VOLUME 56, ISSUE 21
Who needs Geraldo
Rivera?
When you got Andrew
Joyce. Marist
student
and
soldier in American Army
reports his experiences
from Kuwait.
Pg. 5
Security commentary
One
·
Marist student feels
that security is concerned
with students getting hit by
illegally parked cars more
than the actual safety of
students.on campus. pg. 5
The house is really
coming down this
time
Despite the jerk, Steve
Martin, and
funny
man
Eugene
Levy
Bringing
Down the House
should
not even have been built.
pg.
g
See you
·in
Hawaii!
Over
her
four years here,
Alexis Valianos has con-
tributed her blood, sweat
and tears into MCCTA.
Thank you Alexis, thank
you. pg.
8
You blew it! You
idiot!
Breath, it's ok. A little
Anger Management
is all
I need. It worked for
Adam Sandler, and it can
work for me. Now if I can
only
find
Jack's number.
BB doesn't just
mean base on balls
anymore
.
Bechtal and Brachold
brings the pitching and
batting
respectively
to a
hot Marist baseball team.
And I mean hot! pg. 12
Tennis serves
another MAAC ace
Men's team sets
school
record for wins and have a
fifth
consecutive
MAAG
title under their belt.
pg.
12
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THURSDAY,
APRIL
24,
2003
Jennifer H
a
gge
rty/
The
Circle
A student enjoys • large inflatable slide as one of the festivities on the warm summer-like day
at Student
Appreciation Day 2003.
Student Employee Appreciation Day a success
By Alissa Brew
Staff
Writer
we wanted Marist College to be
among other colleges and uni-
versities participating in this
As the stress of the
end
of the recognition," said Mary Lou
year
began,
the Marist communi-
Kutchrna, Director of Student
ty
encouraged
students to take a
,
Employment.
break from their busy schedules
Students were greeted upon
to celebrate the second annual arrival with a "goody bag" of
Student Employee Appreciation sorts, which included a free meal
Day
on
Wednesday, April 16.
ticket, raffle tickets, and a 30
The event, sponsored and sup-
minute phone card.
ported by the Office of Financial
The carnival theme was com-
Aid, was held to recognize the plete with games like pitch and
contributions made by student putt. The students were awarded
employees to Marist College.
prizes according to the number
Over 700 students, staff, and of tickets they won. Some prizes
supervisors
attended
the celebra-
handed out included water bot-
tion, which originated last year.
ties, disposable
.
cameras, and
"We started the Student basketballs. There were also raf-
Employment Appreciation Day fies held for both the students
since this is
a
National Event and and their supervisors.
A free meal was provided by
the Sodexho Marriot food serv-
ice, along with other
·
carnival
treats like cotton candy, italian
ices, fried dough and ice cream.
The Student
Programming
Council even provided an inflat-
able slide, jousting arena, and
basketball hoop, which was open
to all students
on
campus
.
Marist's staff worked very hard
at making this event a success,
whether it was making decora-
tions, or sending invitations to
students and notices to parents.
Kutchrna feels that it is very
important to recognize students
for their contributions.
"We [Marist] realizes that stu-
dents are a big part of this cam-
pus
.
They contribute so much
that it is nice to recognize their
contributions," said Kutchma
.
Many students who attended
the celebration
felt
the day was a
great success.
Senior James J. Skeggs said,
"It
was a wonderfully planned day,
providing an atmosphere that
made students really feel appre-
ciated."
Freshman Jessica Bell agrees
.
"The carnival theme was great,
and I think everyone had a lot of
fun," she said.
,
Marist College
,
Mary Lou
Kutchma, and Joe Weglarz
,
Director of Financial A
i
d, would
like to thank all those who made
it possible for this event to take
place
.
If it weren't for the gener-
ous contributions of both mer-
chants and departments, the hard
work of the Student Employment
Advisory Committee, and count-
less volunteers
,
the day would
not have been possible. Marist
hopes that this day will become a
permanent annual event, so that
students realize that their hard
work and contributions are
appreciated.
SEE MORE
For
more
on Student
Employee
Appreciation
Day,
see
pages
6
and
7 for
a
photo
spread
and
page
10
for
a
special thanks from the
Office of Financial Aid.
Marist College community to 'Take Back the Night'
Along with several other
Hudson
Valley colleges, the
Marist community will take part
in
the annual "Take
Back The
Night" march this Friday. The 8
p.m. march will be preceded by a
rally at Waryas
Park at
6:30 p.m.,
where social service and law
Weekend
Weather
enforcement agencies will join
with community groups to take a
stand against sexual and domes-
ticidating violence
.
Hundreds of people are
'
expect-
ed to come out and show their
support for the cause. Marchers
will cross the Mid-Hudson
Bridge by candlelight and then
Thursday
◊
Sunny.
Highs in
the low
60s and
lows in the upper
30s.
have the opportunity to partici-
pate in a speak out/open mike
session when they reach the
other side.
Marist College will be provid-
ing bus transportation to the
rally, where there will
be
guest
speakers, live entertainment and
displays. Following the walk,
Friday
-
Mix of sun and
clouds. Highs in
the 60s and lows
in the low 40s.
transportation will also be pro-
vided back to the college.
At the event the Marist College
Peer Advocates will be selling
event t-shirts for five dollars
each as a donation to the
Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault.
Student teams, clubs and Greek
Saturday
Mostly cloudy with
rain likely. Highs in
the low 50s and
lows in the 40s.
organizations are welcome as co-
sponsors and are encouraged to
wear their uniforms, colors or
letters as a sign of solidarity on
this issue.
--Courtney
.
Kretz
&
Cassi Matos
Sunday
Ct)ance of show-
ers. Highs in the
low 60s and lows
in the upper 30s.
























































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CAMPUS COMMUNITY
(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
April 24, 2003
Security Briefs
Thursday
4/10
Security began a hardcore boot-
ing mission Thursday night that
was in full effect until Easter
break. Eight vehicles were boot-
ed in various parking lots during
the overnight hours. A car was
booted two nights later in the
Upper West Cedar parking lot
and then again on April 14. Six
vehicles received boots on April
14, nine more on April 15, and
four more on April
16.
Some
vehicles had illegally manufac-
tured parking permits, while oth-
ers had several outstanding park-
ing tickets and were parked in
the wrong lots.
Friday
4/11
A female student was attempting
to return home from a night out
at one of the local bars, and actu-
ally got as far as her own room in
Champagnat.
She was found
soon after at
12:30
a.m., though,
and appeared to be quite sick.
She was taken to St. Francis via
Fairview ambulance for treat-
.
ment.
Friday
4/11
A student reported that she was
missing money from her room in
Leo at
11:30
a.m.
$60 was
reported missing and the proba-
ble cause for the theft was an
unlocked door.
Friday
4/11
The crazy kids in Champagnat
are known for more
than just
their excessive alcohol use. One
of their other talents includes
excessive vandalism.
At 9:
10
p.m. it was reported that there
was damage
to
the elevator as
well as to the light in the stair-
way in between the fifth and
sixth floors. The following day
included a report at 6:30 a.m.
that there was a broken coffee
table and the phone was pulled
off the wall on the eighth floor.
On April 13 at 4:05 a.m. the light
in the fifth floor stairwell was
broken, the soap dispenser .was
Compiled
by
Ed Williams III
Staff Writer
torn off the wall of the bathroom
and the mi~or was broken, and a
coffee table was thrown onto the
roof of another building. Three
days later it was reported that the
vending machine on the sixth
floor had the plexiglass broken
out and that chips were found on
the floor, That was a busy five
days of sophomoric hijinx that
will surely result in several
dorm-wide fines.
Saturday
4112
A call was received by security
telling them that a group of stu-
dents had taken a jaywalking
sign from one of the entrances to
campus. Security got right on
the case and quickly recovered
the stolen sign from the bushes
by Marian Hall and returned it to
its proper spot.
Saturday
4112
The fire alarm sounded in
Townhouse C block at
1 :30
p.m.,
but this time the accident was
caused by a cooking mishap.
Instead, the bright student decid-
ed to dump an ashtray into a
waste paper basket. Smoke soon
filled the room leading to the
alarm and evacuation.
Saturday
4112
Security made its first alcohol
confiscation at 11
:50
p.m. at the
expense of a Marian Hall stu-
dent.
After checking the stu-
dent's backpack, security uncov-
ered a fifth of Burnett's
Raspberry Vodka.
The fruity
treat was taken away, and the
student went home empty hand-
ed.
Sunday
4/13
A Champagnat student was
found sick in a Donnelly Hall
bathroom at 2:00 a.m. due to
heavy alcohol consumption. The
male
student
was unable to go
back to his room so he was taken
to St. Francis' Bed and Breakfast
to recover.
Sunday
4/13
A complaint was received by a
Midrise RA that students were
going around putting peanut but-
ter on the handles of several door
handles on the fourth and fifth
floors. Security said that some
students were disappointed that
the sticky fingered felons were
not using jelly to accompany the
peanut butter.
Something to
strive for in future vandalism
excursions
I
suppose.
Sunday
4/13
Two students tried to "beat last
call" outside of Marian at
3:30
a.m. as they were downing a cou-
ple of brewskies.
They were
spotted by the dorm guard, and
the rest of their frosty brews
were poured out. The students
were sent to their rooms.
Wednesday
4/16
The humidifier in the air condi-
tioning system of Donnelly Hall
shorted out at
5:30
p.m. The
result of the shortage was plenty
of smoke that led to the building
being evacuated after the fire
alarm sounded.
Friday
4/18
It was reported at
9:00
p.m. that
the donn guard's chair was
stolen. The "seat of power" was
quickly found
in
a sixth floor
room after a swift investigation
.
of the despicable crime.
No
charges were filed, however.
Marian hall finally seemed to
snap out of their alcohol-related
incident slumber, but it still was
Sunday
4/l 3
.,,
not enough to wrestle away the
Three students were trying
to
.
weekly honors from the alcohol
conceal their classic Colt
45
bev-
juggernaut
that
is
called
erage in the Champagnat court-
Champagnat. Leo seems to be
yard flower bed.
They were getting complacent in the later
spotted by the
RD, and the bev-
weeks, and
may lose their second
erage was confiscated.
Billy
Dee place distinction ai. the semester
Williams would be disappointed.
winds down.
Stay tuned next
Monday
4114
A student was presumably get-
ting ready to
fix a late night
snack at
2:36
a.m. in Sheahan
Hall and put a pan on the stove.
There was only one problem,
though.
There
was no food in
the pan so smoke quickly filled
the room leading to the fire alarm
going off and what must have
been plenty of jolly students
evacuating the dorm.
Wednesday
4/16
No week would be complete
without a motor vehicle mishap,
and this week's incident comes to
·
us courtesy of the Beck place
parking lot.
A 1996 Nisaan
Maxima had about a foot long
scrape on it, and it was probably
caused from another vehicle
backing out into
it.
No police
report was filed, though.
week for more updates.
H
·
ee/i(r
alcohol or
drug-related i11dde11ts
tal(r by dorms:
Clwmpag11ut -- 3
Marian -
2
Semester's total of
alcohol
or drug-related incidellfs
by
dorms:
Clwmpagnat -
2
7
Leo - JO
Mariu11 -
9
Sheahan -
8
M
idri.i;e - 4
O/tf Townhom,;es -
3
Re11oit -
2
Upper West Cedar -
2
Lower We.,·t Cedar - I
Donnelly-
I
Gartland-
I
Volunteers, children enjoy carnival
A group of 60 middle school
students enrolled in the
Liberty Partnership Program
enjoyed a carnival April 9,
thanks to the effort of 50
Marist volunteers.
