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Marist College, Poughkeepsie~ N. Y.
October 3, 1985
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:drinking
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crease in New York's legal drink-
over," he said.
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According to Cox, there have
of student affairs, is setting up a
been preliminary discussions about
commiltee to determine a new·.· turning the pub into a pizza parlor_
alcohol policy.at Marist.
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or fast food eatery. However, Cox
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He said that with only one stu-
.ed
into law this summer by Gov.
dent in four able to drink legally,
Mario Cuomo raising the legal
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drinking age to 21.
ble for the pub to continue as a
The committee will make recom-
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mendations to the administration,
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which will make the final decision..
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coi-rmittee will also be taking
The committee will include
into consideration the liability of
students, faculty and staff. Cox the college once the new. law takes
Maris( President Dennis Murray
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by David
Lock.of the
British Natio~al
debate team. Margaret May, president or"the
Communications
Arts
Society, looks on. (ph~to
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have
"broad
representation." The with lawyers to determine the
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and upperclass dorms
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the honor of these United States of
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sive in. round three, LaPietra first
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clarified his name, since the British
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yet to be determin•. riot permitted in_the residence ~alls
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team,of Michael Hall,
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law
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weaknesses in fhe.first round, while
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David Lock,_a graduate ofCain-.,
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through. th(! crowd.
as
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."The
American press !1as turn•
by Fred Deyer
ed this into a big deaL l think this·
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The College Union Board will. is one area in current affairs that
sponsor a lecture. and debate on Marist
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South
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Wednesday·in the Campus Center Morrison, chairman
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lecture committee.
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expert, whose topic will be "South degree from ?~1o_State U!11vers1ty
Africa: U.S. Investments and a~d a masters m mternauonal a_f-
Divestments."
Afterwards,
fairs. Jac_kson holds a Ph.J?. m
members of the new Marist debate comparative . gove~nment
wit~
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team will debate U.S. policy special conce~trau~n o~ Afnca,
toward South Africa.
from Columbia Umverstty.
Jackson, author of "From the
Congo to Soweto: U.S. Foreign
Policy Toward Africa Since 1960,"
will focus most of his attention on
U.S.· economic· stakes in South
Africa, which include such firms as
the Ford Motor Company and
Perkins-Elmer, which s_hut down
operations in 1985 partly because
of anti-apartheid
shareholder
protests.
Several colleges across the coun-
try, including local Vassar College
and SUNY New Paltz, staged cam-
pus protests against U.S. in-
vestments and divestments in South
Africa.
Jackson has lectured at the Sor•
bonne, in Africa and in other parts
of the world on American foreig!l
policy toward Africa.
According to Morrison, one of
his goals is
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volved in these lectures, and in tum
spur more student involvement.
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pie are concerned about," Mor-
rison said. "I don't see wny a pro-
fessor of psychology. political
science or sociology would not
recommend this lecture to their
students."
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For many: students, Marist <:;ollege isnot v~ry
different from their· hometowns, but for some
students, not only is this culture fo~eign, but so is
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they liave to get used to -
it's their way of life.
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Marist from Asia, Europe, Central and South
America, Eastern Bloc countries and the Far East.
While some are freshmen, others transfer in or
enroll in_graduate programs. Many students hear
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about Marist from embassies and college
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catalogues, while some are here on athletic
scholarship.
As a whole, the foreign students say they like
Marist because of its size. "It's a small quiet
place," said Peter Krasovec, a freshman economics
major from Budapest, Hungary. He passed up
• C. W. Post to come to. play basketball for Marist.
Charles Hsien-Chang Chen, a junior from
Taipei,Taiwan, said
he wanted to experience
the country life.
"It's quiet," he said.
Chen said he heard about Marist from the Foun-
dation for Scholarly Exchange in his homeland. A
computer science major, he said the IBM system
intrigues him and he wants to learn more about it.
Liong Tjien Tjiang from Bandung, Indonesia,
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a freshman fashion design major. He heard about
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Marist from an academy in Jakarta, his nation's
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capital. He said he likes the people here.
"The freshman are aJittle bit wild -
but not
in the negative sense," said Tjiang. "_They like to
go out a lot."
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Tjiang said he chose Marist because of its loca•
tion. He likes being near New York City, but he's
glad;it's not as crowded here as in Manhattan.
Claudia Lugangira, a communication arts ma•
jor in her sophomore year, is a citizen of Tanzania·
but has lived most of her life in Kampala, Uganda.
Lugangira said that she likes Marist, though she
finds it very different from her native land.
"The relationship between faculty and students
is very casual," said Lugangira. "You don't find
that in Africa."
Lugangira doesn't have difficulty with the
language because Ugandan schools teach in
English, due to the fact that Uganda was a British
protectorate. Krasovec said that he has little dif-
ficulty because he studied English for four years
before coming to Marist.
Birgit Peper, a freshman from Bremen, West
Germany, has been trying to improve her English.
She said she finds speaking to American students
difficult.
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October 3, 1985
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ten. LaPietra returned the blow
with. a comment about British
behavior, foliowed by a quick
return from Hall, who said,
"America was late for the first'two
World· Wars, so why is Reagan
determined to be early for the
third?" LaPietra could only make
a slight comeback.
In the fourth round, Lock came
out
from
his corner
good-
naturedly, comparing Dynasty to
the "longest running soap in
history," the Royal Family. He
turned phrases effectively, but his
one liners fell short of the mark. He
only scored late in the round by
saying, "America is the only state
to go from barbarism to decadence
without passing through civiliza-
tion."
LaPietra's rebuttal was blocked
by Lock's quick jabs, Pythonesque
eloquence and feigned indignation,
to which LaPietra could only com-
ment on the "civilized" behavior
of British soccer fans.
Lock feigned sorrow at this
blow. LaPietra seemingly had him
on the ropes and moved in by ask-
ing, "If Britain doesn't like us, why
did they and France develop a
plane to get here faster?"
Lock replied, "To give America
much needed civilization."
"Or to find relief from it,"
LaPietra concluded, at which point
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the bell sounded and they return-
ed to their respective corners.
Round five opened with quick
one-liners from Hall that landed to
great effect while LaPietra's rebut-
tal was confused. He finished off
by singing a Gilbert and Sullivan
song from H.M._~. Pinafore.
The sixth and final round open-
ed with Lock joking
about
LaPietra's singing, saying, "If you·
have nothing
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say, sing it,"
Otherwise, he fell flat. Murray
came out late in the round, seem-
ingly conscious of the catching up
they had
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do, and scored twice,
jo~ing,; "The British
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Jallest
building in Potown," and
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sun won't go down on the
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Empire . because)God
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On this note, the first Great
Debate at Marist College ended.
The British National Team, on
the
:first
stop of their first tour,
since the team changes every year,
satd they enjoyed the hospitality of
the
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school and the chance to
debate .. Each member must take
off. two
·months
from school for
travelling but, Lock said, "I do it
m'ainly for, the enjoyment."
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also good practice, since
both' Lock and Hall said they hope
to
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become lawyers. Lock
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already passed the English bar and
debated with members of Parlia-
ment, while Hall placed fifth in the
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World Championship Debate
To~rnament in Canada.
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President Murray, who debated
>the
British National Team in 1966
wheti he was among the top ten col-
lege debaters in the
u;s.,
said he
also enjoyed the chance to debate
again and stressed there was no ele-
meni of personal revenge involved.
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"Let's just say," Murray said·
before the debate,
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would like
them to recognize the improper
position
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they took during the
Revolutionary War, and maybe
they'll give us an apology."
Murray said it was encouraging
to see such a good turn-out for an
intellectual event on campus, ad-
ding,. "There were no winners
tonight, except for the audience,
who got to see the best and
brightest the British Empire has to
offer."
