VOLUME 56, ISSUE 18
Hi, I'm in Delaware!
The Marist Abroad
Program promises that its
European summer
intersession will be more
fun than Delaware. pg.
3
Former Buckeye
football player may
face death penalty
Andrew Lee's on trial for
robbing, raping, and
killing a video game store
clerk. pg.
4
Give peace a chance
Student protestors rally
for peace, while others
feel war is the answer.
pg. 8
The Life of David
Gale will be a short
one
Kevin Spacey, a~ David
Gale, should have more
self confidence.
pg. 10
I
got a Bad Plus?
What does that
mean?
Don't worry, it's a good
thing. This jazz trio's
album features a cover of
"Smells Like Teen Spirit."
pg. 10
Tennis tri'p to
Montreal is a success
Pat Hofer and company
sweep University of
Montreal 7-0. pg.
12
Baseball springs into
good start
The Marist baseball team
takes the series 2-3 over
Maryland. pg.
12
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the three gas stations that offered the lowest regular unleaded gas prices to customers this past
See page 3 -for f nil story.
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Sunoco on the corner of Bain
Avenue & Washington Street.
The Mobil station near Price
Chopper on Route
9.
Mobil on the Run across from
the north gate of campus.
Books Not Bombs: Balancing the debate
By Dennis M. Fare, Jr.
Circle Contributor
According to an Americans
for Victory Over Terrorism
(AVOT) poll
,
66 percent of
U.S. college students believe
the U.S. government "h<!,S the
right to invade Iraq because
Saddam Hussein 1s still
attempting to build weapons
of mass destruction
,
" and 79
percent believe the United
States "has the right to over-
throw" Hussein.
An overwhelming statistic?
Last Wednesday a pertinent
discussion titled
,
"Books
·
Not
Bombs," seemed to defy that
statistic when students and
faculty gathered to speak of a
more pro-peace approach in
address
i
ng the issue of war.
Various students of all years
and faculty from all depart-
ments provided their own
opinions about the war, rico-
cheting all different ideas
from one end of th~ Nelly
Goletti Theatre to the other.
Nonetheless, a resounding
anti-war
outlook
was
expressed indefinitely. The
opinions were strong and the
conversation was plentiful
,
including an intellectual and
open-minded discussion that
seemed almost necessary
.
Dr. Greg Moses, a part of
the
Marist
Philosophy
Department and .one of the
organizers of the facilitated
discussion, said he was
pleased at the outcome of this
four-hour-long
in-service
where both students and fac-
ulty were free to join and
leave at their own discretion.
"The shape of public opin-
ion, so far, has a lot to do with
the fact that there has not been
enough public deliberatiot1 in
this issue
,
" said Moses. "I
hope that we contributed to a
balance in the debate which
so far has largely been a pro-
war presentation."
Students and faculty alike
passed around the micro-
phone throughout the Nelly
Goletti Theatre, express
i
ng
their own concerns about the
war or even the thought of
war
.
Much support was pro-
vided to one another in this
unique and meaningful-to-
many forum.
Dr. Bruce Luske
,
a part of
the Sociology Department
and another organizer of the
discussion, said if people saw
the true reasons for going to
war their opinion might be
different.
"If
people knew the agenda
before the war, they would be
just as opposed to it. I do
think that if Americans knew
the real reasons about going
to
war with Ira
'
q, they would
see things differently," said
Luske. "It was preliminarily
planned and when the media
says it long enough, the pub-
lic begins to make the associ-
ation."
"Books
,
Not Bombs" grant-
ed various students and facul-
ty the opportunity to meet,
discuss anti-war efforts, and
rationalize in an academic
environment what many polls
and surveys express to be oth-
erwise, as mentioned above
.
It
was a chance for all of the
Marist commun
i
ty to express
their thoughts, ideas, fears
,
and prospective views on this
omnipresent and pressing
issue. It displayed that the
majority of college students
'
views is certainly not every
college student's view.
Moses said, "I continue
to notice that in the public
debate that war is doing
something and anything
besides the war is doing
nothing
.
It
i
s a very dan-
gerous pattern of logic.
We need to start thinking
of inspections, as doing
something, rather than
noth
i
ng
.
"

















































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March 12, 2003
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C:
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Security Briefs
VISITING
Monday
3/3
This slow week of debauchery
started out with a motor vehi-
cle miscue in the Dyson park-
ing lot. Two large dents were
reported to be found in the
passenger door of a 1997,
green Honda. The perpetrator
made a clean getaway, and a
police report was filed with
the town of Poughkeepsie
police dep.artment.
Wednesday
3/5
The crime of larceny makes a
rare appearance this week on
the
ninth
floor
of
Champagnat. An unsuspect-
.
ing female went to take a
shower in the ladies room,
because .after all, "cleanliness
is next to godliness." (Kudos
to anyone who can figure out
which
Jim Carrey movie that
one's from.) When she came
out of the shower around
1:53
a.m. she realized her lanyard
had been stolen
.
Inside the
lanyard were her student ID
and her driver's license.
Wt~dnesday
315
Most likely attempting to
avoid being put in the security
briefs for yet another silly
cooking mishap
,
a female stu-
dent in Upper West Cedar T-
block used a fire extinguisher
to put out a small flame while
preparing a meal at
4: 15
p.m.
There was not enough smoke
to make the alarm go off, and
the fire extinguisher was
replaced. No fire trucks were
needed, but it's a slow news
week in the briefs so she gets
an appearance anyways.
Thursday
3/6
A female student reported that
her car that was parked in the
Upper West Cedar parking lot
had been vandalized at about
10:40 a.m. She realized she
had a flat tire, and it appeared
to have been the result of a
slashing.
Thursday
3/6
The lobby telephone in
Matian Hall was reported
missing at
10:45 a.m. by
housekeeping. According to
security as of press time, the
captors of the telephone have
Tennis, fr.am
page
12
away game. At the end of the
regular season, there is a tour-
nament to crown a champion.
1
•1n two years
I
see a bigger
league with six schools,"
Merette said.
"In
three years I
see a Canadian championship."
Playing Marist may seem like
a small step
for
Montreal, but in
reality
it
is a giant step towards
creating more games for
Montreal to play. Both teams
are
hoping for Marist
to
host
Montreal next year, allowing
for Montreal
to stay at Marist
not only play, but also experi-
ence a different world outside
of Canada.
After the matches, both teams
returned back to where they
Compiled by Ed Williams
III
Staff Writer
VISITING
not
yet
requested a
ransom for
·
the phone.
Weekly alcohol or
drug-related incidents
tally by dorms:
dents
that ing it without a key. The golf
only
YOU cart was returned and checked
can prevent for damages at
4:03 a.m.
Thursday
3/6
garbage bag
fires.
Champagnat -
3
Marian - 1
Friday
3/7
An off cam-
pus vIS1tor tried gaining
access into Champagnat at
1 :41 a.m. by swiping in with
another student's ID. After
failing to correctly answer
some basic questions such as
his student ID number, he was
forced to leave campus.
Sunday
3/9
A minor accident was report-
ed in the Upper West Cedar
parking lot at 4: 10 a.m. A
Mazda and a Toyota faced off
in the clash of the titans. The
Toyota took the brunt of the
onslaught suffering damage to
the left rear of the vehicle.
The Mazda suffered damage
to the right, front bumper. The
incident was the result of a
botched parking job.
The
first
Leo - 1
alcohol appearance this week
is brought to you be the party
animals· in Champa gnat Hall.
A concerned student reported
that people were drinking on
the second floor at
11 :51
p.m.
Security and the on-duty
RD
responded. No alcohol was
confiscated, but one female
resident was taken to St.
Francis.
Thursday
3/6
The previous incident seemed
to set off a domino effect on
the
second
·
floor
of
Champagnat.
A concerned
roommate called security at
11 :57
p.m. reporting that her
friend was sick and intoxicat-
ed. She was promptly trans-
ported to St. Francis Hospital
via Fairview ambulance for
observation.
Friday
3/7
A third incident came just
eight minutes later. Most like-
ly spotted while taking'care of
the other two incidents, a third
female from the second
·
floor
of Champagnat was taken to
St. Francis Hospital as well.
Employees at St. Francis must
have been scrambling to make
sure there was still "room at
the inn" for these partiers.
Saturday
3/8
In a feeble attempt to catch up
to Champagnat in the stand-
ings, a student was found on
the third floor of Leo in an
intoxicated state at l
:28
a.m.
Fairview ambulance went
through their normal weekend
routine and arrived on the
scene in no time.
Saturday
3/8
A student stumbled into
Marian Hall at
2: 12
a.m. after
a long night of boozing. The
drunk student was allowed to
sober up in the lobby for a
while before being allowed to
go to his room to sleep it off.
Sunday
3/9
A female tried swiping into
Leo Hall at
1
:05 a.m. with a
Michigan driver's license.
Not only was it not the proper
student ID that is used for
swiping, but the picture on the
license did not match the stu-
Sunday
3/9
What a fitting way to end the
security briefs ..
.
on two fire
alarms due .to a lack of culi-
nary knowledge. A student
undertook the extremely risky
task of boiling water at 7:29
p.rn. The end result was an
apartment full of smoke and a
fully evacuated E-block.
I
was personally affected in this
calamity and had a fantasy
baseball draft interrupted
.
Luckily Fairview fire depart-
ment responded before I lost
my next draft pick.
Monday
3/10
Friday
3/7
A
garbage
bag
was
Semester's total of
alcohol or drug-related
incidents by dorms:
Another day, another fire
alarm. While attempting to
cook the labor-intensive dish
of frozen chicken nuggets, the
chef forgot all about the poul-
try in the oven. The nuggets
were burnt beyond recogni-
tion prompting the Fairview
fire department to remedy the
situation at
1 :03 p.m.
dent, so the
license was
confiscated.
Either the students needed a
break from all the drjnk.4ig
Sunday 3/9
after last week's massive
0
ff
i c e r s amount of incidents, or
were
dis-
they
'
re getting stealthier in
patched
to their partying habits. No alco-
the
Old hol was confiscated by securi-
Townhouses ty this week, and the number
area for a joy of incidents went from
18 last
riding inci-
week all the way down to five
dent.
Two this week. In the slow week
,
s t u d e n t s Champagnat still managed to
were driving gain two points in the stand-
around
the ings over second place Leo
area
m
a Hall as the semester long race
apparently set
ablaze
and
brought out-
side a Lower
West Cedar
O-block
apartment. A
student saw
the bag at
12:20
a.m.
and practiced
proper
fire
safety by put-
Champagnat - 17
Leo
-
10
Sheahan - 7
Marian - 6
Midrise - 3
Old Townhouses
-
3
Benoit - 2
Upper West Cedar
-
2
Lower West Cedar - 1
Donnelly
-
1
Gartland - 1
ting out the mini inferno with
.
a fire extinguisher. Smoky the
Bear would like to remind stu-
Marist golf cart belonging to comes to the half-way point.
maintenance
.
The students
were staying to shower and
dress for dinner.
On
Saturday
the team was allowed to 'relax
and enjoy the fine cuisine of a
Montreal restaurant. The con-
versation at dinner sounded like
an interview, with everyone
asking each other about what
life is like where they are
from.
The forecast called for light
snow late Saturday night. From
the time everyone sat down
until the minute they were
ready to leave, the ground was
blanketed
in
a couple of inches
in a sheet of fresh soft white
snow.
If Montreal's standards of
light snow where used to
describe a ~nowy forecast
in
New York City, the city would
close its doors and call it a day.
While waiting for a cab to go
admitted to taking it and start-
home and retire for the night,
both teams broke out into a
snowball fight. Both teams
couldn't help but
to laugh as
they hid behind each other,
dodging the ferocious snow-
balls.
Sunday finally approached,
and the weekend seemed to
fly
by in a blur
.
As
the team packed
their bags onto the van, they
said goodbye one final time to
the gracious Montreal tennis
team who provided for a great
weekend for the team. The
University of Montreal made
the Marist men feel comfort-
able, and provided a great learn-
ing experience of a different
culture
.
The ride back was quiet - the
team either fell asleep in
crooked positions on the couch-
like seating in the bus, or study-
ing for
an
important
exam the
next day. Slater, sitting next to
Hagan,
was helping
him
with
learning about the laws of the
United States. It is reasons like
these
that
this
team is so close,
not to mention
a
Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference all-aca-
demic
team with a grade point
average near
3.7.
As
they headed back
,
one other
aspect of the
trip
stood out
During
a
time where tension
is high between many different
nations, the international tennis
team
of Marist College proved
that they could peacefully enter
another culture and play safely
on a field, void of battle scars
and bullets.
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Events
Calendar
TONIGHT/II
Wednesday, March 12
9:00 p.m.- 11 :30 p.m.
Auditions for "Caviar to the General"
There are many roles for young adults
available. Opportunities are available to
audition for six one-act plays. No prepara-
tion necessary. Auditions will be held in
Music Rooms 154 and 155.
TONIGHT!!!
Wednesday, March 12, 12:00 p
.
m.
Sale of "The Producers" tickets
"The Producers" is a new Mel Brooks
musical, and the winner of the most Tony
awards ever. Sale of tickets begins at 12
p.m. in College Activities. The cost is $25
and one ticket is allotted to each student.
The bus will leave March 28th at 4 p.m.
from the Mid-rise parking lot.
Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.
Lesbian Gay Straight Alliance
Join the fun! The meeting~ are confidential
and a great way to meet people. Meetings
are held on the third floor of Fontaine on
Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. For more informa-
tion please contact Dr. Myers at extension
2234.
Wednesday, March 26
11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
Job Search Success for Liberal Arts
·
Majors
The program will
·
focus on tactics and
strategies for liberal arts majors pursing
careers upon graduation. Walk away with
information you need to land a satisfying
job! The program will be held in Lowell
Thomas 205.
Wednesday, March 26, 9:00 p.m
.
Latin Jazz with Orquesta Tropical
E
_
njoy the great food and fun times
.
Free
food will be available. Entry is free with a
valid Marist ID. The fun begins at 9: p.m.














































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How
MUCH ARE YOU PAYING AT T
HE PUMP?
Gas prices soaring, New Yorkers pa
y
in
g a
n a
ver
a
ge of $1.
77 per gallon
B
y
Rob McGuinne
ss
a
nd J
enni
fe
r C.
Ha
gge
r
ty
Editorial Board
Americans are still paying more at the pump, as gasoline prices
reach new all-time highs for the month of March.
Spurred by fears of another terrorist attack against the United States
and an impending war with Iraq, fuel prices crept towards and sur-
passed $2 per gallon in some states in recent weeks.
Nationwide, the average cost of a gallon of
r
egu
l
ar unlea
d
ed gaso-
line cost $1. 70 yesterday, according to the American Automobile
Association's· Fuel Gauge Report. Last year at th
i
s time, the national
average stood at $1.18.
In New York state, where the cost of a gallon of gas is usually five
to six cents higher than the national average, the average price for a
gallon of regular unleaded was $1. 77 yesterday.
