THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF MERCYHURST COLLEGE SINCE 1929 Mercyhurst College 501|E38th StfErie Pa. 16546 mffi^,2QM The Merciad is also available at merciad.mercyhurst.edu NEWS: Celebrate Earth Day everyday Check out the Police and Safely log for your favorite college violations. PAGE 3 FEATURES: Dr. Gibson's Commu- nication Campaigns Class gears up for mock trade show.* PAGES OPINION: Madam Malarky and the not-so- casual relationship PAGE 6 ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT r\auKatie McA03ms>KnotMcAdams/Photo editoeaoorr The trees planted on the North Side of McAuley parking lot will help remove carbon dioxide from the air and help the underground storm dranage system when It rains. Kilroy and Helbig's performanc benefits the American Cancer Green-minded students Society. ••* *i help the environment recognize that the way we have been PAGE 8 By Jonelle Davis developing is just not sustainable and Contributing writer must be redesigned in order to pre- "Mercyhurst is a model institution for serve the land. environmental sustainahflity, so that w e do Although there were lectures and SPORTS: not compromise future generations from movies shown to celebrate Earth having good lives. The bigger goal is to Day and create awareness, environ- Baseball continues to make Earth Day everyday.' * mental awareness was also created improve. — Dr. Chis Magoc in other ways ranging from passing For many years students and facul- out green cards to cleaning up wa- ty have been working at Mercyhurst tersheds. to make the campus a cleaner, health- According to Magoc, Green Cards PAGE 12 ier environment were passed out in all mailboxes in Each year, their efforts are high- order to create visible reminders of lighted on Earth Day and the sur- how students can contribute to work- rounding weeks. This year, accord- ing to personally make a difference Upcoming Campus Events ing to Dr. Magoc, Adviser for Mer- in the health of our regional and glo- cyhurst Green, Earth Day was cele- bal environment. brated in a number of ways, which Green Card reminders, which can will continue over the course of the be placed anywhere and remain vis- Film: Fog of W a r | next few weeks. ible, were passed out this week. They Mary D' A n g e l o Performing A r t s The Earth Day events kicked off serve as a reminder for everyone to Center on Friday, April 16, when "Save Our be environmentally responsible, Wednesday, April 28, at 2 and 8 Land, Save Our Towns," a film based which does have an impact of the p.m. on Thomas Hylton's award winning health of the watershed Every per- book on the problem of suburban son can make a difference," said Fleohoto sprawl, was shown in the Taylor Lit- Magoc. A Mercyhurst student helps to clean up the Millcreek watershed as Mercy h u r s t Rotaract Club: tie Theatre.*; Along with the Green Card re- part of the Earth Pay celebration, Blood Drive Thomas Hylton followed up his minders, there was also an awareness their senator about the support of through letters, students also were Student Government Chambers movie with a lecture on Thursday. table set up in the Student Union and energy policy. The participation at able to participate by helping to plant Zurn Lobby, April 19-12, from 9 trees on campus. Thursday, April 29,11 a.m. to 5 p.m April 22. Hylton spoke about the the interactive tables was about 85 social and environmental impacts of a.m.-4 p.m. The tables included an students. According to Magoc, this year, ten suburban sprawl in America. Dur- interactive display and a letter writ m According to Magoc, "The support trees will be planted on the north side ing campaign, which focused on the of energy policy moves us away from of the McCauley parking lot Bosom Buddies: A tribute to ing his speech, he posed the question "Does it make a difference how we national energy policy. foreign oil and not only is it good for After planting trees, 50 students ana Broadway's leading ladies arrange the things we build?i1n At the tables, it was stressed that the environment but it is also good faculty members also had the oppor- Taylor Little Theatre Hylton discussed the topic in depth, everyone can make a difference in- for our economy, our job market, and tunity to participate in the Fourth An- Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, stressing that things need to be built dividually.! T h e y also gave away en- it also helps global warming," said nual Mill Creek Cleanup, on Satur- at 7:30 p . m . to human scale rather than car scale. ergy efficient