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Volume 36, Number 11
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
December 14, 19~9
.Two
s-tudents hit
near intersection
Animal rights protest
Deep freeze
leaves chilly
apartments
Two accidents; no one hurt
badly
by Chris Landry
Poughkeepsie, said he was hit last
Thursday after he ran into a car
Two Marist students escaped· traveling north on Route 9. Scalzo.
serious injury in separate incidents said he was trying to cross the road
last week when they were hit by in front of Skinner's.
cars while walking near the busy in-
Scalzo said the accident, which
tersection at the North Entrance of
occurred at .4:10 p.m., was his
campus.
fault. He said he was not cautious
of the northbound traffic.
Patricia Casey, a junior resident
Scalzo said he received a bruis-
assistant in Champagnat Hall, was ed arm after he was knocked to the
struck at about 9 p.m. last Wednes- ground. The driver of the car, who
day as she tried to cross the North
could not be identified at press
Entrance, according to Joseph
time, pulled over, .but Scalzo ran
Leary, . clire_ctor. of . safety'. and from the scene because he
was
late·
by Steven Murray
Sporadic heat in some Canter-
bury Garden Apartments has left
students cold and maintenance men
wondering what they can do to
remedy the situation.
Residents in apartments 40D and
40C
of the Canterbury complex say
their heat has come and gone since
it was turned on in October.
Although
Canterbury's
maintenance staff has tried several
different means of solving the pro-
blem, the exact cause is not known.
There are four apartments on the
top floor of the.40 section of the
complex, three of. which are oc-
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the accident.
The two accidents mark the se-
The owner of the car, Will cond and third time this semester
Beam, a student who resides at the that a student has been hit by a car
Canterbury Garden Apartments,
near this intersection.
swerved onto the median after the
But Leary said the area is not in
accident but was not injured. No danger of becoming a serious stu-
charges were filed, Leary said.
dent safety concern.
Casey was helped into the Lowell
"It's no more of a problem than
. Sally Estes, a junior communica-
tion arts major who lives in 40D
with three other students, said the
average temperature in her apart-
ment is about 60 degrees.
Estes said the temperature has
got so low in her apartment and her
friend's apartment next door that
their deodorant and shampoo have
frozen. Because the heat comes and
goes sporadically, Estes says she
heats her apartment with the oven.
Thomas Communications Center crossing the street anywhere else,"
and then taken to Saint Francis Leary said. "Anytime there is a lot
Hospital in Poughkeepsie where of pedestrians and cars there is a
she was treated and released, Leary potential danger."
said.
Leary said the real problem is
In the other accident, Dave convincing drivers to be cautious
Scalzo, a senior, 31 Conklin Street,
and to yield to pedestrians.
Members of Students Active For Animal Rights, a new group on cam-
pus, protested the sale of fur and leather garments at the Poughkeepsie
Galleria on Saturday. From left, sophomore Matt Murphy, sophomore
Amy Burr and sophomore Cathy Casey. See the story on page 3.
"We get heat in here now by
opening the oven and putting it up
to 400," said Estes. "Leave it on
for a couple of hours and your
apartment gets pretty warm."
Circle
photo/Nathan
J.
Robinson
All residents of Estes' apartment
Continued on page
2
Family positions set life's conditions
by Ann Timmons
First-born children can easily be picked
out in a crowd.
Middle-borns have the fewest pictures in
the family photo album.
Last-born children are usually best known
as the class clown.
"Your position (birth order) in your fami-
ly has an affect on your personality, your
relationships, and even your occupational
choices, according to Dr. Kevin Leman, the
Tuscon psychologist, author of "The Birth
Order Book: Why You Are the Way You
Are".
Leman said birth order has a powerful in-
fluence on the kind of person you will be,
the kind of person you will marry, the type
of occupation you choose -
even the type
of parent you will be.
There are three
main
birth order positions,
Leman wrote: the eldest (and along with
them the "cnly-boms"), the second (or
middle-born) children, the last-horns (babies
or youngest).
First-borns
According to Leman, first-borns get a lot
of attention, a lot of glory and a lot of
pressure.
A few of the distinguishing characteristics
of a first-born are: perfectionist, reliable,
conscientious, list maker, well-organized,
critical, serious, scholarly.
Only children have an even more heighten-
ed sense of what it means to be first-born.
Place the word "super" in front of the ad-
jectives used to describe the first-borns, and
there you have the only children or as Leman .
calls them "super-first-borns".
The Who's Who books are full of the
names of first-borns, because they are known
achievers. More than half of the United
States presidents have been first-born, and
out of the 23 astronauts sent into outer space,
21 were first-borns or only children.
Leman said first-borns are more motivated
to achieve than younger siblings, therefore
they end up in "high achievement" profes-
sions such as science, medicine or law. A
greater number of first-borns are found
among accountants, bookkeepers, executive
secretaries, engineers, and people whose jobs
involve computers.
First-borns crave jobs with precision, con-
centration and mental discipline. First-borns
love structure. Newspaper and magazine
reporters tend to be first-born.
Leman says he can almost always pick the
first-borns out of a crowd based entirely on
physical appearances: "These are the folks
who look as if the've just stepped off the
cover of Glamour magazine or out of an ad
for the Wall Street Journal. They are easy
to spot. Every hair is in place and they are
color-coordinated from head to toe."
Middle-horns
The middle child is born too late -
and
too soon. It's too late for them to get the
special privileges and treatment of being the
oldest. But it's too soon for them to get the
relaxed discipline (interpreted as "getting
away with murder") usually experienced by
the babies in the family, Leman wrote.
The middle children include the second-
borns and any child born between siblings.
They are best characterized as having the
fewest photos in the family album -
as if
the camera suddenly broke when they were
born.
The characteristics of the middle child in-
clude: mediator, avoids conflict, indepen-
dent, extremely loyal to the peer group, own-
ing lots of hand-me-downs, a team player,
misunderstood, rebellious and mysterious.
The squeezed-out middle-borns go outside
the family to create another "family" were
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and the neighboring apartment say
they have complained to the college
and Canterbury's management,
but despite the efforts of the
maintenance staff, the problem
remains.
Canterbury's maintenance staff
has visited both apartments a
number of times and placed plastic
over the windows and a seal at the
bottom of the door to contain heat,
but the apartments are still usually
cold, Estes.
Maureen Louney, a communica-
tion arts major who lives next to
Estes in apartment 40C, says the
maintenance men are not at fault.
"It's not the maintenance men,"
she said. "They've come whenever
we've put in reports and they've•
tried everything, but it's just not
working."
Although none of the Canter-
bury staff could be reached for
comment, college officials who
have discussed heating problems
with the staff said the suspected
cause is either air in the heating
pipes or tampering with the heating
gauge. The heat control mechanism
for those apartments is openly ex-
posed in an area of the complex's
laundry room.
Jim Raimo, assistant director of
housing for Marist, said he is aware
of the "ongoing problem" in those
particular apartments and that he
visited Estes' apartment to in-
vestigate the problem.
Raimo said he gave them a ther-
mometer to gauge the temperature
but said they would have to rely on
the the complex's maintenance
staff to solve the problem.
Raimo pointed out that Marist
does not handle the maintenance
problems at Canterbury and that,
as a rent payer, the most it can do
is apply pressure on the Canterbury
staff.
Marist spends approximately
$80,000 a month to rent 137 apart-
ments at Canterbury. Raimo said
that heating complaints from
Canterbury
have been about
average so far this year and only a
bit higher than the complaints
registered by on-campus residents.
The college tries to make student
problems top issues with Canter-
bury's management, but at times it
does not work out that way, Raimo
said.
"The priorities for them and
what we'd like to see get done are
not always the same," Raimo said.
"It's gotten much better, but I'd
like to see more done."
• EATING.
RIGHT
CAN
·. ·HELP
REDUCE
.THE
RISK.
OF.
CANCER.
It can also help
you reduce your weight.
Entertainment
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker ballet is coming to
the Bardavon Opera House this
weekend. The Wilkes-Barre Ballet
Theatre will present Tchaikovsky
classic on Saturday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m.
and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 17 at 3
p.m. Tickets are available by calling
the Bardavon Box Office at (914)
473-2072 or at any Ticketmaster outlet.
One Act Plays
Entries for the playwriting contest in
memory of John P. Anderson, must be
submitted to Room 264 in the Campus
Center or students should fill out an
application of intent to submit. For
more information, see G.A. Cox.
BYOM
Bring your own music for a sing-
along at the Bardavon Opera House
on December
19. That's
when
Handel's "Messiah" will turn into
"Sing It Yourself Messiah." With the
help of Bach-Handel Festival Or-
. chestra and the Camarata Chorale, the
audience will participate in the perfor-
mance. Tickets for the 8 p.m. event are
available by calling the Bardavon Box
Office at (914) 473-2072 or at any
Ticketmaster outlet.
Andy Williams
Singer Andy Williams will perform at
the Mid-Hudson Civic Center on Fri-
day, December 15. Tickets cost $23.50
and are available at the box office or
by calling 454-3388.
After Class
To Your Health
Discussion Group
Women students are invited to at-
tend a discussion group on women's
issues every Friday at 4 p.m. in the
Byrne House. For more information
contact, Stephanie Michnoricz at ex.
726.
Making the Grade
Career Day
New Jersey residents can get a
jump on the job market if they attend
the career day to be held on Jan. 5
from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, N.J.
More than 100 companies will par-
ticipate in the event which is design-
ed to provide jobs for New Jersey
residents. Go to the Career Develop-
ment Office for further information.
Poetry Contest
Attention all poets, start writing. The
deadline for the American Poetry
Association Contest, with a $1,000
grand prize, is December 31. For more
information, call (408) 429-1122.
Scholarships
The Coors Brewing Company is·
awarding scholarships to 100 sons and
daughters of American veterans. Ap-
plicants must have at least a 3.00
GPA. Call 1-800-49COORS for more
information.
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from page 1
they can feel special, Leman said. Therefore,
they seek strong ties with friends and groups
in order to fulfill the need to belong.
Of the three birth orders, middle children
seem to succeed best in marriages because
they are used to comprotjrise and mediation,
Leman said.
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"Middle children are tenacious adults,
because they are used to life being unfair.
