Vol. 14 No. 9, April 17, 1975 - James A. Cannavino Library - Marist ...

THERCLEVOLUME 14, NUMBER 9 MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12601 APRIL IX, 1975Dr. William Olson, newly appointed chairman of the History Department.Olson Named ChairmanBy Peter AllenDr. William C. Olson, assistantprofessor of History and co -ordinator of Latin - Americanstudies has been named Chairmanof the History and PoliticalScience department at MaristCollege.Dr.Olson is replacing Dr. LouisZuccarello as head of -thedepartment. Zuccarello has beennamed as the replacement for thepresent Academic Dean RichardLaPietra, who will be leaving"Marist next semester on a sabbatical..Olson has been teaching atMarist since 1970.He recieved his B.A. degree inPolitical Science from DukeUniversity in 1965. He then taughtSocial Studies in a high schooland pursued graduate study atthe University of North Carolina.After receiving his Mastersdegree in 1968 he began hisdoctoral work in Latin AmericanStudies at the University. Hereceived his doctoral degree in"-February 1974v' ; • - --'--.^•*•*-?-• --He has also participated in and .contributed to a number ofhistorical conferences andseminars. Among the academicawards and honors held by Dr.Olson he was named as a participatingscholar in the Scholarand Diplomat Seminar programof the Department of State, hehas been the recipient of summerresearch grants from MaristCollege and was listed as anoutstanding , young educator inthe state of Virginia as well asbeing listed in the 1970 edition ofPersonalities of the,South andoutstanding Young Men. inAmerica. .' Dr: Olson feels that he could beJewish Studies OfferedByRhodaCrispellA minor in Jewish studies willbe offered next fall, "for peoplewho want to learn more aboutJudaism and people who want tolook at Judaism in relation toother religions," expressed Dr.Rhys Williams, who along withDr. Milton Teichman willcoordinate this minor.The Jewish Studies minor willbe an interdepartmental minorconsisting of courses in English,History, Political Science, andReligion that relate to Jewishculture. To receive a minor inJewish Studies a student mustaccummulate 24 credits inJewish Studies. Required coursesinclude Religion, in America,which will give historicalbackground to Judaism inAmerica, Introduction to theHebrew Bible, a study of the OldTestament, Principles ofJudaism, an introduction to theJewish religious tradition, andContemporary Judaism, a studyof contemporary Jewish thoughtin the United States. . ' ~: •Possible future courses inJewish Studies include Politics inthe Middle East, Anti-Semitism,and Topics in Jewish History.According to Dr.' Williams itmight be possible to arrange forthe story of Hebrew if studentsare interested. There is also thepossibility of, an IndependentStudy in Jewish Studies.' If astudent, is interested in Judaismcourses not offered at- Marist hecould cross register for coursesat any of the ACMHA colleges.Dr. Williams feels that a minorin Jewish studies is an enrichingtype of experience that could beuseful to students going intocommunity service, law, socialwork, and teaching. \ JewishStudies will help 1 in - understandinga dimension ofAmerican culture which would bevaluable in dealing with people.Dr. Williams also believes thatJewish students might like tostudy their own religion tradition."Jewish Studies should enablestudents to appreciate contributionsJudaism makes towestern culture," stated Dr.S.A.C. FinalizesPlans-- student- /opinions.:.on.... which 'in a better position to'assess-aridcontemplate possible changes inthe History Department after heofficially becomes chairman onJuly i:Dr. Olson resides inPoughkeepsie and has adaughter, Amy who is 4% yearsold.WiUiams. ~ •"For anyone to study religioustradition that is not his ownreligion is an experience thatgives him a perspective on hisown religion, and a deeper senseof heritage.," explained Dr.