Volunteers from the Circle K
Club, along with the Social
Work Association, Teachers
of Tomorrow and Kappa
Lambda Psi, provided the fifth
annual carnival for the stu-
dents from five area schools.
Activities included sand art,
making picture frames, a
beanbag toss, dancing, face
painting and bracelet making.
Participants dined on pizza
and were able to make their
own ice cream sundaes as
well.
Marist clubs have hosted
Halloween parties and carni-
vals for LPP students through-
out the past
.five
years. This
year, more than 200 Marist
students have been involved
with LPP, either as workers or
volunteers.
LPP is funded through the
New York State Education
Department and provides
services aimed at motivating
at-risk students to graduate
from high
school
and enter
college or the workforce as
competent adults. Each year,
the program serves more than
225 students in the Kingston
and Poughkeepsie school dis-
tricts.
Holocaust Rememberance to be held in Student Center
Survivor to speak about her experience as a hidden child during World War
Marist College will conduct child in France during World World War II, the impact of genocide to the Bosnian mas-
its
thirteenth
annual War Il's Nazi occupation. She conversion to Christianity on sacres.
Dr. Hogman
is
an
Holocaust
Remembrance will also discuss the later their identities and the role of instructor at New School
tonight at 7 p.m. in room 348 reperc.ussions. Hagman is a memories in the lives of University in New York,
of the Student Center on the clinical psychologist practic-
Jewish orphans, and transgen-
where she teaches ''The
Marist campus. The program ing and living in New York erational resolution of trauma. Holocaust,
An
Evolving
is free and open to the public.
City.
She edited a volume of The Memory."
Dr. Flora Hogman, a Hogman's writing includes Psychoanalytic Review on
For more information, call
Holocaust survivor, will speak studies on coping mechanisms resilience to major trauma, the Marist Public Affairs
of her experiences as a hidden of Jewish children during ranging from the Armenian office,
575-3174.
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Events
Calendar
Take Back the Mid-Hudson Valley
April 25, 2003 - 10:00
p.m.
Join local colleges as they march by candlelight
over the Hudson River. The event is part of a
worldwide movement to end sexual assault and
domestic violence.
The event begins
·
in the
Champagnat Breezeway. Sign up for transporta-
tion and purchase a tee- shirt. For more informa-
tion please contad Jessica Kirk at ex. 5752.
Volleyball tournament
April 27, 2003 - 1 :30 p.m.
Spon~ored by the American Cancer Society, Marist
students are welcome to participate in a volleyball
tournament on the campus green. There will be
four players to a team. $3 per person. For more
information, call Ali at x4377 or Jess at 454-2429.
Unfreeze your Brain
April 29, 2003 - 5:00p.m.
The Dean's Circle and Mid-Hudson Chapter of
American Mensa would like to invite you to come
celebrate intellectual acheivements and the 20th
Anniversary of Mid-Hudson MENSA in the
Cabaret. Come join the fun; play brain-teasting
ga_mes and contests. Membership testing will also
be available at 6:00 p.m. For more information call
338-3776 or e-mail twistedfool@aol.com.
Capture the flag event
May 2, 2003 - 4 p.m.
Students from Keith Strudler's Sports Public.
Relations class will be holding a "Capture the Flag"
event on the green between Lowell Thomas and
Dyson. The game will consist of 20 students, ten
on each team. Sign ups began yesterday during
activity hour. The cost is $3 per person. Each play-
er will receive a free t-shirt for participating in the
event, free pizza and free water bottles. The event
will be held rain or shine. Call Siena Mair at x5079.
PR expert speaks
May 7, 2003 - 11 :30 a.m.
Frasier Seitel, author of
The Practice of Public
Relations
and top professional in the PR field will
speak in the PAR. This is an excellent opportuni-
ty to network and learn more about the PR world.






































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Citing SARS, Harvard denies course credit
By
Yailett Fernandez
Harvard Crimson
(Harvard
U.)
International Programs' ban on granting
credit for programs in areas affected by
SARS is a "temporary moratorium," and
may change in coming months
.
has still not made a decision about
whether the fellowships it has awarded
for study abroad next semester will be
usable for travel to Asia.
change its policy in light of the possibil-
ity of a SARS vaccine being introduced
in the near future.
"It
'
s a stress I don't need at the end of
the year," said Long, who says she
needs to take Chinese this summer in
order to fulfill the requirements of her
joint concentration in Anthropology and
East Asian Studies.
Should students be pre
v
ented from
using the grant money for trave
l
to
affected areas, Perkins said they could
still use
i
t to fund other related pursuits
.
But in the meantime, many students'
summ~r plans are up in the air as a vari-
ety of University grant programs are still
deciding how to react to the advisory
issued April 4.
"All of the students who were offered
the fellowships have accepted them and
are planning to go," Weiming said.
Timothy A. Wickland '04 sa
i
d he will
go ahead w
i
th his plan to travel to Ch
i
na
this summer
,
despite the
U
ni
v
ersity
's
warning
.
(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -
Students t,lanning to take academic pro-
grams in SARS-affected regions have
been told they won't get credit for their
classes -
and say they are in "limbo"
on whether Harvard University pro-
grams will still fund their travel.
Two weeks ago, the University issued
a moratorium on travel to Singapore
,
Vietnam, China and Toronto -
areas
that have been struck by SARS
,
or
severe acute respiratory syndrome, a
flu-like illness that has killed more than
200people.
Director of the Asia Center Dwight H.
Perkins said that he does not
think
stu-
dents will be allowed to use the Center's
grant money for travel to countries
where SARS has brokeri out -
even
though the University has not yet
expressly banned using grant money for
travel to these
'
areas.
Victor
·
D. Ban '04, who received a
grant from the Yenching, said he is
being
forced to wait to see whether he
can travel to Asia with the money.
"I feel like I would like to go but I
have to wait to make a final decision,"
Ban said.
Kathryn A. Long '05 said that as of
now she will not participate in a lan-
guage program in China - even though
she had planned on it -
because she
will not receive credit for the program,
and does not want to put herself "at
great risk for nothing."
Claudine C. Stuchell '04, who
received a grant from the Asia Center
for thesis research, said she still plans to
travel in the interior of China as of now,
but realizes that her grant money is "in
limbo."
"I think peop
l
e are getting a b
i
t too
hysterical about the SARS thing
,"
Wickland wrote in an e-mail.
"
I'm more
likely to die in a car accident headed to
the airport here in Boston than to con-
tract and die of SARS after arri
v
ing in
Beijing."
Perkins said students will probably be
able to go to affected areas this summer,
but
"it
won't be with Harvard money."
Leslie Hill, assistant director of study
and work abroad, said that the Office of
Director of the Harvard-Yenching
Institute Tu Weiming said the Institute
Long said she
hopes
Harvard will
"I'm not letting the small risk that I
will contract SARS change my summer
and thesis plans," said Stuchell
,
who
said the last she heard students are still
allowed to make their own choices
about travel, but are "strongly advised"
against it.
SARS continues to infect people
throughout the world
.
As of Monday
,
the number of deaths due
t
o SARS had
climbed to 21 7
(
up from 182 as of
Saturday) and 495 new cases were
reported over the weekend, according to
the World Health Organization
.
Elizabeth Nihiser
I
The La11tem (Ohio State Univ
e
rsity
)
U-WIRE
An early morning fire April 13 at 64
E.
17th
Ave.
in
Columbus,
Ohio killed five students and
injured two others. Shortly after authorities ruled the fire to be arson, a sign, was posted
offering a
$5,000
reward for
information
leading to
arrest
of the guilty
party.
More than
$15,000 in reward money has been
offered, and officials
are still seeking information.
University, community assisting
OSU students displaced by fire
By Jessica Herzfeld
The Lantern
(Ohio State
U.)
(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio -
Many Ohio
State University students are homeless as a result
of the fire that broke out April 13 at 64 E. 17th
Ave. The university and many members of the
community have been giving their support to the
victims 'in need.
Karen Fisher, Director of the Student Advocacy
Center, has been involved in assisting students
who have lost their homes and possessions.
"We've gone out to the house to really try to
find students," Fisher said.
There are 33-37 displaced students, Fisher said.
The center is providing students with bedding,
toiletries,
BuckID
money for food and counseling
services. Workers are also providing students
with excuses from class because of the fire.
The center is working with area landlords to
place students into new lodgings and has
arranged for them to stay at The Blackwell
Inn
until
permanent
arrangements have been deter-
mined. Assistance will continue even after new
homes are found.
Nichole Stevenson, a senior in sociology, was
one of the students displaced because of the fire.
Her apartment building, 58 E. 17th Ave., was
unlivable after the roof caught fire from the
neighboring house. She is staying with her sister
at the Sigma Alpha sorority house.
"Pretty much everything was salvageable,"
Stevenson said.
Her furniture incurred the most damage from
water and smoke. She is working with her insur-
ance company to replace her losses.
Stevenson ~as been in contact with Student
Advocacy, but her situation is
difficult
since she
will be graduating in June and does not want to
sign another lease. She has made use of the blan-
kets, towels and BuckID money from the center.
"They've been great with everything," she said.
However, she has been hesitant to accept many
of the services that are being offered.
"I didn't want to take away from other stu-
dents," she said. "We were very, very lucky
.
"
Danielle Goler, a
junior
in psychology and
criminology, was Nichole's roommate and is
staying at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house,
where she is a member. This living arrangement
is permanent for the rest of the school year.
Goler has found a lot of support from the Greek
community.
"As soon as the fire broke out, my sisters ran
out to the house," Goler said. "My best friend,
Elizabeth, stayed up with me for 36 hours."
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has been very
supportive, Goler said.
"I was outside and told everyone who was out
there that my house was open," said Sigma Phi
Epsilon house manager Kevin Grady.
The fraternity house became a center of chaos,
as it opened its doors for the Red Cross to set up
headquarters and allowed police investigators
and firemen to use the house as well
.
"They basically took over the house," said
Sigma Phi Epsilon President Jeremy Carrier.
Throughout the tragedy, Goler found solace. "It
felt good that so many people offered help," she
said
.
"We really came together like a community."
Fatal fire near Ohio State
was arson, authorities say
Three OU students,
two
OSU
students ~lied
in April 13 blaze
By Philip
Elliott
The
Post
(Ohio U.)
(U-WIRE) ATHENS, Ohio -
The fire near the Ohio State
University campus that killed
three Ohio University students,
two OSU students and injured
two others has been ruled arson.
Police do not have a motive or
suspect in the fire, which started
at 4:05 a.m. April 13 near the
front door of 64 E. 17th Ave. in
Columbus, Ohio.
OU students Erin M. DeMarco,
19, of suburban Canton, Ohio;
Andrea
K:
Dennis, 20, of
Madeira, Ohio; and Christine
M.
Wilson,
19,
of Dublin, Ohio,
died. The three were members of
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
OSU students Kyle Raulin, 20,
of. West Chester, Ohio, near
Cincinnati,
and
Alan
Schlessman, 21, of Perkins
Township near Sandusky, Ohio,
·
also were killed in the fire that
broke out after Schlessman's
21st
birthday
party.
Last week
,
officials confirmed
the identities of all victims. The
autopsies are complete, and
smoke inhalation likely is the
cause of death, said Franklin
County Coroner Bradley Lewis.
Police are treating the deaths as
homicides,
said
Columbus
Detective Mike Mccann.
