~THE
IRCLE
VOLUME
36,
NUMBER20
MARIST
COLLEGE,
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.
Y.
APRIL
12, 1990
Stiff er penalties
may be imposed
for false alarms
by
LENNY KLIE
Staff Writer
More than 20 fire alarms in the
past month and a half have pro-
mpted the Safety and Security and
Housing and Residential Life of-
fices to consider sanctions against
Leo Hall residents, where mostof
the false alarms have occurred.
In addition to the fines and an
ongoing investigation with local
police and fire officials, the dorm
may be shut down to outside
visitors if the problem continues,
Steve Sansola, director of housing,
said.
In the time between Feb. 24 and
April 9, there were 24 fire alarms
on campus. Of that number, eight
occurred in Leo.
not want to do this and harm the
students who are responsible,"
Sansola said. "We must, however,
take some action because the
number in Leo is more than would
be considered reasonable,'' Sanso la
said.
Many Leo residents object to the
idea of shutting down the dorm.
Kip Ferguson, a Leo resident, said
he thinks the amount of alarms is
ridiculous·. "But to punish a whole
dorm is counter-productive," he
said.
Frank Irizarry, a Leo resident
from Queens, agreed. "I don't
want to be punished for one per-
son's stupid actions," he said.
Joseph Leary, director of safety
and security, believes one or two in-
dividuals to be responsible. "We
'We are not going to play along with the
game. When caught, those responsible
will
be
locked up in jail. This-cry wol.f.r.outioe. tru-.
ly
,endangers the lives of. eyel'.)'on~ in that
buildin·g.'
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-Joseph Leary, director of safety and security
-From Feb.
24
to March
9,
four
of six alarms sounded were pulled
in Leo, and only the two that were
not in that dorm could be
explained.
-From March 18 to March 27,
seven alarms were sounded, three
in Leo. Again, all but those in Leo
were explained or accounted for.
-March 10 to March 17, Spring
Break. While students were away,
six alarms were set off. None of
them them was in Leo and all were
explained.
-Since April
1,
there have been
five fire alarms, only one of them
was
in Leo.
Shutting the dorm down is not
a policy that Sansola is looking for-
ward to enforcing:
"In the past we have been able
to shut down the dorms, but we do
are not going to play along with the
game/' he said. "When caught,
those responsible will be locked up
in jail."
According to the New York
State Penal Code, pulling a false
alarm is a class A misdemeanor.
Offenders face up to·a year in jail,
a $1,000 fine or both, according to
Town of Poughkeepsie police.
False alarms are
as
dangerous
as
they are annoying because when
they are pulled frequently students
assume the alarm is false and refuse
to get out of bed to leave the
building, Sansola said.
Irizarry said that it has reached
that point in Leo. "Sure, I'm upset
about having to get out of bed at
4 o'clock in the morning, but I
leave only because we get in trou-
ble if we don't,"he said.
$30,000
security
job
fights computer theft
by
JANET RYAN
Staff Writer
Computer thefts last semester
have prompted school officials to
lock down computers in Donnelly
Hall and the Lowell Thomas Com-
munications Center.
The lockdown costs the college
$30,000
for 200 computers and 100
printers.
Two computers worth more than
$1,000each were stolen from Don-
nelly and a computer and software
worth more than $800 were stolen
from the Student Government of-
fice in the Campus Center last
semester. None of the equipment
was ever recovered.
"The lockdown is working; there
have been no additional thefts,"
said Adin.
Security submitted a recommen-
dation to tenior administrators to
look into a method of securing the
computer pieces, said Adin. Securi-
ty and Physical Plant officials
researched methods of making the
equipment theft proof.
Administrators decided that all
Marist-owned equipment would be
locked down, said Karen Flowers,
information center manager.
In the public areas, the com-
puters are secured on an adhesive
pad, said Flowers.
Most of the personal computers
will have a cable attached to secure
them.
The more expensive systems are
locked in a case which covers the
disk drives. The computer screen is
placed on top with adhesive
holding it to the case.
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"Take Back the Night" in front of Champagnat Hall. From left, Helen Arroyo; Joanne Huber;
Penney Oakley, the Leo Hall residence director; Sue Budney;·lvy Gonzalez and Jason Millard.
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Canterbury to get computer lab
by
DAN HULL
Staff
Writer
Senior administrators last week approved a proposal
to install a computer laboratory in the Canterbury
Garden Apartments, said Carl Gerberich, vice presi-
. dent for information services.
The plans for the lab have yet to be drawn and the
expected cost is not yet known, but the aim is to in-
stall personal computers hooked up to the mainframe
by next fall, Gerberich said. The Canterbury computer
lab was proposed by the Council of Student Leaders.
The Canterbury Garden Apartments are expected
to house between 450 to 475 students next fall, accor-
ding to Jim Raimo, assistant director of housing and
residential life.
The plans for the lab will be a joint project between
students and administrators, said Gerberich.
"We're looking for assistance from Student Affairs
and Student Government because this isn't a computer
center project; it's really a Marist project," Gerberich
said. "We need input from the students as to what
they're looking for."
Vandalism and security are also concerns for the
proposed lab; however the computers would probably
be locked down, said Gerberich.
Even though a new dormitory is being to planned
to
provide enough on-campus housing, administrators
justify the investment in Canterbury.
"Even if it was the best possible situation and (the
new donnitory) was built in two, two-and-a-half, three
years, we still know we're going to be out in Canter-
bury that long. So we want to use technology to try
to draw Canterbury into the campus as much as possi-
ble." said President Dennis Murrav.
The location of the proposed lab is not yet certain,
but a vacant apartment above security and the lounge
is a possibility, according to Steve Sanso la, director
of housing and residential life.
Gerberich said the lab would
be
convenient for
Canterbury residents because they could use the com-
puters to do homework, type papers and send elec-
tronic mail without having to travel to campus.
Analysis:
So how far off
is the dorm?
by
BILL JOHNSON
Editor
The plan to install a computer labat the Canter-
bury Garden Apartments next semester is a
substantial investment in what has been considered
a temporary situation.
How long
will
Marist be at Canterbury? Does
the plan to extend the mainframe there mean the
proposed on-campus dormitory is even further
away than thought?
The Canterbury computer project, approved by
senior administrators last week, is not part of the
Marist-lBM Joint Study. Marist is footing the bill.
How much it will cost depends on the type and .
number of computers installed, said Carl
Gerberich, vice president for information services.
There is no cost estimate yet.
The lab is intended to bring the campus
technology to as many as 450 students who will be
living at Canterbury next year. Currently 303
students live at Canterbury, although about 400
students started the year there, said Jim Raimo,
assistant director of housing and residential life.
The policy of leasing off-campus housing to ac-
commodate all students who want college housing
goes back almost 10 years. Marist has been at
Canterbury since 1984, when only about 30
students lived there, most of them transfers.
The new dorm remains the next building project
after The Dyson Center, administrators said, but
it's hard to pin down when it will be built.
After substantial delays in the construction of
the Lowell Thomas Communications Center and
the Donnelly Hall renovation, President Dennis
J.
Murray, who has seen four new building projects
and numerous other construction projects since he
came in 1979, won't talk dates anymore.
Still, fall 1992 is a ball park figure -
if all goes
well, according to Executive Vice President Mark
Sullivan. Delays are likely because of financing and
the environmental issues raised when buildinl! near
the Hudson River, where the donn is proposed.
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THE CIRCLE
Ooos
&
ENDS
APRIL
12, 1990
Stale radio stations
.
need
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a fre
:
sh
:
itew wave
It was Marconi who said, "So
you had better do
what
you are
told. You better listen to your
radio."
Wait... no, that was Elvis
Costello. No matter. So our topic
for today is radio. The weather's
improving and you can hear the
blaring of the boxes as far as New
Paltz.
While it doesn't rank quite as
high as baseball or atomic theory
as an American pastime, radio has
its place
iri
nostalgic Americana.
From the halcyon days of its youth
when families would spend even-
ings huddled around the old tran-
sitors to today when it is used
primarily as background noise,
radio has a soft spot in our hearts.
Or something.
Considering it has gone from
Edward R. Murrow and Lowell
Thomas (our personal buddy) to
Howard Stern, perhaps people are
correct in saying that radio is in its
final death throes. I like Howard,
but he hasn't exactly raised radio
to a new plateau.
Enough talk, it's music I'm talk-
ing about (or else I'm fired). And
there's enough music on the radio
to satisfy every taste across the
board. Album-oriented (AOR),
classic rock, progressive, alter-
native, classical, metal, thrash,
jazz,
new age, soul, funk, punk,
lite rock, right down to muzak -
radio is a veritable cornucopia of
sounds.
·
Then why, oh why, do we all in-
sist on listening to WPDH or
Kl04?
I'm not saying it has anything to
do with the mind-numbing
sameness and never ending strug-
gle to conform that some say
plagues our generation.
I agree
with that statement, but it's not the
case with radio listenership.
The anatomy of listening to
radio: you turn it on, if someone
is talking or you don't like the
song, you switch stations until you
find what you like
.