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orgariiZation to get apartment improvements
by Lavern~ C. Williams
Carol Graney, residence director
for the Garden Apartments, has
developed a new organization, the
Resident's Association, to help
gain improvements in the apart-
ments, according to Marguerite
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director.
T_he .organization will be con-
sidered a part of the lnterhouse
Council, which is designed as a
liason between students and the ad-
ministration on matters such as
maintenance and other housing
problems, according to Bill Curtis,
a member of the association.
The Resident's Association had
its first regular Monday night
meeting on Sept. 23 to discuss cur-
rent problems with the apartments.
The president and vice president of
the new group then took the pro-
blems to the IHC, which in turn in-
formed the administration about
the group's findings.
The students in this group are
seeking "to keep a handle on how
the housing situation is going and
to find out what the problems are,''
said Curtis ..
The apartment laundry room,
proper out_door lighting, the fire
New chaplain plans
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by Donald R. Goodwin
The Rev. Benedict D' Alessandro
person who could serve as a guider
or give advice."
has officially assumed the position
According to
D'
Alessandro,
as chaplain at Marist College.
there is no limit on the issues that
D'
Alessandro, 48, assumed the may be discussed with him. "I'm
role of chaplain Sept. 21 after the the type of person you can walk up
departure of the Rev. Richard
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to and say anything," he said.
"If
LaMorte, former chaplain and it's a conce·rn for them (students),
assistant dean of student affairs,
it's something that I would like to
who started a new assignment in a help them with. Whatever it may
parish in Amenia,
N.Y.
be-spiritual,
physical
or
From 1980 until- this semester, psychological."
D' Alessandro, a member of the
Friars Minor of the Order of St.
Francis, was the chaplain of St.
Francis
Hospital
here
in
Poughkeepsie, according to Cox.
Although he has worked with
college-age students in the past,
As
a new member of the Marist
community, D'Alessandro plans
on meeting students by attending
student activities and being visible
on campus, he said.
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D' Alessandro said that Marist will
D'
Alessandro, a native of New
be different
from
his past York City, had his first contact
experiences.
with Marist in the summer of
·1964
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worked in a
seminary
for as a seminarian taking summer
three years, where students were courses. Since returning to the area
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college age and older," he said. in 1980, he has attended lectures
"There it" was a com·niunity ex- and various events in the Campus
alarm system and proper pavement
from the Garden Apartments to the
Townhouses were some. of the
topics discussed
at the first
meeting.
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The laundry room for the
Garden Apartments, located next
to the E building, has not been
hooked up and is filled with dirty
water, according
to
residents in the
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complex. Steye Sansola, director of
housing at Marist, said that the
laundry room may be cleaned and
ready for· use. by the end of this
week.
There will be a "panic button"
installed in the laundry room,
which will only be open from 7:00
a.m. to midnight for security pur-
poses, according
to Anthony
Tarantino, director of physical
plant. Tarantino ordered the set-up
after it was suggested by the new
association.
Students have also expressed
concern about the lighting behind
the Townhouse area and the G
building, as well as the completion
date of the road connecting the
Garden Apartments to campus.
The administration could 1101 be
reached for comment.
Also, 12 students are stillcurrent-
ly living in temporary housing un-
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making," he said. "I'm
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Freshman
hurt jn
·auto
crash
by Douglas Dutton
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A Marist freshman was listed in
critical condition at St. Francis
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Hospital Monday after the.car she
·was
driving collided with another
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on the Salt Point Turnpike in Hyde
Park Sunday.
Kristin Slocum, 18, of Salt
Point,
N.Y.,
was in the hospital's
intensive care unit with head in-
juries, a hospital spokesperson
said.
A
passenger in the car, Freshman
Kimberly Rohan of the Dutch
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sie, also suffered head injuries in
the crash. Rohan, also 18, was
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D'
Alessandro will be residing in
Kirk House, which is located bet-
ween Gregory House and the
townhouses.
Olympian
effort
Members of one of three
teams to participate in the
Freshman Olympics held at
Mccann
field
Sunday,
1:30-J:30
p.m.
About
SO
freshmen, a smaller turnout
than expected, were divided up
arbitrarily into three groups.
Originally, teams of students
from each freshman dorm were
to compete against each other.
There
were eight events in the
Olympics. Some events includ-
ed the mattress race from one
end of the field to another, egg
toss, fireman's suit relay race
and a tug-of-war. The event was
organized by George Dioguar-
do, residence director of Marian
Hall. (photo by
Mike
Patulak)
•
day night, according to her father, •
John Rohan.
•
The five passengers in the other
car were treated at Vassar Brothers
Hospital and released.
30 students caught at party
Dutchess
County
Sheriff
Frederick W. Scoralick said
Slocum was driving south on the
turnpike at 4:19 p.m. when she
struck a car driven by Pamela J.
Deloatche, 21, as it turned left
from the opposite lane.
No charges had been filed
against either driver
as
of Monday.
NATIONAL
SIGHT
SAVING
MONTH
Approximately
30 students
were
approached last week by security
when discovered drinking alcohol
in the
boatfiouse
parking lot near
the edge of the
river.
•
Security
had located the party of
mostly freshmen
Thursday,
12:
I
5
a.m. when doing a routine patrol.
Some students were in the parking
lot, which is Marist property,
while
others were on the
hill
to the right
of the parking lot.
Disciplinary
action
was taken
against those
found
to be
in
di~ect
violation of college and state dnnk-
ing policies, according to Steve
Sansola, director of housing.
Students with previous violations
were put on probation.
Sansola
said he met with
students individually to discuss
violations of drinking under the
legal age of 19, transporting
alcoholic beverages on campus, be- ·
ing under the influence and having
open containers in public.
Also, a few students refused to
give Marist I.D.'s to security when
asked for them that night. Securi-
ty called
-
for Greg Brennan, the
freshmen residence director on du-
ty that night. Brennan assisted
security in collecting I.D.'s from
students. I.D's were returned to
students that night.
Sansola said that though some
students were not directly on cam-
pus property when discovered
drinking, the college has the right
to take disciplinary action for
students' misconduct off capipus.
He referred to page
9
of the student
handbook.
"Even whe;e people are off cam-
pus but especially so near college
property, the college has the right
to take action. Students' action is
a reflecton on the college itself,"
he said.
til apartments F5 and F7 arc com-
pleted. The other F Section apart-
ments were opened for occupancy
approximately two weeks ago.
According to a recent memo
from Sansola to the 12 remaining
students in temporary housing, the
contractors are currently finishing
the final painting and taping of the
interior walls.
Also, the contractor is currently
waiting for the delivery of some
final items, such as cabinets, a
stove, and wheelchair bars for the
bathroom, which have already
been ordered and are en route to
•
the job
site,
according to Sansola.
Detector
problems
persist
by Laverne C. Williams
Because newly installed smoke
detectors are still being activated
unnecessarily in the Garden Apart-
ments, Marist has decided to
change the fire alarm system in the
complex.
Under the new system, due to be
installed in the next two weeks, on-
ly certain of the Marist alarms will
result in an automatic response
from local fire fighters.
Cur-
rently, every time a smoke
'detec-
tor sounds, a signal is sent to the
Dutchess County fire control head-
quarters, which in turn notifies the
Fairview Fire Department.
Firemen have responded to every
activation at the complex since the
new alarms were installed recent\y
- with alarms going off an average
of three or four times a day, accor-
ding
to
Bernie Do\an, a ra',rvi.ew
Fire Departinent captain.•·
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1
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Each time an alarm goes off, the
entire section of apartments - 72
students in all-has
to
be evacuated
until Security and fire officials
complete their investigation.
Under the new system, the
smoke detectors in the apartment
will signal residents to ventilate the
apartment, but co summon fire
fighcers a separace alarm will have
to be pulled;
The currenc
smoke
detecrors
were installed during the past two
weeks after che original detectors in
the newly constructed buildings
proved too sensitive to routine
•
smoke from cooking.·.
