Lives Stolen Devine Movie Review: for Luxury Gifts for Rushmore Under $10 page 8 page page 14 The bserver February 10, 1999 THE STUDENT VOICE OF FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER VOLUME xvn, 1..0. s USG Fights Fire in McMahon Hall Leaves Several For Reading Apartments Damaged, Nobody Injured photo by Katerina Venetis Days at FCLC By Jane McGonigal they had seen the burn- photo bv Saunter Tsai ing mattress and,bed- Wednesday, February 3 -A fire was dis- spread thrown from a covered at 7:40 a.m. in apartment 6B1 window in 6B, appar- of McMahon Hall, apparently a result ently by firefighters, of a unextinguished cigarette that and the Observer con- jgnited a bedspread and mattress in firmed that the remains one student's bedroom, according to of these objects were director of security John Carroll. still present on a grassj There were'no injuries, officials stated, area above the roclt but significant water damage occurred garden later that morn By Gina Salamone in five apartments as a result of fire- ing. They were cleanec fighters' efforts to put out the fire. up by mid-afternoon. United Student Government (USG) is Sprinklers were automatically acti- At the time of print- currently trying to incorporate read- vated When they sensed the extreme ing, 6B residents were The fire department in fromt of McMahon Hall ing days into the Fordham College at temperatures of the fire, according to busy salvaging their the morning of the fire Lincoln Center (FCLC) schedule for security supervisor Mike Swikata, and belongings from the apartment and that besides the carpet damage, their the upcoming academic year. the floor's fire alarm was simultaneous- were not available to comment. television set was not working. The reading days would be two ly set off. Residents of 6B were evacu- Residents in the four apartments Students in the affected apartments class free days right before finals to ated to the lobby while the fire was below 6B-5B, 4B, 3B, and 2B-also had were advised to fill out insurance allow students to study for finals and being extinguished, Swikata stated. to deal with the after-effects of the fire. forms to recover their losses, accord- finish papers that are due during the Throughout the emergency situa- Although no flames reached these ing to several residents of the B suites. week of finals. FCLC has never had tion, announcements were made over suites, water being used to extinguish "We're still checking to see what was reading days, while Fordham College the residence hall's public address the fire seeped in to damage the car- damaged," said Joe Visconti, FCLC '02 at Rose Hill (FCRH) has given its stu- sytem by facilities manager Leslie pets and various possessions. Ananya and 5B resident dents reading days for years. Timoney. Students were updated con- Barman, FCLC '02 and 4B resident "The whole thing really wasn't so USG recently formed a commitee to tinually and directed to stay in their stated, "The water was coming from much scary as it was annoying," added give Lincoln Cener students a couple apartments. At one point, evacuation everywhere-under the stove, from Visconti. "We got woken up and now of days off to prepare for finals. Anna was considered a possibility, and at closets, out of the vents." there's this really funky smell in our Meresidis, FCLC '00 and vice presi- approximately 7:50 a.m., Timoney "Our first instinct was to throw our apartment that we can't get rid of." dent of USG, said, "Ifs been a USG advised residents to get dressed in laptops in drawers and shove the Ironically, a fire prevention memo- issue for a couple of years, and it's case it became necessary. By 8:15 stereo equipment under the beds," randum was being prepared for mail- because Rose Hill has had it. A few a.m., however, the fire_department had said James Mullen, FCLC '02 and 5B ing by Timoney in response to the fire students were aware that Rose Hill left the building and students were per- resident. "We were pretty calm. Fire which claimed several lives in a neigh- has it, and they had come to us. Also, mitted to move freely throughout goes up, so we knew we were probably boring 60th Street apartment building there were people in USG knowing McMahon Hall. fine, but we didn't want our stuff to get last month, but had not yet been dis- about it and wanting to do it. We final- Several witnesses reported that ruined by the water." Mullen stated tributed to residents.B ly put it through to the College Council." The College Council consists of Police Arrest Suspected Neighborhood Serial Rapist representatives of each academic department as well as some adminis- By Brian Craine According to a police spokesman, The rapist's first victim did not trators and three students that are the first of the attacks occurred report her attack to the police until voted in by the senate of USG. On January 30, the NYPD announced September 24, when a perpetrator January 20. By then, there had already Meresidis, chairperson of the Reading the arrest of a suspect in a string of broke into the apartment of a been two other crimes. On December Days Campaign, is one of the stu- rapes and robberies, all of which masseuse on West 75th Street. 