Then you jump
around the room with your favorite
A
laser light concert will rock the Mccann Center on Satur-
day, April 21. Tickets for the event, which is part of the
Earth Week celebration, cost $2 for students with Marist
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ID. Showtimes are at 8 and 10 p.m
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Editors' Picks
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The Hooters, playing
tonight at The Chance
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Dutchess Community
baseball, the
College
only game
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Rock climbing
Paltz
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town
New
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Spring Fling Weekend,
April 20-22
Kieran Fagan
In
your
ear
air guitar or sing into a brush.
.-- Or, if you suspect you aren't
alone, you go about your ordinary
routine and let the hum of the radio
sink into the background. The
Golden Age of Wireless
is gone,
radio is merely a noisemaker and
an atmosphere for a party.
How many DJs can you name
that would be considered famous?
Better yet, how many
can
you
name? They are merely voices, and
in our TV age it isn't enough to be
a voice. No wonder an MTV goon
like Adam Curry becomes so
popular. His face is in your living
.
room:
A
·sajy,though~~
to b~ sure.
i-
don't "do" much radio up
here, except for my stint at WMCR
and occasionally flicking on PDH
or, if I don't like the song, maybe
WOST, VKR (a real college sta-
tion), or KI04. Radio doesn't ex-
pect us to actually pay attention,
does it? I hope not.
When
I
'
m at home, in the
grerater New yoi:-k-New Jersey
Metro area, I'm usually tuned to
WDHA (Dover, NJ) or WHTG
(Eatontown, NJ). I've just gotten
too sick of "classic rock" stations
like K-Rock
(NY)
and WNEW
(also NY). Why don't they lighten
up and play the old and the new.
Stations like that will one day
(soon, I hope) widen their pro-
gramming to a fresh format.
Something innovative like playing
anything from the Trogs and N:at
King Cole to the Silos and Richard
Hell and the Voidoids;
.
.
Why do PDH and the rest insist
that we like turning on our radio
in 1990 only to hear what we heard
on the'~adio in 1975? I like Boston
and Meat Loaf
as much as the next
guy, but give it a rest. Please.
I can't
see
radi~ ever returning
to the days when it played a
·
dqmi-
nant role in our entertainment in-
dustry. Unless by some act of God
all TVs are rendered powerless,
radio is never going to be as big as
it once was.
It may be the background noise
of our time, but. it still plays
its
part. Keep it on, maybe
·
-try
something different when you;re
.
in
a
mood to really_ listen to that box.
Shut off the TV
.
for a while.
.
Radio
_
requires even less of your ef-
fort
and attention, don't.forgei'it.
If
we
let radio go
by
the
.
wayside
we'rtl
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Iettin1(
:
~dam . C~fry
;
_and
MTV have that much more control
over this greatland of ours.
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Wow, that's
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scary.
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Kieran Fagan is The Circle's
music columnist.
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hat's Entertainment
Coming Events
■
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Come see aspiring Marist playwrights in
action at the 10th annual festival of plays by
students on April 25-27.
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The Cover Girls and Stevie B. will play their
top 40 hits at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center on
Friday, April 26 af7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $18
and are available by caHing 454-33~8.
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For all the country music fans, the Oak
Ridge Boys will play the
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Mid~Hudson Civic
Center on April 26 at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $22
and are available by calling 454-9800.
■
Check out Melissa Etheridge's Brave and
Crazy tour when it stops at the Mid-Hudson
Civic Center on May 8 at 7:30 p.m. For ticket
information, call 454-3488.
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Take a trip out of this world. Come to Saturn,
the lazer light rock concert featuring the music
of U2, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead and The Cure,
on Saturday, April 21 at the Mccann Center.
Tickets for the event, sponsored by the College
Union Board, cost $2 with Marist ID and $5 for
the general public. For more information, con-
tact the-College Activities office
.
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etting Involved
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A "Sharing and Caring" session discuss-
ing cardiac medications will meet at St. Fran-
cis Hospital on Monday, April 16. The meeting
will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the 2 Thorne Con-
ference Room.
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On Wednesday, April 18 "Fat Girl" will be
presented at 6:30 p.m
.
in the Rreside Lounge
.
Featuring artist, actress and writer Irene
O'Brien and focuses on the process
of
,
recover-•.
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One to One Day, a popular annual event that
enables students to interact with emotionally
disturbed and mentally retarded children will
be
held on Friday, April 27. There will be a
mandatory meeting for all those interested on
April 20 in Donnelly 102. Any student unable
to attend the meeting should contact Dr. Van
Ornum or Lisa Cerniglia through the
Psychology Department, extension 297.
■
Learn how to make a difference and help
save our environment at the Marist College
Earth Day weekend on April 20-22. The festival
will include tree-planting ceremonies, en-
vironmental speakers and seminars and other
activities to increase student awareness about
the many environmental problems on our
planet. Interested students are encouraged to
join the "Green Team" by contacting Rich
Roder at ext. 707 or Bob Lynch at ext. 249.
I
M
I
aking the Grade
■
Looking for money to pay for your educa-
tion? If you're a New York City resident, you
may qualify for the mayor's scholarship pro-
gram. Some 5,000 scholarships are available
and awards range from $100 to $650. For more
information, contact one of the following agen-
cies: ARIC at (212) 947-1293, ASPIRA of NY
at (212) 292-2690 or NY Urban League at (212)
730-5200.
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New Jersey Collegiate Career Day will be
held on Wednesday, May 30 at Rutgers Univer-
sity in New Brunswick. More than 100
organizations are expected to participate in the
largest recruitment program in the state in-
cluding Liz Claiborne, IBM, Pepsi-Cola East,
NJ Dept. of Law and Public Safety, Summit
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Financial Resources and Wallace Press.
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Join the Computer Society in a social next
Thursday at 9
:
40 a.m. in L T125. Faculty from
the computer science, computer information
systems and math departments will be on hand
to inform student about job opportunities in
these areas.
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The Edna Aimes Mental Health Scholarship,
is available to all juniors, seniors or graduate
students planning careers in mental health
related human service fields. Scholarship win-
ners will receive $2,000 in June. For more in-
formation, write the Mental Health Association
in Ulster County at
R.R. 1, 376W Tuytenbridge
Rd., Kingston, N.Y. 12401. Deadline for ap-
plications is May 18.
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The 1990 Susquehanna University at Ox-
ford program is offering s students the oppor-
tunity to study and travel in Europe this sum-
mer. For information and applications, call
717-372-4200.
Want your activity listed in Up to Date? Send
all pertinent information to The Circle
by the
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THE CIRCLE, APRIL
12, 1990
Priest to resign
at end of term
by
JON CERABONE
Staff Writer
The Rev. Benedict D' Alessan-
dro, Marist's Catholic chaplain for
the past five years, will resign at the
end of this academic year to return
to the pastoral ministry in the New
York Metropolitan area.
"Personally, it's just time for a
change," said D'Alessandro. "One
of the reasons why I want to go
back down there is because ofmy
family situation. I have my mother
and uncle living'in Westchester and
their age requires me to be where
I can get home quicker."
D' Alessandro, also an adjunct
professor of communications,
studied at , the College of Saint
Joseph's seminary in Yonkers,
N.Y., an~ was ordained at Mount
Alvernia in Wappingers Falls in
1966.
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Before coming to Marist in 1985
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D' Alessandro was a teacher,, vice
principle and the dean of students
at a high school in Wappingers
Falls; a seminarian who helped
prospective priests in Boston; and
in 1980, became the chaplain for
Saint
Francis
Hospital
in
Poughkeepsie for five years.
A search committee is now look-
ing for a replacement for the
chaplain, said D' Alessandro.
According to D' Alessandro,
some have already expressed in-
terest in taking his place. The ap-
plicants will be interviewed, and the
committee will decide within a
month as to who will take over the
position.
According to a memo from
Gerard A.
Cox,
dean of Student
Affairs, Marist "will host a gather-
ing to thank him (D' Alessandro)
and to wish him well collectively."
Father Benedict
"I'll be back to visit," said
D'
Alessandro. "I'm not going to
drop ~ff the face of the earth."
"It's been an enjoyable ex-
perience for me," he said. "And I
hope that my being here has been
something worthwhile and useful
to the students."
Census counts Marist population
By
BRIAN MCNELIS
Staff Writer
Marist students, stand up and be counted! The
1990
National Census has hit the campus.
The Marist census, in conjunction with the national
one_, began last Tuesday, according to Pat Close, a
semor from Hamden, Conn.
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Close and his roommate, Dave Scalzo, a senior from
Danbury, Conn., have already completed Sheahan,
Leo and Champagnat Halls, and the rest of the cam-
pus will be done this week. The results will then be
tallied and sent to the National Census Bureau.
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Close and Scalzo started going room to room in Leo
and Sheahan Halls distributing leaflets, and asking for
residents' name, sex and grade.
A representaive of the National Census Bureau was
also in Champagnat Hall talking with students last
week.
She stppped students on the way
to
dinner and had
them fill out the leaflets. She also went door to door
through Champagnat later in the week, said Close.
The residence facilities that have yet
to
be checked
will be done this week. The final results of the census
should be known by next Wednesday.
