
,
employees look
around and ask
it
anyone would
like an escort. SNAP does two
rounds,
then takes a break, then
repeats
this pattern throughout
the
night.
SNAP employees work in pairs
patrolling four
main
sections of
the
campus. The A section is all
the freshman donns, Mid.rise,
and Marian. The B section is
Upper and Lower
New,
Foy, and
Gartland.
The C section is
Lower and Upper West Cedar
and the D section is Fulton, over
to Upper West Cedar. The only
area
not
patrolled is Tallmadge.
Although this service is offered
Monday through Thursday every
week, many students do not use
it.
On
average SNAP gets two to
three escort requests a night.
Most of the
requests
are those of
females .
Chelsea Donnarumma, a
sec-
ond year Marist student said,
"Although
the
City
of frettingabouttheirpersonalsafe-
Poughkeepsie
can
be dangerous
ty, administrators undo~btedly
at times, I feel as though Marist
would rather focus on their core
campus is a safe environment mission, education, but the
and that is probably why not a lot
nature of American society in the
of people don't use SNAP."
early
twenty-first
century
According to a February l
demands that education instituM
American School
&
University tions go the extra mile
to
make
Magazine article, by Mike sure their facilities and campuses
Kennedy, many colleges and uni-
are safe."
versities are making more of an
SNAP is that "extra mile"
that
effort to keep their students safe.
Kennedy is referring
to.
SNAP
Kennedy writes, "Students is available Monday through
attend
sc
hools
and universities to
Thursday, 7
p.m.
to 2 a.m. from
learn,
but it's hard to concentrate September to April. Starting in
on studying
in
an environment
April through the end of
the
where people are continually school year they are avajlable
Monday through Thursday
7
p.m.
to
3
a.m.
Their contact
information is extension
7627.
"I think SNAP is a
great
pro-
gram and, even though it may
not
be
used a lot, people know
that
they
have a group of friend-
ly kids out there that are willing
to walk with
them
on those
long
nights to make them feel more
comfortable," O'Nalty said.
"Also,
SNAP allows the students
that work to become more outgo-
ing and personable, so
I
guess
you can say it's the double edge
sword. I
love
SNAP; its the best
on-campus job!"
Midterm care packages bring much-needed relief
By LINDSAY SlRAUB
Circle
Contributor
Midterm
care
packages spon-
sored by Kappa
Lambda
Psi, a
campus sorority, are in demand
among Marist students and it's
not just for the cookie and candy
treats inside.
The small basket contains ani-
mal crackers, a bag of cookies,
pretzels and chocolate
peanut
chews. It is wrapped in cello-
phane and is
tied
together with
an
ivory-colored
ribbon.
Freshman Danielle Sherman
was interrupted
by
a knock at
her
door while studying for
her
College
Writing
midtenn.
Sherman welcomed this inter-
ruption after a member of KLP
personally greeted and presented
her with a care
package.
"I was so excited to get a
pack-
age," Shennan· said. "It even had
my favorite my candy!"
For
freshman
Holly
Stajk, on
the other hand, there
was
no
knock at her door, and no pack•
age received. The craze of per-
sonal greetings and midterm
care
packages swept the campus and
left, or in some
cases,
did not
leave students smiling.
The sorority, KLP, sends out a
letter
to the parents of all Marist
students every semester before
midtenns offering
them
the
option to purchase a "midterm
care package" for
S 15.
The
money for the baskets is recycled
back into the organization to pay
for other community service
projects
that KLP participates in,
and to pay for the care packages
themselves.
The members of KLP then per-
sonally deliver the baskets
to
stu-
dents all over campus. KLP
members
including Katherine
Rougeux
say it's one of their
biggest projects.
"We hit almost every residence
hall on
delivery
day," said
Rougeux
.
According
to
another KLP
member, Stacy Wahlstrom, the
number
of people
who
order
care
packages varies from semester to
semester,
but
it's
usually
between
350
and
450
students.
"Many
parents love this serv-
ice," she said. "We even get
some letters from parents telling
us how much they love it and
how helpful it is."
It
wasn't
long
before some stu-
dents, like Stajk, felt left out of
the care package frenzy.
"Everyone
got these cute little
packages
delivered
to them
and
no one knocked on my door,"
said Stajk. "I tried to
guilt
trip
my parents but it obviously did
nothing considering
I
didn't even
get a finals care package."
Professor of
p
syc
hology
,
Dr.
Linda Dunlap, feels the
package
s
are a good idea and
"a
nice
booster
from
parents to their
children." She does not believe,
howe
ver,
that parents should be
"gui
lt-tripped
"
into purchasing
the care packages.
Parents
and their students,
especially those in college,
should communicate on a regular
basis
to
maintain
a
muhla.)
sup~
port
system
for one another, she
said.
Marist Dining heeds students'
call for healthier food options
By
BRITTANY DION
Circle
Contributor
With
melting
snow banks and
the promise of spring break upon
us,
many
students
have
embarked on a
he~lthy
eating
campaign in
preparation
of that
much anticipated
run
on a tropi-
cal beach.
