Student negligence resulting in theft
Foxes win conference
By
JULIE BROWN
Staff Writer
The Office of Safety and Security at
Marist College has initiated the Lock it
or Lose it program to minimize tbeft at
the college,
The program focuses mainly on the
three freshman dormitories on campus
as well as Marian Hall. Two to three
times a semester, a security
guard
and a
Resident Director patrol the hallways
of the specified dormitory and knock on
doors. The object of the program is to
see how many students lock their doors.
If the door is not locked and a student is
not present in the room, the two offi~
cials enter the room and leave a yellow
flyer. The yellow flyer states the time,
date and reason
why
the room was
entered.
Many times, the security guard and
Resident Director have walked by
doors that were wide open
with
no
occupants in the room.
"Sometimes a student will lose his/her
room key and ask the roommate to
leave the door open, resulting in theft,"
said John Gildard, head of Safety and
Security at Marist College.
During fall semester this year, 19
rooms were found unlocked within all
ofthe·dormitories; a number is less
than
in previous years. However, one of the
rooms had money and an iPod stolen
out of it, according to Gildard.
Security encourages students to hide
important items such
as
money, iPods,
and cell phones because they
are
among
the most commonly stolen items.
Students leave those items on top of
their dressers and desks, making
them
an
easy target for theft, explained
Gildard.
In addition to the freshman d(;Hmito-
ries and Marian Hall, the Townhouses
on campus as well
as
the Talmadge
Court residences off campus provide a
target for security. Students living in
these areas tend to open the front door
in nice weather and prop
it
open with a
brick or rock.
If a security guard
notices a door propped open, a report is
written and letters
are
sent to members
of the townhouse as a warning. The
students in the townhouse are also
docked priority points, said Gildard.
There are usually around 20 to 30
calls every year to the security office
regarding theft. Many times, items are
stolen due to student negligence, reiter-
ated Gildard.
"Sometimes
in the nice weather, stu-
dents go outside to do homework on
their laptops, forget something upstairs
in the dormitory, and leave their laptop
lying on the grass," said Gildard.
"When
they come back down, they dis-
cover that their
laptop
has been stolen."
There is a standard procedure for
stolen items. After
the
item has been
called in to the secbrity office, an offi-
cer is sent to the
room
from which the
item was stolen to take the report and
circumstances under which the theft
occurred. The
TO\\'.O
of Poughkeepsie
police are also ca11ed to take a report.
The theft is
logged
into the security
book.
When an item is found an<t turned in
to the
security
office, the members of
security tty to contact the owner by
phone or e•mail. There is also a Lost
and Found that can
be
checked daily for
missing items.
Items that aren't claimed by the end
of the year are given to charity organi-
zations such as the Lions Club. Cell
phones
are
given to a club that helps
battered women in the Hudson River
Valley obtain better security.
after victory over Iona
Security struggles to curb jaywalking
By
USA ADLER
Staff Writer
As
senior Ryan Coogen crossed the
street
near
the steel plant, he never
thought the 20.second walk would cost
him $1 JO.
Before he could reach the other side,
Coogen was stopped by a Poughkeepsie
Police officer for jaywalking, in this
case, crossing the street when the
"Don't Walk" sign was displayed on the
signal light.
"There
were no
cars
so
I
just decided
to go," Coogen said.
Coogen says he was listening to music
at the time so he couldn't hear the
police officer's 'Sirens.
"I
had my iPod on, so he put his lights
on and cut me off with his car," he said.
"He gave me a ticket, no warning. He
said he had to do this because the
school is cracking down," said Coogen.
"I
got a $110 ticket."
Coogen had the option of appealing
the ticket at court, but says it was easi-
er to just pay the money.
"I
didn't even bother,
I
mean it was
out in the open," he said. "He watched
me do it so
I
didn't have any chance.
I
just paid it."
In
addition to the police department,
Marist Security has been issuing cita-
Th~ Office
of
Judicial
Affairs
tions to jaywalkers. John
T.
Gildard is
Junior Greg Racz says he waits for the
the director of Safety and Security.
traffic indicator to avoid the legal con-
" Jaywalking is a serious problem," sequences.
said Gildard. '"The purpose is not to
"I'm confident that
J
can manage to
give tickets; it's to make people aware cross the street without getting
hit.
but
I
that there is a safety issue. The signals
wait for the light to avoid getting a tick-
are there to make it better for every-
et," said Racz.
one."
Junior Stephanie Nouchi from
Gildard says Marist and the police Manhattan says she jaywalks
"all
the
started monitoring jaywalking in 2004.
time."
"We went to the Town Building
"If there are no cars coming on either
Department about the Fulton Street
·
side then it's frustrating to wait for
Townhouses," Gildard said. "There nothing," said Nouchi. "I'm a city girl,
would
be
250 more people moving
in,
I have no patience."
5enl0r
TE wnnam
Flukes ceugtrt
a 10-ye,rd TO
pass
from QB Steve McGrath.
With
the
TD
the
Reel Foxes
went
up
24-14
with
Just
under
seven
minutes
to
play
In the
game.
Aukes had
two
catches for
19
yards
end the
only
receiving touchdown at
the
game
for
Marist This
is the
first
time
the
Foxes have won the MAAC slnce 1994.
which would mean more people
having
Junior Jenna Peles says she jaywalks
to cross Route
9
all the time."
about once a week.
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Gildard says the Building Department
"I have better things to
do
than
wait
SEED-sponsored dumpster
in
the Town of Poughkeepsie wanted by the side of the road and inhale car
Marist to build a bridge across Route
9,
fumes," said Peles.
but that.was beyond the school's means.
Both Nouchi and Peles say they aren't
d •
1 •
''The agreement with the town in
afraid of gening tickets, but Coogen
tve promotes recyc tng
order to open Fulton was to use a com-
says he has
learned
hts lesson. He wdl
bination of the town police department
be
joining Racz on the sidewalk, wait-
By
JULIE BROWN
and Marist Security to monitor the main ing for the
light
to change.
Staff
Writer
intersection for jaywalking," said
Students who want more
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Gildard.
on The New York State Vehicle and
Student and adult members of SEED
Traffic
(V
& T) Law can access the and the recycling committee at Marist
Marist
Security's "Pedestrian & College recently gathered together to
Gildard says a security guard moni-
tors the
intersection
when it is not being
patrolled by police. The
security
guard
can't issue tickets to jaywalkers, but
will take
names
and tum them over to
Motorist
Responsibilities
at demonstrate the benefits of recycling.
Crosswalks" at www.marist.edu/securi-
Dressed
in
jeans and sweatshirts due to
ty/pedestrian.
the rainy weather, and wearing Jong
rub-
Earn a Marist degree entirely
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ber gloves to protect their hands, the
on ta 1an S01
group of volunteers performed the
demonstration on the campus green
in
respective programs and to check out front of Champagnat Hall.
was not. Garbage was sorted into sepa•
rate bags by category; compost, recy-
clables, non-recyclables, plastics, paper,
glass and aluminum.
Through this
process, the volunteers were hoping to
determine the percentages of the waste
being thrown away that
can
actually be
saved and discover possible solutions to
the problem of Marist students not being
aware of how beneficial recycling is to
the environment. One possible solution
could be placing more recycling bins
around campus.
By JUSTIN SITU
Circle Contributor
FQr the first time this
fall
some
incoming Marist College freshmen
had
the option to spend their four college
years in Italy.
This new program,
which is limited to students studying
art.
fashion, or theater, is hosted by
Scuola Lorenzo de'Medici (LDM), the
leading study abroad
institution
in Italy.
Students live and study in one of
LDM 's sites in Florence, Rome, or
Tuscania. The process by which this
program had to get approved took 18
months, and is the first of its kind in
Marist
history.
Marist
has
a
l5•year relationship with
LDM but it wasn't witil the assistant
dean of academic affairs Meg Franklin,
along with the chairs of the deparunents
involved, spearheaded this effort in the
early months of 2005 that a four-year
program even became a possibility.
"ltaly is such a great environment,"
Franklin said.
"The
re's
such a big dif-
ference between studying archhecture
in a classroom and being able to go out
and examine the architecture first-hand
... we want not only to get more stu-
dents but teachers as well
into
other
countries."
l'n the past year, professors from the
art.
English, and fashion departments
have
one to Ital to be! with their
the areas. "Italy seems
like
an awe-
The objectives were to asses Marist's
some place," senior Dan McNamara plan to help reduce waste by recycling,
said.
"I
wish
I
could've had this option and to bring awareness of the positive
when
I
was a fi'eshman."
eflects recycling
can
have on the commu•
Dr. Richard Grinnell, chair of the nity and the world as a whole.
English department and theater enthusi•
"We're trying to discover the percentage
ast, hopes the LDM program will blos- of recyclables being thrown away in order
som. "I've taught theater in London but to figure out solutions to the problem of
that was only for the six-week summer excess waste," said Andrew Ryder, a pro-
courses; [the LDM)
program
would fessor of Biology at Marist College.
open up a completely new aspect of
Garbage bags were taken from various
things."
locations around campus, and br'ought by
Italy is the second most popular des- truck to the tents where the volunteers
tination for international study behind
were at work. The students took the bags
London. Franklin expects Florence
off the truck and sorted through them to
SEE ITALY, PAGE 3 determine
what was
recyclable
and what
"People really aren't aware of how
much waste they're creating," said
Maxine Presto, a freshman at Marist
College and a member of the recycling
committee.
Marist College follows a strategic plan
·
to operate in green and
renewable
fash-
ion.
The volunteers were
hoping
to
obtain data about how the student body
can continue to make Marist a green
cam•
pus.
"I
believe that we need to educate more
students as to what they can do on and off
campus for recycling," said Nicki
Boisvert, a sophomore member of the
Recycling Committee.
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Leader in homeland
security
taking over the house
for its oil, and had no
real evidence of mari-
juana.
In
fact,
no
Weapons of Marijuana
Digestion (WMDs) were
found. However, it is
stil
I the position of
security that Townhouse
B was a threat
,
and they
will stay in there until
democracy is instilled.
11/7 - 2:41
A
.
M.
11
/
9 - 1:20
A.M.
Over in Champagnat,
the fire alarm went off
as the smoke detector
detected (really, what
else would a
smoke
detector
do
besides
detect?) some smoke in
a stair well
,
and the
strong smell of ciga-
rette smoke. So Mr.
Marlboro Man is here
,
huh? Seriously, smok-
ing isn't cool.
Even
though
all
the
cool
movie characters do it.
