VOLUME 69, ISSUE 1B
FOUNDED IN
1.966
THURSDAY, MACRH
2,
2006
Presidential candidates show grace under fire in debate
By
ALEX PANAGIOTOPOULOS
Campus
Editor
ing money to clubs.
In their opening statements,
Conway said her goal on campus
was a sense of unity and com-
mon respect, while Bivona pro-
posed a ''Campus Crawl"
for
campusJ ... building and strength-
ening is all that is needed to be
implemented."
Bivona said that Marist needs
to
analyze where it is spending
its money.
S G A - -
- - - - - - - - - - -
"I
don't
ripostes that were thrown around
club access to debit accounts,
stories and pooled its resources.
on Speech Night on Monday
,
with Marist controlling alloca-
Conway and Bivona agreed a
funding for clubs is provided for tions.
negative trend is the lack of con-
by hundreds of thousands of dol-
A strong point in Conway
'
s
tested posts in this SGA election.
tars drawn
from
every student's
answers was proposing to keep
"I think that it's important to
activity fee.
the SGA office doors open, "to have healthy competition," she
Class of 2007 president Mary
Ellen
Conway
and
Vice
President for Athletic Affairs
Todd Bivona debated Tuesday
night on MCTV for the contested
position of
SGA
president.
members
to
visit
dormito-
ries
and
meet stu-
'Every
club adds to diversity among
people [on campus]
...
bulldlngand
strengthening is all that
Is
needed
to be Implemented.'
The
- - - - - - - - - - - -
[get]
a
said. "We need to grow, to
learn
SGA
has
'Something
that needs lo be experl-
more per-
[from that compelition].
I
think
any clubs
input but
enced Is to let us know, let us hear
sonal, h"eart
that more
publicity
... would ere-
feel
that
Students can vote in the elec-
tion on the Marist College
web-
site beginning on March 6 at
11 :00
a.m and ending at 7 p.m.
on March 8.
Two
questions
apiece during the debate were
posed
by
Louis Ortiz of MCTV,
Steve Waiculonis of Marist
Radio, and a humble representa-
tive from the Circle. Many of the
questions revolved around con-
fusion over the
SGA
budget and
it~
assumed influepce in award-
should be certainly
your voice, saying that we can't
to
heart
ate more [student] enrollment."
~~t
;:i~.
11~
·
:; :
0
:
r
:h:
afford to cut any of these programs;
:~~en:~t-~ de!:1!:~;~~~!: ,1:s~e
stu
-
dents.
t h i n k b I an ch
they are what make Maris! unique.'
I
want to
"We'd like
to
think that govern-
Conway
said that
- MaryEllen
Conway something that
bas
listen
to ment represents all cultures on
_
Todd Bivona
their con-
campus
,
" he said. "Our voice is
Student Body
President candidate that needs
been sug•
she has a
to be expe•
gested by
plan for coming
up
from
funding
rienced is to let us know
,
let us
some can•
Student Body President
candidate cems."
heard on certain issues [at board
Bivona
said that as president he would
of trustees meetingsJ. Ifs time
for
us
to
go
to
you
guys ... because you're our boss,
so we want
to
hear
what you
have to say."
for clubs.
hear your voice
,
saying that we
didates
'
speeches and the rumors
"I
believe that small clubs can
can
'
t afford to cut any of these
flying around campus regarding
encourage unity among the cam-
pus media, making The Circle,
MCTV
,
and
WMAR
a conglom•
erate that worked together on
become
successes," she said.
"Every club adds to diversity
among
people
[on
programs
;
they are what make
the Black Student Union and
Marist College unique."
ARCO.
However, despite the verbal
Bivona proposed giving each
\llce-pmsident
of
Student
Ute Sk)bhan Skerrlt and
Vlce
prestdent
of
Club Affairs Matthew Hrttenmark
present
Jake Marshall, a St Jude's
patient,
with a
IOft
from the Menst communn:y during SGA's St. Jude
'Up TIii
Dawn,'
Fl1day, Feb. 24.
Students stay
'Up 'til
Dawn'
By
CASSI MATOS
Co Editor ,n Chief
mg
1:
ampaign. 1hc All Team Mceung.
where
sill·
Jenb
addrcs'i
tcue~
to friends
,
fanuly
,
local
,1rgamzations and any,1ne they thmk can hdp in
As stutk-nts cntcrl!d "\.fcC'rum\
grey gym.
l1rdct to c:i.plam \\ hal SL.
Jude
is all a.bout nn<l to
Fndav
,
Februal)
24. evet)onl!' was handed a hos--
a.<;k lor dunat,nru..
fbe
Jeuer•wrihng campmgn
pit.a.I
hracelet "ith
Jake
\1arshall"s name.
age.
1s
dont
~
in t~ams: approximate-I)'
.:!2
team!'! to\1k
and
cancer
tyre
part
The
bro1ccleL,
much hke the one Jake
Man.hall
!\.·lost of the teams
\\c:re
madc.:
up
of s1uJc-nb
\\ears
when
he b a - - - - - - - - - - - - -
im·ohed in
resident
:i.,t\1-
pat,cnt
at
St
Jude
'It's
really heartbreaking to hear
some
Children
·
•
Re;carch
of their
stories.
II
makes you
want
to
Hospital
,
Vv~
a
,i
ible
do whatever
you can
to
help.'
i;yrnbol I
hat
t'\
eryonc
p
r
esent
wa'>
Joined
tog~th1..'T
under thc 'ik!mc
C~u.l<;.C-
Up •til Da\,n is an even! tha1 tak~ place on
college
c:unpu:.cs across !he nation and 1s the
culmination
c;,f
four monlhs of fun<lra1sing. on
behalf tll St. Jude Thi'- ,tudenl•led, student-run
fmuJ-rar-cr is hosted
by
O\Cr
150
..::ollc~cs and
universities nationwide, and this
)ear,
for the
fiN
time, Mari'-1 College took par1
1
he lin,;t C\'cnt
,
held in Octohcr,
1s
a lcncr-writ-
Ml'l TA.
d1..6fll cuum:11,
while
sonw
wcrt" ju~t grnups of
frit?ads
v.
ho
dct:1dcd to
come
out
for tht~ cau.,e.
Al the end of 1hc fund-nn mg year
c:impuscs
host a Linalc C\ent and sta\-
l'p
·111
Dawn .. cel-
chraung their achievement...,
\1~hall \\ .., joint.-d by his famll) an<l more
lhan 300 :,,tudenb,, durmg: '"Up 'til Du..-.-n. \\ herl.."
Manhew lliuenmarlc,
as..~i~unl
director for the
c..'\-·en1. wa~ plca:-ed to announce Mari~t has raised
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7
Marist students journey to
Mexico, aim to help village
By CLAIRE SEMDER
tunity
,
and I'm
hoping
that this
explained about the
misconcep-
Circle Contributor
·
experience will tell me more
tion of the trip and its location
.
about where
I
am and where
I
am
"
What's going on
here
that it•s
Spring break has new mean•
~in~,"
he said.
"[I'm
also]
such a beautiful _place where
ing for
a
group of Marist
Stu·
dents as they venture to Mexico
,
not
to lounge
on the beaches of
Cancun, but to aid the people in
fflC-
small fishing
village of
Progreso.
The trip, set up by Marist
Global Outreach, is composed of
eight students and led by Jamie~
Williams
,
Campus Ministry's
head of community service.
Global Oulreach is a student-ini-
tiated,
non-profit
organization
that has regularly sent missions
abroad in the past
but
has not
done so in recent years.
During their trip, the students
will be helping those less fortu-
nate 01eet local needs, from
repairing and cleaning houses to
spending time with families.
Marist students will be the only
American support team working
and living in Progreso during the
week of March
11
to 19.
However
,
Universidad Marista,
whom the Global Outreach
group works closely with, is only
30
minutes away in Merida
,
Mexico.
The students will immerse
themselves in the culture and
lifestyle of the people they help,
living in a
rented
house in
Progreso. Maggie Brittle
,
a
freshman
International
Communication major going on
the trip, said the group will see
traveling from a different per-
spective.
"It's so easy to go to another
country as a traveler, where you
stay in your first class hotels,"
she said. "But to really get your
bands dirty and
to
live with the
people, it's a once
in
a
lifetime
experience."
Sophomore Eric Zedalis said
he feels both excited and scared
about
the
trip.
"[I'm] excited for the oppor•
scared because I don't really care
for Mexican food and all every-
one keeps telling me is 'don't
drink
the water.
"'
He also feared he would not
have his passport in time
because
it
expired
,
requiring him
to pay an extra fee to have it
expedited.
The
interest
in the trip to
Mexico was high, which made it
difficult to choose a core group.
Williams said she selected the
group she thought would work
best together as a team and spec-
ified that fluency in Spanish was
not
a requirement
"We were
really looking
for a
good
mix of people who
had
people are suffering so
much?
"
She wants the group to think
critically about this idea while
they
Me
there.
The Marist Community has
not only contributed to the
Global Outreach trip with dona-
tions but also with time. On
February
17,
Pass the Broccoli
Grandpa, a band
·
composed of
three Marist students, preformed
at
a coffee
house near Vassar
College called The Cubbyhole
,
.
where they accepted contribu-
tions to help fund the trip.
According to Danielle
LaMountain,
a
sophomore who
represented the group at the con-
cert
,
"The students were very
b o t h - - - - - - - - - - - - -
generous
w
i
t
h
the i.r
don
a -
tions,"
making
the event
service
experi-
ence and
also had
experi-
e n c e
combin-
ing serv•
ice with
re
flee-
'A lot of the world's poor live In some
of the most beautiful places under
creation. What's going on here that
It's such a beautiful place where peo-
ple are suffering so much?'
a
SUC·
-Jamie
Wlltlams
cess. The
Head of
community service,
Campus Ministry
g
r o u
p
tion," Williams said. "We really
tried to pick people as they
might fit into a group."
According to Zedalis, the
application questions were
"
deep
and thought•provoking. They
really wanted to mold us into a
team and to know our
motiva-
tions."
During fund.raising activities,
Aurora
Israelson,
the student
leader
of the group, noted that
other students did not fully
understand the objectives of the
trip. She observed that many
scoffed at the word Mexico,
believing they were paying for
another studeat•S
'
<vacation."
"A lot of the world's poor live
in some of the most beautiful
places under creation
,
" Williams
has also
held a 50/50 raffle and a letter
writing
campaign
to
raise
money.
Fund.raising
efforts will con•
tinue
on campus until the group
leaves
in order
to
lower the out•
of-pocket expenses for the stu-
dents. "We need all the help we
can get," Zedalis said,
"If
you
see any of our fund.raising activ-
ities please donate."
Williams wants the students to
gain 'a "heightened sense of
global citizenship" through their
experiences. She
hopes
to make
annual trips to
places
around the
world where people are in need
and for Marist College
to
contin~
ue its service internationally.
FEATURES: SEE ALL THE SIGHTS, BE YOUR OWN
ADVENTURE
Alyssa
Tucci
recounts
her unique
cultural immersion Into
French
culture, style
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THURSDAY, MARCH
2,
2006
www.marlstclrcJe.com
Security Briefs:
SGA says:
·
We can rebuild John Gildard
We have the moustache technology
By BRIAN SABELLA
Goddess of
Love
To my little lambs,
It's your general here again, Brian "Webster
should
have been on the air a Jot longer than
it
was" Sabella.
And let me
say,
this week was
rough.
John Gildard and I
did
not get to have our
week-
ly
meeting and l feel as if a part of me is
missing
because
of it. In his honor, however, I have put in
the
"What
John Gildard Might Have Said" quote of
the week. I hope to do the big man justice.
Also, I am very proud of all of you. There were
NO fire
alarms
because of burnt food this week. I
would like to take this opportunity
,
to take com-
plete credit for this
b
ecause of
my ridiculitlg all of
you.
I applaud myself on all
the
hard work I
put
in.
Enjoy.
l/22 -
Marian
4:05
AM
This is what
I
love
about Marian. Its
4
o'clock
in the morning and they're still getting in
trouble
.
This time
,
an unauthorized guest from Staten
Island tried to get in using a friend's ID.
Even
though the security guard was half
asleep,
he
still
caught the pc;rp. That's pretty bad if you can't get
past the
security
guard
'
at
4 in the AM. Better luck
next time boss.
2/22
"";o
Chunpagnat lf.•113:1~ PM
Here
is one
that }Jrings a tear to rq.y eye because
I'm just so proud of these little
lambs.
A student
was caught trying to bring in a
24
pack of Bud
Light in a shopping bag. WOW! Not
only
was it
a WEDNESDAY when this
happened
,
but it was
THREE
IN THE
AFTERNOON! These
students
were going beyond pre-gaming. This borders on
alcoholism.
l/23 -
McCano
11:23
PM
A student reported that someone had
stolen
his
bike from
the
McCann Center during the basket-
ball game. He proceeded to scour the campus for
it, tiut turned up nothing. A security guard on
patrol noticed a vintage Hulk Hogan Big Wheels
parked next to Leo that fit the description of the
stolen bike.
