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Last Dance For Class of' 96 Susan D'Ambrosia Merciad Contributing Writer
Student Activities Committee ner, a slide show, dancing and a senior at the college. put together the annual Senior chance to laugh at every seniors The Senior Class would like to Dinner Dance this past * Friday baby picture. give special thanks to Katie M, Photos by Gagan Suri night an the Sportsmen's Club. Students w e r e disappointed with Mary Sloan and all of the SAC This night w a s an opportunity for the DJjat the dance. Some stu- members who contributed to this seniors to be together as a class dents complained that he played special occasion. Although it is Left: from left to right: Jason Giffen, Seth Carl, one last time beforejtheir walk too many slow numbers and c o u n - 'always sad to watch another se- Gabe Paulick at the dance I down State Street on May 19. try songs. "I wish the music was nior class leave, we wish the best Right: From left to right: Tiffany Kraus, Teresi The Seniors dinner was prepaid mo red a nceo d e n t e d . I had a great of luck t o everyone. A s the souve- W i t k o w s k i . Melissa Brown at the dance through Student Government f e e s . time and hope all the others did nirs given away at the dance stated, The evening consisted of din- too" said Gagan Suri, an HRIM "Mercy World to Realworld."
Psychology Club Visits Lecture Series Continued i Graduate Program tity in the D'Angelo Performing M S G Ready to By Gagan Suri Merciad News Editor Aits Center. Vere's thesis was By David DauseyJ that Shakespeare was actually Hand Over Reins m Merciad Contributing Writer Last week on Thursday, Edward de Vere, the 17 Earl ol Charles de Vere delivered a lec- Oxford, and a nobleman in the The Mercyhurst Psychology Queen's court. "Most p e o p l e think Club visited the graduate program ture on Shakespeare's true iden- By Dan Hilfiker Also on Saturday, there will be a Shakespeare was William of of the University of Pittsburgh Editor-in-Chief Softball game between MSG rep- Stratford," but de Vere put for- last weekend. The main idea of resentatives and an area radio sta- ward a logical argument supported the trip was to give psychology by facts to prove that this belief is The newly elected 1996/1997 tion. All are*encouraged to at- majors a chance to see Gist hand Mercyhurst Student Government most probably wrong. what they will be doing in gradu- tend. The lecture was attended by representatives sat in on the April The idea was brought up to start ate studies. Students were able to 29 meeting of MSG. The new more than 40 students, and some a food and clothing drive at the visit 1 laboratories dealing/with reps do not have voting power faculty and staff members. Dr. end of the year. Students will be such areas as health psychology, until next week, but wereallowed William P. Garvey, president of developmental psychology, and encouraged to bring all of their to sit in and get acquainted with the college, was present* that psychoneuroimmunology. ^ left-over food and old clothing to evening. the process. the Union at the end of t h e school The director of the psychology A motion was made by George year, rather than just leaving it in graduate program at Pitt, Dr. Pe- Burich to approve the revisions to their apartment or throwing it ter Moshein, said "I'm glad to see the MSG constitution that were away. undergraduates with such an in- made by the constitution commit- In Student Activities Commit- terest in their future plans .... Look- tee. The vote w a s unanimously in tee news, President Brian ing at graduate programs can help favor of the motion. ;4: Marshall announced that this students decide if they are ready MSG President Jessica Cuffia weekend wil 1 be the annual Spring for such an endeavor. Moshein announced that over $300 was Activities weekend. The spring helped arrange the visit for the raised at the formal Monte Carlo formal will be on'Friday at Mercyhurst students. It was night that was held in the student Sabella's of Union Station. Sat- Photos by Gagan Suri planned for students to meet with union last Saturday. Car bashing urday, there will be the activities graduate students and their men- will be the final event of the fund on the football field. T e a m s , com- Charles de Vere tors. }'. raiser this year. The car will be pnsed of four men and four lecturing at D'Angelo fTht students began their visit located outside the Maintenance women, must sign Up at the union Performing Arts with Dr. Thomas W. Kamarck, building on Saturday, May 4 at 4 desk. Also on Saturday, there will Center who does work with the p.m. For one dollar, people have be inflatable^fun outside the li- biobehavioral correlates on car- the chance to bash a car with a brary starting at 2 p.m. diovascular d i s e a s e . Kamarck dis- sledge hammer for thirty seconds. •£ t cont pg 2
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cont from p g 11 cussed his latest research with the MSG Update Gamble it All Away students and introduced them to a graduate student and a post-doc- By Gagan Suii 'The event was very success- toral student w h o are his research By Gagan Suri from the SAC, prizes worth Merciad News Editor ful and many students gambled assistants. The students ended Merc iad News Editor $ 1,000 were given a way that night from the SAC account, plus there that!evening. The SAC raised their tour with a discussion di- Last week was busy for SAC/ The college Student Activity were many donated gifts that w e r e $300 from the sale of the fake rected by Dr. Andrew £ Baum's MSG at the college. On April 25, Committee (SAC) organized this distributed. All the winners were money," said Marshall. re search assistants, who deal with Coyote Joe, a country band, year's "Monte Carlo Night" for present there during the raffle re- The money raised was donated chronic stress and its effects on played at the Athletic center. The the students and the Mercyhurst sults. There were no absentees. to the Mercy Center for Women. well-being. The labsofDr.Celia band played popular c o u n t r y tunes Community on April 27. Monte Brown, Dr. Daniel S. Shaw, Dr. for half an hour and then the stu- Carlo Night is an event where Saul Sh iff m a n , and Dr. Celia dents present were taught differ- students can g a m b l e all they want Browne 11 were also visited. ent styles of line dancing by Keri with the fake money they pur- The experience for all the stu- Sui. More than 100 students at- chased, and then buy raffle