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THE CIRCLE Volume 50 Issue 2 The student newspaper of Marist College September 251997

New library creates space problem for Humanities byBENAGOES

News Editor

Faculty and staff in Fontaine Hall are in limbo because colshylege administrators have not yet decided where to put them durshying construction of the new lishybrary

Structure TonesPavarini Conshystruction Co from Greenwich Conn will level the building sometime after Commencement 1998 but no one knows the fate of the nearly 150 Marist employshyees who work in the building

There are about 40 full-time employees and 100 adjunct proshyfessors that will be displaced for a minimum of 14 months while the library is built

Reginetta Haboucha dean of Humanities will soon lose her office in Fontaine She was part of an ad hoc committee that met during the summer to discuss temporary housing options but she said nothing definitive came from those meetings

Where we are going to go is still up in the air she said It is

Circle PhotoMichael Gool

The new library will occupy the space of the current library and Fontaine The destruction of Fontaine will display 150 Marist faculty and employees who work in the building

of concern and I would like to see it settled There are a couple of options

Donald Anderson English department chair and assistant professor ofEnglish said some

of the options include using trailers the Cabaret or other rooms in the student center- or rooms in Donnelly Hall

But he said no one really knows for sure just where evshy

eryone will go Its just very very uncertain

l i f tlifiTpbint Anderson said I think there are too many ifs right now A lot of things will have to fall into place before

anyone knows exactly He said the problem stems

from the lack of space available on campus Whereever they put us he said will mean others will be disrupted

Its really a difficult process to do when there isnt a-nice readily available space you can house somebody in he said Somebody would have to be displaced The president talks about the domino effect just all the different kinds of dominos that would have to be moved to bull keep from toppling on each other

He said President Murray met with division chairs and Tom Daly director of physical plant last week to discus options but nothing concrete came from the meeting

Anderson said he was told that there would be more defishynite answers within a month

Rose DeAngelis assistant ^professorofjBrtgiish^said she js-plusmn

worried about where the faculty

See FONTAINE page 4

Tenure process controversial and complex for faculty

Circle PhotoStrom Goulct

A $150000 upgrade to the radio and television studios will replace the aging equipment seen here

School of communications spends $150000 for equipment upgrade

by THEA OMMINO StaffWriter

Marist will upgrade the Lowell Thomas television and radio studios and will also create a multimedia lab this year with $150000 from the colleges Physical Plant Fund

The multimedia lab will be in LT 209 but right now the room is empty and waiting for 19 new computers that will arrive someshytime in November Other equipshyment for the television and rashydio studios is not installed but has been ordered

Marist Executive Vice Presishydent Roy Merolli said money

for the Plant Fund is provided through annual savings in the colleges budget The fund he said typically goes towards upgrades such as the ones slated for Lowell Thomas

The College Plant Fund is funding set aside to deal with facility renovations property and accusations Merolli said They are reserves set aside to preserve the physical plant

The lab will be used for teachshying multimedia classes and will be accessible to students put-side of class for working on inshydependent projects

See UPGRADE page 4

by AMANDA BRADLEY Asst News Editor

Every year Marist loses anshyother few professors

A look at the past ten years has shown that out of 55 proshyfessors requesting tenure alshymost 30 percent were denied

Manst has always followed a tenure process and Dean of Faculty and Academic Vice President Artin Arslanian does not foresee abolishing the proshycess in the near future He feels that the granting of tenure is important to the colleges repushytation

The faculty define our institutions future Arslanian said

Tenure is a vital right to a proshyfessional staff for many reasons Vernon Vavrina associate proshyfessor of political science said he thinks that tenure is very imshyportant at the university level

It is evident that tenure is extremely important he said It is important for academic freeshydom Faculty can say what they believe without penalty or fear of disagreement

Arslanian said that tenure is an important right for faculty members because it ensures freedom of speech and job seshycurity

Tenure is a right that guaranshytees faculty positions on camshypus he said It allows faculty

to express their opinions on popular issues without fear of losing their jobs

The tenure process is very complicated with its many layshyers of faculty administration and student involvement The final decision is based on whether the tenure candidate fulfills the categories of teachshying scholarship and service In the eyes of the committees the candidate must be a noteworshythy teacher have a record of published works and be active in their communities at home or in the Marist community

The tenure process begins in the fall semester of a professors sixth year at Marist The final decision is made in the spring semester of the same year

The candidate is first looked at by tenured colleagues in their department This is the beginshyning of what Vavrina a newly elected member of the Rank and Tenure Committee called the peer review process

Three professors make up the peer review committee They each separately visit the candishydates classes twice during the semester and write up a report on their performance in class This committee has access to the candidates files which inshyclude student evaluations done at the end of each semester They also include letters of asshysessment from their department academic deans with respect to

the three categories and a letshyter written by the candidate as to why they feel they should be granted tenure

The next step is the Rank and Tenure Committee This commitshytee is made lip of six members of the Marist professional commushynity Each member is an elected representative of a particular school or division on campus This committee examines the candidates files meets with the dean of the department and inshyterviews the candidate to detershymine their recommendation

The academic vice president attends the Rank and Tenure Committee meetings but his fishynal decision is separate from their vote Then the president of the college makes a decision

See TENURE page 4

THE CIRCLE POLL Do you think the tenure system for faculty at Marist is fair

Yes--64

No-69

Dont Know NoOpinion-50

THE CIRCLE The Marist Community September 251997

Whats-Cool oil Campus

Friday

Day Communication Arst Socishyety tripto Montel Williams Show Night Coffehouse with Paul Strowe - -Night Black Student Union Back to School Jam Night Foreign Film Declin de LEmpire Americain

Saturday

Day Bigala trip to New york City Day Literary Arts Society trip to Broadway Night Foreign Film The White Rose

Sunday Night Foreign Film The White Rose

Wednesday Night Coffehouse with Say So

Thursday The Marist Art Gallery will hold the opening reception of La Dolce Vita The Golden Age of Italian Movies from 500 to 700 in the evening For further inforshymation call x2903

Whats down in Dutchess County

At Bard College Tunga 1977-1997 a survey of the works of the contemporary Brazilian artist Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 100 to 500

Tuesday September 30 A celshyebration of the birthday of the great John Coltrane will take place from 1200 noon to 700 Local musicains and Bard faculty will participate in the event

Elsewhere Friday September 26 New Paltz Jazz Festival From Latin to Bop at Joes EastWest starting at 800

Friday September 26 through Sunday September 28 The BarrettHouse School of Art will begin a workshop hosted by Marilyn Fairman on An Apshyproach to Impressionist Oil Paintshying on Location For further inshyformation call (914) 471-2550

Students unhappy with life in Talmadge Court by CHRISTOPHER THORNE

Focus Editor

Its only been in use for little over a year but already Talmadge Court has entered the arena of student criticism both good and bad

According to Sue DeVito a junior comshymunications major living in Talmadge court there are problems with parking

Theres not enough parking and you have to park in the street DeVito said

DeVito said that parking in the street could get you a ticket

If you park in thewrong spot you get a ticket DeVito said

Toni Garone a junior criminal justice major also said that parking is a problem at Talmadge

I come home from work at 1030 at night andl have to park across the street Garone said

Garone said that the bad neighborhood around Talmadge Court makes her nershyvous to cross the street when she gets home from work at night

I dont want to cross the street its not the nicest neighborhood Garone said

DeVito also said that the area around Talmadge Court is not the greatest of livshying environments

Its not the nice outside our little comshyplex DeVito said

Kathleen Hopkins a junior majoring in social work also said that parking in Talmadge Court has been hard

Its very difficult to get parking and we get ticketed Hopkins sai Security doesnt help

According to Susan Eriole assistant director of housing Talmadge Court ofshyfers more freedom than does living on campus

It does offer a more independent style of livingVpriplesaid

Conversely Eriole said that students living in Talmadge Court lose out on the on-campus lifestyle

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Its not right on campus so you miss some of that experience Eriole said

Eriole also said that Talmadge Court residents do not have the access to many things on-campus students do

Many of the college services are not at your ready disposal Eriole said

Hopkins said that the freedom of living off campus is an advantage

Its quiet and we get to do whatever we want Hopkins said

Hopkins says that living in Talmadge Court allows her to get away from the campus

We can get away from the campus and do our own thing Hopkins said

DeVito said that the only advantage to Talmadge Court was its proximity to the campus

Its close to campus thats about it DeVitosaid

DeVito said that she and her roommates did not anticipate a build-up situation when they chose Talmadge ~

We chose Talmadge but we didnt expect it to be built upDeVit6 said Garone one of DeVitos roommates said

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they expected We were under the impression that

there would be two bedrooms but theres only one Garone said

DeVito said that there is not enough room for the three of them in one bedshyroom

We have one bedroom and theres three of us and its crowded DeVito said Garone also said that some pieces of

furniture had to be moved out of the room in order to free up space

All the furniture wouldnt fit so We had to move some of the furniture downshystairs Garone said

Hopkins said that another disadvanshytage is that there are no installedlights in the rooms

Theres no lights in any of the rooms Hopkins said You have to supply your own

Garone said that despite the problems she would still live in Talmadge Court Iwouldntwant to stay on campus

Garone said I wanted to live somewhere else

Debate over Mother Theresas sainthood continues bySTEPHANffiMERCURIO

Managing Editor

To be a saint or not to be a saint that is the question

Many such as junior Toni Garone be-1 ieve that the late Mother Theresa should be named a saint There is debate howshyever over how long that process should take

I think she should be named a saint right away Garone said Her life was so public she touched the lives of so many people

The correct procedure to name a pershyson a saint can take centuries First the Catholic Church conducts an investigashytion into the persons life beginning five years after death to determine if the pershyson performed any miracles If the pershyson did perform miracles she is then beatified meaning people pray to that person to ask her or him to intervene with God on their behalf After an undetershymined number of years the person is canonized or named a saint

Junior Heather Pearson said she feels

this process should be shortened for Mother Theresa

The process to make her a saint should not take centuries she said People who lived during her lifetime exshyperienced all the of the good she did and should see her named a saint

According to a poll conducted by CNN however 51 percent of Americans feel the correct process should be followed

In an interview with CNN Raymond Flynn US ambassador to the Vatican said he feels Mother Theresa should definitely be named a saint

I think a saint is a person represent ing and working for people who are for gotten by society he said That is the reason she will have a special place as a saint in being a saint of the poor

Melissa Ruot a senior said she feels Mother Theresa performed many miracles

I dont understand why there needs to be an investigation into her life she said She performed so many miracles in her life by doing the smallest things to help the poor

Senior Donna Nastasi said she agrees with Ruot

She did so much when she was alive just working with the poor was a miracle in itself she said It should not take centuries to make her a saint

In addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the US Medal of Freeshydom in 1985 Mother Theresa helped the poor sick and dying in India by setting up dozens of homes for them Accordshying to CNN she would help the poor by empowering them with self-esteem and showing them love and care

Ruot said she was an incredible pershyson

She was so amazing I think she did so much for so many people she will always be remembered

SECURITY BRIEFS -Sept 18th 1212 am A case of larshyceny was reported in Townhouse M Estimated value of loss is over $200000 Assistant Director of Secushyrity T McLain said that it happened because people did not lock their doors

-Sept I9th-21st Four alcohol confisshycations took place- - _

-Sept 21st 145 am Unauthorized guests were found trying to sneak into Leo Hall through a window The guests were asked to leave campus

-Sept 21st 300 am The window in Gregory room 107 was found smashed in There are no suspects to the crime

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THE CIRCLE News September 251997

New bill will give students a voice in food services byMICHAELGOOT

Editor-in-chief

Students may now get a say irvAvhat they eat Earlier this month the Student

Governrhent Administration senate unanimously passed a bill that will try to increase stushydent input jni the dining services at Marist College i

Senate Speaker Kevin Lundy said the impetus for the bill origishynated when he was a member of trie student life councillast ser mester ^ bull bullbullbull bullAround campus a lot of stushy

dents complain about the cafshyeteria he said The student life council wanted to get conshycrete opinions

Last spring the council disshytributed a survey to 10 percent of the student body selected at random Lundy said he was surshyprised that nearly 25 percent of the surveys were returned beshycause it was around exam time

Using that report as a foundashytion during student governments summer session Lundy created a committee conshysisting of himself Sen Ryan Hunter Wendy Kenerson vice president for student life and Joe Verderame last semesters vice president for student life

This new committee will be working with Sodexho to design another survey that will be disshytributed to a larger segment of the campus Lundy said this

survey will be distributed about a week or so before Thanksgivshying

Were putting a lot of thought to how we want to phrase the questions he said

Lundy said his committees goals are to keep the freshmen eating at the dining hall and to try to bring back those sophoshymores who had been alienated by the cafeteria

the bill will also look into the possibility of double swiping-

-that is having a student use his card to pay for a guest

Lundy said some students do not like the fact that this is not currently allowed

A lot of students feel that if they are paying for the meals if they have a friend up they should be able to swipe a meal he said

