VOLUME 56, ISSUE 15
Snowed
in
The combination
of
the
"blizzard
of the
century"
and proficient
plowing
leaves
students and
their
cars trapped. pg. 3
Remember the 80's?
Classic television,
movies, and music of our
childhood. pg.
3
Pacino should have
stayed away
Despite
Pacino, The
Recruit
lacked
punch.
pg. 6
I
Dare you to go see
this•film
Good thing
Affleck
has
J.Lo,
because
Daredevil
isn't going to get
him
anywhere. pg.
7
Marist hockey bows
out
early
·
A
first round loss in the
playoffs ends hockey's
se
·
ason. pg.
7
Mens' lacrosse
season
is underway
The blizzard
ended
the
first game of the
season.
pg.
7
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The student newspaper of Marist College
SGA Candidates
by
Melissa
Ferriola
Sta.ff Writer
PAUL
SEACHISPORTS
EDITOR
Daniel Palatucci
Junior, Political Science major
Past Experience-
RA for the past two years
Student Government all four
years of high school.
Has always been in leadership
positions.
Issues on
campus he
wants to
face-
Have better faculty involvement
in Student Activities.
·
Have better social programs to
try
to reduce the
several
cliques
on campus.
Campus
Safety issues, such as
problems with SNAP.
Guest pass policies.
Parking problems.
Why he thinks he would -make
a
good
Student
Body
President-
He will not back down from fac-
ulty and administration.
He
wants to get students what they
want, rather than being a
"go
between" for the students
·
and
faculty.
PAUL SEACH
I
SPORTS
EDITOR
John
Hackett
Junior, Information Technology
Major
Past Experience-
Resident senator for the past two
administrations.
Chaired the Safety
and
Security
Committee.
Chaired
the Student Speech
Committee.
Issues on campus he wants to
face-
Guest
passes
-
Wants to make
changes
such as not having to fill
it out in
advance or
paying
for
it
if you do not
get a
pass in time.
Parking pqlicies
-
includes people
parking
for
night classes.
Redesign
and
reorganize
Student
Government Association.
Make
condoms available on
campus.
Reorgani
ze
club structures.
Why
he
thinks he would make
a
good
Student
Body
President
-
..
Weekend
Weather
He is a natural leader, has a good
understanding of politics and is
determined, organized, and dedi-
cated.
Bobbi Sue Gibbons
Junior, Communications major
Past Experience-
Class of 2004 president for the
past three years
.
Member of the Senate for past
three years.
Currently Chairs two commit-
tees; Campus shuttle in which
she's working to get a campus
shuttle on campus to bring peo-
ple anywhere on campus and
across Rte. 9 to Upper and
Lower West Cedar.
Recycling where she's trying to
increase recycling on
campus
and promote
recycling
aware-
o~&s
e.du<.ation.
What her plans are-
Continue
the work she has
already begun.
·work
with other
senators
in
other
committees.
Work on any
issue
brought to her
by the
students.
Other candidates for office are:
Class of 2004 President:
Laura Dodson
Raji Mosa
Class
of
2004
Vice President:
Kerri Kozak
Class
of
2005
President:
Jamie Marotta
Class
of
2005 Secretary:
Gregory Paris
Class
of 2005
Treasurer:
Marybeth Kunsch
Class
of
2006
President:
Eric
Marquina
Class
of 2006 Treasurer:
William O'Connor
Resident Senator:
Shaweta Vasudeva
Debate Night will be
aired
on
MCTV
for
anyone
interested
in
hearing the
speeches.
Voting this
semester
will be done
complete-
ly on line
.
Just
go
to
www.marist.edu/s"avote.
Then,
type
in
your K account and
pass
-
word.
(Call
the
Help
desk
at
4357
if you do not
know either.)
Voting
can
be done from
any
computer
any time between
February 24
at 11
am
to
February 26 at
7
pm. Computers
to
vote
on will
also
be located
at
.vari
ous locations on
campus
such as
the
Student Center
and
Dyson
for your convenience
.
Thursday
Mostly
sunny and
mild
.
Highs in the
lower 4os
.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2003
And the snow
kept
on falling ...
Jen
Hagg rty
/
Edltor-in-Chief
Gartland
E-5
residents attempt to dig out their cars in the Gartland parking
lot
early Tuesday morning.
School
was
closed
Monday
and classes began at 11 a,m.
Tuesday
morning due to the snowstorm.
Total accumulation
amounted
to 19 inches in Poughkeepsie.
Circle learns from NY Times
By
Jennifer
C. Haggerty
Editor-in-Chief
College newspapers have the
fastest sta~ turnaround
rate in the journalism
field and often offer
low-cost, high-visi-
bil
it)
media
exposure to a siz-
able readership.
It
i&
.
for
these
rea-
sons
that
hate
groups
looking to
pL1bllsl:,
racist, anti-
Semitic, or defama-
tory
statements often
target
campus news-
paper
.
Identifying
extremist tactics
Photo courtsey of Jeffrey Ross
Arthur Sulzberger
Jr.,
publisher
of
The New York Times
said
that a
Times
policy is to "not
knowingly lie to our readers and
not let anyone else lie to them."
and deyising criteria for han-
dling questionable media cam-
paigns were among the topics of
the third annual
·
national confer-
ence,
"Extremism
Targets the
Campus
Press:
Balancing
Freedom and Responsibility,"
held earlier this month in
'
New
York City.
The
Circle
was invit-
ed
to
represent Marist College.
Conference attendees
included
studetif
jourtlafists, newsp1tper
advisors an~ college administra-
tors, some of whom traveled
from as far as
California
to
attend the event, which was
sponsored by
.
The New York
Times
and Anti-Defamation
League
(ADL).
Jeffrey
A.
Ross, director for
the department of campus/high-
er education affairs for the ADL,
gave
four reasons why hate
groups target
college
media.
Ross said that the
college
newspaper, as
well
as television
and radio,
is a major
force on
campus.
The
campus
newspaper
sets
the tone for debate
,
highlighting,
and defining the
important ideas
in
the
college
community.
Larger newspaper chains can
also pick up the
campus
paper,
so a
significant campus
contro-
versy will gain additional
expo-
sure with
coverage
from
local
and national
newspapers.
The most
important
reason,
according to
Ross,
was that
extremists and others
have real-
ized that campus media offers
maximum degree of access
at a
minimal
cost.
Extremist groups
send out
"scatter
shot
mailings" which
include letters to
the editor
and
advertising
( often which is
never
paid).
Seepage 2
Debate Team seeks new members
by
Flora Lui
Sta.ff Writer
Thinking about joining an
extracurricular activity, wish to
engage in intensive discussion
and critical thinking while earn-
ing
priority points - then the
Marist Debate Team may be just
what you are
looking
for.
The Debate
.
Team, consisting
of over 20 undergraduate stu-
dents from various majors, is
sponsored
by
the Department of
Communication in the School of
Communications and the Arts.
The team has been under the
leadership of Professor Maxwell
Schnurer since 1997, and has
held a long tradition at Marist
College
for
over
several
decades.
The Debate Team has partici-
pated in over two dozen public
debates in past several years,
sponsored
numerous debates for
local needy populations, and
traveled across the United States
competing
with other high
schools and
colleges. The
team
prepares Mari.st students• capa-
bility to succeed in the real
world while exposing them to
Friday
Sunny with
increasing
clouds.
Highs near 40.
provide aid to the disadvan-
taged. They have won numerous
of awards and has competed in
regional as well ~s national
finals.
Focusing in three
main
areas of
debate, the Marist Debate Team
values public advocacy, civic
responsibility, and competitive
success. These areas include
competitive, public, and out-
reach debates.
