Volume 56 Issue 3
THE
October 3, 2002
Aikido
Self confidence, respect as
well as self defense taught
under Sensei Layumas.
pg .
.
Condoms for all
Student Government Asso-
ciation will supply condoms
to promote safe sex.
pg. 3
Gartland on fire
Electrical fire burns from an
over head light in an apart-
ment in E-block.
pg.
3
Research pays off
Student's hard work earns her
a trip to South Korea.
pg.
4
Unexpected
surpri
A television show, a movie, a
book, and a CD that deserve
more attention.
pg.
8
Tennis
competes
in
match
at
UCONN
Deep and talented team
starts the season off in
impressive fashion.
pg.12
Makin the Grade
Parent's we~
d
success on
ca•
'IIS
by JENHAGGERTY
Editor-in-Chief
&
CHRIS TOMKINSON
Photo Editor
This past weekend, parents flocked to
Marist to reunite with their sons and daugh-
ters.
Beginning Friday and continuing until Sun-
day afternoon, the college provided nwner-
ous activities for students and parents to
participate in together. On Friday night, the
school welcomed Dean Simmons, a Vegas
style Garth.Brooks impersonator, to the
Mccann center, which was highly attended.
On Saturday, the festivities continued with
cruises, football and Acapella performances.
Beginning at 10 a.m., Marist offered the an-
nual event of a boat cruise down the Hudson
River for parents and students to enjoy.
Director of
Student Activi-
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ties, Bob Lynch,
said that he felt
:Parent's Week-
end was a suc-
cess. "We got a
lot of positive
comments
about the boat
cruise; about
the entertain-
ment, about the whole campus, and how the
whole campus once again shined with its stu-
dents and its parents this weekend, said
Lynch.
The rotunda was a main source of activity
throughout the afternoon, with crowds en-
joying the summer-like weather. Marist
hosted several activities throughout the day,
featuring a caricaturist, family portraits on
photo buttons, custom-made Frisbees, and
historical tours of the campus.
The bookstore was also mobbed with par-
ents and students picking up Marist memo-
rabilia to show off to all their friends.
Amongst the hot items was new
Marist apparel that
debuted
this
pll,51: week.
The
rush began early
morning Saturday, and continued
to remain busy throughout the af-
ternoon.
Monica Mejia, sophomore,
worked the Saturday shift at the
bookstore. "All I saw was a sea of
heads as I looked out into the book-
store."
Saturday also welcomed parents
to sit and enjoy a game of Marist
football, with the Red Foxes defeat-
ing
Wagner 16 - 31
.
There were also
small camps set up around the
Mccann parking lot and the foot-
ball field during the game, where
PHOTOCREDITICHR/STlWK/NSQV
people played football and social-
Far left: Dean Simmons performs Garth Brook hits. Top:
ized around the grills.
.
The Rotunda served as a meeting place for Parent's
Toe evening offered spectacular
Weekend last Saturday afternoon. Above: A heart
warming scene as students reunite with their parents.
musical performances in the Mccann center immediately
after the football game. Opening the show was the Marist
Acapella groups, ''The Sirens" and "TimeCheck."
Rockapella, famous for being the "house-band" on the
award-winning PBS series,
Where in the World is Carmen
Sandiego, performed Saturday evening. In the past,
Rockapella
has
appeared in F olgers coffee commercials and
on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The weekend slowed down on Sunday with the final out-
ings for with brunches or lunches with the family.
Sophomore Anthony Vasto was one of the many stu-
dents who spent the weekend with their parents
.
"Parents
weekend is always
fun
for me because its a time to relax and
get away from the first four weeks of work and class to
spend some time with my family, who I haven't seen in
awhile."
Lynch added, "The student affairs ares is very pleases
with die weekend and we look forward to next year."
Left: Parents pick up their ticket packages In the Rotunda. Right: Acapella group, Rockapella, rocka the McCann Center Saturday evening.






































THE CIRCLE
COMMUN/
Page2
October
3, 2002
-
SecuritJ,
Briefs -
compiled
by
EDWD:.LIAMSW
Community Editor
IPt!tl,,t!Slllly
9/25
Some W block partiers were party-
ing a bit too hard at about 11 :00
p.m., and security ws asked to
break up the gathering. No alco-
hol was found, but 12 guests were
forced to leave the fiesta.
Wedltestltry
9/25
The North Lot was the latest scene
of an apparent hit and run. At
about 12:45p.m.,areportofadent
to the plastic bumper and deep
scratch to the rear of a 2002 gray
Acura was received. The Town of
Poughkeepsie police were called,
and a report was filed, but the of-
fender is still on the loose. It ap-
peared as though the Acura was
hit from behino, before the of-
fender made its getaway.
Wedltestltry
9/25
An unwanted visitor meandered
into an Upper West Cedar Y block
apartment at about l 0:45 p.m. The
visitor was
furry,
black, had a white
stripe down its back and had po-
tential to make the whole place
stink. One of the residents noticed
a skunk in the bathroom and
promptly called security
.
Security
in turn called critter control (yes,
critter control does exist, and this
is not just me trying to be funny).
Critter control told the residents
that they could not arrive on the
·
scene until morning, but advised
them to contain the animal in the
bathroom and close the door. They
were told the skunk would not
spray if this were done. No fololw
up reports were filed, so it is as~
sumed the skunk was released
without incident the next mqming.
I1111rstltry
9/26
An
_
attempted forgery resulted in a
booted car at about 2:
IO
a.m. in the
Townhouse A parking area. Ave-
hicle was parked in a handicap
space, and did have a handicap
sticker.
·
Upon close inspection,
however, security noticed that the
sticker had been altered, so the
vehicle as booted.
I1111rstltry
9/26
A Townhouse A resident was awo-
ken from their slumber by the
sound of shattering glass at about
2:44 a.m. Only the inside of the
double-paned glass window was
broken, however. The resident
suggested that a stone was thrown
at the window,
hitting
the frame and
causing just the inside to break.
·
The super-sleuth resident could
not, however, identify the culprit.
I1111rstltry
9/26
Those crazy Marian Hall kids are
·
at it again.
In
the latest report of
sophomoric behavior, a six inch by
three inch hole was found at about
3: 10 p.m. in the west side wall of
the second floor commons room.
The fire door was also shoved
open so hard that the handle hit
the wall creating another hole. At
this rate Marian Hall could break
all records for damage fines.
I1111rstltry
9/26
Perhaps mistaking rice krispies for
popcorn, a Midrise resident placed
some tasty morsels of the popular
cereal into a microwave and de-
cided to warm them up a bit. The
Krispies started to bum as smoke
escaped the microwave causing
the alarm to go off. This only
fur-
ther proves that Marist needs to
start carrying the food channel so
that we canavoid such cooking
Snafus.
Frluy 9/27
A vehicle was spotted illegally
parked in the Sheahan lot at about
I:
15 a.m. The car had no Marist
sticker, so security went to place a
ticket on the vehicle. Apparently
the driver of this vehicle is lacking
in the common sense department
because in plain view of security
were several old parking tickets that
have gone unpaid. Security booted
the car, and the student later paid
the boot
removal
fee and has not
been heard from since.
Stdllrd4y
9/28
Okay, so it's been two briefs since
we've mentioned some damage to
the friendly confines of Marian
Hall. Yes, you've guessed it, it's
time for more fun tales of vandal-
ism. The damage previously re-
ported to have been found on
Thursday, Sept. 26 had been fixed,
but at about 3:00 a.m. that repair
was reported to have come un-
done. The same six inch by three
inch hole was back in the west side
wall of the second floor commons
room.
Stdllrd4y
9/28
An aspiring artist apparently
chose the second floor men's room
of the library to be his venue for
his latest masterpiece. Graffiti was
spotted on a stall wall at about 6:40
p.m. The artist, as of press time,
remains anonymous.
S1111tltry
9/29
The latest attempt to illegally enter
a freshman donh resulted in a com-
mon result ... failure. Two off-cam-
pus visitors tried to enter Leo Hall
at about 2:55 a.m. using the
ID
cards
of other students. The guard on
duty noticed the faces of the visi-
tors did not match those on the
cards they were using, so they were
escorted off campus.
S11,u/ay
9/29
There was an attempted larceny at
the library at about 12:20 p.m.
A
student was r~adjng an apparently
extremely riveting article in a Sci-
entific American magazine, and
wanted to save it so he could read
it over and over. The student pro-
ceeded to tear out four pages, but
was caught by library staff. It may
have been wiser to spend the $.20
for copies instead, but to each their
own.
The Division of Student
Affairs thanks members of
our campus greek organi-
zations: Alpha Phi Delta,
Alpha Sigma Tau, Kappa
Lamda Psi, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, Phi Kappa
Sigma, Sigma Gamma
Rho, Inc. Zeta Psi, for
thier assistance with the
campus September 11 Me-
morial Service and the
Campus Wellness Fair on
September 20.
ATTENTION STUDENTS
AND FACUlTY!!!
Steve Sansola
Associate Dean for
Student Affairs
The Mid Hudson Plaza has in-
fonned Marist Security that their
parking lots
are for
people patron-
izing the plaza businesses only.
There
will now
be a security
guard
patroling
the
lots.