Baccalaureate is llloved into the Chapel
where students, faculty and staff
want it, ,~erger said. _She said
weather was not the overriding'.
issue.
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Chapel, Berger said.
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20 students prepare
for abroad program
by
CHRIS SHEA
Staff Writer
Believe it or not, some Marist
students say they won't be worry-
ing about their housing situations
next year.
That's because these students are
planning to continue their educa-
tion overseas.
About 20 Marist students will at-
tend school in another country,
said Cicely Perrotte, program coor-
dinator for the Marist Abroad Pro-
gram. known as MAP.
"We have students that will be
attending colleges or universities in
such locations as France and
Egypt," said Perrotte. "But our
most popular country has to be
England, with Ireland running a
close second."
enough money left over, he would
like to stay in Europe after school
for a couple of months and travel
to
places like France, Belgium, Ita-
ly and Spain.
Paul Scalise, a sophomore from
Cornwall, N.Y., won't have to visit
Spain since he'll be attending the
University of Madrid.
"My minor is Spamsh, so ob-
viously the benefit of living for a
year in Spain speaks for itself,"
said Scalise. "But my major is
Political Science and I realized that
if I want to stay in my major I need
to experience another political
system. Everything l have been
'taught' is just theory. Now
I
have
the opportunity to live it."
For others, just the chance
to
live
in another country is a benefit
enough.
Sophomore Jennifer Johan-
nasson said she wants to study
abroad in Ireland, either ar the
'My major is political science, and I realize
that if I want to stay in my major I need to ex-
perience another political system. Everything
I have been taught is just theory. Now I have
the opportunity to live it.'
Mike Puglisi,
a
sophomore from
Smithtown,
N.
Y., is one of those
students going to Europe.
Puglisi had planned to attend
school in England at Oxford
University. But this year Oxford
changed its policy and did nor ac-
cept students from the abro.ad pro-
gram. So Puglisi decide on the
University
of
York, a small
school
about 50 miles north of London.
University of Cork or St. Patrick's
College, because she's always
wanted to go to Europe.
"I
definitely wanted
to
go to an
English-speaking country, and I
have some relatives in Galway, so
Ireland seemed like the perfect
choice," Johannasson said.
Baccalaureate, the awards
ceremony for graduates the even~
ing before Commencement, will be
held in the Chapel, where it tradi-
tionally has been held, said Donna
Berger, executive assistant to the
vice president for academic affairs.
The Chapel can accommodate
400 people. Last year, a maximum
of· 150 people attended Bac-
calaureate, Berger said.
. Gonstru_c_tion o( The Dyson
Center has eliminated the Thomas
center lot, sending Commencement
to the Champagnat lot this year.
·seniors who will be receiving
"I
have been reading a lot of
awards at Baccalaureate will be ~1aterial on England and what it's
notified about a week before the hke to live there," Puglisi said.
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ceremony, Berger said. The have al~o been interrogating peo-
ceremony is open to all graduates · pie ,~ho ve been abroad t? de~th -
Perrotie recently recurned from
Europe where she was able
to
visit
some Marist students studying
abroad. She also registered next
year's students, she said.
Baccalaureate was planned for
the lawn of the Gartland Commons
Apartments, but the final decision
was made by administrators last
Thursday, Berger said.
The ceremony is being moved
back into the Chapel because that's
Baccalaureate was held outdoors
behind the Lowell Thomas Com-
munications Center, the site of
Commencement, last year.
It
was
held in the McCann Center in 1987
and 1988, and prior to that in the
and their guests, she said.
that s the best preparauon.
Baccalaureate is Friday, May 18,
at
5
p.m.
Puglisi also said, if he has
Perrolle also a11ended some
meetings and seminars which gave
advice
to
prepare students for the
cultural differences that they can
expect, she said.
When the wall falls, tourists pick up pieces
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I was trying to get out of East
Berlin.
"Stqp," said the East German
guard.
I stopped.
"You. USR."
Was he saying USSR? Did he
think
I
was Russian?
It
was real easy getting into East
Berlin -
easier than entering
England as a matter of fact -
but
weren't they going to let me out?
"No. Me USA,"
I
said quickly.
"You go Checkpoint Charlie,"
he said.
"Oh,"
I
said.
"I
go Checkpoint
Charlie." Relieved,
I
realized
I
was
also talking in broken English.
For three weeks
I
had been talk-
ing in broken Spanish and French.
At least I was being consistent.
With all the refonp,
I
didn't
realize that crossing the Berlin
border at Brandenburg Gate was
still off limits to Americans.
Checkpoint Charlie was my exit.
So
I
made my way south along
the wall and left East Berlin the
way
I
had entered, through Check-
point Charlie.
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The whole procedure was so
much easier than
I
expected.
I
had taken a overnight train
from Munich to West Berlin's
Bahnhof
Zoo
station, arriving
Saturday at 7:30 a.m. By 9:30 I
was
at the Wall.
The map from the station didn't
help much, but within 100 feet I
could
hear
the
clinking of
hammers
and chisels on stone. Within 50 feet
people had set up folding tables
displaying all sorts of chips from
the Wall.
I
couldn't believe they were ac-
tually selling this stuff. A handfull
of little rocks -
supposedly from
the Wall, possibly fabricated -
at
a price of 10 Deutschmarks (about
$5).
Want to guess who was buying
most of them? The Americans.
"Hey, check it out, man. I got
a piece with gold paint on it. For
8
marks. What a deal." ·
"Whoa, pretty cool stuff."
I winced at these ridiculous tran-
sactions for the next 50 feet.
Ever since November 9, 1989,
with the news of the end to the
Berlin Wall, everyone has wanted
a piece of it.
I
met a man who had been ham-
mering and chiseling for 30 minutes
so he could get one huge piece.
Now he was going to carry it all the
way back to England-
It seemed strange to me at one
point that people were getting so
much satisfaction out of
getting a
piece of this structure, when it had
caused so much pain for 30 years.
But I guess
it's
more of a celebra-
tion of it's destruction, and
everyone wants a part of
the
celebration. Admittedly,
I
chipped
a
few
of my own pieces -
chipped,
not bought.
The Wall has been completely
knocked
down in some places.
Other
areas
have large holes chip-
ped
through them so that you can
Dateline:
Dublin
Ilse Martin
see through to East 'Berlin.
Smiling guards peek through
from East Germany, laughing at
the tourists taking pictures of them.
There is a new kind of graffiti on
the Wall, too. The old graffiti has
been chiseled away for the most
part.
At the very top of one section,
the word "madness" in thick black
letters was
still decipherable. It's
surface was high enough that
tourists
hadn't been able to cut it
away -
yet.
Beneath it, on the rough, newly-
- revealed stone were the
words
"finally the end" in purple letters.
At
10
a.m.
I was standing in line
at passport control and customs.
I
glanced around and noticed
most
of the passports were USA, Cana-
dian, British.
I saw a few Belgian
and German-
Regulations
used
to dictate that
persons entering East Berlin ex-
change a minimum amount of
15
Deutschmarks. But when
I
ap-
proached the customs desk, no
questions were asked, not even
"How long are you staying?"
Two weeks earlier, on my way
through England,
I
must have been
asked
15
questions about why
I
wanted to visit England, who
I
was
traveling with, how long
I
was
stay-
ing and when I was leaving.
The Berlin customs official simp-
ly asked for five Deutschmarks to
pay for the tourist visa and pointed
me in the right direction.
And as
I
walked into East Berlin,
I noticed a difference. The city was
stale, the decor dismal and unin-
viting. Many of the· cars were tiny
and looked as if they had been
manufactured in the late sixties.
AIJ along the streets people were
selling (illegally) four East German
Marks for each West German
mark. I held on to my Western
Marks, accepted anywhere in the
.city, and ended up eating lunch for
about $3.
I
spent the day in the city centre.
An American artist was on exhibit
in a museum. Hare Krishnas were
chanting away near Marx-Engels
Plaza. Jimi Hendrix music was
blasting from a van near the
Volkskammer, the State Council
Building.
French armed guards were tak-
ing pictures of each other with Ger-
man guards in front of the
Memorial to the victims of
Fascism. Families were eating
goulash in
a cafe, while children
flaunted ice cream cones to
passers-by.
By mid-afternoon, all shops and
many cafes had closed. Only the
tourists seemed to remain wander-
ing around.
And while the Wall on the West
German side was splattered with
paint, pictures, prose and poetry,
the Wall from the view in East
Berlin was white and empty.
Nobody was chipping away.
When
I
finally left East Berlin,
I
felt a bit empty.
All
day
I
kept
thinking about German unifica-
tion, and how it was alJ going to
work -
not so much politically,
but socially and economically.
There is a lot of work to be done.
The next day
I
returned to the
Wall north of Checkpoint Charlie.
The section where "madness" and
"finally the end" was painted had
disappeared.
"What happened to this?" I ask-
ed an English-speaking woman
nearby.
"The bulldozers were here last
night after dark. They took this
whole section away," she said.
"It's wild, isn't it?"
"Yeah,"
I
said, and bent down
to pick up a few small pieces from
the rubble.
