THE STUDENT ^NEWSPAPER OF MERCYHURST COLLEGE SINCE 1929 Mercyhurst College 501 E. 38th S i Iii| Fa;^46 2004 The M e r e i a d is also available at merciad,mercvhurstedu NEWS: VICTORY OVER GANNON Mercyhurst celebrates Martin Sold-out crowd of more than 1,900 watch first home win in 7 games Luther King Jr. Day PAGE 3 FEATURES: Kyle Foust represents Mercyhurst mission 'service about self as District 5 Erie Coun- try Councilman. PAGE 4 OPINION: What do you do when doors close to you? PAGE 7 ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT: A review of D e a t h Cab for Cutie's latest album, ] Katie McAd*m/MarciaBphotograph«r Transatlanticm. A mob of fans reacts to the 47-42 win over Gannon on Monday night. The defensive battle ended a 5-year streak of Gannon basketball victories over Mercyhurst and put the Lakers first place in GLIAC. The sold-out game had a crowd of 1,900. PAGE 8 • Williams .*- .>• SPORTS: acquitted Mercyhurst comes of charges out on top over Gannon. By Kelly Rose Duttine News editor PAGE 12 According to a crime alert on the Police and Safety Website, all students must "remember that alcohol and drugs impair not only your judgment, but also your ability to make that judg- Upcoming Campus ment clear to someone else. If you are socializing with a group that is Events using alcohol or drugs, their judgment ^ and their ability to understand you will also be impaired. If you choose to WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28 - use these chemicals, you are making yourself vulnerable, r Film: Elephant, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at In light of the rape charges, trial the PAC and recent acquittal of Mercyhurst athlete and student Faheem Williams, TH URSDAY, JAN. 29 - File photo the Police and Safety officers have Cafe Diem plans to offer more specials to students including coupons over Starbucks. I posted two crime alerts on their web- Inter V a r s i t y Christian Fellowship, 8 site to help to inform students about p.m. in the MSG Chambers being safe on campus. Sergeant of Police and Safety J o h n Student-run Cafe Diem offers Patterson believes in using your com- FRIDAY, JAN. 30 - mon sense while on campus to pro- specials, new look over Starbucks tect yourself . Their tips also include SAC presents Mentalists: the never walking alone on campus, lock- Evasons, 10 p.m. in the Walker ByJonelle Da v i s For instance, students studying in miss the advances that the old coffee ing your doors while in your apart ment or vehicle and never accepting Recital Hall Contributing writer the library may want a hot cup of shop is making. coffee. If they did not know that "During the past year alone, Cafe rides from p e o p l e you do not know. Since the beginning of the school there is a coffee shop in the library, Diem has taken on a new look by All of their tips can be found on the SATURDAY, JAN. 31 - year, the Mercyhurst College Cam- they might trek across campus in the adding new chairs, lamps, counter- Police and Safety website, located on pus has undergone many changes snow to the Coffee Bar. tops, and a new espresso machine, "we Lakernet, }: Faculty Recital Series: Mosaic, 7 and renovations. However, there is a coffee shop in will also be starting monthly coupon Williams, 23, a Mercyhurst student and football player, was found not p.m. at the PAC .'" One major addition to the campus the library and students need to be specials that can be found in the was the new Bookstore and Coffee aware of that, and what convenient Merciad," \, 4 guilty of sexual assault, attempted Bar, which opened at the beginning services it provides. After all, ac- The special for February is buy sexual assault and indecent assault for of winter term. cording to Tyrone Moore, Mercy- one drink, get one free f o r your sweet- the incident that occurred earl y in the Index Through these additions, Mercy- hurst wants to provide services to heart, and Raspberry Mocha's will be morning of Nov. 3,2002 in a Mer- News ,....,..,. .........1 hurst is working to satisfy student students all across the campus. special!) priced at $1.55. cyhurst College apartment. needs by making services more con- The HRTM program started a cof- Cockrell went on to say that Cafe According to an Erie Times-News News .'