It
was returned and all is well in
wrestling land.
THE
"WHAT
JOHN GILDARD
MIGHT HAVE
SAID"
QUOTE OF
THE
WEEK
2/24
-
West Cedar Street
This one makes me proud to be an upper class-
men.
A student was seen walking down West
Cedar Street carrying a
stop sign.
Yes, a
stop
sign.
Complete with post and all. Security was notified,
they confronted the student and said "NO SIGN
FOR YOU!" The boy walked home
sad
that he had
carried that heavy sign and didn't even get to keep
it. Here. I would think John Gildard would
say
"Probably was gonna
set
up a driving
school
in his
living
room or something."
Rrst of all, I have been to this
"Red
Bar,"
and It
Is
definitely
not red. Second of all
...
well I
really have no second of all.
BUT 11'5 NOT
REDII
**Brian's
Brief
of the Week**
once, wouldn't
you
lock the door so they
couldn't
do it again? How are
you
no~ living in Marian
,
buddy?
These students were going
beyond pre-gaming. This bor-
ders on alcohollsm.
2125 -
Cbampagnat I AM
You crazy freshman. There
is
one
who
walks
amongst
you crazier than all the rest. This
young
lady was found by
security
highly intoxicated.
When
asked
how
she got
this way,
she said she
bad
been to the "Red Bar"
·
and
consumed
two bottles
of
vodka while there.
Huh? First
of
all,
I
have been to this-
"Red
Bar,"
and it is definitely not red.
Second of all.
..
well
I
really have no
second
of
all.
BUT IT'S
NOT
RED!!
**GUEST
BRIEF OF
THE WEEK**
by Annie "I love We Didn't Start the Fire"
Foakley
2125 -
'
Champagnat
I AM
Oh,
Champagoat. Not only
have you
garnered a
reputation as
a
nationally ranked
STD
dorm
,
but
2/24 -
McCaon and Sheahan Parking Lot
you breed some
of
Marist's finest intellectuals
.
On
Safutda.y, 2/25, 3
'ltudent reported
ti
"lar,!?e
Here's o_ne for the record ~o<:>ks. A
s
_
t
.
~~en!
~,!~
q
fl}{l0
_
1,Wi\'
,
'
,
of JlMl.pey
.
.!i.t.ole~ ~t
h,;n
.,
W.ben
sc;f\\l~
~tr
,
seen
standing next
10 •
.
kep
in
the l'Ac
,
Can.
n
loi
•l)~
~•~~4
l!ii•
menl~IIN
acuto f,esbmon
Jww
this coulii
talkmg to the p~ople ms1de. He
,
su4~~~1y
b
,?
!ic~ l\~Y,~,4&ppene
,
~rl,Q-~
,
ittu~nt..,r.tpJ.ii;,tithat the room
away and ran towards the Sheahan
staircase.
'1ttie was
"locked
but unlocked." I ,for
one, applaud
Jeep followed in hot pursuit and beat the
student
to this
student
of their understanding of
subjective
the
stairs.
When
securi
ly
confronted them, all the reality
.
But lock your doors. kids
.
student would say was "You may have won, but I
beat you off the
line
."
2/24 -
Gartland
Here is one that r~ally makes you think. A stu-
dent left his house at 5:30 PM and returned at
roughly 9 PM to find a
shutt
le
bus sign from the
basketball game in his
livin
g
room. He left again
and returned
shortly
and found the
sign
was
still
there, and now one of the pillow covers from his
couch cushions was missing.
There are so many things to make fun of here I
doa't even know where to start. My main question
is,
howe
ver,
if
somebody
came into your house
2/27 -
Mid
rise
9:58 PM
Here is why Marist is ranked
among
the top
col-
leges in the
country.
A group of Midrise kids tried
to be
sneaky
and get their two unregistered
guesls
in by
swip
ing
their cars quickly without notice
.
When the
secu
rit
y
guard noticed this
craziness
,
the little rodents ran for it. That's right
,
a track
meet began. When
security
went to the
suite
and
found the two unregistered guests and forced them
to leave
,
one
student
could be heard
say
ing
"If
only Alex Huot was here. Then we
would
have
gotten away with it."
·-·
Cllllllhllll
Thursday, Mar.
2
Poet,
Memolrlst
Mark
Doty
8P.M.
Nelly Galetti Theater
SGA
ELECTIONS
11 A.M. Mar.
6 • 7
p.m,
March
8.
Vote on Marist website with
K
·
ACCOUNT
Tuesday,
Mar. 7
Sex Lecture: Elaine Pasqua
7
P.M. PAR
Wednesday,
Mar. 8
SPC Broadway Trip:
Hairspray
Ti
ckets
on sale for trip that
will be
on:
Sunday, March 26
10 AM Departure
$25
with
Marist ID
Fridl!Y,
Mar. 3:1,
,
"
OAR.
Ticket Prices:
Marlst students: $10
Other students:
$15
Public tickets:
$25
Student pre-sale: 2/27
General on
-sa
le: 3/7
Disclaimer: The Security Brleft are
in/ended as
sruire
and fully protected
free
speech
under the
Firsl
Amendment of
th
e
Cons
tilurion.
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day
children go through
frightening
experiences
and are not so
lucky to
have the comfort of a friend.
You
can help by donating
a
new teddy bear
tbat
will
be a friend to a cbild
in
need.
Until April 9, new teddy bears can be dropped off in the SGA
Office in the
Student
Center, the Housing Office or Fulton
Townhouse 2E.
Cash
donations for the purchase of
additional bears will also be
accepted at
MSC
12489.
Call Kaitlin at ext. 5254 for more information.
Donations
to the Teddy Bear Cares program
will
be
made
in
memory
of
JI{[
Car6ani
who
not
only
loved
Teddy Bears,
but
was always a friend
to
those
in
need.
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MACRH 2
,
2006
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Marist takes sixth place in 'Battle of the Regions' College Bowl
By
MARIANNE SHAFER
C
i
rc
l
e Contrib
u
tor
On Saturday, Feb. 25, the
ACUI, Association of College
Unions International, Region I
and Region 2 "Battle of the
Regions" College Bowl was held
in
D
o
n
nelly Hall.
Seventeen teams from colleges
and universities across the coun-
ty
participated in the College
Bow
l
, incl
u
d
i
ng a team from
Marist.
Marist's region two team
placed 6 out of 17
with
a record
of
5-3,
according to Miche
ll
e
Fischett
i
,
assistant director of
student activities.
The team players for Marist
included Joe Gentile, Greg
Harris, John Briggs, Mike Diaz,
and
Masha
Mitsengendler.
Gent
i
le was the top scorer for
Marist.
"The tournament is really fun,
but it's a lot different from the
way that we play
it in
school,"
M
i
tsergendler said. ••Whe
n
we
have
it
as a campus-wide tourna-
ment, people are more relaxed
and just have
fun
with it, where-
as
at the regional to
u
rnament,
some of the other teams gefreal-
ly intense about it."
New technology was
used
at
the toumamaent, inc
lu
ding a
screen to disp
l
ay
the
questions
for a hearing impaired student at
RlT and an i
n
terpreter to voice
his answers
to
the officia
l
s.
"RIT
was very t
h
ankful for the
accommodations and the other
teams were open to the format
and displayed great sportsman-
ship," Fischetti said. "The play-
ers,
coaches, and
volunteers
did a
wonderful job."
The questions asked at the tour-
nament included topics of gener-
al knowledge such as
science,
h
i
story and politics.
"The questions got progres-
sive
l
y more difficult throughout
the first day," Marist
team
mem-
ber Briggs said. ''They included
a lot more
science, which
was
the weak point of our team. My
favorite quest
i
on
was about
Danny Glover, and him
starring
lil
the Lethal Weapon series.
I
thought it was random, and
hiia,-
ious."
"I
would say that
overall,
the
tournament was a tremendous
success," states
Fischettie.
The first place team for Region
I
was UMass
Lowe
ll
and the
first place team for Region 2, and
the
overa
ll
w
i
nner, was St.
Bonaventure University.
"We
started off the competition
going 4-0, but then we faced the
three toughest teams
lil
the
tour
-
nament. I'm just glad we staye
d
above
.
500," recalls Briggs. "I
am
very p
l
eased with our per-
fonnance, the team did well and
we worked hard."
"Four
months of hard work.
and it's over," Fischetti said.
Marist band celebrates twentieth anniversary with joy
,
reflection
By
JAMES MARCONI
News
Edi
tor
It has been twenty years since
the
conception
of the Marist
College Band
-
twenty
years
of
growt
h
,
dedication, and
fun,
according to its current director
and members.
Two decades
later, the band is celebrating this
anniversary with gusto.
From
1986 to the p
r
esent day the band
program
has
grown from a two
trumpet ensemb
l
e to 140
stu-
dents participating
in
12
different
ensembles, the largest of which
is the Marist C0llege Band.
The band program's story
begins
one January
night in1986
when Arth
u
r
Himmelberger
r
ece
i
ved
a phone call from the
then-director of the Music
Deputment, Professor Dorothy
Anne Davis.
•
Himmelberger
(now Director of Music and
From
Page One
Bands) was asked to consider
joining the Marist faculty and
direct its band. He
accepted
the
offer, and came here to get his
ensemble ready for a perform-
ance at a basketball game in
Madison Square Garden. At that
point the band, Himmelberger
said,
consisted of two young
trumpet players. Not daunted by
the challenge, he prepared those
two trumpets to play during the
game.
That game, H
i
nunelberger
said,
.. was
the beginning of the legacy
of the Marist College Band. We
played some trumpet cheers, and
when we got back
I
asked them if
they wanted to continue. They
said
sure."
Erom those humble beginnings
to the present, the band program
and the music department in ~n-
eral
have
high anibiti~b¥;
~¢cofd<
Ing
to
l\illitrlel~l,rgef.
Celebrating twenty years of suc
-
cess not only means
l
ooking
back at the band's struggles and
achievements, but also looking
towards
the
future.
Himmelberger said that it is his
hope
to
continue
to
push the
music program to greater suc-
cess.
.. It's the
p
rocess of
trying
to
attain a life goal, and that goal is
still out in front of us,"
Himmelberger said. "Our quest
is that of c
l
imbing a bill; no mat-
ter where We're at, we're only
halfway there." But, be
said,
"If
we use [ superior music pro-
grams] as models and attain that
level of excellence, then we
'II
go
where it is we're supposed to
go."
The strides taken so far has
been· errcoura_gini, said Mike
!<la!)<Jtt/aht,;
Milnagehr
Musi~
Oejlahrlli!nt d/liilad&h!!
In the
'Up Till Dawn
'
for a good
.
cause
$25,565 so far this year.
He
hopes the school will be able to
reach $30,000 before the school
year is over.
A local St. Jude family, the
Marshalls, attended the event to
remind the participants why their
bard work is so important to the
world-renowned
hospital.
Short
l
y before his third birthday
in
2000, Jake Marshall suffered
a
seizure at home.
Tests soen
revea
l
ed he had a brain tumor.
Even after
surgery
and radiation,
Jake was given a 30 percent
chance to live. Then Jake and
his family found St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital,
which as his mothe
r
Kath
l
een
will tell you, gave them
"~ope."
T
oday, Jake bas no traces of
can-
cer and loves to ponder what he
will be when he grows up.
Jake's grandmother was also
an
emp
l
oyee
of Marist Co
ll
ege.
Hittenmark
spearheaded
this
year's event after being invited
to attend a conference for St.
Jude
lil
Tennessee this past
sum-
mer. While at the
conference,
he
met various patients and staff
members and
said
hearing about
their experie
n
ces
was touch
in
g.
"It's rea
ll
y heartbreaking
to
hear some of their
stor
i
es,"
Hittenma
r
k said.
For Hittenmark, whose father
died of cancer when he 10, this is
a
special
cause.
"It
makes
you
want to do
what-
ever you can to help."
The entire event lasted from
6;30 until midnight
and,
lil
order
t
o make the
"Up 'til
Dawn" cele-
bration
something
many students
wou
l
d like to take part
lil
and
attend, a ta
l
ent show was organ-
ized to
fill
much of the night.
A range
of
acts performed,
1 S
in
total, from the Marist College
Dance Team, to the cast of
"That's a Shame,"
as
well
as
var-
ious band, solo and duet per-
formances.
Dan Butler,
senior,
performed a
duet with fellow
senior
Louis
Ortiz, and said the talent show
was the perfect
opportunity
for
students
to
get
invo
l
ved.
"I
had heard about 'Up
'till
Dawn' last
semester
but was dis-
appointed
I
did not get involved
and when
I
heard about the talent
show
I
could not think
of
any
better way to participate than
to
donate my time and provide
some
entenainment in honor
of
the event," Butler
said.
