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Volume 35, Number 6 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. October 20, 1988 

Marist to beef up 

security in wake 

of North End thefts 

by Carrie Boyle 

to encourage students to be aware 

of what is going around them and 

In the wake of four car breakins 

at the North end of campus, "Every student can be an extra 

to call Security without hesitation. 

Security is conducting occasional set of eyes," said John Coughlin, 

stake-outs and patrolling that area patrol supervisor/investigator, 

more frequently, said Joseph "Confidentiality of their names 

Leary, director of safety and would be honored." 

security. 

"If four cars can be broken into 

Four cars were broken into at the in one night, it makes you wonder 

Gartland Commons parking lot on what other crimes can be committed 

without Security noticing. It 

Tuesday, Oct. 4, around 1 a.m. 

Stereos were reported missing from makes you feel unsafe," said Karen A car stereo was ripped out of Melanie Winters' 1982 Subaru 

two of the cars, according to the Oitzinger, a senior from Port two weeks ago when four cars were broken into at the Gartland 

Office of Safety and Security. Washington, N.Y. 

Commons' parking lot. 

(Photo by Bob Davis) 

The Town of Poughkeepsie Oitzinger had parked her white, 

Police are investigating these thefts, 1980 Mercury Capri at 1 a.m. on 

dow on the passenger side smashed 

in and her $150 Pioneer stereo said Ferina. 

car should at least be protected," 

but as of yet have not been able to Tuesday, October 4. At 3 p.m. that 

identify those responsible. afternoon, Oitzinger returned to 

gone. 

"The school makes you register 

"There should've been preventive 

medicine before, not after the passenger window smashed in. 

her car to find the right side 

After parking his car on Oct. 2, your car and then when something 

junior Chris Ferina returned to his like this happens, they assume no 

fact," said senior Melanie Winters, Although her stereo was not 

his 1978 blue Toyota Celica on Oct. responsibility," said Oitzinger. 

whose car stereo.; was stolen from .taken,fthe : control..knobj.of.the 

5 only to find the dashboard rippedjaut 

and Jiis $110 Kraco stereo, - -relay any information, security will 

Coughlin said that if students 

her yellow 1982 Subaru. "Greater stereo and-the knob of Ihe siiciT 

speakers and/a TDK cassette" case., .review itarid keep them put of jt. 

security doesn't help me.now — it shift were, along with, a container missing. 

v ' '•."',-' 

"If 'students see anything 

should've been there before." of anti-freeze, according to Oitzinger. 

She said damage costs totall 

In total, the items stolen amount 

Because there is a shortage of 

unusual, get the license plate 

to $215 plus replacement of his 

security guards for all-night patrols ed $150. 

number or a description of the person," 

said Coughlin. 

dashboard. "For the amount of 

in one area, Leary said he wants to At 4 p.m. the same afternoon* money I'm paying to go here, my 

implement a campus safety watch Winters found the front door win- 

Professors fighting tenure denial 

by Steven Murray 

Two Marist professors are 

challenging recommendations from 

the faculty's Rank and Tenure 

Committee that they be denied 

tenure. 

John Pagliarulo, an associate 

professor of computer science, and 

Dr; Laurence Montalto, director of 

fine arts, have both filed 

grievances. Under college policy, 

professors who are not granted 

tenure are removed from the 

faculty. 

Pagliarulo, who came to Marist 

in 1982, also said he did not want 

to comment at this time. 

Montalto, who has been at 

Marist for three years, declined to 

comment, saying he did not want 

his case publicized pending the outcome 

of his appeal. 

The two were both turned down 

for tenure in the spring. 

Tenure is a permanent appointment 

to the school's faculty. After 

. a probationary period of several 

years, faculty members are reviewed 

for tenure. If tenure is denied, 

the faculty member is allowed to 

continue for only one more year. 

As part of the tenure process, the 

Rank and Tenure Committee 

reviews the faculty member and 

makes a recommendation to the 

college administration. The final 

decision rests with Marist's board 

of trustees and the president. 

In arriving at its recommendation, 

the Rank and Tenure Committee, 

composed of five faculty, 

members elected by the faculty as 

a whole, consults the annual 

evaluations of the faculty member 

and other material. 

The applicant's divisional 

chairperson and the academic vice 

president also make a 

recommendation. 

Caroline Rider, chairperson of 

the Faculty Grievance Committee, 

refused to comment on the cases 

and declined to say what action, if 

any, is being taken. The grievance 

committee is composed of three 

elected faculty members. 

When a grievance is filed in a 

tenure case, the grievance committee 

must review the complaint and 

determine whether it falls into one 

of three categories outlined in the 

Faculty Handbook: procedural irregularity, 

inadequate consideration 

or bias in the application of the 

tenure criteria. 

If the grievance fits one of the 

categories, an ad hoc committee is 

formed to consider the grievant's 

complaint. ("Ad hoc," a Latin 

phrase, is used to indicate a temporary 

committee formed to serve 

one purpose.) 

The committee comprises one 

person chosen by the grievant, one 

person chosen by the Rank and 

Tenure Committee and a third person 

chosen by those two people. 

Continued on page 2 

Wild party 

'shuts down' 

frosh dorm 

by Chris Landry 

Leo Hall was closed to outsiders 

over the weekend after a drinking 

party on the dormitory's third floor 

turned unruly Friday night. 

One student broke his nose and 

was treated and released from St. 

Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie. 

Six students face disciplinary action, 

according to Leo residents. 

One window was also broken 

during the student-organized party, 

Joseph Leary, director of safety 

and security, said. 

Alcohol is prohibited in Leo, a 

freshman residence. None of the 

students involved has been 

identified. 

Only Leo residents were allowed 

into the building from Saturday 

until Monday morning. "It was 

shut down because the situation 

was getting out of hand," Leary 

said. The restriction was imposed 

.as an ".attention 7 getting device" to 

' renund.students" of. the! HousingOffice's 

ban on alcohol in the dorms, 

Leary added. 

Leo residents report that over 

$200 worth of alcohol was bought 

for an "around the world" party. 

Participants travel from room to 

room, with a different drink offered 

at each stop. The party began 

around 8:30 p.m. and lasted till 1 

a.m. when Housing officials and 

Security broke it up, according to 

Leo residents. - 

No severe damage was done to 

the hall but vomit did cover the 

hallway and bathroom floors. 

"Kids were throwing up left and 

right," one resident said. Students 

cleaned the floor the next day. 

The party was planned for more 

than two weeks and most of the 

third floor of Leo was involved, 

residents said. 

Audrey Rodrigue, Leo residence 

director, declined to comment on 

the incident. Both Rodrique and 

the floor's resident assistant were 

gone during the Friday night 

disturbance. 

Debaters sweep) Legendary author to visit campus 

Illinois tourney ° ^ 

by Karen Cicero 

After winning 11 trophies in 

two national tournaments last 

weekend, the debate team is on 

pace to exceed their ninth-place 

national ranking of a year ago, 

according to Jim Springston, 

director of debate. 

The team has 41 national 

points, nine ahead of the pace 

for its 121 point ninth place 

finish last year, said Springston. 