Lundy said part of the probshylem is financial

Apparently they [dining sershyvices] dont bank on every stushydent using each of their meals he said

In addition to the survey SGA is working on other ways to inshycrease communication between students and dining services A focus group met with Jospeh Binotto FMS director of dinshying services and a regional repshyresentative from Sodexho last Wednesday

According to Binotto Sodexho has implemented sevshyeral changes since last year He said many of these changes deal

Proposed townhouses across Route 9 will accomodate 250 next September

byJILLGIOCONDO StaffWriter

Student housing build-ups and involuntary triples might not be a problem by next Sepshytember because Marist is planshyning to build Talmadge Court-style housing right across Route9

the college has submitted building plans to the Poughkeepsie town board and is waiting approval that could come later this month

Gerard Cox vice president and dean for student affairs said this new housing will help make more space available for upper-classmen that have a desire to live on campus

The housing will be located on West Cedar and Washingshyton at the old Hamilton Producshytion site across from the KampD Deli he said The housing will be styled after the current new townhouses that are loshycated on campus

Once the building plans are approved construction can beshygin on the first set of houses that will hold 254 students This first set of housing is scheduled to be complete by next Septemshyber Additional townhouses will be built later expanding occushypancy to 400 students

Space has become a major problem with more freshmen residents then expected enrollshying and more upperclassmen wanting to live on campus

Junior Joe Patriss said he was placed into a Gartland Commons room with two roommates He was able to move into Gregory

with food presentation The presentation of the food

was a concern from last year that weve addressed from our very first new meal and weve got some noted comments he said

Among the changes are cookshying hamburgers more closely to order changing the cleaning process so there are fewer dirty utensils and improving the conshydiment bar

Binotto said dining services will also work with SGA to creshyate the new survey

Were going to work with them to devise the survey he said They will actually adminshyister and tally it he said

Binotto also said dining sershyvices is trying to improve comshymunication with other students on campus

Weve begun publishing and mailing out our menus through the RAs hoping that the folks on the North End will frequent the dining hall more often he said

Sophomore Melanie Duditis sajd there is not enough variety in the cafeteria

They keep serving the same things over and over again she said I usually go to the cabaret

David Lynch an environmenshytal science major said he thought there was enough varishyety

You can usually find someshything you like he said

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Students socialize and eat in the main dining hall Student government is planning to design and distribute a survey to get more student input on the cafeteria food

There shouldnt be these build ups with the priority point system for uppershyclassmen housing I am glad Marist is planning on building more housing to deal with this problem

Joe Patriss junior

House but he said living in a triple was too uncomfortable

If you had put boots and footlockers in the room it would have looked exactly like a barshyrack It was impossible for the three of us to share that space he said

Patriss also said the housing situation needs to be addressed

There shouldnt be these build ups with the priority point system for upperclassmen housshying I am glad Marist is planshyning on building more housing to deal with this problem

Tracy Santangelo sophoshymore said she thinks new housshying will help the housing problem

For upperclassmen it will alshyleviate the problem at least for those who have enough points to get into this housing she said I also feel that the colshylege accepted too many new stushydents and that we need to acshycept fewer people or build more housing to accommodate new students

Marist plans on limiting next years freshmen class to 774 resishydent students There are no plans to increase the freshmen residential population because of the Route 9 housing

cations major said he is conshycerned about the content of the food

Theres too much fried stuff and not enough of other things he said

Binotto said he welcomes stushydent input

Comments or suggestions can be brought to the attention of any of the floor managers or through the comment cards he said

Binotto said if students have a bad experience with a meal they should not wait but let someone know right away He

also said he tries to make himshyself as accessible as possible

I do have an open door policy he said Im willing to speak to any student at any lime about any such concern they have

The committee is meeting evshyery two weeks with Binotto Lundy said if any students have ideas about ways to improve dining services they should get in touch with him via phone or his mailbox in the SGA office

The majority of students eat in the cafeteria and have to put up with it Lundy said

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Fontaine will be demolished faculty to lose offices continuedfrom page 1

may end up in May Were a big division she

said Where are they going to put us Theres no space that I know of Look around where would you put us For four or five people you could do it but for 45 what can you do

She heard rumors over the summer that faculty would be moved across Route 9 which she said would be a bad idea because it would mean less inshyteraction between professors and students

But Anderson said faculty will not be moved across Route 9

The committee rejected things across Route 9 because of accessibility of students he said Theres some interesting spaces available [across the road] but it would have meant a problem getting students back and forth The one thing that seems certain is keeping us on the current west side of Route 9

DeAngelis said she is very concerned about the possibilshyity of the division being split up during construction

Having some faculty in trailshyers and others in the Cabaret or in Donnelly would be unacceptshyable she said

Separation would be dismanshytling DeAngelis said Theres power in numbers Separating a department is crazy The coshyhesion would be lost The proshyfessor-student relation would be traumatized

Construction is expected to last 14 months and Haboucha said she is confident that no one will be displaced much longer than that

The college has a good repushytation in holding to deadline she said They will try to comshyplete it as quickly as possible

The McCann problem she said was something no one could have anticipated

Anderson said he worries that construction could go over deadline but nothing can be done about it

You worry about that he said but that was the guaranshytee we were given and thats what we have to accept at this point

He said right now everyone seems to be mourning the loss of a special building Even alumni who are excited about the new library are disapshypointed that Fontaine has to be destroyed

Theres funny little leak marks on the ceiling but as far as just how students respond when they come in here they sense its a little different then some of the other office spaces on campus he said

Haboucha said she will miss Fontaine but it will soon be worth all the problems they are facing now

We are very happy in Fontaine and I think everyone is going to miss it she said Theres a great deal of energy in the halls and the offices but its a little price to pay for what well have in the end

Tenure process a period of intrepidation for many faculty continued from page 1

using the information given so far

The final decision rests with the College Board of Trustees

If a faculty member is denied tenure it is because they did not fulfill one of the three objectives They are then granted one year to remain at Marist while they look for another position elseshywhere

Arslanian feels yearly obsershyvations before their sixth year helps measure strengths of a professor and areas needing improvement

This shows the candidate what to be aware of before they are evaluated for tenure He is disappointed that such a large number of faculty have been denied tenure in the past

Only one professor was granted tenure out of the seven recommended last year he said I am disappointed that the lack in requirements was not

detected earlier I have only been here a year but I personshyally do not want to see a large number denied

There are specific guidelines outlined in the Faculty Handshybook regarding tenure but per-sonal opinions may play a role in the final decisions

Vavrina said even though there are rules peoples opinshyions sometimes are involved in the decision Human judgment is always on the subjective side Vavrina said It is rooted in objective data but when is comes to pershysonal decisions and opinions it must at least be justified in exshyamples of data

The change in the composishytion of committee members may affect final decisions Each year the committees may stress difshyferent categories of evaluation These factors cause frustration among junior faculty who are unsure about their chances of tenure

Former Assistant Professor of English Evan Rivers said he feels there was too much emphashysis placed on scholarship the year he went for tenure He was denied tenure in 1995 because he had not published

Rivers said he feels that Marist is saying good-bye to many good teachers because of tenure

Marist is typical of many colshyleges Rivers said during a phone interviewManst is tryshying to better itself by putting emphasis on research and pubshylication at the expense of teachshying

Something is wrong if they are losing good professors I thought they were more dedishycated to teaching

Rivers is presently a professhysor at Cumberland University in Lebanon Tenn

This year ten faculty members are presently undergoing the beginning stages of the tenure process

Upgrade to communications labs will facilitate mulitmedia projects

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The 19 computers on order are from IBM and will enable stushydents to use digital editing techshyniques in their work

These computers fall under the three-year leasing contract with IBM that allows Marist to replace computers in any of the student labs with newer ones

The upgrade in the Lowell Thomas radio studio will include a new digital audio board that has just been delivered

The new board will be inshystalled during mid-semester

break Because the installation process is so complex it would be impossible to accomplish during the semester without shutting down the studio for two or three weeks

The television studio upgrade will be state-of-the-art and will include a new special effects computer upgrades to the teleshyvision cameras a TeleprompTer a new camcorder and a characshyter generator Richard Piatt department chair

of media arts said the upgrades are long overdue

Weve been trying for some

time to get more and better equipment he said

Minor modifications have been made over the past two years in both studios The teleshyvision studios cameras were replaced approximately three or four years ago but Merolli said this upgrade will be a great asshyset to students and staff

We think it will make a differ- ence in the instruction for teleshyvision and radio broadcast he said We think the students and staff will be pleased

The Marist College chapter of the Society of Professional Journalism is proposing a trip for communications students to Washington DC in the spring Possible visits include trips to The National Press Club and the new Newseum a museum of broadcasting history in Arlington VA If you are interested in the idea of a trip please send e-mail to Diane Kolod at KT2C

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Poet playwright and author Maya Angelou came to speak at Marist Sept 18 Tickets for her show sold out in eight days

Poet Maya Angelou inspires and entertains Marist with anecdotes

byJENFEMMINELLA StqffWriter

It all began with a song and the audience listened

Maya Angelou celebrated poet author and playwright began her lecture at the James J McCann Recreational Center with the African-American spirishytual Rainbows in the Clouds She set the evenings theme by interweaving African-American poetry with funny sometimes sad anecdotes

Angelou discussed the promshyise of every person and how each person can reach that promise

She encouraged the audience to go to the library and read African-American poetry beshycause through those works she said - bull

You can see that someone was there before yousomeone has arisen he said

Angelou made the audience laugh over the story of her trip to the Arsenio Hall Show She made them cry with a story of a suicidal young girl and then laugh again with an African maxim about not accepting a shirt from a naked man

Freshman Graig Corveleyn said the audience seemed amazed by Angelous presence

Usually in a large group people are coughing or shiftshy

ing in their seats but not here he said The audience was spellbound and silent Maya Angelou can really captivate an audience

Sophomore Kristina Brito said she liked what Angelou had to say about hero worship

I liked that she encouraged us to look-for heroes and sheroes from our everyday lives Brito said These people are the ones who care

about you and not some televishysion celebrity or athlete Angelou is right when explainshying that people from our everyshyday lives are our rainbows in the clouds

Sophomore Crissy Espdsito liked Angelous ability to reach the whole audience

She didnt direct her talk to anyone in particular Esposito said She talked to trie community as a whole Everyone could relate _

Tickets for Angelous lecture sold out in eight days -

Heather Suydam president of the Student Programming Counshycil said she was pleased Angelou decided to come to Marist

We knew she was coming to the area and figured it was worth ashot Suydam said We werent sure if she would accept our bid but we are really glad that she did

The Marist School of Management will hold a social

Wednesday Oct 1 in the Cabaret

Food will be served

Undecided students and School of Management students welcome

The School of Management will also be welcoming its new dean

THE CIRCLE September 251997 5

Science on the Move program brings computer technology to local classrooms

byCOURTNEYPAGE StaffWriter

Local high school teachers now have a way that will help bring their teaching skills to difshyferent levels thanks to the Marist program Science on the Move Marist won a $ 12 million grant

earier this month from the Nashytional Science Foundation to help area high school science classes conduct experiments and communicate with neighbouring schools using Marists mainframe computer

Andrew Molloy director of Science on the Move said the program will give students new opportunities

Now the schools have enough equipment to conduct experiments that they couldnt do before either because they lacked the equipment or fundshying he said

The Dyson Foundation and IBM also contributed nearly $240000 in grant money and computer hardware to aid the project Computer equipment donated by IBM will be transshyported between high schools by two newly purchased trucks painted with the programs logo

Molloy said the programs objectives are to connect scienshytific ideas to practical applicashytions such as labs

Labs are effective ways of learning in science and that if students can connect ideas to

some practical application they will remember the ideas longer he said

About 134 high school teachshyers from Dutchess Orange and Ulster counties attended two workshops at Marist College this summer to organize the project

The high school teachers learned a series of skills includshying familiarizing themselves with various lab instruments develshyoping experiments that would be interesting to their students leaning how to use e-mail and designing their own web page

Molloy said by using Marists mainframe computer and e-mail teachers and their classes can communicate with each other like never before In science classes this proshygram is to promote the sharing of resources among high schools he said It enables teachers to communicate throughout the area

Molloy said the program will eventually put a multimedia computer workstation in every high school Each station will include a computer a modem CD-ROM and a printer Evenshytually all students and teachers will have access to the World Wide Web but only twenty workstations have been set up so far

The program was first used Sept 18 and Molloy said he has already received e-mail from the teacher who used it

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The week of Sept 15 to Sept 18 was International Week at Marist College One of the highlights was the demonstration cricket match played by students from India The students prepared posters and handouts to explain the game rules and gave some hands-on instrucshytion to interested passers-by

Also students had the opportunitiy to win dinners at ehtnic restaurants by taking fun quizzes that were given out at the dining hall There was also a welcome back luncheon for returning Marist abroad students and several panel discussions about current international topics

