THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MERCYHURST COLLEGE SINCE11929 Mercyhurst Collee u m Pa. 16546 The Merciad is also available at merciad.mercyhurstedu NEWS: American students Literary Festival brings studying abroad react to the attacks in Spain. authors to 1 PAGE 3 FEATURES: • Art students give! back to community fe by painting a mural at S K "m The Mercy Center * s* tap & for Women. tft&Z* m PAGE 5 m. OPINION: Vote for the new EKNv Madam Malarky! u PAGE 6 ARTS& F3e photo Rte photo ENTERTAINMENT: Authors Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Larry Heinemann will be two of the features of the second literary festival on campus. Events will be held throughout the month of April.% Mercyhurst dancers By Jonellc Davis team together with Contributing writer full time English and creative writ- Following his speech, Heinemann and music by students that were not Lake Erie Ballet to ing teacher at Rutgers University. will also be hosting a creative writing possible in the old version of the pub- perform "Dance Over the course of the school year Ostriker will be staying at the Mer- workshop in the Mercyhurst guest- lication. Bodfes/1" 1 many speakers and workshops are cyhurst College-gaesthoose;"formerly house at 9:30 a.m. on April 21. This brought to Mercyhurst College in the Cohen Health Center, where she lecture is also open to all students, Festival Importance: order to help faculty and students will be teaching a creative writing while the workshop is invitation only. When asked to comment about the PAGE 8 increase the quality of their educa- workshop on April 14, at 9:30 a.m. festival, Dr. Kenneth Schiff discussed tion. The lecture is open to all students; Unveiling the 2004 Lumen: the importance of campus events. "It During the month of April, this however, the workshop is invitation The final event of the festival, the is very valuable to bring successful series of events will continue with the only, for creative writing students. Lumen Reception, will be held on writers to campus to give students the SPORTS: second annual literary festival. This Any creative writing students that Tuesday April 27 at 7:30pm, in the opportunity to see and speak with festival is hosted by the English De- have not been invited to this event Mercy Heritage Room. This is an highly respected novelists. By host- ing culturally diverse educational Men's l a c r o s s e plays partment, under the supervision of and want to attend can contact Dr. annual reception held in order to cel- Dr. Jeff Roessner and Dr. Kenneth Schiff. $g II ebrate the publication of the Lumen, events, the small campus community first night game on Schiff. jj W Mercyhurst's award-winning literary becomes more culturally alive. It is Tul 1 i o Field under Roessner and Schiff have worked Larry Heinemann: magazine. important to recognize Dr. Garvey lights. to expand the festival to go outside The next speaker, Larry Heine- During the reception there will be for making this festival possible of the Mercyhurst campus for the mann, will speak on Tuesday, April an open microphone session for stu- through his generous funding. Not 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Taylor Little dents to showcase their work, an only do students get to showcase PAGE 12 first time. Last year, the festival in- cluded lectures given by the English Theater. Heinemann is also a na- award ceremony for the best short some of their own work, but they Department, while this year it will tionally recognked writer. His award- story and best poems, and finally the now have the opportunity to learn include speakers from outside the winning first novel, Close Quarters, unveiling of the 2004 Lumen. from two high profile novelists." Upcoming Campus Events college^ has been called the seminal work to This year's Lumen is a product of Schiff went on to say that the En- come out of the Vietnam War a joint project between the English glish department is expecting a big- Alicia Suskin Ostriker: Heinemann also wrote Paco's Sto- Department, under the supervision ger turnout for the festival this year, Film: 21 Grams Oh Tuesday, April 13, the first ry, which received a National book of Dr. Schiff, and the Graphic De- and he hopes that students will take Mary D* A n g e l o Performing A r t s guest speaker, Alicia Suskin Ostrik- Award for fiction. Along with his sign program, under the direction of advantage of this great learning op* Ms. Jodi Staniunas-Hopper. The portunity. Center er, will speak in the Taylor Little The- award winning publications^ he has ater at 7:3.0 p.m. Ostriker has writ- also written a third novel titled Cooler Lumen will