The competitive debate is a
two-person policy discussion
involvins students from across
the nation; this stresses the
importance of strong reasoning,
persuasive argwnent, and critical
reasoning.
During the
2002.:2003
academ-
ic year, the team has been focus-
ing on issues relating to interna
-
tional treaties.
Public debates are sponsored
for the local Ma,rist
community
on
significant
topics dealing
with foreign, national, and local
issues; these debates brings both
national and local leaders to the
debate floor in hopj.ng to provide
further education to the area.
The Clinton/Lazio Senate
elec-
tion, Yugoslavian leadership,
Saturday
.
Cloudy
with rain
aH day. High in the
mid 40s.
and Iraq War are a few public
forums which have been fea-
tured at Marist.
For the
spring
semester, they
are in the process of planning a
forum on the role of fraternities
on college
campuses.
The Debate Outreach also pro-
vides education about debate in
the surrounding region. The
team sponsors a distance learn•
ing league among the local high
schools with the New York
Urban Debate
League and
offer
the same
education
within urban
high schools in New York City.
With spons<?rship
from
the
Dutchess
County
BOCES and
the usage latest media
technolo-
gies presented
at
Marist. stu-
dents were
able
to participate
in
over
20
debates without travel.
Kingston and Dutchess
County
High Schools are
a few
which
have been
educated
by
the team.
The team holds weekly meet-
ings
every
Wednesday
at
6:30p.m. in
Lowell
Thomas
room
209B. For
more
informa-
tion, please
contact
Maxwell
Schnurer
at x2075
or through
e
m
a
i
1
Maxwell.Schnure
r@
marist.edu
.
Sunday
Partly cloudy and
cold. Highs
in the
lower
30s.
































































































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Monday
Feb. 10
The McCann parking lot was the
site of the lates.t motor vehicle
mishap. One of the grounds crew
tractors bumped into an employ-
ee's 1996 Chevy Suburban.
There was minor damage to the
Chevy's running board and
underneath the door. The tractor
remained unscathed by_ the inci-
dent.
room, however.
Tl,ursday
Feb.
13
Another Marist vehicle was the
perpetrator iri another motor
vehicle snafu. One of mechanical
services' golf carts had its throt-
tle stuck. The cart struck a boom
truck, which was also owned by
maintenance. The golf cart was
no match for the mighty boom
Wednesday
Feb.
12
Marian Hall takes the
cake for most inci-
dents this week, and it
all started at about
Weekly alcohol or
drug-related incidents
tally by dorms:
truck, and the
cart s
'
ustained
damage to its
front.
2:10 a.m. when the
entry guard officer
stopped an intoxicat-
Marian -4
Leo-2
Friday
14
Feb.
Sheahan -
1
Oh what peo-
ed student. The student had trou-
ble walking and was unable to
swipe their ID card through the
swiping mechanism. The student
was observed by security, and
after sobering up was allowed to
go back to their room to practice
better swiping skills.
Thursday
Feb.
13
The Marian Hall kids were
caught once again at about 3:00
a.m., this time for smoking
mari-
juana.
Two
students
were
involved in the incident. The pipe
was confiscated, but all of the
marijuana had been used already.
The room did smell vanilla fresh
by the time
security
got to the
NY
Times
continued from I
''A
certain number of people
will see it [the ads]," said Ross.
"These
materials have the great-
,
est impact on the second or third
l
reading."
Ross said such advertising is
often published in campus news-
papers because the extremist
message is not clearly st~ted in
the ad. Usually, the ad will refer
the reader to a website, which
provides all the beliefs held by
the extremist group. Student edi-
tors may not have the opporl\ffii-
ty to visit the site before publica-
tion, thus not knowing extremists
have bought space in the campus
publication.
He said that the goal of extrem-
ist groups is to create the image
ple will do for
love! An unauthorized gues~ tried
using another student's ID to get
into Champagnat at 3
:
05 a.m.
The unauthorized guest was an
off-campus
visitor
and tried
using a female's
ID.
Usually this
trick works well when same-sex
ID's are used, but the entry guard
was able to spot this fake a mile
away. The male trying to pass as
a female was forced to leave
campus.
Friday
Feb. 14
Leo Hall gets a tick on the tally
sheet for an incident occurring at
9: 15 p.m. To celebrate what
some call "black
Friday,"
three
people were
ready
_
to down
11
cans of Coors Light before being
interrupted by RA's. The beer
was confiscated before the three
that there is a debate over what
happened in the past.
"If
extremists succeed in rais-
ing doubts, people conclude
there is some questiort in what
actually happened," said Ross.
One solution proposed at the
conference was to develop a pol-
icy regarding criteria for publish-
ing ads and op-ed of question
-
able origin. Campus newspapers
need to develop an institutional
memory
-
without limiting free-
dom of expression.
If
racist
,
anti-Semitic, or
defamatory ~aterial does make
its way into a college newspaper;
the college administration has an
obligation to present opposing
views, and with the availability
of the Internet in today's society,
the college administration is
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could finish their beverages and the handrail in one, of the stair-
contemplate the true meaning of wells was pulled from the wall.
love.
Saturday
Feb.
15
And the biggest confiscation of
the week comes to you from
those crazy kids over in Marian
Hall at 2:00 a.m
.
Burning pop-
corn set off the fire alarm in the
dormitory, and everyone was
forced to evacuate.
It
was found
that eight students failed to evac-
uate, and further investigation
uncovered several reasons why
they probably failed to do so.
Confiscated from the premises
were 21 bottles of Red Hook Ale,
12 cans of Bud Light, 24 assort-
ed empties, another
48
assorted
empties, and one beer funnel.
Sunday
Feb.
16
Marian Hall returns, but this
party was quite a bit smaller than
the last incident. This time l l
empty beer cans and one partial-
ly empty can of beer was confis-
cated from the second floor room
at 7:35 p.m.
Sunday
Feb.
16
So close, yet so far away. A Leo
Hall resident meandered back
into her dorm at l•l:15 p.m., but
was deemed too intoxicated to go
to her room by the security guard
on duty. She was taken to St.
Francis Hospital for observation.
The total confiscations came to
Monday
Feb.
17
33 full beers and 72 empties. Almost
as
impressive
as
That totals to 105 total beers,
Champagnat's beer pong table,
which would come out to just the Sheahanites were
·
able to
over
13
beers per
Semester;s total of
somehow fit
13
person.
Perhaps
kids
into
one
they've
.
listened to
alcohol or drug-re/a~
room. The RA on
one - too - many
ed incidents by dorms:
duty confiscated
Andrew
W.K.
Champagnat
-
7
four cans of Busch
songs,
as they
Leo - 6
beer
from
the
surely seemed on
Marian - 4
party
of
13. The
their way to "party
Sheahan -
3
amount of partici-
ti11 they puked"
Benoit -
1
pants in the inci-
until the fire alarm
Donnelly - 1
dent is impressive,
sounded.
Gartland - 1
but unless most of
Midrise -
1
the beer was hid-
Saturday
15
Feb.
Upper West Cedar - 1
den~ that comes
9~t¥0
,
~nly
.'3
beers
Sheahan was under attack again
this weekend. At about 9:30 a.m.,
the officer on patrol noticed that
forced to react quickly.
Abraham H. Foxman, national
director of the ADL, said some
organizations attempt to buy
advertising space in college pub-
lications to promote their belief
that the Holocaust "did not
occur."
