INSIDE:
What's Marist's hardest course? -
page 5
Spring Break, with a diffe~ence -
pages 8, 9
Volume 35, Number 16
Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
March 9, 1989
Class of '89 to
have
outdoor Commencement
by Ilse Martin
Commencement
ceremonies
this
year will be held outdoors - rain
or shine -
for the first time in at
least a decade, according to the
Commencement Committee.
The outdoor event will take place
in the Lowell Thomas Communica-
tions Center parking lot, which is
estimated to accommodate
6,000
seats.
The President's Cabinet approv-
ed a proposal by the senior class
last semester, on the condition that
graduates understood the ceremony
would be rain or shine. said
Jonathan Urban, president of the
senior class.
Graduates will be able to invite
more guests than in the past, when
the ceremony was held in the
McCann Center and students were
restricted to three or four tickets.
The Commencement Committee
estimates that each graduate
will
be
given six priority-seating tickets,
which will guarantee seating for
those guests, according to Deborah
Bell,
committee member and assis-
tant dean of student affairs.
"This is not being done as a
restrictive measure, but just for
priority seatinJ1;," Bell said.
Soph
to lead
CSL;
voter turnout soars
by Kevin St.Onge
The polls closed at exactly 3
o'clock Friday afternoon, and by
3:30
Marist had a new student body
president: Kevin Desmond, a
sophomore
psychology
and
special
education major from Hopkinton,
N.H.
In a turnout that nearly tripled
last year's showing, 428 of the
2;105 eligible student voters cast
their ballots for Council of Student
Leaders officers and class officers.
Desmond,· also a resident assis-
tant in Sheahan Hall, received 209
votes, far outdistancing his two op-
ponents,
sophomore
Martin
Camacho, who had 89 votes, and
freshman
Mike Wilberton, who
had 46 votes.
Desmond said he will appoint
Mike Prout, a freshman from
Maplewood,
N
.J.,
vice president.
Prout served as Desmond's cam-
paign
manager.
CSL officers said they hoped
around 500 students would vote.
Outgoing CSL Secretary Jennifer
Peifer said the addition of voting
booths may
have
prompted interest
among voters, as Marist broke
from a two-year-old paper ballot
system.
"After one day of voting, we
had already doubled the turnout
from last year," Peifer said. Last
year, 156 students voted.
.. rm
pleased
with
the
turMul,to'
said departing CSL President Jeff
Ferony, "but we still have to get
more people to come out and par-
ticipate
in the process."
The election of treasurer for the
class of 1992 saw some controver-
sy. The winner, Melissa Mehr, did
not deliver a speech at the CSL
campaign speech night. Several of
her opponent's supporters were
upset that Mehr won without giv-
.
ing a speech. Candidates were not
required to give apeeches. Mehr
beat Emily Ward 71-67.
Anthony
Mercogliano
was
elected president for the class of
'92, beating Katherine Sullivan
80-70. Jen Chandler beat Jennifer
Heekin 93-38 for the vice presiden-
cy and Maureen Lossner won the
race for secretary, beating Amy
Ward 74-66.
John Campbell defeated Glenn
Mcsweeny 103-96 to become presi-
dent of the class of 199 I
.
Jim
Big Mac may
take
bite
of Poughkeepsie history
by Ed McGarry
If the
fast-food
giant
McDonald's Corporation gets
its
way, a 1740s farmhouse on
Route 9 will become the site of
its newest restaurant
in
the
Poughkeepsie area.
McDonald's must first get ap-
proval from the Town of
Poughkeepsie Planning Board
before it can convert the far-
mhouse,
formerly the Treasure
Chest
restaurant,
located ap-
proximately
three miles south of
Marist
on Route 9 and IBM
Road.
Representatives
from
McDonald's
were
to
appear
before the
board
last week
but
withdrew the night·
before the
scheduled appearance,
accor-
ding to Donald Fullman, chair-
n
man of the planning board.
No future appearance date
has been scheduled as of press
time, but the company's ap-
plication remains active.
The preliminary plan submit-
ted over one month ago called
for the demolition of the
240-year-old
farmhouse,
followed by
construction
of a
new 5000-square-foot building,
according to Robert McCall, a
company
spokesman.
However,
executives
at
McDonald's said
they
would be
willing to meet with local of-
ficials
to discuss preserving the
historical
integrity
of the site.
Local officials
planned to
suggest that
McDonald's keep
at least part of the
building
in
historical
context, according to
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Additional guests will be seated
in remaining seats or may be
limited to standing room.
The Commencement Committee
also considered the McCann Center
parking lot, the Champagnat Hall
parking lot, and Leonidoff Field as
possible sites for Commencement
this year, according to Donna
Berger, executive assistant to the
academic vice president and Com-
mencement
Commiuee
chairperson.
"It was agreed early
on
that a
parking lot would be the best loca-
tion in case of rain, because I'm
told the ground J1;ets
very soJ1;J1;V."
said Berger.
The Champagnat and McCann
lots were eliminated because they
are sloped and have more objects
that might obstruct audience view,
she said.
Berger said the advantages of the
Thomas Center parking lot are its
central location on campus, the
easy accessibility for the elderly and
handicapped guests, the flat sur-
face of the lot, and the backdrop
of the buil_~ing.
The disadvantages are the lot's
proximity to Route
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1
the rock pile,
and the temperatUFe of the pave-
ment in case of extreme heat, ac-
Two students cast their votes in last week's student government
elections. Voter turnout this year was nearly three times that of
last year's elections.
(Photo by Stacey Larkins)
Joseph was elected vice president
president; Ellen Clark, secretary;
by a margin of 83-53 over Greg
and Tracy Aronson, treasurer.
Ordway. Michele Mattola defeated
Daniel Gibbons 77-64 foi: class
secretary and Scott Daly ran unop-
posed for the treasurer's position,
picking up 112 votes.
Junior John Downey was re-
elected president of the class of
1990, beating Ed Fludd 40-37. All
other officers for the class ran
unopposed: Carl Marinaccio, vice
Sophomore Sue Budney was
elected president of the Student
Academic Committee, beating
Dean Mastrangelo 147-70.
Resident
Student
Council
Representative Marlon Hosang ran
unopposed, as did the incumbent
Commuter Student Union
Presi-
dent,
Mike Molloy.
cording to Berger.
The committee is currently work-
ing out plans for crowd control,
security, parking and seating for
the graduates, Berger said.
Plans are reportedly being con-
sidered for having faculty walk and
perhaps seated with students in
their majors.
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"This was something that the
students wanted," said Berger.
"The committee did not recom-
mend that it be outside. It's more
or less to accomodate the students
as far as what they want for their
ceremony.''
Intruder
pays
visit
to apartment
by
Ilse
Martin
An
unidentified intruder rum-
maged through a bedroom of
Gartland Commons
Apartment
D-6 Sunday night, while a student
in the room pretended to sleep, ac-
cording to the Office of Safety and
Security.
After rummaging through desk
drawers and remaining in the room
for approximately 45 minutes, the
intruder left quietly. Nothing was
missing, according to the student,
senior Karen Oitzinger.
Joseph Leary, director of safety
and security, said he has no leads
on the incident, and the student did
not know whether the intruder was
male or female.
Oitzinger said she was awaken-
ed by the sound of her
roommate's
desk drawer being opened.
But her roommate was away for
the weekend and was expected to
return on Monday, Oitzinger said.
Because she was unsure of what
the intruder might do, Oitzinger
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Jewish students keep the
faith
and a low profile on campus
by Nancy Bloom
Tracy Aronson remembers the
year a family holiday tradition took
a different shape.
When Aronson, a Jewish student
at Marist, couldn't be home with
her family for Passover, her room-
mate helped her relive the days
when her father hid Matzah, a
piece of unleavened bread, for a
prize.
"She took a saltine cracker and
hid it when I left the room," she
said.
"When
I got back she told me
I had to find
it.
It was very funny.
My friends were very good to me."
Aronson,
a
junior
psychology
major, is
one of a
few
Jewish
students who have
had to adjust
to
living
at
predominantly Catholic
Marist College.
According to
Shaileen
Kopec,
e
1rcle
director of enrollment communica-
tions, 5 percent of the freshman
class declared themselves Jewish.
Statistics for the other classes were
not available.
Elaine Newman, representative
for Jewish students on campus,
said many of the students aren't
aware that this is a mainly Catholic
campus.
t'~ing
Jewish at Marist is like
being Catholic at Brandeis,"
Newman said, referring to the
mainly Jewish university
in
Waltham, Mass.
Newman said she contacts the
Jewish students before they enter
to let them know she
is
here for
them.
Newman
is known
as "the
bagel
connection" to
some Jewish
students.
"The student
Jewishness
is not
flamboyantly displayed because
ap
they're trying out a new identity,"
Newman
said.
"For
many
students, this
is
their first taste of
independence. No one is there to
tell them to go to services and many
of the students don't go out of their
way to say they're Jewish."
For some Jewish students, being
at Marist and practicing Judaism
hasn't been difficult.
Stu Rosner, a freshman com-
munication arts major, said he
knew Marist was mainly Catholic
but chose it anyway because of the
good reputation of
its
communica-
tions program.
"It
didn't even affect me. Most
of my friends
throughout high
school
were all Catholic," Rosner
said.
"I
don't take
religion as
seriously
as
most Jewish people.
I'm
one
of the crowd, regardless of
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events, such as lectures, meetings and concerts. Send information to Ilse
Entertainment
Foreign Films
sponsored by the music department, the
College Union Board and the Division of
Arts and Letters. Admission is $3.
,
~.artin, c/o The Circle.
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Irish pop music
The Marist College Foreign Film Festival
presents "Don Segundo Sombra," at 7:30
p.m. tonight and tomorrow. "The Gospel
According to Saint Matthew" will be shown
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. All
showings are in Donnelly 245 and admis-
sion is free.
At the Bardavon
The Queen City Stage Company
presents "The Taming of the Shrew" at the
Bardavon
1869 Opera
House
in
Poughkeepsie, at 8 p.m. March 9, 10, 11
and 3 p.m. March 12. All seats for students
are $10. For information, call 471-9339.
Contemporary Irish singer Mary Black
will perform at the Ulster Performing Arts
Center in Kingston at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Tickets are $10 and $15.
"Boesman and Lena"
The Marist College Council for Theater
Arts presents Athol Fugard's "Boesman
Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie
on March 16. The Civic Center will open
its doors for fans of Wrestlemania, with the
closed circuit broadcast of Wrestlemania
V at 4 p.m., April 2. For information call
454-5800.
Double Feature
and Lena," performed by the New Day
Repertory Company at 7:30 p.m., Sunday
Support Groups
The College Union Board presents a
double feature with "Psycho" and "Psycho
2," beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday in Campus
Center 249. Admission is $2.
in the theater. There is no admission
charge.
Marist College
holds confidential
Towne Crier Cafe
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on cam-
Cris Williamson and Tret Fure, accom-
At the Chance
pus in the Lowell Thomas Communications
panied by Carrie Barton, will perform their
Tickets are on sale for Meatloaf, perfor-
Center: Fridays, 11:45 to 12:45 p.m. in
Guest concert
music at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling ming at the Chance in Poughkeepsie,
room 201, and Saturdays and Sundays, 1
The Westminster
Singers, of the
at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Cover charge is $16. March 16. For information, call 452-1233.
to 2 p.m., in room 208. Meetings for Adult
Westminster Choir College in New Jersey,
U.Utah Phillips brings his original songs
Children of Alcoholics are held Mondays
will perform in the Marist Campus Theater
about life in America to the Cafe at 9:30
At the Civic Center
in the Campus Center, room 269, from 5:15
at 8:15 p.m. on Monday. The oonce
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said she rretended to be asleep.
'.'It sounded like the person
thought l was awake and was
waiting for me to go back to
sleep," she said.
After she heard her bedroom
door open and close, she called
Security, who kept her on the
phone until they arrived at the
apartment and found no one, she
said.
The
apartment door was locked,
although
the
outside
door
downstairs was not, Leary said.
"The door looked
like it could
be easily carded or forced," he
said. "But that has been cor-
rected."
Oitzinger said she thought the in-
truder still may have been in the
apartment
when she called
Security.
"It's
really weird because
nothing was taken, and I don't
know why they were particular to
close drawers or to stay in the same
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said.
Leary said there is no indication
that this is related to another inci-
dent, where a female student
received a threatening note on her
car and has been getting obscene
phone caJls.
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continued from page 1
Mona Vaeth, town historian.
The
Dutchess
County
Historical Society has not issued
a formal statement on the topic,
but the society's curator, Neil
Larson, said the group is in-
terested in seeing the building
preserved as much as possible.
"We'd
like to see the
historical interest of the building
get a fair shake," Larson said.
Larson said the society has
not released a public statement
because it has no say in the
matter.
"The whole decision is really
up to the town (Poughkeepsie)
and McDonald's," Larson said.
"We
have nothing to do with
it."
Besides the issue of the
building's history, concerns
have also
been
raised about how
the new restaurant would im-
pact the flow of traffic at the
busy intersection.
The planning board may re-
quire McDonald's to address
this question through New York
State's Environmental Quality
Review Act, which could delay
the plan by at least six months.
More than a dozen town
residents who attended last
week's meeting to voice their
opposition could only speculate
on the reasons for the sudden
withdrawal.
Local history buffs have been
contacting McDonald's officials
recently to try to convince the
company not to demolish the
farmhouse, according to Vaeth.
Their suggestion was to
preserve at least part of the far-
mhouse and to use its history to
help promote the restaurant.
PERTINENT
RESIDENCE
INFORMATION
The Residence
Areas
will close for Spring
Break
Recess
at 6:00 pm on Friday,
March 17, 1989 and the last meal served
will be lunch.
The following
are the only acceptable
reasons
for remaining
on campus
during
the break:
1. Athletic
commitment/Campus
Employment
2. Internship
3. Unreasonable
distance
from home
If you believe
that you fall into one of the above
categories,
you must contact
the Housing
and Residence
Life Office,
Room
270 in Campus
Center,
by Thursday,
March
9, 1989 before
4:00 pm to request
permission
to remain
on campus.
Any student
requesting
·permission
to stay for the break
after March
9, 1989 must pay a $10.00
fine at the time of the request.
Remember
to unplug
all appliances,
turn off lights,
empty
trash,
lock
windows
and
doors,
defrost
refrigerator
(except
Townhouses,
Gartland
Commons,
North Road,
and Canterbury
Apts.) Be sure to take all valuables
home.