St. Jude is unlike any other
pediatric treatment and research
facility. The hospita
l
is interna-
tionally recognized for its pio-
neering work in finding cures
and
saving
chi
l
dren with cancer
and other
catastrophic
diseases
At St. Jude, where the cost of
operation is $1 mill
i
on a day, no
patient
pays
for
treatment
beyond what is covered by insur-
ance, and those without insur-
ance
are
never asked to pay.
The hospital is ablo
to
keep its
doors opens thanks to the gener-
ous
donatio
n
s made everyday.
At the conc
l
usion of the n
i
ght,
the St. Jude Up
'ti)
dawn execu-
tive boa
r
d, Siobhan
Skerrit,
Catherine Gravia
n
o, B
r
ooke
Heithoff, Alex Hanse
n
and
Alyssa
Oxford, along with the
Student Government were pre-
sented with a three foot trophy
in
honor
of
their achievements,
which now resides
in
the S
t
udent
Government office for all the
commun
i
ty to see. The
engrav•
ing on the trophy, presented on
behalf of Danny Thomas,
fout'lder
of
St. Jude, sums up the
mean
i
ng of the night
"No
Child
Shou
l
d Die in the Dawn of
Time."
past five years alone, be said, the
number of
students
involved
with
the band program has near-
ly
doubled.
Additiona
ll
y,
Napolitano said that the band's
technical
skills
continue
improve,
enab
l
ing it to play a
wider range of pieces.
"I've
been
here for quite a few
years and it's great to
see
that the
quality of the
students
keeps
improv
i
ng/' Napolitano said.
"It's a great thing
to
see the
progress
of
the program.
It's
kind of a
l
abor of love." And
especially
during this· particular
year,
Napolitano
said that he
feels
"a
lot of pride."
While
striving
to attain new
heights, musically
speaking,
bei.ng
a
member of
the
band is
more than just playing notes on a
P~Jei
bc~~~din~
~
'
~
1
S?,11)-~
rf;
its
llWJUb_F{1, the ban~
_
IS
also_ a_
social
entity, a family
.
'A.Ad
Himmelberger, for
some,
has
because of the
support
system
been inspirational both
in
and out she found
in
the band and
of rehearsal.
Himme
l
berger in particular.
"Band
has always been
a
fami-
"He loves you unconditionally,
I)'
for me,"
said sophomore
Kate
even
if you
mess up," said
O
'
Connor.
"You
feel accepted,
Ro
ll
izo. '1t's important
to
have
you feel loved, and there's just a
that sort of a relationship."
common bond that
you
share
That sort of a relations
h
ip,
with
everybody.
[Art]
is like a
accordiQ,g to Napolitano, is a
father.
Mus
i
cally
he puts so
sign of
Himmelberge
r
's
fa
i
th
in
much passion into what be does,
all his students.
you just don't want to disappoint
"Art
makes you take some so
rt
him."
of onus on the music; he makes
Sophomore Amanda
Rollizo you feel that you are a part of a
agreed.
product," Napo
l
itano said. His
"I
just
think
that it's an
amaz
-
obvious
passion for the music
ing thing ...
everyone
coming makes band members want to
together
to
share in their love of perform well, want to accom-
music.
It's like a family, the plisb the most that they poss
ib
ly
band.
I
was kind of nervous
can
in
music and in life. "He
[when
I
joined the band] because doesn't want
students
to give up
I
didn't really play in high on themselves,"' Napolitano said
.
schoq!-"
t!l':i-'
"He always seeS'thl!bestin
peo-
·
-
Thgffl,Wt~al
f~!in~syro
.
':ed
to
pie.';
md Jadi ,no
lH ,
be
finroundect',
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THE CIRCLE •
THURSDAY,
MACRH 2, 2006 •
GOP Governors worried about British gaffes
By
VALERIE CAPULLO, KATE
GOODIN, JOHN SULLIVAN,
PATRICK
TULLY,
CHIRS
YUSKO
Circle
Contributors
Republican governors have
expressed concern that President
George W. Bush's latest mis-
steps-ranging from the Katrina
aftermath to
the
port security
debacle-will affect the public's
confidence
in
the party.
These and other concerns
became
apparent at the recent
National Governors Association
(NGA) meeting.
The Katrina
response and port security blun-
ders
and the. infamous Vice-
President Dick Cheney incident
unnerve
Republicans,
especially
during
an election year.
Martin Shaffer, an associate
professor and chair of Political
Science at Marist College, said
the Bush administration was not
completely bad.
"The Bush administration isn't
necessarily evil, it's
incompe-
tent," said Shaffer. "Their lack
of ability to respond is a prob-
lem. They have been
lucky
with
avoiding the dispute."
Melissa Seitter, political sci-
ence major, Marist College, also
said
recent Bush
blunders
have
severely
affected the administra-
tion's image.
"It has become clear that
in
light of these recent events, more
and more people are beginning to
doubt the Bush administration
and its intentions," said Seitter.
However, the
main
issue at the
NGA meeting was the takeover
of terminals at six U.S. ports by a
United Arab Emirate-owned
company. This raised important
security
questions, since the
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
was home
to
two of the Sept.
11
,
2001 hijackers and Dubai banks
transferred funds for that opera-
tion.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
rec
e
ntly
disclosed the Coast
Guard's
report
on the up.pending
purchase
of Peninsular
&
Oriental
Steam
Navigation
Company (P&O), the
British-
owned cargo terminals, by Dubai
Port World (DPW), the UAE-
based company.
A
recent
CNN .com article indicated the
Coast guard's
reservations
about
the
purchase.
·
"There
are
many
intelligence
gaps c0nceming the potential for
DPW or P&O assets to support
terrorist operations that pre-
cludes an overall threat assess-
ment of
·the
potential
merger,"
the report said.
Collins expressed her own
concern with the lack of attention
paid to the Coast Guard's
report
before the DPW transaction was
ment," Collins said.
Vernon Vavrina, associate pro-
fessor, political science, Marist
College, said some good can
come of the port security issue.
"The
good side of the issue is
that we're giving attention to a
topic that needs investigating,"
he said.
Republican governors are also
concerned with the reconfigura-
tion of the National Guard. A
recent New York Times article
stated that Congress authorized
350,000 positions in the National
Guard, but the
president's
budget
will only cover 330,000 of posi-
lions.
Idaho
Governor Dirk
Kempthome
said governors
should have more input in these
decisions.
"Governors
should be
approved.
involved in these decisions," said
"I
know the administration Kempthorne. There has been too
disagrees. but
I
can only con-
much we learned outside
the
elude there was a rush
in
judg-
loop. It's time we were inside the
loop."
But the port security debate
and National Guard budget allo~
cation are not
the
only issues
worrying Republicans.
The
Katrina incident still dogs the
Bush administration.
The
delayed
response to
hurricane
victims outraged
the
nation and
precipitated questions, particu-
larly about why there was not an
immediate response.
Bob Taft,
R-Ohio,
said putting
FEMA
under
the
jurisdiction
of
the Department of Homeland
Security was shortsighted.
"It
was a mistake to bury
FEMA under the Department of
Homeland
Security," he said.
Democrats hope the
public
will notice the
Republican
party's missteps.
Kathleen Sebelius, D-K.ansas,
in a CNN
interview,
said there is
some uncertainty associated with
the Republican party, made
apparent by the Katrina incident.
"I do think there's a consider-
able degree of skepticism about
what's been happening at the fed-
eral level," she said.
Marist Sophomore Chris
Mullins, said the Republican
party should not be too con-
cerned. Mullins said he saw the
humor in the Cheney quail-hunt-
ing incident, but said it does not
greatly affect the Republican
party.
"I
think
[it]
is funny," he said.
"It hurts them a little bit, not
much at all. It's just that right
now it's fresh in everyone's
mind."
Brian Deysher, a freshman
digital
media major at Marist,
also said Bush's mistakes will
not affect the elections.
"It doesn't
really
matter at this
point
... Whoever hales the
Republicans will still hate
.
them,
and
whoever doesn't, doesn't," he
said.
National concerns over ports grow, Marist takes its own stance
BY MARGAUX
LIPPMAN,
SERA LAGANELU, JENNIFER
BUAK,
AND SCOTT TOOHILL
Circle Contributors
With
the rapid development of
the sale of six major U.S. ports to
Dubai Ports World, a company
rooted in
the United Arab
Emirates, national concern over
our safety and economy are
growing. However, the Marist
campus has a decidedly different
outlook on the situation.
Nationwide, concerns over this
issue
reverberate
and, as more
facts surface, opinions on the
issue fluctuate.
bsucs
such
a,
safety, economy, the withholding
of information and the missteps
of
\Ile
l;llflli,
jlllmi!iis~op
are
draw.m~."l.".i8rm1int!g~ fr9,n:1the
media and the public.
Despite years of counterterror-
ism measures including the pass-
ing of the Patriot Act, this new
deal
seems to much of the
American public to be a direct
contradiction of what the Bush
administration has stood for.
David
Osipovich,
Ph.D.
Philosophy, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy says, "The [Bush]
administration isn't really com-
mitted to the things that they
claim they
are
committed to" be
said, citing the administration's
stance
on
counterterrorism and
other matters. He warns, howev-
er that there's no contradiction in
stances due to the "lackadaisical
way they go about security."
Not only are the security of the
United States and the controver-
sy surrounding the six U.S. ports
key issues, but the safety of the
economy i!i at hand as well.
The U.S.
economy
is depend-
ent on the flow of goods in and
out
of
her ports. Philip J.
ri~:f;;~f~:~:;~a1~!~~:Se :::
Homeland Security at the Center
for American Progress said,
"Any
interruption in the global
movement of goods, whether
because of terrorism, a storm or
dockworker
strike,
can instantly
cause billions in economic loss-
es."
Dubai Ports World's control of
six U.S. ports could potentially
have detrimental effects on the
world economy if security was
breached.
Crowley said, "If a
nuclear
or radiological device
were smuggled into the United
States through one of these ship-
ping containers, it could shut
down the world economy."
Many on the Marist campus
find a threat caused specifically
by Dubai to be unlikely.
Lynn
Eckert,
Ph.D.
Philosophy,
Assistant Professor of Political
Science said
"'The
larger
ques-
tion isn't about Dubai. It's
'are
our ports safe?' The answer is no,
irr«cSpe,ctive of if we're talking
about tiorway, Latin America or
the Middle East occupying our
ports.".
Alfie Mancuso, a sophomore,
mirrored her sentiment and
believes that the ports may now
be safer than ever because
"the
.great
attention that bas been paid
to this issue will most likely
epsure that
both
the
government
and the company will step up
security
at the port." Junior Chris
Arena had a similar outlook, say-
ing that "merging the ports
would allow for the corporations
that have interest
in
these ports to
hire their own personal security
within the area, which
could do
a
better job in keeping the area
secure."
Another issue of concern with
the proposed sale Of the current-
ly British-owned ports is that the
Coast Guard has been concerned
about intelligence gaps and safe-
ty since December of 2005.
On
Monday,
Congress
met to dis-
cuss the issue more in-depth.
f\P.P,8ft;Qtly~ the 3eP,rehensiQn felt
11"1
IM
~ t
u!Wd
In
December
was not enough to warrant a need
for a 45-day investigation
since
the Coast Guard is not a Cabinet-
level agency. The Coast Guard
felt the need to alarm due to wor-
ries that not enough
information
had
been
obtained
to
ensure that
there would
be
no breach of Osipovich,
Ph.D.
Philo.,
security.
Assistant
Professor
of
The report, issued in Philosophy. ''But," he said, ..
it
December, was
never
given to deserves public attention."
the Bush administration's review
Lynn
Eckert, Ph.D. Philo.,
panel, who then approved the
Assistant Professor of Political
deal on January 23rd. Senate Science, however, believes that
panel
chairwoman,
Susan the mentality of those in
Dubai
Collins (R-Maine), citing from
isn't a problem due to the fact
an unclassified
portion of
a
Coast that they are a "poster child of
Guard document said, "There westernization." She goes on to
were many
intelligence
gaps note that Dubai is
"where
you go
concerning the
potential
for if
YQU
want a taste of the west."
DPW or
P&O
assets to support Eckert believes that the treat-
terrorist operations that pre-
ment of the situation with Dubai
eludes an overall threat assess-
"smacks
a little of racism" and
ment of the potential merger."
According to Coast Guard
administrator Thomas Gilmore,
all of their concerns had been
addcesso<I
fi;Qm D.,.:emt\qt
Uoli.114
,1)1~
~aj~ricy
,Af
Americans, Marist faculty are
less concerned
with the threat of
terror than they are with the mis-
steps of the administration.
"People are hysterical and they
shouldn't
be"
said
David
that
"Dubai
is a beacon for the rest
of
the middle east, even as they
face resentment" for investment
in
lhe \Ves1em world,
."
J~
.
~.
we need to evaluate our owh
gaps in
sCCurity
before
address-
ing
any matters regarding a "ter-
rorist" outlook.
Red Cross Katrina reactions raises apprehension about organizational skills
By
GREG HRINYA, JAMES
PAFUMI,
RYAN RESTIVO,
SARAH SANDSTED
Circle
Contributors
Concerns
surrounding
the
American Red Cross' history of
disorganiz.ation were heightened
after
its
reaction to Hurricane
Katrina.