Wild.
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In Brief
Private_
scholarships
now listed
The list of privately sponsored
scholarships available for the
1990-91 academic year is now
available in the Financial Aid
Office.
To be eligible for consideration
for the awards, which range from
$250 to $2,000, students must pick
up an application form in the
Financial Aid Office and complete
the specific requirements for each
award.
The requirements for all the
awards include completing the ap-
plication, accompanied by a letter
explaining why the applicant
should be considered for the
scholarship, and a letter of recom-
mendation from a Marist faculty or
staff member.
The deadline for all materials is
May 4, and the winners will be
notified by June 29.
The recipients are chosen by any
one, or a combination of, the
academic vice president, vice presi-
dent for admissions and enrollment
planning and the director of finan-
cial aid.
Kevin Malloy, director of finan-
cial aid, said the scholarships are
very competitive.
"It's not uncommon to have 10
students, all with a gpa between 3.7
and 3.9, for example," said
Malloy. "This makes the decision
a very difficult one, especially for
the merit-based scholarships, which
don't take financial need into con-
sideration."
-
Laurie Aurelia
Periodicals
ripped off
Students are now free to browse
in the periodical area of the
Library, but Director of the
Library John McGinty said, the
freedom does mean students can
rip out and steal information.
The periodical section of the
library was opened at the beginn-
ing of the spring semester. "Open
stacks" is designed to make it
easier for students to
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access
materials, said McGinty.
But students are abusing the
privi-Iege and tearing out pages,
sometimes stealing the entire
magazine, McGinty said.
"People are ripping out pages
and they're getting caught," he
said. "Everything hi the library is
"sensitized."
When a student is caught,
Security is contacted as well as
Peter Amato, assistant dean of stu-
dent affairs, McGinty said.
Allowing student access should
encourage browsing, McGinty said.
"Most colleges have it this way,"
he said. "This also frees the student
aide to restack the magazines as
well as help with the reader-
printers."
The reason the stacks were clos-
ed for so long is because most
magazines are unbound.
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Pictures and pages on the boys of summer
Ah ... Spring is finally in the air.
The laughter of children playing
in the meadow. The chirp of our
little feathered friends having
returned from their winter
hideaway. The cursing of a brawny
construction worker.
And best of all, the crack of the
Louisville Slugger.
Yes, after a shaky winter,
baseball is finally back. And its
timing couldn't have been better.
Now that the college hoop
season is over, and the NHL season
will be over soon, baseball is the
only thing to get me through the
day. Sure there's always Skinners,
Renaissance, River· Day, Senior
Week and a couple dozen parties,
but other than that baseball is the
only light in this sad time called
"the last month in your college
career."
Oooh!
I get chills just thinking .
about it.
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At any rate, baseball hasn't on-
ly been played on the field.
It has
also been played many times
O!"
the
big screen and on the printed page.
And since Opening Day has
finally come, I thought, why not
mention some of the baseball
scenes that can't be found at Shea
or Fenway but can be found at
Video Treats or Walden Books?
I was fortunate enough to final-
ly see a movie the other da"y ifiat
I
have wanted to see since it was
released in theaters, "Major
League." (Nice transition, huh?)
l
'm sure many of you have seen
the movie so I won't bore you with
an explanation of the plot.
Baseball is often humorous, and
"Major League" is baseball humor
at its best. Besides, the setting is
perfect.
If
you're going to make a
movie about a group of misfits that
comprise the worst team in
baseball, you know it is going to be
the Cleveland Indians.
On the other hand, if you want
to make a baseball movie about a
group of old baseball stars that
come back from the dead to play
again you make "Field of
Dreams." Either that, or a movie
about the New York Yankees pit-
ching staff. Whichever.
Anyway, if your into the
baseball thing, and you like to
laugh
(if
you don't, take my advice
and see a psychiatrist immediately)
"Major Leag\!e" is worth watching
Ed McGarry
more than once.
It's
a
little
known
fact
that ...
The other baseball comedy of re-
cent times is "Bull Durham."
"Bull Durham" is also a very fun-
ny movie, except it has a more
complicated plot. l 'm not
necessarily a big fan of complicated
plots.
If
l
was,
I
wouldn't have seen
Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles" 36
times since we lost cable right after
Spring Break.
Now, if you prefer heart-
wrenching drama over comedy,
and there are people who do
despite my efforts, there are two
other baseball flicks to check out.
One is the previously mentioned
"Field of Dreams." "Field of
Dreams" is the extremely touching
(no sarcasm) and highly realistic
A misty-eyed look back
as Wes' weeks wind down
Honestly, I'm getting tired of
parking at Handy Harry's every
day and arriving at my classes a bit
late.
My only remuneration is the
free
potato knish I get when I deliver
the lunch order to Greystone for
President Murray and company.
Alas, that is the price we ap-
parently must pay in the name of
progress. But, people, where are we
to park?
I'm sorry, the Garden Apart-
ments hoops court lot just doesn't ..
cut it.
Sure the courtyard in back of
Lowell Thomas will enhance the
beauty of the campus, but so would
the Taj Mahal. Let's be a little
realistic.
While we're at it, I think a
Roman Bathouse·. would do
wonders at accentuating the true
beauty of Fontaine Hall.
I would really love to return for
Alumni Weekend, take a bath,
then maybe sip a few mint juleps
at the proposed sidewalk cafe,
alongside the library.
Whatever happened to the alleg-
ed picnic area in back of
Chanipagnat?
This project was first proposed
two to three years ago, and believe
it or not, it didn't get off the
ground.
That one was swept under the
carpet.
Will Men at Work play here for
Spring Weekend? Will there be a
Spring Weekend?
If
not Men at
Wes Zahnke
A
day
in
the
life
Work/'·how about Leather
ruscadero? ·
I don't know
if
any of you have
noticed, but occasionally a rumor
or two has been known to fly
around this place.
I'm not pointing an accusing
finger at anyone; we all love dirty
laundry and apparently all of the
washing machines around here are
on the fritz.
It's all so very odd. It's getting
down to that inevitable hour when
the chapel bell will toll for the final
time. The sun will slowly set over
the sewer treatment plant. The con-
struction crews will pile in trucks
headed for a crowded, dingy
billiard hall with cheap drafts and
I
will gaze over the campus for the
last time.
In my gaze I will notice certain
peculiarities with the place, but I
will humbly keep my mouth shut
and tum my back.
If
I tend to be rambling a bit, I
am. I'm stuck between becoming
foolishly sentimental and bitingly
sarcastic.
With this whole scene coming
to
an end very shortly, I must now
look back and try and make some
sense of exactly what just
happened.
I laughed; I cried; I was on the
edge of my seat. I lived; I learned;
I was involved in some great food
fights.
"It's the end of the world as we
know it,''
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to steal- a line from
REM, pretty much sums up the
situation. My life as a student is
over.
I
now must put my knowledge to
use and make my way in this cruel
world.
I must pick myself up by the
bootstraps and trudge onward in
my quest for life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
I'm on my way. I don't know
where I'm going. Coo-Coo-
Cachoo, Mrs. Robinson, maybe
I'll
go into the plastics industry.
There are so many people
I want
to thank. So much
I want to say
and so little space. Dr. Art Ulean
sticks out for all of his wholesome
health tips and general guidance.
I have but two columns left to
say my piece and
be
on my way. To
all friends and acquaintances, fare
yee well. It's been good and natural
and low in saturated fats, like
Mazola.
Au Revoir.
In
two weeks, Wes Zahnke will
have been The Circle's humor
columr.Ist.
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(heavy sarcasm) movie about a
farmer who builds a stadium in the
middle of a corn field and has the
"ghosts of baseball past" play in it.
Then, of course, we have Robert
Redford in "The Natural." Talk
about realism! Redford firsts
knocks the cover off the ball. Now,
this is a classic cliche but I haven't
actually seen it happen since I hit
the tape off of an old Wiffle Ball
at McGarry Stadium in Ansonia,
Conn. back in 1978. You know, the
year Bucky Dent. ...
By the way,
I hit . 790 that year
with
164
home runs and 346 RBIs.
And to go virtually unnoticed?
Finally, there's "Eight Men
Out" about the Chicago "Black
Sox" who threw the
1919
World
Series.
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didn't see this one but I
heard it was good. Besides it stars
Charlie Sheen who is also in that
baseball
comedy,
"Major
League,'' so it must be good.
Weird, huh?
And hey, don't forget about the
baseball boo ks. Remember,
reading is good for you, too!
But please do not read any of
those Mets books that came out
after the 1986 season. I mean, I'm
a Met fan too, but come on.
If you want to read a hilarious
baseball book pick up a copy of
Ron Luciano's "The Umpire
Strikes Back."
It is a very funny
collection of baseball tales from the
umpire's view, and it's a riot.
Also, anything by Bob Uecker or
Joe Garagiola is definitely worth
reading.
And then, there is my favorite
baseball book of all-time. It is a
novel length comic book entitled
"Scroogie" written by former New
York Mets and Philadelphia
Phillies relief pitcher Tug McGraw.