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THE CIRCLE E D I T O R I A L September 25 1997

Editorial T h e V i e w from S u e by Sue Goodwin

The unheard masses should speak out Since this country has freedom of

speech when people are not speakshying out it is very puzzling The Circle has received only one letter to the editor so far this year I hope this is not the beginning of the trend It gives me the impression that Marist students are apathetic and do not care about their campus

Marist has always seemed to be a very passive campus This is a subshyject that has been touched upon nushymerous times before including by my predecessor However it bears reshypeating Students make up the largshyest part of the population of campus They pay to come here Student voices should be heard oh every facet of Marist ranging from academics to events and social activities

Maybe this passiveness has someshything to do with the sheltered life of college College students especially those living on campus are enclosed in a protective bubble The problems of the country state or town do not face them This passive attitude pershymeates all things Maybe another thing is lowered expectations As long as everything is all right people are satisfied They are not satisfied with making anything better or the best They will settle for a certain level of mediocrity

That is not to say that every stushydent is apathetic There are many people who are active in clubs and are organizing events and activities to add to the quality of life at Marist No matter where I go however I hear people complaining about differshy

ent things This indicates that they are not happy with the current state of affairs T h e administrators of this campus are not mind readers If you do not speak up and let them know that something is wrong they will think that everything is fine The longer you go without speaking up the more entrenched the current sysshytem will become

If you do not like the way someshything is goingtalk to your resident student council talk to a student senashytor in student government talk to a resident assistant talk to a faculty member or administrator or even better yet write a letter to The Circle That way you can share your opinshyion with other people and I will be able to stop writing editorials like these -

Some people complain that they dont have the time Make the time It does not require that much time to write a letter or call a student represhysentative Somebody has to take the initiative for making change

There is the expression that says that If you build it they will come I think the same true for student inshyvolvement If student leaders work together to build an atmosphere reshyceptive to student input other stushydents will come and offer suggesshytions

College is supposed to prepare you for life In life you cannot be passhysive You have to take the initiative or you will be left behind

Michael Goot Editor-in-chief

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The It Sure Stank Redemption column The title is a reference to my last colshy

umn which incidentally stank This weeks column is a modest attempt to redeem myselfmdashor even write something a little better Then again maybe its just an excuse to throw a bad pun into the title More apt a title would have been How I Spent My Summer Vacation which I shunned for obvious reasons (It sounded so dull it put my computer to sleep rim shot)

Being a lifeguard is like kissing the Blarshyney Stone It is something I would like to do only once This summer I had no intention of kissing my break good-bye with a buoy in tote Instead I quit my job at a local pool I decided to find a non-sitting job- one that did not re-quire sitting on chairs or sitting kids for that matter Luckily I was able to keep those occupations as ghosts of summers past

My fortunes or more correctly the New Jersey Transit Bus Line took me to Times Square No actually I did not partake in the lucrative profession of selling Oakleys and Gucci watches on the street corner Nor did I partake in any other lucrative street corner profession I waited on tables at the Howard Johnsons

In defense of waitresses everywhere (Save Pizza Hutmdash or exclude it rather) allow me to emphasize the wait in WAIT-tress I had to grapple with many a customer that was under the imshypression that I was an INSTANT-GRATIFIGATION-tress which was hardly the case

For example one woman told me that I had taken so long to bring out her order that her tea was already gone I halfshyheartedly apologized and asked if it had evaporated As I felt like quite the witty bastard I was unscathed by her retaliashytion which was a 35-cent-and-a-franc tip Oh did I need mention that she was French

Just moments after refilling the ladys tea I found myself needing to book an early flight back from my ego trip One

might say that my little paradise of Full-of-Myself Beach had evaposhyrated but that is not true A gentleshyman that was not particularly satisfied by the crispiness of his home fries lapped it up faster than that ladys tea

I explained to him Thats about as crispy as they get

He was not satisfied by my explanashytion so he threw a sleugh of big words at me Well dont you feel the need to overcompensate for your inadequashycies as a waitress by throwing in some extra toast or sausage links -

I assumed that he must be from the Midwest because he seemed to expect some sort of hospitality on my part I dont need to compensate for anything This is New York I explained as toughly as I could with my telltale acshycent

Oh really I am from New York He grinned and asked And where are you from

I surrendered that I was from New Jersey This silenced the fellow pershyhaps out of pity or even mild disgust It is a good thing that I have no intenshytion of entering the nursing profession After all my occasional slotheness at HoJos was not exactly a matter life and death Had I been negligent about adshyministering insulin injections or lax about plugging in respirators I could understand some degree of contempt Not keeping up with the rapid tea conshysumption of bitter French women and serving soggy breakfast potatoes seem hardly an issue (Though for the record HoJos breakfast potatoes

bull far superior to any hospitals)

Okay so maybe that redemption stuff was a lot of Blarney At least Im not

suggesting someone hold you upside down and kiss it for luck Then again

Tsuppose you could try

Tara Quinn is the Humor Columnist for The Circle

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Luck is the pure product of mans sheer ignorance of the world and his undying need to come to a conclusion

-Mike MacHenry

THE CIRCLE O P I N I O N September 251997

Mr Bladt goes to Washington but still just as cynical Whatever you are thinking it

is more than likely that I have already heard it So I bet you figured out how to use a shredshyder while you were at the White House Heh heh heh On How many nights did you spend in the Lincoln Bedroom and the occasional How many nights did you spend in the Clinton bedroom

This shows me two things The first is that five years of Jay Leno monologues has taught America that anyone can make insipid political commentary The other is that Americans think that what happens in Washington is insignificant I am sure of both of these because pf the fact that everyone I talk to seems to be far more intershyested in hearing about my present internship at Late Night with Conan OBrien than my summer at the White House

Nonetheless I spent this summer as a glorified leper which is to say that I was a White House Intern For those of you not entirely clear this means that I spent thousands of dollars on keeping a roof over my head food in my stomach and credits on my transcript for the distinct privilege of being slave labor

It is honestly far more glamorshyous than it sounds I just thought that I should be up front as I realize this is the botshytom line as to what I did

READ It has been brought to my atshy

tention that there was an article in last weeks issue which spoke of the horrors of living off camshypus To all of the freshmen out there who have not yet heard there are a few bad people here and there in Poughkeepsie If they see you walking home late one night they will probably be less than cordial and definitely not ask you to borrow a dollar

But living off campus is not nearly the nightmare it seems to be portrayed as (unless of course you live near Vassar or The Culinary Institute where all the rules of normality go out the window)

This is my second year living off campus and I think it beats on-campus life by a long shot The firsthand by far most imshyportant reason is the fact that you never have to go to the cafshyeteria again We can all attest to the Grade F meat that is served alongside the fake tater tots and the government cheese But for those of you who live in the Townhouses and Gartland you do not necessarshyily have to go to the cafe either so that is just as good as being off campus

Almost as important as sayshying goodbye to the cafeteria though is proving to your parshyents that you are responsible enough to live on your own This could help take the presshysure off when you tell them that you plan on living in Boston for the summer

Now I know what you are thinking Off-campus means that we have to pay for electric-

Photo courtesy orChriMian Bladt

The Circles Senior Political Columnist Christian Bladt at the Presidents birthday party on White Houses South Lawn

I had a cushy gig at The Nashytional Performance Review arm of the Office of the Vice Presishydent (One of the most comshymonly asked questions this past summer was Vice President of what) This was a truly exhilashyrating and at times unbelievable experience It was difficult for me to not be awestruck at the fact that Iwas in the center of activity for the Executive Branch of our Federal governshyment There were many occashysions where I simply was dumbshyfounded at what the incredible -opportunity Iwas given This sensation was supershyseded when all of the Office of

the Vice President interns got to meet with Vice President Gore I had the distinct pleasure of getshyting to sit right next to the Vice President Initially this seemed like the best seat in the house but I soon I realized how intimishydating it would be to sit a heartshybeat away from the man who is himself a heartbeat away from becoming the leader of the most powerful nation on earth

Mr Gore was a truly warm funny and charismatic man who made us all feel at ease with the fact that we were talking to such an immensely important public figure He answered questions ranging from the environment to

(Off campus life be^x^n campus housing in national taste tests ity and cable and all that stuff Obviously you folks havent mastered theart of conning the

parents If that is the case you might as well not even read the rest of this article For those of you Who feel you can improve your efforts in taking advantage of the parents we will continue

You tell your parents that since they dont have to pay for room and board on campus they should have no problems payshying for your bills groceries rent car payments bike payments gambling debts and other habshyits

Another way of looking at off campus life comes into play if you live in an area where there are lots of other students around It becomes campus life without the RAs and the RDs not to mention security This year I live on a street with at least forty other students on it and it is like one big block party oh the weekends

We walk down the street at three or four in the morning on the weekends with no fear of being approached by random Poughkeepsie street urchins The neighbors on the other hand are a different story But the police have only been called a few times this year and when they came to my apartment they were very nice

I have not been to Kaal Rock yet but I hear it is just as good of a time over there The fact is that outside of those people who were quoted in last weeks issue I havent heard anyone complain about the quality of life off campus

taxes He even discussed with me the importance of television appearances This truly was the highlight of my time in Washshyington I would love to share the moment with you but Washshyington beuracracy being what it is it will be months before the photographs are developed

The most historic event I atshytended was the signing of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 by President Clinton Mr Clinton and Mr Gore spoke at that as did Speaker of the House Gingrich His wife was also there I know this because Mr Gore asked her to stand up and be recognized Of course she was wearing such a tacky outshyfit it would have been hard to nor recognize her (I still think that this is why the Vice Presishydent had her stand so we could all gawk at her) When all 225 White House Inshy

terns posed for a group picture with President Clinton it really was phenomenal Although this was a brief event staged outshyside on the South Lawn amidst 100 uncomfortable degrees this was probably the event that was the most rewarding

Mr Clinton talked to us about the importance of public service He told us that if we learned anything from our summer in Washington it should be that United States public servants work incredibly hard to ensure that our government does its

And lets face it if you are goshying to get mugged you are goshying to get mugged it doesnt matter where you live

The reason is when Tommy decides hes too drunk to stay at the bar anymore and he doesnt have the dollar to take a taxi (or doesnt know how to say taxi) hes going to sneak out and walk home It doesnt matshyter if he lives on Union Street or in upper state New York hes going to walk

If Tommy gets mugged that night it is obviously not a good or funny thing (unless you know him and he is okay) But it would not have made a differshyence if Tommy lived on campus because it is a matter of luck In fact since Nite Cap burned down many off-campus housshying areas are closer to parties and bars than campus

The moral of the story children is do not give that extra ten thousand dollars to Marist Give them money for the classes and nothing more because generally speaking they do not deserve it Instead why dont you be a good citizen and give some of that money to one of the drunken landlords on Union Street or Kaal Rock who will probably stiff you on your seshycurity deposit at the end of the year I guarantee you will have more fun

Tim Manson is the Opinion Editor for The Circle

best to help the best interests of the needs of the many people of this great nation He told us that we would be having a unique experience and that we would get a rare look into the inner workings of our governshyment which he hoped that we would share with people when we got back

Most of all I was amazed at the incredible amount of work done by the people at National Performance Review The long hours put in and the massive amount of overtime without exshytra pay is not something that I am envious of During my expeshyrience public servants work far longer and much harder than what most of the public would think

There were numerous inshystances where I was able to see the changes that were being made in our government This is important because we have been inundated with talk of Big Government for so long that it was great to see that there are so many people in our governshyment working hard to make our government work better and at the same time find ways to make it cost less

Christian Bladt is The Circles White House Correspondent His Political Column will return next Thursday

Stuck inside Marist campus the transportation frliies

Take a moment if you will to look at what Marist has planned for the month of Sepshytember Look at the picture highlights on the top half of the Marist College Student Activishyties Calendar a picture of Maya Angelou a guy with a snake wrapped around his neck an aerial view of the Indigo Girls and some guy surrounded by a couple o funny looking puppets

Last and most certainly LEAST is a little picture of a bus Galleria Mall Trips it says Saturday Sept 6-Day Saturday Sept 13-Evening And there you have it the highlights of the month of Sepshytember What is wrong with this picture

I recall being in high school and looking forward to being able to have a certain amount of independence the kind of free-roaming independence that college students thrive on

As a freshmen I learned that independence in todays socishyety is almost entirely based on one question Do you have a car

Unfortunately Ive been livshying with the reality of no ever since There are many times when I would like to get off camshypus to go shopping or go to the movies Some days I think of how nice it would be to go to the Vanderbilt Mansion or take a ride to Rhinebeck Howshyever unless I am willing to fork over the money for a cab (which is almost invariably three dollars each way unless youre desperate enough to load yourself like sheep into one of those white taxi vans

that leaves school every five minutes to go you-know-where on weekend nights)

I am at the complete mercy of the will of my friends who do have cars Two Galleria mall trips a month is neither going to impress me nor satisfy my urge to get off campus once in a while without having to add an extra eight dollars on to the price of my movie ticket