Their expect:itions are lower: consequently
they are more accepting in a relationship."
The middle child is most directly influenc-
ed by the sibling directly above them. Leman
said the middle children either uses the older
sibling as a role model who they must com-
pete with, or typically shoots off in an en-
tirely different direction, making a stake in
their individuality.
"YQu must always look at the entire fami-
ly, to understand the plight of the middle
child,'' Leman wrote.
Last-horns
The youngest children are the last to learn
that there is no Santa Claus, the last to learn
to tie their shoes, and the last to leave home.
The youngest child is best described as:
manipulative, charming, blames others,
shows off, people-person, temperamental,
spoiled, good salesperson, precocious,
engaging and social.
Leman said the youngest children are most
often found in professions that require the
ability to be "onstage" and perform. They
enjoy the limelight and develop clowning into
a fine art. Last-borns tend to move toward
vocations that are people-oriented, like car
salesmen.
"You can bet that the zany weather man
on the six o'clock news is the baby of the
family," Leman wrote. "He's a performer
and a showman who can make a drizzle seem
funny."
"Last-boms carry the curse of not
being
taken seriously - first by their families, then
by the world," he wrote.
The youngest live in the potent shadow of
those who were. born before. Their early
achievements (tying shoes, telling time, etc.)
were often greeted with polite yawns
or
boredom, since it is no longer the first time
these great feats have been witnessed, accor-
ding to Leman. Babies of the family know
and understand that their knowledge and
ability will carry far less weight than that of
their older siblings.
So the youngest learns to get laughs, ad-
miration, scoldings - anything to get atten-
tion, he said.
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Last-boms are used to being coddled,
cuddled and spoiled one minute put down
and made fun of the next.
"It's no wonder, last-boms feel on top of
the world Monday, and at the bottom of the
pile on Tuesday," Leman said.
Leman points out that there are
exceptions.
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"Birth order isn't a simplistic 1-2-3 system
that says all first-borns are equally one way,
all second children are another, and last-
borns are the same," Leman said.
Internships
Marist students majoring in business
or communication arts have an oppor-
tunity to work and study in London this
summer, thanks to a program spon-
sored by the Fashion Institute of
Technology and the State University of
New York. Cost for tuition, housing
and meals for the six-week program is
$2,977. Airfare is not included. For
more information, call Dr. Arthur
Winters at (212) 760-7705.
Getting Involved
Donations
The Graduate Psychology Associa-
tion is collecting winter clothes during
finals week. Please drop off donations
to Donnelly 105.
Volunteers
Volunteers in Service to America
(VISTA) is looking for volunteers to
serve full-time for one year with local,
non-profit sponsoring organizations.
For more information, contact your AC-
TION State Program Office or call toll-
free: 1-800-424-8867.
Attention
Want your activity listed in After
Class? Send pertinent information
through campus mail to The Circle, c/o
"After Class." All information must be
received by Monday at 11 a.m. to get
your activity listed in that Thursday's
paper.
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federal employment. So register at
the post office within a month of
your 18th birthday. It only takes five
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Marist College Computer Center
Do you NEED a job?
Do you WANT computer experience?
We are looking for the following:
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Student Aides for the spring semester.
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Assisting students with problems in campus computer facilities.
Applications must be received by January 20, 1990.
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Communications Clerk to start
ASAP
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Performing clerical duties, i.e. bookkeeping, inventory control and maintaining
the campus telephone directory. Hardware maintenance (installation and trouble shooting)
of personal computers and IBM mainframe equipment.
Applications must be received by January 5, 1990.
Pick up an application at the Computer Center receptionist desk in Donnelly 250.
It may be returned there or mailed to:
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December 14, 1989 - THE CIRCLE - Page 3
New alcohol law
to target minors
The ch-anging face of the North End
by
Maureen Kramer and Kevin Weilgand
When students usher in the new year next month those under the age
of 21 might be wise to think twice before they even touch a glass of cham-
pagne, never mind drink one.
A new state alcohol law to go into effect on Jan. 1 will make posses-
sion, as well as consumption, of alcohol by minors illegal. Police are
able to confiscate alcohol if the underage person intends to consume it,
according to Joseph Leary, Marist's director of safety and security.
Underage possession will become a violation and will result in either
a fine or an appearance in court, said Leary.
Each offense will carry fines from $50 to $250. In addition, minors
under 16 in violation of the law must appear in family court.
Because Marist's policy does not permit the possession of alcohol on
campus by students under the age of twenty-one, as outlined in the Marist
handbook, students off campus willbe most affected by the change, Leary ,
said.
"The new law won't affect on-campus students who sneak alcohol in-
to their dorms," Leary said. "In regard to off-campus parties, the police
have another tool to enforce the policy."
The state's drinking laws have come under criticism because minors
have consumed alcohol despite the law.
This has forced state officials to take stricter measures to deal with
the problem.
"The drinking problem has been a concern for sometime," Leary said.
"This new law is one of the results of that concern. I have a feeling that
this is just the beginning," said Leary.
Marist students said the new law may curb the underage drinking pro-
blem, but will also violate certain privacy rights.
"Now minors will not even be able to have a drink while they are under
the supervision of their parents, like on the holidays or at a wedding,"
said John Passmore, 21, of New York City.
Circle photo/Lynaire Brust •
Dirt
flies and the ground shakes as construction gets underway for The Dyson Center between the Lowell
Thomas Communications Center and the Townhouses.
Billing errors frustrate alumna
by Stacey McDonnell
Although she owed the college
$16,
she was incorrectly billed a se-
After months of confusion and
cond time, according to Housing
a. series of billing errors, a 1989 personnel. In October, she receiv-
Marist graduate is questioning the
ed a bill for $32.
college's billing procedures.
According
to Robin Will,
Ellen Ballou, from Lake Placid,
secretary of the Housing Office,
N.Y.,
says she was incorrectly bill-
the damage fine was posted twice
ed in October for r9om damages ·to her accoun~ -
on~e by Nancy
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semester.
More than the accounting error
• When she inquired about the fine
left Ballou frustrated, howev~r_._
after receiving the first
bill
in June,
. In a le~ter to Antho_ny Camp!J11,
Ballou said she was told by the Of-
vice president for busmess a~faJrS,
flee of Housing and Residence Life on October 13, Ballou said an
not to pay the
$16
room damage employee of the Office of Student
fine because her account showed a Accounts told her that the college
balance of $75 and the fine would sometimes adjusts accounts so that
be deducted from that.
~uditors do not find discrepancies
But the $75 in Ballou's account m the records.
-
the spring room reservation
Campilii said the office will
. deposit -
was returned to her in
manually adjust accounts if it
January because she withdrew realizes an error has been made.
from college housing to take an in-
"I'm not complaining about the
ternship in Schenectady, N.Y. As amount," said Ballou. "My qualm
of June, however, that amount still is that
if
they (the Office of Student
remained in her account.
Accounts) are goin_g to adjust ac-
counts, thcv better know what thev
are doing.;,
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The matter was resolved in Oc-
tober, said Steve Sanso la, director
of housing and residence life.
Ballou paid the $16 fine in the first
week of November.
Ballou, however, said
it
was not •
only this ;incident that made her
question the practices, but the way
her
account
was
handled
throughout her four years of
college.
She said she paid her bills in in-
stallments through a company. The
company, however, did not foward
her payments and, therefore, the
college never received them, she
said .
She would not be eligible to
register for classes for the follow-
ing semester if her bills were not be-
ing paid, she said.
Winning the battle against too much stress
by
Jennifer Becker
With finals upon us and papers
due, Marist students are increasing-
ly aware of stress and the effects it
has on their performance.
"Worrying is the negative na-
tional pastime," says Dr. Robert J.
Kriegel, a best selling author who
often writes about the effects of
stress on one's performance. Wor-
rying clouds thinking, overwhelms,
and reduces energy levels, Kriegel
said.
College students are big on wor-
rying and that makes them big on
stress, Kriegel said. The Nuprin
Pain Report documented that more
people in the 18-24 age group are
likely to suffer from stress than any
other.
According to Barbara Fries, a
counselor from Marist's Personal
Development office, students have
to deal ~ith a variety of stressful
situations. These
can
range from
academics to finances, relation-
ships, roommate problems and
family matters.
Fries says stress is not all bad.
"You need a certain degree of
stress to keep you motivated,"
Fries said.
However, too much stress can
overwhelm an individual, which
can
result in the Joss of motivation
and the ability tci do anything.
"Learning to make stress work
for you can help you concentrate
better and think more clearly under
pressure, have more energy, be
more creative and make college
more enjoyable," Kriegel said.
Kriegel says many are irrational
when under pressure. The cure is
to shift to rational thinking, Kriegel
says.
''Concentrate your
energy on what you
can change, rather
than dwelling
on
things you can't."
"Ask
yourself, 'What is the
worst thin2 that could possibly
happen?' '' Kriegel says. This
should help put things into
perspective.
Kriegel says most of what peo-
ple worry about is out of their con-
trol. "The more we worry about
these things, the worse everything
gets," he says.
Changing the worry to anticipa-
tion will help. "Concentrate your
energy on what you can change,
rather than dwelling on things you
can't," says Kriegel. This will in-
crease confidence
and better
prepare individuals for whatever
situation arises.
Further
suggestions
for
alleviating stress include: an-
ticipating prior to a pressure situa-
tion, making a worry list and
changing it to an anticipation list
(if ...
then), and concentrate your
energy.
Fries also recomends airing pro-
blems before they grow into
something larger. If you face each
problem
as
it arrives, it helps to
keep them from building.
Fries, and the other counselors
available on campus, give stress
workshops
throughout
the
academic year. The counseling
center is also available to help
students on a regular basis or in any
times of crisis. Fries stresses that
the services are free and that con-
fidentiality is a priority.
The workshops test how much
stress each individual is under and
they also assist in alle"iating the
pressures.
"We teach progressive relaxation
also," Fries says. These are exer-
cises in tightening and relaxing
muscles. The students are taught
what a relaxed state is and how-to
achieve it on their own.
"It
takes a lot of practice and a
lot of work but it does help," Fries
says. It must be incorporated into
the individuals life in order to
reduce the stress.