Foxman, a survivor of the
Holocaust, expressed his disgust
with the idea.
"To begin to witness a debate
on the college campus on
whether or not the Holocaust
happe
_
ned and be defended under
the rubric of the freedom of
speech was offensive,'' said
Foxman.
In addition, Foxman touched
upon Daniel Pearl, the American
journalist captured, tortured, and
murdered last year. Foxman said
a person, paling in comparison to
the Marian incident.
he believed Pearl was part of a
"ritual slaughter'' because he was
Jewish.
The conference concluded with
the publisher of The New York
Times. AJ.1hur Sulzberger,
Jr.-;
who told his audience that part of
the answer in fighting extremist
groups
in
campus newspape
·
rs is
to fol1ow the "journalistic ver-
sion of the Hippocratic oath."
Extremist groups
try
to publish
ideas in campus newspapers,
such as claiming the Turks
_
did
not massacre thousands of
·
Armenians during and after
World War
I.
Another argues that
the surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor was not a premeditated
"sneak attack." The third most
popular extremist view, men-
tioned earlier, is that the
en
=
a.
Michael Collins/ Friday, February 21 at 9 p.m. in the Cabaret
Michael Collins is a sweet man and an excellent comedian, so be pre-
pared to laugh.
Senior Tee Shirt ideas/ by Friday, February 21
Send: Graphics, themes, logos, and slogans to
maristsenior03@yahoo.com or drop in "Class of 2003" mai1box in SGA.
WriteTheCircle@hotmail.com
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The Circle
Jennifer C. Haggerty
Editor-in-Chief
JustJen121618@hotmail.com
PaulSeach
Sports Editor
TheCircleSports@yahoo.com
Cassi Matos
Co-News Editor
CassiMatos@email.com
James Skeggs
Opinion Editor
skegdog@hotmail.com
Matt Dunning
A&E Editor
jackskellington22@hotmail.com
Karla Klein
Business Manager
KKfirefly@aol.com
Rob McGuinness
Wire Editor
REMno1@aol.com
Katherine Slauta
Managing Editor
CircleManagingEditor@hotmail
.
com
Lauren Penna
Copy Editor
lkpenna9@hotmail.com
Courtney Kretz
Co-News Editor
corkey14-22@aol.com
Dan "Tease Me" Roy
Layout Editor
carmenbrown75@hotmail.com
Megan Lizotte
Features Editor
megeliz711@hotmail.com
Joe Guardino
Distribution Manager
Zspark18@aol.com
G. Modele Clarke
Faculty Advisor
The Circle
is the weekly student newspaper of Marist
College. Letters to the editors, announcements, and
story ideas a~e always welcome, but we cannot pub-
lish unsigned letters. Opinions expressed in articles
are not necessarily those of the Editorial boara.
The Circle
staff can be reached at 575-3000 x2429 or
letters to the editor can be sent to
Wr:itetheCircle@hotmail
.
com.
In our neighborhood ...
Vassar
offers
course
'in
rape
prevention
The Vassar College security and
athletic department
will
offer a
Rape Aggression Defense sys-
tem course next month.
The course will
be
offered
from
6 p.m. March
11,12,
and
14
and
from
6
to
IO
p.m.
March 16.
Participants must attend each
class.
The Rape Aggression Defense
system, known as RAD, is a pro-
gram of realistic self-defense
tactics and techniques for
women that includes awareness;
Holocaust never occurred.
Sulzberger emphasized that
campus newspapers do no.t need
to accept every ad offered to
them under the idea of the First
Amendment.
"If you let 100 flowers bloom,
you missed the goal of journal-
ism," said Sulzberger.
pfuvi:nlioii;
risk reduction,'
and
risk avoidance.
The courses are taught by cer-
tified instructors from Vassar
College's security office and the
Vassar
College
Athletics
Department.
The course costs $50. The
classes will be held in the Vassar
College Athletic Fitness Center
Multi-Purpose Room.
Reserve a space by sending an
e-mail to rad@vassar.edu. For
information on the RAD system,
visit its Web site at www.rad-
system.com
.
The ADL recently celebrated
its 90th year in its crusade
against anti-Semitism, bigotry
and discrimination.
GREEK LIFE
contibuted by Ashley Woerner
Alpha Sigma Tau would like to wel-
come the Rho class I
Congratulations
to
,_
Emily Chase, Lauren Crossman, Alison
Eckherd, Stephanie Fotankis, Allison
Keller, Viviana Llauardo, Nicole Marra,
Julie Murray, Amanda Spazianto,
Christine Trossello.
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U·
Undeclared Workshop/ Friday, February 26 at 11 a.m. -1 p.m.
"Sometimes we need help with those tough choices in life."
Representatives from the following offices will be available to answer
your questions: Center for Advising and Academ'ics Services, Center
for Career Services, and The Registrar's Office. Topics: How your
Academics Advisor can help in selecting courses leading to a "major''
decision; Services available on campus to help explore majors and
career paths; The process involved in declaring, and how choosing a
major can impact registering for classes.
Guys Got It. Girls Got It.
Kappa Kappa Gamma would also like
to welcome the Tau Class I
Congratulations to...
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As You Like It Assistance
MCCTA is looking for crews for Shakespeare's As You Like It to be
performed on February 27 and 28; March
1
and 2. No experience is
necessary. Positions include: Set Designer, Set Construction crew,
Assistant Stage Managers, Lighting Designers, Publicity Crew,
Properties Manager, Painters and Artists, and Poster Designers.
Please contact Anthony at x 4239 or Kyl~ at x 4547.
Take a Close Look ...
YOU GOT IT?
Body Image and Eating Problems In Our World
Monday, February 24 at 7:00 PM in SC349
Monday, March 3 at Noon In PAR
Yvonne Poley, M.A.
From Marist College Counseling Center
ALL ARE WELCOME
Soonsored
by
Alpha Sigma Tau
Kristen Busso, Amy Castellano, Katie
Devine, Margherita Diglio, Laura
Dempsey, Amanda Long, Ashley
Makuh, Clare Malnar, Kelly Murray,
Kristin Muscarealla, Maureen
Turkiewicz, Megan VanDervoort,
Kathy Viggiano.
Congratualtions to all the sororities
and their pledge classes!!!!
Kappa Kappa Gamma recently made
Valentines and candy bags to be deliv-
ered at the Poughkeepsie Children's
Home.









































































































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What 'Am~rican' means in a foreign
land
by Maura Sweeny
International Staff Writer
It is in times like the present,
with the country's national secu-
rity being threatened and the pos-
sibility of war, when one realizes
what is important in life. One of
those (important parts in our
Jives- I added b/c it didn't make
sense otherwise) is being an
American.
It
was not until
I
came
to Ireland over six weeks ago,
that I fully realized what
it
meant
to be an American and the per-
ceptions other cultures have of
us
.
I had expected to come
to
a
country such as Ireland and wel-
comed with opened arms just
about everywhere I went, includ-
·
ing
pubs,
stores, and other public
places
.
Thus far my welcomings
have been contrary to my expec-
tations.
When I
walk
into pubs in town
with the others from Marist or
other Americans
,
I feel as if
everyone stares at us and whisper
something about us under their
breath
.
On one occasion, myself
and two other guys went
to
a
local pub for a pint and were
greeted at the door by a bartender
whispering and thinking we
would not hear him; "It must be
tourist season, here come the
American tourists." When we
asked him to repeat what he said
he covered° it up. When we travel
into Dublin, we blend in until we
open our mouths to speak. As
soon as we start talking, people
pick up on our American accents,
glance our way, and then start
talking to their friends quietly.