There's a lot of
change going on in the
world nowadays, I've
noticed. The Democrats
now have control of
Congress,
Donald
Rumsfeld has resigned
as Secretary of Defense,
Doogie
Howser
has
come out of the closet,
Reese
is
divorcing
Ryan, Britney is divorc-
ing K-Fed.
It
takes a lot
to get used to it all, I
guess.
I mean, doing the
evolution is always a
good thing, but when it
all happens so rapidly,
it can be disorienting.
The sixth floor of Leo And
Eddie
Vedder
Some
things
never
change, though.
Like
Marist students getting
tipsy or requiring every
fire department in the
Hudson
·
Valley
to
respond to burnt toast.
11/7 - 12
:
28 A.M.
had a burnt popcorn
incident, but questions
arise. Like, why are you
putting popcorn in the
microwave at 2:41 in
the morning? Shouldn't
you be sleeping
?
And
how do you expect to
make friends if you're
doing stuff
like
this?
(Note: An intrepid read-
er can find some shock-
ing similarities between
the first two briers this
week
,
and the final two
from last week.)
fn
Townhouse B, t~e 11
'
8 - 9: 10
?I..M.
faint aroma of marijua-
na was detected, and
security and the RD
A fire alarm was set
responded. They decid-
off at Gartland E as
ed to launch an invasion breakfast
was
being
of the house, despite prepared.
The culprit
resistance from other this
time
was
burnt
residences on campus. sausage
.
According to
Especially those wussy John
Gildard
,
the
Upper West Cedar peo-
sausages
were
burnt
pie
.
The initial inva-
beyond recognition
,
so
sion was successful, but it was impossible to tell
eventually they were if they were Jimmy
met with resistance. It Deans or not.
was alleged that securi-
ty was only interested
smokes.
Just
ignore
that. Stay healthy, kids.
11
/
12 - 1:23
A.M.
An
intoxicated
Champagnat
resident
was
taken
to
St.
Francis, only to be fol-
lowed at.
.
.
11/12 - 1:48
A.M.
By another freshman,
tfiis time
from
Leo.
Thaits two kids in St.
Francis from Marist in a
twenty-five
minute
span. Quite impressive,
if you a,;k me. Maybe
there's like a special
Marist
wing
in
St.
Francis that's reserved
just for us, since we're
apparently
such
fre-
quent
visitors.
This
goes along with the spe-
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for Fairview.
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P.M.
least make it worth-
while. Don't just settle
I
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the
McCann. for something cheap
,
go
Center
,
a
student for the gusto.
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 would-
n't know what to do.
Without the feel-good
sounds of the Arctic
Monkeys b
l
asting in
my
ears, there's basically
no reason to go any-
where. In fact, the only
reason
T
go to class is
so I can listen to my
iPod on the way there.
11/12 - 11:23
P.M.
On the second floor of
Marian, three students
were caught wjth twen-
ty-one cans of beer in
their room. I bet you're
wondering
,
"Hey
Andrew
,
what type of
beer was it?" (Either
that, or you're Wonder-
ing, "Wby am I still
read1ng this?") Well
,
I'll tell you what type
of beer it was
.
It was
Busch Light. Not even
regular
Busch
,
but
Busch Light. If you're
going to get caught with
twenty-one beers (seven
per person!), then at
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And a reminder from
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Security
office:
Make sure that if you
call for a taxi
,
it is a
reputable service that
has it license. Can't
have
random
people
picking you up, now can
we?
Check your FoxMail
for
a
message John
Gildard recently sent
out for more informa-
tion.
And
if you're
unsure of what to do,
just
call
the
SNAPmobile
,
and it'll
speed up and take you
where you need to go.
Total cost? $9,000.
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worth it
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Smrdel defined by work ethic
Marlst basketball forward Sarah Smrdel had a career-hlCh per-
formance Friday,
scoring
24 points and
maklni
seven rebounds.
By BRIAN HODGE
Staff Writer
Sarah Smrdel
has
a
lot
of
pres-
sure on her shoulders.
In addition
to
being named
starting forward
for the defend-
ing
MAAC
champion
Lady Red
Foxes,
and
having
the task
of
replacing conference player of
the
year
and
WNBA
camp invi-
tee
Fifi
Camara, Smrdel
also has
to
drive her
teammates
to class.
At 9:30 - when she
does not
even
have
class.
Talking
with
Smrdel, one gets
the
sense they
arc talking to
a
consummate
team player,
some-
one
whose
individual accom-
plishments and accolades come
second
to team wins and
success.
When
asked about
her career
high
perfonnance
on
Friday
(24
points,
7
rebounds),
she simply
smiled
and blew it
off
like a hap,-
less defender.
"It
was
just great
to get a
win,"
MADAY
hopes to
give voice
to agnostics,
atheists,
deists
By
JOSEPH
GENTILE
Circle Contributor
Agnostics,
atheists an'd deist
undergradm1t.es.
at MIUistCollege
are unifying
to define and clarify
misconceptions
about
their
faiths. Hoping
to achieve club
recognition this upcoming spring
semester,
Marist's
Atheist, Deist,
and
Agnostic Youth (MADAY)
are building upon
their grass-
roots outreach effort to include
other
members
of their faith.
The
group also
hopes
to per-
suade the Marist
Brothers to
include
non-denominational
services at the Chapel once each
month.
Although the atheists tra-
ditionally
abstain from organized
services
,
it's
not
out of the ques-
tion
for
the
agnostics and deists
to feel
accommodated.
MADAY
said it stronaly
believes
in
placing
a face on
their
faith and clarifying miscon-
ceptions
that
all three ideologies
being represented
are "godless."
Although
atheism
does
dismiss
the
existence of a
higher
being,
neither
agnosticism nor deism
flat~out refutes
God's existence.
Agnostics, though
critical of the
possibility
of God's existence,
do
not deny
such a prospect. Deists
accept
that
God created
the
uni-
verse and
then
abandoned it
shortly
thereafter.
For
their
proposed slogan, the
organizers
decided upon
"Good
People,
Doing
Good
Things
... Just
Because."
Though the
college disaffiliat-
ed from
the
Catholic Church
altogether in 1969, religion still
factors into Mari st
'
s
identity.
"(Marist College
J
seeks to
encourage students
to
reflect on,
and
act upon, the Judea-
Christian ideals of love,
justice,
and compassion as foundations
for a good
life
and a good socie-
ty,"
reads a catalog
published
by
the Registrar.
During
Campus Ministry
'
s
September
meeting, director
Brother
Frank Kelly, FMS,
described the
organization as
"sensitive and open to peop
l
e of
different
faiths,"
crediting
the
organization for opening a dia-
logue
amongst other ideologies
through its
.
Inter-Faith Sharing
Qroup. Despite this goodwill, it's
still
.$hafply outnum~rcd
b¥,
.the
91oltitode
of
,
oiber f4iJb.,bai~d
groups that testify
to
an unchal-
lenged
belief in God.
Accordiog to its
description,
"Campus RENEW is a small
Christian community centered
around faith-sharing," that relies
on ''the Bible" as a catalyst
to
initiate discussions.
In
a
post
made on
the
group's Web site
homepage by Mary Di Masi, a
founder of the Mari st chapter, on
September
19,
she characterizes
it
not
as a specialized Bible
study, but rather a social
hour
that attempts to get members
to
integrate Scriptural quotes
into
their
daily
lives.
Di
Masi also said that Campus
RENEW
is
open
to the
entire
popu
l
ation, regard
l
ess of
their
beliefs. "No, our organization
doesn't discriminate," she said.
"We're trying
to
push for
increased
religious
diversity
here."
Di
Masi
noted that
Campus
Ministry supplies shuttles from
campus for students to attend
their respective house of wor-
ship.
Unofficial surveys
have
shown that more
than
20 percent
of Marist
undergraduates identi-
fy
themselves
as non-Christian.
MADA
Y's Web site contends
that
the
college offers only a sin-
gle model of religious services
for a single faith. They've also
argued that
marginalization is
inherent
in a system that requires
residents
uninterested
in on-cam-
pus services to subsequently
have to schedule an appointment
for shuttles.
But members of
the
group said
they were fearful that those
opposed to MADAY
might
inter-
pret their attempts to expand reli-
gious services as being anti-
Catholic.
A Marist sophomore posted
his
opinion on the Marist College
Republicans Web site.
"It
has
come to my attention that certain
people are attempting to create
an atheist, agnostic, and deist
group," he said, adding, "I really
don't feel
that
is
an
appropriate
group, especially 8.t this school.
I'm
not
a
lawy;r
n~
~9
J
know
an)'. of the rult:s for ~g.hting
this
sort
of
thing,
l:iut
I
feel
[Maris1
College Republicans] Should at
least
voice our concern about
this."
Yet,
there
are others
that dis-
agree with such sentiments.
Liz
Horowitz. a
freshman who
iden-
tified herself
as Catholic, said,
"I
would absolute
l
y support
non-
denominational church services
here
so
more
people can
have
an
opportunity
to
celebrate
their
faith, not just a select group of
people."
Any controversy
has not
deterred
supporters of the group
from organizing, as shown by
sophomore Christopher
Kozak
's
efforts to get
MADAY
(Marist
Atheist,
Deis!,
and Ag
n
ostic
Youth) off
the
ground and
under
the
auspices of Campus
Ministry.
Considering
that Marist
College is "an institution that
receives
an
exorbitant amount of
federal funds,"
Ko.zaksaid, "they
have
a right to be
more inclusive
in terms of organizations."
First
identifying
as an atheist
during
his
sophomore year of
high school, Kozak said
he
grad-
ually began
realizing that
"poli-
cy-making
in the
political sphere
excludes
those that don't
profess
their
faith."
He said
that
although
he
was
told
by Campus
Ministry mem-
bers
that
the group welcomes all,
he
still
had
m
i
sgivings.
HoWever,
he said
he hoped to
negotiate
with
Campus
Ministry's
leadership the
possi-
bility of founding a group com-
prised not
of "God's co-work-
ers,"
but dedicated,
altruisLic vol-
unteers. He said
that the
creation
of such a group
hinged
on
the
discretion of Campus
Ministry.
For
more
information about
Marist
'
s A
1h
eist,
Deist,
and
Agnostic
Youth,
contact
Christopher Kozak or access
their
Web
site
at
http
:
//marist.facebook.com/grou
p.php?gid:2215516258.
Smrdel said.
"As long as we're
winning,
it's all
good."
And her
10-17
shooting
per-
formance from the floor, includ-
ing a three-pointer?
"I'm
just trying to be a more
consistent shooter,
"
she said.
This type of no-nonsense
work
ethic can
clearly
be
seen
throughout Smrdel's
consistent
improvement over the past two
seasons at Marist.