Connecticut res
i
dents are paying an a
v
e
r
age of$ L 75 for a gallon
of regular, un
l
eaded g
a
soline
. N
ew Je
rs
ey boasts the lowest average
in the tri-state area: $1. 5 7.
California ($2.10) has the highe
st
ave
ra
ge price
,
followed closely
by Hawaii ($1.98), Ne
v
ada ($1.96) and Oregon ($1.89
)
. Georgia
($1.52) claims the lowest a
v
erage pri
ce.
Geoff Sundstrom
,
spok
es
man for the na
t
ional
.
office of the
American Automobile Association (AAA) in Heathrow, Fla.
,
advised
motorists to seek out low fuel price
s
and keep their cars maintained.
"Shop aggressively for the lowest gas prices
,"
Sundstrom said. "Try
to cut down on discretionary driving and be sure to keep your vehi-
cle mainta
i
ned so it achieves maximum fuel economy
.
"
Sen. Schumer has lobbied for President George W. Bush to tap into
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
, s
eeking to lower oil prices and ease
the burden on consumers. In 2000, President Bill Clinton utilized the
SPR,
releasing 30 million barrels o
v
er the course of a month. Oil
JENNIFER
c.
HAGGERTY
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prices subsequently
·
dropp
e
d by l
O
percen
t.
New data released by office of US Senator Charles Schumer (D-
N:Y.) estimates that upstate New York residents will pay $507 more
for gasoline this year. With steadily increasing fuel prices, college
students are among those feeling the pinch at the pump.
Pr
i
ces at the Stewarts station loca
t
ed on Route 9, north of campus.
Thus far
,
Bush has been reluctant to tap into the reserve.
"Having but not using the SPR is like ha
v
ing an ace in the hole and
$1. 89 yesterday, while a gallon of premium cost an average of$ 1.93 .
. ·
saying you 're not
.
going to play the card," Schumer said in a press
Significant price differences between gasoline grades have encour-
release. "The Bush administration must take action now to reduce gas
aged.some, such as Galdieri and sophomore Laura McDonald to stick prices for consumers before the econom
y
goes over
-
the edge
.
"
Marist. sophomore Katie Galdieri says she has tried
to
curtail her
driving in light of the esca
l
ating fuel prices.
"I don't chive my car as much because it is so expensive," Galdieri
said. ~•1 try to use my car as little as possible."
with regular.
AAA maintains the stance that the SPR should be used only in an·
"I buy regular," Galdieri said. "I am not willing to pay more."
emergency, according to Sundstrom
.
Of the eight gas stations closest to Marist, the Citgo station by the
Campus Deli, the Mobil station near the Poughkeepsie post office
and the Stewarts on Route 9 north of campus offered the lowest
priced gallon of regular, unleaded gasoline. All three were charging
$1.71 Monday afternoon.
McDona
l
d echoed Galdieri 's sentiments.
"The SPR should only be used in case of a nationa
l
emergency or
"I just get regular," McDonald said.
"If
that's all my car needs to if a gasoline supply probl
e
m is immin
e
n
t
and can be a
v
erted by the
get around, I don't see why I should get the more expensive grades." release of the oil from the r
e
se
rve,"
Sundstrom said
.
Others, such as Central Connecticut State University freshman
But as gasoline prices continue to increa
s
e
,
driver
s
are left with lit-
Catharine Banasiak, remain brand loyal when it comes to gasoline tle choice other than to deal with the nuisance of paying more.
purchases
,
even if it means paying more
.
"It's annoying that the pric
es
keep goin
g
up, but I still have tQ get
The statewide average for a cost of mid-grade gasoline stood at
"I buy 87 octane
,
and I will pay up to five cents more per gallon to where I need to go,
"
McDona
l
d
s
aid.
get Citgo or Mobil. I don't like Getty or Gulf,
"
Banasiak said.
Experts explain dramatic
increase in fuel prices
B
y
Jan
e Kaye
Daily Titan
(California State U. - Fullerton)
(U-WIRE) FULLERTON, Calif.
-
Frustrated
motorists are payi
n
g
'
more at the pump in
California as gas prices have risen to over $2 per
gallon.
Theories abound as to why there has been a dra-
matic increase in gas prices. From simple supply
and demand issues to basic greed, academics pro-
vide a variety of reasons for the price change
.
With the possibility of a U.S
.
-led war with Iraq
in the next few weeks
,
some believe that this is
the sole reason for this rise.
"The increase in gas prices is just greed on the
part of the oil companies," Smith said. "The pro-
posed war in Iraq is an attempt to take the country
'
s
oil. Ifthere was a major energy crisis
,
then the gov-
ernment would adopt a policy to encourage the
deve
l
opment of an alternative source of energy."
Others believe that uncertainty between political
parties in Venezuela led to the increase in gas
prices.
In a State Department press release
,
Alan
Larson, under secretary for economic, business
and agricultural affairs, said the political ten
-
sions in Venezuela jeopardize the country's reli-
ability as an oil source
.
The United States will
wait until the Venezuelan parties can reconcile
and re-stabilize their partnership as a resource
for oil, Larson said.
SEAN DuFRENE
/
DAJLY TITAN (U
-
WJRE)
"I think gas prices are rising in anticipation of
the war with Iraq,"
sai<l,
California State
University at Fullerton economics professor
Edward Castronova. "War will curtail the world
oil supply, raising prices
.
Anyone who looks
ahead and sees that oil will be mor.e va
l
uable then
will buy now to make a killing later. But buying
now raises the pr
i
ces now, so prices are rising just
because of an anticipated future oil shortage."
Chad Briggs, CSUF politica
l
science professor,
said that the predicament in Venezuela has a
direct impact on the price of gasoline in the
United States.
I
n Ca
l
ifornia, where gas prices are the highest in the nation
,
motorists pay upwards of $2 per gallon
.
said.
CSUF economics professor Lee Cock
e
rill said
a simple shorta
ge
of oil is the reason for hi
g
her
gas pric
e
s
.
Cockerill s
e
es a vari
e
ty of causes for
this shorta
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from the basic inelasticity of
d
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mand for gasoline to the
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Speculation also includes the possibility that oil
companies are taking advantage of the situation
in Iraq and are, thems
e
lves
,
profiti
n
g from the
incr
e
ase i~ gas prices. Jesse Smith
,
a CSUF polit-
ical scie
n
ce professor, b
e
l
ieves that the oil com
-
panies are do~ng just this.
"The price of gasoline at the pump is directly
re
l
ated to oi~ futures which are themselves based
upon perceptions of th
e
future supply
,
and henc
e
the price of oil,
"
Briggs said. "The strike and
ongoing political troubles in Venezuela are per
-
haps some of the primary reasons behind the
steady increase in gas prices over the past year."
Briggs said that he also attributes the unrest in the
Midd
l
e East to ~he escalating cost of gas. "As we do
not directly trade for oil with Iraq, the lar
g
er con
-
cern is that supplies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
may be disrupted as part of a larg
e
r conflict
;
" he
"There are sev
e
ral reasons for the supply of oil
being r
e
duc
e
d
,
" Cockerill said, summari
z
in
g
the
situation. "But the last more important factor is
the role that un
ce
rtainty about the future p
l
a
y
s
.
Unc
e
rtainty and
ex
p
e
ctations about th
e
futur
e
Organi
z
ation of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC)
hav
e
impact
s
now
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At $2 per gallon, Calif omians f
ee
ling the pin
c
h
at the p
u
m
p
ay Fra
nkl
i
n
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o
lman
Daily Forty
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e
r
(Ca(ifornia State U.-Long Beach)
(U
-
WIRE) LONG BEACH
,
Calif. -
March 8 marked a new California record
price average of $
2.
04
~
per ga
ll
on of
self
-&
erv
e
unl
e
ad
e
d
g
asoline. The ri
s
ing
price of gasolin
e
is causin
g
students to
change th
e
ir weekend plans and com
-
muting routin
e
s.
The major causes of the· gas price
increa
s
e are th
e
anticipation of war with
Iraq and th
e
fact that Ca
l
iforni
a
is
switching to summ
e
r w
e
ight
g
asolin
e
, a
g
as that is us
e
d durin
g
the summer for
e
nvironm
e
nta
l
purpos
es,
A
u
tomobile
C
lub o
f
South
e
rn
C
a
l
ifornia
s
pok
es
-
woman Carol Thorpe said
.
from hom
e," c
omput
e
r scien
ce
major
,
Countri
e
s Web sit
e.
If
tr
a
d
e
rs in th
e
oil
Around the Ca
l
ifornia Stat
e
at Long K
e
ith Chau
,
said.
mark
e
t b
e
li
e
v
e
ther
e
will be a sh
ortage
Beach campus
,
gas prices at local gas
"Gas pric
es
will
ev
entu
a
lly mak
e
m
e
in oil suppli
e
s
,
th
ey
may rais
e
pri
ces
stations are generally the same
.
Sunday work mor
e
hours to pay for
g
as, which befor
e
the shorta
ge
o
c
curs
.
Oth
er fac
t
o
rs
Chevron
,
Los Altos 76 and ARCO were cuts back on my study tim
e,"
broadcast that influenc
e
oil pri
ce
s ar
e acc
id
e
nt
s,
all $2
.
09 per ga
ll
on of regu
l
ar
·
•
labo
r
disput
e
s and di
s
rupt
io
n
s
t
o
unl
e
ad~d
.
Regular un
l
eaded gas ,,.
w
ant gas prices to stop going up. The
production
,
includin
g
w
ar
.
at Shell was priced at $
2
.13
.
ra
t
e is unbelievab
l
e. The rate
a
year ago
"Ca
lifornia
g
asolin
e.
pric
e
s h
ave
Last w
ee
k, ARCO off
e
red the
w
as
something like 99 cents a gallon.,
b
~e
n
ri
sin
g s
t
e
adil
y
for ~
e past
cheap
e
st regular un
l
eaded
g
as at
run
e
and a half w
ee
ks and mcr
eas
-
$1.99 per gallon
,
whil
e
She
ll
BrandY FoS
t
er
e
s ar
e
lik
e
ly to
c
ontinu
e,"
Th
orpe
and 76 were $
2.
0
5
and Ch
e
vron
CSU
-
Long Beach
st
udent
said.
was $
2.
07 per gallon.
journali
s
m ma
j
or Brandy Fost
e
r said
.
Stud
e
nts who
c
ommut
e t
o s
c
h
o
ol
a
r
e
With a majority of stud
e
nts comrnut
-
F
actor
s
that influ
e
n
ce
th
e
pric
e
of
g
as not happ
y
about th
e
lik
e
lih
o
od
o
f
gas
in
g
to school
,
hi
g
h
g
as pri
c
es are caus-
are th
e
balanc
e
of
s
uppl
y
and d
e
m
a
nd in pric
es g
oin
g
up.
in
g
financial strain on stud
e
nts
.
the short t
e
rm and th
e
rat
e
of in
ves
tm
e
nt
"
I w
a
nt
gas
pri
ces
to st
o
p
g
oin
g
u
p.
"I don't drive to
L.A.
to
g
o to club
s,
in th
e
lon
g
t
e
rm
, ac
cordin
g
to th
e
Th
e
rat
e
is unbeli
e
vabl
e
. Th
e ra
t
e a year
and becaus
e
my job is fl
e
xibl
e,
I work Or
g
anization P
e
tr
o
l
e
um
Ex
portin
g
a
g
o w
a
s
s
om
e
thin
g
lik
e 99
c
e
nt
s a ga
l
-
,
lo
n
.
N
ow,
th
e rate
i
s
hard t
o
fathom
,"
F
o
s
t
e
r
sa
id
.
Gas i
s u
p 67 .
8
ce
nts from last
yea
r,
acco
rdin
g
t
o t
h
e A
u
to
mobil
e C
lub
o
f
S
outh
e
rn
Ca
liforni
a.
Public
tra
n
sp
o
rta
tion is
a
n alt
erna
ti
ve
to p
aying t
h
e
hi
g
h
p
ri
ce
for
gas
olin
e,
but
mo
s
t
s
tud
e
nt
s
ar
e
not int
ere
s
te
d
.
·
"T
h
e
bu
s is
not
co
n
ven
i
e
n
t,
and I lik
e
to
g9
b
y
m
y
own
sc
h
e
dul
e," p
ubli
c re
l
a-
ti
on
s majo
r
, A
dam R
osen
blum said
.
S
t
u
d
en
t
s w
ill h
ave
to d
ea
l with th
e ga
s
price
i
ncrease
b
y cut
tin
g
b
ac
k on
expenses
t
o
p
ay fo
r
gas,
usin
g
publ
ic
tra
n
sporta
ti
o
n or b
y
m
a
k
i
n
g
mor
e
m
o
n
ey to
p
ay fo
r
gas
.
"Gas pr
i
ce red
u
ct
i
o
n
s
m
ay
be
unli
ke
l
y
until
t
h
e
Ir
a
q
si
tu
a
t
i
on i
s reso
l
ved,"














































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12, 2003
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Three-week tour of Europe offered to students
By Jennifer C.
Haggerty
iipper-level
COM
elec$ve.
~tm-
Why the four cities?
I
Editor-in
,
-Chief
communicarion majors can use
this course as a ftee elective.
The end of the semester is
quickly approaching, but it's not
too late to plan for the possibili-
ties this summer has to offer.
Mainly
,
consider visiting four
major European cities, with
all
plans
and
accommodations
already set up.
This August
,
the Marist Abroad
Program is offering a three-week
summer intersession program
that will take students to Prague,
Berlin
,
Paris and London.
The course, Intercultural
Communication (COM 325),
will allow students to learn about
the spcial and cultural differ-
ences between select areas of
Europe and how those differ-
ences influence communication
patterns between people
.
Dr
.
Subir Sengupta, associate
professor of communication and
the program director, will be
teaching the class abroad.
"What better way to learn about
another culture than to go there
and communicate with another
culture, then learn and read about
it
in
books
here
in
Poughkeepsie?" said Sengupta.
"Leaming about the culture is
learning about the history of the
place
.
"
Museums, art galleries and his-
torical monuments are all major
stops on the trip, which will
deepen the understanding of the
countries' cultures for students.
"It's iii\portant
fot
stu¢ent~
-
who
will enter
'the
businessJ
world to
learn about European culture,"
Sengqpta said. "lt give~ yol\ a leg
up if
you
have experienced cul~
tu.res yourself when you join the
professional world."
According to Jerald
Z.
Thornton, coordinator of Marist
International
Programs, three
credit programs such as this
make the abroad experience
available for those who carlnot
spend a s~mester abroad.
1
"Short-term programs provide
students who may be unable to
go abroad for a
full
semesfer, or
academic year, the opportunity to
have an overseas academic expe-
rience," said Thornton.
What about the
"impending"
war?
The uncertainty of the
Iraq
sit-
uation is a major concern
df
stu-
dents.
However, according to
Thornton, the number of Marist
students going abroad has actual-
ly increased.
"While students are concerned
about current wortd events, we
are findin;gthat a large number of
students are considering study
abroad more important than
ever,'' said Thornton. "Reasons
include wanting to know and
understand the world better --
Communication majors can use
something many students feel
this course to fulfill the c1.itt~ 1hat
ofilY
'
~~11_gi
<'
cibroad
1
·j
~iili
requirement and also use
it
as an provide."
