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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Professor's pre-class prayers elicit complaint from parent
Administration 'looking
into' situation, maintains that Marist
is
inclusive for all
By
KEARA
DRISCOLL
Staff Writer
Each
day
before she begins her
class, Professor Maria Otte bows
her head, clasps her hands and
prays out loud.
Otte has perfonned her pre-
class prayer ritual since she
began teaching at Marist in 1999,
but recently her actions have
attracted criticism.
Last
month, Otte received her
second complaint in seven years
when a parent contacted the dean
of the school of Social and
Behavioral Sciences to voice her
distress over Otte 's actions. Otte
was given the specifics of offi-
cial complaint made
by
the
anonymous parent, but was told
by
the college administration
that
it
involved the parent's con-
cern
with
Marist's claim to be a
secu
lar
institution.
No official action has
been
taken against Otte yet, although
she said was infonned that she
could not continue her morning
prayers. Though she claimed she
was told by the administration of
a polie-y regarding prayer in the
classroom, Otte said,
"I
have yet
to see it."
While unaware of any regula•
tion in the faculty handbook pro-
hibiting prayer, Chief Public
Affairs Officer Tim Massie said
that the complaint against Otte
was "something we're looking
into."
The administration at large
wants people of all religious and
non.religious persuasions to feel
welcome, according to Massie.
Although the college does
encourage its residents and staff
to satisfy their own religious
inclinations, there are plenty of
times to do so outside class.
"First and foremosl, the college
comment Wltil administration
Junior Matthew Reid said Otte
came to a conclusion over the
made her intentions clear the
matter.
first day of class, and that it is
Otte said she intentionally easy enough to avoid the prayer
The
Chapel,
according
to
Chief Pubtlc
AffeiJS
Officer nm Massie, Is one of the places
on
campus where stu-
dents
can
satisfy a desire
to
pray.
ft
is
a wnue
that
does
not
entail
excludl"I
or
offendinl
ciassmates.
supports many opportunities for
prayer in personal and ceremoni·
al circumstances- services in the
chapel, ecumenical prayer serv•
ices, Seders and other events
...
in order to meet the (spiritual}
needs of the Marist community,"
Massie said.
"All that being
said, [it would be a problem] if
any students felt uncomfortable
or excluded by the recitation of
prayer in the classroom."
Margaret CaJista, dean of the
school of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, said she was unable to
prays five minutes before the
class begins, giving those stu•
dents who do not wish to join in
the prayer the opportunity to not
be presen\.
Students in
Otte',
Monday and
Thursday Biopsychology class
said
that
Professor
Otte
explained
in
the beginning of the
school year that praying before
class was her personal choice
and that no one was obligated to
participate or remain in the room
during that time if they felt
uncomfortable.
ifhe so chooses:
"l
am
not reli-
gious, but l still feel that
Professor Otte's prayer is not
~nsive .. .I mean, if something
offends you on
T.V.,
change the
chll.llnel."
'
.i(<iditionally, Reid mentioned
th'at while he is not religious, he
has never felt pressured to be
involved in Otte's prayer. "l can
just show up right when class
begins," said Reid. Reid clarifies
that he enjoys starting off his
week with Otte's prayer, stating
that it is a generalized voicing of
hope for the well•being of the
world and each other.
Otte said that her act of praying
"allows students an opportunity
to get centered ... it gives students
a few seconds to stop moving
and focus." She says that the
prayer is an extension of herself
as a teacher to her students, and
that she intentionally made the
prayer
inclusive
so that all stu•
dents
can
feel comfortable join•
ing her, if they so choose.
Twenty of Otte's students
expressed concern over a possi•
hie dismissal. None said that the
prayer before class made them
uncomfortable or offended them.
"It
doesn't have any effect on
the way she teaches her classes,"
said junior Erica Dickens.
John Keenan, a sophomore,
said that he was
"outraged"
by
the complaints against Otte, and
that her success as
a
teacher
should be enough to keep her on
campus.
Other students feft that Marist's
religious history was made obvi•
ous across the campus, and that
Otte's prayer is
an
extension of
that history.
'This school claims it doesn't
have any religious affiliations,
but religion plays a big part in
everything
on
campus," said Jill
Koller, a junior. "Campus min·
istry is the largest organization
on r.:ampus and
is run
by
Brothers-some of whom are
also
mentors
in
freshman
donns.
"
Sophomore
Justine
Petracco
said: "Not for nothing-'Orare
et
laborare,
'" referring to the
motto
emblazoned
on
the
school's crest, which in English
translates to "prayer and work."
Prior to the events of
September ll th, 2001, Otte said
she prayed
during
class, and
received her first complaint over
the matter that year. Ten•yeared
faculty
in
her
department
advised
her to
pray before the
class began. "The
time
before
class doesn't belong to any•
body," said Otte, who also said
she has yet to find a written doc•
ument that states that the time
before class is for anything but
personal preparation.
After prayer,
Otte
has every
student stand up and
Stretc
h
,
while inhaling and exhaling
deeply. Otte said that these cal•
listhenic exercises increase the
flow of oxygen to the brain,
while
"making
students more
open to work and each other."
Otte says that stretching and
prayer are methods she
uses
to
help students feel a connected•
ness with one another.
Otte said that she wished the
parent
who filed the complaint
had come directly to her, men•
tioning that she would have alle-
viated any concerns before the
issue escalated.
Shc.aJso
said
that
she would have trouble ceasing
to pray before class.
"There are certain things
I
do
that are intrinsic to me,'' said
Otte.
She said that she believes her
prayer has a positive effect on
students; she has had many
Stu•
dents approach her privately,
asking her to pray for them, or a
sick loved one, or for the world
in general.
Reid said, "I kind of look for-
ward to it ... it's a nice way to
start off my week."
Mari st Greeks lack separate housing; hurting for new pledges
No
recruits
might kill
some
frats, sororities Zoning bars Greeks from off-campus living
By
SARAH SPAINHOWARD
and JULIE
BROWN
Staff Writers
Declining numbers for fraterni-
ties and
·sororities
could eventu•
·ally cause closures to certain
chapters if minimum require•
ments are not met.
Marist College's Greek life is
significantly
smaller than those
of large universities, and the
numbers
of pledges are now
widening
'
the gap. At Marist,
there arc four sororities and three
fraternities compared to a
larger
school like Syracuse University,
which has 27 fraternities and 17
sororities
according
to
USNews.com, a site which ranks
America's best colleges for
2007.
According to Christine
Rochelle, Vice President of
Standards of Kappa Kappa
Gamma and student in charge of
sorority recruitment for last
semester, the number of pledges
has steadily been dropping the
last few years for sororities.
"About
three years ago there
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50 girls coming out
for recruittnent," she said,
"This
semester we had 16."
The problem is not selectivity,
but the lack of girls making the
decision to pledge. The sororities
only require a GP.A. of 2.5, and
that girls attend at least two out
three recruitment nights. Karen
Wolff, a fellow member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma and in
charge of recruitment for this
semester, said she felt that the
negative media portrayal of
Greek life hurts the membership
drives. Brian
Halabuda,
Greek
Council president and member
of Alpha Phi Delta, said that the
negative image of fraternities
could be a large part of member•
ship
drops
,
but said that the
Greek council and fraternity
council are constantly working
to recreate a positive light for the
Greeks.
The fraternities however main•
tain that their numbers aren't
neces
sari
ly
decreasing, rather it
being more of a repeated
cyc
le.
Brian Halabuda said, that he
isn't really seeing a drop in
membership, at least not with the
alpha Phi
Delta.
"The growth isn't large but it's
growing", he said.
According to both the sororities
and fraternities the spring
recruitment usually has higher
numben; than the fall semester.
Halabuda stated that a fratemi•
ty's ability to induct more mem•
hers than graduate is how you
measure the success of a chapter.
All the Greek organizations are
successful according to Robert
Lynch
director
of student activi•
ties. Lynch seemed very relaxed
as he sat speaking of the many
activities that
the
Greek organi•
zations have accomplished.
"I believe the numbers are sat-
isfactory," said Lynch,
"No
major drops, the numbers seem
stable,"
he
said.
Lynch stated that the Greeks
must stay positive about their
good work and use that to attract
new
members.
Lynch spoke of
Greek blood drives and commu~
nity service affairs as being a
great way to recruit potential
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By
SARAH SPAINHOWARD
Staff Writer
Marist College provides no
special
housing
privileges to
members of Greek organizations
on campus and now the city of
Poughkeepsie is giving Greek
students the boot as well.
