THE STUDENT nnn a H^RfflfflfflSn 1WM yjJMBJffll %650 The Merciad is also available at merciad.meicyhurst.eduf NEWS: Students share Chrstmasjoy with local\underpriveleged children Campus By Jaime Myers Improvements Contributing writer PAGE 2 Christmas will be celebrated a few weeks early by the Mercyhurst com- munity and deserving children at die annual Christmas on Campus this Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Mercyhurst College faculty and FEATURES: students are giving back to the Erie community by hosting the event i n the Obesity: How big Student Union for underprivileged of a problem is it? children. More than 100 children from 12 different agencies around Erie will PAGE 4 attend the day's events. Some agencies include Booker T. Washington Center, the John E Kennedy Center* the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, the Erie Boys and OPINION: Girls Club, Community Shelter Ser- vices, Emmaus Kid's Cafe, House of Healing, House of Mercy and Mercy Baseball, Bonds, Center for Women. & steroids, one The agencies are chosen based on take on the Mercyhurst Service Learning con- scandal. nections and all have students from Mercyhurst serving there regularly. Each child will be paired with a PAGE 6 Mercyhurst student volunteer, their "buddy" to participate in the various This closet bursting with toys will be handed out to the kids on Saturday. ARTS& activities. With close to 150 Mercy- hurst students giving their time to on Campus to date. ganizing this year's event include Anni committee is aided by student director ENTERTAINMENT: be buddies, dressing up as characters Many students have already been DiBartolomeo, Mike Foglio, Amy Kelly Rose Duttine and director of and working to plan the event, this hard at work since October planning Todd, Jackie Farina, Patrick Neubert, student activities Darcey Kemp. l t c % t D* A n g e l o Opera year could be the largest Christmas the event jComixiittee- members or- Beth lablonskj and Ale3c|iameL The Bleas& see C*TiF ™" " * Page.£ Theatre presents "Tails \ of Hoffman" Mercyhurst sees wave of the future PAGE 8 College will continue growth and expansion despite lack of additional space The new bookstore allowed for the ter would require the demolition of A freshman dorm is planned to SPORTS: By J a s o n Endress Laker Inn to be modified and expand- some of the apartment buildings in handle the increasing student popu- Contributing writer ed, as well as tying the freshman por- the area. lation. GLIAC play up tion of the campus to the other half Mercyhurst, however, is not fin- Garvey noted that Haraot Medical ahead for The class of 2005 has witnessed of the college, providing a centralized ished growing, at least not in the Center has expressed a desire to build a professional building on the cam- women's Mercyhurst College grow by leaps meeting place and study area. sense of the larger institution of the and bounds. Mercyhurst students may have College. pus, which will allow for an enlarged basketball Housing now stretches from the come to expect to see heavy ma- Beyond several tentative and long- medicine and nursing program, as well Mercy Apartments all the way to chinery on campus, but MercyhurstV range plans for main campus, there as the potential addition of sports PAGE 11 Wayne Street, linked to the rest of "final" growth spurts have come to are concrete plans for a West Campus, medicine to the curriculum. campus by twin walkways. pass, due in part to the lack of ad- as well as plans for expansion at Mer- Like North Eeast, the west campus, Students watched attentively as the ditional space. cyhurst North East which will be built near the Fairview tower of the Audrey Hirt Academic President Dr. William Garvey said The North East campus will be area, will be a two-year community Upcoming Campus Events Center was erected, and were the first that current problems on campus, undergoing expansion as it grows college. A definite site has not been to take courses in (he new academic such as parking, are "like dominos" closer to its target enrollment of selected, but selection has been nar- rowed to two or three locations. Wednesday, Dec. 8 building, their classes supplemented For instance, building an additional 1200, which will be 900 next fall, by "smart podiums." parking garage next to the Hirt Cen- Garvey said£ Please see Future on Page 2. Film: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., PAC. Marshall Scholar 9 Hurst lights up Thursday, Dec. 9 Krysiek awarded prestigious scholarship the award also grants him room and By Joshua Wil w o h l board, world-wide travel, a stipend Lecture: Former Erie police officer Layout assistant and