Lets not fool ourselves into believing exactly what the school wants us to believe that Marist with its 120 acres of freshly trimmed grass is a self-sufficient habitat for its stushydents Everything that we need is right here Ifitsnotin the college bookstore or in one of the coffee shops I cant use it Tell me when youve heard anyone say that

We as a collective student body should be pushing for transportation that is cheaper and more frequent Lets not make independence become some kind of competition beshytween those with cars and those without I dont ever want to see that little bus on the activities calendar again It should not have to be a big publicized deal that we get to go to the mall two Saturdays a month On weekends it should not be cheaper to go to a bar than it is to go to the movies Assert your rights to transporshytation now or you may spend the rest of your college days in the same place (Right here)

Alisa Nuzum writes what she wants for The Circle

8 THE CIRCLE Features September 251997

Center for career services prepares seniors for grad schools and jobs EMILYKUCHARCZYK

Asst Feature Editor

Regular visits to the Center for Career Services may keep job search frustration away

The Center for Career Services (CCS) located in Donnelly 226 is offering programs to help reshylieve students of some of the stress of searching for a job or graduate school The programs include resume referral resume books campus interviews and career and graduate school fairs Career workshops are also beshying offered

Chet Koulik assistant direcshytor of career development and placement said career services is a good opportunity for those who choose to take it

A lot is going on senior year he said but its the only time in your life that youre goshying to have four full-time proshyfessionals helping you

Four professional counselors as well as two secretaries two support staff and interns staff the Center for Career Services This semester CCS is offering four recruiting programs

Resume referral is one of the programs being offered This program involves CCS sending out resumes to companies that have openings and request reshysumes of students and alumni having qualifications for the job The employer will then contact the student if interested

A second program is resume books With this program reshysumes are sent out in cycles sent out each week to different employers that might have job openings

Another program being ofshyfered is campus interviews Employers come on campus and

conduct interviews for qualified students CCS contacts the stushydent if the employer wants to interview him

The other recruiting program CCS is offering this semester is a job fair At job fairs Koulik said employers are looking for students to hire for possible job openings internships summer jobs or are just promoting their organization CCS will be holdshying a job fair Oct 30 from 4 pm to 7 pm in the McCann Center Koulik said all students should attend in order to begin the job networking process

Students must register with CSS to become involved in the recruiting programs Students must fill out a registration form which gives CCS permission to send out resumes to prospecshytive employers Students must also attend a job placement orishyentation workshop to better unshyderstand the programs and sershyvices available

Other workshops offered inshyclude one on how to get jobs with the best organizations reshysume writing for beginners inshyterviewing skills salary negotiashytion graduate school to go or not to go job hunting on the internet international careers fact or fiction and communicashytion internship workshops CCS regularly sends out email and mail reminding students of the different programs

According to Koulik about half the senior class is registered with CSS He said about 17 pershycent of seniors are planning to go to graduate school Career Services offers counseling and test preparation programs for students who will be attending grad school CCS also held a Graduate Forum Sept 24 The forum included colleges

Good food great deal with the lunch buffet at your local Pizza Hut

BRENT KNAPP StaffWriter

After two weeks of grocery shopping two weeks of cookshying and way too many dishes what is Marist student to do

Well one thought is go all out and go somewhere nice to eat Then I remembered how much money I spent the night before at one of my favorite establishshyments Suddenly a friend of mine had one of his rare good ideas I believe his exact words were We should go to the Pizza Hut lunch buffet It came over us like a like hearing one of our friends had a keg at their house there was no doubt that we were going So my two best friends (who will be known as Los and Pit) and I proceeded to scrap together our few remainshying dollars and head to the Pizza Hut

We chose the Pizza Hut loshycated next to Price Chopper on Route 9 This was perfect beshycause we could return our cans and bottles first to make sure we had enough money At a cost of roughly $4 each we were able to consume all of the pizza

pasta salad and other goodies available until we could eat no more This has to be the poor college student deal of the censhytury

For another $110 you can get a soda with as many free refills as you like We were fortunate enough to have a coupon for a buy one get one free on the bufshyfet After all was said and done it cost us each about $500 with tip Now Im sure many of you are saying Pizza Hut thats not new or exciting but I beg to differ As a college student with limited resources and a big stomshyach my friends and I will tell you just how excited we were Esshypecially Pit when you conshysider that he ate 10 slices of pizza Now I ask you where else can you get a deal like that As evshyery day passes we use a few more paper plates and do a few less dishes but we still have to go out and eat sometimes So I hope that throughout the seshymester I can give you some ideas and maybe a laugh as Los Pit and myself struggle through our first months of cooking Needless to say I miss Mom a little more as each day passes

Circle PhotoSusan Goulet

A representative from the Center for Career Services conducts a workshop The office offers several workshops with topics like finding a graduate school and making a resume

throughout the country trying to recruit future grad students

Senior Environmental Science major Jessica Hock said CCS programs are helpful for those who choose to take advantage of them Hock who plans on going to graduate school said the programs help her feel less overwhelmed about the whole process

Im not as nervous about goshying to school its more of the process of actually looking for places and the programs have helped she said

Fernanda Leventhal a senior communcationspublic relashytions major said she is also thinking about going to grad school

Leventhal said the programs have made the search process easier

I have the resume packets and have done the searches for

different grad schools and Cashyreer Services has been really helpful giving tips and places to search for she said

Koulik said it is a good idea for students to get involved in the job search process early

Dont wait until tlie end when you think you have more time because then the frustration of I didnt do anything yet so Im not going to get a job comes in he said

Because the job search proshycess takes about eight to ten weeks Koulik said October would be a good starting point for seniors graduating in May

Koulik said he recommends students do at least one thing for their job search every week

It s very important that stushydents get in the regular habit of doing something toward their job search he said Spend one day a week doing someshy

thing related to the job search such as researching employers talking to people gathering inshyformation from our office just something

Helping students get a job Koulik said is CCSs primary goal

Most students are coming to college to get a good job a betshyter job you might not have been able to get without it he said So we need to be there as a support service for you educatshying you on how to write a reshysume or cover letter because youre going to have to do it a lot of times in your life

Koulik said CCS will make the job and graduate school search process easier for the student

We understand its not a fun process he said but if you do a little bit at a time its much easier and it will all come toshygether in the end

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Junior Bill Brennan thrives by being close to the water listening to Dave Matthews Band

CARISAKEANE StaffWriter

With his tan barely faded from the past summer Bill Brennan a biology and secshyondary education major plopped down ona chair munching on chocolate cookies An Absolut Fire Island poster hangs above his bed while a bootleg Dave Matthews video plays on his television

Originally from West Islip Long Island Brennan has spent his entire life living by the ocean He just finished his third year life guarding on Fire Island and plans to work there again next sumshymer

Ive been swimming since I was two years old Brennan said Ive never feared the water it completely relaxes me

The love of water seems to run in Brennans family Beshying the oldest of five chilshydren Brennan is not the only

swimmer My dad swam for St

Bonaventure when he was younger he explained And my sister^ Kerry is starting her third year oh her high school swim team -

Brennan is beginning his third year as a distance freestyle swimmer for the Marist College Swim Team

I usually swim 5001000 or the 1650yards at meets Brennan said This will be my sixth year competing

Brennan prefers swimming the 1650yard race because it is the longest

The longer races always alshylow room for improvement he said I expect to improve evshyery time I swim whether its at practice or a meet

Larry Van Wagner aquatic dishyrector and head swimming coach at Marist College described Brennan in three words

Bill is continually seeking potential Van Wagner said

Through competition Brennan learns the value of self-

respect and hard work I love to challenge myself

Brennan explained It keeps me determined

Determined was one word Steve Napolitani a third year radioTVfilm major used to deshyscribe his roommate

Bill is a highly determined person he expects a lot from himself Napolitani said But hell give it his best while helpshying others at the same time

Brennan recently began a job at Marist helping others while still doing what he loves swimshyming He coaches the Marist College Swim Club

I coach people from the Mid-Hudson area ranging in age from seven to 20 years old Brennan said Its my first year and Im looking forward to it

Brennan hopes to continue coaching while possibly teachshying biology after graduation

I want to turn my high school swimming program into the best on Long Island Brennan said

Along with teaching and coaching Brennan also plans to marry and have children

Marriage is a big commitment but Im willing to follow through with it Brennan said Id supshyport everyone whos involved

Ok so you want the real dirt Here are a few things people may not know about Bill Brennan

He despises cigarette smokshying

Its a drug that fools people Brennan explained And Ive seen a lot athletes go downhill because of it

His biggest fear ironically inshyvolves the ocean

I believe within the next 25 years a natural disaster like a hurricane will wipe out the enshytire Fire Island shore Brennan said Im afraid it wont be a place I can go anymore

He loves dolphins Dolphins are such peaceful

animals Brennan said I used to ride with them on Fire Island when I was younger

He is obsessed with the Dave Matthews Band

Ive been following the band since 1995 Brennan said I have 26 bootlegs of themmdash24 music tapes and two videos

Their lyrics are amazing He recently swam across

the Hudson River It s a team thing

Brennan said This was my second year and Ill definitely do it again

His proudest moment happened freshman year

After competing against eight other teams we won the Swimming MAAC (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) Championshyships Brennan said

On the other hand his most embarrassing moment happenedwhile life guardshying

I took a kayak all the way out in an attempt to save someone I then realshyized it was just a shirt floatshying in the water Brennan said

In 20 years Brennan sees himself floating

I would love to be anshychored out on a dock to live with my family he said I cant imagine living the rest of my 1 ife far a part from the water

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The Silver Needle Award and Fashion Show is a very important event for the fashion students The Show is highly notable and well attended fay some of the best in the fashion industry and by some of the areas most influential people

The Fashion Program is looking for Marist female students to model We are looking for dependable and reliable students interested in taking part in this event Only those genuinely interested and committed should apply Willingness to commit dedication and long hours is required

When Wednesday October 15 at 1100 am -100 pm

Where Nelli Goletti Theater in the Student Center

Attire Please wear tights or catsuit with high heels

Requirements Height-at least 59 Weight- proportioned according to height Size-6-8onIy Experience not necessary

If you meet the height requirement and are interested in modeling for the 12th Annual Silver Needle Award and Fashion Show please attend the Model Selection Meeting on Wednesday October 15 at 11 am PROMPT in the KelB Goletti Theater in the Student Center

If you are not at the meeting you cannot be selected If you have a schedule conflict please stop by Hie Fashion Program in DN 254 as soon as possible and speak with Karen

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Taking a Closer Look at Arts September 25 1997 11

News and Reviews

MCGTA gearing up for another exciting year of comedy music and drama by GRAIG P CORVELEYN

StaffWriter

Theatre arts are alive and well on the Marist college campus The MCCTA (Marist College Council on Theater Arts) is planshyning eight Big shows during the first and second semesters

Tom Gallagher president of MCCTA said that the group is constantly broadening its hori- zons and expanding its ideas Our musical and our fall comshy

edy have sort of taken over

He added that they regularly turn people away from sold out shows- Casting has already occurred-and rehearsals have begun forfthe two fall shows Moon Over Buffalo a comshyedy about a husband and wife acting team who are trying to make it big in the movies

Also the Marist College Singshyers is co-sponsering Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor dreamebat a high energy voshycally challenging musical

Inadditioni the MCCTA preshysents TheExperimental Theatre Guild This production alshythough not yet determined will probably be a comedy or a drama The interesting thing aboutthis particular group is that is doesnt always present the same old shows

Gallagher says Its got to challenge people its got to be out there

ETG will also team up with the Black Student Union to present a show in December The director of that show will be Diane Nell a professor and

Photo courtesy of HtMlhcr Upper

Trent Sano and Jessica DeGoes perform in MCCTAs production of Guys and Dolls last fall This semesters musical is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

former MCCTA President Anshyother unique performance meshydium that MCCTA provides is childrens theatre This monshyster show involves a huge cast and eager young audiences ranging from pre-kindergarten to third grade Last years show The Emperors New Clothes was total interaction with the kids Gallagher said

The comedy improvisational group the HuMarists who opened for Taylor Mason on September 6th will soon be holding auditions for their 1997 season Their major perforshymance will be The Big Show

on December 9th Gallagher said that MCCTA is

always looking for people to act and work behind the scenes

We run into a lot of people who just want to act but comshymittees are always looking for people

Committees include sets lights sound props costumes make-up and publicity

Gallagher said one of the best things about MCCTA is that anyone is welcome to audition for the shows

That is the beauty of a club verses a major he said If you

try out youve got a fiftyfifty chance

Gallagher also said that espeshycially starting out in theatre it is important to stick with it If you are interested in getting inshyvolved with MCCTA attend one of its monthly meetings

To find out more about the up coming shows look up MCCTA on the world wide web at maristbmaristedu-hzta httpmcctahtml or watch the bulletin boards in your area And of course be sure to get your tickets early and come out to support your friends and felshylow thespians in MCCTA