Greek life was founded at
Marist College in the
late
eight•
campus in cert4in parts of the
city of Poughkeepsie. According
to
the Charter and Codes for the
City of Poughkeepsie,
new
zon•
ing laws affect any students who
wish to live together in groups of
more than three unrelated
per·
sons. Specifically, the Charter
states that student residences
shall not include fraternities,
sororities or community residen•
the school provided leadership
and
direction
for the Greeks and
make sure the organizations
were giving positive contribu-
tions to the college and its stu•
dents.
"In the early nineties Greeks
had a lot of negative P.R. it was
our job to make sure they were
seen in a positive light," he said.
ies starting with
the
estalr
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Housing has been an issue
since the beginning of Greek
life at Marist and since
Sansola has been involved
with the organi7.ations. At
one time, the school did own
a few historical houses near
'The
college gives you the option to
live off campus as an unrecognized
organization but now the city Is say•
Ing you can't live there either.'
Route 9 on North Road which
lishment
of
Kappa
Lambda Psi in 1987, a
sorority and the first of its
kind to Marist students.
On campus, Greek hous•
ing
has
never been recog-
nized or been offered to
-
Anonymous sorority
sister were housing options for stu~
any students involved with
dents. One fraternity chose to
sororities or fraternities.
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
make one of these houses
Students have previously had the
tial programs.
their Wlofficial home but this
option to choose their room•
Steve Sansola, Associate Dean
was done so by what Sansola
mates on and off campus, but in
of Student Affairs, once served calls ''self.selection." Marist stu•
the last year and
8
half that pre-
as the director of
housing.
For dents have priority points which
rogative has been
limited
by the
over 13 years Sahsola said made they earn
through
different activ•
city of Poughkeepsie.
himself available for support and
ities and good academic stand·
In April 2005 , zoning restric-
gu
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tions
were
passed
which
stu ents an upper an m c oos•
removed the choice of living off campus. According to Sansola,
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Security Briefs
No one ever does anything original on this campus
Upcoming
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didn't see the movie in the cards that had been in th~
Leader in
homeland
first place.
wallet was used across thf
street a short time afte-r
the wallet was said
tp
security
11/13 - 4:25
PM
have
been
stolen.
student stepped out of a
taxi and promptly fell to
the ground. The student
was
checked
out
and
allowed to return to their
and I don't think I want to
touch the thing. Lord only
knows what he's been
using it for. I'm pretty
sure SNAP should confis-
Hi everybody. Long
time,
no
see. Hope you all
had
a
Happy
Thanksgiving. And now
,
upon my return,
I
present
you all with an exciting
opportunity.
Today's
Security Briefs feature
old briefs simply copy
and pasted in (albeit, with
some
of
the
details
changed). So, if you can
figure out which ones are
copies, e-mail me the
answers, and you can get
your name in next week's
Security Briefs! How can
you
not
like
that?!
Consider this a challenge
to you, dear reader. (Note:
Eventually, another
Stu·
residence. Allow me an
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cate that thing, in the best
interests of national secuM
rity.
In Champagnat Hall, a
student reported that their
iPod had been stolen. I
may have mentioned this
before, but if I ever lost
my iPod, that would be
the end for me, I wouldn't
know what to do. Without
the feel-good sounds of
the Arctic Monkeys blast-
ing in my ears
,
there's
basically no reason to go
anywhere. In fact, the
only reason I go to class
is so I can listen to my
iPod on the way there.
I
1/14
- 2:45 PM
theft.
Not
gonna
lie.
Kinda not cool.
11
/
16
•
11:30
AM
I
would offer money, but
the money in our
budget
is being used to fund Eric
Zedalis' meals when he
On Fulton St., at the
goes to the MAAC cham-
location
where the Beck
pionship
in March. Sorry.) lot exits onto the street
,
a
van by an employee was
In Midrise
,
a student
reported that their
laptop
was stolen from a lounge.
Apparently, the student
had been
using the
com-
puter until 3:40 AM, and
decided to go back to
their room to take a power
nap.
Well, six hours later,
they awoke and returned
to the lounge to find their
$2,000 laptop missing.
And wouldn't you know it,
that same laptop was
later
found in the closet of the
lounge where it originally
was. This is why ( never
nap. Of course
,
I never
sleep either, so I'm begin-
ning to think there are
bigger problems here
.
11
/
13 - 12:30
PM
In the Beck parking lot,
a car was repo.r.t
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~4 ~ith
the min;.9ttr bp;.Jc,e
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l'rn.
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.
~p.
~IJ,!li-
vidual
would
do this,
unless
the owner of the
car
really
deserved it. But
still, it's the principles of
it all. I have this image of
a movie or TV show where
someone is on the
roof
of
a car, hitting it with a golf
club or
.
something, and I
apply that to this situa-
tion.
I'm not sure if that
involved in a collision
with a car driven by a stu-
dent.
The student suf-
fered minor injuries, and
was treated at the scene. I l/16M 2:30 PM
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one of the
learn
something
new chairs wound up missing
every day.
on the way from the truck
11/14
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A Sheahan resident
to the office.
It was
later
found
hidden
under
a
stairwell. How did it get
there? Your guess is as
good as mine.
show or
movie
actually
exists, however.
I
very reported that their wallet
well may have made it
up. had
been stolen while
For
some
reason,
it they were in the shower.
sounds
like
an
Adam The town
police were
Sandler movie. Which of called, and it was discov-
coursc means
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by The Hold Steady. That
is all.
11/17-l:35AM
In Sheahan, an intoxi-
cated student was taken to
St. Francis. This is some-
thing I
have
yet to experi-
ence, which is obviously a
good thing,
but
taking
that trip up to the Bates
Motel-mansion-esque hos-
pital is sort of appealing.
I can combine that with
11/21 - 10:05 PM
Over in Midrise, some
students were found with
some alcohol. Among the
items found were an open
bottle of Jose Cuervo,
some Smirnoff, and some
sort of Vodka. Good baby
times.
11/25 - 12:15 AM
my other dream of one
The RA at Lower West
day writing about myself Cedar heard some voices
in a security brief.
in
an
apartment
that
11/18 - 4:18 AM
In the early hours of the
morning, a student and a
guest
were
caught
attempting to climb into
CJ!!ili-!>A~
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~hrbli'g!i one
of the first floor windows.
Th\t•f all very stealth,
Mission
Impossible-
esque.
Minus
the
Scientology.
I
1
/
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A student reported that
their laptop was missing
from the common room of
their Lower West Cedar
residence. Did you check
the closet? You know
,
sometimes I see one of m
y
housemates using
his
lap-
top in our common room
,
should have been vacant,
and the young peoples
were forced to leave the
residence. Well
,
I never!
These people should be
_punished severely
.
Drawn
and quartered, I say! Bah
humbug!
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3:30
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Sunday, Dec. 3
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3
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One
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To
stay
alive, Greeks need new blood
Poughkeepsie forbids frat houses
members. But according to
Halabuda, Marist isn't doing its
part.
"The college needs to do a
bet-
ter job of showing prospective
students that Greek life exists
and were strong," he said,
"Joining
a fraternity or sorority
is a major accomplishment and
we need to
be
recognized for
that." said Halabuda.
He is not the only member of
Greek
life who feels that Marist
isn't doing its part to endorse the
organizations. Wolff also stated
that Marist isn't promoting the
organizations as
it
should
"Girls see small numbers dur-
ing recruitment times and
it
affects the numbers overall,"
said Wolff.
The sisters of Kappa Kappa
Gamma expressed the need for
members to continue their legacy
as a
part
of national and local
tra-
ditions.
"Sororities
are small at Marist
and we all have to work together
to build up membership," said
Rochelle.
All four sororities must partic-
ipate
in
each recruitment event,
Rochelle said. When the sisters
do membership drives or promo-
tions, a member
from
each soror-
ity must
be
present and some-
times it's difficult to get every-
one together, she said.
Rochelle and Wolff also point-
ed out ihat in order for the
Greeks to be recognized by the
school and their headquarters,
the chapters must have at least
ten members, or the chapter
could be shut down. Although
the pledges
are
distributed even-
ly amongst the
soror
itie
s,
it will
continue to become harder for
the girls to maintain their organ-
ization if numbers don't start
increasing. With the decrease in
pledges the idea of chapters
clos-
ing could become a reality for
some
sisters.
If this was to occur
it wouldn't be the first time a
Greek organization has expired
at Marist
College.
