VOLUME 56, ISSUE 16
Marshall U are
pretty smart
Unlimited service and
free long distance is a
reality to 500 students at
Marshall University.
pg.4
Hey,
I
didn't buy
thatf
Guard yourself against
identity theft. You never
know whqt could happen.
pg.4
No shame in
slacking off
Enjoy your sweatpants
and procrastination
techniques now, before
you get in the real world.
pg.6
No such thing as
too much John
Mayer
His live album, "Any
Given Thursday" pumps
out two eds worth of
rocking
.
hits. pg. 11
Married by
America... now
there's an idea.
Or not. Reality television
has become a pla~ue to
our western culture.
pg. 11
Seniors honored
with a win.
In his final home game,
Nick Eppehimer dropped
20 points in the men's
basketball victory over
Iona. pg.
12
Men's Swimming and
Diving team continue
their dominance.
The team captured their
8th
MMC
title with ease.
pg.
12
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2003
Scie
•
nce joins list of panel subjects
The Center for Career Services hosts science career panel and luncheon
by Alissa Brew
Staff Writer
The science career panel and
luncheon, held on Wednesday,
Feb. 19, 2003, was one of the
many panel discussions organ-
ized this year: The Center for
Career Services has provided
Marist students with opportuni-
ties in each of the schools for a
chance to meet professionals in
their field for the past four years
.
Since September of this year,
Career Services has planned a
panel discussion for the school
of management and business,
.
computer science, and the school
of social/ behavioral science
among others.
Career Services'
,
focus is to
benefit students by having them
ask the panelists questions about
their line of work, salary, and
what they should do as students
to prepare for future job opportu-
nities. Many of the paneHsts are
Marist alumni, the most recent
being Katy Harrison, a medical
technologist and graduate of the
class of 2000.
Desmond Murray, assistant
director of field experience said,
"The students really look to them
[alumni]
.
"
Murray points out that Marist
alumni are more apt to under-
stand the process a junior or sen-
ior is going through at this point
in their academic career, because
they just went through it them-
selves.
Other panelists included John
McGinnis
(class
of
'97),
Scientist at Wyeth Research
,
Phil
Gaylor (class of '95), Project
Manager at Apex Environmental,
Inc., Jonathon Churins (class of
'98), Project Facilitator at
Dutchess County Water and
Wastewater Authority, Todd
Antenucci
(class
of
'97),
Associate Scientist at Vantico,
and Dori Kerner, Patient/Family
Liaision
at
the
Joint
Replacement Center, St. Francis
Hospital.
Another benefit of attending
the career panels specific to your
major is that companies also
look for interns. The exhibitor
for the science panel was Brian
Manley, a technical center man-
ager at Sygenta Inc., who was
looking for six students to fill
intern positions at his company
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Antenucci, McGinnis, Churins
,
Harrison, Kerner, and Gaylor discuss their ideas and answer questions
from th audience.
during the summer.
Not only is this a good experi-
ence for the ~tudent, it is also an
opportunity for a future job posi-
tion at that company
.
Students
are encouraged to talk further
with the panelists after the dis-
cussion in hopes of getting a
business card or even submit
their resumes.
Murray said that it's
'
"like a
relationship." Students that are
aigressive enough can come out
of these meetings with a mentor
or a job. The process of network-
ing helps to ease the transition of
getting out of college and into
the workforce.
Only a few students had been
selected by their professors to
attend the luncheon that was held
before the panel discussion.
Those students were Diana
Mateus, Kim Lauria, Paul
Tekverk, Nirvani Persuad, Geysa
Aristy, Dawn Tschudy, and
Christine Palombo
.
Among the others who partici-
pated were professors of the sci
ence department at Marist. The
panel discµssion that was held
after in the Performing Arts
Room was open to anyone who
interested.
Even if you are not ready to
.
submit a resume just yetl it is a
good idea to check out these disr
cussions. It can give you a feel as
to what opportunities will be
availab)e to you when deciding
what career is right for you.
Counselor provides lecture on body image
Yvonne Poley discusses why many people today are unhappy with their looks
by Cassi Matos
Co-News Editor
In an effort to educate students
about why 60-80 percent of
American people are unhappy
with how they look on a day-to-
day basis, Yvonne Poley, a
Marist College counselor, gave a
lecture on body image this past
Monday, Feb. 25. Alpha Sigma
Tao helped promote the lecture
in honor of National Eating
Disorders Week.
Paley's work has been devoted
to finding out "why so many
people express that they are
unhappy with how they look or
how they feel like they look."
According 'to Poley, a person's
body image refers to his or her
mental representation of his or
herself. It includes not only the
visual image that people carry,
but how they feel about it. Slides
were shown depicting people
who are happy with their bodies.
People who are comfortable with
themselves have a good body
image and this can be seen
through the way they move about
in their bodies
.
Body image also takes into
account all the messages people
receive about body image over
the course of his or her lives.
Some of the messages people
receive about their body
'
s come
from the media. Some of the neg-
ative images that the media sends
to people
/
are that they are too fat,
too curvaceous, too puny, or too
plain
.
However
,
Poley pointed out
that most images seen in the
media are of people who do not
actually exist. Most pictures have
been airbrushed to make models
look better. By doing this, the
media sends a false symbol of
what is healthy and good-l<;>ok-
ing.
Research has shown that most
women seriously underestimate
what men find to be attractive,
and men overestimate what
women find to be attractive.
While Poley admits that it is
not a bad thing to be concerned
with how we look, she said, "the
problem is when looks become
more important then who we are,
what we know and can what we
can enjoy and share."
She offers this advice: try not
to compare yourself with others
.
Use your mind and body to do
things that matter to you.
The same lecture will be pre-
sented again next week
-
on
Monday, March 3 at 12 p.m. in
the PAR.
Marist Money now accepted at Applebee's
Applebees.
retail locations accepting Marist
by Cassi Matos
Co-News Editor
Are you sick of the dining hall
and the Cabaret? Marist College
is happy to announce that as of
Monday, Feb. 24, Marist Money
will
be
accepte~
at
the
Applebee's Neighborhood Bar
and Grill, across the street on
Route 9
.
"It is the best thing Applebees
could have done. It will bring a
lot
more
business,"
said
·~
•
..
Money by the Marist Money
logo sticker affixed near their
cash registers
.
When students use their cards
at these locations they will
Chrzanowski.
The Marist Card
Office and the Division
of Student Affairs has
also stated that addi-
tional merchants will
be added to the Marist
Sophomore Jason Chrzanowski Money
program
in
said this was a good move for early March
.
Students
will
be
able to identify all
be required to sign a
receipt and will be given a
copy
for
their
own
records, much like the use
of a debit or credit card.
Bpplebee·s
r
Sophomore Brian Jose
Nelg hborhood Grl
II
& Bar
Mangan said being able to
use Marist Money off-cam-
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pus is easier.
"Applebees will get more busi-
ness because .it is more conven-
ient than carrying around cash,"
said Mangan.
Cardholders may not purchase
alcohol or tobacco products with
Marist Money.
As of now, only the bill can be
paid using
the
card and tips must
be
paid in cash. However, the
Marist Card Office is working on
getting this included as part of
the Marist Money trans11Ction.
Indian Point: Too close for campus comfort
by Alex Panagiotopoulos
Staff Writer
September 11 was a day that
not only made us grieve in the
present; it made us uneasy about
the future.
It
is believed that Osama Bin
Laden is still alive, and his
Weekend
Weather
'recently released audio tapes'
suggest future attacks on the
United States.
As the government proclaims
the possibility of an imminent
terrorist attack, the country
remains at a heightened state of
alert. Speculation about the next
possible terrorist target has
ti
Thursday
Partly sunny.
Highs 25 to 35.
turned the gaze of the lower
Hudson Valley to the Indian
Point nuclear power plant in
Buchanan, NY.
Unfortunately, it seems as if
Indian Point is ill prepared for a
terrorist attack. Marist College
is only 30 miles away from the
plant, falling into the "Peak
Friday
Mostly cloudy.
Snow showers in
the evening. Highs
25 to 35
.
Injury Zone" in the event of a
meltdown.
Freshman Eric Ashmont
expressed concern about the
Indian Point situation.
"Its scary to think about, espe-
cially because its o~t of my
hands," Ashmont said.
Greg Morse echoed Ashmont's
Saturday
-
Partly cloudy, with
a chance of snow.
•·
Lows
1 O
to
20
and
.
highs 2i:: to 35.
concern, considering the proxim-
ity of the power plant.
"It's a scary thought to be so
close to a potential disaster,"
Morse said.
The New York Times reported
that several guards who work at
the plant said that they are spread
Seepage 2
Sunday
♦
.
Mostly cloudy with
snow showers in
the evening. Lows
near 20, highs 30.






































































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CAMPUS COMMUNI1Y
(845)-575-3000 ext. 2~29
February 27, 2003
Security Briefs
VISITING
Compiled by Ed Williams
III
Staff Writer
Tuesday
Feb. 18
a bong, which was promptly
The big snow storm that confiscated. No marijuana
rocked the campus last week was found, however.
brought out the trusty Marist
snowplows to try to tackle the
19 inches of snow dumped
on
us. There was a minor acci-
dent in the Riverview parking
lot though, as one of the plows
slid into a Jeep. There was
minor damage to the Jeep and
the
snowplow
remained
unscathed in the incident.
Tuesday
Feb. 18
The smoke alarm in the Old
Townhouses A-block sounded
at 10:32 a.m., providing fur-
ther evidence that Marist
should invest in bringing the
Food ·Channel to their list of
television channels. The alarm
sounded because one of
Marist's culinary wizards tried
to get their bacon extra crispy,
but instead wound up with
bacon that was extra charred.
Wednesday
Feb. 19
Who
likes
to
party?
Champagnat
kid.§ like
to party.
Champagnat made an early
bid to hold onto their dorm
lead in, alcohol~related
ffl@i-
dents when a student stumbled
back home at about 12:30 a.m.
The student was unable to
swipe and had temporarily
forgotten how to say his
ABC's. He was allowed to sit
in the breezeway to sober up
before retiring to his
·
domicile
for the evening.
"
Wednesday
Feb. 19
Wednesday
Feb. 19
There's
a saying that goes,
"the world is your canvas."
