New Van License Policy Instituted
perience while keeping them
A.JSistant Ntws Editor
safe." Dutcher said.
The Colgate Fleet Safety Committee,
comprised of Dutcher. DiColgate has instituted a vansafety p0licy and tnlining program recior of Physical Plant Norm
for student drivers of the IO I 5- Kuklinski, Assistan, Director of
passenger vans on campus as a Fire Safe1y John Basher and Suprevcnlativc measure. Ninety-two pervisor of Garage Kei1h Lamb,
students panicipated in the pro- presented its recommendation to
gram during the past two weeks the University in August 200 I,
in order to become safer and more The members met with various
educated van drivers.
raculty and coaches on campus
According to Treasurer· s Office during the last semester to get
Coordinator Brenda Dutcher. con- feedback and input on their procincreased after the National HighDutcher did no, want to see any
way Traffic Safety Adminis1ra1ion potentially fatal accidents wi1h
(NHTSA) released a Consumer student-driven vans occur at
Advisory warning drivers of I 5- Colgate. as they have at several
passcnger vans of an increased . other colleges, including Clarkson
rollover risk under cennin condi- University, where two students
tions on April 9. 2001.
died in a van-related accident last
According to the n:p0rt, the risk year.
of a rollover increases dramati•
"When we learned of the flaw
cally as the number of occupants in the design of I 5-passenger vans
increases from fewer than five and continued to see reports of
passengers to over 10 passengers. deaths and serious injuries suf··we are mainly concerned wi1h fered 1n these vans across the
the safety of students. We wanted country, we knew it was time to
to assist the University depart- act." Dutcher explained.
"While accidents arc still pos..
ments in offering opportunities for
students to get the full college ex- Sible, at least we arc equipping stu,
By Kay Traesler
dents wi1h the tools needed to pn:vCnt potential catastrophes."
Dutcher said. "The University has
stepped up to the plate and tried
to make this new policy and program a smoo1h 1ransilion for all
involved."
Du,cher has already received
calls from other universi1ies that
a re interested in following
Colga1e's lead.
Each of Colgate's, ,.passenger
vans will be replaced wi1h a 12passenger van as it becomes due
for replacement. On average. three
vans will be replaced each year.
In the meantime. the rear four-passenger seat the cutrent vans has
been removed, reducing 1he capacity of the vans to 11 - IO passengers ond the driver. The back area
of the van will be kept clear of
passengers and equipment during
van use as another step in reduc·
ing the risk of rollover.
As pan of the Colgaie Van
Driver Training Program. fonner
and potential van drivers attended
a two and a half hour van safety
class. Richard Charles, who specializes in driver safety and 1ruck
driver training, led the sessions.
or
plH1~ /J:,Jm hrt"
COLGATE'S VANS an: i.uuaf. wl1ffl fully loaded and.,,, being replaced.
'-The enthusiasm Rich had for gram. We're concerned about 1he
wortcing with the University was safety and welfare ofour drivers,"
obvious," Dutcher said. ·'This is Kuklinski. who sat through one of
the first time he has done work al the training sessions with the stuthe University level.••
dents, added.
"I 1hought that Rich did an exThe studenlS who auended the
cellent job. I was impressed with c lass reacted differently, some
che studen1s · ouenriveness and apprecia1ing 1he reinforcement of
how they were very serious about safe driving practice when out on
the exam. I think it's a good procontinwNl on page 1
Bill Bradley Speaks Today
SPIKE I ff- Ar,o FRIFNDS
time on campus.
The visit is one pan Interim
President Jane Pinchin 's vision of
Bill Bradley, a Rhodes Scholar, energizing the campus by bringfonmer professional athlete and ing well-known speakers to the
fonner Democratic Senator from University, Waldron said. PlanNew Jersey who sough, his pany's ning for the visi1 has been undernomination for the 2000 Presiden- way since lasl summer. Bradley
tial election. will deliver a lecture was originally scheduled 10 visit
in Memorial Chapel today at 4 during the Fall semester, but those
plans fell through. The adminisp.m.
Bradley's visit is being funded tration worked to find a date 1hat
through the auspices of the Office would not conflict with midtenns,
of the Prt:sident The exact cost finals or spring break. Early Febwas not avai Iable.
ruary was selected as the best time
Bradley's lecture is titled for his visit.
"America: The Path Ahead." Staff
A1 1he time Bradley's lecture
Member to the Task Force on was scheduled, the administration
Campus Culture and event coor- was unaware that his visit would
dinator Kim Waldron expects that coincide wi1h a "Democracy MatBradley will "give some pen;pec- 1ers" summit being lead by Adona!
1ive and help people see through Foyle '99, a Golden Smie Warrior
the confusion about where we arc and chair of 1ha1 non-panisan or·
,going as a country" in the post· ganization that encourages studen1
September 11 world.
participa1ion in politics. Waldro,,
"I lhink he·s put something to• said that the connection was firs t
gether that will talk about realized about three weeks ago.
America. considering the changes She described ii as a "happy cointhat have occurred since Septem- cidence" and said 1hat Foyle will
ber 11," Waldron said.
deliver an approximately sevenWaldron oxpecls Bradley to minute-long introduc1ory speech
capitalize on his years of public for Bradley tha1 will focus on the
and community service to impan studcnt·athlete and what Waldron
on the crowd both a broad analy- tenned their shared ''deepcommi1sis ofpolitics and democracy since ments to community and public
the 1erroris1 attacks and a more service."
personal analysis of how individu" l a m really excited that he·s
als can influence their communi- coming," senior Hol1y Teliska
ties 1hrough service projects.
said. She will pick up Bradley in
"I think he's a very intelligent Syracuse and bring him to cam·
man.'' Waldron said.
pus.
According lo Waldron,
Teliska worked for 1he Bradley
Bradley's visit was made p0ssible Presidential Campaign during the
through the work of Trustee New Hampshire primaries in
emeritus Jim Manzi '73, one of 1999. She staned as a volunteer
Bradley's friends. John Runnette and was eventually charged with
'54 has donated the use of a pri- coordinating the ..get out the vote"'
vate jet that will bring Bradley to campaign on several college camSyracuse. Waldron explained that puses across New Hampshire.
this donation will allow Bradley
Teliska recalled tha1 leas, 25
to spend the maximum amount of
COlftln11ed on pagr 6
By Marlin Bair
or
NN-1 Editor
r<".,S,.,,Jwn,tl,,J
DIRECTOR SPIKE LEE, - n here with member, of The Brother,, lectured on Saturday. A
complete review of his visit can be found on page 4.
Faculty Debate Grade Inflation
By Kate Jordan
MtuOOlf~Newi Sit([
Professor of Geology Bruce
Selleck does not believe that grade
inflation, or giving a student a
higher grade than he or she may
have eamed, is a major issue at
Colgaie, but believes it is something that the faculty must monitor. For that reason. Selleck hu
asked Associale Professor of Philthe iasue at the Faculty DevelopmentCouncil'sbi-wcekly"Teaching Table" program at Merrill
house this aflcmoon.
McCabe will lead about 20 professors in a lunch table discussion
asking the question ....Can we
battle grade inflation while still
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being fair 10 our students?"
Colgate's grading p01icies have
been nationally recognized because of their low level of infla.
tion. In a recent report, it was revealed that 5 I percent of the
grades given out by Harvard University fall between an A- and an
A. Harvard Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield became so concerned about the in·
flation that he now gives his stu·
dents two grades.
Mansfield &ives each ofhis students a "public" and a "private"
grade. The "public" grade goes to
the registrar and is recorded on
lheir transcript. The ·'private"
gn,de is seen ooly by the student
and indicates what grade
Mansfield feels the student really
,
deserves according to his or her
accomplishment in comparison
with the achievementsofhisorher
classmates.
Grade inflacion can complicace
the recruitment and selection process for graduate schools and employers.
Some schools. like University
ofCalifomia at Berldey Law, have
chosen to develop "grade adjustment fonmulas" thal enable them
to compare applicants taking into
accounl the amount of grade in•
nation at their undergraduate in·
stitutions. Berkley's formula
ranked Colpie fourth beh.ind such
institutions as Swarthmore, Duke
and Williams.
The grade in Ration cootroversy
co,tll,rwd on page J
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THE CoLGAIE MAllooN-NEWS
NEWS
February 8, 2002
Professor Barry Shain Talks To 'The Maroon-News
By Andrea Suartz Folken
& Nalhanlel Lewis
Moroo1t-Ntws Edltor,
Fo•adatlon, or His Political
Thoucht
I was born in East L.A. and
grew up in West L.A. and Beverly
Hills.
Wcsl Hollywood was 1hcn
scmi-nonnal-s1ill a -middle class
environmen1-bu1 was already becoming gay. We moved to Beverly
Hills because you could get an almost private school education at
public school cosis. The area from
which J came in Beverly Hills,
however, was not at all rich. When
I gol 10 high school, I discovered
that most kids' parents were rar
wealthier than mine and this left a
lasting impression on me.
My mo1hcrdidn'1 work bul she
was 1hc be11er-educa1ed one Ior
my parcn1sJ. My fo1hcr was a
bookkeeper for a meat company.
They were lower-middle Jews. I
am not a practicing Jew although
as a kid I was more or less.
My parents were both Demo-
what was then described as a
'freak,' lhat is, someone who lived
in a sort of politicized counter·
culture where sex, drugs. rock 'n
roll, exotic religiosi1y and politics
were all intertwined. Even lhough
the movemenl was politicized,
polilics wasn't a dominant feature
of our lives; we were more like
••merry pranksters."
My girlfriend, who had become
my wife (I remarried a decade
later), wanted IO relum to Irvine
so I spent a few months there before rcluming 10 Berkeley and the
Bay Arca, where, when not traveling, I spent most of the follow-
hu con1inued to shape me), I decided IO rctum IO San Francisco
Slate IO IIUdy philosophy. I WU
still laehina mechanics cluaes in
the afternoon. Eventually, I
lhought about apply;n& IO gniduate schools for philotophy, ,but
those letters from the American
Philosophy Association saying
that there were nojobl in the field
convinced me to go for economics. econometrics, and later politi~
cal science IO do fonnal modeling.
I had never blken a real course
in political science. I was not a rich
kid. I didn't have any big pretensioos. II was actually one of my
and a bottle Sluffcd inlO my Levis
jacket with my union insignia on
the beck. They ukcd themselves
how ii wu pouible that this "evil
man" could be railin& a dauahtcr.
My wife wu very sick and I_,,
a lot of lime ..;sing our daughter.
You would have thought that the
feminisu would have approached
me-I kept thinking, here's their
chance IO 1alk to an educated tJUck
driver.
Gnd school wu not a pleasant
time. I didn't like them and they
didn't like me. But I loved my
laeber$-cspccially my thesis advisor. I loved him like a father. To
crats. Actually. I'm not sure about
my mother but my father was definitely an FDR Jew: FDR walked
on water. He has become more
conservative over the years. Now
he's a Reagan Democrat.
Poli1ically, l wen1 through a series of rapid transformations. Al
14, I was a Goldwiuer Republican
suppor1erand a member of Young
Americans for Freedom. Oy I6, I
was beginning 10 move leftward,
und by 18, I was a member ofS1uden1s fora Democratic Society. In
my early 20s. I moved toward
more radical and even revolution·
ary politics. Then, somewhere
around my mid -20s, I began to
tum away from politics and to•
wards non·Westcm religiosity. in
par1icular Buddhism.
Wi1h re~ard 10 my political
views, hostility toward liberalism
has always been lhe thrust of my
thought. I've always been uneom•
fonable with libera1ism because it
docsn '1 seem 10 ask enough questions and it's far 100 prosaic. At
your age, l was 1rying 10 find a
way I could die. Liberalism j ust
doesn '1 ask 1hat of you. I needed a
philosophy thll allows you to lose
dominance of1he self. Liberalism
just doesn't seem to understand
1he need for transcendence in hu·
man beings. For example, it sur•
prises me how few people of your
generation have ever fallen madly
in love. t mean, to my generation.
the best things in life were about
losing oneself: love, religion and
political movements.
I was a very poor high school
student. I wasn't well behaved. I
didn't do any1hing 1hat would have
allowed 1hem to kick me out. but
I wasn't a happy camper. I found
high school suffoca1ing. My
gr.ides were of no interest 10 me.
Now, I have a wife and a 15·
year-old daughter.
" I never thought I'd go back to
school .••"
In '68 I wen110 UC-Irvine, and
a1 the end of that year we shut the
school down. That summer, I
moved to Berkeley with my girl·
friend in lime for what was known
as People's Park. I was engaged
in this and similar protests bu1 was
not a radical. The radic,als were
something else. They were more
identified with a Maois1 group, the
PLP, wore their hair short and
lried IO oraanizc workers. I WU
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PROFESSOR BARRY SHAIN ,poke wirh M11ro,,n-N,.,, Editor-in-Chief Nathaniel Lewi, and
Con1ribu1ing Edi1or Adrea Suarn f,lken.
ing l O years. I supported myself teachers who suggeslcd that with this day he is the only person that's
for three or four years by deliver· my grades, which were by this passed away who I have missed. I
ing papers while training to be an time good, and my board scores still miss him.
au10 mechanic. With one of my tha1 I could go to a "real school."
fonner 1eachers, I opened my own He was 1alking abou1 schools that
The Radical Raider
repair shop in Berkeley called I couldn'I even think about, ones
Motor City. I believe that my tha1 sounded funny oo my mouth.
I didn't really care where I
fonncr partner's son is s1ill 1hcrc Bui he even1ually persuaded me worked; it was my wife's decision.
running our shop. At some point, thtu it was worth a try and so I My wife was adamant; she didn't
I moved 10 San Francisco and be· applied to 1hose 'famous' schools wan1 our daughter to be an Okie.
gan working as an auto mechanic back East and was accepted by As for Berkeley, as soon as they
for Ycllow Cab.
several of them. And at least ooe discovered
that
I was
You know San Francisco is con- of them let me know that lhey communitarian, but of the rig.ht
sidered some kind of Peter Pan were looking forward to ma1ricu- rather than the left, the interview
land 1oday, but then, i1 was adult la1ing 1heir clever au10 mechanic. was over. I blew the interview at
compared to Berkeley. Wi1h the
I ended up going to Yale bu~ S1anford. I leamcd there that it was
changed environment. I began to almost as soon as I got there, I impolitic to insult a potential sedo different 1hings; mos, impor- tumed away from fonnal modcl- nior colleague in history. or the
1antly l began taking classes at San ing and instead became interested schools that were left, Colgate had
Francisco State in philosophy and in comparative and international the job dc$cription closest to wha1
leaching au10 mechanics part-1ime politics, more particularly, Africa. I did.
in one of the juniorcolleaes in San However, I soon found that since
In the political science depart·
Francisco. I had already earned a my views were becoming increas- mcnt II Colgate, the majority are
8 .A. in vocational education from ing politically inconec~ there was really good teachers and I'd say
San Jose State and an cduca1ioo no funding for my work. So I many could make the jump to a
credential in auto mechanics for ended up turning toward Ameri· major research univenity without
junior college.
can political though~ with an cm- blinking. We disagree on several
Of course I am leaving out lolS phasis on religion, and especially issues: tribalism and affirmative
of other schools along 1hc way. I counter-cultural religion.
action are two bi& ones. On the
1hink I may have gooe 10 8 or 9
Grad school at Yale fell like political ri&h~ the department is
schools. I was also a Buddhisl for high school; I didn 'I Iii in. For comprised of two ,;onservatives,
1wo years. But thistypeofs1ory is starters, I was about IOycanolder one of whom docsn 't consider the
no1 a, all uncommon for my gen• 1han my average classmate. I felt other conservative, one neo-coneration. It was a ll about that: like most of my peers were a servative and one conservative
1ravcl, work and couniercultural bunch ofslill-wet-behind-dw,,ftl$ democraL In IOlal, four out of 16
ac1ivi1ies. It was a goofy genera- kids. They had eve,y manner of faculty memben that could J>Olm·
lion. I didn't go on study groups. advice for how others should live, tially vote Republican and, by the
Traveling was ve,y differcnL Liv- but they knew nothing oflife. I did standards of the campus, 1h11
ing was ve,y differcn1.
acoupleofthinasthatreallytickcd makes us extremely COIIIOl'Valive.
I 1hough1 I'd never go back IO them off. I used IO have ve,y Ion& I don't even know of anyone elac
school; to me it was a bourgeois hair and carrinas. One of my IOI• in the social acienceo or humaniinfatuation. Still, after being laid ennt and inquisitive peers com- ties who could poccntially vole
off, I realized bow bored I had mcntcd, "I didn't know faacist Republican.
become with auio mechanics and, pigs had Iona hair." I walked
0n the faculty U a whole, my
despite my lingering alienation around with a boby in my beck- feelin& ii that there.., 50 people
from academia (a condition that pack, a diaper in my jeam pocket we know a lot about md IMChe,-
200 who arc ae,,erally invisible,
M•y of the faculty do not feel
comfortable attending Faculty
Meetinp and thus find any reason they can IO avoid goina. &.
cause of this, 9everal of us have
pushed for absentee bal101a so that
the alienated faculty could help
shape the direction of the school.
Yet, those who do attend the faculty mcetinp and are comfortable
with the curm,t direction of the
university have no interest in see-.
ing their power diluted.
The sludents are mainly moderates. There are almost no conservatives; at best a few rightleaning Republicans and Libertarians. And then there is a small
minorily of progressive students
well liked by 1he adminiSlration
and 1h11 has a grca1 deal in common with racuhy. They have more
access to money than their very
limi1ed numbers should allow. h
is amazing. There seems never to
be enough money 10 bring a ma·
jor scholar in the very areas in
which most of my colleagues
work~ but there never seems to be
any shonage when one wants to
bring a S1uden1 of lesbians or of
women with weight problems.
The facuhy subsidizes its own
poli1ical sympathies. Just look a1
''Colgate This Week:" You would
never even recognize the real
Colgate from reading it. From
looking at i~ you migh1 even think
1hat homoscxuali1y is accepted a,
Colga1e. IIS the same thing with
the pictures in The Scene. I 1ell
minority women in my classes, the
next time someone wants to put
their picture in The Scene, to
charge for i1. If you look at the
number of Asian s1udents in Tht
Scene, it's tolally disproportionate
10 1he number on campus.
Passions or the Profestor
Scven1centh and 18th cen1ury
political, moral and 1hcological
1hough1. Righi now I'm worlon two long-term projcclS: I) how
and when individual righlS gained
political saliency and 2) the n,la·
tionship between European individualism in 1he West and Pro1cs1antism and Catholicism. My thesis is that any claim thal individualism is II product of Protcslanl·
ism alone is inherently flawed.
I also write as a conservative
thcoris~ primarily in Modern Age,
a journal of conservative thought
and have been working, along
with several others, in developing
a new post-modern variant of con,
servatism.
I regularly direcl two 10 fou r
academic conferences a year for a
foundation in Indianapolis, the
Liberty Fund. They att also an
increasingly imponant publisher
or historical works in political,
econcimic and moral thought. Al·
though the politics of the profcs·
sional staff is pn,dominantly lib·
enarian, most accept my conser·
vative politics, though with some
trepidation. The truly wonderful
thing about these conferences is
that I can invite prominent schol·
an from various disciplines, men
and women with whom I normally
wouldn't get to work and discuss
Rlltterl of mutual interest.
t•
Campm Cllltare: 8 -, N..-ds
ud
AClldemlcdy Uaprepued
Lut year my rcoan:h wun't as
active u i1 sllould be. I - deeply
coinmitted to two tub: I) creat·
exdnort ..
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NEWS
By KalhleeD Dubill
News Ed/10,
Aftu 1he circulation or a concroversial e-mail last semester
concerning pedagogical methods
in relation 10 race and gender at
Colgate, racial issues have come
10 a head on camp11$. Panel discussions with racvlty, a Sludent sitin al James 8. Colgate Hall and
workshops on Martin Luther
King. Jr. Day have been part or1he
response, receiving coverage in
The New York Times and area
newspapers.
The e-mail was written by Proressor or Political Science Ban')'
Shain, Due to the reaction on campus, Shain feels that his e-mail has
been taken out of conlext and ignores his larger concerns about
•cademics at Colgate.
..This is abou1 a broader issue. I
have a greal deol ofconcerns about
how the University deals with the
quality of academics," Shain said.
Shain •s e-mail was a reply to an
invitation from senior Orahcir
Smi1h 10 appear on CUTV's Raceing Time for an episode discussing racial sensitivity at Colga1e.
Shain declined the invilation and
carbon copied lhe e-mail 10 ln1erim Provost and Dean ofthe Faculty Jack Dovidio and as well as
Assistant Professor of Political
Science Nina Moore.
In his response, Shain said he
was "concerned about the quality
of cduca1ion minority and some
female s1uden1S are likely 10 receive on campus, because of the
willingness of loo many faculty to
accommodate, in particular, Siudents of color." Shain said lhat
while his comments were "admit•
1edly moslly based on sludenl gossip," he feared for Colga1e's edu-
cation system as a whole.
''The reason I spoke about race
was it was how the contexl was
raised .. . When lwrotethee,mail,
I had three students of color in
mind," Shain said. "One of my
advisees said she was taking
classes where a lot ofwtiting was
not required. I wanted 10 persuade
kids to take classes with more
writing and risk getting lower
grades ... She is a very good student I wanted lo push her, talk to
her mom, whatever it would take
for more demanding classes."
Dovidio feels that the e-mail's
in1erpretation on campus concerns
the nature of communication. "I
think people interpreted parts of
[Shain 's) message in the con1exi
and gave parts of his message
more attention than other parts,"
Dovidio said .
Dovidio is a professor of psychology and s1udies race as one of
his academic interests. 01 People
chose to focus on 1he parts 1hey
found offensive.'" he said.
''TheTC could have been 20 different interpretations of the email,'' Moore, who studies politics
and race, said. '"The way one reads
it could have been affected by 1heir
personal experiences."
Another issue surrounding the
e-mail is the circulation of the
document itself. After Smilh received Shain's reply, she forwarded it to other faculty to invite
other participants. Junior Natalia
Delgado, who was also scheduled
10 pankipate in the Race-lng Time
discussion and had suggested
Shain as a pOSsible candidate for
the show, forwarded 1he e-mail 10
Dovidio again and ••a few faculty
members and student leaders.''
Delgado said.
"We wan1cd to hold a town
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February 8, 2002
Campus Respo,u/s To Shain's E-mailAnd Its A
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meeting to discuss some of the
issues raised.'' Delgado said.
1'he e-mail was a way of advertising the meeting so students
knew what was said."'
As Shain's writing continued
10 cireulate on campus, the legality of forwarding elcctr0nic messages posed another concern.
Brendan Mcfeely, a lawyer for
Kane, Kessler PC, a firm in
Manhatan, explained that forwarding e-mails is gene,-ally • legjl practice.
''The line 1hat you arc talking
about is not so much an intellec·
lual property issue. In.my mind,
1he real question is privacy. The
privacy issues that surround e·
m•ils are still developing. bul the
general rule of1humb is when you
send an e·mail, there is a low expectation of privacy, and the recipient can pretty much do what
he or she wants with the e-mail,"
he said. Mcfeely is a specialis1
in intellectual property, copyrigh1
and patent law.
"On 1he other hand, [Shain) has
a valid c1aim of copyright on 1he
e-mail, but since people arc 1101
making money off of 1he e-mail,
or trying to sell pans of it, such a
claim would be difficult to exercise," McFeely added.
When asked to commenl,
Shain said lawyers he has spoken
10 have 1old him 1he same 1hing.
"Its very difficult to prosecute.-·
Shain agrees. "When you copy to
someone else it even lowers your
claim ... I was not asking for a
criminal prosecution, but an undustanding of reprehensible behavior ... One should not disseminate without the pennission
of the author."
Smith and co-host ofRace-ing
Time senior Aiesha Pius feel thct
th
the attention on the e•mail itself similar to his .. . by initialing dia·
and Professor Shain overlooks logue ... yet people on bo1h sides
problems with race and academia also musl lislen. There is no enthat have existed at Colga1e ..ever emy, only a different idea."
since lhe firsl black student enShain said 1ha1 while ini1ially he
rolled," Pius said.
·
did nol know wha1 10 expcc1 be.. , think there is misreprese:1ta- fore being a guest of Bev Smi1h,
tion of the problem in the media ..The show was amazing. The host
focusing on 1he e-mail ilSClf and and many listeners supported my
Shain, nol only in The Maroon- concerns across the board. Parents
News, The New York Times and called in and 1hanked me for wha1
the Syracuse Post-Standard, bul I had to say."
While some studenls and fac.
also on campus," Smilh added.
"Allhough mony people inside· ully arc 1ircd of discussing lhc eand oulSide of the African l..aiino mail and its context of race, othAsian and Nativive American ers feel it ls still a key issue.
(ALANA) community were ex"I think he•s right in his view
1remely offended by Professor that all students at Colgate are"°'
Shain ·s remarks ... Shain was not being served well ... The point is
1he problem, bu1 a symptom oflhe thal Ban')' [Shain] can '1 gel •round
problem;" Pius said. "Presently, ii and the fact of the matter is this
there is a major intellectual battle discourse is about race." Associconcerning academia that tran- ale ProfcssorofHiSlory Pele Banscends race. gender, class and ner-Haley said.
c1hnicity. At Colga1e, I feel like
Banner-Haley and Shain bo1h
s1uden1s need 10 wake up and pay participated in a panel discussing
attention ...
..,he value of diversity in curricuShain has since been a guest on lum and pedagogy," last semester,
the Bev Smith show, two weeks the week aflcr 1he e-mail circu·
ago yeslerday.
lated on campus.
"Smilh is an esteemed radio
..The issue is a national one
host with a large, predominantly and larger than him. The belief
black and liberal listener base," is mostly among white males and
some white females to return 10
junior Kaleb Berhane said.
Berhane and senior Ricco traditional methods of pedagogy
Cabrera were interviewed on the ... II is happening a1 01her libshow earlier this year and when eral arts colleges. especially at
Bev Smith heard of Shain's e- Harvard right n ow;· Bannermail, she asked Berhane to extend Haley said, referring to the reShain an invitation to panicipate cent tensions between African
on her program.
American studies professors at
.. , was intrigued with the idea Harvard University and the new
of having Professor Shain defend presidenl, Lawrence H. Sumhis position against other nolcd mers.
"Sludents shouldn ·1 be emb•racademics. Bev Smith casually referred to Cornell West," Berhane rassed that Colgate is in The New
said. "I think that whether one York Times. They shou ld be
agrees with the Pro(essor or not, proud. Harvard •s been hogging
its best to approach in a manner the headlines for years," he added.
Resident Petitions Against Construction
By Natalie Jarudi
Moroon•Ntw1 Sroff
WE. check our numbers!!
The Colgate community received a pelilion from a member
of the Hamilton community, Ken
Werner, against its decision to
build another driving range adjacent to his propcrty on 701 S Payne
Street.
Weme,-'s pctilion will be pre•
sented on Monday ni&flt when the
Town Planning Board decides
whether or not Colpte will be
granted the special zone pe,-mit for
the plan. His petition carries ove,85 sia,,atures from the Hamilton
and Colpte community and focusea oo the impact that the driving range will have on his family.
Werner inquires whether the
field specified for the range is
ZGnCd forco11unercial use and also
whether or not ColplC bepn construction of the range before obtaining valid permits. He also ub
whether or not the village of
Hamilton is prepared 10 add a
larger user 10 ilS wa1er supply for
another golf course.
Colga1e declined to respond to
questions and concerns for the
plan at this time until next week.
The major issues that the peti•
lion raises suggesl thal 1he run-off
from use of fertilizer, herbicides
and insecticides could potentially
damage lhe family's well wa1er
supply. He slreSSed this concern
because lhe well lies close to lhe
proposed land for the range.
Wuner also stated thal loss of
property value and privacy would
be incurred by the We,-ne,- family
with no ffi:Ourse from the Univusity.
Other options suggested would
lessen the impact or the plan for
the Hamilton community. Five of
the six options demand a written
promise that no machine,-y will be
opented during specified hours,
no electricity will be installed and
that Colgate will never use nonorganic fertilizers, herbicides or
insecticides at any time.
The Universi1y will also not
penni1 any work 10 begin before
obtaining valid pennits. The golf
course can never attempl to use
Werner's driveway or create any
path a long or near lhe property 10
gain access to the driving range.
In order to create a na1ural barrier between the Werner residence and the driving range,
Werner suggested 1ha1 a 10-fool
high row of mature evergreens
be planted between the two properties.
Although Werner expressed
his hope that his concerns would
be mel, he stated lhat he feels
.. like one man against a giant."
The Town Planning Board
meeting will be held on Monday
in the Hamihon Town Offices
and is open to the public.
Professors Discuss Grade Inflation
COLGATE MAROON-NEWS
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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ultn,-.1) lmds 10 Ianoda _,. of
dilp• CII the Colple Clll1)US - the'
beliefhl...... rni;:nat: I ri ...
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DOI auduiml 10 ,GPAaol...... in ach fflllior. A£CQdi.10the Rqpm•'•office, ach
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du.Im wlich c'-san,actually pert
of the p,,ocn'bed coune al study for
hit C0DCC1t1111icu
Deopilo las conoem ovs grade u,.
flltion, Selleck believes thal, on a
phjbojnc:al le.-el, pies ... inconooquential. Uke nm,y proressors,
Selleck ia idtOtA>d ;n studaMs
pini• krowkdac,
"Whal Ien lbaul mcet is thol my
studaMs are learning ... I am not interesled in what grade they 8d, Giving a
gn,de is something I have to do,"
Selleck said.
According to Selleck, v,.des are
a "necessary evil" in the education
system.
"On.des are iml>eddod in our undmtaiding ofaclueYanent llldso we
... su:lc," he said.
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February 8, 2002
N EWS
campus safety blotter
w•
II
7:51 p.a .: A rea ident of
11d11, t /31
9: aJL: A Nff member re- ~Hw1epc111edreporled sutpiclou• activity at cetvinslillwil11 phone calit.
Hascall Hall. An ;,,vestigation 11:tl ,--.: Fire alarm II French
revealed the suspicion was lffl• H081e cauacd by cookina.
founded.
11:55 Lm.: A sraffmemberre- Sunday, 2/3
porred items missing from 88 3:35 a.m.: A student reported
being usaultcd on Brood Street.
Hamilton Street.
3:35
p.m.: A student was injured
5:50 p.m.: A student was found
to have accumulated an exces- while playing football II Tyler's
Field and wu transported to
sive amount of parfcina fines.
Community Memorial Hospira!
Thursday. 1/31
b)' Campus Safety.
12:13 o.m.: Underage residents
or Parke< Apanments were found Monday, 2/4
in possession of a beer lteg in 8:31 L m.: An ill resident of Gate
violation of University regula-· House was inln,poned to Comtions.
munity Memorial Hospical by
I :05 a.m.: An underage intoii~ Campus Safe1y.
coted resident of Drake Hall was 5:20 p.m.: Received a ~ of
transported to Community Hos- a three car, propeny damage.
piu,I by SOMAC.
accident at the Oak Drive East
11:0S a.m.: A staffmeported damage to a fire ex t;n- 6:00 p.m.: A resident of Parker
guisher cabinet in Wes, Ila.II.
Apar11ncnts was found in posses12 :(M p.m.: An ill student at the sion of lllllrijuana.
O'Connor Campus Center was 9:42 p.m.: A SIUdent WM injured
transported to Community Hos- while playil1g bukctball at Hunpital by SOMAC.
tington Gym. Campus Safety
II: 14 p.m.: Fire alann at Parker provided initial lint-aid.
Apartments caused by marijuana II :47 p.m.: Residenll of West
Hall wen; found to have covmod
smoke.
11 :23 p.m.: Resic!ents of Parlter a smoke detector. ·
Apartments were found in posSCS$ion of marijuana and drug Tueoday,215
panpl>emalio. There was exten- 12:tlO L m.: A resident of Drake
Hall ,epo,11:d receiving hansssive damage to the apartment.
ing phone calls.
Friday. 2/1
12:35 a.&: A resident of Cobb
8:06 a.m.: A staff member re- House wu found in pocoasioo
ported damage to a second fire of a candle in violation of Uniextinguisher cabine1 in West venity houaina ,eaulation&.
Hall.
12:41 L m.: An underage resi5:30 p.m.: A student reported dent of Cobb House was found
damage to his or her vehicle in possession of alcohol and a
while it was parked in the fraudulent driver·, license.
Alumni lot.
8:33 a.m.: A s!Jlff member re9: JI p.m.: Fi,.-e alam1 ac Newell poncd damage to a pre-alarm
Ap.u-tmenlS caused by cooking. cover to a firt alarm pull station,
I I :OS p.m.: An underage student II :23 Lm.: A student .q,oned
wu found in possession of alco- being injured on Monday after
hol in the Coup and then failed falling on the stairs at Persson
to provide Canipus Safely oflic- Hall.
ers with identification.