According to Barbara Wallraff's
article published in In View
Magazine, among the most troubl-
ing new sources of stress on cam-
pus is the drive to be perfect.
Women
. especially prone
stress at college.
are
to
Freshman are often overwhelm-
ed
by
all they have to do, while
seniors are worried about gradua-
tion and the future. Sophomores
and juniors are thinking of their
purpose and their identity,
accor-
din2 to
Fries.
A survey done by the Higher
Educational Research Institute at
UCLA, said that more than 21 per-
cent of 308,007 freshman surveyed
admitted they were overwhelmed.
This number is increasing each
year.
Wallraff says that women are
especially prone to stress at college.
Pressures include the move away
from home,financial worries, leav-
ing friends, the need for privacy,
and personal relationships.
Stress is defined as the reaction
caused by the sympathetic nervous
system coming into play and ac-
tivating hormone secretions which
mobilizes the body for the "fight
or flieht" response.
This would
be
helpful in fighting
an animal, but it is not so effective
in daily situations, Fries said .
A person under stress can ex-
perience a variety of physical and
emotional responses, the most
common being headaches, nausea
hives, insomnia, and ulcers.
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mind can only be obtained by let-
ting things go. Exercise can help,
she said.
"Just
talking can help to
alle"iate stress," she says. Wallraff
also suggests breathing exercises,
meditation
amd
counseling
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Tibetan life told in campus show
Photo exhibit opens in Lowell Thomas
by Molly Ward
Two women smile at the camera
in ragged clothing as they churn
yak's milk into butter. An aging
soldier, dressed in uniform stands
stoic and expressionless. A young
policewoman, with only a floppy
hat and dangling earring to indicate
her occupation, peers into the
camera with a creased brow.
The photographic exhibit of
Lowell Thomas' 1949 trip to Tibet
opened on Sunday, coinciding with
the presentation of the Nobel Peace
Prize to the exiled political and
spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai
Lama.
The photographs reveal a culture
that is now almost extinct. Just one
year after Lowell Thomas Jr. took
them, the country was invaded by
the Chinese, who tortured and
murdered many Tibetans.
"They are important, because
they were probably
the last
photographs taken before the
Chinese invasion in 1950," said
James Kullander, the assistant
director of public relations.
Emily Burdis, curator of the
Lowell Thomas collection, which
fills about 800 cardboard boxes,
found 320 photographic negatives
of the trip in October "in a
shoebox
labeled
Africa
or
something," she said.
Although prints of the trip
already existed, they were in poor
condition, Kullander said. "But as
soon as we saw the negatives, we
knew we had something special,"
he said.
Out of the 320 photographs, 31
were chosen to display. The deci-
sion was based on the picture's
historical significance and aesthetic
quality, said Kullander.
Thomas and his son were two of
fewer than ten Americans ever to
be allowed into Tibet by the Dalai
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Lama, who hoped that the jour- •
nalist would relate the danger Tibet
was in from China to the rest of the
world.
The exhibit only scratches the
surface of Marist's collection of
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Lowell Thomas' life, said Marc
vanderHeyden, the academic vice
president.
"This exhibit demonstrates a bit
of the treasures Marist has that the
students and staff are not even
aware of," he said.
"Out of This World Revisited: Rare Photographs of Lowell Thomas' 1949 Epic Journey to Tibet" opened
Sunday in the Lowell Thomas Communications Center. Below left, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, Goman Ten-
zin, from Tibet House in New York, appears as a representative of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual
and political leader, who received the Nobel Peace Prize that same day. Below right, the Tibetan flag is part
of the collection. Right, Edward Gargan, a former Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, speaks
to Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. Gargan spoke of the twentieth cen-
tury conflict between Tibet and China. China invaded Tibet in 1950, only months after Thomas' visit, forcing
the Dalai Lama into exile in India.
Circle photos by
Lynaire Brust
Twenty years later,
a look back on
by
Debra McGrath
They started out cheerful. They ended up
physically and emotionally scarred.
"The army isn't all that bad, actually it
isn't: .. The only thing is on the weekends you
get a little homesick," Jack writes from basic
training in Fort Jackson South Carolina on
February 12, 1968.
Within a few months he would be in Viet-
nam, on the front line, manning a machine
gun for Delta Company's first platoon. He
was 19.
He was a spunky red-headed kid from
Brooklyn. He used to hang out with his
friends in the park. Now he found himself
in the middle of a jungle waiting to kill or
be killed.
His friends went too. They "1Tote letters
to each other and to those that stayed home.
I had read the letters they wrote to my
parents before, but, until recently, I never
realized how young they were or how much
they endured.
He maintained a sense of humor at the
height of the conflict.
"I'm sorry I haven't written
in
a while but
I got a little "banged up" in an ambush, and
was in the hospital for a while. (Same, Same,
you're right) (smile) No big thing. My ma~
'Instead of parades for
their homecoming, there
were jeers from a nation
that tried to sweep the inci-
dent under the rug ... '
"Charles" wasn't in the Christmas spirit and
decided to "lock ass" with
me.
One thing
he forgot about was it takes a lot to kill an
Irishman especially one from Brooklyn.
(Right!)"
"Charles". the Vietnam conflict, didn't
kill Jack with buHets or bayonets. Charlie
deadened his senses, confused his values and
turned his ovm country against him. More
painful than a bayonet, Vietnam's blow hit.
We're removed from this time, even
though we are the children of the Vietnam
era. Men died there while we were being
born.
Instead of parades for their homecoming,
there were jeers from a nation that tried to
sweep the incident under the rug and didn't
teach their children what went on there.
Nobody explained why their fathers, their
uncles and their parent's friends died.
Although this was the war we were closest
to chronologically, it became the war we
were furthest from.
Marist College gives us a chance to learn
about the war. They offer classes that explain
what happened. We are lucky to be learning
in the classroom and not the field.
We feel sad when we think about Vietnam,
but the sadness goes away. It is a different
story for those who lived through it. Viet-
nam is "1ith them every moment of every
day. eating away at them.
They have memories of friends being
blown away. and of killing the enemy in
hand to hand combat. It's all there and it
doesn't take much to bring it all back. Let-
ters from the field reveal the chaos.
"I'm sorry about the stationary, but I've
Vietnam
been in the field for the last nine days and
like they don't even give us time to get our
stuff together. Things were pretty wild over
here for a while there but, like they're star-
ting to cool off a little. "My man Charles"
was really raising some hell, even got two of
my "partners," but like the next day I got
me three gooks with my machine gun. That's
the third medal I got
so
far. They don't really
mean anything to me, but like it looks real
good on your service record."
This is war. It may tum your stomach and
make you feel sick. But it may make you see
that finals are not the end of the world.
We're young, for the first time we feel real
pressure. Deadlines. tests, what to do after
graduation, how to prepare, these are our
daily problems. The people who fought in
Vietnam were the same age
as
we are now.
Their problems were more severe.
We are preparing for life, they didn't have
that option. Their lives were interrupted and
permanently altered.
Our country is at peace. We attend college.
We
can
prepare ourselves for our future.
During your holiday vacation think about
the people who never had the same chance.
Let their experience strengthen your deter-
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J
oily Holidays·
Holidays abroad marked with memories
by Claudine Carpenter
Last Christmas, Donna Jean-
nette, a senior from Mineola, N. Y.,
spent three hours standing in a
slow-moving line in front of a
phone booth that was labeled
"America."
Jeannette and three other Marist
students were in a train station in
Rome, Italy, along with about 100
other American students who were
all attempting to call the U.S. to
wish their families a "Merry
Christmas.''
Christmas Eve was also different
for Jeannette.
At midnight Mass the night
before, Jeannette, wearing a pair of
. old jeans, sat in a pew at St. Peter's
Basilica in Rome, listening to the
pope's Latin words.
"If
my mom had seen me in
City's you(h
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holiday cheer
by Julie Cullinane
Children jumped up and down
begging Toothpick-the-clown to
use his magic to make a snake, dog
or giraffe out of red, green and
pink balloons.
Toothpick was much obliged
and continued to pump them up,
while the children waited in heated
anticipation for Santa's arrival to
the Fireside
Lounge
Friday
afternoon.
Curious as to whether or not
Santa was coming, kindergarten
and first graders from the Samuel
F.B. Morse school in Poughkeep- •
sie milled about from one activity
to another, as they eyed a sleigh,
lit up with Christlllas lights.
"Is that Santa's real sleigh?"
whispered one little girl. "Is Santa
coming?" asked another child.
Forgetting about Santa Claus for
a while, the children gathered
around the stage to listen to the
Men's Barber Shop sing "White
Christmas", and when it was their
turn to sing "Jingle Bells",
"Rudolph-the-Red-
Nosed
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Reindeer"
and "Frosty-the-
Snowman," the words were belted
out.
Then, Christmas stories were
read to small groups of children in
different corners of the room.
In the middle of one story a child
piped up and told the storyteller he
really wanted Nintendo. It didn't
take much to encourage the rest of
the crowd to join in.
"I
want a pig," said another
boy.
When Santa finally arrived,
everyone gathered close to the stage
while senior Mike Tella blasted
more Christmas tunes in the
background.
"Have you all been good boys
and girls?" said Santa as he sat in
his sleigh.
"Yes!" the children screamed.
One little boy giggled and
covered his mouth,
"I
don't think
that is the real Santa Claus," he
said. "He's
probably just
a
helper."
But whether it was the real San-
ta Claus or not, no one complain-
ed after climbing on the lap of that
jolly man in the red suit who was
handing out presents.
The party, originally organized
by the Commuter Union, was the
result of a combined effort of the
Psychology Club, the Computer
Society, Campus Ministry and the
Men's Barber Shop cho~al gro~p.
"We realized community sen1ce
was sparking up this semester so ~e
decided to join the trend," said
Mike
Molloy, president of the
commuter Union.
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those old jeans, she would have
cried," Jeannette said,
"It
was the
only pair of clean pants I had."
Jeannette was one of 30 students
who took part in the Marist
Abroad Program last year. Most of
them stayed overseas during the
holidays and agreed that although
it was rough at times, the oppor-
tunity to travel and meet new peo-
ple was a valuable experience.
Jeannette,
who spent her
Christmas vacation traveling for
five weeks, said she did not want
to go home to New York for the
holidays.