The College
is not responsible
for
theft of personal
property.
For the Spring
Break
Recess
students
who are granted
permission
to stay must reside
in or temporarily
relocate
to residence
facilities
on the north end of campus
(Benoit,
Gregory,
North Road,
Townhouses,
Gartland
Commons,
and Canterbury
Apart-
ments)
or Champagnat
Hall. Please
indicate
where
you will be residing
when
you request
to stay. This relocation
is necessary
to ensure
the safety of our students
and the residence
areas.
Please
check
at the Housing
and Residential
Life Office,
room
270 in the Campus
Center
on Tuesday,
March 14, 1989
to see if you were granted
permission
to stay for the break.
No one
without proper
authorization
will be permitted
to remain
on campus.
The Residence
halls
will reopen
on Monday,
March
27, 1989 at 12:00
noon
with dinner
being
the first meal
served.
Classes
resume
with Monday
evening
classes.
The Housing
and Residential
Life Office
would like to wish everyone
a very enjoyable
and relaxing
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Fulani: Do more
for poor, needy
by Karen Wirmusky
People frustrated
with the
federal government's effort to help
the nation's poor and minority
groups should challenge decision-
making leaders by joining the the
New Alliance Party, according the
party's 1988 presidential candidate.
In a speech at Marist's Campus
Center and in interviews later,
Lenora Fulani, the first woman to
be placed on a presidential ballot
in all 50 states, said the New
Alliance Party "will provide peo-
ple with options that are much
more decent and in line with where
the majority of American people
are at."
The New Alliance Party, which
Fulani called the "wave of the
future," will promote independent
politics designed to challenge the
electoral system.
"We've never had a fair election
in this country," she said.
According to Fulani, who receiv-
ed 214,202 votes in the election,
both
the
Republican
and
Democratic Parties are run by rich
corporate white men who con-
tinually ignore the problems of the
poor.
"I think neither Reagan
or
Bush
or Dukakis represent the majority
of American people," she said.
Minority
problems
such as the
poverty
among
blacks
and
hispanics need to be immediately
addressed, Fulani said in the
90-minute
speech.
Fulani said that she is fed up
with poor people being blamed for
their poverty. She believes the fault
lies with the federal government,
she said.
"We need to be angry at the peo-
ple who cause these conditions,"
said Fulani to an audience of about
80.
Fulani told the black members of
the audience that although college
almost always causes blacks to
abandon their communities, it is
their responsibility to help those
who are still victims of poverty.
"People who cannot read and
write made it possible for you to be
in those seats," she said.
The speech, which was in
Dr.
Le
OTII
Fulani, the New Alliance Party's 1988
presiden-
tial candidate, discussed the
plight of America's
poor and under-
privileged
during her lecture
at
Marist last week.
celebration
of Black History
(Photo by Lynaire Brust)
Month, was sponsored by the Union Board, the Black Student
Marist Minority Affairs Profes- Union and the psychology and
sional Organization, the College political scie~ce programs.
Path lea_ds
to religious life for Marist grad·
by Ken Foye
For Patty Moriarty, the past six
years have been a time of change.
When Moriarty came to Marist
in 1983 as a transfer student, her
goal was a degree in computer
mathematics. At her previous
school, St. Joseph's College in
Connecticut, she had been a nurs-
ing major.
But even as the 1985 Marist
graduate worked toward her
B.S.
degree
in
computer
math, she
knew
another option - a religious voca-
tion - remained in
the
back of her
mind.
"It was always something I car-
ried with me for a long time," said
Moriarty. "While I was in college,
I wouldn't pay any attention to it.
I would turn it off."
Today, Moriarty is living with
the Sisters of Mercy at a convent
in Wallingford, Conn., as a can-
didate for admission into the
158-year-old religious order.
Her path from the classrooms of
Donnelly Hall to the convent of a
religious order has taken some
young
alums
unexpected turns - including a job
with an insurance company and
volunteer work with the homeless
-
but, says Moriarty, all the ex-
periences have been important
steps in her life.
She remembers her decision to
come
to Marist
and leave
St.
Joseph's, a· women's college in
West Hartford, Conn., run by the
Sisters of Mercy.
"It
was very important to leave
that comfortable, small environ-
ment and go to a larger, coed
school," she said. She had started
out in nursing before
transferring
to St. Joseph's business program.
Even right after college, a
religious vocation wasn't an im-
mediate option for Moriarty. She
worked
part-time
at the town
library in her hometown of Rocky
Hill, Conn., then got a computer-
related job at Aetna Insurance in
Hartford, Conn., in January 1986.
"While there (Aetna) I was really
discerning what I was doing," said
Moriarty. "I decided to leave Aet-
na to give myself time to think."
Moriarty returned to her part-
time job at the library. In the sum-
mer of 1987, she began looking in-
to religious communities and
volunteered time at a homeless
shelter and soup kitchen in nearby
Middletown, Conn.
Moriarty soon realized she had
to work fuH-time to support
herself. Still, she did not want to
give up her volunteer work. She
said she was even willing to work
a third-shift job to allow herself
time at the shelter.
Then on Jan. 1, 1988, the direc-
tor of the shelter, a Sister of Mer-
cy, offered Moriarty a full-time job
as an administrator at the shelter.
"I guess you can say the Spirit
was with me at that time," said
Moriarty.
Her work at the shelter was a
factor in her choosing to enter the
order's candidacy program.
"It
had a bearing on which communi-
ty I would go with," Moriarty said.
"All of these experiences were
important -
going to Marist,
working in the business world at
Aetna and working in the soup kit-
chen," Moriarty said.
In August, Moriarty entered the
candidacy program, which lasts
two years. The program, a period
of extended discernment and
gradual introduction to the order,
emphasizes living in community as
well as outside of the order.
"I feel very comfortable with the
decision I've made," Moriarty
said.
After her two years of can-
didacy, Moriarty will be eligible to
enter
the order's
IO-month
novitiate program, which leads first
to temporary vows and then, after
three to five years, final vows.
Pursuing
a
religious vocation has
broughtaboutunexpectedeventsin
Moriarty's life as well. Part of her
Continued
on page
4
Student does slow
burn over laundry
by Mike Vukobratovich
Did you ever have one of those
days? For Cheryl Giglia, a
sophomore from Huntington,
L.I.,
what might have been an ordinary
load of laundry marked the end of
a rough day -
as well as about
$165 worth of clothes -
and the
beginning of a two-month quest for
reimbursment.
"I
put my clothes in the dryer
and went upstairs to my room.
When I went back down 15
minutes later the whole thing was
smoking. It shrunk everything,"
said Giglia.
In mid-December Giglia had
some clothing destroyed while dry-
ing them in the tall Speed Queen
dryer in the Champagnat Hall
laundry room. She recently receiv-
ed a depreciated value of $125 from
the college to replace the damaged
clothing, she said.
After the incident, Giglia took
measures to collect reimbursement
for the damaged items which in-
cluded dealings with her resident
director, the Director of Housing,
managers from Sherman's Fur-
niture -
the company that owns
the dryer,
W
arco Labratories - a
textile analyzing company in
California, numerous secretaries,
switchboard operators, student
workers and, finally, Anthony
Campilii -
Marist's
Chief Finan-
cial Officer.
According to Campilii, he
doesn't know the reason it took so
long for Giglia to get reimbursed
but attributes it somewhat to the in-
cident occuring just before winter
intersession.
''It's an unfortunate set of cir-
cumstances that happened. When
we found out what the situation
was we tried to make her whole and
resolve the problem regardless of
who was at fault," said Campilii.
Apparently a vent to the dryer
L-----=--------.:::::a
was blocked with a piece of
Champagnat Hall's laundry room was the scene of a
plywood by construction crews
catastrophe for one student whose clothes were burnt in a dryer
working behind Champagnat caus-
mishap last December.
(Photo by Lynaire Brust)
ing the hot air to be trapped and
the dryer to overheat, said a
spokesman for Sherman Furniture.
After the incident occurred,
Giglia complained to her Resident
Director who referred her to the
Housing Office, said Giglia.
Once at the Housing Office she
was given the phone number to
Sherman Furniture and told to fill
out a form to send to a textile
lab
in order to find out
whether the incident was her fault
or the dryers, said Giglia.
After three or four days of call-
ing Sherman and being put on
hold, Giglia spoke with a Sherman
manager who told her to put the
damaged clothes in a box with an
$8 check and to give it to Housing
.
who would send it to Warco
Lab
in California to be
analyzed, said Giglia.
She said she was told the whole
process would take four to six
weeks.
During the second week of
February Giglia called Sherman
Furniture to find out what was be-
ing done and she was instructed to
contact the Housing Office, where
she was informed that the vent was
blocked by the construction com-
pany, said Giglia.
After it was found that Giglia's
clothes were destroyed by the
overheated dryer, Marist assumed
responsibility for the clothing and
she was told she would receive $125
for the clothes she said were worth
$165,
said
Giglia.
The College assumed respon-
sibility because if the situatipn was
left in the hands of the two com-
panies the student probably never
would have been paid, said
Carnpilii.
At
first Giglia refused to sign a
waiver relieving the college from
further liability because, she said,
she wanted the full $165 plus the
$8 she spent to send the clothes to
California.
Giglia reconsidered and signed
the waiver. After two months she
received $133 for her troubles.
Giglia said she felt she was '\get-
ting the run-around and being ig-
nored" because she was only a
student.
'Samaritan'
stomped
by brawlers
by Chris Landry
A group of intoxicated teenagers
last Tuesday night severely beat a
Kingston school teacher in front of
Marist's Campus Center, according
to Joseph Leary, director of safe-
ty and security.
Richard Straub was treated and
released from St. Francis Hospital
in Poughkeepsie after receiving
severe facial injuries from a group
of about seven teens, Leary said.
The group escaped after the in-
cident. which occurred at about
9:30 p.m. The scuffle broke
out
after a playoff basketball game at
the Mccann
Center between
Kingston and Mount Vernon
N.Y.,
high schools, Leary said.
Under the Town of Poughkeep-
sie's protection Straub returned to
Marist last Saturday at the time of
another high school game to try to
find the group, Leary said. Results
of the effort could not be obtain-
ed at press time.
The attacking group cannot be
identified
as Mount Vernon
students but this connection would
seem logical, Leary said.
The incident started when Straub
walked past Campus Center to his
car in the Champagnat parking lot,
Leary said. He was hit in the face
several times after trying to break
up an argument
between a
Kingston student and an intox-
icated teenager, Leary said.
The teenager hit Straub in the
face several times after he tried to
break-up the dispute, Leary said.
About six other associates joined
the attacker to pummel Straub fur-
ther, he said.
"It
looks as though he was
stomped," Leary said. "He had
severe damage around the eye
sockets."
Two Kingston students were also
injuried as they tried to help
Straub, Leary said. They refused
medical treatment, he said.
Marist to
try summer
video camp
by Tyler Gronbach
Marist College is offering a two
week video camp teaching students
how to create their own television
news show.
The program, called "You Make
the News," is based on the CBS
televison program "TV 10
I."
Video production, script writing,
and broadcasting are just a few
subjects that will be covered, said
Elenor Cbarwat, director of the
summer programs at Marist.
Camp sessions will be held in the
Lowell Thomas Communications
Center. Douglas Cole, professor of
communications,
and Vincent
Nugent, a high school teacher from
Rhinebeck
will instruct
the
sessions.
Students will receive daily
homework assignments and will be
required to read a local and na-
tionaj newspaper everyday. This
will help students come up with
ideas for their show, Charwat said.
Charwat says she hopes
this
pro-
gram and others like it will help the
community and Marist work
together as a team.
"The college is looking to build
on different formats to offer to the
community,
so that all may
broaden their horizons," she said.
The idea for the program was
developed by Charwat and David
Mccraw, journalism professor at
Marist. Their intentions were to
help local students understand the
media better.
The program is open to junior
and senior high school students in
the Dutchess County area.
Tuition is $395.















































Alum
Continued from page
3
work as a candidate, for instance,
involves speaking to audiences
about the homeless.
For now, Moriarty's background
has enabled her to use the com-
munity's personal computer to per-
form administrative tasks. Moriar-
ty said she would like to work in
parish ministry, but added, "I
never know what I'm going to do
from one day to the next."
"Part of religious life is not
knowing what the next step will
be,"
she said, "and just being open
to where the needs are."
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On Fulton Street, family
keeps strike spirit alive
by Holly Gallo
While students are finishing up
mid-terms and making final plans
for jaunts to Florida, the Evans
family
is
fighting to win a battle.
The conflict is with the J.C.
Paper
Co. of Poughkeepsie, a
recycling plant on Fulton Street,
just up the road from Marist East,
where six Evans' are the only ones
striking for better
wages.
From 6 a.m. until about 3:30
p.m. these men, four brothers and
two sons, stand with signs that read
"On Strike Against J.C.
Paper"
while
trying to
keep
warm with the
help of layers of flannel and a fire
in a SO-gallon metal drum.
The strikers,
members of
Teamsters union, Local No.
44.5,
are the lowest paid Teamsters in the
United States, according to Earl
Evans Sr. The salaries of the
Teamsters range from $6.3.5 an
hour for paper bailers to
$6.6.5
an
hour for truckers, $2 an hour
below the standard, he said.
They went on strike for the same
reason three years ago, but had to 20 cents in the second and nothing
return after only a month because in the third.
of financial needs, he said. Since
Despite the lack of progress, they
the picketers
arc receiving will continue to strike indefinitely,
unemployment this time, he said, according to Leroy Evans. "I put
they plan to continue their protest all my life into this," he said.
for a long time.
The Evans' have been working
for J.C. Paper for years, according
to Leroy Evans, who began work
there in 1966, when it was located
on Water Street in Poughkeepsie.
Leroy Evans said the current
owner, Jolian Chugerman, is not
willing to negotiate. There
have
been two negotiations since the
strike started on Oct. 13, almost 20
weeks
ago, he said.
In these negotiations the strikers
originally asked for a three-year
contract and $1..50 an hour raise
every year. Chugerman, in return,
offered to pay 2.5 cents more per
hour in the first year, I .5 cents and
.5 cents in the second and the third
years The strikers then lowered
their bid to a $1 which brought
Chugerman to his present standing
of a 2.5-cent raise in the first year,
"We put (Chugerman) where he
is today. I remember when he
started out in a '49 Plymouth and
now he's driving a Cadillac and has
an airplane, and he can't afford a
dollar?" Leroy Evans said.