4:05 p.m.: A student reported
11 :20 p.m.: A SIUdent reported n,cciving haraasina phone calls.
items taken from an unlocked 5:55 p.m.: Fin, alarm at Parker
locker at Lineheny Pool.
Apartments caused by cooking.
6:08 p.m.: A n,sitlcnt of Par11er
Apartments WU found in.,.,._.
Saturday, 2/2
12: 19 a.m.: Fire alarm at 52 1ion of candles in violation of
Broad Street caused by Cigarene Universiay housing reaulations.
smoke.
6:88 p.m.: A resident of Parker
3:03 a.m.: A student was injured Apartments wu found to have
after slipping on ice outside of covered a smoke detector.
Cunis Hall. Campus Safety provided ttansportarion to Commu- CAMPUS SAFETY TIP OF
nity Memorial Hospical.
THE WEEK: Everyone needs
5:23 p.m.: A spec:1lttor wu in• 10....,,. ,wponsibiliay for their
juttd after beina hit by a hockey own penonal safety ud --,;ay
puck at Starr Rink. Ca mpu1 of their peraonal belonainaa.
Safety pn,vided lnmlpol18lion 10 Never leaYe •Y valuablel left
Community Memorial Hospital. unanended or unaecured.
Director's Lecture Gets Mixed Reviews
By Moira Gillick
•
Maff>Olt•NC'Wf Sta.ff
Acclaimed film director and social activist Spike Lee delivered a
lecture Saturday night in Cotterell
Court. The free-of.cost lecture
was put together by the Brothers
organization in honor of Black
History Month.
•
Lee's honorarium. or 1he
amount of money he received
from 1he University for speaking,
was S22.SOO. That sum was paid
by the Budget A!locations Committee (BAC).
According 10 Director of Campus Safety Gary Bean, an estimated 1.500 people attended the
event.
"I lhink 1ha1 he was trying 10
make a poinl that movies
shouldn"t just be all entertainment." junior Nate Thomas said.
"'He thinks that movies should
have meaning. you sh~uld be able
10 go watch a movie and learn
something and have something to
talk about when you go home.'"
··As far as Spike goes.just about
everyone enjoyed it They wish
he had spoke a little bit longer. but
outside 1hat everyone enjoyed it,''
junior Desmond Alexander, SCC•
ond lieutenant of the Brothers organization. said.
Brothers Chair junior Kyle
Chandler and others sat down to
dinner at the Colgate Inn with 1he
44-year-old dittctor.
Chandler described the experience as, "Amazing. It makes you
a linle bit nervous- I was sitting
right next to him and sitting next
to this famous director and he's
just chill ... he was just siuing
there miking to us like regular
people. asking us what we were
doing tonight."
According to Hoban William
Smith junior Jonis Beau.John, the
casual tone of dinner carried
through to the lce1un,.
"h was a little less lecture than
I thought, it was more him giving
a personal speech."" Beau-John
said.
Lee addressed many topics dur.
ing his 45-minute speech before
taking abou1 fifteen questions
from the crowd. Lee talked about
his personal development. thesuppon of his parents. the powerful
medium of film and misrepresentations of certain films. tfe com•
nlCnted on current poli1ical issues
such as Enron and the glorification of former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Reactions to Lee's lecture were
mixed.
··1 actually expected it to be a
little bit of a different topic. just
, . _ . , _ _ti,,/
SPIKE LEE ,poke ,o a S
from reading what the bluib said,..
fi.st-year Adarc Lindsay said.
··He obvjoosly talked about my
experience concerning my struggle
to stay here and I am not talking
academically. but financially, and
what my pareniS do to keep me here.
So it was interesting to hear his per·
spcetivc from "79 [the year Spike
Lee graduated from Morehouse
College),..junior Lisa Cowan said.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Carolyn Hsu and Visiting Assistant
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology Chris Henke anended wi1h
their newborn baby. Hsu identified
the effect of media on reality perception and Henke talked about the
pott.,itial for change in socic1y.
··1 think for the white studenis
and the non.minority students that
were here. it probably made them
think a little bit more about the
people that they sec everyday
walking to class," senior Frances
Boone said...And I think that"s
something that the Colgate community ..• (doesn "t) n,ally know
how 10 go about it and they don"t
want to offend anyone, ..
While Boone said that the question and answer SC$Sion was good.
Cowan remarked, ..There was a
question concerning the African·
American female and how they
arc portrayed and I don't think he
answered it wen:·
··Don't act stuck in a situation
where you feel like you have to
do something that someone else
wants to force you into, and that
you should do something for yourself. Don't let society or society's
standards dctennine what you are
going to do. Do what's in your
heart," sophomore Andrew
Oladipo said. commenting on the
pans of Lee"s speech that resonated the most with him.
Priorto Lee ·s speech, the Brothers honored alumnus Van Don
Williams. class of 1977. a Ne"
York City firefighter who was in•
volved in the rescue efforts of the
terrorist attacks of September 11.
2001 .
"After seeing the standing ova·
tion I realized it wasn "t just about
Brothers- it's about the school, it"s
about America The look on his face
brought joy to my face:· senior
Vaughn Crowe. who introduced
Williams. said.
••ycstttday is gone and tomorro"
is not promised. The only time you
have is right now. l..eam from each
other. Love each other. And while
you're here, study one another/'
Williams said.
••you 're here ... and what Colgate
wants you to do is be open to any·
thing and cvcrythins as far as learning. well when it comes tO social
pans. that's the hardest pan to do..
and you will find tha< you then have
more pelience and understanding
for people that aren't of your own
kind and beckground." he added.
New Ice Cream Shop Opening Soon
was voted "Bes1 Ice Cream in
America" by Gourmet Maga:z;ne.
Powell and Scholl plan to carry
No1 everything that"s cold is bad about 16 different flavors of the
- or at least that's how owners of award.winning ice cream,
Hamilton's new chocolate and ice
Junior Kate Ward seemed 10
cre,1m shop hope students will feel express the majority sentiment
when their shop opens downtown. when she said, " I think the store's
Planning 10 be in operation by the a good idea, ahhough the winter
beginning of March, ··Maxwell"s months might put a damper on
Chocolates and Ice Cream" is business."
moving in next door to Main
The shop wlll not only have
Moon Chinese Restaurant at 14 cold sweets, but will also carry its
Utica Strcel.
own line of chocolates and will
While co-owners Scou Powell have a "Godiva son of setting," in
and Philip Scholl recently moved the words of Powell. The owners
up from Washington, Connecticut. will make the chocolate behind a
the new store will be carrying viewing 'Yindow, so tha1 clients
"Double Rainbow" ice cream can watch the mix in& process and
shipped all the way from San n,alize the Willy Wonka fanllSies
francisco. Powell. who grew up oryourchildhood. Theexactreciin Cen1ral New York, s1atcd pes and varieties or chocolate will
proudly that ··Double Rainbow"' vary as the owners grow familiar
By Tiffany Sharples
A"/Jwnr COMm~nutry• Etlitor
with local tastes. The finished
chocolates will be sold by the
pound.
The inside of the store wm have
a few tables sci up and a soda
counter from behind which sun•
daes. shakes, mix-ins (similar to
the Dairy Queen '"Blizzard..). eggcreams, floats, etc. will be
scooped. mixed. dished and served.
The store is going to have ··a classic
traditional feel ... it"II be a pleasant
place to be."" Powell said.
..Maxwell"s.. will also carry 22
different varieties ofbulk candy (the
kind you scoop into a baa). another
favorite among Colgate students.
"111at will definitely be popular,"
junior Conway Walthew said, re•
mecandy wu sold at the O"Connor
CampusCentcr(Coop).
In addition to candy and ice
LOOK FOR MAXWELL'S- to Main Moon in Mardi.
cream, "Maxwell's" will alto be
acllina Fair Trode Coft'ec. shipped
from Musac:h...«s where it is
routed by a small COl•*l*IY called
"R- . . lndiao.'" NOi only is this
a ""socially conscious product," but
it"s also "really good,"" Powell
added
The new IIOfe is not aimina to
compete with 11pedrinks such u lanes, cappuccino
or esprcuo aervecl II the e.r,e
Canal Coffee Co~ but fora llimplc
cup of coffee "it will be nice to
l!a•e another option,'" Wan! aid.
The space is being rented by the
Hamilton Initiative and is also
bordered by PUTY'• Hardwart
Store. Once the llore i1 up and
nmnina. Powell and Scholl will be
looking to bin, more help. Tentalive houn will be IO Lm. to 6 p.m.
NEWS
Film Series Entertains And Infonns
-
By Brid&et Ryan
M11r0<>n•Newi Stoff
in 1980, garnering Emmy and
Peabody Awards and becoming the most popular science
The second part of Carl
Sagan ·s 1980 mini-series, Cos-
mos, Part 2: One Voice In the
Cosntic Fugue. was screened in
Lathrop Hall on Thursday for
3n audience of astronomy s1udents, members of the Space
Exploration Society (SES) and
other students.
The 13-hour documentary,
hosted by prize-winning physicist and author Sagan is cosponsored this semester by the
student-run SES and Asrronomy 102. The series. a
compi lation of knowledge and
curiosi ty about astronomy,
cosmology and planetary sci-
ence, was first shown on PBS
program produced.
.. Cosmos presents the universe in the really big picture.
your front door, and the Apollo
11 mission like merely reach·
ing for a pen on your desk:·
SES strives to promote
knowledge about space in gen-
the outermost regions of
eral and to heighten awareness
of both the social and scientific
issues that arise from space
exploration on campus.
known space and moves in-
"We thought a lot of people
ward, which effectively em-
might be interested in a film.
It was a popular film series
when it was firs t on 1he air."
In the first of the 13 films. Carl
Sagan takes the viewer from
phasizes not only the sense of
the nearl y incomprehensible
vastness of the universe, but
also the comparati vely tiny
s ize of our home, the solar sys·
Blog Me, Beautiful,
What do RuPaul. Moby and
half of the COigate Raider Pep
Band have in common?
No. it isn•t impeccable taste in
music. You should have figured
SES Vice-president Jeyhan
that out from the reference to
Kanaltepe said.
RuPaul.
"They're doing a good job in
The common theme is that
tern," sop homore and SES
promoting knowledge about
member Michael Tringali said
of the first part of the series,
space. [The film) presented the
they all have weblogs, or as 1hcy
are commonly known, "biogs".
A blogisachronicleofone'sday
to day life, written by the one living iL In that way, ii is similar 10
an electronic diary. A blog can
be private or public, depon the wishes of the blogger. It
is made up of posts, wrilten at
The Shores of the Cosmos. " It
makes Pluto, our outermost
planet, seem as though it's at
information in a way that was
easy to understand, which is an
important factor in getting
people interested," first•year
Kaleena Minor said.
The series is shown in con•
junction with Astronomy l02
and geology s1udents arc also en.
couraged to auend the showings
for extra credit. T here was a
good turnout for the first and
second parts of the fi Im .
mostly because of the encour·
agement of some professors.
One Voice in ,he Cosmic
Fugue features Sagan's Cosmic Calendar. which puts the
15 billion-year history of the
earth, its origin and the cvolu·
tion of life on it, into an understandable perspective and
illustrates the progress from
microbes to human beings. The
film advances 1he idea that an
understanding of how life developed on Eanh will allow us 10
contemplate what forms life
might take elsewhere in the universe.
"Basically, it gets the gears
1uming in the minds of 1hose
who wa1ch ii, and provides a ba·
sis for truly understanding what
it mearis to explore space. In
order to participate in a discus·
sion about the exploration of
space, one has to b• able to put
it in perspective," Tringali said.
,._ -
...,.,tJ.,..
of
CARL SAGAN'S LEGACY i, not lo1t in 1paa: thanb 10 the Space
Exploration Society and Aruonomy I 02.
The third part of the series,
The Harmony of the Worlds,
will be shown in Lathrop 217
on Monday at 8 p.m.
any desired frequency of 1ime
(most often daily). A simple user
intemce allows these poslS to be
easily and immediately pub·
lished to the web.
Blogger.com. the largest of the
online blog hosts, boasts more
than 400,000 regis1ered weblogs
on its servers. COmbined wilh
thousands more on DiaryX.
EasyJoumal and many others.
the number of bloggers on the
nettoday is significantand grow-
ing.
B1ogger's clients are able to
utilize space on Blogger.com·s
sister sire Blogspot.com to ere·
atetheirweblogsfromprc-made
templates. More advanced users
can create 1heir own site and
transport the Bloggeq,ostS to the
server of their choosing.
Bloggers come from all walks
of Ii fe, and no two biogs are
alike. Some people choose to
dictate !he wonls of a song they
are listening to, while others re-
enact an arpmcnt wilh parents
and others simply spout off the
lhinp they can't say to anyone
else. The readers of biogs find
them every bit as therapeutic as
the writera. Analyffl 811ffl' that
joumal1 1111d diaries can often
help deptoaed individuals by al-
lowing them to let off some of
their feelings. When these same
people~d thethough!Sand feelings of others, it allows them to
feel less alone in the world. Biogs
allow this in a mass fonnat.
Many biogs have a comment
system in place. Comments allow you 10 talk back to a
blogger. The "Commonts" link
is situaied below each pos1 and
allows the reader to reply dircctly to the author about a particular post. This is handy, espccially ifyou know the bloggcr.
Friends can be supponive of
thoughts and feelings, or can
simply say th:u they like a par·
ticular song as well. This type of
feeother bloggers on line and com:,,.
spond with each other.
7Ymemagazine recently did an
article on biogs. It is a web phenomcnon that appeals to a new
genera1ion of young adult$ who
can think and type faster than
they write. For those of us who
have grown up with u keyboard
under our finger1ips and cell
phones on our hips, a blog makes
muth more sense than a diary.
I have a personal blog. So do
several of my closest friends.
And no, a day goes by when I
don't check their biogs multiple
times. It's a great way to keep
in touch, to get inside someone's
head and get to know them better. I don't think I'll ever get rid
of my blog. I've grown depen·
denl upon it. as well as 1he ever·
growing number of biogs that I
read daily - some of then, writ·
ten by pcopl• I don't know personally. However, I feel that I
know them better through their
biogs than pert,aps many others
through personal acquaintance.
So the probkm is. how well
do you really want to get to
know RuPaul?
Phi Kappa Tau Will
Reopen In Fall 2002
By Amy Hand
Maroon-News Stoff
Delta Pi Sigma, to work out an appropriate method ofrepaymenL The
situation is not as dire as it was last
After being inactive for over a
year and facing numerous stum·
bling blocks this semester, Phi Tau
is taking the final steps that will
allow them to re-<>pen in the fall
of 2002.
Due to a small pledge claso in
the fall of 2000, the fraternity met
financial difficulties that forced
them to become inactive for one
year. Last semester, under lhe
leadership of former chapter president and current Alumni Corporation Vice President Mauro
Tucci. the fralernity sou,ht to become raffilillled with itz 1111iona1
chapter. Pennission to do so was
granted by the Student Activities
Board (SAB). and the decision was
then cleared by Dean of the COIJeae
Mike CappetO. This allowed Phi
Kappa Tau. the nalional OIJltlization, to officially consider
reaffiliolion with Phi Ta,.
The raffilillion a-.! rcoper--nina of
Phi Tau House is llill CGDlinpnt on
several focton. The lrolentity n..st
...... to pay
the uniYfflity
nearly $300,000 in loans. The 1M1i•
Vfflity iscumndy coopenlin& with
•k
Phi Tau's Alumni Corporation,
fall, due toa larger pledge class and
nine current official members, its
cnrolhnent caps at approximately 30
students. Phi Tau is optimistic that
financial arrangements will be
wOll"We're very happy with the level
of ooopenlion on the Univer.;ity's
pan." mnarito these neaoriations,
The ftatemity house must meet
livin& standards as determined by
Colgate Residential Life. While the
fndemity was inactivCt a new rule
was inslituted requiring all fraternity
housa to have workin& sprinkler
fil,
PHI KAPPA TAU remain, vacent until the fraternity', reopening this f.a.11.
systems. A source of water is not
currently available. They hoped
to tap water from Univmity Coon
apamnentz. Since this would have
involved piecing piping under the
portation. The fialemity is cuncntly
exploring the possibility of utilizing
Hamilton Central School as a water
source for tJ,e necessary sprinkler
assured that the Task Force initiatives would no1 result in unfriendly relations between the
creek, permission from New
Yorlc's Deportment ofEnvironrnen181 ~ was required. Phi Tau
chose to avoid such a route by detmnining if pipes could instead be
laid under RO
system.
tem. Phi Tau seems to be view·
ing this decision as a formality.
Tucci remarked ... We have
worked out the differences that
ter fiom ........
This too presented
a Josjstical problem, since the decision would have to be cleared with
New vor1c·, Depo,tment of Trans-
,,,.'4
finally, Phi Tau is waitin& for
official permission to regain the national charter fiom Phi Kappa Tau.
According to Tucci. the national
affiliate chose to postpone their
offer to rejoin until later this
sprin&, when Colgate's Task
force has made funher progress.
Phi Kappa Tau wanted to be re-
University and the Greek sys-
caused (us) to bttak ties wi1h Phi
Kappa Tau inl971. and they're
just as excited as we arc to
reaffiliate ...
With the SAB approval process finished, these hindrances
should be resolved in a timely
manner. Since the fraternity is
still ··unofficial" at this point.
they are unable to meet as a group.
Their representatives. however, are
working closely with Delta Pi
Sigma. Phi Kappa Tau and the administration to ensure that all arrangcmenlS will be made in time for
a reopening next semester. "It's re-
ally pulling together and wc'n, taking major strides. We should be
kickin • in the fall," explained Senior
Phi Tau Gifford Foley.
6
THE COLGATE MAROON-NEWS
NEWS
Foyle Comes·Home This Weekend
By J ohn Dalton
over his three years with the Raid·
Maroon-Ne-.~s Stnl[
ers.
Assistant Athletic 011cc1or
Colgate will welcome the return
Frank White. who lnc" Foyle
of Adonal Foyle '99, one of the when he was o s:tudcnt ut I lamilton
University's most successful SlU· Central Jhgh School , felt that
dent athletes, during celebrations there \\ 11s 110 better person to re..
cei\·C:,uch an honor than Foyle.
this weekend.
" Flis influence is fantastic, not
Foylc, a former Hamilton resident and curTCnt center for the Na· only for Colgate but Hamilton as
tional Basketball Assocwc,on'• well," White said. "Having been
(NBA) Golden State Warriors, offered scholarships to Syracuse
will be honored by the Athletics and Duke, his decision to come to
Department and head basketball Colgate was great. Adona) really
coach Emmett Davis during a ccr· put the student before the athlete."
cmony on Sarurday in which his
Foyle's legacy is still a powcrfamed number 31 is retired.
fu I one fort he studentathletes who
Foyle will also introduce fomi<:r take to Cotterell Court this season.
New York Knick and New Jersey
"Adonal has been able to bring
Senator Bill Bradley as part of a national spotlight to a team that
Foyle's "Democracy Matters·· docsn ' t get much respect across
campaign on Friday afternoon.
the nation," sophomore poinr
"I'm really pleased that AdonaI guard Mark Linebaugh, last year's
is returning to campus to have his Patriot League rookie of the year,
number retired ... Athlelic Dircclor said. "Everything he has done here
Mark Murphy said. ''He had a tre- benefits not only Colgate and its
mendous career here and contin· basketball teams but the entire
ues to be a great role model for all Patriot League. He has demonstudent athletes nationally."
strated that even though we attend
During his three years at a small school chat does not attract
Colgate, Foyle received national a Jot of attention, it is still possible
attention as he led the men•s bas~ 10 achieve your dreams."
kecball team co its only two apAfter attending Colgate for
pearances ever in the National three years, Foyle decided to
College Athletic Association forego his senior year and entered
(NCAA) tournament in I 995 and the I997 NBA draft. He was se1996. He ended his college career lected eighth overall by the
as Colgate 's all•time leader in Golden State Warriors. Foylc later
blocked shots - collecting 492 continued his education and
aimduotcd two years later with the
Class of 1999.
Foyle is also involved in community service. He is a member
of many of the Warrior's community relations groups, including the
"Tall Tales" reading program for
area youths and his "Making the
Grade" program that promotes
staying in school.
Foyle also started the "Democracy Matters·· organization, which
gives students a chance 10 discuss
issues ofdemocracy. The program
has already spread toover30campuses nationwide. Foyle's introduction for the Bill Bradley lecture will build upon the
organization •s message.
Many cooehes and student athletes feel that Foyle has been a
driving force for the future of
Colgate and its athletics. By
preaching the value of education,
hard work and perseverance. his
celebrity status has influenced the
school and its academics.
"For a small school like Colgate
to produce a professional athlete is
huge," Davis said. "I think now the
Patriot League is becoming more
and moexposure is much greater."
Foy le 'swill introduce Bradley today at 4 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
The number retirement ceremony
will take place Saturday at 2:45
p.m. immediately following the
women• s game.
Kelley Speaks About Reparations
By Stentor Danielson
Managing Edlt()r
Professor of Hi story and
Africana Studies at New York
University, Robin 0 . G. Kelley.
spoke about reparations for black
Americans in Love Auditorium
yesterday. His talk, titled "A Day
of Reckoning: Black Dreams of
Reparations," was this year"s
W.E.B. and S hirley DuBois
Lecture.
Kelley said that he was especially happy co be giving the
DuBois lecture because the topic
of reparations is "in 1he spirit of
DuBois," as well as the theme of
this year's Black History Month.
Associate Professor of History
Pete Banner-Haley said that, aner
being injured in a car accidcnr,
Kelley cancelc-d all of his speaking appointments for this year except yesterday·s lecrure.
Reparations should not be about
paying individuals. Kelley said.
lns1ead, the reparations movemen1
should be about creating a social
movement to rransfonn sociely.
He said he would talk not about
the specifics of any of the many
plans for reparations that have
been offered, but rather about "the
historical vision that has animated
this moven1en1 for reparations."
"A successful reparations cam.
paign has the potential of benefiting the entire nation," Kelley said.
"The white working class suffered
from slavery" and racial segrega·
tion in the form of depressed
wages. Because the reparations
n10· ement would transfomt soci•
cty nd correct the problems of the
cop 1alist system, ··anyone who's
a we rking person for Enroc should
support reparations."
"I liked how he was applying it
to all people ... it was a step forward to uniring communities."
sophomore Bev Villegas said.
Kelley used music al several
points during his lecture. He opened
with a I964 tune by ()sear Brown
Jr.. who saJ1g "Ain't nobody paid
for slavery yet ... when do l get my
goddamnCLater, Kelley played Abbie
Lincoln's 196 I song "Retribution."
''Lei the rctribt•rion match the con·
tribution," Kelley explained. ''This
is a very simple story."
The theme of reparations as a
social movement seemed to
make the biggest impact on those
in attendance.
" l've always thought about it as
a handout to individual people. l
never thought about it as a public
program." first-year Michael
Bamigan said.
Kelley said that America's wealth
was built on labor, but laborers. including slaves and lower class
peopleofall races, have not received
the benefits. Junior Kaleb Berhan
said, "when he showed how black
people were paying taxes for white
schools, l was like, 'Wow."'
The reparations movement
gained steam after Wo,-ld War II,
when black leaders could cite the example of the $58 million paid by
Germany to Holocaust victims.
More recently, reparations have
bec'll paid fo,-the internment ofJapanese Americans during the second
Wo,-ld War and settlements of land
and money for native Alaskans..
Kelley said.
Much of the lecture was spent in
describing the development of the
reparations movement from de·
mands for back wages for slaves
following the Civil War through
pension petitions at the tum of the
century up to the present-day reparations movement
"One of the tragedies of the discussion ofreparations is the idea that
it came out of nowhere:· Kelley
said.
Kelley quoted from a letter sent
by a former slave named Jordan to
his former master, Col. P.H. Anderson, when Anderson offered to hire
Jordan after the Civil War. Jordan
demanded that Anderson pay him
for the years he labored as a slave.
"Just imagine what that means fora
slave to write hii master and basi•
cally ask for his back wages,"
Kelley said.
·111e point is not 'I'm taking a
collection. All you white people
give me my reparations,"' Kelley
said. Instead, reparations should be
about "the larger question - how to
reconstruct society."
Kelley spoke at length about the
1969 Black Manifesto, which he
called the first fully articulated plan
for reparations. It asked for $500
million - a small sum, according to
Kelley - from white Christian
churches (and later synagogues).
This money was not to be handed
out to individual blacks. Rather, it
was to be used as seed money fo,- a
new social movement that would
strengthen black communities, buy
land and education.
According to Kelley, many reparations proposals call for the creation of a black nation based on
more equitable principles.
"Yoo know this dream from the
8iblc. It's Exodus.·· Kelly said. The
story of Exodus is "not just about
leaving. but about creating a now
land."
" I thought he did a good job of
answering the kind of questions we
gee in our classes ... of not seeing
your penonal group responsible,"
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Paula Davis said.
Kelley's le<:ture was co-sponsored by the Office ofthe Prcsiden~
the Dean of the Facuhy, the Center
for Ethics and World Societies, the
Divisions or University Studies.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
CORE Cultures, the. Pace Studies
Program, the ALANA Cultural
Center, the deportments of Enalish.
Geojraphy, lnterdilciplinary Writing, Philosophy and Relipon, Art
and Art HisloSociology and Anthropology and
Political Science.
Bid Dialed Te Wllller
U lldll
ALEXANDRIA, VL-Afod.
eral judge ruled that John
Walker Lindb would not be eligiblo for bail on Weclnea4ay.
Lindh, an American who was
cap111red in A f&)lanistan, faces
chafieS of conspiracy to kill
Americans abroad and could be
sentenced to several conlOClllive
life -tencea if convicted.
"While it has beea staled ...
that the defendant is a loyal
American, the evidence before
the coun belies that -ilon,"
Judge W. Curtis Sewell said.
Lindb'c lawyen contended
d>ll he went to Afpulitlan IO
ft&)lt the Noothcrn Alliance, not
tbe United Stata. "He never
foqbtwi111al-Qaida.Heaever
sip,ed up for lenoritt ac:dvity,"
leed derense attonley Jamee
B.-.ahlnllid.
"-"-n,jectetlclal•by
Llndb'1 lawyers that lie WU
ttllhed and deprl...t ofllllldical
-nent.tfterbiaCllplln.
Tndtc-c.rt'lasn.At
Cea•
'!l1ila II the ideal way to honor
the ........ tohanortbe Ira·
dition that the Olympics is a
world event," Sah Lake Olympic
Commlnee Pleaident Milt Romney aaid.
AI-Qalda Rnuiu A Tlarat
WASHINGTON - CIA direetorGeorge Tenet warned that the
Qaida tenorisl network remains
a Ihnat to the United States on
Wednesday.
"We know Ibey continue to
pbm. We know they will hurt us
apin." Tenet said. "We have to
minimize their ability to do so
_ . _ there is DO perfection in
this bulinas."
Ho nlpCIBded to criticism of
theaaency'st.ndlingofSeplember 11 bf •1m11lballlleCIA had
no apeclflc bowledp prior 1o
die alllcb, 'iul ii W 1111,uted
IICYnl GClls llHOdll plota owr
........
'haet wariltd that al-Qaida
lilldy ... _....,..,.toalllck
U.S. ,....-i.11t11e0lympic
0-in Sall LabCity, famous
landmarb, pYII Dfflftl buildinp. airportl, dams or llridpl.
SALT UJ(J! CITY, U1ah llllemalloaal Oly11tplc Coa•nittee (IOC) officfall 1a,eec1 OIi
Wednesday to allow die n., lllat
- iecomed liom the World
Trade Center lite to t,e flqwn
over the 2002 Olympic Ones
in Sall Lake City, MilcOIM MI•
nlcatioll between the U.S. OlyiDpic Coi,nnl- (USOC) and the
IOC initially led to the rt.a'•
claMiftcation II a political .....
menL Sltch "**"'8ts - not
allowed under Oly1nplc Nies.
WASHINOTON - Tw1111yClpllnd ia Afghaniltatl were releued on
- pi.-.
WedrttH illy aftlrthe l>epaitn•n
of DefeaR ....,nhlecl llial !Illy
were 1IOI Tali11u or al,Qaida
r.•ulbere u 'bad t,ea, fhoaal,I.
Comldllldot fl-viii the Uulted
s- lllicl IDOther ldlklentified
lllliOli •Y !Illy- fll'llf 1tpon
11C111111heir!.\ ,11Ja,,ilety 23
lllilll!lj....,
1ntlddiittleft
The,...;,
IS cleld 111d took die27 capci-.
"Theflllclearlyhll-lqe
-.•1d 1111wliltw,-d,diey
tan in it, but ii is otherwise inlael," New York Poll ~ I ) ' torce1," eo1. Jtick no-.•
spokesman l'llquale Dll'lllco ..-~tlleCmtnlComsaid. "II - made whh ~ to nacl la Tldlpl, 1'11.lllid.
witbslacl heevy wiDclt. ,,., not
~ Tc.11111'7 Prab, had
or CenttilCoinmad,,aidtbalan
Ill ocdinuy ....."
Debate contlnuet among iaveltiptioll Into Ille l'aicl - k l
Olympic orp11izen about bow fib two '"'1111, He aid lhlt lnto properly honor America's vai;p1ors wi11 eeet to identify
fallal citizene witbouC _ _ .., --ofthemWafonnation
pelriotimlbalwouldvioi.die t1-ltlllto ljle l'aicl 111d capllft of
Oly1t1pica' apolitical viaioe. A prilaa 11S'llllo-tltoupctobc
4S-minute tnllule IO the vicli1111 -DY ftplHS.
.
ofthe Seplember II lfflorill 11·
"Wenno1admi-.aylllisracks will o11t be ahecl i n - '*-,"_..,..,_0111ceuaid.
tionally.
-Aad we ca't brlna mybody
ThefloawiU-thelllldlum back lo life. Bllt we - t o find
after the parade of athlefel, car- out what happened, . . ' - it
ried by • color pant wllote •appnec1, , net make ••re it
makeup i.. not beea dilcio.d. 4-'thlppeaapin."
~-sturdy.
--·-Talilla-d,Qillda
Bradley To Speak Today
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I
Colpte studcnts vollDl-..1 to help
the Bradley campaiJIII in canvusin& Now Hampshire. She believes
1h11 working for the caq,eiJIII and
attending today's lecture .., help
studcnlS who ''sometimes feel isolated from some kind of activism."
Teliska noced Brailley's suppon
of~finance legislation and
wO....,..., illatgd• that fon:ied thenVice President Al Gore, who
would II" on to receive the nomi-
nation of the Democrats, into the
debate over those isaues.
Bradley paduated with honors
from Princeton University in 1965
and pursued his )lraduate dqJtC
as a Rhodee scholar at Oxford
University. Between 1967 and
I 977, Bradley played professional
basketball for the New York
Knicks, leading the team to two
championships in 1970and 1973.
Fmm I979 to I 997, Bradley rep·
rcoented Now Jeney in the United
Stata Senate.
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Maawld1e, die "'91111iaep..._, will bep die hanb . .
tile foreip eitona,. oenten
cloled until flelllm) 11, in• 11llmpl.,pi.,aatb.-kelfilrthe
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ANKARA • 011 Tunclay, the
lnt-•tlonal M09etaty Fand
•
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(IMF)app111Hd•---,...
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cndlt pnlllUI . . . will ........
DUBLIN -The WJ111 blllk in
Ireland. Allied lrilh. an-.ced
on Wednelday ita SUlpicion that a
rope U.S. trlder llad deftauded
it of up to $750 million.
Allied lrilh Bmb Pie. said it
llad canlaeled the FBI to 1tm1 a
- • forlhe mininadealer,Jolm
Rulnak. The bank believa there
wu "internal and extemal collusion" but la not sure ifRusnalc actuelly atole any cub.
It emphuized that it wu not in
anydenaeiofllnancialcrisia. That
:innouncement did little 10 assuaae
the fean of investors. who sold
Allied Irish shares en masse.
Sham were down u much u 23
percent, .uing some Sl.66 billioa of market value.
"It's the last thing lbe market
needed." Simon Kir10n, a fund
manager at Aberdeen Asset Manaaement. said.
die - · . . . of lhe"fllllr•
n...,_
ilh ...,..c::uat.
•illallow'flar.
key to receiw, S9 billion immodillely, The NII oflhe $16 billion will be 1111d ow,r die 6fe of
the DIClby ....,.._, that exleDds
10 2004.
Turkish Economy Minister
Keonal Dervia exp,....t hia oal·
iafac:1ion with the plan and pn,dictecl that after 2002 hia coun1ry will not need u much funding u it does now, bul that it will
continue to cooperate with the
IMF and the World Bank.
"We have 10 nice the people
believe that our intentions are
very serious and that the reduction ofthe inflation to JS percent
is an obsolucely feasible goal,"
Denis, who ia a fonner vicepreaident or the World Bank,
said.