According to Lynch three other
Greek
organi:zations
have lost
their chapters in the past,
sorori
-
ty Sigma Gamma Rho, and
Fraternities Tau Kappa Epsilon,
and Sigma Tau Epsilon all had
their chapters revoked in the
past. Lynch said
in
order for a
Greek organization to survive on
campus they must meet several
requirements, members nwnbers
being one but also
having
to
meet activity and community
service requirements as well.
"All organizations
have
mini-
mum requirements," he said,
"clubs
must maintain numbers
and the ideals of the
co
llege
,"
said Lynch.
Lynch further stated that Marist
maintains the fact that they are
proud
of the Greeks and encour-
ages
the organizations to main-
tain
a
positive attitude. Most
sororities
if concerned about
their numbers should regroup he
said,
"Be apart, and
support
your
organiz.ations,"
said
Lynch.
Gr
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you know .....
engaging
in a
Physical Assault could
lead to you loosing your housing
and/or be removed from the college
community.
ing
housing
options,
said
Sansola.
If
Marist provided off-campus
housing
for Greeks, it would
raise several issues. According to
Sansola, you must consider all
the options and amenities stu-
dents are provided on campus,
such
as
the issues of safety, secu-
rity, and college control.
Kristen
Bretz,
a mentor in the
first year
programs
at Marist
College, said the reason that off-
campus housing is not provided
or recognized brings up issues of
liabilities.
Sansola
on
the other
hand, said he believes it's much
more than that.
"We
don't want to give access
to special groups on campus or
off," he said. "Everyone should
be eligible."
One sorority sister who wished
to remain anonymous said that
by withholding the option of
housing on campus, or even off
campus, the school is restricting
members
from receiving the full
Greek experience.
"The college gives you the
option to live off campus
as
an
unrecognized organization but
now the city is telling you can't
live there either," she said.
Sansola disagreed with the idea
that
stude
nts
can't
experience
the
Greek life without the living
arrangements.
"It
doesn't take away from
associating with a group",
he
said,
"It
doesn't prevent one
from still engaging in organiz.a.
tions."
Sansola spoke about various
studies that do say Greeks
are
one group that
tends
to have
more risky behavior
in
associa-
tion with alcohol but, he said,
studies also show that Greeks
give more
services
back to the
schools and communities no
matter where they're living.
Marist Band to perform two holiday
concerts in Nelly Goletti on Sunday
By
JAMES MARCONI
News
Editor
winter concert, which was lack~
Tau Beta Sigma, which play an
ing in numbers due to a passing
integral part in
setting
up and
snowstonn.
decorating the theater before the
The Marist
College
Symphonic
According to De Pace though,
perfonnance.
Come Sunday
Band, Wind Syrrlphony, and the dedication, enthusiasm, and they will
be
decking the halls, so
Handbell Choir will
strike
up a
hard work
of
band members is
to speak. with poinsettias donat-
festive tune this Sunday,
per-
just as crucial to the success of ed by the local Home Depot.
fonning in back-to-back concerts
the event
as
sheer numbers
.
And
After both the
3
:
00
p.m.
and
in the Nelly Ooletti Theater.
those
are
qualities that they have
7:00 p.m. concerts,
De
Pace said
With any luck, said Band demonstrated in
spades,
he said.
that attendees are welcome to go
President Matt De Pace, the dual
"The band has taken a jump down to the Music Department,
perfontianCes will be
an
opportu-
with the new
executive
board," where Kappa Kappa Psi
will
be
nity for the band to provide
8
lit~
said
De
Pace.
"It
has
been a real-
titlling
co~s
front
pur
ptt'form-
tle
seasona
l
cheer and have a
ly, really good year.
ances and Tau Beta Sigma has a
successful fundraiser in the
The musical and numerical
store featuring holiday wares.
process.
"We
just want to
fill
the
house,"
De
Pace said.
"We're
playing our
signature
song,
Sleigh Ride, and a bunch of other
holiday
tunes.
The concert is
just the band, not the full music
department, so it gives us a
chance to shine on our own."
Hopefully, he said, attendance
will improve from
last
year's
strength
of the freshman class
These sales combined with the
(54
to be
ex.act)
is also a plus, he
profit made from the tickets
said.
themselves constitute a major
"Each year
as
we get bigger,
I
fundraiser for the band, and
De
think the talent grows and we
Pace said
he
encourages friends
can up the quality of the and family to come out and show
music
...
we had some really tal-
their
support.
ented players come in this year."
Advance tickets for this event
Also contributing to the practi-
can be purchased by calling
cal logistics of the concert are extension 3242. Student tickets
the honorary band fraternity and cost
$4,
faculty
$5,
and general
sorority, Kappa Kappa Psi and admission
$6.
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not limited to: inflicting bodily harm
upon any person, taking any action
for the purpose of inflicting harm
upon any person, threatened use of
force upon any person, andsubjecting
another person to unwanted physical
contact.
This message brought to you by the
Office of Judicial Affairs.
A local club called The Loft is
this year's
hotspot
for the fresh-
man
class. The club, which has
an
"18 to enter, 21
to
drink" pol-
icy,
is
attracting more freshmen
than
ever befoce, according to
employees and students.
Senior
John
Palmer is a bar-
tender at The Loft.
"T
here
's
more people this year
than
any other year at The Loft.
It
definitely has turned into one
of the top hot spots," said
Palmer.
The Loft. one of the four clubs
located
at
The
Chance
Entertainment
Complex
on
Crannell Street, offers a dance
floor, live music, and a
$5 cover
for
Marist
students.
Sophomore Erica Pires works
at the entrance door of The Loft.
Pires says there
are
about
300
patrons on a good
night,
a major-
ity of whom are freshmen. She
says
the recent success is due to
the closing
of
Ciboney, a similar
club
also
located
in
Poughkeepsie.
''The Loft has always been a
freshmen hangout, but then
Ciboney opened last year and
become our competition," said
Pires. "Now that Ciboney is
closed, The Loft is more popular
again."
"F
reshmen
love the Loft, they
feel at
home
there," said Palmer.
Freshman Caroline Leeds says
she often goes to The Loft on
Tuesdays and Saturdays.
"It's
fun
because it's pretty
much all freshmen so it gives
us
a chance to meet each other since
we're all still new to the
school,"
said
Leeds.
"I
feel comfortable
there."
Leeds says she also enjoys the
theme nights at the Loft. which
so far have included 80s night,
Mardi Gras and
a
blacklight
party.
Freshman Dave Serratelli said
he attends The Loft at least once
a
week.
..
Everyone goes," Serratelli
said. "On any Friday or Saturday
you
know
you'll
see people
you
know there. If not for the whole
night, peQple will at least go after
the usual house party."
Palmer said The Loft
offers a variety of entertainment.
"We
have a
rock
room
and a hip hop room so you can
dance, Ifyou•re 21, there's very
cheap drink specials," said
Palmer
. "It's
a place where
everyone is just willing to have a
good time and let
loose."
Leeds said freshmen
choose
the
Loft over other
Poughkeepsie clubs.
•'I've been to Sandbar
and the Mad Hatter, but The Loft
is the best place to go," said
Leeds.
"Sandbar
is way
too
small,
there's barely any room to
dance and Hatter is full of upper-
classmen."
Palmer, who also pro-
motes for The Loft, said he went
"door to door in every freshman
dorm and gave out
fl
yers
in the
beginning of the year."
"Freshmen went to the
bar, had a great time, and it's
been gold ever
since,"
said
Palmer.












































































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When it comes to November traditions, keep the turkeys and the Lions
By
MATT
SP
IL
LAN
E
Staff Writer
Every Thanksgiving I look for-
ward to seeing all my relatives
that I only visit once in a blue
moon, and like most guys around
the country
,
I
also look forward
to some good Thanksgiving foot-
ball. Watching football
on
Thanksgiving is an old tradition
that is not just enjoyed
by
rabid
football fans and their family
members alike. Everyone loves
to join their relatives in the living
room and enjoy the games
together
,
which give us some-
thing to do before and after we
devour the rurkey.
It
does not
even matter that two of the four
teams playing every year are the
Detroit Lions and the Dallas
Cowboys; people still love to
watch the games. Although they
play separate teams
,
the Lions
and the Cowboys always
get
their chance to play, no matter
what.
It
is just tradition.
Some peop
l
e do not like the
fact that Detroit (in all its perpet-
ual haplessness) and Dallas (with
all
its
opponents) get the chance
to
p
la) on every Thanksgivi
n
g.
Critics of this custom make some
valid arguments
.