After
seeing sparing
action her
freshman
year, Smrdel $tepped
into
a
prominent role
off
the
bench last
year,
playing in
an
30
games.
Her
season peaked
in the
MAAC tournament, where
she
pulled down a
career-high
13
rebounds in the
final game
and
earned all-tournament accolades.
Head
coach
Brian
Giorgis said
he
has
noticed
significant
improvement due to her relent-
less
commitment
to
improve-
ment.
"She
worked real hard in the
off-season
-
both swnmers," said
Giorgis. "She came in as a quiet,
deferring kid.
She basically
deferred to people, letting them
do
all
the work offensively."
"AU of
a
sudden she's
become
a
very aggressive
and
very
assertive player
at
both ends of
the floor and it's really helped
us
,
"
he said.
"Last
year, she was
just a rhythm
shooter,
this year
she's
added more weapons to her
game."
Like an improved handle and
some
~ew
moves to
attack
the
basket.
"I've been working
on trying to
be
a complete
player," Smrdel
said.
Which bodes
well
for Marist
this
season, as she
and junior
Meg Dahlman,
combine
to
fonn
a
formidable
front
line with
hopes
of
repeating
as
conference
champions.
"We're
just taking it one game
at a
time,"
Sm
rd
el said, "and just
focusing on the
MAAC
.
"
For
now, however,
Smrdel
and
the rest
of
the Red
Foxes
the
focus now turns to the
No.
6
ranked team in the
country -
the
Duke Blue Devils.
"It'll
be
a great atmosphere,"
said Smrdel
of
the
opportunity to
play at
Cameron
Indoor' Stadium
against
a
top flight
team. "It's
one of the great
environments
in
all
of college sports."
While
some
may be intimated
by such a hostile
setting and a
formidable
opponent
-
led by
All-America
candidate 6-7 cen-
ter
Alison
Bales
-
Srnrdel is
looking forward to the
challenge.
"We're
not
goi
n
g to be
in
awe,"
she said. "We have confidence
that
we
can
play
with any
team
in
the
country ... It'll be exciting."
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Aniong
Marist students,
however,
this
has
already
happened.
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year, about one-third of all our
students goi
n
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Years of ducking, dodging make Iran's nuclear intentions suspect
By
JAMES MARCONI
News
Editor
Ir
anian President
Mahmoud
Ahmadenijad claimed on Tuesday that
his
country's
nuclear
energy
program
will be operatio
nal
by
February,
accord
-
ing
to "The
Washington Post." The
announcement came in
conjunction
with
reports from the International Atomic
Energy Agency (lAEA)
r
egarding
its
discovery
of unexplained plutonium
and
highly
enriched uraniwn traces.
signatory) signed
in 1969.
Coming
dur-
ing
the height
of
the
Cold War,
the doc-
wnent
very clearly
lays
forth guide
lin
es
to
prevent
the highly destructive
threat
of
nuclear
weapons
from
sprea
din
g to
nations not possessing the technology.
unfair
treatment under the treaty, Tehran
neglects
to mention the flip-side of the
coin. The United Nations, by
means
of
IAEA inspection,
has a right to deter-
mine that any steps towards achieving
nuclear status are performed in a
man-
ner
consistent with the
NPT.
sible uranium e
nri
chment
in
Russ
i
an
facilitie•s.
Although
there
was much
media
hype
about
the productive nature
of
the
talks (supposedly
proving Iran's
good
will
and
good
intentions) negotia-
tions again broke down.
be
done within
its
own borders.
And as for Ahmadinejad's desire for
cheap,
nuclear
energy, what's
the
rush?
It's not like they're exactly strapped for
the means to produce electricity.
Heavens, for that to
be
true,
Iran
would
have to
be
starving for the oil needed
in
electric plants. Except oh, wait,
that's
right - the country is planted
right
on
top
of an estimated
130.8
BlLLION barrels
of the stuff.
Even by the World
Factbook's latest estimate that
Iran
pro-
duces approximately four million
bar-
rels per day, it would take 89 years for
them to run out. Even with the most
rig-
orous inspections and supervision by the
IAEA,
I
can't imagine that it would take
anywhere
near
that
long
to get
nuclear
plants
up and running.
The text
goes
on to
say
in
articles
four
and five
that
"
Nothing
in
this
Treaty
And
time
and again, Tehran has
In
July
of 2006
the
United Nations
Security Council
issued a resolution
banning
Iran
from
further
enriching
its
stock of
uraniwn. The resolution
was
ignored, apparently, and we now have
Ahmadinejad ce
l
ebrating his country's
rema
r
kab
le
nuclear progress
and posit-
ing
full
capacity by next year.
Though
he plays the victim
in the news,
the
leader
of a downtrodden
nation
only
wishing for
nuclear-produced electrici-
ty,
Ahmadinejad failed
to disclose that
his so-called peacefu
l
program
has not
been fully
disclosed to
the
IAEA
and as
such has
raised
suspicions - again.
Members
of
the organization have
asked
the Iranian
government fo
r
com-
ment, again
reiterating their position
that
until some justification is
offered,
they
cannot vouch
for
the
peaceful
nature of
Iran's nuclear program.
In 2003, It was discovered that Iran was covertly enrich•
Ing uranium, setting the stage for the
standoff
we have
today. The lranlan government Ignored demands to halt
enrichment, citing their right to nuclear
technology.
This development
is
but the
latest in
the dip
l
omatic clash between
the
I
slamic
republic
and the internat
i
onal
community,
and provides
a good
illus-
tration of
the
overall
tension
between
the
two.
And yet again it strengt
h
ens
the case ma.de by Western
powers,
including
the United S
t
ates, a
ll
eging
Iran seeks
nuclear
weapons in addition
to e
l
ectricity provided by
nuclear
power.
shall be interpreted as affecting the
inalienable
right of all
the
Parties to the
Treaty
to develop research,
production
and use of
nuclear
energy for peaceful
purposes ... " Furthermore, it specifical-
ly
obliges currently
nuclear nations
to
aid other states
in
acquiring
the
technol-
ogy pertine
n
t to any
and
all peaceful
applications of
nuclear
science.
refused
or subverted such inspect
i
on.
For example, in 2003, it was discovered
that Iran
was covertly enriching urani-
um,
setti
n
g
the stage for the
stan
doff
we
have
today
.
The
Iranian
government
ignored
demands to halt enrichment, cit-
ing their right to
nuclear
lechnology.
This
prompted
the European Union in
2005 to attempt
negotiating
a
settle
ment
by which Iran would get nuclear energy,
but th.rough the aid of other nations. The
proposit
i
on was
swiftly
rejected.
If
Iran's intentions
were truly
that
ben
i
gn, what is
this
difficulty with full
complia
n
ce with
the
NPTI
More
importantly, what is
the
prob
l
em with
having other nat
i
ons aid in
the
enrich-
ment
of
uranium?
As
long
as
Iran
gets
the uranium
in
the end, it really should-
n't maner who
produces it
-
unless
,
of
course, it wants the capability to create
weapons-g
r
ade
materiel,
which
can
onJy
Given the admittedly circumstantial
evidence QfTehran's deception, added to
its
stubborn refusal to obey NPT proto-
col and
UN
directives, the peacefu
l
story perpetuated by the Iranian govern-
ment just doesn't add up. The
interna-
tional community needs to wake
up
to
this fact, before the cat is out of the bag,
so to
spea
k
.
Because once a
country
goes nuc
l
ear, there
is
no going back.
It
all goes back to
the
Nuc
l
ear Non-
Proliferation Treaty (of which Iran is a
Given these sweeping provisions,
Iran
has many times asserted
that
it
has
a
right to
develop the
kind, of 'peacefu
l
'
program in accordance with
the
NPT.
However,
when
m
aking noise about
Again in late 2005 and early 2006
Russia sponsored talks centered on pos-
By
DANIEL BLACK
Staff
Writer
Last ""eek
I
expressed my
pcrspcc1ive
of Do
n
ald Rum,fdd and
my opinion O\er whether h1s posllion as Secn:1ary
of
Defense was
sustainable,
l
presented
lo&ical cv1dcm.:e
tha1
I
believed established
sufficie
n
t grounds for his removal and. low and beh('lld. Rumsfold
stepped do" n from his oftice as Secretary of Defense (before the
article- even "cnt to print).
The government's executive
bmnch now
lament, the loss of its
favorite and
most
experienced
murderer. This
came
as
a surprise
lO
some;
President Bush
said not
ewn
a
week
prior
that Rumsfeld
.... ould
remain Secretary of
Defense
as
long
as he was
president.
fhe end of our Rumsfeld
days was welcomed
b)'
many; all
citizens
who dislike this
misuse of our country's military
in
ways that
get
~en-iceman
needlessly killed had
something to s
mile
about last
week.
U
n
fortunately, Bush's choice
for
a
replacement
l
eaves
much
to
be
desired. Robert
Gates,
a
former CI
A
director, is being requisitioned
from Tex.as
•the state where all new
government appointees seem
to
come from
these days- in
qrder
to replace Rumsfeld. The arrival
of
Gates is quite
displeasing
for some,
especially
tho
se whose
mem
o-
ries
reach back to
the
days of Reagan
and
th
e
I
ra
n-
Contra
Scandal.
Robert
Gates,
it
appears, was running
with
the
wrong
crowd for a
good
many
years.
Reagan
actually wanted
him as
his own
CIA
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Rumsfeld chopped, what has grown
in
place?
director
but
the
Senate would hear ndthing
of
it;
'ai1
mlin's'
truck
record
\\-OS
too
laden
with controversy and coonections to. political
criminals. Gates had to wait until the first Bush pn:sidency ICI
achieve that office.
A
closer
loo!...
at Oa
t
es's specialty causes even greater cause for
concern.
Reagan
retained
him
as
an
intelligence
deputy because
h
e
v.1\S
so
experienced
at
his
craft. As reponed by Me
l
vin Good
m
an,
a
S<nior fe!low
at
the Center for
International Policy,
in an interview
on
Democracy
~OI,\,!.
Gates ex.celled in "politicizing
intelligence"
Politicizing
intelligence, or ''spinning
intelligence",
i~
a
process
of
taking
hard
in
formation giu.hered by government agents and
manip-
u
l
ating or
distorting
it
so that it may be
used to further
the
political
objectives of tho!>e in power. Goodman infom
1
s us that Gates was
instrumental
m
the
propaganda
achievements that cha
ra
c
t
eri..ted the
cold
war:
those
against Soviet Russia,
the
M
id
dle East, and
even
Ce
ntral
America.