...', — «-. Iq article, Assistant District Attorney News •••31 venient fee shop on the first floor of the Diem has future plans to add a new J According to Tyrone Moore, As- Hammermiil Library to use as a couc h, new tables, and new lamps, °avld Agresti noted that in the ab- Features 4 sociate Vice President of Adminis- learning tool for students in 2001 ^ along with expanding their hours. sence of physical evidence, the case Features * tration, the new Coffee Bar helps the It was named Cafe Diem, and has "We serve between 75 and 130 was sc^ founded on the respective Forum " campus by providing students a ser- been serving a wide variety of drinks drinks per day. All of the profits goes credibility of t h e witnesses. Opinion ' vice at the center of campus. It and pastries for the last few years. right back in to making improvements Agresti also challenged Williams' serves around 130 people per day. According to Sara Cockrellj stu- to the coffee shop. We want to con- version of the events because he A&E. ,1 1. 8 Mercyhurst is working to meet the dent manager -of Qafe Diem, the tinue to build Cafe Diem, and most claimed that he had consensual sex A&E. .-9 greater needs of students with new advisers and student managers have of all we want everyone to know with one woman for 15 to 20 min- Sports 10 services; however, it is important that been working to improve Ca&Diem about the coffee shop." utes while the other woman sat on the couch and did nothing to stop him, Sports ' *! other student services across cam- and with all of the hype of the new Please see Cafe on page 3. pus do not get overlooked. services around campus, it is easy to Sports 12 Please see Williams on page 3. * K JANUARY 28,2004 PAGE 2 1HEMERCIAD NEWS To contact' [email protected] Iraq littered with overflowing graves By Stephen Franklin Chicago Tribune BAGHDAD, Iraq- They were killed in their hospital beds and buried in the hospital flower gar- dens, some with their arms still wrapped in bandages or IVs still connected And they were killed on long death marches in northern Iraq Kurdish wom- en and children, separated from their families and carrying the few household items they could drag with them. Wherever they were killed, many were blindfolded and shot in the forehead. Saddam Hus- sein's whole country became a killing field Mass graves are everywhere, said Sandy Hodgkinson, 32, a U.S. State Department attorney who has been working with Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, the agency in charge of investi- gating the mass graves. You fol- low reports and they turn up in places you would never suspect. KRT Iraq is littered with bodies Friends and Family members gather f o r t h e exhumation of a mass grave located in Iraqi Kurdistan. stuffed dozens at a time into There are a possible 282 mass graves and the number of the buried is in the hundreds of thousands cemetery plots, bodies shoved mated to be in the hundreds of to them. Teams from the Unit- Kurds killed in the north have over cliffs, tossed in lakes or hid- thousands. ed States and several European shown up in the desert south- KRT den in farm fields w h e r e vege- Among Kurds alone, for exam- nations are helping to train Ira- west f | This body was exhumed from a mass grave located near Hilla. tables still grow, said Saad Sul- ple, there are at least 182,000 qis and assisting in the search for Iraqi officials also tried to cov- tan, 32, a lawyer and detective people missing, 8,000 of them graves. er their tracks by forcibly mov- carried out the killing, said Sul- the regime's collapse last spring, with the Human Rights Minis- from one extended family, the W Most of the graves ing neighbors so as to eliminate tan, the detective. when thousands of execution try's mass graves research team. Barzanis. have- been found in the those who might identify mass Part of Sultan's job is to help orders were discovered among So far, 282 possible mass The incomplete count of mass center of Iraq, leading experts graves In many places a deep make information available to the government's looted files. grave sites have been identified, graves is partly a result of s e a r c h - to think that the dead are Shi- hole was dug with heavy equip- the thousands of Iraqis looking Along with 21 others, his broth- 55 have been confirmed and 20 ers putting a high priority on ex- ites, victims of Saddam's on- ment in remote locations; then for loved ones, and it is a duty er was taken from a prison cell have been explored. But nine ploring the known sites that may slaught against those who rose bodies were dumped from t r u c k s that has a personal meaning for and shot in 199l| months after the collapse of aid in the prosecution of Sadd- up in 1991 at the end of the and the site was covered with him.