The main character, Scroogie, is
based on Tug himself although it
is not an autobiography. What it
is, is one of the funniest pieces of
literature ever printed, and the best
baseball book I've ever read.
l guarantee, if you like baseball
at all, and you can find a copy of
this book (it is fairly old, and I
haven't seen it since my career year)
you will read the entire book in one
sitting and will laugh from cover to
cover.
Let the games begin.
Ed McGarry is The Circle's
humor columnist.
Program recalls Holocaust
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Holocaust, the
Rev.
Benedict
D'
Alessandro will lead a memorial program in the Campus
Center on Wednesday, April
18, at 7:30 p.m.
The program was developed by D' Alessandro and six other commit-
tee members.
"It
is a memorable year," said D' Alessandro. "This marks 50 years
since the the Nazi's opened the death camps for Jews, gypsies and men-
tally retarded. The further away we get from it, the more important it
is for us to remember. The same thing could happen again."
Dr. Casmir Norkeliunas will speak about present day anti-semitism.
Rabbi Stephen Arnold, of Vassar Temple, will be representing the Jewish
community. Dr. Milton Teichman and Franklin Hazard, a member of
the United States Army when it liberated the victims in the Dachau con-
centration camp in April of 1945, will also appear.
"We are trying to provide the students with a background of (the
Holocaust)," said Steve Sansola, director of Housing and Residence Life,
also a committee member. "It's important we don't forget."
The Marist program will be held
a
week before the National Holocaust
Week of Remembrance, whose
theme is "remembering the voices that
were silenced."
-James Sav~rd
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THE CIRCLE
EDITORIAL
APRIL
12, 1990
THE
CIRCLE
Bill Johnson,
Editor
Karen Cicero,
Managing Editor
Paul O'Sullivan,
Editorial Page Editor
Chris Landry,
Senior Editor
Steven Murray,
Senior Editor
Lynaire Brust,
Photography Editor
Bob Higgins,
Editorial Cartoonist
Jay Reynolds,
Sports Editor
Stacey McDonnell,
/lfews Editor
Molly Ward,
News Editor
Holly Gallo,
Features Editor
Kevin St. Onge,
Business Manager
Ed McGarry,
Circulation Manager
John Hartsock,
Faculty Adviser
,
Grow up
Listen to the Leo Hall false fire
alarms. Look at the magazines in the
Library with pages ripped out of them.
Think about the problems that are be-
ing caused by a few irresponsible
students.
Leo Hall has had an unusually high
number of fire alarms recently, all of
them false and unexplained. At the same
time, other fire alarms around campus
have been accounted for. The problem
can be traced to the freshman
dormitory.
There is also evidence of misconduct
in the Library. An open stacks policy
that was adopted to encourage academic
inquiry and provide a better learning en-
vironment has become an opportunity
for some students to vandalize the
collection.
These problems, following the
destruction of computers in Cham-
pagnat Hall last semester, point out that
Marist suffers more than basic college
pranks and security problems. Some
students are causing severe trouble for
the rest of us who live and work on
campus.
More than 20 fire alarms in the past
several weeks in Leo have endangered
320 students, who have become reluc-
tant to get up for false alarms in the
middle of the night. The alarms have
also inconvenienced the volunteer fire
department and housing staff.
Why would anyone want to be so
disruptive,
_causing
hundreds of people
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to stand outside in the middle of the
night for an hour and a half? Why
hasn't anyone come forward to turn in
the student or students responsible? It
can't be because no one knows who's
doing
this.
The periodicals in the Library are
another example of how the common
good has been wracked by a few
troublemakers.
The Library references are sensitized
to guard against theft, but it will always
be possible to remove material from the
building. It's disgraceful that the pro-
·
blem is so pervasive.
The selfish and inconsiderate
perpetrators, who may have never had
to take responsibility
for
anything, need
to realize they cannot behave this way
after they graduate. They should be held
accountable now.
They should grow up.
Free parking,
if
you
can find
it
We are obsessed with parking.
It
fills the
center of our campus. We cover our prime
waterfront property with it. Still, we never
have enough.
The current parking situation on campus,
which probably will have changed between
the times this is written and read, is teaching
us resourcefulness and patience.
The Lowell Thomas Communications
Center parking lot, which had been
disintegrating all year, was finally and fully
removed. lt was intended to last until the end
of the semester, but it was taken over by anx-
ious cement trucks, bulldozers and frisbee
throwers.
Maybe it's a substitute for the Cham-
pagnat sandbox that still hasn't arrived.
The loss of the Thomas lot has mad-! us
panic
.
We circle !he Benoit and Townhouses.
parking lots like vultures, waiting to snatch
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someone's
spot. We park on grass and on
roads, unconcerned that our cars might get
booted.
Meanwhile, a screeching tire would echo
in the l\tcCann lot.
Stay calm, more parking is on the way.
But hang on
to
your walking
shoes.
College officials picked two
spots
on cam-
pus that few people knew existed and decid-
ed
to build parking lots on them.
The Barnyard, between the tennis courts
Editor's
Notebook
Bill Johnson
and
the
maintenance barn, will offer plenty
of free parking -
lift
tickets
not included.
When asked once whether anyone would
really use this lot, Executive Vice President
Mark Sullivan candidly responded,
"Athletes."
That's not enough parking. We need
more. All right, let's put one in back of the
Gartland Commons Apartments. The Bar-
nyard and the Backyard, that should solve
our problems.
If we won't use the McCann lot and the
hoop lot now,
will we use these new lots,
even less accessible?
We will if
we
are forced. Students could
lose access to the Benoit lot, and maybe part
or all of the Champagnat lot. That's prime
space, and now that parking is such a
precious commodity, it will
be
controlled
accordingly.
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Brady bill
on guns
hits the bullseye
First we had the Brady Bunch, then the
New Brady Bunch, now it's
ihc
Brady Bill.
No,
its
not about Mike
&
Carol taking the
kids to Wendy's for dinner; it's about gun
control, something every member of the
Brady cast should be in favor of.
The bill gets its name from James Brady,
who was press secretary for Ronald Reagan
until John W. Hinkley Jr. chose assassina-
tion over flowers as a way
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impress actress
Jody Foster.
Hinkley's bullet wounded Brady in the
head and left him permanently disabled. The
legislation bearing Brady's name would, if
passed, require a seven-day national waiting
period for anyone trying to purchase a han-
dgun, the type of weapon that Hinkley used
as his perverse Cupid's arrow.
The grace period would give law enforce-
ment agencies time to run a background
check to look for any criminal records,
violent tendencies or excessive rentals of
"Taxi Driver" to see if the person trying to
buy a gun really should have one.
Sounds pretty logical, right? The bill has
been endorsed by every major law enforce-
ment organization in the country. With all
this behind it, one might think that the bill
would breeze through and become a law.
Of
course, this does not take into account the
long
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arm and all-knowing eye of the National
Rifle Association.
The truth is that many legislators are
afraid to vote for the Brady Bill because of
what the
N.R.A.
would do to them in the
upcoming election. Knowing the immense
power and resources of the NRA as far as
lobbying and elections go, these legislators
have good reason to quake.
But why is the
N.R.A.
opposed to this
bill? As gun control legislation goes, the
Brady Bill is pretty tame stuff.
It
doesn't
call
for the banning of any kind of rifle or
weapon.
N.R.A.
members will still be able
to hunt squirrels with an Uzi if they so desire;
they will just have lo wait a week to do it.
Granted, the Second Amendment that
guarantees the right
10
bear arms is just as
much a part of the Constitution as the First
or Fifth Amendments
that
liberals love
to
cite.
But does having
10
wait a week to buy
a weapon violate someone's Constitutional
rights?
Come on.
Brady's life is a testament ro the necessity
of this legislation. He himself said that he
honestiy believes that this law would have
pre,·ented Hinkley's bizarre
serenade
of
violence from disabling him for life.
Other more recent incidents show the need
for this legislation. Recently, a grand jury
in Texas refused to indict a man who shot
and killed another man who was dri\
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away after killing his own girlfriend.
The
fact
Paul O'Sullivan
Thinking
between
the
lines
that this man is walking around with a gun
deciding who should live and who should die
should
be
enough
10
scare anyone into sup-
porting this bill.
Perhaps the murderer
'
did deserve to die,
but
I
wonder how this self-styled vigilante
would have felt if there was another person
around with a gun who felt
that
anyone
shooting at a car's driver for no apparent
reason was also unfit to live.
The gun situation is getting insane, and the
Brady bill will help America regain its senses.
lt will not prevent the cautious homeowner
who wants a gun
10
protect his or her fami-
ly. He or she will only have to wait a week
for that protection.
What the Brady bill will do is make it dif-
ficult for those who should not have firearms
to get them. It will not reduce drug dealers
to using pea shooters, but it will be another
fingernail scraping across a blackboard for
those who want to use guns for illegal means.
The Brady Bill is not your usual piece of
ultra-liberal gun control legislation. It is a
sensible attempt to correct an obvious pro-
blem. The
N;R.A.
's failure to see this shows
a lack of common sense that is disturbing in
people that are so obsessed with firearms.