Junior Mike Buckley and 

Sophomore Tony Capozzolo 

defeated Loyola College's team 

to win first place in varsity 

debate during a meet held at 

Northern Illinois University last 

weekend. 

First and second place in- 

Continued on page 2 

by Paul O'Sullivan 

Dr.Isaac Asimov, worldrenowned 

author and intellectual, 

will speak in the Theater 

on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 

p.m. 

Admission to this installment 

in the Cunneen-Hackett Lecture 

series is free. The topic of the 

lecture has yet to be finalized. 

*' The author of over 390 books 

over a 45-year period, Asimov 

is also a member of Mensa, an 

international organization for 

people of the highest intelligence. 

He is best known for 

his science fiction works such as 

"I, Robot" and "The Bicentennial 

Man." 

Asimov was born on Jan. 2, 

1920, in the Soviet Union. In 

1923, he and his parents immigrated 

to New York, where 

he became, as he puts it, 

"Brooklyn-bred." Asimov was 

admitted to Columbia University 

at the age of 15, where he 

earned a Bachelor of Science 

degree. 

After serving in the U.S. 

Navy for three years, Asimov 

received his doctorate in 

Chemistry from Columbia in 

1948. He worked as an instructor 

of biochemistry at Boston 

University from 1948 until 1958, 

when he started writing fulltime. 

Asimov began writing science 

fiction at the age of 11 and had 

his first published short story at 

the age of 18. In 1950, Doubleday 

Books published his first 

book-length work of science fiction 

"Pebble in the Sky." Since 

then, Asimov has written about 

a wide variety of subjects, both 

fiction and non-fiction, ranging 

from math and science to the 

Bible and Shakespeare. 

. The World Science Fiction 

Society has honored Asimov 

five times with its prestigious 

Hugo Award (the Oscar of 

science fiction writing). These 

include a special award honoring 

his Foundation Trilogy as 

the Best All-Time Science Fiction 

Series. He has also received 

three Nebula Awards from 

the Science Fiction Writers of 

America, one designating him a 

Grandmaster of Science Fiction. 

The Cunneen-Hackett Lecture 

series was established by 

Jack J. Gartland Jr. and is 

funded through the McCann 

Foundation. 

Issac Asimov. 

(Photo by Kurt Muller)

After Class 

Housing Notice 

Residence Halls will close for the October 

break at 6 p.m. tomorrow. The last 

meal served in the cafeteria will be lunch. 

-Dorms will reopen Monday at 12 p.m. and 

dinner will be the first meal served. Classes 

resume Tuesday morning. 

Entertainment 

Town Crier Cafe 

Recording artist Michael Hedges will perform 

at the Town Crier Cafe tonight at 8 

p.m. and 10:30 p.m. with a cover charge 

of $15. Songwriter Greg Brown will perform 

his gospel and blues music tomorrow at 

9:30 p.m. with a $10 cover charge. The 

Bolivian band Grupo Aymara will play the 

traditional music of the people from the 

Andes Mountains, Saturday at 9:30 p.m. 

October Film Series 

The Adriance Memorial Library in 

Poughkeepsie will present "New Orleans: 

Tenure- 

Continued from page 1 

Even if the ad hoc committee 

' finds the complaint to be true, it 

must also determine whether the 

action affected the Rank and 

Tenure 

Committee's 

recommendation. 

The ad hoc committee reports its 

findings to the grievance committee. 

The grievances committee then 

reports the ad hoc findings to the 

Rank and Tenure Committee, the 

grievant and the college president. 

Debate 


dividual speaker trophies were 

awarded to Buckley and Capozzolo, 

respectively. 

"In my 18 years of 

coaching," Springston said. 

"Mike and Tony are the best 

debaters I've ever coached." 

The Marist novice team, 

made up of first-year debaters, 

also fared well at Northern Illinois. 

The team of senior Marc 

Eisenhauer and freshman John 

Gerbi along with the team of 

freshmen April Amonica and 

Julie DuMont finished first and 

second among the 40 novice 

teams competing. 

Since Marist debate code 

doesn't allow Marist students to 

compete against each other, a 

final debate was not held, said 

Springston. 

In the individual speaker 

category, Eisenhauer took first 

place while Girby and Amonica 

placed fourth and fifth 

respectively. 

The meet attracted schools 

from Texas, Mississippi, 

Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, 

Wisconsin and New York. 

In the varsity debate competition 

held in Pittsburgh, N.Y., 

on the same weekend, the team 

of senior Tom Nesbitt and 

sophomore Vanessa Codorniu 

placed second, falling to Suffolk 

University in a 2-1 decision. 

Nesbitt finishedin third place in 

the individual speaker category. 

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Send your viewpoint 

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'Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down" as part 

of its Blue October Film Series, Tuesday 

at 7 p.m. Admission is free. 

Dance Theatre 

Philobus Dance Theatre will perform 

their part dance, part mime and part human 

pretzel act at the Bardavon 1869 Opera 

House in Poughkeepsie Saturday, Oct. 29 

at 8 p.m. For ticket information, call the 

Bardavon box office at 473-2072. 

Country Dance 

Hudson Valley Country Dances will hold 

a Halloween Dance in Ashokan on Saturday, 

Oct. 29, at 8 p.m: Admission is $5. For 

information call 473-7050. 

Metalmania Six 

Slayer, Motorhead and Overkill, will perform 

a night of heavy metal at the Mid- 

Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, 

Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. General admission 

tickets are available at the Civic Center box 

Toxic Waste Dump. 

• AMERICAN- 

The Great American Smokeout. Nov 17.1££& fsocBir 

All students are welcome 

to attend: 

"The Media 

and the 

Election Process/' 

A day-long conference 

on October 29 

with guest panels that 

will discuss — 

"The Media and the Election 

Process: A critical analysis." 

10 a.m. in the theater 

& 

' 'Media Men and Women of the 

Future." 

2:30 p.m. in CC249 

The conference is sponsored by the 

Radio-Television News Directors Association 

and The Marist College 

Communications Advisory Council. 

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Kditor's Note: Alter Class will list the details of on- and oH-campus 

events, such as lectures, meetings and concerts. Send information to Use 

Martin, c/o The Circle. 

office and all Ticketmaster outlets. For information, 

call 454-5800. 

Contra-Square Dance 

John Krum will lead a Contra-Square 

Dance Saturday, Nov. 5 at 8:15 p.m. at the 

Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, New 

Windsor. Admission is $5 with a beginners 

workshop at 7:30 p.m. For information, call 

783-6373 or 534-7291. 

Lectures 

Alcohol and Drug Addiction 

Jeffrey Schneider, M.S.W. and 

psychotherapist, will conduct a free 

seminar titled "Characteristics and Treatment 

of Alcohol and Drug Addiction" Tuesday 

at 7:30 p.m. at the YWCA in Kingston. 

Nutrition 

Barbara Saintomas will host a discussion 

on "Nutritional Concerns," Tuesday at 

7:30 p.m. at Vassar Brothers Hospital in 

Poughkeepsie. For information, call the 

American Heart Association at 454-4310. 

Travel 

Spring Break in Russia 

Dr. Casimir Norkeliunas, associate professor 

of Russian, is offering students an 

educational/friendship tour to Russia, Jan. 