If
people
that
are
not patronizing the facilities
fail
to
move their
vehicles,
they
will begin
towing.
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" The
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Jennifer C. Haggerty
Katherine Slauta
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
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Peter Palmieri
·
Sports Editor
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Allison Keller
A&EEditor
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James Skeggs
Opinion Editor
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Ed Williams
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Community Editor
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Karla Klein
Business Manager
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Assistant Sports Editor
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Lauren Penna
Features Edftor
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Becky Knauer
Copy Editor
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Layout Editor
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Photo Editor
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Campus Corner
Marist College Singers proudly
presents a cancer benefit concert
on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002. The
concert will take place at 8:00 p.m.
in the Chapel. Donations are
greatly appreciated. If you have
any questions call the music de-
partment at x3232.
Come dance the night away at Club
Affairs' sponsored Dance-a-thon
to benefit the American Red Cross.
Music from the 1970's, 80's, 90's
and today will fill the Student
Center's rooms 348, 348Aand 349
on Saturday,
Oct.
5 from 7 :00-1 l :00
p.m.
Attention all aspiring singers!
Auditions for Singers' Night on
Broadway, a fundraiser concert fea-
turing Broadway's most beloved
show tunes, will be held Oct. 16 in
the music department SC 150 from
11 :00 am.-2:00 p.m. All pieces must
be from a Broadway show, the song
must be memorized and totally pre-
pared, and you must bring sheet
music for your number. No CD's
or tapes may be used. Call x3242
for more details.
Attention all psychology stu-
dents! You are cordially invited to
attend the Dunlap social, the psy-
chology department's annual stu-
dent/faculty social. The event will
take place in
Dr.
Dunlap
'
s home on
Friday, Oct. 14 from 4 :00-7 :00 p.m.
Directions are available in the
graduate lounge. ·
Support your campus radio station
88.l WMCR. Student run shows
have already begun. Tune in ev-
ery Saturday from 1-3 p.m. for the
Ed and Greg Shelton Spectacular
and again on Sundays from 5-7
when they'll be joined by The Pro-
fessor and A-Bomb for the best in
sports talk radio on
The Waiver
W'ire.
Other shows to look for in-
clude Kim and Alisa's specialty
show Saturdays from 3-5 p.m. and
Kara
and Summer's rotational show
on Wednesdays from 2-5 p.m.
Attend the graduate school panel
on Friday, Oct. 4 from 5-7 p.m. in
LT 125. The even is sponsored by
Lambda Pi Eta and the N,ational
Communication Society.
Food
will
be served.
Come enjoy the comedic stylings
ofBen Bailey Oct. 4 in the Cabaret
at 9:00 p.m. Admission is free with
a valid Marist I.D.









































































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Students learn the value of the mlddla punch Tuesday evening In the Mccann Canter.
Students learn fme art
of
Aikido
by ALISSABREW
Staff Writer
Students are now offered Aikido
classes to those who want to learn
the art of self defense.
Aikido is commonly referred to
as "The way of Hannony". This
Japanese form of self defense
( called Nihon Goshin) is a blend of
Aikido, Judo, Karate, Jujitsu,
Aikijujitsu and Kobudo Arts.
Founded by Shodo Morita in
1962, Aikido is a non-aggressive
method of handling a situation. It
is not a competitive sport; every-
one is seen as an equal. It involves
using the energy of the attacker to
defend yourself. Basic moves like
the wrist escape, front block/kick,
punch and pivot step put stress
on the fact that you are not acting
but reacting to a potentially dan-
gerous situation. Even before
learning to fend off an attacker;
students are trained to avoid a
confrontation by establishing a
safety zone.
Sensei Earl Layumrui said that
"It's another way to handle a situ-
ation, and a not so violent alterna-
tive." By keeping oneself at least
two anns length from the attacker,
it already inhibits the person by
making contact with a punch or
kick.
Aikido also teaches respect for
one's self and others. Students are
expected to address their sensei as
"sir," to listen in an attentive
stance, and bow before engaging
in any activity. Students do learn
moves that
can
hann a person. The
program stresses the importance of
knowing when to use these moves
and when not too. Self-control is
key when learning Aikido.
Through their training, students
learnt~ focus on taking aggression
and redirecting it into a more posi-
tive energy. The important part is
not only developing your physi-
cal self, but your mental self too.
These sessions will increase your
self-confidence and improve self-
discipline.
Senior, Megan Lizette, said "I was
always interested in martial arts."
She adds that Aikido is great be-
cause "it's not that far of a walk, so
you don't have to get in the
car,
and it's free."
Marist has worked with Sensei
Earl Laywnas since December 1993
to offer students this course. He is
a certified instructor in the art of
Nihon GoshinAikido.
Mr.
Layumas
has
practiced
the martial arts for 20
years and holds a Ni-Dan 2
nd
de-
gree black belt. He attended SUNY
Albany and started the Aikido
club, which is still thriving today.
He has previously
displayed
his
skills at Nassau Coliseum and on
cable and currently works as an
instructor
at the Mid-Hudson
Aikido in New York Martial
Gym
in
Poughkeepsie. Although Sensei
Laywnas was present at the first
class, most instruction will be done
by Sensei Meroscalo Sienty with
help from several other aides.
Sienty has been under the instruc-
tion of Layumas for five years and
cited his son as the reason he be-
gan taking classes. He will con-
tinue to train in Aikido while teach-
ing this class.
Classes started on Tuesday, Sep-
tember 24 and will continue to
run
every Tuesday and Thursday
night, from 9 pm until l
O
pm. Les-
sons will be held in the dance stu-
dio located in the Mccann Center.
Those wishing to attend but have
not already signed up, can contact
the Marist Intramural contact,
Bogdan Jovicic, at extension 2584.
Condoms no longer banned on campus
by ALIREINA
Staff Writer
The Student Government Asso-
ciation, under the leadership of
President Brian McAlpin,
has
made
oondoms accessible to students.
Three-quarters of college stu-
dents have sex. 43 percent occa-
sionally use condoms and 24 per-
cent never do, according to a study
done by
Planned
Parenthood. With
those numbers in mind, along with
concern for student safety, a dis-
cussion among members of SGA
concluded that condoms would be
beneficial on the Marist campus.
"It
was mostly a safety concern,"
said McAlpin. "We are promoting
safe sex and safety."
Condoms have been proven to be
98 percent effective, when used
properly, and teen pregnancy is on
the decline.
McAlpin plans to hold informa-
tional sessions in the near future
to accompany the free condoms,
and his main goal is to change
policy. He believes that this will
"benefit students by more active
previous planning, and being more
prepared and better educated."
These programs will take place be-
tween Oct. 22 and Nov. 5.
A
guest
speaker along with a mentor will
run
the programs for freshmen.
In
upperclassmen dormitories, the
programs will be held t>y RSC and
will iriclude a guest speaker.
McAlpin said that the reason
behind not
having
condoms for so
long was due to the school's
Catholic affiliation, "even though
we are not a private-catholic
school. These ideals are embedded
in our past."
The overall student response has
been positive, but some harsh feed-
back has not been avoided. People
who look negatively on SGA's de-
cision question whether or not the
college should have to provide
condoms to young, responsible
adults.
Sophomore, Maria Fazzino
thinks
it is a good idea. "I would never
want anyone to have unsafe sex
simply because they are too lazy
to go off campus and buy them."
Junior, Brandon Tangueray, agrees
that condoms pn campus "would
be beneficial for everyone and a
good way to promote safe sex."
However, Sophomore, Tim Cooper
believes that the school is "pro-
moting sex, safe sex, but still sex."
The cost of the free condoms has
not yet been determined. Either the
SGA, or pocket expenses from the
Student Body President, will fund
the condom distribution.
Right now students can get pick
up condoms in the SGA office lo-
cated in the Student Center, but
McAlpin hopes that they will soon
be available in the Health Services,
along with informative packets on
condom usage.
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Electrical Fire on
Gartland E-block
by JEN HAGGERTY
Editor-in-Chief
It was a
regular
lazy Tuesday af-
ternoon, consisting ofblaring TV's,
late lunches being prepared, and
students socializing within their
Gartland apartments.
That all changed at 2:29 p.m:
The plastic light/fan in E-2's bath-
room had melted from the heat, fall-
ing to the floor and causing the
bathroom mat to set on fire.
The fire had been extinguished in
the bathroom by a male student,
using the apartment's fire extin-
guisher.
Jim Harkins, security officer on
shift, was the first on the scene.
"Security personnel responded
along with Fairview Fire
Depart-
ment, who were [already] on cam-
pus for an alann at Lowell Thomas,
which turned out to be a false
alann," said
Harkins.
"Fairview ar-
rived within seconds."
When Fairview investigated the
scene, it was
discovered
that an
electrical
fire
had
erupted above the
ceiling.
"[They] brought a truck over and
put out the fire with the truck- they
put the hose right up there and put
it out [with water]."
John T. Gildard, director of safety
and security, said that students
responded appropriately to the
situation.
"Everyone evacuated appropri-
ately," said Gildard. "All students
were back in units within a half
hour, except E-2, which needs to
be renovated."