The smoke detectors now in
place are photo•elcctric models,
which are activated by high levels
of smoke in the
air.
The old ioniza-
tion models were activated by any
foreign matter in the air. As a
result, alarms were set off by dust
and routine kitchen smoke.
Most of the fire calls have been
in the E section of the complex,
possibly because of problems in the
exhaust system, according to Carol
Graney, residence director of the
Garden Apartments. In that section
alone, four fire alarms sounded
Saturday, beginning at 7 a.m., she
said.
According to Dolan, the sen-
sitivity of the system has caused the
large number of activations
...
It's
the alarms they have over there,"
he said. "The detectors are very
sensitive."
Steve Sansola, director of hous-
ing, said: "We actempted
10
change
to a system that's less sensitive, but
equally effective. We realize there's
still a problem with the alarm ac-
tivations, but in fairness to the
system, students should also
try
to
avoid burning their food.''
Some students have complained
about the number of false alarms.
"Losing one hour
•
of sleep at
20-minute intervals throughout the
night makes everyone angry," said
Brian O'Connor, an E section
resident.
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4 - THE CIRCLE - October 3, 1985
The great. debate
-bed-pan
(bed'pan1
n.
a
slia11ow
P.an
fo,-
use as-a
· ~Toflet fo"
the.
Col'lfined.
When,the debate teams matched wits last week, we all came :
out the winners. The Marist community has benefited from the
well-organized and well-publicized event. Marist team members
President Dennis Murray and Dr. Richard La Pietra debated the
British
National team members Michael Hall and David
Lockdrew before a varied audience of administrators, faculty and
students.
bed·
b'{f
{becl"b~'>
n. _
a .srna.u, -wingJe$s,
blooclsuc/fiN$
in~ect.
Continual laughter could be heard in the packed Theater as
the topic "Resolved: That this house thanks God for the Atlan-
tic," was debated with formal exchanges of humorous and wit-
ty remarks.
•
James Springston, director of debate, should be commend-
ed for his efforts in organizing an event that not only proved
entertaining to all who attended, but also generated interest in
the newly formed Marist debate team, which currently has at
least 17 student members.
\:..~(
.
•
•.
But the result of the debate has a more permanent effect on
us than a fun night to remember. For at least an hour last week,
Marist was linked to another country, another culture, another
way of thinking. This was an education in itself.
For many interested students it was not as much the infor-
mative aspect of the event but ra_ther the experience of atten-
ding the debate that was significant.
The re-initiation of the debate team will no doubt serve to im-
prove the academic life on campus. This first debate, the great
debate, helped to lay the foundation for future educational
opportunities.
•
The number of people who attended the debate hopefully is
an indication of a growing desire among students and faculty
to increase their awareness and open up to new experiences.
Our track record is improving. From the promotion to Division
One basketball to the development of the debate team, we are
winning in the long run.
Letters
Seniors
Dear Editor:
T-
The Real
World
bed·hea.cl
(
becl-''hcd?
n. •
a re~u7sive
disfi$uretnent
of
the
hvman
SCAip.
[SEE
also
&:JS"
dass]
Seniors who plan to graduate in
January, May or August of 1986
need to turn in their application for
• graduation by the appropriate
deadline:
A list of all potential graduates
will be posted on the senior bulletin
board outside of the Registrar's Of-
fice by mid-November.
Seniors are reminded to pick up
their Senior Audit in the Registrar's
Office, if they have not already
done so ..
Cr)'iJlg.
about
AIDS
-Oct. 7 for January 1986.
-Nov.
1
for May
1986
and
August 1986,
The Registrar's Office
~~~
..
Inconvenience
. Whoops! Last week,Imadean.
incidental and basically mean-
ingless reference
to
a charity con~
cert
being organized by
Mfami
Steve Van. Zandt. 'Well, not quite. •
The concert, to benefitpeop/e who
::D~ar Editor:
{
Inconvenience
is :a word
...
't
synonymous with Marist College.
befuddlement of all of us living in
•
lost their -·
homes in·· the recent
F5,
none
of
whom
are
Passaicwarehousefire, wasledby
handicapped.
Joe Piscopo and several relatively
Finally President Murray was
well
0
known local bands. Van
called to task on the issue of hous-
Zandt
is organizing
a
recording ses~
Marist
was
oh, so sorry about ·the
inconvenience when they informed
us,the"fhursday and Friday before
: schpol started, that.we would not,
in fact, be living in the Garden
Apartment \ve had paid extra for.
Instead, we would be temporarily
housed iri triples, much to our in-
convenience (there's that word
again) as well as the inconvenience
of allthe.rnommates we would be
infringing· upon:
. ing, and while freshmen complain-
sion to make an anti-apartheid
ed of overcrowding in Leo and .
song. But you get the idea.
In
the
Town House residents complained
interests of vanity,
I
stand by
my
of the lack of toilet paper, we were
story:
left without a home to call our
by Carl MacGowan
own.The ever informed President
Murray turned over the questions
to Dean Cox, since he was unable
to answer them, or gave his ·scock
answer of "We're working on it."
and ".We're looking at the situa-
tion." Murray is kept
so
insulated
from any problems on campus that
he was not able to give one straight
answer at the housing forum.
ThenMarist explained that the
delay would not be long, two weeks
was the estimate. All right, so we
. could-stand the overcrowding of
• our triples for two weeks, but what
about food; Originally no provi-
sions were made to feed us and we
were expected to pay for our food
• in the cafeteria, After much coma
plaining to Steve Sanso la and Dean
Cox we were allowed to eat for free
for as long
as
we were temporarily _
housed. How gracious of Marist
that· gesture was.
•
••
So, two ·weeks later we were •
prepared to move in, only the
apartment was not prepared to
house us. It seems Marist and its
contractors had a communication
gap and the handicapped apart-
ments, originally designated for
D
block, were not included on the
blueprint. Instead they decided to
make F5 handicapped; much to the
Now, in the fifth week of the
semester, all of the uncompleted F
block has moved in. Except, of
course, F5. Since the completion of
the rest of F block, the contractors
have had a week and a half to work
on our apartment, and what results
have they to show for it?
·Ultimately, the point of this let-
ter is not to just complain to the ad-
ministration. The point is, we are
not going to let this issue rest until
we receive financial restitution.
Marist's philosophy, up to this
point, has been to move as many
people in as possible and hope they
will forget how inconvenienced
they were, thereby creating a
Continued on page 7
Correction
Winter intersession ads in the last two editons of the Circle have given
the wrong dates. Winter intersession classes \lill actually meet from Jan.2
to Jan. 17.
"I just can't understand these
politicians, telling us we have to
send our kids to a school infested
with AIDS," said J\1rs
.. Horace·
McGrowley.
''The nerve of them," answered
Mrs. Chuck Columbia. "My Elmo
won't go riear a desk until that boy·
is gone for good."
"You said it. What is it with
these kids today? Only in elemen-
tary
school and they're becoming
homosexuals!" ,
''Well, it's the music they listen •
to. The songs tell them to be gay."
"It's not like our time, when we
listened to responsible bands who
told _us to be proud of our
heterosexuality and not be afraid to
share it with o~hers," said Mrs.
Horace.
"Now, the whole world has
changed and our kids suffer for
it."
•
A •
Id • h
"lmagme.
s1x-year-o wit
AIDS," imagined Mrs. Chuck.
"And we're supposed to pretend
there's no problem. 'My child will
be fine; he won't get sick .. .' "
"It makes me sick. Don't those
doctors know that kids give each
other sicknesses all the time? They
share sandwiches, they bite, they
have that 'blood brother' ritual. If
that boy went to our. school, it
"Which means our children
would just be a matter of time and
couldn't even eat at the cafeteria.
everyone would be dying."
