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^ O M 6 % N O . 13 MER£THURST,COLLEGE'S;WEEKLY TRIDENT NEWSPAPER Janoary I2,yl995

ioMResidence LifeAny students interested in learning about becoming residen

assistants (RAs) should make plans to attend a social o n Sunday, Jan22. The event will offer information about residence life opportunities, expectations and the benefits of being an RA. RA applicationwill be available at the meeting. The event begins at 8 p.m. in pUnion and light refreshments will be ava ilable. Students planning $iattend should R.S.V.P. by January 20 at extension 2422.

Get ready |to recycle

Environmentally Concerned Campus Organizatione decorating recycling containers on Saturday aftenn the Laker Inn. The containers labeled and delilav. All students are invited to attend. A donation of $

pizza

Sharpen those jblades

Ice skating hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7:20

u n t a S f S Q f . i m a i i ^ t M ^rental is free o Mercyhurst students. Skates can be obtained in tinegame room of the Union. Skating hours are subject to change if there

is i scheduled hockey gam e.

Be a chair personThe Hotel Restaurant and Institutional M anagement department is

selling chairs for the Grotto Dining Room. The chairs cost $60 and

can be engraved with the buyer's name and year of graduation, inmemory of som eone or with the name of i company or individual.Anyone interested in purchasing a chair or further information cancontact H RIM at extension 2333.

FridayBreezy and mild with a 70

Ipercent chance ofshowers; highs in the low

Ho mid 50s.

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SaturdayPeriods of rain; lows in

the mid 30s to lower40s; highs in themid 40s

to lower 50s,

SundayStill more rain;lows in the 30s;highs in the 40s,

The Walkers' continue the dreami

By Craig RybczynskiEditor in Chief ' j

Mercyhurst Co llege moved onestep and $1 million closer to com-pleting President fWilliam P.Garvey's "Continuing the Dream"Campaign.

Twelve-year Board of Trusteemember Dr. Barrett Walker andhis wife , Catherine Walker ofEriemade the endowment to the col-lege, M onday.

Since September, the school has

raised $4 million of the $6.2 mil-lion goal.

The donation will fund thebuilding of the CatherineMcDonough Walker ResearchCenter and also establish theWalker School of Business."I've been in business for a good

many years and it (the gift) willenhancediebusiness school," saidWalker. "It is a good school andwe are trying to make it better.The money will fund visiting pro-fessors and other outreaches."

Dr. Walker, a Pittsburgh native,moved to Erie in 1956 followinga tour of duty with the US Air

Force. ^ £. 13T~

Paul is not surprised by theprogress the school has made inreaching its goal.

"Once he puts his mind to some-thing he gets it done/' he said ofGarvey. "He did what he neededto get to the next level."

The Mercyhurst school of busi-ness currently enrolls 450 stu-dents and was the recipient of a$600,000 addition in 1989. I

McDonough Walker ResearchCenter," Dr. Garvey said. "Heexplained that the 11,000 sq. ftaddition will bring the collegeinto conformity with the Am eri-can Library Association's recom-mendation for a college the sizeof Mercyhurst Ground breakingfor the new addition is projectedfor May 1996 to coincide with thecurrent library's 25th anniver-

"We are extremely gratified by* * sa Jv n

He completed his graduate workat Washington and Jefferson Col-lege and the University of Pitts-burgh School of Dentistry.

He has practiced dentistry for20 years in the area and later be-came an investment entrepreneur.

"I think it is a superb step for -ward for the school and it willprovide us with extra resources tomake the school better," saidHoward Paul, assistant professorof business.

the generosity of Dr. and Mrs.Walker," said Garvey. "We havelong dreamt of establishing anendowed School of Business atMercyhurst and the W alker g iftwill make this dream a reality."

The business department will

not be the only benefactor. TheHammermill library will be thesite of a new research center.%u\iwill be equally gratifying forus to name our planned libraryaddition? the Catherine

Walker expressed* her ex-treme satisfaction with beingassociated with the Sisters ofMercy.

"On a personal level, I amfond of their heritage whichtraces hack to Ireland, myparent's homeland," she sa id.•1 can think o f no finer groupof •: religious, academic andadministrative leaders to beaffiliated with and I amtremendously proud andhonored to lend my name toMercyhurst's new researchcenter."

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In honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, January 16, therewill be a Freedom March downtown. The march will leave from Campus Ministryat 11:15 a.m. and will return by 12:50 p.m. There w ill also be a panel discussion at7 p.m. in Egan Cafeteria based on the book Makes Me Wanna Holler.

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IN DEFENSE OF P.B.S.Anne M. Schleicher

Features IA&E editor

Well it's a new year, with new goals, new dreams, new hopes andmost significantly a new Congress. W ait, don't turn the page. Youare in fact still on the Arte an d Entertainment page. And yesyou did?just lead something relating to politics. It is important to realize thatwhether you vote or not, get involved or not, even like it or not,politics creeps into your everyday lives more than you can imagine.

