VOLUME 58, ISSUE 10
FOUNDED IN 1965
ntURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
As ornaments on these trees dwindle, holiday spirit soars
By
MATT WALSH
Circle Contributor
The tree is trimmed; the lights
are bright. Only this time, the
presents are on the tree, not
under.
The Giving Tree program
entered its 13th year this past
weekend. It is run by Campus
Ministry and sponsors 25 needy
alike are then urged to take an
ornament from the tree and buy
that respective "wish."
Brother Frank Kelly, director
of Campus Ministry, explained
that the families sponsored by
Marist include battered women
and children and those having
financial difficulties. These are
families who barely have enough
to buy food, let alone presents.
families
through
fiye
outreach agen-
"Once again,
'Last year
the
team
~is year it looks
hke we have
chipped In to buy an X-Box
families in dire
cies.
The Ministry
asks the cam-
pus communi-
ty each year to
... we are going to try and
·
need,"
Kelly
do something just as nice
said. "We will
th.
,
be
there
for
IS
year.
them
on
donate gifts to
Christmas."
these families.
-
Steve Hicks
The program is
Every
year,
Senior
consistently a
about 90 per- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ big success at
cent of the requested gifts are Marist. Administrators, students,
distributed to the families.
and sports teams alike all partic-
The interesting part about this ipate in the event.
charity is the aspect of the tree.
Steve Hicks, Marist senior, is a
Seven trees are placed around member of the cross country and
campus, each one containing track and field teams. He said
paper ornaments. These orna-
that he and the other seniors on
ments represent
"wishes,"
items the team are organizing a team-
the family tells the agency that sponsored gift.
they n~d.
"Last year the team chipped in
Students and administrators to buy an X-Box," Hicks said.
"We are going to try and do
something just as nice this year."
The track team is not the only
team participating. The men's
and women's swim teams are
planning on donating two bicy;-
cles as well.
However, this is not a charity
that is just about toys. Several
families ask for household or
personal needs, such as a table or
dishes. Some are in need of soap
than just toys," Garaffa said.
"The fact that a small school
such as Marist can help so many
families' needs; that's good
stuff."
The Ministry asks all gifts be
brought to the chapel, wrapped
and labeled with the ornament
from the tree.
All gifts need to be donated by
Dec. 12, in time for the Giving
Tree Ceremony. The ceremony
or shampoo
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a mass
items that people
'The fact that a small
d u r i n g
usually do not
which
the
think of as gifts.
school such as Marist can
program is
explained
and the gifts
are
blessed.
help so many families'
needs; that's good stuff.'
Indeed, shampoo
does not exactly fit
the
holiday-gift
genre. However,
what
a
faitlily
needs is that which
·Kelly
said
- Dan Garaffa
that this is a
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
s_o_p_ho_m_or_e_
program that
other people may
take for granted. The Giving
Tree program is
·not
only philan-
thropic, but successful in raising
students' awareness of the needs
of those who may not be as lucky
as they are.
Dan Garaffa, Marist sopho-
more, said that he loves the way
Marist responds to the Giving
Tree program.
"I think it's good that it is more
Marist truly
embraces. He said he is always
amazed by the turnout of admin-
istrators and students showing
generosity to the poor.
"There is more to the season
than getting presents," Kelly
said. "When I get the thank-you
cards from families, explaining
that they were crying when they
saw how generous Marist is,
that's what the holiday season is
One
of the GMng
Trees
Is
located In
the main entrance of Lowell
Thomas. On the left Is one of the
many wishes of needy families.
about."
Students laugh it up at Comedy Night
School of Management makes the top
grade in the 2005
·
Princeton Review
Senior Tony Messina
put
his
talent
to
the
test
on Tuesday
night
In
the
cabaret. Meaalna Is a
mem-
ber
d
the
Marlst
College
comedy
group, the
Humartsts,
who
wlH
put
on their aMUal
•81&
~
Dec.
7
and
8
at
9
p.m. in
the
Nelly Golettl Theater.
By
ALEXIS TEDESCO
Circle Contributor
According to The Princeton
Review,
the
School
of
Management at Marist is one of
143 schools featured in the stu-
deiit-opinion guidebook "Best
143 Business Schools", 2005
Edition.
The School of Management is
one of only 300 business schools
in the country to be accredited by
The As~ociation to Advance
Collegiate Schools of Business
(AACSB), a premier accrediting
organization
for
business
schools worldwide. In addition,
Marist now offers the first online
MBA to be accredited by the
New York State Education
Department.
"The Best 143 Business
Schools" has 11 ranking lists,
each one identifying the top ten
business schools in a specific
category. The categories cover a
range of topics applicants to the
schools might want to know or
ask about on a campus visit. The
list subjects cover academics to
careers to how family-friendly
the schools are.
Robert Franek, Princeton
Review vice president for
guide-
book publishing, said the
rank-
ings in the book reflect
a
compi-
lation of useful data that students
can effectively use to choose a
school tailored for them.
"Every
school we profile in
this book offers students an out-
standing MBA education, yet
each one is distinctive in its aca-
demic
_
programs and campus
'The
professors
are
Insightful and well-expe-
rienced and seem to real-
ly care how every student
is working in their class.'
- Cary Bernard
Sophomore
environment," Franek said.
"There
is no one best business
school overall. For this book we
developed comprehensive pro-
files of the schools and compiled
ranking lists in multiple cate-
gories
to
help students choose
the best business school for
them."
Dr. Andres Fortino, dean of the
School of
Management, said
that
these rankings tell the school
that they are preparing leaders
for the future who will take the
values they learn at Marist and
apply it
to
their field of choice.
"What makes this honor spe-
cial for Marist is the fact that we
get high marks for the program
from our students," he said.
Cary Bernard, a Marist sopho-
more, said the accreditation does
not come as a smprise.
"I
only ha¥e good things to say
about the business program
here," she said. "I like my major
and I feel very confident in the
program. The professors are
insightful and well experienced
and seem to really care how
every student is working in their
class."
The surveys asked students
over 40 questions about them-
selves, their career plans, and
their school's academics, student
body and campus life. The
rank-
ings are based entirely on stu-
dent answers to survey ques-
tions. The resulting responses
determined a school's eligibility
in the guidebook and were used
in writing the narrative of each
selecting program.
Despite great expectations students decline donating money to the Marist Fund
By
ERIC HANSEN
Circle Contributor
The average annual cost of
attending and living at Marist
College in 2004 is almost
$30,000, yet the school still
seeks outside help for acquiring
financial support.
This additional support is the
responsibility
of
Marist's
advancement office. The offices,
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support for the college from out-
side of tuition. Among other
fundraisers and projects support-
ed by advancement offices is the
Marist Fund, run each year from
July 1 until -June 30.
''Every year we solicit alumni,
friends and business for what we
call the Marist Fund, which is
our annual campaign," said
Robert West, vice president of
college advancement at Marist.
"Those moneys that we raise
for the Marist Fund are what we
call 'unrestricted;' they go to
support the operational budget of
the college. They help support
everything from the library, fac-
ulty salaries and special pro-
grams. In a way, that does sup-
port, or helps
try
to keep tuition
down so the more we do with the
Marist Fund, the more opera-
tional money is available for the
college."
A&E~ SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS TO FUND
'GODSPELL' PRODUCTION
'Michael Tebelak's muscial performed during the Vietnam
era gets a new e-age spin."
PAGE 7
More than half of the money
raised comes from alumni who
participate
in every fund,
although friends, families and
businesses associated with the
college are not to be discounted.
Donations average around $125,
but are sometimes in the high
five-figures. Marist seniors and
recent graduates are also encour-
aged to participate in the fund,
though to a lesser extent than
more-established alumni.
"What we've done the past few
years is create what we call a
senior class gift program," West
said. "The senior class gives a
contribution as they are leaving,
and the last two years it has real-
ly worked very well, so we're
seeing that the younger gradu-
ates are participating."
However, some Marist seniors
and graduates are less than
enthusiastic to donate money to
their school.
Senior Dan
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PAGE9
Yingling said that he had never
heard of the Marist Fund, and
when it was described to him, he
showed little desire in participat-
ing.
"There
is
no chance of me ever
giving money to Marist," he
said. "I don't see why there'd be
any reason to. Why would I give
money to help out people I don't
know?"
Yingling
is
not alone in his
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
Securitv Briets
:
.
www.marlstclrcle.com
The "Security Briefs" and the
"Alcohol
Fantasy
Beat" are intended to be a
parody
and not a repre-
sentation of The Circles editorial stance on drink-
ing - illegal or otherwise - nor
is
it intended to be
a statement regarding the official Marist Co/leg!!
policy on alcohol
consumption.
PAGE2
S
n
eak into the dining hall like normal starving students
Complied
by
DAN ROY
Campus Editor
11/10
-
I'm going to be honest; we had a pretty
slow week here at Marist. At 11 :21 a.m. a cement
truck doing its thing by the Boat House snapped
some electrical wires in the process.
Central
Hudson Electric came, and put everything back
I was able to get a hold of the note, and read it with
my own eyes.
It
read, 'One cup of sugar, one cup of
molasses, two tablespoons of butter, and on
_
e dead
deer. We're having deer pie tonight!'
"Funny,
the.
recipes I know don't end exclaiming their excite-
ment for the dish." What, they just have the
ingre-
dients?
"Yeah."
Yeah
...
together.
·
Speaking of slow, how slow does the
.