13, a man fitting the same description dents. "We're the student committee occurred within a 15 block radius of Authorities say that the suspect, who forced his way into the apartment of of the college council, so we get to FCLC. The suspect, Darryl Bolden, is 610 and weighs approximately 340 another masseuse on West 69th Street decide what*s going to go on the agen- 35, was charged with three charges of lbs, had an appointment with the vic- near Columbus Avenue. In this inci- da, We put [reading days] on espe- rape and four charges of robbery in tim but instead ended up sexually dent, the man robbed his victim but cially since a lot of students this year relation to crimes committed over the assaulting her and stealing an undis- did not rape her, according to police. were coming up to us and saying *We past five months. closed amount of money. The suspect is also accused of raping (continued on page 3) (continued on page 2) News February 10,1999 Fordham Health Center Urges Students to Consider Prevention of Fatal Illness Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccine Now Available on Campus by Bonnie Gass and eating habits, as well as avoiding inform them it would be available. from excessive stress. However, it was those students who BaihA female resident Both the Lincoln Center and Rose Hill According to Marshall, the planned to study abroad that made up rted receiving eight harassing health centers will begin distribution American College Health Association the majority of the patients receivin, one cdfe over a tea num^ time* of the Meningococcal Meningitis vac- recommends vaccination hr view of (continued on page 3, j$H calls were forwarded to cine, according to Patricia Marshall, the increased incidence of meningo- ^fntyfor tracing, and they did not director of Student Health Services at coccal disease on college campuses. « appear to come from campus. Fordham, to protect against the con- The seriousness of Meningitis has hit ^ Wednesday, January 27, 3:10 tagious, potentially fatal infection of too close to home for the Fordham ?Pm>fMcMahan Hulh After repeat- the membranes surrounding the community, as it was exactly two |% warning a male indMdaal ter brain and die spinal cord. years ago that the Observer reported ;ditobti lflt k &* res> At the Student Health Center stu- of the then freshman Raymond arrested by dents can receive the vaccine. Just one Milward of FCRH who died of dose will produce protective antibod- meningococcemia, a bacterial strain ies against the most common strains of related to meningitis which attacks meningococcal disease in seven to ten the blood, causing the heart to stop. $ Monday January £5, days and will last for about five years. "We are not trying to scare the stu- ^, <3#flf Thmday January 20, - According to Marshall, the vaccine is dents," said Marshall. "We just want to ^-; *&«««• JJt>ary-*k staff fairly new, so the statistics are only an make them aware that this vaccine is -report^ two new wai^ approximation. available." She continued, "I think that .•were, removed irom the; "College students are prone to this if the nurses here give the vaccine to ylJIy are assumed'to* type of infection due to frequent upper ffieir own college-age children, then bjeett taken sometime respitory infections, passive and that's a good sign that it is important." te>f-the xnight- active smoking, bar patronage and According to Maureen Murray, |y;^igatmg this larceny. v/ s excessive alcohol consumption," stat- nurse practioner at FCLC, the health f^J&My January 22, Mu>m 12 ed Marshall. She said that students centers also provided Meningitis vac- can reduce their risk by following a cinations last year around this time Cir-el#~ A Fordham law- healthy lifestyle of regular sleeping when they sent a letter to students to ^^: seated in Starbucks *$$&, Jier jjurse stolen while'it was |jp^;tc> her in the restaurant She ' Notice Jt being take«,, but Dean's and Ully Hirsch Scholarships d shortly'thereafter-that it For Adult-Entry Students in FCLC g. It has dot been Applications are now being accepted for the Dean's and Ully Hirsch Scholarships for FCLC "'^"ftiip^ipiiiiiiiiiiiil adult students for the academic year 1999-00.