According to the Associated
Press, an October 2001 e-mail
advised Red Cross
C
hairman
David McLaughlin to solve the
disorganized group's internal
disputes. The e-mail came after
the Red Cross, the nation's
largest
charity, lost its Chief
Ex.ecutive Officer Bernadine
Healy
who resigned due to
charges
of
mismanaging
September 11th donations.
A report from the House of
Representatives said that the Red
Cross' response after Hurricane
Katrina was
"overwhe
lmed
by
water, food and supply short-
ages." The report indicates that
internal disputes have hindered
the Red Cross' ability to handle
the world's recent natural disas-
ters.
Senator Charles Grassley, R-
lowa, Senate Finance Committee
chairman and overseer of chari-
table organizations, said the Red
Cross
Board of Directors could
not continue as they were cur-
rently functioning.
"Business-as-
u
sua
l
cannot con-
tinue," Grassley
said.
Similarly, some Marist College
students
such as
sophomo
re
Geoff
Watkinson,
claim
Hurricane Katrina was not
han-
dled correctly by the Red Cross.
"Too
many lives were lost.
They
should
do a lot more with
the
resources
they
have,"
Watkinson said.
Corey Reynolds,
sophomo
re
,
criminal
justice major, said that
Hurricane Katrina was not han-
dled correctly, but does not
blame the ineffective reaction of
the Red Cross on the internal dis-
putes.
"The
most important negative
effect was the impossibility of
handling a natural disaster such
as Hurricane Katrina," Reynolds
said.
"Any
time people are unsat-
isfied with the way in which an
organization
handl
es
that type of
situation; they look inside rather
than outside to place the
blame
."
John
James Fahey, associate
professor, communications, also
supports the Red Cross.
''The Red Cross can only do so
much," Fahey said,
"They
re
spond
to any state's request for
help. Going into New Orleans
was
like going into a war zone."
James
Chappas,
social studies
teacher, Ror C. Ketchum High
Sc
hool
,
argues that internal dis-
putes are not the most
important
problem the Red Cross faces.
"The Red Cross. will begin to
have a better response time as
soon as they restructure their
hi
e
rarchy
of
command,"
Chappas
said.
Like Chappas, Assistant
Professor of Communication,
Mary Alexander, Ph.D, claims
the pecking order within the Red
Cross is the
source
for many of
its problems.
"There isn't a clear hierarchy
of communication and control
within the Red Cross' adminis-
tration," Alexander said,
'11te
Red Cross is in a stage of
advanced bureaucracy that needs
to be revised."
To appease several criticisms of
the Red Cross' administration,
the charity's representatives told
the AP Monday that they would
do all they could to improve.
"The American Red Cross is
committed to
learning
from our
prior challenges and making the
necessary changes," the repre-
sentatives said.
The Red Cross also said that it
will fully cooperate with the
Senate committee's
review
and
improve
coordination
with
FEMA and
local
charity groups.
Uncertainty with
the
Red
Cross' distribution techniques
stemmed from the tragedy of
Sept.
11. According to
a
November 2001 CNN report; the
Red Cross raised over S l billion
after Sept. 11 and only disbursed
$34
million
of these funds.
Furthermore, only
$564
million
was raised for the Liberty Fund,
a
charity
exclusive
l
y
for
responding to Sept. 11.
Alexander,
assistan
t
professor,
communication,
ju
st
ified
the Red
Cross's
actions during the after-
math of Sept.
I I.
"I don't think the
sca
odal
sur-
rounding Sept. 11 was a mali-
cious act," Alexander
said,
"Something
went wrong, and
people responded as such."
Chappas, the social studies
teacher, also defended the Red
Cross by
highlighting
its positive
actions during Sept. 11.
"The
Red Cross was very quick
in its response to Sept. 11,"
Cbappas said, "It was the Red
Cross
that began to search for
s
urvivors
."
Growing international role of People's Republic of China merits understanding of CCP
BY
JEFF
ZIMMERMAN
Circle
Contributor
Imagine
a political organization
that boasts I out of every
I
00
humans as members. In China
it's known as the "Gong Chan
Dang"
in the West it's known as
the
Chinese Communist Party
(CCP). China's growing role on
the
international stage necessi-
tates an understanding of who's
governing it. The key to under-
standing China is understanding,
the CCP. For almost all purpos-
es there is no distinction between
the Party and the government.
class, so long as there are
no
The three key aspects are its
attempts to democratize. This
environment, membership, and
situation has worked so far, but
organization.
Recently, theses cannot continue. Either the mid-
three areas have been evolving die class will rise to demand
and in some ways are currently at democratic reforms, or some
a breaking point.
downturn in the current econom-
Globalization and economic ic trajectory will cause massive
development have placed great strife and tunnoil. In the mean
strains on the Party's external time, enjoy the status quo, while
environment. Trade and marke-
it lasts.
tization have given rise to a
strong private sector. So far, the
all-controlling Party bas struck a
"Faustian bargain" with the peo-
ple. They will continue to allow
freer markets and a rising middle
Two distinct patterns arise out
of analyzing the membership of
the Party over the past
50
years.
One, the Party has failed to
attract the popular support of the
younger generation.
Only 22
percent of party members are
under
35.
Some have dubbed it
the "Grandpa
Party".
Two, it's
drastic shift from it's traditional
worker/farmer base to the
wealthy and academic elites. In
the mid I 950's 83 percent of the
party was, by occupation, an
industrial
worker or fanner. By
2002 that number bad
dropped to
45
percent. The party had aban-
doned its ideals for money and
power. Now, on average Party
members enjoy a higher level of
education,
larger
houses, and
more savings,. than non-mem-
bers.
Recently the organization of
the party
has
changed drastically.
Signs that the Party is fracturing
have, begun to show. There has
been an increase in political cor-
ruption
,
infighting, and a deterio-
rating ideology. 80.3 percent of
party members support growth
over socialist
ideology
,
There is
also a disconnect between how
the president Hu
Jintao
acts
in
certain arenas. He must show
one face to promote the interests
of the wealthy to appease them,
and he must show another to the
rural
poor (be spent much of the
recent new years
holiday
touring
the
countryside). However when
these interests clash be usually
chooses the
latter.
The Party, as well as the coun-
try
as a whole has important
crossroads and thresholds
to
deal
with.
So far, the economic
development and the gradual
withdrawal of Party control over
certain areas seems promising.
But, there are still numerous
challenges to China's economic,
political, and environmental situ-
ation. Anyone who claims to be
sure of what exactly what will
happen in China doesn't know
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Common sense can alleviate security concerns of ports deal
By JAMES MARCONI
News Editor
When
you get
right down to
it,
issues
of
security, especially
national security, boil
down
to
common sense.
as a legitimate government.
Given these concerns, a bi-par-
tisan group of
lawmakers on
Capitol Hill has decided
that
turning
the management of some
of
the
most vital ports in America
Ports
World is a state-owned
business
based
in
a
Middle
Eastern country,
the
United Arab
Emirates.
Now officially, the
UAE is an ally
iri
this part
of the
world,
and an
ally
in
the
increas-
i
n
g
1
y
to a com-
important
President Bush has expressed con- p
a n
y
war
00
ter-
cems about allenaUng a valuable
owned and
ror.
U.S.
II
I h
J
lfyl
th
rl
based
in
Navy
ships
a
y
wt out ust
ng
e secu ty
the
UAE
frequently
risk posed.
could
pose
stop there,
- - - - - - - - - - - -
a threat
to
and the country is a supply depot
the security of said ports.
In
fact,
for troops stationed
in
Iraq.
despite President Bush's con-
ough review," Frist said
last
Tuesday. (www.cnn.com)
The
Bush
administration
con-
tinues to argue, though,
that
the
deal
was properly
looked
into,
and
poses absolutely no
threat
to
the
safety and security of the
United States.
President
Bush
has expresse~ concerns about
alienating
a
valuable ally without
justifying the security
risk posed
should
DP
World take over the
ports. Bush has even
threatened
to veto any and all
legislation
passed
and Clinton on this one. It's not
that
I
have anything against the
UAE
in
general and DP World
in
particular.
From what
I
can
glean from news sources and
DP
World's own website, the com-
pany seems
to
be
doing very well
at managing ports around the;
world.
In
short,
it
is exceedingly
good at what it does. The ques-
tions surrounding
the
UAE's
connections to terrorism is ample
justification, though
,
for looking
into the
matter
a little further.
As
it happens, actually,
DP
World and
P&O themselves have
requested a 45-day investigation
into
the deal itself
and the operat-
ing standards of
DP
World.
Take
this
whole
ports issue, for
exaJDple. A
British
company,
Peninsular
and
Oriental
Steam
Navigation
Company
(P&O, for
short) currently manages opera-
tions at six major
ports
in
the
United
States.
Recently, stock-
holders from
'
P&O voted
to
accept an offer to sell the compa-
ny to Dubai Ports World for 6.8
bi11ion
dollars.
Through
this
financial transaction, the man-
agement of operations would
be
transferred from
P&O
to Dubai
Ports
World
.
Really, when you
get right down to it, the deal was
simple, clean. and quite
legal.
Unofficially
,
though, the UAE cems that
delaying
implementa-
has questionable ties to terrorists.
tion of the deal could send
Two of the
9/11
hijackers
came
'mixed
messages' to a valuable
from the UAE and the country is
and loyal ally, even Senate
largely considered to be a Majority Le&der Bill Frist
(R-
throughway for terrorist
business
TN}
wants the deal
painstakingly
transactions. The UAE has also
inve
stigated.
t
o
The quesUons sunoundlng the UAE's
de
I
a
Y
connections
to
terrorism Is ample jus-
::fn\::
tlflcatlon, though, for looking Into the
tion of
matter a little further.
For
com-
plete peace
of mind,
a
slight post-
ponement
before the
"We recognize
that
there are
concerns regarding
DP
World's
acquisition of
P&O's
U.S.
termi-
nal operations," said
the
compa-
ny's
COO,
Ted
Bilkey.
"We
are
confident that
the further review
by [the
Committee
OD
Foreign
Investment
in the
United States]
will confirm that
DP
World's
acquisition of
P&O's
U.S. opera-
tions does
not
pose any
threat
to
America's safety and security."
(www.cnn.com)
As far as
l
'm
concerned,
that
pretty
much clinches it.
While
the acquisition was
initially
app,oved
by
the
Treasury
Department, this case stilt merits
further
review
.
Congress
has
ex.pressed
an
interest, the people
have
expressed
an
interest, and
There is, however
,
a slight
problem,
one
which
has
Congress up
in anns.
Dubai
been accused of shipping nuclear
"If
the administration cannot
materials to North Korea, Libya
,
delay the process, I plan on intro-
and Iran, and was one of three ducing legislation to ensure that
countries worldwide to
recog-
the deal is placed on
hold
until
nize the
Taliban
in Afghanistan
this decision gets a more thor-
the
DP
World deal.
If he
made
good
on
that threat, it would be the first
veto
he has
used during the
course of his
presidency.
1
really hate to say it, but I'm
with Senators Frist, Schumer,
deal
goes
through is definitely in order.
Really, it's just common sense; if
you have questions or doubts
about something, you will
natu-
rally want to get answers for
your own satisfaction.
SEE PORTS, PAGE 6
Republican control may be reason for Bush's reluctance to veto
ByDAN BLACK
Staff
Writer
In
his five-plus years so far as
president, Bush
has
never exer-
cised his execotive right to veto.
Numerous threats have been
made, each of them never real-
ized.
How has such a pro-active
president been able to avert
using
pethaps
the
1·ob's
nio'#
fund~-
1
rTICiltar'io611
Many CoiiCC'iVabte
answers have been offered, of
course the only rational one com-
ing from the Democrats.
The basic story you'
II
hear
from
the
President
'
s
side
includes fairy tales of how effi-
ciently today's government is
functioning without the need for
such extreme
measures.
Because
Republicans
control
every
branch of government, it follows
that they have a common agenda,
see eye to eye on the best way to
govern
,
and perform well
togeth-
er with very few bumps along
their
predetermined
path.
Clearly this is a model for other
demo(lnltieJ
·
natiot1SJ
ll0J
,
fotldw.
I
Busbl~tiU
ill
iiilbhai'!iildRl:l
must
keep the underlings reminded of
that by occasionally making a
show of force
to
keep the rest of
the group moving in his step.
What
a
lo
ve
ly
,
warm-fuzzy
image that
engende
rs in
my
heart.
