Making My List. Checking It Twice page 11 bserver December 9, 1998 THE STUDENT VOICE OF FORDHAM COLLEGE AT LINCOLN CENTER VOLUME XVH. u,ue 7 Proposed Norms Margery Covello Leaves Office of Residential Life for Catholic New Director for McMahon Hall Sought Universities called By Jane McGonigal Rose Hill from August 1988 to March 1989. She then became the assistant "Unworkable and Director of Residential life Margery director of residential life at Rose Hill. Covello announced this week that she Tm very grateful for the opportuni- Dangerous" will leave her position at the end of the ties I've had with student affairs at Fall '98 semester to become assistant Fordhani University. I've-learned so dean of the Fordham College of much from the students I've worked Business Administration. with and from the staff,-said Covello. In addition to serving as the assis- "I'm also very grateful for the oppor- tant dean, she will also become the tunity to stay at Fordham." director of the G.LO.B.E. Program, Conlon said that the job opening for which allows undergraduates to spe- the" new director of Residential Life cialize in a particular foreign Culture will be posted Within the next week by while earning their buauje^degree. the Fordham Department of "Basically, it's what all of my'acade- Personnel. In addition, she will adver- Margery Covello mic training has been for," said tise the position offecampus. "We hope resident assistant Rose Collison, Covello, who is herself a graduate of to have someone by mid-semester." FCLC '99. "I look up to her in a lot of CBA She has also earned both her Until the new director is ways. She's been doing her job for a By Adam Goldstein MBA and Doctorate of Education announced, assistant director Richard number of years, and I was always sur- from Fordham University. "My entire Waite is expected to carry out most of prised by how much energy she had Certain proposed norms for Catholic background is in business and educa- her day-to-day duties, while Conlon each fall and by the new goals she had higher education are "unworkable tion, so I'm very excited for this new will take on some of the disciplinary set She also understands what stu- and dangerous," according to the opportunity." matters. dents are going through, and I was November 14 issue of the weekly Covello has served as the director "Margery will definitely be always very impressed by that." Jesuit journal America. since the residence hall opened in missed," said 4th Floor resident assis- "The next director will have very The editorial addresses the possi- 1993. "She was the first person to have tant Noel Arthur, FCLC '99. "I've big shoes to fill," predicted Conlon, ble implementation of Ex Corde this position," said Mary Jane Conlon, learned so much from working with "but I'm confident we'll find someone Ecclesiae, or From the Heart of the dean of students. "Her contribution her." with good experience who can bring Church, Pope John Paul II's apostolic has been tremendous." Previously, "I really enjoyed working with new ideas to Fordham at Lincoln constitution on Catholic Universities. Covello was the facilities manager at Margery Covello," agreed 6th Floor Center"! Though the document was first released in 1990, it was generic by design, and recent efforts to interpret Happy Ending to Puzzling F.A.M.A.S. Case the papal text in the context of con- by Brian Craine "It was not a random theft— who- in the club, participated in the writing, temporary. American education have ever took them deliberately took the shooting and editing of the piece, caused serious debate. In a fitting ending to the bizarre theft tapes from us," speculated the club's which followed the adventures of a It was in 1993 that the first of a semester's worth of work and president, Helen Ledwith, FCLC '00, disenfranchised high school student American interpretation of Ex Corde property stolen from Fordham's based on the fact that only who discovers the dead body of his Ecclesiae was brought forth by a com- Applied Media Arts Society FAM AS.'s lockers were broken into. school's cafeteria lady. According to mittee of the National Conference of (FAM AS.) two months ago mysteri- Although the blank tape stock stolen Matesic, "We put a lot of work into the Catholic Bishops (N.C.C.B.). After ously reappeared November 19. The was expensive, their loss was of sec- movie. It was a group effort." The 20 debate and revision, a 1996 version question of who perpetrated this ondary concern to FAMAS. mem- minute film was screened at the was approved by the N.C.C.B. The crime, however, remains unanswered. bers. More important was the fact that F.A.MAS.'s Fifth Annual Film Vatican, however, returned the docu- Sometime in late September, an some of the stolen tapes contained the Festival, which