According to Sengupta, the
four cities each have something
unique
to
offer to
college stu-
dents.
·
"Prague and
Berlin used
to
be
known
as
Eastern Europe until
the
Berlin
Wall fell,"
said
Sengupta. "There are still
some
remnants of the attitudes and out-
look of people with
more
Eastern
European outlook."
Prague, a popular tourist desti-
nation, offers architectural won-
ders in
Gothic, Baroque
and
Art
Nouveau style
.
It also has a
1,100 year
old
castle with liver-
ied guards.
Berlin is a history lesson with-
in itself. There will
be
visits to
the bunker site where Hitler
committed suicide,
Bebelplatz
(the site of the Nazi book burn-
ing), and Checkpoint Charlie
( where American and Soviet
spies operated during the Cold
War).
Sengupta said that students will
be able to decipher the various
attitudes between the western
and eastern blocks
of
Europe
when the trip finds its way into
Paris and London.
In
Paris, students will be able to
see the Mona Lisa at, the Louvre,
and the works of the impression-
ist painters at the Musee d'Orsay,
the Rodin museum
.
Notre-Dame,
the
Eiffel Tower, Arc de
Triomphe, and the Opera will
also be visited.
In addition, Paris boasts the
,
'Mti'rmtte sh<mpln.g
{!tp
for the
ladi~!l, offering
Shop-s
'
!mth as St.
sion program in Prague,
Berlin,
Paris
and London.
When:
August 2003
Who can sign-up:
Marist students and
students from
other
colleges.
Sign-up Deadline:
April 7, 2003
Tuition Price:
$3,800
Tuition includes:
Three Marist credits
for the course; roundtrip airfare from
NYC
/
Prague-London/NYC; travel
by
train in Europe; accommodations;
breakfast at select hotels; airport/rail
transfers; and select theatre tickets,
museum entrance fees and guided
tours.
Deposit:
$300 (nonrefundable)
How to
sign
up:
Call the Marist
abroad office at ext. 3330.
To find out more:
Call Dr. Subir
Sengupta at ext. 2678.
The Eiffel tower is one of the many stops Marist abroad will
offer this summer who take part in the three week program
.
Laurent, and Lancome
.
All stu-
dents will be able to enjoy the
numerous cafes on the left bank
of the Seine, as writers and artists
of the past have.
The fourth stop, London, offers
the
Buckingham
Palace,
Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar
Square, Saint Paul's Cathedral,
the Tower of London, Big Ben &
Parl~am
_
ent, Madame Tussa~d's,
and Harrods
.
Thornton feels this
abroad trip is important for
students to consider signing up
for because cultural heritage
influences the way in which stu
-
dents view the world and com-
municate with each other.
"This program provides
a
unique opportunity to explore
how changes in technology, trav-
el, immigration patterns and
business affect communication
between different cultures
. ·
We
live in a world in which we are
constantly interacting with peo
-
ple from different cultural back-
grounds," said Thornton.
"The
Europe Program will allow stu-
dents to learn about the social
and cultural differcnc;c:s between
select areas of Europ
e
and how
these differences
i
nfluence com-
munication patterns between
rll'f!?J'
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"
'Father of Exit Polling,' Warren Mitofsky, visits Marist
Warren
Mitofsky, exit poll creator.
By Katherine Slauta
Managing Editor
Warren Mitofsky, a pioneer in
survey research methods and
cre-
ator of the modem exit poll,
spoke to the Marist conµrtumty
on Wednesday, March
5
concern~
ing his life, lessons and future in
the field of polling.
A graduate of the University of
Minn
e
sota
,
Mitofsky said he
never knew what he was g9ing to
do, but he knew he wanted to
oo
it well. Quinn McNamar, a critic
of the statistics in social science
journals
,
inspired Mitofsky to
take th
e
path of survey research.
"I wanted to learn how to do
these thin
g
s correctly, so that I
was n9t subject to Quinn
McNam
ar
's criticisms," he said
.
Mitofsky continued his studies
and in 1967 was hired by CBS as
a director of survey research
.
IJ.1
an era where polls were begin-
ning to appear on television, •it
was hard for polls to be taken
se
riously by both reporters and
the publi
c
.
Mitofsky said pollsters relied
on newscast
e
rs to believe in the
stati
s
tics provided and convey
this trust to the public.
"There w
e
r
e
n't m:any national
polls in those days
,
" he said.
"Once we wdn Cronkite,
it
was
ea:;y to convince people."
The wcirk of polling contin~ed
to climb ju~t as newspapers
began
to gairi interest in
·
pdlls..
Mitofsky said
·
that CBS was
looking for a partner
·
to share in
the
work
of the polls, and The
New York Times was interested
in entering into polling. As a
result the CBS News/New York
Times Poll was founded in 1975.
}'It
wasn't exactly love at first
sight, but we learned to get along
together," he
·
said.
Mitofsky said that with the
polls being published in such a
professional newspaper
,
CBS felt
the pr~sure
tu
use
pajJs
mo~e in
thejr reporting,
,!'
~]i
_
i¢1
helpe<l; to
.'\pnt •it fpollingJ on
)he
.
tna})."
While
Mittf~•Mlas
•
known
·
as
the
director .of the
CBS
1'f
ewslN"ewYork Times Poll, he is
also who Dr. Lee Miming9ff,
director of the Marist IQstitute
o£
Publid Opinion,
·
considers to be
"tlie father
6f
the·
exit
poll."
Mitofsky sa'id before exit
polli!lg,
'
som.e ballots were oalcu.::
lated fliroughout the day, while
others were counted after the
polls closed
.
As a r,esult,
reporters
could not get an accu-
rate idea of who was elected
1
"We were looking f~r some-
thing to give us a hint," said
Mitofsky.
He said a friend rnµned Geoi;ge
,
Fine inspired the idea of exit
polling. Fine told ¥it9fsky that
he
,
interviewed movie patrons
while exiting the theater in order
to test a film's popularity
.
'
As a result, Mitofsky and cot:.
leagues began exit polling
.
"We went to a sample of
polling places and interviewed
people when th
e
y came out of
the place
,
" he said
.
The results were accurate and
exit
polling
was born.
While the exit polling worked
well, it was impossible for indi-
vidual networks to poll and ana-
lyze date. As a
result,
Mitofsky
founded the Voter Research and
Survey (VRS) in 1990, a forerun-
ner to the current Voter News
Service.
The VRS acted as an election
consortium for the four major
television networks, CBS, ABC,
NBC and CNN. This consortium
worked together to create the
data. However, at the beginning,
reporters and the public were not
satisfied with only one source of
data.
"There was a lot of criticism for
being a single source of informa-
tiot\s"
ne
said.
The consortium worked flaw-
lessly from 1990 until 1998,
when ABC decided to make its
own pr~jection on the 1994 elec-
tion
.
"They
introduced competition
without a basis for competition,"
he said.
Networks then began to break
away from the consortium and
call the President individually.
Mitofsky also spoke out about
the 2000 election coverage and
the problems that could and
could not have been avoided
.
He said two
mistakes
occurred
during that election. Ope, was
the Voter's News Service calling
Gore the new president in
Florida. While this was a mis-
t~ke, it was an unavoidable mis-
take that occurred for statistical
reasons only
.
The second mistake Mitofsky
mentioned
concerned
the
Associated Press
.
There was an
error in the Florida calculations
.
While the error was corrected
,
it
was not communicated to the
people making the projection,
and as a
result,
the AP
announced Bush as president.
"The mistake on Bush should
never have occurred," he said. "It
ruined t~e networks' and pool's
credibility."
After the 2000 elections, the
problems did not end
.
The Voter's
News Service suffered from var-
ious computer errors. The VNS
hired a computer company to
monitor the progress of specific
polls. Unfortunately, the comput-
er networks were not prepared
and VNS received great criticism
for these problems.
Currently the VNS is working
to revamp the system.
"In 2003 they are doing what
I
recommended them to do in
1990," he said
.
"It
only took
them 14 years to come around."
With both the recent and vari-
ous
problems
in
polling
,
Mitofsky has returned to exit
polling to fix what he once creat-
ed
.
As president of Mitofsky
International, his company will
collaborate with Edison Media
Research as a private, unbiased
polling company, directing the
2004 Network Presidential exit
polls.
Mitofsky said that his motiva-
tion to return to network exit
polling is as simple as the desire
to succeed.
"I thought I had built a credible
research center in the seventies
and eighties
,
" he said
.
"After I
left the networks destroyed it. It
[polling] can be done properly.
It
can be done well. I want to see
it
work again."
Dr
.
Lee Miringoff, director of
the Marist Institute of Public
Opinion
,
said he was very
pleased with Mitofsky's visit to
the campus.
"One of the benefits of what we
do publicly is we get to know
professionals in the field," he
said. "It's always a nice opportu-
nity to bring
in
these leaders."
Since 2001 Mitofsky has
served as director of interactive
communications research for the
Marist
Institute
of Pubic
Opinion. He was president of
both the American Associat
i
on
for Public Opinion Research and
the Na
t
ional Council on Public
Polls. He has worked interna-
tionally in Russia
,
Me
x
ico and
the Philippi
,
nes dire
<r
ting exit
polls and has directed over 3,000
electoral contests during his 34-
year career
.
Raising
Lupus awareness
By Alex Panagiotopoulos
Staff Writer
The Lupus Foundation of
America estimates that approx
-
imately 1,400,000 Americans
have a form of Lupus.
However, many do not know
the symptoms, or even about
the disease.
Marist's Nick Balestrino is
attempting to raise awareness
for this disease on campus.
He kicked off his fundraiser
for the Lupus Foundation of
America on Sunday, March 2
with a "Night of Comedy and
Music with the Humarists and
Timecheck."
This event was part of the
campus-wide movement to
educate students about the
treatable, but iii.curable, disease
called lupus.
Spearheaded by Balestrino,
whose own sister has the dis
-
ease, the goal is to raise
$10,000. He said the movement
is meant to make people aware
of the disease.
"Lupus is a disease that affects
a lot more people than most
people are aware of,'' said
Balestrino. "We're not just rais
-
ing money, we're raising aware-
ness."
Lupus is an auto-immune
disease which causes the
immune system's antibodies to
attack a person
'
s own body.
It
is hard to diagnose, as it has a
wide range of symptoms.
Usually people with lupus can
live a normal life, but with a
great deal of medication. The
Lupus Foundation of America's
goal is to aid people with detec-
tion, to support victims and
their families
,
and to aid the
effort to find a cure.
Every residence area on cam
-
pus is doing something to con-
tribute.
Leo Hall is sponsoring a
penny war between the differ-
ent floors that involves con-
tributing pennies from each
floor
by
using nickels,
dimes,
and quarters to get points
deducted from the other floors.
Other fundraisers in the
works include a car wash in
Upper West Cedar
,
and possi-
bly a weight-lifting competition
at the Mccann Center.
So far, about $1,250 has been
raised.
To find out what you can do
to help or for more information,
call Nick at
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FEATURES
(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
March 12, 2003
Life at the
'gym ... '
According to Aubrey
by Aubrey Roff
Staff Writer
straight upstairs, usually to stake familiarly known to us as the "sex
out an elliptical machine or tread-
machine" because of its precari-
mill, or to work on their abdomi-
ous workout position.
nals in the aerobics room. The
No one wants to admit that they
acquisition of a cardio machine is wish to utilize this machine, and
The James McCann Center. a tricky one. Often, at the busiest forming a line is awkward, so it
This building is used for various times of the· day, the elliptical must be staked out from various
purposes: basketball games, swim machines, treadmills, and bikes areas of the
gym,
and
pounced
on
meets, dance classes, and
r----.rT--~-,------.r----,
when available (no pun
team practices. But the
intended). And then comes
aspect of McCann, which I
the aspect of conversation, do
wish to discuss, is simply
you really want to talk to that
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The
gym
itself is an
as your legs are opening and
interesting
aspect
of
' closing at a rapid rate? It's a
Marist College student
little embarrassing.
life. There are a few differ-
Now on to the boys. I can-
ent types of people on
not present an unbiased view
campus in regards to the
of males at the
gym,
nor can I
gym. There are people
express their views, so I will
who are hardcore visitors,
address this concept as we, as
people ':ho work out
.
a The Mccann Center offers students many
females, view the males at the
couple times a week to activities from weights to machines and more.
gym.
The majority of boys at
burn off the beer calories,
the
gym
stay downstairs in
people that say they go to
will all be in use
.
This then initi-
the weight room, o/
in intramural
the gym and don't, and people that ates a line
forming
behind each of games or practices at the basket-
laugh at the mention of any build-
these machines, which brings me ball courts, but some venture
ing south of Sheahan Hall.
back to my point of defeating the upstairs to use the cardio
. The trek to the
gym
is_ a chore in purpose of the gym. When you machines. Holding a conversation
itself. Freshmen year,
1~
you are finally
get
on a machine, you get with the opposite sex while run-
not on any sports team with a
gym
the choice
of
two
views.
If
you ning on the elliptical with sweat
schedule, you may decjde that are on one end of the upstairs sec-
pouring down your face is a bit
you want to start attending
t?e
tion,
with the bikes, treadmills, awkward, and even worse if you
gym
on some sort of regular basis.
and stair masters, you
get
a per-
have any kind of romantic inten-
(Or this revelation could occur feet
view
of the boys lifting
tions
towards this person.
with two months left until gradu-
weights downstairs.
If
you
are
on
And as we have our "watcqlng,"
ation) You don't want to go
tby
the other side, with the
ellipticals
the boy~ have theirs and don't
yourself, so you get at least one and remaining
tre'admills, you get
think we don't notice. The boys
friend, but maybe even a group to a view of the
smaller
basketball downstairs in the weight room
go with you. Freshmen year is courts, which normally host intra-
will either nonchalantly, or even
easy.
Leo,
Sheahan,
and mural games: basketball,
volley-
quite obviously, watch the girls on
Champagnat are relatively close ball, and
soccer,
or team prac-
the stair masters upstairs. And on
to McCann, maybe a five-minute tices.
more than one occasion, I've seen
walk, so getting there is easy. But
So, the watching begins. My mishaps 0n the court because of
then the transportation to the
gym
roommate and I often position some male participant gazing at
gets harder.
If
you live in ourselves within
a
full view of the the girls running on the tread-
Gartland, -Old Townhouses, or weight rooms downstairs, pretend mills. But the best aspect of the
even any of the apartments across to listen to our Discmans, and
''girl
watching" is what my room-
the street, the gym really isn't
spend the
entire time
gossiping
mate and I call the "walk-
within your immediate view any-
about the
slew
of male Marist stu-
through." This is when boys come
more. People may stop
going
dents below us. Then we
go
on to upstairs from the w~ight room,
becau
se
of this distance, but many the
girls
on the
other
machines:
act
like they are
going
to use the
people elect to drive to the
gym, a
who's hooking up with whom, machines upstairs (maybe even
decision that will result in you who was seen trashed at the bar
throw
in one or two reps) and
being called "lazy" and "defeating last
weekend,
and who needs to spend the entire time checking out
the purpose of the gym."