"It
would've been too hard to
come back after being home with
my family," she said.
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Being away from home did not
bother Amy Schilling, who spent
Christmas in London with her
boyfriend who flew in from New
York to see her.
"I didn't miss not being home
for Christmas," said Schilling, a
senior from Sugar Loaf, N.Y., who
studied at Dublin City University
in Ireland.
Schilling said that although she
was a little short on money during
her first Christmas away from
home, she and her boyfriend ate at
a nice restaurant because they
wanted to have a special dinner.
This year, 20 students went
abroad according to Cicely Per-
rotte, program coordinator for the
Marist Abroad Program. .
"You wonder what brings them
(the students) in to ask about the
program," Perrotte said. "Some
are sure they want to go away,
others are just testing the water,"
she said.
Michael Cornette, a senior from
Staten Island, N.Y., remembered
the day he left his family and
girlfriend to study at City Univer-
sity in London.
"I
was nervous and at the same
time curious," Cornette said.
"I
never really gave it thought, I just
did it," he said.
Cornette
flew
home
for
Christmas to see his family and
friends, but he spent Thanksgiving
in his "Champagnat-Iike dorm".
He and IO other Americans cook-
ed a turkey dinner and invited their
English friends to celebrate the
American holiday.
Most of the students agreed that
meeting new people was the most
memorable of their experiences
overseas.
"The best thing in England is the
people," said Cornette, who spent
most of his spare time with four
English students and one from Ita-
ly. "You know that they're true
friends and you never have to
worry about them hurting you,"
Cornette said.
All of the students agreed it was
a bit rough being in another coun-
try, basically alone during the
holidays, but they all said they had
a lot of fun.
"It
was great exploring a new ci-
ty during the Christmas season,"
said Schilling.
At this time, the Marist Abroad
Program is wrapping up their ap-
plications for next year. According
to Elizabeth Jaycox, the Marist
Abroad secretary, they put out 50
applications
but they cannot
predict how many they will get
back.
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help empty pockets
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'Tis the season to be giving, ex-
cept for poor Marist students,
struggling to make it through one
more week of eating macaroni and
cheese, saving their last
$5
for beer
• night.
"It's a Marist Christmas!" said
Lisa Vogt, a freshman psychology
• major from Staten Island, N.Y.,
about charging Marist apparel at
the bookstore as gifts for the whole
-
family.
The holiday season is a tough
one for Marist students trying to
survive the demands put upon them
during the last few weeks of the
semester, in addition to coming
up
with g1tt ideas tor tnends and
family.
To begin the search for accep-
table holiday gifts, students must
learn of what's hot and what's not
in Christmas gifts. The trick is to
think of cheap gift ideas to guide
them successfully through this holi-
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day season.
Richard Platt, a Wappingers
Falls resident and general manager
of G.Fox in the Poughkeepsie
Galleria said, "The hottest mer-
chandise trend this holiday season
seems to be the "Rocking
Flowers," the flowers that dance to
music."
According to Elaine Cederbaum,
owner of Cedar Luggage, located
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Circle
photo/Lynaire Brust
golf items are selling more than
usual due to the growth of the
This fireplace is part of the decorations that won townhouse C7 the sport.
Christmas decorating contest sponsored by Housing/Residence Life.
Other hot Christmas gift items
include totes items, particularly the
totes toasties, electromc items -
including the updated lava lamps
and funky phones, video tapes and
nintendo game cartridges. Pre-
wrapped cosmetic packages for
men and women, hair and clothing
accessories and costume jewlery,
are also big this year, said local
merchants.
"With the new decade, the
climate is different for gift giving,"
said Carmine Porcel\i, an Ulster
Park resident and director of
Marist's fashion department for
three years. "Now people are giv-
ing more unique, more special
gifts."
Porcelli suggests giving books as
gifts. In addition to being affor-
table, they are suitable for both
men and women.
"Watches are fashionable and
versatile," said Jacqueline Sayegh,
a marketing
communications
associate at Boluva Corporation
and former Marist fashion student
from Brooklyn,
NY.
"But
you
can't go wrong with accessories and
costume jewlery, they're useful and
affordable."
"Buy a Christmas stocking,
write the persons name on it and
fill it with little gifts," said Lucy
Gentile, a senior from Paramus,
NJ. "For an even more affordable
idea, buy some decorative tins and
fill them with home baked
•
cookies."
Secret santa is always a tavome
with groups of friends, house mates
and dorm mates. Each person picks
a name out of a hat and buys a gift
for that person. It is affordable and
everyone receives something.
A few verses about old holiday favorites
'Tis the season to be jolly,
Mistletoe, eggnog and holly,
So let's take time to remember,
The tales we tell each December.
Hark! The Herald, Angels sing,
He's ready to jump, doesn't feel
like a king,
Yes, times do get tough, and full
of strife,
But, gosh, Mr. Stewart "It's A
Wonderful Life!"
He wants a new gun, a Red
Rider, in fact,
But first to convince Mom,
somehow, \l,;th tact,
Now in the Christmas story was
there ever a doubt,
No Ralphie boy, "you'll shoot
your eye out."
Away in the manger, a new baby
does live,
But what does he do, he's got
nothing to give,
.
Well there's always your music
instead of a toy,
So "Now I play for you," said
the Little Drummer Boy.
Ed McGarry
It's
a
little
known
fact
that ...
A
boy to be born to a virgin,
named Mary,
While Joseph did wonder, being
tired and weary,
Then down came Gabriel, who
said to behold,
The "Greatest
Story Ever
Told."
Then there was that ghost of
Christmas future, present and past,
Who tried to show a
man
that his
greediness couldn't last,
Finally Scrooge realized, and
before it was done,
Merry Christmas to all, and
"God Bless Us, Everyone."
Don't forget the reindeer who
was called lots of names,
And couldn't play in all those
reindeer games,
But then came a Christmas when
it was foggy at night,
And Rudolph's red nose became
the guiding light.
The Grinch tried to steal
Christmas, one dreadful year,
He took all of the presents, but
failed with the cheer,
Because the true meaning of
Christmas, they all knew,
Everyone from Whoville, even
Cindv Lou Who.
Then
the
true
spirit
of
Christmas, did the Grinch realize,
And his hean proceeded to
grow, three times it's size.
Now, he's Mr. Heat Miser, with
Mr. Cold,
Santa is sick, they were both
told,
So she got him healthy, did Mrs.
S,
the boss,
And we didn't have to see, the
"Year Without A Santa Claus."
Now there is one question, I'd
like to know,
'Cause not knowing the answer
bothers me so.
So please tell me the answer,
then I won't have to squawk,
What was the show where the
animals talk?
Well I hope you've enjoyed this
poem of the season,
For not liking these shows would
surely be treason.
But you better not cry, and you
better not pout,
And take time to remember
what Christmas is all about.
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My best \\-ishes
10
you, may your
holiday be right,
"Merry Christmas to all, and to
all a good night!"
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Students speak
They are satisfied with the academics, and they like their
classmates; they are disappointed with the Library and hate the
food.
Students told the administration what they think about 83 col-
lege functions, and the results, while not too surprising, are still
noteworthy.
Last semester's registration survey, the results of which were
published last week, was the first time the administration con-
ducted such a comprehensive experiment to measure student opi-
nion. Prior to this survey, which Executive Vice President Mark
Sullivan says will be conducted annually, the course evaluations
were the only tabulated student opinions of the college's
performance.
The survey was successful in isolating the few areas most in
need of improvement: the Library and the food service. Negative
reactions to some categories caused department meetings to work
on solutions. It will be important to monitor these proceedings
in the coming months to determine the effectiveness of the survey.
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Apart from the formality of students telling the administration
many of the things it knew all along, the results told Marist
students something about themselves. They are overwhelmingly
satisfied with the college's academics, and they think highly of
themselves inside and outside the classroom. They're generally
satisfied with the social life of the school.
We're just a happy-go-lucky bunch, aren't we? Not entirely.
The survey dodged some of the most inflammatory issues facing
Marist students, particularly the drinking policy. Moreover, the
generally positive approval ratings must not let us grow compla-
cent about improving academics.
But college administrators, in this good-faith effort, have been
reasonably attentive to student concerns, and the student body
has demonstrated cooperation in return.
Letters to
The Circle
Drinking policy
Editor:
I'd like
to
offer a perspective on
Marist which I think many of the
freshmen share.
First, there is no doubt that the
policies here are too strict. The
alcohol policy that the school en-
forces on the students is detrimen-
tal to the college experience. Sure,
the legal age for consumption of
alcohofis 21, but the administra-
tion should change the current rule
to a closed-door policy.
Since the college can't complete-
ly abolish drinking, they should
work with the students to come to
some sort of fair policy. College is
a learning institution, but at the
same time students should be
allowed to have a certain degree of
fun.
If you take away from one if
these factors, the whole college ex-
perience is for naught.
Thomas Torrillo
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Remembering the politics
that shaped the 1980s
'Tis the season for holiday shop-
ping, late night study sessions, eg-
gnog, New Year's resolutions and
large credit card bills.
'Tis also the season for harried
political columnists who have us-
ed up a decade's worth of ideas to
don their historian caps and give us
the definitive version of what it all
meant.
'Tis not for me to break with
tradition.
. . Of course, most columnists go
for a serious look. I, however, am
going to finally let go of the one-
liners that have been building up
for 10 years. Besides, 'tis the season
to be jolly.
If
the '70s are remembered
as
the
"me" decade, then the '80s will
have to go down in history as the
"my" decade, as in my 3
BMWs,
my $14 million painting and my
leveraged buyout.
In fact, the unbridled greed of
the decade may have been best
summed up by inside trader Ivan
Boesky who read "Whoever dies
with the most money, wins."
Of course, Boesky got his. He's
serving a three-year sentence at
Lompoc Federal Country Club ...
I mean, Prison.
But the decade was not quite so
kind to some others, especially
John
Treen.
You may not
remember his name, but in 1988,
Treen ran for the Louisiana
Legislature against a man named
David Duke.
To make a long story short,
Treen's opponent was a former
Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan. Treen had the backing of
former President Reagan, Presi-
dent Bush and the Republican Na-
tional Party. He STJLL lost the
election.
Oh well, maybe next election
Treen can get Richard Nixon's
support.
