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Around McCann Center Now Open the Circle BY GRETA STUCKEY fund projects at Marist in the Softball Team, has experienced team and practice in a new facility Staff Writer Lowell Thomas communications three unique phases of the building with all the new equipment,” Walsh building, the James A. Cannavino in her career so far — the old said. As students return to Marist for Library, the athletic center and McCann, the two year temporary Adding a large lounge on the first Your Bi-Weekly the spring semester of 2020, various parking lots. fitness tent, and now, the new floor and installing glass windows they’re greeted by the polished McCann. around the entire building makes News Briefing McCann Center. The $33 million “I’m excited for the whole project students eager for the McCann renovation finally said goodbye to “I am excited that to finally take shape,” Sinskul said. Centers grand opening on Jan. 21 the temporary athletic tent shared we don’t have to “I think the best part about the from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. by teams and students for the last project will be the huge amount “I think what I’m most excited STUDY ABROAD two years. share a weight and of space that all the athletes will about is the athlete cafeteria just Marist College has always Replacing the old 25,000 square be able to share. There’s so much because I might be able to get food been known for the exception- fitness room with foot athletic center, the new room for all the sports to take part after study hall,” Brock said. “Also, al study abroad experience, McCann Center features 60,000 athletes. I am even in and I think the new amenities having our own locker room, and and it was validated again. In a square feet with a weight room, will be a great addition to the the turf training section.” U.S. Department of State spon- more excited about a fitness room, an indoor track, a McCann Center.” Student-athletes aren’t the only sored report, Open Doors, turf field, two basketball courts, not having to wait Unlike junior and senior athletes, ones excited about the grand Marist was ranked No. 3 for three multi-purpose fitness rooms, freshman and sophomore students opening of the athletic center. Master’s level study abroad until 6 p.m. to go a kitchen space, and a cafe/lounge have never experienced the With greater space and amenities, opportunities for a semes- area. to the gym now.” old McCann building since the students can exercise in multiple ter and No. 4 for long-term The McCann Center renovation renovations began prior to the fall different places in the building, undergraduate study abroad was funded by the James J. McCann — Brooke Lampron ‘23 semester of 2018. separate from the athletic teams. options according to a Marist Charitable Trust with a $2 million Just beginning their careers are “I am excited that we don’t have news release from Jan. 16. grant. Established in 1969, the The Marist softball team is eager collegiate athletes, Shea Walsh ‘23 to share a weight and fitness trust has helped fund many to use the athletic center and and Hannah Brock ‘23 of the Marist room with athletes,” said Brooke improvements in the Poughkeepsie have a more permanent spwace in Softball team are ready to try out Lampron. “I am even more excited U.S. NEWS area. preparation for their spring season. the new facilities. about not having to wait until 6 RANKING The trust has specifically helped Jade Sinskul ‘20, a member of the “I am excited to work out as a p.m. to go to the gym now.” Marist’s online education was recognized as, “Best Online Education Program,” accord- ing to U.S. News. Three pro- grams were recognized, one being graduate program in 36,000 Diplomas Later business, Master’s in Public Administration and a Master’s in Business Administration. A Comprehensive History of President Murray’s Leadership

BY TARA GUAIMANO at Marist in the past four decades. Editor-in-Chief When he started, it was a simple, ATHLETICS local institution led by the Marist Marist College was able to When Dennis J. Murray Brothers — there were very send four students, Jada Tijani, graduated from California State few buildings, only about 1,000 Randy Paul, Darien Townsend, University, Long Beach in the undergraduate students, and a few and Chidera Udeh, to the 2020 1960s, he stood up alongside 7,000 thousand dollars cash on hand. Black Student-Athletes Sum- other undergraduates, conferred A long reign like President mit at the University of Texas his degree, and sat back down. Murray’s is not unheard of, but is from Jan. 8-10. At the summit That was the only attention paid to extremely uncommon. “I was able to they were able to listen and undergraduates at commencement, serve as President at Marist College participate in a wide range of and he thought it was “ridiculous.” for all that time, at three different session ranging from mental “I said that if I ever had colleges without leaving Marist,” he health to networking events. anything to do with how it was run, said. He sees the timeline like this: I would want to have a personal during the 1980s, Marist emerged experience walking across the from a small, local college to a stage,” Murray said. regional college. In the 1990s, it FOR THE RECORD Today, he has a whole lot to became an East Coast college, and For the Record team has been do with how its all run. And he has in the 2000s, a national and even working diligently over winter for the past four decades, since an international university. break to push For the Record he began his duty as President of “Each one of those periods of 2020 further down the road. Marist in 1979. the College’s history presented new The team sent out congratu- On that day, he made a vow to challenges and new opportunities.” lations letters to the selected himself — no matter how big the participants and expect in- College grew, every student would terviews to begin shortly into have a chance to walk across the “EYES AND EARS” OF the semester. Stay up-to-date stage. Since then, he has given out THE COLLEGE on For the Record updates a total of 36,000 diplomas to Marist When Dennis Murray was in on Marist Circle Twitter (@ students, each walking across the his early 30s, he was one of the maristcircle). stage to celebrate their education. most impressive young academics Murray was President of in the country. Marist College from 1979 to 2016. He received his bachelor’s Following the resignation of former degree in political science from Contact our Managing President David Yellen in Jun. 2019, California State University, Long Editor to submit a news tip: President Murray has taken the Beach, as well as his master’s Kenneth.Guillaume1 role of Interim President. That was one of many changes, @marist.edu President Dennis J. Murray in front of the Hudson River in the 1980s. Source: Marist Archives big and small, set into the agenda Continue on page 2 2 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE NEWS Former President Yellen Candidate for VP at Loyola University New Orleans

BY TARA GUAIMANO Editor. the statements about Yellen’s status Editor-in-Chief In the article Yellen is quoted, as a professor at Marist, but at the Former President of Marist “The board chose to create a job for time of printing no verification had College, David Yellen, was recently him that people who are experts in been made. one of three candidates for university governance would tell In June 2019, Ross Mauri, Chair provost and senior vice president you there should not be a role like of the Board of Trustees stated of academic affairs of Loyola this for someone when you have that “we wish David and Leslie the University New Orleans, a private a new president...My three years best as they embark on this new Jesuit university in Louisiana. there were not a quiet time. We chapter in their lives.” According In a Dec. 5 article by The Maroon, were doing a lot of big changes. and to an official statement by Marist, Loyola University New Orleans’ even some small symbolic things Yellen would take a sabbatical student newspaper, Yellen said got the ire of some of the old guard.” following his resignation and then that his “decision to leave the The article continued, “Yellen pursue other leadership positions presidency after three years and said even his decision to put the in higher education. focus on being a professor at Marist university logo on the football field “First, we don’t know if the was due to the ‘culture’ of the caused a ‘schism’ in support for his quotes attributed to David Yellen administration.’” presidency.” in the article were accurate,” said On Jan. 15, the University named Since Yellen became the fourth President Dennis Murray in an Tanuja Singh, former business President of Marist College in July email statement to Marist Circle. dean at St. Mary’s University in San 2016, his administration carried David Yellen could not be reached Antonio, Texas, as the new provost. out a five-year strategic plan, the for comment. Yellen became President of Marist opening of a Marist location in “Second, while I’m not familiar College in July 2016, succeeding midtown Manhattan, and launched with the specific circumstances President Emeritus Dennis Murray, Marist’s first doctoral program: he references, I am confident that who had held the position for 37 the Doctor of Physical Therapy the Marist Board of Trustees made years prior. Yellen mentioned this Program. In September 2018, their decisions in the best interest during a town hall-type meeting Yellen announced the opening of of the College,” said Murray. with Loyola University students the Marist Health Quest School of “My focus now is on the future Former President of Marist College, David Yellen, is pursuing new opportuni- and faculty to meet the presidential Medicine. of Marist College and taking the ties in higher education. Source: Marist College provosts, according to Rose Marist Circle has contacted steps necessary to strengthen our Wagner, The Maroon’s Managing multiple college officials regarding institution,” said Murray. Impeachment EXPLAINED