The pent up expectation of
bathing suits, shorts,
tee
shirts
and blazing sun may seem
pre-
mature, but for many students
the
arrival of spring
break
season
signals it's time to get serious
about how and what
to
eat. For
some, a higher level of aware-
ness
when
it
comes
to
eating
habits is
resulting
from this real-
ization.
Joseph Heavey, general manag-
er of Dining Services, can attest
to such diet changes by having
witnessed,
"more
traffic at the
salad bar and more requests for
things like grilled chicken breast
and other lean meats."
Aside from this level of person-
al
diet
control, Marist Dining is
also making strides to cater to
this new found interest in healthy
foods among the students.
Heavey, along with Lauren
Sokolowski, marketing manager,
said Marist Dining
has
estab-
lished two ways to
promote
healthier
eating habits.
According to the Marist
College
Dining
Services Web
page, the first of these
programs
,
entitled the "Color of
Food,
"
which has
been
occurring this
week and ends on March
10.
"Think Colo
r" highlighting
a
colorful menu of fruits and veg-
etables is intended to inspire stu-
dents
to
create a healthy
diet
based
on a variety of foods. This
week-long
promotion
,
marked
with a new color theme each day,
will also have a creative coloring
contest
with the possibility of
winning
a
prize.
In addition, the Marist Dining
home page has an ongoing
"Mind,
Body
and Soul" online
directory. This site
instructs
stu-
dents
on
how
to master the rigors
of nutritional infonnation by
simplifying, categorizing, and
even
providing
an
online
Nutrition Calculator meant to
fully ex.plain
to
any college stu•
dents the various
health
conse-
quences
of the calories and vita-
mins that they consume each
day.
The Dining Services food pro-
motions
have
yet
to
reach every-
one.
Sophomore Amanda
Schaefer bas
been
trying
to
eat
healthy not only for the
upcom-
ing spring
break
but also for
summer; however, Schaefer does
not feel Marist
Dining
Services
has catered
to
her healthy
eating
regimen.
"It
seems like their only
attempt at healthy eating is
the
salad bar that they
have
all the
time," she said. "You don't real-
ly see any 'low fat'
type
meals or
anything like that."
Chris Wieland, who as a fresh-
men is obligated to eat every
meal in the cafeteria, feels that
Marist Dining's healthy meals
are primarily directly
towards
vegan or vegetarian meals.
"There
are foods that are
healthy
but not vegetarian"
Wieland said, that the cafeteria
appears to be lacking.
The goal of the Marist Dining
healthy eating programs is to
respond to these complaints
through the expanding of
healthy
eating options.
"We see an increased level of
fruit and vegetable consumption
and a decreased level of con-
sump
tion
of
fried
and
starc
hy
items," Heavey said. But stu-
dents on campus claim these
changes in food choices are mere
personal decisions and not the
result of these promotions' influ-
ence.
"I've heard something about
the healthier eating programs but
they don't have much publicity,"
said Wieland. With better pub-
licity this
beneficial
infonnation
would reach out
to
a greater
majority
of students. "If these
events were made clearer in the
cafeteria I think students would
look
twice at and it would have
an affect on what they choose to
eat," Schaefer added.
With spring break just around
the comer for some Marist stu-
dents the bathing suit may not
be
tucked in a drawer much longer.
Marist Dining's
healthy
eating
programs will be provided both
before and after the break in an
effort
to
provide a wider range of
healthy eating options.
If
suc-
cessful, these programs will
cause a blip on student's radar
the next time a slew of
red
hood·
ed.
Marist students enter the cafe-
teria in pursuit of the perfect
healthy
meal.
"Se
nding
a care package
should not be the foundation of a
parent's support for his or her
child, but a token of the support
that already exists," said Dunlap.
According to Dunlap, students
need more of these little boost-
ers, not only during midtenn and
finals week, but during other
times of stress as well.
If
pack-
ages were delivered daily, how-
ever, they would most likely lose
their impact and effect on stu-
dents.
"In
general," said Dunlap,
"people could use more random
acts of kindness, and even more
during midtenns and finals." The
care
package offered by KLP
provides
parents with exactly
that.
By the time parent Loraine
Schindler
remembered
to
respond to the letter sent out by
K.LP, it was too late. Her daugh-
ter, freshman Jessica Schindler,
was very unhappy with her
mother's forgetfulness
.
Schindler wondered why her
motherdidrr't send her
a
package
although she didn't even
like
the
treats in it.
"I
wasn't very surprised when
I
got a care package during finals
week," Schindler said, after talk-
ing the situation over with her
mother.
Dunlap explains that
Schindler's desire for a care
package does not necessarily
have to do with what is in the
package, but rather the feeling
she gets when she receives a
package of any kind.
"'What it comes down to is
that
you have to know your child,"
said Dunlap.
She recommended that parents
should send the package not
because they feel guilty, but
because they want their child to
get .. that feeling."
