BSU Repeats Election After Findings of Fraud

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

St. Mary’s campus weekly • 48th year, No. 21 April 22, 1997 • St. Mary’s City, MD 20686 BSU repeats election A day at the carnival after findings of fraud

three minutes as the election forum guide­ KEVIN FRANK staff writer lines required. Finally, the complaint re­ quested that Tonette Sivells and Nicholas The Black Student Union held new of­ Abrams both be reprimanded for their role ficer elections last Thursday, amid impli­ in the election fraud, and the complaint cations of election fraud. BSU President called for a new election. Tonette Sivells admitted distributing ab­ These complaints were submitted to the sentee ballots through Vice President-elect BSU at a special meeting called on the Nicholas Abrams after the initial vote tally night of April 14. President Sivells ran the had been counted. In the second election, meeting. She read off the charges in the Mark Hershfield, who had lost by one vote complaint and answered them in front of in the original tally, won the post of secre­ the BSU. tary. The formal complaint had charged that The race for secretary in the original on one occasion Sivells had said to April 7 election was an especially close Hershfield, “If you ever run for any office one between Hershfield and write-in can­ on this campus I will personally make sure didate Mariam Toure. It was announced you lose.” Sivells explained that this quote to the candidates that the write-in candi­ had been taken out of context. date had won by a vote of twenty-one to As for the absentee ballots, she had twenty. This initially raised Hershfield’s thought that the “no member shall be de­ suspicions, because he knew that only nied their right to vote” clause of the BSU thirty-one voters had been present at the constitution to necessitate absentee bal­ election. lots. Nicholas Abrams had been given the Hershfield lodged his complaint with ballots by President Sivells because he Director of Minority Affairs Osaro happened to be going to visit members of Ighodaro, the BSU’s advisor. The com­ the BSU who had not voted. plaint, witnessed by five active members Sivells pointed out that there had been of the BSU and Hershfield, outlined sev­ no limit on questioning, only a limit on the eral grievances. President Sivells and length of the candidate’s speech. She Vice President-elect Abrams were accused explained that she had seen the election of distributing absentee ballots to active because the BSU had no regular Parlia­ Photo by Hilary Woodward members that had not been at the election mentarian this year, and as a graduating Face painters, funnel cake vendors, men on stilts, reggae bands, forum after the initial vote tally in order to senior, she should have been unbiased. rides, dancers, food, and amusements were featured at World change the results. Candidate Toure has When Sivells read the part of the com­ Carnival last Saturday, not been implicated in the incident. plaint that requested that she and Abrams The complaint also listed several more be reprimanded, she laughed and said, minor grievances. The election forum and “Well...” After outlining the complaint to Programs VP Coy Nesbitt the election itself had been run by Sivells the BSU, Sivells read two letters from instead of the BSU Parliamentarian, as SGA President Jim Wood. The letters require by the club’s constitution. Ac­ called for new elections to be held quickly resigns post unexpectedly cording to a flyer distributed to candi­ in order to correct the “procedural mis­ tensive experience in programming, and dates, the election was supposed to have takes” made in the first election. NEIL IRWIN SGA leaders are confident that she will been finished by eleven o’clock on the More irregularities were uncovered news editor night of the election, but candidates were when Sivells then opened the floor for handle the execution of end-of-the year Vice President of Programming Coy programming and next year's budget pro­ not notified of results until the next day. questioning on the matter. During the Nesbitt resigned suddenly Tuesday, cit­ Also, although Toure was not on the questioning, it came out that the initial cess effectively. ing the pressures of the end of the year. The vice president of programming is in ballot, she was allowed to speak before the ballot tally was sixteen to sixteen, and it SGA President Jim Wood appointed Trish charge of coordinating campus events, election, contrary to the rules of the elec­ was only after a recount that the vote stood Slater to serve out the year as Acting VP of tion forum. The complaint also charged seventeen to fourteen. Sivells counted the and chairs the programs board which pro­ Programming, a move confirmed by the vide money for club-sponsored events. that the questioning of Mark Hershfield absentee ballots with a different set of Senate. after his speech at the BSU election forum witnesses and in a different place than the Editor-in-chief Charles Sutton contrib­ Nesbitt’s move was highly unexpected, uted to this report. was too lengthy and the mediator (Sivells) original ballots. When Abrams passed out coming just weeks before the end of the should have stopped the questioning at Continued on ELECTION, page 7. year and immediately before World Car­ nival and the spring Inside Res Life to allow Saturday Programs Board bud­ get process. “The please be ready amount of time that SH O W 1.0. returns on trial basis was left in the semes­ JWUST BE 21 ter was a minute point TO ENTER Beginning next semester, Res Life will ing an extra day before the start of classes to me. The important allow students to return on the Saturday could alleviate some of the pressures of point was whether I before the first day of classes instead of moving back in. Nesbitt could effectively con­ ♦ S t . M a r y ’s C o u n t y B a r T o u r Sunday. If students use the extra time for exces­ A look at the good, the bad, and the ugly ol tinue to be vice presi­ To defer the costs of cafeteria meals and sive partying, or if other problems result, area watering holes. Page Four dent of programming. I wasn’t sure, so room fees for the day, students returning Res Life warns, the option will not be ♦ Provost Search rather than letting programming go lax, I Four provost candidates met with students early will be charged $25 if they live in the continued. decided to step away from programming in the past two weeks. Page Seven residence halls and $16 if they live in the SGA President Jim Wood, who pushed and concentrate on graduating,” said townhouses. hard for the change, said, “I would encour­ OPINION ...... 2-3 Nesbitt. He says he decided to resign on ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT...... 4,6 Due to student requests, Residence Life age all students to bhave responsibly on Tuesday and had not been planning the NEWS ...... 7 is allowing early returns this semester on this day so that the privilege can be kept.” F EA T U R E S...... 5 move for very long. a trial basis. Students had argued that hav­ - compiled from staff reports SPO R TS...... 8 Slater comes into the position with ex­ ■! The Point News E d it o r ia l April 22, 1997