BY LAURYN STARKE Ukraine to investigate the Biden What has to happen for Trump to What does the Senate trial look trial, as well as buying more time Staff Writer family by withholding military be removed? like? for evidence to surface. “Time has Most Americans know that aid in order to benefit his 2020 The Senate will conduct a trial Seven impeachment managers been our friend… it has yielded President Donald Trump has been re-election campaign. He’s overseen by Chief Justice John appointed by the House will serve incriminating evidence,” she said. impeached — but what does that been accused of impeding the Roberts of the Supreme Court. as “prosecutors” and present What does this mean for the really mean? impeachment hearings in the House Instead of a regular majority vote, evidence to the Senate. Trump’s 2020 election? Impeachment is anything but a by blocking witnesses and relevant the Senate needs a supermajority legal team will act as the “defense,” Pence would become president simple process. Many key players documents from departments like of 67 in order to vote in favor of but Trump isn’t required to attend if Trump is removed, but he are involved, complicated political the Department of Justice and the removing Trump. However, it is the trial. It is still unclear whether has recently been implicated processes are underway, and new Office of Management and Budget. important to note that this is a or not witnesses will be called to in Trump’s crime spree. Even evidence and accusations are What does his impeachment political process rather than a testify. impeached, Trump can still run for emerging every day. This article mean? criminal trial. Why were impeachment articles re-election in 2020. His approval will serve as a guide to answer all Although Trump was impeached How will the Senate vote? withheld from the Senate? ratings as president have stayed of the burning questions about the by the House, he will continue to The Senate is currently controlled Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi relatively the same throughout the impeachment. serve as President of the United by a Republican majority of sent the articles to the Senate on impeachment process according to Why was Trump impeached? States unless the Senate convicts 53 senators. 20 Republicans Wednesday, Jan. 15 and explained FiveThirtyEight. It is still to be seen President Trump was impeached him on one or both articles in the would have to defect from party her reasoning for holding the whether or not his impeachment by the House of Representatives on current trial. Trump is only the expectations and vote with articles as long as she did — until will help or hurt his chances in the Dec. 18 on two different articles: third president to be impeached, Democrats for Trump’s removal to after the Christmas holiday season. upcoming election. In the incidence abuse of power and obstruction alongside Andrew Johnson and happen. Although it’s impossible to “We had hoped… that we would’ve that the Senate votes to remove of Congress. The abuse of power Bill Clinton, but a US president has know exactly what will happen, the seen what the process would be Trump, they could potentially barr charge comes from evidence never been removed from office on vote is predicted to run along party in the Senate,” said Pelosi. House him from running for future office, alleging that Trump pressured the basis of impeachment. lines. members wanted to ensure a fair though this seems unlikely. Winter Sessions in Dublin and Thailand BY ALEXANDRIA WATTS News Editor Communication adjunct professor Della Kilroy. Kilroy is a reporter for Petrilli ‘22, commenting on the death observe[d] patient care in rural villages, Babette Fasolino led a group of eight RTE, Ireland’s National Public Service of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani small clinics, and major city hospitals, A number of Marist students spent women from Jan. 2 to Jan 10. alongside Multi-Media Organization, and has led as a result of an American drone strike. and [spoke] with representatives at the their winter breaks travelling abroad as her husband, Joseph, and Shane Duffy, an extensive career covering refugees “It was interesting to see how different Ministry of Public Health about the state part of the Marist Abroad office’s winter director of the Freshman Dublin and women’s issues. cultures view our president and our of healthcare in Thailand,” according to session programs. Experience Program. “Perceptions of America in Ireland” lifestyle. As a teacher, you have to be the course description. This year’s sessions sent students to “I have always wanted to go abroad was offered as a communication class, open to learning about new cultures The cost for the Ireland and Thailand two destinations: Ireland and Thailand. but never wanted to commit an entire but most students’ areas of study fell and embracing every student in your short term programs were $3,400 “Short term programs, whether in the semester to being away,” said Patricia outside it. The majors of the students classroom. Reading newspapers, and $4,700, respectively, and allowed winter, spring or summer are a great McGuinness ‘21, who enrolled in the that enrolled included psychology, watching broadcasts, and looking at students to earn academic credit. opportunity for our Marist students,” Ireland short term program. “I thought special education, biology, mathematics, public art depicting the United States Paul explained that the Marist Abroad said Caitlin Paul, Marist Abroad that an attachment or winter program and political science. will assist me in keeping a levelheaded office accepts proposals from faculty Coordinator who played a large role in would be the perfect amount of time “I had a great time and would mind and remaining unbiased while members for its programs. organizing this year’s initiatives. “Many to experience ‘going abroad’ while still definitely recommend this specific assessing students.” “It is the faculty members that students may not be able to study being able to return to Marist for the winter class to anyone, from any major,” Another group of students ventured propose the subject and location for abroad for a full year or a semester so upcoming semester.” said McGuinness. “Our class consisted into Thailand under a biology-focused the programs we run, with guidance these short term programs are a great While in Ireland, the group travelled of people from various majors, but program called “Global Health in from our office,” said Paul. “The Marist option for them.” to Limerick, Galway, and Dublin. Stops there was something interesting for Thailand.” Led by professor Amy Cahill, Abroad office approves a number One of the winter session programs on their tour included St. Patrick’s everyone each day. We learned so many students travelled to five cities from of programs every year, in varying offered this semester, titled Cathedral, the Guinness Storehouse, different things about Ireland, history, Jan. 1 to Jan. 18. Their destinations locations and subject areas.” “Perceptions of America in Ireland,” and the Cliffs of Moher, among other journalism and art.” included Bangkok, Pak Chong, Chiang Previous winter session programs centered around examining Irish media destinations and walking tours. “We happened to go at a time when Mai, Phuket, and Ao Nang. have been held in Paris. and analyzing how issues in the United The students also participated in a Q and America’s relevance in the world While in Thailand, students “...learn[ed] States were portrayed in the press. A session with multimedia journalist increased greatly,” explained Kayla about Thai traditional medicine, 3 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE NEWS

DJM HISTORY ContinueD From Front pagE system was turning its 21 organization. “I am particularly of Irish-Catholic immigrants. institutions into universities at proud of the way we do it here The key to his success in the time. Dennis Murray worked because we focus on the students,” academia did not transpire through degree and doctorate in public Hudson River. directly with state officials during Murray said. He also piloted the past generations of collegiate administration from USC. The telecaster announced, the transformation. “Even before IBM-joint study in Poughkeepsie, training, but instead, through He also worked as the “Now, let’s go to Poughkeepsie, we got married, we were very alongside a lasting relationship the deep intellect of his father, director of university relations and New York!” convincing Murray to active in the community,” she said. with the Franklin D. Roosevelt a member of the International executive assistant to the president go and check the place out. Marilyn worked in public Presidential Library and Museum Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at California State University, Long Years later, Murray was met administration for the city of Long in Hyde Park, where he has been a (IBEW) union in L.A. “My father Beach. with the realization that Lowell Beach, running programs with trustee for over 25 years. was very well-read, very well- He called this position his Thomas, a famous broadcaster high school students in the region. The partnership with the educated person, but didn’t have a “break,” into the industry. “By whom Marist’s School of “I offered a different perspective Marist Italy campus in Florence, college degree,” Murray said. working in his office for five years, I Communications is now named of what Dennis was doing, just on has fostered a global collegiate “The neighborhood I really got a great overview of what after — was the voice on that very the other side — and we have done experience for undergraduates. grew up in was a pretty tough it meant to be a President, and I newsreel. that the whole time,” Marilyn said. Murray would travel to Florence neighborhood,” he said. “It can pose understood all aspects of running a Murray smiled. “So it may have “Coming here, we just continued every year, assuring he’d meet challenges when you’re young, but large university.” been fate, right?” what we had done before.” every member of the group face- I think diversity has helped me “It really was a unique set of to-face so they knew the College through my career.” circumstances,” Murray said. He MARILYN COMMUNITY THAT would be here to support them “People meet me on the East got to sit in on cabinet meetings, when they transferred back. Coast and think, I’ve been President Marilyn Murray sat in the FLOWS THROUGH see what vice presidents did and downstairs conference room in the “A cool thing that people don’t at Marist going on 38 years — ‘he see how Horn operated. Greystone building beside a stack CAMPUS talk about a lot is that near our must have gone to Harvard, born He worked as Vice President of old photo albums. “This is such Marist had a $500,000 Florence campus there is on a great with a silver spoon in his mouth,’ at Whittier College at the time, and a crazy picture, I don’t remember endowment when it pursued river — the Arno, and our campus — well, I wasn’t,” Murray said. “But after about 18 months there, he got him ever smiling like that — it just Murray in the late 1970s. here is on the Hudson,” he said. “It’s I think those diverse experiences the very email that transformed his doesn’t look like him,” she said, “When I came in, there were just a coincidence.” have helped me to be a more career. pointing to a black and white close- some financial challenges — However, it’s not a coincidence effective leader, and is probably Meanwhile, his wife, Marilyn, up of her husband in his early 40s. the college was stable, but the that both campuses foster the one of the reasons why I was able was pregnant with their first child. She then pulled a scrapbook endowment was just a few hundred same community values. Marist’s to stay in a position like this for so An executive search firm given to President Murray by the thousand dollars,” Murray said. relationship with the city of long.” emailed him saying that there was Student Government Association But Murray was sold. He saw Florence is only one example. Murray’s appreciation for a college in Poughkeepsie, New as a gift during his initial departure both challenge and opportunity in John O’Shea, a 25-year member the combination of service and a small liberal arts college on the

“I think those diverse experiences have helped me to become a more effective leader.” — Dennis J. Murray

Dennis and Marilyn Murray at a Marist tailgate in the 1980s. Source: Marist Archives Hudson River, and he was only 32 From left, Floyd Patterson with President Murray and Rik Smits at commence- years old. ment in 1988. Source: Marist Archives in 2016. Included were photos “It used to drive me crazy York looking for a new President. showing the evolution campus when I would go down to New They had identified some leaders crafted during Dennis Murray’s York City and tell people I’m the of the Board of Trustees and O’Shea intellect helped to craft the legacy of the top and up-and-coming tenure — from the Red Fox mascot President of Marist College, and Hall honoree, “My presence on the he created at Marist. young leaders of higher education costume to the stained-glass they didn’t know anything about board here was a very exciting time His father’s allegiance to his in America — and they were windows of the campus Chapel. it,” he said. He recalled a time — and it still continues to be that community helped to carry Dennis hoping for Murray to send in an “He still thinks he has brown where he was asked if the college way,” he said. Murray to what he claims to be application. hair,” Marilyn laughed. was named after Roger Maris, a O’Shea first stepped on one of the most transformational He was flattered, but moving “She has really supported a lot famous Yankee player who had the campus as a young boy, helping his moments of his life. His district’s to New York would be difficult at of the women’s programs, as it was homerun record at the time. father with the construction of the assemblyman in California, a friend the time. very much a boys’ school when we During Murray’s tenure, original campus buildings. of his father’s, came to his childhood “They didn’t take no for an came here,” Dennis Murray said. Marist increased its total assets “He interacts a lot with home with the news that they were answer, so then they contacted Women were first admitted from $22 million to $687 million, the students, much more than going to lead the effort to elect the me and said look, just come back. to the day classes in 1968. When while enrollment has grown from many colleges do, and he enjoys first Irish-Catholic President of the We want you to see New York, to Dennis Murray first stepped into 1,842 to 6,365, according to the interacting with the people here United States, John F. Kennedy. see this place,” he said. Despite the position in 1979, the College Poughkeepsie Journal. on campus — and I think word “Because of that we got invited concerns, they took the trip. “We was still largely dominated by Today, the endowment has spreads on that,” O’Shea said. to the L.A. Democratic Convention went back to California and he male students. Marilyn devoted grown from $500,000 to $230 of 1960 at the L.A. Memorial asked me what I thought,” Marilyn much of her work to empower the million. STRONG FOUNDATION Coliseum, it was his New Frontier said. “We liked it — but we’d only small fraction of female attendees, According to Murray, lasting Dennis J. Murray sold Speech,” Murray said. take it for about three years, and from hosting an annual Senior partnerships with the Hudson newspapers on the street corners At that point in time, he’d seen then come back.” Tea at their home for the female Valley community have made of Los Angeles as a young boy. a vital history unfold as a boy, and Little did they know, three graduates to working closely with up a great piece of Marist’s “I had a lot of odd-jobs,” he said, he’d continue to write the history years would turn into five — and the fashion department. growth. “When people came to also having worked in the Sears of the Hudson Valley for years to five would turn into 38. Dennis Murray was the me with ideas for partnerships, hardware department and climbing come. Rewind four decades, and student body president at his I’d ask ‘What’s in it for the Marist electrical power lines through his “That changed my life — just Dennis Murray was sitting in his undergraduate college, which had students?’ You can be a partner, but college years. “I was always able to asking myself, why are all these living room reading, barely paying 29,000 students. “This was in the there has to be something in it for relate to people who do that kind of people so excited about this young attention to the television. A PBS 1960s, when there were a lot of our students,” he said. work.” guy? What is leadership and why telecast was running a newsreel war protests, racial unrest and it Lee Miringoff and Barbaro “We were a lower-middle are they turning to him as a leader?” called “Eyes and Ears of the World,” was a difficult time to be a student Cavallo jointly built the Marist income family, didn’t have a lot — Murray said. “From that day on, I coincidentally, it was rolling body president,” Marilyn said. Poll into the nationally and a small, two-bedroom house with knew I was a different person with the 1932 rowing regatta on the The California state college internationally recognized three kids,” said Murray, a grandson different goals and aspirations.” 4 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE NEWS Iran Escalation Persists