"It has been ruled an arson," he
said. "We're very early in the
investigation
.
"
Police now are waiting for
results from the crime lab,
according to Sherry Mercurio
,
spokeswoman for the Columbus
Police Department.
"There are still a number of
people to be spoken to,"
Mercurio said.
Fire Department spokeswoman
Kelly McGuire said the fire start-
ed at the front of the house.
Investigators said they are cer-
tain the blaze could riot have
been an accident.
OU student Jillian Gardner, of
Dublin, Ohio, who was injured
in the fire, was readmitted to the
hospital April 14. She was listed
in fair condition at Children's
Hospital in Columbus. She had
been treated and released Sunday
from OSU Medical Center
.
On April 15, about 40 members
of Alpha Gamma Delta ttilVeled
to Duf>lin for Wilson•s wake.
Some took a bus while others
drove separately, said Susan
Chiki, alumnae adviser.
OU Dean of Students Terry
Hogan said the sorority members
are dealing with the deaths as
best as can be expected.
'
"They're strong women
,
and
they're coping with this as well
as anybody could. It's disturbing
to anyone who is knowledgeable
about the circumstances to think
that someone might have started
this fire intentionally. I know
we're anxious to know the out-
come of the investigat
i
on."
·
Dean Knisley, a friend acting
as spokesman for Christine
Wilson's family, said Tuesday
the family is hopeful that some-
one will provide information
about the deaths.
"If
you get 80
t
o 100 people at
a party, someone's going
t
o talk
pretty soon," Knisley said.
Police downp
l
ayed w
i
tness'
accounts of a fight that broke out
earlier in the
night.
"
There's a lot of rumors going
around this huge fight. To cal
l
it
a fight does it an injustice,"
Mercurio said. '
'
I
t
was a minor
fight between two people who
had too much to drink."
Police also announced
T
uesda
y
a $15,000 award pool for those
offering information about the
fire.
The money, wh
i
ch Mercurio
describes as
"
far and above the
normal amoun
t,
" comes from the
OSU Crime Stoppers, Ce
n
tr
a
l
Ohio Crime Stoppers
and
Division of Fire Crime S
t
oppers.
Those with informat
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on can call
(614) 645-8477 or 1-877-645-
8477.
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At home or abroad, always
an opportunity for friendship
By Janie
ll
e Maha
n
MAP Madrid 2003
Circle Contributor
this whole time I shared the same small campus
with these people and never even knew them. It is
a shame t
h
at I didn't get the chance to know them
before now, but
I
am glad that I have finally gotten
the chance to do so.
Studying abroad is a once in a lifetime experi-
ence. It is a way to explore the world in which you
live and witness first hand new ways of living and
thinking that perhaps had never occurred to you
before. But apart from the traveling, food, sight-
seeing, and immersion in a new culture, the inost
important aspect of studying abroad
are
the people
you get to share the experience with. It is always
interesting to meet people from a different country
and learn about their habits, culture, and people as
a whole. However for me, one of the best parts of
being abroad is the bond with the other students
that this experience has allowed me to create.
The poi
n
t is, even if you are not studying abroad
or don't have the opportunity to do so, it does not
mean that you have to miss out on a chance to get
to know new and interest
in
g people.
If
you
m
ake
the effort to talk to people on your own campus
that you have never met, you may be surprised at
what yo
u
may have in common, or what you can
learn from each other. The years you spend in col-
lege go by so quickly and opportunities pass you
by on a daily basis. The on
l
y thing you have to
lose is a potential friendship, and nobody can ever
have too many friends.
So go ahead and introduce yourself to someone
you don't know. Its never too late to meet some-
one new. You may be surprised at what you can
discover about the people on our very own campus
and what treasured friendships that can form from
one simple meeting. Who knows? Maybe these
random strangers walking around campus might
just be your qndiscovered new best friends.
Before coming abroad, I did not know any of the
other Marist students, but after only two short
months, we have grown to become close friends. It
is wonderful to discover that you have so much in
common with other people - and just as great that
you can learn so much from those who you have
less in common with. It is amazing to think that
Students urged to donate organs
B
y
D
ev
in
Si
mmon
s
Arizona Daily Wildcat
(U.
Arizona)
(U-WIRE) TUCSON,
Ariz. -
Seventeen Americans died today
because they didn't get the
organ they needed, according to
the Donor Network of Arizona.
With a new statewide online
registry, the first of its kind in
the
nation, University of
Arizona students are getting the
chance to make a difference.
Before the installation of the
online registry system officials
were required to ask the families
of the
.
deceased for permission
to take an organ. But now the
online registry acts as a person's
informed consent, saving valu-
able time and dodging difficult
emotions that come during a
moment of tragedy, said
Kimi
Petrick, a communication senior
and student representative for
the donor network.
''This takes the hard ch.oice
away from the family," Petrick
said.
Petrick, along with membe
r
s
of a new student organization
called Youth for Organ
Donation Awareness, have set
up a table on the UA Mall
where students can sign up for
the online registry.
"It's a little morbid, talking
about death," Petrick said
.
"By
coming out here we can help
peop
l
e to understand it."
People between the ages of
18
and 25
are
the most likely
to
die
with organS' that
are
viable for
transplants, said David Caretto,
a bio-chemistry senior and vice
president of YODA. But they
are the least likely to donate, he
added.
People have this image that a
transplant team is hovering over
them when they die; greedily
waiting to take their organs
from them. But this is not the
case, it's about saving lives;
Caretto said.
"People are afraid, they
are
afraid of death," said Petrick.
"Young people especially don't
like to face the idea of their own
mortality."
President Pete Likins, a regis-
tered donor, took a moment
Monday afternoon to sign up for
the online registry.
"This is another step in the
process that saves valuable
tim~;" he said. "There are peo-
ple in critical need and we
s
h
ou
l
d want to donate as a mat-
ter of humanity."
It takes a lot of people who
.
are willing to donate in order to
get a good organ, Likins said.
Peop
l
e do not
u
sually die in
ideal circumstances, where their
organs are salvageable, and that
is why it is important for there
to be a large number of people
willing to
d
onate, he added.
Only 1 percent of all availab
l
e
organs are actually usable
,
Petrick said. But the organs and
tissue from one person can ben-
efit as many as 50 other people
.
"It's obviously a good thing,"
said Alexis Lewinger, a psy-
chology junior who signed up
for the registry. "You get to help
out fellow people."
LOGGING ON
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donation locally, visit:
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of Hea
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• 4 ounces reduced
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• 2 teaspoons finely shredded lemon peel (zest)
• I tabl
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• 2
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M
eeting
M
arist
Dean Gerard A. Cox
Alumni
,
p
r
ofessor, MCC
TA
a
dvisor
and a part of the Maris
t
t
r
adi
tion.
B
y M
i
c
ha
el Aljita
bil
o
Circle Contributor
Imagine being a Marist student; now imagine
that as you leave class, you can't go back to your
room. Instead, you have to continue with the
co
n
struction of a new building on campus.
That's how it was for Gerard Cox. In the mid
1950's at what was then called Marian College
,
Cox was studying to be a Marist Brother. When
he and his classmates weren't in class, they were
hard at work building the chapel.
"I worked on all the woodwork inside the
chapel." Cox said. "There were three ofus who
were e
n
trusted with finishing the woodwork."
Of course, Marist became Marist College in
1962.
In Cox's time as a student however
,
Marist was a very different place.
"The campus was very much a converted
farm," he said. "We didn't have lawn mowers,
we had sheep. The sheep cut the grass. We had
chickens, we had pigs and we had live stock."
Cox's involvement with Marist spans almost
50 years. He graduated from Marian in 1955, but
came back to the renamed Marist as an associate
professor of English in 1967. Two years later,
he was promoted to Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs.
From 1979 to 200 l, Cox served as the Vice
President and Dean for Student Affair
s
,
.
although he continued to teach at least one
course each semester, having earned tenure in
1974. After retiring from his position of Dean in
200 l
,
Cox went back to being an associate pro-
fessor of English. To those who know him, how-
ever he will always be "Dean
.
"
Cox has been the architect of every theatre
activity at Marist
.
In 1976, he combined the
Marist College Theatre Guild
,
the Children's
Theatfe Guild, and the Experimental Theatre
Guild into the Marist College Council on
Theatre Arts, or MCCTA. He has served as the
club's advisor since its inception
.
Students are greatly appreciative for what he
has done in the realm of Marist Theatre
"Dean Cox is the heart and soul of Marist
Theatre." Former MCCTA President and Marist
graduate Christopher Yapchanyk said
.
"He laid
the foundation for Marist students in the realm
of theatre from the very first year and continues
to build upon that foundation today by his work
with MCCTA."
There is something about the nature of theatre
at Marist that Cox has never grown tired of.
"What is most memorable
i
s the spirit of giv-
ing that you see people giving to one
a
nother in
making a great show work" Cox Said
.
After over 30 years of theatre at Marist
,
Cox
shows no signs of slowing down.
"If
I feel I'm really out of steam, if I become
less enthusiastic
,
I would move on. As long as I
can still get excited about what's happening
,
why not continue?
He also spoke about the lessons his students
learn. "I always wind up with the feeling that
what these men and women have learned is how
to work with other people
.
These are lessons
that will be useful for the rest of their lives
,
whether or not
t
hey work in theatre
"
Imag
e c
redit
:
www.
ma
rist.edu
Dean Gerard A. Cox
Bob Lynch, the Director of College Activities
at Marist has known Cox since he had him as an
English t~iKW~r at Marist in the 1970's.
L
ynch
is most impressed with Cox's contributions to
the college as a whole.
"He is a visionary
,
" Lynch said
.
He
i
s able to
see things that you and I can not normally see
.
In other wo
r
ds
,
he takes it all and puts things
into simplicity and yet all that simplicity has
great bearing for the future." Lynch added: "He
was able to take the college from its inf
anc
y into
its adulthood
.
He is a transitionist.
"
Cox,
'
s modesty is a testament to his in
c
redible
character. He is tentative to admit his incredible
influence on the development of the college
, y
et
he is proud of what he has accomplish
e
d.
"One of the things I would like to think that
I
helped to do is define the Marist herita
ge.
What
are the values that we attempt to
in
c
o
rpor
a
te into
present day Marist College that are trac
e
able to
the founders of the institution?
"
Cox seems to leave an indelible mark on any-
one who
i
s lucky enough to fall under his benign
influence
Doug Deiss, a former Marist student once said
of Cox
,
"When I went to his ret
i
rement party at
Marist and saw the way every
o
n
e
had wonderful
.
stories to share about him,
I
a
c
tuall
y
kn
e
w then
the kind of man, or person in general I wan
t
ed to
be
.
"
That sentiment is shared by people who have
had lhe privilege to know Cox, including this
reporte
r
. He inspires students to pursue excel
-
lence in everything they do
,
and to show com-
passion for others, especially those less fortu-
nate
.
When asked about his modes
ty
and good will,
C~x responded in character.
"
It
would be part of that tr
a
dition
.
M
ar
cellan
Champagant (the found
e
r of the Marist
Brothers) wanted his brothers to be known for
three thin
g
s: humility
,
simp
l
icity
,
and mod
es
ty.
"
These three words describ
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Cox better than
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Jennifer Haggerty/The
Circle
An
aerial
sho
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library,
chapel and Beck parking lot
taken
In
April 2002.
Campus insecurity:
A serious problem
Security more concerned with tickets than safety
Qy Maria Meany
Staff Writer
A girl and her friends park in
Beck parking lot, 2 a.m. on a
Tuesday night.