I
myself stop
going
to the
gym
so damn all the girls. Nicely
ex~cuted
am one of these people that ,prive much. Then it's onto the abs. At boys, but we're on to you.
to the
gym,
often carpooling with any
given time,
a substantial mun-
So next time you're
eating
ice
several friends. Speaking of ber of people are scattered across cream and planning how many
defeating the purpose of the
gym,
the
aerobics
room, doing different minutes on the
elliptical
it will
the most ironic gym buddy is the types of
abdominal exercises.
We take to burn it off, researching the
one that smokes a cigarette on the head
straight
for the Ab Rollers, best ab
exercise
to
get
rid of that
way there.
but not without
checking
out one little
spot,
or
stalking
your
If
you make it to the
gym,
the who's playing basketball. first.
crush's
away message to see if
fun
inside begins. I personally
The final aspect
of fema
l
e
inter-
they're
going
to the
gym
too, and
believe that an intense
socio
lo
gi-
action at the
gym
is with the you hear someone
say,
"relax, it's
cal
stud¥
can be done within the weight
trammg
machines just the
gym,"
remember that it's
confines of the
strength
and
con-
upstairs. There are
a
few
select not just the
gym ....
It's a whole
ditioning
section
of the McCann
machines
which tend to be more
experience.
Center
at Marist College. Most popular with the
girls:
most popu-
girls who
enter
the
gym
head lar being the
abductor,
more
Here comes spring break
by
Megan
Lizotte
Features Editor
There really is a history behind
spring break, believe it or not.
Many
·
years
ago,
it
started
in
ancient
Greece
as a right of pas
-
sage.
Once the
start of spring
arrived, young adults of all
ages
would disperse to
beaches or any-
where where was
a
body of water.
They would
go
there to dance and
release their
energies. But, their
ultimate
reason
for
going
was to
drink
wine
.
Does
anyone recall
the movie,
"Where the Boys Are" from
1960? Well,
it
took
place
in
Ft.
Lauderdale,
Florida and
was
about the mayhem
surrounding
spring
break. This film was the
beginning
of
the
spring
break
craze
across
the
United States
.
Travelers
began flocking to
Ft.
Lauderdale,
and for
decades,
caused craziness
and disruption
to
the
area.
Residents
of
the area
made it known that
Spring
Breakers were no long
er
wel
-
come. Following this,
Daytona
Beach and
Panama
City
took
over
th
e
spring
break
atmosphere.
Those who craved something
more
exo
tic went to Nassau,
Jamaica
,
and Acapulco.
Skipping
to the
90's,
the MTV
on location made the
spring
break
scene
even
more of
a
ritual.
Cancum slowly,
but
sure
l
y
devel
-
oped into the top
choice
for spring
break destinations. It's night
-
clubs,
numerous hotel rooms, and
weather
attracted
many
goers.
Since this time, there are
even
more places to
adventure
to,
including
ski
resorts,
cruises,
the
Dominican Republic,
Europe, and
whereever else you can
find relax
-
ation, a good time,
and
something
to brag to
your friends about. Be
safe and
have
a
blastf
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Brother John
Nash
=
Lesbian~
StraightAlliance
advisor
. . . .
By
Sara Stevens
Can straight students
join?
Absolutely. It is a group open to all
students, regardless of their sexual
preference. Like I said, it's a group
dedicated to promoting acceptance
,
and we pride ourselves on the
fact
that it is indeed an alliance.
No
one
has to disclose his or her sexual iden-
tity, but among those in the club
who
do, we have homosexuals, bisexuals
,
and heterosexuals. We
're
also
work-
ing to raise awareness of the trans-
gender presence of our
community.
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Brother
John
Nash has been a
mem-
ber
·
of the Marist faculty for
seven
years.
He
works in the counseling
center,
located
behind Leo
Hall.
What's
your
position at the counsel-
ing center?
I am a clinical psychologist.
What
services
does the counseling
center provide?
We provide information to students
and faculty regarding
mental
health
issues, including eating disorders,
sexual
abuse, depression, and stress
management.
We also provide our
students with up to one full semester
of psychotherapy, free of charge.
In addition to being a member of
the counseling
center
faculty,
I
understand
you
are one of the facul-
ty
advisors for an
extra-curricular
club here at Marist. Would
you
mind telling me a little about this?
Not at all. I've been an advisor for the
Lesbian/Gay/ Straight Alliance for
two years. It's a group committed to
the promotion of acceptance regard-
_
ing sexual orientation on college cam-
puses.
How long has the group been on
campus?
In its current form, it's only in its sec-
ond year. However, there have been
various groups here at Marist recog-
nizing the gay and lesbian presence
on our campus since as early as 1975.
The group was originally formed as a
social club for homosexual students to
meet in a comfortable atmosphere.
Now though, it's a group dedicating
to actively promoting acceptance in
our
college
and in our society as a
whole.
Is
the LGSA
a recognized
club
here
at Marist?
·
We have been working to make our-
selves
an
official club for some time
now, and we expect the paperwork to
go through within weeks. Actually,
by the time this is published, we'll
probably
be fully recognized.
Does this group provide
services to
students struggling
"'._ith sexual
identity?
Yes, we recently implemented a sup-
port line for
students
struggling
with
sexual identity issues. Students in
the
dub are trained to answer phone
calls, and
they
're available
to be spo-
ken with on Mondays and
Wednesdays
from 9-10:30pm
at extension 7200.
Any
other
time,
people can call and
leave messages. It's
completely confi-
dential and
you
don
't even
have
to
give
your
name.
As
a brother, don't
you find that
your
religious beliefs
conflict with
the
interests
of
the
Lesbian/Gay/Straight Alliance?
No, ab~olutely not.
Not
at
all.
Actually, my
dedication to religion
leads me to believe much more
in
the
promotion
of
brotherly
and sisterly
love and acceptance. I
am also com-
mitted to alerting
our community to
the
intolerance of homosexuality in
our area
,
particularly on college-cam-
puses. I hope,
by supporting
this
club,
I am
contributing
to a mor
e
tolerant
and
peaceful community.
Sara Stevens is part of Dr. Jennifer Drisco/l's Writing, Editing
&
Revision
class
(ENG
230).
Continue
to look for the new
weekly column,
Campus
9onversations,
submitted
by this class.
Recipe of the week
Prep
.
Time:10 minutes
Ingredients
-1 18 oz package of
Nestle
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Peanut Butter chocolate chip
cookie
dough
-1 1/2 cup of
Nestle
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morsels
-App. 30 mini muffin cups
Peanut Butter
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Cookie Cups
Cook
Time:
11 minutes
Directions
-Preheat oven
to
350 degrees
and grease
the mini-muffin
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-Shape cookie
dough into 1
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place into muffin
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March 12, 2003
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etters to the Editor.
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To whom it may concern:
Unity Day for Marist is a time
when
everyone·
at
Marist
College, no matter their races or
origins come together to learn a
little bit more about each other.
It's a day that Marist has set up to
"celebrate the diversity and cul-
tural backgrounds of our cam-
pus."
All the clubs are present, games,
ri).J;Iles, activity, it is just a .day to
sit back, enjoy, see and join in
things not otherwise possible
iu,.ywhere else.
Are we a diverse community?
First you need to ask yourself
what does diversity means to
you?
We asked many people
from different background and
basically they all said the same
thing it's "a multitude of people
· of different ethnicity, races, cul-
ture, values, etc. coming togeth-
er."
If
this is also your answer,
then I think Marist is on its way
to being a diverse community,
diversity is a process and like all
process _it cannot all happen over
night. At Marist
I
have met peo-
pie that come from Texas,
Greece,
Germany,
England,
Dominican Republic, Puerto
Rico, Upstate, etc. If that isn't a
mixture of different cultures then
I do not know what is.
In
the letter to the editor a Ms.
Metz states,
"In
one hand many
people can count how many
friends they have from a different
cultural group." To those many
people that statement may be
true but what have those people
done to change that fact?
I
am a
Latina women in a campus that "
white upper-middle class stu-
de~ts"(to use Ms. Metz words)
are predominant and I have a
variety of friends,
I
have black,
white, Asian, and Latino friends.
You complain that you only have
one African American friend but
whose fault is that? Have you
gone and spoken to a Hispanic?
Chatted with an Asian? Attended
Black Student Union, Arco Iris
Latino, Asian Alliance? Just
because you have one black
friend does not mean that you are
diverse.
You should practice
what you preach and reach out to
others.
There was a Black
History month event in this
school last month, where you
present in any of them? Not
many
"upper
white-middle
class" people went to show sup-
port.
And to clafjify a point, the
Higher Education Opportwlity
Program (HEOP) is not responsi-
ble for the diversity brought to
Marist; maybe you should look
at
the
Affirmative
Action
Program instead. HEOP is
"a
,
conu,rehensive academic support
program designed to assist stu-
dents who otherwise might not
be able to attend college due to
educational and financial cir-
cumstances." The objective of
this program is not for "recruit-
ing students from a variety of
cultural
and
ethnic
back-
grounds ... "
Signed,
Jose Estrella and · Altagracia
Pimentel
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D~ar Marist College
Community:
My'name is Kate Reilly.
I
am
a senior, Resident Assistant in
the North End, and
I
have been
an
Rfi.
since the fall ·of my soph-
omore year ( except for one
semester when
I
studied abroad.)
That being said, there are a few
things that
I
wish to say regard-
ing my role as an RA.
First of all,
I
chose to become
an RA because
I
did not have a
positive experience with my RA
when I was a freshman. She was
pretty distant and uninterested,
and frankly, I didn't really
want
to talk to her about some of the
bad stuff that was happening in
my life at the time. '
At some point, it occurred to
tne that
i
couii:t'
make a positive
difference in the lives of first
year students, and hoped that no
one would have to go through
difficult experiences alone, like
I
had.
So
I
applied for the job and
ended up as an RA in Leo for a
year and a half. I sacrificed cer-
tain things to be an RA there ( not
being able to live with my friends
and hang out with them 24/7
because of my many
responsibilities as an RA, etc.),
but
I
would not have chosen to
spend my college years any other
way. The people
I
have worked
with, known, and lived with over
the past three years
have formed
some incredible memories that I
will keep with me long after I
have left Marist. That being said,
I obviously did NOT
become an RA because I had
.,~
i-
.,~
t-
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':I.,
some sadistic urge to roam
campus with a nightstick and
break down resident's doors and
bust them.
However, it is my opinion that
many resident students believe
that RAs are fascist cops who
have nothing better to do with
their time than write people up. I
have no idea where this notion
originated from, but
I
wish it ·
would end. Believe it or not,
RAs are college students too.
Recently,
I
encountered a situ-
ation that propelled me to write
this letter, in the hopes that my
feelings could reach a larger
audience.
Basically, I was on
duty, got called to an incident
and once there, was treated very
poorly by the student/s involved.
Usually I have a tough skin when
it comes to incidents, but I was
.-,~
~-
-::i.,
left feeling very angry and
dejected after this particular inci-
·
dent.
I
am not an evil person,
and therefore do not feel that
I
am deserving of such contempt
on the part of my fellow
students.
Basically
I
am writing this let-
ter to all resident students.
I
am
asking you to be nicer to RAs if
you are involved in an incident.
Own up to your actions; it is in
my personal experience that by
doing so, maturity sets in. Don't
be rude to the RA who comes to
your ro9m or house. That only
makes everyone involved more
agitated. If your RA
asks
for
your Marist ID, give it to them.
Who are you trying to kid when
you tell them it's lost? C'mon,
let's be serious here.
Please ·do not assume that
yout
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RA is stupid ... you would be sur-
prised at how much they know.
Please do not lie. That is just a
waste of everyone's time, energy
and imagination. Finally, go to
the programs your RA plans.
They create the programs for
you, after all.
So yeah, that's basically all
I
have to say. Save
a
tree, kiss a
frog, be nice to your RA, you
know, the usual stuff. (Yes, that
was just very random) but I'm
checking to make sure you're
paying attention).
Sincerely,
Kate
Reilly,
North End RA
and concerned student leader and
mentor
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Lo
oming
-
in shadow of Michael Jordan
By Tim Quguay
Staff Writer
Basketball fans are currently
worried about if they will ever
find another Michael Jordan,
once the king of basketball
retires.
In my opinion they should stop
comparing players to Michael,
and look at the wonderful young
talent out' there that demand
attention because they are letting
their play on the court do the
talking.
Let's just propose for a
moment that Kobe Bryant, out-
standing forward for the Los
Angeles Lakers, could possibly
be better than Michael Jordan
when he is getting toward the age
of
40.
,
I
think that he is capable
of and will be better than Jordan,
at least statistically anyway. A
point-by-point comparison com-
posed by Rick Reilly of
Sports
Illustrated
may be able to enliven
my opinion.
At the tender age of
24,
Bryant
already has three championship
rings, where at that age Jordan
did not have any. Bryant also, in
my opinion, has a better jump
shot and a more c
r
eative mid-air
repertoire than Jordan
.
Ko
be
is
hitting 38 percent of his three-
point shots compared to Jordan's
18
percent.
And last, but not least, quite
possibly the most amazing statis-
tic is that over the last four weeks
Bryant had been on a tear of
13
straight games with
35
o
r mor
e
points. Michael Jordan has never
done that in his career.
Once again
I remind you that
we're not talking here about
Kobe the man vs. Michae
l
the
man, because they are pro
b
a
bl
y
both up there on the list of the
most classy guys currently in the
NBA. But ins
t
ead, as fans tend to
pay most attention to, the statis-
tics as of now tell me that
I
am
going to be right in saying
th
at
Bryant will be the better all
around player.
But this also brings
·
me to
another interesting question
I
have been asking myse
l
f for as
Sh
o
uld
b
ask
etba
ll
fa
n
s beg
in
searc
hi
ng for a new
i
do
l
other tha
n M
ichae
l
Jordan?
individual accom-
plishments and realize them sep-
arately? In a perfect world this
would be the case, but I under-
long as I have been a sports fan.
ers? Can't we recognize them
Why do we as fans of the game each for the outstanding players
eve
n
have to compare these play-
they are and look at each one's
stand in
o
ur society th
a
t we are
more worrie
d
ab
o
ut
t
he winners
and the losers in situations not
pay
i
ng attention t
o
the fact that
there c
o
uld be two equally good
players
ou
t there.
The other misconception that
people are making is that they
are trying to compare Ko
b
e with
Michael when he wis in his
prime.
Kobe's response was
simply that he is not even in his
prime yet, with which
l
tend to
agree. He thinks, as do
I, that
a
p
l
aye
r
's prime is between
26 and
30, since after 30 talk begins by
the teamm
a
tes and analysts about
how the player is getting older
and washe
d
up. To sum
u
p my
argument here,
I th
i
nk th,at
Bryant will eventually be the bet
-
ter statis
t
ical professiona
l b
asket-
ball player compared to Jordan,
but at the same time I feel there is
no need
for comparison in sports,
since sports are a beautifu
l
thing
that should be appreciated on an
individua
l
basis for accomplish-
ments.
E
ditorial: Rape
·
tolerated in U.S. Air Force
Daily Forty..:Nin-er
(California State
U.-Long Beach)
(U-WIRE) LONG BEACH, CA.