This 104th Congress is significant, as you probably already know ,because it's the first ime in 40 years that we have a Republicanmajority in the House of Representatives. With mis shift in powerwill come a shift in the agenda put before the Congress. TheRepublican party wants to instill what they have called their Con-tract with Am erica. Like* most contracts,'this Contract withAmerica may seem to be fruitful upon first glance, however it isupon close examination of the fine print when nasty inco nsistencies

and inconveniences pop up.One of the changes that the Republican party, with Speaker New tGingrich atthe helm, wants to make is inthe amount of funding thatis allocated for public broadcasting. Gingrich claims that there is a

need to eliminate this "liberal-bent media". Yet along with thismedia, in the form of National Public Radio, many other types ofworthy and stimulating programming have the potential to get lostinthis budget cutting crisis. Public broadcasting, through its privateand federal sponsorship, unlike advertising funded broadcasting, isable to bring a unique and much needed alternative to the informa-tion superhighway that is setting up shop in ourvery ow n backyards.Without public broadcasting w e, the public, lose a rich source ofculture and intellectual dialogue. We lose a forum in which todiscuss and learn to appreciate different i viewpoints. It is this

*.. freedom o f ntellect that has held a strong place in the history of ournation. It is important that this liberty not b e eliminated.

It is important to realize that the founders of this great nation of

ours intended freedom of thought tobe a focal point o f our politicalvexistence. One. could look to the Federalist Papers, number 10

specifically, to see this idea mentioned. Madison writes: Thediversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights ofproperty originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to auniformity of interests. Hie protection of these faculties is thefirst obj ect of go vernmen t ~Hie regulation of these variousandinterfering interests forms the principal task of modern legisla-tion and involves th e spirit of party and faction in the necessary

operations of government.99

Modern interpretation of this task of government is evident in thispresent pub lic broadcasting debate. Public broadcasting providesthe forum n which ideas, music, art and culture are expressed and

| of the viewpoints but it is111shared. Ye s you may disagree with s<important mat these viewpoints have the ability to be heard andconsidered. Modern protection is often a matter of economics.Without funding the future of public broadcasting is shaky at best

Thus it is essential that the federal government not lose sight of itsf keeping alive the diversity

country what it is.

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Anne ML SchleicherFeatures!A&E editor

The Winter'95 Films For Dis-

cussion Series, produced by Pro-fessor George Garrelts, kickedoff this past Tuesday at Zurn Au-

ditorium with the allowing ofSi xDegrees of Separation, a filmbased on the John Gaure play o fthe same name and starringStockard dunning, DonaldSutherland, and Will Smith. jL

Thenext four Tuesdays can hespent enjoying several films hatwill probably be unavailable atany other venue in the area. Filmsinclude Manufacturing Consent,

Eat\Drink Man Woman, LittleBuddha, and Fresh.

Next week's film is Fresh, thestory of a 12 year old ghetto boywho sometimes runs drugs butalsolikes school. Healso likes his

fiither, a street speed chess playerwho is forbidden to see-Fresh.Fresh puts chess strategies,learned from his father, into op-eration on the street, with dra-matic results. Directed by BoazYakim, this 19 94 film is spon-sored by the Mercyhurst Minor-ity Students with an introductionand discussion lead by OnjanetteJackson and Terence Gee.

Heather M arshallMerciad Columnist

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They say that New York is thebig apple and Cleveland's theplum. Although I'm not reallysure what that means, and if itreally is a compliment, that'swhere I live. Ask anyone who

»wsme well, and they will tellyou that I have endless praise forwhat most people lovingly ca ll,the mistake on the lake.

Cleveland has come a longwayfrom being the brunt ofmanybadjokes and that fateful river-c atch-ing-on-fire m ishap. Cleveland i sdieideal city for people with vary-ing tastes and interests. Andwhatbetter city for us, students atMercyhurst to get away to andexperience a bigger city atmo-sphere for the day, night or even aweekend. JIf you enjoy going to see shows,

Geveland has many small, bar-

type venues, with the m ost widelyvisited*and well-known being:Peabody's Down Under,Peabody's Cafe, the Odeon, theGrog Shop and the Agora. Atthese venues one can see manyeclectic local bands, suchas; Cowsin the G raveyard, Odd Girl Out,First Light, or the Twist-Offs.Other, more well-known bandssuch as Helmet, Hole and James,have alsomade their appearancesrecently. Nine Inch Nails camehome to Geveland to give resi-dents a late Christmas gift, byplaying a surprise show at theOdeon for $5.00 a ticket, with all

proceeds going to charity.Cleveland also has many larger

venues, which double as sportsarenas. Now , what article aboutCleveland lately would be com-

HOLD THAT THOUGHTpiete without m entioning the newsports complex? Just this past

summer, Cleveland christenedJacob'sField, which wasto bethehomeof the Geveland Indians. If

the players resolve their differ-ences in time for the season tobegin, no visit to Geveland willbe complete without at least try-

ing to see a game. Adjoining thebaseball field, is the new homeofdieCavs, Gund Arena. These two

fe complexes add life to an area that

was dying and give thecity some-thing to be proud of.

If you enjoy shopping at un-usual or unique places, there aremany choices in Cleveland.

Tower City in downtown G eve -land is located in the lower levelof the Terminal Tower. It wasnewly reconstructed just aboutfive years ago. Inside there arethetypical stores such as the Gapanddie Limited, but there are alsomany other specialty shops. Somemore interesting stores are TheBodyShop,The Naturecompany,and a J Crew store. There are also

v many extreme shops specializingin specific Hems, such as storesdealing only in different socks,items found in museums and oneentire store filled with purses.