They see a
security
guard read-
ing a newspaper in his jeep.
They politely ask for a ride back
to campus. "No, not enough
room for all of you."
Okaaay.
"Well,"
the girl says.
"After
we cross the
street,
my
friends are going to Gartland and
I live in Midrise. Could you
come and drive me back?
t
1
U.
1
too scared to walk alone." He
scoffs, "Honey,
if you're too
scared to walk alone to Midrise,
I feel bad for you."
A week later, a girl is attacked
in the Midrise stairway. Marist
puts up another light to 'solve
the problem.' I guess so the
attackers can. see their victims
better.
A girl is hanging out with a few
of her guy friends in front of Old
Townhouses, where they live, on
a Friday night. Another girl is
doing the same a few houses
.
down witli her friends, who are
not Marist stude·nts, but locals.
The locals start a fight with the
first
girl's
friends and pull out a
knife, causing the first group to
run
into the house.
The local runs into the house
after them and holds the knife to
the girl, demanding to know
where the boys went.
Thankfully, ultimately, no one
was hurt. The local boys get
away, throwing the knife in a
bush near the dumpster. Two
Marist "security" jeeps were sit-
ting just across the way, right on
the street, the entire time. When
they finally meander over, the
shaken girl demands, "Why did-
n't you come help us?!"
"We thought it was just typical
Friday night noises," one shrugs.
(Hm, you mean like drinking,
fighting and partying? Isn't that
what you're supposed to be
investigating?)
The two "security officers"
then refuse to
get
the knife out of
the bushes. One of the boys
finally throws up his hands and
fishes it out. When the cops
arrived,
even they asked the
security guards, "Why
didn't
you
get
the knife?"
I know
about
these stories
because they happened to friends
of mine. The next two incidents
I don't have details of because I
don't know who the
girls
are.
All I know is that
"
they were
raped, in Beck and Lower West
Cedar.
And they
couid
have been
any of us
.
Where was the
secu
-
rity guard
when this happened?
Flipping through the sports sec-
tion?
All of these incidents occurred
last year.
Do
they bother you at
all? Maybe you guys out there
can't understand the fear of
being raped or assaulted. Maybe
knives don't scare you. But does
the fact that a guy was robbed at
gunpoint inside Benoit/Gregory
right before Spring Break send
UQ
a red flag?
Security is
disappointing
The security situation on this
campus
-
or lack of security
I
should say -
is out of control.
We go to school in Poughkeep-
sie, not exactly a beacon of safe-
ty. I don't know of any other col-
lege where
people
can just walk
in off the street and not be ques-
tioned about their business on
the campus.
I'm graduating in May
-
if
I make it that far without
being attacked, that is.
I can't decide what the bigger
outrage is: the fact that these
incidents were allowed to occur
or that no one seems to
•
Care.
Everyone hates Security because
they give 01,1t tons of parking
tickets
-
they should hate them
·
because that is the only thing
they do.
Wake up and smell the coffee,
especially if you are an under-
classmen. I'm graduating in May
-
if I make it that far without
being attacked
,
that is. Is this the
kind of campus you want to live
on?
The people that are supposed to
protect us are more concerned if
we have the right parking sticker
on our car than if we make it
back to our dorm safely. We
don't have a security force. We
have a bunch of meter maids
who sit in parking lots, on the
lookout for students who
commit
the heinous crime of 'illegal'
parking while rapists
run
free.
Not only that, but they deny the
right
.
of fearful
girls
to walk
home
safely.
Now, of course, they don't even
offer vehicular
escorts.
They've
resorted to the brilliant S.N.A.P
.
program. Now, I don't want to
rag on these people, the kids
mean well
.
But I'm
sorry,
two
girls,
no bigger than me, in
bright red jackets are not
going
to protect me from a rapist or a
guy
with a
gun.
Or what if
there's a whole
gang
of them? It
just
gives
them more victims to
terrori
ze.
I don't want to
scaremonger,
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office the
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week of April 14, 2003.
·
CAMP ARIFJAN, KUWAIT
(March 29)
-
Well it has
been quite some time before I
last wrote in to
The Circle.
,I
initially just wanted to hold off
on the "war correspondence"
until
I
actually got into the
country, but the people at
The
Circle
were persistent and
when it's all said and done, I
enjoy writing to you all and I
sincerely hope those of you
can maybe get a better under-
standing of this conflict and
how it affects people our
age.
I left New York for Kuwait
about a week ago, and the
events leading up to our depar-
ture were overwhelming. At
Fort
Drum
as we were staging
ourselves at the airfield, the
press descended on any soldier
who would comment on their
situation, needless to say a lot
of the louder guys took full
advantage of this. But after we
received our briefing regard-
ing
this conflict's Rules of
Engagement we were off.
Generals and
Colonels
slapped
me on the back as we headed
towards the plane.
The trip was incredible.
6,500 miles of it.
I
must have
flown over 20 oceans and seas,
I saw the lights of Paris,
Rome, Crete. The flight was
long, but as the sunlight broke
through my cabin window and
we descended onto the desert,
seemingly endless and brown,
I knew it was time for busi-
ness.
There was something
eerily beautiful about the
desert when I saw it for the
first time.
Once we left the plane with
all our gear we were taken to
another holding area, a mili-
tary camp near the airfield. I
rubbed
shoulders
with
Australian and British com-
mandos and laughed to myself
watching
three
Kuwaiti
nationals shout at each other as
they tugged at a hose, repair-
ing an air
conditioner,
a lot of
culture
for the first hour.
Then the sirens went off.
Send missile sirens
,
to be
exact.
Our protective gear had to be
on, but
gas
masks had to go on
first. Once that was on, the
but this is the reality of the situa-
tion. We should not have to feel
unsafe on our own
campus.
Criminals have
gotten
the mes
-
sage: Marist kids
=
easy targets.
about
expressing
their outrage.
My question to Dennis Murray
:
what are you
going
to
do
about
it? He's done nothing so far, so I
turn
to you
students
to
call
up
your parents and tell them to
writ
e
a letter to him. Or just tell
them about these incidents
-
they won't have to think twice
An
even
more
satisfying
protest would be if
everyone
refused to pay their parking tick-
ets
until they bring back vehicu-
lar
escorts
and put a guard at
every entranceway
into this
school.
Rape and anned
assaults
are
not laughing matters.
Enough
bitching
.
It's time to take
control
of our
safety
and take back our
campus.
suit came on, and
I
sat there in
the tent, clutching my weapon,
waiting for the "All Clear"
from my
commander.
It came,
and I was told it wasn't a drill.
I
thought
to myself, "Wait, I
thought Saddam didn't have
Scud missiles anymore?" But,
this is a man who has lied to
the world for 12 years, so I
shouldn't have been surprised.
These sirens have a becomes
a fixture in the lives of all the
soldiers serving here, it's never
a drill, and the U.S.'s Patriot
missile knocks them out of the
sky before one of them lands.
Nine times out of ten, they do.
Good accuracy but still not
good enough for me.
Our job here has the poten-
tial of becoming quite danger-
ous very shortly. I'm pretty
sure I'll be working very long
hours, and with little time here
and there for me to write for all
of you. Just the same, I'm
glad
I have the chance
to
1
and
regardless of anything I will
make time to do it.
I'm sure I haven't figured the
world out just yet, I'm only
21
years old.
I do know that
many of you think this conflict
may be all about
President
Bush's obsessive economic
interests,
but
I
can tell you I
don't believe that to
.
be the
case. No one wants war, but
Saddam must be stopped, and
if the SCUD attacks on our
troops here in Kuwait isn't
indication
enough
that he's
lied
about his capabilities, I
don't know what is.
But like I've said before
I
don't want to rant on about our
mission and what my personal
beliefs are, I just want all of
you to know my situation right
now isn't very desirable, but
I
wouldn't leave if
I
had the
choice.
I
miss everyone, I hope to
write
again
very
soon.
Whether you're for this war or
against I, don't forget about us
over here, and say a prayer.
SPC Andrew Joyc
e
49th QM
Group
325th TC
Camp Arifjan
APU-AE 09366
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need to be published?
Next week
is
the last
The Circle!
E-mail
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Monday
5
p.m. to get this year's
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Student workers were invited to festivities, food and fun on April 16,
2003. Organized by Financial Aid, this year's Student Employee
Appreciation Day featured games where students could win prizes (a
choice of a Marist basketball or two water bottles) and a raffle where
students could win a variety of prizes from local merchants. A gladia-
tor match where students could go one-on-one, as well as a huge inflat-
able slide, were also included in the festivities. Students were seen
milling about eating cotton candy, ice cream, or various foods from the
free buffet held in the Cabaret.
For more information, please see the cover for the feature article.
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THE CIRCLE
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&
ENTERTAINMENT
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April
24, 2003
Valianos looks back on
four years
in
MCCTA
by Matt Dunning
A&E Editor
Alexis Valianos didn't have
time for an interview. In fact,
since signing on as director of
this year's Children's Theatre
production of
Abracadabra
Aladdin,
she barely had time to
breathe the air outside of the
Nelly Goletti Theater.
The
weeks leading up to the show's
opening on April 3rd were an
unending carnival of crowded
rehearsals, c9stume fittings, and
production meetings. It's all a
familiar
process,
though.
Valianos has spent nearly the
entirety of her resfdence here at
Marist at the heart o( the theater
community. Now, with gradua-
tion a mere few weeks away,
Valianos is finally getting a
chance to look past the heavy
cherry-wood doors that adorn the
Neily Goletti; the very doors
that, when she opened them for
the first time-eight months
before she was even a freshman-
she knew she was standing in the
room that she would call home
for the next four years. What's
most amazing about the level of
dedication Valianos has shown
the Marist College Council on
Theatre Arts (affectionately pro-
nounced mic-tah) is that she isn't
a theatre major.
"Whether I'm onstage or back-
stage making it happen, I like
entertaining others. I love it,"
Valianos says, huddling herself
up on one of the aging gray
couches outside the theater. A
Vrrginia native, she was raised in
Bloomington, NY, only forty
miles from Marist College. She
confesses that she's been an
entertainer from the get-go. As
early as third grade, she was
soaking up the spotlight as
"Marta Von Trapp" in a high
school production of
The Sound
Of Music.
"I loved
it,"
she
beams. "That was it, I told my
morn that was what I wanted to
do."
Valianos' acting career
sprawled from there, as she
picked
~
role after role in pro-
ductions of some ,of theatre's
most promi~ent titles.
She
played "Gloria" in a production
of
Damn Yankees,
"Rose" in
Marist's production of
Talk
Radio
and, most recently, "Jill"
in one of this year's ETG titles
English Made Simple.
In her high school days,
Valianos was strictly an actress.
It wasn't until she arrived here at
Marist in the fall of 1999 that she
was privy to the tornado-beset
trailer park that can be the back-
stage realm of a production. Her
first show at Marist a comedy
entitled
Proposals,
saw her in the
role of assistant producer. Since
then she's nearly run the gauntlet
of production tasks, including
sound, make-up and publicity,
and though she's enjoyed them
all, she spares no enthusiasm as
she explains that her new love is
directing.
"I think its great to be able to
take a show and mold it or sculpt
it to a particular perspective,"
says Valianos, 11:s she turned a
curious (and perhaps a bit wor-
ried) gaze toward the theater,
presumably wondering if she's
needed inside. It was then that I
realized that the night before her
shows goes up was probably not
optimum for an interview.