Women make up a very small
minority of U.S. Air Force
cadets. Eighteen percent of the
4,000 cadets are female. From
that small minority comes an
overwhelming majority who
have been
raped
or assaulted by
fellow Air Force cadets.
"A
1994
report
by the General
Accounting Office, the investiga-
tive arm of Congress, found that
78 percent
of
the
90
female
cadets at the academy reported
eith~r sexual
assaults or unwant-
ed sexual advances."
The
excessive
amount of
ra1tes
taking place at the Air Force
academy is a blow to the
advances that women have made
in society.
The deepest wound women
have suffered at the academy is
the utter lack of support they get
once the crime has been commit-
ted. Women at the academy are
not only raped and assaulted,
they are encouraged to accept it
as a normal part of the academy.
Some women have been pulled
aside by other women and
instructed against reporting any
sexual assaults.
After basic training, a senior
female cadet pulled a young
woman and severa
l
of her fema
l
e
classmates aside and "told them
that sexual assaults were com-
against women. Women are
mo
n
place at the academy."
being taught to protect the older
The senior cadet told ABC, male cadets who seem to have
"You know,
I
was raped twice as free reign over them in their Air
an underclassman. It will happen Force Society.
to you most likely, and you just
Over the past seven years,
99
have to accept it."
rapes or sexual assaults have
Has anyone ever heard of such been reported in the Air Force.
a thing? The military has its own Twenty of those reports have
courts, practically its own sub-
spawned investigations and only
society, and this is the type of one of those
20
investigations
behavior they allow out of their has gone all the way to a court-
male cadets? The same male
·
martial. That one court-martial
cadets who so proudly boast of ended in
an acquittpl.
the debt they pay to society
The
Air
Force boasts a
zero
tol-
through their hard work while in erance policy against rape at the
training and afterward?
academy. One of the
victims
of a
The military promotes solidar-
reported rape sees their policy
ity and camaraderie. These two differently.
vital qualities have been turned
"The Air Force Academy claims
to have a
zero-toleration
policy.
But it's really zero tolerance for
the victims," the rape victim told
an ABC reporter.
Women who have come for-
ward in the past have been berat-
ed for drinking that may have
tak~n place before the rapes, or
even for forbidden sexual activi-
ty, even though they were raped.
One woman, Beth, reported the
rape she experienced at the hand
of an upperclassman to the
Office of Special Investigations.
Not only was there never an
investigation, but Beth was pun-
ished for having sex in the dorm.
Other women have experienced
similar
punishments
when
reporting rapes like receiving
Letter to the Editor continued.
• •
Dear Opinion Editor and
President Dennis
J. Murray,
The
security
briefs of the
Circle
put a humorous twist on
security
incidents that happen on
campus.
In that vain, I offer this story:
A
few
weeks
·
into the
semester,
a
student
living in Beniot thought
it wQuld be amusing to put up a
sign
over one of the five sinks on
the first floor that read, "The
New Urinal."
It
included instruc
-
tions on how to use the sink as a
toilet, and for a time, was comi
-
cal.
Early
on there had been
some problems with the lavatory
facilities, and the necessary com
-
plaints had been made to get it
fixed.
The bureaucratic process to
get
proper
sanitary
conditions has
now stretched on for
six
months,
and
still,
there are fundamental
problems with the bathrooms
that have not been rectified. The
majority of visitors who have
entered
the building first com-
ment on the
smell,
and if are
unfortunate
enough
to
enter
the
bathroom, have worse thi
n
gs on
their mind and to say out loud.
Besides the outhouse sme
ll
that
has dominated the b
u
ilding since
September, most days of the
week there is a substantia
l
amount of toilet water pooled on
the floor.
A few days ago, a crowd
gath-
ered
in the bathroom to watch the
stream of soiled water flowing
down from the ceiling. It was
continuous for several minutes,
but was not the only sound heard.
Yells of "Jesus, we pay to live
like this?" and "Damn cheap bas-
tards'.' were exchanged between
students, a continuance of objec-
tions to the
squalor
that they live
1
n
Over the course of last semester
and now this semester, the resi-
dents have heard excuses ranging
from
"There
should be no prob
-
lem,
its
been
fixed"
to
"Maintenance said they're com
-
ing to fix it."
And still the students ofBeniot
are
forced to both live in and pay
for a third world
environment
that has yet to be fixed. The prob-
lem with the raining ceiling was
supposedly fixed, but for how
long? The waterlogged tile that
gave way was replaced, but the
ones that were merely water
stained were spray painted white,
and are again brown and stained
w i t h f u n k
The toilets are not the only
problem in the building, but are
by far the most pressing issue
.
There is also two feet of brown
water that is been
sitting
in the
washing machine for about a
week to compliment the dryer
that's been broken for about
three. But that pales in compari-
son to stenches permeating from
die
nearby
batnroom
.
The purpose of this letter then,
is to plea for help. Both the RA
and RD listened to complaints,
but it is wholly unacceptable
when
students
using the facilities
have to stand in an inch of toilet
water.
It
got
so bad at one point,
that the
gentleman
of Beniot
stopped
flushing the toilets
after
their business, which at the time
seemed to be the only solution to
a problem that the higher ups
refuse to
fix.
The "New Urinal" also was
pressed into more frequent serv-
ice. This only caus~d more prob-
lems, and alternative methods to
correcting the problem had to be
sought. That is where this letter
comes it. By publicizing the
absolutely shameful
conditions,
the students of Beniot hope to
bring attention to the pr9blem
and finally
get
it corrected.
If this
fails to work, then the next logi-
cal step would be to go to
President Murray's office with
a
bucket of what we have to stand
and tell him face to face that this
is what his school is full of
.
It
seems
extreme,
but
six
months
l
iving at the
Gulag
will, do that to
any
sane
man.
Six months and literally dozens
of
complaints
is
completely
and
utterly inexcusable. For the
amount of money that students
and their parents pay for housing
on this
campus,
they
shouldn't
have to look up when they use
the
bath-
room to see
if
.
anything
is going to
drip
on
them.
It
is
deplorable,
it is despica-
~
hie
.
Peop
I
e
f..,.,,,,,,,,,,,
get
better
.,,,,,,...-
treatment
.
from slum-
~
lords in the
~
city
than
they do in
.
Beniot. Just because it's Beniot
and not Midrise or Gartland
doesn't mean the residents
should live in waste. All that is
asked for is working toilets
before the
school year
is done,
which seems
a reasonable
request due to the nature of the
problem that
currently
face us.
The men of Beniot are
approaching
the
end
of their
rope, and jokes have begun about
.
staging
a protest,
sleeping out-
side
in
cardboard
boxes as a pub-
lic demonstration to show just
"hits", or reprimands, for using
alcohol
in
the dorms.
Such utter disregard for the
well being of the military's
minority is inconsistent with our
values as a society, or at least our
professed
societal
values.
Equality and freedom are two
very important ideals that the
military stands
.
for. Ironically,
these are the ideals
·
that are
denied many women in the mili-
tary.
These women have no equality
when they are raped by their fel-
low classmates and no freedom
when they are told to just accept
their ineguality. The military has
done a good job of hiding their
hypocrisy.
how bad things are. Hopefully
though, the right peop
l
e
will read
this letter, and the joke won't
become
a
reality like the "New
Urinal" or possible a new bath-
room al
together
which would be
nice for a
ll
parties involved
.
With Utmost Regard for the
Democratic System,
Stephen Pause, Resident of
Beniot







































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Foimer OSU recruit could face death penalty
Andrew Lee
By
Stacy
Fultz and
Kristyn Asseff
The Lantern
(Ohio State
U.)
(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio -
A for-
mer Ohio State University football recruit
could face the death penalty for the aggra-
vated robbery, rape and killing of a used
video game store clerk on West Broad
Street in Columbus, Ohio.
Nearing its second week, the trial of
Andrew Lee continued Monday in the
courtroom of Judge Michael H. Watson at
the Franklin County Court of Common
Pleas.
Student
.
activists
speak out as U.S.
prepares for war
By Adam
Lee
Kansas State Collegian (Kansas State
U.)
(U-WIRE) MANHATTAN,
Kan.
-
Dozens of activists opposing the
proposed military action against Iraq gathered again Saturday at the
corner of 3rd Street and Bluemont Avenue in Manhattan, Kan.
The protest was the latest of a series of demonstrations organ-
ized by the Coalition for Peace in the Middle East, Manhattan
Alliance for Peace and Justice and the Kansas State University
Campus Green
s
.
Protests have been held at 3rd and Bluemont every Saturday
from noon to 1 :45 p.m. since Jan. 18. Demonstrations are also on
Tuesdays from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 17th Street and
Anderson Avenue.
If a war does occur, the groups have planned a gathering in City
Park at 4
:
30 p
.
m. on the day that strikes begin.
Lee, 21, is on trial for allegedly stran-
gling Shauna Sandercock, a clerk and
part-owner of Game-Arama
,
located at
3101 W. Broad St., on March 25, 2002.
Customers found Sandercock's body
behind the counter at the store. He
allegedly robbed and raped her.
Lee was a highly touted football recruit.
He was redshirted his freshman year and
then kicked off the team in fall of2000 for
disorderly conduct.
.
tn
September 2000, while living on cam-
pus in Morrill Tower, Lee allegedly beat a
delivery man from Apollo's restuarant.
Earlier in the trial, Lee was identified as
being present at the Game-Arama when
Sandercock was discovered to be dead by
witnesses.
Monday morning, the prosecution said
a bracelet belonging to the victim was
found in Lee's coat pocket upon his
arrest.
Prosecution also presented evidence of
a videotape in which Lee appears, taken
from a Bank One near Game-Arama
shortly before the murder occurred.
Lee's defense attorney, Frederick
Benton Jr., called Cynthia M. Lee, the
defendant's stepmother, to testify. She
said she never bought Lee any video
games but remembers seeing a game sys-
tem in his possession.
Ronald Edwards, a criminal defense
attorney investigator, answered questions
about his occupation and about the loca-
tion of the residence where Lee allegedly
was the day of the murder.
Georgia
Minifield, who said she has
known Lee for seven years, testified to her
relationship
to Lee and his activities,
whereabouts and clothing worn on the day
of the murder. The
defense
presented sev-
eral articles of clothing, which she identi-
fied as belonging to
or once
worn by her
children.
When
questioned
by prosecutor Richard
Termuhlen,
Minifield
responded differ-
ently in her testimony than she did when
interrogated a
few days after the murder.
Termuhlen pointed out her
·
inconsisten-
cies.
Termuhlen said he expects closing argu-
ments
Wednesday
morning.
Lyman Baker
,
a member of the Manhattan Alliance for Peace
and Justice
,
said the only aspect of the protests that will be
changed by military action is the wording on some of the signs.
Talat Rahman
,
organizer for the Coalition for Peace in the Middle
East, said the heightened possibility of war has increased the
level of protest involvement and has attracted new people.
If,
and
when
,
the United States does go to war, Rahman said she expects
the protests to intensify even more.
JAEANEL DRAKE/KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN (U
-
WIRE
)
Kansas
State Univ. seniors Zach Mills (left) and Nicholas Small, cheer on a passing motorist
who
honked in support
of
their views
on
war.
"We've had a lot of people honking for peace. Soine people shout something like this," Ty Fairchild, senior in geology, said.
stuff or flip you the finger, but we just .flip them back two," said
Fairchild said that he and his friends
had
received good responses
"We've been talking about different ways to increase public aware-
ness of the lack of reasons for war," Rahman said. "We're hoping to
organize some teach-ins and discussion groups. We've considered
acts of civil disobedience
,
but we're not sure how prudent that would
be."
Baker, making the peace sign with his fingers
.
from passing motorists and even had support in the form of cookies
Down the street at 500 Bluemont, a group of students gathered and sandwiches from supporters.
not to protest, but to throw what they called an "American Pride
Based on the positive responses, Fairchild said he and ihe other
Party."
students would continue to show their support of military action
The demonstrators held signs saying "Take out Saddam" and against Iraq each Saturday.
"France spelled backwards is Iraq." The residents said protests of
He said spring break might interfere with their schedule, but
the war prompted them to display their apprqval of the Bush after that, they will try to make sure that both sides of thought are
Baker said the protests have been successful at getting people to
consider the options
.
He said reactions have been mixed, but w~re
mostly supportive.
administration and disarming Iraq through military action.
represented on Bluemont Avenue.
"We know that there's other people like us, but nobody's done
Protesting professor offers reimbursement
By Brian Loeb
Tufts
Daily
(J'ufts U.)
(U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. -
Tufts
University mathematics professor David
Isles is willing to reimburse his students who
request a tµition refund for one class if the
United States declares war on Iraq and he
rtiw---~---
participates in
~
a
day-after-
~
war
class
:..!,
<:::..
moratorium.
;j
~
Isles will also
~
contribute
~
$40 for every
~
$10 st:udents
u
~
donate to a
~
charity for the
~
Iraqi people
~
~
during
a
~
make-up
~
class.
Professor David Isles
The profes-
sor announced
his plans in a letter to his 40 students last
week
.
He also sent the letter to administra-
tors.
Isles is unsure of how students will react to
his letter.
"It's sort of an e
x
periment
,
" he said.
If
all of his students demanded a refund for
the missed class, Isles estimates he would
have to pay around $3, I 00.
"Frankly, I don't expect that," he said.
In
order to receive the refund, students will
have to present Isles with documentation of
·
their course load.
If
everyone attended the make up class and
contributed $10, Isles would have to chip in
about
$
I ,600.
"This outcome would be optimal from my
point of view," he said.
The purpose of reimbursing students who
oppose Isles' participation in the moratori-
um, he said, is not to try to convince them to
oppose the imminent war.
"I am very much opposed to imposing my
beliefs on my students," Isles said.
Participating in the moratorium, Isles said,
is simply a way for him to stand up for his
own beliefs.
"My reaction is my reaction -
quite a vis-
e
.
era] reaction," he said.
If the U.S. attacks Iraq, Isles said, "we'll all
have to atone for it."
The letter is not
intended
to spark a reac-
_tion, Isles said. "I presume [ students have]
thought ahn'..lt these issues," he said.
"If
stu-
dents are not aware of what's going on, then
something's very wrong
.
"
He has officially signed the Tufts Coalition
to Oppose War on Iraq's day-after moratori-
um statement.
Isles had contemplated such a move since
TCOWl's plans were announced.
"I've been thinking about it for some time,"
Isles said.
He hesitated in large part due to the argu-
ments that teachers have a responsibility to
teach and that students pay a lot of money for
each class session
.
Though he participates in TCOWI discus-
sions, Isles said it is hard to judge the level of
sympathy or antipathy for TCOWI on cam-
pus. Before sending the letter, Isles informed
physics professor and fellow TCOWI mem-
ber Garry Goldstein of his intentions.
Freshman Graham Good, a student in Isles'
Math 13 class, said he respected the decision.
"It's his duty as an educator not only to
teach his students the subject but also to be
individuals and to develop and follow their
own opinions," Good said.
