The College of Staten Island e BANNER March 14,2005

David Maltz

March 7—WSIA’s new General Manager, Scott Saloway, entered his office on the sec­ ond day of his job, eager to meet students and understand the station’s needs. Saloway has noth­ ing but praise for the job, the staff, and for what WSIA’s Chief Engineer John Ladley has done to improve MeUissa Seecharan the station. “The stu­ dios are fantastic. John Ladley has done an Kevin S.P. Mamakas March 3rd—CSI’s Student Government incredible job building held a series of in-house elections to fill them,” he said. “They four vacant Senator seats. A single are better than some of espite CSI’s track record of hiring freshman/sophomore position and three the stations I’ve Dpredominantly white, male faculty junior/senior seats were up for grabs. worked at.” and staff, CSI’s newly hired Director of Despite a small field of five nomi­ Saloway praised Compliance and Diversity, Kevin nees for the junior/senior position, each WSIA’s new General Manager, New Jersey native Scott Saloway, said his first meeting with Antoine, does not believe that the the college’s commit­ CSI students convinced him that the position was right for him. “When I came for that first of the candidates was allowed two min­ ment to WSIA. “It real­ interview, that’s when I realized just how incredible the station is,” he said. “The students Departments are acting out of racial bias. utes for a brief introductory speech. ly seems that the col­ know what they’re doing. They’re as good, or better than some people I’ve seen in com­ “I haven’t been here long enough to mercial radio.” Senators then grilled those vying for the lege wants the station know for sure, but I don’t think it is pur­ coveted seats for over a half hour. to succeed more than it already has,” he get to the point that people know that posely prejudiced,” Antoine said. Senator Ronald Glenn simply asked the said. “I think that this group of students WSIA is out there.” “Historically, some processes could be a candidates, "Why Student and the future groups of students that The head of the search committee, result from the 1960’s and 70’s.” Government?" while other Senators will be trained by them will make it more CSI Director of Student Life Carol No matter what the cause, an explored the nominees ability to discrim­ and more successful, and will treat it as Brower, expressed confidence in Affirmative Action Committee will, after inate between their friendships and more of a professional endeavor.” Saloway. “There is every indication that a long hiatus, soon be reinstated at col- beliefs. “I want to get this station more rec­ he’ll be a great General Manager,” she ognized”, he said. “I would really like to Continued on page 3 Continued on page 3

Thomas Lanza attend. “I brought the same shirt I always The description on the ripped, red t-shirt bring to these events,” said Lopez. “It read, “You said you would never hurt signifies independence and strength. If I me, but tell my fractured skull that!” It could do it, so can they” was just one shirt among the multi-col­ “I came here to support my sister,” ored array of various t-shirts hanging on said Anita Smith. “Her boyfriend beat her this virtual ‘clothesline’ that Michelle to death on their anniversary, and this shirt shows that family and friends are Kevin Antoine, CSI’s new Director of Compliance and Lopez has seen. Diversity, believes that some hiring practices at CSI From Feburary 25 to March 4, CSI victims of this type of abuse as well.” “could be a result from the 1960’s and 70’s.” Antoine produced one of many Domestic The Clothesline Project began in plans to create a new Affinnative Action Committee, and 1990 when members of the Cape Cod is revising the Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Violence Clothesline projects that have Committee. been hanging on college campuses Women's Agenda decided to hang a nationwide. The projects encourage clothesline across their town in Hyannis, lege. Such a Committee, required in the women to write a case of domestic Massachusetts. It consisted of 31 shirts school’s bylaws, will be comprised of abuse that they have experienced on a t- Murray State University in Kentucky joined CSI in a designed by survivors of assault, incest, both students and faculty. The Diversity, shirt . They then hang their shirt on the Domestic Violence Clothesline project, which has gone and rape. Women who viewed the Compliance, and Affirmative Action up on college campuses throughout the country. clothesline for all the world to read. clothesline then decided to come forward Department will join faculty and stu­ “I’ve been following these events go, no one to run to.” That was, until, and create shirts of their own. The rest, dents to work on issues that affect the since around 1999,” said Lopez. “After she saw an advertisement for the is history. my fiance attacked me, I had nowhere to Continued on Page 3 Clothesline Project and decided to Continued on page 3 'eljc ?s*rtu JJork Simcs ^BANNER

“Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Tuition Hike Has Got To Go!”

Kevin S.P. Mamakas financial aid!” Every CSI student should let our rep­ resentatives know that we don’t want a onday, March 7, 2005 Albany - For tuition hike of any kind, and we don’t want the umpteenth time, Higher M financial aid cuts. What we want is our Education Lobby Day took place so stu­ financial aid fully funded. We want the dents all over New York can learn what opportunity programs restored and their representatives are doing for them. increased. We want more funding for the This year, however, is different from any CUNY operating budget. other year. ‘The legislature knows how impor­ If the Governor’s budget is not over­ tant financial aid is,” said CSI Student ridden there will be another tuition Government President Dwight Dunkley. increase. That means, for the first time, He was very pleased that CSI was well the student paid tuition revenue would represented in Albany. “CSI had good rep­ cover more than half of the operating resentation because NYPIRG and budget at SUNY and nearly half of the Student Government worked together.” total CUNY operating budget. CSI’s NYPIRG and Student Government contingent sojourned north to Albany to protest the latest tuition hikes. “The leg­ islature knows how important financial aid is,” said CSI Student Government President Dwight Dunkley. He was very Dunkley went to 5 delegation meetings - This Lobby Day, a busload of CSI pleased that CSI was well represented in Albany. “CSI had good representation because NYPIRG and Student Government three more than required, to make sure students went to Albany to show that we worked together.” Dunkley went to 5 delegation meetings, three more than required, to make sure that CSPs voice was that CSI’s voice was heard by as many want to be a part of the fight against tuition heard by as many Assembly members and Senators offices as possible. Assembly members and Senators offices increases, TAP restructuring, and cuts to Dan Beyer, said, “It is worth it to fight.” opportunity programs. CSI student as possible. financial aid and opportunity programs. Courtney Rucker, a person who is just We were all joined together because The most important lesson of the day Despite the fact that State support for starting to get into a student leadership we realized the $250 increase to CUNY is could all be summed up in a few words. Higher Education has decreased in the role, was influenced to join Lobby Day terrible for students and families. We all Dan Beyer put it best when he said, “More last decade, CSI students of all sorts were because it is something she believes in, “I joined together because 58% of us use students have to get involved to make a letting their voices heard. The newly am interested in fighting for what I believe TAP. We all joined together because difference, because the issue involves all elected NYPIRG Board Representative 28,000 New York State students use in,” she said. “I come to school because of students."