tickets dents was rewarding and the club tended the line dancing. The event for Garvey dollars at 1,000 a piece. plans *to visit another graduate was coordinated by Missi Ma t h i s , At the end of the night the lucky program next year. Junior psy- a student at the college. winners get the prizes. Usually chology major, Sue Ackley said, April 26, the same day the col- the event is free and each student uI found the trip very worthwhile lege had its Senior Dinner D a n c e , gets 3,000 Garvey dollars at the and I would suggest that any stu- SAC organized the StarStruck door, but this year students had to dent, whether considering Videos in the athletic center. All pay $3 to obtain the fake money. ajp graduate school or not,at least students who participated were Non-students had to pay $10 for visit a program and see what is given a copy of their personal the same fake money. out there." Any student inter- video with their choice of graph- According to Brian Marshall ested in the Psychology Club next ics and music recorded specially term can contact David Dausey at for them. The event was attended 2830. byjl50 people. REMINDER TO ALL SENIORS DON'T FORGET TO HEAD OVER TO STUDENTS ACCOUNTS THIS WEE TO COMPLETE YOUR $200 HOUSIN DEPOSIT REFUND FORM I
, •^iBUS'iAHBHB^^HM Photos by Gagan From a few concerned seniors Students gambling it away at the Student Union ! Df A n g e l o News By Nina Napoleone Ryan arranged for an extensive Groves, Maureen Leigh, Cindy chamber Music Society of Lin- world's most acclaimed conduc- The Mercy h u r s t College and interesting lineup o f a variety Lutz, Madoka Matsumoto, | coin Center and just recendy the tors, instrumentalists, and solo- D'Angelo school of music pre- of v o c a l pieces. These ranged from Victoria Proctor, Ainsely Ryan, Julliard String Quartet of the ists including Luciano Pavarotti sented its Opera Chorus Concert excerpts in "Carmen," T h e Mar- Julie Mason, James Strouse, Rick widely acclaimed Julliard School and Placido Domingo. She has on Friday April 26 at 8 p.m. A- riage of Figaro," V'TThe; Magic Warner, James Foley, Mike Hem- of M usic are j ust some of a long appeared on the stages of many Conducting the Choral Con- Flute," to "La Boh erne," and many mer, Gary Johnson, Jonathan list of professional performers. leading opera houses including cert was Rebecca Perkins Ryan, a more. Nolan, Jamz Porzio, Suzie Bryan, And now, soprano Kathleen Battle the Metropolitan Opera, and has graduate of Mount Holyoke Col- . According to one audience Katrina Foltz* Amelia Kitchen, has been added to this list Her worked with noted orchestras in- lege. Ryan graduated with a B. A . member, "It's wonderful to see Ezono Kithan, Faith Lifshen, arrival at Mercyhurst has 5been cluding the New York Philhar- r in voice and piano performance. that we here at Mercy h u r s t have Rebecca Styn, Michelle Szuba, widely anticipated.* monic, the #Boston Symphony She has also done graduate stud- such talented people. It's been a and Tara Thomas. She nails from Portsmouth, Orchestra and many more. ies in choralf. conducting at the wonderful concert." The Mercyhurst College Ohio and has studied at the Uni- The program for the concert, University of Massachusetts and The soloists for this performance D'Angelo School of M u s i c , in its versity of Cincinnati at the Col- with Cliff Jackson as pianist, in- the Tanglewood Institute. were, JohnrLoyer, Mary Beth 10th celebrated season, presented lege Conservatory of Music and cludesfsuch pieces by George Ryan has a voice ind piano Sederberg, Monique Fasano, Ann another edition of its Great Per- has been awarded Gve honorary Frederic Handel,\Franz Liszt, studio in Albion, and is also di- Armitage, Cynthia Wilson, formers series this past Sunday, doctoral degrees. Gaetano Donizetti, and a variety rector of t h e D'Angelo Conserva- Angelo Szpak, Kathleen April 26. # 'With 5 Grammy Awards under of others. _ tory Choir and the Special Events The Music School has had a her belt,(Battle has established This concert was made pos- Woodard, Mark Riley, John Tay- • Choir at the State Correctional herself as a distinguished and lor, Karen Milinovich, Daniel wide*variety of acclaimed per; sible by a gift from Dr. and Mrs. noteworthy recording artist She Institution. ' * Cabanillas, Randy Hetherington,. formers visit-theTsdibolito perT George D'Angelo, Mrs. Robert Accompanists for the concert J,- Vocalists Jerome Hines, has recorded on all major labels* j Guelcher, and PNC Bank. •"- I Tara Martz, Louisa Joriason aitd with opera, concert, choral and' were Louisa Jonason, Julie*Ma- Stephen Colanti.** i ' > ••?v Maureen Forrester, Pianists Earl solo albums, and has also appea red son, Mary Beth Sederberg and Additional choir members in- Wil d and Abbey Simon, The New York Woodwind Quintet, The in concert with some of the Daniel Cabanillas. cluded, Betsy Belknap, Jennifer
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Movie Time Tunes By James Hain By Jason Ulery iis that it's incredible. We'll see Tails Merciad Movie Critic Merciad Column no longer last for epic lengths of when it opens Memorial Day time. The band has also seem- "Bulls On Parade," "Down Ro- | weekend. i deo," and "Year of T h a Boomer- Rage Against The Machine ex- inglylgained greater musical The weeks between Memorial If comedy is more your style, awareness, fully utilizing the ang" contin u e t h e sound Rage has Day and Labor Day are the big- ploded onto the music scene in patented as its own, although the N EddiejMurphy tries his hand at irangeeof each instrument to its gest for m o v i e s . Kids, teens and slapstick in The Nutty Professor 1992 wjth their self-titled, debut ffiilldst extent. On the track length has been toned down, keep- young adutts areW of school; (June 28),;in which he hides un- LP, which exploited the edge of "Vietnow," guitaristTom Morello ing the interest of the listener. and this is when the studios roll der mounds of m a k e u p as a nerdy hanjrpore and the lyrical assault ends the song with the guitar rep- *This is an exceptional album, out their big guns. This summer scientist who discovers a serum ofhip-hop. The p o p u l a r i t y of c o m - resenting the automatic s h o t s of a |and it is something that every- offers a bumper crop of n e w mov- that makes h i m cool (and for t h o s e bining hip-hop and hard-core has rifle. i body should have in their collec- long since died, but the quartet is ies, each vying for entrance into of you who aren't sold yet, it's a tion. The