Vol. 26 No. 6, October 29, 1981
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Park Place gets long-awaited hot water by Bill Travers owner of Park Place. "I was not notified we would convert to gas," Pavelco said. of by Regini. Gas shipments will be paid about the problem until a week after," said "The electric water heaters are the most ex A new.gas heater >as installed in the for by Marist, as is done with electric bills Regini. "I sent my electrician out to check pensive to use and the least efficient. Gas of the other heaters. Park Place dormitories on Oct. 23, ending the situation. He reported back to me that will be-cheaper, but most importantly it' three weeks without hot water for ten all fuses were, working, which meant that will be more efficient for the students." "What upset me the most was that the residents. '•'':"'• - the hot water heater should have been Installation of the new gas system started students were kept in the dark throughout "It's about time," said a" relieved Sue working also." on Oct. 23, 16 days after the problem the whole period," said Jeanne Lc Goldfeder, resident of Park Place. "It arose. "I was under the impression that the Gloahec, resident of Park Place. "We had should not have taken as long as it did for it - After more than a week without hot heater would be installed while the students no idea when we would get hot water or to be fixed. It's really inconvenient to have water, a reason still had not been found. were on their mid-term break, Seeger said. even if the situation was being corrected. to walk through freezing temperatures and More complaints to Seeger forced him to "It seemed like the most convenient time, There must be a lack of communication rain, just to take a shower in someone contact Andy Pavelco, physical plant direc but instead Regini waited." somewhere, because when we asked Geoff else's room.'' tor (maintenance). "I sent a Marist electri (Seeger) or maintenance, we never got any The problem began on Oct. 7 when five cian to check out the situation," said Currently the 17-room building's water concrete answers." rooms had no hot water. According to Pavelco. "He told me that the coils that is heated by three separate heaters. The :•• "With the tuition we pay here at Marist, housing director Geoff Seeger, word did heat the water were crudded and full of new gas heater is Japanese built, equipped you would think that a problem like this not reach him until at least four days after lime. This would naturally cause the system with an autmatic shut off system. "We are could be handled better," said LeGloahec. the problem had surfaced. "I was .to to be faulty. We knew right then that in not concerned about saving money as much "I don't like being kept in the dark." understand the problem to be for one stallation of a new water heater was as.to provide pur students with an efficient .Park Place is an off;campus housing room," Seeger said. "Not until several necessary." . system," said Pavelco. The other two facility rented by Marist. Marist has rented days after did I understand that it affected On Oct. 16, Regini and Marist heaters are electric, one of which was in Park Place by semesters for the past two many others as well." maintenance discussed the process of con stalled last year when a similar situation years. It is located five miles north of.cam- Seeger then called maintenance, which verting. The decision to convert to gas was arose.. pus on Route 90 in Hyde Park, and houses relayed the message to Ivo Regini, the agreed upon. "We decided right away that The cost of installation will be taken care 38 students. .' • ' i • /" ^ Marist College Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Volume 26, Number 6 • October 29,1981 ^ J WMCR to get A.P. teletype news service by Donna Cody - WMCR!s,newstaf f will soon be leporting - local and world news as it happens. By the third week in December, WMCR will have an Associated Press teletype machine installed in its newsroom, accor ding to the co-news directors, Ginny Lu ciano and Paul Murnane. .The A.P; machine resembles a small typewriter.. News, feature and sports stories are relayed from the Associated Press' of fice in New York City, through telephone wires, to the machine. The machine then prints out these stories like a typewriter. "It's the most basic piece of equipment in a newsroom," Luciano said. ,The" A.P. machine operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day. "It provides up-to- the-minute newsj desperately needed for professionalism in news reporting," said Luciano. WMCR's news staff (from left to right) Barry Lewis, Paiil Murname, and Ginny Luciano. photo by Terri Sullivan "The addition of the machine represents a 360 degree turn in the station's news and 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Newswriters read the $70 must be paid weekly. "WMCR is big this year, and C.S.L. sports reporting," said Barry Lewis, sports Poughkeepsie Journal, pick out important Luciano said that originally the station probably figured we could use the money," director at WMCR. "With the wire service, news stories and re-write them. With the had put in a request for two new Murnane said. Luciano added, "It's a big especially in sports, no other radio station A.P. machine, the news at WMCR will be typewriters when they Were informed by push for communications." in the country will beat us," Lewis said. broadcast more efficiently and frequently, Dean Cox that C.S.L. might have enough "We'll no longer need to depend on Luciano said. money to cover a wire-copy machine. Mur "WMCR is attempting to become a com newspapers — everything is current — this The Council of Student Leaders has sign nane checked out price quotes and munity station rather than just a campus puts WMCR on the same level as any net ed a two-year contract to cover the .costs of presented them to Dean Cox at the beginn station," said Luciano. "The wire. service work in the.country," Lewis said. the A.P. machine Murnane said. In ing of' the semester. Last Wednesday Dean will make this goal more possible." WMCR currently broadcasts news at stallation will cost $250, and rental fees of Cox handed WMCR the signed contract. 3 from Marist to be featured on by Marianne Beyer respondent Betty Ann Bowser as part of a ple tasks like typing a paper or seeing the television cameras and producers thai ten-minute segment called "See-Minus," blackboard are extremely difficult and followed him around New York City for a Two Marist students and a staff member due to_air 1:30 p.m. Saturday. sometimes impossible for the partially day. At a summer seminar for the partially will be featured in a CBS News documen Stone and Sforza, partially sighted since sighted. sighted in Syracuse, New. York, Sforza birth, explain the problems of having poor describes what it's like to know he'll never tary about teenagers living with "partial vi drive a car — he can't pass the Motor Vehi sion." eyesight. They have visual impairments There are hundreds of thousands of teenagers in America afflicted with partial cle eye exam necessary for a valid driver's Sophomore Jay Stone' and freshman that cannot be corrected to the normal license. - Paul Sforza will appear on "30 20/20 level. Caused by heredity, disease, or .vision, and many optical aids are being developed across the country. Stone MINUTES," a weekly news magazine for accidents, partial vision is a handicap Marist graduate Len Travaglione, now a teenagers. Special Services counselor Har which affects reading skills, distance and demonstrates the use of one such aid, the Visual Tek electronic magnifier, for the rehabilitation counselor for the New York riet Peavy is interviewed by CBS cor depth perception, and mobility. Even sim State Commission for the Blind and Visual ly Handicapped, appears in the news piece and defines the legal rights of partially sighted students. These include eligibility What's happening on Halloween for financial aid, access to optical aids, and funds to hire readers for schoolwork pur —page 3 poses. Marist College served as the starting point for the news story's research and tap . New program for disabled ing, with other locations including New —page 3 York City, San Francisco, and Long Island. •October 29,1981 • THE CIRCLE- Page 3> Marist plans swimming program for disabled by Peter Fredsall Disabled students will be able to earn one toward their future employment." "The community was.starving for this/' credit if they enroll for a semester of swim Interested students should contact the said Pirerra." Marist College will soon'be starting a ming this spring at the McCann Center. Special Services office in Champagnat As for the students, she said the program program that offers help and recreation to According to Special Services Director Room 105. will " supplement the educationar r ex AH letters must be typed triple space with a 60 space margin, and submitted to the perience it gives to the disabled, and pro Circle office no later than 6 p.m. Monday. Short letters are preferred. We reserve the disabled persons, as well as volunteer ex Diane Pirerra, an aide training program right to edit all letters. Letters must be signed, but names may be withheld upon re perience to interested students:;.. will be held at McCann on Nov.