South Park blatantly politically incorrect but humorous byCARLITO

StaffWriter

Racism violence ethnic slurs foul language and bad taste What more could anyone want from a cartoon

South Park made its debut on Comedy Central three weeks ago and has since taken the animated world by storm Leavshying in itswake a conservative society writhing in post-traushymatic shock The show represhysents anything and everything that parents do not want their children to view on television Its violent tasteless and revoltshying But in my eyes its anishymated poetry I think back on the monumental achievements that have graced the TV screen since its birth in the 1930s and two things come to mindSouth Park and the Spice Channel

Unedited bootlegs of the show have been in circulation for the past year but I havent had the pleasure or viewing it until three weeks ago But since then I have retired my syringe to make room for a cheaper healthier addiction Sure the show is a little lacking in the moral fiber department but Mr Rogers is no longer the domishy

nant media force that he used to be Charles in Charge re-runs are also becoming more and more scarce Most of the crap cluttering the airwaves these days breed moral decay so why not tack one more show on to the list

While some television proshygrams concern themselves with being moderately PC (politically correct) South Park makes a

blatant effort to offend as many people as humanly possible Whether its sexism racism anti-Semitism degradation of religion or homophobia South Park attacks it while discarding such concepts as subtlety and sensitivity Friday nightjl set my girlfriend

as well as my alcoholism on the back burner to embrace three hours of televised smut A South Park marathon quenched every thirst for indecency that Ive ever had Shows tackled issues like homophobia asshysisted suicides alien abduction plagiarism cloning and animal cruelty And to my surprise moral justice was served each and every time For those of you that missed it I was being sarcastic

If someone wanted to count the number of times the show

promoted improper behavior theyd heed a little help from NASA In one episode one childs uncle (for the record the show consists of five small time youngsters in the second grade) took the kids on a hunting exshypedition Apparently to obtain a hunting permit in South Park the only requirement is that the applicant is post-utero While on the hunting trip the uncle (and competent chaperone) disshytributed beer to the eight year olds while assuring them that hunting sober was as illogical aswellfishing sober

Promoting underage drinking is an issue that would make PTA members across the country salivate I am surprised that conservatives have not yet sank their teeth into this program Even a liberal like myself cant help but see detrimental affects from this program being viewed by young children Heres a program that portrays second graders as being fluent in both English and Truckdriver Gay activists that caught the epishysode about the homosexual dog must have cringed in disgust Especially after the kids teacher told him that gay people are evil The same episode also featured Jesus Christ hosting

Fall Semester Shows

Moon Over Buffalo Oct 9 to 11 800 pm Oct 12 200pm

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nov 20 to 22 800pm Nov 22 23 200pm Directed By Kristen Coury

An MCCTA Experimental Theatre Production

Dec 4 to 6 800pm Dec 7 200pm

The HuMarists Present

The Big Show

December^ 1997

All productions will be staged in the Nelly Goletti Theatre

Wednesdays at I Opm (ETPT)

South Park a raunchy new cartoon can be seen every Wednesday at 1000 on Comedy Central

his own public access show It shocks me that a show as

raunchy as this can be accessed through basic cable As immoral as it is Im yet to meet one pershyson that hasnt loved it Senior Steve Uchman claims that the Simpsons are no longer the kings of animated television He also added that watching the program almostelevates him to the level of sexual arousal While I havent quite reached that point of enjoyment when watching the show I will agree

that it is the best cartoon Ive ever watched

So for those of you that enshyjoy cut-throat prejudice foul language or anything offensive tune in to Comedy Central (channel 42) Wednesday nights at ten oclock As for the conshyservative public hide the women and children because South Park has arrived And unless God himself does someshything to interveneits not goshying anywhere

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Second leg of AampE editors journey stops at Puerto Rico

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Right after my trip to Vermont (in last weeks paper) I had a weeks recovery time before setshyting off for Puerto Rico On June 7 I left Bradley International Airport with virtually no money and absolutely no fluency in Spanish I was going to be watching an apartment in Joyuda a small town on the western coast

I had a stipend of two hunshydred dollars on which I had to live for a month My plan was to spend as little on food and supplies as possible so that I might check out the many natushyral wonders of this dynamic country (which is no bigger in geographical size than Conshynecticut)

I decided to try to make two major trips one to El Yunque Rain Forest and the Rio Camuy caves El Yunque is the only tropical rain forest in the US Park Service The Rio Camuy caves are a vast network of gishyant underground caverns in the northwest corner of Puerto Rico

If you have ever flipped through the Guiness Book of World Records you may have seen the picture of the worlds largest satellite dish That parshyticular dish is in Arecibo a town that the caves run under The dish is maintained by Cornell University

Getting to the rain forest was relatively easy I was able to rent a car for fewer than thirty dolshylars I ended up going there a few times to explore the dark rainy terrain and to hike to the summit of El Yunque peak I would love to go into detail about the amazing things I saw there but since the caves were more entertaining Ill recount my trip to Rio Camuy

In order to go on the trip I had to relocate to San Juan which I was able to do thanks to a friend

staying in Old San Juan My taxi arrived on the Cal de Sol at five fifteen AM The driver didnt speak English so the ride to the Explora Expedition Center was rather quiet I had paid close to a hundred dollars for this trip which was half of my money The cab fair to and from Explora was the last of my money but I figured it would be worth it When I arrived everyone else on the trip was there and waitshying There was only two other non-Spanish speaking Amerishycans and about twelve Puerto Ricans Our guides spoke both languages but their English was not very good Several times during the course of the jourshyney they neglected to tell us important warnings in English which was a bit unsettling

The van ride out to Arecibo was peaceful Hilly brown and green landscapes scrolled by under a bright-orange sunrise San Juan phased out into large grazing fields and tiny farms We drove right by the entrance to the national park and took a mysterious side road that led us to a small privately owned farm in the middle of nowhere As we pulled in chickens scattered and a small brown man came out to speak to the guides It turns out Explora pays this man money each month to use his house as a trailhead He seemed kind and friendly to the native people but didnt say much to us foreigners I wasnt ofshyfended

We were given our gear for the day which included a cayingi helmet and light a lifejacket a rappelling harness a rappelling rack and kneepads I had my daypack with me though all I was carrying was my camera and lunch We put on our equipshyment and were off The trail to the base of the caves was hardly visible The path was heavily overgrown with vegetation I was beginning to like this

After hiking about an hour in ninety-degree weather we arshyrived at the edge of a mini-canshy

yon that dropped seventyfeet into a limey river Our guides secured rappelling lines and asked us to come on down I was the first in the group to deshyscend because I was the only one among them who had rappelling experience I kicked a pendulum swing against the wall and slid down the line About ten feet from the river one of the guides who went down first told me to just let go SPLASH BRRRR The water was freezing It was about fifty degrees in the little ravine I waited patiently for everyone to come down After another hour everyone was down and it was time to go into the cave itself We had to swim into the enshytrance of the cave Once in we flipped on our headlamps and headed in I would have taken pictures but my camera got comshypletely destroyed from the washyter something I hadnt anticishypated The entrance of the cave was about twenty feet by twenty feet The ground was soft slippery clay (like the kind you can make pots out of) We had to crawl on our stomachs through the tighter squeezes which made everyone look like mud men and women The caves were tight but not that badyet The initial passages led us to a huge auditorium sized cave where we stopped to eat and receive a speech on bat guano For a second the guides had us turn off our lights so we could feel pure darkness i

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AampE Editor Jim D2iezynskl holding his lucky mascots before descending into the caves of Arecibo

middle and no way to talk to them I was in a panic sandwich Luckily a small side passage alshylowed them to go to the easy passage before the tunnel got really tight How tight Well I am 58 145 lbs and I had to inshyhale to move forward because when I exhaled my chest was too big to go forward It was really tight I was pressed flat between the sharp limestone^ crawling completely on my stomach The

^passage snaked around for about two hundred feet before coming out in the main cave where everyone else was

In the cave we received anshyother speech about something It was all in Spanish so I had no idea what they were talking about Maybe about how bad America is maybe riow fuhriy looking I was T dont really know All I know is that they laughed a lot

To exit the cave we jumped into a fast moving river cave that

carried us through all kinds of tunnels This may have been the coolest thing Ive ever done We floated out on our backs a pretty fast clip The light at the end of the tunnel came into view and soon we were spit out into the main river Goonies-style The sun was blinding but welshycome The caves were cold and we were wet We swam upshystream to another trail which we hiked back to the van on

This trip was one of the most awesome adventures I have ever had I wished I could have explored the caves for days I highly suggest seeing the Rio Camuy caves if you are ever in Puerto Rico The only casualty was my expensive camera Not recommended- for those who dont like tight dark places with Spanish fruit bats

Next Week The 1997 Marist Expedition to Mount Washington

U p and coming local bands are ones to watch Bouncing Souls CD a worthy effbt

by PATRICK WHITTLE Staff Writer

Duchess and Orange County are great places to check out some fresh new bands

Whatever style youre into The independent music scene is alive and well in upstate New York if the past year can serve as a barometer A lot of these bands can be see performing the opening sets at places like the Chance in Poughkeepsie the Cabaloosa in New Paltz and the Avalon in Nevvburgh

If youre a ska fan and you happen to have a record player definitely check out the new single from Lettuce Boy one of the premier local acts Theyve played with the Toastshyers and Mephiskapheles and will be playing with the Slackshyers next month They also do some interesting cover songs like Kiss RockN Roll All Nite and Pigs in Space from the

Muppet Show Niney-9-Cents also

play some ska songs and but are more of a skapunk band along the lines of Operation Ivy Theyve become very popular over the past year probably because it seems like theyre playing a show every week They have a new single out also Along the same lines are the Velvetones Fans of upbeat ska-influenced alternative like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones should check them out

Brown Tongue is a band that seems to get more unpopular with every show but thats more because of their atshytitude than anything else They play blues-influenced hard rock (complete with s harmonica player) thats different if nothshying else

Switching gears a little is Drowning Room from Wappingers Falls who have just released their debut CD on Rhythm Den Records They

play excellent groove-heavy metal influenced hardcore simishylar to nothing you ve ever heard before If you like music thats a little on the heavy side defishynitely check them out theyre always playing somewhere

Dissolve is also from Wappingers Falls and play a similar style of music Keavan from Dissolve owns the tattoo parlor across the street from Marist They have a CD out on Elevator Music that is decent but doesnt compare to their live show

If youre feeling adshyventurous on a weekend defishynitely look into seeing one of the many great local acts in Duchess and Orange County On any given week there will be some musical event going on somewhere in the area This past Thursday the band Shunt played at Confettis in Poughkeepsie Independent bands need your support so give some new music a chance

by BOB ROTH Staff Writer

The Bouncing Souls are beshycoming one of the biggest bands in punk rock Their new album on Epitaph Records should propel them to the foreshyfront of the leaders in popularshyity among other Epitaph Bands Penny wise NOFX and Down By Law

Their jump to Epitaph made a lot of people wonder if the Souls were in it for the money and did not care about the music Their past albums on B YO Manical Laughter and The Good the Bad and the Ar-gyle have become classics

The new album blows away the old albums with more serishyous song writing and better production Anthems like Say Anything Kate is Great and Low Life lead the pack of great new songs The song East Side Mags deals with the bands obsession with BMXs and riding them in

Manhattan The song Chunksong can relate to many problems people face Choruses like Too old to bothertoo young to care is a paradox of how a lot of young adults live their lives They look at the problems adults face and get the feeling we are too young to deal with those problems Problems younger teenagers deal with is stuff we would not want to bother with because we are too old to care

This album by the Bouncing Souls is downright amazing It contains 16 slabs of punk rock for your listening pleasure If you are not into punk pick up the disc anyway and open your mind to a whole new world of music I feel that of all the CDs I have reviewed and listened to the new Bouncing Souls Disc is up there with the best of 97

To learn more about the Bouncing Souls go to the Epishytaph Anti-Web at http wwwepitaphcom


Dar Williams soothing voice insightful lyrics delight bySTEPH^NIEMERClMO

Managing Editor

When I first picked up the Dar Williams CD End of Summer I was thrilled After experiencing the Lilith Fair this summer and hearing Williams for the first time I knew I would love her

Williams writes that the CD was recorded in her bedroom which gives the album an exshytremely familiar feel As soon as I put it on I felt as if I was hangshying out with her in her bedroom talking about life and relationshyships

The song If I Wrote You is an absolutely beautiful song about revealing a love which in turn drives the object of her deshysire away The song End of Summer is about leaving a sumshymer love which has the best line ever There are just some moments when your family makes sense I totally related to that line as well as the rest of

the song In What do You Hear in these

Sounds she sings of intense self-doubt and trying to absolve herfeelings through therapy She conveyed the mentality of most of our society brilliantly within this song which is probshyably my favorite on the album