sound is just nice, and thatexclusive club known as Your back with its second full-length 5 The album seems to weigh a remake of t h e classic Jerry Lewis^ little more towards the hip-hop the most notable tracks would be Wallet. ' i | release, Evil Empire, after a four- Tire Me" and "Down Rodeo," comedy of the same name). Jimi year hiatus during w h i c h the band end of the scale, on Jracks like. Several | m e g a - b u d g e t l a c t i o n which just blow away anything Carrey will return in The Cable basically appeared on a couple of "Without a Face," which has a spectacles will be coming your Guy (July 14), as t h e cable repair- heavy bass line, slightly jazzier, you would hear on the radio these soundtracks,, supposedly broke days, in which every station seems way. FirstoutofthegateisTWis/er man from hell. This dark comedy up, and spoke out against a great drums, and limited guitar which (May 10), a thriller about a deadly stars 'Matthew B r o d e r i c k as many oppressions. $] brings out the harshness of v o c a l - to be owned by Daritfs Rucker. tornado that boasts Go out and get it Pint**! Carrey'scomicfoil. DemiMoore The band retains the same mu- ist Zack De La Rocha's message groundbreaking special effects. received $12 million to take her and e m p h a s i z e s the influence rap- It stars Bill Paxton^and Helen sical style for this effort, but the top off in Striptease, a comedy songs have been scaled down and pers such as Chuck D havehad on Hunt and has an enviable pedi- •bout a single mom taking a job the band. Other tracks such as gree, it was directed by Jan Del as a stripper. It also stars Bad Movie ^Bont, whose last film w a s SpeedM KngBurt Reynolds, s o y o u know And y e s , Arnold will b e back, this ?4t's g o i n g t o b e Showgirls n . And time in Eraser (June 21), about a finally, "Friends" star David j What witness protection agent who Schwimmer* make$ his starring The Erie Art "erases* people from existence. movie debut in The Pallbearer scribed as being "A femily jazz 809 Just in time for t h e Fourth of J u l y , (May 3) playing a guy who is harmonica portrait in 33 scenes." The independence Day (July 3) tells !l asked to eulogize a high school show runs from May 9th - the story of hostile alieite A t t a c k - A^ | d a ^ t e ^ f o e s n ' t ^member. appear with a 5 pjece band In I c o m p l e t e l y di f i e r e n t ing t h e U.S. and boasts a scene of | Fdethefaifi^the-big one witftfe | June 1st, at 8 p . m . The Road- i^house i s located a t 145 W. 1 1 Bob the White House being blown to Disney's TheHunchbackofNotre p.m. 'Ticketfcare Slfand $6 playing the Warner Theatre smithereens. Mel Gibson s t a t s in Dame, with the voices of Tom for students. For more info, St. For info, call 456-56S6. s Ron H o w a r d ' s Ransom (August), Hulce, Demi Moore, and Jason on May 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Erie A r t Aimee Mann will be the and Nicolas Cage and Sean Alexander. But this one is also a Museum »ur cowboy boots and Connery team up for The Rock big question mark, since, judging opmn act State St. spitoon and head on down ? 8 Tickets are (June), about an escape from an by the trailer, it looks exquisitely pricedat27 50a impenetrable prison. But per- to Monster Truck Race at! ^ - ndaresup- odd, with t a l k i n g gargoyles and a to be g o i n g f a s t For haps the t most eagerly awaited |Wg, ugly Quasimodoburstinginto the Erie Civic Center. This ^^ The Roadhouse Th and more mfo caU action flick this summer is Mis- melodious song. Again, we'll event will take place April ^^ ' sion Impossible, starring Tom "The Marriagi secHunchbackopcns nationwide 26 & 27 at 8 p . m . F or tickets The Cruise. This update of the 60s June 21. * Boo," by Chris WarnerTheat show ("This message will self- | Well, there you have i t Which ***VZ1SZZ --=.-L-^ SX5 destruct in 30 seconds...") has a onewiUbetheA/K>//o23ofl996? The Civic Centeris kick-butt t r a i l e r and advance w o r d Which one will ?be the Waterworks You decide. 1
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Integration By Nick Krayger I threw off the "Dis," and started sored. Here, we are oppressed. By Brad Ry b c z y n s k i Merciad Columnist to get back to myself. | -J| To believe that Mercyhurst is a Merciad Columnist When I think about literary qual- microcosm of the real world is a It seems that a lot of people ity, sometimes I think that as I fallacy.|r.In the real world, the have b e e n asking me lately w h e r e It i s that time of y e a r w h e n everything s e e m s t o b e down t o the bare have become a better writer, the freedom of the press is one of t h e I came up with the title for my essentials. Most of us are groping around for m o n e y , food, time and quality of this column has gone most powerful freedoms we have. column 'Integration." For those patience. As a matter o f fact, the only thing we seem t o have enough down. I remember a time when I At Mercyhurst, it is a venture who have been here awhile, they of is stress. 4. couldn't punctuate to save my only for the truly gifted, intelli- may remember w h e n it w a s "Dis- life, but you could bet your butt It is the end of another year, papers are due, scheduling is taking gent and, manipulative writer. I integration. " And for all you fos- that I would say anything in here place and finals are right over the horizon. I just wish it would all wonder if my dad understands sils out there, i you might even to rattle some chains. I guess I be done with. After all, this is t h e third time I have had to g o through now why I made these columns recall when it was entitled "Be- have found a more subtle way of all of this. Ah, to just wake up and be home for the summer with so personal, so revealing. I won- hind the Wheel." getting it all across now. ^ papers in and finals done. * • • May 2,1996 THE MERCIAD PAGES A Lecture on j the Radicall Right By Chris Wloch 1 the deep South," Aho observed. Aho eventually found that many stresses the importance of inter- them." Lastly, the new recruit is Secretary Minority Student Union. In reality, the Pacific Coast and As part of Academic Celebra- people did!not join hate groups personal relationships a s a series I P u s h e d awa y b y the c o n v e n t i o n a l Rocky Mountain states tout the simply because they were socially tion, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. fin of "steps or stages in how people community as more time is spent highest number of hate group isolated, insecure about their