The Race for West Side Stadium May See Mayor Mike Crushed H Lobby Local Politicians @ Support CUNY Org Cay Hall Under the Weight of His Own Convictions IB______J- t t

Matt Safford stance and the Mayor's on the issue of New Web Site Gives Anyone With Internet editable version of the letter itself. All you the West Side Stadium. Access and 10 Minutes of Spare Time the have to do is replace the blank line with With less than seven months until the On the issue of the 2012 Olympics, Chance to Show Politicians The "The College of Staten Island" and click NYC Mayoral election, Republican which Bloomberg insists on linking to the Importance of CUNY. the "send this message button" and con­ Incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg is Jets Stadium, New Yorkers are much firm your information on the next page. making some strange decisions. more enthusiastic: nearly 2/3 support Matt Safford You don’t even have to write your name Regardless of the fact that a recent bringing the Games to the City. Yet the and address, all that is done for you. Quinnipiac poll showed that little more Mayor continues to reject the possibility That's why you had to register way back than a third of NYC voters approved of of getting one without the other. In the 10 minutes most of us spend at the beginning of this paragraph. the controversial West Side Stadium, "If you're against the stadium, between classes grabbing a smoke, a There are other interesting features Mayor Mike seems intent on making this you're against the Olympics," said the drink, or a sugary snack, on the SupportCUNY.org site, but they matter --and his support for it- the main Mayor at a recent press conference. SupportCUNY.org allows anyone with are all intuitive enough that you can eas­ issue of the upcoming election season. This type of rhetoric calls to mind the oft Internet access to contact their local ily discover them on your own. The one Perhaps he's going for that unwa­ maligned "You are either with us, or politicians and show their support for that needs to be mentioned however, so vering, stick with your decisions through against us" speech made by President CUNY, their ire over the proposed tuition that it doesn't get overlooked, is the "tell thick and thin policy that seems to work Bush a couple months after 9/11. hike, or cutbacks to financial aid. If a friend" link in the upper right corner of for President Bush, but Bloomberg does­ Whether or not this same type of sto­ you've been looking for a way to try and the front page. Make sure you click that n't have red state voters to back him up. icism in the face of opposition will work make your voice heard, but don't have one, and send the link to your parents, This is a decidedly blue constituency for Bloomberg, remains to be seen. But the time to go to rallies or join NYPIRG, professors, older siblings who've already he's dealing with here, and he would like­ Mike would do well to remind himself this is your chance. graduated, and anyone else who you ly do better to play up his successes, that NYC is not America, and our city All you have to do after pointing your think would want to spend a few minutes such as the 311 program. overwhelmingly rejected Bush in last browser to the site, is click the "Sign up in support of our City University System. For his own part, one Democratic year's election. with Support CUNY" link in the upper Letters on the site specifically written for rival-City Council Speaker Gifford Miller- The still crowded field of Democratic right corner, type in your full name, email non-students will make it just as easy for -has recently taken the clear, vocal stand Mayoral hopefuls has taken a clear stand and snail mail address, create a pass­ them to do their part. The more our politi­ against the West Side Stadium that John on the public’s side of this fence, and the word, and you're good to go. After con­ cians hear from all the people positively Kerry likely wishes he made against the more creative of the bunch are looking at firming the data you entered, you'll be affected by CUNY, the more they will Iraq war. "The bottom line is that I have alternative sites for a stadium in another taken directly to a page with tabs on the understand its importance. fought and will keep on fighting against borough. Bloomberg’s assertion that he top. Click the "To Do" tab, and you'll see If enough of us raise our voices, we this stadium," Said Miller in his February knows better than the public about what 10 descriptions of pages which allow you can put the fear of the CUNY voter in the 24 State of the City Speech, "so that my is best for our city, may prove preten­ to send letters about various minds of our politicians. And if that fear children and your children won't end up tious. Placing the 600 million dollar West CUNY/Student related subjects. Clicking remains with them when they vote on paying for this terrible mistake." Other Side Stadium between himself and on any one of the corresponding "take issues involving higher education, we Democratic hopefuls such as Fernando reelection is just bad business. action" buttons will send you to an can only end up with a better-funded, Ferrer and Virginia Fields have drawn Bloomberg, more than other candidate, higher-quality academic experience. similar lines in the sand between their should know better than that. March 14,2005

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CLOTHESLINE DIVERSITY AT CSI SALOWAY ON THE JOB Staff continuedfi-om pone I continued from pone I continued from page 1