Chugerman's secretary said
workers in the warehouse declined
comment since they had nothing to
do with the strike.
Four workers in the warehouse
are taking the place of the 13
original strikers, seven of whom
left the strike to find other jobs,
Leroy Evans said .
Earl Evans Sr. said that they
have seen support from some
Marist students, who occasionally
will stop by with donuts and coffee.
March 9. 1989- THE CIRCLE - Page 5
Earl and Leroy Evans brave the winter elements to picket the
J.C.
Paper
Co. In Poughkeepsie.
Six
members of the Evans-
family
have
been on strike for five months aeeklng higher
wages.
(Photo by Lynaire Brust)
Searching for tough Marist courses? Read on
by
Karen
Cicero
You thought you had it tough.
You complained about those
8: 15's, a few papers and the most
boring book you've ever read.
But how tough was the course
really? And -
while we're
on the
subject -
what ia the toughest
course
at Marist?
No
one
can say
for sure, but The
Circle recently conducted an infor-
mal -
and biablY unacientific -
poll to
rmd
out what Marist
students consider the "killer
claaaes.''
Touah
doesn't necessarily mean
bad -
and some would say tough
means
,ood -
but here are the
courses that get mentioned most
frequently when students are
uk-
ed
to name the most difficult
claaaes Marist bas to offer.
DITilloe of Sciences
Tau
Wilusz frequently threw
her Physics book
apinst
her dorm
room door.
Wilusz, a political
ICieDce
major, was required to take
the clua for the Science of Man
honor• proaram. Although she got
an .. A"
in the course, she
remembers those horrible niahts,
"I
would be so frustrated,"
Wilusz,
a
senior from Burlinaton,
Conn., said.
"I
would pick up my
book and
whale
it
against
the door.
•
Everyone
in Benoit
knew when
I
w~ doing
physics."
Producer wins
intern award
by Debra McGrath
Television
producer
John
Gilmartin
will
be presented with the
annual Marist College Internship
Recognition Award at the Hemsley
Palace in
New
York City on March
30.
The award is given to a Marist
College graduate who served as an
intern while a student.
Gilmartin, the associate pro-
ducer of NBC-TV's "Sport-
1world,"
was chosen from a list of
16 candidates by a seven-person
committee of faculty and alumni.
During his career, Gilmartin has
received four Emmy nominations.
He has worked on many major
projects at NBC, including the 1988
Summer Olympics, and produced
NBC's SportsWorld's first prime-
time program.
The 197.5 graduate started as a
page at
NBC.
While at Marist, he interned at
Poughkeepsie Cablevision, IBM
and radio station WHVW, Hyde
Park.
Poll results show ''brganic
Chemistry" is not far behind in this
division.
Terri
Covello,
a
sophomore biology major, has
nightmares about this class which
includes a four hour Jab.
Covello said she broke a piece of
equipment in lab once and now is
afraid to touch anything since some
of the materials cost more than
$40,000.
For the non-science major,
"Human Geography" was the
most difficult.
Christina
Sweeny,
a junior
business major, said she was
'given
a blank map for her that class and
she'd spend five hours at the
Library trying to locate various
cities. She said the class covered an
endless variety of material. "It's
like every science you could
possibly imagine all rolled up into
one class," she said.
Regina
Sheridan,
a junior
political science major, described
the
coune used
to fulfill the science
requirement
as
"wealth of infor-
mation to
keep
in one's brain for
a Iona time."
Dhllloll
of
Arts
ud
Letten
Students qree
the capping
courae in communications arts is
the moat difficult since
they
don't
understand what is expected
of
them.
"These great
studies in mass
communication aren't that
impor-
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41.
Group of Chinese: dialects
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ex: Schizophrenia/Paranoia
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Command
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smallest major
52. Mistake
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Summer's Day?"
55. To block
tant," Vinny Cimino, a senior
from
Monroe,
N.Y.,
said.
"Besides, it was the quantity not
the quality of my work that was
evaluated."
Maureen Smith said it didn't
fulfill the goal of a capping course
-
pulling together what students
have learned in the classes taken for
their major.
"It touched little on things that
I learned before and I didn't know
what - if anything - was impor-
tant," Smith, a senior from
Bauvelt, N.Y., said.
"Advanced Journalism" was the
runnerup in this division. Carrie
Boyle and Karen Gorman, who
both took the class last semester,
said they learned a lot in their role
as reporters but compiling the in-
formation was time consuming.
Students taking the class are re-
quired to write 10 stories a semester
for The Circle and have weekly
New York Times quizzes.
Division
of
Management
Studies
Students said "Intermediate Ac-
counting" ruins their social life as
well as their grades.
Jennifer Saner, a junior accoun-
ting
major, said the class forced her
to go to one of the places she hates
most in the world - the Llbrary -
to
do her homework. But, she said
most of the time it didn't work.
"It was so frustrating," she said,
"you would sit
there
for hours un-
til you finally thought you had a
understand the material - at all.
grasp on the material but at quiz "When the teacher asks 'Any ques-
time you found out you didn't."
tions?' I don't know what to ask,"
"Managerial and Organizational he said.
"I
just wish she could go
Behavior" - better known as the back to 'Hello, class'."
MOB - finished second. Students
Math classes that were taken to
complained about their frequent fulfill the Core requirement were
meetings often with a 10-member runnerups in this division because
group and the difficulty involved in many non-math majors said they
getting everything together.
weren't
inclined toward the
Division of Humanities
subject.
Core classes were the ones most
The third time was a charm for
frequently mentioned in this
Paul Scarola who took and failed
division.
"Calculus with Management
Ap-
Karen
Daly,
a plications" twice before until he
business/marketing major, said passed with a C-plus. "I'm not
"American Colonial Experience" good in math," the business major
demanded so much work that she from Queens said. "I was always
thought it was her only class.
getting discouraged but the last
Jill McKinnon, a junior accoun-
time I lived in the Library and I
ting major, agrees with Daly. '' We passed.''
had to remember and know all this
Division of Social and
history," McKinnon said. "But we
Behavioral Sciences
didn't have enough background to
"Statitics and Computer Use for
do it."
the Behavioral Sciences," a stats
Runnerups in this division in-
class geared toward the psychology
elude "History
of Medieval
major, came out on top in this
Europe," a class which Cimino at-
division.
tended on the basis of the quality
Eileen
Jones,
a
of that morning's
"I
Love Lucy,"
psychology/special education ma-
"American Feminism" and "Inter-
jor, said it's difficult because the
national Politics."
material is cumulative.
"If
you're
Division of Computer
lost, you're lost for
good,"
she
Science/Mathematics
said.
"Applied Statistics" came up
Runnerups in this division in-
most frequently in this division. elude "Development of Con-
Ken Ring, a
junior computer
sciousness"
and
"Introduction to
science major, said he doesn't
Physiological Psychology."
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editorial
Voter turnout better,
but still not enough
Voter tur-nout for last week's student elections was nearly three
times higher than last year's -
a step forward, indeed.
Last year, only 156 students voted. This year, 428 of the 2,105
eligible student voters participated.
In spite of the increase in voter turnout, only about 20 percent
of the eligible students voted.
Those students who exercised their right to vote should be com-
mended. The increased turnout shows the Marist student body
is capable of moving away from apathy and toward involvement.
But more needs to be done.
The fact that one out of every five Marist students who could
have made a difference bothered to do so is appalling.
Many people the world over are willing to fight to be able to
vote. It is unfortunate that most of us seem to take this privilege
for granted.
Take time to respond
There's more paperwork involved in registering for classes this
time, but it's worth it.
College administrators have demonstrated genuine concern for
student opinion in distributing a survey with the fall registration
material. Their efforts require -
and deserve -
cooperation.
In an effort to evaluate the administrative services of the col-
lege, President Dennis Murray and senior administrators have
designed an 84-question survey. Students are required to submit
the completed survey when they register for next semester's classes.
While course evaluations solicit student opinion on the college's
academics, this questionnaire gives students an opportunity to
rank other aspects of Marist, ranging from cafeteria food to
Security.
What's more, it allows college administrators to be more in
touch with student concerns and urges them to improve what
students feel
is
dissatisfactory.
Full compliance is necessary to
make
the survey productive.
Page 6 - THE CIRCLE·- March 9, 1989
Let's take IO or 15 minutes to fill it out thoughtfully.
If
we don't,
we forfeit our right to complain that the administration ignores
student concerns.
When big birds
ref
use
to
fly
by Paul O'Sullivan
letters
For once, I can laugh at all the
people headed down to Aruba for
Spring Break.
-
Thanks to faculty
It
used to be that my friends
would make fun of me because I
would be stuck in New Jersey while
they basked in the Caribbean sun,
sipped Pina Coladas and rated the
bikinis on the beach on form and
originality.
To the Editor:
On Thursday, Feb. 23, the tour
guides held their first faculty-
student reception. This was an in-
formal gathering that
gave
both
professors and students a chance to
socialize outside the classroom.
Four of the best professors at
Marist came and mingled with the
30 tour guides in attendance. We
would like to extend our thanks to
those professors. We realize how
busy they must be; as a student it
is always refreshing to see a pro-
fessor who realizes that time out-
side a classroom setting is just as
important as the time spent in class.
We're hoping that our next
reception draws a larger turnout
from the faculty. We really would
like a chance to meet with all the
professors that make Marist great!
James O'Hara, Sophomore
Co-Coordinator, Tour Guides
Now, thanks to the Eastern
Airlines Machinist Union strike, I
will celebrate St. Patrick's Day
while my tropics-bound comrades
will
be shouting at dimwitted ticket
agents, drinking overpriced airport
liquor and rating airport vagrants
on the basis of hygiene.
Cafe complaints
While I may bask in my small
victory, there is a lot more at stake
than Spring Break vacations. This
strike could be the showdown that
determin.es
the course of labor rela-
tions for years to come.
To the Editor:
The Council of Student Leaders
has a Campus Food Committee
responsible for handling com-
plaints, suggestions or ideas. These
should be addressed to me, Box
1-113, or to the Student Govern-
ment Office at my attention.
Michael J. Prout
Chairman
Canterbury tales
Both sides really have legitimate
concerns. On one side we have the
airline which has reportedly been
losing money hand over fist for
years. Eastern reports that it has
lost $1 billion in the past ten years.
To the Editor:
As I think back over my years
here at Marist, I recall the close-
knit, family feeling I received from
living in Marian Hall and the lux-
ury of being a sophomore in a
townhouse. Ah, the springtime -
sitting outside my bedroom win-
dow on my lounge chair. The view
was fantastic. It was so tranquil.
One day I told my roommate
that it doesn't get any better than
this. I was right. We went from
paradise to hell!
I admit we lucked out living in
a townhouse sophomore year. But
THE:
CIRCLE:
I did not ask to be there. I was put
there by Housing, and a year later
I was moved out to Canterbury. I
understand a new dorm is on the
way, but in the interm I feel the
sophomores should be warned
where they might be next year and
what they will have to deal with.
Here are a few things you might
want to keep in mind if you are
placed there:
1)
Be ready to go to your 2:35
class without a shower. On many
occasions, hot water is shut off for
hours without warning!
2) Don't be surprised if you wake
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On the other side there is a union
that claims to have already given up
$1.5 billion in concessions in the
past decade, one that is already the
lowest paid by the hour of any
unionized airline.
George Bush is staying about as
far away from this one as he can,
refusing to invoke an emergency
60-day cooling-off period.
Considering that the two sides in
this dispute have been negotiating
for 17 months without a settlement,
this would seem like a good idea.
I mean, they've been talking for 17
months, what good is 60 days go-
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Michael
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Sporta Editor:
Managing Editor:
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thinking
between
the lines
ing to do?
But by not calling for a cooling-
off period, Bush lets this strike hit
at probably the worst possible time
of the year -
Spring Break. If
Bush had declared the emergency,
the strike would have taken place
in May and millions of college
students would have gotten tan and
intoxicated with no trouble at all.
As for the dispute itself, it
doesn't look like it's going to get
resolved anytime soon. Frank
Lorenzo, chairman of Texas Air
(Eastern's parent company), is the
same guy who drove Continental
Airlines into bankruptcy just to
break the union. This guy is in for
the duration.
•
The union, on the other hand, is
ready to drag its brethren from the
railroads into the picket line with
them and disrupt more of the na-
tion's transportation.
What's the solution? Well, I'm
partial to the solution that Marge
Schott, owner of baseball's Cincin-
nati
Reds,
came up with in her
dispute with outfielder Cal Daniels.
Schott and Daniels were $35,000
·apart in Daniels' contract negotia-
tions. To settle the matter, they
flipped a coin. Daniels won, and he
got his $35,000.
If the two sides can't agree to
that, I would suggest an ap-
propriate "final solution."
Take five Eastern management
representatives and five union
representatives, and 'send them up
in a 20-year-old Boeing 747 with
creaky luggage compartment locks
(one shouldn't be too hard to find).
Fly them around the Pacific Ocean
somewhere over Hawaii until the
fuselage starts to come unglued.
The side with the most survivors
is the winner!
Of course, there is always the
chance that there won't be any sur-
vivors. That's okay; just take
another five guys from each side
a,nd send them up in another ricke-
ty old plane.
Like I said, they shouldn't be too
hard to find.
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a day
in
the life
A
poet calls
for
action
by Wes Zahnke
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
Marist, Marist on the wall -
isn't it good to get on the ball?
Growth and expansion are omni-
present fears, when you grow so
much in a few short years.
New
classes, building and a
dorm - living in Canterbury just
isn't the norm.
Cramped rooms, narrow halls
and a lack of space; but have faith,
this is a good place.
Apathy is here but not to stay;
when we learn the rules we all will
play.
Student elections where no one
cares; makes administrators pull
out their hairs.
We all must join and get active,
to make this place more attractive.
Bitching and moaning behind
Marist's back, is not what we need
to get on track.
Loyalty, dedication and good
P.R., is what we need to be known
near and far.
OK, enough of this pseudo-rap
garbage. I hope that you all
can
get
the message.
True and positive change comes
from within. If you have problems
with this place, you have to make
it better.
Some people come here
and
ex-
pect things to be laid out nicely for
their taking, but when things don't
work out they stomp and cry like
little children.
People, wake up and smell the
coffee. You're the only ones who
are going to make this place better.
If
you
don't care about the way
things are run and don't want to
work for
change,
that's fine.
If you don't care about your col-
lege and future alma mater, then I
don't have any respect for you.
But, you are entitled to your own
opinion.