For more original shops, one

must travel to the east side'ofGeveland, to Coventry. Coven-try is actually a street, with manytrendy, unique stores, restaurantsand coffee [shops. While there,one should visit such stores asPassport to Peru, filled with tap-estries, wool sweaters and^un-usual jewelry. Another good placeto visit is Record Revolution,where you can findjust about anyconcert T-shirt they make, aswell

as unique clothes and music Atrip to Coventry Would not becomplete without stopping inTomm y's, a health conscious res-taurant which caters to vegetar-

ians,but is also very good to meat-eaters (If you go, order hummus j$with an extra pita!). After that,make your way down the street,to Arabica for a cafe mocha, see a

The MercyhurstTheater Department

Presents

WORKING

Films • : • ? •introduc-

tion it 7p.m. Tickets tie freethe Meicyhuret Community a$3 for he general public.

a musical based on the novel by Studs Turkel

1 at the Mercyhurst Taylor Theaterg January*20-22 & 27-29JFree to^Mercyhurst Community?

CALL 824-2401

movie at the Centrum or walkacross the street to the Grog Shopto see a band.

Cleveland is probably mostwidely known for its bars. Eventhose who might have never beento Cleveland, have heard of theFlats. The Flats really does havesomething for everyone, whether

it bea place to simply drown yoursorrows in beer, drown your sor-rows and eat, or drown your sor-rows and dance. The best placesto eat in the Flats are BW-3*s, theSpaghetti Warehouse andShooter's. For dancing in the

•} Flats, my favorite places to go arethe Smart Bar and Trilogy which

both play really good alternativedance music. On Sundays, Tril-ogy becomes "The Church",where they play a ll Techno mu-

• sic, improve the lighting and pack'em in. Other dance bars in theFlats include Rumrunner's, whichis primarily filled with highschoolers and plays top-40, dancemusic.

The Flats has many comedyclubs and also an outdoor concert

fhall.Cleveland is only 90minutes fromErie, and it holds a special fond-ness inmy heart So if M ercyhurstever really rustrates you, andyou

need to get away, but not home,give tile Plum a try. - f f

Anne M. SchleicherFeatures/A&E editor

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The Mercyhurst Crew team,with newhead coach Sean Tobin,formerly of Colgate College, w ill

be putting down their oars andpicking up spatulas for two up-coming weekends. On January20,21,27,28 and possibly the 22and 29as well. The team will turnthe Cove into their very own pizzaparlor in order to raise funds fortheir upcoming spring break tripto Augusta, GA.

The secret recipe for tine up-coming aale hasbeen provided bySophomore Mark Erie whose fa-ther owns and operates TJ.'sPizza of M eadville, PA. Mark isthe roomate o f Chuck Andras, asophomore rower.

A large cheese and pepperoni

pizza with a hand tossed crustwill cost $5.00 including freedelivery across campus and fromBriggs Avenue to Parade Street

When asked how she felt aboutr *

die idea of the men's team cook-

ing, sophomore Jean<McFeelyfromBrockville, Ontario, said thatshe was excited: It's aboutbloody time* I can't cook, it's a

d thing they are."ECall-in telephone orders will beaccepted. Look for the phonenumber to call on soon-to-be-posted fliers.

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By Craig RybczynskiEditor in Chief

It's t new year and I havealready broken mostof my NewYear's resolutions.

I hope you' re more commit-ted then I am. I

I made a myriad of promisesthis New Year's Eve.One ofthe promises was never

to drink a Prairie Fire (A drinkconsumed by Canadians —it includes Tabasco Sauce and Tequila).The other is to avoid procrastinating. %

But as I pound on the keys the clock ebbs closer to eight o'clock.

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*-That is the time the printer picks up the paper. ,-v I; #-•J <l think fhave the illness that commonly plagues>graduatingseniors. *

At first I never thought that it ex isted, but as May 21st (the day ofgraduation) looms closer, I am overcome by the creature that lurksin the heart of most seniors.* $ .

Try to keep busy, it has claimed many promising students andturned them into couch potatoes. -;

"A" students are no longer found at the library, but at thePlymouth on 25 ce nt draft night and "Dollar Import Nigh t"

Shakespeare and Homer (Nonot Simpson) are used to balance thebroken television in your apartment not as a source of intellectualstimuli. . «t * .

» Mr. Gingrich isjsick and tired...Dear Editor:

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-The flmess4^nrtattdng about,-if.you haven'tfiguceditout, is liiU^iijirifjDttiica^t^v^Blj^d^SENIORITIS. * J**- ^ t *_*LJ£ rt *. , . I *&.

Be forewarned reshmen, sophomores and juniors it ex ists.The situation is comparable to a GJ . preparing to go home.Both a senior and the GX have only one obstacle in their way and

that is time. 3 *The G X doesn't want to do anything that might jeopardize his

chances to go home. fSo he does the least amount of dangerous things in his final

months, or in a students case, a voids taking difficult classes beforethey leave.

I have heard too often this year, "All I want to do is graduate."^My response is, Why not do as much as you can inthat brief period

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I think one professor summed up the college experience the bestwhen he said, "You think you're busy now, in college you have themore time than you ever will when you graduate."