This is far from the true
reason-
ly
becomes
obsolete
,
it
indicates
ing behind Bush
'
s never needing
a
strong
likelihood that
the
to veto. Recall the purpose of
a
American design of government
president's power to Veto, and
bas
been
debased
,
Bush's crimes
immediately the absence of as president are parking tickets in
vetoes from a time period
comparison
to
this new order of
exceeding
an
entire presidential
conducting business; although
it
: ; ; d:
Bush's crimes as president are parking
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shud-
tlcketslncomparlsontothlsneworderof
to
be
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the
president, What
bas
actually
checks and balances that ensures taken place here, at the hands of
proper distribution of power numerous corrupt Republicans
throughout the government's and the lobbyists that
influence
three branches. If ever any of their policy, is called a ''para~
these checks is compromised,
digm-shift,"
the
altering of
an
violated, or,
·worst
of all, sudden-
established system, In this case,
the Republicans have refash-
ioned the government's very
schematic to streamline their
own corrupt practices.
I
feel that
one should always be willing
to
propose the
unorthodox to
explain
a president's
suave
and
efficiency
,
who never needs to
evoke one of the nastier talents
of his trade
,
while simultaneous-
ly pluliliheting
fn
tlio
pools
lilid
cll!arfy sU«erirtg
U6in
acute
·
neu-
rological deficiencies.
To fix what has been defaced,
I
draw a correlation between this
condition and corrosion.
The
refined government, cast by our
founding fathers, has
begun
to
rust. Fortunately, this is an elec-
tion year where
the
tables of
the
Senate and Congress can be
shifted; through our votes, we
can sandblast and refinish the
parts of this machine so
that
it
functions
the
way it was intend-
ed
to.
Dispose
of the worn ou"
degenerate components
and
replace them with new state of
the art ones;
in
other words, vote
as
l1W!Y
of
the
crirr6nats
iJut
or
office •• possible hlia
"
r111ike
the
crooks the
mi~orify.
· This way,
Bush will need to sully his own
name
to impose bis
injustices
,
rather than anonymously choreo-
graphing them arriidst
the
com-
pliant masses of
like-minded
cohorts
in
the
legislative
branch
.
Irrelevant Dubai port security concerns amplified by conservatives
By
IGOR VOL.SKY
Circle Contributor
Port security matters, the Dubai
controversy does not. If a presi-
dent and his party choose to
secure our nation's ports at pre-
9/11
lev.els, then they are operat-
ing in a
pre-9
/1
1 mindset.
According to
Karl
Rove, "that
doesn
'
t make them
unpatriotic
-
not at all. But it does make them
wrong-deeply
and Profoundly
and
consistently wrong."
In
2002, when the Coast
Guard
estimated that it would cost
"S
1.5
billion
for the fust year
and $7.5 billion over the suc-
ceeding
decade"
to adequately
secure our
ports,
our War
President
ignored
the
request
and
asked Congress for a mere $46
million in his 2005 budget, a fig~
ure
below
9/11
levels. Since
then, the federal government
has
allocated just $708 million to
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improve port security, Such
Congressional generosity has
met one-fifth of our security
needs and has created a funding
gap of over $3 billion.
On
the contrary, the President
has spent
more
than
$200 billion
securing Iraq.
In
recent days he
was surprised
to
discover
that
the
Dubai government in the United
Arab Emirates is
preparing
to
operate several U ,S. ports.
On
homeland security, George Bush
is as
uninformed
as the next guy,
bis prompt
support for
the
Dubai
deal leaves
him
at the outskirts of
public
opinion.
Just "17 percent of Americans
believe Dubai Ports World
should be allowed to
purchase
operating
rights
to several U.S.
ports
...
64
percent" of respon-
dents
consider
the
UAE's recog-
nition of the
Taliban
and
its
vul-
nerability
to
infiltration from Al-
Qaeda
troublesome
,
and they
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oppose the takeover (according
to a Rasmussen Reports survey).
The public is in good company.
The election year
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formed a
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tion. Never mind that security
would remain at the mercy of
U.S. agents
and
the President's
funding,
Republicans
and
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a non-threaten-
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country, radicalized
Muslim
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and slashed funds for
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cncc''
One proposa
l
lli~ui.sed und
endon.cd
b)'
the :i1n.u.lcn&
lll
tbi:
Socia
l
L
hangt
do~!i
1!.
(he
1d,;.>a
of
bwldi.nt
a fte'Shma.1 scmmur
inlo the core cumcuhun--
per-
hap!'
callN
"Sdf"
,md
Soctety" -where all tlSJJ',-"Cls o
l
r-=ial, ethnic, SOl,al
ct:w;.
and
sender rela1
i
o11:- m
Amenl·an
!IOClef)
are problcmah.z,cd and
~lUditd We al1'io bclie""c
t.h3t
such a counc ought
1(1
be
-rc,quire..t
for
evny \fartst
.stu-
d<nl
S1ni.:erclv.
The
~iuntln)'
&
Wednesday
Soctal nunge ( la
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Jumor
Suzanne
A1.:t1sta.
Ji:nnifer
o\raujo
Zam.i
Benjamin.
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ssar
Jcss1.:-a
Boucher,
F'nu11..:me
Cant~en.
l
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Di.:R.il>o,
Lc~lt:Y Fronk. Eamon
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K,,murMtk YuHlqm
Rivera
Anu\faric- Spcml-l1n.
Hannah T1llun.
Semoh. N1cul
Judd.
Jwiri
Mmgc;;. "-dh
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\n!hon~
Tnp1~d111•
M
CCTA member corrects 1nisreprese
n
tati
on
,
invites
s
tudent
s t
o
attend show
Dearfdi1or
I would hke to ckar up
'-Omt"·
thins regim:lrng 1h~ pu:cc pub•
li~hrd in
•Toe.~
f.
mJc on the
week
if
fcbruary 2:l regarding
M( C.."'TA
111
11~1
pr0Juc11011
From Page Five
bcadlinr.: ti wa:-. i;ivcn "Student
wnttcn
pUJ)
dcpi..:t
Amc:nca m
rrymg wnes ·· was midcmhm.!
.. S,:ms-.
for
a
Nc.:,r,;,
\\.orld io;, the
work of renowned 1.omp ,;;er
zu11l
l~r1c1s1
Ja,1)0
Rober!
c,them 1~c. 8rown s no!
11
!ilU
Jent
,11
taui..t C olleg.~
~k a
profcs,1unal c,"mpo L-r \\-ho hib
~-n lkn ot!1er ~h(1ws .!iuch as
l
l
r,\',.,,
'r,•ar .i.nd Paradi!'."
fu
\lh1 ... h hL·woa the IQ<JqT1,n't
Av. ard for
B\..-sl
Ongmal Mu.c;
i
c cmcnain and 1Mp1rc l,ur audi•
SC(11<.!.
I
Jwp.:
~I th1!ii doos not
cnc-c
See
)OU
all on Mori:h
1 -4
de1cr ttnyon~ from coming to
,ee-
or S
the mu~1cal
it~
the members of
\1C('T A ha, c been work
i
ng
cxtrc
r
ndy ho.rd to b
r
ing to
th1&
camp11 a pmducno
n
that will
Thank
)<IU
Colleen \.1c\lhst.tt
M:magmg
Director
of
r:
T<1
:\fan~! ( ,)liege..' C'uunc1I un
Tbcat1cArt:
Recent ports controversy can be easily solved with common sense
both companies invo
l
ved have-
ing to fear from an investigalion.
matter to chance and hope for the
expressed an i
nt
e
r
est in seeing
This country has everything to
best. The most sensib
l
e course
this issue fina
ll
y resolved with
gain by proving that fact to our of action
r
emains to investiga
t
e
not one s
h
adow of a doubt satisfaction
,
and vel)' much
and make a rational detennina-
remain
i
ng in anyone's mind. I indeed to lose through ignorance
tion based on the evidence.
I
say
,
take DP World up on their
and negligence.
It
does not make really could not care less how
offer; they claim they have noth-
any sense, then, to leave this
confide
n
t P
r
esiden
t
Bush is that
DP World is no threat to na
ti
ona
l
security
-
I still want to be as
c
l
ose to sure as possib
l
e beca
u
se
of
i
ndependent confi
nn
at
i
on.
It's kind of like leav
i
ng your
house, driving a b
l
ock, then won-
dering if you
l
eft the stove on or
the toaste
r
p
l
ugged in. You're
pretty s
u
re that the stove turned
off and yo
u u
np
lu
gged the toast-
er,
b
ut you're not one hundred
percent
p
ositive. At best, you're
me
m
o!)' is correct and cvel)'-
thing w
ill
be fine when you get
back home. At worst, the house
might bum down. The potentia
l
risk, therefore, j
u
stifies
t
aking
the extra time to drive home and
check.
This healthy dose
<.
r
common sense is just as app
li
ca-
ble to nationa
l
security.
Dubai port
s
l
ea
d
to exaggera
t
e
d
se
curity concerns made by R
e
publi
ca
ns
Republicans have chosen to veto
i
m
portant domestic security
m
easures
jn
fkvor of fighting Ifie
war on terror "over there." As
Med
i
a Matters for America has
documented "[New York Senator
C
h
uck) Schumer proposed an
ame
n
dment
to
the
2004
Homeland
Security only
5.6
percent of containers are
Appropriations bill, which would annua
ll
y inspected and the 9/11
liave provided $70 million for
Public Discourse Project (the
tesearchanddevelopmenttostop successor
to
the
9/11
nuclear materials from entering
Commission) gave t
h
e Bush
U.S. ports." The Re
p
ub
l
icans administration a "D" for their
defeated his measure. Under efforts in screening cargo.
their
l
eadership, the contents of According to Kim Pete
r
se
n
,
president of the nation's largest
marit
i
me ss_cu
_
r(ty co~u
l
ling
company, the Coait CJuard
"doesn't have either the peo
pl
e
or
the
necessary
phys
i
ca
l
resources to provide the in-wate
r
patro
l
s that are so desperately
needed."
Rcp
u
bliC8!JS
h
old the uniq
u
e
would have little innuence ove
r
di£1inotiQII
of
~~-fljl!dj/\g.l)Qme-
_
,wrt.sc,utit.)!.
theyj:e,waSling,,:,ur
land
"O)l,;ing,
and
fqtnj
i
tfna
teri tin.-atlhl
fxpcilsddt <t.,,seotri-
rorists faster than they can cap-
ty.
ture them.
In
stead of securing
o
ur
ports, Congress has demand-
ed a rev
i
ew of the Dubai compa-
ny. Consideri
n
g that Dubai
From Page Twelve
Marist Red Foxes head into MAAC tournament with third seed
his play," he said. "He's made so many
plays in every game. He's a legitimate
candidate for
p
layer of the year."
Jordan was joined on the AII-MAAC
first team by three "combo" guards:
Collins, KeeKee Clark of St. Peter's,
and Steve Burtt, Jr. oflona, all of whom
averaged over
25
points a game. Marist
will have to face at least two of them to
win the MAAC championshi
p
.
"The MAAC has a
hi
story of under
recruited, small guards who tum out
b
eing great p
l
ayers
,
"Brady said. "It's
not just Marist's inab
i
lity to guard them.
We have to make sure they work hard
for everyth
i
ng they get."
Brady said that junior center James
Smith will not play as muc
h
if the team
draws Canis
iu
s
in
the firs
t
round, due to
t
heir sma
ll
line
u
p and a propensity fo
r
pus
hi
ng the ball.
Loyo
l
a has two forwards, Michae
l
Tuck and Hassan Fofa
n
a, which Smith
will be better s
u
ited to bang against in
the
l
ow pos
t.
"We need James to be a better defen-
sive reboun
d
er and
l
ow pos
t
defender,"
Brady sai
d
, "He's
.
become a good low
post scorer, more so than at the begi
n
-
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tion has improved."
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Antidepressant transdermal patch approved
By
ADAM
GUARINO
Co-Health Editor
Traditionally, patches have been linked with
pirates and cat names,
but
the 21st century has
proven to
re-associate
these claims along with
much of the health and science world as we know
it.
Patches are
invaluable
to our society
,
providing
depression.
So
why
exactly would selegiline then be pre-
scribed to help
with
depression
?
Seiegiline
,
approved by the FDA in 1989 to help treat
Parkinson's disease,
is
a monoamine oxidase
inhibitor
,
or MAOI. Typically
,
MAOl's are pre-
scribed only if patients don't respond to other anti-
depressants
,
including
selective serotonin reuptake
necessary
advancements,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
inhibitors like
...
Though health officials Insist MAOl's
Prozac
,
Zoloft
are safe when used correctly, the drugs
~:'!.use
!a;;:i;
can have harmful Interactions. Sudden
d ;
r re
r
e
O ,
from birth control
to
quitting
smoking, as well
as being
easily hid on the body and
boasting a high effectiveness
rating.
As
time and
technolo-
and severe rises In blood pressure can
approach,
the
gy
continue to
unfold,
the
lead to a stroke when the substance
patch can have
patch has yet another pur-
tryamlne Is consumed ...
a much more
pose.
pronounced
On
Tuesday,
federal regula-
- - - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - -
effect.
tors
approved the first antidepressant skin patch
,
providing
a different way to administer the drug.