I'm really sick of these insinua-
tions that things are so much bet-
ter at other schools. What a load
of garbage.
How do you suppose that things
got better? Do you think that
one
day the administrators at these
schools just waved a wand, said
"voila" and things were just rosey
from that
point
on?
Wrong, kiddies.
Somewhere along the line
some
students said,
"Gee,
why don't we
show maturity and enthusiasm and
make things happen!"
If we don't organize and grow
right with the college, then things
will never change.
You'll all just crawl into your lit-
tle caves of shelter and security and
continue to bad-mouth YOUR col-
lege. Boy, won't that make things
so much better.
This place has so much potential
it's scary. Sadly, it will probably all
go untapped.
That's a shame.
Some people say that this college
doesn't prepare you for the real
world. I say, "Bull--!"
In the real world, you have to
work your butt off in order to
make it.
Things don't just come to you.
If you think that's the case, you're
living in a dream world.
It can happen. Change can oc-
cur and hopefully
it
will.
Personally,
when I
come back
for visits
after graduation,
I
want
to see change and growth.
I want
to
be shocked and surpris-
ed at what I see and hear.
Deep down.
I
hope
we
all do.
The other side of abortion issue
by Bro. Joseph Belanger
Mary Stricker's Viewpoint on
Roev. Wade(TheCircle, March 2,
1989), like all the ads that Planned
Parenthood is vigorously running
weekly in the New York Times
since President Bush's election,
fails to get at the main issue in the
abortion debate. That issue is not
women's rights. It is human rights.
Is the unborn a human being a per-
son? If so, that person has all the
rights that you and I have -
foremost, the right to life.
Deciding
on
the personhood of
the unborn - and some born - is
a very difficult matter. Some
eugenicists
even
want
to
"eliminate" all retarded people
(how far retarded?), senile elderly
(how far senile?), and handicapped
people (how far handicapped?). I
am not an expert in biological mat-
ters. Like you, I am at the mercy
of s~led
"experts," and no opi-
nion can be value-free. But I do
read, and I do think.
Two years ago, the highest court
of England "illegalized" its abor-
tion law - that is, it significantly
changed it. The major reason for
this change was the newly
accepted
definition of "human being," trig-
gered by the advances of modern
technology. The near-totality of the
medical doctors of the world, of
both sexes and of all or no
relligious persuasion, now consent
that the unborn is a person, a
human being, at very least at
viability outside the womb. This is
not a religious opinion, certainly
not a Catholic opinion. It is the
medical opinion of the overwhelm-
ing majority of the doctors of the
world.
Unfortunately, but to avoid all
controversy, England established
viability at 22 weeks, or five and a
half months.
At least, this
represents a cutback from abortion
"on demand" up to the moment of
birth. In actual fact, preemies are
now regularly saved at 15 weeks
and grow to fully normal children;
many are saved even at
IO
weeks,
or two and a half months, and
medical technology
will
reduce that
time still more.
In any case, following the opi-
nion of the medical profession,
England decided that the unborn is
a human being, with all the rights
thereof, at
viability outside the
womb. This focuses the abortion
debate precisely where it should be
focused: is the unborn a human be-
ing? That is the issue in the abor-
tion debate.
As a practicing Catholic, I
believe that human life begins at
conception. I believe that all con-
venience abortions are murder and
sin, even those painless, invisible
"period" RU486 induced miscar-
riages. Given the prevailing moral
and media climate in the United
States, Roe v. Wade has been in-
terpreted in the courts as allowing
abortion "on
demand"
up to the
moment of birth. Roe v. Wade was
never intended to support such ac-
tion, and the very least the Supreme
Court must do is to return to a
strict construction of that 1973
Miss America
misses the mark
by
Karen
Free
It was the beginning of March -
time for bathing suits to be
displayed, for evening gowns to be
swooshed through the air, for hair
to
be
sprayed.
Recently, all eyes S!lthered
around the electronic hearth in an-
ticipation of the American tradi-
tion of rewarding "hard work"
with what it deserves -
TV time.
So pour on those sacharrin
smiles, smear some Vaseline on
your teeth, apply some non-stick
spray to your rump, parade on
stage and display your goodies on
national TV.
Or, just watch a whole bunch of
other people do it. That's what
millions of Americans"did last week
during the annual Miss America
Beauty Pageant.
•
This American tradition, with its
happy, smiley-faced degradation of
women on national TV, should be
put to sleep immediately.
tunity employer" is the phrase that
keeps ringing in our ears, I propose
that men demand their right to
equal opportunity.
American men should be
asking,
"Where is my chance to win a
scholarship? Where is my 'Mr.
USA Beauty Pageant?' " Men of
these United States of Am~ica,
unite!
Born with such a competitive
nature, men should also get a
chance to be judged for both body
and brains on national TV.
Then again, maybe the reason
men haven't demanded their own
pageant
is
that they haven't got the
right stuff, so to speak.
Think about it.
I don't know any guy who would .
go on national TV and reveal his "
most vital statistics, certainly not
I
for the purpose of
being
compared
I
!
to other men.
decision - the first trimester; or 12
weeks -
until such time as the en-
tire decision
can-be "Illegalized."
After all, the world was relieved
when postwar Germany "illegaliz-
ed" the Final Solution. In the
history of the Supreme Court,
more than 150
decisions
(I
counted
167) have been overturned. Over-
turning Roe v. Wade is not setting
a precedent for capricious lawmak-
ing or for violating women's lawful
rights. All humans make mistakes.
Planned Parenthood
is the
"foremost purveyor of abortions in
the United States. Of some
1,250,000 abortions annually in our
country, Planned Parenthood ac-
counts for 75 percent. Abortion is
Planned Parenthood's primary ac-
tivity and a prime source of its
funding.
The Library non-repint section
has several videos on the abortion
matter for interested viewers.
Bro.
Joseph
Belanger
is
a Marist
Brother and professor
of
French.
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Some people say that the pageant
has many benefits for young
_women
and the winner is the sym-
bol of
American
purity.
A
closer
look shows that the
pageant
is a
symbol of
American
sexism. Its ex-
ploitation
of women differs from
that
of "flesh rag mags" only in
degree.
Personally, I'd be willing to sup-
port such a pageant in the name of
equal opportunity and the promo-
tion of non-sexist attitudes. I know
many other women who would feel
the same way. If beauty pageants
are such
a
good
thing for women,
why don't men get in on the
action?
It's been said that the Catholic
Packed like sardines
In
all fairness, I can see the
pageant-lovers'
point of view.
After
all,
the contest is fair in that
it judges
both
beauty and brains -
by
American
standards.
If you
can
sing, look good in a
bathing suit and
give
a
cutesy,
30-second bite or a cutesy answer
to silly questions -
hey, you are
the American ideal and deserve all
the rewards that come with this
achievement.
If Americans don't try to pro-
mote and preserve superficiality,
then who will? It's our duty as a
democratic nation to protect our
ideals. Without ideals, we are
nothing. However, be warned -
you can only go so shallow before
you hit bottom.
Who would have thought that so
much controversy would surround
an act of women being judged and
rewarded for their beauty? I mean,
the Miss America Pageant does
good things, such as giving young
women a chance for advancement
through scholarships and pro-
moting the American fascination
with "healthy" competition.
What a good idea.
In an age where
"equal
oppor-
Church may be the last bastion of
by Theodore Moy
sexism. Well, I believe that the
stage, specifically the beauty
pageant stage, is
one of
the last
bas-
tions of sexism against men.
As a person repulsed by the
thought of female chauvinism
writhing
alongside
male
chauvinism, I demand that the bar-
riers be broken.
Men should gather the strength
to help themselves correct the
grievous wrong that's been done to
them over the years. I know that
sometime in my life, my dream of
an equal and fair pageant for men
will be realized.
The-doors are just now opening
for the men of America. Men,
don't let it slam before your foot
is firmly placed in the tiny crevice.
Presently, the problem is the
continuance of the old American
tradition of the exploitation of
women. lt doesn't matter how
many hours they can hold that
smile or how many viewers watch
the festivities.
The Miss America Beauty
Pageant is not just a contest, it's
a statement about women and
America.
Karen Free
is
a senior majoring
in Enalish.
In 1988, Marist took in
one
of
the largest freshman classes in
school history. It seems that the of-
fices of admissions and housing do
not get the message about
Marist's
serious dilemma, the housing
crunch.
The Office of
Housing
has no
choice but to correct the mistake
made by the Office of Admissions.
Some of last year's freshmen were
placed in the B and C blocks of the
Townhouses and some in the
Gartland Apartments. Needless to
say, many juniors were then·mov-
ed to the Canterbury Apartments,
five miles from campus. This will
happen
again
for this year's
sophomores.
Each year, the freshman class
preys on others for housing. The
second and third floors of Cham-
pagnat Hall once again contain
freshmen because of the housing
shortages.
That
means
the
sophomores have lost two floors
which could have accommodated
their friends instead of separating
them.
Now, freshmen are on the move.
They will be taking over next year's
Townhouses
and
some of the
Gartland apartments just like we
did.
It seems that the Office of Ad-
missions is not concerned with stu-
dent needs. It keeps accepting more
and more students with nowhere to
put them. Also, classrooms are
packed and everyone gets annoyed
when they can't get their classes
because there are too many people.
This is
one
reason why the school
rented Canterbury.
I laugh at the student handbook,
which describes Canterbury as "an
off-campus apartment complex,
offering a unique experience for the
student who is interested in an in-
dependent living situation away
from the campus." The fact is,
most students do not want to live
there. The college and the Office of
Housing are ignoring the feedback
of the students.
Transfer students I have spoken
to are not impressed with Canter-
bury. After all, they are new and
should live on campus so they can
get more acquainted with the
school and other students.
Call me old-fashioned, but my
feelings are that on-campus hous-
ing is the whole idea of college and
going
away from home. Students
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Page 8 - THE CIRCLE'- March 9, 1989
Spring I
Forget Florida: Elvis and elsewhere beckon
by Chris Walsh
Rather than succumbing to what has
become known in college circles as the "party
'til you puke" atmosphere of the spring
break scene in Florida, many Marist students
have planned alternative sites for their
vacations.
senior psychology major from Setauket,
N.Y.
"I'm still going to Florida, but to Siesta
Key, and my parents are paying."
Jim McCutcheon, a junior majoring in
liberal arts, from Brooklyn, is a self describ-
ed Elvis Presley fanatic. He is so obsessed
with Presley and the debauchorous lifestyle
"The King" led that he is traveling to Mem-
phis Tenn., for Spring Break to visit
Gra~eland -
the late musician's home.
"Face it, Elvis lived the life we'd all love to
lead " said Mccutcheon.
lamp, the sweat of Elvis, and a _guitar with
his face emblazoned on it. I'm gonna add
them to my shrine," he said.
Barbara Bello, a senior psychology major
from Yonkers, N. Y., said her vacation does
not require much travel. "I'm vacationing
at scenic Hunter Mountain," she said.
"There's a mean happy hour and it's only
an hour away."
Dina Pisani, a senior fashion design ma-
jor from New Haven, Conn., has spent
Spring Break in Daytona Beach, Fla., twice,
but because of boredom and financial dif-
ficulties she's going to try something dif-
ferent this year.
"I'm going on a big camping extravagan-
z.a.
Most people come back from break with
tans, I'll have poison ivy," said Pisani.
"I like Daytona, but I'm such a geek that
I don't like to drink and watch women strip
down any more, so this year I'm relaxing
with family," said Mary Ellen Curran, a
F~r McCutcheon, an obsession has turn-
ed into ideal vacation plans.
"Elvis was special because he was
simultaneously the American dream and
nightmare," said Mccutcheon, who has
decorated an entire wall in his apartment
with Elvis memoribilia.
"When I go to Graceland I'm gonna get
the trashiest Elvis stuff I can find, an Elvis
When Peter Durant, a business ad-
ministration major, went to Ft. Lauderdale
for Spring Break during his freshman year,
the state of Florida's drinking age had just
risen to 21 years of age and he experienced
problems obtaining and consuming alcohol.
"I didn't have good enough
I.D.,'' said
Durant, now in his junior year at Marist.
This break, Durant is going to Acapulco,
Believe it or not,
there's more than
bars and beaches
by Michael
Kinane
As
their nerves wear thin and their eyes begin to lose focus, the thoughts
of many Marist students turn from their mid-term examinations to their
upcoming rest and relaxation -
Spring Break.
While the normal fare of recreational activities, such as beaches and
booze cruises, will be available for college-aged vacationers, there are
many unique activities open to Spring Breakers during their semester
break.
Currently reigning as "Spring Break Capital of the World" is the city
of Daytona Beach, Fla. Hundreds of thousands of students flock to the
city's wide beaches of white sand, but another "foriegner"
will
be residing
on Daytona's beaches this year
as
well.
Marist students, as well as all others will be able to take part in the
inaugural AT&T Maze Challenge.
Students -will be able to compete by travelling through a bright blue,
10,000-square-foot open-air labyrinth, according to Bryant Steele, pro-
ject organizer for AT&T.
In order to win, the students will have to make it through the maze
in times faster than those posted by other students who traveled through
the maze earlier in the day, said Steele. There is no charge to enter.
Prizes for the winners range from T-shirts to beach towels. The five-
foot wide pathways will be altered every day to offer new challenges for
participants.
"We estimate, on the average, it will take people between 15 and 20
minutes to complete the maze," said David Pugliese, AT&T's college
market manager. For those students who find themseleves lost, there are
14 emergency exits that lead out of the maze.
People affiliated with the project will monitor each participant's pro-
gress from a tower alongside the seven-foot high structure, which will
be erected on the beach outside the Whitehall Hotel.
Another destination of many Florida-bound students is Disney World
in Orlando. The Magic Kingdom has been open for
17
years and offers
rides and shows for people of all ages.
Just in time for this year's Spring Break, the newest ride in Disney's
Epcot Center, the scientific and experimental world of the Disney park,
has been opened.
Mexico for what he terms a "real vacation."
Durant said it should be just as crazy as
Florida and it's a chance to get out of the
country.
"At least two nights in jail are expected,''
said Durant.
Paul Owen, a senior from Brooklyn, is
also going to Acapulco, but for one reason
-
"I want foreign women," he said.
McCutcheon, who has been mapping out
routes to Memphis for the past
week, said
he is excited to be getting away from school
for awhile and to be excluding himself from
the traditional college exodus to Florida.
"Everybody goes to those places, few
can
ever say they've been to Graceland," said
Mccutcheon. "Hopefully, my· pilgrimage
will go off as I have dreamed, and I will
return with good memories, and a gun - for
television sets."