Why should the
Lions
.
who annually have one of
the worst teams in professional
football, have the right to play on
a national holiday every single
year? I am sure that there are not
many people outside of Detroit
who look forward to watching
the mighty Lions take the field
each Thanksgiving. Everyone
knows what is going to happe
n
anyway
:
Detroit's opponent
,
no
matter who that may
be,
will beat
the hell ou\ of
th
e
m
, and every-
one
will
once agai
n
q
u
estio
n
why
team Preside
n
t Matt
Mill
e
n
sti
ll
has
a
job.
Then there
i
s Da
ll
as,
"America's Team." Yes
,
they
have a large fa
n
base across
th
e
country. And yes, they us
uall
y
field a pretty
d
ece
n
t
team.
But
come on, most fans
are
sick of
seeing that Da
ll
as star at
mid
fie
ld
and those pretty si
l
ver an
d blu
e
uniforms. As a Gia
n
ts fan,
I
a
m
pretty tired of seeing the
m
myself, especially afte
r
w
itn
ess-
ing quarterback Tony Ramo's
spectacu
l
ar pe
r
formance t
h
is
year. As there are
m
any
p
eop
l
e
that love the Cowboys, there
are
probab
l
y abo
ut
an equal numbe
r
of fans who despise them.
However, even w
ith
the sent
i-
ment to rotate teams playing o
n
Thanksgivi
n
g,
I
can see the
r
ea-
sons to keep Da
ll
as an
d
Detroit.
Football on Thanksgiving is
clearly a great tradition, and part
of that traditio
n
is the Cowboys
and
Lions.
A
ccord
i
ng
to
Wikipedia, the two
t
eams
h
av
e
hosted Thanksg
i
v
i
ng Day games
nl
m
ost each seaso
n
since
1
966,
and to be
h
ones
t
, it would
be
weird to jus
t
do away with that
ritual. I guess in a way, foo
tb
a
ll
fans kind of look forward to see-
in
g
those two o
l
d squads play
each year.
It
is just
i
ngra
i
n
ed
in
the practice of
Th
a
n
ksgiv
i
ng,
and somethi
n
g that NFL fans are
usCd f6. TiiiS
ye
·
ar,
tho
u
gh,
marked the first time
tbai
1thtee
games were playe
d
·
o
n
the
natio
n
a
l h
o
l
iday
. I
n a
dd
i
ti
on
t
o
the two tradit
i
o
n
al ga.tl,}es, the
Kansas City C
h
iefs an
d
De
n
ve
r
Broncos
p
laye
d
a
ni
ght game.
Unfortunately, i
t
was only broad-
keep the Cowboys and Lions
as
played
a
weak team in the Tampa Thanksgiving? Maybe fans
will
cast o
n t
he NFL Netwo
r
k, so a
the two annual
h
osts, then will
Bay Bucs. The league has to
want to keep the two traditional
l
i
m
i
t
ed
n
umber of people were someone please tell them to
have better foresight
,
espec
i
ally
teams playing on the hol
i
day if
able to watch it. This may be a
schedu
l
e good oppo
n
ents? I when the Cowboys were predict-
they played meaningful games
sign of future change, or just a
mean, Detro
i
t is bad eno
u
gh as it
ed to have a
good
year. Why
that featured some
good
compe-
ploy to market the NFL Network.
is, we do no
t
need to see them
can't we see a Cowboys-G
i
ants
t
i
tion, or they shou
l
d rotate
We w
i
ll see what the league play the Miami Dolphins too.
game? The two teams competing teams playing tha
t
day. Either
decides
to
do
with
the
How about New Eng
l
and or for the division title play each way would wo
r
k, so hopefully
Th
anksgiving tradition next yea
r
. Chicago, whom they play twice
other twice
a
year, and the league the league execs get it right next
If the
l
eague does
d
ecide to each year? The Cowboys also
could not fit one of them in on
year.
Home
ma
y
ne
ver
c
hange -
but your pe
r
sp
ective may
By
BRIT FIORE
N
ZA
Staff Write
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was
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t
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i
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be
for Jbc most pan t\lter
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GntnJ
Cent
r
al Statir:in. hnlJing onto 1hc
po
l
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rut)
sane per!i<Jn should du) in the
undergro
u
nd shuttle:
lo J>en:1
S1atl(m. and
sitting on
)'Ct
anolhcr 1ram \\akhing con•
crct~
g1ye wa
to
tre~s.
l
,,,_ac.
home
Most ol
the things I had left t',chind to
come to richool "'ere sllll lhc same. fhe
n) bopp(rs "ere
111/
dr3Wfl to the gaud)
red paint a
n
d 1;1ant glowing 1'F" thal 1s
Friendly\ tradc:mork When I n:at:hed m)
house. my
dog
thr~·" himself ilgainst th1:
door
hli..e he alway, Joes when he hear,, an-.·-
one within a 20-milc ra:Jiu':>. Even after
:,;~P-
arating
t(I
different
C"Ullc:gc.!l
ffi)"
bcsl friend
still knew
1he only way I woulJ 'nal..c: up
was
if
consuming cot'lc:c
v.-.1
rnv\1lved. Our
rov-n retain~d us small to\\n appeal v.uh
noth
i
ng
10
do anJ no\\hcrc 108_DC\.ct') night
we were all
tOl(cther
fliC"
nc3rhy oc.: 11
m)-
fricnd.,. Md l frequented
w,15,
httrctly \.!(t!d
from
tht \\
i
nter
chill, and
""e ,
till argu~d
trult
Mother Nature
v.-ru.
jus1 too stubh(.lm lo
accept that t.ummer
shuuld be pc:rpelual on
Long Island. The island is home and
it was
ijood
to
he
thete dOin~ tbe wnc old thrni:-:s
"'ith
tl,c same
1,ld people
\\h:1~
i"
ll
Jl'lout ne,er b,1,,.ing ,imthmg
Ill
tkl
•"benc-.c1 'Yle'rt home'} E\en
1f
\\e all
complain ahout 1h,:rc hcmij no"'hc.rc
Hl
go.
tiut
we alwa)S Uh\ays a.lv.·a)"· finds me-
thing
to
dn .
.tnd tf nothing cls.c, :hal 1s: m)
fa\orill!'
part
ot being home.
E,c~om!
al
home knows th.11 "hen ,;it1ing ar,\und ~c,inc ..
m1c\
hnuse "'
JUSt too tfHJ!.:h to
Uk(' lhe
ni.;ean at midnight
i~
lhe
1ml> rlai.;l" hl i;o
.l\
en no\',. we
~till pl(ll IC'
11c,1k 11ut
l,t
111.n
bedruom w u11loM, late
at
night 1 h-.
fac.:1
lhat my fnt'1ld~
and I
.still bad the samt~ old
habits ¥--<:'vc had for the pa:.t ten y~·ars
of
our
li\'e~ ,~as
1:omforti11g,
Howt!',cr. there is au l.""<.c,:ption to c\~r)
mlt' and some lhmg<;
have to .. :hangc.
My
friend flriJgt:t ,lltem.b NYU
1mJ
she came
hom~ with a Rnll">h
aL1.1!'nt
J'ha1's
right.
r..Yl in Ne\\ \ork
(1t\
anJ Hrid!;,'"et "'ith a
Rntish ac'-'t"nt. Did she med a1n um:
British'' n. Did she stud) 1lm.1ad her· lirsl
sem~tcr ul i:11lh:~e? No She s1mpl) picked
t
up lmd now
C'dlls
mr dahling
a
nd
!la)"
nt1l1« peculiar note
w
Kif ne:i.~r
,i;:
a~
'rathl·r peculiar darling' in the -.rune ;cn-
tence}. 1 lo\t" her to death bu1 \\he11
t
picked
her up at the tr.itn station I u .. ked h~
if
,he
rcmcmhered thal she 1:,rrc" up on Lllng
Man or 'lawn gu, Ian
ll
I.
to cac his
O\\tt you
know'
1
I
canw
ba(.;k
'o\ilh a nc;"
hair
cm. ')he (rune back with a new dialc1,o1
stuff
happen-;
Cl1mmg
home,
.uiulhcr
rude
:av.:ak"'-ning
h.ad hn tt1e
t\,~
t'lecc,mL 3 napper.
thl.'.'