11-22, 1989. Any interested students 

should contact Dr. Norkeliunas in Fontaine 

209, ext. 207. 

Athletic Activities 

Ice Skating 

The McCann Ice Arena at the Mid- 

Hudson Civic Center is now open for ice 

skating sessions. For information, call Nancy 

Arena at 454-5800. 

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Parking crunch 

hits Marist lots 

by Michael Hayes 

Limited parking facilities and an 

influx of cars on campus have forced 

Marist Security to issue as many 

as 200 tickets per day and to begin 

having cars towed. 

While the exact number of cars 

registered on campus is 

unavailable, Director of Safety and 

Security Joseph Leary said he 

realizes that there is a problem 

because the Marist community includes 

about 4,000 people but there 

are only 1,500 parking spaces on 

campus. 

Under Leary's direction, security 

officers are now rigidly enforcing 

all parking regulations in an effort 

to keep some semblance of 

order in the Marist lots. 

While students are sympathetic 

to the problem, they feel that 

something should be done. 

"It's ridiculous that I can't find 

a spot in the morning," said junior 

Steve Gralton. "I realize that you 

can't park in a fire lane or a handicapped 

spot, but they need room 

for more cars." 

Because of the crackdown, Leary 

said fines will be limited to $5 or 

$10,'but towing will result in a 

greater expense. 

"Without warning, we will tow 

cars parked in fire zones, handicapped 

spots, or abandoned vehicles," 

said Leary. "We towed our first car 

this semester. It was parked in a 

fire zone. We will be towing more 

frequently and it can get 

expensive." 

Leary said that a tow will cost 

S45 plus an additional $20 for each 

day the car is impounded. 

"We're trying to get their 

(students') attention, not get rich," 

said Leary. 

The problem has been worsened 

by the closing of part of the Marist 

East parking lot. The lot has been 

closed at the insistence of the 

This crowded Gartland Commons' parking lot is an example 

Marist's of lack of parking space around campus. 


building's owners for fear that cars 

will be damaged while work is being 

done on the roof of the 

building. Leary said he was told 

that the lot will be reopened in a 

couple of weeks. 

"It's never been this bad," said 

October 20, 1988 - THE CIRCLE - Page 3 

senior Roger Carmien. "The fact 

that Marist East is closed has a lot 

to do with the problem, but there 

are just too many cars. They really 

should restict the number of cars 

on campus." 

Halloween wear: A party-goer's nightmare 

by Karen Gorman 

Freddy Krueger is hot. The 

California Raisins are not. 

The trend for this year's Halloween 

costumes is originality. People 

don't want to be the old standbys 

— ghosts, witches and devils — 

they want to be different. 

Barbara Minogue, a senior 

business major from Middletown, 

N.Y., remembers that in high 

school it was easier to come up with 

an original costume. 

"In my junior year of high 

school my friends and I were a six 

pack of Molson and we won first 

prize," Minogue said. "Now if my 

friends and I dressed up like that 

we wouldn't be original because 

every year someone dresses up like 

a six pack." 

According to Ellen Bakey, 

If f l f %^J 

Voices 

together 

manager of Indisguise on Route 9 

in Hyde Park, Freddy Krueger 

costumes — a la "Nightmare on 

Elm Street" — are in big demand. 

Not many people are asking for 

California Raisins costumes this 

year because they were the big seller 

last year, said Bakey. 

Laura Spaey, manager of Columbia 

Costume Store in Kingston, 

said Candy Kisses, bumble bees 

and bee catchers, Cleopatras and 

flappers are the hot items for this 

year's costumed party-goers. 

"I try to avoid trends," Spaey 

said. "I want people to be unique 

with their costumes. You can only 

have so many witches and devils at 

a Halloween party." 

James Beauman, a junior from 

Newtown, Pa., looks forwardto 

•Halloween as a night to let go. "I 

$*tfeEw3sa 

used to think Halloween was fun 

when I was young but after I turned 

12 the novelty wore off," said 

Beauman. "Now that I'm in college 

I like it again because everyone 

acts like they're 10 years old and 

it's fun. I like to go out and see 

what everyone is dressed up as, 

some people are really creative with 

their costumes." 

Joe Purschke, a junior from 

Garden City, N.Y., said he is tired 

of seeing everyone dressed up in the 

same costume. 

"I tried to think of an original 

idea and this year I'm going to be 

the Energizer man and two of my 

housemates are going to be batteries 

because he was popular last 

year but he's not as big this year," 

Purschke said. 

Maryellen Grean, a senior from 

Wantaugh, N.Y., has a problem 

mmmmmm. 

Marist hosted the Collegiate Choral festival last Saturday 

night in the Theater. Three other northeastern schools, SUN Y 

New Paltz, Skidmore College and Lafayette College sang with 

Marist. 


Senior to study Presidency 

by Molly Ward 

Marist students watching the 

republican convention this summer 

may have caught a glimpse of one 

of their own milling about the 

floor. 

Bill Corbett, a senior at Marist, 

was standing right under the 

podium as presidential candidate 

George Bush and vice presidential 

candidate Dan Quayle made their 

speeches, he said. 

Corbett had the opportunity to 

go to the convention as a member 

of the Center for the Study of the 

Presidency. Corbett has been a 

member for four years and was 

selected in May as a center fellow. 

As one of fifteen center fellows, 

Corbett will attend a leadership 

conference in Boston in November 

and' a student symposium in 

Washington, D.C., in March. He 

will attend a day of White House 

briefings prior to the symposium. 

As a center fellow, Corbett will 

also moderate several debates and 

act as a leader of the small groups. 

Corbett is a political science major 

who hopes to go into politics 

after law school. He said he considers 

the center a great place to 

learn about government. 

The Center for the Study of the 

-Presidency is a non-partisan group 

of about 500 people from around, 

the country who are interested in 

government. Corbett's father, 

William Corbett Sr., an acting 

justice in Floral Park, N.Y., is also 

a member and got his son involved. 

The center holds symposiums 

every year, at which political 

leaders debate and give speeches. 

At these symposiums Corbett got 

the chance to talk to Edwin Meese, 

Sandra Day O'Connor, Congressman 

Lee Hamilton, and 

members of the Democratic and 

Republican National Committees. 

At one symposium, President 

Reagan spoke to the group. 

"I was in the front row when the 

president spoke," said Corbett. 

After the debates and speeches, 

the large group breaks into smaller 

groups of fifteen or sixteen people 

that have hour-long meetings or 

luncheons with the speakers. 

"When you go to conferences 

like this and talk about tough issues 

with people that are involved in 

them — when you can have both 

sides of an issue like in the debates 

— it's amazing how much you can 

learn," he said. 

thinking of a costume every year 

and puts it off until the last minute. 

"My friends and I can never 

decide what we're going to be and 

we always end up being something 

that was thrown together the mor- • 

ning of Halloween," said Crean. 

"Last year we took garbage bags, 

taped candy to them and went as 

trick-or-treat bags. By 11 our 

costumes were ruined because 

everyone at the party had eaten the 

candy off of them." 

"Some costumes are so creative 

you wonder where people get their 

ideas and others are so played 

out," Minogue said. "This year I 

want people to wonder where 1 got 

the idea for my costume. 1 promised 

myself for my last Halloween at 

"Marist 1 am going to Y>e something 

. original. I just don't know what 

yet." 