BY LOUIS HIGUERA Staff Writer ployed 14,000 additional troops to the the same day as Soleimani’s assassina- handling of Iran, while a USA TODAY/ no casualties and the prospects of war Setting aside the memes about World region to protect our own interests and tion, the US military also attempted to Ipsos Poll shows that most Americans have died down since then. War 3 and US military draft hoaxes that that of our Iraqi and Saudi allies. kill another high-ranking Iranian com- feel ‘less safe’ after the killing of the Ira- In the wake of the Iranian missile at- have trended on social media the past On Dec. 27, a US civilian contractor mander in Yemen, but ultimately failed. nian general. tacks, a Ukrainian civilian airliner was few weeks, the escalating tension be- was killed and four US service members This conflict has come under scruti- Reports from the New York Times, accidentally shot out of the sky, which tween the United States and Iran is any- were wounded in a rocket attack on ny from the press, the public and most Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Busi- killed all 176 passengers and crew thing but a joke. an Iraqi base where a US-led coalition members of Congress. To many peo- ness Insider, and more have also called members, many of whom were Iranian When President Trump withdrew was preparing a counter-ISIS operation. ple, assassinating the top general of a into question the motivations of the and Canadian. Iran’s foreign minister from the Iranian nuclear deal in 2018, Two days later, pro-Iranian protesters sovereign nation is a clear act of war, military strike while President Trump said it was a result of “human error at which the Obama administration and further escalated tensions by attacking which according to the Constitution, is faces impeachment and his reelection time of crisis caused by US adventur- their European allies brokered to ease the US embassy in the Iraqi city Bagh- supposed to be authorized by Congress. year. As a famous projector of his own ism.” Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau sanctions on Iran in exchange for lim- dad. Both incursions were allegedly or- In order to act in accordance with the thoughts and behaviors, it cannot be seemed to agree when he stated, “if iting their nuclear program, tensions chestrated by Soleimani. law, the Trump administration cited ignored that Trump has claimed several there was no escalation recently in the immediately escalated. Trump then On Jan. 3, President Trump gave the that Soleimani was an imminent threat times in the past that President Obama region, those Canadians would be right launched his “maximum pressure” cam- go-ahead to assassinate top Iranian to the United States, but that claim has would start a war with Iran in order to now home with their families.” paign by reimposing devastating eco- general, Qasem Soleimani, where nine been largely rebuked. be reelected. It has also been reported Since that tragic night, the Trump ad- nomic sanctions, which one research others were killed in the drone strike Not only did the Trump administra- by the Wall Street Journal that the Pres- ministration has escalated their max- fellow at Sciences Po, called a “self-ful- near the Baghdad International Airport. tion not properly notify Congress, but ident told associates he carried out the imum pressure campaign by adding filling prophecy” that has further desta- He was at his Florida golf course when the President also lied on national tele- attack in order to curry favor with GOP more sanctions and refusing to remove bilized the region. he gave the order. It has been reported vision about four US embassies being senators before the Senate impeach- troops from the region. This came after When known Iranian war hawk, John by NBC News that the President decid- targeted, which was disputed by his ment trial. the Iraqi parliament unanimously voted Bolton, came in as US National Security ed to take out the general seven months own Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper. Although the assassination of Soleima- for the US to leave their country and advisor in 2018, the idea of targeting earlier, on the condition that he could To justify the attack, Vice President ni may have appeased some Republican a Department of Defense memo was Iranian leadership intensified because be implicated in the death of an Amer- Pence made an unfounded claim by congressmen, it did the opposite with drafted and mistakenly distributed that of Bolton’s push for regime change in ican. suggesting General Soleimani had ties others like Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, indicated the US would comply with Tehran. Soleimani was a Major General of the to several of the 9/11 hijackers. These who railed against the endless wars in Iraq’s request to pull out troops from Since then, the risk of conflict be- Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps fabrications led the Washington Post the Middle East and Sen. Mike Lee of the country. tween the US and Iran has increased and commander of its Quds Force that to state, “The result is a credibility cri- Utah, who called the closed-door brief- President Trump has threatened to significantly, such as seeing Iran lash has ties to several armed forces in sur- sis for an administration that has long ing on Iran the worst intelligence brief- bomb Iranian cultural sites, there are out by downing a US military drone in rounding countries. He and his forces struggled to communicate factual infor- ing in his nine years in the Senate. Sen. more American troops in the region June of 2019, being responsible for at- have been linked to multiple attacks mation to the public.” Lee signed on to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ than there were at the end of Obama’s tacking Saudi Arabia’s largest oil facility and deaths of US military personnel Although most presidents in the past bill to prevent funding for military in- term, the rate of drone strikes are up, three months later, and launching more since the Bush administration. Accord- have seen a bump in approval ratings tervention in Iran. and massive civilian protests in Iran than a dozen separate rocket attacks ing to USIP, it is also true that Soleimani after a high profile military operation, Iran responded to the killing of their have erupted. This series of events has on bases housing Americans since Oc- and his forces have been at the helm of polls like the recent NPR/PBS News- general by launching missiles at an made it harder to stop the endless wars tober. According to the Department of fighting ISIS for years in Syria and Iraq. Hour/Marist Poll, show that the major- Iraqi air base, which houses US mili- in the region that Trump vowed to end Defense, since May 2019, the US has de- It has recently been revealed that on ity of Americans disapprove of Trump’s tary personnel. Fortunately, there were during his 2016 presidential campaign.

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BY KENNETH GUILLAUME The Hancock Center opened Florence, Italy and Dublin, Ireland Managing Editor in 2011. It was shortly followed branch campuses, the school Editor-in-Chief Chief of Graphic Design by the Fusco music hall, which is also deeply tapped into the TARA GUAIMANO SYDNEY KYSAR Seeing new state-of-the-art has recently been dedicated to local Hudson Valley community developments such as the The Frank and Nelly Fusco after a $2.5 through the FDR Presidential Steel Plant and the recently million gift. The music center was Library and the Marist Archive Managing Editor Graphic Designers renovated McCann facilities, as opened simultaneously with the Collections. KENNETH GEORGIA REIDY well as presidential changes, renovated dining hall in 2013. Out of 6 institutions to have a Marist experienced an era of Over the next few years, Marist partnership with a presidential GUILLAUME JANINE PULTORAK growth this past decade. expanded with a massive student library, Marist College hosts a In 2016, the Marist College living space development at the positive relationship with the campus’ north end, as well as the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential News Editor Marketing Director community welcomed in a new president after 36 years of college construction of the Allied Health library. With an extensive archival ALEXANDRIA WATTS BRIE COBA President Dennis Murray at the building across from the Steel collection at Marist College, all helm. Since being the Marist Plant Studios in Jan. 2016. of the FDR Presidential Library College President from 1979 to Massive campus redevelopments digital archives are hosted by Arts & Culture Editors Florence Bureau Chief 2016, Murray stepped down. The and constructions help bolster Marist along with a collaboration MAX SMITH SARAH LYNCH institution then welcomed new student engagement and website launched in 2016 that is MADISON ZOEY- President David Yellen. academic excellence as well fully hosted by Marist. Yellen, the fourth president as increasing the college’s VETTORINO Chief of Photography in Marist’s history, came from enrollment rate through the Athletics BENJAMIN WARD Loyola University of Chicago Law increased capacity at the north Marist College athletics end dormitory development. dominated the MAAC Opinions Editor School, where he had the role of dean and professor. Championships earning dozens MARIKA CYGERT Faculty Advisor Yellen’s tenure at Marist College Partnerships of championships and immense KATHLEEN MCNULTY was short lived. He resigned Growing the Marist and IBM student success. in summer 2019, welcoming Corporation research partnership In a retrospective release Features Editor Dennis Murray back as President has been instrumental in driving by Marist Athletics, Women’s GRACE MAEDA Center Field to finish out the decade as Marist the institutions technology Basketball, Softball, Men’s College President. development. This partnership Rowing, Women’s Swim and Editor-in-Chief has been around far before the Dive, Water Polo, Men’s Tennis, Creative Director WILL BJARNAR Campus Developments beginning of the last decade, but Baseball, Women’s Tennis, Men’s RAPHAEL BERETTA Murray and Yellen welcomed Marist has worked to grow that Lacrosse, Women’s Rowing, relationship over the last decade. Women’s Lacrosse and Women’s Center Field Deputy in a decade of campus evolution. The previous existing Steel Plant At the end of the decade, IBM Soccer saw MAAC rings in the last Director of Multimedia Editor-in-Chief underwent a 47,000 square foot took this partnership to the next decade of Marist sports. HANNAH KIRK LILY CAFFREY-LEVINE redevelopment to create the level, installing the world’s first Women’s Basketball, Men’s modern Steel Plant Studios. IBM LinuxONE III. Lacrosse and Women’s This redevelopment hopes to A Marist College news release Waterpolo saw NCAA victories “bolster the fashion, art, and from November 2019 titled, in the last decade with nearly a Marist Circle strives to present all information digital media programs in both Marist College Installs World’s dozen sports competing in the fairly & accurately. If we have made an error, quality and scope, attracting First IBM LinuxONE III™, boasted NCAA tournament. the technological advancement At the end of the decade Marist please contact us at: [email protected] a larger and more qualified candidate pool in related majors,” that this addition will give to the Athletics gathered 113 MAAC as stated in a Marist news release Marist community. “LinuxONE Championships, according to the from February 2019 titled is helping Marist close the retrospective released at the end Renovated Steel Plant is Unveiled. information technology (IT) of last year. CONTACT US Redevelopments and skills gap in the workplace by Marist College has grown construction have been no providing widespread access to immensely since the beginning [email protected] stranger to Marist throughout LinuxONE via a virtual computer of the decade, whether physically the decade. The college grew and lab environment.” with campus developments, maristcircle.com accommodated a wider range of While Marist has been academic and technological @maristcircle students and academics during growing internationally with advancements, and sports the time. the continued development of 5 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE FEATURES Hudson Valley on Forbes' best destinations list

