{ MARIAN LIBRARY-DAEMEN COLLEGE The Campus-wide Connection for News Volume 47 Number 2 October 1991 Welcome New Glass Officers! The Student Association of Programming; Michael Robinson, Carpenter also says that greek groups Student Activities Fee funding. proudly announces the newly elected Vice President of Publications; David want to see a great» diversity of greek At their weekly meetings presidents of each class. These new Breau, Treasurer, and Coreen Flynn, organizations represented in the budget requests are discussed, often officers are: Elizabeth Blanco, senior Secretary. Student Association. Phil Sciolino, debated, and finally voted on. A class; Peter Yates, junior class; Prior to the spring, it had been President of the Student Association, representative from the student Michael Malark, sophmore class; Eric many years since a complete ballot of says “we’re making students more organization submitting the request is Bender, freshmen class. ' officers existed, and then those aware that we're here. We're pushing required to be present to answer any Once again, the Student positions most frequently ran unop­ student involvement”. questions of die Student Association. Association had a successful election posed. The Ascent asked a few "So what does the Student Bubget recommendations are with candidates running for each class students what they attribute to the approved, denied, or adjusted accord­ president's position. Not only were growing interest in the student Association really do?"______ ing to a majority consensus of the there candidates for each position, but government on campus. One of the important duties Senate (the Senate consists of the 6 there were also candidates running in Vice President of Governing of the Student Association is to vote on executive members and 4 class opposition for each position (except to the Student Association, Ellen recommendations for the use of the presidents). With the prior approval of for the junior class president's posi­ Hennessy is largely responsible for Student Activities Fee collected from Student Affairs, the delegated author­ tion). > organizing the elections. She feels that all students. This fund is cooperatively ity to vote on budgets given to the This same situation occurred “more of the greek organizations are managed with the Student Affairs Student Association truly gives them a in the spring whén the executive board taking an interest in getting involved in Office. Use of this fund is primarily position of power to determine where to the Student Association was elected. the Student Association". Daemen limited to those activities run by monies will be spent The students elected to the executive Carpenter, a brother of Phi Beta recognized student organizations that Meetings are held at 1:30 pm board will hold office until the next Gamma, thinks that “students are are open to the entire student body .The on Wednesdays in the Student Asso­ election in April 1992. These officers getting more involved on campus, and Student Association has the tricky job ciation Office. The meetings are open are: Phil Sciolino, President; Ellen experience in student government of budgeting this fund for use through* to any members of theJDaemen Hepnessy, Vice President of Govern­ helps one after shcool in the real out the year and carefully reviewing community who might be interested in ing; Kate Olochnowicz, Vice President world, and looks good on a resume". each request submitted to them for attending. Foundations in Science by Elizabeth Conlon, Denise Maggio, and Natalie Stenzel Campus On September 10,1991 at the Schenck estate. There will be no Ministry News 9:00 am, the groundbreaking ceremony need to borrow any monies for the for the new science building took building. The estimated cost to place. Dr. Robert Marshall presided complete construction is 2.2 million The start of the Fall Semester over the ceremony. dollars. The science building will be has brought a new face to the campus The building will be located the first new building on campus since Ministry office at Daemen CoUege. on the grounds between Canavan Hall 1984, when the gymnasium was built Rev. Dr. Roger M. Haas, a member of and Rosary Hall. It will be approxi­ No name has yet been announced for the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, mately 25,800 square feet It will the building. Completion is scheduled has assumed the position of Director of contain a Neurodevelopmental Lab, a for FaH 1992. campus Ministry. The Catholic priest Musculoskeletal Lab, an Isokinetic is 50 years old, a graduate of Rutgers Testing Lab, an Anatomy Lab, a 300 i(Without a doubt Daemen is University with a doctorate in Medi­ eval History, and has been a teach» person lecture hall and what are called by far the most dynamic young study pits. “Study