no longer be a simple lit- Any questions about the festival Wednesday, April 7, at 2 and 8 p.m. ten nine books of poetry and has had by the Lake, and many short stories erary magazine, but will be an inter- should be directed to Dr. Schiff or two of her works selected as National and non-fiction articles in national active CD. It will include graphics Dr. Roessner. MSG: Elections for President and Book Award finalists. She is also a magazines. Vice President Student Union Wednesday, April 7 - Thursday, April8 I i Model UN heads to NYC Literary Festival: Alicia S u s k i n Ostriker By Tiffany Burgess tra work, but it is something that re- Contributing writer ally sparks my interest/' Taylor Little Theater |^ The three topics are the subjects Tuesday, April 13,7:30 p.m. Mercyhurst students from the that each student is expected to de- The team Model UN Program are going to one bate on their perspective country's from Mer- Literary Festival: Larry Heinemann of the largest Model UN Conferenc- position. ? j cyhurst es at the Hilton in New York City on The last day I here will be three com- will par- Taylor Little Theater dl Tuesday April 6 till Saturday, April mittees that have the opportunity to tlcipate Tuesday, A p r i l 20,7:30 p.m. 10, 2004. I | J debate in the United Nations. In events Students James Mikulec, Nicole James Mikulec is the only student at the Repass| M a t t h e w Chodaczek, Jenni- from Mercyhurst College that^has United fer Bulk ley, Shenda Hershfield, and been chosen to debate in the United Nation's Andrew Narusewicz are the six who Nations. Building will be attending. The conferencefends with an ln| New Index They will be debating Kyrgyzstan's awards ceremony to those that dis- York City. News • ••••• 1 political, educational, scientific, tech- play great knowledge of their coun- nical, and economical issues of the try's position, the best committee de- National News. 2 country. Kyrgyzstan is located on the bates, and the best representation by News •-.• • 3 west border of China and is former- an individual. Features .• I ,4 ly part of the Soviet Republic. The purpose of the conference is The conference simulates approxi- to challenge the students to address Features i .5 Photo coorlosy of www.unlcnig.ofO Opinion 6 mately 30 committees to debate on the global issues and conflicts of the specified topics and countries. country they represent. provides an environment where stu- who has been invol \ ed with the Mod- Opinion 7 Each Mercyhurst student is on a Students are pushed to heighten dents from all over the world can el UN program for two years says A & E. f 8 different committee that has three their understanding of the interna come together and work with each thatt "I have learned so much with A & E 9 main topics that they are assigned to tional system while testing their ne- other in a manner that I osters a great- the Mod* I UN program, this is defi- er understanding across international nitely the most worth while thing that Sports. I 10 research before the conference. gotiating, judgment, and problem- 11 As freshman Andrew Narusewicz solving skills. boundaries. I've done since I have been in col* Sports, said, "The researching is a lot of ex- Since the conference is so large it Shenda I lershfield a sophomore lege. Sports, 12 APRIL 7,2004 PAGE 2 THEMERCIAD NEWS To contact: [email protected]^ ^ Fighting continues in Shiite section of'Baghdad By Matthew Schofield 6 Knight Ridder Newspapers BAGHDAD, Iraq — Ameri- can officials raised the stakes Monday in an already-tense Iraq by announcing they will seek to arrest a Shiite cleric whose fol- lowers were blamed for the deaths Sunday of at least nine coalition soldiers, including eight Americans. Sheik Muqtada al Sadr is want- ed in connection with the mur- der nearly a year ago of a rival cleric. The cleric was hacked to death during a meeting of Shiite groups in Najaf one day after Baghdad fell to American forc- es, U.S. officials said.; There was no word on how soon Sadr might be seized, and KRT he remained defiant in his head- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr s militiamen take time to pray quarters at a mosque in Kufa, as they protect Al Kufah Mosque in Kufah, Iraq, after clash- 90 miles south of Baghdad. es with coalition forces on Sunday. Tensions remained high throughout the country. Gunfire into the neighborhood. Accord- for the US. Central Command, could be heard overnight in Sadr ing to hospital reports, 30 Iraqis said four police stations had been City, where hundreds of militants were killed and 60 were wound- seized by Sadr supporters, but had massed in the streets Mon- ed during the fighting.