Aa • port or the agreement,
Turkey la also apected to unveil
a .,..,..am for ftchtina conupcion
and inefficient pemment
l'nacll-• Soteaoed ,..,
Attack
PARIS - The French Cour de
C.1111'4111 scntoncedloN Bove, a
.....-oflhelftli..aJollali
Blll!NOSAIRl!S-A..,.iiae
Pulli:leul lldulnlo Duhalde will
implement I chuae in
AJaeadna'• electoral aysean.
He lll1IOUIICld hla decWGn on
Tuelclay, aftDr m11111
ployod ci1iRB GUI in dte
mov-..1, to dlree montha in
priloa 1br bis involv- ia ..
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......,F_,
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February 8, 2002
feel 1w hu anythiq 10 hide.
"I have done all I can 10 help
this investipbon." he said.
Panel mernben residing over
the belrina seemed skeptical of
SkilHng'a testimony.
"You want us lo believe that
you sat there in your office and
had no clue?" Repr•senlative
James Oreenwood or Pennsylvania asked. Skillina held that he had
no knowledge of 1he alleged accounting chicanery.
Tho panel assumed prior 10 th~
h•arina that Fifth Amendmen1
rights would be invoiced, and had
prepared IWements chastisin&1he
actions oftbe fonner Enron heads.
"You're going to have 10 live
with yourselves regardless of the
consequenc•s of what happens
BELGRADE - Slobodan
MfloNYlc wiD p,obably call several w-. leeden lo testify 111
his trial before the U.N. war
crimes court thal will stan in The
Haaue on Febnwy IS, Zdenko
Tomanovic, one of 1he form.er
Yuaoslav President's Belarade
lawyen. announced II a pas COD·
mence un Wednesday.
He odded that Miloeevic would
-hil riaht 10 make I speech right
after the .,_utor, .
"In his atalement be will try 10
explain what happened in the
Balkans in that period and will
request the presence of all people
involved 10 explain all !he details with a11 these investigations:·
(of events) covered by the indic1- noted Rep,esenta1ive Peter
men1;· Tomanovic said.
Deutsch of Florida. "Bui I will tell
Milosevic faces charge• of you, oo a personal basis, as I look
genocide during the w,ir in Bosnia at this, is tha1 I hope you in the
and crimes against humani1y in dirk nia),t ofyour own souls 1hink
Croatia and Kosovo.
about some of the people who, in
fact, throughout lhe country, bul
particularly in the area ofTe.u,
NEWS FROM AROUND
who literally lost 1heir en1irc life
THE NATION
Power Eser In ne Dark
WASHINGTON - Ex-Enron
chief officer Jefftey K. Skilling
testified in a congressional bearins Thunday that he knew nothina of the allenlplS to bide the fl.
-'al loosa of the larse 6lelJY
COllll)llft)' ill Teua.
Sldfflna sald he left Enron in
mid-Auauat for "penonal rea- : aacl dlal he llad DO k-Nwledp of uy illepl or unethical
-1ina 1ricb Uled lo conceal
WASHINOTON - In a 66-31
vote, lhe Senate approved a me.lUl'e Thursclay 10 c.op government
sublidiea at $275,000 per farm.
The overwhelmina support was
pined after a repor1 on last year's
spendina wu disclosed.
The report re-led that larse
corpante f'anns were ulilizina the
sublidies, meant 10 keep small
farms liom bankruptcy. Texas'
huge Kina Ranch, Inc. reaped
$638,000 in 2000, despite lhowina a p,oftt tor the yar.
Until Thunday, farms were
aei...Uy allowed up 10 $460,000.
A measure that passed in the
Hou• of Ropn,sontativea gave
in 1999 dial WU • a p,o1111 of U.S, tnde baniera.
n;. clNisiGa - .. t11ai the lllt troublaofthe ......,._
s-.filnner-nolciilpr...,..i pocy.
· 1-devMtatedandapologtlic
m2t•ofl,11•• AirNIOprDIHL api•• • rmvlcdon for wit
la Ml daily ..... l'luhllclt ... cm Ille lite of a pla1111id 611-filocl abotdwlml!mwhascomeloNpllilledon·m...-Nfalmtlm in Mlllu,. in "nnt,• Sldllilla 11ic1.
Foar odler ftlrmer execuliwos
- llelp llleviala t1K 1111ioa ia
"I 11111 doa' t c..wer myaelf . . . . . foriw c h i e f ~
pllty t.1111 Tre aclld GUI of I oftloer AlldNw S. F - llave
--lopollliolllllllielTlrd1 .........._, poeidon or-11,11y: aow told tdll11 :I tellllify, eitina dlcir Fifth even more 1enerou1 limit, on
ebllliaMtohallaltlla . . _
. . . . . by 11lepliaa1• . ... not Amend!Mat ripla. Skilling hu fundina,
lly, lllllt1illled ftlr Seplt . . , •• .....,.,.., ,.. ._prllan not a1tempted to lnvolEe tllae
"That's • bis It's 1"e new
2G03.
... We •••ll C011daue the ri..... in.,tyiaa that he cloCII not reelily in flam ......... ~
'°'-
Van
'°"''"""'"°'"_,
lhe road and othen feeling that
1hey didn 'I benefit much from the
experience.
"Tbe class was fun but not terribly informative. I think ii wasn 'I
about the riaht kinds ofthings. For
example, it focused on basic drivina tips, not on how to drive the
vans safer in inclement weather,"
sophomore Rachel Mana said.
·1ne instructor was cool, rnuch
better than I expected, but it was
still a waste ofmy time."
''1be class was a aood refresher
coune in the basics of driving. u
well as bringing 10 light the differences between drivina a passenger van and a penonal vehicle," first-year Oreg LaBanca
said.
Potential drivers must also
present a valid driver's license,
read and sip the Colgate University Fleet Vehicle Use Ag,eemcnt,
pus a driving test administered by
Campus Safety and complete and
sip a Di,c !osure and Releue
Form, allowing the Uniworsity to
verify drivina records throuah
their respective state's motor ve,.
hicle department. Students with
three or more moving violations
or accidents will not be allowed
10 drive a University w,hicle.
Memben of Ouldoor Education
A Concern
will underJo longer, more inion•
sive training next week because
of the supplies stored in their
vans and the rough terrain COY·
ered.
The van license issued this year
will be valid until September
2003, wheii students will have 10
talte a refresher coune. Students
wishing 10 get licenses be(on, 1ha1
time will be offered the full van
safety class and follow the same
procedure as new van drivers.
Classes will also be offered at the
beginning of each semester.
As a member of an orpnization that focuses on risk manage•
ment and insurance issues for
colleges and universities,
Dutcher also received a great
deal of information about van
safety and has a good network
of peers 10 receive feedback
from.
"This is definitely a work in
proaress. If anyone has any
ideu on how to improve upon
1his program, we welcome their
input," Dutcher said.
"I would like lo thank the students for being so cooperative
and undentanding. I feel very
lucky 10 have worked with them.
They seem to be aware of 1he responsibilities they have 1ow1rds
each 01ber," Dutcher added.
Pit Roberts or Kansas said. referring 10 the 66-31 passage.
Pue! Wants To Spilt Up Rall
WASHINGTON -A pa,,el appointed by Coopss two years "CO
10 investigate options fur Amtrak
rcponedThwsday lhat it opted for
a bAmiral< has been unable IO tum
a profi1 for years. and says that ifit
does not ff:Ceive $1.2 billion in aid.
it wilJ have lo cancel dozens of
long-distance !rains. This follows
a rnanda1e by Congress in 1997
that Amlrak meel ils budge1 1Tom
intcmaf revenue by later 1his
year.
"Funding should nol be provided withou1 lhe rail system openuing like a business, ha,1ng the
controls, dte accountability, the
planning and lhc markcling. II
has to operate like a business or
it shouldn't be funded,"' commit·
,ee member S. Lee King said.
Many who share his opinioo
liken AmlTak 10 an irresponsible
teenllger who always expects a
bailou1 from paren1s.
savings and whose lives are effee.
tivbecause of your actions."
Senate Pr•aes Farm Subsldlt1
Sharon M..ts Bush In D.C.
WASHINGTON - Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and
Prcsiden1 Bush me, on Thursday
a1 lhe While House. The two
leaders discussed Middle-East
policy 1nd relationships with Plles1inian leader Yasser Amat
Bush said lha1 Amatshoolddo
everythina possible 10 fiaht terrorism ori1inaring from Palestinians. He did not imply 1ha1 relations would be severed with the
!elder any rime soon.
Bush, with Sharon 81 his side,
also ,rared that Palestinians
needed 10 recognize Israel's riaht
to exist as a woeld power and 10
stop the
in Israel by Palestinian exrremists.
Violence contmues in the area
due to disagreements over resion• claimed by both groups.
The most violen1 conflict exilll
in the llneli-controlled regions
of Gau and the West Bank.
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THE COLGATE MAROON-NEWS
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Garrett Lectures On Bioterrorism
By Stentor Danielson
because the perpecrators seemed
MnrutRlng &li1or
naive enough to think Senators
Americans because 1hat nation
focuses its few resources on makand prominent figures in the me- ing sure children remain healthy.
Laurie Garrett. award-winning dia opened their own mail.
In the United States, the emphasis
journalist and author of Be1rayo/
Gattett said that if she were a is on the end of life. Pharmaceutiof Trust: The Collapse of Global ten'Orist. she would circ-um, cfll the cal companies focus their research
P11blic Health, spoke 10 members security measures in 1hc United on treatments for chronic and ge..
of the Colgate communily about Stales and release an infectious netic disorders while vaccines and
the globol public health crisis in agent in a place like the airport in medicines to treat basic infectious
Love Auditorium on Tuesday.
Lagos. Nigeria. She explained that diseases are scarce.
"No place, from a microbial disease does not respect intemaThe disparity in life expectan•
point of view, is an island,'' Garren 1ional boundaries. "They travel cies between the world's richest
said.
with humans as microbial hitch~ and poorest countries will only
Garrett's lecture focused on lWO hikers ... We can be the vector that grow wider if nothing is done to
m:1jor themes - the 1hreat of takes disease from one nation to allevia1c the health crisis, Garrett
bioterrorism and the AIDS crisis. another."
said. "You'll have 10 be like voyProfessor of Geography Ellen
Gam:11 showed slides of her eurs, watching the poor of the
Kraly s::iid that Gurrcu is "heavily visit to a Soviet bioterror h,b in world die like flies while you live
in demand at this morncnl in rime" Siberia. where scientist, had tx..-cn into your 90s,"
because of bioterror concerns. manufacturing tons of anthrax
The baulc againSI AIDS is "a
Garrett said that the solution to each week, gene1ic-ally modifying test of our humanity;• Garret said.
these problems lies in helter pub- org.ani$ms and attempting 10 cre- She warned that if AIDS continlic health infrnstruc1urc.
ate supcr·genns that would be air· ues to ravage Africa. the whole
While funding for bioterrorism borne, resistant to drugs and fatal continent might descend into a
research has increased signifi- 10 80 percent of people exposed. situation sjmilar to the boys in
cantly since the anthrax scare this Many of these scientists an: still William Golding's novel The Lord
fall - for example, a 300 percent unaccounted for, she said, and of1he Flies, in which the strongest
increase in President Bush's bud. may have taken germ samples and get what they want by force.
get - other public health programs their knowledge of these organ"Almost no African language
are being slashed, "right when we isms· genomes with them.
that I know of had a word for •or•
though1 we were hearing the
The public health infrastructure phan"' before the AIDS crisis,
words ' public health' on the lips in the United States is too weak to Garrett said. Now, the working.
of public officials:· Garrett said. deal with a widespread bio1crror age Population ofAfrica is rapidly
Compared to other potential epidemic. Garrett said. Too
dying, leaving children to be
bioterror threats, Garrett said, many people refuse immuniza- raised by grandparents and in"Anthrax is peanuts. Anlhrax is tions because or possible side ef.. creasingly by other children who
nothing. A nrhroJt is not conta· fects, which endangers others be- arc unable to give them an educagious." rran infectious agent were cause a 90 percent immunization tion or pass on their cuhure.
released, the consequences would rate is necessary to protect the
"It's more than just human be·
be much greater.
population. She showed a slide of ing.s that arc dying, ifs cultures,"
"Nobody in this room is im· New Yorkers lined up to get im- Garrett said.
munc 10 smallpox;· she warned. munized for smallpox during a
Garrett offered one A rrican
Data from the 1950s suggests tha, scare in the 1940s, and said "we family as an example of how
smallpox brings with it a 30 per• could no, do this today."
AIDS spre,ds. The husband concent mortality rate and lifelnng
Part of the problem. Garren tracted AIDS from an extramariscarting and brJin &mage for sur- said~ is the ..demeaning" salaries tal sexual encounter (as is considvivors. The effects might be even olTercd 10 public health profes- ered his right in that cuhure). He
woM today because. according to sionals. Of\en health laboratory then infecu..-d his wife. who gave
Garreu. we 110w have no residunl technicians are paid less 1han 1he birth 10 an HIV-posi1i"e child. If
immunity to 1he disease. AIDS garbage col!ec1ors in the same he dies, his propeny will return to
and chemotherapy weakening city. '"You're going 10 get what his parenls and his wife will be
many people's immune systems. you pay for - second-rate person• forced into prostitution to feed
more e lderly people and fewer nel. third-rate personnel," she said. herself and her child, thus passing
people trained to administer the
Gan-en also criticized the way 1he disease to more men,
smallpox vaccine,
he-Jllh spending is allOGarrett blamed much of the
She said the anthrax attacks we Unii<'saw were not very sophisticated, Ricans arc able to live longer than of"megacities" like Lagos. Cairo,
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LAURIE GARRETT, a Pulitzer priu winner, leawa on TuOlday.
Istanbul, Shanghai and Silo Paulo.
Bombay, for example, is expected
lo grow from I g million people 10
26 million people over the next 13
years. Gam:tt said that New York
was able 10 build a public health
infrastructure because its growth
was much slower, but third•world
ci1ies are being flooded with poor
people from rural areas.
The people moving to these
megacities have no access to clean
water or sewage systems, causing
a "pressure cooker effect of more
and more Homo sapiens moving
into these biiarre ecologies,"' Garret said.
Misuse of drugs has caused
many diseases to develop resistance to trea1ment. Garrett said.
Effons to elimina1e malaria have
been thwarted by this problem,
and last year more people died of
malaria than in any previous year.
The economic damage done by
unhealthy p<>pulations has begun
to 8et international attention focused on the public health crisis.
Garren said 1ha1 leaders of corporations like Merck and General
Motors are asking "What is the
value of having a wortc force if
your work force is so sick?"
Gam:11 said that if each person
contributed $36 per year 10 a global public health fund, the world
would sec $360 billion per year in
economic benefits due to better
health. "I thought that figure was
really astounding," senior Dana
Farrill said.
Students from many classes and
disciplines attended the lecture,
often as a requirement for a
course. Many classes in the geography department, as well as
Medical Anthropology, in1cgra1ed
Garrett's work into their course
syllabus.
"What was significan1 for me
was this idea that we have to rt·
evaluate our whole idea of public
health," senior Dana Bail said.
Visiting Instructor of Geogra·
phy Veronica Ouma, who teaches
medical geography, said that
Gam:tt "did a good job of trying
to bring 1hc audience into the discussion," and that too often soci·
c1y docs no, make health a priority despite the fact that ;;without
it we are nothing."
Garren 's lecture was sponsored
by the Wolk Heart Foundation.
Magazi,,re &lit:or Discusses Trade Methods
By Kaleena Minor
Mar()()n -News Slaff
Rudy M. Baum, Mt1naging Editor of Chemical & Engineering
News (C&EN), discussed the
c hallenges of producing his
weekly magat ine in Lathrop Hall
on Thursday.
"C&EN goes ou, 10 150,000
chemists each week. I hope 10 give
students some sense of what goes
into producing the magazine."
Baurn said.
According to Baum. 1he mission
of C&EN, a publication of the
American C hemical Society
(ACS), is "lo report on news,
even1s and trends in the chemic.al
1rade, and on government, busi ..
ness and academe in a timely. accurate manner."
Baum explained the problems
he faces as an editor. one of which
is deciding whether or not a story
is newsworthy. According 10
Baum, qualities that go in10 a good
C&EN story arc accuracy to retain
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"We were interested in bringing
since chemistry is a broad subject
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campus people 1ha1 connect difmatter, bridging into physics, bi·
ology, nano1cchnology and other ferent disciplines. I thought of
Rudy because he branches toareas of science.
gether
writing and chemistry,"
Baum argues that, objectivity,
though important in reporting sto- Associa1e Professor of ChemiSITy
ries, objectivity is not always pos· Ernie Nolen said. Nolen 1J1ugh1 a
sible. since it is the reporter's job CORE 400, class with Associate
to summarize the events that oc- Professor of Political Science Tim
cur, which must result in some Byrnes.
Nolen stated tha~ after growing
form of bias.
up
in different specially areas.
Each member of the C&EN
stalT mu.i sort through journals, . people of the seientific and literrepons from contacts in the gov· ary areas had some difficulties
emment, business and academic communicating with each other.
Baum diseussed his idea oflhe
worlds. press releases and internet
existence
of two types of people.
soun:es in order to find their stories. When so much information Each type responds 10 a sense of
must be reported. objectivity is not awe in a di1Tcren1 way. One group,
which includes chemists. asks RUDY M. BAUM, managing editor of ClcEN lectwa on Thanday.
practical.
"It was interesting learning how and why an event occun, .,., cnpged in min& l0fflClhing chemillly and science in 1 ....,.
about how complicated pulling while the other, which includes INC in asyslcmandneilheroftheir lar manner thal •yone with any
together a chemical magazine is," jooma~sts. wri1a, sings and dances. jobs .,., done ....,, th., ccx1a1U1i- becqround could n,lale 10 and undentaDcl."
Baum claims thal at a deeper cale their findinp," Baum added.
junior Terry Duong said.
Senior Becky Bye, who hu
An oaline •allion ofe&EN can
Baum's lecture was sponsored level, bolh types have the same goal
taken
CORE
400,
1111ed
1h11
be
fClund 81 hap://acoinfo.aca.or&'
in
mind.
by the Wolk Foundation, the SciBaum
"po,1nyed
the
discipline
of
c:en.
"Both journalists and chemists
entific Perspec1ives Program and
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'THE CoLGA11! MAaooN-NEWS
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NEWS
New Program Trains Tomorrow's Leaders
- b v Kelly Laukhuf
M~roo,,-Nf!'l4'1 Slaff
On Thunday, Dean of the ColJ,ge Michael Cappeto addressed
he panicipants of The Key pro-
ram, organized by the S1uden1
ership Team (SL
on 1he
·mp0rtance of leaming to u1ilize
;f1'eren1 personalily types in orer 10 belter understand group dyamics.
Using lhe '1rue colors" pcrsonliry 1est as a learning tool,
appc10 emphasized tha1 "any
eader needs to realize how to
~ori;. with different personalities
1are always a pan of the group
ynamic."
During 1he meeting. everyone in
nendance Y. as asked to dctennine
f they considered 1hemselves 10
an orange, green, gold or blue,
rording 10 persona lily charactersties outlined on each card.
Cappeto, who earned his docoraie in psychology from Virginia
« h, 1old lhe group of20 par1icion1s thal "if you are going 10 be
n.
eaders, you arc going to have
pie from all differenl types of
·orking and thinking categories."
After esch group had discussed
its strengths and weaknesses,
Cappeto defined each of the four
pcrsonalily types, which included
idealists. rationalistsJ artisans and
guardians. Every group contlins
a mixture ofeach of the personality lypes tha1 in turn form 1he
group dynamic.
According to lhe tes~ 1he people
who found lhemselves in 1hc gold
calegory make their decisions
based on goals, bringing s1abili1y
to 1he group. People who aligned
themselves wi1h 1he blue ca1egory
arc driven by their feelings; 1heir
contribution to the group is giv.
ing a sense of unity. The green
category characterized people
who are driven by facis and who
bring ra1ionali1y 10 the group. Finally, people in the orange caiegory are risk t1kers who bring
important leadership qualities to
1hc group.
The purpose of the exercise was
10 demonstrate Chai no iwo people
think or wortc in the same way, and
that many leaders who have
1rouble con1rolling 1hcir group fail
10 recognize this fact. In order
for a group or organization 10 run
smoo1hly. the different calegories
must learn to work togc1her and
10 focus on each 01her's strengths.
While C8ppc10 is the most rccen1 facilitalor of The Key leadership workshops, others have in•
cluded Interim President Jane
Pinchin and will include, among
01hers, Visiring Assis1ant Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Robert Figueroa.
Sarah Searscllena, a member of
SLT, s1a1ed 1he goal of the workshops is to be "an interactive SC·
ries to promote activism on campus and to help students realize
their leadership po1en1ial."
The meetings are focused on
student activity through discussion
and involvement and also include
practicing and demonstrating
leadership skills.
The Key is held every Thursday
night at 7 p.m. in the classroom of
WC$t Hall, with the exception of
a break nexl Thursday, February
14.
Pizza and soda are always supplied, and students can cam one
jl"'1to ", Ln/.,y TIHtmj11.,.
gym crcdil if they auend al leasl
IO of the workshops. The meet- DEAN OF THE COLLEGE MICHAEL CAPPETO leads a
ings arc open 10 all S1uden1s.
lcadenhip disawion Thund.ay night in the West Hall Oassroom.
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cepl 1hat 1he academic needs of all
'ng a program for the most in1el- ofColga1e'sstuden1s. We can and
tually curious kids on campus should do so, bu1 because of varind
2)
figh1ing
1hc ous ideological commitments. the
dn1inistra1ion·s aspirations 10 faculty has failed to do so in an
ransform campus culture. I odequate manner.
{rankly think we can simultacously serve well both 1hc mosl
E-mail: Think Before You
n1ellec1ually engaged and the
forward
ltas1 academically curious here al
olgate without radically transThat now infamous email was
forming Colgate's students or re- copied 10 1hrec people: my wife, a
lacing 1hcm.
Ph.D. and minorily woman (I
The~ are three Colgatecommu.. wanted her opinion as to whether
1iues: that which is comprised of I should appea, on 1he show); Nina
lhe 1ypical fra1 kid. 1he one who is Moore, another Ph.D. and minor~usfied with 8 minuses and C ity woman~ and Jack Dovidio, the
luses and to wh(>n1 beer is more Provost and a preeminent student
·mpor1an1 than Hegel. This is 1he of racism. I obviously wasn't tryrgest constituency. It is rein• ing 10 hide what I had to say. lniorccd by Division I a1hletics. The dcedJ I would urge anyone who
ond group is the most intellec- believes tha1 the s1Udent to whom
ally gifled. I don'1 1hink 1ha1 I was wriling was initially
·,1,e'rc meeting their needs. Fi- troubled, 1ha1 1hey should take a
lly, 1here arc 1hose who come look at 1he exchange of e-mails
with the least academic prcpa· that passed between us. It seems
tion. We're not meeting this perfectly clear from these ex•
up's needs either.
changes that those students
I challenge 1hc current admin- weren '1 uoobled by whal they read
lion, and that to follow, to ac- until 1hey were advised to be
1roubled.
My advice to smdents such as
the one who passed on that particular email is to be less sensitive.
In a class on 18th century politics,
whal arc you doing looking for
race issues? Worry about
Voltaire. 111e world isn't always
going to tell you what you want
to hear; learn what you can from
your professors unless 1hcy do
something egregious.
On Cowards And 8ufllt's
I was 1roubled by 1he facuhy
response and panicularly by the
irresponsible and slanderous remarks of 1wo members of the facul1y in a large public ga1hering, one
of whom accused me of being a
coward and the other of being a
bully. Ano1her commen1 - 1ha1 I
should be mc1 wi1h "force," implying 1ha1 I deserved 1ha1 some physical harm should come 10 me, was
equally upsetting.
They called me a bully and a coward. Based on wha1? Thal I stood
up and said 1ha1 Afiican American
kids need to lake tough classes? Ask for things tha1 mallcr.
Whatever ram, it seems wholly in• Things 1ha1 shape you: a new
appropriate to describe me as a writing center, more ancillary
bully. I am no1 one of those faeully services for those who come to
members who, whenever a student Colgate less academically prewrites in The }.-faroon•News in a pared. The workshops on MLK
manner po1enrially to his disliking, Day were just a bunch of pro·
swats them down in the very nexl
gressive faculty s1anding up for
issue. One of the things one teams an hour 1elling you wha1 you like
early in the martial ans is that one to hear. I would have urged the
should never pick on 1hose with s1udents, if they were to organize
lower belts; ii is a lesson tha1 I be- in
order
to
get
the
lieve I loamed well. I say encour- administration ·s attention. 10 ask
age our students 10 express them• for somerhing more than short•
selves. whether or n('lt ii is in agree- lived and distracting symbolism.
ment with prominent members of
Indeed. I would urge all s1ulhe facuhy. Ge11hem 101hink aboul dcn1s on campus to ask more
theissues. lfil'sno1asprofessional from the facuhy and, if they arc
and as perfec1 as you like, well you in disagreement with them on eshave the journals to write what you sential issues, like campus culwanl lo say. Don'1shoot 1hemdown. ture, or something as simple as
A professor wriling in a student 1he lenglh of reading periods,
newspaper is like a 600-pound go- that they make 1heir voices
rilla. 17,at ·s being a bully.
heard. The average student here
thinks the trustees will save him
The Sit-In: Sitting In For The
on everything. I still have a sixties side: I wanl students active
Wrona Reasons
and, above all, active about matMy concern is that students ters that most concern them:
didn'I ask for 1he righ1 1hings. Colga1e.
rnuntown Hamilton 'Welcomes New Entertainment Complex In April
By Andrei MIiier
Moroo,,-Nrws SI
Construction continues on the
rec-level renovated Palace The. It is scheduled to open up to
lga1e studenlS and the general
blic in downtown Hamihon on
priJ 12, IICCOnlin& IO ilS manf&CI',
ichacl Bourdeau.
The Palace Thealff will serve u
multiJIUIPOIC enleflainment cen' ge, swe of the art sound sysand deejay booth. In addition
nightlife, the theater will also
a place to watch T.V., play in
game room, shoot pool and,
ording to thole involved in the
ning.just hove a good time.
Bourdeau is very enthusilltic
UI the club and he hopes tbal
denis will be u well. Accord-
ing 10 Bourdeau, 1he thea1er will
be a place where you can "dance
your bun off," listen to il'<8l bands
and dance to music played by oomc
of the bes! deejays. Bourdeau has
also met with a studenc advisory
board, so that Colgate studenis'
opinions will be taken into accounL
The theater will cater to both
drinkm and non-drinken. The top
level will include a 21-and-over
bar. The first Roor will hove a nonalcoholic beverage surion with
juices, sodas and smoo1hies. A
snick bu with fast food and
snacks will be localed on the buement level.
Many studenis arc optimistic
about this new weekend option.
"I'm exeiled about this. It will
ccntainly be I aood 1ltemative to
the usual frat pmty scene," fintyeor Bve Shire uid.
..,t will be nice to have something differcnl todo. I don't know
how many people will go there
righl away, bul ii will probably
star1 to become a more popular
option," sophomore Jill Richmann
uid.
Anolher hope for the Palace
Theater is lhat ii will rejuvenate the
town of Hamilton. StudenlS hive
complained that Hamilton is not
exactly bustling with activities for
colJese allldenis and officials hope
that this new cnaenainment center
will provide them with various new
oplions. in terms ofnighdife, enterlainmen1 and ..aalion.
Many students still remain uninformed about the,,__
.. , didn't really know about ii. but
now that I do, I'll definitely go
then,, It sounds like lots of fun,"
first-year Richel Adam uid.
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Editorial
How Much Is A Big Name Worth?
olga1e has been doing well recently in getting big-name speakers to come to cam
pus. Last year, we saw Ralph Nader, Al Sharpton and Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.
Spike Lee came last week and the Memorial Chapel will host Bill Bradley this
afternoon. These big-name lcc1urcs arc always well-attended.
Out what are we paying to have household names show up in Colgate This Week? Lee
cost the University $22.500. Sharpton cost $50.000. Carter charged us $60,000. That's
right - lhe equivaJenl of two studencs' en1ire tuition, room and board bill for the year
wen1 into Caner's pocket
II seems obvious 1ha1 the quality of the lecture is not necessarily proponional to the
price tag or the speaker. Many students said that Carter's message about always trying
your best was nothing new, and ccnainly no1 any1hing tha1 they nt.-cded to be told by a
speaker making as much money in an hour or wotlc. as many middle-class families eam in
a year. Lee left a large number of auendees very dissatisfied with what he had to say.
What the University is really paying for when it brings in a well-known speaker is
simply lhe name. It gcncrJtes a 101 of interest around campus when a person that everyone has heard ofcomes 10 speak. 11also creates greal PR for the University to tell alumni
donors and prospective students 1hat so-and·so has graced our campus with his presence.
It is beyond the scope of this short editorial to try to evaluate which speakers are wonh
how many dollars. The wonh of any panicular s·pcaker is a subjec1ive judgment of each
individual. But when many s tudents judge the lecture 10 be less enlightening than the
hype would indicate, it suggests that the speaker has been overpaid. Sometimes this is 1he
rcsuh of an honest mistake. 01hcr times, ii is the result of focusing on who will speak
rather than what they will say.
ThC purpose of Colgate is to educate the student body. When University funds are used
10 bring a speaker 10 campus. the inten1 is that the money will pay off in educating 1he
campus communily. So whenever a group or department looks to bring in a speaker, it
needs to ask itself: ls the value of what this person has 10 say wonh the price lag? Would
we pay this much ifa no-name speaker gave us the same lec1ure? Arc we paying for an
education. or are we paying for a name?
Editor's Column
Willows, Shimmering Waters, and ... Abstract Art?
By Malt Rlthou 've all seen them. You're walking to c lass, strolling along Willow Path, en
j oying 1he scenes of Taylor Lake and the sunounding trees and then, bam!
You walk right in10 ... a horde or colored blocks? Huh? In the pleasantry or
Colgate's winter wonderland now sits a conglomerate of multi .colored cubes. This
group
cnigma1ic s1ruc1ures appeared out of nowhere a few weeks ago and has
caused quite a sti r on our quaint little campus.
For those of you c urrently unaware, the sculpture is the senior projec1 ofa Colgate
art concentrator. T he blocks supposedly represent the test pauems of colors 1hat appeur on your television set. That's fine. Sounds like an interes1ing. unique idea to me.
My problem wllh this issue has nothing to do with the artist or the artist's creation.
Rather. I am befuddled by how the Colgate administration ha,s dealt wi1h the s ituation.
\Vho walks along Willow Path on their way 10 and from classes every day? The
s tudcn1s. Who was not informed of the decision 10 place random squares of color
alon1,s idc 1hc path'! T he s tudents, Anyone e lse see u problem wi1h 1his'! At the very
least. an e-mail s hould have been sen110 1he student body explaining·bo1h its mean.
ing and placement.
A week ago. 1hc udministrution sent the s tuden1s a completely pointless updace of
the Prcsidcnrial Search. The e•mai l stated that Colgate is in the process of finding a
new, pcnnancnt president. No names of candidates. No dutcs of when the search may
be completed. Just a quick e •mail to let us know 1hat Colgate is indeed ancmpting 10
lintl a president. 'fhilnks for the update. For the lasl few months, I have ac1ually
thought 1ha1 this Pres idential Search rhing was all a farce.
The point is thur the administration makes hollow efforts to keep 1he students in·
formed. ltowcvcr. when it comes 10 issues such as the aforcmen1ioned sculplure - a
c 1rcumst:mce that would obviously draw the ire of s tudcn1s (remember where the last
pieces of a rt 1hat were scaucrcd all over the campus ended up?), the s tudenl body is
entirely ignored. Maybe Colgate was trying to slir up curiosily in failing to inform
the students abou1 these out•of·placc blocks. If that is 1he case, then the administra·
tion s ucceeded; coun1lcss s1uden1s have no understanding as 10 what 1hose things are
all abou1. And it really. really annoys 1hem. And it should really, really annoy them.
In no way is this response an atlempt to criticize the artist's work, I wholeheancdly
support nil studcn1s in their creative endeavors here on campus. Nonethcles.s. the
placement of 1hese blocks has disrupted a natural environment. Rather than encouraging posi1 ive analysis and appreciation of the artwork. the decision 10 construct the
project ou1doors has only frustra1ed the confused passersby. To chose of us strolling
down Willow Path. the blocks only obstruct the path.
Is ii 100 much 10 ask for some kind of a s1udent vote on a decision such as this? This
project most intimatefy affects those of us who regularly encounter the interruption of
colored blocks 1hat appear in a normally serene and qui1e beautiful sct1ing. When SIU·
dents vote. they c:1n'1 complain, To be fair. a simple e·mail consensus could have been
sen1 ou1 and would have rcnectcd the opinions of1he studenl body as I whole.
Y
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House Stereotypes Weaken Greek
Defenses Against Administration
By Andr,w f orbff '03
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ell, it's the weekend again .