The Point News Search for new provost creates need for a new statement St. Mary's College of Maryland Lower Charles Hall of job description including greater communication Phone: (301) 862-0213 Few attended the recent meetings designed for students to professors and curriculum changes. This is evidenced by alterations Email: [email protected] interview and question the four finalist candidates for the made in next year’s course catalog involving the Legacy require­ Charles Sutton Provost position. Despite the poor turnout at these events, the ment. The consolidation of the two courses into one left many Editor-In-Chief presence of students at other happenings has been larger than students surprised as some will now be required to switch to next Sarah Loff Assistant Editor usual. Because of this, one may assume that lack of student year’s catalog if they have not yet taken Legacy I. Darren Buck involvement is not due to general apathy but rather the absence Another change in next year’s catalog involves the St. Mary’s Advertising Manager of interest in certain topics. Project. As of now, there is no definite plan for how this project will Neil Irwin If there was a search to fill a position such as that of the Dean work or what will be expected from its participants. Because of this, News Editor or Director of Residence Life, students would most likely have students are confused and apprehensive about taking part in the new Ellen Scheible a greater interest because there is greater interaction between endeavor. Students are assured that the St. Mary’s project is similar Features Editor the students and these positions than with the provost. Because to, but not exactly the same as the Honors Project already in place. In Alisa Bralove of this, these is an obvious need for the new provost, whoever addition, the Honors Project itself is supposed to undergo certain Editorial Editor Amy Sehm an he or she may be, to become more active and prominent in modifications as well, which only furthers the confusion. A & E Editor dealing with the student body. On the whole, the provost The provost position obviously occupies an important role within Matt Skillman functions as a link between the administration and the faculty. the academic arena at St. Mary’s. The extreme care and precision Production Manager The associate provost fulfills the role of working with students; taken in the interview and selection process of candidates for the job Elizabeth Rose despite this, students are still unaware of that job’s specifica­ demonstrates this. When making the final selection, the committee Erin Mannion tions. should remember that the most important factor to the students is Photography Editors Andrew Kitchenman Currently, many students are unsure of what the provost that of prominence and interaction with the students as a whole. The Benjamin Wyskida position entails. This causes trouble because the provost is new Provost must be visible and helpful as well as take an active role Editors Emeriti ultimately responsible for such tasks as the hiring of new in conveying information to the students so that confusion is mini­ Dr. Robin Bates mized and interaction is magnified. A dvisor______Jeanine Perry Subscription Manager Jill England LETTERS Distribution Manager Tim Johnson Cartoonist Failure of Maryland General Assembly to pass anti- Jennifer Chapin Harris Copy Editor StaffWriters discrimination act takes away freedom for all Will Alexander, Zubair Recently, the Maryland House of Delegates voted on two bills: could be further from the truth. There have been gays in every society that Amir, Karen Buckelew, Michael Clark, Tiana Coll, House Bill 609, which concerns the legalization of same-sex has ever existed on earth as well as in many other species of mammals. Adrian Deal, Joe DiPietro, marriages, and House Bill 431, to amend the anti-discrimination “Well, then it’s immoral!” our little Christian friends whine. Amanda Fiore, Kevin bill to include ‘sexual orientation.’ After doing their big and bad Heck no! The Bible does say in Leviticus 20:13, “If a man lies with a Frank, Heather Jackson, delegate stuff in the committees, neither bill passed. The anti- man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.” David Jondreau, Sarah discrimination bill came one vote shy of passing, with a vote of 12 But also in Leviticus chapter 15, it explains that wet dreams and menstrua­ Kaput, Karie Lew, John to 11 against. Same-sex marriages fared less well. McDonald, Eric Olsen, tion are sins. It also says here in Leviticus 19:27, “Do not cut the hair at the Graham Pilato, Angela During the week of March 1 to sides of your head or clip off the edges of Privitera, Calvin March 7, you might have noticed two your beard.” You can’t just pick and choose Schermerhorn, Brad people going door-to-door with a pe­ Using Jesus as justification for from the Bible. Besides, didn’t Jesus say Sroka, Meg Zorn tition in favor of both of these bills. mistreating gays not only horribly “Love one another”? Maybe I’m mistaken, They collected over 400 signatures. but doesn’t the church preach tolerance and The Point News is published This petition was included in a packet corrupts the teachings of a great “judge not least ye be judged?” weekly during the academic recei ved by every member of the Mary- Using Jesus as justification for mistreat­ semester by the students of St. man, but it also renders the church Mary's College of Maryland. The land House of Delegates Judiciary ing gays not only horribly corrupts the teach­ ideas and opinions expressed on committee that voted on the bills. hypocritical______and meaningless. ings of a great man, but it also renders the its pages are not necessarily those As one of the petitioners, I would church hypocritical and meaningless. of the College. We welcome all readers to like to thank everyone who signed it. We didn’t achieve the results And we haven’t even mentioned the economy. No discrimination means submit letters. Letters must be that we all wanted, but we told the legislators what we thought and that gays will be full citizens. Full citizens spend more money. And same- sent to The Point News, dropped now we have a good reason to vote them out of office and force