Someone
narrowed
that
expression down a bit and felt
that the cafeteria was their
canvas as they plastered the
cafeteria
·
door and neighbor-
ing stairwell with some graffi-
ti, and the artist remains
anonymous.
Wednesday
Feb. 19
An alarm sounded signaling to
the officer on-duty in Marian
Hall that there was a problem
with one of the smoke detec-
tors at 5: 15 a.m. The officer
went to investigate the situa-
tion, and found
located
the
room where the problem orig-
inated. A student in the room
claimed that the smoke alarm
had fallen from the ceiling on
its own. A chair was found
directly underneath where the
alann
had fallen from, but
security took the student's
word for it.
Wednesaay
Feli 19
The attack of the Marist snow-
plows continued at about 4:45
p.m. A snowplow slid into
another car, this time a white
Nissan,
leaving
the vehicle
with minor damage to the dri-
vei''s side front door. Once
again, the snowplow remained
unharmed.
Just 15 minutes later at 12:45
Friday
Feb. 21
a.m., Leo chimed in with their Midrise was the site of anoth-
first incident of the week as er alcohol confiscation at
the entry officer in the fresh-
10:00 p.m. Two guests tried to
man dorm noticed a hint of gain entrance into the dorm
pot fill the air upon the stu-
when security searched one of
dent's arrival. A
'
search of the their backpacks, and uncov-
student's backpack uncover,.ed ered 18 cans of Bud Light.
The alcohol was confiscated,
and the two guests were
escorted off campus.
Friday
Feb. 21
The fire alarms blared in the
old townhouses again, this
time in the C-block at 9:38
a.m. Burnt food was the cause
of the smoke, and Fairview
Fire Department promptly
responded
.
Perhaps these stu-
dents should stick to cereal for
breakfast.
Saturday
Feb. 22
Security was greeted by the
RD on duty <!,t 1: 11 a.m., and
he came bearing gifts
.
Well
not gifts, exactly, but he had
26 cans of Miller beer that
were confiscated from Lower
West Cedar Q-block
,
This is
Lower West's first appearance
this semester for an alcohol-
related incident.
Saturday
Feb. 22
Leo Hall gets another tick on
the stat sheet. At 1 :25 a.m. a
fomaJe- student
stumbled
back
into her dorm and failed to use
the ever-so-complicated swip-
ing mechanism
,
and also
proved to have an a1coliol-
induced speech impediment.
Fairview Ambulance took her
to St. Francis Hospital for
observation.
Saturday
Feb. 22
A half keg was discovered in
the basement bathroom of
Benoit at 10:00 p.m. The keg
was all by its lonesome, and
all of the residents denied
.
ownership of the beer dispens-
ing apparatus. Since
t,1.0
one
fessed up to owning the keg,
security said, "it was taken to
the lab for prints." Stay
·
tuned
forresults
of
the investigation.
Saturday
Feb. 22
As baseball spring training is
beginning to get underway,
the beer
pong
season is in
full
swing and going strong. A
grueling contest was
broken
up by security in
Upper
West
Cedar X-block, though, at
10:48 p.m. Two unauthorized
visitors were forced to leave
the campus, and the beer
pong
equipment was confiscated. A
make-up date has not yet been
announced for the contest.
This week's alcohol and drug-
related incidents shows a
minor shake up in the
overall
standings. In a relatively slow
week, Leo e
.
dged out
all con-
tenders with two incidents this
week, which also moves them
into a tie with Champagnat
Hall for the semesteir lead.
Stay tuned next week as the
race heats up.
Weekly alcohol or drug-
related incidents tally by
dorms:
Leo - 2
Champagnat - 1
BEmQit-1
Midrise -
1
Lower West Cedar -
1
Upper West Cedar -
1
Semester's total of alco-
hol or drug-rela~ed inci-
dents by dorms:
Champagnat - 8
Leo
-8
Marian.- 4
Sheahan -
3
Benoit
'7
2
Midrise - 2
Upper West Cedar -
2
Lower West Cedar
-
1
Donnel{y -
1
Gartland
-.
1
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Events
Calender
Alex House
Friday, March
7,
9:00 p.m.
Come see this comedian in the Cabaret and enjoy
free
food
and drinks along with a lot of laughs.
Body Image and Eating Problems- in
our World
Monday, March 3, n
_
oon
If
an
eating disorder haunts
·
you or someone you
know come to the PAR on the third.
Electronic Moviemaking
auditions
Student to present I-Voting paper
in
Philidelphia
Z
by,
Katherine Slauta
May in Philadelphia.
count votes."
final formal paper and submit
=
Thursday, March 5,
11 :00
a.m.
Student
movie producers are lobking for actors
.
So
put your acting cap on and come to Lowell
Thomas
room 210
with
a
prepared monologue.
Managing Editor
The paper explores the
It
also examines the relation it
to
the
Information
A Marist student has application of the Internet to between customers and busi-
Resources
Managem(?nt
received international atten-
public
elections and electronic nesses
.
Association (IRMA) 2003
democracy in the United
The project began in 2002 International
Conference.
tion on tier work concerniµg
the new trend in .Internet vot-
ing.
Trisha
.
Wool}ey.,
an
Information Systems graduate
student will present her
research paper "I-Voting: To
Have or not to Have?" this
States.
while Woolley was enrolled in
"This is a great example of
As stated in her research, the
course
Information Student-Faculty research that
Woolley said, "Orie would Systems Policy for her BS in led to
.
a nice
paper being
think that by the 21st Century Information Systems
.
After accep'ted at a conference,"
the
most
technologically debating various issues with said Fisher.
"It
is a win-win
advanced country in the world her research
,
Woolley worked situation for the student, the
would be able to accurately directly with associate profes-
faculty and Marist College."
sor Craig Fisher to create her
Indian Point: Too close for comfort
.. from cover
1 0
0
t
h i
n
a n
d
inade
-
quate-
l
y
trained
to fight intruders. In the case of
an aerial assault, most commer-
cial jetli~ers are large and fast
enough to penetrate the five-foot
concrete walls that protect the
nuclear reactors, and the burn-
ing jet fuel would be eno
.
ugh to
overcome the containment sys-
terns.
A report filed by independent
consultant James Witt pointed
out many flaws in the emer-
gency plans that would be used
in the event of nuclear melt-
down. The radioactive material
spewing into the atmosphere
would create a "Peak Fatality
Zone" for 1.7 miles around the
plant, with a "Peak Injury Zone"
for 50 miles lfround.
Freshman Heather Walkewicz
expressed disbelief at the possi-
bility of a terrorist attack
impacting the Hudson Valley.
"I can't believe terrorists could
affect us here/ Walkewicz said.
"I thought that stuff only hap-
pened in the cities."
The evacuation plan only
accounts for people within 5
·
miles of the plant, but it would
be necessary to evacuate all 20
million people living in the niet-
ropolitan area and the lower
Hudson Valley to avoid pro-
longed exposure to nuclear radi-
ation. This happens to be the
most densely populated zone
with a nuclear power plant in
the United States. When asked
for his reaction this information,
freshman Dan Butler said that it
made him, "very, very scared
.
"
The possibility of
a
terrorist
attack has also
become
a major
argument in the fight to get the
nuclear power pl!ll1t closed.
Freshmim Ry_an Wimmer
.
sug-
gested energy
'
alternatives.
"Maybe they should think of a
new power source that's a little
less deadly to us," Wimmer said.
en
=
a.
Majors Fair
Wednesday, March
5, 11 :00 a.m.
For all you misguided and lost children, the
Cabaret
is hosting an event to tempt your major
sweet tooth.
Meridith LeVande
.
Wednesday, March
5,
9:00
p.m.
Come exp~lience the cool tunes·of this folk singer
in the PAR. She's a nice blend of Blondie, Lisa
Loeb, Beatles and ... a touch of Natalie Merchant.
Foreign Film
.Thursday,
February
27,
7:00
p.m.
Amores Perros,
the latest Spanish Foreign Film will
be held
in
the
PAR.
"The
World of Writing According to
Adriana Trigiani"
Tuesday, March 4,
7:30
p.m.
Television writer, producer, and author of the Big
Stone
Gap Novels
will be the center of attention at
the Spring
Honors
Lecture in the Henry Hudson
Room, Fontaine Hall.
Greek Corner
Sigma; Sigma Sigma would like
~
w
,
elcoma the
Alpha
Beta
class. Congra
_
tulations lo .
. :
Kara Dominick
Katie Freslone
Megan Glinkin
Megan Hernandez
Jennie
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GUEST
.
PASS
.
Y CHANGE?
~
·
vEAH
.
'
You
may or may not know that Student Government submitted a
rew Guest Pass Policy over a year ago. This policywas
aimed
at
eliminating the
·
$3
fee, as well as making registration much more
efficient for the student. Rather than going to Housing days
in
advance., one could get the pass right at the front desk when their
·
·
guest arrived Student Government was told by the Student
·
Affairs office on a number of occasions that the policywould go
into effect. Specifically it was to begin September
'02
which was
eventually
DENIED.
It
was then to beginJanuary
'03,
but
once again was
DENIED.
A proposed online Guest Pass
_
PoliCywas also met with heavy resistance. These small steps
which we had hoped would lead to larger changes in the policy
.
were
denied.
How are we supposed to move faward when we
.
are
DEN IE D
at
the first step?
.
Yoo
want t6 knowwhy
this
policywas
DEN IE D
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Marshall U. to issue cell phones to students
500 residents to enjoy
unlimited
mobile service
By Dustin R. Opell
The Parthenon (Marshall U.)
contracted West Virginia Wireless to
provide a free mobile phone with unlim-
ited local calling and unlimited long dis-
tance to each of the 500 students moving
into Marshall Commons.
out on Marshall Commons first.
At this time, nothing is being done to
incJude the other six residence halls on
campus, ac
.
cording to Whitt.
they can stay on the phone 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, at no additional
charge to the student," Whitt said.
"What better way is there for students to
have a 24-hour access line to friends and
family?"
where and call anyone at anytime for
free,
but
they will have to pay for any
damages made to the phones.
"These cell phones belong to
Marshall, so we're going to pay the bill,''
Whitt said. "But, if a student were to
damage a phone, he or she will be billed
the exact cost
it
takes to replace the
phone."
(U-WIRE) HUNTINGTON, W.Va.
-
John
Marshall Commons, to be com-
pleted
in August at Marshall University,
will feature cellular phones for
'
residents
rather
than the traditional landlines.