At
first
it was difficult, but now
I
am used to it and realize it hap-
pens to all foreigners.
It is not that everyone here has
a nega~ive view of Americans,
but the perceptions of Americans
have changed with the interna-
tional
climate.
Some
see
Americans as bullies and are not
afraid to voice their opinions
about America
to
us, while oth-
ers are fascinated at the idea of
America and being an American
citizen.
I
can't explain how many
times I have been stopped in a
line ,or in a restroom by someone
asking me what it is like to live in
America, and telling me how it is
their dream
to
one day emigrate
to the country and start their life
again.
It
is at that moment when
I see the look in their eyes as they
speak of America, and all _the
hopes and dreams the country
carries with it, that I am proud to
be an American.
I
realize how lucky I am to have
the opportunity to live and work
in a different country, but still
come back to my home. Many
people try their entire lives to get
to America because they see the
glamorous Hollywood stars, or
hear the endless American pop
songs on the radio, and hear the
stories of opportunity
and
free-
dom we often take for granted.
One of the greatest lessons I
have learned was not in a class-
room or a textbook
,
but rather
talking to people about being an
American
.
You never realized
how much something is apart of
your life until you are away from
it.
Someone came up to me in a
pub and before
I
even spoke he
said, "You must be American."
I
was so shocked,
I
turned
around and asked him how he
knew and he said, "It was in the
way you American women carry
yourself and look around the
room
with
such confidence, you
don't see that here."
I
had never realized this quali-
ty until that moment. Being an
American woman has allowed
me to do so much in life and to
have a future.
I may physically blend into the
culture with pale skin and a name
like 'Maura Sweeney,' but
I
will
never be apart of it be
c
au
s
e I am
American
,
and I will sa
y
i
t wi
th
pride, even in times like
t
his
when in foreign land
s,
Ame
ric
a
is not high
l
y regarded.
It is a dream for so man
y
peo-
ple to come to Ameri
ca,
and we
are lucky enough to be li
v
in
g
their dream w
i
thou
t
even kno
w
-
ing
it.
Accord
i
ng to Will Gakos
(who is this
,
is he stud
ying
with
her
?
)
,
"The opportun
ity
t
o s
tud
y
abroad makes one rea
ii
ze
j
us
t
how lucky we are to be
Americans,
"
and in the words o
f
U2 band member Bono
,
"I
t
's
even better than the rea
l
t
h
ing.
"
Maura Sweeny is
a
junior
at Marist College.
On Driving ...
Covered
in white
JEN HAGGERTY/EDITOR
IN
CHIEF
Buried
in
snow, the SUV to the right
was
successfully rescued.
by
Jen
Haggerty
Editor in Chief
Snow can be a car owner's worst
nightmare
.
I
am not so much
.
worri~q about
driving in the snow
,
slush, sleet,
ice, or the infamous "wintry mix"
that seems to fall exclusively on
the Poughkeepsie area.
l
am talklng about digging out
a car after a huge snowstorm,
especially a car in a Marist cam-
pus parking lot.
This
past week
Mari.st
was
introduced to the first real bliz-
zard of 2003, and as most bliz-
zards are expected to do, school
gets cancelled
letting
students be
totally unproductive, and sleep in
all day. However,
it
is the day
after that can be a
nightmare.
Suddenly, the recommendation
made to me last semester to buy
a collapsible shovel to keep in
my car no longer seemed like a
frivolous idea.
So there
I
was - at 8:30 a.m. in
the Gartland parking lot, while
many :slu<lt:nl:s wt:rt: :s!ill fa:sl
asleep thanks to delayed classes,
staring hopelessly at the snow
that surrounded my car, at least
3
feet nigh ancl buried in a snow
bank. Oh yeah - did
I
ment
i
on I
was cursing myself for not buy-
ing that shovel?
I
couldn't even
see my tires and I had to be at my
internship at
IO
a.m.
After wishing the snow away
and seeing that it was not work-
ing, I decided that I would have
to break down and buy a shovel
across the street at the Home
Depot
;
presuming they would
still be in stock.
I
continued to stare at the snow-
covered Toyota in my pajama
paut:s, bla~k
buul:;, i:lml
winter
jacket.
It
was a depressing sight,
either my outfit or the car or
both.
And then
-
a miracle.
I spotted two guys in the dis-
tance digging out their car.
I made my way through the
Let's reminisce about the 1980's
What can you remember?
by Audrey Roff
Staff Writer
Our gen
e
ration is kind of dif-
ferent.
We are characterized by movies
such as
Am
e
rican Pie, Can't
Hardly Wait,
and
She's All
Thfzt.
We worship Internet piracy, buy
many things that are often bad
for us, pride ourselves in slack-
ing off and having as much
fun
as po
s
sibl
e
.
But who can blame us? We sur-
vived the '80's, and those were
some pr
e
tty weird tinws
.
What I've notic
e
d
lately
among
my friend
~
and other peQple our
age is the r
e
gression back into
our younger years. We owned the
stuff from bac~ then
,
and
I
guess
we're not r
ea
dy to forg
e
t it.
Lately I've noticed that "Saved
by the Bell" has been on a lot in
our apartment. As well as "The
Cosby Show," "Full House," and
"The Wonder Years." And let me
tell you, if "Salute Your Shorts"
and "Hey Dude''. came back on
Nickelodeon,
I
would probably
never go to class again.
The movie
s
are even better.
The
Gooni
e
s. Mallrats. Da
ze
d and
Confused. Empire Records .
.
A
Nightmar
e
on Elm Stre
e
t
.
Th
e
Mi
g
hty Du
c
ks
,
Just lately, I've
been wondering if
The Sandlot
would have any special features
on the DVD.
Without a doubt,
Home Alon
e
is
®finitely the best Christmas
movie ever. Not to mention
Sixt
ee
n
Candl
e
s
and
The
Br
e
akfast Club,
which are
unbeatable year
-
round
.
We've suddenly realized that
Sublime's "Caress Me Down" is
probably one of the coolest songs
ever. LL Cool J circa 1994 is way
cooler than LL Cool
J
now.
Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again"
as well as the New Kids on the
Block can never be forgotten
about. And nothing that Jay-
Z
comes out with could ever be
better
than
Warren
G's
"Regulator."
Everything Billy
Joel before "River of Dreams" is
just
a
classic
,
and "Ice, Ice Bab
y
"
will forever be reminisc
e
nt of
sixth grade dances.
So, who ever said that we had
to grow .up anyway? Maybe
when we get real jobs and
responsibility, then we can start
watching intellectual television,
'
1
deep" movies, and listen to clas-
sical music or something.
U
ntil
then, download Beastie Boys
·
songs, logk for reruns of ALF on
Nick at Nite, go out and rent
Rook
i
e of
.
the Year. Call your
mom and s
e
e if your laser tag set
is still in the basement. See if
you can find a Wham-O Slip-n•
Slide to set up on the campus
green.
After all we're the babies of the
80's
,
and that's something we
don't hav
e
to let go of quiet yet.
Look for Audrey
'
s weekly
column on college life and
all the interesting topics
facing our generation!
snow to ask if they knew whether
Marist was helping students get
out of the lots. Their answer was
probably later today. Great,
I
thought. I'll never make it to
work on time.
I
then asked where
they bought their shovels and
instead of an answer, they
l
ooked
at each other, then they
l
ooked
back at me.
"Do you want to help her
?"
"Yeah, lt:t's go," said the second
guy as he started to walk
t
owards
my car.
