Donnelly Work Starts up Again

Lion-tamers THE Women's b-ball CIRCLE "• '"C6iunib'»altiti>::'''' VOLUME 37. NUMBER 10 MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. DECEMBER 13,1990 Renovations ahead of schedule Two frosh Pardy gets pruned dismissed for Donnelly work pulling alarms by MATTHEW WARD starts up again; Staff Writer Two freshmen have been dismissed from the college for pull new roof in June ing false alarms on the second and and 102 and science labs, and of third floors in Leo on November by DAN HULL fices will be completed by Jan. 20, 16, according to college officials. News Editor followed by the remaining offices Michael McCrory and Martin and classrooms. Murphy pulled the alarms early The Board of Trustees approv Renovations and construction that mornings after returning from ed last week a revised construction time to the upper level include: Sidetracked, a bar on Parker schedule of the renovations of — Financial Aid and Business Avenue, Poughkeepsie, according Donnelly Hall, which will extend Offices, Feb. 20 — March 30 to Joseph Leary, director of safe the building period into June and — Student lounge and Academic ty and security. save the college money, according Services Offices, March 20 — April The Poughkeepsie fire chief and to Executive Vice President Mark Sullivan. 15. the Town of Poughkeepsie police — Academic Services Offices, discussed the case with Leary, and The Pizzagalli Construction April 15 — May 15 agreed not to press criminal charges Company proposed to move up the — Registrar's Offices, April 15 provided there was severe building schedule by six months — June 15 disciplinary action taken. Leary and stretch the construction period. Work on the roof and the park said he strongly requested dismissal Construction has already started on ing lot will follow these comple from the college. classrooms on the first floor. The tions, Sullivan said. "It has to be shown that this is new plans will save the college about $500,000, Sullivan said. Sullivan said he does not expeu a very serious and dangerous act," the construction to cause excessive said Mr. Leary. Original plans had construction disruptions. The report of the incident was beginning in May and being com In short, the renovations to the turned in to Peter Amato on on pleted over the summer. However, upper level involve moving the cafe Monday Nov. 19, and McCrory both Marist and Pizzagalli adjacent to the top portion of the and Murphy were dismissed from Circle photo/Matt Martin representatives now consider the greenhouse, he said. The Offices of housing within 24 hours. plans unrealistic. Career Development and Field Ex The two freshmen denied the ac Football Coach Rick Pardy gets his hair cut while team Sullivan said the Pizzagalli pro perience, Higher Education Oppor cusations at first but later admit members look on. Pardy promised his team that if it went posal included the cost for an tunity Program, Learning Resource ted to the charge after dozens of in undefeated in conference play, he would have it cut "high estimated $300,000 roof and the Center and Academic Counseling terviews with students produced and tight." Worried that if he let the team do the honors he recasting and expansion of the would occupy the same general comments pointing to them, Leary might lose all his hair, Pardy brought along his own barber. Donnelly parking lot. He said the area, but include the area where the said. The Red Foxes posted a 5-0 mark in Atlantic Collegiate Foot additional work will not exceed the cafe is currently located, he said. revised $4 million project budget The two students will be permit ball Conference play, winning the first title in Marist College The Department of Education ted to reapply to Marist next set by the Buildings and Grounds history. has paid the college $375,000 of a September, Leary said. and Finance Committees. $500,000 grant towards the renova According to the schedule, new tion costs. classrooms replacing Donnelly 100 Perusing in the periodical piles; Senior records songs students say they want more on first album with dad — Student aides have more time The articles and pages remain by TOM KELLY By DAN HULL to help students with microfilm missing until microfilm versions of Staff writer the periodical arrive, usually six News Editor machines and locating journals, in "Feliz Navidad" could very well have been Sheila Noonan's debut addition to reshelving periodicals months into the next year for most The end of the semester marks and loading copy machines. journals, said Bull. He said single. one year since Audio — Lines of students Avaiting to microfilm for weekly journals are When Noonan, a senior communication arts major, was born in Visual/Periodicals Librarian Greg be served are eliminated. distributed every three months. November of 1968, a nurse mistakenly interpreted her father's Irish Bull switched the periodicals policy "The bottom line becomes: brogue to be saying "Nunez" instead of "Noonan". McGinty said most So when Paddy Noonan arrived home with baby Nunez, his wife sent from closed-stacks to open-stacks. undergraduate schools the same When do the students realize Generally, both Bull and Library they're hurting themselves and him back to the hospital to return her, and retrieve the real Shiela Noonan. size as Marist have an open stacks "Who knows what I would have been singing if I was brought up in Director John McGinty said the policy. their fellow students," McGinty open stacks policy, which allows said. "The moral responsibility of the Nunez clan," said Noonan. "I just know that I would be singing However, allowing students to something." students to browse freely through browse through the periodicals in the students is not to rip off the the periodicals, is successful and periodicals." Noonan's soft, high voice can now be heard on vinyl: She recently vites such problems as stealing and made her recording debut when she sang on her father's album titled will remain. tearing pages out for convenience, In an effort to curtail theft, "There's no reason to (switch about $10,000 was invested chang "Paddy Noonan's Irish Christmas." The album was released by Rego McGinty said. Records in Garden City, N.Y. last month. Paddy Noonan has produced back); the library is going forward, He said when the policy was ing the locks on the 12 library ex not going backward," said its. The old exit doors could be and sung on more than 20 records. new, students were caught stealing "I sing four songs on the album: 'Christmas Song,' 'Mary's Child,' McGinty. periodicals almost on a daily basis, opened at anytime, while the new The closed stacks policy locks open only during an 'It's Christmas Time,' and 'Did Santa Come From Ireland,' said Noonan. including 10 in one night. "My favorite and best song of mine on the album is 'Did Santa Come restricted periodicals to student If a student is caught stealing or emergency. aides, which often produced lines From Ireland' — because I think he did." tearing pages, security is called and Noonan was born and raised in Garden City, N.Y. where she still lives of students waiting to be served — the student is made an example of. Also, a $700 drill press and especially during mid-term and plastic ties, worth about $400, were today with her parents and two sisters, Joyce and Colleen. She said her One of the advantages of the family is very proud of their heritage and have made many visits to what final examinations. closed stacks policy was it required purchased over the summer so that McGinty said the advantages of many editions of a journal can be she calls "God's country" and what her parents used to call home. Her students to leave an identification father was born and raised in Cork, while his wife, Margaret Joyce, came the open stacks policy were the card as collateral, reducing the in tied together, making the bunch primary reason for the change. difficult to conceal for the student from the county of Connemara. centive to steal. "My parents have been very influential and encouraging to me especial The advantages be cited were: The more popular magazines are attempting to steal them. — The collection is more ly with regard to singing," said Noonan. "When I was younger my the most common victims of pages parents would take me to Ireland and I would watch my father perform available to students by allowing being torn out, said Bull. Usually, Students have access to four them to browse. copy machines which should Irish songs in different pubs and I always wanted to get up on stage and one finds just the cover of Rolling sing with him." — About 40 percent of the Stone magazine and pages of discourage students from stealing periodicals were converted to and vandalizing journals, but "When I was 8 years old, I was at a Christmas party where my father magazines such as Time, was singing, and I asked him if I could sing one of his songs on stage," microfilm, making it easier for Newsweek and Vogue missing, he students complain the machines are students to find what they are look often not working. Noonan said. "He said yes, and I guess you could say that was the start said. of my singing career." ^ AN page 2 • ing for. ...see LIBRARY page 15 • N00N THE CIRCLE, DECEMBER 13, 1990 3 THE CIRCLE ODDS & ENDS DECEMBER 13,1990 Schools replace 'freshman' with 'first-year' Students try by HELEN ARROYO "freshman," according to "The Nevertheless, DiCaprio said she While there are many who are in new course Chronicle of Higher Education." is not opposed to using "first year favor of adopting a more gender- Staff Writer - • While many people fear the loss student" in programming and neutral term, others at Marist are Up to Date The term "freshman" may soon of a tradition held since colleges meetings.

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