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “I have been to Clothesline Projects said. “I have very high expectations for college. all over the United States,” said Lopez. him.” JENNIFER MOSSCROP Antoine also would also like CSI stu­ “Alabama, Minnesota, Arkansas, even “I am thrilled,” said Ladley. “I’ve dents to know that the Compliance and Alaska, and just on Staten Island alone been covering many of the responsibili­ MANAOINC; EDI TOR Diversity Department also works on sex­ the numbers are huge, picture the cause ties that the General Manager has.” ual harassment and discrimination cases DAVIE) MALTZ as a whole.” Ladley also expressed relief that the affecting students and staff members. Since that first display in 1990, the search is over. “The first time showed COMICS EDI TOR He is revising the Sexual Harassment project has grown to as many as 300 us how hard it can be,” he said in refer­ and Discrimination Committee so that it Clothesline Projects. There are currently ence to the first failed search. “I’m glad ENRIQUE INOCENTE will have more meaning to the CSI com­ over 35,000 shirts made, and the num­ this time it worked out.” munity. Student Government has been bers grow larger every time a woman Saloway said his first meeting with ADP PACE EDITOR asked to elect a student to serve on the decides to step forward. students convinced him that this posi­ committee. The Domestic Violence Clothesline tion was right for him. “When I came for MATTHEW SAFFORD Kevin Antoine has already met with Project has proved to be a life-changing that first interview, that’s when I realized different departments about diversifying ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT event for many women. “It has been just how incredible the station is,” he incoming faculty. The goal is to get CSI amazing here,” said Lopez. “These said. “The students know what they’re to be on the same level of diversity as doing. They’re as good, or better than MELLISSA SEECHARAN shirts are so significant, I just don’t have the rest of CUNY. The Banner reported the words for it, but it shows us that we some people I’ve seen in commercial earlier this semester that in 2003, 17.9 SEX COLUMNIST made it through the storm, the hard part radio.” percent of CUNY Executive is over.” Saloway has been interested in a Compensation Plans (for the career in radio since he was a child. His JESSICA MENDEZ Clotheslines have been displayed Chancellor, College Presidents, Vice- at schools, universities, shopping malls, first radio job came at the age of 16, Presidents, Provosts, and Deans), go to HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER churches, and various womens events when he got the chance to keep stats people of Black ethnicity. CSI’s 2003 pro­ around the world. The Clothesline is basketball games for WMTR of file showed no Black members of this LUKE CRISALLI more than just a reminder of women Morristown, New Jersey. “I was keeping group. Antoine believes this needs to be who are violated and killed through vio­ stats for high school football games and changed. lence. It is an opportunity for survivors it was a job I just fell into,” he said. “I STAFF Antoine asserted that a first step to to rebuild through reading stories and used to have to have my mom drive me resolve issues of staff diversity is a talking to women who have been to the football games because I didn’t requirement that each Department pro­ ORUME A-HAYS through the same problems. It repre­ have my license yet. You had to be 17 vide a list all job applicants before the to drive in New Jersey.” AMANDA FOOTE sents a chance to help prevent the next interview process begins. The Diversity, assault, the next rape, or worse, the next While attending Boston University, DOMINIC FIDUCCIA Compliance, and Affirmative Action murder. Saloway worked at an internship at KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS Department can then review which appli­ About 1.5 million women are National Public Radio affiliate WBUR in GREG TUMBARELLO cants may be qualified. “I don’t want to attacked each year, and the statistics Boston, Massachusetts. “There was an see any Ph.D. candidates that were of continue to increase each and every day. incredible news broadcasting and spe­ color not having an interview for a job “I was raped on my first date,” said cial event coverage,” he said. “It was CONT RIB U TO RS that they are more than qualified for,” Angela Rivera. “Being here right now completely professionally run, even said Antoine. and meeting people that live close to me though it was an independent station.” Antoine also believes that CUNY’s THOMAS BRADLEY who have been through the same thing After graduating with a Bachelor’s Scholars' Programwill provide a good THOMAS LANZA has possibly given me the courage to of Science in Journalism in January of opportunity for CSI to appoint “More VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO finally try out a second date.” 2002, Saloway continued to work at female faculty members of color.” BRIAN GONZALEZ The U.S. Department of Justice WBUR for two more years. From Any students who believes they reports that 25 percent of women will be WBUR, Saloway went to WKRK in have been the victim of discrimination or raped or physically assaulted sometime Sunbury, Pennsylvania, as a news sexual harassment should contact FACULTY ADVISOR in their life. The report also stated that in anchor and reporter. He spent a short Antoine at the Diversity, Compliance, 2004, around 1500 women were mur­ time working in public relations, before and Affirmative Action Department, (718) FREDERICK KAUFMAN dered by their intimate partner. spending the last two years working as 982-2250. an Operations Manager for Liberty Broadcasting in Newark, New Jersey. It might come as no surprise that Saloway learned about WSIA’s also elected as the Technology Fee SG'S NEW PICKS After two rounds of paper ballot vot­ General Manager position from the ing, Banerjee won the lone Commissioner, defeating Vanessa continued from pane i mass media. “I was flipping through the Joseph and Robert Duru, while Peri freshman/sophomore seat, defeating paper one day, and happened upon the "I want to be a part of Student Fisher received the majority of votes to three other candidates. It took the addi­ advertisement in the Star-Ledger," he Government because this is where tional vote of SG President, Dwight become Cirriculum Commissioner. said. “On a lark I decided to apply. It everything happens," said Tara LaPera, Dunkley, who only intervened "in the Nominations for the Spring 2005 seemed like something interesting, a a candidate for the freshman/sophomore interest of time," to give Banerjee the Student Elections are currently under­ good next step. At about the same time seat and a former Senator. "Ideas are way. Students can apply to run for posi­ win. I found out that my company was being made and processed here." Although three Junior/Senior seats tions on the Student Government, CSI sold and going to be moved to another When asked by Student were available, Krystian Gargasz was Association, Auxiliary Services, College state.” the only nominee in attendance for the Council, and the Faculty Disciplinary Government Vice President, Taiwo Students at WSIA appeared Committee. Olasuo what ideas would the candidates position. Gargasz unanimously won his relieved and happy that Saloway had like to bring to the student leader body, spot on Student Government. Despite an increase in voter turnout finally started his job as General answers from each nominee didn't vary Senators Chris Holder and Peri last year, there is still a need for more Manager. “You have to have a GM,” to any great extent. "I'd increase school Fisher were both nominated for Student participation from the student body. "We said Robert Perez. “Mr. Ladley can’t do spirit," said freshman, Singdha Banerjee. Service Commissioner, but Holder want to make sure more people vote," everything. It’s like one of those While Junior Krystian Gargasz stated defeated Fisher 8-2 after the Senators said Senator Robert Duru. The deadline Christmas gifts. You wait three years that he would seek to "unify the college agreed to use the roll call method instead for nominee applications is April 1 st, with and now we got it.” community and get them more aware of of raising hands. voting taking place the week of April 11th activities and other things." Senator Stephanie Donoso was - 16th in the Library and Campus Center.

THH BANNER IS PUBLISHED BY LHE STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND. ALL WORKS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS PUBLICATION ARE THE PROPERTY OF THEIR CREATORS, AND ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW. NO MATERIALS WITHIN THIS PUB1 ICATiON MAY BE REPRINTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN ANY FORM, WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE EDITORS. OUR OFFICE IS LOCATED AT 2800 VICTORY BLVD, BUILDING l-C, ROOM 22S, STATEN ISLAND, NY, 10314. OUR NEWS BUREAU C AN BE REACHED AT (718) 982-3116. FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION DIAL (718) 982-3116. FAX (718) 982-3087. OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE THOSE OF THE WRITERS, AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY THE BANNER STAFF OR THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND. HIE BANNER IS NOT A PUBLICATION OF THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND AND THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF THE BANNER. 3 l STATEN ISLAND’S SONS OF THE WORKING CLASS NOT PERMITTED THE WRITER’S LIFE

family business? I ask these questions All this while, the working-class mediocrity. Thomas Bradley and decide I’m just being a wimp. trudge along, glass ceiling looming above Now, I’m sure plenty of successful The sons of the working class are, in their heads, heading toward pension writers have come from the working class, and there’s a shot for everybody, “Yeah, keep readin’. There’s nothing to the world I know, not permitted the so- plans that leave you working a side job to regardless of your father’s yearly income. do around here. Leave that up to me. I called eccentricity of wanting to be a live your last years respectably. If I say But it’s more about the mentality than the only pay the mortgage and do everything writer. We are so busy trying to “get our I’m an English Major, there is the ever popular response, “So why you wanna be money. My father doesn’t want me to fail, else around the house. But you keep sit- acts together,” or “growing up” that there but he doesn’t understand. He doesn’t tin’ there with your little books . ..” is little time for emotion, and even less a teacher?” Never, “So what are you time to discuss these emotions. We chil­ going to write?” If I had said I wanted to see why his son “always gotta be startin’ try to tune him out, not pay attention to dren of the working class are in a unique be an actor or a painter, there are the somethin.” I’m not trying to rock the boat. such ignorance. But his barbs have cut position, for we occupy the no-man’s-land inevitable mumblings of, “Yeah, Tom I’m not trying to break the mold. All I want my mood to shreds and I have just read of the social stratosphere. Not quite poor, Bradley thinks he is gonna be a painter or is to write, and yeah, maybe I do want to Ian entire page without concentrating on a (we take pride in that fact) and not quite somethin’. I’m so sure. Where’s the teach. single word. So I put my book down and ask my “You’re retarded,” I finally answer. dad, “What do you want me to do?” “You realize how ridiculous you sound, I could tell my father one hundred timeswhat would make me happy, He continues tying up the garbage Right?” I say these words with a squint in and if it doesn’t have insurance benefits or no one he knows is in that bag and without looking up says, my eyes and a tilt of my head, my hands line of work, he will shake his head and shrug his shoulders. My “Whatever makes you happy.” But I know held out as if to show there is nothing in father doesn’t want me to fail, but he doesn t understand. He doesn’t he’s half lying to himself because I could them. see why his son “always gotta be startin ’somethin ’. ” I’m not trying tell him one hundred times in a row what This isn’t an unusual turn of events would make me happy and if it doesn’t but for some reason I can’t contain my to rock the boat. I’m not trying to break the mold. All I want is to have insurance benefits or no one he disgust, my disgust with everything—my write, and yeah, maybe I do want to teach. knows is in that line of work, he will shake house, my family, myself. I know I should his head and shrug his shoulders. be reading more, writing more, but how well-off (the rich are stuffy and who would money in that?” I don’t know what I will do with my many articles and essays have been writ­ want all that property to mow anyway?). Had I been from the upper class, my English degree from working-class CSI. I ten in James Joyce’s kitchen with his The rich are educated in the best mother might have sent me to an art tutor might write, I might teach, I might do both, father demanding that he “do something,” schools, given the best chance of mone­ and spoken to a friend of a friend about I might do neither. Whatever I do, there with brothers fighting over something nei­ tary success and have the innate feeling getting me a show. Or maybe, had I been will be mumblings and begrudgings from ther one really wants, and mother wishing of “better than them” coursing through a member of the lower class, I would my friends with cop uniforms and broker’s everyone would stop screaming at the their blue blood. The poor are a united have been encouraged to do anything I briefcases. top of their voices and just, simply, speak. front against the oppressive upper-class­ could to get out, to have my voice heard, But hey, Richard Wright was a mail­ I mean, how many novels did Gustav es. They are given a sense of identity to let people know where I was from. But man. William Baldwin worked in a factory. Flaubert pump out with everyone he through struggle, and are permitted the no. I’m from the working-class. And here Maybe being working class can work for knew joining civil services, doing con­ privileges of the arts as a means of rising we put down the ones who break ranks me. After all, that’s what we do best: struction, or preparing to take over the above their poverty. and berate those who question our forced Work.