I'd have to pack their lunches, and
• ''Oh, I hate to think aboutjt.
I-hat~ to cook.»
. ·. . ...
.
They couldn't. even· go to theL .. •
.''Oh, I kno'\V, And I
heard that
bathroom! Is there no place'that'is-:i '\hey foimcl the
'AIDS
in teardrops
safe?"
• and on people's tongues, and you
"The bathroom!" cried Mrs.
know how much kids do that."
Horace, "They couldn't go to
.the
, "That reminds me," said Mrs.
b~throom?"
_
Horace. "I heard that if you drop-
" Of• cours_e not. AID.S is
ped a nuclear bomb, everybody
transmitted through heavy sexual
would get AIDS. Does that .mean
• activity. So, when the children go
that, if there was anuclear war,
to the bathroom -
. well, you
everybody
would
become
know, it's.all the same thing."
homosexual?"
"Mygoodness!I hadn't thought
·"oh, how horrible!" shouted
oflhatone. But it occurred to me
Mrs. Chuck.
•
• •
last.night, thatthe school wouldn't
"It's true. I don't know how
.I
be able to· hold its annual square
could go through with it. I love niy
dance because the kids get so close
husband so much. And ... "
and they share partners.''
"We can't eat, we can't drink,
"Quite right," said Mrs. Chuck.
we cah't breathe because an AIDS
'!Did you get polio?"
person might have sneezed. We
"Yes. When I was four. But it
can't go to the _bathroom. When
went away."
will it.end?"
"No, I mean, didn't you know
"We can't even have World War
that AIDS is transmitted through
Three. But I've got an idea."
hypodermic needles, so that ,vhen
"What? What is it?" •
the kids get vaccinated -
"
"If
AIDS is only spread in
"Oh, no! I took Hazel for her
groups, then there's a
.
logical
shots last week! What am I going
answer: Don't put tJ:iem in groups.
to do?"
They shouldn't be in hospitals and
"Calm down. Were there any
schools; they should be where no
other kids getting shots?"
one else is. So, we should take all
"No."
the AIDS people, inake them walk
"Then it's all right. It's only
. the highest mountain and let them
transmitted in groups."
_
live there. They're only going to die
• "Whew," whewed Mrs. Horace.
anyw~y."
"I thought my kids were safe since
"Brilliant," said Mrs. Chuck.
we stopped taking them to mass.".
"That way, we'll never have to
• "Mass? What about mass?"
worry about AIDS - or gays, for
"Well, I noticed that there were
that matter. We'll put all of them
• some people in church -
all of
up there!"
whom I am sure _are gay -
who
"So that's it," said Mrs. Horace
always declined to take commu-
with an air offinality. "There must
nion."
•
be a mountain somewhere that isn't
"My lord," said Mrs. Chuck.
used as a tourist site. The gays can
"ls nothing sacred? We can't even
do whatever they want up· there.
go out to restaurants anymore
They can get polio shots, they can
because you can't tell which waiters
bite each other, they can go to the
are straight and which aren't."
bathroom. They can even cry."
THE:
Editor:
Denise Wilsey
Arts
& Entertainment Editor: Ken Parker
Business Manager:
Lisha Driscoll
Associate Editors:
Douglas Dutton
Sports Editor:
Brian O'Connor
Paul Raynis
Advertising staff:
Christine Colvin
CIRCLE:
Michael Regan
Photography Editor:
Laurie Barraco
Teresa Razzano
Laverne C. Williams
Senior Editor:
Carl MacGowan
Faculty Advisor:
David Mccraw
Cartoonist:
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The challenge of human rights
- by Dr. Vernon
J.
Vavrina
Peace Week affords the Marist
•
community an excellent opportuni•
ty
to reflect upon how we ex-
.
perience the absence of harmony in
•
our lives. War, of course, is the
most obvious culprit. In World
-War
I and II military and civilian·
losses totaled well over 60,000,000
'-.
persons. During the Holocaust, the
Nazis in Poland alone annihilated
3;000,000 Jews.
•
More
,recently
despite efforts of the United Na-
tions in the last 40 years, 150 wars
•
resulting in 20 million deaths have
taken, place. We are not merely
dealing with statistics. The human
•
dimension - the incredible numbers
of shattered Jives and grieving·
_:
families - must not be forgotten.
..
..
.
•
,·
Peace can be violated in other
ways besides organized warfare.
Racism, sexism, terrorism, hunger,
economic deprivation and other
·
_violations
of human rights also
•
break the peace in no small man-
ner. The magnitude of these pro-
blems is not generally understood.
than 90. countries are alleged to
have tortured their citizens or ill-
.
treated their prisoners. We are
justifiably concerned about the ex-
_
plosive situation stemining from
the disgraceful South African.apar-
theid policy, but are we aware of
human rights violations that have
•
occurred elsewhere on the conti-
nent? In tiny Burundi in a short
t,vo month period in 1972 at least
80,000 people were killed as a result
of a power struggle between Tutsi
and Hutu ethnic groups. Other
African countries including Rwan-
da, Uganda, Ethiopia, Equatorial
Guinea, and the former Central
African Empire have also violated
human rights.
Of course, violations of human
rights are by no means restricted to
Africa, but exist throughout the
world including the United States.
In Kampuchea the Khmer Rouge,
under the rule of the infamous Pol
Pot (1975-9), killed hundreds of
thousands of Cambodians. In In-
.
donesia in 1965 and 1966 at least
500,000
•
people were liquidated
when the army leadership ordered_
the destmction of the Communist
Union, lack o·r civil and political
rights in Chile the Philippines,
South Korea as well as in North
Korea, Cuba and Poland. The list
seems as long as it is depressing.
Many challenges and dilemmas
confront those who desire to inject
a consistent human rights compo-
nent into their country's foreign
policy.
The Data Problem.
Obtaining
accurate unbiased information on
the extent of human rights viola-
tions can be difficult. This is par-
ticularly true in instances of alleg-
ed torture and arbitrary arrest.
Torturers usually work clandestine-
ly. Not all allegations of torture
prove true. Some people simply
wish to disparage a certain regime.
The Clash
or
Cultures.
People
from the First, Second and Third
Worlds tend to have different
perceptions of what constitute
human rights and which rights
should be afforded the highest
levels of protection. Americans arc
prone
to
think primarily in terms
of civil and political rights (e.g.
One half of the people on the
face of the earth live in countries
with per capita gross national pro-
ducts under $500.00. Literacy and
life expectancy
-at
birth are· low
while infant mortality is high. More
party.
·_:,
•
freedom of press) whereas the
We live in a wotld characteriz~d
peoples of the Communist and
by disappearances, death squads,
Lesser Developed Countries fre-
and political killings in Latin
quently emphasize economic, social
America, abuse of psychiatry for
.
and cultural rights (e.g. right to
•
political reasons in the Soviet. work).
-,-P-~r;cepti.ons
.'.
1
t;"
by Michael Kinane
Wh~s~ fault is it· thai world
peace doesn't exist on earth? Right
now, most of the blame is being put
on the United States and the Soviet
Union. Is it fair to accuse these
·•
...
o.f>peace
.
by Paul Aiudi
•
When discussing such a broad
•
·
and difficult issue as that-of World
•
Peace, one
.
finds that• there are
_many
problems which must be
·dealt
with before one can even
define those very factors
-
which
keep
·the
world from having the
••
pe~ce
•
it desires_ or supposedly
desires. One of the problems which
·
one will find most commonly is the
problem of the diverse ways in
which issues can be perceived by
different groups of people.
The number. of ways a particular
problem can be perceived can be
surprisingly large. Not only can the
_
perceptions be diverse, they can be,
•
and often are, exact opposites.