Of course, the big political
"in-
ner in America in the 1980s was
none other than Ronald Reagan.
Of course, Nancy's astrologer
knew it all along.
On the international scene,
Paul O'Sullivan
Thinking
between
the
lines
though, Reagan's success pales in
comparison to that of Mikhail Gor-
bachev' s, whose ascension to the
leadership of the Soviet Union
disproved forever the theory that
the Politburo selects its leaders by
holding a Lerch look-alike contest.
Dan Quayle proved once and for
all that anyone can be vice presi-
dent, no matter what his handicap.
Golf -
I'm talking about golf.
In the 1980s we said goodbye to
some old friends: Ayatollah Kho-
meini, Ferdinand Marcos, Yuri
Andropov, Constantin Chernenko.
Gee the Washington
D.C.
Hallmark store must be fresh out
of sympathy cards.
Religion was all the rage in the
1980s; it seemed you just weren't
anyone if you didn't have a
ministry in those days.
One of the best preachers of the
decade was Oral Roberts who told
his followers that God said He
would take Oral from the earth
unless he raised millions of dollars
for his minisrry.
Instead of raising the money,
Oral should have found himself a
new parish. Where I go
to
confes-
sion 10 Hail Mary's is usually the
max that I have to do.
If
someone
told me I had to raise millions of
dollars for my religion, I'd convert.
Of course, no mention of
religion in the '80s would be com-
plete without dropping the names
of Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swag-
gert, two men whose literal inter-
pretations of the Bible led them to
love their neighbor just a little too
much.
Nobody ever gave Lyndon
LaRouche any credit, so in the '80s
he decided to skim some off the top
of a
few
Visa bills. That's one way
to get around the campaign finan-
cing laws, I guess,
In fact, the '80s will probably go
down in history as the decade of
the scandal. Gary Hart, Jim
Wright, Barney Frank, Ed Meese,
Lyn Nofziger, Oliver North, Mario
Biaggi, Douglas Ginsburg, John
Tower, Wade Boggs, Steve Garvey,
Richard Secord, John Poindex-
ter ... maybe I should list the peo-
ple who weren't involved in scan-
dals; after all, the cartoon is four
frames this week, so I have a
limited amount of space.
But in all seriousness, the '80s
should be remembered less for the
scandals that took place and more
for the great hope that opened up
when the Berlin Wall came down.
In the 1990s there is much work
to be done.
Paul O'Sullh·an is The Circle's
political columnist.
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Telling the future with a cloudy crystal ball
'Twas the week before finals and
all were confused, coffee and
papers kept us amused.
Bah, humbug is the battle cry
here. It's the final Christmas break
of my college career.
Papers and exams just keep
mounting. It's getting so big I can't
keep counting.
Enough of this gibberish, stop
the rhyme;· let's get to the facts
while I still have time.
Refusing to believe that this
semester is over, I have found
myself confronted with a mound of
delicious work to bite into.
I find this very disheartening as
I was under the impression that all
seniors were exempt from finals
and the rigors of strenuous study.
The other day I took a walk
down into the bowels of the under-
world and retrieved the trusty, old
crystal ball for my end of the year
clearance sale and predictions for
the upcoming decade:
By the time the University of
Miami wins the national champion-
ship, on January 2, a new decade
will indeed be well under way.
My beloved Dallas Cowboys
regain control of the moniker,
"America's Team."
Jimmy Johnson starts to bald
and starts wearing a fedora, eerjly
reminescent of his predescessor
Tom Landry.
Fans become incensed at his
audacity, but soften when he wins
five Super Bowls.
Marist goes through a major
growth spurt as well. With its name
ever larger on the European scene,
expanding into Uganda and China
to boot, they assemble one of the
biggest, most intimidating.lineups
in the history of the game.
The only problem though, is that
Ireland's future at stake
as Europe comes together
Just imagine - ignoring the laws
of nature for a minute -
that we
could drag this little island some
5,000 miles across the Atlantic
Ocean to the east coast of the
United States and connect the two
countries via bridges to Cape Cod
and Long Island.
After all, lots of Americans have
family connections in Ireland, the
Irish are always talking about
friends and relatives in the states,
and New York City and Boston
have two of the largest Irish
populations.
Sure, instead of a summer house
in Hyannisport or the Hamptons,
people could drive out to the lakes
of Killarney or the Ring of Kerry.
Then the benefits of Ireland's rich
landscape, the taste of a well-pulled
pint of Guinness and the hospitality
of country folk would be conve-
niently close by.
Yeah ... everyone
would ... nah ... forget . it. Donald
Trump would probably end up
building some development ex-
travaganza in County Derry, the
IRA would hijack the Trump Shut-
tle and Margaret Thatcher would
have a serious fit.
The European
Community
wouldn't be too happy, either.
Ireland regains the presidency of
the EC 12 for six months in
January 1990 for the fourth time
since it became a member. It comes
at a crucial time on the road to
1992, and Ireland's Taoiseach
(president), Charles Haughey, has
his work cut out for him.
The state of affairs in Europe is
at its climax now. The next six
months may prove to be the most
exiting months Europe has ever
seen. There are more changes and
reformations
occurring
than
anyone ever expected -
in the
West as well as the East. It seems
everything is unravelling at once.
Ironically, the only "barriers" that
seem to stand strong are the ones
that still exist in Northern Ireland.
Last week 21 people were hurt
when a 500-pound bomb in a van
blasted shops and offices in the
center of Lisburn. Before that, a
49-year-old man in Derriaghy was
shot through the glass door of his
home and killed while his wife and
daughter were in the house.
There have also been 155
"punishment" shootings -
like
blasting kneecaps - in the North
so far this year, carried out by
loyalists and republicans for "anti-
social behaviour." These are only
a few of the many violent acts in
the North recently.
For a countrv as small as
Ireland, the taking on of the EC
presidency will be a great strain -
financially and politically. The in-
Dateline:
Dublin
Ilse Martin
terests of certain governments,
England especially, are threatening
to frustrate and possibly delay the
single market plan.
Also, the challenge of molding a
longer-term response to the hap-
penings in Eastern Europe lies
ahead. They will be tests of
Ireland's strength and leadership
abilities.
In addition, Ireland's presiden-
cy agenda calls for advancement
towards
the Economic
and
Monetary Union (EMU), proposals
to liberalize air transport, freedom
of movement within the Communi-
ty's 12 member countries, and the
EC response to events in the Mid-
dle East, South Africa and Central
America as well. The country's
neutrality may prove beneficial
here.
Meanwhile, Ireland is grappling
with problems within· her own
borders.
The government
is
discussing and planning a much-
needed environmental protection
agency. It is long overdue. While
the landscape of the country in the
west and south is somewhat well
cultivated and preserved, major
cities
are
having
pollution
problems.
Coal-burning, petrol fumes and
industrial waste in Dublin has
created a smog so noxious and un-
safe over the past month, the
government has warned people
against excessive outdoor activity.
But the colder it gets, the more coal
is burned in residential areas. The
government desperately needs a
policy to help this problem.
The government is also looking
to improve the country's transpor-
tation system. They have asked the
Community for funds to revamp
the Dublin-Belfast railway lines,
which have been bombed a number
of times over the past few years.
Also on the agenda are plans to
help lower unemployment, as well
as emigration. Collectively, they
are enormous tasks.
Let's hope that Ireland is strong
enough to carry out her duties
as
EC President, without neglecting
the needs of the country itself.
1f
her strength holds, she can rest easy
for awhile.
Ilse Martin
is
The Circle's
overseas correspondent.
Wes Zahnke
A
day
in
the
life
none of them can speak English,
which results in the hiring of 15
separate translators, one of which
has a nasty habit of pulling his shoe
off during the game
and
beating an
official over the head.
A subsequent NCAA . probe
finds that the shoe was actually giv-
ing money and other illegal in-
ducements to players. The shoe is
given the death penalty and is hung
in effigy on campus soon after.
The Dyson Center is completed
in the winter of 1997, just in time
to see Marist East turned into a
Crazy Al's Deep River Discount.
Dyson engineers are baffled by
the strange black liquid that holds
steady at ankle level for months.
It's found to be oil, which changes
things dramatically on the campus.
President Murray sees the poten-
tial here, and sets his sights for the
big boys, Sunoco and Exxon. He
goes on a power trip and is
mysteriously shot one night while
alone in his office drooling over
budget reports and profit sheets.
The Circle runs an on going
series of, "Who
shot D.M.
surveys," on the front page. It's
the biggest thing to hit the campus
since Rik Smits.
Incidentally, Rik becomes the
most intimidating center in the
NBA,
with the exception of
Kareem, who is back on the com-
eback trail.
President Murray lives and vows
to regain control of the Marist Em-
pire he built up. He gets in a bitter
power
struggle
with
Rudy
Bougarel, who has become the in-
terim president.
Giving up hope for the NBA, the
seven footer from Paris has entered
the political arena with the slogan,
"What the hell, vote Bougarel."
So as we leave the eighties and
head into the unkown, unpredic-
table 90's, just remember this: It's
not whether you win or lose, it's
what you drink after the game that
counts.
Wes Zahnke
is
The Circle's
humor columnist.
A few surprises in store for
the world of music in the '90s
'Tis the last season of the
eighties.
I know this because MTV has
been running an "Eighties
Retrospect" thing for the past
three months. I know this
because Life magazine has us
looking back at the decade that
was, but isn't yet finished. I
know this because books have
already been written about the
eighties. We've got about two
weeks left, but for all intents
and purposes the eighties are
over.
Big deal.
Trying to come up with a few
cogent observations concerning
the role of pop music in the
eighties is like trying to teach
your dog to walk backwards.
Sure it can be done, but what's
the point?
Besides, every rock magazine
has already done a retrospective
and we sure don't need another
one. But no one seems to be ad-
dressing a more difficult and
highly speculative issue -
the
role of rock music in the
nineties.
I have seen the future of
popular music. Not that I'm a
modern-day Nostradamus, or
even a poor man's Jeanne Dix-
on, but I've been meditating for
several months waiting for these
visions to appear. I spent a week
in a psychiatric ward after one
particularly gruesome vision of
a Tammy Fay Bakker operetta,
but I'm okay now.
