THGCIRCLG Volume 34, Number 12 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. February 11, 1988 Trustees give go-ahead to new building plans by Cheryl Sobeski cost are not known at this time but residents. provide upperclassmen housing gested for this building and the details are expected to be work­ Currently, 218 students are hous­ and the option of being leased to remodelling the kitchen was College administrators received ed out within the next two months. ed five miles off-campus in a por­ the public if student enrollment was proposed. the go-ahead to further plan the The board of trustees executive tion of the privately-owned Canter­ to ever decline, A third dorm site, located closer construction of a new dormitory committee meets in March to bury Apartments. A new dorm will Three possible location sites are to the river and the tennis courts, and a classroom building, Presi­ discuss the feasibility of the to eliminate the use of this hous­ being considered for the dorm, ac­ would not be connected to the cam­ dent Dennis Murray said after last proposals. ing arrangement, said Murray. cording to Murray. pus center. Saturday's board of trustees "I think the board realizes there Cox anticipates the need for 300 One proposed spot is west of meeting. is a real need for more student students to be placed in the Canter­ Gregory and Benoit overlooking Architect, Al Cappelli, suggests A new dorm, costing between housing on campus," said Gerard bury Apartments in September the Hudson River. the dorm be built in the south end $3.5 million and $4.5 million, was Cox, dean of student affairs. 1988. A second possible site is west of near the river to keep the dorms in proposed with completion an­ "They are enthusiastic and want to The new dorm is being planned the campus center and south of the the same area and to add to the ticipated for fall 1989, while the build. Now it's just a matter of see­ for the south end of campus and tennis courts. An overpass connec­ aesthetic beauty of the college. classroom facility, expected to cost ing if it's possible and working with will be utilized by freshmen or ting the dorm to the campus center between $5 million and $6 million, the financial and design details." sophomores. The idea of two- would be constructed over the The proposed location of the was proposed with completion an­ The new dorm is expected to bedroom suites with a joint living roadway that leads to the Byrne classroom building is north of the ticipated within the next four years. house 300 to 400 students. Cham- room in each is being discussed, Residence. Lowell Thomas Center and south The specifics as to exterior and pagnat Hall, Marist's largest dor­ said Cox. A second cafeteria served by the of the site of the proposed Marist interior design, location, and exact mitory, accommodates 472 The north end of campus would campus center's kitchen was sug- Village. Board puts off action on Marist Village plan by Bill Johnson Finnco Development Corp. include a bookstore, a restaurant Murray, who spoke more con­ and a laundry facility. The board cotrustees postpon­ fidently last fall about the swift"" \~ The'primary-consideration fac­ ed a decision on the Marist Village development of the on-campus ing the board of trustees in Satur­ Saturday, with financial ar­ shopping mall, now cautiously day's meeting, according to Mur­ rangements between the college and describes the nature of this project ray, was the financial arrangement the mall developers being the big­ as "exploratory," although he concerning the land around the gas gest unresolved issue, according to maintains the college will not spend station, which Finnco owns, and President Dennis Murray. its own money to build the mall. leases Marist has on the property. "I don't anticipate that there will If approved, the Village will be Other unresolved issues are the be any resolution until the next constructed on the North End of Village's interaction with the main board meeting at the earliest, which campus where a gas station and a' campus, the types of businesses will be in March," said Murray of bank now stand. Possible tenants that would open in the mall and its the on-going negotiations with for the Village, while not definite, aesthetic appearance, Murray said. Discussion of these four issues will continue between the executive committee of the board of trustees Marist alumna Regina Clarkin founded her own paper in Peekskill, N.Y., Students speak out and Finnco, as decided at Satur­ after the city's daily moved out of town. Here she is shown with noted jour­ day's meeting, said Murray. The nalist David Brinkley and President Dennis Murray after she won the com­ by Use Martin full board of trustees meets three munication arts alumni award last spring. The Marist Board of Trustees postponed the vote on Marist Village times each year, in November, (Photo courtesy of Marist Public Information Office) shopping center last Saturday, but students are still unsettled with the February and May, while the ex­ propsed construction. ecutive committee of the board At an open forum held last December, students expressed mixed meets during the remaining feelings about the Village, according to Jeff Ferony, student body months. president. Once finalized plans are submit­ Alumna makes news "The largest percentage of students think that the Village is a good ted, the board of trustees will vote idea but are concerned with security problems and people wandering on four separate proposals concer­ from the Village onto campus grounds," said Ferony. ning each of the Village's fun­ — with own paper The majority of these students are freshmen, sophomores and damental issues, and, if Finnco juniors who may be living in the North End next year where the Village submits no acceptable proposals, by Cheryl Sobeski Clarkin was first introduced to is to be located. the college may then look for reporting in high school, but it was Celeste Frasier, president of the student academic committee, had another developer, said Murray: When Regina Clarkin wrote for the teaching of Marist journalism concerns about the village. "1 think it would be a nice convenience, The only thing certain about the The Circle in the late 1970s, she instructor Mimi McAndrew, which especially since I don't have a car and getting to the malls is like hell. Marist Village now is that it will no knew she liked reporting, but she sparked Clarkin's enthusiasm for But also, where are they going to put ail the parking?" cost the college anything, said never thought she would be writing writing. Many student* are undei the impression that Marist is funding the Murray. for her own newspaper someday. "When we came back from "The board said the college Now, Clarkin, a 1979 Marist reporting, she sat down with us in­ project, but the development of the Village will be at no cost to the dividually and made us think about school, according to Ferony. money should clearly be directed to graduate, is the publisher and part- T ........ c„,:„„ii; .» (Vorhmiii frnm Nr>» Windsor N.Y.. SUDDOrtS two refurbishing projects: Cham- owner of the weekly newspaper, our stories; I mean really think," the proposal, "Everyone thinks that the money is coming from Marist, pagnat and Donnelly," Murray The Peekskill Herald. said Clarkin. "We rewrote them over and over until she was but it's not! So I say go for it." - said, adding the board advised that "We decided Peekskill needed a local newspaper, and we were just satisfied. She was tough, but had Some students feel that the Village will continue to be postponed, the college's building effort should be directed to the Library and a naive and crazy enough to start a real love of journalism, and she especially during the construction stages. one," Clarkin now says of her has­ let that get across to her students." "1 think the location is convenient for the entire campus, but the dormitory. When questioned on the impact ty plans with partners Rich Zahrad- Clarkin got her first job as a construction of the project will probably never occur,-at least during, nik and Kathy Daley to publish a writer in 1979 in the public rela­ my years at Marist. Lowell Thomas was supposed to be completed if the mall on the aesthetics of the Sr campus, Murray admitted he newspaper in 1983. tions department of Children's Aid before I was a freshman," said Rich Guerreiro, a sophomore from would not have supported the idea Well, actually they weren't has­ Society in New York City. In 1981, New York City. of a shopping mall on campus as ty — The Herald's first edition, 26 she became editor of a quarterly Kelly Kramer, a sophomore from Paterson, N.J., said, "The Village strongly as he does were it not for pages, came out on Jan. 8,1986 — magazine, Near East, also in New is a good idea but I probably won't be here to see the completion of it. the presence of the existing bank three years after they started plan­ York. Another concern of the students is that the Village may take up and gas station. ning. They were just a little "I disliked the two-hour com­ land that could be used for housing. Although Murray said he sup­ unorganized. mutes to the city from Peekskill, "I don't think they should put it in because they need more hous­ ports the idea of having student "We didn't know how to run a but I loved living in Peekskill," ing and upperclassmen are being shipped out to Canterbury.