Take for example-the"issue ofter-
rorism, specifically the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Many
What has this got to do with the
broad issue of World Peace? The
perception of these issues are often
so polarized, so wrought with emo-
tion, that peace becomes a more
.
difficult thing to achieve, for once
the perceptions are taken, there are
many times littie or no room for
·taking.into
consideration the other
point of view. When this happens,
people no longer start to question
and criticize the positions they
themselves have taken. They no
longer believe in a position bur
believe in a dogma, which allows
no point of the opposite view to be
accepted as a valid point. The other
side becomes the totally wrong, evil
side, whose problem l;lnd points of
view cannot be tolerated.
,
countries for trying to maintain
•
their power? Of course, some
blame is to be fixed on these two
super powers for the tumult they've
caused with their nuclear weapons
and special defense systems, but
there are others to be held
accountable.
For years now, the Iranians and
Iraqt1is have been fighting a drawn
· out war. Certainly this fighting
doesn't aid the construction of a
world peace, Nor does the fighting
in North Ireland. Having a govern-
.
ments troops fire at its own citizens
isn't a foundation upon which to
create international
bliss. Yet
another example of world turmoil
lies in Lebanon. There hasn't been
a peaceful moment in Beruit since
Richard Nixon was President, and
even then it was shaky at best.
Obviously, the entire world is to
blame for the turbulent situation
that has embedded itself in our
lives, but what would we do if we
actually had international serenitv?
Personally, I don't think that ,~e
could handle it. Since the beginn-
ing of recorded history, there has
The Importance of World View.
How Americans respond to inter-
national violations of human rights
is often a function of global
perspectives including the nature or
the totalitarian threat to the free
world. Some argue that the greatest
violations of human rights in the
world have taken place in Com-
munist countries and there is no
historical precedent of an entren-
ched Communist regime giving up
power. Others
argue
the United
States overestimates the Com-
munist menace and should concern
itself with North/South (rich/poor)
as opposed to East/West (Warsaw
Pact/NA TO) issues. These people
loathe American identification with
right-wing dictators who claim to
. be our faithful allies in the fight
against the spread of Communism.
American
identification
with
authoritarian regimes will have a
deleterious effect since new revolu-
tionary
governments,
highly
suspicious of the United States, will
inevitably come to power.
The Problem of Sanctions.
Military force to promote human
rights has generally been ruled out
as being disproportionate to the
evils
it
seeks to redress. Economic
sanctions are often slow and
cumbersome and may possible in-
jure the world's needy. Moreover,
The balance
of power
been turbulence in the world.
It started with the Greeks. The
citizens of Spana grew angry at the
rising power of Athens, and, to
maintain their supremacy, started
the Peloponnesian War. Because
Athens was the city of the artists
and Sparta the city of th·e soldiers,
Sparta won the war, but was suffi-
ciently weakened. Since they were
devitalized, the door was left open
for Macedonia to walk in and seize
control, which they did. Now the
cycle of violence had been started.
The next major development oc-
cured after Alexander the Great
made his romp through the conti-
nent. Rome became a power
because of its superior military
strength. Accordingly, they took
control of a great many provinces.
Unfortunately, the lower class por-
tion of Roman society felt left out,
and began_ to shout for equality.
What they got was Julius Caesar.
In essence, Caesar was the first
man to pull off a military coup.
There are three military coups a
week in Bolivia.
These are just two instances in
sud1 sanctions arc often cir-
cumvented in practice.
Quiet
diplomacy may be effective but
may often degenerate into silent
diplomacy - a good rubric to do
nothing. Public denunciations may
prove counterproductive
if the
leaders of the criticized regimes
develop a
"bunker
mentality."
Sanctions, such as witholding
economic and military assistance,
may be enacted against weak
governments while for reason~ of
Realpolitik worse perpetrators are
ignored.
The impact of the discussed con-
ceptual problems of promoting
human rights combined with the
sheer volume and magnitude of
serious violations tend
10
dismay
those who would champion a bet-
ter world; The contemporary·
global condition is in many respects
gloomy. Yet we are only deluding
ourselves if we think the problems
will disappear if we ignore them.
An irony of politics is that by do-
ing nothing we are in actuality sup-
porting the status quo. In the field
of human rights the status quo is
surely too unacceptable for us to
bury our heads in the sand.
Dr. Vavrina is an Assistant Pro-
fessor of Political Science and
serves as the Foreign Student
Advisor.
history, but they do prove my
.noint.
International turmoil has ex-
-
isied·
·tor
as long as
\ve
can
.
remember. In a sense, we're
just
following tradition. Granted, it's
not a great tradition, but it is
tradition.
Now we have to try to break
tradition. In order to do this,
though, we have to have total
cooperation from every country in
the world. To do this, we would
have to have something that we
haven't had in the history of the
world. Everyone would have to be
friendly to each other. It sounds
impossible, but it isn't. To start the
ball rolling, the United States and
Russia could try being more civil.
.
The first step towards peace has
been taken already.-The summit set
between President ~eagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev will hopefully
begin to blaze atrail towards world
peace. If they can reach an agree-
ment on their nuclear weapons
issues, they will show the rest of the
world that peaceful agreements can
be made.
It's all up to us now. Whether we
find peaceful solutions to our pro-
blems or we blow each other into
oblivion, it will be our own doing.
Peace is in our hands. Let's not
drop it.
Michael Kinane
is
a freshman
majoring in Communication Arts.
•
people, especially in the Western
world~- perceive the P.L.O. as·
ruthless murderers of innocent peo-
ple who will stop at nothing to
achieve their ends. Others (the
Palestinian and other Moslem
peoples) perceive the P .L.O. as
freedom fighters - people who are
fighting to reobtain land which was
stolen from them and to assist
those Palestinians who have been
displaced for about forty years.
I suppose the point of this mean-
ingless essay is to say that if this
world is to have the peace it desires.
the individuals in it must attempt
to be a bit more objective about
certain issues. Objectivity, or at
least a certain degree of it, is essen-
tial, for it allows us to take a step
back and really look at the. pro-
blems which face us. Without it we
fall into the dogma trap. Emotion,
specifically fear and hatred, start to·
spread and build until they are en-
trenched so deeply in the situation
that there seems to be no acceptable.
solution to the problem at hand.
The Protestants and Catholics in
Northern
Ireland
have been
fighting for over three hundred
years. The Palestinians have been
fighting
(directly)
for their
homeland with Israel for about 40
years. In both cases there seems
to
be no end in sight to the conflict.
When one considers the death, pain
and destruction that have occurred
in this time, rhis is a high price
to
pay, I think, for fear and hatred.
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Another example, perhaps closer
to people in the United States than
.
the previous one, is that of the Irish
Republican Army. Some believe
that those who work for the I.R.A.
are nothing but ruthless murderers,
while
others
claim they are freedom
fighters. One could make a strong
case that sympathy for each of
these positions is strong ,vithin the
United States.
There arc numerous examples,
not just on the issue of terrorism
but on almost all orher global
issues, where perceptions of the
same problem, issue or group are
totally opposite.
Paul Auidi is a junior majoring
in Political Science.
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Page 6 - THE CIRCLE - October 3, 1985
The Other
Murray
Paper principles
by Julia E. Murray
There is an old adage which says
that, sooner or later, into each stu-
dent's life a paper must fall. There
is also another old saying, however,
which tells the student never to do
today what can be put off until
tomorrow. In case you 're having a
little trouble coming up with good
reasons to put off doing a paper,
I've prepared a short guide entitl-
ed, "101 ways to avoid doing a
paper."
First of all, never begin the paper
, until the day before it is due. I
·know, this one seems a little ob-
vious, but you'd be surprised at the
number of people who think papers
should be written right after they
are assigned. These people need to
learn to work under pressure, and
there is no better time than the pre-
sent (or maybe tomorrow).