BY MADISON ZOEY VETTORINO any person who visits, which makes it a Arts & Culture Editor must-see,” Milazzo said. “And while the Julie Iannuzzi, a Hudson Valley resident The Hudson Valley was recently originally from Fort Myers, Florida, air is fresher recognized by Forbes as being one of understands what makes the region so the 25 best places in the United States special. “In addition to being close to and things do to visit in 2020. According to the article, the best city in the world, the Hudson the recommendation to visit the region Valley has an overwhelming amount of move slower in was made by travel and food writer things to do, from hiking the beautiful Devorah Lev-Tov. Lev-Tov’s work has mountains to exploring the Hudson the mountains, previously appeared in distinguished Valley landmarks like Mohonk to art publications including Condé Nast museums and cultural and musical that doesn’t Traveler, the New York Times, and experiences like Shakespeare in the Travel + Leisure. The article, written Park,” she said. Her daughter, Emily mean nothing by Laura Begley Bloom, provides a Iannuzzi ‘20, agrees. variety of reasons a trip to the region “The Hudson Valley is packed with happens up is enjoyable, describing the Hudson amazing places and views and activities Valley as being “comprised of dozens of for those visiting on the weekends. As here - in fact, small, impossibly charming towns east long as you know what you want to do of the Hudson River. And while the air and where you want to go, this area is a quite the is fresher and things do move slower wonderful place to visit,” Iannuzzi said. in the mountains, that doesn’t mean With an array of activities to opposite is nothing happens up here ー in fact, quite offer visitors and charming towns the opposite is true.” galore, it’s obvious why the Hudson Hudson Valley locals — and Valley made Forbes’ list. “The Hudson true.” Marist students — have enjoyed what Valley is so special because you can do the region offers for years. Stephanie so many different things - you can get — Laura Begley Milazzo ‘20 grew up in Marlboro, NY, a workout in on the Walkway Over the located just across the Mid-Hudson Hudson, eat your way throughout the Bloom for Forbes Bridge from Marist College, and Valley, or simply wander through towns understands the appeal of the area. like Rhinebeck for cute shopping and “The Hudson Valley is often forgotten sightseeing. A day spent in the Hudson when people think of New York as just Valley is never boring,” Milazzo said. The peak at Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY in Jan. 2020. Forbes New York City. It offers something for recently named the Hudson Valley one of its top 25 US destinations for the upcoming year. Source: Tara Guaimano

Anthony Debarros ‘86 on Data Journalism

BY MAX SMITH Today, he became a database editor and of his process and he ended up shelving Arts & Culture Editor later became the senior database editor. the book for a year. When he shifted his In 2011, DeBarros started focus back onto the book, DeBarros was Anthony DeBarros ‘86 has working on one of his lifelong goals: able to interest the publisher No Starch been on the cutting edge of data in writing a book. “I knew that I’d always Press in publishing his book. “That is journalism throughout his career. He had a proclivity for teaching and when the world really tripled,” he said. got into the data surge very early on training,” said DeBarros, who had DeBarros worked on his book during in its rise, which gives him some of the taught as an adjunct professor at Marist any available time. He woke up early most experience in the field one can during his time with the Poughkeepsie before work to write, he would work find. It was this experience that has Journal. Before writing the book, he on the book after his job, and on the gotten him to where he is today: a data had a blog that he often used to explain weekends. “It consumed the next two editor for the Wall Street Journal. certain technology programs such as and a half years of my life,” he said. A Hudson Valley-native, DeBarros Excel. The published guides received DeBarros has had one of the attended Dutchess Community College longest careers in data journalism. for five semesters before deciding to He got in early, and it has paid off in transfer to Marist College for his final his career development. DeBarros four. While at Marist, DeBarros majored “SQL is a widely recalled going to a conference called in English, with a concentration in the “Computer Assisted Reporting writing. DeBarros wrote and edited used language Conference” while at the Poughkeepsie for the Marist Circle during his time on Journal. “I used to go to that annual campus. that has been conference and there might be 200-300 Originally, DeBarros wanted people,” he said. “Today, if you go to that to be a novelist, but found a different used since the 70s conference there’s probably 1500 or passion in the late 1980s. and isn’t going more.” DeBarros decided to buy a Today, DeBarros is a data editor personal computer in order to write a away anytime at the Wall Street Journal, where he novel but instead found himself falling works in the Washington D.C. office. in love with the computer itself. “I was soon.” His job consists of analyzing data for just naturally drawn to the technology,” stories on topics that can vary from said DeBarros. He realized that this great feedback and more traction than international trade,politics, jobs and newfound technology would be a many of his other posts. People found the economy. Recently, DeBarros has huge part of the future, and decided to the way DeBarros explained difficult worked on stories about the trade war pursue a Masters Degree in Information concepts very helpful. with China. Systems from Marist. DeBarros took This lead DeBarros to write DeBarros has advice for one night class per semester while “Practical SQL: A Beginner’s Guide to current college students who will working at The Poughkeepsie Journal Storytelling with Data.” “SQL is a widely soon be entering the workforce. “My in order to complete his Masters. used language that has been used since recommendation is to really think DeBarros was hired by the the 70s and isn’t going away anytime of your career as a marathon, not a Poughkeepsie Journal directly following soon,” he said. sprint,” he said. “If people approach his undergraduate tenure at Marist. He DeBarros’ many years working in their career as a process of building... worked at the Journal for 11 years, from data analytics have led to his expertise then after 3-5 years, you will see an 1986-1997, where he worked his way in SQL, so he decided to write a book as amazing progression and you will be up to eventually become the editor of a “how-to” guide about the language. “I in places you probably would not have the Life section of the newspaper. thought to myself, what’s something I envisioned right out of the gate.” Alum Anthony DeBarros ‘86 currently works as a data editor for the Wall From there, he moved on to USA know really well, and SQL stuck out to Street Journal. Source: Marist College Today, where he worked for 15 years me,” he said. from 1997-2012. It was at this point he It took DeBarros a few years started to focus on linking the worlds of to write the first nine chapters of the data analytics and journalism. At USA book. At that point, life got in the way 6 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE OPINION A Most Unserious Impeachment

BY JOSEPH PERROTTA unseriousness which has characterized is to defend the Constitution from Staff Writer the behavior of both Democrats Presidential abuse, which the second As I write these words, Speaker of and Republicans has left me feeling article of impeachment itself claims, the House Nancy Pelosi has dispatched alienated from the process. then surely all of these infractions a phalanx of impeachment managers to All things being equal, it is my view are more worthy of punishment than hand deliver articles of impeachment that President Trump’s actions here are Ukraine-gate. against President Trump to the United impeachable. As far as I can tell, he held In my view, the House should hesitate States Senate. Amazingly, Adam Schiff up congressionally authorized military to impeach a president if there is no and Jerry Nadler were two of those aide which was earmarked for Ukraine, chance of removal by the Senate. In this managers. an ally whose security is dependent on case, unless new evidence against the This is a very somber occurrence, its ability to push back against Russian Trump administration emerges, there at least that’s what Nancy Pelosi keeps bellicosity. He did this not to achieve is exactly no chance that two-thirds of telling us. Then again, the members of a foreign policy objective, but to force the Senate will vote to convict President her caucus began to cheer when she that ally to announce an investigation Trump of impeachment based on either announced the vote tally for the first into a domestic political opponent; not of these articles. House Democrats article, and were only reminded of how to actually open an investigation, mind know this. Had they tried to censure somber and serious the situation was you, but just to announce one. President Trump for his actions, they when she shushed them. However, if I were a member of the would have had mine and likely several I know I should feel strongly House, I would not have voted for either Republican representative’s support. about the impeachment of a president, of these articles of impeachment. Instead, driven by their thirst for but I don’t. Indeed, this impeachment This transgression by President Trump power and hatred of the President, they effort strikes me as ridiculous, as do its is not the worse case of presidential have pressed forward with an ill fated opponents. misconduct in recent history. Former impeachment attempt and, in so doing, Congressional Republicans and the President Obama ignored federal further divided this country and wasted White House insist that there was immigration law and the Constitution all of our time. nothing wrong with the President’s when he instituted his DACA program House Republicans know what the phone call with Ukrainian President per his own words, and, even worse, President did was wrong, and should Zelensky and that there was no quid ordered drone strikes on three have condemned him for doing it. pro quo. Although that may be true, American citizens in Yemen without Instead, they have rallied to his the phone call was far from perfect. due process. Former President Bush defense, further demonstrating that an Further, I am yet to hear a convincing signed McCain-Feingold, a campaign unsettling number of them are morally explanation of why Rudy Gulliani was finance law which he admitted may bankrupt and unfit for office. running around Eastern Europe acting be unconstitutional during his signing Members of both parties have as an unofficial presidential emissary statement. Former President Clinton demonstrated that they are who does not involve corrupt and undoubtedly perjured himself and irresponsible and unworthy stewarts deeply immoral motivations. obstructed justice during the Lewinski of the authority delegated to them by I am a Trump-skeptical Republican. affair. us, the people whom they serve. This I did not vote for him in 2016, and I We are going to impeach and remove impeachment effort deserves neither am unlikely to vote for him in 2020. I a president from office for the first our support nor our attention, and ditto was, therefore, convincible at the start time in the history of our republic over for the Representatives who have put of this impeachment. However, the this? If the purpose of impeachment us here. Source: Google Images Tik tok's "ok boomer" needs to end with 2019 Persisting anger between generations

