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Last Dance For Class of' 96Susan D'AmbrosiaMerciad Contributing
Writer
Student A ctivities Committeeput together the annual
SeniorDinner Dance this past * Fridaynight anthe Sportsmen's
Club.This nightwas an opportunity forseniors to be together as a
classone last time beforejtheir walkdown State Street on May 19.The
Seniors dinner was prepaidthrough Student Government fees.
The evening consisted of din-
ner, a slide show, dancing and achance to laugh at every
seniorsbaby picture.Students were disappointed withthe DJjat the
dance. Some stu-dents complained that he playedtoomany slow numbers
and coun-try song s. "I wish themusic wasmo red a nceodented. I had
a greattime and hope all the others didtoo" said Gagan Suri, an
HRIM
senior atthe college.The Senior Class would like togive special
thanks to Katie M,Mary Sloan and all of the SACmembers who
contributed to thisspecial occasion. Although it is'always sad to
watch another se-nior class leave, we wish the bestof luckto
everyone. As the souve-nirs given away atthe dance stated,"Mercy
World to Realworld."
Lecture Series ContinuedBy Gagan SuriMerciad News Editor
Last week on Thursday,Charles de Vere delivered a lec-ture on
Shakespeare's true iden-
tity in the D 'Ang elo PerformingAits Center. Vere's thesis
wasthat Shakespeare was actuallyEdward de Vere, the 17 m Earl
olOxford, and a nobleman in theQueen's court. "M ost people
thinkShakespeare was William ofStratford," but de Vere put for-ward
a logical argument supportedby facts to prove that this b elief
ismost probably wrong.
The lecture was attended bymore than 40 students, and
somefaculty and staff members. Dr.William P. Garvey, president
ofthe college, was present* thatevening.
Psychology Club Visitsi Graduate Program
Photos by Gagan SuriCharles de Verelecturing at
D'AngeloPerforming ArtsCenter
By David DauseyJMerciad Contributing WriterThe Mercyhurst
Psychology
Club visited the graduate programof the University of
Pittsburghlast weekend. The main idea ofthe trip was to give
psychologymajors a chance to see Gist handwhat they will be doing
in gradu-ate studies. Students were able tovisit 1 laboratories
dealing/withsuch areas as health psychology,developmental
psychology, andpsychoneuroimmunology. ^Thedirector of the
psychologygraduate program at Pitt, Dr. Pe-ter Moshein, said "I'm
glad to seeundergraduates with such an in-terest in their future
plans .... Look-ing at graduate programs canhelp
students decide if they are readyfor such an endeavor.
Mosheinhelped arrange the visit for theMercyhurst students. It
wasplanned for students to meet withgraduate students and their
men-tors. }'.fTht students began their visitwith Dr. Thomas W.
Kamarck,who does work with thebiobehavioral correlates on
car-diovasculardisease.Kamarckdis- t cont pg 2
Photos by Gagan SuriLeft: from left to right: Jason Giffen, Seth
Carl,Gabe Paulick at the dance IRight: From left to right: Tiffany
Kraus, TeresiW itkowski. Melissa Brown at the dance
M SG Ready toHand Over ReinsBy Dan HilfikerEditor-in-Chief
The newly elected 1996/1997Mercyhurst Student
Governmentrepresentatives sat in on the April29 meeting of MSG. The
newreps do not have voting poweruntil next week, but wereallowedto
sit in and get acquainted withthe process.A motion was made by
GeorgeBurich to approve the revisions tothe MSG constitution that
weremadeby theconstitution commit-tee. The votewas unanimously
infavor of the motion. ;4:
MSG President Jessica Cuffiaannounced that over $300 wasraised
at the formal Monte Carlonight that was held in the studentunion
last Saturday. Car bashingwill be the final event of the fundraiser
this year. The car will belocated outside the Maintenancebuilding
on Saturday, May 4 at 4p.m. For one dollar, people havethe chance
to bash a car with asledge hammer for thirty seconds.
Also on Saturday, there will be aSoftball game between MSG
rep-resentatives and an area radio sta-tion. All are*encouraged to
at-tend.The idea was brought up to starta food and clothing drive
at theend of the year. Students will beencouraged to bring all of
theirleft-over food and old clothing tothe Union at the end of the
schoolyear, rather than just leaving it intheir apartment or
throwing itaway.In Student Activities Commit-tee news, President
BrianMarshall announced that thisweekend wil 1 be the annual
SpringActivities weekend. The springformal will be on'Friday
atSabella's of Union Station. Sat-urday, there will be the
activitieson the football ield.Teams, com-pnsed of four men and
fourwomen, must sign Up at the uniondesk. Also on Saturday, there
willbe inflatable fun outside the li-brary starting at 2 p.m.
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contfrompg 11cussed his latest research with thestudents and
introduced them to agraduate student and a post-doc-toral student
who are his researchassistants. The students endedtheir tour with a
discussion di-rected by Dr. Andrew Baum'sresearch assistants, who
deal withchronic stress and its effects onwell-being. The
labsofDr.CeliaBrown, Dr. Daniel S. Shaw, Dr.Saul Sh iffman, and Dr.
CeliaBrowne11 were also visited.The experience for all the
stu-dents was rewarding and the clubplans *to visit another
graduateprogram next year. Junior psy-chology major, Sue Ackley
said,I found the trip very w orthwhileand I would suggest that any
stu-dent, whether considering
apgraduate school or not,at leastvisit a program and see what
isout there." Any student inter-ested inthe Psychology Club
nexttermcan contact David Dausey at2830.
MSG UpdateBy Gagan SuiiMerciad News Editor
u
Last week wa s busy for SAC/MSG at the college. On April 25
,Coyote Joe, a country band,played at the Athletic center. Theband
played popularcountry tunesfor half an hour and then the stu-dents
present were taught differ-ent styles of line dancing by KeriSui.