The students were not available
for comment at the time of publica-
tion, but Assistant Director of
Housing, Patrick Kiili lee, said that
that the students no longer re-
mained in the apartment after-
wards, either going to lacrosse
practice, class or friend's apart-
ments.
"There were no injuries. It was
contained in the bathroom and
work has to be done in there," said
Killilee. 'They have friends to stay
with tonight."
Heather Marriott-Martino, resi-
dent director of Gartland Com-
mons, said that phone and com-
puter ports were affected through-
out E-block due to the electrical
fire," said Marriott-Martino.
"The guys in E-2 did a great job
in extinguishing the fire, because
it definitely would have caused
worst damage [if it was not
stopped].
Kim
Nieckarz,junior and resident
of E-6, said that everything hap-
pened very quickly.
"We smelled smoke and we didn't
know what it was," said Nieckarz.
"Then the fire alarm went off. Fire-
men came
in
and said 'Everyone
get out!'. We saw smoke coming
out of the roofin E-2."
Vanessa Tregenza,junior and resi-
dent ofE-14,
had
just returned from
the
gym
when the fire occurred.
"We all had to
.
evacuate and they
had to
tum off the power," said
Tregenza.
At the time -0f publication, the
actual damage to the apartment
was not known.
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tudi:m
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Luncheon held for spring '02 abroad students
ing group of students had found
TV/Film, studied in Florence last
2001 fall semester and instead go
another place they now call 'home.'
semester and was one of the stu-
in the spring of 2002. Valianos' de-
by LAUREN
PENNA
Features Editor
President Dennis Murray ad-
dents to speak at the luncheon. He
cision was an individual one, as
dressed
the students by asking
said his eagerness to become ab-
classmate Erik Long left for Lon-
Each year increasing numbers of them to share with the Marist cam-
sorbed in the Italian culture
al-
don four days after Sept. 11.
Marist students make the life-alter-
pus what they have learned about
lowed him to
develop
into more
"London has a diverse mix of
ing decision to study overseas.
Last spring's study abroad group
set a new record though, with over
140 participants.
On Wednesday, September 25,
faculty and students gathered in
the Cabaret for a 'Welcome Back
Luncheon' for those who studied
overseas for the 2002 spring se-
mester. Several returning students
gave reflection speeches and there
was a slideshow presentation,
compiled by the Marist Abroad
staff and returning students.
Last spring, students continued
the tradition of traveling overseas
to study at new schools, live in new
homes and become immersed in a
new society exceedingly different
from the culture they call 'home.'
But it was the noises of laughter
·
generated by the slideshow and
bits of stories echoing memories
in student reflection speeches that
made it clear that this self-motivat-
understanding new cultures.
independent person, as he recalled
people. I lived in a flat a few blocks
This past spring students stud-
a time when he and his roommate
from Buckingham Palace with
ied and held internships in places
decided they would try to only
peoplefromallovertheworld,"said
like London and Leeds, England;
speak Italian to each other.
Valianos.
Sydney, Australia; Madrid, Spain;
"I think I speak for everyone and
She also said students should
Dublin and Limerick, Ireland; Flo-
everyone would agree that going
ignore any reservations they have
rence, Italy; and two students em-
abroad has been a gift. I now have
about feeling they might miss out
barked upon a trip to Tokyo, Ja-
a greater understanding of other
on life back at Marist.
pan. Program departure dates vary
cultures," he
·
said.
"You will miss stuff here, but
for the different destinations, b1.Jt
The applications to study abroad
what you will gain is ten times
generally students leave in Janu-
for this group of students were due
more," she said.
ary or February arid return in June
on October I, 2001 - not even a
Ron Coons, who attended Sophia
or July.
month after the attacks on Sept. 11.
University in Tokyo, said he had
Marist International Program co-
This group of students overlooked
no intentions to go abroad as a
ordinator Carol Toufali said pro-
the anxiety and global tension ere-
freshman and had never left the
grams in Cuba, Hong Kong and
ated by the terrorist attacks, and
East Coast before last spring.
Paris are currently being investi-
continued to make travel arrange-
"I had no anticipation of going
gated.
ments to fly to their elected desti-
abroad when I came here, but later
"Options are being increased for
nations.
on I listened to my advisor," said
the spring 2003 group," said
Senior Alexis Valianos was
Coons.
Toufali. "We want students to go
scheduled to fly to London to
Learning in a classroom setting
where they'd like to go and we'll
study at the University of was not the only approach in ex-
do all we can to make that pos-
Westminster in
London
several
periencing a new culture for these
sible."
days following the attack. Valianos
students. Internships for credit are
Joe Giacalone, a senior in Radio/
said she decided not to go for the
also available through many of the
Student travels
to
South Korea
after earning international recognition
by MARY FRITZ
Stt!/f Writer
and National Communication As-
sociation Conferences.
The past eight months has made
Carmon a world traveler; after
studying abroad for a semester in
Madrid
,
she repacked her bags
and, ten days after arriving home
in the United States, she left for
South Korea.
away to study, but rather to present
a paper she wrote titled "A Com-
municative Profile of A Person Ex-
periencing Minority Shock".
It
was
here where she experienced the
meaning of her paper firsthand.
programs.
Senior Alexis Kaleida took
classes, lived with a host family,
and had an internship at a finan-
cial researching group while in
Sydney, Australia. She spoke at the
luncheon
about how she misses
being able to bake cookies for her
'new' siblings and that her intern-
ship allowed her to become in-
volved in all aspects of the com-
pany.
The "Welcome Back Lun-
cheon" is held annually to greet
the returning students. The num-
ber of students from the spring
2002 group is 60 pet:cent more than
the previous year, and the first time
over I 00 students have gone
abroad in one semester, according
to Assistant Dean of International
Programs Duleep Deosthale.
Senior Stacey Willis, who stud-
ied in Madrid, said the luncheon
gave her a chance to reminisce with
friends about their memories.
"I think it's a nice gesture of the
MaristAbroad
Program
to give stu-
dents a chance to reunite and share
experiences and pictures," said
Willis.
How would you feel if the gradu-
ate school of your choice paid for
you to attend their program? For
senior Anna Carmon and several
other students of Dr. Cochece
Davis, this dream has become a
reality through the
International
This time Carmon was not going
"[South Korea] was interesting
to say the least," said Carmon. "It
was very different than the states
in that it was not
as
affluent and
overcrowded. They don't speak
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Carmon during her trip to South Korea this summer.
in the minority."
The "Minority Shock" idea came
about in the summer of200 I when
Carmon was enrolled in Davis' In-
tercultural Communication course
inHawaii.
"It
was a group effort. We needed
a topic relating to culture and had
covered culture shock in class, so
we
decided
to give it a new light,"
said Carmon.
Anna is the co-author of the sec-
ond
undergraduate
paper to be
.
presented at the international level
since the communication associa-
tion conference's founding in 1952.
·
Audrey Brooks, who graduated
last December, helped to write the
paper but did not present. The first
undergraduate paper accepted was
also by a Marist student three
years ago.
Dr.
Davis said he always encour-
ages his students to send in well-
written papers to the International
and National Communication As-
sociation Conferences
.
Since he
came to Marist in 1998, he has seen
many students heed his advice and
succeed. The first National Com-
munication Association Confer-
ence he attended with Marist stu-
dents was in the fall of 1999 when
five Marist students went to Chi-
cago to present their research. The
following year was in Seattle, and
the
number
of Marist students
doubled. Last year's Atlanta con-
ference had 20 Marist students pre-
senting at the national level, includ-
ing senior Alexis Valiancis.
"People were pulling me left and
right [ saying] you are coming to
my school," she said.
Davis said a graduate school rep-
resentative from the University of
Alabama once told him he should
be proud to be on a panel with
Marist. Approximately half of all
undergraduates presenting at the
National CommunicationAssocia-
tion Conference come from Marist
each year.
"Marist is
becoming
the top
feeder school for communications
into graduate school," said Davis.
Carmon also experienced this
superstar treatment after her pre-
sentation in South Korea.
"It was nerve-wracking. I spoke
to representatives from Michigan
State, University of Southern Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara, and Wake
Forest," said Carmon. She said
while she is still debating the op-
tion of graduate school, she is
grateful for the opportunity.
Carmon
will
graduate in May and
hopes to work for
a
large corpora-
tion applying the research she has
.done as an English or cultural
trainer. She also wants to have a
job that requires traveling.
"Ever since
I
studied abroad, I
can't wait to go back to Europe,"
said Cannon.
Davis will take 25 Marist students
to New Orleans in November for
the 2002 National Communication
Association Conference .
"The name Marist is starting to
speak for itself," said Davis who
feels that this has caught every-
one by surprise, considering
Marist has only been involved in
the conferences for three years.
If you would like more informa-
tion on how graduate schools can
pay you to attend their school with-
out writing a paper and presenting
at the national level, come to the
Graduate School Panel on October
4th from 5-7pm in Lowell Thomas
125.
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Absentee Ballots for college students:
How and when to
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vote while living away from home
by KATE CHAMBERLAIN
Sta.If Writer
Many people, especially stu-
dents, do not know they still have
the right to vote in elections while
living in a place other than their
voting residence.
If
you live out
of state, are traveling, or in a branch
of the military service, you can ap-
ply for an absentee ballot.