You 'vc already purchased the
obligatory case or Or. Pepper
(or perhaps something a bit stronger if
soda's not to your taste), which should
serve to help you through lhe evening's
ac1ivities. You've pre.gamed a lictle and
worked up a nice caffeine buzz. You've
even gone so far as to press tha1 new A&F
shirt you bought last month. So you're
a ll decked out and ready 10 go. But, as is
so often the case these past rew months.
you are once again confronted by that
ques1ion that has
daunted
man
throughout the ages
... "what the heck
am I going 10 do tonight?"
Don't worry, I'm
not about 10 whine
about the lac k or
social options here
at Colgate. Firtcen
hundred other editorials have already
accomplished that
rather nicely, In ·
stead, I would like
to point the camera
in a slightly dif'ferenl direction - at
our beloved frater·
ni ty system. The
par1icular problem
I'd like to confront, however, deals not
solely with fra1emi1y members~ bul with
the entire campus community.
Everyone's at rault.
Firsl some perspective. At some point
we've all been on the outside of the fra.
temiry system. So, now, take a moment
to renect upon your personal view o.f the
frats tha1 you had as an ot.1tsider. What
images leaped into your head when, say.
Kappa Delta Rho was mentioned in conversation? Whal stories did you recall
when Delta Kappa Epsi lon was brought
up? Did you laugh when someone menlioned Phi Tau?
Those of you who weren't in Phi Tau
have just proved my point. You probably
laughed at my mention or Phi Tau because
we all practice a well-defined system or
fraternity.related stereotypes. We make
generalizations regarding each fraternal
aroup and assign them characteristics
based almost entirely on stories we've
heard or individual brothers \VC've met.
Why is this a problem? Because this phenomenon has been slowly tearing apan
everyone's social life for lhe past couple
or years.
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Now, I am unaffiliated. I chose noc to
participate in the Greek system becaust
it just isn't my thing. I imaaine, however,
that it must be tough to join a rr11cmi1y
and instantly fall victim to these rampant
generalizations that permeate our day-to.
day lives. Through no real fault or their
own, these brothers are labeled, catego.
rized and regarded not as individuals, bu1
as parts or a larger being that p0$$CS5's
characleristics out of 1heir control. As a
result, I could sec mysclr being in 1h11
situation and responding, not with pa,
tience and understanding, but with gen,
eraliz.a1ions of my own. I might, for in.
stance, start to
think of non-broth.
•
ers as someho•
Jess•worthy. In
fact , it's within
reason tha1 I could
go so far as to Ja.
bcl and catcgorizt
other fraterniti es
and
campus
groups as a way 10
overpower those
labels that havo
been direc1ed a1
me.
And so it goes.
Two wrongs lead
to ten more. Competition become,
the driving force.
Everyone needs 10
prove superiorit)
in order 10 justify chemselves and their
sweeping statements of misplaced antago,
nism. Eventually, it has to reach a point
where evcrythingjus1 ralls apan. I mean,
how can we expect to sustain a campus
community where the Greek system has
undeniable parallels with neighborhood
clubhouse politics? And we all know what
happened to our clubhouses. Your clubhouse inevitably gets in a fight with an·
other c lubhouse and Mom shuts the whok
system down. Granted, we may have rid
ourselves or"Mom" when Buddy new the
coop, but there's a good chance that Dad
could marry badly again.
I can only sec one way that chis situariot
can be remedied. We need to stop makill$
gcnyes, perhaps I ask 100 much ortoo la,ge a
group ohteadrutly racriooalizcd indivickl·
als, but I think that with the rig],t approad
ftom enough people, WC ctn ll least begio
to change the direction or campus society.
1r we do not become more mutually supportive as a Greek community, the outlool
is bleak for our fraternity system and I
stnJCture it could potcnti1lly provide for
otherwise stapant community lire.
What image- leaped
into your head when,
say, ~R was mentioned in conversation? What stories did
you recall when DICE
was broupt up? Did
you laugh when someone mentioned Phi
Tau?
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Commentary
-President Bush's "Axis Of Evil" Statement Alienates Allies
By Nayma Qayum '02
coording 10New.»<~e.tpolls fiom February 11,64 percc,,1ofAmericans say
ha! President Bush's Stale of the
Union address was a warning that the United
St>ltified rogue stales - namely Iran, Iraq and
North Korea.Ten percent said 1ha1 it was jus1
wugh talk. Bui what are the practical implications ofpublicly identifying thrc<: countries
as (onningan "axis of evil?"Thc war against
terrorism has given rise to a Stale of discom·
(ort among severa1 foreign governments.
World leaders sec President Bush as embarking on a journey that suggests global conflict.
This leaves the rest of the world in doubt reganling its stake in the system.
America's European allies arc not particu·
Jarly satisfied with Washington's attitude towards combating terrorism on a gl6bal scale.
Throughout the history of U.S.-European relations, the European Stales have identified
AmeriC$ as a nation represendngdemocracy.
free speech and justice for all. However, the
senscoffearthat sweeps through Europe and
1he
of the world today can be crodited to
1he diplomatic tendency to befriend a state
upe,, nccessiry and ignore allies as in1c-.
le3d elsewhere. Granted, effective diplomacy
is neither simple, nor available free of cost.
However, America's campaign against terrorism has given rise to a strong sentiment of
"'US versus !hem," where a state, government,
sociecy or organization is either for the anti·
1crrorismeampaign oragains1 it. 11 is 1heconcre1e nature of this argument that places Eu•
ropean states in an uncomfonable position.
As far back as mid-December 200 I , Britain's
senior military officer had warned the British
governmenl against U.S. attempts 10 widen
lhe anti-ierrorism campaign to a global scale.
Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, the chief of
Britain's dcfc,,sc 5talf, addressed "the Uniled
Slates' single-minded dcterminarion" to wage
large-scale warfare, and 51a1ed lhe British
govcmmen1•s necessity 10 decide whether
they were, alongside maintaining peace in
Afgl,ani51an, willing to commit themselves
to the American government's wider agenda.
Most NATO allies had initially promised
absolute support of the U.S. anti-terrorist
campaign. While U.S. Secretary of Staie
Colin Powell had stated that the aim of the
American government remains focused on
correspondence, dialogue and collaboration
and nor physical warfare, lhe vindictive nature of such threats is not only unacceptable
without validated evidence, bur is also dangerous in an international arena so well--connecled by the many facets of globalization.
Essentially, the absence of sufficient mrntary
intelligence in terms of covert action is a
weakness that the American government
=
should be willing 10 accept. Perhaps they
should even further inVCSI, improvingthesysrem forfuturepc,poses. tn ligh1ofsuch weak·
nesses, doublS and accusations do not give
rise lo evidence. On February 6, 27 of1he war
detainees were released after 1he American
defense admitted their mistakes in hokling
captive individuals who were wrongfully accused. Continuing investigations are presenlly aimed at determining how many of 1he
15 men killed in 1hc January 23 raid were no1
by any means connected wilh the Qaida network. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman
Hamiclaims 1hat Iran is developing weapons of
mass destruction by encouraging such accusations 10 be "expressed on the basis of real
facts and no11heir imaginanon," While U.S.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expressed no doubt regarding Tehran ·s collaboration wi1h the Qaida networlc, Ase~ identi•
fled such claims as direct accusations aimed
al !he Iranian government and hoped that the
Americans would nol make such an " irreparable mislake"
\Vhilc counteracting the direct attack on a
nation and its people remains the duty of1he
American government. it is crucial that they
notice 1hc inreparablc damage that their ac•
rions have brought about. In the process of
picscrving national interest, President Bush
seems 10 have lost the unconditional support
ofhis strongest allies- the members ofNA TO.
However, the latest developments indicate
thal 1hc US will not automatically ge1 NA TO
backing if it aims to expand its war beyond
Afghani51an inlo !,.q, Iran or North Korea.
While the September 11 anacks led NATO
10 invoice Article Sofits !Teal)! (dcclari,g that
1heSeptember 11 attacks should be ircated as
an attack on all 19 members of the alliance),
NA TO Secretary-General Lord Robertson has
said last week that a decisioo based on specific events could by no means be canied over
and it wastheduryofthe North Atlantic Cow,.
cil to make a decision based on evidence provided 10 all allied 5tales involved.
In a situarioo of global conflict, it should
be the priority ofeach state involved to mainlain a strong relationship v.ith its allies. While
the United States remains in pursuit of its own
interesis. it does not ~uire supreme intelligence, bur ooly common sense to assume lhat
1he other stares wi II do the same. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said last
Saturday that NATO must leam a lesson from
the current crisis and "adap1itself10 fight terrorism." Enoouragemen1ofa "military iransfonnation agenda" and immediate action sim.
ply because "we cannot affonl to wait until
we have a visceral understanding of what terrorists can do wilh weapons of mass destruction" was not reason enougl, 10 provoke the
19 NATO stales lo engage in physical war-
fare on a global scale. "We Europeans mus1
not rely only on Americans," Gennan conSCl'Vlltivc opposition leader Edmund Stoiber
said, "We must do more for our own security.
It is a truly European task."
President Bush's declaration of Iraq, Iran
and North Korea as fom1ing an "axis ofevil"
also placed Russia in a challenging position,
considering the nation ·s strongconncc1ion 10
all three states. While Russia has been a
Sl'rong supporter of the U.S. war against terrorism. it would be naive to assume 1hat interests, opinions and alliances remain constant
over time. Over the lasl week. Russian offi.
ciats have warned the American govcmmcnl
that the extension of the anti-terrorism campail!)l beyond Afghanistan mighl result in
withdrawal of Russian suppon from the
cause. In pursuit ofsclf-i111eres~ 1hc U.S. has
somehow managed to ignore the possibility
of allies withdrawing from the joint cause.
changing their agenda or befriending srates
other 1han itself in strengthening its power
status. Due to America's refusal to withdraw
the ban on lndhlTI import of ccnnin materials
for arms production, Indian leaders held talks
with Russian Deputy Prime Minis1cr llya
Klebanov last Wednesday 10 finalize abilliondollar defense deal and move military cooperation 1owardsjoin1 produccion. The United
States might currently hold dominance in
world affairs, but it would be wise no1 to undennine the impact of such collaboration.
One mighl ask why spreading lhe U.S.
war against terrorism beyond Afghanistan
in physical tenns lies againsc the best interests ofthese nations. As stated before, Rus..
sia remains strongly tied to all three of the
states identified by President Bush as forming an axis of evil. India remains disgnmtled as the ban on c-ertain impons is still
in effect~ despite never being tenned a terrorist state. However, NATO is a different
issue. Allhough the circulation of 1he Euro
as a single currency has unified Europe in
economic tenns, the European countries
still seem to be striving for a common iden1ity, Responses to the American military
agenda clearly indicate these countries need
to pursue in1emal securily and development
instead of aiding America with its
mission. This is primarily because most European leaders arc unsure of where this war
is leading. Washington seems to be driving a
speeding earstraighl through stop si1,'llS. Tha~
in a world ofsuch closely connected nations.,
can be highly dangerous, since it undermines
lhe capabilities of the enemy. As we have
leamed fromlhe recen1pas1, lhe resulis ofsuch
actions could be disaslrotts. The U.S. attitude
of ''with us or against us" lies in direc.t con·
trasl with the European goals of creating a
stronger political and social identiry within
the region as well as worldwide.
lfYou Bui/a It, They Will Come: Heed Student Advice
for people like me, we could always just
have "out-of-shape time" at the gym, The
Wise Remarks same .way that !here is a faculty/staff hour,
there could be a "fat kids" hour every weekFrom The
day. In this manner, those of us who are in
Not-SO-Wise dire need of exercise need nol fear constant
reminders indicaring how fit the majority
with Doug MiUu
of the campus is.
The second thing that crossed my mind
thou(!),, and something pcrftaps more in.,orfter makina a trek to Colgate:! fine tan~ is the question of why the fitness center
fitness center this week, admittedly is not bi8&Cf. Why, if such demand exi$1s,
the first time in a Ion& time, I no- have the smart people who run our school
ticed that the gym was overcrowded. failed to purchase more treadmills and ellipChana• that - the place was pecked. There tical &lidcn? It seems ludicrous to me that on
were waiting lines at all the canlio ma· a campus of approxi.-ly 2,700 studenll,
chines, people wen, stretching and doin& - Y of whom like to work out and be fiL
exercises on any piece of open ftoor they Th< pnscncc ofonly two elliptical &fidcrs(the
could find and really trim, muscular people ..-popular piece of equipment in the gym)
millin& uound, waiting for their chance to and ooly a piaancc of treadmills cannot suphit the weiaJtts. First of all, thac should be (1011 the de11•11d. And why, after the.vanil)'
a separate weiaJtt room for people like weightlOOnt moved, was the old vanity"*"
me. This would be the weiaht room for not fllled by a canlio center oo that more
people who • - ' to So to the wciaJtt room, bettehes lltd caps could be made available
not for die people who ue already fit and for people to lift wci&hts, including me and
trim and ue in the aym to improve their my ........ 105-potatd bench pea? Some
already flal tummy o r ~ the lize of more bcndtel and he wei&hls oouldn 't cost
all 1h11nadl, copecially C0111p1110d to the Utile
their roclt·hanl biceps.
No, tlri1 would be the &YIII for die out-of- Hall buildin& pn,ject and the ptopaoed shape. lt wouldn't really need much, just a valim and Apllllion ofC-1.ilnly. To put
few old llali.....,, bibl and ho- it more blundy, who directs fimdina at
weiplL ID U. of a -11y • ltlhl& Co's: I?
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As I 1houghtabou1 all ofthis, I also thought
aboul the announcement oflhe lovely English
Garden my senior class has decided to give
to the school. Now, I am not really sure what
an English Garden is, or what differentiates ii
from a normal everyday ganlen, bul we have
all been assured thal ii is a wonderful thing,
and that its placement al Merrill House will
be wonderful. Of course, I have been to
Merrill House all of lhrec times since I came
to Colpte, so the placement docsn '1 seem to
me to be the bes!, bul hey, it'll be a nice garden, rigl,t?
It seems Iha! the case of the English Garden is another excellent example of the administration n,questingstudcnl input and then
proceeding to ignore their ideas. The constant n,qUC$1 for an all-night diner is the classic lltd loog--.ding example of this phenomenon. This idea has been put fonh time
and tgain !his year and no matter how good
ideas seem, if the sludc,tts aren't interested,
than the impoct of the project will be ncg)ia,'ble. So plcose, listen to us lltd take our opinions sctiously.
The last dma I want to sec is the Coop completely tnnsformod lltd no one really carin&And maybe, if it all -1<1 out, I can finally
hhe time in the &YIII with people hl111 lcalll be able to me a bth aiane in a comer
wltcn I ~ up to try to repin my lon&·lolll
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Does C.Olgate
Make Dating
Impossible?
By Sara Kahn '04
T
he dating scene at Colgate has
wrack<.'O my mind since I first arrived. Like many people, 1expected
something different and. alas. I ha, c come
10 1hc contlusion 1ha1 1here is no relationship scene. I can coun1 on my one hand the
numberoflegitimate relationships that I am
aware of among my friends and acquaintances (and no, the "friends with benefits"
arrangements don ·1qualify).
The Jack of romantic unions may seem
like a very obvious observation, but how
can it be explained? I have observed 1hat
hundreds anrac1ive males and hundreds
of at1rac1ivc females produce a lot of unal·
tached attractive people. After careful,
thoughtful analysis, I have concluded this
lack of relationships can be auributcd to
lhe Fish Bowl Phenomenon, my personally
constructed theory of why males don't ever
settle on one female. Males arrive at
Colgate. either recently freed from their
hig_h school sweethearts or involved in a
scaled-back "we'll dale other people while
we're away" option. Accustomed 10 their
small, familiar ponds of girls at home, they
arc overwhelmed by rhe new schools of
females found here. Like kids in a candy
store, men develop sensory overload. believing thal they needn't choose one female,
but can instead remain open, in case a bet·
ter one swims along.
Several of my friends have experienced
the results of this phenomenon firsthand.
My roommate became involved with a guy
here and hooked up with him several limes.
They seemed 10 be in lhe early slages of
pre-relationship. Abruptly, the guy men·
rioncd he had a girrrriend at home, didn 'r
want anything serious, bul told her ··you're
a wonderful person." The girlfriend never
seemed 1ike a priority when he was s1icktng his tongue down my roommate's 1hroa1,
so why was she suddenly worth mentioning now?
Bewildered, we examined the situation
and concluded 1hat she had fallen victim
to 1he Fish Bowl Phenomenon. This
mildly attractive male had lured her in.
but he was still hunting for an even better catch and had played 1he "girlfriend
card" in order to avoid articulating his
true motives. Males seem to presume that
since they are in a new environment, the
sky's the limit; they can have virtually
any woman here. regardless of their track
record. So, the males keep looking. cir·
cling the periphery of the glass bowl in
search of the next best conquest, while
the females are left wondering wha1 went
wrong.
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Letter to the Editors
To the Edi10n:
MDlnctmofColple'aCcnlffforEth·
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myapolopsto~peaplewltowished
to • land DillllODd apeak on January
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Commentary
February 8, 2002
Bush's Reasons To Face Off Against '~s Of Evil'' Don't Match Facts
people in other countries. Bush talked in
his S1a1e of the Union speech about "1h,
non-negoliable demands of human dig.
nity: the rule of law; limits on the power
of 1he state; respect for women; privatt
propeny; free speech; equal justice; and
religious tolerance." ll's similar to the
way 1he Gulf War was os1ensibly fought
to liberate Kuwait, rather than to protcc1
our Kuwaiti oil suppliers.
One key componenl of this logic is talk
aboul the women of Afghanistan. II
well known before September 11 1ha1 tho
p..~~r~ TfU)of'J
Taliban treated Afghan women exception.
fl~tl\P.~ To Fl4H1'
ally
poorly. News coverage of the "'"
1
was
obsessed
wi1h the image of the down.
f¢ "- wojllll.~ .s
trodden Afghan woman shedding her
A.1<. ~ ~U4AC> .•.
burqa once anti.Taliban forces took con.
trol.
This rhetoric about liberating oppress,d
women rings hollow when we look at tht
United States• closes1 ally in the Islamic
world. Saudi Arabia. Saudis subscribe 10
strict interpretations of Islamic law, re.
quiring women to don concealing clo1h.
ing in public, proh1bi1ing them from drh.
ing and imposing other restrictions. N0t
only does the U.S. look the other way in
the interest of using Saudi air basc1
against the axis of evil. but it is complic,1
in such rules. Women serving in the U.S.
military in Saudi Arabia arc required to follow a series of regulations to keep thew
conduc1 in line with Saudi custom. and
have been for the duration of American
presence in the country. Lt. Col. MarthJ
McSally recently sued the Oepanment of
the United States in its efforts in Afghani- Defense on the grounds that the policy n
St3n. Iranian diplomats played a key role discriminatory to women and non-Mus1n reaching the accord that established lims.
Turkey. often cited as the model Islamic
Hamid Karzai's interim Afghan govemstate,
errs in 1he opposite direction. lls
mcn1. Hawks cite a recent shipment of
weapons from Iran to the Palestinian Au- leaders are so paranoid about the threa1
thority as evidence 1hat Iran has turned of Muslim groups taking control that 11
its back on this progress. ignoring the fact bans many public displays of religion.
1ha1 Iranian support for groups like such as the chadors 1ha1 many Muslim
Hez.bollah and Hamas is no1hing new. The women a;-e proud to weara.sasign ofthtu
process of change has been short·cir- faith.
Fears ofterrorism following September 11
cuited by Bush's assumption that the shipment rcprcsenlS a total change of heart for and defending universal human valucsdo noa
a nation still deeply divided about its re- sufficiently account for Bush's singling out
of Iraq, Iran and North Korea_ It seems mu"
lationship to the West.
The rhetoric of universal human rights more likely that these lhree nations are tho
is used by hawks in the administration to traditional enemies of the United States, and
suggcsl 1ha1, rather than simply looking Bush is trying to piggyback action again~
out for its own security. the United S1ates them onto the wave ofsupport he hasenjoio!
is concerned about the plight of oppressed over the past five months.
that gave diplomauc recognition to come Ayatollah Ali Khameni and other
Mulfnh Mohammed Omar's government hard-liners who s1ill cling 10 veto power
erhaps 1he mos1 enduring phrase to prior to September 11. A large and in Ou- over the nation's policy. Mohammad
come out of President Bush ·s State en1iol segment of the Pakistani popula· Mousavi, a poli1ical science professor at
Tehran University, told Reuters "Of
of1he Union speech last month w:1s uon still sides with such exlremists.
Bush
justifies
including
the
"axis
of
course conservatives (1ha1 is, Islamic
..axis of evil," a phrase he used in 1hc continuing effor1 10 make current American evil"" under the umbrella of poSt-Septem- hard-liners] now feel more powerful since
mili1ary action the moral equivalent of ber 11 war by invoking these nations' their forecasts about the American gov·
World War II. The "axis of evil" is com- search for weapons of mass destruction. emment have come true."
Iran has been, on the whole. helpful to
posed oflraq, Iran and Nonh Korea, three Action is necessary, he insists, 10 disarm
na1ions that have gone from .. rogue
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slates," to "states of concern," to the enemies of civilization .
Bush gave two reasons for focusing on
these three nations: September 11 and the
universal values of freedom that America
hns • duty 10 bring to the people of the
world. Neither quite matches up to the
facts. Bush and other hawks in the administration seem more concerned wilh finding reasons 10 go afler our traditional enemies.
The entire State of the Union address
seemed calculated to play upon September 11 for support ofunrelatcd policy. The
tragedy we witnessed cau$ed an under·
standable leap rn support for re1ulia1ion
against those responsible. Out since tha1
time. Bush has manipulated this public
support for war to advance n11li1ary agendas that have lncrcaslng1y 1in1c to do wi1h
venge,ince for the \Vorld Trade Center and
Pentagon attacks. The war on a1-Qaida
became the wur on Islamic rerror (since
8u:;.h showed liulc rntcrest in. for example, the Irish Repubhcan Army or the
ramil Tigers in Sri Lanka). which became
the war on narions "ilh the military capacuy 10 hurt the U.S.
The fact is, there is no C\ idcnce rhat
any of the members of the "3xis of evil"
hod anything to do" ith al-Qaida. Osama
bin IAden has said 1ha1 he hates Saddam
tlusscrn. who is one of 1he more secular
leaders of the Islamic world. Indeed.
among bin Laden's gripes against the
United Stutes is our economic sanctions
on lrnq. which he secs as helping Hussein
oppress his people.
None of the members of 1hc "axis of
evil"" had anything 10 do with the Taliban.
either. The predominantly Shi'ite Iranian
s1a1e actively opposed 1he Taliban. which
prnctic~d 1he rival Sunni sect of Islam. If
we're looking for supporters of the
Taliban, we should start with our ally
Pakis1an, which was one of three nations
eLC<,~e
w,.
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v-,,VbI AAAtIA
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1hese na1ions before they can even think
of striking the Uniled States. Meanwhile,
our nuclear-weapon-enabled allies Pakistan and India are edging closer to war.
Yc1. instead of calling for intervention to
dismantle these nations' militaries, Bush
has sent Secretary of Slate Colin Powell
on diploma1ic missions 10 calm the ten•
sions over the disputed region of Kashmir.
::;imil~r p,~aceful reconciliation was
proceeding with Iran and North Korea
priorto Bush's belligerent address. South
Korea staked its hopes for the future on
reconciliation with the North and fears
Bush's declaration will undermine those
efforts.
The strong refprm movement in Iran.
including President Mohammad Kha1ami,
looked to U.S. friendship to help it over-
Sleeping In Is Not An Appropriate Way To Keep Dr. King's Dream Alive
by a day of doing nothing. but on a day
of education and renection.
r. Martin Luther King. Jr. is one
It is diflicuh to honor a man during 20
of the most ce lebr3led men in minute classes on the first day of theseAmerican history. His actions. mester. However, I will h:ive hope that
\1rords and ideas were some of the main in the fu1ure. professors engage students
l'Jlalysts in 1he Civil Rights movement of intellec1ually in discussing King's work.
the 1960s. He was the key component rn Few faculty, in thal.
pulling the United Siates and American firs t day·s rush.
cultur¢ 0111 of a , 1rtual Dark Ages of ra- were able 10 pause
during their classes
cial discrimrna11on and hatred.
It
honor
his
Why. then. did we not have a day off to
from school on the day set 10 honor his memory.
Would anyone
memory'! Monday, January 21 was Mnrl1n Luther King Jr. Day. and 01 Cola,ate, have stopped to re•
class \\Cnt on as scheduled. It is a nc.:w nee, on his day. had
expenc.:nce for students: As a national we not had classes?
holiday. elementary and high sc hools Would people have
have set that day aside as a day ofT, for found a copy of his
remembrance and commemorauon. Many .. Letters from a Bir·
'1cre at Colgate. including myself. have mingham Jail" and
questioned why this school does not do read through his
words? Would they
the same.
•
Whal else could he have wanted? Whal have found a tape of
non.
better way 10 honor the memory of a man his voice reading
who once said, "The function of educa- the ··1 Have a
tion is to teach one 10 rhink intensively Dre:im" speech and
and to think critically"? In addition 10 be· be inspired by his words, as so many
ing a reverend, he also ob1ained his doc• were'?
Very few would. It would be a dny of
t0rate. He placed a great deal of impor·
lance on education and knowledge, as mO\'ing in and unpacking. People would
well as :i critical and renectivc use of the be rushing to catch planes, or to pick
mind. It would seem rhat he. who valued friends up from airpons. It would be an
thoughtful education so highly. would extra day 10 sleep in, an extra night to
prefer that his memory be honored, not hang out. Few thoughts would have
By Courtney Hosteller '04
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turned to Martin Luther King, Jr.
The situation was no1 ideal. but I do feel
that it was the best we could do for King.
Students were :ible to tum their minds to
academics and education. 10 begin to
stre1ch their ideas in new and innova1ivc
ways. 10 think about the future in all areas of s1udy. as
King would have
encouraged. Havi ng school orficinlly Start also allowed the school
to hold workshops.
events
and
speeches.
There was an
artis1ic Celebration
of his life and
deeds. Desmond
Alexander powerOil
fu II y rec rea1ed
King's "'I Have a
Dream" speech in
1he chapel. Eighteen
different
woricshops, facili1ated by Colgate professors and facuhy
members, were offered 10 students. cov.
ering a vast array of 1opics penaining to
King and 1he Civil RighlS movement. Our
community should thank Alexander and
all those students and faculty members
who participated in making these events
happen.
would seem that he,
who valued thoughtful
education so highly,
would prefer that his
memory be honored,
not by a day of doing
nothing, but a dayof
education and reflec-
Mel Wa1kins, a Colgale graduate and
author of several books including Dancing with Strangers. spoke aboul tht
changes he·s seen al Colgate 8Jld the ,r.
fects of the Civil Rights movement sinct
his time. The opportunities were there f01
students. faculty and professors to comt
1oge1her and learn. not just about King.
but about everything he stood for 3nd
would be fighting for still.
In a not too distant future, there wil l bt
no living person able to say that they sa~
or heard King. He will no longer be a di·
rect memory in anyone·s mind. He a!ld
hb ideals will be remembered and. tn·
deed, be survived. by those people
ing to pruc1ice what he preached. He will
be honored by educa1ion. He will be hon·
ored, nol by students &iven the day off
from school. but by workshops and Jee·
tures. reenactments of his speeches and
the reading of his leuers. He will be hon·
ored nol just by the people who remember nol name, bul also by what he did in
his life and will, through us, continue to
do long after his dea1h.
He also said in a speech at Moorehoust
College ... We must remember that in1el·
ligence is not enough. lntelliaencc phJS
character- that is the aoal of true edu~:i·
tion." Haired is a powerful tool, as is 1g·
norance. Manin Luther King, Jr. pro\'~
that an educated and principled mind tS
Slronger. Let us honor his memory by • 0•
knowledging 1h11.
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G0Verr1111ent
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~sodation
Colgate University Student Stnale
Mlnules
Ffbruary S, 2002
I. Call lo Order
II. Pledge of Allegiance
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Ill. Roll Call
IV. Approval or Minutes from Previous
Meeting - approved
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V. Excculivc Reports
A. President's Report
I) Professor of 1hc Weck • Karen Harpp
(Geology professor)
2) AA B • Gcuing credit for labs
-Campus Planning - Renovate the
library: English gardens (senior class gift) by
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Student Union • Phone 228-7329 • E-mail: SGA
Merrill House~ SOA office will move up to
1hc COOP; study rooms
-Complaims 1umed to action • Hand
driers and soap i11 the bathrooms of al I
dorms: nag pole 31 James 6. Colgate
buildmg; basketball coons r-!uwcd: new Easl
Hall lounge
8. Treasurer's Report • BAC Allocation~
C. Com:sponding Sttrctary's Report
I) Sening up a ne,...,ork of small
colleges in the NE with Williams
2) Required ronna1 for SGA Cons1itu·
•
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D. Communications Director's Report •
check webpage • constantly bcmg updated
E.. Election's Commissioner's Report
I) SPW Commiucc • Met twice this
semester (rep will come to Scnu1e to update)
2) AAO. One position opc11
• Needs a new off-campus Senator
3) Updating Cons1,tu11on for new pres/
VP election rules
F. Rcprcsentative·s Report
I) Shuttle • Schedule coming this week
2) Omc Card meeting 1omorrow
G. Recording Secretary's Report
H. Parliamentarian's Report· 2 new Senators
1: Liaison's Report. Upcoming events
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legislation to require profs 10 put how much
each graded a»ignmcnt i) wonh on the
syllu~us
2) Intro courses· allow seniors and
juniors to register ror in1ro f.."OUrkS
B. Student Affairs Commiucc • Gate Card
C. Student Associations Organizations/
Lcgislutive Affairs
Executive Board
• Exploring SpirituaJity • new group for
approval
O. Off-Campus Relations Committee
I ) Hamilton lni1ia1ivc
2) Village Green • Big grand opening
for bookstore. Palace Theater. and Green
next ran
3) Hamilton College· Develop stronger
link with them
4) Ride Board · in COOP
5) Sent letter to all the bars to provide
more food
2001-2002
President
Noah Schwarz '02
Vice President
Erica Ciers '02
Treasurer
Amy O'Hara '02
VII. Suspension of the Rules for Open
SenulC'
Recording Secretary
VIII. Legisla1ion re: Roles!Responsi•
bilities or the SGA Prcs iden,. VP, and
Treasuttr . regarding governance board
meeting, • will allow the president to send a
proxy 10 a mcc1ing so that the vote is nol lost
• Also placts the treasurer on the Commiuec
on Budget and Financial Planning 10 replace
the VP
Amucla Terkel '04
Student Government A~iation would
like to congrat11late
Professor of the Week
• Passed: 27 aye. I nay. I abstain
KarenHarpp
IX . Prcscn1a1ion of1he Gradua1ion
Legislation . Passed {26 aye. 2 nay. I abs)
Professor or Geology
Corresponding Sccrelary
Cheyne Rood '04
Communications Directors
Christian Jobmon '02
Sobby Arora '04
Eleclion Commissioners
Steve Flan-,, '02
Amy Harp,lve '03
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X. Mayor Gctchonis - Spoke aboul town
Thank you for your constant dedication to
your students and the University.
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XI. Announcements
Batllale'04
Parlia,,-Wian
Matthew Cook '02
XII. Adjournment
Any students wishing 10 nominate a professor to
be ~ogn~zed by
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THE Col.GATE MAROON-NEWS
COLGATE THIS
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February 8 - February 17
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
The deadline for Colgate This Week is two
weeks prior to the date o f the event. Submit
events through the calendar web page: http://
cwis.colgate.edu/calendar.
Events are also posted On line at the above
address. We suggest you check t he online
calendar for the most up-to-date information , as scheduled events are su bject to
change.
Friday, February 8
7:00-8:00am -The Hamilton Forum: Enjoy
coffee and conversation with Brig. Gen. Robert
Purple. ret.. Colgate '57. who was very involved
in the Desert Storm mobilization. as he discusses the U.S. military, 2001, changes and
innovations. Green Room. Colgate Inn
12:00pm - Faculty Development Teaching
Table: David McCabe. department of philosophy and religion. ··can We Baule Grade Inflation \Vhile Still Being Fair To Our Students?'"