More than 100 students at-tended the line dancing. The eventwas
coordinated by Missi Ma this,a student at the college.April 26, the
same day the col-lege had its Senior Dinner Dance,
SAC organized the StarStruckVideos in the athletic center.
Allstudents who participated weregiven a copy of their
personalvideo with their choice o f graph-ics and music recorded
speciallyfor them. The event wasattendedbyjl50 people.
REMINDER TO ALL SENIORSDON'T FORGET TO HEAD OVERTO STUDENTS
ACCOUNTS TH IS WEETO COMPLETE YOUR $200 HOUSINDEPOSIT REFUND FORM
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, ^ i B U S ' i A H B H B ^ ^ H MFrom a few concerned seniorsDf
Angelo News
By Nina NapoleoneThe Mercyhurst CollegeD'Angelo school of music
pre-sented its Opera Chorus Concerton Friday April 26 at 8 p.m.
A-Conducting the Choral Con-certwas Rebecca Perkins Ryan, agraduate
of Mount Holyoke Col-lege. Ryan graduated with a B. A.in voice and
piano performance.She has also done graduate stud-ies in
choralf.conducting at theUniversity of M assachusetts andthe
Tanglewood Institute.Ryan has a voice ind pianostudio in Albion,
and is also di-rector ofthe D'Ange lo Conserva-tory Choir and the
Special EventsChoir at the State CorrectionalInstitution. '
*Accompanists for the concert Iwere Louisa Jonason, Julie*Ma-son,
Mary Beth Sederberg andDaniel Cabanillas.
Ryan arranged for an extensiveand interesting lineup o f a
varietyofvocal pieces. These ranged fro mexcerpts in "Carmen," T h
e Mar-riage of Figaro," V'TThe; Ma gicFlute," to "La Boh erne," and
manymore.. According to one audiencemember, "It's wonderful to
seethat we here at Mercyhurst havesuch talented people. It's been
awonderful concert."The soloists for thisperformancewere,
JohnrLoyer, Mary BethSederberg, Monique Fasano, AnnArmitage,
Cynthia Wilson,Angelo Szpak, Kathleen
_Woodard, Mark Riley, John Tay-lor, Karen Milinovich,
DanielCabanillas, Randy Hetherington,.Tara Martz, Louisa Joriason
aitdStephen Colanti.** i ' >Additional choir members in-cluded,
Betsy Belknap, Jennifer
Gamble it All AwayBy Gagan SuriMerc ad News Editor
The college Student ActivityCommittee (SA C) organized
thisyear's "Monte Carlo Night" forthe students and the
MercyhurstCommunity on April 27. MonteCarlo Night is an event
wherestudents cangamble allthey wantwith the fake money they
pur-chased, and then buy raffle ticketsforGarvey dollars at1,000a
piece.At the end of the night the luckywinners get the prizes.
Usuallytheevent is free and each studentgets 3,000 Garvey dollars
at thedoor, but this year students had topay $3 to obtain the fake
money.Non-students had to pay $10 forthe same fake money.According
to Brian Marshall
from the SAC, prizes worth$1,000were given a way that nightfrom
the SAC account, plus therewere many donated gifts
thatweredistributed. All the winners werepresent there during the
raffle re-sults. There were n o absentees.
'The event was very success-ful and many students
gambledthat!evening. The SAC raised$300 from the sale of the
fakemoney," said Marshall.The money raised was donatedto the M ercy
Center for Women.
Photos by GaganStudents gambling it awayat the Student Union
!Groves, Maureen Leigh, CindyLutz, Madoka Matsumoto,Victoria
Proctor, Ainsely Ryan,Julie Mason, James Strouse, RickWarner,
JamesFoley, Mike Hem-mer, Gary Johnson, JonathanNolan, JamzPorzio,
Suzie Bryan,Katrina Foltz* Amelia Kitchen,Ezono Kithan, Faith
Lifshen,Rebecca Styn, Michelle Szuba,and Tara Thomas.The Mercyhurst
CollegeD'Angelo School of Music, in its10th celebrated season ,
presentedanother edition of its Great Per-formers series this past
Sunday,April 26. #The Music School has had a
wide*variety of acclaimed per;formers visit-theTsdibolito
perTJ,- Vocalists Jerome Hines,?v Maureen Forrester, Pianists
EarlWil d andAbbey Simon, TheNewYork Woodwind Quintet, The
chamber Music Society of Lin-| coin Center and just recendy
theJulliard String Quartet of thewidely acclaimed Julliard Schoolof
Music are j ust some of a longlist of professional
performers.Andnow, soprano Kathleen Battlehas been added to this
list Herarrival at Mercyhurst has 5beenwidely anticipated.*rShe
nails from Portsmouth,Ohio and has studied at the Uni-versity of
Cincinnati at the Col-lege Conservatory of Music andhas been
awarded Gve honorarydoctoral degrees.'With 5 Grammy Awards underher
belt,(Battle has establishedherself as a distinguished
andnoteworthy recording artist Shehas recorded on all major labels*
jwith opera, concert, choral and'solo albums, and has also
appearedin concert with some of the
world's most acclaimed conduc-tors, instrumentalists, and
solo-ists including Luciano Pavarottiand Placido Domingo. She
hasappeared on the stages of manyleading opera houses includingthe
Metropolitan Opera, and hasworked with noted orchestras in-cluding
the New York Philhar-monic, the #Boston SymphonyOrchestra and many
more.The program for the concert,
with Cliff Jackson as pianist, in-cludesfsuch pieces by
GeorgeFrederic Handel,\Franz Liszt,Gaetano Donizetti, and a
varietyof others.This concert was made pos-sible by a gift from Dr.
and Mrs.George D'Angelo, Mrs. RobertGuelcher, and PNC Bank.