floating around the Internet for years, Boomer” to worsen the deep divide in solely on their age is unequivocally “OK Boomer” spread in popularity on our nation. This scornful phrase not ageism and adds another mounting the social media app TikTok, which only downplays their argument but also stressor on top of many. According to targets Gen Z through lip syncing, meme the website SeniorLiving.org, one in sharing, dance performances and more. four elderly people will fall in any given TikTok warmly adopted the term year, which often leads to serious injury “OK Boomer” and since then, its content and death. Approximately 75 percent creators have made short videos in “OK Boomer’ have more than one chronic illness. And which they use the epithet unabashedly unfortunately, we are all too familiar and scornfully, mock the elderly they spread in with winter stories of older citizens deem to have “boomer” status, express unable to afford fuel to warm their frustration about comments of their popularity homes. Clearly, they have enough to appearance from seniors and more. worry about. One user pretended to terminate life on the social The point of this article, if support from his grandfather by pulling misunderstood, is not to bash TikTok the plug. Plenty of compilations on media app nor victimize seniors — they often fuel YouTube show the generational warfare the flames too. TikTok is an outlet for unraveling in front of its viewers. young people to express their creativity, Even before “OK Boomer” TikTok, which collaborate with others and give exploded with popularity, the stresses of humorous relief to its viewers. Even generational tension were conspicuous targets Gen though bitter and splenetic seniors that (of course, previous generations openly judge youth’s appearance exist, historically regard the newer ones Z through lip the “OK Boomer” petty name-calling unfavorably). The arguments amongst will only serve to harm both sides in the Millennials and Baby Boomers have syncing, meme future. Working to fix imminent issues continued for years on end. Now, does not begin with harassment nor bolstered by the passion and youthful sharing, dance belittlement. Although it’s important vigor of 16-year-old climate activist to be honest about emotions, blindly Source: Google Images Greta Thunberg, Generation Z is performances unleashing anger against a whole BY ADRIEN D’APRILE used the term against a colleague last expressing discontent at the looming generation does nothing productive for Contributor November, the media began to focus on threats of climate change, along with and more.” anyone. In the digital age, you’ve likely more than just “OK Boomer.” rising costs of college education and On Jul. 25, 2016, former First already heard this expression on social This retort is taking on a larger financial inequality. Going into 2020, Lady Michelle Obama addressed the media or amongst friends. “OK Boomer” meaning — it demonstrates the they appear more energized and active weakens their credibility. The elderly nation when she confidently said, is a phrase most often used by younger generational disconnect between Baby than ever before. do not need to be harassed and accosted “When they go low, we go high.” It’s time people to express discontent and Boomers and Gen Z, the group of people The passion nor the by young adults; they need comfort, for Gen Z and others to follow suit, take frustration at older generations. After born after World War II to the early political opinions of a large swath of assistance and reassurance in the face the high road, and give up “OK Boomer.” a New Zealand Member of Parliament sixties versus those born around the Gen Z is not what I take issue with here. of a bleak, depressing and often lonely mid-nineties to the early 2000s. Despite I challenge how people are using “OK world. Debasing their opinions based 12 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019 CENTERFIELDMARIST.COM MARIST CIRCLE Opportunities shape the future of our fast-growing publication. explore our spring openings: business writer Sga beat writer assistant marketing director

contact us at [email protected] 8 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE OPINION Sleighing to the Iowa Caucus BY LOUIS HIGUERA Staff Writer to go after them aggressively, in fear of movement. According to polls, Sanders losing potential supporters in a second also boasts the highest net favorability With only two weeks to go round. of any Democratic candidate, the most before the Iowa Caucus, the Democratic Although Sanders was able to enthusiastic supporters, the most Primary is still very much up for grabs. call Biden out on his role in pushing support from independents, young, Although it increasingly looks to be for the Iraq War, the most notable, Latinx and working class voters. In my a two-way race between former Vice and yet, least substantive exchange mind, after already showing that he can President Joe Biden and Vermont on the debate stage, came between win the Rust Belt states in 2016, which Senator Bernie Sanders, there is still Sanders and Warren. Two days prior cost Clinton the election, Sanders’ hope for Sen. Elizabeth Warren and to the debate, CNN dropped a story diverse coalition is ready and able to Mayor Pete Buttigieg. If one of them that came out of the Warren camp, beat Donald Trump in the 2020 general can beat out both frontrunners in Iowa alleging that Sanders told her in a one- election. and/or New Hampshire, the tides will on-one meeting in 2018 that a woman This is not to discount the other certainly shift. This could also be to the could not win the presidency. If that candidates in the race, who I believe can advantage of Biden, who can capitalize sounds ludicrous to you, it should. oust the most dangerous and corrupt on a weaker than expected Sanders Sanders is on camera saying a woman president in the modern history of the showing, which would bode well for could be president in the late 1980s, United States. That is to say, if and when the former Vice President on Super when most of this country thought that the Senate chooses to acquit President Tuesday in March. was inconceivable and when Warren Trump in the impeachment trial that is After the last debate before Iowa, was still a Republican. Sanders even now officially underway. most people expected candidates to encouraged Warren to run for president Biden and other more moderate come out swinging, but that did not in 2016 and only jumped into that race candidates are attractive to voters really come to fruition. Candidates when she refused to do so. Three weeks because they offer a return to normalcy seemed to play it safe in fear of looking out from the Iowa Caucus and polls and a continuation of Obama’s legacy divisive, which has hurt candidates in showing Sanders’ increasing support, that was dramatically undercut by the the past like Julian Castro and Kamala this cheap shot on her strongest ally in Trump administration. On the other Harris, who both went after Biden the race, reeked of desperation. hand, Bernie is offering a movement on the debate stage and have since Sanders is well positioned to win by and for the working class by dropped out. Iowa and New Hampshire, which could promising to eliminate depressive It should also be noted that because catapult him to a win in Nevada and a student and medical debt, raising the of the format of a caucus in Iowa, close race with Biden in South Carolina. federal minimum wage to $15/hr, candidates do not want to alienate Sanders raised over $34.5 million in bringing us up to the standard of many other candidates’ supporters. The the last three months of 2019, beating industrialized countries by offering nature of a caucus means that without out the next highest candidate, Pete universal healthcare and free public 15 percent support, Iowans would Source: The Des Moines Register Buttigieg, by almost $10 million. college, and of course, a Green New have to commit to a second choice. For Not only does Sanders have the Deal that properly addresses the threat example, since Sanders is the second war chest to compete in every state, of climate change and transforms our choice for the majority of Biden and supplied solely by small-dollar donors, economy and infrastructure to be well- Warren supporters, he would not want he also has the largest grass-roots positioned for a carbon-free future. WHO SHOULD PAY FOR THE FIRST DATE?