Lunch provided. Contact Bruce Selleck 10
reserve a spot. Merrill House
12:15pm - Envi ronmental Studies and Peace
Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series: "'Environmental Management in Nepal." Anthony Sarkis,
adjunct professor at Williams College. Lunch
Provided. ALANA Culturnl Center
12:30pm - Catholic Mass: Judd Chapel
3:00pm - Science Colloquium Series (special
time): ··Continents and Oceans in the Earliest
Earth : Evidence from a 4.4-B illion-Year-Old
Zircon Crystal.'" Prof. William Peck. department
of geology. Refreshments at 2:45pm. 209
Lathrop Hall
4:00pm - Men 's Tennis vs. Bloomsburg
4:00pm - Bill Bradley: Fonner New Jersey
senator Bill Bradley, '"America: The Path
Ahead.'"Bradley·s presentation will be preceded
by remark s from Adona! Foyle '98. center for
the Golden State Warriors and rounder and
president of Democracy Mauers. Chapel
7:00pm - Men's Hockey vs. Yale
8:00pm - Women's Tennis vs. Bloomsburg
8:00pm - "Student Organizing: Lessons
From the 1960s Movements," Paul Lyons,
professor or social work. associated faculty in
history and holocaust & genocide studies,
Stockton University. Sponsored by the departments of sociology and anthropology and
history. Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall
9:00pm-1 :OOam - Gate Choices: Open Gym
Night. Free food. bowling, climbing wall.
Huntington Gym
Saturday, February 9
8:00am-9:00pm - Den1ocracy Matters National Student Conference. Please call Adam
\Veinberg at The Cove (228-6877) for more
information.
I :OOpm - Women's Basketball vs. Holy Cross
3:00pm - Colgate To Relire Foyle's Number:
The Colgate athletic department will retire the
uniform number of former star player Adona!
Foylc '98, a center for the Golden State \Varriors. The ceremony will take place prior to the
Colgate vs. Holy Cross game. Coucrell Court.
Reid Athletic Center
3:15pm - Men's Basketball vs. Holy Cross
5:00pm - Women's Tennis vs. UMBC
S:3-0pm - Men's Alumni Basketball Game
7:00pm - Men's Hockey vs. Princeton
Sunday, February 10
10:00ant - Men's Tennis vs. UMBC
Monday,Februaryll
12:30pm - Catholic Mass: Judd Chapel
7:30pm - Poetry reading by Geary Hobson:
A read ing by Geary Hobson, author of The last
of The Ofos, The Remembered Earth, an anthology of Southeastern Indian writings, and Deer
Hu111i11g a11d Otlter Poems. Mr. Hobson is
project director for the Native Writers' Circle of
the Americas. Sponsored by Native American
Studies. Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall
8:00pm - Cosmos Film Series: The Harmony
oftlte Worlds. Historical re-creation of the life
and time of Johannes Kepler - the last scientific
astrologer. the first modem astronomer, and the
author of the first science fiction novel. Kepler
provided insight into how the moon and the
planets move in their orbits and ultimately how
to journey to them. Optional discussion to
follow film. Film Ill of Carl Sagan's awardwinning television series, Cosmos. 217 Lathrop
Hall
Tuesday, February 12
11:30am - Center for Women's Studies
llrown Bag Lunch Series: Professor Sarah
Bay-Cheng. ··Fractured Women: The Female
Body on Stage and Screen.'' Lunch provided.
Center for Women's Studies, Ground Floor,
East Hall
12:30pm - Catholic Mass: Judd Chapel
4:10pm - Humanities Colloquium: ··From
Here to Palookaville." David Epstein. Christian
A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence. department of
English. Refreshments will be served. Ho
Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall
7:00pm -Alternative Cinema: Films by Phil
Solomon. Nocturne, lO min. Remains to be
See11. 1989, 17.5 min. Figure Gro111111/The
Snowman. 8 min. Clepsydra. 1992. 14 min.
Films by Kerry Laitala: Awake, 8111 Dreaming,
2000, 8 min. Retrospectroscope, I998, 3 min.
Tire W00min. Golden Auditorium, Liule Hall
10:00pm - Alt-T: Jammln' In the Pub: A
twice-a-month Tuesday night get-together of
musicians from the Colgate and Hamilton
community. Music includes rock and blues,
with a bit of funk and jazz. Musicians and
singers wishing to perform should contact Scou
Kraly in the department of psychology (ext
7348 or e-mail at skraly@mail.colgate.edu), or,
if you're in the mood, just show up Tuesday.
night. Food and drink specials are also available.
Wednesday, February 13
4:30pm - Art and Art History Visiting
Lecture Series: Sheila Pepe - High Hopes:
anist's lecture followed by gallery reception.
This exhibition and lecture series is supponed
in part by Joseph A. Mangin •50 and organized
by Lynette K. Stephenson. February 13 - March
15. Clifford An Gallery, Golden Auditorium.
Lillie Hall
4:30pm-11:00pm -Ski Trip to Toggenberg.
The bus will Jea.,e the Student Union.?t 4:30pm.
The price for students is $10 and you must brint
student 10. Sign up by emailing .
quercus@mail.colgate.edu. You can bring your
own skis. or rent them from Outdoor Ed or from
Toggenberg. Contact Hollie Young (ext 7327)
with any questions.
7:30pm - ALST Film Series: Before Nigltt
Falls. Area premiere, (2000) 125 minutes. by
Julian Schnabel. ·'Impressive... painter turned
filmmaker Julian Schnabel uses celluloid as a
broad canvas 10 tell the life story of poet/author
Reinaldo Arenas while vividly evoking pre- and
post-revolutionary Cuba. Javier Bardem gives a
breakthrough performance as Arenas.,. 114
Liule Hall
Thursday, February 14
12:!Spm-Social Sciences Bag Lunch Seminar: '"Interpreting the New Business Class in
Market Socialist China: The Narrative Construction of Getihu in Harbin." Carolyn Hsu, department of sociology and anthropology. Bag lunch
provided. Chapel basement
12:3-0pm - Catholic Mass: Judd Chapel
7:00pm - Peace Studies Film Series: Prisoner!
of War. The film focuses on the life of prisoners
and refugees as recorded in footage shot by
cameramen from Czarist Russia and the Austro·
Hungarian empire during World War I. Golden
Auditorium, Lillie Hall
Friday, February 15
12: 15pm - Environmental Studies and Pea«
Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series: "'The Role
and the Responsibility of the Artist in Times of
Tragedy and War.'' John Knecht, professor of an
and art history, acting director of peace studies.
Lunch provided. ALANA Cultural Center
12:30pm - Catholic Mass: Judd Chapel
3:30pm - Science Colloquium Series: ''Thirty
Years of Discovering Arthropod Alkaloids in
Amphibian Skin." Dr. John Daly, National
Institutes of Health. HHMI Speaker. Refreshments at 3: 15pm. 209 Lathrop Hall
7:00pm - Women's Hockey vs. Vermont
Saturday, February 16
10:00am - Men's Tennis vs. Anny
2:00pm - Women's Tennis vs. Stony Brook
4:00pm - Women's Hockey vs. Dartmouth
Sunday,February17
10:00am - Women's Tennis vs. UMass
2:00pm - Men's Tennis vs. UMass
3:30pm- Concert: The Beethoven Feast: Part
II. Feat\/ring Laura Klugherz and Steven
Heyman. The complete Violin/Piano Sonatas
series continues with Nos. 2,4,7 and 8. Chapel
febnaary 8, 2002
17
INTHE LIGHT
Betsy Yates
By Nathaniel Lewis
Ed1tor.Jn-Chlt/
Known around campus for her energetic
pcr,onality and upbcot attitude, senior Becsy
Yate.< has put smiles on the fooc,; of friends,
profc,;sors and prospc(tive students during
her time at Colgate.
Hailing from Yardley, Penn., Yatc,;' de·
cision to come ro Colgate was made during a 1998 perfonnancc by the Swinging
'Gate,;, the a cappclla group that Yatc,; has
belonged to for over three and a half years.
Since her initiation into the group. Bcisy
Yates hassc,vc,das the Alto II section leader
and also currently serves as the group·s
fundraising chair. Yates said. "I've finally
realized how lucky I've been to work with
such an amazing group of people."
Yates also mentioned the upcoming
March release of the new 'Gates album,
which she described as a ·1angible expression" of what she has done with the group.
Elsewhere in campus arts, Yates has
I played leading roles in many of the Stu·
dent Musical Theatre Company's
(SMuTCo's) productions. She played
Jack"s mom in Into the Woods, a spoof of
the Jack and the Beanstalk fairyt'11e and also
played the role of Sarah in Compa11y.
Earlier this year, Yates began her work
w,th another ~ne of Colgate's highly visible groups, the Konosioni Society. The
group aims to serve 00th the campus and
the greater Hamilton Community with
events like the Konosioni Auction for chari·
Itable organizations and its Field Day for
incoming Colgate first-years. But for Yates,
her best experiences have not come from
specific events~ but from the members
themselves.
••1 have met other leaders on campus that
I would have never met before, like Vaughn
(Crowc)or Lamarr (Datcher)," Yates said.
"I've met the kids who generally participate in very different ac1ivi1ies than I do,
but J've also fostered better relations with
the kids that I already know beforehand."
Yates also serves as the Aue1ion Items
Chair, which involves soliciting and comp,lingdonauons for the Konosioni auction.
"With Konos1oni and my position in the
Swingmg 'Gate,;. I basically just get a lot
of money from a lot of different people."
Y3tessaid.
However, Yates• responsibilities extend
well beyond the fiscal domain. As a sister
. of Delta Delta Delta sorority, Yatc,; has
·scn•ed. as the Continuing Education Chair
as well as the House Senator for the Stu•
dent Government Association. But
Colgate's youngest sorority has given YateS
far more than a lesson in leadership: "The
best thing I found in Tri-Delta was an ex•
tremcly enthusiastic and supportive group
of friends," Yates said.
Perhaps Yates' most visible and rewarding role on campus is that ofa Colgate tour
I guide. "It give,; me chance to help other
pre-frosh in an imponant process not only
forColga1c·s benefit but for their own bcn·
cfit." Yates said.
Despite the sheer breadth ofher involvement on campus, Yates' positiveatttrudchas
311owcd her to manage everything with
case. ''The SUCCC$S to not going crazy with
doing lots ofthinp is just focusing on the
positives," Yates said. "Sometimes they
don'tjust come to you, but tbal's when you
nood to
look for them."
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RIDDLIN' KIDS a.re one of two band, to play at the HOP tomorrow night. Their luest release, Hurry Up and Wair, features a
unique blend of punk and pop,
Riddlin' Kids And Lucky Boys To
Rock The HOP Tomorrow Night
By Rod Blackhurst
MuroC1r-Nn.s S10JI
The Austin-based Riddlin' Kids are
r·iding a Texas-sized punk rock maverick
mustang of a sound that has bucked the
local tide of blues-rock, cowboy-boogie,
and lop 40 cover bands while cracking 1he
asphalt of their hometown's fabled Sixth
Street Strip (a world-renowned Mecca for
live music) and never once bowing to the
golden calves munching cud in today's
mall-core. punk-lite scene. The Riddlin'
Kids, four young fired-up energy balls,
are spearheading a spotlight-free underground movement that sports Vans' classics rather 1h11n rawhide boots, prefers 360
degree skateboard aerials over an eightsecond ride on a mechanical bull and,
when it comes to nightclubbing, would
much rather slamdance at Emo 's than cry
in the blues at Antone's. Of course, this
isn't Austin. but the Riddlin' Kids' special brand of power punk rock will be on
display Saturday, February 9 in the Hall
of Presidents for free, starting at 9:30 p.
m., along with the Lucky Boys Confusion.
The Riddlin' Kids' Lone $1ar twist on
pop-driven punk is revved up and ready
to ignite the rock world on the group's
rookie LP, Hurry Up a11d Wait and is
avai Iable on Aware/Columbia Records.
The players - Clint Baker (vocals. guitar). Dustin Stroud (lefty guitar, vocals),
Mark Johnson (bass) and Dave Keel
(drums) - are locked and loaded with
songs bursting shotgun-style w11h altrock's monster -melodics and the street
vitality of classic punk.
Produced by Paul Ebersold (3 Doors
Down) at Memphis' legendary Ardent
Studios, Hurry Up and Wait balances
sincere confessions of love's idealistic
innocence ("See the Light," "Faithful")
with sarcastic odes to dating (.. Here We
Go Again," "I Feel Fine/' the album's first
single) for a generation raised on American Pie (the coming-of-age teenage film
comedy, not the Don Mclean chestnut),
H11rry Up and Wait a)so features a
rocket-fueled take on REM's "It's the End
of the World (And I Feel Fine)" and a forward.fighting approach to self-es1ecm issues with ··wasted Away," Founding
members Clint and Dustin - who had met
and become friends while working as
employees at the same pizza joint - quit
their respective prior bands the same
week and law,ched a fledgling group they
font dlll,bcd "lp,o" (derived from "la·
norant Mothcrr••cr"). Inspired by their types un1il Austin ,c1s tis own chapter in
own hyped-up stage antics, they decided the Punk Rock Britannica.
Scheduled 10 share the stage with the
to rechristen the group with a name lifted
from a psychostimulant drug used to treat Riddlin' Kids is a banJ wonhy of equal
hyperactive children, later deciding to praise. The Lucky Boys Confusion hail
modify their name to "Rid,11in' Kids" to from the deep recesses of Chicago's subavoid possible legal entanglements. Fol- urbs, but their sound is something of a
lowing the name change. Riddlin' Kids scr3ppy, kinetic, precious energy molded
released their 500-copy limircd-cdirion out of influences including punk. hip hop
debut EP. What Does It Matter, on KYQ and reggae. Their Elektra debut. ThrowRecords, which also loaned the group a ing the Game, produced by How3rd
van to tour the East Coast. In the wake Benson (P.0.D., Less than Jake. Stir) is
• of the EP's release, they solidified their filled with memorable bursts of careening
lineup by pulling seasoned rock drum- punk-hop ("Child's Play") as well as more
mer Keel from his food service job at pristine rockers like "Fred Astaire" anJ
Stars Cafe and later bassist Johnson from "Bossman ." The band is composed of
frontman Kaustubh (a.k.a. Stubhy),Adam
his gig as a YMCA youth counselor.
As momentum built, Riddlin' Kids ac- Krier on guitar (with whom Stubhy writes
celerated 10 full-throttle prominence on most of the bands' songs), Ryan Fergus
the underground party-punk scene, secur- on 1he skins. Joe Sell on guitar 3nd Jason
ing support slots for such luminaries as Schultejann rounding out the rhythm secthe A1aris, New Found Glory, Voodoo tion on bass. The band first got together
Glow Skulls, Good Riddance, Fenix TX in 1996 and the do-it-yourself spirit of the
and the Mighty Mighty Boss1oncs. Clint group has been ingrained from the srarr.
and Dustin, by
They first rcthen working
1ca.sed a foursong EP in
at rival pizza
1997, calling
joints, began
working SO
i1, for lack ofa
bcucr name,
hours a week
What Gets ,\le
to cover the
High.
Fans
$6,000 recordshadowed
the
ing budget for
a new fiveband as they
played bars
song demo.
and
sm3II
Songs from
clubs through·
this demo soout the sub1idified the
urbs of Chigroup a hit on
cago.
In late
KROX 's toprated "Like It
1998. again
under their
or Spike It" raown banner,
dio show in
Austin, evenJ,bo,o ttntrt , t1/,.,,..u,,..r.m they released
album
tually moving THROWING THE GAME is Lucky Boys' the
Growing Out
them in10 offi- Confusion', latclt release
OJ It. The thecial rotation
and earning a spot on the station's top matic collection was a good snapshot of
life "Lucky Boys style" in the Chicago
SO year-end playlist.
Hurry Up 011d Wait illuminates 1he suburbs. Then in early 2000. and several
pos1-punk path 10 higher artistic plateaus years overdue, Elektra signed them 10 a
while resonating with a vibrant vigor that major label contract ollowing them 10
pumps up fans like 3 crazed caffeine record the eclectic gem that is Throwi11g
overdose. The crash 'n' crunch of simple the Game.
Both the Lucky Boys Confusion and the
three-chord punk energy is infected with
a new rock-oriented power-pop sound Riddlin' Kids will be playing in the Hall
tha1 elevates the form and underscores of Presidents on Saturday, February 9. Ad·
the art, With so much breakout buzz sur- mission is free 10 all Colgate and nonrounding their new album, Riddlin • Kids Colgate studcnrs, and the show will stan
will keep shauering Lone Siar stereo- at 9:30 p.m.
18 THE CoLGATE MAROON-NEWS
Arts & Features
February 8, 2002
Syracuse Professor Stirs Colage Students With Her
Searing Poetry, Clever Wit And Insightful Comments
play of her books. onnouncing 1ha1 ..If you
want
10 buy any of 1hcsc books at the end
Ari$ 6 F~111urt•s Editor
of 1hc lec1ure, I gel 99 ccn1s for every
one."
"Poetry is about instantaneous connecKarr began wi1h a reading of "Viper
tion - one person groping from a dark
Rum,"
lhc firs, poem in lhe book 1ha1
place to meet with another in an instant
that strikes fire," wro1c poet Mary Karr bears its name. Beginning with an account
in an article that appeared in The New of a lour lhrough lhe Sou1h American
York Times las1 month,
jungle, 1he poem ·s reverie 1hen plunges
This belief in 1hc interconnectedness of into Karr's dark past. turning the jungle
all people, and in the knowledge of tha1 in10 a me1aphor, firs, for her former 1orbond that poetry fosters, was evident in mcn1, bu1 laier for1he apprecia1ion of life
ihc poe1ry Karr read 10 1hc Colga1c com- she gained once she recovered.
munity last Friday at 4:30
run. in the Ho Lcc1urc
By Jennifer Chapskl
Room .
The Jesse Truesdale
Peck Professor of Litcra1urc al Syracuse University, Karr has authored
numerous aniclcs, memoi rs and 1hrcc poclry
books - 1he la1cs1 of
which, Viper Rum, supplied the samples featured
las, Friday.
Tackling a variety of
difficult themes including
death. alcoholism. love.
family, religion, salvation
and transformation, Karr
is known ror her pareddown and unadorned, yet
searingly cogent. style.
According to Visiting
Professor of C:nglish
Bruce Smith, a longtime
friend of Karr's, .. her J)O·
ctry is emotional, irreverent, risky. It gets down to
that really central pain."
'"There's an essay at the
end of Viper Rum called
'Against decoration'
~nff7•
lhal's abou1 !he need for MARY KARR read a sd~larity and emotional risk community la.st Friday in the Ho Lecture Room.
m poetry. Mary takes 011
a lot of the heavyweights in American po~
Karr ihen proceeded to read "Lifecycle
ctry, attacking traditional ways of think- Stairmastcr," which begins with a someing, and I love her for that willingness to what humorous account of her attempt 10
take risks/' Smith said .
1ackle a S1airmas1er workou1 ("hill," she
Also known for her dry, sarcastic wit poin1s ou1, "consona1es wi1h he/f'). The
and deadpan delivery, Karr opened 1he poem then transforms into a medilation
lecture feigning offe,,sc at having been on the cycle of life as Karr contrasts her
asked to read in the "Ho Room," remark- mother's age with her son's youth, pon•
ing that "that just doesn't seem quite dcring life"s pains as well as its marvels.
right/' and then. gesturing toward a disIn a question-and-answer session fol-
lowing the reading, Karr addressed the pc.,,I 10 her while rejecling 01hers, blendmotivation behind her recent conversion ing her former ..vague pantheism·• with
to Catholicism. She was sitthe supportive
ling in her bedroom when
community atthe life-changing momen1
mosphere she
occurred, "just minding my
says the church
own business, eating a baoffers. "It's not
gel," she recalled. Her fivcabout doctrine
year-old son came in and
anyway, .. Karr
asked if she would lake him
said. "It's about
10 church. "Why do you
lhe people.'·
wan, 10 go 10 church?" Karr
And so is her
asked him, assuming his depoclry. Karr befense would involve 1he oblieves
tha1,
servation that hiS best friend
while 1he goal
always went.
ofa prose writer
"Because I want 10 see if
is to create anGod's there," her son matother world for
1er--0f-facdy replied. Unable
the reader, the
to ignore the innocent wispoet's job, on
dom of the comment, Karr
1he 01her hand.
embarked with her son on a
is to connect the
spiritual quest of sorts - or,
reader to :he
as she put it, a "God-oworld that re·
rama" - a11ending churches
ally
exists,
of a varie1y of fai1hs before
granting
a
arriving a, Ca1holicism. She VIPER RUM ,
greater appresaid the religion's appeal for
cialion of the
her lay in the presence of
people in it.
discourse, the disagreement
"la's strange
between church members as
1ha1 [a poem)
10 lhe validily ofdoc1rine. h's no1 likc 1hc can invoke that sense of being drawn into
Me1hodis1 Church, she explained, "where the human community," Karr explained.
people preny much jus1 say, 'I'm nice. "Long works of prose are rabbi I holes 1ha1
You're nice, 100. Lei's all I><' nice!'" Thus, let me vanish from this world into alteri1 was Caiholics' refusal 10 be complaccn1, nate realms. Bui lyric poclry yields for
their constant questioning. that compelled me a strange and sudden kinship with the
Karr to convert.
ac1Ual world and its citizens."
This less orthodox approach to Ca1holiThus, while Karr aclmowledged tha1 "memcism is reflcc1cd in much of Karr's po· oir has permitted me 10 relay 10 readers the
ctry. In "Chrisl's Passion" - aclUally an yards of intricate infonnation I could never
elegy 10 a college professor and friend of roll into a lyric poem," prose nevertheless
hers - Karr writes about Jesus' pain dur- can't produce "poetry's insiant infusion of
ing his la,s1 few momcnls of life, articu- fecling."Thus, pocuy is often lhe more desirlating the torment he must have experi- able, as "a poem's hn:vily ,ouches mosl read·
enced in his ability 10 feel 1he pain of hu- ors when 1he menial fO<'us required by a
manity while nevertheless possessing 1hc lcng1hy prose wortc jus1 won·, do," she rewisdom and insight of divinity. In uThe marked. Karr's wortc evidences hcrsimplebcWife of Jesus Speaks," Karr specula1es liefin poetry's redcmp1ivcqualitics. For Karr,
on the lack of historical evidence as to to engage in the writing of poetry is to bring
whether Jesus had a wife, pondering how abou1 healing: it is a way to exact order from
- if this woman did exist-she must have chaos and tum it into wisdom. It ameliofell abou, 1he fac1 tha1 "1he books of sal- rates pain through a sacred communion with
vation have not seen fit/ to save me."
fellow human b<'ings. While she aThus. Karr admitted she's "not the upoetry isn't easy to write,,. she nevenhcPope's favorite Catholic;· as she has cho- lcss loves it for its ability to offer ..the consen the clements of Catholicism that ap- stan1 consolation of magnificence."
Kors Criticizes The Quick-To-Judge Listener: Patience Is The Key
always lakes place ia,er: I will have pul
the album in, and I won't be near the stereo to change 1he songs and, suddenly.
I want to ask you 1wo questions. One, they begin to grow on me.
Of course this isn't at all the same when
have you ever played a piece of music for
someone and agoni.led while they ap- you don't have the album . When you
peared to have judged lhe song, and all don'I have 1hc album, your impression of
100 often 10~1 in1cres1 in it. within 1he first 1he music is basically 1hose fifteen secI S seconds? And. 1wo. have you ever "re- onds you heard when someone else played
discovered" an album 1hat you had bought it for you. Thus my advice to myself and
but had disliked the first time you heard to everyone else is, have a little patience
it? \\fell. I know that my answer to both when you listen to some new music. Af•
questions is yes. and 1f you have answered tcr all, you never know when you might
1hc some, 1hcn plca~c consider the follow- find somc1hing absolutely terrific.
ing:
I jus1 wan1 10 add that part of pa1icnce
Patience is the key to listening.
involves keeping an open mind about a
l reel like almost every time I put on group or anist. What I mean to say is, you
some music for someone. I lind myself shouldn't always associate a musician
snying things like "No, no, just wait 10 with the song that made them popular. or'
more scconch. 11 ·s about 10 ge1real good." 1hc kind of fans they generally seem 10
I can sec it in their lilces that 1hcy lose attract. Case in point, Bruce Springs1een.
interest in an anis1 or a song. and some- Many people u1tfortun:ucly only associtimes they have only Iistencd to the intro. ate The Boss with "Born in the U.S.A."
Of course, I :.tm not al all innocent in this which is a crying shame because (a) 1he
rcspcc1, cilher. Often when someone plays song doesn't dominate half as much as
me a piece of music, or I lis1cn 10 a new nearly 1hrce-quar1ers of his other songs.
album for the first 1imc. I make a deci- and (b) i, gave The Boss an image 1h11,
sion about it within the first 20 seconds. though J don ·1 dislike it, is not truly repWi1h new albums, I will sometimes just resentative of his character and pcrsonalgo 1hrough each song and lis1en 10 abou1 i1y. Because of"Bom in 1he U.S.A," 1hcrc
1he firs1 IO seconds, and more or less de- are probably ions of people who will
cide which songs I like. The discovery never hear his 1973 album Tire Wild, the
By Brian Kors
Moroor,-N~-..., Staff
Innocent. and the £-Street Shuffle. which
features, among other things, incredibly
complex lyrics, spontaneous a eappella by
the E-Street Band and strummed piano
strings - yes, strummed. How cool is 1hat?
Anyhow, enough raving abou1 The Boss.
I will be addressing 1his issue further in
next week's more biting column, '·Music
Sriobs: How to Spol 1hcm and Why I
Loa1hc Them.'' S1ay 1uned.
Lut Weekend's Doz 08icic Raw1lu
Mowio
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LBlack Hawk Down
2.SnowDop
3, A Walk to Remember
4. TheCountof MonteCrlllo
S. A Beautiful Mind
6. The Mothnlln Prophedes
7. IAmSam
8. The Lord of the Ringa
9. Kung Pow: Bnter the Pillt
10.0range County
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Arts & Features
February 8, 2002
ffintmelhoch Praises Homer's Iluul
•••
For Complexity And Literary Merit
By Liz Roush
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MafYXJn•Nrt-.·1 Staff
"I shall be read by the mouth of the
people and through all the centuries, as a
siory, iflhc poncnls ofpoc1-prophe1s have
any truth - I shall livc.·'thc closing lines
of Ovid's Metamorphoses embody the
desire epic poets instilled wi1hin the souls
of their heroes. Throughout life, 1hey
strive for immonality after death, Visiling
Classics Professor Leah Himmelhoch
translated this theme to Homeric warfare
or, more specifically, war chariots. The
chariot is the instrument that brings
bloodshed and destruction to thousands,
according to Himmelhoch, yet a strong
sense of tradition and culture diffuses
through every baulc scene.
The lives of legends such as Achilles
and other warriors in Homer's //iadwere
devoled entirely towards gaining and
maintaining kleos - one's fame and
reputation. Himmelhoch has redefined 1hc
role of chariots in 1hc Iliad to have a
deeper and more symbolic meaning. She
explained that an extended metaphor can
be traced within the lines ofihc poem allowing the reader to connect the chariot,
a lethal war device. to the characters and
the poet's own mortality.
Coming from a background of various
cducalional experiences. Himmelhoch
graduated from Yale University and continued on to get her Muster of Arts doc•
torate a1
the
University
of
Texas. Himmelhoch also has experience
as a visiting professor at Wesleyan and
Hobarl/William Smith Colleges. She has
done research in many different fields of
the Classics, ranging from Mycencan
Greek writings to Latin love poetry before her work with Homer's Iliad.
Her in1ercs1 in studying the Iliad and
other Greek texts started as a graduate dissertation, but ev~ntually grew and took
on form as a larger, more elaborate
project. Himmelhoch's experience led her
to realize tha1 "chariots in Greek tragedies
can be associa1ed with young men of.a
cenain age. When they are successful
with the chariot, they are successful in
life." Himmclhoch is one of the first in
her field to examine this theme. In her
effor1s, Himmelhoch has dissected the
complex style and images of the epic
poem to pursue her hypothesis.
Evidence pcnaining to the importance
of the chariot is found 1hroughou1 the
Iliad, both in times ofbaule and in times
of peace. In a superficial analysis, the
chariot and the horses (a.k.a. the "chariot
ensemble") represent power and combat,
a fabricated interpretation. Behind the
"cheaply symbolic purpose" of the chariot
lies
enormous
figurative
potential. According to Himmelhoch, po..
ctic immortality is represented in the
reins, the pounding hooves and the churning wheels of the war chariot. One of the
examples used by Professor Himmelhoch
rcla1es this theme. In Book IV of1hc Iliad,
the Trojan Simoeisios is killed in battle,
the firsl in ..dcpth narrative of death.
In a classic example of Homeric similes, he is related 10 a felled black poplar
whose material is used to create a war
chariot. Superficially, the two may seem
unrelated, but Himmelhoch maintains that
one must delve deeper: both arc unfinished machines of war, with hopeless
dreams to fulfill 1heir kleos. This is 1he
goal of all warriors from birth, but will
remain unfulfilled. On another level, 1he
black poplar is a bank oflhe River Slyx in the Underworld,
representing death.
The reader can 1akc one more step back
and view this incident from the eye of the
poet himself. Homer is immortaliting the
death of Simoeisios by creating this narrative "death song'' while at the same time
immon.alizing himself as a poet, the same
idea
as
stated
by
Ovid
above. Himmelhoch said that death is inevitably linked to immortality because ii
is a catalyst for achieving such an cl·
evated status.
Himmelhoch explained that there are
many different passages pertaining to
chario1ry, a nd behind each spans a web
connecting il to coun1less ideas repeated
throughout the epic. Although the concepts are complex, Himmclhoch has demonstrated that through diligence soluti01lS
can be found. When in doubt, her best
advice is to •·go to the text" because the
answer must lie somewhere behind the
words prinled on the page . S1uden1s
agreed with Himmclhoch 's suggestions.
''Professor Himmelhoch was able to provide insigh1 into how much is hidden
within the Jines of the poem," first-year
Sheila Chun said.
Due to the Western Tradilions class in
the Core Curriculum, all Colgate students
have some degree of familiarity with the
Homeric texts. Students studying this
topic last semester were given the opportunity to examine the role of reciprocity
as related to our culture today. The September 11 tragedy gave an all-100-real example of an "eye for an eye," an idea that
is prevalent within the epic poems. "It
creates an empathetic bond, ..
Himmelhoch said, "allowing us 10 look
at other cultures without upsetting
anyone.,. This lecture provided an opportuni1y to glimpse the vast range of possibilities opened by reading deeper into the
poem. By opening 1he pages of 1he 1/iod
and examining all it has to offer, one can
preserve Homer's own immonality, once
again giving life to his words.
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A former farm hlborer, U. S. Marine,
salesman. construction worker, and aemipro basketbell player will visit campus on
Monday, DOI lo talk about his interesting
life but, instead, to read'his poetry.
Geary Hobson, Cherokee-Quapaw/
Chieuaaw and Project Director for the
Native Writen' Circle of the Americas.
will provide a poetry reading on Monday,
February 11 for the Colpte conimuni1y.
Hobaon is the lint ofscmal gutSIS hosted
by Colgate's new Native American Writ-
ers Series.
Hobson is well known as the author of
works including 1'11, Last of The Ofos,
D«r Hunting and Other Poems and The
R,membeN!d Earth, an anthology of
Soothcastem Amrrican Indian writings.
The Worldcraft Circle of Na1ive Writers
and Storytellers, an orpnizatiOn pnnnoting the voices of NatM writer, and storytcllm throughout the world, named him
20CI riction Writer of the Year for The
Ltut ofthe Ofos.
Hobson waa ina1rumenlal during llle
1970s in advOClling Native American lit·
erature as an entity separate from the
catchall ofAmerican literatun:. Also in the
1970., Hobton stood 11gaios1 so-C411ed
"shaman" poclS who borrowed American
Indian images and used them as literary
devices in thoir work.
In his essay, '"The Riac of the White
Shaman as a Vemot1 of White Imperial-
ism;• Hobson writes that his concern lies
with '"the manner in which outsiders presume lo define Indian people andlifeways
in an authoritative way." and 3(so for ''the
great need which Indian people have of
being 1be ones to spealc for themselves,
ofbcing the ones to define themselves and
their cultures.·• He carries on this message
in hiJ woJt with the Native Writers' Circle
of the Americas.
Hobson received bis B.A. and M.A. in
English a1 Arizona Staie University. He
has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the
University ofNcw Mexfoo. He has taught
at Arizona State Univ<..-rsily, the University ofNew Mexico, the University ofArkansas, Central Arkansas University and
currently is a faculty member at the Unjvenity of Oklaltomo. His current work
centers on fiction, includlng both short
stories and novels.
Profc.ssor ofEnglish Sarah Wider, who
organi7.es the Native American Writers Sc~
rics, caUcd Hobson ..an inslmmental force
tn contc-mporarynativc literarure. '' Nnlive
American Studies Director Carol Ano
Lorenz.said that her department is 0 so very
proud of his initiative." Hobson's work
is very importan1 ro both departments.
Geary Hobson's poetry reading will
1ake place on Monday evening, February
II, from 7:3010 8:30p. m. in the Ho Lecture Room, I OS Lawrence Hall.
- Dan Knat4
1he Wor(d Of fn+er+ainMen+
BRANDY l,lARRIED''
Twen1y-1hree-ycar-old R&B sensation and television star Brandy has announced that she was married this past
summer to producer and songwriter
Robert Smith.