A professor at Tufts since 1963, Isles par-
ticipated to a small extent in the anti-war
protests on campus during the Vietnam War,
but says he "was never involved in any cen-
tral way." following the 1973 secret bomb-
ing of Cambodia, Isles said there was a spon-
taneous moratorium
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Iraq
not
cooperating, Powell
.
says
The United States, along with Britain and Spain
set a date of March 17 for compliance with resolu-
tions. One high-ranking government official told
U-WIRE Friday that a war could start as early as
March 19 if they do not comply.
ply with resolutions within months.
that the clock has not been stopped by his strata-
gems and his machinations," Powell said. "Nobody
wants war, but it is clear that the limited progress
we have seen comes from the presence of a large
military force of nations who are willing to put
their young men and women in harm's way in order
to rid the world of these dangerous weapons."
By Carolyn Polinsky
U-WIRE (DC BUREAU)
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON - Iraq is not cooperat-
ing with demands for weapons disarmament,
Secretary of State Colin Powell told a United
Nations Security Council meeting on Friday in an
effort to garner support for a war against the coun-
try.
He warned that Saddam Hussein would face very
real consequences if he continues. to fail to live up
to U.N. resolutions requiring him to give up tools
of mass destruction.
In an address to the Security Council, Blix said
that while Iraq fell short of U.N. requirements, the
country was proactive in its efforts to get rid of
weapons, particularly in destroying 34 of its al-
Samoud 2 missiles. El Baradei said evidence that
Iraq has been trying to acquire high-strength alu-
minum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons produc-
tion was fake and there was no evidence of the
country harboring nuclear weapons.
"If
Iraq genuinely wanted to disarm, we would
not have to be worrying about setting up means of
looking for mobile biological units or any units of
that kind," Powell replied. "The very fact that we
must make these requests seems to me to show that
Iraq is still not cooperating."
Inspectors should not have to conduct extensive
searches for weapons, Powell said.
"We must not allow Iraq to shift the burden of
proof onto the inspectors," he noted.
He added that Iraq must live up to Resolution
1441 and immediately rid itself of banned
weapons. He said he was pleased to hear of the
break-up of al-Samoud missiles, but could not be
certain if more missiles exist or if the Iraqis have
the equipment to make them.
However outside of Britain, Spain and Bulgaria,
there does not seem to be international support for
a U.S.-led war against Iraq.
"By imposing a deadline of only· a few days
would we merely be seeking a pretext for war?"
asked French Foreign Minister Dominique de
Villepin. "I will say it again: France will n'ot allow
a resolution to pass that authorizes the automatic
use of force."
Yet Powell said the United States has new intelli-
gence proving otherwise
.
Powell said reports by U.N. weapons inspectors
Hans Blix and Mohamed El Baradei, director gen-
eral of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
show "that Iraq is still refusing to offer what was
called for by 1441: Immediate, active and uncondi-
tional cooperation."
"There is new information that is available to us
and I believe available to the IAEA about a
European country where Iraq was found shopping
for these kinds of tubes," he said.
But Blix countered that with continued cooperation
from Iraq with inspectors, the country could com-
Powell said Blix's 167-page report on Iraq's
inspections policies showed 12 years of deceit and
"17 examples when the previous inspectors actual-
ly uncovered evidence contradicting Iraqi claims."
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said: "The
possibilities for disarming Iraq through political
means do exist. Now we need not new Security
Council resolutions -
we have enough of those.
We need now active support of the inspectors in
carrying out their tasks."
''Now is the time for the Council to tell Saddam
POWER OUTAGE LEAVES THOUSANDS OF
IU
RESIDENTS OUT IN THE COLD
By Adam Aasen
Indiana Daily Student (Indiana U.)
(U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Red
and blue lights from fire trucks lit up the
otherwise dark bac!cgrgµnd as power sud-
denly cut
flff
from 'S"eve~ the resi-
dences halls Monday
'rlfg'Ht.
Students
rushed from buildings to huddle around
each other for warmth and pulled out their
cell phones to vent panic and inquire
about the circumstances.
At 8:30 p.m. lights flickered and went
out at Ashton, Teter, Wright,
Willkie,
Read
and Forest residence halls and other aca-
demic buildings after power surges were
caused by an electrical substation mal-
function.
Following the power failures, thousands
of students were evacuated to the Main
Library and Student Recreational Sports
Center due to a lack of visibility, IU Police
Department
lJt.
Jerry Minger said.
Bloomington, Ind.; police department
Sgt.
John Hayes said the fire department
was alerted when someone smelled smoke
and students were evacuated because of
the possibility of a fire.
Minger, however, said there were no
reports' of fires.
Due to the confusion, students stormed
out of buildings, flpoding streets and
walkways!
Residential Assistants escorted students
from dorms to move away from the build-
ings and move aloQ.g to SRSC and the
Main Library since power was functioning
there. University workers restored power
and slowly escorted students back into the
dorms after verifying students' safety.
Teter resident senior Michelle Noyer
said she was studying for
a
test when she
was told her room was above the boiler
room and that she needed to evacuate.
"1 hey
told me the rooms were getting
extremely hot and that I needed to move
everything away from the heating ducts
and get out," she said.
Noyer also noted that she smelled smoke
wafting throughout her hallway
as she
exited.
Freshman Shawndrika Butler said she was
frightened by the evacuation.
"I called my mama because I didn't
know what was going to happen," Butler
said as she clutched her Winnie the Pooh
stuffed animal outside Forest Quad.
Minger said these rumors caused wide-
spread panic by students asked to leave
their dorms.
"There were a lot of rumors going
around," Minger said. "We had news sta-
tions saying it was a terrorist attack.
People are freaked out lately because of
the war with Iraq and
Sept. 11, and every-
one thought things were worse than they
were."
Other issues that caused concern were
flashing lights outside, which Minger said
prompted many to panic needlessly.
In order to dispel any rumors, Minger
immediately reacted by reporting on the
Internet and to anyone who called that stu-
dents would be allowed back in dorms and
power was restored.
"Our main concern was to calm people,"
Minger said. "We put information on the
Web to help quell parents' fears since
many parents probably couldn't get a hold
of their children."
Because of a lack of visibility all of the
dorms that had power failures should have
beei1
evacuated
Ii)
Residentfa1 Programs
and Services, Minger said, but several
halls such as Read and W11lkie said stu-
dents
were
not forced to leave.
RPS
director of residential operations
Bob Weith would not comment on the sit-
uation.
Minger said there was no crime or distur-
bance reported as a result of the disrup-
tion.
Still,
many students' plans were altered
due to the confusion.
"I was planning to organize a Bible
study with friends when the power just
wel)t out," freshman Steve Hage said. "So
much for that idea."
Some made the best of the incident by
taking advantage of the time to play
Frisbee outside Teter Quad, exercise at the
SRSC and play card games in other open
areas such as the Main Library and the
School of Education.
Others were in more inconvenient situa-
tions.
"I was just getting out of the shower
·
when this all happened," Wright resident
freshman
Erin
Schutte said. "Luckily,
I
had a flashlight nearby."
.
Sex scandal erupts at U. Wisconsin dorm
By Cristina Daglas
Badger Herald
([.4
Wiscon.rin)
(U-WIRE)
MADISON,
Wis, -
A student at
the University of Wisconsin residing
in
Witte
Hall has been accused
of
settirtg up
a
Web
cam in his dorm room and ~roadcastin.g a
se,c.ual encounter between
,Mm
and
his
unqer-
age girlfriend live
Via
the l'ntemet.
The l~-yeat--0ld UW snident had bis com•
puter equipmept
and
several plttitograpb~·
seized from his
donn room 'by police.. His
i
5-
year:.ofd
•girlfriepd
had
sitnilai items taken
front
her home
in Broo)vield, Wis.
~ccordirtg to search wacr,arits.,
~
girl's
mother is also
,under iu,res~iption
py.
police
for allegedly taking nuffe p'hotograph$
of the
couple. The 18-year-old
OW
student admit-
ted to investigators that his girlfriend's step-
mother had allegedly engaged in these acts.
A
number
of Witte residents, such as
UW
sophomore
Asif
Pesnani, are
in shock that
illegal acts of this sort could
be
occurring
down
the
hali from them.
''It
feels strange that you're living around
those people," Pesnani said.
Pesnani said he first became aware of the
incident
while
watching
the
news
Wednesday. He also said that most students
residing in Witte or at
UW
are unaware of the
allegations.
,
,
'No
one knew about it here (in Witte)
.
It
didn't affect anyone all that much" Pesnani
said.
"He could be anyone in the dorms."
tJW
sophomore and Witte resident Ali
Shanaa felt similarly but was more appalle~
than Pesnani.
·
••1t•s
kind of weird ... kind of disturbing,"
Shanaa said.
This videotaping incident comes just years
after the similar Sellery Hall incident in
which a
UW
student videotaped herself
engaging in self-stimulation. The tapes, only
intended to be viewed by her boyfriend,
somehow managed to get on to the Internet
for all to see.
Students began downloading the video and
spreading the word
among
students on and
off of campus. Many say the incident is
nationally known among college students at
several universities, which
has
led
many
to
compare the two pornographic incidents.
Police are currently investigating the cur-
rent situation. Waukesha County prosecutors
are waiting for additional information before
any decisions can officially be made regard-
ing any official charges.
ProfEval site
slated to be
online sooti
conference at Texas A&M
By Becca Eden
University.
The Maneater
(U.
Missouri)
New DSS director Ashley
Brubaker has helped carry out
work on the Web site after Friel's
term expired.
(U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo. -
"I think as a student I have
Although it's not quite ready, a
Web site created by the Missouri every right to rate a professor's
performance," Brubaker said. "I
Students Association is in place
to help University of Missouri
pay tuition to learn from individ-
students get the low-down on uals at the university. I would
their professors.
like to know before I spend my
Features could be finished money what kind of professor I
within the next couple weeks for am getting. Also, professors rate
the Web site ProfEval, MSA us as students, why shouldn't we
members said. However, site-
be afforded the same opportuni-
ty?"
builder Nick Confer, MSA
Senate Student Fee Review
Brubaker, however, is looking
Committee vice _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ at the possibili-
chairman, said
'It's important if you
ty of bringing
it would not
Pick a Prof to
see
a
teacher you
MU in addi-
actually contain
all its useful
don't like, and you're
tion
to
information
'k ,
ProfEval.
II
e Man, I wish I
Brubaker said
until registra-
tion for Winter
would have known
the site would
Semester 2004.
th.
Id b
h
be more effi-
/S
WOU
e
SUC 8
cient
than
"It's a matter
of integrating
tough course,'
Proffival, but it
the
different
is also more
data that the
expensive and
Nick Confer
no
·
definite
school gives us,
MSA Student Senate
source of fund-
so we just need - - - - - - - - - - - -
to work out a couple things and
once we figure that out, we'
11
find out what the real time
schedule is," Confer said.
MSA has spent the past year
working
on
the
site,
profeval.missouri.edu,
which
will allow students to post rat-
ings and comments about their
professors. The site would pro-
vide students with former evalu-
ations of professors, insight into
how they grade apd an overall
view of professors' likeability
and teaching style.
Josh Friel, former MSA direc-
tor of Student Services, based
the site on a national Web site,
Pick a Prof, he learned about at a
~
LI-WIRE
ing has been
identified.
When Proffival is fully func-
tional, Friel said he expects it
will be well received.
"At every other campus it's
been done, it's been hugely suc-
cessful, hugely popular," he said.
"I think it's great that MSA is
going to do something on the
Web that going to be successful."
Confer said he thinks this par-
ticular site will be helpful.
"It's important if you see a
teacher you don't like, and
you're like 'Man, I wish I would
have known this would be such a
tough course,"' Confer said. "It's
going to make students' lives
easier, in planning."
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A heady Spacey can't save
David Gale
Death Row thriller takes
two many
twist and turns, gets lost
Youthful, funloving, loud as
hell;
the Bad
Plus
plot their
next
mov~.
The Bad Plus are
.
all guts, all jazz
by Matt Dunning
A&E Editor
by Paul DeMichelle
Staff Writer
Kevin Spacey has had one of
the most explosive rises to fame
in Hollywood history. After
appearing in two of the most
popular films of '95
(Se7en
and
The Usual Suspects),
directors
have been knocking down his
door for a chance at having him
star in their movie. With the
.
recent Oscar for his work in
American Beauty,
along with
being labeled the best actor of
the
decade
by Empire Magazine,
he has become even more sought
after. Unfortunately, his weak-
ness for accepting the role of
complex characters has limited
his vision of the remaining
script.
The Life of David Gale
is
a film that asks the viewer to do
far more than suspend their dis-
belief; it asks them to throw all
logic out the window.
The film begins with David
Gale (Kevin Spacey) a few short
days away from his execution.
He is on death row for the mur-
der of Constance Harraway
(Laura Linney), a death penalty
abolitionist and friend of Gale's.
He specifically asks to speak
with 'Bitsey' Bloom (Kate
Winslet), a journalist who Gale
perceives to be in a good position
to "help" him. 'Bitsey' meets with
Gale and he begins to give the
accounts of his life leading up to
his current situation. We learn
that he is both a college professor
and one of Texas's leading death
penalty abolitionists. When a
past college student falsely
accuses him~frape, he losses his
job and future hope of attaining
another job now that "rape" is
printed forever on his personal
record. He goes into a deep
depression but still remains close
with Harraway and the fight
against the death penalty in
Texas.
As 'Bitsey' receives Gale's
accounts, she predictably begins
to sympathize with his situation .
Using what seemed to be her
expert detective skills, along
with the help of her intern, Zack
Stemmons (Gabriel Mann), she
is able to slowly unravel the most
ridiculous plot ever conceived.
The message of the film was
clearly to express the evils of the
death penalty. However, I assure
you that one deranged man's
moral wet dream won't educate
or
sway your opinion on the
topic. Directors and screenwrit-
ers have been portraying their
beliefs on controversial to,pics
for years.
Director
Oliver Stone's
JFK
was quite possibly the best
representation of non-conven-
tional ideas expressed on the big
screen. In
JFK
however, the
audience was not required to
abandon common sense in order
to accept the plot.
·
With the
·
exception of the
·
always reliable Spacey, there
were no "stand out" performanc-
es. \\;'inslet was surprisingly dis-
appointing and Mann was down
right annoying.
If
you're really
interested in the death penalty,
read a book
The Bad Plus -
These Are the
Vistas
and eleven seconds much like a
dream, luPing us into that final
stage of falling asleep in its
opening measures. At two and a
half minutes, the drums creep in
behind an increasingly menacing
bass and a nervous and hesitant
piano. The dream is picking up
speed, and we begin to feel as if
we are losing our grasp on what
was, not too long ago, a very
peaceful and docile number.
Around the four-minute mark,
the piano literally splits in two,
as if to represent two separate
realities battling for dominance.
At six minutes, all three instru-
ments have wandered in
com-
pletely different directions, and
the dream is spiraling out of con-
trol. The dream has reached a
frantic and chaotic climax. In a
minute's time, the maelstrom of
instrument slamming against
instrument gives way, the spiral-
ing slows to a gentle rocking.
By the end of the seventh
minute, we're nestled back in our
beds, safe and secure in the
silence. You think th!lt's heavy?
You should hear their take on
Blondie's "Heart of Glass".