them sex marriages means more weddings which means more money. It will be off at our office in Lower Charles Hall,'or e-mailed to us at to work for a living. And there’s always next year. a veritable boom for the wedding industry. [email protected]. The question is, not why they failed, but why didn’t they pass? But remember, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” And since All letters are due by Friday, 5 Here in America, we pride ourselves on having a free society that I dig quotes, I would like to leave you all with another little quote from p.m. We do not guarantee that any letter will be printed. The treats all citizens as equals, including minorities and pierced freaks. Germany in World War II: author should sign his/her name So by not supporting the anti-discrimination act, one declines to “When they came for the Communists, I didn’t speak up because I and provide his/her phone belong to a free society. Something akin to voting for a dictator, wasn’t a Communist. When they came for the Homosexuals, I didn’t speak number. Letters of no more than 600 words are preferred. We much like Hitler in 1933. up because I wasn’t a Homosexual. When they came for the Jews, I didn’t reserve the right to edit letters in Explain. The right to get married is one of the only real discrimi­ speak up because I wasn’t Jewish. When they came for me, nobody was order to correct errors in spelling nations against gays left. Most corporations already have clauses left to speak up.” and grammar, or to shorten length that prevent the arbitrary firing of gays. So by supporting one The opinions expressed in commentaries and letters are without the other is like giving black people the right to vote and Jeremiah Chiapelli solely those of the writers. Letters then preventing them from going to the polls. are more likely to be printed if Then there is the argument that being gay is unnatural. Nothing they have relevance to a considerable portion of the college community, are likely to spark dialogue, present new ideas, and are representative of other letters write. that deal with a single topic. It may be late to start writing for this semester, but it’s not too late to get a head start on next Anyone may place advertising in The Point News. For current semester. Just drop by our staff meeting on Mondays at 8:15 p.m. in Lower Charles Hall or leave advertising rates, please call our a message for Charles at x4213. No experience is necessary; we can teach you everything you Advertising Manager at (301) need to know. 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M a t t e r s o f CONSCIENCE on American TV may surprise people. anymore. I don’t have to worry about already come out to her real family and With so many minor gay characters somebody saying something about me,” friends with warm acceptance in re­ already on shows such as Friends, NYPD DeGeneres said. “The whole point of sponse. When she worked as a stand-up Ellen’s ‘outing’ is Blue and even The Simpsons, the subject what I’m doing is acceptance of comic, she use to have to listen to other may begin to bore some viewers. But everybody’s differences.” Hopefully comics telling anti-gay jokes and would an important step being gay, in the case of the minor charac­ DeGeneres and her character’s “outing” just hope that no one would realize that ters, is often their only characterization. will inspire acceptance of gays within she was gay. Now she no longer has to JENNIFER CHAPIN HARRIS The three-year-old sitcom Ellen has al­ society at large. Through both Ellens, worry about what people think of her. On April 30, ABC will air a speci ai one ready explored so many facets of Ellen people may learn that there is more to the “No one can hurt me now,” she com­ hour episode of Ellen. But what makes Morgan’s personality and life that the lives of gays than being gay, and that gays mented. this week’s episode special is not some audience already sees her as a whole per­ are just as “normal” as everyone else. Ellen Morgan’s coming out offers the horrible tragedy but the fact that the char­ son (or as whole and complete as any More importantly, the EUen “outing” opportunity to see gays as real people, acter, Ellen Morgan, comes out of the sitcom character can get). Now the audi­ demonstrates that gays can not only play who are more than just gay. Her outing closet and tells her friends that she is gay. ence can see Ellen Morgan as a real person main characters on TV, but do play a demonstrates how normal gays are be­ This news may not surprise many of the who just so happens to also be gay. central role in real life. Gays are not just cause we already know the character as show’s regular watchers (the character “I never wanted to be ‘the Lesbian ac­ the minor characters who you briefly sees someone with interests and a personality has already come out as a “Lebanese”) or tress,’” DeGeneres told Time, meaning in class or on the street, but count among besides a sexuality. The April 30 epi­ to those who have followed the actress’ that she does not want her sexuality to your friends, your teachers, your family sode of Ellen not only makes history by role the news media (the star, Ellen marginalize or categorize her in the members, maybe even you. presenting America’s lead gay charac­ DeGeneres, 39, recently came out to the public’s eye. Like other gays she wants DeGeneres’ own story is a typical one. ter, but also offers new insights for all world in a Time magazine cover story). acceptance without having to hide. “For She stopped dating men at age 20. How­ TV viewers. However, the news that Ellen Morgan me this has been the most freeing experi­ ever, she did not truly accept herself as [Note: Watch for posters around cam­ will be the first openly gay lead character ence because, people can’t hurt me gay until about eight years ago. She has pus for an Ellen “coming out” party.] Commentary on sex and marriage brings strong disagreement There was marriage long before the Corinthians 7, verses 13-14). Here is a Picking up The Point News this week, I Unmarried couples are discriminated middle ages, and the Catholic Church was something I gleaned from a book about was saddened and dismayed to read against all of the time. So, yes, I think not the only church to advocate it. In her Jewish oral law: “A man who has no wife Amanda Fiore’s piece questioning the marriage could be seen as “necessary,” in article last week, Amanda Fiore over­ lives without joy, without blessing, with­ meaning of marriage. While I myself am that respect. looked incredible amounts of informa­ out goodness.” Here are words from a not a big advocate of the institution of What I think has happened here is that tion, and using this skewed