I
think the fallout of his success is appare
nt
even
today
when you can draw anti-communist sentiments from a great
many
Americans who,
themselves,
are unable to articulate satisfac~
torily
w
h
at the word "communism'' even means.
If Bush's
choice for a new Secretary of Defense
i'>
an
indication
of anything,
l
believe it
indicates that
nothing
has changed;
our gov-
ernment's priorities have
remained
the same. Ha\.·ing se
l
ected
a
man
who
has proven
very skilled at converting factual
information
into
colorfu
l
works of
fiction
that cajole our
nation's
public.
Bush
has
o
nl
y
implicitly
restated
his
contempt for America's people and
his deniat
of their
iight
to kn.ow.
Wit'h
Gates as Defense Secretary,
thetc is.little
reason
to
suspect
Lb.at
illegal wars fought.in
the.
inter-
est
of
big businc3S at the expense of young soldiers' and foreign cul-
tures' citiuns' lives will sudden
l
y cease.
J
am skeptical, as all
A
meri
cans :-hould
be:
1s
there any hope, whatsoever, that Gates
might
behave in the interest of the common American? Is there
any
reason to
suspect that he will do anything other than continue this
govern
m
e
nt'
s shamefully
illegal
pattern of blood-spilling fordgn
policy?
I
f anyone
has
confidence in his abilities to manage the
defense department
in ways
that are ethic a
I
enough to, for once.
ac
tuall
y
be
made public, I implore
them to inform the rest of us of
how thin
gs cou
ld
possibly change under a secretary whose on
l
y
trademark talent is the
nhihl)
to misrepresent
reality.
Rumsfeld's
s
l
op
pin
ess was Rumsfeld's downfall.
No"
there
is
a
s
tron
g
intern
ational
push
to bring
bim before an
internationa
l
tribu-
nal
and
try
him for war
crimes -something
no!
unlike what befell
Saddam Hussein. The
current presidential administration will not
mak
e
the
same
mi
stake twice. They have wisely chosen a replace-
m
e
nt
that
is
far smoot
h
er and more experienced at eviscerating
truth,
someo
n
e bette
r
suited for deceiving the American people. a
man cenainly
capable of inhibiting the very
democracy
that is our
birthright.
For
myself
t\nd
anyone
else. who is upset that over 2800
Americans have
been
killed
in the name of
lie~.
this Gates
i
ssue
causes
gteat disappointment.
Seeing is believing - but perspective
can vary
Gods mystery
proves to
be the
source
of
faith
By
ANTHONY BILOTTO
self would
hinder upon
what we call our free will for God's true
Circle Contributor
nature
would
be
ex.posed and people would follow and believe
accordingly.
Perhaps
it
is more important for us as
human
"If
God
had
a face, what would it look like? And would you
beings
to develop
our own beliefs and
it
is that fervor and pas-
want to see
it,
if
seeing meant that you would have to
believe?"
sion for
r
eligion that
defines
what
type
of peop
l
e we
really
are.
What kind
of world would we live
in
if every
person
believed
I
examined this
quote
in the profile of a friend of
mine
and
it
in the
same being in
the
same way? We wou
l
d become robot
i
c
r
eally got
me thinking.
What would it
be
like to truly see God's
in faith, much
like
what Catholicism has turned into, but
that is
face
and
if you saw God's face would it
take
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
an
issue
for another
away from your faith? The quote is wrong
"If God had a face, what would It look llke?
rainy
day.
where
it
states " ...
if
seeing meant you would
And would you
want tO
see
it,
If
seeing
It
is the differences
have to believe" because belief is the faith
in
meant that you would have to believe?"
in our beliefs
that
something
that
you cannot prove or explain.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
drive us to preach
This fact aside
I
pose a
question
to any person
and
ex.press
our-
who stumb
l
es across this article.
If
you could p~ove God existed
selves in a
manner
befitting to those beliefs. We should
be
wou
l
d
it
take away from what God reaUy means
in
our lives?
happy
that God has
not
revealed himself to us in such a blatant
Remember
that when I
refer
to the belief in God
I
simply mean fashion for
it
makes
the universe
mysterious, it makes love gen-
in a higher being
and am not referring to a specific relig
i
ons
uine,
and
it
makes
our beliefs truly belong to us alone.
viewpoint.
So what does this all mean?
It
means that your faith is your
You may be wonde
r
ing what it would take away from our
lives
own. You
decide
what you want to believe and interp
r
et what
to have proof of a
higher being
and
1
have come
upon
a few
God
is to
you in your
life.
This is detrimental to our spiritual
answers to that question. We as human beings
have
free will to
lives. The
right
to
choose how we
think
and what we believe
is
do as we p
l
ease and think as we please, but we also have the the only thing we truly have.
ability to believe what we please. The unveiling of God's
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Competing in the College Bowl:
A
story
of
a
team so close to victory
·
ey
MICHAEL MALONEY
Circle Contributor
They were
a
team
of
unknowns - a group of individuals who
wanted nothing more than to
go
on to
the
Regional
Championships. On
Tuesday
evening. four sophomores
at
Marist competed in
the annual
College
Bowl Tournament.
The winners of
the tournament
would
later
be
selected
as the
group of four to
represent
Marist at
the Regional
Championship Tournaments,
hosted
by
Syracuse
University.
For
those
who
are not
familiar
with
college
bowl,
it
is the
varsity sport of
the mind.
UCLA won
last
year,
aiid this
year
Harvard and
USC seem
to
be
the
favorites
to
steal
the crown.
Sadly,
Marist
isn't
nonnally
part
of
the title contenders. But
this
didn't
stop some of our best
and brightest from
compet-
ing
for a chance at taking on such
prestigious
scbools.
Each team
is comprised of four players, one
captain, and
alternates. In some cases, there
is
just one player on each
team
that
seems
to
take control of
the
game - always
buzzing
in,
and seemingly always shouting out the correct
answer.
Yes,
we got buzzers, and yes, they
were
sweet. The only downside
was
the
tendency to get buzzer
crazy, which only results in
by
getting
hit
by your
teammates.
So with now a bruised shoulder,
I
will
teU the
story
of four
students who competed
in
the College
Bowl;
Marion,
Matthew, Kristina
,
and
me
- four kids who
didn't
care,
but
knew that
every other team
did.
Even with our lack of experience
we
were given a
by
in the
bracket.
Our
tournament
began against
that
sorority
with the
same word
repeated like
nine times, sigma ...
The rules
of
the
tournament
go as follow: each team
loses
twice
and then
they're
out.
New to the game
.
the Bellaphontes
couldn't
quite
start
their
College Bowl in winning fashion. After the
loss,
our
team was
prepared to leave and grab some taste changers,
but
sizzling
salads would
have
to wait for another day.
After
the
win, College Bowl was
no
longer a
j~~e:
H
still
was,
but
now we
were
prepared to
destroy
the
dreams
of
the
few individua
l
s who actually
looked
foiward to this day every
year. Given a ten-minute break before our next match, we
were
able to soak
in
the
win, grow cocky, and begin
to
make
arrogant remarks. This attitude
caused
members
of a fraterni-
ty to
·
complain after we sent
them home with
their second
tournament loss.
We
won.
and
with the victory
came
whispers. Peop
l
e real-
ized that the Bellaphontes
were
not
a
fluke,
and
that
we
came
to play. Some of what caused us
not
to
be
such a "fan favorite"
was our
celebratory reactioos to ~orrect
answers and
over-all
victories.
It was purely tradition that
after every win
we
would
co
me
together to hug
and cry out, "We're going
to
regionals!"
After our third straight
victory, that dream
started
to look like a reality.
There was one
team
in
the
bowl
that
was just
ridiculously
dominant.
l
am
not even going
to give them
the
r
ecognition
they
deserve by
dropping their
name. That team
was set to
face
us
in
the
finals. But
there
was one
team
we needed
to
get
through before
that
s
h
owdown
could
occur.
So with our
nametags
placed, our
buzzers
finnly
in hand,
we were prepared to "bowl".
ln
each game there
are two,
seven
-m
inute
halves.
For every
question that
a player answers
corTectly, their team then
receives a
bonus
question.
No one
was more
automatic when
it
came
to
the
bonuses,
and because
of our
quick
wits, we
led
the
opposing
team
at
the half
way
mark.
Buzzing in early and stupid answers allowed our opponents
to
catch
up
and inevitably win.
The loss was rough, because
even though
we
went
in with
no
goals or expectations, that
fee
lin
g we a
ll
received from winning, the idea that
we cou
ld
be on a free
ride
to Syracuse and compete
under the brighl
lights of Regionals got into our
heads.
I
won't say
that
arro-
gance
led
to our demise, but
the
l
ack of the
mental
endurance
needed to compete was
not
something we possessed that
night.
Final Score: Cravencttes 16S
,
The Bellaphontes 150.
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corner
·
By
VINNIE PAGANO
~f::V•N FE.DERL1N€
AFTE,-_
gR,ffNE'f
5fE:M.S
I}
.
.
m memonam
Cai11in Boyle died ovcmber
17,
2005
at
the
age of
I
'I.
She
was a
junior
at
Maris!
College at
the
time.
column about nothing
Pre-Porn
by Pre-Teens
Caitlin (Sonnet
3, \'ariatlon)
By
THERESA EDWARDS
I
~t.·e
her ::,mile along the
riL'f'r's rclye.
J,1
linlcfragmn,ts like scottercd !d:in.
Nol limbs or hom•s no di.'m1embermcnt,
just m('moril's nrur
th(•
mountain's lt!dge:
By
MORGAN NEDERHOOD
Staff Writer
"Kids
these da)'~.• i.s an c~pre~-.ions
U5U·
ally r~rved by
grandparents or
&n)
hmer
person o,er
1ht age or 50. Wh)·, then, do so
niany
of m)'
liiend.<, and tn)self use thts
phra!,e"
my hitzh
sdK'IOl'S
freshman
class
last
}Cat. I
could
not w1tll
tcD
feet do\\n
the hallwa)
without
being suhjccted to some !Kln of
pre-tc,:en
ptlmo
unfoldtn~
by
:.OfflC\.lne',
lo-.:ker.
No¼,
it's
greal th11t _)ou're
14 years
old and
"111
lo,1c," but
there\ no need to
mclude
the rest of
thl!'