"Students feel special, cared-
for and somewhat unique after
they receive a
package
of any
kind," explained Dunlap.
Kristine Cullen, Director of the
Center
for
Advising
and
Academic Services,
agrees
the
packages are a great idea:
Students are especially
thrilled
when they receive packages of
any sort.
.. Whenever
I
see students with
a package they are always smil-
ing and
look
excited," said
Cullen. Cullen supports the basis
for the
packages
as well as their
contents stating "food is a great
motlvator for
mostly
every-
thing."
Parent Joanne Sherman thinks
the packages are an excellent
idea
that
creates a positive
influ-
ence on students dwing a very
stressful week. Mrs. Shennan
purchased a care
package
for her
daughter, Danielle Sherman, first
semester.
'1t
was great to
see
Danielle so
excited," said Mrs. Shennan.
"She can expect another surprise
this semester."
KLP has already sent out the
letter
for this semester and
expects
a
similar
turnout.
"Ho
pefully,
I'll
get
some
midterm treats this
time
aroun~
said Stajk."
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THE CIRCLE
A&E
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006
Cancer benefit
·keeps
Marist
musicans "Up 'til Dawn"
BY NICOLE GOGE
Circle Contributor
Last
Friday
night,
Marist's
musicians
poured their energies
and
talents
into
"Up
'til Dawn," a
cancer benefit
held
for St. Jude's
Children's hospital.
The
festivi-
ties
promoted the
awareness of
cancer
research
for the Marist
College community, a program
that
is beginning to gain strength
nationwide.
perfonning at the benefit was a
Hittenmark explained the per-
"sbow of good faith," said Agati.
formers were apart of. a talent
"It
was our welcome back to
contest where winners were cho--
Marist show."
sen for three categories; most
Agati also took a personal
creative, best overall, and best
interest in the event outside of musical.
Promotions and fliers for the
event advertised the free
food,
fun,
and the
party
atmosphere
provided
by
the featured enter-
tainment.
Event coordinator,
Matt Hjttenmark, said
be looked
for energetic perfonnances that
were "going to keep you up all
night."
Anthony Agati of the band
'Johny
and Robot
S',
described
his group's music as
upbeat
and
fast-paced. ''The kind of music
you would
listen
to in the car on
a sunny day, tapping your feet
and snapping,"
he
said.
Even though the students may
hive
been selected for their
musical abilities, thCir focus was
promoting the event, not their
groups. For Agati's band, the
event was an example of a com-
mitment to charity with a special
twist.
The band was suspended from
Marist
last
year
because
of an
incident, Agati said.
After a
written apology to the college,
From Page Two
his
association with the band.
He said he
was
always willing to
take part
in
any kind of benefit
because bis brother is a cancer
survivor.
Other bands also voiced their
willingness to take the opportu-
nity to help.
Junior Scott
Harrison
of
the
group
Middleway said his band had
participated in Similar activities,
such as Relay for Life
.
He
emphasized how the abundance
of fliers drew their attention to
get
involved,
especially since the
group tries to participate in
as
many campus activities
as
possi-
ble.
Even though it was a Friday
night and many students were
going out with friends
,
there
Wa.5
no difficulty finding people to
participate.
"It
was hard to tum
people away,
"
said Hittcnmark.
Mike Quigley of •4 Days from
Now' agreed with the positive
promotion of the charity event.
'4 Days from Now
'
was specifi-
cally recruited to play, and they
were more than willing.
"
Money
or not,
it
doesn't matter
,
"
Qui~
81ri<t.
·
•4
c
ti>ny,
,
fnam
Now' recently played at Holy
Cross, and has upcoming per•
fonnances
in
PoughkeCpsie
.
SGA financial
board confusion
longevity of our organization."
Lynch said that SGA's input with clubs
is
merely
to evaluate and approve clubs
and organizations
that
want to
receive
funding. After that, they are entitled to
receive
funding.
"If any club is ever confuSf(i about
this,
they can check in with us," said
Lynch.
Diaz compared the rumors flying
around about
his
suggestion
to
a child-
hood
game.
"It's how it is when you play telephone
,
when you start
the message,
it gets back
to you and
it's
completely different," he
said. "(The minority groups] just misun-
derstood it. We just have to get through
this stonn."
Diaz added that he hM apologized to
ARCO and plans on following up with
the
BSU.
"This issue shouldn't overshadow two
years of amazing work," he said. "I don't
plan
on going out there and doing any-
thing different.
I'm
going to go out there
and continue
being
a
leader,
and
repre-
sent my class. Student government is
what I
love."
A&E
correction:
However, Agati and the other
musicians
were
unable
to
explain how the contest even
worked.
In
the opinions of the
performers, the importance of
the event was in the commitment
to the cause.
Some bands like 'Middleway'
hope these types of opportunities
will offer the
necessary
experi-
ence to branch out from strictly
on-campus activities
.
Harrison
said the members of Middleway
hope to get their demo out soon
to show more of New York their
music.
Harrison
and fellow band
member James Sheehan made
sure to mention their Web site.