data, she pre­ Native American wedding ceremony: “I marriage, I was appalled at Fiore’s line of Fiore has taken a shadowed look at mar­ sented a very off view of marriage and add my breath to yours, that our days on reasoning. I am not a religious person, but riage, pointing out all of the bad aspects, love. the earth may be good, that the days of our to hear someone say that “Love is, in and basically saying that we are all con­ Marriage, as she says, is “society’s way people may be long, that we may be as one actuality, a label put upon sexual need to demned to this fate because we’ve been to... contain lust,” solely for “procreation person, and finish our road together.” glorify it and hide what the church consid­ “brainwashed.” What she doesn’t take and the prevention of fornication in the Fiore also says that marriage has noth­ ered to be an immoral and sinful thing” is into account is that people don’t generally eyes of the church,” as ing to do with the preposterous. Whatever one’s religious rush into marriage blindly these days. Some well as “ a trap and a happiness of chil­ beliefs may be, I can not understand how couples live together for years before they ploy.” She comes to the Marriage is not a dren, determined in­ one can say that love is merely a label put decide to “tie the knot.” I hate to think that conclusion that marriage promise to only have stead by “socioeco­ on sexual desire. Lust is the word that we are seen as lemmings, jumping off into is a step in relationships nomic status and should be used in that context, not love. the abyss without having given any thought only because the medi­ sex with one person chance in life.” A Marriage aside, love is a truly wonderful to our actions. eval Catholic Church de­ until one dies, but a child’s “socioeco­ thing, and no one can convince me that it I, for one, believe in love—not just the creed that it should be so commitment of two nomic status and is purely based on physical desire. Sex love that we feel for our friends and rela­ (because they “despised chance in life” is at may be involved when two people are in tives, but the Love that binds our hearts lu st,” of course). people to each other least in some way re­ love, but love is not always involved when with another soul “for as long as you both Amanda left out huge as whole people. lated to whether or two people have sex. Therefore, it is shall live.” Whether or not we have been sections of spirituality. not the kid’s parents impossible to say conditioned by soci­ Judaism exists. So do are together. If one that “love has a ety, I believe that Protestant branches of Christianity, Is­ of the parents stays home while the other great deal to do Marriage aside, love is a overall, marriage is lamic faith, Hinduism, Buddhism, Pagan­ works, the kid has more care than one of with sex, and sex truly wonderful thing; something that ben­ ism, etc. Members of these religions get those people could give alone. I also think with love.” and no one can convince efits many people. married, too, and they do not tie the knot that people who are mature enough to Marriage may There are so many because the Catholic Church told them to make a promise and keep it are better not be for every- me that it is purely based children growing up contain their lust. emotionally equipped to raise a child than one--and that’s on physical desire. in this world with only Let me give you some samples of the two people who are. not so capable. Di­ fine, because we one parent around to ideas on marriage from a couple of non- vorce is sometimes the most responsible are all free indi­ support them. And Catholic religions. “Marriage was insti­ choice, however, raising a kid would be viduals with minds of our own. To say while that parent may be “happy,” as Fiore tuted by God and the time of a man’s easier if you didn’t have to do all the work that “psychological brainwashing” is in­ says, I still believe that children greatly innocence for three reasons. First, for the by yourself. volved is a horrible untruth. It is true that benefit from the guidance of two parents. procreation of children. Secondly, so as to As I understand it, marriage’s point is society has taught us that when we fall in Sure, divorces occur. But that is not the prevent fornication. Matrimony was or­ not to contain lust, but to live a good, love, the next “step,” as Fiore put it, is to fault of marriage. That is the fault of the dained, thirdly, for the mutual society, productive, joyful life. Marriage is not a get married. Yet there are a lot of people two individuals in the marriage. If you’re help and comfort that the one ought to promise to only have sex with one person who will never marry—whether they fall not ready to commit (and I admit that it’s have of the other,” (Anglican Book of until one dies, but a commitment of two in love or not. In fact, our government a huge commitment), then don’t do it. Common Prayer). “A good wife... is far people to each other as whole people. actually forbids some people to get mar­ Honestly, whose fault is it that marriages more precious than jewels. The heart of That whole includes sexual, material, emo­ ried. don’t work out? The society that puts us her husband rests in her, and he will have tional, and spiritual components. Mar­ Fiore asks, “Is marriage really neces­ through “psychological brainwashing?” I no end of gain. She does him good, and riage is a promise to live responsibly and sary?” My answer to her is “no.” Unless think not. not harm, all the days of her life,” (Prov­ with caring, so that children are raised a couple wants to be treated with respect, I think what we all need to do is just erbs 31, 10-12). “If any woman has a well, there is enough money, so that you that is. Married couples are privy to a lot relax—and stop judging an institution into husband who is an unbeliever, and he have a friend and a lover all in one to live of things that unmarried couples are not. which most of us have never entered. I consents to live with her, she should not with and help you through life. I would Legal issues come into play, as well as may never get married, for my own rea­ divorce him. For the unbelieving husband not settle for any less than that much. societal issues. If my lover were to die, sons, but I hate to see such disheartening is consecrated, and the unbelieving wife would I be able to collect her life insur­ words written by a student at this college. consecrated through her husband,” (I Jessica Carnahan ance? No, because we wouldn’t be le­ Is there no more faith in love in this world? gally married, since, as I stated earlier, Is there no more hope for the future? gay marriages are not condoned by our Please tell me that it