\\Orld
in
)\lUf
little
atfair,
door ... 11J1d thats aboul oil anwnc cared
abou1 on
the
-.ho\\
(aJmit
it)
\.\-c can
just
ca.,ually tgnore lh1: fad
1h,H
the.• gcck)-bUt•
wholt.!sOml'
Billy was
later arreslcd
for
murder
or Some.· tlthcr nuu~ht) thinJ? What
dOt-!. the
_voWlgcr
~"-'11eratio11
h11,e? The
poor
1-00I-.
haw Yu•1~:i•oh
t
rc.~1
m} ca..,e
it.,
L•astne.,;s rt:snnatinq
.~>wul:-.
of train~
tucked
in,
folded u•ith tho~e baudunus slu: ware to hide her
hair.
lfyou kntw ht'r, y,,u'd knaw
the
ones
I
mran.
Seniors h.11.te: the mcommg freshman dai.s
11':o.
been hkc this
m high .,chool for as long
a:t
I
cnn remcmhcr. and
I
would h,11,e
no
trouble-
belie\
mg
thc,e i.entimenls c.~1st
in
college II
k"Cms
a,
1hough
the )OUn~cr
ye.tr
ha\!C:
be«>me progrc.,.,t\ely "or-c
As a
frc,hman in
high chool
1
I undcr.;tood
my place 1n the h1trarch} of h1g.h 54:h(•ol
\\<111lc I did ruh elho"s ""'th tho"e abo1.c
me I
rnaJe
sure tu nr.:vcr hams:-; the
'iemon
or
p~!l!'nded
1c,
t't:
their equal: I knc\l, I YtllS
lo\l,
h-
and 1mmature. And now as a frc~h-
man m collqic I ,mce again know
ffl)
plac.e, IJld I always respect my "ciders"
Wh.11
could
,x,s 1hl)' cause such a
pro-
nuunced
rift
~1wccn
lht:" 1"' o
~c1 :tnd our
dcvelt1pmcnhll path?
I
t,l,tme the mcdrn
C,ro,\ing
up.
,w had "'hnlcsome
images
lil,.e RMh1e and Kc:n lhoc pre•tccns ha,e
had
h>
deal
\lo
1th
l-Jarh1c and Ken'i;
trnurilat•
ic
hrcnkur
when:
Barbu: lcH all•Amcncan
Ken in order lo ha, e a
tr\
st \\.-ilh
I.he-
uher·
CX}
1
\u ..
1rali11n urlboa.rder. ~lame
,
fo
make mattl"fS "'or~e-, th~ Barbie l::mpirc ha ..
hten ,n, ndcd and displaced hy the nc\\-
Hr.uz d~)lls. Y.h~
lreakish
lt)k choices..
heavy blu,.· e)dincr. an<l
mus
qUIU\t1t11."S
of
Boiox turthcr contrih111c
10
1he pre-teen
corruplron
My
tY.u hnli: brother-:
nrc
th1nC\!n
and
fourtcl.'n \:eiirir uld
.
:md
111
c:-1~.hlh ond nm1h
padc. res1k:'cll\'tl)'. N,m Iha!
facchook has
al1(n1icd
high -,chool
a ... count-.
1
lhe 1h,,ught
nf
~illk.-r of them ha, ing one mul..~ me
br.:ak
,11n ,n a
wld
\\eat. .\ pan ut me
would
die
1fthi..1
actual!)
m
de
an u1.:c«iun1
Md
lriec.f
to lricnJ rm: I
\\otlUld
ellhcr reject
them
w
fo
1 1hcir
heads wnuld rm
,
or I
"oulJ slan<l.:r their w;all "'•lh
i.:rap
mes•
;i~c:g
hkc,
•
-0011·1
do era..:
J... "
"R pect l
1'1Ur
uprer-<:laso,;mm, • o so 1n the h;1lh\ay
,•
or
ffi)
fa unie. I'm wah.:hinl[ ~ou
II
h's
cuti: that
fn.-sbmc-11 111 hig.h scho<1I "'unt
1111.: bouk5- up un11l lhe r,o1n1 whc:-re they
pt.ht p1..:1ur,
uflhnn 111111..mg J..1 .)'•la..:es Ill
the c.imera ,,r adin, like 1hi:) 're extra,
111
"Animal House"'
lftor life's renmullls lint tht
•
water's bank:
dance
mot•es bet"Ou~
she lotwf to dante,
hC'r rolll'ye chttrs I'd hrar al sport:,,
t!Llf'nts.
Priend.'i who catl,'Cl her ''Cc1ity Bt>Qr"
sometimes
stagger in the rocks und grovut·s.
Heuclphone" .-.ht alwa.y:i.
wore
hang
/mm
a
tree.
Near
the
trach,
hc•r
spirit's twuulized. doesn't
A.1ww
how to reach for them or mr
SIie's new at <il'ath. hus mud1 to
learr1,
bej,wc
her
soul
takes it.,; fil'st turn
tou.'m-d
eternity
These Jays, kidi; ru~ pinH•ized hclliorts
\\ hOS<." hllrmOnCil 5eem
to
be on s1croiJo,;
l'\.-c
nc,·.:-1 seen u mon: sexed•up cln~ than
\\re:
1.11~, had the ul1mrnht <;.UJ)l;!rherc>c:s: the
Power Rani:ers. Tomm~
\\.-US
the
hunl..
and
lo,c
mtcrcsl ut k..imherl}, the t[irJ.ne:tt-
1
lone!>tly.
l..1Js
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d11)'S
Remembering Thanksgiving: the forgotten holiday
By
DEANNA
GILLEN
Staff Writer
Once upon a
midnight
dreary, last Sunday to be
exact, I found myself engulfed in Christmas cheer
in Marist's very own Cabaret
.
Christmas displays
all around, a plethora of candy canes every which
way I turned, and an ever more
punctuated
jolly
Santa in a rocking chair moving back and
forth. All
around campus, it seems, there is a feeling of
Christmas. The
lights
are
laced
ti
ghtly on
the
tree
beside the chapel, the shops around campus seem
to becko
n
with Christmas cheer, and
the local radio
stations are already
playing
popular Christmas
Carols.
However,
one tiny problem still seems to
loom
..
it's
not
even Thanksgiving yeti
This is not to say that
I have
anything against
Christmas. To the contrary, I love jolly old Saint
Nick as much as the next kid, but
I
mean ... come
on. In our rush to get
into
the
holiday
spirit, singing
carols
and the like, Thanksgiving
is getting jipped
on it's time to shine. In
the
succession of seasons,
it seems, Christmas is bogarting the entire spot-
light.
Thanksgiving s~ould
have
its time of glory
before we proceed to the next
holiday.
It seems every year the time in between the
Holidays is ever more decreased. This act is taking
away one oftfie
most important
aspects of the sea-
sons, and perhaps the
most
vital of holiday tradi•
tions:
the anticipation
between each
holiday.
How one could discount such a
holiday,
you may
ask.
Who
doesn't love
the
odd orange fan•like
turkeys
that serve as a centerpiece in so
many
tables
across
this
great nation?
Or
the plastic pil-
grim
figurines,
who on this great day. get
to
be dis-
played
amongst the salt
and pepper
shakers.
Mo
r
eover, who does
not love
such a holiday in
which
it is important enough to
haul
out
the
"good"
tablecloths
or
the
"good" china?
Thanksgiving is all about tradition. Spending
time with one's family, exchanging anecdotes
about your crazy aunt's schemes, and just relishing
Honestly,
is
it really so
hard
to keep those
in
the time you
have
together. As I recall
my
fond-
Christmas decoralions at bay for a couple more
est
memories
seem
to come
from
the weeks? Wouldn't it be better to hold off, in order to
Thanksgivings
I
spent around my Grandmother's
honor
the holiday in between, one that emphasizes
table, in which I could feel at ease amongst family
,
the simple human desK"C to give thanks for all the
and bask in the great tradition that has graced our b
l
essings of life?
nation since its' founding
.
After all
,
Thanksgiving is one of the essential
With this being said, I
must
say that the
•
American
holidays.
h does not emphasize the
gifts
Christmas season is nol supposed to begin officiaJ-
that one can give and receive, but rather, recog-
ly
until the first day after thanksgiving. often
nizes
the gifts that one has the fortune of being
referred to as Black Friday, in which everyone and blessed with. Take time to reflect on this, share a
their
mother
throngs the
local malls. However,
as is
meal with your families, and give thanks for our
true in every other aspect of our culture, it seems
luck,
that is what really matters
.
everythi
n
g
is
somehow rushed. Therefore, before
It
seems
that
there is an unmistakab
l
e power in
many have
Cven taken
down the
Halloween
deco~
gratitude, and
moreover,
in the strength between
r
a
ti
ons and finished off the leftover candy
,
they
the
bonds of family and friends. Thanksgiving
have already
hung
the
mistletoe,
picked out the
deserves
our full and undivided attention. There's a
wreaths and cracked out the eggnog. This results in good meal, a football game, and if we're lucky
Thanksgiving being pushed to the side. In my opin-
enough, maybe even a nap. At the end of the day,
ion,
tossing
Thanksgiving to
the
side in the rush to
the
Christmas season will still be there tomorTOw.
reach Christmas
is
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Unconventional and challenging
,
M
CCT
A's "The Lo
ng
Christmas Ride Home" presents a ne
we
r side of thea
ter
By
AMY
WHEELER
Circle Contributor
The Maris!
College
Council
on Theatre Arts
(MCCTA) will be putting on
the Experimental Theatre
Guild (ETG) production of
"The Long Chrisnnas Ride
Home" by Pulitzer Prize-
winning playwrigh
t
Paula
Vogel. After a mont
h
of
intense rehearsa
l
s, the cast of
seven students, ranging from
freshmen to
seniors,
will per-
fonn this play on Nov. 17
and
18 at
8
pm and Nov
.
19
at 2 pm.
This
90-minute
drama
will
be held in the
Nelly Goletti Theater located
in the Student Center.
Some materia
l
may not be
su
i
table for all audiences, as
Paula Vogel tends to tackle
controversial
issues.
Producer Kurtis McManus,
Sophomore, said that the
play
is
good
because of the
iss
u
es that are addressed.
"This play is so powerful
and influentia
l
,"
he said.
The play tells of an ill-
fated, eventful car ride
involving three ch
il
dren and
their parents. On their way to
their grandparent's house in
the snow, the k
i
ds, who are
represented
by
puppets,
squabb
l
e in the back seat
while their parents speak of
the
building
tensions
between t
h
em. After witness-
ing a defining moment in
their parents' marr
i
age, the
children, and ultimately their
future, have beerr affected.
They each set aside the pup-
pets three magical times to
deliver monolog
u
es that
show what happens when
t
h
ey
r
each their troubled
adulthood. The plot, howev-
er, always returns to that one
momentous night,
to
the
moment when a family was
shattered.