Summer JOBWMCE Radio Station
interested>efore MayYou can also apply* now for a jo b if you
wishto work in the fall term. Ji f Photo byp)anPMfikerOn Friday,
April 26, the Pennsylvania State Police helicopter located in
Franklin, Pa. la nded on the front lawnof M cAuley hall. The
presentation was put on in part by Criminal Justice professor David
Graff.
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Movie TimeBy James HainMerciad Movie CriticThe weeks between
MemorialDay and Labor Day are the big-Ngestformovies. Kids, teens
andyoung adutts ar eW of school;and this is when the studios
rollout their big guns. This summeroffersa bumper cropof new
mov-ies, each vying for entrance intothatexclusive clubknown as
YourWallet. ' i |Several mega-budgetlactionspectacles will be
coming yourway. FirstoutofthegateisTWis/er(May 10), a thriller
about a deadlytornado that boastsgroundbreaking special effects.It
stars Bill Paxton^and HelenHunt and h as an enviable pedi-gree, it
was directed by Jan D el
^Bont, whose lastfilmwas SpeedMAndyes, Arnold willbe back,
thistime inEraser (June 21), about awitness protection j agent
who"erases* people from existence.Just in time for he Fourth of
July,independence Day (July 3) tellsthe story of hostile
alieiteAttack- Aingthe U.S. and boasts a scene ofthe White House
being blown tosmithereens. Mel Gibson stats inRon Howard'sRansom
(August),and Nicolas Cage and SeanConnery team up for The
Rock(June), about an escape from animpenetrable prison. But
per-haps themost eagerly awaitedaction flick this summer is
Mis-sion Impossible, starring TomCruise. This update of the 60sshow
("This message will self-destruct in 3 0 seconds...") has
akick-butt trailer and advance word
iis that it's incredible. We'll seewhen it opens Memorial Day|
weekend. iIf comedy is more your style,EddiejMurphy tries his hand
atslapstick in The Nutty Professor(June 28),;in which he hides
un-der mounds ofmakeup as a nerdyscientist who discovers a
serumthat makes him cool (and for h ose
of you who aren't sold yet, it's aremake of the classic Jerry
Lewis^comedy of the same name). JimiCarrey will return in The
CableGu y (July 14), asthe cable repair-man from hell. This dark
comedystars 'Matthew B roderick asCarrey'scomicfoil.
DemiMoorereceived $12 million to take hertop off in Striptease, a
comedybout a single mom taking a jo bas a stripper. Italso stars
Bad MovieKngBurtReynolds, so you know?4t's going tobe Showgirlsn .
Andfinally, "Friends" star DavidSchwimmer*make$ his starringmovie
debut in The Pallbearer(May 3) playing a guy who is!l asked to
eulogize a high school^| d a ^ t e ^ f o e s n ' t ^member.|
Fdethefaifi^the-big one witftfeDisney'sTheHunchbackofNotreDame,
with the voices of TomHulce, Demi Moore, and JasonAlexander. But
this one is also abig question mark, since, judgingby the trailer,
it looks exquisitelyodd, with talking gargoyles and a|Wg, ugly
Quasimodoburstingintomelodious song. Again,
we'llsecHunchbackopcnsnationwideJune 21 . *| Well, there you have i
t WhichonewiUbetheA/K>//o23ofl996?Which one will ?be th
eWaterworks You decide. 1
By Jason UleryMerciad ColumnTunes Tails
Rage Against The Machine ex-ploded onto the music scene in1992
wjth their self-titled, debu tLP, which exploited the edge
ofhanjrpore and the lyrical assaultofhip-hop. The popularity of
com-bining hip-hop and hard-core haslong since died, but the
quartet isback with its second full-lengthrelease, Evil Empire,
after a four-year hiatus during which thebandbasically appeared on
a couple ofsoundtracks,, supposedly brokeup, and spoke out against
a greatmany oppressions. $]The band retains the same mu-sical style
for this effort, but thesongs have been scaled down and
no longer last for epic lengths oftime. The band has also
seem-inglylgained greater musicalawareness, fully utilizing
theirangeeof each instrument to itsffiilldst extent. On the
track"Vietnow,"guitaristTomMorelloends the song with the guitar
rep-resenting the automatic shots of arifle. i5 The album seems to
weigh alittle more towards the hip-hopend of the scale, on Jracks
like."Without a Face," which has aheavy bass line, slightly
jazzier,drums, and limited guitar whichbrings out the harshness of
vocal-ist Zack De La Rocha's messageand emphasizes the influence
rap-pers such as Chuck D havehad onthe band. Other tracks such
as
"Bulls On Parade," "Down Ro-deo," and "Year of Tha Boomer-ang"
contin ue the sound Ragehaspatented as its own, although
thelengthhasbeen toned down, keep-ing the interest of the
listener.*This is an exceptional album,|and it is something that
every-body should have in their collec-tion. The sound is just
nice, andthemost notable tracks would beTi re M e" and "Down
Rodeo,"which just blow away anythingyou would hear on the radio
thesedays, in which every station seemsto be owned by Daritfs
Rucker.Go out and get it Pint**!
The Erie Artharmonica jazzappear with a 5 pjece bandp.m.
Ticketfcare Slfand $6for students. For more info,
Whatscribed as being "A fem ilyportrait in 33 scenes." Theshow
runs from May 9th -| June1st,at 8p.m. The Road-i^houseis located at
145W.11St. For info, call 456-56S6.