"I've fallen in love with a very warm,
gentle, understanding and focused person," Brandy said in a recent statement.
..This summer we married quietly. A
new experience, a new day for me - I
couldn't be happier!"
On March S, Brandy will release Full
Moon - her first album since 1998's
Never Say Never, which yielded the
mega hit "The Boy is Mine," a duel
with fellow leen slar Monica.
The video for the album's first single,
"What About Us?." is available on
www.forevcrbrandy.com. Brandy is
currently making the publicity rounds
in Europe, but she wi ll return to the
states near the album's release for a
slew of TV appearances.
EMINEM UPDATE
MEL?
The Eminem Show, EmlDtlll'S third fulllength album and the follow-up IO 2000's The
Manha/I Mathers LP, will hit record Slorcs in
April .
Dr. Im, woo also produced the rapper's previous two releases, co-p.-oduccd the record.
A portion of one new song from the album, "Cleaning Out My Closet," is featured
in trailers for 8 Mile, the rapper's quasibiopic and star vehicle, and can be viewed
a
I
www.shadyrccords
.com .
The
soundtrack to the
film, scheduled for
a summer release,
will also feature
new Emincm mate-
This summer, Director M. Night
Shyamalan will show the world his newest thriller, Signs. The movie will feature
J\.1tl Cibson as a Pennyslvanian fanner
a
n
d
preacher
who finds
500-foot
crop circles
in his fields.
Gibson begins to team
the dark secrets that the
signs hold.
The film
will be released on
August 2.
rial.
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Arts & Features
A Foot In Two Worlds: Native Ameri01n Artist Uses Contemporary Media
8) t·, an LeBon
crss tf Fttatu"s Editor
On lhc second floor of Alumni Hall,
1hcrc is a small wooden box. supporting a
large white buckc1. Peering over the edge
of the bucket, one can easily spy that it is
partially filled with corn kernels. Flanking this curious apparatus on one side is
a small stack of magazines and on the
other, a roll of 1oilc1 paper. Many would
hardly consider this primitive toilet a
work or arr, bur to its creator, it is a tangible, visual expression of his heritage.
This ..symbolic toilet" and other recent
works of contemporary art by Native
American artist frank Buffalo Hyde comprise the show currently on display in the
Longycar Museum of Anlhropology,
1i1led, "Rez 4 Life."
Hyde was born in Sanra Fe, New
Mexico in 1974 10 artists Doug Hyde and
Anna Homer and was raised on the
Onondaga Reservation localed just outside Syracuse, N, Y. In 1hc early 1990s,
Hyde returned 10 San1a fc 10 be closer 10
his rather and to pursue his own budding
arl career. Hyde was educated at the Institute of American fndian Aris and the
San1a Fe Arts lns1i1utc. In 1992, Hyde
displayed his first works in Syracuse's
Artifice Gallery. Since 1hen, Hyde has
consistently contributed to ar1s fairs and
exhibitions in New York and New Mexico
and he has been steadily gaining recog·
nition as a rising star of the contemporary Na1ivc American art world .
Hyde has l)pcnl much of his life living
on Indian reservations, but has also spent
lime immersed in the cul1ure of mainstream America and his visual creations
ref1ec11his duality. For example, by melding traditional buffalo imagery and innuenccs from contemporary ar11s1s such as
Francis Spakin. Hyde conveys the sen11-
mentality of his Native American herilage work because it removes the assumption Native American art and Hyde has jus1
and tradi1ions through a fresh use of his that Native cultures are dead.
contributed a piece to this growing colmedium. Hyde calls attention to 1hc
"The kind of implication is tha1 either lcclion.
pdmitivc nature of reservation life wi1h the dead Indians arc the interesting ones
Lorenz hopes 1ha1 Colgate students will
1he earlier described toilet installation, or lhat these arc dead cultures," Lorenz take advantage not only of Hyde's exhibit,
cleverly citied "Indoor Plumbing," and said. Showing contemporary Native but oflhc Longyear Museum's future ex ..
has even included 1hc contemporary in· American work attacks these implica. hibi1ions as well by stopping in and tak.
flucncc of hip-hop cuhurc in lhc 1i1lc of tions, "I've been showing more and more ing the challenge oflcaming from 1hc crehis exhibition, "Rez 4 Life." Curator of contemporary work from Native Nonh ative expressions of others. 0 This is a col.
lhe Longyear Museum Carol Ann Lorenz America. To show connec1ions with old lege campus and we want students 10 learn
as much as they can. Maybe cv.
spoke aboul Hyde's abilcry piece docsn 't have a meaning,
i1y 10 convey 1radi1ional
but if students look at 1ha1 show,
ideas with new techlhcy will begin 10 sec themes,"
niques . "He knows
Lorenz said.
what's out there in the
Even so, this statement is ironic
world, and he has re•
because Hyde is generally pleased
sponded accordingly
if his audience simply walks away
with a conte nporary me·
dium."
with a unique and engaging visual
experience afler viewing his work.
The Longycar MuLorenz also spoke of the value
seum is an important
of having artists taking 1imc to
venue for Hyde because
visit wi1h students at receptions
it differs from the rigid·
for 1he shows 1ha1 lake place a11hc
ity and prescription of
Longyear Museum. "Another
the commercial art
thing 1hat might be interesting to
world. The Longyear
students is to mec1 an artist and to
Museum has given Hyde
sec
the work of an artist who is
the freedom to expcri·
coming up in the art world," she
mcnt more with his
said. Lorenz clabora1cd further by
work; he has created sc·
stating that seeing another young
rics pieces, a three•di·
artist achieve success might be
mcnsionaJ piece and
helpful 10 students who arc aspir·
C\'cn an installation for
ing artis1s themselves.
this particular show.
In "Rez 4 Life," the recent work
Displaying Hyde's
plHt•
rowrlnJ
tJ/
tlN
Lt,,.,:p.,.
Miu,wm
of
Hyde will be showing through
contemporary work also
helps 1he Longyear Mu- SANTA FE LANDSCAPE #2 is one of Frank Buffalo Hyde', most March 14. The Longycar Museum
of Anthropology is loca1cd on 1he
seum temporarily to fill famou1 works.
second floor of Alumni Hall and
a void since its permathemes
and
styles
..•
showing
a
continu·
the
show
hours arc Monday through Frinent "teaching" collection currently consists almost entirely of earlier historical ity that extends into 1he 21st century." day, 9:30 a. m. 10 4:30 p. m. or by apand archeological artifacts. Lorenz feels Lorenz explained. Ah hough 1hc Longycar poin1ment.
that ii is impommt to supplement histori- Museum's contemporary collection is
For appointments or additional inforcal examples of Native American culture small, over the past rew years Lorenz has mation contact Carol Ann Lorenz at (3 l 5)
and art with current examples like Hyde's been steadily collecting contemporary 228-7184.
Broken Lizard's Super Troopers Sneak Preview A Smash Hit
By Laura Lesswing
Maroon-N('...,.:, S1ofl
A sneak preview of the comedy Super
Troopers was shown on Tuesday. February
S. a1 the Hamilton Movie House. Written,
produced and sta1Ting Colgate alumni Jay
Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve
Lemme, Paul Soler and Erik S1olhanske,
Super Troopers, according to the guys. is
living proof that some of the most valuable
lesson~ learned in college arc those learned
outside of the classroom.
As the original members of Colgate's
comedy group, Charred Goosebcak,
Chandrasekhar. Heffernan, Lemme. Soter
and Stolhanskc stancd working together in
college. After graduation, 1hcy moved to
New York City to fom1 a new group, Bro·
ken Lizard.
The group's current success belies the
numerous side jobs the guys had to take on
10 suppon them.selves while gcuing cstab·
lishcd. Soter remembers working as a pen
salesman and guard at the Guggenheim
Museum. He anributes his cmploymen1
opportunities 10 his connection with
Colgate: ··MoSI of lhe jobs 1 gol were
through Colgate people."
This is just one of the examples or the
group's utilization of the Colgate network.
I lcO"cman remembers the early days when
1hcy "lapped in10 1he Colgn1e network. h
really hclpcc.J us get an oudicnce." In addiuon to receiving suppon from Colgate stu•
dents and alumni, the group's first ti Im.
Puddh• Cr111ser. was actually shot on 1hc
campu~. A private investor for Super Troop·
ers was also found through relationships
buih during their time m Colg:.11c. TI1e group
acknowledges that having a resource as sup·
ponivc a.~ the Colgate community has been
an important and positive aspect of the
Colgate cxperienc-c.
The group's membership in Beta Theta
Pi fraternity is another way university life
outside the classroom has influenced their
rutures. Soter recalled that it was the
fraternity's "goal 10 make fun of you."
Heffernan agreed that the atmosphere in the
house enabled the friends 10 grow together
and
develop
their
comedic
routines. ..Without Beta. we wouldn't have
been able to do what we've done," he said.
With their positive encounters in mind,
the group agrees that fraternities are not as
wild, unsafe and primitive as those depicted
in the media. ;'There is a bias in Hollywood.
and there is a negative depiction of frats in
the movies." Jay remarked. Fra1emities "are
good for Colga1e - I mean, we 're in 1he
snow."
The close relationships fostered at Beta
Theta Pi have led 10 a solid, productive and
enjoyable working relationship. Kevin is
thankful 10 have gotten "10 this point and
still be working with your closest friends."
\Vithin this comfonablc working environment, 1he Civc friends create their work
1hrough trial a1td error. It is a collabora1ive
efTon, the group simply ..sining around a
table, banging out scenes," Soter said.
Using 1his method. the men wrote Super
Troopers in a year and a half. Ca1aland
Films describes 1hc movie as "a fast•paced
comedy about cops, crime and killing lime.
The Broken Lizard Comedy Group's feature about five Vermont State Troopers s1ationcd on the Canadian border who spend
their time toying with speeders and spar·
ring with their rivals. the shiny local police
force."
Broken Lizard compares Super Troopers ·
humor 10 that found in Monty Py1hon mov·
ics and A11ima/ House. FirSl·ycar Jim
Sherwin commented on 1his unique brand
of humor: "h was vulgar, crude and
oflCnsi\'C. And I loved every minu1e of it!"
Firs1-ycar Jen While agreed, remarking
1hat "the movie definitely exceeded my ex·
pccta1ions. I lhough1 ii would be 1he typical cop movie, but it had an original ap·
proach with some smart humor. I was a linlc
disappointed with some of 1hc scenes as
well as with the ending. but overall J was
pleasantly surprised."
In order to promote the film, the group
will go on a five-week 1our of JO
universities. While 1his grass-roots ap
proach is tiring for the group, they say
they've adjusted 10 the pace and scheduling of 1he 1our. The five men hope 1ha1 advertising through word of mouth will bol·
4
s1er 1hc movie's success.
They've been focusing primarily on
larger universities such as Georgetown.
UCLA, NYU and Harvard. However, the
group insisted on visiting their alma mater
to promote their new film. Sophomore
Stephanie Cowles promises to assist Broken Lizard in the word-of-mouth plan, com~
mcn1ing that "Supe.r Troopers was a gre.at
movie.... l thought it was so great that the
guys who made ii came back 10 Colgate to
show illo us. I'm going 10 1cll all my friends
to sec it!"
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When: Thursday, the 14th
3-5pm
Where: Gamma Phi Beta
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Arts & Features
February 8, 2002
21
Colgate Portfolio Winner: ''Some Things Bear Fruit''
B Y T RAVIS BROOKS
'
Ario and I once took the El downtown dressed homeless with no money
10 get back. Thought it'd be fun to panhandle our way home. Cold that day.
January probably.
Found a paper bag on the floor of
the train and wrote the names of the
girls I've kissed on it. Needed to do it
for some reason. One of those things.
Had a pen in my pocket, one with a
spring in it and a button. Held it close
to my ear and heard the spring creak
as I pushed it. The slower the louder.
Sixty-three girls long. Filled the front
of the bag and then some. Didn't know
many last names. Didn't know the first
names either of a few of them. Made
ones up. ti she looked like a Sarah she
was a Sarah.
Ario was asleep across from me,
head swaying with the roll of the train.
Three guys we went to high school with
came in from the next car. One sat on
each side of Ario and one next to me.
The one on Ario's right, the biggest,
shoved him awake, took a machete out
from under his coat and held it to Ario's
stomach.
"Damn it; I sighed.
They didn't recognize us. Had gym
with the one on Ario's left. Both of us
broke our left arms spring of sophomore year. Used to play one-armed
basketball against him. Still can't
dribble with my left hand much. Can't
shoot with it either. Broke it in eight
places. All five fing'3rs too. Assh""'
really. Dropped out before the semester was over. In and out of the hospital, fighting.
·t don't have anything on me," Ario
murmured, closing his eyes again.
"F" " that, cough it up," the one from
gym said, moving closer, leaning towards him.
"Dot look like I have f'"ing money?"
Ario asked, opening his eyes and
stanc"ng up. ·search me." he said,
raising his arms.
They patted him down and found a
bag of sunflower seeds.
"F"'ing dick," Machete said, taking
them. The other punched him hard in
the stomach and he
fell to the
floor, gasping
for
breath.
T h e y
moved on
to the next
c a r .
Mus t 've
forgotten
about me.
Maybe they
did remember us and were pissed at Ario about
something.
"Couldn't even leave me my sunflower seeds." Ar1o hissed from the
floor, clutching his stomach, rolling.
Train entered the Loop from the
west. Buildings orange from the sun
setting behind us. Getting dal1< over
the lake already. Gets dal1< early now.
Depressing really. Can 1188 why suicide goes up during the winter farther
north. Wouldn1 be as bad H we had
snow. Snow makes It seem warmer
than It ii. Must insulate or something.
Ar10 was sitting again and asleep,
head nodding with the train. I took out
a flask from my pocket. Enough to Three total.
dumped in my change.
I walked back and sat down. Streets
keep me warm I hoped. Almost lull
"63 cents," I said.
crowded with people com muting
shaking It. Fairly drunk already.
"Are you efficient?" he said coarsely.
"Ario," I said, reaching across with home. I held the cup out.
"Huh?"
'What do you think of when you think
my foot and nudging him, 'Our stop's
"Are you efficient?"
of everything?" I asked.
coming up.•
"No." t said, and sat down across
·1 don't know. Kind of sort of money. from him. Reeks like hell here. Maybe
Blue sign rolled through the window
reading "Clark and Lake" and the train You?"
that's the problem. Don't smell bad
"Nothing," I said.
stopped. We got off.
enough.
"Nothing
like
you
don't
think
anything
Colder down h ere by the lake.
"Me either me either," he said, eyes
at
all,
or
nothing
like
something?"
Should've worn another pair of socks.
darting wildly about but body laying
"Nothing
like
something."
Toes cold. Right foot especially. Hole
still, rags in a fetal position.
A
bike
messenger
sped
by
through
in the shoe doesn't help much. Could
really use new ones. Had these almost traffic. Balls of
"What's
steel.
Must
break
two years.
y o u r
something
regu"Now what?" Ario asked.
deal?" I
"One day," It said, "years
larly.
Seen
•1don't know." I said, walking down
asked,
from
now
maybe,
dying,
people
open
a
the stairs
taking a
car
door
into
swig
from
'What's the point of doing this?"
you'll
look
back
at
"I don't know," I said. "It will reveal them a few times.
the flask.
'We're not getitself I'm sure."
Drunk
and see one glorious moEnded up across from the Art Insti- ting any money,"
now, sit·
ment
and
think:
'that
was
tute just off Michigan Avenue on a Ario said after a
t i n g ,
ledge I used to skate on a few years while.
ground
as
good
as
It
got.
'
Has
·1
think
we
back. Always the same guy there with
tilting.
need
some
his can for change. Called him Bloop.
your moment passed alchange
in
there
Always said it after everything like it
"There's a
ready?
WIii
you
know
It
to
jingle
around."
was part of the last word. How's it gopotato in
•1 don't have
ing bloop? he'd say, or what the ,. ••
Mongolia,"
when It's there?"
any,"
Ario
said.
are you doing with pants on in this heat
he said.
"Me neither."
bloop? Lemme get a fry bloop.
"It's there
"Maybe we're not dirty enough look- I know it in the Northwest corner. I've
Haven't seen him in years. Dead
probably from the cold or an overdose. ing," Ario suggested.
seen it in a dream. Near a town called
"Maybe," I said.
Maybe got a job. Nice guy though. Bad
Ulaangom in the Northwest corner.
Dark now and a cold wind coming Look it up on a map if you want. It's
teeth,
off the lake. Flask almost empty. Drunk there. It's near there on a farm, the poSat down on his spot.
"Do you have a cup or something?" enough now to keep the cold off. Need tato is. Sort of a bumpy looking potato.
a new plan. Won't get home this way. Sort of weird looking. Not much around
I asked Ario.
"Excuse me," I stammered to a man it. A lew cows. A few pigs. Lots ol other
"No."
"Go over to that garbage can and get in a suit, ·can I propose something? If potatoes."
I tell a Joke and you laugh, you pay me
one.·
·so what about it?"
a
dollar.
Fifty
cents
tor
a
smile.•
"Goddamn I wish I had those sun"I've seen tt," he said, "in a dream. It's
"F"'
off,"
he
said
without
breaking
a
special potato. There's specla! molflower seeds."
Paige something or other. Forgot stride.
ecules in it. Special ones. The molecules
Trains in th& distance making sparks of the first life are in that potato."
her. I took out the list from rr.y pocket
·so what?"
and wrote her in. Need to do this again above the street. Looks like camera
later in chronological order. Should flashes. Could always jump the turn"I'm going to find it. I've seen it in a
rank them too by looks. One to ten. stile if worst comes to worst. No. No dream. Someone might eat it ii I don't
No tens probably except a few. No one easy ways out. A night down here can get there and I can't find the molecules
below l ive though either. Maybe the do some good.
if someone eats them."
Old
Standard
Oil
building
tall
and
first one. H ave to start somewhere,
'What if a pig or a cow gets to it or
white
behind
me.
What's
it
called
now?
work your way up. High average t bet.
something?"
Shouldn't
change
the
names
of
build·
"That won't happen, no just won' t
Seven at least. Maybe eight.
ings
like
that.
Stadiums
either.
Build·
'What the f'" is that?" Ario asked,
happen. Not before I get there. I'm
ings
like
people
in
that
way.
Look
like
leaning over the bag.
getting the money together now.•
ants from up there. Little ants going to
He tapped a cardboard sign lying
"Girls I've and from work just to go to and from on the ground, face up and reading:
work tomorrow. Same thing next weak "Need change for Mongol ia," then
kissed."
and the week after. Ants will have more smaller, below that: "Must rescue the
• T h a t ants that will do the same thing. To and potato."
many?"he from work. To and from work. Ants go"What are you going to do with it?"
ing
nowhere.
Little
little
ants.
Little
ants
as ked ,
I asked.
named Sisyphus.
"Put it in a museum. Put i t in the
"F'
"
this,"
Ario
said
and
took
off
his
Wish my
Field Museum. They'll pay big money
lett
shoe.
There
was
five
bucks
in
his
for those molecules. Big big money."
list looked
sock.
"I'm
going
home."
"Well good luck with that." 1 said.
l ike that .
"Going
home?
We've
been
here
less
Wou ldn't
leaning back against the wall.
than
an
hour."
Must have passed out for a while.
mind a few
"This sucks man. You coming?"
Potato man was gone and a dog in
of those
"'No."
girls on it
his place. White mostly.
"Alright, you're gonna freeze your
Sat up when I looked at it, staring,
either. Where's the sex list?"
balls off, but whatever." He walked one ear up and the other drooping.
"Haven't done it yet.•
away.
Intelligent eyes. Black spot over the
"You should."
"Don't get your ass beat on the way left one. Its tail wagged slowly, hair
"How 'bout you get a cup?" I took
sweeping the pavement , and then
the flask out again, shook it. Probably home." I yelled.
Maybe
I
should
try
moving
around
a
won't be enough.
spoke.
bit.
Really
need
a
sign
or
something.
"One day," it said, "years from now
"You get one," he said, taking the
Three
hours
since
Ar1o
left
and
only
maybe, dying, you' ll look back at your
flask end drinking.
63
cents.
Could
just
give
up
for
the
life and see one glorious moment and
I walked to the garbage can on the
night
,
find
a
place
to
sleep,
drink
what
think: 'that was as good as it got.'
corner end took the lid off. Took out a
I
have.
paper coffee cup from the top of it,
Has your moment passed already?
I
started
walking
back
toward
the
El
looked west down Monroe. Sun will be
Will you know tt when ifs there?"
station.
A
doorway
on
the
left
with
a
He stood, waggi ng still, ear droopdown soon. Long shadows. Probably
ing, and trotted off around the corwon't make it home tonight. Hope we man huddled inside.
"Change?" he asked, raising his arm ner. Funny voice for a dog . Thought
do. Shouldn't have drank 80 much 80
early. Only need a buck and a hall. only and shaking his cup slightly. I it'd be deeper, more like barking.
your life
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Nets' Strong Start Is More Than A Fluke
Patriots~ All
That Is Right
In Spotts
So this is why we love sports. I knew
that there was a reason why we put up
with men of such i lk as Mi ke Tyson,
Darrell Russell
and
Rasheed
Wallace. With all
the instances or
spoi led athletes
and greedy own.
ers, ii can be easy
to forget why the
world of professional sports can
imbue us with
fee lings ofjoy and
wonder unknown
in any other aspect of life. This past Sunday, though, we were reminded once
again of the magic of sports. With one
booming kick by Adam Vinaticri, every
negative emotion 1hat every fan has ex·
pericneed in his lifetime - frus1ration, annoyance, anger, uuer depression - faded
away into nothing but pure euphoria. The
New England Patriots won the Super
Bowl. This is why we love sports.
Yes, New England was 5-1 I a year ago,
but no, that amazing turnaround is not the
reason why the Patriots are the best sports
story in my lifetime. The past three Super Bowl champions, in fact, did not
qualify for the playoffs in the season previous to their title run.
New England started the season 0-2 and
then proceeded to lose its franchise quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, to a devastating
injury that involved internal bleeding, Internal bleeding. Sounds like something
that all New England area fans can relate
to. Never has a region been subject to
such immense heanbreak in the realm of
professional sports as has Boston. The
Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
Bill Buckner forgot how to field a ground
ball at the most crucial moment of his
career. Roger Clemens won a World Series as a Yankee. Len Bias died. Reggie
Lewis died.
The Patriots had never done much to
rescue Boston from its doldrums. They
were 1-15 in I 990. In 1996, they made
the Super Bowl, bul never stood a chance
against tho mighty Packers. Subsequently,
they lost their head coach and star runnin& back - both to the hated New York
Jets - and hadn't advanced past the first
round of the playoffs since then. They
almost moved to Hanford.
Coming into this season, there wu absolutely no reason why any Patriots fan
should be excited. Or any football fan
outside of St. Louis, either. The Rams,
two years removed from a championship
and the owners of the most explosive offease in NFL history, had added a new
defenaive eoonlillator and aiVOI' him eight
with whom to work. The ....
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The Nets are in a difficuJt position . four points! The Nets put up I I 7 points Such players as Kenyon Martin and
They play in a state that is known more against the best team in the N8A, with Kittles have seen their assist 101als go up
for its toxic waste than its athletes. Their Keith Van Hom leading the way with 25 due to the presence of Kidd. This greatly
stadium, within a points. New Jersey, tired from the high helps the lack of a dominating center.
complex known level of competition, dropped the last
Todd MacCu11och, who played for
more for the two game of the home stand to Dallas, the sec· Philadelphia last year and battled with
New York football ond best team in the NBA.
S haq down low during the NBA fiteams that play
The success of the Nets this sea..
nals, is averaging IO points and 6.5
across the street, is son cannot be put on only Kidd's
rebounds. Power forward Manin
one of the ugliest in shoulders. even though most of it
helps out down low with IS points
the league and fills should be. Kidd"s acquisition not
a game and five rebounds, as well
up more sporadi· only brought a talented pass-first
as nearly two blocks an outing.
cally than Vin point guard to Jersey, but also took
Yet this duo docs not match up to
Baker sinks a free away a selfish. shoo1-first s1rcet
the grea1 centers of the NBA chamthrow. In addition, baller. Stephon Marbury is an inpions in the past 10 years. With·
New Jersey plays credibly talented player. but I wonout having a player named Michael
in the Eastern Conference, which is so der if his 1ype of skill, more simiJordan, 1he only teams tha1 have
poor that every basketball analyst be- lar to All en Iverson than John
gone to the NBA finals, and won,
lieves that not one team from the confer- Stockton, will ever lead to a champion- have had exceptional centers. A quick yet
ence has a chance against the strong and ship-caliber team. Kidd, on the other powerful Hakeem Olajuwan led the Housmighty West. All of this is a great s hame, hand, uses the team's weapons so well 1on Rocket.s, who won 1wo championships
because the Nets are for real.
that he has Jefferson playing the best ball during Jordan's year and a half hiatus
With the best record in the Eastern Con- out of all the rookies in the league. from 1he game. Tim Duncan and David
ference - and the fourth best in the NBA Jefferson, named Rookie of the Mon1h in Robinson took the Spurs to the c hampionship, manhandling a
- the Nets look to be
shorter and weaker
unchallenged on their
Knicks team in the proway to the NBA finals.
cess.
And most recently.
Milwaukee, who was
the Lakers, led by two
just defeated in the
big
men, Shaq and Phil
Meadowlands this past
Jackson , have estab·
week. and the Boston
lishcd themselves as the
Celtics, who beat the
team to beat in the 21st
Nels earlier in the seacentury due primarily to
son in a g reat c lose
Shaq's play in the paint.
ovenime game, arc the
The Nets will try to
only two teams that
break this mold as they
have a l egitimate
continue
their fast-pace
chance at beating the
play led not by a goliath
Nets in a seven-game
down low, but a quick
senes.
and passing guard up
However, after one
top.
of the hardest four
game home stands this
• As the Neis climb up
season - one in which
the
NBA ladder. has
the Nets hosted four of
anyone seen the Portthe best teams in the
land Trailblazers? AnyNBA - Boston and
one'! Anyone'! Bueller?
Milwaukee have li1tle
Anyone? It is kind of
to no shot. The Nets
scary
10 1hink nboul how
defeated the Bucks last
much talent 1he Trail. Thursday by 25 points,
blazers have and yet
125-100. Jason Kidd,
they cannot leave the
one of the most domi·
.500
mark behind them.
nant players in the
Scottie
Pippen , Shawn
league this season,
Kemp.
Damon
Kerry Kittles, comina
Stoudamire
and
Derck
off of knee surgery that
Anderson . Isn' t that
sidelined him for the
much more 1han rhe Nets
entire last season, and
have? Bui yet there is
Richard Jefferson, a
s
till so much more .
rookie out of Arizona
Rasheed
Wallace, Dale
who the Nets obtained
Davis and Bonzi Wells.
in a trade ror Seton
The Trailblazers, led by
Hall phenom Eddie
head coach Maurice
Griffin, all scored 21
Cheeks,
have been unpoints . This game
ab1e to win consis1ently.
highlighted the team's
Former head coach Mike
great amount of depth
Dunleavy
(who, if he
and unselfishness.
Two days later, the WITH THE FOURTH BEST ,_n1 ill ... NBA - 1ac1...u.g a , _ . , ahcl- had his own son on his
team, would have gone
Nets beat Vince Carter
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January, should split any accolades he dously to the eventual c hampion Lakers
Canadians' eyes.
aains
throughout the season ri&ht down and could go no further.
The moat impressiYe victory of the
The 81azers need to make some
home stand, however, came aaainst the middle with Kidd.
In addition, Kidd'sspectacular pusina chanaes very soon, or - unlike the Nets leaaue-leadina Sacramento. The Nets
handed the Kinp their
!oat of the abilities have caused his own teammates they will not be playing come playoff
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T HE COLGATE MAROON-N EWS
National Sports
February 8, 2002
New England's Victory Eerily Similar To Villanovis1985 Tri11mph
Major events in college basketball took
a backseat in 1he sp0ns wodd this week
due to the world's
- --, preeminent sporting event. One of
the greatest Super
Bowl upsets of all
time reminded me
of one of the greatest upsets of a ll
t i me on co I lege
basketball's
grandest stage.
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The NCAA
.\J,lif/fll/ \1 II• \1,1/1
Tournament in
1985 produced an
upset Strikingly similar to the one witnessed last Sunday. The New England Pa•
triots overcame the odds and played a near
Oawless game to defeat the heavily fa.
vored S1. Louis Rams much like the
Villanova Wildcats did against the
Georgetown Hoyas 10 win the 1985
NCAA Championship.
The Hoyas were 35-2, were the defending national champions and
had the eventual number-one
draft pick for that year on their
team, Patrick Ew ing. The
Wildcats, conversely, were
lucky to be in the tournament
at all. In 1985, the NCAA expanded its championship tournament to 64 teams and even
then the Wildcats were on the
'
bubble, but made it as an eight seed.
Last Sunday, we saw a team with two
losses, the league's MVP, Kurt Warner,
and one 1hat had also won the Super Bowl
two years earlier. Many felt that the Patriots were lucky 10 make it as far as they
did. since a controversial non-fumble call
gave them a victory against the Oakland
Raiders two weeks car-lier.
Georgetown had beaten Villanova two
times earlier in the season in Big East
play, as St. Louis had beaten New England earlier this season. As
two-touchdown underdogs,
New England had to play a
flawless game, while St.
Louis had to play a very poor
game for New England to
have a chance. This happened
and s1ill New England needed
a last second field goal to defeat the Rams.
As heavy underdogs 'Nova needed to
play a perfect game and did to win the
National Championship. The Wildcats
shot an eye-popping 90 percent from the
Ooor in the second half and an NCAA
Championship game record 79 pe rcent
from the Ooor for the game.
Georgetown's star cenlcr. Ewing, had
one of the worst games of his collegiate
Britney, Momkeys And mlife: Super Ads Revisited
to spokes people. First the annoying little girt,
and now Britney. Look for Adam Sandlerand
Gilben Gonfiied to do a duet in their next ad.
I'll admit right now that I'm not much of a
A commereial for the United Way featurfootball fan. Coming into Super Bowl ing Sam Adams of the Baltimore Ravens
XXXVI, I fell kind oflike Vizini in Tire Prin- teaching swimming lessons to litlle kids incess Britle - two ofmy best friends are from explicably got big laughs at my house. I'm
the Boston area, so I could clearly not root not ialking about the longer spo~ where he
for the Rams. On the olher hand, my brother destr0ys a CPR dummy. I'm refening 10 the
is a New England fan. so f could clearly not first one, where all he did was get in the pool.
A little while ago, we here at The Maroot for the PatriolS.
So, like any olherrcd-bloodcd American, I roo11-News got an e-mail from a site called
sat down in front of the TV Sunday evening stoppuppctviolencc.com. warning us about
int<'11t on seeing the real highlight of the day: the rising problem of kids attacking pupthe conunercia1s. Afier a preg.ame ex1rnva- pe1s. Brisk showed us the other side of the
ganza so dripping with patriotism that a red. story. 'as their advenising puppets went on
white and blue puddle fonned in front of the a rampage over a new iced tea that "sells
1V, I was rc-Jdy to be cntcnained. Unfortu- , itself." It's always good to be able 10 see
natcly, our n,uion ·s advertisers let me down two opposing viewpoints on an issue.
(though 1he Rams and Patriots did pick up the
Qui,nos, a sub shop I'd never heod of,
slack m excellent fashion).
gave us a couple interesting ads in which
The biggest Iheme in the commercials was tes1 subjec1s have 10 be drugged or threatmhfc. At first I 1hou~ht nilife was experiment- ened wi1h a guillotine to choose the
ing with the "we don't need to tell you what competition's sandwich. But really, l don't
product we make.. genre that Nike has made need a multimillion dollar 3dvcrtisement to
famous. Out it quickly became clear that the
point of the commercials was lhat mlifc was
mysterious.
Then "'e found ou1 it was a wireless service from AT&T, by means of showing a series ofbellybunons and making a rather poor
joke about how ..we are meant to live a wire•
less li fe." AT&T was clearly no1 paying attention to "IT' - 1he secret invention that was
Why would you travel eigln hours to
massively hyped, only to fall completely ofT
stand in a field &om 2:00 a.m. umil
the public radar screen when everyone found
morning. in Is«a,ee walher, j UII IO
out ii was just some lame scooter.
see a common IOdenl'I The raJ quesI was pleasantly surprised at how few com·
tion is why-tewouldn'L Almon,
panics played the Ober-patriotism angle. But
tlrm 38,000 aalookcn CMa'lld in owe
there were some. Monster.corn(oneofthe few
ofhis_po_Punx-...yPhil
do1-coms that could still dish out the millions
held his nwal
7:30
it takes to get advenising during the Super
a.m. lul SaMdoy 111CJ11H111. The - Bowl) hired fonner New Yori< Mayor Rudy
castskia and__,lho,,a1 intholllul
Giuliani to deliver a stirring message that had
atlingup1Dclaylnlkbplthol'ltil-tino1hing 10 do wi1h a job search websile. If
lowe-t11>1111ingllllliltho•, ' -.11111
1hey're going to hitch a ride on September 11
the 111n escaped lhe clouds r ..,_ and
10 get hits, they should have at least excerpted
the bit of Pn.-sident Bush's Siate ofthe Union
speech where he summed up his economic
policy as ·~obs." Budweiser also made a nod
toward patriotism with a commercial show..
ing its Clydesdales kneeling to the New Yori<
skyline.