Congress's failure to stand up to the
N.R.A.
shows a lack of backbone and securi-
ty in its position. Maybe the congressmen
and_ senators should get some guns
10
defend
their jobs.
Let's make them wait a week, though.
Paul O'Sullivan
is
The Circle's political
columnist.
Corrections
An article about the Marist Post Office
in last week's edition of The Circle
misstated the name of the union to which
two full-time Post Office employees
belong. It is the Communications Workers
of America.
Due to a printing error, the authors of
last week's viewpoints were incorrectly
identified as staff writers.
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VIEWPOINT
APRIL
12, 1990
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Dorm deficiencies . make for difficult living
by
DAVID FERRIS
whJnrf :ude~t needs t? plug m his computer
Another key to having successful housing
is one's home for the school year. A door
People who come to Marist expect a few
things. They expect to receive a quality
education, a social life that allows them to
interact with people in their community and
a place where they
can
develop their thoughts
and ideas to grow into mature adults.
an
m s pamt covering the ou_tlet.
is cleanliness. Over the summer, Housing has
should function to insure the right to privacy.
hAno~her 1drobler11 ocrrs mid-semester
the chance to spray for bugs in the residence
Unfortunately anyone with a credit or meal
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en
,t,
e
O
}ape_ a so , a~d r~moves ~he
halls. Instead, Housing waits until students
card can for~e the lock of dorm doors.
.
new d co~t oh P~ldnt. One s irst impression
find cockroaches in their dorm rooms. Then,
Therefore, Marist must place its anti-carding
is stu ent s s ou
next expect e~ery co~-
the students must seek out the proper ad-
devices on all dorm doors.
fort of home. However, breathing pamt
ministrator to spray for this health threat
For some rea on H
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Along with room cleanliness,
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students expect
students to seek out the proper administrator
If
one's housing is inappropriate or lack-
ing, then a person may have to focus need-
ed energy to correct the situation. Certain
aspects of Marist housing are lacking. These
include, but are not limited to: room
preparation, cleanliness and personal
security.
peopd!e. s mmds, crosses the hne of samtary
a place to shower and maintain their hygiene.
to authorize the installation of these devices
con 1t1ons
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Many times the naive freshmen don't know
Durmg the wmter, most Manst students
ficult task when someone vomits in one of
that they ha e th'
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is pro ec ion unt1 t ey ave
pre1e~
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war!11 atmo~p ere m w _1ch to stu
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the three showers available. Sure, vomit can
something stolen.
Over the summer months, Marist Hous-
ing has the opportunity to prepare the dorm
rooms for student arriving for the fall
semester. Rooms should be painted, win-
dows caulked, furniture repaired or replac-
ed and all electrical connections made
functional.
and hve. Windows !n the dormitory rooms
be cleaned but Housing lets it there for an
are not caulked during the summer months
average of 10 days. This
I
a imagine is to
causing the cold air to continuously seep in-
send a message to the per;on who creat~ the
to the studen~s•. rooms.
.
mess. However, it sends another message to
Perhaps this is why H:alth Service~ had
the people on the floor. The message is:
to treat so many cases.of sickness l~t winter.
"Why am
I
paying all this money to walk
Can
students get well ma cold envrronment?
by and breathe vomit at 8 a.m. every morn-
While this protection may deter a casual
thief, with minimal skill or practice, one can
bypass all of the anti-carding devices installed
on the doors. We can only be thankful that
Marist
has not had forced entry or rape on
campus which has happened at many other
colleges.
Painting takes place, however there is a
difference between quality and expedience.
Quality would involve removing· old tape,
tacks, bulletin boards and anything in the
way of painters. The Marist motto seems to
be "if it doesn't move, paint
it."
Students deser~e furn_iture with drawers
ing?"
that do no~ require assistance to open or
One can sympathize with Housing and
close. Dunng the summer, the drawers
understand that it is difficult to differentiate
should be inspected and realigned. Everyone
between the legitimately sick student verses
u!1ders~and~ that college atmosphere fur-
the self-induced sickness. Housing is attemp-
n!ture ~s gomg to take mo~e abuse than the
ting to use peer pressure to stop this problem
pieces
m
the Cosby's famtly room.
but it is not working. Clearly, there is a bet-
Perhaps the college needs to set up a bet-
ter way of dealing with the probl.em rather
ter damage program to st~p ne~dless room
than ignoring it.
As you
can
see, the Marist students are not
only occupies with grades, friends or work;
they also spend time thinking about room
cost and where the money from it goes. Isn't
it
time that Marist Housing dealt with the
problems rather than burdening the student
with them?
The result of this philosophy is a room that
is
painted shoddily. This presents a problem
daf!lage.
I
_hop:
t~at Ho~s.mg will carefully
Also, everyone has the right to privacy and
review thelf eXIstmg policies.
to feel safe in their homes. One's dorm room
David M. Ferris is a freshman majoring
in political science.
Marist must see example
set at other institutions
by
JIM PORTER
It can happen here. Marist College is not unlike
Tufts or the University of Miami. The students here
Silent protest is what everyone here at Marist Col-
complain all the time about a lot of things. We just
lege does. We all say to each other "Wouldn't it be never do anything. If the students could work together,
great if the college did this,,, but nobody ever really
the changes -we could make would be incredible.
does anything about it. We all want to change but
We do not have to protest, but if you do have a pro-
nobody seems to want to take the initiative.
blem, then do something about it. Do not just tell your
Since everyone seems to be the follower these days,
roommate; tell the person in charge. Write a letter to
let's see who we can follow.
the Housing Office or to the director of The Library.
At Tufts University, students boycotted classes and
If
nothing happens, then maybe a little prtesting is
rallied last month to protest the freeze on financial
in order. I am not talking about handcuffing anyone
aid. Tufts officials said they are projecting a short-
to Dennis Murray's desk, but a little protesting rocks
fall of about $500,000 in aid for next year. More than·· a lot
.
Pf
.
boats.
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,
.
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1,000 students gathered in front of the administration
When the students at Tufts rallied, no one got hurt
building. They carried signs that said "No Dough ... No and they got their message across to the administra-
Go."
tion. At UM, student groups are going to meet with
Almost all of the 4,500 students skipped classes to the administration to see if tuition would not be rais-
protest. With less aid, many Tufts students will be left
ed on students after their sophomore year.
out in the cold.
·
Protests worked for these schools. Only time will
At the University of Miami, students are wearing tell if anything will really happen, but at least they got
black arm bands "to mourn the death of affordable the administration to listen.
tuition at UM." The students held a demonstration
If
you have a problem with Marist, do not just tell
in March in protest of the tuition hike. The increase your friends; tell someone important. The school will
at UM is 9.9 percent for tuition and 8 percent for room
listen if we all work together toward a common goal.
and board. Their protests started very small.
Hey Dennis, are you listening? I got a problem with ....
One day, they left spoons on the floor of the
cafeteria after eating while Tuesday was fork day and
Wednesday was knife day. Later, the students held a
sit-in and a candlelight vigil.
Jim Porter
is
a
junior majoring
in
business/marketing.
Admit
your mistakes
by
TINA LaVALLA
In last Sunday's New York Times, columnist A.M. Rosenthal wrote
a piece entitled "Nobody's Perfect," that discussed a fundamental fault
of politicians and presidents: they never admit they are wrong ... ever.
It's an interesting issue. In private life we all make mistakes,
some
serious, some not, but most of us can face the music by admitting our
errors and move on.
However,
it
seems that a person becomes a politician, it becomes a
rule to never admit to a mistake. They think that the public will
string
them up by their toes and never forgive them.
Not true.
It
would be a refreshing change to see a politician act on this all-too-
human quality, and the public would probably appreciate an honest public
official as a welcome change from today's leaders.
As Rosenthal mentions, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has
imposed new poll taxes which mandate that the poor will have to pay
the same amount for public services as the
rich.
And, despite
the worst
riots that the British have seen in years, Thatcher refuses to back down.
Rosenthal also cites Bush's appeasement policy with China as unsuc-
cessful. Despite Bush's attempts to
"placate"
the Chinese government
by maintaining friendly relations during the Tiananmen Square protests,
the tanks still rolled. Not a very fruitful policy.
The bottom line, as Rosenthal put it, is that "the Chinese leaders did
not react to kindness with kindness; they reacted with a kick in the
American shin."
Furthermore, our appeasement policy has not stopped China from sell-
ing missiles to the Middle East and Chinese intellectuals are still subject
to harassment and persecution.
Rosenthal sums it up nicely:
"It
seems to be fearfully difficult for an
American president to concede that a policy is wrong and change
it.
Ap-
parently, whatever makes a man president prevents him from saying that
he is ever wrong -
not a comforting thought. Histc,rians who were con-
sulted could not give an example of that happening."
Tina LaValla is a junior majoring in history.
LETTERS
To
THE EDITOR
No sanctuary
Man 's quest for meaning
must start right here
Editor:
Marist College ... "24-hour par•
ty school!" Kevin Byrne,
I
wish
that
I
knew you. Maybe then
I
could pick up a list of your favorite
party addresses.