Fast forward to 2020. Despite gender equality. the persisting gender pay gap, women What about LGBTQ+ dating? can make enough money to spend According to research conducted on dates. We are puzzled regarding with LGBTQ+ singles by Match. the manner to deal with this reality. com, 62 percent claim that whoever 46% According to a Refinery29 poll of 656 initiated the date should pay, while felt guilty when they didn’t pay Millennial women, 59 percent agreed the remaining 44 percent play it safe that a man should always offer to pay and split the bill. Either way, dating for the first date, while 48 percent has changed. People feel that there said they would allow their date pay needs to be a rule to follow, but we for them if offered. One respondent are not going to get one. Instead, of women say they would let their said, “It’s not about gender or it is important for each person 48% politics, it’s about appreciation and to create the rules for their own love languages.” A lot of women use circumstances. date pay the bill as the signifier that a man is Here are a few options & tips interested in them. Approximately 59 on paying for a date: percent of women feel appreciated Always be prepared! Make sure to go when their date pays. One woman somewhere both parties can afford. commented, “If we split the bill, it’s If you know you want to pay for a felt that picking up the tab shows like, what are we, buddies?” It makes date, say something beforehand! 55% sense that women are looking to be That way the person you are treating they aren’t taking advantage treated. It confirms that it is a date is prepared. and that the payer is interested. A Regarding a person someone is 26-year-old man said, “I feel like I’m dating consistently, I go back and getting friend-zoned if a girl pays for forth on splitting the bill and paying BY ARIANA GIORDANO free to come visit the desired woman wherever and with whomever they the date.” every other date. That way you Sex & Love Columnist during the hours established by her chose, but they barely made enough On the contrary, another get the best of both worlds: the parents. It was traditional, private, money to eat, let alone spend on woman brought up expectations. equalness of splitting the bill, and Picture this: You are on a and relied heavily on social and recreational purposes. She said, “I don’t like men to pay for being able to treat (and get treated) first date that is going insanely well. financial status. Weigel found that, “the belief me, as I am afraid they will feel that I every once in a while! The person sitting across from you According to Moira Weigel, remained widespread they were ‘owe’ them something in return (sex, Most importantly, proves to be even hotter than their author of Labor of Love: The working not to support themselves another date, etc.).” communication is key! Whether it Tinder™ profile and somehow shares Invention of Dating, “The word but only to supplement the earnings Even though 48 percent of pertains to money or a preference for your sense of humor. After finishing ‘date’ first appeared in print in the of fathers or husbands. Employers women say they would let their date splitting the bill, we have to be open your meal, the check arrives. Now sense that we now use it in 1896. A used this misconception as an excuse pay for them, 46 percent felt guilty about what we want. what? writer named George Ade dropped to pay women far less than they paid when they didn’t pay and 55 percent There’s a lot of pressure and Several shifts have affected it in a weekly column that he wrote men. In 1900, the average female felt that picking up the tab shows confusion around paying for the first our society’s dating culture and for The Chicago Record. The column worker earned less than half of their date that they’re not taking date. I think it’s about time paying for many of them are associated with the was called ‘Stories of the Streets and what a man would earn in the same advantage of them. a date evolved from being something change in gender roles. So where did Town.’ It promised to give his middle- position.” When I asked a 24-year-old that is required to an act of attraction, dating originate, and why were men class readers a glimpse into how the Simultaneously, thousands of man about paying for dates, he flirtation and goodwill. If we change expected to pay? working class lived.” date destinations were being opened brought up that he likes to “flex” our view of why someone pays, it Before dating, there was an act As middle-class families across America, including penny and show that he can pay. It gives will shift our opinions and choices that the middle-class referred to as continued to meet and marry arcades, restaurants, dance halls, him confidence, but he does not around it. “calling.” A “gentleman caller” would through courtship, some women amusement parks, etc. The only way feel weird when a date pays for him. go to a family’s home and hope to be began to migrate to big cities and a woman could experience going out Other men view always paying on the Email your questions and mattters of welcomed into their parlor. If he was obtain jobs of their own, granting a on the town was if a man paid for the first date as an unfair expectation, the heart to our Sex & Love columnist invited to come back, he would be sense of freedom. They could go out date. especially in the age of aspirational at [email protected]. 9 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE ARTS & CULTURE Albums You Might Have Missed in 2019 BY MATTHEW MORASKI they have affected him overtime, Kevin Abstract is not unfamiliar Contributor especially in his childhood. This with being, well, abstract. As idea is especially showcased in a member of the rap group ARIZONA BABY - Kevin Abstract the song “Corpus Christi” where BROCKHAMPTON, he is used to Kevin Abstract drives into his Kevin tackles being ridiculed by his being creative and diverse with his creativity and emotions to create family and friends. and the group’s music. His music an enlightening piece of art. Songs like “Crumble” and is not the type of music that you When first introduced to this “Peach” showcase Kevin’s ability to would traditionally hear when album, I was nearly speechless. conceptualize his emotions and use listening to the hip-hop genre, it in Kevin Abstract’s third studio album them to fuel his lyrical creativity. itself, is its own genre. Through his ARIZONA BABY is an immaculate Whatever Kevin is feeling, whether in-depth lyrics and massive music and heartfelt album that includes it is anger, happiness, or love, he production Kevin has been better crisp sound production and can make the listeners feel the able to distinguish his voice as a intricate lyricism. same. solo artist rather than a member of The album displays a new sense The album’s conceptual BROCKHAMPTON. of what it means to be raw and real. production allows the record to FOTO - Kota The Friend Throughout the album, Kevin talks be the perfect example of a unique You may have never heard of about problems he has had to face piece of art. It is musically and Kota the Friend; however, after such as his sexuality, individualism, lyrically different while drifting off listening to this album, you will and love. He allows us to dive into of the sounds of other artists like become a part of his family. these problems and listen to how Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey. Brooklyn raised rapper Kota the Friend may not be very well known in the hip-hop world. However, this does not mean he is not on the rise. Kota’s debut studio album FOTO is a silent success. Although Kota has released many projects in years past with songs and projects Photo courtesy of Google that consist of a young rapper just trying to get their foot in the door. words for ‘photo’, listeners can create an immersive experience for This time around, Kota has found understand that this album is more the listener which allows them to his voice and used what he has than just music; it is an experience. be apart of this everyday life. learned to create an immaculate FOTO indulges listeners into soft Kota goes above and beyond to masterpiece. but strongly worded lyrics while make the listeners feel as if they FOTO is a conceptual album. creating a type of coffee house jazz are with him in his family home. Although it is not as in-depth as beat. Kota takes influence from 80’s Right off of the first track of the albums like Channel Orange by jazz and old soul R&B and applies it album,“Full Bloom” we hear an Frank Ocean or The Incredible to his music. Songs like “Alkaline” older man talking to, what we can True Story by Logic, it is still a and “Chicago Diner” allow Kota assume to be Kota, about how his conceptual album. It is not just a to showcase not only his lyrical home is changing and how he has bunch of songs put into a record ability but the sense of pride he to embrace it while he still can. To without any storyline or context, takes in his work. As Kota stated, he further accommodate the listeners it is much more than that. In an wants the listeners to feel as if they being a part of Kota’s family, the interview with HxppyThxxghts, are sifting through the different interludes throughout the album Kota states, “I want people to feel photos of his life. Kota takes this paint a sense in which different like they’re flipping through the idea and applies it to his music in family members of Kota’s talk about pages of my life. I’m snapping vivid a very unique and creative way. their memories with one another. pictures with the lyrics.” With the You can hear throughout the album Rather than fake the sound of it all, album title, FOTO, being a play on kids playing or birds chirping in the interludes are more than just Photo courtesy of Google the background. Kota does this to music, they are Kota’s photos. The 5 Artists Who Defined Rap in the 2010s Future truly started to break out rapper had throughout the decade. and Lil Keed. run without bounds, creating one BY MAX SMITH Arts & Culture Editor following his revered 2014 mixtape In 2015 alone, Future dropped his On any day, half of the Rap Caviar of the best albums of the year. Monster. Monster went places no most successful album Dirty Sprite playlist is in some way inspired by What makes Young Thug special Drake one had been before. It is filled with 2, 56 Nights, and What a Time to Be Young Thug. is the way he uses his voice as When Drake burst onto the scene melancholy anthems that helped to Alive, three of his most successful Young Thug’s growth as an artist an instrument. It can be hard to in 2009 with “Best I Ever Had” he make the rap star seem human. This projects. Dirty Sprite 2 is loaded has been something to behold. With understand at times, but more was still just a kid who had yet to is what has kept Future so relevant with trap bangers like “Where Ya every project, his creativity has often than not creates beautiful find his voice. 11 years later, he has the past ten years. His relatability At” that vaulted him into stardom. developed exceptionally. Thug has music. It often creates for a fun, cemented his place among rap’s is unmatched. While many of It’s hard to recount the decade owned the second half of the 2010s, care-free vibe, which is what elite. Over the past 10 years, Drake today’s rappers fill their lyrics with without mentioning Future and his dropping Barter 6, Slime Season 3, makes his style so attractive and so has never fully committed to a braggadocious bars, Future keeps revolutionary take on the genre. JEFFERY, Beautiful Thugger Girls, tempting to emulate. genre. He has toed the line between it real and shows us how much he Young Thug Slime Language and So Much Fun Kendrick Lamar pop and rap for his entire career, struggles with his fame and this is The amount of influence Young all in the past five years. Each album Kendrick Lamar has been the which is extremely hard to perfect. most clear on Monster. Thug has in today’s rap culture is built on something the previous premier lyrical artist of the decade. However, Drake has remained Future proved he had what it immense. His proteges are some of had started, culminating in his best The topics that he touches on and excellent in both categories, which takes to become a mainstream rap’s biggest stars: Gunna, Lil Baby, project yet: So Much Fun. On the how beautifully he portrays these is why he makes this list. artist in 2015, the best year any Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Durk, 2019 album, he lets his creativity topics has been something to There is no one quite like Drake behold. and I’m not sure if there ever will Lamar produced three of the be. He is someone that can make a greatest albums of the decade in song like “Controlla”, a vibey, dance good kid, m.A.A.d city, To Pimp hall type track and put it on the a Butterfly, and DAMN. In each same album as “Still Here”, a hard- of these projects, Lamar found hitting, 808-heavy track. a way to deliver thoughtful bars Drake is currently one track while also landing himself on the away from tying the record for Billboard charts with multiple top most Billboard Hot 100 entries, 10 hits, something that doesn’t a record he will surely break in happen all too often nowadays. 2020. At this point, almost any The true impact that Kendrick track Drake drops is bound for the Lamar has had on American youth Hot 100, which only a few artists is expansive. In any one of his can say. Drake has accomplished songs, he is speaking to someone everything there is to accomplish who is going through exactly what in the music industry in only one he had gone through at one point. decade of work. All of his music is so personal and Future meaningful that it makes you feel Future redefined trap music like you are a part of his world. in the 2010s with his seven solo albums and 16 mixtapes. At times, it was quantity over quality, but READ MORE AT Future’s success throughout the MARISTCIRCLE.COM decade is immeasurable. Photo courtesy of Apple Music 10 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE ARTS & CULTURE No Women Make the Cut for Best Director at Oscars

BY GRACE MAEDA for Best Director. Hurt Locker, Lina Wertmuller for Academy has been under criticism diversify its team of voters Features Editor The contenders for the category Seven Beauties, Jane Campion for for having disproportionate white after much criticism, such as are Bong Joon-ho for Parasite, Sam The Piano and Sofia Coppola for male nominees and winners. Boon the #OscarsSoWhite campaign. For the second consecutive Mendes for 1917, Todd Phillips Lost in Translation. Bigelow was Joon is the only nonwhite director According to Time Magazine, since year, no females are among the for Joker, Martin Scorsese for The the first and only female to win the nominated. If Wang had been 2017 the Academy has invited Oscar nominees for Best Director. Irishman and Quentin Tarantino for Oscar in 2010. nominated for The Farewell, she more than 2,000 new members. The Academy once again excludes Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood. This year Little Women received would have been the first female of With the new additions, 32 percent women from the running despite a In 2018, Natalie Portman took six nominations, including Best Asian descent to be nominated for of the Academy’s members are standout year for female-directed a similar jab at the Hollywood Picture, Design, Score, Actress in Best Director. now women, an increase from films. Foreign Press Association for their a Leading Role and Actress in a Critics also believe Jennifer 25 percent in 2015 and now 16 Many fans expected to see exclusion of female directors. She Supporting Role. However, Greta Lopez was snubbed from receiving percent of members are people Greta Gerwig nominated for Little announced, “Here are the all- Gerwig was not recognized for an Oscar nomination for her of color, up from eight percent in Women and Lulu Wang for The male nominees” for director. At her role as director. If she had work in Hustlers. Lopez going 2015. Farewell, along with other possible the Golden Globes the same year, been nominated for Best Director, unrecognized is discouraging Critics and movie fans are still not nominees: Marielle Heller for A female directors continued to go Gerwig would have become the for the Latinx community and seeing women and people of color Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, unrecognized. Following Portman’s first woman nominated twice for demonstrates there is still a being recognized for their work. Melina Matsoukas for Queen & Slim remark, the Academy nominated the category. lack of diversity for acclaimed The lack of roles and opportunities and Lorene Scafaria for Hustlers. Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird. In recent years, both the Hollywood movies. Lopez was the is a problem that continues to be The Oscar nominations were In the last 10 years, there Academy Awards and Hollywood only Latinx with a strong chance discussed. However, the Academy revealed on Jan. 13 by Issa Rae and has only been one female Oscar have been attacked for their lack of an Oscar nomination this year. shys away from celebrating those costar John Cho of the television nominee for Best Director and it of diversity. In 2016, no actors of The last American Latinx actress who have broken through the series Insecure. Rae highlighted was Gerwig for Lady Bird in 2018. color were nominated for Best to be nominated for an award by white male barrier in Hollywood. the lack of diversity and showed In the Academy’s 92-year run, Leading or Supporting Actor at the Academy was Rosie Perez in her disapproval as she added, Gerwig and only four other women the Oscars. Many actors boycotted 1994, for Best Supporting Actress “Congratulations to those men,” have ever been nominated for Best the awards show and the hashtag in Fearless. after presenting the nominations Director: Kathryn Bigelow for The #OscarsSoWhite went viral. The The Academy has tried to Four Films Every Marist Student Should See