Once you have successfully
avoided working on your paper un-
til the day before it is due, you must
then avoid it until that night. Your
excuse about working best under
pressure has probably worn a little
thin, so you'll have to come up
with a new one. My personal
favorite is,
"I
am a night person.
I
cannot function during the day,
so how can I possibly write a paper
then?"
Remember, you must
always put the serious students on
the defensive.
At last, it is the night before your
paper is due. Logically, you cannot
possibly put off doing your paper
any longer, so now you must
become creative.
As everyone knows, great papers
cannot be written in messy rooms.
Before the - typewriter can even
come
out
of hiding,
some
straightening up must be done.
Since the object here is to avoid
work, however, cleaning your en-
tire room is frowned upon. Instead,
do something simple, like cleaning
pff the top of your desk. If your
desk is anything like mine, this
could take years.
Eventually, when the rubble has
shifted an.d the dust has settled,
your desk is ready to be used. Now
comes the fun • of finding your
typewriter, which, if you're lucky,
is at least three floors away. Add-
ed to the typewriter search is the
borrowing of paper and white-out.
Even if you already have these ar-
ticles, borrow them·anyway. Any
time-wasting device is encouraged
during ·these desperate hours.
To waste some more time, and
to insure interruptions while you're
working, take a half-hour to design
a do-not-disturb sign for your
door. Not only will this take a good
amount of time to create, but also,
if you make it cute enough, any
number of people ,viii drop by just
to tell you how much they like your
sign. These visitors will provide the
perfect excuse to stall some more
by complaining how hard you're
working.
The situation is starting to look
pretty grim. Your desk is neat, your
typewriter is all warmed up, and
you even have paper and white-out.
Don't despair, though. Even as you
give up your last hope of interrup-
tion and stare down at your hands
on the keyboard, what do you see
but hideous colored stubs where
your fingernails used to be. How
can you possibly type with those
awful things glaring at you every
time you look down? There is
nothing to do but drag out the nail
polish remover and the emery
board, for your own peace of
mind. (If you happen to be male,
you presumably do not use nail
polish, so you'll have to substitute
cutting off painful hangnails.)
If you have timed this endeavor
correctly, it should now be about
one in the morning. You cannot
possibly work right _
now because
. "The Twilight Zone" is on now,
and you've'never seen this episode
before. After it is over,-.you can
begin your paper, which you
should finish sometime near dawn
(if you type as slowly as
I
type).
Right now, you're probably say-
ing to yourself, "Why bother put-
. ting it off that long when I know
I'm going to have to do it
anyway?" Look at it this way,
though. Yes, you will have to do
the paper anyway, but this way, if
it gets a bad grade, you can honest-
ly say you were too tired to do your
best. Besides, what kind of student
would you be if you went through
a whole semester-without at least
one all-nighter?
'Maxie'
·off-beat
fun
by.
Maria .Gordon
''I g~t drunk, sang at a party,
made out with my husband
(boyfriend, girlfriend, etc.), told
bad jokes and went on a joy ride."
Answering
Service
EDITOR;S NOTE: Do you have
questions concerning the Marist
community or Poughkeepsie area?
The Answering Service will offer
responses _to questions on school
. policies and procedures, local com-
munity services and local issues.
Send questions to Rosemary Olsen,
Box 857.
Q.
My car was almost towed
away last night while I was in class.
Luckily, I got there in time and
received only a warning. In the
event my car actually did get tow-
ed, where would it be taken? How
much would it cost and how would
I go about getting it back?
A. According to Joseph Waters,
director of security, a car will be
towed if it is illegally parked in a
handicapped space, blocking a fire
gate or if the ow11er of the car is a
repeated offender and tickets pro-
ve ineffective. Currently, the school
employs Empire State Towing
which is located at 46 North Road,
across from St. Francis Hospital.
To retrieve your car, you need to
present your registration and iden-
tification. The charge is $35 for the
tow and $IO per for storage. The
amount must be paid in cash.
'
To Jan these were terrible things.
She felt as if she was possessed. In
some places, this is considered nor-
mal or somewhat conservative
behavior. Not to worry though, her
boss condones this behavior and
. reassures her, and us, that what she
did was not possession, only living.
"Maxie," an adaptation of Jack
Finney's novel "Marion's Wall,"
attempts
to
enlighten us with• in-
sights of life lost and renewed, But
instead of allowing us to reach our
own conclusions, he tells us what
themes we· should come away with.
Glenn Close, of "The Big Chill"
fame, is excellent in her dual role
as Jan and Maxie. Although she
sometimes has trouble with her
portrayal of Maxie, it helps us to
remember that it's really Jan. A lit-
tle confusing? It isn't really and
can't be within the framework of
a simplistic storyline.
But Close appears to enjoy Max-
ie, bringing · to life this hard-
driving,
hard-drinking,
hard-
talking and selfish flapper of the
'20s. She portrays Jan with just as
much polish. Jan, a bishop's
secretary, represents all that is
wholesome and pure, as opposed to
Maxie, who unearths forbidden
desires. Close's facial expressions
emit innocence and fire.
At the end of the film, the two
opposites meet. Jan, who is free
from Maxie's possession decides to
give life a try. "Mexico is only 11
miles away ... ," she says.
'vades Jan, he is all. too.eager to
"fake on" Maxie. Then he laments
on how guilty he feels. It's Just an
empty part for an actor with talent.
Ruth Gordon, in .her final per-.
formance, is lovable as Mrs, Lavin,
the
.
landlady. Though her part is small, •
she upstages the two· leads in the
scenes she is in. Although she of-
fers comic relief to this muldane
script, she thoughtfully recaptures
the days of the '20s, when shtrand
Maxie were "stars." If eyes are the
mirror to the soul, Gordon sadful-
ly tells us where she would rather
be.
. .
"Maxie"
is charming , i_n , a
primitive ,vay. Although some
scenes tend to drag, it is still
a
fun
little film. It lacks structure and
Aaron could develop his themes
more. Instead, the audience works
on one theme at a time .
•
• Nicky comments on .. how you
read about spirits, haunted houses
in the newspaper all the time. What
newspaper? He is most likely refer-
ring to ihe likes of the "National
Enquirer."
Aaron attempts
tp
bring this point to life. If you take
that "news" seriously, "Maxie" is
not for you because the audience
laughs during the preliminaries to
an exorcism and we don't mind
that Jan is schizophrenic.
If you buy the "National En-
quirer" as if you were purchasing
a co~ic book, "Maxie" is for you.
You have to be able to laugh at the
absurdity of the situation and at
how ridiculous and unreal the
Mandy Patinkin plays Jan's characters are.
'wimpy librarian husband, Nicky.
• "Maxie" may not go down in
The character is just too night-and- • history as one of· the top 100
day with his feelings to be movies of all times, and the perfor-
believable. One minute he is ever mances may not be memorable,
faithful to Jan, but when Maxie in-
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October 3, 1985 - THE CIRCLE - Page 1--
Th e long road for foreigners
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by
Brian O'Keefe
The journey from a foreign
country to Marist is a trip marked
not only by cultural oarriers, but
also by legal
requirements
and
paperwork.
According to Bill Anderson,
assistant dean of admjssions, all
foreign students must obtain F-1
visas from the Immigration
and
Naturalization
Service, which
grants them full-lime student status
-
for four years only.
Some foreign students, however,
acquire a "green card" document
that allows permanent residence,
and subsequent naturalization
after
seven years. This document also
allows them to be employed outside
of the college, said Dr. Vernon
Vavrina, foreign student adviser.
Those that
•
gain permanent
residence usually stay on to become
U.S.
citizens,
according
to
Anderson.
"You have to be careful who
you call a •foreigner',"
said
Anderson.
The students must pass
a
com-
.
petency
exam
in English before
they are accepted to Marist.
"They all should score over 500
on the TOEFL (Test of English as
a Foreign Language)," said Ander-
son. "For most foreign speaking
students, the majority of them,
conversational skills are rough."