Although viewers sho
u
ld
not attend expecting a tradi-
tional holiday p
l
ay
,
the p
l
ay
is still said to provide a
warm
and fulfilled feeling.
Senior Phil DiVuolo is
directi
n
g the p
l
ay.
"This show is very dark but
it
has a great message of
hope
.
" he
said.
"Even in
the
darkest times
,
there is a
li
ght
at the end of the tunnel."
"The Long Chr
i
stmas Ride
Home" is a unique produc-
tion. It combines
Bunraku-
sty
l
e t
h
eatrica
l
puppetry with
Japanese and contemporary
theate
r
techniques. Using
puppets, the play is able to
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potential. McManus is co-
producing the play with
sophomore Amy Kate Byrne.
"The directors are adding a
student's
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tive and unending passion to
the
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h
ey said.
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directors are pulling together
all their personal
strengths
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specialties
in theatre to
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nomenal."
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happy with both the play
selection and what the cast
and crew have made of
it.
"Ever since reading the
script,
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show
I'd like to work on," he
said. "I've been fortunate
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u
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actors. Since this play is
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l
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senior,
p
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ays
Stephen,
one of the three
children.
"I never thought that I
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of
a p
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ay w
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ere the
story, char-
acters, and emotions were
so
powerful and compelling ...
it has made me dig aown
deep w
i
thin myself
ahd
bring
forth a level of acting that
I
neve
r
thought I was capable
of," said Villalobos.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
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Get energized: ways to beat the autumn slump
By
ALEXANDER TINGEY
Health Editor
As we
tum
our clocks
back an
hour
and watch the leaves and
our daylight fall, it's easy to suc-
cumb to the autumn blues. Side
effects vary;
however, lethargy
and
the
weekly Friday-night-
funk
in
the
dorms are
de8.d
give-
aways that you, my friend, need
a
jump
start.
EaCh year, around this time-
with
midterms
in
your rearview
mirror
and
Thanksgiving break
coming up around the bend, it's
inevitable and
unavoidable to
fall
into
the
mid-November
slump.
The
added stress of
the
upcoming holiday season is rea-
son enough
to need
a
little
boost
right
now,
and come finals
week,
everyone is hurting for that extra
pep
in their
step.
Contrary
to what you might
believe, catching a few extra
minutes of sleep on the weekend
can be
potentially upsetting
to
your natural sleep rhythm. In
fact, studies have shown that
even an extra
hour
of sleep can
disrupt your circadian rhythm,
making it
more difficult
to
fall
asleep
later
that night and further
down the
line.
However, estab-
lishing that
natural sfeep cycTe
can leave you more energized
and
more
fully rested at the end
of
the night.
According to
Judith
Zimmer
of:
By JESSICA BAGAR
Health Magazine, "A shower can
help you snooze. Taking a hot
bath or shower before you hit the
hay has long been thought to
provide deeper, more
restful
sleep (and is certainly worth a
try)."
In
her
article
aimed at
tackling
the
holiday
doldrums,
she also mentions that recent
studies done with small animals
have
shown that a slightly cooler
brain temperature led to deeper
more quickly achieved levels of
REM
sleep.
A
college essential-the
midday
nap-has
also been suggested as a
way to beat the fatigue and
drowsiness
that
accompany
classrooms with heat to spare
and
three grilled cheeses from
the
cafeteria. Experts still can't
agree on which is
more
benefi-
cial, the
20
minute
quickie, or an
hour long snooze; however, ones
preference on the typical
nap
length is usually left up to what
the afternoon affords in
terms
of
time.
Zimmer talked to Arthur
Spielman,
Ph.D.,
a psychology
professor at The City College of
the City University of New York
who said that "getting at least
7
to
8
hours of sleep at
the
same
time every night will keep you
rested and alert. And don't think
a6out clleating your-self ihrougfi
the week, because you can't
make up for it on the weekends."
Fµeling your body during the
holiday8 may seem redundant,
but
before you pass
the
cranber-
ries
to Uncle Ned for the third
time, consider this. Eating more,
smaller meals can actually
help
your body get the most from
the
food you're eating. Also, recent
studies suggest that more, small-
er meals are contributing factors
to weight
loss
and maintenance
in those who
are
trying
to
watch
their waistline this season. One
reason
may be that when we eat
more often, in smaller amounts,
we tend not to over eat over the
course of the day. "Eating five or
six small
meals
a day can
help
your blood-sugar
level
and give
you the constant fuel you need,"
said Zimmer.
One nutritionist suggested eat-
ing
six meals a day:
breakfast,
lunch
,
dinner
,
ind two small
snacks spaced out
during
the day.
"Mini-meals can actually be a
good thing
if
you limit your calo-
ries
(for many women,
1,800
a
day will maintain weight;
1,300
a day will help drop about a
pound
a week). Be careful with
those snacks, though; A slice of
low-fat cheese and a few whole
grain crackers or a handful of
almonds and an apple are just
enough," said Zimmer.
Cindy
Moore,
M.S.,
R.D.,
the
Cleveland Clinic's
director
of
nutnt1on therapy
suggestsBv
ita-
mins to help give your body that
extra boost of energy. "It's
like
oil in a car. If your body doesn't
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well." Zimmer suggests that-B
vitamins can be obtained from
lean
beef, pork and poultry, as
well as nuts bananas and some
whole grains.
Another trick to upping your
holiday potential is keeping
hydrated throughout the day, and
no, eggnog does not count. Look
for low-sugar content when
choosing your beverages, and
avoid too much caffeine: a
little
goes a long way in
this
depart-
ment, as too much can cause
sleep disturbance.Zimmer lists
green tea under her favorites for
·
its low caffeine and high antiox•
idant
content.
Additionally, Zimmer suggests
letting
go for a few moments
each day, a little down time to
recharge those overworked bat-
teries. A mere ten minutes of
focused downtime, spent
in
prayer,
meditation
,
or
simply
tuning out the days distractions
around you can
lend
wonders to
the bounce
in
your step.
After all this yQu certainly have
more energy than when you
started,
so
here comes the tricky
part: moving! That's right, get
up
and move. Studi~s indicate
that a half hour of vigorous exer-
cise daily can actually increase
your energy lever and rerease
happy hormones and endorphins
in your brain even hours after the
workout has ended. "Those oat-
Sesame
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increase alertness and your abili·
ty to get the job done (whether
it's playing the piano or flying a
plane),"
explains
Edward
Laskowski, M.O., co•director of
the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine
Center.
Zimmer talked with John
Bartholomew,
Ph
.D
.
,
associate
professor of kinesiology and
health
education
at
the
University of Texas at Austin,
who found that "college•age
women who were
pleased with
their aerobic exercise
had
a
greater sense of vigor and energy
after the workout
than
those who
weren't."
Bottom
line:
keep your chin
up
during the
dwindling hours
of
daylight, and the approach
of
final exams. Keep your
individ-
ual
needs
in mind whenever
con-
sidering a dramatic chiµige
in
routine, and be good to yourself
people.
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THE CIRClE •
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
•
PAGE 10
Ohio dominates Marist in season-opener
By
JOE FERRARY
from the foul
line
and added a game was
the
play of both start-
tinue to
fight as they cut
the lead
For the game. Ohio shot 55.6
Staff Writer
game high three blocks.
ing front-lines.
Ben
Fanner, to just eight points on an 8-0
run,
percent from the field. while
Sonny Troutman and Van
Ryan Stilphen and James Smith
56-48, with a
Jared
Jordan
lay-up Marist
shot only 33.9 percent.
Jerome Tillman and Leon
Kempen scored 14 and 10 points scored 23 points and grabbed 8 with 9:12
left
in the game. That Ohio
also held the
edge in three
Williams posted double-doubles respectively to round out the
rebounds
combined.
On
the
wou1d be
a
close the Red Foxes point
percentage
38.5-31.3 per-
as five Ohio Bobcats scored
in double-digit scorers for the other hand, Ohio's starting front
would come the rest of the game.
cent.
double figures t o ~ - - ~ ~ - ~ - - - - - -
court of Troutman, Tillman, and
One~
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Farmer
defeat the Marist
We got dominated on the glass and
Williams combined for 46 points b r i g h t
By
pushing the ball up the court, this
b 1
am ed
College
Red
Foxes
we couldn't get near the ball. We
and 31 rebounds including
11
spot the
allowed Jared Jordan to create open
t
h
e
83-66
on
Saturday
in
were out-toughed out-worked and
offensive boards.
R e
d
shots for us.
t
e •m's
Athens,
Ohio. This
out-played by Ohio'.
•
'
Coach Brady was
disappointed
Foxes can
perform-
was
the
season
in his team's performance on the take from
ance on
opener
~or
both
day.
this game
the play-
teams.
"This was not a way to play a
is
they
e
r
s
'
The Red
Foxes
_ Matt
Brady
basketball game," Brady said.
scored 45
_ Ben
Farmer
inability
were
led by Jared
Marist
Men's
Basketball Coach
"We got dominated on the glass points in
Martst forward
to
exe-
.
Jordan who posted
andwecouldn'tgetneartheball. the
sec-
cute. not
team
highs
in
points 21,
Bobcats.
We were out-toughed, out-
ond
half
,
helped
by a second
half
the coaching staff.
rebounds
5,
and assists 7. Fellow
Head Coach Matt Brady said worked, atld out-played by adjustment
made
by Coach
"Coach
Brady
and his staff
had
backcourt mate Will Whittington he
was
impressed
with Ohio."
Brady, according to forward
Ben us really
prepared
to play Ohio,"
added
19 points and became the· Wil1iams's performance and sur-
Both
teams
came
out of the
Fanner.
Fanner said. "The players were
23rd player in men's basketball prised by the contribution of
locker rooms ice
cold as the
"In the second
half
we just
not
focused and did
not
execute
history to
score
1,000 career freshman Van Kempen.
Bobcats missed their first four
played
a
lot
faster than we did in
the game
plan.
This is a wake-up
points.
"W
illiams
is a very tough attempts while the Red Foxes the first half," Farmer said. "By ca11 for our
team,
and I am glad
Tillman,
Williams, and match-up and a terrific player," only made one of their first pushing
the ball up
the court,
this
that it
happened."
Whitney Davis
each
scored
16
Brady said. "Van Kempen sur-
eleven field goals. After shooting allowed Jared Jordan
to
create
The Red
Foxes
will look
to
points to lead the Bobcats.
prised us. I knew that since he just 21 percent from the field (6-
open shots for us."
rebound
on Sunday November
Williams
grabbed
a game-high was from Europe he could shoot, 28) the Red Foxes found them-
Ohio held the edge in nearly
19 at 4:30 p.m. as they play host
16
rebounds while Tillman
but we
really
didn't know any-
selves down 36-21 at the
half.
every statistical category on the to Florida Atlantic in its
home
pulled down 12 boards.
thing else about him. He made
The Bobcats extended their
night.