So make the best of the last four months of freedom.And for those o f you suffering from Senoritis, believe it or not,

there is a cure.My suggestion to overcome this feeling of apathy and laziness is

simple and to the point"Get off your ass and do something."Give up watching television for a couple of hours and go out and

experience Erie and the campus.Do something unusual and out of the ordinary.

Say "Hi" to people you don't know, give some time to theunderprivileged or just take time out of your busy schedule to justrealize how great life is.

But don't cry and complain how hard it is to find a job or howbogged down with work you are, because complaining is not goingto remedy the situation.

College is a safe haven from he real world.Like serfs in the Middle Ages we work within the confines of our

kingdom (Mercyworld) and are protected from he real world.But after four or in some cases five years we are flung out of the

gates and forced to earn a living.So enjoy yourself.

Go out in style.Remember the hard work that kept you at M ercyhurst and con-

tinue to work just as hard.When you receive your diploma youwill notonly fed a sense of

relief but also one of gratitude and fulfillment *

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i I was recently reading an ar-ticle by our "political columnist"Greg Troyer and again, as usual,Mr. Troyer proved to me howmuch he does not know. First inhis article, he says mat he be-lieves mat everyone should havedifferent opinions on the issuesmat plague our society. Howeveras most liberals do, Mr. Troyerpulls a hypocritical left turn andbegins to crucify The Honorable

^ (that's right Mr. Troyer, get used;to it) Newt Gingrich and conser-vatives (such as myself) and la-bels us as "crusaders" to exploit

America's educational structure.How liberal of Mr. Troyer,

"say one thing, do something dif-

ferent "Mr. Gingrich a nd thecon-servatives in America do notwant

*to crucify the educational struc-|ture in this country. Mr. Gingrich,^ a former history pro fessor, knowsjthe reform that is needed inj schools. He has been there Mr.Troyer, yo u fhave not. Mr.Gingrich is sick and tired of thebureaucracy in schoo ls, of havingchildren not being able to pray ifthey desire, and of seeing educa-tion in this country produce me -diocrity. Mr. Gingrich is sick and

tired ofseeing the greatest educa-tion system; in the world beingturned in an institution mat pro-duces laziness and the status quo.

Whenever liberals see conser-vatives making strides to fixingsomething they fouled up, theybegin tomake fools ofthemselves(a category you consistently fallinto).They begin to say how therefa nothing wrong with our sys-tem. The American people know

that the education system needsreform, they deserve answers notliberal rhetoric -%• i t

JL The second part of your "iiestine" article that fascinated

wasyour mention thatwe containno art images of different cul-tures. You begin to complain thatwe do not contain one non-Euro-pean image in our school. Then,Mr. Troyer complains that we donot have pictures of Jesus Christthatportray himofother religions.Well Mr. Troyer, if you do notlike tiie art work, as a friend ofmine says, "There's the door - i tswings both ways." If you want tosee Buddhist art, or Chinese art,go to a school that has these pic-tures and you have every right to

do so. S §.Furthermore, Mercyhurst is aCatholic campus, and we shouldnot jeopardize our religious sym-bols and drawings to be liberal-ized society. In my home city ofBuffalo, a school was forced to

dose their Christmas concert be-cause they sang carols with God's

Fhame in them. Som e liberal Hikeyou) complained and whined be-cause it was not fair to other reli-gions. How far will people likeyou go?

Well, people like you have for-gotten the true meaning of Christ-mas andthe festive season. Christcame to sa ve us all, and it reallydoes not matter if he is in a Buro-

pean painting or a Buddhist paint-ing or a Chinese painting.What matters is that he is herearound us, and among us. We donot need to see a picture of him

beca use he is always inour hearts.Maybe more liberals liketyoushould ponder that thought a littlemore.

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On activism food andl CongressBy Jule Gardner

Senior Writer

Yo u could be a gladiator.Not because you would look

cute in a leather thong,.but be -cause you are in college and arepotentially an educated citizen.

Gladiators, according to a dustyyet still useful political model,are the five percent of he popula-tion wh o are politically active.

They are leaders and active fol-lowers. They are members ofCongress, farmers, college stu-dents and union leaders.They arenot Spectators (80 per-

cent of the population) nor are

they Apathetics, who theoreti-cally make up 15 percent of thepopulation.v |

They are activists. .

"Contract With America" Isscreaming activism. Think aboutwhat Newt looks like from theperspective of a working momwith two kids and WICchecks tohelp her buy milk and formulaand cheese.

Bu t I'm not a single mom with

kids.

lion from food programs alone.

If Congress starts bleeding thebudget, many valuable food pro-grams, including WIC - a nutri-tion assistance program forWomen, Infants and Children -will likely feel the pain.

This supplemental program i snot about dependence, it's aboutnutrition.WIC pays for nutritionalbasic s for babies and young chil-dren. Of course, babies and youngchildren don'tvote and they don'twrite letters to their Congresspersons.

But you can. Bread for the

World, an organization which,among other functions, focuses

on domestic hunger by keepingtabs on legislation, is looking f oigladiator-types.

Your letter can make a differ-

his book U.S. Senators land

Their World, wrote, "(Sena-tors') mail provides them withthe single best indicator of con-stituent attitudes on legislativeissues." J

When cynicism rears its raspyhead to say, "O.K. So congres-sional staffs may rely on mail toget the gist ofwhat p eople think.But thatdoesn't necessarily meanit will impact the actual vote,"you can answer by saying, 'Takea pill, Mr. or Ms. Cynic. I'mtrying to be an optimist here."