An1i-dn.ig ads go1in101he nct by seizing on
the fac t that many 1errorist organiuuions are
b.,nkrollcd by the illegal drug trJde. Al least
it was better than Philip Morris·s sappy ex·
honmions to 1:1lk to your kids about smoking.
Thc.,l there was Pepsi. As much as it pains
me 10 relive the memory of these commer·
cials. in the interes1 ofjournalistic integrity I
must Pepsi decided 10 go with a "Britney
Spears through the ages" theme. Now, this
migh1hal'e been mildly viewable if they had
reached back fanher in history-Britney sing•
ing the Ban le Hymn of Pepsi while beingshol
:11 (orjustsh01) byConfcdcra1e troops. maybe.
Out they s1aned from the 1950s, and that's a
minute ofmy life I'll never have back. And
The PropoaticalllX' o f ~
really, I would have thought that we learned
uw his tthldow. dec:1'11911 1'1 - , .
during last year's halftime show nOI to let
weeuofwilillr. a.a.,i.olllcilil
Britney get any air time.
dicliolladlellipl,JII
Pepsi isjust failing miserably when it comes
By Stentor Danielson
Mn11nging Edi1or
tell me a toas1cd sub is better 1han a cold
one.
An early winner was e• trade, whose spot
featured a Broadway song-and-dance with
a chimpanzee. One person al my house remarked, upon seeing the chimp ride a big
arTOw across 1he stage, ''that's very erotic.··
The Scorpion King looks like a terrible
movie. It's just a rip-ofT of the Conan the
Bat1>arian genre, only with bigger specialeffects fireballs.
In the end, thoogh, Budweiser still came
through for us. There was no consistcnl
theme co their commercials, but each was
special in its own way. We saw a minifridge containing a Oud Light win a game
of"Robo Bash," an awkward bargoer getting advke on a pickup line that goes horribly wrong and a falcon stealing beer from
a cafe.
I'll leave you with one final thought: Why
does the NFL, which has a monopoly on professional foo1ball to begin wi1h now tha1 the
XFL has (mercifully) flopped, have 10 adver1ise during its own championship game?
My Ttme With Phil: A Personal
Acco11nt OfThe Groundhog
wather•--·
the .......ce or the Amoricm spirit with a
quo1e relayed to the audience by his personal cuetaker and 1n111lator. Bill
Deeley. '1'hmk God I five in the land of
the 1Re and blave." Phil ..... '"llld I live
inabunvw and lltlC in a cave." Alllae
pMliocic .uda .-I. die crowd al
Oallbler'• ICnob-aliat)-•mped upfhtm
111120-tninulepN ._,ft.ewC11b di,play
nlOhed
ill
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career and still Villanova only won by two
points.
In Lexington, Kentucky, Villanova produced a grea, moment in the history of
the Bia Five in Philadelphia College
Hoops, as well as a great upset for the
ages. Led by excitable head coach Rollie
Massimino, star center Ed Pinckney and
a sea of shooters who knew how to milk
the clock to perfection, such as Howard
Jensen, Howard Pressley and Gary
McClain, the Wildcats gave the Hoyu a
game they never expected. The Wildcats
stayed with the Hoyas for the entire game
and Pinckney was able to keep Ewing in
check.
At halftime, Villanova had built a lead
- much like the Patriots did this past Sunday - and kept the Hoyas within arm's
length for much of the second half. Like
the Rams, though, the Hoyas made a late
second half surge and took a one-point
lead with less than five minules to play.
A see•saw battle ensued, until Jensen,
with ice water in his veins, hit a jumper
from the comer to give the Wildcats a lead
with 1wo and a half minutes to go. They
never looked back.
Adam Vinatieri showed some shades of
Jensen when he nailed that clutch 48·
yarder to win it for the Pats. So, like the
Patriots, the Wildcats pulled lhe upset.
The MVP of the Super Bowl, Tom Brady,
was the guy who go1 the Patriots there.
Ed Pinckney was named the MVP of the
NCAA Tournament, as he was c learly the
guy who led Villanova to the title game
and subsequent victory.
The Patriots gave the city of Bosion a
title that it sorely needed, as Villanova did
for the city of Philadelphia. (We could use
another one. guys ... are you listening, Jay
Wright?)
Around the Top 25: The top three
spo1s remained the same. with Duke, Kan·
sas and Maryland a ll taking care of busi·
ncss 1his past week. including a disappointing shellacking of North Carolina by
the Dukies. Cincinnati's loss to Marquette
dropped them a couple spots. The Ducks
of Oregon found 1hcir way into the top
IS with back-to-back wins in Pac-IO action, over UCLA and USC. A duck's
quack doesn't echo and nobody knows
why. Arizona won the game of the week
in overtime against Stanford 10 put it on
the brink of the top 1O. After losing to
Nebraska, Bobby Knight and Texas Tech's
siay in the top 25 was brief. Gonzaga
cracked the top l O for the first time in its
history, whi le Temple was finally removed from the "others receiving votes"
category of the coaches' poll. It was discovered tha1 one anonymous coach kept
ranking the 8- 13 Owls number nine in the
polls. Needless to say, this coach is no
longer assis1ing in the ranking of 1he
teams.
I would like to use this space to send
my condolences to Adam "Spiderman"
Eldridge, Alex "Golly" Ogaldcs. James
bamme red .
"Automatic" Choi, Gabe "DJ Gizzle"
Hem1an and the rest ofmy intnmural bas·
S-ftllpye.
- • w11• oae
ketball team, lhe Running Suckers, which
•1rt1t1a Penn
..... of Pliil'•
lost this past Monday to the Fighting
Yaks. It was a great season guys. We'll
t h e i r
That said. it is time for this week's top
_...,.1e11.
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lies die beauty of
'JratrhsDtiy.
Ill feel-1ood,
nlque ch1rm
pmdtsaelllion
from all memben of auch a
cnnwt.apr1yr n..,._unlille
n y other. To
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be back.
IO. Despite the fact that McNabb·s retum
to the hardwood is being delayed by his
Pro Bowl appearance this Sunday, I am
still ranking 1he Syracuse Orangemen in
the top I 0.
Preston Shumpert looks styling in those
shades. Check him out while he still has
those goofy things on.
WHzy's " fuh~ bffzy" Top Ten
I) Duke
6) Alabama
2) Kansas
7) Cincinnati
3) Maryland
8) Kentuclcy
4) Florida
9)Gonzap
S) Oklahoma
IO) S~
National ·sports
1t seems !here are
some
very
February 8, 2002
25
confused nighL ''They're just now showing highlights pressed 10 find someone who just read that
p«>Ple in the City of Angels. One of them
mu.st have beat the guy who took a good,
long look at the
lukewarm success
of a once-and-only,
almost-Cup-win ning team comprised of dramatic
overachievers dnt&·
ging along the ice,
Clinging desperalely
and with bated
breath to the coat1ai ls of Wayne
Gretzky. He must
have been excited
by the 60 pm:cnt capacity crowd at the Great
Western Forum and the seven people actually rooring for the Kings to the point where
he said, "Why don't we have anorher team
in the gn:atcr Los Angeles arear' And before most people realized there was one NHL
team in town, Disney decided to capitalize
on the box--office success ofEmilio Estevez.
the famous "Flying V," t~.ousands ofquacking extras and a fat Jewish-Am"'1-Amcrican kid duct-taped to the
goolpOSlS to get over his fear offly,
ing rubber. Alas, the Mighty Ducks
of Anaheim were born. Not the
Anaheim Mighty Ducks. The
Mighty Ducks ofAnaheim.
And then there's the guy in charge of selecting a city for the annual All-Star fesrivi·•
ties. I can't even imagine the thought process there. "Hmmm .•• Well. We wouldn't
want to do it in De1roit or S1. Louis, there's
probably too many people that want to go
..• I know! We'll have it ... in L.A.! Yeah!
Surely no one cares about hockey there!"
And it's true. The month of January saw
lhe Los Angeles Kings go 11-3, marking the
best month of hockey in franchise history.
And yet. as a longtime buddy now living out
in that pan of the counny told me the other
•
This Is Why
night, Both teams play a similar style of game
of the Kings games, 3S minutes into the show, list of teams and was genuinely upset by my and both are playing ii well. The Sharks have
and neither the Lakers nor the Clippers played suggestion, and b) if those teams were com- a five-point Pacific Division lead over the retonight" And maybe the scheduling ofthe al- pletely dissolved, would anyone noeice?
surgent yet srill unpopular (see above) L.A.
ways hotly anricipeled showdown between
STROMMYS£Z
Kings. The Blaekhawks, despite a lower conNorth America and the World the day
ference playoff standing, actually
before Super Qowl Sunday wasn 'I exhave a better record than San Jose, at
actly the brightest idea. But seriously,
31, I 7-9-0. They've been almost unwho wasn ·, watching when the World
stoppable at home, losing only four
stormed back in the third period with
of the 28 games played in the Windy
five unanswered goals en route to a
City. Bui this one's on the road.
thrilling8-S victory? I apologize. What
Strom my Sez: Sharks 4, Hawks J
( meant to write is, "Who li-W' watch·
2. Monday, Dallas versus Los An·
.mg.?"
geles- As previously mentioned. the
The realization ofthe Mighty Ducks
Kings have ridden the best month in
possibly kick-started the NHL trend
team history all the way to second
that could spell trouble in the yea,. to
place in 1he Pacific:. But despitea relacome. II is a trend marked by the selftively disappointing season thus far
indulgent creation ofteams to crash the
in Big D. the Stars are only a point
respective national sports parties ofcit·
behind them, and stonning back to
ies that probably never wanted hockey
win the division is no1 out of1he realm
to begin with. l'msony ifl'msrill hav,
of possibility. Jn the meantime, if the
ing serious issues believing there will
season ended ycstcrda'.y, 1hat one
ever be diehard Thrasher fans in At·
point would have sci the Kings up
lanta. or longtime hockey aficionados
against the vaunted Red Wings in the
in Nashvi He, bleeding silver and urine-- AFTER A FRANCHISE RECORD month ,he Kings
playoffs, while the Sta,. would be
gold for their beloved Preda- have a fighting chance in the playof&.
sent home.
toStrommy Sez: Stars J, Kings I
be peying at least some anention to
If ii wasn't confusing enough to sort out
3. Tuesday, New York lslandcl$ ve,.us
the ugly contraction battle still be- your favorite NHLcrs from each ream's nine. Philadelphia - Another old-time Atlantic Diing fough~ now on the noo.. of the teen altcmatc-road,Sunday,afternoon-unleso- vision rivalry has been rejuvenated and this
United States Congress, between it's,a-Czec:h-national-holiday jerseys to the should be a much benergamethan we're used
Bud Selig's billionaire owners and nondescript All-Star jerseys and back again, to seeing from tJ1ese two teams in years pasl
Donald Fehr's undeserving millionaire play- you're in for a Valentine's Day treat when Bui if there's any doubt who Strommy's goers? When it's hard enough 10 help financially- the professional action halts again, this time ing with here, then you just don't know the
strapped teams like Edmonton and Calgary for the Olympics. Nojoke, we'll probably see Strommy.
fight an ever-depreciating Canadian dollar the same players in six or seven different uni- Strommy Stt: Flyers 4, Isles I
merely 1ostay competitive, what sense does it fonms by the end of this shortest month ofthe
4. Wednesday, St. Louis versus Colomdo
make having 30 teams?
year. However. even in this stretch - we'll - A big-1ime Western Conference showIn a perfect world, or at least in mine, the call it Interim Week - the Strommy never down between two of its e lite. This one wi11
Canadian government wouldn't have recently rests.
be on national television, and righlly so.
rejected legislation to help those struggling LAST WEEK: 1-0, SEASON TO DATE: Kudos to ESPN, for always seeming to
teams remain afloat. But more importantly, S-7-1
broadcast the best games each week. I like
Carolina. Nashville, Anaheim, Atlanta and
I. Friday, Chicago versus San Jose - It the Blues to pull the upset on the road.just
Tampa Bay wouldn '1 have teams right now, promises 10 be a gritty, physical banle when for kicks.
and for exactly these reasons: a) I'd be hard- the Sharks and Blackhawks collide Friday Strommy Stz: Blues S, Avs 3
FACEJ-OFF
~ Love Sports
Sltould ESPN have televised Lortn:o
tt»ttlnued from pnge 1J
suit was the third ranked defense in
the NFC. St. Louis should have been
handed the Lombardi Trophy. All
other teams s hould have waited a few
years until Kurt Warner and Marshall
Fau lk retired before attempling to
compe te with the Rams. The Patrio1s
should have called the season quits
when they were 1-3 and their quarterback was some guy named Tom
Brady.
For sports fans everywhere, thank
goodness they didn ' I. Brady nourished, coach Bill Belichick orchestrated an imposing defense and New
Englandjusl kept winning, I 1-S. Division champions. A miraculous
comeback in the snow against the
Raiden. A dominating perfonnance
against the favored Steelers in Pittsburgh. Headin& into Super Bowl
XXXVI - as 14-poinl underdogs
apinst the Rams - the PatriolS were
given the hackneyed title of"Team of
Destiny." Most expens. however, believed that destiny would only take
Brady and company so far, as St.
Louis was the consensus pick to take
home the title. By a wide, wide margin.
Of course, ii didn '1 happen that way.
The defense forced three lumove,. by
the Rams. The offense converted all
three into scores. Even after St. Louis
had fought its way back 10 a tie at 17,
Brady calmly drove New England into
field goal position and Vinatieri kicked
the game-winner, The S uper Bowl-winner. The afler-yeal$-and-yea,.,of-hardsh ips-and-close-ca 11s- Boston -is- fi •
nally-a-champion winner.
Ifs important to note that I'm not a
Patriots fan. I'm a sports fan. I' m a fan
of any c lub that talks about how c loseknit a team ii is. And means it. New
England was the r,,.1 team in Super
Bowl history to eschew the individual
player introductions and a ll come out
of the locker room together. How cool
is 1hat?
Af'ler the monumental victory, every
player talked about the team and about
how coming together salvaged the Patriots' season. No one thanked God for
the victory or mentioned how He
guided them to the upset. Yet another
reason 10 love New England.
Despite what many athletes and
some fans often say, God had nothing
to do with the Patriots' magical victory.
That would make ii 100 easy. If God
had a hand in who won professional
sportin& events, it would remove all the
luster from great s1orics such as the
2001-2002 Patriots. Instead, New England represents the allure of sports,
the belief that anything truly can happen and the idea that any team truly can
win. Even if the favorite usually comes
out on 1op and even if you hear about
the Ryan Leafs of the world too often.
ii really can happen. And rhar 's why
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26
THE CoLGA11! MAROON-N EWS
National
rts
February 8, 200
As World Cup Nears, U.S. Looks To Improve Its Fort11nes
for Blackbum. As for Keller, the starting
U.S. goalkeeper in France, he is in a difficult situation. His transfer from Spain 1 s
Rayo Vallccano in La Liga as starting goalkeeJ)C1', 10 Tottenham Hotspur, has seen him
rc lcga1ed to the cushioned substi1u1es
bench. Despite Keller's top fonn during the
Gold Cup, which the United States won this
past weekend, he must retum to North London for club duty, or rather, bench wanning duty. It's a long time between now and
June and Keller's remarlrotting on the sideline. As ror third choice
goalkeeper, my selection is Tony Meola
(MLS - Kansas City Wizards). Although
age may slow him down, his va1ue lies in
his experience in World Cup '90 and
'94. His consistent form for the Wizards
will provide a stable cover if Friedel and
Keller both get injured.
Defense is the first line of offense and
my picks for Arena's starting fullbac ks arc
Jeff Agoos (MLS - San Jose Earthquakes),
Eddie Pope (Ml..S - 0 .C. United), Tony
Sanneh (Genmany - Hertha Berlin) and
David Regis (France - F.C. Metz). For the
central defense. Agoos and Pope should be
the keystone. They developed a solid relationship in 1he France, along with the Japan/Korea qualifying campaign and continue still to do so.
On the right wingbac k I would place
Sanneh. His strength will provide great defensive cover on 1he flank. Offensively, he
can also distribute the ball accurately to the
midfield . On the left, I wou ld place
Regis. His experience gained in Europe is
invaluable as he helped lead F.C. Metz to
the I 999 French League Cup. He has also
competed in many UEFA Cup competitions,
gaining the much-needed exposure 10 top-
best cover for Sanneh or Regis on 1he
wings.
Contributing Editor
For starting midfielders, the United
France '98 saw the Americans finish dead
States has four gifted playen that hold the
last. retreating home with their tails tucked
key 10 1he team's success.
between 1heir legs and whimpering in
Arena will definitely start
shamt. This summer in Japan/ Korea. che
Claudio Reyna (England U.S. stands a dismal chance of making ii 10
Sunderland), Emie Stewart
1he World Cup finals with 1rac,11tional pow(Holland - NAC Breda),
erhouse World Cup regulars such as ArgenJohn O'Brien (Holland tina, England, haly and de fending world
Ajax) and Chris Armas
cha mpion FrJ.nce barring 1he way to world
(MLS - Chicago Fire). Oath Reyna and
dominance. This ou1look may be pessimisStewart provide e.xtcnsiveexpcticncc in the
tic. but ifs important to be realistic. While
midfield roles as strong European-based
the bookies are placing astronomical odds
players and veterans of 1wo World Cups.
on the U.S. reaching the finals, a decent
The centTal midfield role is Reyna's as
amount of money can be made on 1he
he is the link between the defense and ofAmericans' chances of ad vancin&: to the
fense. His great vision of the field makes
quarterfinals.
him a great distributor of the ball and creEver since France ' 98, the U.S. has una1or or goal scoring opportunities. Much of
dergone an impressive transfonnation. Jn
his experience was gained while playing
addition to qualifying for its third succesfour years in Gcnnany before moving to
sive World Cup appearance. ii also won the
Scotland's prestigious Glasgow Rangers
CONCACA F Gold Cup competition for the
for two years. In fall of 200 I , he completed
first 1ime since 199 1, overcoming teams
a caret:r-enhancing transfer to Sunderland
from the Caribbean and North and Central
of the English Premiership. Combine his
Amcric-a. With Bruce Arena at th~ manaEuropean experience with his regular Na·
tional Team appearanccsj Reyna is 1he catagerial posi1ion, 1he squad had a dearth or
players to choose fro m. plying its 1rade in
lyst of the midfield.
both the United States and Europe. While
Partnering with Reyna is Annas. Considered
a defensive midfielder, his aggresMajor League Soccer (MLS) got its start
after the U.S.A. hosted the World Cup in
siveness and ability to win ba11s from the
opposition make him a key component.
1994, nearly eight years laterthe league and
While his statistics show him as a "quiet..
sport are still slowly catching on. The level
of play is improving. but will never proplayer, with only two goals and one assisl
in
28 games in the past three years, he is
vide enough of a competitive edge when
compared with the currcn1ly powctful Euthe engine of 1he team.
ropean leagues of the English Premiership.
Stewart has a dossierthat rivals Reyna's.
He is known for his game-winning goal in
Italian Sen a A and Spain's La Liga.
the 2- 1 victory over Columbia that adSo which types of players docs Arena
need to choose to insure a strong perforvanced the U.S. into the Second Round of
World Cup '94. Playing in all three of the
mance and overcome the disaster of four
U .S. •s matches in
years ago? First. Arena
France, Stewart has
need& European-based
played his entire proAmerican players and
fessional career in Holhere's why. Europc proland. Considered one
vides the most extensive
of
the fastest players on
exposure to all types of
the team, his pQsilion
compe1i tion in the
on the right wing terworld. Playing in the
rorizes defenses. Jr the
strong domes1ic leagues
situation becomes dire,
of. say. the Engli sh
he can also be emPremiership. is a trial of
ployed as a forward.
manhood in itself. The
Oppo si te
fast-paced. rough and
Stewart
on the le ft
tumble of Oriti sh "'footwing
is
ball" will decimate the
O"Brien
.
Considered
morale of an unprepared
one of the youngest
plrtycr. Overall, the abilplayers on the 1eam at
ity to adrtpt to the doage 24, he has trained
mestic leagues of each
with the famed Ajax
panicular country while
youth system since
a lso ensuring success
1996 before signing a
wi 11 gamer a national
contract
with the club
cap.
in 1998. Like Stewart,
Even more imponant
O'
Brien has played his
than the domestic
entire
professional ca leagues are 1he three
reer in Holland. His
main European club
speed
and pace on the
tournaments. They are
wing will provide
the Champions League
many
dangerous
Cup. the UEFA Cup and
crosses into the box.
the lntertoto Cup. The
In reserves.
top European teams
Arena
should
call up
compett in these comFrankie Hejduk (Gerpetitions. which present
many
Bayer
REAS
ON
FOR
HOPE:
h
can't
get
wonc
fouhc
U.S.
ia
this
year',
World
c,.p
a who le 1tew batt leLeverkusen).
Eddie
ground than the domes- than ic wu four yc:ars ago in France when the Scan and Stripa fi nished dead
Lewis (England tic league. A U.S. player last.
Fulham
Football
C lub) and Landon
exposed to a slrong European domescic league and one of the Eu- level European teams MLS players lack. In Donovan (Germany - Bayer Leverlropean tournaments is a prized asset for one the reserves. I would have Carlos Llamosa flejdu k 's versatility as a speedy midfielder
of Arena ·s 23 spots on the roster for Japan/ (ML$ - forme r Miami Fusion). Greg or defensive winger make him a Viable
Berhalter (Holland
Camb uur cover for O'Brien or Regis. Lewis is a
Korea.
Oeginning wilh the goalkeepel'S, Arena Lceuwarden) and Steve Cherundolo (Ger- strong midfielder but is hampered by the
has a manager's nightmare. Two or his top many - Hanover 96). These three players same affliction as Keller: lack of playing
choices. along wi1h mine, arc Brad Friedel will provide much cover for the Slalting four time. Much depends on l,ew;s' first team
(England - Blackbum Rovers) and Kasey in the event of an injury. Sanneh is an ex- appearanCC$ for Fulham bu~ for the moKeller (Englund - Tonenham Hotspur), tremely experienced central defender and mcn~ he seems like a suitable substitute
Ooth of these players have great ability and can fie in well alongside Agoos or for Armas or Reyna. Showing flashes of
are vers:.uile in goal. Friedel is having a phe• Pope. While both young. Berhalter and brilliance in the 2002 Gold Cup, Donovan
nomenal season wi1h th(! Rovers, as his con- Cherundolo provide the speed and youth to is a grca1 paucr of the ball, although he is
sistent fonn has earned him the sianingspot add flair 10 the defense. They provide the in Iliffcompelition with DeMucus Beuley
ByD,rekHom
Oae-l!btet . __,
of the Chicago Fire. Both are 19 years
but Beasley is a regular starte< for the F·
and his speed and supe,t, ball control
him a successor to Stewart. It's a tough
between Donovan a
Beasley.
In front, the striker p
nership should be sha,
between Brian McBri
(England - Pres1on No
End) and Ante Raz
(Spain - Racing de Fmol). McBride sco
a hat trick in the Gold Cup game apinst
Salvador and is one of the strongest pla
in the air. Razov is an unselfish player 1
provides goals for his teammates. His a
ity to hold the ball in the box and pass it
makes him a key player.
ln reserves 1hcre are two valuable pl
e rs that can also play as attacki
midfielders. Theyare JocMax.-Moore (
gland - Everton) and Cobi Jones (MLS
L.A. Galaxy). These two players are ve
ans of World Cup '94 and '98. Mu-M
is one of the U.S. •s leading goal scorers
is a free-kick and penalty kick speciali
Jones is also one of the fastest players
the national team and has made over 1
appearances for the club. Arena would
cuuing off his am, ifhc were to drop Jon
from the roster.
Two other young forwards that should
included are Jovan Kirovski (England
Crystal Palace) and Josh Wolff(MLS cago Fire). Kirovski is flourishing in
gland and proving himself a n,gular g
scorer, while Wolff has started all the ga
of the Gold Cup, including scoring in the
0 win over Costa Rica in lhe final.
Now choosing the players and amngi
them into tactical formation is another
plicated matter. A 4-4-2 structure is the
stable for the United States. Starting Fri
in goal, Agoos and Pope will share the h
of the defense with Regis on the left
Llamosa on the right. In midfield, Re
and Armas will be in the middle whL
S1ewan is on the righ1 and O'Brien on
left. Up front is McBride and Razov.
conservative fom,ation is versatile as it
lows the flank defenders of Sanneh
Regis to offensively push forward as Ste"
and O' Brien can cut inside into the box, f,
ing up McBride and Ra.zov 10 roam aro
the penalty area. This offensive display
lows Annas to drop back to help Agoos
Pope. However, ifthe U.S. finds itselfbo
barded by an offensively talented op
tion, Sanneh and Regis will need 10 ma·
tain duties as defenders while McBride
Razov are 1hc lone strikers up front.
However, a more attaeking 3-4.. 3 will
vidc a more exciting display from the Uni
States. Once again, Friedel will be in g
with Pope in the middle and Agoos on
right and Regis on 1he left. In midfie
Annas will play in front of the midfield as
defensive midfielder while Reyna is 1he
tacking midfielder. Stewart is on the ri
and O'Brien on the lefl. The th""' forwa
up front arc Mc Bride, Razov and M
Moore. The combination of these th
will cause much havoc for oppos•
de fenses. While McBride and Razov
creating space and taking away defe
ers. Max-Moore's p0sition behind th
as a deep-lying striker will give him
prime role as a goal-poacher.
Both of these fonnations have diffe
1acrical significance, but if Arena wan1s
ensure a quanerfinal appearance, he wo
be better off with the conservative 4-4espccially apinst highly dangerous P
pl. Much can happen in four months' ti
when the World Cup kicks off on May.
and, depending on his players' health,
injury to a key player, like Reyna, can
mate Arena's plans. In those four mon
new playen w ill emerge, edgina out I
theoretical ros1cr I just lilled. The time
come for Arena and co. to lake the stag<
Japan/Korea and ense the humiliation
France four years ago.
February 8, 2002
27
µ
Patriot League/ECAC standings
Men~ Basketball
Women~ Basketball
Conference. Qwro/1
American
Holy Cross
Lafayelle
Bucknell
Colgate
Army
Navy
Lehigh
7-2
6-3
13-9
12-12
11 -11
9.13
13-9
10-12
9.15
4-18
S-4
S-4
4-5
4-S
4-S
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Women's lee Hockey
Conference Owro/1
St. Lawrence 9-1-0
7-3-1
7.1.0
Dartmouth
7.3.0
Princeton
5.3. I
Harvard
Cornell
3·6-1
2-8·0
Yale
Colgate
1-6-1
0-10-0
Vcnnont
17-7-2
13-6-2
IS-3-~
11 ·6·2
11 ·8-l
4- 14-1
6·13·2
10-12-1
1-21-1
Brown
Bl
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Conference Owro/1
Holy Cross
Bucknell
Lehigh
American
Colgate
Army
Navy
Lafaye11e
7-2
7-2
6-3
S-4
5-4
3-6
2-7
1-8
16·6
14-8
I 0-12
10-11
11-13
8·14
10-12
3.19
Men's Ice Hockey
Conference. Owro/1
Cornell
11-2-1
I S-5· 1
Harvard
9.9.3
8·S-2
7.3-4
Clarkson
11.10-S
Danmouth
7-4-4
l0•8-4
Colgate
7-6-1
10-13-1
Union
6·6-2
11 -8-S
Princeton
6·8-0
7•14-0
St. Lawrence 6·8-0
8-16-0
5.7.2
Yale
6·13-2
4.7.3
Rensselaer
10-10-4
4.3.2
Brown
8·11-2
3-10-1
Vermont
3-18·2
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PATRIOT
pht,tQ uy J~,, Pontr
RUN LOLA RUN: With the Colgate ru.Mcr on the outside the women in this heat arc in for a tough race.
The Raiders hosted an important ttack meet this weekend which proved quite lucrative for many of the eontCS·
tantS as records were broken and limes improved. Colgate con1inucs to be a dominant force in track and field.
scoreboard
LEAGUE
• Denotes Patriot League/
ECAC Opponent
must-see game of the week
The men's hokcey team had a
s1ellar weekend and has now
round itself on a three game win
streak heading into this weekend's
contests against visiting Yale and
Princeton.
While both or these roes are
below the Raiders in the ECAC
standin:ll' both games will be exciting. Red hot Colgate will come
out in full tbrcc with the sopho·
mores once again leading the scor•
ing production and goahcnding.
Both games arc at Starr Rink and
begin at 7 p.m. Come out and support the rebounding men's hockey
team as they take on the ivy league.
Women's Basketball
American• 71, Colgate 62
Colga1e 73, Lehig1t•57
Men •s Basketball
American• 72, Colgalc 58
Colgate 84, Lehigh• 52
Sophomore Kyle Doyle
Men •s Ice Hockey
Colgate 2, Brown• I
Colgale 5, Harvard•J
Colgale 7, Canisius 2
Women's Tennis
Colgale 7, Albany 0
Colgate 7, Vermont 0
Women's Ice Hockey
Orown*5, Colgate I
Harvard*4, Colgate 0
Men's Tennis
Brown 7, Colgate 0
Colgate 5, Connec1icu1 2
sports spotlight
Friday, February 8
Ch r is J ohnson '02
Hometown: Crestwood, N.Y.
Sport: Diving
Events: I and 3 meter
Major: History/Economics
How are you feeling about your performanc.e tMs
MEN'S TENNIS
season?
upcoming raider sports action
For the week or February 8·14, 2002
' Denotes Patriot L.cague/ECAC Contest
Home games in CAPS
OLOOMSBURG .............................................. .......................4:00
WOMEN'S TENNIS
BLOOMSBURG .....................................................................8:00
MEN'S HOCKEY
YALE• ...........................................................:........................7:00
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
at Yale• ...................................................................................7:00
..Really great. It has been the perfect culmination to
an awesome four-year collegiate career."
What art you guys stressing in practice?
..As my coach says, "repititions toward perfection.·
Diving is a very fair sport, stressing consistency and
quality over quantity."
What's your favorlle dive?
Saturday, February 9
MEN'S ICE HOCKEY
PRfNCETON• .............................................. ..........................7:00
"Reverse one and one half on either the one or three
meter board."
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
HOLY CROSS• .......................................................................... 1:00
MEN'S BASKETBALL
HOLYCROSS• .................................................................. ..... 3:1S
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
at Princeton• ...............................................................................4:00
WOMEN'S TENNIS
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UMBC ...................... ,, .............................................................S:00
Sunday, February 10
MEN'S TENNIS
UMBC ..............................•...••..•..•.................................... IO:OOarn
Wedaesday, Ftbl'IW')' 13
MEN'S BASKETBALL
atNavy• ...................................................................................7:30
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
at Navy• ...................................................................................5: IS
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Maura Mccusker '03
Hometown: Stonehman, Mass.
Spon:Track
Evtats: Mid-Distance
Major: English
How do you pump younelf up for running?
"I like to visualiz.e my race and listen to my mix CD
with cheesy songs. ..
What do you think about t he swimsuits you run
Ill?
"Actually, those an, two-piece speed suits. I like them
better than the baggy tank tops and briefs."
WMII did you ttart ruaalq?
"I joined track fi:eshman year ofhigh school. I had no
idea I could run before that."
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THE Col.GATE MuooN-NEWS
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Sports
February 8, 2002
Raiders Look For Better Tuck Against ECAC Foe Yale
By Alex Friedman
tertained the Bears and fell 2-0, a
respectable score against a team
that has outscored i1s opponcn1s
Heading into last weekend, the 80-36 on the season. However, the
women's hockey 1cam had reason second time around, whether be·
10 be riding higJ,. Coming off of cause of home•icc advantage or
five straight victories, Colgate was due to no1 1aking Colgate quite so
looking to improve upon its 1-4-1
lightly, the elite teams dominated
league record as the team hit the 1hc Raiders and produced scores
road 10 face 1wo or 1he ECAC- more along the lines of what one
Nonh·s best, the Harvard Crimson migJ,1 expect
and the Brown Bears.