Joseph Whitt, information systems
technician, has been working on the
30-
page contract for more than a year now.
'1'his
will revolutionize the way high-
er education deals with telecommunica-
tions all across the country
-
and
Marshall is the leader/' Whitt said.
"It's unfair because that's a great lux-
ury
all students should have," Brittany
Lacy, a freshman international affairs
major from Bluefield, said.
Whitt looked at a number of local
wireless companies and said West
Virginia Wireless offered the best plan
for students. He said the cellular phones
would end up being cheaper than the
landline phones
.
Each student will receive the same cel-
lular phone, a Nokia 3190. The package
not only offers the unlimited local call-
ing and unlimited long distance, but also
has caller identification, calr waiting and
three-way calling.
Marshall Commons
·
is expected to
open in August and the cellular phones
will be available to students at that time.
Although Whitt said
.
most students
already know how to us a cell phone,
residence services will offer a cJass at
the beginning of the semester explaining
the functions of the phones and the
responsibility of each student.
Students moving into Marshall
Commons, the university's newest resi-
dence halls, will be the first in the nation
to use mobile phones instead of landline
phones.
Because Marshall is the first college to
try
using mobile phones instead of land-
line phones, it was decided to "test" it
"If
a student has a friend in California,
"I'm excited and can't believe it at the
same time," Kellie Corey, a freshman
criminal justice major, said. "I spend a
lot of my money calling home. This will
help out a lot."
The Department of Residence Services
Students can take the phones any-
IDENTITY TiIEFT EPIDEMIC STRIKES
OREGON CAMPUS
By Caron Alarab
Oregon Daily Emerald
(U.
Oregon)
(U-WIRE) EUGENE, Ore.
-
On Jan. 25,
an unidentified female University of
Oregon
student was calted at her residence
hall room
by
an unconfirmed company and
asked to provide a slew of personal infor-
mation for financial aid purposes.
After becoming suspicious of the caller's
4nteat...f.er
tile iRformatioo,
-th&-6tuooat-GaA-
-
celed her credit cards, restricted her bank
account
access and reported
the
incident to
the Eugene Police Department.
But
in the opinion of
Department
of
Public
Safety officers, EPD officers and the
Federal Trade Commission, post-incident
actions are not half as important as public
awareness and prewe~tio~ methods
.
when it
comes tp potehtial identity theft.
"It's a big epidemic,"
said EPD
Community
Service
Officer
Erik
Humphrey.
Considering identity thieves can use per-
sonal information for everything from
opening
new credit card accounts to buying
cars,
Humphrey
suggest$ saf~guarding all
forms of information that could possibly be
used in the crime.
"A Social Security number is the flood-
gate,'' he said.
"If
som~one has multiple
.
forms of identification, it's much worse."
The
Federal
Trade Commission offers a
wealth of advice
on
what to do to prevent
identity
theft as well as what to do if vic-
timized
.
Concerned individuals can take
several
measures
to minimize their risk,
including ordering credit report copies
from each of the three major credit bureaus,
avoiding the use of personal information
for account passwords and shredding dis-
carded statements and receipts.
Other recommended actions include car-
rying only needed identification infonna-
tion,
paying attention to bill cycles and
providing a Social Security number spar-
ingly
.
In the event of information misuse or
theft, the victim should take three steps
immediately: contact credit bureau fraud
departments, close all endangered accounts
and file a report with local authorities.
Besides financial burden, Humphrey said
identity theft could jeopardize a victim's
entire future by causing lingering problems
resulting in a horrible credit history.
"There
are
several
prongs to identity theft
and its consequences," he said.
"There
needs to be a heightened awareness so that
individuals are not so trusting in giving out
their information."
DPS Associate Director Tom Hicks said a
supposed representative of a company called
Clout, which claimed association with an
organization called National Universities, con-
tacted the victimized University student. The
unidentified caller, described as a personable
male, first asked the student to confirm her
address and phone number, then to provide
more personal information
to
determine her
eligibility for financial aid, Hicks said. The
stu-
dent, somewhat suspicious, asked
the
caller a
few
'
questions before she provided him with
her date of birth, her income from the pre-
vious year, her social security number and
her mother's maiden name, Hicks said.
"Mother's maiden name should be a red
flag," Humphrey said.
"If
someone tries
that, contact EPD right away."
Hicks said the closest match to the named
organization is the National Universities
Commission, but DPS has not been able to
confirm if Clout is a true company. In the
event others receive similar calls, Hicks
advised students to ask for a written request
for the information. He added that a legiti-
mate company should be considerate of
one's decision to refrain from giving out
information over the telephone.
Identity theft victims are advised
to
file a
complaint with the FTC's Identity Theft
Hotline by telephone at 1-877-IDTHEFT, by
mail,
or
online
at
www.consumer.gov/idtheft.
Pearl remembered at Stanford, across world
By Sara Ines Calderon
The Stanford
Daily
(Stanford
U)
Pearl was killed in Karachi,
Pakistan
nity," Breitrose said. "It's
made
jownaJism a
after being abducted in January 2002 much more dangerous profession, which
while writing a story about Richard Reid,
means that ... what the public will know
will
who was billed "the shoe bomber." On be managed by both our government and
our
Feb. 21, 2002, the State Department enemies."
revealed that Pearl was dead after it
After Pearl's death, an anonymous alum-
(U-WIRE)
STANFORD, received a videotape from his kidnappers nus established an endowed fund in the
Calif.
-
Last Friday marked that documented his execution. Three men
Department
of Communication to com-
the
one-year anniversary of were later sentenced to life imprisonment memorate his work and ideals. The Daniel
the
death of
Wall Street
and one man to death for the kidnapping Pearl Memorial Fund was established as
Journal
reporter
and and murder of Pearl.
an endowed undergraduate scholarship
Stanford University alumnus
Communication Prof. Henry Breitrose, whp with~ preference for students majoring in
Daniel
Pearl, Class of 1985.
taught Pearl when he was a communication Communication.
Memorial services were major at Stanford, commented that journal-
Vauhini Vara, a junior majoring in intema-
Daniel Pearl
tl
h
ld
th
gh t th
recen
Y
e
rou ou
e
ism has become a more dangerous profes-
tional relations and minoring in economics
world in New York, Los sion.
and creative writing, is the first
Daniel
Pearl
Angeles,
Toronto, London, Paris and
"Journalism is no longer a privileged profes-
Memorial Journalism intern. She will work
Jerusalem
to commemorate Pearl, who was sion, in the
sense
that
journalists
were once in the Hong Kong foreign bureau of the
the
Journal's
South Asia bureau chief.
thought to possess a certain amount of immu-
Journal
this summer.
UK students seeking
liberal visitor policy
By Keren Henderson
Kentucky Kernel
(U. Kentucky)
(U-WIRE) LEXINGTON, Ky.
-
If
some students get their
way,
the
University
of
Kentucky's visitation policy will
be thrown out for a more liberal
one.
ever go forward with a change in
a policy like this without student
support," he said.
Jim Wims, director of Residence
Life,
presented the survey results to
committee members in last
Friday's meeting. He said that any
form of 24-hour .visitation was
preferable to the status quo.
Student committee members
from Student Government and
Resident
Student Council said the
A survey conducted by
Residence Life found that 66.25
percent of the approximately surv~ resU11S
wen: a guuu tt;}'Jv-
1 500
h
11
.d t
h
sentatlon of what students want.
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res1 en s
w o
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e
respon e
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0
'66.25 percent of the approx-
response
(stu-
the suryey saJd
imately
1,500Jlalbresldents
d~nts) gave, we
they prefer a
who responded to the survey
will probably see
24-hour, seven
said
they
prefer
a
24-hour,
a broader pro-
da~s a week
seven
days
a
week
policy'
gram,'' said Noah
pohcy. Another
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
F .
d
27.12 percent said they prefer a
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cy. Only 5.65 percent of respon-
her.
Other major concerns are safe-
dents liked the current policy.
ty, parent opinion and the sue-
The survey results came just in
cess of 24-hour policies at
time for the Visitation Policy
benchmark institutions.
Advisory Committee to incorpo-
rate the findings into their report.
The committee, appointed in
November 2002 by Vice President
for Student Aflairs Patricia Terrell,
is a week away from a final recom-
mendation.
Randy Gonzalez, assistant to
the vice president for student
affairs and committee chairman,
said student opinion is a major
consideration.
"Clearly,
I don't think we could
During last week's meeting,
Gonzalez reminded the commit-
tee that its purpose is to make
recommendations, not a policy.
"We will not have an outcome
that is a policy," he said. "The
policy will
become
what Pat
Terrell decides."
Students will know if their
preference for 24-hour visita-
tion
becomes
policy by March
1, the deadline for Terrell's
decision.












































































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Follow these rules to
.
become a slacker
by
Aubrey
Roff
Staff Writer
One of my friends has this shirt
that says "slacker" on the front.
Personally, I think that everyone
on campus should
_
own one.
College is the only place where
you can be a true slacker and get
away with it. I mean, when
you're
·
home, your parents can
make sure you do the things you
need to get done. When you're in
the so-called real world, you're
obligated to do things you other-
wise wouldn't. But during these
four years, beside
_
s classes,
you're not obligated to do much
of anything. This, of course,
leads to the slacker syndrome.
So, what defines this disorder?
There are many obvious charac-
teristics. First, clothing. In high
school, I never would have worn
sweatpants anywhere but gym
class. Now, I haven't worn jeans
to a class before eleven since the
first week of freshman year. My
roommate was forced to do
·
laun-
dry after she ran out of pajama
pants and hoodies. She ran out of
socks, and instead of washing
then, just bought more.
·
Second,
free
time.
Hypothetically, free time in
between classes and weekends
could be spent doing homework,
or even doing something rela-
tively productive, such as clean-
ing your apartment, or running
errands. Or it could be spent
watching the entire third season
of Sex and the City. Usually,
I
pick the third choice!
The computer
is
the next dis-
traction in the "slacker" lifestyle.
How many away messages can
you check to avoid doing work?
You could definitely download
a
Dave Matthews
bootleg
instead
of cleaning your room. You could
IM your roommate, who is sit-
ting across the room from you.
You can look at Coach bags and
pretend you can afford them.
Fourth, doing pointless things.
You have a paper due tomorrow.