-Williams. He continued by sayingthat in studying Judaism we canlearn more about Christianity.Dr. Williams also said thatunderstanding other traditions' isthe best way of breaking downbarriers of prejudice. "I find a lotof students have stereotypedideas of Jews, and their place inour country. This (experience)might be valuable for students toget a better idea of Judaism inAmerica.""We feel Marist should offer anopportunity to explore a wholerange of religious phenomenon.People of different religiousbackgrounds should be given achance to study areas that interestthem,"Williams.addedDr.Bicentennial*With the spring semesterrapidly drawing to a close, theStudent Academic Committee isfinalizing plans for the electionsof next year's membership. Thepurpose of the Committee is toprovide leadership in the pursuitof academic objectives of thestudent body. It seeks to establishfirm lines of communicationbetween the individual academicdepartments and the studentbody, as well as organizing andexploring avenues of curricula'rgrowth and development. Thecommittee also assists in thepromotion of student programsand proposals in academicmatters. A new direction wastaken by the Committee this pastsemester in addition to theforementioned. They will now beresponsible for curriculumevaluation as well as a review ofthose faculty members seekingtenure and promotion.During this past semester, theCommittee formed a subcommitteewhich has been-working on the formulation ofcriteria of "what makes for.excellence" in a Marist Collegefaculty member. In addition tothat task, they have been seeking: departhTents : arid'^'facuitymembers encourage academicexcellence and challenge andwhich ones do not. The results ofall their-work will be publishedand available to the studentsupon its completion.This semester, the courseevaluations will be administeredthrough the Student. AcademicCommittee. The SAC will gothrough all the class lists of thecourses to be evaluated and' "choose a student to hand out andcollect the forms. The completedforms will be delivered to theAcademic Dean's Office in asealed envelope. These envelopes0f -**v ^FredAshly, "George M", in stepfor this weeks activities.will only be opened once the finalgrades have been handed in to theregistrar. With this newprocedure, the S.A.C. hopes thatthe students will give a trueevaluation of the course and theinstructor realizing that hiscomments will not affect his orher grades.For students who would beinterested in serving on theStudent Academic Committee,they should submit a statement ofintent to Bob Sammon by Sunday,April 20th. The following majordepartments will require threerepresentatives: Business,American Studies, English andCommunication Arts, Historyand Political Science, ModernLanguages, Mathematics andComputer Science, Psychologyand Natural Sciences. Thedepartments which require onlytwo representatives as they arenon-major departments areTeacher and Special Education,Religious Studies, Philosophy,Art and Music, PhysicalEducation, University Year forAction and Three Year DegreeProgram.The elections will be Held onMonday, April 28th and Tuesday,^pril„29th. J „Students ...are. ..only"allowed"td 'elect representativesto their major field (i.e. onlyEnglish majors can vote for theirrepresentative to their department;they cannot elect arepresentative to the PsychologyDepartment.) However, allstudents may vote for the candidatesto the non-majordepartments.As the first priority of a studentat Marist College should be his orher academics, all studentsshould make voting for theirdepartmental representative ,anumber one priority on the 28thand 29th of April."George M" HostsMain MallKickoffBy Karen TullyThe Marist College TheatreGuild will be presenting GeorgeM and will partake in the openingweek activities of the SpecialActivities Committee under theDutchess Bicentennial Commission.This committee, headedby JohnSecone, will also attend aspecial production of George Mon April 23, 1975, with a champagnereception to be held for thecommittee and the cast of GeorgeM. In attendance are expectedthe Mayor of the city ofPoughkeepsie, Arthur Wienberg,local municipal legislators aswell as the Bicentennial CommitteeMembers. This is onemore extension of the Mariststudent body to the Poughkeepsie"- community • along with .thecontinued on p. 33*mmimmm3•

PAGE 4 THE CIRCLE APRIL 17,1975High On SportsTHE BEST TEAM EVER?by Thomas Mc TernanWith possibly their strongest lineup ever, the Marist track teamdefeated two teams but was beaten by powerful Oneonta State in aquadrangular outdoor meet at New Paltz Tuesday.Oneonta finished with 108% points and Marist with 75%, as Monmouth(8) and Dutchess (1) trailed. The team thus evened its record at3-3.First place finishers for Marist were Pete VanAken, who threw thehammer 110'8"; Will Morrison, 4:26.9 in the mile; Fred Kolthay, witha school-record 9:54.5 in the two-mile; and Jay Doyle, with 1:59.1 in the880. John Vandervoort tied the school 440 record with 51.2.Coach Rich Stevens feels that the team did a good job againstOneonta and added, "If injuries can be kept down, we could go out andwin