In order to assist students with
this problem, both Brother Richard
Rancourt,
•
instructor
of
mathematics,
and
Barbara
Carpenter, coordiantor of linguistic
studies, offer classes in speaking
and writing English.
Another requirement for accep-
tance is proof of financial
securi-
ty, according to Vavrina.
"An incoming student has to
prove to the registrar that he or she
has sufficient funds to pay for at
least one academic year," said
Vavrina.
According to Anderson, who
deals with the foreign recruitment,
a mailing of Marist admissions
material
is
sent to U.S. embassies,
consulates and American high
schools in most foreign countries.
"We get letters of inquiry from
many countries almost every day,"
said Anderson.
Marisl's name has international
recognition in education, according
to Anderson. He said that the
school's name has much better
recognition in Japan than on Long
Island.
"It's a function of the Maris!
Brothers," he explained. "They
staff
high schools all over the
world."
Anderson said the current trend
in foreign student population seems
to be coming from Taiwan. He said
they enroll in the
graduate
program
in computer
science
and usually
have contacts at IBM.
Vavrina, who is having difficul-
ty
contacting
foreign
students
that
live off-campus, is trying to get the
foreign students to interact with the
Marist community.
"I
want them
to
<lisseminale in
the community,"
said
Vavrina.
"-It's
important for them to get in-
volved."
Vavrina scheduled a luncheon in
honor of the foreign students today
at
11
:30 a.m. in the Pub.
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Or
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c_·o_n_1i_n_u_c_d_r_r_<>_m_p_a_g_c_1_
"They seem quiet. It's hard for
me to talk to them," she said.
"It's
not like that in Germany."
Peper heard about Marist from
family friends in the Poughkeepsie
area. At the moment, she is con-
cerned about the drinking age go-
ing up to 21, since she is only 18.
"In Germany, we don't have a
drinking age," said Peper.
Barbara Wasielewska, a com-
puter
science
major
from
Poland,left Poland in 1983 for
political reasons, transferred from
the University of Jagiellon in
Krakow.
She said that her English is im-
proving with the help of Barbara
Carpenter's writing class in the
Learning Center:
"I think it's wonderful here. The
people have been very helpful to
me," said Wasielewska.
South American students are
•
enrolled at Marist from Columbia
and Ecuador. From Africa there
are students from Sierra Leone,
Zimbabwe and Uganda. A South
African- student will arrive here in
the spring, according
to
Bill Ander-
son, assistant dean of admissions.
The European students at Marist
are from Italy, Spain, France, the
-
Netherlands, West Germany and
Ireland. Additionally, there are
students from Poland, Yugoslavia,
and Hungary, all Eastern Bloc
countries.
Rounding out the global student
population at Marist are students
•
from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan,
Indonesia,
Korea,
Vietnam,
Malaysia, the Phillipines, India,
Pakistan, Iran, Burma, Panama
and the Dominican Republic.
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easily ignored.
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have been subjected to for four.or
five weeks.
If
this administration
thinks four weeks bf free cafeteria
_ food, in any way, balances out any
restitution we should receive, they
are sadly mistaken.
Any freshmen who are tripled up
will receive some sort of restitution
but all Murray had to say in
response
to
us was, "After
everyone is moved in, we'll think
about it." Why should they even
have
to
think
about
it? Is it because
five of us are seniors and one a
junior, and this institution has
squeezed all the money out of us
they can expect to get, whereas they
have four years of tuition to look
•
forward
to if they keep the
freshmen satisfied?
Where is the justice in any of
this. We, who had the third highest
.
priority points, are the last to find
permanent housing. While people
with
half our number of poincs
moved in the
very
first week. What
is the meaning of the whole priori-
ty point system if it is not used?
We think
this
administration had
best reexamine its priorities in the
area of
student
relations, and had
best remember two phrases; breach
of contract, and F5.
The residents
of Garden Apartment F5
Sports In Brief
Volleyball
The Marist volleyball team won
three matches and lost one in home
action last week.
The lady spikers dropped to
Siena College 2-1, but took
Ramapo College of New Jersey
2-0, the College of New Rochelle
2-1 and Molloy 2-0.
The volleyball team plays at
home tonight in a dual match with
Mount Saint Mary and Old
Westbury at 6 p.m.
The squad's record is now 7-2 on
the season.
Cross country
The men cross country runners
placed 12th in a field of 23 teams
at the National Catholic Cham-
pionships at the University of
Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
Pete Pazik was the Foxes'first
finisher taking 20th place with a
time of 25:04. Don Reardon was
next in 35th place at 25:22.
The runner's next meet is Satur-
day at the New York Tech. Invita-
tional. The women's next run is
Sunday Oct. 13, in the Hunter In-
\itational at Van Cortland Park.
Soccer
The Marist College soccer team
plays today against Siena College
at 3:30 p.m. in the second match
of its current five-game homestand.
The booters lost two matches on
the road last week to St. Francis
(N. Y
.)
and to St. John's Universi-
ty both by the score of 2-0.
The squad's record now stands
at
1-1
in the Tri-Stale Conference,
2-2 in the ECAC Metro Conference
and 3-6 overall.
Coach Howard Goldman
still
needs four more victories to hit the
200 plateau in his career.
Intramural
The Marist College Intramural
Sports Program announced :his
week that rosters for co-ed soccer,
three-on-three basketball and rac-
quetball are now available at the
Mccann Center.
Completed rosters are due on
Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The Intramural bowling league
meets every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m.
at Hoe Bowl Lanes, Route 9G,
Hyde Park. If you are interested,
contact the Intramural Office for
a roster.
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After being scalpe~ 35-0 last
week by the St. John's Redmen,
the Red Fox football team will look
to bounce back Saturday
'against
.
Fairleigh
•
Dickinson
.
University~Madisoh.
·
Game time for the contest is I :30
p.m. at Marist's Leq_nidoff Field.
. FDU's squad will run out of the
..
I-formation most of the
.time
and
is
•
strong,- against the run· on
defense.
•
•
•
•_•
It
will be our strength against
theirs,"
.said
Marist Head·Coach
Mike Malet. "We must go out and
execute our game plan. We didn't
do that Saturday (against St.
John's)."
•
•
FDU-Madison will be Marist's
.
biggest opponent so far. FDU's of-
-
fensive. line averages 6' I",
-
250
pounds, and its defensive line
averages 6'2", 230 pounds.
•
·- -
Marist did not play against FDU-
Madison last year, but Malet, who
saw a scrimmage earlier this season
between St. Peter's and FDU, said
it ,vas a big, strong
·team.
The Foxes wilr.enter the game
•
with· a 2-1 record after
-
being_
thrashed
35-0 at St. John's
Saturday.
-
The team will be coming off
a
game in which the tides reversed
from the first two games of the
season. The Red Foxes, which
averaged 23 points and. shut out
both·
opponents
in the first two
games, were shut out and allowed
35 points in Saturday's drubbing ..
•
Marist had a p~ssing attack, but
the running
•
attack went sour.
.
Quarterbacks Jim Fedigan and
•
Jonathon Cannon threw for a com-
bined 127 yards but the team gain-
ed only 49 yards on the ground._
"Our quarcerbacks threw the
best they did all year," Malet said ..
-
• 'Three or four passes were drop-
ped. We did move the ball well in
the air."
•
The Redmen used a balanced of-·
fense gaining
_
179
yards on the
ground and 208 yards in the air.
Bryan Williams led the running at-
tack with 118 yards on 24 carries,
_
and quarterback Paul Koster com-
pleted 17 of 27 passes for 208 yards
and two touchdowns.
•
St. John's offensive line controll-
ed the li~e of scrimmage. There
Marist's wo~~n's volleyball team pr~ctices for tonight's dual
-
meet against
Mount St. Mary's
and
Old Westbury. The first
. game starts at 6 p~m.