You could write it. Or you could
go to the mall just to "look
around." You could go to
Marina's and get a chicken roll.
.
You could go to somebody else's
room, just too see what they're
doing
... and stay for three hours.
So if you're not already a slack-
er, be one.
Download
South Park
episodes instead of doing your
math homework. Rearrange all
the student pictures on your wall.
Watch just one more 80's movie.
Play Snood. Lay around on
the
couch for an hour, and then make
the decision to get up and do
something
...
like
_
change your
away message.
Study shows a third of students switch schools
by
Paul
Filice
The Daily Aztec
(San Diego State U.)
(U-WIRE) SAN DIEGO -- Are
you a transfer student or have
friends who are? If so, you're not
alone. Transferring to different
colleges is common. A recent
study by the U.S. Department of
Education found that almost a
third of college students transfer
to another university before
graduating.
The study - which is part of a
report
called,
"Descriptive
Summary
of
1995-96
Postsecondary Students: Six
Years Later" -- followed more
than I 0,000 students who began
college in 1996.
At San Diego State University,
about 50 percent of students
entering the university each year
are transfers, Ernst Griffin, assis-
tant to the associate vice presi-
dent of academic affairs, said.
About 22 percent of freshmen
leave SDSU at the end of their
first year, Sandra Cook, execu-
tive director of enrollment serv-
ices, said. In 2001, 70 percent of
those who were academically eli-
gible to return went to another
school.
Why do students choose to
transfer?
"There are probably as many
reasons as there are
students,"
Griffin said.
A major reason is that many
students in California start in
community colleges, so· they
have to transfer to a four-year
school to earn their degrees, he
said. Also, personal factors,
financial situations and academic
concerns play big roles in why
students transfer.
Some students may feel SDSU
is too big for them, Griffin said.
They may feel disconnected
from the university or want
something the school doesn't
have.
.,
The study also found that 11
percent of students have taken
classes at two schools concur-
rently.
At SDSU, many stu-
dents take classes at
community
colleges simultaneously because
it may be cheaper or more con-
venient,
Griffin said. However,
the educational
experience
stu-
Nothing's off limits at Brown U
According to Onion editor
by
Joshua
S. Edwards
Brown
Daily Herald
(Brown U.)
(U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I.
- In the fictional 130-plus year
history of The Onion, the satiri-
cal newspaper has poked
fun
at
the Hindenburg disaster, the
Kennedy assassination, and --
more recently
--
the Sept. 11,
200 l, terrorist attacks.
"There's nothing really off-
limit
s,"
Editor-in-Chief Robert
Siegel told a crowd of nearly
500 Brown
University students
Monday night, adding "but only
if it has a point."
There's nothing funny about
last week's West Warwick fire
that claimed 97 lives, he said.
"We want to be able to make
fun
of people and still be like-
able," Siegel said.
With headlines like "Special
Olympics T-ball Stand Pitches
Perfect Game," Siegel's favorite,
the Onion has blurred traditional
definitions of comedy.
In fact, the newspaper's eight
staff writers "don't fit the typicaf
comedy writer profile," Siegel
said. Senior Editor
Carol
Kolb
worked in a nursing home at
one point. Others worked in a
liquor
store, sandwich shop anq.
bank before becoming comedy
writers. Writer Todd Hanson
"came to us from the world of
dish washing."
Typically, Siegel said,
comedy
writers "go to Harvard and have
a brother who writes for 'The
Simpsons."' Onion writers, on
the other hand; are "Midwest
slackers."
Siegel said he is the lone
exception.
After graduating with
a degree in history from the
University of Michigan in 1993,
the New York
City
native moved
to Madison,' Wis., where The
.
Onion was founded in I 988.
The close-knit staff, many
.
of
whom are friends from college,
meet every Monday to pitch
potential headlines.
"We operate on the principle
that quantity makes quality,"
Siegel said.
Each writer brings
2 5
funny
headlines to the meeting. For
every
50
or 60 headlines, one is
developed into a story, he said.
With headlines such as last
week's top story, "N. Korea
Wondering What
It
Has to Do to
Attract U.S. Military Attention
,
"
The Onion frequently tackles
weighty issues with pointed
humor.
Onion articles must either be
funny or "funny and kind of
make you think," Siegel said,
adding,
"It's not OK just to
make
a
point, because that gets
preachy and heavy-handed."
Siegel
said
the formula
is
"one
part cutting
social
satire with
one part strategically placed
naughty words
.
"
"What makes it work is that it's
true," he added.
In fact, the precarious blend of
truth and humor has been the
source of some confusion. In
May 2002, a
Chinese
newspaper
ran a
story
based upon an Onion
article headlined,
"Congress
Threatens to Leave D.C. Unless
New
Capitol
Is Built."
Such miscues
are
not unusual,
Siegel said. Most of the newspa-
per's e-mail
is
from outraged
readers who don't understand
that
The
Onion's news
is
satire.
"We find that most of our
readers are depressingly dumb,"
he said.
Others may intellectualize the
paper too much, Siegel added.
Cornell Unive.rsity
now offers a
course
entitled
,
"Politics
at the
End
of History
According
to
The Onion."
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dents receive at SDSU should be
superior to one at a community
college, he said.
Some students take classes at
SDSU and UCSD simultaneous-
ly and have the advantage of
being able to see the different
ways the schools approach edu-
cation, Griffin said.
Students transferring from
one
college to another may have trou-
ble adjusting to the schoolwork
or the surroundings of an unfa-
_
miliar
environment.
SDSU
spends several million dollars
each year to help students adjust
to various aspects of college life.
"The way a student can succeed
in a big university, or any big
orianization is findini a way to
make it theirs,"
he
said.
Students should get to know
their faculty personally, he said.
"Transferring from a JC to
SDSU
or
any university
is
a big
mess because there are so many
.
different requirements you have
to fulfill," said Kamran Syed, a
computer engineering junior
who transferred to SDSU after
attending a junior college for
about three years.
"Every counselor has different
advice for you."
SDSU offers academic and
counseling services to help new
students. While no programs are
specifically designed for trans-
fers,
the
Faculty
/
Student
Mentoring Program offers class-
es to assist them, Cook sai~.
·
It's difficult to accommodate
current students and new transfer
students with advising, she said.
SDSU tries to give transfer stu-
dents an evaluation of
their
cred-
its within their first semester.
Then they can use the Web Portal
online to get a degree audit any-
time
to
keep track of their
requirements.
"I would encourage all transfer
students to go to the transfer ori-
entation," Cook said.
At orientation, which usually
occurs in June, transfer students
meet
their
faculty advisors. If
students
have questions, they
should always ask and never
assume anything, she said.
Students should
·
also contact
the Advising Center to see when
they can have their transcripts
looked over, Cook said.
The snow on campus has-begun
to
melt,
but
who knows when more will strike Poughkeepsie again.
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Vegetarian Caesar Salad Tacos
Total time to prepare: 15 mins!
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~Romaine
lettuce
-2
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of
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~Avocado
~black beans (optional)
~1/3
cup of Caesar dressing
~1/4 cup of
taco
sauce
~taco
shells (hard ones)
~2 cups of
diced tomato
Directions:
~Combine lettuce,
1
cup of
cheese, avocado and beans
in
a
large bowl
~Combine dressing and taco
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A typical day in the military at Ft.
·
orum
By Andy
Joyce
War Correspondent
Fort Drum, N.Y. -
After reading my last submis-
sion, the editors suggested I just
try to describe what a typical day
on the base at Fort Drum is like.
After sitting down in front of the
keyboard, I have concluded that
to describe any of this experi-
ence, or my time here, as 'typi-
cal' is hard.
I found was that writing an arti-
cle for a newspaper, even Marist,
that describes our training or
progress, and what we do before
a possible deployment, puts my
fellow soldiers, including myself
in danger, as far as security is
concerned. We had a class, or a
briefing, as we say in the military
that let us know the limits to
dealing with the press, especially
in this sensitive situation. You
will probably notice on televi-
sion interviews, the soldier's
answers are a bit vague.
As far as the training is con-
cerned, there is a huge emphasis
on
the threat of nuclear and bio-
logical
chemical attacks from the
"enemy." We need to meticu-
·
lously maintain our protection
masks and we always wear them
in a carrying case strapped to the
hip, even to the bathroom. It gets
annoying very quick but it is nec-
essary.
Randomly the com-
mander will scream out,
"GAS,
GAS, GAS," we are required to
have our masks on in less than
nine seconds, and if you fail to
do that, you are dead.
Pretty
serious stuffi
I have had over 20 shots admin-
istered, and I think I am immune
to just about everything.
It
is
funny when you go to get them,
big tough Army guys wincing
and pacing, dreading the needle.
So I guess I am protected, as the
training and everything that goes
along with it ensures that.
We also had to qualify with our
.
primary weapon, the M-16. That
took about two weeks of going
out to the ranges. The standard is
to hit 23 out of 40 pop-up silhou-
ettes at distances of 300 meters
away. Not everyone is a
'crack-
shot' like yours truly, so getting
everyone qualified was a long
process.
It
was
·
unbelievably
cold and windy on my day of
qualification. You have to lay
down on your stomach in a prone
position, wait for the targets to
come up, and try to hit them.
Our range was not maintained
well and I found myself laying
down on a sheet of ice. As I
fin-
ished shooting, a powerful gust
of wind came down off the range
and spun me around like a top. I
had my weapon in my arms, and
understandably, that
caused
quite
a stir. Rest assured my platoon
sergeant (the guy who is
in
charge of me) took me aside
afterwards. He ever so gently
explained how important it is to
be aware of your surroundings
and have control of yourself with
a weapon at all times. Pretty sure
I will not make that mistake
again.
People ask me where I am
going, and I still do not know. I
know I will be heading out soon,
and will hopefully still be able to
correspond with The Circle. I
gave the editors my address here,
and anything sent
to
me will be
forwarded to
wherever
I
go,
which was another question I
have been
asked.
I do not
expect
anyone to send
anything,
but if
so, just send a picture or some-
thing.
I really should have taken
more pictures my first
semestet
there at Marist.
Thanks for reading, I miss
you
all and I will see
you
in the fall.
Keep your fingers
crossed!
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Ft. Drum, NY
13602-9998
·
oas prices continue to sky-rocket
By
Tim
Duguay
Staff Writer
It
seems hard to believe, but in
one of the most industrialized
countries irl the world, fuel
prices are still on the rise.
.