hasn’t come to this. government. Diana Dycus The Point News. A & E April 22, 1997 The Great St. Mary’s Bar Review We sent a contingent of itinerant students, led by Jon Boddie, with Andy Myatt and Dave Green, to investigate the heart of St. Mary’s: its spirits, its soul, its bars. They found some things that we thought only existed in movies. Also contributing were Erin Mannion, Alice Blackwell, Jen Oliver, and Jen Cavey. Photos by Dave Green. The Friendly Tavern. Rt. 5, near Huge cane chairs which you can sit the Great Mills Road Intersec­ in. A definite place to take a first tion and the Brass Rail date. When Andy Myatt and I visited this there were three women sitting Russels- at the bar , smoking cigarettes and The doorway leading to the bar is watching soap operas on the televi­ located on the far side of small, sion. We left after finding out that dusty convenient store. Andy and I Hank would never marry Rhonda saw an entire refrigerator devoted due to his secret membership in the to bait in the store, right next to a Hells Angels which Rhonda dis­ rack filled with Moon Pies, covered only after talking to the Twinkies and back copies of theSf. P A C K A anesthesiologist after his prostate Mary’sToday. G O C operation. No kidding. There's very little light in the bar. Note for Friendly Tavern: One Andy sat down at the table while I of the students at this college was went to look at the bathroom. On Duke’s Place, in Leonardtown, is a tad strange, very smoky, and best to avoid if it's playing in a pool tournament which the front of the bathroom doors dark outside. took him to the Friendly Tavern there were the signs Boars and Sows Green Door was a perfectly fine where someone came up to him respectively with a “Prevent AIDS” room. We left quickly. place to get drunk so we didn’t Pearl Vision- Rt. 235 near the and asked him if he wanted to join sticker on the Boar door. Above the Fran’s- Piney Point Road- Across need to come all the way out to Steakhouse. the white militia. This is a bit of a table there was the head of a lovely from Knott’s Chicken Farm. Great Mills road. Andy agreed. Easily the worst bar that we have minus for the Friendly Tavern. four point stag mounted on the wall. A small, nice bar with a surly been in. Clinically clean but with This was one of two fully mounted customer wearing a jean jacket and Cadillac Jack’s- Great Mills surly service and no beer. Dave OCI- Piney Point road near St. heads. There were also six sets of torn cowboy boots who insisted on road, near the drive thru liquor Green asked for a mudslide and George’s Island. antler positioned above the bar and telling the bartender that it wasn’t store and across from McKay’s. they merely stared at him. They One car outside with a Texas around the one strip of Christmas his fault because he got pissed off A bit of a cross between a strip carded Andy before letting him license plate. Very quiet but this lights which ran across the ceiling, and had to beat up some other per­ mall and an off episode of Happy touch the eyeglasses. was probably because we visited it bisecting the room and providing son who wasn’t in the bar. After he Days. The name derives from a at three in the afternoon on a Tues­ most of the light. I would give this had explained this for the third time Cadillac that has been cut in half Duke’s Place- Leonardtown. day. There was one woman play­ five stars if I felt like giving stars. he got up and walked over to a glass and used to frame a mirror on the A tad strange. The bar rail was ing solitaire in the far corner of the case filled with stuffed animals and far side of a dance floor which sits clear except for a man who was room. OCI is really one big, hol­ Chiefs- Off of Piney Point Road a grab arm and put twenty five next to some pool tables in the talking to the bartender and a woman low room with space for a band and near the Piney Point Elementary cents in the front. He fiddled with middle of the room. The dance who told Dave that each seat in a dance floor. Sign on the wall: School. the controls for a second, pressed floor includes overhead rack lights secession was already reserved. "We Buy and Sell Coins and Andy, Beth Rose and I visited the drop button and missed the and a disco ball but looks exactly Very dark and smoky, the decor Stamps: Collections Appraised— Chiefs during our last southern stuffed animal completely. He like a middle school talent show reminds me of Liberace during his See Tony." Maryland review and Chief Miller asked us for a quarter but we didn’t stage. Above and to the right of the acid days. Andy hated this bar more Sharps was much nicer this time. have any money and he told us that stage there were a series of signed than any other bar. Dave and I were Vera’s- Rt. 4 Between Solomon’s This is the smallest, most clini­ he was trying to get a stuffed ani­ photographs of Marilyn Monroe indifferent. Island and Prince Frederick. cally clean bar that I have ever been mal for his daughter. and other famous film stars which, Jennifer Oliver: Casablanca in, with blue/grey tile on the floor The bar was reasonably well lit according to the owner, were re­ Butler’s- Rt. 235 near Lexington meets Southern Maryland. Vera’s and a hand rail in the bathroom. and not depressing at all. Andy had ally reproductions. There is a fake Park is all that and more. It is somewhat There was a TV which seemed to be a Budweiser which he placed on fire in a glass case which rests in A nice, passive bar although there expensive- Vera charged five dol­ tuned to the twenty-four-hour-a-day the far corner of the rail when he the middle of the table area for the were several signs fixed to the out­ lars for a non-alcoholic Pina television commercial channel left, next to the surly man who had winter months. side door and the inside walls to the Colada. Vera herself is lovely, if a which I had seen only once before by this time stopped talking. effect that any patrons caught fight­ bit eccentric, and wears a muumuu. in a smarmy hotel in Savannah, GA Lennie’s- Rt. 235, across from ing would be banned permanently. A definite Hawaiian theme, much and which seems to be of interest to Wildewood All three of us liked this place but more tasteful and excessive than sociology majors, the extremely Bar- Great Mills road, near the According to Jen Cavey, this is a other people, who have been there the Tikki Bar, which looks like a gullible and nobody else. On our Women’s Center of Southern hunting bar that is filled with deer when it was more crowded, said shack in comparison. Vera’s house way out, Andy noticed a man who Maryland. parts and hunters. The deer parts that the patrons really don’t wel­ can be seen from the bar and it is couldn’t have been