BY RAPHAEL BERETTA, WILL Marist students to see. Many of BJARNAR, & MAX SMITH us are the same and do not often get to look into the lives of others Parasite in different situations. Parasite Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, creates an incredibly unique world Parasite, explores the depths of that paints a stunning picture of class struggles within Korean the dichotomy of the lower and society. The rollercoaster of a ride upper classes. he takes us on makes for one of the There is a reason why Parasite best films of the year. could very well be the first foreign The story follows two families, film to win Best Picture at the the Kim family, who lives on the Academy Awards this March: the bottom rung of society. They make same issues are relevant in each ends meet by doing odd jobs like and every nation across the globe. folding pizza boxes for nearby Parasite isn’t unique to South establishments. We also follow the Korea. The same relationship Park family, who are members of between the upper and lower class the upper class and live with all of exists everywhere and no one has the benefits that wealth brings. done a better job at exploring that The two families intertwine idea than Bong Joon-ho here. when Ki-woo of the Kim family, Jojo Rabbit poses as an english tutor for Da- Director Taika Waititi said in hye, the daughter of the Park family. an episode of the Director’s Cut Ki-woo gains the entire family’s podcast that this movie shouldn’t trust and eventually gets his sister, Need to exist. While I agree Ki-jeong a job as an art tutor for the with him, I am sure glad that it Park’s son, Da-song. Eventually, all does. With all the whimsy of Wes four members of the Kim family Anderson, Waititi weaves comedy Photo courtesy of Apple Music have jobs in the Park household, out of untouchable subjects with hiding in his attic. produce in the wake of Nazi- gentle people there,” sings Michael but the Park’s do not know that an impact not felt since Chaplin’s Jojo Rabbit tells of the obsessed neo-fascism and white Marshall of “I Got 5 On It” fame. they are all related or what they The Great Dictator. importance of true ‘Heroes’ (using supremacy. This film on an emotional level come from. From this point, the Misguided nationalism and a German-language version of the The Last Black Man in San communicates the experiences of film absolutely flies off the handle ‘blind fanaticism’ plague the film’s Bowie song in the soundtrack) and Francisco the people we might be betraying. with an absolutely masterful and titular character, a 10-year-old the inevitable victory of love over Joe Talbot’s poetic world Currently streaming on Amazon unique script produced by Bong member of the Hitler youth. In the hate in obvious and unexpected features soothsayers, Greek Prime. Joon-ho. absence of a father, he turns to an ways. Playfully-fun and scathing choruses, mutated fish, Victorian The Lighthouse Parasite is an important movie imaginary version of the Fürher in its satire, Waititi’s film is the homes of mythic proportions and In your roommate-having for anyone to see, but I think it (played by Waititi) for a role model absolute zenith of what the half- the best longboarding scenes put experience, have you experienced would be a very impactful film for as he confronts the Jewish girl Jewish half-Moari director could to film. A24-produced and Talbot- any of the following? directed, the folktale reality of The - Witnessed your roommate beat Last Black Man in San Francisco a small animal/seabird to death, depicts the effects of gentrification therefore causing a blight of bad in fresh ways. luck? The writer and star of the film - Found him/her standing nude Jimmie Fails plays a fictional atop a building, as an enchanting version of himself, determined to light hypnotizes them? reclaim his childhood home. His - Found/heard him/her friend Mont (Jonathan Majors) conspicuously masturbating to the struggles with rectifying his concept of a sensual mermaid? identity; at once both a part of - Had your roommate tear into the invading art community that you for wanting a steak over his/ forms around gentrified areas and her less-than-delectable lobster belonging to the same minority and chum dinners? group that is pushed out. - And the cherry on top: told Last Black Man shows a parallel you that you smelled of “rotten world to a place like Williamsburgh foreskin,” among other horrid or Beacon, and a potential future stenches? Poughkeepsie. A place can never Well, you’re not alone. turn on the people that developed its culture and stuck through the hard times in favor of new READ MORE AT investors. “If you’re going to San MARISTCIRCLE.COM Francisco, Photo courtesy of Google you are going to meet some 11 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM MARIST CIRCLE ARTS & CULTURE The 5 Best Films of 2019 BY WILL BJARNAR an ending unfolds. Center Field Editor-in-Chief Hell, each moment and shot packs an emotional wallop. 5. The Souvenir Brilliance extends beyond “We don’t know what the inner luxury here, though, as you all-but- machinations of their mind are, immediately form a connection or their heart,” Anthony (Tom with the film and its characters. Burke) says during Joanna Hogg’s You’ll never want to look away. wondrous The Souvenir. “We don’t 1. Waves know. But that’s what we want Calling your film Waves is as to know when we go and see a genuine as you can be if you’re film. We don’t want to just see life Trey Edward Shults and your third played out as is. We want to see feature film – and undoubtedly life as it is experienced, within this most personal – is everything that soft machine.” It’s a thought that Waves is, has everything that it has. could easily apply to plenty of films Shults’s first two films, Krisha and on this list but feels all the more It Comes at Night, were so unique pertinent when said here. and varied in scope that they were Hogg’s somewhat criminally underseen and missed autobiographical account of a elementally by many of those who young film student, Julie (Honor actually did see them. Swinton Byrne), weaving through Waves is a rare film in its the wake and life of a crushing distinctive touch and unresolved and passionate relationship from Photo courtesy of Google air, even though it’s easily the most long ago is as intimate as any film Lee Jones) as a way to tackle our 3. Little Women though, is uninterested in the idea universal of the three. It’s a film released this year. Unfolding, as inabilities to connect with our How is a debut filmmaker of a word for word adaptation. about the ebb and flow of family David Ehrlich put it, “like someone own. He’s evidently perplexed by supposed to follow up on the We have the same original life; it’s a film about being better to desperately trying to thread our strained attentions and our genius and originality that Lady story aided by some original, one another; at its core, it’s a film together the logic of a dream they doomed futures as a result and uses Bird possessed? By adapting a contemporary ideas from the about suffering and finding solace, once had,” Hogg approaches her a design that multiplex frequenters 150-year-old classic novel to film, writer-director, a budding force in even as it feels so ineradicably far own story with darkness and are interested in to explore such of course, though Greta Gerwig’s cinema that promises to deliver out of our reach. truth only made possible when a conundrums. approach isn’t completely faithful time and again, no matter whether The story of the Williams family filmmaker tackles their own life. The film’s tagline reads, “the to its source. But leave it to Gerwig or not the project is “original.” Her reeling in the wake of tragedy – As the credits rolled at my answers we seek are just outside and a perfect cast (Saoirse Ronan, version of Little Women might just Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, screening in June, not a creature our reach.” It’s a nuanced, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, be more timeless and tangible than and Sterling K. Brown give three of was stirring, nor was there a dry ambiguous phrase that I think we Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Laura the novel itself. the year’s best performances – isn’t eye in the house. grapple with far more often than Dern, Chris Cooper, and Meryl 2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire just resonant in its universality. 4. Ad Astra we care to expose. Where do we Streep, among others) to reinvent Set on a French island in the 18th It’s the film’s strained love and If I could respect James Gray turn in the face of certain mystery? and revitalize one of our most well- century, Céline Sciamma’s romance regard for its characters and for more as a filmmaker than I already These are psychological theories known, widely adored tales in her is a restrained and luscious tale of people; the pain at its core; the did following 2017’s brilliant far beyond my pay-grade. But own, magical way. forbidden love that is anything but wounded beauty it radiates. though underrated The Lost City of Gray and crew do something here She takes moments that are mere aesthetics. A painter (Noémie Though I’ve seen Waves twice Z, such a level of respect has since that scratches the surface of the faithful to the novel and its Merlant) and her subject (Adèle and written about it once, I find been handily achieved. previously unscratched. characters and constructs them Haenel) are drawn together with more and more to say with every He uses the idea of a lauded The conundrum at the center in a way that sees them unfold an obvious endgame: once the day. astronaut (Brad Pitt in his best of his tale is exactly what spurs it in parallel time, though different portrait of the soon-to-be-married performance this year, even though into the immediate canon of classic times in the March sisters’ lives. Héloïse is finished, so is their READ MORE AT it might be considered a mite and intimate film. It’s near-perfect Her liberties help the story, frankly, connection. But with time forms understated) being sent off on a cinema, the kind that isn’t made not that the book is regarded an irreversible bond, one that will MARISTCIRCLE.COM journey to find his estranged and anymore, yet can only be made as something needing a drastic resonant with viewers for months possibly deranged father (Tommy today. number of alterations. Gerwig, after the film’s emotional wallop of The Golden Globes and the Hypocrisy of Hollywood BY NICOLE IUZZOLINO sweatshops in China.” perfecting the signature Apple logo as well as 14 confirmed deaths of work with the Apple streaming Staff Writer The stars sitting below the on the back of the devices during sweatshop workers. service stage chuckled while exchanging their 12 hour work shifts. Many workers have even stated The English comedian continued awkward glances, as if not q u i t e China Labor Watch, a non- that the environments are not with the dig, stating that Hollywood The 77th Golden Globes Award sure how to handle being called profit organization, have accused a good place for human beings. actors today consider themselves ceremony has come and gone, out. Apple of cutting corners and have But even still, it seems that these to be ‘woke’ or alert to injustices as well as Ricky Gervais’s fifth Yet, it is the truth, and something been continually investigating horrors are pushed under the in society, yet would call up their and final time hosting the show. that ‘woke’ Hollywood should be the complaints provided by the rug while Apple continues to sell agent for any role these companies Gervais, an English comedian, was concerned about. The staff at these workers regarding exposure to millions of iPhones with every had to offer. He jokingly questioned, originally done with hosting the Chinese sweatshop factories are toxic chemicals, forced labor, and new launch, and celebrities such “If ISIS started a streaming show after his fourth time, yet he paid as little as a $1.12 an hour for verbal abuse. In 2010 there have as Jennifer Anniston and Reese service, you’d call your agent, stated that the show organizers, wiping down phone screens and been 18 reported suicide attempts Whitherspoon will continue to wouldn’t you?” He concluded his “...made an offer that I could not monologue with telling everyone refuse.” in the audience to forget about the With Ricky Gervais hosting the political acceptance speech, and award show, Hollywood had to to not lecture the public, as they, prepare themselves for some off “...know nothing about the real color jokes, all targeted at the stars world.” attending and their celebrity peers. Unsurprisingly, Ricky Gervais 2020 was no different when it came received backlash from critics for to Gervais’s edgy humor, where using the stage for, “right-wing he took on the Hollywood elite talking points” and criticizing once again sitting in front of him. celebrities for, “trying to use their Gervais’s targeted Felicity Huffman influence to change things for and the college scandal, as well as the better.” There have also been compared Joe Pesci to baby Yoda. a stream of supporters as well Jokes aside, the theme of the eight such as Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld minute monologue seemed to be who congratulated Gervais for all about Hollywood hypocrisy, and saying everything about the, “self- really took a dig at the streaming obsessed pile of pulsating flesh services we all love to use. known as Hollywood.” 2019 was the year of streaming It was no surprise that this services, with Disney Plus, Amazon speech would turn into a political Prime, Netflix, Hulu, and of course frenzy for both parties, but the idea Apple TV Plus, which Gervais of ‘woke’ Hollywood is also up for highlighted in his monologue. debate. Are they really as ‘woke’ “Apple roared into the TV game as they claim to be, or are they with The Morning Show… a superb following wherever the paycheck drama about the importance of comes from? dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs Photo courtesy of Google 12 • INSPIRING STUDENT VOICES EST. 1941 POUGHKEEPSIE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 MARISTCIRCLE.COM