The
drug
of choice, interestingly enough, is
·
selegi-
line, a
drug already used by
Parkinson's disease
patients. The drug belongs to a class of medicines
that is rarely a first or even second choice to treat
The selegiline transdfrmal patch will be market-
ed as
Emsam,
according
to Somerset
Pharmaceuticals Inc., which developed the drug,
·
and Bristol-Myers Squib Co., which will market
it.
In
addition, according to CBS News, the
drug
will be required by the
FDA
to have
a. "black box"
warning of the risks of suicidal
thoughts and
behaviors
in children
and adolescents treated with anti-
depressants. The drug is meant for
use only by adults.
Using the patch will also
require
a bit of reading homework. The
label
also contains a long list of
food, drin.ks, and other drugs that
should be avoided
in
conjunction
with the patch. These warnings are
typical for the class
type
Ernsam
falls under.
Though
health
officials
insist
MAOl's are safe when used cor-
rectly
,
the drugs can have hannful
Optimism
promotes
longevity
Half-full attitude tips the
scales
in healths favor
By
JESSICA
BAGAR
Foreign Corespondant
As
it
turns out, you don't
have
to
drink
from the
Fountain of Youth
if
you want to Live a
longer
life.
Dutch
researchers
said Monday that "men
with
a
bright out1ook on
life
seem to be less likely
to die
of heart
disease
or ·stroke than their more pes-
simistic
peers,"
Reuters
Health
reports.
These
findings
were
published
in
the Archives of
Internal
Medicine and support an earlier
study
in
which the same Dutch
researchers
found that older
adults who have generally optimistic attitudes are
at a lower risk of premature death.
During this study, 545
men
between the ages of
64 and 84 were followed for
up
to 15 years,
Reuters explains. Research~rs found that
11
those
who were
judged
to be optimists at the outset,
based on a 4-item
questionnaire
,
were about half as
likely
to die of cardiovascular disease during fol-
low-up
as men who were more pessimistic by
nature."
The four questions that were used
to
assess
·
opti-
mism were "I still expect much from life,"
"I
do
not look forward to what lies ahead of me
in
the
years
to
come," '
1
My
days seem to be passing by
slowly
,
" and "I am still full of plans." Each partic-
ipant
was asked whether they agreed fully, partial-
ly, or not at all with each of the four statements.
Overall, Reuters explains, men who were opti-
mists in 1985 were
55
percent less
likely
to die of
heart disease or stroke
by 2000.
Other factors
,
such as general
health,
smoking and familiy
histo-
ry of cardiovascular disease were of course taken
into account.
Dr.
Erik
J. Giltay
,
the study's
lead
author
,
believes that optimisis are better at "coping with
adversity, and may
,
for ex.ample
,
take better care of
themselves
when they do fall ill." Indeed
,
opti-
mists are generally better at coping with hardships
such as illness or the loss of a loved one
.
There are also other factors that are believed to
strengthen the link between optimism and better
health.
Aside from genetic factors that "may
underlie both heart health and a person'
s
tendency
to
be optimistic or pessimistic
,
" a person's disposi-
tion may also affect heahh. Researchers explain
that a person's disposition influences the nervous,
immune,
and
honnonal
systems.
Unfortunately for those who are truly pe
s
simistic
by nature, personality traits remain stable over a
lifetime
.
Because of this, Giltay suggests that
older adults "focus on
heart
risks they can alter,
like smoking and inactivity."
So to live a
longer
and healthier
life,
try to eat
healthy,
exercise often, and always remember that
the glass is half-full
.
interactions. Sudden and severe rises in blood pres-
sure can lead
to
a stroke when the substance
tryamine is consumed. Tryamine is found in
draft
beer, red wine, fava b
e
ans,
s
alamis
,
aged cheese
,
and soy sauce.
Bristol-Myers
and Somerset explain that patients
using the six-milligram or lowest strength patch,
shouldn't have to watch their diets. However, those
using the larger nine- or 12-milligram versions of
By
ADAM GUARINO
Co
-
Health Editor
LIGHT
PEN ZAPS
Z1TS BEFORE THEY FORM
The
Dcrm,tSt,-lc ,t
llun pl,blu.:
hOll,;cd
hghr
pen
prmmses to
~as-.:
the appearan e of blcmbhc:-..
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by
L umport,
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for
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4
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selling tactors. Th
hght
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on a
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the lwn 1'\nC bulbs hoUSl..'"d
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A mixture of red und him: hgh1
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boast..,
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The
red
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with-
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The
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meets
all H)-'\ ~mdchn1,,-s and emits zi:ro hannfi.11 ultra-
, k,Je'l rays
Currcmly
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dC\.1Cc L'-
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ba.-,.,;~
hu\.hA.ct
I..,,imjpo&t
l.i-..looliDB,
lo
CJC.pand
it's corporate horizons m die nmr
future.
the once-a-day patch must do so.
This breakthrough in researcher's ability to effec-
tively concentrate selegiline will
undoubtedly
prove to be the miracle it is.
Ideally
,
depression and
the methods used to combat
it
will
advance in
scope, preventing
unnecessary
deaths and ensuring
a happy future.
SE\IENTH
GRADER UNCOVERS DIRlY
ICE
IN
SOUTH
R.ORID/\ FA.51" FOOD RESTAURANTS
Aftcr collt.-cling ice from !he
diffc~nt
ta.,1
food
restaurant-..
near
her sou1h Florida home scv1.-n1h
gmJer
Jasmine
Roh...'11.S submitted 1ho !'.3mp!c ...
ro 1hc Um\c.'"Nll) of
Southern Florida
tor
bacter-
ial
tcshng.
Ilic ice w.1S D.,mparcd to
w:stcr
,am•
pie~
lakcn from
the
5amc
n:..,taurants' k11!cts In
,,II
fi\e cases
the result,
".:re
clear, 1hc water
UM~d lo make the
1cc
'\\as uclually d1rt1cr 1h.an
1h1:
\\o!lcr found m the 11.nlet
<;ever.ii cases found
!nu.:~ ofi:. coll,
lhl'
dang.erou11
bacterium f(,und
in
human wash:·
j-.
knv"'n
!('If
lt-.
dcvaslaltng
health
complicatwns.
"TI1c-.e bactL'na
d1:111't
hclong: there'" said Or. Da, id Katz. medical
c,111~
tribulor
\0
"Gnud
Morning
.J\mcnca." "Its not
cause for porn1.:
11hhough 11
is
al.snning bccau c
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t!'>
nothing n ...
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hkcly to g..:t sick no" But shc'S done u.s a
fllvor
bv sountlmg th1.: al,mn" Rescarch ...
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poin1t.:d to
one rc-.tson for
thC""
t.am1ed i¢e: \!mployees not
"'ashing their hands The 1molved rcs.JJ1umn1s
were noufied ot
the
re.•mlts and Ge\'cral m\ooh:ed
have taken measun: to cli.:an up lheir a.ct'-. A
few
ofthc seJec-1cd rec;taurants ha\-c asked Ja.'iminc 10
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See all the sights, be your own adventure
By
ALYSSA
TUCCI
Circle Contr
i
butor
Imagine crossing the city on
your way to class and being able
to catch a glimpse of the Eiffel
Tower
,
the symbol of Paris
.
Or
how about this scenario: it's
Friday
night and
your friends and
you are at a loss for what to do so
you pay a visit to the Louvre, the
biggest museum in the
w
orld.
Now envision yourself walking
to the place you
will
call home
for the next four months
an
d see-
ing,
i
n
a
n
ear p
r
oxim
i
ty, the Arc
de Triomphe, the arch built in
1836
in
honor of Napoleon's vic-
tories. For some people
it
would
be
a stretch to visualize all of
this. For me, this is my life for
the next four months.
In
one month
I
have visited
more historical places and monu-
ments
than
some people will
wit-
ness in his or her lifetime. I have
seen priceless works of
art
such
as the Mona Lisa by
da
Vinci and
sculptures such
as
Venus de Milo
and the Great Sp
h
inx at the
Louvre.
I
have witnessed origi-
nal lmpressionalism master-
pieces by Monet, Renoir, Manet,
and Van Gogh at the Musee
d'Orsay. Paris contains
as
much
beauty on the inside of its build-
ing as much as it does on the
exterior of its constructions.
The history
to be found in this
city is as
t
ou
n
ding. A Twelfth
Century wall constructed to
enclose
and
protect
Paris,
remaining intact on only one
side, stands as grandiose
as
ever
in
the middle of the city. One of
my classrooms is situated mere
steps away from the gothic
mas-
terpiece, Notre Dame, which
first
began·
its construction in
1163.
The Louvre, which is in the spot-
light today because of the world..
renowned
book
"The Da Vinci
Code," was first opened to the
public in
1793.
This captivating
city is a museum within itself. It
conta
in
s
so
many historical mon-
uments and yet so much modern-
ization.
Do
I
miss America? Every day.
But noth
i
ng
can
begin to com-
pare to living
in
what was once
the capita
l
of Europe. Despite the
homesickness
,
r
would not give
up this experience for all the go
l
d
in
the world. You
are
young and
your responsibilities
are
limited.
Go. See the world. Do not limit
yourself to what you know and
that which you are comfortab
l
e.
At first it will
be
d
i
fficult, and
at times you will want to go
home, but anything worth having
is worth working for.
lt is a cha
l
-
lenge which everyone should
take. Experience the world
first-
hand. Become emerged into an
unknown culture. Do not worry
about missing out on a semester
at Marist College. Your frie
n
ds
wilt be awa
i
ting your return. The
world
is indeed a book, and
if
you have not traveled, you have
yet to read but only one page. Do
not
pass
up
this
opportunity of a
lifetime.
It
is anything but ordi-
nary.
Revitalize
d w
i
th
"
La
st
ca
ll"
and
a
b
s
u
r
d
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ty in
t
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o
f
t
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B
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uet
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By
PATRICK MAGUIRE
Staff Wnter
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THE CIRCLE
A&E
THURSDAY, MACRH 2, 2006
www.marlstclrcle.com
$8,265
budget makes waves for
WMAR
By
JUSTIN CALDEE!ON
A&E Editor
WMAR,
Marist College's
radio station,
has been
approved
by
the Stud.ent Programming
Council (SPC) for
an
$8,265
budget that
will
provide
new
technology
ranging from a
digital
sound
board
to
a new
laptop.
The
non-commercial
student run radio station
that
houses both
an AM and FM
WMAR
has
already started
making several major changes in
its
fonnat and
program distribu-
tion
by
linking
up web casts so
that students
can
hear radio
shows straight off of iTunes.
Some students suggest that
the
budget couldn't have come soon-
er, especiaJly for the
run down
FM station.
WMAR member
ed
$5,200
and will
arrive
around
April
this
year. "[We are
using]
another
$1,500
on a computer,"
reported WMAR
treasurer Steve
Waiculonis, "and also sending
[students] to
broadcast the
MAAC
tournament
next week in
Albany."
Yet,
the
biggest
news
comes
from
the infamous
new
technolo-
N i Ck
-------------8
y
Canale,
a
I
s o
The budget will without a doubt cast
known
to
frequency is readily available to known as
Marist
students who are
interest-
N
i
c k
y
ed
in the radio
industry or seek-
Cymbals,
new waves of entertainment over the
t~
~
:e
campus
In
the near future.
"Our
stu-
d
i
o
ing
DJ
experience.
who has an
alternative rock
show equipment
will
revolve around
The news
of
the
approved
for
the
the
new digital board [fine
tun•
budget
is
highly
anticipated and
station,
said
that
new equipment
ing the] ability
to
[use] iPods,"
will guarantee
a
more
sophist
i•
has been needed.
states
WMAR
advisor
Dr.
cated and professional radio
"I
would
like
to
see
a 3rd work•
Bradley
Freedman.
WMAR
will
station on campus.
Station
ing CD player and a new com-
have
perfected the
ability to
let
Manager
Paul Vikan commented
puter so
I
don't
have
to
bring my
students
plug and
play
their iPod
that
the
budget is
long
needed
laptop
in," he said;
directly onto the
airwaves
mak-
and "will bring [WMAR) from
The proposed new digital
ing the ors
life ten times more
1996
to
2006."
soundboard is worth an estimat-
efficient
than
it was
2
years
ago.
Freeman exalted, "most of the
industry is
moving digital [
and)
we are slowly
making
that
transi•
tion."
This widely
distributed
fonnat
of music technology that has
already began to widely
replace
archaic devices such as CD play•
ers will eventually change
the
music
industry as we know it:
Symbols stated
briefly
,
"[this
will] make radio a
lot
easier for
sure."
The
budget
will without a
doubt
cast
new
waves of enter-
tainment over the campus in
the
near
future. Vikan
announced
,
"[a] large
budge,
[like this] is
unheard
of [and]
largely
crediled
to SGA staff member Patty
Webster."
For
more
infonnation
you can log on to www.maristra-
dio.com, which now
includes
the
link necessary
for
WMAR
web
casts and
DJ
schedules and show
times.
Mahoney's crowd goes 'Nuts' for local cover band despite cold weather
By CHRISTINA WILLIAMS
Circle Contributor
The crowd was buzzing with
excitement at Mahoney
1
s Pub for
the Saturday, Feb.