travel between the university and Terry Dawley: Surviving an armed the United States* Krysiek is not an confrontation, 8:15 p.m., Taylor Little Senior Tim Krysiek possesses more amateur to studying abroad. Theatre. than just the Traveling on the Boren Scholarship, intelligence I Krysiek traveled to St Petersburg for to be a super several weeks of Russian studies. Saturday, Dec. 11 spy with the In addition, he traveled to Quebec government. City in Canada to study French lan- Majoring i n guage. Christmas on Campus: 1 p.m. until research and Dr. Mary Ann Owoc, representa- 4 p.m., Student Union. intelligence, tive of the Marshall Scholarship, I Russian stud- said, "Tim is remarkable. He is ies and mi- both personally and intellectually T n A a v / noting in po- Tim Krysiek mature beyond his years, and this, maex I Utfcal 8Cience * combined with a great sense of hu- News 1 provided the | *a| mor, a critical mind, self-motivation qualification Krysiek needed to win and a love of learning, make him an News 2 the George C Marshall Scholarship. ideal scholarship and graduate school News • 3 Krysiek, the first Mercyhurst candidate." ,: student ever to receive a Marshall The Marshall Scholarship finances reotwres**... « .#••#•••• H Scholarship, will spend the next two two years of graduate study in the Features 5 to three years abroad in the United United Kingdom at a university cho- ^ ^ • -, Kingdom at the University of Saint sen by the student Opinion ... ...—#..#•••• ..•••O Andrews in Scotland where he plans Requirements for the scholarship Opinion ••*.*• •••••• ***7 to 8tU(*y Middle Eastern and Central include a minimum GPA of 3.7, Q Asian security. ^ United States citizenship and a four- 0 ^ & E. • ** "I Was very excited, said Krysiek. year undergraduate degree from an A xv j? •••••••9i "It's such a great feeling to know accredited college or university. * that school is paid for the next two "If any sophomore or junior inter- Joshua Wllwohl/Loyout aswilanl ested m applying for the scholarship, Sports *° to three years and to know that I will The campus of Mercyhurst Is decorated for t h e holiday season. 9 they should get in touch with the Sports ••• H be earning a great education/ This Christmas tree in Old Main Is one of the many glowing r Mercyhurst Marshall Representative * v; J The scholarship itself is a compre- symbols that Christmas is almost here. bports ....•» • hensive award that covers more than on campus to set up an interview," just tuition. According to Krysiek, said Owoc. : -i Decembers, 2004 PAGE 2 THEMERCIAD NEWS To contact [email protected] Parade Street, ideas are still being giving, Christmas, Spring Break By Jaime Myers thrown around for what to do and Easter, a detailed list is made Contributing writer with the area. on what needs to be done around Some ideas now include a rec- campus. There is always maintenance reation spot Possibly a volleyball This past break, a few apart- work going on around the Mer- court or even a beautified area are ments received bathroom ex- cy h u r s t campus, but the most is being considered. There is no hausts. The rest were finished came over b r e a k s so that students rush to make a decision. this summer. were not interrupted from their A classroom on the third The second floor of Egan Hall studies. floor of Old Main has been received an upgraded electronic As the term cames to an end, changed into a boardroom. The panel. This will hopefully fix the many new things have been built classroom was mainly used for frequent power outages there. or renovated on campus over education classes. The education Also many sewer lines were break. department was moved to the snaked out, hoping to lessen the One of the most noticed Audrey Hirt Academic Center flooding in apartments due to the changes is the new archway over two years ago. interference of tree roots. the Parade Street entrance. The need for classrooms in Some lighting has been re- The archway has just recently other buildings has lessened due placed in the Performing Arts been completed. The main en- to the new classrooms in the Center. Lighting was also up- trance from 38th Street is very eye Hirt Center. graded in the drafting lab in the catching and functional. Some other changes include Family and Consumer Sciences Tyrone Moore said that be- new blinds purchased by Mercy- building. cause of the amount of people hurst Student Government for Also, some of the classrooms that enter the campus from Pa- the Student Union. A new D N A that needed to be painted in Zurn rade Street, ccWe needed a more lab has been put into Zurn for were completed by the start of attractive entrance for the west the use of students.