As opening day for
Abracadabra Aladdin
drew near-
er by the hour, Valianos was at
the center of a swarm of costume
designers, prop masters, and pro-
ducers, all of whom are armed
with a barrage of questions for
the 22-year-old. In the midst of
fielding every last query to its
bearer's
satisfaction,
she found
time to take
a
phone
call
from an
eager;
young reporter wanting
know
if she has time
sit down
with
him
and talk theatre for 20
or
30
minutes. Incredibly and,
perhaps
a
bit masochistically,
she
agrees.
I
arrive
at the Nelly
Goletti
around 10:30
Tuesday
night, just as
Valianos was wrap-
ping up the final dress rehearsal
before the
show goes
up in the
morning.
Though visibly
tired,
she radiates with the
brilliance
of
a full moon, gently
luminous
in
what is otherwise a very
dark
and heavy atmosphere. She is
short-adorably short-with golden
brown hair and shimmering
brown eyes. What stands out
most, though, is her smile.
When Alexis Valianos smiles, it
generates a memory of a sun-
soaked nap on your favorite liv-
ing room couch, or the feeling of
pulling into your driveway after
an eight-hour drive.
Indeed,
when Valianps smiles, it feels
like home.
Next year, Valianos has her
choice between two of the fore-
most communication schools in
the country-Emerson College in
Boston
and Arizona State
University-as she pursues a
Master's Degree in intercultural
communications.
Though,
before she takes those final steps
out of the Nelly Goletti, she'll
end her
tenure
right back where
she started: in the
spotlight.
She'll be assuming
leading
roles
in one of the Student Festival
plays as well as a student film
later this month.
As the interview draws to a
close, Valianos finds herself back
at the center of a cadre of pro-
ducers and technicians wanting
to know if the subtle changes
they've made in her half-hour-
long absence are acceptable. It's
a process that can wear on one's
nerves, but has become second
nature to Valianos. Over four
years, she's become an indelible
part of the MCCTA family. And
just
like a member of the family
going
off to school for the frrst
time or, perhaps more appropri-
ately, starting a life on her own,
Valianos is beginning to take
stock of
everything
she's done
and learned within the confines
of the Nelly Goletti Theater.
"I've met some of the most
fas-
cinating
people I'll
ever
meet,"
she
gushes, adding, "I got to do
what I loved. For four years, I
got to spend a large portion of
my time in a theater that I've
become so attached to."
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2003-2004
Applications are currently being
accepted through
May 1,
2003.
For a list of available Scholarships,
visit our Web Page
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Jack Nicholson
and Adam Sandler are
at their
angry
best in surefire blockbuster
Nicholson, Sandler square
.
off in
Anger Management
by
Paul DeMichelle
Staff Writer
Jack Nicholson and Adam
Sandler co-staring
in
a comedy
about excess anger •.
,I
don't
recall a more promising premises
in
recent
film
history.
People
all
.over the
world have
spent
decades laughing
at these two
people getting mad; now, the
world gets to see them get mad at
each other. The plot had its
flaws,
yet
with
the outstanding
cast and priceless idea it really
shouldn't matter. After a brief
opening flashback of an embar-
rassing-kiss-related childhood
incident, the movie swiftly
brings the audience to the pres-
ent
where
Dave
Buznik
(Sandler), all grown up now, is
about. to board a plane for a busi-
ness
trip.
After
saying
goodbye
to
his
girlfriend Linda (Marisa
Tom1.:11
Dave
boards
the plane to
find that his seat has been taken.
He is forced to take another seat,
which happens to be next
to
Dr.
Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson).
After having some trouble get-
ting head phones he has an incl•
dent with both the flight atten-
dant
and
the on board flight
mar-
shal. the plane is forced to turn
around and Dave
is sentenced
to
mandatory anger management
classes to help solve his "implo-
sive"
an&er
problems.
Throughout the rest of the movie
Dave finds himself in some very
interesting and often unrealistic
situations
with the help of his
eccentric doctor. With the aid
of
a great supporting cast and some
extremely
fun~y cameos, the
movie never
drags
for a minute.
While I
certainly
found
myself
laughing out loud more often
than during any other movie thus
far this year, I also realized how
much more potential the
film
had. So many opportunities were
blown because of Director Peter
Segal's poor timing. While I have
no problem affording him credit
for some truly remarkable
scenes, as a whole, the film
remained
entertaining
orily
because of Nicholson's brilliance
as
an actor and Sandler's surpris-
ing agility
as
a straight
man.
I
have
no
doubt that directors
across the country were cringing
in
their seats as
they
watched
Segal ruin what could have been
cinematic
gold several
times
throughout the
film.
By
the
time
it reaches its unique
20-minute
conclusion, it seems only fair to
blame
screenwriter
David
Dorfman for
the
film's
shortcom-
While it was certainly a
humorous
finale,
I will always
wonder,
what if
...
As you can pr~bably tell, I
have mixed
feelings
on the
film.
Could
it have been better?
Absolutely.
I~
it the best
comedy
of
the
year
so
far?
Absolutely.
Personally,
I feel
Nicholson is
arguably the
greatest actor,
peri•
od.
I would watch
him
perfonn
in
almost
anything.
Bottom Line:
If
you like
Nicholson or
Sandler,
see
the
film;
if
not,
you
won't
miss
much.
New Pete Yorn effort
plays
it too safe, comes
up short
by Jennifer
Goldsmith
Staff Writer
Pete Yorn
-Day
I
Forgot
When
scruffy-voiced
Pete Yorn
emerged
in
2001
with his debut
musicforthemorningafter
(no,
that isn't
a
typo),
critics
were quick to tag the
singer/songwriter
with
the highest of
expecta-
tions. With
vocals compa-
rable to Wilco's
Je
Tweedy,
a gliding
lyrical
sense, and
guitars tem
-
pered
by what would
seem
to
be
Southwestern
sun
(
despite the
singer's south
Jersey roots), reviewers
hailed him
as a
legend in
always
the safest path.
That's not
to say
that
Day...
is
trifling. Yorn has woven
a subtle-
ty through this album
that,
upon
ftrst
glance,
may be perceived
as
µionotony.
But while
nearly
interchangeable
tracks like
"Pass
Me By"
and ''i.,ong Way Down,"
and several other lustful
strains
cessor. The album's most promi-
nent
triumph, "Tum
Off
the
Century" toys with a carousel-
like melody, overlaid in frail,
nostalgic
verse, and serves as a
vulnerable contrast to the reverb-
infused "Carlos (Don't Let
It
Go
To Your Head)". "Carlos ... ,"
another welcome divergence
from the love-weary
hums,
transforms
Yom's languid warble
to a white-hot surge of
energy, backed by
sharp drumbeats and
guitar homage to clas-
sic rock.
the
making.
And,
_
llingstone.com
\:
although the album
war-
Pete Yorn takes
a
break between recording
sessions
Though Yorn's patch-
work assembly of
both glistening and
slightly faded tunes
.
seems to hold a safety
net
beneath
the
album,
it detracts
from the cohesion of
ranted
the
acclaim it
was
given, perhaps critics,
too quick
in their predictions, set
them-
selves
up
for
disappointment.
That said, Yom's sophomore
effort
lands with, not
surprising-
ly, diminished
impact.
Though
the singer
adheres
to
the ele-
ments that made his
first
release
noteworthy,
Day I Forgot
is evi
-
dence that
playing it safe isn't
·
might
leave something to be
desired (primarily, a sense of
inventiveness), they
are offset by
remarkably solid standouts. The
album opens with a song on the
cusp
.
Catchy and radio-friendly,
"Come
Back Horne" offers
strong
potential
as a single, but
much
in
the
same way as
"Life
On A Chain," sharing even a
crackling fade-in with its pred~-
Day ...
as a single work. Listen to
"Burrito" and you'll find yourself
wondering what this album
wants itself to be. Yet the talent
of
the
singer
/
songwriter
resounds unmistakably through
-
out the album, and, while
music
-
forth
e
morningaft
e
r
may be the
stronger ofYorn's releases,
Day I
Forgot
shouldn't be forgotten
.
































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J
ayhawks soaring
with new release
by Matt
Dunning
A&E Editor
The Jayhawks -
Rainy Day
Music
The Jayhawks have spent the
last decade and a half trudging
around their native· Minnesota,
serenading truckers and townies
as they slump a little further
down on their barstool and nod
off. In the 17 years since their
eponymous debut effort was
released,
they've shared the stage
with alt-country heavyweights
like Counting Crows, Ryan
Adams, and even Minnesota's
premier claim to rock n' roll
immortality:
Mr. Bob Dylan
(Dylan's enigmatic son Jakob
lends his whiskey-and-honey
croon to a few backing arrange-
ments). Now, nearly 20 years
after their first on-stage appear-
ance, so long ago that the band
had yet to be named, the
Jayhawks appear poised to claim
their rightful place as
one
of alt-
country's most formidable acts.
Rainy Day Music,
as a title, is
a bit misleading. Yes, a
number
of the songs on the Jayhawks'
seventh
studio release beg little
action
beyond
lying on a couch
on
some dreary, rain-drenched
afternoon clutching a beer in one
hand and a tattered Polaroid of a
girl you'll never see again in the
other.
But
much of
Rainy Day
Music's
52-minutes-plus is better
suited for cruising across an
empty Nebraska highway in the
middle of the day, trying to
determine whose resolve is bet-
ter, yours or the car's. Jangly,
folk-soaked tracks like "Save I
_
t
for a Rainy Day", "Angeline",
and the dusty and a bit defensive
"One Man's
Problem"
bring the
grittier elements of some of
rock's elite-the Ro1ling Stones,
David Bowie, Tom Petty, and,
predictably, Bob Dylan-to a
down-home
simmer,
never
allowing one influence or nuance
to completely dominate the sonic
landscape.
"One
Man's
Proble~" kicks off with a sly
tribute to the Stones' "Honky
Tonk Women" before it melts
like butter on a hotplate into a
kind of lonesome-on-the-front-
porch longing more suited to
Waylon Jennings than Mick
Jagger. Gary Louris leans his
Ryan-Adams-circa-
Whiskeytown wail against a rac-
ing steel guitar in the down-in-
flames anthem "Tailspin".
What sets the Jayhawks apart
from most alt-country acts, even
the successful ones, is their prac-
ticed grasp of vocal harmony.
Louris
assumes lead duties, but
is backed on nearly every chorus
by
the
remaining
three
Jay hawks:
bassist
Marc
Pearlman, drummer Tim O'
Reagan and Stephen McCarthy
on guitar, as well as the
Wallflowers' Jakob Dylan and
mid-90's alterna-hero Matthew
Sweet. Nowhere is
their
com-
mand of harmony better show-
cased than in
·
the Louisiana
twang of"Madman". A haunting
and contemplative tune, it fea-
tures a four-part harmony that
echoes CSNY's
Deja Vµ
with
profound resonance.
,,,
It's entirely likely that
Rainy
Day Music
won't win eight
Grammys or sell 300,000 copies
in its first week on the racks.
Sadly, the Jayhawks appear
doomed to grapple with the
stinging truth that bands like
Wilco are finding themselves
slamming headlong into despite
stellar material: these days, talent
doesn't necessarily yield success.
Chris Rock, with a gleam
in his
eye,
contemplating
the changes he'll make if elected president.
Rock delivers despite flat storyline
by
Paul Lukason
Staff Writer
Head
of
State,
the latest opus
from comedian Chris Rock,
views
more as a typical stand up
routine rather than a full-fledged
feature
~Im.
Chris Rock
is
an excellent
stand-up
comic.
While some
find his choi~e of words in poor
taste, others take a
liking
to
them. Rock is quite an intelli-
gent man with
a
lot to say about
nearly everything.