The Bobcats out-rebound-
opener at the Mccann Center.
Williams was a perfect
5-5
his
shots and
that was a huge
leadbyasmanyasl7points,38-
edtheRedFoxes44-26andwent The Red Foxes will
look
to
from the field
and
6-14 from the swing for them."
21, with 18:58 left in the second to the foul line 42 times
to
duplicate last year's 84-75 win
in
foul line. Tillman finished 10-12
One of the key stats of the
half. The Red Foxes wou1d con-
Marist's 21 times.
Boca Raton,
Florida.
Red Fox seniors shine in
last-ever
home contest
Marist earns
fifth seed, and face Manhattan in first round of
.MAA
C
tourney
By
CASEY LANE
Circle Contributor
·
On Senior
Day
at
the McCann
Center Sunday,
the seniors
shined as the
Mari st Red Foxes
volleyball
team defeated the
Manhattan Jaspers
3-0.
Senior outside
hitter Jaime
Kenworthv
led
Marist
with 20
kills
and
16
digs, en route to vic-
tories by the
scores of30-26,
30-
26. and 30-24
in the final Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC)
contest of the regular
season.
Kenworthy led all play-
ers by hitting
.385.
Marist head
coach
Tom Hanna
was
happy his seniors couJd walk
off
the McCann
court
for the last
time
with
a
victory.
"I couldn't
think of a better
day
for
the
seniors."
he said. "The
seniors have had a huge impact freshman outside hitter, racked
bad
final scores of 3-0. The
Red
not only on this season. but the
up
nine kills, five digs, and three Foxes finished the regular season
last four years. You can see how
aces.
Freshman setter Dawn Jan with an 11-17 record, while
impof\ant they are just by
look-
totaled 36 assists.
going 8-10
in
the
MAAC.
They
ing
at the stats."
Manhattan was
led
by senior will have the fifth seed
in the
Sally Hanson, a senior
middle
Whitney Judkins with
11
kills MAAC Championships,
the
blocker, added six kills
I
highest
seed
for Marist in
and six blocks.
Senior
It
s great to earn the five seed by win-
the 10 year> its. belonged
in
libero Stefanie Miksch
nlng Instead of having to deal with all
the cqnference.
had
14 digs.
Jackie
the tiebreakers
.
"Wi
nning
was a .relief,"
Poston, a senior on the
Coach Hanna said.
"It's
right side, contributed
great to earn the five seed by
with five kills and
a
M rt
H d
V
II
r:~I
:nn~
winning instead of having to
block.
8
st ea
O
ey
a
ac
deal
with
all the tiebreakers.
Coach Hanna was very
happy with his team's play,
both
offensively and
defensively.
"We achieved our plan heading
into the match.
We
did
great
serving short and
did
a pretty
good
job keeping their left in
check." he said.
Marist's Alexandra Schultze, a
and four blocks while shooting
an efficient .346.
Sophomore
Rita Welsh
had
12 kills, tops for
the Jaspers
.
Ashley Watson,
a
junior, finished with 14 digs,
while sophomore Alyssa Getzel
tallied 31 assists.
Marist's last three victories all
That gives
us
both a physical
and mental edge going forward."
Marisl will have a rematch
against Manhattan
in
the
quarter-
finals
of
the
MAAC
Championship on Thursday
at
3
p.m.
in
Orlando,
Florida.
Manhattan compiled a
regular
season record of 12-19 overall,
9-9 in the MAAC. By finishing
in the
top
six in the conference
standings, both teams earned
a
first round
bye.
According to Coach
Hanna,
the
fifth seed does not come with
any added pressure.
"I
don't believe
in extra pres-
sure.
I have always expected us
to
&O
down
to Florida and win
our three matches."
To achieve the victories, Coach
Hanna will need to tighten up the
offense and defense.
"We need to make a few defen-
sive adjustments.
Offensively,
we're pretty solid from
the left,
but we
need to
be more efficient
on the
right."
Fairfield bas the top seed for
the MAAC Championship, while
Siena has the two seed and
Canisius
the
third.
Men's
swimming and diving continue MAAC dominance
By
GREG HRINYA
Staff Writer
The
Mari
st Red
Foxes swim-
ming and diving team continued
its
dominance
of
the Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conferen'ce
(MAAC)
beating
the Fairfield
Stags
199-70 in a dual meet on
Sunday.
Marist produced 33 personal
bests and
several
multiple event
winners as
they
easily
advanced
past Fairfield.
The Red Foxes got off to
a
fast
start when
Dan Garaffa, Ed
Gurka
m;
Will
Shearouse,
and
Ralph Rienzo
won the 200-yard
medley relay in
1
:41.42.
Marist
then saw Pat Collins,
Spencer
Hartmann,
Greg
Jablonski,
and
Luke Johnson
all
go on
to
win
two events.
Marist R~d Foxes coach
Larry
Van Wagner said that several
players were instrumental in the
team cruising
to
victory.
"Greg Jablonski and Jesus
Santos both
had
personal bests
for a dual meet," Vanwagner
said. "Jesus had two personal
bests and Devon O'Nalty
was
also very
good
in diving."
Greg Jablonski won the
100-
yard breaststroke in a time of
I :00.00 and the 50-yard freestyle
with a
time
of22.16.
The Red Foxes continue to han-
dle opponents in the MAAC and
Coach Van Wagner said this
meet
represents another off event for
the team.
"Fairfie
ld
is one of the weaker
teams in the MAAC, so it was an
off event," VanWagner said.
"We give the team a chance to
swim since some teams we face
are
less
competitive."
Marist
Red Foxes
diving
coach
Melan
i
e
Bolstad
said Jesus
her expectations for the team
coming into the year.
"We
have
such a good
team
because Devon and Jesus are so
Santos and Devon O'Nalty were competitive
amongst
them-
key divers for
the
team on selves,"
Bolstad
said.
"It
usually
Sunday.
comes down to the last dive, and
"Jesus
was very good ~d
qua!-
they are very supportive of each
ified for
the
ECAC with his per-
other.
We
are also the only team
::;i::n,c:·:
We have such a good team because
in
th
e
s a i
d
_
Devon and Jesus are so competitive
" De v o n
amongst themselves.
won both
events, and
his
goal
was to be
consistent,
- Melanle
Bolstad
Marlst Olvfng
Coach
and
h e - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
was. Devon does the
hardest
list
of dives of anyone here and he
was consistent
in
all of
them."
Coach Bolstad said
that
the
MAAC to have four really good
male
divers."
pick which events they want
to
diving team is currently ahead of
Devon O'Nalty won the
I-
meter and
3-meter diving events
with final scores of 247.95 and
278.62 respectively.
Jesus
Santos finished second in both
events with scores of242.70 and
261.68.
Coach VanWagner believes the
swimming team has met expecta-
tions but will still
face some
tough
tests going out.
"We set ~everal markers for our
team through the season,"
Van Wagner said. "Fordham was
a marker for us, and that win was
a little surprising since we have
less depth.
Rider was another
meet we
looked
at, and we
dom-
inated
them.
The first weekend
in December we will face
Delaware which will be another
marker
for
us
and
a tough
test.''
Marist will be
back
in
action on
Tuesday at Iona where it will
look to continue its dominance.
Four different
Red Foxes win two individual events, pace Marist's 2nd MAAC win
By
NATE FIELDS
both the one-meter and three-
Falco continued
her
record-set-
Catherine
Hartford
at 1:05.91.
1:55.44.
Staff Writer
meter diving events with scores ting
fall
season by
taking
first
in
Freshman Lyndsay Martin
won
Marist traveled to
Iona
on
of249.53 and 255.07 respective-
both the JOO-yard freestyle with
both the
100
and 200-yard Tuesday for
its
final
MAAC
In
its
last home meet of the
ly. In three conference meets this a time of53.13, and the 100-yard breaststroke events with times of match of the fall: The Foxes con-
semester,
the
Marist
fall,
Mangona is undefeated,
butterfly with a time of
l
:00.33.
1
:09.31 and 2:33.08 respectively. elude their fall schedule
the
first
women's
swimming
and
Jamie Falco continued her record-
In other individual events,
Fellow freshman Jenell Walsh-
weekend in
December
versus
~iving
~cam
handed
visit-
setting fall season
by
taking first In
Marist took the top
three
spots Thomas placed first
in
two 200-
Delaware, Niagara and Loyola in
mg Fairfield a 183-101
.
with times of 1:59.03,
1:59.71
yard events, scoring times of Baltjmore.
Joss
in the Mccann
both the 100-yard freestyle with a
and 2:08.30 in the 200-yard 2:16.73 in the butterfly, and
Natatorium Sunday. Four
time
of 53.13
freestyle courtesy of the fresh-
2:13.00 in the backstroke.
different
Red
Foxes
man trio of Emily Hammang,
The Foxes success was not
lim-
recorded
two individual
Jenny Sirino, and Victoria Kemp.
ited
to
individual
events,
howev-
event
victories
as
M a r i s t - - - - - - - - - - - -
TheFoxesalsoclaimedthefirst er, as they took the top three
recorded its
second
Metro having swept both
diving
events two spots of the 100-yard back-
spots in the 200-yard
medley
.
Atlantic Athletic Conference
at all three ofMarist's conference stroke, with senior
Jessica
Paul
Martin, Kemp, Alyssa
Hewitt
(MAAC) victory of
the fall.
meets.
leading the way at
1:05.76
fol-
and Kim Koehler combined
to
Junior
Melissa Mangona
won
Mangona•s classmate Jamie
lowed
closely by sophomore register a first place time of
Roarin'
Red Foxes
Marist's male and
female star performer
for the v.eekend of
Nov. 10-12.
Marls! Football
The Red Foxes football
team finished off the 2006
campaign with a 24-17 \ic-
tory
over
the
Iona
Uacls.
The \\ in ga,,e Man st a
share of the Metro Atlantic
Athletic ( onterencc li1le.
The other half of the
till!!
went to the Dukes of
Duquesne.
This is the lirst
football duunpt(,n .. hip foe
the, Red Foxes since 1.hcy
won the
conference m
1994 The Red Foxes sa,J
goodbye to 2-J seniors es
they stepped onto the Old
Leonidoff Field for the last
time
in their collegiate
careers.
Brittany
Burns
X-Country. Freshman
Rums led MariM
to
a 24th
place finish o,cr the Yt«k~
end at Van Cortlandt Park
where the team
competed
in
the NCAA Nonheast
Regional
Qualifier. Bums
placed 87th out of 288 run-
ners '\\11h o lime of23:26
on the
6.000
meter
course.