younger than We sat down at the far edge of the are mounted on the wall. All of the come college students. This, how­ built to look like the Taj Mahal. sixty asleep in a chair in a side bar rail and talked to a crazed look­ ing middle aged man who intro­ hunters are dressed in bright or­ ever, is probably true of many of the duced a second person to us. “Do ange and green camouflage which bars in the area and is something to you know who this is? .. .This was reduces the risk of being hit by cars keep in mind. the first person, very first person to along Rt. 235 at two in the morn­ play at Woodstock. You know ing. During the Christmas season, The Bermuda Triangle- Great about Woodstock, right?” The sec­ the hunters put Santa hats between Mills Road ond person, who was wearing a the horns on the deer heads. They A large beach-theme bar with a light green army jacket and brown also string Christmas lights in the disco ball and a dance floor which glasses protested that he wasn’t horns. This makes the bar appear attracts most of the people from the anyone while waving his cigarette very festive and well lit although base. about but the first person insisted, some of the patrons have a ten­ The bar itself is very large and gripping the shoulders of the jacket dency to mistake the Christmas there are a number of standing rails and turning him towards us. “He lights for oncoming cars after a situated around the tables where really is,” he said. There were few drinks and will move out of the patrons can presumably drink or eat several bikers near this man who way while shouting “I’m wearing standing up. According to Erin didn’t blink at this or even ask for @A&%$# orange!” I have no idea Mannion, there is a wet t-shirt con­ photographs. They merely looked what the owner thinks about this. test every Thursday, which may ex­ uncomfortable and stared at the side Note: There is also a piano player plain why Thursdays are the best in the bar who must be at least one night of the week for the bar, with Cadillac Jack's is revered for its unique blend of disco wall across from the rail. The sec­ ond person asked us why we had hundred and ten years old. Jen attendance around 400 people. Erin lights, film stars, fake fire and...gee whiz - Cadillacs! come and then suggested that the thought that he was very, very nifty. gave this a thumbs down. Dave and Andy found it a bit tacky. The Point News April 22, 1997 F eatures From Princeton to St. Mary’s: artwork that gets around A replica of a historical artifact, once discarded by Princeton University, is now housed on the outside wall of Montgomery Hall. But, after realizing their priceless mistake, Princeton wants it back.. . so Ingersoll convinced the de­ ADRIAN DEAL staff writer signer to include the artifact in the building. Few objects have been through Now, it seems that Princeton as much in the last several thou­ wants its sculpture back. sand years as the eastern frieze, Underwood received a letter about or panel, of the Parthenon. A two years ago from that college replica of this historical artifact is requesting that the work be re­ located on the outside of lower turned. Asked whether or not the Montgomery Hall...and it has College will return the piece, quite a history to it. Underwood replies, “Too late. It’s The original survived through already been installed.” not only centuries of rough Though cast replicas had be­ weather, but also a war. The come “unfashionable” in the 60’s, replica has also been quite a when Princeton disposed of the trouper, having ______sculpture, such survived un­ O f course, by 1963, worlf have re' usual St. J cently experi- Mary’s having mere replicas of encedasurgein weather and a Greek works became popularity. vicious war be­ “Princeton A replica of an original piece that was part of the Parthenon in Athens is displayed on the tween the Col­ unfashionable, so would probably outside wall of low er Monty. Photo by Erin Mannion lege and Princeton decided to be happy to take for the building. In the design, an constructed, it appeared much These pieces include a Greek Princeton. dispose of the artifact. it back now,” amphitheater was to be con­ different than the other buildings discus-throwing sculpture and The original U nderwood structed outside of Lower Monty. on campus. The others were remi­ brightly-colored Persian panels, piece was cre­ This is where St. notes, but adds This would have provided an out­ niscent of colonial architecture, both located in the library. ated in the 5th Mary's stepped in. that because the door setting while Montgom- Technically, these are on “long­ century B.C. as work has al- where meetings ■■■■■■■ ery looked like term loan” to the college and the part of the ready been in- could take place, N o t O n ly d o e s OUT Pizza Hut, as one museum is not likely to ask SMC Parthenon in Athens, Greece. stalled, giving it back would be lectures could be college have artwork architect said. to return them. They were ob­ After surviving hundreds of years impossible. Also, in order for given, or con­ To soften the tained by Ingersoll in the 60’s and unscathed,in the 17th century a Ingersoll to have ever retrieved certs could be that was discarded edge of the build­ he had to restore them because of bomb that was being stored in the the piece, there must have been a performed. The by Princeton, but we ing and to hu­ the damage they had sustained temple exploded and destroyed legal agreement of release by presence of the manize it, while in storage. many of its sculptures. The east­ Princeton, so legally, St. Mary’s Greek artifact also have works that Ingersoll sug­ Though we have art from other ern frieze was knocked to the does not have to return the sculp­ would have were originally gested that the colleges, it is doubtful that any ground, but survived the blast. ture. given more of a owned by the Metro- Greek work be other colleges have art that we origi­ The piece was then transported to Ever since Princeton discov­ “classical” feel- ^ placed in it. It nally owned. However, there is an English art museum, where it ered what had become of the re­ ingtothesetting. P°lltan M useum in was meant to some controversy in this matter. remains today. lief sculpture, and realized that it u n f o r t u - New York. catch the eye of The college might once have The cast model that St. Mary’s was permanently attached to nately, the am------passers-by. had replicas of antique sculptures has was initially commissioned Montgomery Hall, they have not phitheater project was never fully Not only does our college have in a classroom in Calvert Hall, by Princeton University. The rep­ contacted St. Mary’s about it carried out, though the sculpture artwork that was