809In Icompletely difierentBo b
MuseumState St.The ErieArt urcowboy boots and
playing the Warner Theatreon May 10 at 7:30s p.m.Aimee Mann will
be the
The Roadhouse Th"The MarriagiBoo," by Chris
spitoon and head on down o p?mn8 a c t Tickets areto Monster
Truck Race at! p r i c e d a t^ 2 7- 5 0 a n d a r e s u p -the
Erie Civic Center. This ^ ^ to be go i ng f a s t F o revent will
take place April ^ ^ a nd mor e mf o ' caU26 & 27 at 8 p.m.For
tickets WarnerTheat The***VZ1SZZ - - = . - L - ^ S X 5The Civic
Centeris
Get a GripNicole PonstingleA&E EditorLooking for something
to do onMay 13th? Keep in mind that the13th is thought of as abad
day to
the superstitious, so how aboutsomething nice and harmless
tooccupy that evening. TheWestminster Concert Bell Choirwill be
performing at WaysidePresbyterian Church here in Erie.Th e choir is
composed of stu-dents from the Westminster Choir
i college orRider University. Theywill be singing a range of m
usicincluding folk songs, hymns,popular classics! (I hope
noHootie), as well as original com!positions.If you are interested
in attend-ing this little event, you can call833-7653. Tickets are
$5for adultsand $3iforfstudents. Enjoyftheshow, life, the weather
and don'ttxrtaken in by the
propagandathatnewspapersstickinyourface.Ciao! * a
\The Rider University Bell Cho
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IntegrationBy Brad Ry bczynskiMerciad ColumnistIt is that time
of year when everything seems to be down to the bareessentials.
Most of us are groping around for money, food, time andpatience. As
a matter of fact, the only thing we see m to have enoughof is
stress. 4.It is the end of another year, papers are due, scheduling
is takingplace and finals are right over the horizon. I just wish
it would allbe done with . After all, this is the third time I have
had to go throughall of this. Ah, to just wake up and be home for
the summer withpapers in and final s don e.
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B y C h r i s Wloch 1Secretary Minority Student Union.As part of
Academic Celebra-tion, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. finSullivan Hall, Dr.
James Aho,author of The Politics of Righ-teousness: Idaho Christian
Pa -triotism, addressed "This ThingCalled Darkness: Why
PeopleJoinHate Groups." He examinedthe fusion of religious beliefs
andracist views in various, self iden-tified "Christian
Patriots."
Aho distinguished three differ-ent types of Christian
Patriots.Thefirstare "Identity Christians"who m aintain that
thewhite raceare God's chosen pe op le. .. andthat the true'Israel
is the Anglo-Saxon peoples from n orthern Eu-rope.0 The Identity m
ovement islargely anti-Semitic, or"Judeophobic"touseAho,sterm.The
brunt of its attack is centeredon the Jewish people who arelabeled
as "Christ-killers" andbelieved to be partof a conspiracyto gain
control of the world.Another type of C.P.s are the"Christian
Constitutionalists"who variously describe their per-ceived enemies
as the "HiddenHand,** the "Insiders" or even*"Secret Force X.^
Lastly, there ^are "issue-oriented" ChristianPatriots who focus
primarily oncertain political agendas such asthe anti-abortion
movement"Popular legend holds that rac-ism and bigotry are products
of
A Lecture on j the Radicall Rightthe deep South," Aho
observed.In reality, the Pacific Coast andRocky Mountain states
tout thehighest number of hate groupmembers in thiscountry. The
threestates with the highest per capitaconcentrations are
Montana,Idaho and Oregon.Aho began his research on themembers of
hate groups in 1985,the same year a shootout betweenfederalagents
and a group knownas"The Secret Brotherhood" tookplace inPuget
Sound, Wash. Sincethat time, Aho has amassed a li-brary of books,
pamphlets, audioand video cassettes and conductedhundreds of
conversation alstyle," interviews with formermembers and people
still involvedin organizations \like the AryanNation Church, based
in northernIdaho.!While chatting with and gettingto know them, Aho
would ask thepeople to explain their convictions.Using a technique
called "snow-ball sampling," he asked each per-son for the names of
other mem-bers. His two research goals wereto understand people who
belongto right-wing extremist groupsfrom their own point ofview,
andg i l l '& '' -*explain why people join thesekinds of groups
in the first place.Aho sought to discover exactly"what
differentiates 'them' fromthe 'rest of us'." Although: hestarted
off with a variety of pre-conceived {notions and theories,
Aho eventually found that manypeople did!not join hate
groupssimply because they w ere sociallyisolated, insecure about
their sta-tus, had received less formal edu-cation or were simply
acting outwhat they had learned at school,church or from their
parents.Aho found that, for the mostpart, the people he
interviewed"had stable marriages, were notinvolved in isolated
occupationssuch as mining and forestry, werenomore transient than
their neigh-bors and had been raised in thelargest American
mainline Chris-tian denominations."Aho presented a simplified
ver-sion of his own model which
stresses the importance of inter-personalrelationshipsas a
seriesof "steps or stages in how peopleaffiliate
withright-wingextrem-ists" which is represented by theacronym JIPP
. First,a person Joinswith a recruiter for one of thesegroups --
largely by chance,through contacts with
family,neighbors,!co-workers or fellowchurchgoers. Next, an
Invitationis extended to the person to learnmore about
the!movement. Theperson is then Pulled inand beginsto "alter her
orhis beliefs, outlookand values to coincide with thoseof he group
in order to maintain, * a a a a * 0 a a a a a a. _ . 4 a a * * a *
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V ^ _ ? _ " * " ^ 1 iBelfiore Adds Spice toEducation Department
By Jessica RussellMerciad Features EditorAt the beginning of
this year theEducation Department gained anew faculty member. Dr.