light bulbs to students Magoc. day April 24. | £ Overall, he stressed that we need to who took time to write a letter to Along with voicing their opinions Please see Earth Day Page 3. Golden Mic Awards Walker Recital Hall Network problems affect entire campus Tuesday, May 4,7:30 p.m. By Kelly Rose Duttine Benekos said. fore we had received the antivirus Students can help the problems with News editor There is also the problem of vi- updates to preventjt," said Benekos. the campus network. The IT depart- ruses and worms on the network. fcThe worm is fixable t h o u g h and the ment has the following tips to make If you have tried to access your "The Internet connection is saturat- IT department has currently imple- sure that ypu aren't making the con- Index Mercyhurst e-mail account lately, you ed most of the time. T h e problem is mented the fix over the server now nection slower: News 1 have noticed that there are big prob- made worse by virus traffic, but val to fix the Webpage and e-mail I Students can make sure that National News 2 lems, id traffic accounts for the bulk of NctReg, a program that helps to they perform Windows updates and the volume," Benekos said- News 3 Students, faculty members and ad- identify infected computers, will con- antivirus updates, ministration all experienced problems Even though Mercyhurst increased tinue to be installed on Thursday, April • Never open an attachment that Features & ....4 with their e-mail accounts including the connection size last October, 29, to apartments on Briggs and you aren't expecting. Features | j • 5 missing all stored e-mails and not problems remain with saturation. Lewis Ave.•' • If you are causing problems, Opinion 6 being able to send or receive mail. Benekos hopes that there will be a Benekos said that it will take a while the IT Department can notify you if more substantial increase over the Opinion £ 7 Pat Benekos, Director of Informa- to fix all the problems around cam- they detect that you arc spreading a tion Technology, said that her staff summer so that the network should pus in residence halls and apartments. vkus«f A & EM41 8 is currently in the process of restot be improved in September. "We will use Sophos and the Webpage "We arc all vulnerable when virus* A&E. 1...9 ing Wcbmail, after the server failed Currently, Mercyhurst was hit with will help us to distribute the fixes. W e es and worms are created every day Sports, 10 last Thursday and had to be rebuilt a worm which travels over the net- will contact students when we detect and distributed globally in seconds. We * Sports, !"j ., 11 "We should be able to restore every- work. "These worms are present virus traffu coming from t h e i r PC's," will all have to be more vigilant," said other places, but this one hit us be- said Benekos. Benekos. Sports, 12 thing except Thursday's activity," APRIL 28,2004 PAGE 2 THEMERCIAD NEWS To contact: [email protected] Romanian mining town to be razed for gold beneath By Matthew Schofield <cThe other day, they came to years. And then what will be left? Knight Ridder Newspapers measure the cemetery," said Nothing but empty holes." Dorina Cirua, who was born ^Beneath this tiny Transylva- ROSIA MONTANA, Roma- here and hopes to die here. nian village lies more gold than nia — For more than 2,000 years, "They tell us they will pay to re- in any other place in Europe. strangers have invaded this bury our ancestors when it is The Rosia Montana Gold place, seeking the gold that's be- gone. How can they do this?" Corp., owned primarily by Gab* neath the villagers' feet 'The issue is progress versus riel Resources, a Canadian com- They've come with swords tradition, and it is not only here pany, says such concerns are and arrows, guns and tanks — but everywhere in Romania," shortsighted* The mine is losing Romans, Austro-Hungarians, said Liviu Popa, a manager with money, and if things don't Nazis and Soviets. But the vil- the new mining company. "We're change, the 500 jobs that are lage always survived. Until now. not here to destroy the place. here now will vanish. "Nobody ever came to kick us We're a mining company. We are ^I'The way the mine is now go- out of our homes before," said here to make money, and that ing, pretty soon everyone is out Eugen Cormea, whose family will move Romania forward." of work," said John Aston, the has lived here for generations. In the end, that's what this is environmental manager for the "They used us to mine. They about: Romania may have a rich project "We'd create jobs for the forced us to mine.