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m1fhl-:
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wdl-t>c-a•I\\O•}taN,td l)f\C o
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bed
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a.ru. ,md
then
at
q
u.m l
1
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ll\: wl'!li..en lip b)
011e
person o
another in my t3mily, but my best !fiend
WJ:, 1hc e'-c<plion who like I &aid knew l,.:1-
ll!t
and hri~ll me "ith
coffee. S,:, folli
8!il~r i;houJd bl!
l!xpcl:h.'d
espe~1ally after
\\ aJ..mi
tip
:1t
t:t
a.m
dm ing
lu Ne" Jer$t
y
fo1 thn:c
hours .• 111J then sining aroWld
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ll:ning
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,ou
hear Ywhat Aunt ~lwn)' :-::ud
t
l r11ck Boh?" • thi! 'im,pensc. 1. ltm\-eVCT
upon
my waking
I
kan1cJ
that I
ha\
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.t
cun-
ccmed mother arid aunl ~ho both belit!H! I
have
mono and
a
~un~h
of
COU\JOS ~ }
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ha\c narcnkp~) Ar \f,m:n it is nut unuslMI
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and aslei:p
at 2 p.m . but npp:trtntly in thl' middle o
ubu.rbi,l. thi~ •~ 11nim,1ginshle. But I gu :,;~
lha&::i.
whru.
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and
{!ood
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here at
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who knows
if
I .:an
s.a~ the-
same for 1hc fol~. On the bri~ht side
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Rice's '9' features clear vocals and raw emotion
By
BETHANY BOHUN
Setting the scene
with
the acoustic and then climaxes to
.
Circle Contributor
acoustic
appetizer
of
"9 a fu11 symphony
of
emotion.
Crimes", the dedicated listen-
Rice has decided to take a
At last, Damien Rice has er is reminded of the simple much more realistic approach
quietly stepped back into the sound of "O" and is prei,ared to the album, with some
world of meaningful music.
for the full musical meal to be strumming tunes that actually
Anyone whose musical pref-
served on a silver compact move along. Rice has some
erences revolve around melo-
disk. "9 Crimes" is an anes-
chances at ]aid-back radio hits
dramatic male artists who thesia fo
_
r the heartache to whose lyrics wil1 inevitably
wallow in self-pity and whim-
come throughout the album. dominate the away messages
per out depressing lyrics After the piano makes its of college females across the
knowS Damien Rice is no opening statement, the smooth nation.
exception to the broken-heart-
and delicate voice of back-up
"Coconut Skins
"
is a chipper
on-bloodied-sleeve
music
singer
Lisa Hannigan starts acoustic piece that has sing-a-
genre. Four years after the off the experience effectively.
long potential with both sexu-
successful
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That the al innuendos and direct fomi-
debut
of
Rice has decided
to
take a
album begins cation references.
"Dogs",
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Rice
much
more
with a female which discusses the
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has
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reallStlc
voice displays does yoga" who "lives with an
"9", a ten
approach
to the album, with
a singer who orange tree" is another chance
track album
some strumming tunes that
posses s es at a future hit with the light-
released on
actually move along. Rice
confidence in ness of Jack Johnson mixed
Nov.
14.
has some chances at lald•
his
ability, with meditative observations.
At first
back radio hits whose lyrics
which is by
The downfall of this
glance, Rice
will Inevitably
dominate the
no
means approach
,
however, is a more
is using his
unfounded. commercialized sound that
sophomore
away
messages of college
Rice
then can reference him to the
uni-
release
to
females
across
the nation
makes
his formed, cookie-cut
sounds
of
11::bel,
as
evi-
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denced by a
raising
the Matthews. The addition of
Parental Adyisory warning. emotional
barometer and electric guitars and the lyrical
S,rnaming
obscenities at
the
catering
to
the
li
steners
who
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inner-life complexities makes
girl who betrayed him in at last
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get to hear his voice.
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sound more like an
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sound
track
release then his
eral references to bodily
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branches away from the tech-
previous album,
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,
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ly
and drama .. Grey's Anatomy".
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Yoke And
I''
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angry
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pteparation for the final three
t!'atks.
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wounds displayed in the earli-
er tracks.
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Lisa Hannigan ends the song
singiqg. H<?'l\"ever
;
the song
and
11
pain ~ontinues with
six-
teen minutes of a soothing
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McCain
calls
for deployment of more troops to Iraq
By
DANIEL
BLACK
Staff
Writer
The possibility that John
McCain may have chosen his
words
poorly
when he called for
words
reveal far more than his
newly overhauled
language
ever
could.
"Immoral" aptly
defines
the ethical substance of sending
troops,
with
no proper
motive,
off to their deaths; we know
this
because McCain tells us so, but
nalion-
those that authentically
care.
That
is what must direct
this
conflict
if
ever it is to end.
The
families in small American
communities who
have
a brother,
a cousin, a pa
p
erboy out in Iraq
are
the
only citizens
that
a sol-
the deployment of
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
more troops to Iraq is
"Young Marines", using McCain's
words
,
are free to die
In
far off
hardly • subject of
foreign lands,
un~II
their
perishing directly affects polltlclans'
disput~he Arizona
careers
.
They
suddenly
care;
and they do things like rephrase their
Senator has
l
ikely
positions and
scramble
to appear concerned because they must
reduced
his
appeal to
the people
of this
nation - those that authentically care.
prospects of becom-
ing president
by
saying so. Last
Wednesday, through subtle shifts
of expression, McCain attempted
to recover at least some of what
he
had
lost with masterfully
touched-up
language.
His new
(though
claiming
to
be
unchanged) words identify the
difference between sending more
troops overseas to win the war,
vjce continuing normal troop
numbers with no clear end in
sight.
He tells
us
vic1ory is
attainable,
that he
can ask a
"Young Marine to go back to
Iraq" if he's doing
so to win, and
even calls the act of doing other-
wise
"immoral".
An
eye-opener, to put it mildly,
these words· surely are.
The
implicit confessions in
\fcCain's
if this is wrong
now,
surely it
was wrong in the beginning of
the conflict. Why didn't
McCain
speak
up then? He was doing
what he docs, doing what they all
do:
looking
out for himself. That
factor, the instinctua
l
sense of
political
se
lf-pre
servation,
is
the
only thing that inspires our
politicians to
speak
or act.
"Young Marines", using
McCain's words, are free to die
in far off foreign
l
ands,
distant
from the thoughts and concerns
of politicians, until their perish-
ing directly affects politicians'
careers. They suddenly care; and
they do things like rephrase their
positions and scramble to appear
concerned because they
must
apP\!al
to
the people of
this
dier can depend on
to
stand up
for his rights while he/she is
abroad.
If what
I
say
is
untrue, then
why has
it
taken
so
long
(the
U.S. has been in Iraq now
longer
than
it had
been
involved
in
WWII)
for a formerly war-sup-
porting senator to say it's
immoral
to
send troops to their
deaths
if
not
for a specific, wor~
thy cause? These sorts of osten-
sibly
radical positions
corre-
spond
to things
like
electoral
activity, pending shifts of party
distribution
in
government,
politica
l
climate and public opin-
ion, and t
hi
ngs of that nature.
They've got
nothing
to do with
mora
l
right and wrong because
those are not time-!ipccilic;
the)•
don't shift as
does public
lives in
accordance with
their emed
by its
people (you know,
approval of the war. Mind you, own values; and overarching democratically),
than
clearly
McCain never says what
the
social co
n
cerns
as
they
are
often those
people
who go off
to
war
cause actually is; he asserts
that
ignored by our
leaders
,
for exam-
would at
least be
acknow
l
edged
there must be a
bipartisan defini-
pie:
that
16,000
s
in
gle
mothers
as empowered citizens
rather
tion of what, exactly,
is
our
mis-
are deployed
in
Iraq,
an
unprece-
than
prosecuted as crimina
l
s.
sion
in Iraq.
de
nt
ed
reality that
is
l
iterally
Kyle
Snyder's actions to aid
It is enlighten
i
ng,
in many dis-
unvoiced
in
mainstream media.
Hurricane Katrina
victims over
heartening ways, that it has taken
Is
it that
we
do
not
care about
this past Thanksgivins
holiday
nearly four years of
fighting
a
these issues?
Surely
c
iti
zens
might have
been applauded,
but
war for one of
its
most
ardent
occupy every
inch
of
the
spec-
he is
co
n
demned for
his
activism
original supporters to arrive
at
tnun between conscious
involve-
because
it conflic
t
s with
the
the belief that
t h e r e - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
authoritarian ambitions
should
be a mission we
are pursuing while fight-
ing
it -and to presume
that arrival was the result
of
some
'moral epiphany'
and not politically moti-
vated is laughable and
insulting.