Despite its cinematic short-
comings,
Head of State
is not
without its merits. With the lat-
est trend in moviemaking being
to release stand up routines as
feature
films
such
as
Eddie
Griffith's
Dysfunktional
Family,
Steve
Harvey's
Original Kings of
Comedy,
and Martin Lawrence's
Run
Tell
Dat
,
Rock decided to try
something
different. Rock took
his
standup
routine and turned it
into a
coherent
story
.
His acting
choices in
the past have not been
the
greatest,
but this one was
somethi
n
g
different. Rock took
on this film as writer, director
and producer to ensure that he
had total
creative
control on the
film.
While
Rock
was bound by
a PG-13 limit, he still managed
to pull together a solid plot, a
milestone among stand-ups-
turned-actors.
However far-fetched or prepos-
terous the plot may be, it still
holds itself together
.
The story
finds Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock)
the last ditch effort of a
Democratic Party desperate to
produce a candidate for the next
presidential election. During his
campaign he must chose his own
running mate, as
no
credible
politician (if such a thing exists)
will run with him. Mays choos-
es his
brother
Mitch Gilliam
(Bernie Mac). The two of them
tour the country, giving various
speeches ori things they will do if
elected to office. Inevitably, the
two beat the seemingly insur-
mountable odds and find them-
selves the two most powerful
men in the free world.
Mac is hardly funny here, a
shock given that his television
series is typically reviewed as
"hysterical" and "laugh-out
-
loud
funny."
On the big screen
though, Mac gierely goes around
slapping
everyone
for no appar-
ent
reason.
Without dialogue
and without interaction, he plain-
ly slaps people in the
face,
once
again playing to America seem-
ingly perpetual refusal to laugh
at anything
except
physical
humor.
The political satire in the movie
is brilliantly written
.
Rock's
delivery and timing is unparal-
leled, even in this sort of
watered-down format.
His
mockery of the electoral process
is sidesplitting, if not poignant.
Rock's wit and irreverence
aside,
the film finds itself rife with
worn-out jokes and cheap punch
lines. Ho~ many times can an
audience laugh at white people
dancing to hip-hop?
At least
once more, as these were the
moments that received the
biggest laughs of the film. Old
white men and women listening
to rap isn't funny.
It
was funny
the first time people saw it, but
after a dozen or so it loses its lus
-
ter.
The film
certainly
delivers the
laughs as Rock flexes his ability
to write as well as his on
-
screen
charisma. The satiric
spin
on
politics is quite amusing, howev
-
er
the physical humor
feels
trite
and obligatory.
It
would
be
interesting to
see
Rock
work
with someone
else,
but only
as
a
writer.
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9
A terrified Colin Farrell trapped
inside
a sniper's tangled web in Shumacher
'
s Phone Booth
Phone Booth
twists and
turns as
·
Farrell shines
by
Paul
Lukason
Staff Writer
Phone
·
Booth,
clocking in at a
disciplined 80 minutes, manages
to grab audiences, tantalize and
outright confuse them with mind
games, and deliver a message
that should stick in the back of
viewer's mind for quite some
time.
Joel Schumacher, or Schu-
"hacker" as critics have come to
call him, delivers his best film to
date.
That
is
not to say that
Phone Booth
is a masterpiece; it
~s.
in fact;, far from
it.
It
does
how~er
en.tert~Jn
with
Orwellian mind games that keep
everyone guessing. Shumacher
single-handedly destroyed the
Batman
franchise with
Batman
Forever
and
Batman and Robin.
He masterminded the absolutely
bizarre
BMM,
.
and the horrifying
mess that was
Bad Company.
In
short, he was due.
This time around Schumacher
tries something unique and it
actually works.
Phone Booth
was shot on a limited budget and
in only 12 days.
However it
doesn't show. The film plays out
with epic meticulousness and
Speilberg-esque
production
value.
approach to the film,
i.e.
having
the location in one
specific
spot
seems quite ridiculous at first
and, really, could only be a gim-
mick. Rather, it gives audiences
a sense of discomfort. We've all
used pay phones before, and
since we're not given anything
else to connect to, we're forced to
sit there and think about actually
being trapped in one by some
yahoo with a sniper rifle. The
film is also filled with many split
screen shots. Two. three or some-
times even four angles are pres-
ent so audiences can see
things
from every possibly perspective.
This technique was made famous
by a film called
f!mecode
where
audiences
view
four different
angles of the film at all times.
The cast of the film remains
small so that a sense of intimacy
is
created
with the audience.
Colin Farrell stars as the lying
and conniving PR representative
Stuart Shepard. Farrell is a man
who can play almost any role
and pull it off successively. His
role as Sheppard is no
exception.
Farrell presents his character as a
too-hip-for-his-own-good
PR
agent who spends his life living
lies,
but becomes human in an
emotional breakdown after a
mental
cat-and-mouse
match
with a
sniper
holding him
Schumacher's distinctive hostage from a fifteen-story win-
dow.
Forest Whittaker, a wonderful
character actor, plays Captain Ed
Ramey, the cop on the scene as
the plot unfolds. His depiction
of small characters in big films
never ceases to amaze. While he
never
really
brings anything new
to the table, he continues to
entertain and delight nonethe-
less.
The voice of
the
caller who
plays mind games with Shepard
shall remain nameless because it
ruins the
surprise
.
Advertising
should heed this advice as his
name is plastered over posters
and
commercials.
This
,
rams the
expetience
for
viewet.s.
However only physically being
present in the movie for a few
moments, his voice is quite
creepy as it shares some sonic
resemblance to the voice in
Scream
and
Joy Ride.
'
Phone Booth
is certainly
.
a
unique experience; a welcome
deviation from all the lackluster
fluff out there.
It
also falls into a
specia
l
category of film with two
other titles,
Arlington
Road
and
Seven,
as their outcomes resem-
ble one another.
Phone Booth's
premise seems silly and ~ikely,
but the film and its message hl)ve
more to offer than
simply
a man
in
a booth.
Bringing Down the House lat-
est saddled by weak script
by Paul
DeMichelle
Staff Writer
Brining Down the House
comes in
shortly
behind Dark
Blue as the second worst movie
thus far this year. Steve Martin
has traveled a rocky road that's
led him in and out of movie stu
-
dios
throughout
Hollywood. He
landed his first
entertaining
movie in years back in 1999
when he teamed up with Eddie
Murphy in the uniquely
amusing
Bowfinger.
Since then it has been
all down hill, landing him as low
as one could possibly go (I hope)
.
without sparking some kind of
come-back.
It
doesn't get much
worse than
Bringing Down the
House.
Let's
hope for all of those
involved,
it never does.
The
calamity
begins with a
nostalgic
tribute to the Tom
Hanks
-
Meg Ryan failure of a
romantic
comedy,
You've Got
Mail. Peter Sanders (Martin)
and
Charlene
Morton
(Queen
Latifah) are having a flirtatious
online
instant messenger
conver-
.
sation. Charlene
pretends
to
be a
lawyer, and they plan a meeting
at Peter's house. To Peter's sur-
prise, a large blac.k woman
arrives at his door rather than a
slim
middle-aged
attractive
blonde lawyer she deceivingly
portrayed herself
as.
He learns
that she is an
escaped convict
who claims to be framed for
armed robbery. After a few des
-
perate attempts to expunge
Charlene from his life, he pre-
dictably agrees to help her in
clearing her name. In
addition
to
his new-found
ghetto friend,
Peter must juggle his x-wife, an
adventures
·
fifteen-year-old
daughter, his
racist,
old
neighbor
who
happens
to be his bos
·
ses
sis-
ter,
and a
multi-billion dollar
case with woman who is
seem-
ingly unaware that
slavery was
abolished nearly two
centuries
ago.
While this has potential
for
some extremely
funny
situations,
they are all ruined by
poorly exe-
cuted direction
and
a
weak
script.
Martin
gives
his usual
bland,
yet reliable
pert:ormance while
Latifah
tries,
in
vain,
to keep
fans
interested
after her Oscar-
nominated
roll as "Big Mama" in
Chicago. The heart of the movie
beats in the bodies of the sup-
porting cast.
Eugene
Levy
(American
Pie, Best in Show),
Joan Plowright (Denis the
Menace
,
101 Dalmatians), and
Betty White
(Lake
Placid, Hard
Rain) deliver the only entertain-
ing
aspects
of the
film.
Unfortunately,
the little time they
spend on screen doesn't add up to
much when
the
credits roll.
I found
myself wondering
at
several
times while watching tlie
movie
if
a different director
could
have
actually
produced a
somewhat
decent movie after
making some minor
variations
to
the
script.
Director Adam
Shankman
and screenwriter
Jason
Filardi are
stand to
shoul
-
der most of the blame for just
how bad this film was
.
Rather
than
a
bang,
2003
has
yielded
lit-
tle more than a
disheartening
fiz-
z
le for avid moviegoers
nation-
wide. Yet, like Steve Martins
career,
the
movies can
only
get
better from this
point
on.






















































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NEWS
(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
Aprit24,2003
Marist names 2003 Intern of the Year
Every year since 1993 Marist's
Center for Career S~rvices has
recognized a graduating senior
for their outstanding achieve-
ment in experiential education.
This year, the annual award has
been presented to Jacqueline
Smith, a senior medical technol-
ogy major from Queensbury, NY.
Smith will receive the 2003
Marist College Intern of the Year
award at the Field Experience
Recognition Luncheon on April
29.
ing assignments. Students who
participate in all of these pro-
grams are eligible for the award.
every semester, with a cumula-
tive grade point average of 3.9.
She is a member of the Dean's
Circle, Honors Program and
School of Science Student
Advisory Board at Marist.
The luncheon, which will take
place in th·e Student Center
Cabaret, is held to recognize stu-
dents who participate in intern-
ships
,
co-ops and student teach-
Smith's internship including
working as a medical technolo-
gist at the Castle Point Veteran's
Administration Hospital, St.
Luke's Hospital in Newburgh,
and St. Francis Hospital and
MOS
Hudson
Valley
Laboratories in Poughkeepsie.
In addition, Smith has also
worked as a Marist research
assistant under Dr. Raymond
Kepner and as a teacher's assis-
tant under Professor Catherine
Newkirk
and
Dr.
Robert
During the luncheon the Center
for Career Services will also be
presenting the 2003 Marist
College Intern Employer of the
Year award to St. Francis
Hospital who have hired student
interns for more than 20 years
.
Past recipients of the award
include IBM, Enterprise Rent-A-
Car, American Cancer Society
~
Central
Hudson
Gas
and
Sullivan.
Electric, Northwestern Mutual
Smith has also excelled aca-
Life
and Madison
Square
demically as dean's list student Garden.
Student Employee Appreciation Day
Thanks to. the following for all their hard work
Special thanks to these mer-
chants for their support and
terrific donations!