The site
,
myspacc.com/middlc-
way features their music, pic-
tures
,
and contact information.
Bands like' Johny and Robot
5'
used the opportunity to distin-
guish themselves from other
groups with songs like
,
"I Used
to Need Therapy
,
but Now I Just
Watch Doctor Phil."
Throughout the night, the vol-
unteers sporting "Marist Cares"
I-shirts only stopped the thump-
ing sound systcln and energetic
mood:
J
bficfly
h!Ji
n
tappi5'•tffl0tcl~
information on St. Jude's and
remind the Marist community
just what they were there for.
·
Movie Trivia
Madness
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire originally
auditioned for the lead role in Jarhead.
In Walk the Line, Joaquin Phoenix performed all the
songs himself without being dubbed and learned to
play guitar for
the
movie.
Sandra Bullock
was so committed
to appearing in Crash,
she
bo11ght her own plane ticket to fly to the
set.
In
JO
Things
I Hate
Abo11t Yo11,
after their altercation in the
school
parking lot, Michael refers to Kat as "the Shrew" a
reference to
"Taming of the
Shrew," the Shakespeare play
11po,n
which
the movie is based.
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in
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edit
any
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the
film, b11t a paparazzi managed to
take photos
of
Ledger
with
a digital
camera.
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appeared
on
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Tii
E CIRCLE •
TMURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2006 •
PAGE 10
From Page
Twelve
Soliver's
·
31 points paces Gaels over Foxes in semis
Brady and his Red Foxes faced
the numbe
r
two seed Jona Gaels
in
the semifinals, but they even-
tua
ll
y fell to the Gaels 100-84.
Jona was lead by senior guard
Ricky Soliver, who
sco
r
ed a
caree
r
high 31
points
on 10-18
shooting.
Fellow c
l
assma
t
es
Steve Burtt Jr., and forward Kiril
Wac
h
smann scored 30 and 18
points, respective
l
y. The three
seniors for Jona co
m
bined for a
total of 79 of Iona's
I 00
points.
Maris
t
,
who bad five players
score in double figures,
simply
did not have eno
u
gh firepowe
r
to
keep up with the tale
n
ted Gaels.
Jared Jo
r
dan sco
r
ed
18
po
in
ts
while dishing out seven assists to
lead the Red Foxes. Sophomore
Ben Fanne
r
scored
1
7 points and
led the team
in
reboundi
n
g with
seven boards.
Both Ryan Stilphen and Will
Whitti
n
gton
scored
15 each.
Junior James Smith ro
u
nded
o
u
t the players in do
u
ble figures
contributing ten points.
Head coach Brady said he was
pleased with his team's effort
against
th
e highly skilled Gaels.
"I
was
really pro
u
d Of the effort
that we p
u
t in
t
o tonight
'
s
game,
and
I
am especially pro
u
d of our
sen
i
ors Car
l
Hood and J~es
S
u
tton," he sa
i
d. "We just played
the most ta
l
ented team in the
conference o
n
thei
r
best night of
the year."
The game
started
off with a
very
q
uick pace as both teams
traded baskets the entire first
ha
l
f.
Th
e b
i
gges
t l
ead of the half
belonged to Iona (23-18) with
8: 11
t
o go. The two teams would
contin
u
e the shoot
l
ights out in Gaels up 72-64 with 9:35 left in
the first half
as
they found them-
the secon
d
half.
selves tied at 46 at halftime.
At that poi
n
t, the closest the
For the half, Marist shot a red Red Foxes wou
l
d come was
hot 69.6 percent from the floor.
seven points (74-67) on a
They only missed seven shots the
Stilphen
free
throw with 8:22 left
entire half(16-of
-
23). Io
n
a shot to play in the second half.
51.5percentfromthefloo
r
inthe
During the seco
n
d half, Iona
first half.
shot. a bliste
r
ing 69.9 percent
I
n the second half, Iona showed only missing seven shots the
why they we
r
e the better team entire half (go
in
g 16-of-23), but
that night, hitting their first ten
the Red Foxes s
h
ot only 37
.9
shots, which
was
capped off by a
p
e
rc
en
t
(I
l-of-29) from the floo
r
.
So
li
ver three-point play off a
Iona bead coach Jeff Ruland
miss
from
Burtt.
This put the
h
ad nothing but praise fo
r
the
Red Foxes.
"It
was a heck of team we beat
out there tonight," said R
ul
and.
«If
they don't get into
t
he
Nat
i
onal
I
nvi
t
a
t
io
n
a
l
Tournament (N
IT
),
then there is
something
wrong."
If this was the last game that
the Red Foxes were to play this
season, then they finished with a
record of 19-10 and
cl
ai
m
ed
third place in the MAAC.
Next year, Marist will return 13
of its
J
5
p
l
ayers, including four
starters.
Marist awaits seeding for NCAA tournament after winning MAAC
Dah
l
man]
h
e
l
ped us get off to a
good start," Giorgis said. ''Then
when the defense
·
went to a help,
we made a bunch of 3-pt. fie
l
d
goa
l
s which he
l
ped us as well."