Let's talk about trends. What
will continue, and what will die
out? Two of the eighties tren-
diest styles, rap and "light"
metal, will enjoy increased
popularity in the early nineties
but die a slow death by 1994.
There is one major reason for
this: there are simply too many
rappers and aluminum rockers
out there.
Rap as a musical style is
severely limited and the lack of
Kieran Fagan
In
your
ear
diversity among rappers is go-
ing to be its downfall. As for
light metal (same as regular
metal but half the calories), it
will suffocate
on its own
mediocrity and will never be
able to recover from the
breakup of Bon Jovi in early
1993. Wishful thinking ... or
• eery prophecy? I guess we'll see.
Considered by many to be the
Band of the Eighties,
U2
will
continue their search for the
musical roots they never had.
This began with l988's "Rattle
and Hum," where they played
the role of Motown wannabes.
Not satisfied with this derivative
success, Bono and the boys will
go on to try the big band sound,
Gregorian chants, Tibetan pipe
music, and an all-kazoo or-
chestra. But their only chart-
topper in
I
991 will be a col-
laboration with Zamfir, the
master of the pan flute. By the
mid-nineties they'll go back to
the originality they were once
known for.
Folk rock is going to be big
(again) and bands not known
for their quieter moods will be
junking their electric guitars for
acoustic ones. Guns 'n' Roses
started this with their studio
tracks on their "Lies" album
and soon found themselves
playing on records with Peter,
Paul and Mary. This will end in
bitter court battles over Axl
Rose's insistence on kicking
Peter out of the band and call-
ing it
':Ax],
Ral'I.,_ MEry 'n'
Roses.
Other notables in the folk
world will include Indigo Girls,
Wendy Wall, Washington
Squares, and New Bohemians
(they just might give Edie
Brickell the boot). What we
won't see is the sixties nostalgia
that polluted the eighties. The
folk revival isn't going
to
be a
revival at all, but a new era in
popular
music. While the
sounds might hark back to the
earlier folk era, the music is go-
ing to have a thoroughly
nineties sensibility (whatever
THAT means), not to mention
slicker production.
As
1989
churns slowly
to
a
halt, popular music is experien-
cing a period of change. The
amount of diversity in music to-
day bodes well for the nineties.
When we turn on the radio we'll
be hearing more than just
Madonna and Young MC. Bar-
riers will be broken down and
people will be exposed
to
more
types of music than ever before.
Hard rock, synthesized beats,
reggae, rockabilly, punk, funk,
rap and hip-hop -
they'll an
find their place.
I have seen the future of
popular music. I just can't wait
to hear it.
END NOTES:
As
I write this,
my ears are still ringing from the
Alarm concert at the Chance
Sunday night.
I was too tired to
enjoy it to its fullest, but it was
still a fantastic show. They're
going to be at the Ritz in NYC
tonight. Do see them if you get
the opportunity, you won't be
disappointed. They even played
Neil Young's "Rockin' in the
Free World."
Talk about
unexpected ...
Kieran Fagan
is
The Circle's
music columnist
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Drunken driving
Editor:
Students of Marist College, you
have plans for your life; goals to
reach; a brilliant future.
So did Linda Lancaster, a doc-
toral candidate at the University of
Maine at Orono. On February 18,
1989, the drunken driver of a
pickup truck struck her down as
she and a classmate walked along
a sidewalk in the campus communi-
ty. Linda died three hours later.
All her goals and plans for the
future were wiped out in one
senseless moment of drunken
violence
-
a violence our
legislatures have yet to recognize as
murder -
and our courts of law
waiver over justice for the victim.
You have plans for your life, but
take a moment as you walk across
campus to ponder your chances of
becoming the random victim of a
drunken driver. We all carry the
same risk, as did Linda. But with
your help we can and must keep
our streets and sidewalks safe.
Take a stand. Refuse to ride with
an intoxicated driver. Volunteer to
drive a friend who has partied too
much. Write your congressman to
initiate deterrent legislation against
killer drivers -
no time off for
good behavior, no suspending half
a sentence, no plea bargaining.
Do something positive, if not for
yourself or for a friend, then for
someone who loves you. Keep your
future alive.
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Post Office reviewed
as students complain
by Kelly
Woods
Changes made in the campus post office schedule in September have
resulted in student complaints and demands for explanations from col-
lege officials, who say issue lies in a shortage of staff members.
The changes made in the beginning of the fall semester included a
decrease in working hours, cutting 30 minutes, and adding a 45 minute
lunch break.
Student complaints prompted Kevin Desmond, president of student
government, to send a letter of inquiry to Postal Director Raymond Lane,
his immediate supervisor, Carl Gerberich and Gerard Cox, dean of stu-
dent affairs.
child, I think I am more
sensitive to the abuses of of
authority," he said.
When questioned on the subject,
some faculty, staff and students on
campus gave some surprising
answers to the question of birth
order.
Marist president, Dennis J. Mur-
ray, fits the first-born description
of being a born leader and over-
achiever. But, Murray, the oldest
of three children, doesn't attribute
his success to being the first-born
child, even though the first born
has more attention and nurturing.
"As the first one in my family
to go to college, I had a little
pressure and a lot of support,"
Murray said. "I was the first one
to break that barrier, and that was
The letter asked why there was a decrease in hours when the volume
of work has increased. In the past, the post office hours were from 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. but are now 9:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m., plus the lunch break.
, very important."
Although Cox has been the only one to respond to the letter, Lane
said he has also written a response but has not yet typed it up and sent
it to the president of the student government.
Gerberich, vice president of the information center and supervisor of
the post office, said he has not yet responded because he did not have
a concrete answer to the problem.
Gerberich said he has been re-evaluating the current situation and said
the main problem is that the post office is short on full-time employees.
"We have started looking for more full-time staff members and pro-
ject that the post office will be open all day before spring break," said
Gerberich. "But I can't make any promises:"
...
The post office staff currently comprises of three part-time employees,
a manager, a supervisor and a driver. Approximately 16 part-time students
workers put in an average of 8 to 10 hours a week.
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p.m. and needs a lunch break.
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and on some days we need that time to catch up o~. work because :\ve
get so much mail," said the four-year staff member.
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like those in federal post offices; for students and various offices around' • ••
campus.
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to; 'Open
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The Soviet Union and the rest of Eastern Europe is currently in a period
of radical change, with "Glasnost" and "Perestroika" being the ·key
words of the day. In March, about 60 Marist College students and faculty
members will be able to experience these historic changes firsthand.
Marist is offering a 10-day trip to the Soviet Union over Spring Break,
March 9-18. This is the sixth time students and faculty will go behind
the Iron Curtain,
The trip, which will be escorted by Dr. Casimir Norkeliunas, professor
of Russian Studies is open to all Marist students and faculty and is re~·
quired for Russian majors. Russian majors must make at least one trip
to the Soviet Union bef<!re graduation._
The "Study Abroad Experience," said Norkeliunas, allows students
to view various aspects of Soviet culture and society while earning three
credits in either art, business, economics or history.
Marist professors John Kelly, Robert Grossman and Virginia Mar-
quardt will join the trip. Each will teach a course in their given field.
According to Norkeliunas, special accomodations have been made for
the courses in order to enhance the learning experience. The dual business
and economics course entitled, "Perestroika -
An Economic and
Business Perspective," to be taught by Kelly and Grossman.
"There will be a visit to a Soviet factory that is now under new manage-
ment that will allow students to see the changes that Perestroika has
brought," Norkeliunas said.
The course will also include a meeting in Moscow with Soviet represen-
tatives involved in industrial and economic planning. The students will
be briefed on what is currently happening with the economy, and what
the future may hold, Norkeliunas said.
Other topics will include employee training, admissions practices for
universities and graduate placement.
These special arrangements are not limited to the business/economics
course, however.
The art course entitled "Soviet and Russian Art" includes extra tour
time in three different museums, including the Hermitage Museum in
Leningrad.
The tourist agency gave permission to Marquardt to lecture in one of
the museums itself. Permission may also be granted to lecture in Kremlin
cathedrals, said Norkeliunas.
"None of this would have been allowed just two years ago,"said
Norkeliunas.
The tour also includes two performances of music and/or dance at
one of Leningrad's leading theaters, a visit to Lithuania and sightseeing
in such historic places as the Red Square, Gorky Park, the Lenin
Mausoleum and the Novodevichy Monastery.
Norkeliunas said while there is a busy schedule, students and faculty
will have time to sightsee on their own.
While things have certainly loosened up since 1969, when Norkeliunas
said it was "dangerous to go to the Soviet Union," the criminal code
has not changed and everyone is required to be in the hotel by 2 a.m.
The tour \\ill be received in Leningrad by the United States Counselor
General for a luncheon reception, at his request, said Norkeliunas.
Norkeliunas said that 58 people have already signed up for the trip
costing
$1,500. While the tour has always
been
popular, Norkeliunas said
the expected number of people going on this trip will
be
the highest yet.
Murray quipped, "Although, I
did suggest to my father that we
have a primogeniture (a large sum
of money inherited by the first-
born)."
Cafeteria moms and real lite
sisters, Marge Sadowski and Mary
Zampko, are the two youngest of
nine children.
"My younger sister, Mary, and
I were spoiled because we got to do
a lot of things the older kids
couldn't do," Sadowski said.
"Growing up as thl: last-born, I
think you learn a lot about sharing
and caring," said Zampko, who
considers herself very sociable.
Father Benedict D' Allesandro,_
also a last-born (the youngest of
three brothers), said being the
youngest can be misunderstood -
it's not all fun and games.
"I think it was somewhat dif-
ficult to live up to the standards
they set," he said. "There was a lot
of comparison
between
us,
especially at school."
•
He said his last-born, people-
oriented personality is an asset to
his vocation. "I'm extremely char-
ming," he jokingly said.
Circle Editor Bill Johnson said
he fits the first-born·mold, admit-
ting to being a perfectionist and in-
terested in pursuing a career in
broadcast or print-· journalism.
(Remember that first-borns are
often found in these jobs because
they crave discipline, precision and
structure.)
"I want everything to be just
right at all times," he said.
Sophomore Class Vice President
Jennifer Chandler is also a first-
born -
a born leader.