An absentee ballot can be ob-
tained by requesting one from your
local election official. The number
of this person can be found in the
blue pages, or government pages
of your phone book. In any case, a
helpful website to answer most
questions is www.fvap.gov
JoAnn Mye_rs, a political science
instructor at Marist, said students
are not adequately informed about
absentee ballots.
"First off, students can register
to vote in the town where their col-
lege is though this gets challenged,
New Paltz and Poughkeepsie have
challenged Vassar /SUNY stu-
dents," said Myers.
The state of New York declares
that a state citizen may vote by
absentee ballot if the person is
unavoidably absent on Election
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Hospital; or detained injail await-
ing grand jury action or confined
in prison after conviction for an
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ing to www.absenteeballot.net.
The majority of Marist students
are from New York and the sur-
rounding states, so here is a table
of those states, their restrictions
and requirements.
If
the state you
reside in is not here, you can find it
at:
www.fec.gov/pages/
faabsentee.htm.
Another fact that students miss
is that everyone's vote counts.
Take a minute to think about how
many colleges there are just in the
state of New York, and then think
about what a difference it would
make if every student voted.
"I know what absentee ballots are,
but at the moment I do not feel I
know enough about the elections
in Massachusetts, where I am from,
to make an educated choice," stu-
dent Dave Bouchard.
At Marist, the Political Science
Club sponsors a registration drive,
so be on the lookout for it. You have
the right to "9'ote, use it.
"I am familiar (with absentee bal-
lots) and I plan on applying for an
absentee ballot because I under-
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Do our words mean something?
by
SCOTT D. PERRELL
Staff' Writer
Have you ever had a conversa-
tion with your friends where racial
slurs, anti-Semitism, racism, or sex-
ism are accepted and even
laughed at? Of course ... almost
everyone does it. Yet, nobody
does it with the intent to harm
someone, and certainly nobody
actually
believes
the bad things
they say. Or do they?
A joke or two about minorities,
women, or a specific religion, is
commonplace in our society. Our
generation is one that has been
brought up to believe in tolerance,
acceptance, and citizenship - val-
ues that I think we all still believe
to be true, even if the occasional
offensive joke slips by. I make it
clear now that this article is not a
criticism of everyday dialogue in
our homes,
.
classes, bars, clubs, or
dorm rooms.
The real tragedy here is that
sometimes, conceptions of"other''.
people that are held by those in
power manifest themselves
through policy.
In
other words,
what if
legislators
in Washington
really do think that people in
Af-
rica are poor because they have too
many children and can't take care
of themselves? How do you think
that might affect American policy
towards those people? Or how
about referring to an ethnic group
as "rodents"?
Clearly the connotation of this re-
mark is negative, and maybe it's
meant as a joke. But that's also
how the 1930s Nazis turned the
German people against their own
Jewish comrades.
It's probably not too big of a deal
if you or I use these words and
have these thoughts .... after all,
what power do we have? But what
if you are an important Senator in
charge of a committee dealing with
giving aid to an African country?
If
you have always held the idea
that people in Africa are, disease-
ridden, incompetent, and corrupt,
are you really going to
help?
I
doubt it, and 1•11 use an example
from Kenya to illustrate my point.
Many in the West believe that
overpopulation is a major
problem
in
Africa
The warrants of this claim
are cast aside and it has essentially
been accepted. Policymakers are
now faced with this question-
how do we reduce
population
in
"third world" countries so that
there are enough resources to go
around? (Ignoring, of course, the
blatant overuse of those same re-
sources by the West.) The United
States gives
developmental
assis-
tance to Kenya all the time-money
to
improve
infrastructure,
healthcare, and agriculture.
But
how
this money is acquired
is where the racism of America is
manifest. Some in our government
believe that there are too many
black people having too many chil-
dren. They ask the Kenyan gov-
ernment to sterilize "x" amount of
women per year and report those
figures. Once this "sten1ization
quota" is met, Kenya gets its
money.
The sad fact is the Kenyan gov-
ernment needs this money so badly
that they'll do anything to meet the
quotas. The doctors who perform
this sterilization coerce women into
their clinics -
maybe
they say that
they'll receive birth control or
medicine. But these women walk
out of the hospital sterilized -
something they didn't
bargain
for.
What makes this even worse is that
the politicians in Washington sim-
ply don't care. They want to see
population
figures reduced no
matter what - without stopping to
think what impact this might have
on the people of Kenya.
So why don't policymakers care
about the plight of Kenyan
women, who are suffering because
of a condition
America
is prima-
rily responsible for? First, these
are the same politicians who think
the "third world" is dirty, disease-
ridden, poor, uneducated, and es-
sentially useless! They think
they're doing the world a favor by
facilitating population control -
the fact that women are coercively
sterilized is just a footnote on the
bottom of a Committee transcript
to them.
Second, the "revolutionary" idea
that everyone on this planet is
equal directly threatens the elites'
position
of power. America,
by/ar,
consumes more resources than
Kenya. Yet Kenya isn't overpopu-
lated at all - in fact,
.
it is a
far
smaller
stress on global resources than
America
is.
Our conceptions of the "poor
black people" are so biased, and
are so regularly drilled into our
heads by pictures of impoverished
villages and pregnant women, that
we think we really are superior.
That superiority complex costs the
lives of people we don't even know
( or care) about.
I'm not saying that it's bad that
we crack jokes. We all do it - but
the next time you do it, take a mo-
ment to separate the humor from
the reality. Because if we don't,
maybe someone hearing that
punch line will actually think the
butt of the joke really is inferior
...
and if that person is ever in a posi-
tion of power, they might just turn
a blind eye to the truth.
College or university, that is the question?
by JACKIE STASIUK
Sta.If Writer
.
Within the past decade it has be-
come increasingly apparent that in-
stitutions of higher learning are
traveling rather rapidly in the di-
rection of big "business." In
today's world anything can be-
come a business because every-
thing revolves around money.
Across the nation millions of stu-
dents everywhere wish to continue
their education by attending either
a private college ~r public univer-
sity. Private
·
colleges, such as
Marist, tend to provide a small, in-
timate campus environment Small
being defined as having the under-
graduate count under 5,000. Uni-
versities, in contrast, usually have
between 20,000 and 40,000 under-
graduate students. The campus is
quite vast and very impersonal.
However, they suit the students
that attend them perfectly well,just
as the students that attend the
small colleges are content.
And why shouldn't they be?
After all, they sought out the
school of their choice during, what
I'm sure all of us remember as "the
.
college process." During my jun-
ior year of high school it was time
to seriously begin looking at
schools.
It
was then that I had to
decide, for myself, whether I
wanted to attend a small college or
a large university. After a long de-
liberation
I came to the conclusion
that a small private college was the
choice for me. And here I am.
Within recent years many small
private colleges are pushing to
become large universities. Why?
There is more money because the
undergraduate population would
soar, better athletics, a larger cam-
pus, and more publicity. All of
these criteria may sound very ap-
pealing to the "big business"
people in administration. However,
is it really in the best interests of
small colleges to become universi-
ties?
I cannot speak for any institution
other than Marist. When the
Marist Brothers built Marist, it was
their idea for this college to main-
tain a small, intimate status. Our
campus is contained and not
overly large. If Marist decided to
become a university, where would
1t expand? We barely have enough
housing in the freshmen dorms as
it is now. Where would the extra
20,000 students go?
Marist should spice up Parents Weekend
by TIM DUGUAY
Staff' Writer
Jui,t as it is around this time every
·
-J~ar, on this particular weekend,
parents came and went to check
out the changes at Marist College.
Every parents weekend families
receive a chance to engage in
fun
activities, and experience for a
couple of days, what it's like to live
the life of a Marist student. When
I have asked others about this sub-
ject I received mixed reviews, es-
pecially
from
my
peers.
I know that when my mom came
to visit on Saturday, I was almost
not sure what I was going to do to
entertain her for the whole day. As
a junior, I know that she had been
to all of the boring stuff on cam-
pus, so instead we just spent the
day shopping instead of participat-
ing in campus activities. I think
that Marist needs to think about
how a lot ofkids just want to spend
time with their families and don't
always need to be participating in
Marist's planned activities.
In
fact, what I propose to the ad-
ministration for next year's event
is to just have a dinner for the par-
ents, students, and other members
of their families.
It
would not just
be a huge, meaningless dinner, but
instead it would be a dinner sepa-
rating the students and their fami-
lies into their respective graduat-
ing classes. So for instance if I
were a senior next year, then there
would be a dinner for my family and
the families of just the senior class.
This would cut down on the awk-
wardness that freshmen and their
parents feel at these events.
.
I'm not putting down the idea of
having something called parents
weekend in an.y way. I think that it
is great for the freshmen class be-
cause they are still adjusting to cam-
pus life, and this would get rid of
any homesick feelings that they still
might have. But Marist should ei-
ther cancel the 'events that they
have on campus, or think harder
about what they are doing.
I think that the only way to im-
prove participation in the on cam-
pus activities is to have something
different like my suggestion above.
I know this weekend; I just went
shopping and out to dinner. I could
do that just about any weekend.
·
So the next time that Marist is plan-
ning a parents weekend, my sug-
gestion is to make one that the
whole fl)lllily would be able to en-
joy.
If they don't want new events on
campus, then why not make it so
that there would be sponsored
events at local businesses? You
know for a fact that many students
go out to dinner with their families
anyway on this weekend, so why
not give them an incentive to do
so? Maybe get some contests go-
ing where there could be prizes
dealing with dinner at a restaurant
or miniature golf or bowling or any-
thing else along those lines.