The average price that drivers
in the U.S. paid for gasoline
increased 5.3 cents a gallon over
the last week, which is the sev-
enth highest on record.
Diesel fuel is also in danger of
taking automobiles off the road
since those numbers have also
soared to a record high. Some
groups believe that fuel prices
bad risen 'higher than that which
could be
justified by a rise in
crude oil prices, sparking an
investigation by the Federal
Trade Commission.
The price for regular unleaded
gasoline averaged $1.66 a gallon,
up 54 cents from a year ago.
This is the highest level since
early in June of 2001, based on a
survey given by the Energy
Department'sEnergy
Information
Administration
compiled last Tuesday.
How is the average, working-
class American going to afford
even getting to work if the rise
continues? They will have to
work just to pay for getting to
work, not to mention the damage
it will do towards their other
expenses.
Crude oil prices, which account
for 40 percent of the gas prices,
are up primarily because of the
market's fear that a U.S.-led war
with Iraq would disrupt the sup-
ply of oil from the Middle East.
How obvious is this?
.,,
Obviously, if we are dumb
enough to go to war with Iraq,
we may see prices skyrocket to
over $2.00 per gallon. I know
that many others like myself
would boycott by not driving,
making the gasoline companies
cringe at the thought of losing
their customers.
I can remember back to not
more than a couple of years ago
in my hom6 state
of
Vermont
being abM tO" fill
my
-car up fo'f
not more than $12: and that was
when it was on empty. How I
wish we could go back to the day
where gas was $.99 per gallon. I
never even paid much attention
to the
rise and fall of gasoline
prices before this year, because I
never really drove my car much
except to my summer job.
But now that I have my car at
school and need to fill up on a
more regular basis,
it
seems sick-
ening to me every time I can only
get 5 gallons for almost $10.
That's not even half a tank in my
sizeable
car.
I hope that our fearless presi-
dent, who
seemingly
has all of
the answers, sees what his pre-
cious
little war is g~ing fo do to
our economy. Does it take some-
thing like rising gas prices to
have us rally around the anti-war
feelings? I would hope not, but
in
our
close-minded,
conserva-
tive America, something really
needs to go wrong before anyone
speaks up and tries to implement
change.
This
really
makes me sad,
because
in
our
supposedly
free
country we need to be so conser-
vative
and cower in fear that
what we say might go against our
all-knowing leader.
To
conserve gas
and help the
environment,
carpool
with
friends.
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(84~)-575-3000 ext. 2429
February 27, 2003
WriteTheCircle@hotmail.com
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Oppression is more
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common than you think
By Scott Perrell
Staff Writer
in the past for any number of vic-
tims of inequality.
In fact, government is doing
America has a long legacy of such an effective job of wiping
oppressing minorities, a dark fact out this minority in America that
of which most of us are aware.
all levels of our Federal system
The highest manifestation of are allied m the inquisition.
oppression comes in the form of Moreover, those same "progres-
public policy, perpetuated by the sive" public elements are either
government for the explicit pur-
keeping silent, or have outright
pose of makin,g life difficult for, joined the State's crusade to
or restricting the rights of, a par-
ostracize and dehumanize mil-
ticular group. Some historical lions of Americans.
What's
examples of this systematic worse, the Evil Empire of
exclusion and marginalization Federalism has so effectively
are
fairly obvious, whether it is manipulated the public and pri-
racist policies to prevent African vate sectors on this issue that
American participation in gov-
even this particular minority's
ernment, specific exclusion of largest supporters have turned
Asian minorities in the 19th and
.
against them in a multi-million
early 20th centuries, or the dollar ad campaign, extorted
propped-up patriarchy of the from corporations by the inquisi-
country that to a large extent still tors.
exists today.
Give
_
up? The minority is cig-
Yet, would it surprise you to
arette smokers.
know that a new system of
The System of Oppression
oppression has just begun to
The media and government
manifest itself in our lifetimes? want
'
you to understand that
One would think that a:s a liberal smoking cigarettes is bad. Fine,
society that purports to looks I think just about everyone will
towards progress
and
equality, concede that. The focus of this
such targeted and effective work is not to lay the blame on
oppression would be immediate-
tobacco
companies fo~ instilling
ly called out by the so-called into their products addictive
"progressive" elements of our drugs like nicotine. That was
society. But this particular group very bad and they should not
of individuals (of which many of h.ave
done
that.
the readers of this article are like-
ly a part) has no organized
defense.
The ACLU has not
risen to defend the rights of these
millions ·of Americans, as it has
My argument is that what the
government (and society) is
doing to cigarette smokers is infi-
nitely worse. Never before has
such a well-organized, wide-
spread, and well-received sys-
tematic exclusion campaign been
targeted at a group of Americans.
Many might think that I'm over-
stating this problem to get atten-
tion and whine because I
.
smoke.
I think that's the most ignorant
thing I've ever head, and here's
why.
Cigarette Prices
Rich people smoke, but so do
poor people.
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg in New York recently
acted to make the price of a pack
of class-A cigarettes as high as
$8.00 in the city.
Elsewhere,
prices are not quite as high, but
are nevertheless at least compa-
rable to the minimum wage.
Rich people can afford to pay
more for cigarettes and tobacco,
because, well, they're rich. Poor
people on the other hand cannot
afford to pay more for cigarettes.
Many will say that they should
just quit and not have to pay for
cigarettes at all. I say that argu-
mentation implies a forced
choice on millions of low-and-
middle class Americans. Raise
the price of cigarettes so
obscenely high so you can force
people to quit? What happened
to freedom of choice in this
country?
If
people don't want to
quit, government polici~s are
going to run them straight into
the poor house! So much for all
of the liberal reformers who
preach about assisting the poor
by supplementing income; these selves, and the implication to this
are the same people that facil,itate is not dissimilar in principle to
the stealing of this money any other exclusion in
our
histo-
through higher tobacco taxes!
ry.
Public
Exclusion
The
Hypocrisy
of the
Perpetuated by the government Government
through its forced settlements
This argument has two parts.
with Tobacco companies, the First, the classic argument many
public now regularly receives ad advance in defense of tobacco
campaigns targeted at getting products
·
is that much qf
people to stop smoking. These America's early prosperity was
ads portray cigarette smoking as contingent on the crop.
This
disgusting, undignified, and articulation
works
for me
unhealthy
.
I'm not going to rant because not only is it generally
about the quality of these com-
correct, at least in its attempt to
mercials, although a particular ad point out the legacy of govern-
where t~ee young Americans ment support of tobacco, but it is
live in a cesspool of an apartment a simple on-face reason to reject
and are all grossly overweight, the sudden shift in government
eat next to roaches, yet abhor the pQlicy from pro-tobacco to anti-
one roommate who smokes tobacco in the face of economic
comes to mind. I think smoking
.
history
.
The second part of the
is the least of their problems
.
argument is admittedly more
Instead, what is the impact that rhetorical, but still valid. The
otherwise intelligent ad cam-
State made a ton of money off of
paigns
have on the public percep-
tobacco companies throughout
tion of smoking? It appears to the latter half of the 1990s thanks
me that the media and govern-
to major class-action lawsuits,
ment have allied to dehumanize especially those headed by state
smokers.
One cannot smoke Attorney Generals. Where
did
indoors in public places like din-
this money go?
Does not
ers in New York any longer, for America have larger problems
example. Second-hand smoke is than a large segment of the popu-
a problem, but then again, so is lation that chooses to do some-
labeling
a minority as "others
·
" thing? It looks to me like the
who are inferior and stupid government is more concerned
because they smoke
.
Maybe we with launching policie:i that will
could just install some good ven-
be popular with non-smokers at
tilation systems. It is popular the expense of smokers, simply
now for smokers to be viewed as because people agree that smok-
idiots who are killing them-
ing is bad. As for the rights of
cigarette smokers, nobody really
seems
to care.
Besides,
should-
n't we use money like the
funds
extort~d from the tobacco com-
panies
for things like famine
relief, tax breaks, education, and
social
programs?
I smoke. What should I do?
Fight for your right to choose
of your own free
.
will what you
like to do on your own time. Do
not let your peers ostracize you
or
label you as "dWllb" simply
because
you smoke.
Fight
against the government-backed
campaign to marginalize you.
One day, people like Mike
Bloomberg
will go too far and
the smoking public will really
coalesce around this issue. But
no real progress will be made
(politically) until the "rich" por-
tion of the smoking population is
seriously affected by rising
tobacco prices
.
By then, the
"poor" smoking population will
be
in
deeper trouble than it
already is.
So, maybe working through
politics
isn't the answer in the
short-term.
I think it is time
smokers of this country united
and stood up for the right to
smoke. We won't blow smoke in
your face to rub it in, and we will
respect your desire to not have to
deal with second-hand smoke.
All I ask in return is the right to
choose.
AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH
FOREIGN
COUNTRIES
By Greg Paris
Staff Writer
The international community
faces America with both admira-
tion and contempt. As students,
we have been taught that the
United States is both the
strongest and freest nation in the
world.
Although there is truth in this
claim, there is a
danger
in
becoming so proud as to forget
our
own faults. Contrary to pop-
ular belief, most in the interna-
tional community do not
hate
us
for our freedom, rather our
wastefulness
and habit of
deploying military forces where
they need not be.
When we position military
bases in foreign lands such as the
Middle East simply to appease
oil barons, we appear as bullies,
eager to show off our military
superiority.
When we drive fuel inefficient
vehicles, throw away literally
tons of food, and produce at least
double that in un-recyclable
garbage, we show the world that
we only care about Jiving in
comfort and vanity. Most do not
realize that our consumption
practices are not ecologically
sustainable, something under-
stood by most in the scientific
community.
If we do not conserve now,
there will be a day in the not-so
-
distant future when the govern-
ment will re~late how much
food each person is allotted.
These are the same people who
tax us into the ground, write us
speeding tickets, and give us a
census so they can track our
every move like we were on a
reality show, do you really want
them regulating food? I'd rather
eat one less steak
_
and drive a car
that got 28 miles to the gallon.
It
was only 100 years ago that
we forced Native Americans off
of their lands and unofficially
declared
war on them since they
were "savages
.
"
lt was only 50 years ago that
most Americans didn't acknowl-
edge Japanese as human. The
bottom line is that we have made
mistakes and should be aware of of mistakes before we tackle new
that before we dictate what the
demOQS.