The sorts of war-relat-
ed issues that
I
feel arc
It has taken nearly four years of fighting a
of our cosmetic democ-
war for McCain- one of
Its
most ardent
~~OL
!';;;,f~r:
0
,8~~:!
orlglnal supporters -
to arrive at the
been necessa'l'. if his
belief that there should be a mission we
ri
ghts as a citizen came
are pursuing while fighting It - and to pre-
=~:~:,;;';°'~:es:!~;~
sume that arrlval was the result of some
have been
discharged
'moral
epiphany' and not polltlcally moll·
and able to
provide help
vated
Is
laughable and Insulting.
to
those citizens
that
the
more pressing than party
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epartment
of
loyalty or ascending
the
ranks of
mcnt
and apathetic
dissociation
H
omeland Security· continues
to
our political
system
include ser-
with regard
to
the
war,
but that disregard
a
full 15
months
after
v
iccmen'
s
rights, for examp
l
e:
these
issues arc
n
ot even
raised the disaster.
But
unfortunately,
the right of Iraq War veteran and addressed in the news
pro-
as we are able
to discern
from
Agustin Aguayo to
an honorable
grams
we
watch or
debated and
misguidance
of
the
current polit-
discharge from the anned forces
acted upon
by
the
representatives
ical dia
l
ogue, the rights of the
as a conscicntio4s objector; we elect s
h
ould
inform us
as to individua
l
citizens and so
l
diers
rights of native citizens, for what sort of governme
n
t/society are
not
even worthy of govern-
example:
those
Iraq
.
is
who con-
we
live in.
Concerns
like
those
ment
attention, an odd reality for
sider the American military an
I've listed
would
be
highly prior-
a
"
democratic
society."
occupying force and desire- its
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in an
authent
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By
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Staff Writer
ease,
Huntington's disease and own. Their job
in the
body
is to
Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS, all
give
rise to
specialized cells such
arise out of the breakdown of the
aS
heart muscle
cells,
blood
cells
motor neurons,
which
do not or nerve cells. After these
cells
An Italian team
of scientists
and
continue
cell division after birth.
become
specialized,
they do not
doctors tested
a stem-cell
treat-
There are no known cures for
nonnally cont
i
nue to divide.
ment on
dogs
with the debilitat-
any
of
these diseases. The break-
There are two kinds of stem
ing
disease Duchenne's muscular down
of
the axon in the motor cells that scientists work
with:
dystrophy. After
administering
neuron causes the electrical
embryonic stem cells and adult
the treatment, the dogs that had
impu
l
ses
being sent from the
stem cells.
Embryonic
stem
cells
been limping around for months,
brain to the muscle to misfire.
are used for
in
vitro
fertilization.
were
suddenly
bounding
around
Through ~is grad
u
al breakdown
In a laboratory,
embryonic stem
like
normal,
healthy dogs.
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cells continue to divide
Muscular dystrophy " ...
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c
ientists are just beginning to
affects
mostly boys and
understand what s
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gnals
t
he cells
young men. There
are at
rece
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least
twenty
different forms
of muscular
dystrophy.
tlatlon
,
but there are still many ques-
without different
i
ating,
but most adult stem cells
cannot. Adult stem cells
generate the
type
of cell
tissues that divide,
such
as bone marrow stem
cells that give rise to new
blood
cells. Embryonic
which cause
muscle wast-
t
l
ons as to whethe
r
the s
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gnals are dlf-
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progressive paralysis
fe
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stem cells are
derived. However,
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slowly
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the
point of
the research
is
to
away.
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scientists
feel that
understand the development and
by
studying
mice with these dis-
cell
division
ofan
organism from
eases and by
experimenting
with
a
single cell and
how healthy
stem cells, a cure can be found
cells
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damaged
cells in
one day.
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Stem cells are different from
research can be beneficial in
finding treatments
for
diabetes,
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dis-
other kinds of cells in that they
are unspecialized cells that
renew themselves through_ long
periods of
cell
division. Under
certain conditions,
they can be
induced to
become
cells with
special
functions that could take
the place of diseased cells in
humans that
cannot
heal on their
stem cells do not have
these
l
imitations. If these
cells
continue
to divide
,
or pro-
liferate, and remain unspecial-
ized
cells,
they can
yield
mil-
lions of new cells and are said to
be capable of long-tenn
self
renewal.
Scientists are just beginning to
understand what signals the cells
receive that trigger
stem
cell dif-
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still
many questions as to whether the
signals are
different for all kinds
of stem cells, both
h
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adult stem
cells. The dogs were injected
with their own modified
stem
cells.
This kind of
therapy is
p
r
eferable,
because in previous
trials,
some of
the dogs received
stem cells from
other
animals.
To
make it
possible
for these
other
stem cells
to take, it
was
neces-
sa,y
to
suppress
their immune
systems.
The dogs rapidly lost
their
ability to walk.
tracks and
even
reverse it to a
certain degree.
Professor
Cossu,
the director of
the
Stem Cell
Research Institute
of San
Raffaele Scientific
Institute reported the findings
of
the
stem
cell
therapy on these
animals in
the journal
,
Nature.
The
work shows
that it is possi•
hie to
stop
the disease in its
According
to Professor
Cossu,
he
says
that,
"Even
though by
itself [the experimental treat-
ment] may not
lead
to
a
cure, it
would
ameliorate the
conditions,
then
step
by
step we
could work
on
getting
a real cure."
By
ALEXANDER TINGEY
Health
Editor
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006 •
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9
Marist men defeat first-ever Big Ten opponent
By
JOE FERRARY
Staff Writer
The Marist men's basketball
team and Jared Jordan showed
the
nation
that they play with the
power conferences in the first
ever Old Spice Classic in
Orlando,
Florida
over
Thanksgiving break.
The Old Spice Classic field
included
eight
teams
fiom
all
over
the
country (West Virginia,
Minnesota, Montana, Southern
Illinois,
Western
Michigan
,
Arkansas, Virginia Tech and
Marist). This tournament fea-
tured
five teams (Arkansas,
Minnesota,
Montana, Southern
Illinois,
and West Vrrginia) that
made
appearances
in
either the
NCAA Tournament or the NIT
last year.
In their first game of the tour-
nament, the Red Foxes defeated
the
Minnesota Golden Gophers
of
the
Big Ten, 63-56. This was
the
program's
first ever win over
a team from the Big Ten.
With the win, Marist improved
its record to 3-1 on the season,
while
Minnesota fell to 2-2.
The Red Foxes were led by
seniors
Jared
Jordan and James
Smith, who both tallied double-
Rachele
Fitz,
who
earned
MAAC
rookie
of
the
week.
led
Marlst to
wtns over
Dartmouth
and Fordham.
She
scored
16
Points
aplnst Dartmouth
and
18 points
against
Fordham.
In
the
two
games oomblned,
she
scored
34
points,
IP'Bbbed
10 rebounds,
and blocked
two
shots.
The
forward
from
Seven HIiis,
Ohio
Is
Martst's leadlngsoorer,
averaging 13
polnts-
per-geme,
and shoot-
Ing 75 percent
from
the
flold, 6ha
Is ....
ond on the team In
rebounding with 4.8
rebounds
per game,
and she leads the
team
In
offensive
rebounds
with
10.
Fitz
had an lmpresstve high
school
career
at
Trfnlty
Hll)l
School,
where she
tallied 2,073 career
points and more than
1400
rebounds.
doubles in the win. Jordan fin-
ished with 11 points
,
a game-
high ten assists, seven
rebounds
,
and a game-high three steals.
Smith tallied 16 points and
grabbed
a
game-high
13
rebounds
.
The game plan for beating
.
the
Golden Gophers was simple for
Marist, according to Jordan.
"On the offensive side of the
ball we stuck to our usual game
plan," Jordan said.
"On defense,
Coach Brady said to just play
stronger team defense and to
be
more physical, which we were
able to accomplish. We had a
lot
of confidence going into the
game, because Coach said that
we were the better team and
should win the game."
Marist, which led the entire
game, built its largest lead of the
game with 2:38
left
in the first
half(30:I5) on a
dWlk by
Smith.
However, the Golden Gophers
began to chip away at the
lead
on
back to back three pointers by
Jamal Abu-Shamala and Kevin
Payton to cut the Marist lead to
30-21
at
half.