Mad Caddies tap out eclectic album
In 1995, somewhere in this
wide world of ours, some stoner
was sitting in his basement with
two or three of his friends, won-
dering, probably out loud, "What
would 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
sound like if it were done by a
jazz trio?" Well, my shaggy, red-
eyed friend, your question is
answered. Introducing The Bad
Plus.
y
au
nu a
.
The Maneater
(U.
Missouri)
The Mad Caddies -
Just One
More
(U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo. -
Santa Barbara's own Mad
Caddies have been riding ska's
third wave since
the
band's
inception in 1996. Combing the
traditional ska sound with the
pace and fierceness of punk, the
Caddies and bands like them
have found a niche
in
America's
music scene. This, however, just
isn't enough for the Mad
Caddies. The band's latest album,
Just One More,
breaks genre bar-
riers as the Caddies play every-
thing from reggae to hardcore.
The band sounds damn good
doing
it,
too.
·
Just One More
starts
with
"Drinking For
11,"
a good chill-
out reggae number. Everything
changes by the second song,
"Contraband," a hardcore tune
for which the title explains it all.
Things continue to change
throughout the album, as the
band shifts genres almost on a
song-by-song basis. While this
may confound some, the Caddies
make
it
work by providing solid
tracks throughout.
The lyrics of
Just One More
are
nothing special, but they aren't
bad. "l
O
West" proclaims,
"Drink smoke
,
drink smoke
this is what we do," but it avoids
sounding like a new Andrew
W.K. song. Many of the songs
on
Just One More
are
lyrical
clich-
es, but songs like " l
O
West" have
great hooks and are generally fun
to \isten to.
Musically,
Just One More
is
great. From the reggae beat on
"Drinking For 11" to the wailing
hor.ns of the Latin-influenced
",I~~
On~.
.Mi;\r~."
the
!8-lb.Qm
is
great to listen
to.
Even the~faster-
paced
songs
such
as
"Contraband" have a spectacular
musical intensity that suits the
mood.
The only
bad
thing about
Just
One More
is that its style
changes
become
a double-edged
sword at times. Hearing "Just
One More" leaves you craving
more Latin-influenced ska, but
the band instead launches into
the pop-punk "Day by Day." The
continual changes make it hard
for the album to have much of a
flow to it and make it a confeder-
ation
of
songs as opposed to an
album.
However, the songs of
Just One
More
are still quality stuff.
If
lis-
teners can get past the continual
changes of tempo and mood,
•Uiey
1
WiH Hkefy
find tnaterfal
tb
their
liking
on the album.
Just
One More
is definitely worth
checking out for anyone who is a
ska fan, and casual listeners
might be impressed too.
Equal parts Oscar Peterson and
System of
a
Down, the Bad Plus
have earned themselves a reputa-
tion in clubs and concert halls as
"the loudest jazz trio in the
world." From the raucous bom-
bast of tracks like "1972 Bronze
Medallist" to the slower, more
meditative
tracks
like
"Everywhere You Tum" to
downright chaotic and frenzied
numbers
like
"Boo-Wah", These
Are the Vistas dares its listeners
with remarkable jazz talent and
sneering rnetal attitude. Indeed,
there's as much Slayer at work
here as there
·
is Art Tatum.
Director Van Sant returns to roots with latest picture
by Jordan Gentile
The Lantern (Ohio State
U.)
in the Ohio State University felt drama, from independent
Wexner Center retrospective of cinema to big-budget Hollywood
his work.
.
movies.
Whatever the case, it took more
"I got lucky," Van Sant said,
The crown jewel of These Are
the Vistas lies at the end of the
record, and is well worth the
wait. "Silence is the Question"
rolls out over its eight minutes
You won't see the Bad Plus
headlining any stadium tours or
monstrous festival shows. But
with a sound as unpredictable
and dangerous as theirs, it's hard
to imagine that they couldn't.
Easily.
Think we're not writing about the right music,
books, movies, etc.?
(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS,
Ohio - Perhaps it was the March
weather that had Gus Van Sant
than a little prodding to get the recounting his success at work-
50-year-old filmmaker to open ing both inside and outside the
up about his new film,
Gerry
,
studio system.
which some critics have likened
The director is quick to dispel
to an endurance test for movie-
assumptions about the freedom
goers.
associated with
low
-budget
film-
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about
it of write an article and send it
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irritated; or the hours he'd spent
fielding questions from the
media
since
amvmg
in
Columbus, Ohio, to participate
"I don't think it has limited making, insisting that independ-
commercial appeal," he said, ent companies can be as over-
obviously displeased with the bearing as major studios.
assumption
Gerry
is too obscure
"The experience of making an
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would be when we were malqng [independent companies] might
it. So when we made
Gerry
,
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very well could have ended up think of as a 'Hollywood script.'
with
Good
Will Hunting 2."
They're likely to be more inter-
.
The new film, starring Matt ested in doing a
Drugstore
• Damon and Casey Affleck as
Cowboy
or something like that."
best friends who get lost in the
Drugstore Cowboy,
Van Sant's
desert and spend days trying to 1989 road movie about the des-
retrace their steps, is decidedly perate lives of junkies who rob
not a sequel to
Good
Will
pharmacies to support their
Hunting,
the Oscar-winning hit habit, was as important in the
about a troubled math prodigy establishment of American inde-
(Damon) that charmed audiences pendent cinema as any film that
to the tune of $150 million in had come before. It put Van
1997.
Sant's name on the map.
Using action and dialogue spar-
He quickly followed up the
ingly,
Gerry --
which was intro
-
effort with a succession of off-
duced by Van Sant at a Wexner beat projects:
My Own Private
screening Thursday -- might
Idaho,
about gay street hustlers,
sooner draw comparisons to
Even Cowgirls
Get the Blues,
Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for
adapted from a Tom Robbins
Godot.
novel, and
To Die For,
a media-
The film represents yet another age
satire
starring
Nicole
digression in a career that has Kidman as a television weather-
been as unpredictable as any of girl who will stop at nothing to
our time. A quick glimpse at the be famous
.
program handed out during the
Asked to name the films that
retrospective
shows
the
prolific
most greatly influence his work,
ease with which Van Sant has he said: "I don't look at as many
jumped from arid satire to heart-
older films for inspiration nowa
-
days. But I used to watch certain
movies back when I was prepar-
ing my first films. I watched
'Last Tango in Paris, Psycho,
Dr.
Strangelove, Citizen Kane --
the
American classics."
The influence of that second
film may have caused Van Sant
more trouble than it was worth.
After the success of
Good
Will
Hunting,
one of the most prof-
itable films of the late 1990s, the
world of Hollywood filmmaking
beckoned, and he used his new
-
found commercial status to
finance a shot-for-shot color
remake of
Psycho
,
which played
to devastating reviews and indif-
ferent audience response.
Two years later, the director
redeemed his commercial repu-
tation with the upbeat
Finding
Forrester,
but many questioned
whether he had abandoned the
indie sensibility that made him
famous.
With the release of his new
film, Van Sant's career seems in
the midst of yet another transi-
tion. Following the ups-and-
downs of his "commercial peri-
od," the director was candid
about his efforts to reevaluate his
approach to film.
"I'm trying to unlearn a lot of
preconceptions,"
he
said.
"Preconceptions like when you
assume, because you've watched
a lot of films, that you have to
tell a story through dialogue
.
What I'm ~rying to do now is
have the dialogue just be about
dialogue. To have it not be about
guiding the story, but relating it
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Last second shot
by Siena ends
Marist season
~
Siena does it
again, only this time
~
I
the women
add fuel
to
the rivahy
by
Mike Benischek
Staff Writer
Lately watching
Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC) basketball
feels
more
like watching the Disc
·
overy
Channel.
But the Foxes, facing the
prospect of an early blowout,
would not be pushed aside so
easily. Junior forward Kerry
Sullivan came in off the bench
to score the next six Marist
points to cut the lead down to
16-8. The Saints would strike
a Red Fox. Vetter scored a
career high 14-points on three
three-pointers and collected
four-rebounds to go along with
three-steals. Her best play does
not show up on the box score
,
however as she fought for
.every loose ball, setting a tena-
cious tone for all of the Foxes
to follow.
by
Anthony
Olivieri
Staff Writer
Prosper Karangwa put the
ball
behind his back to free himself
for the twelve-foot jumper that
sent the Siena Saints into the
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
(MAAC) semifinals
against
Fairfield
University.
The Siena Saints edged the
Marist
College
Red Foxes 70-68
in a controversial finish to a
quarterfinal match-up in the
MAAC tournament. With
six
seconds remaining,
6-8
junior
center Dennis Young drained a
three-pointer to knot the game at
68-68. Young had been 1-4 from
the three-point line prior to
Saturday night's game.
"He couldn't pass up that shot,"
said Marist head coach Dave
Magarity. "Everybody touched
the ball on that possession, and
with less than ten seconds on the
clock, Dennis had to shoot it."
The officials went to the
replay, but there was no conclu-
sive evidence because the televi-
sion cameras followed
Dennis
Young for a reaction shot after
his dramati.c three-pointer.
"The kid from Siena in-bound;.
ed the ball, took one dribble then
the coach from Siena called
timeout immediately because he
did not like how they were
advancing the ball," Magm-ity
said. "The trail official is really
at fault here. He's right there with
the ball:"
With
5.3
seconds remaining,
only seven tenths of a second had
come off the clock while the
ball
advanced to mid-court.
"There was no other place log-
ically that you could have it but
the baseline," Magarity said.
"It
gave them the chance for a 12
foot shot instead of a possible 25
foot shot against
our
press with a
man on the ball."
Karangwa, Siena's 6-7 All-
MAAC first team guard, sealed
Marist's fate as he shook Carl
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runner with four tenths of a sec-
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immtdiatdy
called timeout. Controversy
ensued when the officials gave
Siena the ball at mid-court,
instead, of underneath their
own
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Dennis
Young, whose second
three
pointer of the year tied the
game
in the final seconds, was
not enough
as
Marist
lost
a
close one to Siena.
season.
Marist showed incredible intes-
tinal fortitude down the stretch,
fighting and clawing
its
way
back, and putting itself in a posi-
tion to win. David Bennett came
up big late in the game, in the
final game of his senior season.
He hit two big free throws, and
after a Siena turnover, flipped in
an acrobatic lay-up to pull the
Red Foxes within a basket
"Bennett did not have one of
his better games, but once again,
came up big when the game was
on the line," Magarity said.
Antoine Jordan hit one of two
free
throws,
to push the Jead up
to three, and set up
Young's sec-
ond three-pointer of the season.
Siena
(
19-9), who
eventually
lost to Fairfield in the semifinals,
1s
hoping for
a National
Invitational Tournament
(NIT)
bid. The Saints were lead by
Tommy Mitchell with 17 points.
Hood had
18
for Marist
(13-16),
and Eppehimer had 1 7 points in
his final
collegiate
game.
Maybe that's
just
because
back, senior guard Sarah Craft
Marist and Siena are such
nat-
scored five of their next seven
ural
rivals
that
National and
Siena had a 23-1
o
lead
Geographic could
have
been
with ten minutes to go in the
covering this season's MAAC
half.
Tournament.
Again, the Foxes chipped
The Marist Women's basket-
away at the lead. Marist went
ball team
entered the MAAC on a 12-4 run in which four dif-
tournament as
the seven-seed,
boasting a conference record
of
eight wins and
ten
losses,
their
best record ever.
And while the
Foxes
were able
to
defeat
eight-seed Loyola
in the open-:
ing round
72-69, Marist met
with their old foe
Siena in the
quarterfinals on last
Friday
afternoon
and lost
79-62. The
loss ends arguably the best
sea-
son
the
program has
seen in the
l_ast
seven years.
For a
team
that
had not
played in
the seven
days
since
beating Marist
in
Loudonville
68-60, the Siena
Saints
looked
crisp from
the tip-off. The
Foxes looked a little
like a
team that had just
survived a
dogfight one day before. The
Saints
jumped
-
out
to
a quick
7-
0 lead and
then
a 12-2
lead
before
five
minutes had
passed
in the
contest.
ferent Foxes put points on the
board,
including Megan Vetter,
who capped the run with a
three-pointer making the score
27-22 Siena. But that was the
closest the Foxes could narrow
the gap. The Saints closed out
the half on a five-minute, 17-5
run, to go to the locker room
up 44-27, and in the second
half Marist would not cut the
lead any closer than 13-points
.
Marist Head Coach Brian
Giorgis credited Siena with
championship caliber play.
"For a week layoff I thought
Siena came out very strong,"
he said. "I think they were just
a little bit stronger a little more
talented and a Jot more physi-
cal than we were. They played
like the experienced champi-
onship team that they are."
Sophomore guard Megan
Vetter playod her best game as
Giorgis said Vetter
'
s play was
simµly proof of all the work
she put into this season.
"Today was the culmination
of a lot of hard work on her
part," he said. "That kid has
struggled all year in terms of
really getting her game under
control. I couldn't be happi
er
for a kid
.
"
taptain Maureen M
aga
rity
led the Foxes in scoi:jng with
18-points and six-reb
o
unds
before fouling out with five-
minutes remaining
.
Sullivan
ended with 11 ~points and seven
rebounds.
Marist ended the
season with a final record of
13-16.
All five starters scored in
double figures for Siena with
Jolene Johnston's 18 leadin
g
the way. MAAC player of the
year Llene Jansone scored 15-
points and pulled down 11-
rebounds,
The
Saints would go
on to defeat Niagara in the
semifinals only to lose to
Manhattan in the MAAC
Championship game, 66-57.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
DEFEATED
LOYOLA IN OPENING
ROUND
72-69
by Mike Benischek
Staff Writer
, The
downside
to every roller-
coaster is that after all the highs,
lows, twists, and
turns
-
in
the
end you always
simply
end up
getting off at the ground level.
All the excitement
is
only a
memory as you exit through the
same
gate as you entered. After
·
four months of
loops
drops and
acceleration, the ride finally
came to an end for the Marist
Women's Basketball Team on
F.riday afternoon.
But
what a wild ride the 2002-
03 season was for the Red Foxes.
The year began for the Foxes
only weeks after the 2001-02
season ended, on March 20 when
former Head Coach Kris Lamb
resigned her position, after
spending four years at the helm.
The Marist Athletic Department
was left searching for the heir to
the newly vacant
throne,
and
found their new leader nearly
three months later when Brian
Giorgis was crowned on May 20.
The season would
be· his first
coaching college basketball, and
set off a chain reaction of
firsts
this Marist team would achieve.
On January 26, the Foxes
defeated Niagara 64-51, marking
the first time in program history
Marist had beaten a team with
the best record in the Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
(MAAC).
Marist collected season
win
number I 0, 66-45 against
the
Loyola Greyhounds
iri
Baltimore
on February
2.
It was the first
time
since the 1984-85 season
that Marist had reached
double
figures in
victories
by
their first
game
in
February.
One m9nth later on March
2,
the Saint Peter's Peahens
ven-
tured into the Mccann
Center
and were defeated by the
Foxes
57-51. No, it
wasn't Marist's first
victory ever over the Peahens
(it
was their
second),
but it
was the
first time
the
Foxes
could ciaim
eight
conference victories in
one
season.
The pattern
was
pretty
clear:
this Red
Fox
team
was winning
bigger games and more
games
than any Marist
Women's
Basketball team
in the recent
past. So
it
should have came
as
no
surprise when they
added one
more first to their lengthy list.