the rest of our meets. This is a good team - hopefully our bestever."MC GHEE NAMED ATHLETE OF THE WEEKKevin McGhee, a sophomore from Baldwin, has been named MaristCollege Athlete of the Week for the week ending April 12.McGhee, an attackman on the lacrosse team, scored five goals andassisted a sixth in Saturday's 154 rout of Queens. Last Thursday hehad three goals and two assists in the 8-4 loss at Kean State. McGheeranks second in scoring on the team with 11 goals and five assists infive games.NOTES FROM THE SPORTSDESK:The Marist Sports Camp brochure has been released by directorRon Petro. The camp, which is held here on campus, will run this yearfrom August 9-22. It consists of the Billy Paultz boys Basketball camp ^ McGhee scored fiv.- times to leld(Les Lombar.di, head coach), the Distance Running camp for boys andgirls (Rich Stevens, head coach), the Rowing camp for boys (BillAustin, head coach) and the Women's Basketball camp (Ron Petro,head coach). For further information (prices, ages, dates,, etc.),contact Mr. Petro, ext. 262.Mile stars Marty Liquori and Dave Wottle will again be featured atthe distance running camp ... Wottle, incidentally, sported a "MaristCollege Distance Running Camp" on national television (NBC-TV)during a recent ITA Pro Track Meet at the L. A. Sports Arena... The Marist track team openedPaul Kane, a member of the varsity basketball-team, was honored up its 1975 track campaign on alast month at the Dutchess County "Night of Champions" banquet. losing note but Coaches RichKane set the qounty career scoring record and was selected to several Stevens and Len Olson were moreall-county teams while playirig for Rhinebeck H.S.... Apologies from than pleased with the results. Thethe sports desk to Chris Paccione who was omitted from the list of team defeated Eastern ConnecticutState while losing torunners who participated in the shortened mileathon.THIS WEEK IN MARIST SPORTS (April 17-23)Westfield State arid Boston Stateina meet Saturday at Westfield'sThursday, April 17-Tennis - vs. Dowling - home - 2 p.m.Friday, April 18 - Tennis - vs. Vassar - home - 3 p.m.; Crew - vs. new $300,000 astro-track.Temple - at Philadelphia - 4 p.m."This was our toughest meetSaturday, April 19 - Lacrosse - at Dowling -1 p.m.; Track - vs. New scheduled for the year," saidHaven, Fairfield r at Fairfield - 11 a.m.; Crew - heavyweight vs. Marist Coach Rich Stevens.LaSalle. - at Philadelphia - 10 a.m. - lightweight vs. Villanova at "Coast Guard. Academy andPhiladelphia -11 a.m.; Women's Crew - vs. Barnard College - home - Amherst were also there and they10 am.; Sailing -Frosh Champ "Qualifiers at Maritime; Monotype dominated the meet and the sixspots ineach event. However wehave never had times or marks, Sunday, April 20 - Sailing - Frosh Champ Qualifiers at Maritime;Monotype Qualifiers at Kings Point.Monday, April 21 - Lacrosse - vs. N.Y.Maritime - at Leonidoff Field -|3lp.m.Tuesday, April 22 - Tennis-vs. Nyack - home - 2:30 p.m.Wednesday, April23-Track-vs. Kings (N.Y.), Nyack, Dutchess - atSUNY New Paltz - 3:30 p.m.Crew LosesBy THOMAS MCTERNAN"Massachusetts has the finestcrew I've ever seen at Dad Vail."With those words, varsitycoach Bill Austin expressed hisrespect for UMass, the defendingsmall - college champions. Thosewords also measured hissatisfaction with the Red Foxheavyweight crew, who lost to theRedmen' by only two lengthsSaturday on the Hudson River.Marist got an early lead, butUMass began putting thepressure on after 700 - 800 metersand overtook the Foxes, who thenmatched the visitors stroke forstroke to the finish. Marist was.timed in 5:46.5, six secondsbehind. .UMass. -New YorkMaritime finished a distant third.- Austin feels that-Marist couldmake up that difference by theDad Vail championships May 8 - 9in Philadelphia. "We lost by onlysix seconds and there is room forimprovement, especially in themiddle part of the race." Theteam was sent through two - a -day workouts this week in hopesto achieve that goal.The "junior , varsity-heavyweights also lost to UMassbut Austin attributed it to a badstart, which gave the Redmen anearly margin of almost fiveseconds.; >The J.V. lost by 15 /weekend races with Temple-seconds, being timed' in 6:49.5. , Friday and LaSalle' on Saturday.the boat: consists of coxswain * The lightweights will faceNeal . Prete; stroke/ Joe Villanova on Saturday. But don'tMcLaughlin; Paul Monar, seven; despair, the women's.crew opensNick Mancuso, six; Brian Bennett,five; Bill Dunn, four; Job»..Carberry, three; Scott