11/13 -
What, did
"Jackass"
come to town? Or
mixer on those cement trucks move? Real slow, I'll maybe it was
"Viva
La Barn." Whoever it was stole
tell you that.
In
a race between a cement truck the chairs from the Leo entry desk at 5:53 p.m.
mixer mixing and the sun setting
...
I'd take the sun. Saturday. Damn kids aren't satisfied with
a
dead
Anyone else with me?!
deer! You have to take our chairs too! You know
the officer on duty came back and tried sitting down
11/11 -
Just when we thought it was safe to park anyway? Yeah, he's still in St. Francis as we speak.
our cars here again, someone's got to go and do Not from a broken back or anything; from a broken
something like this. Acar's driver side window was ego. So I hope you're happy. One of these cfays
smashed out in the Beck Place lot at 12:01 a.m. we'll Barn your Jackass and then we'll see who's
Thursday. A purse and the contents of the purse laughing.
were stolen.
·
From an old woman a few blocks
away!
"It
was also stolen from the car you idiot."
Whatever, the girl whose car it was got the last
laugh. "How do you know?" While
sifting
through
the purse, the thief made the same mistake the
teacher did in that commercial when he asked if the
girl had enough candy for the whole class. You
know, and she's all smart like,
'Enough
for the girls,
hehehe.'
"Yeah,
I know the one."
Let's
just
say
our
thi~~ ¼n't
'g\'>\ng
to
be
~fo•,g C&.t\'>n
C'M'.ld"j mfu.
spaghet_ti
anytime soon.
11/11 -
What, did
"Jackass"
come to town? Or
maybe it was "Viva La Barn." Whoever it
was
left
a rotting deer carcass on the campus green
,at
6:52
a.m. Thursday. Rumor has
it,
there was a note left
on the body. With my
excellent
investigative
work,
11(13
-
Probably celebrating the successful
removal of two Leo chairs, some students in Midrise
threw themselves a little party at 7:08 p.m. Security
confiscated
a full bottle of Skyy
vodka,
and the
remaining ingredients to a punch on hand. These
include: an· empty bottle of Skyy vodka, sloe gin,
Herman Walker triple, and Bacardi Rum. Last but
not least, a funnel and hose were taken. Holy
ravi-
\'>\1. Y'i:lu
mOY\'>n~
·H~re
funn-c\ing fu.at
C\'>nttaption?
What a terrible
idea. You're
lucky
you got
stopped
at
7:08.
Who the heck is Herman Walker anyway?
Johnny's
younger,
less
talented,
thus less loved
brother?
11/15
-
This is
the
second
week
in
a row where I
end with a
frightening brief. At 12:45 a.m. Monday,
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two masked subjects knocked on a Gartland door
and entered when one of the residents looked to see
who it was. One was wearing a military gas mask,
and the other had a scarf over his face. One was
stocky and one was thin. They proceeded to the
kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took several food
items and left. O.K. Yogi and Boo Boo, Gartland
refrigerators aren't pic-a-nic baskets
.
And Boo Boo,
Yogi has a gas mask. The best you can do is a scarf?
Come on.
Alcohol-related incidents this week:
1. Midrise - 1
Total afeohot-related Incidents:
L'Leo-7
2.
Gartland- 6
3.
Champagnat-
4
4 .. Old Townhouses-
1:
5.
Gregory
-1
6. Upper West Cedar-1
7. Mldrise - 2
&
Heenan
Ill
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Thursday,Nov.18,2004
SPC Western Night
8PM
Cabaret
Friday, Nov. 19, 2004
SPC Presents:
Mark SalDana
9PM
Cabaret
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004
College Bowl
9AM to 4·PM
Student Center
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004
Mall Trip
4 PM
-12
AM
.
Bus
leaves from
Midrise
Wednesday, Nov. 24 -
Sunday,Nov.28,2004
Thanksgtvlng Break
Wednesday,Dec. 1,2004
Music Department
Small Ensembles
8PM
PAR
Friday, Dec.
3,
2004
"The Nutcracker" ballet
4PM
Bus leaves
from
Midrise
Saturday,
Dec.
4, 2004
Chess Master Challenge
.
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PM
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Nov. 18
-
Club Challenge: Blood
Drive
from
11
a.m.
-
5 p.m.
in the Student
Center.
Please
sign
up.
Giving
blood
is a great way
to
help
the medical community.
Nov. 18
-
The Student
Programming
Council (SPC)
presents Western Night
start-
ing at 8:00pm in
the
Cabaret.
Nov. 20
-
College Bowl
-
academic jeop
-
ardy
tournament
from 9am-4pm in the
Student Center. All are welcome to play, stu-
dents
play
in
·
teams of four
GA
MARI ST
Student.Government.Association
Nov.
20
Auditions
for
the
Freshman/Sophomore Talent Show from 5- 9
p.m. in the
Performing
Arts
Room
(PAR).
IM
Talents2004
,
MidriseRSC
,
or SGA2008
if
interested
Dec.
2
-
Freshma
n/
Sophomore Talent
Show from 9:30-11 p.m.
in
the
Nelly
Golletti
Theater.
Admission
:
$1 in advance, $2 at the
door.
Marist Money accepted. Pri
z
es for
winners and aud
i
ence at the show.
Dec. 6-9
-
Class rings will be sold by
Exemplar:
Recognition
in
the Rotunda
of the
Student Center. There will be an assortment
of styles to choose from, so please stop b
y
.
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prid
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,
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''Lesley Stahl is a pioneer in
journalism who has broken
down barriers for women in
her field and is a model for all
·
aspiring reporters.
, ,
- Dennis
J.
Murray
President, Marist College
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
www.marlstclrcle.com
Veteranjoumali,st
Lesley Stahl
receives
Lowell Thomas Award
By
ALEXIS TEDESCO
Circle Contributor
Veteran journalist Lesley Stahl
has joined the ranks of famous
recipients of the Marist College
Lowell Thomas Award.
The Union League Club hon-
ored Stahl, co-editor of the CBS
newsmagazine
"60
Minutes" and
anchor
of
"48
Hours
Investigates," at the Lowell
Thomas Award luncheon in
Manhattan on Oct. 14.
about her career and her experi-
ences with
.
the media.
After receiving her award,
Stahl spoke to the crowd about
journalism
and journalistic
integrity.
She described reporters as
being thrown into a "huge salad
bowl" that consisted of different
types of journalists with different
•it Is the best career
...
you
.
get paid to educate your-
self everyday, and It's won-
derful.'
- Lesley
Stahl
Recipient, Lowell
Thomas Award
including a Lifetime Emmy
Award for her work. She has
also written a book titled
"Reporting Live," about her
experiences during her 20 years
as
a
Washington
reporter.
During the luncheon, Stahl
expressed her gratitude
·
for the
recognition.
"I am humbled by this spectac-
ular award," Stahl said. "I love
my profession and to be honored
by my peers is the highest."
PAGE3
Since beginning her career as a
CBS
White
House
Correspondent in 1978, Stahl bas
covered countless stories for the
Nixon
,
Carter and Reagan
administrations, including the
1981 assassination attempt on
President Ronald Reagan. Stahl
moderated the long-running pub-
lic affairs show "Face the
Nation" on CBS and has the last
spent 13 years working with
"60
Minutes.
"
ideals. She stressed the impor-
tance for journalists to report the
truth. Stahl said that journalists
need to find ways to differentiate
themselves from the crowd and
establish their credibility with
the public. She also spoke of her
love for journalism.
This was the 18th presentation
of the Marist College Lowell
Thomas Award, which, accord-
ing to the Marist Website, recog-
nizes outstanding individuals in
the communications industry
whose lives and work reflect the
imagination, courage, ambition,
and humanity of Lowell Thomas.
Marist's
School
of
Communication and the
Arts
is
dedicated to and named in honor
of the renowned journalist.
Dennis
J.
Murray,
Marist
College president, said Stahl was
more than deserving of the
award.
Lesley
S1ahl accepts the Lowell Thomas
Award
In front
of
students and faculty. Stahl Is a seasoned reporter
having
worked for CBS as co-editor of the CBS newsmagazine
M60 Mlnutesw and
_
anchor of •48 Hours
Investigates.
w
She Joins other recipients Diane Sawyer, Eric Severeid, Walter Cronkite, and Cokle Roberts.
Before attending the award
luncheon
,
Stahl sat down with l
0
Marist students for a round-table
discussion
,
during which the stu-
dents asked Stahl questions
"It
is the best career I think,"
Stahl said. "You get paid
to edu-
cate yourself everyday, and it's
wonderful."
Stahl has won many honors,
"Lesley Stahl is a pioneer in
journalism who has broktrn down
barriers for women in her field
and is a model for all aspiring
reporters," Murray said.
"She
has mastered the art of the inter-
view and, in the mold of Lowell
Thomas
,
knows how to tell a
story that is interesting, informa-
tive, and insightful."
Previous recipients of the
Lowen Thomas Award include
Drane Sawyer
,
Eric Severeid,
Walter Cronkite, and Cokie
Roberts.
Marist Poll
predictS results of missed opportunites
for student workers
By
JESSICA FOLEY
Circle Contributor
Project Coordinator and Survey body president at Marist, obtain be a lot harder to obtain market-
of.
Operations Manager at the an
internship
at
·
Harris ing internships and jobs.
"I wish more students knew
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this
"Due to the fact that
I
was about the MIPO services avail-:-
The Marist C01lege Institute
fot
,
Poll, said
•1 wish more students knew
past
summer.
familiar with research practice able at Marist," Crawford said.
