Vol. 22 No. 9, April 26, 1979 - Marist College

Page 6 THE CIRCLE April 26, 1979
Letters...from pg 4
Is this another "political" appointment
made by a Marist administrator in order
to circumvent still another possible
problem? It is also quietly known that
there will be the awarding of rings to five
juniors who have contributed the most to
Marist College in the fields of service,
athletics, and academics. What is the
process for awarding these rings? What
criteria will be used to rate these students?
Who makes the decision? We know that the
junior class was never notified concerning
this matter. Are the select few of the Ring
Committee given this task? Are they at all
capable of this momentous task? We are
afraid of the fact that they probably are
not and that proper recognition will once
again not be given at Marist College. "
Still, further, there are more questions.
Who will pay for these "free" rings? Who
will compensate all the juniors who
deserve awards and are not going to get
them? We demand answers - for the class
of 1980 and for the rest of Marist community
so that a problem like this will not
have to be faced again and at such a late
time.
Respectfully submitted,
PeteMcFadden
Dave Powers
i
JackOehm
• John Shannon
Unfair
To the editors:
In the Thursday, April 12 issue of the
Circle an article was written in reference
to the financial standing of the Black
Student Union (BSU). The article stated
thatthe organization was in the red. The
information presented in this article was
nothing more than ah invalid assumption.
The BSU was experiencing a financial lag
due to the unpaid revenues' from our
sponsors "and much of those revenues have
already^been paid back to us;
Your .-article was unnecessary and it
presented a biased opinion. The -act of
digging' for some kind of negative information
to present about the Black
Student Union has resulted in misinformation
and this is not the first time that
this has occurred. . \
The club has made some positive past
achievements and . many students and
faculty members here ••• at Marist - .are
curious as to why your organization does
not report these things. Could it/be that
your paper is attempting to degrade the
The week in review
Around the world,...
China is using several approaches to
birth control in an effort to cut its birth
rate as its population rapidly nears one
billion.
One of the methods is publicly naming
men who have had vasectomies and
women who are on-the pill. Another approach
is providing cash subsidies and
other incentives to parents who have only
one child. The families would also be
Around the nation,.
A study conducted by the Princeton
University newspaper, the Daily Princetonian,
show that more than a third of
the school's undergraduates cheated on an
examination at least once during their
college careers. ~
The survey's methodology was immediately
attacked by administrators and
the student body president when it was
released Tuesday. \
The Princetonian surveyed 519 randomly
chosen undergraduates during the
week of April 5, asking "Have vyou ever
cheated on an in-class examination while
\;AroundWe town
Black Student Union?
- I
If your paper were to present information
that is necessary, factual aqd
didn't happen to put the BSU in the best ,of
light, we would accept that for that would
be good journalism but this is not what
your paper does. In the future, could you
please respect yourself and us ; If you must
print negative information about our club,
see that it is informative and factual. Isn't
that what journalism is all about?
Sincerely,
\ Eddie Williams
, President of BSU
Beethoven
eligible for the same amount of housing as
a family, of four and their child would
receive preferential treatment in admission
to school and in job assignment.
The size, of- China's population has long
been hotly debated among specialists.
Foreign estimates generally range from
870 million to 950 million, but a U.S. census
bureau, demographer has calculated that
China broke the one billion mark last May.
you've been at Princeton. Thirty-four
percent answered, "Yes."
Seventy-one percent indicated that they
felt' the honor system would be "ineffective"
if more than 30 percent of the
student body cheated.
- The solution of 10 strangler murders in
the Hillside area of Los Angeles was announced
by law-enforcement officials, who
named a 27-year-old native of Rochester,
N.Y., who professes to have, a "multiple
personality" as one of the possibly two or
more men allegedly involved in the deaths.
Smoke billowed in the sky across the buildings. ,
Hudson River Tuesday, as Highland fire The blaze was reported at 10:45 a.m. and
officials reported a blaze that gutted four waf still being fought late into the night.
Financial Aid available
from several sources
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By Valerie Poleri
A Marist student with French Hugenot
blood, or a graduate business or economics
major 7who wants .-to study: in; Barcelona,'
Spam,jcould.be eligible for'financial aid
awards they are not aware of.
Assistant Director of Financial Aid,
Michael Fraher said, "Besides the major
sources of financial aid, there is a lot of
money available through smaller
programs."
According to Fraher, the problem with
most of the smaller awards is that you
have to be in a certain field, or your
parents must belong to a particular
organization to qualify for the aid. "Many
of the awards are available only at the
graduate level," said Fraher.
Fraher said that the financial aid office
used to purchase updated volumes of'little
known available financial aid. "We did not
get an awful lot of students coming in, and
sbest!
LOS ANGELES
PHILHARMONIC
Carlo MariaGiulini,
MusicDirector
in an all-Beethoven program. '
Egrriont Overture Symphony
« No. 9 with Faye Robinson,
• soprano, Gwendolyn Killebr'ew,
mezzo-soprano, Robert Tear, tenor
& Simon Estes, bass-baritone. Presented
"by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic
Orchestra & the McCann Foundation
x in cooperation with N.Y.Telephone Co.
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when they did come they would not find
anything," said Fraher. "The cost of the
volumes was high and we stopped ordering
them." • , •
-Two books in the financial aid office
were, The Grants Register and Scholarships,
Fellowships, and Loans. According
to Fraher updated volumes of these books
can be found in public libraries; for interested
students. -
Fraher said most students are aware of
the major sources of financial aid which
include awards, student loans, and work
study programs. "If a student is not aware
it is not because the information is not
there,", said Fraher. "The student is not
taking advantage of the information."