25
Mardi Gras
celebration in Pou2hkeep~ie
.
Yet
the
anticipation was obviously
for Nuts in a Blender rather than
the inevitable free beads.
While this was not thc.ir
ft
show at this venue, cover band
Nuts in
a
Blender
proved
that
they know how to get a party
started,
and
how to keep it going,
and
going, and going some more.
The crowd formed early and so
did
the line that nearly enclosed
all of Dooley Square. Fans were
waiting over
an
hour
in
tempera•
tures
less
than
25
degrees, clad in
jackets, gloves, and hats just to
see the shnw
Once they finally arrived
through the door, the band
1
s
eager following shed their wintry
~
~ i
!iGjt
was
tbe
middle of July.
White
there
proved to be less flesh for beads
than
at other Mardi Gras celebra•
tions,
it
was apparent that Nuts in
a Blender made the temperature
rise
for all
those in
attendance.
After accompanying other
party girls on stage to dance,
local resident, Briana
Ceppi
excitably
described her
"Nut"
frenzy.
"I
never mia
a
'Nuts' show,"
said Ceppi. "They are
the
best
party band in
the
area by far."
Despite
lead
vocalist Bryan
SeeJey's
illness that led
to
the
cancellation of
the previous
night
1
s
perfonnance at Bourbon
St,
no
one seemed
the least bit
disappoin1ed by
his
energy on
Saturday
night.
The
band
brought in
a female songster,
Vanessa, to sing some of the
higher parts to compensate for
the
affects of Seeley's
lingering
illness.
Vanessa was given her moment
to
shine
when
she
performed.
Alanis
Morissette
1
s,
"You
Ollghta Know." While this was
not necessarily the
climax
of the
Nuts
in
a
Blender
show,
Vanessa
attempted
to provide the many
females in
the
audience with the
angst and energy of Morissette
herself
by affording them with
the trashy
lyrics
they could all
sing along
to.
From the opening to the closing
rifts, Nuts in a Blender covered
nearly every musical genre
as
they drenched the crowd in
sweat, free t-shirts, beads, and
baseball
caps.
By
performing
"r
Wish," by Skee•Lo for the first
time, the audience was able to
see a
s
lightly
different side of the
~an!!, as
lb•
,gckcrs
jammed to
tlie
R&B
beat.
But
fans were soon
reminded
of
shows past as they were saturat-
ed in rock n' roll sweetness, from
Fall Out Boy's "Sugar We're
Goin' Do'Nll" to Def Leppard
1
s
''Pour
Some Sugar on Me."
Wearing colorful hats reminis-
cent of Mardi Gras, all of the
members
of
Nuts in a Blender
gave the crowd what they had
come
to
sec:
a
true
party band,
buzzing with
energy,
color, and
Fat Tuesday fun.
Don't miss Nuts in a Blender
,
on
Mao:h l&lli..l!di<n.lhcy
follow
up this stellar pcrfonnance with a
St. Patrick's Day celebration
,
sure to prove Mahoney's is the
only Irish Pub to party at in
Poughkeepsie.
'Songs for a New World' adapted to. portray national complexities in aftermath of Spet. 11
By
JOSEPH GENTILE
Circle
Staff
Crossing that fine• line which
separates acting from the actual,
Jason Robert Bro'Nll
'
s musical
"Songs for a New World,"
as
directed
by Ryan
Defoe
and
sponsored by the Marist College
Council of Theater
Arts,
synthe•
sizes real
life
drama with song
this
weekend as it takes the
Marist
stage. Although "Songs
"
focuses on the respective trials
and tribulations of the individual,
the· collective strength of this
dynamic ensemble of Singers
reinforces the humanity which
binds us to one another.
Originally composed ten years
ago, it's adaptation
to the present
day by DeFoe and company
explores the innumerable com•
plexities facing
an
uncertain
nation in the aftermath of
the
September
11th
terrorist
attacks.
Portraying
people,
exposed
to
resiliency of
the human
spirit.
the
sudden and sharp
realities
Addressing the discouraged
inflicted by "major turning
attitudes of the American people
points"
in
- - - - - - - - - - -
in a post-9/11
1heir
lives
,
If anything, It's about "a
era, "Li's my
~eF~:n,:~7;::
country on the precipice"
:•~.';;.
'::i
!heir
siories
analyzing how we cope as a
of why
I
feel
inlo a single
"community" by approaching
like
a stranger
Io
Cation,
It MJndlvldually."
in my country
building
off o f - - - - - - - - - - - sometimes,"
Ground Zero
as
a
metaphor
for
said Defoe, "It's
like
we're stuc~
raging internal conflict, and
the
and we don't know where
to
go."
Yet, conveying cautious opti-
mism, Defoe expressed his hope
that audiences will be motivated
to go out afterwards and find
their place
in
the American fab-
ric. If anything
,
it's about
"a
country on the precipice" analyz•
ing how we cope as a "communi•
ty"
by approaching it
"ind
ividu•
ally."
Showcasing a unique cast of
characters from
divers
e
back•
grounds,
including
a
wife
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by the similar cathartic
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towards epiphany. A collection
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Collection of student written, one-act plays:
One Touch of Nature.
All plays are
students written,
student directed,
and student acted.
Come audition
Tuesday, March 7th
at 9 p.m.
in Donnelly Hall.
Performance takes
place
in
mid-April.
No need to prepare
anything, get out there!
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'Songs for a New World' in
• Nelly Golletti this weekend
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"It's about one
moment.
It's
about
hitting
the
wall and
having
to
make
a choice,
or
take a
stand
,
or
tum around and
go
back.
The
moment you think you know
where you stand. the things that
you're sure of
slip
from your
hand
,
and you're suddenly a
stranger in some completely dif-
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land."
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its name from the
Yiddish
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of Savoca, outside
Taormina, Sicily
was used for
shooting
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early
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THURSDAY,
MARCH 2, 2008 •
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Red Foxes hope to make history at the Pepsi Arena once again
By
ERIC
ZEDALIS
Layout
Staff
Two years ago at the Pepsi
Arena in Albany,
NY,
the Marist
Red
Foxes
took home
a
Women's Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference
(MAAC)
Championship and earned itself
an
NCAA Tournament berth.
This year, the team returns to
this arena and will even be at the
same hotel they stayed at two
years ago during that triumphant
weekend.
However
,
head coach Brian
Giorgis said his squad is not
about to get nostalgic, especially
with thoughts of
last
year
'
s one-
point loss
in
the championsh.ip
game still lingering.
"I feel the kids are extremely
focused.
I
don't think they need
a lot of motivation after what
took place last year," he said.
"
They've been working hard
,
and they're
ready
to go. They
wish they could play tomorrow."
Unfortunately for the Red
Foxes, who have beaten their
last
two opponents by
An
average of
30 points, they will have
to
wait
almost a week to play their semi-
final game on Saturday
Giorgis said that while be
knows a long
lay-off
like this can
be detrimental, he is
not
con-
cerned because it allows the team
to focus on what it has to do to:
prepare for the tournament
instead of wonying about the
other teams.
"It's possible we could have a
let-down
,
anything can happen
,
"
he said. "Right now,
'
the kids are
just focused on working on the
things that we need to get
better
at. When the time comes for us
"I
just hope they don't want it
too bad to the point where they
allow any type of adversity in a
game to cause problems
,
" he
said. "But if we don't win, it's
to go up
Friday and
see
who
w e ' r e
going
to
play, then
they
'
11
re
a
11
y
focus on
that pS:r-
'Basically, everybody Is 0-0, and you
can't afford to lose one. We just
have to hope that we can continue
doing the things that we've been
doing.'
n
o
I
because
we didn't
I
e a v e
every.
thing out
on
the
floor.
"
- Brian
Giorgls
Head
Coach
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Marist
this year
,
matched a
team."
According
to
Giorgis, the team
is
so focused that his only con-
cern is
how
the team will
respond
if
and when things do
not go the
Red
Foxes' way.
season h.igh for wins with 21,
and set a new record. for MAAC
wins with 16.
The Red Foxes only two
MAAC loses during the season
came to Saint Peters (5th seed)
and Loyola (3rd seed). Marist
swept its season series against
Canisius and Iona, the second
and fourth seed respectively.
Giorgis said the keys to win-
ning the tournament will be
Marist's ability to stay out of foul
trouble, play defense,
and
rebound. So far, they have done
all these things successfully
,
but
there is
no
room for error in the
tournament and every team is
given a clean slate.
"Basically, everybody is 0-0
,
and you can't afford to lose one,"
he said. "We just have to hope
that we can continue doing the
things that we've been doing.
"
The team is looking forward
to
the tournament, having
played
well all year
,
according to
Giorgis.
"Even the two games we've
lost,
I
don't know that we played
particularly well, but we were
very competitive in both games,"
he said. "I
think
the kids are con-
fident, and detennined, and just
ready to get after it."
Giorgis and the Red Foxes
are
also excited to have fans coming
to support them this year, espe-
cially since last year
it
was diffi-
cult to send fans to Buffalo.
"[Albany is) closer for our fans
to
come to, it's a
lot
harder to
bring
our fans to Buffalo," he
said. "We kind of hope
the
stu-
dent body comes.
I
think the ath-
letic department is putting
together a great package for stu•
dents
to come watch the men
and/or the women, so hopefully
the kids take advantage of it."
Raucci breaks school record in the mile run at NYU Fastrack Invitational
By
DIEGO CUENCA
Staff Writer
David Raucci broke the school
record in the mile
run
last Friday
night at the NYU Fastrack
Invitational.
Finishing third in the race in
4:
15.19
,
Raucci was able to sur-
pass the previou
s
2002 mark set
by Mike Nehr, Nehr held the
three-year record with a time of
4:15.23.
The freshman has qualified for
this
weekend's
IC4A
Championships in the 3,000 and
5,000-meter runs.
Head coach Pete Colaizzo said
Raucci needed to compile a
strorig finish for the team.
"He
needed
to pop a good mile
for the race," he said.
"It
gives
hir;n
confidence for the 3,000
relay. Equally important as the
school record, be had a good
mile time which should translate
into
a good 3K run."
Raucci also competed in the
3,200-meter relay team that qual-
ified
for
the
IC4A
Championships
,
placing second
in
the
event with a time of
7:50.5
I.
Alongside
Raucci
was
junior Mike Bamberger, sopbo--
more Bryan
Dixon
and freshman
Corey Ennist.
Colaizzo said the
NYU
Fastrack
was
meant to prepare
the team
for the IC4A Championships
"It
was a kind of sharpener, a
rune
up
for
the
IC4A
Championships and it went
beautifully
,
'' he said.
Junior Mike Bamberger
has
qualified to compete in
the
800-
meter run, and freshman Ginna
Segni qualified for the 5
,
000-
meter relay at
the
IC4A
Championships.
In
all,
the men
'
s track team will
be sending eight athletes
,
includ-
ing four individual
qualifiers
and
one relay team.
"We
now
have
the
large
s
t con-
tingent
of athletes going to the
meet in school
history
and
I'm
pretty
happy
about
that,"
Colaizzo said.
Raucci was not the only name
being put into the record books.
Junior Bryan Quinn finished
with the second-fastest time in
school history, in the 500.meter
dash with a time of
I
:05.67
.
For
Quinn, it was the
first
time com-
peting at that distance.
According
to
Colaiz.zo
,
Quinn
asked to be
placed
in
the
event
and "wanted it as a challenge
,
"
said Colaizzo.
"
It was a good sharpener for
the 1,000
meter
and we figured it
wouldn't take as much out of
him. So he went on in the 4 by
400 relay ( 1,600 meter team
relay) and had the fastest split
time."
The 4
x.
400 relay team of
Quinn, junior Pat Carroll, sopho-
more Shaun Kippins and junior
captain Brian
Demarco
placed
fifth
with 3:21.67, the second-
fastest time in SChool
history.
Coach Colaizzo said the
team
needs "to keep building on
the
successes we've
had
over the
past few weeks," going
into this
weekend's
IC4A
Championships.
The men's track team will com-
pete at the IC4A Championships
at Boston University this week-
end, starting Mar. 4.
Van Wagner pleased with men's swimming and diving team's third place finish
By
DAVID HOCHMAN
Staff
Writer
The Mari st men's swimming
and diving learn closed out it
s
s
uccessful season with some of
the best perfonnance
s
of the
year.
if
anyone spoke to head coach
Lany Van Wagner about the
last
championship meet of the sea-
son, they would have thought the
men won the Eastern College
Athletic Conference (ECAC)
title.
"The men were just outstand-
ing again," be said.
"
They had
such a good meet at the MAAC's
and another great meet even with
the short turnaround.
"
The men did not win the
ECAC
's,
but they did finish in
third place behind only Johns
Hopkins and Yale
.
The Red
Foxes very easily could have
secured
second place,
but
according to Van Wagner had one
little
eTTOr.
·•we were unfortunately dis-
qualified in the 400 medley
relay
,
" he said. "We had the
fastest heat going in, so that was
potentially a 40-point turn·
around. The false start was only
by
a
matter of
inches."