I
trailed after them
,
thanking
them, and watching them shovel
out my car in a matter of min-
utes. Soon
,
my tires were re-dis-
covered and
I
was able
t
o back
out of my space and clean m
y c
ar
off.
After thanking them numerous
times
,
they trudg
e
d ba
c
k across
the Gartland tundra to continue
digging out their own car.
As I drove to
w
Qik
an h
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later,
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could not he
l
p but th
i
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how
g
ood Samarit
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do
actually
exist
,
especially
w
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To be or not to be: cloning to
.
save lives or experiment
By Timothy
Duguay
Staff Writer
With all of the resources of
modem science, it is not a ques-
tion of if cloning is going to
occur in the United States,
it
is a
matter of when.
As it stands currently, there is
no law stating that there can be
no cloning activity. But scien-
tists who plan on experimenting
with cloning may run into a
problem, since the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) reg-
ulate the experimentation that
goes on in our country.
If
one
would want to experiment, they
would need a permit from the
FDA, which right now they have
no intention of giving.
The FDA is investigating
Clonaid, the group that per-
formed the cloning of a baby girl
born to an American woman,
because they want to see if any of
the activity would have been per-
formed on U.S. soil, which
would be prohibited. Congress,
on the other hand, wants to put a
ban on
human
cloning altogether
because they are afraid that the
authority of the FDA will not
hold up in court.
The other end of the spectrum
is wondering if there ever really
was a baby cloned or it was just a
ploy for attention to Clonaid.
Dr.
Arthur Caplan ofMSNBC seems
to believe that the announcement
from the spokesperson for the
company was false because the
only ones that really "know" that
this happened is a crazy cloning
cult called the Raelians.
The doctor goes on to say that
these people have
no
credibility
to say what really happened as a
result of these experiments,
because there were no written
reports or evidence on the sub-
ject.
I tend to agree with
the
doctor
on the subject, because as a
stu-
dent of the media,
I understand
that the journalist will go after
the
story just to get
the
story,
whether there be truth to it
or
not.
The idea of a human actually
being
cloned is a great story,
because years ago we never
thought that this could happen.
It is also my
opinion
that exper-
ime~tation has been going on,
'
but
as
to the question of whether
or
not
a human has actually been
cloned,
I
believe that is a nega-
tive. We know that there was an
experiment successful in cloning
a
sheep,
but
humans I would
believe are much more complex
than a sheep, and would need
many more years of experimen-
tation before we had a human
cloned.
The only form of experimenta-
tion with cloning that I fully sup-
port is cloning parts of the body,
not the whole, for life-saving
health emergencies.
For example, if someone need-
ed a kidney transplant and there
wasn't one that matched com-
pletely with their type, they
would already have an extra one
available because th'e kidney
would have been cloned while he
was still in health. There are
many more examples as well for
wanting to experiment on differ-
ent parts of the body, because
frankly experimentation will be
going on, even if it is banned in
the United States.
President Bush should think
through both the positives and
negatives of the situation before
he writes off the idea of human
cloning completely.
In my opinion, it is all about the
necessity. If it would not be nec-
essary to clone a human, then
don't clone a human. I think that
if tlie government looks at each
case separately, and the govern-
ment is consulted before experi-
mentation begins, then everyone
will be happy and maybe a life is
saved.
History tends to repeat itself, especially in today's news
By Jennifer Haggerty
Editor-in-Chief
We are facing a decade that I
thought I had only read about in
history books; events that are
occurring in the present day
strangely
resemble different
parts of history.
We are taught to not forget
aboJJt
~
,p,st. 1'.bat
j~
.v,
~
,s
students growing up
_
we sat in
classes that expll'lined the world
wars, the history of other coun-
ties, as well as the history of our
own, with most emphasis on the
way we became a superpower in
the present day.
So aren't we supposed to learn
something from those countless
hours in history class?
As an intern this semester for
The Poughkeepsie Journal, the
newspaper and the world we
report on has become a major
part of my everyday life. It was
sitting at my desk this past week
that I realized there are so many
clues that we are re-living and
perhaps even making those mis-
takes of the past again.
It is simple really if you take
the headlines frorn one major
<fit,.v§:
~y ~
;
eqtpp@Je
theni·ro
a
history lesson.
The Thursday, Feb. 13 edition the United States, and
threaten
to
of The Poughkeepsie Journal lash
out
against Americans once
shows a picture of a young cou-
again
on our own
soil.
pie saying good-bye before he
This time
Osama
bin Laden has
departs from Rhode Island to supposedly created a new audio
Fort Drum, N.Y. He was one of recording Feb.
12
in which he
the
38,600
National Guar,d me~-
predicts his own death in an
hers called into
'He
should
take his
unspecified art of
action this past
" m art yr d o m "
week.
own life, but on his
against the United
If
that number
own soil.'
States.
doesn't hit home,
maybe this one will- she is
22,
he
is
24.
This is our generation prepar-
ing to fight
an
enemy who hates
our clothing, our movie star
icons, but most importantly- our
way of life.
And apparently that was
enough
justification
to
destroy a
major icon of New York City and
He should take
his own
life,
but on his own soil.
What else is in the news these
days? Well, India has tested a
supersonic cruise missile capable
of hitting major cities in
Pakistan.
These are two nuclear
armed nations who have fought
three wars since the British
colonists left in 1947, and came
awfully close to a fourth war last
year.
As Marist students, we have
remained sheltered for a good
part of our academic career here.
But Indian Point, the nuclear
power plant down the road, and
too close for comfort is and
should be a source of uneasiness
for us all -
especially since the
emergency plans in case "some-
thing does happen" are not up to
par in the present day threat of
terrorist attacks.
Let's do our history here:
young men preparing to leave
loved ones to prepare for a likely
war with Iraq. Saddam is a dan-
gerous dictator, and one we have
fought before. The second Bush
is
fl8W
attempting to solve the
problem
Daddy
"did
not finish.
North Korea has untested bal-
littic missiles that could reach
our soil and if the U.N. moves to
punish those actio:t;1.s, North
Korea has retaliated by
saying
that would be an act of war. India
and Pakistan are at it again as
well.
Does this remind you
slightly
of the arms build up of the Cold
War?
Al-Qaida is not only attacking
us, but Israelites in
various
coun-
tries. When have the Israelites
not been persecuted in the past
and why must they
continue
to
be the default victims?
While this "history lesson" is
not exactly similar to past events
( and I by no means claim to be a
history expert),
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By James J. Skeggs
Opinion
Editor
Sometimes we have an opinion
that
people
don't like. But that's
you! You as
·
a member of the
human race have the right to have
any free thought or opinion at
anytime about anything.
It'~
part
of the normal human thought
process, everyone has feelings
and different thoughts that con-
tradict what they truly believe in
order to find a balance in their
own head.
But why would you disregard
those thoughts as trivial and not
just
write
them
down?
Sometimes they may tum into
being just nonsense that you were
thinking, but a lot of the time,
they may turn into great revela-
tions that will transform you into
the person that you truly want to
be.
Just jot them down and you
don't even have to send them
anywhere, simply wait and take
them out sometime in the. near
future and read them out
loud
to
yourself.
Hey, you might like what you
are hearing and change a few
things about the way in which
you view that world. Just don't
let untapped talent go to waste for
fear that it doesn't really matter.
Maybe it doesn't matter but it
can matter to those who want
change in their lives.
If
you feel like you are ever
trapped and no longer moving
forward,
begin
to write down
things about the way that you
feel. I'm not just talking about
random feelings, but go with any
feelings that give you strong
opinions about a certain facet of
life. Take these feelings and
organize them: than go
out
and
read them to someone else, even
if you think they are stupid.