The Red Foxes made eight of
1
5 three
-
point field goals on the
day, which acco
r
ding to Logan,
~ally hurt a team like Loyo
l
a.
«1
give [Marist]
credit,
they
made some b
i
g threes, and at this
time of year those threes will kill
you. Especially
for
us, we don't
like to shoot the three," he said.
"{
J
ulianne) Viani goes two for
throe,
[Nikki]
Flores goes two
for three, and [Courtney) Ko
l
esar
goes two for two. That's terrif-
ic."
In the first 15 min
u
tes, Marist
had built a 25-point lead, b
u
t
Giorgis and the Red Foxes knew
Loyola was not• going away.
"We knew they wou
l
d never
quit," Gio
r
g
i
s said. "It was nice
to be
u
p 25, but at the same time,
yo
u
knew they weren't done.
That's the s
i
gn of true senior
l
eadership that they had, and my
hat's off to them and their team."
With about eight min
u
tes left
in
the game, Giorgis went
to
his
From Page
Eleven
motion offense, but had
to
do so selves with the
b
a
ll
when Fifi
w
i
thou
t
Camara who was s
i
tting usua
ll
y has i
t
with 20 seconds on
out with her fourth foul.
the shot c
l
ock, and she can throw
Acco
rd
ing to Logan, the Red it back o
u
t.
So Smrde
l
an
d
Foxes we
r
e used to givi
n
g
.
Dah
l
man took some quick shots
Camara the ball with ten seco
n
ds
and we were able to get some
left o
n
the clock.
rebounds and go down the other
"What they have when Fifi's
there is, when [the clock} gets to
10 seconds, they can us
u
al
l
y give
Fifi the
ba
ll
and she goes and
scores. So not
h
aving her on the
court, Da
h
lman s
t
ep
p
ed up,
Smrde
l
stepped
u
p, and had to
take some quicke
r
shots," be
said.
"I
think they found tbem-
end."
However, even wi
t
hout
Ca
m
ara, the Red Foxes were
able to preserve their lead
b
ecause of great play down the
str
e
tch
from
A
II
-MAAC
Tourn
am
en
t
Team
member
Nikki
Flores.
"Nikki
just seems to thrive in
the
t
o
urn
ament, she was on the
all
-
tournament
t
eam last year
too, and did a great job for us this
year," Giorgis said.
"Nikki
seems to start out a little slow,
and then finishes strong. She's
l
ike the come-from-beh
in
d horse
at the end of the season."
Also contribut
in
g off the bench
we
r
e A
ll
-MAAC Tournament
Team
m
ember Sarah Smrdel and
Courtney Kolesar.
In
just seven minutes of action,
Ko
l
esar ma
d
e two big threes.
Smrdel grabbed 13 rebo
un
ds,
ba
d one block, and six points.
Giorgis said the transformation
in
Smrdel this year has bee
n
amazing,
and
that
a year ago he
n
ever could have seen it coming.
"She was about as sheltered
and insecure as I've ever seen in
a kid," he said.
"To
see the trans-
formation that this kid
has
bad in
a year has just been amazing, and
I
cou
l
dn't be more happy for
a
persun like Sarah."
With
this win, Marist earn
ed
its
seco
n
d MAAC Cham
p
ionship in
three
years.
They await their
seeding, which will be
t
elev
i
sed
on ESPN this Monday at 7 p.m.
IC4A Championships give Red Foxes' track momentum for break
perfo
nn
ances.
"I don't like to use excuses, but
it happe
n
s. R
unn
ing at that
l
evel,
~der the weather is not easy,""
be sa
i
d.
of the indoor track season was
h
aving the most q
u
alifiers
in
sc
h
oo
l
h
i
story, atte
n
d
i
ng the
IC4A Championships.
our stro
n
g winter season and be
more co
m
petitive in re
l
ays."
break (Mar.
I
0-19), Colaizzo
expressed
n
o conceTTls about his
team's prepara
t
ion for the out-
door track season.
the dai
l
y grin
d
and we've been
go
i
ng at it since January 3rd."
The track team will begin its
outdoo
r
season o
n
Saturday,
Mar.25 at the West Point
I
nvitatio
n
al.
Colaizzo felt the
bi
ggest suc-
c~ss and most pleasant surprise
His expectat
i
ons for the
upcoming outdoor track season
are
"to
co
n
t
in
ue improvi
n
g o
n
Coach Co
l
a
i
zzo is no
t
a
l
one, as
Segni hopes
to
improve his 5,000
meters by 20 seconds for the out-
door season.
"These guys are
se
ri
o
u
s, and
they'll get their workouts done,"
be sa
i
d.
"They
nee
d
a break from
Collaizzo said track does have
some training advantages over
other sports.
"The
good thing about our
sport is its portable," he said.
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THURSDAY,
MARCH 9, 2006 •
PAGE 11
Despite Sunday loss, Marist baseball takes Norfolk series
1
By
ANTHONY CRISTIAN!