Dispute over 

dates spurs 

2nd election 

by Nathan Robinson 

Freshman elections came to a 

halt on Thursday, Oct. 6, only 

a few hours after it began, said 

Jeff Ferony, student body 

president. 

Due to a contradiction of 

dates on the election guidelines 

two hopefuls for office had 

been left off the ballots, said 

Ferony. 

According to Ferony, one 

paragraph of the election 

guidelines said the declaration 

of petitions for office were due 

on Sept. 29, and the following 

paragraph said the petitions 

were due on Sept. 23. 

Tricia Rizzuto, candidate for 

freshman class treasurer, and 

Laura DeMott, candidate for 

freshman class secretary, missed 

the deadline and were unable 

to deliver their campaign 

speeches held on the night 

before elections, said Ferony. 

The election committee had 

decided on Sept. 23 as the 

deadline for petitions at a 

meeting the two were unable to 

attend. They thought the 

deadline was Sept. 29. 

Rizzuto and DeMott pleaded 

their cases to Ferony and the 

decision was made to postpone 

the elections for one week. 

Results of the election last 

week were Catharine Sullivan, 

president; Michael Prout, vice 

president; Amy Ward, 

treasurer; and Sandy M

Marist through African eyes 

by Karen Cicero 

In 1982, Abdul Sankoh made the 

eight-hour flight to the United 

States to continue his education. 

Thousands of miles from his 

hometown of Freetown in Sierra 

Leone, Africa, Sankoh found life 

much different than his homeland. 

A first-year calculus teacher, 

Sankoh, 28, heard of Marist for the 

first time when ABC news mentioned 

the Marist Institute for 

Public Opinion. He had heard 

about a job opening at the college. 

He accepted the position in early 

June and was curious about 

coming to Poughkeepsie. "I 

wanted to see what the Tawana 

Brawley case was all about," he 

said. 

Sankoh graduated from the 

University of West Africa with a 

bachelor's degree in math education 

and earned a master's degree 

in math from the University, of 

Toledoin in 1984. He also did 

graduate work at SUNY Buffalo, 

and intends to return to Africa 

when he completes his studies. 

Sankoh believes Americans have 

misconceptions about Africa 

because of what they see on television 

about starving children in 

Ethiopia. "Live Aid has not done 

that much for Africa," he said. 

"There's a better level of interaction 

there," Sankoh said, comparing 

Freetown, with a population of 

350,000, to "the jungle" of New 

York City. "People are more open, 

more ready to accept a stranger and 

quickly make them welcome." 

Roger Norman, an assistant professor 

of computer science and his 

friend takes Sankoh to play racquetball. 

Sankoh said it's not a 

substitute for soccer. 

In high school and college 

Sankoh was halfback for the Kambia 

Stars. Soccer is the most 

popular sport in Africa, he said. 

Sankoh surprised himself when 

he became interested in football. 

"I'm getting to like the Buffalo 

Bills but it's been slow," he said. 

Sankoh was also surprised at the 

American's ability to find shortcuts 

for everything, admitting he takes 

advantage of some of them. 

- * A: ^ "' " 

Marist professor Abdul Sanko is finding that things like fast 

food and professional football make the United States different 

from his home in Africa. 

(Photos by Bob Davis) 

He frequents McDonald's anu 

Burger King because it's no fun to 

cook alone. But Sankoh. finds it 

difficult to use shortcuts in 

language. 

In Freetown, a former British 

colony, all syllables are carefully 

enunciated. "In America, all that 

you hear is I wanna, I'm gonna — 

I'm not used to that,"said Sankoh. 

The change in climate has been 

startling for Sankoh who said it 

never goes below 45 degrees in 

Freetown. Sankoh saw snow for 

the first time while studying in 

Ohio. "It's beautiful as long as you 

stay inside," he said. 

Even without the snow, Sankoh, 

who has 15 siblings, said Christmas 

is better in Africa. "It's more 

geared toward the family. Here, 

you're forced to borrow to buy 

gifts," he said. 

Overall, Sankoh said communications 

in Africa is more 

restricted than in the states. The 

government controls television and 

often people don't believe it, he 

said. 

However, independent 

newspapers and private radio stations 

do exist. He said American 

music is very popular and the 

young people love Michael 

Jackson. 

High School students in Africa 

learn what the average college 

junior has been taught, according 

to Sankoh. African students have 

no freedom in choosing classes. 

"There's no add/drop," he joked. 

Sankoh's older brother also had 

to adjust to living in the states. 

Minkailo, a cardiologist in New' 

York City, inspired him to come to 

America. But even with his brother 

nearby, Sankoh admits it's lonely 

here. 

With the help of several close 

friends, Sankoh has become more 

accustomed to life in the United 

States but he still misses Freetown. 

"At home (in Poughkeepsie), it's 

lonely, it's not really home," he 

said. 

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River Brigade 

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to clean up the Hudson 

by Michael Kinane 

"Stop talking about it and do something 

about it!" 

With these words, Joanne Myers, an assistant 

professor of political science, prompted 

one of her students into action. 

Last Sunday, A. Edward Fludd, the resident 

assistant on the fifth floor of Leo Hall, 

gathered 16 residents from his floor and two 

other students and cleaned up approximately 

250 meters of the Hudson River's east 

bank. 

At the beginning of last summer, Fludd 

took a walk to the Marist boathouses along 

the river wherehe saw the riverbank covered 

with beer cans and bottles. 

"I got angry over the condition of the 

river," said Fludd "It's such a scenic area, 

but then you look down and ... garbage." 

Fludd took his concerns to Myers, who 

issued her challenge. She suggested that 

Fludd join -Greenpeace, an international 

organization whose-policies call for the cleanup 

of the earth's environment. 

Fludd, who describes himself as more of 

an "activist" than a "legislative type," took 

Myers' suggestion one step further. 

"Nothing ever getstlone when you try to 

do it the right way," said the senior political 

science major. "You have to just do it." 

When school opened in September, Fludd 

did. 

Last Tuesday, Fludd called a meeting of 

the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of Leo 

where he told them of his idea. He also showed 

them a poster by Gareth Williams titled 

"Running Out of Time." The poster shows 

an hourglass with a landscape scene in the 

top portion that dwindles into a pile of garbage 

in the lower portion. 

"I asked them if they enjoyed not being 

able to go to the beach last summer," said 

Fludd, referring to the numerous beach closings 

throughout the northeast. "Then I told 

that it was time we did something about our 

own situation." 

Of the 150 people who attended that 

meeting, only 18 showed up at 1 p.m. on 

Sunday to help with the clean-up. Armed 

with rakes and garbage bags, they started at 

the Poughkeepsie train bridge and worked 

their way north until they reached what the 

crew team calls the "500 meter mark" — a 

set of decaying stone stairs that overlook the 

river. 

By 2:30 p.m., numerous bags of garbage 

had been collected and the area along the 

river had been raked and picked clean of 

trash. 

"It's our mess. It's the students who go 

down there and leave the garbage, so we were 

just cleaning up our own mess," said 

Melanie Winters, a senior communication 

arts major who took part in the clean-up. 

"It's about time someone did something." 

