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VOL. 63 NO. 14 MERCYHURST COLLEGE, GLENWOOD HILLS, EREE, PA 16546 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8,
Mcrciad editor
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By Kevin McHugh
By Theresa Klocdker Merciad Editor
Merciad News Editor
Editor's note: This column is
designed to let the students More than 80 members of the
know what is happening In the Mercyhurst faculty, administra-
international, national and local tion and student body attended a
arenas. The news items are gath- 41
Town Meeting** presented by
ered from - a variety of news the senate, which was aimed at
sources. getting iinput into theS Budget
Assumptions, in "regard to the
INTERNATIONAL * | direction the College should take
Mikhail Gorbachev, in a speech to the Party's policy- as it moves into the next decade tt
making committee, said the Soviet government should allow Dr. Frederick Keck, the presi- Price
other parties to compete for positions in government The dent of the senate, introduced the Penny Hanes, Bob Pagni, Mary 1
Soviet government has been a single party Communist gov- four panelist who had been as- brary budget be increased annu-
ernment for 70 years. < 1 committee, tpok the floor and
signed various aspects of the ally by $10,000 until it reaches asked for a justification for a
Budget Assumptions to review. $150,000. The current budget of professional student union direc-
United States Secretary of State Jim Baker spoke in Janet! Price dealt!with aca- $100,000 is split evenly on buy- tor. Pagni said a full-time director
Prague, Czechoslovakia about U.S. aid to die new govern-
ment In the speech on Wednesday he said aid would be given demic policy; Penny Hanes with ing sand periodicals.
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would help improve activities. .
if certain conditions were met the library; Bob Pagni with ad- Pagni said that demographics Andy Penhollow and Lynn
ministration and Mary McKenna show that in the '90's, the 18 to 21 Sheffler criticized'; the ' lack of
On Sunday an Israeli tour bus was attacked near Cairo, with campus life. age group will be lower, which periodicals in the library. David
Egypt by a Palestinian faction. One person has been arrested $ According to Price, the senate will result in less students of this Pinto, the director of the Ham-
for the attack so far, in which 11 people were killed. Israeli decided that it would like to see age group applying for college. mermill Library, said he encour-
Prime Minister Shamir said that Middle East peace efforts Mercyhurst remain a small col- Thus, the college should look into ages students and faculty to make
must continue despite the attack. I i lege and to increase the academic the adult market He also said that specific recommendations to him
standards of incoming freshmen. a full time professional should be ofany periodical they would like
NATIONAL | "i ,;She said the committee is in
Los Angeles- Beginning in July 1 1 students in 646 appointed as director of the new to see in the library.
schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will g favor of stabilizing institutional Lisa Maxon proposed that if
financial aid at 14.5 percent by student union 1 to coordinate ac- the college didn't bring the col-
a year-round schedule, that means no more three m< Uvities.
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summer vacations. There are 102 schools in Los Angeles 1992 and reducing it to 12.3i:w
lege up to the operational and
cent by 199S. She added that McKenna said that no new
are already operating on the year-round schedule. sports should be added to the scholarship level of the colleges it
scholarship aid, based on athletic,
athletic program. She said competes against it should con-
Anchorage, Ala.- Capt John Hazelwood, formerly the academic, or artistic talent, be women's swimming may be re- sider relegating the team to Divi-
captain of the Exxon Valdez has been on trial for two weeks. increased. sion in. ;•,
He is accused of one count of criminal mischief, and three duced and would not be replaced
The committee also decided by any other sport Pagni summed up the senate's
misdemeanors, including operating the ship while intoxi- that the faculty-student ratio be
cated. The Valdez was run aground last year and caused one increased from 1-21 to 1-15. The meeting was then opened presentation by saying, * 'the bot-
of the biggest oil spills in history. to the floor. Gerry Fanta, the tom line is that ideas are infinite,
* Hanes proposed that the li- president of the student act but resources are finite."
Pittsburgh- The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has declared war
on newspaper pilferers. A police team arrested three people
for taking more than one paper from vending machines when
they only paid for one. The newspaper police swat team, as
Garvey refutes MSG sit-in
it is being called has become a publicrelationsnightmare for CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
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Garvey said that the "love il
Those who say it is a money or leave it" attitude that was
LOCAL question don't know or don't implied by B. William Kennedy,
Ken Wayne of Millcreek had the one winning ticket for want to know what is involved," director of student services, in a
Tuesday night's Pennsylvania Wild Card Lotto. After the he said. J statement in the Feb. 1 Merciad
claim is made official by Lottery officials he will collect a $9.6 Garvey then referred to the sit- that compared-Mercyhurst to a
million jackpot in sanctioned by Mercyhurst Stu- club was unfortunate] and was
dent Government "You can't simply Kennedy's personal opin-
Erie County Health Department investigators are looking make a policy by sit-ins,*' he said. ion.