If
anyone does not agree with me
on this subject, then I hope that
they would be nice enough to let
me know.
It
might just be my feel-
ing that parents weekend is all
about participation between the
college student and his or her fam-
ily. There is no way to promote the
participation of these students and
families if there is nothing planned
for them for which to get excited or
involved.
Aside from the space aspect I do
not see it possible, or in the good
interest of this college, to become
a university. The Marist Brothers
did not want this institution to be
a university, therefore if the switch
were made it would directly con-
tradict the foundation on which the
college stands.
It
is important for Marist College
to uphold the tradition of the
Marist Brothers. While it may seem
beneficial to become a university,
the repercussions are vast. Be-
sides, if Marist was a university, I
wouldn't be here and I doubt many
of you would either.
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ous words as the debate about
war with Iraq raged on.
remarks were made.
h
Colonel Meese was asked to take
ome.
.
Just thmk about the httle seven-
ten years down the line and a
Maybe that should stnke pro war
year-old Iraqi boy who will lose his
whole lot of nervousness in be-
the role of the affirmative, or to ar-
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h Id
r
I b. th
f:
gue for the support of a war with
optmon' o ers_ a ttt e it; e act
parents and frien~ w?en the _build-
tween? Can't we step back and see
that you re all bitter about Septem-
mg they work m 1s tactically
that reality of the situation and re-
Iraq, and
Dr.
Kovel subsequently
-
her
11 "', yet you'~ wil_ling to sacri-
bombed. He never did anything to
alize that if we go to war, we're only
argued againSt
fice young~encan hves an. d sup-
anyone, especially you: he was
heading down
.the
path that heads
Now I'm not saying that there was
a Watts riot in the student center,
but emotions definitely began to
take over towards the end of the
question and answer portion.
People were
.
yelling, "fire Bush not
tanks," and "what about 9/11," as
closing remarks were being made.
I
think
that it was interesting when
ort
I
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Id
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p
more VIO ence
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wor tor-
s1~ply born mto ~e same uncer-
towards destruction and suffering.
Colonel Meese opened his state-
ment. I know that 1t s hard to let
tamty as you and JUSt because you
The bottom line is that I'm wor-
ments by saying that he really
~gs_ go, but the reality of the situ-
have more material possessions
ried about my children. I don't want
didn't want to go to war. He said
ti
th t
d
I
h
that as a Colonel he had no opin-
a . on is . a more_
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more ~op e
t an him doesn't make you the
them to grow up in a war tom soci-
ion and would do what he was told,
.
~~l
continue to die if we don t stop
autonomous fi~~ that will decide
ety. I want them to have every op-
It
nght now. .
.
the course of his hfe.
portunity possible and not be
but as a professor to young men
Ifwe contmue to promote v10-
Atthesametime,Idon'tconsider
bothered with the petty problems
and women at West Point, he cer-
I
th
be
h
For those of you who weren't
there let me backtrack for a second
and fill you in on some details. The
debate was between Colonel
Michael Meese of the United
States Military Academy at West
Point and
Dr.
Joel Kovel, a profes-
sor of social sciences at Bard Col-
lege. Each speaker received a
ence
en we are no
tter t an
my selft~ be a_man of peace, or a
these warring tribes, or countries
tainly had some feelings on the
the people who crashed the planes
tree-huggmg hippy as most liber-
as you call them have between one
subject.
into the world trade center towers.
als choose to call those who op-
another. They ~eed to be able to
He pointed out that ifwe go to
It
d
d
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war, it would be all ofyou sitting
may~oun messe ~p,an
I
may
pose war. Is1mplyconsidermyse!f grow up in a society where study
even piss you off, but 1t s the truth.
to be a well educated young Amen-
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and money and power are seen for
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with a machine
gun
surrounded by
my fiiends lost their families as well.
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A reflection on a healthy outlook
by KEVIN COFFEY
Staff Writer
I felt depleted. Like a person lost in
the fray of frantic college 1ife, desper-
ately needing to be cleansed of the con-
fusion confining him. I walked slug-
gishly across campus on my way to the
cabaret when it occurred to me where I
might find a well to replenish my lost
energy.
t
took up a seat on the ledge in front
of the library and stopped thinking. Not
to forget all the responsibility and strife
in my life but to appreciate the scenic
river in front of me. Hoping to be af-
forded a new strength.
Soon after relinquishing the worries
of my day to the beauty of the river, my
thoughts gained an often-lacking co-
herence, and I began to think freely.
Calm given to the mind, for he has
thought in truth what surely needed to
be found. A sanctuary
of ever-present
·
sustenance
giving fresh breath to a run
down
vessel.
A new appreciation for
the inherent beauty in our
surround-
ings, commanding
a transfer
of
energy
to
aid this man's perceptions
.
.
In light of fresh resolve I see an ap-
parent truth. Energies of things im-
ported upon man install such not to be
enjoyed, but to be exhausted. A waste,
and wrong, not to use such a source.
Any moment captured by the eye is
only to be seen in the memory, as it has
passed and shall not pass again. And
spumed shall and should you be if you
intend nature to be caught in a net.
Always there to be seen, not chased,
and adored in due time with spontane-
ity: Not to be used for a man sitting
comfortably in a seat as if viewing the
fruits of theater. Then only a produc-
tion would nature be. When rather it is
better likened to a veranda for insight.
As classes
change
and the passing
students startle my daydream, I feel a
little bit better about my overwhelming
schedule. For the first time today I'm
able to enjoy a smile.
Maybe I wrote this down so I can
look to it the next time I feel weighed
down. Or maybe to remember how
beautiful and precious nature is and
the energy it possesses. Or maybe just
a piece of advice for us all, to stop think-
ing every once in a
while,
and
appreci-
ate
something.
It
just
might bounce
you
back.
KEY
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0FFICIAL
SUPPLIER"
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Luigi
Colicci
is always
trying
rn
think
of new
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Poughkeepsie
,
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have a hard time
topping
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~n establishing
Ma,inus
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as the
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than
passi\•e
sponsorship
(e.g.
just
printing
an
ad in the schools game
programs),
Luigi
has found many fun
ways
to
leverage his
"Ollidal Supplier"
status and
to
actively prnmotf' ~chMl
..
spmt"·
.
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example.
at
t\'1arisl
basketball
games, Marinas
Pi:;a
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contestants
in
half-time free
throw
compc[ilions
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during Ll1t:
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student following.
Marinas
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is
also p<Jpular
wirh staff
members, resulting
in lot:s
t>f
cater
in)i/1.ake-
out business
from the
school
itsdf,
including
suppl)ing
lunches
for
surr:11ncr athletic
camps
held on
campus.
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athletic
teams
also
frequent
:\farinas
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a(ter games
a
a result of
Marist
coach
recommendations
.
Definitely
a
win-v.,in!
Luigi Colicci,
Owner
Marinas
Pizza
Poughkeepsie, NY































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It"
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times. If anyone has ever played
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''Nothin"', and Ludacris' "Move".
a film called
Withm the WoodY. This
Duke Nul<em, they will realize that
many o to ay s s ows o not
I am not usually one interested
was a small independent film that
all of Duke's one- liners were
Taking Back Sunday, however, is
survive that long.
would evolve into the small
spawned from thi"s film. Themovi·e
a great punk-hardcore band
The show stars Sarah Michelle
in reading books, but there are
occasions when I do enjoy a
independentfilmEV1i'Deadwhich
follows the good versus evil
starting to make waves. They GellarasBuffy,NicholasBrendan
good read. This book is an
in
turn
would spawn two equally
formula quite well. This makes the
produce
excellent catchy guitar
as Xander Harris, James Marsters
excellent autobiography.
!/Chins entertaining sequels.
movie somewhat predictable, but
riffs while their two singers spout
as Spike, Michele Trachtenberg as
Could
K,i'l·
Confessions
if
a
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off/Chins. .
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out meaningful lyrics about 10st
Dawn, and Allyson Hannigan as
.
includes stories about
SPiderman
Campbell's abt'J
1
"ty to become the
friends, life as a musician, and
Wtllow.
Movie Actor tells the life story of
-r
Bruce Campbell.
and Campbell's recent book tour.
character Ash is what makes the
surviving in this world. All of their
The show is diverse in the fact that
Campbell is just an ordinary guy
This is a fascinating book about
movie. Campbell has two Ash roles
melodic songs are offered on this
its creator Joss Whedon managed
who happened to make it into the
what it really takes to become an
under his belt, which helps him
1 O
song LP called
Tell All Your
to intertwine horror, comedy,
drama,
acting world ... well somewhat.
actor. Not many people make it,
deliver Jines perfectly.
The
Friends. Quite an appropriate
action and adventure all into a one-
Campbell is not a mainstream
but Mr. Campbell was fortunate
combination of horror, adventure,
title, as one should tell all their
hour long show. While many agree
actor by any stretch of the
and lucky enough to have the right
comedy and romance make this
frie nd8 about
th
is band and
that the second season was the
friends at the right time to make a
movi·e one of the top pt'cks on my
album. Taking Back Sunday is a
best, I tend to favor seasons 3 and
imagination. He is just an actor
who is trying to make an honest
go of his semi-Hollywood career.
list. Fans of the series already know
wonderful band
tha
t has quite a
4.
buck. His story starts with his
Book Grade: A
that a fourth installment will never
bit of talent, and should be heard
This season, which premiered Sept.
bl.rth
1
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Evil Dead is
not
be made Its fate has only been
by all.