Public Opini~~ (MIPO) can pro~
tliat
the
about the MIPO services
Harris Interactive and polling techniques, there was
Brian S. Otay; 21,
a
jml.ibr
vide promising opportunities for poll
can
available at Marlst.'
is the fifteenth less I had to learn and that political science major at Marist
,
students; unfortunately few take connect
largest
and allowed me more time to work said that he wishes he knew more
advantage of this.
students in
_
Meghann M. Crawford
fastest-growing on
specific
about
the
For students interested in pur-
qiany dif-
MIPO Project
coordinator
market research studies for our
'I
think students perceive the
MIPO oppor-
suing a marketing career, Marist f e r e n t
Survey
Operations Manager
firm in the world.
clients," Crane
poll as
if
It Is telemarketing,
tunities
his
offers public opinion courses a r e a s .
·
Based
m
said.
fr e s h m an
which may enhance their work at Crawford
Rochester,
NY,
While MIPO
when it really Is a service to
year, and did
the poll.
~arist alumni who said that both directors, Dr. Lee the firm is known for The Harris can
provide
enhance student's communi-
not know that
worked for the poll have contin-
M. Miringoff and Dr. Barbara L.
Poll.
excellent con-
cation skllls and research
they help stu-
ued their education in survey Carvalho, are ~xcellent sources
Crane, 21, worked as a nections
and
dents
find
research or earned positions in for helping students pursue mar-
Research Assistant for the Youth opportunities
knowledge.'
internships in
software development, publish-
keting careers.
and Education Research Team.
for
students,
m a r k e t
- Suzanne C. LaTourette
ing, media polling analysis and
"Both directors have great con-
Crane said that she. learned of the like Crane, few
Junior
research.
the government.
While these nections with the news media, internship through the Marist students know _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"Studying
opportunities are appealing, few
such as NBC, ABC, and CBS," Poll, under recommendation about this serv-
political sci-
students realize the networking Crawford said.
from Crawford. Crane also said ice.
Crawford said that those ence, the poll could not only
that the poll can provide.
The Marist Poll helped Linda that without the connections that very connections unfortunately enhance my communication
Meghann M. Crawford, the M. Crane, a senior and student the poll provides, that it would are infrequently taken advantage skills, but a market research
internship could put me one step
ahead of other students applying
to law school
,
" Oray said.
Suzanne C
;
La'fol\f'ette; 20, a
juhibt ~omfntllrica'tidHs
'-lliajl}r
at
Marist College, said that she did
not realize that MIPO was more
than a public opinion poll. She
also said that a lot of students
may not recognize the MIPO
opportunities, which may help
students who aspire to work in
research or analysis fields.
"I did not know the opportuni-
ties that the poll could provide
for students, and I feel as though
I missed out," LaTourette said.
"I think students perceive the
poll as if it is telemarketing,
when it really is a service to
enhance student's communica-
tion skills and research knowl-
edge."
MARIST
CIRCLE
WEEKL¥POLL
Students give midsemester
grades mixed revie\1/S
80
70
60
50
40
30
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Do you think mid-semester grade
should be given out?
■
Yes, to
everyone
■ Yes,to
freshmen and
first-year
transfer
students
□ No
Questions for The
Circle'
weekly poll
are
posted on
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By
NICOLE SOL.AZZO
Circle Contributor
One would think that removing
the stress of midterm grades
would be appealing, but appar-
ently, some students thrive on
stress.
This recent change in academ-
ic policy seems to have bothered
some Marist students.
Dan Butler, a junior and
graphics design major was baf-
fled and outraged when he
looked
in his mailbox in October.
"Why would a school deliber-
ately take away a tool that helps
studenst establish their current
academic standing," he said.
Because of a Faculty Affairs
Committee
(FAC)
decision
called "Workload Study" adopt-
ed in February, sophomores,jun-
iors and seniors did not formally
receive midterm grades this
semester.
The purpose of the
decision was to decrease profes-
sors' workload.
Instead, the workload may not
have dramatically decreased, and
there have been complaints from
students, like Nadine Asaad, a
sophomore
communications
major, who find it very incon-
venient not to be getting midterm
grades.
"I think we should still receive
midterm grades," she said. "I
think they're a good marker of
how you're doing in a class."
Mike McLaughlin, vice presi-
dent, student affairs for the
school, voted to pass the "work-
load study" decision.
The
Plenary, which consists of all
tenure track faculty and calls
meetings on a need basis, also
has a hand in policie~ such as
this.
If a majority of upper classmen
want to reinstitute midterm
S t u d e n t _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_
grades,
the
Government
Association
(SGA), said t~e
faculty
found
out that the lack
1
1 llke knowing where
I
stand
Plenary will
to know if
I
need to work
have to call a
meeting and
harder.'
of
midterm
grades was not
favored by stu-
dents when a few professors
investigated the matter.
"A
.
few professors in the
Behavioral
Sciences
school
polled their classes to see
whether midterm grades should
return, and it was almost unani-
mous that students preferred get-
ting some type of progress
report," he said.
A combination of committees
was involved in passing this
decision last semester. The FAC,
which is made up of faculty rep-
resentatives from each academic
the FAC will
have to vote
- Christina Moran
on the deci-
Junlor
sion.
0
The
third
board
that is involved in academic pol-
icy is the Academic
'
Affairs
Committee (AAC) of which
McLaughlin, is also a board
member and Dr. Artin Arslanian
is
the
vice
president.
McLaughlin and other members
of the board were able to v
i
ew
the nuts and bolts of the decision
before it was implemented.
"Workload study involved
eliminating the requirement of
midterm grades for everyone
other than freshman and transfer
students," he said.
Students like Tasha Piccolo, a
sophomore math major, said that
midterm grades should come
back.
"I think they should bring them
back so you can see how you 're
doing so far to see whether you
need to improve or not," she
said.
·
Without midterm grades, many
students don't have a good l.dea
of what their grade is. Some pro-
fessors don't give out regular
grades
,
and if a student does not
reach out to the professor, he or
she may have little clue as to
where they stand in the class.
Although the lack of a midterm
grade shouldn't be an excuse, it
can subconsciously affect the
level of motivation and the
amount of effort students put
into their studies for the remain-
der of the semester.
Christina Moran, a junior
finance major, said ~twas helpful
to get midterm grades in every
class in the past.
"I like knowing where I stand
to know if I need to work hard-
er," she said.












































































THE CIRCLE
-
Let the voices of the Marist
community be heard.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
www.maristcircle.com
PAGE4
To the '04 victor,
these
'spoils' do
not
matter
By
IGOR VOLSKY
Staff Writer
The 2004 presidential election
was decided in Ohio, by just
136,483 votes. In his
victory
address, President Bush prom-
ised to unite the bitterly divided
country by further extending his
tax
cuts, reforming the tax code,
and privatizing social security.
And, while speculations about
cabinet resignations and policy
direction have dominated media
discussion, accusations of elec-
tion fraud have gone practically
unreported.
That work has been delegated
to investigative reporters, blog-
gers and maverick talk show
hosts. Perhaps most compelling
are the claims of British inves-
tigative journalist Greg Palast,
blogger Bev Harris and
syndicat-
ed progressive radio talk show
host Thom Hartmann.
Palast, instrumental in uncov-
ering the election
fraud of 2000,
(when a large number of histori-
cally Democratic voters, African
.
Americans
-
89 percent voted
for Senator Kerry
-
were pur-
posefully purged from the voting
rolls after being mischaracter-
ized as felons) has recently
reported that if
spoiled
and pro-
visional ballots had been proper-
ly counted, Ohio's 20 electoral
votes would have gone to
Senator
Kerry,
and with them,
the White House.
According
to Palast, a typical
national election leaves two
mil-
lion
spoiled
(uncounted) ballots
in
its
wake. Spoiled ballots come
in two forms -
either as over-
votes or undervotes. Nationally,
the majority of the discarded bal-
lots are the votes of African
Americans and other minority
groups.
In
Florida, for example,
after the 2000 presidential elec-
tion, two separate federal investi-
gations
uncovered that African
American votes
"spoiled"
900
percent more often than white
votes and made up
54
percent of
all spoiled votes.
But by election night 2004,
Florida's punch-card voting
machines had been replaced by
high tech touch-screen and opti-
cal scan technology.
In
Ohio,
secretary of state Ken Blackwell
seemed to follow Florida's lead,
acknowledging that "the possi-
bility of a close election with
punch cards as the state's pri-
mary voting device invites a
Florida-like calamity." Yet on
election night, 73 percent of
Ohio voters voted on the very
same punch-card machinery that
had thrown out a disproportion-
ate amount African American
votes in 2000.
And Blackwell, in addition to
serving as "Election Czar" to the
state that ultimately decided the
election, also co-chaired the
Bush-Cheney re-election cam-
paign. Along with the President
of Diebold he had promised to
"deliver Ohio's electoral votes
for President Bush" and, if punch
card machines would disenfran-
chise thousands Democratic-vot-
ing African American votes, so
be it, he reasoned.
,
·
Thus,
Blackwell stuck to them, promis-
ing to upgrade voting technology
only after the 2004 elections and
refusing to install punch-card
confirmlftion machines to allow
voters to verify that their ballots
were punched
correctly.
As a
result, 93,000 Ohio votes were
spoiled.