sta- Sullivan Hall, Dr. James Aho, affiliate with right-wing e x t r e m - with the recently j o i n e d group. members in t h i s c o u n t r y . The three tus, had received less formal edu- ists" which is represented by the author of The Politics of Righ- i Aho affirmed that his JIPP states with the highest p e r capita cation or were simply acting out acronym JIPP. First, a person J o i n s teousness: Idaho Christian Pa- ! m o d e l is also applicable to ex- concentrations are Montana, what they had learned at school, with a recruiter for one of these triotism, addressed "This Thing plain how people get out of hate Idaho and Oregon. church or from their parents. groups -- largely by chance, groups. He argued that " n o num- Called Darkness: Why People Aho began his research on the Aho found that, for the most through contacts with family, ber of films o n the Holocaust or Join H a te Groups." He examined members of hate groups in 1985, part, the people he interviewed neighbors,!co-workers or fellow classes on multiculturalism will the fusion of r e l i g i o u s beliefs and I»• the same year a shootout between "had stable marriages, were not churchgoers. Next, an Invitation encourage these people Ho get racist v i e w s in various, self i d e n - federal agents and a group known involved in isolated occupations is extended to the person to learn tified "Christian Patriots." out." He said "what is necessary as "The Secret Brotherhood" took such as mining and forestry, were more about the! m o v e m e n t . The is that people from the conven- Aho distinguished three differ- place i n Puget S o u n d , Wash. S i n c e no more transient t h a n their n e i g h - person i s then Pulled in and begins tional community begin t o e s t a b - ent types of Christian Patriots. that time, Aho has amassed a li- bors and had been raised in the to "alter her o r his beliefs, outlook lish close t i e s with people i n hate The first a r e "Identity Christians" brary of books, pamphlets, audio largest American mainline Chris- and values t o coincide with those groups" to help them leave the who maintain t h a t ' t h e white race and video cassettes and conducted tian denominations." of t h e group in order t o maintain, < hate groups behind. are God's chosen p e o p l e . . . and hundreds of ^ c o n v e r s a t i o n a l Aho presented a simplified ver- secure and nurture a relationship that the true'Israel is the Anglo- style," interviews with former sion of his own model which which has become valuable to Saxon p e o p l es from northern Eu- members and people still involved rope.0 The Identity movement is in organizations \like the Aryan largely anti-Semitic, or Nation Church, based in northern "Judeophobic"touseAho,sterm. Idaho.! The brunt of its attack is centered While chatting with and getting on the Jewish people who are to know them, Aho would ask the labeled as "Christ-killers" and people t o explain t h e i r c o n v i c t i o n s . believed to b e p a r t o f a conspiracy Using a technique called "snow- to gain control of the world. ball sampling," he asked each per- 1&&&*&M?' Another type of C.P.s are the son for the names of other mem- "Christian Constitutionalists" bers. His two research goals were who variously describe their per- to understand people who belong ceived enemies as the "Hidden to right-wing extremist groups Hand,** the "Insiders" or even* from their own point of v i e w , and gill '& '' -* "Secret Force X.^ Lastly, there ^ explain why people join these are "issue-oriented" Christian kinds of groups in the first place. Patriots who focus primarily on Aho sought to discover exactly certain political agendas such as "what differentiates 'them' from the anti-abortion movement the 'rest of us'." Although: he "Popular legend holds that rac- started off with a variety of pre- ism and bigotry are products of conceived {notions and theories, Millenbach Shocked Dear Editor, ally active, you should have the maturity to protect yourself and The decision to include a Pro- your partner by using birth con- life flyer in last week's Merciad trol. Women who go on With con- showed little forethought or sen- trol pills are not subjecting them- sitivity, But is what we have all selves to "chemical warfare" as come to expect f r o m the Merciad. the flyer would have you believe, While I recognize a n d respect the no more than eating a Big Mac or right to free speech, I don't know breathing while driving in traffic that the Merciadis the right p l a c e does. Admitting that you are sexu- to present such a one-sided piece ally active does not necessarily of propaganda. make you a "slut."There are ways I was most shocked by the small to keep from having to make a part of the flyer condemning the dedsionfabout how you really feel about abortion. This school Pitt s all-new summer program offers you use of birth control. I agree that abortion is not a good form of will not tell you about birth con- more of what you want and need... birth c o n t r o l , but institutions such trol. Find out about it from places like the Erie Family Health Coun- as this one should be supporting cil, (453-4718) where they'll en- MORE COURSES • MORE SESSIONS • MORE CHOICES some alternate birth control plan. _ ^^—.^^^^fc ^^^^^^^^ ^i^^^^^^fc ^^^^^^^^ ^_ BM^ *M| courage you to take care of your- People between the ages of 20 self a n d not condemn you for your •]Transferable courses offered days, r Fl^7s7nTaljIiwrsity of Pittsburgh and 24 are ranked as the most personal choices. evenings and Saturdays. __-- Summer 1996 Schedule of Classes to: sexually active group of p e o p l e fin • 4, 6, and 12-week sessions starting J America, as w e l l as t h e most likely Name Kate Millenbach in May, June and July. I to get an abortion. I f y o u are sexu- I Milling address • Easy registration by mail. Editor's Note. 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In an effort to enhance \ Education Department . 