OrA better argument would b emat reelection is always on theburner and, although incum bents

have an advantage, this last elec-tion proved being there does not

mean you will b e asked again to

dance.

k Rick Santorum, freshmanSenator, and Phil English, newRepresentative for this district,are setting up shop and theyshould hear from us. Hey, evenArlen Specter, as entrenched ashe is, could benefit from a fewopinions other than his own.

If you would like more infor-

mation about th e "Personal Re-sponsibility A ct" and how it ma ybe responsible for increasinghomelessness and hunger in ourcountry, please contact me at theMerciad, ext 2376.

If you want to ge t to work rightaway, you can send a letter orletters to :

* Senator Arlen Specter, 303Hart Senate Office Building,Washington, D.C., 20510.

* Senator Rick Santorum, 443Russell Senate Office Building,Washington, D.C., 20510.

1 * Representative Phil English ,1714 Longworth House Office

Bui lding, Washington, D.C.,20515.

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I know, but you maybe a gladi-ator - a ighter. You may have putin time at the Emmaus SoupKitchen and you may have some

The Personal ResponsibilityAct, part ofthe "Contract,'' wou ldcut almost $60 b illion in benefitsand services to low-income peopleover the next four years, $18 oil-

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I know, I know. We're in col- li

lege. B eing cynical is practicallyourjob. Bu t Senators and Repre-sentatives, especially novices,take heed of constituent actionand letters seem to be the bestvehicle for this.

Mail "outweighs every otherform of commu nication'' in pri-oritizing the importance mem-bers of Congress assign to sourcesof public opinion, according toJ*cwjsA* Dexter's essa y in Poll-tics and Public Opinion. ^

Writing a letter to Congres-sional representatives is easy andpotentially influential* PoliticalscientistDonald R.Matthews, in

We resemble!thaticommentBy Greg TroyerMerciad Political Colum nist

The MerciadJ a n 12,1994 Vol 68 No. 13

Merciad Edi tors

Craig Ry bczynskiAnne L. McNeils

Jule Gardner

Leon M umford

Annie Schleicher

Megan CircleJerry Trambley

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- Editor in Chief jAdvertising M anager

• i & Copy Editor

Senior Writer

Sports Editor 1Arts, Entertainment& Features Editor

News EditorFaculty Advisor

Merciad! Staff

I noticed something peculiar'while Christmas shopping sev-,>.eral weeks ago. I was walkingthrough a department store w henI noticed a black mannequin.

I was shocked. *

Ithad never once in my entire life 2 acrossedmy mind that every man- 9nequin I'd ever seen was white, v l"What's the big deal?" you may?ask." Black or white, who cares?"

Mannequins areour symbols ofwhat is beautiful. And what is*beautiful? Being white, at leastsaccording to most retailers. A t |times America's racism!is sosubtle thatmost people don't evenf,

realize that it is affecting them,

and yet it is. . &• i&jjj ^i - Jij*g£- Americans, including myself,i

like to think that we have created i

this mythical "melting pot " Quietfrankly it is a big lie that we have

all accepted to some degree. Thelines of distinction between whiteAmerica and black America maybe slightly less distinct than inother countries Jbut they existnone the less. Just look at lily-white Mercyhurst. Take a driveup into Glenwood Hills and tellme how much "melting" has oc-curred* Nothing attracts a crowd

of police faster than a group ofblack youths in a white section oftown. If you need further proof,

then look at the prison system.African-Americans make uproughly 12 ; percent of \ th ecountry's general population buta much greater percentage of thepenal population.>* Six o 'clock Monday morning

found me at work. I was contem-plating this column when I de-cided to pick up a copy of SPIN

and started leafin g through it Tobe honest the irst story I read was

a conceit review of CourtneyLove's band, Hole. Iwas lookingfor mindless crap like that Istumbled ona story about Bosnia-Herzegovina and decided to readit By the end of the article almost

an hour later I was deeply dis-turbed. u M

William Vollman spent severalweeks in the former nation of

Yugoslavia trying to decipher thecurrent situation fora segment ofthe American public that prob-ably would have trouble findingthe region on a map. (A coura-geous effort for a less than re-warding cause.) While he wasthere, Vollman losta close Mend.They we re traveling in dangerous

territory when their car was am-bushed. Only Vollman survived.

Lee Ann KellyHeather RyanBeth NicholsHoward WilsonChris Fiely

Joel PentzJennifer LoweTracy CrossTonya BeebeAndrew Burck

Jay KennedyMike BrownNicole GeraciHeather MarshallKatie Petri

Scott WilliamsonNicole PonstingleKatrina Foltz-Damon Sterling!GregTroyer

Easter 1987, Age 5 Easter 1988, Age 6

His friend was tipped apart byshrapnel. - M •• ? ]

'-Vollman stated that he now hasre-occurring I'nightmares of hisfriend's anguished screams as hefell into unconsciousness anddied. When he left "Y ugoslavia,"and had interviewed people onevery side of his three-party con-

'-flict, he -was just as* confused 4s' \ Ft • ^ V f t ^^ "T f *^ •

before he arrived. He was just one

friend poorer. \

The senseless racism and eth-nic hatred mere made no moresense to him now man before.The atrocities that each party hadcommitted were no more justi-fied man before. In the end all matremained was death. Kill ing foracause is still murder. Hatred,based

on religion, race or any other fac-tor is always destructive, Bosniaproves this. |* ^ ' l

0i America should learn a lessonfrom the destruction that has torn

apart the Balkans. Varying eth nicgroups were not given equalshares in that country. The ef-fects ofmis injustice have causedan enormous amount of blood-shed in one country, and couldjust as easily extract the same tollin this one. White America needsto recognize the injustices con-stantly perpetrated a gainst blackAmerica and make amends be-fore it rips apart this nation.