Meanwhile, Ohio voters'unable
to present required
identification
or verify their addresses at the
polls were issued provisional
ballots.
Proposed
by
the
Congressional Black Caucus in
the wake of the 2000 fiasco, and
mandated by the Help America
Vote Act of 2002, provisional
ballots were meant to save the
votes of voters erroneously
purged from the rolls on Election
Day.
In
Ohio, 155,000 provision-
al ballots were cast -
and the
counting was left at the discre-
tion of the secretary of state.
Working on behalf of the Bush
·
camp, Blackwell made the
unprecedented decision to bar
provisional votes cast in 'wrong'
districts, essentially throwing out
hundreds of votes
.
Furthermore, according to a
BBC investigation, the national
Republican Party had complied
up to 36 "caging lists" with the
names and addresses of the peo-
ple whose votes they intended on
challenging.
E-mails obtained
by the BBC reveal that most of
the voters on the lists lived in
predominantly minority districts
.
Consequently,
using
broad
matching criteria, voters were
wrongly tagged as felons
·
-
making them ineligible to vote
under Ohio law -
or challenged
on changes of addresses.
Still, after the polls closed on
Nov. 2, most exit polls shc;iwed
Kerry leading the president in
key swing states. By 12:30 a.m.
the Associated Press Radio News
feed reported that Karen Hughes
had already informed President
Bush that he had lost the elec-
tion. But in the end, the usually
accurate exit poll results did not
match the final vote outcome.
So why were the exit polls so
wrong?
·
Well, according to Bev Harris,
founder of blackboxvoting.org,
no matter the security of individ-
ual electronic voting machines,
all election results were sent to
central Windows~based tallying
computers. Thus, anybody who
could hack into a PC, could have
hacked into a central tabulator -
one would simply have
~
close
down the tabular software, open
the vote database file anq switch
the vote totals for each candi-
date.
According to Harris, since most
machines don't leave paper
trails, the fraud would be impos-
sible to detect; anyone with
access and a rudimentary knowl-
edge of computers could have
manipulated the election results.
Which opens up the following
question (initially posed by
Thom Hartmann)
-
"Why are
We The People allowing, private,
'
for-profit corporations, answer-
able only to their officers and
boards of directors, and loyal
only to agendas and politicians
that will enhance their profitabil-
ity, to handle our
votes?"
Honors program attracts and accommodates worthy pupils
D
ar
Editor,
Thank you
wt
your article on
The
Honors Program. For the
most part,
,t
accurately assesses
the
issues
we are
ncounkring.
howc\ er,
the headline
I
mis-
leading. We do not
have a prob-
lem
with
low
enrollment. We
have issues with over enroll-
ment.
For
the
fin
time, this
year we had more freshmen who
qualified
for Honors than we
could accommodate. Therefore.
we admitted only
fifty
studen , gling
act for
both
the department
and we still had too many atu•
and
the
professor.
Professors
dents
for
the number
of
seminars w-0uld like to teach
an
Honors
offered. During the summer,
I
met
with Dr. Artin
Arslanian,
the
Academic
Vice
President,
and
Mr. Sean Kaylor, the Vice
President of
dmt ion ,
to
address this issue.
Your comment on workload
i
correct: profc
or
are
over
comnutted,
and teaching an
Honors course becomes a jug-
course, and more of them have
submitted course proposals
this
year. However, it
is
still
v~
hard for their
department
chairs
to share them with Honors. We
hnve begun
addressing
the prob-
lem in a number of
ways:
work-
mg
more
closely
with
the
DelUls
and
making sure the Honors
:-eminar sanr.fy one
of
the rep-
Campus sees increased diversity
By
LOUIS P. ORTIZ
111
Assistant Editor
Naturally, you would think that
colleges have become culturally
inclined over time and give all
students the opportunity to study
any field they desire.
However, the unfortunate
trufu
is
that we still live in a day and
age where equality has yet to be
attained.
Education in colleges around
the United States is driven by
power and money, from a
Caucasian perspective.
Going back to the days when
civil rights were fought for,
when Martin Luther King Jr. had
a dream and Rosa Parks
stayed
seated, the freedom of all
minorities has always been in
question.
Today, there are still
signs of
segregation
in colleges where
the minority population is
fewer
than ten percent.
My reason for concern lies in
the talented individuals of color
who have not been
encouraged
to take the next step in their edu-
cational careers: college. As a
Hispanic, I was fortunate enough
to be brought up in an area that
was
diverse
as
well
as
respectable.
Upon arriving on the Marist
campus, I was
scared.
At
times,
I felt that there would be no
opportunities available because
of the assumptions made due to
my
ethnicity
and upbringing.
Nevertheless, I
fought long
and
hard.
In
the
city,
my
family
anticipated success and I
sought
nothing less. That is the point.
Marist College is diverse in the
sense of personality and spirit,
but not color.
We have a considerable num-
ber of Hispanics, Blacks, and
Asians that have gone the extra
length to
have their voice heard.
Whether in the classroom, an
organization, at work, in the
community or the
church,
these
individuals realize the precious
opportunity they have
.
and will
do
anything
to take advantage of
.it.
That is what everyone has to
realize; giving people of color
more opportunity will only spark
interest and convey a truly
diverse campus full of different
shapes, sizes,
.
colors, personali-
ties,
and
spirits.
All you have to do
is
open your
eyes to s~e the individuals that
would do
anything
to have the
chance to attend such a presti-
gious,
beautiful school like
Marist, yet 70 to 80 percent of
the time colleges will admit
someone of Caucasian descent..
Much political red tape gets in
the
way
of making changes on
this
campus,
but not giving a kid
the
chance to study in a colle-
giate
setting because they are not
rich or being fed from a silver
spoon
is
just
indecent.
Luckily, Marist
College has
begun
to
realize this and has
taken certain steps to insure a
progressive diyersity, but other
schools just don't get the picture.
Administrators
need to speak out
and realize that the potential
is
out there.
If
we sit back and let
everything stay the way it is,
diversity on college campuses
will diminish
.
·
This past O,ctober, I had the
opportunity
to
attend
the
Hispanic
Scholarship
Fund
Award Dinner in New York City.
It was a great.experience, being
able to bring my parents to a cel-
ebration of cultural success.
The different colors and per-
sonalities n;iade me realize the
potential out there, and I would
not be surprised if the people eat-
ing in that room that night
become top
executives,
doing
what their hearts desire.
I took a chance applying for
such a competitiv.e scholarship
as a believer in the philosophy
that hard work pays off in the
end no matter who you are.
In order for this to
spread,
opportunities need to be granted
and the only way that is going to
happen is for colleges to take a
risk.
Being 19 and finishing my jun-
ior year at Marist College, I have
learned so much from the people
around
me. Students and faculty
at Marist have helped me 'realize
the advantages of attending such
a notable institution. However,
that
.
should not overshadow the
fact that diversity needs to con-
tinue growing.
Not knowing what the future
'
holds is a scary thing, but the
time our Marist community has
now should be focused on work-
ing
together
and
spreading
diver-
sity
all around campus.
resentative
r~quircmcnt
.
This
alleviates some of the demands
on department chairs.
Next
semester, seven Honors semi-
nars will
be
offered, and
next
fatl,
we
will offer
eight
seminars
co\
ering
all
of the required
courses,
including
Honors
Ethics.
In
fact,
thanks to the
efforts
of
Dr.
Thomas Wermuth,
Dean
of the School of Liberal
Art . we
will
now offer Honors
Ethics every semester.
lso.
as
of
this
fall,
all
incom-
ing freshman have
a secondary
advisor.
the Honors
Director.
The Office
of Student Academic
Advisement
and l
thought
that
this
would
pro
,de
Honors stu-
dents with
a
better opportunity
for advisement
on a
number of
matters. This semester, I ·poke
to and advised
many
of my
Honors
tudcnt
about what
courses to
tak
and what would
be
offered in
the
near
future, so
the
change
i , orking
and
will
wotk
even
better
as
students
take
advantage
of
the
dual
advisement system.
Better
advisement also
allays
student
fears
of not meeting the
require-
ments.
Thank
you,
RO$e De
Ang lis
A sociate Professor
of
nglt
'h
Director of
Honors
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Halloween has passed, but hauntings continue
By
LINDSAY LIQUORI
Circle
Contributor
Although Hallowe~n has come
and gone, it is not too late for a
campus ghost story.
Shelley
L.
Sperling enrolled in
Marist College 30 years ago this
fall, in 1974 at the age of 17.
According to the Poughkeepsie
Police Department, Sperling's
former boyfriend Louis
0.
Acevedo, III, 20,
shot
and killed
her in the campus cafeteria
on
Feb. 18, 1975.
The New York Times said
Sperling and Acevedo were high
school sweethearts, but that
Acevedo had been reluctant to
accept Sperling moving
on
with
a new college life.
Sperling
was walking to the cafeteria
when Acevedo chased her and
her roommate to the office,
where Sperling picked up the
phone to call campus security.
Police said Acevedo fired at
least three shots from a
.32
cal-
iber revolver while inside the
office.
Police found Sperling
dead on the floor. She died from
a fatal shot to the chest.
Sperling lived on the third
floor of Sheahan Hall during her
freshman year. Ever since her
death, there have been persistent
rumors that her ghost continues
to haunt ihe entire dorm.
Christina Hope, Marist class of
2003, was the third floor
Resident Assistant (RA), of
Sheahan from 2001 until 2002.