24
th
,
is attempting to go back to
.
AlbumGrade:A
book continues, detailing his
necessarily something that people
sealed by the popularity of
Buffy's roots. The premiere
childhood and transition into
haven't heard of, it is just
Spidennan. Raim{ will go main-
MoSt people would
episode entitled "Lessons" was set
adulthood with numerous
something that is not mainstream.
stream; I just hope that he will not
agree wi th me that network
in the newly reconstructed
anecdotes that will make any
person laugh out loud.
The book peaks when Campbell
meets his life-long buddy Sam
Raimi. Yes, that name should
sound familiar because Raimi
directed this years
Spiderman.
Raimi, however, started his career
The third installment in the series,
forget his roots.
television has very little to offer.
Sunnydale High School. Dawn is
Army
of
Darhress, is the best in
Movie Grade: A
There is one show, however, that
starting high school, and Buffy is
my eyes. Bruce Campbell reprises
The world of music used
delivers on all levels.
.it¢Jy
the going on a tour of her Alma Mata
his role as the comedic punching-
to be very diverse, but now it seems
l11mpire Slayer is a show about
when things go awry. Look for the
bag, Ash. The story picks up right
to be moving heavily towards hip-
one ,girl who is chosen to st0
P
the show weekly, Tuesdays on UPN at
after the events in
Evil Dead
fl
hop. Every time someone drives
vampires and save the world.
8
pm.
Ash has traveled through a portal
past me, the only thing I hear are
While quite simply stated, it is a
Show Grade: A
to escape the living hell from part 2
those overp
I
ayed rap songs:
rather complex show. Beginning
Robin Williams shocks in ''
One
Hour
Photo''
by ALLISON KELLER
A&EEditor
"One Hour Photo" tells the
story of Seymour "Sy" Parrish,
who works behind the photo
counter of one of those vast
suburban retail barns. He has a
bland, anonymous face, and a
cheerful voice that almost
conceals his desperation and
loneliness.
He tal,ces your film,
develops it, and has your photos
ready in an hour. Sometimes he
even gives you 5--by-7s when all
you ordered were 4-by-6s. His
favorite customers are the
Yorkins-Nina, Will and cute
young Jake. They've been steady
customers for years. When they
bring in their film, he makes an
extra set.of prints-for himself.
Sy follows an unvarying
routine. There is a diner where he
e~ts, alpne, methodically. He is an
:'ideal employee."
·He
has no
friends, a co-worker observes. But
the Yorkins serve him as a
surrogate family, and he is their
self-appointed
Uncle Sy. Only
occasionally does the world get
a glimpse of the volcanic side of
his personality, as when he gets
into an argument with Larry, the
photo machine repairman.
The Yorkins know him by
name, and are a little amused by
his devotion. There is an edge of
need to his moments with them.
If
they were to decide to abandon
film and get one of those new
digital cameras, a prudent instinct
might lead them to keep this news
from
Sy.
Robin Williams plays Sy,
another of his open-faced, smiling
madmen,
•
like the killer in
"Insomnia."
He
voice, a half-glimpsed book cover,
a mistaken order ... they don't mean
much by themselves, but they add
up to a threatening cloud, gathering
over the photo counter.
does this so well
one doesn't have
the
slightest
d i f f i c u l t y
accepting him in
the role. The first
time Sy is seen is
behind his counter,
neat, smiling, with
a few extra pounds
from the diner
routine, people
accept him. He
belongs
there.
He's native to
retail.
ri
0
eHciurPlibto
The Yorkin
family is at first
depicted as ideal:
models for an ad
for their suburban
lifestyle.
Nina
Yorkin (Connie
Nielsen), pretty
and
fresh-
scrubbed, has a
cheery
public
persona.
Will
(Michael Vartan) is
your regular clean-
cut guy. Young Jake (Dylan Smith)
is cute as a picture. Mark Romanek,
who wrote and directed the film, is
sneaky in the way he so subtly
introduces discordant elements
into his perfect picture. A tone of
Much of the film's atmosphere
forms through the cinematography.
The interior shots at
"SavmartH
are
white
and
bright,
almost
aggressive. One can hear the
fluorescent lights humming.
Through choices involving set
design and lens choices, the One
Hour Photo counter somehow
seems an unnatural distance from
the other areas of the store, as if
the store shuns it, or it has
withdrawn
into itself.
Customers
approach it
across
an
exposed
expanse of
emptiness,
with
Sy
smiling at the
end of the
trail.
Aman
who works in
a one-hour
p
h o
t
o
operation
might seem to
be relatively
powerless.
Certainly
Sy's
boss
thinks so. But
in an era
when naked
baby pictures
can
be
interpreted as
child abuse,
the man with
access to someone's photos can
cause a lot of trouble.
The movie at first seems
soundly grounded in everyday
reality, in the routine of a
predictable job. When the
director departs from reality, be
does it subtly, sneakily, so that we
believe what we see until he pulls
the plug. There is one moment I will
not describe (in order not to ruin it)
when Sy commits a kind of social
trespass that has the audience
stirring with quiet surprise:
Surprise, because until they see the
.
scene they don't realize that his
innocent, everyday act can be a
shocking transgression in the
wrong context.
Sy uses a psychological
"dagger",
but he's the same kind of
character, the sort of man one
wouldn't notice, who blends in,
accepted, overlooked, left alone so
that his rich secret life can flower.
There is a moment in "Orte Hour
Photo" when a shot
suddenly
reveals the
full
depth of the
character'-s
depravity.
This
particular shot requires no words,
only a lot of innocent family
snapshots, displayed in a way that
is profoundly creepy.
The movie has also been
compared to "American Beauty,"
another film where resentment,
loneliness and lust fester beneath
the surface of suburban prosperity.
The difference is that the needs of
the Kevin Spacey character in
"American Beauty;" while frowned
upon and even illegal, fall generally
within the range of emotions
everyday people can understand.
Sy Parrish is outside that range. He
was born with parts missing, and
has assembled the remainder into a
person who has
borrowed
from th~
inside to make the outside look OK.
























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proves to be a masterpiece
by
JENNIFER HAGGERTY
Editor in Chief
Testimony
of
an Irish Slave Girl
By Kate Mccafferty
Genre: Historical Fiction
Cot Daley only remembers two
main things from her childhood:
the touch of her mother's hand on
her face as she sat under her cart
in the market and her father's
despondent attitude towards life
after she died. However, her
memory flourishes with the day
she was kidnapped from her
homeland of Galway, Ireland, to be
thrown into a life of slavery where
she would work alongside African
slaves in the fields of an English
settlement in Barbados.
Kate Mccafferty creates the
fictional character Cot to weave a
tale that re-creates seventeenth-
century history which has been
disregarded
too
tong
by
textbooks. McCafferty explains in
her preface the necessary
historical information to fill the
reader in on the subject matter and
prepare for the story at hand. She
informs her readers, for example,
that throughout the seventeenth
century
"alt
estimated 50,000 to
80,000 Irish men, women; and
children were shipped to Barbados
Doughty finds his own voice
by
MATT DUNNING
A&E Contributor
It
has been foui years since
·
Mike Doughty last recorded
with his band,
Soul
Coughing,
and, for lack of
exposure, it has been
relatively easy to assume
that he has not been
especially busy since l998's
El Oso.
However, Doughty
managed to slip an entire
album ofnew material and a
couple of covers (including
MaryJBlige's "Real Love")
underneath the collective
rad·ar
'
of
'jill, but only his
most rabid of fans. That is,
until now. With the release
of his new solo effort
Skittish
and his recent
performance at Marist
College's own Mc Cann
Gymnasium, Doughty is not
only back on the radar of
fair-weather
Soul Coughing
fans, but his lazy hum of a
tracking blip has been
picked up by a few new
antennae. Armed only with
a guitar, a wealth of material, and
his one-of-a-kind slacker/jazz
delivery,
Doughty
lulled and
rolled his way through his 45
minute set. Tracks such as "The
Only Answer
';
"No Peace Los
Angeles
';
and the
Ruby Yroom-
esque "Thank You, Lord, For
Sending Me the F Train" put more
than few new fans in line for his
post-show CD signing, while Soul
Coughing classics "True Dreams
of Wichita" and "Circles" had the
.
remainder of the audience saying
to themselves "Oh, that's who that
guy is!"
Skittish,
while a
near-masterpiece
itself, may alienate
some
purists,
for gone
are the
bumps,
bytes,
squeals, and
pops
that
Soul Coughing fans
used to just devour
hand-over-fist. Most
of those same fans,
though, will appreciate
Doughty's simple yet
far from back-to-
basics
approach.
Substituted for the
carefully constructed
chaos of his efforts
with Soul Coughing,
his own brand of
psuedo-folk
rock
fused with a sardonic;
if
not
cynical
interpretation of beat-
era prose makes the
new album a welcome
addition
to
the
Doughty library. With
Skittish,
Mike
Doughty
commands the respect of
an accomplished poet yet
projects
himself to be as vulnerable and
incompetent as the rest of us.
as indentured servants." Even
though the term of indentured
work was seven years, however,
it was often extended when
owners sold, traded or even
gambled away their servants.