The ride, known as the "Maelstrom," is part of the newly-opened
"Norway, Gateway to Scandinavia" exhibit at Epcot. The ride carries
passengers through rivers and canals that traverse Nordic times. The ride
comes complete with automated trolls, polar bears and Viking explorers,
according to Nate Bucknall, Disney World's associate director of col-
lege marketing.
The Maelstrom, the newest attraction at Walt Dis
popular attraction for students during Spring Break.
1
Gateway to Scandinavia," the 11th nation in Epcot'
(Photo co
The exhibit is the 11th in Epcot's "World Showcase," a group of
simulated cities with actors and events that portray the cultures and
lifestyles of each city. Some of the countries in the showcase include
France, Canada and Japan.
Throughout March, students who show valid college
I.D.
can
save near-
ly half the price of admission to both Disney parks, said Bucknall.
With college identification, a two-day ticket, which allows for admit-
tance into both parks, can be purchased for $30.95. In another offer,
one-day tickets for either attraction can be bought for $19.95.
Another "hot spot" for Marist vacationers is The Bahamas. This
cluster of islands, some 140 miles east of the Florida coast, offer long
beaches of white sand for the hopeful tanners.
The capital of this island nation, Nassau, is home to many tourist spots
including the international straw market. Here, tourists and natives alike
haggle over the prices of an array of straw goods, including hats and
animal figurines, as well as other products, such as tiki dolls.
"It's a great place to buy souvenirs, if you can bargain well with the
vendors,•• said Leo Madden, a senior business administration major who
spent Spring Break '87 in Nassau.
Rather than heading for Florida, some Marist students hit the slopes
of Colorado.
The facilities at the five mountain resorts in Colorado's Summit ski
area can be used for the price of a lift ticket, which ranges from $25
to $35. These areas -
Vail, Copper, Keystone, Breckinridge and
Arapahoe Basin - offer many miles of ski trails for the novice and ex•
pert skiiers.
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Strike casts shadow on sunny vacations
fbe Lighthouse Beach Hotel
Nassau, The Bahamas will be
~mises to he filled with vaca-
ning college students during
ring Break.
by Paul O'Sullivan
Some students planning Spring Break vacations this
year have run into a snag potentially more troublesome
than mid-terms; the strike at Eastern Airlines.
Machinists at Eastern began walking the picket line
at 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning. With the help of the
pilots and flight attendants, who decided to strike in
support of their fellow employees, the machinists ef-
fectively shut down operations at the airline and sent
Marist students running to call their travel agents.
Stacey Waite, a junior, had planned to leave for
West Palm Beach, Fla., on Eastern on March 20.
Waite's problem was solved partially when her travel
agent booker her on a Piedmont Airlines flight leav-
ing on March 18.
Unfortunately, Waite had been invited to a seminar
in Washington D.C. that runs March 17 to 19. The
chances of getting a later flight are very bleak, accor-
ding to her travel agent.
"I just don't know what to do," Waite said.
The strike against Eastern hits college students
especially hard because the airline is one of the major
carriers to Florida and the Carribbean, often popular
locales for Spring Break vacations.
Some students said they are trying to be optimistic
about the situation, believing that the government will
intervene before the strike will affect them.
"I'm not worried about it," said Dawn Carroll, a
junior who has been working two jobs to pay for her
trip to Paradise Island in The Bahamas. "Eventually
someone is going to get involved and end the strike."
Maureen McDonnell, a junior who is planning on
traveling with Carroll, said she is also trying to be op-
timistic
abo11t
the situation.
"Being stuck at Kennedy Airport wouldn't be thrill-
ing," she said, '-'but if we were to get stuck in The
Bahamas and had to spend a couple of extra days
there, I don't think we would mind that."
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of Skate Odyssey of Hyde Park, Ltd. in Hyde Park, N. Y.
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areas also offer instruction in the sport, which is a winter
1f skateboarding, she said.
reckinridge Ski Area in Breckinridge, Colo., a half-day lesson
For a full day, Spring Break vacationers will have to spend
!1 and $40, depending on their skill level, said Tanya Simp-
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ski resort.
:quipped snowboard costs between $370 and $450, according
.cs.
At Snowboard of the Rockies in Breckinridge, students
te equipment - a board, boots and bindings -
for approx-
2
a
day.
ther the destination is The Bahamas or Colorado, Daytona
make the effort to try something new. Who knows, it may
1bit.
Time off? Guess again!
by Kathleen Oremus
As Spring Break approaches,
Marist students are planning ways
to spend their
week,
free of classes
and the cares and responsibilities of
college life.
Some, however, won't be vaca-
tioning away from home.
There are about 600 "non-
traditional" students enrolled at
Marist, according to the Adult
Education Office. These students
don't necessarily share the same
idea of Spring Break with the con-
cept held by other students.
Non-traditional describes the
student who has started or return-
ed to college at a later stage of life.
Their lives include a wide range
of experiences and circumstances
not yet known to most 18- to
21-year-old students -
marriage,
children, divorce, single paren-
thood and career decisions -
which place different respon-
sibilites and priorities on them.
Jack Gardner, 35, a part-time
student and full-time ground-
skeeper at Marist, said he has time
off from the job during the break
and said he will try to work around
his house, depending on how much
homework his instructor assigns.
"I
have a list of projects to do
around the house and the break
gives me a chance to catch up on
those things," said Gardner.
Gardner, a business administra-
tion major, said if circumstances
were different he would like to hop
in a car with a bunch of friends and
head south for the warm sunshine.
"Sometimes l envy the freedom
some students have to pick up and
go off on a toot," said Gardner.
Some students see Spring Break
as an opportunity to catch up or get
altead on classwork.
Carmen Lyon, 41, a full-time in-
tegrative studies major, said if she
had the money she would go to
Paris for a week, but instead she
will probably spend time on
household chores and research for
her capping course next fall.
"It
seems I work harder during
the break than the regular
semester," said Lyon.
"I
always
felt like breaks were not breaks for
me."
Patricia Pratt, 48, attends classes
part-time
and
works
with
psychiatric clients part-time. She
said she will be taking vacation
time from her job during Spring
Break and plans on visiting family
in New Jersey.
Pratt said she also plans to catch
up on things she has put off, such
as housework, but she will take a
complete break from schoolwork.
"1 think it's unfair of teachers to
give homework
over Spring
Break," said Pratt, a social work
major who plans to graduate in
May 1990.
While some students count down
the days to the vacation, there are
those who don't realize when the
break is.
Joanne Brunson, an adult stu-
dent taking six credits this semester,
said she had no idea when her
Spring Break was, but she did
know her two children, who attend
different schools, didn't have the
same time off for spring vacation.
Brunson, who takes afternoon
classes, is an integrative studies ma-
jor interested in historic preserva-
tion. She said she plans to take a
day off from work during the
break to check out church stained
glass windows in the area.
She said she will also do research
for her capping course next year.
For these and other students like
them, the vacation may not be sun-
ny, but it will be a break
nonetheless.













































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Adjunct wins poetry prize
live and study on a campus
throughout their years and obtain
that "feeling" of true college life
as well as closeness to friends.
Living at Canterbury is an ex-
treme inconvenience. The van is the
only transportation a student has
unless he has a car (which I don't).
Problems such as traffic, tardiness
of the van and personal conditions
are in the way of getting to classes.
I have two suggestions which the
offices of admissions and housing
should consider:
1. In order to properly house
students, the offices should balance
out the difference in enrollment. In
other words, DON'T KEEP AC-
CEPTING STUDENTS IF THEY
CAN'T BE PROPERLY AC-
COMMODATED. I wonder if
Marist is thinking more as a
business than a learning facility.
2. Build new dorms and
:lassrooms
before letting new
students in. This will reduce over-
crowding in classrooms as well as
the addition of new classes not yet
introduced to the schedule. If the
dorms are built first, the school can
let more students in. This will
eliminate Canterbury and return
the second and third floors of
Champagnat to the sophomores.
Several people have told me that
they
will be living off campus next
fall because they don't want to live
in Canterbury. They prefer to ac-
commodate themselves instead of
being placed out there. In addition,
they said it is easier to live closer
to the campus and they don't have
to rely on the van.
If the Office of Admissions
would think about this housing
problem,
then it would do
something to solve it. If it doesn't,
students like myself will be disap-
pointed in finding out that school
is being made harder than it already
is.
Theodore Moy
is a sophomore
majoring in communications.
l,y
Micllllel
Hayes
John R. Osborn, vice president
and
media direclor
or
advcrtisiq
qency Batten, Banon, Dunton.
and
Oibom, will
speak
to students
and faculty on campus At>r. 4.
1974 graduate of Bosion C'ol-
leae,
Osborn has worked in the
\'Cflising
indwltry
unce
1980.
Hb
responsibilities
include
plannsq
and purchasing over $40 million
wonh of media equipment for
8BDO,
the fourth
largest
agency
in
tbe world. His
aaency's
dients in•
elude
General Electric, Pepsi.
Campbell Soup and Pillsbur
.
by
Denise DeCicco
Adjunct
professor
Pamela
Uschuk has been chosen as the
1989 recipient of the Ascent Poetry
A ward for her poem "Calendar of
Thirst."
The 'annual award is sponsored
by Ascent magazine, an interna-
tional literary magazine published
twice a year.
Uschuk will receive a $1,000
prize and will also give a public
reading of her poem at the two-day
Ascent/ Accent Symposium, held at
the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign Apr. 5-6.
This is Uschuk's first major
.
.
award, but she has also received
Prior
to
advertising. Osborn
I
recognition for her past work.
worked
in
the non-profit $eeltlr.
Uschuk was one of three 1989
first at a regional th,utre oi_,eration prizewinners in the third annual
aod
1hen for. a ~1al serv1
e pro-
White Rabbit Poetry Contest for
grant, both m h1s hometown of
her poem, "A Snorkeling in the
Buffalo,
•
• Y
Sea of Cortez, Just Beyond El
Coyote Beach." The contest was
ed on several Indian reservations.
Since 1987 she has tought Marist
courses in poetry and fiction at
Green Haven Maximum Security
Facility in Stormville, N.Y. She
also teaches poetry workshops in
New York public schools.
Uschuk's works deal heavily
with landscapes. She spends her
summers in Arizona, where she
does much of her writing. "Nature
feeds the imagination,"
says
Uschuk. "With an endless horizon,
like in Arizona, your imagination
opens up to fit the horizon."
Uschuk's award-winning poem,
•
"Calendar of Thirst," is set in Tuc-
son, Ariz.
"Waiting In Rain" is the most
recent of the four chapbooks, or
short books of poetry, that Uschuk
has in publication. She also has
written a pamphlet entitled "Lov-
ing the Outlaw."
Cotadne4 fro• ,.
6
sponsored by Harbinger magazine.
Letters --------------------------------
In January she received Special
•
Honorable Mention in the Amnes-
Her future plans include publica-
tion of her manuscript,
"Upcry,"
which features the poem "Calen-
dar of Thirst." She said she would
also like to work full-time as a pro-
f essor in a university.·"I need to
settle down," she said.
If you think only the "bad"
students are put out here, you're
wrong. My roommates and I had
enough priority points to live on
campus and were still placed out
here.
Even though students will have
enough priority points to live on
Offensive cartoon
To the Editor:
This letter is in regards to the
cartoon
appearing
in
the Feb. 23
edition of The
Circle.
Specifically,
the cartoon was in
reference
to a statue of St. Ann
which was removed by Security
from a student's
residence.
The
cartoon
itself was comical and
humorous
up to
the part
where
(and
I quote) it said,
"Well she
had
an
empty beer can
in
one
hand and
as
you know this
is a
dry
campus."
-
"Hey,
the can was
empty,
and
besides she's of age."
I
find this to be offensive and to
show irreverence
to the
blessed St.
Ann,
the mother of
the blessed
Virgin
Mary.
Paul
J.
Burke
Assistant Director
Office of Safety and Security
Gruesome game
To the Editor:
I found your article "Kill 'em"
(3/2/89)
to be most distressing,
specifically
the young woman's
statement, "I am watching Star
Trek with my boyfriend, and I
don't know if he's going to whip
out a knife and kill me." As
violence increases in general, and,
specifically, towards. women, it is
appalling to read such a comment.
Violence is not a game to those who
have experienced its real or
threatened effects, (Rushdie's forc-
ed exile from the public world a
case in point), and, therefore, it is
an affront to see a game being
made of it. Surely, this type of
behavior is not front page material;
indeed, it would seem more ap-
propriate to find this on the
editorial page, accompanied by a
thoughtful analysis of what this
behavior most disturbingly implies.
Artistotle argues that in matters
of social relaxation we must be wit-
ty, avoiding the excesses of both
booriness and buffoonery. This
game appears to go beyond buf-
fooney to the base.
Dr.
Peg Birmingham
Assistant
Professor
of Philosophy
Happy
St.
Patrick's
Day
campus the housing crunch will
force students to live at Canter-
bury. What's the use of having a
point system?
The administration has a definite
problem and I see it being ignored
instead of addressed. Perhaps a
lawsuit against the school when
ty International Poetry Competi-
tion.
She was also one of the
prizewinners in the 1988 Stone
Ridge Poetry Contest.
something drastic occurs would be
the answer. Is this what it has to
come down to? Come on Marist,
put on your thinking caps and take
care of this problem before it's too
late.
After receiving her master of fine
arts degree from the University of
Dawn
Carroll
Montana, Uschuk lived and work-
Since 1986, Uschuk has made
her home in Ulster County with her
husband, poet William Pitt Root.
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11
New group learns
nutrition, exercise
by
Karen Wirmusky
According to Poley, each of the
Students who want to tone their
six members has her own exercise
bodies, lose a few pounds or learn
plan that coincides with her eating
to eat right no Iongef have to do so
routine. Each week, members can
alone-.
get weighed
in before they listen to
A
support group, "Shape Your
a guest lector and discuss the
pro-
Body,"
held
every
Tuesday
at 2:30
blems
they faced while doing
their
p.m. in Byrne Residence,
gives
homework.
members
of
the
Marist communi-
One week the members were
ty a chance to learn about healthy
assigned to
think about the reasons
eating habits while interacting with
why
they were eating, whether it be
others who have the same goals.
hunger,
nervousness, frustration
or
Yvonne Poley,·
facilitator
and
boredom.
member of the
one-hour session,
"You have to
distinguish bet-
said the group
is for
anyone who
ween physical
hunger
and
is concerned
about nutrition and
psychological
hunger," said Poley.
who wants to tone
their
body. The
"Once you
can identify the hunger,
group was created last semester in
it
creates a self-awareness that can
response to student requests.
deal with specific emotions."