Hope said she did extensive
research about the shootings and
created a Web site revealing in-
depth details about the tragedy.
middle of the room."
The door stop Moore refers to
is a short gnome figurine. She
said that its weight makes it
one did."
Bathroom incidents have been
happening since the summer fol-
lowing the renovation. Katie E.
Some residents like Haleigh
M. Schellinger, who also lives
on Sheahan third floor , say they
believe the dorm is haunted.
Hope said that in creating the
Web site, thereby compiling the
facts about Sperling, she expect-
ed the
haunting
of the dormitory
to stop. Another theory is that
the haunting stopped when the
building was renovated in the
summer of 2001.
However,
many say the haunting contin-
ues.
Th~ H~
-! , ,
ings of
.
"I think she is still here," said
Schellinger. "I don't think she is
a mean ghost and almost feel
protected by her as a female."
Schellinger said that the ghost
would be more likely to haunt a
male resident since Sperling's
assailant was a male. She said
she would be more scared if she
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The Web site Hope created, the
Shelley link,
on
www.mariston-
line.com,
has educated incoming
freshman for the past three
years, and seems to explain any
suspicious behavior
residents
seem to notice. This Web site
may have publicized the ghost
story, keeping it a part of today's
campus legend.
Caroline A. Moore, a Sheahan
third floor resident, said she
learned about the Web site Hope
created within the first two
weeks of school and followed up
on the information.
Shortly
afterwards, Moore said she
noticed strange things happen-
ing.
"One night when my room-
mate wasn't home I heard a loud
crash at 3 a.m.,n
saia Moore.
"When I got out of bed I saw my
doorstop knocked over in the
.
/
something that would not just
fall over by itself. Moore also
said her printer has started print-
ing by itself
on occasion.
Lauren K.
Goodwin,
another
Sheahan third
floor
resi-
dent, said she
learned of the
Web
site
within
the
first
two
weeks
of
school
as
w
e
l l .
Goodwin said
her unusual
experience
happened in
the bathroom.
"One night I was in the bath-
room
ancl the toilet flushed and I
waited for someone to come
out," said Goodwin. "But, no
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would flush does not see specific occurences,
by
them-
but is still apprehensive.
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among other dorm is techn
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incidents.
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"One of
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"Maybe
because
it's the furthest
my
room-
away dorm or maybe it's
mates and I because it is surrounded by the
were laying only woods on campus."
in our beds
While Marist students are con-
and
were cemed with Sperling's ghost, it
really
hot is not the only haunting that is
and
were talked about on Route 9.
t a 1 k i n g Michael W. Woods, a Sheahan
about how security guard, worked at the
we wanted Culinary Institute of America
to tum on before his
employment at
the fan, but Marist. Woods said that suppos-
neither of us edly the fourth floor of CIA's
wanted
to Roth Hall is haunted.
get up and it turned on," said
"It
used to be a monastery and
Wachob.
"LShelly)
used to plug now it's haunted by Father
in my curling iron and
tum
it Murphy
,
" Woods said.
"The
on."
fourth floor used to be a crypt
where they kept dead priests."
Woods said that he has
always
been skeptical of ghosts, but
one
night on duty at CIA he saw
solid metal doors open by them-
selves. He said they did not
creak open or blow open by the
wind
,
but enough as if a person
was walking through.
·
Woods
said the only thing that has hap-
pened to him in Sheahan is an
occasional clicking noise inter-
rupting his radio
program.
Woods said he believes ghosts
never leave the place they hai.mt.
"Once they're here they are
here pretty much to stay,"
Woods said.
The idea of a ghost lurking
through the dorm still intrigues
mo!t students, and many think it
will be interesting to see if more
strange occurrences take place
as February approaches, the 30th
anniversary of the shooting.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
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' '
By recycling on campus, we are
building on the students' habit of
recycling and making it conven-
ient for them to carry on that tra-
dition.
' '
- Steve Sansola
Assistant Dean of Student Affairst
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Eating disorders: empathizing without experiencing
By KRISTEN
ALLDREDGE
Health Editor
terns.
"What most people don't know is that
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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....
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underlying problems beneath
She skipped a meal ... again. He was
at the gym for three hours, every day
this week. She's been binging late at
night, after not eating all day. Have you
seen this? Have you said anything?
eating disorders," said Yvonne Poley of
the Marist College Counseling Center.
"Problems are lost in the shuffie. They
manifest themselves into unusual eating
behaviors."
Christine Caiazza, junior, explained
ways to approach friends who may have
eating disorders.
"I
don't think you can know for sure if
they have an issue, unless you confront
them about it,''. she said. "However,
ing disorders need long-term treatment.
She stresses the importance of peers.
"Listen to them. Empathize
.
Do
research to understand," Caiazzi said.
"Realize that no matter how much you
learn, you still don't know what it feels
some signs are if
they go to the
bathroom after
they eat, avoid
eating in public,
or push food
around on their
'Listen to them. Empathize. Do research
to understand, and realize that no mat-
ter how much you learn, you stlll don't
know what it feels like.'
like."
Eating disor-
ders
don't
only
affect
women.
According to
-Christine Caiazzi
exercise because they don't look quite
muscular," Poley said. "These new
behaviors are ways of managing older
insecurities."
College students are especially suscep-
tible to mainstream notions of perfec-
tion portrayed by the media. The addi-
tional attention (positive or negative)
from family and friends about weight
and appearance contributes ~o one's self
image.
Eating disorders don't usually go
unnoticed. But too often, people fail to
address them, passing them off with
excuses or choosing to keep out of one
another's business. Anorexia and bulim-
ia, and compulsive eating are serious
ill-
nesses that affect the college-aged popu-
lation. While a large portion of eating
disorder-sufferers come to college with
their problems already in bloom, the
stresses of academics, social groups,
and adapting to a new environment
intensify students' unhealthy eating pat-
Poley has two goals in mind when
helping a student overcome an eating
disorder: to deal with the things that are
unmanageable, and to help the student
change his/her unhealthy eating habits.
She counsels those who have eating dis-
orders and their friends who support
them.
plates more than
take bites."
Junior
Something-
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a
Joe Guardino,
RA
in Upper West Cedar,
says, "Media has a huge impact on how
people perceive themselves. Media
should show people being healthy and
not that less is better."
Often problems go unquestioned and
overlooked. There are signs to look for
when questioning a friend's health; var-
ious ways to address the problem; and
on-campus, community, and internet
resources to utilize.
The formula that Poley suggests to
overcome the disorder depends on moti-
vation from friends and family (a sup-
port team), and how well-matched a per-
son is with a therapist. Through the
Counseling Center she can only provide
short-term care, when people with eat-
web site dedicated to providing people
with eating disorder information, reports
that 10 percent of men suffer from eat-
ing disorders. According to Poley,
Marist reflects this data: one out of
every
IO
people who meet with her is
male.
"They either over or under eat, or over
Poley commented on the nature of
those who suffer from eating disorders.
"Values get confused and living
becomes focused on food, portions, size
and exelcise" she said, "none of which
Addressing the recycling issue: the push
.
to stop contamination
By
MARK PERUGINI
EPA established a national recy-
"By recycling on campus, we continued from freshman year."
mal campus functions.
recyclable materials to be dis-
Staff
Writer
cling goal.
In
1995,
seven years are building on the students'
Sansola said is a recycling
Travis Mason, Sheahan Hall carded at trash.
You can breathe easier when
you make recycling a habit.
after the standard was set, habit of recycling and making it committee meets once a month resident director, Marist College,
America reached the goal of convenient for them to carry on to discusses issues and improve said recycling has improved rap-
recycling more
·
than 26 percent that tradition," Sansola said. "An recycling on campus. He added
idly
since
his
"If
there is trash mixed with
the commingled bin, then it
might be discarded as garbage,"
Mason said. "To my knowledge,
if
15
percent of the bin is filled
with garbage, then it is discard-
ed."
According to the National
Environment Agency (NEA), 75
percent of all recyclable material
was recycled in 2003 reducing
greenhouse gas emissions by
about 3.5 million tons.
of recyclable materials.
American consumes
3 .5
pounds that a recycling bulletin has been
Recycling at Marist bas of garbage daily. If we reduce given to the resident directors
become an established part of the garbage
on
campus, it will have and assistants, informing stu-
community. Steve Sansola, asso-
some sort of global impact on dents how to becotne better recy-
student days at Marist.
"Since
I
have been a student
here, there has been an increase
ofrecycling on campus," he said.
ciate dean of Student Affairs, how we save our planet."
clers.
The year the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) was
created, only 6.6 percent of
America's waste was recycled.
Almost twenty years later, the
said that 1,200 pounds of paper
Andrew T. Tweeddale, a junior,
and 1,000 pounds of plastic and said his recycling habits have
glass are collected on a weekly carried on since his freshman
According to Sansola, Marist "There has been a huge push in
has become more efficient with
it."
In
addition to its environmental
benefits, recycling increased the
amount of jobs
in
the United
States, strengthening the econo-
my. According to the NRC, more
·
than 1 million jobs were estab-
lished in 2003.
basis by Royal Carting, the recy-
year at college.
the creation of a recycling web-
site. It enforces the idea that con-
tainers for recyclables should be
placed in all buildings and at for-
If trash mixes with recyclable
material, then most ~anitation
workers will discard ev~rything.
Contamination often causes
cling company affiliated with
"I am active in recycling cans
Marist.
and bottles," he said. "I have
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[The Cubbyhole] is one of
the few places that allows
local artists to showcase
original work.