Since Marist finished only 7.5
points behind Yale, that race
could have all but guaranteed a
second-place
finish.
Johns
Hopkins scored 541
points
though,
a
fair distance ahead of
the two runner-ups.
Alihough final learn scores may
matter a significant amount to
some people, the times the indi-
viduals put up this past weekend
were
whet
really mattered.
Junior Pat Collins tied the
school record
in
the 50 freestyle
on the first day of events with a
time of20.93. Van Wagner point-
ed out that it has not happened at
this meet before.
"Pat's race was very exciting
,
"
he said. "I h8.ve never seen that
[tying a
previous
record]
happen
before."
Although it is great to
·
sec
a tie
in swimming
,
because it
·
almost
never happens
,
seeing a record
broken can be even greater.
That happened on the mood
day of compcti1ion when senior
Joe Pilewski broke the school
record
in the
l
00 breaststroke
with
hit
time
of 56.97.
Besides breaking this record
and winning the race, Pilewski
also completed a victorious
weekend.
Pilewski won
·
the 200
IM
on
day one of competition at
I
:52. 13,
and he took
fifth
in
the
200
butterfly
as he clocked in at
I
:52.59 on the third and final day
of competition
.
Pilewski 's perfonnance over
the weekend certainly pleased
Van Wagner.
''The most outstanding pcr-
fonner of the
~~
w.,
Joe
Pilcwslci," he said. "He swam
great.
"
Pilewslci was the cherry on top
of the 9enior elest that eloeed out
their careers
in
Pittsburgh. All
four seniors on
the
roster quali-
fied for and competed at the
ECAC's with top times and
Van Wagner
,
as
he has all season,
quickly credited his class of2006
swimmers for the team
'
s success.
"Our successes this year were
dictated by the senior class
,
" he
said. "This is one of the best jobs
ofleadersh.ip I've ever witnessed
in our school's history. And once
again, they
led
from start to
fin-
ish
at ECAC's
.
It's going to be
extremely difficult to replace
these four seniors."
The season wrapped itself up
for the swimmers and divers at
ECAC
1
1t,
but
VanWagner and his
coaching staff still have work
left
to prepare for
next
season.
The Red Foxes are in the mid-
dle of recruiting and have
already received
three
verbal
commitments from
·
high school
seniors
.
Hopefully,
according
to
Van Wagner
,
four more will
be
on
their way.
Red Fox Softball suffers 4-1 loss to Western Michigan, finish 1-4 in Stenson Tournament
By
GABE PERNA
held an early l-0 nothing lead in
·
offense and went the distance for
Staff Writer
the contest thanks to
a
Chrystine the Broncos.
The Western
McHugh homerun in the bottom
The Marist women's softball of the first inning off Broncos
team suffered a 4-1
loss
this past
weekend
to
the
Western
Michigan
Broncos
in the final
game of a five game stretch
where they played in Deland,
Florida
at
the
Stenson
Tournament.
Marist got off to a fast
start
and
starter Krysten Shumaker.
The
home run was the first of the sea-
son for McHugh.
However, unfortunately for the
lady Red Foxes the blast would
be one
of
only two hits during
the entire game for them.
Shumaker shut down
the
Marist
Michigan sophomore sensation
pitched seven innings, allowed
two bits, and struck out nine bat-
ters.
After holding the one
run
lead
for three innings, Marist starting
pitcher Megan Rigos gave
up
two earned
runs
in
the
top of
the
third inning. Broncos outfielder
Kristi Strange drove in two
runs
off a single to center field.
The two runs would be enough
for
Western
Michigan to win the
game but they got two more runs
in
the top of the sixth as insur-
ance. Again in this inning
Strange was in the middle of the
action
as
she drew a walk from
Rigos to begin the inning. Then
first baseman Lauren J<uller sin-
gled to right field. After they
both advanced a base, they even-
tually scored off
an
error at sec-
ond base.
Rigos held
her
own and played
a complete game for the
third
time in the young season. The
sophomore hurler pitched seven
innings
,
gave
up
five hits, two
earned runs, and struck out five.
Her
record
with the loss is
1~2
on
the season.
The loss
was
the
last
game for
Mari st of the five game three day
Stenson
tournament
where
the
Foxes ~ent
1-4
with their only
win coming against Winthrop.
The tournament was the first
action for Marist softball all year
as the tournament in Martin,
Tennessee hosted
by Tennessee-
Martin University was cancelled.
The Foxes next game is against
Army
next
Tuesday at 2:30 in
Poughkeepsie
in their
home
opener.
Marist men's tennis still struggles
in
singles play, loses 6-1 to the Black Knights in West Point
By
NATE FIELDS
Staff
Writer
The Marist men's tennis team
faced a daunting opponent just
down the river last Monday as
they met the Black Knights of
Artny.
Coming into the meet, the
Foxes had
fell
victim all thirteen
times the two schools
bad
met
,
and their struggles continued
Monday.
Marist lost all six singles
matches and posted an overall 6-
I
loss.
consecutive sets 6-2.
The Foxes have now Lost their
In a strong showing at fourth
last
four matches by a combined singles, senior Mark Santucci
score of 23-5.
narrowly missed victory
in
both
Although no Red Fox claimed his sets, losing both 7-5.
victory
in
singles competition,
Marist's
lone
point
came
from
several tast-
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doubles
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Junior Ray Josephs and third doubles
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been
their
matches in
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throughout
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Junior Pedro Genovese won
his
first set 7-6, but then dropped
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first doubles, winning 8~6.
Junior Ray Josephs and third
doubles partner sophomore Greg
Marks continued their
impres-
sive play, winning 8-5.
The pair has won seven of their
eight doubles matches this
spring.
The Foxes have struggled in
singles play throughout the
spring, facing tough competition
seemingly every week.
Monday's competition marked
the second
in
a row Maris! has
been swept in singles play.
A
week earlier, the team faced
a
tough
Brown squad ranked #43
and boasting a 9-2 record.
Despite the team's struggles
thus far, they still own
a
2-0
mark in the MAAC
,
and have a
favorable schedule in the
upcom-
ing month.
The weekend of March
11,
they
travel to South Carolina for the
Hilton Head Tournament
,
and
then
have three straight home
contests
to
round out the month
before getting into
the
meat of
conference play
,
in April.
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Friday
-
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Mar.
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Tuesday,
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at Hilton
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S.C., 8:30 a.m.
Saturday,
Mar.
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University,
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Four Hood d11:nks cap season
sweep of Fairfield Stags
By
JOE
FERRARY
Staff Writer
Junior Jared
Jordan
le
ad
the
way with 19 points and red shirt
sophomore Ryan Stilphen tallied
a double-double to propel the
Red Foxes to a 67--61 victory
over Fairfield on Saturday at the
Arena in Harbor Yard.
Stilphen bad 11 points and IO
rebounds while Jordan dished
out seven assists. Junior
Will
Whittington scored 12 points on
four three pointers and senior
Carl
Hood had
a career-high six
assists.
Senior
Terrance
Todd of
Fairfield scored a game high 22
points on
8
of
16
shooting
from
the floor. Michael Bell was the
Stag's leading rebounder
with
eight boards and 14 points. Also
joining Bell and Todd in double
figures was Dewitt Maxwell
with
11
points.
The Red Foxes jumped out
to
an early
lead
on the road holding
a seven point lead
(23-16) with
10: 18 left
in
the
fim half.
The
Stags would score the next
four
points to make the score 23-20.
Fairfield would eventually tie
the game at-28 with 2:23 to go in
the ftr:,t
ht,1f.
TI1c-
Red
Foxe~
regained the
lead
on a Jared
Jordan
three-point
play.
Fairfield would end the scoring
in the first half with two Todd
free throws.
Marist found themselves
lead-
ing the Stags 31-30 at halftime.
Marist opened up
tbe
second
halfon a 7-0run
highlighted
by
a
Hood
dunk
and the
Red
Foxes
found
themselves
leading 38-30
with
16:57 left
in
the second
half. Marist would continue to
pour it on·
as
they
went on a 13-6
run
over the next
six
minutes
as
their lead
grew
to 15 points (51-
36) with 11:01 left in the second
half.
The
Stags would hack away at
the
lead
over the next five
min-
ute~ and found thcnn1elves down
only four point, (58-54) with
5:24
left
in
the second half. That
would he as close as Fairfield
would come
the
rest of the half
as
the Red
Foxes closed out the
game with a six point win.
For
the
game Marist shot 49
percent from
the
field and 33.3
percent from three point
land.
Fairfield shot 42.3 percent
from the field and 31.8 percent
from three point land.
On
Monday, Jared
Jordan
was
named the
first
team aU
Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC) squad.
He
was the first
Red
Fox
to
receive
this honor
since Scan Ke
nn
edy accom-
plished
the feat
in the
2001-2002
season.
Jordan leads the team in
scoring, averaging 16.1 points a
game while he leads the nation
with 8. 7 assists per contest.
Fellow teammate Will
Whittington
was
named the third
team
all
MAAC
squad.
Whittington
is second on
the
team in
scoring averaging
15.3
points at
nighL
With
the win, Marist finished
the season 18-9, 12-6
in
the
MAAC. Marist will he the
num-
ber
three
seed
in
the
upcoming
MAAC
Tournament
as they
will
play host
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.m.
(MSG)
Men's Basketball:
Thursday, Feb. 23 - vs. Niagara,
7:15 p.m.
(MSG)
Junk>r
,uard
Jared
Jorden
sand
19
points
In the
Red
Foxes'
re,ul
er
season flnale. Martst
defeated
Falrfleld
on
the road 67-81.
Jordan
was
named
to
the
All MMC
first
teem.
The Red Foxes
await
the
winner
of
Loyola Cenlsus In
the
second
round
of
the
MMC
Tournament
Red
Foxes await winner
of
Greyhounds-Griffs
matchup
By
ALEX PANAGIOTOPOULOS
campus Editor
Matt Brady's
team
l
earned in
last
year's Metro At
l
antic
Athletic Conference (MAAC)
tournament that it can only go as
far as its prototype point guard,
Jared Jordan, can carry them.
An encouraging
sign
is that he
isn't
on crutches this year.
Marist goes into the MAAC
tournament
with
the
third
seed
and a healthy
Jordan,
awaiting
the winner of
the
Loyola-
Canisius battle. Marist has
lost
five of its last six games to
Canisius,
including
last year's
first-round
MAAC
tournament
loss, and split
its
season series
with Loyola.
After
that, a
trip to the
nation-
al
tournament
will have to come
by beating the second and first
seeds,
Iona and Manhattan,
against whom Marist was 2-2
this season.
"Ca
nisius
is definitely the bet-
ter defensive team and
bas
Kevin
Downey,
an all-league
player,
"
said
Brady
.
"Loyola
is
more
explosive offensively.
We're
going
to
draw a quality opponent
in this game."
Canisius features four double-
digit scorers,
led
by Downey,
who averaged 15 points, five
rebounds and 3.5 assists on the
season. They ranked
dead last in
scoring at 70.9 points
per
game
(ppg) and
fifth
in
defense, at
75.3
ppg.
Meanwhile
,
5'11 all-MAAC
senior Andre Collins has torched
Marist for 30 and 29 points, and
fini
shed
second in the MAAC in
assists with4.7 a game. Overall,
they ranked second in
points
at
77
per
game and
last
in
defen
se,
at 78.3.
Collins is their only
double-<ligit scorer.
The team will dedicate one day
of practice to
both
teams this
week.
Brady said that the team's fail-
ures against Canisius are not
being dwelled
upon
.
"We
beat
'em
up there this
year," he said.
''The
kids are
comfortable
and
confident.
We're going
to
play well."
In last year's first-round match
up, Pierre
Monagan
started at
point after Jordan suffered a
sprained
left
ankle in
the
second
to
last
game against Rider.
Jordan played 26 minutes olf
the bench and drained a flat-
footed, desperation three from
straight
away in the final minute,
but
the team ended
up losing
62-
60.
Center Will McClurkin
missed an ago
n
jzing turnaround
jumper from close at the buzzer.
Despite
his
importance
to the
team, Brady said he
played
Jordan
almost 39 minutes a
game this season without too
much worry.
"
Ideally
,
I'd prefer his minutes
to
be
at 30 or 32," he said. ''Like
all terrific competitors, Jared
would
prefer
to be
in,
and we're
most
productive when he's in the
game. His fitness
level
is very
high so he can
play
the whole
game."
Jordan managed to stay healthy
in Marist's last two games, vic-
tories against Niagara and at
Fairfield,
racking up
29
points
and
18
asSists against
six
turnovers. Jordan
led
the
NCAA
in assists per game with 8. 7. He
also tallied 16
.1
points and
almost five
boards
a game com-
ing as a bonus.
Brady
said that without a
doubt, Jordan is the most
impor-
tant
player to his team in
the
MAAC.
"
Jared
's
play
has
been
...
it's
hard to find words to describe
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