The only song I did not like at all was Teenagers Kick Our Butts The title alone made me want to skip the song when I was listening for the first time but the message of the song is a decent one if not overplayed the adult generation has not solved every problem the chilshydren need to tell them what to do

Williams voice is very easy to listen to It is soothing yet it did not put me to sleep Her voice is similar to Tori Amos with a dash of Jewel added in

Most of her songs although delivering powerful messages are not slow and serious They

are upbeat and snappy to which I found myself bopping to as I did my homework

I do not know if I would recshyommend this album to everyone however My favorite artists inshyclude Sarah McLachlan Fiona Apple The Indigo Girls and Tori Amos Dar Williams fits in very nicely with this group of women so she was easy to like My housemates thought the alshybum was pretty good as well However my Smashing PumpshykinsPink Floyd-loving boyshyfriend was not as impressed with this album as I was

Overall it would be safe to say if you like more mellow music with a message to it Dar Willshyiams would be enjoyable for you If you are an Ozzy Osborne groupie you might want to pass her by I really enjoy the album and listen to it often Out of five stars I would give her three and a half

Dar Williams is finding her way in the folk genre release is called End of Summer

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HITS AND MISSES FOR THE FALL TV SEASON by self-proclaimed TV expert Michael Goot

Hits Brooklyn South-a gritty police drama by Steven Bocho Ally McBealmdasha comedydrama about a woman and what goes on inside her head (a tasteful version of the sitcom Hermans Head) Veronicas Closet-a sitcom after Seinfeld with Kirstie Alley Enough said Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel~New network same interviewing style Michael HayesmdashDavid Caruso returns after a failed movie career starring as a federal prosecutor

Misses You Wish a show about a genie on ABCs TGIF too stupid even for kids MeegomdashBronson Pinchot is an alien who crashs into your living room and becomes a nanny for your kid Dellaventura This show about a super over-the-hill detective will die quickly Rewind A show with Scott Baio and featuring 1970s flashbacks Two leathal combinations And any of the shows on the WB (Warner Brothers) network

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Name - Christopher Jette

Year Senior

Major CommunicationsRadioTV Film

Hometown Brooklyn NY

Favorite Band Brian McNight

Favorite Movie Airplane II

Role Model Marv Albeit -TinaAngiulli

Class of 2000

The Class of 2000 would like to extend a special thank you to Sodexho for their help with the Class Barbecue that took place on Sunday With many difficulties getting a grill the manager of Sodexho brought his own grill from home Thank you And also we would like to thank everyone who attended The winner of the $20 Marist Money prize was Kathryn Haberman and the winner of the $20 Thrifty Cash prize was Doug Wilderotter Congratulations to them

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clubs and activities for the past three years including Vice President of Club Affairs he now over sees the operations of all 58 clubs on campus

I make sure the clubs are following the appropriate procedures for Marist said Jette Along with his many duties for SGA Jette can also be found at the McCann Center He

has been an employee of the McCann Center for his four years here and he also sits on the standing committee of athletics In addition Jette is the captain of the racquetball team tapes and edits footage for the football team and is the Secretary of MCTV

For his senior year Jette is trying to heed the advice of graduated friends and alumni Relax and have fun This is your last chance With the real world one year away Jette looks back and remembers what first attracted him

to Marist His favorite aspects of the school is its community and the friendly people Marist was a big change coming from a public school in Brooklyn said Jette Anyone who has ever known Jette knows his love of sports As a Communications major

hes hoping to get a job in the athletic field He realizes his chances for employment are greater by starting off behind the scenes and then working his way up

I always wanted to be a Sports Broadcaster said Jette

If you are a member of the Class of 1999

Come and get some FREE PIZZA mingle with members of your class and hear about upcoming

events for this year

Place Cabaret Meeting Room A Time 930 PM

Date Monday September 29th

copycopycopyGet information on Priority Point opporshytunities voice your opinions and concerns and learn about how you can cut costs for class functions such as the semi-formal and

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Steve on Sports In the beginning there was Rtk I guess it can all be traced back

toRikSmits In the last ten years the

Marist athletic program has seen a remarkable period of growth the Red Foxes once a non- factor in the world of intershycollegiate sports have morphed into a fairly formidable beast

And the furi has just begun Of the six varsity level sports

currently in season only twomdash

year but lost five starters from that team heading into 1997

What has new coach Jamie Kings team done as a follow-up to last years title A team full of sophomores led

by the lone senior Holly Robinson jumped out to a 3-0 start this year Since then the team has run iip against tough conference foes like Siena and Rider and lost some hard-

Toms Trivia Corner Who holds the major league record for RBIs

in one season

(Last weeks answer Jim Marshall of the Minnesota Vikingsmdash282 games)

Tom Drag is a regular contributor to The Circle

football and womens soccermdash are not disproportionately loaded with freshmen and sophomores and those two teams are both expected to win with returning talent

Marists commitment to im-proving the facilties and visablity of the athletic program seems to have paid off as betshyter and better recruiting classes pour into the McCann Center

The womens tennis team for example claimed the Northeast Conference championship last

fought close matches But the key phrase is a team

full of sophomores All of Kings women (except Robinson) will return for two more years with a wealth of MAAC match experience beshyhind them

The same goes for Bob Herodes mens soccer team Injuries have forced as many as eight freshmen into the starting lineup thisfall and the team began the season in aHdismaI slump getting blown out in

A viewers guide to ESPNs SportsCenter

Biscuit in the Basket (He Put the) Used for hockey (and soccer) goals Ex-anchor Keith Olbermann stole this phrase from a Canadian sportscaster

Frozen Pizza Used to describe a called third strike

Gone Dan Patricks elegantly simple home run call The etymology can be traced back to Strat-O-Matic Baseball games Dan played with fellow ESPNer Gary Miller when both men worked at CNN gt

Good The basketball and football version of Gone

He Beat Him Like a Rented Goalie Olbermanns second classic hockey catch phrase its a parody of Pittsburgh Penguins radio announcer Mike Lange whose goal-scoring call is He beat him like a rented mule

Have a Seat A basic strikeout call Origins unknown

If You re Scoring at Home or Even If You re Alone Follows any play featuring many players tossing the baseball around A tribute to Dodgers play-by-play man Vin Scully who would carefully recite the exact sequences of such plays for the benefit of listeners keeping score at home Olbermann added the uh suggestive part

Jumanji An all-purpose term used by ex-anchor Craig Kilborn upon his departure to Comedy Central the other anchors added it to their arsenal to honor Kilboms memory

The Whiff Another A+ Dan Patrick creation Stems from his days playing Wiffle Ball with his brothers in Mason Ohio Used obviously for strikeouts

three straight games to open the season

However the Red Foxes reshybounded on Sunday at St Peters The young team played

a gritty game that went into overtime tied at one when seshynior Bryan Thomas knocked in the game-winner and Marist drove home with a 1-0 confershyence record

Even if the seniors this year cant lead the young uns to a sparkling record this year will certainly be a step in the right direction In Herodes second season he has turned a long-suffering program into a legitishymate up-and-comer

And down in McCann more than one-third of the volleyball team are first year athletes Curshyrentlythe team stands at 3-7 overall but is 1-1 in MAAC conshytests

Five of the fourteen players on the roster are newcomers to Marist and have been through one grueling five-game loss against Army and another four-gamer versus conference foe Niagara which saw the Red Foxes summon the strength to dominate the fourth and decid-ingframe 15-3

The cross-country team is ex-periencirig a renaissance of

sortsalsobull Mens cdactf Pete Colaizzo is clearly excited about the future of a team with eleven

Whats On See the Red Foxes in action

Football vs SLPeter V (927) VbUeybWl at LIUSt Francis (927) and vs Seton Hall (10l)Mens Soccer vs Monmouth (928) and at Villanova(10i) Womens Soccer vs StPeters (927) anUat Hofstra (101) Womens Tennis at Manhattan (102)

Mens Soccer Leaders -(through Sept 21)

G A Pts Matt Day 1 0 2 Bryan Thomas 1 0 2 RinoMazzella 1 0 2 Dave Seipp 0 1 1 Brian Karcz 0 1 - 1

SV GAA GaryRincini 19 212 Rino Mazzella 7 533

Womens Soccer Leaders (through Sept 14)

v G A Pts Jamie Bierworth 3 1 7 Nicole Bruno 2 1 5 Nicole Weaver L 0 2 BidgetDonofrio l O 2 ASwidereck 0 2 2

BethZack SV GAA 51 188

freshmen and sophomores inshycluding three consistent point winners Four of Phil Kellys top five women runners are also in their first or second year with the team

Several of Marists other mashyjor sports are young and restshyless also Dave Magaritys basshyketball team brings an exciting freshman class with it into the MAAC the hockey teams strength still lies with its juniors and sophomores and John Szefc seems to have continued his successful string of recruitshy

ing by bringing in several new ballplayers to replace the few faces he lost from last springs baseball squad

So keep an eye on the athletic goings-on across campus

Ten years ago Marist didnt even have a baseball team Now thanks to a new emphasis on recruiting the Red Foxes might be one of the premier powers in the MAAC

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Off Campus by JeffDahnke

The major league baseball owners meetings have come and gone and the future strucshyture of baseball remains undeshycided

Owners from all thirty teams met in Atlanta last week to deshycide which form of realignment if any should be implemented for the upcoming season The original deadline to make a deshycisionmdash September 30mdash has been pushed back to October 15 But with all the debate among the owners a decision that quickly would be surprisshying

The debate is not on whether or not there should be realignshyment but how drastic this reshyalignment should be The most radical plan would see fifteen teams switch leagues with the hope of creating geographic rishyvalries something that began this season with the introducshytion of interleague play

There would also be a return to the four division format that existed before the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins came into existence We would see the Mets Yankees and Red Sox competing for the AL East crown The Cubs and White Sox could fight for NL Central bragging rights And all five

teams from California would be doing battle in the NL West

However there is fierce opposhysition by many owners to a plan this radical After last weeks meetings it seems unlikely that that plan will be used

The realignment committee has looked at more maps than Magellan joked acting comshymissioner Bud Selig

But if Selig wants to get baseshyball back on track someplace it has not been since the 1994 strike season he will do everyshything he can to see radical reshyalignment come to pass This season interleague play was a huge success it was the first step baseball had to take to bring the fans back But while it beshygan to close them up the wounds created by the strike remain unhealed

It was clear this year that fans are interested in seeing teams from opposing leagues play Who can forget the classic Mets-Yankees series in the Bronx Or the rematch of the 1986 World Series between Bosshyton and New York These games were intense for the players and fans But they were also relashytively insignificant Had these games been played in late Aushygust or September with playoff

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The fans want something new and something exciting Things cannot stay the same forever Baseball must do something to put the fans back in the seats That is far more important than trying to stick to a meaningless tradition

Like it or not Major League Baseball is more than just a game it is also a huge business and no business can be sucshycessful if no one buys its prodshyucts

The vote cannot be delayed forever Sooner or later the owners will have to decide Lets just hope that they make a decision that satisfies the fans first and their self-interest secshyond If they do this baseball can once again be considered Americas national pastime


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2B Ben Shove (above) and the rest of the Marist baseball team have already begun preparations for the 1998 campaign The squad plays doubleheaders on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the fall as it tunes up for a repeat performance of last years Cinderalla season

Womens tennis slides through mid-season slump

by MARK J WELLS Staff Writer

The Red Foxes had a rough time on the tennis court this past week losing all three of their matches Losses to Siena Colshylege Rider University and Hofstra University left Marist with a record of 3-4 and a four game losing streak

A big reason for the sudden losing streak was an injury to senior captain Holly Robinson Robinson sustained an arm inshyjury in her match last week against Monmouth She missed the match against Siena as well as a week of practice

In the 5-2 loss to Siena on Wednesday Tracy Hunt and Leigh Goiden won their respecshytive matches at second and fifth singles Hunt and Goiden were forced to move up in the lineup due to the injury to Robinson Hunts 6-2 6-2 victory at secshyond singles impressed first-year coach Jamie King

Tracy played very hard against Siena I was very im-

Rugby equestrian and ski teams flourish outside the spotlight

by RACHAEL VOLLARO Staff Writer

Hey what about us ] The Circle has been accused

of-not covering enough sports Well more accurately put not

- covering enough of the club sports on campus A club team can be formed by any student on campus if there is sufficient interest among his or her peers Club squads do not share the NCAA Division I or I-A A status of the more prevashylent sports at Marist

This issue we feature three club teams the rugby team the equestrian team and the ski team

When asked to describe the game of rugby junior player Christine Danielowich replied Its aggressive and fun

The rugby program at Marist was started in 1986 with the forshymation of the mens team The womens team followed in 1995

Both teams are presently memshybers of the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union Collegiate Divisionll Some of the compeshytition includes Army Rutgers University Fairfield University andSUNYNewPaitz

Rugby is a unique game There are fifteen players on a side with two positions on the field forshywards and backs The ball cannot be passed forward It can only be passed laterally and backward