Staff Writer
After taking the first two games
of the weekend series at Norfolk
State, the Marist baseball team
dropped a close one to the
Spartans on Sunday, 3-2, at
Marty L. Miller Field.
Norfolk broke the game's
2-2
tie in the bottom of the ninth.
Moriba George smacked a dou-
ble down the left field line off of
Marist's Tom Close to lead off
the last frame. After striking out
Anselmo Cantu, Close
then ren-
dered an
RBI
single to
John
Boyd which plated George for
the winning
run.
Boyd went
2-for-4
on
the day.
The Spartans struck first in third
inning
the
against Marist starter
Johnathan Smith. Boyd's
leadoff
single was backed by Chris
Dorney's double, which moved
him to third. With two men in
scoring positiQ11.i Ryan Reddick
was able to plate Boyd, with a
sacrifice fly, while Dorney
scored as a result ofa Pat Feeney
error, which pulled
first
base-
man,
Bryan Towler off the bag.
The
unearned
error stretched
the
Norfolk lead to
2-0_.
Marist would soon get on the
board courtesy of a string of
pitching miscues by Spartan
starter
Joey
Seal.
Justin
LePore
was
hit
by a pitch and advanced
to third after a wild
pitch
and
passed ball.
Max Most singled
him
home in
the fourth.
Most would then
score on a Boyd throwing error
in the seventh to tie the game at
two.
Norfolk's T.J. Starkey recorded
the win, and both starters settled
for no decisions. Smith allowed
four
hits
and two runs, while
striking out two in five innings
for the Fox.es.
Marist took two of three from
Norfolk
,
which improves their
overall
record
to
2-5
on the sea-
son. Norfolk State is now
7-10.
Head coach
Dennis Healy
says
his team is right where
he
expected them to be thus far.
"Our season so far has gone
how
I
figured it would.
We
have
struggled offensively, but we
seem to have trouble getting it
started early in the year,"
he
said.
"Overall, we
have
a chance to be
a real good baseball team.
I!
think our major issue is going to
be
consistency and discipline
.,'"!
Our
pitching
and defense will,
,
improve
as the season goes.
1
along, we should be fun
to
watch
,,
as
the weather improves."
Marist will now set their sights
.;
on the University of Delaware,
,
during this weekend's three-;
,
game series. Game one is sched-
.,
uled
for Friday afternoon, 2:30.
p.m. in Newark, Del.
Hartwick prevents Foxes from earning four-game sweep in last weekend's tourney
·
By
DAVID HOCHMAN
Staff
Writer
After losing their first
three
games of the season, Marist's
water polo team has gone on a
tear, winning eight of their last
nine contests. Jus1 this past
weekend
,
the women went
3-1
in
the McCann Natatorium.
On Feb. 26, the Red Foxes
defeated at the time the number
16 team in the country, Hartwick.
Riding that momentum into last
weekend, the Foxes clobbered
Utica
17-0
on Mar.
4.
Marist
began
the scoring
53
seconds
into the game and did not stop.
This contest was highlighted by
the depth of the team, with 11
different players scoring goals.
Freshman Kari Weston and soph-
omore Callie Andrysiak led their
teammates with three goals
apiece as Andrysiak's classmate,
goalie Katy Zweifel
,
stopped
four shots.
Later
in
the evening
,
Marist
battled
Hartwick in
a rematch
from the previous week. The
now 17th ranked Hawks
handled
themselves
like the nationally-
~ed team they are, dominat-
ing Marist
15-3.
Despite the score, there were
positives on the Red Foxe's side.
Sophomore goalie Elizabeth
Davis saved six. shots, and
Weston and freshman Katelin
McCahill continued their scoring
streaks.
Looking at that score
does not
show
lhuch
on the surface, but
underneath,
Zweifel said a
little
bit more came
from
it.
"There was a general feeling of
nervousness
at first," she said.
"But
I
think we all realized that
.
we
had nothing to lose playing
them
again. Beating
them
was a
really big
accomplishment, and
even our
loss
to
them this
week-
end
,
as
disappointing
as
it
was,
will
not
erase our win."
Although there may have been
some nervousness, Andrysiak
said
that
whether Hartwick was
ranked or not was
not
as big a
deal as some may
think.
"We
play
every game the
same," she said. "We don't over
or
underestimate
any opponent.
We play our game, do what we
practice, and try to keep the
game in control."
After
an
up and down Saturday,
the Red Fox.es bounced right
back into
their
winning ways
against Carthage and
Harvard.
Marist controlled
the
Carthage
contest from beginning to end,
finally winning 14-2. Here, ten
different goal scorers showed up
as the Red Foxes never
lost
the
upper-hand.
The captaincy of
senior
Amanda
Long and junior
Jillian
Jefferds helped lead the
way as they each added goals to
the
team's tally.
From there, the Red Foxes fin-
ished
their
weekend by beating
Harvard
5-3.
The team moved to
8-4 behind outstanding goaltend-
ing in the tight match
up
from
Davis, who
made
11
saves.