Pouring Fuel on the Fire: Turner and Hines Dismissed from Men’s Basketball

BY WILL BJARNAR Neither Dunne nor school starting in seven of nine games this He noted that the team’s spirit exciting fashion. Michael Cubbage Center Field Editor-in-Chief officials could offer any further season — was averaging 9.1 points “has been good, even through the sank a game-winning layup to beat information at this time. Assistant per game, good for third best on losses.” The biggest test for any VMI. 1-0. What a feeling. Since then, This piece was originally Athletic Director and Sports the team. He also averaged 2.3 spirit, however reportedly positive, they’ve lost ten. No longer can you published on Jan. 5 in response to Information Director Mike Ferraro rebounds and registered 10 total is responding to controversy call this inexperience, nor growing the breaking news regarding the doubled down. He explained that steals. and loss, no matter if it comes pains. It’s merely an extension of players’ dismissal. the team will remain consistent Hines lived on the flip side of that in the form of a single game or a the Red Foxes of old. At 1-10, it’s As if 10 straight losses weren’t with the language reported in the coin this season; after providing teammate. their worst start since 2009 (they enough. As if an obvious lack of Poughkeepsie Journal on Saturday, a surprising spark as a freshman The loss of these teammates, finished 1-29 that year). Perhaps strategic identity wasn’t enough. and with Dunne’s post-game backup last season, he rarely saw in particular, will open up this team has more talent on Add insult to injury; pour salt in comments. time to start the year. Before his opportunities for players like Tyler paper. But it’s about delivery and the wound; let the drizzle become “It’s never easy when something release, he hadn’t scored a point Saint-Furcy, Jack Cavanaugh, and execution. They’ll have to attempt a downpour. Following their 63- like this happens,” Dunne said. in six games and only tallied 12 perhaps even Michael Servantes to improve both of those aspects 58 home-loss at the hands of “We are in the beginning stages of total assists. Neither had played and Ryan Carmello. That’s the without Hines and Turner from Quinnipiac, Marist officials and trying to build this program and since Dec. 21 in Marist’s 30-point silver lining to all of the hoopla. here on out. Their next chance to do men’s basketball coach John Dunne we need to do it with the student- drubbing at the hands of Bethune- At its core, though, all this does is so comes Sunday against Dunne’s announced that guards Matt Turner athletes who are fully committed to Cookman, and both missed the Dec. further stress how much of a mess former team, St. Peter’s, at 2 p.m. and Darius Hines were dismissed our cause.” 28 loss against Columbia. this season has been. from the program for violating Turner — a transfer from Santa Despite the array of losses, Dunne It started with a bang: Dunne’s team rules. Clara who sat out last season before has attempted to remain positive. overhaul passed its first test in

my best friend,” Fergus said. “She is just such an amazing person: she’s always happy, always go-lucky, puts the team Jocelyn Gorman Keeps before herself.” The feeling is mutual with Gorman; “100% she’s my best friend,” she said. Gorman modeled her work ethic after the older players. As she has progressed through her collegiate Marist Volleyball in Tune career, her teammates noticed what great leadership and hard work she BY SAM DIGIOVANNI displayed. “She’s certainly one of the Center Field Contributor hardest workers that we got,” Byron said. “She’s a team-first kind of kid.” ocelyn Gorman, a defensive Unfortunately for the team, Gorman specialist on the volleyball team, didn’t get to help out on the court that J performs twice on game day. She much this past season. She suffered a obviously plays in the game, holding broken hand in the preseason which down the defensive effort against limited her 2019 season to just two Marist’s opposition. But her first games. “She was doing absolutely performance — yes, even before the amazing in preseason,” Fergus said. game — comes when she sings the “We all were blown away by how much Star-Spangled Banner before every she had improved since last year and home match. She started the tradition over the summer. So, we were looking as a high school freshman and brought forward to what she was going to be her talent(s) from Hillsboro, Oregon to able to during the season.” Poughkeepsie. It didn’t stop Gorman from being a top-notch teammate. “Even when her hand was broken, she was still the first one to come into the gym; always cheering, always super engaged in the It’s just game and in practice,” Fergus said. “She definitely did as much as she could to something stay engaged and up with our trainings.” Gorman strives to be more than just a good teammate, though. When she first that makes arrived at Marist she felt like the vibe “The more kids you can have like Jocelyn, the better your team’s going to be.” - Head Coach Sean Byron. and relationships between coaches and our program Source: Marist Athletics players were “so business. I remember coming in that that was something I wanted to change about the culture and a little more he said. “I didn’t really think about it. canceling headphones and sings a song she finally sang for them at a preseason make it more like a family environment.” “And then that morning, [defensive chosen by the team. bonding activity. Fergus, who has a She and Fergus felt determined to unique specialist] Courtney Kasperski came up Every single time, Gorman sings last. personal obsession with great singers, create a friendlier team culture, which and was like ‘Oh, by the way, Jocelyn’s Fergus said, “We’re all just screaming was starstruck. “I was just in absolute was another factor that drove them — Jocelyn Gorman really good.’ I was like, ‘at the anthem? at the top of our lungs, and then once awe,” she said. close together. Gorman said this desire Is she okay doing that?’ And she said, everyone has gone, we’re like ‘Okay, Joc, Yet, despite her incredible singing “comes from the volleyball that I played ‘oh yeah. You’ll see.’” He remembered now you can go’ because she has to be talent, Gorman is quite modest about on in high school, T.E.A.M. Hiki No. It Gorman, a high school choir singer, first the first time she sang this season: “It the last one because we’re like ‘who can it. She shrugged and said “yeah, I was a Hawaiian based club and it was performed the national anthem on a was awesome.” top that?’” guess so” when I asked her to confirm huge on culture and making sure we team Senior Night during her freshman The anthem isn’t just another song for Gorman’s singing was the second that she’s the best singer on the team. built traditions and had things to rely year and continued for every single Gorman, the stepdaughter of a retired musical talent that she acquired. Byron and Fergus would tell you no on outside of volleyball… it’s so much home game. When she got to Marist, she police officer. “I do feel pretty connected “Before I started singing, I actually one comes close to her, but Gorman more than volleyball.” Byron can attest told her head coach at the time, Lauren to it in that it pays respects to him and started playing the piano at a pretty suggested middle blocker Chidera Udeh to that; he added that Gorman would Amundson, that she sang the national the other people that have served our young age,” she said. “I think I was is the second-best singer on the team. “do anything for her teammates” and anthem in high school. Gorman said country.” She also takes pride in it in second grade. When I was little, I Gorman laughingly said she would that her positivity is felt throughout the Amundson “offered to see if I wanted to because it’s something that makes the wanted to be just like Alicia Keys. That definitely rank Fergus “near the bottom. team, but beyond volleyball as well. try it, and I did. I loved it, and everyone Marist volleyball program different. was my little thing, so I was like ‘I’m She’s so bad.” Still, Gorman admires “We’re trying to honor a different loved it. So, it just kept going. I haven’t “For the most part, I think it’s more gonna start singing.’” how much fun she has. professor every week at every home stopped.” just about the tradition of us having that She tried singing and playing the piano The playful banter shows how close match,” he said. “I’ve seen [Gorman’s The first time Gorman sang the to open our game and having something for fun until she realized that she was a Gorman and Fergus have become. professor] three times since that national anthem in McCann Arena, to take pride in before a game,” she said. better singer than piano player. “So [my Gorman recalls a time in the spring of weekend [she was honored] and she’s “everyone’s jaw dropped,” senior “And it’s just something that makes our family and I] dropped piano lessons and herfreshman year when she, Fergus, always like, ‘Oh, we love having Jocelyn outside hitter Megan Fergus recalls. program a little more unique, that we I kept singing. I tried voice lessons, but and then-junior Taylor Van Der Biezen in class. She’s awesome. She does “[The crowd] was in awe.” From don’t just play a recording like anyone I wasn’t super into it; I kinda just liked gravitated towards each other. “Our great in the lab. She does great for me.’ Gorman’s perspective, “it was definitely else.” doing it for myself.” Gorman loves to spring – under our old coach, at least Clearly, she has that same impact across nerve-racking. It’s just a bigger stage Gorman’s vocals don’t just ring sing Keys’s “If I Ain’t Got You” the most – used to be really tough on us and we campus that she does for us.” than in high school.” throughout McCann; on long road trips, — it’s her go-to song, and the first one had to rely on each other,” she said. “Me, Gorman’s positivity and leadership Current head coach Sean Byron first she’s the highlight of the bus ride. In the Fergus ever heard her sing. Megan, and Taylor all had a very similar have done wonders for the volleyball heard her sing it this year. Before the middle of a six-hour road trip to Buffalo mindset about volleyball and our work team. If not for her, the team might not team’s first match this season, which two years ago, the team was dying uring Gorman’s recruiting visit to ethic and our effort in the classroom. have the vibe of a family. Her singing was also Byron’s first at the helm, the to entertain itself. They Googled fun D Marist, she told the team that she We were all similar-minded people, so only adds to the tune that she worked team told him that Gorman would sing things to do on car rides and discovered was a singer in high school. They asked drifted towards each other that way.” for years to set. Byron said, “The more the anthem. “All the kids said, ‘Jocelyn an activity that became a staple of her to sing, but she wouldn’t budge. After three years together, Fergus and kids you can have like Jocelyn, the sings the anthem’, and I was like ‘okay,’” road trips. One person puts on noise- Gorman ended up choosing Marist, and Gorman are inseparable. “She’s easily better your team’s going to be.”