On the
Horizon:
The NCAA '-lorthcnst
Regional Qualifier ha'i
concluded
the
tall ,eason
for the
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GE 12
Foxes earn share of MAAC title for first time in 12 years
By
BR
I
AN L
OEW
Staff Writer
A
second-half
surge
by
the
Marist Red Foxes offense helped
to topple the Iona Gaels on
Saturday afternoon as the Red
Foxes took home a share of the
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference (MAAC) champi-
onship crown.
This
is the Red
Foxes
second
MAAC title, the
last coming in 1994.
The Red Foxes
scored
first
on
a 33-yard boot from junior kick-
er Bradley Rowe e
n
ding an eight
play drive
with
5:09 left to play
in the first quarter.
The Gaels responded in the
closing seconds of the first quar-
ter with their own 33-yard field
goal kick
by
Iona's senior kicker
Chris Lofrese with 25 seconds
left to play
in
the quarter. After a
scoreless second
quarter, the
teams would march into the lock-
er
rooms locked
in
a 3-3 tie.
Marist Head Coach Jim Parady
said that the
first
half
was a close
match
up
with neither
team want
-
ing to let up
a big play.
"Both
t
e a m s
played very
close to the
vest,
just
feeling
each other
out," said
Parady.
"Neither
team want-
ed to be the
one
to
make that
big
mis-
take.
"We
Ju
nior linebacker
O
e
n
Smith
#44 was named the MAAC
just
stayed
Oefenstve Player
of
the Week.
with
10 tackles.
focused on
the task at hand and didn't let up
from our game plan."
Marist would hit the pay dirt
for the first t
i
me
in
the game at
the 10:33 mark in the third quar-
ter on a 25-yard scamper by jun-
ior
Will
Brown. Rowe's extra
point put Marist on top by a
touchdown with a 10-3 score.
Just under three
m
inutes later,
Lofrese tacked on his second
field goal of the day, splitting the
uprights on a 44-yard kick, mak-
ing it
10-6 Marist with 7: 11 to go
in the third q
u
arter.
On Marist's next possession,
quarterback Steve McGrath led
the charge down the field on a 13
play, 65 yard drive eating up just
ove
r
seven minutes of the clock,
capping
it
off with a I-yard rush
by McGrath on third down for
the score. McGrath's rushing
touchdown stretched Marist's
lead to 11 with 14:57 left
to
play
in the game. McGrath would fin-
ish the day with 203 yards in the
air on 20 completio
n
s and one
touchdown, as well
as
a team
l
eading 43 yards rus
h
ing.
Iona struck back with
vengeance,
however,
when
Iona's junior quarterback Dustin
Croick found senior tight end
Juan Chamba open for a 20-yard
touchdown pass. A successful
two point conversion
put
Iona
right back in the game with a 17-
14 score with
9: 14 left to play.
On the next drive, the Marist
Fo
x
es defeat Seawolves in home
opener, prepare for Blue Devils
By
E
R
I
C ZEOAL
I
S
Co-Sports Editor
The Marist women's basketball
team eamCd pe
r
haps the greatest
win in program history
in
its
sea~
son opener last Friday night at
the McCann Center against
Stony Brook, 82-72.
Without injured Julianne Viani,
the Red Foxes still managed to
hand the Seawolves. who return
four out of five starters from last
year's 46th RPI ranked team of
last year, the loss
in
what. was
their season opener as well.
Head coach Brian Giorgis said
he was not sure what
to
expect
heading into the game down
three starters from last year (twO
to graduat
i
on and one to injury),
but be was happy with the per-
formance overall.
"I was, for the most part,
pleased," he said. "You figure,
it's the first game, and we're
minus three starters from last
year, going up against a team
that was extremely highly rated
at the end of last year, and four
out of five starters returning this
year.
It
actually might be the
best win our program's had,
maybe the highest ranked win
that we've had."
On the flip side however, this
monumental win also pointed
out to Giorgis and the Red Foxes
where they need work,
especial-
ly with the 5th ranked Duke Blue
Devils awaiting them in Durham
this Friday night at 7 p.m.
"[This game] showed us what
we needed to work on," he said.
"Our interior defense really was-
n't very good. And I thought we
didn't do a very good job of han-
dling their pressure.
We had
some turnovers that really were
careless."
In order to compete, let alone
beat, the Blue Devils, Giorgis
said Mari st must take care of the
ball, play
good
transition basket-
ball, and reboun
d
.
In
doing
these things, the hope is that the
Red Foxes will take Duke out of
its game.
"We've got to try to disrupt
some of the stuff that they're
doing, and ma
i
nly keep
it
a half
court game or they can just out-
run
forever,"
he
said.
"Transition and rebounding are
going to be huge in this game,
and taking care of the ball. If we
can do those three things, then
we have a chance to compe
t
e."
Because Marist will have to
be
at the top of its game just to
compete against Puke, Giorgis
said he and the Red Foxes will
take a different approach to this
game where they break the game
up into small battles.
"l think you try to take parts of
the game and manage it into
sma
ll
er parts instead of
l
ooking
at the whole picture," he said.
"Try every media timeout. How
do you in each four-m
i
nute
span? Then try to build on that,
and if you can win e
n
ough four-
minute spans, then you might
have given these guys a tussle."
All things considered, Giorgis
said it is important that the team
puts this game into perspective
and not look at it as a detenn
i
-
nant for entry into the NCAA
tournament.
"This game doesn't determ
i
ne
if we go to the NCAA tourna
-
ment or not.
This game is a
building point, so I think we
have to put the game into per-
spective."
he
said.
"It's a game
that one, allows us to see the best
compe1ition
we're goi
n
g to face
knowing that everybody else we
play after is not as good as this
Duke team, and it's going to help
show us the things that we need
to work on, to be able to compete
at that level."
If there is one thing that the
Red Foxes have going for them
in this game, Giorgis said it is
that they believe in themselves.
"Our kids do believe in them-
selves. I think that's part of the
battle when you go in.
Even
tho
u
gh you may not have the tal-
ent that the other team does,
if
you bel
i
eve in yourse
l
f, and you
be
li
eve in what we do, and you
execute what we do, we got a
chance to play with anybody."
Upcoming Schedule
Fri. No,. 17 • at Duke,
7
p
.
m
.
Sun. Nov.
1
9 - at
Villanova,
2
p.m.
Wed. No\'.
22
-
vs.
Dartmouth,
2
p
.
m
.
Sun. , ov.
26 -
vs.
Fordham,
2
p.m.
Tues. NO\. 28 - at
Brown.
7
p.m.
Sat. Dec.
2 -
at
Bucknell, 3:30 p.m.
Fri. Dec. 8 - vs.
Loyola (MD), 5:00
p.m. •
• denotes MAAC
contest
seniors, playing for the MAAC
crown and on their home field
for the final time, would not be
silenced. Senior Kevin Frederick
powered for a 36-yard kick off
return that put his Red Foxes on
the 50-yard line. On the next
play, McGrath connected with
senior wide receiver Prince
Prempeh for
a
37-yard comple-
tion that brought the
Red
Foxes
to the Iona 13-yard line. Three
plays later, McGrath completed a
I
0-yard touchdown pass to sen-
ior Wi
lli
am Flooks, putti
n
g
Marist on top 24-14 w
i
th 6:52
l
eft to play.
Iona's last hope came two pos-
sessions
l
ater when they
r
egained
possessio
n
with 3:08
l
eft to play.
Unable to convert a touchdown,
Lofrese sliced t
h
e uprights for
the third time in the game on a
20-yard boot with
I
:44
left to
play making it 24-17 Marist.
Iona tried for an onside kick on
the kickoff but was picked up by
Marist and the Red Foxes let the
time expire on their crowning
achieveme
n
t.
Coach Parady said that he
thought the offense played an
excellent game having to switch
it up in the seco
n
d half to keep
ahead of the Gaels .
.
"In
the first half, their defense
was
doing
-
a-heck of
a job
follow-
ing our running game and keep-
ing tight on our players," he said.
"In
the second half we switched
up it a bit and went with some
misdi
r
ection plays and some
play-action passes which ulti-
mately ended up giving our
offense the leg up that they need-
ed."
Parady said that the key to the
game was that the defense,
l
ed by
MAAC Defensive player of the
week Dan Smith, kept the Gaels
out of the end zone when they
made it into Marist territory.
"Our defense bent a little bit,
but the important thing was that
we did not break," he said "We
were able to hold them to field
goals instead of allowing them
into the end zone. Being able to
hold them to three poi
n
ts ins
t
ea
d
of seven was crucial and was
really a key to win,ning this
game."
Looking back at the season,
Parady said although the overall
record
l
eft a bit to be desired, he
was p
l
eased with the season.
"We were pleased at the way
the season turned out even
though you're hop
i
ng to e
n
d with
a little better than a 4-7 reco
r
d,"
he said.
"There
were a few
games down the
l
ine that were
very close and looking back we
know that if a few plays here and
there had turned out differently,
our record would show that. The
important thing
wQ!J
that
our
players kept battling through it
all.''
Parady also said that it was nice
to
leave the old stadium with a
championship title.
"A
lot of great games were
played there ove
r
the last 40
years," he said.
"Hopefully
this
will be one that peop
l
e will be
talking about for a long time.
Altho
u
gh we're excite
d
about the
new stadium, you co
u
ldn't write
any better
t
han this: the c
h
ampi
-
onship on the line in the last
game, on senior day aAd the last
game in your old stad
i
um."
The last foo
t
ba
ll
game p
l
ayed
on this Leo
n
idoffturfkicked off
with a pre-game ce
r
emony hon-
oring the 24 seniors of the 2006
squad in front of2,341 fans. The
24 seniors honored were: Tim
Au
l
et, S
h
awn Casad.iego, Chris
Coll
i
ns, Huck Correia, Mike
DiO
i
aimo,
Daniel
Dulac,
Frank
i
e
Farrington,
Kevin
Frederick, W
ill
iam F
l
ooks, DJ.
Ford, Trevor Gavin, Ant
h
ony
Glove
r
, Dan G
r
eenip, John
Lyo
n
s, James McGrath, Daniel
Peckham, Danie
l
Plant, Prince
Prempe
h
, Nick Salis, Michael
Sangiorgi,
Andrew
Smith,
Patrick Smith and Mic
h
ael
Wals
h
.
being
crowned
MMC
cha
p1ons. Your hard
work
I
greatly
appreciated
by
entire c.ampvs.