Evaluating professors Everly Brothers are back -— Page 3 page 8 Volume 32, Number 6 Marist College, Poughkeepsle, N.Y. March 27, 1986 Minuses New vice president had little for academics named by Douglas Dutton president and the lone student on effect the committee. Marist announced the appoint­ The committee narrowed the list by Anthony DeBarros ment of Mark A. vanderHayden as of candidates from 125 to three vice president for academic affairs finalists. It then submitted the list Although Marist College's deci­ in a memorandum on Monday. to Executive Vice President John sion to add minus grades to its VanderHayden will replace Lahey, who announced grading policy has been criticized Julianne Maher, who has served as vanderHayden's appointment. by some students, the change ap­ acting vice president since late last The new administrator is cur­ parently had little effect on student summer, as well as continuing in grade point averages, according to rently vice president for academic her role as dean of the school of affairs and dean of the faculty at information released last week by adult education. Maher took over the college. Cedar Crest College in Allentown, for Andrew Molloy, who resigned Penn. He worked as associate dean Grade research information ob­ July 31, 1985, to return to full-time of the school of liberal arts and tained from the Registar's Office teaching. sciences at Rider College in New and released by Acting Vice Presi­ VanderHayden will start on a Jersey before accepting the Cedar dent for Academic Affairs Julianne full-time basis beginning July 1. Maher indicates that Marist's in­ Crest post in 1979. Sophomores Sara Perkins A search committee chaired by VanderHayden taught History at stitutional average dropped about and Christine Petrillo enjoy the Professor Louis Zuccarello and nine hundreths of a point after the Rider college for seven years as a First day Spring sun despite the need for made up of administrators, facul­ full-time teacher. He also change—from 2.698 in spring 1985 winter bundling at the turning ty and one student has been screen­ to 2.610 in fall 1985- taught each year he worked at of seasons last week. (Photo by ing candidates since December, Cedar Crest. Although Maher termed the of spring Laurie Barraco) said Suzanne Ryan, student body drop "not significant," she cau­ Continued on page : tioned that the information may not accurately represent the policy. change's effccfon-undergraduate students. a eemmittee Grades from' Marist's graduate by the two groups. investment policy. "1 would like to group plans to study the steps taken programs, which retained the old by Carl MacGowan by student activists at Vassar Col­ grading system, are included in the In the memorandum, Murray see a consensus," said Murray. "If announced plans for a committee there is a consensus, then the board lege before making its formal de­ institutional average. President Dennis Murray releas- mand to the school. - ed a memorandum Monday an­ to study six options the college will consider it and make a decision Maher said data containing on­ Concra had no immediate com­ ly undergraduate grades is nouncing plans for a committee to could choose to show its opposition based on its own consciences." study possible Marist responses.to to apartheid. The responses, which The; college's options include ment on the release, saying he necessary to accurately gauge the wanted to discuss the announce­ grade change's effect on apartheid. ' were discussed by the Board of total divestment, selective divest­ Meanwhile, the Progressive Trustees at its meeting March 6, ment, "initiating a dialogue with ment with other coalition members. undergraduates, but that refined "We're going to sit down and map data is not available. Grades from Coalition and the Black Student were based on steps taken by other corporations on their practices in Union began making plans to call American colleges. .. v , South Africa," offering scholar­ this out," he said. special academic programs at the - The coalition collected nearly cpllege are also included in the in­ for the school to divest its holdings "The Presidential Commission ships to South African blacksy in companies doing business in discussed by the board is to include educational programs on campus 500 signatures on a petition re­ stitutional average and could have questing the statement last month. skewed the data, she said. South Africa. members of the student body, and letter-writing campaigns to faculty, the Board of Trustees, public officials. The petition was presented to Mur­ Maher also said that teachers The memorandum was not a ray Feb. 21, during an anti- who were unfamiliar with the hew position statement outlining the alumni, administration and Marist The Progressive Coalition voted staff. The number of people who last Wednesday to call for the col­ apartheid march on campus which system may simply have ignored school's