AAG calls off fplilty vote oil Gore by Donna Cody between the foundation and the second tier are ' not explored,'.' said LaPietra. four modes. "The modes themselves are a courses," Benin said.:: ."Without follow up, students don't have • highly technical, specialized instrument," : The , Academic Affairs. Committee • Kevin Donohue, chairman:.of the enough guidance and it might be more said Goldring.."They should not be the Wednesday morning voted unanimously to Division of Humanities, shares this con­ consistent if we explored the four modes in grounding for what purports to be an cancel the scheduled faculty vote on the cern tor greater integration between the detail." ••••••••: :':.~. •.->.;.• \ introduction to undergraduate education." new Core proposal. foundation courses and the courses in the Other faculty members concerned with Both opponents and prdponents The faculty was to'vote on the proposal second tier. Donohue said that the present the core issue agree that there is a need to recognize a need for the faculty to un­ Friday during a plenary session. core program, is "like learning cafeteria change the existing program. However* derstand the proposal more clearly. "The The proposal, which was first presented style." According*? Donohue, the student many of them do not agree with the faculty has a right to demand what they by the Core Development Committee in this type of situation does not know proposed modes of consciousness ap­ teach be fully intelligible to them," said earlier this year, has been the source of which core classes to select or how to "cap proach. - Goldring, "and our students have a total much controversy. off the core experience." ' Some opponents of the proposal feel that and inalienable right to demand that we the new core will not satisfy the needs of .understand what we are teaching." Proponents of the core proposal say that" According to Richard LaPietra, the students. "The proposed core has no Thomas Casey, asst. prof, of philosophy the new core curriculum would provide the chairman of the C.D.C., the proposed sense of what the problems of our students agrees with Goldring's concern! "I don't unity and integration needed in the existing "modes of consciousness"-approach to the. are crying for," said Peter O'Keefe, asst. think that the proposal is sufficiently curriculum. According to Italo Benin, second tier courses would increase the prof, of history. "The present core still has understood by the faculty and if it isn't assoc. prof, of philosophy, the changes in coherency of the core experience for the larger possibilities than the modes of sufficiently understood by the faculty, I the new proposal reflect two things. "First, student: "The foundation courses in­ consciousness," O'Keefe said. don't know how we would hope to have the clarification of the foundation courses troduce the students to the four modes of : Beth Goldring, asst. prof, of in­ prospective students and their parents and second, it asks for a kind of harmony consciousness. Beyond that the four modes terdisciplinary studies, also objects to the understand it, "said Casey. r* <\ vVolume 26, Number19 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. April29,1982 Funds sought for televisions by Jennifer Grego As part of a continuing effort to make the on-campus dorm lounges more suitable for social gatherings, the Inter-House Council has been raising money to use toward the purchase of televisions for each of these lounges, according to Assistant Dean of Students fr. Richard LaMorte. ^"Tpc^lounge is a part of the living-en--" •' virohments." said LaMorte.. "JjVhen special events are televised, if there were TVs in the lounges, a mob could get together and not have to worry about the amount of noise and chaos as you would in an individual room." According to LaMorte ' and IHC President David Skrodanes, the televisions would cost between $2,200 and $2,800. The IHC has raised between $500 and $600 toward this goal by sponsoring a Resident Advisor Slave Night, a mixer, and a raffle. .-••• . Although the purpose of the IHC is not to raise money for itself or social events, according to LaMorte, Dean of Student Affairs Gerard Cox said it was appropriate _ for the council to enhance the social life in the dorms. Pony rides were just one of the many activities sponsored by the Psychology Club LaMorte is considering ways to raise the One at the "One to One Day" held last Friday for disabled children and adults. remainder of the money. He said, "What (Photograph by Grace Gallagher) I've seen work in other places, is getting TVs that have already been used and use to One the money we have to refurbish them. The only other possibility I can conceive of is to have a raffle that would involve not only the students, but the community at large. Murder at Marist: The real story We would have to clear that with the college." '.'- : by Laurie Lovisa Xavier Ryan, associate professor of philosophy at Marist According to Skrodanes, the yearly College, remembers well the Sperling murder. "I knew and allocation the IHC receives from student On Feb. 18,-1975, Shelly Sperling, 17, Mahopac, lay dying on became very good friends with Shelly because she was in the government is not enough to work with. the floor of the cafeteria's food service office at Marist College. Science of Man program,".said Ryan. "Walking across campus, "I'd like to see the IHC have its own ac­ Moments before, Louis O.Acevedo III, 20, Mahopac, a Shelly made a point of always being in the company of others," count, but the trustees are against.it former boyfriend of Sperling, had entered the cafeteria. Shortly he said. "She feared Acevedo coming after her." because it would add to the cost of after 6 p.m. a report of shots being fired summoned town police tuition," he said. to the college campus. Sperling was found dead. Ryan said that several months prior to the murder, Acevedo To handle the money shortage, LaMorte The'Sperling murder has become part of Marist folklore. Like had assaulted Sperling. "He and Shelly were down by the river said, "What I'd like to do is try to not wait most folklore it is laced with fact and fiction. Rumors that have when Acevedo picked up a rock and threw it at her," said Ryan. until we have the whole amount needed. If flourished in the last seven years are varied. Some say she was "After Shelly was struck, she managed to calm him down and we install the TVs gradually, people would killed by a man under the influence of drugs. Others say she was persuade him to bring her to the hospital. She was a.remarkable be more encouraged and the possibility of murdered by a shot to the head. girl," Ryan said. getting it done is better." What follows is an attempt to set the record straight through According to Assistant District Attorney Jim O'Neil, Louis O. "The TVs would be mounted off the eye witness account and reports that appeared in the Acevedo is presently in the Harlem Psychiatric Center, Dover, ground," said LaMorte. "In Campagnat Poughkeepsie Journal, Feb. 19,1975. N.Y. we could attach them under the study At 5:45 p.m. Louis O. Acevedo entered the cafeteria with booths. We spoke to maintenance in friends to have dinner. Acevedo, then a student at Dutchess Immediately after the murder of Shelly Sperling, Acevedo was September but they have to get back to me Community College, accosted the Sperling girl and a friend and taken to the Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center where he was found on how they would see doing it." chased them into the cafeteria's food service office. There were mentally incompetent to stand trial. "Those booths are totally useless right three male employees on a break in the office. With a .32 caliber "Our theory is that the murder was premeditated," said now," said Skrodanes. "With the increase pistol one of two shots were fired at one of the employees as they O'Neil. "We believe Acevedo knew and understood fully what he in the amount of students on campus and fled with Sperling's friend. was doing up until when the trigger was pulled. After that he over crowding of the library, we need more Sperling was alone with Acevedo. Two more shots were heard. went into a catatonic state." areas to study." Police flooded the cafeteria but hesitated entering the office. O'Neil said that psychiatric reports reveal no evidence that LaMorte said the problem with an en­ They believed the girl was being held hostage. Acevedo will be mentally fit to stand trial in the near future. "At deavor like this is that "students can get When police finally decided to enter the room, they found this rate, he could be in the mental facility for the rest of his discouraged because it takes so long to see Sperling dead on the floor. She had been shot twice, once in the life." results." He hopes to have three televisions shoulder and once in the side. installed by Sept. I April 29,1982 - THE CIRCLE • Page 3 f Page 2THECIRCLE • April 29,19821 Readers Write Inside look Discussion of rape All letters must be typed triple space with a 60 space margin, and submitted to the Circle office no later than 6 p.m. Monday. 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