Mc­Donald, ,, two; and bow, DonDingee. "They are really comingaround and are improving withevery practice," Austin said.Marist lightweights outdistancedMaritime 6:40.3 to7:02.2. Winny Siete, coxswain ofthe boat, got the taste of victoryafter being dumped into the riverby members of the crew, whichincluded stroke, Pat Brown;Kevin Noon, seven; Art Curran,six; Frank Hoover, five; DanGultari, four; Jim Hoyle, three;John Davern, two; and bow, JackDoyle. ,The freshmen split their tworaces, winning in fours with TonyLynch, Bob Turner, Don Fitzgeraldand Paul DeFranco.UMass came back to win theeights in 6:34.0 with Marist tenseconds slower. Dave Belter, Joe, Pirro, Richard Mason, MikeSommar, Jim McHugh, CharlesJoseph, Neil Lajeunesse and RickBegley comprise the boat. Thefreshmen are coached by JoeMcHugh, a former rower atMarist. ''•'","'The third Marist win came inthe varsity pairs race as KevinSommar and . Kevin O'Connor. pulled away from Massachusettsin the last 500 meters for a four -'length victory.This weekend the varsity crewtravels to Philadelphia" for-their first spring season here withBarnard College Saturday at 10: : a.m..Marist Lacrosse ScoresOver Queens, C*C.N.Y.By THOMAS MCTERNANShowing their strongest offensiveproduction ever, theMarist lacrosse team wallopedQueen, 15 - 4, and C.C.N.Y., 11 - 3,at home after returning from an 8- 4 setback at Kean State lastWednesday.The Red Foxes boosted theirrecord to 3 - 2 overall and 2 -1 inthe Knickerbocker Conference.The three wins mark theirhighest total ever for a singleseason.As coach Jeff Behnke said afterthe C.C.N.Y. assault, "That is alot more goals than we everscored before. The offense isreally strong now and the defenseis also doing a good job." He wasalso impressed with the performanceof some of the youngerplayers such as Pete Steube andBill Flaherty.On Saturday, attackman KevinMarist over Queens. The RedFoxes jumped off to a 4 - 0 leadafter 3% minutes on goals byDoug Hampel, Gregg Stent, BobGeckel and Jim McCue. Thevisitors managed to pull within 6 -3 at the half but were buriedunder a seven - goal avalanche inthe third quarter.Stent had four goals in thegame while Hampel added three.Don Augustine also contributed ascore to the offense, which wassuperbly directed by McCue, amidfielder who set up seven goalsduring his wanderings around theenemy net. The Foxes outshotQueens 48-19 and goalie -MikeSecone came up with eight saves.City College hardly provedmore formidable in Monday'sleague contest as Hampel scoredtwice in the opening five minutesfor a 2 - 0 lead. The visitors wereunable to get an.offense mountedagainst Secone, who had a 7 - 0shutout midway through the thirdsession. Hampel scored anotherin that period as he, McCue andMcGhee led the way with threegoals apiece. Augustine and Stentalso scored for Marist.It was Kean who grabbed theearly lead in the conference clashlast Wednesday, as they openedup a 5 - 0 lead at the half and werenever in trouble. McCue talliedtwice for Marist while McGheearid Augustine each connectedonce.As the team prepares to face, Dowling on Long Island Saturday,Behnke sounds a note ofcaution, "All of our remaininggames should be tough. I feel thatwe can win every single one, wewill have to play a better game,though, by improving on ourfundamentals and making fewermistakes.The team returns home for aleague match with MaritimeMonday, April 21, on LeonidoffField at 3:30 p.m. 'Marist Thinclads Open SeasonWith Impressive Campaignlike these so early in the seasonand in some cases we have neverhad times or marks like these inthe entire season."Coach Stevens was talkingabout records set by the Maristtrack men. The brightest notewas the mile relay which broke a "long-standing record of 3:34.5 setback in 1969 at the Penn Relaysby Steve Kopki, Bob Mayerhofer,Joe McMahon, and Bill Kalish.The. new mark earned Marist asecond place, losing only to CoastGuard Academy. Jim Gillen,Steve VanKeuren, Dave Schools,and John VanDervoort set therecord with a time of 3:30.5 withVanDervoort's anchor of 51.9setting the pace. Schools ran 52.1,VanKeuren 53.0 and Gillen 53.5 inthe race. Brian Costine tiedMarist's three-mile mark set lastyear by Fred Kolthay when heran the twelve-lapper in 15:15.8.In near misses of records, WillMorrison ran a 4:23.2 mile,missing Phil Cappio's 1969 recordof 4:22.7 by a half-second. DaveSchools missed Tim Murphy's 440intermediate hurdle record by .6seconds as he won the event in atime of 58.1 to score a clutch tenpoints for Marist. Schools