PhillipBelfiore.Belfiore, who came here fromteaching at Purdue
University forfour years, got his undergraduatedegree,from Duquesne
Univer-sity in. 1982, taught.for, a yearbefore getting his m
aster's a t Kent
State, taught for another year andthen earned a Ph. D at
LehighUniversity iitkl991. **aBelfiore, who is originally
fromCanonsburg, Pa., has many out-side interests* "I have two
chil-dren, a four-year-old, a two-year-old and, if all goes well, a
thirdchild in October. I run col-lect antiques at auctions. I
catchas much sports as I can here at thecollege . I think it's
important tosee what the students are doing.Most sports that I
observe arePittsburgh sports. Id o a lot ofsports in a kind o f
mediocre way.Running is the only thing I Can dowith any type of
consistency. Ialso refinish furniture, garden,
cook, things like that," he said.Teople say, 'Why Purdue
toMercyhurst?^ Part of it was tocome back home. We had been
inIndiana for four years and it'skind of nice to get back
here,"said Belfiore. i *"It's a small program but it alsohasa
commitment to being a goodprogram. I've see n small schools.A s a
matter of fact,while I was atPurdue, I * was -looking at someother
small sch ools and they didn'thave the commitment that
Mercyhurst had. Also they had agraduate program. I kind of
camein here and they suggested that,being that I had done some
gradu-ate work, a lot o f graduate teach-ing, I advised doctoral
students,advised graduate students, put acouple grants together,
and pub-lished quite a bit ofstuff, cominghere and taking over the
graduate
; '
I
aprogram would be a good idea.That was kind of nice, coming!here
I hadn't anticipated that withthe initial interview, but then
com-ing here, it was kindjof a?neatthing to have the option to
take|over the program and steer it in adirection that 1 thought
wouldmost enhance students upongraduation," said Belfiore^"It is
important for students toknow that they are taking courses |or
working with faculty who ac-tually can write a book, or publishan
article, or do the research thatthey read in textbooks.
That's'whatI want the graduate students to get a grasp of
undergradu-ates as well. I tend to teach everycourse like a
graduate course.Undergraduate students get a lotof the stuff that I
have done. A lor
aof the research\that I have en-gaged in, a lot of the book
chap-ters that I have written, they getthat stuff. So theyget
cutting edge Mthings as much as possible, whichmay upset them at
times becausewhat they read for the reading forthe day typically
isn't what {'talkabout I tend to talk about thingsthat I have done
in relationship towhatever the topic for the classwas. Once they
understand thesystem they like it, but it's hardfor them to get
used to that"t' "It Was nice to work with agraduate program where
the col-lege community understood thatscholarships are important
They
^B aunderstood that what I was doingwas good to do in education
andthat is just a matter of gettinggraduate students to see that
aswell. To see thatwhen they leavehere they will be as good or
betterthan any teacher that is out thereand that they will also be
capableof entering .Jin Ph.D. programsthrough the stuff they are
gettinghere. ."With the connections I have,the people Iwork with,
the oppor-tunities that I have to reviewgrants, to
viewcmanuscripts, towrite or to collaborate on projects,
then my graduate students get todo that also. They get to be
co-authors on book chapters, theyget to be co-authors on grants
thatwe put together and those thingsare important for those
studentswho may decide to go on to a Ph.D.," he said.'The master's
program hereisn't just designed to get teachersto be better
teachers. That's onlypart of it. There is a fine linebetween
getting teachers to get inhere and when they leave herethey will be
master teachers, rolemodel teachers'and also to beexperts in
shaping the way weteach kids through research. Thatis one of the
things that I havebeen trying to get students to un-derstand or to
see , that researchand scholarship in fact enhancethe teaching
profession," Belfioresaid. ' ""My goal for the future, thisyear, is
t o get students to under-stand that teaching, reading a text-book,
writing lesson plans andconducting classroom resea rch gohand in
hand: So^ou catt pick upa research journal, read it, under-stand
it, pick out what you need touse and then use it in a
classroom."Also one of the plans that Ihave in being here is to get
the
graduate studentgroup to act likea graduate group and to think
likegraduate students. Small collegeshave master's programs and
stu-dents come in,* take theirclasses, get their degreemailed out
to them and* every-thing is fine. That's not what Iwant here. My
plan for the gradu-ate program is to get these guysthinking like
graduate students,to get them looking hard at whatthey see in the
classroom as goodor bad, looking hard at what theysee in the
research as good orbad.They can be critical consumers ofwhat's out
there so they can be theones who are going to be chang-ing the way
teaching.is in thefuture," Belfiore said.
Academic Celebration H ighlights on Hurst TVHurst Television w
ill air seven presentations from this past week 's Academic
Celebration. The programswill be shown next week on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings on Hurst TV, Channel 62 or 19Bon
Erie Cablevision. Here's the complete Schedule:
7 p.m. - -VISIO N. Mercyhurst College dance students perform a
12-minute classical, modern dancepiece. J * ? ' '7:15 p.m. - -JAMM.
Mercyhurst dance students cut loose with a funky jazz dance.7 p.m.
- - Romanticism to Impressionism in French Music, Art and Poetry
with Ms. Louisa Jonason fromthe D'Angelo School of Music. *8:30
p.m. - - Shakuhachi: Sound of Wind in Pine.jDaniel Mantey performs
on the traditional Japaneseflute. i ^. $ 7 p.m.- - This Thing
Called Darkness:, Why People Join Hate Group8:30 PM -- Japanese
Women Ceramists
Senior Surveys Returnedtor PrizesBy Dan Hiifiker
-Editor-in-Chief ,-jt f
\. 4For the|past four years,^Mercyhurst College has distrib-uted
a survey to all members ofthe graduating class. This year i s |no
different 347 surveys weregsent out to all of those graduating
Jwith the class of 1996. The infor-mation gathered in these su rve
ys|is used to design curriculum,hchange teaching methods,
andimprove programs thatare offeredhere at Mercyhurst*"The school
is at a point now~;where they are looking at a revi-.