"We create a personalized plan
Group member Kristen Pierson,
for ea-ch participant," said Poley,
a senior from Pine Bush,
N.Y.,
"and we all share in our individual said by sharing stories with others
progress."
who have similar obstacles, it's
The group, which is not exclusive easier to have a positive self-image
to females, aims at establishing a
and a more constructive relation-
positive relationship with food.
ship with food.
This includes learning to like
Pierson said a bond is forming
St
t
h
Students blow off steam - and burn off calories - during a
yourself, maintaining a desired between the group's six members,
re
C
recent aerobic session in the McCann Center dance studio.
weight, and not eating when you
and anyone going for the first time
(Photo by Lynaire Brust)
are not really hungry, said Poley.
will be warmly welcomed.
Science of Man program comes to a close
by
Vanessa Codorniu
As the end draws near for the
Science of Man program, eight
students continue carrying the
dimly-lit torch.
Next year, when the three junior
level students graduate, the light
will be no more.
Science of Man, Marist's unof-
ficial honors program, began in
1974 as an alternative Core pro-
gram. Every fall, a small number
of freshmen were invited to par-
ticipate in the program, which of-
fered a series of special courses
over four years and culminated in
a written thesis.
Under the old Core program
Science of Man courses replaced re-
quirements. When the college's
new Core/Liberal Studies program
began in 1985, the Science of Man
students lost their exemption and
had to take C/LS courses in addi-
tion to the special courses.
According to Robert Lewis, an
associate professor of English in
the program and its former direc-
tor, the main focus of the program
was to help students understand
what it is to be human through an
interdisciplinary approach.
"It made students think," said
Lewis.
"I found the program very in-
teresting because we were en-
couraged to think. We weren't told
'this is black, that's white; you
will
be tested next week.' Instead, we
were given the facts and asked to
formulate ideas and opinions,"
said Anthony Cozzi, a communica-
tions major and
one
of the three
juniors in the program.
The program was offered to 40
to 50 students every year. In the fall
of 1985 there were still 86 students
participating in the program. With
the advent of the new core and the
upkeep of the special courses plac-
ing heavier demands on the
students, fewer entered and an in-
creased number dropped the
program.
"I enjoyed the program very
much, and at first I didn't know
why people were leaving the pro-
gram. I guess the heavier work load
was a decisive factor for most. The
students who stayed felt like we
were all in this together. We wanted
to make it count for ourselves,"
said Mark Aldrich, a junior com-
munications
major
from
Poughkeepsie.
Last year, when the Academic
Affairs Committee met to discuss
plans for a college-wide honors
program, the Science of Man pro-
gram was also reviewed.
Minimal faculty involvement, a
change in Core requirements and
student dissatisfaction were all
cited as reasons for the AA C's final
decision to end Science of Man
with the class of 1990.
"The program was not ad-
ministered the best way possible,
because no one knew what it would
amount to. The students were
unclear about the benefits and the
academic advisors didn't know
what to tell us when we planned
our schedules," said Cozzi.
Lewis said he believes that with
the increased reading and writing
Marist switches to new stationery
by Madeline McEneney
Marist College introduced new
stationery last month to the
community.
The
stationery
is
ivory
Strathmore paper printed in two
colors, red and black, according to
a memorandum distributed by the
Office of College Advancement.
The stationery has been standar-
dized for all departments and divi-
sions, and when the old stationery
is gone, new stationery
will start its
circulation, according to College
Advancement.
Departments and divisions have
already started requesting sta-
tionery and the printing presses are
already rolling, said Al Doscher,
manager of the ·Copy Center.
Doscher also said although this
stationery is more expensive to pro-
duce than the old, it is much clearer
wheil reproduced.
Continued from page 1
Jewish-------------
my religion."
Stephen Popper, a freshman
communication arts major, also
chose Marist for its communica-
tions program and for sports.
"I was involved in a lot of
Jewish activites in high school, but
when I chose a college my priorities.
were my education and athletics,"
Popper said. "Religion came after
those priorities. I knew Marist was
mostly Catholic, but it didn't mat-
ter to me. I dido 't follow religion
strictly
anyway. It's important, but
I don't live by it."
Newman said Marist used to
fund activities such as Passover
seders for the Jewish students on
campus.
"The
seders were successful, but
the Jewish students weren't there,"
said Newman, who also invited
students to her home for the
holidays. "The support came from
Campus Ministry. The funds
weren't available last year, so there
wasn't a seder."
Many Jewish students go home
for the holidays because there
aren't activites or celebrations on
campus. But Newman said the lack
of activities is due to low student
turnout.
Aronson said: "It's hard to be
here for the holidays; it's like be-
ing here for your birthday. You'd
rather be home with your family."
Popper said he attends services
at Vassar Temple
in
Poughkeepsie
if he can't go home.
"Teachers and coaches are con-
scious of my Judaism and are very
understanding about it," he said.
"My football coach let me take
time off practice so I could go to
services during the holidays."
Aronson complained that Jewish
stereotypes are one disadvantage
she has met.
"I hate being referred to as a
JAP," said Aronson, referring to
Jewish American Princess. "Peo-
ple assume I'm one because I'm
Jewish. People like that aren't
worth the time, so I just blow them
off."
Rosner said many people assume
Jews are cheap.
"I
come
from a middle class
-
background,"
he said. "People
always think of me as being either
cheap or a JAP."
Aronson,
who
considered
transferring during her freshman
year, added: "My friends mean
more to me than the need to be
with other Jewish kids. I don't pick
my friends because they're Jewish
or not, and I chose Marist because
I wanted a good education. It
didn't make a difference to me that
Marist was mostly Catholic."
"I find myself explaining my
religion constantly," Rosner said.
'' A lot of people ask questions like,
'What is Chanukah'?' or, 'Do you
celebrate Christmas'?' "
"People do ask a lot of ques-
tions,'' said Aronson, who brought
her roommate home to experience
a Jewish holiday. "I explain as
much as I can. I don't mind."
Newman said Marist is a step
ahead of many colleges:
''Campus
Ministry has taken the initiative to
have someone here for the students
if they need it. Even if they don't
call us, we have the service. Many
colleges don't."
that encompassed the program, the
student's "needed an incentive of
official honors status in order to
continue with the program. Other-
wise, they take the path of least
resistance."
"If
you want a mule to move,
you have to dangle a carrot in front
of it," said Cozzi.
"Many
freshman are just getting
used to their newly attained
freedom, and they don't want to
compromise it, unless there's a very
good reason to. I think that if it
had been made
an
official honors
program, many would have stayed.
and that it would be a thriving pro-
gram today," he said.
"My freshman year there were
50 people in my class, the second
year only 20. I enjoyed the pro-
gram and was very upset when they
decided to drop it," said Ellen
Ballou, a senior communications
major currently holding an intern-
ship in Albany, N. Y.
"Many people left because they
felt that they were not given enough
recognition. I decided to graduate
with this course of study. I did it
for me, I know what I learned,
whether or not it is recognized,"
she said.
Lewis said the program would
have benefited from more faculty
involvement and awareness.
"I congratulate the professors
who stayed with Science of Man.
The program is a testimonial for
them, and for us, the students who
continued," said Cozzi.
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Debate wins trophies
in weekend's competition
by
Ken
Foye
University to finish in second place. previous weekend in Boston during
Capozzolo was named top speaker a "swing tournament," in which
Performances at three recent
in the division. Buckley finished teams compete in two tournaments
tournaments have positioned the
second.
at the same time, according to
Marist debate team at ninth-place
In the junior varsity division, the
Springston. Suffolk University and
in the national rankings, according team of freshman Mark Liepis and
Emerson College were the sites of
to James Springston, director of
sophomore Vanessa Codorniu also the two tournaments.
debate.
'
finished in second. Freshmen
Mike
Marist finished second overall in
Marist won 15 trophies at the
Cocks and Tom Kavan teamed up
the team standings for the tour-
William
and Mary Tournament
to finish in third place.
naments, placing behind Cornell
Feb. 23-24, including second-place
All four junior varsity speakers University.
team finishes in the varsity and
won individual trophies. Kavan
Buckley was named second-best
junior varsity divisions.
,
was named top speaker, while varsity speaker for the two tour-
Junior
Mike,
Buckley and
Cocks, Liepis and Codomiu finish-
naments, while Capozzolo came in
sophomore Tony Capozzolo made
ed in sec.ond, fourth and fifth,
sixth. Fifty schools and 100
it to the finals of the varsity divi-
respectively.
' speakers competed in the varsity
sion before losing to Loyola
(Ill.)
Marist won 29_to'tal
trophies the
division, Springston said.
Tour guide group masters
art
of putting Marist on display
by Dennis Yusko
The college's student tour guides
are not
getting
paid this year, but
that doesn't seem bother the 100
students who now show off the
school to potential Marist students.
The Marist Admissions Office
and student volunteers have turn-
ed last year's tour guide system in-
to the the Marist College tour guide
club.
The club was initiated by
sophomore Jamie O'Hara and
senior
George
Sabo when they were
asked by Harry Wood, vice presi-
dent of admissions and enrollment
planning, to recruit volunteer
guides.
According to Sabo, last year's
system had problems.
"There was a lack of responsi-
ble personnel, Sabo said. "Many
people would forget their times,
and often a member of the Admis-
sions Office would have to cover
for the students," said Sabo.
In addition, which offers 30
tours during the work week - pro-
,mpted
the club's formation.
Tours are
given
six times a
day,
and many applicants team with
other volunteers to give tours.
Instead of pay the new club of-
fers priority points, faculty socials
and a closer working relationship
as incentives to student workers.
Marist rugby shirts are offered to
members returning
from last
semester.
The club also distributes a
week-
ly newsletter, proposed by co-
coordinator
O'Hara.
The newsletter gives reminders
and invitations to members and has
a front page dedicated to the
history of Marist or a building on
campus.
The surplus of volunteers has
Jamie
O'Hara
talks to a group of students on
a campus
tour.
(Photo by lynaire Brust)
meant a large increase in the tour~
this year. The Admissions Office
has given tours to 1,600 perspective
students.
In recognition of the club and its
achievements, President Dennis
Murray and executive vice presi-
dent Sullivan have made ap-
pearances at some faculty socials.
"President Murray and vice
president Sullivan spoke at our
Christmas formal and had nothing
but great things to say about our
club - I think they are really pleas-
ed," Sabo said.
''People say that one of the big-
gest decisions in choosing a college
comes from the
experience
of a
tour
guide,"
Sabo said. "It is im-
portant
that we
perform."
Marist students form new club
to
encourr "Te
smarter drinking
by Robin Martini
In an effort to promote respon-
sible drinking amoung students,
.a
Marist housing staff member has
started a local chapter of a national
alcohol awareness organization.
John Padovani, residence direc-
tor of the Gartland Commons
Apartments, has started a campus
chapter of Boost Alcohol Con-
sciousness Concerning the Health
of University Students, a national
organization
focusing on the
aspects of responsible drinking.
Eight students are participating
in the group, which was formed
last month and has already held
two meetings.
BACCHUS does not necessari-
ly advocate refrainin,t
from
alcohol, but instead pushes for
responsible consumption, accor-
ding to Padovani.
"It's not a 'don't do' organiza-
tion," said Padavoni. "It is a pro-
gram 1eared to increase awareness
o.
,onsible alcohol consump-
tio1.
BACCHUS provides educa-
tional information on topics such
as planning
safe
parties, recogniz-
ing drinking problems and ensur-
ing the safety of intoxicated
persons.
Kellie Kahrmann, a freshman
political science major from North
Brunswick, N.J., and a member of
BACCHUS,
joined
Students
Against Drunk Driving while in
high school after a friend was kill-
ed
in
a
car accident caused by a
drunk driver.
"Learning how to control the
amount of alcohol one drinks is a
more intelligent goal than saying
'don't drink'," said Kahrmann.
Showing students that college
and drinking do not necessarily go
hand in hand is another goal for
BACCHUS, according to
BAC-
CHUS member Denise DeCicco, a
sophomore communications arts
major from Floral Park.
N.Y.
"This (BACCHUS) teaches
them that alcohol is a social
paraphernalia and not the main
point of college life," she said.
BACCHUS will sponsor a
debate between local public of-
ficials on the current drinking age,
said Padovani.
Social events such as dances,
fun-runs and car washes are also
planned, said Padovani.
DeCicco has proposed using the
funds raised by the social events for
a taxi service which would
transport Marist students to and
from bars and off-campus parties.
"There would have to be limits
and requirements," said DeCicco.
"Service
would only be on
weekends during certain hours,
assuming the cab company is
will-
ing to work with Marist."
BACCHUS, founded in 1976 at
the University of Florida, is now
based at the University of Colorado
and
has
315 chapters
in
48 states.
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Watching
my
life
waste away
by Mary
Stricker
There is nothing entertaining
about my life. I have nothing
entertaining to write about. I
am simply a clod of common
clay.
There
is nothing special about
me. I'm just like all the rest.
Entertainment doesn't jump
up and slap me in the face all of
the time -
especially not this
past week.
I watched a couple of movies
on my new Funai VCR -
big
deal.
I sat at Skinners, having a
beer or two, watching my
classmates file into Room
'1lJ"1
of
that new building. I was going
to be absent.
I laughed and threw my head
back in awe of myself. HA! I'm
a senior. If I want to drink beer
instead of hearing about the
"Effective Majority," it's o.k.
I'm a senior -
big deal.
I watched an "L.A. Law"
rerun for the third time.
"Great," I thought and said
aloud. I wait all day to see how
Rox and David are dealing with
their strained marriage. I turn
on the television, and Rox just
got engaged.
Engaged?! What the hell is
this?! How could Rox have got-
ten rid of David, kept his for-
tune and hooked another sap -
all in one episode?
Oh, I get it. It's a rerun. Big
deal.
I went to the City of
Poughkeepsie Planning Depart-
ment. They needed a little help,
someone with good com-
munication and typing skills.
I was the perfect candidate.
They were lucky to get me. It's
hard to get decent temporary
help these days.
This job in particular, could
have been handled expertly by
my catfish. Things just happen-
ed to be a little "slow" that day.