The first time you get into a real
discussion with someone on a
subject in which you didn't think
that they even ever
had
a thought
in their head about, it will really
allow you to explore the
bound-
aries inside you character and
enable you figure out what you
really want.
Sure there are other ways; there
are always other ways to solve
any problem.
There exist limitless
paths that we may take in order to
achieve any goal that we desire.
You're just hearing about one,
the point is to be persistent in
whatever you are passionate
about
and
good things will hap-
pen. All you have to do is try it,
other wise you never
find
out.
Don't sit around wasting away, or
moving at a turtle's pace forward.
Challenge yourself to be whatev-
er you want to be· and take charge
of every
moment
of every day.
What
do
you have to lose: we
waste so much time being tired,
and sleeping, and just
doing
something to have something to
do. You're only going to get
older,
don't waste time now.
Have fun,
but be
focused and
make
sure that
you are able to
have fun for the rest of your
life.
You can't trµly be considered
responsible unless
Y,OU
remain a
kid at heart. Worrying too much
makes you irresponsible with
your emotional control, particu-
larly with your desire to just be
happy.
I
know many people who
are
happy,
responsible and suc-
cessful.
Just
don't
give in to it
all,
don't
give in to anyone else.
Make
your
very
own path
so that
others
may
.follow you, and stay true to your
heart.
Before
you know it you'll
be
40
and pissed off, and what
did you really do with
your
good
years?
By Andrew Joyce
War Correspondent
When people approached me
with the idea of writing for
The
Circle, as some kind of war cor-
respondent, I was apprehens1ve
because
the last thing I wanted
people to think was that I was
glorifying my position, or even
complaining about what some of
my friends see as bad luck.
But all that being said, and
regardless of how you may inter-
pret what you read, for me, writ-
ing down my thoughts ultimately
might help to make some sense
of my situation, this crazy world
we are living in, and at the same
time entertain and inform my
friends at Marist.
My name is Andy Joyce and I
am
a student at Marist. I was in
MCCTA, I enjoyed school and
everything that goes along with
being a student up until the
beginning
of spring semester.
I
thought I
had
a pretty
solid game
plan for the next couple years of
my life.
Now everything has
been
turned
upside
down.
Aside from being a regular
21-
year-old,
I
have also
been a
reservist in the United States
Army. I joined about two
years
ago just for something different,
not knowing exactly wh'at I
would get
out
of it. I
can
say now
that some of the more
proud and
important
experiences
I have
had
have been in the
Reserves.
This time should not be any dif-
ferent
because
I have been called
into active duty
to
support
the
·
anti-terrorism initiative overseas,
or
Operation
Enduring Freedom'.
As I write this
I sit
at
a
military
installation in freezing cold
upstate New York, far
away
from
the cozy confines
of
Lower West
Cedar, not knowing when
or
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Circle
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open forum for
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The opinions
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where we are going next. I wish I
could
just tell you,
but I
probably
would not be able to once I get
there; but
I am almost positive
within
the
next month myself
and my colleagues will be blaz-
ing
across
the desert closing in
on a
certain dictator with a bad
mustache.
Do not mistake these articles as
macho
soldier ranting -
what
my goal is, is to
describe
what
war is like for
someone
who is
just
like
yourself, and the poten-
tial sacrifices
American men
and
women
our
age are prepared to
make
to preserve
our way of life.
If
nothing else, whether you are
anti-war
or so
on, maybe gain an
appreciation for the little free-
doms you enjoy everyday.
I miss school and my friends
terribly, and if everything goes
well
I
should be back next fall.
Thanks for
reading
,
there's
more tocome.
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that
exist today
all
appear to
be
remiqding me, at
least, of history repeating
itself
in
a
vicious cycle.
The question
is
as the
upcom-
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generation,
can
we
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any-
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THE CIRCLE
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ENTERTAINMENT
(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
February 20, 2003
Despite cast, Daredevil
just doesn't stack up
Latest to tap the comic book well comes up
dzy
by Paul Lukason
Murdock is now a blind lawyer. just a "regular Joe" fighting to
Staff Writer
He became a lawyer after a
save humanity.
promise to his father, a former
The film is satiated with SFX
Daredevil is yet another
attempt to cash in on the popu-
larily and
success that X-Men
enjoyed at the box office.
Daredevil is a strictly by-the-
books comic adaptation. There
just isn't anything altogether that
original about this film, or that
great.
The first installment in the
Daredevil saga is, of course, the
origin story. Daredevil, or Matt
Murdock is a human who
acquires his powers via the aid of
toxic waste. Matt Murdock (Ben
Affleck) just happens to be in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
One day, while a young Murdock
is walking home from school, he
becomes mixed up in a docking
accident, which splashes toxic
waste into his eyes, rendering
him blind. However,. blindness
isn't the only thing that has
afflicting to Murdock. The rest
of his senses have developed a
heightened acuteness. Murdock
may seem blind to the layman,
but in reality he has developed a
certain sonar system that allows
him to see. It is a combination of
his heightened hearing in con-
junction with the chemical reac-
tion that allows him to see.
It
is through these new "gifts"
that Murdock finds himself with
only one option, to rid the world
of worthless scum.
Flash-for-
ward about 15 years, and
boxing champion. On the sur-
shots, the most obvious being
face Murdock is a pro-bono Murdock's ability to see. These
lawyer who does good for the shots are too reminiscent
of
world, but underneath he is a
those in Pitch Black, a sci-fi
confused
.
man
seeking
thriller
starring Vin Diesel. The
vengeance for the rest of human-
shots represent the passing of
ity.
time, whether night to day or
Daredevil co~ta11S Jennifer vice
versa,
seem
very
familiar
Garner of Alias fame as Elektra a1l3o as theiy can be seen every
Natchios. Garner is a pretty face
Wednesday night on the WB's
who can spout out her lines, but Angel starring David Boreanaz.
she lacks the charisma or person-
Ever since The Matrix, almost
ality it takes to bring a comic every action film feels that they
book character to life.
need to copy this in some form.
Michael Clarke Duncan brings Daredevil is·no exception. There
the character of Kingpin to life,
are many wire fighting scenes
with only
I
little problem. that are almost pointless, provid-
Marvel purists may have a small ing little more than a feeling of
quibble with liberties taken with deja-vu. The SFX team needs to
Kingpin's appearance.
Many take lessons from Peter Jackson's
·
argue that Marlon Brando would WETA
team
who
created
have been best suited for the role.
Gollum
in:
The Two Towers, the
Duncan, however, delivers a
new benchmark in movie
SFX.
marvelous
performance
of Daredevil's SFX are almost com-
Kingpin that even the most hard parable to
l
990's Darkman.
line purists will enjoy.
In the end Daredevil leaves the
Colin Farrell as Bullseye is the audience laughing, not at the
highlight of the film, as he dom-
jokes, but at the dialogue and
inates the screen every moment silly plot. There is no chemistry
he is present. Hopefully, in the between Affleck and Garner. It's
many sequels to come, Fox will too bad as Affieck has been
write a part for Farrell.
descent in his past couple of
Affleck, on the other hand, films. The film is nowhere near
makes it difficult to accept him the level of Spiderman, X-Men
as a superhero. He just lacks the
or Superman. This is the first of
certain something that Tobey many more contic book films.
Maguire had in Spiderman, Hopefully, The Hulk, Iron Man,
Hugh Jackman had in X-Men and the X-Men sequel will be
and Christopher Reeves had in better.