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M(Jrning
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were n~ quarterback sacks·; a~d on-
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Davis p~nt w~s blocked deep in
ly once did St. John's lose yardage
Red Fox territory. The Redmen
-on a play from
_scrimmage.
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took over; on the 2~yard line and
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scored on a I-yard
run by
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The only scoi-e·needed for the
Williams. .
Redmen,was an I I-play, 85-yard
drive capped off by a 15-yard
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touchdown pass from Koster
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wide receiver Chris Esposito in the
first quarter. Koster added a
touchdown pass to James Wei~en-
burger in the second quarter for a
14-0 Redmen lead.
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The Marist defense played well
after the first two scores, according·
to Malet. Jim Vancura Jed the Red
Fox-.defense in the game with two
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inte_rceptions.
The hard blow came to the Foxes
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late in· the half when a Franklin
by Dan Pietrafesa
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Marist
St. John's
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St. John's-Esposito 15-yard pass
from Koster (Ragusa kick), 9:50.
St. John's-Weisenburger
six-
yard pass from
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(Ragusa
kick), 14:28.
St. John's-Williams one-yard
run (Ragusa kick), 9:24.
St. John's-Weisenburger three-
yard pass from Koster (Ragusa.
kick), 8:56.
St. John's-Cosenza one-yard run
(Ragusa kick), 8:23.
New York beat New Jersey Sunday 7-4 in the
Knickerbocker
Lacrosse Conference All Star Game. Tom Daly
led the team
to
victory with two goals. Other Red Fox participants included
Mike
.Daly, John Young, Steve Wolfe, Kevin Hill, Todd Jesaifis, Roger
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Belz
and
Chris Reuss ... The
volleyball team keeps rolling on. Give
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this team credit. They are playing and beating a much tougher
schedule compared to last year and this season was to be a
rebuilding one for the squad. Under the leadership of
Head Coach
Victor VanCarpels,
the team is enjoying a 7-2 record entering this
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week's action ... The crew team will have its third annual
American
Cancer Society/Marist College
row-a-thon
at
the
South Hills Mall
from Oci. 25-27. The team will row continuously during the mall's
regular business hours. The team is collecting pledges for the up-
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coming event which wiH be divided equally between the team and
th~ local cancer unit .. ,A McCannsecretary is turning a loser into
a
winiu;i-;
Janet Lawl~r is
coaching the
Arlington. High School
var-
'
siiy girrs
·volleyball
team to a successful season so far ... Assistant
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·hoop
coach and academic advisor
Steve Eggink
married this sums
mer to Marist graduate
Catherine DeNunzio;
The ceremony was
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performed at.the MaristChapel by the
Rev. Richard LaMorte.
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Maristfans will remember the names of some of the ushers. Names
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included
Chris Metcalf,. Gil Padilla and John Donovan.
Con-
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gratulations. to the bride and groom ... There was a little extra ac-
ti'on last. Saturday on the soccer·field. The-st. John's Redmen
pll!,yed
over-aggressive soccer in defeating Marist 2-0. The over~
aggressive play led to the injuries of some Marist players including
Jim McKenna and Mike Terwilliger:
How the. fofeign. recruiters got rile
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EDITOR'S NOTE: T~day's
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Tliursday Mcn;ning Quaterback
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a>guest
column
by. Richard
~dnian;
a
junior
majoring
in
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c9111munication arts .
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>It
happened to
-Akeein
Ola-
juwon. Ithappened to Bo! Manute.
It even happened to
Rik_
Smits.
No\V it· cquld happen to you.
'What
do these players have in
common? They were recruited by
people, who were foreigners to
them, to play a strange garn~, made
e.lSY
because they were tall.
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Some of us may be jealous of the
publicity they receive. Some of us
may be jealous of the money they
are (or will be) making. Some of us
are just jealous of their height. You
say, "If
1
were seven feet tall... if
I could dunk ... if I could run the
40-yard dash in 40 seconds ... if I
could throw a 95 mph fastball ... or
possess any of the other abilities an
exceptional athlete has."
.. Well, what does this have to do
with me?" you may be saying to
yourself.
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You may have noticed a rather
large contingency of vistitors on the
campus lately. Many of them walk
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with interpreters observing the nor-
mal hustle and bustle of the warm
weather college life.
I was in--the courtyard of the.
Garden Apartments throwing a
Nerf football
with
my roommates
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Ed and Frank when I· first noticed
them.
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"Go deep," Ed said to Frank as
he heaved the ball. Frank made a
great catch, managing to stay in
bounds of the sidewalk sideline,
right in front of the visitors. He
threw the ball back, but struck up
a conversation with the men. I
could see him nodding to them as
Ed and I walked over to see what
was going on.
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The men would confer in a
foreign language and
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the inter-
preter would ask a question in
heavily accented English.
"Can you dunk?" he asked
Frank.
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"Yes," Frank replied.
"Well I'm afraid you don't
qualify," he said.
"What about you?" the visitor
asked Ed. "That was a pretty good
throw, have you ever played
organized football?"
"Yes," Ed said .. I was an all-
state quarterback in high school."
"Oh,
i•Jri·
sorry,,; he said, "you
don't qualify either."
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The interpreter for the visitors
then turned to me·and said, "How
about you? Have you ever played
organized football?"
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"No," I said.
"Can you dunk?'' he asked.
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''.What, are you kidding? I'm
only five-seven; I have trouble with
a Jay up," I said.
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"Perfect!"
.the
visitor said with
excitmerit. "Did you play sports in
high school?"_
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..Well, JV baseball and golf," I
said.
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The· visitors began conferring in
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their native tongue. My roommates
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looked at each other in confusion.
After several minutes one of the
visitors pulled an unusually shaped
object from his coat pocket and
handed it to me. It was orange. It
had a round core about the size of
a golf ball, but with eight things
that looked like baby pacifyers pro-
truding from all angles, thus mak-
ing it almost round.
"Have you ever seen an}1hing
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like it?" the visitor asked.
"No," I said, "what's it for?"
.. It's the main instrument used
in the most popular sport in mv
country," he said..
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"What sport is it?" I asked.
"It is similar to none in your_
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country," was the reply;
"Well how do you play it?"
Frank asked.
"The rules are
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very com-
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plicated," the interpreter said,
"but iri short, those who can throw
this ball a great distance and con-
trol its maneuvers are revered in
my country;"
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The two other men walked to the
extreme opposite ends of the cour-
tyard about 150 yards apart. Both
men were about my• height and
thin. They began throwing the ob-
ject back and forth, making it rise,
drop and go side to side. It was as
if_ the
orange
object
was
radio-controlled.
"Come," said the interpreter,
"give it a try_."
My roommates and I followed
the interpreter over to one of the
men. First, one man threw it. It
started out to the right, smoothly
curved left and dropped down in-
to the other man's hands. He threw
it back much the same way. He
handed it to Frank. Frank looked
at it, trying to figure out the best
way to grip it, and then he wound
up and threw it. But it just fizzled
to the ground about ten feet in
front of u_~.
Ed had slightly more
success, but it was still far from the
ability level the men were looking
for.
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My turn cam~ and I wound up
and threw the orange object. It
went like a
·fastball
to the other
man, but just before it got to him
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it rose up twenty feet and landed
far past him in-the parking lot.
I guesfthat's all the men needep_
to see.· Later that night the. men
came over to my apartment. I was
exactlywhat they were looking for.
I'd get a free education at their
school. They'd even accept my
credits from Marist. I'd experience
a different culture. No longer
would I blend into the crowds.
They would teach me the game that
would make me a celebrity and
possibly a rich man.
I don't even know how
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play
the game, but they guarantee I'll be
a professional
in two_years.
Everybody will know my name.
The season begins in two months;
my plane leaves tomorrow.