The only time the ball can move forward is if it is kicked and everyone has to be behind

the kicker when the ball-is kicked

Senior player Brian Coakley expects great things from the 1997-98 mens rugby team

Our goal for the season is to win our division That would include the regular season and the playoffs Coakley said

Our record last year was 7-2 and thedivision has gotten smaller Were hoping to go undefeated this year he added

Thirty men make up the team presently Key players to watch are Jeff Carter Dan Quagliaro and Jason Sprague

The team competes in the spring and fall but their primary season is in the fall They play their gamesat the North Field on Sundays

The equestrian team is pershyhaps the most overlooked team on campus For those who dont know equestrian is comshypetitive horse riding and is an Olympic sport

The 28 member strong 1997-98 team is lead by captains Amy Thate and Kim Svoboda

Last year the team placed fourth overall out of fifteen teams in its division Some of the leading competition inshycluded the United States Milishytary Academy New York Unishyversity and Pace University Marist is the northern most team inthe league

IndividuallySvoboda placed second in the region and teamshymate Michelle Bluestein repre-

sented the team at the national show

- The team competes in both the spring and the fall This year the team has six horse shows in the fall and four in the spring

All riders competeat each show in divisions ranging from beginner to advanced The ridshyers are provided a horse at the show to keep the competition fair Riders are judged on posishytion and style

Svoboda is confident in this years program

We have a great program and everyone is really dedicated Were always winning at the shows and have girls going to nationals Were well respected at all of the shows she said

The ski team starts its season the first Saturday after Thanksshygiving Practices are held at Ski Windham and Hunter Mounshytain

Eight men and eight women will represent the Red Foxes in this years five competitions Competitions start the first weekend of the second semesshyter

There are two events at each meet slalom and giant slalom Each skier has two heats to beat the best time in each event

The team is part of the McBrine Division Other schools in the league include Yale University the University of Rhode Island and Vassar Colshylege

Junior skier Scott Baierwalter feels the team will have a decent season finishing somewhere in the middle of the McBrine Divishysion pack

pressed by her performance King said

The Siena match could have gone either way The Red Foxes lost two close pivotal matches First Claudine Habib lost to Kelly Parker at third singles 7-5 7-6(7-4)

The other close contest inshyvolved Hunt again She and her partner Kara Oliver lost at first doubles to Anjeli Gupta and Marcie Sorrentino 9-8 (7-5)

If the doubles had won that might have turned it around for us but I was very happy with the effort King said

The Saturday match against Rider University marked the reshyturn of Robinson to the starting lineup Even with the return their captain the Red Foxes fell to Rider 6-3

Kara Oliver and Jennifer Armstrong won their matches at second and fifth singles respecshytively Oliver won 6-26-1 and

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Armstrong won her match 7-5 6-0 Robinson did help the team by teaming up with Oliver in first doubles and winning 8-4

Holly was a little rusty since she missed a week of practice coach King explained

Robinson was the lone bright spot for the Red Foxes as they lost to Hofstra University 8-1 on Sunday Robinson won her match at first singles 6-76-46-3

This was the most focused I have been in three years Robinson said The Red Foxes have two diffishy

cult matches coming up in the next week against St Peters College and Fairfield University

Coach King despite the losses this past week is very happy with the team as a whole We are coming together as a cohesive unit which is the imshyportant thing right now King said

record finishing with 428 yards Georgetown wisely avoided kicking the ball to Deckaj last week so he had to wait an extra seven days to break the school record

Deckaj made an impact at cornerbaek as well intercepting a pass at the Gaels 36-yard line on Ionas first possession of the second half Three plays later Reed took a hand-off from Daley on a end-around and went 30 yards for a touchdown to put Marist up 14-6

The next time Marist got the ball it put its ground game to work Rhodes ran for 64 yards before being pulled down at the seven of Iona A couple of pen-alties cost the Red Foxes a

touchdown but DeVito nailed a 28-yard field goal to put Marist up 17-6

The Red Foxes basically sealed the game on the next two Iona possessions with Wilson and Taylors interception reshyturns Wilson went54 yards with his pick to increase the lead to 24-6

Taylor then converted on a 45 yard return to put the Red Foxes up 31-6 capping Marists 24-point explosion in the third quarshyter Ionas Jeff Bridges took the ensuing kick-off 84 yards buj it was too little too late for the Gaels

Marist plays host to St Peters on Saturday at 100 pm in a MAAC conference game

Marist 31 Iona 12 Marist 7 0 24 0 - 31 Iona 0 6 6 0 - 12

M 1st 733 Godfrey 3 rush (DeVito kick good) I 2nd 308 Sewere 68 pass from Suozzi

(Christiansen kick blocked) M 3rd 926 Reed 30 rush (DeVito kick good) M 3rd 333 DeVito28FG M 3rd 151 Wilson 54 int return (DeVito kick good) M 3rd 042 Taylor 45 int return (DeVito kick good) I 3rd 025 Bridges 84 kick return

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Rushing Marist Allen 24-113 Rhodes 16-112 Reed 1 -30 Wickliffe 1 -21 Godfrey 4-14 Leavitt 4-9 Daley 1-2 Riley 1-1 Iona Saldiveri 12-26 Fernandez 9-17 Hay l-(-15) Suozzi 7-(-22) Passing Marist Daley 6-15-2-90 Iona Suozzi 9-28-4-156 Hay 0-2-0-0 -Receiving Marist Reed 6-90 Iona Sewere 2-95 Fabiani 3-24 Barbier 2-17 Gaskin 1-13 Weston 1 -7

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The mens soccer team has been outscored 9-0 in first half action through four games

SPORTS The Circle September 251997

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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Rhodes and Allen carry football to first win by THOMAS RYAN

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To call the offenses of Marist and lona contrasting would be a understatement to say the least The Red Foxes use an exshyperienced offensive line and a tandem of talented running backs to run the football down their opponents throat while the Gaels utilize some quick wide receivers on their home field artificial tuff in a wide open run-and- shoot offense

When the two teams met on Saturday it wasnt hard to see which style came out on top Marist (1-11-1) racked up 302 yards on the ground on their way to a 31 -12 road win Senior tailback Jovan Rhodes ran for 112 yards on 16 carries while junior JJ Allen ran for a career high 113 yards on 24 carries

According to Marist head coach Jim Parady it was the ofshyfensive line that was instrumenshytal in the Red Foxes ground atshytack

Our offensive line really played well the sixth year head coach said They played well together and opened up some nice holes for our backs to run through

Despite the huge numbers on the ground it was really the Red Fox defense that played the key role in the victory Safety Mario Wilson and inside linebacker Harry Taylor both returned inshyterceptions for touchdowns as Marist scored 24 unanswered points in the third quarter to ice

the game On top of that the defense aided by four sacks for a total loss of 33 yards allowed the Gaels (0-20-1) eight yards rushing the entire-game

The defense also set the tone early in the game holding Iona_ without a first down on their first two possessions On Marists second possession the Red Foxes made history through the air

On a 3rd-and-6 from midfield quarterback Jim Daley conshynected with senior Jon Reed on a 47-yard pass play that gave the wide receiver the Marist cashyreer record for receiving yards Reed eclipsed Dan DelPretes

Our offensive line really played well

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mark of 1270 yards receiving and now has 1318 yards and counting in his career

It was a great honor for me to break the record Reed said

Parady echoed Reeds sentishyments

Jon has been a great player for us for four years He definately deserves this great honor Parady said

On the next play fullback Sam Godfrey ran in from the three yard line to give the Red Foxes a quick 6-0 lead Jeff DeVito connected on the extra point his first of four straight on the day after a tough week last week to push the lead to 7-0

Thats the way the score stayed until late in the second quarter when on a 3rd-and-17 lona wide receiver Quinn Sewere caught a 68-yard touchdown pass to cut the lead to 7-6

Dwayne Bates blocked the PAT and Marist held a one point lead heading into the intermisshysion

Just like last week against Georgetown Marist was bit by the turnover bug throwing two interceptions and losing a fumble in the first half alone Also just like last week it was the defense that kept Marist in the game allowing lona only 83 total yards of offense in the first two quarters

Another all-time Marist record fell on the opening kickoff of the second half Co-captain Paul Deckaj returned the kickoff 27 yards to break the career kick-off return yardage record of 437 held by Tony Runza In his first year returning kicks last year Deckaj nearly broke the career mdash continued on p 15mdash

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Mens soccer breaks the ice against St Peters Thomas overtime goal gives team a win in MAAC opener

by CHRIS ODONNELL StaffWriter

The Mens Soccer team started off their inaugural season in the Metro Athletic Conference Sunshyday with a thrilling 2-1 overtime win overSt Peters College

Marist (1 -31-0 MAAC) picked up their first victory of the season despite being down a man early in the second half after a Marist player received two yellow cards

St Peters opened the scoring eight minutes from half-time and took a 1-0 lead The short-handed Red Foxes picked up their play after the break and equalized the game at 1 -1 when senior Rino Mazella came off the bench to score in the 61st minute

The scored remained tied at one for 40 minutes until senior Bryan Thomas scored the game winner at 10120 in overtime

Assistant coach Andy Fleming said the win was a gru-elingone T h i s game was very physishycal Fleming said We seemed to have been inspired by being a man down

Freshman Pete Kilpatrick agreed with Fleming

Thats the most physical game Ive ever been in Kilpatrick said

However according to Fleming the Red Foxes seemed to embrace the physicality as they won more balls in the air and on the ground

The league victory over St Peters is a positive building block for second year head coach Bob Herodes whose team lacks experience and has lost key players to early season injuries

Herodes said these injuries have come to players in key poshysitions

We lost our starling gbaltender for the season and one of our senior defenders for two games Herodes said You add that with having to start seven or eight freshmen and that creates a problem

Along with those problems the Red Foxes were beaten soundly three times by non-league opponents by scores ranging from 3-0 to 6-0 Howshyever on Sunday the Red Foxes managed to win their first conshyference game mdash the most important game of the season to date

Fleming added that he has stressed the importance of league wins

I told the guys that you can go 10-0 innon-league play and it wont mean much The league games are what matters most Fleming said Herodes would like to build on

last years 7-9 record which was itself a major improvement the win total for the two previous years combined had been only seven

Despite the lack of experience Herodes said there have been freshman who have been pleasshyant surprises

Defender Tim Svendsen has stepped up along with midfielder Brian Karz On ofshyfense its been Pete Kilpatrick Herodes said

Herodes added that some MAAC opponents might take them for granted or be overconshyfident because this is the Foxes first season This could work out to be somewhat of an adshyvantage Marist may be able to sneak up on some clubs

The sneak attack may be this teams best hope After all

the Red Foxes will be going up against some tough league comshypetition that includes Loyola Fairfield University and lona

Herodes club was also supshyposed to play Ivy League powshyerhouse Columbia last Wednesshyday but the game was canceled due to an unsigned contract between the two clubs

All Division I teams must sign a binding contract so that neishyther team can back out of a game that is on the schedule

The Red Foxes hosted Siena College on Wednesday in a MAAC contest and will play Monmouth on the North Field at 230 on Sunday

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SPORTS

THE CIRCLE The Marist Community September 251997

Whats-Cool oil Campus

Friday

Day Communication Arst Socishyety tripto Montel Williams Show Night Coffehouse with Paul Strowe - -Night Black Student Union Back to School Jam Night Foreign Film Declin de LEmpire Americain

Saturday

Day Bigala trip to New york City Day Literary Arts Society trip to Broadway Night Foreign Film The White Rose

Sunday Night Foreign Film The White Rose

Wednesday Night Coffehouse with Say So

Thursday The Marist Art Gallery will hold the opening reception of La Dolce Vita The Golden Age of Italian Movies from 500 to 700 in the evening For further inforshymation call x2903

Whats down in Dutchess County

At Bard College Tunga 1977-1997 a survey of the works of the contemporary Brazilian artist Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 100 to 500

Tuesday September 30 A celshyebration of the birthday of the great John Coltrane will take place from 1200 noon to 700 Local musicains and Bard faculty will participate in the event

Elsewhere Friday September 26 New Paltz Jazz Festival From Latin to Bop at Joes EastWest starting at 800

Friday September 26 through Sunday September 28 The BarrettHouse School of Art will begin a workshop hosted by Marilyn Fairman on An Apshyproach to Impressionist Oil Paintshying on Location For further inshyformation call (914) 471-2550

Students unhappy with life in Talmadge Court by CHRISTOPHER THORNE

Focus Editor

Its only been in use for little over a year but already Talmadge Court has entered the arena of student criticism both good and bad

According to Sue DeVito a junior comshymunications major living in Talmadge court there are problems with parking

Theres not enough parking and you have to park in the street DeVito said

DeVito said that parking in the street could get you a ticket

If you park in thewrong spot you get a ticket DeVito said

Toni Garone a junior criminal justice major also said that parking is a problem at Talmadge

I come home from work at 1030 at night andl have to park across the street Garone said

Garone said that the bad neighborhood around Talmadge Court makes her nershyvous to cross the street when she gets home from work at night