policy on apartheid: The drew approximately 80 marchers. minuses and not used them at all Coalition and BSU called for a will comprise the commission was lege to divest all or part of its South not disclosed. Africa-related stock, including The petition asked the school for last semester. She added that it may position statement in a petition a statement on its holdings and the take another few semesters before given to President Dennis Murray Murray said the decision to holdings in Marist's biggest divest would be left up to the Board benefactor, IBM. However, coali­ "disposition" of the holdings. the change's long-range effect last month during the campus-wide Continued on page 4 becomes evident; march against apartheid sponsored of Trustees, which sets the school's tion leader Joe Cbncra said the John Scileppi, an associate^pro­ fessor of psychology who was chairman of the college's Academic Affairs Committee at the time the minus grade policy was being con­ Student lives through Madrid terrorism sidered, said he expected a slight drop in the institution's average. by Julie Sveda television—terrorism. families that we were alright." Scileppi said it is. too early to tell "Most of us were so tired that Waters said she had mixed emo­ whether minus grades adversely af­ When Sue Waters first heard the we just said 'Oh, a bomb went off,' tions that day. fected student averages. He cited sirens, she just rolled over in bed, and went back to bed," said "We were curious, and a few of the new Core/Liberal Studies pro­ thinking there had been a car Waters. "It didn't hit us until later us went out on the roof to try and gram, a different freshman class accident. that day." get a look," she said. "I remember and the college's increased selectivi­ Then, they pieced the story wondering how many more times ty with applicants as possible con­ Seconds later, she heard a huge explosion and more sirens. She roll­ together from what they were told, it was going to happen. It didn't tributing factors to the average's read in the newspapers and saw for seem like it bothered the Spanish decline. ed over again, thinking it was just a building on fire. themselves. people at all. They were just going "1 think it (the drop) was due to .". But when Waters heard machine The bombing occurred at about right along with their business, so a mix of all of these," he said. "I gun fire outside her building, she 7 a.m., one hour after Waters, now it didn't seem like anything to Continued on page 10 realized'something was definitely a freshman at Marist, had gone to worry about." Sue Waters (Photo by Laurie • wrong. sleep. The attack killed one Spanish Waters said she believed that the Barraco) Waters wasn't dreaming. Last woman and injured 27 others. Five ordeal affected some students more July, just hours after arriving in of the seven Shiites responsible for than others, especially two who had tacks, I know what everyone else the bombing were later caught. decided to stay up and take a walk who experiences it feels like," she Madrid, Spain with 29 other said. "But I don't freak out, and students from Dutchess County's Waters and her classmates were while the others were in bed. not allowed to leave the dormitory "They were right there when it I don't have bad dreams. It hasn't Next issue Rhinebeck High School, the TWA that day or use the phone. She said happened," Waters remembered. stopped me from doing things. I building next to the dormitory that presented another problem. "They ran to the dorm and were think it makes me a little more where she was to stay for five "We were not allowed to use the crying and really upset. But after­ cautious. Sometimes it seems like of The Circle weeks was bombed by Moslem phone until 6 p.m. that night," said wards, it didn't really stop us. We it happened yesterday. I'd go back Shiites. the criminal justice major. "Mean­ still went out by ourselves." there any time. I could even live Exhausted with jet lag and while, reports of the bombing had Now, months after the ex­ there." is April 10 without warning, Waters and her been broadcasted on the news ear­ perience, Waters says she still Waters adds with a smile, "I'm classmates were forced to deal with ly in the morning in the U.S. We thinks about it often. more comfortable in Madrid than a situation they had only read couldn't even call home to tell our "When I hear of terrorist at- I am in New .York City." .about in newspapers or seen on .Page 2 - THE CIRCLE - March 27, 1986 •March 27, 1986 - THE CIRCLE - Page 3- VP : How the system works Continued from page 1 EASTER by Sue Hermans \ Most students interviewed were- - eludes class vjsits by other faculty Maher said the students' com­ said the forms are valuable unaware the forms are read by the members and division chairs, Born in Belgium, he received a There are 10 minutes every ments are fair and very insightful, because, collectively, they provide instructors.