Chase bank
Key
Bank
Fleet Bank
NellieMae
SallieMae
Starbucks
Eckerd's
Rossi's Deli
Supercuts
K&D Deli
Campus Deli
Applebee's
Marina's Pizzeria
Palace Diner
Marist Computer Store
Dough Boy's Pizza
United Parcel Service
Office of College Activities
Banana's Comedy Club
Culinary Institute of America
Bank of New York
McDonald's of Mid Hudson Plaza
Many thanks go to the follow-
ing offices and departments for
their generous contributions
for this event:
Academic Learning Center
Annual Giving
Athletics Department
Center for Advising and Academic
Services
The Circle
Digital Publications Center
Health Services
Human Resources Department
Department of Information
Technology
Office of Institutional Research and
Planning
James A. Cannavino Library
Marist College Bookstore
Marist College Media Center
Marist College Post Office
Marist Institute for Public Opinion
Office of Financial Aid
Office of International Programs
Office of Safety and Security
Office
·
of Special Services
Office of Vice President/Dean of
Student Affairs
Physical Plant Department
Registrar
Sodexho Marriot Dinning Services
2002-2003 Student Employment
Advisory Committee
Marilyn Brandi- Director of Annual
Giving
Sarah Colwill- Assistant Director of
Student Activities
Anne Cox- Assistant Director of
Annual Giving
Colleen Engelhard- Assistant Athletic
Director
Jane Fiore- Coordinator of Academic
Leanling Center
Nancy Hildebrand- Secretary of
Financial Aid
Mary Lou Kutchma- Director of
Student Employment
Bob Lynch- Director of Student
Activities
Connie
Mccaffrey-
Director of
Housekeeping
Joseph R. Weglarz- Director of
Financial Aid
Mike Napolitano ('04 )- Student
Assistant, Office of Financial Aid
Special Thanks:
Judy Abraham- Payroll
Janice Baldwin- Admissions
Chrissy Bartuciotto- Financial Aid
Kate Boucher- Admissions
Lisa Boyes- Financial Aid
Michelle Cappelli ('04)
Ann Cassalina- Financial Aid
Amy
Coppola- Admissipns
Brian Delaney- Admissions
Marlene Fighera- Student Accounts
Sue Goulet- Admissions
Todd Hamer- Athletics
Anna Harvey- Admissions
Ellie Heinzinger- Student Accounts
Scott Khare- Athletics
Andrea Kutch.ma ('03)
Joan Magee- Registrar
Katie Martyniuk ('04)
Jeanne Mills- FoxNet
Joan Nies- MIPO
Vinny
Pettograsso- Admissions
Cathy Ridgeway- Financial Aid
Lou Santiago- Admissions
Corinne Schell- Transfer Admissions
Michelle Stokes- Dean of
Faculty
/
A VP
Donna Watts- Admissions
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(845)-575-3000 ext. 2429
April 24, 2003
THE 101TH
BOSTON MARATHON
Andrea I. Gonzalez I Harvard Crimson (CJ-WIRE)
Marathoners donned silver blankets at the finish line of the Boston Marathon
Monday.
Winners of the men's and women's races each took away $80,000 in prize
money.
Harvard undergrads run among
crowd of
20,000
at marathon
By Wendy
D. Widman
Harvard Crimson
(Harvard
U.)
"
(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -
Amidst a
sea of shiny silver space blankets, runners of all
ages gulped water and noshed on fruit and ener-
gy
bars
as they recuperated from their 26.2 mile
trek: from Hopkinton, Mass., to the heart of
downtown Boston for Monday's 107th running
of the Boston Marathon.
boards, signs, advertisements everywhere
.
The
crowd is unbroken, people nonstop."
Several other runners echoed praises for the
crowd.
"The crowd was incredible, the whole length.
It was nuts," said Jeff W. Helfrich '03, who has
run
on Harvard's varsity track and cross country
teams for the past three years and took the spring
off to train for the marathon.
Helfrich, who qualified in races over the sum-
mer, officially placed 129th overall, completing
the course in about two hours. and 46 minutes.
Harvard alumni also turned
out for the race.
Some looked exhausted and
h
d
. d b
'It's the &.arthest
l'
11
e
ever
Sporting a DHA sweatshirt,
ot ers seeme energize ' ut
,.
v
Bill Madden '94, said he felt
all declared satisfaction after
run
in
a sustained period.
supported as he ran.
completing the course.
Everything hurts.,
"It's
fun
to come down here
"It was amazing, one of the
with friends and family. This
best things I've ever done,"
is what Boston is all about,"
said Harvard University stu-
he said, beaming.
dent Megan A. Crowley '05.
Luke Long
Madden, who now attends
"The crowd carried me
Harvard senior
the Tuck School of Business
through so much. I kept on
at Dartmouth, started training
getting the chills from all the
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
in_th_e_be_g_inrun-.-g-of March and said that it was
excitement,"
Tom c. Gilmore ,06 also
ran
in the marathon difficult to fit
-
marathon training into his busy
schedule.
after months of training with friend Jay Gierak
"I was hoping for a 3: 1
o,
but I finished in
'06.
3:25," he said. "My best time is 3:01." While
"We decorated T-shirts with our names and our Madden said he did not train as much as he
school name and just got tons of responses," he
would have liked, some current undergraduates
~
~ 1 ~ - i l l
Talk of resting pulse rates, negative splits,
"I
definitely
had zero training," said Luke R.
aching feet and where to eat flooded the crowd.
Long ,03, who
decided
to
run
as an unregistered
"What's one more mile after 26?" one runner
"bandit" runner with three friends at 10 p.m.
responded to his wife's requests to go shopping
after the race.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sunday night.
"It was definitely a
m:!e:hi~a~omp:!::~~
'We ran together with some
spur of the moment
thing," he said.
plans, most fans were
other friends and were telling
Others crossed the fin-
content to watch and
t
·
th
h I
It
Sones
e
W'.
0
e way.
was
a
ished line after much
cheer for the runners.
social
experience
I
more preparation.
"This is like a 26-mile
Julia H. Fawcett '04
street party," said Rick
said she began training
Gunzi, a Michigan resi-
Lori
Bush
in November and
ran
an
dent who has run four
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
average of eight miles a
BostQn Marathons and 18 maratho
_
ns
overall.
After years of experience, he was coaching
friend Lori Bush to achieve her "PR," or person-
al
record,
in this marathon.
"It was great," Bush said, "We ran together
with some other friends and were
telling
stories
the whole way.
It
was a social experience."
And Gunzi was rewarded with a different sort
of PR on Tuesday, too -more than eight hugs
and a kiss.
He shared the secret to his success.
"I had two beers, Sam Adams, at the 18th
mile," Gunzi said
.
Cigar in hand, he added, "My goal is to
run
Boston every year that I can. Boston gets more
into the marathon than anyone. There are bill-
day, six days a week.
"I was going to run last year, but I was injured,"
she said. "I didn't think it was going to be as
painful as it was, but I made it."
Long also experienced some pain, "Muscles I
didn't know I had are now cramping," he said,
"but it was incredible."
"It's the farthest I've ever
run
in a sustained
period," he said. "Everything hurts."
Would he
run
it again?
"Never again," he said. "But it was a great
experience. It was awesome that we survived. I
recommend everyone doing it before graduation,
just to say you did it."
With reports from Staff writer F aryl
W.
Ury
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'Marist Madness' extends
basketball season, benefits
local Special Olympics
By Ed Williams
III
Staff Writer
Even though the NBA playoffs have begun and are
in full swing, March Madness has sadly come to an
end, and the excitement of the college game is
gone until next season.
Unless you 're at Mari st College.
The first ever Marist Madness three-on-three bas-
ketball tournament and skills challenge to benefit
Dutchess County Special Olympics will take place
Sunday, May 4 at 1 :00 p.m. in the gray
gym
in the
Mccann Center.
The event is being hosted by several members of
Dr. Keith Strudler's Sports PR class and is the
group's final project. Mike Abitabilo, one of the
members of the group, said that they wanted to do
more than just throw another routine basketball
tournament.
"We felt that a three-on-three tournament has
been done many times before, so
·
we decided to add
the skills competition to
our
event," he said.
The tournament itself will be a 16-team affair and
is single elimination. Teams are allowed to regis-
ter up to four
players,
but only three can play at one
time, and the cost is $2 per person. The events
comprising the skills competit
i
on are a three-point
contest, a free throw shootout, and two dunk con-
tests ( one on an 8 ft. rim and the o
t
her on a
IO
ft.
rim). Entry into the skills challenge
i
s included in
the tournament fee, but is $1 per cont~st for all
contestants not registered.
A cash prize of over $200 will be given to the
winning team of the three-on-three tournament,
and second place will be given a gift certificate
from one of the event
'
s sponsors. Winners of the
skills challenges will also receive gift certificates
for their outstanding achievements. Sponsors for
the event include Supercuts, Doughboy
'
s, Campus
Deli, Marina's and The Palace Diner.
·
Brendan Copes, another member of the group
,
said that he was happy to see the community will-
ing to help out with the event.
"It's good to see the area businesses working with
Marist," he said. "Not only that, but it's all for a
good cause too."
To sign up, students can go to the gray
gym
in
Mccann on Monday and Wednesday night next
week from 9-11 to sign up
.
The sign ups for the
tournament are on a first come, first serve basis and
will close once 16 teams are signed up. For more
informat
i
on you can contact Mike
·
Abitabilo at
extension 4923.
Former Villanova assistant gets
top coaching spot at Columbia
By Phil Wallace
Columbia Daily Spectator
(Columbia
U.)
(U-WIRE) NEW YORK - Levien Gym can now be
called J.J. 's Place. Columbia has signed Villanova
assistant Joe Jones to a four-year contract to
become the 20th head coach in the men's basket-
·ball program's
103-year
history.
Jones is the brother of Yale head coach James
,·
Lappas
,
now the head coach at UMass, said
.
"He's
ready to be a head coach."
"I liked who [Jones] coached under very much. I
liked his involvement in recruiting at Hofstra
.
He
deserves credit for [current San Antonio Spur]
Speedy Clax
t
on," Reeves said. "I know he had a lot
to do with recruitment because I know who he
worked under
.
"
Jones said he would like to have Columb
i
a play
a more up-tempo style, but he added he would not
make any strategic decisions until he was more
familiar with his players.
Jones beat out a long list of candidates for the
"It's awesome," Jones said. "You know, outside
position
,
including Iona assistant Tony Chiles
,
for-
Jones.
of my wedding day and my daughter being
born,
mer North Carolina assistant Bob Mackinnon,
this is right up there."
New York Knicks Coaching Associate Mike
"[Jones] will bring a new level of intensity and Malone
,
NBA Hall
-
of-Farner Kareem Abdul-
excitement to Columbia Lions men's basketball
,"
athletic director John Reeves
Jabbar and former Duke star Bobby Hurley.
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
Abdul-Jabbar's candidacy gen-
said in a press release. "His
'You know, outside of my
erated excitement on campus
dynamic personality and atten-
and talk across the country
,
and
tion to detail will captivate
wedding day and my
while he was seriously consid-
Columbia players, fans, and
daughter being born, this
ered, he was not one of the
alumni."
is right up there'
three fmalists for the posit
i
on
.
Jones, 37, has worked as an
Reeves said he thinks very
assistant at Villanova for the
hig
h
ly of Abdul-Jabbar and
past six seasons. He graduated
Joe
Jones
added that he does not buy into
from SUNY Oswego in 1987
On being
named head. basketball
-
perceptions from others that
and earned a master's degree m
·
coach at
Columbia University
Abdul-Jabbar is an aloof and
counseling from that school in
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
distant loner. He also said that
1989; he worked as the middle school and high Abdul-Jabbar's past legal troubles were not a detri-
school head coach
at
Cornsewogue School in Long
ment to his candidacy
.
Ijand
from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 1997,
"It came down to we were looking for a college
Jones served as an assistant coach at Hofstra,
recruiter and a college coach
,
" Reeves said, citing
working under Jay Wright, during which time the Abdul-Jabbar
'
s inexperience in coaching at the
team went a combined 72-22.
NCAA level.