Chandler,
from
Fairfield,
Conn., is • the oldest of of three
children. She said she possesses
some of-the typical characteristics
of the first-born. -"I'm somewhat
serious, but I also like to have a
good time," she said.
"I had a hard time growing up
because there was a lot of respon-
sibility placed on me to be a role
model to my younger siblings,"
- Chandler said. "I am the one who
broke my parents in -
who were
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Raquetball
splits with
RPI, Friars
With the largest team that Marist
has fielded yet, the raquetball team
split a weekend.match in Albany.
In its match against Providence
College, the Friars won all but one
of the women's pairings - going
on to win the match 12-7. The Red
Foxes came back, however, against
RPI - sweeping the women's pair-
ings to defeat the Engineers 12-5.
Against Providence, although
the Friars took four of the seven
men's singles matches, Marist
swept the men's doubles to come
away with a 6-4 win for the men's
team.
Sean Graham (winning by scores
of 11-3 and 11-4), Artie Mochi
(11-8, 11-2) and John Mckee (11-8,
11-4) each took their respective
best-of-three singles matches.
In the sweeping the men's
doubles matches, Graham and Eric
Funk teamed up to down Claude
Hasopian and Chris Varnes 11-7,
11-1. Mochi and Greg Povolney
crushed the Friars' Adam Yourell
and George Mcchi 11-1, 11-3 and
Mckee and Joe Feraldi took a close
11-10, 11-8 match from Matt Cur-
tin and Pete Schiller.
The women, however, did not
have the same fate as the men
against Providence.
Ann Prentiss was the only Red
Fox to win·-
taking her best-of-
thrce match to the third game
before winning 11-3, 5-11, 11-4.
Three singles and two doubles vic-
tories combined with three forfiets
by the Red Foxes gave the Friars
an 8-1 win in the women's pairings
and the 12-7 win overall.
Against RPI, however, the Red
Foxes remained in control most of
the way after taking control from
the start.
The Red Foxes and the
Engineers were tied
4-4
following
.
the men's singles but Marist lost
just one match the rest of the after-
noon enroute to the 12-5 victory.
Prentiss, Jen Teracino and
Maria Bove each won their singles
matches -
Prentiss and Teracino
then teamed up for a doubles win.
Graham
and Funk took their
doubles
match after each picked up
a
win in the singles bracket as did
M~hi and Povolney.
Hockey·--
Condnued from page 11
these six weeks do to us," he said.
"(When the team returns) they will
have none of the momentum and
they
will
probably lose a lot of
tim-
ing -
we'll have to see."
Marist's only loss came in the
first game of the season -
a 7-4
decision to Wagner College. City of
Poughkeepsie pplice were called in
between the second and third
periods because of an incident in-
volving three fans at the Civic
Center.
•
Fearing that more arrests would
have to be made, police cleared the
stands between periods -
Marist
was leading 4-2 after two periods
.
but gave up five
_unanswered
goals
in front of the empty stands.
The Red Foxes will have two
days of practice after the break
before traveling to face the Setters.
Walsh said that the team will
have to do all it
can
in January to
stay in shape.
"We've
had problems with the
layoffs before," he said. "It's up
to
ourselves - we have to motivate
ourselves over the break.
"We have to come out pumped
up and have no weak spots."
Hradek said that Pace's break
will affect his team as well.
"Something
like this never
helps," he said. "Hockey is a game
of continuity and it hurts when
everyone has to have this layoff."
Mattice said he is trying to look
at the break in an optimistic light,
though.
"The way
I
see it, we've just
finished one season," he said.
"We've got a whole other season
to
go."
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Circle
photo/Lynaire Brust
Marist guard Andy Lake takes the ball to the basket during Saturday's
championship game of the Pepsi-Marist Classic against Columbia. Lake
finished the night with 18 points as Marist won the game 82-62.
Lady cagers sign recruits
Briefs-----
by Chris Shea
It is difficult for Marist women's
basketball coach Ken Babineau to
look ahead to next year.
With the possibility of a con-
ference title looming for a couple
of months, most would prefer to
concentrate on the present rather
than the future.
'
However the Lady Red Foxes
will
be losing several key players to
graduation' following
'this·
season
and Babineau needs to replace
those spots.
Marist has already signed two
!ecruits who
will
be eligible to play
m
the 1990-91 season: Janice Awad
from· Canada and Cindy Carroll
from Pennsylvania.
Awad, a 5-foot-6-inch point
guard from Waterloo, Ontario, is
a
quic~ athlete with tough defense,
according to Babineau.
quick, explosive player."
Awad averaged 15 points, 10
assists and 3.5 rebounds per game
last year. She has been the team
captain for the Waterloo Collegiate
Institute for the past two years and
the team's most valuable player for
the past four years.
While in high school, Awad
earned all-league
honors
in
volleyball and was second in the
province of Ontario in the javelin.
·While
at Marist, Awad said she
·
plans to major in either com-
munication arts or education.
Carroll, a 5-foot-10-inch guard
from Media, Penn., averaged 11.5
points and seven rebounds a game
for her Archbishop Prendergast
High School team.
Carroll collected all-league and
all-county honors last season in
basketball and also competed for
the school's cross-country team.
Mermen set
season records
It is the one thing that has
become almost routine for the
Marist men's swim team -
winning.
In last Saturday's meet against
the State University of New York,
College at Stony Brook, the Red
Foxes came away with a 154-88 vic-
tory -
highlighted by record-
setting performances.
The win was the 20th consecutive
dual-meet win for the Red Foxes -
ironically, Marist's last loss was to
Stony Brook Dec. 12, 1987.
In that meet, Stony Brook top-
ped Marist by nearly 30 points.
The Red Foxes will aim at their
21st in a row Jan. 20 when it meets
Division II power Southern Con-
necticut University. The meet will
mark the first meeting between the
two schools.
Ski team named
After strugling tnrough weeks of
snow-less weather, the Marist ski
team is now ready to hit the slopes.
Following weeks of practice on
dry
land,
the team members were
named this past week foUowing
tryouts at Windham.
•
Eric Gardner, Hank
fKlien,
Michael
Martin,
.
Brian
Goldsborough, George Adams,
Dave Meyer. Shawn Nightengale
were named to the men's team with
Pat Scagnamiglio as the men's
alternate.
Basketball --
Continued from page 12
After beating Stony Brook this
year by close to 70 points, the Red
Foxes' record is improved to 5-0.
With a winning time of
Named to the women's team
2-minutes, 0.88 seconds, Joe Hubel were Michelle Gedutis, Amy
The championship game started
off much like the first-round game
against Vermont.
Marist was
ahead
is-i3 with 5:02
left to play in the first half before
they started to get rolling.
Over the next five minutes,
though, the Red Foxes outscored
Columbia 17-6 to take a 42-29 lead
at the midway point.
In the second half, the Lions
never got within 10 points of the
lead.
Again,
the defense and the bench
production were keys to victory for
the Red Foxes.
.
"We got great production off
the bench - they helped to set the
tone," Magarity said. "And again,
I think it was the defense that won
the game for us."
"They do some real nice things
with what they have," said Colum-
bia coach Wally Halas. "The press
was outstanding and their bench is
so strong. The bench is really their
biggest strength."
The Marist reserves contributed
46 points against the Lions. The
bench also pulled down 22 of the
team's 43 rebounds as Marist out
rebounded the Lions 43-38.
Sharpenter pulled down six re-
bounds to go along with his 14
points.
"Ted is really starting to come
into his own," Magarity said. "He
is getting the minutes and doing a
great job."
Forward Tom t'ltzs1mons also
earned Magarity's praise.
"Tommy did a solid job for us,"
Shaved
O
3 Seconds Off hi•
Mccane, Courtney Black, Kasha
he said. "Along with Henderson
•
s own
School record
l
·n the 200
d
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Mitchell, Diane Rossito, Laura
and Sharpenter, the three of them
-yar
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l
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dividual medley.
Gallup and Kristen Devine with
p aye well underneath. They all
Bubel, who came near his record
Laura Cooney named as the
played real big."
J
in the 50-yard split twice before
a ternate.
iunior Steve Paterno tallied 14 during the season, finally broke his
The ski team will be racing this
points, seven rebounds and dished
previous record of 2:01.10.
winter against eight other teams at
out four assists. Although he
Bubel wasn't the only member of
Magic, Haystack,
Killington,
scored only six points, Gaut hand-
the
Red
Foxes setting records at the
Stowe and Maple Mountains in
ed out seven assists, hauled down meet-Todd Prentice high-lighted
Vermont. The team's first race is
four rebounds and collected three the meet with his diving.
Dec. 20.
steals enroute to the victory.
Prentice set a personal record in
The choosing of the team itself
P
the three-meter diving event - cap-
was a tough job, according to Amy
aterno credits the Red Fox of-
turing first place wt"th a total of
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ense ,or t ewe
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creates a lot of different shots for
different people -
everyone has
the chance to score," he said .
Although he said that he never
felt comfortable, Magarity was
happy with the win.
"We came ready to play," he
said. "The tempo was in our favor
and we did some really good things
-
the effort was tremendous."
Gaut and Celestine were named
to the all-tournament team from
Marist, joining Eric Speaker and
Dane Holmes from Columbia and
Kevin Roberson from Vermont.
Paterno was voted the tourna-
ment's most valuable player.
"I
accept this for everyone "he
said. "This was just a great
team
performance for us."
The Red Foxes played Fairfield
last night at the McCann Center
but results were not available at
press time.
HAPPY
HOLIDAYS
from the editors of
The Circle
* * * * **
To Feature Editor
Ann Timmons:
Goodbye, Ann, and good luck
We'll miss you!
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Page 1~ - THE CIRCLE- December 14, 1989
Icemen extend
winning streak
by Jay Reynolds
The only thing that can stop the
Marist hockey team right now is
the winter break.
In its game Saturday night, the
Red Foxes used a strong perfor-
mance in the third period to down
Pace University 7-3.
The win over the Setters gives
Marist its seventh straight win and
raises its record to 7-1.
put the game out of reach.
"The first two periods went
well," said Pace coach Emil
Hradek. "They got a couple of
breaks in the third period -
but
that's how hockey is."
The Red
.
Foxes missed on a
break late in the second period as
Scott Doyle couldn't convert on a
penalty shot with 16 seconds left.