sion in the liberal studies curricu-lum, and I think that it is
impor-4tant that the students that aregraduating let, the sc hool
{knowwhat they havebeen doing w rong,',and what they have been
doingwell," sajd Dr. Jamie Yule, Di-rector of Academic Assessm
entAll of me responses are abso-lutely confidential. Nobody willsee
the returned surveys exceptfor Dr. Yule. .In past years, the
college hasnot had a. substantial number .ofsurveys returned. This
has lead to
incomplete, or somew hat inaccu-rate data. In an effort to
enhancethe return process, the college isoffering a $75 gift
certificate toBarnes and Noble bookstores forthe graduating seniors
w ho returntheir survey by Friday, May 3 .If you don't return your
surveyby the above date, don't worry.There will be an additional
draw-ing for everyone (including thosewho met|the May 3
deadline),who return their survey in the)coded envelope by Friday,
May10. The second drawing will be|for $25 worth of pizza del
iveredto your door.The envelopes are coded for thedrawing, but the
surveys are notcoded in any way.^The survey includes
questionsregarding> the liberal studiescourses offered at the
college, aswell as many questions that areused t o evaluate^ the
courses inone's, major. ?. If anyone has lost or misplacedthe
survey, or wants to handdeliver the survey, they can doso -by
seeing Dr. Yule in 102Preston. # .
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leers Last Perfonnance ofYear- In 'Pink Tubas"!On Saturday, May
11, members of the hard hitting, cross checking,snot spitting,
stubble bristling, Mercyhurst men 's hockey team will taketo the
ice - in tights! The L akers will be performing their version of
theballet classic, "Swan Lake;In the words of one critic, "The
piece is an eclectic translation of ahockey p layer's inner most
thoughts aboutthe game and his teammates."The Lakersfirstperformed
this pioneering piece last year while wearingpink tutus. After
several complaintsfromplayers, the outfits this yearareexpected to
express the players more feminine side, f t 'The performance is all
part of the Figure Skating Club of Erie's annualice show. A nd, on
a m ore serious note, the night's entertainment willinclude
performances from Northwestern Pennsylvania's best youngand
adultfigureskaters.Oneof hese is RobSchupp, Mercy hurst studentand
National Junior Men's competitor. Schupp will perform in the
high
level of talent he displayed at the national competition this
year.Partial proceeds from the show will be donated to the Erie
CountySpecial Olympics Ice Skating program. So, for a chance to
support aworthy cause, and to see the Lakers perform their
hilarious show, getyour tickets at the college bookstore. Prices
are $5 for adults and $3 forstudents. The show will start at 7
p.m.SoftbaIl|Loses jClose Games }Over the weekend the Lakers
softball team played a total of sevengames, won one, lost six. A
familiar pattern in a poor season. However,unlike other losses
during the season, the weekend' swere close and ha idfought Indeed
some were just plain unlucky losses.On Friday the Lakers played
Hillsdale and suffered two losses. Themiserable weather conditions
played havoc with both teams'play.On Saturday the team played a
very strong Northwood side and almosthad their best win of the
season.-After battling hard throughout, theLakersfinallysuccumbed
by the narrowest of m argins, 1-0. The teamremained tough
throughout the day, but again fell by narrow margins intwo more
games.On Sunday the team faced Ferris State in their opener and
sufferedanother narrow loss. However, the Lakers bounced back with
a bang intheir next game. They scored oneof heir biggest winsof the
season witha huge 14-0 victory over Lake Superior State. gp Next
weekend the team heads into theirfinalgames of the year in theGLIAC
championships. They face Ferris State in their opener and willhope
for revenge from last weekend. J^Lacrosse Ends Season }
Lacrosse played itsfinal wo games of the season over the
weekendand itfinishedas it began; the girls lost both games.On
Saturday the team faced Alfred College and in this one the
Lakerswere on top in the firsthalf. However, experience showed in
the second" Alfred came back and snatched an 8-7 victory from the
Lakers.On Sunday against Allegheny, there was more than
experiencebetween the two teams as the Lakers fell to a 15-1 loss.
There wasexperience, along with pbwer, technique and skill - all
the things coachPeter Ginnegar will be try ing to equip his teams
with in the coming yeajs.Fornow however, his team can only gain
from the experiences they'vead this year.uAll the defeats can
become discouraging, but we all knowJiere will be lot more hard
times to go through before we can beconie aquality team," said
Rebecca Dubisz. "Rome wasn't built in a day, shesa id . ' j 4
way to finish our season," Vance.Robson echoed Vance's re-marks
saying, "Although wewereonly paired together half waythrough the
season, we elled welltogether and we were both ex-tremely f focused
to win everymatch we played." ?The Hurstfinished hird in
theconference, with a record of 6-2and an overall record of
10-3.The team will be losing threeseniors next year with the
gradu-ation ofiVyom Bhuta, KevinDaschner, and Markus Muenck.The
team will find it difficult toreplace these three talents.
Onthebrighter side freshman ScottRobson was named to the AllGLIAC
conference team, a great
By John MurphyfMerciad Sports Editor | jIt seems that in some
way oranother, the word 'hard' has al-ways been associated with
seniormen's soccer player, GreigWaddle. * AHe had to be hard
growing upon the tough streets of Glasgow,Scotland. It was hard for
himwhenhis family had to uproot and moveto South Africa whenhe
wasonlyeight years of age. Throughouthis three years of play at
I Mercyhurst, Waddle was alwaysa 'hard' man on the soccer
field.| And now, as he graduates thisMay, it's going to be
extremelyhard for his presence to be re-placed on the men's soccer
team.Waddle served as team captainthis \year. In truth however,
hewas much more. Playing on ateam where most of his team-\mateswere
twoor three years hisjunior,|Waddle led his teamthrough experience
and example.Like an ancient Scottish warrior,he led his men into
battle eachweek this past fall. . fAnd they responded. They
ral-
lied around their leader's criesrjand produced the best season
everin the history of men's soccer at>Mercyhurst. They ^went all
theway to the NCAA Final Four inSouth Carolina bade in Decern-|ber.
|-"JThe game there lasted more than|.130 minutes.