led theMarist scorers with a total of 13%-points included the team's thirdplace finish in the 440 relay. JayDoyle ran a 2:00.7 half in themeet and came back with a 15:44three-mile effort. "To show youthe high calibre of this meet,Doyle placed tenth in the half,Morrison fifth in the mile, andCostine placed eleventh in thethree-mile!" exclaimed CoachStevens. Coast Guard andAmherst'•• dominated the meetalong with Westfield who cameup with clutch points in the finalevents to nearly upset Amherst.Coast Guard has 212, Amherst111, Westfield 109, Boston State51, Marist 40, and EasternConnecticut State 34. Marist,being scored against the laterthree opponents only, thus startsthe season with a 1-2 mark."We will not see this muchquality and depth in a meet againthis year until perhaps in ourfinal meet, the CTC Championships,if eventhen!" addedStevens. To complete Marist'srunners, Jim Gillen placed sixthin the 440 with a time of 54.1, JohnVanDervoort ran a 23.7 220,George, McCutcheon, comingback after only • one week oftraining following an injury ran a16:28 three-mile and ChrisPaccione ran a 2:03.9 half-mile.The Marist weight men lookedimpressive for the first outingalso. Pete VanAken placed thirdin the discus with a heave of114'6", a personal best, and PaulSteinborn placed seventh with atoss of 81*6". Marist showed itsstrength in the hammer as VanAken placed fifth with a throw of111'4%". Paul Steinborn sixthwith 101'%", and Steve Blenk96'5" (close to the Marist froshrecord), all personal records.VanAken also placed fourth in theshot put, tossing 40'7%" whilePhil D'Amato was seventh with athrow of 36'1" and Al Washburnthrew 33*11%". In the javelin.VanAken threw 126'l 3 /4", Washburn122*10", and Blenk 98'7".VanAken scored 10% points in themeet, also being a member of theteam's 440 relay team whichplaced third. Marist field coachLen Olson was very pleased withthe weight men in their firstmeet.The team was without theservices of three standouts expectedto make the team's homeopener on this past Tuesday:Fred Kolthay and the versatilePhil Cotennec, and Tim Murphy.Murphy is finishing up his finaltrack campaign of a brilliantfour-year career here at Maristthat has seen him capture 8outdoor and 2 indoor records.Cotennec, a freshman, is asversatile as Murphy and is expectedto pick up where Timleaves off.The team was scheduled tomeet Oneonta State, Monmouth,Ramapo, and Dutchess CommunityCollege at New PaltzTuesday and then travel toFairfield Saturday to meetFairfield 'and the University ofNew Haven. The team has itsnext home meet at New PaltzCollege Wednesday April 23 at3:30 p.m. against Kings (N.Y.)Nyack, and Dutchess.Netters Find CombinationBy THOMAS MCTERNANThe Marist netters finallyfound the winning combinationMonday when they won four ofsix singles and two of threedoubles matches -to beatSouthampton 6-3 following threestraight setbacks last week.Jay Metzger, John McGraw,Jack Schof ield and Mike Fornaci,the bottom four in the rankings,all won their matches to give theteam its first victory. -After their 5 - 4.loss to NewPaltz last Tuesday, Marist suffered-an 8 - 1 castastropheagainst New Haven in their homeopener Thursday. McGraw .wasthe only winner with a 6 - 3, 6 - 4decision over Gary Kamuda inthe fifth slot. In other matchesRick Garafalo overcame FredKolthay 1 - 6,6 - 3,6 - 2, Scott Foraoutlasted no, 1 Steve Carberry 6 -2, 7 - 5, Kevin Prentice ralliedover Metzger 2'-' 6, 6 - 3, 7 - 5,Ernie Arico lost to Jim Blasayle 6- 2," 6 - 2 and Owen Stewartdefeated Schofield 6 - 4,6 - 2. TheChargers also copped all three ofthe doubles contests.ft was a lot closer Saturday asKean State was extended to thefinal match of the day beforetopping Marist 5 - 4. In thatdouBles tilt, Carberry andKolthay, the top - ranked Maristplayers, wort the first set 6 -1. ButTony Gonsalves and BrianDalyrmple-rallied"'-to take thenext two 6 - 3,6 - 3 and the match>The only, Red .'Fox victory indoubles came when Metzger andMcGraw stopped Kurt Krieseland Bob Ferram 6 -1,7 - 6.The six individual games weresplit. Carberry outlasted Gonsalves6 - 3, 3 - 6, 6 - 4; Aricooutplayed Chris Ford 6 - 3, 6 - 3;and McGraw defeated Kriesel 6 -1, 7 - 5 for Marist's three points.Elsewhere Ramiro Restreporouted Metzger 7 - 5, 6' - 0,Dalyrmple downed Kolthay 3-6,6 - 2,6 - 3; andFerrarn squeakedby Schofield 6 - 4, 7-5.The team continues its longhomestand against Dowlingtoday at 2 p.m. Tomorrow theywill meet a tough Vassar squad at3 p.m. Nyack will visit for aleague match Tuesday, April 22,at 2:30 p.m.