It didn't bother me. I made
$45 just by wearing pantyhose
and finishing my nationwide
best seller, "Presumed Inno-
cent."
It was a murder mystery. I
really enjoyed it. I highly
recommend it to anybody who
can read. The wife did it. Big
deal.
I decided to cook something
- French toast. I hate cooking.
I rarely cook. I've never known
how to
cook.
I've never had the
urge to spend the day fiddling
around the kitchen. I hate
kitchens.
I played Scrabble and lost. So
what.
A friend and I tested our luck
with the wonderful world of
papier mache. I hate arts and
crafts. Mine will fall apart
before I finish. My friend's will
be put on display at the
Museum of Modern Art. Big
deal.
I played the game of Marist
nightlife. I drank a lot. I became
very unhappy during Happy
Hour. I can't understand why
this Bertie's place is trying to
fool us with this Happy Hour
hoax. I can't understand why
we enjoy this trickery.
Three dollars cover charge,
but -
hey hey kids -
$1.25
bottle beers. Big Deal.
I woke up happy Sunday,
knowing that my uneventful
week had come to a close. I
woke up disappointed Sunday,
knowing that I couldn't stop
another week from coming.
Three and a half years in
Poughkeepsie - it's enough to
ruin your life.
Pa e
14 - THE CIRCLE - March
9J
1989
'Raging rash'
-
puts Siena on map
by
Ann Timmons
On Feb. 23, Siena College's
men's basketball team defeated the
University of Maine 92-82, icing a
13-game winning streak - and not
even one fan was there to applaud.
All fans were banned from the
game because of a recent measles
epidemic that broke out at Siena in
Loudonville,
N.Y.,
on Feb. 10.
Since then, the outbreak of the
highly contagious disease has
changed the daily life of Siena's
3,100 students, brought national
media attention to the Franciscan
school and become the hottest topic
for campus humor.
To date, 36 cases of measles have
been reported at Siena, according
to Lisa Marie White, assistant
director for public relations at
Siena.
The Albany County Health
Department was called in to vac-
cinate all students and college staff,
and the infirmary began to check
immunization records. Students
had to display pink cards proving
they had been vaccinated to be
allowed into classrooms.
"Most students needed new
shots because they had never had
the measles or could not prove im-
munity," White said.
The epidemic was traced to an
18-year-old student who went to
Puerto Rico over winter interses-
sion and brought the measles back
when school reopened for the
spring semester on Jan. 17.
"We made a decision not to
close the school and send the
students home to infect the in-
dividual
communities,"
said
,
White.
Since measles is highly con-
tagious, the Siena library and
chapel have been closed to the out-
side community, and at least 250
interviews at the admissions office
for prospective incoming freshmen
Students urged to guard against measles
by
Ann Timmons
Due to the recent outbreaks of measles at Siena
College in Albany County and C. W. Post College'
in Nassau County, the New York State Department
of Health has issued federal recommendations for
outbreak control on college campuses.
A letter sent on Feb. 15 by the Department of
Health to Marist President Dennis Murray outlin-
ed the recommendations for disease control and
procedures the college can follow if an outbreak.
should occur.
These recommendations include reviewing cur-
rent immunization policies and taking steps to en-
sure that all students, faculty and staff show
documentation of immunity against measles and
rubella.
Proof of immunization includes measles im-
munization after Jan. 1, 1980, a birthdate prior to
Jan. 1, 1957 or a physician's confirmation of a
history of the disease. Those who have had the
measles are subsequently immune for life.
In February, two cases of measles in Dutchess
County were confirmed. Spencer Marks, director
of communicable disease control for the Dutchess
County Department of Health, did not return
phone calls made to his office.
Measles in Dutchess County is relatively rare. No
cases were reported in the county in 1988.
Measles symptoms include fever, cough, runn-
ing nose and watery or itchy eyes, according to Jane
O'Brien, director of health services at Marist.
Later a red blotchy rash starts to appear behind
the ears and on the forehead and face. An in-
dividual infected with measles is contagious five
days before and five days after the characteristic
measles rash appears. It takes 10 to 14 days for
symptoms to appear following the exposure.
Due to the long incubation period, new measles
cases tend to appear in waves about every two
weeks.
Because the illness is infectious before symptoms
appear, an individual can infect others before they
realize they have Jhe disease themselves.
"Marist should always be concerned about the
possibility of measles because it is so highly con-
tagious and we have a large number of people liv-
ing so closely together," O'Brein said.
Measles in itself is not considered dangerous, but
it can lead to other complications like pneumonia
and other bacterial infections, and in rare cases
sterilization, mental retardation and death.
''Students should know if they were vaccinated,
what kind of vaccination they received and when
they were vaccinated," O'Brien said advising
students to review immunization records or get vac-
cinated again.
To reduce the chances of catching measles,
O'Brien suggested students take precautionary
measures by practicing good hygiene, washing
hands frequently and to refrain from sharing drink-
ing glasses or utensils with others.
had to be rescheduled.
The last measles case was
reported on Feb. 25. Siena has been
advised to keep up the precau-
tionary measures until March 11,
when the epidemic can be declared
T-shirts that depict a Franciscan
priest with red dots on his face. The
shirt reads, "Do shots, avoid the
spots.'' White said sales have been
booming.
against the team, but to walk in to
an empty
gym
takes a lot of the fun
away from the game,"
said
D'Argenio.
The team, which earlier this
season defeated Marist, lost its
14-game winning streak on March
1 at Boston University.
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.
White said most students are tak-
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concerned about their afflicted
friends. Others like to put on their
Siena sweatshirts and go to the
malls just to see the reaction they
get.
Two marketing majors designed
One Siena basketball player has
been removed from the team
because of the illness, but all other
players have been declared measles-
free. Still, they play in empty gyms
because Siena officials fear fans
might spread the disease to oppos-
ing fans and players.
"In college basketball, you are
used to fans either yelling for or
Currently, the Siena sports
teams, which used to be known as
the Indians, are without a name. A
few people have suggested renam-
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March 9, 1989- THE CIRCLE - Page 15
McCann may be getting wood floor
by Rich Donnelly
body moves."
Two-inch
wide strips of red, light
,.._ __________
~.
brown and white plastic tape mask
Non-wood
floors,
such as
urethane and other rubberized
sur-
faces such as Tartan, are
not
used
in
the National Basketball Associa-
tion. Dr. Lewis Sims, who treated
all three basketball players who
suffered stress fractures, said while
there are no studies he knows of
that link specific injuries to rub-
berized floors, a surface like the
McCann floor is tougher on the
legs than a wood floor.
Strawberry
and Margo?
by Tim Besser
Rambling
thoughts
while
wondering if some pathetic 5-on-5
intramural
team could use a slow
6-3 forward with no shooting
touch.
The arrest of Oklahoma guard
Mookie Blaylock on charges of
public drunkeness pales in com:
parison to the arrest records of
some of the Sooner football
players.
Are Darryl Strawberry and Keith
Hernandez going to kiss every time
Strawberry homers this season?
Maybe Darryl should hook up with
Margo Adams if he can't control
his urges.
People who are worried by the
recent differences of opinion (to
put it mildly) on the Red Sox and
Mets should
remember
the
Oakland Athletics brawled their
way to three consecutive World
Series wins from 1971-74.
The Harlem Globetrotters will be
playing at the McCann Center
March 29. Think they'll win?
March is probably the best
month of the year. You have the
NHL and NBA races winding
down, Spring Training and the
March Madness of the NCAA. No
other month offers so much.
I'm glad CBS has the Final Four.
Great games and Dick Vitale just
do not go together. Which reminds
me. I'm starting Get That Idiot
Dick Vitale Off The
Air,
Inc. To
become a charter member simply
mail $IO (cash only) to me in care
of The Circle. So you won't feel
cheated,
I'll mail you a paper
membership card and button.
The
Yankees
went out and got
three pitchers from San Diego over
the winter. If these guys are
so
good, how come the Padres
haven't won the division since
1984?
If Siena wins the ECAC North
Atlantic Conference tournament to
qualify for the NCAA Tourna-
ment, you can bet the ranch the
NCAA won't allow the team to
play without fans in attendance -
it would cost the NCAA too much
in revenue.
I'm glad the men's volleyball
team won. Now if they could just
beat someone other than Bard.·
Ex-Detroit Red Wing Bob Pro-
bert is not the brightest individual
in the world. He was caught by
customs agents in Detroit with 14.3
grams of cocaine in his pocket. Is
Canadian cocaine that much
better?
New Cowboys owner Jerry
Jones had to fire Tom Landry in
order to become the new leader.
Where will current San Antonio
Spurs coach Larry Brown be
coaching
next year?
I still don't know the rules for
lacrosse.
Marist opens its season a
week from Saturday at Pace.
Hint to the guys on the hockey
team: Your uniforms look sharp,
but BUY
BLACK
HELMETS!
The white ones with the black paint
worn off really look bad.
One good thing about NBC los-
ing the baseball contract after this
season is that we won't have to
listen to Vin Scully on Saturday
afternoons. The bad news
is
we will
have to listen to Brent Musburger
instead.
Gary Thorne
was a good
baseball announcer for the Mets.
To bad Frank Cashen had to be
such a jerk and fire him for an-
nouncing Devils games during
baseball season.
Speaking
of the Devils, a late
season surge
is
not going to enable
them to qualify for the playoffs.
Was last year really a mirage?
Why don't the Mets wear there
regular
uniforms
in spring
training?
several cracks, one that's 10-feet
long, and hold together the basket-
ball court at the McCann Center.
The signs of wear and tear have
forced consideration of resurfacing
or replacing the 12-year-old
urethane floor by next semester, ac-
cording to Athletic Director Brian
Colleary.
"There's been discussion about
getting a new floor," said Colleary.
"There are some rips in the rubber.
"We'll
have to replace the floor
or buy a wood floor. There's the
cost factor
...
but eventually, we'll
have to to something."
A portable floor made of hard
maple or oak, similar to the ones
used
at
Madison Square Garden
and the Meadowlands Arena, cost
about $50,000. The floor and
dance studio at McCann can be
resurfaced for about $
I 00,000,
ac-
cording to George Chelune, the
building
supervisor.
Two of McCann's racquetball
courts are also urethane, a rub-
berized surface that you can press
your fingernail into.
The basketball court, which was
resurfaced in 1981, four years after
the building was dedicated in 1977,
gets a lot of use. Besides the men's
The
McCann
Center floor
will
be
replaced
or resurfaced
within a
year,
according to Athletic Director Brian Colleary.
(Photo by Tim Besser)
and women's basketball teams,
lacrosse, tennis, indoor soccer,
volleyball and intramural teams all
use it for practices and/or games.
During - the past two seasons
three members of the varsity
basketball
teams,
Nancy
Holbrook, Sue Lynn and Curtis
Celestine, have all suffered stress
factures to the lower leg. Trainer
Glenn Marinelli said that evidence
this type of floor to the injuries is
inconclusive.
"It's in the realm of possibility,"
said Marinelli. "You can only
guess and
assume
if there are more
injuries.
"With the greater coefficient of
friction, you have more traction on
this surface. It's good in the way
that you have more grip.
But
you
could have more problems with
ankle or knee injuries if they re-
main stationary but the rest of the
"For some reason, running on it
tires your legs more than a wood
floor," said Sims, who has ex-
perienced the fatigue as a basket-
ball referee. "There's more give to
the floor, less bounce and the im-
pact is harder.
"But there is more stress.
There's a mechanical reason for
a
stress fracture, but it's hard to say
that a floor would cause it. There
are
a
lot of variable factors - like
the undue stress and accumulated
pounding versus
a guy who falls
and turns his ankle."
The urethane floor at McCann is
in dire need of repair, and it looks
like by next semester it will be
resurfaced or replaced.
"It's a good surface for multi-
use," said Colleary. "I'm not com-
plaining about the floor. But I
think that basketball should be
played on a wood floor."
Student seeks balance in squared circle
by Kevin St.Onge
The dried out, cracked and mus-
ty stairway creaked in protest as he
deliberately climbed to the attic of
the house at 28 Manitou Ave. in
Poughkeepsie.
Squarely turning his shoulders
and barrel chest toward the wide
open space of the room, his lips
pursed a ~light smile as he took in
cool early evening air swfrling
through an open window.
He wore dog tags, gray sweat-
pants and a white tank top with the
word "Maul" scrawled across his
back in red ink. The house belong-
ed to his football buddies and the
sign at the top of the stairs read
"Smokey's Gym,"· but this was
Matt Daly's domain.
Daly, a sophomore fine arts ma-
jor from Fairfield, Conn., has been
using the attic as a gym in prepara-
tion for his first amateur boxing
match March 25 at'the Fort Apache
Gym in the Bronx as part of the
New
York
Golden
Gloves
competition.
The
224-pound
superheavyweight, born in the
Bronx and adopted as an infant,
says he is returning to his roots in
an attempt to balance his life.
Hardly able to stand still, the big
man loosened his neck and shook
his trunk-like legs as an equally big
man wrapped his hands in canvas
strapping.
"We're on a college budget,"
says Chuck Mullaly, who is wrap-
ping Daly while rap music blares in
the background. "Low budget, big
heart - that's how Matt's gonna'
win."
The painted outline of a boxer
was nearly worn away, but one
could still read the word "jab"
written on the forehead of the
figure on Daly's ~pound
heavy
bag.
"You're
on
the ropes, move -
move, jab yourself out of the cor-
ner,"
barks Mullaly, trainer,
manager and friend. "He's not
gonna wait for ya' to hit 'em. Get
your hands up, keep movin' and
use both arms."
Daly circles the bag, stalking it
at first as Mullaly jaws instructions,
then exploding with a furious flurry
of combinations.
"Time! You went five minutes
instead of three," says Mullaly.
Daly says he didn't even notice.
"Boxing focuses me. The last
couple of months have been topsy-
turvy for me. Family
and
old
girlfriend problems -
l'Jll too
emotional outside the ring," says
Daly, running his hand through the
stubble of hair he seems to be dar-
ing to grow on his head.
Daly skipped lightly over the
scattered pieces of rugs but always
stayed within the four empty beer
kegs that marked the corners of his
makeshift ring.
"I've been boxing on and off
since I was 12. The projects of
Bridgeport, Conn., are pretty
tough but I also fought in the
~--,,,----,--,,...(,,..-,
Sophomore Matt Daly
pounds the
heavy
bag
recently. He
will fight in the Golden Gloves March 25.
Police Athletic League and got in-
volved in a few gym wars," says
Daly. "I hate to lose."