Suffering^fromchronic cramping, Waddle was;carried off he ield ust
before the
Contd. from pg 8monster serve in the final," saidRobson.Later
inkhe day^Vance,partnered with Robson/went intothe doubles final
hoping to becrowned |GLIAC champions.They lost the first set in a
tie-break 7-6, but, then they changedthe tactics and breezed
throughthe second set 6-2.down tiredweekend's tennis. However,
theHurst stepped up anothergearandrallied to a 6-4victory in the
finalset. aIt was a nerve racking expe-rience, but we held our
nerve andpulled through by the narrowestof m argins. We played well
to-great achievement for his first year.
end of regular time.He had to watch inagony fromthe
sidelinesashisteammatesbattledbravely over the next30 minutes. That
washardforWaddle, ff'i t was utter frustra-tion, helplessness.
Ihadn't missed oneminute off play all sea-son, and vthen in themost
cruci al game of heyear! got injured. Night-mare,'" saicH
Waddle."The lads were? orilliant," he said, "they allknow how to
get thejobdone, they've got a lotof character."? Despite the
disap-pointment at the fveryend, Waddle's superb I Monday[play
throughout theyear |$ 1 .0 0 im por tswas rewarded in postseason
honors. He w asnamed GLIAC Playerof the Year, First TeamAll-Region,
RegionalAil-American and cre-ated a record for mostassists in a
single sea-son in Division II soc-cer with 18. IThe awards have
al-
Senior LakerThe awards have always comefor Waddle. As a teenager
hedonned the national team jerseyfor his adopted South Africa.
Inhis late teens, he returned to hisnative Scotland to begin a
twoyear apprenticeship with profes-sional .side Dundee. His dream
of' playing professionally was not to
afx, bowever.tInstead, he took the opportunityto further his
education with a^scholarship to the United States, to Gannon
University in fact Inhisfirstyear there he went to theNCAA Final
Four tournamentFortunately for Mercyhurst, andrather unfortunately
for Gannon,
Waddle moved up to the hill forthe remainder of his college
days.His record of going to the FinalFour with both schools is
unique.And so, Waddle is indeed a welltraveled player, but that
journeymay not be over. Several MLS(Major League Soccer) teams
arereportedly interested in him.Waddle himself remains uncom-mitted
to a future playing soccer.Nevertheless, ifhedoes decide tocontinue
playing, the team thatpicks him up will certainly ben-efitfromhis
commitment to thegame. .r. i It would be hard to get betterthan
Waddle. L i
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Laker batter Dave Runco watches his ball fly. Laker hittersKevin
Sweeney and Jeff Benedict had big weekends.
Baseball!FeIl9 OaklandBy Scott VanceMerciad Sports WriterWith
two games canceled earlyin the week due to bad weather,the Lakers
baseball team was welltested heading intothis weekend' sfour game
home series against
Oak!and. Indeed, the lay-off mightaccountfor he slow start the
Lak-ers had on Saturday as they suf-fered an 8-1 defeat.Despite
losing the series opener,which incidentally was only theirsecond
home loss of the year, theLakers bounced back to win allthree
remaining gam es. The teamimproved their overall record to28-6, and
hold a commanding firstplace lead in their conference witha 13-4
record.
Oakland came out swin ging inthe first game. Senior
pitcher?Casey Crawford turned in a solidperformance on the mound
ffor jthe Lakers. However, he receivedlittle help from his defense
asthey committed some costly er-rors to allow the visitors to
pullaway. Senior hitter ?Kevin|Sweeney hit a home-run for
theLakers, but it wasn't enough toprevent an 8-1 Oakland win.
Midway through the 6th inningin game two the Lakers weredown1-0.
Not for long though. JuniorPat Cutshall got on board with atriple.
Then Sweeney drove in thetying run with sin gle. Finally, upstepped
junior Jeff Benedict togive his team the lead with two*run homer.
Junior RalphAldecoagot his team-leading seventh winof the season as
the Lakers ranout!6-3 winners.* Benedict was only warming up Jfor
the Lakers. The former Cathe-dral Prep star came out on Sun- I
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day and hit a home-run in eachgame. Sweeney had quite a
pro-ductive afternoon also as he hadfour doubles. In Sunday 's
opener,junior Brian Lopez pitched a solidgame and helped secure his
teama 9-7 victory.In the second game of the day,junior Clay
"Boomer" Wood fin-ished the weekend in fine styleforthe Lakers.
Allowing only tworuns, Wood held the Oakland bat-ters to their
least productive game.On the other side, Benedict andcompany drove
in five runs tosend Oakland back to Michigan a
disappointed team. "The loss in thefirstgame madeit three in a
row, our worst slumpof the season," said Cutshall."Thankfully, we
seem to havegotten our confidence back andhopefully we can?make l a
goodrun at the playoffs," he said.This weekend the Lakers
playNorthwood in another four gamehome-series. The Michigan sideare
languishing in last place intheconference and should beno prob-lem
to the Lakers. Play starts at 1
p.m. o n Saturday and Sunday.!: Player-Of-The-Week*As a reward
for h is home-runexploits, Benedict was namedGLIAC Baseball player
of theweek. He batted .545 inthe series,collecting six hits in
lliat-batsand scoring nine runs. >Benedict picked a good week
toturn in his star performance. Therewas excitement among the
play-ers as scouts from major leaguefarm teams were reportedly in
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Crew Are HappyBy Jean Mc FeelyMerciad SportswriierThe Mercyhurst
Crew team heldits first home regatta in two yearslast weekend. And
home watersproved to be an advantage to thecrews as the Lakers wo n
three outof the four races.A Jast minute change to thelocation of
the race course wasgrounds enough for the Univer-sity of Rochester
and RIT to dropout of the competition. However,University of
Buffalo andGeneseo did arrive, and the Hurstgave them a race, for
their m oney.With only three crews in atten-dance it was a quick
day on thewater. Local high schoolMercyhurst Prep joined in forsome
experience.