EVERY GENERATION HAS ITS HEROES IS ONE IS NO DIFFERENT.

Improve your leadership skills and earn an additional income while you train close ? to home and family. With over. . 120 careers to choose from, the Army Reserve is your - chance to make a difference in your life and in the future of your country. Find out more at GOARMYRESERVE.COM or k call 1-800-USA-ARMY.

Learn how you can serve Your Career and Where: North Shore Recruiting Station Your Country When- MON to SAT 9 am to 6 pm v Who: SGT John Mcdonnell

ARMY RESERVE mssm March 14,2005 Editor s Desk

ould you look at that—it’s March Walready. That means we’re half MattSafford ers, and flash-memory players. The type knell for floppy disks, flash players hold way through the Spring semester and that's right for you, depends mostly on your songs in solid state memory. This ready to take those Midterms. For me, tanding at a school bus stop in the what you plan to do with it. makes them tougher, smaller, and less March means The Banner has hit the Ssub-zero air of a January morning in There's no doubt that the iPod is a likely to be D.O.A. after they hit your halfway point for this semester’s issues. upstate NY nearly 15 years ago, I looked superbly designed player which com­ kitchen floor at 9.8 m/sec2. So if your Yep, only four more issues left after around at the dozen or so kids standing bines great features with simple, intuitive regular music-listening routine involves this. Which I’m sure many people are near me. Most of them held Walkman controls. And lets admit it, it looks great. anything more active than a casual stroll happy about. Because it seems to me knock-offs in their gloved hands. Music If you're looking for function over form to the corner 7-11, one of these players that people on campus complain when was the best way to pass the time on the however, Rio's excellent Karma player is is your best bet. While they do hold far The Banner publishes too many fluff long, bumpy ride over the back roads to a wise choice, as it plays a wider variety less music than your average hard drive pieces or seem to be kissing up to the school. As the bus pulled slowly up to our of file formats, has a longer-lasting bat­ player, the newer models tend to max out administration. But when The Banner stop, and the kids began to get on, I tery and costs about a hundred dollars at one gigabyte of storage. A large col­ actually breaks through with stories that looked down to my hands, which held not lection of music they won't hold, but a gig concern students! hear complaints about a cassette player, but a brand-new If you are thinking about is enough room for about 200 mp3s, or that too. This paradox of the college portable CD player, which I purchased between 15 and 20 of your favorite getting an mp3 player for press has taught me two things: 1. You over winter break, after successfully albums. The better players in this cate­ really can’t make everyone happy; and 2. hoarding my Christmas cash. yourself there are a few things gory -such as Creative's MuVo line- People love to complain. I've always been an early adopter of to keep in mind. . . make it as easy as possible to upload So, what is this editor to do? Don’t technology, particularly audio technolo­ and offload music as well. Changing the know, just keep on doing what I’ve been gy. So its no surprise that when most of less. But the problem with these players, songs is as easy as plugging the player doing. Just keep L-l-V-l-N. us were still enamored with discmans in as well as the iPod mini, is that they use into your computer's USB port, dragging Whcih brings me to my next beef. the mid 1990's, I was ripping my CDs miniature hard drives to store songs. In and dropping. One of the Banner’s newer staff mem­ onto my computer in the form of mp3s. the sense that this allows for the storage Looking back on those days sitting bers embarrassed me, my staff, and all As soon as they became available, I pur­ of a huge amount of tracks -say upwards in the patched, green vinyl seats of the CSI students and faculty who attended chased my first mp3 player, and haven't of 500 albums on the higher capacity school bus, listening to music I'd be the CUNY Media Conference on Friday, looked back since. Instead, I've always iPod- this is a good thing. But hard drives embarrassed to talk about today, I could­ March 4th. And after a few phone calls, looked ahead. As the technology are essentially spinning plates of glass. If n't have imagined that a decade and a even Vice President of Student Affairs, evolved, I've ditched player after player you drop any one of these players while half later, I'd be carrying around thou­ Carol Jackson knew about what had for better features, more storage, and those plates are whirring, chances are sands of songs in the palm of my hand. I happened. So what did this Banner con­ higher build quality. But aside from their you'll end with a couple-hundred-dollar was as enamored with my CD player as tributor do that was so off the charts? ever-shrinking size and cosmetic paperweight. So if you think you'd like to I am with my mp3 player today. But I'm The new Dean of the future CUNY improvements like color screens, the do some exercise while listening to your still looking ahead. Perhaps in another Graduate School of Journalism was technology has settled down, and come tunes, or if you're like me, and expensive 15 years, we'll be listening to music delivering the Media Conference’s of age for the masses. things fall out of your hands on a regular streaming instantly through the airwaves Keynote address to a packed If you're thinking of getting an mp3 basis, read on. from servers containing every album Proshansky Auditorium. After the player for yourself however, there are a Flash-based players, while capable recorded in the last century. I don't know speech, it was time to take questions, at few things to keep in mind. Basically, of holding far fewer songs, have no mov­ what the future has in store for portable which point this Banner contributor went there are two types of players which are ing parts. Similar to USB flash drives music, but I'm sure whatever it is, it'll be up to the microphone and, with the popular at the moment: hard drive play­ which are quickly sounding the death- music to my ears. CUNY TV cameras rolling, stated his name and then he said he was from, “the College of Stupid Idiots.” I was shocked, as was the entire Complaints, Fears, Rants, and Praise CSI community. So, I will take a deep breath and apologize for this disgraceful How to Appeal a CPE Grade behavior that unfortunately came from appeal and then the Course and Queens but they never show or men­ the mouth of a Banner staff member. I Standing Committee will review the test. tion Staten Island. They may introduce As of September 1,2003 all students must want to make it clear that the Banner has After a waiting period of about a week about the free ferry to Manhattan but pass a CUNY Proficiency Examination distanced itself from these thoughtless and a half the student should have their not Staten Island in general. Also, in (CPE) in order to graduate. This exam is comments. This staff member has since verdict. If you feel that your CPE was the Japanese guidebooks of New York, supposed to demonstrate that students been taken off his beat, and suspended misgraded, call (718)-982-2391. they have almost no information about have a certain level of academic literacy. A - Corrine Kovalsky from the staff. Not to mention the fact Staten Island. Therefore, none of the student may take the CPE a maximum of that we all gave him a good talking to. Were Japanese Students Conned? Japanese understand exactly where three times. So you failed the test but you Perhaps the lesson we should take from and what Staten Island is. want to appeal, what happens next? this unfortunate occurrence is that each “Why did you choose to come to Staten There were no good pictures that A couple of years ago I took the CPE. and every one of us represents our col­ Island?” That is what everybody asks me described CSI accurately on the I was told that I had failed the exam and lege, and we should take this responsi­ as soon as they know I am an interna­ brochure. Japanese students were told would have to retake it. This decision was bility very seriously. tional student. It is true that there are that “Staten Island is in a calm part of unacceptable to me. At the time I had an Now, back to my mid-semester dia­ more interesting areas and famous coF New York and it’s just 20 minutes from Associate's degree and a very high GPA, tribe. In April, we will only publish one leges in New York. CSI does not require the busy area.” Nobody told them CSI yet the college was telling me that I did not issue because of Spring Break. In honor too many tests for admission and does is basically rural and difficult to live in know how to read and write. After much of April Fool’s Day, we will be publishing not have a deadline for application and without a car. debate, a school official finally agreed to an imitation Onion pull-out section. My tuition and the living expenses are As a result, most of Japanese stu­ look into the matter. A month later I long-time staffers are great reporters, but cheap. However, most of the approxi­ dents felt like they were conned and received news that I did indeed pass the anyone who has ever written a newspa­ mately 40 of the Japanese students (the confused when they actually arrived CPE. The school official asked that I keep per story knows that it can be quite sti­ international office in 2A does not know here. It is difficult to get information this finding to myself, as there were no fling to their creativity. And my reporters the numbers) chose to come here about the world in CSI. steps in place for students to file an appeal can write. So this special section (guar­ because their college recommended Many Japanese students faced if they felt they had passed. anteed to be hilarious) will give them a CSI. This made it easier to transfer their this fact and try to find the beauty of I recently visited the college testing chance to let their creative juices flow credits than going to unknown colleges. Staten Island, such as its nature and office, which is in building 1A, room 104, to while keeping you guys entertained at In Japan, there are loads of the trav­ enjoy their college lives. However, find out if there is now a policy in place for the same time. And for all of you anti- el programs that introduce the nice some of them still cannot deal with it. students who feel they have received a fail Banner watchdogs, don’t worry, there will places in the world on TV. Of course, Therefore, they moved to the apart­ in error, they in turn referred me to College still be articles for you to read and com­ those programs do not fail to include New ments in Brooklyn or Manhattan, come Counseling, which is also in building 1A plain about. But when it comes to the York, which is the one of the three to CSI and try to enjoy the New York but room 109. the students are not allowed pullout section, remember . . . WE’RE biggest cities in the world. What they experience that was supposed to be. to see their tests to review them with the JOKING! (PS. Mahalo means Thank You introduce in the programs are - Tomoko Arai counselors. A student may only put in an in Hawaiian). - Jen Morrcro^ Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and maybe TT