As the novel begins, we are
introduced to Peter Coote, an
apothecary who has been
assigned by t~e Governor of the
colony to receive Cot's testimony
of her involvement of the failed
rebellion in which African and
Irish slaves had conspired to
overthrow their masters. Cot, now
haggard in appearance due to
years of floggings and hard labor,
insists to tell of her involvement
only if the testimony ofher whole
life is recorded. Peter humors her,
and what unfolds is a tale of her
unbelievable
life: the brutal
passage to Barbados, being sold
and misused by her owners and
her marriage as the third wife to
the African slave and rebel leader,
Quashey.
Throughout the novel, Cot
explains her tale on this "Devil
Island" through colorful imagery,
whether it is through the "scarlet-
flowered vines that choked the
trees to death," or the tattooed
patterns on her husband's arms
"of raised purplish welts that
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formed bands like bracelets of
ivy over his muscles."
The author has chosen an
unconventional way to relate
Cot's tale, however, in which
she recounts her tale in first
person
narrative
·
,
which
becomes irritating at times. The
chances that an Irish slave
brought in for questioning
would be allowed to ramble for
days about her entire life
challenges the believability and
leaves
the
reader quite skeptical.
Peter occasionally interrupts
Cot in her tale and urges her to
tell of her involvement in the
rebellion, which helps ground
the story and keep it on track.
Although the tale is slowed by
this writing style, the reason
behind the rebellion and her
involvement with it is worth
waiting for.
Overall, I enjoyed the book,
particularly the subject matter.
Not only does it show that
slavery captured and ruined the
lives of many ethnicities, but it
also shows a unique psychology
of how slaves and their owners
interact, mainly through Cot's
hope that one of her master's
will pity her.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
Franzen
... continued from page 3
day together, despite of their
differences
and individual
problems. Franzen said people
in today's society are afraid to
really
.feel
and are really afraid
to express emotion. Thus, it is
difficult for an author to write
about what the public perceives
as shameful. At one point in
the
lecture,
Franzen stated that
he felt uncomfortable even
talking about shame. An author
has a
difficult
task to wnte a
novel in a society where people
put
up
walls to hide their true
thoughts and emotions. For
one page of raw emotion where
the character is completely
vulnerable, Franzen wrote sixty
pages of comedy.
~uring thequestion and
answer period, Franzen stated
that many of the questions
from the audience opened new
venues of thought for him.
Though he
lacked the
confidence of a seasoned
speaker, Franzen delivered a
lecture that was informal and
comfortable. Franzen was
humble and spoke to his
audience as intellectual equals.
At the end of the
lecture,
Franzen was thrilled to shake
the hands and sign books,
appreciating
the comments that
his lecture did, in fact, make
sense.





















































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Yankees enter second season, but can they win it all?
They have the new young sen-
sation in Major League Baseball.
They have the older, yet still young,
sensation in Major League Base-
ball. They signed the most feared
hitter in the American League.
They have the most dominant
closer in the history ofpostseason
baseball. They scored over 900
runs this year. Come on Yankee
fans, let's give a big belly laugh to
the rest of the baseball world.
While we are at it, let's scoff at our
cross-town rivals for throwing
money around so carelessly, they
have to wait years before even
sniffing a World Series crown.
We have 26 World Series rings
to show our supremacy of the base-
ball world. We were a bloop single
away from 27. No problem. Let's
go out and sign Jason Giambi, a
career .300 hitter and has more
homeruns through his first eight
seasons than Reggie Jackson.
It
looks like this year will be another
championship in the Bronx, and
another parade down the Cannon
of Heroes.
Not so fast.
It
may not be so easy this year, in
fact, it wouldn't surprise this Yan-
kee fan if they didn't make the
World Series~ at all.
Let us first start with their ALDS
opponent, the Anaheim Angels, a
team that has always seemed to not
be afraid of our Pinstripe Dynasty.
The Yankees are only a .500 team
against the Angels over the last
five years. The Angels have the top
candidate for manager of the year,
and their strength is the one thing
that wins playoff series: pitching.
EspeciaUy in an anything goes,
best-of-5 divisional series, where
anything is possible. The Angels
have the fourth best team era this
yearat3.69.
The Yankee pitching is not bad
itself (8th at 3.87) but they are in
the bottom third of teams in the
playoffs. David Wells lead the Yan~
kees in wins and ERA, yet he
doesn't make his postseason de-
but till game 4, were the Yankees
could be eliminated by that time.
The key for the Yankees in this se-
ries is to take advantage of the
Angels inexperience in postseason
play (only Kevin Appier has
postseason experience) and con-
trol David Eckstien and Garret
Anderson.
If the Yankees do what is ex-
pected against the Angles they are
likely to face the Oakland Athlet-
ics in ilieALCS. The Yankees have
stopped Oakland's postseason the
last two years, and have also taken
their best player away from them.
So what makes you think this year
will be any different? Well, a lot
actually. The A's have the best
three young pitchers in the game
- - - . - - - - - - - b y
PbilLavanco
(who had another year to mature)
and a favorite for· league MVP in
Miguel Tejeda. Oakland has al-
ready announced they are going
to only start Barry ,Zito, Tim
Hudson, and Mark Mulder who are
acombined57-21 withanERAun-
der3.00.
The Yankees were on the ropes
all of last year and an unfathom-
able play from Derek Jeter was the
'spark
the Yankees needed to even-
tually finish the
Ns.
This year, with
.
improved hitting and dominant
pitching, it's going to take more
then a Derek Jeter miracle to beat
the A's.
So if the Yankees make the World
Series the road doesn't get any
easier; in fact this is the hardest it
has ever been for the Yankees.
There is the possibility they face
the team that beat the Bombers last
year
·
in baseball's big
·
stage; the
Arizona Diamondbacks.
Or,
there
is a chance they face the San Fran-
cisco Giants, with baseball's most
feared hitter Barry Bonds. Bonds,
in his only trip ever to Yankee Sta-
dium, hit one so far it landed in
Tony Soprano's backyard. The
most likely scenario is that
if
the
Yankees make the World Series,
they would face the Atlanta Braves.
The Braves have the best pitching
staff in baseball (3.13 ERA), the
single season save king (John
Smoltz, 55), and a powerful middle
of the order unlike they have ever
had before in Chipper Jones,
Andruw Jones and Gary Sheffield.
The Yankees have a tougher road
then have ever been accustomed
to before in their recent dynasty.
Being
a Yankee fan at this
postseason may have us reaching
for the unfamiliar Tums. Have I
mentioned Mariano Rivera's shoul-
der isn't l 00%? I'll take my Tums
in chewable form.
Chad gets the nod, but is Vmny to blame for Jets' woes?
Zero wins and three losses
102 points compared to 13
1,209 total yards to a mere 734
Any
way you slice it, the last three
games for the New York Jets can
only be described by one word:
Ugly.
The Jets are 1-3 on the season,
but have shown no signs that they
will win another game this season.
They have allowed opponents to
turn their defense into a slice of
Swiss cheese. Opposing running
backs are finding holes in the de-
fensive line bigger than the Grand
Canyon. And as for the defensive
backs, what's the point of giving a
receiver a seven-yard cushion
when they only need three yards
for a first down?
As bad as the defense has been,
the offense
has been worse. A team
that give up the least sacks last
year and helped Curtis Martin be-
come the second-best runner in the
league a year ago has done noth-
ing to resemble last year's unit.
Vinny Testaverde and Chad
Pennington have been sacked 13
times (New York quarterbacks were
only sacked a total of 19 times all
last season). And, Martin only has
98 total rushing yards in four
games this season.
With all the woes, with all the dis-
appointment, head coach Herman
Edwards decided to make a state-
ment to his team this week. In an
effort to send a message to every-
body in the locker room that
nobody's job is secure, Edwards
benched
Tesfaverde
for
und
•
'
game against the Kansas City.
Chiefs in favor of Pennington.
Last Sunday against the Jackson-
ville Jaguars, Testaverde left the
game early in the first quarter due
to a bruised shoulder. Pennington
took over behind center and was
impressive, although he could not
lead the team into the end zone.
Pennington completed 21 of 34
passes for 281 yards.
Although in the NFL, a }'layer is
not supposed to lose their job be-
cause of an injury, Edwards had to
make this move to salvage what is
left of an already dismal season.
The
Jets
are
no
longer
Testaverde's team. He can no
---------by
Peter Palmieri
longer motivate them and they
aoii'Hrust
has18-yeiif-o1d
arms or
legs.
When Pennington entered the
game on Sunday, he completed his
first pass and barked at his team-
mates to get to the line and keep
the drive going. He was enthusi-
astic, he was energetic and he was
something new.
·sure, Pennington did not do any-
thing that Testaverde hadn't done
all season, but there was a differ-
ent look to the New York offense
when he entered the game. And, if
it wasn't for two crucial fumbles
by LaMont Jordan and Kevin
Swayne, he may have been able to
put some points on the board.