Last Thursday,
the
Foxes beat
the Greyhounds 72-69
in the first
round
of
the
MAAC
Tournament. In
their six-year
history in the MAAC,
this was
the first MAAC Tournament
vic-
tory
for the Marist Women's
Basketball program.
This Red Fox team can be
measured in two
ways.
One,
of
course
is
by the big victories and
their historic
record.
The
second
is by the attitude they
exhibited
in their last games of
the
season.
After a
win,
a few losses, and
a
few elevator
style seasons, the
Foxes seemed in bad shape after
losing to
the
Rider Broncs on
February 19. The Broncs had
previously lost 12-straight
con-
tests and Marist had but
three
games left in their season
against
the first,
second,
and third
place
teams
in
the conference.
They could have packed
it in
and
accepted
a dismal end
to the
year, but Marist refused to accept
less than their best. The Foxes
went back to the drawing board,
began working on a new defense
set and worked harder in practice
than ever. After looking down
and out, Marist was able to give
both Manhattan and Siena, the
two top teams in the conference,
all they could handle before beat-
ing Saint Peter's on Senior Day.
The stretch injected confidence
into
a
previously ill-fated team.
Several Foxes had seasons
wortp. writing home to Mom
about in 2002-03. The first of
which does not even need to
write home since her father had
an office window overlooking all
of her games.
Maureen Magarity was named
Marist's
Captain in the off-sea-
son and preceded to be their most
valuable player during the year.
She led the team in scoring and
was the player that the offense
c·ould turn to when they needed a
score. Her clutch plays at several
points during the year, most
notably
in
a 23-point second half
comeback against Loyola on
December
6, often made fans
wonder if Maureen was wearing
a
red cape with
ll
big red "S"
underneath her uniform.
Junior forward Kerry Sullivan
also had a breakout year. After
losing
over 2,400 career points in
scoring due to the graduation of
Diesa
Siedel and Marie Fusci last
season, the Foxes needed a new
scorer to step up, and Sullivan
answered the call. In the middle
of a snowstorm on January 3,
Sullivan rained down threes
against Penn. Sullivan scored a
career high 22-points with four
three pointers, and since that
game raised her scoring average
by four points per contest.
Other Foxes emerged into top
contributors as well. Megan
Vetter might be the most
improved Fox from start to fin-
ish. Vetter worked all season on
improving ball control and pass-
ing skills, and her hard work
resulted in a career game in
Marist's second round MAAC
tournament loss. Laura Whitney
began the season out of the regu-
lar rotation for playing time and
·
earned her way to playing over
10-minutes in all but one of the
Foxes final 13 games. Also,
freshman Kristen Vilardi fought
a season long shoulder injury but
played in every contest this year
,
and could be counted on to hit
big three-point shots in the
clutch.
The Red Foxes played this sea-
son with all they had, and while
only a handful of players are
detailed here, at one time or
another they all played big roles
in big wins. This has not been a
historic season because that
would indicate their success was
a one-time deal. This has been a
landmark season.
It has been a season that five
years from now will be able to be
credited as the start of something
great. Now it is simply a matter
of the continuing to improve so
that the Red Foxes may someday
celebrate more than a MAAC
Tournament win
,
they could be
celebrating
a
MAAC
Championship.





































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Tennis team crosses border in first ever match against Canada
by
Paul Seach
Sports Editor
The white van pulled up in
front of Lowell Thomas full of
international students eagerly
awaiting their departure for
Montreal.
For the men's tennis team, trav-
eling across the world is nothing
new, since many of the eight
players on the team have lived or
.
are from in foreign countrie~.
Once everybody was in order
and all the equipment was loaded
in the van, the tennis team left
the comfort of the warm sun of
Poughkeepsie to the cold snow-
covered land of Montreal.
almost at my best."
Number one singles Pat Hofer
defeated Jerome Gagnon 6-2, 7-
5.
"I
was tired after my 2nd set,
and I don't know why," Hofer
said.
"Gagnon
played good ten-
nis today."
Martin Aldorsson, who claims
"tennis groupies'
.
' borrowed his
tennis racket, forcing him to use
a teammate's racket, needed a set
to find his groove, defeating
Samy Saad 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
"I wasn't focused early on,"
Aldorsson said.
"I
was adjusting
to the fast surface, and bad light-
ing. I regrouped quick in the 3rd
set."
The end result was a 7-0 Marist
win, improving their overall
record to
10- l.
Coach Tim Smith drove the
team to their exhibition match
against
the
University
of
Montreal. Some players drove
their own cars, wanting the free-
dom of driving at their own pace.
The van was just right for some
who would rather sit back and
relax on the long ride north.
Marist(I.) and the Univeristy of Montreal (r
.
) lining up in pre-game introductions of
players.
Marist is the
first
tennis
team from the United States to travel to Montreal and compete with the team.
The results weren't important
however. This exhibition match
w~s the first time Marist, or any
other school from the
United
States, traveled to play the
University of Montreal on their
home court. Many of the players
from the University of Montreal
were happy to play a te3.11} from
America.
The ride up to Montreal was
calm, with players speaking in a
language other than English.
Chris Hagen from Norway
brought his father along with him
on this trip, which to the team
was more of a social affair rather
than a match.
Coach Smith popped in a tape
of light music, to the discomfort
of some, but overall nobody had
any real complaints. While some
players were telling jokes, Coach
was quick to give pointers to
Hagen.
"If
you know you beat these
players (from Montreal), chal-
lenge yourself by hitting the ball
to their advantage," Coach said.
"If
their weakness is their fore-
hand, force the ball to their back-
hand. Make the game difficult
for yourself so you can
strength-
en your game."
As the hours passed by and the
team got closer to Montreal, the
New York State Thruway grew
dark. The only light aside from
the van's high beams was the
moon, and the quiet still atmos-
phere put half the team asleep in
the van. Suddenly what was once
a loud, joke-telling van of vari-
ous languages spoken by the ten-
nis players became a serene,
quiet front.
As the team reached the border,
they found Mike Nassif, Alain
Bolleta, and Nassifs friend in
one car and Viktor Sapezhnikov
with his father (from Russian) in
another car. Both cars were wait-
ing in line, ready to .show identi-
fication,
eventually
gammg
clearance to cross over into
Canada.
Sapezhnikov spent the most
The Head Coaches
Name: Tim Smith
6th Year at Marist
Record: 94-34
(Marist)
17
4-38 (Overall)
Has won four consecutive
MAAC titles, four consecu-
tive appearances in the
NCAA tournament.
Name: Louie Merette
University
of Montreal.
Contributed
in the cre-
ation of
tennis league in
Montreal.
Hoping to
expand league and add
a Canadian
Championship.
time at the booth, while Nassif's
car was granted permission to
cross the border the quickest. As
the van pulled up to the booth,
the team ultimately knew cross-
ing would not be a one-two-three
affair.
The coach handed the women
in the booth two New York State
drivers' licenses, and six pass-
ports. The women handed back
all the identification, along with
a yellow slip and guided the van
to immigration
offices.
The wait wasn't too long, and to
everyone's surprise the woman in
immigration was very friendly in
helping the team on their way to
Montreal.
"Wouldn't it be an interesting
article in the paper if the team
never makes in to Montreal?"
Coach Smith said. "Our writer
here might have to suit up and
play ifViktor can't get
in,"
Coach,
later said iri a kidding
way.
Thirty minutes later, the team's
passports were all
stamped
with
the Canadian seal and they were
now allowed to enter Canada.
Luckily for the tired team, the
University of Montreal was only
about 45 minutes from the bor-
der. By now it is 8:30 p.m., but
the dark skies would have you
believing it was four in the morn-
mg.
The van :finally arrived on cam~
pus at 9:30 p.m.
"I told them we would be there
at 9:30," Coach Smith said as he
looked at the clock on the car
radio. "Right on time."
Friday night was a quiet night
for the team as they met the
University of Montreal's tennis
team. The Montreal team gave
the Marist team a tour of their
student center, complete with an
expansive indoor track, indoor
tennis courts, ping-pong tables,
and basketball courts.
After the tour, the teamed
divided up and most were paired
with a Montreal tennis player,
where they would spend the
weekend in their homes. Some
players opted to stay in a hotel
with their fathers, but player
David Slater did not mind spend-
ing the night jn
.
a stranger's
house.
"This
is a great opportunity for
people who have never traveled,"
Slater said, a native of St.
Alban's, England, who has been
.
PAUL SEACH/ SPORTS EDITOR
traveling since he was 12 years ~hris Hagen (top) pl~yed one of
Id
"Sta ·
·
d"fli
t
his better games against Montreal.
0
;
ytng
10 .1
eren peo- Some credit his yellow shoes,
pies houses
_can,,give
that close some feel the presence of h
i
s
to home feelmg.
father elevated his game.
"It (staying at a player's house)
makes the guys from Europe feel
ball jumping off the ground at
a lot more comfortable," Alain high speeds like a baseball on
Bolleta said.
artificial turf. Most members of
Both teams were to meet in the the Marist team needed to adjust
sport complex on campus at to the low lighting and fust court.
I 0: 15 a.m. the next morning. The
In
double's competition, nurn-
teams would be allowed roughly ber one doubles co-captain Pat
30-45 minutes to practice, unlike Hofer and Martin Aldorsson
the usual lengthy practices the defeated Nicolas Gagnon and
night before. After practice, the Jerome Gagnon 8-5. Chris
exhibition match would begin Hagan and Mark Santucci
with player introductions and teamed up
to
defeat Sylvian
doubles matches.
Odier and Geoffrey Deshautels
A member of the Montreal 8-2.
team rode in the van with the
Marist team, guiding them to the
sports complex where they
would be playing against each
other.
During practice, the atmos-
phere was quite calm. Both
teams came into this match
knowing it was an exhibition, but
still both teams were focused to
play and play hard.
The indoor tennis courts pro-
vided for a fast match, with the
Wrapping up the doubles game
were the duo of co-captain David
Slater and Viktor Sapezhnikov
defeating Maciek Zarzicky and
Vincent Brousseault 8-2, 8-6.
Singles competition was high-
lighted by
the
great play of Chris
Hagen
defeating
Vincent
Brousseault 670, 6-1.
"I didn't let him (Brousseault)
in the game," Hagen said. "This
is one of the best matches I've
played at Marist. I feel I am
"It is great to receive a team
from America," Samy Saad said.
"It is
fun
to :finally see a team
come here to play us."
Marist is not the first school
from the United States to play
Montreal. Montreal has traveled
to the United States before, play-
ing teams such as Vermont,
Skidmore College, and Boston
College in April.
"T)ley
are different
types of
players that we don't have here,"
Geoffrey Desautels said. "We
don't know what to expect. We
would like to see more games
though."
More importantly, this exhibi-
tion was a great learning experi-
ence for a team that practices
only a few times a week.
In Canada, collegiate sports are
not held with the same regards as
they are here in the Unit~d
States.
The
University
of
Montreal's coach, Louie Merette,
is looking to change that.
"Tennis
is small, but
competi
-
tive," Merette said.
"It is
a :finan-
cial issue, and we raise rponey to
play."
Aside from the financial situa-
tion, there is no unity between
the colleges in Canada and
Merette is hoping to change that.
Merette has helped create a
small league that has four teams
who play half a season. Each
team players each. other twice,
with one home game and one
Cont[nued
on
Page
2
Red
·
Foxes baseball team wins 2 of
3 at
Maryland
Women's lacrosse team falls
short
against Holy Cross
Marist
take the first two games, drop the final game to go 5-1 on young season
By
Jason Chrzanowski
Staff Writer
Marist
baseball
had a
solid
weekend by defeating the
Maryland Tarrapins on Friday
and Saturday,
but
falling short on
Sunday.
The Friday game
showed how strong the Red
Foxes could be by defeating the
Terrapins 8-3.
Tim Allen was the star of the
game for the Red Foxes by hit-
ting two homeruns, a double and
4
of the 8 RBI's. Keith Brachold
also hit a homerun for the Red
Foxes, his being
a
two-run
<linger in the second inning.
Starting pitcher Chuck Bechtel
(2-0) and reliever George Heath
pitched great games for the Red
Foxes.
Will
Fraizer also extended
his hitting streak to five games
with a two-run single in the first.
On Saturday, the Red Foxes
improved their record to 5-0 by
dealing a heartbreaking loss to
Maryland 9-7. Marist scored 7
runs in the
9th
with only three
hits, to win the game. Tim "The
Toolman" Allen hit his third
homerun in two days for Marist.
John McGorty also had a home-
run and added 2 RBl's to help
Marist get its second win against
Maryland.
Sunday was a different story, as
Marist could not keep its unde-
feated season going by dropping
a game to the Terps 11-8. Marist
tried to get another come-from-
behind victory by trailing the
Terps 7-3 going into the
seventh
inning.
With Marist trying to chip
away, Tim Allen helped with an
RBI single to bring Marist with-
in striking distance. In the end, it
wasn't enough and the Maryland
Terrapins handed Marist its first
loss of the season, and Coach
Tyrell his first loss as head coach
of the Red Foxes. Marist is now
5-1 on the season going
into
this
weekend's series against George
Mason in Fairfax, Virginia.
Game 1- Marist 8, Maryland
3
.
Game 2- Mari st 9- Maryland
7
Game 3- Marist 11-
Maryland 8
by
Jennifer Pascual
Staff Writer
Marist women's lacrosse fell
12-7 to Holy Cross
on
Monday,
giving the Red Foxes their first
loss of the young season.
Despite valiant efforts by
Marist's offense, they could not
secure a win. After losing the
first half
to
the Crusaders, the
Red Foxes tied Holy Cross in
scoring for the second half.
Coach Megan McGongale said
that many factors led to the loss.
"We played well,
11
said
McGongale
.
"But we need to
clean up our mistakes and
improve on our transitions and
passing. We need to force the
other team to make mistakes and
capitalize on them.
11
However, Brandi Petersen did
capitalize, scoring four goals for
the second straight game. This
gives her eight goals in just two
games this
.
season. She also
added two assists to earn a six-
point day.
Although McGongale stressed
the team does not rely on one
,
pr
two players, she did say that the
play of Peterson helps the team a
lot.
"Brandi works well with every-
one, she is very confident for
only being a sophomore," said
McGongale
.
Petersen was not the only Red
Fox to have a strong outing
.
Senior Captain Kelly Sullivan
netted her second and third goals
of the season and handed out two
dished out three assists.
Goalkeeper Heather Ripp had a
strong performance in net
recording 19 saves. With these
saves Ripp is tied for seventh on
the all-time list for most saves in
a game. The last time a goalie
had 19 was in
1997.
Marist's
•
record moves to 1-1
going into their third game
of
the
season.
McGongale said she is excited
for the rest of the season.
"The team looks great! I'm
excited for the rest of the sea-
son," said McGongale.
The R£d Foxes will host
Stoneybrook Univers
i
ty for
their
first home contest of the season
on Wednesday, March 19 at I :30
assists for the Red Foxes. While p.m.
Molly Hanley had a goal and two
assists and Lauren Sherman