In 1997, he was hired as an assistant at Villanova,
Jones has a difficult job ahead of him in trying to
the same year that new Columbia football coach tum around a team that last year went 2-25 overall
Bob Shoop was the Wildcats
'
defensive coordina-
and 0_14 in the Ivy League under Armond Hill.
tor. After Steve Lappas left the Villanova program Jones said he will draw on his experience rebuild-
in 2001, Wright was hired as the head coach, ing the Hofstra program in trying to improve
retaining Jones. Wright was one of Jones' refer-
·
Columbia
;
s team.
ences for the Columbia job, and was also an assis-
"I'm really excited about the challenge
,
" Jones
tant at the University of Rochester from 1984 to said. He's also excited about the opportunity to
1986, while Reeves was the athletics director there.
square off against his brother in the Ivy League
,
he
"He's got great passion for the game. He!s a
great, personable guy who demands loyalty from
s~~~'s going to be wonderful
,
" Jones said. ''We
'
ve
his players," Wright said. "I think Columbia is talked about it and we're going to be ready for
it.
lucky because they're getting a hard-working, pas-
It's going to be two special nights
[
a season]."
sionate guy. We are going to miss him."
"It's going to be great," James Jones said. "I felt
Jones' teams compiled a 105-83 record at that it was going to happen
,
that we'd both be
Villanova. He has a reputation as an excellent behind benches, but I didn't think it would be in the
recruiter, helping to bring one of the nation's high-
same conference. It's a small world, college bas-
est-rated freshman classes to Villanova this past ketball."
season.
"You guys got a good one,
"
the Yale coach added.
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April 24, 2003
Baseball team on
fire
H_ot play by
Bechtel, Brachol
ignites team
s
winning ways
by
Scott Montesano
Staff Writer
New Mexico's Dusty Young
recently had a 38 game hitting
streak brought to end. While
Marist sophomore rightfielder
Keith Brachold is still far from
that mark, his accomplishment
isn't too shabby itself.
Brachold had hit safely in 18
sweep.
on a Brachold double.
Chris Tracz started the Foxes
Brachold finished with two
weekend, going eight strong hits.
innings
on
the mound to earn the
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win in the first game on Apr. 19.
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and Eric Johnson each had two
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until
the rout as
consecutive
games enter-
ing a
non-
league game
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Vermont
on
Apr. 22. For
his efforts, the
Attleboro,
MA
native is
leading
the
team with a
.434 average,
seven homers
and 36 RBI.
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selves
a
Brachold two-run double.
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The
key
blow was a
two-run
The Foxes added two more in
the fifth, and another four runs in
the eighth to complete the sweep.
part
to
Brachold, the
triple
by
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McGorty.
Kevin Ool earned the complete
game win. Meanwhile, Sidoti
added four hits and
Brachold
had
22-10-1 over-
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Bechtel
(MAAC),
good for second place.
lowed his nation-leading ERA to
The Foxes trail first-place
0.49, throwing a complete game
LeMoyne
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3-0) by two games.
shutout to lead the Foxes to the
Marist, winners of
10
of their
2-0 victory.
last 12, continued their winning
Marist scored the only runs
ways last weekend with a sweep they would need in the fifth,
over MAAC opponent Fairfield.
when Kevin Buck singled,
The Foxes defeated the Stags allowing Tyler Brock to score
6-2 and 2-0 in~ A~r. 19
double-
from second base giving the
sively.
With this latest sweep complet-
ed,
Marist
has
now won seven
consecutive MAAC games, and
the focus now turns
·
on catching
the league leading LeMoyne
Dolphins. The Foxes are at woe-
ful
Canisius this weekend, while
the Dolphins host the sub-par
Fairfield Stags.
Marist hosts LeMoyne May 3-
4, in the Foxes final home gaines
while students are on campus.
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Viktor Sapezhnikov
and
the
Marist men's tennis team con-
tinue their dominance in the
MAAC, winning
their
fifth con-
secutive title.
by
Paul
Seach
Sports
Editor
The Marist College men's ten-
nis team clinched their fifth con-
secutive Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) title after
winning a string of victories
against Niagara, St. Peters, and
Manhattan.
Taking the MAAC by storm
over the past five seasons, the
tennis team
(19-2)
has won 60
straight dual matches, 12 of them
coming
in the playoffs. Also,
their 19 victories on the season
marks the most dual matches
won in school history, dating
back into the early days of the
1960s.
"We are peaking at the right
time," coach Tim Smith said. "I
would have been very disap-
pointed if we did not bring
another title back for Marist.
Smith, who recently won his
100th division
I
game in only his
sixth season, was given a small
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Tennis
takes
MAAC title for
fifth straight year
scare when the team faced
Niagara.
Niagara, the only
other
unde-
feated team in the MAAC going
into their game against Marist,
proved to be tough opponents
early on.
"Niagara let
us
know they are
for real with competitive match-
es coming from their one, two,
three and six players," Smith
said. "They have the potential to
upset us this year."
And they almost came away
with the upset.
Niagara jumped ahead early,
with Jon Bozanich boasting a 6·
1 win in the first set in number
one singles against Co-captain
Pat Hofer. Hofer regrouped, win-
ning the next two sets 6-1, 7-
6(5).
David Slater, who was down in
the first set of number three sin-
gles, stormed back to defeat
Mike
Kelly, 7-6(16), 6-4.
Slater's match set the tone for
the rest of the match ( against
Niagara)," Smith said. "We were
concerned early on but we knew
the depth (of our players) would
be tough on their four, five and
six players."
Mike Nassif wrapped up the
tournament at number six sin-
gles, winning
7-6(4),
7-5 over
Kris Hrisovulos.
"We won 6-1, but that score
was deceiving because the
matches were extremely close,"
Nassif said. "It could've easily
been 4-3 either way."
The team was able to regroup
however, and their next match
was against St. Peters, who
Marist defeated 6-0.
•
The season ended with Marist
hosting Manhattan, cruising eas-
ily to a 6-0 win over the MAAC
foe. Now, Marist must look
towards
the MAAC tournament
where they hold the number one
seed.
The team
will
prepare by hold-
ing light practices and spending
ont day solely on studying their
opponents and discussing strate-
gy.
"Our teamis finally getting
helthy, so we don't want to over
work ourselves," Nsssif said
.
"We haven't played much in the
outdoors because of the bad
weather this winter, but we are
adjusting to the change."
Looking back on the past suc-
cess of the tennis team, this year
seems to be no different than any
other winning season. They set a
school record for victories by a
team (19), and team chemistry
appears to be blending beautiful-
ly.
"We are confident, but cau-
tiously confident," Nassi( said.
"This is our best team, last year
we were able to cruise through
the playoffs, but the other teams
in the MAAC have gotten much
better, and we know we will have
to play harder."
header, before picking up an l l -
Foxes the 1-0 lead. After stealing
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McEvily:
~ife after Jordan: How the
Leading
on and off the field
NBA will cope without
him
The
athlete's
perspective
The week of
March
31st
by
Tara Delmour
through April 6th
Staff Writer
turned out to be a
stellar week for
senior softball player Kathleen McEvily.
During that week the Red Foxes (6-25, 3-7)
played 6 games and McEvily, a 4-year starter at
third base and shortstop, led the team to a 5-1
record by batting .420, scoring 6
runs,
knocking in
3 runs. She collected 10 hits and
5
doubles in 22 at
bats. This outstanding performance won her the
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC)
Player of the Week Award. However, that award
doesn't begin to measure the true worth of "Leenie"
McEvily.
McEvily, a senior captain, is a true leader. She
leads by example on the field and also in the class-
room.
An
Art-History major, she was named to the
MAAC All-Academic team as a junior last year
and was named an Academic All-American this
year by the National Fastpitch Coaches
Association of America
.
This season, McEvily
took it upon herself to take the new underclass
members of the team under her wing and show
them how
to
be a true student-athlete.
"Leenie has been a leader on and off the field and
has been approachable all year round," freshman
left fielder Katie Eskin_ said. "In my opinion, a
great leader is someone who can offer advice at
one point, then listen at another, which is exactly
Strudler's sports PR class presents
what Leenie has done for me this season."
"It
is nice to see all of a player's hard work pay
off," head coach Melissa Tucci said. "I have never
seen a more
_
hardworking
kid out on the field than
Leenie."
McEvily has been working hard since the first
time she set foot on a field. Leenie's parents
remember her first at bat in a Tee Ball League. She
was only six years old, but the first time she got a
hit she actually slid headfirst into first base. It was
at that moment that the McEvilys began to realize
how special a player their daughter was going to
become.
The McEvilys also remember their
daughter
being
noticed her senior year of high
school by the Marist softball coaches because she
was always the first player out on the field at the
start of each inning. This trademark of Leenie
¥,S
stuck with her throughout her career, even now as
a senior. Win or lose, Leenie only knows one way
to play; she gives all she has on every play of every
inning of every game.
"Leenie knows what is expected of her and she
can always be counted on by her teammates to get
the job done," junior Meghan Gosh said. "She
is
one of the most reliable and dependable people I
have ever played with."
"It is a good feeling to know that everything is
coming together after working so hard ~or so long,"
McEvily said. "I also have great teammates who
push me to be a better player."
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Opinion Article
by
Anthony Olivieri
StajJ Writer
Last week, for the third time,
Michael Jordan retired from pro-
fessional basketball. Jordan put
up incredible numbers for a 40-
year-old man, averaging over 20
points per game, scoring 40
points or more
twice during the
season. However,
Washington fell
short of the play-
offs in both
o
Jordan's seasons
as a Wizard.
Jordan not in
the playoffs? That doesn't seem
right. It's almost like Monica
Lewinsky hosting a show about
personality. Alright, that has
already happened. So, maybe,
just maybe, it is time for Michael
to
·
go. He certainly has not left us
short of memories from his
incredible career, and he is sure-
ly to continue to impact the game
in other capacities.
So, while Monica was made
famous in the oval office, Jordan
retires to the Wizards front
office, resuming his responsibili-
ties as minority owner and head
of basketball operations.
In his two previous retirements,
Jordan still had much to give to
the game. He was still the
biggest star in NBA and had no
equal when he stepped onto the
basketball floor.
However, when the 2003-2004
NBA season begins next fall,
instead of searching for the heir
to Jordan's basketball throne, we
will be witness to a group of
young princes governing the
state of NBA.
During the opening weekend of
the NBA playoffs, all the young
stars of the NBA were shining
brightly. Especially, the light-
ning-quick Philadelphia guard
Allen Iverson, who dropped the
"double nickel" on the New
Orleans Hornets when he racket
up
55
points on 21-32 shooting.
Critics say that Iverson doesn't
have the clean cut personality to
lead the NBA like Jordan did.
Well, if you don't like Philly's
boisterous guard, you may like
Hollywood's "Air Apparent",
Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.
Bryant, searching for his fourth
straight NBA championship, cer-
tainly can match Jordan's intensi-
ty and may surpass his six cham-
pionships, but he does have the
The next Mlchael Jordan?
luxury of Shaquille O'Neal to
help him out.
If it's carrying a team that you
are looking for, then look no
fur-
ther than the Orlando Magic, and
its young star, Tracy McGrady.
McGrady was the NBA's scoring
leader, who
single-handedly
lift-
ed the Magic into the playoffs.
The league is filled with talent-
ed
young players who resemble
Bryant, McGrady, and Iverson.
The league as a whole is moving
in the right direction. After years
of prematurely anointing people
the "Next Jordan", maybe the
league should realize that its
young stars are the future, and
maybe there will never be one
player like Jordan. Sorry Penny
Hardaway, Grant
Hill,
and
Harold Miner, maybe next time.
Will
there ever be another
Michael
Jordan?
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