The Golden Gloves is a single-
elimination tournarnent and is open
to all contestents of amateur status.
The majority of the fighters come
from the inner-city, according to
Mullaly.
"We got together over a couple
of beers, talked boxing and he said
this
is
what he wanted to do," says
Mullaly a 20 year-old Marist
freshman from nearby Pleasant
Valley.
(Photo by Helen Zarouhliotis)
"I
couldn't
do it without
Chuck," says Daly.
"Hfs
the
boss."
•
The boss closed the windows as
cool turned to cold with the
darkness. Neck bridges, sit-ups and
more pounding the bag
-
it was
only a light workout because it was
Friday, but Daly sat there glisten-
ing in sweat, the red ink having run
all over his shirt by now.
"Focus,
concentrate and fight
that's all I have to do and I'll be
balanced;" says Daly. Winning the
tournament might help.
Sports Briefs-----------
Suling sets mark;
Patierno to leave
Alica Suling set a school record
in the 1,650-meter freestyle to
highlight the performance of the
women's swim team at the ECAC
Champions at Springfield College
in Springfield, Mass. this past
weekend.
After the meet, Coach Rena
Patierno announced she will not be
returning to Marist next season and
instead will pursue her master's
degree in physical education at
Springfield.
Jeanne Cleary, Karen Oitzinger
and Mary Dolan also
represented
Marist at the meet.
Suling completed the race in 19
minutes, 8.83 seconds for the new
mark.
In addition to Suling's mark, the
four swimmers combined to finish
sixth in the 200 medley relay, Dolan
reached the final of the 200
breastroke and the 400 medley
relay team reached the final. Oitz-
inger qualified
for the I 00
backstroke consolation finals.
The girls gave a fair perfor-
mance, simming as consistently as
they did all season, said Patierno.
"It
was fun. This was a good way
for them to finish up the season,"
she added.
"We had a great season," said
Patierno. "We had some ups and
downs, but every-
thing
worked
out. It was a positive year and it
ended on a high note."
-
Mike O'Farrell
Bubel nets
.fifth
at Eastern meet
The men's swim team, paced by
Joe Bubel, placed 19th in the 49th
annual Eastern Intercollegiate
Swimming and Diving Champion-
ships this past weekend at Harvard
University. The meet featured over
400 swimmers from 37 schools.
Bubel set school records in the
lQ0-yard
butterfly,
200
breaststroke and 100 freestyle.
Bubel also became the first Marist
swimmer ever to reach the finals in
an event at the meet. He ended up
placing 5th in the 100 breastroke
with a time of 57
.3
seconds. Bubel
finished I Ith in the 200 breastroke
and 14th in the 100 butterfly. Bubel
will now move on to the U.S. In-
door Championships at the Univer-
sity
of
North
Carolina March 21-25
where he will swim the 100 and 200
breastrokes.
Diver Todd Prentice finished his
season by
finishing
30th in the l-
and 3-meter
springboards.
Scott
Tummins placed 65th his best
event, the 50 freestyle.
Four Marist relay teams also par-
ticipated. The 200 and 400 freestyle
relays each finished 20th. Members
of both relays were Joe Bubel,
Tummins, Brian Charles, and
Chris Prauda. A school record was
set in the 200 and Joe Bubel set a
school record (46.9) for the 100
freestyle on the first leg of the 400.
-
Chris Shea
Volleyball team
gets first victory
The men's
volleyball
team egd-
ed
Bard last month for the
first vic-
tory in the club's history and went
on to win two more matches.
The team stands at 3-8 after go-
ing 0-7
last season in its first
campaign.
The
Red Foxes edged Bard
16-14, 10-15, 15-10 on Feb. 26 for
its first win. Terry Hosmer had
seven kills to lead the team.


























_SP-Orts
FDU eliminates
Lady Red Foxes
Knocks cagers
from tournament
by David Blondin
Fairleigh
Dickinson University
defeated
the
Marist 64-63 in the
first
round the women's Northeast
Conference
Tournament Tuesday
night.
at 62-62.
Marist's Jacalyn O'Neil had a
chance to tie the score with 56
seconds left, when she was fouled,
and went to the line to shoot two,
hitting the first and missing the se-
cond one, leaving Marist down by
one.
The Lady Red Foxes rebounded
the
miss,
but were unable to. score.
Marist got the ball back with
seven seconds left and called time
to
set
their final play.
After the timeout, Marist in-
bounded
the ball to Nancy
Holbrook, who drove to the hoop,
but saw the ball roll off the rim.
Holbrook and teammate Danielle
Page
16 - THE CIRCLE - March
9,
1989
The
loss ends Marist's season
and leaves
the
Lady Red Foxes with
13-15 record, 11-5 in the con-
ference. Marist finished tied for
third
in the conference after losing
to Robert Morris last Saturday,
forcing Marist to play a first-round
game against FDU, while Robert
Morris finished second in the con-
ference and received a first-round
bye.
Galarneau tried to get the ball back
,..._,.........;.....--
up again, but time expired.
Members of the
women's
basketball team
walk
off
the court
following
loss to Fairleigh
Dickin-
son
University Tuesday night.
(Photo
by
Tim Besser)
The loss to FDU marks the se-
cond time this year that Marist has
lost to the Lady Knights at the
Mccann Center in in a game that
never saw any lead greater then
four points.
"We had are opportunities to
win," said Babineau. "down
one
point with seven seconds
left,
had
a driving lay that was missed, not
to many better opportunities than ----."."'.
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that. You have to give FDU credit,
Ra1r wants vanks _ m1·nus
BoC"C"
they played wen, shooting 13 of 26
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j
JJ
"It
was a great game from the
standpoint of the spectators, from
the winning coach," said Marist
Coach Ken Babineau. "From the
the standpoint of the losing coach,
it
was a heart-breaker."
Babineau said before the game
that
any team in the league is
capable of walking away with the
tournament, and that every game
would be hard fought.
Marist fell seven seconds short of
advancing.
The Lady Red Foxes took the
lead for the final time with 2:55 re-
maining when Mary O'Brien drove
and hit a baseline jumper, putting
Marist up 62-61.
FDU held Marist scoreless for
the next two minutes, and pulled
ahead for good on a Dela Davis
jump shot to give the Lady Knights
a 64-62 lead. Kathy Henn had hit
1 of 2 free throws to pull FDU even
(50 percent) in the second half."
Marist oilly shot 14 of 39 (36 per-
by
Gifford
Krivak
cent) in the second half and 1 of 11
in the final 2:55.
"We played good defensively,
we just
didn't
put the
ball
in the
hole enough to win,"
said
Babineau.
Marist had 14 steals in the game,
led by Monica O'Halloran's six.
Holbrook and O'Brien led Marist
in scoring with 12 points each,
while FDU's Dela Davis had a
game-high 18 points and Angela
Cann pulled down 15 rebounds for
the Lady Knights.
Though Marist end its season
with back-to-back losses and under
. 500 for the third straight year, the
team showed a tremendous im-
provement in the conference with
the 11-5 mark after finishing 6-10
conference last year.
How many New York Yankees
fans think owner George Stein-
brenner belongs in the same
catagory as Babe Ruth, Joe
DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle?
How many fans think The Boss
belongs in the same catagory as
Larry, Curly, and Moe -
not to
insult the Three Stooges, at least
they wanted people to laugh at
them.
For those who think of Stein-
brenner in the latter category, a
new organization
called No
Yankees With Steinbrenner Inc.,
has been formed and is looking for
members .
"It's almost shameful at times to
be a Yankees fan," said the
organization's president, Ed Hea-
ly, a math teacher at Ellenville
High School. "They were once the
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The ultimate 'weekend warrior'
benchmark of baseball."
The organization
has been
registered
with New York's
secretary of state, with Healy as its
president, and Ellenville post office
employee Lloyd Manpel as its vice
president.
"W{! want to make a statement,
more than just writing editorials,"
said Healy, who was born in Fort
Edward, N.Y., what he labeled
"real Yankee country."
"Our membership is growing
slowly, but we have a good cross-
section of people from some very
articulate children to lawyers and
doctors," said Healy. The club's
current membership is in the hun-
dreds and its goal
is
to have 5,000
members by the end of the baseball
season, said Healy.
"We started out with just
Yankees fans, but now we've got
some Mets, Dodgers and Red Sox
fans," said Healy, "I think those
people want to see the dignity
restored to the Yankees and to
baseball.
"I would like to see Steinbren-
ner get out of baseball; I don't
think he belongs there," Healy
said.
Although they are a profit
organization, Healy said he expects
to loose money on the deal. "We
would have gone non-profit, but it
would have taken
six
to eight
months, and we wanted start
before the season," he said.
Healy said that he would like to
see Steinbrenner sell the team.
"Then we would have to file
Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but that
would be fine with me," he said.
To join, send
$5
to No Yankees
With Steinbrenner, Inc., P.O. Box
135, Ellenville, N.Y., 12428.
Skaters knocked out
Student is
also
racquet ball pro
the bars and sweating, you can
sweat and have fun."
B.lCll:~~1!"""'""'1
by Kevin St.Onge
Lentz said. "You can't win
hockey
games sitting on a lead."
by Rich Donnelly
Admittedly, it's difficult to
balance his collegiate and profes-
sional careers. But Graham more
than enjoys his weekend excursions
that have taken him to Arizona,
It's Friday afternoon and instead Florida, Michigan, Oregon, Texas
of deciding where to go for happy and Virginia, to name a few of the
hour, junior Sean Graham
is
in the states he has done business in.
service box trying to figure out how
Graham's father finances the
to defeat his opponent
in
a
racquet-
weekly entry fees, hotels and air-
ball match.
fare
if needed, which can run from
A 20-year-old communications $150 to $525 a tournament.
major
from Bethel,
Conn., Graham gets an equipment spon-
Graharn
is
one of about 100 players sorship from Ektelon for sneakers,
who travel each weekend during a racquets and clothing.
nine-month
season
from
Recently, Graham won the New
September to June and compete in York State amateur open cham-
tournaments around the country pionship and won a similar tourney
for up to $10,000.
in New Jersey. He took home $300
So most every weekend during from the New Jersey event, and
the semester - after
completing
his even though he has played on the
full-time course load on Tuesdays pro tour for the past year and a
and Thursdays - Graham catches half, Graham said he technically is
a plane or a train or drives to the still consi(jered an amateur until he
next stop on the Men's Profes- takes home a purse from a pro
sional Racquetball Tour.
tourney.
Graham, as you might guess,
Graham played youth baseball,
takes the game rather seriously. hockey and
soccer,
and didn't
And although you won't see him begin playing
racquetball
until he
sharking
around the courts at was 14 and
in
the ninth grade at
McCann Center, he'd like to see Fairfield Prep. The high school
more students on campus playing didn't offer racquetball as a varsi-
the
game.
ty sport, but Graham's father owns
"It's a super
game for exercise," the Racquetball Spa two miles
said
the 5-foot-9,
159-pound
down
the road.
Graham. "It's a lot of fun. It's
a
That's where his dad taught him
good way to release tensions by both the power game, how to hit
banging
a
ball around.
hard and
low
shots that opponents
"It's also a super social game. find difficult to return, and the
Girls can compete with guys, on a control game where you move the
general level. You could go out on player around the court.
dates and play. Instead of going to
"I
used to play more of a con-
Sean Graham
trol game," said Graham. "But in
the pro tournaments, you have to
be a power player.
"You can't hold back, and don't
make mistakes. You have to
capitalize on mistakes."
The game which resembles· ten-
nis, paddleball and handball was
invented in 1963 at a YMCA in
Greenwich, Conn., by Joe
·sobek
whom Graham met at a tourna-
ment in Houston last year.
Tournaments are usually
.single
elimination, matches are the best
two-of-three
or three-of-five
games, and games are to either 11
or
15
points.
The game will be a demonstra-
tion sport
at
the
1992 Summer
Olympics
in
Barcelona, Spain, and
may
be a medal
sport by
the '96
Games.
For now, Graham is intent
on
earning his communications degree
and graduating with his class in
1990.
"Then I'll devote all my time to
playing pro
r· ~:quctbaJI,"
he said.
The Marist hockey club lost in
the first round of the Hudson divi-
sion playoffs, 6-4 last Wednesday,
to New York University, a team
they had tied and beaten during the
regular season. The Red Foxes
finished the season with a 12-5-1
record.
"We would have preferred to
start the playoffs sometime during
the weekend," said Marist coach
John Lentz.
"Nobody
should have
to play a playoff game on only two
days rest." The Red Foxes had
skated to a 7-2 win over Manhat-
tan College last Monday.
Lentz said the lack of rest was
only a partial excuse for losing to
NYU. Marist, the most penalized
team in the division, was plagued
once again by the whistle - being
called for 12 of the game's
19
penalties.
Sloppy passing and the inability
to clear the puck from the zone also
contributed to the loss, according
to Lentz.
Keith Young and brother Brian
teamed up
to
put Marist on the
board at 18:40 of the first with
Brian setting up Keith who took
two shots at the NYU
net
before
scoring.
Mike
Lutolf
scored unassisted
at
10:53
on
a wrist shot from the
left
side, beating Violet's goalie Jason
Feld to the upper left corner of the
net.
•
"Once we got the second
goal,
we went into a defensive
shell,"
NYU answered with three
second-period
goals as Scott
Spieczny scored two of his three
and Tim Newman got a pair of his
three assists.
Captain Rob Goyda finished his
career at Marist with a goal at 8:56
of the second period to tie the game
at three. He was the only Red Fox
to stay out of the penalty box the
entire season.
Mano Marotta's goal at 17:54 of
the third, made the score 4-3 and
Marist was forced to play catch-up
hockey the rest of the way.
Freshman goalie Mike Rodia
handled 48 NYU
shots
but couldn't
handle Spieczny's third goal -
a
breakaway. Rodia came out of the
net but Spieczny changed his shot
and beat the diving freshman to the
left - putting NYU on top to stay.
Tim Newman added° an in-
surance goal at 6:37 before the
Young
brothers teamed up again
for Marist at 6:22 - Keith setting
up older brother Brian, accounting
for the 6-4 final.
Three or the four Marist goals
were scored by the second line as
the
first
line of Steve Murray, Scott
Kendall and Brendan McDonald
was shut out for the
first
time
this
season
in
a game
in
which Marist
had at least one goal.
"One of the
better
teams I've
had," Lentz
said
after the game.
"Marist hockey is still growing and
we're
only losing
three
seniors so
next
season
should
be even
better."