, ,
- Lee Brown
Owner, The Cubbyhole
PAGE
7
School of Liberal Arts to fund 'Godspell' production
By
SARA STEVENS
Features
Editor
preached open communication
and acceptance. The score was
written
by Stephen Schwartz,
In
February 2005, Marist stu-
who is also famed for his recept
dents and faculty will come compositions in Broadway's
together in the presentation of "Wicked"
and
Disney's
the rock musical,
"Godspell." "Pocahontas."
With a plot loose-
This will be the first theatrical ly based on the parables in the
production at Marist funded by Bible and music straight out of
the school of liberal
arts
and its the modem rock movement,
theater program.
"Godspell" changed the face of
Premiering in the 1970s, John-
musical theatre, giving birth to a
Michael Tebelak's "Godspell" new era of theatrical production.
tells the story of a small group of
Next February, Eriglish profes-
people
who
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
sor
Matt
come together
,
...
the play
Is
not about the
Andrews will
in the spirit of
be directing
harm
O
n y.
ressurection. Its message has
Maris
t,
8
During
the
more to do with living as God
adaptation of
seventies,
a
wanted us to, as a peaceful,
this
classic
time when our
drama. Set in
country was
unified group of people.'
a
modem
divided over
electronics
- Matt Andrews
the war in
j u n k y a r d ,
Chair, Marlst Theater
Dept.
Vietnam, this
A.
n d r e w s
musical
brought forth a message of
strength within a
_
C01111Jlunity and
promises the
audience a new, e-age spin.
"In
today's age, with e-mail,
cell phones and TV, we barely
even talk to ea~h other,"
Andrews said. This production
hopes to serve as a lesson in the
peaceful, unified group of peo-
ple."
While many faculty members
·
are involved with the production,
importance
of interper-
sonal com-
munication
and
unity
within our
own com~
munities.
The parallel to the state of our
nation today is obvious, and one
can expect "Godspell" to have
relevant implications to a mod-
ern audience.
most of the
crew and the
entire
cast
will be com-
prised of stu-
dent workers
and
actors.
Andrews and
When the play was originally
performed, the country was in
the midst of a controversial war,
and public opinion regarding our
involvement was highly divided.
The parallel to the state of our
nation today is obvious, and one
can expect "Godspell" to be
especially relevant to today's
audience.
"It's based on the gospel
according to Saint Matthew,"
Andrews said, "but the play is
not about the resurrection. Its
message has more to do with liv:.
ing as
God
wanted us to, as a
musical director Liz Toleno will
be
hosting
auditions
for
"Godspell" on Tuesday, Nov. 30,
at 8:00 p.m. in the Nelly Galetti
Theater. Students should prepare
a short rock or pop piece, either
with accompaniment or acapella.
Call-backs will be on Dec. 1.
"Godspell" is a popular pro-
duction in all levels of theater,
from middle school auditoriums
to the Broadway stage. Marist's
rendition of this classic rock
musical promises to entertain,
inform, and inspire.
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Marlst's
student
and
faculty rendition of Michael Tebelak's
MGodspell"
(artwork.shown above)
wlll
take place in Feb. 2005.
Spotlight shines on coffee lover's secret Cubbyhole
By
KRISTEN ALLDREDGE
Health Editor
Local artists and caffeine con-
noisseurs find their cubbyhole at
a
local coffeehouse. With its
laid-back, relaxed atmosphere
and free artistic expression, the
Cubbyhole Coffeehouse appeals
to a variety of locals. As one of
Poughkeepsie's
best-kept
secrets, it is an essential stop for
art enthusiasts.
Serving
brimming,
steaming
in the area that allows local assorted beverages to the lively
artists to showcase original display of artistic talent. The
work,"
h e - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cubbyhole's
ceilings are
covered
in
glowing
stars; walls
are decorated
with
local
said.
A unique
spot for a
first date or a
get-together
with friends,
the
coffee-
Music is often the main focus
at the coffeehouse; but Brown
also hosts poetry nights and
painting and
photography
exhibits.
house provides a range of origi-
nal entertainment. The atmos-
phere radiates coziness and cre-
ativity from the couches and
artwork; and
tables are topped with candles,
giant coffee mugs, and remnants
of a chess match or board game.
It
fills with poets and poetry fans
on Mondays for open
poetry, hosts acoustic open
mies on Tuesdays, and
local
bands
perform
Thursday
through
Saturday. Arrive early to
ensure a cozy seat, espe-
cially on a Friday night
when
Sleuth
Pro
Entertainment features a
free night of performance.
Neil Johnson, head of
Sleuth Pro, finds perform-
ers such as published poet
mugs and warming
up pastries for cus-
tomers, owner Lee
Brown
opens the
coffeehouse from
.6
p.m. until midnight.
Before
buying the
place four years ago,
Brown
was a regular
guitarist
at
the
Cubbyhole.
Music
is often the main
focus, but Brown
also hosts poetry
nights and painting
and
photography
exhibits.
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Upon entering
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stage.
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Jordan enters season with a tuned-up jump shot a la Matt Brady
By
BRIAN
A.
HODGE
Staff Writer
As the Red Foxes bring in a
new coach and a new system, the
point guard, the player running
the offense, becomes that much
more important. The job of floor
general remains in the hands of
returning starter Jared Jordan.
Jordan, a sophomore from
Hartford, Conn., saw action in
all 28 games last season as a true
freshman, averaging over 26
minutes a game. He also tallied
111 assists, averaging 4.4 a
game. This put him in the top
five in the COJJ.}petitive MAAC
conference. Jordan was also sec-
ond in assist-to-turnover ratio.
Marist should also benefit with
Jordan at the point thanks to an
improved
jump
shot.
Head
coach Matt Brady, a nationally
renowned shot specialist, has
worked with Jordan on his.
"Tiiat's the weakest part of my
game," Jordan said.
"This
spring, when Coach Brady came,
that's what we mainly worked on
-
my shot. That is what I
focused on this summer, and it
has really improved."
And with Brady comes a new
offense, one featuring, not sur-
prisingly, converting jump shots.
"It's a fast paced offense, where
the players are getting up and
down the floor," Jordan said.
"This works well for our team -
we have a lot of athletes
.
In
the
half court, there are more
screens, motion, moving without
the ball, feeding the post and
kicking it out for open shots."
Brady will also be looking for
Jordan for leadership. Marist
will most likely be starting two
freshman (Ben Fanner, and red
shirt Ryan Stilphen).
But
Jordan
is not worried about
that.
"They'll
be good," Jordan said.
"Ryan
practiced with us all last
year and Ben played prep
school."
Although not one for individual
goals, Jordan does have one -
to
lead the MAAC conference in
assists. And as for team goals,
Jordan knows what to say.
"Our goal is to keep getting
better, being
ready
to compete
/'
Jordan said.
"Coach
Brady has
improved
everyone's game. He
runs
a system that benefi
ts
our
players. We're
working
on
improving every day."
Despite schools' efforts, college c
·
ampuses still lack diversity
...
continued
from page four
the chance to study in a colle-
giate setting because they are not
rich or being fed from a silver
spoon is just indecent.
Luckily, Marist College has
begun to realize this and has
taken certain steps to insure a
progressive diversity, but other
schools just don't get the picture.
Administrators need to speak out
From Page
Nine
and realize that the potential is
out there. If we sit back and let
everything stay the way it is,
diversity on college campuses
will diminish.
This past October, I had the
opportunity
to
attend
the
Hispanic
Scholarship
Fund
Award Dinner in New York City.
It was a great experience,
being
able to bring my parents to a cel-
ebration of cultural success.
The different colors and per-
sonalities made me realize the
potential out there, and I would
not be surprised if the people eat-
ing in that room that night
become
top executives, doing
what their hearts desire.
I took a chance applying for
such a competitive scholarship
as a believer in the philosophy
that hard work pays off in the
end no matter who you are.
In
order for this to spread,
opportunities need to be granted
and the only way that is going to
happen is for colleges to take a
risk.
Being 19 and finishing my jun-
ior year at Marist College, I have
learned so much from the people
around me. Students and faculty
at Marist have helped me realize
the advantages of attending such
a notable institution. However,
that should not overshadow the
fact that diversity needs to con-
tinue growing.
Not knowing what the future
holds is a scary thing, but
the
time
our
Marist collllllun
ity
has
now should be focused on work-
ing together and
spreading
diver-
sity all around campus
..
g diver-
sity all around campus.
Women's cross country end season with eight runners posting personal best times
23:16. Also finishing in the top first overall and second for finished thirty-ninth overall and 24:23. Next to finish for the with a time of 24:38. Rounding time of 24:42 and fin
i
shing
50 for Marist were sophomore Marist with a time of 23:26. third for the Red Foxes while Foxes
was
Jumor
Denise out the top 50 for Marist was
foizy-sixth overall.
Allison Kline finished twenty-
Kline's classmate Rachel Watson running a
season
best time of Tumulty finishing forty-third frosh Lindsay Rappleyea with a
'
Men's X-country finish 20th in season finale
range of each other. The third
overall.
Also running well for happens to be the same place
and fourth finishers for Marist Marist were freshman
Brandon
Marist finished in the MAAC
were Sean Hopkins with a time
of 33:49.7 and Geoffrey Decker
with a time of 33 :56.1. Decker, a
senior, has had an impressive
final season running for the Red
Foxes finishing first several
times for Marist and leading
them to successful finishes all
year round
.