Supennan. In the end, Affleck is
Psychobilly crosses the pond
Copenhagen's N ekromantix hit streets of America, release Return ... with Epitaph
by Matt Dunning
Danish Navy in 1989,
Kim
taken that quick hop across the
A&E Editor
Nekroman was met head-on by
Atlantic and unleashed their US
In
1989, somewhere deep in the
woods of Denmark, some
Christopher Lloyd look-a-like
toiled endlessly in his lab,
sweating over blinking lights,
oscillating steel antennae, and
steaming vials of glowing liq-
uid, trying to construct for him-
self a monstrous hybrid of pu~
swing, rockabilly, and metal.
Much like the famous Dr.
Frankenstein (that's Fronk-en-
steen), he underestimated the
destructive potential of his cre-
ation. Run to the hills, here
come the Nekromantix.
After leaving the Royal
a developing type of rockabilly
debut, Return of the Loving
that incorpor~ted the brazen
Dead, with Hellcat Records, an
nihilism
of
east European punk,
affiliate of America's premier
the pun,ch-drunk swagger of
pi.m.k rock label, Epitaph. From
Stray Cats-esque swing, and a
the introductory riffs of "Nice
strange breed of metal
that
Day for a Resurrection". we're
sounded like Reverend Horton
made to understand that while
Heat meeting Glen Danzig in a
the music may hail from a gone-
dark alley. The mutant genre
by era of drag races, malt shops,
even had a name, psychobilly,
and those skirts with the poodles
and it wasn't long before
on them, the spirit of the record
Nekroman and his cohorts
has been deliciously and demon-
(Sandorff brothers Peter on gui-
ically skewed. Indeed, Return
tar and Kristian on drums) were
of the Loving Dead makes an
tear-assing across Europe, hurl-
ideal companion to a drag race
ing themselves to the
fo~
with Grampa Munster or, as a
ground of the scene.
friend once suggested, a swing
Now, the Nekromantix have
dance with Dante.
.
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Morrison's
Sula
inspiring and insightful
Heart and hardship abound in early 20th century drama
by Jennifer C. Haggerty
Editor-in-Chief
Sula is the story of two child-
hood friends
-
Nel Wright and
Sula Peace. Morrison has vari-
ous stories going on throughout
the course of the novel; between
National Suicide Day, the :fami-
lies of Sula and Nel, and the
girls themselves, these three sto-
rylines may sound confusing,
but they all come together in a
way that only Morrison could
manage.
Nel and Sula are the main
characters of the n'ovel, but
appear late. , we are introduced
to Sula's grandmother, Eva; and
her mother, Hannah. f'.va, a one-
legged ("she gave her leg to the
train
for
insurance") complicat-
ed character, is good natured
and twisted at the same time:
Pacino and
Farrell
can't save
'The
Recruit
but the reader still sympathizes
with her. Hannah never marries,
but welcomes every man in the
town into her bedroom with
open
anns;
needless to say, the
women do anything
but
wel-
come her.
Nel and Sula
grew
up together
in the Bottom, located in
Medallion, Ohio; a section of
land reserved for African
Americans
in
the early 1900's.
Inseparable throughout their
entire childhood, they share
more than secrets when a little
boy dies at their hands. "Sula
picked him up by his hands and
swung
him
outward, tQen
around and around. His knickers
°ballooned and his shrieks of
frightened joy startled the birds
and the fat grasshoppers.
\.\'hen
he slipped from.
her
hands and
sailed away out over the water,
they could still hear his bubbly
laughter." My only critique
is
Donaldson's CIA thriller leaves audiences cold
by Paul DeMichelle
Staff Writer
In Al Pacino's latest disaster he
plays Walter Burke, a high level
CIA recruiter. The film begins
with the introduction of James
Clayton (Colin Farrell) demon-
strating a new computer program
he has created. Burke attempts to
recruit Clayton who eventually
accepts the off
er once he learns
that Burke knew his father, a for-
mer CIA agent who died on
assignment in 1990. Over the
next hour, director Roger
Donaldson takes his viewers
deep into the bowels of the CIA
training facilities. While inside
"The Farm", Clayton meets the
extremely mysterious Layla
Moore (Bridget Moynahan). The
two become progressively closer
as the training drones on. While
getting an inside look at "The
Farm" was very interesting, the
movie rapidly falls apart after-
wards. Plot holes and poor dia-
logue run rampant until the final
scene when Pacino is asked to
deliver one of the worst mono-
logues to ever pass through
Hollywood. Even
scarier,
it ends
with the strong possibility of a
sequel.
Screenwriters
·Roger
Towne
and Kurt Wimmer are the pri-
mary culprits for the maelstrom
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of-problems
that
plague The
Recruit. It was almost as if they
just gave up after
1
"The
Farm"
segment and filled in the remain-
der of the movie with whatever
garbage they could muster.
Pacino and Farrell give under-
standably lacking performances
which are.justified by the poor
writing they had to work with.
Donaldson does his best with the
'scppt
as
:weU
but
iti
the end all
the camera
'.wo;lc,
-ht
the world
wouldn't be able
to
save this.
The Recruit may be looked
back on as a very pivotal movie
in the lives of both Pacino and
Farrell. Paciiio has not
been
in a
decent movie since Carlita's Way,
which was released a decade ago.
~lthough you can always count
that Morrison could have built
this part of the plot up more.
The girls' lifestyles change
when Nel marries and Sula
decides she wants more out of
life than what is available to her
in
her hometown. The novel,
divided
by years
instead of
chapters, skips ten years and
begins
again when Sula returns
to the Bottom. It is in part two
of the novel that the real action
occurs--when Sula becomes a
shameless seductress (worse
than Hannah) and the rebel of
the town.
M
the novel progress-
es, we see how each woman
must deal with the consequences
of
ihe
life she has chosen.
This
is a
highly recommended
book and
I'm
sure you won't be
able to put it down. I finished it
the day
I
opened it! Morrison's
poetic language will leave you
wanting for more.
on a strong
pcrf
ormance
no mat-
ter how bad the film
is,
it may be
time for him to get a new
/
agent.
Oppositely, this was the public's
first
chance to see Farrell in a
leading role, even though Phone
Booth was filmed earlier. It was
unfortunately delayed do to the
sniper attacks a few months ago.
With Farrell's recent
exposure,
he
is
lined up to star in several
upcoming films, including direc-
tor Oliver Stone's Alexander the
Great.
The Recruit will be forgotten
shortly and most of the people
involved will simply move on.
All I hope for is that Pacino finds
a role to revitalize his faltering
career. It is a sad day when one
must watch an all time great fall
into the dismal abys~ of
Hollywood history.






















































THE CIRCLE
SPORTS
(845)~575-3000 ext. 2429
February 20, 2003
WriteTheCircle@hotmail.com
Early
exit fium playoffs for club hockey
team
.
Team finishes season
with
great
strides,
lookingf
owcurl
to
building on from season
s
improvements
by
Scott Montesano
Staff Writer
Red Fox
Simply put, it
wasn't supposed
to end like this.
The Marist Red
Foxes club hock-
ey team saw their
season come to
H k
.
an end with a
OC
ey
painful 6-3 loss at
the hands of Route 9 rival Siena
in the first round of the Super
East Hockey League (SECHL)
tournament on Friday, Feb. 14 in
Newburgh, N.Y.
The loss brought the season to
a close in which the Foxes may
have turned around the plight of
the school's hockey program.
After years of wallowing in the
doldrums of the American
Collegiate Hockey Association
(ACHA), Marist made a splash
this season with upset wins and a
run towards a national tourna-
ment spot.
Still, that could not stop them
from being eliminated from the
SECHL play-offs by Siena for
the second consecutive year.