According to Fludd, the riverbanks were 

cleaned up after his walk in early June, but 

no one has cleaned up since school began. 

"I just hope the school follows suit and 

puts receptacles down there," said Fludd, 

who said he thinks placing the receptacles by 

the boathouses will not advocate drinking 

because students are drinking there already. 

Fludd said he hopes the'work that was 

done will set an example for others on campus 

and that people will begin to take better 

care of the river front. 

"No matter where we live in the world, it's 

our environment," said Fludd. "We are 

screwing up our environment and the time 

is running out to help it." 

"Think about what a few people did in 

such a short time and it makes you wonder," 

said Mike Morrin, a freshman from Wolcott, 

Conn., who lives on Leo's fifth floor. "You 

looked at it after you were done and you 

think about what America could be like if 

we just didn't drop our beer cans around." 

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does his part by helping clean-up the stone staircase which 

overlooks the river. Brendan McKenna (above, left) works at 

the river's edge. A. Edward Fludd, a resident assistant in Leo, 

helps out (above, right). Students combine their efforts (bottom 

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Frosh punishment a 

step toward future? 

"The posession and/or use of alcohol by any student within 

freshman and sophomore housing facilities is prohibited." 

This is Marist's policy, as spelled out on page 86 of the student 

handbook, towards alcoholic consumption in its dormitories. 

Last Friday night, the residents of the third floor of Leo Hall 

broke that policy when they held an "around the world" party 

in which each student went from room to room tasting different 

and, sometimes, not so different alcoholic beverages. 

Of course, this action was in direct violation of college rules. 

Rules that each student is made aware of from the time he arrives 

on campus. 

In response to the actions of Leo's residents, Housing officials 

restricted all visitors from entering the building from Saturday 

until Monday morning. 

While some may feel the punishment was unfair, what other 

action could the Housing Office take when such a major breach 

of the rules occurs? 

Due to disturbances within college-owned housing at Boston 

University, that college's administration has placed a limitation 

on' the time a resident may have visitors in their room. Only 

residents of a room are allowed in that room after 11:30 p.m. 

Sundays through Thursdays and 1:30 a.m. on Fridays and 

Saturdays. 

How would we feel if we could not have visitors in our rooms 

past 11:30 p.m.? 

While there is no sign that a ruling such as this may occur at 

Marist, events such as Friday night's could prove to be the first 

reason cited if such a policy were ever developed. 

letters 

No to frats 

To the Editor: 

The article in your last issue re 

a new fraternity on campus 

disheartens and dismays me. 1 

thought Marist had grown beyond 

that. 

The history of fraternities on college 

campuses, we all know, is a 

sorry one. Sexism, alcoholism, 

rape, vandalism, death (yes, 

death), you name it. One thinks of 

the terrible events of just the past 

few years at St. John's, Dartmouth, 

Princeton, Rutgers. These 

events have led most educators to 

cry for the abolishment of all 

fraternities. 

The one fraternity at Marist 

sneaked in through the 

thoughtlessness of an adjunct passing 

through for one semester, with 

no care whatsoever for Marist. I 

believe it was a mere two years after 

its foundation that members of the 

fraternity completely demolished 

Psych 

To the Editor: 

It is unfortunate that a recent article 

of The Circle ("Professors are 

no-shows at communications, 

social," Oct. 6) spotlighted only the 

failure of the Communication Arts 

Social, while overlooking the success 

of the Psychology Social. 

Approximately 70 faculty and 

students from the psychology 

department and other disciplines 

attended the event, sponsored by 

the Psychology Club on Sept. 27. 

The social provided an opportunity 

for needed interaction between 

the students and faculty outside 

the classroom.setting. 

While the Communication Arts 

Social is certainly newsworthy, The 

Circle concentrated on only the 

negative aspects of student-faculty 

relationships here at Marist. 

Such relationships are not so 

the kitchen in the Benoit House. 

This provided a golden opportunity 

to excise the cancer, but the same 

Marist administrators who had 

allowed the cancer to take root still 

lacked the wisdom and courage to 

act. 

I can only hope that our present 

administrators have more wisdom 

and courage. 

Fraternities are primarily for immature 

students who need a herd 

to supply them an identity. The exclusiveness 

of fraternities is a glaring 

anachronism in this day, when 

the entire globe is moving irreversibly 

towards convergence, openness 

and peace. Do something 

positive instead: join the glee club, 

or cross country, or the folk group, 

or the theater guild... 

Marist should look forward, not 

backward. 

Bro. Joseph L.R. Belanger, fms 

social 

bleak in the psychology department 

and the Marist community should 

know that there are some professors 

and students who are concerned 

enough to attend such 

events. 

Roxann Phaneuf 

President, Psychology Club 

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Resident attitudes are aim 

of ' electronic 

by Michael Kinane 

meeting 

Organizers of the event sent letters 

home with school children last 

week in an attempt to find 250 

county residents of all races, sexes 

and political ideologies to participate 

in the meeting. 

The meeting is being billed as an 

"electronic meeting" because a 

Quick Tally System will be used 

which allows the results of the 

answers of people taking part to be 

tallied and showed on a viewing 

screen. The system can also develop 

and show break-downs of answers 

by race, religion, age group or 

gender. 

A three-hour electronic town 

meeting that will gauge public opinions 

regarding race and the impact 

of the media in shaping those opinions 

will take place tonight at the 

Mid-Hudson Civic Center. 

"In a period of three hours, we 

expect to get a better understanding 

of what Dutchess County residents 

really think about racial issues and 

what kind of impact the news 

media has had in shaping those opinions," 

said Joyce Ghee, president 

of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at 

Val-Kill. 

ERCVK is co-sponsoring the A panel of print and broadcast 

event with the New York State journalists will be present to field 

Martin Luther King Jr. questions from the residents who 

Commission. 

participate. 

Blahs- 


have actually resorted to making a 

group of twenty-year-olds sit on the 

floor in front of them, remaining 

quiet while the Stalin act-alike takes 

down names. 

What the hell kind of mentality 

is this? 

I've visited many schools and 

none have had the power-hungry, 

butt-kissing type of morons that I 

have witnessed at this place. 

How can you possibly justify a 

person my age, or even three years 

my senior, totally busting chops 

and power-tripping on me? 

Just doing their jobs? 

chance. 

No 

For many of these people, this is 

their big chance to execute all of 

that power that they have. 

They can then run to their 

masters and happily report how 

many peers they just got in trouble. 

I'm not saying ali of them are ^ 

like this, because even in Russia not J 

everyone is a Communist Party 

member. 

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by Nancy Bloom 

Basketball player Miro Pecarski 

has been dining in the 

cafeteria for four years but says 

this year something is different. 

Pecarski is only one of the 

many students'who says eating 

in the dining room is different 

without Magdelin Sadowski 

greeting them at the door. 

Magdelin Sadowski, better 

known as Marge, has been charming 

students in the cafeteria 

for four years. 

"I've known Marge for a 

long time, and I miss not seeing 

her," said Pecarski, a senior 

from Yugoslavia. 

This year would have been 

the Poughkeepsie native's fifth 

year working for Seiler's, but 

after the first week of school 

Marge became ill. 