We sold weapons to
.
policies of other nations should Saddam and Osama, and look at
be.
where that has gotten us. We
The French should do what is
should
be watchful of our gov-
right for the people of France, the emment and make sure we are
Saudi's should do what is right not arming another tyrant in our
for the people of Saudi Arabia, "war on terrorism."
and our government should do
Let us remember we are a chief
what is right for us. I do not authority in the world on most
know what exactly that is, but issues, but with great power
being as wasteful as we are can-
comes great responsibility.
not be morally right nor is it log-
ical.
We must confront our own past
Letter to the Editor: Unity Day on campus: Imagine
·
To Whom It May Concern:
I wish to express an opinion
about a very pertinent topic, one
that has been on my mind f6r
over a, year. Unity day is Sat.,
March 1, - a campus event in
which various clubs and organi-
zations gather for the purpose of
celebrating diversity here at
Marist.
This year's slogan, taken from
the John
Lennon
song "Imagine"
requests that we "imagine all the
people living for all the world."
In previous years, the event has
been characterized by a similar
theme: 'Unity through Diversity.'
Both
of these statements reflect
a positive goal - of recognizing
and even celebrating different
cultures and organizations at the
college. I think this is a noble
concept and I admire the funda-
mental ideology behind it, how-
ever I believe that there are seri-
ous stumbling blocks impeding
progress toward this end.
First, white, upper-middle class
students clearly outnumber those
from other ethnic and cultural
groups. Although the Higher
Education Opportunity Program
does an adequate job of recruit-
ing students from a variety of
cultural and ethnic backgrounds,
many of these students ( once
they arrive at Marist) associate
only with those members of their
own group.
,
Look around and you will
notice this phenomenon almost
immediately. African Americans
sit with other Afr.i.can Americans;
Hispanics and Latinos sit with
other Hispani_cs and Latinos;
Caucasians clump together with
Caucasians.
In
fact, most people
can count on one hand how many
friends they have from a different
cultural group. (I'm no exception
-
I only know one African
American very well and I don't
have any Latino friends)
.
This phenomenon is not limit-
ed to the student population
,
however. When was the last time
you had a course taught by a
Jewish professor? An African
American? An Italian? An
Asian? Catt you name them?
How
many
African
American/ Asian/Hispanic
.
1
Jewis
h professors are full-time faculty
members? Why aren't there
more?
Secondly, I have another ques-
tion to add to this list. Are we
truly a diverse community? It
seems that every year when
Unity Day arrives,
people
neg-
lect to ask these questions.
Instead, everyone begins uttering
nice little slogans such as "Unity
Through
Diversity"
and
"
Imagine all the people living for
all the world." We like to make
ourselves feel good by uttering
these pleasant sounding phrases
and wearing T-shirts with these
logos
.
Yes, Marist must be diverse, we
say. Look at all the various clubs
and all ethnic groups. Look at the
kaleidoscope of skin
•
color and
the appealing mixture of accents.
Then we return home to our
dorm rooms and make hypocrites
of ourselves. No, I can't associ-
ate myself with that girl/guy.
He/she is weird! He/she asks
dumb questions, like 'How do I
shave in the shower?' and he/she
washes his/her clothes in the
shower. He
/
she lives vicariously
through the television. He/she
dresses like a dork. He
/
she talks
funny. He/she must be a retard.
He/she is not the Marist ideal.
(All of these statements contain
the gist of peoples' remarks
about their housemates and oth-
ers living with them who are
learning disabled or from
a
dif-
ferent culture)
.
Perhaps this kind of behavior
inhibits us from "breaking out"
and getting to know others. It
may
·
even account for the reason
·
why African Americans mostly
sit with other African Americans
and why Caucasians clump
together with other Caucasians.
I assert that we are only fooling
ourselves about being 'unified by
diversity.' Indeed, it would seem
that it is just the opposite - we are
tom apart by differences. This is
because we somehow seem to
have acquired a one-dimensional
definition of a two-dimensional
concept.
Diversity is not just about the
presence of different groups.
Certainly
,
that is one important
aspect. But what is accomplished
merely through the existence of a
group or the celebration of its
existence just fot one day? It is
like watching that new pint of ice
cream melt simply because you
.
don't recognize the flavor and
are too afraid that you will dis-
like the taste.
Diversity is also about embrac-
ing those who are different.
It
ts
about more than
.
.just one day
with a feel-good slogan.
It
is about mastering your
uncertainty and personal inhibi-
tions by sitting next to a
Caucasian
,
an African American,
a Jew, or learning disabled stu-
dent and saying
,
"Hi. I
don't
know you, but I would like to
become your friend." It is about
365 days of breaking loose from
the social prison and taking a
leap into the unknown.
Leo Tolstoy said, "Everyone
thinks about changing the world,
but no one thinks about changing
himself
.
" Indeed, instead of just
"imagining" a diverse communi-
ty at Marist, or celebrating the
ideal of a multi-racial campus,
LET'S DO IT. Let's make it hap-
pen.
Diversity starts in every dorm
room, in every suite, in every
house, in every classroom, and
even the
cafete-
ria.
It
starts with you. It starts with
me. It starts the moment we let
go of our distorted, often inaccu-
rate views of the handicapped,
the mentally ill, the learning dis-
abled, black, white, Indian,
Asian, Latino, and yes even that
person who lives under your roof
who is just very different from
you.
My challenge to the Marist
community is this: become uni-
fied and diverse, one roommate,
one housemate, one classmate,
one professor at a time. Only
then will "people live for the
world."
Imagination will only get us so
far. To reach the finish line, YOU
have to run the race, or as ancient
Chinese philosopher Confucius
said, "The journey of a thous~nd
miles begins with a single step."
Sincerely,
AnnM. Metz


















































































































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OPINION
(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
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2003
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Focus on the big picture, not SUVs
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People just don't make the effort
to do anything right anymore,
and it's starting to irritate me a
lot.
Sport utility vehicles have been
a favorite target for tree-huggers
for years. Liberals have been
bashing them because SUV s
consume lots of gas and are huge
monsters on the roads. They
seem to be getting bigger every
year as well; remember when the
Grand Cherokee used to be big?
Now, mainstream SUVs are get-
ting even bigger with vehicles
like the GMC Yukon and Toyota
Sequoia.
To add to the bad press,
Dr.
Jeffrey Runge, an administrator
for the National Highway Traffic
Safety, said he wouldn't let his
kids drive an SUV if it were the
last vehicle on Earth. Those are
pretty bold words from such an
important official.
If environmentalists are going
to hate SUVs, they should dis-
criminate fairly. The main com-
plaint against SUVs is that they
guzzle gas
.
This isn't true in all
cases. Sure, the Hummer H2 gets
mileage in the low double digits,
but the Subaru Forester gets a
respectable 27 mpg on the high-
way, which is just one mile less
then a Ford Taurus.
The arguments that many anti-
SUV people have just don't hold.
It's true that some SUVs guzzle
gas
but
there are vehicles that
guzzle just as much gas if not
more. The Ford F-150 is the
most
popular vehicle sold in America
and it gets a horrendous 15 mpg.
However,
I
don't see anyone
accusing those drivers of sup-
porting
terrorism
or destroying
the Earth.
Also, SUVs aren't any more
hannful to the Earth then other
vehicles
.
Plenty of them meet the
government's low emissions
standard and many even exceed
it. I'm sure they produce more
carbon dioxide then a Civic but
any vehicle with a big engine
will produce lots of carbon diox-
ide.
What
about
Lincoln
Towncars? They don't have a
nimble four-cylinder engine;
they've got a monstrous V8
engine that sucks up gas as well.
SUVs are slowly evolving into
more efficient vehicles. In the
early '90s they were based on
trucks, but more of them are
being based
on
car platforms.
Aside from better handling and
comfort, they provide better
mileage. SUV sales continue to
climb, but any report will show
that traditional SUV sales are
falling while SUVs based on car
platforms are climbing.
It's true that SUVs are more
prone to tip over compared
to
most cars. This isn't a safety
flaw; SUVs have a special capa-
bility to drive over rough terrain,
and the tradeoff is reduced han-
dlr.ig. This is
no
different from a
sports car which is meant to han-
dle very well but not designed to
handle rough terrain.
The blizzard that left the coun-
try paralyzed shows how easy it
is for us to be held hostage by
Mother Nature. Officials from
cities
·
all over the country were
calling on SUV drivers to assist
in
transporting
critically-ill
patients or key personnel to hos-
pitals. I didn't notice anyone in a
Toyota Prius helping out. The
fact of the matter is that we need
SUVs .
.
Aside from transporting
people and luggage, SUVs can
handle
terrain better then most
vehicles.
There are a lot of arrogant SUV
drivers who feel they're all-pow-
erful and unfortunately find out
they're not after they flip an
SUV. This is not because of a
poor design in the vehicles
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this is because people drive the
SUV outside of its capabilities.
Lots of SUV accidents can be
attributed to the fact that people
don't make the proper
,
adjust-
ments when they transition from
cars. However, we can't expect
automakers to inform drivers
how to use their own vehicle
.
No
one accuses Porsche of using
poor designs every time someone
crashes their cpr
_
because they
were driving it too fast.
Environmentalists have good
intentions but their rationale is
wrong. It's unfair to pick on a
certain type of vehicle when
there are lots of other vehicles
that pollute more and guzzle the
same amount of gas
.
I realize not
·
everyone needs an
.
SUV, but how
many people truly need a V8 or a
huge car? Their arguments aren't
that strong, especially since their
criticisms can be applied to so
many other vehicles.
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(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
February 27, 2003
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Page
11
Mayer's
Any Given Thursday
has distinct acoustic sound
HTTP://WWW,JOHNMAYER.COM
John Mayer won the award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland" at
the 45th Grammy Awards given out in
Al.aw
York
City.'
By Emily Tumbrink
The Observer
(U.
Notre
Dame)
(U-WIRE) SOUTH BEND, Ind.
-
John
Mayer, one of the few
genuinely talented pop stars of
our generation, sure does seem to
have a lot going for him.
Although
he
claims
that
"Something's Missing," it sure is
hard to figure out what. He has a
hit album, a Grammy as of
Sunday
;
a massive following of
devoted
fans, a sense of humor,
smarts, charm and a new release
that is sure to please.