The score would have put Marist
in front 4-2.
"They played a hell of a game,"
said Marist coach Bob Mattice.
"Everything about this team is
really starting to gel."
Ironically, the Red Foxes' next
game is after the winter intercession
at Pace.
Doyle answered, however, with
2:22 gone in the third period -
scoring in front of the net off a pass
from Steve Mueller -
giving
Marist a 4-2 lead.
Circle
photo/Nathan Robinson
Marist's Steve Mueller prepares to take a shot in Saturday's game at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.
Pace took an early lead in Satur-
day's game, scoring two goals in
the first six minutes. Marist,
though, came back on goals by
Brendan McDonald
and Ed
Sherako.
The second period ended with
the Red Foxes in front 3-2, but four
goals by Marist in the third period
The Setters answered right back,
though.
Just 28 seconds later, Rick Adler
brought Pace back to within a goal,
scoring on a shot from the left of
the net.
Marist defenseman Kevin Walsh
said Adler's goal gave the Red
Foxes more incentive to win.
"That goal got us more fired
up," he said. "They should never
The Red Foxes downed Pace 7-3.
have scored it. It was just a
breakdown in the defense -
ac-
tually it was my fault."
Marist then added goals by
Doyle, center Scott Kendall and
defenseman
Mike
Lutolf to seal the
win.
Mattice said that because of the
position Marist was in going into
•
the third period, the Red Foxes
could not take it easy.
"We really spotted them two
goals at the beginning," he said.
"In all the games we've played so
far, (Marist) has dominated going
into the third period. In this one,
though, it was a game for two.
"We've had a lot of third-period
letdowns and I was a little concern-
ed going into the third -'- we
couldn't afford a letdown," he
said.
Momentum has been the key
recently for the Red Foxes and with
six weeks until the next game, the
game at Pace will be different from
last weekend's, Mattice said.
"It will be interesting to see what
Continued on page 11
Cagers take weekend tourney
by
Mike O'Farrell
However, the Foxes outscored Vermont 28-11 in the
rest of the half to open up a 45-27 lead at the break.
Marist never allowed the Catamounts to come within
15 points the rest of the way.
Lack of 'O' for Marist
leads to Columbia victory
Many people may be surprised that the Red Foxes
have jumped out to
.a
5-1 start.
However, head coach Dave Magarity is not.
"This team has exceeded a lot of expectations, but
not mine," he said after the winning the champion-
ship game of the Pepsi-Marist Classic over Columbia.
The Marist men's basketball team defeated the
University of Vermont in the first round last Friday
to move into the championship game
as
the fourth
Pepsi-Marist Classic made its return to the Mccann
Center.
.
•
Without a strong inside game or a dominating post
player like former Marist standouts Rik Smits or Miro
Pecarski, this year's squad relies on its quickness,
defensive pressure and great intensity and togetherness
to win games.
•
"Quickness is an edge this year," Magarity said.
"Our defense has won ballgames for us and the bench
production has been outstanding."
Against Vermont, the Red Foxes used relentless
defensive pressure to pull away in the first half before
winning 81-58.
; Against Columbia, two reserve players led the team
in scoring -Andy Lake hit for 18 and Ted Sharpenter
contributed 14 points-
as Marist defeated the Lions
82-62 to come away with the championship.
Marist scored 163 points in the two games - 80 of
those were scored by the reserves.
Against Vermont, the Red Foxes led the Cata-
mounts 17-16 with 8:25 left to play in the first half.
The press of Marist was a key in forcing Vermont
to commit 20 turnovers.
"They didn't execute real well," Magarity said.
"We were able to capitalize on the turnovers for some
easy hoops."
Leading the surge for Marist was Reggie Gaut (16
points}, Curtis Celestine (14} and Steve Paterno (11).
• _
Celestin.e's play /~(o/>
~mp!:)rtant
early~ the game as
he took th~. ball strong
fo
t~¢ ~oop - scoring
10
points
in the first half.
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"Curtis really helped tis early on," Magarity said.
"His work in the paint was very effective."
For only the second time this season, Marist outre-
bounded its opponents. Marist held a 47-38 reboun-
ding edge over the Catamounts.
Celestine pulled down seven rebounds -
five of-
fensive. Junior college transfer Rod Henderson haul-
ed in seven rebounds and Tom Fitzsimons added six.
•
Although Magarity was happy with the performance
against Vermont, he said there was room for
improvement.
"We can't get over anxious," Magarity said. "There
were times when we committed dumb fouls. We need
to get beyond that."
Columbia earned its way to the finals after a 69-68
overtime win against Howard University.
Freshman guard Mike Jelinsky hit the second of two
free throws in the overtime period to give Lions the
win and earn a shot at the title against the Red Foxes.
Continued on page 11
by Chris Shea
A second
half
offensive
breakdown was the key to the game
last Friday as Columbia Universi-
ty defeated the Marist women's
-
basketball team 91-80.
The Lady Red Foxes were
outscored 51-38 in the second half
-
shooting just 38 percent· from
the field.
"I'm
disap))()inted
we lost," said
coach Ken Babineau. "Our transi-
tion defense was not as good as it
needed to be. But I also think it was
just
a
matter of running into a hot-
shooting team."
Going into the game Marist fac-
ed some serious size mismatches.
"Their front line was all over 6
feet, so we were facing some big
players," Babineau said. "The pro-
blem got even tougher when our
starting center (Ruth Halley) got in-
to early foul trouble so we had to
go to a smaller lineup."
Danielle Galarneau led the team
in scoring with 16 points. Kim
Smith Bey added 14 points, and
freshman Charlene Fields con-
tributed IO points off the bench.
Smith-Bey also pulled down a
game high 13 rebounds as the Lady
Red Foxes barely outrebounded
Columbia 37-36.
"Kim (Smith-Bey}
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played a
super game," Babineau said. "She
has been working hard, and the
results have been impressive."
The Lady Red Foxes, after trail-
ing by 13, had cut the lead to four
points with 2:30 left to play.
However a 3-point shot by Col-
umbia, following a missed Marist
free-throw iced the game.
The loss knocks the Lady Red
Foxes below .500 to a record of
2-3.
Marist's next game is on the road
Dec. 28th against Siena. The Lady
Saints recently pulled off an upset
in defeating Syracuse University by
more than 20 points.
Sneaking a look at some of Santa's mail
'Tis the season for giving and
receiving ...
Many people are not aware of
this, but the sports department at
The Circle has some good contacts
at the North Pole.
After the seemingly endless
discussions with the "jolly one"
himself - no, not Wes Zahnke -
The Circle has persuaded Santa to
fax a few of the lists he has receiv-
ed to Poughkeepsie:
Jimmy Jones' letter fell jusi
shon of begging - and all he ask-
ed for was a winning season for the
Dallas Cowboys.
As if baseball and football
weren't enough, Bo Jackson has
asked for a deadly 3-J)()int shot so
he can try the NBA.
Gordie.Howe is evidently a little
jealous of Wayne Gretzky. Howe
has asked for a bottle of "Super
Geritol" so he can return to hockey
and reclaim the NHL point record.
Gretzky, meanwhile, has wished
for a "Wayne knows ... " commer-
cial with Bo Jackson and Wayne
Ne~10n as two of the celebrities.
There was a strange letter sent to
the North Pole postmarked Cincin-
nati. It reads: "Dear Santa, my
name is Pete Rose. I've been a
baaaad boy. If I could have one
more shot in baseball, I'd bet I
would stay clean."
George Forinan's letter asked
Santa to give him a fight against
Mike Tyson. Come on George -
there are some things even elves
can't handle.
needs to pay off this month's
American Express bill and Dristan,
Chunky Soup and McDonald's
Thursday
said they could not advance him
the money.
Morning
William "The Refrigerator"
Perry has asked that someone put
Quarterback
him back in the backfield so that
he is recognized again. "I'm tired
of having to gain weight just to get
MikeTyson's list, on the other __________
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Jay Reynolds
noticed," he said in his letter.
Staying in the state, Santa has
received a letter signed by the en-
Davis. Oh yeah, we'd like to make tire faculty, staff and students of
more money there, too."
the University of Illinois. The let-
hand, has asked for Cindy Brady's
book for curing lisps. The champ
has also inquired as to whether or
not Santa could help him find a
good wife.
Robin Givens has asked for
George Forman to become single
again.
Jean Yawkey and the Boston
Red Sox have only one wish on
their list: " ... could we please have
a World Series Championship -
our 1918 banner is starting to
fade."
Darryl Strawberry apparently
has been sending the same form let-
ter every year: "Dear Santa, I
would like to go to sunny Califor-
nia and play baseball in Los
Angeles with my good friend, Eric
Another strange letter appeared ter merely asked for one_ just one
with a J)()Stmark from Sydney, -
victory over Michigan in any
Australia: "Santa, mate, I miss sport.
~aving
."«!Y
face all o~er American
George Steinbrenner has asked
m telCVJs1on
commercial_s.
I haven't
for just one thing this year _ a
had that much_ fun smce I 'Yas manager that will last an entire
replaced by a pmk bunny playmg
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season
a dr;um. I _onI7 ~ish I could have
Don~d Trump is apparently
my Ener~zer gi'g ba:k -_ I would adopting Steinbrenner's game. He
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endorsement -
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he sive support to the Windy City.
Although he led the majors with
doubles last season, Wade Boggs
apparently wants another batting
title. " .... please, Santa, I don't ask
for much. Last year the only thing
I asked for was for that woman to
get out of my life ... "
Meanwhile, Margo Adams is ap-
parently over the Boggs thing. "I
want a new sports car, some nice
new clothes, a new Persian rug for
my penthouse, a year's supply of
Perrier (until I ask you again next
year) ... "
Closer to home, men's basket-
ball coach Dave Magarity has sent
a thank-you letter for already gran-
ting his wishes - the victories over
George Mason and Drexel.
Women's coach Ken Babineau
apparently believes his squad can
win some games, so all he asked
Santa for was some fans.
Editor's note: Santa has inform-
ed The Circle that all of the wishes
listed here are under consideration
- except the World Series Cham-
pionship/or the Red Sox. "I'm nor
God, " he said.
Jay Reynolds is The Circle's
sports editor.