I dont want to cross the street its not the nicest neighborhood Garone said

DeVito also said that the area around Talmadge Court is not the greatest of livshying environments

Its not the nice outside our little comshyplex DeVito said

Kathleen Hopkins a junior majoring in social work also said that parking in Talmadge Court has been hard

Its very difficult to get parking and we get ticketed Hopkins sai Security doesnt help

According to Susan Eriole assistant director of housing Talmadge Court ofshyfers more freedom than does living on campus

It does offer a more independent style of livingVpriplesaid

Conversely Eriole said that students living in Talmadge Court lose out on the on-campus lifestyle

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Its not right on campus so you miss some of that experience Eriole said

Eriole also said that Talmadge Court residents do not have the access to many things on-campus students do

Many of the college services are not at your ready disposal Eriole said

Hopkins said that the freedom of living off campus is an advantage

Its quiet and we get to do whatever we want Hopkins said

Hopkins says that living in Talmadge Court allows her to get away from the campus

We can get away from the campus and do our own thing Hopkins said

DeVito said that the only advantage to Talmadge Court was its proximity to the campus

Its close to campus thats about it DeVitosaid

DeVito said that she and her roommates did not anticipate a build-up situation when they chose Talmadge ~

We chose Talmadge but we didnt expect it to be built upDeVit6 said Garone one of DeVitos roommates said

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there would be two bedrooms but theres only one Garone said

DeVito said that there is not enough room for the three of them in one bedshyroom

We have one bedroom and theres three of us and its crowded DeVito said Garone also said that some pieces of

furniture had to be moved out of the room in order to free up space

All the furniture wouldnt fit so We had to move some of the furniture downshystairs Garone said

Hopkins said that another disadvanshytage is that there are no installedlights in the rooms

Theres no lights in any of the rooms Hopkins said You have to supply your own

Garone said that despite the problems she would still live in Talmadge Court Iwouldntwant to stay on campus

Garone said I wanted to live somewhere else

Debate over Mother Theresas sainthood continues bySTEPHANffiMERCURIO

Managing Editor

To be a saint or not to be a saint that is the question

Many such as junior Toni Garone be-1 ieve that the late Mother Theresa should be named a saint There is debate howshyever over how long that process should take

I think she should be named a saint right away Garone said Her life was so public she touched the lives of so many people

The correct procedure to name a pershyson a saint can take centuries First the Catholic Church conducts an investigashytion into the persons life beginning five years after death to determine if the pershyson performed any miracles If the pershyson did perform miracles she is then beatified meaning people pray to that person to ask her or him to intervene with God on their behalf After an undetershymined number of years the person is canonized or named a saint

Junior Heather Pearson said she feels

this process should be shortened for Mother Theresa

The process to make her a saint should not take centuries she said People who lived during her lifetime exshyperienced all the of the good she did and should see her named a saint

According to a poll conducted by CNN however 51 percent of Americans feel the correct process should be followed

In an interview with CNN Raymond Flynn US ambassador to the Vatican said he feels Mother Theresa should definitely be named a saint

I think a saint is a person represent ing and working for people who are for gotten by society he said That is the reason she will have a special place as a saint in being a saint of the poor

Melissa Ruot a senior said she feels Mother Theresa performed many miracles

I dont understand why there needs to be an investigation into her life she said She performed so many miracles in her life by doing the smallest things to help the poor

Senior Donna Nastasi said she agrees with Ruot

She did so much when she was alive just working with the poor was a miracle in itself she said It should not take centuries to make her a saint

In addition to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the US Medal of Freeshydom in 1985 Mother Theresa helped the poor sick and dying in India by setting up dozens of homes for them Accordshying to CNN she would help the poor by empowering them with self-esteem and showing them love and care

Ruot said she was an incredible pershyson

She was so amazing I think she did so much for so many people she will always be remembered

SECURITY BRIEFS -Sept 18th 1212 am A case of larshyceny was reported in Townhouse M Estimated value of loss is over $200000 Assistant Director of Secushyrity T McLain said that it happened because people did not lock their doors

-Sept I9th-21st Four alcohol confisshycations took place- - _

-Sept 21st 145 am Unauthorized guests were found trying to sneak into Leo Hall through a window The guests were asked to leave campus

-Sept 21st 300 am The window in Gregory room 107 was found smashed in There are no suspects to the crime

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New bill will give students a voice in food services byMICHAELGOOT

Editor-in-chief

Students may now get a say irvAvhat they eat Earlier this month the Student

Governrhent Administration senate unanimously passed a bill that will try to increase stushydent input jni the dining services at Marist College i

Senate Speaker Kevin Lundy said the impetus for the bill origishynated when he was a member of trie student life councillast ser mester ^ bull bullbullbull bullAround campus a lot of stushy

dents complain about the cafshyeteria he said The student life council wanted to get conshycrete opinions

Last spring the council disshytributed a survey to 10 percent of the student body selected at random Lundy said he was surshyprised that nearly 25 percent of the surveys were returned beshycause it was around exam time

Using that report as a foundashytion during student governments summer session Lundy created a committee conshysisting of himself Sen Ryan Hunter Wendy Kenerson vice president for student life and Joe Verderame last semesters vice president for student life

This new committee will be working with Sodexho to design another survey that will be disshytributed to a larger segment of the campus Lundy said this

survey will be distributed about a week or so before Thanksgivshying

Were putting a lot of thought to how we want to phrase the questions he said

Lundy said his committees goals are to keep the freshmen eating at the dining hall and to try to bring back those sophoshymores who had been alienated by the cafeteria

the bill will also look into the possibility of double swiping-

-that is having a student use his card to pay for a guest

Lundy said some students do not like the fact that this is not currently allowed

A lot of students feel that if they are paying for the meals if they have a friend up they should be able to swipe a meal he said

Lundy said part of the probshylem is financial

Apparently they [dining sershyvices] dont bank on every stushydent using each of their meals he said

In addition to the survey SGA is working on other ways to inshycrease communication between students and dining services A focus group met with Jospeh Binotto FMS director of dinshying services and a regional repshyresentative from Sodexho last Wednesday

According to Binotto Sodexho has implemented sevshyeral changes since last year He said many of these changes deal

Proposed townhouses across Route 9 will accomodate 250 next September

byJILLGIOCONDO StaffWriter

Student housing build-ups and involuntary triples might not be a problem by next Sepshytember because Marist is planshyning to build Talmadge Court-style housing right across Route9

the college has submitted building plans to the Poughkeepsie town board and is waiting approval that could come later this month

Gerard Cox vice president and dean for student affairs said this new housing will help make more space available for upper-classmen that have a desire to live on campus

The housing will be located on West Cedar and Washingshyton at the old Hamilton Producshytion site across from the KampD Deli he said The housing will be styled after the current new townhouses that are loshycated on campus

Once the building plans are approved construction can beshygin on the first set of houses that will hold 254 students This first set of housing is scheduled to be complete by next Septemshyber Additional townhouses will be built later expanding occushypancy to 400 students

Space has become a major problem with more freshmen residents then expected enrollshying and more upperclassmen wanting to live on campus

Junior Joe Patriss said he was placed into a Gartland Commons room with two roommates He was able to move into Gregory

with food presentation The presentation of the food

was a concern from last year that weve addressed from our very first new meal and weve got some noted comments he said

Among the changes are cookshying hamburgers more closely to order changing the cleaning process so there are fewer dirty utensils and improving the conshydiment bar

Binotto said dining services will also work with SGA to creshyate the new survey

Were going to work with them to devise the survey he said They will actually adminshyister and tally it he said

Binotto also said dining sershyvices is trying to improve comshymunication with other students on campus

Weve begun publishing and mailing out our menus through the RAs hoping that the folks on the North End will frequent the dining hall more often he said

Sophomore Melanie Duditis sajd there is not enough variety in the cafeteria

They keep serving the same things over and over again she said I usually go to the cabaret

David Lynch an environmenshytal science major said he thought there was enough varishyety

You can usually find someshything you like he said

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Students socialize and eat in the main dining hall Student government is planning to design and distribute a survey to get more student input on the cafeteria food

There shouldnt be these build ups with the priority point system for uppershyclassmen housing I am glad Marist is planning on building more housing to deal with this problem

Joe Patriss junior

House but he said living in a triple was too uncomfortable

If you had put boots and footlockers in the room it would have looked exactly like a barshyrack It was impossible for the three of us to share that space he said

Patriss also said the housing situation needs to be addressed

There shouldnt be these build ups with the priority point system for upperclassmen housshying I am glad Marist is planshyning on building more housing to deal with this problem

Tracy Santangelo sophoshymore said she thinks new housshying will help the housing problem

For upperclassmen it will alshyleviate the problem at least for those who have enough points to get into this housing she said I also feel that the colshylege accepted too many new stushydents and that we need to acshycept fewer people or build more housing to accommodate new students

Marist plans on limiting next years freshmen class to 774 resishydent students There are no plans to increase the freshmen residential population because of the Route 9 housing

cations major said he is conshycerned about the content of the food

Theres too much fried stuff and not enough of other things he said

Binotto said he welcomes stushydent input

Comments or suggestions can be brought to the attention of any of the floor managers or through the comment cards he said

Binotto said if students have a bad experience with a meal they should not wait but let someone know right away He

also said he tries to make himshyself as accessible as possible

I do have an open door policy he said Im willing to speak to any student at any lime about any such concern they have

The committee is meeting evshyery two weeks with Binotto Lundy said if any students have ideas about ways to improve dining services they should get in touch with him via phone or his mailbox in the SGA office

The majority of students eat in the cafeteria and have to put up with it Lundy said

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16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










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SPORTS
















The Circle Staff




How to Contact Us





















QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-Mike MacHenry


















































Asst Feature Editor











































Our 21st year









Student Profile
















































AT 485-6978





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The Big Show

December^ 1997








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Managing Editor













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C SGA NEWS

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SGA SPOTLIGHT


Year Senior






Class of 2000




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- bull laquo m ti


























in one season



























































bullswS

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The Boys of Autumn































































Individual Leaders


16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










bull^ft f^


yfr

til^mdashmm i ~


Kill kill kill -




























SPORTS



Asst Feature Editor











































Our 21st year









Student Profile
















































AT 485-6978





April 301998










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lt$

K-y bull^J

TS1P







12 oz Bag $400

Tcs








bull bull jf-








bull


-VEGGIE CHILI


BLACK BEAN SOUP



S I D E S

Iguana Rice 5150


large SI 50

Extra Cheese S 50

Extra Meat SI 00

Jalapcnosi S 150


SmaJ| Medium iargj

Salsa 75 250 350



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News and Reviews


StaffWriter























StaffWriter











Fall Semester Shows







The Big Show

December^ 1997








fc-



bull

bull bull bull -












































Managing Editor













Her new




C SGA NEWS

n 4 a

i r-M

SGA SPOTLIGHT


Year Senior






Class of 2000




m

- bull laquo m ti


























in one season



























































bullswS

laquo

i

i


The Boys of Autumn































































Individual Leaders


16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










bull^ft f^


yfr

til^mdashmm i ~


Kill kill kill -




























SPORTS


-Z

lt$

K-y bull^J

TS1P







12 oz Bag $400

Tcs








bull bull jf-








bull


-VEGGIE CHILI


BLACK BEAN SOUP



S I D E S

Iguana Rice 5150


large SI 50

Extra Cheese S 50

Extra Meat SI 00

Jalapcnosi S 150


SmaJ| Medium iargj

Salsa 75 250 350



SSr

s

1 WW

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S bull bull -

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THE CIRCLE


News and Reviews


StaffWriter























StaffWriter











Fall Semester Shows







The Big Show

December^ 1997








fc-



bull

bull bull bull -












































Managing Editor













Her new




C SGA NEWS

n 4 a

i r-M

SGA SPOTLIGHT


Year Senior






Class of 2000




m

- bull laquo m ti


























in one season



























































bullswS

laquo

i

i


The Boys of Autumn































































Individual Leaders


16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










bull^ft f^


yfr

til^mdashmm i ~


Kill kill kill -




























SPORTS

fc-



bull

bull bull bull -












































Managing Editor













Her new




C SGA NEWS

n 4 a

i r-M

SGA SPOTLIGHT


Year Senior






Class of 2000




m

- bull laquo m ti


























in one season



























































bullswS

laquo

i

i


The Boys of Autumn































































Individual Leaders


16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










bull^ft f^


yfr

til^mdashmm i ~


Kill kill kill -




























SPORTS











in one season



























































bullswS

laquo

i

i


The Boys of Autumn































































Individual Leaders


16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










bull^ft f^


yfr

til^mdashmm i ~


Kill kill kill -




























SPORTS

16

STAT OF THE WEEK



QUOTE OF THE WEEK


-John Reed WR


StqffWriter










Jim Parady










bull^ft f^


yfr

til^mdashmm i ~


Kill kill kill -




























SPORTS

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