Easter 1989, Age 7

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B a r b e r h o p e s t o d r i f t w e s t w a r dBy Tricia Webb

Merciad Sports Writer

The majority of students here atMercyhurst have probably seenmis face at one time or another. Itmay have been at the hockey rinkor in a class. Maybe it was walk-ing through campus or hangingout in the courtyard in rontof hisoff-campus apartment

One thing is for sure. If youhaven't seen this face at any ofthose places,you'vecertainly seenitat Herman's .*-:His name is Scott Barber and he

is a senior marketing major andthe starting goalie for the LakersHockey Team.

Although he lived in variousareas of New York while grow-ing up, right now his family, which gincludes Mom, Dad, and an oldersister, Michelle, 1 ive in Troy, N. Y .^

Baiber is having an' excellent^season thus far with the Lakers.

The team's record is 13-1 and Scotthas saved 212 attempted goals ;andhas allowed a mere 20, giving jghim a 91.4 save percentage. [_

Baiber started playing hockeywhen he was just six years old. Itonly tooka yearbe fore his coaches gdecidedhe should be a goa lie and Mhe has stayed in the net through-out his career.*

He played hockey, football, la-crosse and baseball during high

school. After graduating, he at-tended a prep school in Vermont,before coming to Mercyhurst

During .his four ?years atMercyhurst, Barbery has accom-plished several goals which hesaid he is particularly proud of.His m ost valued achievement inhockey is when he progressedfrom starting three games hisfreshman year to starting 14gameshis sophomore years. That sec-ond year, the team qualified forthe NCAA Championships.Baiber currently has a 2.7 grade

point average overall and a 3.0 inhis major. He acknowledges that

he hasn't put 100 percent effortinto his studies because he said hedoesn'tbelieve classesand books

are the only places to gainknowl-

edge.] p *jr f n ^ r ^"The bigger education I re-

ceived in college was not in theclassroom'but, rather; throughinformal situations with frien ds,faculty, athletes and other experi-ences and opportunities," Barbersaid. '3- . . I 1 v

In looking back at the years hehas spent at Mercyhurst, Baibersaid he is satisfied with the educa-tion he has received, but he wasquick to point out the accessibil-

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ity of sliding by and he doesn'texclude himself from this cat-

egory."Assuming you want to put in

the time and effort, I suppose youcould receive a quality educationat Mercyhurst But, at the sametime, according to the way thisinstitution is set up, it allows anindividual the opportunity to me-thodically drift rom class to classwith minimum effortwhilemain-taining virtually a B average,"

Baiber said. . <*

After graduation, Barber saidhe is not particularly interested inrushing into the work force. Hedoes, however, have quite a bit oftraveling in mind. In fact, he plans

to begin his journey at the Jerseyshore and work his way across thecountry to California.IAfter traveling, he would like

t to continue (is hockey career in* the minor leagues. Once he has

accomplished all of those goals,he said, he would like to return to

the classroom as a teacher."I have realized over the years

that different people learn in dif-

ferent ways and I don't feel thatthey should be penalized for thatAs a teacher I feel I would be ableto adjust toithe students' needswhich would ultimately benefitthem in the future," Barber said.

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Basketball/ • * ' r f " f r t " v f \

By Dan HilfikerMerciad Sports Writer

The holiday break brought somerather disappointing results forthe Mercyhurst men's basketballteam.

At the Millersville Tourna-ment, on the weekend of Dec. 9,thesquad dropped a closely foughtnine-point decision to hostMillersville. Craig Young, WillStinson and Rahsaah Roland allled the way with 15 points each.Stinson also had a team high ofsix rebounds.

M Finishing the tournamentagainst Bridgeport, the team onceagain came up short, in a 77-61defeat Again, Craig Young ledthe way with 21 points and 10rebounds, seven coming from hedefensive end. Shooting5a 39.1percent rom he field did nothelpthe Mercyhurst cause.

"Our perimeter players areshooting ata low percentage, andwe lack that creative player nec-essary to make the big plays,"Coach William Morse said.

Dec. 29-30 took Mercyhurst tothe S t Mike's Tournament Inju-ries plagued the team is LonacyUtley, a starter, suffered from astress fracture.

•The team has struggled, evenwhen all of the players have beenhere, and now we arc withoutLonacy Utley, an important fig-ure on our team," Morse said.

The team got off to a rocky startby losing to West Cheater 70-59.Stinson once again was the team

leader in points scored, tallying16,while Young was perfect fromthe free hrow line.

Young also led in rebounds,pulling in six points. Playing w ellcoming off the bench were

Maurice Profit and Damon Ster-ling, who attempted to pick up theslack from he loss of Utley. #

Against St. Michaels, the teamcame home with a very disap-pointing 81-49 loss to a clearlybetter opponent One of the fewhigh points w as perfect shootingfrom the field by Sterling, whoalso contributed eight rebounds.