4 the return process, the college is For the|past four years,^ offering a $75 gift certificate to a By Jessica Russell program would be a good idea. then my graduate students get to Mercyhurst College has distrib- Barnes and Noble bookstores for Merciad Features Editor That was kind of nice, coming! do that also. They get to be co- uted a survey to all members of the graduating seniors who return here I hadn't anticipated that with authors on book chapters, they the graduating class. This year is| their survey by Friday, May 3. At the beginning of t h i s year the the initial interview, but then com- get to be co-authors on grants that no different 347 surveys wereg If you don't return your survey Education Department gained a ing here, it was kindjof a?neat we put together and those things sent out to all of those graduating J by the above date, don't worry. new faculty member. Dr. Phillip thing to have the option to take| are important for those students with the class of 1996. The infor- There will be an additional draw- Belfiore. over the program and steer it in a who may decide to go on to a Ph. mation gathered in these surveys| ing for everyone (including those Belfiore, who came here from direction that 1 thought would D.," he said. is used to design curriculum,h who met|the May 3 deadline), teaching at Purdue University for most enhance students upon 'The master's program here change teaching methods, and who return their survey in the) four years, got his undergraduate graduation," said Belfiore^ isn't j u s t designed to get teachers improve programs that are offered coded envelope by Friday, May degree, from D u q u e s n e Univer- "It is important for students to to be better teachers. That's only here at Mercyhurst* 10. The second drawing will be| sity in. 1982, taught.for, a year know that they are taking courses | part of it. There is a fine line "The school is at a point now~; for $25 worth of pizza del i v e r e d before getting his master's a t Kent or working with faculty who ac- between getting teachers to get in where they are looking at a revi-. to your door. State, taught for another year and tually can write a book, or publish here and when they leave here sion in the liberal studies curricu-£ The envelopes are coded for the then earned a Ph. D at Lehigh an article, or do the research that they will be master teachers, role lum, and I think that it is impor- drawing, but the surveys are not 4 University iitkl 9 9 1 . ** they read in textbooks. That's' model teachers'and also to be tant that the students that are coded in any way.^ atf Belfiore, who is originally from what I want the graduate students • experts in shaping the way we graduating let, the school { k n ow The survey includes questions Canonsburg, Pa., has many out- to get a grasp of — undergradu- teach kids through research. That what they have been doing wrong,' •, regarding> the liberal studies side interests* "I have two chil- ates as well. I tend to teach every is one of the things that I have and what they have been doing courses offered at the college, as dren, a four-year-old, a two-year- course like a graduate course. been trying to get students to un- well," sajd Dr. Jamie Yule, Di- well as many questions that are old and, if all goes well, a third Undergraduate students get a lot derstand or to see, that research rector of Academic Assessment used to evaluate^ the courses in of the stuff that I have done. A lor and scholarship in fact enhance one's, major. ? child in October. I run col- a All of me responses are abso- lect antiques at auctions. I catch of the research \that I have en- the teaching profession," Belfiore lutely confidential. Nobody will . If anyone has lost or misplaced as much sports as I can here at the gaged in, a lot of the book chap- said. ' " see the returned surveys except the survey, or wants to hand college. I think it's important to ters that I have written, they get "My goal for the future, this for Dr. Yule. . deliver the survey, they can do see what the students are doing. that stuff. So they g e t c u t t i n g edge M year, is to get students to under- In past years, the college has so -by seeing Dr. Yule in 102 Most sports that I observe are things as much as possible, which stand that tea c h i n g , reading a text- not had a. substantial number .of Preston. #. Pittsburgh sports. Ido a lot of may upset them at times because book, writing lesson plans and surveys returned. This has lead to I sports in a kind of m e d i o c r e way. what they read for the reading for conducting classroom resea rch go >|a4ffi«A WOTk6& VC* * • > .-.-;. •- .;^( - .-/ - W - -- •:-;---: *«!t"»i Running is the only thing I Can do ; ' the day typically isn't what {'talk ha nd in hand: So^ou catt pick up with any type of consistency. I about I tend to talk about things a research journal, read it, under- Wjv *7JW WJW *JJU wjw J|U wjs# vpa wg* yf-» V(U *?p# ajgw vjw vjw wf* WJw wp» JJv *7JU JJw also refinish furniture, garden, that I have done in relationship to stand it, pick out w h a t you need to cook, things like that," he said. whatever the topic for the class use and then use it in a classroom. Teople say, 'Why Purdue to was. Once they understand the "Also one of the plans that I Mercyhurst?^ Part of it was to system they like it, but it's hard have in being here is to get the • come back home. We had been in for them to get used to that"t graduate student group to act like Indiana for four years and it's ' "It Was nice to work with a a graduate group and to think like »f%» ,^f «?^ kind of nice to get back here," graduate program where the col- graduate students. Small colleges said Belfiore. i * lege community understood that have master's programs and stu- "It's a small program but it also scholarships are important They ^B a* dents come in,* take their has a commitment to being a good understood that what I was doing classes, get their degree &$s program. I've seen small schools.I was good to do in education and mailed out to them and * every- As a matter of fact,while I was at that • is just a matter of getting thing is fine. That's not what I f » Purdue, I * w a s -looking at some graduate students to see that as want here. My plan for the gradu- other small schools and they didn't well. To see that when they leave ate program is to get these guys have the commitment that here they will be as good or better thinking like graduate students, Mercyhurst had. Also they had a than any teacher that is out there to get them looking hard at what ^ ^ graduate program. I kind of c a m e and that they will also be capable they see in the classroom as good in here and they suggested that, of entering .Jin Ph.D. programs or bad, looking hard at what they • ..T !»T* being that I had done some gradu- through the stuff they are getting see in the research as good or b a d . cavti ate work, a lot of g r a d u a t e teach- here. . They can be critical consumers of *&m\ ing, I advised doctoral students, "With the connections I have, what's out there s o they can b e the advised graduate students, put a the people I work with, the oppor- ones who are going to be chang- couple grants together, and pub- tunities that I have to review ing the way teaching.is in the lished quite a bit of s t u f f , coming grants, to viewcmanuscripts, to future," Belfiore said. .