Once again,
McCahill
and
Weston kept their scoring streaks
alive. McCahill
bas
now scored
at least one goal in nine straight
games while Weston has scored
at least one goal
in
all
12
games
this season.
The Red Foxes now
head
out to
the west coast for four games
in
California over spring
break.
Every game in a sport will
teach you different things, and
Andrysiak related that to the
California trip.
"We
are
still learning how
to
play together since we
are
such ;
young
team
and there are sci
many new
players
this year," sh€>
said. "This weekend we just
learned
more
about each other;
:
we know our capability with the
'
win over
Hartwick
two week
..
'
ends ago,
so
we hope to take that
·
energy
and
optimism
tO:
•
California. We will go out there,
work hard, gain more ex.perience
against strong programs, and
dd
•
what we know how to do, and•
have
fun
in the sun doing it."
On
Mar.
11,
the Red Fox.es play·
UC-Santa
Barbara
and Santa:
;
Clara. The
next
day, they play·
CSU Monterey Bay and they'!~
'
finish
their
trip on Mar. 14 facing
UC Irvine.
Illnesses hurt Foxes' results at IC4A Championships, but perserverence guided them through meet
By
DIEGO CUENCA
Circle
Contributor
Marist
history
to
qualify
for the the upcoming outdoor track
sea-
event at the
IC4A.
son.
"I've been sick the
last
three
"Running is not
like
other
the right direction.
The men's track team-conclud-
ed their indoor track season at
the IC4A Championships at
Boston
University this past
~unday
.
contingent to the championships,
with six athletes competing in
three
individual events and one
team relay event.
Freshman David Raucci and
Ginni Segni both
had to
com-
pete in their races while feeling
ill Segni failed to finish the
5,000
meters due to his illness,
after
becoming
the first runner in
weeks and my back was
hurt-
sports. You have to breathe effi-
ing,"
Segni said.
"It
changed my
ciently, for breathing is very
strategies into my racing and
important,
"
be said.
"If
you
have
training."
a cold, you can't
run
as fast and
Segni said he felt
that
he
didn't that's what happened to me.''
have a good
indoor
season, and it
Men's track head coach Pete
will
put
more
pressure
on
him
in
Colaizzo said Segni is beaded in
"Ginna
holds himself
to a high
standard and he reached new
goals
in
training," he said. "He
accomplished a
lot in
his first
indoor track season."
Fellow freshman, David
Raucci completed the 3
,
000
meters in 8:43.12 but
did not
par-
ticipate in
the
5,000
meters
because
of
illness.
RauccC
became
the first runner in schoo,
history to
qualify
for the
3,000,
meters and 5,000 meters in
the'
same year.
Coach Colaizzo said
he
felt thai
the sickness played a role
in
their'
:
performances
.
·,
"I
don't like
to use
excuses, but
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Foxes front co~rt powers Marist to seco°:d
"
dance
"
in three years
Marist holds off third seede
d L
oyola 68
-
57 in MA.AC Championship to earn automatic berth
By
ERIC ZED
AUS
Layout Staff
It
was on1y fitting that the two
teams standing in the way of the
Red Foxes' second MAAC
tro-
Having seen his team's. lead,
phy
in three years were Iona and
which was as high as 25 points, Loyola.
dwindle down to just four, head
In the semifinal game, Tiara
coach Brian Giorgis called a
Headen and the fourth-seeded
timeout
with 1 :34 left in regula-
Iona Gaels gave Marist all
it
tion.
could handle. The stifling Red
When asked how he was able Fox defense would not allow the
to get his players' comJX)sure
Gaels to even get passed the free
back, he simply said. "I really
throw
line and get off a decent
didn't." And be didn't have to.
shot with 26 seconds to work
Last year, Marisfs regular sea-
son Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) champi-
onship team, which suffered a
one-point loss in the MAAC
Tournament
Championship,
l
acked confidence when the
game got close because they had
little faith in their bench, and
they were not challenged during
the season, Giorgis said.
This year Marist took on a
challenging out-of-conference
schedule with two top-25 ranked
teams
in Connecticut (9) and
New Mexico (25), and also
Villanova, New Hampshire,
I
daho,
Cornell,
Harvard,
Pennsylvania and Brown.
Of
those nine games, Marist woo
five, three by five points
or less.
Marist was also chaUenged
during the
season
by
MAAC
foes like Iona, Loyola, and St.
Peter's.
with. Marist won the game
60-
59 and went on to face the third-
seeded Loyola Greyhounds.
After prevailing
in a win such
as this,
it
is
no wonder the Red
Foxes were still cool and collect-
ed when Giorgis caJled the time-
out.
"l
think yesterday [Saturday
J
helped a ton," Giorgis said. "A
problem last year was the 16-
game winning streak, where we
had too many games that weren't
contests, and we weren't chaJ-
lenged. Then all of a sudden
when we were, we were exhaust-
ed, we weren't as confident,
peo-
ple tried to do too much, etc."