The first crew to take to thewater was the men's JV eights.The
boat battled hard but in theend they had to settle for secondplace
to U ofB. Coach Chris Colesaid that it was some of the bestrowing
he's seen his men do un-der the circumstances. Those cir-
cuinstances? included the boat'sline up having to be
switchedaround quite a bit due to injuries.The wome n's
Varsity-eight wasthe next crew on the w ater. Lastyear saw the
women score theirfirst winover Buffalo in quitesome time.. The
eight continuedthat tradition on their homewaters, taking a
definite leadfrom the very beginning.With about 250m to go,
coxieHeather Drake calledfor a powerpiece, as she felt her women
werejust "sitting on the lead." Theteam made its move and was
ableto open some more water beforethey crossed the finish line in
aconvincing first place.Up next were the, novice -women. After a
good raceamong all three teams, the girlsseason of hard training
paid offwhen they finished first in theirrace. Junior Jenn Cloonan,
whois also a member of the varsityteam, had to fill a seat in
the
novice boat. She was obviouslyquite pleased with her two
firstplace finishes.
Last, butby no means least intoactioiuwere the IVarsity
men'seight. It seemed as if the regattahad saved the best until
last, asthis race turned out to be the bestrace of theday. Buffalo,
who usu-ally has a fairly good men's team,was defeated easily
by-theMercyhurst men in the end.It was close with about 1,000mto go
but the Hurst dropped thehammer, and opened up
somewaterbetweenthemselves and theBuffalo team.There were quite a
few specta-tors at the event considering thelast minute change in
location,
and the weather actually cooper-ated this time.The team travels
to O hio thisweekend to compete in theMACRA race in
"Columbus.Originally the team was going toopt out of this race due
to finan-cial restrictions, but this race willgive them another
opportunity toqualify for the ECAC Champion-ship regatta in
Worcester MA,coming up May 12.Crew Survives Sudden Storm:High
School not luckyThis Tuesday morning the Eriemedia was flooded with
reportsregarding Mercyhurst Crewswhowere caught in the morning's
vio-lentfstorm. "It was almost toocalm when we went out,"
saidnovice wome nscoxie Sarah Jeszu.The women's team had decidedto
remain on the bay for trainingthis week, while the mens teamheaded
forFindley Lake in searchof calmer waters. Both thewom en's teams
from the college,and a few teams from the highschool were out! that
morning.
"There was no warning that thewater was going to pickup,"
com-mented many of the rowers.The women's novice team hadheaded
back into the dock wh enthey noticed that the winds had allof a
sudden picked up and the
waves were now crashing out inthe bay.Still on the water, the
varsitywomen's team knew it would betoo dangerous to try to make
itback tofthe dock. Instead theymade their way to the rocky shoreby
the Yacht club and managed toget their boat out of the
water.Luckily, the college teams wererelatively safe. However,
thehighschool's teams seemed to be hav-ing some difficulty getting
backto shore. Novice coach DanMcKay and novice rower GailGolec
headed out on to the roughwaters to see if they could help.Golec
got into one of the highschool' s abandoned coach boatsand she and
McKay began to re-trieve cold and scared crews fromthe chilly
waters. Four membersofthe high school teamwere taken
to the hospital and treated for ex-posure. The Prep team also
hadquite a bit of damage done to theirboats, including one that was
cutin two when the Coast Guard ranover it.The Lakers teams are
quite ex-perienced now at the whole "cap-sized boat" safety
procedure. Themen's team has capsized twice inthe past two years.
All thecollege coach boats are equippedwith life ackets and
walkie-talk-ies and the coaches are well versedin on the water
emergency proce-dures. ^ | SDue to Tuesday's mishap, thehigh school
has beenfined$100,and has been questioned as towhy there were no
emergencyprocedures taught at the begin-ning of the year.
* 1Delight For TennisBy John MurphyMerciad Sports Editor
The Mercyhurst tennis teamtraveled to midland Michigan forthe
GLIAC Championships lastweekend, and returned with m ixedsuccess.
The real success storycame from the foreign legion ofScott, Vance
and Scott Robson,who were crowned GLIACdoubles champions.It was an
action packed week-end with matches* starting ati7a.m. on Friday
morning and con-tinuinguntil 10:30 p.m. thatnight.There were mixed
fortunes forthe Hurst players, j
Scott Robson lead the way win-ning the doubles
championshipsandfinishingsecond in singles.Vance was next in line
as he wa scrowned doubles champion andfinished fourth in
singles.Senior Ron Rambally finishedthird in both singles and
doubles.Fellow senior, Marcus Muenckfinished ifth n singles and
thirdin doubles. Finally,T both VyomBhuta and Kevin Daschner
fin-ished in third place in singles andsixth p lace in doubles."It
wa s a tremendous effort byboth Vance and Robson. AlthoughRobson
lost the singles he came
back and won the doubles cham-pionship anchored by the
vastexperience of Vance," saidMercyhurst Coach Ray Y ostRobson went
into his singlesfina l full of confidence sufferingonly one defeat
in the regular sson. He started off in fine styleand won the first
set 7-5, but itwas at this point that his Swedishopponent stepped
it up a gear andrattled off the next two sets 6-2,6-1. "I knewjl'd
do well if I got agood draw and I did. I played anexcellent
semi-finalgame, but Iwasi defeated by the Swede's