I wish to offer my condolences
to the Asylum (79 North Road). In
the future, when freshmen ask,
"Where's the party?" the answer
will
no longer be "at The Asylum."
Have no fear prohibitionists, there
is no party here, or anywhere.
Asylum, as defined in Webster's
Dictionary, is "a place of refuge."
This no longer holds true. The col-
lege has extended its ruling arm
outside of the campus boundaries
and across North Road.
On Friday, April 6th, this fine
learning institution alerted the
police to the fact that there was a
party going on here. This "bash"
consisted of one keg and 20 peo-
ple ... what a threat to our learning
environment.
.
We will continue to drink.
Perhaps we should go to confession
more often. My only solace is the
fact that I don't have to worry
about losing those precious priori-
ty points for housing. That is,
unless they tear down this and
every other house on North Road
before I graduate. This would
allow
the
Gatehouse
to
continue
to
stand and do its job ... just what
that is,
I'll
never know.
Joseph Panettieri and housemates
79 North Road
.
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JAMES ALECCA
Sometime during the month of
April,
NASA
plans to launch the
Hubble telescope into orbit 380
miles above Earth. The telescope
was designed to tell human being
sabout the origin of the universe in
which we live.
It is also supposed to determine
the age of the universe and its
future, as to whether it will con-
tinue to expand or reach
a
max-
imum expansion and then start to
collapse.
,
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Supposedly, the telescope will
not only tell us about the origin,
age and destiny of the universe, it
will also determine if extra-
terrestrial beings exist.
The Hubble telescops is definite-
ly a great invention and a great
idea. However, we must first
realize that the world only exists
because we exist. THat is, the
world only exists because of human
consciousne55.
Without consciousness, there
would, practically speaking, be no
·
world, because the world exists on-
ly in such a way that it can be ex-
pressed through a consciousness of
it, represented by human beings.
Therefore, we must say "hubba-
hubba" to the Hubble telescope,
and say "a must" to man.
The Hubble telescope has been
a multi-billion dollar project so far.
It is also expected to cost $20
million a year to keep the telescope
in orbit for its life expectancy of 20
years. I don't understand it.
We shouldn't be considering
spending so much money on a
telescope to find out information
about
a
universe that only exists
through us. Instead, we should be
spending money on us, to help
maintain its existence.
We are
still
threatening our
species with the possibility of
nulcear annihilation of the Earth
and with the continued destruction
of the ozone layer, which leads to
the "greenhouse effect" of a ther-
mal increase in the atmosphere.
The "greenhouse effect" is reduc-
ing the percentage of oxygen in the
atmosphere that is required to
maintain our existence.
If
we are destroying ourselves,
what is the need for a Hubble
telescope? Hopefully, it
will
find
that extra-terrestrial beings do ex-
ist, beings that are of a higher con-
sciousness than us and are preser-
ving themselves.
This is the only hope for the
Hubble telescope, if you wish to
determine the meaning of our ex-
istence and theirs, and the mean-
ing of the universe, if all is not
devoid of meaning.
Therefore, we must look beyond
the Hubble telescope, instead of at
it,
for answers. Another realm that
is a must for examination is myth.
We must look to myth
to
unders-
tand the mystery of our existence.
1
mean, it is a mystery
,
isn't it? We
must believe in and feel the
metaphysical plane that exists
.
We must realize that each in-
dividual is part of the whole, and
that the whole is part of each in-
dividual, as suggested by many
primitive myths, and that the
universe works in harmony, mixed
with good and evil alike.
Therefore, whatever the Hubble
telescope discovers, it
will
remain
insignificant if man and myth do
not remain.
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1990
11
THE
HOCKEY
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CIRCLE'S BASEBALL
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AL EAST
BLUE JAYS
RED SOX.
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ORIOLES·
YANKEES
INDIANS
TIGERS
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CUBS
PIRATES
EXPOS
PHILLIES
NL WEST
REDS
PADRES
GIANTS.
.DODGERS
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.BRAVE~
Mattice coached Lourdes to
ff
24-0 record.in
,
1986-87 and, afte~·-
losing five sta!tfo, led the
·
Warriors]_
to the league championship game.
"He didn't come in as a
·
hard-ass
·
disciplinarian," DeCosta said. "He
came in with an impressive resume
but he basically left it up to us."
Mattice, who grew up in Troy,
N. Y ., played hockey for Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and
also played at the semi-pro level.
Mattice, who now works as a
manager in charge of new products
planning at IBM, said he attributes
much of Marist's success
to
the
mature aoitude of the team and its
leaders.
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"You've got to give people like
Andy Giberti credit for the seasons
they had," he said .
'~Those three games
may
pr~v~
. ·
to be crucial conference games,"
Malet said. "We have to win those
three in case the (conference
leaders) slip."
Last season Marist lost to
Maritime by one goal but had no
trouble with Southampton and the
U.S
.
Merchant Marine Academy
-
winning 20-1 and 19-1
respectively.
Marist has lost its matchups with
this year's conference leaders -
Kean and Montclair State.
The lost to Montclair was the
most recent -
a 14-13 decision on
the road last Thursday.
"We probably played the best
game we've played this season,"
Malet said. "The game could have
gone either way.'
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Marist took the lead early in the
game and J
_
ed 4-1 at the end of the
first period.
Montclair, however, outscored
the Red Foxes
4-0
in the second
quarter to lead 5-4 at the half.
The teams traded goals for most
of the second half before Montclair
scored the winning goal with just
under two minµtes. to _g9 in the
game.
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"We played really well,"
Messuri said
.
"We just didn't get
the breaks - we were trading goals
back and forth and then in the last
two minutes, we couldn't put the
ball in the
·
net."
"We just didn't have the kiIIer
instinct -
we couldn't put them
away," Eversen said. "We were
missing that eye· of the tiger."
_
Scott Zalucky led the offensive
attack for the Red Foxes with three
goals and two assists. Brian
Hanifin, Messuri and Eversen each
added a pair of goals and Steve
Maloney tallied two goals and two
assists
:'
Pete Zorich led the way for
Montclair with eight points - three
goals and five assists. Frank Zim-
merman added three goals in the
win.
Last Saturday, it was a
lackadaisical Marist squad that lost
13-7 to New England, according to
Messuri.
Continued from page 12
The match was played as a
makeup for a match which had
originally been rained out.
Against Siena, Phelps was
unable to play so each player mov-
ed up a spot with Cagney taking
over the number one position and
Petrucci playing number
.
six
singles.
The only Marist player to win a
singles match was Kirk. He
defeated his opponent 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
"Rob played well -
it was
a
great match," Jackrel said.
Kirk teamed with Trieste to form
the number one doubles team
which won its match 8-5. Cagney
and Favazzo, the number two
team, captured their match 8-6.
The Red Foxes match scheduled
for Tuesday was cancelled due to
rain and, as of press time, had not
been rescheduled. Marist will play
again on Tuesday.
The Red Foxes were second in
the conference in penalty minutes
last season and dropped to one of
the least penalized this year; and
Giberti, who led the conference in
penalty minutes in the 1988-89
season, had only four penalties this
season.
Though Mattice said the
discipline was important, he said
his main goal was to get the team
concentrating on defense.
"We chose to work on a defen-
sive strategy this season," he said.
"l knew we had the offensive talent
and we were going to score goals.
If
we concentrated on defense,
l
knew we could pull out some of the
close games."
"You've got to give him a lot of
credit," Murray said. "He
established a style of play and stuck
to it -
that says a lot for him."
Under Mattice
'
s game plan,
Marist players were always respon-
sible for covering
a
man -
much
like a man-to-man defense in
basketball.
In the past, Marist had been
much more offensive-minded,
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Bob Mattice
often sending two men deep into
the offensive zone. Under Mattice,
the Red Foxes would only send one
man in deep so they would be able
to get back on defense easier.
The theories translated into
statistics this season as the Red
Foxes outscored their opponents
121-51 and goalie Mike Rodia was
named the outstanding goalie in the
Empire division.
Another noticeable change from
last season was the drop in the
number of practices the Red Foxes
had. Last season, the Red Foxes
practiced every day whereas this
season Marist saw just two prac-
tices a week -
6
a.m. Wednesday
and 4:15 p
.
m. Friday .
It was during these 90-minute
practices that Mattice proved his
commitment to
.
the program,
Decosta said.
·
"He ran for six weeks before
practice started just to be in
shape,
'
' he said
.
"He really show-
ed that.the 18-22-year-olds should
be committed too."
Practices this season returned to
the basics, DeCosta said.
"Last year we were too busy
practicing things like the 'West
Point breakout' and the 'Montreal
powerplay' -
things that were too
technical," Decosta said. "This
year
we
fine-tuned
our
fundamentals.
"We accomplished twice as
much in the two days of practice
a week this year than we would in
five days last year."
The bottom line, according to
Mattice, i
s
to enjoy what
y
ou're
doing
.
"The object is to have
-
fun," he
said. "If you win, you have fun.
If
you have fun, you're going to
win -
that's the object."
Juniors
.
&
Seniors!
"That was a game we should not
.
have lost," he said. "We just did
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not play that well at all -
our
heads were not in the game.