•VM here and taking over the graduate write or to collaborate on projects, Academic Celebration Highlights on Hurst TV Capital Gains Hurst Television will air seven presentations from this past week's Academic Celebration. The programs your textbooks for cash. It's that simpl will be shown next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings on Hurst TV, Channel 62 or 19B IN, T H E BOOKSTORE on Erie Cable v i s i o n . Here's the complete Schedule: % FINALS W E E K 7 p.m. - -VISION. Mercyhurst College dance students perform a 12-minute classical, modern dance MAY 13TH, 1 4 T H, 1 5 T H piece. J £ *• ? ' ' |:30am - 4:00pm * 7:15 p.m. - -JAMM. Mercyhurst dance students cut loose with a funky jazz dance. MAT 16TH 4 :30am - 3:00pm 7 p.m. - - Romanticism to Impressionism in French Music, Art and Poetry with Ms. Louisa Jonason from the D'Angelo School of Music. * BookBuyback. 8:30 p.m. - - Shakuhachi: Sound of Wind in Pine.jDaniel Mantey performs on the traditional Japanese Pays to Be Part of It Wo buy books that can be reused here...or on other campuses KOCH flute. i ^. $ • RMCA9 7 p.m.- - This Thing Called Darkness:, Why People Join Hate Group 8:30 PM-- Japanese Women Ceramists May 2,1996 THE MERCIAD PAGE 7 leers Last Perfonnance of Y e a r - In 'Pink Tubas"!By John Murphyf On Saturday, May 11, members of the hard hitting, cross checking, Merciad Sports Editor | j snot spitting, stubble bristling, Mercy h u r s t men's hockey team will take to the ice - in tights! The Lakers will be performing their version of the It seems that in some way or ballet classic, "Swan Lake;» another, the word 'hard' has al- In the words of one critic, "The piece is an eclectic translation of a ways been associated with senior hockey player's inner most thoughts about the game and his teammates." men's soccer player, Greig The Lakers first p e r f o r m e d this pioneering piece last year while wearing Waddle. * A pink t u t u s . After several complaints from p l a y e r s , the outfits this year are He had to be hard growing up expected to express the players more feminine side, f t' on the tough streets of Glasgow, The performance is all part of t h e Figure Skating Club of Erie's annual Scotland. It w a s hard for him when ice show. And, on a more serious note, the night's entertainment will his family had t o uproot and move include performances from Northwestern Pennsylvania's best young to South Africa when h e was o n l y and adult figure s k a t e r s . One of t h e s e is Rob Schupp, Mercy hurst student eight years of age. Throughout and National Junior Men's competitor. Schupp will perform in the high his three years of play at I Mercy h u r s t , Waddle was always level of talent he displayed at the national competition this year. a 'hard' man on the soccer field. Partial proceeds from the show will be donated to the Erie County | And now, as he graduates this Special Olympics Ice Skating program. So, for a chance to support a May, it's going to be extremely worthy cause, and to see the Lakers perform their hilarious show, get hard for his presence to be re- your tickets at the college bookstore. Prices are $5 for adults and $3 for placed on the men's soccer team. students. The show will start at 7 p.m. Waddle served as team captain SoftbaIl|Loses jClose Games } this \ year. In truth however, he was much more. Playing on a Over the weekend the Lakers softball team played a total of seven team where most of his team- Senior Laker games, won one, lost six. A familiar pattern in a poor season. However, \mates were two or three years his unlike other l o s s e s during the season, the weekend' s were close and ha i d junior,|Waddle led his team The awards have always come Waddle moved up to the hill for fought Indeed some were just plain unlucky losses. through experience and example. for Waddle. As a teenager he the remainder of his college days. On Friday the Lakers played Hillsdale and suffered two losses. The Like an ancient Scottish warrior, donned the national team jersey His record of going to the Final miserable weather conditions played havoc with both teams'play. he led his men into battle each for his adopted South Africa. In Four with both schools is unique. On Saturday the team played a very strong Northwood side and almost week this past fall. .£ f his late teens, he returned to his And so, Waddle is indeed a well had their best win of the season.-After battling hard throughout, the And they responded. They ral- native Scotland^to begin a two traveled player, but that journey Lakers finally s u c c u m b e d by the narrowest of margins, 1-0. The team lied around their leader's cries year apprenticeship with profes- may not be over. Several MLS remained tough throughout t h e day, but again fell by narrow margins in rjand produced the best season ever sional .side Dundee. His dream of (Major League Soccer) teams are two more games. ' playing professionally was not to reportedly interested in him. On Sunday the team faced Ferris State in their opener and suffered in the history of men's soccer at >Mercyhurst. They ^ w e n t all the afx, bowever.t Waddle himself remains uncom- another narrow loss. However, the Lakers bounced back with a bang in Instead, he took the opportunity mitted to a future playing soccer. their next game. They scored one of t h e i r biggest wins of t h e season with way to the NCAA Final Four in South Carolina bade in Decern- to further his education with a Nevertheless, if h e does decide to a huge 14-0 victory over Lake Superior State. g ^scholarship to the United States, continue playing, the team that p Next weekend the team heads into their final g a m e s of t h e year in the |ber. |-"J The game there lasted more than £ to Gannon University in fact In picks him up will certainly ben- GLIAC championships. They face Ferris State in their opener and will his first y e a r there he went to the efit from h i s commitment to the hope for revenge from last weekend. J |.130 minutes. Suffering^from chronic cramping, Waddle was NCAA Final Four tournament game. .r ^Lacrosse Ends Season •} ; carried off t h e field j u s t before the Fortunately for Mercy h u r s t , and . i It would be hard to get better Lacrosse played its