Marge has been gone for 

nearly six weeks suffering from 

bacterial endocardipus, a 

bacterial infection in the blood. 

"I'm not sure of the cause of 

it, or where it came from," said 

Marge. "It was just creeping up 

on me." 

After being in Vassar 

Brothers Hospital for three 

Page 8 - THE CIRCLE - October 20, 1988 

say they miss Marge; 

back in two weeks 

weeks, Marge was released into 

her daughter's care. 

Donna Moran, Marges 

daughter and assistant to President 

Dennis Murray, has been 

caring for Marge in her home 

since her release from the 

hospital. 

"Thank God for my 

daughter," Marge said. "She 

has taken good care of me, 

given me my medicine and made 

me feel much better." 

Mary Zempko, Marge's sister 

and co-worker, said, 

"Everybody asks for Marge. 

They all ask where she is and 

when she's coming back." 

Zempko compiled a list of "I 

miss Marge" students. The list 

contained over 100 names. 

"I miss Marge," said Tina 

Kemp, a sophomore from West 

Point. "She was so bright and 

cheery and always remembered 

me." 

George Koutsaftes, a 

sophomore from West Orange, 

N.J., says he feels the same way 

about Marge. "I want her back 

so I can see her smiling face," 

he said. 

Ed Fludd, a senior RA in Leo 

Hall, worked with Marge all 

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summer in Little People's Summer 

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"I miss Marge," said Fludd. 

"She promised she'd be here, so 

where the heck is she?" 

Marge is missed by many 

students who liked her for more 

than her cheery face. 

Jim McGee, a sophomore 

from Syosset, N.Y., said, 

"Marge is like my third 

grandmother." 

Marge has even been missed 

by those who didn't know her. 

Dan Lewis, director of dining 

services, only worked with 

Marge for one week. 

"Marge is an excellent 

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began in September. "We can't 

wait for her return." 

Marge said in a telephone interview 

she feels much better 

and is resting to get the infection 

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"With the good Lord's help, 

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When will it 

disappear? 

by Mary Strieker 

Spandex pants, screaming 

nonsensical vocals, mounds and 

mounds of hair — heavy metal in 

the eighties. 

I know it sounds harsh, but I've 

had it. I've had it with these heavy 

metal glamour boys. Where did 

they come from? When are they 

going back? Why are they always 

screaming? 

I just can't understand why these 

untalented madmen are so appealing 

to the thousands of fans, often 

called head bangers. It is a name 

that seems quite appropriate 

because if I had to listen to this 

awful noise day and night, I would 

surely resort to banging my head 

into the nearest cement surface. 

I'm sure all you head bangers are 

ready to impeach me as entertainment 

columnist, but it's time I fight 

back. Heavy metal is taking over 

the airwaves and I have to say, I'm 

scared. 

It was frightening enough when 

the likes of Cyndi Lauper and 

Madonna were ruling the airwaves, 

but now I have to deal with Jon 

"New Jersey rules the world" Bon 

Jovi screaming such wretched, 

idiotic lyrics as, "Your love is like 

baaaad medicine." Well Jon, I'm 

going* to let you in on a little secret. 

It's your music that's like baaad. 

It's not just the music that makes 

me sick, it's the whole heavy metal 

mentality. It's ridiculous. If you've 

ever seen the "Bad Medicine" 

video or one of my most recent 

favorites —= Kix's "Cold Blood" — 

you will have to agree with me on 

this. 

These guys parade around the 

stage as if they think every female 

in the audience gets sexually excited 

at the sight of their long "poofed" 

hair and the sound of their horrifying 

howls. The saddest part is 

that most of these dimwits do indeed 

seem to be nearing an overlyexcited 

state themselves. 

In the Kix video, some chick, 

whose name must surely be Concetta, 

wildly gyrates around the 

stage dressed, or undressed, in no 

more than eight or nine inches of 

black leather while this "band" 

chants the lyrics, "Cold blood is all 

you bleed." 

Am I missing something? Is this 

sexy? 

Yeah, I guess the girls do think 

this is sexy but what really blows 

me away are the male head bangers 

who idolize these eggheads. Do 

they think this is sexy too? 

No, it's not cool to be a head 

banger. 

I think the way it works is that 

all the chicks think these metal men 

are sexy so the dudes think they're 

"bad" because all the chicks dig 

them. It's really a sick cycle. 

Actually, the chicks seem to be 

on about the same intellectual level 

as the metal glamour boys — the 

level of big hair and tight clothes. 

You see, they can relate to one 

another. They have so much in 

common that sometimes you can't 

even tell them apart. I think it was 

Aerosmith that summed it up in 

their smash hit, "Dude looks like 

a lady." It's true, these dudes do 

look like ladies. 

One last comment before head 

bangers of the world unite and 

come to my home armed with 

metal spikes and spandex whips — 

Def Leppard's, "Pour some sugar 

on me" — now that's sexy. 

Note: A special thanks to my 

head-bangin' roommate for her in- 

• sightful comments about her heavy 

metal heroes. 

Times puts spotlight 

on psych professor 

by Karen Goettler 

"I don't know why I was picked. 

It was lucky for me, lucky for 

Marist and lucky for the students." 

This was Professor Linda 

Dunlap's reaction to two articles, 

written by Lawrence Kutner in The 

New York Times, which quoted 

her. 

Dunlap, a developmental 

psychologist at Marist, was. quoted 

in an article printed on May 12 

about the importance of parents 

apologizing to children and in an 

article about career decisions 

printed on Sept. 22. 

Dunlap said she was pleased 

when Kutner called her about the 

second article, which included 

research she and Professor Joseph 

Canale did on career aspirations of 

Marist students, because it 

established her professional 

credibility. 

"I was like a little child, to be 

honest," she said. "I'd be lying if 

I said anything else." 

It seemed less of a fluke when 

Kutner called her back about the 

second article, Dunlap said, and 

she was just lucky that she happened 

to be home cooking dinner when 

he called. 

Dunlap said she refuses to talk 

to journalists who are researching 

articles, but felt comfortable with 

Kutner because, as a clinical 

psychologist himself, he 

understood the subject matter. 

Dunlap said she would talk to a 

reporter again only if she felt the 

reporter knew her subject. She said 

that when two reporters called her 

for information for follow-up articles, 

she told them she was not the 

person they needed. 

"I have to be careful about 

that," she said. "Otherwise I'd 

become just like a journalist who 

speaks and writes about things they 

don't know." 

The research in the study by 

Dunlap and Canale consisted of 

results from a survey conducted 

two years ago on career aspirations 

among Marist freshmen and 

seniors. 

The research revealed that 

students feel parental pressure 

about career decisions, and Dunlap 

said this has made faculty members 

aware of the need to reassure 

students about their career choices. 

She said they can use the data to 

improve professional counseling 

services at Marist. 

Dunlap said that the cooperation 

of the faculty and students 

throughout the study was wonderful, 

and the practical aspect of the 

data was interesting and exciting. 

She added that next year she would 

like to follow up with the freshmen 

who participated in the last survey 

to collect new data. 

"It's important to see the stability 

of ideas and expectations," she 

said. 

Dunlap said she was pleased that 

the article appeared in The New 

York Times because if it had been 

printed in a professional journal, 

although it may have seemed more 

prestigious, students wouldn't have 

read it. 

