Marist Student Survives Brutal Hit and Run Accident
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INSIDE— Astonishing Neal has Marist women swim hypnotize the Marist mers; an overlooked yet Marist community.„..page 2 community for the last 14 talented team. - Features....................page4 years. -page 11 -page 3 Opinion............. .page 6 A&E...........................page8 Sports... ................page 12 THE CI Volume 51, Issue 1 The student newspaper of Marist College February-5, 1998 Marist student survives brutal hit and run accident byBENAGOES live. were no internal organ darhage." the right, running over Garcia. saw Garcia in the road and News Editor "They told me that they would He said doctors expect her to "We know from interviewing stopped to help. be surprised if she made it," make a full recovery. .;..'•• witnesses that there was a ve Leary said it was about 3:45 Jessica Garcia lay helpless near Leary said. "A car will do as Garcia was last seen the night hicle, slate-blue, mid-sized se a.m. when Marist security re Marist's main entrance with a much damage to someone as of the accident walking alone dan, stopped in the north bound sponded to the scene. He said fractured pelvis and vertebra artillery in a war." back to campus from her lane of Washington," Siegrist no one knows how long Garcia waiting for someone to find her, Garcia was transported to St. boyfriend's house on Taylor said. "It could' ve been the ve was lying in the road, perhaps after being dragged by a car for Francis Hospital in critical con Avenue. Siegrist said she got hicle that hit her, or they upwards of half and hour before at least a mile on Route 9. dition, then sent to Westchester about 100 feet before apparently could've just stopped to see being found. A vehicle struck Garcia, a Medical Center in Valhalla where being struck by a vehicle in front what was on the road." Town police and the Fairview Marist College junior, around she was reported in stable con of Healey International Trucks, The Dutchess Express cab Ambulance were contacted, but 3:30 a.m. Jan. 24 as she walked dition last Monday. across from Pulaski Park. dragged Garcia down to Leary said medical help was de north on Washington Street, According to Tim Massie, "She was dressed in black, the Marist's main entrance where layed, because the ambulance said city police Detective Lt. Marist's chief relations officer, weather was bad, it was dark- to she became dislodged in the left rolled over responding to the William Siegrist. Another ve besides the fractured pelvis and see her would have been diffi turn lane of the intersection. scene, and another one had to hicle thenr drove over her, drag vertebra, Garcia suffered exten cult," he told the Poughkeepsie Siegrist said the cab driver be dispatched. ging her from Pulaski Park to the sive burns on her back and legs Journal. knew something had happened . There have been no criminal intersection of Route 9 and which will require skin graphs, Siegrist said a Dutchess Ex after passing the stopped ve charges filed, but the Dutchess Fulton Street. and 45 stitches around her eye. press taxi cab with Marist stu hicle on Washington Street. Express cab driver has been Joseph Leary, director of Massie visited Garcia the day dents traveling north on Wash . "They knew they were drag summoned for operating with a safety and security at Marist, after the accident and said she ington Street came across a car ging something," Siegrist said. suspended license and not hav said the two Marist security was already making progress. stopped in the middle of the road "The driver said he thought he ing a taxi cab driver's license, guards who responded-to the "It was a relief to hear Jessica next to what looked like chunks had a flat." police said. Dutchess Express scene are.ex-police officers, and was doing as well as she was," of ice. Three Marist students driving said they doubted Garcia would Massie said. "Amazingly ihere The cab passed the vehicle on onRoute 9 and a, different cab Please see HIT. pane 3... Security locks students i *. inXjartland apartments in Gartland until they .started by JEN FEMMINELLA locking the doois "I think Gartland is foigotten Staff Wutei %%lr"< most of the time," Boyci said. "Even now when security Security has finally found the comes around it's like a job— key. to the numerous thefts on they come and they go." the North End. However, other students like After two more thefts over the new policy. Circle I'houi/JiK SCIIIUI winter break, security has en Senior Melissa Monahan said SGA members met last Saturday in the Performing Arts Room for the first Maduri Administra acted a new policy in Gartland. she feels locking the doors will tion Summit. At 11 p.m. a security officer vis help with the crime problem. its each apartment and locks the "I'm not sure this will com SGA Summit tackles many issues outside door. pletely stop the problem," she Assistant Director of Safety byBENAGOES classes should not be consid tion was not the objective. said, "but it will be more effec and Security, Thomas McLain, News Editor ered as clubs, and should have "Now that these ideas are sur tive than not effective." said security is simply trying to more access to school money faced, maybe a senator cani Resident Assistant Steven get students to learn to lock The Maduri Administration is for fundraisers and events. come and pick up on that," shej Coogan said the housing staff their doors. determined not to be labeled a "You all belong to aclass and said. "It's more apparent than' welcomes the new procedure, "If they don't lock them, we lame-duck, with just two weeks classes need to be social, but to ever that we have to solve this but wished they had been told will," he said. before the President's job is up be social you need money to get within two or three weeks." j prior to its initiation. Even one McLain also said that Marist for grabs in this year's SGA people together," D'Addario Summit members also talked Gartland RA found herself students should always remem campaign. said. "We really aren't a club, about Marist co-hosting nextj locked out one evening without ber it is an open campus. The administration's latest but we are funded like a club year's ACUI conference. Last! her key. "There are no barriers sepa event was the SGA Summit held [and] it should be easier for year, five SGA members traveled "We don't have a problem with rating this campus," he said. |to address the classes as clubs classes to get money." to Monroe Community College! the policy, we're just concerned "We don't want just anyone debate, the Associated College He suggested the process in Rochester, N.Y., for the con-: with the lack of notification," entering these buildings:" Unions International confer could be simplified if each class ference.. "' j Coogan. said. The larcenies that have ence next year, upcoming Diver- was allotted about $2,000 each The focus of ACUI is for dif-j Gullotta said locking the doors plagued campus since last se sity Day and SGA's power tran in one lump sum that could be ferent schools to compare and will not entirely combat the mester have students question sition period in May. budgeted by the individual contrast each other's form of North End larceny problem. He ing ..security's presence on | About 30 SGA members and classes. He also suggested that student government. j said more foot patrols are North End. Robert Lynch, director of stu- operating budgets for classes SGA is also planning a Diver4 needed. Jdent activities, met for three be raised to $225. sity Day for March 28 on the Senior John Gullotta said he 'There's never any security hours Saturday in the Student John Williams, student body campus green with various agrees it is the students' re around here," he said. Center's Performing Arts Room. vice president, disagreed and Marist clubs giving dance per sponsibility to lock their doors, Sophomore Kristina Brito said At the center of the "classes argued that throwing money at formances. but he is concerned about a lack she can see how Marist's open as clubs" debate is that classes the problem would not solve The summit also dealt with the of security at Gartland. campus can pose a problem for are currently treated as clubs. anything. upcoming SGA elections and "Living in the North End is not security. She said she is con This means they receive the "For you to say you need a how this year's transition can like living in the dorms where cerned that anyone can walk same SI 25 operating budget as lump sum is preposterous," Wil better than last year. you have security posted at the into the library or one of the a club. liams said. "We're so hung up "We want to make sure transi door," he said. "Every now and North End houses. then a security guard walks "It's always been stressed Jacob D'Addario, president of on trying to get money." tion is smooth this year so we around here, but those walks are that Marist is separated from the the class of 2000, said this is a More than forty minutes later, don't reinvent the wheel," few andjar between." community, but now these thefts problem considering each class no consensus had been met, but McCulloch said.