Minnesota would continue to
fight back as they would close
the gap to just two points (40-38)
on a three-pointer by Lawrence
McKenzie with 12:32 remaining
in the second
half.
in overtime to advance
to the
McKenzie finished with a semi-finals.
game-high 17 points and six
Arkansas, the eventual champi-
rebounds
for
the
Golden on of the Old Spice Classic,
Gophers.
proved to
be
too much for the
The Red Foxes would take
Red Foxes, and they advanced to
command of the game courtesy the finals with a 73-64 win.
of an 8-0
run over the next two
The Razorbacks were
led
by
minutes
to build
a ten-point lead freshman guard Patrick Beverly,
(48-38) with
10:08 left
in the
half
who scored a team high 15
en-route to a 63-56 victory.
points, and junior guard Sonny
Marist
out-rebounded
Weems, who scored 12 points
Minnesota
42-39
and went to the and grabbed a game-high
13
foul line 14 times versus only
rebounds.
two times for the Golden
Jordan led the team in sCOring
Gophers.
with 21 points,
rebounds
with
Jordan said one key reason for
eight and assists with eight.
Marist's success not only on the Senior James Smith added 18
boards, but
in
the game as well,
points and seven rebounds in the
was
the
play of James Smith.
losing effort.
"James
had
an all~around great
The Red Foxes jumped out to a
game," Jordan said. "When he quick 6-0 lead over the first three
plays against players his size he
minutes of the game, but the
is
able
to
bang
them
on the block Razorbacks responded with a
I 0-
and not pick
up
fouls. When. he
O
run of their own to make the
tries to bang players on the block score
I 0-6 with 11 :24 left in the
in
our conference, the players
half.
flop and
he
picks up quick
The two teams would continue
fouls."
to fight back and forth for the
The Red Foxes' victory over rest of the
half
until Stefan Welsh
Minnesota
was
short-lived
hit
a three-pointer with 45 sec-
because
less
than 24 hours
later
onds
left
in the first half to give
they
had
to play Arkansas in the
Arkansas a 22-19 lead at inter-
semi-finals of the Old Spice mission.
Classic.
The Razorbacks had
The teams would continue to
defeated Southern
Illinois
61-53
trade buckets in the beginning
stages of the second half, and the
Red Foxes actually tied the game
at 35 with a Will Whittington
three-pointer with 13:01 left in
the half. That would
be as close
as the Red Foxes would come.
Arkansas would continue to
build its lead over the remainder
of the half~ its largest lead was 12
points, 70-58, with 26 seconds
left in the game. The final was
73-64.
The Razorbacks were just too
athletic for the Red Foxes,
according to Jared Jordan.
"They were quicker, bigger and
more athletic than we were
,"
Jordan said. "We had our oppor-
tunities to win the game in the
second half, and we did not hit
our shots."
The Red Foxes
held
the advan-
tage from the floor by shooting
42.3 percent to Arkansas
'
41.4
percent
,
but Arkansas shot
a
higher percentage from three-
point land (36 percent to 33.3
percent) and was 80 _percent from
the foul line versus just 66. 7 per-
cent for Marist.
With the
loss,
Marist's record
fell to 3-2.
The Old Spice
Classic was not over for Marist
yet, as they would go on to face
Western Michigan in the third
place game.
Freshman Fitz earns MAAC rookie of the
week
By
GREG HRINYA
Staff Writer
Fitz would lead the Red Foxes
in scoring again when the team
beat
Fordham
88-38
on
The
Metro Atlantic Athletic November 26 at the McCann
Conference [MAACJ announced Center.
that Marist Red Foxes' forward
She shot ei~t-of-nine from the
Rachele Fitz has been named
field and went
,
two-for-three
rookie of
the
week.
from the line to contribute a
The announcement came game-high 18 points. Fitz also
Monda
y
ai'ter Fitz
s
hot 14 or10
regis.1ercd
six
Tebound
s.
and one
from the
field
in Marist's two blocked shot as Marist cruised to
victories last week against
Dartmouth and Fordham. Fitz
. . a v ~
l:l,--f"iol.&,
..
-
U....
rebounds, and two blocked shots
in
the
wins.
In
the
first victory of the week.
Fitz shot six-of-seven from the
field and went
four-for-four
at
the line to
lead
the
Red
Foxes
with
16
,
points
against
Dartmouth.
She also grabbed
four rebounds and
blocked
a shot
in
21
minutes
of play in the 77-
41
Maristwin.
a ~-point victory over Fordham.
Just five games into the season,
the freshman forward from
Seven Hills, Ohio is Marist's
lcJdi
ng
scorer and has led the
team
to an early 3-2 record. Her
average of 13 points-per-game is
tops on the team, and she has
shot 75 percent from the field.
She is second on the team in
rebounding with 4.8 rebounds
per game and leads the team
in
offensive rebounds with 10.
Marist Red Foxes head coach
impressed with Fitz's play so far
in the season and was quoted on
the team's website.
"I
think she hasn't even
scratched the surface," Giorgis
said after the Fordham game.
"One of the things you have to
get used to is that when she's off-
balance
,
she's on balance. I don't
think
l'vc ever c
oac
hed a kid
who's had as soft a touch as she
does around the basket."
Rachele Fitz came to Marist
~
M
imoressive
hjgh school
career at Trinity in Ohio where
she tallied 2,073 career points
and more than 1,400 rebounds.
The Ohio Division
m
player
of
the year has given Marist a spark
underneath the basket and has
made large contributions to the
team early in her first season.
Fitz and the Red Foxes took on
the Brown Bears Tuesday night.
Next, they travel to Lewisburg,
PA
to
take on Bucknell.
Staying grounded, Jordan flies high
By
BRIAN
LOEW
Staff Writer
On Thanksgiving Day, amid
the
turkey, family and football
there was an unexpected guest in
my
living
room -
Jared Jordan
and the Brady Bunch. The Old
Spice Classic in Orlando was tel-
evised on ESPN2 and for the
first time in my recollection we
did not watch football
;
we
watched Marist College men's
basketball.
As different faces popped up on
the
screen, I faced a barrage of
questions:
"Who is that?
Do
you
know
him? Is he a nice kid? Who
is that again?"
Then my family saw our 6'2"
point
guard from Hartford,
Conn. effortlessly drain a three-
pointer. My dad
leaned
over and
said,
"Who
is this guy?"
Well, Dad, here's my answer.
He
is
Jared Jordan. He is the
General. Or just straight up
J.J.
After Sunday
'
s romp of
Western
Michigan,
he became
the Most Outstanding Player at
the
Old Spice Classic
,
averaging
20.7 points, 9.0 assists and 6.3
rebounds over those three games.
He is the captain and backbone
of the Red Foxes. Under his lead,
the
Marist
men
are tagged as the
preseason
conference favorites,
the
first time
in
school history.
He is the
leader
of the team in
points per game with 19 .3, and
he's no slouch in the other cate-
gorie
s
. Comparative to his aver-
age time of play per game, he
leads the team with a .422 aver-
age from the floor, an .809 aver-
age from the line and is averag-
ing 8.5 assists
per
game. He is
second on the team in rebounds,
pulling down 37 just behind sen-
ior James Smith
'
s 41 total.
He is, as an ESPN analyst
noted last year, a "poor man's
John Stockton."
He is proving all of those who
may have questioned him prior
to the start of the season
absolutely wrong.
He is one of 25
players
nation-
wide
named
to
the
Collegeinsider.com Preseason
Mid-Major All-American Team.
He is the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) Preseason
Player of the Year. He is a First
Team AII-MAAC honoree. He is
the Horizon Award recipient
from
the
New
England
Basketball Hall of Fame. He is
he one of the top 20 players in
the nation as voted by The
Sporting News, and was voted
Lindy
'
s "Best Playmaker" of the
MAAC
.
"He is an outstanding college
player,"
head
coach Matt Brady
said in an interview with the
Poughkeepsie
Journal.
He is a player who can perform
on any stage and under any spot-
light.
When many of us were
driving
back to
Poughkeepsie
from the holiday break
,
he
was
playing his game on the national
stage down
in
Orlando
.
Did he
fumble
under
the glare of the
spotlight? No way, He came up
just shon of his career high with
a 30-point game in the win over
Western Michigan on Sunday.
He is a calm, cool and collect-
ed
leader
who is not
letting
the
national
exposure get to
his
head,
or
his
team's. He told the
Poughkeepsie Journal that even
though Marist has been success-
ful, he knows they
have
a chal-
lenging
schedule ahead of them.
"We're
not
going
to let
our suc-
cess down there affect us
,
" he
said, "We know what
'
s ahead of
us and how good the
teams
are.
We
can
always
remember
Florida,
but
we can't just
be
sat-
isfied with
how
we did down
there."
Best of all,
Jared
Jordan is just
an ordinary guy, playing the
game that
he
loves. He is not
conceited or big-headed, He has-
n't let
his
accolades
blur
his sight
from the real
prize:
a team con-
ference title. He
is level-headed
and down-to-earth. And, you
know what? He's an al
I-around
nice kid
to boot.