Dunlap proudly said that 

students and colleagues have congratulated 

her on the articles. She 

is happy that the research conduct 

by Canale and herself has been 

recognized, she said, because it is 

important for faculty members to 

know about research being done by 

their colleagues. 

"We've got to start highlighting 

what's good about us," she said. 

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For remaining Brothers, 

Marist tradition lives on 

by Molly Ward 

Thirty years after he graduated, 

Joe Maura returned to Marist this 

fall. He knew right away it was not 

the place he had left. 

"When I went to school here, it 

was much more of an agrarian 

scene," recalls Maura, a 1958 

graduate and a new member of the 

business faculty. "There were 

chickens and pigs all over the 

place." 

More than that, in 1958 the entire 

student body was composed of 

Marist Brothers in training. 

Members of the religious order also 

filled most of the faculty positions 

at what was then known as Marian 

College. 

Today, only six Brothers remain 

on campus. But despite their small 

number, the Brothers — all faculty 

members — say they represent 

an important Jink between the college 

and the religious order that 

founded it. 

They also see themselves keeping 

alive a special bond that has long 

marked the Marist Brothers. "We 

have been told that what makes us 

different is a unique family spirit 

within the order," said Joseph 

Sacino, a business professor who 

graduated from Marist in 1971. 

The order was founded in 1817 

in France by Marceliin Champagnat. 

Primarily a teaching order, 

the Brothers opened a training 

center on the current site of the college 

more than 60 years ago. In the 

1960s, lay students were first admitted 

to the college, and in 1969 

control of the institution was passed 

from the Brothers to a board of 

trustees. 

Brother Donald Kelly, a math instructor 

and 1965 alumnus, was a 

member of one of the first 

graduating classes to have lay 

students. 

"The lay students resented us a 

bit. AH we did was work study and 

pray," said Kelly. "They liked to 

party." 

By the end of the 1960s, student 

activism had further transformed 

the quiet institution the Brothers 

had founded. 

"At that time, there were many 

more political issues being addressed. 

Students were very concerned 

about the war and environmental 

issues," Sacino said. 

Another major change that the 

Marist Brothers have had to accept 

is the steady decline of interest in 

religious vocations. 

"The religious life is not going 

to catch on again," said Richard 

Rancourt, who graduated in 1953 

and teaches mathematics. "It had 

served a very noble purpose, but 

the pendulum never swings all the 

way back." 

The Brothers also realize that 

theirs is a low profile on campus. 

"With such a small number of 

Marist Brothers left, it is difficult 

to see us as a group. It is more like 

we are individual teachers," said 

Sacino. 

Because of their long association 

with the college, the Brothers have 

had a rare opportunity to chart the 

changes in educational standards 

and student attitudes. 

Of the six Brothers, Professor 

Joseph Belanger has been at Marist 

the longest. He was a member of 

the college's second graduating 

class in 1948 (the college was 

chartered as a four-year institution 

in 1946), and he began teaching 

French in 1959. 

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"American high schools have bottomed 

out. Students are just as 

bright, but they are not as prepared 

to do consistent, disciplined 

work." 

Cornelius Russell, who 

graduated in 1950 and became one 

of Marist's first business professors 

in 1961, agreed that students today 

are less prepared. 

"Today, there is moire emphasis 

on how to interpret literature and 

less on how to diagram a sentence. 

Both are important, but students 

are not learning the basics," he 

said. 

Russell also sees a change in 

students' goals. "In the '60s and 

'70s, students were more concerned 

with aesthetics, truth and beauty. 

Now students are more vocational. 

The idea of a career is paramount," 

he said. 

Most of the students in the '60s 

were the first of their family to go 

to college, said Belanger. Today's 

students, he said, come from 

backgrounds of greater means. 

"With affluence comes ease. 

They work for an hour and then 

it's 'Boy, I'm tired,' " said 

Belanger. 

Belanger said today's students 

are confused about why they came 

to college. "Some students are paying 

$12,000 a year for relationships! 

Relationships are the most 

important things in life, but they 

can't be the primary goal of college," 

he said. 

Regardless of the ups and 

downs, the Brothers fsaid their 

dedication never wanes. 

Said Rancourt, "My job is to 

help the students through their four, 

years as they develop character, 

good skills and an ability to work 

with others." 

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begin practicing 

by Tim Besser 

The basketball season has begun. 

With a fanfare akin to that seen 

at basketball hotbeds like Indiana 

University, the women's basketball 

team began practice for the 1988-89 

season Friday night at midnight. 

The men began practicing just 8 

1/2 hours after the women ended 

on Saturday. 

As the clock reached midnight, 

seniors Susanne Lynn, Annette 

McKay and Jacalyn O'Neil took 

the three locks off the ball rack and 

the new season was under way. 

Women's basketball Coach Ken 

Babineau said he had been toying 

with the idea of beginning the 

season with a little "Midnight 

Madness" prior to last season, but. 

decided to hold off on it. He decided 

to go through with the plan this 

year as a way to get his team off 

to a good start. 

"It was kind of a psychological 

ploy," said Babineau, who is in his 

third year at the Marist helm. "I 

told them we were the first team in 

the Hudson Valley to practice and 

the first team in our league. It was 

a good way to get the team back into 

basketball." 

After breaking the balls out at 

midnight, the team practiced until 

1:30 a.m., said Babineau. They had 

begun working on stretching and 

doing conditioning drills at 11:30, 

something which is allowed by the 

NCAA as long as there are no balls 

on the court. 

Teams are not allowed to have 

basketball practices until Oct. 15, 

under NCAA rules. 

Despite the time, Babineau said 

he was happy with the way the 

team practiced and the conditioning 

of most of the players. 

But all is not rosy for the Lady 

Red Foxes. 

Jennifer O'Neil, who suffered a 

severe injury to the anterior 

cruciate ligament and the medial 

collateral ligament in her right 

knee, is still recovering from knee 

surgery and will be lost until at least 

January, according to Babineau. 

O'Neil, a junior, is doing passing, 

shooting and ballhandling 

drills and lifting weights but still 

cannot run on the leg, said 

Babineau. She has good movement 

in the joint and can put weight on 

it but it is not yet strong enough to 

take the pounding Of running, he 

added. 

Her freshman year, O'Neil 

averaged 15.4 points per game, but 

fell off to a 7.9 average last year. 

She missed the last 10 games with 

the knee injury. 

Although O'Neil is still coming 

back from her injury, another injured 

guard, sophomore Nancy 

Holbrook, appears to be fully 

recovered from the stress fracture 

in her foot which forced her to miss 

the final 13 games last season, said 

Babineau. 

Holbrook averaged 8.2 points 

per game before suffering the injury. 

She started 13 of 15 games 

before eetting injured. 

Dan Adler pops the ball loose from Iona's Tom Occhipinti 

as Frank Farella doses in during Sunday's 21-10 junior varsity 

victory. Other photo page 11. (Photo by Bob Davis) 

Willie Tingle drives for a layup as Christopher Bautista trails 

during men's basketball tryouts last yrttk.(Photo by Bob Davis) 

12 - THE CIRCLE - October 20, 1988 

Laxmen cop 

fall shootout 

by Tim Besser 

The lacrosse team swept the annual 

Knickerbocker Shootout last 

Sunday at Keahe College in Union, 

N.J. 