Photography by Luke Crisalli

IklBIli The Center For the Arts

hosted a Graduate Open House on

Sunday. March 6th. The Open House

offered Graduate students assistance and ■«ir, WEt«OHETOJH| 5 OBADWATE STUDIES advice for Fal! enrollment. OPEN MDPSE m- , Emanuelle Esperance (below) discussed * * the new Urban Health and

Science program.

em

6 I >

On Sunday, March 6th, Staten Islanders and politicans were all Irish for a

day as the island celebrated the St. Patrick's day parade.

Everyone who was anyone was there. D.A. Murphy, Mayoral candidates

Anthony Weiner and Fernando Ferrer attempted to get more votes.

And a few animals showed up, too... FUBAR™

AN ElMt^SQUi E(ilN)^€2© JOINT

The _J!U Beacon Wr**trC»r-» and Dr-erwvn try >End«q|%jr«B Inooantses

IA/ ScmL £mY&>DY l£AUf) MB 'CAUS£ X WAS m fat m. EVA, CAN VOU M£4tf MY MOM ?A)0 ZW/)S AN \J&LY UAKi. I Just v/Am To nr w. ME? IT'S Me, OTA kV. ffRTA^LY.imS iwms RACK j ~T7/ I'M HERE AT THE TO WHAJ' fAtt°N / Ymt'Yov'Ql RlWT./AAYfte OFFICE. I FoVNb ouF K mamuimfk m /THAT'S w«y X'/H 5o AMSRy 4wii Sowib-IHINC Y*V Ml&HT X-MAN'CHRF 6c-l^r Oh! world ieMWAIW FIND USEFUL. rv -7—ry v /->- y 7

Vf//; r/rry-? / i~r

wmrni rrrrr/ / •/ t r /—/ / ^

rrrnrrrrrT-? / / / / / // / w

C.ollege G.aming League Presents.,. Halo 2 2 vs.2 Gaming event *Baruch College vs. Fordham University

Finalists Will Advance To Face Fordham For Prizes!!! For more information go to http: / /users.cjb.net/animeasylum/halo2tournament.htm Refreshments will be provided If you have any questions please Contact Brian E-mail: [email protected] (in the subject header type wHalo 2 G.E.") •This is an AU-CUNY event. The finalMst weither from Baruch or not, will play representing Baruch College March 14,2005

YoU SEEjtt&E /S OWY ONE THIS Couib'VE SEEN Avoided real cottfRiwrat to If THE BANNER had the corns, Am- £0NTRl&{/C6f?S though he is A CREATIVE, To Comics genios~ he for... If OUfiNT OUT OF IDCAS.

DID You KNOW THE kUROS CAPTURED SADDAM HussiEN

ftOVlH bKimlMGj C2i mmm rvcfe imm

**CALLING ALL ARTISTS** WASTE OFF SPACE CORNER T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST AN Enrique Ignacio Inocente SPLTFF

Through funding received by the CSI Program Development Committee, the Counseling Center will create a "Relaxation Station” at the Campus Center on May 10, 2005. The event will include on-site massage therapists, games, refreshments, and activities to help students relax during their studies! At the event, T-shirts will be distributed as prizes.