The New Year brought alongsome better results for the Lakersas they participated in the IUPTournament Jan. 4-5; -{AgainstIUP, the results Were not muchdifferent as the men dropped an81-58 decision, but team shoot-ing percentages were upand indi-vidual play improved.

Stinson led all scorer's with 20points and nine rebounds, whileYoung contributed 16 points andfive rebounds. Darryl VanCleavewas also perfect from the freethrow line, and provided gooddepth coming of fthe bench late in

the game. /:;;Against Bow ie State, the men

finally put a much needed win onthe board in a close 89-78 victory.All-Tournament*selection WillStinson once again led with 28points and nine rebounds.

Craig also had a good gamewith23 points and seven reboundsin 38 minutes played.

Maurice Profit led all scorer's

coming from the bench with 14.points and four rebounds.

"The win over Bowie Stateshowed a lot of character for ourteam. It was a good come-from-behind victory and a great confi-dencebuilder. 11 ike the team spiritand the team defence is playingvery well, this team also has thebest work ethic of any team that Ihave coached here," Morse said.Jin about two weeks the team

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5-1 at home and 9-5 away, theJ.V. Mercyhurst hockey teamhasclimbed to second position in theEaatern \Collegiate Hockey

League.Captain Lou Viselli is adament

that his team-mates will make upfor their early loss?to CortlandState who are ranked first in theleague.

Viselli said, "The champion-ship is probably going to binge onthe return game at Cortland andwe are ready for it."

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Julie McChesney puts another tw o points on the scoreboard

againstSt Vfocent " ' ® " m '* p

Hockey: N6.IBy Craig RybczynsldEditor in Chief

The Penn State Nittany lionleers (10-1- 1) and the MercyhuistLakers (11- 1) battled ifor sixtyminutes *<at the Mercyhurst. fe e

Center and appeared to be headedfor overtime when freshman ScottCannam converted a Chris Mor-gan pass in the slot at 4:08 to giveMercyhuist a thrilling 5-4 vic-tory.

It was a classic college hockeyI game mat eatured Division IPsnumber-one ranked team againstthe underdogs from UniversityPark, Pa. % » 'iWith the victory, the Mercyhuist

Laker hockey team regained themomentum they created duringthe first half of the season andswept the weekend series at home.

The Hurst outlasted Penn State

5-4 and then routed the Univer-sity of Windsor 8-2.

"We knew it was the highlightfor Penn State and they don't usu-ally get a chance to play the num-ber-one team in the nation /' saidLaker Head Coach Rick Gotkin.

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"Penn State played like they hadnothing to lose and we played likea team on our heels all night"

The Nittany lions looked toextend their nine-game unbeatenstreak and shocked the Lakers,taking a 2-0 via the power playearly, in the second period.

"We definitely under estimatedthem and mat's what led to our

performance," said Mercyhuistdefenseman John Tsakanikas.

P.S.U. 's Jeff Adams slammed arebound past Chris Herbolsheimerto give the Lions the two-goaladvantage.

However, the Lakers would notout done and rallied on the

>wer play.

The Lakers answered back with'four goals.

Power-play goals courtesy ofJustin Proud and Cannam aidedthe Laker comeback.

Jon Johnson's goal at 6:40 ofthe third period, over th e left pad

of Nittany lion goaltender JeffCrispino, gave the Lakers theirfirst lead of the night

And Tsakanikas'" goa llessman tw o minute* later appearedto be the cushion the Lakers wouldneed to capture their 1 lth victory

of Ae year.But after a time out the Lions

stormed back into the contest andtied the game late in the third.

Rich Martha fired a reboundinto an empty net at 10:56.

"Herbie was a little nervous atfirst, but he kept us in the gameuntil we got composed," saidProud. I

That moment occurred whenCannam netted his second of thegame.

"They were a really go od teamand w e were neck and neck allnight," said Tsakanikas. "Com-pared to Windsor they were a l otbetter." | m

"Friday nigh t wa s a wake-upcall!and Saturday was no con-test," Proud said.

The Lakers were lead by ECACWest Player-of-the-Week CraigMacDonald.

His hat trick led the Hurst overthe visitors from Ontario.

"Hockey players fall intoslumps and I had an extendedslump," MacDonald said. "Coachtook me aside and told me it's

s*»step up, it s now or never.

Assistant Coach Mike Sisti is

quick to point out MacDonald'simprovement.

"Craig is like a new man," hesaid. "He is re focused and real-izes that this is his last cha nee at anational championship."

MacDonald's first of the gamecame on the power play and gavethe Hurst a 24).

Trevor Brandt opened the scor-ing for the Lakers.

j The Lakers struck again earlyin the second.

Mike Pattison's short-handed

By Leon MumfordfMerciad Sports Editor

While mo st of us were wrappedin the hazy gluttony of the Christ-mas spirit, the Lady Laker bas-ketball team w as fiercely battl ingto achieve their playoff endeav-ors by posting an impressive 1 2-3 mid-season record.

Our goal is to wm 20 games,which should reserve us a place inthe N.C.A.A. playoffs," saidCoach Jim Webb.

Kristin Molli (15 points) startedto develop the winning groovewhen he r shooting percentage

reached pe ar perfection againstPitt-Bradford at the Slippery R ockTournament on Dec . 9.