discarded by evidence indicates. lica was carefully constructed for again. was placed in the area anyway. Princeton, but we also have works However, these works were that college and was placed in The artifact was actually placed Luckily, the artifact’s presence that were originally owned by the probably either thrown away or front of their art museum in the in Montgomery Hall as part of an was to serve a dual purpose. Metropolitan Museum in New destroyed in the 1950s, says late 1800s. amphitheater that was planned When Montgomery Hall was York. Underwood. Of course, by 1963, having mere replicas of Greek works THE GUYS AT 5TH & STUDEBAKER BY TIM JOHNSON became unfashionable, so Princeton decided to dispose of the artifact. This is where St. M ary’s stepped in. Somehow, once Princeton dis­ posed of the artwork, it ended up in a barnyard area, unused and unseen. In fact, barnyard animals were sim­ ply walking all over it, Professor Sandy Underwood recalls. If you look very closely at the relief sculpture, you can still see where peacocks had been and left their mark. “They [Princeton] didn’t ever want to see it again. They were clearly tired of it,” Underwood says. Former art professor at St. M ary’s, Jonathan Ingersoll, de­ cided that the work would make an excellent addition to SMC’s art collection, so he retrieved the sculpture and brought it here. At the time, in the late 1960’s, Mont­ gomery Hall was being designed, The Point News F eatures April 22, 1997 Electronic artists emerge from the underground Reviews of new records by mainstream Chemical Brothers and rising Atari Teenage Riot immediate, attention-grabbing imagine the Skinny Puppy boys SARAH LOFF quality of that first single. They playing with effects a decade ago assistant editor mix up genres and throw in odd and getting more interesting re­ I bet everyone who’s watched effects, making seamless transi­ sults. but Dig Your Own Hole is a their MTV in the past few months tions throughout. good mainstream record none­ has heard the Chemical Brothers. The opener, "block rockin' theless. “Setting Sun,” the single released beats," proves a techno bandca/z The German group Atari Teen­ nearly half a year before the al­ play funk, and eventually makes age Riot is another who, I've bum Dig Your Own Hole, got a smooth time-change right into heard, have been important in the heavy rotation and seemed to sig­ underground for a while and are nal a mainstream flood of new now attracting notice for their techno,jungle, trip-hop, you name "block rockin' beats" ear-splitting live shows, opening it (and just to put The Point News proves a techno band up for Beck. Judging from this in thejoumalistic big leagues with can play fnnk... debut U.S. release. Burn, Berlin, Rolling Stone, SPIN, and Time, Burn!, they’d blow anyone off let's say Trent Reznor is solely the stage. responsible.) Electronic music the title track, which kind of...does The sound is best described by has fallen out of the underground the same thing, only no one says ,the name of DJ Alec Empire’s be all blistering anger directed at kicked in the head too many times- and landed in the Buzz Bin. "block rockin' beats!" fifty times: personal label: Digital Hardcore. such-and-such an Establishment. that raging punk rock is often And “setting sun” is an amaz­ Instead, the lyrics are nicely fuzzy Atari Teenage Riot play a hybrid They yell pointless and ri­ ing song; as repellent as I find and incomprehensible; even if of hardcore, hyper-speed punk about how Atari Teenage Riot diculous. Oasis, Liam Gallagher’s smooth they're declaring, say, "You are rock, assembled with a sampler, “Deutschland But that's the vocals are a perfect complement the perfect drug, the perfect drug." techno beats, and no real instru­ (Has G otta play a hybrid of very reason I like to the siren effects and heavy at least we're spared the trouble ments aside from singer Hanin Die),” and the hardcore, hyper-speed Atari Teenage stop-start dance beats. The trouble of trying to figure out why. Elias’s piercing voice. It’s im­ “P.R.E.S S.,” Riot; they take is, Dig Your Own Hole needs a The next tracks pull similar possible to explain how loud they and I wonder punk rock...with no the tired old cli­ warning: Don’t expect another tricks, "setting sun" introduces are, but this techno manages to what these out­ real instruments. ches of punk and “Setting Sun” on this record, be­ an actual, structured, verse-cho- get noisier, faster, and more ag­ bursts can pos­ techno and cre­ cause you’ll be extremely disap­ rus-verse song, and then more gressive than anyone else play­ sibly accomplish, aside from in­ ate music that's fresh and inter­ pointed. mixes, loops, and samples to the ing today. citing a few teenage boys to kick esting. One doesn’t have to be The Chemical Brothers do cre­ album's end. I don't think the True to punk form, all ATR's each other around the dancefloor. brimming over with juvenile an­ ate solid dance music with a con­ Chemical Brothers are screaming is meant to send a Meanwhile, it’s evident to every­ ger to appreciate them, though a sistent groove, but without the groundbreaking artists, since I can forceful message, and it seems to one over sixteen who hasn’t been taste for noise helps immensely. Angels in America presents social commentary, universal themes ter is afflicted by” as central to their being MEG ZORN AIDS. Actually, the play assembles a of an old political enemy, a metaphysi­ staff writer very colorful assortment of social and cally gifted travel agent, and a couple of — even the larger-than-life, towering fig­ Anybody who has tracked art and cul­ political identities, bringing together a medieval buffoons, among other curiosi­ ure of Roy Cohn has an astonishing frailty ture in the last decade knows Angels in cross-section of America in 1985 that re­ ties. These assorted figures mingle in at times. Oddly enough, sometimes it America, the epic Broadway drama by minds us of how much we have forgotten ways that are sometimes disarmingly ab­ seems easier to understand the less-than- Tony Kushner. This is the first year the of the ’80s. The menagerie of personali­ surd and funny, while at other times raw real figures in the outskirts and shadows of script has been authorized for staging in ties includes a domineering Mormon and unsettling. this play than the flesh-and-blood figures university theaters, and associate profes­ mother, a megalomaniacal lawyer and Even though Angels can seem at mo­ in the spotlight. sor Joanne Klein directs the College’s power-broker ready to sell his soul for ments colossal in the scope of its themes Performances are at 8:00 p.m. on April performance of Angels: Millennium Ap­ Ronald Reagan, ex-drag queens, a home­ and