We cordially invite you to submit a design for the T-shirt. All valid entries will receive one PG CLUE credit. One winner will be selected from the entries that we receive by 4/8/05.

IMPORTANT STUFF Designs should: ^Cojlck •' • Be done in black ink and signed by the artist. vlfv • Be one-sided (i.e., only on the front or back of the shirt). • Include a reference to the Counseling Center at CSI. • Be completed on (or sized to fit) an 8V2” x 11 ’’ piece of paper.

• Only enrolled CSI students are eligible for the contest. • Submit drawings in-person to the Counseling Center, 1A-109, or via e-mail to: [email protected]. \

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 4/8/05

The winner will receive... 1. Gift certificate to Angelina’s Restaurant...$25 value 2. T-shirt...$f 5 value 3. The opportunity to see your art plastered over the bodies of CSI students...Pr/cefes DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 4/8/05

><...... X...... -X---...... x—----><:...... x...... x...... x...... ----x...... ---

ENTRY FORM

Name: Phone:

SID#: E-mail:

Address:

9 Pt QCC'Y'

Undie Exposed Jessica Mendez (never panties, what an unsexy word!) they’re easily over $200 a pop, I only own thing that is couture is you want people to it’s here! With a tiny squeal, I rip open the and bras blossomed not long after my two, which I got on sale (I’m not that comment on it,” something that happens white box with its very official United breasts did. In my all-girls Catholic high crazy). to Nilea whenever she’s sporting one of States Postal Service label, knowing the school, underwear served as our rebel­ As for knickers, I’m a fan of cus­ her creations. “It’s not from the Gap, it’s naughty, luxurious treasure that was lion and form of expression. Under our tomization. I sew patches, appliques and not from Victoria’s Secret. It’s special, it’s inside. short, pleated skirts were wild boxer the like onto the bum, et voila! Instant sexy, it’s different.” And, it’s versatile. Her Now, sighing, I gingerly pull it out of shorts; under our sheer oxford cloth originals! bustiers, tanks and camis go from night to the box, reveling as it slowly emerges. shirts, crazy bras. It was masculine-femi­ Perhaps I am obsessed, but there is day seamlessly. “You can wear it as First, a thin, white silk strap; then, one nine at its most basic. The more outra­ at least one person out there who speaks underwear, with jeans, you can wear it white mesh cup with the sweetest peri­ geous they were, the cooler we were. the language of lingerie. “Why can’t com­ with a blazer. It’s funky yet multifunction­ winkle lace scallop teasing the edges, Plaid, pinstriped and diamond-clad asses fortable underwear be sexy?” Nilea P. al. I’m just trying to marry these two then another. I tear off my tank top and were routinely flashed in the hallways Alexander, the genius designer behind images.” It is a blessed union indeed, one slide the bra around and on. My breasts and in gym class, usually low enough to Nilea P. Couture Undies, reasons. “I just worth checking out at www.nileap.com are full, luscious, like two sweet cup­ display a sliver of bikini string. started doing stuff that was really sexy ASAP! I think it’s a myth that men really cakes. Two sweet, yummy Cosabella Two of my friends would purposely and more so than comfortable, I wanted care about lingerie as much as they’d like cupcakes. wear the tackiest, flashiest bras they practical.” And does she ever deliver! The us to think, but I must admit, the occa­ Come on, admit it. You love undies. I could find. It was a cheap lingerie fashion boy shorts are well-cut, the camisoles are sional ooh and ah doesn’t exactly hurt. A am not alone in my love of all smalls. show, with red metallic demi cups battling vibrant and sexy, and the thongs are simple, “Ooh, niiice,” when one boy got a How else would you explain Victoria’s it out with padded animal prints. Inspired, playful and fun. Best of all, it’s 100% peek of my turquoise G-string solidified Secret’s stranglehold on the American I got in on the game. The first time I wore affordable, something a broke college my love for the garment. Another gent public? Women want to be the models; an aqua pintucked demi bra and won for student like myself can definitely appreci­ actually came up for air on a muff-diving men want to have sex with them. (Hell, I’d the day, I was hooked. Every day became ate. Nilea’s signature is trimming: rib­ expedition just to say, “Nice knickers.” I have sex with some of them; have you a challenge that I still rise to. bons, bows, even feathers and leather think that got me off ten times faster. My seen Adriana Lima?!) While I have to Every morning (nighttime is strictly adorn her amazingly comfortable, sweet purple undies with “ROLE MODEL” hand it to an ingenious marketing team commando), I sift through my piles of and sassy gear. And what’s this? A stylish emblazoned on the backside never fail to for convincing everyone from the college knickers and bras. Every bra has a pur­ body slimmer? Nilea has designed both a delight. student to soccer moms that this mall sta­ pose, as do my bottoms. Cacique, bodysuit and a full corset with garters that Lingerie can be a multitude of things. ple is the pinnacle of affordable, sexy lin­ Cherokee, Maidenform, Fredericks of not only flatter your figure, but ar6 actual­ It can be sultry, sexy, boring, basic, flashy gerie chic, I am thoroughly unimpressed. Hollywood and the like all coexist peace­ ly attractive as well! With the sweetest of or trashy. The one thing it should always They are both overrated and overpriced fully. And then, there’s La Perla. La bud roses, sassy pink bows and sexy be is fun! for the poor quality and construction (sev­ Perla—say it loud and there’s music play­ black lace decorating the nude bodice, eral of my friends have had knickers fade ing. Say it soft, and it’s almost like pray­ this is not your mother’s girdle. “Whatever and stretch after three uses.) I crave cre­ ing. Talk about flattering—the Italian silk you got going on, that thing will suck you ativity and comfort! I ache for style and tulle and lace hug every curve like a sec­ in!” she explains proudly. And thanks to originality, and they just aren’t delivering. ond skin, and my breasts look like you an ingenious snap crotch on the black Lingerie is more than a necessity. It’s only thought they could look in the bodysuit accented with bright ribbons, an experience, another form of self- movies and in magazines: perfect half when “you’re with your man, you don’t expression that combines my love of moon pillows without a trace of the dread­ even have to take that off!” fashion and love of sex into a perfect ed quadriboob. The sexy quotient is off Nilea, like me, feels that originality is union. My fascination with knickers the scales with these. But, considering key. “The whole purpose of having some­