I'm not saying that the in~ptness
of the Jets offense is Testaverde's
fault. He is only one man and he
looked sharp at times this season,
but his age is showing and he's
clearly not the quarterback he was
four years ago.
Pennington is the only first-round
draft pick in the history of the NFL
to not start a game in his first two
seasons of play. The time to intro-
duce Chad Pennington to the NFL
is now.
This will be a true test for the
young quarterback. Can he lead
his team to a victory? Can he be a
band-aid for a wounded team? Can
he become the 2002 version ofTom
'3rady?
The only way to find out is to
give him a chance. Now, he has
the chance of a lifetime.
NFL picks by the experts (sort ot)
The
Guys Who Talk About Sports
...
and Entertainment
Scotty
Drex
Shiek
Mr.
Director
Pete
Last Week
(4-10)
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Overall
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(S-9)
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Underdog
Tampa Bay
2 1/2
ATLANTA
Falcons
Falcons
Falcons
Falcons
Falcons
Oakland
3
1/2
BUFFALO
Raiders
Raiders
Raiders
Raiders
Bills
TENNESSEE
6 1/2
Washington
Titans
Redskins
Redskins
Redskins
Titans
INDIANAPOLIS
13 1/2
Cincinnati
Colts
Colts
Bengals
Colts
Colts
MIAMI
2 1/2
New England
Patriots
Dolphins
Patriots
Patriots
Patriots
NEW ORLEANS
3 1/2
Pittsburgh
Saints
Saints
Saints
Steelers
Steelers
CAROLINA
3 1/2
Ari;zona
Cardinals
Panthers
Panthers
Cardinals
Panthers
DALLAS
1 1/2
New York Giants
Giants
Giants
Giants
Cowboys
Giants
DENVER
3 112
San Diego
Broncos
Chargers
Chargers
Chargers
Chargers
Kansas City
10 1/2
New York Jets
Jets
Chiefs
Chiefs
Chiefs
Jets
SAN FRANCISCO
7 1/2
St. Louis
49ers
49ers
49ers
49ers
49ers
Philadelphia
3 1/2
JACKSONVILLE
Eagles
Jaguars
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles
CLEVELAND
11/Z
Bahimore
Ravens
Ravens
Ravens
Ravens
Ravens
CHICAGO
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Slater had snmlar encouragmg
m which Manst has not lost a
SS/Slant worts
,tor
"This is the iongest match I've 5. The Marist duo also handed the
words about his new teammate.
MAAC game.
ever played in," said Slater. "I was
doubles
team
from the University
"He is very talented
and
needs
As for fl:1e t~am, c~ach ~~ith is
The Marist men's tennis team very pleased with the way I played
of Rhode Island a loss, winning 8-
college experience before he be-
confi?~t m his team s ab1ht1es.
participated in the University of and it is good to play this well early
3.
comes a top six player for our team."
"This 1s the strongestteam I have
Connecticut Invitational this past in the season."
"We played exceptionally well at
After placing third in the tourna-
had ~t my tenure
~
the college,"
weekend· The team played well,
Slater reached the flight two
fi-
the tournament," said coach Tim
ment the team faced another cha!-
he satd. "We have eight good play-
placing third overall in a tourna-
nals, the first finals he played in
Smith. "David Slater's match was
lenge.
Aside from the UCONN tour-
ers and with the addition of Chris
ment that featured such teams as his career at Marist.
like a Midwestern-shootout."
nament, a Metro Atlantic Athletic
Hagan (College of the Desert),
Hartford,
Sacred
Heart,
In flight three singles, Viktor
Freshman Mark Santucci made a
Conference (MAAC) game was
helps solidify the upper part of our
~:::::~t.and
th
e University of Sapezlmikov defeated James Car-
name for himself, reaching the
semi-
scheduled against Rider. The team
lineup
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of tdhe ~
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penter ofStonybrook 1-6, 6-4, 6-3
finals in flight three competition.
had to leave the tournament, leav-
competitivenature_an
WI
towm.
The tournament is composed of to advance to the finals ofhis flight.
Santucci, from Chepachet, Rhode
ing two players behind to finish the
The men's tenms team rec~tly
four flights for singles competition
"I played well in the tournament Island was ranked number one in
.
UCONN tournament.
was selected to the International
and two flights for doubles.
but lost a tough three hour match Rhode Island as a high school se-
Hours later Marist cruised to a 6-
Tennis Association all American
In single's flights, five players in the finals," says Sapezhnikov.
nior.
0 victory over Rider and the two
.
academic team. The team's cumu-
reached the semi-finals. In flight
In flight four, sophomore Mike
"Mark Santucci is a real blue chip
players
drove
back
to lative grade point average was just
two, David Slater beat Matt
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Nassif defeated Alex Ningas of player," said Smith. "He will be-
Poughkeepsie to Join their fe ow
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come one of our top six players in
teammates in celebration. The win
Marist hosts Manhattan on Oc-
They run, ruck and mess 'em up
by PAUL SEA CH
The team owns three undefeated
0-2 but coach Morrison is not dis-
two sides. The A-side is best com-
A.r.
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seasons and has won the MET title
appointed.
pared to a veteran side, the girls
'SIS 'tlll IJJO
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I or
the past four years.
"We are where we expected to be.
with most game experience. The A-
"Come
on Marist," the women
screamed as their teammates
formed a scrum ( circle in the middle
of the field). These screams are t.\le
sound of the women's rugby team,
better known as the lady ruggers.
The rugby team, recognized as a
club, formed in 1995 by a bunch of
women athletes, many who played
high school sports. The club en-
tered the Metropolitan Rugby
Union
(MET)
in division two com-
petition.
This season is going to be
It's not that our team is bad, the
side usually plays full games, two
tougher for the lady ruggers be-
scores are not indicative of how
40-minute halves.
cause the MET has merged the two
we play."
The B-side is composed of rookie
divisions looking to create a more
.
As for the game of rugby the
players, often compared to a jun-
competitive atmosphere.
women seem to have no problems
ior varsity team. The B-side plays
"This is the strongest the divi-
with the hard hitting, bone crunch-
two 20-minute halves, giving the
sion has been," said coach Sean
ing style of rugby.
women the opportunity to get
Morrison. "The teams are getting
"This is a clean-team, but when
some big game experience.
better because interest is starting
the other team plays dirty we tackle
A-side player Beth Palmer is not
momentum."
·
low," said captain Kirsten Waage.
afraid of the injuries she may face
The NCAA dubs rugby, "the
"As soon as you have your first
on the field.
sport to watch" as it gains popu-
hit, you're fine."
"lam afraid before each game, but
larity in colleges throughout the
Amy Matarazzo never loses fo-
when I'm on the field I'm not. The
United States. What was once
cus on the
thought of European sport-only,
field.
rugby is gaining the attention of
"This is a
tober 8.
only thing that is bad is that we
just don't get a break. Tackling
takes a lot of energy out of you."
"Injuries are going to occur, some
freakish," said Morrison. "These
girls know it going into the game.
It's a pretty clean game but it's a
rough game."
Morrison sees the game as one
that has made significant strides.
"These girls play not for varsity
but they are doing it because the
love the game," said Morrison
The girls will show their love for
the game on
·
the field when they
play at Fairfield on October 6th.
Up until this season the MET
was broken up into two divisions.
Schools like Vassar, Columbia,
Rutgers comprised Division one,
while Marist, New Paltz, Hofstra,
and Drew University headed divi-
sion two.
many men and women.
very intense
"I love this game and you either
game, but you
loveitorhateit. Thereisnomiddle
don't think
ground,"saidMorrison. This game
about
any-
and team has made significant
thing but try-
strides, and it is the most pure
ta!-
ing your hard-
ented team I ever had. Pure talent."
est to score."
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The women's rugby team has
been as successful as the other
programs in the sports department.
This season the lady ruggers are
The team is
broken up into
Women's
tennis
wins
opener
by JAMES SKEGGS
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"We have to
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beat Dossin in straight sets 6-0, 6-2.
work hard, we
Marist women's
-
tennis began
their regular season play with an
impressive
7-0
victory over the
Rider Broncos Sunday at the
Dutchess Racquet and Tennis
Club.
The Red Foxes started the day
with a sweep of the double
's
matches. Marist's number one
seeded sophomore
duo of Amanda
,
Doetsch and Diana Perachio de-
feated Meredith Dossin and Dana
Previti ofRider
8-2.
"You get a
mental advantage over
your opponents
after winning the
doubles match
so we all felt very
confident heading into singles
play," said
Doetsch.
In single's
play, number one
seeded Yana
Tikhonko overcame
"I've faced better opponents in
came out and
the past so I was able to battle
played hard to-
through what was bothering me
day and need
and play hard," said Tikhonko.
to continue to
In other single's matches,
put forth this
Doetsch defeated Carolina Duval
kind of effort to
6-1, 6-1 in the second seeded
have a suc-
match.
Third seeded Diana cessful sea-
Perachio outlasted Dana Previti 6-
son,"
said
0,6-1, and fourth seeded Yana
Angarola.
Krugly was victorious against Lo-
The victory
gan Kapinus 6-0, 6-1. The
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seed Courtney McGeever shut out
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Steph Petrasko 6-0, 6-0, and fresh-
the
MAA C
man Tara Dolan defeated Brandi
conference.
Plumer 6-1, 6-0 in the match of the
Marist will next
six seeds.
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Marist
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