Rounding out the top five for
Marist was junior Sean Prinz,
who finished the race with a time
of 34:01.4 and finished 133rd
Cartica and sophomore Mike
Schab, who finished sixth and
·
seventh respectively for the Red
Foxes.
Overall the Red Foxes finished
with 558 points, which placed
them
20th overall
behind
Colgate
and
ahead
of
Massachusetts.
Last
ye.ar
they
finished slightly better, in 17th
place with 442 points. The result
had the Red Foxes finishing
third among MAAC teams; this
Championship held place at
Orlando, Fla. last weekend.
Providence finished first overall,
while MAAC rival Iona was sec-
ond and first overall for the
MAAC teams. Cornell's Bruce
Hyde finished first overall in the
event with a time of 30:36.1.
The
season finaJe
for
Colaizzo's team happens next
weekend at the IC4A
/
ECAC
Championships, to be held at an
undetermined location.
·
Disdain toward NBA spurs interest
in
college ball
the
maJor conferences.
The
Atlantic Coast Conference
ha;$
x teams,
the
~ig
East
and
SouthEastem Conference have
four.
the
Big
XII
Pacific
10
and
Big
10
ha
c
thrc
teams
r;
pec-
tively
and
Conference
USA has
two teams,
in
the
Top 25.
Though th c are Just
presea,-
n pick the expert
agree
twit
Kansas
and Wake
Forest
are
the
favontes to
w
m the national
title
Pre-Season number one
Kansas is
led by
seniors Simien,
Langford and tile . Though
they have a great . hot at
the
title, m
my
opinion the
Jayhawk will hoke.
The number
two team
m the country,
Wake
orest
led
by
Pre- ea n
II-
mer1can
and potenhal
National
Play r
of
the Year Chri Paul, will proba-
bly
go
deep
mto
March,
but
again not my pick
for the
national
championship.
The
.
team&
that
I
pre-
dict to
meet
in
t.
Lout
are
Georgia Tech, Oklahoma tate,
onn
and
Providence
Ge rgia Tech, Oklahoma tatc
and UConn were in last year
Final Four and Ryan Gome
could carry Pro 1d nee to
.t}1e
Fibal
Four
this
year. Georgia
Tech
1s
my
favorite for the
national title. after making
1t
to
the champion hip game la
t
year and returning their key
players.
Elder, Jacl.c,
and
chen cher,
the
Yellow
Jaelcets
should
be
a
dangcrou
team
come
tournament
ttme.
Enough
about my pre
dictions
for
the
tournament-th
season
1
just ;tarting. For the
Mari
t
men's team
the
sea
on
starts
riday m •ht again
t
Cornell at
MeCaon
C nter.
while the women'.
team tra
el
to
Dover
fdr
their first game on
agam t Delaware
tate on
Saturday. Hopefully, the Fox s
can get off
to
a good tart. Who
kno
?
Maybe they
w
111
be
one
of the mall conference ·chooJ
that everyone
I
talking
about
in.
March
Students debating the senior gift
...
continued from
page one
disinterest with the Marist Fund.
Class of 2004
.
graduate Ryan
Taliercio also said he knew litt\e
about it.•
Once it was described to him,
however,
Taliercio was not
impressed with the idea of
donating
money to Marist.
·
"We gave them money for four
years plus all the needless extra
charges that they tacked on, so
why would I give them more,"
.
said Taliercio.
Taliercio said that his reluc-
tance to donate stems from the
fact that he currently has a low-
paying
job.
However, Marist senior John
Mullady countered any dis-
missals of the senior gift pro-
gram.
"The senior gift gives Marist
the opportunity to grow and help
future students," he said.
Mullady also said that tuition
.
alone is not enough for the
school to operate on.
West said that the Marist Fund
is optimistic in achieving its goal
for the year, as it has been con-
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prior goals. West said this year
that it looks as though they will
be able to achieve, if not surpass,
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THE CIRCLE •
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004 •
PAGE 9
Brady's bunch premieres in Poughkeepsie on Friday
Spree,
Ron-Ron
need
to
go
back to college
By
ALEX PANAGIOTOPOULOS
Assistant Sports Editor
It's the first season of the Brady
Bunch, and it's not 1970.
Head coach Matt Brady said he
will rebuild the Marist men's
basketball
team based on charac-
ter and responsibility, followed
by athleticism. Based on these
qualities, he evaluated new
recruits Kaylen Gregory and
Marco Vucajnk, and chose to
release sophomore Kerry Parks
from his scholarship. He also has
begun to shore up the shooting
woes of the Red Foxes, who
ranked ninth in the MAAC last Mccann Center, playing the sec-
year with a .393 shooting per-
ond game of a doubleheader as
centage.
part of the Pepsi Marist Classic.
Brady, who was heralded as They will host the Cornell Big
one of the reasons St. Joseph's
Red of the Ivy League. With a
had an excellent shooting team win,
.they
will play on Saturday
and was a marksman himself in
in the Classic Championship
his playing days at Siena, gave game at 7:30 p.m. With a loss,
the Red Foxes some
pointers
and they will play in the consolation
some homework for the summer.
game Saturday at 5 p.m. The
"I changed most of their other two teams in the Classic-
shots," Brady said.
"I made are
Northeastern
and
technical
adjustments... they Birmingham Southern.
went home and worked very
It
is not certain who will start
hard."
in Friday's
opener,
but according
The team will open the seasbn to some report~ the lineup will
at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the include 6'9" senior center Will
Mcclurkin, redshirt 6
1
8" fresh-
man Ryan Stilphen at power for~
ward, 6'5" freshman Ben Farmer
at small forward,
5'
l
O"
senior
Brandon Ellerbee at off-guard,
and 6'2" MAAC All-Rookie
teamer Jared Jordan at point.
Signing Farmer was one of the
last things that former coach
Dave Magarity did before step-
ping do'":'fi from his post after 18
years.
A goal for Brady over the four
years of his current contract is to
tum Marist into the next
Manhattan. The
Jaspers
gave the
eventual NCAA champions
Syracuse a scare in the 2003
national
tournament,
,
and upset
fifth-seeded Florida in the first
round of the 2004 tourney.
Manhattan has finished atop the
MAAC the last two seasons.
"The goal is very clear: We
want to become the model pro-
gram in the
league,"
Brady said.
"We have to strive for excellence
in everything that we do, and
Manhattan is a great role model
for us. It's been shown that we
can get to that level."
Brady also talked about turning
up the dial on offense and
SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 8
The
1.:ollcg
basketball season
officrnlly
started
last
\\ eek,
but
mo
t
team begin
their
eason
this
week.
For
m e , - - - -
collcge basketball
could not
be
startm~
soon enough,
as
my
d1sda1n
for
the
A
i
Men's cross country finishes 20th out of 34 in last meet of the year
m rcasing
fbc comm
nlS
by
Latrell
pri;;w
II
tmd
Ron
Artcst
mad I .
t ,
eek
were
parti ul:-irl:>
infuriating.
If
you
did
not
hear about
therr
remarks all .
ou
need to
know
1
thi
:
th
J
are
1
10rons,
spoiled and
ungrat
fui.
By
GABE PERNA
Staff Writer
The Men's cross country team
closed out their season this past
Saturday at the 2004 NCAA
Division
I
Cross
Country Foxes was junior Justin Harris,
Northeast Regional, held at Van who finished the l
O
kilometer
Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, with race, first for Marist and 87th
a 20th place finish overall out of overall with a time of 33:07.7.
34 competing teams.
Harris himself fmished what as
Leading the way for the Red
been
a career season as he as
posted personal records and sev-
eral first place appearances for
the Red Foxes during the year.
Finishing right behind Harris
was junior Steve Hicks, who fin-
ished 88th overall with a time of
33:08.5. The junior has been
another constant contributor for
Coach Pete Colaizzo and crew.
The next three finishers for
Marist were all within close
SEE MEN'S X-COUNTRY, PAGE 8
Lenihan leads way for women's X-country Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx
What
profe
10nal
basketball
lacks
i
pa
s1on.
heart. and
team\\
ork; stapl
in
th c l-
iege leagu
.
Most
college
ba kctb.
II
rta.
Cl
not
pla
mg tor
their
fu ut'1 m
th
NBA
but
rather
or school
pride
and
reccignit1on
The
excitement
of coll •
bask
t-
be.ll
also
comes from
the
su~
port
of the
crowd. When
I
the
last
time you were
watching
an
NBA
game
with
a
ction
of
people
in
1denufcal
shirts
a
band pl
y
ng,
and
fan
jump-
in
,
up and down?
By
ANDREW ALONGI
Staff Writer
The Marist women's cross
country team concluded their
From
Page Ten
season on Saturday, Nov. 13,
when they raced at the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Northeast Regionals,
an over-six-kilometer race at Van
Cortlandt
Park.
Marist had eight runners post
personal best times as they bat-
tled temperatures in the high 30s
and wind gusts of 30 miles per
hour. Leading the field overall
was
Columbia
freshman
Stephanie Lenihan, finishing the
course with a time of 22:33.
The Red Foxes had five finish-
ers in the top 50.
·Marist
was led
by freshman Sarah Domermuth.
Domermuth came in sixteenth
place overall with a time of
SEE X-COUNTRY, PAGE 8
Coach Giorgis
faces
two lineup dilemmas, enters third
year
as women's basketball
coach
"They're
familiar with my
system," he said. "It's been a
lot of similar things, but
there's a lot of twists, too."
The other dilemma facing
Giorgis is what to do at the 2.