"It
was a three minute lapse
that hurt us ... we tried
to
recover
but its tough," said junior for-
ward Kevin Alteri, referring to a
span in the third perio<l
t saw
Sientr break a once
cto-se
-ga.me.
open.
After taking a 1-0 lead on a
Chris Walling goal, early in the
first period, Marist could only
valiantly try to hold off the
relentless Saints attack. Those
attempts would end up being
futile.
Siena tied the game 1-1 on a
powerplay goal midway through
the first period, and then took the
lead on a br:eakaway goal in the
opening minute of the second
period.
The Saints would eventually
ice the game with a barrage of
three goals in
.the
first five min-
utes of the third period to open
up a 5-1 lead. A couple of late
Marist goals made the final score
more respectable.
Still, Marist was never in the
game as the eventual
·
SECHL
champions controlled most of the
,
contest. At times it appeared as
tftough the finely tuned Saints
were simply toying with the
Foxes.
Siena, who will be going to
nationals next month, had been
known prior to this season as
underachievers at the SECHL
tournament. They were deter-
mined not to let that happen
again.
The Saints went on to win the
SECHL
championship
over
Westfield State Feb. 16.
"Looking past this tournament
~ a t nationals has been a prob-
:tlfh
for
us in the past and we
weren't going to let that happen
to us again" said Siena head
coach Chris Casey.
Nevertheless, Alteri believes
that the number three-ranked
team in the ACHA's northeast
region didn't necessarily outplay
the Foxes.
with captain Jerry Tavella.
Marist's eight sophomores
accounted for 32 of the team's 87
goals this season.
With most of the team return-
ing, thoughts of a trip to the
national tournament are already
"The way we came back ( after an
eight game winless streak in
November), is something I like to
see in a team,"
forward Kevin Alteri
·
"I don't think it was a case of floating around.
Siena dominating us, we ju.st
The Foxes, who finished
made too many mistakes and ranked number seven in the
couldn't come back," Alteri said.
American Collegiate Hockey
As for the Foxes, the loss ended Associations northeast region,
a season that was a success in the made a last ditch run towards a
minds of everyone involved. A tournament spot. this year before
record of 11-15-3 is not one that falling short.
many would consider a spectacu-
·
If
Marist goes to the nationals,
lar accomplishment, but consid-
they must prevent a prol9nged
ering where the program was losing streak, similar to the ones
three years ago, it is a resounding the have had each of the last
improvement.
three seasons.
"The way we came back (after
The Foxes went winless during
an eight game winless streak in an eight game stretch in
November), is something I like November this season. spoiling a
to see in a team," Alteri said.
good start and killing national
The best part about the 2002-
tournament aspirations only a
2003 Red Foxes is that a majori-
quarter of the way through the
ty of the team is returning next regular season.
season. While the squad will lose
Scoring must also improve.
five seniors, the team will still Marist averaged a SECHL low
have its leading scorers including 3.1 goals per game. Plante and
Alteri and Jordan Plante, along Alteri each provided a reliable
scoring touch, but there were few
other underclassmen that could
add to it.
Still with next season months
away, the players are already
optimistic.
"I can't wait for next season
since we have a solid core
of
returning players" Alteri said,
and added, "I wish the season
s~ed today."
Notes:
*Fairfield University, which
recently dropped its NCAA
Division I hockey program, was
rumored to be joining the
SECHL as a club team. However,
SECHL commissioner Kent
Rinehart has stated Fairfield has-
n't contacted the league, nor does
the league wish to add the
Connecticut school.
*Foxes head .coach Bob
Simmons says he is looking at
ten recruits and has been able to
see half play live this winter. In
addition, with senior goaltender
Matt Allatin departing, he has
had contact with a goaltender
from Wisconsin who has Jr. A
level experience with a league in
Montana.
Season Stats
W-L-T 11-15-3
Team Goals: 87 goals
Averaged 3.1 gpg
Tired of Boring Essays? So is
your Professor!
Magarity scores 18
in win over Canisius
by Mike Benischek
Staff Writer
the teams were deadlocked at 4 7,
but the Foxes were able to weath-
er the storm and pull out a solid
victory over a team that had stolen
a win over the F o·xes in McCann
three weeks ago.
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The women's basketball team
defeated the Canisius Golden
Griffins 71-68 on Sunday after-
noon.
From the opening tip, the Foxes
scorched the Griffins with a siz-
zling shooting display in the first
half. Marist hit half of their shots
in the period, shooting 17-34 from
the field, and 6-11 from down-
town.
At the halftime break
Marist held a 43-26 advantage.
But the Golden Griffins would
come back, outscoring Marist 21-
4 to open the second half. With
·ust over 12-minutes remaining
Marist's captain, Maureen
Magarity, hit eight of her nine
field goal attempts and finished
with 18-points.
Junior Kerry
Sullivan recorder her second
career double-double, and second
of her last six games, with 11-
points and 10-rebounds.
Nina
Vecchio added 10-points on three
three-pointers, while dishing
5-
assists and grabbing 5-rebounds.
Bennett drops 42 on snowy
Monday against St. Peters
by Paul Seach
Sports Editor
Red Foxes
Basketball
Not even the
blizzard of 2003
could stop David
Bennett from heat-
ing up as the sen-
ior point guard
scored 42 points
and led Marist to a
91-86 victory against St. Peters.
their game and outscored the St.
Peters Peacocks 52-35.
With the clock winding down
and the Peacocks trailing by two,
Bennett hit two pivotal free throws
and put the- Red Foxes ahead for
good 80-76 and ultimately win-
ning the game by five points.
Bennett was 9-13 from the field,
including a solid 19-20 from the
free throw line.
With the win, the Red Foxes
improve to 10-14 overall and 6-9
in
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference (MAAC) play. On Feb
23 Marist
will
host Iona in the
Carl Hood also had a career-
night, recording his first double-
double, scoring 17 points, 10 com-
ing in the second half and grab-
bing down 10 rebounds.
home finale of the season. Marist
In the last 16:30 minutes of the lost the last meeting between the
second half with Marist down by two 88-74 in New Rochelle.
51-39, the Red Foxes turned up
Page 7
Red
Foxes
Lacrosse
Men's
lacrosse first
game ofthe
season
ended short
due to storm
by Anthony Olivieri
Staff Writer
While everyone was impatient-
ly waiting out the blizzard of
2003, the Marist men's lacrosse
team was thankful for the big
blanket of white stuff.
Playing the first game of the
season against the Midshipmen
of the Naval Academy in
Annapolis, MD, the game was
postponed due to -inclement
weather after three periods giv-
ing 14th ranked Navy a 12-1 vic-
tory over the Red Foxes.
Navy (l-0) must have checked
the weather report before the
game because they did not waste
any time jumping out to a lead.
The Midshipmen scored two
goals within the first minute of
the game.
Josh Ben-Eliyahu tallied the
only goal of the game for the
Red Foxes (0-1) when he scored
at 8:57 in the first quarter.
The goal by Ben-Eliyahu
would be the only highlight on
the day for the Red Foxes. Navy
would bust the game wide open
with 10 unanswered goals, turn-
ing a tight 2-1 lead into a 12-1
blowout.
Navy thoroughly outplayed the
Red Foxes. They had a 31-6
advantage in shots and
.
they
came out on top 43-18 in
groundballs.
The foursome of Joe Bossi,
Graham Gill, Greg Conklin,
_
and
Joe Birshner who each had two
goals apiece scored eight out of
the 12 Navy goals.
The Red Foxes hit the road for
more action Saturday, February
22, when they
travel
to
Bethlehem, PA to face Lehigh.
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