The action started with a trip to
However, the winning streak Providence, Rhode Island 10 face
quickly morphed into a losing one. the seven1h ranked Bears last Fri·
as Brown skated to a 5-l win last day nighl. Brown got off to a
Friday. and Harvard handed dominating star,, out shooting
Colgate its second consecutive Colga1c 18-0 in the rorsi period.
dcfca1 with a 4-0 shutout Saturday. First-year ne1minder Rebecca LaConsidering the fact rhar har kept the Raiders in tt"tc g8me 1
Harvard and Brown arc two top- only allowing one goal and turnranked teams, Colgate had a fair ing away the other 17 shots, but ii
;amount of success during its pre- was only a mancr of time before
vious engagements earlier in the the Bears broke the game open,
season at Starr Rink. The underColga1c mus1ercd four sho1s in
dog Raiders earned a 1-1 1ie 1hc second period, bu1 failed 10 slip
:1gainsr Harvard November 3, any past goaltender Kalie
bouncing the Crimson from lhe Germain, Brown added 1wo 1norc
1op ten. The next day, Colgate en• tallies in 1hc second, and another
Moroon.,New, Staff
in 1he 1hird, extending 1he score to
4-0 before Colgate r.nally go1 on
1hc board with its lone goal oflhe
weekend a1 9:37 or lhc ronal period.
Nol surprisingly. 1ha1 goal came
off the stick of first•year scoring
leader C heryl Sc1chcll, who
earned her lwcl f\h tally of the season. giving her twice 1hc total of
Colga1c's second leading scorer,
rorsi-year Maura Kehoe. Setchell
hasn't even completed her first
season, but she is already moving
up the Raiders' all·time scoring
list. She is currently positioned at
number IS.
Assis1ing on Setchcll's power
play goal were fellow rors1-years
Kristin Cirbus and Chelsey
Rhodes. Brown responded with a
power play tally of ilS own jus1
over two minutes later, bringing
the ronal score 10 S-1. The Bears
ou1sho1 1hc Raiders 44-16 on the
evening.
Things jus1 go1 worse for lhe
Raiders the next day in Cam·
bridge. wiMing !heir pme against
Harvlld. The Crimson dominated
the shois on goal 39-7 en rou1e 10
the 4-0 win, demonstrating lhe
crisp play 1ha1 has earned them 1hc
IOp r11nkcd power play and penally
kill in 1hc nalion. Struggling the
tntire way, the Raiders managed
a pallry two shots.in lhc firsl period, four in the second, and just
one in the third. Lahar started in
net for a second straigh1 game, but
was unable to duplicate her stcr·
ling performance from the
Harvard game earHer in the year,
when she he held 1he Crimson 10
jus1 one goal on 45 sho1s.
Wi1h lhe two losses. Colgale
fell to 10-12-1. 1-6-1 in 1hc
league. Eigh1 games remain in
the season, all of them against
ECAC-Norlh opponenlS. Nexl
up is Yale, tonigh1 on the road at
David S. Ingalls Rink. The Bulldogs' 2·8-0 league record and
four poin1s rank just ahead of the
Raiders. giving Colgate a chance
10 move up in the siandings with
a win. The match·up with Yale
also gives the Raiders a chance
to avenge a 4.3 overtime loss
eadier in the year at Starr Rink.
On December I, Colgate came
back from a 3-1 deficit late in the
final period and played a 1erriftc
overtime before allowing the
Bulldogs 10 kill the rally by nc1.
ting the game-winntr with just
seconds left.
The second game this week.
end features Princeton, ranked
fourth in the division and elev.
en1h na1ionally. The Tigers ( 11.
6-2, 7-3-0 ECAC-North) bca1
Colgate 4-1 earlier in the season..
and have also notched impressive wins over Dartmouth
(ranked fifth na1ionally) and
Harvard.
Considering 1he firs1 game between Colgate and Princeton,
when the Raiders mustered just
five sho1s to their opponent's 31 .
the Raiders best shot for a win
lhis weekend appears to be to.
nigh! a, Yale.
IM Report: It's Tournament 1ime For Intramural Hoops
matches. Receiving the hiaher
seed due to a tic breaker. Sigma
Chi C demonstrated that it
How do yoo follow a perfor- earned the higher seed by grabmance like thai? No1 only did bing a four point advantage midthe Patriots, my favorite team way 1hough 1he firSI half.
for 21 years. slay 1hc migb1y
East hailed the bleeding II fow
Rams in 1he gcea1est or second poinrs. bu1 was unable to close
greatest Super Bowl ever. I any further aiving Siama Chi C
personally ou1-analyzed 1he 1hc half lime lead 30-26. To Slart
heavily favored editor Matt lhe second half. East used two
Richcnthal in our second in· quick bukcts 10 tie lhc game, but
s1allment of "Face-Off' last could never manage 10 take the
week. So, how can I follow a lead. With ei&ht mioutca mnain-performance like 1hat? 1 can'1, ina, Siam• Chi Wet\l oa a 7-0 run
but as with every anicle. 1'11 propelling 1bcm to a victory, S1die t~ing becau.sc intramural~ 40.
are life.
The olhcr feeder match-up pit•
This past Monday marked 1ed 1wo League: C opponents and
1he beginning of the end for fraternity rivals in Theta
me. For the past fouryeaB, the Chi and Sia,na Chi B.
intramural baekclball playoffs Mirrorina lhe style of a
have been one of the bcner elasaic Knicks vs. Heat
memories I've had at Colgate. match up, the two
While my lcam has oaly won equads battled ioa 14-14
1bc whole lhibons once, we've rio 11 halftime.
always been competitive and
lbe defe111ive domilhe quality ofbaaketball is top tw1co seen tbroupout
nolch.
the lint half conlilluod
Thus, on Monday. the start in the second wilh neior lhe 2002 intnunu,al buket- ther aide able to mollllt
boll playoffs was upon us. With much offense. As the
hockey taking a hiatus on Sun- pme wound to an end,
day for the super bowl and lhc Theta Chi prevented •
women's IOUmalllCllt not start- Siama Chi sweep wilh
ing until next week, the men some clutch lice throw
dominated all in11amur11l ac- abootina. advanciq, 33·
110n this week.
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Kicking 1hings off, Sigma
Once the fccdcr matches bad
Chi C and East played a been completed, the lint round
feeder match to determine of lhe playoffs wu IOI to IIU1,
who would advance lo take and Sigma Chi played in ita lhird
on the second seeded Broth· straiaht game aa a fraternity
when Siam• Chi A took on
crs in the tint round.
The IWO formgame, somelhina lhat is to be Lcquc A, Sip,a Chi exhibited
an1icipated from feeder the bipcr quality of play in lhat
By Luke Dwyer
/Jart>(J,l ,News Slaff
league by fruslnting lhe over
confident champions with good
reboundina and few turnovcn.
While the All-Stan, took a lhrcc
point advantage into lhe half,
they knew Sigma Chi A could
not be llken lightly.
In the second half, sophomore
J.B. Ocrald opened up lhc Ind
to scvea pointa for lhe All-Stan
with accurate 10111 nngc jumpen. Once Gerald lllrtod mieliq,
however, Si)IIIIII Chi tumod on
the tnnsition game and CUI the
lead to two pointa.
Fcul trouble and free tlln,w
shooting would put the All-Stan
behind by one l&tc in tbc pmc,
bill Qcrald nailed I tbrec ~
apitlll the ReMix.
Switcbin1 over to the
bottom half of die draw, The
Fi&htin9 Yaks looked to move
Lcque A to 2-1 on the day
facing off qainst a danprous
Le11ue C opponent, the
Friet1da. Early in tho pmc.
tho Yaks med their IGpCrior
heipt to keep tbcir offense
ruacd soco, 80-48.
1be lut member ofLcquc D, IOUII, as Athlctil. DepaiKDR looked IO CODlinue Thal la lntam Kria Fuqe pcNred in
All'a three pmc lollng atrcak by eipt poinll in tho fint llalr.
pulling off lhe bigaut upoet of Baltlinl qait1111 3S-30 defidie y-. Howewr, 111 hopca or cit 11 balf, frealunan Adam
mimickina Ibo PatrioCI flldod .... Eldridp did hla bat to keep
fut u TIAjumped out IO a IS-0 hit team in it, bat Md diffi.
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IIDd mil uaec111111 to 111 loll& l'IDll" choodq proved
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did not S1alld a dloncc, apimt lhc
superior ReMix team. It didn't
take long for the ReMix to put
the pme out of reach. taking a
tea point lead after five minutes
of play, and exrendina 1bc lead
to 22 points by half time. Once
the duat had settled and the horn
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Maroo,t,Nt'N,·s Sia/[
oocs Scott Hansen read this
column? I'd like 10 think so. In
• rollow up or last week's
Vandcrsluis story, the saga continued in Colgate's game against
Harvard Saturday night. Jn last
week's issue, J pointed out our
opponents' tendency 10 hit
Colgate's right winger, senior
Bob Vandersluis, in 1he head for
no apparent reason. Those of you
wilh a fine 1uned eye, would
have picked up on yet another
example of this strange
phenomenon. In the second pe-
riod of a tied game against the
nalionally ranked Crimson,
Vanderslu is was exiling the
zone. Harvard skater, Noah
Welch, became overwhelmed
with the desire to hit
Vandcrsluis, and ac1ually went
ou1 of the way to elbow him in
1hc head, well behind the play.
Maybe 1hcy really arc jealous
his hair. Scott Hansen. 1hc
games head official, noticed the
auack and awarded Colgalc a
power play. Previously. these a11acks were unpenalized, but the
day after an anicle comes out
1clling people to look for this, it
suddenly gets called? Never underestimate the power of the
Maroon-News. Sophomore Kyle
Doyle scored on the ensuing
power play, giving Colga1c the
go ahead goal. Colgate held the
lead, and got a huge upset win.
With the Harvard win, and a
win over Brown 1he previous
mgh1, Colgate moved into fifth
place ,n 1he ECAC. The top five
teams in the league get home ice
in the first weekend or the playoff,.
Co lgate plays 1wo teams
ranked below it in Prince10n and
Yale this weekend. Col~atc is
now unbearen in five games, and
n's been a huge turnaround from
1hc days where Bob Gray, from
1hc USCHO.com message board,
routinely ranked Colgate as one
the worst ten Division One
or
or
February 8, 2002
6) Heart - There is no substitute. After getting kicked around
for a large part of the season, you
could actually sec the transfor•
mation in early January. U Mass
Lowell was pounding away a1 us,
up 5-0, when Colgate mounted a
counter attack, scoring three
goals in a ten minute span. We
lost the game, but showed our
desire to figh1 '1ill the end.
Against Jona later that weekend,
Colga1c found itsclr down by a
teams in 1he nation. What has led goal with time running out. Jona
10 this reccnl turn of events?
had never beat a school from any
Herc's what I think.
of the big four conferences, and
I) Condi1ioning - It's a trend it was hungry for a win. And rhat
now. Late in the game, the op- was when I saw Colgate make a
position s1ar1s to get tired. while transformation. It was almost as
Colgate is going strong, What- if a light went off. and Colgate
ever Colgate is doing, it is work- decided i1 wourd not lose this
ing. As the season moves on, this game.
advantage could grow even
Junior Steve Silver-sides redilarger, and the big ice at Lake rected a pass into the goal from
Placid will also work in our fa. just outside the crease with just
vor ifwc can make ii that far.
minutes remaining. The game
2) Faccoffs - 1don't have any went into overtime. where
stats on this, but it seems tha1 Colga1e dominated. Bui just as
whenever the pressure is on, the game was beginning 10 look
Colgate is winning the draws. like a tic. Silvcrsides again
When you cleanly w in a face-off, proved to be the hero. He made
it takes the heat off your team, a great block on an anemptcd
and places it on the other guys. clearing attempt and stopped the
This has saved
puck right
our bacon many
on the blue
times, and has
line. He fed
a pass to
also set up some
quality scoring
Junior P.J.
chances on ofYcdon. who
quickly
fonsc.
ended the
3) Penalty kill
ing - Colgate has
game.
The final
really cul down
part of the
on penalties, estransform&·
pecially the stu·
tion was the
pid ones. Our
next weekpenalty killing
end againsr
has also been
Dartmouth.
gcuing better and
The
Big
better. The benGreen were
efits here arc obN)tttmUll.katWffl
favored by
vious.
many to win
4) Sophomore
Sophomore David Cann
the league
goaltender David
this
year,
and
it
was
near the top
Cann - After starting slow, he
has really improved since be- of the league when it skated into
coming the 1eams steady Hamilton. The Big Green go1 off
starter. He was the teams hero on 10 an early two goal lead, and it
a tough nonh country 1rip. and was a situation many teams
has worked his was up to fifth in would fold in. Colgate, however,
the league in goals against aver- responded with the next three
age. Colgate's goals against av- goals, and buckled down on deerage has dropped considerably fense. Since then, Colgate
played well just about every
in the past month.
SJ The firs1-ycars - Many night, stunning 1he league with
people considered Colga1c's re- three points against Clarkson
cruiting class one of the best in and $LU, and a sweep of
the league, and they arc staning Harvard and Brown.
The leadership and desire has
to prove it. After a predictably
slow stan, they are really stan- come from many locations. The
ing to buy into the system, and captains provide an instrumental
arc producing points. They have role, but t hey arc nol alone.
filled their lines well, and arc Colgate is getting scoring and
now really starting to get a feel big plays from all lines, and big
for how to play w ith their team· goals have come from unlike ly
sources.
mates.
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s D01n1nanon
But the mens hockey team is
not 1he only division one hockey
program to call Starr Rink a
home. Starting this season. the
women's hockey 1eam has been
competing at the divisiqn one
level under the direction of Ted
Wi5ner. Scou Wiley, and Lindsay Banon . The team has come
a long way in its years under
Wisner, and it looks 10 turn another corner in the final games
of the season. Well, it's time to
mark your cal•
cndars. Next
Friday, Febru•
ary I 5. 1hc 1eam
is holding a
"pack the rink"
night. 1t is time
for Colga1c rans
to get rheir in1roduction to
Division one
women's
hockey. 1r you
arc reading this,
it means you are
invited. But
don't
come
alone, bring
your friends,
your
room·
mates. members of the same c lub
as you, the wife. kids, neighbors,
and anyone you happen 10 mcc1
on the street.
This team has been working
hard non Stop since arriving at
Colgate, and it's time it got some
fan support. If you go 10 just one
women ·s hockey game this year,
this is the one to attend. We arc
playing the University of Vermont. A 1cam that made the jump
from 0-111 the same time
Colgate did,
L~sr season. these two tcums
went to triple overrimc in the
league playoffs. until senior
Heather Murphy scored the
game winning goal on a pass
from senior Kelly Roos. Colgaie
beat UVM earlier this season 2·
0, and ii should be another good
game.
There arc several good reasons
to head ou1 10 the rink. Colgate
is celebrating Girls and Women
in Sports day, so there will be
some activities and goodies for
the kids. There will be more
ramcs and prizes throughout the
night, and one lucky fan will
have a chance to win a new car!
There's something for everyone,
and it all starts when 1hc 1eam
takes 1he ice at 6:50. With your
help. we can make this a memo·
rable event for all the players, as
well as the Cans. So grab a couple
of friends, and sec you a t the
rink!
Before we get 10 t he trivia
qucs1ion, I've got two more
quick observations. Wednesday
night, our men ·s basketball team
walloped 1hc Lehigh Mountain
Hawks. As Colgate had a 25
point lead late in the game. the
Raiders emptied the bench .
There is nothing quite like see·
ing guys who work their butts off
every night in practice. finally
geuing a chance for a liulc on
the court action. They had fun,
they built on our lead. and the
crowd was eating it up. Players
like junior Jeremy Ballard, jun·
ior Marques
Green, and
senior
LaM3rr
Datcher contribute
so
much 10 1he
team.
but
rarely get
in10 1hc spotli gh1. These
arc the mo•
mcnts 1hcy
li ve for, and t
know everyone in the
arena
en·
joyed it.
Now.
onto some
trivia. Last week. I asked wh:u
sports movie had scenes filmed
at Colga te. The movie was
"S lapshot"
staring
Paul
Newman. In 1976. one of the
movies road games was filmed
inside Starr Rink. Students and
residents of Hamillon served as
the crowd, and enjoyed wa1ch•
ing Paul Newman's attempts at
playing hockey. The movie became a cult classic for hockey
fans, and after over 30 years. a
sequel has been made. No Starr
Rink this rime unfortunately. Or
maybe not. it's a s1raight 10 video
movie. The winner this week is
Co\gate's own spons informa1ion guru. Bob Cornell. This
weeks trivia question is in honor
orlas1 weekends Super Bowl. Ema i I me at gbraham@- mail.
colga1c.edu by nexr Wednesday
for your chance to win . The
question is, how many Super
Bowl rings have Colgarc alumni
won? Good luck, and sec you at
the game!
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Sports
February 8, 2002
Men's Hockey Showing Its Power, Playing Top Notch Puck
By Alex Clark
Maroon,NrwJ SM/[
The Colgate men's hockey team
is proving that i1 is more than just
an young and inexperienced team.
After beginning the year 3-12, the
Raiders have gone 7-2-1 in their
last ten games, including winning
all three games this past week.
Vic1ol'ics over Brown on Friday
and Harvard on Saturday helped
propel the team into fifth place in
the ECAC, a position that would
give Colgate a home playoff series later on this year. The Raiders finished off their week on
Tuc~day by cruising 7-2 over nonconfcrc11cc foe Canisius.
Colgate's climb up the ECAC
rankings has happened relatively
quickly. The 1cam was as low as
clcvcn1h just one mon1h ago. By
taking eleven points out of the last
eight games against conference
rivals. however, the Raiders are
now one of the hottest 1eams in the
ECAC.
They continued their superb
play lase Friday against visiting
Brown. Colgorc jumped out to an
early lead with a power play goal
scorcMorin. Sophomore Kyle Doyle's
ini1ial blast rrom the blue line was
turned aside by Bear goaltender
Yann Danis. Morin cleaned up the
rebound giving him his second
goal in :is many g_aincs.
Doyle was honored this week by
being morned ECAC Avaya Player
of the Weck. Along with his assist
on Monn ·s goal, Doyle also netted a hat trick against Harvard the
foHowing night. h was his first
such award of his collcg_ia1e carccr.
Sophomore Rob Brown scored
an unassisted goal just two minutes la1cr. After creating a turnover
in the Bear zone, Brown slapped
the puck on net Danis again made
the initial save, but Brown cor-
plwu, by S<-oa Rount/,ol
ONE, TWO, THREE, TRIPLE DEKE: The Raiders rolled o= the Harvard Crimson in a huge ECAC
up.set. this weekend. In addition to this clutch win Colgate also defeated Brown u S1arr Rink. This weekend
Princeton and Yale travel to Hamilton to take on the red hot mecn's hockey,~.
rallcd the rebound and scored the
eventual game winning goal.
Brown has been one of the major players in Colgate's recent sueccss. With 1wo points in the game
against the Bears, an assist in the
Harvard game and three points
against Canisius. Brown now has
twelve points in his last ten games.
He leads the Raiders with 17
poin1s overall.
Sophomore David Cann
stopped 17 shots and allowed only
one goal which came in the second period. The Raiders held on
to win 2-l over Brown, completing their sweep of the Bears this
scasoP.
Harvard, the ECAC's second
ranked team, came to Hamilton to
try to cool off the rolling Raiders.
but it 100 left burned. The Crim-
son scored the first goal just 1wo
minutes into 1he game. But
Colgate's first-year DrnitryYashin
answered with a goal of his own
just 47 seconds later. Doyle scored
the first of his three tallies on the
night with less than one minute
remaining in the first period, giving the Raiders the early edge.
The Raiders have had trouble
scoring early m the past, but were
able to notch two goals in each of
the t.rst periods played this past
week. This allowed the team to not
worry about coming from behind
as they have in prior games.
After an early Crim.son second
period goal, Doyle scored his second and arguably nicest goal ofthe
night. Upon entering the Harvard
zone, senior defenseman Ben
Bryce dropped a pass to the trail-
ing Doyle who fired a hard onetimer to 1hc top shelf.
The goal came on the power
play, which has improved for the
Raiders in 1he past few games.
Colgate scored with a man advantage in each of its three games this
week and improved their power
play pcrcen1agc to 13.9 pcrcenl.
Also improved was the Raider
penalty kill. Colgate survived
eleven of the 1welve shorthanded
situations they faced this week.
Yashin scored his second goal
of the night and the game winning
goal when he buried a loose puck
during a scramble in fron1 of the
Harvard net. Then the Raider defcnsc took over. The Crimson
could not manage a shot on goal
for the first seven1ccn minutes of
the third period, a,,d totaled only
sixteen for the entire night. Cann
again was Strong in net, and the
Raiders cruised 5-3.
On Tuesday, the Raiders played
host 10 the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference's Canisius Golden
Griffon,. While the Griffon, had
a better winning percentage enter.
ing the game, they had built ii up
in an arguably weak conference,
The Raiders have played three
other games this sea.son agains1
MAAC opponents and went 2-1 in
those contests.
Colgate was the superior tean,
and showed it for most of the
night. The Raiders racked up
seven goals, their largest to1al on
the season. Junior Bob Vandcrsluis
and Brown scored two goals
apiece, while Junior P.J. Yedon
pitched in for three points as well
While the game did not affect
Colgate's conference s1anding, it
did offer it a chance to hone its
skills for this weekend"s competition. It will return to ECAC action
with home games against Yale on
Friday night and Princeton on Sa1.
urday.
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TURNING SOME TRICKS:
Sophomor<: Kyle Doyle ICOrcd
thro,: goals in Colgate•, win O\'Cr
Huvvd.
Colgate Tennis Begi,ns Spnng Season; Looks For League Success
By Joseph Bra:u,uskas
Ct>l1,01, Sp()m Ed1·t()f
Despite the fact that snow is
s1ill present here in Hamilton,
the men's nnd women •s tennis
teams have been hard at work
prac1ieing indoors for their
spring season. Unlike the fall
tennis tournaments. which arc
mos1ly individual endeavors. the
spring season relies on team play
in order to be successful.
Many of the matches both
teams will be competing in arc
against Patriot League opponents and will ultimately deter-
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mine the outcome of the c hampionship tournament.
In order 10 prepare for these
important matches the men traveled 10 Rhode Island and Connecticut, for matches against
both Brown and Uconn, while
the women stayed in New York
10 toke on Albany and trekked to
the Green Mountain State to play
the University of Vermont.
The Ivy League opponent
proved too tough for the Raiders to handle as they failed to win
a match to loose the competition
0-7 to Brown. However, the next
day against the Huskies, Colgate
stepped up its play and formidably defeated its opponents 5-2.
While the absence of both senior captains Evan Paushter and
J.P. Johnson was felt, the Raiders made appropria1e changes in
their lineup. With first-year sensation Recd Hagmann at number
one singles and sophomore Eric
Saccullo at number two, the top
two spots were not too shaken:
however. the rest of the lineup
saw some changes.
With sophomore Evan
Ambrose al third s ingles. sopho1norc Jon Bedard wen1 to fourth,
junior Josh Cohn ~aw action at
fifth, and first-year Pc1c Oman
rounded out the singles play.
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Sophomore Zander Lowe played
in 1he doubles arena against
Brown.
Oespi1e Hagmann'$ 7-S win in
the second set over Jamie
Ccrretani the Raiders failed 10
win a set in the rest of their
singles matches.
While the loss cannot solely be
attributed 10 poor play, Colgate
was simply outgunned and
outplayed. While the absence of
1hc aforementioned as well as the
late injury to junior Andrew
Davis was a setback, 1hc line
change seemed 10 hold their
own.
"We did a lot of things right
for ourselves in the match," head
coach Bob Dallis said. "We have
nothing to hang out heads
about.''
Colgate pulled itself together
1he nex1 day as it traveled to the
University of Conncctieu1 to
take on the Huskies whom had
defeated it last year. With vengeance in the air, and the re1um
of Paushtcr 10 the number three
singles spot, the Raiders were
able 10 capitalize on the weaknesses of an outmatched Con•
necticut squad. Bedard and
Lowe, as well as Paushtcr and
Ambrose. won their doubles
matches and put the team out to
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an early one-point lead. The
singles matches were steady as
the first through fourth spots
won all their games.
With this win, the Raiders improved 10 1- 1 on the sprina season as they ease i n10 this
weekend's home matches against
Bloomsbura and University of
Maryland Baltimore County.
The women's team had its first
wins of the spring season against
Albany and Vermont this past
weekend. Wi1h the return ofjunior captain Lauren Erikson from
her stint abroad, the Raiders had
a full complement and w ere
ready to take on their opponents.
First-year Marissa Alikpala
took over the first singles spo!
and never looked back as she
soundly defeated her opponent
6-0, 6-1. Sophomore Lindsey
Suffredini saw action at third
singles followed by first -year
Jamie Maldow at fourth and
sophomores Lindsey Sine, a
transfer from Vermont, and
sophomore Jess Fede rounded
out the lineup.
Fede hu been quite imprtS·
sive in match play this year as
she is 9-2 at the number six
singles spot. After Ibis win th<
team traveled 10 Vermont to take
on Sine's former teammates the
Wildcats.
The Raiden had linle problem
and swept the compelition with·
out losina a set to the Vermont
team. This win put the team at
2-2 on the spring season and
made up for losses to Cornell and
Syracll$C last month.
This weekend Colgate hos11
Bloomsbura and U MBC at th<
Sanford Field House. While both
teams will have some competition.
their superior performance should
ultimately lift them above thopponents and prepare them fer
upcomina matches apinsl Pattiol
League opponents.
Sports
February 8, 2002
31
The Raiders Hope To Take The Holy Grail From The Crusaders
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By Anthony Murr.di
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Colgate simply pounded the
Lehigh Mountain Hawks 84-52
Wednesday night at Co11erell
court. The Raiders dominated
,very phase of the game, upping 1hcir overall record to I 39 and more importantly climbing to 4-5 in the Patriot
League.
What started out as a fairly
,ight ballgame turned quickly
into a laugher as the Raiders
Jed by as many as 34 points in
,he second half.
The maroon and white came
out looking to avenge an earlier loss 10 Lehigh, who beat
the Raiders 79-74 in a comeback victory in Bethlehem on
January 12. Colgate clung 10 a
need all 40 minutes. Sop~omorc Mark Linebaugh stoic a
Lehigh pass and dished it 10 a
streaking sohpomorc Howard
Blue for a break-away dunk,
giving the Raiders a 2-0 lead.
It was a lead the Raiders would
not surrender. Linebaugh and
Blue scored a game-high 14
points apiece.
Jf revenge is said to be a dish
tha1 is best served cold, the
Raiders misundcrs1ood. as they
shot over 61 percent from the
field in the second half. The
pesky defense forced 24
Lehigh turnovers and allowed
only one Lehigh pla yer to
score in double figures.
Senior Devin Tuohey came
off the bench early in the contest when sen ior Bill Kern
picked up two early fouls .
74-66 lead with a little over
four minutes in the contest, but
Touhey led the Raiders on a 60 run to blow the game open
surrendered the game's last 13
points to the Mountain Hawks.
.. We knew we would have to
come out and play all 40 minutes against these guys .., head
coach Emmell Davis said. ''We
with 10:37 lcfl in the first half.
In only 11 minutes of work,
were ready to play tonight."
Actually. Davis didn't really
Tuohey scored six points, three
assists and two steals and more
impor1an1ly proved once again
that he is a capable ball handler off the bench.
Lehigh refused to go away in
the first half, trailing only 3826 at the break, but went ice
cold from the noor in the sec-
ond, making only 36 percent of
its shots from the field. The
Raiders went straight for 1he
jugular, holding Lehigh 10 only
four points in 1hc first eight
minu1cs of the second frame,
opening up a S3-3 I lead.
Davis emptied his bench
with 4:49, giving senior
LaMarr Datcher, j unior
Marques Green, junior Jeremy
Ballard, sophomore Josh
Humphrey, and first•year An•
drew Zidar quality minutes.
The Raiders will have an op·
portunily to pull within another
game of conference leading
American. who has taken com·
mand of chc standings with a
7-2 mark and beat Colgate 7258 on Saturday, when it looks
to avoid the revenge bug from
Holy Cross.
11 will be a special day for
Colgate basketball as it will retire former Colga te star
Addonal Foyle's number.
Foyle led the Raiders to back·
to-back Patriot League Cham•
pionships in 1996 and 97.
Track Team Runs Away With Honors
time of 2S.66 to set a new field
house record. as well as taking a
Maroo,1-Nrws Ssqff
second place finish in 1he SS meter
801h Colgate's men's and
dash in 7.32. McCusker continued
,."Omen's track teams were back in her own record breaking trend,
Hamilton this past weekend to smashing 1hc meet 's SOO meter
play host 10 the annual class of '32 record, running away from the
invitational at Sanford Field field in a time of 1:15. McCarthy
l lousc. Continuing their streak of ran a close race in the 800 finishpersonal bcs1s and new records, ing in 2: 16, good enough for sec•
the Raiders logged another sue• ond, as Chrisrina Keck of Buffalo
took first in 2: 15.
ccssful meet.
The Raiders saw several nthcr
On the women's end it was a
familiar story, with the powerful notable perfonnanccs. In the 500
three, senior Yaruby Brenes, jun- mc1ers Colgate was quite a pres•
ior Maura McCusker, and senior ence, following McCusker's first
Jenny McCanhy, posting first and place were sophomore Andria
second place finishes in their re· Graham taking fifth place and junspective events. Brenes finished ior Leeann Teager in sixth.
first in the 200 meter dash with a Sophomore S1ephanie Davis also
had a fine showing, logging points
for the Raiders in the 3000 meters
with a fith pince finish in a time
of 11:0S.
With the upper-classmen set·
ting the example, it seems first·
years Amy DcMarco, Nolana
Quince, and Beth Stephenson,
have been paying aucntion.
These 1alcnted rookies made
their own mark at this weekend.
OcMarco set a personal record
al Sk in 18:21, lo take fourth
place, Quince took third in the
high jump, and Stephenson third
in the long jump. In the team
scoring, the women finished in
founh place behind first place
Buffalo,
Lehigh
and
Binghamton.
In men's action, it was a simi·
lar day. 1hough 1he men took a
fifth place finish in team
rankings, behind winner Buffalo,
Albany,
Lehigh
and
Binghamton. However, the
Colgate men had some exciting
individual performances.
In the 1,000 meters it was
sophomore Mike Saunders who
100k first place honors. running
an excellent race 10 finish in a
time of 2:32.
Also scoring for Colgate in
this event were senior Mike
Mar1occi, who took third with a
time of 2:34 and junior Kevin
Meehan in founh with 2:37. Another firs1 for the Raiders came
in the 4x800 relay where
Colgate's team took a convinc·
ing lead ea~ly in the race finis_h ·
ing in a 1ime of 7:SI. The distance medley rcl.ay was also sue·
cessful taking second overall in
a lime of I 0:55.
tn the mile run, first-year Rob·
crt Van Dine showed veteran style
taking third place in a time of4:26,
to score points·for the Raiders. ln
field events, senior Duevom Harris took third in the weight throw,
while sophomore John Irvin and
junior Barry Jones took the sixth
place spots in the high jump and
long jump, r,,spectivcly.
The Raiders ar,, back on the
road the weekend, u the men's
team heads to Boston Univenity
February 9 and the women an, off
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Looklna to Improve on iU Pa-lrior La&iie llllldi111. the Colgale
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middle of league lllndiap.
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23-9 lead over Ille Ralclon. anti
bpi up Ille ialeNily oD the way
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a ten-point deficit early. Late in
the first half, the Raiders were
down by five when first-year
Alison Lipinski sank two free
throws, 1hcn m•dc a short
jumpsbot 10 pull the tcam within
one poinl at 20-19. Lehigh responded with a shon spun of its
own, scoring six quick points
puttina them up seven. Colgote
then pur roacth« one ,.,, spun
when l.ipin:;ki bit a three-point
baakcl from Ibo left win&, then
a tbonjumpohot by sophomore
Emily Damurh to cloae oul tlte
half only down by two points.
The start of the aecond half
wu similar to the end of the first
with sbon runs by both teams.
II ocemed Colpte had the momentum after sophomore
VICIOria Briscoe uaed a hesita,
lion dribble to gel to the basket
and score five minutes into the
half, but Colgate couldn'1 take
the lad. Lehigh responded with
a shon jumpsbot of its own.
Next, a Raider turnover led 10
anOlhcr bukei for Lehigh off of
an offensive rebound and put
thcmaheed43•37 with 14:12 rcmoiniog in the half. Parks then
gave the Raiders I huge lift. After grabbing a defensive re·
bound, she took the ball the
ien,th of the floor and scored on
lhe lay-up. The next time down,
Colgaic once a11in a,,,bbcd the
Lehiah miss and pushed the ball
down the floor. Sophomore
Malissa Burke then found Parks
running the floor on a great
look, assisting in two more tran·
silion points.
The Raiders were up 56-47,
with 8: II remaining. After •
Lchiat, timeout Colgate continued to play SlrOn& and added 10
ill lead- Ano4hcr tme-point bosbtby JuniorJamie Olenn was the
aclamalion pr,int for the Raiders
•lboy-ontowin 73-57. The
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