Senior Megan Vetter, sopho-
more Shannon Minter and
freshman Courtney Kolesar
may all
S?li..t ti..me th.e1:e.
"Look for a lot from ...
$hannon Minter and Megan
Vetter," Giorgis said.
With six freshmen and a
transfer player, the Red Foxes
will have a gaggle of new
faces.
.
One familiar face will
be that of Maureen Magarity,
who will be on the bench as an
assistant coach this year. She
was
ma.med to th.e
All,MAAC
Second Team for the two full
seasons that she played at
Marist, and will continue the
Magarity coaching tradition at
Marist.
Giorgis said that
Magarity is still a part of a
team, even though she's not in
uniform anymore.
.
"Maureen is bringin~ lot of
experience," he said.
"They
look
U?
to her
as
a leader. A
lot of the kids ask her for
advice on and off the court."
Magarity is currently teach-
ing a course at Marist titled
"Basketball
Coaching" on
Tuesday nights.
The Marist women's basket-
ball team will open their 2004-
2005 campaign at
i
p.m. Nov.
20
at
Delaware
State
University in DoveI.
'The
Delaware State Hornets won
the
Mid-Eastern
Athletic
Conference last season and
feature MEAC player of the
year Mandy Clark, a guard.
The team will play at St.
Bonaventure on Nov.
27
before returning home to face
New
Hampshire
of
the
America East Conference at
7
?.m. N~v. 19.
UConn
awaits as Marist men's soccer team trumps St. Peters Peahens in MAAC
tournament
The e element , long
with
the ever-grow1n
panty
in the
coll
gi:
gam13
make
the port
enthralling for
the
fans.
Alt
1ough
th n:
are
elite
teams
m
colkg
basketball,
the
small conference teams
and
mid-major
are
becoming
a
vital
par1
of the
coll
1.:
bas-
ketball landscape: the most
today
aer
recognized
Go1 zaga
St.
Jo
eph
·
and
outh
m Illinois.
\f1er these
mallcr schools
hav
an
impa
t
in March,
many
pow-
erhouse conferences
refused
. ro
pla) these talented
m1d-
lead, one they would not relin-
quish.
David Musinki netted a goal at
82:47 to put the game out ofreach
off an assist from Benjamin
Castor. Marist goaltender Mike
Valenti recorded a shutout, making
three saves in the game.
Detelj, Nunes, Castor, Tomislav
Rogic, and Valenti were named to
the All-MAAC First Team. Head
"
• EasY,
•Fast
coach Bobby Herodes, in his ninth
year at Marist, had nothing but
praise for the way his entire team
played. Musinski was named to
the All-MAAC Second Team and
freshman Matt Mones
was
named
to the conference's All-Rookie
Team.
"They
all played good soc-
cer," he said. ''They are really just
an amazing group of
kids.
The
team
stayed mentally and physi-
cally on top of !,heir games and,
really outplayed both teams. There
was a bit of a letdown at the end of
the season
[three
consecutive loss-
es], but we found out quickly what
kind of team we have."
Herodes also noted Marist was
quick to adapt to the muddy condi-
tions. "We decided to clear the ball
with one kick, move the ball
through the
air,
do some different
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Marist practiced
this
week and
will travel up to Storrs, Conn. to
face Big East power UConn.
Herodes knows
.
the game will not
be
an easy fight against the
win-
ners of the Big East tournament.
''UConn
(11-7-3) is
very
solid
They have a lot of players from
Ghana.
They
have a lot of
techni-
cal
and form players and can go
deep in their bench. That might
be
the deciding factor."
With a ringing endorsement of
the heart and fire that carried
Marist all year, Herodes added,
"We will
be
ready
to play.
If
you
were going to war, and you want-
ed someone in that foxhole with
you, it'd
be
these
kids."
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Countdown to the
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Men's basketball -
t
day
Wo~en's basketball - 2 days
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2004
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Men's soccer clinches MAAC title; advance to NCAA tournament
By
BRIAN A. HODGE
Staff Editor
Three inches of rain fell at
Rider University this past
Sunday, but neither the weather
nor the Broncs could drown out a
Marist men's soccer victory.
The MAAC tournament con-
cluded this weekend, as third-
seeded Marist defeated host
Rider, the number-four seed.
With the wµi, the Red Foxes
earned an automatic bid
to
the
NCAA Division 1 tournament,
the second
·
in school history.
Marist (11-7) is one of a crowd-
ed field of 48 schools in the tour-
nament, and will face the
University
·
of Connecticut on
Saturday.
The weekend started with the
Red Foxes defeating St. Peter's.
The Peacocks defeated Marist
just two weeks ago, in a double-
overtime loss (2-1 ). This day,
belonged to Marist, however.
Keith Detelj continued his stel-
lar sophomore campaign, scoring
two goals in the game. Detelj's
first goal, and 10th of the year,
came just five minutes into the
game off a penalty kick. Detelj
again found the back of the net in
the 64th minute, talcing an assist
from Robert VanDyke.
The
sophomore became just the 13th
player in school history to score
11 goals in a season and moved
into ninth place on the Marist all-
time scoring list with 49 career
points. His play lead Detelj to be
named MAAC Tournament Most
Valuable Player.
The sec<:>nd game
of the tournament
featured the Red
Foxes against host
team Rider. The
Broncs upset top
seeded Loyola in
their first game, 3-
1.
What
more,
Rider
defeated
Marist 2-1 only last
Sunday.
Again,
however,
Marist
would have their
revenge.
Marist scored first
for the second
The
men•• soccer team
II
all
atwitter
as
they
watch
the NCAA Men'• Soccer
Selection
Show
at
4:1.6
p.m.
last
time
in
two
Monday In
ttle
Cabaret.
The
Mlec:tlons
were
aired on ESPNews.
games,
giving
them a distinct advantage. Rider
thrives on close games and plays
exceptional defense. They would
have to start from behind on
Sunday, however, as Kyle Nunes
blasted a 40-yard goal
three
min-
utes in the game, past the Rider
goalkeeper to give Marist the early
SEE SOCCER, PAGE 9
Inside: Full Men's
Basketball Preview
PAGE 10
Find
out -.,
ho might
be
starting on Friday night, the
tough
road
ahead for Matt
Brady's inaugural season,
and how Jared Jordan spent
his summer.
Also inside:
The triumphant return. of
Andy
Gates,
and the latest
from the men.' and
women
cross country
teams.
·
Upcoming Schedule
Friday,
Nov.
19
Men's Basketball
Cornell
7:30p.m.
Home
Women's hoops must overcome loss of senior starters as they begin MAAC title defense
By
ALEX PANAGIOTOPOULOS
Assistant Sports Editor
Last year, their battle cry was,
"Why not us?"
As the confetti still clears from
a Metropolitan Atlantic Athletic
Conference championship, a bid
in
the
NCAA
Women's
Basketball National Tournament
and three senior starter depar-
tures, the slogan has changed to,
"Repeat the feat."
The team said goodbye to 12
feet of frontline height with the
graduations
of
forwards
Stephanie Del Preore and
-
Maureen Magarity, as well as
their ebullient and efficient point
guard .Nina Vecchio.
Coach
Brian Giorgis, in his third year of
a highly successful tenure at
Marist College, will look to last
season's MAAC Sixth Player of
the Year Kristin Keller as well as
junjor transfer Fifi Camara to fill
the void in the paint, while soph-
omore Alisa Kresge will slide
down from the 2 to run Marist's
motion offense.
The team was picked to finish
third in the MAAC Preseason
Coach's Poll, after being picked
to_ come in seventh last year.
Giorgis said that the preseason
rankings are not important to
him.
"They didn't mean anything
last
year,"
Giorgis
said.
"Actually, we were surprised to
be so high after losing so many
people."
The team will be relying on the
6'3"
Keller and the 6' 1" Camara
to produce points. Keller was
selected for the Preseason All-
MAAC First Team.
"A key will be Keller," Giorgis
said. "We need a lot of offense
and for her to step up. Keller and
[Camara], the rest is from
I
/4
I
I
[Meghan] Vetter and [Laura]
Whitney."
Giorgis said the All-MAAC
selection shouldn't add too much
of a burden to Keller.
"I don't know if it's extra pres-
sure," he said. "It's a great honor
for someone who works so
hard."
Keller is the team's top return-
ing scorer and rebounder, drop-
ping 9.2 points and grabbing 5.9
boards per game last year com-
ing off the bench. She also was
third in the MAAC in field goal
percentage, shooting at a .482
clip.
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.
positions are
filled, there is still some uncer-
tainty about who will start at the
2 and
3.
Giorgis is not sure ifhe
wants to start senior sharpshoot-
er Laura Whitney or junior
Kristen Vilardi, who played
under Giorgis at
Our
Lady of
Lourdes
High
School
in
Poughkeepsie. Whitney started
18 games and Vilardi 10 last sea-
son, but Vilardi's improved
health may allow her to play
more this season.
"Kristen Vilardi has come back
much h~althier," said Gi
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orgis.
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"She had
a
lot of shoulder prob-
lems last year."
During Vilardi's high school
career, Giorgis' team won
four
straight state championships and
reached a ranking of#4 national-
ly. Giorgis currently has three
Lourdes graduates on h
i
s team,
with Vilardi, Keller
;
and fresh-
man guard Julianne Viani, who
was ruled ineligib
l
e to play after
she attended a week of classes at
the University of .Khode is
l
and.
Giorgis said that their time at
Lourdes helped prepare them for
college-level play.
SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 9