"So far, that has been our bestshooting night of the year," saidWeljb. While Molli's shootingpercentages soared at 76.4%, tileteam scored with 62% of theircombined attempts, as they beatPitt-Bradford convincingly 83-56.

Webb was clearly happy andwent on to say, "If the girls canmaintain that kind of effort, theywill be good enough to hang toughwith the best " 1

The Lady Lakers went on toclinch the tournament by beatingSlippery Rock 70-64. Although itwas a closel y contested game, thegirls led from start to finish asthey displayed the kind of gutsyperformance which has becometheir trademark.Indeed, Webbwas quick to point

out that Tracy Komar is just oneof the unsung heroines on thisteam. "She may not stand out onthe stat sheet," said Webb, "butTracy accepts the role she has toplay and gets on with i t "

Mercy hurst then traveled t o In-diana, Pa. and "got lucky" ac-cording to Webb. Facing an eight-point deficit with two and a halfminutes to go , the Lakers ralliedand managed to claw their wayback to a 66-63 victory.?

Teresa Szumigala wa s outstand-ing, scoring 15 points in a row at

one stage. T h e team needed aspark and I guess I was able toreach top form in this game at

least," said Szumigala.Webb went on to say,"this was

a particularly important game towin because Indiana's coach, JanKeiger, is also;the head of theRegional Committee, responsiblefor choosing which six teams gothrough to the play-offs."After snatching victory from the

jaws of defeat, the seemingly in-vincible Lady Lakers were w ellon the wa y towards another Tour-nament championship, when theyout-shot S t Vincent by 76-6 3 athome. Szumigala an d JulieMcChesney led the cutting edgeof the Laker attack, as they have

done all year, scoring 23 and 20points respectively*

McChesney said, "Along withthere ain't no losing at the MAC,'20' is our favorite team pep rally.".But the victory spell was rudely

interrupted by a very physicalSaint Lake Superior* team, thenext day, They managed to outhustle the Hurst 85-70. Losing bysuch a substantial margin in theirown territory, at their tournamentobviously came as quite a shockto the girls.

Coach Webb was quick to offersome constructive criticism. "Welost this game because we did not

conic to compete. We got intimi-dated by their size and I am surethe result would be different ifwehad to play them again," he said.

Complacency w as simplybrushed a side in the next gameagainst Edinboro University. TheLady Lakers had already lost b ythree points to the fighting Sc ot'searlier in the season. The re wasno way we were goingto lose thisone," said Webb. The ladies in-fl icted sweet revenge on the Septsby demolishing them 76-64. Thisemphatic victory may have meantmoie than just another "W" onthe record as Webb said,"there

will be no love lost between thesetwo teams."

After taking time off for some

Christmas pudding, Mercyhuistresumed business on Dec. 27 bybeating Sacred Heart 72-60. Ac-cording to Webb this was a valu-

able victory because the officiat-ing was poor and Melissa Boydand Komar could inot make thetrip due to illness. Indeed, Webbhas been particularly pleased withthe team's ability to do what ittakes to win, no matter what ob-stacle stands in their way.

Connie Ralston reflected thissentiment when!she shot ninethree-pointers out of 10 attemptsagainst Bridgeport, the next day.This achievement has earned hera? place fin Mercyhurst's recordbooks.

She led the teams scorer's, giv-ing Szumigala and McChesney awell deserved rest and showinghow much depth this team hasdeveloped. Mercyhurst won 76-71 , so Ralston's remarkable per-formance was vital and may wellhave been the deciding factor inthis game.

i The team's be st result was savedfor last weeks game l againstClarion U niversity, who managedto reach j the last eight of theN.C.C.A championship last year.This time around, Clarion wereon the receiving end of a 61-38thrashing. Webb said,"We wonby 23 points, which I think is arecord l oss for Clarion but I think

what really frustrated them wasthe fact that we limited them to ameager 1 2 points during the en-tire first half." f $

This victory wa s undoubtedlydue to some high pressure de -fense, which exposed two moreof the team's unsung heroines.According to coach Webb, DeniseBaginski and Allison Marsden doa lot of the unnoticed defensivegraft | | m- I

Baginski said,"it's hard to re-ally say whether we are more ofadefense or offense based & teambecause when we need to be , weare good at both."

The victory o ver Clarion tookMercyhurst to 12 W's,just 8 short

of the magical 20 required for astrong play-off bid . Perhaps theirnext game against Gannon willtake them one step closer. Nextstop 13.

goal at :47 of the period gave theHurst a three-goal lead and provedto be the game-winner.

MacDonald added the Laker'sfourth and fifth Mercyhurst goa lsto complete his three-goal effort.

He batted in a Steve Torrierorebound past Windsor Lancergoaltender Steve Thorpe.

Proud, Joel Montminy andTorriero finished the scoring forthe Hurst

In net, Scott Barber stopped 18shots, capturing his-12th w in ofthe season.

The Hurst (13-1) travels to Os-wego State, Saturday, in searchof their 14th win of the season.They return, Tuesday, to host theFredonia State Blue Devils ( 12-0). The Blue Devils are the num-ber-one tanked team in the Divi-sion III East Region.

Player of the week Craig Mchonald follow s up to score againstp h o t o ty : Mike Garnica

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