Recorded in Binningham, Ala.
_
,
during his last tour, Mayer's new
two-disc live album, ,:4ny Given
Thursday,
gives a generous help-
ing of tunes for those who are
just
·
simply not satisfied with
Mayer's
limited
catalogue
.
Offering three previously unre-
leased songs, a cover of the
Police's "Message in a Bottle"
and a partial cover of Jimi
Hendrix's "Lenny," as well as fan
favorites from both "Room for
Squares" and "Inside Wants
Out," this album is a much more
diverse and intimate offering
than any of his others.
Unlike many artists who
turn
their performances into large
productions that do not vary
from city to city, Mayer focuses
more on improvisation, encour-
aging fans to tape shows and fol-
low him on the various stops of
his tour. Each song on Any Given
Thursday
is slightly different
from the original,
bot
these
changes create the flow that is so
crucial for a live show. The
album is one cohesive unit,
meant to
be
enjoyed in full, not
by skipping around to listen to
individual tracks
.
Any Given Thursday
has a dis-
tinctly acoustic sound, without
all of the expendable pop
stylings th~t give "Room for
Squares" somewhat of an "easy-
listening" feel. Mayer's jazz
-
and
blues influences are perhaps
most evident on this album, espe-
cially during the instrumental
solos added to the songs specifi-
cally for live perfonnance. These
jams give May~r an opportunity
to show off his guitar skills that
are sometimes neglected in the
polished studio tracks. His guitar
ability most clearly registers dur-
ing the long solo of "Covered in
Rain." Clocking in at 10 minutes,
25 seconds, it is the longest song
on the album.
After listening to Any Given
Thursday,
it becomes obvious to
listeners that Mayer thrives on
live performance
.
He updates his
songs, fully invoking the flexibil-
ity that perf onning live has to
offer. Both "3x5" and "Why
Georgia
"
are greatly improved
due to the addition of long teas-
ing instrumental intros. The song
"83" benefits from a partial
cover of Cyndi Lauper's '80s hit
"Girls Just Wanna Have Foo.''
And
"Your
Body
is
a
Wonderland" has a magnificent
jam in the middle.
Listeners who have not yet
been fortunate enough to see
Mayer
live in
concert,
will
understand why they need to
after
hearing
Any
Given
Thursday.
Each concert is
an
experience, and this album gives
a glimpse of what that experi-
ence is like. Very rarely does an
album come along of such quali-
ty, in which every song is not just
good, but probably someone's
personal favorite.
Although "St. Patrick's Day," a
favorite from Room for Squares,
is regrettably absent from "Any
Given Thursday," the album does
a nice job of capturing the best
that Mayer has to offer, and is a
must-have for any fans' collec-
tion.
Any Given Thursday was
recprded
live
at the Oak
Mountain Amphitheater
in
Birmingham, Alabama, on
September
12,
2002.
Tracks Include:
3x5
No
Such Thing
Back
To You
City
Love
Something's
Missing"
Lenny/
Man On
The ~ide"
Message
In a
Bottle*
Love Song For
No One
Why Georgia
Your
Body
Is A
Wonderland
My Stupid Mouth
Covered In Rain*
83
Comfortable
Neon
* Previously
unreleased
tracks
COMMENTARY:
Reality TV may prove to be downfall of Western Civilization
By Brett Meeks
&ivalier Daily
(U.
Virginia)
(U-WIRE)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -
It's
8
p.m., do you know where
your children are?
Well, of course you do.
They're in front of the brain
remover, watching the finale of
"Joe Millionaire." And why
not? So is the rest of the
depraved populace in our
ilJ-
natured country. We can't
begin to solve our own prob-
lems in life, so we watch other
people's on TV in a shallow
attempt to make ourselves feel
better about our own pathetic
lives.
Reality TV has been sweep-
ing Europe for the past several
years.
It
?ll started with the
growing interest in tabloids -
you do remember Diana, don't
you? The Eur_o-trash were all
over it: "Hey, my life sucks,
let's look at someone else's."
So some damnable beast decid-
ed one day, "Maybe this would
work on TV."
BOOM!
interest in the Las Vegas pent-
Now we are all glued to the house orgies 'soon faded.
screen watching some con-
"Ripley's Believe
It
or Not"
struction
worker
choose is yet another one of these hor-
between a slut and a brunette rifying TV slots that plague our
with a butt-chin. Why do we
monitors -
the list goes on.
If
care about this? Perhaps it is
we can't get enough entertain-
another American way of ment out of watching Joe-the-
escaping the grim realities that idiot get it on with the blonde
surround our every day lives, one in the bushes, surely some
or maybe it is something much other channel will be showing
more crooked. Something we rebroadcasts of police chases
just don't ,
.
. or people
know yet
And
.
the audacity of whoever zt
h av i n g
about our
was who coined 'Reality TV' I'm
near fatal
species.
sure every bit of ii is real
.
My ass.'
accidents.
MTV's
It will
"Real World" and "Road
Rules" were perhaps some of
the first to subtract IQ points
from our already lacking
skulls. But even those shows
began to lose subscribers to
whatever new version of recy-
cled garbage Fox was airing
that week. In a feigned attempt
to win back audiences, MTV
recruited a couple of very
promiscuous ladies to join the
show -
immediately, they
have their audience back.
Unfortunately, MTV is not the
Playboy channel, and male
only be a little bit longer
before the relatively undiscov-
ered videos of public execu-
tions and horrendous travesties
that are readily available for
the novice
Internet
user to
download become the new
thing for all of us to watch. But
it won't stop there. We will
eventually, if still traveling on
the same path we are now, want
to witness all types of realities.
We
will
be a parallel of the
Reign of Terror in the French
Revolution, publicly executing
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that some a-hole producer at
Fox can buy a new Rolls for his
arrogant trophy wife. And why
not?
I
mean hell, we are con-
tributing to this madness. We
feed on this type of harsh real-
.
ism because we simply can't
get entertainment from doing
anything else. We watch, the
ratings increase and the shows
become
more and more ridicu-
lous.
Ancient Romans did enjoy
watching murders daily in the
Coliseum, but we all thought
we were a little bit more civi-
lized than them. Maybe we
were at some point
,
early on
the Darwinian scale. But some-
thing seems to have slipped
from our grasp on evolution.
We have become beasts again,
and are subject to extermina-
tion by the other life forms on
this planet that live in reality
rather than watching it through
a glass tube.
And the audacity of whoever
it was who coined "Reality
TV." I'm sure every bit of it is
real. My ass. We all know that
there has to be some producer
back there telling the people to
re-do the last emotional out-
burst so it will look a little
more dramatic
.
And these pro-
ducers have all just won the
most recent spot on every psy-
cho's hit list. They had to pull
the Fox trick, didn't they? They
had to sell us on the cliftbang-
er, and we had to fall for it,
because watching these pathet-
ic displays of insolence have
made our level of realization
slip a little under par -
so
much that we can't tell they are
going to screw us. No, we all
tuned in to see the finale, and
all they gave us was a recap of
the entire course of events and
hinted at the surprise next
week. So we got mad, but a
week later, opened our mouths
wide again in a blank simian-
esque stare wondering deep
inside which tramp will be the
lucky one to figure out she has
been chosen by a liar.
So now that it is all over.
They have a new series: will
the couple last? Oh, golly gee!
I hope so, don't you, Opie?
_
Well I'm sorry, but perhaps you
haven't noticed that reality
around us doesn't have time for
this drivel. If it is
realism
you
are seeking, watch the damn
news -
we are about to go to
war and the Western Alliance is
cracking. Wake up people! Get
out of your dreamy fantasy
where Fox is king and ABC
tries to catch
up
with
a
group
of bad singers with highlights
in their hair. Start paying
.
<\tten-
tion to your own life
and
quit
worrying about someone else's
that you will never enter.
Some evil force lies in the
middle of this new TV craze.
Before we know what hit us we
will be lying, ten years
or
so
from now, in a pile of mbble,
smoke billowing from ash-cov-
ered ruins where suburbs used
to be, watching a handheld TV
on which the newest episode of
"Public Executions for People
Who Like to Watch Reality" is
airing, ignoring the chaos we
ourselves have created.
Don't
watch "Married by America,"
or ABC's "Are You Hot?"
Instead, try to lower your
dosage of lithium
and
grasp
a
hold of what matters: your life.
Not the guy's on TV.
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{845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
February 6, 2003
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Page 12
Women's b<1:sketball team prepares for rival Siena
by Mike Benischek
Staff Writer
Every great story has an enemy.
The
same can
be said of every
great sports league.
Baseball's Major Leagues fea-
tures the "evil empire" of the
New York Yankees.
Shaq
and
Kobe have combined to form a
hated dynasty in professional
basketball. And even with recent
falters the
Dallas
Cowboys are
still despised
·
by most football
fans, despite being dubbed
"America's team"
.
Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC) Women's
basketball
is
no exception to this rule, with an
evil empire of their
own:
The
The Saints have won four of the
last five regular season titles and
this season they are in second
place.
In
the last three seasons
( counting the current one) they
have lost just six times.
Junior guard Vicki Wancel said
Siena's history has given them
immediate respect.
"You want to beat them every
time you play them just because
they are so hyped up, which they
deserve," She said. "I just want
to beat them and prove to them
that we are a lot better than the
last time we played them."
With Siena playing the roll of
Empire, their star Gunta Basko
has played the roll of Darth
Vader. Basko ranks in the top
five in points, rebounds, assists,
Siena Saints.
steals and blocks on Siena's all
On Friday
'
time
'
totals
night
the
"You want to beat them
lists,
the
M a r i s t
(S'
)
t'
only such
Worn. en's
,ena every ,me you
Saint ever
basket ba_ll
play them just because
to
claim
team
will
that.
She
venture
they are so hyped up,
north
to
h. h th
d
I
Loudonville
W IC
ey eserve.
has
won
the MAAC
player
of
Vader into nothing more than
Dark Helmet, and Siena's Evil
Empire into nothing more than a
bunch of Spaceballs.
The Red Foxes have not beat-
en Siena since December 11
1995, and have not scored 60-
points on the Saint's defense in
their last seven meetings. Not
to mention the most recent 69-
38 Siena win this season. But
for the Red Foxes all those sta-
tistics only translate into fuel
for the fire they hope to set
ablaze in Loudonville.
.
In any sport played by either
gender, when Marist meets Siena
there is never love lost. Junior
Kerry Sullivan said that rivalry is
simply magnified after the Foxes'
previous loss.