final t w o games of the season over the weekend end of regular time. rather unfortunately for Gannon, than Waddle. L i and it finished a s it began; the girls lost both games. He had to watch in On Saturday the team faced Alfred College and in this one the Lakers agony from t h e sidelines were on top in the first h a l f . However, experience showed in the second ashisteammatesbattled " Alfred came back and snatched an 8-7 victory from the Lakers. bravely over the next On Sunday against Allegheny, there was more than experience 30 minutes. That was between the two teams as the Lakers fell to a 15-1 loss. There was hard for W a d d l e , ff experience, along with pbwer, technique and skill - all the things coach 'it was utter frustra- 723 French St Peter Ginnegar w i l l be try i n g to equip his teams with in the coming yeajs. tion, helplessness. I 454-4229 For now however, his team can only gain from the experiences they've hadn't missed one ad this year. u A l l the defeats can become discouraging, but we all know minute off play all sea- Jiere will be lot more hard times to go through before we can beconie a son, and vthen in the MERCYHURST'S quality team," said Rebecca Dubisz. "Rome wasn't built in a day, she most cruci a l game of t h e said. '£ — j 4 year! got injured. Night- Contd. from pg 8 way to finish our season," Vance. mare,'" saicH Waddle. "The lads were? oril» i » monster serve in the final," said Robson echoed Vance's re- PLAYING THIS marks saying, "Although we w e r e liant," he said, "they all Robson. know how to get t h e j o b Later inkhe day^Vance, only paired together half way through the season, we j e l l e d well done, they've got a lot SPECIALS ON DRINKS ARE FROM 9-ll:00PM partnered with Robson/went into of character." & ON FOOD FROM 8-12 MIDNIGHT the doubles final hoping to be together and we were both ex- tremely f focused to win every •?. Despite the disap- crowned |GLIAC champions. pointment at the f very They lost the first set in a tie- match we played." ? end, Waddle's superb I Monday Tuesday Wednesday break 7-6, but, then they changed The Hurst finished t h i r d in the [play throughout the year |$1.00 imports $1.25 pounders $.75 import draft conference, with a record of 6-2 the tactics and breezed through was rewarded in post $.15 wings the second set 6-2. and an overall record of 10-3. $.15 wings $2.00 medium season honors. He was pizzas down The team will be losing three named GLIAC Player tired seniors next year with the gradu- of the Year, First Team weekend's tennis. However, the ation ofiVyom Bhuta, Kevin All-Region, Regional Thursday Friday Saturday Daschner, and Markus Muenck. Hurst stepped up anothergear and Ail-American and cre- $1.25 pounders beers Introducing rallied to a 6-4 victory in the final The team will find it difficult to ated a record for most set. a It was a nerve racking expe- replace these three talents. On the $1.25 for 3 tacos $2.00 fat boys LAKER BE assists in a single sea- Happy Hour rience, but we held our nerve and brighter side freshman Scott son in Division II soc- & Karaoeke pulled through by the narrowest Robson was named to the All cer with 18. I &DJ I of margins. We played well to- GLIAC conference team, a great The awards have al- great achievement for his first year. PAGE 8 THE MERCIAD May 2,1996 Crew Are Happy By Jean Mc Feely cu instances? included the boat's Last, but by no means least into Merciad Sportswriier line up having to be switched around quite a bit due to injuries. actioiuwere the IVarsity men's eight. It seemed as if the regatta The Mercy hurst Crew team held The women's Varsity-eight was had saved the best until last, as its first home regatta in two years the next crew on the water. Last this race turned out to be the best last weekend. And home waters year saw the women score their race of t h e day. Buffalo, who usu- proved to be an advantage to the first win over Buffalo in quite ally has a fairly good men's team, crews as the Lakers won three out some time.. The eight continued was defeated easily by-the of the four races. that tradition on their home Mercyhurst men in the end. A Jast minute change to the waters, taking a definite lead location of the race course was from the very beginning. It was close with about 1,000m grounds enough for the Univer- With about 250m to go, coxie to go but the Hurst dropped the sity of Rochester and RIT to drop Heather Drake called for a power hammer, and opened up some out of the competition. However, piece, as she felt her women were water b e t w e e n t h e m s e l v e s and the Laker batter Dave Runco watches his ball fly. Laker hitters University of Buffalo and just "sitting on the lead." The Buffalo team. There were quite a few specta- Kevin Sweeney and Jeff Benedict had big weekends. Geneseo did arrive, and the Hurst team made its move and was able gave them a race, for their money. to open some more water before tors at the event considering the With only three crews in atten- they crossed the finish line in a last minute change in location, dance it was a quick day on the convincing first place. and the weather actually cooper- Baseball ! F e I l 9 Oakland ated this time. water. Local high school Up next were the, novice - By Scott Vance day and hit a home-run in each Mercyhurst Prep joined in for women. After a good race The team travels to Ohio this Merciad Sports Writer game. Sweeney had quite a pro- some experience. among all three teams, the girls weekend to compete in the MACRA race in "Columbus. ductive afternoon also as he had The first crew to take to the season of hard training paid off Originally the team was going to With two games canceled early four doubles. In Sunday ' s opener, water was the men's JV eights. when they finished first in their opt out of this race due to finan- in the week due to bad weather, junior Brian Lopez pitched a solid race. Junior Jenn Cloonan, who The boat battled hard but in the cial restrictions, but this race will the Lakers baseball team was well game and helped secure his team is also a member of the varsity end they had to settle for second give them another opportunity to tested heading i n t o t h i s w e e k e n d ' s a 9-7 victory. team, had to fill a seat in the place to U of B . Coach Chris Cole qualify for the ECAC Champion- four game home series against In the second game of the day, said that it was some of the best novice boat. She was obviously ship regatta in Worcester MA, Oak! and. Indeed, the lay-off m i g h t junior Clay "Boomer" Wood fin- rowing he's seen his men do un- quite pleased with her two first coming up May 12. account for t h e slow start the Lak- ished the weekend in fine style der the circumstances. Those cir- place finishes. ers had on Saturday as they suf- for the Lakers. Allowing only two fered an 8-1 defeat. runs, Wood held the Oakland bat- Despite losing the series opener, ters to their l e a s t productive game. Crew Survives Sudden S t o r m : which incidentally was only their On the other side, Benedict and second home loss of the year, the company drove in five runs to High School not lucky send Oakland back to Michigan a Lakers bounced back to win all waves were now crashing out in to the hospital and treated for ex- three remaining games. The team disappointed team. • This Tuesday morning the Erie the bay. posure. The Prep team also had improved their overall record to "The loss in the first g a m e made media was flooded with reports Still on the water, the varsity quite a bit of d a m a g e done to their 28-6, and hold a commanding first it three in a row, our worst slump regarding Mercyhurst Crews who women's team knew it would be boats, including one that was cut place lead in their c o n f e r e n ce with of the season," said Cutshall. were caught in the morning's v i o - too dangerous to try to make it in two when the Coast Guard ran a 13-4 record. "Thankfully, we seem to have lent f s t o r m . "It was almost too back tofthe dock. Instead they over it. Oakland came out swinging in gotten our confidence back and calm when we went out," said made their way to the rocky shore The Lakers teams are quite ex- the first game. Senior pitcher? hopefully we can?make l a good novice wome ns coxie Sarah Jeszu. by the Yacht club and managed to perienced now at the whole "cap- Casey Crawford turned in a solid run at the playoffs," he said. The women's team had decided get their boat out of the water. sized boat" safety procedure. The performance on the mound f for §j to remain on the bay for training Luckily, the college teams were men's team has capsized twice in the Lakers. However, he received This weekend the Lakers play this week, while the mens team relatively safe. However, the high the past two years. All the little help from his defense as Northwood in another four game headed for Findley Lake in search school's teams seemed to be hav- college coach boats are equipped they committed some costly er- home-series. The Michigan side of calmer waters. Both the ing some difficulty getting back with life j a c k e t s and walkie-talk- rors to allow the visitors to pull are languishing i n last place in the ? women's teams from the college, to shore. Novice coach Dan ies and the coaches are well versed away. Senior hitter Kevin| conference and should be no prob- and a few teams from the high McKay and novice rower Gail in on the water emergency proce- Sweeney hit a home-run for the lem to the Lakers. Play starts at 1 school were out! that morning. Golec headed out on to the rough dures. ^ | S Lakers, but it wasn't enough to p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.! "There was no warning that the waters to see if they could help. Due to Tuesday's mishap, the prevent an 8-1 Oakland win. : ™ Player-Of-The-Week water w a s going t o pick up," com- Golec got into one of the high high school has been fined $ 1 0 0 , Midway through the 6th inning * As a reward for his home-run mented many of the rowers. school's abandoned coach boats and has been questioned as to in game two the Lakers were down exploits, Benedict was named The women's novice team had and she and McKay began to re- why there were no emergency 1-0. Not for long though. Junior GLIAC Baseball player of the headed back into the dock when trieve cold and scared crews from procedures taught at the begin- Pat Cutshall got on board with a week. He batted .545 in the series, they noticed that the winds had all the chilly waters. Four members ning of the year. triple. Then Sweeney drove in the collecting six hits in lliat-bats of a sudden picked up and the of t h e high school team were taken tying run with single. Finally, up and scoring nine runs. > *• 1 stepped junior Jeff Benedict to Benedict picked a good week to give his team the lead with two* turn in his star p e r f o r m a n c e . There Delight For Tennis run homer. Junior Ralph Aldecoa was excitement among the play- got his team-leading seventh win By John Murphy back and won the doubles cham- ers as scouts from major league Scott Robson lead the way win- of the season as the Lakers ran out! Merciad Sports Editor pionship anchored by the vast farm teams were reportedly in the ning the doubles championships 6-3 winners. experience of Vance," said crowds at North East over the and finishing s e c o n d in singles. * Benedict was only warming up J weekend. H The Mercyhurst tennis team Mercyhurst Coach Ray Yost traveled to midland Michigan for Vance was next in line as he was Robson went into his singles for t he La kers. The forme r Cathe- crowned doubles champion and dral Prep star came out on Sun- I the GLIAC Championships last final full of confidence suffering weekend, and returned with mixed finished fourth in singles. only one defeat in the regular s 1996 BASEBALL STANDINGS GLIAC Overall success. The real success story Senior Ron Rambally finished son. He started off in fine style W L T w L T came from the foreign legion of third in both singles and doubles. and won the first set 7-5, but it Mercy hurst 13 4 0 28 6 0 Scott, Vance and Scott Robson, Fellow senior, Marcus Muenck was at this point that his Swedish Saginaw Valley State 10 5 1 16 12 2 who were crowned GLIAC finished fifth i n singles and third opponent stepped it up a gear and 6 0 24 16 0 Ashland 10 doubles champions. in doubles. Finally,T both Vyom rattled off the next two sets 6-2,6- Oakland 12 9 1 16 22 1 Bhuta and Kevin Daschner fin- 11 11 0 17 17 2 It was an action packed week- 1. "I knewjl'd do well if I got a Wayne State t end with matches* starting ati7 ished in third place in singles and good draw and I did. I played an Gannon L 6 7 0 14 17 0 sixth place in doubles. 10 22 2 a.m. on Friday morning and con- excellent semi- final g a m e , but I Grand Valley State 15 0 13 "It was a tremendous effort by 15 0 18 19 1 tinuing until 10:30 p.m. that night . wasi defeated by the Swede's Hillsdale both Vance and Robson. Although Northwood 7 15 0 15 20 0 There were mixed fortunes for the Hurst players, j Robson lost the singles he came