Fraher said since most students receive
financial aid, a big problem is students are
not aware of the responsibilities involved
with the aid. "A lot of students have
problems with the Tuition Assistance
Program," said Fraher. "The student is
responsible for payment of the bill until the
money from T.A.P. comes through."
Fraher also said that any student whose
family situation changes should go immediately
to the financial aid office to see
about additional aid.
A D V E RTISEM E NT
Come Back
to Work
Next Year.
Boss
Inquiring
Photographer
Question: How do you picture Marist In
25 years?
Barbara Cherello, junior: "If they don't
get it together, Marist won't be here."
Tom Hammond, junior: "It will
probably be part of a Mid-Hudson
University, along with Vassar and Bard, in
order to survive."
Mike Iantosca, Sophomore: "Hopefully
Marist will acknowledge the arts by that
time." -
Satya Calas, senior: "The same. Its a
private college. What big changes could
happen?"
Terry Peters, freshman: "I think fewer
students will be interested because they
realize they're not getting whatthey paid'
for." -,
April 26,1979 THE CIRCLE Page 7
Journalism instructor will recall Marist friendships
By Dianna Jones
Long lasting friendships have been
established under deadline pressures for
journalism teacher Mimi McAndrew
because of time she has spent with her
students.
"My students became my friends," says
' McAndrew who will be leaving Marist
after four years of teaching to return to
newspaper reporting. -
McAndrew, reporter for 11 years prior to
coming to Marist says, "As much as I love
reporting, the nicest things that happened
to me, happened to me here.
' 'I wouldn't have missed it for the whole
world."
Mimi McAndrew
Spring Internships for 79
ByJimTownsend
Internships in communication arts,
political science, psychology, and teacher
education are providing job experience for
79 Marist students this semester.
The communication arts internships
started in 1969 and according to program
director Bob Norman has grown and
"exceeded my expectations," he said. This
semester, 33 interns, ten who work fulltime,
are earning 15 credits. Norman said
some interns get paid for working but
Norman does not like interns because they
may become loyal to the facility and not to
the program. Each intern keeps a record
of whatthey do on the job and Norman said
he tries to contact them once every two
weeks.
Norman said students who want internships
should contact him by their
sophomore year in order to set them up.
Norman said the students, are expected to
have an overall cumulative average of. 2.5
and an average in their major of 2.8,
though Norman says the best students do
not always make the best interns.
Some of the interns receive job offers
from their internships, but Norman added
their work experience is more important
than being hired. Many of the internship
programs are now in doubt, according to
Norman, because there aren't enough
students interested.
In the teacher education department 11
students have taught in area high schools.
Elizabeth Nolan, director of the
program said many of the students who
teach are supervised by former Marist
graduates. The program started with the
Marist brothers according to Nolan, but
received state certification in the early
sixties.
Interning education students observe
classes for seven weeks before taking full
responsibility of teaching five classes.
This includes planning, instructing, testing
and grading of over 100 students said
Nolan.
Nolan said students interested in the
McAndrew, who never taught before
coming to Marist, says students taught her
to teach; "They (students) taught me a lot
about courage. It takes a lot of courage to
be a campus reporter because what they
renort effects them directly," she says.
Teaching .her students that, "A
newspaper is there to report w'hat happens
and what effects people because the public
has a right to know," McAndrew adds.
"It's a sacred trust being a newspaper
person."
"It's a tremendous pride for me to
contribute a little bit to students who are
now a credit to my profession," she says.
Two students now-work at the Associated
Press: one works for the Staten Island
teacher education program for secondary
schools should contact her when
sophomores.
Nolan said the intern program has
decreased in size in the past five years, but
in 1977,11 out of the 19 teacher education
students later found jobs teaching.
Nineteen Political Science students are
obtaining job experience in law,
legislative, and executive offices in
Dutchess County in the internship
program. The agencies in which these
students work in the offices of the Public
Defender, the District Attorney, the
Probation Department, and the County
Executive office according to Lee
Miringoff, director of the program.
Besides the internship work papers and
readings are required said Miringoff.
Three students are interning full-time in
the New York state senate in Albany and
are working with senators and doing jobs
usually done by their staff.
Miringoff said that students interested in
internships should've contacted him
Advance; one is the assistant to the
editorial writer at WCBS, four other
students work at the Poughkeepsie
Journal, one of those four was the Journal's
first woman sports writer, says
McAndrew.
The main problem, McAndrew says she
has faced at Marist is that, "people have
questioned my integrity. "They believe
that I'm somehow teaching some mystical
negative view of journalism when I'm
teaching the most routine kind of reporting."
McAndrew lives in Rhinebeck with her
husband, Tom, the sports editor for the
Poughkeepsie Journal, and their two
daughters, Siobahn and Molly.
during registration for the next semester's
classes.
The Psychology internship, called a
work-study program, started in 1968 and
was one of the first in the country to have
students work full-time.
Sixteen students are in the work-study
program which, includes rehabilitation
programs, drug abuse programs, working
with emotionally disturbed children, and
testing in Poughkeepsie High School.
Students are given interviews by the
agency before they take the internship and
they hold a monthly seminar to talk with
the other interns and discuss their
problems with each other according to
Christine McLean, director of the
program.
The work-study program is only open to
second semester seniors who have completed
all of their requirements said
McLean.
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