"There is no reason why we
shouldn't have won - we just beat
ourselves."
"Psychologically, they were pro-
bably
a
little let down from the loss
to Montclair," Malet said. "They
had played so well."
New England took a 6-3 lead
after the first quarter and Marist
never caught up -
scoring only
one goal in the second quarter and
three in the third.
Hanifin led the Marist offense
with four goals and Maloney dish-
ed off three assists.
Ted Maloney led New England's
offensive attack with four goals
and an assist. Tim Mithoefer add-
ed three goals and an assist in the
win.
Hanifin, who has 20 points
through Marist's first nine games,
leads the team's offense. He has
scored 17 times and dished off
three assists.
Eversen and Maloney have each
!allied 18 points for the Red Foxes
!his season.
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THE CIRCLE
SPORTS
APRIL
12, 1990
Laxmen's hopes
for
.title
.
dwindle
by
JAY REYNOLDS
Sports Edit?r
With a half-dozen games left to
go in the season, the Marist
lacrosse team is looking for a
break.
After posting a
3-2
record one-
third of the way through the
season, the Red Foxes have drop-
ped their last four games -
drop-
ping their record to
3-6
overall,
2-2
in the Knickerbocker Conference.
Two of the losses have come
against conference teams -
vir-
tually eliminating Marist's chances
at winning the conference title, ac-
cording to coach Mike Malet.
"Our chances of winning the
conference are remote," he said.
"I
think that turned out to be a big
factor in (last Saturday's non-
conference loss to New England
College)."
"It's
hard for the team to keep
the energy level up· because we can't
win the conference," said co-
captain Kevin Eversen.
The next four games for Marist
should prove to be an important
stretch as three of the games are
against conference rivals. The on-
ly non-conference game
is
a key
matchup next Thursday at Siena
as
the Red Foxes will look to bounce
back from the four-game losing
streak.
As a whole, the next four games
should help to turn the team
around, according to co-captain
Alex Messuri.
"We should win the next four
games outright," he said. "The on-
ly way we will lose is if we beat
ourselves.''
The Siena game is one that the
Red Foxes are looking forward to,
according to Messuri.
"We always get pumped for
Siena," he said. "They are so close
to us and it's always a good game.
It's also a challenge to be able to
get out there and play against
scholarship players.''
"It will be a key game for us,"
Malet said. "Siena is always a
bench mark team - a program we
have tried to emulate."
Last year the Red Foxes beat the
Saints
15-9 -
their first ever win
over the Saints.
Following the Siena matchup,
the Red Foxes return home to host
Maritime before heading back on
the road to visit Southampton and
the U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy -
all three are con-
ference games.
See
LACROSSE
page
11
►
Up the river with eight paddles
Circle
photo/Lynaire Brust
The Marist varsity women's heavyweight eight head up the Hudson River during a three-
way regatta last Sunday. The crew took first place with a time of 6 minutes, 39 seconds.
The victory was one.of three for the Red Foxes on the 2,000-meter course -
the men's var-
sity lightweight four took first place in a time of 8:29 and the women's freshmen four won
in 10:22. St. Joseph's College of Philadelphia and Vassar College were the other participants
in last weekend's regatta.
New theories bring recognition
to first-year
·
hockey coach
by
JA.
V
REYNOLDS
~ports Editor
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Bob Mattice is not condescens
ding. He is not overdemanding. He~
is not paid.
·
What heis is the Metropolitan
Collegiate Hockey Conference's
Coach of the Year.
Mattice, in his first year at
Marist, coached the Red Foxes to
a
14-4
record, first
;
f,lace in the con-
ference's Empire division and the
final four of the conference tour-
nament -
the first time in history
a team from outside the .league's
top division, the Garden division,
had made it to the final four.
"Nobody could have done a bet-
ter job,"
.
said senior captain Steven
Murray.
"He showed this year that he is
far
superior in his hockey
knowledge than any other coach in
the league," said assistant captain
Michael Decosta. "Bo
·knows
baseball, but Bob knows hockey."
"He made an enormous dif-
ference," said assistant captain
Kevin Walsh. "He brought the
whole program together."
Mattice, 37, entered the
volunteer position last fall and in-
t~oduced two basic philosophies to
the team - stay out of the penalty
box and stay strong on defense.
"(When I arrived), the team was
looking for direction," Mattice
said. "What I tried to do was hone
in on their talents as players and
work with them.
"I tried to work with the guys
rather than lay down the law."
The Red Foxes realized from the
first day that Mattice was someone
who deserved respect, according to
Walsh.
"At the very first practice, he lin-
ed the whole team up on the goal
line and had us race down the ice
and back," he said. "Then he took
the top four finishers and raced
them -
he beat all four.
"·We knew from day one that he
was meaning business."
In the
1988-89
season, under
coach John Lentz, the Red Foxes
finished with a
12-5-2
record and
in second place of the Hudson divi-
sion -
the conference's lowest of
three.
Marist also finished second in
the ieague in team penalty minutes,
something Mattice said he would
not tolerate.
"Our biggest complaint last year
was a lack of discipline," Walsh
said. "This year we were more
disciplined basically because there
was respect for (Mattice)."
Walsh played under Mattice as
a senior at Our Lady of Lourdes
High School in Poughkeepsie,
where Mattice coached for three
years prior to coming to Marist.
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HOCKEY
page 11
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Baseball's back and it's off to the races
Opening day came a
week
late
this year but it came nonetheless.
The lockout, the contract pro-
blems and the dispute over the rules
-
they are all in the past and the
1990
baseball season is finally
underway.
There's a long way to go before
the seventh game of the World
Series and of course a lot
can
hap-
pen between now and then.
There should be some things that
won't be surprising when
then ar-
rives -
the Indians will be home
to watch the playoffs, the Yankees
will have a different manager and
Tommy Lasorda will still be thank-
ing Slim Fast.
Everything else, though, is up
for grabs. Pennants, batting titles
and MVP and Cy Young trophies
are just a few.
I've been looking into my crystal
baseball -
trying to
see
through
the Vaseline and scratches from the
nail file -
and I've been able to
make out this year's winners.
American League East -
The
All-Star break standings are rarely
indicative of the fmal finish of
this
division. At the break, don't be
surprised to see Milwaukee,
Baltimore or even Boston at the
top. The arrival ofSeptember will
bring with it a race to the wire for
the division between the Blue Jays,
Brewers, Red Sox and possibly the
Orioles.
Toronto will emerge as king of
this hill thanks to its pitching staff
a:id tough lineup. Boston,
Milwaukee, Baltimore, New York,
Cleveland and Detroit will round
out the AL East in that order.
American League West -
Get
ready for a good race for this divi-
sion.
Three teams are good enough
to end up on top -
the A's, the
Angels and the Royals. These three
will be hovering at the top of the
division all season while the rest of
the division plays out the year.
As tough as it will be, the A's
will repeat as division champs, with
Kansas City and California follow-
ing respectively. Texas, Seattle,
Minnesota and Chicago will hold
up the rest of the AL West.
National League East -
This
division is SJ?lit down the middle.
Jay Reynolds
Thursday
Morning
Quarterback
Pirates, Expos and Phillies lined up
beneath them.
National League West -
This
will be a tight division all year.
Each of the six teams has
somewhat of a chance for the divi-
sion title -
well, OK, not the
B~aves.
By
the All-Star break, they
will have nestled into their last-
place spot and gotten comfortable.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - They will win
75
games this year,
though.
There are three teams that could
take the division and three that
have a better shot at being hit by
lightening. St. Louis and New York
are the two with the best chances
at the top spot and Chicago could
do it with some luck on the mound.
Pittsburgh will be in limbo this year
-
not good enough to be in the
battle for the top spot while not
bad enough for the battle for the
basement between Montreal and
Philadelphia.
When the
dust clears the NL
East, it will be the Cardinals
Stan•
ding alone, with the Mets, Cubs,
. ~~nwhile, at the top of the
d1v1S1on, the Reds will emerge as
the champs with the Padres settl-
ing for second place, just one-half
of a game out. The Giants,
Dodgers, Astros and Braves will
finish out the division.
Some other things to watch for
in the upcoming season:
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~ade
Boggs will regain his
Amencan League hitting title with
a .363 average this year. Kirby
Puckett will finish second at .359.
. - Tony Gwynn will take the Na-
tional League's title with a
.356
followed by Will Clark at .353.
-
Mike Greenwell will walk
away with the AL MVP award with
Ken Griffey, Jr. settling for
second.
- Eric Davis
will
capture the NL
MVP; Mark Grace will be the
runner-up.
- Dave Stewart will take the AL
Cy Young Award with Bret
Saberhagen finishing second.
- Tim Belcher will grab the Cy
Young in the NL, edging out Tom
Browning.
-
Bo Jackson will capture the
AL home run crown, beating out
Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco.
- Eric Davis will crack the most
home runs in the NL, followed by
Darryl Strawberry.
-
Pete Rose will not prove to
Commissioner Fay Vincent that he
is worthy to re-enter baseball and
Vincent will keep him out.
Jay Reynolds is The Circle's
sports editor .


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