"We're definitely big huge
rivals of Siena, so we're just
going to want to come right out
and destroy them, and
definitely
get revenge for the
last
time,"
Sullivan said.
"We know its
going to be tough going in there,
it's a hard
gym
to play in and it's
a tough team, but we just have to
go in there with confidence and
kind of use the loss that we had
to
play
just want to beat them
the
year
Siena.
In
d
t th
th t
a w a r d
last time as just motivation to just
their
first
an prove
O
em
a
twice, and come out and just work our butts
meeting of
we are a lot better than
this season off and hopefully we'll be able to
the year the
,
she is the beat them up there."
s
a i n t s
the last time we played
only player
Vicki Wancel said the loss on
~~te:o!:
them."
-Juniorguard
Vicki
to rank in February 9 should not be taken
the top ten as a definition of her team.
by
31 -
Wancel on Marist vs. Siena rivalry.
in
the
"Every team knows they could
points
on
MAAC in always have an off day or a bad
February 9
all five of the afore mentioned day," Wancel said.
"It's just
in the McCann Center.
categories.
something that you really need to
.
Siena's Empire has dominated
On Friday night the Foxes will rebound off of and learn from
the MAAC for over five years.
be looking to turn Basko's Darth your mistakes. You cannot dig
Tennis team improves to 9-1
Six
players go
undefeated
in singles play
Next
up
for
team: exhibition
in Montreal
by Paul
Seach
Sports Editor
For Pat Hofer, the men's tennis
match against Vermont was
sweet revenge. For the rest of the
team, it was the most v1ctorious
weekend
ever
playing
in
Vermont.
Led by Hofer and David Slater,
the
tennis
team
defeated
Hartford
6-1,
Fairleigh
Dickinson University (FDU) 7-0
and Vermont 7-0 to
improve
to 9-
1 overall on the season. Overall,
six players went undefeated in
singles play.
"This is the most successful
weekend ever at Vermont," coach
Tim Smith said. "Pat Hofer had
his best week of his three-year
tenure at Mari st College."
The first victory for Hofer
came against Hartford's Pedja
Zdravkovic
,
3-6, 7-6(5), and 7-
6(4). Zdravkovic, ranked 16th in
the region (which includes 84
teams), defeated Hofer in their
previous three matches.
After Hofer's down to the wire
match against Zdravkovic, his
next opponent was Alex Satri of
FDU. Fortunately for Hofer, the
match was quicker than the first,
with Hofer
,
cruising to a
·
6-4, 6-4
victory.
Hofer's final act of redemption
came against home-court team
Vermont's Zigko Knegovic win-
ning in straight sets 6-4, 7-5.
Knegovic defeated Hofer last
year in straight sets.
In an exciting match, David
Slater went to three sets with
Angel Rubio 6-7, 6-4, l 0
-
7 in the
super tiebreaker set.
Martin Aldorsson played near
flawless tennis
,
never giving up a
point in a 6-0, 6-0 sweep over
Pat Hofer had an amazing
weekend at Vermont,
defeating
the
16th best player in the
region in Vermont, leading
Marist to a 9-1 record overall
this season.
Rodrgio Avila.
The team returns to the court
on March 8, when they travel to
the University of Montreal for
the first time.
Men's Swimming and
Diving win eighth
MAAC title
by
Paul
Seach
Sports Editor
The Marist Men's swimming
and div
,
ing team won their eighth
straight Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) title last
weekend.
Finishing with a total of961.50
points, the team easily won the
three-day event.
Rider
placed
second with 798.50 total points.
Ricky Kapusta scored victories
in the 400
-
yard fre
e
styl
e
and 50-
yard fr
e
estyl
e
events. Michael
Guman tallied
2
54
.
65 points in
the one-meter dive to finish in
first place
.
Matt Castillo set a new school
record in the 200-yard butterfly
with a time of 1 :52.58.
The team has won 10 confer-
ence titles in 24 years and with
their eighth MAAC title, Marist
owns the most conference titles
wins in the MAA
C
by one pro
-
gram.
The next chall
e
ng
e
for the
men's team is the ECAC champi-
onships on F
e
bruary
2
8
.
Th
e
University of Pittsburgh
will
host
the event.
News and Notes:
1
2
m
e
mb
e
rs of the m
e
n's and
wom
e
ns
'
teams were named to
th
e
MAAC All-Academi
c
team
Tu
e
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yourself in a hole and blame points and collected nine-
yourself"
rebounds which tied the game
In their last game the top
·
team high total.
in the MAAC, Manhattan, nar-
For Manhattan, Mason scored
rowly defeat-
18-points
and
nabbed
9-
ed Marist 72-
rebounds, while Tiffany Schettig
63. For much scored a game high of 20 on six
of the game three-pointers, five of which
the Foxes ran came in the first half.
stride
for
Despite the lack of production
stride
with in the win column, Sullivan said
the
Jaspers, the close loss to Manhattan
and even held serves as a boost for the Foxes.
a
halftime
"After that loss we weren't
lead of 38-37. happy but we weren't upset
But
Marist because we played so hard and
GORE~FOXES.COM
would
run we played well and we showed
Captain
Maureen
into a drought how strong we are " Sullivan
Magarity
scored
I
.
h
'd "T k"
h 1 '
d h
ten points
and
ate mt e sec-
sa1 .
a mg t at oss an
ow
six
rebounds
ond
half,
·
well we played, we're going to
against
a 1
I
o w i n g
go up to Siena with a little more
Manhattan last
Manhattan to confidence."
·
Friday.
pull away.
To defeat the Saints, Marist
Marist will need an abundance of con-
fought hard' throughout the fidence. In addition to the afore
game, playing just as well in the mentioned Siena star Basko
,
2-3 defense as they had all year,
they also boast the two-time
but the combination of using a defending MAAC coach of the
predominantly seven player rota-
year Gina Castelli, perhaps the
tion for the first time of the year top point guard in the confer-
and having to chase Manhattan's ence Erica Anderson, and last
Rosalee Mason, the nation's
fifth
season
1
s 6th person of the year
leading rebounder, off the glass post player Liene Jansone.
all game eventually took its toll More than any other Saint
,
and manifested itself into late Jansone dominated the Foxes in
game fatigue.
their first meeting.
Stephanie Delpreore led the
'
Following the game Head
Marist scoring with 18-points Coach Brian Giorgis said his
and she also swatted four Jasper team did not do as good a job
shot attempts. Sullivan had 15-
guarding Jansone as they have
points on five three pointers,
against other big post player.I this
Captain
Maureen
Magarity season.
scored ten while collecting 6-
"We didn't get the double teams
rebounds,
and
Sophomore there
·
in time," He said. "When
Kristin Keller scored seven-
we were do
i
ng it right we could
come back and run the zone, but
they came out the way they did in
the second half and hit a couple
of perimeter shots and we just
panicked."
If Marist plans on getting the
monkey of their losing streak to
Siena off their back they will
have to defeat the S.unts at
home on Senior Night.
It
is a
far cry from the easiest task
they could be asked to do.
The Foxes are 7-9 in the
MAAC conference, in a four-
way tie in fifth place with
Canisius,
Fairfield
,
and
Loyola.
Both Canisius and
Fairfield will play one of their
final two games against an
under-500 opponent.
Marist
wm
play Siena on Friday
night, and then Saint
'
Peter's,
the third ranked team in the
conference, Sunday in the
McCann Center.
The Red
Foxes will need to win one of
those two games if they would
like any chance at the fifth
or
sixth seed in the conference
tournament.
Sullivan said, however, that in
the MAAC tournament seeding
is not as important as how you
play once you get there.
"An..v team can beat an.v team
so seeding really doesn't mean
anything," Sullivan said. "We'd
like to be seeded higher because
ob
v
iously the lower we are the
better off we are and
it
just shows
how much we've improved,
:
but
playing-wise the teams are pretty
even."
Men's basketball victorious on Senior Day
Eppehimer
and
Bennett
combine for 35 points in
final, home game
by Anthony Olivieri
Staff Writer
In the home
final game of
their collegiate
careers, the Red
Foxes' seniors
Men's
went out with a
Basketball
b
ang
.
The Marist
College Red Foxes (11
-
14,7
-
9)
topped the Iona Gaels (15-10,
10-6) 75-74 in a thrillin$ senior
day match-up in the Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC). Nick Eppehimer and
David Bennett combined to
score 35 points in their last colle-
giate home game.
Eppehimer had 20 points
,
hit-
ting two important free throws
down the stretch. Bennett had 15
points, and hit the two from the
charity stripe that put the Red
Foxes in the lead to stay.
In the last I :22 of the game, the
lead changed four tim
e
s
,
even
though the Red Foxes did not
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connect on a field goal in the
final 4:56. The Red Foxes led for
the majority of the game, taking
a 33-29 halftin\e lead, and lead-
ing by as many as eight points in
•
the second half.
The Gaels had a chance to win
in the near the end of the game,
possessing the ball with less than
10 seconds remaining. Courtney
Fields took the ball to the basket
trying to give the Gaels a come-
from-behind win on the road.
Chris Handy denied his shot,
swatting the basketball deep into
the crowd
,
leaving 0.3 seconds
on the clock. The Gaels were
unable to convert
'
with little time
remaining.
Both teams shot free throws
extremely well throughout the
game. Marist hit 23-24 and Iona
hit 20-24 from the line
.
The sen-
ior combination of Eppehimer
and Bennett went 16-1
7
on free
throw attempts.
The only other double-digit
scorer for the Red Foxes was
Brandon Ellerbee
,
the sophb-
more guard from Plano, Texas.
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Ellerbee had 10 points in the
contest. Eric Siegrist scored nine
points and had a game-high six
assist~. Handy had
.
eight points
and eight rebounds to go along
with his game saving blocked
shot.
Ricky Solliver led the Gaels
with 19 points and dished out 6
assists. Steve Burtt
,
Jr. and
Marvin McCullough tossed in 11
points
,
and Steve Smith and
Fields had 10 points each. Fields
also led the Gaels with 1
2
boards, recording a double-dou-
ble.
Marist is now 6-0 in Senior
Day games since joining the
MAAC conference in the 1997-
1998 season.
Nick Eppehimer has 990 points
for his career and will shoot for
the prest
i
gious 1,000-po
i
nt club
in the Red Foxes' final two
games. His first chance to reach
that mark will be February 28
when the Red Foxes return to
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i
nst Canisius m
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