The other major difference
from
last year was that Marist
bad a reliab
l
e bench to go to
when starters got
in foul trouble.
''This
year
I
think they really
believed
in
each other, and
I
was
a little smarter this time getting
some substitutions in there
in the
second half to give players a
rest," Giorgis said. "And that's
having confidence
in
the bench
that I didn't have last year."
According to Giorgis, whenev-
er the Red Foxes have faced
adversity,
somebody
comes
through with a big play, and usu-
ally it comes on the defensive
end. Against Iona, it was the
final play of the game, but in the
championship game against
Loyola, it came with
I :34 left in
regulation and Loyola ball trail-
ing
61-57.
Loyola head coach Joe Logan
said the Greyhounds' strategy
was
to use
a down screen to free
up Jackie Valderas or Jill
Glessner, but neither player was
able to get a good look at the bas-
ket.
"Jackie
had just hit a little jump
shot, so we [ set up] a little down
screen play. We were trying to
get [Valderas]
to come high. If it
wasn't there, Jackie was going
to
go back to Krystle [Harrington],
and
then down screen again for
Glessner. That part happened,
but then Glessner didn't get a
good look so she gave
it
back
to
Krystle who wanted to get into a
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of
her
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MAAC
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he said. "Marist did
a
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valuable player
honors.
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job. We did not get a
good
look."
Giorgis said that Marist seems
to defend better late
in
the game,
and a big reason why is MAAC
Player of the Year, Fifi Camara.
"When
it gets to a minute or
I :30, we just seem
to
tum
it up,
and
I
think
a lot of it was Fifi,"
he said. "Fifi is very athletic,
and when their big p
l
ayers are
setting screens for their
guards,
she's pretty quick jumping out
there."
Camanl, MAAC Tournament
MVP, Meg Dahlman, and Sarah
Smrdel were all
in double-fig-
ures rebounding, and they com-
bined for six of Marist's seven
blocks and 31
of Marist's 68
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The last time these two
teams
met at Loyola, the Greyhounds
were successful attacking the
basket, but Marist's three big
players would not allow that this
time.
"When
we were successful at
Loyola, we were ab
l
e to attack
the basket and we got fouled,"
Logan, said. "Today, we attacked
the basket and [Marist] got tips,
they
got blocks."
Marist on the other hand, went
inside and attacked the basket
with success, and it opened up
outside
shots
for
Marist
guru-ds.
"[Going inside to Camara and
SEE NCAA TOURN
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ME
NT,
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Mari
s
t top
s
Canisiu
s
in quart
e
rfinals
for
IREAKII
By
JOE
F
ERRAR
Y
Staff W
rit
er
The Red Foxes entered the
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
(MAAC)
Tournament,
in Albany, NY, as
the number three seed with an
overall record of 18-9.
The Red Foxes opened the
MAAC tournament by defeating
the number nine seed Canisius
Go
l
den Griffins, 68-62, in quar-
terfinal action.
Marist was lead by Will
Whittington, who scored 17
points and had five assists.
On
the night, Whittington hit four
three-point shots, giving hlm I 00
for the season, which broke his
own school record of 97 that was
set during the 2004-2005 season.
Other Red Foxes in double fig-
ures included Jared Jordan with
14 points, James Smith with 13
po
i
nts, and Ben Fanner with 11
points. Jordan also added five
assists for the game.
Red-shirt sophomore Ryan
Stilphen grabbed a game-
h
igh 12
rebounds while adding nine
points.
Can
i
sius, who had three play-
ers score in double figures, were
lead by Kevin Downey with 16
points. Both Chuck Hanis and
Anthony Byrd scored 12 points.
The Red Foxes got out to a
qulck start courtesy of a 7-0 run.
Toe· Go
l
den Griffins, however,
would come back to tie the game
at nine, on a Bret Wacker
l
y
three-point fie
l
d goal with 11 :33
left to go
in the first half, and this
would be as close as Canisius
would get.
Marist answeied the Griff's run
with a 14-1 run, which was
capped off by a Smith free throw.
Smi
th
's free throw pushed the
Red Foxes' lead
to
13 points (23-
,
IO) with 6:20 to go in the first
half. Smith scored 11 of his 13
points
in
the first half. The two
teams would trade baskets for
the rest of the half, as Marist led
34-24 at halftime.
The Red Foxes kept Canisius in
check for the second half by hit-
ting eight three-point field goals
in the second half Marist saw its
lead grow
to
as big as 12 points
( 40-28) when Ryan Stilphen hit
his third three.point shot of the
year at the 16:20 mark.
The
Griffins would get as close as
three points in the second half
(46-43), but Marist closed the
game out by hitting their free-
throws, and the game ended with
a 68-62 win for the Red Foxes.
Head coach Matt Brady said he
was very pleased
with
his team's
perfonnance.
"They, are a very gutsy team
and they are a mirror image of
our team," he said.
"We had
enoug
h
shots to hold them off."
Marist fi
n
ished the game
shooting 49 pe
r
cent, while
Canisius only shot 39.3 percent
from the floor.
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