for the source of an oil spill on Presque Isle Bay. Between SO Sit-ins make compromise'im-
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and 200 gallons of an oil-like liquid were spilled into the bay possible. By going to the barri- He added that a decision on
at the foot of Myrtle Street on Tuesday morning. The liquid cades, you make this a question of the housing policy had not yet
which was discharged from a storm sewer was contained by authority and control. The ad- been made, but will be made by
the Erie Coast Guard with a chain of four booms. April. He said that the decision
ministration cannot be influenced wouldfbe enforced there after.
by things of this nature." 1
'We cannot phase it out because
The Erie School District may be starting an elementary He added that after the Lewis we can' t live with the problem for
grade school foreign language program next school year, Avenue assault, "you all said to four years," he said.
according to Superintendent Joseph Rodriguez. . >:• do something. Now we are doing "Students have the right to be
something. We will not work
heard, but not to tell us where they
under threat or pressure." want to live," he said. GARVEY addresses senate.
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ously...'* These ideals and the states that "the College operates 5 9
on the assumption brushed aside student views in the
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others set down as a promise in the that students attend Mercyhurst past, insisting that we know
College Mission Statement are what is better for you." While the
because they share the same basic
the foundation | that I built my faculty is teaching the ideals of
goals and objectives of the Col-
world view from. g- lege. S I creative and critical thinking and
But in the last two years, I I believe that the College has the freedom t of expression, the By Kevin McHugh
have seen unbelievable contra- lost track of those assumptions; administration is working to sup- Merciad Editor
dictions to this pledge from the the College has lost sight of the press-student activism and en-
administration, the latter of which courage student apathy inpoli tical Most of us know the ar-
Mission Statement For example, guments of both sides of the
is the new, restrictive housing in last week's Merciad, E. Wil- issues. Most decisions are made
policy. Although I am a senior college community. The
liam Kennedy, director of student before^seeking student input or students \ in general are
and will never be affected by this services, was quoted, ••...attend- concerns and are only withdrawn
policy, it still is a great concern to opposed \ to the proposed
ing Mercyhurst College is a privi- under extreme pressure(which I policy change; while most
me. administrators are in favor.
lege and not aright.Mercyhurst is have not seen in my four years). It
Aside from whether or not it is club: either you join it or you is tremendously difficult to fight a It is commendable that
a feasible plan, the danger lies in donW I y I policy that is already **law
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students showed initiative, organization and an ability to
.Well, Mercyhurst is not a club; With deepest loyality to th actively unite in a common goal. However, it is unfortu-
it is a business, and the administra- Mission Statement nate from the student point of view that only 30 or so
tion needs to realize that when a Scott C. Graham students attended the widely publicized!''Town Meet-
i n g " held on Tuesday. I ! ' • • - '
To the Editor. Urn- This is my opinion about how the expression is one that is held deeply by -Sj
In response to the current issue is being handled land the
housing issue proposed by the administration that supports it Americans. However we must look at the
administration and reported .in a I agree totally when it was said
recent issue of The Merciad, it is that, "It is a privilege to go to |irony*in students telling administration
& obvious that a lot of student indig- Mercyhurst, not a right" How- that they will not be told what to do.
nation can be felt around campus. ever, after becoming a member of
this very expensive "club",
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Transplanted Callforiiiaii likes Erie climate
By Monique Parent Erie's prominent seasonal viduals dress as if it were 20 de- ine having a sunny Christmas. It use American-made cars. The
Merciad staff reporter changes, Southern California has grees out The most significant is difficult to get into the Christ- "Heartbeat of America'* is cer-
very mild and subtle changes in difference in terms of weather is mas spirit when people are still tainly not based in Southern Cali-
Having moved to Erie from season. It's not uncommon to see the snow. It never snows where I walking around in shorts. I was fornia. |
Southern California, I have been people browsing during winter live. In fact it rarely rains and probably one of the very few that The last two aspects of Cali-
asked numerous questions con- months in light apparel Also, any when it does for more than aday, didn't object to being snowed in at fornia I will mention is tradition
cerning the differences between weather that dips below 6S-70 people start I getting extremely the Erie airport in December. It and lifestyle. As far as tradition is
my hometown and Pennsylvania. degrees is considered "winter grumpy. In their opinion, "it's was the closest thing to a white concerned, there isn't any. There
weather." really bad weather." Christmas I have had. Don't get are so many different mixtures of
The most obvious difference
weather contrast I never noticed until I went I With the exception of the local me wrong ,1 do appreciate warm people and culture that the sun has
break mountains, it doesn't snow. Imag- weather but it gets boring. lured in, that the only tradition that
I Another aspect I would like to is common among all people is the
an enhancement
les is spread out over many miles. enough money to live on the
In other words, everyone drives beach and have all the desirable
his own car to work. Having six material luxuries with minimal
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doesn't alleviate the horrendous the lifestyle at home I always
traffic problem. answer, "the sun." Almost ev-
The average person spends 2- eryone revolves his schedule
3 hours a day in grid-lock traffic around the beach. As summer
commuting to work. .Half the approaches night jobs are in high
business population has invested demand by college and high
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said, "We have the talent and we The clash of sticks, theflashingof bulbs, bodies smashing
talented skater. He is very happy against the boards. Clad with pads they take no prisoners
with the way things are going this definitely have the coaching. We
have to want to win." M skimming the ice in their eternal quest for that black rubber
The hockey team here is made disc. Horns blaring, coaches screaming, fans wincing, penalty
I Hockey isn't the only sport in killing and bones breaking jit *s fast, entertaining and exciting.
up of players from all over North which Johnson excells. He has a It's hockey.