Enrique Ignacio Inocente for it’s unorigi­ and the .relationship between the two is comes across a nality and let endearing to watch unfold. Since Nikki is jive talking little the movie take an orphan, she latches onto Wolff as a In 1983, a sci-fi epic hit theaters and orphan girl you in, father figure who’s hard as nails bounty changed the face of American cinema. At named Nikki Spacehunter hunter fagade starts to crumble under her least, that’s what Columbia Pictures (Molly Ringwald) can be down­ cutesy mannerisms. I’m sure we all know hoped when they financed Spacehunter: who agrees to right charm­ how this subplot ends. Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. It’s help guide him ing. I mean, Director Lament Johnson took an obvious from the title they hoped this through who couldn’t uninspired script and did an uninspired would be a franchise where we’d see Overdog’s scrap- fall in love with job bringing it to the screen. This is not to main character Wolff (Peter Strauss) in all metal kingdom to a sassy, pre- say he did a lousy job directing, but it’s sorts of galactic adventures. rescue the hot pubescent just too cliche. We’ve got the old Unfortunately, because it flopped so horri­ babes. Molly damsels in distress story, the lonesome bly in the box-office we’ll never see galac­ Spacehunter Ringwald, or bounty hunter, the sassy orphan, a mani­ tic bounty hunter Wolff in other amazing isn’t all that bad if those aliens acal villain, the rival bounty hunter, a movies like Adventures in Dimension X or you can look past that look like musical score that tries too hard to sound Journey Through the Planet of Nympho it’s glaring flaws. steaming piles like John Williams, and the same old Nurses. For one, nothing of poop and happy ending that leaves it open for a Spacehunter: Adventures in the in the movie is make farting sequel. Forbidden Zone goes a little something original. Wolff noises. Aside from its contrived plot, this flick like this: It’s the year 2136 and Wolff, looks like the The spe­ didn’t seem to know its audience. It was while answering a distress signal from bastard child of cial effects are too dark and scary for little kids to enjoy, Terra Eleven, agrees to rescue three hot Indiana Jones above aver­ and too silly for adults to bare sitting babes that crash landed on the desolate and Han Solo, age for a through. In the end, Spacehunter will planet. The women are kidnapped by min­ the plot is painful­ 1980’s sci-fi please hardcore sci-fi fans, or teens that ions. of Overdog (Michael Ironside), the ly predictable, and the scene settings look flick, the alien locations are diverse have nothing better to watch on a lonely insanely wicked/ugly human machine that like they got it on loan from Mad Max. enough to make one think Wolff and Nikki weekend. I give this movie 2 out 4 inter- rules the planet. Along the way, Wolff Nonetheless, if you can forgive the movie are on an epic journey through the planet, galactic torpedoes March 14,2005 A Tightly Packed Vagina Monologues Satisfies Audience and Donates $ to Local Charity

Jennifer Mosscrop formed the heart-wrenching "My Vagina performed "I Was There in the Room," a see what kind of person she was. "My story of a woman watching a child being Short Skirt" performed by Leticia Nazario What would your vagina say if it could Was My Village," where men took over born. warned that her short skirt is "not an invi­ talk? What would it wear? That's the her village and brutally raped her and tation." questions the cast of CSI's production of "I think the reason that the show the Vagina Monologues asked the sold speaks to women of all ages, experi­ out audience February 25, 26, and 27. ences and continents is that in some The Drama Program and Creative way, everyone is able to find themselves Arts Department delivered an unforget­ in one of the monologues," said Shael table performance of Eve Ensler's bril­ Norris, Director of the V-Day College liant play to a sold-out Lab Theater three Campaign. "There is a place somewhere nights in a row. in the piece that each woman can identi­ The 12 monologues brought up fy with and truly connect with." suchvagina-related taboo subjects rang­ In honor of V-Day, the cast worked ing from orgasm ("the flood"), to hair ("it's to reach their mark of $6,000 for Safe like the lawn around the house"), men­ Horizon, an organization that supports struation to masturbation. All are true victims of domestic abuse. After three stories from interviews with over 200 sold out nights, they went way over their women from all walks of life. The cast of The Vagina Monologues after a sold-out, three night run in CSI’s Lab Theater. They goal. Some monologues were hilarious; raised over $6,000 for the Staten Island chapter of Safe Horizon. Photo: Jen Mosscrop______"All the proceeds go to the Staten just take Victoria Venezia acting out dif­ stuck the cold end of their rifles inside Then there were the empowering Island branch," said Victoria Venezia, ferent kinds orgasms in "The Woman her. "Under the Burqua" was another monologues like Lauren D'Aversa's Director of the Vagina Monologues. "I'm Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy"; moving monologue acted out by Linzie monologue, "Reclaiming Cunt," took happy that the money will stay here on and Jessa Maria Mendez's "The Vagina Faith which described a woman's slow- back the infamous four letter word and Staten Island." Workshop," "My vagina...is a delicate torture of living under the veil of darkness ended with the lively audience chanting The Campaign raises awareness flower." for years acted out by Linzie Faith. Cunt! Cunt! Or "Because He Liked to among college students and their com­ Other monologues portrayed the Another kind of monologue celebrat­ Look At It," by Jessica Lynn Socol about munities about violence against women. horror many women experience because a man who need to "see it" in order to Go to www.vday.org for more info. of their sexuality. Ruth Gallego per­ ed the wonders of the vagina. Ali Brunei! Xenosaga Episode II: Live Your Playboy Fantasy Good Enough For The Bargain Bin