pits" were designed for 20 years. with student interests in mind. The college in Western New York". Pr. Roger looks forward to notion that all students do not study in serving the spiritual needs of aU the same manner is the driving force In the words of President members of the Daemen community behind the “pits". They will have no MarshaU, “Without a doubt Daemen is He is particularly concerned about furniture and will resemble the area by far the most dynamic young coUege assisting Protestant and Jewish found in front of a fireplace that is in Western New York. Without the students who wish to have religious often referred to as a “pit". students who come here and study... services in their traditions conducted The new building will be built and give us the incentive to build this on campus. Pr. Roger would like to almost entirely debt-free. Approxi­ building, Daemen would not have the meet with Protestant and Jewish mately 1.1 million dollars comes from opportunity to do this." students to hear about their concerns and to receive their suggestions Pr. Roger is present at the The American Red Cross campus Ministry office in Wick center and each Monday and Wednesday from lO AM until 6 PM, and each Tuesday and Sigma Phi Epsilon Thursday from 2 PM until 6 PM. He Invite you to can be reached at extension 237. For the future, Fr. Rog» is hoping to arrange recreational activi­ Around September 14, a banner Give The Gift of Life... ties through the Campus Ministry belonging to Phi Beta Gamma was re­ office. A few ideas that can be moved from Wick Lobby without any implemented if students are interested authorization. If anyone has any infor­ Give Blood are theater parties to see Les mation about the missing banner, please Miserables and The Phantom of the contact the Student Activities Office, or Wednesday, October 9 in the Wick Social Room Opera; and a February ski weekend at Jon Paryz of Phi Beta Gamma. The 10 am-4 pm Cockaigne in Cherry Creek, NY. banner is the property of Phi Beta Gamma. College Press Service is published by m Tribune Media Services, 64 E. Concord St., Orlando, FL 32801 Political Scientists Debunk Birth Order CARBONDALE, HI. (CPS) _ Somit and his partner, Steven Birth order doesn't necessarily affect A. Peterson, a social sciences professor destiny _ at least where the presidency at Alfred University, were curious if is concerned, say two political scien­ first-born and only children had an tists. edge for the U.S. presidency, and if “While at first glance, it looks they performed differently than like we have more first-born and only younger siblings when in office. children becoming president, the data Though much literature links just don’t support it Nor does birth birth order and presidents, the profes­ order influence their behavior once sors found there is no relationship. they become president" says Albert However, their study of the Supreme Somit a professor at Southern Illinois Court has turned up a curious excep­ University at Carbondale. tion. Many justices were or are first­ born. School Hopes To Defuse Concerns About Buried Ammo EDISON, N J. (CPS) _ For years, the corps looked Middlesex County College is one sporadically for old explosives buried school that hopes never to take the Big on more than 1,000 acres that belonged While Potsdam College Gets Top Food Bang theory literally. to the Raritan Arsenal, used during Since the end of June, the World Wars I and n, according to H onors Army Corps of Engineers has un­ college spokeswoman Joanne Stem. earthed explosives on the school Middlesex occupies about 200 acres of POTSDAM, N.Y. (CPS) _It the National Association of College campus, built on land where an arsenal the land that used to house the arsenal. was a spectacular night at the Star University Food Services. The dinner used to be located. School officials “They’ve been searching for Lake Fish Camp. Hors d’oeuvres were won rave reviews from officials caution, however, that the munitions buried munitions since (the arsenal) served from canoes. Guests dined on a invited from State University of New have not proven to be dangerous. left," Stem says. “It’s sort of a myth feast of Adirondack trout or roast filet York institutions this past spring. around here." mignon and finished with maple George Arnold, Potsdam’s But this summer a former mousse. dining services manager, prepared a employee of the arsenal located a site It was a blue-ribbon meal, in scrapbook that described the dinner, Florida College and the corps returned, Stem said. a “Great Camp” setting, that won and a local story teller and So far, the corps has un­ Potsdam College’s dining service first basketmaker entertained guests with Increases Security earthed more than 50,000 fusp caps prize in a nationwide contest held by tales of Adirondack history.