technical complexity, the play has a 24-26 & May 1-3; 2:00 p.m. on April 27 proaches, opening this week. Bold and less psychotic, and a housewife lost in a certain rawness and sensitivity about it & May 4 in the Bruce Davis Theater. defiant in its exploration of contemporary valium-induced wonderland. Along the that make it compelling in the college Tickets are $3.50 for students. gay life in America, Angels is often pi­ way, there are also appearances from char­ theater setting. This intimacy and geonholed as a play about gay politics and acters we find hard to believe in: the ghost immediacy of emotion is especially laid bare when the act is stripped of it technical effects. Watching re­ hearsals on a half-built set in Bruce The Elephants Trunk Davis Theater, Angels seems less a “political drama” and more a play about something a closer to heart— the nature of love and loss, maybe. Curiously enough, the play bears the lofty subtitle, “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” But while the play often refers to the social and political climate of the mid- ’80s, the most wrenching and pow­ erful scenes have little to do with the entanglements of “national themes.” Much of the cast and crew is aware of the daring content of the play, banned earlier this year at Catholic University. But beyond the play’s flamboyance and shock value, there is the startling fragility Tuesday - Friday 10-5 Route 285, Lexington Park of the characters. Director Joanne Actresses Maureen Shanahan and Ingrid Saturday 10-4 Call 862-1818 Klein underlined the “contradic­ Nielsen (l-r) rehearse a scene of Angels in tions and polarities [each] charac­ A m e r i c a Photo by Elizabeth Rose ^ ^ T h c Point News April 22, 1997 N ew s Eminent religion professor Smith to lecture Four provost finalists Huston Smith, widely regarded as the of 1997, and will return in May. most eloquent contemporary authority on On Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in Montgom­ the history of religions, will lecture Tues­ ery Hall 25, he will lead a discussion with day at 8:00 in St. Mary’s Hall. His most two philosophy classes.On Wednesday, he notable contribution to the field is his will visit with the Philosophy Club in the NEJOL IRWIN prefer a provost more oriented towards thesis that the many religious traditions all Alumni Lodge from 2:45 - 4:00. All inter­ news editor scholarship. speak to the same human concerns. Smith ested students and faculty are invited to Four finalists to serve as the next pro- Dr. Peter Hutchinson brings an impres- is the commencement speaker for the Class attend both events. vost were on campus in the last two sive resume to the field as well. In addi- —By Calvin Schermerhorn weeks, interviewing with the provost tion to his administrative experience as search committee and meeting with fac- associate vice president for academic af- BSU repeats officer elections after fraud found ulty, staff, and students. fairs (equivalent to our associate provost While the backgrounds of the candi- position, only at a much larger school), Continued from ELECTIONS, page one Robert’s Rules of Order, under which dates are each unique, there are common Hutchinson has a strong record of teach- with some voters until they had cast their the BSU is run, and required that a new threads running through the pool. Three ing and research in economics. Onecon- ballots. He also passed out campaign election be held. Student Trustee Jen of the four have a back- cern is that having worked literature belonging to Toure. Sivells ad­ Dickens oversaw the new election. ground in theadministra- NEW S ANALYSIS at fowling Green State mitted that several errors had been made in In the new election, Hershfield won tion of an honors pro- University since 1971, a the election process. fourteen to eight. None of the other gram, hinting that the school of 14,000, he The general consensus of the BSU mem­ races were affected. committee sees value in such an experi- might not have aparticularly good feel for bers was that the first election was invalid Since the initial complaint, the request ence when it comes to implementing the the workings of a college so much smaller and there needed to be a new one. for a formal reprimand for Abrams has Honors College Curriculum and work- than that where he has spent the last 26 After this meeting, the executive boards been dropped. After the joint hearing, it ing with the development of the Honors years. of the SGA and the BSU met in a Caroline was decided that if the formal complaint in the Community Concept. Current St. Mary’s professor and Di- study to go over guidelines for the new against Sivell’s actions were to be car­ Of the four, two come from being rector of the Honors Program Dr. Laraine elections and to present the findings of the ried out, she would go before the Judi­ administrators in a university, one from Glidden is the only in-house candidate, SGA’s Constitutional Review Commit­ cial Board. the president of a college smaller than St. which could both help and hurt her tee, under whose jurisdiction this fell. The SGA President Wood said, “I am sad Mary’s, and there is one in-house candi- chances. In her 21 years here, she has Committee found that the election had that it happened but glad that it was date. accumulated an impressive record of re- violated the constitution of the BSU and taken care of in a fair manner.” The provost serves as the member of search and teaching. She lacks the ad- the upper administration whose primary ministrative experience of other candi- concem is college academics. He or she dates, but has done extensive committee serves as a liason between administra- and grant work. Her long career here and EXTRA SALE tion and faculty, and oversees the devel- resulting professional relationships with 20 opment of curriculum, academic policy, other faculty could be seen as a strength, and hiring and promotion of professors, however the potential for these relation- Here, a look at the finalists for this ships to cloud judgement in matters of position: promotion and pay rates is a stumbling TAKE AN EXTRA * Lawrence Bryan comes into the race block for her selection, with the most formidable administrative The final candidate, Dr. Suzann experience of the four. From 1990 to Buckley, comes from the 6,000 student 1996, he was president of Kalamazoo University ofMassachussetts-Dartmouth, College, a liberal arts college in Michi- where she has served as dean of arts and ALL PREVKMY REDUCED gan. He left Kalamazoo feeling his goals sciences and special assistant to the chan- had been accomplished, seeking new cellor. Buckley places particular empha- challenges. 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