Finally, he is an unexpected
topic of conversation
at
the din·
ner table on Thanksgiving Day.
Say hello, America - Jared
Jordan is
here.
Roarin'
Red Foxes
~arisrs male and
female star perfonncr
for 1he weekend of
0\,
23-~6.
Jared Jordan
Basketball. Senior
Jared
fordan
,,a,;,
a\\ardl!d
the
Mo~!
Outstanding
Player a\.,ard ofth1.: inaugu-
ral Old Spice Classic this
pa<.;t week. and he
\\'Us
named MAA( Co-Player
of
lh\! \\ t:ek
Monda)'
In
thl.' thn ..
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10umamen1 games
Jordan
aHraged
20.7
points, 9.0
as~isb and 6.3
rebound,, and he led the
Red Fo:\e to
v.1m,
o,er
Minnc,ota und Western
Michigan.
On the horizon:
llle Red Foxe~
{4-2)
faced
Old
Dominion
at home on
\\edncsday night. The: go
on thu road Saturda)' to face
the Richmond Spiders.
Rachele Fitz
Baskc1ball,
freshman
\.1an~t's l\\o ,..,ins
.
She has
onl) nu::..,cd t\\o !ihot~ frcim
the
fidd
playing
al
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Marist finishes with winning record at Old Spice Classic
By
ANDY ALONGI
they had de
v
el0ped over the past exposure. It's nice to
be
recog-
remarkable,"
he said. "To come
out with wins against post•sea-
son
teams is
great.
The
seniors
put our
program
in a national
light. We
played
Arkansas
our
best,
and we
needed them
to miss
a
few shots."
Co-Sports
Editor
few years after studying their nized."
After splitting their first two
games at the inaugural Old Spice
Classic, the Red Foxes won the
third place game over th
e
Western Michigan Broncos on
Sunday, 89-78, in The Milk
House, at the Wide World of
Sports in Walt Disney World.
Marist was
up
seven when the
second half began, 35•28. They
put a big cushion on their
lead
by
opening the second stanz.a. with
an
18-4
run over the first
4:54
of
play.
The run contained four of
Marist
'
s
IO
three•poinl field
goals
,
two of which were hit
by
senior
sharp-shooter
Will
Whittington. Whittington had a
total of
16
points
,
two rebound
s
and three assists for the game.
However, that run did not take
the
fight
out of Western
Michigan
.
They clawed back
,
and got as close as
eight
,_
at 81-
73 on an Andrew
Ricks
jwnper
with
I
:52
left
to play in the
game,
Ricks was the Broncos
leading
scorer off the bench with 16
points, while Joe Reitz led
Western
Michigan with
18
points
and shot eight-of-
I I
from the
field
.
Marist head coach Man Brady
spoke highly of the Broncos
.
"
I
knew
what a terrific program
tape," he said. "We had players
The bench players were also a
who were determined not to get
big key to winning Sunday's
beat off the dribble tonight. We
match-up
against the
Broncos.
(Marist] played better as the Four bench players, including
weekend went on."
junior guard Kaylen Gregory,
The game contained six ties junior forward Shae McNamara,
and four lead changes. Marist junior forward Wilfred "Spongy"
held on to the lead for good afte, Benjamin and sophomore
guard
a Whinington three-pointer put
Gerald Carter, all added
to
the
the Foxes up 25-23 with 4:43 to
offensive attack, contributing
a
play in the first half.
collective
27
points.
The largest lead for the Foxes
Coach Brady said the bench
was 21, 53-32
,
after senior guard players made a big contribution.
Jared Jordan hit a lay-up to cap
"The bench has been a
huge
the 18-4 Marist
run
that opened help," he said.
"I
told them we're
the second half.
going to need someone in every
Jordan continued to share the game. Western Michigan gets a
ball well as he dished out nine lot out of their bench. We
assists to go with his game-high
30 point
s
,
17
of which came in
the second half. Jordan shot
IO-
for-10 from the charity stripe
,
9-
for-13 from the floor, and two-
for-three from beyond the
arc.
Jordan finished the tournament
with 62 point
s
, 27 assists and a
two-to-one assist to turnover
ratio. For his efforts
,
Jordan was
named the most outstanding
player of the first Old Spice
Classic and Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference (MAAC)
co-player of the week.
Jordan was happy to be recog-
nized
"It's a nice award to get," he
said. ''The tournament got me
and the school a lot of national
matched their bench efforts with
ours today."
Despite the win, Marist was
out-rebounded 36-28 with
a
wide
majority of those rebounds com-
ing on the offensive glass. In that
facet, the Foxes were out-
rebounded
13~3.
After the
tournament,
which
featured three
nationally
tele-
vised games on ESPN2, Marist
improved to 4-2 after defeating
Minneso1a in the quarterfinals of
the tournament on Thanksgiving
Day
,
finishing the
tournament
with a 2-1 record.
Co
a
ch Brady said the
program
has been put
in
a national light.
"I
told our team to play on
national television three times
is
Jordan said
the
competition at
the Old Spice Classic was very
tough.
'"This competition
is
a lot big-
ger and stronger
here [
at the Old
Spice Classic],
but we
competed
with
everyone,"
he
said.
.. Playing with these teams is
huge and
finishing
third is
huge."
Marist returns
to
action on
Saturday
Dec. 2 when
the
Foxes
travel
to
Richmond to
take
on the
Spiders at
7
p.m.
Record books re-written in Poughkeepsie
By
DANIEL BARRACK
Staff
Writer
The Marist women's basketball
team defeated Fordham 88-38 last
Sunday. The
SO
point victory was
the schooJ's
largest
point-differen
•
tial since Coach Brian Giorgis
took over the team five years ago
.
The
domination
over Fordham
also tied the most points scored by
the Red Foxes under his reign
with 88.
From start to finish, Marist dom-
inated Fordham
in
one of the most
impressive wins in school history.
Marist started the game
on
a
19-
1
run,
and the Rams never teached
within 12 points for the remainder
of the game.
At one point, the Marist lead
reached
52 points. The 55-16 half-
time score was the most points
Marist had ever scored during one
half in school
history,
and the Red
Foxes did not
let
up in the second
half.
Allowing only 22 points in the
second half,
the
38 combined
points that Fordham scored was
the
lowest
point total that Marist
has allowed in almosi. two years,
the last time being a 63-35 win
over Rider back on Jan.16, 2005.
Jan. 16 has been a good day in
the past for Marist basketball, con-
sidering that the Red Foxes also
scored 88 point
s
in a game two
years previous in an 88-78 win on
Jan. I 6
,
2003 over, you gues
s
ed it,
Rider.
Tw
e
lve
Red Foxes scored in the
win, which shows how much of a
team effort this victory was.
While twelve
members
of the
Marist team scored. Fordham had
only six players dressed for the
game due to injuries. The six
Rams that suited up shot a mere
23.2 per cent from the field. while
Marist shot 56.3 per cent
from
the
field and
an
impressive 47 .8
per
cent from three-point territory
.
Freshman forward Rachele Fitz
led
all scorers with 18 points,
shooting eight-for-nine, and has
only missed two field goals in all
three home games thls year.
Senior guard Shannon Minter
was a big help off the bench, scor-
ing 11 points and making all three
three-pointers
she attempted.
The rest of the bench did the job
as wen: scoring 51 of the team's
88 points.
Not only
did
the
team
ser $)me
school records
,
but six Red Foxes
reached
a career or season-high in
points. Junior Alexis Waters,
freshman Lynzee Johnson
,
and
senior Mary Alice
Duff
all
fin~
ished the day with career-highs for
points in a game.
Senior point guard Alisa
Kresge
finished with seven assists, plac-
ing her among the all-time
leaders
in school
history.
Kresge also
moved into eighth-place
all
time
in steals for Marist College in
the
same game.
After falling to
no.
S
Duke
and
then at Villanova,
Marist
has
picked
up
the pace. The teams'
last two victories
have
come by an
average of
43 points
while allow-
ing an average of
less than
40
points.
Marist will have to keep this
pace going before a brutal stretch
of seven consecutive road games
between Dec. 18 and Jan. 14.
Marist's first conference game
will be held on Dec. 8 against
Loyola (MD) at the McCann
Center.
Senior guard WIii Whittington
ecored
16
points
In the Red Foxes' final
pme of the Old
Spice
Classic against
Western Mlchlpn.
l\1ar1st
ftn-
lahed the tournament with a
record
of
2-1 and took third place.