Marist, which finished third in 

the Knickerbocker Conference last 

spring, defeated Keane 6-5 in its 

opening game to advance to the 

championship game against Montclair, 

which won the conference title 

last spring. 

In the championship game, the 

Red Foxes drubbed Montclair 8-4. 

Montclair reached the championship 

by defeating SUNY Maritime 

in its first game. 

In the all-star game, Tom Donnellan 

led the New York squad to 

a 7-5 victory over New Jersev. 

For his efforts in the all-star 

game, Donnellan was named the 

game's MVP for the second 

straight year. Mike Malet, head 

coach at Marist, said as far as he 

knows it is the first time any player 

has won the award more than once. 

Representing Marist on the allstar 

team were: seniors Donnellan, 

Jon Blake, Chris Reuss, Pete 

. Cleary and Chris Cerwin; juniors 

Steve Maloney, Kevin Everson and 

Alex Messuri; and sophomores 

Rob Naylor and Brian Hanifan. 

Under the tournament format, 

conference-champion Montclair 

played fourth-place finisher 

Maritime in the first round and 

second-place finisher Keane 

squared off with fourth-place 

finisher Marist. The top four teams 

from the previous season are invited 

to the shootout. 

Gridders sunk by Coast Guard, 

look to engineer win at RPI 

by Jay Reynolds 

The Marist football team travels 

to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Saturday for the last of five consecutive 

road games before returning 

home on Oct. 29 to face St. 

John's University. 

At RPI, the Red Foxes will be 

looking to even their record at 3-3 

after dropping a 19-0 decision at 

the U.S. Coast Guard Academy 

last Saturday. 

RPI has won all six meetings 

with the RedFoxes, including a 

40-14 victory last year, but is coming 

off a 27-0 loss at the hands of 

Union last Saturday. 

The Red Foxes were plagued by. 

injuries against Coast Guard as five 

starters had to leave the game. 

Linebacker Joe Hagan left the 

with an injured ankle and shoulder, 

tight end Joe Nowak left with a 

pinched nerve in his shoulder, and 

linemen Joe Furey, Michael 

Sesselman and Scott Rumsey all 

left the game with sprained knees. 

Problem with scholarship resolved 

by Michael Hayes 

A misunderstanding in the administration 

of a scholarship fund, 

that may have led to sanctions 

against the Marist football program, 

has been cleared up, according 

to Marist Athletic Director 

Brian Colleary. 

The scholarship, presented annually 

by the Charles Van 

Norstrand Memorial Scholarship 

Fund, is available only to students 

who played football at either 

Poughkeepsie High School or Our 

Lady of Lourdes High School, also 

in Poughkeepsie, and attend 

Marist. 

John Herman, the treasurer of 

the fund, thought the recipient had 

to at least try out for the Marist 

football team, thereby making the 

award an athletic scholarship, a 

violation of NCAA Division III 

rules, said Colleary. 

Going under the assumption the 

individual must at least try out, 

Herman rescinded the award to last 

year's winner, Steve Walsh, after 

Walsh failed to at try out for the 

team. 

Colleary said he has since spoken 

to Herman and that Walsh will 

receive the $1,000 award, as will 

this year's winner, Kevin McKiernan, 

who is not on the team. 

The foundation was established 

in the memory of the Charles Van 

Norstrand who died four years ago 

of leukemia at the age of 34. Van 

Norstrand was a student and football 

player at Poughkeepsie High 

and later played for Marist. He 

went on to teach and coach at Our 

Lady of Lourdes. The award is 

given by the foundation in an effort 

to tie the three schools 

together. 

"Nobody has to try out for football 

at Marist," said Colleary. "If 

nobody tries out we don't have a 

team." 

If the award were in fact an 

athletic grant Colleary points out 

that it would not be given to a student 

on the basis of two practices 

as was the case with McKiernan. 

The story was originally broken 

by the Poughkeepsie Journal, 

which contacted the NCAA in 

regards to the legality of the 

scholarship. Colleary said the college 

has had no contact with the 

NCAA involving the scholarship. 

Hagan is questionable for Saturday, 

but Nowak, Furey, Sesselman 

and Rumsey will all miss the game 

at RPI, according to trainer Glenn 

Marinelli. 

The Red Foxes could not sustain 

any offense against the Cadets, 

although the defense played well 

after allowing a touchdown on the 

Cadets' opening drive. The Cadets 

drove 65 yards on nine plays in just 

three minutes, 30 seconds to score. 

"After the first touchdown, we 

came out defensively and played a 

little better," Coach Mike Malet 

said. "We played excellent defense 

— we did not play good offense." 

The Red Foxes had only 135 

yards of total offense — just 25 

yards in the air. 

• Quarterback Jason Thomas led 

Marist rushers with 60 yards on 16 

carries. Running backs Patrick 

Mullaly and Alan Affuso each had 

27 yards. 

Punter John Woodhour punted 

on seven of Marist's 11 drives for 

272 yards. 

"Offensively, we stopped 

ourselves," Malet said. "We had 

one good drive in the first half that 

could have tied the score and we 

made a mistake (allowing a sack) 

— and that's got to stop." 

After recovering a fumble on its 

own 28-yard line, Marist drove to 

mid-field on a 22-yard pass from 

Thomas to wide receiver Kevin 

Cody. However, Marist was forced 

to punt after Thomas was sacked 

for a 5-yard loss and the third 

down pass was incomplete. 

Leading the defense for the Red 

Foxes was defensive back Fred 

Christensen with 14 tackles, 11 of 

which were unassisted. Lineman 

Chris Pratti and linebacker Stephen 

Whelan had 12 tackles and 11 

tackles respectively and one sack 

each. 

Fullback Scott Huerter led the 

Cadet rushing attack with 111 

yards on 24 carries. Halfbacks 

David Brown and Daniel Kenny 

gained 58 and 49 yards respectively. 

Booters 3 offensive drought 

hurts shot at winning mark 

by David Blondin 

The men's soccer team was 

shut out for the third consecutive 

time, 8-0, in a loss to 

Northeast Conference foe 

Loyola College Saturday in 

Baltimore, Md. 

The loss dropped the Foxes to 

3-9 and 0-4 in the conference. 

Marist was at Siena on Wednesday, 

results were unavailable at 

press time. 

The Marist offense continues 

to have its problems as it 

managed only three shots on 

goal in Saturday's game. 

"We're just not shooting 

enough," said Coach Howard 

Goldman. "We're not putting 

the ball into the spaces where a 

person could take a shot on 

goal." 

In the past three games the 

Marist offense has had a total 

of 10 shots on goal while its opponents 

have netted 13 goals. 

Marist players hold onto the 

ball to long before they pass, 

said Goldman. They are waiting 

for things to happen instead of 

going out and making them 

happen, Goldman he added. 

Meanwhile, Marist opponents 

continue to mount 

strong attacks against freshmen 

goalie Klye Muncy. 

Muncy has saved 75 of the 

109 shots the opponents have 

had in 12 games for a .668 save 

percentage. .

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