took place in May. ment, writing that, according to anonymous vandal broke into only copies of a movie the club pro- Besides representing over four America, "greater attention had to be F.AMAS.'s two lockers on the fourth duced last semester. months worth of work, the project paid... to the juridical obligations of floor of the Lowenstein Center. The club's secretary, Melissa also represented something of a Catholic colleges and universities." A Leaving the rest of the contents of the Matesic, FCLC '01, said, "I think they renaissance for the club. As recently subcommittee chaired by Cardinal locker untouched, the thief stole a stole the tapes not knowing what was as a year ago, the club had only a few Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia number of blank and used video tapes on them. They just wanted blank members and functioned mainly as was created in order to work on revi- that had been stored there at the end tapes." Over thirty people, including the organizer of a film festival each sions, and the latest version proposes, of last semester. several students not directly involved semester., , , . , (continued on page o3) (continued on page 3) News December?, 1998 Fordham Debate Duo Qualifies for National Tournament By Melanie Blake ter that efforts were made to begin to highly," said Rosenberg. reorganize it. "It was great because we beat You have probably seen it a million "I had an interest in reviving many out teams so much bigger than us. times. The debate team trophy case of our activities that had died out, par- Any team with 20 people should has stood untouched for almost 20 ticularly debate, which has always have easily come in aheadsof us," years as dust dulls its shining con- been such an important aspect of he added, referring to the 'sweep- tents. Jesuit schools," said FCLC dean stakes'score, in which the points All of that is about to change, Robert J. Grimes, S.J. eartted bjr each team member are thanks to Meggan Christman and Grimes mentioned his idea to addeWor a total team score. Max Rosenberg. Christman and Fordham College of Liberal Studies Christman discussed the experi- Rosenberg are the members of the (FCLS) dean Cira Vernazza, who was ence of starting out as a new team. newly revived Fordham University immediately enthusiastic. Vernazza "It's been difficult for us to Gannon Speech and Debate Council. and Fordham alumnus Roger Mullen, break into the debating circuit- Each placed highly in individual who both competed on the debate there is a very accepted status speaking events at the Sidney Presser team as Fordham undergraduates, quo," she said. "We are trying to Tournament at New York University tackled the process of putting a team find our own style.' on October 14 and 15, qualifying for a together. Both now coach the team. "Dean Vernazza always tells us national debate tournament They also Rosenberg and Christman com- not to be cookie cutters," she placed fifth as a team, earning a new pete in individualized events, which added. "Our biggest challenge is to trophy to grace the shelves of the dis- are timed, structured speeches arid succeed without imitating the play case:' interpretive readings of prose and other competitors." ^This was really a big victory for poetry. At the Presser Tournament, Rosenberg and Christman are Max Rosenberg and Meggan Christman us," said team captain Rosenberg, which featured ten schools from the not daunted by this task. FCLC'OL New York area, Rosenberg competed "I love the constant challenge of now and the next tournament to "I feel like we've really accom- in impromptu speaking, after-dinner • [the debate team]," Rosenberg said. choose some hew pieces and rework plished something," said Christman, speaking, prose and poetry, qualifying "It gives me a chance to hone my the ones they had already prepared in FCLC '02. "We. wanted to break for nationals in after-dinner speaking speaking skills." hopes of continuing to perform well. through to place in nationals, and we and poetry. Christman competed in "Ifs a big committment-you have to "This tournament was really great did it." impromptu speaking, prose and poet- know everything inside out and back- because it put our name on the Rosenberg and Christman both ry, and qualified for nationals in prose. wards," Christman said. "But I really board," Christman said. "Fordham is said that they were particularly "We expected to do well. The enjoy competing in something that I in this for the long run.. pleased with their performances [Presser Tournament] was our third love to do. It's a forum in which to The next tournament is scheduled because they were such a new addi- competition, so we had more confi- interpret literature and express your- for January 23 at SUNY*s Binghamton tion to the debate circuit.