you start with is the same when you end. Dominic Fiduccia ities to keep your guests happy. Amonda Foote With all this partyin.g you maybe Though I very much wish I could say wondering when you even have time to great amounts of praise but sadly facts For the past several years there have I’m saddened to say that Xenosaga put together the magazine. Time has no are facts and you can’t really change been more and'more video games that Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose meaning in the game, so you don’t have that. This sequel is a disappointment are sexually suggestive. Usually these just isn’t as good as its predecessor. to worry about deadlines. Unfortunately, when comparing to the first episode but games just capitalize on the belief that Don’t get me wrong this RPG isn’t all that this leisurely style kills the point of having thank your stars that the story, graphics, they will sell regardless of how bad they bad - as a matter of fact it is still a must to run a monthly magazine. The pressure and very much amazing cinematic are. have for anyone who is a fan of the of a deadline could have made the game scenes are truly top notch. They com­ Case in point, Playboy: The Xenosaga series. more exciting. bine to show how expressive the charac­ Mansion. You are a young Some of the design choices this ters are when wrestling with betrayal, the Hugh Hefner, the founder of game features just seem to be both puz­ nature of true evil and to also weave Playboy and your job is to zling and at times very frustrating. There together the themes of family. take the magazine from the is also an inadequate amount of shops, This game is no where near com­ first issue and build it up and money, there is also harsh loading plex in game play, combat using the from there. times before just about Mechs show up Your primary concern is each fight. Without the This sequel is a disappointment more around the supposed to be publishing many shops around like second half of when comparing to the first episode but your magazine by having at the previous episode the game. In least one cover shot, one you’ll often find yourself thank your stars that the story, graph­ order to get the centerfold, one article, one in a much shortage of ics, and very much amazing cinematic better power- interview, one essay, and recovery items. Basically scenes are truly top notch. ups you’re basi­ one pictorial. You'll need to these convention chang­ cally forced to hire a small staff of journal­ ing decisions are the play the not very ists and photographers to worst I’ve seen in a while. The best well tasting side quests (Blah!). The box produce most of the content, attention Episode II had received unfor­ puzzles were the worst in which it just as well as a new Playmate tunately was where it starts to fail the seems to show up more and more fre­ each month, but for the most. quently. The first episode of Xenosaga cover shots, essays, and The battle system was redesigned made this game remind me of how poor­ interviews, you'll need to where the game concentrates mainly The game’s graphics are nothing to ly Devil May Cry II did. celebrities. on combining each character’s abilities brag about and the Playmates are the Even though you’ll suffer a bit the To get connected to celebrities, rather then having each character fight­ most obvious example of this. The girls concept does give loyal fans more you'll need to throw a lot of parties. You’ll ing individually. The best way to achieve who pose for the cover and centerfold thoughtful pieces of the puzzle. The be inviting prominent figures from the the awesome and devastating combos is shoots, despite having different hair­ soundtrack has a way of switching world of politics, sports, and just about by stocking up on your shared Boost styles, skin tones, and bra sizes, are oth­ between breathtaking to a mere mun­ everyone else to your Mansion and have gauge then having the party unleash erwise indistinguishable. After a while, it dane sound which was another frustrat­ conversations with them. And after amazing combos onto the enemy. The seems that you are taking the same pic­ ing thing to me.The graphics are still as you've gotten to know them, you can ask best way is to attack different parts of the ture of the same girl which actually beautiful as ever even though there were them to contribute to the magazine. enemy therefore breaking its defenses comes across as creepy. some drawbacks namely Shion’s new Doing this a big part of the game, but the then use boost to put your characters Still, the game has its good points I look which made me think these devel­ conversations are so shallow that going into action. This technique so far is the like the unlockables that include classic opers had no fashion sense at all. The from social acquaintance to intimate quickest way to inflict much needed Playboy covers, centerfolds, and inter­ number one aspect of this game that just partners is a joke. damage on any type of enemy whether views with celebrities that include the pushes it up towards the glory this game Successful parties will increase your it’s a small battle or a boss battle. 39th President, Jimmy Carter. Oddly, is known for is of course the cut scenes. overall fame and helps sell magazines. Players don’t have the option to reading the retro articles from the maga­ It is ranked among the very best known That means hiring Playboy Bunny host­ adjust and upgrade the techs which in zine’s past is actually the best part of the to gaming. I would give this game any­ esses and providing plenty of other activ­ simple terms the same type of attacks game. where between a 7.5 and 8.0 The College of Staten Island SPORTS March 4,2005 CSI WOMEN SMASH HUNTER IN CUNY FINAL

Dominic Fiduccia

February 25—CSI defeated Hunter, 73- 60, to become the 2005 CUNY Champions. This is the first CUNY Title win for the Lady Dolphins since 2001. By halftime, CSI led the game with the score of 36-27. CSI also led in shooting which was a problem for Hunter during the first half as they missed seven of their last nine shots before halftime. During the second half, Hunter tried they couldn’t do any better than close the gap by 10 points when there was only 8:22 left in the game. CSI led by as much as 17 points during the second half. CSI’s Sophomore Guard, Acasha Gordon scored a total 23 points during the championship game and was named the Tournament’s MVP. After a seson opening loss to NYU’s Violets, the CSI women went on a 13- game winning streak before it ended on January 19 from the Baruch BearCats by the score of 68-62. The loss did not affect the team as greatly as it may seem especially that it was a close scoring game against a divi­ sion rival. The Lady Dolphins instead year, with the number one seed. The first Women’s Tournament Final, CSI vs. the Hawks won the championship game went on another winning streak. The face-off was against the Brooklyn Hunter. they won by just one point - and with one team won the remainder of their ten Bridges. CSI easily defeated the The biggest challenge of the tourna­ second remaining. Not too mention that games finishing the season with the Bridges, 79-39, and ruined Lehman’s ment for the Lady Dolphins was when the Hawks came into this year’s tourna­ record of 24-2 (12-1 CUNY). changes at the Finals on their home they had to take on and lose to the ment having won the CUNY title for the The Lady Dolphins entered this court by winning their game, 79-64. This Hunter College Hawks two years in a past three straight years. year’s CUNY Tournament, which was set up a rematch of the last two CUNY row. To make things worse, both times held at Lehman College in the Bronx this Lady Dolphins Suffer Loss in NCAA First Round

OrumeA-Hays won. We just kind of blew it in the cham­ lead to one point with 8 minutes to go in coach and the Associate Director of pionship... Everybody just not playing to the game. The Dolphins eventually fell, Athletics, who felt they played a compet­ March 5 - It is thirteen minutes into the the best of their ability I guess. But it was 73-64, ending their season in the sec­ itive game. first half of the NCAA Division III good that we came back and beat the ond round of the NCAA Division III tour­ Wesleyan Head Coach Kate Mullen Tournament game at the Sports and same team this year.” nament. (26-3). said she was proud of her team and the Recreation Center and the Dolphins Today however, the Dolphins are Coach Marguerite Gualtieri said, rotation of players. Her big worry came were down by 15 points. This is CSI’s fighting hard to continue making history, “Our goal was to win the conference, towards the end of the first half when first ever NCAA tourney, and it’s a home and the Cardinals, especially Megan and we hadn’t done that in the last two "The clock became our enemy.” game against Connecticut's Wesleyan Robinson and Hannah Stubbs are inter­ years. I think that Rock, Stephanie, and Amongst the 800 spectators at the University. The cheerleaders are chanti­ ested in making history themselves in the team really wanted the champi­ game were CSI women’s softball team, ng, but CSIs' score is stuck at 5 points their first ever tourney appearance. onship, so that was our main goal this staff, some students, parents, family after Acasha Gordon’s 3-point score in The Cardinals tall legs and long year. We achieved it under a lot of pres­ members, as well as CSI President the fifth minute of the game. arms did not stop the Dolphins from fly­ sure, and to actually get to the second Marlene Springer and Vice President The Dolphins have played well ing for the ball, which took the visitors’ round of the NCAA... It’s a disappoint­ Carol Jackson, Vice President Angelo J. throughout the season seizing the lead down to 4 points 23 seconds before ment to lose, but I think that we accom­ Aponte. . championship from Hunter’s Hawks at the end of the first half. plished so much that it takes away some Dr. Merritt said the women’s’ bas­ the CUNY Conference tourney finals on Jacclyn Rock changed the momen­ of the disappointment.” The coach was ketball, “is one of the most exciting Friday, February 26th. tum of the game with a layup 40 sec­ especially emotional as this would be teams that we have because they tradi­ On Tuesday, a couple of days later, onds into the second half even though the last time this particular team would tionally win a lot of games and they are guards Andrea Kleboe, and Shannon Hannah Stubbs had made the first bas­ play together because would lose two fun to watch.” This information should Connelly were at the sports center train­ ket. seniors. flow to the student body at large, there­ ing. Speaking about the CUNY finals, Kim Thompson, who made her “We got down early. It’s hard to play by generating more support for the Andrea said “Last year we should have 1,000th point in the game, narrowed the catch-up,” said Jason Fein, the assistant team.