America. There are skaters from 1
seven handicap and has repre- The uncertain prospects of the basketball and football
Saskatchewan, Alaska and British sented the Mercyhurst golf team. teams have triggered the search for a jchampion that can
Columbia. Kurt Johnson is from With the j tremendous^ physical compete with the best teams nationally, and win. The hockey
Ford City, Pa. He has one thing in demands and time constraints team seems to be the natural choice considering its meteoric
common with the guys from miles which hockey involves, golf in the rise to success in the collegiate hockey world. ;
away: he won't be satisfied and fall became an impossibility. He | The hockey team plays 28 games this season, 18 of which are
either will they until Mercyhurst said, "I definitely intend to play in away games. That leaves 10 home games, only seven of which
captures the illusive! national the Spring." f * I f are actually played in Erie. More home games will have to be
championship. Johnson's favorite hockey incorporated into the schedule next year, however the limita-
Johnson came to Mercyhurst tions on ice-time; in Erie restrict this. f
player is Mark Messier, "He's the I An icerinkon campus is the only answer. The problem is
after speaking to head coach Rick season for the hockey team. He best all round player in the that the typical college hockey team only uses it s home rink
Gotkin. Majoring in marketing, said, "We're having a good year. league." His favorite golfer is 18% of the time during the year. Other uses for the arena must
he decided that Mercyhurst would It's tough playing so many away Greg Norman. * J be found and that's where administration finds itself looking
be good for him both academi- games, especially considering the J A I I in all, the junior transfer for other outlets for the venture. The financial viability of the
cally and athletically. He hopes to incredible fan supportswe have from Canton Junior College is | rink is the crux of the issue in question and unless other money
keep playing hockey for some been getting lately. We are play- enjoying his time here at Mer- spinning projects are found to fund it, the rink's foreseeable
time but said, "If4 can't keep ing well, but to beat the jgood cyhurst and is now sure that he ifuture will be put in jeopardy, j |
playing hockey after school, I'd teams we need to play three g< made therightdecision in coming
• : • : » There is no doubt that a rink on campus would help the
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like to be an assistant coach' . periods?' ** * here. 2* 1 "hockey team enormously. One thing is for sure, if the team is
I to chal lenge for a national championship, a rink is needed. The
fan support is there, softs the athletic promise. Allfthat's
needed now is money.
The rink, it's hoped, will be paid for with installment
payments by outsiders who have a vested interest in building
another rink in Erie. Such an arena could be usedforshows,
high school games, even graduation. ,. \ |t|
} Considering the enormous interest the Erie Panthers or-
ganization has generated and providing the finance is avail-
able, I see no reason why arinkcan't be built For the hockey
team it's a matter of urgency as they can't be expected to reach
the pinnacle of collegiate hockey without such a facility.
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the Lakers faced EC AC opponent added a goal and assist in the The Blue and Green enjoy a
Cortland State. winning effort Mick Keen scored well-deserved one week rest be-
£• The Lakers were a bit sluggish the first Mercyhurst goal on a fore returning to action on Satur-
in the jifirst two periods falling powerplay. Kurt Johnson also got day, Feb. 10 against the Bonnies of
behind 4-3 J Sophomore head on the scoring sheet with a single StBonaventure University.
coach Rick Gotkin's club showed goal. Lakers stand
they are for real, scoring three f: The Laker Skaters played the the ECAC West Division and 14- SENIOR, PATRICK Odhiarabo rebounds against
unanswered goals in the final jame immediately after afiveand overall Philadelphia Textile. Odhiambo is a native of Kenya and
period to secure the 6-4 road win. a half hour bus; iournev. Coach was instrumental in the Feb 2 upset victory.
Lady Lakers
Storm over weakf
Lake Eriei College
The' Mercyhurst College tile at the Campus Center.
women's basketball team pun- The. Lady Rams entered the
ished the Storm of Lake Erie game with a six-game win streak
College at the Campus Center, and were thinking upset After a
Feb6. The Lady Lakers won by an tightfirsthalf, the Hurst was hold-
overwhelming margin of 73-40. ing a slim four point lead. But the
Lisa Maxson led the Lady Lakers Lady Rams were not to be denied.
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